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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructor%20%28computer%20programming%29
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In object-oriented programming, a destructor (sometimes abbreviated dtor) is a method which is invoked mechanically just before the memory of the object is released. It can happen when its lifetime is bound to scope and the execution leaves the scope, when it is embedded in another object whose lifetime ends, or when it was allocated dynamically and is released explicitly. Its main purpose is to free the resources (memory allocations, open files or sockets, database connections, resource locks, etc.) which were acquired by the object during its life and/or deregister from other entities which may keep references to it. Use of destructors is needed for the process of Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII).
With most kinds of automatic garbage collection algorithms, the releasing of memory may happen a long time after the object becomes unreachable, making destructors (called finalizers in this case) unsuitable for most purposes. In such languages, the freeing of resources is done either through a lexical construct (such as try..finally, Python's "with" or Java's "try-with-resources"), which is the equivalent to RAII, or explicitly by calling a function (equivalent to explicit deletion); in particular, many object-oriented languages use the Dispose pattern.
Destructor syntax
C++: destructors have the same name as the class with which they are associated, but with a tilde (~) prefix.
D: destructors are declared with name ~this() (whereas constructors are declared with this()).
Object Pascal: destructors have the keyword destructor and can have user-defined names, but are mostly named Destroy.
Objective-C: the destructor method has the name dealloc.
Perl: the destructor method has the name DESTROY; in the Moose object system extension, it is named DEMOLISH.
PHP: In PHP 5+, the destructor method has the name __destruct. There were no destructors in prior versions of PHP.
Python: there are __del__ methods called destructors by the Python 2 language guide, but they are actually finalizers as acknowledged in Python 3.
Rust: the destructor method for rust has the name drop
Swift: the destructor method has the name deinit.
In C++
The destructor has the same name as the class, but with a tilde (~) before it. For example, a class called foo will have the destructor . Additionally, destructors have neither parameters nor return types. As stated above, a destructor for an object is called whenever the object's lifetime ends. If the object was created as an automatic variable, its lifetime ends and the destructor is called automatically when the object goes out of scope. Because C++ does not have garbage collection, if the object was created with a statement (dynamically on the heap), then its destructor is called when the operator is applied to a pointer to the object. Usually that operation occurs within another destructor, typically the destructor of a smart pointer object.
In inheritance hierarchies, the declaration of a virtual des
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Denmark
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The rail transport system in Denmark consists of 2,633 km of railway lines, of which the Copenhagen S-train network, the main line Helsingør-Copenhagen-Padborg (at the German border), and the Lunderskov-Esbjerg line are electrified. Most traffic is passenger trains, although there is considerable transit goods traffic between Sweden and Germany.
Maintenance work on most Danish railway lines is done by Banedanmark, a state-owned company that also allocates tracks for train operators. The majority of passenger trains are operated by DSB, with Arriva and Nordjyske Jernbaner operating on some lines in Jutland. Goods transport is mainly performed by DB Schenker Rail, although other operators take care of a significant portion of the non-transit traffic.
Denmark is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Denmark is 86.
History
The Kingdom of Denmark's first railway opened between Copenhagen and Roskilde in 1847. The first railway in the Danish Duchy of Schleswig opened between Flensburg and Tønning in 1854.
The first railways in Denmark were built and operated by private companies. The railways in Funen and Jutland were built by Peto and Betts who also supplied the locomotives (built by Canada Works, Birkenhead). Most of the technical staff was also recruited from Britain, notably from the Eastern Counties Railway. When Peto and Betts went into insolvency, the Danish state took over Det danske Jernbane-Driftsselskab (The Danish Railway Operating Company) as of 1 September 1867 under the name De jysk-fyenske Jernbaner (the Funen and Jutland Railways), from 1874 De danske Statsbaner i Jylland og Fyn (The Danish State Railways in Jutland and Funen). The network was extended by new construction and by acquisition of the privately operated lines from Silkeborg to Herning (1 November 1879) and from Grenaa to Randers and Aarhus (1 April 1881).
The Danish state took over Det sjællandske Jernbaneselskab (the Railway Company of Zealand) on 1 January 1880, forming De sjællandske Statsbaner (the State Railways of Zealand). With the majority of railways on both sides of the Great Belt thus owned by the Danish state, it was not until 1 October 1885 that the companies of Jutland/Funen and Zealand merged into one national railway company, De danske Statsbaner (the Danish State Railways), the merger being finalised on 1 April 1893.
Important projects that followed for the Danish rail network include the Great Belt Fixed Link in 1998, the Øresund Bridge in 2000 and the Copenhagen–Ringsted Line (Denmark's first high-speed rail) in 2019.
Network
Tracks
Banedanmark is in charge of 2,045 km of railway lines, which do not include the lines controlled by private railways. All Danish railways are (standard gauge), with the exception of a few narrow gauge museum railways; gauge was previously common on branch lines, with being prevalent on industry railways, such as those for transporting sugar beets. The narrow gauge lines g
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJCH-DT
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CJCH-DT (channel 5) is a television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, the station maintains studios on Robie and Russell Streets in Halifax, and its transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive on the city's west side.
CJCH-DT is the flagship of the CTV Atlantic regional system, producing all of the system's programming except for some commercials and local news inserts on the other stations.
History
CJCH-TV first went on the air on January 1, 1961, as an independent station, and it became one of the original CTV stations when the network began operations on October 1, 1961. CHUM Limited sold CJCH-TV along with ATV and the Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN) to Baton Broadcasting (CTV) on February 26, 1997 (with CRTC approval given on August 28, 1997), but kept CJCH radio. CTVglobemedia's acquisition of CHUM Limited on June 22, 2007, brought CJCH-TV and CJCH radio back under common ownership.
Notable former on-air staff
Gord Martineau – brief stay before heading to Citytv flagship station CITY-DT in Toronto.
Steve Murphy – weeknight anchor (retired November 30, 2021)
Technical information
Subchannel
Analogue-to-digital conversion
The station ceased broadcasting in analogue on August 31, 2011 and began broadcasting in digital on the same date.
Transmitters
* The Bridgetown transmitter was among a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid fee-for-carriage requirements for cable television operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTVglobemedia to Bell Canada; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.
On February 11, 2016, Bell Media applied for its regular license renewals, which included applications to delete a long list of transmitters, including CJCH-TV-2 and CJCH-TV-8. Bell Media's rationale for deleting these analog repeaters is below:
"We are electing to delete these analog transmitters from the main licence with which they are associated. These analog transmitters generate no incremental revenue, attract little to no viewership given the growth of BDU or DTH subscriptions and are costly to maintain, repair or replace. In addition, none of the highlighted transmitters offer any programming that differs from the main channels. The Commission has determined that broadcasters may elect to shut down transmitters but will lose certain regulatory privileges (distribution on the basic service, the ability to request simultaneous substitution) as noted in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015–24, Over-the-air transmission of television signals and local programming. We are fully aware of the loss of these regulatory privileges as a result of any transmitter shutdown."
At the same time, Bell Media applied to convert the licenses of CTV 2 Atlantic (formerly ASN) and CTV 2 Alber
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeat%20International
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Heartbeat International is an international anti-abortion association that supports the largest network of crisis pregnancy centers (CPC) in the world, with over 2,000 affiliates in 50 countries. It does not offer, recommend, or refer for abortions. It describes itself as an "interdenominational Christian association". Heartbeat International teaches its affiliated members to make their advertising look as though they are full-service reproductive health clinics that provide referrals for birth control or abortion. Staff are also trained on how to discourage pregnant women from accessing abortion, and how to discourage young women from using emergency contraception, birth control pills, or IUDs. Heartbeat staff are also encouraged to create two websites, one that has an explicitly Christian message, and one that looks like Planned Parenthood. Many pregnancy centers have the ultimate goal of converting women through a born-again experience to "save the mother, save the baby".
For a story appearing in February 2020, openDemocracy sent "feminist investigative journalists" to 30 Heartbeat International crisis pregnancy centers in 18 countries, where they "were given misleading or manipulative counselling in most cases." The reporters, who posed as women with unwanted pregnancies, found cases where women were told falsehoods such as abortion causing mental illness, cancer, or increased risk of child abuse, along with other misinformation.
In January 2016, Jor-El Godsey was named President of Heartbeat International.
Notes
References
External links
International Christian organizations
Crisis pregnancy centers
Religious organizations based in the United States
Charities based in Ohio
Anti-abortion organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20in%20the%20Shell%20%28video%20game%29
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is a cyberpunk-themed third-person shooter video game developed by Exact and Production I.G for the PlayStation. A part of the larger Ghost in the Shell media franchise, it utilizes the same English voice cast as the feature film of the same name, although the two do not share a story continuity. The game was first released in July 1997, along with soundtrack albums, an artbook and a guidebook.
The game's story and art design were written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow, the author of the original manga. Ghost in the Shells plot revolves around a recruit of Public Security Section 9 as he investigates and combats the Human Liberation Front. The player controls a Fuchikoma, a robotic fighting vehicle capable of traversing walls and ceilings.
The game received mainly positive reviews. It was praised for its graphics, animation, music and unusual wall-climbing mechanics. However, it received criticism for its tedious and repetitive gameplay and low difficulty. Fifteen years after its release, Game Informer listed Ghost in the Shell as one of the best manga and anime-based games.
Gameplay
The player controls a spider-shaped think tank robot, known as Fuchikoma, that is able to jump, thrust forward, strafe to the side, climb walls, and hang upside-down from ceilings. The camera auto-adjusts its position when scaling walls and ceilings for easy maneuvering, and automatically switches between first and third-person perspectives depending on the environment, although the player can stay in first-person view at will.
The Fuchikoma is equipped with twin machine guns and guided missiles. Both weapons have unlimited ammunition, however up to six missiles can be launched at once after a charge time. Grenades can be found throughout missions and a maximum of three can be carried at a time. Enemies vary from humanoid robots to helicopters and sport an array of firearms and explosives. Some stages of the game are governed by a time limit. Seventeen cutscenes can be unlocked throughout the missions and depending on the player's score in training mode. Once unlocked, the cutscenes can be reviewed on the options menu.
The training mode contains six stages to learn the basic game elements. The first five stages introduce the player to targets in various settings and using the controls effectively, with the sixth being a battle against another Fuchikoma. The twelve missions that compose the story take place in different environments, including a warehouse complex, a sewer, the city highways, and the enemy base inside of a skyscraper. The missions display a variety of gameplay objectives: the first mission is a raid; the third level is an Explosive Ordnance Disposal mission that involves the elimination of bombs attached to red barrels; the fourth level is a sea chase on a boat; the fifth level is a game of hide-and-seek with the player having to locate a boss wearing thermoptical camouflage; and the game's final boss fight ends with a free fall battle down t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-element
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In digital computing, the Muller C-element (C-gate, hysteresis flip-flop, coincident flip-flop, or two-hand safety circuit) is a small binary logic circuit widely used in design of asynchronous circuits and systems. It outputs 0 when all inputs are 0, it outputs 1 when all inputs are 1, and it retains its output state otherwise. It was specified formally in 1955 by David E. Muller and first used in ILLIAC II computer. In terms of the theory of lattices, the C-element is a semimodular distributive circuit, whose operation in time is described by a Hasse diagram. The C-element is closely related to the rendezvous and join elements, where an input is not allowed to change twice in succession. In some cases, when relations between delays are known, the C-element can be realized as a sum-of-product (SOP) circuit. Earlier techniques for implementing the C-element include Schmitt trigger, Eccles-Jordan flip-flop and last moving point flip-flop.
Truth table and delay assumptions
For two input signals the C-element is defined by the equation , which corresponds to the following truth table:
This table can be turned into a circuit using the Karnaugh map. However, the obtained implementation is naive, since nothing is said about delay assumptions. To understand under what conditions the obtained circuit is workable, it is necessary to do additional analysis, which reveals that
delay1 is a propagation delay from node 1 via environment to node 3,
delay2 is a propagation delay from node 1 via internal feedback to node 3,
delay1 must be greater than delay2.
Thus, the naive implementation is correct only for slow environment.
The definition of C-element can be generalized for multiple-valued logic , or even for continuous signals:
For example, the truth table for a balanced ternary C-element with two inputs is
Implementations of the C-element
Depending on the requirements to the switching speed and power consumption, the C-element can be realized as a coarse- or fine-grain circuit. Also, one should distinguish between single-output and dual-rail realizations of C-element. A dual-rail C-element can be realized on 2-input NANDs (NORs) only. A single-output realization is workable if and only if:
The circuit, where each input of a C-element is connected through a separate inverter to its output, is semimodular relatively to the state, where all the inverters are excited.
This state is live for the output gate of C-element.
Gate-level implementations
There is a number of different single-output circuits of C-element built on logic gates. In particular, the so-called Maevsky's implementation is a semimodular, but non-distributive (OR-causal) circuit loosely based on. The NAND3 gate in this circuit can be replaced by two NAND2 gates. Note that Maevsky's C-element is actually a Join element, whose input signals cannot switch twice. Yet another circuit with OR-causality, which operates as a Join element. A realization of C-element on two-input gates only ha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Heaven
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Hybrid Heaven is a video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka and released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999. This game is most notable for its peculiar mix of genres: it has aspects of both role-playing video games and action-adventure games. It is also one of the few Nintendo 64 titles to support a widescreen mode.
Gameplay
Hybrid Heaven takes many elements from standard 3-D action-adventure games, such as Tomb Raider. The player can move in any direction, jump, crawl, climb, and shoot. The player must solve puzzles by disabling electronic weapons or through skillful maneuvering.
However, when battling a monster (called a "biological weapon" in Hybrid Heaven), the game switches to a completely different mode. The player is constrained to a small room and can no longer jump, crawl, or climb. The monster and the player move around for strategic position in the room. When they are close enough, and have built up enough energy, one or the other will decide to attack. At that point time freezes and a single round similar to a role-playing video game turn ensues: the attacker picks an attack from a list, the defender picks a defense, and the results are displayed. After the attack, both monster and player return to jockeying for position in real-time.
The Vs. Battle Mode plays like a regular 3D fighting game but with some unique RPG elements. In addition to regular punching, kicking, and grappling attacks, energy can be saved up to five times to allow for combos, achieved by either the player editing their own during a fight (one move at a time), or by choosing preset or saved combos. The battle system of Hybrid Heaven has a strong emphasis on leveling up. Experience using an offense or a defense directly correlates with the player's statistical abilities when performing that move in the future, with separate statistics for each limb, the torso, and the head. A body part can become injured, which makes it harder to battle a monster.
The game includes Rumble Pak and Expansion Pak support.
Plot
Players assume the role of Mr. Diaz, a synthetic human hybrid created by aliens. In the game's introduction, he turns on his masters when he kills a synthetic human intended to replace the President's bodyguard, Johnny Slater. Diaz finds himself in a massive underground installation created by the aliens under Manhattan. As the game progresses, it is revealed that the player is actually assuming the role of Slater, who was disguised as Diaz by the Gargatuans. The Gargatuans are an alien race around three feet tall who, after being betrayed by a member of their species who awoke from hypersleep and piloted the ship to Earth, are forced to help said traitor with his genetic experiments. The alien creates clones and hybrids (a genetic mix of human and Gargatuan DNA, resulting in extra-powerful creatures) and intends to conquer the earth through a replacement of its leaders, beginning with the United States. A few Gargatuans have escaped the traitor,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyivstar
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Kyivstar () is a Ukrainian telecommunications company, providing communication services and data transmission based on a broad range of fixed and mobile technologies, including 4G (LTE) in Ukraine.
The Kyivstar mobile network covers all cities of Ukraine, as well as more than 28,000 rural settlements, all major national and regional routes, most sea, and river coasts. As of 2020, Kyivstar became the largest mobile operator and one of the largest broadband Internet providers in Ukraine, serving about 26 million mobile customers and more than 1 million broadband fixed internet customers in Ukraine (Home Internet"). The company owns five network codes: 67, 68, 96, 97 and 98.
Together with the main telecom services, Kyivstar provides FMC services (convergence of mobile and fixed communications), digital solutions - Big Data, industrial IoT, Clouds, mobile financial services, Open API "Kyivstar Open Telecom" and others. The company implements these products both independently and in partnership with large IT companies, including Microsoft.
Kyivstar is also one of the leaders in the OTT TV segment, providing access to more than 250 TV channels.
Kyivstar has built the largest communication infrastructure in Ukraine - more than 48 thousand base stations. The company uses its fiber-optic network with a total length of 44,000 km and a bandwidth of over 380 Gbps.
PJSC Kyivstar was founded and registered in Ukraine in 1994 and has been providing mobile services since 1997. The company's head office is located in Kyiv. Kyivstar is a part of the international telecom group VEON. VEON, Ltd. is a European Union Netherlands-headquartered, NASDAQ, and EURONEXT-listed company with an investor base including thousands of shareholders in the US and Europe and worldwide. VEON does not have, and never have had, a majority or controlling shareholder.
Since 2006, Kyivstar has been implementing social responsibility projects.
Following the results of 2016, Kyivstar became one of 29 Ukrainian companies, which, according to the American consulting group Deloitte, were ranked among the 500 largest companies in Central and Eastern Europe.
In 2020, Kyivstar became the most expensive brand in Ukraine according to a Correspondent magazine, and the best employer in Ukraine in the TOP-100 rating. It was also rated the largest Company of the Year in mobile communication. According to the results of 2020 and 2021 Kyivstar is the largest taxpayer among the companies in the field of communications and information.
In its activities, the company adheres to the latest technologies.
Alexander Komarov has been the President of the company since December 2018.
Tariffs
As of March 2022, the company has tariffs (plans) for two groups of subscribers - prepaid and contract.
Tariffs for prepaid subscribers range from UAH 125/4 weeks ("Smachnyy”, eng. - “Delicious”) to UAH 250/4 weeks ("Tviy Optimum", eng. - “Your Optimum”)
For contract users, tariffs range from UAH 135 / month
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog%20server
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A catalog server provides a single point of access that allows users to centrally search for information across a distributed network. In other words, it indexes databases, files and information across large network and allows keywords, Boolean and other searches. If you need to provide a comprehensive searching service for your intranet, extranet or even the Internet, a catalog server is a standard solution.
References
Databases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax%20server
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A fax server is a system installed in a local area network (LAN) server that allows computer users whose computers are attached to the LAN to send and receive fax messages.
Alternatively the term fax server is sometimes used to describe a program that enables a computer to send and receive fax messages, set of software running on a server computer which is equipped with one or more fax-capable modems (or dedicated fax boards) attached to telephone lines or, more recently, software modem emulators which use T.38 ("Fax over IP") technology to transmit the signal over an IP network. Its function is to accept documents from users, convert them into faxes, and transmit them, as well as to receive fax calls and either store the incoming documents or pass them on to users. Users may communicate with the server in several ways, through either a local network or the Internet. In a big organization with heavy fax traffic, the computer hosting the fax server may be dedicated to that function, in which case the computer itself may also be known as a fax server.
User interfaces
For outgoing faxes, several methods are available to the user:
An e-mail message (with optional attachments) can be sent to a special e-mail address; the fax server monitoring that address converts all such messages into fax format and transmits them.
The user can tell their computer to "print" a document using a "virtual printer" which, instead of producing a paper printout, sends the document to the fax server, which then transmits it.
A web interface can be used, allowing files to be uploaded, and transmitted to the fax server for faxing.
Special client software may be used.
For incoming faxes, several user interfaces may be available:
The user may be sent an e-mail message for each fax received, with the pages included as attachments, typically in either TIFF or PDF format.
Incoming faxes may be stored in a dedicated file directory, which the user can monitor.
A website may allow users to log in and check for received faxes.
Special client software may be used.
Advantages over paper fax machines
Fax servers offer various advantages over traditional fax systems:
Users can send and receive faxes without leaving their desks.
Any printable computer file can be faxed, without having to first print the document on paper.
Most of the problems on a fax server can be diagnosed and solved from remote locations.
The number of fax lines in an organization can be reduced, as the server can queue the large numbers of faxes and send each when any of a number of lines is free.
Faxing capability can be added easily to computer programs, allowing automatic generation of faxes.
Transmitted faxes are more legible and professional-looking.
There is less clutter of office equipment; incoming faxes can be printed on a standard computer printer.
Printer jams on malfunctioning fax printers may be reprinted without being re-faxed.
Faxing may be monitored and/or recorded, so that users m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Ultra%20series
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The Sun Ultra series is a discontinued line of workstation and server computers developed and sold by Sun Microsystems, comprising two distinct generations. The original line was introduced in 1995 and discontinued in 2001. This generation was partially replaced by the Sun Blade in 2000 and that line was in itself replaced by the Sun Java Workstation—an AMD Opteron system—in 2004. In sync with the transition to x86-64-architecture processors, in 2005 the Ultra brand was later revived with the launch of the Ultra 20 and Ultra 40, albeit to some confusion, since they were no longer based on UltraSPARC processors.
History
Original model
The original Ultra workstations and the Ultra Enterprise (later, "Sun Enterprise") servers were UltraSPARC-based systems produced from 1995 to 2001, replacing the earlier SPARCstation and SPARCcenter/SPARCserver series respectively. This introduced the 64-bit UltraSPARC processor and in later versions, lower-cost PC-derived technology, such as the PCI and ATA buses (the initial Ultra 1 and 2 models retained the SBus of their predecessors). The original Ultra range were sold during the dot-com boom, and became one of the biggest selling series of computers ever developed by Sun Microsystems, with many companies and organisations—including Sun itself—relying on Sun Ultra products for years after their successor products were released.
Brand revival
The Ultra brand was revived in 2005 with the launch of the Ultra 20 and Ultra 40 with x86-64-architecture.
x64-based Ultra systems remained in the Sun portfolio for five more years; the last one, the Intel Xeon-based Ultra 27, was retired in June 2010, thereby concluding the history of Sun as a workstation vendor.
Late SPARC models
The SPARC-based Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation laptop was released in 2005 as well, but it would prove to be a short-lived design and was retired the next year. Its release did not coincide with the rest of the line as most of the brand had already moved on to x86.
Additionally, new Ultra 25 and Ultra 45 desktop UltraSPARC IIIi-based systems were introduced in 2006.
In October 2008, Sun discontinued all these, effectively ending the production of SPARC architecture workstations.
The original Ultra/Enterprise series itself was later replaced by the Sun Blade workstation and Sun Fire server ranges.
Sun Ultra models
Ultra workstations (1995–2001)
Ultra Enterprise/Enterprise servers
Entry-level
Note: the Enterprise 220R is an Ultra 60 motherboard in a rack-mountable server chassis with hot-swappable power supplies. Similarly, the Enterprise 420R is an Ultra 80 motherboard in a server chassis.
Mid-range and high-end
= available as upgrade option only
Ultra workstations (2005–2010)
In the intervening time gap, Sun workstations were named Sun Blade and Sun Java Workstation.
UltraSPARC
The A60 Ultra 3 mobile workstation rebadged the Tadpole SPARCle (550 and 650 MHz) and Viper (1.2 GHz) laptops. The A61 Ultra 3 was physically different
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV-328
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The SV-328 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Spectravideo in June 1983. It was the business-targeted model of the Spectravideo range, sporting a compact full-travel keyboard with numeric keypad. It had 80 KB RAM (64 KB available for software, remaining 16 KB video memory), a respectable amount for its time. Other than the keyboard and RAM, this machine was identical to its little brother, the SV-318.
The SV-328 is the design on which the MSX standard was based. Spectravideo's MSX-compliant successor to the 328, the SV-728, looks almost identical, the only immediately noticeable differences being a larger cartridge slot in the central position (to fit MSX standard cartridges), lighter shaded keyboard and the MSX badging.
Reference to the operating system Microsoft Extended BASIC is not to be confused with MSX BASIC, although some marketing at the time claimed that Microsoft Extended is what MSX stood for. More than 130 games were released for the system.
System specs
Processor: Zilog Z80A running at 3.6 MHz
ROM: 32 KB
BIOS (16 KB)
BASIC (16 KB)
RAM: 64 KB
Video Display Processor: TMS9918
VRAM: 16 KB
Text modes: 40×24 and 32×24
Resolution: 256×192 (16 colours)
Sprites: 32, 1 colour, max 4 per horizontal line
Sound chip: General Instrument AY-3-8910 (PSG)
I/O chip: Intel 8255
Peripherals
The standard ports of a SV-318 / SV-328 support only a few peripherals such as the SV-903 tape drive, a CVBS monitor (or external RF modulator for TV), and two joysticks. However the Super Expander edge connector offered more options:
SV-803 Memory expansion card, 16 KB
SV-807 Memory expansion card, 64 KB
SV-805 RS-232 card
SV-701 Internal modem, 300 baud
SV-802 Centronics parallel port card for printer
SV-806 80-column video card
SV-801 Floppy controller card, needed for disk drive usage
Hard disk controller card
SV-809 Network card
SV-602 Mini Expander (for one card)
SV-601A Expander case with power supply and many slots. External disk drives
SV-601B Super Expander, similar but with built-in floppy drive and an optional second drive
SV-603 ColecoVision adapter, enabling ColecoVision games to be played on the SV-328
SV-901C 80-columns printer at 50 cps (a refurbished Seikosha SK-100)
SV-902 External floppy drive
SV-903 cassette drive
SV-105 Graphics Tablet
References
External links
SV-328 at Roger's Spectravideo page
El Museo de los 8 Bits
old-computers
Emulators
SVI-318/328 Emulator by Jimmy Mårdell
BlueMSX MSX emulator, support SVI 318/328
Home computers
MSX microcomputer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomberman%20%281983%20video%20game%29
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is a maze video game developed and published by Hudson Soft. The original home computer game was released in July 1983 for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001 mkII, Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp MZ-700, Sharp MZ-2000, Sharp X1 and MSX in Japan, and a graphically modified version for the MSX and ZX Spectrum in Europe as Eric and the Floaters. A sequel, 3-D Bomberman, was produced. In 1985, Bomberman was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It spawned the Bomberman series with many installments building on its basic gameplay.
Gameplay
In the NES/Famicom release, the eponymous character, Bomberman, is a robot that must find his way through a maze while avoiding enemies. Doors leading to further maze rooms are found under rocks, which Bomberman must destroy with bombs. There are items that can help improve Bomberman's bombs, such as the Fire ability, which improves the blast range of his bombs. Bomberman will turn human when he escapes and reaches the surface. Each game has 50 levels in total. The original home computer games are more basic and have some different rules.
Notably, completing the NES and Famicom version reveals that the game is a prequel to Hudson Soft's NES port of Broderbund Software's 1983 game Lode Runner. Upon clearing the final screen, Bomberman is shown turning into Lode Runner's unnamed protagonist. In the Japanese version of the game, the player is explicitly told that Bomberman will 'See [them] in Lode Runner''', while in the international version, they are instead asked if they can recognise the protagonist from another Hudson game.
DevelopmentBomberman was written in 1980 to serve as a tech demo for Hudson Soft's BASIC compiler. This very basic version of the game was given a small-scale release for Japanese PCs in 1983 and the European PCs the following year.
The Famicom version was developed (ported) by Shinichi Nakamoto, who reputedly completed the task alone over a 72 hour period.
According to Zero magazine, Bomberman adopted gameplay elements from the Coreland/Sega arcade hit Pengo (1982).
The European home computer versions were released as Eric and the Floaters to avoid any association with a series of terrorist bombings carried out by the Irish Republican Army during The Troubles.
Enhanced ports and re-releasesBomberman is most known for the NES version released in Japan on December 19, 1985 and in North America in January 1989. Hudson Soft's director of research and development, Shinichi Nakamoto, commented in a 1995 interview that "I personally believe that the Famicom version of Bomberman is the one and only version of the game." This version was ported back to the MSX the following year as Bomberman Special. Bomberman's appearance in this game (Hudson Soft re-used an enemy graphic taken from their own 1984 NES/Famicom port of Broderbund's Lode Runner) is an early version of Bomberman's more famous design, a robotic anime-like character with a pink antenna. The game was also released on Game Boy as a "Game B" m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Storer
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Arthur Storer (1645–1687) was America's first colonial astronomer. He came to Calvert County, Maryland, from Lincolnshire, England. He was among the first observers to sight and record data about a magnificent comet that passed over Patuxent skies in 1682. Storer's work shows up in a number of Newton's writings. The comet became known as Storer's Comet, until Edmund Halley later predicted the comet's return; thereafter this celestial marvel was known as Halley's Comet.
His observations of the great comet of 1680 are mentioned twice in Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
A planetarium bearing Storer's name is located in Prince Frederick, Maryland.
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton's well known confessions list in the Fitzwilliam notebook of 1662 includes "beating Arthur Storer".
When Isaac was about 12 years old, he was sent away to the Grammar school in Grantham. While in school he boarded at the home of William Clarke, an apothecary on Grantham High Street next to the George Inn. Clarke was the second husband of Arthur's mother Katherine. Katherine brought her four children Edward, Arthur, Katherine and Ann to the marriage.
Arthur's sister Katherine Storer, did not deny that Newton may have had a romantic interest in her. William Stukeley interviewed her in 1727 after Newton's death when she was 'Mrs Vincent' a widow of 82 years. He wrote: "Sir Isaac & she being thus brought up together, it is said that he entertain'd a passion for her, when they grew up: nor dos she deny it.
Storer's Comet
At about dawn on August 14, 1682, looking westward over the Patuxent River near Hunting Creek, Arthur Storer apparently saw what is now known as Storer's Comet. The comet stayed visible in the area until September 18, 1682.
Storer's observations of the comet are considered to be the most accurate of his contemporaries with the exception of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
Ancestry
References
External links
"Arrthur Storer: Maryland's Astronomer Extraordinaire"
"Arthur Storer Planetarium"
"Calvert County, 350 Years – Early Resident Arthur Storer"
"Early Years of Isaac Newton"
"The Heritage of Calvert County, Maryland For the Young Reader"
"Photos of the Planetarium and of the Historic Marker"
"Will of Arthur Storer – 1686"
1645 births
1687 deaths
17th-century American astronomers
Isaac Newton
People from Calvert County, Maryland
People from Grantham
People from Lincolnshire
People of colonial Maryland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXIN
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WXIN (channel 59) is a television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Bloomington-licensed CBS affiliate WTTV, channel 4 (and its Kokomo-licensed satellite WTTK, channel 29). Both stations share studios on Network Place (near 71st Street and I-465) in northwestern Indianapolis, while WXIN's transmitter is located on West 73rd Street (or Westlane Road) on the northern outskirts of the city.
History
Prior history of UHF channel 59 in Central Indiana
The UHF channel 59 allocation in Central Indiana was originally assigned to Lafayette (located approximately northwest of Indianapolis). The allocation would become occupied by CBS affiliate WFAM-TV (now WLFI-TV), which original owner Sarkes Tarzian (who also founded WXIN's present-day sister station WTTV) signed on in June 1953. After that station moved its allocation to UHF channel 18 in 1957, UHF channel 59 would remain dormant until the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) later reassigned the allotment to Indianapolis.
WXIN station history
In the late 1970s, the FCC began taking applications for channel 59 in Indianapolis, receiving four, from Indianapolis Television Corporation; Channel 59 of Indiana; United Television Corporation of Indiana (owned by United Cable); and Indianapolis 59 (subsidiary of a young Sinclair Broadcast Group). Indianapolis Television Corporation secured the channel in a joint settlement, reimbursing its competitors a combined $128,300 in the process.
The new construction permit, initially held by Indianapolis Television—a consortium of shopping mall and Indiana Pacers co-owner Melvin Simon, his brother Fred, and Gerald Kraft—took the call letters WSMK and was initially planned as a subscription television operation, but the expansion of cable TV made such operation impractical by 1983. That year, 80 percent of the stock in the company was sold to locally based computer services company Anacomp, Inc.; Melvin retained 10 percent, while his other brother, Herbert Simon, bought a 10 percent stake. The $800,000 acquisition produced capital to be invested in the construction of the station. Anacomp was headed by Ron Palamara, while one of the vice presidents in Anacomp was Chris Duffy, who had been the general manager at WTHR for five years before joining Anacomp in 1981. The reconfigured ownership group changed channel 59's call letters to WPDS-TV, after Palamara, Duffy and Simon's initials.
Palamara had promised the station would be on air by New Year 1984; due to weather delays, that turned into the Chinese New Year when WPDS-TV signed on February 1, 1984. Originally operating as an independent station, channel 59 maintained a general entertainment programming format featuring cartoons, movies, classic sitcoms and drama series. Through Simon's part-ownership of the station, it also aired Indiana Pacers NBA games in the 1984–85 season. The station originally operated from studio
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Iterative deepening A* (IDA*) is a graph traversal and path search algorithm that can find the shortest path between a designated start node and any member of a set of goal nodes in a weighted graph. It is a variant of iterative deepening depth-first search that borrows the idea to use a heuristic function to conservatively estimate the remaining cost to get to the goal from the A* search algorithm. Since it is a depth-first search algorithm, its memory usage is lower than in A*, but unlike ordinary iterative deepening search, it concentrates on exploring the most promising nodes and thus does not go to the same depth everywhere in the search tree. Unlike A*, IDA* does not utilize dynamic programming and therefore often ends up exploring the same nodes many times.
While the standard iterative deepening depth-first search uses search depth as the cutoff for each iteration, the IDA* uses the more informative , where is the cost to travel from the root to node and is a problem-specific heuristic estimate of the cost to travel from to the goal.
The algorithm was first described by Richard Korf in 1985.
Description
Iterative-deepening-A* works as follows: at each iteration, perform a depth-first search, cutting off a branch when its total cost exceeds a given threshold. This threshold starts at the estimate of the cost at the initial state, and increases for each iteration of the algorithm. At each iteration, the threshold used for the next iteration is the minimum cost of all values that exceeded the current threshold.
As in A*, the heuristic has to have particular properties to guarantee optimality (shortest paths). See Properties below.
Pseudocode
path current search path (acts like a stack)
node current node (last node in current path)
g the cost to reach current node
f estimated cost of the cheapest path (root..node..goal)
h(node) estimated cost of the cheapest path (node..goal)
cost(node, succ) step cost function
is_goal(node) goal test
successors(node) node expanding function, expand nodes ordered by g + h(node)
ida_star(root) return either NOT_FOUND or a pair with the best path and its cost
procedure ida_star(root)
bound := h(root)
path := [root]
loop
t := search(path, 0, bound)
if t = FOUND then return (path, bound)
if t = ∞ then return NOT_FOUND
bound := t
end loop
end procedure
function search(path, g, bound)
node := path.last
f := g + h(node)
if f > bound then return f
if is_goal(node) then return FOUND
min := ∞
for succ in successors(node) do
if succ not in path then
path.push(succ)
t := search(path, g + cost(node, succ), bound)
if t = FOUND then return FOUND
if t < min then min := t
path.pop()
end if
end for
return min
end function
Properties
Like A*, I
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath%20I/O
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In computer storage, multipath I/O is a fault-tolerance and performance-enhancement technique that defines more than one physical path between the CPU in a computer system and its mass-storage devices through the buses, controllers, switches, and bridge devices connecting them.
As an example, a SCSI hard disk drive may connect to two SCSI controllers on the same computer, or a disk may connect to two Fibre Channel ports. Should one controller, port or switch fail, the operating system can route the I/O through the remaining controller, port or switch transparently and with no changes visible to the applications, other than perhaps resulting in increased latency.
Multipath software layers can leverage the redundant paths to provide performance-enhancing features, including dynamic load balancing, traffic shaping, automatic path management, and dynamic reconfiguration.
See also
Device mapper
Linux DM Multipath
External links
Linux Multipathing, Linux Symposium 2005 p. 147
VxDMP white paper, Veritas Dynamic Multi pathing
Linux Multipath Usage guide
Computer data storage
Computer storage technologies
Fault-tolerant computer systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retortamonad
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The retortamonads are a small group of flagellates, most commonly found in the intestines of animals as commensals, although a free-living species called the Chilomastix cuspidata exists. They are grouped under the taxon, Archezoa. They are usually around 5-20 μm in length, and all of their small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences are very similar to each other. There are two genera: Retortamonas with two flagella, and Chilomastix with four. In both cases there are four basal bodies anterior to a prominent feeding groove, and one flagellum is directed back through the cell, emerging from the groove.
The retortamonads lack mitochondria, golgi apparatus, dictyosomes, and peroxisomes. They are close relatives of the diplomonads, and are placed among the metamonads along with them. Due to the abundant phylogenetic similarities between the two flagellates, since diplomonads do not ancestrally lack mitochondrion, this suggests that retortamonads are also secondarily amitochondriate.
References
Further reading
Flagellates
Metamonads
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodshirt
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Goodshirt are an alternative/pop/rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. The band formed when keyboardist Gareth Thomas left his computer recording setup with the Fisher brothers, Rodney and Murray, for safe keeping.
While still a three piece, the band submitted their song "Green" to a track competition run by radio station 9inety6dot1. Subsequently, station manager Grant Hislop became their manager, and the band was rounded out with drummer Mike Beehre joining the fold.
"Sophie", the fourth single from their debut album Good, was a number one single in New Zealand. Good was released in Canada, Australia, and Japan.
A second album, Fiji Baby, was released in 2004. Like its predecessor, it reached number 5 in the New Zealand charts.
The band went on hiatus in 2005 when Rodney Fisher moved to London to work with Breaks Co-Op, but reunited in 2011, and in early 2012 they began playing again with support gigs for Hall & Oates and Icehouse as part of the A Day on the Green festival. In May 2012 Goodshirt released the new EP Skinny Mirror and including the singles "So Charming" and "Out of Our League".
In 2014, the band released a cover of "Sierra Leone" originally by Coconut Rough. It was made available as a free download through their SoundCloud band page, along with the release of an official music video on YouTube.
Members
Rodney Fisher – guitar and vocals
Murray Fisher – guitar
Gareth Thomas – keyboards/bass and vocals
Mike Beehre – drums
Music videos
Five videos were directed by Joe Lonie, including some that were shot in a single take. Lonie notes that at the height of their close creative relationship, "they even talked about me being an unofficial fifth member of the band."
Discography
Albums
EPs
Singles
Featured appearances
Goodshirt has appeared on many compilations and soundtracks in both New Zealand and Australia.
2001 – Starf(Star)Ckers Cyber Garage Music from Planet Aotearoa (Antenna Recordings/EMI) – "Everyday"
2001 – Channel Z The Best of Vol. 2 (Warner Music) – "Blowing Dirt"
2001 – 100% Kiwi Rock (Warner Music) – "Green"
2002 – Top of the Pops 2002 Vol. 2 (Universal Music) – "Sophie"
2002 – Channel Z: The Best of Vol. 3 (Universal Music) – "Green"
2003 – The Strip Soundtrack (Loop Recordings) – "Sophie"
2003 – Coleman Sessions Recorded Live at York Street (Warner Music) – "Green"
2004 – Hot Wheels: Hot Hits 4 (Shock Records) – "Blowing Dirt"
2004 – State of the Nation (EMI) – "Buck It Up"
2004 – Big Day Out 04 (Universal Music) – "Sophie"
2004 – Now That's What I Call Music 16 (EMI) – "Fiji Baby"
2004 – Triumph (Sony Music) – "Sophie"
2005 – Top of the Pops 2005 (Universal Music) – "Buck It Up"
2005 – Lazy Sunday 5 (EMI) – "My Racing Head"
2005 – Triple J – Like a Version: Vol. 1 (ABC Music) – "Gouge Away" (Pixies cover)
2006 – More Nature (Sony BMG) – "Sophie"
2007 – Outrageous Fortune Westside Rules (WM New Zealand) – "Buck It Up"
References
External links
AudioCulture profile
New Zealand indi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20class
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Child class may refer to:
Subclass (computer science)
Child-Pugh score
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo%20%28computer%20virus%29
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The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 4 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls. Michelangelo, like all boot sector viruses, operated at the BIOS level. Each year, the virus remained dormant until March 6, the birthday of Renaissance artist Michelangelo. There is no reference to the artist in the virus, and it is doubtful that the virus's developer(s) intended a connection between the virus and the artist. The name was chosen by researchers who noticed the coincidence of the activation date. The actual significance of the date to the author is unknown. Michelangelo is a variant of the already endemic Stoned virus.
On March 6, if the PC is an AT or a PS/2, the virus overwrites the first one hundred sectors of the hard disk with nulls. The virus assumes a geometry of 256 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors per track. Although all the user's data would still be on the hard disk, it would be irretrievable for the average user.
On hard disks, the virus moves the original master boot record to cylinder 0, head 0, sector 7.
On floppy disks, if the disk is 360 KB, the virus moves the original boot sector to cylinder 0, head 1, sector 3.
On other disks, the virus moves the original boot sector to cylinder 0, head 1, sector 14.
This is the last directory of the 1.2 MB disks.
This is the second-to-last directory of the 1.44 MB disks.
The directory does not exist on 720 KB disks.
Although designed to infect DOS systems, the virus can easily disrupt other operating systems installed on the system since, like many viruses of its era, the Michelangelo infects the master boot record of a hard drive. Once a system became infected, any floppy disk inserted into the system (and written to; in 1992 a PC system could not detect that a floppy had been inserted, so the virus could not infect the floppy until some access to the disk is made) becomes immediately infected as well. And because the virus spends most of its time dormant, activating only on March 6, it is conceivable that an infected computer could go for years without detection — as long as it wasn't booted on that date, while infected.
The virus first came to widespread international attention in January 1992, when it was revealed that a few computer and software manufacturers had accidentally shipped products, for example Intel's LANSpool print server, infected with the virus. Although the infected machines numbered only in the hundreds, the resulting publicity spiraled into "expert" claims, partially led by anti-virus company founder John McAfee, of thousands or even millions of computers infected by Michelangelo. However, on March 6, 1992, only 10,000 to 20,000 cases of data loss were reported.
In subsequent years, users were advised not to run PCs on March 6, waiting until March 7, or else reset the PC date to March 7 at some time on March 5 (to skip March 6). Eventually, the news
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koffman
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Koffman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Elliot Koffman (born 1942), computer scientist and educationist
Laura Koffman (born Laura Bonarrigo in 1964), American actress
Moe Koffman (1928–2001), Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist
See also
Kofman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antena%203%20CNN
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Antena 3 Cable News Network, known as Antena 3 CNN, formerly Antena 3 (), is a Romanian news channel owned by Antena 3 S.A. and part of the Intact Media Group. An Exclusive News Partner of CNN International in Romania since September 27,2022 , it focuses on news programmes and current events, mainly with political and economic topics. It was launched on June 27, 2005 as the third Romanian 24-hour news channel, after Realitatea TV being the first television channel launched in 2001 and N24 being the second television channel launched in 2004, which was later transformed into a generalist television channel in 2010.
It is one of the most viewed Romanian news channels, leading in television ratings on the news segment in prime-time hours together with Romania TV (mostly above and sometimes second to Antena 3 CNN in ratings) The station is one of the five Romanian TV channels that have live anchors from 06:00 every morning to 01:00 every night.
Antena 3 CNN was also distributed in Serbia in the Romanian language-extra package of the DTH platform Digi TV. The official website of the TV channel hosts all daily shows which are made available for watching in an archive that is generally reloaded every month. Starting 2006 the TV channel also allowed online users to watch it live on the internet on its official website, and now on their on-demand subscription service Antenaplay. Furthermore, since Octomber 29, 2020, the 3FM radio station (currently only in Bucharest) also airs all of Antena 3 CNN's programmes.
The station's website receives an average between of 300,000 to 400,000 visitors a day being one of the most visited Romanian websites on the market. By comparison, Gazeta Sporturilor, a media product owned by Ringier, gets more than one million hits a day.
It is affiliated CNN International since 2011, after CNN ceased their affiliation with Realitatea TV. later becoming a partner channel of CNN in May 2020. Its main news program is News Hour with CNN, broadcasting from Monday to Friday at 18:00 EET/EEST, while its other television programs that are notable for airing on Antena 3 CNN include Sinteza zilei, În gura presei, În fața națiunii, Decisiv, NewsRoom, Exces de putere, Descoperiți, Subiectiv and Gătit la costum, among others.
Controversies
However, since 2016, some of their programmes have broadcast Fox News news materials, reports about possible political implications of George Soros in civic movements, funded NGO's and protests in Romania and most of their head anchors showed support and sympathy during the 2016 U.S. elections to candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump, holding generally a right-wing like attitude in these topic, even though their channel is against most right-wing political parties in Romania, except for ALDE.
The channel is widely viewed as untrustworthy. It recently showed a soft-eurosceptic attitude after heads of the European Commission cautioned and criticised the Romanian government for the penal code
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The Stationary wavelet transform (SWT) is a wavelet transform algorithm designed to overcome the lack of translation-invariance of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Translation-invariance is achieved by removing the downsamplers and upsamplers in the DWT and upsampling the filter coefficients by a factor of in the th level of the algorithm. The SWT is an inherently redundant scheme as the output of each level of SWT contains the same number of samples as the input – so for a decomposition of N levels there is a redundancy of N in the wavelet coefficients. This algorithm is more famously known as "algorithme à trous" in French (word trous means holes in English) which refers to inserting zeros in the filters. It was introduced by Holschneider et al.
Implementation
The following block diagram depicts the digital implementation of SWT.
In the above diagram, filters in each level are up-sampled versions of the previous (see figure below).
KIT
Applications
A few applications of SWT are specified below.
Signal denoising
Pattern recognition
Brain image classification
Pathological brain detection
Synonyms
Redundant wavelet transform
Algorithme à trous
Quasi-continuous wavelet transform
Translation invariant wavelet transform
Shift invariant wavelet transform
Cycle spinning
Maximal overlap wavelet transform (MODWT)
Undecimated wavelet transform (UWT)
See also
wavelet transform
wavelet entropy
wavelet packet decomposition
References
Wavelets
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNOL-TV
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WNOL-TV (channel 38) is a television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, serving as the market's outlet for The CW network. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affiliate WGNO (channel 26). Both stations share studios at The Galleria in Metairie, while WNOL-TV's transmitter is located in Chalmette, Louisiana.
Channel 38 was the second independent station in the New Orleans market when it began broadcasting in 1984. It was owned by Channel 38 Associates, a consortium of mostly out-of-town investors. After a credible start, ratings dropped because of Tribune Broadcasting's purchase of and investment in WGNO, then its primary competition; TVX Broadcast Group acquired the cash-strapped station in late 1985. WNOL became the New Orleans affiliate of Fox at the network's launch in 1986. While the station slowly closed the ratings gap with WGNO, TVX's financial problems led it to sell the station to a group controlled by musician Quincy Jones in 1989.
In 1994, a group in which Fox held a minority stake bought WVUE (channel 8), which had been the ABC affiliate. However, the ABC affiliation went to WGNO. At the same time, Tribune provided financial backing for Jones and other investors to form Qwest Broadcasting and owned a minority stake in the company. On January 1, 1996, WNOL-TV became the new The WB affiliate in the city and absorbed some syndicated programs from WGNO. Upon the legalization of duopolies in 1999, Tribune bought WNOL-TV outright.
Even though Tribune owned two stations in New Orleans, they continued to operate from separate studio facilities until July 2005, when WGNO joined WNOL-TV in the New Orleans Centre shopping mall. A month later, however, Hurricane Katrina inundated the mall and left the two stations without permanent facilities for two years. During this time, in 2006, WNOL-TV began airing a WGNO-produced 9 p.m. newscast, which lasted four years, and The WB yielded to The CW. Tribune was purchased by Nexstar Media Group in 2019.
History
Channel 38 was added to the New Orleans area in 1967 at the request of the Rault Petroleum Company. Rault obtained a construction permit for the station in 1969. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled the permit, which had carried the call sign WGNO-TV, in 1971 for failure to build.
Establishment
In 1981, the FCC designated applications from five groups seeking channel 38 for comparative hearing: Oak Television of New Orleans, Delta Media, Cypress Broadcasting, National Group Telecommunications, and Comark Television. Cypress Broadcasting obtained the construction permit; in order to raise additional capital, the firm added 100 partners in November 1983. These included Thomas L. Siebert, brother of original general partner Craig Siebert, and Harold "Hal" E. Protter, who had been the general manager at KPLR-TV in St. Louis. The permit was transferred from Cypress to Channel 38 Associates as a result.
In spite of the l
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUPL
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WUPL (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Slidell, Louisiana, United States, serving the New Orleans area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside CBS affiliate WWL-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on Rampart Street in the historic French Quarter district, while WUPL's transmitter is located on Cooper Road in Terrytown, Louisiana.
History
As a UPN affiliate
The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1995, as an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN). It was owned by Texas broadcaster Larry Safir via his company, Middle America Communications. Safir also owned Univision affiliate KNVO in the Rio Grande Valley. Prior to the station's sign-on, WHNO (channel 20) was approached by UPN for an affiliation, though WHNO's owner LeSEA Broadcasting declined all netlet offers on their stations through the country, as the programming planned for both UPN and competitor The WB conflicted with the company's core programming values; as a result, programming from UPN, which launched on January 16, 1995, was only available on New Orleans-area cable and satellite providers through New York City-based national superstation WWOR for the 5½ months prior to WUPL's debut. Along with programming from UPN, the station ran a general entertainment format, offering vintage off-network sitcoms, talk shows, court shows and other syndicated programs. In 1996, Safir entered a deal with Cox Enterprises to take over operations of the station, and in 1997, he sold the station to the Paramount Stations Group subsidiary of Viacom; as a result, WUPL became a UPN owned-and-operated station (Viacom launched UPN in a programming partnership with Chris-Craft Industries/United Television, and acquired a 50% interest in the network from Chris-Craft/United in 1996).
Viacom merged with CBS in 2000. Despite Viacom's ownership of WUPL, the market's CBS affiliation remained on WWL-TV (channel 4), the highest-rated television station in New Orleans and CBS' strongest affiliate for over 20 years. Viacom briefly considered buying WWL-TV, in which it would create a duopoly with WUPL. However, after Belo Corporation turned down Viacom's offer to buy the station, Viacom decided instead to sell WUPL to Belo in July 2005 for $14.5 million.
As a MyNetworkTV affiliate
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and CBS Corporation (the latter of which took over WUPL and UPN after Viacom split into two companies one month earlier) announced that both companies would partner to launch The CW, which would replace The WB and UPN; the network, which debuted on September 18, 2006, would feature a mix of programs carried over from its two predecessor networks as well as newer series. The day of the announcement of the network's formation, Tribune Broadcasting signed a ten-year agreement to affiliate the network with 16 of the group's 19 WB affiliates; as a result, WNOL-TV (channel 38) was announced as The CW's New Orleans affiliate.
Three weeks later, on F
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Jason Cranford Teague is a web designer and author. He designed Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine, the first online magazine, in 1994.
He is best known for his books CSS3 Visual Quickstart (2013) and Fluid Web Typography (2012).
Cranford Teague started as a web designer in 1994. Notable clients include EPA, IRS, Sargento, USDA, Aspen Institute, Marriott, Bank of America, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Virgin Group, CNN, Kodak, and WebMD.
Books published
Teague has written several books and articles about web design and media. His books include the best selling DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web (originally 1999, fifth printing 2013), Final Cut Pro 4 and the Art of Filmmaking (2004), Photoshop at Your Fingertips (2004), and Speaking In Styles (2009).
Published
CSS3 Visual Quickstart, 6th edition
Fluid Web Typography: A Guide
Speaking In Styles: A CSS Primer for Web Designers
CSS3 Visual Quickstart, 5th edition
CSS, DHTML, & Ajax: Visual Quickstart Guide, 4th
DHTML & CSS Advanced
Out of print
Photoshop at Your Fingertips, 2nd edition
Photoshop at Your Fingertips
Final Cut Express Essentials
SVG for Web Designers
Final Cut Pro and the Art of Filmmaking, 2nd Edition
Final Cut Pro and the Art of Filmmaking
DHTML & CSS Visual QuickStart, 3rd edition
DHTML & CSS Visual QuickStart, 2nd edition
DHTML Visual Quickstart
How to program HTML Frames: Interface Design and Javascript
Articles published
Teague has contributed numerous articles to Apple Developers Connection, Computer Arts Magazine, and Macworld Magazine. He writes regularly about technology, politics, and culture on webbedENVIRONMENTS. He has also appeared on TechTV's The Screen Savers.
References
dmx zone
webbedENVIRONMENTS
Jason Cranford Teague's blog
Technology writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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The National Highway System (NHS) is a network of strategic highways within the United States, including the Interstate Highway System and other roads serving major airports, ports, military bases, rail or truck terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and other strategic transport facilities. Altogether, it constitutes the largest highway system in the world.
Individual states are encouraged to focus federal funds on improving the efficiency and safety of this network. The roads within the system were identified by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) in cooperation with the states, local officials, and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and approved by the United States Congress in 1995.
Legislation
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) in 1991 established certain key routes such as the Interstate Highway System, be included. The act provided a framework to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System which "consists of all forms of transportation in a unified, interconnected manner, including the transportation systems of the future, to reduce energy consumption and air pollution while promoting economic development and supporting the Nation's preeminent position in international commerce".
The National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 (, ) is a United States Act of Congress that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 28, 1995. The legislation designated about of roads, including the Interstate Highway System, as the NHS.
Aside from designating the system, the act served several other purposes, including restoring $5.4 billion in funding to state highway departments, giving Congress the power to prioritize highway system projects, repealing all federal speed limit controls, and prohibits the federal government from requiring states to use federal-aid highway funds to convert existing signs or purchase new signs with metric units.
The act also created a State Infrastructure Bank pilot program. Ten states were chosen in 1996 for this new method of road financing. These banks would lend money like regular banks, with funding coming from the federal government or the private sector, and they would be repaid through such means as highway tolls or taxes. In 1997, 28 more states asked to be part of the program. Ohio was the first state to use a state infrastructure bank to start building a road. An advantage of this method was completing projects faster; state laws and the lack of appropriate projects were potential problems.
Overview
According to the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway System includes roads important to the United States' economy, defense, and mobility, from one or more of the following road networks (specific routes may be part of more than one sub-system):
Interstate Highway System: The entire Interstate Highway System (which is also known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Greenblatt
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Richard Greenblatt may refer to:
Richard Greenblatt (programmer) (born 1944), American computer programmer
Richard Greenblatt (playwright) (born 1953), Canadian actor and playwright
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAMI-DT
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WAMI-DT (channel 69) is a television station licensed to Hollywood, Florida, United States, serving as the Miami-area outlet for the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Univision station WLTV-DT (channel 23). The two stations share studios known as "NewsPort" (a converted studio facility that also houses Noticias Univision) on Northwest 30th Terrace in Doral; WAMI-DT's transmitter is located in Pembroke Park, Florida.
WAMI is one of two commercial television stations with a city of license in Broward County, the other being Telemundo station WSCV (channel 51), licensed to Fort Lauderdale. The station also serves as the de facto UniMás outlet for the West Palm Beach market.
History
Prior to being used by a full-power station, the channel 69 allocation was occupied by W69AA, a translator for WCIX (channel 6). The analog channel 6 transmitter was located in Homestead because of station spacing restrictions to channel 6 in Orlando; W69AA and two other translators, all commissioned in 1972, provided WCIX programming to areas in Broward County and Boca Raton. As applications proceeded on the full-power allotment, W69AA was displaced; it went silent and returned as W58BU, a translator of WTVJ, on March 10, 1994.
Early years
In 1981, four applications were received for a full-power television station on channel 69, from Whitco Broadcasters; Family Television 69, owned by Hialeah pastor Adib Eden, Sr.; Golden East Broadcasters; and Christian Media of Florida. In April, the FCC selected Whitco over the other applicants, saying that Christian Media of Florida's three pastor owners would not be able to balance ministry and station operations; Whitco offered $111,000 to its competitors to end the proceeding.
Whitco, owned by Eddie Whitehead and Thomas Coates, proposed the first African-American-owned television station in South Florida, aimed at the same audience. The construction permit took the call letters WDEM and secured space on the new tower being built by Guy Gannett Communications in Pembroke Park.
An attempt to sell a majority stake in the construction permit to an investor group that sought to program channel 69 as a Spanish-language station fell through in early 1985. On February 19, 1987, the Home Shopping Network (HSN) announced that it was acquiring a majority stake in WDEM, with the option to buy the facility outright upon completion for $10 million.
WAMI first signed on the air on August 10, 1988, as WYHS-TV. Before the station launched, WYHS-TV simulcast audio from WHYI-FM (Y-100) with live telecasting views of Miami before signing on. When it signed on, WYHS-TV carried programming from the Home Shopping Network. Two months later, HSN's broadcasting division, Silver King Communications, acquired the remainder of the station. The primary purpose of these stations was to force carriage of HSN on cable providers in each market through the Federal Communications Commission's must-carry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planner
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Planner may refer to:
A personal organizer (book) for planning
Microsoft Planner
Planner programming language
Planner (PIM for Emacs)
Urban planner
Route planner
Meeting and convention planner
Japanese term for video game designer
See also
Plan (disambiguation)
The Plan (disambiguation)
Automated planning and scheduling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote%20%28notetaking%20software%29
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KeyNote is a free notetaking and outlining text editor for Microsoft Windows, produced by Tranglos Software.
Overview
Keynote is based on the tree data structure concept, allowing "nodes" in a tree panel (much like the tree panel in Windows file managers) to represent separate fields within a single text file. Individual documents within the tree can be edited in Rich Text Format (RTF) or simple text (unformatted).
Import and export of KeyNote files to and from TreePad files is fully supported. Each field is treated as a separate virtual document within the tree.
KeyNote is open-source software developed in Delphi 3. As of October 2005, development of the original program had ceased.
Keynote NF
Development was resumed in 2006 by Daniel Prado, with a project called "KeyNote NF" (or "KeyNote - New Features") to distinguish it from other Google search results. Initially released on SourceForge, and presently on Github, it includes features such as alarm reminders on nodes.
Current versions were 1.7.8.1 stable and 1.7.9.8 Beta. There was a long hiatus in new uploads, but on June 9, 1923, in a comment to Issue #602 on the GitHub site, Prado said that he was planning to upload a new version "very soon". At that time he also explained the hiatus and started responding to open Issues on the site. As of 12 September 2023 the "recommended release" is version 1.8.0 beta 6.
See also
Comparison of notetaking software
Zim
References
External links
original KeyNote project on SourceForge (abandoned)
KeyNote - New Features (KeyNote NF) (project on github.com)
Daniel Prado's blog
KeyNote 1.7 file format specification
Note-taking software
Windows text editors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLWY
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KLWY (channel 27) is a television station in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with the Fox and MeTV networks. The station is owned by Coastal Television, and maintains a transmitter southwest of Cheyenne along I-25.
KLWY is a semi-satellite of KFNB (channel 20), the Fox affiliate in Casper. The two stations air nearly the same programming with separate station identifications and commercials, and are operated from KFNB's studios on Skyview Drive in Casper.
History
KLWY signed on August 5, 1994, as the third full-fledged commercial station in eastern Wyoming following KGWN-TV in 1954 and KQCK in 1987. It immediately joined Fox; previously, Denver's KDVR was carried by some cable providers in southeastern Wyoming, but much of the eastern portion of the state did not receive Fox programming at all as this was one of the few areas of the country where cable was not yet readily available. It took 13 years for KLWY to launch; the construction permit had been issued August 4, 1981, to the Chrysostom Corporation, which owned Casper's KCWY-TV (channel 14). It then was sold in 1983 to Heart of Wyoming Television, which was the original owner of Casper's channel 20 (when it was KXWY-TV). Wyomedia, which became the owner of the Casper station in the early 1990s, then acquired KLWY in 1992.
KLWY carried a secondary affiliation with UPN until the network closed in September 2006.
Until 2004, KLWY's programming was simulcast on K26ES in Casper and K11RN in Douglas. Wyomedia converted these two stations into full-time UPN affiliates in 2004, then to CW affiliates after UPN's closure. K26ES is now KWYF-LD, an affiliate of MyNetworkTV and MeTV; its programming is simulcast in Cheyenne on the third subchannel of KLWY.
KLWY made the switch to digital on February 17, 2009.
The station does not have a website. KLWY does not air its own newscasts per se, however it collaborates with NewsNet for a 9 p.m. local broadcast; the only other newscast on the station is a rebroadcast of Good Morning Wyoming from KTWO-TV in Casper. However, KTWO's programming, including ABC programming and its newscasts, are simulcast on a digital subchannel of KLWY.
Wyomedia Corporation agreed to sell its stations to Legacy Broadcasting on February 8, 2018; the sale was canceled on October 2, 2018. On October 8, 2019, Wyomedia announced that it would sell its stations to Front Range Television, a subsidiary of Coastal Television Broadcasting Company (run by Bill Fielder); the sale was concurrent with Vision Alaska's purchase of KKTQ-LD (channel 16). Coastal Television and Vision Alaska (run by Stephen Brissette) already jointly operated stations in Alaska. The sale was completed on June 1, 2020.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
KLWY originally signed on a digital signal at channel 28, and took part of the mandatory digital conversion on February 18, 2009, where it flash cut its analog signal. After the transition, KLWY returned
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWYF-LD
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KWYF-LD (channel 27) is a low-power television station in Casper, Wyoming, United States. It is a translator of dual Fox and MeTV/MyNetworkTV affiliate KFNB (channel 20), which is owned by Coastal Television. KWYF-LD's transmitter is located atop Casper Mountain.
History
A construction permit to construct a low-power television station on UHF channel 26 in Casper was granted on June 15, 1995 and issued the call sign K26ES. Original owner Charles W. Swaner sold K26ES to Wyomedia Corporation on September 15, 1997; the new owners applied for a license to cover on October 29, 1997, and was granted it on January 28, 1998. Initially, K26ES served as a translator of KLWY in Cheyenne; this brought Fox programming to Casper, along with a secondary affiliation with UPN. The station, by then referring to itself as "KWYF," began producing a 9 p.m. newscast on November 3, 2003. On March 8, 2004, K26ES became a full-time UPN affiliate after Fox programming was moved to KFNB; for a time after this change, the station also carried some programming from Pax. Wyomedia also transferred K26ES' newscast to KFNB. When UPN and The WB closed to form The CW in 2006, K26ES became the new network's Casper affiliate.
On March 27, 2012, Wyomedia was granted a construction permit for a digital companion channel for K26ES to operate on channel 27; this facility was issued the call sign K27LZ-D. K27LZ-D filed for its license to cover on June 15, 2012 and was granted it on July 16; on June 13, 2013, the call letters were changed to KWYF-LD. The analog K26ES license remained active until September 12, 2014, when it was canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
On January 26, 2015, KWYF became a MeTV affiliate. In addition to airing programing from MeTV, it also airs programing from MyNetworkTV from 7pm-9pm weeknights.
Wyomedia Corporation agreed to sell its stations, including KWYF-LD, to Legacy Broadcasting on February 8, 2018. The sale was canceled on October 2, 2018.
Sale to Coastal Television
On October 8, 2019, Wyomedia announced that it would sell its stations to Front Range Television, a subsidiary of Coastal Television Broadcasting Company (run by Bill Fielder). This sale was concurrent with Coastal's purchase of KFNB, the sale of KTWO-TV to Vision Alaska, LLC, and the sale of KGWC-TV to Big Horn Television. The sale was completed on June 1, 2020.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
WYF-LD
MyNetworkTV affiliates
MeTV affiliates
Low-power television stations in Wyoming
Natrona County, Wyoming
Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Wyoming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Fernando%20de%20la%20Buena%20Vista
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San Fernando de la Buena Vista is a city in the Gran Buenos Aires area, in Argentina, and capital of the San Fernando Partido, north of the city of Buenos Aires.
Geographic Data
Located in the northern area of Gran Buenos Aires, San Fernando is composed of two clearly differentiated areas: a densely populated mainland section, with predominance of industrial, commercial and service areas; and a section of Islands of the Paraná Delta of . It is the nautical capital of Argentina.
The city is bordered by San Isidro and Tigre. Its continental area is composed of the towns of Virreyes, San Fernando and Victoria. The rest of his jurisdiction comprises the second and third sections of the Paraná Delta Islands.
Climate
Surface area
Continental section:
Delta section: (approx.)
Distances
28 km from the City of Buenos Aires.
95 km from the City of La Plata.
Population
Total population: 151,131
Urban population: 147,409
Rural population (delta): 3,058
Population by localities
San Fernando: 68,806
Victoria: 40,461
Virreyes: 38,142
Delta: 3,058
Education
Buenos Aires International Christian Academy, an English-only Christian International school in Argentina, is located in San Fernando.
References
External links
Municipal website
local news webpage
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
San Fernando de la Buena Vista
Cities in Argentina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20port
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In computing, a legacy port is a computer port or connector that is considered by some to be fully or partially superseded. The replacement ports usually provide most of the functionality of the legacy ports with higher speeds, more compact design, or plug and play and hot swap capabilities for greater ease of use. Modern PC motherboards use separate Super I/O controllers to provide legacy ports, since current chipsets do not offer direct support for them. A category of computers called legacy-free PCs omits these ports, typically retaining only USB for external expansion.
USB adapters are often used to provide legacy ports if they are required on systems not equipped with them.
Common legacy ports
See also
Legacy encoding
Legacy system
References
Computer buses
Legacy hardware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpress%20Pro
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Avid Xpress Pro was a non-linear video editing software aimed at professionals in the TV and movie industry. It was available for Microsoft Windows PCs and Apple Macintosh computers.
Features
Xpress Pro included many of the high-end editing features offered by other Avid editing systems, and was closely based on Avid's Media Composer systems. In conjunction with the Avid Mojo hardware, it provided real-time uncompressed video editing at a professional level. Xpress Pro was capable of sharing media files with Avid's advanced Media Composer editing systems making it a capable logging or offline editing system for larger projects.
While Xpress Pro was originally aimed at DV and uncompressed standard definition editors, the upgrade to Xpress Pro HD with version 5.0 of the software added support for high-definition editing with the 8-bit version of Avid's DNxHD codec or Panasonic's DVCPRO HD codec, and version 5.2 added support for HDV editing. Unlike some other editing packages, Xpress Pro HD edits HDV natively by decompressing the MPEG-2 stream on the fly, rather than transcoding into an intraframe codec.
Xpress Pro was discontinued on March 17, 2008, and was no longer for sale after June 30, 2008. Avid offered Xpress Pro users a discounted upgrade price for their flagship non-linear editing software Media Composer.
One of the controversial aspects of the software was that it did not work on Microsoft's Windows Vista.
References
External links
Avid Xpress Pro
Video Editing Apps
Video editing software for macOS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlett
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Marlett is a TrueType font that has been used in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95. The operating system uses this font to create user interface icons that are used in the menus and windows. Examples are the close, maximize and minimize buttons that are made from the individual glyphs in the font. This was important to allow the users to scale the user interface and have the icons scale with the elements.''
Character layout
Due to the specialised nature of the Marlett glyphs, many of the mappings shown are approximate.
See also
MouseText (a set of bitmapped characters used in later Apple II models for a similar function)
Footnotes
References
External links
A bit about Marlett on MSDN Blogs
Marlett Characters documented by ReactOS
Symbol typefaces
Windows XP typefaces
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20interface%20design
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User interface (UI) design or user interface engineering is the design of user interfaces for machines and software, such as computers, home appliances, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, with the focus on maximizing usability and the user experience. In computer or software design, user interface (UI) design primarily focuses on information architecture. It is the process of building interfaces that clearly communicates to the user what's important. UI design refers to graphical user interfaces and other forms of interface design. The goal of user interface design is to make the user's interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms of accomplishing user goals (user-centered design).
User interfaces are the points of interaction between users and designs. There are three types:
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) - Users interact with visual representations on a computer's screen. The desktop is an example of a GUI.
Interfaces controlled through voice - Users interact with these through their voices. Most smart assistants, such as Siri on smartphones or Alexa on Amazon devices, use voice control.
Interactive interfaces utilizing gestures- Users interact with 3D design environments through their bodies, e.g., in virtual reality (VR) games.
Interface design is involved in a wide range of projects, from computer systems, to cars, to commercial planes; all of these projects involve much of the same basic human interactions yet also require some unique skills and knowledge. As a result, designers tend to specialize in certain types of projects and have skills centered on their expertise, whether it is software design, user research, web design, or industrial design.
Good user interface design facilitates finishing the task at hand without drawing unnecessary attention to itself. Graphic design and typography are utilized to support its usability, influencing how the user performs certain interactions and improving the aesthetic appeal of the design; design aesthetics may enhance or detract from the ability of users to use the functions of the interface. The design process must balance technical functionality and visual elements (e.g., mental model) to create a system that is not only operational but also usable and adaptable to changing user needs.
Compared to UX design
Compared to UX design, UI design is more about the surface and overall look of a design. User interface design is a craft in which designers perform an important function in creating the user experience. UI design should keep users informed about what is happening, giving appropriate feedback in a timely manner. The visual look and feel of UI design sets the tone for the user experience. On the other hand, the term UX design refers to the entire process of creating a user experience.
Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen said:
Processes
User interface design requires a good understanding of user needs. It mainly focuses on the needs of the platform and its user ex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLUK-TV
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WLUK-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Suring-licensed CW affiliate WCWF (channel 14). Both stations share studios on Lombardi Avenue (US 41) on the line between Green Bay and Ashwaubenon, while WLUK-TV's transmitter is located on Scray Hill in Ledgeview.
Until July 11, 2018, the station's signal was relayed in Upper Michigan on digital translator W40AN-D (channel 40), licensed to Escanaba, Michigan and transmitting from a tower in Wells Township.
History
Early years with NBC and ABC
WMBV-TV, licensed to Marinette, Wisconsin (the callsign stood for "Marinette, Bay, Valley"), was approved for VHF channel 11 on November 18, 1953. M & M Broadcasting Company, owned by William Walker, announced the license grant after settling with a competing company for the rights to the license. An affiliation with NBC was confirmed on March 9, 1954. WMBV-TV signed on the air on September 11, 1954. Walker sold the station to Morgan Murphy Stations in 1958.
1959 saw several changes for the station. On February 1, WMBV swapped affiliations with WFRV-TV (channel 5), becoming an ABC affiliate. The station changed its city of license to Green Bay and on August 22, 1959, changed its call sign to the current WLUK-TV (in reference to its then on-air slogan "Lucky 11"), when it began broadcasting at full power from a new tower near Green Bay. WLUK first broadcast network programs in color in 1959 and local programs began to be broadcast in color starting in 1965. Morgan Murphy then sold WLUK to Post Corporation (a small media chain not affiliated with The Washington Post Company or its Post-Newsweek Stations division), whose properties included the Post-Crescent newspaper in nearby Appleton and a sister station in Marquette, Michigan, WLUC-TV. in 1965. In 1966, WLUK built a new studio and office building on Highland Avenue, which would eventually become Lombardi Avenue in 1968 after Vince Lombardi resigned his head coaching duties with the Green Bay Packers. It aired some local entertainment programs, including a Saturday night polka show and a daily children's cartoon show using the franchised Bozo the Clown character.
On April 18, 1983, WLUK reclaimed the market's NBC affiliation, when WFRV switched to ABC. In 1984, Racine native George N. Gillett's Gillett Broadcasting purchased Post Corporation. Gillett in turn sold the station to Burnham Broadcasting later that year, as the company's first television acquisition, in order to purchase the KKR stations (which included future fellow Fox station WITI in Milwaukee; WLUK was indeed sold due to adjacent market ownership regulations at the time by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)). For most of its second stint with NBC, WLUK largely downplayed its affiliation, even during the network's powerhouse days of the 1980s; it used the NBC Peacock only sparingly in the station's advertisements
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Soleil
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Marie-Soleil was a Canadian children's television show in the 1980s and early 1990s, which aired on many stations associated with the CTV Television Network. The show, starring children's entertainer Suzanne Pinel, used stories and songs to teach French to anglophone kids.
The series was initially produced by Mid-Canada Communications for the MCTV stations in Northern Ontario in 1984, and shot in Sudbury; however, as a resident of Ottawa, Pinel found travelling to Sudbury on a regular basis to film the show difficult to reconcile with raising her children, so after a single season it went on hiatus before production was relaunched on Ottawa's CJOH-TV in 1987.
The puppet character, an English-speaking dog named Fergus, was played by Jon Park-Wheeler. There was also a clown named Samuel, played by Suzanne Lalonde, who spoke with sign language for the hearing impaired.
The series was also later broadcast in reruns on YTV.
References
1984 Canadian television series debuts
1980s Canadian children's television series
1990s Canadian children's television series
1980s preschool education television series
1990s preschool education television series
CTV Television Network original programming
French-language media in Ontario
Sign language television shows
Television series by Bell Media
Television shows filmed in Greater Sudbury
Television shows filmed in Ottawa
French-language education in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS%20Wisconsin
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PBS Wisconsin (formerly Wisconsin Public Television or WPT) is a state network of non-commercial educational television stations operated primarily by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It comprises all of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member stations in the state outside of Milwaukee (which has its own PBS stations.)
The state network is available via flagship station WHA-TV in Madison and five full-power satellite stations throughout most of Wisconsin. As of April 5, 2009, all stations have converted to digital-only transmissions. PBS Wisconsin is also available on most satellite and cable television outlets. WHA-TV, along with Chicago, Illinois-based public television station WTTW-TV, serve the Rockford, Illinois television market exclusively through cable television and satellite television, as Rockford is one of a few television markets in the United States that lacks a PBS station of its own.
Until the gradual move of instructional broadcasting to IPTV services, the network, as Wisconsin Public Television, was the main conduit of educational television, GED preparation and instructional television programming produced by the WECB, which aired through PBS, Annenberg Media, those stations serving portions of Wisconsin without a WPT station, and other educational television distributors. As of October 2014, the WECB now distributes this programming exclusively online, allowing the over-the-air network to carry PBS programming full-time.
History
WHA-TV signed on the air on May 3, 1954 as the first educational station in Wisconsin and the seventh in the United States. WHA-TV is the only public television station in the country that maintains a three-letter callsign, and one of only three analog-era UHF stations altogether (along with WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and WWJ-TV in Detroit) with a three-letter callsign.
Wisconsin was a relative latecomer to educational television, despite its earlier leading role in educational radio. Channel 21's radio sister, WHA-AM, is one of the oldest educational radio stations in the world. By the time channel 21 signed on, UW had already launched a radio network that evolved into today's Wisconsin Public Radio. However, for most of the time from the 1950s through the 1970s, it was one of only three stations in the state that was a member of National Educational Television and its successor, PBS. The others were WMVS (channel 10) and WMVT (channel 36) in Milwaukee. The only other areas of the state outside of Milwaukee and Madison that had a clear signal from an NET/PBS member station were the northwest (from Duluth, Minnesota's WDSE-TV) and the southwest (from the Twin Cities's KTCA-TV). During the late 60s and into the early 70s, commercial station KFIZ-TV in Fond du Lac was contracted by the UW-Madison Board of Regents to simulcast portions of WHA-TV's broadcast day, bringing WHA's programming into the Green Bay and Milwaukee markets.
In
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%20Tales
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is a Japanese anime television series animated by Tōkyō Kids. The series was broadcast by the anime television network, Animax across its respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, East Asia and South Asia, in English and other languages.
The series was licensed for distribution by Bandai Entertainment in North America.
Plot
The main character, Gorō Mutsumi, has no luck at all, not with jobs, nor with his schooling, and especially not with women. That is until the day he meets a fortune teller who informs him that he will have a fateful encounter and adds a spell to his cell phone that allows his guardian angels to appear to him. Gorō does not believe her and walks away as he remembers all of his previous times of bad luck with women.
It is then seen that he meets three girls who are waiting for him as he is bathing. They say they are now his guardian angels, sent to earth from the spirit realm. They are the first three of his twelve beloved pets who had died due to Gorō's poor luck, returning to him on earth. He does not find out they are his pets at first.
Soon more of his former pets return to him as guardian angels, and each desires to be his favorite. They also have fears from their past lives that they must overcome, and they must learn to live with each other. It is the only way they will stand a chance of helping Gorō turn his life around.
These girls however are not the only ones on earth; because of Gorō's own past life, there are strange people out there trying to put a stop to these girls turning his luck around. For their own reasons, these people fear Gorō and desire him out of the way. As the story progresses the girls learn they must protect Gorō not only from his own bad luck but from these other people, without fully understanding either who they are or why they want to harm their beloved master.
Characters
Gorō is the protagonist of the anime, and until the second season he is still the protagonist, he works as if he is working as the sage. In a past life, Gorō was the sage named Seijya, "not human nor animal two supreme beings that are tied together", who stole the divine powers of the Four Saint Beasts; the Fang of the Blue Dragon (sword), the Wings of the Red Phoenix (wings), the Shell of the Black Turtle (shield) and the Armour of the White Tiger (skin) and sealed the Beasts away for centuries in order to prevent the impending destruction of the humans and, in his next life, to create a new world where humans and animals can live as equals with the Saint Beasts help.
In Season 2 Gorō Mutsumi became veterinarian and takes care of all animals confined. He then encountered failure in his job, but still, he continued to work for himself and his angels.
Guardian angels
The titular guardian angels are reincarnations of Gorō's beloved childhood pets who are modeled after girls whom Gorō had been friends with as a child. Each of the pets died in an unfortunate accident, but was reincarnated as one of Gorō's
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Alan Trautwig (born February 26, 1956) is a sports commentator who worked with MSG Network, ABC, NBC, NBC Sports Network, and USA Network. He most recently did pre-game and post-game shows for the New York Knicks and New York Rangers, as well as fill-in play-by-play for both teams.
Biography
Early life
Trautwig was a stick boy for the New York Islanders in their early days in the NHL and a ball boy for the New York Nets when they played in the ABA. Both teams used the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York for their home games. He graduated from H. Frank Carey Junior-Senior High School, in Franklin Square, NY. As a 22-year-old recent college graduate, Trautwig called New York Apollo soccer games on WBAU 90.3 FM, a student-run radio station on Long Island.
Broadcasting career
In the 1980s, Trautwig hosted USA Network's coverage of the National Hockey League; one off-beat feature that he did was to interview a water fountain. He also occasionally would do the sponsor plugs for WWF shows that would air on the USA Network in the mid-'80s. He occasionally guest hosted the NHL on Versus studio program Hockey Central. He also anchored several MISL games from 1978 to 1992. In the late 1980s, Trautwig hosted SportsNite for ABC Sports, leading former network personality Howard Cosell to quip to The Washington Posts Norman Chad, "I don't even know, as God is my witness, or have ever even heard of an Al Trautwig."
Trautwig was one of the original hosts for Classic Sports Network when it was founded in 1996.
The 2000 New York Sportscaster of the Year, Trautwig has covered the last eight Olympic games, and has won New York Sports Emmys for his coverage of the Yankees, Knicks, and Rangers. From 1991 to 2001, Al was host of the New York Yankees' pre- and post-game shows on MSG Network, and also was in the booth for a few innings per game. In 2006, he hosted the new MSG show called Al Trautwig's MSG Vault, which featured vintage and sometimes discovered lost footage of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
At the beginning of the 2006 football season Trautwig became a radio host as well, hosting the radio version of NBC's Football Night in America for Westwood One, which co-produces the show (called NBC NFL Sunday''') with the network. However, Trautwig left the show in the middle of the season.
After taking an abrupt leave of absence in September 2019 Trautwig's contract was not renewed after taking some time off when he appeared in a November 2019 broadcast and viewers noted he looked unwell.
He also hosted NBC's coverage of the Ford Ironman World Championship, Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 and ING New York City Marathon.
Auto racing, cycling and tennis commentary
He was a television pit reporter alongside Jim McKay for ABC Sports' coverage of the 1986-1987 Indianapolis 500.
He has co-anchored coverage of the Tour de France (from 2004 to 2007 on Versus (formerly OLN) and in the 1980s for ABC), the O
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Various software package metrics are used in modular programming. They have been mentioned by Robert Cecil Martin in his 2002 book Agile software development: principles, patterns, and practices.
The term software package here refers to a group of related classes in object-oriented programming.
Number of classes and interfaces: The number of concrete and abstract classes (and interfaces) in the package is an indicator of the extensibility of the package.
Afferent couplings (Ca): The number of classes in other packages that depend upon classes within the package is an indicator of the package's responsibility. Afferent couplings signal inward.
Efferent couplings (Ce): The number of classes in other packages that the classes in a package depend upon is an indicator of the package's dependence on externalities. Efferent couplings signal outward.
Abstractness (A): The ratio of the number of abstract classes (and interfaces) in the analyzed package to the total number of classes in the analyzed package. The range for this metric is 0 to 1, with A=0 indicating a completely concrete package and A=1 indicating a completely abstract package.
Instability (I): The ratio of efferent coupling (Ce) to total coupling (Ce + Ca) such that I = Ce / (Ce + Ca). This metric is an indicator of the package's resilience to change. The range for this metric is 0 to 1, with I=0 indicating a completely stable package and I=1 indicating a completely unstable package.
Distance from the main sequence (D): The perpendicular distance of a package from the idealized line A + I = 1. D is calculated as D = | A + I - 1 |. This metric is an indicator of the package's balance between abstractness and stability. A package squarely on the main sequence is optimally balanced with respect to its abstractness and stability. Ideal packages are either completely abstract and stable (I=0, A=1) or completely concrete and unstable (I=1, A=0). The range for this metric is 0 to 1, with D=0 indicating a package that is coincident with the main sequence and D=1 indicating a package that is as far from the main sequence as possible.
Package dependency cycles: Package dependency cycles are reported along with the hierarchical paths of packages participating in package dependency cycles.
See also
Dependency inversion principle – a method to reduce coupling (Martin 2002:127).
References
External links
OO Metrics tutorial explains package metrics with examples, but gets the Instability index wrong; see page 262 of Martin's Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices. Pearson Education. .
Software metrics
Object-oriented programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Fire
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Sun Fire is a series of server computers introduced in 2001 by Sun Microsystems (since 2010, part of Oracle Corporation). The Sun Fire branding coincided with the introduction of the UltraSPARC III processor, superseding the UltraSPARC II-based Sun Enterprise series. In 2003, Sun broadened the Sun Fire brand, introducing Sun Fire servers using the Intel Xeon processor. In 2004, these early Intel Xeon models were superseded by models powered by AMD Opteron processors. Also in 2004, Sun introduced Sun Fire servers powered by the UltraSPARC IV dual-core processor. In 2007, Sun again introduced Intel Xeon Sun Fire servers, while continuing to offer the AMD Opteron versions as well.
SPARC-based Sun Fire systems were produced until 2010, while x86-64 based machines were marketed until mid-2012. In mid-2012, Oracle Corporation ceased to use the Sun Fire brand for new server models.
Operating systems
UltraSPARC-based Sun Fire models are licensed to run the Solaris operating system versions 8, 9, and 10. Although not officially supported, some Linux versions are also available from third parties, as well as OpenBSD and NetBSD.
Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron based Sun Fire servers support Solaris 9 and 10, OpenBSD, Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 - 6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 .
Model nomenclature
Later Sun Fire model numbers have prefixes indicating the type of system, thus:
V: entry level and mid-range rackmount and cabinet servers (UltraSPARC, IA-32 or AMD64)
E: high-end enterprise class cabinet servers with high-availability features (UltraSPARC)
B: blade servers (UltraSPARC or IA-32)
X: rackmount x86-64 based servers
T: entry level and mid-range rackmount servers based on UltraSPARC T-series CoolThreads processors
When Sun offered Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Sun Fire servers under the V-Series sub brand, Sun used an x suffix to denote Intel Xeon processor based systems and a z suffix for AMD Opteron processor based systems, but this convention was later dropped. The z suffix was also used previously to differentiate the V880z Visualization Server variant of the V880 server.
Sun's first-generation blade server platform, the Sun Fire B1600 chassis and associated blade servers, was branded under the Sun Fire server brand. Later Sun blade systems were sold under the Sun Blade brand.
In 2007, Sun, Fujitsu and Fujitsu Siemens introduced the common SPARC Enterprise brand for server products. The first SPARC Enterprise models were the Fujitsu-developed successors to the midrange and high-end Sun Fire E-series. In addition, the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers were rebranded as the SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 and sold under the Fujitsu brands, although Sun continued to offer these with their original names. Later T-series servers have also been badged SPARC Enterprise rather than Sun Fire.
Since late 2010, Oracle Corporation no longer uses Sun Fire brand for their current T se
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Blade%20%28workstation%29
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The Sun Blade series is a computer workstation line based on the UltraSPARC microprocessor family, developed and sold by Sun Microsystems from 2000 to 2006. The range replaced the earlier Sun Ultra workstation series.
The Sun Blade 1000, introduced in October 2000, was the first system to use Fireplane as the interconnect between its single or dual processors and the I/O subsystem, a few months ahead of its use in the new Sun Fire server product line.
The 1500/2500 series came in two variants, the earlier "red" series, and the later "silver" series. The "silver" series were enhanced versions of the "red" series - a faster CPU being the key differentiator.
The Sun Blade series was supplanted by the Sun Java Workstation line in 2004.
The product line's name was not a reference to "blade server" systems, a term not yet in common use in 2000. In 2006, Sun did introduce an unrelated "Sun Blade" blade server product line.
Models
External links
Oracle Legacy Product Documentation: Workstations
Sun System Handbook, v2.1
Sun workstations
SPARC microprocessor products
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Data%20Access%20Components
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Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC; also known as Windows DAC) is a framework of interrelated Microsoft technologies that allows programmers a uniform and comprehensive way of developing applications that can access almost any data store. Its components include: ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), OLE DB, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). There have been several deprecated components as well, such as the Jet Database Engine, MSDASQL (the OLE DB provider for ODBC), and Remote Data Services (RDS). Some components have also become obsolete, such as the former Data Access Objects API and Remote Data Objects.
The first version of MDAC was released in August 1996. At that time Microsoft stated MDAC was more a concept than a stand-alone program and had no widespread distribution method. Later Microsoft released upgrades to MDAC as web-based redistributable packages. Eventually, later versions were integrated with Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, and in MDAC 2.8 SP1 they ceased offering MDAC as a redistributable package.
Throughout its history, MDAC has been the subject of several security flaws, which led to attacks such as an escalated privileges attack, although the vulnerabilities were generally fixed in later versions and fairly promptly. The current version is 2.8 service pack 1, but the product has had many different versions and many of its components have been deprecated and replaced by newer Microsoft technologies. MDAC is now known as Windows DAC in Windows Vista.
Architecture
The latest version of MDAC (2.8) consists of several interacting components, all of which are Windows specific except for ODBC (which is available on several platforms). MDAC architecture may be viewed as three layers: a programming interface layer, consisting of ADO and ADO.NET, a database access layer developed by database vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft (OLE DB, .NET managed providers and ODBC drivers), and the database itself. These component layers are all made available to applications through the MDAC API. The Microsoft SQL Server Network Library, a proprietary access method specific to Microsoft SQL Server, is also included in the MDAC. Developers of Windows applications are encouraged to use ADO or ADO.NET for data access, the benefit being that users of the application program are not constrained in their choice of database architecture except that it should be supported by MDAC. Naturally, developers still have the choice of writing applications which directly access OLE DB and ODBC.
Microsoft SQL Server Network Library
The Microsoft SQL Server Network Library (also known as Net-Lib) is used by the Microsoft SQL Server to read and write data using many different network protocols. Though Net-Lib is specific to the SQL Server, Microsoft includes it with MDAC. The SQL Server uses the Open Data Services (ODS) library to communicate with Net-Lib, which interfaces directly with the Windows NT operating system line's Win32 subsystem. The SQL Server
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL-92
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SQL-92 was the third revision of the SQL database query language. Unlike SQL-89, it was a major revision of the standard. Aside from a few minor incompatibilities, the SQL-89 standard is forward-compatible with SQL-92.
The standard specification itself grew about five times compared to SQL-89. Much of it was due to more precise specifications of existing features; the increase due to new features was only by a factor of 1.5–2. Many of the new features had already been implemented by vendors before the new standard was adopted. However, most of the new features were added to the "intermediate" and "full" tiers of the specification, meaning that conformance with SQL-92 entry level was scarcely any more demanding than conformance with SQL-89.
Later revisions of the standard include SQL:1999 (SQL3), SQL:2003, SQL:2008, SQL:2011, SQL:2016 and SQL:2023.
New features
Significant new features include:
New data types defined: DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL, BIT string, VARCHAR strings, and NATIONAL CHARACTER strings.
Support for additional character sets beyond the base requirement for representing SQL statements.
New scalar operations such as string concatenation and substring extraction, date and time mathematics, and conditional statements.
New set operations such as UNION JOIN, NATURAL JOIN, set differences, and set intersections.
Conditional expressions with CASE. For an example, see Case (SQL).
Support for alterations of schema definitions via ALTER and DROP.
Bindings for C, Ada, and MUMPS.
New features for user privileges.
New integrity-checking functionality such as within a CHECK constraint.
A new information schema—read-only views about database metadata like what tables it contains, etc. For example, SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES;.
Dynamic execution of queries (as opposed to prepared).
Better support for remote database access.
Temporary tables; CREATE TEMP TABLE etc.
Transaction isolation levels.
New operations for changing data types on the fly via CAST (expr AS type).
Scrolled cursors.
Compatibility flagging for backwards and forwards compatibility with other SQL standards.
Extensions
Two significant extensions were published after standard (but before the next major iteration.)
SQL/CLI (Call Level Interface) in 1995
SQL/PSM (stored procedures) in 1996
References
External links
The SQL-92 standard
Declarative programming languages
Programming languages created in 1992
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20configurations%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29
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This page shows the electron configurations of the neutral gaseous atoms in their ground states. For each atom the subshells are given first in concise form, then with all subshells written out, followed by the number of electrons per shell. Electron configurations of elements beyond hassium (element 108) have never been measured; predictions are used below.
As an approximate rule, electron configurations are given by the Aufbau principle and the Madelung rule. However there are numerous exceptions; for example the lightest exception is chromium, which would be predicted to have the configuration , written as , but whose actual configuration given in the table below is .
Note that these electron configurations are given for neutral atoms in the gas phase, which are not the same as the electron configurations for the same atoms in chemical environments. In many cases, multiple configurations are within a small range of energies and the irregularities shown below do not necessarily have a clear relation to chemical behaviour. For the undiscovered eighth-row elements, mixing of configurations is expected to be very important, and sometimes the result can no longer be well-described by a single configuration.
See also
Extended periodic table#Electron configurations – Predictions for undiscovered elements 119–173 and 184
References
All sources concur with the data above except in the instances listed separately:
NIST
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/IonEnergy/ionEnergy.html ; retrieved July 2005, (elements 1–104) based on:
Atomic Spectroscopy, by W.C. Martin and W.L. Wiese in Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics Handbook, ed. by G.W.F. Drake (AIP, Woodbury, NY, 1996) Chapter 10, pp. 135–153.
This website is also cited in the CRC Handbook as source of Section 1, subsection Electron Configuration of Neutral Atoms in the Ground State.
91 Pa : [Rn] 5f2(3H4) 6d 7s2
92 U : [Rn] 5f3(4Io9/2) 6d 7s2
93 Np : [Rn] 5f4(5I4) 6d 7s2
103 Lr : [Rn] 5f14 7s2 7p1 question-marked
104 Rf : [Rn] 5f14 6d2 7s2 question-marked
CRC
David R. Lide (ed), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th Edition, online version. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida, 2003; Section 1, Basic Constants, Units, and Conversion Factors; Electron Configuration of Neutral Atoms in the Ground State. (elements 1–104)
Also subsection Periodic Table of the Elements, (elements 1–103) based on:
G. J. Leigh, Editor, Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1990.
Chemical and Engineering News, 63(5), 27, 1985.
Atomic Weights of the Elements, 1999, Pure Appl. Chem., 73, 667, 2001.
WebElements
http://www.webelements.com/ ; retrieved July 2005, electron configurations based on:
Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics Handbook, Ed. Gordon W. F. Drake, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, New York, 1996.
J.E. Huheey, E.A. Keiter, and R.L. Keiter in Inorganic Chemistry : Principles of Structure and Reactivity, 4th edition, Harper Collins, New York, 1993.
R.L. DeK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN%20%28TV%20channel%29
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CGTN is the English-language news channel of China Global Television Network, based in Beijing, China. It is one of several channels provided by China Global Television Network, the international division of Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), under the control of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
CCTV-9 was launched on 25 September 2000, rebranded as CCTV News on 26 April 2010. On 6 February 2012, CGTN America. On 8 October 2019, CGTN Europe was launched, with a schedule of daily programming originating from a production center in Washington, D.C. On 11 January 2012, CCTV Africa was launched in Nairobi, Kenya. All channels and divisions in the CCTV International group were rebranded as CGTN on 31 December 2016.
CGTN currently has four studios: Beijing (headquarters), Nairobi, Washington and London as well as 70 bureaux around the world.
History
CCTV began considering English-language international news programming on 1 January 1979, at the start of the Chinese economic reform period. English news bulletins began on CCTV-2 in 1986 and became available to overseas viewers when they moved to CCTV-4 in February 1991. CCTV-9 began broadcasting across China on 25 September 2000, becoming the country's first all-English television station.
On 1 January 2003, CCTV-9 entered the United States cable market, as part of a deal that allowed AOL, Time Warner, and News Corporation access to cable systems in Guangdong. In its early years, CCTV-9 broadcast English language news bulletins and cultural interest shows for most of each day, and aired mostly reruns during the overnight hours in China. One of its biggest projects was covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Until 26 April 2010, CCTV-9 was a mixed general interest channel featuring news, travel programming, and language training. On that date it was rebranded as CCTV News, a 24-hour English-language news service.
Relaunch
The channel name of CCTV-9 was changed to CCTV News on 26 April 2010. Some shows were rebranded while other new programs were added. The English website is managed by China Network Television (CNTV), a web streaming service of CCTV. On 1 January 2011, the channel's former name CCTV-9 was taken over by CCTV's two documentary channels.
CGTN
On 31 December 2016, the channel was rebranded again as CGTN, and new programs debuted, with the first being Global Watch, anchored by Rachael Ruble.
Ofcom license revocation
On 4 February 2021, Ofcom withdrew CGTN's UK broadcaster license. Ofcom concluded a company called Star China Media Limited held the broadcast license for CGTN but "did not have editorial responsibility", and thus it did not meet legal requirements. The programming is claimed to be controlled by a company called China Global Television Network Corporation. The regulator said it was unable to transfer the license to that company because it is "ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, which is not permitted un
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem%20solving%20environment
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A problem solving environment (PSE) is a completed, integrated and specialised computer software for solving one class of problems, combining automated problem-solving methods with human-oriented tools for guiding the problem resolution. A PSE may also assist users in formulating problem resolution. A PSE may also assist users in formulating problems, selecting algorithm, simulating numerical value and viewing and analysing results.
Purpose of PSE
Many PSEs were introduced in the 1990s. They use the language of the respective field and often employ modern graphical user interfaces. The goal is to make the software easy to use for specialists in fields other than computer science. PSEs are available for generic problems like data visualization or large systems of equations and for narrow fields of science or engineering like gas turbine design.
History
The Problem Solving Environment (PSE) released a few years after the release of Fortran and Algol 60. People thought that this system with high-level language would cause elimination of professional programmers. However, surprisingly, PSE has been accepted and even though scientists used it to write programs.
The Problem Solving Environment for Parallel Scientific Computation was introduced in 1960, where this was the first Organised Collections with minor standardisation. In 1970, PSE was initially researched for providing high-class programming language rather than Fortran, also Libraries Plotting Packages advent. Development of Libraries were continued, and there were introduction of Emergence of Computational Packages and Graphical systems which is data visualisation. By 1990s, hypertext, point-and-click had moved towards inter-operability. Moving on, a "Software Parts" Industry finally existed.
Throughout a few decades, recently, many PSEs have been developed and to solve problem and also support users from different categories, including education, general programming, CSE software learning, job executing and Grid/Cloud computing.
Examples of PSE
Grid-Based Numerical Optimisation
The shell software GOSPEL is an example of how a PSE can be designed for EHL modelling using a Grid resource. With the PSE, one can visualise the optimisation progress, as well as interact with other simulations.
The PSE parallelise and embed many individual numerical calculations in an industrial serial optimisation code. It is built in NAG's IRIS Explorer package to solve EHL and Parallelism problems and can use the gViz libraries, to run all the communication between the PSE and the simulation. It also uses MPI — part of the NAG libraries — which gives significantly quicker and better solutions by combining the maximum levels of continuation.
Moreover, the system is designed to allow users to steer simulations using visualised output. An example is utilising local minima, or layering additional details when around a local in and out of the simulation and it can imagine the information which is produced
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilayer%20perceptron
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A multilayer perceptron (MLP) is a misnomer for a modern feedforward artificial neural network, consisting of fully connected neurons with a nonlinear kind of activation function, organized in at least three layers, notable for being able to distinguish data that is not linearly separable. It is a misnomer because the original perceptron used a Heaviside step function, instead of a nonlinear kind of activation function (used by modern networks).
Modern feedforward networks are trained using the backpropagation method and are colloquially referred to as the "vanilla" neural networks.
Timeline
In 1958, a layered network of perceptrons, consisting of an input layer, a hidden layer with randomized weights that did not learn, and an output layer with learning connections, was introduced already by Frank Rosenblatt in his book Perceptron. This extreme learning machine was not yet a deep learning network.
In 1965, the first deep-learning feedforward network, not yet using stochastic gradient descent, was published by Alexey Grigorevich Ivakhnenko and Valentin Lapa, at the time called the Group Method of Data Handling.
In 1967, a deep-learning network, which used stochastic gradient descent for the first time, able to classify non-linearily separable pattern classes, was published by Shun'ichi Amari. Amari's student Saito conducted the computer experiments, using a five-layered feedforward network with two learning layers.
In 1970, modern backpropagation method, an efficient application of a chain-rule-based supervised learning, was for the first time published by the Finnish researcher Seppo Linnainmaa. The term (i.e. "back-propagating errors") itself has been used by Rosenblatt himself, but he did not know how to implement it, although a continuous precursor of backpropagation was already used in the context of control theory in 1960 by Henry J. Kelley. It is known also as a reverse mode of automatic differentiation.
In 1982, backpropagation was applied in the way that has become standard, for the first time by Paul Werbos.
In 1985, an experimental analysis of the technique was conducted by David E. Rumelhart et al.. Many improvements to the approach have been made in subsequent decades,.
In 1990s, an (much simpler) alternative to using neural networks, although still related support vector machine approach was developed by Vladimir Vapnik and his colleagues. In addition to performing linear classification, they were able to efficiently perform a non-linear classification using what is called the kernel trick, using high-dimensional feature spaces.
In 2003, interest in backpropagation networks returned due to the successes of deep learning being applied to language modelling by Yoshua Bengio with co-authors.
In 2017, modern transformer architectures has been introduced.
In 2021, a very simple NN architecture combining two deep MLPs with skip connections and layer normalizations was designed and called MLP-Mixer; its realizati
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20code%20keying
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Complementary code keying (CCK) is a modulation scheme used with wireless networks (WLANs) that employ the IEEE 802.11b specification. In 1999, CCK was adopted to supplement the Barker code in wireless digital networks to achieve data rate higher than 2 Mbit/s at the expense of shorter distance. This is due to the shorter chipping sequence in CCK (8 bits versus 11 bits in Barker code) that means less spreading to obtain higher data rate but more susceptible to narrowband interference resulting in shorter radio transmission range. Beside shorter chipping sequence, CCK also has more chipping sequences to encode more bits (4 chipping sequences at 5.5 Mbit/s and 8 chipping sequences at 11 Mbit/s) increasing the data rate even further. The Barker code, however, only has a single chipping sequence.
The complementary codes first discussed by Golay were pairs of binary complementary codes and he noted that when the elements of a code of length N were either [−1 or 1] it followed immediately from their definition that the sum of their respective autocorrelation sequences was zero at all points except for the zero shift where it is equal to K×N. (K being the number of code words in the set).
CCK is a variation and improvement on M-ary Orthogonal Keying and uses 'polyphase complementary codes'. They were developed by Lucent Technologies and Harris Semiconductor and were adopted by the 802.11 working group in 1998. CCK is the form of modulation used when 802.11b operates at either 5.5 or 11 Mbit/s. CCK was selected over competing modulation techniques as it used approximately the same bandwidth and could use the same preamble and header as pre-existing 1 and 2 Mbit/s wireless networks and thus facilitated interoperability.
Polyphase complementary codes, first proposed by Sivaswamy, 1978, are codes where each element is a complex number of unit magnitude and arbitrary phase, or more specifically for 802.11b is one of [1, −1, j, −j].
Networks using the 802.11g specification employ CCK when operating at 802.11b speeds.
Mathematical description
The CCK modulation used by 802.11b transmits data in symbols of eight chips, where each chip is a complex QPSK bit-pair at a chip rate of 11Mchip/s. In 5.5 Mbit/s and 11 Mbit/s modes respectively 4 and 8 bits are modulated onto the eight chips of the symbol c0,...,c7, where
and are determined by the bits being modulated.
In other words, the phase change is applied to every chip, is applied to all even code chips (starting with ), is applied to the first two of every four chips, and is applied to the first four of the eight chips. Therefore, it can also be viewed as a form of generalized Hadamard transform encoding.
References
IEEE Std 802.11b-1999, §18.4.6.5
Quantized radio modulation modes
Wireless networking
IEEE 802.11
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUNREDES
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FUNREDES (acronym in Spanish for Fundación-Redes-y-Desarrollo, or Networks-and-Development-Foundation) was a non-governmental organization based in the Dominican Republic and dedicated to the dissemination of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.
It did so in collaboration with international organizations, NGOs, the States, administrations, and public or private institutions, with the objective of contributing to regional development and integration.
Since the early 1990s, FUNREDES's position has been that: "Internet for Development" is not about plugging and playing, chatting and surfing, getting information abroad, converging to one language, one culture and one market. On the contrary, it is more about empowering people and communities, collaborating and social networking, producing local content, and facilitating a diversity of languages, cultures and opinions.
Its goal is communication above technology not the contrary.''"
A pioneer ICT4D organization since 1988, FUNREDES was a member of APC since 2006.
The main area of activities of FUNREDES included:
- Creating national networks for research and civil society
- Linguistic diversity in the Internet
- Social impact of the Internet
- Virtual communities
- Digital literacy and information ethics
FUNREDES ended its existence as an NGO in May 2017, however, the program named Observatory of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet is maintained and gained independent formal existence in 2021, maintaining on line also the Funredes site.
External links
Funredes.org, with links to site in Spanish, English and French
Observatory of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet, in Spanish, English and French
Organizations based in the Dominican Republic
Information technology organizations based in the Caribbean
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20a%20Train
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Death of a Train is a crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, published in 1946.
Synopsis
Set during World War II, a network of German secret agents plans to derail a train carrying vital war supplies. Due to a delay another train is derailed instead, the intended one then being diverted safely round the blockage. Inspector French tracks down the conspirators, nearly losing his life in a heroic final action to prevent their escape.
1946 British novels
Novels by Freeman Wills Crofts
Novels set during World War II
Novels about rail transport
Hodder & Stoughton books
British detective novels
British spy novels
British thriller novels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Filipino%20Channel
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The Filipino Channel, commonly known as TFC, is a global subscription television network owned and operated by the Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. Its programming is composed primarily of imported programs produced and distributed by ABS-CBN Entertainment and ABS-CBN News, targeting the Filipino diaspora. Available globally on various television platforms, TFC launched on September 24, 1994, and was the world's first trans-Pacific Asian broadcaster.
As of 2016, The Filipino Channel has over three million filipino subscribers worldwide in over 40 countries across 4 continents, most of whom are in the United States, Guam, Saipan, Middle East, Macau, Europe, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Colombia, Australia, France, Taiwan, Alaska State, Paraguay, Canada, Hawaii, Chile, Uruguay, Italy, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Croatia, Tajikistan, Thailand, India, Singapore and Malaysia.
History
While TFC traces its origins to 1994, the idea of broadcasting television programming via satellite to the millions of the Filipino diaspora everywhere in the world was an idea that the then ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (now ABS-CBN Corporation) took in the late 1980s, just as it began its road of reconstruction after the infamous years of Martial Law and the post-EDSA People Power era. In 1989, the network finally made the bold step to begin transmission of its own programs via satellite to Filipinos abroad broadcast to the Northern Mariana Islands, especially to the Filipino families living in Guam and Saipan, making it the first ever Philippine television network to broadcast to viewers outside the country via satellite.
On September 24, 1994, ABS-CBN, through its newly established subsidiary ABS-CBN International, signed a historic deal with the PanAmSat to bring the first trans-Pacific Asian programming service to some two million Filipino immigrants in the United States using the then-newly launched PAS 2 satellite. The following day, TFC was officially launched, first as a cable only network serving millions of Filipino Americans countrywide.
The first headquarters of TFC was built in a garage in Daly City, California with only eight employees doing all the tasks from managing the phones, the computers, and the like. By 1995, TFC has grown to 25,000 subscribers in the United States. Airings of Mara Clara and other programming aired during the daytime and night in 1997 Esperanza and Mula Sa Puso where the biggest programs on TFC
By 2004, TFC has grown to 250,000 subscribers in the United States. This growth led to the expansion of TFC to other territories in the world.
In 2005, ABS-CBN International signed an affiliation agreement with DirecTV, one of the leading DTH providers in the United States. Under the deal, DirecTV has the exclusive right to distribute the TFC package on its DTH platform. In return, DirecTV will pay license fees to ABS-CBN and to ABS-CBN International. Later that ye
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20de%20Casteljau
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Paul de Casteljau (19 November 1930 – 24 March 2022) was a French physicist and mathematician. In 1959, while working at Citroën, he developed an algorithm for evaluating calculations on a certain family of curves, which would later be formalized and popularized by engineer Pierre Bézier, leading to the curves widely known as Bézier curves.
He studied at École Normale Supérieure, and worked at Citroën from 1958 until his retirement in 1992. When he arrived there, "Specialists admitted that all electrical, electronic and mechanical problems had more or less been solved. All—except for one single formality which made up for 5%, but certainly not for 20% of the problem; in other words, how to express component parts by equations." He continued publishing in retirement.
De Casteljau curves
De Casteljau's algorithm is widely used, with some modifications, as it is the most robust and numerically stable method for evaluating polynomials. Other methods, such as Horner's method and forward differencing, are faster for calculating single points but are less robust. De Casteljau's algorithm is still very fast for subdividing a De Casteljau curve or Bézier curve into two curve segments at an arbitrary parametric location.
Awards
Paul de Casteljau received the 1987 Seymour Cray Prize from the French National Center for Scientific Research, the 1993 John Gregory Memorial Award, and the 2012 Bézier Award from the Solid Modeling Association (SMA). The SMA's announcement highlights de Casteljau's eponymous algorithm:
Paul de Castlejau's contributions are less widely known than should be the case because he was not able to publish them until equivalent ideas had been reinvented independently by others, sometimes in a rather different form but now recognisably related. Because he was not permitted to publish his early work, we now call polynomials with a Bernstein basis "Bézier polynomials", although Bézier himself did not use control points but their first difference vectors as the coefficients. We also call the multilinear polynomials "blossoming", following Lyle Ramshaw who in turn credited de Casteljau with the underlying "polar approach" to the mathematical theory of splines. We do call the algorithm for the stable evaluation of the Bernstein-Bézier form for polynomials "de Casteljau algorithm" although it is Carl de Boor's more general result applying it to B-splines which is now widely used in CAD/CAM systems.
The SMA also quotes Pierre Bézier on de Casteljau's contributions:
There is no doubt that Citroën was the first company in France that paid attention to CAD, as early as 1958. Paul de Casteljau, a highly gifted mathematician, devised a system based on the use of Bernstein polynomials. ... the system devised by de Casteljau was oriented towards translating already existing shapes into patches, defined in terms of numerical data. ... Due to Citroën's policy, the results obtained by de Casteljau were not published until 1974, and this excellent m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards
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The 27th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 2000 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1999).
Winners in each category are in bold.
Outstanding Drama Series
All My Children
General Hospital
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Lead Actor
Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Eric Braeden (Victor Newman, The Young and the Restless)
David Canary (Adam Chandler/Stuart Chandler, All My Children)
Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, General Hospital)
Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan, One Life to Live)
Outstanding Lead Actress
Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless)
Susan Flannery (Stephanie Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Finola Hughes (Alex Devane, All My Children)
Hillary B. Smith (Nora Buchanan, One Life to Live)
Jess Walton (Jill Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actor
Steve Burton (Jason Morgan, General Hospital)
Timothy Gibbs (Kevin Buchanan, One Life to Live)
Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin, The Young and the Restless)
Shemar Moore (Malcolm Winters, The Young and the Restless)
Kristoff St. John (Neil Winters, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actress
Sarah Brown (Carly Quartermaine, General Hospital)
Sharon Case (Sharon Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Patrika Darbo (Nancy Wesley, Days of Our Lives)
Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis, General Hospital)
Tonya Lee Williams (Olivia Winters, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Younger Actor
Jensen Ackles (Eric Brady, Days of Our Lives)
Jonathan Jackson (Lucky Spencer, General Hospital)
Bryant Jones (Nate Hastings, The Young and the Restless)
David Lago (Raul Guittierez, The Young and the Restless)
Joshua Morrow (Nicholas Newman, The Young and the Restless)
David Tom (Billy Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Younger Actress
Adrienne Frantz (Amber Moore, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Camryn Grimes (Cassie Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Ashley Jones (Megan Dennison, The Young and the Restless)
Heather Tom (Victoria Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Erin Torpey (Jessica Buchanan, One Life to Live)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team
All My Children
The Bold and the Beautiful
General Hospital
Sunset Beach
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show
Hollywood Squares
Jeopardy!
The Price is Right
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Win Ben Stein's Money
Outstanding Game Show Host
Bob Barker, The Price is Right
Tom Bergeron, Hollywood Squares
Regis Philbin, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Pat Sajak, Wheel of Fortune
Alex Trebek, Jeopardy!
Outstanding Talk Show
Donny & Marie
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
The Martin Short Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The View
Outstanding Talk Show Host
Rosie O'Donnell, The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, Live with Regis and Kathie
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The 35th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 19 March 1993 at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne, and broadcast on Network Ten. The ceremony was hosted by Bert Newton and guests included John Spencer, Vanessa Williams, Tom Jones, Pamela Stephenson, Juliet Mills, Hayley Mills, Yahoo Serious and Dame Edna.
Nominees and winners
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Tom Jones and John Farnham
Hot Shoe Shuffle
Jean Kittson and Mary-Anne Fahey
Julie McGregor
Rachael Beck
Kelley Abbey
Todd McKenney
Nathan Cavaleri
Hall of Fame
After a lifetime in Australian television, Reg Grundy became the 10th inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
References
External links
1993
1993 television awards
1993 in Australian television
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The 22nd Daytime Emmy Awards were that were held on May 19, 1995, on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1994). The nominees were announced on March 29, 1995. Winners are in bold.
Outstanding Drama Series
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Lead Actor
Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
David Canary (Adam Chandler/Stuart Chandler, All My Children)
Justin Deas (Buzz Cooper, Guiding Light)
Brad Maule (Tony Jones, General Hospital)
Michael Zaslow (Roger Thorpe, Guiding Light)
Outstanding Lead Actress
Leslie Charleson (Monica Quartermaine, General Hospital)
Marj Dusay (Alexandra Spaulding, Guiding Light)
Maeve Kinkead (Vanessa Chamberlain, Guiding Light)
Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
Erika Slezak (Victoria Lord, One Life to Live)
Outstanding Supporting Actor
Keith Hamilton Cobb (Noah Keefer, All My Children)
Ian Buchanan (James Warwick, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding, Guiding Light)
Roger Howarth (Todd Manning, One Life to Live)
Jerry verDorn (Ross Marler, Guiding Light)
Outstanding Supporting Actress
Jean Carol (Nadine Corley, Guiding Light)
Melina Kanakaredes (Eleni Andros, Guiding Light)
Sydney Penny (Julia Santos, All My Children)
Rena Sofer (Lois Cerullo, General Hospital)
Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie Spencer, General Hospital)
Outstanding Younger Actor
Jason Biggs (Pete Wendall, As the World Turns)
Bryan Buffington (Bill Lewis, Guiding Light)
Jonathan Jackson (Lucky Spencer, General Hospital)
Tommy J. Michaels (Tim Dillon, All My Children)
Outstanding Younger Actress
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Kendall Hart, All My Children)
Kimberly McCullough (Robin Scorpio, General Hospital)
Rachel Miner (Michelle Bauer, Guiding Light)
Heather Tom (Victoria Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
All My Children
General Hospital
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team
All My Children
Another World
As the World Turns
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show
Jeopardy! (Columbia TriStar Television/KingWorld)
American Gladiators (Four Point Entertainment/Samuel Goldwyn TV)
Fourth Annual Rock N' Jock B-Ball Jam
The Price Is Right (Mark Goodson Productions/All American Television/Paramount Television/CBS)
Wheel of Fortune (Columbia TriStar Television/KingWorld)
Outstanding Game Show Host
Bob Barker (The Price Is Right)
Alex Trebek (Jeopardy!)
Outstanding Costume Design
Lois DeArmond (Adventures in Wonderland)
Ann Marie Holdgruen, Laurent Linn, Carlo Yannuzzi, Larry Jameson, Mark Ruffin, Terry Roberson, Stephen Rotondaro, Edward G. Christie, Rollin Krewson, William Kellard, Mark Zeszotek, Connie Peterson, Peter MacKennan, Fred Buchholz, Goran Sparrman, and Tom Newby (Sesame Street)
Danajean Cicerchi (Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?)
Lois DeArmond, and Betsey
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The 18th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, June 27, 1991, on CBS, to commemorate excellence in American daytime programming from the previous year (1990). The awards were hosted by The Price Is Right host Bob Barker. For the first time, they aired in the evening, from 9 to 11 p.m. EST.
Outstanding Drama Series
All My Children
As the World Turns
Guiding Light
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Lead Actor
Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
David Canary (Adam Chandler & Stuart Chandler, All My Children)
Nicolas Coster (Lionel Lockridge, Santa Barbara)
A Martinez (Cruz Castillo, Santa Barbara)
James Reynolds (Henry Marshall, Generations)
Outstanding Lead Actress
Julia Barr (Brooke English, All My Children)
Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless)
Elizabeth Hubbard (Lucinda Walsh, As the World Turns)
Finola Hughes (Anna Devane, General Hospital)
Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
Outstanding Supporting Actor
Bernie Barrow (Louie Slavinski, Loving)
William Christian (Derek Frye, All My Children)
Stuart Damon (Alan Quartermaine, General Hospital)
William Roerick (Henry Chamberlain, Guiding Light)
Kin Shriner (Scott Baldwin, General Hospital)
Jerry verDorn (Ross Marler, Guiding Light)
Outstanding Supporting Actress
Darlene Conley (Sally Spectra, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Maureen Garrett (Holly Reade, Guiding Light)
Jill Larson (Opal Cortlandt, All My Children)
Jess Walton (Jill Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Kathleen Widdoes (Emma Snyder, As the World Turns)
Outstanding Younger Actor
Bryan Buffington (Bill Lewis III, Guiding Light)
Justin Gocke (Brandon Capwell, Santa Barbara)
Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding, Guiding Light)
Andrew Kavovit (Paul Ryan, As the World Turns)
Kristoff St. John (Adam Marshall, Generations)
Outstanding Younger Actress
Tricia Cast (Nina Webster, The Young and the Restless)
Anne Heche (Marley Hudson & Vicky Hudson, Another World)
Kimberly McCullough (Robin Scorpio, General Hospital)
Ashley Peldon (Marah Lewis, Guiding Light)
Charlotte Ross (Eve Donovan, Days of Our Lives)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
All My Children
As the World Turns
Santa Barbara
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team
All My Children
Guiding Light
Santa Barbara
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Animated Program
Steven Spielberg, Tom Ruegger, Ken Boyer, Art Leonardi, Art Vitello, Paul Dini, and Sherri Stoner (Tiny Toon Adventures)
Howie Mandel, Tom Tataranowicz, Bernard Wolf, Jim Staahl, Jack Heiter, John Callas, Mitch Schauer, Jim Fisher, Diane Dixon, Michael Wolf, and Phil Roman (Bobby's World)
Cassandra Schafhausen, Nicholas Boxer, Andy Heyward, Larry Houston, Will Meugniot, Barbara Y.E. Pyle, Robby London, Thom Beers, Reed Shelly, Bruce Shelly, and Jim Duffy (Captain Planet and the Planeteers)
Michael C. Gross, Robby London, Andy Heyward, Joe Medjuck, Len Janson, Chuck Menville, Will Meugniot, and Stan Phillips (Slimer! And the Real
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The 34th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 13 March 1992 at the Radisson President Hotel in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Seven Network. The ceremony was hosted by Steve Vizard and guests included John Stamos, Dennis Waterman, Bob Hawke and Campbell McComas.
Winners
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Jana Wendt in A Current Affair (Nine Network)
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Actor
Winner:
Bruce Samazan in E Street (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actress
Winner:
Georgie Parker in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Actor in a Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner:
Cameron Daddo in Golden Fiddles (Nine Network)
Most Popular Actress in a Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner:
Josephine Byrnes in Brides of Christ (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Actor
Winner:
John McTernan in GP (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Actress
Winner:
Josephine Byrnes in Brides of Christ (ABC TV)
Most Popular Light Entertainment or Comedy Male Performer
Winner:
Steve Vizard in Fast Forward (Seven Network)
Most Popular Light Entertainment or Comedy Female Performer
Winner:
Magda Szubanski in Fast Forward (Seven Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner:
Kym Wilson in Brides of Christ (ABC TV)
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Popular Series
Winner:
E Street (Network Ten)
Most Popular Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner:
Brides of Christ (ABC TV)
Most Popular Light Entertainment or Comedy Program
Winner:
Fast Forward (Seven Network)
Most Popular Current Affairs Program
Winner:
A Current Affair (Nine Network)
Most Popular Lifestyle or Information Program
Winner:
Burke's Backyard (Nine Network)
Most Popular Sports Coverage
Winner:
Cricket (Nine Network)
Most Popular Children's Program
Winner:
Agro's Cartoon Connection (Seven Network)
Most Popular Music Video
Winner:
"When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" by Jimmy Barnes featuring John Farnham
Most Outstanding Programs
Most Outstanding Series
Winner:
GP (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner:
Brides of Christ (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Achievement in News
Winner:
"Coode Island Fires", National Nine News (Nine Network)
Most Outstanding Achievement in Public Affairs
Winner:
"The Soviet Union", Lateline (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Achievement by a Regional Station
Winner:
The Very Fast Train (WIN Television)
Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series
Winner:
The Time of Your Life (ABC TV)
Performers
Dannii Minogue
Matthew Krok
Ryan Clark
Naomi Tuckfield
Brooke Anderson
Nick Giannopoulos
Bruno Lucia
Cathy Godbold
Hall of Fame
After 40 years on Australian television, Four Corners became the ninth inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
Controversies during Logies night
The 1992 Logie Awards ended with a nightmare when A Current Affair host Jana Wendt was not present to accept her Gold Logie. Her absence was explained to be due to her requiring to stay in the Sydney-based studios after the end of A Current Affair for an extended period to be able
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During the late 1990s, United Paramount Network produced a number of television films branded "Blockbuster Shockwave Cinema," in conjunction with sponsor (and sister company) Blockbuster Video. Almost all were science fiction films, and likewise, their after-airing availability on home video was exclusive to Blockbuster stores. From UPN's inception until 2000, the network also offered a hosted movie series called the UPN Movie Trailer to their stations. The show featured mostly older Hollywood action and comedy films, often those made by Paramount Pictures. Movie Trailer was discontinued in 2000 to give stations that opted for them room for a second weekend run of Star Trek: Enterprise and America's Next Top Model (and later, Veronica Mars). There were also three Paramount-branded blocks on the company's owned-and-operated stations ("O&Os") only: Paramount Teleplex as the main brand for movies at any given timeslot, Paramount Prime Movie for primetime features, and the Paramount Late Movie on late nights.
This is a brief list of television films produced for UPN, an American broadcast television network:
References
UPN
Upn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20expression
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Lambda expression may refer to:
Lambda expression in computer programming, also called an anonymous function, is a defined function not bound to an identifier.
Lambda expression in lambda calculus, a formal system in mathematical logic and computer science for expressing computation by way of variable binding and substitution.
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The 33rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 15 March 1991 at the World Congress Centre in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Daryl Somers and guests included Angie Dickinson, Michael Ontkean and Peggy Lipton.
Nominees and winners
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Debra Byrne and the Super Band
Mark Williams
Electric Legs
Hall of Fame
After a lifetime in the Australian television industry, James Davern became the eighth inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
References
External links
1991 television awards
1991 in Australian television
1991
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Frying%20Game
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"The Frying Game" is the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 19, 2002. In the episode, after accidentally injuring an endangered caterpillar, Homer is sentenced to two weeks of community service. As part of his sentence, Homer delivers Meals on Wheels to an old woman called Mrs. Bellamy, who subtly guilt trips him, and later Marge, into becoming her personal servants. One day, the two find Mrs. Bellamy dead in her house, having been stabbed by a man with braces who quickly escapes the murder scene. Being the only ones present when the police arrive, Homer and Marge are soon suspected for the murder. The episode also features a "Snuh cascade", an homage to a group of Simpsons fans on Usenet.
"The Frying Game" was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Mike Frank Polcino. The screamapillar was conceived by the episode's writer, who pitched it to the other staff writers. It has since been described as a satire on the Endangered Species Act, a United States environmental law passed during the 1970s. The idea that Homer's execution was in fact part of a reality game show was conceived by former staff writer George Meyer. The episode features Frances Sternhagen as Mrs. Bellamy and Carmen Electra as herself. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 6.5 million viewers, finishing in 46th place in the ratings the week it aired.
Following its home video release, the episode received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
Homer gives Marge a koi pond for their anniversary, but an endangered "Screamapillar" takes refuge in the pond. Bound by law to care for it, Homer accidentally injures the loud, annoying larva while reading a bedtime story. For trying to bury the larva to cover up the injury, Homer is sentenced to two weeks of community service for "attempted insecticide and aggravated buggery".
Homer begins delivering Meals on Wheels to an elderly woman, Mrs. Bellamy, who takes a liking to him. She subtly guilt trips Homer, and later Marge, into becoming her personal servants. When Bellamy turns up dead, having been stabbed with a pair of scissors, Homer and Marge are the prime suspects in the murder, even though they witnessed a man with braces leaving the murder scene with Bellamy's necklace. The people of Springfield are very suspicious of Homer and Marge, and Chief Wiggum does not believe their story. Finally, during an inspection of the house, Maggie is found with Bellamy's necklace, and Wiggum arrests Homer and Marge. Bart, Lisa and Maggie are adopted by Cletus Spuckler, who decides to change their names to "Dingus Squatford Jr." and "Pamela E. Lee".
Despite not undergoing lie detector or DNA tests, both are sentenced to death by electric chair. In a bid to spare Marge, Homer confesses to the warden that he acted alone, and Marge is released. As Homer is sitting in the electric
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oid
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Oid or OID may refer to:
Oid, a 2005 album by Space Manoeuvres
Object identifier, an object used in computing to name an object
Oracle Internet Directory, a directory service produced by Oracle Corporation
OpenID, a shared identity service
Original issue discount, implicit interest on a discounted debt
See also
Ooid, sedimentary grains
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquility%20%28video%20game%29
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tranquility is a nonviolent musical platform game created in 1991 for Macintosh and Windows computers by musician William A. Romanowski. The game features generative algorithms that determine music and level layout based on the player's actions. For this reason, and due to its use of generated ambient music, the game's philosophy has been compared to that of Transcendentalism and the New Age Movement. According to the game's publishers, some players have reported immersion in the game to produce a dream-like experience during and after play. The game notably appeared first as a demo included with Silicon Graphics computers. It was updated and re-released as a commercial game 10 years later in 2001, with internet support architected by David Cook and Cookware Inc. This version of the game was supported for 10 years but a notice that the game was to be retired appeared on the website in 2010. As of now, the site is inaccessible. Although the game is still capable of playing local demo levels, starting with macOS Catalina, 32-bit apps were no longer compatible with macOS.
Detailed information about Tranquility and its history were published by William A. Romanowski in a 2007 pitch for social funding.
Gameplay
In tranquility, the player (from an abstract, first-person viewpoint) floats in a sea of starlit geometric structures called "platforms" in order to pass through targets called "spinners" (camouflaged star-shaped objects scattered at a density of one per room). The game's challenge is derived from the difficulty in locating the variously-placed "spinners" and as such the game may be compared to hide-and-seek. Level progression is nonlinear, and the game is intended to be self-paced, and self-directed. A number of in-game options allow players to control game speed and difficulty, including an auto-pilot button. The player controlled speed in an analog manner by pushing and pulling the mouse forwards and backwards, heading or direction by moving the mouse to each side, and gravity by clicking the left mouse button. Gravity was very gentle by default, a feature which has been regarded as an exception to the rule that platform games should not use first-person perspective, as it allowed players to land jumps without much difficulty.
Level advancement and scoring
Advancement through the game is accomplished by finding each spinner in all 3,087 rooms. Progression through the hierarchy of "realms," "ranks," "sets of rooms," and "rooms" results in incrementation of the player's "level." Thus, there are 21 realms in total, 7 ranks per realm (for a total of 147 realms), 3 sets of rooms per rank (for a total of 441 sets of rooms), and 7 rooms per set of rooms (for the full total of 3,087 rooms). Each room contains 1 spinner.
Completing each rank advances the player by 1 level, making for a total of 147 levels. Each rank and realm adds subtle complexity to game play by interactively evolving to correspond with the player's actions. This acts to enhan
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The 32nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 9 March 1990 at the Hyatt on Collins in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Ten Network. The ceremony was hosted by Mark Mitchell and guests included Ernest Borgnine, John Travolta, Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Sigrid Thornton and Dame Edna Everage.
Nominees and winners
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
James Morrison
Gerry Connolly
Hall of Fame
After a lifetime in the Australian television industry, Johnny Young became the seventh inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
References
External links
1990 television awards
1990 in Australian television
1990
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query%20by%20Example
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Query by Example (QBE) is a database query language for relational databases. It was devised by Moshé M. Zloof at IBM Research during the mid-1970s, in parallel to the development of SQL. It is the first graphical query language, using visual tables where the user would enter commands, example elements and conditions. Many graphical front-ends for databases use the ideas from QBE today. Originally limited only for the purpose of retrieving data, QBE was later extended to allow other operations, such as inserts, deletes and updates, as well as creation of temporary tables.
The motivation behind QBE is that a parser can convert the user's actions into statements expressed in a database manipulation language, such as SQL. Behind the scenes, it is this statement that is actually executed. A suitably comprehensive front-end can minimize the burden on the user to remember the finer details of SQL, and it is easier and more productive for end-users (and even programmers) to select tables and columns by selecting them rather than typing in their names.
In the context of information retrieval, QBE has a somewhat different meaning. The user can submit a document, or several documents, and ask for "similar" documents to be retrieved from a document database [see search by multiple examples]. Similarity search is based comparing document vectors (see Vector Space Model).
QBE represents seminal work in end-user development, frequently cited in research papers as an early example of this topic.
Currently, QBE is supported in several relational database front ends, notably Microsoft Access, which implements "Visual Query by Example", as well as Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager. It is also implemented in several object-oriented databases (e.g. in db4o).
QBE is based on the logical formalism called tableau query, although QBE adds some extensions to that, much like SQL is based on the relational algebra.
Example
An example using the Suppliers and Parts database is given here to illustrate how QBE works.
As a general technique
The term also refers to a general technique influenced by Zloof's work whereby only items with search values are used to "filter" the results. It provides a way for a software user to perform queries without having to know a query language (such as SQL). The software can automatically generate the queries for the user (usually behind the scenes). Here are some examples:
Example Form B:
.....Name: Bob
..Address:
.....City:
....State: TX
..Zipcode:
Resulting SQL:
SELECT * FROM Contacts WHERE Name='Bob' AND State='TX';
Note how blank items do not generate SQL terms. Since "Address" is blank, there is no clause generated for it.
For
Example Form C:
.....Name:
..Address:
.....City: Sampleton
....State:
..Zipcode: 12345
Resulting SQL:
SELECT * FROM Contacts WHERE City='Sampleton' AND Zipcode='12345';
More advanced versions of QBE have other comparison operator options, often via a pull-down menu, such as "Contains"
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1. A dynaset (short for dynamic set) is a set of data that is dynamically linked back to the database. Instead of having the query result stored in a temporary table, where the data cannot be updated directly by the user, the dynaset allows the user to view and update the data contained in the dynaset. Thus, if a university lecturer queried all students who received a distinction in their assignment and found an error in that student's record, they would only need to update the data in the dynaset, which would automatically update the student's database record without the need for them to send a specific update query after storing the query results in a temporary table.
The concept was initially put forth by E.F. Codd, the inventor of the relational database management system (RDBMS) concept.
2. A dynaset is a temporary set of data taken from one or more tables in the underlying file. A dynaset may be a query that was defined in an Access database, a single table, a subset of a table, or the result of joining multiple tables. A dynaset can be updated if the file is not locked or opened for ReadOnly. The data in the dynaset are "live" i.e., any changes made to the data as a project (in Visual Basic) is executing will appear in the corresponding recordset. Note: Dynasets created from joining tables are typically non-updateable.
The word "dynaset" was coined by David Risher during a design meeting for Microsoft Access 1.0.
Databases
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The 31st Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 17 March 1989 at the Hyatt on Collins in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Seven Network. The ceremony was hosted by Bert Newton and guests included Raquel Welch, Leslie Nielsen and Bryan Brown.
Winners
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Daryl Somers in Hey Hey It's Saturday (Nine Network)
Nominees: Kylie Minogue, Craig McLachlan, Jason Donovon
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Actor
Winner: Craig McLachlan in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Nominees: Alex Papps in Home and Away (Seven Network), Jason Donovon in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actress
Winner: Annie Jones in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Nominees: Nicolle Dickson in Home and Away (Seven Network), Kylie Minogue in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actor in a Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner: Bryan Brown in The Shiralee (Seven Network)
Nominees: Hugo Weaving in The Dirtwater Dynasty (Network Ten), Vince Colosimo in All the Way (Nine Network)
Most Popular Actress in a Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner: Rebecca Smart in The Shiralee (Seven Network)
Nominees: Dannii Minogue in All the Way (Nine Network), Noni Hazlehurst in The Shiralee (Seven Network)
Most Outstanding Actor
Winner: John Wood in Rafferty's Rules (Seven Network)
Nominees: Simon Chilvers in Rafferty's Rules (Seven Network), Robert Grubb in The Flying Doctors (Nine Network)
Most Outstanding Actress
Winner: Joan Sydney in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Nominees: Linda Cropper in Melba (Seven Network); Di Smith in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Light Entertainment or Comedy Personality
Winner: Mary-Anne Fahey in The Comedy Company (Network Ten)
Nominees: Mark Mitchell in The Comedy Company (Network Ten), Daryl Somers in Hey Hey It's Saturday (Nine Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner: Nicolle Dickson in Home and Away (Seven Network)
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Popular Series
Winner: Neighbours (Network Ten)
Nominees: Home and Away (Seven Network), A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner: The Shiralee (Seven Network)
Nominees: The Dirtwater Dynasty (Network Ten), All the Way (Nine Network)
Most Popular Light Entertainment or Comedy Program
Winner: The Comedy Company (Network Ten)
Nominees: Hey Dad..! (Seven Network), Hey Hey It's Saturday (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Program
Winner: A Current Affair (Nine Network)
Most Popular Sports Coverage
Winner: Seoul Olympic Games (Network Ten)
Most Popular Children's Show
Winner: Wombat (Seven Network)
Most Popular Music Video
Winner: "Age of Reason" by John Farnham
Most Outstanding Programs
Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series
Winner: Nature of Australia (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Achievement in News
Winner: "Walsh Street murders", Michael Venus (Nine Network)
Most Outstanding Achievement in Public Affairs
Winner: Four Corners (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Achievement by Regional Televi
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Pet Alien (French: Alien Bazar) is a computer-animated series created by Jeff Muncy of Pajanimals fame, with episodes written by Dan Danko and directed by Andrew Young. The series is a co-production between Mike Young Productions, Antefilms Production, Crest Communications Limited and Telegael Teoranta, in association with John Doze Studios, with the participation of TF1 in co-production with Télétoon and TPS Jeunesse. For Season 2, KI.KA and Europool in Germany joined as co-production partners.
It aired on Cartoon Network and Animania HD in the United States, and TF1 and Télétoon in France. 52 episodes were produced, making 104 segments.
Synopsis
The series centers on 13-year-old Tommy Cadle, whose lighthouse is invaded by five aliens.
Characters
Main characters
Tommy Cadle (voiced by Charlie Schlatter) - He was once a normal kid who had no cares in the world and did well in school, at least until the aliens came along. Tommy is often bullied by some of the other kids because of the aliens' actions and is annoyed by them, but generally accepts them as part of his life and sees Dinko as his best friend. The aliens always refer to him as "Tommy of Earth" and seem incapable of grasping that his name is just Tommy much to his annoyance.
Dinko (voiced by Charlie Adler) - A Pterodactylus-like alien that is the leader and biggest troublemaker of the alien gang, and Tommy's best friend. Though he always tries to help Tommy, he always mucks things up, often because he misunderstands Tommy's words to the point of insanity. Often Dinko will go to extreme measures to solve his curiosity to these words and earth rituals. This all leads to Tommy getting punished and/or blamed for everything he and his friends do and the aliens get off scot-free.
Gumpers (voiced by Jess Harnell) - A strong, but easily scared toad-like alien with a big appetite. He appears to be extremely dumb most of the time, but he is capable of intelligent thoughts if he strains his brain hard enough.
Swanky (voiced by Jess Harnell) - Swanky is a British-accented insect-like alien that is the smartest of the gang. He is rude, lazy, elegant and rather self-centered at times and reluctantly accompanies Tommy and the aliens on their wacky adventures. He enjoys fancy things and massages and wants Tommy's room.
Flip - (voiced by Charlie Adler) - An energetic parrot-like alien whose speech is often unintelligible.
Scruffy - Dinko's pet dog who jumps like a hare and whose tongue supposedly is smarter than himself.
Major characters
Gabby (voiced by Candi Milo) - a girl who is in love with Tommy, but unfortunately he doesn't feel the same way. In several episodes it is revealed that she can smell when Tommy is in trouble.
Granville DeSpray (voiced by Jess Harnell) - a direct descendant of DeSpray Bay's founders, and as such he values old English traditions like teatime. Oddly, all the characters think he is Norwegian. Granville is hopelessly in love with Melba and has numerous times, to no a
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The 30th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 11 March 1988 at the Hyatt on Collins in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Daryl Somers and guests included Mickey Rooney and Bea Arthur.
Winners
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Kylie Minogue in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Acting
Most Popular Actor
Winner: Jason Donovan in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actress
Winner: Kylie Minogue in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Nicholas Eadie in Vietnam (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Nicole Kidman in Vietnam (Network Ten)
Most Outstanding Actor
Winner: John Wood in Rafferty's Rules (Seven Network)
Most Outstanding Actress
Winner: Catherine Wilkin in Rafferty's Rules (Seven Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner: Alex Papps in The Henderson Kids (Network Ten)
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Popular Australian Drama
Winner: Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Single Telemovie or Miniseries
Winner: Vietnam (Network Ten)
Most Popular Light Entertainment Program
Winner: Hey Hey It's Saturday (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Program
Winner: 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Sports Coverage
Winner: Cricket (Nine Network)
Most Popular Children's Program
Winner: Wombat (Seven Network)
Most Popular Music Video
Winner: "Locomotion" by Kylie Minogue
Most Outstanding Programs
Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series
Winner: Suzi's Story (Network Ten)
Most Outstanding Achievement in News
Winner: "Hoddle St Massacre" (Seven Network)
Most Outstanding Achievement in Public Affairs
Winner: Four Corners (ABC TV)
Most Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Station
Winner: Richmond Vale Railway (NBN-3, Newcastle)
Performers
David Atkins and Electric Legs
Ricky May
Hall of Fame
After a lifetime in the Australian television industry, Bert Newton became the fifth inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
References
External links
1988 in Australian television
1988 television awards
1988
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Eagles
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Greg Eagles (born October 28, 1970) is an American actor. He voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's Grim & Evil and its spin-off The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He also voiced Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series Crashbox, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai, Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise, and several characters in the Metal Gear Solid games.
Career
Eagles began his acting career in 1993, he made his professional acting debut in the television film Blindsided, were he played a detective. His other live acting credits include How to Live with Your Parents, L.A Heat, NYPD Blue, Pair of Kings, Sister, Sister, Snowfall, Teeth and Blood, The Burning Zone, The Hepburn Effect and The Riches.
He also works extensively as a voice actor, he has provided numerous characters voices in various animated films, anime, television shows and video games. Eagles voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's animated series Grim & Evil and its spin-off series, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. He has also reprised the role in an episode the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door and in the video games, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall and Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion. In anime, he voiced O'Connor in 8 Man After, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai and Afro Samurai: Resurrection and Zommari Rureaux, Gantenbainne Mosqueda in Bleach. He also voiced Brother 6 and Rokutaro in the Afro Samurai video game.
Since 2007, he has been the voice of Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise, beginning with Crash of the Titans. He has since reprised the role in Crash: Mind over Mutant, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Additionally, he also provided the voices of Jax Briggs, Baraka in Mortal Kombat X as well as Gray Fox, Donald Anderson and various other characters in the Metal Gear Solid franchise.
Eagles is also currently working on an animation project for a television series titled Teapot, about an 11-year-old boy who wishes to be a rapping superstar. He worked on the pilot episode which aired in Nicktoons Network's Random! Cartoons in which he created, produced, written, voice directed and even provided the voice of the titular character. The pilot was storyboarded and art directed by Dahveed Kolodny Nagy (creator of Supa Pirate Booty Hunt) as well as Alex Almaguer, who worked as a writer and storyboard artist on Billy & Mandy, and directed by Robert Alvarez. He is planning to turn the pilot into a full TV-series when it gets picked up, even making an online opening sequence and full theme song. The cartoon short also had a Kickstarter and a now-lost Indiegogo campaign for a video game adaption, Teapot Rap it Up! but the project failed to reach its $2,500 goal.
Filmography
Live-action
Blindsided – Detective #1
How to Live with Your Parents – Long Hai
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The 29th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 3 April 1987 at the Hyatt on Collins in Melbourne, and broadcast on Network Ten. The ceremony was hosted by Don Lane and guests included Lee Majors, Brian Dennehy, Loretta Swit, Harry Hamlin, Laura Johnson, Leeza Gibbons, Dame Edna Everage and Nicole Kidman.
National Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Ray Martin in Midday (Nine Network)
Acting
Most Popular Actor
Winner:
Peter O'Brien in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actress
Winner:
Kylie Minogue in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Andrew Clarke in Sword of Honour (Seven Network)
Most Popular Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Tracy Mann in Sword of Honour (Seven Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner:
Jason Donovan in Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Popular Drama Series
Winner:
Neighbours (Network Ten)
Most Popular Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Sword of Honour (Seven Network)
Most Popular Light Entertainment Program
Winner:
Hey Hey It's Saturday (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Program
Winner:
60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Sports Coverage
Winner:
Wide World of Sports (Nine Network)
Most Popular Children's Program
Winner:
Wombat (Seven Network)
Most Popular Music Video
Winner:
"You're the Voice" by John Farnham
Most Outstanding Programs
Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series
Winners:
Handle with Care (Network Ten) and The Greatest Gift (Nine Network) – Tied
Most Outstanding Achievement in News
Winner:
"Russell Street Bombing" (Network Ten)
Most Outstanding Achievement in Public Affairs
Winner:
"Coup D'Etat", ABC News (ABC)
Most Outstanding Achievement by a Regional Television
Winner:
Kids Only (BTV-6, Ballarat)
State Awards
New South Wales
Most Popular Personality
Winner:
Ray Martin (Nine Network)
Most Popular Program
Winner:
A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Queensland
Most Popular Personality
Winner:
Jacki MacDonald (Nine Network)
Most Popular Program
Winner:
State Affair (Seven Network)
South Australia
Most Popular Personality
Winner:
Anne Wills (Network Ten)
Most Popular Program
Winner:
State Affair (Seven Network)
Tasmania
Most Popular Personality
Winner:
Tom Payne (TVT-6)
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Midweek (TVT-6)
Victoria
Most Popular Personality
Winner:
Daryl Somers (Nine Network)
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Neighbours (Network Ten)
Western Australia
Most Popular Personality
Winner:
Rick Ardon (Seven Network)
Most Popular Program
Winner:
State Affair (Seven Network)
Performers
Don Lane
Daryl Somers
Kerri-Anne Kennerley
Michael Cormack and the Jillian Fitzgerald dancers
Dame Edna Everage and dancers
Hall of Fame
After a lifetime in the Australian television industry, Paul Hogan became the fourth inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
References
External links
1987 in Australian television
1987 television awards
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Multi-master replication is a method of database replication which allows data to be stored by a group of computers, and updated by any member of the group. All members are responsive to client data queries. The multi-master replication system is responsible for propagating the data modifications made by each member to the rest of the group and resolving any conflicts that might arise between concurrent changes made by different members.
Multi-master replication can be contrasted with primary-replica replication, in which a single member of the group is designated as the "master" for a given piece of data and is the only node allowed to modify that data item. Other members wishing to modify the data item must first contact the master node. Allowing only a single master makes it easier to achieve consistency among the members of the group, but is less flexible than multi-master replication.
Multi-master replication can also be contrasted with failover clustering where passive replica servers are replicating the master data in order to prepare for takeover in the event that the master stops functioning. The master is the only server active for client interaction.
Often, communication and replication in Multi-master systems are handled via a type of Consensus algorithm, but can also be implemented via custom or proprietary algorithms specific to the software.
The primary purposes of multi-master replication are increased availability and faster server response time.
Advantages
Availability: If one master fails, other masters continue to update the database.
Distributed Access: Masters can be located in several physical sites, i.e. distributed across the network.
Disadvantages
Consistency: Most multi-master replication systems are only loosely consistent, i.e. lazy and asynchronous, violating ACID properties.
Performance: Eager replication systems are complex and increase communication latency.
Integrity: Issues such as conflict resolution can become intractable as the number of nodes involved rises and latency increases.
Implementations
Directory services
Many directory servers are based on Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and implement multi-master replication.
Active Directory
One of the more prevalent multi-master replication implementations in directory servers is Microsoft's Active Directory. Within Active Directory, objects that are updated on one Domain Controller are then replicated to other domain controllers through multi-master replication. It is not required for all domain controllers to replicate with each other as this would cause excessive network traffic in large Active Directory deployments. Instead, domain controllers have a complex update pattern that ensures that all servers are updated in a timely fashion without excessive replication traffic. Some Active Directory needs are however better served by Flexible single master operation.
CA Directory
CA Directory supports multi-master replication.
OpenDS/O
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%20Home%20%28video%20game%29
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Sweet Home is a role-playing video game developed and published by Capcom for the Family Computer in 1989. It is based on the Japanese horror film of the same name and tells the story of a team of five filmmakers exploring an old mansion in search of precious frescos hidden there. As they explore the mysterious mansion, they encounter hostile ghosts and other supernatural enemies. The player must navigate the intricately laid out mansion, battling with the enemies, and the five main characters with the limited weapons and health restorative items available. The narrative moves forward regardless of whether the characters stay alive, and leads to its five different endings.
The game was directed by Tokuro Fujiwara, who previously worked primarily on arcade games such as Ghosts 'n Goblins (1985). Fujiwara toured the film's set to gather inspiration for the game, and the film's director Kiyoshi Kurosawa gave Fujiwara permission to take some liberties with the game's script. Sweet Home was released in December 1989 exclusively in Japan, where it gathered generally favorable reception and was considered better than the film. The game was never localized to western markets, likely because of the game's gruesome imagery and the unpopularity of role-playing games outside Japan.
In retrospect, Sweet Home is considered a landmark game and is often cited for laying the groundwork for the survival horror genre. It served as the main inspiration behind Resident Evil (1996) which was a massive critical and commercial success, launching a multimedia franchise. Later games in the future continue to pull inspiration from the game through the use of quick time events, inventory management, and ghost story elements. Sweet Home's Metroidvania-style exploration, storytelling methods, and horror elements have been cited as precursors to key elements found in other successful games decades later.
Gameplay
Sweet Home is a role-playing game (RPG) set within a mansion that has a cohesive, intricate layout. There are five playable characters who can venture solo or explore in teams of two or three. The player can switch between characters and parties at any time. The five characters each have a unique item that is necessary to complete the game: a camera, lighter, medical kit, lockpick, and vacuum cleaner. Along with these items are others that can be picked up and dropped anywhere and retrieved later by other characters.
Sweet Home places an emphasis on puzzle-solving, item inventory management, and survival. The player must backtrack to previous locations in order to solve puzzles using items acquired later in the game. In this sense, the interconnected mansion is gradually explored in the style of Metroidvania games. Enemies are encountered randomly and the player must fight or run away through menu-based combat. The battles are presented in a first-person perspective, and there are a variety of enemies, including zombies, ghosts and dolls. The only way to restore
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The 28th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 18 April 1986 at the State Theatre in Sydney, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Michael Willesee and guests included John Denver, Paul Hogan, Veronica Hamel, Phyllis Diller, Gordon Jackson and Sam Neill and Laura Branigan.
National Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Daryl Somers in Hey Hey It's Saturday (Nine Network)
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Australian Actor
Winner: Grant Dodwell in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Australian Actress
Winner: Anne Tenney in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Australian Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Andrew Clarke in Anzacs (Nine Network)
Most Popular Australian Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Megan Williams in Anzacs (Nine Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner: Peter O'Brien in Neighbours (Seven Network)
Best Performance by a Juvenile
Winner: Nadine Garner in The Henderson Kids (Network Ten)
TV Reporter of the Year
Winner: Ian Leslie in 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Programs/Videos
Most Popular Australian Drama
Winner: A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Australian Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Anzacs (Nine Network)
Most Popular Australian Light Entertainment Program
Winner: Perfect Match (Network Ten)
Most Popular Public Affairs Program
Winner: 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Documentary Series
Winner: Willesee Documentaries (Nine Network)
Most Popular Children's Program
Winner: Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network Ten)
Most Popular Music Video
Winner: "What You Need" by INXS
Best/Outstanding Programs
Best Light Entertainment Series
Winner: The Gillies Report (ABC TV)
Best Light Entertainment Special
Winner: Cliff Richard in Concert (Nine Network)
Best Documentary
Winner: Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon (ABC TV)
Best News Report
Winner: "Eagle Farm Siege" (TVQ, Brisbane)
Best Public Affairs Report
Winner: "Tax Summit", Jennifer Byrne, Sunday (Nine Network)
Outstanding Coverage of Sport
Winner: Australian Grand Prix (Nine Network)
Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Station
Winner: Newshour (TV8, Bendigo)
State Awards
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner: Ray Martin (Nine Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner: Anne Tenney (Seven Network)
Most Popular Program
Winner: A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner: Glenn Taylor (Seven Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner: Jacki MacDonald (Nine Network)
Most Popular Program
Winner: State Affair (Seven Network)
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner: Keith Conlon (Seven Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner: Anne Wills (Network Ten)
Most Popular Program
Winner: State Affair (Seven Network)
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner: Tom Payne (TVT-6)
Most Popular Female
Winner: Jenny Roberts (TVT-6)
Most Popular Program
Winner: Midweek (TVT-6)
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner: Daryl Somer
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WBPX-TV (channel 68) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, airing programming from the Ion Television network. It is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, which also owns Woburn-licensed Grit station WDPX-TV (channel 58); the two channels share the same TV spectrum. WBPX-TV and WDPX-TV are broadcast from a tower shared with WUNI and WWJE-DT on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts.
WBPX-TV's programming is duplicated on WPXG-TV (channel 21) in Concord, New Hampshire, which shares its channel with Lowell, Massachusetts–licensed Daystar station WYDN (channel 48) and broadcasts from Fort Mountain near Epsom, New Hampshire.
WBPX-TV began broadcasting as WQTV in 1979 and originally broadcast subscription television programming to paying customers, which ended in 1983, with the station operating as a full-time commercial independent station until succumbing to financial troubles and paring back its programming. After being sold to The Christian Science Monitor in 1986, WQTV became the nucleus of a major production operation, which in 1991 spawned a cable television channel, the Monitor Channel. After $325 million in losses, this service shut down in 1992, and the Monitor sold WQTV to Boston University, which operated it for six years as commercial independent WABU. Boston University also bought the Concord station, which had been silent since it failed as CBS affiliate WNHT in 1989, and turned it into a satellite of WABU in 1995. Both stations were sold in 1999 to become outlets of the Pax network, which changed its name to i in 2005 before becoming known as Ion in 2007.
Early history
The subscription television years
On June 3, 1966, Boston Heritage Broadcasting, Inc.—a consortium of local owners and New Jersey-based Blonder-Tongue Laboratories—filed an application for a construction permit for channel 68 in Boston, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted on September 23, 1969, after a comparative hearing. Boston Heritage then filed the third-ever application for authority to install subscription television (STV) equipment in July 1970, which the FCC granted three years later.
Even though a construction permit had been awarded in 1969, it would be nearly a decade before channel 68 broadcast. By late 1977, Boston Heritage had begun work to build the transmitter on the Prudential Tower, and Blonder-Tongue's pay-TV system was already in use in the New York area. The subscription television programs to be aired on the station would come from Universal Subscription Television, a subsidiary of Canadian company CanWest Capital Corporation. CanWest was in the middle of assembling a network of stations to air its programming, with outlets in various stages of consideration on New York's Long Island and in Detroit, Minneapolis, and Sacramento.
WQTV began program testing at the very end of 1978 and regular programming on January 2, 1979. The subscription service, named BEST at launch
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Magnet Networks, trading as Magnet Plus, is an Irish company providing telephone and broadband internet services which was launched in Dublin in 2004. Originally owned by the US-based international investment company Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC), it was acquired in December 2020 by the "Irish investment vehicle" Speed Fibre Group. Speed Fibre Group, itself a subsidiary of the Irish Infrastructure Fund, also owned AirSpeed Telecom and, in 2021, these two companies joined to operate under a combined "Magnet Plus" brand. As of 2020, Magnet Networks reportedly had approximately 100 staff.
Organisation
Magnet Entertainment, the home services division of Magnet Networks, provides digital telephony, digital television, video on demand, and broadband internet products.
Magnet Business provides DSL internet access and VoIP telephony to business customers. As of 2016, Magnet Business was reportedly the "third-largest business telecoms provider" in Ireland.
As of February 2020, Magnet's "interim managing director" was Dave Brewer (of then parent organisation CVC).
Magnet Network's competitors in Ireland include Virgin Media Ireland, Sky Ireland and eir.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of Ireland
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This is a list of network games on the Xbox video game console. It includes Online Multiplayer titles as well as System link enabled games, which can be played by connecting multiple Xbox systems together locally.
After Microsoft's termination of the original Xbox Live service on April 15, 2010, the majority of the game titles remain virtually playable, but their online connectivity and functionality are rendered defunct, even after some of them were re-released digitally. However, services run by fans, such as Insignia, allow players to continue to play Xbox Live titles online.
Many of the game titles that were released later had updates, which added features that were not initially supported on retail copies of the games.
Network Features
Basic Features
Online Multiplayer: Create, join, and spectate matches with other players.
Content Download: Additional updates, maps, missions, modes, or characters are available to download via Xbox Live.
Scoreboards: Measure your performance against other players with global leaderboards.
Friends: View, invite, and manage your list of Xbox Live friends.
Voice: Communicate with other players using in-game voice chat.
System Link: Connect multiple Xbox consoles together to play over a local network connection.
Additional Features
Clans: Create organised player groups in-game, with a clan tag for easy identification.
Competitions: Join and create tournaments directly through the in-game Xbox Live menu.
Xbox Live Aware: Receive invitations and view Xbox Live friends, even when playing single player modes.
XSN: Xbox Sports Network, a service for Microsoft-developed sports titles that allows for web-based player tournaments and stats.
Released Games
Unreleased games
See also
List of Xbox games
Xbox network games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Kaspersky
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Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare.
Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. His interest in IT security began when his work computer was infected with the Cascade virus in 1989 and he developed a program to remove it. Kaspersky helped grow Kaspersky Lab through security research and salesmanship. He became the CEO in 2007 and remains so as of 2023.
Early life
Kaspersky was born on 4 October 1965 in Novorossiysk, Soviet Union. He grew up near Moscow, where he moved at age nine. His father was an engineer and his mother a historical archivist. As a child he developed an early interest in math and technology. He spent his free time reading math books and won second place in a math competition at age 14. When he was fourteen, Kaspersky began attending A.N. Kolmogorov boarding school, which is run by Moscow University and specializes in math. He was also a member of the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
At the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a five-year program with The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, which prepared intelligence officers for the Russian military and KGB. He graduated in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. After graduating college, Kaspersky served the Soviet military intelligence service as a software engineer. He met his first wife Natalya Kaspersky at Severskoye, a KGB vacation resort, in 1987.
Kaspersky Lab
Origins
Kaspersky's interest in IT security began in 1989, when his PC was infected by the Cascade virus, while working for the Ministry of Defence. He studied how the virus worked and developed a program to remove it. Afterwards he continually found new viruses and developed software to remove them, as a hobby. Early on Kaspersky's anti-virus software had just 40 virus definitions and was distributed mostly to friends.
In 1991, Kaspersky was granted an early release from his military service and left the defense ministry to take a job at the Information Technology Center of a private company KAMI, in order to work on his antivirus product full-time. There, he and his colleagues improved the software and released it as a product called Antiviral Toolkit Pro in 1992. At first the software was purchased by about ten clients per month. It earned about $100 per month, mostly from companies in Ukraine and Russia. Kaspersky's then-future wife Natalya Kaspersky became his coworker at KAMI.
In 1994, Hamburg University in Germany gave Kaspersky's software first place in a competitive anal
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WUNI (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Boston area. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Derry, New Hampshire–licensed True Crime Network affiliate WWJE-DT (channel 50); Entravision Communications operates WUNI under a joint sales agreement (JSA), making it sister to Worcester, Massachusetts–licensed UniMás affiliate WUTF-TV (channel 27). WUNI and WWJE share studios and transmitter facilities on Parmenter Road in Hudson; under the JSA, master control and some internal operations of WUNI are based at WUTF's studios on 4th Avenue in Needham.
History
As an English-language independent station
The station first signed on the air on January 1, 1970, as WSMW-TV, an independent station based in Worcester that featured English-language general entertainment programs including old movies (including the entire series of Abbott and Costello movies and the Bowery Boys/Dead-End Kids movies starring Huntz Hall), cartoons, religious shows (including the Jacob Brothers and The PTL Club), a cooking show (Cooking with Bernard), science fiction shows (such as UFO), dramas (including Maverick and Thriller), as well as sitcoms (including The Phil Silvers Show and Petticoat Junction). Though WSMW-TV was within the Boston market, it was far enough from Boston itself that the station was able to air some of the same shows as the Boston stations, in a similar situation to WMUR-TV (channel 9), the ABC affiliate in Manchester, New Hampshire. The station's call letters stood for State Mutual (Insurance Co.) in Worcester, the corporate owner of the station.
WSMW also broadcast sports programs; from its debut through the end of the 1971–72 NBA season, the station was the television home of the Boston Celtics. In 1970 and 1971, WSMW broadcast (same-weekend tape-delayed coverage of) New England Patriots preseason games. WSMW also offered extensive coverage of college basketball throughout the 1970s, mostly games of the College of the Holy Cross and Assumption College, with some Boston College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bentley College games included on the schedule. The broadcast team of play-by-play man Bob Fouracre and analyst Bob Cousy worked these games. During the college football season, the station carried a taped two-hour broadcast of a game from earlier in the day on Saturday nights at 10:30 p.m. These games were typically Holy Cross home games, and when Holy Cross was on the road, games from UMass. Fouracre worked these games, and the analyst most of the time was Gino Cappelletti. WSMW also broadcast Bay State Bowling, a weekly candlepin bowling program on Sunday evenings for most of the 1970s, which was hosted by Fouracre.
In 1970, shortly after the cancellation of the long-running Bozo's Circus on WHDH-TV, WSMW-TV debuted their own version of the Bozo the Clown series franchise, Bozo's Big Top. Tom Matzell played Bozo, alongs
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The second incarnation of Touchstone Television (formerly known as Fox 21 Television Studios) was an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks' Walt Disney Television owned by The Walt Disney Company. It was founded in 2014 from the merger of Fox Television Studios and Fox 21, and given its second name in mid-2020 following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.
On December 1, 2020, Disney announced that the label was folded into 20th Television.
Predecessors
Fox Television Studios
Fox Television Studios, Inc. was a television production subsidiary of 21st Century Fox's Fox Entertainment Group, as well as being the unofficial production arm of Fox and the secondary production arm of 20th Century Fox Television, itself a division of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. Fox Television Studios (FTVS) was formed on August 1, 1997 alongside 20th Century Fox Television and 20th Television under executive David Grant. The studio was created to house smaller production units, starting with the Greenblatt-Janollari Studio (G-JS). Greenblatt-Janollari started producing shows in the 1998–1999 season with 3 comedy series for ABC and CBS. While funded by Fox, G-JS was presented as an "independent mini-studio". The studio also partnered with David Gerber and his Gerber Company venture to produce various telemovies and television series. With Fox Entertainment Group holding a 20% stake in New Regency Production's parent corporation, Fox Studios formed a joint venture, Regency Television, by 2000, managed by Gail Berman. Another production unit formed was Fox Television Studios Productions (FTSP) under Lisa Berger. Early output by the individual units, or "pods" were FTSP's Son of the Beach for FX, The Hughleys by G-JS and Regency had Malcolm in the Middle.
The pod model evolved into five divisions: alternative, scripted, international, Fox World and Regency Television:
The alternative division was responsible for Talkshow with Spike Feresten and The Wanda Sykes Show, along with E!'s The Girls Next Door franchise. In mid-2002, Fox Alternative Productions was formed by Fox TV Studios and headed by David Martin with its first show to be "The Coach".
The scripted division produced The Shield, along with a number of television films and miniseries.
Fox World division, formed in 2000, produced international versions of its reality television programs such as Joe Millionaire and Temptation Island. The company was shut down by FTVS in 2014.
Eventually the only division operating was the scripted unit. Next FTVS attempted international co-productions of direct-to-series broadcast series. The company had a hit with Burn Notice on USA Network. In August 2010, Dave Madden was appointed to head the unit, where he evenly increased its production slates until he was appointed as president of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting in August 2014.
Fox Television Studios International
This is about the company that exists acco
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu%20Lee
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Kai-Fu Lee (; born December 3, 1961) is a Taiwanese businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer. He is currently based in Beijing, China.
Lee developed a speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system as his Ph.D. thesis at Carnegie Mellon University. He later worked as an executive, first at Apple, then SGI, Microsoft, and Google.
He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, due to a one-year non-compete agreement that he signed with Microsoft in 2000 when he became its corporate vice president of interactive services.
He works in the Chinese internet sector and was the founding director of Microsoft Research Asia, serving from 1998 to 2000; and president of Google China, serving from July 2005 through September 4, 2009. After resigning from his post, he founded Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm. He created a website, () dedicated to helping young Chinese people in their studies and careers and wrote "10 Letters to Chinese College Students". He is a micro-blogger in China, in particular on Sina Weibo, where he has over 50 million followers.
In his 2018 book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Lee describes how China is rapidly moving forward to become the global leader in Artificial intelligence, and may well surpass the United States, because of China's demographics and its amassing of huge data sets. In a 28 September 2018 interview on the PBS Amanpour program, he stated that artificial intelligence, with all its capabilities, will never be capable of creativity or empathy.
Early life and education
Lee was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is the son of Li Tianmin, a legislator and historian from Sichuan, China. Lee has detailed his personal life and career history in his autobiography in both Chinese and English, Making a World of Difference, published in October 2011.
In 1973, Lee immigrated to the United States and attended high school in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He received a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude with a major in computer science from Columbia University in the City of New York in 1983. He was a classmate of Barack Obama at Columbia. He went on and received a doctor of philosophy in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988.
Career
Academic research
At Carnegie Mellon, Lee worked on topics in machine learning and pattern recognition. In 1986, he and Sanjoy Mahajan developed Bill, a Bayesian learning-based system for playing the board game Othello that won the US national tournament of computer players in 1989. In 1988, he completed his doctoral dissertation on Sphinx, which he claims is the first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system.
Lee has written two books on speech recognition and more than 60 papers in computer science. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1988 as a Kluwer monograph, Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the Sphinx Recognitio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unix%20Programming%20Environment
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The Unix Programming Environment, first published in 1984 by Prentice Hall, is a book written by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, both of Bell Labs and considered an important and early document of the Unix operating system.
Unix philosophy
The book addresses the Unix philosophy of small cooperating tools with standardized inputs and outputs. Kernighan and Pike gives a brief description of the Unix design and the Unix philosophy:
The authors further write that their goal for this book is "to communicate the UNIX programming philosophy."
Content and topics
The book starts off with an introduction to Unix for beginners. Next, it goes into the basics of the file system and shell. The reader is led through topics ranging from the use of filters, to how to use C for programming robust Unix applications, and the basics of grep, sed, make, and awk. The book closes with a tutorial on making a programming language parser with yacc and how to use troff with ms and mm to format documents, the preprocessors tbl, eqn, and pic, and making man pages with the man macro set. The appendices cover the ed editor and the abovementioned programming language, named hoc, which stands for "high-order calculator".
Historical context
Although Unix still exists decades after the publication of this book, the book describes an already mature Unix: In 1984, Unix had already been in development for 15 years (since 1969), it had been published in a peer-reviewed journal 10 years earlier (SOSP, 1974, "The UNIX Timesharing System"), and at least seven official editions of its manuals had been published (see Version 7 Unix). In 1984, several commercial and academic variants of UNIX already existed (e.g., Xenix, SunOS, BSD, UNIX System V, HP-UX), and a year earlier Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson won the prestigious Turing Award for their work on UNIX. The book was written not when UNIX was just starting out, but when it was already popular enough to be worthy of a book published for the masses of new users that were coming in.
In retrospect, not only was 1984 not an early stage of Unix's evolution, in some respects it was the end of Unix evolution, at least in Bell Labs: The important UNIX variants had already forked from AT&T's Research Unix earlier: System V was published in 1983, BSD was based on the 1979 Seventh Edition Unix – and most commercial Unix variants were based on System V, BSD, or some combination of both. Eighth Edition Unix came out right after this book, and further development of UNIX in Bell Labs (the Ninth and Tenth Edition) never made it outside Bell Labs – until their effort evolved into Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
C programming style
The book was written before ANSI C was first drafted; the programs in it follow the older K&R style. However, the source code available on the book's website has been updated for ANSI C conformance.
Critical reception
Technical editor Ben Everard for Linux Voice praised the book for providing relevant documentation despite b
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS%20Kids
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PBS Kids (stylized in all caps) is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The target audience is children between the ages of 2 and 8. PBS Kids brand programming is aired daily on most local PBS stations during a daytime block, typically scheduled in the morning hours, in addition to a separate 24/7 channel (sometimes called PBS Kids Channel or PBS Kids 24/7). Both the block and 24/7 service are broadcast over the air, via cable and satellite providers and on streaming platforms. Select programming is also available internationally.
History
PTV block
PBS had historically aired programs for children such as Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Reading Rainbow; prior to 1993, these programs aired under general PBS branding. In August 1993, PBS introduced new branding for their children's programs featuring "The P-Pals", animated characters shaped like PBS logos who encouraged skills such as gathering information, self-esteem, cooperation and achieving goals in specially developed interstitials.
The framework for PBS Kids was established as part of PBS' "Ready to Learn" initiative, a project intended to facilitate access of early childhood educational programming to underprivileged children. On July 11, 1994, PBS repackaged their existing children's educational programming as a new block called "PTV", airing on 11 member stations at launch. In addition to scheduled educational programming, PTV also incorporated interstitial content with the P-Pals in their fictional world "PTV Park" for younger children. Older children were targeted with live-action and music video interstitials.
Apple Computer provided a $1.5 million grant to PTV and became its first national underwriter on June 26, 1995, as part of their "Bring Learning Home" corporate initiative. A "Ready To Learn" grant unveiled on January 8, 1996, supported the development of Dragon Tales and Between the Lions, which premiered in 1999 and 2000, respectively, as well as their online activities and outreach efforts. By September 1996, 95 PBS stations reaching three quarters of the United States were carrying the PTV service. Starting on October 7, 1996, PBS packaged their programs for school-aged children into the block The Game, airing on 31 stations by the end of the year.
PBS announced on January 18, 1999, that it would launch the PBS Kids Channel, meant to be the centerpiece of a larger initiative, in September. On June 9, PBS revealed a wide rebranding of its children's programs and services, known as PBS Kids, at its annual meeting in San Francisco. PBS would also increase its children's programming budget by 25% and commit to two new series: Caillou and Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series.
PBS Kids
The rebranding to "PBS Kids" first took effect on September 6, 1999, when PBS launched the 24-hour PBS Kids television network. The new PBS Kids branding elements began rolling out on PBS stati
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtop
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Bigtop may refer to:
Circus
Bigtop Records
Bigtop, a distributed operating system project from Microsoft Research
See also
Big Top
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Informatics%20Olympiad
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The British Informatics Olympiad (BIO) is an annual computer-programming competition for secondary and sixth-form students. Any student under 19 who is in full-time pre-university education and resident in mainland Britain is eligible to compete. The competition is composed of two rounds - a preliminary 3-question, 3-hour exam paper sat at the participant's school and a final round. The top-15 performing students each year are invited to the finals (currently hosted by Trinity College, Cambridge) where they attempt to solve several more difficult problems, some written, some involving programming. Typically a score of 70 to 80 out of 100 is required on the first round of the competition to reach the final.
Of these fifteen, four are chosen for the British team, and one or two are chosen as reserves. This team goes on to represent Britain in the International Olympiad in Informatics in the summer of that year.
Mark schemes are available for all past papers at the competition's official site. Official worked solutions are available for papers 1995-1999 and 2004, whilst unofficial solutions are available for papers 2009-2014.
Sponsors
The BIO has been sponsored by video-games developer Lionhead Studios since 2002.
In the past, it has also been sponsored by Data Connection.
See also
Young Scientists of the Year
References
External links
BIO Official Website
Annual events in the United Kingdom
Competitions in the United Kingdom
Computer science education in the United Kingdom
Programming contests
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage%20%28disambiguation%29
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Sabotage is an act of destruction or interference intended to weaken an opponent.
Sabotage may also refer to:
Video games
Sabotage (video game), a 1981 computer game for the Apple II
Velvet Assassin, a 2008 computer game known as Sabotage early in development
Films
Sabotage (1936 film), a British film by Alfred Hitchcock
Sabotage (1939 film), an American action film
Sabotage (1966 film), the ninth installment of the Filipino film series featuring Agent X-44, starring Tony Ferrer
Sabotage (1996 film), a martial arts film with Mark Dacascos
Sabotage! (film), a 2000 comedy film about the battle of Waterloo, with David Suchet as Napoleon
Sabotage (2014 film), an American action thriller/crime drama film
Literature
Bureau of Sabotage, a fictional government entity invented by author Frank Herbert
Television
"Sabotage" (Stargate Universe), a first season episode of Stargate Universe
Sabotage (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), an episode of the American television sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine
"Sabotage" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), a fifth season episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Music
Sabotage (rapper) (1973–2003), Brazilian rapper
Sabotage (Black Sabbath album), a 1975 album by Black Sabbath
Sabotage (EP), an EP by Cancer Bats
Sabotage (Klinik album), a 1985 album by Klinik
Sabotage (Master Joe y O.G. Black album), a 2004 album by Master Joe y O.G. Black
"Sabotage" (Beastie Boys song), 1994
"Sabotage" (Kristinia DeBarge song)
"Sabotage" (JoJo song), 2019
"Sabotage" (Bebe Rexha song)
"Sabotage", a song by Suede on their 2013 album Bloodsports
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%20World%20%28TV%20series%29
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Strange World is an American crime drama television series created by Howard Gordon and Tim Kring for ABC. 13 episodes were commissioned, of which three aired on ABC in March 1999 before the network cancelled the program. The remaining ten episodes produced subsequently premiered on Sci-Fi in Spring 2002.
In a web-chat during the 2002 run on Sci-Fi, Gordon stated that, since the producers felt ABC was not going to support the show, they had the opportunity to write a conclusion to the story.
Plot
USAMRIID was created in 1970 to counter the threat of chemical and biological weapons.
Section 44 of the charter permits it to investigate criminal abuses of science.
—Text at the beginning of the pilot episode.
Captain Paul Turner (Tim Guinee) is a doctor for The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), who suffers from a rare form of aplastic anemia as a result of exposure to chemical weapons during the Persian Gulf War. USAMRIID lures him out of his sickbed with the opportunity to bring justice to others suffering from unethical uses of science and technology. Unknown to his superiors, he is given a temporary cure for the symptoms of his disease by a mysterious woman who is an agent of a shadowy organization that may be trying to thwart the goals of USAMRIID. He requires periodic doses of the cure to remain functional, a weakness that the shadowy organization occasionally uses to control him. Both the machinations of the "shadowy organization" and Turner's dependency on the "cure" are ultimately resolved in the final episode of the series.
Cast
Tim Guinee as Captain Paul Turner
Kristin Lehman as Dr. Sidney MacMillan
Saundra Quarterman as Major Lynne Reese
Title sequence
The opening-title sequence was added to the permanent collection of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1999. It was created by Imaginary Forces.
Episodes
See also
Doomwatch
Fringe
References
External links
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1990s American medical television series
American military television series
1999 American television series debuts
1999 American television series endings
1990s American science fiction television series
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows filmed in Vancouver
Television series created by Tim Kring
1990s American crime drama television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaturro
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Gaturro is an Argentine comic strip created by cartoonist Cristian Dzwonik ("Nik"). The comic has been published in more than 50 books, magazines and comic volumes. A 3D computer-animated film of the same name was released theatrically in Argentina on September 9, 2010.
Synopsis
Gaturro is a brown cat with yellow cheeks. The series is about the life of a cat, named like the strip, who is in love with another cat called Ágatha. However, she is not interested in him. Gaturro does not speak; he just thinks. In some cases, he can communicate with humans like this. However, when he communicates with his animal friends, he does speak. Among his most frequent activities, he usually walks on the roofs and goes to school.
Characters
Principal characters
Gaturro: He is an Abyssinian cat and the protagonist of the comic. He lives with his owners who have raised him since he was young. While his house is a charming place, he also enjoys roaming the rooftops of his neighborhood. Among the rooftops, Gaturro can interact with other characters from neighboring houses. Gaturro's owners send him to school every now and then, not for the education, but to get him out of the house. In school, Gaturro is a bit of a troublemaker and makes life difficult for his teacher, Ms. Ruda Vinagreti. Gaturro has also appeared dressed in formal clothes at his owner's office in some strips to issue a punchline in the form of a thought bubble, but what he does there has not really been explained.
Ágatha: She is Gaturro's neighbor. They have known each other for a long time and the relationship has always been the same: Gaturro is totally in love with Ágatha, but she never pays him attention. She is very jealous, selfish and she wants to be the only one rejecting him.
Adoptive family
Daniel (the father): He is Gaturro’s owner. He represents the stereotype of a father of the middle classes who, even exhausted because of work, tries to fulfill his family responsibilities. He treats Gaturro as another son. He eats a lot and tends to spend most of his time watching television on his sofa. He is noticeably overweight.
Valeria (the mother): She is very understanding and affectionate, but also determined. She is completely dedicated to the house and the family, and she copes with stress by doing exercise or practising Feng Shui enthusiastically.
Luz: She is the oldest daughter of the family. Her incipient adolescence turned her so capricious and stubborn that she is constantly in trouble with the family, Gaturro included.
Agustín: He is the youngest son of the family. He seems to be the only one who treats Gaturro as a pet. He is very curious and passionate about video games.
The twins: They are the newborn babies of Gaturro’s family, a boy and a girl.
The mother-in-law: She is Luz and Agustín’s grandmother and Daniel’s mother-in-law. She does not live in the city but she visits the family once in a while. She speaks a lot.
Uncle Jorge: He is Daniel’s brother; that is t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXFT-DT
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WXFT-DT (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Aurora, Illinois, United States, serving as the Chicago-area outlet for the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Joliet-licensed Univision station WGBO-DT (channel 66). The two stations share studios on Fairbanks Court (near Columbus Drive and Illinois Street) in the Streeterville neighborhood; WXFT-DT's transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower.
History
Prior history of channel 60 in Chicago
The UHF channel 60 allocation to Aurora was originally occupied by WLXT-TV, which broadcast from May 16, 1969 to July 17, 1970. WLXT was an independent station that abruptly closed after 14 months of attempting to serve its suburban coverage area, but it was notable for the people that passed through it, particularly news director Christine Lund, who became a well-known news anchor in Los Angeles, and Tom Skilling, longtime chief meteorologist at WGN-TV (channel 9), who got his start in television broadcasting at WLXT and presented daily weather forecasts for the station during his junior year of high school.
WPWR-TV/WBBS-TV timeshare
When applications for channel 60 were reopened in 1978, considerable interest was attracted. Several applicants proposed a new Spanish-language television station, including the Spanish International Network (which ended up applying for channel 66 instead) and a local group headed by Marcelino Miyares, the owner of Spanish-language advertising agency OMAR. The Miyares group became known as Hispanic American Television–Chicago and eventually HATCO-60 when it merged with competing applicant Aurora-Chicago Telecasters, Inc. The FCC received five proposals, three of which were designated for hearing by the FCC in July 1980: HATCO-60 (specifying West Chicago); Metrowest Corporation, specifying Aurora; and the College of DuPage, for Glen Ellyn.
In late 1981, HATCO-60 and Metrowest agreed to a shared-time agreement. Under the agreement, Metrowest would broadcast daily from 2:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., while the Hatco-60 station would broadcast daily from 7 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., giving channel 60 the distinction of being the only split-licensed station in the United States (and the first to operate in more than 20 years).
With the arrangement in place, the two stations signed on in April 1982, sharing transmitter facilities atop the Sears Tower. Eychaner signed on independent station WPWR-TV.
At the same time WPWR debuted, Miyares signed on WBBS-TV (a call sign assigned to the station by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the objections of CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV, channel 2), which maintained a Spanish-language entertainment format as a founding affiliate of NetSpan (which would evolve into Telemundo in 1987). WBBS featured various programming aimed at Hispanic audiences including local news programming, telenovelas and variety series as well as other locally produced shows, such as the popular music
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBYO
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WBYO (88.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States, and serves the Philadelphia area. The station also serves as the flagship station for "Word FM", a network of Contemporary Christian radio stations in eastern and South Central Pennsylvania. The station is currently owned by Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation. In 2009, Word FM switched from contemporary Christian hit radio to Christian adult contemporary.
Stations
Notes:
Translators
In addition to the main station, WBYO and its simulcasted stations are relayed by additional translators to widen its broadcast area.
For the translators of WLHI, see
For the translators of WPAZ, see
References
External links
BYO
Radio stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Pennsylvania
BYO
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly%28hydridocarbyne%29
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Poly(hydridocarbyne) (PHC) is one of a class of carbon-based random network polymers primarily composed of tetrahedrally hybridized carbon atoms, each having one hydride substituent, exhibiting the generic formula [HC]n. PHC is made from bromoform, a liquid halocarbon that is commercially manufactured from methane. At room temperature, poly(hydridocarbyne) is a dark brown powder. It can be easily dissolved in a number of solvents (tetrahydrofuran, ether, toluene etc.), forming a colloidal suspension that is clear and non-viscous, which may then be deposited as a film or coating on various substrates. Upon thermolysis in argon at atmospheric pressure and temperatures of 110 °C to 1000 °C, decomposition of poly(hydridocarbyne) results in hexagonal diamond (lonsdaleite).
More recently poly(hydridocarbyne) has been synthesized by a much simpler method using electrolysis of chloroform (May 2008) and hexachloroethane (June 2009).
The novelty of PHC (and its related polymer poly(methylsilyne)) is that the polymer may be readily fabricated into various forms (e.g. films, fibers, plates) and then thermolyzed into a final hexagonal diamond ceramic.
See also
Carbyne, for name origin
References
(US patent application)
Notes
External links
Facile Synthesis of Poly(hydridocarbyne): A Precursor to Diamond and Diamond-like Ceramics
Liftport Staff Blog discussion
Organic polymers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGBO-DT
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WGBO-DT (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Joliet, Illinois, United States, serving as the Chicago-area outlet for the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Aurora-licensed UniMás station WXFT-DT (channel 60). The two stations share studios at 541 North Fairbanks Court in the Streeterville neighborhood; WGBO-DT's transmitter is located atop the John Hancock Center.
WGBO was established as WFBN in 1981 and primarily aired subscription television (STV) programming from the Spectrum service. After a consolidation in the Chicago STV market in 1984, the station converted to a more typical independent station. It was owned by the Grant Broadcasting System from 1986 to 1988, during which time it was the least successful station in the company's portfolio. Combined Broadcasting, the consortium of creditors formed in the wake of Grant's bankruptcy, sold the station to Univision in 1994, giving the network its first full-time outlet in Chicago in six years. Since 1995, WGBO has been Chicago's Univision station and has also produced Spanish-language local newscasts.
History
Early years and Focus ownership
In 1979, four firms applied for construction permits to build television stations on Joliet's channel 66. Three of them had the same idea. American Television and Communications Corporation (ATC) was the division of Time Inc. that owned subscription television service Preview. Channel 66 of Illinois was owned by Clint Murchison, who owned Subscription Television of America. Focus Broadcasting Company, a company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, was the third applicant; it, too, sought STV, having secured a lease for technology and programming of the Wometco Home Theater service operating in the New York area. A fourth bid was received from Lago Grande Television Company.
The four bidders agreed on a settlement under which Focus was granted the construction permit on July 22, 1980. ATC and Lago Grande's bids were dismissed after the companies were reimbursed for their costs. Murchison provided financing for the station, guaranteeing loans of up to $7 million for its construction in exchange for most of the revenue to be garnered from STV programming. However, before launch, Murchison sold most of his interest to another Texas company: Buford Television of Tyler. Buford, whose only broadcast properties were TV stations in Tyler and Lufkin, Texas, was making an entry into the STV game. In 1980, it built and signed on WBTI, a hybrid subscription and ad-supported station in Cincinnati, and it had filed for permits to build similar stations in other cities.
WFBN began broadcasting on September 18, 1981, and its subscription offering, Spectrum, initiated programming on the 29th. Several months later, Buford sold a majority 80 percent stake in its STV interests, grouped under the Home Entertainment Network banner, to United Cable of Denver for $20 million. United launched its third and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redvers%20Kyle
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Redvers Buller Kyle (25 November 1929 – 18 November 2015) was a South African-born British broadcaster, voice over artist, actor and composer, best known for his work on the ITV network in the United Kingdom over forty years.
Biography
Redvers Kyle was born in Germiston, South Africa and named after General Sir Redvers Buller, the British military commander in the early stages of the Anglo-Boer War. During his university studies, he began his broadcasting career with the South African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg, mostly in children's programmes, and appeared in dramatic productions including Boy with a Cart, which won him an award at a national drama festival.
Kyle emigrated to England in August 1952, and spent a year as a primary school teacher in south London before becoming a freelance radio and television broadcaster. His involvement with ITV began in its first month - September 1955 - when he appeared in the series Sunday Afternoon for ATV. He also made early contributions to ITN, providing commentary to news film.
His career as a continuity announcer began when he joined Associated-Rediffusion in February 1956, working alongside Muriel Young and the station's head of presentation Leslie Mitchell. Kyle later became Chief Announcer and continued with Rediffusion until the company lost its franchise. He was on duty for the station's final night of transmission on Monday 29 July 1968.
It was during Kyle's time at Rediffusion that he presented the first schools programme on British television in 1957. The programme was called Looking and Seeing and he was criticised for talking too much and trying "to cover too much ground in too short a time".
He then hosted other schools and children's programmes produced by A-R in the late 1950s and early 1960s, voiced over local adverts for ATV in the Midlands, was heard as a narrator on a number of LP records, and composed light music such as "Busy Bachelor", which was used as startup music for ABC in the late 1950s.
Following Rediffusion's closure, Kyle moved to the new Yorkshire Television in Leeds, where he served as its chief continuity announcer for nearly a quarter of a century. During this period, his voice was heard nationally on trails and promos for networked programming as well as the long-running schools series How We Used To Live and during the 1980s, the YTV children's series The Giddy Game Show. He also worked on comedian Les Dawson's first television programme Sez Les.
Redvers retired from YTV in 1993, alongside announcing colleague Graham Roberts - both announcers made a rare in-vision appearance on the regional news programme Calendar the same evening.
After his retirement, Redvers continued to work freelance as a voiceover artist, providing announcing cover for both YTV and Tyne Tees Television until around 1998. In recognition of his work for Rediffusion, his voice was also heard in programmes made by Victor Lewis-Smith, who had revived the Associated-Rediffusion nam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProvideX
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ProvideX is a computer language and development environment derived from Business Basic (a business oriented derivative of BASIC) in the mid-1980s.
ProvideX is available on several operating systems (Unix/Linux/Windows/Mac OS X) and includes not only the programming language but also file system, presentation layer interface, and other components. The language is primarily designed for use in the development of business applications.
Over the years since its inception and as the computer industry has changed, ProvideX has added functionality such as a graphical interface, client-server capabilities, access to external databases, web services, and, more recently, object-oriented programming capabilities.
On October 8, 2010, PVX Plus Technologies announced that it has assumed all ongoing sales, development, and support of the ProvideX product line for Independent Software Vendors. This brings the development of the language back under control of the original creator, Mike King and is the end result of almost 2 years of negotiations between Sage Group, EDIAS, and PVX Plus Technologies.
Syntax
Example Code
! This example code shows some ways to do the traditional hello world.
!
begin
print 'CS', ! Clear Screen
! Plain Text
print "Hello World!"
! Fonted Text (Error branch moves to next line if fonted text not available)
print (0,err=*next)'Font'("Arial,-16,B"), ! Use Bold 16pt Arial Font
print (0,err=*next)'Text'(@x(20),@y(2),"Hello World"),
! Move to the 2nd to last line on screen
print @(3,mxl(0)-2),"Press Enter: ",
input a$
! Message Box
msgbox "Hello World"+sep+sep+"This is a test message box.","Message Box"
end
Notes
ProvideX is a registered trademark of Sage Software Canada Ltd. a Subsidiary of Sage Software, Inc.
References
External links
Sage Software Canada — As of October 8, 2010, now redirects to PVX Plus Technologies
BASIC compilers
Object-oriented programming languages
Procedural programming languages
BASIC programming language family
Programming languages created in 1992
Sage Group
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