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XEKAM-AM (950 kHz) is a radio station in Rosarito, Baja California, serving the Tijuana-San Diego area. It has a Spanish language news/talk radio format. It mostly carries Radio Fórmula programming from Mexico City.
XEKAM is a Class B station. By day, it is powered at 20,000 watts. But to reduce interference to other stations on 950 AM, it reduces power at night to 5,000 watts. XEKAM broadcasts using HD Radio technology.
History
The station received its concession on . The original call sign was XEGM. It was owned by Gustavo Faist Morán's Difusoras del Valle, S.A., and broadcast with 2,500 watts of power. By the late 1960s, XEGM had increased its power to 10,000 watts days and 5,000 watts nights.
In the late 1980s, the call sign was changed to XEKAM. During this time, XEKAM (frequently referred to in US media as XEK-AM, though the actual XEK-AM was in Nuevo Laredo) was programmed from the United States. It had studios in Hollywood, California. It shut down for a time in 1992 after failing to obtain the necessary FCC permits to originate programming for air on a foreign station.
XEKAM, at the time, was airing a news-talk format in English. Programs included the first talk show devoted to gay issues in the area as well as San Diego Gulls hockey games. When the station was forced off the air, the Gulls went without a radio partner for a month. The loss of U.S. programming sent the station into a tailspin and off the air. Employees went unpaid and the locks at the station's U.S. offices were changed.
In 1998, the concession for XEKAM was transferred to a Radio Fórmula subsidiary.
References
External links
Radio Fórmula
Spanish-language radio stations
News and talk radio stations in Mexico
Radio stations in Baja California
Radio Fórmula
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-related%20prefixes
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Internet-related prefixes such as e-, i-, cyber-, info-, techno- and net- are added to a wide range of existing words to describe new, Internet- or computer-related flavors of existing concepts, often electronic products and services that already have a non-electronic counterpart. The adjective virtual is often used in a similar manner.
Cyber-, e-, i, and virtual
"Cyber-"
Cyber- is derived from "cybernetic", from the Greek κυβερνητικός 'steersman'. Examples: cyberspace, cyberlaw, cyberbullying, cybercrime, cyberwarfare, cyberterrorism, cybersex, and cyberdelic. It is commonly used for policies and politics regarding computer systems and networks (as in the above cases), but also for information technology products and services. Further examples:
Cyber crime, crime that involves computers and networks
Convention on Cybercrime, the first international treaty seeking to address Internet and computer crime, signed in 2001
Cybercrime countermeasures
Cyber-attack, an offensive manoeuvre that targets computers
Cyberbullying, bullying or harassment using electronic means
Cybercafé, a business which provides internet access
Cyberculture, emergent cultures based on the use of computer networks
Cybergoth sub-culture
Cybersex (colloquially)
Cyberinfrastructure or computer networks
Cybersecurity, or computer security
Cybersex trafficking, the live streaming of coerced sexual acts and or rape
Cyberstalking, use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization
Cyberterrorism, use of the Internet to carry out terrorism
Cyberwarfare, the targeting of computers and networks in war
"E-"
E-, standing for electronic, is used in the terms e-mail, e-commerce, e-business, e-banking, e-sports, e-paper, e-cigarette, e-car, e-girl, e-reservation, and e-book.
The lowercase initial e prefix was used as early as 1994 by eWorld, Apple's online service.
"i-"
The i- prefix was used in 1964 in "In Watermelon Sugar", Richard Brautigan's American postmodern post-apocalyptic novel published in 1968. Set in the aftermath of a fallen civilization, it focuses on a commune organized around a central gathering house which is named "iDEATH"
The i- prefix was used as early as 1994 by iVillage, an internet community site by and for women. More recent examples include the BBC's iPlayer, and Google's former iGoogle service. It has even been used by companies not in the IT sector for their websites, such as Coca-Cola's now-defunct icoke.com.
Apple Inc. is especially connected to the i- prefix. They first employed it for the iMac line of computers starting in 1998, and have since used it in many of their other product names, including iCal, iSync, iChat, iBook, iDVD, iLife, iMessage, iPod (and iPod Socks), iSight, iPhone, iWeb, iTunes, iCloud, and others. They have said it stands for "Internet".
Promotional materials for the 2004 film I, Robot, inspired by Isaac Asimov's short-story collection of the same name, utili
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer%20Associates
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Microcomputer Associates, Inc., was an American computer company founded by Manny Lemas and Ray Holt. It produced the low-cost Jolt Microcomputer, released in 1975. It was later acquired by semiconductor manufacturer Synertek, a second source manufacturer of the 6502, and renamed Synertek Systems. It then created the SYM-1, a 6502-based single board microcomputer and successor to the KIM-1. Holt designed the JOLT microcomputer. In 1978 the company offered a number of processor and peripheral modules.
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1975 establishments in California
1978 disestablishments in California
1978 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1975
American companies disestablished in 1978
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Computer companies established in 1975
Computer companies disestablished in 1978
Defunct companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Early microcomputers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Holt
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Raymond M. Holt is a computer designer and businessman in Silicon Valley.
From 1968 to 1970, Ray and his brother Bill Holt were on the Garrett AiResearch's small design team that developed what he claims is the world's first microprocessor chip set, the 20-bit Central Air Data Computer (CADC), for the F-14 Tomcat (although the Viatron 2101 multi-chip processor had already been available at the time of the CADC's release). The CADC was never deployed for any other purpose, thereby leaving room for the 4-bit Intel 4004 to become the first commercially produced microprocessor. Holt's story of the design and development of the CADC is presented in a podcast and a Wired article.
Holt was co-founder with Manny Lemas of Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated, later known as Synertek Systems where he designed the Jolt, Super Jolt and SYM-1 microcomputer cards as well as the first microcomputer pinball game, Lucky Dice, using the Intel 4004. One of Holt's computer boards, the SYM-1, was used in the first two military robots, Robart I and Robart II.
Holt is the founder and president of Mississippi Robotics, a non-profit organization serving rural schools and ministries in Mississippi, teaching a STEM/Robotics curriculum and holding robot competitions twice a year.
References
External links
First Microprocessor website
Jolt Microcomputer
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBLN-TV
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KBLN-TV (channel 30) is a religious television station licensed to Grants Pass, Oregon, United States, serving the Medford area as an affiliate of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). Owned by Better Life Television, the station maintains studios on Northeast 9th Street in Grants Pass and a transmitter on Grants Pass Peak.
KBLN-TV is seen in five counties in Southern Oregon, plus Siskiyou County in northern California. It is a viewer-supported non-profit outreach organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, with a 501(c)(3) status.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of digital TV conversion, KBLN-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 30.
Translators
Expansion
In 2007, KBLN announced plans to purchase a full power station in Roseburg and a low-powered repeater station in Eugene, to expand coverage to more than 500,000 viewers in the Eugene market. In 2009, the stations, KTVC and Eugene translator KAMK-LP, were sold to KBLN during a bankruptcy auction for Equity Media Holdings. Plans for this expansion were announced by Better Life before Equity's economic woes came to light.
In 2009, according to its website, Better Life "negotiated and signed an agreement to purchase a low power digital station in the Portland area." However, the site then failed to mention which station it was intending to purchase. It was not clear if the station was in talks with a particular station, or with many stations in the region. On March 23, 2010, the FCC granted Consent to Assignment for KEVE-LP channel 36 from Fiori Media, Inc. to the Southern Oregon Conference Assn. of Seventh-Day Adventists. KEVE-LP, at the time licensed to Longview, Washington, held a construction permit to move to the Portland area, while changing its city of license to Vancouver, Washington. The station would sign on October 24, 2010 as KEVE-LD.
In 2011, Better Life acquired a low-powered station in Redding, California, K33HH channel 33, from the Northern California Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists; previously, the translator carried 3ABN programming directly via satellite. Also that year, Better Life leased a subchannel on FMI Media's KNRC-LD in Reno, Nevada, where it can be seen on subchannel 14.5.
A chain of low-power stations owned by One Ministries, Inc. (led by KKPM-CD) simulcast KBLN's Better Life TV programming throughout Northern California.
See also
KEVE-LD
KTVC
Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
References
External links
Three Angels Broadcasting Network
Television channels and stations established in 2001
BLN-TV
Grants Pass, Oregon
2001 establishments in O
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSKN
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WSKN (1320 AM) is a radio station. WSKN serves San Juan, Puerto Rico and is owned by Media Power Group. The station serves as the flagship station of the Radio Isla Network and carries a Spanish-language news and talk format.
The callsign derives from their previous identification, Super Kadena Noticiosa, which was created on May 11, 1992, under the ownership of Radio Kadena Informativa Inc. The station was on frequency 630 AM. WUNO Notiuno bought them in 2000 and switched frequencies (Notiuno was on 1320 AM).
History
Early years
The station's news director is Luis Penchi, a Ponce-born radio journalist with over 30 years of broadcast experience. Upon being hired by WSKN, he transferred his highly rated Saturday-morning news programming from WIAC, the Radio Puerto Rico network. The programming included a weekly political debate panel with former Senate President Kenneth McClintock, Senate PDP Minority Leader José Luis Dalmau and Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano (MINH) leader, Dr. Héctor Pesquera, and the "Luis Penchi Entrevista" 90-minute news interview program. During the week, Penchi attracted many of the islands' top political analysts to its programming, including attorneys Benny Frankie Cerezo, Carlos Gallisá and Ignacio Rivera, as well as businessman-turned-political-figure Adolfo Krans, the former First Spouse during his former wife Sila Calderón's gubernatorial administration. As a result, the station has been able to attract many of Puerto Rico's political 'cognoscenti' to its audience.
Recent news
On December 1, 2009, Penchi resigned from the position of news director, and news reporter Julio Rivera Saniel was named to replace him. Rivera Saniel had previously worked at WKAQ 580, and still works on WAPA TV's weekends newscasts (Noticentro Sábado y Noticentro Domingo). On November 1, 2013 Jonathan Lebrón Ayala was named news director after Rivera Saniel resigned to the position he previously held from 2009. Lebrón Ayala is a young news reporter that was the multimedia editor of Metro in Puerto Rico, a daily free newspaper owned by Metro International. Also has worked with WKAQ, a Univision Radio Puerto Rico station and with El Nuevo Dia a newspaper owned by the Ferré Rangel family. Rivera Saniel would stay in WSKN with two new shows and still works on WAPA-TV newscasts.
Ownership
In June 2003, Media Power Group Inc. (Eduardo Rivero Albino, chairman, Gilberto Rivera Gutierrez, Jose E. Fernandez and Joe Pagan, shareholders) reached an agreement to purchase four AM radio stations in Puerto Rico, including WSKN, from Arso Radio Corp. (Jesus M. Soto, owner) for a reported $6.8 million.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WSKN
Radio Isla 1320 official website
SKN
SKN
Radio stations established in 1949
1949 establishments in Puerto Rico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20R1000
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The R1000 was a workstation released in 1985 by Rational Software for the design, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of large software systems written using the Ada programming language. The R1000 featured an extensive tool set, including:
an Ada-83-compatible program design language
an integrated development environment that doubled as an operating system shell
automatic generation of design documentation
source-language debugging
interactive design-rule checking and semantic analysis
incremental compilation
configuration management and version control.
Optimizing code generators and cross-debuggers provided support for several popular application architectures.
As a successor to the R1000, Rational produced a new IDE called Rational Apex. Rational Apex took many of the features that the R1000 introduced and extended (ported) them onto commonly available workstations from Sun Microsystems and IBM.
Several R1000 units exist in museums and private collections, but, because of the classified nature of much Ada programming, these units had been wiped; efforts have been made to boot one of these systems, with little or no luck as of 2013. On 28 October 2019 the DataMuseum.dk successfully got one unit back into running condition.
External links
Evaluation of the Rational Environment report on analysis of the R1000 by Software Engineering Institute
Rational Announces Shipment of Apex 3.0 With Integrated Family of Products
Use of the Rational R1000 Ada development environment for an IBM based command and control system. by Charles B. Williams, 1987
References
Integrated development environments
Computer workstations
Ada (programming language)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion
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Cohesion may refer to:
Cohesion (chemistry), the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules
Cohesion (computer science), a measure of how well the lines of source code within a module work together
Cohesion (geology), the part of shear strength that is independent of the normal effective stress in mass movements
Cohesion (linguistics), the linguistic elements that make a discourse semantically coherent
Cohesion (social policy), the bonds between members of a community or society and life
Cohesion (album), the fourth studio album by Australian band Gyroscope
Cohesion (band), a musical group from Surrey, England
See also
Community cohesion
Structural cohesion
Cohesion number
Adhesion (disambiguation)
Coherence (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atm%E2%81%B5
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atm⁵ is an interbank network in Singapore, connecting the ATMs of six of Singapore's eight qualifying full banks, QFB. , there are 230+ atm⁵ ATMs island-wide. The network was established in April 2005.
atm⁵ is also one of the few interbank networks that does not charge its customers for transactions via another member bank's ATM, having removed all interbank transaction charges on April 4, 2006.
One of the six atm5 members, Citibank has numerous ATMs, but only a small percentage of them can be used for atm⁵ transactions. Hence, banks usually recommend customers to make sure that the atm⁵ logo is present on the members' ATM before they carry out their transaction(s).
Members
atm⁵ is the primary network of the following banks listed below:
Former atm5 members include the ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Royal Bank of Scotland and the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. All three banks are no longer part of the atm5 network as ABN Amro sold its personal banking business to RBS, then RBS sold its personal banking business to ANZ in 2010, then ANZ sold its personal banking business to DBS in 2018.
See also
List of banks in Singapore
ATM usage fees
References
Atm5 network at Maybank
Banks of Singapore
Interbank networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Lisp%20Interface%20Manager
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The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a Common Lisp-based programming interface for creating user interfaces, i.e., graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It provides an application programming interface (API) to user interface facilities for the programming language Lisp. It is a fully object-oriented programming user interface management system, using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) and is based on the mechanism of stream input and output. There are also facilities for output device independence. It is descended from the GUI system Dynamic Windows of Symbolics' Lisp machines between 1988 and 1993.
The main development was CLIM 2.0, released in 1993. It is free and open source software released under a GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).
CLIM has been designed to be portable across different Common Lisp implementations and different windowing systems. It uses a reflective architecture for its window system interface. CLIM supports, like Dynamic Windows, so-called Presentations.
CLIM is available for Allegro CL, LispWorks, Macintosh Common Lisp, and Symbolics Genera
A free software implementation of CLIM is named McCLIM. It has several extensions to CLIM and has been used for several applications like Climacs, an Emacs-like editor. It also provides a mouse-sensitive Lisp Listener, a read–eval–print loop (REPL) for Common Lisp.
Applications using CLIM
BB1 Blackboard Kernel (BBK)
CLASP: analyzes data from experiments via graphics, statistical tests, and various data manipulation types
CLIB, a prototype interface builder for CLIM
Direct Labor Management System (DLMS), manages automobile manufacturing process system at Ford assembly plants
DLMAPS, an ontology-based spatial query language and environment, a predecessor of GeoSPARQL
GenEd, editor with generic semantics for formal reasoning on visual notations
Grasper-CL, graph management system
KONWERK, a domain independent configuration tool
Mirage, an editor for building gadget-oriented graphical user interfaces.
Pathway Tools, a comprehensive bioinformatics software package that spans genome data management, systems biology, and omics data analysis.
Petri nets, a Petri net editor and simulator
SENEX, a CLOS/CLIM application for molecular pathology
SPIKE, scheduling system for the Hubble space telescope observations. Also used for ASTRO-D, an X-Ray observation astronomy mission
SpyGlass, an analysis environment for viewing packet traces, from BBN.
VITRA Workbench, an integrated vision and natural language processing system
VISCO, a visual spatial query language
Climaxima, a Maxima (software) graphical front-end.
Tangram, a Tangram Puzzle Solver capable of solving arbitrary geometric tiling problems.
References
External links
, McCLIM
CLIM 2.0 Specification as multiple HTML pages; (McCLIM tarballs contain the specification's TeX sources)
Common Lisp
Common Lisp (programming language) software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian%20Electronic%20Payment%20System
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The Malaysian Electronic Payment System (MEPS) is an interbank network service provider in Malaysia. In August 2017, MEPS merged with Malaysian Electronic Clearing Corporation Sdn Bhd (MyClear) to form Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet).
With the result of the merger, PayNet is now the holding company for the PayNet Group which comprises two main subsidiaries, namely Malaysian Electronic Payment System Sdn Bhd (MEPS) and MEPS Currency Management Sdn Bhd (MCM). The PayNet Group is Malaysia's premier payments network and central infrastructure for financial markets.
MEPS plays the integral role in the implementation of smart cards for automated teller machine (ATM) cards, which are an upgrade to chip-based cards from previous magnetic-stripe cards issued to all banks' customers.
The card is also known as Bankcard, a card with multiple functions. There are three main functions that can be used, namely ATM (with various combinations of banking transactions), e-debit (online purchase payment) transactions at participating merchants and MEPS Cash (a stored-value card that can be used to pay at participating merchants).
MEPS is a member of the Asian Payment Network (APN).
Role
In brief, MEPS’ role encompasses:
Development and implementation of payment services
Provision and management of shared infrastructure for participating financial institutions
Operating e-payment clearing and settlement systems for the financial industry
Governing adherence to relevant standards
Developing technical standards and specifications for the Smart Card
Certification services for payment smart card and personalisation centres
MEPS provide the following services through its network to all participating banks:
Nationwide Shared ATM Network – An interbank switching infrastructure network for routine banking transactions including cash withdrawal, funds transfer, credit card and loan repayment, account balance inquiry, mobile prepaid top-up, MEPS CASH loading and Touch n’ Go top-up
Cross-Border Initiative – A cross-border ATM network and link with six countries; providing inter-country cash withdrawal services and will be expanded to include inter-country funds transfer and balance enquiry
Regional Switching for Financial Institutions – Provision of ATM switching services for member banks amongst their regional branches
MEPS ATM – Deployment of white-label ATMs which are owned and managed by MEPS. The ATMs offer services ranging from domestic and cross-border cash withdrawal, domestic balance enquiry and funds transfer. Cardholders of participating banks in Malaysia have access to these ATMs while cash advance facilities for MasterCard and Visa cardholders would be enabled soon
Payment Multi-Purpose Card Specification (PMPC) – A proprietary ATM and Debit chip-card standard which was developed by MEPS. MEPS is the central coordinating body for the national implementation of the PMPC and is responsible for developing the PMPC chip card specification, t
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Network Security Services (NSS) is a collection of cryptographic computer libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with optional support for hardware TLS/SSL acceleration on the server side and hardware smart cards on the client side. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of cryptographic libraries supporting Transport Layer Security (TLS) / Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and S/MIME. NSS releases prior to version 3.14 are tri-licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.1, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License. Since release 3.14, NSS releases are licensed under GPL-compatible Mozilla Public License 2.0.
History
NSS originated from the libraries developed when Netscape invented the SSL security protocol.
FIPS 140 validation and NISCC testing
The NSS software crypto module has been validated five times (in 1997, 1999, 2002, 2007, and 2010) for conformance to FIPS 140 at Security Levels 1 and 2. NSS was the first open source cryptographic library to receive FIPS 140 validation. The NSS libraries passed the NISCC TLS/SSL and S/MIME test suites (1.6 million test cases of invalid input data).
Applications that use NSS
AOL, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems/Oracle Corporation, Google and other companies and individual contributors have co-developed NSS. Mozilla provides the source code repository, bug tracking system, and infrastructure for mailing lists and discussion groups. They and others named below use NSS in a variety of products, including the following:
Mozilla client products, including Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Firefox for mobile.
AOL Communicator and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Open source client applications such as Evolution, Pidgin, and OpenOffice.org 2.0 onward (and its descendants).
Server products from Red Hat: Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Certificate System, and the mod nss SSL module for the Apache web server.
Sun server products from the Sun Java Enterprise System, including Sun Java System Web Server, Sun Java System Directory Server, Sun Java System Portal Server, Sun Java System Messaging Server, and Sun Java System Application Server, open source version of Directory Server OpenDS.
Libreswan IKE/IPsec requires NSS. It is a fork of Openswan which could optionally use NSS.
Architecture
NSS includes a framework to which developers and OEMs can contribute patches, such as assembly code, to optimize performance on their platforms. Mozilla has certified NSS 3.x on 18 platforms. NSS makes use of Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR), a platform-neutral open-source API for system functions designed to facilitate cross-platform development. Like NSS, NSPR has been used heavily in multiple products.
Software development kit
In addition to libraries and APIs, NSS provides security tools required for debugging, diagnostics, certificate and key management, cryptography-module management, and other development tasks.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mati%20Moralejo
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Matthew John Moralejo is an actor and was a recurring personality on the Nick GAS television network. He is regularly seen in 60 second featurettes highlighting lesser known sports from around the world called Global GAS.
Moralejo was also the host of a short-lived revival of Nickelodeon's Wild and Crazy Kids in 2002. As an actor, he has had guest roles in Dawson's Creek, From the Earth to the Moon and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo.
Moralejo grew up in the Town and Country area of Tampa, Florida, and graduated A.P. Leto High School in 1993. He teaches international sports such as shovel racing, hydrospeeding, zorbing, pato, Kendo, reindeer racing, Futvolei, ice mountain climbing, dog sled racing, snow biking, outrigger canoeing, and sand tobogganing.
Alongside Max Rubin, Moralejo co-hosted two seasons of the Ultimate Blackjack Tour on CBS, a blackjack tournament that used the Elimination Blackjack derivative created by poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Russ Hamilton and featured a number of famous poker players and professional gamblers amongst it participants. Anthony Curtis, owner of the Las Vegas Advisor analysed all televised play and wrote the commentary delivered by Moralejo and Rubin.
External links
Notes and references
Living people
American game show hosts
American male television actors
1975 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability%20modulo%20theories
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In computer science and mathematical logic, satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) is the problem of determining whether a mathematical formula is satisfiable. It generalizes the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) to more complex formulas involving real numbers, integers, and/or various data structures such as lists, arrays, bit vectors, and strings. The name is derived from the fact that these expressions are interpreted within ("modulo") a certain formal theory in first-order logic with equality (often disallowing quantifiers). SMT solvers are tools that aim to solve the SMT problem for a practical subset of inputs. SMT solvers such as Z3 and cvc5 have been used as a building block for a wide range of applications across computer science, including in automated theorem proving, program analysis, program verification, and software testing.
Since Boolean satisfiability is already NP-complete, the SMT problem is typically NP-hard, and for many theories it is undecidable. Researchers study which theories or subsets of theories lead to a decidable SMT problem and the computational complexity of decidable cases. The resulting decision procedures are often implemented directly in SMT solvers; see, for instance, the decidability of Presburger arithmetic. SMT can be thought of as a constraint satisfaction problem and thus a certain formalized approach to constraint programming.
Basic terminology
Formally speaking, an SMT instance is a formula in first-order logic, where some function and predicate symbols have additional interpretations, and SMT is the problem of determining whether such a formula is satisfiable. In other words, imagine an instance of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) in which some of the binary variables are replaced by predicates over a suitable set of non-binary variables. A predicate is a binary-valued function of non-binary variables. Example predicates include linear inequalities (e.g., ) or equalities involving uninterpreted terms and function symbols (e.g., where is some unspecified function of two arguments). These predicates are classified according to each respective theory assigned. For instance, linear inequalities over real variables are evaluated using the rules of the theory of linear real arithmetic, whereas predicates involving uninterpreted terms and function symbols are evaluated using the rules of the theory of uninterpreted functions with equality (sometimes referred to as the empty theory). Other theories include the theories of arrays and list structures (useful for modeling and verifying computer programs), and the theory of bit vectors (useful in modeling and verifying hardware designs). Subtheories are also possible: for example, difference logic is a sub-theory of linear arithmetic in which each inequality is restricted to have the form for variables and and constant .
Most SMT solvers support only quantifier-free fragments of their logics.
Expressive power
An SMT instance is a generalization
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20H.%20Golub
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Gene Howard Golub (February 29, 1932 – November 16, 2007), was an American numerical analyst who taught at Stanford University as Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and held a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering.
Personal life
Born in Chicago, he was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving his B.S. (1953), M.A. (1954) and Ph.D. (1959) all in mathematics. His M.A. degree was more specifically in Mathematical Statistics. His PhD dissertation was entitled "The Use of Chebyshev Matrix Polynomials in the Iterative Solution of Linear Equations Compared to the Method of Successive Overrelaxation" and his thesis adviser was Abraham Taub. Gene Golub succumbed to acute myeloid leukemia on the morning of 16 November 2007 at the Stanford Hospital.
Stanford University
He arrived at Stanford in 1962 and became a professor there in 1970. He advised more than thirty doctoral students, many of whom have themselves achieved distinction. Gene Golub was an important figure in numerical analysis and pivotal to creating the NA-Net and the NA-Digest, as well as the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
One of his best-known books is Matrix Computations,
co-authored with Charles F. Van Loan. He was a major contributor to algorithms for matrix decompositions. In particular he published an algorithm together with William Kahan in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today. A survey of his work was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press as "Milestones in Matrix Computation".
Recognition
Golub was awarded the B. Bolzano Gold Medal for Merits in the Field of Mathematical Sciences and was one of the few elected to three national academies: the National Academy of Sciences (1993), the National Academy of Engineering (1990), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994). He was also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1986).
He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher. He held 11 honorary doctorates and was scheduled to receive an honorary doctorate from ETH Zürich on November 17, 2007. He was a visiting professor at Princeton (1970), MIT (1979), ETH (1974 & 2002), and Oxford (1982, 1998 & 2007).
Gene Golub served as the president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) from 1985 to 1987 and was founding editor of both the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC) and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).
Most of Golub's research work was collaborative. He had at least 181 distinct co-authors
and the number may still increase as co-authored papers keep appearing posthumously.
Selected publications
Articles
Books
with Charles Van Loan: Matrix Computations (= Johns Hopkins Series in the Mathematical Sciences. 3). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 1983, ISBN 0-8018-3010-9; 2nd edition 1989; 3rd edition 1996; 4th edition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20F.%20Van%20Loan
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Charles Francis Van Loan (born September 20, 1947) is an emeritus professor of computer science and the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, He is known for his expertise in numerical analysis, especially matrix computations.
In 2016, Van Loan became the Dean of Faculty at Cornell University.
Biography
Originally from Orange, New Jersey, Van Loan attended the University of Michigan, where he obtained the B.S. in applied mathematics (1969) and the M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) in mathematics. His PhD dissertation was entitled "Generalized Singular Values with Algorithms and Applications" and his thesis adviser was Cleve Moler. Following a postdoctorate at the University of Manchester, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University in 1975, and served as the Department Chair from 1999 to 2006.
During the 1988–1989 academic year, Van Loan taught at Oxford University for his sabbatical.
Van Loan ran the Computer Science Graduate Program from 1982 to 1987 at Cornell and was the Director of the Undergraduate Studies from 1994 to 1998 and 1999–2003. He was awarded the Ford chair in 1998. He held the position of chairman from July 1999 to June 2006.
In the spring of 2016, Van Loan retired from the Computer Science Department and was promoted to Dean of Faculty, replacing Joseph Burns. Van Loan is the first emeritus professor to hold the position of Dean of Faculty.
Honors and awards
Van Loan won the Robert Paul Advising Award in 1998 and the James and Martha D. McCormick Advising Award in 2003. Other awards Van Loan won include the Merrill Scholar Faculty Impact Award in 1998 and 2009 and the James and Mary Tien Teaching Award, College of Engineering in 2009.
In 2018 he was awarded the John von Neumann Lecture prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Books
Van Loan's best-known book is Matrix Computations, 3/e (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, ), written with Gene H. Golub. He is also the author of Handbook for Matrix Computations (SIAM, 1988, ), Computational Frameworks for the Fast Fourier Transform (SIAM, 1992, ), Introduction to Computational Science and Mathematics (Jones and Bartlett, 1996, ), and Introduction to Scientific Computation: A Matrix-Vector Approach Using MATLAB (2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 1999, ). His latest book is Insight Through Computing: A MATLAB Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM, 2009, ) written with K-Y Daisy Fan.
References
External links
Home page at Cornell University
Living people
Numerical analysts
Mathematicians from New Jersey
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
1947 births
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American people of Dutch descent
People from Orange, New Jersey
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is an anime adaptation of the 1906 novel The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. The 52 episode series ran on the Japanese network NHK from January 1980 to March 1981. The series was the first production by Pierrot. The anime was mostly true to the original, apart from the appearance of Nils's pet hamster, and the larger role given to Smirre the fox. The music was written by Czech composer Karel Svoboda; Yukihide Takekawa provided the soundtrack for its original Japanese broadcast and for some other countries.
The anime was also broadcast in Canada (in French), France, Germany, Sweden, Finland ("Peukaloisen retket" – "Thumbling's Travels"), Iceland (as "Nilli Hólmgeirsson"), the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece (as "Το θαυμαστό ταξίδι του Νίλς Χόλγκερσον" – "The wondrous journey of Nils Holgersson"), Bulgaria ("Чудното пътуване на Нилс Холгерсон с дивите гъски" – "The wondrous journey of Nils Holgersson with the Wild Geese"), Poland (as "Nils and the wild geese"), Portugal, Romania (as "Aventurile lui Nils Holgersson"), in the Arab world (as "مغامرات نيلز" – "Nils's Adventures"), Spain, Slovenia (as "Nils Holgerson" with only one "s"), Slovakia (again as "Nils Holgerson"), Hungary (as "Nils Holgersson csodálatos utazása a vadludakkal"), Israel (as "נילס הולגרסון" – "Nils Holgersson"), Iran (as "ماجراهای نیلز"), Turkey (as "Nils ve Uçan Kaz" – "Nils and the Flying Goose"), Italy, Hong Kong (dubbed into Cantonese), Mainland China, South Africa (in Afrikaans as "Die wonderlike avonture van Nils Holgerson"), and Albania (as "Aventurat e Nils Holgersonit"). In some countries it was edited for length to allow for commercials. In Germany, the episodes of the animated series were also combined into a full-length animated feature (1h 22min) released in 1981; that feature was also dubbed and released in Estonia on DVD and VHS. The anime was also adapted into a German comic book series, with art by the Spanish Studio Interpubli and the German Atelier Roche.
Plot
Nils Holgersson is a 14-year-old farm boy, the son of poor farmers. He is lazy and disrespectful to others. In his spare time he enjoys tormenting the animals that live on his family farm.
One Sunday, while his parents are at church and have left him home to read the day's homily in the family Bible, Nils captures a tomte in a net. In exchange for his freedom, the tomte offers Nils a large gold coin. Nils rejects the offer, and so the tomte transforms Nils into a tomte himself, shrinking him and his pet hamster Carrot to a tiny size and granting him the ability to talk with animals. The farm animals are delighted to see their tormentor reduced to their size and become angry and hungry for revenge. Meanwhile, wild geese are flying over the farm during their spring migration, and they taunt a white farm goose named Morten (whom Nils has also tormented by typing a rope around his neck). Morten decides he wants to join the wild flock. Escaping from the angry animals, Nils s
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The DSL-G604T is a first D-Link Wireless/ADSL router which firmware is based on open source the MontaVista Linux. The DSL-G604T was introduced in November 2004. This model has been discontinued.
Specifications
Hardware
CPU: Texas Instrument AR7W MIPS 4KEc based SoC with built-in ADSL and Ethernet interfaces
DRAM Memory: 16Mb
Flash Memory: 2Mb SquashFS file system
Wi-Fi: TI MiniPCI card
Ethernet: 5-port Ethernet hub (1 internal, 4 external)
Firmware
The G604T runs MontaVista and busybox Linux which allows a degrejje of customisation with customised firmware. These and similar units from D-Link appear to have an issue that causes certain services to fail when using the factory provided firmware, namely the Debian package update service being interrupted due to a faulty DNS through DHCP issue at the kernel level. A v2.00B06.AU_20060728 patch was made available through their downloads section that provided some level of correction, but it was not a complete fix and the issue would resurface intermittently. When the issue was originally reported, D-Link seemed to have misunderstood that the same issue has been discovered by the Linux community at large to be common across a number of their router models and they failed to provide a complete fix across the board for all adsl router models.
Russian version of the firmware (prefix .RU, e.g. V1.00B02T02.RU.20041014) has restrictions on configuring firewall rules – user can only change sender's address (computer address in the LAN segment) and the recipient's port. The web interface with Russian firmware also differs from the English interface.
Default settings
When running the D-link DSL-G604T router for the first time (or resetting), the device is configured with a default IP address (192.168.1.1), username (admin) and password (admin). Default username and password can also be printed on the router itself, in the manual, or on the box.
Problems
Security
D-Link DSL-G604T has Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cgi-bin/webcm on the router allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the var:category parameter, as demonstrated by a request for advanced/portforw.htm on the fan page.
Directory traversal vulnerability in webcam in the D-Link DSL-G604T Wireless ADSL Router Modem allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an absolute path in the getpage parameter.
When /cgi-bin/firmwarecfg is executed, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication if their IP address already exists in /var/tmp/fw_ip or if their request is the first, which causes /var/tmp/fw_ip to be created and contain their IP address.
Noise
Owners reported that the router emitted a low, high-pitched sound when the ADSL line was synchronized.
Reception
The DSL-G604T received positive reviews, receiving an 7.9/10 from PCActual, 3/5 from PCWorld. According to CNET, "DSL-G604T is a ADSL2/2+ modem router with some serious stability issues".
Similar models
The DSL-G624T, DSL-G664T an
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Paul McGuire (born in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a former host on Canada's CMT network.
References
Paul McGuire biography at Cressman Sakamoto Agency
Blog at CMT.ca
British infotainers
Scottish male film actors
Scottish emigrants to Canada
Television personalities from Edinburgh
York University alumni
People from Thornhill, Ontario
Living people
Canadian game show hosts
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian VJs (media personalities)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco%20%28typeface%29
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Monaco is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare and Kris Holmes. It ships with macOS and was already present with all previous versions of the Mac operating system. Characters are distinct, and it is difficult to confuse (figure zero) and (uppercase O), or (figure one), (vertical bar), (uppercase i) and (lowercase L). A unique feature of the font is the high curvature of its parentheses as well as the width of its square brackets, the result of these being that an empty pair of parentheses or square brackets will strongly resemble a circle or square, respectively.
Monaco has been released in at least three forms. The original was a bitmap monospace font that still appears in the ROMs of even New World Macs, and is still available in recent macOS releases (size 9, with disabled antialiasing); this version did not have the above-mentioned distinguishing marks. The second is the outline form, loosely similar to Lucida Mono and created as a TrueType font for System 6 and 7; this is the standard font used for all other sizes. There was briefly a third known as MPW, since it was designed to be used with the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop IDE; it was essentially a straight conversion of the bitmap font into an outline font with the addition of some of the same disambiguation features as were added to the TrueType Monaco.
The original Monaco 9 point bitmap font was designed so that when a Compact Macintosh window was displayed full screen, such as for a terminal emulator program, it would result in a standard text user interface display of 80 columns by 25 lines.
With the August 2009 release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Menlo was introduced as the default monospaced font instead of Monaco in Terminal and Xcode, However, Monaco remains a part of macOS. Monaco is the default font in the current Python IDLE when used on a Mac running OS X El Capitan.
Furthermore, in September 2015, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan introduced SF Mono, a monospaced variant of the San Francisco font family, as the default monospaced font instead of Menlo.
See also
Apple typography
ProFont
References
External links
Monospaced typefaces
Sans-serif typefaces
Apple Inc. typefaces
Macintosh operating systems
MacOS
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1983
Typefaces designed by Susan Kare
Typefaces designed by Kris Holmes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL%20injection
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In computer programming, DLL injection is a technique used for running code within the address space of another process by forcing it to load a dynamic-link library. DLL injection is often used by external programs to influence the behavior of another program in a way its authors did not anticipate or intend. For example, the injected code could hook system function calls, or read the contents of password textboxes, which cannot be done the usual way. A program used to inject arbitrary code into arbitrary processes is called a DLL injector.
Approaches on Microsoft Windows
There are multiple ways on Microsoft Windows to force a process to load and execute code in a DLL that the authors did not intend:
DLLs listed in the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\AppInit_DLLs are loaded into every process that loads User32.dll during the initial call of that DLL. Beginning with Windows Vista, AppInit_DLLs are disabled by default. Beginning with Windows 7, the AppInit_DLL infrastructure supports code signing. Starting with Windows 8, the entire AppInit_DLL functionality is disabled when Secure Boot is enabled, regardless of code signing or registry settings.
DLLs listed under the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\AppCertDLLs are loaded into every process that calls the Win32 API functions CreateProcess, CreateProcessAsUser, CreateProcessWithLogonW, CreateProcessWithTokenW and WinExec. That is the right way to use legal DLL injection on current version of Windows - Windows 10. DLL must be signed by a valid certificate.
Process manipulation functions such as CreateRemoteThread or code injection techniques such as AtomBombing, can be used to inject a DLL into a program after it has started.
Open a handle to the target process. This can be done by spawning the process or by keying off something created by that process that is known to exist – for instance, a window with a predictable title, or by obtaining a list of running processes and scanning for the target executable's filename.
Allocate some memory in the target process, and the name of the DLL to be injected is written to it.
This step can be skipped if a suitable DLL name is already available in the target process. For example, if a process links to ‘User32.dll’, ‘GDI32.dll’, ‘Kernel32.dll’ or any other library whose name ends in ‘32.dll’, it would be possible to load a library named ‘32.dll’. This technique has in the past been demonstrated to be effective against a method of guarding processes against DLL injection.
Create a new thread in the target process with the thread's start address set to be the address of LoadLibrary and the argument set to the address of the string just uploaded into the target.
Instead of writing the name of a DLL-to-load to the target and starting the new thread at LoadLibrary, one can write the code-to-be-executed to the target and start the thread at that code.
The
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References
— racemic
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Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelaw
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Pelaw () is a residential area in Gateshead, located around from Newcastle upon Tyne, from Sunderland, and from Durham. In 2011, Census data for the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council ward of Heworth and Pelaw recorded a total population of 9,100.
Pelaw lies in between the older settlements of Heworth to the west, Bill Quay to the east, and Wardley to the south, with the southern bank of the River Tyne forming the northern border.
History
Pelaw came into being due to the huge Victorian factory complexes of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) which was the manufacturing division of the then burgeoning Co-op company, which grew up along the length of the Shields Road. This mile long stretch of red-brick industry was home to factories making clothing and textiles, furniture, pharmaceuticals, household cleaning products, quilts, books and magazines and the world-famous 'Pelaw' shoe polish.
The factories created Pelaw, and were a significant employer in the area during most of the twentieth century. Due to inevitable foreign competition, the prevailing economic climate, and government policies of the times, the majority of the factories were closed and demolished between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, to be replaced in recent years by modern housing estates.
Only one of the original CWS buildings – the Cabinet Factory – is extant. The Cabinet Factory in Bill Quay, which later became a major Brentford Nylons plant, has been redeveloped, now housing Stonehills Business Park. The last factory to be demolished was the Shirt Factory, the site having since been redeveloped in to a supermarket.
Demography
According to the 2011 Census, the Pelaw and Heworth ward has a population of 9,100. The ward is split into three distinct districts:
Bill Quay (population of 1,525) – Located to the east of King George's Field, and to the north of the A185 road.
Heworth (population of 5,273) – Located to the south of the Tyne and Wear Metro line.
Pelaw (population of 2,302) – Located to the north of the Tyne and Wear Metro line, and the A185 road.
52.2% of the population are female, slightly above the national average, while 47.8% are male. Only 2.7% of the population were from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) group, as opposed to 14.6% of the national population.
Data from the 2011 Census found that the average life expectancy in Pelaw and Heworth is 79.1 years for men, and 81.1 years for women. These statistics compare fairly favourably, when compared to the average life expectancy in the North East of England, of 77.4 and 81.4 years, respectively.
Car ownership is lower than the average in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead (63.5%), but lower than the national average of 74.2% – with 61.1% of households in the Pelaw and Heworth ward owning at least one car.
In Pelaw, there is a significant contrast between ethnic groups. For example, the five output areas that covering the centre of Pelaw are around 90% White British, with the most eth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20Trio
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The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three previously separate components were now included in the same ASIC: the graphics core, RAMDAC and clock generator. The increased integration allowed a graphics card to be simpler than before and thus cheaper to produce.
Variants
The Trio64 and 64V+, first appeared in 1995, are essentially fully integrated solutions based upon the earlier Vision 864 and 868 accelerator chipsets. Like the 868, the 64V+ has a video acceleration engine that can perform YUV to RGB color space conversion and horizontal linear filtered scaling. Unlike the Vision964/968, the Trio chips do not support VRAM, and are limited to FPM DRAM and EDO DRAM only. The 2D graphics hardware was later used in the ViRGE.
The Trio32 is a low-cost version of the Trio64 with a narrower 32-bit DRAM interface (vs. 64-bit).
The Trio64V2 improved on the 64V+ by including vertical bilinear filtering. The 2D graphics core was later used in the ViRGE/DX and ViRGE/GX. Like the corresponding ViRGE chips, the 64V2 also came in /DX and /GX variants, with the latter supporting more modern SDRAM or SGRAM. The final version, called the Trio3D, was effectively the 128-bit successor to the ViRGE/GX2.
The various Trio chips were used on many motherboards. Because of the popularity of the series and the resulting compatibility advantages, they are used in various PC emulation and virtualization packages such as DOSBox, Microsoft Virtual PC, PCem and 86Box.
Specifications
Motherboard interface: ISA, VLB, PCI, AGP (Trio3D only)
Video Connector: 15-pin VGA connector
External links
Virtual PC 4.0 Test Results, S3 Trio emulated graphics chipset
S3 Graphics - Download Drivers - Legacy Software Archive
Vogons Vintage Driver Library
Graphics cards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushigi%20no%20Kuni%20no%20Alice
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is an anime adaptation of the 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which ran on the TV Tokyo network and other local stations across Japan from October 10, 1983 to March 26, 1984. The series was a Japanese-German co-production between Nippon Animation, TV Tokyo and Apollo Films. The series consists of 52 episodes, however, only 26 made it to the US.
In the English language, this series is generally overshadowed by the success of Disney's 1951 feature film version of the story; however, the anime series was quite popular in various European countries, in Israel, in the Philippines, in Latin America, in Iran, and in the Arabic-speaking world. The series was also dubbed into Hindi by the national film development board of India and telecast on Doordarshan in the early 1990s.
Overview
A young girl named Alice follows a White Rabbit into a hole, only to find herself in Wonderland, where she meets many interesting characters, including the mysterious Cheshire Cat and the terrible Queen of Hearts.
The beginning of the series adheres more closely to the original novel, whereas later episodes adapt the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, starting with episode 18.
One departure from the books is that Alice returns to the real world at the end of each episode, and goes back to Wonderland at the beginning of the next episode. These transitions between the two worlds are depicted as dream-like, and it usually takes Alice a moment to notice her surroundings have changed.
Music
The series uses two pieces of theme music for the original Japanese version. The Japanese opening song is called "Yumemiru Wonderland (夢みるワンダーランド Dreaming Wonderland)", and the Japanese ending song is called "NAZO NAZO yume no kuni (ナゾナゾ夢の国 Mysterious Dreamland)", both sung by the Japanese vocalist Tarako (also the voice actress for Alice).
Disco-style theme music used in European dubs is composed by Christian Bruhn, originally with German lyrics, "Alice im Wunderland".
Episodes
Alice in Wonderland
Alice's Family
Down the Rabbit Hole
The Pool of Tears
The Caucus Race
The White Rabbit's House (Big Alice)
Humpty Dumpty
The Big Puppy
The Forest of No Name
The Crows
Advice from a Caterpillar
Looking for the Eggs
Pig and Pepper
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
The Lion and the Unicorn
The Croquet Party
Cheshire Cat
The Oysters
The Lobster Quadrille
The Mad Tea Party
Circus Land
The Trial
The Weeping Mockturtle
The Foot Tax
Runaway Benny
The Secret of Greenland
Through the Looking-Glass
Alice in the Mirror
The Queen's Picnic
Bird's of a Feather (The Shy Duck)
Washing Day
Wool and Water
Alice and the Dawson Twins
The White Rabbit Leaves Wonderland
The Strange Trainride
The Corkscrew Mouse
The Weathermakers
The Giant Kangaroo
The Balloon Ride
Cloudland
An Unpleasant Guest
The Little Flute Player
The Honey Elephants
Little Bill in Love
The Pearl of Wisdom
The Fixit Pixie
The Family Portrait
The Magic Potio
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In mathematics, Neville's algorithm is an algorithm used for polynomial interpolation that was derived by the mathematician Eric Harold Neville in 1934. Given n + 1 points, there is a unique polynomial of degree ≤ n which goes through the given points. Neville's algorithm evaluates this polynomial.
Neville's algorithm is based on the Newton form of the interpolating polynomial and the recursion relation for the divided differences. It is similar to Aitken's algorithm (named after Alexander Aitken), which is nowadays not used.
The algorithm
Given a set of n+1 data points (xi, yi) where no two xi are the same, the interpolating polynomial is the polynomial p of degree at most n with the property
p(xi) = yi for all i = 0,…,n
This polynomial exists and it is unique. Neville's algorithm evaluates the polynomial at some point x.
Let pi,j denote the polynomial of degree j − i which goes through the points (xk, yk) for k = i, i + 1, …, j. The
pi,j satisfy the recurrence relation
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This recurrence can calculate
p0,n(x),
which is the value being sought. This is Neville's algorithm.
For instance, for n = 4, one can use the recurrence to fill the triangular tableau below from the left to the right.
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This process yields
p0,4(x),
the value of the polynomial going through the n + 1 data points (xi, yi) at the point x.
This algorithm needs O(n2) floating point operations to interpolate a single point, and O(n3) floating point operations to interpolate a polynomial of degree n.
The derivative of the polynomial can be obtained in the same manner, i.e:
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Application to numerical differentiation
Lyness and Moler showed in 1966 that using undetermined coefficients for the polynomials in Neville's algorithm, one can compute the Maclaurin expansion of the final interpolating polynomial, which yields numerical approximations for the derivatives of the function at the origin. While "this process requires more arithmetic operations than is required in finite difference methods", "the choice of points for function evaluation is not restricted in any way". They also show that their method can be applied directly to the solution of linear systems of the Vandermonde type.
References
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J. N. Lyness and C.B. Moler, Van Der Monde Systems and Numerical Differentiation, Numerische Mathematik 8 (1966) 458-464 (doi: 10.1007/BF02166671)
Neville, E.H.: Iterative interpolation. J. Indian Math. Soc.20, 87–120 (1934)
External links
Polynomials
Interpolation
de:Polynominterpolation#Algorithmus von Neville-Aitken
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Rowan
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Ford Rowan was a television reporter for NBC News and panelist on Meet the Press during the 1970s and early 1980s. During his tenure with the network, he covered mostly military and security-related issues. Rowan also served as an adjunct professor at the Washington bureau of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
After leaving NBC, he hosted a discussion program featuring foreign television journalists stationed in the U.S., International Edition, produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting (now Maryland Public Television) for PBS.
In 1984, Rowan left the journalistic field to found, with partner Richard Blewitt, Rowan and Blewitt, a consulting firm that advises companies on public relations crises. Rowan is based out of Annapolis, Maryland.
External links
Rowan & Blewitt website
Ford Rowan’s personal website
Year of birth missing (living people)
NBC News people
American television reporters and correspondents
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysteine%20%28data%20page%29
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References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook%202400c
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The PowerBook 2400c (codenames: "Comet", "Nautilus") is a subnotebook in Apple Computer's PowerBook range of Macintosh computers, weighing . Manufacturing was contracted to IBM Japan. In a return to the PowerBook 100 form factor, it was introduced in May 1997 as a late replacement for the PowerBook Duo 2300c, which had been the last of the subnotebook PowerBook Duo series. The 2400c was discontinued in March 1998, with no immediate replacement — the model that followed it was the much larger PowerBook G3 Series (known as "Wallstreet"/"Mainstreet"). However, in Japan a 2400c with a 240 MHz CPU (codenamed "Mighty Cat") was offered shortly after the original model's discontinuation, until the end of the year.
Overview
The 2400c uses the same PowerPC 603e processor as the preceding Duo 2300c, but at a much higher CPU clock — 180 instead of 100 MHz. However, the 2400 is unable to utilize the DuoDock like the 2300c was, making the lack of an internal removable drive much more noticeable. Like the PowerBook 100 and Duo series before it, it was sold with an external floppy drive. Apple did not offer a CD-ROM drive for it which was otherwise standard for all other PowerBooks. Unlike the Duo, reinstated peripheral ports on the machine most closely matched those of the original 100 and include: ADB, one combined serial printer/modem port, floppy port (not HDI-20 but unique to the 2400c), HDI-30 SCSI port, but added a VGA video out, as well as a stereo sound out and in, infrared port, and two PCMCIA card slots. The original 180 MHz model's PCMCIA slots officially accept only 2 Type II or 1 Type III PCMCIA-spec cards. But some users have applied simple motherboard modifications to allow the use of Cardbus expansion cards as well, extending the practical life of this subcompact until a replacement was eventually offered by Apple. The Japanese 240 MHz model offered Cardbus as standard. The 2400 is built around a active matrix color LCD screen, making the computer very compact indeed — it is slightly smaller and lighter, though a bit thicker, than a iBook, and the fourth-smallest subnotebook behind the PowerBook G4 introduced several years later. Apple's most recent offering in this category was the discontinued MacBook.
Due to its processor being located on a detachable daughter card, the PowerBook 2400c saw a small number of PowerPC G3 processor cards created for it. Companies such as Interware(Vimage), and Newer Technologies(NUpowr) offered processor upgrades which would swap out the 603e for a G3 ranging from 240 MHz to 400 MHz.
This was also the last Mac to not ship with a removable media drive until the MacBook Air in 2008.
Timeline
Notes
References
External links
PowerBook 2400c/180 at Apple Computer's AppleSpec
PowerBook 2400c at apple-history.com
PowerBook 2400c at lowendmac.com
PowerBook 2400c/180 and 2400c/240 at EveryMac.com
2400c
PowerPC Macintosh computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDB
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MDB may refer to:
Computing
.mdb, a file-extension used in certain versions of Microsoft Access databases
MDB, a kernel debugger for the Linux kernel.
MDB, the NASDAQ ticker symbol for MongoDB, a database management system.
Message Driven Bean, a special type of Enterprise JavaBean
Modular Debugger, a debugger available as part of the Solaris Operating System
Multidrop bus, a category of computer bus
Politics
Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages (MdB), a member of the German Parliament
Brazilian Democratic Movement, a centrist political party in Brazil
Other uses
Multilateral Development Bank
Maidstone Barracks railway station, UK National Rail station code
3,4-methylenedioxybutanphenamine, an entactogenic drug
Medulloblastoma common type of primary brain cancer in children
My Dying Bride, a British doom metal band
See also
1MDB, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, Malaysian strategic development company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%3A2003
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SQL:2003 is the fifth revision of the SQL database query language. The standard consists of 9 parts which are described in detail in SQL. It was updated by SQL:2006.
New features
The SQL:2003 standard makes minor modifications to all parts of SQL:1999 (also known as SQL3), and officially introduces a few new features such as:
XML-related features (SQL/XML)
Window functions
the sequence generator, which allows standardized sequences
two new column types: auto-generated values and identity-columns
the new MERGE statement
extensions to the CREATE TABLE statement, to allow "CREATE TABLE AS" and "CREATE TABLE LIKE"
removal of the poorly implemented "BIT" and "BIT VARYING" data types
OLAP capabilities (initially added in SQL:1999) were extended with a window function.
Documentation availability
The SQL standard is not freely available but may be purchased from ISO or ANSI. A late draft is available as a zip archive from Whitemarsh Information Systems Corporation. The zip archive contains a number of PDF files that define the parts of the SQL:2003 specification.
References
External links
BNF Grammar for ISO/IEC 9075:2003 – SQL/Framework
Declarative programming languages
Query languages
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The Warsaw-Vienna Railway (, ) was a railway system which operated since 1845 in Congress Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. The main component of its network was a line 327.6 km in length from Warsaw to the border station at Maczki in Sosnowiec with the Austrian Empire, and since 1867 the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There the line reached the Austrian railway network, offering connections to Vienna (hence the name of the line) and beyond. It was the first railway line built in Congress Poland and the second in the Russian Empire, after a short stretch of 27 km between Tsarskoye Selo and Saint Petersburg (Saint Petersburg - Tsarskoe Selo Railway) which opened in 1837. The line used the standard European gauge (), as opposed to all other railways in the Russian Empire which used the broad gauge (), hence it formed a system physically separated from other Imperial Russian railways.
History
Ownership
The first concrete plan to build a railway between Warsaw and the southern border of the Congress Poland was submitted to Bank Polski (Polish Bank) by a consortium led by Henryk Łubieński in January 1835. Three years later, in 1838 Towarzystwo Akcyjne Drogi Żelaznej Warszawsko-Wiedeńskiej (Warsaw-Vienna Rail Road Company Ltd) was established and granted a licence to build the railway. Arguments between proponents of horse and steam traction lasted many years, and only in 1840, the latter was chosen when the building work started. The company went bankrupt in 1843 and was taken over by the state. In 1857 the line was leased to a private company (also called Towarzystwo Akcyjne Drogi Żelaznej Warszawsko-Wiedeńskiej) for 75 years, however, it was re-nationalized in 1912, with a compensation paid to the shareholders (mostly Belgians and Germans).
Permanent way
The first stretch of the line, from Warsaw to Grodzisk Mazowiecki (30 km), opened on 14 June 1845, and was extended to Skierniewice with a branch to Łowicz on 15 October 1845. Trains reached Częstochowa in 1846, Ząbkowice in 1847 and the Austrian border on 1 April 1848. There were 27 stations on the line.
Initially, the line was single, but from the outset, the earthworks were prepared for a second track, which was gradually added to the whole route between 1872 and 1881.
The terminal border station lay close to Szczakowa Station of the Kraków and Upper Silesia railway (Kolej Krakowsko-Górnośląska / Krakau-Oberschlesische Bahn). This line indirectly, via the two Prussian lines of the Upper Silesian Railway (Oberschlesische Bahn) and William's Railway (Wilhelmsbahn) was joined to the Austrian Northern Railway (in Bohumin), which reached the Prussian border from Vienna. An entirely Austrian communication was not available before 1856, when the Austrian Eastern National Railway, predecessor of the Kraków and Upper Silesia Railway, closed the gap with a branch from Trzebinia to Czechowice-Dziedzice.
Stations
The Warsaw terminus (Vienna Station, ), designed by Enrico Marconi, opened in 1845 a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Moxy%20Show
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The Moxy Show is an American animated anthology television series produced by Colossal Pictures for Cartoon Network. It consists of classic cartoons inter-spliced with segments featuring Moxy the anthropomorphic dog, who gives commentary. Moxy purportedly works for Cartoon Network as a janitor but secretly hijacks their signal every Sunday. The Moxy Show was Cartoon Network's first exclusive original programming. It was created out of Cartoon Network's desire for an animated host that could be aired live. They contracted Colossal Pictures to develop the character and the motion capture technology to realize Cartoon Network's vision. Moxy would be voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait, while Colossal Pictures' software would use John Stevenson as an actor for Moxy's movements. The series first aired as The Moxy Pirate Show on December 5, 1993. The show was rebranded as The Moxy Show on November 6, 1994, and introduced a new character named Flea, who serves as Moxy's sidekick. The series run ended on May 25, 1996, reportedly due to poor audience reception.
Premise
Moxy (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait) is an anthropomorphic cartoon dog who purportedly works as a janitor for Cartoon Network and was unsuccessful in being granted his own show. Moxy has built a bootleg studio in his closet where he hijacks the signal to Cartoon Network every week to host The Moxy Show. On The Moxy Show, Moxy showcases classic cartoons such as Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye. Between each cartoon, Moxy would provide commentary and trivia. During the show's initial iteration as The Moxy Pirate Show, Moxy was the only character. When the show rebranded as The Moxy Show, a sidekick named Flea (voiced by Penn Jillette) was introduced, who is described as a "professional pest". Moxy and Flea serve as a dynamic duo, Moxy is careless while Flea is level-headed.
Production
Cartoon Network is a cable television channel focused on animation, created by Turner Broadcasting System, and launched on October 1, 1992. Cartoon Network's initial programming relied on reruns of classic television cartoons. Cartoon Network wanted to create both a mascot that would perform animated skits in between airings and a live host for special events. "The problem arose," according to Cartoon Network president Betty Cohen, "when [they] realized that for the Cartoon Network, [they] were going to need a cartoon host." Traditional animation and computer animation could not be produced and aired live and thus could not be used for Cartoon Network's desired animated host. Cartoon Network approached Colossal Pictures, a company that had been merging traditional animation with new "real-time applications in new media". Brian DeGraff of Colossal Pictures proposed Moxy as Cartoon Network's mascot. Moxy would be computer-modeled in 3D and use motion capture for animation as the series. Approving this idea, Cartoon Network contracted Colossal Pictures to produce sixteen interstitial animations. Cartoon Network chos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.E.%20America%20Radio%20Network
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i.e. America Radio Network was a Detroit-based radio network consisting primarily of liberal talk and lifestyle shows. They were owned by the United Auto Workers (UAW) and broadcast nationally from 1996 to 2004, via radio stations and a webcast.
The network was an outgrowth of networks established by populist talk radio host Charles "Chuck" Harder (c.1943-2018) beginning in 1987. Harder was an early investor in the network in its final form but pulled out of the venture amid disputes with the UAW.
History
The origin of what became the i.e. America Radio Network began in Tampa, Florida in 1987. In order to more freely discuss controversial topics on the radio and take advantage of the recent repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, disc jockey-turned talk show host Charles "Chuck" Harder decided to start his own radio network in 1987. The new venture was christened The Sun Radio Network, and its purpose was to syndicate his populist-themed show, "For The People", which was carried primarily by commercial rural AM radio stations and shortwave radio. Originally broadcasting from the garage of his Tampa home, Harder and his wife Dianne later purchased the historic Telford Hotel in the town of White Springs to serve as studios.
Programming for SRN was also delivered from its flagship Tampa Bay affiliate, WEND 760, owned and operated by Harder's colleague, Bruce Micek. Direct competition with other stations, WFLA in particular, led to some on-air and off-air disputes.
Kayla Satellite Network, which was approximately half owned by Liberty Lobby, purchased the Sun Radio Network in December 1989. In 1991, Harder's show was dropped from the network and he proceeded to start a new radio network, the Peoples Radio Network.
Peoples Radio Network
The Peoples Radio Network was founded as a nonprofit organization, and Harder broadcast his show from the same studios in the Telford Hotel. The Peoples Radio Network also published a newspaper, the National News Reporter, sold memberships, books and other merchandise through a mail-order catalog. PRN members were sent a booklet of consumer advice by Harder, How to Squeeze Lemons and Make Lemonade, and a subscription to the Peoples Radio Network magazine.
At its peak in the early to mid-1990s, For The People was carried on over 300 radio stations, second only to Rush Limbaugh. The People's Radio Network later expanded to include hosts such as Jack Ellery, Joel Vincent (Howard Hewes), Paul Gonzalez and Jerry Hughes.
While still popular, the Peoples Radio Network declined during the mid-to-late 1990s with the advent of radio consolidation. Large radio chains began buying groups of radio stations and replacing current programming on their talk radio stations with more popular conservative-type shows.
The Peoples Radio Network's nonprofit status became the subject of an IRS audit following the 1992 presidential elections, alleging that PRN had attempted to influence the election against then-president George H. W. Bus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Streams
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In computing, the Oracle Streams was a product from Oracle Corporation that encouraged users of Oracle databases to propagate information within and between databases. It provided tools to capture, process ('stage') and manage database events via Advanced Queuing queues.
Oracle Streams was the flow of information either within a single database or from one database to another. Oracle Streams can be set up in homogeneous (all Oracle databases) or heterogeneous (non-Oracle and Oracle databases) environments. The Streams setup used a set of processes and database objects to share data and messages. The database changes (DDL and DML) were captured at the source; those are then staged and propagated to one or more destination databases to be applied there. Message propagation used Advanced Queuing mechanism within the Oracle databases.
Applications for the Oracle Streams tool-set included data distribution, data warehousing and data replication.
This product was later replaced with Oracle Goldengate.
History
As of Oracle version 9.2 (2002), Oracle Corporation made Oracle Streams available on Oracle Enterprise Edition systems only. This happened in the wake of previous replication products: Oracle Replication (introduced with Oracle 8
in 1997) and Oracle Advanced Replication
Database Replication with Oracle 11G Streams
(introduced with Oracle 9i in 2000).
In July 2009, Oracle acquired GoldenGate, a company with a heterogeneous replication solution. Oracle Corporation encourages customers with new applications to use Oracle GoldenGate rather than Streams.
Oracle Streams was deprecated since Oracle Database version 12c, and desupported since Oracle Database version 19c.
Footnotes
Oracle software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-optimal%20pattern%20discovery
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K-optimal pattern discovery is a data mining technique that provides an alternative to the frequent pattern discovery approach that underlies most association rule learning techniques.
Frequent pattern discovery techniques find all patterns for which there are sufficiently frequent examples in the sample data. In contrast, k-optimal pattern discovery techniques find the k patterns that optimize a user-specified measure of interest. The parameter k is also specified by the user.
Examples of k-optimal pattern discovery techniques include:
k-optimal classification rule discovery.
k-optimal subgroup discovery.
finding k most interesting patterns using sequential sampling.
mining top.k frequent closed patterns without minimum support.
k-optimal rule discovery.
In contrast to k-optimal rule discovery and frequent pattern mining techniques, subgroup discovery focuses on mining interesting patterns with respect to a specified target property of interest. This includes, for example, binary, nominal, or numeric attributes, but also more complex target concepts such as correlations between several variables. Background knowledge like constraints and ontological relations can often be successfully applied for focusing and improving the discovery results.
References
External links
Data mining
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZRJ-FM
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DZRJ (100.3 FM), broadcasting as 100.3 RJFM, is a radio station owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network through its licensee Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc. The station's studio is located at 7849 General Luna Street corner Makati Avenue, Barangay Poblacion, Makati, while its transmitter is located in Barangay San Roque, Antipolo, Rizal) The station operates daily from 5:00AM to 2:00AM
History
It was once known as DZUW-AM under the joint ownership of Republic Broadcasting System and Rajah Broadcasting Network and this is the third AM station of RBS along with DZBB and DZXX. Originally broadcasting on 1310 kHz AM, it moved to 100.3 MHz FM in 1973 on. In 1980, 100.3 FM was reformatted as 100.3 Wink FM and it changed its callsign to DWNK-FM. It was manned by all-female DJs.
Around 1986, during the Philippines' historic People Power Revolution, DZRJ-AM reformatted as Radyo Bandido with a news and talk format. Meanwhile, its album rock format transferred to the then-newly acquired 100.3 FM under the call letters DZRJ. As a result, it carried the brand RJFM: The Original Rock and Roll Radio.
On December 1995, it rebranded as Boss Radio and shifted to a classic rock format, focusing on the 50s, 60s and 70s. Among its on-air personalities were Eddie Mercado, Bong Lapira, Lito Gorospe, Larry Abando, Manny Caringal, Ronnie Quintos, Naldi Castro and Cito Paredes. By this time, it officially launched its nationwide satellite broadcasting, a first in the history of the company to achieve this milestone.
On June 1999, it rebranded as The Hive and switched to an alternative rock format.
On May 6, 2002, it rebranded as RJFM and switched to a variety hits format, airing music from the 60s to today, with its Sunday programming reserved for music from the 1950s and 1960s (Oldies). Initially fully automated, it was in May 2003 when it started having on-air jocks. RJFM has a daily morning program called "Beatles Anthology", featuring the songs of The Beatles for one whole hour.
See also
DZRJ 810 AM
RJ DigiTV 29
References
External links
Official website
RJ 100.3
Oldies radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1963
1963 establishments in the Philippines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZXL
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DZXL (558 AM) Radyo Trabaho is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at the RMN Broadcast Center, Unit 809, 8th Floor, Atlanta Centre, Annapolis Street, Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, while its transmitter is located at Brgy. Taliptip, Bulakan, Bulacan.
As of Q4 2022, DZXL is the 4th most-listened to AM radio station in Mega Manila, based on a survey commissioned by Kantar Media Philippines and Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.
Notable anchors
Former
Mike Enriquez (former station manager) (deceased)
Aljo Bendijo
Doris Bigornia
Ces Drilon
Jay Sonza
Nene Pimentel (deceased)
Neil Ocampo (deceased)
Amelyn Veloso (deceased)
Koko Pimentel
Mel Tiangco
Leni Robredo
Ogie Diaz
Erwin Tulfo
Raffy Tulfo
External links
References
DZXL
Radio stations established in 1963
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio Mindanao Network stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20keyboard
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A projection keyboard is a form of computer input device whereby the image of a virtual keyboard is projected onto a surface: when a user touches the surface covered by an image of a key, the device records the corresponding keystroke. Some connect to Bluetooth devices, including many of the latest smartphone, tablet, and mini-PC devices with Android, iOS or Windows operating system.
History
An optical virtual keyboard was invented and patented by IBM engineers in 1992. It optically detects and analyses human hand and finger motions and interprets them as operations on a physically non-existent input device like a surface with painted or projected keys. In that way, it can emulate unlimited types of manually operated input devices (such as a mouse, keyboard, and other devices). Mechanical input units can be replaced by such virtual devices, potentially optimized for a specific application and for the user's physiology, maintaining speed, simplicity, and unambiguity of manual data input.
In 2002, start-up company Canesta developed a projection keyboard using their proprietary "electronic perception technology." The company subsequently licensed the technology to Celluon of Korea.
A proposed system called the P-ISM combines the technology with a small video projector to create a portable computer the size of a fountain pen.
Design
A laser or beamer projects visible virtual keyboard onto level surface. It is a modern input device. A sensor or camera in the projector picks up finger movements. Software converts the coordinates to identify actions or characters.
Some devices project a second (invisible infrared) beam above the virtual keyboard. The user's finger makes a keystroke on the virtual keyboard. This breaks the infrared beam and reflects light back to the projector. The reflected beam passes through an infrared filter to the camera. The camera photographs the angle of incoming infrared light. The sensor chip determines where infrared beam was broken. Software determines the action or character to be generated.
The projection is realized in four main steps and via three modules: projection module, sensor module and illumination module. The main devices and technologies used to project the image are a diffractive optical element, red laser diode, CMOS sensor chip and an infrared (IR) laser diode.
Template projection
A template produced by a specially designed and highly efficient projection element with a red diode laser is projected onto the adjacent interface surface. The template is not however involved in the detection process.
Reference plane illumination
An infra-red plane of light is generated on the interface surface. The plane is however situated just above and parallel to the surface. The light is invisible to the user and hovers a few millimeters above the surface. When a key position is touched on the surface interface, the light is reflected from the infra-red plane in the vicinity of the key and directed towards the senso
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Embedded%20CE%206.0
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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 (codenamed "Yamazaki") is the sixth major release of the Microsoft Windows embedded operating system targeted to enterprise-specific tools such as industrial controllers and consumer electronics devices like digital cameras. CE 6.0 features a kernel that supports 32,768 processes, up from the 32-process limit of prior versions. Each process receives 2 GB of virtual address space, up from 32 MB. Windows Embedded CE is commonly used in supermarket self-checkouts and cars as a display. Windows Embedded CE is a background system on most devices that have it.
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 was released on November 1, 2006, and includes partial source code. The OS currently serves as the basis for the Zune HD portable media player. Windows Mobile 6.5 is based on Windows CE 5.2. Windows Phone 7, the first major release of the Windows Phone operating system, is based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3; although Windows Phone 7 is also using Windows Embedded Compact 7 features.
New features
Some system components (such as filesystem, GWES (graphics, windowing, events server), device driver manager) have been moved to the kernel space.
The system components which now run in kernel have been converted from EXEs to DLLs, which get loaded into kernel space.
New virtual memory model. The lower 2 GB is the process VM space and is private per process. The upper 2 GB is the kernel VM space.
New device driver model that supports both user mode and kernel mode drivers.
The 32 process limit has been raised to 32,768 processes.
The 32 megabyte virtual memory limit has been raised to the total virtual memory; up to 2 GB of private VM is available per process.
The Platform Builder IDE is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 as plugin (thus forcing the client to obtain Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 also), allowing one development environment for both platform and application development.
Read-only support for UDF 2.5 filesystem.
Support for Microsoft's exFAT filesystem.
802.11i (WPA2) and 802.11e (QoS) wireless standards, and multiple radio support.
CE 6.0 is compatible with x86, ARM, SH4 (only up to R2) and MIPS based processor architectures.
New Cellcore components to enable devices to easily make data connections and initiate voice calls through cellular networks.
New features in R3
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 was finalized in September 2009 for OEMs and serves as the base platform for the Zune HD and Windows Phone 7. CE 6.0 R3 includes the following new features and abilities:
These features listed here are not all specific to Windows Phone 7 or the Zune HD.
References
External links
History of Windows CE, by HPC:Factor with screenshots of the various versions
Bor-Ming Hsieh and Sue Loh: 3rd Generation Kernel for Windows CE — Channel 9 Interview
Juggs Ravalia: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Device Driver Model — Channel 9 Interview
Mike Hall's WEBlog
Embedded CE 6.0
Embedded operating systems
Windows CE
MIPS operating systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capp
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Capp or CAPP may refer to:
In science and technology
Computer-aided Process Planning, activities and functions to prepare plans and instructions to manufacture a part or product
Computer-aided Production Planning, variant of Computer-aided Process Planning
Controlled Access Protection Profile, a set of functional and assurance security requirements for information technology products
Content Addressable Parallel Processor, type of parallel processor which uses content-addressing memory (CAM) principles
Ceramide-activated protein phosphatase, a group of enzymes involved in second-messaging systems
Other uses
Capp (surname)
Andy Capp, British comic strip and fictional character
Californians Allied for Patient Protection, coalition to protect the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA)
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, voice of the upstream Canadian oil and natural gas industry
Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament
Canadians Advocating Political Participation
Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice, a foundation established in 1993
Central African Power Pool
See also
Capps (disambiguation)
CAPPE (disambiguation)
CAP (disambiguation)
Cap (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Yoo
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Christopher S. Yoo is the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the founding director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition. He is well known for his work on technology law, media law and copyright, and is among the most frequently cited authors in that domain. He is best known for being among the first academics to engage in the debate over network neutrality. He has taken a middle ground between a more restrictive and more permissive approach, animated by the belief that innovation needs room for experimentation if it is to thrive. He characterizes his position as network "diversity," which argues that the technology and economic environment surrounding the Internet requires greater flexibility, with the difficult question being how much flexibility is too much. He has also studied the history of the unitary executive in the United States.
Education and early career
Christopher Yoo graduated cum laude from Harvard University where he was a National Merit Scholar. He completed a Master of Business Administration at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA in 1991, where he was awarded the Sigoloff Fellowship and served as the President of the Asian Management Students Association. He graduated from Northwestern University School of Law magna cum laude in 1995, where he was John Paul Stevens Prize for graduating first, and the Lowden-Wigmore Prize for best law review note in the Northwestern University Law Review.
Following his graduation he clerked for Judge Arthur Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy. He practiced law with Hogan & Hartson in Washington DC, serving on the appellate group led by John Roberts.
Additionally, he has worked as a U.S. history teacher at an international high school in Seoul, South Korea, a legislative assistant for a U.S. Senator, and as part of the marketing division for Procter & Gamble.
Academic career
From 1999 to 2007, Yoo was a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School. From 2005 to 2007, he directed Vanderbilt's Technology and Entertainment Law Program.
During the 2006-07 academic year, he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He accepted an appointment as a full professor of law in 2007. He also holds secondary appointments at Annenberg School of Communication and The Department of Computer and Information Science. He was named the University's John H. Chestnut Professor in 2011.
Research
Yoo's broad research agenda focuses on how principles of engineering can be used to inform policy and regulation using an interdisciplinary approach to law and technology. In his early research, he focused on broadcasting law and has written widely on telecommunications law and policy, including on network neutrality. Network neutrality has emerged as one of the most controversial issues in Internet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-and-shoot%20interface
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A point-and-shoot interface is an efficient object-oriented, text-based interface, usually presented on a non-GUI platform such as DOS or mainframe computers.
In a point-and-shoot, many objects are displayed in a list, and to the left of each object is an input field. The operator interacts by moving the cursor to the desired object and marking it by typing a letter or number which represents a command or function.
Example
An example of a point-and-shoot is presented here (the computer is an IBM System/36):
ACT01 YOUR APPLICATION GoTo Cust#__
WORK WITH ACCOUNTS GoTo Name___
SORT BY CUSTOMER NUMBER GoTo Addr___
CUST# NAME ADDRESS
_ 29358235 SMITH, MARY 100 PARK PLAZA
_ 30493404 JONES, JOHN 271 LINCOLN AVE
_ 34034559 HOOTON, DENISE 56 BROADWAY
_ 36359523 HOWELL, BARBARA POST OFFICE BOX 2358
(More)
COMMANDS: 2=Edit 4=Delete 5=Rename H=History P=Print
COMMAND KEYS: RollUp/Dn 5=Add 6=Sort 7=End 8=Change Application 9=Reports 24=Sign off
The top of the display is called the header. It contains the program name and description, and it allows the operator to immediately "go to" a certain partial or complete customer ID, name, or address. It identifies the columns of data presented.
The middle of the display is called the data area. It consists of one input-capable field and one output field per line.
The bottom of the display is called the footer or the legend. It describes the commands the operator can use on each object, and the command keys the operator can use to control the application.
Further reading
Computer terminals
History of human–computer interaction
User interface techniques
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Simpsons%20Pinball%20Party
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The Simpsons Pinball Party is a 2003 pinball game released by Stern Pinball.
Content
The Simpsons Pinball Party is based on the animated sitcom The Simpsons that airs on the Fox network. The game is said to feature one of the most complex rule sheets that has ever been designed for a pinball machine featuring the ability to stack various modes and multi-balls on top of each other. Reaching the "Super Duper Mega Extreme Wizard Mode" requires an unusually large number of shots and only a few people have ever reached it.
Development and release
The game is the successor to the first Simpsons pinball game, entitled The Simpsons, which was released by Data East Pinball (the predecessor to Stern Pinball) in 1990. In 2007, Stern Pinball president Gary Stern said in an interview with License! that "We first licensed The Simpsons for pinball in the early '90s, when we were Data East Pinball. While we export about one-third of our games, that first model did especially well in the U.S." He went on to say that more than a decade later, "we started to manufacture a totally new game, The Simpsons Pinball Party. We coordinated with Fox and The Simpsons folks who did the art for the game, as well as the actors who voiced the speech heard during gameplay. We then made an initial production run, totaling thousands [...]".
The pinball game was released in 2003. Keith Johnson, software designer on Pinball Party said around that time that "In the last 12 years, both pinball and The Simpsons have come a long way, and it was my goal to design a game that illustrates that perfectly. Casual players will be attracted to the Simpsons license and the compelling gadgets. Regular players will be astounded by the sheer amount of things to do and accomplish on the game. I think players of all kinds will be drawn in and find the game satisfying regardless of their skill level." According to Stern, the pinball game is one of Stern Pinball's "largest and most successful titles."
References
External links
Official webpage
Recent Auction Results for The Simpsons Pinball Party
Beginners Tutorial for The Simpsons Pinball Party
Advanced Tutorial for The Simpsons Pinball Party
Simpsons Pinball Party
Stern pinball machines
2003 pinball machines
Pinball
Pinball machines based on television series
Television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPER%20%28FM%29
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WPER is a Christian adult contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, serving Fredericksburg and Richmond. WPER is simulcast over a network of stations and translators across Virginia. WPER is owned and operated by Baker Family Stations.
Call sign
On February 13, 2018, Baker Family Stations swapped the long-time call sign for their Fredericksburg station, WJYJ, with the call sign for their Hickory, NC station, WPIR. A week later, Baker again swapped the now-WPIR's call sign with that of sister station WPER.
Translators
In addition to its primary signal, WPER is relayed by six FM translators to widen its broadcast area across Virginia.
References
External links
WPER Online
1984 establishments in Virginia
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1984
PER
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryze
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Ryze is a social networking service established in early 2001 by Adrian Scott. The platform mainly caters to business professionals, including new entrepreneurs facilitating networking and professional connections. The site claims to have over one million users, with various external organizations hosting sub-networks on the site. Ken Berger was among the early members, joining in June 2001. Ryze's early emergence contributed to the development of subsequent social networking services, such as Friendster, founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2003.
Press
The site has been mentioned in publications including Forbes, Newsday, The New York Times, USA Today.
References
External links
American social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2001
Professional networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLV
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KLV (Key-Length-Value) is a data encoding standard, often used to embed information in video feeds. The standard uses a type–length–value encoding scheme. Items are encoded into Key-Length-Value triplets, where key identifies the data, length specifies the data's length, and value is the data itself. It is defined in SMPTE 336M-2007 (Data Encoding Protocol Using Key-Length Value), approved by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Due to KLV's large degree of interoperability, it has also been adopted by the Motion Imagery Standards Board.
Byte packing
In a binary stream of data, a KLV set is broken down in the following fashion, with all integer-interpretation being big endian:
Key field
The first few bytes are the Key, much like a key in a standard hash table data structure. Keys can be 1, 2, 4, or 16 bytes in length. Presumably in a separate specification document you would agree on a key length for a given application. Sixteen byte keys are usually reserved for use as globally registered unique identifiers, and the Value portion of such a packet usually contains a series of more KLV sets with smaller keys.
Length field
Following the bytes for the Key are bytes for the Length field which will tell you how many bytes follow the length field and make up the Value portion. There are four kinds of encoding for the Length field: 1-byte, 2-byte, 4-byte and Basic Encoding Rules (BER). The 1-, 2-, and 4-byte variants are pretty straightforward: make an unsigned integer out of the bytes, and that integer is the number of bytes that follow.
BER length encoding is a bit more complicated but the most flexible. If the first byte in the length field does not have the high bit set (0x80), then that single byte represents an integer between 0 and 127 and indicates the number of Value bytes that immediately follows. If the high bit is set, then the lower seven bits indicate how many bytes follow that themselves make up a length field.
For example if the first byte of a BER length field is binary 10000010, that would indicate that the next two bytes make up an integer that then indicates how many Value bytes follow. Therefore a total of three bytes were taken up to specify a length.
Value field
The remaining bytes are the Value field, and its contents can be whatever you like, including a chain of more KLV sets, as is often the case.
Example
In the following example, the four bytes represent a KLV set where the key is one byte, the length field is one byte (or possibly BER - you cannot tell from the example), and the value is two bytes: a zero and a three. In your application you would have previously agreed to a) use one-byte keys and b) use one-byte length encoding. Also presumably the key value "42" would mean something to you, perhaps it indicates that the value bytes 0x00 and 0x03 are an integer representing the value of your bicycle's odometer.
External links
KLVLib - A C Library for KLV file I/O
Purchase The KLV Standard
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Frankel
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Stanley Phillips Frankel (1919 – May, 1978) was an American computer scientist. He worked in the Manhattan Project and developed various computers as a consultant.
Early life
He was born in Los Angeles, attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and began his career as a post-doctoral student under J. Robert Oppenheimer at University of California, Berkeley in 1942.
Career
Frankel helped develop computational techniques used in the nuclear research taking place at the time, notably making some of the early calculations relating to the diffusion of neutrons in a critical assembly of uranium with Eldred Nelson. He joined the T (Theoretical) Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1943. His wife Mary Frankel was also hired to work as a human computer in the T Division. While at Los Alamos, Frankel and Nelson organized a group of scientists' wives, including Mary, to perform some of the repetitive calculations using Marchant and Friden desk calculators to divide the massive calculations required for the project. This became Group T-5 under New York University mathematician Donald Flanders when he arrived in the late summer of 1943.
Mathematician Dana Mitchell noticed that the Marchant calculators broke under heavy use and persuaded Frankel and Nelson to order IBM 601 punched card machines. This experience led to Frankel' interest in the then-dawning field of digital computers. In August 1945, Frankel and Nick Metropolis traveled to the Moore School of Engineering in Pennsylvania to learn how to program the ENIAC computer. That fall they helped design a calculation that would determine the likelihood of being able to develop a fusion weapon. Edward Teller used the ENIAC results to prepare a report in the spring of 1946 that answered this question in the affirmative.
After losing his security clearance (and thus his job) during the red scare of the early 1950s, Frankel became an independent computer consultant. He was responsible for designing the CONAC computer for the Continental Oil Company during 1954–1957 and the LGP-30 single-user desk computer in 1956, which was licensed from a computer he designed at Caltech called MINAC. The LGP-30 was moderately successful, selling over 500 units. He served as a consultant to Packard Bell Computer on the design of the PB-250 computer.
Later in his career, he became involved in the development of desktop electronic calculators. The first calculator project he was involved in the development of was
the SCM Marchant Cogito 240 and 240SR electronic calculators introduced in 1965. In the interest of improving upon the design of what became the SCM Cogito 240 and 240SR calculators, Frankel developed a new machine he called NIC-NAC, which was based on a microcoded architecture. NIC-NAC was built in prototype form in his home as a proof-of-concept and the machine worked well. Due to its microcoded implementati
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20field%20computing
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Construction field computing is the use of handheld devices that augment the construction superintendent's ability to manage the operations on a construction site. These information appliances (IA) must be portable devices which can be carried or worn by the user, and have computational and connectivity capacity to perform the tasks of communication management. Data entry and retrieval must be simple so that the user can manipulate the device while simultaneously moving, observing events, studying materials, checking quality, or performing other tasks required. Examples of these devices are the PDA, tablet PC modern tablet devices including iPad and Android Tablets and smartphone.
Usage of information appliances in construction
Superintendents are often moving about the construction site or between various sites. Their responsibilities cover a wide variety of tasks such as:
Comparing planned to constructed conditions.
Carrying out in-field quality inspections ( punch lists or snagging as it is called in the UK)
Capturing data about such defects and communicating it to the relevant sub-contractors.
Coordinating and scheduling events and material delivery.
Monitoring jobsite conditions and correcting safety deficiencies, improving efficiency, and ensuring quality.
Recording and documenting work progress, labor, inspections, compliance to specifications, etc.
Communicating direction to specialty contractors, laborers, suppliers, etc.
Clarifying plans and specifications, resolving differing conditions, adapting methods and materials to site-specific requirements.
These tasks require that information is readily accessible and easily communicated to others and the company database. Since construction sites are unique, the device and system must be adaptable and flexible. Durability, predictability, and perceived value by the field management will determine the system's acceptance and thus proper use. Construction personnel are not well known for adapting to new technologies, but they do embrace methods that are proven to lighten work load and increase income.
Construction industry field personnel were quick to adopt new technologies such as the FAX machine and mobile phone, they have been slower to embrace the PC, tablet PC, PDA, and other devices. Disruptive technology is usually difficult in construction field use for several reasons:
Field managers have often risen 'through the ranks' and learned from their predecessors how to run a construction site.
They commonly do not have exposure to higher education and the new methods and technologies being developed.
Field work is demanding and varied such that suitable and durable technologies are difficult to build. Failure of the device or system means schedule slip and increase costs so that using the new technology can be untenable.
Laborers generally are not highly educated and willing to invest time in change.
Construction is very schedule driven and time for training or learning new methods is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubo
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Qubo ( ; stylized as qubo) was an American television network for children between the ages of 5 and 14. Owned by Ion Media, it consisted of a 24-hour free-to-air television network often mentioned as the "Qubo channel" (available as a digital terrestrial television service on owned-and-operated stations and some affiliates of corporate sister Ion Television, as well as on some pay-TV providers), associated website with games and programs available through video on demand, and a weekly programming block on Ion Television, along with Ion Life, later known as Ion Plus.
Following Ion Media's acquisition by the E. W. Scripps Company, it ceased operations on February 28, 2021.
History
Formation
In May 2006, Ion Media Networks, NBCUniversal (which owned a 32% interest in Ion Media at the time), Corus Entertainment, Scholastic Corporation and Classic Media (now part of NBCUniversal's DreamWorks Animation) announced plans to launch a new, multi-platform children's entertainment brand known as Qubo, oriented towards providing "educational, values-oriented programming" targeted towards children between 5 and 14 years of age. The brand would encompass programming blocks on NBCUniversal and Ion's respective flagship broadcast television networks (NBC, Telemundo and Ion Television), a video on demand service, a website, and a standalone 24-hour network to be carried as a digital subchannel on terrestrial television stations owned by Ion Media Networks and by pay-TV providers.
Qubo president Rick Rodríguez (who formerly served as a programming executive at Discovery Communications) stated in a 2008 interview with Multichannel News that Qubo was designed as a bilingual brand, offering programming in both English and Spanish (with the latter's audio available through the SAP audio feed on most programming, along with the "CC3" closed captioning channel for Spanish text). While Qubo would initially carry Spanish-language dubs of its programming for both its Telemundo block and (through the SAP audio feed) the standalone 24-hour network, Rodríguez did not rule out the possibility of developing original children's programming geared to Hispanic and Latino audiences through Qubo in the future. He felt that the market for Spanish-language children's programming had been underserved by existing outlets (such as Telemundo and Univision), and envisioned the possibility of programming which could "bridge the gap" and educate Spanish-speaking children on the English language, and vice versa.
The Qubo brand was intended to represent a "building block for kids," as reflected by its logo. The name "Qubo" was chosen because it had a "fun" sound, and the root word, "cube", was nearly crosslingual in both English and Spanish (cubo).
Launch
Qubo launched on September 9, 2006, with the premiere of weekend morning blocks on NBC (which aired exclusively on Saturday mornings, replacing Discovery Kids on NBC, a weekly block programmed by the Discovery Kids cable network) and Te
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Goma%20BBC%20interview
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On May 8, 2006, the television station BBC News 24 wanted to interview technology journalist Guy Kewney about the Apple Corps v Apple Computer legal dispute. By mistake, the BBC let Karen Bowerman interview Guy Goma (born 1969), a Congolese-French business studies graduate from Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo, who came to the BBC for a job interview as a data cleanser. The incident became one of the most known bloopers at the BBC.
Timeline
Goma was waiting in the main reception area of the BBC Television Centre in west London to be interviewed for a job as a data support cleanser in the corporation's IT department. At the same time, Guy Kewney, a British technology expert, was in another reception area preparing for a live television interview on the subject of Apple Computer's court case with the Beatles' record label, Apple Corps. The producer sent to fetch Kewney was told that Kewney was in the main reception area. When he asked the receptionist where Guy Kewney was, she pointed to Goma, even after he asked if she was sure this was the right person.
The producer had seen a photo of Kewney, but only had five minutes before the live interview was due to take place. He approached Goma and asked him if he was "Guy". Hearing his first name, Goma answered in the affirmative. Goma was led to the News 24 studio. BBC staff put on makeup, and he was ushered to the television studio, where he was seated in front of the cameras and wired up with a microphone. Although he thought the situation was strange, he believed he was about to be interviewed for a job.
When introduced by interviewer Karen Bowerman as Internet expert Guy Kewney, Goma realised there had been a misunderstanding and was visibly shocked. Aware that he was on live television and not wishing to make a scene, Goma attempted to answer questions about the Apple Corps v Apple Computer case and its ramifications for the music industry. While not an expert, Goma knew enough about downloading and cyber cafés to make credible answers. Kewney, still in the waiting area, was shocked when he saw Goma interviewed in his place, though he was not able to hear the audio.
Transcript
Karen Bowerman: Well, Guy Kewney is editor of the technology website Newswireless. Hello, good morning to you.
Guy Goma (visibly shocked): Good morning.
Bowerman: Were you surprised by this verdict today?
Goma: I am very surprised to see... this verdict to come on me, because I was not expecting that. When I came, they told me something else and I am coming. "You got an interview," that's all. So a big surprise anyway.
Bowerman: A big surprise, yeah, yes.
Goma: Exactly.
Bowerman: With regards to the cost that's involved, do you think now more people will be downloading online?
Goma: Actually, if you can go everywhere you're gonna see lot of people downloading through Internet and the website, everything they want. But I think is much better for development and...eh...to improve people what they want, and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Way%20for%20Noddy
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Make Way for Noddy (stylized make way for NODDY) is a computer-animated musical children's television series that was produced by British animation studio Chorion in conjunction with American animation studio SD Entertainment. Based on Enid Blyton's Noddy character, it was originally broadcast on Channel 5 (later known as Five; in twelve minute segments and as part of the Milkshake! programme) in September 2002. It features music and songs composed by Steven Bernstein and Julie Bernstein, with the musical direction done by Sharon Sampson and Terry Sampson.
Premise
The series changed its format in some ways from previous incarnations of Noddy to take advantage of the CGI medium and to appeal to more contemporary audiences, such as Noddy now also being able to fly a plane as part of his taxi duties and making Master Tubby Bear a more believable character. However it largely stuck to what the franchise established prior-hand. In addition to the franchise's characters, Make Way for Noddy also introduced actual children voicing the younger characters of the series.
Characters
Noddy (voiced by Martin Skews in the UK and David A. Kaye/Alberto Ghisi in the US) is the protagonist of the series. Noddy is an imaginative wooden boy who lives in Toyland. Although Noddy is characterised as a child, he also serves as the main taxi driver. He sometimes begins nodding uncontrollably, such as after sneezing, and has to physically stop himself from nodding.
Tessie Bear (voiced by Joanna Ruiz in the UK and Britt McKillip in the US) is a neutral and child-like female teddy bear who is Noddy's best friend, always ready to try something new and help everyone she sees.
Big Ears (voiced by Pavel Douglas in the UK and Michael Dobson in the US) is a gnome who serves as a father figure to Noddy and the other toys with astute knowledge and a fine sense-of-humour.
Dinah Doll (voiced by Andrea Harris in the UK and Tabitha St. Germain in the US) is a Toy Town shopkeeper and a big sibling support figure to Noddy.
Mr. Plod (voiced by Richard Newman in the UK and in the US and Pavel Douglas in the UK and in the US specials and the video game (excluding Noddy and the Magic Moondust) and part of the UK and the US episodes) is Toyland's sole police officer who is persistent for maintaining a certain order but means well and whose catchphrase is "Halt/Stop, in the name of Plod!"
Bumpy Dog (voiced by Ben Small in the UK and Lee Tockar in the US) is Tessie Bear's extremely playful but loyal and sensitive dog.
Gobbo and Sly (voiced by Ben Small in the UK and Don Brown and Doug Parker in the US) are two goblins who serve as the series' antagonists. Gobbo is the more conniving and intelligent one while Sly is the more airheaded and curious of the two members.
Mr. Sparks (voiced by Ben Small in the UK and Lee Tockar in the US) is Toyland's street-smart mechanic.
Miss Pink Cat (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain in the UK and in the US and Carrie Mullan in the specials and the video game) is th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeopleCode
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PeopleCode is a proprietary object-oriented programming language used to express business logic for PeopleSoft applications. Syntactically, PeopleCode is similar to other programming languages, and can be found in both loosely-typed and strongly-typed forms. PeopleCode and its run-time environment is part of the larger PeopleTools framework. PeopleCode has evolved over time and its implementation through the PeopleSoft applications lack consistency. PeopleCode offers some interoperability with the Java programming language. Definition name references, for example, enable you to refer to PeopleTools definitions, such as record definitions or pages, without using hard-coded string literals. Other language features, such as PeopleCode data types and metastrings, reflect the close interaction of PeopleTools and Structured Query Language (SQL). Dot notation, classes and methods in PeopleCode are similar to other object oriented languages, like Java. Object syntax was an important feature of PeopleTools 8.
Language features
Supported functions
PeopleCode supports the following types of functions:
Built-in: The standard set of PeopleCode functions. These can be called without being declared.
Internal: Functions that are defined (using the Function statement) within the PeopleCode program in which they are called.
External PeopleCode: PeopleCode functions defined outside the calling program. These are generally contained in record definitions that serve as function libraries.
External non-PeopleCode: Functions stored in external (C-callable) libraries.
In addition, PeopleCode supports methods. The main differences between a built-in function and a method are:
A built-in function is on a line by itself, and does not (generally) have any dependencies.
A function can be used before instantiating the object.
A method can only be executed by an object (using dot notation).
The object must be instantiated first.
Describing Application Class Structure
Import any classes that will be used by a class, including the superclass this class extends
Import PackageName:Superclassname;
A class is defined using the Class construct.
Class Classname [Extends SuperClassname]
[Method_declarations]
[Property_declarations]
[Private
[Method_declaration]
[Instance_decalarion]
[[Constant declaration]]
End-class;
The first set of declarations are the properties and methods that are part of the public, external interface.
Property datatype PropertyName [get][set];
Method MethodName ([parameter_list])
The private instance variables, constants, and the methods are declared following the keyword Private.
The keyword end-class follows the declarations of properties, methods, instances, and constants.
After the end-class keyword and before get and set definitions or method definitions, declare any variable and functions that will be used by methods.
Get and set methods corresponds to propertie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit%20programming
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Tacit programming, also called point-free style, is a programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments. Tacit programming is of theoretical interest, because the strict use of composition results in programs that are well adapted for equational reasoning. It is also the natural style of certain programming languages, including APL and its derivatives, and concatenative languages such as Forth. The lack of argument naming gives point-free style a reputation of being unnecessarily obscure, hence the epithet "pointless style".
Unix scripting uses the paradigm with pipes.
Examples
Python
Tacit programming can be illustrated with the following Python code. A sequence of operations such as the following:
def example(x):
return baz(bar(foo(x)))
... can be written in point-free style as the composition of a sequence of functions, without parameters:
from functools import partial, reduce
def compose(*fns):
return partial(reduce, lambda v, fn: fn(v), fns)
example = compose(foo, bar, baz)
For a more complex example, the Haskell code can be translated as:
p = partial(compose, partial(compose, f), g)
Functional programming
A simple example (in Haskell) is a program which computes the sum of a list of numbers. We can define the sum function recursively using a pointed style (cf. value-level programming) as:
sum (x:xs) = x + sum xs
sum [] = 0
However, using a fold we can replace this with:
sum xs = foldr (+) 0 xs
And then the argument is not needed, so this simplifies to
sum = foldr (+) 0
which is point-free.
Another example uses function composition:
p x y z = f (g x y) z
The following Haskell-like pseudo-code exposes how to reduce a function definition to its point-free equivalent:
p = \x -> \y -> \z -> f (g x y) z
= \x -> \y -> f (g x y)
= \x -> \y -> (f . (g x)) y
= \x -> f . (g x)
(* Here the infix compose operator "." is used as a curried function. *)
= \x -> ((.) f) (g x)
= \x -> (((.) f) . g) x
p = ((.) f) . g
Finally, to see a complex example imagine a map filter program which takes a list, applies a function to it, and then filters the elements based on a criterion
mf criteria operator list = filter criteria (map operator list)
It can be expressed point-free as
mf = (. map) . (.) . filterNote that, as stated previously, the points in 'point-free' refer to the arguments, not to the use of dots; a common misconception.
A few programs have been written to automatically convert a Haskell expression to a point-free form.
APL family
In J, the same sort of point-free code occurs in a function made to compute the average of a list (array) of numbers:
avg=: +/ % #
+/ sums the items of the array by mapping (/) summation (+) to the array. % divides the sum by the number of elements (#) in the array.
Euler's formula expressed tacitly:
cos =:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre%20Dame%20Broadcasting%20Corporation
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Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC) is a radio network based in Kidapawan. And Agoo It is an affiliate of Catholic Media Network. Radio Mindanao Network
Awards
The network won two awards in the audio category at the International Committee of the Red Cross Human Reporting Awards in 2013 for two features: Tudok Firiz: Meketefu and Mga Bakwit: TNT (Takbo-ng-Takbo) sa Maguindanao.
In 2013 the network also won two national journalism awards from the Philippines Department of Health for health reporting.
In 2014 the station won three Golden Dove Awards from the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas for Best Radio Documentary Program, Best Radio Special Program and Best Science and Technology program host, as well as nominations for Best Public Affairs Service program host, and Best Radio Public Service Announcement. It was also awarded Best Agriculture Radio segment at the Bright Leaf Agriculture Journalism Awards.
In 2015 the station's weekly peace segment won an award from the Catholic Mass Media Association.
Radio stations
Radyo Bida
Happy FM
References
External links
of NDBC News, the company's news department
Radio stations established in 1956
Radio stations in the Philippines
Philippine radio networks
Mass media companies of the Philippines
Mass media in Cotabato
Philippine companies established in 1956
Mass media companies established in 1956
Privately held companies of the Philippines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipmap
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Clipmapping is a method of clipping a mipmap to a subset of data pertinent to the geometry being displayed. This is useful for loading as little data as possible when memory is limited, such as on a graphics processing unit. The technique is used for LODing in NVIDIA’s implementation of voxel cone tracing. The high-resolution levels of the mipmapped scene representation are clipped to a region near the camera while lower resolution levels are clipped further away.
References
External links
SGI paper from 1998
SGI paper from 1996
Description from SGI's developer library
Clipping (computer graphics)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Tour%20Soccer%3A%20Challenge%20Edition
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World Tour Soccer: Challenge Edition, known as simply World Tour Soccer in North America, is a sports video game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PlayStation Portable as a launch title for the system.
Reception
World Tour Soccer: Challenge Edition received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
External links
2005 video games
Association football video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
This Is Football
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
London Studio games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermec
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Intermec is a manufacturer and supplier of automated identification and data capture equipment, including barcode scanners, barcode printers, mobile computers, RFID systems, voice recognition systems, and life cycle services.
Intermec holds patents in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and customers include 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies and 60 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Intermec was traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
On December 10, 2012, Intermec announced it agreed to be acquired by Honeywell International Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $600 million. The Merger was approved by Intermec’s stockholders on March 19, 2013 and received regulatory approval from the European Commission on June 14, 2013. FTC clearance was announced on September 13, 2013.
On September 17, 2013, Honeywell announced the completion of the acquisition of Intermec. Intermec will be integrated with Honeywell Scanning & Mobility, within the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) business.
Products
The majority of Intermec's business comes from automating supply chain operations in manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, retail, transportation and logistics, direct store delivery and field service sectors. Their product lines include:
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) readers, printers, tags and labels
Barcode scanners, Barcode printers and Media
Mobile computers
Wireless networks
Software Tools and Utilities
Voice recognition hardware systems and software
Lifecycle Services
Corporate timeline
1966 – Interface Mechanisms formed
1982 – Company renamed Intermec Corporation
1991 – Acquired by Litton Industries, Inc. (NYSE:LIT)
1994 – Ownership transferred to Western Atlas Inc. (NYSE:WAI), a Litton spin-off
1997 – Ownership transferred to UNOVA, Inc. (NYSE:UNA), a Western Atlas spin-off
1997 – Acquired Norand and UBI (United Barcode Industries)
1997 – Acquired radio frequency identification (RFID) semiconductor technology from IBM, Inc.
1998 – Acquired Amtech Corporation's high-frequency RFID business, Amtech Transportation Systems
2006 – UNOVA, Inc. becomes Intermec, Inc., retaining Intermec Technologies as subsidiary
2011 - Acquired private voice technology company Vocollect Inc. and life cycle services company Enterprise Mobile
2013 - Acquired by Honeywell, now part of Honeywell Scanning and Mobility
References
External links
Honeywell Scanning & Mobility new corporate web site
Electronics companies of the United States
Automatic identification and data capture
Radio-frequency identification companies
Manufacturing companies based in Washington (state)
Companies based in Everett, Washington
Electronics companies established in 1966
1966 establishments in Washington (state)
Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Honeywell
2013 mergers and acquisitions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20module
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A cryptographic module is a component of a computer system that implements cryptographic algorithms in a secure way, typically with some element of tamper resistance.
NIST defines a cryptographic modules as "The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements security functions (including cryptographic algorithms), holds plaintext keys and uses them for performing cryptographic operations, and is contained within a cryptographic module boundary."
Hardware security modules, including secure cryptoprocessors, are one way of implementing cryptographic modules.
Standards for cryptographic modules include FIPS 140-3 and ISO/IEC 19790.
References
See also
Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)
Cryptographic Module Testing Laboratory
Cryptography
Computer security
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20System%20Security%20Architecture
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Distributed System Security Architecture or (DSSA) is a computer security architecture that provides a suite of functions including login, authentication, and access control in a distributed system. To differ from other similar architectures, the DSSA architecture offers the ability to access all these functions without the trusted server (known as a certificate authority) being active.
In DSSA, security objects are handled by owners and access is controlled by the central, universally trusted, certificate authority.
DSSA/SPX
DSSA/SPX is the authentication protocol of DSSA. The CDC is a certificate granting server while the certificate is a ticket signed by CA which contains the public key of the party being certified. Since the CDC is merely distributing previously signed certificates, it is not necessary for it to be trusted.
External links
Tromsø University
Gasser (1989)
Cryptographic protocols
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%2C%20Extensible%20Toolkit%20for%20Scientific%20Computation
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The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc, pronounced PET-see; the S is silent), is a suite of data structures and routines developed by Argonne National Laboratory for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for all message-passing communication. PETSc is the world’s most widely used parallel numerical software library for partial differential equations and sparse matrix computations. PETSc received an R&D 100 Award in 2009. The PETSc Core Development Group won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering for 2015.
PETSc is intended for use in large-scale application projects, many ongoing computational science projects are built around the PETSc libraries. Its careful design allows advanced users to have detailed control over the solution process. PETSc includes a large suite of parallel linear and nonlinear equation solvers that are easily used in application codes written in C, C++, Fortran and now Python. PETSc provides many of the mechanisms needed within parallel application code, such as simple parallel matrix and vector assembly routines that allow the overlap of communication and computation. In addition, PETSc includes support for parallel distributed arrays useful for finite difference methods.
Components
PETSc consists of a variety of components consisting of major classes and supporting infrastructure. Users typically interact with objects of the highest level classes relevant to their application, essential lower level objects such as vectors, and may customize or extend any others. All major components of PETSc have an extensible plugin architecture.
Features and modules
PETSc provides many features for parallel computation, broken into several modules:
Index sets, including permutations, for indexing into vectors, renumbering, etc.
Parallel vectors; and matrices (generally sparse)
Scatters (handles communicating ghost point information) and gathers (the opposite of scatters)
Data management for parallel structured and unstructured meshes
Several sparse storage formats
Scalable parallel preconditioners, including multigrid and sparse direct solvers
Krylov subspace methods
Parallel nonlinear solvers, such as Newton's method and nonlinear GMRES
Parallel time-stepping (ODE and DAE) solvers
Parallel optimization solvers, such as BFGS
Automatic profiling of floating point and memory usage
Consistent interface
Intensive error checking
Portable to UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows
See also
list of numerical libraries
Notes
Bibliography
PETSc Users Manual, Satish Balay, Shrirang Abhyankar, Mark F. Adams, Jed Brown, Peter Brune, Kris Buschelman, Victor Eijkhout, William D. Gropp, Dinesh Kaushik, Matthew G. Knepley, Lois Curfman McInnes, Karl Rupp, Barry F. Smith, and Hong Zhang, ANL-95/11 Revision 3.5, Argonne National Laboratory, June, 2014.
Efficient M
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentafluoroethyl%20iodide%20%28data%20page%29
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References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRU%20%28security%29
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The HRU security model (Harrison, Ruzzo, Ullman model) is an operating system level computer security model which deals with the integrity of access rights in the system. It is an extension of the Graham-Denning model, based around the idea of a finite set of procedures being available to edit the access rights of a subject on an object . It is named after its three authors, Michael A. Harrison, Walter L. Ruzzo and Jeffrey D. Ullman.
Along with presenting the model, Harrison, Ruzzo and Ullman also discussed the possibilities and limitations of proving the safety of systems using an algorithm.
Description of the model
The HRU model defines a protection system consisting of a set of generic rights R and a set of commands C. An instantaneous description of the system is called a configuration and is defined as a tuple of current subjects , current objects and an access matrix . Since the subjects are required to be part of the objects, the access matrix contains one row for each subject and one column for each subject and object. An entry for subject and object is a subset of the generic rights .
The commands are composed of primitive operations and can additionally have a list of pre-conditions that require certain rights to be present for a pair of subjects and objects.
The primitive requests can modify the access matrix by adding or removing access rights for a pair of subjects and objects and by adding or removing subjects or objects. Creation of a subject or object requires the subject or object not to exist in the current configuration, while deletion of a subject or object requires it to have existed prior to deletion. In a complex command, a sequence of operations is executed only as a whole. A failing operation in a sequence makes the whole sequence fail, a form of database transaction.
Discussion of safety
Harrison, Ruzzo and Ullman discussed whether there is an algorithm that takes an arbitrary initial configuration and answers the following question: is there an arbitrary sequence of commands that adds a generic right into a cell of the access matrix where it has not been in the initial configuration?
They showed that there is no such algorithm, thus the problem is undecidable in the general case. They also showed a limitation of the model to commands with only one primitive operation to render the problem decidable.
See also
EROS - Extremely Reliable Operating System
References
Capability systems
Computer security models
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWRT-FM
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DWRT (99.5 FM), on-air as 99.5 Play FM (stylized as PL>Y), is a 24-hour radio station owned and operated by Real Radio Network Inc. It is one of the partner stations of Tiger 22 Media. Its studio is located at Unit 906-B, Paragon Plaza Building, EDSA corner Reliance St., Mandaluyong, and its transmitter is located at Palos Verdes, Antipolo.
History
1976–2006: The first 99.5 RT
Trans-Radio Broadcasting Corporation was established in 1971 by Emilio Tuason after he acquired the AM radio franchise (980 kHz) of Transit Broadcasting Corporation, owned by the Vergara family. Under Trans-Radio, the AM station adopted the call sign DZTR-AM “Radyo Pilipino” (which is not anyway related to the eponymous AM radio network owned by the Radio Corporation of the Philippines). In 1976, Trans-Radio acquired an FM radio franchise (99.5 MHz) and adopted the call sign DWRT-FM. It began broadcasting on September 6, 1976, as "99.5 RT", which was the first Top 40 station in the Philippines. The station was initially located at 10 Doña Natividad Building at Quezon Avenue (near the Welcome Rotonda) in Quezon City. After the building caught fire two years later, it transferred to Suite 608 of the Pacific Bank Building (now known as Security Bank Centre) at 6776 Ayala Avenue in Makati. Tuason also became one of the station's deejays (his on-air names were "J.W. Christian" and "E.T.") until personal problems forced his retirement from the station in 1987. Mike Pedero, who was also one of its deejays, took care of the programming until he left the station for RK96 Real Radio in 1980.
99.5 RT became famous for playing the hits months ahead of most other music stations because its programming philosophy did not pander to the masses nor cater to the lowest common denominator. It brought the latest American and British hits to the local audience as soon as they were released by the artists. One of the most notable examples of this was in the early 1980s when RT broke in the song "More to Lose" by the obscure English new wave duo, Seona Dancing. The station kept listeners guessing the identity of the song by announcing the title as "Medium" and done by the artist "Fade", two words which were actually descriptions of the song: medium tempo with an ending that faded out.
From 1983 to 1986, RT was one of the FM stations that delivered news on the assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr. as well as his funeral, the Snap Elections of 1986 between Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino and the People Power Revolution.
On October 11, 1985, rival station Kiss FM 101.1 (now 101.1 Yes The Best) was launched with most of the RT jocks manning that station. It toppled RT in the ratings and the latter's revenues dropped. A few months later in February 1986 after the EDSA Revolution, RT reformatted as the Red Hot Radio. It played only new wave music similar to WXB 102 (now 102.7 Star FM), albeit more commercial. This proved to be unsuccessful, leading to the station reverting to its original for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUNIS
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TUNIS (Toronto University System) was a Unix-like operating system, developed at the University of Toronto in the early 1980s. TUNIS was a portable operating system compatible with Unix V7, but with a completely redesigned kernel, written in Concurrent Euclid. Programs that ran under Unix V7 could be run under TUNIS with no modification.
TUNIS was designed for teaching, and was intended to provide a model for the design of well-structured, highly portable, easily understood Unix-like operating systems. It made extensive use of Concurrent Euclid modules to isolate machine dependencies and provide a clean internal structure through information hiding. TUNIS also made use of Concurrent Euclid's built-in processes and synchronization features to make it easy to understand and maintain.
TUNIS targeted the PDP-11, Motorola 6809 and 68000, and National Semiconductor 32016 architectures, and supported distribution across multiple CPUs using Concurrent Euclid's synchronization features.
References
R.C. Holt (1982) TUNIS: a Unix look-alike written in concurrent Euclid (abstract). ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 16(1):4--5.
Unix variants
Discontinued operating systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWFM
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DWFM (92.3 FM), broadcasting as 92.3 Radyo5 True FM, is a radio station owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation and operated by TV5 Network. It serves as the flagship station of the Radyo5 network, which is one of the assets of News5. The station's studio is located at TV5 Media Center, Reliance cor. Sheridan Sts., Brgy. Buayang Bato, Mandaluyong, while its transmitter is located at NBC compound, Block 3, Emerald Hills, Sumulong Highway, Antipolo. This station operates daily from 4:00 AM to 12:00 MN.
As of Q4 2022, Radyo5 is the 7th most-listened to FM radio station (and #3 among news radio stations) in Metro Manila, based on a survey commissioned by Kantar Media Philippines and Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.
History
1973–1998: MRS
DWFM signed on in 1973 as MRS 92.3 (MRS meaning Most Requested Song), Manila's third FM station at that time. Having an adult contemporary format during its existence, the station is known for playing the most requested song every hour. DWFM quickly became the top-rated FM station in Manila, and held this title for most of its existence. The success of DWFM led NBC to establish other FM stations using a similar format, including Cebu's DYNC in 1975, and Davao's DXFM.
Its first home was in Jacinta Building 1 along Pasay Road (near the Ayala Center complex). It later on moved to the NBC Tower/Jacinta Building 2 (now as ACQ Tower) along EDSA, Guadalupe, Makati.
1998–2007: Joey
In September 1998, NBC was acquired by MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., a broadcasting company owned by the PLDT's Beneficial Trust Fund from the consortium of the Yabut family and then House Speaker Manny Villar. In November 1998, DWFM switched to a smooth jazz station as Joey @ Rhythms 92.3 (also known as Joey @ 92.3). Radio executive Francis Lumen assumed the position of president and CEO bringing with him his previous 10 years of managing Citylite 88.3 (now Jam 88.3). The call letters were also changed to DZRU.
The jazz format would also be implemented on all of NBC's other FM stations, who used other female names for their branding. It was also during this period that NBC entered into a joint venture with MTV Asia for an MTV Philippines feed via NBC's UHF Network (Channel 41). It also featured new-age instrumental music during the Paschal Triduum of the annual Holy Week during that era, which is dubbed as "Take 20".
In 2004, the Rhythms tag was dropped, thus becoming 923 Joey (pronounced as "nine-two-three"), with the station slogan "It's a Groove Thing". In January 2007, the station was taken over by new management, led by radio executives Raymund Miranda and Al Torres (currently as a voiceover for GMA Network, GTV, Heart of Asia Channel, I Heart Movies and Pinoy Hits currently based in Canada), along with sales executive Amy Victa. Together with the new team, the butterfly was dropped from the logo and the official call letters were returned to DWFM, the original call letters of the station.
2007–2009: XFM
On Easter Sunday, Apri
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic%20acid%20%28data%20page%29
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References
(D-glutamic acid)
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Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T%20UNIX%20PC
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The AT&T UNIX PC is a Unix desktop computer originally developed by Convergent Technologies (later acquired by Unisys), and marketed by AT&T Information Systems in the mid- to late-1980s. The system was codenamed "Safari 4" and is also known as the PC 7300, and often dubbed the "3B1". Despite the latter name, the system had little in common with AT&T's line of 3B series computers. The system was tailored for use as a productivity tool in office environments and as an electronic communication center.
Hardware configuration
10 MHz Motorola 68010 (16-bit external bus, 32-bit internal) with custom, discrete MMU
Internal MFM hard drive, originally 10 MB, later models with up to 67 MB
Internal 5-1/4" floppy drive
At least 512 KB RAM on main board (1 MB or 2 MB were also options), expandable up to an additional 2 MB via expansion cards (4 MB max total)
32 KB VRAM
16 KB ROM (up to 32 KB ROM supported using 2x 27128 EPROMs)
2 KB SRAM (for MMU page table)
Monochrome green phosphor monitor
Internal 300/1200 bit/s modem
RS-232 serial port
Centronics parallel port
3 S4BUS expansion slots
3 phone jacks
PC 7300
The initial PC 7300 model offered a modest 512 KB of memory and a small, low performance 10 MB hard drive. This model, although progressive in offering a Unix system for desktop office operation, was underpowered and produced considerable fan and drive bearing noise even when idling. The modern-looking "wedge" design by Mike Nuttall was innovative, and the machine gained notoriety appearing in numerous movies and TV shows as the token "computer".
AT&T 3B/1
An enhanced model, "3B/1", was introduced in October 1985 starting at . The cover was redesigned to accommodate a full-height 67 MB hard drive. This cover change added a 'hump' to the case, expanded onboard memory to 1 or 2 MB, as well as added a better power supply.
S/50
Convergent Technologies offered an S/50 which was a re-badged PC 7300.
Olivetti AT&T 3B1
British Olivetti released the "Olivetti AT&T 3B1 Computer" in Europe.
Operating system
The operating system is based on Unix System V Release 2, with extensions from 4.1 and 4.2 BSD, System V Release 3 and Convergent Technologies. The last release was 3.51.
Windowing software (xt/layers) from SVR3 was provided to allow connection to a DMD 5620 graphics terminal.
Programming languages
AT&T BASIC
dBase III
GNU C++
LISP
LPI C
LPI COBOL
LPI DEBUG (debugger)
LPI Fortran
LPI Pascal
LPI PL/I
Microsoft BASIC
RM/COBOL
RM/Fortran
SMC BASIC
SVS Fortran
SVS Pascal
Application software
Business Graphics (produces chart graphics from 20/20 spreadsheet data)
dBASE III (DBM)
Informix (DBM)
Oracle (DBM)
Paint Power (drawing package)
Samna/AT&T Write Power 2 (word processor/spreadsheet)
Samna Plus (word processor/spreadsheet)
SMART System (Office Suite)
Sound Presentations (presentation graphics)
Spreadsheet software
20/20 (Supercomp 20)
Microsoft Multiplan
Word processors
AT&T Word Processor
Crystal Writer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule
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The 2006–07 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers prime time hours from September 2006 through August 2007. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 2005–06 season.
PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Ion Television (renamed from its original rebrand, i: Independent Television, on January 27) is also not included since the network's schedule consisted mainly of syndicated reruns and movies.
The schedules include the four most popular networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox) and two new networks introduced as part of the broadcast TV realignment: The CW and MyNetworkTV.
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract for one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Legend
Sunday
Monday
Note: Drive premiered on Fox on April 16, 2007 at 8 p.m. and was removed from the schedule after airing two episodes.
Tuesday
Note: Pirate Master aired at 10 p.m. ET on CBS on June 10 and 17, 2007 and was removed from the schedule after airing two episodes.
Note: Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race aired at 8 p.m. ET on ABC on June 12 and 19, 2007.
Wednesday
NOTES: Fox premiered The Rich Li$t on November 1, 2006 at 9PM ET. Due to low ratings, the show was cancelled two days later.
ABC premiered The Great American Dream Vote at 8PM ET on March 28, 2007 (after airing the pilot the previous night). The show was cancelled on March 29, 2007.
Anchorwoman aired two back-to-back episodes on August 22, 2007 on Fox. The show was cancelled a few days later.
Thursday
NOTES: In May 2006, when ABC announced their fall lineup for the 2006-2007 TV season, Big Day and Notes from the Underbelly was scheduled to air at 8PM and 8:30PM ET. However, due to both shows not getting "buzz" before their fall premieres, ABC moved Ugly Betty from its planned Friday night 8PM slot to the Thursday night 8PM ET slot. Big Day and Notes from the Underbelly aired later on in the season on different nights.
Fast Cars and Superstars debuted June 7 on ABC as a lead-in to coverage of the 2007 NBA Finals.
Friday
NOTE: In May 2006, when ABC announced their fall lineup for the 2006-2007 TV season, Big Day and Notes from the Underbelly was scheduled to air at 8PM and 8:30PM ET for Thursday nights and Ugly Betty at 8PM ET Friday nights time slot. However, before their fall premieres, ABC moved Ugly Betty from its planned Friday night 8PM slot to the Thursday night 8PM ET slot. The Friday night 8PM time slot was filled with the previous night's episode of Grey's Anatomy until December.
Saturday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20network%20analysis
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Dynamic network analysis (DNA) is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis (SNA), link analysis (LA), social simulation and multi-agent systems (MAS) within network science and network theory. Dynamic networks are a function of time (modeled as a subset of the real numbers) to a set of graphs; for each time point there is a graph. This is akin to the definition of dynamical systems, in which the function is from time to an ambient space, where instead of ambient space time is translated to relationships between pairs of vertices.
Overview
There are two aspects of this field. The first is the statistical analysis of DNA data. The second is the utilization of simulation to address issues of network dynamics. DNA networks vary from traditional social networks in that they are larger, dynamic, multi-mode, multi-plex networks, and may contain varying levels of uncertainty. The main difference of DNA to SNA is that DNA takes interactions of social features conditioning structure and behavior of networks into account. DNA is tied to temporal analysis but temporal analysis is not necessarily tied to DNA, as changes in networks sometimes result from external factors which are independent of social features found in networks. One of the most notable and earliest of cases in the use of DNA is in Sampson's monastery study, where he took snapshots of the same network from different intervals and observed and analyzed the evolution of the network.
DNA statistical tools are generally optimized for large-scale networks and admit the analysis of multiple networks simultaneously in which, there are multiple types of nodes (multi-node) and multiple types of links (multi-plex). Multi-node multi-plex networks are generally referred to as
meta-networks or high-dimensional networks. In contrast, SNA statistical tools focus on single or at most two mode data and facilitate the analysis of only one type of link at a time.
DNA statistical tools tend to provide more measures to the user, because they have measures that use data drawn from multiple networks simultaneously. Latent space models (Sarkar and Moore, 2005) and agent-based simulation are often used to examine dynamic social networks (Carley et al., 2009). From a computer simulation perspective, nodes in DNA are like atoms in quantum theory, nodes can be, though need not be, treated as probabilistic. Whereas nodes in a traditional SNA model are static, nodes in a DNA model have the ability to learn. Properties change over time; nodes can adapt: A company's employees can learn new skills and increase their value to the network; or, capture one terrorist and three more are forced to improvise. Change propagates from one node to the next and so on. DNA adds the element of a network's evolution and considers the circumstances under which change is likely to occur.
There are three main features to dynamic network analysis that distinguish it from standard social netw
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWBM-FM
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DWBM (105.1 FM), on-air as 105.1 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by Mareco Broadcasting Network and operated under an airtime lease agreement by Brigada Mass Media Corporation in the Philippines. It serves as a Luzon flagship station of the Brigada News FM Network. The station's studio is located at the 5th Floor of the Jacinta Building 2, #1840 EDSA, Brgy. Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati; its transmitter is located at San Carlos Heights, Binangonan.
History
1963-1973: DZLM
Mareco Broadcasting Network, Inc., owned by Villar family led by Manuel Sr., made its debut in the radio industry in 1963. The family were the pioneers of the country's music industry which had started Mabuhay and Villar records, two of the country's first and then largest recording companies. The latter was also the licensee of many foreign labels, including RCA, Columbia and Motown.
DZLM Love Radio 1430 was established by the family, being one of the network's first AM radio stations; another was DZBM 740 which first went on the air. Both stations originally served only as a promotional venue for Mareco's record labels. While played a local recording once daily, they mostly played records under foreign labels as well; all requested by the listeners within their 19-hour run in later years.
The station was known for pioneering the contemporary hit radio (top 40) format, as well as playing dance music in 1971.
1973-1994: Move to FM
Upon the declaration of nationwide martial law in 1972, a decree was issued ordering a broadcast company to operate an AM and an FM station in each area. While DZBM was kept, DZLM migrated to FM the following year, later becoming DWLM 105.1. DZBM, on the other hand, had played a variety of the latest in popular music and consistently topped the surveys; had the magazine-type format until becoming the first AM station to reformat and subsequently the top-rated pop music station for at least five to six years, and later became DWOO with a showbiz-oriented format. The station, now owned by Interactive Broadcast Media, is currently operated as DWWW 774.
The station continued with its format, competing with DZRJ-FM. The station later became Super Tunog Pinoy with an all-Filipino format, and then Power 105 (DZ)BM FM with a new wave format from 1985 to 1991, competing with WXB 102 (then at 102.7 FM).
Thereafter, the station changed its call letters to DWBM-FM and its format to be adapted by its succeeding management. It was in this decade when the station became the country's first CNN radio affiliate.
1994-2019: Crossover
In 1994, when Luis Villar sold the shares to his children, the station went to his son, Louie, who reformatted it as Crossover. The station pioneered the smooth jazz format; a blend of cool jazz, rhythm and blues, Latin, pop, classic soul, samba, and tropical music; the combination of these was described by the Villars as the "most literal translation" of the station's name they had coined and later popularized. It was able to
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Shirl's Neighbourhood was an Australian afternoon children's television series which first aired on the Seven Network on Monday the 2nd April 1979 and continued Monday to Fridays till 1983.
The half-hour show featured former Skyhooks frontman Graeme "Shirley" Strachan and co-host Liz Rule alongside a cast of characters including Norm The Kangaroo, Ol' Possum, Claude The Crow, Stanley The Snake, Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Yippee the Bunyip, Igor the Spider, Bartholomew the Sheep and a band of monkeys. Franciscus Henri appeared in the show as a regular, both as himself presenting musical segments and as "Professor Henri" in comical sketches. He left the show in October 1980. Bruce Spence was a gardener early in the series.
Norm the Kangaroo was played by Don Bridges. The other characters were puppets created and brought to life by Ron Mueck.
Production
Shirl's Neighbourhood was produced by Jenifer Hooks and Richard Bence of Puppetstuff. It ran from 1979 till 1983 and clocked up over 900 episodes. Jenifer Hooks later went on to head Film Victoria and Cinemedia.
Regular segments were Possum's Patterns with Auntie Mae, Greenfinger's Garden with Laurie Ryan and later Bruce Spence. Fritz Martin appeared regularly with various animals and wildlife.
The show was very popular with kids and adults alike. This was due mainly to the character of Claude the Crow. Claude had a slightly more cynical view of the world than the other characters (like Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street), and adults could identify with this.
References
Notes
National Film and Sound Archive – Bulletin 2
External links
Photograph of "Shirl" and "Norm the Kangaroo" (Monash University Archives)
Darrin's Shirl's Neighbourhood Shrine
Shirl's Neighbourhood at the National Film and Sound Archive
1979 Australian television series debuts
1983 Australian television series endings
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Television shows set in Melbourne
Australian children's television series
Australian preschool education television series
Seven Network original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai%20FM
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Mai FM is New Zealand's largest urban contemporary radio network, promoting Māori language and culture and broadcasting hip hop and rhythm and blues. It is located in Auckland, and is available in ten markets around the country. The network targets 15- to 34-year-olds, and reaches an estimated 382,300 different listeners each week.
History
Mai FM began broadcasting to Auckland in July 1992. It was run by one of the largest Maori tribes in New Zealand, Ngāti Whātua, and Mai Media. Between 1996 and 2005 Mai FM also operated a second station, Ruia Mai, on 1179 AM in Auckland with all programming in the Māori language.
From 1996 to 2001 Mai FM could be heard in Christchurch on 90.5 FM, due to an agreement between Ngāti Whātua and Kāi Tahu iwi. The Christchurch station was originally 90.5 Tahu FM, with local on air talent, and formatted with the Mai FM Auckland music. In late 2001 the joint agreement ended and the Mai FM branding of the station in Christchurch ceased, reverting to its original name of Tahu FM. In 1996 Ngati Whatua also came to an agreement with the Te Arawa iwi to broadcast Mai FM in Rotorua on 96.7 FM, over the years the frequency changed to 99.1 and is now broadcasting on 105.5.
On 29 February 2008 it was announced that MediaWorks New Zealand had bought the station and would take it over on 31 March 2008. Since the MediaWorks' takeover there has been significant programming and branding changes as well as the creation of the Mai FM network.
Programming
Mai FM is a networked station with all shows and music broadcasting from its Auckland studios.
The Mai Hot 1000 The Mai Hot 1000 is one of the station's annual countdown features. The chart order, including which artists and songs feature, is voted by listeners on the station's official website. The countdown runs on weekdays over a three-week period started in 2013 as The Mai Hot 500 according to their official Instagram page. It was renamed The Mai Hot 900 in 2014 and expanded by 300 songs in 2020. Then in 2022 it had 200 songs removed due to the launch of The Mai Hip Hop 100 and The Mai RnB 100 Countdowns.
Winners
2022 - J. Cole - "No Role Modelz"
2021 - TLC - "No Scrubs"
2020 - 2pac - "Changes"
2019 - The Notorious B.I.G - "Juicy"
2018 - 2pac - "California Love"
2017 - Bone Thugs N Harmony - "Tha Crossroads"
2016 - 2pac - "Changes"
2015 - 2pac - "Changes"
2014 - 2pac - "California Love"
2013 - 2pac - "Changes"
Stations
Frequencies
These are the frequencies for Mai FM:
Whangarei - 107.3 FM (low power)
Auckland - 88.6 FM
Hamilton - 105.8 FM
Tauranga - 96.6 FM
Rotorua - 105.5 FM
Reporoa - 98.0 FM
Gisborne - 89.3 FM
Hawke's Bay - 105.5 FM
Whanganui - 96.0 FM
Manawatu - 97.0 FM
Wellington - 100.5 FM
Christchurch - 106.8 FM (low power)
References
External links
Mai FM official website
Māori culture in Auckland
Radio stations in Auckland
New Zealand radio networks
Urban contemporary radio stations
Māori mass media
Radio stations established in 1992
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DWLA (105.9 FM), on-air as Neo Retro 1059, is a radio station owned and operated by Bright Star Broadcasting Network. Its studios are located in Southland Estates, Las Piñas, while its transmitter is located at Nuestra Señora de la Paz Subdivision, Brgy. Santa Cruz, Antipolo (sharing tower space with IBC 13). The station operates daily from around 5:00 AM to 12:00 MN and airs 24/7 via online streaming.
History
1992–2000: LA 105.9
The station was initially established on April 1, 1992, as LA 105.9, the first all-rock station under Bright Star Broadcasting Network Corporation (owned by polo patron and Banco Filipino owner Albert "Bobby" Aguirre), playing Pinoy rock music.
One of the notable programming of the station under the all-rock format was a weekly chart that saw Teeth's "Laklak" reign for 12 weeks.
In July 1998, LA rebranded as WLA (meaning We Love Adventure) and reformatted into an automated station playing electronic dance music and Top 40. Financial constraints forced WLA 105.9 to sign-off for the last time on November 26, 2000.
2003–2007: Blazin' 105.9
After three years, the station resumed operations as Blazin' 105.9 on October 20, 2003. It was operated by Philippine Hip Hop Awards organizer Empire Entertainment owned by radio veteran Marcelle John Marcelino (aka DJ Htown), and Cavite businessman - politician Mayor Dino Chua, President of Cavite Broadcasting Network (also the owner of now-defunct 91.9 The Bomb FM in Cavite). Their former studios were located at Culture Club in Eastwood, Libis, Q.C. and RJ Bistro (now in Dusit Hotel), Bel-Air (formerly Club Cello) in Makati City.
Blazin' played all kinds of rap, hip-hop and R&B, including underground hip hop. This was the only FM station in the Philippines to air the 2004–2005 season of the NBA courtesy of another media partner, Solar Sports. This station was a retooled concept of Tagaytay-based Power 108 FM way back in 2001 and in 2005 it became the second revision of Project: Hip Hop.
Blazin' 105.9 also became notable as the producer of the first-ever The Black Eyed Peas concert in the Philippines.
In late 2006, Empire Entertainment subleased the station to Ramon Jacinto's Rajah Broadcasting Network. It became inactive from January to July 2007. Wave 89.1 took over the Pinoy hip hop formatted scene in 2007, creating the 1st Urban Music Awards in 2010.
2007–2011: UR 105.9
On July 15, 2007, 105.9 FM resumed broadcasting with relatively low power transmission. It was later identified as RJ Underground Radio UR 105.9, airing a mainstream rock format. The station became a child station of RJ 100.3 FM, with its image resembling the pre-1986 DZRJ Rock of Manila and even LA 105.9. Like its "parent", it also played three songs in a row featuring a modern rock, classic rock, and a Pinoy rock track, except for some special programs on weekdays and Saturdays, and Sunday Rock Jam. However, they did not usually feature disc jockeys on weekdays; only public address systems were used, al
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Neil Konzen is a computer programmer who formerly worked for Microsoft as one of its earliest employees. He was the systems programmer of Microsoft's Macintosh programs projects, including Multiplan and Word for the Mac in 1984. He was later tasked with leading the team that created the second version of Windows at Microsoft, after the failure of the original version.
Konzen is also known for creating, with Bill Gates, the DONKEY.BAS game for the IBM PC.
Konzen also worked in the Ferrari F1 Racing Team around the Todt-Brawn-Schumacher era, when software development still was a major competitive advantage for the top teams. He created Vehicle Dynamics Simulation (VDS) software that could run real-time simulations at the home factory and at the track-side, during the race weekend, on the limited computational power of Personal Computers available back then. The software included features that became available on commercial software for PCs, like MATLAB, only many years later. He was also instrumental in the implementation of the real-time telemetry and contributed to other software developed in the Ferrari F1 Racing Team.
Prior to his work at Microsoft, Konzen created the popular G.P.L.E. (Global Program Line Editor) for writing Applesoft programs on the Apple II.
Not working for Microsoft, but still in Washington, he currently resides in Bellevue, Washington.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Microsoft employees
Microsoft Windows people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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The Australian Computer Society (ACS) is an association for information and communications technology professionals with 40,000+ members Australia-wide. According to its Constitution, its objectives are "to advance professional excellence in information technology" and "to promote the development of Australian information and communications technology resources".
The ACS was formed on 1 January 1966 from five state based societies. It was formally incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory on 3 October 1967. Since 1983 there have been chapters in every state and territory.
The ACS is a member of the Australian Council of Professions ("Professions Australia"), the peak body for professional associations in Australia. Internationally, ACS is a member of the International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3), South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation, International Federation for Information Processing and The Seoul Accord.
The ACS is also a member organisation of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO), a worldwide association of professional organisations which have come together to provide a forum to standardise, professionalise, and otherwise advance the discipline of Enterprise Architecture.
Activities
The ACS operates various chapters, annual conferences,
Special Interest Groups, and a professional development program. Members are required to comply with a Code of Ethics and a Code of Professional Conduct.
Extent of representation
The ACS describes itself as "the professional association for Australia's technology sector" and "Australia's primary representative body for the ICT workforce", but industry analysts have questioned this based on the small percentage of IT professionals who are ACS members. The issue has been discussed in the press since at least 2004, and in 2013 the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that "the ACS aggressively seeks to control the important software engineering profession in Australia, but ... less than 5 per cent of the professional IT workforce belongs to the ACS." The ACS Foundation came up with a slightly higher figure: "Depending on the data used to calculate the number of ICT professionals in Australia, however, [ACS] membership represents approximately 6.5 per cent of the total."
Presidents
The Australian Computer Society elects its National President every two years, who serves as the leader of the Society. Some of the most recent presidents include:
Nick Tate, 2022 - 2023
Ian Opperman, 2020 - 2021
Yohan Ramasundarah, 2018 – 2019
Anthony Wong, 2016 – 2017
Brenda Aynsley, 2014 – 2016
Nick Tate, 2012 – 2014
Kumar Parakala, 2008 – 2010
Philip Argy, 2006 – 2008
Edward Mandla, 2004 – 2006
Young IT
The Young IT Professionals Board of the Australian Computer Society provides a voice for young IT professionals and students, as well as a range of services and benefits for members. Currently Young IT organises and runs a bi-annual YIT Interna
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The Victorian Energy Networks Corporation (VENCorp) was a Victorian State Government-owned entity established in December 1997 responsible for the efficient operation of gas and electricity industries in Victoria, Australia, within Victoria's privatised energy industries. It was funded by energy industry participants.
Functions
VENCorp had major operational, planning and development roles for both gas and electricity, the key being:
independent system operator for the Victorian gas transmission network
manager and developer of the Victorian wholesale gas market
system planner providing planning services for the gas and electricity industries.
History
Since the 1950s, the Gas and Fuel Corporation was a government-owned monopoly supplier of household gas in Victoria. In 1965, natural gas was discovered in Bass Strait, and the Corporation undertook a conversion program, which took over 20-months ending in December 1970, to convert around one million appliances to operate on natural gas. In July 1994, the Gas and Fuel Corporation was dis-aggregated into three divisions: gas distributor and retail companies, a gas transmission company and an independent market operator, VENCorp. The Kennett Government subsequently privatised the gas distribution, retail and transmission divisions, along with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Victoria's main electricity utility. VENCorp remained a government entity though funded by energy industry participants.
VENCorp took over the electricity transmission planning function of the Victorian Power Exchange when it was wound up in 1998, after the establishment of NEMMCO and the commencement of the National Electricity Market.
The functions of VENCorp were assumed by the Australian Energy Market Operator, which commenced operations on 1 July 2009, and VENCorp was wound up.
See also
Energy policy of Australia
Renewable energy commercialization in Australia
Solar power in Australia
Wind power in Australia
References
External links
Energy Safe Victoria Website
Renewable resource companies established in 1997
Energy companies established in 1997
Energy companies disestablished in 2009
Defunct electric power companies of Australia
Energy in Victoria (state)
Companies based in Victoria (state)
Defunct government-owned companies of Australia
Australian companies established in 1997
Renewable resource companies disestablished in 2009
Australian companies disestablished in 2009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratchpad%20memory
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Scratchpad memory (SPM), also known as scratchpad, scratchpad RAM or local store in computer terminology, is an internal memory, usually high-speed, used for temporary storage of calculations, data, and other work in progress. In reference to a microprocessor (or CPU), scratchpad refers to a special high-speed memory used to hold small items of data for rapid retrieval. It is similar to the usage and size of a scratchpad in life: a pad of paper for preliminary notes or sketches or writings, etc. When the scratchpad is a hidden portion of the main memory then it is sometimes referred to as bump storage.
In some systems it can be considered similar to the L1 cache in that it is the next closest memory to the ALU after the processor registers, with explicit instructions to move data to and from main memory, often using DMA-based data transfer. In contrast to a system that uses caches, a system with scratchpads is a system with non-uniform memory access (NUMA) latencies, because the memory access latencies to the different scratchpads and the main memory vary. Another difference from a system that employs caches is that a scratchpad commonly does not contain a copy of data that is also stored in the main memory.
Scratchpads are employed for simplification of caching logic, and to guarantee a unit can work without main memory contention in a system employing multiple processors, especially in multiprocessor system-on-chip for embedded systems. They are mostly suited for storing temporary results (as it would be found in the CPU stack) that typically wouldn't need to always be committing to the main memory; however when fed by DMA, they can also be used in place of a cache for mirroring the state of slower main memory. The same issues of locality of reference apply in relation to efficiency of use; although some systems allow strided DMA to access rectangular data sets. Another difference is that scratchpads are explicitly manipulated by applications. They may be useful for realtime applications, where predictable timing is hindered by cache behavior.
Scratchpads are not used in mainstream desktop processors where generality is required for legacy software to run from generation to generation, in which the available on-chip memory size may change. They are better implemented in embedded systems, special-purpose processors and game consoles, where chips are often manufactured as MPSoC, and where software is often tuned to one hardware configuration.
Examples of use
Fairchild F8 of 1975 contained 64 bytes of scratchpad.
The TI-99/4A has 256 bytes of scratchpad memory on the 16-bit bus containing the processor registers of the TMS9900
Cyrix 6x86 is the only x86-compatible desktop processor to incorporate a dedicated scratchpad.
SuperH, used in Sega's consoles, could lock cachelines to an address outside of main memory for use as a scratchpad.
Sony's PS1's R3000 had a scratchpad instead of an L1 cache. It was possible to place the CPU stack here,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford%20rail%20crash
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In the early evening of 8 August 1996, a passenger train operated by Network SouthEast travelling from London Euston on the West Coast Main Line Down Slow line at around passed a signal at danger. Having applied the brakes it eventually stopped past the signal and was traversing the junction between the Down Slow line and the Up Fast line. An empty Class 321 coaching stock train approaching at roughly collided with the stationary passenger train approximately 700 m south of Watford Junction whilst progressing across the connections from the Up Slow line to the Up Fast line.
One person was killed and sixty-nine were injured, including four members of the train's crew. The person who was killed was Ruth Holland, book review editor of the British Medical Journal.
Criminal proceedings
As a result of this accident, the train driver was charged with manslaughter by the Crown Prosecution Service on 10 January 1997, following an investigation by the British Transport Police. On 11 March 1998, the driver was acquitted at Luton Crown Court.
In its report, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) advised that there was insufficient evidence to justify legal proceedings against the other involved parties, namely Railtrack and Network SouthEast.
Incident report
Following delays caused by the criminal proceedings against the driver, the HSE and the Office of Rail Regulation jointly published its Report into the railway accident at Watford South Junction on 8 August 1996 on 29 April 1998, a summary version was published on the internet on 21 May 1998.
Contributing factors
The HSE and ORR concluded in its incident report that there were a number of mitigating factors that contributed to the incident.
The collision would have been avoided if the Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system had been fitted to the train and track.
The inappropriate positioning of a speed restriction sign as a result of imprecise wording in the Railway Signalling Standard which gave confusing information to the driver of the passenger train.
The signal passed at danger had a shorter than normal safety margin known as an 'overlap' intended to reduce risks from small misjudgements by train drivers or increased braking distances (e.g. as a result of wet leaves on the line).
See also
List of British rail accidents
Southall rail crash – SPAD accident in September 1997.
References
Further reading
'Railway Accident at Watford'
Railway accidents and incidents in Hertfordshire
Railway accidents in 1996
1996 in England
History of Watford
1990s in Hertfordshire
Transport in Watford
Train collisions in England
1996 disasters in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon%20Obusan%20Folkloric%20Group
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The Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group (ROFG) was founded in 1972, and started out as a fledgling folk dance company composed of some thirty performers. Leaning on the vast amount of data and artifacts that he has accumulated while doing research over the years, Ramon Obusan thought of starting a dance company that would mirror the traditional culture of the Philippines through dance and music.
For over thirty years the ROFG has created a niche in the world of dance as forerunner of Philippine dance performed closest to its original form. The ROFG has been one of the Cultural Center of the Philippines' leading resident companies since 1986 and has presented over a thousand performances in the Philippines and abroad.
Despite international recognition, the ROFG has never forgotten the people who are the very source of its pride. For the past two decades, it has documented and performed the rituals of more than 50 ethnolinguistic groups from within the country. With more than twenty full-length Filipino dance works – among which are suites from the Cordillera, Bagobo, T'boli, Tausug, Maranao, the Aetas and the Talaandig among others – the ROFG has served to preserve the dance heritage of the Philippines.
References
Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group
Folk dance companies
Culture in Manila
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STV
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STV may refer to:
Television
Satellite television
Direct-broadcast satellite television (DBSTV)
Channels and stations
STV (TV channel), the brand name of ITV Network broadcasters in central and northern Scotland
Scottish Television, now legally known as STV Central Ltd and part of the STV network
Grampian Television, now legally known as STV North Ltd and part of the STV network
Shanghai Television, a TV station in Shanghai, China
STV (TV station), a TV station in Mildura, Victoria, Australia
STV AS, Estonian television and Internet company
Samanyolu TV, based in Istanbul, Turkey
Sapporo Television Broadcasting, a TV station in Hokkaidō, Japan and its associated radio station
Saskatchewan Television, the former on-air brand of CFRE-DT Regina and Saskatoon
Slovenská televízia, a Slovak public television network
Spider Televízió, a Hungarian TV channel
Social TV (Philippines), a TV channel operated by UNTV (Philippines)
Sunda TV (now Kompas TV Jawa Barat), an Indonesian television station based in Bandung
Multi-Choice TV, formerly known as Subscription Television (STV)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Television
Entertainment
Straight to video, a movie which was never released in theatres
Sega Titan Video (ST-V), an arcade system board used by Sega in the mid-1990s
Transport
Single-track vehicle, a vehicle that leaves a single ground track as it moves forward
STV, the MRT station abbreviation for Stevens MRT station, Singapore
Surat Airport, India, by IATA code
Politics
Single transferable vote, a system where a voter specifies their order of preference of the candidates, and those preferences are used to transfer votes that were originally given to candidates who are eliminated during the count
Straight-ticket voting, the practice of voting for every candidate that a political party has on a general election ballot, or a mechanism which enables voters to vote for that party's candidates in multiple simultaneous elections
Other uses
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, UNDP country code
STV Group, a media holding company based in Glasgow, Scotland
STV Inc., an American civil engineering firm
STV Horst-Emscher, a defunct German association football club
St V, holiday celebrating the founding of the Free University in Brussels, Belgium
Subjective theory of value, an economic theory
Ship prefix for sail training vessel
See also
ST5 (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Collier%20Hour
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The Collier Hour, also known as Collier's Radio Hour, broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932, was radio's first major dramatic anthology.
Production
The Collier Hour offered adaptations of stories and serials from Collier's magazine in a calculated move to increase subscriptions and compete with The Saturday Evening Post. Airing on the Wednesday prior to each week's distribution of the magazine, the program soon moved to 8:15pm on Sundays in order to avoid spoilers with dramatizations of stories simultaneously appearing in the magazine.
Story segments during the hour-long program were introduced by a host known as the Editor (portrayed by John B. Kennedy, Jack Arthur, Phil Barrison and Arthur Hughes). Directed by Colonel Thomas Davis, the series was created and produced by Malcolm LaPrade (1892 -1974) with music under the supervision of his brother, Ernest LaPrade (1889-1969), who also conducted for the Orchestra of the Nation series.
Three Sax Rohmer serials from the magazine were broadcast, each in 12 weekly parts: The Day the World Ended aired on Wednesdays from May 1, 1929 to July 17, 1929. Daughter of Fu Manchu was heard on Sundays from March 9, 1930 to May 25. 1930 with Arthur Hughes as Dr. Fu Manchu. Sax Rohmer introduced Yu'an Hee See Laughs, serialized on Sundays from March 1, 1931 to May 17, 1931.
In 1929, the format was altered and The Collier Hour became a variety show, offering music, news, sports and comedy in addition to the dramatizations. Helen Hayes appeared on the show October 5, 1930. Guests on the series included George M. Cohan (in his radio debut), John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Helen Keller.
When Robert Ripley's 1930 debut on The Collier Hour brought a strong listener reaction, he was given a Monday night NBC series beginning April 14, 1930, followed by a 1931–32 series airing twice a week.
Personnel
William Adams played Uncle Henry, 1926–32.
References
External links
"In the Shadow of Fu Manchu" by Martin Grams, Jr.
American radio dramas
American variety radio programs
Anthology radio series
1920s American radio programs
1930s American radio programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oettinger
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Oettinger may refer to:
Anthony Oettinger, a computer scientist
Günther Oettinger, (born 1953), a German and EU politician
Jake Oettinger, (born 1998), American ice hockey goalie
Konrad Öttinger, Reformation-era German Protestant theologian
Oettinger Brewery, a brewery group based in Oettingen
a resident of Oettingen in Bayern
See also
Oetinger, a surname
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A%20%28Symantec%29
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Q&A was a database and word processing software program for IBM PCcompatible computers published by Symantec and partners from 1985 to 1998. It was written by a team headed by Symantec founder Dr. Gary Hendrix, Denis Coleman, and Gordon Eubanks.
Released by Symantec in 1985 for MS-DOS computers, Q&A's flat-file database and integrated word processing application is cited as a significant step towards making computers less intimidating and more user friendly. Among its features was a natural language search function based on a 600-word internal vocabulary.
Product evolution
Q&A Software was originally a natural language research project, involving a group of former SRI International researchers led by Dr. Earl Sacerdoti and Dr. Gary Hendrix, funded first by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Program, and later by venture capital investors including Kleiner Perkins, Q&A evolved into both a useful business productivity tool and the foundation of Symantec. The now-famous professional poker player Barry Greenstein worked on the Q&A word processor during his employment at Symantec.
Dr. Hendrix mused that only time would tell whether Q&A's integrated natural language ability would be merely a passing fad or perceived as a valuable feature.
The product gained popularity and generated nearly $1.4 million in 1985.
By the end of fiscal 1989, after Version 3's release, Q&A accounted for nearly a third of Symantec's $50 million revenues, occupying the top spot in the flat-file database market in 1991.
Version 1.0 and 1.1
Version 1.0 came out in November 1985. It was designed to look and work like pfs:File and pfs:Write. It had the natural language capability to answer English questions about the database.
Version 2.0
Version 2 came out in late 1986. It included a "Recover" function to make damaged databases usable again and expanded capabilities to import data from dBase II and III and Lotus 1-2-3. The software had been prepared for internationalization, and a German version (called F&A (in German)) came out followed by release in several other languages.
Version 3.0
Version 3.0 was released in the spring of 1988. Users of this version could simultaneously use a database on a local area network. Data records were locked so that users could be editing different records at the same time. If user A were editing a record it was locked from other users who would see a message saying user A was editing it and would not be able to edit it themselves. Stored reports and other specifications could be edited at the same time also with the same mechanism. Reports could be run and even if they ran slowly their results would be drawn from a consistent set of data as it appeared at the time the report began to execute, rather than include edits made during the time the report ran. This multiuser functionality was described by Symantec as new to the low-end PC database market.
With a function called XLOOKUP, Q&A 3.0 could
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20informatics
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Laboratory informatics is the specialized application of information technology aimed at optimizing and extending laboratory operations. It encompasses data acquisition (e.g. through sensors and hardware or voice), instrument interfacing, laboratory networking, data processing, specialized data management systems (such as a chromatography data system), a laboratory information management system, scientific data management (including data mining and data warehousing), and knowledge management (including the use of an electronic lab notebook). It has become more prevalent with the rise of other "informatics" disciplines such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics and health informatics. Several graduate programs are focused on some form of laboratory informatics, often with a clinical emphasis. A closely related - some consider subsuming - field is laboratory automation.
Capability Areas
In the context of Public Health Laboratories, the Association of Public Health Laboratories has identified 19 areas for self-assessment of laboratory informatics in their Laboratories Efficiencies Initiative. These include the following Capability Areas.
Laboratory Test Request and Sample Receiving
Test Preparation, LIMS Processing, Test Results Recording and Verification
Report Preparation and Distribution
Laboratory Test Scheduling
Prescheduled Testing
Specimen and Sample Tracking/Chain of Custody
Media, Reagents, Controls: Manufacturing and Inventory
Interoperability and Data Exchange
Statistical Analysis and Surveillance
Billing for Laboratory Services
Contract and Grant Management
Training, Education and Resource Management
Laboratory Certifications/Licensing
Customer Relationship Management
Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) Management
Laboratory Safety and Accident Investigation
Laboratory Mutual Assistance/Disaster Recovery
Core IT Service Management: Hardware, Software and Services
Policies and Procedures, including Budgeting and Funding
Sub-topics
Laboratory information management system (LIMS)
List of LIMS software packages
Chromatography data system (CDS)
Electronic lab notebook (ELN)
List of ELN software packages
Organizations
Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening (SLAS)
American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
Laboratory Informatics Institute
Publications
American Laboratory
See also
Informatics
Further reading
Nakagawa, Allen S., LIMS implementation and management, Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994
Liscouski, Joe, Laboratory and Scientific Computing a Strategic Approach, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995
Gibbon, Gerst, "A Brief History of LIMS", Laboratory Automation and Information Management 1996, 32(1), 1-5
Myers, J. D.; Fox-Dobbs, C.; Laird, J.; Le, Dai; Reich, D.; Curtz, T., "Electronic laboratory notebooks for collaborative research", In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'9
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%20Dice
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Devil Dice (known in Japan as XI, ) is a puzzle video game developed by Shift exclusively on PlayStation. It was released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan in 1998 and Europe in 1999, and by THQ in North America in 1998. The game is a million-seller and a demo version was released as a PlayStation Classic game for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable (PSP) on 7 November 2007.
Gameplay
Devil Dice is a unique puzzle video game, where the player controls a small devil that runs around a grid covered in large dice. The player can both stand atop dice, and stand on the ground (with the dice towering above). When standing on the dice, the player can move from die to die, or can roll a die in the direction he or she runs, revealing a different face as the die rotates. Creating a group of adjacent dice with identical pips—the size of which must be at least the number of pips—causes those dice to slowly sink into the field before disappearing. Chain reactions are possible by adding additional dice to a sinking set. Different types of dice are available in some modes, with different properties to make the game more challenging.
The game features the following modes:
Battle - pits the player against a single computer opponent, both attempting to build up chains and negate those of the opponent.
Puzzle - mode in which players must solve puzzles (i.e., clear all dice) using only a limited number of steps or moves. Solving a whole row of puzzles allows players access to a picture that they can play on in Battle mode.
Trial - the standard arcade-style mode, where the objective is to remove as many dice as possible (and thus score as many points as possible) before the grid completely fills with dice.
Wars - quickfire multiplayer mode, supporting up to four simultaneous computer opponents, or five human players when using a multitap. Players damage each other as they complete chains, with the last man standing becoming the winner.
Reception
Devil Dice received favorable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Both GamePro and Next Generation were positive to the game despite noting its high difficulty. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40.
Famitsu reported that the title sold over 131,815 units in its first week on the market and approximately 864,844 units during its lifetime in Japan. GamesTM regarded it as one of "10 Underrated PlayStation Gems".
The game won the award for both "Best Puzzle Game" and "Best Multiplayer Game" at the 1998 OPM Editors' Awards. Hyper later named Devil Dice a second runner-up for "1999 Hyper Reader Awards" for "Best Puzzle Game", which went to Bust-A-Move 99 For Playstation and Nintendo 64.
Sequels
XI Jumbo was only released in Japan exclusively on PlayStation.
XI Little was also only released in Japan exclusively on WonderSwan Color.
Bombastic (XI Go in Japan) was released in Japan, North America and Europe exclusively on PlayStation 2. It incorporates all play mod
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20Bersama
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ATM Bersama () is one of the interbank networks in Indonesia, connecting the ATM networks of twenty-one banks in Indonesia. It was established 1993 and is based on the model adopted by MegaLink, an interbank network in the Philippines.
ATM Bersama has over 70 members with 17,000 ATMs throughout Indonesia. The network is owned by PT Artajasa Pembayaran Elektronis.
Services
ATM Bersama provides many interbank facilities, including balance inquiry, cash withdrawal and real time-online transfer to other accounts of members of the shared network. In 2004, ARTAJASA made a cross-border ATM Bersama with partner provider MEPS, Malaysia. Singapore and Thailand have been linked to the ATM Bersama network with NETS and ITMX respectively.
Members
The following banks are the members of ATM Bersama network:
ANZ
Bank Agroniaga
Bank Jago Tbk.
Bank Bengkulu
Bank Bukopin
Bank Capital
Commonwealth Bank
Bank DKI
Bank Ganesha
Bank HSBC
Bank Ina Perdana
Bank Index
Bank Jabar Banten
Bank Jambi
Bank Jateng
Bank Jatim
Bank Kalbar
Bank Kalsel
Bank Kaltim
Bank Kesawan
Bank Kesejahteraan
Bank Lampung
Bank Maluku
Bank Mayapada Internasional
Bank Maybank Indonesia
Bank Mayora
Bank Mega
Bank Mega Syariah
Bank Mestika
Bank Muamalat
Bank Mutiara
Bank Nagari
Bank NTB
Bank NTT
Bank Nusantara Parahyangan
Bank Panin
Bank Papua
Bank Pundi Indonesia
Bank Riau Kepri
Bank Saudara
Bank Sinarmas
Bank Sulsel
Bank Sulteng
Bank Sultra
Bank SulutGo
Bank Sumsel Babel
Bank Sumut
Bank Swadesi
Bank Syariah Mandiri
Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI)
BPD Aceh
BPD Bali
BPD DIY
BPD Kalteng
BPR KS
BPR SJ
Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)
BRI Syariah
BTN
BTPN
CIMB Niaga
Citibank
Bank Danamon
ICB Bumiputera
Bank Mandiri
OCBC NISP
Bank Permata
RBS
Standard Chartered
UOB Indonesia
See also
MegaLink
ATM usage fees
Indonesian interbank networks
ALTO
PRIMA
Link
References
External links
ATM Bersama website
PT Artajasa Pembayaran Elektronis website
Interbank networks
Financial services companies of Indonesia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20Racing%20Network
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Motor Racing Network (MRN) is a U.S. radio network that syndicates broadcasts of auto racing events, particularly NASCAR. MRN was founded in 1970 by NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. and broadcaster Ken Squier, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NASCAR. Its first broadcast was the 1970 Daytona 500.
MRN is one of the two main radio broadcasters of the NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series, covering events held at tracks owned by NASCAR, along with Pocono Raceway and World Wide Technology Raceway. It also broadcasts the NASCAR All-Star Race, and the entire Truck Series season (although clearance of Xfinity and Truck Series events may vary by station). Almost all of the remaining Cup and Xfinity races are broadcast by the Speedway Motorsports-owned Performance Racing Network (PRN), besides the Brickyard 400 (which is broadcast by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network in association with PRN); many stations have affiliations with both MRN and PRN in order to air a full NASCAR schedule. All races are also carried on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.
In addition to NASCAR races, MRN broadcasts the majority of the ARCA Menards Series and once had exclusive coverage of the United SportsCar Championship (IMSA now does the radio broadcasts) and Formula One, including the United States Grand Prix, which returned in the 2012 season at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas and offers other race related programs.
The MRN flagship station is WNDB, which serves Daytona Beach, Florida. The network headquarters moved near Charlotte, North Carolina in 2008.
Programs
While MRN's primary role is doing radio broadcasts of NASCAR races, they also produce daily radio programs that are carried by some of their affiliates. They also stream the programs on their website and offer most shows as a podcast on Apple iTunes.
Busch Pole Updates (Short reports broadcast during NASCAR Cup Series qualifying; full event broadcast available on some affiliates, SiriusXM Satellite Radio and through NASCAR.com's "Track Pass" subscription service).
NASCAR Today (Twice daily three-minute reports, one around noon and one late afternoon/early evening with the hosts of MRN Outloud!).
MRN Outloud! (Extended review of the past weekend's racing action with Woody Cain and Joey Meier). Podcast
Rip The Fence (Former Voices of USAC Dillon Welch and Tyler Burnett talk Silver Crown, Midgets and Traditional Non-Winged Sprint Car Racing). Podcast
American Racing Snobs (Eric Morse and Tony Rizzuti discuss the world of racing with an emphasis on the Formula 1 World Championship, plus other disciplines such as IndyCar and IMSA). Podcast
Sunday Money (NASCAR Cup Series driver Corey LaJoie, FOX Sports personality Daryl Motte and MRN's own Lauren Fox bring you tales from both on and off the racetrack). Podcast
Winged Nation (Winged sprint car news and interviews hosted by Erin Evernham and Steve Post). Podcast
NASCAR Live (Tuesday evening call-in show hosted by Mike Bagley). Podcast
MRN Crew Call (M
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20Racing%20Network
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The Performance Racing Network (PRN) is a radio syndication network controlled by Speedway Motorsports (SMI) founded in 1981. PRN airs NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series events held at Speedway Motorsports and Penske Corporation-owned and managed tracks.
PRN first began airing the NASCAR events at Charlotte Motor Speedway (Coca-Cola 600, the fall race, but not the NASCAR All-Star Race). After SMI acquired additional tracks, the network began airing the events at Atlanta, Austin (managed by SMI for the NASCAR event), Bristol, Dover, Kentucky, Las Vegas, Nashville, New Hampshire, Sonoma and Texas tracks as well. Since 2004, PRN also airs the NASCAR weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway through a joint production with the IMS Radio Network.
Other NASCAR events (those operated by International Speedway Corporation (ISC), Curtis Francois and the Mattioli family), are broadcast by ISC-owned Motor Racing Network (MRN). On most occasions, PRN and MRN share the same radio affiliates, in order to broadcast a complete NASCAR schedule. The only exception is if one station in the same market is a full-time Shell INDYCAR radio affiliate, where the INDYCAR Radio affiliate has first right of refusal, and the Indianapolis races may belong to the IMS station if they oblige.
All PRN shows with the exception of all race broadcasts, the pre, and post race shows originate from Performance Racing Network's studios at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
All PRN race broadcasts are available via Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Fast Talk is also carried on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. Fast Talk, the O'Reilly Pit Reporters and Garage Pass can all be heard online at PRN's website.
Programming
PRN's schedule includes the following:
Fast Talk: Doug Rice hosts the show with a rotating host, usually a driver. The driver co-hosts include Kyle Petty, Jeff Hammond and Hermie Sadler. The rotating host format was adopted after the death of Benny Parsons, who had hosted the show during the first 14 seasons. It is a call-in show that airs Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. Fast Talk is heard on 220 stations, fifty-two weeks a year. Fast Talk is also live video streamed and can be viewed at PRN's website.
Garage Pass: Mark Garrow and Steve Richards (substitute) anchor this four-minute NASCAR news program. Garage Pass is heard on 450 stations across the US. The program was created by Garrow in 1986 under the name "Winston Cup USA" and ran on a handful of stations for one year. In 1987, Garrow partnered with Capitol Sports Network in Raleigh, North Carolina to network and sell the program. The name was changed to "Winston Cup Today" and grew to approximately 480 stations at its peak. Richards produced the program, served as substitute host, and covered the majority of the scheduled NASCAR events. Midway into the 1999 season, the show was ended by Capitol Broadcasting when NASCAR demanded rights fees for the use of audio originating from the racetrack. In
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat%20Mecha%20Xabungle
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is a Japanese mecha anime television series created by Sunrise and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. It was broadcast on the Nagoya TV and TV Asahi networks weekly from February 6, 1982, to January 29, 1983. Promotional toys were produced by Clover. There was also a compilation movie made called Xabungle Graffiti, which included new footage and a different ending to the series. The anime series is licensed by Maiden Japan. It was released on an SDBD set on December 18, 2018.
Plot
A young man named Jiron Amos is found in the desert by a group of bandits known as the Sand Rats (Rag, Blume, Dyke and Chill). Jiron hopes to steal the Walker Machine Xabungle from the local trader Carrying Cargo to use it to take revenge against the Breaker who killed his parents, Timp Sharon. After kidnapping Carrying's daughter, Elchi, she agrees to help them steal a Xabungle from her father's landship, the Iron Gear. Timp convinces a rockman named Groggy to attack the Iron Gear, and during the attack Carrying is killed. Elchi takes charge of the Iron Gear and possession of the transporter's license that belonged to her father. Her father's top Breaker, Kid Horla hopes to marry Elchi and gain the license, but she rejects him and he flees.
Following orders from the Innocent, Timp recruits several other Breakers and traders to defeat the Iron Gear including Gavlet Gablae and Bigman but they all fail and are killed. Running low on supplies, the Iron Gear heads to an Innocent dome to exchange blue rocks, a form of currency, for supplies. Although they are initially rejected, an Innocent overseer named Biel appears and agrees to make the trade. Jiron and his pursuit of Timp leads to multiple battles inside the dome and during one such attack Jiron ends up destroying the dome, forcing Biel and the others to depart. During the battle, Timp fakes his own death causing Jiron to believe he has gotten revenge.
The Iron Gear comes under attack from Kid Horla, now working for Biel and in possession of a landship. Following passage over the Mud Sea, where the Iron Gear is confronted by the mysterious Hanawan, Elchi leaves the Iron Gear, falling in love with a man named El Condor who is soon killed in a battle with Horla. Rag also leaves the Iron Gear and falls in love with a subordinate of Horla's who also dies. Timp tricks a trader named Karas Karas to battle the Iron Gear and he is eventually killed although his wife Greta makes it out alive. The Iron Gear battles Biel, now living in another Innocent dome, and Jiron steals the Walker Machine Gallier, which he pilots for the rest of the series.
Jiron meets a woman named Toran Milan, and through her influence the Iron Gear and its crew start working with an organization named Solt that rebels against the Innocent. Around this time Elchi is captured by the Innocent. Biel delivers her to a fellow overseer named Billam, but is demoted and abandoned. Elchi is put under an intense level of brainwashing by the Innocent, who cause her to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20meta-analysis
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Combinatorial meta-analysis (CMA) is the study of the behaviour of statistical properties of combinations of studies from a meta-analytic dataset (typically in social science research). In an article that develops the notion of "gravity" in the context of meta-analysis, Travis Gee proposed that the jackknife methods applied to meta-analysis in that article could be extended to examine all possible combinations of studies (where practical) or random subsets of studies (where the combinatorics of the situation made it computationally infeasible).
Concept
In the original article, k objects (studies) are combined k-1 at a time (jackknife estimation), resulting in k estimates. It is observed that this is a special case of the more general approach of CMA which computes results for k studies taken 1, 2, 3 ... k − 1, k at a time.
Where it is computationally feasible to obtain all possible combinations, the resulting distribution of statistics is termed "exact CMA." Where the number of possible combinations is prohibitively large, it is termed "approximate CMA."
CMA makes it possible to study the relative behaviour of different statistics under combinatorial conditions. This differs from the standard approach in meta-analysis of adopting a single method and computing a single result, and allows significant triangulation to occur, by computing different indices for each combination and examining whether they all tell the same story.
Implications
An implication of this is that where multiple random intercepts exist, the heterogeneity within certain combinations will be minimized. CMA can thus be used as a data mining method to identify the number of intercepts that may be present in the dataset by looking at which studies are included in the local minima that may be obtained through recombination.
A further implication of this is that arguments over inclusion or exclusion of studies may be moot when the distribution of all possible results is taken into account. A useful tool developed by Gee (reference to come when published) is the "PPES" plot (standing for "Probability of Positive Effect Size", assuming differences are scaled such that larger in a positive direction is desired). For each subset of combinations, where studies are taken j = 1, 2, ... k − 1, k at a time, the proportion of results that show a positive effect size (either WMD or SMD will work) is taken, and this is plotted against j. This can be adapted to a "PMES" plot (standing for "Probability of Minimal Effect Size"), where the proportion of studies exceeding some minimal effect size (e.g., SMD = 0.10) is taken for each value of j = 1, 2, ... k − 1, k. Where a clear effect is present, this plot should asymptote to near 1.0 fairly rapidly. With this, it is possible then that, for instance, disputes over the inclusion or exclusion of two or three studies out of a dozen or more may be framed in the context of a plot that shows a clear effect for any combination of 7 or more studies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29
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In computer science, a container is a class or a data structure<ref>Paul E. Black (ed.), entry for data structure in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. US National Institute of Standards and Technology.15 December 2004. Accessed 4 Oct 2011.</ref> whose instances are collections of other objects. In other words, they store objects in an organized way that follows specific access rules.
The size of the container depends on the number of objects (elements) it contains. Underlying (inherited) implementations of various container types may vary in size, complexity and type of language, but in many cases they provide flexibility in choosing the right implementation for any given scenario.
Container data structures are commonly used in many types of programming languages.
Function and properties
Containers can be characterized by the following three properties:
access, that is the way of accessing the objects of the container. In the case of arrays, access is done with the array index. In the case of stacks, access is done according to the LIFO (last in, first out) order and in the case of queues it is done according to the FIFO (first in, first out) order;
storage, that is the way of storing the objects of the container;
traversal, that is the way of traversing the objects of the container.
Container classes are expected to implement CRUD-like methods to do the following:
create an empty container (constructor);
insert objects into the container;
delete objects from the container;
delete all the objects in the container (clear);
access the objects in the container;
access the number of objects in the container (count).
Containers are sometimes implemented in conjunction with iterators.
Types
Containers may be classified as either single-value containers or associative containers''.
Single-value containers store each object independently. Objects may be accessed directly, by a language loop construct (e.g. for loop) or with an iterator.
An associative container uses an associative array, map, or dictionary, composed of key-value pairs, such that each key appears at most once in the container. The key is used to find the value, the object, if it is stored in the container. Associative containers are used in programming languages as class templates.
Container abstract data types include:
FIFO queues
LIFO stacks
Priority queues
Lookup tables (LUTs)
Key-associated data structures
Sets, containing and indexing objects by value or by specific property;
Maps, associating to each key a "value" for lookup
Common data structures used to implement these abstract types include:
Arrays and their derivatives
Linked lists
Binary search trees (BSTs), particularly self-balancing BSTs
Hash tables
Graphic containers
Widget toolkits also use containers, which are special widgets to group other widgets, such as windows, panels. Apart from their graphical properties, they have the same type of behavior as container classes, as the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename%3A%20Kids%20Next%20Door%20Trading%20Card%20Game
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The Codename: Kids Next Door Trading Card Game is an introductory-level collectible card game based on the Cartoon Network Codename: Kids Next Door cartoon. The game was launched in July 2005 by Wizards of the Coast.
Gameplay
In an effort to allow players to play immediately without wading through detailed rules, gameplay is divided up into a simple Basic Game, and a slightly more complex Advanced Game. Neither has a complexity level on par with standard games in the genre, since the game is intended primarily for younger players.
Basic game
In the basic game, the two players flip a card over from the top of their deck and compare the battle number in the corner. Similar to the classic card game War, the player with the higher number wins the battle. The winning card is placed in the "WINS" area, while the losing card (or both cards in the case of a tie) is returned to the bottom of its owner's deck. The first player with 5 cards in his or her "WINS" area wins the game. The only complication here comes about if both cards are of the same color; in this case, the numbers are irrelevant, and players must instead be the first to slap a panic button located on the game mat.
Advanced game
The advanced game introduces the concepts of turn taking and the treehouse. In addition to a battle number in the top corner, each card contains a small snack icon in the lower right corner. This snack icon represents a resource which can be used to power-up other cards when the card is in the treehouse. Each player begins with a single card in their treehouse, and hence this card supplies a single full snack.
On each player's turn, he or she reveals the top card of his or her deck and decides whether to battle with the card, or to add it to the treehouse (where it stays for the remainder of the game). If a battle is selected, the battle is performed against the (face down) top card of the opponent's deck, so the outcome is not known in advance. During the battle, if either player is able to match the empty snack icons on their battling card to full icons being provided by cards in their treehouse, the card battles at the effective strength of its much higher power-up number, instead of using the battle number as it normally would. Note that the panic button rule from the basic game is also in effect, so players must be ready to react to a matched color at any time.
The victory conditions are the same, with the first player to win 5 battles winning the game. Players can score regardless of who initiated a battle, so it is possible to win at the end of the other player's turn.
Creating cards
The product packages for Codename: Kids Next Door Trading Card Game contain a limited number of scene cards and sticker sheets, which are paired up to form custom cards. The scene cards are essentially just cards with a blank power-up area, waiting for one to be attached from a sticker sheet. Sticker sheets also include an equal number of small art stickers,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20process%20%28computing%29
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A design process generates a conceptual solution for a problem stated in the form of requirements. Examples include:
Responsibility-driven design (RDD)
URDAD
ICONIX provides a complete software development process which incorporates a design process. Pure design methodologies can be plugged into software development processes like extreme programming and Rational Unified Process. A design process is usually followed by an implementation process which provides a concrete solution based on the design.
Software design
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20process%20%28disambiguation%29
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Design process can refer to:
Any design process
The design process used to design new products, buildings or systems
The software engineering design process
List of design processes
The engineering design process
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV1
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TV1, TV One or TVOne may refer to the following television networks and channels:
TV1 (Australian TV channel)
TV1 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), now O Kanal
TV1 (Canadian TV channel)
TVOne Cyprus, now Omega
TV1 (Estonian TV channel)
TV1 (India), replaced by Jai Telangana TV
TV1 (Lithuania)
TV1 (Malaysian TV network)
TV1 (Tanzanian TV channel)
TV 1 (Sri Lankan TV channel)
TV One (American TV channel)
tvOne (Indonesian TV network)
TVOne Canada, a former Urdu language channel
TV One Pakistan
Norsk TV1, Norway
Yle TV1, Finland
One (Australian TV channel), now 10 Bold
One (Canadian TV channel)
One (German TV channel)
One (Maltese TV channel)
Eén, formerly VRT TV1, Belgium
SABC 3, formerly TV1, South Africa
SVT1, formerly TV1, Sweden
TRT 1, Turkey
TVNZ 1, formerly TV One, New Zealand
See also
1TV (disambiguation)
Channel 1 (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20from%20New%20York%2C%20it%27s%20Saturday%20Night%21
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"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" is a famous phrase typically featured on the American sketch comedy show SNL, which runs on the NBC broadcast network. It is generally used as a way to end a cold opening sketch and lead into the opening titles/montage and cast introductions for the program.
Origin
During the show's first season, the show was known simply as NBC's Saturday Night, due to the existence of an ABC show titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. This is how the phrase received its wording. The phrase was kept intact even after ABC's SNL was canceled and NBC's Saturday Night adopted the SNL name for itself.
Instances used
The phrase is typically spoken by a host, cast member(s), and/or musical guest, and has been used in every season except one (the 1981–1982 season, the first full season with Dick Ebersol as producer, except the October 31, 1981 episode). It was first said live on air by Chevy Chase, on SNLs first show on October 11, 1975. For all but two of the first season's 24 episodes (Garrett Morris when Richard Pryor hosted and Gerald Ford when Ron Nessen hosted), Chase delivered the phrase after a pratfall of some kind. Even when the show is not aired on a Saturday—such as the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday specials aired from 2008 to 2012, and again in 2017—the traditional line is used.
The person delivering the phrase usually breaks character and the fourth wall, in that the phrase is normally not spoken to other cast members as part of the regular dialogue in the opening sketch. Instead, the person suddenly turns (if not already facing downstage) and delivers the phrase directly to the audience and the camera with a full-throated shout. At the same time, the camera zooms in for a tight close-up shot of the person's face, followed by a dissolve or slam cut to the show's opening montage and titles. In other sketches, when the phrase is delivered by multiple cast members, the camera usually zooms out as they shout the line.
Readings by special guests
The line has occasionally been given to a non-host/non-cast member for cameo purposes. This could be for stars like Brad Pitt and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, or for more unusual celebrities like Ron Darling, Monica Lewinsky, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire winner John Carpenter, WWE chairman Vince McMahon (on March 18, 2000), Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani (on September 29, 2001, two weeks after the September 11 attacks), Carolyn Kepcher (on April 3, 2004), Al Sharpton (on November 2, 2013), Jason Aldean (on October 7, 2017, after paying tribute to the lives lost in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting and to the late Tom Petty), and Stormy Daniels (on May 5, 2018). Guest choristers said the line after singing on December 15, 2012, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, but read it in a more restrained tone.
Presidents and presidential hopefuls
Gerald Ford opened the show with the phrase (in a pre-recorded segment) on April 17,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20Centauri
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R Centauri (R Cen) is a Mira variable star in the constellation Centaurus.
The distance to R Centauri as indicated by its Gaia Data Release 3 parallax is about 2,900 light years, but that is considered to be potentially unreliable. The Gaia Data Release 2 parallax was negative and relatively meaningless. The older Hipparcos parallax suggested a distance of about 1,300 light years, but with a wide margin of error. Estimates based on an assumed brightness for the star, adjusted for extinction, give distances as low as 750 light years.
The effective temperature of R Centauri's photosphere has been calculated by different methods to be or . Its luminosity is even more uncertain, depending on assumptions about the distance. At a distance of , the bolometric luminosity would be , while assuming a larger distance of the luminosity would be over . In either case, it is a very large star, over .
R Centauri is a Mira variable and its brightness varies from magnitude +5.2 to +11.5 with a period of about 500 days. It used to have an unusual double-peaked light curve, but by 2001 this had reverted to an almost normal single-peaked curve. Prior to 1950 the period was about 550 days, but since then has decreased to about 500 days. A 2016 analysis of ASAS data derived a period of 498.84 days.
It is thought that the unusual behaviour of R Centauri is caused by a flash in the helium shell around its core, which occurs periodically in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars as the mass of the helium shell increases with helium from the outer hydrogen shell. It is also an H2O maser source.
References
Centaurus
Mira variables
M-type bright giants
Centauri, R
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5326
069754
Durchmusterung objects
Emission-line stars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinian%20genet
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The Abyssinian genet (Genetta abyssinica), also known as the Ethiopian genet, is a genet species native to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, and Djibouti. It is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. It is one of the least-known genet species.
Characteristics
The Abyssinian genet has a shortened face, short legs and a moderately long tail, which is nearly as long as head and body. Its short, coarse fur is pale sandy in colour with five longitudinal black stripes on the back. The spots on the lower flanks are also distinctly elongated, resembling stripes rather than spots. The tail is marked by at least seven pale rings, separated by seven or eight narrow black rings and has a dark tip. It is also distinguished by the lack of hair between the metacarpal and digital pads of the forepaws. Its head-to-body length is with a long tail. The dental formula is
Distribution and habitat
The Abyssinian genet inhabits coastal plains, Afromontane grasslands, and mountain moorlands.
In Ethiopia, Abyssinian genets were observed up to in the Abune Yosef massif.
Threats
The population is likely being reduced due to habitat fragmentation, as many areas with historical records have been turned into croplands. Prior to the Second World War the skins of Abyssinian genets were recorded for sale in markets in Addis Ababa market, it is unknown whether there is still a market for the skins of this species. In general this species is too poorly known to properly assess its conservation status.
References
Genets (animals)
Carnivorans of Africa
Mammals described in 1835
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20UX%20Micro%20PC
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The Sony Vaio UX Micro PC is an Ultra-Mobile Portable Computer (UMPC) first marketed in 2006. It weighs around 490–544 g (1.20–1.27 lb), and has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, Intel Core 2 Solo processor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and WWAN. Though not officially stated as such, and even to a point implied by Sony that the UX is a move in a new direction and not a specific continuation of such, the Sony UX is speculated by some to be the newest model in the popular Sony U-series.
NOTE : Japanese models include 533 MHz memory and so do the minority markets ( Europe, Australia etc. ) models. The US ones do not have 533 MHz but slower 400 MHz.
All models share these features:
4.5" XBrite TFT LCD touchscreen with 1024x600 display resolution.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Card (128 MB (128 MB) Shared RAM) - some have 256 MB
Memory Stick Duo Slot
Built-in Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and Bluetooth
Fingerprint reader
Front and back digital cameras
References in popular culture
A black Vaio UX was used by John Connor in Terminator Salvation. It was used to hack mototerminator, track the cell Kyle Reese was being held captive in at Skynet.
A Vaio UX is featured in the music video for the song "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" by Wyclef Jean. The UX delivers the message to Wyclef Jean that he must rescue the "sweetest girl" from deportation to a hostile country.
Rodney McKay can be seen using one in several episodes of Stargate Atlantis, he's also used OQO UMPCs.
Bill Tanner can be seen using a Sony Vaio UX in James Bond movies Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. There was a limited edition promotional "Spy Gear" set created for the former.
R. Kelly looks at Usher's slideshow of the a lady on what appears to be the Sony VGN-UX 390 in the music video for Same Girl.
A Vaio UX is used as suitcase nuke arming device in one episode (hour) of the television show 24.
A Vaio UX is shown as contraband containing classified information belonging to the antagonist in some live-action cutscenes of Need For Speed: Undercover.
A Vaio UX is used by the antagonist in Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
Riley Poole used a Vaio UX in National Treasure while capturing the security camera stream of the declaration of independence and to infiltrate Buckingham Palace in National Treasure 2.
In The Pink Panther 2, Kenji uses a Sony Vaio UX when the Dream Team is investigating the crime scene of the stolen Pink Panther diamond.
References
External links
Micro PC Talk
Sony UX280P - Review at Skatter Tech
Sony Vaio UX series Sony Vaio UX series: At a glance from pocketables.net
Sony Singapore Sony VAIO UX product listing
Ux
Ultra Mobile PC
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