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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicator	Communicator may refer to: Computer science Acorn Communicator, a business computer developed by Acorn Computers in 1985 Beonex Communicator, a separate branch of the Mozilla Application Suite Netscape Communicator, a suite of Internet applications Nokia Communicator, a brand name for a series of Nokia smartphones PDA with mobile phone functionality, also known as smartphone, such as Nokia Communicator mentioned above LIVECHAT Communicator, a business instant messenger software Microsoft Office Communicator, an instant messaging and VoIP client for Microsoft Windows Fiction Communicator (Star Trek), a portable communication device from the Star Trek fictional universe Communicator, another term for universal translator, a fictional device that allows one to understand a language from another planet or an animal See also Personal communicator The Communicator (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Floyd%20%28American%20football%29	William Ali "Bar None" Floyd (born February 17, 1972) is an American former professional football player who is a color analyst on the Seminole ISP Sports Network. He played as a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). Floyd played college football for the Florida State Seminoles High school and collegiate career At Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, Florida, he compiled a 34–4 record and led the Spartans to the only undefeated regular season in school history in 1988. He earned All-Sun Coast and All-Pinellas County honors and was rated as the number one running back in the state of Florida and the number two fullback in the country by Super Prep magazine. He enrolled at Florida State University in 1990, and helped the football team win the national championship in 1993, rushing for 321 yards and 5 touchdowns. Floyd finished his three seasons at FSU with 640 rushing yards, 293 receiving yards, and 20 touchdowns. Professional career He was the premier fullback of the 1994 NFL Draft and was selected with the 28th pick of the first round by the San Francisco 49ers. Floyd is the last fullback to be selected in the first round of the NFL draft. A brash and loud rookie but also thought to have a very bright career in front of him, he helped San Francisco win Super Bowl XXIX during his rookie year. In a 1995 divisional playoff game against the Chicago Bears, he became the first rookie to score three touchdowns in a playoff game. He also scored a touchdown in the NFC title game, assisting the 49ers to a 38–28 win over the Dallas Cowboys after 2 frustrating losses to Dallas in the previous 2 NFC Championship Games. In Super Bowl XXIX, Floyd rushed for 32 yards, caught 4 passes for 26 yards, and scored a touchdown in San Francisco's 49–26 victory. Floyd's 1995 season was cut short in Week 9 when he tore three ligaments in his right knee on a goal-line running play that put him on the reserve list for the remainder of the season. He was leading the NFL in receptions (47) at the time of the injury. He finished his career playing with the Carolina Panthers from 1998 through 2000. In his 7 NFL seasons, Floyd rushed for 1,141 yards, caught 191 passes for 1,427 yards, returned 1 kickoff for 22 yards, and scored 25 touchdowns (20 rushing and 5 receiving). Personal life He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his wife Bonita and their three children William, Thai and Jaden, the latter of which currently plays safety for Florida State. The family is active in his non-profit community-benefit foundation, William Floyd's Bar None Foundation ('Bar None' was his nickname while playing with the 49ers). On April 30, 2008, Florida State University and ISP Sports announced that Floyd, who helped win a national championship for the Seminoles in 1993, would join Gene Deckerhoff as color analyst on the Seminole ISP Sports Network for radio broadcasts of FSU football games. Floyd is also in his third season as a color analyst on Tailgate Overtime, airing li
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRAM	geoRAM is a discontinued memory expansion unit designed to work with the Commodore 64 and the 128 computers. GeoRAM was specifically designed to work with the GEOS operating system. geoRAM was created by Dave Durran. During the chip shortages of the 1980s, Commodore could not produce enough of its RAM Expansion Units (they eventually cancelled them). The GEOS operating system relied heavily on extra RAM and so the company behind GEOS produced their own memory expansion cartridge, called the geoRAM. By using a mapped-in page scheme, RAM contents on the cartridge are directly accessible by the CPU, and don't rely on DMA like the REU cartridges, which enable memory transfers between system RAM and REU much faster than the system CPU can do. Hence, there's no other benefit than extra RAM, and not much software other than GEOS actually supported it. References Home computer peripherals Memory expansion Commodore 64
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20poisoning	Cache poisoning refers to a computer security vulnerability where invalid entries can be placed into a cache, which are then assumed to be valid when later used. Two common varieties are DNS cache poisoning and ARP cache poisoning. Web cache poisoning involves the poisoning of web caches (which has led to security issues in programming languages, including all Python versions at the time in 2021, and expedited security updates). Attacks on other, more specific, caches also exist. References Computer security exploits Cache (computing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20bar	A navigation bar (or navigation system) is a section of a graphical user interface intended to aid visitors in accessing information. Navigation bars are implemented in operating systems, file browsers, web browsers, apps, web sites and other similar user interfaces. File browsers File browsers use a navigation bar to assist the user in traversing the filesystem. Navigation bars may include the current path, breadcrumbs, or a list of favorites. Web browsers A web browser navigation bar includes the back and forward buttons, as well as the Location bar where URLs are entered. Formerly, the functionality of the navigation bar was split between the browser's toolbar and the address bar, but Google Chrome introduced the practice of merging the two. Web design Typically, websites will have a primary navigation bar and sometimes secondary navigation bar on all pages. These webpage sections will include links to the most important sections of the site. The implementation and design of navigation bars is a crucial aspect of web design and web usability. In general, navigation bars are found in a page's header but may also be found in the form of a sidebar. With different purposes, there are different kinds of the navigation bars to be chosen, such as horizontal navigation bars and vertical navigation bars. And with a dynamic website project including JavaScript, navigation bars can be designed to be responsive. HTML5 nav tag Some early versions of Netscape used the HTML tag to construct a navigation bar to navigate websites. Today, the tag can be used for the same purpose. In HTML5, navigation elements are enclosed in a <nav> tag, often, containing a list of links. <nav> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/blog">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="/contact">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="/about">About</a></li> </ul> </nav> See also Web template References Web design Graphical control elements Graphical user interface elements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goin%27%20Bulilit	Goin' Bulilit () is a Philippine sketch comedy television series broadcast by ABS-CBN. The show premiered on February 6, 2005, replacing Ang Tanging Ina and aired every Sunday nights on the network's Yes Weekend! block. It also aired worldwide via TFC. The show featured children in various comedic situations, aiming to provide laughter for the audiences by showcasing gags, sketches, and segments. The cast is composed of child stars, except for Dagul, who portrayed different roles ranging from young to old characters every week to bring entertainment. The show ended on August 4, 2019, and was replaced by Rated K (later Rated Korina) in its time slot. History Goin' Bulilit premiered on February 5, 2005. The show was a spin-off of the 1980s comedy sitcom Goin' Bananas starring Christopher de Leon, Edgar Mortiz, Jay Ilagan and Johnny Delgado. The weekly show provided different segments such as "Palarong Pambata" (children's games), "Use in a Sentence" and "Ano Daw" (one liner jokes), as well as parodies of some top-rating shows including Rated KKK (Rated K), The Buzz, and Lovers in Pares (Lovers in Paris). In 2015, Goin' Bulilit marked and celebrated their 10th anniversary with the entire former and current cast members. On June 9, 2019, the show was pre-empted to give away to the airing of the ABS-CBN's Binibining Pilipinas 2019: The Grand Coronation Night at 10pm. After 14 years of broadcast, the show aired its final episode on August 4, 2019, 9 months before the shutdown of ABS-CBN caused by a cease-and-desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission after the expiration of its legislative franchise on May 2020. In 2021, the show was re-aired on A2Z, Jeepney TV and Kapamilya Channel. Production and crew The show was created by Edgar Mortiz, who co-directed with his son, Frasco Mortiz. Roderick Victoria served as the Creative Manager. The creative/writing team was led by headwriter Sherwin Buenvenida, and included writers Rolf Mahilom, Josel Garlitos, Toffie Runas, Yani Yuzon and Badjie Mortiz. Cast Segments Final segments "Ang Meaning Mo" - hosted by Carlo Mendoza and Jordan Lim "Ano Daw?" "Choose Mo!" - hosted by Chunsa Angela Jung "Endo" "Experi-Men" - a science experiment segment presented by the three male cast members. "Failon Ganern" - a spoof of Failon Ngayon. "GB Digital Shorts" "GB Patrol" - a spoof of the flagship newscast TV Patrol. "Hitback" - a segment that features past music videos performed by the former cast. "Kinadenang Pinto" - a spoof of the afternoon drama series Kadenang Ginto. Played by Justin James Quilantang as Lassie (parody of Cassie), Raikko Matteo as Varga (parody of Marga), Cessa Moncera as Janiela (parody of Daniela) and Ashley Sarmiento as Robina (parody of Romina) "Ready, Set, Goin!" (formerly Ready, Get Set, Goin!) - two teams of the cast members are assembled to play a game. Originally, it was hosted by Miles Ocampo. And later, she was replaced mostly by Dagul with various alternates (includ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Patrol	TV Patrol is a Philippine television newscast produced by ABS-CBN News. It premiered on March 2, 1987, at the former ABS-CBN television network, replacing Balita Ngayon. TV Patrol is the flagship national newscast of the network and is the longest-running Filipino language evening newscast. The newscast is anchored by Noli de Castro, Karen Davila, Bernadette Sembrano and Henry Omaga-Diaz. Previous anchors include Mel Tiangco, Frankie Evangelista, Ted Failon, Korina Sanchez and Julius Babao. The program originally aired on ABS-CBN until May 5, 2020, when the network was forced to cease and desist its broadcasting operations by orders of the National Telecommunications Commission after its legislative franchise expired on May 4. It was also simulcast through the network's flagship AM station DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 and on its provincial AM stations. TV Patrol currently broadcasts on cable and satellite via Kapamilya Channel, TeleRadyo Serbisyo, and ANC, on free-to-air television via A2Z, on AM radio via DWPM Radyo 630, and livestreaming online through the ABS-CBN News' website, Facebook page, YouTube channel, iWantTFC, TFC IPTV and Kapamilya Online Live. It is also aired internationally through The Filipino Channel on cable and satellite. History Pre-launch Following the People Power Revolution in February 1986 and the resumption of operations months later, ABS-CBN News executives, among them then-News Manager Angelo Castro Jr., began holding meetings with higher-ups on plans to launch an all-new news program that will serve as a replacement to Balita Ngayon. On March 1, 1987, ABS-CBN announced the launch of TV Patrol during the public variety extravaganza "Ang Pagbabalik ng Bituin" () at Luneta Park, Manila. 1987–2001: Noli de Castro era TV Patrol premiered on March 2, 1987, at 6:00 p.m. PHT, replacing Balita Ngayon, with Noli de Castro, Mel Tiangco, and Robert Arevalo as the original anchors. Segment anchors included Ernie Baron, who served as the newscast's chief meteorologist and provided viewers trivia pertaining to science and history, and actress-personality Angelique Lazo who first hosted Star News, an entertainment news segment. However, on June 1, 1987, Arevalo left the newscast and was replaced by Frankie Evangelista, who served as a segment host for "PULSO: Pangkalahatang Ugnayan Laan sa Opinyon" (). With the introduction of international broadcasts in 1989 to the Pacific islands of Guam and Saipan, and later with the birth of The Filipino Channel in 1994, TV Patrol became the first Philippine newscast and program to be broadcast overseas. In 1993, Christine Bersola joined the newscast to host the Star News segment, replacing Lazo, until 1996. In 1995, Korina Sánchez joined the newscast, replacing Tiangco who left ABS-CBN for GMA Network. De Castro would eventually become the sole anchor of the newscast in 1996, reducing its airtime to 30 minutes. On January 4, 1999, the newscast returned its airtime to one hour and 30 minutes. O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20Data%20Transport%20Interface	Serial Data Transport Interface is a way of transmitting data packets over a Serial Digital Interface datastream. This means that standard SDI infrastructure can be used. Developed to address the needs of the growing number of compressed video standards (DV, DVCPRO, BetaSX, MPEG2) it allows lossless transfer of data to other devices which have the same codec, for example DV to DV or SX to SX. Using a standard SDI transport, the extra data is placed within normal active video, between Start of Active Video (SAV), and End of Active Video (EAV). This gives 1440 10bit words of data at 270Mbit/s (1920 words in the 8bit 360Mbit/s standard). If an SDTI stream is viewed using a standard SDI device, then the raw data can be seen as a small strip along the left hand side (usually in purple). The DVCAM SDTI has video data at the top, control data in the middle (Timecode, etc.) and audio at the bottom just like it is organised on the tape. Because SDTI is used for compressed data the area used is less than a full screen; this allows for faster than realtime transfers. SDTI is standardized as SMPTE 305M. A 1.5 GBit/s version, using the high definition serial digital interface, is standardized as SMPTE 348M. External links Interconnectivity in the DTV Era The Emergence of SDTI Serial digital interface Film and video technology Digital television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows%20%28TV%20series%29	Widows is a British primetime television crime drama that was broadcast in 1983 and 1985, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and aired on the ITV network. Two six-part series were written by crime writer Lynda La Plante. The executive producer for the series was Verity Lambert. In 1984 it was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial. Plot Three armed robbers — Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Perelli — are killed during an armed robbery. They are survived by their widows, Dolly Rawlins (Ann Mitchell), Shirley Miller (Fiona Hendley), and Linda Perelli (Maureen O'Farrell). With the police applying pressure, and a rival gang intending to take over Harry Rawlins' crime business, the widows turn to Dolly for leadership. She uses Harry's famous "ledgers", a cache of books detailing all his robberies over the years, to find the details of the failed robbery, and, enlisting the help of a fourth woman, Bella O'Reilly (Eva Mottley), they resolve to pull off the raid themselves. At the same time, they discover the "fourth man" in the raid escaped—leaving their husbands for dead. Dolly must contend with the police and the gang, as well as her fellow widows, agitating for vengeance. The first series of Widows concluded with the widows pulling off the raid, and escaping to Rio. In the final scenes, they discovered that the "fourth man" was in fact Harry Rawlins (Maurice O'Connell), Dolly's husband. A second series followed in 1985. This series saw the widows return from Rio to track down Harry Rawlins, revealed at the conclusion of the original Widows to be the surviving "fourth man" from the original raid. Harry is determined to pay back the widows for staging his raid, and the widows have a score to settle with him for running out on their husbands. Actress Eva Mottley left the production before the second series, claiming that she had been sexually and racially abused by the production staff. She died by suicide soon after. Debby Bishop took over the role of Bella for series 2. A sequel series, She's Out, set ten years after the events of Widows, was produced in 1995. Cast Major cast Ann Mitchell as Dolly Rawlins Maureen O'Farrell as Linda Perelli Fiona Hendley as Shirley Miller Eva Mottley as Bella O'Reilly (Series 1) Debby Bishop as Bella O'Reilly (Series 2) Kate Williams as Audrey Withey Maurice O'Connell as Harry Rawlins David Calder as D.I. George Resnick Paul Jesson as D.S./D.I. Alec Fuller Supporting cast Series 1 Peter Machin as D.C. Robin Andrews Jeffrey Chiswick as Arnie Fisher George Costigan as Charlie Staincliffe Stanley Meadows as Eddie Rawlins Carol Gillies as Alice Gunner Dudley Sutton as Boxer Davis Terry Cowling as Jimmy Nunn Christopher Ellison as Tony Fisher Terence Harvey as Chief Insp. Saunders James Lister as Carlos Moreno Catherine Neilson as Trudie Nunn Peter Lovstrom as Greg Withey Michael John Paliotti as Joe Perelli Terry Stuart as Ter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXVO	KXVO (channel 15) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network TBD. It is owned by Mitts Telecasting Company LLC, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with the Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual Fox/CW affiliate KPTM (channel 42), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on Farnam Street in Omaha, while KXVO's transmitter is located on Pflug Road, south of Gretna and I-80. History KXVO signed on the air on June 10, 1995 as an affiliate of The WB, which debuted nationally almost five months earlier on January 11 of that year; the station was originally owned by Cocola Broadcasting, but was operated by Pappas Telecasting under a local marketing agreement. In the interim six months, Omaha did have access to The WB via cable and satellite providers through Chicago-based national superstation WGN. Cocola would later sell the station to Mitts Telecasting Company in 2000, which retained the LMA with Pappas. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that The WB and UPN would cease broadcasting that September and merge their programming to form a new "fifth" network called The CW. The letters represent the first initials of its corporate parents, CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. Entertainment unit of Time Warner. In April 2006, KXVO announced an affiliation agreement with The CW, which began airing on the station when the network launched on September 18 of that year. On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including sister station KPTM, would be sold to New World TV Group, after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval. The LMA between KXVO and KPTM continued after the deal was finalized. Titan TV Broadcast Group announced the sale of most of its stations, including KPTM and the LMA with KXVO (which remained under Mitts Telecasting ownership after the sale), to the Sinclair Broadcast Group on June 3, 2013. Sinclair announced the closing of the sale on October 3. From 2009 until 2018, KXVO also served the state capital, Lincoln, located from Omaha, with broadcast and cable coverage even though Lincoln is located in a different market. It had been carried on cable in the eastern portion of the Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney market since its inception, even after Lincoln received its own WB/CW affiliate, KCWL-TV (which carried the WB 100+ and CW Plus services), and remained on most Lincoln cable systems in lieu of the national CW Plus feed (which was carried in the western portion of the market) after KCWL became Fox affiliate KFXL-TV. In October 2018, after Gray Television-owned KCWH-LD in Lincoln (through The CW Plus) took over that market's CW affiliation, KXVO was dropped from Lincoln's Spectrum system, with KCWH replacing it on channel 15. On March 29, 2022, KXVO filed to begin broadcasting in ATSC 3.0. The existing subchannels are planned to be moved to KP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan	Orlan (born 1947) is a French multi-media artist. who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology to question modern social phenomena. She has said that her art is not body art, but 'carnal art,' which lacks the suffering aspect of body art. Biography Since the 1960s and the 1970s, Orlan has questioned the status of the body and the political, religious, social, and traditional pressures that are inscribed in it. Her work denounces the violence done to the body and in particular to women's bodies, and thus engages in a feminist struggle. She makes her body the privileged instrument where our own relationship to otherness is played out. This work of Orlan on the body is done in particular by the means of photography. In 1976, for example, she walked the streets wearing a dress on which her naked body was represented. In the same period, in Portugal, she offered photos glued to wood and cut out corresponding to pieces of herself: an arm, a piece of breast, etc. In 1977, Orlan performed Kiss of the artist (Baiser de l'artiste), during the International Fair of Contemporary Art (FIAC ), in the Grand Palais in Paris. Orlan displayed a life-size photograph of her own nude torso, which she sat behind. The life-sized photograph was turned into a slot machine. A spectator would insert a coin and could see it descending to the groin before being awarded a kiss from the artist herself. The installation created a scandal that cost the artist her teaching position. In 1978, she created the International Symposium of the Performance in Lyon, which she animated until 1982. Her manifesto of "carnal art" (Manifeste de l'Art Charnel) is followed by a series of surgical operations- performances that she carries out between 1990 and 1993. With this series, the body of the artist becomes a place of public debate. These surgical operations - performances were widely publicized and provoked a strong polemic, although they represent only a tiny part of her integral work. Orlan also explores the use of new technologies in the arts. In 1982, with Frédéric Develay, she created the first online magazine of contemporary art, Art-Accès-Revue, on Minitel. This magazine invites international artists working in situ and/or with conceptual problems to create original works specially conceived on Minitel, by Minitel, and for Minitel. Many of the works play with the Videotex graphic style or ironically imitate Minitel services (Bernar Venet, Vera Molnár, Ben, François Morellet, Daniel Buren...) The works are accompanied by critical essays. The service also regularly gives the floor to the public. A public presentation of this database took place at the Centre Pompidou during the exhibition Les Immatériaux by Jean-François Lyotard. The Art-Access service has been distributed free of charge by the city of Metz server:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe%40Office	Safe@Office is a line of firewall and virtual private network (VPN) appliances developed by SofaWare Technologies, a Check Point company. The Check Point Safe@Office product line is targeted at the small and medium business segment, and includes the 500 and 500W (with Wi-Fi) series of internet security appliance. The old S-Box, Safe@Home, 100 series, 200 series, and 400W series are discontinued. The appliances are licensed according to the number of protected IP addresses (referenced to as users) in numbers 5, 25 or unlimited. There is also a variant with a built-in asymmetric disconnection line (ADSL) modem. See also VPN-1 UTM Edge — similar appliance with possibility of being managed from the Check Point SmartCenter. References External links Safe@Office Product Page At The Check Point Website Safe@Office Product Page At The SofaWare Website Fixing Your Connection Is Not Private Error In Browser Computer network security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Interfaith%20Network	The North American Interfaith Network (NAIN) is a non-profit association of Interfaith organizations and agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States. NAIN's programs seek to build communication and mutual understanding among interfaith organizations and diverse religious groups throughout North America. Through its annual conference, newsletter, web site, member organizations, Board and supportive participants, NAIN offers networking opportunities to person of many religious traditions and numerous interfaith organizations. NAIN affirms humanity's diverse and historic spiritual resources, bringing these to bear on contemporary global, national, regional and local issues. Without infringing on the effort of existing organizations, NAIN facilitates the networking possibilities of these organizations. NAIN encourages cooperative interaction based on serving the needs and promoting the aspirations of all member groups. NAIN Connect Since 1988 NAIN has held annual "Connect" conferences with host locations rotating throughout the member organizations. 2007 Connect was held in Richmond, Virginia, 2008 in San Francisco, California, 2009 in Kansas City, Missouri. 2010 Connect will be in Salt Lake, Utah. NAINews Quarterly news and information on interfaith activity in North America. External links North American Interfaith Network Interfaith organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia%20cordata	Houttuynia cordata, also known as fish mint, fish leaf, rainbow plant, chameleon plant, heart leaf, fish wort, or Chinese lizard tail, is one of two species in the genus Houttuynia (the other being H. emeiensis). It is a flowering plant native to Southeast Asia. It grows in moist, shady locations. It was named after Martinus Houttuyn. Growth Houttuynia cordata is a herbaceous perennial plant that can grow to , spreading up to . The proximal part of the stem is trailing and produces adventitious roots, while the distal part of the stem grows vertically. The leaves are alternate, broadly heart-shaped, long and broad. Its flowers are greenish-yellow and borne on a terminal spike long with four to six large white basal bracts. It normally blooms in the summer. It is considered an invasive plant because of its ability to regrow rhizomes from any segment of its foliage. Cultivation Houttuynia cordata grows in moist to wet soil or slightly submerged in water, as long as it is exposed partially or fully to the sun. It can become invasive in gardens and difficult to eradicate as their roots run deep and actively spread. It propagates by division. It is usually found in one of its cultivated forms in temperate gardens. The 'Chameleon' variety (synonymous with H.cordata 'Court Jester', 'Tricolour', and 'Variegata') is slightly less vigorous than the parent species, with stubbier leaves mottled in both yellow and red. Another common variety, 'Flore Pleno', has masses of white bracts and retains the vigor of the parent species. Houttuynia cordata has been naturalized in North America. Usage Culinary use It is commonly grown as a leaf vegetable, and is used as a fresh herbal garnish. The leaf has an unusual taste from its volatile oil (Houttuynine), a taste that is often described as "fishy", earning it the nickname "fish mint". In northeastern India, the leaves are commonly used in salads, salsas, or cooked with other vegetables, and as a garnish over side dishes. The tender roots can also be ground into chutneys along with dry meat or fish, chilies, and tamarind. It is taken raw as salad and cooked along with fish as fish curry. In Japan and Korea, the dried leaves may be used as a herbal tea, which is believed to have healing properties. It is called dokudami-cha () in Japan and eoseongcho cha () in Korea. In Vietnamese cuisine, the plant is called diếp cá and is used with grilled meat and noodle salad dishes. Fish mint may be used as a garnish with several Vietnamese dishes, such as gỏi cuốn, stir-fried beef with fish mint salad, and bánh xèo. Zhé'ěrgēn (Chinese: , "broken ear-root") is the edible rhizome of Houttuynia cordata (yúxīngcǎo; ; "fish-smelling grass") with a fresh, spicy, peppery flavour that is used in southwestern Chinese cuisine, i.e. that of Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and western Guangxi. Typically the leaves are eaten in Sichuan and the root in Guizhou. Zhé'ěrgēn fried with (cured pork belly) is one of the staple dishes o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Arms%203	Wild Arms 3, known in Japan as , is a role-playing video game developed by Media.Vision for the PlayStation 2. It is a sequel to Wild Arms and Wild Arms 2. Sony Computer Entertainment released it in Japan and North America in 2002 and Ubi Soft published it in Europe in 2003. In May 2016 the game was released for PlayStation 4 through PlayStation Network. The story follows Virginia Maxwell, an amateur Drifter (adventurer) looking for adventure on Filgaia, a desert planet with wild west motifs. After foiling an attempted train robbery of a valuable treasure, Virginia joins forces with three other Drifters as they travel the world and unravel a mysterious plot involving the ancient history of the planet. Gameplay Wild Arms 3 is the first game in the Wild Arms series in which all party members are able to use ARMs (magical firearms). It also replaces equippable armor and weapons with Personal Skills via Guardian (Mediums) invocation. The battle graphics use the same background effects as the previous two games in series, but this time the camera can turn 360 degrees around the battle room and the characters can run while battling. As in the past two games, combat utilizes a turn-based system, but this can be modified on a battle-by-battle basis. Unlike traditional RPGs, locations on the world map are not immediately visible. In order to discover new towns and dungeons, the player must ask for information or learn of them during the plot and then manually search for them using a GPS-like system. The world map, which the player must buy, assists the players in finding new locations. Plot The game takes place on a version of the planet Filgaia from the Wild Arms series, a place that is desolate to the point of even its seas consisting of sand, supposedly the result of an ancient war. Four Drifters find themselves chosen to wield the power of the planet's spiritual protectors, the Guardians, to stop a prophesied but unknown menace to their world. As they adventure together, they are opposed by other Drifter teams, a trio of fanatical scientists called the Prophets, and the Demons of Filgaian legend. The four adventurers eventually make startling discoveries about their world's true history, and their personal connections to it. Characters Playable characters Virginia Maxwell is an 18-year-old Drifter who is searching for her long-lost father, whom she believes to still be alive. It is her life's wish to know and live the Drifter life, as her father did. Her ARMS are two revolvers given to her by her father. Jet Enduro is a cold-blooded boy who suffers from amnesia and who lets nothing get in his way. It is learned at Leyline Observatory that Jet's original name was "Adam Kadmon" (which refers to "Primal Man" in Kabbalah), as stated by Werner Maxwell. His ARM is a machine gun; and unknown to Jet, it was designed to be usable only by him. He has a connection to Virginia's father. Clive Winslett is a 30-year-old, cool-headed bounty-hunter with a soft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PvPGN	PvPGN (Player vs Player Gaming Network) is a free and open source software project offering emulation of various gaming network servers. It is published under the GPL and based upon bnetd. It supports most features for Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net "classic" games (Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, StarCraft, StarCraft: Brood War, Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne). It also offers basic support for Westwood Online clients (Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge). Westwood support is still at an experimental state. Typical uses A PvPGN Server can be used: When wanting to host a local tournament with local users and ladders. When wanting to maintain a local community of friends rather than playing on Battle.net. For people who want to play on a LAN but with Battle.net-like statistics. Various cyber cafes use a PvPGN server for this purpose. For people who want to play on a server within their country or local area, so as to reduce lag. Supported protocols The list of supported clients and their minimum version required is: Battle.net Diablo I 1.09 StarCraft 1.16.1.1 Starcraft: Brood War 1.16.1.1 Warcraft II Battle.Net Edition 2.02 Diablo II 1.09 and 1.10 (and unofficially 1.11b, 1.12a) Diablo II: Lord of Destruction 1.09 and 1.10 (and unofficially 1.11b, 1.12a, 1.13c) Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos 1.21 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne 1.21 (and 1.22.0.6328) Westwood Online Command & Conquer Win95 edition v1.04a (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Command & Conquer: Red Alert Win95 edition v2.00 and v3.03 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun v2.03 ST-10 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Firestorm (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 1.006 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge v1.001 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Command & Conquer: Renegade (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Nox v1.02b (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Nox Quest v1.02b (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Dune 2000 v1.06 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Emperor: Battle for Dune v1.09 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) Supported platforms BeOS FreeBSD 4.x 5.x 6.x 7.x 8.x Linux 2.4 and later Mac OS X 10.2 and up Microsoft Windows 5x/6x kernel, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Home Server Solaris Platform support should be easy on any POSIX compatible system. (Tested on 32 and 64 bit platforms, various integer byte endings, etc.) Code style and development PvPGN is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. It is written in the C programming language; its source code is hosted in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Death%20Trap	is a text adventure developed and published by Square for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, and Fujitsu FM-7 in 1984. The game and its supporting computer platforms were only released in Japan. The Death Trap is the first game developed by Square, created before they were even an independent company. At the time, Square was a software branch of Den-Yu-Sha, a Japanese power line manufacturing firm; it was not until 1986 that Square was independently established. Square released a sequel in 1985 called Will: The Death Trap II. Square's third and final text adventure game was called Alpha, released in 1986, and tells a science fiction story in the same style as The Death Trap. Gameplay The Death Trap is a silent (no sound) text parser adventure game, which relies on simple command lines from the user's input to progress through the game. As opposed to most "text adventures", with only text as output, The Death Trap provides graphical feedback using full screen still images. Plot The game's plot revolves around a spy in an African country during a civil war. The story also involves biological warfare. The game's plot is set during the 1980s. In the game, the Cold War has become tense, and many countries have begun to prepare for a global-scale war, working on new weapons. One of such countries is the mysterious "B country" in Eastern Africa, which in an attempt to create biological weapons kidnaps the famous scientist Dr. Gitanes. An agent named Benson is sent to B country in order to rescue the doctor and avert the new threat to world peace. Development The Death Trap was the first game developed by Square, a computer game software branch of Den-Yū-Sha Electric Company. Masashi Miyamoto, who founded Square in September 1983, believed that it would be more efficient to have graphic designers, programmers and writers work together on common projects. Upon Square's inception, Miyamoto initially hired as their first developers university students Hironobu Sakaguchi and Hiromichi Tanaka, and a few others. They shortly began work on Square's first game, The Death Trap. Sakaguchi noted in 1985 that he had expected to only do clerical work, not develop video games, yet was appointed a producer for the game. Sakaguchi was also a scenario writer for The Death Trap even though he too was a part time employee who had just left university. Harunobu Kato and Tanaka served as programmers. Other scenario writers were 雪ノ浦美樹, 林明弘 and 鈴木尚志. The graphics team consisted of Hiromi Nakada, 雪ノ浦美樹, 今泉美保 and 斉藤智子. Lastly, 井出康代 held the position of data editing. During the creation of The Death Trap all of Squares’ staff were part time. Halfway through development, Sakaguchi reached out to a part time cassette rental store employee named Nobuo Uematsu that Sakaguchi had previously met and received a demo tape from. The game was published in Japan for the NEC PC-8801 in October 1984. It was later released for the Fujitsu FM-7 in December 1984. The game was the first game re
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-learning	Self-learning can refer to: Autodidacticism Learning theory (education) Night self-learning Unsupervised learning, a kind of machine learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI	Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring. First released in December 1996, ACPI aims to replace Advanced Power Management (APM), the MultiProcessor Specification, and the Plug and Play BIOS (PnP) Specification. ACPI brings power management under the control of the operating system, as opposed to the previous BIOS-centric system that relied on platform-specific firmware to determine power management and configuration policies. The specification is central to the Operating System-directed configuration and Power Management (OSPM) system. ACPI defines hardware abstraction interfaces between the device's firmware (e.g. BIOS, UEFI), the computer hardware components, and the operating systems. Internally, ACPI advertises the available components and their functions to the operating system kernel using instruction lists ("methods") provided through the system firmware (UEFI or BIOS), which the kernel parses. ACPI then executes the desired operations written in ACPI Machine Language (such as the initialization of hardware components) using an embedded minimal virtual machine. Intel, Microsoft and Toshiba originally developed the standard, while HP, Huawei and Phoenix also participated later. In October 2013, ACPI Special Interest Group (ACPI SIG), the original developers of the ACPI standard, agreed to transfer all assets to the UEFI Forum, in which all future development will take place. of the standard 6.5 was released in August 2022. Architecture The firmware-level ACPI has three main components: the ACPI tables, the ACPI BIOS, and the ACPI registers. The ACPI BIOS generates ACPI tables and loads ACPI tables into main memory. Much of the firmware ACPI functionality is provided in bytecode of ACPI Machine Language (AML), a Turing-complete, domain-specific low-level language, stored in the ACPI tables. To make use of the ACPI tables, the operating system must have an interpreter for the AML bytecode. A reference AML interpreter implementation is provided by the ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA). At the BIOS development time, AML bytecode is compiled from the ASL (ACPI Source Language) code. Overall design decision was not without criticism. In November 2003, Linus Torvalds—author of the Linux kernel—described ACPI as "a complete design disaster in every way". ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA), mainly written by Intel's engineers, provides an open-source platform-independent reference implementation of the operating system–related ACPI code. The ACPICA code is used by Linux, Haiku, ArcaOS and FreeBSD, which supplement it with their operating-system specific code. History The first revision of the ACPI specification was releas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20West%20Virginia%20state%20forests	West Virginia contains a network of eight state forests that help to protect over of wooded lands in the state. Most of the forests are managed by the West Virginia Division of Forestry, although Kanawha State Forest is managed as a state park by the Division of Natural Resources. All of the forests except for Calvin Price contain recreational facilities managed in cooperation with the DNR. West Virginia state forests See also List of U.S. National Forests List of West Virginia state parks List of West Virginia wildlife management areas References State forests West Virginia State Forests, List of West Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Impagliazzo	Russell Graham Impagliazzo is a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, specializing in computational complexity theory. Education Impagliazzo received a BA in mathematics from Wesleyan University. He obtained a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. His advisor was Manuel Blum. He joined the faculty of UCSD in 1989, having been a postdoc there from 1989 to 1991. Contributions Impagliazzo's contributions to complexity theory include: the construction of a pseudorandom number generator from any one-way function, his proof of Yao's XOR lemma via "hard core sets", his proof of the exponential size lower bound for constant-depth Hilbert proofs of the pigeonhole principle, his work on connections between computational hardness and de-randomization, and his work on the construction of multi-source seedless extractors. stating the exponential time hypothesis that 3-SAT cannot be solved in subexponential time in the number of variables, This hypothesis is used to deduce lower bounds on algorithms in computer science. proposing the "five worlds" of computational complexity theory. Awards Impagliazzo has received the following awards: Best Paper Award from the Computational Complexity Conference 2003 Outstanding Paper Award from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2003 Best Paper Award at the Symposium on Theory of Computing named a 2004 Guggenheim fellow for work on "heuristics, proof complexity, and algorithmic techniques" References External links Russell Impagliazzo UCSD Jacobs, School of Engineering faculty profile American computer scientists University of California, San Diego faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Toronto people Living people Simons Investigator Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aralia%20cordata	Aralia cordata is an upright herbaceous perennial plant growing up to in height, native to Japan, Korea and eastern China. Its common names include spikenard, herbal aralia, udo (from ), Japanese spikenard, and mountain asparagus. It is commonly found on the slopes of wooded embankments. Aralia cordata is a species of Aralia in the family Araliaceae. The plant yields new shoots every spring, which are blanched and then eaten as a vegetable. In Korea, the dried root of the plant has been traditionally used as medicine. The young shoots have a strong yet pleasant distinct aromatic flavor. In addition to food and medicinal use, the plant is cultivated as an ornamental. Description Aralia cordata is classified as a dicot and a eudicot. The leaves are alternate, large, and double to triple pinnate with leaflets long, and broad. The flowers are produced in large umbels of diameter in late summer, each flower small and white. The fruit is a small black drupe diameter, and may be toxic to humans. In the wild, the plant achieves a height of . It has golden leaves in the spring and an abundance of large bright green ones in the summer. It has a hefty and plump root stock with shoots in length. It can reach optimal growth when planted in rich soil. During the summer it produces loose flower bunches in length, which are attractive to bees and flies, making it ideal for beekeepers. It can be grown using seed or propagated from cuttings. History Aralia cordata is widely grown for food in Japan. In the early 1900s it was imported into the United States; however, it did not become popularly commercialized. In Korea, the dried root has been traditionally used as medicine to treat inflammation, fever and pain. Cultivation Growing conditions Aralia cordata can be grown in normal, sandy, or clay soil with a neutral or acidic content of pH 5.0 to 7.5. Organic material should be added to clays and sands. It is an easy plant to grow, and does not require fertilizer. The plant grows rapidly, attaining a size up to in height and width in a single growing season. It can tolerate freezing temperatures during winter, as it dies back and then re-grows in the spring, yielding for six years or more. It requires little labor; however the shoots require blanching if intended for food use. It must be grown in a climate of minimal to no drought, and can grow well in moist and rainy areas, and mountainous areas. It is generally grown in the wild, but can be grown in fields, cellars, or nurseries. The plant prefers light shade, but can grow in full shade, or in full sun, provided that it has a reliable water source. The seed propagation requires numerous months of stratification for effective germination. Seeds generally do not germinate well directly after harvesting or in dry storage, but germinate well in cold moist sand. Low temperature treatments facilitate the germination process. Chilling treatments are useful to overcome the dormancy of seeds in dry storag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA%20Up%20All%20Night	USA Up All Night (also known as Up All Night and Up All Night with Rhonda Shear) was an American cable television series that aired weekly on Friday and Saturday nights on the USA Network. The show aired from 1989 to 1998. Synopsis The program consisted primarily of low-budget films, bookended by in-studio or on-location comedy skits featuring the show's hosts. In addition to skits, the hosts would also provide sardonic comments about the featured film(s), and observations on various Hollywood- and/or New York City-area clubs and attractions (when the series was shooting out of studio). Including commercials, the program typically ran from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. The films aired ranged from cult classics, to B movies, to other fare not appearing on television frequently. Up All Night would regularly show sexploitation films, with the explicit content edited out. Hosts The series began on January 7, 1989, with comic Gilbert Gottfried hosting on Saturdays from New York City. In that first show, Gottfried was seen in an empty office building in Manhattan. The first two films that night were Cheerleaders Beach Party and Stuck on You!. Halfway through the first season, a Friday night show broadcast from Los Angeles hosted by actress/comedian Caroline Schlitt (fresh off the short-lived Camp Midnite) was added. When Schlitt left the program in December 1990, comedian/B-movie actress Rhonda Shear replaced her on Fridays, beginning on January 4, 1991. In 1995, the Shear edition moved to New York City (home of the Gottfried edition), and stayed there for the remainder of the run. Format Originally, the show aired at 11 p.m. on Saturdays, and featured two movies (with in-studio or on-location comedy skits in between), which were then followed by a repeat of the first movie. When the Friday night edition was added in mid-1989, the format now consisted of three different movies, with the third one being unhosted (the bumpers for the third movie were simply narrated by the host, depending on the edition). Some episodes did not have a "third" movie. The Friday show originally began at midnight and ran until 6 a.m.; in July 1991, it was changed to the same time as the Saturday edition. In December 1994, the format was changed slightly to incorporate Duckman into the 11:00 p.m. timeslot, prior to the first movie. This trend of incorporating Duckman into the show continued on occasion until Duckman ended in September 1997. In April 1996, the Saturday edition was moved to 12 a.m.; July 1996 had it move back to 11 p.m., and August 1996 had the Friday show move to 12 a.m. In January 1997, the Saturday show moved to 12 a.m., with the Friday show moving back to 11 p.m. a month later in February. For a short time in 1997, there was no third movie. Specials Occasionally, the show did special episodes which were often hosted by Shear and Gottfried together. They included Grad Night specials at Universal Studios Florida during 1992 and 1993, a mock B-Movie Awards special d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent%20hashing	In computer science, consistent hashing is a special kind of hashing technique such that when a hash table is resized, only keys need to be remapped on average where is the number of keys and is the number of slots. In contrast, in most traditional hash tables, a change in the number of array slots causes nearly all keys to be remapped because the mapping between the keys and the slots is defined by a modular operation. History The term "consistent hashing" was introduced by David Karger et al. at MIT for use in distributed caching, particularly for the web. This academic paper from 1997 in Symposium on Theory of Computing introduced the term "consistent hashing" as a way of distributing requests among a changing population of web servers. Each slot is then represented by a server in a distributed system or cluster. The addition of a server and the removal of a server (during scalability or outage) requires only items to be re-shuffled when the number of slots (i.e. servers) change. The authors mention linear hashing and its ability to handle sequential server addition and removal, while consistent hashing allows servers to be added and removed in an arbitrary order. The paper was later re-purposed to address technical challenge of keeping track of a file in peer-to-peer networks such as a distributed hash table. Teradata used this technique in their distributed database, released in 1986, although they did not use this term. Teradata still uses the concept of a hash table to fulfill exactly this purpose. Akamai Technologies was founded in 1998 by the scientists Daniel Lewin and F. Thomson Leighton (co-authors of the article coining "consistent hashing"). In Akamai's content delivery network, consistent hashing is used to balance the load within a cluster of servers, while a stable marriage algorithm is used to balance load across clusters. Consistent hashing has also been used to reduce the impact of partial system failures in large web applications to provide robust caching without incurring the system-wide fallout of a failure. Consistent hashing is also the cornerstone of distributed hash tables (DHTs), which employ hash values to partition a keyspace across a distributed set of nodes, then construct an overlay network of connected nodes that provide efficient node retrieval by key. Rendezvous hashing, designed in 1996, is a simpler and more general technique . It achieves the goals of consistent hashing using the very different highest random weight (HRW) algorithm. Basic technique In the problem of load balancing, for example, when a BLOB has to be assigned to one of servers on a cluster, a standard hash function could be used in such a way that we calculate the hash value for that BLOB, assuming the resultant value of the hash is , we perform modular operation with the number of servers ( in this case) to determine the server in which we can place the BLOB: ; hence the BLOB will be placed in the server whose is successor of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoot%20Tower	Yoot Tower (known in Japan as The Tower II) is a 1998 construction and management simulation computer game. The game is a sequel to SimTower. The lead designer, Yoot Saito, who also worked on SimTower, produced this game as a sequel to SimTower, adding several new features while retaining the same general interface and style. The game's premise is largely unchanged from its predecessor; players must build a profitable and unique tower block complete with various amenities and living accommodations, while balancing the needs of the occupants. Gameplay Using the provided starting funds, players must begin to build a tower from scratch. As in SimTower, offices and food courts can be built to generate income, as well as condos that can be sold to families. There are plenty of new facilities that can be placed such as rented apartments, vending machines and public restrooms for food court patrons. There are also many changes to existing items that featured in the original game, i.e. a notable difference between the shop item in Yoot Tower and the one originally in SimTower is that it no longer functions as a rented space where the player has no control over what the shop sells; rather the player is provided with different types of shop from the start from which the income they make is part of the player's earnings. Another interesting addition is the ability for players to build two or more towers next to each other and join them with sky bridges. Other income sources also exist, such as placing billboards outside and renting them out as advertisement space. Also new to this game is the ability to choose where the building is built. What the player can do in these locations varies, such as how many stories high the building can be, what the player is actually allowed to build, and how much money the player starts off with. The variation gives each location its own difficulty level compared to the others. Yoot Tower includes a non-invasive form of static in-game advertising. Users can place billboards for Apple Computer (in Mac version only) and Sega, whilst there are tenants featuring real-world stores like GameWorks, Orange Julius or Air Jamaica. Some updates include more real-world tenants and billboards. The Japanese version includes a Glico store. The Tower II is a fully 32-bit program unlike SimTower which was 16-bit. It can even run on all 64-bit Windows operating systems. The Tower II also has a resizable window that can support very high resolutions (3200 x 2160). Expansions A new addition of the game is the ability to expand the game using plug-ins released for download which would add new features, such as new facilities (e.g. additional shops, restaurants, and services, ranging from a Glico store to a swimming pool), new events, billboards, and movies, as well as other aspects of gameplay. Inspection of the game's official website through web archives indicates that although the American version never got any true additions, the Jap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki%20Hemming	Nikki Hemming (born 1967) is the CEO and part owner of Sharman Networks and President of LEF Interactive, an agency based in Sydney, Australia, responsible for promoting and developing Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, since 2002. As such, she has been a figure in the dispute between peer-to-peer networks and the music industry including a legal case between the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She is also suing Jon Newton, founder and editor of Canada's p2pnet, for alleged defamation. Early career She was born Nicola Anne Hemming in Northampton, England in 1967, and she emigrated to Australia in the early 1990s to work for Virgin Interactive. Hemming had previously worked in setting up offices in Germany, Spain and South Africa as well as working for Virgin Interactive and Grandslam Entertainment in the UK before relocating to Sydney. By 1997, Hemming was the CEO of Sega World, a now defunct theme park in the Darling Harbour district of the city. Sega World cost A$70 million to build but failed to attract sufficient visitors even during the Sydney Olympics. After it closed in 2000, Hemming worked for Viacom for a short while. Sharman Networks By 2002, Hemming had established LEF Interactive Pty Ltd, standing for Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, which would be responsible for managing Sharman Networks. Sharman Networks was established in Vanuatu, with the stated intention of investing in Internet companies. In March 2002, Sharman licensed Kazaa and the associated Fasttrack software from company founder Niklas Zennström after Kazaa had been sued by every major record label and movie studio in the US. As at March 2002, Sharman Networks had a decentralised structure which Hemming had set up. Hemming was the only public figure associated with the company and was widely believed to be the owner. The secretive nature of the new ownership arrangements meant that it took nearly a year for the record and movie industries to have enough information to take legal action against the company. In the meantime, Kazaa had become popular, reaching an estimated 64 million downloads of the software with four million installations of the program running at any one time. By 2003, Kazaa was the ninth most popular website in the world. In 2003, a judge in Los Angeles found that Kazaa was subject to US copyright rules. The US Supreme Court found in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. decided during June 2005, that peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa could be sued for copyright infringement. Although the justices could not agree whether it changed a previous ruling in, what is known as the "Betamax case" Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. that it is exempt if there are significant legitimate users of the technology. Kazaa was originally a party but action was dropped against it because it was based in Vanuatu and Australia. Hemming claims that she has offered to wor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20map	In computer science, a memory map is a structure of data (which usually resides in memory itself) that indicates how memory is laid out. The term "memory map" has different meanings in different contexts. It is the fastest and most flexible cache organization that uses an associative memory. The associative memory stores both the address and content of the memory word. In the boot process of some computers, a memory map may be passed on from the firmware to instruct an operating system kernel about memory layout. It contains the information regarding the size of total memory, any reserved regions and may also provide other details specific to the architecture. In virtual memory implementations and memory management units, a memory map refers to page tables or hardware registers, which store the mapping between a certain process's virtual memory layout and how that space relates to physical memory addresses. In native debugger programs, a memory map refers to the mapping between loaded executable(or)library files and memory regions. These memory maps are used to resolve memory addresses (such as function pointers) to actual symbols. PC BIOS memory map BIOS for the IBM Personal Computer and compatibles provides a set of routines that can be used by operating system or applications to get the memory layout. Some of the available routines are: BIOS Function: INT 0x15, AX=0xE801: This BIOS interrupt call is used to get the memory size for 64MB+ configurations. It is supported by AMI BIOSses dated August 23, 1994 or later. The caller sets AX to 0xE801 then executes int 0x15. If some error has happened, the routine returns with CF (Carry Flag) set to 1. If no error, the routine returns with CF clear and the state of registers is described as following: BIOS Function: INT 0x15, AX=0xE820 - GET SYSTEM MEMORY MAP: Input: SMAP buffer structure: How used: The operating system shall allocate an SMAP buffer in memory (20 bytes buffer). Then set registers as specified in "Input" table. On first call, EBX should be set to 0. Next step is to call INT 0x15. If no error, the interrupt call returns with CF clear and the buffer filled with data representing first region of the memory map. EBX is updated by BIOS so that when the OS calls the routine again, The next region is returned in the buffer. BIOS sets EBX to zero if all done. See also BIOS RAMMap by Mark Russinovich References Computer memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Control%20%28disambiguation%29	Creative Control may refer to: Artistic control, the authority to decide how a final media product will appear Creative Control (business), a New York-based online TV network Creative control (business), a Los Angeles-based music supervision company Creative Control TV, an online TV network Creative Control (film), a 2015 film directed by Benjamin Dickinson The Harris Brothers, a professional wrestling tag team who used the stage name Creative Control
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20%28miniseries%29	Traffic: The Miniseries is a 2004 three-part feature on the United States cable channel USA Network, featuring an ensemble cast portraying the complex world of drugs, their distribution, the associated violence, and the wide variety of people whose lives are touched by it all. Production The miniseries was inspired by the 1989 Channel 4 UK television miniseries Traffik and the 2000 motion picture Traffic directed by Steven Soderbergh. Reception The American version was nominated for three Emmy Awards. References External links 2000s American television miniseries Live action television shows based on films USA Network original programming 2004 American television series debuts 2004 American television series endings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt-Putt%20%28series%29	Putt-Putt is a series of children's adventure and puzzle computer games created by Humongous Entertainment. This franchise was Humongous Entertainment's first game series to be developed. They primarily involve clicking to get to a destination, although some sub-quests and mini-games involve the keyboard. The main character, Putt-Putt, an anthropomorphic purple convertible, and his dog, Pep, travel to various locations. History Putt-Putt was originally thought up by Shelley Day as a series of bedtime stories for her son, Travis; the first story involved Putt-Putt saving a cat caught in a tree. Child actor Jason Ellefson did Putt-Putt's voice for the first eight of the games. In the next three games, Nancy Cartwright (of The Simpsons fame) voiced Putt-Putt. Michelle Thorson voiced Putt-Putt in Pep's Birthday Surprise. The games are supported by ScummVM and thus can be played on other platforms such as handhelds. Humongous has brought several Putt-Putt and other titles to iOS and Android. In 1997, Humongous made an agreement with Lancit Media Entertainment to create an animated TV series of Putt-Putt, planned for premiere in the fall of 1998, along with movies and home video releases. It was later planned to premiere somewhere in 2000 under the title, "Putt-Putt 'n Pals". Ultimately, the deal fell through. Several games from the original series were later re-released by Humongous on Steam in April 2014, alongside games from the Pajama Sam, Freddi Fish, and Spy Fox series. The first two games used pixel art graphics; starting with the third game, the series uses hand-drawn animation. Games Adventure games Humongous Entertainment classified these games as Junior Adventures (for kids 3–8): Putt-Putt Joins the Parade (September 9, 1992) Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (October 1, 1993) Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo (August 10, 1995) Putt-Putt Travels Through Time (June 1, 1997) Putt-Putt Enters the Race (January 1, 1999) Putt-Putt Joins the Circus (July 11, 2000) Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise (September 16, 2003) Other games Customization Players can change Putt-Putt's color to original purple, red, orange, yellow, green or blue. All colors can be painted on again. This also changes the color of the dashboard in Putt-Putt Enters the Race and Putt-Putt Joins the Circus. However, in Putt-Putt Joins the Parade and Putt-Putt Enters the Race, each color change costs three coins that can be collected in the game world. In Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise, Putt-Putt's color can only be changed temporarily before reverting to purple after some traveling. His color can also be changed in certain levels of Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama by using Pep to pop certain balloons tied to paint buckets, then catching the bucket containing the desired color as it falls to change Putt-Putt to. Availability For Steam the games were released as single games, or bundled together in the "Putt-Putt Complete Pack" or came packaged with all Humongous Entertainme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20telephone%20numbering%20in%20India	In India, mobile numbers (including pagers) on GSM, WCDMA, LTE and NR networks start with either 9, 8, 7 or 6. Each telecom circle is allowed to have multiple private operators; earlier it was two private + BSNL/MTNL, subsequently it changed to three private + BSNL/MTNL in GSM; now each telecom circle has all four operators including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone idea ltd and BSNL/MTNL. All mobile phone numbers are 10 digits long. The way to split the numbers is defined in the National Numbering Plan as XXXXX-NNNNN. Here, XXXXX identifies the network operator and the telecom circle while NNNNN identifies the subscriber. Telecom circles The Department of Telecommunications has divided India into various telecom circles such that within each circle, the call is treated as a local call, while across zones, it becomes a long-distance call. As of July 2018 there are 22 telecom circles or service areas. They are classified into four categories: Metro, A, B, C. Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata fall under Metro category. A telecom circle is normally the entire state, with a few exceptions like Mumbai and Kolkata (which are different zones than their respective states), Goa (which is a part of the Maharashtra zone), Chhattisgarh (which is part of Madhya Pradesh), Sikkim (which is part of West Bengal) Jharkhand (which is a part of the Bihar zone), Northeastern states except Assam and Sikkim (which are part of Northeast zone) or Uttar Pradesh (divided into east and west zones). Delhi is a unique circle because it includes cities from Haryana (Gurgaon and Faridabad) and Uttar Pradesh (Noida and Ghaziabad) as well. The new state of Telangana remains in the same circle as Andhra Pradesh. From May 20, 2005, calls between Mumbai Metro and Maharashtra Telecom Circle, between Chennai Metro and Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle, and between Uttar Pradesh (East) and Uttar Pradesh (West) Telecom Circle service areas are merged in Inter service area connected in the above-mentioned four states would be treated as intra-service area call for the purposes of routing as well as Access Deficit Charges (ADC). The dialing procedure for calls within a state for these states would also be simplified, i.e. dialing of mobile-to mobile subscribers and fixed-to-mobile subscribers would be without prefixing '0'. In December 2017, Reliance Jio started with the newest of all, "the six-series-mobile numbers", keeping in mind the growing number of users in India. The growth in the number of 4G users in the country has made the 4G base larger than the 2G users in India pushing number of 2G users to second position. Network operators Note: The mobile numbers and operators are subject to change since Mobile number portability is available in most circles. Note: Chennai circle has been merged with Tamil Nadu circle. 9xxx series 8xxx series 7xxx series 6xxx series References India Mobile telecommunications Mobile phone industry in India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%40home	orbit@home was a BOINC-based volunteer computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the "Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis" framework to optimize the search strategies that are used to find near-Earth objects. On March 4, 2008, orbit@home completed the installation of its new server and officially opened to new members. On April 11, orbit@home launched a Windows version of their client. On February 16, 2013, the project was halted due to lack of grant funding. However, on July 23, 2013, the Orbit@home project was selected for funding by NASA's Near Earth Object Observation program. It was announced that orbit@home is to resume operations sometime in 2014 or 2015. As of July 13, 2018, orbit@home is offline according to its website, and the upgrade announcement has been removed. See also List of volunteer computing projects References External links Science in society Free science software Volunteer computing projects Near-Earth object tracking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pybliographer	Pybliographer is a reference management software tool that deals with bibliographic databases, used for viewing, editing, searching, and reformatting bibliographies. Written in Python and licensed under GNU GPL, it provides a scripting framework of classes and functions, which makes it extendable to many other applications. Documentation is available. In addition to the scripting environment, pybliographer provides a graphical GTK+-based interface called Pybliographic, allowing many customizable viewing and editing possibilities. The interface can also be used to insert references directly into LyX, Kile or OpenOffice.org, direct queries to Medline, and more. File formats supported BibTeX ISI Medline Ovid PubMed Refer See also Comparison of reference management software References External links Reference management software Free reference management software Free software programmed in Python Linux TeX software Software that uses GTK Software that uses PyGTK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%2023	Studio 23 (officially Studio 23, Inc. and stylized in all uppercase as STUDIO 23) was a Filipino television network owned by ABS-CBN Corporation. The network was named for its flagship station in Metro Manila, DWAC-TV and carried on UHF channel 23. The network was a sister network of the main channel, ABS-CBN, airing programming aimed towards young adults, such as North American imports and other English-language programming, and original Tagalog programming aimed at the demographic as well, such as supplemental programming for ABS-CBN programs. This station studios were located at 3/F ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Sgt. Esguerra Ave., Mother Ignacia St., Diliman, Quezon City. History At a planning session during the mid-1990s, ABS-CBN staff members were plotting out plans for a new UHF channel offering a more "upscale" alternative to the main ABS-CBN. In the lead-up to the launch, ABS-CBN acquired the rights to many syndicated U.S. imports, such as Wheel of Fortune and The Oprah Winfrey Show. The flagship station, DWAC-TV owned by the AMCARA Broadcasting Network, signed on about a month before the launch of Studio 23, simulcasting MTV Asia. Studio 23 was officially launched on October 12, 1996, but as a timeshare with MTV Asia aired during the daytime, with Studio 23 programming taking over in the primetime hours. The first program aired on launch night was the movie The Bodyguard. Two days later, News 23 premiered, Studio 23's news program produced by ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. Studio 23 also became the first UHF television network to broadcast in full surround stereo. On January 1, 2001, ABS-CBN severed their ties with MTV Asia, and Studio 23 gained total control of DWAC-TV. MTV moved to DZRU-TV after the change and relaunched as MTV Philippines and ABS-CBN launched their own music channel, Myx. Also that day, it launched a new slogan, "Cool TV". On February 22, 2003, Studio 23 simulcasted with ABS-CBN Channel 2 for four months. Studio 23's programming evolved from being "upscale" (as suggested by their previous slogan as the "Premium Network") to a young adult demographic. The network aired a multitude of US imports, but also aired original programming, such as spinoffs and supplemental programming for shows aired on the main ABS-CBN network, such as Pinoy Dream Academy and Pinoy Big Brother. The network won numerous awards from various groups, such as a silver medal in the Print category at the 2006 Promax Awards. Its flagship program, the talk show Y Speak, also won numerous awards and accolades. In 2010, The network was reformatted from English back to Taglish, first adopted in 2004. Studio 23 has announced, on its 17-year broadcast, that it has ceased its commercial operations on the night of Thursday, January 16, 2014, right after its final programs Myx and O Shopping, a video presentation was shown. At the end of it, the station thanked its viewers for the past 17 years on-air. The station officially closed down at around 2am. T
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN%20News%20Channel	ABS-CBN News Channel, commonly known as ANC, is a 24/7 Philippine pay television news channel. It was launched in 1996 as the first all-news network in English language. The majority of its programs are produced by ABS-CBN News. The channel is broadcast on terrestrial television in Guam through Dededo's channel 22. ANC is being broadcast from the ANC studio in ABS-CBN Newsroom, Studio 6 & Studio 7 in ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in the Philippines. An international feed called ANC Global is also available worldwide as part of TFC premium channels via cable, satellite, iWantTFC and TFC IPTV. History The ABS-CBN News Channel was originally established in 1996 as the Sarimanok News Network or SNN. SNN was the brainchild of the late Eugenio Lopez, Jr. who envisioned a 24-hour television network that would become the primary source of news and information for Filipinos. On May 1, 1996, SNN was first offered on Sky Cable. Back then the channel served the viewers through two major news programs, Dateline Philippines and Primetime News, while short news advisories aired throughout the day. On March 7, 1998, SNN also covered the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) games until the merger with Sky Cable's news division, Sky News. To enhance its resources and strengthen its position as the primary news channel for the Filipinos, SNN in 1998 merged with Sky News, another Lopez-owned cable news channel that specialized in business news. The merger of the two networks paved the way for the formation of the country's first 24-hour news channel offering the latest in local and foreign news, business information, sports, weather updates and lifestyle. On October 11, 1999, the network changed its name to ABS-CBN News Channel or ANC. In the years that followed, ANC established its name through its coverage of key events in the Philippines including the impeachment trial of Joseph Estrada, the Sipadan hostage crisis, the Oakwood mutiny, and EDSA Dos and Tres. ANC and ABS-CBN was also the first to reveal the Joseph Estrada's "brown envelope" controversy, Corazon Aquino's death, the Maguindanao massacre, and Hubert Webb's acquittal. In November 2011, ANC, together with ABS-CBNnews.com and YouTube brought the YouTube World View event to the Philippines with an exclusive and one-on-one interview with the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in Malacañang Palace. The questions were submitted and voted by YouTube users from all over the world. On July 18, 2013, ANC announced a partnership with Yahoo!, which saw the introduction of a Yahoo! portal featuring content from ANC (which will remain separate from the main ABS-CBN News website), and would also allow ANC content to be featured on Yahoo! News Philippines. The partnership marks Yahoo's first partnership with a television news outlet outside of the United States, where Yahoo! has recently established a similar content partnership with ABC News. This joint-venture website was discontinued after it was rev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Force	Full Force is an American music group of hip hop and R&B singers and producers from Brooklyn, New York. Members B-Fine (Brian George) - drums and drum programming, backing vocals Shy Shy (Hugh Junior Clark) - bass guitar, backing vocals Paul Anthony (Paul Anthony George) - vocals Bow-Legged Lou (Lucien George Jr.) - vocals Curt-T-T (Curt Bedeau) - guitar, backing vocals Baby Gee (Gerry Charles) - keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals. History Production and songwriting The group produced and wrote music for numerous artists including UTFO, Doctor Ice, Samantha Fox, Patti LaBelle, The Force M.D.s, Britney Spears, James Brown, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, Wild Orchid, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, Selena and Lil' Kim. Full Force's breakthrough hit was UTFO's "Roxanne, Roxanne" (1984), a record that led to several answer records, most notably one by Roxanne Shanté. Through the 80s the group produced a string of major hits for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, including "I Wonder If I Take You Home", "All Cried Out" and "Head to Toe". They also scored hits for Samantha Fox, including "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" and "I Wanna Have Some Fun" and R&B singer Cheryl Pepsii Riley including US R&B number one "Thanks for My Child". Their 1988 single "I'm Real" for James Brown gave the legendary singer his biggest hit for 14 years, peaking at US R&B number two. Additionally, the group wrote and produced most of the singles from La Toya Jackson's fifth studio album La Toya, including "You're Gonna Get Rocked!" and "You Blew," as well as Patti LaBelle's track "I Got It Like That", for which they also provided prominent background vocals from her 1989 album Be Yourself. Full Force also provided backing vocals on two Bob Dylan songs recorded during sessions for Infidels: "Death Is Not the End" (released on Down in the Groove (1988) and "Tell Me" (released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991). Full Force's biggest hit from the 1990s was the Backstreet Boys' 1998 US top 5/UK number 2 hit single "All I Have to Give". Full Force also worked with Prince's ex-wife Mayté on her 1995 album Child of the Sun, however the tracks remain unreleased. Full Force also contributed to the production on Blaque's 2002 unreleased album, Blaque Out and Lil' Kim's 2003 release, La Bella Mafia, on her song "Can't Fuck with Queen Bee." The group produced Rihanna's "That La, La, La," which appears on her 2005 debut album Music of the Sun. The Black Eyed Peas' 2005 worldwide hit "Don't Phunk with My Heart" was also written as a collaboration between Full Force and will.i.am of the Peas. Recording In addition to their production résumé, the group have also released their own albums and music. Their 1985 single "Alice, I Want You Just for Me!" became a Top 10 hit in the UK in January 1986. They placed several hit singles under their own name on the US Billboard R&B chart during the latter half of the 1980s. Tracks such as "Unselfish Lover" (from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Television	On the Television is the cable network Nick at Nite’s first attempt at original late-night programming. The sketch comedy show, can be described as a satirical television critic show in the style of Siskel and Ebert. The one line pitch was "a fake Siskel and Ebert reviewing fake TV shows." It starred Tim Conway Jr. and George McGrath as Dan Clark and Kevin Rush respectively. The show began as an April Fool's Day special for Nick at Nite, which featured Taylor Negron co-hosting with McGrath. Overview The shows were typically broad satires on people and other television shows as well as just being humorous and odd. Some of the shows that were reviewed were: “The Richard Cabinetmaker Story” - Satire of the Karen Carpenter TV movie. “The Valerie Harper Only Show,” - A sitcom starring Harper in a lighthouse refusing visits from guest stars. “A Recent Occurrence,” - satire of A Current Affair. “Carmela!” - an Italian variety show, which featured the original song “My Belly Button." The special received a “Cheers” in the TV Guide “Cheers and Jeers” column, and 13 episodes were ordered. The host characters were changed to those played by Tim Conway Jr. and McGrath. The character McGrath played in the special (Nat Caulfield) became a regular talking to tourists outside Universal Studios about a variety of TV related topics. Each episode contained a variety of TV targets. Most included original music as well as sketch comedy. The series began airing in the fall of 1990, and ran twice a week, Fridays and Saturdays at 11PM ET. Forty episodes were produced through 1991. Both McGrath and Conway appeared in sketches as well as being the hosts. The rotating supporting cast was called “The Otherwise Unemployed Actors.” A number of actors and actresses made their television debuts on the series including Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Griffin, Charles Esten, Mindy Sterling and Julia Sweeney. Some well known actors appeared regularly as guest stars like Rose Marie, Glenn Shadix, Avery Schreiber, Elvira, Phil Hartman, Brian Bonsall, Eve Plumb, and Christopher Knight. When the series ended, the production company declared bankruptcy after having spent the residuals developing pilots that didn't fly. Nick-At-Nite's parent company, Viacom, became owner of the show, but had to pay those back residuals before it could air the series again. Supposedly this is why the series has never gone into syndication. Apparently the cost of paying the writers, actors, and others the residuals involved makes re-airing the series cost-prohibitive. External links 1990s American satirical television series 1990s American sketch comedy television series 1990 American television series debuts 1991 American television series endings English-language television shows Nick at Nite original programming Television series about television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe%20%28dinghy%29	The Snipe is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by William F. Crosby as a one design racer and first built in 1931. The boat is a World Sailing recognized international class. Sailboatdata.com summarizes the design as "one of the most popular sailing dinghies ever. (In its heyday, the largest sailboat racing class). Origins in the US. Built, sailed and raced around the world to this day." Production In the past the design has built by Grampian Marine in Canada; Eichenlaub Boat Co., Jack A. Helms Co., Lofland Sail-craft, Nickels Boat Works and W. D. Schock Corp in the United States; Cantiere Nautico Lillia in Italy; Chantier Aubin in France and AX Boats in Spain. W. D. Schock Corp records indicate that they built 165 boats between 1963 and 1970. Today the boat is built by Jibetech in the United States, Zeltic in Spain and DB Marine in Italy. More than 31,000 Snipes have been delivered. Design The Snipe is a racing sailboat, with early examples built with wooden hulls and more recent ones with hulls made from fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces . The boat has a draft of with the daggerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a whisker pole to hold the jib out, but neither a spinnaker nor a crew trapeze are permitted in the class rules. The boat has a Portsmouth Yardstick D-PN handicap of 91.9 and an RYA-PN of 1117. Operational history The boat is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA), which has a large number of Snipe fleets across many countries. In an August 1959 review for Sports Illustrated, Thomas Atkinson reported, "Unlike many class boats which were designed as pure racing machines, however, the Snipe offers more than speed and thrills. It is a miniature yacht as well as a racing boat, and despite the fact that newer and faster classes continually appear, the Snipe is more in demand than ever. Snipes, in fact, are so much fun they have become the most popular boat in the world. Today there are more than 8,000 of the little 15-footers in commission, sailing out of 250 active racing fleets from Trieste to Tokyo and even in such Iron Curtain countries as Poland, and last year over 400 more were added to the class." Events Snipe World Championships Snipe European Championship Snipe North American Championship Snipe South American Championship Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship Sailing at the 2011 Pan American Games – Snipe Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Snipe United States Snipe National Championship See also List of sailing boat types References External links Jibetech official website Zeltec official website DB Marine offici
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAFE%20NSW	TAFE NSW is an Australian vocational education and training provider. Annually, the network trains over 500,000 students in campus, workplace, online, or distance education methods of education. It was established as an independent statutory body under the TAFE Commission Act 1990. The Minister for Regional Development, Skills and Small Business is responsible for TAFE NSW. TAFE NSW awards qualifications as specified in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), and accredited to the Vocational Education and training (VET). Diploma and Advanced Diploma qualifications awarded may be attributed as partial credit towards bachelor's degree-level studies in some universities. History TAFE NSW has existed for over 130 years aiming to upskill the workforce of New South Wales. Demand for vocational education suffered during the early years of the Depression until a decision to expand training services was made to help decrease high unemployment rates by the mid 1930s. Growth also occurred in the industry after World War I and World War II in response to the need to support Australia's war effort. It also played a part in transitioning the population back into civilian work post war. The establishment of the Technical and Further Education Commission (TAFEC) alongside Commonwealth funding was a key historic moment – Technical Education then became known as TAFE and was established as its own educational body. Local education needs were then met by the regionalisation of community colleges to allow its expansion across the state. 2012–2015: financial and attendance issues Between 2012 and 2016 attendance at TAFE NSW campuses dropped by 83,000 students. In the same period, fees had increased substantially. In a bid to curb this reduction in attendance, 2016 fees were frozen at their 2015 level. In September 2015, a leaked document revealed the State government intended to close 27 sites in order to reduce costs and raise funds. On Thursday 16 June 2016, the NSW Government announced that the EBS4 student management system for TAFE would be scrapped. NSW Skills Minister, John Barilaro directed TAFE NSW to develop a new system in time for the 2018 peak enrolment period. The EBS4 rollout for TAFE NSW resulted in extensive major problems with enrolments, inability to track student financial data and generate testamurs, and a project budget over run of approximately $100m. Geographical areas TAFE NSW comprises 130 campuses grouped by geographic area into ten Institutes: TAFE NSW Hunter and Central Coast TAFE NSW Illawarra (including Karoona Gallery) TAFE NSW New England TAFE NSW North Coast TAFE NSW Northern Sydney TAFE NSW Riverina TAFE NSW South Western Sydney TAFE NSW Sydney Metro TAFE NSW Western Sydney TAFE NSW Western NSW All TAFE NSW Institutes were united as one "TAFE NSW" registered training organisation from 1 January 2019. TAFE Digital is TAFE NSW's online offering. Campuses Each institute has their own main campus, e.g. Newca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More%20%28command%29	In computing, more is a command to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file one screen at a time. It is available on Unix and Unix-like systems, DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS. Programs of this sort are called pagers. more is a very basic pager, originally allowing only forward navigation through a file, though newer implementations do allow for limited backward movement. History The more command was originally written by Daniel Halbert, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978. It was later expanded on by Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck (added underlining, single spacing) and John Foderaro (added -c, more environment variable history). It was first included in 3.0 BSD, and has since become a standard program in all Unix systems. less, a similar command with the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file, was written by Mark Nudelman between 1983 and 1985 and is now included in most Unix and Unix-like systems. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 2 and later. A more command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2. The Software Link's PC-MOS includes an implementation of more. Like the rest of the operating system, it is licensed under the GPL v3. The FreeDOS version was developed by Jim Hall and is licensed under the GPL v2. The command is also available in the KolibriOS Shell. The numerical computing environments MATLAB and GNU Octave include a more function that turns output pagination on or off. Usage Unix-like The command-syntax is: more [options] [file_name] If no file name is provided, more looks for input from standard input. Once more has obtained input, it displays as much as can fit on the current screen and waits for user input to advance, with the exception that a form feed (^L) will also cause more to wait at that line, regardless of the amount of text on the screen. In the lower-left corner of the screen is displayed the text "--More--" and a percentage, representing the percent of the file that more has paged through. (This percentage includes the text displayed on the current screen.) When more reaches the end of a file (100%) it exits. The most common methods of navigating through a file are Enter, which advances the output by one line, and Space, which advances the output by one screen. There are also other commands that can be used while navigating through the document; consult more's man page for more details. Options Options are typically entered before the file name, but can also be entered in the environment variable $MORE. Options entered in the actual command line will override those entered in the $MORE environment variable. Available options may vary between Unix systems, but a typical set of options is as follows: -num: This option specifies an integer which is the screen size (in lines). -d: more will prompt the user with the message [Press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving%20cycle	A driving cycle is a series of data points representing the speed of a vehicle versus time. Driving cycles are produced by different countries and organizations to assess the performance of vehicles in various ways, as for instance fuel consumption, electric vehicle autonomy and polluting emissions. Fuel consumption and emission tests are performed on chassis dynamometers. Tailpipe emissions are collected and measured to indicate the performance of the vehicle. Another use for driving cycles is in vehicle simulations. More specifically, they are used in propulsion system simulations to predict performance of internal combustion engines, transmissions, electric drive systems, batteries, fuel cell systems, and similar components. Some driving cycles are derived theoretically, as it is preferred in the European Union, whereas others are direct measurements of a driving pattern deemed representative. There are two types of driving cycles: Transient driving cycles involve many changes, representing the constant speed changes typical of on-road driving. Modal driving cycles involve protracted periods at constant speeds. The American FTP-75, and the unofficial European Hyzem driving cycles are transient, whereas the Japanese 10-15 Mode and JC08 cycles are modal cycles. Some highly stylized modal driving cycles such as obsolete European NEDC were designed to fit a particular requirement but bear little relation to real world driving patterns. On the contrary, the current WLTP is striving to mimic real word driving behavior. The most common driving cycles are probably the WLTC, NEDC, SORDS and the FTP-75, the later corresponding to urban driving conditions solely. Driving cycle design is the core technology for these standard cycles. Optimization and Markov chains are employed to design a driving cycle. Drive cycle recognition is applying to Hybrid Electric Vehicle. History 1960s At the end of the 1960s, increase use of automobile vehicles led to the first emission limit regulations, first in Germany and then in France, which led to the common Directive 70/220/EEC in March 1970: on 18 October 1968 was published, a 14 October 1968 regulation amended the Straßenverkehrs-Zulassungs-Ordnung in Germany with provisions on measures to be taken against air pollution by positive-ignition engines of motor vehicles, to enter into force on 1 October 1970; on 17 May 1969 was published in the Journal officiel a 31 March 1969 regulation on the "Composition of exhaust gases emitted from petrol engines of motor vehicles" applicable from 1971 or 192. This led to a risk to have different national regulation in different Member States of the EEC. To avoid this and to protect the common market, all Member States adopt the same requirements, either in addition to or in place of their existing rules, in order, in particular, to allow the EEC type-approval procedure, defined by Council Directive in 1970. 1970s In 1 August 1970, United Nations Regulatio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubna%2048K	The Dubna 48K (Дубна 48К) is a Soviet clone of the ZX Spectrum home computer launched in 1991. It was based on an analogue of the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. Its name comes from Dubna, a town near Moscow, where it was produced on the "TENSOR" instrument factory, and "48K" stands for 48 KBs of RAM. Overview According to the manual, this computer was intended for: studying the principles of PC operation various kinds of calculations "intellectual games" By the time this computer was released (1991), there were already much more powerful x86 CPUs and commercially available advanced operating systems, such as Unix, DOS and Windows. The Dubna 48K had only a built-in BASIC interpreter, and loaded its programs from a cassette recorder, so it couldn't run any of the modern operating systems. However, the Dubna 48K and many other Z80 clones, though outdated by that time, were introduced in high schools of the Soviet Union. Many of the games for the Z80-based machine were ported from games already available for Nintendo's 8-bit game console, marketed in Russia under the brand Dendy. The machine comes in two versions: in a metal case for the initial 1991 model, and in a plastic case for the 1992 model. Included items The Dubna 48K was shipped with the following units: Main unit ("data processing unit", as stated on its back side), with mainboard and built-in keyboard External power unit Video adapter for connecting the computer to the TV set BASIC programming manual Reference book, including complete schematic circuit Additionally, there were some optional items: Joystick 32 cm (12") colour monitor The computer could also connect to a ZX Microdrive, but such device was never included. Technical details CPU: 8-bit MME 80A at 1.875 MHz (half the speed of the original ZX Spectrum) RAM: 48 KB (16× КР565РУ5Г chips) ROM: 16 KB (2× К573РФ4А) Resolution: 256 x 192 pixels, or 24 rows of 32 characters each Number of colours: 8 colours in either normal or bright mode, which gives 15 shades (black is the same in both modes) Power unit: 5V, 1.7 A Dimensions of main unit: 47×320×240 mm In culture A device named Dubna 48K is referenced in the American film Jason Bourne (2016). In the film, rogue agent Nicky Parsons uses a "palm-sized authentication device" named Dubna 48K to get connected to the mainframe computer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Parsons downloads all the files on the Agency's black operations. The Agency later finds out that the Dubna 48K unit was reportedly destroyed back in 1993, and its access to the mainframe was never revoked. The Agency did not know that it had actually survived its reported destruction. The film does not explain how a device from the 1990s could be still compatible with a mainframe computer of the 2010s. The film also does not point out that the real Dubna 48K was a Soviet home computer which was primarily used to play ports of video games. The video games available to the real Dubna 48K were relea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail%20%28Unix%29	tail is a program available on Unix, Unix-like systems, FreeDOS and MSX-DOS used to display the tail end of a text file or piped data. Implementations The version of tail bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering. The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. The FreeDOS version was developed by M. Aitchison. A tail command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2. CCZE is tail-like while displaying its output in color. pctail is similar to CCZE. It is a colorized tail programmed in Python which tails and colorizes syslog output. Inotail is a deprecated implementation of inotify kernel interface. The early implementation of tail polled every second to see if new data can be displayed, as tail implemented inotifiy kernel interface Inotail become deprecated and it is not longer maintained. Inotail used the Linux kernel's inotify-interface introduced in version 2.6.13 in August 2005 so that it only checks for new data when there really is some. MultiTail not only displays logfiles in colors, it can also merge, filter, scrollback and split a terminal window into subwindows. It is more or less a combination of tail, sed, watch, CCZE/pctail, grep, diff, Beeper and others. Syntax The command-syntax is: tail [options] <filename> By default, will output the last 10 lines of its input to the standard output. With command line options, the amount of output and the units (lines, blocks or bytes) may be changed. In the following example only the last line of the reports is output: $ tail -n1 report-13* ==> report-1301 <== Total tons output for month of January '13 was 523 ==> report-1302 <== Total tons output for month of February '13 was 272 ==> report-1303 <== Total tons output for month of March '13 was 623 This example outputs the last 4 characters of the reports, silently suppressing the filenames. Notice that the count includes the newline character at the end of each line and so the output does not include a leading space one might expect. $ tail --silent -c4 report* 523 272 623 This example shows all lines of report from the second line onwards: tail -n +2 report Using an older syntax (still used in older version of Sun Solaris as the -n option is not supported), the last 20 lines and the last 50 bytes of filename can be shown with the following command: tail -20 filename tail -50c filename However this syntax is now obsolete and does not conform with the POSIX 1003.1-2001 standard. Even if still supported in current versions, when used with other options (like -f, see below), these switches could not work at all. As with all Unix commands, use man pages on the running system for specific options and actions. File monitoring has two special command line option and (follow) that allows a file to be monitored. Instead of just displayi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%202%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29	Line 2 is an east–west line in the Shanghai Metro network. With a length of nearly , it is the second longest line in the metro system after line 11. Line 2 runs from in the west to in the east, passing Hongqiao Airport, the Huangpu river, and the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong. With a daily ridership of over 1.9 million, it is the busiest line on the Shanghai Metro. The eastern portion of the line, from to Pudong International Airport, was operated almost independently from the main segment until April 19, 2019, when through service began. The line is colored light green on system maps. History The first section of line 2 was opened on October 28, 1999, from to . This section, which included 12 stations, totaled . A year later coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the development and opening up of Pudong, marking the official opening of the line, was added to the eastern part of the line, adding . Four new stations, located west of the Zhongshan Park station, opened in December 2006, extending the line to . This section added to the line. Four years later, in preparation for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the line was significantly expanded. In February, the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park station was rebuilt. In addition, another eastern segment took line 2 to . A month later, the line was extended westward to , adding to the line including a stop at . On April 8, an eastward extension added 8 stations to the line, totaling and taking line 2 to . On July 1, opens to the public with the opening of the railway station of the same name. In October 2006, it was decided to rename three stations on line 2 by the end of the year, adopting a new naming scheme: metro stations, unlike bus stops, are no longer supposed to be named after neighbouring vertical streets, but famous streets and sights in the vicinity, making it easier for visitors to find these places. The renamed stations are Century Avenue (formerly Dongfang Road), East Nanjing Road (formerly Middle Henan Road) and West Nanjing Road (formerly Shimen No. 1 Road). <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> <onlyinclude> Up to April 19, 2019, when an eight-car train started serving the whole line 2 in a regular schedule, the east section of line 2 was served by a four-car fleet. Line 2 had a piecewise service pattern during morning peak hours whereby the suburban segment between Guanglan Road station and Pudong International Airport station is partially served by a four-car fleet in addition to the regular eight-car fleet serving the whole line. Already since 28 December 2018, during off-peak times, an eight-car fleet from East Xujing or Songhong Road station may terminate at Pudong International Airport station, but most trains still terminate at Guanglan Road station or Tangzhen (only during peak hours). Stations Service routes Important stations East Xujing to West Nanjing Road The line begins at at the i
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%203%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29	Line 3 is a north–south line of the Shanghai Metro network. Its older rolling stock carry a bright yellow colour belt to differentiate them from Line 4 trains which share a portion of its route, while the newer stock features a yellow and purple livery, which the exact line is labelled using sticker or screens saying “Line 3” or “Line 4”. Unlike the majority of the lines in the Shanghai Metro system, Line 3 is primarily elevated, entirely above ground except for , located at the entrance to Baosteel Group Corporation. The line runs from in the north to in the southwest of the city, where it meets line 1. While line 1 goes straight through the city center, line 3 roughly follows the Inner Ring Road around the city from to (where it turns eastwards to join the route of the Shanghai–Nanjing railway). The line has about 300 drivers. Between December 26, 2000, and August 8, 2002, the line operated under the name Pearl Line; On August 8, 2002, it was renamed as Rail Transit Line 3. The line is colored yellow on system maps. History This line followed the route of historic railway lines Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway Inner Circle Line from Shanghai South Railway Station to Shanghai Railway Station, and Songhu Railway from Baoshan Road station to Jiangwan Town station. December 26, 2000: Shanghai South-Jiangwan Town (trial opening) August 2001: Shanghai South-Jiangwan Town (official opening) January 2004: As part of the Shanghai South reconstruction scheme, Line 3 suspended service at the station, operating between Shilong Road and Jiangwan Town. June 10, 2004: Service suspended at Shilong Road, Longcao Road and Caoxi Road for automatic signal system testing and restoration of land subsidence at these three stations. Service was restored at these stations on July 24. October 15, 2005: Service to Shanghai South Railway Station was restored after the completion of the reconstruction scheme. December 18, 2006: Line 3 was extended from Jiangwan Town further north to Jiangyang North Road, providing rapid transit service to neighbourhoods in Baoshan, as well as to the Baosteel Group Corporation. In October 2006, according to a new naming scheme, East Wenshui Road station was renamed Dabaishu station. The scheme stressed naming stations after existing toponyms, sights and attractions (if any) rather than simply after neighbouring vertical streets, making it easier for visitors to find these places. In this particular case, the renaming aimed also to eliminate possible confusion between Wenshui East Road and Wenshui Road, a newer station of line 1. However, in a more recent case, the same type of confusion occurred at West Yingao Road station of line 3 and East Yingao Road station of line 10. <onlyinclude> Stations Service routes Important stations The northern terminus. Baoshan Town is located near this station. Baoyang Road Ferry Terminal is located nearby. This station is located at Wusong Town, with a memorial for the Songhu Railway, which w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%205%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29	Line 5 is a north–south rapid transit line of the Shanghai Metro network, running from station in Minhang District in the north to in Fengxian District was originally planned as the Minhang and Fengxian sections of line 1 extending south to Minhang. Despite its numeric designation, it was the fourth Shanghai Metro line to enter passenger service, opening on 25 November 2003. The line is colored violet on system maps. History Line 5 was originally built under the direction of Minhang District and remains the only line in Shanghai Metro system that was originally built under the supervision of a county-level government. In 1998, Minhang District authorities signed a contract with Shanghai Jiushi Group to build the line. In 2000, Shanghai Jiushi Group signed a contract between Alstom to purchase trains and started its construction. In 2002, Shanghai Modern Rail Transit Incorporated, a subsidiary of former , was given management of the line. The line entered passenger operations on 25 November 2003, on an initial segment between and stations, entirely within Minhang District. Prior to integration with the rest of the Shanghai Metro network, it used its own ticketing system. In 2005, it was integrated with Shanghai Metro's ticketing system, which enabled an in-station interchange to line 1 at Xinzhuang station. At the same time, management and operation of the line was taken over by Shanghai No. 1 Metro Operation Co. Ltd. Phase II extension and renovation Phase two of the line, which would extend the line further south into Fengxian District, began construction on 30 July 2014. On 1 April 2015, a feasibility study for the extending of line 5 platforms, upgrading signals to support the use of higher-capacity six-car trains and renovation of tail tracks at was approved. Due to these system upgrades, service on the existing line was cut back from station to on 20 August 2018. Full service was restored on 20 October 2018. At the same time, the line began to operate as two separate services, being split at station, due to the anticipated opening of the phase two extension of line 5, which would create two branches of the line. Six-car trains began to run on the service between Xinzhuang and Dongchuan Road station. Passengers wishing to travel the entire length of the line needed to interchange at Dongchuan Road station. On 30 December 2018, the extension from Dongchuan Road station to station opened, becoming the first Shanghai Metro line to provide access to Fengxian District. The extension crosses the Huangpu River using the Minpu Second Bridge, the first Shanghai Metro line which crosses the river by bridge. The total length of the extension is in length, with underground and the remainder being elevated. As a result of the extension, the segment of line 5 between Dongchuan Road and Minhang Development Zone stations was designated as a branch service, while the main service ran from Xinzhuang to Fengxian Xincheng stations. The branch l
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%204%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29	Line 4 is a loop line of the Shanghai Metro network. Its older rolling stock carry a bright purple colour belt to differentiate them from Line 3 trains which share a portion of its route, while the newer stock features a yellow and purple livery, which the exact line is labelled using sticker or screens saying “Line 3” or “Line 4”. To determine the direction of travel, the line that travels counter-clockwise is called the Outer Loop (), while the other line is known as the Inner Loop (). Although it is a loop line, trains returning to the depot use as a terminal to let all passengers disembark. The first segment of the line between and (running in a "C"-shape) opened on December 31, 2005. The remainder of the line opened on December 29, 2007. The line is colored purple on system maps. History October 11, 2009 became China's first national "Worker Pioneer" subway line. Construction accident On August 20, 2001, on 20.10 at construction site during excavating the foundation pit, earthmoving sudden landslide, killing four people died who were buried in the landslide. At 4 o'clock in the morning on July 1, 2003, the Pudongnan Road-Nanpu Bridge section of Line 4 suddenly saw water seepage during the construction of the connecting passage between the upper and lower tunnels. After that, a large amount of quicksand poured into the tunnel, causing internal and external pressure imbalance, which caused partial collapse of the tunnel. It has a funnel-shaped settlement. At 9 o'clock in the morning, the podium of a nearby building on South Zhongshan Road collapsed; beginning in the early morning of the July 2, the flood wall of Dongjiadu Waima Road section began to sink and crack due to the settlement. The embankment collapsed in a serious accident. The Linjiang Garden Building near the scene also experienced subsidence, the most serious settlement exceeded in an hour, and the cumulative settlement reached . This incident affected the plan for the opening of the entire line of Line 4. In August 2004, the Dongjiadu section restoration project was started and it was restored with the opening of the second section in July 2007. On November 5, 2004, the Shanghai Second Intermediate People's Court issued a judgement on the deputy project manager of the subcontractor for the construction of the intermediate air shaft and side channel freezing method. The court convicted him for the crime of a major liability accident which has a fixed-term imprisonment of two years and six months and a probation of three years. The project director representative has a fixed-term imprisonment of six-month with a probation period of two years. The general contractor's project manager for two years with a fixed-term imprisonment of one year and six months. At unbalanced subsidence was discovered. From January 22 to January 28, 2012, it was closed for an overhaul. Stations Service routes Important stations : Interchange with line 3. To transfer to line 1, passengers need
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property%20list	In the macOS, iOS, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files are files that store serialized objects. Property list files use the filename extension .plist, and thus are often referred to as p-list files. Property list files are often used to store a user's settings. They are also used to store information about bundles and applications, a task served by the resource fork in the old Mac OS. Property lists are also used for localization strings for development. These files use the .strings or .stringsdict extensions. The former is a "reduced" old-style plist containing only one dictionary without the braces (see ), while the latter is a fully-fledged plist. Xcode also uses a .pbxproj extension for old-style plists used as project files. Representations Since the data represented by property lists is somewhat abstract, the underlying file format can be implemented many ways. Namely, NeXTSTEP used one format to represent a property list, and the subsequent GNUstep and macOS frameworks introduced differing formats. NeXTSTEP Under NeXTSTEP, property lists were designed to be human-readable and edited by hand, serialized to ASCII in a syntax somewhat like a programming language. This same format was used by OPENSTEP. Strings are represented in C literal style: ; simpler, unquoted strings are allowed as long as they consist of alphanumericals and one of . Binary data are represented as: < [hexadecimal codes in ASCII] >. Spaces and comments between paired hex-codes are ignored. Arrays are represented as: . Trailing commas are tolerated. Dictionaries are represented as: . The left-hand side must be a string, but it can be unquoted. Comments are allowed as: and . As in C, whitespace are generally insignificant to syntax. Value statements terminate by a semicolon. One limitation of the original NeXT property list format is that it could not represent an NSValue (number, boolean, etc.) object. As a result, these values would have to be converted to string, and "fuzzily" recovered by the application. Another limitation is that there is no official 8-bit encoding defined. The defaults utility, introduced in OPENSTEP (1996), can be used to manipulate plist files used for storage of preferences (known as defaults in NeXTSTEP, hence the name) on the command line via their preferences domain, and this utility can be used to edit arbitrary plist files. This utility superseded three older commands. GNUstep GNUstep adopts the NeXTSTEP format, with additions for representing NSValue and NSDate data types. The new typed entries have the form , where T is a one-letter type code. For example, an NSValue of boolean YES is represented as and NSDate objects are represented as <*DYYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS +ZZZZ>. Binary data can also use the more efficient base64 format as . The 8-bit problem is implicitly solved as well, as most deployments use UTF-8. All in all, brings the expressiveness and compactness of the human-readable textual
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Yan%27an%20Road%20station	West Yan'an Road () is the name of an interchange station between Lines 3 and 4 on the Shanghai Metro network. The station is named after Yan'an Road, and opened on 26 December 2000 as part of the initial section of Line 3 from to , and Line 4 service began here on the final day of 2005. During the 2021 Shanghai People’s Congress deputies suggested to change the station name to Donghua University. “Names of Metro stations should give voice to the city’s cultural and historical landmarks, of which universities are surely a part,” said Wang Hongzhi, vice dean of the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Donghua University. “It should become a rule that Metro stations located near universities are named after the institutions.” Gallery References Shanghai Metro stations in Changning District Line 3, Shanghai Metro Line 4, Shanghai Metro Railway stations in China opened in 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20industry	The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labour-intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes. Many food industries depend almost entirely on local agriculture, animal farms, produce, and/or fishing. It is challenging to find an inclusive way to cover all aspects of food production and sale. The UK Food Standards Agency describes it as "the whole food industry – from farming and food production, packaging and distribution, to retail and catering". The Economic Research Service of the USDA uses the term food system to describe the same thing, stating: "The U.S. food system is a complex network of farmers and the industries that link to them. Those links include makers of farm equipment and chemicals as well as firms that provide services to agribusinesses, such as providers of transportation and financial services. The system also includes the food marketing industries that link farms to consumers, and which include food and fiber processors, wholesalers, retailers, and foodservice establishments." The food industry includes: Agriculture: raising crops, livestock, and seafood. Agricultural economics. Manufacturing: agrichemicals, agricultural construction, farm machinery and supplies, seed, etc. Food processing: preparation of fresh products for market, and manufacture of prepared food products Marketing: promotion of generic products (e.g., milk board), new products, advertising, marketing campaigns, packaging, public relations, etc. Wholesale and food distribution: logistics, transportation, warehousing Foodservice (which includes catering) Grocery, farmers' markets, public markets and other retailing Regulation: local, regional, national, and international rules and regulations for food production and sale, including food quality, food security, food safety, marketing/advertising, and industry lobbying activities Education: academic, consultancy, vocational Research and development: food science, food microbiology, food technology, food chemistry, and food engineering Financial services: credit, insurance Areas of research such as food grading, food preservation, food rheology, food storage directly deal with the quality and maintenance of quality overlapping many of the above processes. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, and hunter-gatherers can be considered outside the scope of the modern food industry. The dominant companies in the food industry have sometimes been referred to as Big Food, a term coined by the writer Neil Hamilton. Food production Most food produced for the food industry comes from commodity crops using conventional agricultural practices. Agriculture is the process of producing food, feeding products, fiber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkSpace	DarkSpace is a massively multiplayer real-time strategy computer game developed by PaleStar. Released in December 2001, DarkSpace involves multiplayer spaceship combat between three player-controlled factions. DarkSpace takes place in a persistent universe, referred to in-game as "The MetaVerse", where players choose from several types of ships and fight for control of planets. It also uses instanced "Scenario" servers, where factions battle for control of a single solar system. DarkSpace has a long and varied development history. The game began as a small personal project, survived several deals with multiple publishers, and is run today by a mostly volunteer staff on an open sourced game engine. Gameplay Players begin by selecting one of three factions. Two factions are human: the United Galactic Trade Organization (UGTO) with sleek and well-rounded ships, and the Interstellar Cultural Confederation (ICC) with good long-range capabilities. Players can also choose the alien K'Luth, who pilot fast organic ships and are masters of hit and run tactics. DarkSpace also contains several non-player factions to interact with, such as the Machine Intelligence (MI) race, opportunistic space Pirates, and several other rare and bizarre alien entities. Players then choose a starship. DarkSpace has several types of ships, such as battleships, troop transports, supply vessels, and even space stations. Each ship type has different capabilities and plays a unique role in the game. Scout ships, for example, can reveal enemy positions, while heavy cruisers are built for attacking other ships. Players are not limited to a single ship that they "own"; they can return to a shipyard or home gate at any time and select a new ship. Players can also store modified ship layouts in a personal storage "garage". New players start with the rank of 'midshipman', and are restricted to the smallest ship types. To control larger ships the player must earn higher rankings by accumulating "Prestige Points", which are awarded for various tasks such as damaging enemy ships, bombing and capturing planets, building planetary structures, and repairing the ships of teammates. Most ships not only require a minimum rank but also one or more specific "badges" before they can be piloted. To fly a larger combat ship, for example, a player has to achieve the "Bronze Combat" badge by inflicting 50 points of damage to enemy ships. DarkSpace emphasizes tactical combat: players are able to finely control details of their ship's attack and defense maneuvers. It also emphasizes teamwork and organization: since most ships play very specialized roles, battles can often be won more easily and prestige earned more quickly if players work together as a team. In the larger scheme, faction control of areas in the MetaVerse requires coordination and communication between large groups of players. Although the game takes place in space and uses a 3D graphics engine, gameplay is restricted to a 2D dime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20One%20Scotland	BBC One Scotland is a Scottish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by BBC Scotland. It is the Scottish variation of the UK-wide BBC One network. For all of the time the channel is referred to on screen as BBC One Scotland, sometimes using overlays to replace the normal channel identifier. The station also has its own team of continuity announcers, provided by BBC Scotland, to accommodate for the variations seen in Scotland from the rest of the BBC One network, whilst also providing the channel with an added Scottish identity. The announcers, based in Glasgow, also double up as transmission directors. History The first television service in Scotland was launched by the British Broadcasting Company on 1 January 1968. Presentation BBC One Scotland updated its visual presentation style as part of the network BBC One revamp on 7 October 2006. The presentation style fits in with the national BBC One 'Circle' idents, but with the "Scotland" caption added to the network logo. Availability An HD (high-definition) simulcast of BBC One Scotland launched on 14 January 2013 on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media. On 10 December 2013, BBC One Scotland HD was swapped with the SD channel on Sky's EPG for HD subscribers. Programming BBC One Scotland is responsible for covering certain special events such as the annual Hogmanay Live programme which sees in the New Year, and major Scottish sporting events such as football internationals, the Scottish Cup, Scotland's Six Nations rugby union campaigns, and the performance of Scottish competitors at the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. Whilst generally following the schedules of the UK-wide BBC One, BBC One Scotland offers programming specific to Scotland, such as soap opera River City and football programme Sportscene. As a result of this, regular BBC One shows, such as Holby City, are scheduled at different regular times in Scotland, compared with the rest of the UK. News, Sport and Weather specifically for Scotland are examples of the channel's distinct output. Examples of BBC One Scotland programmes include: BBC Scotland Investigates The Beechgrove Garden Gary: Tank Commander Reporting Scotland River City Sportscene The Scheme 24/7 Still Game Scot Squad References External links 1952 establishments in Scotland BBC television channels in the United Kingdom English-language television stations in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 1952 BBC Scotland Television channels in Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate%20Vocations	"Separate Vocations" is the eighteenth 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 February 27, 1992. In the episode, Springfield Elementary School students take career aptitude tests. When Lisa learns she is best suited to be a homemaker, her dreams of being a professional musician are shattered and she becomes a delinquent troublemaker at school. When Bart finds he would make a good policeman, his grades and behavior improve and Principal Skinner makes him hall monitor. The episode was written by George Meyer and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. American actor and television personality Steve Allen guest starred in the episode as the electronically altered voice of Bart in a fantasy sequence. Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen Rating of 14.8 and was the highest-rated show on Fox the week it aired. Plot The students at Springfield Elementary School are assigned to take the Career Aptitude Normalizing Test (CANT), which will tell them the career they will be best suited for in adult life. After the test results come back, Lisa's test says she would be best suited for homemaking. Heartbroken, she tries to prove the test results are wrong and consults a music teacher about her dream of becoming a professional saxophone player. He tells her that she has talent, but she can never be a professional saxophone player because she has inherited her father's stubby fingers. Realizing her dreams are shattered, Lisa also loses interest in being a good student and lapses into nihilism. Meanwhile, Bart's test says he would be best suited to be a police officer. Bart goes for a police ride-along with Eddie and Lou and helps apprehend Snake during a car chase. Bart becomes impressed with the police officers' authority and qualified immunity. When Principal Skinner discovers Bart's new interest in law enforcement, he makes him hall monitor. Bart issues demerits to students for minor infractions and restores order to the school. Lisa begins rebelling at school. She encounters two delinquent students smoking in the bathroom and suggests they TP Skinner's beloved school mascot, a puma statue, and steals the teachers' answer keys, exposing the teachers' lack of academic intelligence. Skinner and Bart set out to find the answer keys and punish the person who stole them. However, when Bart finds out that Lisa is the culprit, he takes the blame for her, not wanting her to ruin her promising future. Skinner punishes Bart with 600 days of detention. While Bart is in detention, Lisa consoles him by playing her saxophone outside the classroom. Production The episode was written by George Meyer and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. Mike Reiss, show runner of The Simpsons with Al Jean at the time, said Meyer wrote most of the episode by himself without help from the show's other writers. Few changes were
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Front%20%281941%29	Eastern Front (1941) is a computer wargame for the Atari 8-bit family created by Chris Crawford and published through the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1981. A scenario editor and assembly language source code for the game were also sold by APX as separate products. Recreating the Eastern Front during World War II, Eastern Front covers the historical area of operations during 1941–1942. The player commands German units at the corps level as they invade the Soviet Union in 1941 and fight the computer-controlled Russians. The game simulates terrain, weather, supplies, unit morale, and fatigue. A killer app for Atari computers, Eastern Front was among APX's best selling games, selling over 60,000 copies. It was widely lauded in the press and was Creative Computings Game of the Year in 1981. In 1982, it was licensed by Atari for distribution on game cartridge, then rereleased in 1988 in XEGS styled packaging. Gameplay Eastern Front is a corps-level simulation of the first 41 weeks of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The player controls the Germans, in white, while the computer plays the Russians, in red. Units are represented as boxes for armored corps or cavalry, and crosses for infantry, an attempt to replicate conventional military symbols given the low resolution. The playfield is screens wide, screens tall, and uses 18 colors. The screen shows only of the entire map at one time, smooth-scrolling around it when the joystick-controlled cursor reaches the edges of the screen. According to creator Chris Crawford, it is the first wargame with a smooth-scrolling map. The map covers the area from just north of Leningrad at the top to Sevastopol at the bottom, and from Warsaw on the left to just east of Stalingrad on the right. The terrain is varied, including flatland, forests, mountains, rivers and swamps, each with their own effects on movement. Cities are displayed in white, and are a major source of "victory points", the player's score. The game is modal, switching between an order entry mode and a combat mode. During order entry the joystick is used to select units and enter movement in the four cardinal directions. Up to eight orders can be entered for any unit. Orders are remembered from turn to turn, and new orders can be added in future turns after watching an animation of any remaining ones. The orders for any given unit can be cancelled by pressing the . After entering orders, the combat phase begins with . Units attempt to follow their orders to the greatest extent possible, delayed by terrain, blocking friendly units, or combat with enemy units. The screen shows combat by flashing the "attacked" unit, which might be forced to retreat, or be destroyed outright. When all possible movement and combat is exhausted, the game returns to the order-entry phase. Each turn represents one week in-game time, and the game ends on 29 March 1942, after 41 turns. The game engine includes a number of featur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20America	ESPN America was a British-based European sports network, focusing on professional and collegiate sports of the United States and Canada. Originally launched on 5 December 2002 as NASN (the North American Sports Network), ESPN America broadcast a selection of top North American professional and collegiate sports leagues including Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Canadian Football League (CFL), 24 hours a day on digital cable and digital satellite television. Formerly operated by Setanta Sports with backing from Benchmark Capital Europe, it was acquired by the American sports media company ESPN in March 2007. It was subsequently re-branded as ESPN America on 1 February 2009 before closing on 1 August 2013. Programming Programming on ESPN America varied from country to country. The channel operated three feeds throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. In the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordic countries events shown on ESPN America included Major League Baseball, the College World Series, NCAA college football and college basketball, the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship Frozen Four plus the Arena Football League, Major League Lacrosse, and the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship Final Four. In continental Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Iceland the broadcast also included NFL programmes. ESPN America also showed the Little-League World Series from Williamsport, PA and the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest from Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY. NASN paid £11.6m in March 2006 for the rights to show ten live MLB games a week. In 2006, ESPN programmes, including Baseball Tonight, Around the Horn, The Sports Reporters and Pardon the Interruption were dropped from the schedule as the contract between NASN and ESPN ended. However, they returned from 1 April 2007 after ESPN acquired the channel. ESPN America also aired other ESPN US produced single-sport programmes, such as College Football Live, College GameDay, NBA Fastbreak and NASCAR Now. In addition, to mark the 30th anniversary of ESPN, the channel has been showing ESPN Films' 30 for 30 series. On 28 October 2009, ESPN America began to be broadcast in 16:9 widescreen. On 1 March 2010, ESPN America began showing a European edition of SportsCenter, anchored by Michael Kim. The 30-minute programme broadcast five days a week at 6am UK/7am CET with three repeat showings following immediately after, with an updated show at 10.30pm UK/11.30pm CET. The show was filmed at ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, USA. Up until the 2011–12 NHL season, ESPN America held the rights to live and delayed NHL matches as well as round-up programming such as NHL On The Fly, however these rights were not renewed for the UK, Ireland & the Nordic countries and are now held by different networks across Europe. However, they still hold the rights for other countries throughout continental Europe, such as Ger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%201000	The Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000 are the first generations of PDAs produced by Palm Computing (then a subsidiary of U.S. Robotics). It was introduced in March 1996. The Pilot uses a Motorola 68328 processor at 16 MHz, and had 128 kB (Pilot 1000) or 512 kB (Pilot 5000) built in Random-access memory. The PDA has a plastic case (various colors). Its dimensions are 120x80x18 mm and weight is 160 grams. The Pilot has a 160x160 pixel monochrome LCD tactile panel, with a "Graffiti input zone" presented in the bottom third of the screen. Underneath the screen sits a green on/off button, four applications buttons (Date Book, Address Book, To Do List, and Memo Pad) and two scroll buttons. At left, contrast control. At right top, stylus slot. On the back of the device there is a Memory Slot door, Reset button, battery compartment (held two AAA batteries) and Serial Port (for use with the PalmPilot Cradle). Memory is kept in a "memory slot" under a plastic cover at the back top of the PDA. A 512 kB ROM chip stores the Palm OS 1.0 and resident applications. RAM is available in 128 kB, 512 kB or 1 MB; with a PalmPilot Professional memory card, up to 2 MB of RAM. Hardware limit is 12 MB of RAM and 4 MB of ROM. After a calibration test presented during the initial power up, the Pilot would boot and be ready for use and synchronization. Connecting and synchronizing the PDA was initially done through a utility called Pilot Desktop. For the PC, Pilot Desktop was distributed either on 3½ inch disk or on CD-ROM (according to an original floppy disk set, v1.0 was for Windows 95 and included a tutorial disk and two win32s disks for Windows 3.1; v2.0 was for Windows 95 and Windows NT). A version of Pilot Desktop (renamed to Palm Desktop) now exists for use with the Mac platform and open source support exists for use on Linux distributions (one of the preferred development platforms for Palm OS), as well. Lawsuits Palm, Inc. was sued by the Pilot pen company for using the name "Pilot". Palm was later involved in a legal battle where Xerox filed suit for David Goldberg's "Unistroke" patent. See also Palm (PDA) References 3Com Palm Pilot Hardware Book (PDF) 3Com Mac Desktop Handbook (PDF) External links Palm Pilot 1000 Retrospective (from 2006) Memory Modules Pilot Desktop 1.0 Palm OS devices Computer-related introductions in 1996 Products introduced in 1996 68k-based mobile devices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTN	TTN may refer to: Tamil Television Network, a former Tamil language satellite channel TV Today Network, an English-Hindi news television network The Temple News, the student-run newspaper at Temple University The Things Network in low-power wide-area network, see Internet of things TinyaToxiN, a highly irritant analog of resiniferatoxin and capsaicin Totton railway station, station code Toxic thyroid nodule Transient tachypnea of the newborn Symbol for the gene that encodes the protein Titin Trenton–Mercer Airport TTN (gene), largest natural molecule ttn, an Australian children's news program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-Mobile%20Convergence%20Alliance	The Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance, formed in mid-2004, was a global non-profit organisation for improving products for providing convergence between fixed and mobile networks. The FMCA was incorporated as a not-for-profit association under New York law in August 2006. The Alliance had a membership base of 20 leading global telecom operators, most of which were integrated telecom operators owning both fixed and mobile networks. The included vendor affiliation programme made the operators able to work closely with the associate members, who were all telecommunication vendors. Members The alliance was founded by six companies: British Telecom, NTT, Rogers Wireless, Brasil Telecom, Korea Telecom and Swisscom. The purpose of this alliance was to encourage seamless integration of mobile and fixed telephone services (Technological convergence). The member operators had a customer base of over 850 million customers and collaborated with member vendors towards accelerated development and availability of Convergence products and services in areas such as devices, access points and home gateways, roaming and innovative applications. Standards In order to accomplish its goals, the FMCA developed close relationships with leading Standards Development, Specification and Certification Organisations (SDO/Fora), including the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wireless Broadband Alliance, Home Gateway Initiative and 3GPP. The FMCA actively contributed towards the delivery of existing and emerging standards that were relevant to FMCA product and service requirements. The FMCA did not aim to create standards but rather to accelerate the adoption of the Convergence technologies by encouraging consistency across product and equipment standards. Disbanding The FMCA was disbanded in March 2010, allegedly because of lack of demand for its services. References BT Group Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Rogers Communications KT Group Telephony Fixed mobile convergence Strategic alliances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist%20Federation%20for%20Social%20Action	The Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA) is an independent network of United Methodist clergy and laity working for justice in the areas of peace, poverty, and people's rights since 1907. History Founding The first decades of the 20th century were a time of heightened awareness in the United States of poverty and social inequality. In an effort to transform the social order and address human suffering, members of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) created in 1907 the organization that would come to be called the Methodist Federation for Social Service and later the Methodist Federation for Social Action. The aims of their Methodist Federation for Social Service (MFSS) were inspired in a large part by the importance that Methodism founder John Wesley placed on work for the betterment of humankind, and shared the theological grounding of the broader Protestant Social Gospel movement, which articulated a normative relationship between the Biblical teachings of Jesus Christ and efforts toward systemic social change. Originally the Methodist Federation for Social Service, MFSA was founded in 1907 in Washington, DC after meeting with President Roosevelt. Several Methodist Episcopal clergy (including Frank Mason North, author of "Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life") organized the Federation to direct church attention to the enormous human suffering among the working class. The organization supported labor unions and held socialist views, calling industrial capitalism an "unchristian and antisocial". MFSA met with immediate success in rallying American Methodists around Social Gospel issues, and the MEC General Conference of 1908 adopted the denomination's historic Social Creed which was penned by the leadership of the Federation. The social creed has been adapted several times but is also the basis for many of the civil and human rights laws that exist today. The lines between the nominally independent Federation and the MEC proper were quickly blurred as the former was charged with the coordination of Social Creed-related ministries. The collaboration was a productive one, however, with MFSA members encouraging significant contributions to the labor rights, Temperance, and Women's Suffrage movements by the denomination, while conducting cutting-edge advocacy under their organization's own auspices. McConnell and Ward era For almost four decades thereafter the Federation was led by Bishop Francis John McConnell and Harry F. Ward, an outstanding church ethicist and activist. During the 1920s and 1930s this leadership was fully shared by Winifred Chappell, a deaconess and devoted advocate for the workers' struggle. In the 1930s the Federation adopted as its goal the replacement of an economic system based on the struggle for profit by "social-economic planning to develop a society without class or group discriminations and privileges." By the onset of the 1930s and the Great Depression, the MFSA consensus position on economic affa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Widower	"Black Widower" is the twenty-first 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 April 9, 1992. The episode was written by Jon Vitti and directed by David Silverman. Kelsey Grammer guest starred as Sideshow Bob for the second time. In the episode, Sideshow Bob — Bart's new archenemy — returns, wanting to kill Bart as revenge for sending him to jail. He instead marries Bart's aunt Selma, but when Bart later realizes that Bob is planning to kill Selma, he prevents the attempted murder and Bob is sent back to prison. "Black Widower" finished 39th in Nielsen ratings for the week that it originally aired. Reviewers generally enjoyed the episode, and gave Grammer's portrayal of Sideshow Bob particular praise. Plot The Simpsons have dinner with Selma and her new boyfriend Sideshow Bob. Bob's presence frightens Bart and Lisa. During dinner, Bob reveals that while he was in prison, he began building up hatred and the desire to kill Bart for exposing his crime of framing Krusty the Clown and started plotting revenge. However, after receiving Selma's response to his "Prison Pen Pal" ad, he fell in love with her and was inspired to become a model prisoner, earning an early release. Bob proposes to Selma and she accepts. He makes an appearance at a Krusty the Clown telethon and they reconcile. Lisa encourages Bart to forgive Bob, but Bart refuses to believe he is reformed. When Selma discovers that Bob detests MacGyver, the marriage is nearly called off until Bob takes Homer's suggestion to let Selma watch it alone while he takes a walk. Whilst planning for the wedding, Selma reveals that she has no sense of smell or taste after a mishap with a bottle rocket as a child, and at the wedding reception, she announces that she has cut back on cigarettes, smoking only after meals and episodes of MacGyver. Selma sends the Simpsons a tape of their honeymoon which captures Bob's tirade over the lack of a gas fireplace in their hotel room. While watching MacGyver with Patty that night, Bart realizes that Selma is in danger and the Simpsons rush to the hotel room. When Selma retires alone to watch MacGyver, her hotel room explodes. Bob returns, expecting Selma dead, but she is unscathed, and the Simpsons and the police apprehend Bob. Bart explains how he exposed Bob's scheme: Bob opened the gas valve in the hotel room, knowing Selma would not smell the leak. He left while she watched MacGyver, knowing she would light a cigarette afterwards and cause an explosion. Although Bart foiled the plot, Chief Wiggum absent-mindedly threw a match into the room after smoking a celebratory cigar, causing the explosion. Bob, vowing revenge on Bart, is led away by the police. As Selma blames herself for almost getting killed, Marge praises Bart for foiling Bob's plot and not losing his mistrust of Bob. Production "Black Widower" was written by Jon Vitti and directed by David Si
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Siemon%20Company	The Siemon Company is an American telecommunications company founded in 1903 that provides IT infrastructure hardware and services for data centers, local area networks (LANs) and intelligent buildings. The Siemon Company offers copper and optical fiber cabling systems, cabinets, racks, cable management, data center power and cooling systems. History The Siemon Company was founded in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1903. In 1906, The Siemon Company began manufacturing of a three-pole connecting block for AT&T. AT&T's three-pole connecting blocks were ceramic and fragile. Carl Siemon manufactured a durable plastic version identical to the AT&T block and became a supplier for AT&T and the later "Baby Bells." In 1923, the company acquired the Bell Record Company and began manufacturing records. In 1954, the company relocated from its original home in Bridgeport, Connecticut to its current headquarters in Watertown, Connecticut. During the 1960s, The Siemon Company acquired the Dynamic Tool & Manufacturing Company and expanded operations to Canada and Puerto Rico. Siemon began shipping its 66 connecting blocks to other customers, and the 66 block quickly became the standard for installing new telephone systems. During the 1980s, the Siemon Company began focusing on the computer networking industry, producing network jacks, patch panels, tools, and testers. In 1999, The Global Project Services division of Siemon is launched to provide global cabling services. In 2016, Siemon acquires Gigaduct Fiber Containment System for data centers. Divisions Siemon Interconnect Solutions Siemon Interconnect Solutions (SIS) provides network infrastructure solutions to OEMs, manufacturers, value-added resellers, and system integrators. Siemon Global Project Services Siemon Global Project Services (GPS) is a services team that works on multi-site cabling projects for end users. References Privately held companies based in Connecticut Telecommunications companies established in 1903 American companies established in 1903 Telecommunications companies of the United States Watertown, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caverns%20of%20Mars	Caverns of Mars is a vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was written by Greg Christensen, with some features later added by Richard Watts, and published by the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1981. Caverns of Mars became the best selling APX software of all-time and was moved into Atari, Inc.'s official product line, first on diskette, then on cartridge. The game is a vertically scrolling variation of Konami's 1981 arcade video game Scramble. In Caverns of Mars, the player descends into cave and at the end must retrace their steps back to the top. Christensen wrote two less successful follow-ups, one of which scrolls horizontally and is very similar to Scramble. Gameplay Caverns of Mars is a scrolling shooter similar in concept and visual style to the 1981 Konami arcade video game Scramble. Christensen changed the orientation of the levels, having the player fly down into them as opposed to horizontally through them. Unlike Scramble, rockets in Caverns of Mars remain on the ground. Using a joystick, the player controls a ship descending through a hole on the surface of Mars into a vertical tunnel. The player's spacecraft has two cannons, positioned on either side of the craft, firing downward. The player must avoid hitting the walls while shooting targets of opportunity along the way. Fuel tanks give 5 units of fuel when shot, and the craft is destroyed if it runs out. The cavern is divided into different sections depending on the skill level: the easiest setting has three sections, the hardest has six. The final section is always a reactor which the player lands on and sets to explode. The ship then reverses course and has to fly up and out of the caverns to escape before the detonation occurs. Development Greg Christensen, a high-school senior, purchased an Atari 800 in 1981 and created Caverns in "little more than a month and a half" using the Atari Assembler Editor. It was the first significant program he wrote in 6502 assembly language. Fred Thorlin of Atari Program Exchange recalled Caverns arriving at APX: In the original version, when the player reaches the end of the selected map, the game ends. Thorlin felt it needed something more. Christensen was too busy, but agreed use his royalties to pay for someone else to do the work. Thorlin hired Richard Watts of Macrotronics to make a number of modifications. This included a new ending in which the player has to fly back out of the cavern in reverse before a timer runs out. Two months after sending it to APX, Christensen received his first royalty check for $18,000 and a phone call from an Atari executive who praised the game. Caverns eventually won the 1981 APX game contest, winning another $3,000, and in December 1982, Atari told Christensen he might receive up to $100,000 in royalties. Atari licensed the game in early 1982 for distribution in the main Atari catalog on diskette. This was the first game crossover from APX to Atari; it was
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20New%20Mexico	The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of New Mexico, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct KARA KCRX KKYC KLEA KLEA-FM KLLT KOOT KPAD-LP KPKJ KQGC KRDD KRSN KSRL-LP KYGR KZPI KZRM References Radio stations New Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20M.%20Sullivan	Tom Sullivan is a business news anchor for the Fox Business Network, who also hosts a syndicated radio talk show formerly on the Fox News Radio network. Early career A Seattle native, he moved to the San Francisco, California, area in the early 1970s and later was transferred to Sacramento, California, and now lives in the New York City area. He spent four years as a Washington Highway Patrolman (1969-1973) before moving to Sacramento, Ca to pursue a career in the field of accounting. Media work Sullivan worked as financial editor for both KFBK and for KCRA-TV from 1980 to 2007. In 2007, Sullivan left Sacramento to host a show on the Fox Business Network. His radio show became nationally syndicated by Fox News Radio. References External links TomSullivan.com – radio talk show FoxBusiness.com bio American male journalists American radio personalities Fox Business people Television anchors from Sacramento, California Seattle University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowe%27s%20gerbil	Lowe's gerbil (Dipodillus lowei) is distributed mainly in Sudan; Jebel Marra. Less than 250 individuals of this species are thought to persist in the wild. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Endemic fauna of Sudan Dipodillus Rodents of Africa Mammals described in 1923 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxa named by Martin Hinton Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20Things%20Were%20Rotten	When Things Were Rotten is an American sitcom television series, set in 1197, created in 1975 by Mel Brooks. It aired for half a season on the ABC network. A parody of the Robin Hood legend, the series starred Dick Gautier (who earlier had played Hymie the Robot in Brooks' Get Smart series) as the handsome and heroic Robin Hood. The series received mostly critical acclaim, though John Leonard wrote that watching it was "like being locked inside a package of bubblegum where the only card is Alvin Dark." It failed to find an audience and was cancelled after 13 episodes. The Bionic Woman was its midseason replacement, and became a great success. Eighteen years later, Brooks produced another Robin Hood parody, the feature film Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The complete series was released on DVD in 2013 as a manufactured-on-demand item exclusively available on Amazon.com's CreateSpace. Cast Episodes References External links 1970s American sitcoms American Broadcasting Company original programming Television series set in the Middle Ages Robin Hood television series Television series by CBS Studios 1975 American television series debuts 1975 American television series endings Television series created by Mel Brooks English-language television shows Television shows set in London Robin Hood parodies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Ervin%20Szab%C3%B3%20Library	Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár (literally Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library) is the largest library network in Budapest, Hungary. The Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library's main branch is housed in the 19th-century neo-baroque Wenckheim Palace. The municipal library needed more space as its collection grew, so it expanded to a network of additional buildings while restoring the palace as a national monument. The library is now 13,000 m² and houses Budapest's largest public collection of books with a capacity for 1,100,000 volumes. In 2003, the International Real Estate Federation awarded the Prix d’Excellence to its central building. See also Ervin Szabó References External links Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library Libraries in Hungary Culture in Budapest Baroque Revival architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20short-tailed%20gerbil	The greater short-tailed gerbil (Dipodillus maghrebi) is a rodent found mainly in Morocco. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Dipodillus Rodents of North Africa Endemic fauna of Morocco Mammals described in 1972 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMD%20RAMLink	The RAMLink was one of several RAM expansion products made by Creative Micro Designs (CMD) for Commodore's C64/128 home computers. The RAMLink was intended as a third-party alternative, successor and optionally companion to Commodore's own 17xx-series REU RAM expansion cartridges. Unlike the REU, the RAMLink is externally powered and designed from the ground-up to act as a RAM disk. Features Allows up to 16 MB of expansion RAM. The expansion memory can be provided by a combination of 30-pin SIMM RAM on an internal card, a Commodore 17xx-series REU (or a clone) plugged into the RAM Port, or a GeoRAM. Provides its own copy of JiffyDOS, allowing accelerated operation with any other JiffyDOS-equipped disk device, as well as shorthand commands (DOS Wedge) to conveniently access any other connected storage devices. Full set of partitioning tools and DOS commands. Commodore 1541, 1571 and 1581 disk-layout emulation modes One partition type provides Direct-access REU-like capability Secondary power socket and on-board charging circuit to accept a 6-volt "sealed" lead acid backup battery. Battery-backed real time clock for time and date stamping of files, if the internal RAM card is present. Includes drivers to allow GEOS to use its memory as either a replacement for swap space, or as a regular 'disk' drive. Custom parallel connection for the CMD HD Series line of hard drives. Pass-through expansion port for standard cartridges (e.g. Action Replay, Super Snapshot) On-device buttons to swap device numbers with other drives, switches to disable 17xx-series REUs or change their handling. References Creative Micro Designs (1990). CMD RAMLink User's Manual, third edition. (supplied with the hardware) External links Technical info, Games & Utilities Home computer peripherals Memory expansion CMD RAMLink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Sproull	Robert Fletcher "Bob" Sproull (born c. 1945) is an American computer scientist, who worked for Oracle Corporation where he was director of Oracle Labs in Burlington, Massachusetts. He is currently an adjunct professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Biography While working towards his B.A. in physics at Harvard College in 1967, Sproull met Ivan Sutherland. Together, they worked on head-mounted displays, which led the way for 3-dimensional virtual reality. Sproull received his master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1970, and Doctorate in Computer Science from Stanford in 1977. Sproull worked as a researcher for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from December 1973 to August 1977. While at Xerox PARC, he worked on the design of the Alto personal computer, the first laser printers, page description languages and the initial PC-type operating systems. In 1973, Sproull and William M. Newman wrote Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics; a second edition was published in 1979. This was the first comprehensive textbook on computer graphics, and was regarded as the graphics "bible," until it was succeeded by Foley and van Dam's Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. Sproull was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1980, Bob Sproull and Ivan Sutherland founded a consulting firm, Sutherland, Sproull and Associates. In 1990, Sun Microsystems bought out Sutherland, Sproull and Associates for its patents and key people. This led to the creation of Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where Sproull worked on asynchronous processor design. In 2006 he became director of the laboratories. In 2010 after Sun was purchased by Oracle Corporation, it became Oracle Labs. Sproull is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served on the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He currently chairs the United States National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB). He has co-authored several books in addition to Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, such as Logical Effort, and holds 7 patents. Publications Newman, W., Sproull, R. (1979), Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, Mcgraw-Hill College, . Molnar, C., Sproull, R., Sutherland, I. (1994), Counterflow Pipeline Processor Architecture, Sun Microsystems, Technical Report TR-94-25. References External links Origins of Spline-Based and Anti-Aliased Fonts 1940s births Living people Harvard College alumni Stanford University alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty Sun Microsystems people Scientists at PARC (company) Computer graphics professionals Computer graphics researchers Virtual reality pioneers Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Computer science writers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20Moos	Jeanne Moos (born May 21) is an American national news correspondent for CNN. She is based at the network's studios in Manhattan. Biography A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Moos originally wanted to pursue a career in print journalism, but while attending the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (where she earned a bachelor's degree in TV-Radio), she decided to go into the television business instead. In 1976, she landed her first major job in television at WPTZ in Plattsburgh, New York, as the station's first female correspondent. During her tenure at WPTZ, she covered local and national stories, including the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. In 1981, she joined CNN as a reporter. It was there that she covered stories ranging from political corruption to the United Nations during the 1991 Gulf War. In the 1990s, Moos began to report on unusual and off-beat soft news stories, which is her current trademark. In 1995, she began a series of reports called "Making The MOOSt Of It". Today Moos continues to file reports for CNN in a segment called "Moost Unusual", seen during The Situation Room and until its cancellation in 2014, during Showbiz Tonight on CNN Headline News. These stories tend to focus on subjects related to popular culture and make use of man-on-the-street style interviews, shots of tabloid magazine headlines, and clips garnered from videos on YouTube. They also frequently take viewers behind the scenes, showing Moos placing prank calls from her office or cracking jokes with other employees in CNN's Manhattan studios. Controversy In April 2014, Moos apologized following CNN's airing of a segment titled "Man in thong: Eyes up here, Duchess!", which was deemed "insensitive" and "racist" by viewers. In the roughly two-minute video, Moos mocked New Zealand Maori culture including traditional dance, costume, a greeting ceremony, and the haka, which she described as "a cross between a Chippendales lap dance and the mating dance of an emu". See also Cable news in the United States New Yorkers in journalism References American television reporters and correspondents American humorists S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni Journalists from New York City Journalists from Pennsylvania Television personalities from Pittsburgh Living people CNN people American women television journalists Women humorists 20th-century American journalists 21st-century American journalists 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%20Mogul	Baseball Mogul is a series of career baseball management computer games created by game designer Clay Dreslough. The product was first published in 1997. The 26th and latest installment is Baseball Mogul 2023. A proprietary database, included with the game, permits play in any season of historical baseball from 1901 to the present. The early Baseball Mogul games are considered to be influential works within the baseball management simulation genre. Versions The Baseball Mogul series has incorporated many features over the years. Examples include sortable statistics in more than 150 categories, more realistic aging curves, and detailed scouting reports. Baseball Mogul 2020 Many minor leaguers were added, so players that never made it beyond AA can get a chance Automatic searching for player photos online instead of relying on a set file list Baseball Mogul 2017 New code to help develop player ratings from historical data More accurate defensive ratings Improved model for player health and injury rates Baseball Mogul 2016 70% faster simulations Player rating editor Improved player aging 2016 Rosters Added PITCHf/x data Baseball Mogul Diamond 2015 Rosters updated by an independent source for improved accuracy Free agent compensation Improved aging model, including moving players down the defensive spectrum as they age New AI for improved managing of computer-controlled teams' rosters Baseball Mogul 2015 2014 Rosters Updated historical database through 2013 Build your own expansion team Baseball Mogul 2014 2013 Rosters Updated historical database through 2012 Individual player strategy settings Baseball Mogul 2013 2012 Rosters updated by an independent source for improved accuracy. Updated historical database through 2011 Correct 2012 MLB Schedule New play-by-play engine based on physics rather than a random number generator. New charts on players' scouting cards give heat maps and break down performance in specific situations. Career head-to-head stats added. Baseball Mogul 2012 2011 Rosters with ratings for over 2,000 active players. Updated historical database Correct 2011 MLB schedule, with support for starting seasons as early as March 1. New Play-by play improvements (stadium backgrounds, ability to use pitchers as hitters and vice versa, multiple runners may now tag up, truck the catcher, and wall climb among other things.) New stats such as WAR (Wins Above Replacement) Baseball Mogul 2011 Free Agent Bidding Wars - The CPU will engage in a bidding war over high-priced free agents with the user. New "Skip Inning" Button - During a game a user can now skip through innings he or she does not wish to play, and then return to the game. All-Star Game playable in Play-By-Play Mode - A user can now play the All-Star game. 2010 Rosters and Ratings 2010 MLB Schedule Thousands of small improvements in gameplay, league setup and simulation, and roster control. Baseball Mogul 2010 Expansion teams - You can now start as an expansion team and ru
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%20Dreslough	Clay Dreslough is an American video game designer. He is the creator of the Baseball Mogul and Football Mogul computer sports games, and is the co-founder and president of Sports Mogul, Inc. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Wesleyan University. Professional life Dreslough's design and programming credits include the Tony La Russa Baseball series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball, Madden, Baseball Mogul, Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul, and MLB Slugfest Loaded. His production credits include NBA: Phenom and MLB: Road To The Show. According to MobyGames, Clay has more published baseball and football titles than any other member of the game industry. As a successful computer game developer and publisher, Dreslough is rare in his outspoken stance against digital rights management and other forms of copy protection. According to MobyGames, Dreslough has been credited as a programmer, designer or video game producer on 17 computer game titles; the most recently credited one on that site being in 2013. Baseball research Clay Dreslough has been a member of 'SABR', the Society for American Baseball Research, since 1995. He is the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance. His other contributions to baseball research include the SABR style manual, an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a 'DICE' (Defense-Independent Component ERA). In 1999, Dreslough invented and popularized a new format for the MLB postseason. After an organized letter-writing campaign to the baseball commissioner, this format was adopted for the 2012 season. Personal life Dreslough created his first baseball simulation game at the age of 5. It used three six-sided dice to determine the batting results for each of 9 different types of players. In high school, Dreslough created a baseball simulation game called Pennant Race and a "sperm simulation game" entitled Emission: Impossible. Both were distributed as shareware. He also co-wrote and published One Step Beyond, a tabletop role-playing game. His wife, Dee Dreslough, is a writer and digital artist who has released some of her works under an open license. She is the creator of the fictional world of Dimar, featuring dragon-like creatures and their interactions with humans and other sentient species. The name Dreslough (pronounced DRESS-lock) is a unique name, created by blending the surnames Dresser and McLoughlin. References Living people Wesleyan University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American video game designers American game designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20computing	Task computing is a computation meant to fill the gap between tasks (what the user wants to be done) and services (functionalities that are available to the user). Task computing seeks to redefine how users interact with and use computing environments. It is built on pervasive computing. Task Computing Framework (TCF) and Task Computing Environment (TCE) A Task Computing Framework (TCF) is a framework that supports task computing, by providing support for: The workflows of task computing, i.e., at a minimum, discovery, followed by composition and execution Semantic description of tasks and services Specification, execution, and re-usability of tasks by end users Manipulation, including creation and disposal of services by end users This definition of a task computing framework does not make reference to computational components. This is referred to as a Task Computing Environment (TCE). A TCE is a computational system that includes, at a minimum, the following components: One or more Task Computing Clients (TCCs), One or more Semantically Described Services (SDSs), One or more Semantic Service Discovery Mechanisms (SSDMs), and Optionally, one or more Service Controls (SCs) Applications Using Task Execution EditoR (STEER), embodiments of multiple semantically described services and service controls, the following applications are possible: Exchanging Business Cards Showing and Sharing the Presentation Scheduling a Future Presentation Checking and Printing Directions to the Airport Notes References Related work White Hole PIPE (Pervasive Instance Provision Environment) Software architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Method	The B method is a method of software development based on B, a tool-supported formal method based on an abstract machine notation, used in the development of computer software. Overview B was originally developed in the 1980s by Jean-Raymond Abrial in France and the UK. B is related to the Z notation (also originated by Abrial) and supports development of programming language code from specifications. B has been used in major safety-critical system applications in Europe (such as the automatic Paris Métro lines 14 and 1 and the Ariane 5 rocket). It has robust, commercially available tool support for specification, design, proof and code generation. Compared to Z, B is slightly more low-level and more focused on refinement to code rather than just formal specification — hence it is easier to correctly implement a specification written in B than one in Z. In particular, there is good tool support for this. The same language is used in specification, design and programming. Mechanisms include encapsulation and data locality. Event-B Subsequently, another formal method called Event-B has been developed based on the B-Method, support by the Rodin Platform. Event-B is a formal method aimed at system-level modelling and analysis. Features of Event-B are the use of set theory for modelling, the use of refinement to represent systems at different levels of abstraction, and the use of mathematical proof for verifying consistency between these refinement levels. The main components The B notation depends on set theory and first order logic in order to specify different versions of software that covers the complete cycle of project development. Abstract machine In the first and the most abstract version, which is called Abstract Machine, the designer should specify the goal of the design. Refinement Then, during a refinement step, they may pad the specification in order to clarify the goal or to turn the abstract machine more concrete by adding details about data structures and algorithms that define, how the goal is achieved. The new version, which is called Refinement, should be proven to be coherent and including all the properties of the abstract machine. The designer may make use of B libraries in order to model data structures or to include or import existing components. Implementation The refinement continues until a deterministic version is achieved: the Implementation. During all of the development steps the same notation is used and the last version may be translated to a programming language for compilation. Software B-Toolkit The B-Toolkit is a collection of programming tools designed to support the use of the B-Tool, is a set theory-based mathematical interpreter, for the purposes of supporting the B-Method. Development was originally undertaken by Ib Holm Sørensen and others, at BP Research and then at B-Core (UK) Limited. The toolkit uses a custom X Window Motif Interface for GUI management and runs primarily on the Linux, Mac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20Gang	Bubble Gang is a Philippine television sketch comedy show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Frasco Mortiz, it stars Michael V. It premiered on October 20, 1995 on the network's Friday night line up replacing Vilma. The show is the longest running comedy show in the Philippines. The series is streaming online on YouTube. Premise The show features pop culture parody, skits and sketches. It parodies television shows, adverts and famous people. Overview Bubble Gang premiered on GMA Network on October 20, 1995. It was inspired by the gag show Tropang Trumpo. The original cast consisted of Ogie Alcasid, Antonio Aquitania, Sunshine Cruz, Jackie de Guzman, Assunta De Rossi, Eric Fructuoso, Susan Lozada, Aiko Melendez, Wendell Ramos and Michael V. Production personnel of the show, Diego Llorico and Marissa "Mykah" Flores later joined the show as cast members. On October 14, 2011, Isko Salvador, Ceasar Cosme and Chito Francisco from the show's "Ang Dating Doon" segment returned to the show. On August 2, 2013, Joyce Ching, RJ Padilla, Juancho Trivino and Denise Barbacena joined the show. In March 2020, principal photography was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on August 21, 2020. On May 27, 2022, Tuesday Vargas, Kim de Leon, Dasuri Choi, and Faith da Silva joined the show, while Aquitania, Mikoy Morales, Barbacena, Liezel Lopez, Arra San Agustin, Lovely Abella, Ashley Rivera, Llorico, and Flores left the show. On July 9, 2023, Buboy Villar and Cheska Fausto joined the show, while Valeen Montenegro, Sef Cadayona, Archie Alemania and Faye Lorenzo left the show. On the same day, the show commenced filming in front of a live studio audience. Cast Michael V. Diego Llorico Paolo Contis Chariz Solomon Betong Sumaya Analyn Barro Kokoy de Santos EA Guzman Buboy Villar Cheska Fausto Matt Lozano Former cast Antonio Aquitania Ogie Alcasid Wendell Ramos Susan Lozada Aiko Melendez Sunshine Cruz Eric Fructuoso Jackie de Guzman Maricar de Mesa Assunta de Rossi Alma Concepcion Shirley Fuentes Myka Flores Amanda Page Luis Alandy Aya Medel Sherwin Ordoñez Ara Mina Toni Gonzaga Isko Salvador Ceasar Cosme Chito Francisco Sharmaine Arnaiz Sherilyn Reyes-Tan Wowie de Guzman Angelika Dela Cruz Trina Zuñiga Kevin Vernal Rufa Mae Quinto Maureen Larrazabal Boy 2 Quizon Diana Zubiri Francine Prieto Jacky Woo Rodfill Obeso James Ronald Obeso Jackie Rice Ellen Adarna Gwen Zamora Sam Pinto Sef Cadayona Max Collins Carla Abellana Joyce Ching RJ Padilla Jan Manual Mikael Daez Andrea Torres Juancho Trivino Denise Barbacena Arny Ross Kim Domingo Valeen Montenegro Arra San Agustin Jak Roberto Lovely Abella Mikoy Morales Ashley Rivera Archie Alemania Faye Lorenzo Liezel Lopez Tuesday Vargas Kim de Leon Dasuri Choi Timeline Recurring characte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZMM	DZMM (630 AM) Radyo Patrol was a commercial news/talk radio station broadcasting from Quezon City, Philippines, serving the Mega Manila market. It was the flagship station of the Radyo Patrol Network owned by ABS-CBN Corporation. The station's studio was located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Sgt. Esguerra Avenue, corner of Mother Ignacia St., Brgy. South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City; its 50,000-watt transmitter was located at F. Navarette St., Brgy. Panghulo, Obando, Bulacan. DZMM was simulcast via The Filipino Channel and also has a television channel aired on Sky Cable, Destiny Cable and Sky Direct, and as an exclusive cable news channel named TeleRadyo (now TeleRadyo Serbisyo) where the studio and hosts of its programs can be seen by its listeners and viewers. It can also be received in the United States on DirecTV Channel 2066. Some of the station's selected programming were also simulcast via satellite over (Visayas Regions) DYAP Radyo Patrol 765 in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, DYAB Radyo Patrol 1512 in Mandaue City, Cebu, and (Mindanao Region) DXAB Radyo Patrol 1296 in Davao City. (these stations mentioned also broadcasts local programming in-between). As of May 5, 2020, the station suspended its broadcasting activities, together with that of its free television and sister radio stations, following the cease-and-desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission due to the expiration of ABS-CBN's legislative license to operate. At 05:00 (Philippine Standard Time) on May 8, 2020, however, most DZMM programming resumed as an online feed (including audio feed) and through the TeleRadyo channel (until June 29, 2023). History Radyo Patrol's first literation: the early years It began on October 19, 1953, when DZAQ, the forerunner of DZMM was the first radio station of the former ABS (Alto Broadcasting System) of the Quirinos under President Elpidio Quirino's brother, Antonio (originally came from the pre-1953 experimental station DZBC), opened its doors as a radio station using the Filipino language in its broadcasts, following what DZBC had done before as the first-ever radio station in Manila using Filipino instead of the English language used by other stations at that time. DZAQ 620 kHz featured news, variety and music programs on an AM format which then the progenitor of DZAQ-TV 3. Eddie Ilarde, Ike Lozada, German Moreno and Joey de Leon were the personalities of the station at that time. Its first radio studios were in Manila, sharing the same building with the television studios. In 1957, with the opening of the then new ABS radio and television studios in Pasay, the DZAQ radio studios moved there. Years later, when ABS and the Lopez-owned Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN) were formally merged into a single network in 1967, DZAQ 620 kHz switched frequencies with CBN-owned DZXL 960 kHz and was later rebranded as DZAQ Radyo Patrol 960 kHz, one of the pre-martial law flagship AM stations of ABS-CBN until 1972. Orly Mer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Raymond%20Abrial	Jean-Raymond Abrial (born 6 November 1938) is a French computer scientist and inventor of the Z and B formal methods. Abrial was a student at the École Polytechnique (class of 1958). Abrial's 1974 paper Data Semantics laid the foundation for a formal approach to Data Models; although not adopted directly by practitioners, it directly influenced all subsequent models from the Entity-Relationship Model through to RDF. J.-R. Abrial is the father of the Z notation (typically used for formal specification of software), during his time at the Programming Research Group under Prof. Tony Hoare within the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now Oxford University Department of Computer Science), arriving in 1979 and sharing an office and collaborating with Cliff Jones. He later initiated the B-Method, with better tool-based software development support for refinement from a high-level specification to an executable program, including the Rodin tool. These are two important formal methods approaches for software engineering. He is the author of The B-Book: Assigning Programs to Meanings. For much of his career he has been an independent consultant. He was an invited professor at ETH Zurich from 2004 to 2009. Abrial was elected to be a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2006. See also Rodin tool References External links by Jonathan Bowen Managing the Construction of Large Computerized Systems — article Have we learned from the Wasa disaster (video) — talk by Jean-Raymond Abrial 1938 births Living people École Polytechnique alumni French computer scientists Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Formal methods people Z notation Computer science writers Software engineers Software engineering researchers Academic staff of ETH Zurich Members of Academia Europaea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Computer%20Science%2C%20University%20of%20Oxford	The Department of Computer Science is the computer science department of the University of Oxford, England, which is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. It was founded in 1957 as the Computing Laboratory. By 2014 the staff count was 52 members of academic staff and over 80 research staff. The 2019, 2020 and 2021 Times World University Subject Rankings places Oxford University 1st in the world for Computer Science. Oxford University is also the top university for computer science in the UK and Europe according to Business Insider. The 2020 QS University Subject Rankings places The University of Oxford 5th in the world (with the University of Cambridge placing 6th) for Computer Science. Teaching From its foundation the department taught undergraduates reading for mathematics and engineering degrees, but in 1985 the department's first undergraduate course was established, in 'Mathematics and Computation', followed in 1994 by the 'Computation' course. Initially these two courses had a common first year. 'Computer Science' replaced 'Computation' in the title of both courses for students starting their studies in 2000. Between 1987 and 2006 students started studies on a four-year (undergraduate) MEng in Engineering and Computing Science (now discontinued). In October 2012 the first students of the 'Computer Science and Philosophy' started. Today students on all three undergraduate courses - 'Computer Science', 'Maths & Computer Science' and 'Computer Science & Philosophy' - have the choice between a 3-year BA or a 4-year 'undergraduate masters'. Sixty students began one of the three undergraduate courses in October 2013. There are two full-time taught postgraduate courses: the MSc in Computer Science (approx 50 students total) and the MSc in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science (MFoCS) (approx 15 students total). The department also offers the part-time Software Engineering Programme, a modular course for industry professionals, leading to either the MSc in Software Engineering (approx 240 students at present) or the M.Sc. in Software and Systems Security (approx 45 students at present). Research The department is home to around 145 academic and research staff. The department's doctoral programme has over 140 research students (studying for a D.Phil. – the Oxford term for a PhD) working across a wide range of subjects in computer science and software engineering. After fifty years within the department, the Numerical Analysis group moved in 2009 to be part of the university's Mathematical Institute. Today the department's research is classified into ten broad themes: Algorithms and Complexity Theory Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Automated Verification Computational Biology and Health Informatics Cyber Physical Systems Foundations, Structures, and Quantum Human-Centred Computing Information Systems Programming Languages Security Notable faculty the department empl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazzup%20Wazzup	Wazzup Wazzup was a comedic-news program which was previously aired on Philippine television network Studio 23. The show features Vhong Navarro, Toni Gonzaga, and Archie Alemania as news anchors who introduce segments that are delivered by 'tadjocks' (a pun on the Tagalog word "tadyak", which means "kick" or "to kick"). In the show's first season, the news anchors were Vhong Navarro, Toni Gonzaga and Drew Arellano. Conflicts with Arellano's programs on rival GMA Network forced him to give up the show to focus on other programs he had with GMA. Although no admission or comment had been released by ABS CBN, Wazzup Wazzup was notably very similar in form and concept with the popular Argentine show CQC which has been adapted and shown in five other countries. The theme music of Wazzup Wazzup is originally based on “Whatz Up, Whatz Up” by Playa Poncho, and LA Sno. In April 2006, Wazzup Wazzup was reformatted with the new set including a News Desk and a Stage instead of a Coffee Shop (e.g. Gloria Jean's Coffees) and/or a Juice Bar. Wazzup Wazzup aired its last episode on July 20, 2007. Anchors (former/new) Vhong Navarro Toni Gonzaga Drew Arellano Archie Alemania 4th anchors Zanjoe Marudo Makisig Morales Sam Concepcion Bea Alonzo John Lloyd Cruz Meryll Soriano Sam Milby Anne Curtis Margerie Romero TadJocks Present TadJocks Niña Dolino a.k.a. Chief Tadjock Say Alonzo a.k.a. News Bebot Dianne Medina a.k.a. Tadjock Over Active Eri Neeman a.k.a. Running Tadjock Vincent Liwanag Teddy Corpuz a.k.a. Tedjock (from Rocksteddy) Former reporters Drew Arellano Jaja Bolivar as Kikiam Mitch Hernandez as Lookah JC Cuadrado Ketchup Eusebio Bianca Gonzalez Boomboom Gonzales Jaja Gonzales Carla Humphries Bianca Valerio DJ Mike Jay Eigenmann and James Gabrillo Alvie Lacanlale Sarah Christophers Darling Lavinia Wallace Tiktik CJ Navato Rey Langit See also List of programs aired by Studio 23 External links Studio 23 website Studio 23's Wazzup Wazzup blog Studio 23 original programming Philippine comedy television series News parodies 2000s satirical television series 2004 Philippine television series debuts 2007 Philippine television series endings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBO	NBO may refer to: National Bank of Oman National Bank Open Natural bond orbital, a model within quantum chemistry Network of Buddhist Organisations Network byte order Niobium monoxide (NbO) Non-binding opinion (disambiguation) Northolt Branch Observatories Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMDB	OMDB may refer to: the ICAO airport code for Dubai International Airport Over my dead body (disambiguation), several topics Online music database "OMDB", a song by Rod Wave from the album SoulFly (2021) "OMDB", a song by Big Red Machine from their debut album of the same name (2018) “OMDB”, the Open Media Database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Seven%20Network	This is a list of programs that have been broadcast by the Seven Network / 7HD, 7two, 7mate, 7Bravo, 7flix and Racing.com as well as regional affiliates, including Channel Seven Regional as well as catch-up services 7plus. Some affiliate stations have alternate schedules and may air programs at different times. Currently broadcast on Seven Network Domestic News and current affairs Local productions Seven News – Live and Fast-Tracked nightly 6pm evening bulletins produced locally in Syd/Melb/Bris/Adel/Per/GC/QLD Seven Afternoon News (Seven News at 4) – Exclusive weekdays 4pm5pm, produced locally in Syd/Melb/Bris/Adel/Per (2013–present) National programs produced in Sydney Seven Early News – weekdays 5am5:30am (2008–present) Seven Morning News – Exclusive weekdays 11.30amnoon (2004–present) The Latest: Seven News — Exclusive weeknights 10:30pm11pm (2018–present) Seven News at 5 – Exclusive weekends 5pm5:30pm (2015–present) Sunrise – Live weekdays 5:30am9am (1991–1999, 2000–present) Weekend Sunrise – Live weekends 7am10am (2005–present) The Morning Show – Exclusive weekdays 9am11:30am, weekends 10am12pm (2007–present) Drama Home and Away (1988–present) RFDS (TV series) (2021, 2023–) Comedy Darradong Local Council (2023) Fat Pizza: Back in Business (2000–2007 on SBS, 2019–present on 7mate) Reality Australian Idol (2023–present, 2003–09 on Ten) Big Brother (2020–present) Dancing with the Stars (2004–present) The Farmer Wants a Wife (2007–2016 on Nine, 2020–present) My Kitchen Rules (2010–2020, 2022–present) SAS Australia (2020–present) The Voice (2021–present) Observational / documentaries Australia: Now and Then (2021–present) Border Security: Australia's Front Line (2004–present) Code 1: Minute by Minute (2022) Manhunt (2017–present) Outback Truckers (2012–present on 7mate) Strike Force (2022) Surveillance Oz (2012–present) Surveillance Oz: Dash Cam (2016–present) Towies (2017–present on 7mate) Undercurrent (2019–present) Game shows The 1% Club (2023–present) The Chase Australia (2015–present) Lifestyle A Moveable Feast (Victoria) (2017–present) Australia's Best Houses (2013–present on 7two) Better Homes and Gardens (1995–present) Cosmetic Coffee (2017–present) Creek to Coast (Queensland) (2002–present) The Franchise Show (2016–present) The Great Australian Doorstep (2013–present on 7two) Great Day Out (Queensland) (2017–present) – formally called The Great South East The Great Weekend (Victoria) (2019–present) Helloworld (2019–present) Home in WA (Western Australia) (2000–present) House of Wellness (2017–present) The Intolerant Cooks (2015–present on 7two) Kochie's Business Builders (2009–present) Melbourne Weekender (Victoria) (2006–present) Queensland Weekender (Queensland) (2003–present) SA Weekender (South Australia) (2017–present) Sydney Weekender (New South Wales) (1994–present) Vasili's Garden (2002–2007, 2008–2013 on Channel 31, 2007 on SBS, 2016–present on 7TWO) WA Weekender (Western Australia) (2014–present) Sports talk Armc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firema%20T-68	The Firema T-68 was a model of light rail passenger vehicle first operated on the Manchester Metrolink network in Greater Manchester, England in 1992. It was constructed by Firema specifically as a high-floor, articulated bi-directional tram to operate solely on the Manchester Metrolink system. Twenty-six T-68s were manufactured by Firema at their factories in Italy. Six modified variants (known as the T-68A) were produced in 1999 in a joint project by Firema and Ansaldo. All 32 were replaced by Bombardier M5000s between 2012 and 2014. T-68 The first 26 T-68s were built in 1991 by Firema with bodyshells constructed at various plants in Casaralta (8), Casertane (7), Cittadella (4) and Fiore (7). Bogies and the central articulation sections were constructed at Firema's Padova plant (which was later responsible for the construction of the T68A vehicles). The first T68 to be delivered to Manchester was 1001, arriving 29 August 1991; this was the only T68 to be delivered as a complete unit with the others arriving in separate consignments with each bodyshell and bogies being assembled at Queens Road depot. The T-68s entered service on 6 April 1992. As low-floor tram technology was in its infancy at the time, Metrolink was in its planning stages, and in order to be compatible with standard height railway platforms used by Metrolink, the vehicles were high-floor, using the same platform height as British Rail trains. In the beginning, several stops in the city centre (, , and ) had dual height platforms, with one high part and one lower part. The T-68s were therefore equipped with retractable steps to allow passengers to use the lower section of the platform. The dual height platforms have since been either rebuilt as high level platforms or removed. The T-68s could operate either as single units, or coupled together in pairs. The fleet later received various modifications, including electronic destination displays instead of destination blinds, retractable couplers, covered bogies, internal electronic displays, CCTV in place of mirrors and several other electronic modifications. Fifteen were later fitted with air-conditioning. Vehicle 1022 underwent an interior modification layout trial in 1995 that saw non-standard seating fitted with higher backs and more rounded grab handles. The seats were set in a longitudinal layout to provide for more standing passengers and increase the overall capacity. The trial was unpopular with passengers and the tram was later refitted with standard seats in the original layout. The trial seats were retained and in March 2003 were fitted to vehicle 1007. The final three T-68s: 1007, 1016 and 1022 were withdrawn on 10 February 2014. T-68A Ahead of the opening of the Phase 2 line to Eccles Line, six new vehicles were ordered and constructed in 1999. Bodyshells were again built by Firema, this time at the plant in Stanga, Italy. Traction equipment was built by Ansaldo at the Padova facility, where assembly of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Netz	The Z-Netz was a German BBS network applying store and forward mechanisms to provide their users with e-mail and discussion groups. It can be compared to the U.S. based WWIV network or the international FidoNet. The technical base for the Z-Netz was the software "Zerberus". Initially the network was called "Zerberus Netz" or just "Zerberus". When other software applying the "ZConnect" data transfer method became available, the network was renamed to "Z-Netz" to reflect that. "Zerberus" was developed since 1984. It was later maintained by the "Zerberus GmbH", which was founded in 1992 and dissolved in 1999. Several Z-Netz operators maintained gateways into other networks, most notably the Usenet, and even forwarded Z-Netz e-mail to the Internet and vice versa. With internet access becoming easily available in Germany in the late 90s the Z-Netz began to vanish. References Based in part on the German Wikipedia article for Z-Netz External links Unofficial Z-Netz Homepage (German) Homepage of the former "Zerberus GmbH" (German) Bulletin board systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSAT	The GSAT (Geosynchronous Satellite) satellites are India's indigenously developed communications satellites, used for digital audio, data and video broadcasting. As of 5 December 2018, 20 GSAT satellites of ISRO have been launched out of which 14 satellites are in service. History The GSAT series of geosynchronous satellites is a system developed by ISRO with an objective to make India self-reliant in broadcasting services. The repertoire of 10 GSAT satellites, a total of 168 transponders (out of which 95 transponders are leased out to provide services to the broadcasters) in the C, Extended C and Ku-bands provides services to telecommunications, television broadcasting, weather forecasting, disaster warning and search and rescue operations. List of active satellites This is a list of GSAT current satellites with their outcome. List of upcoming GSAT satellites List of defunct satellites See also Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) List of Indian satellites List of Satish Dhawan Space Centre launches References External links ISRO GeoStationary Satellites INSAT satellites ISRO satellites ISRO programs Communications satellites of India Communications satellite constellations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockman%27s%20gerbil	Brockman's gerbil (Gerbillus brockmani) is distributed mainly in Somalia and is only known from the type locality, Burao in northern Somalia. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient Endemic fauna of Somalia Gerbillus Rodents of Africa Mammals described in 1910 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur%20gerbil	The Darfur gerbil (Gerbillus muriculus) is distributed mainly in western Sudan. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern Endemic fauna of Sudan Gerbillus Rodents of Africa Mammals described in 1923 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxa named by Martin Hinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHIZ-TV	WHIZ-TV (channel 18) is a television station in Zanesville, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC, Fox and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Marquee Broadcasting alongside the company's only radio properties—WHIZ (1240 AM), WHIZ-FM (92.7), and WZVL (103.7 FM). The stations share studios on Downard Road in Zanesville, where WHIZ-TV's transmitter is also located. Although this station is somewhat overshadowed by network affiliates in the nearby Columbus market such as fellow NBC affiliate WCMH-TV, WHIZ-TV provides local news to its limited local area. In addition, the station provides local sports programming, including local high school basketball games on Fridays. It is the only major commercial television station in Zanesville, with the only other local station being PBS member station WOUC-TV (Ohio University at Athens). History Construction on WHIZ-TV began in 1952 at the Downard Road site for Zanesville's first television station. On May 23, 1953, WHIZ-TV began broadcasting on channel 50, with just enough power to reach the 500 or so television sets in the Zanesville area. A year and a half later, WHIZ-TV moved to channel 18, and increased its power output to 186 kW in addition to operating broadcast translators on channel 71 (W71AB) in Coshocton and channel 80 (W80AA) in Cambridge. In 1986, channel 18 increased power output to 589 kW with a new antenna, and introduced stereo sound. WHIZ-TV has been a primary NBC affiliate since the station began, but until 1966 cherry-picked programming from CBS and ABC as well. It also aired some DuMont programming in the 1950s. As WHIZ is the only commercial station in the market, Charter Spectrum's Zanesville system supplements the area with the Columbus stations. In 2002, WHIZ-TV began broadcasting in digital on channel 40. On July 25, 2008, WHIZ was knocked off the air when its power combiner failed. While the station was able to restore its digital signal, it was determined that there was no way to restore the analog signal until early 2009. The originally scheduled digital transition date of February 17 meant that the analog transmitter would be repaired, only to be used for around 48 more days, at most. WHIZ decided not to repair it, as it was financially pointless to restore analog service, and became digital-only as of that date. On April 20, 2022, it was announced that Salisbury, Maryland–based Marquee Broadcasting would acquire WHIZ-TV and its sister radio stations for $10.7 million; the sale was completed on July 15. On October 24, 2022, the station announced that its second subchannel would affiliate with Fox on November 14, replacing WSYX-DT3 from Columbus on local cable and satellite systems, six days before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The subchannel brands itself as Fox 5, in reference to its Spectrum cable position. The subchannel also carries MyNetworkTV programming as part of its weeknight late night schedule, duplicating the prime time scheduling of WSYX-DT2 (which otherwi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20News	{{Infobox \| name = Seven News \| title = Seven News \| image = \| label1 = Slogan \| data1 = "Know The News" \| label2 = Division of \| data2 = Seven Network \| label3 = Opening Theme \| data3 = The Mission by John Williams (1988–present) \| label4 = Founded \| data4 = \| label5 = Headquarters \| data5 = \| label6 = Area served \| data6 = Australia \| label7 = Formerly called \| data7 = Australian Television News (ATVN) (1963–1970) Seven National News (1970–1988) Seven Nightly News (1988–2000) \| label8 = Broadcast programs \| data8 = SunriseWeekend SunriseSeven Early NewsSeven Morning NewsSeven Afternoon NewsSeven News at 5 Seven News The Latest: Seven News \| label9 = Parent \| data9 = Seven West Media \| label10 = Website \| data10 = 7news.com.au \| Picture Format = 1080i (HDTV) downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed. }} Seven News (stylised 7NEWS) is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high definition studios in South Eveleigh, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth city based studios. The network also produces local news bulletins and updates for the Gold Coast, as well as regional markets in Queensland, New South Wales (including the ACT), Victoria and Western Australia. It draws upon the resources of ITN, NBC, Warner Bros. Discovery, CBC, CNN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. The network's Director of News and Current Affairs is Craig McPherson. History Seven News — previously known as ATVN News, Channel Seven News, Seven Eyewitness News, Seven National News and Seven Nightly News — is one of Australia's longest-running television news services, founded in 1958, along with Nine News on the rival Nine Network. In 2003, former Nine Network news and current affairs chief Peter Meakin was appointed to Seven News, tasked with lifting ratings in the struggling east coast markets by including more local content in those bulletins.Seven News has been the top rating news service nationally for all but three years since 2005, partly attributed to the success of television game show Deal or No Deal (and later The Chase Australia), which provided the flagship 6pm bulletin with a significant lead-in audience. In recent years, under the guidance of former longtime National Nine News chief Peter Meakin, Seven's news and current affairs division has produced more locally focused content, which has been lifting ratings for key markets such as Sydney and Melbourne. Since February 2005, the ratings of Deal or No Deal, Seven News and Today Tonight have gradually increased. Seven News was the highest-rating news service nationally in both the 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongola%20gerbil	The Dongola gerbil (Gerbillus dongolanus) is a rodent distributed mainly in Dongola, Sudan.It is sometimes considered conspecific with the greater Egyptian gerbil. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient Gerbillus Rodents of Africa Mammals described in 1877 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyus	Thyus (in Greek Θύoς or Θυς; lived 4th century BC) was a Persian prince of Paphlagonia (in today Turkey) who rebelled against Artaxerxes II. Datames, who was his first cousin, endeavoured to persuade him to return to his allegiance; but this had no effect, and on one occasion, when Datames had sought a friendly conference with him, Thyus laid a plot for his assassination. Datames escaped the danger through a timely warning given him by his mother, and, on his return to his own government, declared war against Thyus, subdued him, and made him a prisoner together with his wife and children. He then arrayed him in all the insignia of his royal rank, dressed himself in hunter's garb, and, having fastened a rope round Thyus, drove him before him with a cudgel, and brought him in this guise into the presence of Artaxerxes, as if he were a wild beast that he had captured. Cornelius Nepos describes Thyus as a man of huge stature and grim aspect, with dark complexion, and long hair and beard. Aelian notices him as notorious for his voracity, while Theopompus related that he was accustomed to have one hundred dishes placed on his table at one meal, and that, when he was imprisoned by Artaxerxes, he continued the same course of life, which drew from the king the remark that Thyus was living as if he expected a speedy death. References Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Thyus", Boston, (1867) Notes Satraps of the Achaemenid Empire 4th-century BC governors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20gerbil	The western gerbil (Gerbillus hesperinus) is distributed mainly in northern Morocco. It is listed as Endangered by the IUCN. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is vulnerable and the criteria used Gerbillus Rodents of North Africa Endemic fauna of Morocco Mammals described in 1936
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalinda%20gerbil	The Rosalinda gerbil (Gerbillus rosalinda) is distributed mainly central Sudan. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient Gerbillus Rodents of Africa Mammals described in 1929
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian%20gerbil	The Nigerian gerbil (Gerbillus nigeriae) is distributed mainly in northern Nigeria and Burkina Faso. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern Gerbillus Rodents of Africa Mammals described in 1920 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxa named by Martin Hinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Hickman	Frederick Hickman (October 17, 1956 – November 9, 2022) was an American sports broadcaster with CNN, TBS, YES Network, and ESPN. He was later an anchor and managing editor for the evening newscast of the African-American cable news channel Black News Channel. Hickman was an original co-host of the CNN show Sports Tonight in 1980. He received CableACE awards in 1989 and 1993, and was a New York Sports Emmy Award Winner in 2004. Early life and education Hickman was born on October 17, 1956, in Springfield, Illinois, to George Henry and Louise Winifred Hickman. He graduated from Springfield Southeast High School in 1974, then attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1974 to 1978, where he earned a B.S. in sociology. While there he worked at the low power KCOE-FM radio station. Career In 1977, Hickman began his professional radio broadcasting career as a news anchor at KLWW-AM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After leaving Coe College, Hickman moved back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois to work at the radio station WFMB-AM, where he was responsible for playing country music. In February 1978, at age 21, Hickman became an anchor and sports director of the Springfield television station WICS-TV. He stayed there until May 1980. CNN and TBS In 1980 Hickman joined the young cable television company Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in Atlanta, Georgia, working with Nick Charles as part of a four-person sports department for the company's Cable News Network (CNN). The duo took to the air on June 1, 1980, as hosts of CNN Sports Tonight, a nightly sports wrap-up show in which Hickman and Charles reported scores and events, showed highlights of college and professional games, and selected a "Play of the Day". The show was a nightly rival to ESPN's SportsCenter, which Hickman later joined. In 1984, Hickman briefly left CNN to serve as a sports anchor for WDIV, the NBC affiliate in Detroit, Michigan. He served as an anchor, a beat reporter for Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, and a boxing specialist from June 1984 to May 1985. In November 1986, he returned to TBS to serve as a co-anchor with Charles for CNN/Sports Illustrated. He remained with CNN until September 2001, and while there served as host for both the NBA and NFL pre-game and post-game shows, a commentator on the Atlanta Hawks, and a co-host of the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France in 1992, the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway in 1994, and the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1999, Hickman was part of a news story when he reported on the millennium celebrations in New York during CNN's coverage of the event. Hickman also served as a Master of Ceremonies, speaker and guest panelist at the Butkus award and the Eddie Robinson Award as well as narrator for TBS’s contribution to Bob Ballard’s National Geographic specials, including the recovery of the Titanic. Hickman caused a controversy in 2000 when he cast his first place vote for the NBA Most V
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20gerbil	The Sudan gerbil (Gerbillus nancillus) is distributed mainly in central Sudan. References Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient Gerbillus Rodents of Africa Mammals described in 1923 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxa named by Martin Hinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo	Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets. The platform comprises both the Maemo operating system and SDK. Maemo played a key role in Nokia's strategy to compete with Apple and Android, and that strategy failed for complex, institutional and strategic reasons. Maemo is mostly based on open-source code and has been developed by Maemo Devices within Nokia in collaboration with many open-source projects such as the Linux kernel, Debian, and GNOME. Maemo is based on Debian and draws much of its GUI, frameworks, and libraries from the GNOME project. It uses the Matchbox window manager and the GTK-based Hildon framework as its GUI and application framework. The user interface in Maemo 4 is similar to many hand-held interfaces and features a "home" screen, from which all applications and settings are accessed. The home screen is divided into areas for launching applications, a menu bar, and a large customizable area that can display information such as an RSS reader, Internet radio player, and Google search box. The Maemo 5 user interface is slightly different; the menu bar and info area are consolidated to the top of the display, and the four desktops can be customized with shortcuts and widgets. At the Mobile World Congress in February 2010, it was announced that the Maemo project would be merging with Moblin to create the MeeGo mobile software platform. Despite that, the Maemo community continued to be active, and in late 2012 Nokia began transferring Maemo ownership to the Hildon Foundation, which was replaced by a German association Maemo Community e.V. Since 2017, a new release called Maemo Leste is in development which is based on Devuan. User interface OS2005–OS2008 Up to Maemo 4 (AKA OS2008), the default screen is the "Home" screen — the central point from which all applications and settings are accessed. The Home Screen is divided into the following areas: Vertically down the left hand side of the screen is the taskbar, with applets for the web browser, communications, and application menu by default. These can be modified using third party plug-ins (e.g. to provide a favorites or command menu). Horizontally across the top left half is the menu bar, which shows the application name and window title, and gives access to the application's menu (which contains the typical file, edit, view, tools, etc., menus and sub-menus). Horizontally across the top right quadrant is the status bar, containing icons such as battery life, wireless connection, volume, Bluetooth status, and brightness by default. These can be expanded using third party plug-ins in the same manner as the task-bar. The remaining large part of the display contains Home applets (roughly analogous to Apple Inc.'s Dashboard widgets), which can display data as well as serving as a shortcut to applications. These include an RSS reader, Internet radio player, Google search box and contact lis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FACT	FACT or FACTS may refer to: Organizations FACTNet, Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers, a British support group Federation Against Copyright Theft, UK Federation of American Consumers and Travelers, consumer group in Illinois Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore, a fertilizer and chemical manufacturing company in India First Aid Care Team, a former emergency medical unit in the US Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, a multimedia complex in Liverpool, England First Atheist Church of True Science, founded by Michael Newdow Civic Action Front of Chad, a defunct political party in Chad Front for Change and Concord in Chad, a military organisation in Chad Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space (FACTS), a speculative fiction convention in Belgium Science and technology FACT (biology) (facilitates chromatin transcription), a protein factor affecting eukaryotic cells FACT (computer language) (Fully Automated Compiling Technique), programming language that influenced COBOL FACT (First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope), a telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, a medical review journal Other uses FACT Act, Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act Fact (UK magazine), British music and culture magazine FACTS (magazine), a weekly magazine from Switzerland FACT Stadium, a multi purpose stadium in Eloor, Kerala Fast-Attack Craft Target, a U.S. Navy powered seaborne target Flexible AC transmission system, for the AC transmission of electrical energy Frolikha Adventure Coastline Track, long-distance trail at the northern part of Lake Baikal in Siberia Cape Town International Airport (ICAO airport code) FACT was a Japanese post-hardcore band See also Fact (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCrypt	VideoCrypt is a cryptographic, smartcard-based conditional access television encryption system that scrambles analogue pay-TV signals. It was introduced in 1989 by News Datacom and was used initially by Sky TV and subsequently by several other broadcasters on SES' Astra satellites at 19.2° east. Users Versions Three variants of the VideoCrypt system were deployed in Europe: VideoCrypt I for the UK and Irish market and VideoCrypt II for continental Europe. The third variant, VideoCrypt-S was used on a short-lived BBC Select service. The VideoCrypt-S system differed from the typical VideoCrypt implementation as it used line shuffle scrambling. Sky NZ and Sky Fiji may use different versions of the VideoCrypt standard. Sky NZ used NICAM stereo for many years until abandoning it when the Sky DTH technology started replacing Sky UHF. Operating principle The system scrambles the picture using a technique known as "line cut-and-rotate". Each line that made up each picture (video frame) is cut at one of 256 possible "cut points", and the two halves of each line are swapped around for transmission. The series of cutpoints is determined by a pseudo-random sequence. Channels were decoded using a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) sequence stored on a smart card (aka Viewing Card). To decode a channel the decoder would read the smart card to check if the card is authorised for the specific channel. If not, a message would appear on screen. Otherwise the decoder seeds the card's PRNG with a seed transmitted with the video signal to generate the correct sequence of cut points. The system also included a cryptographic element called the Fiat Shamir Zero Knowledge Test. This element was a routine in the smartcard that would prove to the decoder that the card was indeed a genuine card. The basic model was that the decoder would present the card with a packet of data (the question or challenge) which the card would process and effectively return the result (the answer) to the decoder proving that it was a genuine card without disclosing any critical information. If the decoder received the wrong result from the card, it was supposed to stop decoding the video. However a technologically insecure implementation of this otherwise strong cryptographic element made it redundant. The VideoCrypt-S variant, used by the BBC Select service, was based on line shuffle scrambling. This form of video scrambling changes the order in which lines are transmitted thus line 20 may be transmitted as line 32. The VideoCrypt-S variant used six blocks of forty seven lines per field. It had three scrambling formats: full shuffle in which 282 lines were affected; half shuffle, in which every alternate field was scrambled; and a line delay scramble in which the start position of the video in each line was pseudo-randomly delayed. The BBC chose to use line shuffle scrambling rather than line cut-and-rotate because tests had shown that line cut-and-rotate is more susceptible to

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