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KDBC-TV (channel 4) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate KFOX-TV (channel 14). Both stations share studios on South Alto Mesa Drive in northwest El Paso, while KDBC-TV's transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.
History
Early years
The station first signed on the air on December 14, 1952 as KROD-TV. It was the first television station in the El Paso television market. The station was founded by Dorrance Roderick, owner of KROD radio (600 AM) and the El Paso Times newspaper. KROD-TV's original studio facilities were located at 2201 Wyoming Avenue, currently the home of KSCE (channel 38), now off I-10.
Early programs on the station included the children's shows Red Brown and Anna Lee and Bozo's Big Top. For adults, there was wrestling program Mitchell's Mat Time. The station has been a CBS affiliate since its sign-on, as KROD radio had been a longtime affiliate of the CBS Radio Network. KROD-TV also maintained secondary affiliations with ABC and the DuMont Television Network until 1956. It lost the ABC affiliation when KILT (channel 13; now KVIA-TV on channel 7) became an affiliate of that network in November. KROD-TV lost DuMont when the network ceased operations in August 1956. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. Roderick sold the station to Trigg-Vaughn of Dallas in 1959.
Change to KDBC-TV
The station was sold again in 1967, this time to the Doubleday Broadcasting Company. On May 29, 1973, it changed its call sign to KDBC-TV, reflecting the change in the station's ownership. Doubleday Broadcasting sold the station to Portal Communications, a subsidiary of the Evening Post Publishing Company in 1974.
The original transmitter site was located south of Comanche Peak in El Paso. A road was built to the site, and a tower was constructed. A building was assembled from the rock chipped from the site. The station went on the air with a temporary transmitter (small RCA) and eventually added a 10 kW RCA TT-10AL transmitter, broadcasting at an effective radiated power (ERP) of 61 kilowatts at . That site is now used as a backup facility for channel 4, and many local FM radio stations transmit from this building.
In 1984, the transmitter was moved farther up the hill to Comanche Peak. A tower was built and a new transmitter was installed (one of the last of the RCA TT-25GLs to become operable). The station increased its ERP to 100 kW and increased the height of its transmitter to . BTSC stereo also began with the move to the new site.
In 1986, the station was acquired by United Broadcasting, then-owners of KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas and WTOK-TV in Meridian, Mississippi. Columbus, Mississippi-based Imes Broadcasting bought KDBC in 1988 for $33 million after United Broadcasting was taken over by investment firm Merrill Lynch.
Imes beg
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KFOX-TV (channel 14) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate KDBC-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on South Alto Mesa Drive in northwest El Paso, while KFOX-TV's transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.
Established as El Paso's first non-network TV station in 1979 after years of telecasting Christian programs on cable, the station as KCIK struggled financially and introduced secular entertainment programs. While it was owned in turn by two Christian groups, it continued this orientation and affiliated with Fox in 1986. It prospered with the new affiliation and introduced local news in 1997 after being sold to Cox Television. Sinclair acquired KFOX and KDBC in separate transactions in 2013, combining their operations.
History
Launch and early years
Six years before a signal was broadcast on channel 14 in El Paso, the foundation was laid for the station that would occupy it with the launch of a Christian television station, known as International Christian Television (ICT), on El Paso's cable system in 1973. The station was operated by a company known as Missionary Radio Evangelism, Inc. (MRE), led by Pete Warren and Alex Blomerth, and began to telecast seven days a week on cable channel 8 in 1974. That year, it purchased its first mobile production van. As early as mid-1974, the group had its sights set on building UHF channel 14 in El Paso: its club of donors was the "1400 Club", and it was soliciting donations with an eye to building capacity to make the leap. Pledge drives were also held to raise funds.
On May 24, 1976, Missionary Radio Evangelism filed a formal application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a channel 14 construction permit, which was granted on December 23. While ICT/MRE promised an Easter 1977 launch after getting the permit, viewers would have to wait longer than that. In March 1978, the station signed a lease for a tower in the Franklin Mountains owned by John Walton, who had recently sold off KELP-TV (renamed KVIA-TV) without the transmitter site. This tower, already in use for two-way radio communications, had to be accessed by a tramway.
After dealing with a six-week setback due to an antenna that, once installed, was found to be damaged and had to be sent back to the factory for repairs, construction was complete by July 1979, and ICT's cable channel 8 was officially subsumed by the new KCIK ("Christ is King") on August 1, 1979. From the start, the station provided secular entertainment and sports, alongside Christian shows including The 700 Club and The PTL Club.
KCIK was not an instant success. By 1981, Missionary Radio Evangelism was facing financial troubles, citing poor local support, and courting buyers for the television station. Rock Church, a ministry based in Virginia which had a national program on the Chr
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Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before being acquired by T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 million customers as of June 30, 2019. The company also offered wireless voice, messaging, and broadband services through its various subsidiaries under the Boost Mobile and Open Mobile brands and wholesale access to its wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators.
In July 2013, a majority of the company was purchased by the Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Group. Sprint used CDMA, EvDO and 4G LTE networks, and formerly operated iDEN, WiMAX, and 5G NR networks. Sprint was incorporated in Kansas.
Sprint traced its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which was founded in 1899 to bring telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, Kansas. In 2006, Sprint left the local landline telephone business and spun those assets off into a new company named Embarq, which later became a part of Lumen Technologies under the CenturyLink brand, which remains one of the largest long-distance providers in the United States.
Until 2005, the company was also known as the Sprint Corporation, but took the name Sprint Nextel Corporation when it merged with Nextel Communications and adopted its black and yellow color scheme, along with a new logo. In 2013, following the shutdown of the Nextel network and concurrent with the acquisition by SoftBank, the company resumed using the name Sprint Corporation. In July 2013, as part of the SoftBank transactions, Sprint acquired the remaining shares of the wireless broadband carrier Clearwire Corporation that it did not already own.
In August 2014, CEO Dan Hesse was replaced by Marcelo Claure. In May 2018, Michel Combes replaced Claure, and had been working to get Sprint's acquisition by its rival T-Mobile through regulatory proceedings.
On April 1, 2020, Sprint Corporation completed their acquisition by T-Mobile US, which effectively made Sprint a subsidiary of T-Mobile until the Sprint brand officially discontinued in the beginning of August. Leadership, background, and stock changes happened immediately, with customer-side changes happening over time. The Sprint brand officially discontinued on August 2, 2020. Billing was already showing the T-Mobile brand, and on this date all retail, customer service, and all other company branding switched to the T-Mobile brand. New rate plans were also introduced as well for all new and existing customers from both companies, though all will be grandfathered into their current plan for at least 3 years should they choose not to switch to a new T-Mobile plan. Customers with Sprint accounts were fully migrated to T-Mobile in the summer of 2023 officially discontinuing the Sprint brand.
History
Early years
The Sprint Corporation traces its origins to two companies, the Brown Telephone Company and Southern Pacific Railroad.
Brown Telephone Company
Brown Te
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KINT-TV
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KINT-TV (channel 26) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside UniMás affiliate KTFN (channel 65). Both stations share studios on North Mesa Street/Highway 20 in northwest El Paso, while KINT-TV's transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.
History
The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1984; it was founded by a consortium of local businessmen including Larry Daniels (former manager of KROD-TV (channel 4, now KDBC-TV), and owner of KINT radio (1590 AM, now KELP and 97.5 FM, now at 93.9) as well as other businesses) and Jose Angel Silva Sr., owner of a grocery store in downtown El Paso. The consortium originally planned to use KEHB-TV as the station's call letters, but it was changed to KINT (standing for "K-Internaciónal") prior to sign on. For many years, it was the only Spanish-language television station in the El Paso market.
El Paso is divided by a prominent natural ridge (part of the Franklin Mountains), where all of the U.S.-based television stations in the market maintain their transmitter towers and antennas. There are four general sites ranging from above average terrain, the self-supporting tower just above Scenic Drive (long used by KVIA-TV (channel 7)), the "Old Channel 4" site with a tower first used by KROD-TV), the "New 4 site", Channel 0, and ch. 14 (used by KFOX-TV). In founding the station, Daniels worked out a partnership between KDBC-TV and Larry Gallatin's two-way company. A new self-supporting tower was put up, with channel 4 at its top, channel 26's being side-mounted, on a tower that was long vacant (now occupied by radio station KSII (93.1 FM) and KINT-FM) and two-way space at the bottom.
News operation
KINT-TV presently broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with two hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Newscasts for the Midland–Odessa and San Angelo markets are broadcast live from KINT's studios.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
On March 16, 2010, KINT's main channel was upgraded to 1080i high definition in order to allow the carriage of Univision programming produced in the format. The station also added a second digital subchannel, carrying a simulcast of sister station KTFN. On December 3, 2010, the KTFN simulcast was replaced with LATV on KINT subchannel 26.2 and KTFN digital channel 65.2. The following week, the SD simulcast of KTFN was restored on the second subchannels of both stations, with LATV being moved to digital subchannels 26.3 and 65.3. For a brief period prior to the digital television transition, the station's second digital subchannel falsely identified itself as "KINT-HD," while it was still only available in 480i standard definition. As of June 12, they have corrected the problem.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KINT-TV shut down its
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KTFN (channel 65) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Univision affiliate KINT-TV (channel 26). Both stations share studios on North Mesa Street/Highway 20 in northwest El Paso, while KTFN's transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.
History
The station first signed on the air with a live Petra concert on June 22, 1991, as KJLF-TV, which stood for "King Jesus Lives Forever". It originally served as an English-language outlet, formatted as religious independent station. The station was founded by Sara Warren and Pete E. Meryl Warren III—who had signed on KCIK-TV (channel 14, now KFOX-TV) in August 1979—and was run by the Warren family, with John Warren serving as the station manager. Initially, KJLF-TV ran mostly Christian-oriented programs mixed with several hours of secular programs such as sporting and hunting shows, westerns, some older sitcoms, public domain movies and low-budget barter cartoons. The original prime time lineup included Remington Steele, 21 Jump Street and Lou Grant. Gradually, the religious programming decreased and was replaced with more classic sitcoms and cartoons, causing the station to evolve into a more traditional independent. One notable original employee, Keith Leitch, began working in June 1991 at the age of 16 years old in master control and went on to start One Ministries, Inc., which purchased a full power TV station in the San Francisco TV market, KQSL.
KJLF became a charter affiliate of The WB upon the network's launch on January 11, 1995. The station was sold to White Knight Broadcasting in 1998. After KMAZ (channel 48, now KTDO) dropped its affiliation with UPN and switched to Telemundo in January 16 of that year, KJLF began carrying UPN programming as a secondary affiliation and acquired many of the syndicated programs that were part of KMAZ's inventory. On March 1, 1998, its call letters were changed to KKWB (in reference to the station's WB affiliation).
The station was sold to the Entravision Communications Corporation in 2001; White Knight had originally agreed to sell KKWB to Univision Communications, who assigned their right to acquire the station to Entravision that October. The sale was opposed by The WB, who filed a lawsuit seeking to block the sale and the concurrent sale of Killeen sister station KAKW to Univision, as KKWB's contract with The WB was not slated to expire until January 11, 2005, and the terms of the sales called for both stations to drop their WB affiliations in favor of Spanish-language programming supplied by Univision. On January 29, 2002, the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura (the forerunner of UniMás) and changed its callsign to KTFN in reflection of its new affiliation. After the switch, WB and UPN network programming in El Paso was provided on cable via their networks' flagship stations in Los Angeles; WB
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KTDO (channel 48) is a television station licensed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the El Paso, Texas area. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station has studios on Carnegie Avenue in El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.
History
KASK-TV
The station first signed on the air November 18, 1984, as KASK-TV; it originally operated as an English-language independent station. The TV station was an outgrowth of KASK-FM (103.1).
KZIA
KASK-TV went off the air in October 1987 when it was bought by Bayport Communications. Bayport was approved to relocate the tower to a new site near Anthony, New Mexico, and increase power from 74,000 watts to the maximum 5 million. Channel 48 was sold to Robert Muñoz and reemerged on June 13, 1990, as KZIA. The station was added to the El Paso cable system in 1991. Lee Enterprises bought the station in 1993 for $440,000, after a separate $900,000 sale fell through the year prior. "Z48" became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) upon the network's launch on January 16, 1995.
Change to Telemundo
In 1997, the station's calls were changed to KMAZ ahead of a January 16, 1998, change to Telemundo and Spanish-language programming. The change was made to improve the station's financial position and because management felt the market was ready for a second Spanish-language station on the United States side of the border.
In 2001, the station's call letters were changed to KTYO. In 2004, the station was purchased by the Arlington, Virginia-based ZGS Group for $11.8 million; ZGS subsequently converted the station into a Spanish-language outlet as the market's Telemundo affiliate and changed its call letters to KTDO. As a result of the switch, UPN (which ceased operations in September 2006 and merged its programming with competing network The WB as part of a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Time Warner to form The CW) did not have a full-time affiliate in the El Paso market for the remainder of the network's run, with its programming being relegated to a secondary affiliation on KKWB (channel 65, now KTFN) until it switched to TeleFutura in January 2002.
On December 4, 2017, NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group announced its purchase of ZGS' television stations, including KTDO. The sale was completed on February 1, 2018.
News operation
KTDO presently broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with two hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).
On November 16, 2010, KTDO launched a news department, with half-hour Spanish-language newscasts airing at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m., under the title Telenoticias El Paso; with the launch, it became the first Spanish-language television station in the El Paso market to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition.
On June 11, 2018, the station launched newscasts at 4 a
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RDB may refer to:
Computing
Amiga rigid disk block, describing partition information
Oracle Rdb, a relational database
Military
Cordite RDB, an experimental form of explosive developed for use by the Royal Navy in World War I
Kel-Tec RDB, a semi-automatic carbine chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO rounds
Other
RDB (band) (RDB Rhythm Dhol Bass), a UK music production group
Richard Doll Building, located in Oxford, England
State Security Service (RDB), Serbian secret police
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Capacity optimization is a general term for technologies used to improve storage use by shrinking stored data. Primary technologies used for capacity optimization are data deduplication and data compression. These are delivered as software or hardware, integrated with storage systems or delivered as standalone products. Deduplication algorithms look for redundancy in sequences of bytes across comparison windows. Typically using cryptographic hash functions as identifiers of unique sequences, sequences are compared to the history of other such sequences, and where possible, the first uniquely stored version of a sequence is referenced rather than stored again. Different methods for selecting data windows include 4KB blocks to full-file comparisons known as single-instance storage (SIS).
Capacity optimization generally refers to the use of this kind of technology in a storage system. An example of this kind of system is the Venti file system in the Plan9 open source OS. There are also implementations in networking (especially wide-area networking), where they are sometimes called bandwidth optimization or WAN optimization.
Commercial implementations of capacity optimization are most often found in backup/recovery storage, where storage of iterating versions of backups day to day creates an opportunity for reduction in space using this approach. The term was first used widely in 2005.
References
Capacity optimization through sensing threshold adaptation for cognitive radio networks (https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11590-011-0345-8)
Software optimization
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MTD(f) is an alpha-beta game tree search algorithm modified to use ‘zero-window’ initial search bounds, and memory (usually a transposition table) to reuse intermediate search results. MTD(f) is a shortened form of MTD(n,f) which stands for Memory-enhanced Test Driver with node ‘n’ and value ‘f’. The efficacy of this paradigm depends on a good initial guess, and the supposition that the final minimax value lies in a narrow window around the guess (which becomes an upper/lower bound for the search from root). The memory structure is used to save an initial guess determined elsewhere.
MTD(f) was introduced in 1994 and largely supplanted NegaScout (PVS), the previously dominant search paradigm for chess, checkers, othello and other game automatons.
Origin
MTD(f) was first described in a University of Alberta Technical Report authored by Aske Plaat, Jonathan Schaeffer, Wim Pijls, and Arie de Bruin, which would later receive the ICCA Novag Best Computer Chess Publication award for 1994/1995. The algorithm MTD(f) was created out of a research effort to understand the SSS* algorithm, a best-first search algorithm invented by George Stockman in 1979. SSS* was found to be equivalent to a series of Alpha-beta pruning|alpha-beta calls, provided that alpha-beta used storage, such as a transposition table.
The name MTD(f) stands for Memory-enhanced Test Driver, referencing Judea Pearl's Test algorithm, which performs Zero-Window Searches. MTD(f) is described in depth in Aske Plaat's 1996 PhD thesis.
Zero-window searches
A "zero-window" search is an alpha-beta search whose upper and lower bounds are identical, or differ by one unit, so that the return value is guaranteed to fall outside the bound(s) (or in an exceptionally lucky case, be equal to the bound).
MTD(f) derives its efficiency by only performing zero-window alpha-beta searches, with a previously determined "good" bound (i.e. beta). In MTD(f), AlphaBeta fails high or low, returning a lower bound or an upper bound on the minimax value, respectively. Zero-window calls cause more cutoffs, but return less information - only a bound on the minimax value. To find the minimax value, MTD(f) calls AlphaBeta a number of times, converging towards it and eventually finding the exact value. A transposition table stores and retrieves the previously searched portions of the tree in memory to reduce the overhead of re-exploring parts of the search tree.
Pseudocode
function MTDF(root, f, d) is
g := f
upperBound := +∞
lowerBound := −∞
while lowerBound < upperBound do
β := max(g, lowerBound + 1)
g := AlphaBetaWithMemory(root, β − 1, β, d)
if g < β then
upperBound := g
else
lowerBound := g
return g
First guess for best value. The better the quicker the algorithm converges. Could be 0 for first call.
Depth to loop for. An iterative deepening depth-first search could be done by calling multiple times with increme
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My Name Is Earl is an American television sitcom created by Greg Garcia that aired on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, in the United States. It was produced by 20th Century Fox Television and starred Jason Lee as Earl Hickey, the title character. The series also starred Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez, and Eddie Steeples.
Most episodes from the first season, then only a few from the rest, began with Earl presenting the premise of the series:
"You know the kind of guy who does nothing but bad things and then wonders why his life sucks? Well, that was me. Every time something good happened to me, something bad was always waiting around the corner: karma. That's when I realized that I had to change. So, I made a list of everything bad I've ever done, and one by one I'm gonna make up for all my mistakes. I'm just trying to be a better person. My name is Earl."
The series ended with a cliffhanger episode to conclude Season 4, ostensibly to be resolved in Season 5, but was unexpectedly canceled.
The series storyline is rounded out in the pilot episode of Greg Garcia's next sitcom Raising Hope. The television playing in the background has a news reader stating "a small-time crook with a long list of wrongs he was making amends for has finally finished, and you'll never guess how it ended", however the television is turned off before he elaborates and no other mention is made.
Synopsis
Earl Hickey is a small-time thief, living in the fictional rural town of Camden, who loses his winning $100,000 lottery ticket after being hit by a car while he celebrates his good fortune. Lying in a hospital bed, he learns about karma during an episode of the talk show Last Call with Carson Daly. Convinced he has to turn his life around to be happy, Earl gives himself over to the power of karma. He makes a list of every bad thing that he has ever done and every person that he has ever wronged, and makes efforts to fix them all. After doing a first good deed, he finds the $100,000 lottery ticket that he had lost. Seeing this as a sign of karma rewarding him for his commitment, Earl uses his new-found wealth to do more good deeds according to his list.
Earl's wife Joy throws him out, keeping her two children herself: Dodge, whom she conceived before getting together with Earl, and Earl Jr., who was fathered during their marriage, but not by Earl. Earl moves into a motel and lives with his brother Randy, and they meet Catalina, the motel's beautiful maid who illegally emigrated from somewhere in Latin America. Earl works on the list which mostly involves strangers and old acquaintances he has wronged, but also contains items involving his family. Initially Joy plots to kill or blackmail Earl for his lottery winnings, but later gives up. Joy marries Darnell Turner, a mutual friend who works at a local restaurant called the Crab Shack, and with whom she had been having an affair. Until late in Season Four, it is generally
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Clean Scene Network for Youth operating as Clean Scene is a registered charity located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Its activities consist mainly of drug abuse education, seminars, and motivational speaking on the subject of drug abuse. Generally, presentations are made to schools or organizations, and are targeted for junior high and high school students. Clean Scene Network for Youth has within its mandate to refer youth to addiction treatment as well.
A new program that is currently in development with contribution funding by Health Canada's Drug Strategy is called Clean Scene Peer Clubs and is a peer support program for schools with substance abuse problems.
Clean Scene was founded in 2002 by Mike Ryan.
References
External links
Clean Scene Website
Charities based in Canada
Medical and health organizations based in Alberta
Addiction organizations in Canada
Spruce Grove
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBBT
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KBBT (98.5 FM, "98.5 The Beat") is a rhythmic contemporary radio station serving the San Antonio, Texas area, but is licensed to Schertz. This station is owned by Uforia Audio Network under licensee Univision Radio Illinois, Inc. The station's studios are located in Northwest San Antonio and the transmitter site located in the unincorporated Bexar County near Government Canyon Park.
Station history
KBBT originally launched as country outlet KBOP-FM at 98.3 and licensed to Pleasanton, Texas, in 1968. They later changed call letters to KBUC in 1993 but kept the Country format intact. In 1998 Univision, seeking to tap into a unique Hispanic audience that was non-Spanish speaking, very contemporary and influenced by present-day trends, acquired KBUC and applied for a city of license change to Schertz and a frequency switch to 98.5 to cover the San Antonio Metropolitan area, which was approved in early April 2000.
On September 29, 2000, Univision officially launched KBBT, the company's first non-Spanish formatted outlet in San Antonio (outside of bilingual-speaking Tejano sister station KXTN-FM and later on, Active Rock turned Top 40 KLTO), where it shot up to number one in the ratings and has retained that position since its inception. From the beginning, KBBT's musical formula, which started under its first program director J. D. Gonzalez, has centered on Hip-Hop/R&B hits, tailor-made for San Antonio, and in particular its large mix of teens, females, young adults, and bilingual Hispanic audiences. This formula has also served as the catalyst for the demise of the first KTFM, and later on, KCJZ/KPWT. Another defunct station, KSJL-FM, played hip-hop and R&B under the urban contemporary format throughout the 1990s until it switched frequencies in 1998 and took a more adult direction as KSJL-AM.
In 2010, KBBT phased in Rhythmic pop tracks, but at the same time continued to stick to its hip-hop/R&B formula as it faces competition from Top 40/CHR rivals KXXM and a new version of KTFM. It also embraced EDM as well, launching a weekly program that aired late Saturday nights/Sunday mornings.
Morning shows
Before 2002, KBBT had a morning show involving Danny B, Rude Dogg and others. In 2002, KBBT launched The Morning Mess, hosted by Xavier 'The Freakin' Rican' Garcia, Castro and Biggie Paul. The show was renamed to Xavier's World around 2008.
On October 20, 2015, Xavier's World Morning Show was taken off the air due to corporate-wide budget cuts, ending their 13-year run. On November 9, 2015, a new morning show debuted on KBBT titled The Dana Cortez Show, hosted by Dana Cortez and Anthony A. On August 20, 2018, the show moved to rival KTFM; on August 23, KBBT became the San Antonio affiliate of the syndicated Breakfast Club. The show would be dropped on August 3, 2020; after a period of mornings running jockless, KBBT added Wake Up with Rico & Carmen, hosted by Raul 'Rico' Colindres and his alter-ego Carmen (the voice behind the syndicated feature "Ca
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"The Boy Who Knew Too Much" is the twentieth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 5, 1994. In the episode, Mayor Quimby's nephew Freddy is wrongly accused of assaulting a waiter, with Bart (who is playing truant from school) being the sole witness to the true course of events. Since Bart cannot reveal what he knows without admitting that he skipped school, he faces the dilemma of either testifying on Freddy's behalf and facing punishment himself, or staying silent and allowing a miscarriage of justice.
The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. The new character Freddy, voiced by Dan Castellaneta, was given the same type of cheekbones and nose as Quimby to make them resemble each other. The episode features cultural references to films such as Westworld, Last Action Hero, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Free Willy, and the fictional characters Huckleberry Finn, Eddie, and Darwin. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver are also referenced in the episode.
Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 10.1, and was the fifth-highest rated show on the Fox network the week it aired.
Plot
Bart forges a dental appointment note so he can skip school. Convinced the note is forged, Principal Skinner chases Bart through Springfield. As Skinner is about to corner him, Bart jumps into a passing convertible car driven by Freddy Quimby, Mayor Quimby's nephew, as he is driving to the Quimby Compound.
At lunch, Freddy is served chowder, but he ridicules the waiter for pronouncing "chowder" with a French accent and demands he say it with a Boston accent. Freddy follows the waiter into the kitchen and appears to beat him up. Bart, hiding under a kitchen table, secretly witnesses the true turn of events.
Freddy is charged with assault and battery and put on trial. The whole town seems to believe Freddy is guilty, especially after Freddy loses his temper with his own attorney and the jury after he does not pronounce the word "chowder" in a Boston accent. Bart is reluctant to testify to prove Freddy's innocence because it would mean admitting that he skipped school and being punished by Skinner for it.
The jury intends to convict Freddy, with the exception of Homer, who casts the lone dissenting vote to cause a deadlock so he can enjoy the deluxe accommodations offered to the sequestered jury at a hotel. Bart tells the court that Freddy did not assault the waiter; instead, Freddy left with a bottle of champagne, and the waiter injured himself in a series of clumsy actions after slipping on a half-eaten mouthful that Bart had taken out of a giant Rice Krispies square. The waiter indignantly denies he is clumsy. Rising to protest, he trips over a chair and falls out the window into an open-roof truck filled with rat traps. When asked
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Zip.ca was an online DVD rental and movie rental kiosk company operating in Canada. It had a database of over 82,000 unique titles.
Zip.ca was a member of the privately held Momentous Group of companies and was the owner of the Ottawa Rapidz baseball team until its first-season bankruptcy.
On August 17, 2014, Zip.ca announced on its website that it was closing its doors and was no longer shipping discs to its members.
Corporate history
2000s: inception
Zip.ca began its rental operations in February 2004, from its base of operations in Ottawa, Ontario. In July 2005 it arranged to provide the fulfillment services for Rogers Video Direct, a new online subsidiary of one of Canada's largest video store chains. By February 2006, Zip.ca had over 30,000 subscribers. In December 2006, Zip.ca announced passing the 6,000,000 disc rental milestone.
2010s: kiosk debut
Zip.ca's movie rental kiosks were introduced in 2010.
Abandoned digital service
In July 2009, Zip.ca announced it had partnered with Sonic Solutions as it prepared to offer a streaming video on demand service similar to that introduced in the U.S. in 2007 by its largest American counterpart, Netflix. In May 2011, after Netflix's 2010 Canadian launch as a streaming-only service, Zip.ca announced a further partnership with Samsung, and said its service would launch as a transactional VOD platform, not as a subscription service. The service remained unlaunched at the time of the company's closure in 2014.
Rental plans
Zip.ca imposed a free shipping limit per month, unless the customer chose the special "Unlimited" plan. When the DVD shipment limit was reached, the customer had to pay for additional shipments ($2.49 per DVD) in the billing month or wait until the next billing month before Zip.ca would continue shipments. In November 2011, Zip.ca began charging a $1 rental fee for each Blu-ray disc. The Blu-ray fee was removed in October 2012. Blu-ray was not available on either of the 1-DVD plans.
Canadian rental marketplace
On August 30, 2005, Zip.ca announced that it was buying out the online operations of its then main Canadian rival, VHQonline.ca, and has also picked up assets from other companies going out of business.
They also bought out rival Mississauga based Moviesforme
References
Video rental services of Canada
Retail companies established in 2004
Retail companies disestablished in 2014
Companies based in Ottawa
Defunct companies of Ontario
2004 establishments in Ontario
2014 disestablishments in Ontario
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun%20%281993%20video%20game%29
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Shadowrun is a cyberpunk-fantasy action role-playing video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, adapted from the tabletop role-playing game Shadowrun by FASA. The video game was developed by Australian company Beam Software and first released in 1993 by Data East.
The game is loosely based on the novel Never Deal with a Dragon by Shadowrun co-creator Robert N. Charrette and set in the year 2050. The player takes on the role of Jake Armitage, a man suffering from amnesia after having been critically wounded by assassins. The plot then follows Jake as he attempts to uncover his own identity and the identity of the mysterious figure who wants him dead, and eventually complete his mission. Harebrained Schemes' 2013 Shadowrun Returns links the stories of this game and of Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis.
A project to adapt Shadowrun for the Super NES had a turbulent history between 1989 and 1993, including having been halted in mid-development before being resumed in late 1992 under a tight deadline. Its eventual lead designer was Paul Kidd, creator of Beam Software's 1992 Nightshade, elements and a feel of which he then carried on to Shadowrun. The game was a critical success, winning a number of industry awards, but was a commercial failure nevertheless. It was retrospectively acclaimed by several publications as an "ahead of its time" milestone in the history of the role-playing genre for the consoles and credited for having pioneered film noir style in video games.
Gameplay
Shadowrun is an action role-playing game (RPG) that combines the statistical factor of the original tabletop game (with minor changes) with real-time gameplay. The player is given direct control over the protagonist Jake and moves him around using the directional pad within the game's isometrically displayed world. A cursor system allows the player to scroll a pointer across the screen and perform various actions that include opening doors and passageways, examining and picking up objects, engaging in conversation with non-player characters (NPCs), and utilizing firearms and magic commands while in combat.
In interacting with other characters, Shadowrun allows the player to gain information using a bank of terms. Whenever Jake hears a new and unusual term, this word is highlighted and is then added to the bank that he can use; from that point on, when speaking with NPCs, Jake is able to ask them about this new word; only in this manner can a player progress with the game. As the title of the game implies, Jake is described as a "shadowrunner", a mercenary type of character common within the Shadowrun world. The player is given the option to hire other shadowrunners as henchmen with "nuyen", the game's currency that can also be used to purchase guns and certain key items scattered throughout various locations.
Combat within Shadowrun often requires sharp reflexes, as practically every screen contains hidden assassins who, from random locations, open fire on Jake
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun%20%281996%20video%20game%29
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is a cyberpunk visual novel role-playing video game for the Sega Mega-CD adapted from the Japanese version of the pen and paper RPG Shadowrun by FASA (which was created by Group SNE). It was developed by Japanese company Compile and released on February 23, 1996 in Japan only as both the last Mega-CD game released in Japan and the last game released anywhere on the Mega-CD/Sega CD.
The game has a 1990s manga-based visual style loosely based on a contemporary Japanese manga series which was based on the Shadowrun franchise. Unlike the other Shadowrun video games which are set in Seattle and surrounding areas, this game is set entirely in Japan. In the fictional Shadowrun setting, Japan maintains a practice of exiling all orcs and trolls; thus there are no characters of those races in this game. The combat system is turn-based, and six-sided dice appear rolling on the screen determine the results of combat—the conflict resolution system used in the Shadowrun table-top game.
Reception
The game was scored a 24/40 by Famitsu.
References
External links
1996 video games
1990s interactive fiction
Adventure games
Japan-exclusive video games
Role-playing video games
Sega CD games
Sega CD-only games
Shadowrun video games
Video games developed in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAOS%20%28operating%20system%29
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CHAOS is a small (6 MByte) Linux distribution designed for creating ad hoc computer clusters.
About
Description
CHAOS creates a basic node in an OpenMosix cluster and is typically not deployed on its own; cluster builders will use feature-rich Linux distributions (such as Quantian or ClusterKnoppix) as a "head node" in a cluster to provide their application software, while the CHAOS distribution runs on "drone nodes" to provide "dumb power" to the cluster.
While this deployment model suits the typical cluster builder, OpenMosix is a peer-based cluster, consisting of only one type of node. All OpenMosix nodes are inherently equal and each can be, simultaneously, parent and child.
Operation
Development
Security
See also
List of Linux distributions
Live CD
List of Live CDs
OpenMosix
References
External links
CHAOS homepage at Midnight Code
Light-weight Linux distributions
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
Cluster computing
Linux distributions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo%20%28TV%20channel%29
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Pogo is an Indian cable and satellite television channel owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery India under its International division, as part of Cartoon Network India as the network's sister channel. It was launched on 1 January 2004. Broadcasting primarily animated and live action programming.
A time shift version is available for Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. Pogo is available as a Block in Bangladesh and Pakistan on Cartoon Network, and in Thailand on Family Channel 13.
History
2004–2010
Pogo was officially launched on 1 January 2004 by Turner International India. After its launch, the channel primarily broadcast programming from Cartoon Network and Boomerang such as Tweenies, Beakman's World, Looney Tunes, and Scooby-Doo.
The channel aired Wallace & Gromit, Mr. Bean: The Animated Series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Walking with Dinosaurs. during its starting days.
In 2004 the channel launched Takeshi's Castle and premiered Harry Potter movies.
On 1 March 2005, Pogo relaunched Takeshi's Castle with commentary in which Bollywood personality and anchor, Jaaved Jaaferi gives commentary.
In January 2005 the channel celebrated its 2nd anniversary by featuring a special programming franchise ‘Ek Se Bhale Do’ that included double episodes of the most loved shows and blockbuster movies shown on the channel at that time. On 2nd January 2005, the channel launched an exciting, initiative POGO Funtakshari.
On 6 June 2005, the channel premiered Shaktimaan.
The channel became 2nd most viewed channel in ratings after its sister channel Cartoon Network which was on 1st.
The channel launched Tiny TV block featuring preschool shows.
2010–2013
In 2010, Pogo began focusing more on live action programming than animated series.
In June 2010, the channel premiered Kumbh Karan. And relaunched its preschool featuring block Tiny TV
In 2011, Pogo began to compete with its sister channel Cartoon Network in ratings which was leading in viewership at that time. The channel began airing shows such as Batman, The Powerpuff Girls, and more. Pogo acquired the rights of Chhota Bheem and subsequently began airing the show, which became hugely successful in India.
In 2012, Pogo became leading kids channel in India by surpassing its sister channel Cartoon Network in ratings and enjoyed to be the No. 1 kids channel in India. Chhota Bheem proven to be huge success for Pogo. The channel started airing more local shows including Chhota Bheem.
In February 2013, the Government of Bangladesh banned the broadcast of Pogo in the country, as it was accused of broadcasting there without authorization.
On 6 June 2013, the channel premiered "Krish Trish and Baltiboy".
2014–2017
In 2014, the channel celebrated its 10th anniversary.
In January 2014, the channel premiered Obbochama-Kun and premiered Chhota Bheem - Neeli Pahaadi Movie on 26th January.
In 2015, the channel was launched in Thailand as a block on Family Channel 13.
On 19 Dec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNBC
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TNBC (or Teen NBC) is the name of a former American teen-oriented television programming block that aired on NBC from September 12, 1992 to September 28, 2002, due to its replacement with the children's-oriented Discovery Kids on NBC educational lineup. The Saturday morning block featured comical live-action series – primarily in the form of scripted sitcoms and variety series such as Saved by the Bell, California Dreams, Hang Time, One World, City Guys and others – geared toward teenagers and sometimes young adults, the majority of which were produced by such key people as Peter Engel and the network's in-house production units NBC Studios and NBC Enterprises.
History
As early as 1988, NBC had been openly contemplating replacing its Saturday morning cartoon programming block of children's animation with less expensive, in-house programming oriented towards older audiences, such as talk shows and travel-themed programs, due to increasing competition from weekday afternoon cartoons airing in first-run syndication. The idea for a block specifically oriented towards a teenage demographic sprang from the popularity of the teen sitcom Saved by the Bell, which centered on a group of six students attending the fictional Bayside High School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. Debuting on the network's Saturday morning lineup in September 1989, Saved by the Bell was a re-imagining of the short-lived sitcom Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which originated on The Disney Channel, a pay-TV channel in 1988 (the predecessor series served as a starring vehicle for Hayley Mills, who unlike fellow series regulars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dennis Haskins, Lark Voorhies and Dustin Diamond, did not return for the retooled series).
In 2000, Just Deal became the first TNBC scripted series not to be produced by Peter Engel since the short-lived 1993 series Running the Halls, and the first series to be shot in a single-camera format. The following year, Sk8 premiered on the block, lasting for one season before being canceled. Both Just Deal and Sk8 were productions of Thomas W. Lynch, who had previously produced several hit teen dramas for Nickelodeon. By 2001, the block was suffering from declining viewership, particularly among its intended audience of teens; much of its audience by this point was from older viewers who had left their TV on after Weekend Today ended, and by its last season, the average age of a TNBC viewer was 41 years old.
NBC shut down the program block in 2002, leasing out its children's programming to Discovery Kids in a brokered programming arrangement. NBC blamed TNBC's failure on the network's poor performance among younger viewers in its regular prime time program lineup, leaving no opportunity to promote children's programming there; the network would have abandoned children's programming altogether if not for the E/I mandates.
Return
On June 29, 2023, NBCUniversal announced it would revive the TNBC brand for a free ad-supported streaming television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj%20Television%20Network
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Raj Television Network is an Indian satellite television network established on 3 June 1994 and is based in Chennai, India. It owns television channels across four South Indian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Its flagship channel is Raj TV.
History
In 1983, four brothers established a video cassette lending company named Raj Video Vision. In 1984, the group started acquiring rights for Tamil films. In 1987, Rajendra an integrated studio was opened by Raj group and were used by independent movie and TV serial producers. The group used the studio to export 35 mm films and teleserials to Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom, UAE among others. Raj television network was established on 3 June 1994 with the launch of the Tamil channel Raj TV on 14 October 1994.
Owned Channels
Shut down channel
References
Television networks in India
Companies based in Chennai
1994 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconductor
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Bioconductor is a free, open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data generated by wet lab experiments in molecular biology.
Bioconductor is based primarily on the statistical R programming language, but does contain contributions in other programming languages. It has two releases each year that follow the semiannual releases of R. At any one time there is a release version, which corresponds to the released version of R, and a development version, which corresponds to the development version of R. Most users will find the release version appropriate for their needs. In addition there are many genome annotation packages available that are mainly, but not solely, oriented towards different types of microarrays.
While computational methods continue to be developed to interpret biological data, the Bioconductor project is an open source software repository that hosts a wide range of statistical tools developed in the R programming environment. Utilizing a rich array of statistical and graphical features in R, many Bioconductor packages have been developed to meet various data analysis needs. The use of these packages provides a basic understanding of the R programming / command language. As a result, R and Bioconductor packages, which have a strong computing background, are used by most biologists who will benefit significantly from their ability to analyze datasets. All these results provide biologists with easy access to the analysis of genomic data without requiring programming expertise.
The project was started in the Fall of 2001 and is overseen by the Bioconductor core team, based primarily at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, with other members coming from international institutions.
Packages
Most Bioconductor components are distributed as R packages, which are add-on modules for R. Initially most of the Bioconductor software packages focused on the analysis of single channel Affymetrix and two or more channel cDNA/Oligo microarrays. As the project has matured, the functional scope of the software packages broadened to include the analysis of all types of genomic data, such as SAGE, sequence, or SNP data.
Goals
The broad goals of the projects are to:
Provide widespread access to a broad range of powerful statistical and graphical methods for the analysis of genomic data.
Facilitate the inclusion of biological metadata in the analysis of genomic data, e.g. literature data from PubMed, annotation data from LocusLink/Entrez.
Provide a common software platform that enables the rapid development and deployment of plug-able, scalable, and interoperable software.
Further scientific understanding by producing high-quality documentation and reproducible research.
Train researchers on computational and statistical methods for the analysis of genomic data.
Main features
Documentation and reproducible research. Each Bioconductor package contains at least one vignette, which
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%20queue
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In computer science, an input queue is a collection of processes in storage that are waiting to be brought into memory to run a program. Input queues are mainly used in Operating System Scheduling which is a technique for distributing resources among processes. Input queues not only apply to operating systems (OS), but may also be applied to scheduling inside networking devices. The purpose of scheduling is to ensure resources are being distributed fairly and effectively; therefore, it improves the performance of the system.
Essentially, a queue is a collection which has data added in the rear position and removed from the front position. There are many different types of queues, and the ways they operate may be totally different.
Operating systems use First-Come, First-Served queues, Shortest remaining time, Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling, round-robin scheduling and multilevel queue scheduling.
Network devices use First-In-First-Out queue, Weighted fair queue, Priority queue and Custom queue.
Operating system
In operating systems, processes are loaded into memory, and wait for their turn to be executed by the central processing unit (CPU). CPU scheduling manages process states and decides when a process will be executed next by using the input queue.
First-Come, First-out
First-Come, First-out processes are taken out from the queue in consecutive order that they are put into the queue. With this method, every process is treated equally. If there are two processes of different priority and the lower priority process enters the queue first, it will be executed first. This approach may not be ideal if different processes have different priorities, especially if the processes are long running.
Shortest remaining time
The shortest remaining time method tries to predict the processing time of developments and places them into the queue from the smallest to largest processing time. This method estimates and predicts based on prior history records. In term, its performance is not stable but better improves process waiting time than First-Come, First-Served.
Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling
Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling method assigns different priorities to the processes based on their processing time and arranges them into the queue in order of their priorities. CPU server processes from higher to lower priority, and processes which have the same priority are served as First-Come, First-Served. The CPU will temporary stop serving low priority process when higher priority process coming into the queue.
Round-robin scheduling
Round-robin scheduling method will give a same amount of time for each process and cycle through them. This method is heavily bases on a lot of time consuming to each process. Too short a lot time will fragment the processes, and too long a lot time will increase waiting time for each process to be executed. Choosing right a lot time is the foundation for this method.
Multilevel queue scheduling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20cybernetics
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Engineering cybernetics also known as technical cybernetics or cybernetic engineering, is the branch of cybernetics concerned with applications in engineering, in fields such as control engineering and robotics.
History
Qian Xuesen (Hsue-Shen Tsien) defined engineering cybernetics as a theoretical field of "engineering science", the purpose of which is to "study those parts of the broad science of cybernetics which have direct engineering applications in designing controlled or guided systems". Published in 1954, Qian's published work "Engineering Cybernetics" describes the mathematical and engineering concepts of cybernetic ideas as understood at the time, breaking them down into granular scientific concepts for application. Qian's work is notable for going beyond model-based theories and arguing for the necessity of a new design principle for types of system the properties
and characteristics of which are largely unknown.
In the 2020s, concerns with the social consequences of cyber-physical systems, have led to calls to develop "a new branch of engineering", "drawing on the history of cybernetics and reimagining it for our 21st century challenges".
Popular usage
1960's - An example of engineering cybernetics is a device designed in the mid-1960s by General Electric Company. Referred to as a CAM (cybernetic anthropomorphous machine), this machine was designed for use by the US Army ground troops. Operated by one man in a "cockpit" at the front end, the machine's "legs" steps were duplicates of the leg movements of the harnessed operator.
A common use includes the treatment of neurological disorders with the purposeful application of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), or more precisely the use of functional electrical stimulation (FES). The most common used therapy is the 1980s introduced FES-cycling methods. Additional research is attempting to implement applications from control systems to improve FES-cycling. New research is being conducted using computer-controlled FES, where the musculoskeletal system is viewed as cybernetic system.
In Media
1990's - Neon Genesis Evangelion the Japanese animation (anime) TV series featured giant robots piloted by humans that had a connection to the host machine via biological impulses.
See also
References
External links
Information on the program of study "Engineering Cybernetics" at the University of Stuttgart
Information on the program of study "Technical Cybernetics" at the University of Magdeburg
Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and technology
Qian Xuesen
Cybernetics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Preim
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Bernhard Preim (born 1969) is a specialist in human–computer interface design as well as in visual computing for medicine.
He is currently professor of visualization at University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Preim received the diploma in computer science in 1994 (minor in mathematics) and a PhD in 1998 from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (PhD thesis "Interactive Illustrations and Animations for the Exploration of Spatial Relations", supervised by Thomas Strothotte). In 1999, he joined the staff of MeVis (Center for Medical Diagnosis System and Visualization, headed by Heinz-Otto Peitgen). In close collaboration with radiologists and surgeons, he directed the work on "computer-aided planning in liver surgery" and initiated several projects funded by the German Research Council in the area of computer-aided surgery. In June 2002, he received the Habilitation degree (venia legendi) for computer science from the University of Bremen. Since Mars 2003 he is full professor for "Visualization" at the computer science department at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, heading a research group which is focussed on medical visualization and applications in surgical education and surgery planning. These developments are summarized in a comprehensive textbook Visualization in Medicine (Co-author Dirk Bartz), which appeared at Morgan Kaufmann in June 2007.
Bernhard Preim was founding speaker of the working group Medical Visualization in the German Society for Computer Science (2003–2012). He is the chair of the scientific advisory board of ICCAS and since 2013 president of the CURAC (German Society for Computer- and Roboter-assisted Surgery, ) and Visiting Professor at the University of Bremen where he closely collaborates with MeVis Research (now Fraunhofer MEVIS). Together with Charl Botha, TU Delft, he founded the VCBM Eurographics workshop series.
Books
Visual Computing for Medicine, Bernhard Preim and Charl Botha, 2013, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
Interaktive Systeme, Bernhard Preim and Raimund Dachselt 2010, Berlin: Springer.
Visualization in Medicine, Bernhard Preim and Dirk Bartz, 2007, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
Entwicklung interaktiver Systeme: Grundlagen, Fallbeispiele und innovative Anwendungsfelder, Bernhard Preim, 1999, Berlin: Springer.
Interaktive Illustrationen und Animationen zur Erklarung komplexer raumlicher Zusammenhange, Bernhard Preim, 1998, Düsseldorf: VDI Verlag.
Selected papers
How to Render Frames and Influence People, Thomas Strothotte, Bernhard Preim, Andreas Raab, Jutta Schumann, David R. Forsey, In: Computer Graphics Forum (13) 3, Proceedings of euroGraphics 1994, pp. 455–466, 1994.
Coherent zooming of illustrations with 3D-graphics and text, Bernhard Preim, Andreas Raab, Thomas Strothotte, Proceedings of the conference on Graphics interface '97, , Canadian Information Processing Society.
Visualization and Interaction Techniques for the Exploration of Vascular Structures. Horst K. Hahn, Bernhard Prei
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping%20%28compilers%29
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In computer science, bootstrapping is the technique for producing a self-compiling compiler – that is, a compiler (or assembler) written in the source programming language that it intends to compile. An initial core version of the compiler (the bootstrap compiler) is generated in a different language (which could be assembly language); successive expanded versions of the compiler are developed using this minimal subset of the language. The problem of compiling a self-compiling compiler has been called the chicken-or-egg problem in compiler design, and bootstrapping is a solution to this problem.
Bootstrapping is a fairly common practice when creating a programming language. Many compilers for many programming languages are bootstrapped, including compilers for BASIC, ALGOL, C, C#, D, Pascal, PL/I, Haskell, Modula-2, Oberon, OCaml, Common Lisp, Scheme, Go, Java, Elixir, Rust, Python, Scala, Nim, Eiffel, TypeScript, Vala, Zig and more.
Process
A typical bootstrap process works in three or four stages:
Stage 0: preparing an environment for the bootstrap compiler to work with. This is where the source language and output language of the bootstrap compiler are chosen. In the case of a "bare machine" (one where no compiler for any language exist) the source and output are written as binary machine code, or may be created by cross compiling on some other machine than the target. Otherwise, the bootstrap compiler is to be written in one of the programming languages which does exist on the target machine, and that compiler will generate something which can execute on the target, including a high-level programming language, an assembly language, an object file, or even machine code.
Stage 1: the bootstrap compiler is produced. This compiler is enough to translate its own source into a program which can be executed on the target machine. At this point, all further development is done using the language defined by the bootstrap compiler, and stage 2 begins.
Stage 2: a full compiler is produced by the bootstrap compiler. This is typically done in stages as needed, e.g. compiler for version X of the language will be able to compile features from version X+1, but that compiler does not actually use those features. Once this compiler has been tested and can compile itself, now version X+1 features may be used by subsequent releases of the compiler.
Stage 3: a full compiler is produced by the stage 2 full compiler. If more features are to be added, work resumes at stage 2, with the current stage 3 full compiler replacing the bootstrap compiler.
The full compiler is built twice in order to compare the outputs of the two stages. If they are different, either the bootstrap or the full compiler contains a bug.
Advantages
Bootstrapping a compiler has the following advantages:
It is a non-trivial test of the language being compiled, and as such is a form of dogfooding.
Compiler developers and bug reporters only need to know the language being compiled.
Comp
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Cyberun is a ZX Spectrum video game by Ultimate Play the Game and published by U.S. Gold in 1986. Although not part of the Jetman series, it has similarities to Jetpac in that the player must construct their spaceship from parts, then seek out resources and power-ups.
Gameplay
The player controls a spaceship trapped on a planet inhabited by hostile aliens. The goal is to upgrade the spaceship with parts scattered around the planet and mine a valuable element called "Cybernite". The atmosphere above ground is populated by flying aliens and clouds that drip acid, damaging the ship's shields. The ship requires fuel to fly, and once exhausted will bounce along the ground of the planet unable to climb. A similar enemy ship is also on the planet attempting to mine the Cybernite before the player. Fuel can be replenished by tankers on the planet surface, but damaged shields cannot be repaired. The player must venture into caverns below the surface in order to mine the Cybernite, which can only be done once the ship has been upgraded to include a mining laser. Once sufficient Cybernite has been collected, the player can escape to the next planet in the Zebarema system.
Reception
The game was well received by critics, with Crash awarding it a 90% Crash Smash, and Your Spectrum giving it 8/10, describing the game as "a classic pick up the pieces and shoot em up with brilliant graphics".
References
External links
Cyberun review at CRASH magazine
1986 video games
Rare (company) games
ZX Spectrum games
Amstrad CPC games
MSX games
Science fiction video games
Scrolling shooters
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbler%20%28video%20game%29
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Bubbler is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game in 1987. It was Ultimate's final release for 8-bit home computers before evolving into Rare. The game is an isometric platform game in the style of Marble Madness (1984).
Development
A Commodore 64 version was outsourced to Lynsoft but the release was cancelled as Ultimate thought the game was running too slowly.
Reception
Crash magazine reviewer Ricky disliked the impreciseness of the controls. Sinclair User were more impressed by the game; they did not consider it to be one of Ultimate's most original game or particularly well presented but thought it was very addictive. It was awarded a 5 star rating.
References
External links
Bubbler at Ultimate Wurlde
Review at CRASH
Unreleased C64 port
1987 video games
Rare (company) games
Amstrad CPC games
Marble video games
MSX games
ZX Spectrum games
Cancelled Commodore 64 games
Video games with isometric graphics
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20health%20record
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A personal health record (PHR) is a health record where health data and other information related to the care of a patient is maintained by the patient. This stands in contrast to the more widely used electronic medical record, which is operated by institutions (such as hospitals) and contains data entered by clinicians (such as billing data) to support insurance claims. The intention of a PHR is to provide a complete and accurate summary of an individual's medical history which is accessible online. The health data on a PHR might include patient-reported outcome data, lab results, and data from devices such as wireless electronic weighing scales or (collected passively) from a smartphone.
Definition
The term "personal health record" is not new. The term was used as early as June 1978, and in 1956, there was a reference was made to a "personal health log." The term "PHR" may be applied to both paper-based and computerized systems; usage in the late 2010s usually implies an electronic application used to collect and store health data.
In the early 2000s, healthcare organizations began to propose formal definitions of the term. For example:
It is important to note that PHRs are not the same as electronic health records (EHRs) or electronic medical records (EMRs), which are software systems designed for use by health care providers. Like the data recorded in paper-based medical records, the data in EHRs are legally mandated notes on the care provided by clinicians to patients. However, generally there is no mandate requiring patients to track their own health data. Like EHRs and EMRs, PHRs may still fall under the regulatory scope of governments, depending on their origin, but rigorous regulatory protection of their data is still lacking in parts of the world.
PHRs can contain a diverse range of data, including but not limited to:
Applicable diagnoses . medications, including over-the-counter and alternative treatments
Past medical and surgical interventions
There are two methods by which data can arrive in a PHR. A patient may enter it directly, either by typing into fields or uploading/transmitting data from a file or another website. The second is when the PHR is tethered to an electronic health record, which automatically updates the PHR. Not all PHRs have the same capabilities, and individual PHRs may support one or all of these methods.
In addition to storing an individual's personal health information, some PHRs provide added-value services such as drug-drug interaction checking, electronic messaging between patients and providers, managing appointments, and reminders.
Benefits
PHRs grant patients access to a wide range of health information sources, best medical practices, and health knowledge. All of an individual's medical records are stored in one place instead of paper-based files in various doctors’ offices. Upon encountering a medical condition, a pat
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Circumvesuviana () is a railway network in the east of the Naples metropolitan area, previously run by a company of the same name, now operated by Ente Autonomo Volturno. Electrically powered throughout, the system uses the narrow gauge of and operates of route on six lines. It is entirely separate from other national and regional railway lines. It has 96 stations with an average interstation distance of .
The Circumvesuviana railway covers a wide catchment area of over 2 million people, distributed in 47 municipalities, including Scafati, San Valentino Torio and Sarno in the province of Salerno and Avella and Baiano in the province of Avellino. The network forms an important commercial artery, and provides services to the tourist destinations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
All routes start from the Napoli Porta Nolana terminus near the Porta Nolana, and pass through Napoli Garibaldi station before splitting into several branches to towns in the province. A journey along the entirety of the longest route, the from Naples to Sorrento, takes about one hour.
On 27 December 2012 the original company was absorbed by the Ente Autonomo Volturno. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the network was used by 25 million passengers annually.
Lines
All lines are powered by electric overhead lines.
Rolling stock
The network uses two types of rolling stock, both electrically powered: FE220 units, T21 and "Metrostar" articulated trains. Power is supplied by overhead catenary and the train motors can generate up to of power.
The FE220 cars are usually coupled together to form a two- or three-car multiple units, painted white with red doors and ends. The FE220 trains come in two different variations.
Twenty-six ETR211 "Metrostar" three-car articulated units were introduced between November 2008 and September 2009. Manufactured by a consortium of Firema and AnsaldoBreda, these trains are capable of carrying 450 passengers and are styled by Pininfarina. As well as being more powerful than the FE220 units, they have computer driving aids, self-levelling suspension.
These units are mostly used to provide the express service whilst the FE220 provide cheaper, stopping services which tend to be far more crowded.
Notes
See also
Metropolitana di Napoli
List of suburban and commuter rail systems
External links
Official Circumvesuviana site (In Italian, last updated 2002)
Unofficial site (mostly in Italian with a summary in English)
Current schedules on the EAV site (In Italian, but schedules are numeric once you select a line)
Railway companies of Italy
Railway lines in Campania
Transport in Naples
950 mm gauge railways in Italy
Companies based in Campania
Mount Vesuvius
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo%21%20Mystery%20of%20the%20Fun%20Park%20Phantom
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Scooby Doo! Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom is a 1999 mystery computer game developed by Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI) and published by SouthPeak Interactive. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and was the first commercial Scooby-Doo game for the Windows operating system. It is intended for young children up to young teens.
Plot
The "Mystery Inc." gang find themselves stranded near an old farmhouse adjacent to an apparently abandoned amusement park. Approaching the farmhouse for help with the Mystery Machine (their van), the gang learns that the Gobs, the residents of the home, own the adjacent park, Gobs O' Fun. However, the park is being haunted by a phantom, scaring customers away. Without any customers, the Gobs are on the brink of bankruptcy, which will force them to sell the park. The gang agrees to help the Gobs find the culprit in exchange for help getting their van repaired.
Gameplay
The player or players can take on the role of any of the members of the Mystery Inc. gang, except for Scooby-Doo himself. Scooby instead helps each member of the gang from time to time. Players wander the park looking for clues that might pinpoint who the culprit is. The park is divided into nine sections, each with a different theme or main attraction, such as a Ferris wheel or a roller coaster. Each player may explore a different area or the same one. Some areas also contain neighbors and employees wandering in the deserted park, all of whom have motives for wanting the park closed. For example, the banker wants to build a shopping mall on the park site and the neighboring farmer wants to expand his farmland.
In addition to finding clues, the players can acquire trap pieces to help in finally trapping the suspect. There are two types of trap pieces: rare and common. There is only one instance of rare trap pieces in the park; common pieces are located in several places. Each trap requires one rare piece and two common pieces. Each trap is tailored for one of the nine areas. Also scattered about the park are a number of Scooby Snacks. Using these, the player can coax Scooby into helping them by baiting the trap, assigning a "Wheel of Chaos" spin for other players or use them to spin the "Wheel of Fun" for themselves.
A minimum of two of the Scooby gang must participate in attempting to solve the mystery. If a single player is playing, the computer can be assigned to play an opposing character. Turns proceed in a hotseat fashion, where players take turns moving their characters. Each player gets three "action points" per turn and may use them for a variety of actions. Each action costs a certain number of points. For example, picking up a clue or Scooby snack costs one point, moving from one area to another costs all three, or taking the manhole (a shortcut to another random area) takes two points. Just walking about an area, not picking up anything, is free.
The "Wheel of Chaos" is assigned from one player to an opposing player. It c
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalion
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Thalion may refer to:
Húrin Thalion, a Tolkien character
Thalion (band), a Brazilian metal band
Thalion Software, a computer game company
Thalion Technologies, software company
See also
Talion (disambiguation)
Thallium, a chemical element
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantavision%20%28video%20game%29
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, sometimes stylized as FantaVision, is a puzzle video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 (PS2). The game's objective is to use a cursor to select three or more launched fireworks (called "flares") of the same color in a row and then to detonate them to increase the player's score. Used in conjunction with various power-ups, the resulting explosions can ignite and chain together even more flares for additional points.
Fantavision was created during Sony's transition from its original PlayStation (PS1) to its next generation console. The game was initially conceived by director Katsuyuki Kanetaka, inspired by the fireworks shows he witnessed in his youth. After successfully pitching the project to Sony, Fantavision was supervised by the company's first-party development head Shuhei Yoshida and was completed by a small team in a short time frame. The graphics emphasize the PS2's ability to show particle effects.
Fantavision was released in Japan on March 9, 2000, a few days after the PS2 itself. It was released the same day as the console in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand later that year with an added two-player mode. An updated version with this mode titled was released in Japan in 2002, featuring revised cutscenes and design. Fantavision was then remade for Japanese mobile phones starting in 2003. Finally, the game was digitally re-released on Sony's newer consoles via the PlayStation Network outside of Japan beginning in 2015. The game received a mostly above-average critical response with reviewers generally praising its visual presentation, core gameplay, and multiplayer. However, many found fault with the length and replay value of its single-player experience when compared to contemporary titles in the puzzle genre.
Gameplay
Fantavision is a real-time puzzle game that relies on quick color matching and symbol recognition skills from the player. The game consists of a series of stages set in darkened, 3D environments where brightly colored fireworks called '"flares" are launched onto the screen and will hover for a period of time before disappearing. Using the DualShock 2's left analog stick, the player controls the direction of a guideline ray extending from a circular cursor that allows a flare along the ray to be "captured" with the controller's X button. The goal is to string together three or more flares of the same color and then detonate them by pressing the circle button, thus increasing the player's score. Different types of flares can be encountered including "peonies", which explode in a circular fashion; "willows", which have sparks that descend downward in dome shape; and "multiflares", which break apart into smaller pieces that can be detonated a second time. More points can be obtained with chain reactions caused by new flares touching the sparks of detonated flares of the same color. This creates a "daisy chain" that allows flares of multipl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer%20set%20programming
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Answer set programming (ASP) is a form of declarative programming oriented towards difficult (primarily NP-hard) search problems. It is based on the stable model (answer set) semantics of logic programming. In ASP, search problems are reduced to computing stable models, and answer set solvers—programs for generating stable models—are used to perform search. The computational process employed in the design of many answer set solvers is an enhancement of the DPLL algorithm and, in principle, it always terminates (unlike Prolog query evaluation, which may lead to an infinite loop).
In a more general sense, ASP includes all applications of answer sets to knowledge representation and reasoning and the use of Prolog-style query evaluation for solving problems arising in these applications.
History
An early example of answer set programming was the planning method proposed in 1997 by Dimopoulos, Nebel and Köhler. Their approach is based on the relationship between plans and stable models.
In 1998 Soininen and Niemelä
applied what is now known as answer set programming to the problem of product configuration. In 1999, the term "answer set programming" appeared for the first time in a book The Logic Programming Paradigm as the title of a collection of two papers. The first of these papers identified the use of answer set solvers for search as a new programming paradigm. That same year Niemelä also proposed "logic programs with stable model semantics" as a new paradigm.
Answer set programming language AnsProlog
Lparse is the name of the program that was originally created as a grounding tool (front-end) for the answer set solver smodels. The language that Lparse accepts is now commonly called AnsProlog, short for Answer Set Programming in Logic. It is now used in the same way in many other answer set solvers, including assat, clasp, cmodels, gNt, nomore++ and pbmodels. (dlv is an exception; the syntax of ASP programs written for dlv is somewhat different.)
An AnsProlog program consists of rules of the form
<head> :- <body> .
The symbol :- ("if") is dropped if <body> is empty; such rules are called facts. The simplest kind of Lparse rules are rules with constraints.
One other useful construct included in this language is choice. For instance, the choice rule
{p,q,r}.
says: choose arbitrarily which of the atoms to include in the stable model. The Lparse program that contains this choice rule and no other rules has 8 stable models—arbitrary subsets of . The definition of a stable model was generalized to programs with choice rules. Choice rules can be treated also as abbreviations for propositional formulas under the stable model semantics. For instance, the choice rule above can be viewed as shorthand for the conjunction of three "excluded middle" formulas:
The language of Lparse allows us also to write "constrained" choice rules, such as
1{p,q,r}2.
This rule says: choose at least 1 of the atoms , but not more than 2. The meaning of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSN
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NSN may refer to:
National Security Network, a non-profit foreign-policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
NATO Stock Number, formerly National Stock Number, a code used to identify NATO military supply equipment
Nelson Airport (New Zealand), by IATA code
Network Service Name - for accessing a database in Oracle Net Services
New Schools Network, a UK-based education reform group
Nokia Solutions and Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia Corporation
North Shore Navigators, a wooden-bat, collegiate summer baseball team based in Lynn, Massachusetts
Never Shout Never, an American indie rock band
Native Sovereign Nation eg. .nsn.us third level TLD
National Socialist Network, an Australian neo-Nazi organisation founded in 2020
See also
Never Say Never (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathway
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Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd, formerly BITV Cable Networks, is an Indian cable television service operator based in Mumbai. It was the first company to provide Internet using the CATV network in India, and the first cable operator to launch a digital platform in 2006. Hathway Broadband Internet was the first cable ISP in India. Business India Television (BITV) Cable Networks Pvt Ltd was acquired by Hathway in 1999. As of 2007, the company had a 51% stake in Bhupendran Bhaskar Multinet and 50% stake in Gujarat Telelinks Pvt Ltd (GTPL). In 2011, Hathway GTPL entered in Assam with a MoM with V&S Cable Pvt Ltd, and started operations in West Bengal as they acquired KCBPL (Kolkata Cable & Broadband Pariseva Ltd) to create a subsidiary, GTPLKCBPL, responsible for providing services in West Bengal.
Other services
In the second half of 2011, Hathway launched its HDTV services in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Kolkata; in Gujarat in 2013, and in Odisha in 2015. Their new HD DVR set-top box initially provided 8 HD channels, with availability increasing to sixteen in March 2012. There are thirty channels available as of 2020. With this addition, Hathway is now the provider with the most HD channels in its Indian market.
Hathway Broadband Internet was one of the earliest cable ISP services in the Indian cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Indore, Bhopal, Lucknow and Kolkata. As of 2013, the highest possible speed provided is 50Mbit/s. It uses Cisco Systems's Docsis 3 technology in three cities, where the speeds exceed 50 Mbit/s.
There are around 11 million subscribers, of which around 1.77 million currently have wireless/broadband internet available. Approximately 430,000 of these users are using Hathway broadband services.
Hathway was the first Indian digital cable service provider to release digital video recorder (DVR) services, on March 12, 2009, powered by NDS XTV.
Acquisition by Reliance Industries
Hathway was the multi-service operator owned by the Rajan Raheja Group. In 2003, it stood as one of the largest multi-system operators in India alongside the Hinduja Group companies of RPG Cable and InCablenet, and the Essel Group controlled Siti Cable, and also one of the three major cable distributors in India alongside DEN Networks and InCablenet.
On October 17, 2018, Reliance Industries announced that it had acquired a 51.34% stake in Hathway for . The acquisition received approval from the Competition Commission of India in January 2019. Reliance acquired an additional 20.61% stake in Hathway through an open offer worth in March 2019, taking its total stake in the company to 71.95%.
References
External links
Companies based in Mumbai
Mass media in Mumbai
Cable television companies of India
Reliance Media
Year of establishment missing
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Reliance Industries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Stemmle
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Michael J. Stemmle (born 1967) is a computer game writer, designer, and director who cocreated some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s.
He joined LucasArts after graduating from Stanford University, where he honed his comedy skills writing halftime shows for the Stanford Band and skits for the annual stage musical Big Game Gaieties. After 14 years at LucasArts, he left following the 2004 collapse of Sam & Max Freelance Police and after a period of freelancing, joined Perpetual Entertainment, working as Story Lead for Star Trek Online. In February 2008, he joined a number of other ex-LucasArts employees at Telltale Games. He had worked on the first version of The Wolf Among Us before it was redesigned, and contributed to Tales from the Borderlands before he left Telltale Games in May 2014.
Game credits
1990 The Secret of Monkey Island designer, 256 colors version
1992 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis lead scripter, assistant designer, programmer
1993 Sam & Max Hit the Road co-director, co-designer
1996 Afterlife director, designer
2000 Escape from Monkey Island co-director, co-designer
2002 Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast script writer
2004 Sam & Max Freelance Police (unreleased), director, designer
2005 Star Wars: Battlefront II script writer
2007 Star Trek Online (unreleased) story lead
2008 Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People designer, script writer
2009 Tales of Monkey Island designer, script writer
2010 Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse designer, script writer
2011 Back to the Future: The Game designer, script writer
2013 Poker Night 2 script writer, programmer
2014 The Wolf Among Us (first version before redesign) designer, script writer
2014 Tales from the Borderlands designer
2021 Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual designer, script writer
References
External links
Star Trek Online Podcast interviewing Mike Stemmle
1967 births
Living people
Lucasfilm people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University alumni
Video game designers
Video game directors
Video game writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%20%281999%20TV%20programme%29
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Tonight (often referred to as The Tonight Programme) is a British current affairs programme, produced by ITV Studios (formerly Granada Television) and ITN for the ITV network, replacing the long-running investigative series World in Action in 1999. Previously airing twice-weekly, on Monday and Friday evenings at 8.00pm (ITV Wales, STV and UTV would often air the programme at different times or different days, to make way for regional programming), the show runs the gamut from human interest-led current affairs to investigative journalism.
Tonight has conducted interviews with a plethora of political and public figures, including U.S. President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair and former U.S First Lady Hillary Clinton.
From 1999 to 2007, the programme was known as Tonight with Trevor McDonald. The programme currently airs in the Thursday night timeslot, usually at 8.30pm on ITV1 and 10.45pm on STV, with Paul Brand as host from March 2022.
Format
The format of Tonight consists of a number of long-form news stories which present an angle on a major development, often following up on an investigation instigated by a national newspaper or news network.
Many topics centre on allegations of wrongdoing and corruption on the part of corporations, politicians, and other public officials. The show also features profiles. The profiles are occasionally of celebrities and offer a biography of the figure, followed by a sit-down interview. Rather than offering a simple publicity platform, a celebrity will often feature after a period of intense media scrutiny, such was the case when the model Naomi Campbell appeared after there were claims she had a substance abuse problem. Non-celebrity profiles usually feature a person who has accomplished an heroic action.
The programme's format differs significantly to newsmagazine Panorama, which airs on the BBC, as it often remains focused upon a sensationalist and human interest-led agenda, rather than political or world affairs. Many of the topics are follow-ups to stories from tabloid newspapers, chosen for their level of public interest.
The show gained greater public attention for its high-profile interviews, such as with the parents of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor, the five suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder case and Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash which killed Princess Diana.
Following the September 11 attacks in New York City in 2001, the show shifted its focus to more "heavyweight" topics such as the impending war and featured numerous reports from Afghanistan and Washington respectively, with Trevor McDonald interviewing U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in December of the same year.
In an emotionally charged and highly controversial episode, airing on 30 October 2001, Martin Bashir interviewed the television star Michael Barrymore for the first time about the events that led to a man dying in the swimming pool at his home. The entertainer said he felt remorse and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20President
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Shadow President is a geopolitical simulation video game released in 1993 for the PC by DC True containing elements of cyberpunk and dark science fiction.
The game has a sequel called CyberJudas.
Gameplay
The game puts the player in the role of the President of the United States in a situation loosely based on the Cold War and the early 1990s. Using a timeline that starts during the end of the Ogaden War, players can prepare Kuwait to be invaded by Iraq during Operation Desert Shield. After dealing with the Iraqi adversaries, the player can opt to overthrow the military overlords and political cartels that are keeping the people of South America and Africa in relative poverty.
Being popular enough to be re-elected is a vital component of the game, though re-elections can be disabled which in turn greatly reduces the effect of popularity. Managing the budget of the United States, sending aid to foreign countries, dealing with diplomatic crises, and even fighting wars are a largely unavoidable aspect of the game. The player starts the game with seven advisors, which makes the game a bit less confusing. During every American election year, players are not allowed to access their virtual screen starting at midnight on election night so that a panel of bureaucrats can analyze their progress. If their popularity and efficiency is good enough, the player is authorized to use the terminal for four more years. Not getting re-elected automatically means "game over."
Furthermore, if the player makes poor decisions or abuses their power, their advisors may resign, Congress will attempt to impeach them, foreign governments may overthrow them, or terrorist groups may attempt an assassination.
Reception
GameSpot currently has the game ranked at a 7.7/10 based on 13 reviews. Chuck Moss of Computer Gaming World in 1993 wrote that Shadow President was a good learning tool but that, "As a simulation, it has certain real-world problems [and] certain ... anomalies", such as Iraqi forces being much more powerful than they actually were at the time of the Gulf War. As a game, the magazine stated that "you can't do cool stuff" as the simulation "forces one to be more passive than active if stability is the desired goal", contrasting the game with "more fun" simulations like SimCity and Civilization. The magazine concluded that Shadow President was "a work of art that belongs in every civics classroom", but "even invading Canada is more fun". In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title three-plus stars out of five, stating that "it has the 'highly educational' appendage, but that doesn't mean that it should be passed by".
References
External links
Shadow President at GameFAQs
1993 video games
Cold War video games
Cyberpunk video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Government simulation video games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 1990s
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Lynch
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Nancy Ann Lynch (born January 19, 1948) is a computer scientist affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the "Theory of Distributed Systems" research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Education and early life
Lynch was born in Brooklyn, and her academic training was in mathematics. She attended Brooklyn College and MIT, where she received her Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Albert R. Meyer.
Work
She served on the math and computer science faculty at several other universities, including Tufts University, the University of Southern California, Florida International University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1982. Since then, she has been working on applying mathematics to the tasks of understanding and constructing complex distributed systems.
Her 1985 work with Michael J. Fischer and Mike Paterson on consensus problems received the PODC Influential-Paper Award in 2001. Their work showed that in an asynchronous distributed system, consensus is impossible if there is one processor that crashes. On their contribution, Jennifer Welch wrote that "this result has had a monumental impact in distributed computing, both theory and practice. Systems designers were motivated to clarify their claims concerning under what circumstances the systems work."
She is the author of numerous research articles about distributed algorithms and impossibility results, and about formal modeling and validation of distributed systems (see, e.g., input/output automaton). She is the author of the graduate textbook "Distributed Algorithms". She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and an ACM Fellow.
Recognition
1997: ACM Fellow
2001: Dijkstra Paper Prize of PODC conference
2001: Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of theoretical foundations for distributed computing.
2006: Van Wijngaarden Award
2007: Knuth Prize
2007: Dijkstra Paper Prize of PODC conference
2010: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
2012: Athena Lecturer
2015: National Academy of Sciences
Bibliography
References
External links
Nancy Lynch's home page at MIT
A series of invited lectures at PODC 2008 and CONCUR 2008.
American computer scientists
1948 births
Living people
Researchers in distributed computing
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Georgia Tech faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
American women computer scientists
Knuth Prize laureates
Dijkstra Prize laureates
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Brooklyn College alumni
Theoretical computer scientists
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mountain%20%28TV%20series%29
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The Mountain is an American drama television series created by David Barrett, Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo, that was broadcast on The WB network for one season from September 22, 2004 to January 2, 2005. The show received very low ratings and was canceled after only thirteen episodes.
Plot
The plot centers on a ski resort run by Will Carver (Anson Mount). When his grandfather dies, Will discovers that the resort has been left to his younger brother David (Oliver Hudson), an irresponsible layabout who returns to pick up the reins. There is familial conflict over the resort and over Maria (Alana de la Garza), a woman who previously dated David, but then dates Will. Additional conflict comes from the efforts of land developer Colin Dowling (Mitch Pileggi) and his attractive daughter, Max (Elizabeth Bogush), who falls for David.
Cast and characters
Main
Oliver Hudson as David Carver Jr.
Anson Mount as Will Carver
Tara Thompson as Shelley Carver
Penn Badgley as Sam Tunney
Elizabeth Bogush as Max Dowling
Alana de la Garza as Maria Serrano
Tommy Dewey as Michael Dowling
Johann Urb as Travis Thorson
Mitch Pileggi as Colin Dowling
Barbara Hershey as Gennie Carver
Recurring
Kaylee DeFer as Scarlett
Matt Bellefleur as Fergie
Sam Easton as Blake
Brett Cullen as John 'Whit' Whitman
Martin Cummins as Eric Toth
Guest star
Chad Everett as David Carver Sr. (episode: Pilot)
Episodes
References
External links
The WB original programming
2004 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
2000s American drama television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television series by Wonderland Sound and Vision
Television shows filmed in Vancouver
Television shows set in Colorado
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt-Putt
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Putt-Putt may refer to:
Putt-putt golf or miniature golf
Putt-Putt (series), a children's adventure and puzzle computer game series
Putt-Putt Fun Center, a chain of amusement centers and miniature golf courses
Railroad speeder or putt-putt, a small motorized vehicle used on railroads
Putt-putt, a test rocket used during Project Orion
Putt-Putt, an auxiliary power unit aboard an aircraft
See also
Putt (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST%20Telemedia
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ST Telemedia (STT) is a Singapore-headquartered strategic investor specialising in Communications and Media, Data Centres and Infrastructure Technology businesses globally. It is represented in 15 countries, three continents across Asia Pacific, the US and Europe. It is a portfolio company of Temasek Holdings. In 2016, the company refreshed its corporate identity, adopting a new logo and streamlined business name ST Telemedia.
Business activities
STT's investment portfolio is centred on three business segments across the digital value chain – Communication & Media, Data Centres, and Infrastructure Technology.
2020
In March 2020, STT announced the completion of its majority investment in CloudCover, a cloud-native service provider with presence in India and Southeast Asia.
2019
In January 2019, STT announced that it completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Cloud Comrade, a Singapore-based cloud computing company with presence also in Malaysia and Indonesia.
ST Telemedia Cloud, a public cloud solutions provider across APAC was established.
Quantum Security, a portfolio company of STT announced its official entry into the AI and Cloud IT market.
In October 2019, STT announced that it was taking a majority stake in Seattle-based cloud service provider 2nd Watch.
2018
In January 2018, STT led in a new round of funding for Bespin Global, a cloud management company which helps enterprise customers in South Korea and China with cloud adoption.
2017
In November 2017, STT led in a new round of funding for Instart Logic, which created a cloud-based digital experience platform that enables brands to increase their online performance.
In April 2017, STT announced its investment in Dallas-based Armor, The First Totally Secure Cloud Company™, and became a joint lead shareholder with The Stephens Group. Armor’s proprietary platform integrates threat intelligence, automated security orchestration and machine learning managed by a world-class security operations centre.
2016
In August 2016, STT unveiled a refreshed corporate identity to reflect its new strategic direction.
In June 2016, STT announced its lead investment in Moogsoft's Series C financing, giving the real-time IT Operation Analytics provider a boost to expand its global operations in Europe, Asia and Americas.
In May 2016, STT announced its strategic partnership with Tata Communications to expand data centre business in India and Singapore. The partnership involved a 74% majority stake acquisition of Tata Communications’ data centre business in India and Singapore by STT’s wholly owned subsidiary, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC). Tata Communications remains as a significant shareholder, holding the remaining 26% stake in the business. The acquisition of the data centres in India was completed in October 2016, while the acquisition of the data centres in Singapore completed in February 2017.
2015
In August 2015, STT made its first investment in emerging te
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%20XL
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DOS XL is a discontinued Disk Operating System (DOS) written by Paul Laughton, Mark Rose, Bill Wilkinson, and Mike Peters and published by Optimized Systems Software (OSS) for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was designed to be compatible with Atari DOS which came shipped with Atari, Inc.'s disk drives, which had also been written by the same team.
Description
Features
A direct descendant of OS/A+, DOS XL provided additional features to Atari's equipped with floppy disk drives. These included single and double density support, a command-line mode (called the command processor or CP), a menu mode (an executable loaded in memory), batch file support, and support for XL extended memory and OSS SuperCartridge banked memory. Later versions included Axlon RamDisk support, Mosaic RamDisk support, BIT-3 support and BUG/65.
In addition to supporting auto-booting AUTORUN.SYS files, DOS XL's batch features provided an auto-booting batch feature. Naming a batch file to STARTUP.EXC would have it execute batch commands on startup (same as OS/A+). Unfortunately, this feature wasn't compatible with some programs (e.g. AtariWriter).
Distribution
DOS XL was distributed on a flippy disk. One side had the single-density version, the other had the double-density version. As more features and add-ons were included, these were placed on the double-density side only due to lack of disk space.
The manual for DOS XL was a subset of OS/A+. OSS considered the manual an "addendum" to OS/A+. Over 150+ pages, it was bound at the spine, not in loose-leaf form like the OS/A+ manual.
DOS XL came in two versions, 2.20 and 2.30 (2.20 users had to pay $20 to upgrade to 2.30). The last version was 2.30P. DOS XL originally sold for $30, but the price later increased to $39.
File writing verify was turned off in DOS XL. This was due to OSS's own experience that resulted in faster writes with virtually no risk of errors. The command file VERIFY.COM was included to reenable writes with verify. Atari DOS 2.0S by default verified file writes to disk.
Several disk drive manufacturers shipped DOS XL with their drives: Trak, Percom, Astra, Indus, Amdek, and Rana.
Commands
Menu Commands
C - Copy Files P - Protect Files
D - Duplicate Disk Q - Quit to DOS XL
E - Erase Files R - Rename File
F - Files on Disk S - Save Binary
G - Go to Address T - To Cartridge
I - Initialize Disk U - Unprotect Files
L - Load Binary X - Xtended Command
Intrinsic Commands
@ - Begins execution of a batch file
CAR - Runs Cartridge
Dn: - Changes default drive
DIR - Directory
END - Tells DOS XL to stop batch execution (used in a batch file)
ERA - Erase file(s)
LOA - Load file(s) in memory
NOS - NO Screen. Turns off command echo to screen
PRO - Protect. Enables write-protect on file(s)
REM - REMark. Used for user remarks in batch files
REN - REName. Renames file(s)
RUN - Jumps to run address
SAV - Sa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Married%20Marge
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"I Married Marge" is the twelfth episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 26, 1991. In the episode, Marge worries that she may be pregnant again and visits Dr. Hibbert's office. While anxiously waiting at home, Homer tells Bart, Lisa, and Maggie the story of his and Marge's marriage and Bart's birth. The episode was written by Jeff Martin and directed by Jeffrey Lynch.
"I Married Marge" was the second flashback episode of The Simpsons after season two's "The Way We Was", which focused on how Homer and Marge met. It features cultural references to The Empire Strikes Back, Charlie's Angels, and Ms. Pac-Man. The title of the episode is a play on the American television series I Married Joan. Since airing, "I Married Marge" has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 11.9 and was the highest-rated show on Fox the week it aired.
The episode was the first of three about the births of the Simpsons children, this one covering Bart's birth, with Lisa's covered in "Lisa's First Word" in the fourth season, and Maggie's covered in the sixth-season episode "And Maggie Makes Three". The episode also expands upon the family's origins as a result of Marge falling pregnant with Bart, briefly referred to in "The Way We Was", and introduces key moments, such as Bart's conception at a mini-golf course, which would ultimately become a major part of the series' canon.
Plot
Marge worries she may be pregnant again after a home pregnancy test is inconclusive, so she drives to Dr. Hibbert's office to take another test. While Marge is gone, Homer tells Bart, Lisa, and Maggie the story of their marriage and Bart's birth.
In 1980, Homer is working at a minigolf course while dating Marge. At the end of a date, Bart is conceived when Homer and Marge had sex in a golf course castle, and Marge accepts Homer's proposal of marriage. The pair marry in a seedy wedding chapel across the state line and spend their wedding night on the living room couches at Marge's family's house.
As Homer's wages from the golf course are insufficient to support his growing family, he applies for a job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, but is rejected because Smithers favored two other applicants who happened to be his old college fraternity brothers. In desperation, Homer applies at smaller businesses in the area, but his efforts prove to be fruitless and his and Marge's newly purchased baby supplies, alongside Marge's wedding ring, are repossessed. Remorseful for not being a suitable husband for Marge, Homer leaves to find steady work, hoping to return once able to support his family. He leaves Marge a note explaining his departure and she is devastated when she reads it.
Ultimately, Homer finds work at a fast food restaurant. Patty and Selma see Homer working at the restaurant during an outing, but decide not to tell Marge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedotransfer%20function
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In soil science, pedotransfer functions (PTF) are predictive functions of certain soil properties using data from soil surveys.
The term pedotransfer function was coined by Johan Bouma as translating data we have into what we need. The most readily available data comes from a soil survey, such as the field morphology, soil texture, structure and pH. Pedotransfer functions add value to this basic information by translating them into estimates of other more laborious and expensively determined soil properties. These functions fill the gap between the available soil data and the properties which are more useful or required for a particular model or quality assessment. Pedotransfer functions utilize various regression analysis and data mining techniques to extract rules associating basic soil properties with more difficult to measure properties.
Although not formally recognized and named until 1989, the concept of the pedotransfer function has long been applied to estimate soil properties that are difficult to determine. Many soil science agencies have their own (unofficial) rule of thumb for estimating difficult-to-measure soil properties. Probably because of the particular difficulty, cost of measurement, and availability of large databases, the most comprehensive research in developing PTFs has been for the estimation of water retention curve and hydraulic conductivity.
History
The first PTF came from the study of Lyman Briggs and McLane (1907). They determined the wilting coefficient, which is defined as percentage water content of a soil when the plants growing in that soil are first reduced to a wilted condition from which they cannot recover in an approximately saturated atmosphere without the addition of water to the soil, as a function of particle-size:
Wilting coefficient = 0.01 sand + 0.12 silt + 0.57 clay
With the introduction of the field capacity (FC) and permanent wilting point (PWP) concepts by Frank Veihmeyer and Arthur Hendricksen (1927), research during the period 1950-1980 attempted to correlate particle-size distribution, bulk density and organic matter content with water content at field capacity (FC), permanent wilting point (PWP), and available water capacity (AWC).
In the 1960s various papers dealt with the estimation of FC, PWP, and AWC, notably in a series of papers by Salter and Williams (1965 etc.). They explored relationships between texture classes and available water capacity, which are now known as class PTFs. They also developed functions relating the particle-size distribution to AWC, now known as continuous PTFs. They asserted that their functions could predict AWC to a mean accuracy of 16%.
In the 1970s more comprehensive research using large databases was developed. A particularly good example is the study by Hall et al. (1977) from soil in England and Wales; they established field capacity, permanent wilting point, available water content, and air capacity as a function of textural class, and as well
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming%20Moe%27s
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"Flaming Moe's" is the tenth episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 21, 1991. In the episode, Homer tells Moe Szyslak about the Flaming Homer, an alcoholic cocktail of cough medicine and fire that he invented. Moe steals Homer's recipe, renames it the Flaming Moe and sells it at his tavern. The drink is wildly successful and boosts Moe's business, but Homer is angry at him for his betrayal and seeks revenge.
The episode was written by Robert Cohen and directed by Rich Moore, with assistance from Alan Smart (who would later work on SpongeBob SquarePants as an animation director). "Flaming Moe's" was the first episode of the show to feature Moe in a prominent role. The main plot of the episode in which Moe's Tavern becomes famous because of a drink is loosely based on the Los Angeles establishment Coconut Teaszer. The episode also parodies the NBC sitcom Cheers, including the theme song and opening sequence "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", and a character named Collette is modeled after Shelley Long's character Diane Chambers. Catherine O'Hara originally recorded dialogue for the part of Colette, but the writers felt her voice did not fit the role and instead used a track recorded by regular Jo Ann Harris.
American rock band Aerosmith (Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford) appears in the episode. They were the first band to make a guest appearance on the show. Their dialogue was recorded in Boston with Hank Azaria, the voice of Moe, who flew over to record his part with them and help them with their lines.
The episode has been well received by critics and has been included in best Simpsons episode lists by IGN, Entertainment Weekly, AskMen.com and AOL. In its original airing during the November sweeps period, the episode had a 14.4 Nielsen rating and finished the week ranked 29th.
Plot
To avoid Lisa and her friends' disruptive sleepover, Homer visits Moe's Tavern, where he learns Moe is struggling financially because people are drinking less and he neglected to pay his Duff Beer distributor. Homer tells him about the Flaming Homer, a drink recipe he invented when Patty and Selma made his family watch slides from their vacation after Patty took his last Duff. Homer mixed drops of liquor from near-empty bottles, inadvertently including a bottle of cough syrup for children. When Patty dropped cigarette ash in the drink and set it aflame, Homer discovered that fire balanced out the alcohol content, greatly enhancing the drink's taste.
Moe makes a Flaming Homer for a customer, who loves its taste. When the customer asks what the drink is called, Moe insists it is his invention, a Flaming Moe. Soon word of mouth spreads, leading to a business boom for Moe. To handle the extra customers, he hires a waitress named Colette, who he later gets romantically involved with. Moe renames his tavern Flaming Moe's, w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACME%20Communications
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ACME Communications was a U.S.-based broadcasting company that was involved in operations of television stations and programming from the late 1990s to the year of 2013.
Company profile
ACME Communications was co-founded by chairman and original CEO Jamie Kellner, who previously served as a Fox Television Network executive and was founding CEO of The WB Television Network. Kellner used the name ACME as a play on the fictional Acme Corporation featured in Warner Bros' Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner animated film series and other Looney Tunes media. In 2000, ACME Communications and Paramount Stations Group made a joint partnership. ACME will air UPN programs on WB affiliates, while WB programs appear on UPN's Columbus and Providence markets.
The ownership portfolio of ACME Communications included television stations generally located in medium-sized U.S. media markets, all of which ACME obtained through acquisitions (save for one station in Knoxville that the company built from the ground up). All but one of ACME's stations were affiliated with The WB or converted to WB affiliation at purchase, likely playing on Kellner's previous relationship with that network. The ACME WB stations were among the first to line up affiliations with The CW Television Network when The WB and UPN amalgamated in 2006;. ACME's station portfolio reached a peak of 11 stations in the early 2000s, at which time ACME also ventured into program production with the 2002 launch of The Daily Buzz, a syndicated daily morning news and information program that reached 180 markets at one point.
During the early 2010s, ACME set forth on cost-cutting efforts involving its assets and an admitted "exit strategy" from the television business, including the following:
A licensing and consulting agreement with Fisher Communications for The Daily Buzz, announced in April 2010, that would see Fisher handle production of Buzz.
A June 2010 agreement with LIN TV Corporation (with intent to purchase) involving stations in two markets where the companies had common ownership (Dayton, and Green Bay-Fox Cities), where the LIN stations would provide operational, administrative, and joint sales services for the ACME stations. At the same time, LIN TV also entered into an agreement to provide some services (including third-party accounting) for ACME's duopoly in Albuquerque.
A reduction and restructuring of its corporate staff, set forth in July 2010, that would see Jamie Kellner remain as company chairman but Doug taking over Keller's titles of President and CEO. Stan Gill, Vice President and General Manager of ACME's KWBQ-KASY duopoly in Albuquerque-Santa Fe, became COO while WBDT, Dayton, Ohio, Vice President and General Manager John Hannon was elevated to ACME's Executive Vice President.
The sales of its last remaining stations: single stations in Dayton, Green Bay, Knoxville (all 3 in sales consummated in Spring 2011), and Madison (a February 2012 sale); as well as an Albuquerque/Santa Fe du
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabird%20Colony%20Register
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The Seabird Colony Register (SCR) is a database, managed by the British Joint Nature Conservation Committee, which contains counts of breeding seabirds at British seabird colonies made between 1969 and 1998, which is used for analysing past changes in breeding seabird numbers and changes in their colony size in Britain and Ireland.
Data included in the SCR include results of two complete seabird censuses of Britain and Ireland: Operation Seafarer (1969/70) and the Seabird Colony Register Census (1985–1987), as well as ad hoc counts and counts from other surveys. Data are held for all 25 species of seabird breeding throughout Britain and Ireland.
The SCR has been partially superseded by the Seabird 2000 database.
References
Conservation in the United Kingdom
Databases in the United Kingdom
Birds in the United Kingdom
Bird censuses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%20Vance
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Dr Vance may refer to
Dr Vance, associate and executor of dominatrix Theresa Berkley
Eli Vance, a fictional character from the Half-Life 2 series of computer games by Valve
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
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Input/output operations per second (IOPS, pronounced eye-ops) is an input/output performance measurement used to characterize computer storage devices like hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and storage area networks (SAN). Like benchmarks, IOPS numbers published by storage device manufacturers do not directly relate to real-world application performance.
Background
To meaningfully describe the performance characteristics of any storage device, it is necessary to specify a minimum of three metrics simultaneously: IOPS, response time, and (application) workload. Absent simultaneous specifications of response-time and workload, IOPS are essentially meaningless. In isolation, IOPS can be considered analogous to "revolutions per minute" of an automobile engine i.e. an engine capable of spinning at 10,000 RPMs with its transmission in neutral does not convey anything of value, however an engine capable of developing specified torque and horsepower at a given number of RPMs fully describes the capabilities of the engine.
The specific number of IOPS possible in any system configuration will vary greatly, depending upon the variables the tester enters into the program, including the balance of read and write operations, the mix of sequential and random access patterns, the number of worker threads and queue depth, as well as the data block sizes. There are other factors which can also affect the IOPS results including the system setup, storage drivers, OS background operations etc. Also, when testing SSDs in particular, there are preconditioning considerations that must be taken into account.
Performance characteristics
The most common performance characteristics measured are sequential and random operations. Sequential operations access locations on the storage device in a contiguous manner and are generally associated with large data transfer sizes, e.g. ≥ 128 kB. Random operations access locations on the storage device in a non-contiguous manner and are generally associated with small data transfer sizes, e.g. 4kB.
The most common performance characteristics are as follows:
For HDDs and similar electromechanical storage devices, the random IOPS numbers are primarily dependent upon the storage device's random seek time, whereas, for SSDs and similar solid state storage devices, the random IOPS numbers are primarily dependent upon the storage device's internal controller and memory interface speeds. On both types of storage devices, the sequential IOPS numbers (especially when using a large block size) typically indicate the maximum sustained bandwidth that the storage device can handle. Often sequential IOPS are reported as a simple Megabytes per second number as follows:
(then converted to MB/s)
Some HDDs will improve in performance as the number of outstanding IOs (i.e. queue depth) increases. This is usually the result of more advanced controller logic on the drive performing command queuing and reordering commonly called
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20Interface%20for%20Network%20Services
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XML Interface for Network Services (XINS) is an open-source technology for definition and implementation of internet applications, which enforces a specification-oriented approach.
Specification-oriented approach
The specification-oriented approach is at the heart of XINS:
first specifications need to be written;
then documentation and code is generated from these specifications;
then both testing and implementation can start.
From specifications, XINS is able to generate:
HTML documentation
test forms
SOAP-compliant WSDL
a basic Java web application
unit test code (in Java)
stubs (in Java)
client-side code (in Java)
Components of the XINS technology
Technically, XINS is composed of the following:
An XML-based specification format for projects, APIs, functions, types and error codes
A POX-style RPC protocol (called the XINS Standard Calling Convention), compatible with web browsers (HTTP parameters in, XML out).
A tool for generating human-readable documentation, from the specifications.
A tool for generating WSDL, from the specifications.
A Log4J-based technology for logging (called Logdoc), offering a specification format, internationalization of log messages, generation of HTML documentation and generation of code.
A Java library for calling XINS functions, the XINS/Java Client Framework; in xins-client.jar.
A server-side container for Java-based XINS API implementations, the XINS/Java Server Framework; in xins-server.jar. This is like a servlet container for XINS APIs.
A Java library with some common functionality, used by both the XINS/Java Client Framework and the XINS/Java Server Framework: the XINS/Java Common Library, in xins-common.jar.
An introductory tutorial called the XINS Primer takes the reader by the hand with easy-to-follow steps to perform, with screenshots.
Since version 1.3.0, the XINS/Java Server Framework supports not only POX-style calls, but also SOAP and XML-RPC. And it supports conversion using XSLT. As of version 2.0, it also supports JSON and JSON-RPC.
XINS is open-source and is distributed under the liberal BSD license.
Specifications
All XINS specification files are Plain Old XML. Compared to SOAP/WSDL/UDDI/etc. the format is extremely simple. There are specifications for projects, environment lists, APIs, functions, types and error codes.
Below is an example of a XINS project definition.
<project name="MyProject" domain="com.mycompany">
<api name="MyAPI">
<impl/>
<environments/>
</api>
</project>
Here is an example of a specification of an environment list:
<environments>
<environment id="netarray" url="http://xins.users.mcs2.netarray.com/myproject/xins/"/>
</environments>
An example of an API specification file:
<api name="MyAPI">
<description>My first XINS API</description>
<function name="Hello"/>
</api>
An example of a function definition:
<function name="Hello">
<description>Greets the indicated person.</description>
<input>
<param name="name" required
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaMonkey
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MediaMonkey is a digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows and Android operating systems. MediaMonkey for Windows (sometimes noted as MMW) includes various management tools, and is extensible using plugins, while MediaMonkey for Android (often referred to as MMA) is an adjunct for sharing the library with Android devices. MediaMonkey is commonly displayed/marketed as a solution for managing large libraries of music.
MediaMonkey uses the freemium licensing model. The base program is available as freeware but a premium "Gold" license unlocks additional features such as the ability to have multiple media collections, organize files automatically, and others. Both editions can be extensively enhanced with skins, third-party plugins, and user-generated extension scripts. It uses SQLite to manage its database.
Features
Audio CDs
Music can be ripped from audio CDs and encoded into most supported formats. Music can be burned to CD/DVD format in compressed or CD audio format, optionally normalizing the volume level of the songs in the process.
Supported formats
MediaMonkey supports music playback using MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, MPC, APE, and WAV. It can adjust volume levels automatically using ReplayGain and MP3Gain.
Music library
MediaMonkey's music library attempts to organize and categorize a user's music collection. Upon installation, it will scan the user's hard drives for music files and add them to its library. Ratings and playback information can be imported from other media players such as Winamp and Windows Media Player. Podcasts are supported through the Podcatcher which allows the user to subscribe to podcasts that MediaMonkey will automatically download. It can also monitor the user's hard drive to ensure that any changes are automatically updated in the library.
Device sync
MediaMonkey can sync music files with most portable audio devices including the Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android-based devices.
Addons
MediaMonkey has support for third-party plugins to extend the base functionality. Available plugins include a Last.fm scrobbler, a plugin to show lyrics, and a web remote-control interface. MediaMonkey also supports the Winamp 2 API, allowing a user to use any of the many input, output, DSP, and visualization plugins developed for Winamp.
History
Songs-DB
MediaMonkey was first developed in 2001 under the name Songs-DB. Songs-DB version 1.0.0 was released on October 12, 2001. Development progressed steadily with version 1.1 released June 7, 2002. Songs-DB 1.1 was the first version to provide Winamp plugin support. Version 1.2 was released on July 3, 2002, and included improved Winamp plugin support, significant UI improvements, and scripting support. Version 1.3 was released on October 31, 2002, and added Ogg Vorbis support and the ability to burn CDs.
MediaMonkey 2
For version 2.0, Songs-DB was renamed to MediaMonkey. MediaMo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversion
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Reversion may refer to:
Reversion (2012 film), a computer-animated short film
Reversion (2015 film), an American science fiction thriller film
Reversion (genetics), a back mutation
Reversion (law)
Reversion (software development)
Series reversion, in mathematics
See also
Reversal (disambiguation)
Reverse (disambiguation)
Reversis, a card-game
Reverted (film), a 1994 film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Autocrats
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The Autocrats () was a Finnish political satire TV series, which takes the viewer behind the scenes of the politics of Finland. The series is produced by Filmiteollisuus and is made using 3D computer animation. The original idea for the series came from producer Olli Haikka. As of 5 January 2008, 233 episodes – comprising approximately 30 hours of footage – have been aired.
Politicians that appear in the series
Tarja Halonen
Pentti Arajärvi
Paavo Lipponen
Erkki Tuomioja
Antti Kalliomäki
Eero Heinäluoma
Presidents Mauno Koivisto and Martti Ahtisaari – appear as an epilogue to every episode, sitting on a park bench.
Mauri Pekkarinen
Seppo Kääriäinen
Anneli Jäätteenmäki
Esko Aho
Matti Vanhanen
Tanja Karpela (Tanja Saarela)
Paavo Väyrynen
Sirkka-Liisa Anttila
Sauli Niinistö
Ben Zyskowicz
Suvi Lindén
Ville Itälä
Jyrki Katainen
Ilkka Kanerva
Suvi-Anne Siimes
Päivi Räsänen
Anni Sinnemäki
Episodes 2001–2008
(Original airdate)
The Autocrats pilot
Demo: Eskon lähtö (14.4.)
Spring 2001 (1st season)
1. Pääministerin mahtikäsky (14.4.)
2. Erkki vastaan Paavo (21.4.)
3. Saukko älä jännitä (28.4.)
4. Lex Niinistö (5.5.)
5. Niinistön paha uni (12.5.)
6. Käyrä (19.5.)
7. Arajärven lista (26.5.)
8. Aate hukassa (2.6.)
9. Aho vastaan Aho (9.6.)
10. Lindenin tulikaste (16.6.)
11. Laulava oppositio (23.6.)
12. Poliitikot vastaan kansa (30.6.)
Fall 2001 (2nd season)
13. Hirviövoimala (11.8.)
14. Lipposen burnout (18.8.)
15. Ben loikkaa (25.8.)
16. Lemmikkiä elvytetään (1.9.)
17. Räsänen ja pojat (8.9.)
18. Tupakkalaki (15.9.)
19. Puheripuli (22.9.)
20. Lipposen ja Niinistön näytösriita (29.9.)
21. Meteoriitti (6.10.)
22. Riidankylväjä (13.10.)
23. Lapsi eduskunnassa (20.10.)
24. Kassakaappisopimus (27.10.)
25. Lipponen ja isot pojat (3.11.)
26. Lipponen Mr. Niceguy (10.11.)
27. Autoilun vapaus (17.11.)
28. Rajaton oikeus (24.11.)
29. Esko Shakespeare (1.12.)
30. Niinistön lähtö (8.12.)
31. Aimo porvari (15.12.)
32. Ydinkeskusta (22.12.)
33. Suomea ei voi tuoda (29.12.)
Spring 2002 (3rd season)
34. Sponsoroitua politiikkaa (5.1.)
35. Demarien puheenjohtajakisa (12.1.)
36. Tuomioja joutuu vastaamaan sanoistaan (19.1.)
37. Ville Itälä - pehmoporvari (26.1.)
38. Valtion kassa (2.2.)
39. Äärilipponen (9.2.)
40. Kriisialue Presidentinlinna (16.2.)
41. Räsänen ja keskeinen ongelma (26.2.)
42. Naisverkosto (2.3.)
43. Ahon läksiäiset (9.3.)
44. Riihen kaihoisa kutsu (16.3.)
45. Kokoomuksen puheenjohtajan toimenkuva (23.3.)
46. Ahon perintö (6.4.)
47. Autiosaari (13.4.)
48. Lottovoitto (20.4.)
49. Halosen kansansuosio (27.4.)
50. Hallitustunnusteluja (4.5.)
51. Jäätteenmäki vs. Rehn (11.5.)
52. Being Ben Zyskowicz (18.5.)
53. Kääriäinen puheenjohtajaksi (25.5.)
Fall 2002 (4th season)
54. Voittajien paluu (7.9.)
55. Keskusta käy vaalitaistoon (14.9.)
56. Halonen vastaan Jäätteenmäki (21.9.)
57. Keskustan kannatus (28.9.)
58. Entiset johtajat (5.10.)
59. Lipponen näkee unia (12.10.)
60. Vähemmistöhallitus (19.10.)
61. Taksvärkki (26.10.)
62. Poli
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWiW
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iWiW (abbreviation for International Who is Who) was a Hungarian social networking web service which started on 14 April 2002 as WiW (Who Is Who). , it had 2.6 million registered users with real names. Every user could provide personal information such as the place they live, date of birth, schools and universities they attended, workplaces, interests and pets. One could find friends by a search tool or looking through one's acquaintances' acquaintances.
On 26 October 2005 the system was rebuilt from scratch and got a new name (iWiW). The most important changes were the multilingual interface (reverted to Hungarian-only as of July 2006), listings, photo upload and a special Java applet to visualize the connections.
On 28 April 2006, T-Online, the net branch of Magyar Telekom, purchased iWiW for almost one billion HUF (about US$4.7 million) from Virgo Systems Informatikai Kft. Users expressed concerns that their personal data may be sold to telemarketers or used for other purposes potentially hurting their privacy. Because of fears of abuse by the Hungarian telco giant, several iWiW clones and unrelated Hungarian social networking websites appeared or gained popularity after the take-over.
After the T-Online acquisition, the site was available only in Hungarian.
On 18 July 2006, iWiW had 1 million users and on 18 December it reached 1.5 million.
On 24 December 2008, the number of registered users on iWiW was 4 million, covering almost all internet users in Hungary.
On 22 April 2009, 26 applications became available on iwiw.hu. By mid-2009, users could choose from 65 applications.
In April 2010, iWiW introduced a service similar to Facebook connect. This allowed users to log in to external websites using their iWiW credentials.
In July 2010, iWiW introduced its mobile application for iPhone and Android.
On May 15, 2014 Origo Zrt. announced it would close down iWiW permanently on June 30, 2014.
See also
List of social networking websites
References
External links
iWiW
Making Friends - Article in Budapest Business Journal
Article in Magyar Narancs
The Hungarian Radio's article about iWiW
Várady Zsolt got Hungarian State Honours for developing iWiW
Szatmári Péter's article in BIT university magazine
Hungarian social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2002
Internet properties disestablished in 2014
2002 establishments in Hungary
2014 disestablishments in Hungary
Defunct websites
Defunct social networking services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//G.U.
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.hack//G.U. is a series of single-player action role-playing games for the , developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment between 2006 and 2007. The series contains three games: .hack//G.U. Vol. 1//Rebirth, .hack//G.U. Vol. 2//Reminisce and .hack//G.U. Vol. 3//Redemption. As in the previous .hack games, .hack//G.U. simulates a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) called The World—the player controls a character who plays the fictional online game. They were directed by Hiroshi Matsuyama who aimed to address criticisms of the previous series. Its narrative, by Tatsuya Hamazaki, was written concurrently with .hack//Roots, an anime set before the events of the games.
The story focuses on a character named Haseo. He hunts another player named "Tri-Edge" who killed his friend Shino within the game and left her in a coma in real life. Haseo joins an organization that is also tracking Tri-Edge. The reason Shino and other players fall into comas is connected with AIDA, a mysterious computer anomaly that infects their characters. During the release of the games in Japan, Bee Train produced .hack//Roots, which depicts Haseo's first days in The World. The series has also been adapted into a manga, a light novel, and a CGI film.
Critical reception to the games has been lukewarm with reviewers focusing on how the developers dealt with the issues regarding the previous .hack games and the execution of the storyline across the three titles. The first game got higher ratings; critics praised the addition of new gameplay features while parts from the story have been labeled as filler. Average scores declined across the three games. A high-definition remaster of the trilogy, .hack//G.U. Last Recode, was released for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in November 2017, and was released on Nintendo Switch in March 2022. The remaster marks the first time that .hack//G.U. was released in Europe. The collection received more praise than the original trilogy for solving issues with the gameplay and presentation but was criticized for the lack of variety in dungeons.
Gameplay
.hack//G.U. simulates a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG); players assume the role of a participant in a fictional game called The World. While in The World, the player controls the on-screen player character, Haseo, from a third-person perspective (with optional first-person mode). The player may control the camera using the game controller's right analog stick. Within the fictional game, players explore monster-infested fields and dungeons as well as "Root Towns" that are free of combat. They also can "log-off" from the game and return to a computer desktop interface which includes in-game e-mail, news, and message boards, as well as desktop and background music customization options. In Reminisce, an optional card game called "Crimson VS" becomes available. The player may save the game to a memory card both from the desktop a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boric%20acid%20%28data%20page%29
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on boric acid.
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
Structure and properties data
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source and follow its directions.
SIRI
Science Stuff
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Waals%20constants%20%28data%20page%29
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The following table lists the Van der Waals constants (from the Van der Waals equation) for a number of common gases and volatile liquids.
To convert from to , multiply by 100.
To convert from to , divide by 10.
To convert from to , divide by 1000.
Units
1 J·m3/mol2 = 1 m6·Pa/mol2 = 10 L2·bar/mol2
1 L2atm/mol2 = 0.101325 J·m3/mol2 = 0.101325 Pa·m6/mol2
1 dm3/mol = 1 L/mol = 1 m3/kmol = 0.001 m3/mol (where kmol is kilomoles = 1000 moles)
References
Gas laws
Constants (Data Page)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Little%20%28film%29
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Stuart Little is a 1999 American live-action/computer-animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1945 novel of the same name by E. B. White. Directed by Rob Minkoff in his live-action debut, the screenplay was written by M. Night Shyamalan and Greg Brooker, and stars Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathan Lipnicki, alongside the voices of Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Chazz Palminteri, Steve Zahn, Bruno Kirby and Jennifer Tilly.
Stuart Little premiered in Westwood at Mann Village Theatre on December 5, 1999, and was released in United States on December 17, 1999, by Columbia Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. After its success, it also started a franchise, spawning the sequel Stuart Little 2 in 2002, the short-lived television series Stuart Little in 2003, and another sequel in 2005, the direct-to-video Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild. It was Estelle Getty's final film role.
Plot
Frederick and Eleanor Little adopt an anthropomorphic mouse named Stuart as a younger brother for their son, George. George refuses to acknowledge Stuart as his brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is disgusted to be pet to a mouse. Eleanor accidentally traps Stuart in the washing machine and Stuart becomes ill as he coughs up soap bubbles. He recovers after a visit from Dr. Beechwood.
Stuart encourages George to finish his model boat for an upcoming race and the two start to bond. Snowbell and his friend Monty meet with rogue alley cat Smokey and hatch a plan to remove Stuart from the household.
On the day of the race, Stuart accidentally breaks George's remote control. He jumps into the boat and takes control himself, narrowly avoiding a crash and winning the race. A mouse couple introduce themselves as Reggie and Camille Stout, and claim to be Stuart's biological parents who were forced by poverty to give him up. The Littles reluctantly allow Stuart to leave with the Stouts.
The orphanage calls to ask how Stuart is doing, and when the Littles explain he has gone home with his real parents, orphanage head Mrs. Keeper informs them that Stuart's real parents had died several years earlier. Realizing Stuart has been kidnapped, the family organizes a search party with "missing person" posters. Fearing his involvement will be exposed and that he will be kicked out of the house, Snowbell informs Smokey the Littles know about the Stouts. Smokey decides Stuart must be killed instead.
Remorseful at Stuart's sadness, Reggie and Camille tell him the truth; he is delighted and makes his way back to the Little house. On the way, he is ambushed by Smokey and his gang but evades them by going into a sewer. At home a jealous Snowbell lies that the family is out celebrating his absence. Heartbroken, Stuart leaves. The Littles return home and Snowbell regrets his actions. Snowbell finds Stuart and admits his lie, encouraging Stuart to come home. When the pair are confronted by the other
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth%20recording
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Azimuth recording is the use of a variation in angle between two recording heads that are recording data so close together on magnetic tape that crosstalk would otherwise likely occur. Normally, the head is perpendicular to the movement of the tape, and this is considered zero degrees. However, if the heads are mounted at slightly different angles (such as ±7 degrees in VHS), destructive interference will occur at high frequencies when reading data recorded in the cross-talking channel but not in the channel that is intended to be read. At low frequencies relative to the maximum allowed by the head gap, however, this technique is ineffective. Thus one head is slanted slightly leftwards and the magnetic gap of the other head slanted slightly rightwards.
To look at it another way, channel A sees the channel B data stretched out in time, hence the technique has a low-pass effect on noise intruding from another channel.
Every videotape system was designed to put as much video as possible onto a given-sized tape, but information from one recording track (pass of the video head) must not interfere with information on adjacent stripes. Using slant azimuth recording, the need for guard bands, that is the blank space between tracks, is eliminated, allowing more recording to be placed on a given length of tape.
All the early low-end reel-to-reel VTR machines and the first VCR cassette formats, the Philips and the Sony U-matic, used this system. Later, the JVC VHS and the Sony Betamax used slant azimuth recording also. These digital VTR versions used azimuth recording as well.
See also
Symmetric Phase Recording
VTR
Tape head
Helical scan
Slant azimuth recording
Betamax
References
External links
Canon Video Recording System Two rotating head, helical scan azimuth recording.
The Art of Digital Video, By John Watkinson, page 570
Video engineering, By Arch C. Luther, Andrew F. Inglis, page 302.
Google Patents, Magnetic head for azimuth recording in a high density magnetic recording system, Ken Takahashi et al.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers The Videotape Recorder: Its Evolution and the Present State of the Art of VTR Technology, by Hiroshi Sugaya1, September 17, 1985.
Computer storage tape media
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantel
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Cantel or Cantell may refer to
Cantel, Guatemala, a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala
Cantel AT&T, a former Canadian mobile network operator now known as Rogers Wireless
Cantel Medical Corporation, a company which produces and sells medical equipment
Cantell School
Kari Cantell, Finnish scientist best known for his work on interferons
Saara Cantell, Finnish film director
See also
Cantellated tesseract
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Parasitic%20Exchange%20Format
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Standard Parasitic Exchange Format (SPEF) is an IEEE standard for representing parasitic data of wires in a chip in ASCII format. Non-ideal wires have parasitic resistance and capacitance that are captured by SPEF. These wires also have inductance that is not included in SPEF. SPEF is used for delay calculation and ensuring signal integrity of a chip which eventually determines its speed of operation.
SPEF is the most popular specification for parasitic exchange between different tools of EDA domain during any phase of design.
The specification for SPEF is a part of the 1481-1999 IEEE Standard for Integrated Circuit (IC) Delay and Power Calculation System. The latest version of SPEF is part of 1481-2019 IEEE Standard for Integrated Circuit (IC) Open Library Architecture (OLA) .
SPEF is extracted after routing in Place and route stage. This helps in the accurate calculation of IR-drop analysis and other analysis after routing. This file contains the R and C parameters depending on the placement of a tile/block and the routing among the placed cells.
SPEF syntax
SPEF (Standard Parasitic Exchange Format) is documented in chapter 9 of IEEE 1481-1999. Several methods of describing parasitics are documented, but we are discussing only a few important ones.
General Syntax
A typical SPEF file will have 4 main sections:
a header section,
a name map section,
a top level port section, and
the main parasitic description section.
Generally, SPEF keywords are preceded with an asterisk, for example: *R_UNIT, *NAME_MAP and *D_NET.
Comments start anywhere on a line with // and run to the end of the line. Each line in a block of comments must start with //.
Header Information
The header section is 14 lines containing information about:
the design name,
the parasitic extraction tool,
naming styles, and
units.
When reading SPEF, it is important to check the header for units as they vary across tools. By default, SPEF from Astro will be in pF and kΩ while SPEF from Star-RCXT and Quantus QRC will be in fF and Ω.
Name Map Section
To reduce file size, SPEF allows long names to be mapped to shorter numbers preceded by an asterisk. This mapping is defined in the name map section. For example:
*NAME_MAP
*509 F_C_EP2
*510 F_C_EP3
*511 F_C_EP4
*512 F_C_EP5
*513 TOP/BUF_ZCLK_2_pin_Z_1
*514 TOP/BUF_ZCLK_3_pin_Z_1
*515 TOP/BUF_ZCLK_4_pin_Z_1
Later in the file, F_C_EP2 can be referred to by its name or by *509. Name mapping in SPEF is not required. Also, mapped and non-mapped names can appear in the same file. Typically, short names such as a pin named A will not be mapped as mapping would not reduce file size. One can write a script to map the numbers back into names. This will make SPEF easier to read, but greatly increase file size.
Port Section
The port section is simply a list of the top level ports in a design. They are also annotated as input, output or bidirect with an I, O or B. For example:
*PORTS
*1 I
*2 I
*3 O
*4 O
*5 O
*6 O
*7 O
*8 B
*9 B
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoons%20Across%20America
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Spoons Across America is a national non-profit organization founded in 2001 providing children's food, nutrition, education, and networking for providers. Spoons Across America is a member of America's Charities.
References
External links
Home page
Spoons Across America - America's Charities
Children's charities based in the United States
Charities based in New York (state)
Organizations established in 2001
2001 establishments in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt%20Networks
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Cobalt Networks was a maker of low-cost Linux-based servers and server appliances based in Mountain View, California. The company had 1,900 end user customers in more than 70 countries.
During the dot-com bubble, the company had a market capitalization of $6 billion despite only $22 million in annual revenue.
In 2000, the company was acquired by Sun Microsystems and in December 2003, Sun shut down the Cobalt product line.
Cobalt was the most successful web server appliance vendor of its time, and that success motivated the founding of blade server pioneer RLX Technologies.
History
The company was founded in 1996 by Vivek Mehra as Cobalt Microserver. In June 1998, the company changed its name to Cobalt Networks, Inc.
The company introduced products as follows:
On November 5, 1999, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. Its stock price rose as much as 618% above its $22/share initial price.
On March 23, 2000, the company announced the acquisition of Chilisoft from Charlie Crystle for 1.15 million shares of Cobalt common stock, then valued at $69.9 million.
In September 2000, Sun Microsystems announced the acquisition of the company for $2 billion in stock. The acquisition was completed on December 7, 2000.
Many disgruntled engineers left the company in the months following the acquisition.
In December 2003, Sun shut down the Cobalt product line.
References
1996 establishments in California
1999 initial public offerings
2000 disestablishments in California
2000 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1996
American companies disestablished in 2000
Computer companies established in 1996
Computer companies disestablished in 2000
Defunct computer companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct online companies of the United States
Dot-com bubble
Server appliance
Sun Microsystems acquisitions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal%20system%20error
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A fatal system error (also known as a system crash, stop error, kernel error, or bug check) occurs when an operating system halts because it has reached a condition where it can no longer operate safely (i.e. where critical data could be lost or the system damaged in other ways).
In Microsoft Windows, a fatal system error can be deliberately caused from a kernel-mode driver with either the or function. However, this should only be done as a last option when a critical driver is corrupted and is impossible to recover. This design parallels that in OpenVMS. The Unix kernel panic concept is very similar.
In Windows
When a bug check is issued, a crash dump file will be created if the system is configured to create them. This file contains a "snapshot" of useful low-level information about the system that can be used to debug the root cause of the problem and possibly other things in the background.
If the user has enabled it, the system will also write an entry to the system event log. The log entry contains information about the bug check (including the bug check code and its parameters) as well as a link that will report the bug and provide the user with prescriptive suggestions if the cause of the check is definitive and well-known.
Next, if a kernel debugger is connected and active when the bug check occurs, the system will break into the debugger where the cause of the crash can be investigated. If no debugger is attached, then a blue text screen is displayed that contains information about why the error occurred, which is commonly known as a blue screen or bug check screen.
The user will only see the blue screen if the system is not configured to automatically restart (which became the default setting in Windows XP SP2). Otherwise, it appears as though the system simply rebooted (though a blue screen may be visible briefly). In Windows, bug checks are only supported by the Windows NT kernel. The corresponding system routine in Windows 9x, named , does not halt the system like bug checks do. Instead, it displays the infamous "blue screen of death" (BSoD) and allows the user to attempt to continue.
The Windows DDK and the WinDbg documentation both have reference information about most bug checks. The WinDbg package is available as a free download and can be installed by most users. The Windows DDK is larger and more complicated to install.
See also
Screen of death
System crash
References
External links
Debugging Tools for Windows
Bug Check Code Reference at Microsoft Docs
Computer errors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBW-FM
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CBW-FM (98.3 MHz) is a public non-commercial radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The station airs the CBC Music Network, a mix of adult album alternative, classical music and other genres. Its studios are located on Portage Avenue in Downtown Winnipeg, while its transmitter is located on the Starbuck Communications Tower.
CBW-FM is one of the most powerful radio stations in Canada, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 160,000 watts, while most FM stations run at 100,000 watts or less. (Winnipeg is also home to the most powerful station, CJKR-FM at 310,000 watts.)
History
CBW-FM is Winnipeg's second FM station, signing on the air on December 10, 1962. It began as a commercial classical music station with the call sign CFMW-FM (Fine Music Winnipeg). At the time it had the strongest FM signal in all of Canada at 354,000 watts, giving it a range of 200 miles. It broadcast from a studio building at 4051 Pembina Hwy. in St. Norbert, although some programming came from CFAM in Altona.
The CBC purchased the station in 1965. CBW-FM joined the CBC Stereo network at its start on November 3, 1975.
Today, CBW-FM has its studios and offices at 541 Portage Avenue, along with its English-language sister stations CBW and CBWT-DT.
Programming
CBW-FM was the originating station of the jazz program After Hours with Ross Porter, since 1993, but the program aired its final episode on March 16, 2007. Tonic, a similarly themed program hosted from Montreal by Katie Malloch on weeknights and from Calgary by Tim Tamashiro on weekends, debuted in its place on March 19.
Transmitters
An expansion of CBW is in the works for other regions of Manitoba. Future rebroadcasters are planned for Dauphin (106.1), Flin Flon (89.7), The Pas (100.3), and Thompson (90.7).
References
External links
CBC Manitoba
BW
BW
Radio stations established in 1962
1962 establishments in Manitoba
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STONITH
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STONITH ("Shoot The Other Node In The Head" or "Shoot The Offending Node In The Head"), sometimes called STOMITH ("Shoot The Other Member/Machine In The Head"), is a technique for fencing in computer clusters.
Fencing is the isolation of a failed node so that it does not cause disruption to a computer cluster. As its name suggests, STONITH fences failed nodes by resetting or powering down the failed node.
Multi-node error-prone contention in a cluster can have catastrophic results, such as if both nodes try writing to a shared storage resource. STONITH provides effective, if rather drastic, protection against these problems.
Single node systems use a comparable mechanism called a watchdog timer. A watchdog timer will reset the node if the node does not tell the watchdog circuit that it is operating well. A STONITH decision can be based on various decisions which can be customer specific plugins.
Google's inclusive language developer documentation discourages usage of this term.
References
External links
Definition from the Linux-HA Project
STONITH Deathmatch Explained (and Some Hints for Resource Agent Authors and Systems Engineers)
Cluster computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSC%20Inc.
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PSC Inc. was a manufacturer of portable data terminals, mobile data terminals, wireless terminals, barcode readers, linear barcode verifiers, and RFID readers. It was founded in 1969 by John E. Blackert (Xerox) and Lawrence P. Albertson (Kodak) as Photographic Sciences Corporation in Webster, New York (a suburb of Rochester).
History
In 1996, PSC acquired Spectra-Physics Scanning Systems, Inc., and also acquired Percon Inc., a manufacturer of portable data terminals.
In 2002, PSC went through bankruptcy reorganization. Littlejohn & Co., a private equity firm, purchased all of the company's senior and subordinated debt of $124 million. During the reorganization PSC spun off its software division, IntelliTrack to private investors.
Acquisition by Datalogic
On October 24, 2005, Datalogic announced that it had signed a binding contract for the takeover of the entire capital stock of PSC Inc. The agreed price was set at approximately $195 Million. Datalogic retired the PSC brand name on April 2, 2007. The PSC legacy was catered to in the new corporate logo of Datalogic by adding a star representing PSC. Datalogic decided to retain some of the PSC product brand names including Magellan, Duet, Falcon, PowerScan, and QuickScan.
References
External links
Datalogic Group
Electronics companies of the United States
Radio-frequency identification
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20adoption
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Linux adoption is the adoption of Linux computer operating systems (OS) by households, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and governments.
Many factors have resulted in the expanded use of Linux systems by traditional desktop users as well as operators of server systems, including the desire to minimize software costs, increase network security and support for open-source philosophical principles. In recent years several governments, at various levels, have enacted policies shifting state-owned computers to Linux from proprietary software regimes.
In August 2010, Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst at Forrester Research, declared, "Linux has crossed the chasm to mainstream adoption," a statement attested by the large number of enterprises that had transitioned to Linux during the late-2000s recession. In a company survey completed in the third quarter of 2009, 48% of surveyed companies reported using an open-source operating system.
The Linux Foundation regularly releases publications regarding the Linux kernel, Linux OS distributions, and related themes. One such publication, "Linux Adoption Trends: A Survey of Enterprise End Users," is freely available upon registration.
Traditionally, the term Linux adoption refers to adoption of a Linux OS made for "desktop" computers, the original intended use (or adoption on servers, that is essentially the same form of OS). Adoption of that form on personal computers is still low relatively, while adoption of the Android operating system is very high. The term Linux adoption, often overlooks that operating system or other uses such as in ChromeOS that also use the Linux kernel (but have almost nothing else in common, not even the name – Linux – usually applied; while Android is the most popular variant – in fact the most popular operating system in the world).
Linux adopters
Outside of traditional web services, Linux powers many of the biggest Internet properties (e.g., Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Twitter or Yahoo!).
Hardware platforms with graphical user interface
Linux is used on desktop computers, servers and supercomputers, as well as a wide range of devices.
Desktop and Nettop computers and Laptops
Measuring desktop adoption
Because Linux desktop distributions are not usually distributed by retail sale, there are no sales numbers that indicate the number of users. One downloaded file may be used to create many CDs and each CD may be used to install the operating system on multiple computers. On the other hand, the file might be used only for a test and the installation erased soon after. Due to these factors estimates of current Linux desktop often rely on webpage hits by computers identifying themselves as running Linux. The use of these statistics has been criticized as unreliable and as underestimating Linux use.
Using webpage hits as a measure, until 2008, Linux accounted for only about 1% of desktop market share, while Microsoft Windows operating systems held more than 90%. This mi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
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Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975, and August 27, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
Background
Switch was inspired by the 1973 movie The Sting and was similar to The Rockford Files, which had debuted a year earlier. It was created by Glen A. Larson; Donald P. Bellisario was also one of the writers. In his memoir, The Garner Files, Rockford Files star James Garner accuses Larson of essentially rewriting Rockford scripts without authorization for use on this show. After intervention by the Writers Guild of America, the first season episode "Death by Resurrection" was deemed to have been a rewrite of the Rockford episode "This Case Is Closed", and was (as broadcast) credited solely to the writers of the original Rockford Files episode.
The series focused on two main characters, Frank MacBride (Eddie Albert) and Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner). MacBride was a retired bunco cop who once arrested Ryan, a con man. After Ryan's release from prison, the two men opened a detective agency in Los Angeles. Their speciality involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt. Assisting them is another reformed con man, restaurant owner Malcolm Argos (Charlie Callas), and Maggie Philbin (Sharon Gless), Mac and Pete's naive-but-competent receptionist and assistant.
The series pilot for CBS aired on March 21, 1975, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie. During the second season, the series became more serious in tone and more of a traditional crime drama. William Bryant joined the cast as Lt. Shilton in season two, and Mindi Miller and James Hong joined the cast in season three. In the third season, Pete moves into an apartment above Malcolm's bar.
The modestly successful show was put on hiatus in early 1978, its time slot taken by The Incredible Hulk. The remaining 10 unaired episodes were broadcast the following summer before the series was cancelled in August due to low ratings.
Episodes
Cast
Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner are the only actors to appear in every episode. Sharon Gless appeared in all but three episodes, and Charlie Callas did not appear in four episodes during the run.
In addition, Anne Archer recurred in the first season as Laurie, a grifter who helps Mac and Pete with their sting operations (clips of the actress in character appeared in the opening credits sequence during the first and second seasons).
Legacy
The short-lived 1976–1977 ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang was seen as an unsuccessful attempt to imitate Switch. Coincidentally, Wagner later costarred with one of the stars of The Feather and Father Gang, Stefanie Powers, in another crime drama, Hart to Hart, which ran for five seasons beginning in 1979.
See also
McCoy, a similarly themed TV series that also debuted in 1975
References
External lin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSN
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LSN may refer to:
Large-scale NAT in computer networking
Law Society of Nunavut
Learning and Skills Network, a former UK organisation
Lenguaje de Signos Nicaragüense, Nicaraguan Sign Language
Livingston North railway station, Scotland; National Rail station code
Log sequence number in a transaction log
Los Banos Municipal Airport, California, US, IATA code
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GENICOM
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GENICOM was an American manufacturer of computer printers, based in Chantilly, Virginia. The company operated from 1982 to 2003.
The GE years
In 1954, General Electric (GE) decided to decentralize the company into separate business units. After reorganizing the motors and controls groups, several products remained that did not fit into the new groups- these 'leftovers' were formed into the Specialty Control Department.
A decision was made to build a new plant in Waynesboro, Virginia for Specialty Control with Dr. Louis T. Rader as General Manager. $3.5 million was used to purchase and build the plant on the site of the original 1927 Waynesboro airport. The seminal managers and engineers consisted of 145 families moved from Schenectady, New York and the initial workforce consisted of about 400 local residents were hired in the first year.
The General Electric Specialty Control Plant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
In 1982, GE sold the printer and relays groups and the company was formed as the GENICOM Corporation in 1983. The 1987 purchase of the printer business assets of Centronics added the 350 series dot matrix printers and the LineWriter series of band printers to their product line.
During these years, Genicom leased offices in Calabasas, California. At this facility, development was being conducted on a 400 dot-per-inch monochrome laser printer. In the early 1990s, GENICOM's headquarters and corporate offices were moved from Waynesboro, VA to Chantilly, Virginia.
In January 1995, the purchase of Printer System Corporation (PSC), a small developer of IBM interfaces in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was announced. PSC President Art Gallo joined GENICOM as a vice president. PSC became GENICOM's laser development group, and began producing GENICOM printers using Lexmark and Kentek engines.
In 1996, the Texas Instruments printer business was purchased, giving GENICOM a line of airline-ticket, boarding-pass and baggage-tag printers.
In August 1997, GENICOM purchased the printer division of Digital Equipment Corporation for $27 million, and produced printers under both the GENICOM and Digital logos. Compaq purchased Digital in February 1998, and new products were then branded with the Compaq logo. The relays group was sold to CII Technologies (since acquired by Tyco International) and soon moved to North Carolina.
In 1997, a new repair facility was built in Louisville, Kentucky and operations were moved from Waynesboro. The Louisville operation proved unprofitable and was closed in April 2000.
GENICOM upgraded their old ASK/CA Manman database to Oracle; the project was budgeted for $6 million but cost $20 million by 1999.
Delisting
GENICOM's stock was delisted from the NASDAQ in January when stock price went below $1. CEO Paul Winn and Chief Financial Officer James Gale were relieved of their positions in March as the company went into chapter 11 and Shaun Donnellan was brought in as CEO. The Canadian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Hat%20Briefings
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Black Hat Briefings (commonly referred to as Black Hat) is a computer security conference that provides security consulting, training, and briefings to hackers, corporations, and government agencies around the world. Black Hat brings together a variety of people interested in information security ranging from non-technical individuals, executives, hackers, and security professionals. The conference takes place regularly in Las Vegas, Barcelona, London and Riyadh. The conference has also been hosted in Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. in the past.
History
The first Black Hat was held July 7-10, 1997 in Las Vegas, immediately prior to DEF CON 5. The conference was aimed at the computer industry, promising to give them privileged insight into the minds and motivations of their hacker adversaries. Its organizers stated: "While many conferences focus on information and network security, only the Black Hat Briefings will put your engineers and software programmers face-to-face with today's cutting edge computer security experts and 'hackers.'" It was presented by DEF CON Communications and Cambridge Technology Partners. It was founded by Jeff Moss, who also founded DEF CON, and is currently the Conference Chair of the Black Hat Review Board. These are considered the premier information security conferences in the world. Black Hat started as a single annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada and is now held in multiple locations around the world. Black Hat was acquired by CMP Media, a subsidiary of U.K.-based United Business Media (UBM) in 2005.
Culture
Black Hat is typically scheduled prior to DEF CON with many attendees going to both conferences. It has been perceived by the security industry as a more corporate security conference whereas DEF CON is more informal.
Purpose
The conference is composed of three major sections: the Black Hat Briefings, Black Hat Trainings, and Black Hat Arsenal.
The Briefings are composed of tracks, covering various topics including reverse engineering, identity and privacy, and hacking. The briefings also contain keynote speeches from leading voices in the information security field, including Robert Lentz, Chief Security Officer, United States Department of Defense; Michael Lynn; Amit Yoran, former Director of the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security; and General Keith B. Alexander, former Director of the National Security Agency and former commander of the United States Cyber Command.
Training is offered by various computer security vendors and individual security professionals. The conference has hosted the National Security Agency's information assurance manager course, and various courses by Cisco Systems, Offensive Security, and others.
Arsenal is a portion of the conference dedicated to giving researchers and the open source community a place to showcase their latest open-source information security tools. Arsenal primarily consists of live tool demonstrations in a set
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliqarp
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Poliqarp is an open source search engine designed to process text corpora, among others the National Corpus of Polish created at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Features
Custom query language
Two-level regular expressions:
operating at the level of characters in words
operating at the level of words in statements/paragraphs
Good performance
Compact corpus representation (compared to similar projects)
Portability across operating systems: Linux/BSD/Win32
Lack of portability across endianness (current release works only on little endian devices)
References
External links
Polish corpus website (in English)
Project website on SourceForge
Search plugin for Firefox
Information retrieval systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron
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anacron is a computer program that performs periodic command scheduling, which is traditionally done by cron, but without assuming that the system is running continuously. Thus, it can be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days) on systems that don't run 24 hours a day. anacron was originally conceived and implemented by Christian Schwarz in Perl, for the Unix operating system. It was later rewritten in C by Itai Tzur; maintainers have included Sean 'Shaleh' Perry and Pascal Hakim. It is a dependency of cronie which is maintained by Red Hat, and Red Hat updates to cronie have included updates to anacron as well.
Advantages
Unix systems commonly run "housekeeping chores" such as log rotation, unused files deletion, indexing local files for the search engine, sending disk usage reports, etc. A program called cron may be used to schedule these tasks.
With cron, tasks are commonly scheduled to be executed when the system is expected to be idle. If the system is off at the moment a task should be run, it will not be executed. Anacron is different and moves tasks to different moments so they are run when the system is on and utilising cron.
Disadvantages
Only the system administrator can configure anacron tasks. In contrast, cron allows non-admin users to configure scheduled tasks. If necessary, a non-admin user can use the at Unix command to request a scheduled task (which is guaranteed to run). Upon starting, this command can then automatically request to run itself at a future date, thus giving the appearance of a regularly scheduled task, with guaranteed execution.
anacron can run tasks only once a day (or less often such as weekly or monthly). In contrast, cron allows tasks to run as often as every minute (but does not guarantee their execution if the system goes down). In practice, this is not usually an issue, since it is rare to have a task that must be guaranteed to run more often than (at least) once a day — especially on a system that is not necessarily running at all times.
If the system is rebooted or started after midnight, the daily tasks are run after a user-specified delay in synchronized fashion (sequential order), so only one anacron-task is running at a time. When that task is finished, the next one starts and so on.
This behaviour can be overridden to allow concurrent (parallel) tasks, but can consume system resources that are needed by the user to do work. In contrast, cron will only run daily tasks at the time set (e.g. in the middle of the night, when presumably the machine is not being used).
fcron is another implementation of cron, which attempts to fulfill the roles of both Vixiecron and anacron.
See also
List of Unix commands
Cron
References
External links
anacron on SourceForge
anacron(8) – Linux Programmer's Manual
fcron
Unix process- and task-management-related software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek%20Fuka
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František Fuka (pronounced ) (October 9, 1968 in Prague) is a Czech computer programmer and musician. He currently works as a film translator, preparing English-language movies for Czech release. He is known also as a film critic, publicist and commentator.
František Fuka is one of the pioneers of blogging in the Czech Republic. His website FFFilm gradually became one of the important sources among Czech film sites. The newspaper Lidové noviny ranked him among the top six influential personalities of the Czech internet in 2004.
František Fuka is a member of one of the oldest-running Czech radio podcasts, Odvážné palce.
Games for ZX Spectrum
Fuka has developed several video games for the ZX Spectrum with the Czechoslovakian programming group Golden Triangle. As a member of the group, he was introduced in 2016 to the Czech video game Hall of Fame. Fuka has also been noted as an influence on other Slovak game developers.
Belegost (Along with Miroslav Fídler)
Boxing
Poklad
Poklad 2
Bowling 2000
Indiana Jones a Chrám zkázy
Indiana Jones 2
Indiana Jones 3
Jet-Story (Along with Miroslav Fídler)
Kaboom!
Planet of Shades (Along with Miroslav Fídler)
Podraz 3
F.I.R.E.
Tetris 2
Bibliography
References
External links
Homepage F. Fuka
František Fuka: I distributoři si musí filmy stahovat z internetu (Interview - 30minut.cz)
Kulturní tri@log: Baldýnský, Fila a Fuka o Oscarech Aktuálně.cz)
Co se v životě naučil František Fuka (Super.cz)
František Fuka: Nikdy jsem nebyl v USA (Kinobox.cz)
Fuxoft's Blog
Video game composers
1968 births
Living people
Czech male bloggers
Czech translators
Czech video game designers
Video game programmers
21st-century translators
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBH
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NBH may refer to:
No break here, a C1 control code used in computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII, such as Unicode
Non-breaking hyphen, a special variation of the hyphen character used in computer systems
New Broadcasting House, the 2011 extension to the BBC Headquarters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriek
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Shriek may refer to:
Screaming, a loud vocalization
Exclamation mark, in some computing and mathematical contexts
Shriek map, in category theory, a type of unusual functor
Shriek (album) or the title song, by Wye Oak, 2014
"Shriek" (Batman Beyond), a television episode
Shriek (Batman Beyond character), the namesake character introduced in the episode
Shriek (character), a Marvel Comics character
Shriek: An Afterword, a 2006 novel by Jeff VanderMeer
Shriek, in the Dragon Age media franchise, a type of Darkspawn creature
Shriek DuBois, a character in the TV series CatDog
The Shriek, a 1933 American animated short film
See also
Shrieker (disambiguation)
Shrek (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20and%20American%20keyboards
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There are two major English language computer keyboard layouts, the United States layout and the United Kingdom layout defined in BS 4822 (48-key version). Both are QWERTY layouts. Users in the United States do not frequently need to make use of the £ (pound) and € (euro) currency symbols, which are common needs in the United Kingdom and Ireland, although the $ (dollar sign) symbol is also provided as standard on UK and Irish keyboards. In other countries which predominantly use English as a common working language, such as Australia, Canada (in English-speaking parts), and New Zealand, the US keyboard is commonly used.
Windows keyboards
The UK variant of the Enhanced keyboard commonly used with personal computers designed for Microsoft Windows differs from the US layout as follows:
The UK keyboard has 1 more key than the U.S. keyboard (UK=62, US=61, on the typewriter keys, 102 v 101 including function and other keys, 105 vs 104 on models with Windows keys)
The extra key is added next to the Enter key to accommodate (number sign) and (tilde)
The Alt key to the right of the space bar is replaced by an AltGr key
The (pound sign) takes the place vacated by the number sign on the key
The (negation) takes the place vacated by tilde on the (grave accent) key
produces
produces (broken bar, shown as a secondary symbol)
(Euro sign) is produced by and is shown as a secondary symbol
and are swapped (to and , respectively)
The key is moved to the left of the key ( still produces )
The Enter key spans two rows, and is narrower to accommodate the #/~ key
AltGr+vowel produces the acute accent variant of that vowel as needed for Irish. Diacritics used in Scots Gaelic and Welsh require the UK extended keyboard setting.
Some UK keyboards do not label Backspace, Enter, Tab and Shift in words
Early versions of Windows handled both the differences between the two keyboards and the differences between American English and British English by having two English language options — a UK setting and a US setting. While adequate for users in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland, this solution caused difficulty in other English-speaking countries. In many English-speaking jurisdictions (e.g., Canada, Australia, the Caribbean nations, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Singapore, New Zealand, and South Africa), orthography has traditionally conformed more closely to British English usage, while these countries have chosen to use the United States keyboard layout. People in these countries were as a result required to choose a system setting inconsistent with their localised version of English, thereby causing traditional British English to fall out of favour. This is particularly evident with spelling, where words such as "colour" and "centre" are flagged as being spelled incorrectly by word processing software when the operating system is set to the US setting.
However, in more recent editions of Windows, the number of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PC%20Network
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The IBM PC Network was IBM PC's first LAN system. It consisted of network cards, cables, and a small device driver known as NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System). It used a data rate of 2 Mbit/s and carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection.
NetBIOS was developed by Sytek Inc as an API for software communication over this IBM PC Network LAN technology; with Sytek networking protocols being used for communication over the wire. IBM's later Token Ring network emulated the NetBIOS application programming interface, and it lived on in many later systems.
Broadband
The original broadband version in 1984 communicated over 75 Ω cable television compatible co-axial cable with each card connecting via a single F connector. Separate transmit and receive frequencies were used. Cards could be ordered that used different frequencies so multiple cards could transmit simultaneously, at 2 Mbit/s each. A Sytek head-end device was required to translate from each card's transmit frequency to the destination card's receive frequency. Frequency-division multiplexing allowed the cable to be shared with other voice, video, and data traffic.
Baseband
Later, in 1987 a much cheaper "baseband" version, also running at 2 Mbit/s connected computers in daisy-chain style using twisted-pair cables with 6P2C modular telephone connectors (often mistermed "RJ11"). Interface cards had two 6P2C sockets for connecting to left and right neighbor nodes. The unused sockets at the ends of the network segment had to be fitted with a terminator on one end of the chain and a wrap plug on the other. A hybrid star topology was possible using a hub.
See also
LAN Manager
References
Local area networks
PC Network
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Whitten
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Greg Whitten is an American computer engineer, investor and car collector.
Whitten graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in mathematics in 1973, and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1978.
He worked for Compucolor, a company in Georgia established in 1977 that made the home computer Compucolor II (an early PC) but went out of business in 1983. While there, he reputedly optimized an unlicensed copy of Microsoft Basic so effectively that Microsoft later forgave Compucolor for their infringement in exchange for the rights to the enhancements.
Microsoft 1979–1998
He then worked for Microsoft from 1979 to 1998. He developed the standards for the company's BASIC compiler line.
"GW" in the name of the GW-BASIC dialect (first released 1983) of BASIC developed by Microsoft may have come from Greg Whitten's initials:
"The GW-BASIC name stands for Gee-Whiz BASIC. The GW- name was picked by Bill Gates. He is the one who knows whether it was Gee-Whiz or after me because it has been used both ways. I did set the directions for the BASIC language features after joining the company in 1979."
- Greg Whitten, 13 Apr 2005
As a chief software architect, he also oversaw the development of the enterprise support systems required in Windows for the Microsoft Office.
Numerix 1998–2013
In 1998 he became member of the board of Numerix, a financial software company established 1996, where he had made a major investment and in 2001 was elected Boardman after another major investment. After being its CEO 2003–13, he was succeeded by Steve O'Hanlon.
Car collector
He is also a vintage car enthusiast and has a famous car collection that contains various Ferraris including his first, a Ferrari F40, a Ferrari Enzo (#131632), a Ferrari 250 GTO (#3413GT, 2000–2018), a Ferrari 250 LM (#5907, 1994–2005), a Ferrari 250 GT TdF (#0703GT, 1997–), a Ferrari F50 (#104163, 1995–2004), and two LaFerrari, of which one is the unique in blue electrics. His Ferrari 250 GTO sold for $48.8 million at a public auction in August 2018.
References
University of Virginia alumni
Harvard University alumni
American computer businesspeople
Microsoft employees
Living people
American computer scientists
American car collectors
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Broadcast%20Professionals
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Golden Broadcast Professionals, Inc., is a broadcasting company based in Zamboanga City. It operates a radio and TV station affiliated with Quest Broadcasting Inc. and TV5 Network, Inc. The network was formerly affiliated with Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (DXZB-TV 13) and Radio Mindanao Network (DXRZ-TV CTV 31).
History
The radio (DXEL-FM) and television station (DXGB-TV) were launched in August 1992 at its broadcasting hub located at Campaner St., Zamboanga City. The station originally affiliated with TV5 Network, Inc. (DXGB TV11) from November 1, 1992 – January 1, 1998, and 2004 to present. Its FM station, formerly known as 95.5 Gold FM, is an affiliate of Quest Broadcasting Inc., the network that brought Magic 89.9 in Manila and Killer Bee FM Stations to the Philippine airwaves, from May 1, 2000.
Affiliations
TV5 Network, Inc. (TV5) - November 1, 1992 – January 1, 1998; Mid-2004 to present
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC 13) - November 1, 1998 to late 2005.
BEAM (RMN) - April to October 1998 July 3, 2011 to September 1, 2014.
One Sports - February 21, 2011 to present
Programs
Current Programs
Dateline TeleRadyo (Morning Edition) - A three-hour television and radio news live programming, through GBPI TV11 and Magic 95.5 from 6 to 9 AM. Hosted by JV Francisco.
Dateline TeleRadyo (Afternoon Edition) - A continuation for their morning block and simulcast as well through GBPI TV11 and Magic 95.5 from 6 to 9 AM. Hosted by JV Francisco and Noning Antonio.
Dateline Zamboanga - the flagship Chavacano newscast anchored by Noning Antonio.
Previous Programs
No Holds Barred - talkshow hosted by Ronnie Lledo (replacing "No Limit")
BENG - talkshow program hosted by Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco
Dateline Zamboanga (English Broadcast) - Originally aired in English since 1993, it reformatted in local Chavacano language in 2001.
Celso desde Limpapa hasta Licomo - Started in 1998, it aired during the first term as a Congressman of Cong. Celso Lobregat. The show ended when he was elected as the city mayor in 2004.
30 Minutes with Atty. Vic Solis - a 30-minute current affairs program by Atty. Vic Solis. It ended in 2008.
S na S! - produced by Rikki Lim of Victory Studio, Zamboanga City
Yahoo! - variety show hosted and produced by former City Councilor VP Elago
Amor con Amor Se Paga - a public affairs programming hosted by the former Zamboanga City 2nd District Cong. Erbie Fabian. The show ended when Cong. Fabian ended his 3-year term as congressman.
VEZ TV (Vale el Zamboanga) - local tele-magazine in cooperation with SkyCable Zamboanga. They transferred to EMedia Productions in early 2016.
Aside from these said programs and most of TV5's network programming, the station also airs blocktime movie programs as well as live telecast of local issues affecting Zamboanga.
GBPI Radio station
-Affiliated with Quest Broadcasting Inc.
GBPI TV station
Analog
Digital
-With several cable affiliates in Zamboanga Peninsula.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20Data
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Core Data is an object graph and persistence framework provided by Apple in the macOS and iOS operating systems. It was introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and iOS with iPhone SDK 3.0. It allows data organized by the relational entity–attribute model to be serialized into XML, binary, or SQLite stores. The data can be manipulated using higher level objects representing entities and their relationships. Core Data manages the serialized version, providing object lifecycle and object graph management, including persistence. Core Data interfaces directly with SQLite, insulating the developer from the underlying SQL.
Just as Cocoa Bindings handle many of the duties of the controller in a model–view–controller design, Core Data handles many of the duties of the data model. Among other tasks, it handles change management, serializing to disk, memory footprint minimization and queries against the data.
Usage
Core Data describes data with a high level data model expressed in terms of entities and their relationships plus fetch requests that retrieve entities meeting specific criteria. Code can retrieve and manipulate this data on a purely object level without having to worry about the details of storage and retrieval. The controller objects available in Interface Builder can retrieve and manipulate these entities directly. When combined with Cocoa bindings the UI can display many components of the data model without needing background code.
For example: a developer might be writing a program to handle vCards. In order to manage these, the author intends to read the vCards into objects, and then store them in a single larger XML file. Using Core Data the developer would drag their schema from the data designer in Xcode into an interface builder window to create a GUI for their schema. They could then write standard Objective-C or Swift code to read vCard files and put the data into Core Data managed entities. From that point on the author's code manipulates these Core Data objects, rather than the underlying vCards. Connecting the Save menu item to the appropriate method in the controller object will direct the controller to examine the object stack, determine which objects are dirty, and then re-write a Core Data document file with these changes.
Core Data is organized into a large hierarchy of classes, though interaction is only prevalent with a small set of them.
Storage formats
Core Data can serialize objects into XML, binary, or SQLite for storage. With the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, developers can also create their own custom atomic store types. Each method carries advantages and disadvantages, such as being human readable (XML) or more memory efficient (SQLite).
This portion of Core Data is similar to the original Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) system, in that one can write fairly sophisticated queries. Unlike EOF, it is not possible to write your own SQL, as the underlying store may not be SQL-based. Recently, Core Data store for OD
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20graph
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In computer science, in an object-oriented program, groups of objects form a network through their relationships with each other, either through a direct reference to another object or through a chain of intermediate references. These groups of objects are referred to as object graphs, after the mathematical objects called graphs studied in graph theory.
An object graph is a view of an object system at a particular point in time. Unlike a normal data model such as a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram, which details the relationships between classes, the object graph relates their instances. Object diagrams are subsets of the overall object graph.
Object-oriented applications contain complex webs of interrelated objects. Objects are linked to each other by one object either owning or containing another object or holding a reference to another object. This web of objects is called an object graph and it is the more abstract structure that can be used in discussing an application's state.
Physical representation
An object graph is a directed graph, which might be cyclic. When stored in RAM, objects occupy different segments of the memory with their attributes and function table, while relationships are represented by pointers or a different type of global handler in higher-level languages.
Examples
For instance, a Car class can compose a Wheel one. In the object graph a Car instance will have up to four links to its wheels, which can be named frontLeft, frontRight, back Left and back Right.
An example of an adjacency list representation might be something as follows:
c:Car → {front Left:Wheel, front Right:Wheel, back Left:Wheel, back Right:Wheel}.
See also
Data model
Object diagram
Data modeling diagrams
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20build
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A static build is a compiled version of a program which has been statically linked against libraries.
Linking
In computer science, linking means taking one or more objects generated by compilers and assembling them into a single executable program. The objects are program modules containing machine code and symbol definitions, which come in two varieties:
Defined or exported symbols are functions or variables that are present in the module represented by the object, and which should be available for use by other modules.
Undefined or imported symbols are functions or variables that are called or referenced by this object, but not internally defined.
A linker program then resolves references to undefined symbols by finding out which other object defines a symbol in question, and replacing placeholders with the symbol's address. Linkers can take objects from a collection called a library. The final program does not include the whole library, only those objects from it that are needed. Libraries for diverse purposes exist, and one or more system libraries are usually linked in by default.
Dynamic linking
Modern operating system environments allow dynamic linking, or the postponing of the resolving of some undefined symbols until a program is run. That means that the executable still contains undefined symbols, plus a list of objects or libraries that will provide definitions for these. Loading the program will load these objects/libraries as well, and perform a final linking.
Dynamic linking offers three advantages:
Often-used libraries (for example the standard system libraries) need to be stored in only one location, not duplicated in every single binary.
If a library is upgraded or replaced, all programs using it dynamically will immediately benefit from the corrections. Static builds would have to be re-linked first.
The binary executable file size is smaller than its statically linked counterpart.
Static building
In a statically built program, no dynamic linking occurs: all the bindings have been done at compile time.
Static builds have a very predictable behavior (because they do not rely on the particular version of libraries available on the final system), and are commonly found in forensic and security tools to avoid possible contamination or malfunction due to broken libraries on the examined machine. The same flexibility that permits an upgraded library to benefit all dynamically-linked applications can also prevent applications that assume the presence of a specific version of a particular library from running correctly. If every application on a system must have its own copy of a dynamic library to ensure correct operation, the benefits of dynamic linking are moot.
Another benefit of static builds is their portability: once the final executable file has been compiled, it is no longer necessary to keep the library files that the program references, since all the relevant parts are copied into the executable file. As a result, wh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suikoden%20IV
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is a role-playing video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami exclusively for the PlayStation 2 video game console and is the fourth installment of the Suikoden video game series. It was released in August 2004 in Japan, and early 2005 in North America and Europe.
Suikoden IV takes place approximately 150 years before the events of the first Suikoden game, and relates the story of a young boy living on the island of Razril and the Rune of Punishment, one of the 27 True Runes. The Rune of Punishment governs both atonement and forgiveness, and is unusual in that it consumes the life of the bearer with use; once the previous bearer dies, it immediately jumps to someone nearby. Meanwhile, the Kooluk Empire seeks to expand into the nearby Island Nations.
Konami later produced Suikoden Tactics, a spinoff that serves as a direct prequel, side-story, and sequel to Suikoden IV.
Story
Suikoden IV begins its tale with a training session where the Hero and his best friend Snowe Vingerhut face off against their Commander and Vice Commander, Glen and Katarina Cott respectively, out at sea. After the training concludes, the Hero and his fellow knight trainees head home to Razril, where they are to be pronounced full-fledged Gaien knights.
After the ceremonial Kindling Ritual and a night of feasting, the Hero awakens the next morning for his first duties as a new knight, including the task of escorting a man named Ramada to the neighboring island of Iluya. During the trip there, they are attacked by Brandeau and his pirates. Snowe abandons the ship after being fired upon by "rune cannons," while the Hero decides to brave the attacks and stay, thus inspiring jealousy in his cowardly comrade. Brandeau then boards the Hero's ship and challenges him to a duel, which the young knight unexpectedly wins. As a last effort, Brandeau unleashes the power of the Rune of Punishment and attempts to destroy everyone, but a mysterious force shields the Hero from its might. Glen arrives to save his men, and in that brief moment, the Rune of Punishment is passed from Brandeau to Glen, after which Brandeau evaporates into dust.
Soon after, the knights retreat back to Razril. Several enemy fleets attack in succession, finally forcing Glen to repel them with the power of the deadly Rune. In the aftermath, the Hero finds the Commander dying, and unwittingly becomes the Rune of Punishment's next bearer. Snowe arrives just in time to witness Glen's evaporation and blames the Hero for killing him. Katarina, who assumes command in Glen's stead, believes Snowe's story and sentences the Hero to exile from the island. Drifting aimlessly on a small boat, the Hero discovers that two of his fellow knights, as well as a wandering merchant, have stowed away to join him.
As the Hero and his companions drift on the open sea, they come across one of the militaristic Kooluk nation's merchant ships, which takes them on board. However, the Hero discovers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Per%C3%BA
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TV Perú is the flagship public television network of Peruvian state broadcaster IRTP. It is Peru's first channel and the one to have the widest coverage area in the country.
In 2010, it started broadcasting on digital terrestrial television and became the first TV network in the country to do so. Its headquarters are located in the Santa Beatriz neighbourhood in Lima district, Lima.
History
On 12 January 1957, the Communications General Regulation was issued by the government, which consisted of updated sections around television broadcasting, reserving VHF channels 5 and 7 to the Peruvian state. Dedicated headquarters for the new channel were inaugurated on the 22nd floor of the Education Ministry building (at the time, the tallest in Lima), with a small antenna on the building's rooftop and a medium 150 watt transmitter. In April of that same year, the Industrial Promotion Law was declared to be applicable to television, allowing it the tax exempt import of broadcasting equipment, as most shops in Lima were already selling TV sets of different brands.
By mid-1957, viewers could receive the channel as a test broadcast. On 17 January 1958, Lima's channel 7 was founded as a joint venture by UNESCO and the Peruvian government identifying itself as OAD-TV. Its first broadcast was the airing of a technical documentary about television and installation of antennas. It broadcast three times per week and was operated by the Electronic School of the Public Education Ministry. Its first programmes were Quince minutos de canciones, Informativo del canal, Melodías de antaño, Album criollo, among others.
Between 1959 and 1962, its broadcasts were interrupted due to a reorganisation in the network's management. In 1961, due to internal conflicts, the channel 7 management was divided in two groups: the Channel 7 Television Station (Estación de Televisión Canal 7) and the Electronic School Inca Garcilaso OAD TV Channel 7 (Escuela de Electrónica Inca Garcilaso OAD TV Canal 7). As these issues were later resolved, the network resumes normal broadcasts in 14 June, with broadcasts from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. By that time, it already had regular programming that aired for three hours from Monday to Saturday, solely focused on cultural themes.
In the 1980s the station started satellite transmissions across Peru. In 1985, under Alan García's government, the TV station was given the popular TV Perú (but the legal name remained RTP). In 1996, RTP renamed to its current corporate name Television Nacional del Perú during Alberto Fujimori's regime. In 2006 the station was renamed again to TV Perú.
Nowadays TV Perú is better known for its regular programming devoted to spread Peruvian culture, by showing documentaries such as Reportaje al Perú and Costumbres. Sometime during the mid-2000s (decade) aired reruns of korean dramas dubbed into Spanish such as All About Eve, A wish upon star among others.
On 30 March 2010, TV Perú launched its high-definition signal on di
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20International%20in%20Latin%20America
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CNN International Latin America is the Latin American feed of CNN International subscription news network. It is mainly based in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.), but it also has regional offices in Mexico City, Santiago (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and São Paulo (Brazil).
Prior to 1997, it also used to air some programming made in Spanish, mainly newscasts such as Las Noticias. This stopped with the launch of CNN en Español.
CNN
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20International%20Europe/Middle%20East/Africa
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CNN International Europe/Middle East/Africa is the European, Middle East and African version of CNN's "CNN International" satellite and cable television network. It features many locally produced shows.
Between 1996 and 2003, to differentiate it from the other feeds, the network logo on the lower-right hand of the screen had a static globe with the continents Europe, the Middle East and Africa facing the audiences.
Programming
In the earlier days of CNN International, the program line-up was exactly the same in every region CNN International was broadcast in. However, in the late-1990s, the line-up started varying among regions with some programs exclusively broadcasting to the Europe, Middle East and Africa only such as CNN This Morning (European edition) and World Business This Morning. Programming variations also included showtimes of selected magazine programmes during the weekend to allow audiences to watch them at a similar time slot to their counterparts elsewhere.
Today, the line-up is almost exactly the same in every region once again with differences limited to advertising and weather updates during the breaks.
Broadcasting
Although this version of CNN International is intended primarily for European, African, and Middle Eastern viewers, a live feed of it is made available on selected aircraft of participating airlines like Emirates and Cathay Pacific regardless of their current position (subject to legal restrictions of the country these aircraft are flying over at the moment).
On 1 September 2021, CNN International was removed from the Virgin Media cable platform in the UK. and from the Freesat platform. It continues to be available on Sky UK's satellite service.
On 16 November 2021, CNN International was also removed from Virgin Media Ireland.
Switchover to High definition and 16:9
CNN International HD is the high definition simulcast feed of the channel broadcasting at 1920x1080i, which was launched in September 2012. Prior to June 3, 2013, only programming from CNN/U.S. was available natively in HD, while shows made for CNN International were produced in 4:3 576i. In February 2013, the European SD feed of CNN International began broadcasting in widescreen by downscaling the HD feed, which resulted in all 4:3-native programming being broadcast in pillarbox until the June 3 switchover, finalising on June 17 of the same year, when the switchover was completed.
On June 28, 2016, CNN International HD was launched for Sky customers in the UK (including on Freesat from Sky), on channel 506 or 579, making the next news channel launch in the 600s, as it is next to the GOD Channel. The HD version is available free-to-air within the British Isles, and is provided on satellite and IPTV services, and also live-streamed for U.K. users (and geo-blocked outside the U.K.), through CNN International's official U.K. video site. However, viewers with non-proprietary Freesat boxes will need to add the channel manually as Freesat does not mark
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20International%20Asia%20Pacific
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CNN International Asia Pacific is the Asia-Pacific edition of the CNN International pay-TV cable network. The feed originates from Hong Kong and Indonesia.
CNN International Asia Pacific officially launched on 1 August 1989.
From 1997 until 2005, this edition included exclusive programmes to the Asia-Pacific region such as Asia This Day, CNN This Morning (Asian edition), News Biz Today and Asia Tonight. Since mid-2003, News Biz Today and Asia Tonight (which were eventually renamed into CNN Today and World News Asia respectively) were simulcast on the other editions of CNN International. Other programming differences included airing reruns of key programmes like Amanpour and varying showtimes of weekend magazine programmes when live news is shown elsewhere to allow Asia-Pacific audiences to watch them at a similar time slots to their counterparts elsewhere.
In addition, from 1995 to 2004, to differentiate the Asia Pacific feed from the other feeds, the network logo on the lower-right hand of the screen had a static globe with the Asian continent facing the audiences.
Today, the differences between the Asia-Pacific feed and the other feeds are minimal and are now limited to advertising, show promos, and weather updates.
Conversion to 16:9 and HD
In mid-2013, CNNI Asia-Pacific introduced a 16:9 HD version of its feed on selected pay-TV operators. It was at this time that all Hong Kong-based shows have started airing using a 16:9 format. The SD version is still available but it is further downscaled to 4:3 letterbox on some providers.
Mainland China
CNN has reported that their broadcast agreement in mainland China includes an arrangement that their signal must pass through a Chinese-controlled satellite. In this way, Chinese authorities have been able to black out CNN segments at will.
Programs
CNN Newsroom
News Stream
International Desk with Robyn Curnow
CNN Today
i Report for CNN
CNNGo
New Year's Eve Live
Business Traveller
World Sport
Quest Means Business
Connect the World with Becky Anderson
Hala Gorani Tonight
Amanpour
TalkAsia
Inside Africa
Inside the Middle East
Marketplace Middle East
Marketplace Europe
African Start Up
African Voices
Eco Solutions
Living Golf
Open Court
MainSail
Winning Post
CNN Presents
CNN Freedom Project
Cold War
Anderson Cooper 360°
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
State of the Union
Fareed Zakaria GPS
Erin Burnett Outfront
Smerconish
CNN
Television channels and stations established in 1989
Television stations in Hong Kong
Turner International Australia
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSSTYLES
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MSSTYLES is a Microsoft file format, that contains the bitmaps and metadata for the Windows XP skinning engine, first introduced in Windows Whistler Build 2250.
The engine, in its unmodified state, only fully applies .msstyles files that have been digitally signed by Microsoft, such as Luna or the Zune theme. The default Windows XP style is known as Luna, but additional custom-made styles are available on the Internethowever, few are digitally signed. Four other signed styles for Windows XP include Royale (Media Center Edition) (Energy Blue), Royale Noir, Windows Embedded Standard CTP Refresh, and the Zune Style.
Unsigned styles can be used via various methods, by means of manually patching or replacing system files or automatically by one of the programs made for this purpose. These programs are usually called "UxTheme patchers" from the name of the XP library that required patching, UxTheme.dll, despite that recent Windows versions require patches to different files. Many popular and freely distributed patchers can be found online, often using different ways to enable custom themes.
Windows Vista and later also use .msstyles files for skinning (like the Aero.msstyles file), however the format of these files is significantly different, so .msstyles files are not transferable between Windows Vista and Windows XP. This version of .msstyles file contains PNG images and metadata.
There is a manual way to replace three DLL files (uxtheme.dll, shsvcs.dll and themeui.dll) to use unsigned custom visual styles in Windows Vista.
File format
Windows XP
.msstyles files are 32-bit PE files, however they don't contain code or ordinary data. Microsoft provided styles contain PE version metadata, despite Explorer not displaying this data for .msstyles files in recent Windows versions. PE signing is not used, instead a custom signature is appended to the file.
Theme properties are stored in INI format in TEXTFILE resources inside the file. In these INI files, the section title refers to a "class name" (much like CSS), and the properties are Microsoft never stripped any unnecessary comments from these files when compiling these themes, so the comments are intact and you can read them if you open the theme with a PE resource editor, such as Resource Hacker.
Here is a snippet from NORMALBLUE_INI from the default Luna theme, which controls the default button style:
;Normal button
[button.pushbutton]
bgtype = imagefile
SizingMargins = 8, 8, 9, 9
sizingType = Stretch
ContentMargins = 3, 3, 3, 3
ImageFile = Blue\button.bmp
imageCount = 5
ImageLayout = vertical
TextColor = 0 0 0
FillColorHint = 243 243 239; Average fill color (light beige)
BorderColorHint = 0 60 116; Edge color (dark blue grey)
AccentColorHint = 250 196 88; Rollover hilite color (orange)
MinSize= 10, 5
Any ImageFile definitions are also unchanged from the source INI files, resulting in it representing a file path. ImageFile = Blue\button.bmp points to the BLUE_BUTTON_BMP bitmap resource.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonhap%20News%20TV
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Yonhap News TV (), stylised as YONHAP NEWS TV, is a South Korean pay television network and broadcasting company, owned by the Yonhap News Agency-led consortium. It began broadcasting on 1 December 2011.
Yonhap News TV started broadcasting with four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks. Those are JoongAng Ilbo's JTBC, Dong-A Ilbo's Channel A, Chosun Ilbo's TV Chosun, and Maeil Kyungje's MBN in 2011. The four new networks supplement existing conventional free-to-air TV networks like KBS, MBC, SBS, and other smaller channels launched following deregulation in 1990.
History
22 July 2009 - Amendment of Media law passed the South Korean national assembly to deregulate the media market of South Korea.
31 December 2010 - JTBC, TV Chosun, MBN, and Channel A elected as a General Cable Television Channel Broadcasters and Yonhap News TV elected as an All-News Cable Channel Broadcaster.
1 December 2011 – Yonhap News TV begins broadcasting.
See also
Yonhap News Agency
References
External links
Broadcasting companies of South Korea
Television channels in South Korea
Television channels and stations established in 2011
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anik%20%28satellite%29
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The Anik satellites are a series of geostationary communications satellites launched for Telesat Canada for television, voice and data in Canada and other parts of the world, from 1972 through 2013. Some of the later satellites in the series remain operational in orbit, while others have been retired to a graveyard orbit. The naming of the satellite was determined by a national contest, and was won by Julie-Frances Czapla of Saint-Léonard, Québec. In Inuktitut, Anik means "little brother".
Satellites
Anik A
The Anik A satellites were the world's first national domestic satellites. (Prior to Anik A1's launch, all geosynchronous communications satellites were transcontinental, i.e. Intelsat I and others.) The Anik A fleet of three satellites gave CBC the ability to reach the Canadian North for the first time. Each of the satellites was equipped with 12 C-band transponders, and thus had the capacity for 12 colour television channels. Three channels were allocated for CBC, two to TCTS and CNCP Telecommunications, two to Bell Canada, one for Canadian Overseas Telecommunications. Two channels were to put on reserve and the remaining two were unallocated (future use).
Anik B
It was launched on December 15, 1978, and was the successor to the Anik A series and Hermes (aka Communications Technology Satellite, or CTS) experimental satellite. Most of the transponders were devoted to CBC Television — East and West feeds of CBC North, CBC Parliamentary Television Network, CITV-TV Edmonton, CHCH Hamilton, and TVOntario.
CNCP Telecommunications also used Anik B as a relay for its services. The Globe and Mail used Anik B to transmit copy to printing plants across Canada.
Anik C
The Anik C satellite series tripled the power output of the Anik A series. Anik C also allowed a significant increase in telecommunications capacity over Anik A. Each Anik C satellite had sixteen Ku-band transponders.
Anik C3 was used to distribute Canada's first pay television networks -- First Choice, Superchannel, C-Channel, Star Channel, AIM Pay-TV since February 1983.
Anik C3 transponder lineup (1983):
02 - Atlantic Satellite Network
03 - Assiniboia Downs Racing Network
06 - Super Écran TV payante
10 - Radio-Québec
14 - La Sette 2
15 - Knowledge
16 - La Sette 1
17 - Access Alberta
18 - TFO
19 - Premier Choix/TVEC TV payante
20 - TVOntario
23 - Superchannel
24 - TVOntario-Legislature Channel
25 - CHSC Canadian Home Shopping Club (West feed)
27 - Knowledge Network
30 - First Choice
32 - CHSC Canadian Home Shopping Club (East feed)
Anik D
Anik D1 and Anik D2 series C-Band satellites were launched in 1982 and 1984. They were based on the HS-376 of Hughes design.
Anik E
Anik E1 and Anik E2 were launched in the early 1990s to replace Anik D1 and Anik D2. Unlike the cylinder-shaped spin-stabilised satellites of the D-series, these were cubical, 3-axis satellites using momentum wheels for attitude stabilisation.
Anik E2 experienced an anomaly during deployme
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie%20virus
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Zombie virus may refer to:
Zombie (computing), a computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker, computer virus or trojan horse program
Zombie apocalypse, a literary genre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon%20%28series%29
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Harpoon is a series of realistic air and naval computer wargames based upon Larry Bond's miniatures game of the same name. Players can choose between either the Blue or Red side in simulated naval combat situations, which includes local conflicts as well as simulated Cold War confrontations between the Superpowers. Missions range from small missile boat engagements to large oceanic battles, with dozens of vessels and hundreds of aircraft. The game includes large databases containing many types of real world ships, submarines, aircraft, and land defenses (i.e. air bases and ports).
Overview
The simulations have a dedicated fan base with several websites offering a varying styles of scenarios and discussion forums, especially as the latest edition includes a feature to allow players to create their own scenarios. Often described as a "niche within a niche market," development of the simulation has progressed steadily through the years despite the overwhelming graphical details of first-person shooter and real-time strategy games. Advanced Gaming Systems, Inc. (AGSI), developers of Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare and Harpoon Commander's Edition (with HarpGamer), currently distributes the simulation as a Harpoon Ultimate Edition through Matrix games with technical support handled on a co-operative basis by AGSI, HarpGamer, and Matrix games employees.
Harpoon was originally published by Three-Sixty Pacific and has had several development paths and publishers. Despite the widespread success of the game, Three-Sixty Pacific experienced financial difficulties and went under in 1994. Currently all computer rights rest with AGSI, who continues to improve the series with new developments and releases. In 2006, AGSI released Harpoon Advanced Naval Warfare (ANW) which allowed players to compete with human opponents for the first time in the game's history.
Harpoon's interface emphasizes technical accuracy over graphical polish, with simple 2D symbols to simulate a warship's radar display. There has been considerable debate in the game's user community about the decision of the developers to utilize 3D graphics in later versions of the program. Since March 2009, two releases are available to AGSI civilian customers. Harpoon Commanders Edition is an updating version based on the game engine of the original series. Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare is the current civilian edition of the product. Military customers are offered Harpoon 3 Pro, which is tailored for customer specifications. There was a Macintosh version that lies between the Harpoon II and Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare called "Harpoon III v3.6.3" aka "H3"
Commercial development of both versions has ceased. The most recent release of Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare aka "ANW" is V3.11.1. (January 2013). While the most recent commercial release of Harpoon Commander's Edition aka "HCE" is v2009.097 (October 2010), Matrix Games makes available version v2015.027 (January 2016) as a direct downl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Sandoval
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Andrew Paul Sandoval is an American, best known as a Grammy Award nominated reissuer and compiler and engineer of historical albums, containing popular music from the rock era. Additionally, Sandoval has ongoing careers as author, DJ, journalist, songwriter and professional musician. Born in Santa Monica, California, his career in music began in 1986 as the editor and publisher of a fanzine called New Breed, a project that blossomed into work as a reissue director for such labels as Rhino and PolyGram. His writing has appeared in the form of liner notes to record and CD releases, as well as in articles featured in The Hollywood Reporter and Shindig!
Career
In December 1989, Sandoval performed his first live show as a solo musician and began professionally recording his music soon after (though his first record release did not appear until 1995). His last performances as a musician took place in Spain during a 2010 tour.
On September 11, 2006, Sandoval added DJ to his list of credits when he launched a weekly radio show called Come To The Sunshine on Luxuriamusic.com, which is broadcast live from Los Angeles every Monday from 3 to 5 p.m. (Pacific Time Zone). A website chronicling the show was launched during the program's second series. On May 28, 2017, Come To The Sunshine moved from Luxuriamusic.com to WFMU's Rock & Soul Ichiban.
On December 1, 2010, Sandoval received his first Grammy nomination as a compiler and engineer for the Rhino release Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965–1968.
Under the moniker Andrew, Sandoval has issued four albums (From Me to You, Happy to Be Here, What's It All About and A Beautiful Story) and two EPs (Happily Ever After and Million Dollar Movie). In 2006, Spanish label Hanky Panky issued a compilation of his recordings past and present titled 33: The Best of Andrew. His first officially released recording was featured on 1994's tribute compilation Sing Hollies in Reverse (which showcased various artists covering songs originally recorded by UK group the Hollies). Sandoval's songs have also been heard in the DVD versions of such television series as Dawson's Creek and Party Of Five.
The cast of musicians performing on Sandoval's albums include Ric Menck of Velvet Crush, David Nolte, Tom Dawes of the Cyrkle, Matt Cooker, Jim Laspesa, Carrie Bartsch, Kristian Hoffman, Dennis Diken of the Smithereens, Dave Amels, Probyn Gregory, Nelson Bragg, Steve Stanley, David Jenkins and Dan Schwartz. The producer/engineer of nearly all Sandoval's recordings is Brian Kehew.
Sandoval has also recorded and toured with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dave Davies (of The Kinks). His work with Davies is included on the collections Unfinished Business, Rock Bottom, and Kinked. Other artists that Sandoval has performed or recorded with include P.F. Sloan, Jackie DeShannon, Danny Hutton, Keith Allison, Kristian Hoffman, Dennis Diken with Bell Sound, Jigsaw Seen, The Wonderful World Of Joey, Patrick Campbell-Lyons and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving
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Moving or Movin' may refer to:
Moving of goods
Relocation (personal), the process of leaving one dwelling and settling in another
Relocation of professional sports teams
Relocation (computer science)
Structure relocation
Music
Albums
Moving (Peter, Paul and Mary album), 1963
Moving (The Raincoats album), 1983
[[Movin' (Herman van Doorn album)|Movin''' (Herman van Doorn album)]], 2001
[[Movin' (Jennifer Rush album)|Movin' (Jennifer Rush album)]], 1985
Songs
"Moving" (Kate Bush song), 1978
"Moving" (Supergrass song), 1999
"Moving" (Travis song), 2013
"Moving", by Cathy Davey from Tales of Silversleeve, 2007
"Moving", by Ed Sheeran from -, 2023
"Moving", by Suede from Suede, 1993
"Movin (Brass Construction song), 1976
"Movin (Mohombi song), 2014
"Movin, by Skin from Fake Chemical State'', 2006
Other uses
Moving (1988 film), a comedy starring Richard Pryor
Moving (1993 film), a Japanese film
Moving (British TV series), a British sitcom starring Penelope Keith
Moving (South Korean TV series), a South Korean streaming television series
Movin' (brand), a brand name used for radio stations
See also
Moving company, a type of company that will relocate household or other goods.
Relocation service, relating to employees and company departments
Move (disambiguation)
Movin' On (disambiguation)
Moving In (disambiguation)
Moving on Up (disambiguation)
Relocation (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus%20cuspidata
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Taxus cuspidata, the Japanese yew or spreading yew, is a member of the genus Taxus, native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia.
It is an evergreen tree or large shrub growing to 10–18 m tall, with a trunk up to 60 cm diameter. The leaves are lanceolate, flat, dark green, 1–3 cm long and 2–3 mm broad, arranged spirally on the stem, but with the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flattish rows either side of the stem except on erect leading shoots where the spiral arrangement is more obvious.
The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4–8 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8–12 mm long and wide and open at the end. The arils are mature 6–9 months after pollination. Individual trees from Sikhote-Alin are known to have been 1,000 years old.
Uses
It is widely grown in eastern Asia and eastern North America as an ornamental plant.
Toxicity
The entire yew bush, except the aril (the red flesh of the berry covering the seed), is toxic due to a group of chemicals called taxine alkaloids. Their cardiotoxicity is well known and act via calcium and sodium channel antagonism, causing an increase in cytoplasmic calcium currents of the myocardial cells. The seeds contains the highest concentrations of these alkaloids. If any leaves or seeds of the plant are ingested, urgent medical advice is recommended, as well as observation for at least 6 hours after the point of ingestion. The most cardiotoxic taxine is Taxine B followed by Taxine A; Taxine B also happens to be the most common alkaloid in the Taxus species. Yew poisonings are relatively common in both domestic and wild animals who consume the plant accidentally. The taxine alkaloids are absorbed quickly from the intestine and in high enough quantities can cause death due to general cardiac failure, cardiac arrest, or respiratory failure. Taxines are also absorbed efficiently via the skin and Taxus species should thus be handled with care and preferably with gloves. Taxus baccata leaves contain approximately 5 mg of taxines per 1g of leaves. The estimated (i.e. not by any means a fact) lethal dose (LDmin) of Taxus baccata leaves is 3.0-6.5 mg/kg body weight for humans There is currently no known antidotes for yew poisoning, but drugs such as atropine have been used to treat the symptoms. Taxine remains in the plant all year, with maximal concentrations appearing during the winter. Dried yew plant material retains its toxicity for several months and even increases its toxicity as the water is removed, fallen leaves are also toxic. Although poisoning usually occurs when leaves of yew trees are eaten, in at least one case a victim inhaled sawdust from a yew tree.
The following book made it clear that it is very difficult to measure taxine alkaloids and that this is a major reason as to why different studies show different results.
Minimum lethal dos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20Loehlin
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John Clinton Loehlin (January 13, 1926 – August 9, 2020) was an American behavior geneticist, computer scientist, and psychologist. Loehlin served as president of the Behavior Genetics Association and of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He was an ISIR lifetime achievement awardee.
Life and career
He received an A.B. in English from Harvard University in 1947, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957. He was on active service in the United States Naval Reserve in 1951-53 during the Korean War. He taught at the University of Nebraska from 1957 to 1964, then took a position at the University of Texas at Austin, where he remained the rest of his life.
Even after retirement, he remained active in research and publishing. His book on Latent variable models (now in its fourth edition) remains very popular. He was a keen poet. His son is the American author and scholar James Loehlin.
Loehlin's research chiefly focused on the genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in normal human personality traits and abilities; he was also concerned with racial differences and with computer modeling. He was involved in several twin family, and adoption studies, notably the Texas Adoption Project with Joseph M. Horn and Lee Willerman.
He wrote on the race and intelligence controversy. He was a Director of the American Eugenics Society from 1968 to 1974. In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", a public statement written by Linda Gottfredson, published in response to popular criticism of the conclusions presented in Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial book The Bell Curve (1994). One of his PhD students was Eric Turkheimer.
In 1995, he took part in the American Psychological Association task force writing a consensus statement on the state of intelligence research in response to the claims being advanced amid the Bell Curve controversy, titled "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns."
Selected publications
Loehlin, J. C. (1968). Computer models of personality. New York: Random House.
Loehlin, J. C., Lindzey, G., & Spuhler, J. N. (1975). Race differences in intelligence. San Francisco: Freeman.
Loehlin, J. C., & Nichols, R. C. (1976). Heredity, environment, and personality: A study of 850 sets of twins. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Loehlin, J. C. (1987). Latent variable models: An introduction to factor, path, and structural analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Loehlin, J. C. (1992). Genes and environment in personality development. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Loehlin, J.C. (2004). Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Equation Analysis. Psychology Press.
References
External links
John C. Loehlin site via University of Texas at Austin
1926 births
2020 deaths
American computer scientists
20th-century American psychologists
Behavior geneticists
Harvard University alumni
Intelligence resea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckTales%3A%20The%20Quest%20for%20Gold
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DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is a platform game developed by Incredible Technologies for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and MS-DOS. It was published in 1990 by Walt Disney Computer Software. The game bears little resemblance to the Capcom game known simply as DuckTales that was released for the NES and Game Boy.
Gameplay
The game starts as Flintheart Glomgold walks into Scrooge McDuck's office and challenges him to see who is the richest duck in the world. Assuming the role of Scrooge, the player then gets 30 days to collect treasures from all around the world. Scrooge is assisted by his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie and pilot Launchpad McQuack. Flying to different destinations is one of the many different sequences in the game. Many of these destinations are fictitious or imaginative, names often being puns on real locations, and some were featured in episodes of the show. Some exist in the real world, such as the Carlsbad Caverns.
In flying sequences to reach the destination, the Beagle Boys try to hinder the player by methods such as dropping pianos. If the plane crashes, the player will lose money as well a couple of days while Gyro Gearloose repairs the plane.
Alternatively the player may also find the rare mineral Bombastium, which Gyro can use to create a matter transfer unit. This eliminates the need to travel by plane, and therefore the risk of crashing and losing time and money; the downside is that the matter transfer unit malfunctions sometimes and sends the player to the wrong destination.
Upon reaching a destination, the player has to play through a certain scenario to reach the treasure. The four different scenarios are divided equally among the many destinations, and are typical for the environment. Some of these scenarios, namely the mountain and the jungle, are platform-based levels where the player plays as Huey (later Dewey and Louie if the player fails the first attempt). Other level types include the cave, which is a labyrinth the player must navigate through, and the wildlife reservation which features Webby Vanderquack taking pictures of animals. The pictures, especially ones with rare animals such as pink elephants, bring rewards for the player similar to the treasure chest in the other levels. Photography levels are rather easy to play, seeing as there are no real obstacles.
The Beagle Boys also appear in mountain levels together with falling boulders, mountain goats, bears and even Magica De Spell. In the horizontal jungle levels, the player must overcome toucans, panthers and coconut-throwing monkeys. Hippopotami which swim in the water below the player may be useful for transportation, but they are slightly unpredictable since they might duck underwater at any moment, causing the player to fall in the water. Peculiarly, Huey, Dewey and Louie cannot swim. When playing in the cave, the player must maneuver on a map which looks slightly like a Chinese chess board. Around in the cave lurks a mummy which the
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