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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20construct
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In computer programming, a language construct is "a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of the programming language", as defined by in the ISO/IEC 2382 standard (ISO/IEC JTC 1).
A term is defined as a "linguistic construct in a conceptual schema language that refers to an entity".
Although the term "language construct" may often used as a synonym for control structure, other kinds of logical constructs of a computer program include variables, expressions, functions, or modules.
Control flow statements (such as conditionals, foreach loops, while loops, etc) are language constructs, not functions. So while (true) is a language construct, while add(10) is a function call.
Examples of language constructs
In PHP print is a language construct.
<?php
print 'Hello world';
?>
is the same as:
<?php
print('Hello world');
?>
Programming constructs
In Java a class is written in this format:public class MyClass {
//Code . . . . . .
}
In C++ a class is written in this format:class MyCPlusPlusClass {
//Code . . . .
};
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Youth%20Action%20Network
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The Global Youth Action Network (GYAN) is an international network of youth NGOs spanning 180 countries, and headquartered in New York, near the United Nations. GYAN is a youth-led not for profit organization (registered in 2001, New York [USA], under section 501[c]3) that incubates global partnerships and increases youth participation in decision-making. GYAN has registered chapters in Brazil, Colombia, France, Ghana, Mexico, and South Africa, with teams working out of an additional eight countries.
GYAN is known for co-coordinating Global Youth Service Day, a program of Youth Service America, since its launch in 2000. These have grown into the world's largest annual celebration of young volunteers, with millions of participants. The organization has also worked to increase youth participation and channel youth voices into policy-making at international institutions, such as the United Nations, where it holds Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and Affiliate Status with the Department of Public Information.
GYAN catalogs and helps to connect youth groups to each other, to information, resources and opportunities that empower their work for social change. Membership is open to any organization that does not promote hatred or violence towards others, and that is youth-led, youth-serving or youth-friendly. GYAN's 600 member organizations help determine future priorities for the Network, working to implement a "5-Level Model of Effective Youth Organizing", based on Ken Wilber's Integral theory and 10 years of organizing experience.
Through a partnership with TakingITGlobal, an active Internet community of student organizers, volunteers and activists, GYAN has helped to catalog more than 10,000 youth organizations on-line. GYAN's YouthLinkExpress e-newsletter reaches tens of thousands of subscribing individuals, institutions and leaders in the youth development and other sectors.
Mission
The Global Youth Action Network aims to:
increase youth participation and intergenerational partnership in decision-making
facilitate greater collaboration among youth organizations
create support and broader recognition for positive youth action
Vision
GYAN envisions millions of young people working together towards a more just, peaceful and sustainable world, where youth are seen as key stakeholders and are active participants in the design of their future. GYAN believes that critical issues facing the planet today demand every generation's attention and action, and that youth are instrumental in movements for positive social change.
Programs
GYAN also helps to organize the following initiatives:
Global Youth Service Day
Youth Movement for Democracy
Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Local Jam
Chat the Planet TV
Global Youth Action Awards
Millennium Development Goals Youth Campaign
G-Sync
History
The Global Youth Action Network evolved out of the United Nations Youth Assembly Project, proposed by 18-year-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy%20Approach
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Kennedy Approach is an air traffic control simulation computer game released by MicroProse for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 in 1985. It was designed by Andy Hollis. Ports for the Amiga and Atari ST were published in 1988.
Gameplay
The player assumes the role of a controller in a Terminal Radar Approach Control, giving instructions to aircraft so that they can safely land, as well as take off and enter their correct flight corridors. The purpose of the game is to manage the flights that are presented to the player without the flights being delayed or exiting/landing in the wrong location. The aircraft either come flying in on the screen and have preset exit or landing points or show up as wanting to take off with an exit point. It is the player's job to determine the route each aircraft flies and when they may land or take off.
The aircraft cannot be too close to each other, so the player needs to make sure that they are passing each other on different flight levels or with sufficient distance (three grid dots north/south or east/west) between them. If an aircraft crashes, collides in midair with another aircraft, or exits at the wrong location or altitude, the system will inform the air traffic controller, and the game will end at the end of the shift. Aircraft do not change course/altitude unless the player tells them to. Incoming aircraft not given clearance to land, however, will go into a holding pattern and wait until given clearance. When necessary, the player can also give holding instructions to aircraft, as long as their course takes them over a VOR tower which is used as the holding fix.
To start with, there are few flights at the same time, but at higher GS levels, there are many flights that need management at the same time. Also storms which the aircraft can not pass through show up and some aircraft have very little fuel and have to land fast or they will crash.
There are five airspaces in the game:
Atlanta
Dallas/Fort Worth - Map includes an inaccuracy in that Love Field is portrayed as northeast of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport when in fact it lies to the southeast.
Denver - Includes the Rocky Mountains to the west, over which planes cannot fly below a certain level.
Washington, D.C. - Includes the No-fly zone over the U.S. Capitol through which planes may not fly at all.
New York City
Three types of aircraft are presented in the game:
Cessna light planes - Referred to as "November" flights, a reference to their aircraft registration numbers which all start with N in the United States.
Boeing 747 - Flies twice as fast as a Cessna light plane.
Concorde - Flies twice as fast as a 747.
Four airlines are depicted in the game:
American Airlines
Delta Air Lines
United Airlines
Air France - Operates the Concordes
In both the Atari and C64 versions, the conversations between the controller and the aircraft are read out on the TV loudspeaker. Although they are quite ritualized and formal, an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culler
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Culler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Culler (born 1959), computer scientist
Dick Culler (1915–1964), baseball shortstop
Glen Culler (1927–2003), professor of electrical engineering
Marc Culler (born 1953), American mathematician
Jonathan Culler (born 1944), Professor of English at Cornell University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-Tech
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bit-tech is an online magazine for computer hardware enthusiasts, gamers and case modders, based in the UK. It was founded in 2000, became a fully professional online publication in 2005, and announced its acquisition by Dennis Publishing in October 2008. Dennis Publishing then partnered the site with existing monthly publication Custom PC magazine, making Bit-Tech the online version of the magazine. At this point the two editorial teams were totally integrated. However, due to a restructure in January 2012 the website and magazine had separate editors again, although several of the writers still contributed material to both publications. It is owned by The Media Team.
The website caters specifically for the computer hardware enthusiast market, providing reviews and articles on higher end hardware and games. Bit-Tech is also prominent in the custom case modding scene, providing a focus point for professional and amateur case modders. Much of the site's content and writing style revolve around this particular reader-base, and its regular readers have been responsible for some of the most well known case mods, such as Orac3 and the Half-Life 2 mod Black Mesa.
History
Originally bit-tech.net was designed to be a small site where people who were interested in case modding could see new ideas from the team and discuss them in the forums, due to the relatively small presence of modding at the time.
It has since diversified and, along with the trend-setting case mods, bit-tech now also features detailed reviews of computer hardware and video games, industry news and editorials. There is now increased coverage of console games, though PC games are still the major focus.
Wil Harris was editor-in-chief of Bit-Tech for almost six years and in February 2007, he announced that he was stepping down the end of March 2007 to move onto a fresh challenge. At the time, Wil's successor was not announced and it was not until April 2007 that Tim Smalley announced that he would be taking over as Editor with immediate effect. After Tim had successfully led the site to acquisition by Dennis Publishing in October 2008, he integrated it into the new owner's technology portfolio and then stood down as editor in April 2010 after launching a new consumer technology website at Dennis, Expert Reviews, at the start of the year. Alex Watson took over as bit-tech's Editor with immediate effect and was replaced by former deputy editor of Custom PC James Gorbold in December 2010. In January 2012, Dennis publishing restructured the editorial team and Simon Brew took on the role of managing editor of the site. In February 2013, Simon Brew stepped down and Dennis publishing appointed Edward Chester as Editor.
In April 2014 bit-tech was acquired by David Ross, who operates HEXUS and BOXFX as brands.
Modding content
bit-tech first became widely known for its community of PC case modders who would re-shape and decorate PC hardware into a variety of more creative forms. Although the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Life%20of...%20%28TV%20series%29
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The Secret Life of... is a television show on the Food Network originally hosted by Jim O'Connor, then later by George Duran.
The ellipsis in the title refers to the food item or style of food which is featured during the 30 minute program. Included in the lineup are: cookies, steak, comfort foods, coffee, tailgating and popcorn. The show combines history segments with recipe segments. The history segments highlight key events in a food's history, usually including where it originated. In the recipe segments, George travels to different parts of America to become an "assistant" in the kitchen of a store or restaurant which specializes in the item featured in the episode.
Actor Jim O'Connor hosted the show for the first several years of it being aired. During the O'Connor era, the show ended with the "Jim O'Connor Road Show" where Jim highlighted locations and festivals which celebrate food in unique ways.
As of April 23, 2007 (April 2 was the date announced in aired promos), George Duran took over hosting duties. George Duran was formerly the host of Food Network's Ham on the Street.
The series was developed by Sara Hutchison and Kerry Lambert for Greystone Television. Kerry Lambert was the show runner for 7 of its 8 seasons. Writers and Directors on the series include Scott Burgin, Phil Brody, Artemis Fannin, and David Case.
References
External links
Food Network: The Secret Life Of...
Food Network Episode Guide
Food Network original programming
2000s American documentary television series
Food travelogue television series
2002 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
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Raymond Reiter (; June 12, 1939 – September 16, 2002) was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed-world reasoning, and truth maintenance systems. He also contributed to the situation calculus.
Awards and honors
He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an AAAI Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He won the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 1993.
Publications
R. Reiter (1978). On closed world data bases. In H. Gallaire and J. Minker, editors, Logic and Data Bases, pages 119–140. Plenum., New York.
R. Reiter (1980). A logic for default reasoning. Artificial Intelligence, 13:81-132.
R. Reiter (1987). A theory of diagnosis from first principles. Artificial Intelligence, 32:57-95.
R. Reiter (1991). The frame problem in the situation calculus: a simple solution (sometimes) and a completeness result for goal regression. In Vladimir Lifschitz, editor, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Theory of Computation: Papers in Honor of John McCarthy, pages 359–380. Academic Press, New York.
R. Reiter (2001) Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and Implementing Dynamical Systems (448 pp.). The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.
R. Reiter and J. de Kleer (1987). Foundations of assumption-based truth maintenance systems: Preliminary report. In Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'87), pages 183–188.
H. Levesque, F. Pirri, and R. Reiter (1998). Foundations for the situation calculus Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2(3–4):159-178.
F. Pirri and R. Reiter (1999). Some contributions to the metatheory of the Situation Calculus Journal of the ACM, 46(3):325–361.
References
Artificial intelligence researchers
Canadian computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
1939 births
2002 deaths
University of Michigan alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Front%20%28The%20Simpsons%29
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"The Front" is the nineteenth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired in the United States on the Fox network on April 15, 1993. In the episode, Bart and Lisa decide to write an episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show; after their script is rejected, they resubmit it under the name of their grandfather Abraham Simpson, resulting in Grampa being hired as a staff writer. Meanwhile, Homer returns to high school to retake a failed science course.
The episode was written by Adam I. Lapidus and directed by Rich Moore. Actress Brooke Shields guest starred as herself. It is the only Simpsons episode written by Lapidus.
Plot
After being disappointed by a new episode of Itchy & Scratchy, Bart and Lisa decide that they can write a better one themselves. Inspired by the sight of Homer accidentally slicing Marge's hair off with hedge shears, they write a script titled "Little Barbershop of Horrors", but their episode is rejected by Roger Meyers Jr., head of Itchy & Scratchy International. Correctly guessing that Meyers did not take them seriously because they were children, they resubmit the manuscript under Grampa's name, leading Meyers to hire Grampa as a staff writer. Bart and Lisa inform Grampa of their scheme, and the trio conspire to continue passing off Bart and Lisa's scripts as Grampa's, splitting the money three ways. Bart and Lisa's cartoons are met with acclaim from audiences, resulting in Meyers firing Itchy & Scratchys entire writing staff, except for Grampa.
For his work on Itchy & Scratchy, Grampa is recognized for outstanding writing in a cartoon series. Krusty the Clown and Brooke Shields present the award for Outstanding Writer, although by the time the awards started, only Shields committed to be the presenter of the awards, as Krusty angrily stormed off stage after the script writer mistook Krusty's hair for another hair color when writing jokes for his lines. When Grampa sees Itchy & Scratchy for the first time in a clip show introducing the award, he is appalled at the violent humor, and turns his acceptance speech into an assault on both the cartoon and the audience amused by it. He storms off the stage amidst jeers and thrown vegetables. Grampa gives the award to Bart and Lisa, and Bart swears never to watch an award show again, unless Billy Crystal is featured.
In the subplot, Homer and Marge attend their "Class of 1974" high school reunion, where they have a great time and Homer wins a variety of humorous awards. However, Principal Dondelinger interrupts the ceremony to announce that Homer technically never graduated from high school due to failing a remedial science course and revokes all of Homer's awards. Determined to win back the accolades, Homer retakes the course and passes the final exam, finally graduating.
The episode concludes with a self-contained segment, complete with its own theme song, titled The Adventures of Ned Flanders. In the sketch, itself titl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20America%20and%20The%20Avengers
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is a beat 'em up arcade game developed and released by Data East in 1991. It features the Avengers team of Marvel Comics characters in a side-scrolling brawling and shooting adventure to defeat the evil Red Skull. The game received ports for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and Game Gear. A different Data East game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Gameplay
The Red Skull has assembled an army of supervillains and other henchmen in a plot to take over the world. Along with battling generic enemies, players also face Klaw, the Living Laser, Whirlwind, a Sentinel, Wizard, the Grim Reaper, the Mandarin, Juggernaut, Ultron, The Controller, the assassin Crossbones and finally the Red Skull himself.
Players can choose to play as one of four members of the Avengers: Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Vision. Each character can fight hand-to-hand, throw select items when on the ground, and use a ranged special attack, either a projectile weapon (Captain America's shield and Hawkeye's arrows) or an energy beam (Iron Man and Vision), known as that character's "Avenger Attack". During a jump, Captain America and Hawkeye can attack with a flying kick, while Iron Man and Vision instead attack by firing their energy beams at a 45 degree angle. Other Avengers, including the Wasp, Quicksilver, Wonder Man, and Namor the Sub-Mariner, appear when special power-ups are collected, allowing those characters to temporarily assist the players' characters.
Most game levels feature side-scrolling fighting, with free movement as in traditional arcade brawlers. Occasionally, players take flight for side-scrolling flying & shooting sequences; Iron Man and Vision fly on their own, while Captain America and Hawkeye use flying machines.
Versions
The original arcade game was sold in two forms. One version allowed four players to play simultaneously, with each player position controlling a specific character. An alternate version featured two-player gameplay, with players able to select from any of the available four characters.
Ports and related releases
Data East released a home version of the game in North America for the Sega Genesis co-developed with ISCO/Opera House. This version was published in Europe by Sega for the Mega Drive. The game was later licensed to Mindscape, who released its own ports of the arcade game for the Super NES, Game Boy and Game Gear. The versions published by Mindscape were developed by Realtime Associates.
Data East also released a different NES game with the same title. The NES version is a side-scrolling action platform game. The only playable characters in this version are Captain America and Hawkeye; their mission is to save the Vision and Iron Man from Mandarin, then defeat the Red Skull. As with the Genesis/Mega Drive port, the NES game was developed in Japan but not released there.
Data East's third and final entry in their Captain America and The Avengers licensed vide
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-copy
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"Zero-copy" describes computer operations in which the CPU does not perform the task of copying data from one memory area to another or in which unnecessary data copies are avoided. This is frequently used to save CPU cycles and memory bandwidth in many time consuming tasks, such as when transmitting a file at high speed over a network, etc., thus improving the performance of programs (processes) executed by a computer.
Principle
Zero-copy programming techniques can be used when exchanging data within a user space process (i.e. between two or more threads, etc.) and/or between two or more processes (see also producer–consumer problem) and/or when data has to be accessed / copied / moved inside kernel space or between a user space process and kernel space portions of operating systems (OS).
Usually when a user space process has to execute system operations like reading or writing data from/to a device (i.e. a disk, a NIC, etc.) through their high level software interfaces or like moving data from one device to another, etc., it has to perform one or more system calls that are then executed in kernel space by the operating system.
If data has to be copied or moved from source to destination and both are located inside kernel space (i.e. two files, a file and a network card, etc.) then unnecessary data copies, from kernel space to user space and from user space to kernel space, can be avoided by using special (zero-copy) system calls, usually available in most recent versions of popular operating systems.
Zero-copy versions of operating system elements, such as device drivers, file systems, network protocol stacks, etc., greatly increase the performance of certain application programs (that become processes when executed) and more efficiently utilize system resources. Performance is enhanced by allowing the CPU to move on to other tasks while data copies / processing proceed in parallel in another part of the machine. Also, zero-copy operations reduce the number of time-consuming context switches between user space and kernel space. System resources are utilized more efficiently since using a sophisticated CPU to perform extensive data copy operations, which is a relatively simple task, is wasteful if other simpler system components can do the copying.
As an example, reading a file and then sending it over a network the traditional way requires 2 extra data copies (1 to read from kernel to user space + 1 to write from user to kernel space) and 4 context switches per read/write cycle. Those extra data copies use the CPU. Sending that file by using mmap of file data and a cycle of write calls, reduces the context switches to 2 per write call and avoids those previous 2 extra user data copies. Sending the same file via zero copy reduces the context switches to 2 per sendfile call and eliminates all CPU extra data copies (both in user and in kernel space).
Zero-copy protocols are especially important for very high-speed networks in which the ca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsfar
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Hillsfar is a role-playing video game for MS-DOS compatible operating systems, Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It was developed by Westwood Associates and published by Strategic Simulations in 1989. It combines real-time action with randomly generated quests and includes elements of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A port to the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1993. Hillsfar received mixed reviews from critics.
Gameplay
Players start their game by creating a character. The game provides three choices: players may select a pre-made character, create their own, or import characters from previous Strategic Simulations Dungeons & Dragons computer games, such as Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds. When creating a character, players may determine the character's race (dwarf, elf, human or gnome), character class (cleric, fighter, magic-user or thief), and alignment. Various characteristics of the new character, such as strength and intelligence, are assigned a random value by the computer.
There are two aspects to the game: arcade action, where the player performs tasks (expressed as mini-games) such as searching for treasure and traveling between locations, and adventure, where the player completes quests. The choice of character class affects the available quests, with three for each class. While the quests need to be completed in a set order, "what you do in your time off is up to you", and thus the player is free to explore other aspects of the game.
The game is presented in three modes. When traveling, the scene is presented using a side-on view; once in the town of Hillsfar, the game converts to a "bird's-eye view" of the map; a first-person perspective is employed within the caves. Interaction is handled through what Leslie Eiser of Compute! magazine described as a "bump interface", which allows the player to trigger interaction with objects by bumping into them.
Plot
The game takes place in the fictional town of Hillsfar. There are guilds for each class; Fighter, Cleric, Mage, and Thief. Depending on the class chosen by the player during their character's creation, the player must go to the appropriate guildmaster, who assigns them several missions. Upon completing all missions issued by the guildmaster, they will increase the player's gold and experience points, and the character then retires.
Reception
Hillsfar was successful for SSI, selling 78,418 copies. Reviews tended to be mixed. On the positive side, the combination of arcade action and adventure was generally well received. Andy Smith of Amiga Format, in giving the game a rating of 72%, stated that SSI succeeded in producing "a good game that is a distinct mix of two very different styles", while Bob Guerra of Compute! magazine praised the arcade-style sequences, writing that Hillsfar "does a much better job of integrating these high-quality sequences into the story than many others do". Roe Adams of Computer Gaming World ga
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20storage
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Optical storage refers to a class of data storage systems that use light to read or write data to an underlying optical media. Although a number of optical formats have been used over time, the most common examples are optical disks like the compact disc (CD) and DVD. Reading and writing methods have also varied over time, but most modern systems use lasers as the light source and use it both for reading and writing to the discs. Britannica notes that it "uses low-power laser beams to record and retrieve digital (binary) data."
Overview
Optical storage is the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning optical disc. An older example of optical storage that does not require the use of computers, is microform. There are other means of optically storing data and new methods are in development. An optical disc drive is a device in a computer that can read CD-ROMs or other optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Optical storage differs from other data storage techniques that make use of other technologies such as magnetism, such as floppy disks and hard disks, or semiconductors, such as flash memory.
Optical storage in the form of discs grants the ability to record onto a compact disc in real time. Compact discs held many advantages over audio tape players, such as higher sound quality and the ability to play back digital sound. Optical storage also gained importance for its green qualities and its efficiency with high energies.
Optical storage can range from a single drive reading a single CD-ROM to multiple drives reading multiple discs such as an optical jukebox. Single CDs (compact discs) can hold around 700 MB (megabytes) and optical jukeboxes can hold much more. Single-layer DVDs can hold 4.7 GB, while dual-layered can hold 8.5 GB. This can be doubled to 9.4 GB and 17 GB by making the DVDs double-sided, with readable surfaces on both sides of the disc. HD DVDs were able to store 15 GB with a single-layer and 30 GB with a dual-layer. Blu-ray discs, which won the HDTV optical format war by defeating HD DVDs, can hold 25 GB for single-layer, 50 GB for dual-layer and up to 128 GB for quad-layer discs. Optical storage includes CDs and DVDs.
History
IBM was a leader in the development of optical storage systems for much of the early history of computing. In 1959, they installed the Automatic Language Translator, which used an optical disk holding 170,000 words and phrases in Russian and their translations in English. In 1961/2, they introduced the IBM 1360, which used small photographic slides that were read using a conventional incandescent lamp as a light source and a photocell as a detector. A separate system wrote data to the slides using an electron gun, making it a read/write system. Fully expanded, the 1360 could hold about a half a terabit of data and allowed for semi-random a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Luc%C3%ADa%2C%20Francisco%20Moraz%C3%A1n
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Santa Lucía () is a municipality in the Honduran department of Francisco Morazán.
History
There is no exact data on its beginnings, although it is known that it is one of the oldest towns, that it was inhabited before the arrival of the Spanish. Although some writers have affirmed that mining began in 1580, there are documents that indicate that around 1540 it had already been visited by the first Spanish explorers who were looking for mineral veins and then began to exploit its rich mines.
On November 12, 1820, Santa Lucía was established as a municipality in the Department of Tegucigalpa.
Tourism
Santa Lucia is a common tourist destination for those who visit the Tegucigalpa. With a mild climate, the main town can be comfortably explored on foot starting with a lagoon full of life in which you can rent rowing boats to explore it. The historic center of Santa Lucia is one of the best preserved in Honduras.
The town is full of scenic views, including views of Tegucigalpa. Santa Lucia is home to several restaurants and cafes, such as Tres Puntos and Cafe Del Pueblo. The town boasts well-preserved original colonial structures, from houses, stone streets, and its church.
Municipalities of the Francisco Morazán Department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20de%20San%20Francisco
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Villa de San Francisco is a municipality in the Honduran department of Francisco Morazán.
Its social network is https://web.archive.org/web/20101014210406/http://www.villadesanfrancisco.com/
Municipalities of the Francisco Morazán Department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20clustering
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In computer programming, primary clustering is a phenomenon that causes performance degradation in linear-probing hash tables. The phenomenon states that, as elements are added to a linear probing hash table, they have a tendency to cluster together into long runs (i.e., long contiguous regions of the hash table that contain no free slots). If the hash table is at a load factor of for some parameter , then the expected length of the run containing a given element is . This causes insertions and negative queries to take expected time in a linear-probing hash table.
Causes of primary clustering
Primary clustering has two causes:
Winner keeps winning: The longer that a run becomes, the more likely it is to accrue additional elements. This causes a positive feedback loop that contributes to the clustering effect. However, this alone would not cause the quadratic blowup.
Joining of runs: A single insertion may not only increase the length of the run that it is in by one, but may instead connect together two runs that were already relatively long. This is what causes the quadratic blowup in expected run length.
Another way to understand primary clustering is by examining the standard deviation on the number of items that hash to a given region within the hash table. Consider a sub-region of the hash table of size . The expected number of items that hash into the region is . On the other hand, the standard deviation on the number of such items is . It follows that, with probability , the number of items that hash into the region will exceed the size of the region. Intuitively, this means that regions of size will often overflow, while larger regions typically will not. This intuition is often used as the starting point for formal analyses of primary clustering.
Effect on performance
Primary clustering causes performance degradation for both insertions and queries in a linear probing hash table. Insertions must travel to the end of a run, and therefore take expected time . Negative queries (i.e., queries that are searching for an element that turns out not to be present) must also travel to the end of a run, and thus also take expected time . Positive queries can terminate as soon as they find the element that they are searching for. As a result, the expected time to query a random element in the hash table is . However, positive queries to recently-inserted elements (e.g., an element that was just inserted) take expected time .
These bounds also hold for linear probing with lazy deletions (i.e., using tombstones for deletions), as long as the hash table is rebuilt (and the tombstones are cleared out) semi-frequently. It suffices to perform such a rebuild at least once every insertions.
Common misconceptions
Many textbooks describe the winner-keeps-winning effect (in which the longer a run becomes, the more likely it is to accrue additional elements) as the sole cause of primary clustering. However, as noted by Knuth, this is not the mai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col%20%28disambiguation%29
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A col is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks; a mountain pass or saddle.
COL, CoL or col may also refer to:
Computers
Caldera OpenLinux, a defunct Linux distribution
, an HTML element specifying a column
A collision signal in Ethernet
Language
Col language, a Malayan language of Sumatra
Columbia-Wenatchi language (ISO 639-3: col)
Places
Col, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Col, Italy
The Gaelic name for the village of Coll, Lewis, Scotland
Colorado, United States
Columbus, Ohio (station code: COL)
CoL, City of London
CoL, City of Leeds
Other uses
Col (game), a pencil and paper map-coloring game
Col (meteorology), a trough of lower air pressure between two high-pressure areas in the weather
City of license, in broadcasting
Cost of living (disambiguation)
Columba (constellation)
Combined Construction and Operating License, for US nuclear power reactors
Commonwealth of Learning
compLexity Gaming, eSports organization
Costa Oriental del Lago, Zulia, Venezuela
Col., military rank of colonel
Cartridge Overall Length, an abbreviation used in handloading of firearms
Catalogue of Life
See also
Coll (disambiguation)
Colle (disambiguation)
Cole (disambiguation)
Coal (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Miguel%20Guancapla
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San Miguel Guancapla, also known as San Miguelito (), is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá.
Historical Data
In the population count of 1791 there was a town with the name of Guancapla in the parish of Intibucá. It is thought that Guancapla was founded in 1589. The town was declared a municipality in 1870. When the department of Intibucá was created in 1883, Guancapla was one of the municipalities that formed the District of La Esperanza, with the name of San Miguel Guancapla. Recently for some time it was known as San Miguelito.
While for a time the locality was called San Miguelito, Decree 166-84, promulgated by the Government of the Republic under the administration of Roberto Suazo Cordova on October 2, 1984, officially designated the name of the municipality as "San Miguel Guancapla". Guancapla means "En los Guacales", which refers to a tree that produces a round fruit of woody pericarp, often used for containers.
Geography
Located in a flat area, the municipality borders on the north with the municipalities of San Juan and Yamaranguila, to the south with the municipality of Dolores, to the east with the municipality of Yamaranguila and to the west with the municipality of Erandique.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, San Miguel Guancapla municipality had a population of 7,368. Of these, 73.54% were Indigenous (73.22% Lenca), 16.72% Mestizo, 5.02% White, 4.06% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.66% others.
Villages
The municipality has the following five villages (or aldeas):
San Miguelito or San Miguel Guancapla (capital of the municipality)
Chupucay or Resina
San Antonio
Segua
Cofradía
References
Municipalities of the Intibucá Department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Programme%20for%20Antarctic%20Buoys
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The International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB) is a component of the WCRP.
Programme
It aims to establish and maintain a network of drifting buoys in the Antarctic sea-ice zone which monitor ice motion, pressure and temperature. This is to support research in the region related to global climate processes, provide real-time operational meteorological data for numerical weather forecast centres and establish a basis for on-going monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic climate in the Antarctic sea-ice zone. IPAB was established in June 1994. The operational area of the Programme is south of 55 degrees south latitude, and includes that region of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic marginal seas within the maximum seasonal sea-ice extent.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20050306035740/http://www.antcrc.utas.edu.au/antcrc/buoys/buoys.html
Climatological research
Climate of Antarctica
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20X/OS
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X/OS was a Unix from the computer manufacturer Olivetti. It was based on 4.2BSD with some UNIX System V support. It ran on their LSX line of computers, which was based on the Motorola 68000-series CPUs.
Unix variants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEVV-TV
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WEVV-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Evansville, Indiana, United States, affiliated with CBS, Fox, and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, the station maintains studios on Carpenter and Bond Streets in downtown Evansville and a transmitter at John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky.
WEEV-LD (channel 47) in Evansville operates as a low-power translator of WEVV-TV, relaying the Fox and MyNetworkTV programming shown on WEVV-DT2; this station's transmitter is located on Wolf Hills Road in Henderson along the Ohio River.
History
Early history
Channel 44 first signed on the air on November 17, 1983, as an independent station. The station was originally owned by Ralph Wilson (owner of San Francisco independent station KICU-TV, and founder of the Buffalo Bills). It was the first full-market independent station in the Tri-State, and the first full-market commercial television station to sign on in the Evansville market since WTVW (channel 7, now a CW affiliate) debuted 27 years earlier in August 1956.
Competing independent station WLCN (channel 19, later WAZE-TV and now defunct)—which signed one month after WEVV began operations—primarily served the southern part of the market at the time. The station originally operated from studio facilities located on Main Street and Riverside Drive in downtown Evansville.
As a Fox affiliate
The station became an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company on April 5, 1987, when the network debuted its inaugural lineup of prime time programming, which aired on Sunday evenings. However, like other Fox stations during the network's early years, WEVV continued to be programmed as a de facto independent station, as Fox would not carry seven nights a week of programming until September 1993.
Until Fox began airing programming on a nightly basis, WEVV aired movies on nights when network programs did not air, usually starting at 7:00 p.m. Shortly after affiliating with the network, the station began branding as "Fox 44". The station changed its branding to "WEVV Fox TV" in 1994.
CBS affiliation
In May 1995, Banam Broadcasting, a subsidiary of BankAmerica, sold WTVW to Petracom Broadcasting. Fox then acquired a 20% equity stake in Petracom; this led to a three-way affiliation swap in which WTVW ended its affiliation with ABC after 39 years and joined Fox on December 3, 1995. Conversely, the ABC affiliation moved to WEHT (channel 25) ending that station's affiliation with CBS.
On July 1, 1995, WEVV signed an affiliation agreement with CBS to become the network's new affiliate for the Evansville market. Although CBS' affiliation agreement with WEHT did not expire until December of that year, channel 25 (which was unhappy about losing its network affiliation with CBS after 42 years) began dropping CBS shows from its schedule in stages. As a result, CBS' programming gradually migrated to WEVV over the next four months, during which the station carried both CBS and Fox programming. The Pri
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20%28disambiguation%29
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Dell is a computer design-and-manufacturing company.
Dell, Dells, or The Dell also may refer to:
Geography
Dell (landform), a small valley
Dell, Arkansas, a town
Dell, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
Dell, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Dell, Montana, an unincorporated community
The Dell, Leamington Spa, a park in Warwickshire, England
People and fictional characters
Dell (name), a surname, given name and nickname (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name)
Michael Dell, founder and Dell Technologies
Businesses
Dell Technologies, parent company of Dell Inc.
Dell Publishing, now an imprint of Random House
Dell Comics, the comic-book arm (1929-1974)
Dell Magazines, the magazine arm
Buildings
Dell Diamond, a minor league baseball stadium in Round Rock, Texas
The Dell, Kingussie, a shinty stadium, home of Kingussie Camanachd in Scotland
The Dell, Southampton, former home of Southampton F.C.
Falmouth Town railway station, known as The Dell between 1974 and 1989
The Dell, Thurrock, a concrete house in Grays, Essex, England, built by Alfred Russel Wallace
Other uses
The Dells, a rhythm and blues musical act, starting 1952
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, a pediatric trauma center
Dell Medical School, the graduate medical school of the University of Texas at Austin
Dell Bridge, a footbridge in Port Sunlight, Wirral, England
See also
Dell City, Texas, a city
Del (disambiguation)
Dale (disambiguation)
O'Dell (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamHost
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DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is owned by New Dream Network, LLC, founded in 1996 by Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez and Sage Weil, undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and registered in 1997 by Michael Rodriguez. DreamHost began hosting customers' sites in 1997. In May 2012, DreamHost spun off Inktank. Inktank is a professional services and support company for the open source Ceph file system. In November 2014, DreamHost spun off Akanda, an open source network virtualization project. As of February 2016, Dreamhost employs about 200 people and has close to 400,000 customers.
Web hosting
DreamHost's shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting network consists of Apache, nginx and lighttpd web servers running on the Ubuntu operating system. DreamHost also offers cloud storage and computing services for entrepreneurs and developers, launched in 2012. The control panel for users to manage all services is a custom application designed in-house, and includes integrated billing and a support ticket system. DreamHost's staff contribute to an official blog and a customer support wiki.
DreamHost does not offer call-in phone support, but customers can pay extra to request callbacks from support staff. Furthermore, a live chat option is available for all accounts when the level of support emails is low. This option is always available for customers that already pay the monthly fee for callbacks. The company hosts in excess of one million domains.
File hosting
In 2006, the company began a beta version file hosting service they called "Files Forever". The company stated that existing customers could store files "forever" after paying a one-time storage fee, and redistribute or sell them with DreamHost handling the transactions. As of November 2012, this service was no longer offered to new customers. In April 2013, DreamHost mentioned that the Files Forever service had been discontinued and that they would focus on building a better-supported storage technology.
Free application hosting
In 2009, the company began offering free web application hosting. With either their own domain or a free subdomain, customers were able to make use of a number of open source applications, such as WordPress and MediaWiki without charge. The service is similar to, and can be integrated with, the Google App Engine. Through a control panel, customers are able to manage their applications or upgrade to the standard, fully managed hosting service.
DreamCompute
DreamHost's DreamCompute is a public cloud computing service that provides scalable compute resources for developers and entrepreneurs. DreamCompute users select the amount of compute resources and storage resources needed and define their own virtual networks. DreamCompute is powered by OpenStack and Ceph and is designed for scalability, resiliency, and security.
The DreamCompute dashboard is built with OpenStack's Horizon pr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20measurement
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Temperature measurement (also known as thermometry) describes the process of measuring a current local temperature for immediate or later evaluation. Datasets consisting of repeated standardized measurements can be used to assess temperature trends.
History
Attempts at standardized temperature measurement prior to the 17th century were crude at best. For instance in 170 AD, physician Claudius Galenus mixed equal portions of ice and boiling water to create a "neutral" temperature standard. The modern scientific field has its origins in the works by Florentine scientists in the 1600s including Galileo constructing devices able to measure relative change in temperature, but subject also to confounding with atmospheric pressure changes. These early devices were called thermoscopes. The first sealed thermometer was constructed in 1654 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II. The development of today's thermometers and temperature scales began in the early 18th century, when Gabriel Fahrenheit produced a mercury thermometer and scale, both developed by Ole Christensen Rømer. Fahrenheit's scale is still in use, alongside the Celsius and Kelvin scales.
Technologies
Many methods have been developed for measuring temperature. Most of these rely on measuring some physical property of a working material that varies with temperature. One of the most common devices for measuring temperature is the glass thermometer. This consists of a glass tube filled with mercury or some other liquid, which acts as the working fluid. Temperature increase causes the fluid to expand, so the temperature can be determined by measuring the volume of the fluid. Such thermometers are usually calibrated so that one can read the temperature simply by observing the level of the fluid in the thermometer. Another type of thermometer that is not really used much in practice, but is important from a theoretical standpoint, is the gas thermometer.
Other important devices for measuring temperature include:
Thermocouples
Thermistors
Resistance temperature detector (RTD)
Pyrometer
Langmuir probes (for electron temperature of a plasma)
Infrared thermometer
Other thermometers
One must be careful when measuring temperature to ensure that the measuring instrument (thermometer, thermocouple, etc.) is really the same temperature as the material that is being measured. Under some conditions heat from the measuring instrument can cause a temperature gradient, so the measured temperature is different from the actual temperature of the system. In such a case the measured temperature will vary not only with the temperature of the system, but also with the heat transfer properties of the system.
What thermal comfort humans, animals and plants experience is related to more than temperature shown on a glass thermometer. Relative humidity levels in ambient air can induce more or less evaporative cooling. Measurement of the wet-bulb temperature normalizes this humidity effect. Mean radiant
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTHI-TV
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WTHI-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States, affiliated with CBS, Fox, MyNetworkTV and The CW Plus. Owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, the station has studios on 8th and Ohio Streets in downtown Terre Haute, and its transmitter is located along US 41/150 in unincorporated Sullivan County (south of Farmersburg).
History
WTHI-TV first signed on the air on July 22, 1954. It was the first television station in the Terre Haute market. It was founded by local businessman and Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony Hulman, owner of radio stations WTHI (1480 AM, now WPFR), and WTHI-FM (99.9). Channel 10 has been a CBS affiliate since its sign-on; however, it initially carried programming from NBC, ABC and the DuMont Television Network as well through secondary affiliations. WTHI-TV originally operated from a studio facility at 918 Ohio Street (at the intersection of South 9th ½ and Ohio Streets) in downtown Terre Haute, which also became occupied by WTHI-FM upon the television station's sign-on (the building was originally constructed in 1906 to house a garment factory).
WTHI lost the DuMont affiliation when the network ceased operations in August 1956; NBC programming moved to the city's second television station, WTWO (channel 2), when it signed on the air in September 1965. The station exclusively aligned with CBS when the ABC affiliation moved to WIIL-TV (channel 38, now WAWV-TV), when it signed on in April 1973. Local programs airing on the station during its earlier history featured Jerry Van Dyke of Coach and My Mother the Car fame, and "Captain Jack" Hanes, whose most famous guest was eventual Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.
WTHI was a secondary affiliate of UPN when the network launched on January 16, 1995, carrying its programming immediately after CBS late night. Rare for those arrangements with UPN, it continued until the network ended operations and merged with the WB in September 2006 to form The CW, as no full-power or low-power stations came on the air in the market through that time.
The Hulman family continued to own WTHI-TV until 1998, when they sold the station to Emmis Communications. Emmis Communications announced the sale of its 16 television stations on May 15, 2005, in order to concentrate on its radio properties. Emmis sold WTHI-TV to the LIN TV Corporation in August 2005, placing it under common ownership with LIN's three other CBS affiliates in Indiana: WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, WLFI-TV in Lafayette), and at the time, WISH-TV in Indianapolis (the affiliation has since moved to WTTV in January 2015).
In October 2012, the station relocated its operations to a new facility located one block west of its original studios, at 800 Ohio Street in downtown Terre Haute; the original studio building, which was also shared with former sister stations WWVR (105.5 FM) (which, along with WTHI-FM, remains owned by Emmis Communications), was demolished in December 2012 to accommodate parking for a new
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armitage%20III
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is a 1995 cyberpunk original video animation series. It centers on Naomi Armitage, a highly advanced "Type-III" android. In 1996, the series was edited into a film called .
The series was followed up in 2002 with a sequel, set some years after the original story.
Plot
Armitage III and Poly-Matrix
In 2046, the overpopulation of Earth has led to the colonization of Mars—with the aid of the "first type" androids, men were able to begin terraforming the unfriendly environment of Mars and build the city Saint Lowell. Some time after the start of colonization, the city is completed and inhabited by great numbers of people and "Second type" robots, much improved versions of the "First types". Ross Sylibus, a middle-aged policeman from Chicago, flies to Saint Lowell using a space shuttle. Sylibus asked to be transferred to the Martian Police Department to escape from his past and haunting memories of his previous partner being killed by a robot. At the Saint Lowell's space port he is to meet his new partner—a young woman named Naomi Armitage.
On the same shuttle as Sylibus travels Kelly McCanon—"the last country singer in the Universe". As the shuttle nears the terminal, a mysterious man is seen entering the cargo section; soon after this, the intruder is noticed and the alarms go off.
Later, as Ross gets off the shuttle, he witnesses a disturbing scene at the airport. He bumps into the mysterious man with a big suitcase and two guards. Soon after that, Armitage orders the men to stop and get their hands up. Puzzled, Ross notices a few drops of blood spilling from the mysterious man's suitcase. The two robot guards are killed by Armitage and the mysterious man is wounded, but flees. However, he leaves his suitcase behind—inside of which is the dead body of Kelly McCanon. To everybody's surprise and horror, McCanon turns out to be a robot: a new, never-seen-before "Third type" android that is superficially identical to humans.
Later, the mysterious man hacks into the public television system and replays the security camera footage. The tape shows the man killing Kelly McCanon and reveals the fact of her being a robot to the entire city. The mysterious man, René D'anclaude, reveals that the Third types have been among the regular people for a long time and nobody can tell them apart from humans. He also reveals a list of Thirds—and it turns out that a lot of well-known people are actually robots. Riots begin in the city as people start to capture and burn all the Thirds they can find. Meanwhile, René D'anclaude proceeds with his extermination of the Thirds. The two main characters start their investigation and eventually realize that the victims are women.
One of the dying victims, Jessica Manning, sends out a message with the list of Thirds to save them from being slaughtered. Armitage receives it and pursues D'anclaude. Armitage is eventually revealed to be a third and goes into hiding as the police hunt for her. Ross seeks her out as she enlists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarizama
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Guarizama is a municipality in the Honduran department of Olancho.
Its name comes from Quanhilzamatil, tight amate tree, probably in the place had that tree.
Historical data
In the population census of 1887 listed as Manto Village in 1901 was given municipality status.
Villages
The municipality has the following five villages: National Institute of Statistics, Honduras. (Census 2001)
Guarizama
El Zapotal
La Carta
El Rodeo
Trinidad
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Guarizama municipality had a population of 7,769. Of these, 98.12% were Mestizo, 1.52% White, 0.19% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.17% Indigenous.
References
Municipalities of the Olancho Department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap%20City
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Rap City is a music video television program block that originally aired on the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network from August 11, 1989, to November 8, 2008. The program was an exclusive showcase for hip hop music videos, and features interviews with and freestyles from popular rappers, and often has guest DJs serve as co-hosts.
History
Conception
The show was created by former BET VJ/producer Alvin Jones, a.k.a. "The Unseen VJ". This was a spin-off of the "Rap Week" segment of Video Vibrations, also hosted by "The Unseen VJ". While its competitor Yo! MTV Raps, which is now discontinued, mainly focused on popular rappers, Rap City also included videos from up-and-coming underground rappers.
In the Spring of 1999, Stephen G. Hill, then-President of Music Programming, took Rap City from its original format, a traveling show that went into the cities of the hottest rappers in the country, to an in studio format. Retitled Rap City: Tha Basement after meeting [at a DJ/Music Convention] DJ & radio personalities The Bassment Brothers: Trouble T & Phil the Thrill, who were doing a show called Friday Night in the Bassment on WKKV fm radio in Milwaukee, WI during this time. Big Tigger, the host chosen for the show, even resembled one of the brothers: Trouble T. So much so that his grandmother reached out to him to congratulate him about the show after mistaking Tigger for her grandson! Hill, Senior Producer Craig Henry and Producer John Tucker were credited with creating the studio format. Henry created a 360° basement set that gave the illusion of a real basement, and Tucker was noted for creating the iconic performance in the bathroom that became "The Booth".
Hosts and timeslots
Among notable previous hosts of the show are Chris Thomas (the first host of the show from 1989–1991). Throughout his run, Thomas was also known as "The Mayor of Rap City", or simply "The Mayor". Other hosts included Hans Dobson aka Prime (1989–1993), Prince DaJour (1991–1994), Joe Clair (1994–1999), Leslie Segar (a.k.a. Big Lez) (1994–1999), Big Tigger (1998–2005), DJ Mad Linx (2005–2006), J-Nicks (2005–2006) and Q-45 (2006–2008).
On September 13, 1999, Stephen G. Hill, BET's President of Music Programming, Senior Producer Craig Henry and Producer John Tucker a new show to fit a studio format; Rap City was re-titled Rap City: Tha Basement and newly hosted by Big Tigger (a.k.a. Tigger), who succeeded Joe Clair and Big Lez. On August 28, 2000, BET moved the show to 4 p.m. On January 18, 2005, the show was repackaged and Big Tigger was replaced as host by Mad Linx, a DJ and radio personality. The transition was explained that Tigger's "mother" sold the basement and forced him out to live with his father. On October 3, 2005, Mad Linx went on hiatus to host BET Road Show; for the following several months, the show was hosted by J-Nicks, a native of St. Louis. Occasionally, special guests (such as a hip hop star) would host Rap City. The show's runtime was also shorten
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor%20Ambush
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Armor Ambush is a video game for the Atari 2600 produced by M Network. Mattel originally released the game in 1979 as Armor Battle for its Intellivision console.
Gameplay
Armor Ambush is a game that gives players control over tanks that battle one another over terrain that offers varying degrees of texture and traversability. Dueling tanks was a theme familiar to owners of the Atari 2600 since Combat, the game packaged with nearly every Atari 2600 system, had a very similar premise. However, Armor Ambush expands upon the simple battles available to players of Combat. The game takes place on a different randomly selected battlefield each round. Additionally, players can drop mines on the battlefield by simultaneously pressing the fire button and pulling down on the joystick. The mines remain active for the duration of the battle, destroying either tank that runs over them. Players are able to control two tanks and switch between them on command. The terrain is more diverse, featuring areas of foliage, water, and natural barriers. But as with "Combat", there is no AI for the computer, and the game cannot be played solo.
References
1982 video games
Atari 2600 games
Shooter games
Top-down video games
Video games developed in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20MacDonald%27s%20Farm
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New MacDonald's Farm is an Australian live action children's television program broadcast on the Nine Network from 12 April 2004 to 1 June 2007. This show and Australian hit Hi-5 used to swap the timeslot in order to film new seasons. The series also aired on Playhouse Disney in Australia.
Premise
The show revolves around a farm in the country owned by Milly and Max and occupied by six farm animals: Henry the Horse, Daisy the Cow, Dash the Duck, Percy the Pig, Shirley the Sheep, and Charlotte the Hen. The show is aimed at pre-schoolers, and is of a light-hearted nature. It includes short sequences related to the show's plot, and sequences of singing and dancing with Max, Milly and some other children (who are older than pre-school age). Max is a forgetful, funny and energetic farm worker, who often gets his foot stuck in a bucket. Milly, on the other hand, is an intelligent, helpful and caring farmhand, who often helps Max out of his sticky situations. Each episode is half an hour long.
The name of the show suggests that it was inspired by the classic children's song Old McDonald Had a Farm.
Production
The series was developed by Simon Hopkinson, Ron Saunders was well known as the creator of Spellbinder and Johnson and Friends and Ian Munro who also directed Hi-5, Bananas in Pyjamas, Johnson and Friends, Magic Mountain, Cushion Kids and Toybox.
Animatronic designer and puppeteer Ian James Colmer, who also plays the voice of Charlotte the Hen, now runs a film production company Destiny Pictures (www.destinypictures.net).
Charlotte the Hen got her name from a competition winner named Charlotte with initial S.
The farm is tying into the title's name "New McDonald's Farm". The logo (on the entrance to the farm) is a yellow sun with the title name on it (in yellow, blue and orange. A running gag is that whenever the sign falls down, Max is desperate to fix it. The "Song of the Day" segment is after the intro of the show.
Max and Milly are played by 3 Brisbane actors and one actor from Britain, Tim Mager, Nikki Payten, Heidi Luchterhand and John Tobias who wear large foam and fabric costumes with animatronic heads. The controls are very simple and involve servo motors to actuate the eye blink, eye turn and mouth open and close. This is a very basic system, which relies on the character performers off screen to watch and listen to the pre-recorded audio track, and try to sync the mouth movement.
The animals are cable controlled and have limited movement, sometimes requiring the performers to pick them up and physically move them around to create the illusion of life.
Inside their suits, Tim, Nikki, Heidi and John must wear cold vests, which are made of a gel. These are frozen, and then slowly thaw out as the actors wear them. The suits are extremely hot to wear.
After the first season, James Colmer was commissioned to re-design and re-build all the head animatronics, making them lighter, stronger, and easier to maintain. A full kilogram of wei
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Fractal Design is a computer hardware manufacturer from Sweden. Founded in 2007, the company manufactures computer cases, water coolers, case fans, and power supplies. All products are designed and engineered in Sweden.
In recent years the company's products have won several awards in computer hardware industry such as the Case Manufacturer of the Year (2013–2015), European Hardware Awards (2015) and Brand of the year IXBT.com (2015), Russia.
The company headquarters of Fractal Design is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, where the products are designed. Fractal Design manufactures all their products in China. To support its international operations, Fractal Design has offices in Europe, North America and Asia.
History
Fractal Design was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2007. In 2009, international recognition for the company grew after the first computer case within the Define series was introduced. In the same year, the company opened a North America office in Dallas, Texas. A few months later, an Asia office was established to handle increased Product Development and Sales.
By the end of 2016, the company continued to develop the concepts of Scandinavian design, silent computing and support of powerful computer configurations by launching new computer cases under the Define series.
In 2020, Fractal products are available in more than 50 countries. Fractal remains one of the world's premier brands when it comes to designing and manufacturing cases, fans, power supplies and accessories for gaming- and hardware enthusiasts with high expectations.
Products
The company's products include:
Power supplies
Water cooling
See also
List of computer hardware manufacturers
References
External links
Computer enclosure companies
Computer power supply unit manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Gothenburg
Swedish brands
Manufacturing companies established in 2007
Swedish companies established in 2007
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201968
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The 10th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 22 March 1968 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. British television actress Violet Carson and American television actors Christopher George, Peter Breck and Cheryl Miller appeared as guests. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1968:
Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Brian Henderson
Logie
National
Best Teenage Personality
Winner:
Little Pattie
TV Quizmaster of the Decade
Winner:
Bob Dyer
TV Sportscaster of the Year
Winner:
Ron Casey
Best Drama Series
Winner:
Homicide, Seven Network
Best Overseas Show
Winner:
Till Death Us Do Part
Best New Show of 1967
Winner:
This Day Tonight, ABC
Best Australian Comedy
Winner:
My Name's McGooley, Seven Network
Best Australian Show
Winner:
Sound of Music, Nine Network
Best Commercial
Winner:
Alka Seltzer
Outstanding Australian TV Contribution
Winner:
"Days of Destiny" from Project 67, Nine Network
Victoria
Best Male Personality
Winner:
Graham Kennedy
Best Female Personality
Winner:
Rosie Sturgess
Best Show
Winner:
In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
New South Wales
Best Male Personality
Winner:
Don Lane
Best Female Personality
Winner:
Dita Cobb
Best Show
Winner:
Tonight with Don Lane, Nine Network
South Australia
Best Male Personality
Winner:
Ernie Sigley
Best Female Personality
Winner:
Anne Wills
Best Show
Winner:
Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Best Male Personality
Winner:
Rod Cadee
Best Female Personality
Winner:
Jill McCann
Best Show
Winner:
I've Got a Secret, Nine Network
Tasmania
Best Male Personality
Winner:
Lindsay Edwards
Best Female Personality
Winner:
Caroline Schmit
Best Show
Winner:
Line-Up, ABC
External links
Australian Television: 1966-1969 Logie Awards
TV Week Logie Awards: 1968
1968 television awards
1968 in Australian television
1968
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The 12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 20 March 1970 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer, British television actor Peter Wyngarde and American actors Peter Graves and Robert Young appeared as guests. Peggy Lipton, star of the US series The Mod Squad, was also originally scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute due to a severe middle-ear infection. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1970:
Awards
Gold Logie
Awards presented by Robert Young
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Barry Crocker, Sound Of Music, Nine Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Maggie Tabberer, Maggie, Seven Network
Special Gold Logie
Special Gold Logie For Providing TV's Greatest Moment In Their Moon Telecast
Winner: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Logie
National
Best Australian Drama Series
Winner: Division 4, Nine Network
Best Teenage Personality
Winner: Johnny Farnham
Best Australian Musical/Variety Show
Winner: Sound Of Music, Nine Network
Best Australian Documentary
Winner: Chequerboard, ABC
Best Overseas Show
Winner: The Mod Squad
Best Australian Commercial
Winner: Coca-Cola
For Pioneering Australia's First World Championship Boxing Telecast
Winner: Sir Reginald Ansett
Outstanding Contribution To Australian Television
Winner: Hector Crawford
Best Children's Show
Winner: Here's Humphrey, Nine Network
Outstanding Work As Compere
Winner: Bert Newton, In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
Outstanding Documentary
Winner: Dig a Million, Make a Million, ABC
Best News Reporting
Winner: Steve Raymond, for stories on Marianne Faithfull and a mass teenage funeral at Warren in NSW, Network Ten
Victoria
Best Male Personality
Winner: Mike Preston
Best Female Personality
Winner: Rosemary Margan
Best Local Show
Winner: In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
New South Wales
Best Male Personality
Winner: Don Lane
Best Female Personality
Winner: Rosemary Eather
Best Local Show
Winner: Tonight Show With Don Lane, Nine Network
South Australia
Best Male Personality
Winner: Ernie Sigley
Best Female Personality
Winner: Anne Wills
Best Local Show
Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Best Male Personality
Winner: Ron Cadee
Best Female Personality
Winner: Joy Chambers
Best Local Show
Winner: Dick McCann Show, Network Ten
Tasmania
Best Male Personality
Winner: Lindsay Edwards
Best Female Personality
Winner: Caroline Schmit
Best Local Show
Winner: :It's Just For Us
Western Australia
Best Male Personality
Winner: Garry Meadows
Best Female Personality
Winner: Trina Brown
Best Local Show
Winner: Today Tonight, ABC
Special Achievement Award
George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent
Winner: Jeff Phillips
External links
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The 13th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 26 March 1971 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actors Michael Cole, Peter Haskell, Bob Crane and Karen Jensen appeared as guests. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1970:
Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Gerard Kennedy, Division 4, Nine Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Maggie Tabberer, Maggie, Seven Network
Special Gold Logie In Recognition Of Their Contribution To Australian TV
Winner:
Bob and Dolly Dyer, Pick-A-Box, Seven Network
National
Best Australian Drama
Winner:
Homicide, Seven Network
Best Actor
Winner:
Gerard Kennedy, Division 4, Nine Network
Best Teenage Personality
Winner:
Johnny Farnham
Best Australian Comedy
Winner:
Noel Ferrier's Australia A-Z
Best Musical/Variety Show
Winner:
Sound Of Music, Nine Network
Best Documentary/Current Affairs Series
Winner:
Four Corners, ABC
Best Overseas Show
Winner:
The Mod Squad
Best Commercial
Winner:
Coca-Cola
Best New Australian Drama
Winner:
Dynasty, ABC
For Their Contribution To The Australian Teenager On TV
Winner:
Happening 70, Network Ten
Most Outstanding News Coverage
Winner:
Heinz Voelzer, ABC
Most Outstanding Coverage Of Political Affairs
Winner:
This Day Tonight, ABC
Most Outstanding Documentary
Winner:
Scream Bloody Murder, Network Ten
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Jimmy Hannan
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Sue Donovan
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Weekend Starts Here, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Barry Crocker
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Maggie Tabberer
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Bob Rogers Show, Seven Network
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Anne Wills
Most Popular Show
Winner:
Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Ron Cadee
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Annette Allison
Most Popular Show
Winner:
I've Got A Secret, Nine Network
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Lindsay Edwards
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Caroline Schmit
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Tonight Show
Western Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Garry Meadows
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Trina Brown
Most Popular Show
Winner:
Spotlight, Nine Network
Special Achievement Award
George Wallace Memorial Award For Best New Talent
Winner:
Liv Maessen
External links
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TV Week Logie Awards: 1971
1971 television awards
1971 in Australian television
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The 14th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 18 February 1972 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne. The awards were broadcast live on the Nine Network in Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide and broadcast later elsewhere. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. The awards featured appearances by Rock Hudson and Roger Moore. Juliet Mills, Kenneth Connor and Robert Reed were also present.
The Gold Logie was won by Gerard Kennedy for his lead role in Division 4 and he also won best actor with Pat Smith winning the best actress award for her role in the same series. Division 4 also won the best Australian drama. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1971:
Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Presented by Rock Hudson
Winner:
Gerard Kennedy
Logie
National
Best Actor
Winner:
Gerard Kennedy, Division 4, Nine Network
Best Actress
Winner:
Pat Smith, Division 4, Nine Network
Best Australian Drama
Winner:
Division 4, Nine Network
Best Teenage Personality
Winner:
Johnny Farnham
Best Australian Comedy
Winner:
The Group, Seven Network
Best Australian Music/Variety Show
Winner:
Young Talent Time, Network Ten
Best Compere
Winner:
Bert Newton, In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
Best Overseas Drama USA
Winner:
The Mod Squad
Best Overseas Drama UK
Winner:
The Persuaders
Best Commercial
Winner:
Fanta
Best New Drama Series
Winner:
Matlock Police, Network Ten
Best Scriptwriter
Winner:
Tony Morphett, Dynasty, ABC
Best Individual Acting Performance
Winner:
Jack Fegan, Division 4, Nine Network
Best News Coverage
Winner:
Victoria-Springbok rugby match
Outstanding Creative Effort
Winner:
Dead Men Running, ABC
Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism
Winner:
Dateline ‘71, Network Ten
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Frank Wilson
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Mary Hardy
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Penthouse Club, Seven Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Bob Rogers
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Penny Spence
Most Popular Program
Winner:
The Bob Rogers Show, Seven Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Ron Cadee
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Dina Heslop
Most Popular Program
Winner:
I've Got A Secret, Nine Network
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Anne Wills
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Graeme Smith
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Sue Gray
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Smith's Weekly
Western Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Jeff Newman
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jenny Clemesha
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Stars Of The Future, Seven Network
Special Achievement Awards
George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent
Winner:
Jamie Redfern, Young Talent Time, Network Ten
External links
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The 15th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 16 February 1973 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star Glenn Ford and television actors Michael Cole, Gail Fisher and Loretta Swit were in attendance as guest presenters. The programme is remembered for a drunken, incoherent acceptance speech from Cole which concluded with a swear word.
Awards
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1973:
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Presented by Glenn Ford and Loretta Swit
Winner: Tony Barber, Great Temptation, Seven Network
National Logie
Best Actor
Winner: Gerard Kennedy, Division 4, Nine Network
Best Actress
Winner: Pat McDonald, Number 96, Network Ten
Best Australian Drama
Winner: Homicide, Seven Network
Best Teenage Personality
Winner: Johnny Farnham
Best Australian Comedy
Winner: The Godfathers, Nine Network
Best Compere
Winner: Bert Newton, The Graham Kennedy Show, Nine Network
Best American Show
Winner: The Mod Squad
Best British Show
Winner: On The Buses
Best Commercial
Winner: Winfield Cigarettes
Best New Drama
Winner: Number 96, Network Ten
Best Scriptwriter
Winner: Frank Hardy, Boney, Seven Network
Best Single Performance By An Actress
Winner: Anna Volska, Behind The Legend, ABC
Best Single Performance By An Actor
Winner: James Laurenson, Boney, Seven Network
Best News Coverage
Winner: George Street bombings, Greg Grainger, Nine Network news
Best Public Affairs Program
Winner: A Current Affair, Nine Network
Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism
Winner: Caroline Jones, ABC
Best Documentary
Winner: Rod Kinnear, Jane Cooper doco
Best Documentary Series
Winner: Shell's Australia, Seven Network
Outstanding Creative Effort
Winner: John Power, Like A Summer Storm, ABC
Contribution To Children's TV
Winner: Godfrey Philipp, Adventure Island, ABC
State Logie
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner: Graham Kennedy
Most Popular Female
Winner: Mary Hardy
Most Popular Show
Winner: The Graham Kennedy Show, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner: Tony Barber
Most Popular Female
Winner: Barbara Rogers
Most Popular Show
Winner: Great Temptation, Seven Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner: Ron Cadee
Most Popular Female
Winner: Dina Heslop
Most Popular Show
Winner: I've Got A Secret, Nine Network
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner: Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner: Anne Wills
Most Popular Show
Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner: Graeme Smith
Most Popular Female
Winner: Sue Gray
Most Popular Show
Winner: Smith's Weekly
Western Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner: Jeff Newman
Most Popular Female
Winner: Sandy Palmer
Most Popular Show
Winner: Anything Goes, Seven Network
Special Achievement Awards
George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent
Winner: Paul Hogan, The Paul Hogan Show, Seven Network
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The 16th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday, 8 March 1974 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton was the Master of Ceremonies. Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida and American television actors Tige Andrews, David Cassidy and Macdonald Carey appeared as guests.
Awards
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1974:
Gold Logie
Awards presented by Gina Lollobrigida
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Graham Kennedy, The Graham Kennedy Show, Nine Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Pat McDonald, Number 96, 0-10 Network
Logie
National
Best Australian Actor
Winner: Leonard Teale, Homicide, Seven Network
Best Australian Actress
Winner: Pat McDonald, Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Drama
Winner: Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Teenage Personality
Winner: Debbie Byrne, Young Talent Time, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Comedy
Winner: The Aunty Jack Show, ABC
Best Australian Music/Variety Show
Winner: Young Talent Time, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Compere
Winner: Bert Newton, The Graham Kennedy Show, Nine Network
Best American Show
Winner: The Mod Squad
Best British Show
Winner: The Benny Hill Show
Best Australian Commercial
Winner: Kingford Cigarettes
Best New Drama
Winner: Seven Little Australians, ABC
Best Script
Winner: Fred Cullen, Homicide, Seven Network
Best News Coverage
Winner: Balsa rafts Chile/Australia trip (Ian Leslie, 0-10 Network)
Best Public Affairs Program
Winner: A Current Affair, Nine Network
Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism
Winner: Steve Raymond, A Current Affair, Nine Network
Outstanding Single Acting Performance
Winner: Fred Cullen, Homicide, Seven Network
Outstanding Contribution To TV Comedy Writing
Winner: Fred Parsons
Best Single Documentary
Winner: Escape From Singapore, John Power, ABC
Best Documentary Series
Winner: Wild Australia, ABC
Outstanding Creative Effort
Winner: Gordon French, Tommy, Seven Network
Outstanding Contribution To Daytime TV
Winner: Mike Walsh, The Mike Walsh Show, 0-10 Network
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner: Graham Kennedy
Most Popular Female
Winner: Mary Hardy
Most Popular Show
Winner: The Graham Kennedy Show, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner: Don Lane
Most Popular Female
Winner: Marilyn Mayo
Most Popular Show
Winner: The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner: Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner: Anne Wills
Most Popular Show
Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner: Ron Cadee
Most Popular Female
Winner: Dina Heslop
Most Popular Show
Winner: Studio 9, Nine Network
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner: Trevor Sutton
Most Popular Female
Winner: Jill Morrell
Most Popular Show
Winner: This Week
Western Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner: Jeff Newman
Most Popular Female
Winner: Sandy Palmer
Most Popular Show
Winner: Stars Of The F
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The 17th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 7 March 1975 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. It was the first time the Awards were telecast in Colour. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star John Wayne and television actors Lee Majors and William Conrad, British actor Edward Woodward and his wife Michele Dotrice, and Australian-born British television stars Keith Michell and Diane Cilento appeared as guests. Each of the guest presenters were given special souvenir Logies.
Awards
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1975:
Gold Logie
Awards presented by John Wayne
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Ernie Sigley, The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Denise Drysdale, The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network
Logie
National
Best Australian Actor
Winner: George Mallaby, The Box, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Actress
Winner: Bunney Brooke, Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Drama
Winner: Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Teenage Personality
Winner: Debbie Byrne, Young Talent Time, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Music/Variety Show
Winner: Young Talent Time, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Commercial
Winner: Uncle Sam
Best Individual Performance By An Actor
Winner: John Meillon, The Fourth Wish, ABC
Best Individual Performance By An Actress
Winner: Pat Evison, Pig in a Poke, ABC
Best TV Comedian
Winner: Paul Hogan, The Paul Hogan Show, Seven Network
Best New Drama
Winner: Rush, ABC
Best Script
Winner: Fred Cullen, Homicide, Seven Network
Best News Coverage
Winner: Frank Sinatra in Australia, David Hill, Seven Network News
Best Public Affairs Program
Winner: A Current Affair, Nine Network
Reporter Of The Year
Winner: Richard Carleton, This Day Tonight, ABC
Contribution To TV Journalism
Winner: Federal File, Nine Network
Best Single Documentary
Winner: Casley's Kingdom, David Johnston, Seven Network
Best Dramatised Documentary
Winner: Billy and Percy, ABC
Outstanding Contribution To TV
Winner: Bill Peach, for eight years' service to This Day Tonight, ABC
Outstanding Creative Effort
Winner: Tedd Dunn, Fredd Bear's Breakfast A-Go-Go, ATV-0
Outstanding Contribution To Daytime TV
Winner: No Man's Land, Nine Network
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner: Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner: Denise Drysdale
Most Popular Show
Winner: The Ernie Sigley Show, GTV-9
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner: Mike Walsh
Most Popular Female
Winner: Barbara Rogers
Most Popular Show
Winner: The Mike Walsh Show, TEN-10
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner: Bob Francis
Most Popular Female
Winner: Anne Wills
Most Popular Show
Winner: Penthouse Club, ADS-7
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner: Paul Sharratt
Most Popular Female
Winner: Rhonda Sharratt
Most Popular Show
Winner: Studio 9, QTQ-9
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner: Tom Payne
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The 18th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 12 March 1976 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star Lee Marvin, television actors Henry Winkler, Martin Milner and Arte Johnson, and British actors Gordon Jackson and Susannah York appeared as guests.
Awards
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1976:
Gold Logie
Awards presented by Lee Marvin
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald), The Norman Gunston Show, ABC
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Denise Drysdale, The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network
Logie
National
Best Australian Actor
Winner:
Paul Karo, The Box, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Actress
Winner:
Pat McDonald, Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Drama
Winner:
Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Teenage Personality
Winner:
John Paul Young
Best Australian Music/Variety Show
Winner:
Young Talent Time, 0-10 Network
Best Commercial
Winner:
Uncle Sam
Best Individual Performance By An Actor
Winner:
Chris Haywood, Essington, ABC
Best Individual Performance By An Actress
Winner:
Maggie Millar, Homicide, Seven Network
Best New Drama
Winner:
Cash and Company, Seven Network
Best Script
Winner:
Thomas Keneally, Essington, ABC
Best Single Episode In A Series
Winner:
"Little Raver", Division 4, Nine Network
Best News Report
Winner:
Timor report, Gerald Stone, Nine Network
Best Public Affairs Program
Winner:
A Current Affair, Nine Network
Best TV Interviewer
Winner:
Michael Schildberger, A Current Affair, Nine Network
Best News Documentary
Winner:
Of Course I Love Jim Cairns, Nine Network
Best Single Documentary
Winner:
You Just Don't Realise, 0-10 Network
Best Documentary Series
Winner:
A Big Country, ABC
For Faith And Continuing Investment In Australian Drama
Winner:
Hector Crawford
Best Teenage Television
Winner:
Countdown, ABC
Outstanding Performance By A Juvenile
Winner:
Jacqui Lochhead, Matlock Police
Outstanding Contribution By A Regional Station
Winner:
The World Of Jesus Christ Superstar, NBN-3 Newcastle
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Denise Drysdale
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Mike Walsh
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jeanne Little
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Mike Walsh Show, Network Ten
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Sandy Roberts
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Winnie Pelz
Most Popular Show
Winner:
Sound Unlimited, Seven Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Paul Sharratt
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jacki MacDonald
Most Popular Show
Winner:
Studio 9, Nine Network
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Tom Payne
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Margaret Anne Ford
Most Popular Show
Winner:
This Week
Western Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Jeff Ne
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The 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 25 March 1977 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star Burt Lancaster and television actors Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Susan Seaforth and Bill Hayes, British actors Robin Nedwell and Geoffrey Davies, and Australian actor Jack Thompson appeared as guests. Kate Jackson, star of Charlie's Angels, was scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute to start filming on the television movie James at 15.
Awards
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1977:
Gold Logie
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Presented by Burt Lancaster
Winner: Don Lane, The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
Nominated:
Bert Newton, The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
Mike Walsh, The Mike Walsh Show, 0-10 Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television
Presented by Burt Lancaster
Winner: Jeanne Little, The Mike Walsh Show, 0-10 Network
Nominated:
Denise Drysdale
Pat McDonald
Bunney Brooke
Logie
National
Most Popular Australian Lead Actor
Winner: Martin Vaughan, Power Without Glory, ABC
Most Popular Australian Lead Actress
Winner: Ros Spiers, Power Without Glory, ABC
Most Popular Australian Drama
Winner: Power Without Glory, ABC
Most Popular Australian TV Teenage Personality
Winner: Mark Holden
Most Popular Australian Comedy
Winner: The Paul Hogan Show, Nine Network
Most Popular Variety Show
Winner: The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
Most Popular Commercial
Winner: Coca-Cola
Best Individual Performance By An Actor
Winner: Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rush, ABC
Best Individual Performance By An Actress
Winner: Lyndell Rowe, Tandarra, Seven Network
Best Sustained Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role
Winner: John Wood, Power Without Glory, ABC
Nominated:
Terence Donovan, Power Without Glory
Alain Doutey, Rush
John Diedrich, Bluey
Best Sustained Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role
Winner: Wendy Hughes, Power Without Glory, ABC
Nominated:
Irene Inescort, Power Without Glory
Heather Canning, Power Without Glory
Gerda Nicholson, Bluey
Best New Drama
Winner: The Sullivans, Nine Network
Nominated:
Rush
Ben Hall
Best Drama Script
Winner: Colin Free, Rush, ABC
Best News Report
Winner: Ahmad fire, Graham Cumming, Nine Network News
Best Public Affairs Program
Winner: A Current Affair, Nine Network
Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism
Winner: "Cedar Bay", This Day Tonight, Brisbane, ABC
Best TV Interviewer
Winner: Mike Willesee
Nominated:
Caroline Jones
Robert Moore
Michael Schulberger
Best News Documentary
Winner: Katingal, Paul Mullins, Network Ten
Best Documentary Script
Winner: Fred "Cul" Cullen, Australians At War, Network Ten
Best Documentary Series
Winner: Australians At War, Network Ten
Best Sporting Documentary
Winner: Sportsnight, ABC
Best Musical Variety Special
Winner: Neil Diamond's Thank You Australia Concert, Nine Network
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The 20th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 3 March 1978 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American singer Sammy Davis, Jr., television actors Mike Farrell, Florence Henderson, Richard Anderson ,and Patty Weaver, and British television host David Frost appeared as guests. Bob Hope also made a brief introduction via cable from Sydney.
Awards
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1978:
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Presented by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Winner:
Graham Kennedy, Blankety Blanks, Network Ten
Nominated:
Lorraine Bayly, The Sullivans, Nine Network
Don Lane, The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
Bert Newton, The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
Mike Walsh, The Mike Walsh Show, Nine Network
Silver Logies
Most Popular Lead Actor on Australian Television
Winner:
Paul Cronin, The Sullivans, Nine Network
Most Popular Lead Actress on Australian Television
Winner:
Lorraine Bayly, The Sullivans, Nine Network
Logie
National
Most Popular Australian Drama
Winner:
The Sullivans, Nine Network
Best New Talent In Australia
Winner:
Brandon Burke, Glenview High, Seven Network
Most Popular Australian TV Teenage Personality
Winner:
Mark Holden
Most Popular Australian Variety Or Panel Show
Winner:
Blankety Blanks, Network Ten
Most Popular Australian Commercial (last time this was awarded)
Winner:
Export Cola
Best Individual Performance By An Actor
Winner:
Neil Fitzpatrick, Pig in a Poke, ABC
Best Individual Performance By An Actress
Winner:
Jacki Weaver, Do I Have to Kill My Child?, Nine Network
Best Sustained Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role
Winner:
Michael Caton, The Sullivans, Nine Network
Best Sustained Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role
Winner:
Vivean Gray, The Sullivans, Nine Network
Best New Drama
Winner:
Cop Shop, Seven Network
Best Dramatic Script
Winner:
Margaret Kelly and John Dingwall, Pig in a Poke, ABC
Best Miniseries/Telemovie
Winner:
The Alternative, Seven Network
Best Comedy Performer
Winner:
Paul Hogan, The Paul Hogan Show, Nine Network
Best News Report
Winner:
Blue Mountains bushfires, Network Ten news
Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism
Winner:
"The Werribee Incident", A Current Affair, Nine Network
Best Public Affairs Series
Winner:
Willesee at Seven, Seven Network
Best News Documentary
Winner:
"Utah", Four Corners, ABC
Best Documentary Series
Winner:
In the Wild, ABC
Outstanding Coverage Of A Sporting Event
Winner:
The Australian Open Golf, Nine Network
Outstanding Performance By A Juvenile
Winner:
Beau Cox, Young Ramsay, Seven Network
Outstanding Contribution To Community Service
Winner:
The National Survival Test, 0-10 Network
Outstanding Contribution By A Regional Station
Winner:
Ian, NBN3, Newcastle
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Bert Newton
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Mary Hardy
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Don Lane Show, Ni
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The 21st Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 16 March 1979 at Hilton Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton was the Master of Ceremonies. American boxer Muhammad Ali, film stars Henry Silva and Cicely Tyson, television actors Robin Williams, Susan Seaforth, Bill Hayes and Lauren Tewes, British actor David Hemmings and television actors Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy appeared as guests.
Awards
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1979:
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Presented by Muhammad Ali
Winner:
Bert Newton, The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
Silver Logies
Most Popular Lead Actor on Australian Television
Winner:
Paul Cronin, The Sullivans, Nine Network
Most Popular Lead Actress on Australian Television
Winner:
Lorraine Bayly, The Sullivans, Nine Network
National
Most Popular Drama Series
Winner:
The Sullivans, Nine Network
Best New Talent In Australia
Winner:
Jon English, Against The Wind, Seven Network
Most Popular Australian TV Teenage Personality
Winner:
John Paul Young
Most Popular Australian Variety Or Panel Show
Winner:
The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
Most Popular Comedy Show
Winner:
The Paul Hogan Show, Nine Network
Best Performormance By An Actor In A Major Role
Winner:
John Meillon, Bit Part, ABC
Best Performance By An Actress In A Major Role
Winner:
Kerry McGuire, Against The Wind, Seven Network
Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role
Winner:
Peter Adams, Cop Shop, Seven Network
Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role
Winner:
Chantal Contouri, The Sullivans, Nine Network
Best New Drama
Winner:
Against The Wind, Seven Network
Best Television Script
Winner:
Michael Aitkens, Neutral Ground
Best Miniseries/Telemovie
Winner:
Bit Part, ABC
Best News Report
Winner:
Bank siege and chase, Nine Network News
TV Reporter Of The Year
Winner:
Bill Bennett, Willesee at Seven, Seven Network
Best Documentary Series
Winner:
A Big Country, ABC
Best Single Documentary
Winner:
The Last Tasmanian, Network Ten
Outstanding Coverage Of A Sports Event
Winner:
Bathurst Hardie Ferodo motor race, Seven Network
Best Sports Report/Documentary
Winner:
Surfabout, Nine Network
Best Performance By A Juvenile
Winner:
Warwick Poulsen, Because He's My Friend, ABC
Outstanding Contribution To Children's TV
Winner:
Rainbow
Outstanding Contribution To Community Service
Winner:
"Have A Go" campaign, Network Ten
Outstanding Contribution By A Regional Station
Winner:
Goin' Down The Road, CBN8 Orange
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Bert Newton
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Mary Hardy
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Don Lane Show, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Mike Walsh
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Noeline Brown
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Mike Walsh Show, Nine Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Paul Griffin, Nine Network
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jacki MacDonald
Most Popular Show
Winner:
Country Homest
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The 22nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 14 March, 1980 at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Bert Newton. Guests included Cilla Black, Michael York, Paul Michael Glaser, Greg Evigan, Lee Meriwether, Nicola Pagett, Linda Gray and John Inman, as well as Sesame Streets Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
National Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Mike Walsh in The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Lead Actor in a Series
Winner:
Paul Cronin in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Most Popular Lead Actress in a Series
Winner:
Paula Duncan in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner:
Vera Plevnik in The John Sullivan Story (Nine Network)
Best Lead Actor in a Series
Winner:
Peter Adams in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Series
Winner:
Carol Burns in Prisoner (Network Ten)
Best Supporting Actor in a Series
Winner:
Terry Norris in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series
Winner:
Noni Hazelhurst in Ride on Stranger (ABC)
Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
John Hargreaves in A Good Thing Going (Nine Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Bunney Brooke in The Rock Pool (ABC)
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Chris Haywood in A Good Thing Going (Nine Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Veronica Lang in A Good Thing Going (Nine Network)
Best Performance by a Juvenile
Winner:
Miles Buchanan in A Good Thing Going (Nine Network)
Best TV Comedy Performer
Winner:
Garry McDonald in The Norman Gunston Show (Seven Network)
Best TV Script
Winner:
Michael Cove for A Place in the World (ABC)
TV Reporter of the Year
Winner:
George Negus in 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Programs
Most Popular Drama Series
Winner:
The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Most Popular Variety/Comedy Show
Winner:
The Don Lane Show (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Program
Winner:
60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Best/Outstanding Programs
Best New Drama Series
Winner:
Prisoner (Network Ten)
Best Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Burn the Butterflies (ABC)
Best Documentary Series
Winner:
This Fabulous Century (Seven Network)
Best Single Documentary
Winner:
Mutiny on the Western Front (Seven Network)
Best Sports Report or Documentary
Winner:
Iron Men of the Sea (Network Ten)
Best News Report
Winner:
"Star Hotel Riot" (NBN-3, Newcastle)
Outstanding Public Affairs Report
Winner:
"Child Prostitution", Four Corners (ABC)
Outstanding Coverage of a Sports Report
Winner:
Test cricket (Nine Network)
Outstanding Contribution to Children's Television
Winner:
Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network Ten)
Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Station
Winner:
Beating Around the Bush (NBN-3, Newcastle)
State Awards
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Mike Walsh (Nine Network)
Most Popular Female
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The 23rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 10 April 1981 at the Centrepoint Convention Centre in Sydney, and broadcast on Network Ten. The ceremony was hosted by Michael Parkinson. Guests included Patrick Duffy, Gil Gerard, Lesley-Anne Down, Sam J. Jones, Adam Rich, Van Johnson and Lindsay Wagner.
National Awards
Gold Logie
Winner:
Bert Newton in The Don Lane Show (Nine Network)
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Actor
Winner:
Peter Adams in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Most Popular Actress
Winner:
Paula Duncan in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner:
Simon Gallaher in The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Best Lead Actor in a Series
Winner:
Peter Adams in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Series
Winner:
Sheila Florance in Prisoner (Network Ten)
Best Supporting Actor in a Series
Winner:
Michael Caton in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series
Winner:
Vivean Gray in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
John Jarratt in The Last Outlaw (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Robyn Nevin in Water Under the Bridge (Network Ten)
Best Performance by a Juvenile
Winner:
Mark Spain in Restless Years (Network Ten)
TV Reporter of the Year
Winner:
Ray Martin in 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Programs
Most Popular Drama Series
Winner:
Prisoner (Network Ten)
Most Popular Variety or Comedy Show
Winner:
The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Show
Winner:
60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Best/Outstanding Programs
Best Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Cold Comfort (ABC)
Best Children's Television Series
Winner:
Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network Ten)
Best Sports Coverage
Winner:
The 1980 Moscow Olympic Games (Seven Network)
Best Documentary Series
Winner:
A Big Country (ABC)
Best Single Documentary
Winner:
Bird of the Thunderwoman (ABC)
Best News Report
Winner:
"Moreton Bay Rescue", Seven News (Seven Network)
Outstanding Public Affairs Report
Winner:
"The Chelmsford File", 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Outstanding Community Service
Winner:
"Target 2000" (Network Ten)
Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Station
Winner:
Footsteps of A Legend (GMV-6, Shepparton)
Special Logie For Sustained Excellence
Winner:
The Sullivans (Nine Network)
State Awards
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Mike Walsh (Nine Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Katrina Lee (Network Ten)
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Andrew Carroll (Nine Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jacki MacDonald (Network Ten)
Most Popular Show
Winner:
Today Tonight (Nine Network)
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Roger Cardwell (Nine Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Anne Wills (Nine Network)
Most Popular Show
Winner:
Clapperboard (Nine Network)
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Jim Cox (TNT-9)
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Anne Wate
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The 24th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 12 March 1982 at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Bert Newton. Guests included Cindy Williams, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Urich, Lou Ferrigno, Britt Ekland, Rod Taylor and Genie Francis. Olivia Newton-John also appeared as a guest performer.
National Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Bert Newton in The Don Lane Show (Nine Network)
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Actor
Winner:
Paul Cronin in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Most Popular Actress
Winner:
Val Lehman in Prisoner (Network Ten)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner:
Gary Sweet in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Best Lead Actor in a Series
Winner:
John McTernan in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Series
Winner:
Val Lehman in Prisoner (Network Ten)
Best Supporting Actor in a Series
Winner:
Andy Anderson in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series
Winner:
Vikki Hammond in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Bryan Brown in A Town Like Alice (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Helen Morse in A Town Like Alice (Seven Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Dorothy Alison in A Town Like Alice (Seven Network)
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
Gordon Jackson in A Town Like Alice (Seven Network)
Best Performance by a Juvenile
Winner:
Adam Garnett in I Can Jump Puddles (ABC)
TV Reporter of the Year
Winner:
Mike Barrett (Seven Network)
Most Popular Programs
Most Popular Drama Series
Winner:
Prisoner (Network Ten)
Most Popular Comedy Series
Winner:
Kingswood Country (Seven Network)
Most Popular Quiz/Game Show
Winner:
Sale of the Century (Nine Network)
Most Popular Variety Show
Winner:
The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Show
Winner:
60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Best/Outstanding Programs
Best Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner:
A Town Like Alice (Seven Network)
Best Children's TV Series
Winner:
Humphrey Bear (Nine Network)
Best Documentary Series
Winner:
A Matter of Chance (ABC)
Best Single Documentary
Winner:
Stepping Out (Seven Network)
Best Sports Coverage
Winner:
Cricket (Nine Network)
Best News Report
Winner:
"Boy Down Well" (Seven Network)
Outstanding Public Affairs Report
Winner:
"Never Say Die" by Ian Leslie, 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Outstanding Regional TV Program
Winner:
The Hawk (SEQ-TV, Maryborough)
Special Award for Sustained Excellence
Winner:
Young Talent Time (Network Ten)
State Awards
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Mike Walsh (Nine Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Katrina Lee (Network Ten)
Most Popular Show
Winner:
The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Earle Bailey (Seven Network)
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jacki MacDonald (Network Ten)
Most Popular Show
Winner
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The 25th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 22 April 1983 at the Wentworth Regent Hotel in Melbourne, and broadcast on Network Ten. The ceremony was hosted by Michael Willesee. Guests included Dennis Waterman, Pamela Stephenson, Gregory Harrison, David Ogden Stiers, Jack Klugman, Mike Farrell, Erin Gray, Chuck Norris, Peter Davison, Priscilla Presley, Gordon Jackson, Shelley Fabares, Kate Jackson, Stephen Collins and Graham Kennedy.
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 Lead Actor in a Series
Winner: Paul Cronin in The Sullivans (Nine Network)
Most Popular Lead Actress in a Series
Winner: Rowena Wallace in Sons and Daughters (Seven Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner: Stephen Comey in Sons and Daughters (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actor in a Series
Winner: John McTernan in Cop Shop (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Series
Winner: Val Lehman in Prisoner (Network Ten)
Best Supporting Actor in a Series
Winner: Brian Wenzel in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series
Winner: Sheila Florance in Prisoner (Network Ten)
Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Brenton Whittle in Sara Dane (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Judy Morris in Jimmy Dancer (ABC)
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Adrian Wright in 1915 (ABC)
Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: Ilona Rodgers in Sara Dane (Seven Network)
Best Juvenile Performance
Winner: Jeremy Shadlow in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
TV Reporter of the Year
Winner: Ray Martin in 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Special Award for Sustained Excellence
Receiver: Mike Walsh (Nine Network)
Most Popular Programs
Most Popular Drama Series
Winner: Sons and Daughters (Seven Network)
Most Popular Variety Series
Winner: The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Program
Winner: 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Quiz/Game Show
Winner: Sale of the Century (Nine Network)
Most Popular Comedy Series
Winner: Kingswood Country (Seven Network)
Best/Outstanding Programs
Best Miniseries or Telemovie
Winner: 1915 (ABC)
Best Documentary Series
Winner: John Laws' World (Network Ten)
Nominees: A Big Country (ABC)
Best Single Documentary
Winner: Quentin (Seven Network)
Nominees: The Survivor: Douglas Mawson (ABC), Greed (Network Ten), A Shifting Dreaming (Nine Network), The Ultimate Struggle (Seven Network)
Best Sports Coverage
Winner: Commonwealth Games (ABC)
Best Children's TV Series
Winner: Shirl's Neighbourhood (Seven Network)
Outstanding Public Affairs Report
Winner: "Annie", 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Station
Winner: Last Chance (NBN-3, Newcastle)
Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to 25 Years of TV Variety
Receiver: Nine Network
State Awards
New South Wales
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The 26th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 6 April 1984 at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Bert Newton. Guests included Christopher Atkins, Heather Thomas, Tony Randall, Dwight Schultz, Douglas Barr, Gerald McRaney, Rich Little, Bob Hawke, Dame Edna Everage, Pamela Stephenson and John Bertrand.
National Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Bert Newton in The Don Lane Show (Nine Network)
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Actor
Winner: Grant Dodwell in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Actress
Winner: Rowena Wallace in Sons and Daughters (Seven Network)
Most Popular New Talent
Winner: James Reyne in Return to Eden (Network Ten)
Best Lead Actor in a Mini Series
Winner: John Stanton in The Dismissal (Network Ten)
Nominees: Bill Hunter in The Dismssal (Network Ten)
Best Lead Actress in a Mini Series
Winner: Sigrid Thornton in All the Rivers Run (Seven Network)
Nominees: Rebecca Gilling in Return to Eden
Best Supporting Actor in a Mini Series
Winner: John Meillon in The Dismissal (Network Ten)
Nominees: Charles Tingwell in All the Rivers Run (Seven Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Mini Series
Winner: Wendy Hughes in Return to Eden (Network Ten)
Nominees: Dinah Shearing in All the Rivers Run (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actor in a Series
Winner: Kevin Miles in Carson's Law (Network Ten)
Nominees: Grant Dodwell in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Best Lead Actress in a Series
Winner: Rowena Wallace in Sons and Daughters (Seven Network)
Nominees: Penny Cook in A Country Practice (Seven Network), Maggie Kirkpatrick in Prisoner (Network Ten)
Best Supporting Actor in a Series
Winner: Noel Trevarthen in Carson's Law (Network Ten )
Nominees: Shane Withington in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series
Winner: Lorrae Desmond in A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Nominees: Cornelia Frances in Sons and Daughters (Seven Network)
Best Juvenile Performance
Winner: Darius Perkins in All the Rivers Run (Seven Network)
TV Reporter of the Year
Winner: Richard Carleton in 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Programs
Most Popular Drama Series
Winner: A Country Practice (Seven Network)
Most Popular Comedy Show
Winner: The Paul Hogan Show (Nine Network)
Nominees: Kingswood Country (Seven Network), Australia You're Standing In It (ABC)
Most Popular Variety Show
Winner: The Mike Walsh Show (Nine Network)
Most Popular Quiz/Game Show
Winner: Sale of the Century (Nine Network)
Most Popular Public Affairs Show
Winner: 60 Minutes (Nine Network)
Most Popular Documentary Series
Winner: Willesee documentaries (Seven Network)
Nominees: Peach's Gold (ABC), John Laws' World (Network Ten)
Best Programs
Best Miniseries/Telemovie
Winner: The Dismissal (Network Ten)
Nominees: Return to Eden (Network Ten), All the Rivers Run (Seven Network), Scales of Justice (ABC)
Best Special Events Telecast
Winner: Austra
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Big Bird's Egg Catch is a video game for the Atari 2600 developed by Atari, Inc. and Children's Computer Workshop and published by Atari in 1983.
Gameplay
In Big Bird's Egg Catch, the player controls Big Bird from Sesame Street he saves eggs produced by chickens at the top of the screen. These eggs travel down variously contorted chutes to land safely in the basket perched on Big Bird's head. Most eggs count for a single point, but a golden egg will periodically appear that is worth five points. When an egg is dropped, a number of points are lost. At higher levels, the eggs move faster, the chutes become more convoluted, there are more egg-laying hens, and the chutes may even flash invisible. "Turkey in the Straw", the song that plays during the egg-catching, also increases in tempo.
Periodically, Big Bird will exit the screen to count his eggs. During this stage, Big Bird is seen with his basket and numbers flash on the screen progressively faster as he counts. When the total is reached, a song is played and Big Bird dances. The game ends when too many eggs are dropped or a set number of counting sessions is performed.
Big Bird's Egg Catch bears many similarities to other games of the time, such as Kaboom!. What sets it apart is that this game does not use a paddle controller common to games with similar gameplay.
Reception
Suzan D. Prince for Electronic Fun with Computers & Games said "Big Bird will definitely be a hit with the kindergarten set, while parents might just find themselves sneaking in a round every now and then."
Reviews
Telematch - 1984-01 (as Bibos Eiertanz)
Tilt - Mar, 1984
All Game Guide - 1998
See also
Alpha Beam with Ernie
Cookie Monster Munch
References
External links
Review in Video Games - Volume 2 Number 08
1983 video games
Atari games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Children's educational video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Sesame Street video games
Video games about birds
Video games developed in the United States
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The Comcast Network (TCN) was an American cable television network which was carried mostly on Comcast and Xfinity cable systems in four states and 20 television markets in the Eastern U.S. from New Jersey to Virginia. The main focus of the network was on the Philadelphia area, although the channel attempted to structure its programs as national shows. Key markets included New Jersey, the Pennsylvania cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia.
History
The Comcast Network was first launched to around 400,000 homes on December 1, 1996, as CN8, The Comcast Network (though it was often abbreviated to simply "CN8.") This largely constituted Comcast's Philadelphia-area cable systems. CN8 carried a mix of public affairs and call-in shows upon launch, including a television simulcast of radio station NJ 101.5's morning show, as well as local sports. The channel was added to Comcast's Baltimore-area systems in early 1998.
In November 1999, Comcast purchased rival Lenfest Communications, which operated in the area under the Suburban Cable and Garden State Cable names. They had launched their own regional cable channel, TSM News (TSM standing for "Tri-State Media"), that April, with live newscasts airing from 9 am to 8 pm every day; Janet Zappala, formerly of WCAU-TV (which would become a sister station to CN8 in 2011 when Comcast acquired NBCUniversal), served as one of TSM's lead anchors. This resulted in TSM's shutdown, and many of its staffers were re-hired by Comcast to create CN8's news department, which launched in April 2000 from TSM's former studio facility in New Castle, DE. CN8 News originally had two hour-long nightly newscasts, at 7PM and 11PM, co-anchored by another ex-WCAU personality, Arthur Fennell; eventually, the 11PM edition moved to 10PM. In addition to this facility, CN8 operated studios in Philadelphia's Center City neighborhood, and news bureaus/studios in Baltimore, Maryland, Trenton and Union, New Jersey. CN8 was now distributed across Comcast's systems from Maryland to northern New Jersey, providing regionalized coverage and shows for these areas.
In 2002, CN8 launched in Pittsburgh when Comcast acquired AT&T Broadband, which would be further expanded when Comcast acquired assets from Adelphia Communications following their liquidation. (The two deals left the satellite TV companies and Armstrong Cable as the only other pay-TV options in Western Pennsylvania until the launch of Verizon Fios.) However, CN8 never launched a standalone Pittsburgh feed; Comcast acquired a stake in PCNC from the AT&T Broadband deal (a remnant of their predecessor TCI prior to AT&T acquiring TCI) and to this day continues to serve as a silent partner to that channel's other owner, local NBC affiliate WPXI.
In May 2003, CN8 further expanded into New England. Replacing AT&T 3, operated by Comcast's regional predecessor AT&T Broadband, this version of CN8 largely carried the same p
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"A Streetcar Named Marge" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 1, 1992. In the episode, Marge wins the role of Blanche DuBois in a community theatre musical version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Homer offers little support for his wife's acting pursuits, and Marge begins to see parallels between him and Stanley Kowalski, the play's boorish lead male character. The episode contains a subplot in which Maggie Simpson attempts to retrieve her pacifier from a strict daycare owner.
The episode was written by Jeff Martin and directed by Rich Moore.
Jon Lovitz made his fourth guest appearance on The Simpsons, this time as musical director Llewellyn Sinclair, as well as Llewellyn's sister, who runs the daycare. The episode generated controversy for its original song about New Orleans, which contains several unflattering lyrics about the city. One New Orleans newspaper published the lyrics before the episode aired, prompting numerous complaints to the local Fox affiliate; in response, the president of Fox Broadcasting issued an apology to anyone who was offended.
Despite the controversial song, the episode was well received by many fans, and show creator Matt Groening has named it one of his favorite episodes.
Plot
Marge announces to the Simpson family that she intends to audition for the role of Blanche DuBois in Oh! Streetcar!, a local musical production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The family ignores her, and she leaves for her audition, feeling especially unappreciated by Homer. The director, Llewellyn Sinclair, immediately rejects Marge, explaining that Blanche is supposed to be a "delicate flower being trampled by an uncouth lout". However, as a dejected Marge calls home and takes Homer's dinner order, Llewellyn realizes that she is perfect for the role.
At Llewellyn's suggestion, Marge enrolls Maggie at the Ayn Rand School for Tots, a daycare centre run by Llewellyn's sister, Ms. Sinclair. Ms. Sinclair immediately confiscates Maggie’s pacifier. Aided by the other toddlers at the daycare, Maggie manages to get her pacifier back, and redistributes all the other toddlers' confiscated pacifiers.
Marge and Ned, who is playing Stanley Kowalski, rehearse the scene in which Blanche breaks a glass bottle and attacks Stanley, which Marge has been struggling with. Homer repeatedly interrupts the rehearsal. Imagining that Stanley is Homer, Marge takes out her frustration--she smashes the bottle and lunges at Ned, injuring him.
The Simpson family attends the musical, and Homer is moved by Marge's performance, though during the curtain call Marge mistakes his sadness for boredom. After the show, Homer tells her that he was saddened by Blanche's plight as a woman in need of compassion but who receives only neglect and mistreatment from men like Stanley. Marge is moved by Homer's sincerity and impressed that he un
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Floyd–Steinberg dithering is an image dithering algorithm first published in 1976 by Robert W. Floyd and Louis Steinberg. It is commonly used by image manipulation software, for example when an image is converted into GIF format that is restricted to a maximum of 256 colors.
Implementation
The algorithm achieves dithering using error diffusion, meaning it pushes (adds) the residual quantization error of a pixel onto its neighboring pixels, to be dealt with later. It spreads the debt out according to the distribution (shown as a map of the neighboring pixels):
The pixel indicated with a star (*) indicates the pixel currently being scanned, and the blank pixels are the previously-scanned pixels.
The algorithm scans the image from left to right, top to bottom, quantizing pixel values one by one. Each time, the quantization error is transferred to the neighboring pixels, while not affecting the pixels that already have been quantized. Hence, if a number of pixels have been rounded downwards, it becomes more likely that the next pixel is rounded upwards, such that on average, the quantization error is close to zero.
The diffusion coefficients have the property that if the original pixel values are exactly halfway in between the nearest available colors, the dithered result is a checkerboard pattern. For example, 50% grey data could be dithered as a black-and-white checkerboard pattern. For optimal dithering, the counting of quantization errors should be in sufficient accuracy to prevent rounding errors from affecting the result.
In some implementations, the horizontal direction of scan alternates between lines; this is called "serpentine scanning" or boustrophedon transform dithering.
The algorithm described above is in the following pseudocode. This works for any approximately linear encoding of pixel values, such as 8-bit integers, 16-bit integers or real numbers in the range [0, 1].
for each y from top to bottom do
for each x from left to right do
oldpixel := pixels[x][y]
newpixel := find_closest_palette_color(oldpixel)
pixels[x][y] := newpixel
quant_error := oldpixel - newpixel
pixels[x + 1][y ] := pixels[x + 1][y ] + quant_error × 7 / 16
pixels[x - 1][y + 1] := pixels[x - 1][y + 1] + quant_error × 3 / 16
pixels[x ][y + 1] := pixels[x ][y + 1] + quant_error × 5 / 16
pixels[x + 1][y + 1] := pixels[x + 1][y + 1] + quant_error × 1 / 16
When converting greyscale pixel values from a high to a low bit depth (e.g. 8-bit greyscale to 1-bit black-and-white), find_closest_palette_color() may perform just a simple rounding, for example:
find_closest_palette_color(oldpixel) = round(oldpixel / 255)
The pseudocode can result in pixel values exceeding the valid values (such as greater than 255 in 8-bit greyscale images). Such values should ideally be clipped by the find_closest_palette_color() function, rather than clipping the intermediate values, since a subseq
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In computer data storage, a volume or logical drive is a single accessible storage area with a single file system, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk. Although a volume might be different from a physical disk drive, it can still be accessed with an operating system's logical interface. However, a volume differs from a partition.
Differences from partition
A volume is not the same thing as a partition. For example, a floppy disk might be accessible as a volume, even though it does not contain a partition, as floppy disks cannot be partitioned with most modern computer software. Also, an OS can recognize a partition without recognizing any volume associated with it, as when the OS cannot interpret the filesystem stored there. This situation occurs, for example, when Windows NT-based OSes encounter disks with non-Microsoft OS partitions, such as the ext3 filesystem commonly used with Linux. Another example occurs in the Intel world with the "Extended Partition". While these are partitions, they cannot contain a filesystem directly. Instead, "logical drives" (aka volumes) must be created within them. This is also the case with NetWare volumes residing inside of a single partition. In short, volumes exist at the logical OS level, and partitions exist at the physical, media specific level. Sometimes there is a one-to-one correspondence, but this is not guaranteed.
In Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and onward the term "volume" is used as a superset that includes "partition" as well.
It isn't uncommon to see a volume packed into a single file. Examples include ISO9660 disc images (CD/DVD images, commonly called "ISOs"), and installer volumes for Mac OS X (DMGs). As these volumes are files which reside within another volume, they certainly are not partitions.
Example
This example concerns a Windows XP system with two physical hard disks. The first hard disk has two partitions, the second has only one. The first partition of the first hard disk contains the operating system. Mount points have been left at defaults.
In this example,
"C:", "D:", and "E:" are volumes.
Hard Disk 1 and Hard Disk 2 are physical disks.
Any of these can be called a "drive".
Nomenclature
In Linux systems, volumes are usually handled by the Logical Volume Manager or the Enterprise Volume Management System and manipulated using mount(8). In NT-based versions of Microsoft Windows, volumes are handled by the kernel and managed using the Disk Management MMC snap-in or the Diskpart command line tool.
Windows NT-based operating systems
It is important to note that Windows NT-based OSes do not have a single root directory. As a result, Windows will assign at least one path to each mounted volume, which will take one of two forms:
A drive letter, in the form of a single letter followed by a colon, such as "F:"
A mount-point on an NTFS volume having a drive letter, such as "C:\Music"
In these two examples, a file called "Trac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology%20server
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A terminology server is a piece of software providing a range of terminology-related software services through an applications programming interface to its client applications.
Typical terminology services might include:
Matching an arbitrary, user-defined text entry string (or regular expression) against a fixed internal list of natural language expressions, possibly using word equivalent, alternate spelling, abbreviation or part-of-speech substitution tables, and other lexical resources, to increase the recall and precision of the matching algorithm
Retrieving any asserted associations between a fixed list of terminology expressions in one language and translations in another natural language
Retrieving any asserted associations between a fixed list of terminology expressions, and entities in a concept system or ontology (information science)
Retrieving any asserted or inferrable semantic links between concepts in a concept system or ontology (information science), particularly subsumption (Is-a) relationships
Retrieving any directly asserted, or the best approximate indirectly inferrable, associations between concepts in an ontology and entities in one or more external resources (e.g. libraries of images, decision support rules or statistical classifications)
See also
Clinical terminology server
References
Servers (computing)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat
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Microformats (μF) are a set of defined HTML classes created to serve as consistent and descriptive metadata about an element, designating it as representing a certain type of data (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, events, blog posts, products, recipes, etc.). They allow software to process the information reliably by having set classes refer to a specific type of data rather than being arbitrary. Microformats emerged around 2005 and were predominantly designed for use by search engines, web syndication and aggregators such as RSS.
Although the content of web pages has been capable of some "automated processing" since the inception of the web, such processing is difficult because the markup elements used to display information on the web do not describe what the information means. Microformats can bridge this gap by attaching semantics, and thereby obviating other, more complicated, methods of automated processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping. The use, adoption and processing of microformats enables data items to be indexed, searched for, saved or cross-referenced, so that information can be reused or combined.
, microformats allow the encoding and extraction of event details, contact information, social relationships and similar information.
Microformats2 abbreviated as mf2 is the updated version of microformats. Mf2 provides a more easy way of interpreting HTML(hypertext Markup Language) structured syntax and vocabularies than the earlier ways that made use of RDFa and microdata.
Background
Microformats emerged around 2005 as part of a grassroots movement to make recognizable data items (such as events, contact details or geographical locations) capable of automated processing by software, as well as directly readable by end-users. Link-based microformats emerged first. These include vote links that express opinions of the linked page, which search engines can tally into instant polls.
CommerceNet, a nonprofit organization that promotes e-commerce on the Internet, has helped sponsor and promote the technology and support the microformats community in various ways. CommerceNet also helped co-found the Microformats.org community site.
Neither CommerceNet nor Microformats.org operates as a standards body. The microformats community functions through an open wiki, a mailing list, and an Internet relay chat (IRC) channel. Most of the existing microformats originated at the Microformats.org wiki and the associated mailing list by a process of gathering examples of web-publishing behaviour, then codifying it. Some other microformats (such as rel=nofollow and unAPI) have been proposed, or developed, elsewhere.
Technical overview
XHTML and HTML standards allow for the embedding and encoding of semantics within the attributes of markup elements. Microformats take advantage of these standards by indicating the presence of metadata using the following attributes:
class
Classname
rel
relationship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itbox
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itbox is a networked gambling games terminal which is found in thousands of pubs, leisure centres and amusement arcades in the United Kingdom. Classified as a "skill with prize" (SWP) machine, each itbox terminal typically includes 25 different games. Each game costs 50p or £1 to play and lasts between 10 seconds and several minutes. From most of these games it is possible to win modest cash prizes. Although strictly the name 'itbox' refers only to Leisure Link-made terminals, the name is often casually applied as a genericized trademark to other SWP terminals such as Paragon SWP, Gamesnet, ind:e and Fatbox.
Games
The games on itbox are largely question-and-answer based where the player will need to answer a varying number of questions (often from a range of subject categories) correctly before he or she can opt to collect a small prize (normally £1) or gamble for a chance to win a larger prize by answering further questions.
Question-and-answer based
Pub Quiz – the simplest itbox game. It consists of a total of six rounds of 4 or 5 questions each, with prizes ranging from £1 (usually on completion of the third round, but occasionally after the second round) to a £10 jackpot. The player starts with one "try again" and a "change category" option, and can gain bonuses such as "pass" or "cheat", which automatically reveals the correct answer during a bonus round. Occasionally a cash prize can also be won in this way. Pub Quiz differs from most Itbox quiz games in that once a prize is attained, it cannot be lost and does therefore not need to be "collected". Pub Quiz also often features comedy answers which will be obviously wrong, especially in the first round.
Bullseye – This game is based on an old television programme of the same name. It became, and remains, one of the more popular Question and Answer games on the itbox. Players must skillfully throw darts into a dart board to achieve points towards their target score. If this score is achieved, then the player is entered into the prize round, where they are able to throw darts into a "prize" board to gain cash prizes.
Every Loser Wins – Has a similar format to Pub Quiz, but requiring players to answer questions wrongly rather than correctly. Players start with a "change category" option but no "try agains", though an "extra life" option is available during the bonus round, along with "change category" and, occasionally, a cash prize. Unusually, the 2/3 odds given on each question means players can make good progress simply by guessing their way through the game.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? – Based on the popular television programme, Millionaire enables gamers to sit with Chris Tarrant in order to win £20. The completion of the Fastest Finger First round opens up bonuses such as 'Ask the Audience' and '50:50', which can be invaluable in helping the player reach the payout questions. A recent 2006 edition has been launched, with less time available to answer individual questions but impr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20network
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Ambient networks is a network integration design that seeks to solve problems relating to switching between networks to maintain contact with the outside world. This project aims to develop a network software-driven infrastructure that will run on top of all current or future network physical infrastructures to provide a way for devices to connect to each other, and through each other to the outside world.
The concept of Ambient Networks comes from the IST Ambient Network project, which was a research project sponsored by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
The Ambient Networks Project
Ambient Networks was a collaborative project within the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme that investigates future communications systems beyond fixed and 3rd generation mobile networks. It is part of the Wireless World Initiative. The project worked at a new concept called Ambient Networking, to provide suitable mobile networking technology for the future mobile and wireless communications environment. Ambient Networks aimed to provide a unified networking concept that can adapt to the very heterogeneous environment of different radio technologies and service and network environments. Special focus was put on facilitating both competition and cooperation of various market players by defining interfaces, which allow the instant negotiation of agreements. This approach went beyond interworking of well-defined protocols and was expected to have a long-term effect on the business landscape in the wireless world. Central to the project was the concept of composition of networks, an approach to address the dynamic nature of the target environment, based on an open framework for network control functionality, which can be extended with new capabilities as well as operating over existing connectivity infrastructure.
Phase 1 of the project (2004–2005) laid the conceptual foundations. The Deliverable D1-5 "Ambient Networks Framework Architecture" summarizes the work from phase 1 and provides links to other relevant material.
Phase 2 (2006–2007) focused on validation aspects. One key result of phase 2 is an integrated prototype that was used to study the feasibility of the Ambient Networks concept for a number of typical network scenarios. The ACS prototype was used to iteratively test the components developed by the project in a real implementation. In parallel, the top-down work was continued which led to a refined System Specification. This document, referred to as the System Description, is available on the Ambient Networks website. Furthermore, standardization of the composition concept is addressed in 3GPP.
Interfaces and their use
The ACS (Ambient Control Space) is the internal of an ambient network. It has the functions that can be accessed and it is in full control of the resources of the network. The Ambient Networks infrastructure does not deal with nodes, instead it deals with networks, though at the beginning, all t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20scheduler
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A job scheduler is a computer application for controlling unattended background program execution of jobs. This is commonly called batch scheduling, as execution of non-interactive jobs is often called batch processing, though traditional job and batch are distinguished and contrasted; see that page for details. Other synonyms include batch system, distributed resource management system (DRMS), distributed resource manager (DRM), and, commonly today, workload automation (WLA). The data structure of jobs to run is known as the job queue.
Modern job schedulers typically provide a graphical user interface and a single point of control for definition and monitoring of background executions in a distributed network of computers. Increasingly, job schedulers are required to orchestrate the integration of real-time business activities with traditional background IT processing across different operating system platforms and business application environments.
Job scheduling should not be confused with process scheduling, which is the assignment of currently running processes to CPUs by the operating system.
Overview
Basic features expected of job scheduler software include:
interfaces which help to define workflows and/or job dependencies
automatic submission of executions
interfaces to monitor the executions
priorities and/or queues to control the execution order of unrelated jobs
If software from a completely different area includes all or some of those features, this software can be considered to have job scheduling capabilities.
Most operating systems, such as Unix and Windows, provide basic job scheduling capabilities, notably by at and batch, cron, and the Windows Task Scheduler. Web hosting services provide job scheduling capabilities through a control panel or a webcron solution. Many programs such as DBMS, backup, ERPs, and BPM also include relevant job-scheduling capabilities. Operating system ("OS") or point program supplied job-scheduling will not usually provide the ability to schedule beyond a single OS instance or outside the remit of the specific program. Organizations needing to automate unrelated IT workload may also leverage further advanced features from a job scheduler, such as:
real-time scheduling based on external, unpredictable events
automatic restart and recovery in event of failures
alerting and notification to operations personnel
generation of incident reports
audit trails for regulatory compliance purposes
These advanced capabilities can be written by in-house developers but are more often provided by suppliers who specialize in systems-management software.
Main concepts
There are many concepts that are central to almost every job scheduler implementation and that are widely recognized with minimal variations: Jobs, Dependencies, Job Streams, and Users.
Beyond the basic, single OS instance scheduling tools there are two major architectures that exist for Job Scheduling software.
Master/Agent architecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAKW-DT
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KAKW-DT (channel 62) is a television station licensed to Killeen, Texas, United States, serving as the Austin area outlet for the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside low-power, Class A UniMás outlet KTFO-CD (channel 31). Both stations share studios on North Loop Boulevard in Austin, while KAKW-DT's transmitter is located in unincorporated Williamson County (approximately halfway between Austin and Killeen). Although the station is licensed to a community in the Waco market, most of its local programming and advertising is targeted at the Austin market.
History
The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996, as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco–Killeen–Temple market; the station was originally owned by White Knight Broadcasting, with Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp), owner of Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 44) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE-TV (channel 28), providing sales and other services to KAKW under a commercial inventory agreement. KAKW had secured the UPN affiliation in June 1995, prior to going on the air; the WB affiliation had previously been held by KYLE before its 1996 acquisition by ComCorp. Prior to the launch of Fredericksburg-based San Antonio station KBEJ (now KCWX) in 2000, channel 62 doubled as an alternate UPN affiliate for the Austin television market, alongside K13VC (channel 13); the move of KAKW's digital signal from channel 23 to channel 13 would subsequently result in the shutdown of K13VC on March 29, 2003.
In January 2001, KAKW became a primary WB affiliate, though UPN programming was retained on a secondary basis. That October, White Knight agreed to sell KAKW to Univision Communications in a $30 million deal, with the intention of converting it into a Univision station; the sale was opposed by The WB, who filed a lawsuit seeking to block the sale and the concurrent sale of El Paso sister station KKWB to Entravision Communications, as KAKW's contract with The WB was not slated to expire until January 15, 2008. On January 7, 2002, after Univision assumed control of KAKW, it dropped the WB and UPN affiliations and converted it to a Univision owned-and-operated station; it also expanded the station's market coverage to Austin. Univision also invested in creating a news department for KAKW and began producing daily Spanish-language local newscasts. The WB subsequently moved its programming in the Waco/Killeen/Temple market to a secondary clearance on ABC affiliate KXXV (channel 25), while UPN signed a deal with Time Warner Cable to air its programming on a leased access channel that would later be replaced by KBTX-TV's second digital subchannel.
Until 2009, KAKW also operated a repeater in Austin, KAKW-CA (channel 31). That year, the station switched its affiliation to Telefutura, and changed its call letters to KTFO-CD.
News operation
KAKW-DT broadcasts five hours of locally pro
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDTN
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KDTN (channel 2) is a religious television station licensed to Denton, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as the flagship outlet of the Daystar television network. The station's studios are co-located with Daystar headquarters off SH 121 in Bedford, and its transmitter is located on Tar Road in Cedar Hill, just south of the Dallas–Ellis county line. It is operated separately from sister station KPTD-LP (channel 51) in Paris, Texas, which shares spectrum with full-power KDTN despite being licensed as a low-power station.
History
KIXL and KDNT
In 1948, Variety Broadcasting, owned by Lee Segall), which already had KIXL 1040 AM (now KGGR) and 104.5 KIXL-FM (now KKDA-FM) wanted to add a television station. Variety applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a television station on VHF channel 2, which would have been KIXL-TV. However, the station was never granted, and ultimately never launched.
By the time the FCC lifted its freeze on new television station license applications in 1952, the channel 2 allocation had been reassigned to Denton as a non-commercial educational channel. This did not stop Harwell V. Shepard, the owner of KDNT 1440 AM (now KEXB) and KDNT-FM 106.1 (now KHKS), from applying for a commercial license for the station. The application was declined, as other applicants insisted to the FCC that the VHF channel 2 allocation remain designated as an educational station.
KERA-TV
North Texas Public Broadcasting, owner of PBS member station KERA-TV, operating on channel 13, first expressed interest in establishing a secondary educational television station on channel 2 in May 1977. Several other groups applied for the allocation and a long fight for a construction permit ensued with the FCC. After several other applicants dropped out, KERA-TV worked out an agreement with the lone remaining applicant in 1984 to gain the right to put the station on the air.
As part of the agreement, KERA constructed a studio facility on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton for the new station, which was given the call letters KDTN (in reference to its city of license), and agreed to run some programs produced by the university. The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1988. KERA used the station primarily to run educational and instructional programs that had previously filled much of KERA's daytime schedule. Channel 13 then shifted to offering primarily entertainment programming from PBS and other public television distributors. Originally branded as "KDTN 2," the station was rebranded as "KERA 2" in the early 2000s, although it still had the KDTN call letters. Programs that have aired on KDTN during its tenure as a PBS station included The Joy of Painting, Sewing with Nancy, Sit and Be Fit, Plaza Sésamo (the Spanish counterpart of Sesame Street), This Old House, and occasional drama series such as Upstairs, Downstairs from ITV.
Daystar
In 2003, Nort
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankLink
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BankLink is an accounting service for GST and end of year tax in Australia and New Zealand.
BankLink electronically delivers bank transaction data to the accountant. They then use it to transact as many times as possible. The accountant can then find out, from the client, the nature of any uncoded transactions using BankLink's electronic reports. This coded data is then used to prepare management reports and various other reports used for tax compliance purposes.
History
BankLink started its business in 1986. The BankLink service is now used by more than 1,300 accounting practices in New Zealand and 3,400 in Australia. BankLink launched in the United Kingdom in 2011. In 2012 BankLink partnered with MYOB so that BankLink will provide bank data to be used in MYOB's accounting products. It was a privately owned business and is based in Auckland, New Zealand, until MYOB purchased it in June 2013.
Before its acquisition by MYOB, BankLink was a partner of Rowing New Zealand, but they partnered with Bankstream after that.
References
External links
- Australia
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
- MYOB Australia
- MYOB New Zealand
Financial services companies established in 1986
Financial services companies of Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videx
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Videx, Inc., is a Corvallis, Oregon manufacturer of computer hardware such as access control products and data collection terminals. It was founded in 1979 by Paul Davis.
Its initial success came with the first release of the $345 Videoterm (80 column) display card in March 1980 and the $149 shift and custom keyboard mapping Enhancer II terminal card in November 1981, both for Apple II computers. Later, in 1984, it released its $379 UltraTerm expansion card boasting high-definition 96-pixel characters and up to 128 × 32 character display. These products became obsolete when Apple released the Apple IIe with most of the 80-column card hardware built-in - only a much simpler and cheaper RAM card was then required.
Videx also produced software, including Desktop Calendar (1984) for the Apple Lisa.
In the mid-1980s, the company started divesting from personal computer products in favor of data collection products, namely barcode readers.
References
External links
Computer hardware companies
Apple II peripherals
Computer companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly%20Sword
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Heavenly Sword is a 2007 action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.
Gameplay
The game is an action-adventure title with heavy elements of hack and slash gameplay. The gameplay of the game resembles a martial arts title focused on melee combat while featuring opportunities for ranged attacks. The main character, Nariko, uses a weapon called the "Heavenly Sword" which changes into one of three forms depending on what attack stance the player uses as part of a unique fighting style. Speed Stance provides an even balance between damage and speed, where the sword takes the form of two separate blades. Range Stance allows fast, long-range, but weaker attacks, with the sword being two blades chained together. Power Stance is the most powerful, but slowest style, where attacks are made with the sword in the shape of one large, two-handed blade.
For exploration and certain battles, the game also makes use of quick time events (QTE). During a QTE, a symbol for a certain button or for an action such as moving the analog stick to the right or left appears on-screen and the player must match what is shown to successfully complete the scene.
In addition to Nariko, a secondary character, Kai, is controlled for some portions of the game. Many of Kai's stages take the form of sniping missions, using her crossbow to pick off enemies, in some cases to protect characters. While Kai cannot perform hand-to-hand combat, in stages that call for her to explore the level she is able to hop over objects and to free herself from an enemy's grasp by temporarily stunning them.
Projectiles can be maneuvered to their targets using the motion-sensing capabilities of the Sixaxis controller through a feature known as Aftertouch. Such projectiles include guiding Kai's arrows after she has launched them, and for Nariko, guiding a cannon or rocket launcher, or picking up and throwing objects.
Plot
Setting
The game's story and mythos revolves around the titular Heavenly Sword, a blade said to have been wielded by an unnamed Heavenly deity against a demonic warlord called the Raven Lord. After the battle was won and the Raven Lord defeated, the sword was left in the mortal world, becoming the center of wars over its power. The fighting made the sword lust after the life of its users, eventually killing them after a short time. A warrior tribe finally took charge of the sword, ending the wars and pledging to keep it safe and unused for the world's own good. Among the tribe, a legend said that the sword's original wielder would be reborn in the year of the "fire-horse", and that this figure would unite the world's scattered tribes and lead the world to peace.
Characters
The game's narrator and main protagonist is Nariko (Anna Torv), a headstrong red-headed woman who was born in the year of the prophesied divine warrior: because she was a woman, her clan saw her as a mockery of the prophec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMGM-TV
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WMGM-TV (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Wildwood, New Jersey, United States, affiliated with the True Crime Network. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Vineland, New Jersey–licensed Univision owned-and-operated station WUVP-DT (channel 65) and Philadelphia-based low-power, Class A UniMás outlet WFPA-CD (channel 28). The stations share studios on North Delsea Drive in Vineland, while WMGM-TV's transmitter is located along Avalon Boulevard in Swainton.
WMGM-TV is officially considered part of the Philadelphia television market but primarily serves southeastern New Jersey, including Atlantic City. In addition to its own digital signal, WMGM-TV is simulcast on WUVP's third digital subchannel (65.3) from a transmitter in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia; this makes WMGM-TV's programming available over the air throughout the entire Philadelphia market.
WMGM-TV was previously an affiliate of NBC, and was the only major network affiliate located within New Jersey. As such, the station's coverage area overlapped with the network's owned-and-operated station in Philadelphia, WCAU (channel 10) as well as Philadelphia's previous NBC affiliate, KYW-TV (channel 3, now a CBS owned-and-operated station) and the network's New York City flagship WNBC (channel 4). WMGM-TV's affiliation with NBC ended on December 31, 2014. The station aired various digital multicast networks, and operated as an independent, for periods after the loss of NBC. Since its acquisition by Univision, the station has carried the multicast services Justice Network (now True Crime Network) and GetTV, as well as Univision via WUVP-DT.
History
The station first signed on the air on January 25, 1966, known as WCMC-TV (meaning Cape May County). It was owned by Jersey Cape Broadcasting, along with the WCMC radio stations (1230 AM and 100.7 FM, now WZXL). The station initially could not get a direct network feed from NBC, forcing station engineers to switch to and from the signal of KYW-TV (channel 3) in Philadelphia for network programming. During the station's early years, even when NBC went to full-time color programming, the station still broadcast its local programming in black and white. WCMC-TV was sold to South Jersey Radio in 1977, and changed its call letters first to WAAT on April 27, 1981, and then to the current WMGM-TV on April 12, 1984, to match co-owned WMGM radio (103.7 FM). Under South Jersey Radio, channel 40 was able to obtain its own NBC affiliate feed. Upon the death of owner Howard Green in 2002, the stations were eventually sold to Access.1 Communications.
For many years, the station operated a low-powered repeater, WMGM-LP on VHF channel 7, to serve Atlantic City itself. On July 3, 2006, WMGM-LP fell silent when a fire struck its transmitter building. The building also housed the transmitters for Atlantic City's WMGM radio as well as Pleasantville's WOND (1400 AM) and WTKU-FM (98.3). While WMGM radio began broadcasting from WPUR (107.3 FM)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Roundabout%20%28film%29
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The Magic Roundabout (known as Pollux – Le manège enchanté in France) is a 2005 computer-animated adventure fantasy film based on the original stop motion television series of the same name. It was released in France with a French dub on 2 February 2005, and an English-language version was released two weeks later in the United Kingdom on 11 February.
In the United States, the film was released as Doogal on 24 February 2006 with a new English dub and script. Only Ian McKellen's performance was retained, while Kylie Minogue redubbed her role from the UK release. The UK and French dub received mixed reviews but the U.S. dub received overwhelmingly negative reviews.
Plot
The wizard Zebedee, a red jack-in-the-box-like creature, is having a nightmare about an evil ice wizard named Zeebad, a blue jack-in-the-box-like creature. Dougal the well-meaning cheeky, slacker dog places a tack in the road to pop a sweet cart's tyre, hoping to be rewarded with sweets for watching the cart. After the driver goes for help, Dougal accidentally crashes the cart into the magic roundabout at the village. Zeebad emerges from the roundabout roof and flies away, followed by a Foot Guard figurine thrown off the roundabout as it freezes over, trapping repairman Mr Rusty, Dougal's young owner Florence, and two other children named Coral and Basil within an icy cell.
The horrified villagers, who are all animals, call upon Zebedee for help. He explains that the roundabout was a mystical prison for Zeebad. With it damaged, Zeebad is free to work his magic on the world again as he once did before by starting the Ice Age. The only way to stop Zeebad from freezing the world is by retrieving three enchanted diamonds (one of which is supposed to be hidden on the roundabout, while the other two are hidden at separate locations far beyond the village). Slotting the diamonds onto the roundabout will re-imprison Zeebad and undo his magic, but if Zeebad retrieves them first then he will use them to freeze the Sun itself. Zebedee sends Dougal, Brian the cynical snail, Ermintrude the opera-singing cow and Dylan the hippie rabbit, to accomplish this mission along with a magic train. Meanwhile, Zeebad crash lands after escaping the roundabout, and animates the Foot Guard figurine, Soldier Sam, to help him find the diamonds. After Zebedee's fellowship makes camp in the icy mountains, Dougal wanders off during the night and is abducted by Zeebad. Ermintrude breaks him out of his prison. Zebedee then arrives to duel Zeebad but is defeated with Zeebad freezing him and collapsing the cliff on which he stands, causing him to fall into the abyss.
Mourning for their friend, Dougal and his friends embark to recover the diamonds respectively from a lava-bordered volcano and an ancient temple filled with evil skeleton guards, but Zeebad takes both diamonds, leaving the only hope of stopping Zeebad by getting back to the roundabout before Zeebad does. The gang and Train are pursued by Zeebad in a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCQuest%20%28magazine%29
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PCQuest is an Indian technology publication, and part of the Cyber Media group of publications that also publish Dataquest.
PCQ Linux
Since 2001, an initiative has been called PCQLinux, which is not entirely correct, as the name only refers to the customized Linux distribution on the CD, not the initiative to promote and support Open Source technologies. The last PCQLinux was published in 2009 after a user poll.
References
External links
Cyber Media website
Archived PCQuest magazines on the Internet Archive
1982 establishments in Delhi
English-language magazines published in India
Computer magazines published in India
Monthly magazines published in India
Magazines established in 1982
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simson%20Garfinkel
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Simson L. Garfinkel (born 1965) is a Program Scientist at AI2050, part of Schmidt Futures. He has held several roles across government, including a Senior Data Scientist at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the US Census Bureau's Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access. and a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2015-2017). Prior to that, he was an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California (2006-2015). In addition to his research, Garfinkel is a journalist, an entrepreneur, and an inventor; his work is generally concerned with computer security, privacy, and information technology.
Research
Garfinkel's early research was in the field of optical storage. While he was an undergraduate at the MIT Media Laboratory, Garfinkel developed CDFS, the first file system for write-once optical disk systems. During the summer of 1987, he worked at Brown University's IRIS Project, where he developed a server allowing CDROMs to be shared over a network simultaneously by multiple workstations.
In 1991, while a senior editor at NeXTWORLD magazine, Garfinkel created an address book program for the NeXT Computer called SBook. One of SBook's most popular features was a search field that performed a full-text search of all of the records in the address book with each keypress. This kind of search is now standard on many computer programs, including Apple's Mail application and Mozilla Thunderbird. SBook was one of the first programs to incorporate this kind of search technology.
In 1995, Garfinkel moved to Martha's Vineyard and started Vineyard.NET, the Vineyard's first Internet Service Provider. Vineyard.NET was bought by Broadband2Wireless, a wireless ISP, in 2000. The company went bankrupt in September 2001, and Garfinkel bought Vineyard.NET back from the debtor's estate.
In 1998, Garfinkel founded Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that developed advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems. Sandstorm was acquired by Niksun in 2010. Garfinkel is the inventor of six patents, mostly in the field of computer security.
In 2003, Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat published an article in IEEE Security & Privacy magazine reporting on an experiment in which they purchased 158 used hard drives from a variety of sources and checked to see whether they still contained readable data. Roughly one third of the drives appeared to have information that was highly confidential and should have been erased prior to the drive's resale.
In 2006, Garfinkel introduced cross-drive analysis, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for automatically reconstructing social networks from hard drives and other kinds of data-carrying devices that are likely to contain pseudo-unique information.
In September 2006, Garfinkel joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, as an associate professor o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leecher%20%28computing%29
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In computing and specifically in Internet slang, a leech is one who benefits, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but does not offer anything in return, or makes only token offerings in an attempt to avoid being called a leech. In economics, this type of behavior is called "free riding" and is associated with the free rider problem. The term originated in the bulletin board system era, when it referred to users that would download files and upload nothing in return.
Depending on context, leeching does not necessarily refer to illegal use of computer resources, but often instead to greedy use according to etiquette: to wit, using too much of what is freely given without contributing a reasonable amount back to the community that provides it. The word is also used without any pejorative connotations, simply meaning to download large sets of information: for example the offline reader Leech, the Usenet newsreader NewsLeecher, the audio recording software SoundLeech, or LeechPOP, a utility to download attachments from POP3 mailboxes.
The name derives from the leech, an animal that sucks blood and then tries to leave unnoticed. Other terms are used, such as "freeloader", "mooch" and "sponge", but leech is the most commonly used.
Examples
Wi-Fi leeches attach to open wireless networks without the owner's knowledge in order to access the Internet. One example of this is someone who connects to a café's free wireless service from their car in the parking lot in order to download large amounts of data. Piggybacking is a term used to describe this phenomenon.
Direct linking (or hot-linking) is a form of bandwidth leeching that occurs when placing an unauthorized linked object, often an image, from one site in a web page belonging to a second site (the leech).
In most P2P-networks, leeching can be defined as behavior consisting of downloading more data, over time, than the individual is uploading to other clients, thus draining speed from the network. The term is used in a similar way for shared FTP directories. Mainly, leeching is taking without giving.
Claiming credit for, or offering for sale, freely available content created and uploaded by others to the Internet (Plagiarism/Copyfraud)
Gaming
In games (whether a traditional tabletop RPG, LARPing, or even MMORPG) the term "leech" is given to someone who avoids confrontation and sits out while another player fights and gains experience for the person, or "leecher", who is avoiding confrontation.
In online multi-player games, "to leech" generally means that a player be present and qualify for the presentation of a reward of some sort, without contributing to the team effort needed to earn that reward. Although in the past the term "leeching" has been applied to a player gaining any benefit due solely to the efforts of others, the term is now most often limited to players that gain experience without meaningful contribution. However, while this usually carries negativ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silliwood
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Silliwood, a portmanteau of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, is the term given to various California companies involved with creating CD-ROM computer games based on Hollywood movies, most of which did not appeal to serious gamers in the mid-1990s.
Spurred on in large part by the success of CD-ROM games like Myst, these games emphasized flashy production values and well-known (or at least, recognizable) actors over gameplay. These include unsuccessful games such as The Horde (starring Kirk Cameron), A Fork in the Tale (starring Rob Schneider), Night Trap (starring Dana Plato) and several games starring Tim Curry, and successful games such as the DreamWorks Studios title The Neverhood, the Warner Bros.-produced Edgar Allan Poe game The Dark Eye, and The Residents game Bad Day on the Midway, and later Wing Commander games.
The term also referred to the advent of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in Hollywood movies.
References
Video games based on films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20hierarchy
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A class hierarchy or inheritance tree in computer science is a classification of object types, denoting objects as the instantiations of classes (class is like a blueprint, the object is what is built from that blueprint) inter-relating the various classes by relationships such as "inherits", "extends", "is an abstraction of", "an interface definition". In object-oriented programming, a class is a template that defines the state and behavior common to objects of a certain kind. A class can be defined in terms of other classes.
The concept of class hierarchy in computer science is very similar to taxonomy, the classifications of species.
The relationships are specified in the science of object-oriented design and object interface standards defined by popular use, language designers (Java, C++, Smalltalk, Visual Prolog) and standards committees for software design like the Object Management Group.
The class hierarchy can be as deep as needed. The Instance variables and methods are inherited down through the levels and can be redefined according to the requirement in a subclass. In general, the further down in the hierarchy a class appears, the more specialized its behavior. When a message is sent to an object, it is passed up the inheritance tree starting from the class of the receiving object until a definition is found for the method. This process is called upcasting.
See also
Multiple inheritance
Composition over inheritance
References
Class (computer programming)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad%20Patrol
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Toad Patrol is a Canadian animated series created by George and Peggy Sarson. It premiered on October 2, 1999, on Teletoon (now Cartoon Network) in Canada and on September 7, 2002, on Toon Disney.
Although it was aimed at young children, it found a following among preteens, teens and young adults because the fairly youthful and light-hearted appearance of the show enveloped some rather dark undertones and backgrounds. The story was in unofficial development since 1985, officially beginning when the creators started selling Mistle Toad chocolates and cream pops to raise money.
Years later, Toad Patrol was animated in Korea, AKOM (first season) and India, UTV Toons (additional production services, second season only), although much in-betweening was done in Canada at Funbag and Helix studios. It later aired on the French-language Télétoon as La Petite Patrouille, and on the TeleFutura (now UniMás) Spanish-language network as Patrulla de Sapitos. It also aired in Italy on Rai 2 as La pattuglia dei ranocchi.
Story
The story is about a group of eight young "Toadlet" siblings and their struggle for survival in The Great Forest.
The Ancients are quite powerful and knowledgeable in shamanistic like magic. According to legend; they had created Toad Hollow, left many symbols of their existence behind and had eventually disappeared. Now, due to unknown reasons, the Toads have to abandon the forest and migrate to Toad Hollow. Toad Hollow is basically a giant haven, home to many Toads. The only way to enter Toad Hollow is a gateway known as the Fairy Ring. Or at least, this is the only way that will prevent one from becoming a Toadstool after the ring closes. This portal of sorts opens and closes in random areas of the forest annually, and any who miss the Ring end up stranded or turn into a toadstool.
The main characters are late born Toadlets who missed the great migration. Unable to figure out what to do, they are greeted by a wandering Toad sage named Mistle Toad. He tells them about the Fairy Ring and how to find it. It is not known exactly where it is because the location changes every year. It is revealed shortly after that the youngest of the eight toadlets, Panther Cap, has the ability to hear what certain "Lightning Oaks" (called Thunder Trees by the toadlets) are saying, and can also tune into these trees telepathically with the use of an acorn.
Along their journey, every member of the group develops a special skill which they use to contribute to the group's survival. They also meet Earth Star, a young Toadlet musician who was part of a previous group of Toadlets who failed to find the Fairy Ring in time and all turned into Toadstools.
The series lasted two seasons, 13 episodes each. The first follows the Toadlets as they find the Fairy Ring. In the second season, when in Toad Hollow, Panther Cap hears Mistle Toad calling out for help. Eventually after telling the others, they set out to find and rescue him.
Characters
Production
This se
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulator
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Accumulator may refer to:
Accumulator (bet), a parlay bet
Accumulator (computing), in a CPU, a processor register for storing intermediate results
Accumulator (computer vision), discrete cell structure to count votes, standard component of the Hough transform
Accumulator (cryptography), a value, determined by a set of values, that allows one to verify if any one of the original values is a member of the set
Accumulator (energy), an apparatus for storing energy or power
Capacitor, in electrical engineering, also known by the obsolete term accumulator
Electrochemical cell, a cell that stores electrical energy, typically used in rechargeable batteries
Hydraulic accumulator, an energy storage device using hydraulic fluid under pressure
Thermal accumulator, a device or system that provides thermal energy storage as from concentrated solar power and storage heaters or heat banks in buildings
Accumulator (structured product), a financial contract used by clients (usually individuals) to accumulate stock positions over time
Accumulator 1, a Czech film
Dynamic accumulator, a plant that mines nutrients from the soil through its roots
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kyle%20and%20Jackie%20O%20Show
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The Kyle and Jackie O Show is an Australian breakfast radio show hosted by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O on KIIS 106.5 in Sydney. The show is syndicated in the late drive slot on the KIIS Network following Will & Woody across Australia, and is a station on iHeartRadio.
History
The Kyle and Jackie O Show commenced on 16 January 2005 on 2Day FM. Kyle and Jackie O replaced former 2Day FM breakfast hosts Judith Lucy, Peter Helliar and Kaz Cooke.
The show has been Sydney's top-rated FM radio breakfast show for four consecutive years, and the program is a 9-time winner and 36-time finalist of the Australian Commercial Radio Awards. From November 2009 until December 2011, Kyle and Jackie O were also broadcast nationally on Saturdays between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. during the syndicated Take 40 Australia show.
On 1 November 2013, it was announced the radio show will end on 2Day FM in December 2013 and move to rival station, KIIS 106.5 from January 2014.
The Kyle and Jackie O Show began on new station KIIS 106.5 on 20 January 2014 with a nightly "best bits" program networked on the KIIS Network (ARN) and regional radio stations. The show on KIIS 106.5 instantly went to number 1(FM) in the first radio survey for 2014 with the former radio station 2Day FM failing in the ratings.
In 2014, Kyle and Jackie O started a new show, The A-List with Kyle and Jackie O which also airs on KIIS 106.5, in Sydney, and exported globally. A weekly 3-hour entertainment show featuring the biggest stars and the hottest music in the world, co-produced with Bowserland.
Together, the prestigious radio show has won a total of 36 radio awards.
Time
The Kyle and Jackie O Show airs weekdays in the breakfast radio time-slot from 6 am to 10 am on KIIS 106.5.
The syndicated show, The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power, airs in metro markets from 6 p.m to 7 p.m each weeknight on the KIIS Network in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth, plus in regional areas on a number of FM stations on the Ace Radio and Super Radio networks.
Regular features
Jackie's O News
Presented every hour, Jackie's O News features Jackie delivering the morning's celebrity gossip and news. Due to the popularity and longevity of this feature, Jackie's O News will often "break" local and international celebrity news stories.
Notable breaking stories have included the revealing of the names of finalists for the Gold Logie.
Spoilers and leaks are also aired during the segment. In November 2010, the name of a dying character in the hit TV show Packed to the Rafters was revealed.
The $10,000 Pop Quiz
Every morning at 7 a.m. a listener is selected to answer 10 questions correctly within 60 seconds. The listener wins $100 for each correct answer, but is eligible for the top prize only if all 10 are answered correctly. Late in 2012, the $10,000 Pop Quiz eventually changed format to become the $50,000 Pop Quiz every weekday, which was won on 26 November 2012. The Pop Quiz varies from $5000, $10,000, $12,000, $
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20aggregator
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In computing, a news aggregator, also termed a feed aggregator, content aggregator, feed reader, news reader, RSS reader, or simply an aggregator is client software or a web application that aggregates digital content such as online newspapers, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing. The updates distributed may include journal tables of contents, podcasts, videos, and news items.
Examples of contemporary news aggregators are Feedly, Inoreader, and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Function
Aggregation technology often consolidates (sometimes syndicated) web content into one page that can show only the new or updated information from many sites. Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or personal newspaper. Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. The content is sometimes described as being pulled to the subscriber, as opposed to pushed with email or IM. Unlike recipients of some push information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed. The feeds are often in the RSS or Atom formats which use Extensible Markup Language (XML) to structure pieces of information to be aggregated in a feed reader that displays the information in a user-friendly interface. Before subscribing to a feed, users have to install either "feed reader" or "news aggregator" applications in order to read it. The aggregator provides a consolidated view of the content in one browser display or desktop application. "Desktop applications offer the advantages of a potentially richer user interface and of being able to provide some content even when the computer is not connected to the Internet. Web-based feed readers offer the great convenience of allowing users to access up-to-date feeds from any Internet-connected computer." Although some applications will have an automated process to subscribe to a news feed, the basic way to subscribe is by simply clicking on the web feed icon and/or text link. Aggregation features are frequently built into web portal sites, in the web browsers themselves, in email applications, or in application software designed specifically for reading feeds. Aggregators with podcasting capabilities can automatically download media files, such as MP3 recordings. In some cases, these can be automatically loaded onto portable media players (like iPods) when they are connected to the end-users computer. By 2011, so-called RSS narrators appeared, which aggregated text-only news feeds, and converted them into audio recordings for offline listening. The syndicated content an aggregator will retrieve and interpret is usually supplied in the form of RSS or other XML-formatted data, such as RDF/XML or Atom.
History
RSS began in 1999 "when it was first introduced by Internet browser pioneer Netscape". In the beginning, RSS was not a user-friendly gadget and it
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecorporaci%C3%B3n%20Salvadore%C3%B1a
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Telecorporación Salvadoreña (TCS) is a television network corporation in El Salvador. Telecorporación Salvadoreña is a group of local television stations formed by channels 2, 4, 6, and TCS+. (channel 35) TCS launched began transmissions on channel 31. The channel stopped analogical broadcasts in NTSC and was launched in the TDT on the same frequency, within the virtual channel 31.1, with programming of the TCS files in test signal Most of the time each channel has an independent programming schedule, but the channels do share limited programming and simulcasts, particularly on weekday mornings. When linked together, the network name (Telecorporación Salvadoreña) is used instead of the channels' individual names (2, 4 , and 6).
Besides the four television stations, TCS also has two radio stations: VOX FM Vox FM Web Site and Que Buena Que Buena Web Site
Terrestrial networks
Shows
Telecorporacion Salvadoreña's shows include on air:
Secretos de cocina
A cocinar!
Viva la Mañana
Invasión 51
>Play
La Polémica
Liberadas
DC4
Llevatelo
Salvadoreños Comprometidos (September 2013 - Present) (the program is held once every year)
Prendi2 (Started April 03, 2022)
Ven a Cantar (Coming soon May or June 2022)
Off-Air Programs
Brinka
Club Disney
La Hora Warner
Chivisimo
Hollywood Pack
Duro Blandito
Comencemos Ya!
Código Fama El Salvador
Fin de Semana
¿Quién quiere ser millonario?
Nuestra Belleza El Salvador
Bailando por un sueño El Salvador
Cantando por un sueño El Salvador
Tal Para Cual
Conéctate 2Night
La Comedia Hora
Dale Watts
Código Fama El Salvador
Acoplados
Sabaton
Alo Verano
"PLOP"
Reto Centroamericano de Baile
El Jardín de la Tía Bubu
Jardín Infantil
Variedades del 6
Ticket con Francisco Cáceres
Éxitos Musicales
El número uno
El Número Uno Kids
El Número Uno VIP
Calle 7 El Salvador (until the seventh season)
Tu Nai
Top Chef El Salvador 1º 2º y 3º
A Todo o Nada
Grandiosas
Ponte Fit
Picante y Sabroso (currently on TVX)
Fit TV (currently on TVX)
Estrellas del Baile (on air 09/29/2019)
Yo me llamo (canceled due to pandemic COVID-19)
En Vivo Con...
Tele Cash
Trato Hecho (Deal or No Deal) (season 5 September 6, 2020 - ended September 5, 2021 with 47 participants and delivered a quantity of $79,733.50 to each participants throughout the program development.)
Top Chef Estrellas (Starts on September 26 2021 - ended on December 19 2021) resulting as the winner Marjorie Madrid with the amount of $ 25,000 USD.
Domingo para Todos (May 27 1987 - December 26 2021) (the closure was known due to the sponsors and the ratings of spectators that it put to end because of the Covid-19.)
International
On June 1, 2008, Telecorporación Salvadoreña create an alliance with DirecTV where in Channel 429 of Telecentro, DirecTV is the one in charge to transmit all the national programs of TCS in the United States and Canada.
This is one of the passages for the internationalization of the television transmitter but important of El Salvador, an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost%202%3A%20Divided%20Destiny
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Outpost 2: Divided Destiny is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Dynamix, released in 1997 by Sierra Entertainment. It reuses and refines some of the concepts from the original Outpost, but there is no direct continuity between the storylines or the gameplay.
Storyline
The plot is revealed through a combination of the game's mission briefings and a novella which was written by J. Steven York and included with the game. The novella follows two characters: Axen Moon of Eden, and Emma Burke of Plymouth, who were childhood friends and lovers.
Main plot
A massive asteroid called "Vulcan's Hammer" causes an extinction event on Earth. A handful of engineers and scientists escape in the starship Conestoga. The ship travels in interstellar space with the passengers in stasis. After many centuries, the ship's onboard supplies begin to run out and its A.I. is forced to awaken the captain and some colonists. They give orders to touch down on the most habitable planet in range, though it is still quite harsh to human life. They name it New Terra and establish the colony of Eden. After many years orbiting New Terra, the Conestoga eventually crashes due to orbital decay.
Some years after the landing, disagreement over the colony's direction sparks division among its members. The main Eden faction wants to pursue terraforming, while separatists believe that humanity should adapt to live in the planet's natural environment. The ruling council decides in favor of terraforming. Subsequently, members of the separatist group steal materials and transports in order to form their own splinter colony, Plymouth. Using the sole communications satellite, the two colonies continue the debate remotely. Eventually, Eden announces that they have begun terraforming the planet. In response, the leaders of Plymouth sever relations with Eden by shutting down the communications satellite with the deactivation code. Shortly afterwards it's discovered that no one has the reactivation code, meaning the satellite is offline permanently. This shuts down any direct dialog between the two factions though it is shown in the novella that communication via other routes takes place during specific events.
Eden's terraforming process uses a bioagent that breaks apart oxygen bonds, carrying the potential to also destroy 'boptronic' (bio-optronic) computer systems and humans by breaking down their organic molecules. At first Eden performs a number of tests with early versions of the bioagent in testwells aligned with a fault line leading almost all the way up to Plymouth's colony. "The Blight", the uncontrolled expansion of the bioagent, is unleashed upon New Terra when one of their advanced labs explodes. Eden has to evacuate to run from the, at first, mostly unknown cause of the disaster. The water produced by the breaking of oxygen bonds lubricates dormant fault lines, and the air released begins to thicken and storm. These result in more frequent occurrences of earthquak
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phynd
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Phynd (Find) is a LAN-indexing search engine used to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing over a local-area network. It was developed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student researcher Jesse Jordan to solve various problems experienced by Microsoft browsers and networks when trying to index files within a large network.
One of the results of Jordan's file indexing exercise was that large numbers of downloaded music files were found on other users' local systems. Jordan was relatively unconcerned with the nature of the content he was indexing. His objective was enabling a network to index all its files without crashing any elements of the network.
Although Jordan's search engine, Phynd, merely indexed public data that users elected to share through an integrated sharing feature in Microsoft Windows, Jordan was sued by RIAA for copyright infringement. The original Phynd search engine, rpi.phynd.net (defunct), existing years before and months after Jesse's lawsuit was shut down by the enormous pressure that the RIAA in November 2003 brought upon Jordan and his family. The RIAA was demanding $15,000,000 to settle. As a student researcher, Jordan had only modest life savings of approximately $12,000, and his family had only modest assets. His limited options were to fight the RIAA at enormous personal expense, or to settle. Jordan, chose to settle outside of court for $12,000, his entire life savings from student employment. He subsequently raised $12,005.67 via contributions on a personal web site in July 2003.
References
Lessig, Lawrence (2004). Free Culture : How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. . The Penguin Press. New York
Notes
External links
Phynd server shut down by threat of lawsuit
Students to Pay in RIAA Song-Swapping Suit
$12,005.67: Amount Jesse Jordan, sued by the recording...
Information retrieval systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinoy%20Pop%20Superstar
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Pinoy Pop Superstar is a Philippine television singing talent show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Regine Velasquez, it premiered on July 3, 2004. The show concluded on June 2, 2007 with a total of 3 seasons.
Seasons
Contestants
Season 1
Michael Garcia
Kristel Astor
Charmaine Piamonte
MC Monterola
Brenan Espartinez
Jonalyn Viray
Philbert de Torres from Canada
Sheila Ferrari from the United States
Season 2
Harry Santos
Gerald Santos
Aicelle Santos
Denver Regencia
Irra Cenina
Ronnie Liang
Daryl Ong
Elise Estrada from Canada
Rosemarie Tan from the United States
Season 3
Joyce Tanaña
Miguel Naranjilla
Maricris Garcia
Jennie Escalada
Marvin Gagarin
Bryan Termulo
John Louie Abaigar
April delos Santos
Jae Buensuceso from the United States
Accolades
See also
Pinoy Pop Superstar: The Finalists
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Tropical%20Botanical%20Garden
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The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is a Hawaii-based not-for-profit institution dedicated to tropical plant research, conservation, and education. It operates a network of botanical gardens and preserves in Hawaii and Florida.
History
In the early 1960s a group approached the U.S. Congress to charter a tropical botanical garden on U.S. soil. In 1964, Public Law 88-449 was enacted which chartered the Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden (which would later be changed to National Tropical Botanical Garden).
The group is a not-for-profit non-governmental institution holding a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. The mission of the NTBG is to enrich life through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education by perpetuating the survival of plants, ecosystems, and cultural knowledge of tropical regions. This mission would be achieved through: a network of diverse gardens and preserves in Hawai`i and Florida, each with significant biological, cultural, and historical resources; conservation, research, and reference collections (living, library, and herbarium) assembled through discovery and collaboration; research in botany, ethnobotany, horticulture, conservation biology, and restoration ecology through programs and institutes; educational courses, publications, lectures, and visitor programs; and facilities and infrastructure to conduct this work.
In 2019, they rediscovered a plant species previously deemed to be extinct, that is Hibiscadelphus woodii.
Sites
NTBG is headquartered in Kalāheo, on the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii. The building was originally designed by architect Vladimir Ossipoff.
The Juliet Rice Wichman Botanical Research Center building, named after the conservationist and botanist, was constructed in 2003 under Dean Sakamoto of concrete to survive hurricanes. Hurricane Iniki devastated the area in 1992.
Garden sites are:
McBryde Garden - Kauai island, Hawaii
Allerton Garden - Kauai island, Hawaii
Limahuli Garden and Preserve - Kauai island, Hawaii
Kahanu Garden - Maui island, Hawaii
The Kampong - Biscayne Bay, Coconut Grove, Florida
Thousands of species have been gathered from throughout the tropical world, through hundreds of field expeditions by staff and through collaborations with other institutions and researchers. Its living collections include the largest assemblages of native Hawaiian plant species and of breadfruit cultivars in existence. Tours of each of the gardens are available.
Preserves are also an important component of the NTBG. The preserves are seen as a refuge for nature, providing habitat for native and tropical plant species to mature and reproduce in a natural setting without the influence of human activity. They have also provided scientists the necessary means for the reintroduction of critically endangered species that are no longer found in the wild. These preserves act as large laboratories for experiments in conservation biology. The NT
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datames
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Datames (Old Persian: Dātama or Dātāma, Aramaic: Tadanmu, ; 407 BC – 362 BC), also known as Tarkamuwa, was an Iranian military leader, who served as the governor (satrap) of the Achaemenid satrapy of Cappadocia (or Cilicia; the evidence is contradictory) from the 380s BC to 362 BC. A Carian by birth, he was the son of Camissares by a Paphlagonian mother. His father being satrap of Cilicia under Artaxerxes II, and high in the favour of that monarch, Datames became one of the king's bodyguards; and having in this capacity distinguished himself in the war against the Cadusii, was appointed to succeed his father (who had fallen in that war) in the government of his province. Here he distinguished himself both by his military abilities and his zeal in the service of the king; and reduced to subjection two officials who had revolted from Artaxerxes, Thyus, governor of Paphlagonia, and Aspis of Cataonia.
Name
"Datames" is the Hellenized form of the Old Iranian *Dātama- or *Dātāma-, either from Dātamiθra ("Gift of Mithra") or *Data-ama ("to whom force is given"). The name is attested in Aramaic as Tadanmu.
Background
Datames was born in . He was a son of Camisares, an Iranian satrap who governed Cilicia under the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II (). Camisares was most likely from a Persian noble-family that settled in Caria, and was one of the nobles who sided with Artaxerxes II during the revolt of Cyrus the Younger. Datames' mother was a Paphlagonian princess named Scythissa, who was married to Camisares sometime before 401 BC.
Revolt against Artaxerxes II
He was in consequence entrusted by the Persian king with the chief command of a force designed for the recovery of Egypt, following the failure of Pharnabazus II; but the machinations of his enemies at the Persian court, and the risks to which he was in consequence exposed, induced him to change his plan, and throw off his allegiance to the king (c.370 BC). He withdrew with the troops under his command into Cappadocia, and made common cause with the other satraps who had revolted from Persia (the "Satraps' Revolt").
Artabazos, the satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, one of the generals that remained faithful to the king, advanced against him from Pisidia, but was entirely defeated. The great reputation that Datames had acquired induced Artaxerxes to direct his utmost exertions to effect his subjection, but Autophradates, who was sent against him with a large army, was obliged to retreat with heavy loss. Datames, however, though constantly victorious against open foes, ultimately fell a victim to treachery, and, after evading numerous plots that had been formed against his life, was assassinated at a conference by Mithridates, the son of Ariobarzanes, who had gained his confidence by assuming the appearance of hostility to the king.
Evaluation
Datames appears to have obtained the highest reputation in his day for courage and ability in war, which caused his fame to extend even among the Greeks, thou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperSport%20%28South%20African%20broadcaster%29
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SuperSport is a South African-based group of television channels carried on the DStv & Canal+ satellite platforms alongside the GOtv terrestrial platform and Showmax Pro for live sports programming. It provides sports content in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and many other African countries.
SuperSport previously also had operations in Europe in the Scandinavian, Benelux, Italy, Eastern Europe, Greek & Cypriot regions and had sports channels started by FilmNet, being owned by MultiChoice at the time which have since been replaced. They also had operations in Thailand, under the current name True Sport & Egypt and Middle East via Cable Network of Egypt (CNE) & Arab Radio and Television Network respectively.
The channel broadcasts most of the major sporting events and leagues of association football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport, cycling, boxing, wrestling, hockey, athletics. It was formerly the world's largest broadcaster of live rugby and cricket (having been overtaken by Sky Sports), and also the world's second largest Premier League broadcaster, broadcasting matches live and, where possible, in HD through the Premier League's Content Service Sr.
Apart from its satellite channels, SuperSport also feeds content to M-Net, CSN and occasionally to M-Net HD. As of September 2020, much the same way Sky Sports has done, SuperSport started to run thematic channels with most major sports getting their own channels.
History
In 1986, M-Net was launched as South Africa's first pay-television channel and, along with Canal+, only the second outside of the United States. The channel immediately showed its intention to include sport in its programming line-up, by securing exclusive rights of an important Currie Cup match between Transvaal and Western Province for its first ever broadcast. From 1988, sports coverage on M-Net ran under the banner of M-Net SuperSport.
M-Net SuperSport expanded its range of coverage, including live overseas rugby, cricket, golf, boxing and cycling. Following South Africa's readmission into international cricket, SuperSport scored another marketing coup by securing exclusive rights to the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
When rugby turned professional in 1995, a deal was struck between the newly formed SANZAR and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. In South Africa, SuperSport was awarded exclusive broadcasting rights of the Super 12 competition, as well as the Tri Nations. Following this deal, rugby gradually ceased broadcasting on the SABC, while SuperSport became a carrier of live rugby broadcasts.
At the same time, Naspers expanded its pay-television operations to a satellite carrier. With the launch of DStv in 1995, SuperSport became a multi-channel network and an independent brand, although it was still primarily associated with M-Net. The network made full use of the satellite platform to expand its sports offering: For the Olympic Games, six channels are generally used for live events.
In 2007, the SABC lost its exc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged%20edge
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In computer graphics, the winged edge data structure is a way to represent polygon meshes in computer memory. It is a type of boundary representation and describes both the geometry and topology of a model. Three types of records are used: vertex records, edge records, and face records. Given a reference to an edge record, one can answer several types of adjacency queries (queries about neighboring edges, vertices and faces) in constant time. This kind of adjacency information is useful for algorithms such as subdivision surface.
Features
The winged edge data structure explicitly describes the geometry and topology of faces, edges, and vertices when three or more surfaces come together and meet at a common edge. The ordering is such that the surfaces are ordered counter-clockwise with respect to the innate orientation of the intersection edge. Moreover the representation allows numerically unstable situations like that depicted below.
The winged edge data structure allows for quick traversal between faces, edges, and vertices due to the explicitly linked structure of the network. It serves adjacency queries in constant time with little storage overhead. This rich form of specifying an unstructured grid is in contrast to simpler specifications of polygon meshes such as a node and element list, or the implied connectivity of a regular grid. An alternative to the winged edge data structure is the Half-edge data structure.
Structure and pseudocode
The face and vertex records are relatively simple, while the edge record is more complex.
For each vertex, its record stores only the vertex's position (e.g. coordinates) and a reference to one incident edge. The other edges can be found by following further references in the edge.
Similarly each face record only stores a reference to one of the edges surrounding the face. There is no need to store the direction of the edge relative to the face (CCW or CW) as the face can be trivially compared to the edge's own left and right faces to obtain this information.
Finally, the structure of the edge record is as follows. An edge is assumed to be directed. The edge record contains two references to the vertices that make up the endpoints of the edge, two references to the faces on either side of the edge, and four references to the previous and next edges surrounding the left and right face.
In short, the edge record has references to all its adjacent records, both when traversing around an adjacent vertex or around an adjacent face.
class Edge
{
Vertex *vert_origin, *vert_destination;
Face *face_left, *face_right;
Edge *edge_left_cw,
*edge_left_ccw,
*edge_right_cw,
*edge_right_ccw;
}
class Vertex
{
float x, y, z;
Edge *edge;
}
class Face
{
Edge *edge;
}
See also
Quad-edge data structure
Combinatorial maps
Doubly connected edge list
Doubly linked face list
Half-edge data structure
External links
Computer-aided design
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d%20studio
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3d studio can refer to:
A studio location where 3D work is created
3ds Max, an animation software package previously named 3D Studio Max
Any 3D computer graphics software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverson
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Iverson may refer to:
Computing
Iverson Award, an ACM honour for APL contributions
Iverson bracket, a mathematical notation
Iverson Notation, the syntactic basis of APL (programming language)
Other uses
Iverson Movie Ranch, Chatsworth, California
"White Iverson", Post Malone's debut single
Iverson, a bicycle brand of Stelber Cycle Corp
People named Iverson
Iverson (surname), people with the surname
Iverson L. Harris (1805–1876), American judge
See also
Iversen (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20reasoning%20aptitude
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Inductive reasoning aptitude (also called differentiation or inductive learning ability) measures how well a person can identify a pattern within a large amount of data. It involves applying the rules of logic when inferring general principles from a constellation of particulars.
Measurement is generally done in a timed test by showing four pictures or words and asking the test taker to identify which of the pictures or words does not belong in the set. The test taker is shown a large number of sets of various degrees of difficulty. The measurement is made by timing how many of these a person can properly identify in a set period of time. The test resembles the game 'Which of These Is Not Like the Others'.
Inductive reasoning is very useful for scientists, auto mechanics, system integrators, lawyers, network engineers, medical doctors, system administrators and members of all fields where substantial diagnostic or data interpretation work is needed. Inductive reasoning aptitude is also useful for learning a graphical user interface quickly, because highly inductive people are very good at seeing others' categorization schemes.
Example
Here is an example question:
Find the set of letters that doesn’t belong with the other sets.
A) cdef B) mnpo C) hikj D) vwyx
The correct answer is...
→("A", as it is the only set with four letters in sequential order, although set "D" arguably differs by both lacking a vowel and being separated from the previous set by more than one intervening letter.)
See also
Aptitude test
Theory of multiple intelligences
References
External links
Activities for Stimulating Inductive Reasoning
Cognitive tests
Aptitude
Inductive reasoning
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Cluster%20Server
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Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) is a computer program that allows server computers to work together as a computer cluster, to provide failover and increased availability of applications, or parallel calculating power in case of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters (as in supercomputing).
Microsoft has three technologies for clustering: Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS, a HA clustering service), Component Load Balancing (CLB) (part of Application Center 2000), and Network Load Balancing Services (NLB). With the release of Windows Server 2008 the MSCS service was renamed to Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), and the Component Load Balancing (CLB) feature became deprecated.
Prior to Windows Server 2008, clustering required (per Microsoft KBs) that all nodes in the clusters to be as identical as possible from hardware, drivers, firmware, all the way to software. After Windows Server 2008 however, Microsoft modified the requirements to state that only the operating system needs to be of the same level (such as patch level).
Background
Cluster Server was codenamed "Wolfpack" during its development. Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition was the first version of Windows to include the MSCS software. The software has since been updated with each new server release. The cluster software evaluates the resources of servers in the cluster and chooses which are used based on criteria set in the administration module. In June 2006, Microsoft released Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the first high-performance computing (HPC) cluster technology offering from Microsoft.
History
During Microsoft's first attempt at development of a cluster server Microsoft, originally priced at $10,000, ran into problems causing the software to fail because of buggy software causing fail-over forcing the workload from two servers to a single server. This results in poor allocation of resources, poor performance of the servers, and very poor reviews from analysts.
The announcement of a new update to the Microsoft Cluster Server software came in 1998 promising new features in 1999 and the newest addition in the line of Windows NT software in the form of Windows NT 5.0 Enterprise Edition. Also promising support for 4 nodes post release of NT 5.0.
Microsoft's first attempt at pushing the cluster server software was at the 2005 Super-Computing conference in Seattle the new software being developed, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (Windows CCS 2003).
On May 8, 2006 Microsoft reports the release of the full-featured Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (for industrial use) and the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 R2 (for small businesses) software to the public for purchase in summer 2006.
References
External links
Microsoft Clustering Services
Cluster Server
Cluster computing
High-availability cluster computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20Sharp%20%28programming%20language%29
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C# (pronounced ) is a general-purpose high-level programming language supporting multiple paradigms. C# encompasses static typing, strong typing, lexically scoped, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.
The C# programming language was designed by Anders Hejlsberg from Microsoft in 2000 and was later approved as an international standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) in 2002 and ISO/IEC (ISO/IEC 23270) in 2003. Microsoft introduced C# along with .NET Framework and Visual Studio, both of which were closed-source. At the time, Microsoft had no open-source products. Four years later, in 2004, a free and open-source project called Mono began, providing a cross-platform compiler and runtime environment for the C# programming language. A decade later, Microsoft released Visual Studio Code (code editor), Roslyn (compiler), and the unified .NET platform (software framework), all of which support C# and are free, open-source, and cross-platform. Mono also joined Microsoft but was not merged into .NET.
the most recent stable version of the language is C# 11.0, which was released in 2022 in .NET 7.0.
Design goals
The Ecma standard lists these design goals for C#:
The language is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language.
The language, and implementations thereof, should provide support for software engineering principles such as strong type checking, array bounds checking, detection of attempts to use uninitialized variables, and automatic garbage collection. Software robustness, durability, and programmer productivity are important.
The language is intended for use in developing software components suitable for deployment in distributed environments.
Portability is very important for source code and programmers, especially those already familiar with C and C++.
Support for internationalization is very important.
C# is intended to be suitable for writing applications for both hosted and embedded systems, ranging from the very large that use sophisticated operating systems, down to the very small having dedicated functions.
Although C# applications are intended to be economical with regard to memory and processing power requirements, the language was not intended to compete directly on performance and size with C or assembly language.
History
During the development of the .NET Framework, the class libraries were originally written using a managed code compiler system called "Simple Managed C" (SMC). In January 1999, Anders Hejlsberg formed a team to build a new language at the time called Cool, which stood for "C-like Object Oriented Language". Microsoft had considered keeping the name "Cool" as the final name of the language, but chose not to do so for trademark reasons. By the time the .NET project was publicly announced at the July 2000 Professional Developers Conference, the language had been renamed C#, and the class librar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS%20MasterMap
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The OS MasterMap is the premier digital product of the Ordnance Survey. It was launched in November 2001. It is a database that records every fixed feature of Great Britain larger than a few meters in one continuous digital map. Every feature is given a unique TOID (TOpographical IDentifier), a simple identifier that includes no semantic information. Typically each TOID is associated with a polygon that represents the area on the ground that the feature covers, in National Grid coordinates. OS MasterMap is offered in themed "layers", for example a road layer and a building layer, each linked to a number of TOIDs. Pricing of licenses for OS MasterMap data depends on: the total area requested, the layers licensed, the number of TOIDs in the layers, the period in years of the data usage.
OS MasterMap can be used to generate maps for a vast array of purposes. Although the scale on a digital map is much more flexible than a paper map, one can print out maps from OS MasterMap data with detail equivalent to a traditional 1:1250 paper map.
Ordnance Survey claims that OS MasterMap data is never more than six months out of date, thanks to continuous review. The scale and detail of this mapping project is so far unique. Around 440 million TOIDs have so far been assigned, and the database stands at 600 terabytes in size.
Layers
Topography Layer
The OS MasterMap Topography Layer represents topography at a scale of 1:1250. It is further subdivided into a number of themes: land area classifications' buildings, roads, tracks and paths, rail, water, terrain and height, heritage and antiquities, structures; and administrative boundaries.
Integrated Transport Network Layer
OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ (ITN) Layer maps Great Britain’s road network – from motorways to pedestrian streets. It contains attributes to enable the routing of vehicles, taking into account the limitations of the road network.
OS MasterMap Address Layer 2
OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 is a dataset that describes the location of addresses. It is designed to be used as a means of geo-referencing addresses and attempts to improve on Address Point. Address Layer is a part of the National Spatial Address Infrastructure and contains National Land and Property Gazetteer attributes that classify properties. It is currently at the centre of a dispute between Ordnance Survey and Intelligent Addressing, the custodian of the National Land and Property Gazetteer dataset.
Imagery Layer
The Imagery layer is a national collection of 25cm resolution aerial photos.
Delivery of the data
OS MasterMap data is in GML format. It is usually delivered as files compressed with gzip (giving them an extension 'gz').
Recently, Ordnance Survey has been trialing delivery of OS MasterMap data using WFS and WMS, in accordance with the Open Geospatial Consortium. This trial may even end up with automatic updates using WFS-T.
Custodianship of the data
Although branded like a commercial product, OS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughbook
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The Toughbook is a line of rugged computers produced and marketed by Panasonic Corporation. The Toughbook, introduced in 1996 with the CF-25, is designed to withstand outside forces which would damage or destroy normal laptops. The Toughbook laptops are used in a wide variety of industries, including construction, defense, emergency services, government, healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, oil, gas, telecom, and utilities. The Toughbook brand mainly competes with other lines of rugged computers, such as Dell's Rugged Extreme.
In 2011, Panasonic introduced the Toughpad brand of ruggedized tablets, built to many of the same specifications as its Toughbook laptop line.
Testing
According to Panasonic, over 501 tests and quality checks are performed during production and all units are subjected to a factory burn-in period.
Several independent tests have been conducted to determine the resistance of Toughbook computers to external forces. Fully rugged Toughbook models undergo independent lab testing to become certified to meet MIL-STD-810 standards for operation in a range of extreme conditions. Fully rugged models are also tested for particle resistance and liquid resistance and are rated according to international standards for ingress protection (IP).
Design
All Toughbook models have a magnesium alloy case, which provides durability without significant weight. Many current models have liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels designed specifically for visibility during daylight use. Other design elements include a shock-mounted hard drive and, on many models, a moisture and dust-resistant LCD, keyboard and touchpad.
Panasonic markets the Toughbook series in several configurations ranging from "business-rugged" and "semi-rugged" to "fully rugged" in laptop, convertible tablet and tablet configurations, and in several specialty designs with numerous customizable add-on features.
Toughbook fully rugged models
Toughbook 40
The Toughbook 40 is the first fully-rugged notebook manufactured by Panasonic that has a widescreen display; introduced in 2022. The Toughbook 40 has MIL-STD-810H, MIL-STD-461G, IP66 and optional C1D2 certification. The specifications of a Panasonic Toughbook 40 includes a 14" FHD nit multi touch display, magnesium alloy chassis with handle, replaceable screen protector, user-removable xPAK's, RAM, keyboard, battery and caged SSD (with heater), reinforced locking port covers, a 5MP webcam w/privacy cover & tetra-array mic infrared with Windows Hello support. The Panasonic Toughbook 40 also includes an optional blur-ray drive with xPAK and optional DVD drive with xPAK.
Toughbook CF-31
The Toughbook CF-31 was released in 2012. It is part of the sixth generation of Panasonic's Toughbook line. The Toughbook CF-31 has MIL-STD-810G and IP65 certification. It is designed with a touchscreen.
Specifications for the Toughbook CF-31 include a shock-mounted hard drive, removable through locking reinforced port doors. It runs on eit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKRM
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CKRM is an AM radio station in Regina, Saskatchewan, broadcasting at 620 kHz. Owned by Harvard Media, CKRM broadcasts a full service country format.
Alongside music programming, CKRM is notably the flagship station of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League, and the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League.
History
CKRM was established in 1926 in Moose Jaw under the call letters CJRM. Its original owner was the Winnipeg, Manitoba grain merchant James Richardson and Sons.
In 1928, the Richardsons opened CJRW in Winnipeg and networked their two stations. CJRM opened a studio in Regina in 1933, and by 1935 all station operations were based in Regina. The stations were purchased by the Sifton family, owners of the Regina Leader-Post and CKCK Radio in 1940, and CJRM became CKRM. In 1944, CKRM affiliated with the CBC's Dominion Network until 1962 when the network was disbanded and CKRM became independent.
In late 1971, CKRM dropped its easy listening format and became a country station.
In 2001, the station would relocate from 980 AM to 620 AM, shortly after the original CKCK radio closed down. CJME, formerly at 1300 AM, moved to CKRM's former frequency. The move gave CKRM access to the second-most powerful transmitting facility in Saskatchewan, and one of the largest coverage areas in North America. Due to its location on the lower end of the AM dial, transmitter power, and Saskatchewan's flat land (with near-perfect ground conductivity), CKRM's daytime signal covers most of Saskatchewan's densely populated area, as well as parts of North Dakota and Montana.
CKRM changed hands a number of times before its acquisition by Regina's Hill family, then-owners of CKCK-TV in 1981, under the Harvard Broadcasting banner.
The station moved into its current facility in April 2006. It is at the corner of 12th and Rose in downtown Regina.
Programming
CKRM is the flagship radio station of the Regina Pats of the WHL, and the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. Roughriders games are accompanied by pre- and post-game shows, Countdown to Kickoff and Rider Roundtable, all of which are syndicated as part of the Roughriders' radio network. It also carries a drive time sports talk show on weekdays, The Sports Cage.
Jim Smalley hosted CKRM's agricultural news program Saskatchewan Agriculture Today; Smalley retired from broadcasting on April 28, 2023, after a 50-year career on the agriculture beat spanning CKRM and the original CKCK.
References
External links
620 CKRM
Krm
Krm
Krm
Radio stations established in 1926
1926 establishments in Saskatchewan
KRM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disko%20Bay
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Disko Bay (; ) is a large bay on the western coast of Greenland. The bay constitutes a wide southeastern inlet of Baffin Bay.
Geography
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To the south the coastline is complicated with multiple waterways of skerries and small islands in the Aasiaat archipelago. Qasigiannguit and Ilimanaq are the main settlements in the southeastern inlet, just south of the outflow of Ilulissat Icefjord.
From the north the bay is bounded by Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), the largest island on the western coast. North of Ilulissat and west of Alluttoq Island the bay transforms into Sullorsuaq Strait separating Qeqertarsuaq from Nuussuaq Peninsula.
It is the largest open bay in western Greenland, measuring 150 km north to south and 100 km east to west. It has an average depth of 400 m and average water temperature of 3.5 °C, which in winter drops to −1.75 °C and then rises up to 12 °C in summer. This is changing, as the bay has been gradually warming up since 1997.
History
It is uncertain when the Inuit first started venturing into Disko Bay, but the Saqqaq were present there between 2400 and 900 BC.
Disko Bay has been an important location for centuries. Its coastline was first encountered by Europeans when Erik the Red started a settlement in 985 AD on the more habitable western coast of Greenland. The two settlements, called the Eastern and Western settlements, were sustenance economies that survived on animal husbandry and farming. Soon after the Western settlement was established, the Norsemen travelled up the coast during the summer thaw and discovered Disko Bay.
Their interest in this bay was due to its rich resources: walruses for ivory, seals for their pelts, and whales for a variety of materials. These products became the main source of income for the Greenlandic settlers who traded with Iceland, the British Isles, and mainland Europe. Without these resources the settlements would probably not have lasted as long as they did.
Norse accounts describe the area as uninhabited when they first explored it. Norse accounts document an eventual trade arrangement with the Inuit who came from the north and west. For a time, both parties made peaceful use of the bay. Later accounts report fighting and massacres on both sides. However, the primary reason for the abandonment of the Greenlandic settlements was the advent of the Little Ice Age that started in the 15th century. There was such an extreme shift in temperature that Disko Bay became inaccessible even in the warmer summer months, thereby destroying the livelihood of the Greenlandic Norse. Even the Eastern settlement, which was below the Arctic Circle, became too cold for habitation. From that time until Danish colonization in the 18th century, the Inuit controlled the Disko Bay area although English and Dutch whalers sometimes visited the area after it was charted during John Davis's third Greenland e
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Maddox
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Tom Maddox (October 1945 – October 18, 2022) was an American science fiction writer, known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement.
Maddox's only novel was Halo (), published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story "Snake Eyes" appeared in the 1986 collection Mirrorshades, edited by Bruce Sterling. He was perhaps best known as a friend and writing partner of William Gibson. They wrote two episodes of The X-Files together, "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter".
The term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (or ICE) was conceived by Maddox. According to him, he coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon. Gibson asked permission to use the acronym, and Maddox agreed. The term was then used in Gibson's early short stories and eventually popularized in the novel Neuromancer, in which Maddox was properly acknowledged.
Maddox licensed his work under a Creative Commons license, making a significant part of it available on his website: Tom Maddox Fiction and Nonfiction Archive.
Maddox also served as a professor of literary studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Maddox died from a stroke on October 18, 2022, at the age of 77.
Works
Novels
Halo (1991)
Short stories
"The Mind Like a Strange Balloon" (1985)
"Snake-Eyes" (1986)
"The Robot and the One You Love" (1988)
"Florida" (1989)—not really a short story but a very short broadside—a "bookmark"—contributed to Magicon.
"Baby Strange" (1989)
"Gravity's Angel" (1992)
"Spirit of the Night" (2010)
Footnotes
External links
An Incomplete Tom Maddox Fiction Archive
An Incomplete Tom Maddox NonFiction Archive
Tom Maddox reports on the Electronic Frontier series of articles for Locus Magazine
1945 births
2022 deaths
People from Beckley, West Virginia
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
Cyberpunk writers
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
Creative Commons-licensed authors
Writers from West Virginia
Evergreen State College faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Impact
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Full Impact was a spreadsheet program for the Apple Macintosh computer released by Ashton-Tate in the late 1980s. Full Impact was known for excellent graphing and visual display, far better than contemporary versions of Microsoft Excel. But this was also its only really compelling feature, and it was unable to find a market niche given the dominance of Excel in the Macintosh marketplace.
History
Full Impact started in a roundabout fashion when early Apple employee and programmer Randy Wigginton decided to write a spreadsheet program. Wigginton had left Apple during the Macintosh development process to start Encore Systems with two friends, Don Breuner and Ed Ruder. They were soon hired by Steve Jobs to develop a word processor for the soon-to-be-released Macintosh, which would become MacWrite. Wigginton wanted to duplicate this success by making a GUI-based spreadsheet that would be easier to use than anything on the market. Unlike a word processor, however, a spreadsheet requires a complex "engine" to quickly solve the many equations that make it up.
Starting in September 1984, shortly after the Mac's release, Wigginton and his two partners started looking for an engine, and were introduced to Richard Ross by an Apple employee. They agreed that Encore would adapt a GUI to Ross's engine, which would become MacCalc. It was not long before these plans started to fall apart. Ross wanted to retain control the product and sell it through his company, Bravo Technologies, while Wigginton and his partners felt it would be much wiser to license it to a larger company, and that Ross was pushing them out of the decision making. Eventually they decided to look for another partner, and shortly thereafter Wigginton met with several employees of Ashton-Tate and presented a demo of their existing prototype program. Ashton-Tate was interested, and agreed to fund development of the product in exchange for marketing rights.
They used the prototype GUI created for MacCalc along with a new engine, Alembic, (written by Queue Associates) and almost completely rewritten by Les Vogel to create the Glass project, also known as Pegasus. This head start should have allowed the product to ship fairly quickly. Instead, Ashton-Tate vacillated between being extremely interested in the Macintosh market, considering it a way to break out of their dBASE-dominated PC line, and then being completely ambivalent about it. This vacillation appears to have been based largely on Mac sales reports; when sales were up the Mac was Ashton-Tate's next big thing, when sales dropped it was not worth bothering with. When interested, Encore's development funds would arrive on time—when they were not, the money would disappear for months. The Encore team was repeatedly forced to take on other projects in order to pay the bills, stretching what should have been a short project into a several-year ordeal.
Then, just when the product was finally ready to ship, Ross decided to sue Ashton-Tate, cla
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSAW-TV
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WSAW-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with CBS, MyNetworkTV, and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power Fox affiliate WZAW-LD (channel 33). Both stations share studios on Grand Avenue/US 51 in Wausau, while WSAW-TV's transmitter is located on Rib Mountain.
To serve the Northwoods area of Northern Wisconsin, it operates a digital fill-in translator in Sayner (W21DS-D) that also covers Eagle River. This station broadcasts on UHF channel 21 (also mapping to virtual channel 7) from a transmitter on Razorback Road in unincorporated Vilas County (north of Sayner). The low-power repeater also serves the western portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula although the broadcasting radius is limited to Marenisco and Watersmeet.
History
The station launched on October 23, 1954, as WSAU-TV, a sister station to WSAU radio (550 AM) and the original WSAU-FM (95.5, now WIFC; the current WSAU-FM is on 99.9 FM). It was originally owned by two groups who merged their applications in hearing: the radio station and the Wisconsin Valley Television Corporation, a consortium of North-Central Wisconsin newspapers that also included the Wausau Daily Record-Herald. Channel 7 originally operated from the Plumer Mansion, a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building, that was located on North 5th Street in Wausau and torn down in 1972 one year after the station moved to its current home.
The Plumer Mansion's castle-like exterior and a suit of armor displayed in the mansion inspired the station's graphic designer, Sid Kyler, to design a medieval-style blackletter "7" logo along with an accompanying cartoon mascot, the fully armored knight "Sir Seven". The logo and mascot served as representations of the station for several decades. Wisconsin Valley expanded with WMTV in Madison and radio station WKAU in Kaukauna. In 1965, Wisconsin Valley purchased its first media holding outside of the state, KVTV in Sioux City, Iowa; as a consequence of doing business in other states, the firm renamed itself Forward Communications in January 1967.
Forward sold off WSAU and WIFC radio in 1980; the radio station retained the WSAU call sign, and Forward immediately applied for the call sign WSAW. The WSAW-TV call sign became effective on March 8, 1981.
It has been affiliated with CBS since its beginning although the station did have secondary affiliations with DuMont (until that network expired in 1956), ABC (until WAOW signed-on in 1965), and NBC (until WAEO [now WJFW-TV] launched in 1966). On September 5, 2006, WSAW added MyNetworkTV to a second digital subchannel. Its broadcasts have been digital-only since before midnight on February 16, 2009, when the analog sign-off featured a "good night" from Sir Seven. On April 2, 2011, WSAW became the first station in the market to broadcast local newscast in high definition. With the switch to HD came a revamp of their news set and new graphics, along with a return of Sir S
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In networking jargon, a computer, phone, or internet of things device connected to a computer network is sometimes referred to as an end system or end station, because it sits at the edge of the network. The end user directly interacts with an end system that provides information or services.
End systems that are connected to the Internet are also referred to as internet hosts; this is because they host (run) internet applications such as a web browser or an email retrieval program. The Internet's end systems include some computers with which the end user does not directly interact. These include mail servers, web servers, or database servers. With the emergence of the internet of things, household items (such as toasters and refrigerators) as well as portable, handheld computers and digital cameras are all being connected to the internet as end systems.
End systems are generally connected to each other using switching devices known as routers rather than using a single communication link. The path that transmitted information takes from the sending end system, through a series of communications links and routers, to the receiving end system is known as a route or path through the network. The sending and receiving route can be different, and can be reallocated during transmission due to changes in the network topology. Normally the cheapest or fastest route is chosen. For the end user the actual routing should be completely transparent.
See also
Communication endpoint
Data terminal equipment
Edge device
End instrument
Host (network)
Node (networking)
Terminal (telecommunication)
References
Computing terminology
Internet architecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemins%20de%20fer%20du%20Midi
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The Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi (. CF du Midi), also known in English as the Midi or Southern Railway, was an early French railway company which operated a network of routes in the southwest of the country, chiefly in the area between its main line – which ran from Bordeaux, close to the Atlantic coast, to Sète on the Mediterranean – and the Pyrenees.
The company was established by the Pereire brothers, who thus broke the virtual monopoly held in France by James Rothschild on the slow-paced railway projects taking place in the area of Paris during the 1840s and 1850s. The Rothschild branch of Paris responded by strengthening its grip on the sector with an alliance to the industrialist Talabot. The Pereires in turn founded their financial company Crédit Mobilier.
In 1934 the company was merged with the Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans to become part of the Chemins de fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi (PO-Midi).
In 1856, the Midi completed its rail line from Bordeaux to Toulouse. In 1857, it continued on from Toulouse through Narbonne to Sète. This put it in competition with the Canal du Midi, and on 28 May 1858 the railway took over the lease of the canal.
Electrification
In 1909, the Compagnie du Midi launched a vast program of electrification of its lines under the impetus of the engineer Jean-Raoul Paul (1869-1960). It was a huge challenge for the time because it went far beyond the scope of railway operations alone. It was necessary to build infrastructure such as dams, power plants and distribution systems.
The company was far from coal production centres, so it was hard to get the fuel required for steam traction, and some coal was even imported from England. The proximity of the Pyrenees made hydropower generation possible and this favoured electrification. The shortage of coal during the war of 1914-1918, and especially its prohibitive cost after the war, provided further impetus for electrification. After investigations in Switzerland and Germany, a system using alternating current (AC) at 12 kV and 16⅔ Hz was chosen for economic reasons. The three-phase system was rejected as being too complex so a single-phase system was chosen.
The narrow-gauge Cerdanya line was electrified from the start because its gradients (up to 6%) were too steep for steam traction. The Perpignan - Villefranche-de-Conflent line (Pyrénées-Orientales) was chosen as the site for future tests because it provided conditions of both plain and mountain. This was the only line that was not later converted to 1,500 volts. It operated thus until 1971. From 1911, the company tried six different types of overhead line system and chose the American Westinghouse system. This design was very simple and was capable of absorbing temperature variations.
Even before the end of the tests, the company became a candidate for the construction of Eastern and Western trans-Pyrenees railways. Electric traction was chosen from the outset, reducing construction costs by a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemins%20de%20fer%20de%20l%27%C3%89tat
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The Chemins de fer de l'État ("State Railways"), often referred to in France as the Réseau de l'État ("State Network"), was an early state-owned French railway company.
History
The company was established by state order of the Third Republic on 25 May 1878 to take over ten small failing railway companies operating in the area between the rivers Loire and Garonne:
, 777 km, opened 1867;
, 495 km, opened 1865;
Compagnie du chemin de fer d’Orléans à Châlons, 293 km, opened 1873;
Compagnie du chemin de fer d'Orléans à Rouen (Réseau de l'Eure), 338 km, opened 1867;
, 185 km, opened September 1875;
Compagnie des chemins de fer de Maine-et- Loire et Nantes, 91 km, opened February 1877; ;
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Bressuire à Poitiers;
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Saint-Nazaire au Croisic;
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Clermont à Tulle;
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Poitiers à Saumur.
Additional acquisitions included:
Compagnie Bordeaux – La Sauve, 29 km, opened May 1873, acquired by CF des Charentes in June 1874, sold to the PO in 1883
Compagnie de la Seudre, circa 50 km, opened 1874, acquired by État July 1880;
Compagnie Barbezieux – Châteauneuf-sur-Charente, opened 1872, acquired by État in 1893;
Compagnie Alais – Rhone – Méditerranée, opened 1882, acquired by État in 1883.
On 18 November 1908, the État absorbed the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest and in 1934 took over the Paris-Orléans (PO) company's lines in southern Brittany. At its greatest extent its operating area comprised all the territory west of a line extending from Dieppe by way of Paris to Bordeaux. On 1 January 1938 the État merged with all the other French railway companies to form the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF), becoming that company's Région Ouest. The État then took a seat on the SNCF's Board of Directors, as did all the other companies until 1982 when all traces of the constituents of the SNCF disappeared.
Ligne Paris-Bordeaux
One of the PO's flagship lines was Paris-Orléans-Bordeaux. The État wished to create a competing line to the PO's. The PO line served Tours, Poitiers, and Angoulême, while the État decided to serve Chartres, Courtalain, Saumur, Niort, and Saintes, almost parallel to the competing line.
Thanks to purchases and exchanges made in 1878 with the PO, by 1884, the État operated:
Chartres - Courtalain
Bessé-sur-Braye - Château-sur-Loir
Saumur - Montreuil-Bellay
Montreuil-Bellay - Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Saint-Jean-d'Angély - Saintes
Saintes - Cavignac
Courtalain-Bessé-sur-Braye was opened in 1885 as well as Château-sur-Loir-Saumur-Cavignac. At La Grave d'Ambarès a junction with the PO was built, and État trains linked Paris and Bordeaux on 11 July 1886.
The last line portion was the hardest to build. On 1 July 1893, an extension via Lormont was opened, Three years later, on 1 August 1896 Bordeaux-État was opened, welcoming trains from Paris.
The État's line was 610 km while the PO's was 582 km. These were the only competing lines in France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odometry
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Odometry is the use of data from motion sensors to estimate change in position over time. It is used in robotics by some legged or wheeled robots to estimate their position relative to a starting location. This method is sensitive to errors due to the integration of velocity measurements over time to give position estimates. Rapid and accurate data collection, instrument calibration, and processing are required in most cases for odometry to be used effectively.
The word odometry is composed of the Greek words odos (meaning "route") and metron (meaning "measure").
Example
Suppose a robot has rotary encoders on its wheels or on its legged joints. It drives forward for some time and then would like to know how far it has traveled. It can measure how far the wheels have rotated, and if it knows the circumference of its wheels, compute the distance.
Train operations are also frequent users of odometrics. Typically, a train gets an absolute position by passing over stationary sensors in the tracks, while odometry is used to calculate relative position while the train is between the sensors.
More sophisticated example
Suppose that a simple robot has two wheels which can both move forward or reverse and that they are positioned parallel to one another, and equidistant from the center of the robot. Further, assume that each motor has a rotary encoder, and so one can determine if either wheel has traveled one "unit" forward or reverse along the floor. This unit is the ratio of the circumference of the wheel to the resolution of the encoder.
If the left wheel were to move forward one unit while the right wheel remained stationary, then the right wheel acts as a pivot, and the left wheel traces a circular arc in the clockwise direction. Since one's unit of distance is usually tiny, one can approximate by assuming that this arc is a line. Thus, the original position of the left wheel, the final position of the left wheel, and the position of the right wheel form a triangle, which one can call A.
Also, the original position of the center, the final position of the center, and the position of the right wheel form a triangle which one can call B. Since the center of the robot is equidistant to either wheel, and as they share the angle formed at the right wheel, triangles A and B are similar triangles. In this situation, the magnitude of the change of position of the center of the robot is one half of a unit. The angle of this change can be determined using the law of sines.
See also
Dead reckoning
Visual odometry
External links
Robot control
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFXA
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KFXA (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd., which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual CBS/Fox affiliate KGAN (channel 2), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios at Broadcast Park on Old Marion Road Northeast (along IA 100) in Cedar Rapids, while KFXA's transmitter is located in Van Horne, Iowa.
Channel 28 began broadcasting as KOCR in January 1988. The region's Fox affiliate for most of its history, the station started out on poor financial footing; its owner, Metro Program Network, was repeatedly sued for breaching various financial obligations. The station lacked the resources to build a transmitter facility adequate to broadcast beyond the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City area, which was highlighted when it allowed KGAN to broadcast the NFL on Fox in 1994 because it could not serve the entire market. In October 1994, the station's financial troubles culminated in an eviction from its studios in northeast Cedar Rapids.
Second Generation acquired KOCR in 1995 and returned it to air that August as KFXA. It was paired with KFXB-TV (channel 40), a separately owned station in Dubuque, to provide regional coverage. Second Generation also built a new transmitter facility to increase KFXA's coverage area. KGAN owner Sinclair Broadcast Group assumed most of the station's operating functions in 2002 and bought its assets, other than the license, in 2008. Under Sinclair, KGAN added morning and late evening newscasts to KFXA's programming. On January 1, 2021, "Fox 28" became a subchannel of KGAN, leaving KFXA to broadcast national digital multicast television networks.
History
KOCR: Construction and financial woes
In January 1983, Stanley G. Emert, Jr., an attorney from Knoxville, Tennessee, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new television station on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 28 in Cedar Rapids. A second application was filed by Metro Program Network, a company owned by Gerald Fitzgerald, on March 9. Fitzgerald was a former communications professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Both applications proposed the establishment of an independent station with movies and local programming. However, an FCC administrative law judge selected the Metro Program Network application in March 1985. By July, the company also had construction permits for stations at Ames and Dubuque.
Construction had accelerated by August 1987, when Fitzgerald announced he was negotiating to affiliate with Fox; studios on Boyson Road Northeast in Cedar Rapids were nearly complete. KOCR began broadcasting on January 10, 1988, for three hours a day. The first week contained unscheduled "previews" of the station's Fox and syndicated programming, as not all of the programs for which KOCR had paid had arrived.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKBT-DT
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WKBT-DT (channel 8) is a television station licensed to La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, serving the La Crosse–Eau Claire market as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, the station maintains studios on South 6th Street in downtown La Crosse, and its transmitter is located on Silver Creek Road in Galesville, Wisconsin.
History
WKBT signed-on August 8, 1954, as a sister station to WKBH radio (AM 1410, now WIZM). In the call sign, the "T" for "television" replaced the "H" to differentiate the stations. It originally carried programming from all four major networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont) but has always been a primary CBS affiliate. It lost DuMont after that network shut down in 1956 and lost NBC in 1958 after La Crosse and Eau Claire were collapsed into a single market. WKBT then shared ABC with NBC affiliate WEAU-TV (channel 13, based in Eau Claire) until WXOW (channel 19) signed-on from La Crosse in 1970.
On April 16, 1965, during the worst of the famous 1965 flood, the downtown La Crosse building that housed both WKBT and WKBH burned to the ground; WKBT would rebuild its current building on the same site. WKBT was sold to Harold F. Gross, a businessman from Lansing, Michigan, in 1970, who owned WJIM-AM-FM-TV in that city. Gross Telecasting sold both stations to Backe Communications in 1984, following a licensing dispute involving WJIM-TV (which changed its call letters to WLNS-TV). Backe sold both stations to Young Broadcasting in 1986. In March 2000, Young sold WKBT to current owner Morgan Murphy Media (ironically, the founding original owner of WEAU-TV from 1953 to 1962).
Throughout its history, WKBT's news operation has tended to favor their news coverage on their home city of La Crosse, Winona, Minnesota, and the Coulee Region, with a secondary emphasis on Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley, ceding to WEAU's geographical strength overall in Eau Claire. However, WKBT's weather coverage is balanced equally to cover the entire market.
WKBT's transmitter, in Galesville, is located about north of the channel 8 studios in order to provide a clear signal to the entire market. If put up next to Chicago's Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower), the WKBT transmitter would surpass the upper roof and fall just about short of the highest antenna on top.
On January 30, 2006, WKBT signed-on a new second digital subchannel to serve as the market's UPN affiliate. Class A station KQEG-CA had previously dropped its affiliation with the network at the end of the previous week. As a result of UPN and The WB merging in September 2006, ABC affiliate WXOW (and its semi-satellite WQOW) gained The CW affiliation on digital subchannels. This was a result of their association with The WB through a cable-only station ("WBCZ" on channel 15) through The WB 100+. Meanwhile, WKBT-DT2 joined the other new broadcast network, MyNetworkTV.
News operation
WKBT presently broadcasts 34 hours of local newscasts each week (with
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAX
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WLAX (channel 25), licensed to La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, and WEUX (channel 48), licensed to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, are television stations affiliated with the Fox network and serving the La Crosse–Eau Claire market. The stations are owned by Nexstar Media Group. WLAX maintains studios at Interchange Place in La Crosse and a transmitter in La Crescent, Minnesota, while WEUX has offices on WIS 93 in Eau Claire and a transmitter southeast of Colfax.
WLAX in La Crosse went on the air in November 1986, after two sales of the permit, as the original independent station in the market. Family Group Broadcasting, which put the station on the air, attempted to build the Eau Claire-area station but fell into bankruptcy before it could do so. Aries Telecommunications of Green Bay bought WLAX and the then-unbuilt WEUX in 1991, with WEUX beginning broadcasting in 1993. Grant Broadcasting acquired the pair in 1996, and Nexstar acquired Grant's stations in 2014. The stations air a 9 p.m. local newscast produced by local NBC affiliate WEAU.
History
Construction of WLAX
Channel 25 had been assigned to La Crosse since 1966 and almost saw use in the late 1960s when two groups proposed to start a second station in the city after WKBT. Midcontinent Broadcasting Company was approved in December 1967 to build a satellite of its Madison station, WKOW-TV, in La Crosse. WKOW and La Crosse radio station WKTY had both applied for channel 19, causing WKOW to shift its application to channel 25 before WKTY withdrew after the WKOW-TV grant, citing its inability to obtain network affiliation given that the WKOW station would provide La Crosse with its first full-time ABC service. WKOW then sought to move its station, WXOW-TV, back to channel 19.
No party filed for channel 25 until 1980, when a group of local investors under the name Quarterview Inc. applied for channel 25. While some of the same investors built local radio station WISQ (100.1 FM), the permit was granted in 1982. Quarterview did not build the station. It sold the permit in 1984 to TV-26 Inc., owner of WLRE-TV in Green Bay. That station then filed for bankruptcy reorganization and was purchased, along with the channel 25 construction permit, by Family Group Broadcasting in 1985.
Family Group handled the construction process. The call sign on the permit was changed from WWQI to WLAX; land was purchased at the La Crosse market antenna farm in La Crescent, Minnesota (though it ultimately used an existing tower); and programming was purchased for the first independent station in the market. After delays, WLAX signed on on November 10, 1986.
Construction of WEUX
The addition of a channel 48 station at Chippewa Falls had been planned since the mid-1980s. Pat Bushland of Bushland Radio Specialties, owner of radio station WCFW, was first to apply for the station in 1984. Family Group Broadcasting then also filed for the channel in September 1986; helped by its favorable comparative hearing status as n
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPS%20%28software%29
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The Computer Oracle and Password System (COPS) was the first vulnerability scanner for Unix operating systems to achieve widespread use. It was created by Dan Farmer while he was a student at Purdue University. Gene Spafford helped Farmer start the project in 1989.
Features
COPS is a software suite comprising at least 12 small vulnerability scanners, each programmed to audit one part of the operating system:
File permissions, including device permissions/nodes
Password strength
Content, format, and security of password and group files (e.g., passwd)
Programs and files run in /etc/rc* and cron(tab) files
Root-SUID files: Which users can modify them? Are they shell scripts?
A cyclic redundancy check of important files
Writability of users' home directories and startup files
Anonymous FTP configuration
Unrestricted TFTP, decode alias in sendmail, SUID uudecode problems, hidden shells inside inetd.conf, rexd in inetd.conf
Various root checks: Is the current directory in the search path? Is there a plus sign ("+") in the /etc/host.equiv file? Are NFS mounts unrestricted? Is root in /etc/ftpusers?
Compare the modification dates of crucial files with dates of advisories from the CERT Coordination Center
Kuang expert system
After COPS, Farmer developed another vulnerability scanner called SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks).
COPS is generally considered obsolete, but it is not uncommon to find systems which are set up in an insecure manner that COPS will identify.
References
External links
COPS
Citeseer entry for the COPS Usenix paper
1989 software
Linux security software
Unix security-related software
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