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The Late Show is an American late-night talk show and the first television program broadcast on the then-new Fox Network. Originally hosted by comic actress Joan Rivers, it first aired on October 9, 1986, under the title The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. It is also the first late-night show hosted by Arsenio Hall.
Background
The talk show was a direct attempt at competing against NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where Rivers had been Carson's permanent guest host since 1983. The show was initially broadcast live.
Many in 1986, including top executives at NBC, thought it was possible that Johnny Carson would retire after reaching his 25th anniversary on October 1, 1987, as it was such a logical cut-off point. In spring 1986, a confidential memo between top NBC executives listing about 10 possible successors in the event of Carson's retirement the next year was leaked. Rivers was shocked to see that she was not on the list.
In an article she wrote for People magazine, Rivers said that NBC offered her only a one-year contract in 1985 as permanent guest host while Carson's contract had been renewed for two years, which signaled to her that her future was uncertain as her previous one year contracts had run the same length as Carson's. In addition, Rivers noted numerous snubs from NBC executives over the years, such as not being invited to the annual Carson party until recently, and taking the fall for a controversial joke that management approved during rehearsal. Rivers had received higher-paying offers from other networks in prior years but declined them out of her loyalty to Carson, but in 1986 as NBC was unwilling to give assurances on her future and negotiations were fruitless, this was the impetus for Rivers to seriously consider the Fox offer.
Rivers and Carson
Fox was looking for a host for a late-night talk show for the network's launch in October 1986. Through its purchase of Metromedia, it had been airing The Merv Griffin Show (a syndication stalwart for two decades) but opted to drop that program (leading to its cancellation) to make room for its own show. The new network offered Rivers the job at a salary higher than what NBC was paying. She accepted and Carson was blindsided by the news when he saw the press conference on television. Moments later, when Rivers called him at home, he refused to take the call.
Carson was furious when he found out about Rivers going to Fox. Carson stated that he felt betrayed by Rivers – not because she dared to compete with him, but because she was not honest with him beforehand about her intentions and did not ask him for advice and his blessing. For her part, Rivers was adamant that her problem was with NBC and not with Carson, who was like a father figure to her. She stated that she didn't want to tell Carson before the announcement was made because she was afraid Fox would cancel the deal if word leaked out. She had previously been ordered by Carson's producers and lawyers not to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoopy%27s%20Reunion
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Snoopy's Reunion is the 34th prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the CBS network on May 1, 1991 as part of the animated anthology series Toon Nite. It is one of three Peanuts projects to date (the other being Snoopy, Come Home) not to have "Charlie Brown" in the title (though the working title was Those Were the Days, Charlie Brown) and one of the few Peanuts specials to feature adults on-screen.
Plot
At the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, a group of beagles are born to a dog named Missy: Spike, Belle, Olaf, Molly, Rover, Andy, and Snoopy. The puppies spend their time on the farm enjoying food and playing music with each other, but sadly await the day they will all be separated as they are sold by the farmer to new owners. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown, depressed from a recent defeat in baseball, expresses a desire to his sister Sally to have his own dog.
Snoopy is the first puppy to be sold, to a girl named Lila (previously seen in Snoopy Come Home). The other puppies follow, with Olaf being the last one. The farmer and Missy believe that the puppies have gone off to permanent, better lives. Snoopy and Lila bond easily, but after owning him for some time Lila learns that the landlord has changed the rules in her apartment complex, forbidding the ownership of dogs. Heartbroken, she is forced to take Snoopy back to the farm. The farmer assures Snoopy that they will find him a new home.
Charlie Brown discovers an ad in the paper placed by the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, and travels there with Linus. Charlie Brown and Snoopy meet for the first time, and quickly bond. On their way home, Linus informs Charlie Brown that Snoopy was previously owned by someone else. Charlie Brown declares it does not matter as Snoopy is now his dog. He quickly learns that Snoopy is a rather unusual dog, from sleeping on the roof of his doghouse to taking up human activities like sports.
Five years later, Charlie Brown notices that Snoopy misses his family, and proposes a reunion at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. They send out invitations to his siblings, who all agree to attend, bringing their instruments along. When they get to the site of the farm, however, they discover that it was sold for redevelopment and is now buried beneath a parking garage. Though disappointed, the siblings are happy to be together again, choose to go on with their reunion, and play their instruments together as they did when they were puppies.
At the end of the reunion, Charlie Brown wonders aloud how Snoopy's siblings will get home. Snoopy adapts his World War I flying ace persona and proceeds to fly all of his siblings home on his doghouse. An incredulous Charlie Brown asks Linus how this is even possible, to which Linus replies, "Well, he's your dog, Charlie Brown."
Continuity
This special is not adapted from any particular Peanuts storyline in the comics, instead drawing inspiration from various different storylines and media. Nam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNW
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NNW may refer to:
Neural network, an interconnected group of neurons or artificial neurons
North-northwest or Nor-norwest, a compass direction (one of the eight "half-winds")
NetNewsWire desktop news aggregator for Mac OS X
National Nursing Week, observed in the U.S. and Canada, incorporating International Nurses Day
Net national welfare, another name for Net economic welfare, a proposed national income measure
New native woodland, areas of reforestation created in the UK by the Woodland Trust
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Tidal%20and%20Sea%20Level%20Facility
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Established in 2002, the National Tidal and Sea Level Facility is responsible for monitoring sea levels in the UK.
The NTSLF comprises the UK National Tide Gauge Network, geodetic networks, and gauges in the British dependent territories of the South Atlantic and Gibraltar. Data collected is used to create tidal predictions, monitor climate change and determine extreme sea levels for navigation and coastal engineering design.
The network is funded by the UK Environment Agency. Associated scientific research is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
External links
National Tidal & Sea Level Facility Official Website
Natural Environment Research Council Website
2002 establishments in the United Kingdom
Natural Environment Research Council
Oceanographic organizations
Organizations established in 2002
Research institutes in Merseyside
Sea level
University of Liverpool
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20Arena
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Alien Arena (initially CodeRED: Alien Arena) is an open-source, stand-alone first-person shooter computer game. Begun by COR Entertainment in 2004, the game combines a 1950s-era sci-fi atmosphere with gameplay similar to the Quake, Doom, and Unreal Tournament series. Alien Arena focuses mainly on online multiplayer action, although it does contain single-player matches against bots.
Alien Arena has been released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. While the game's content is proprietary freeware, prohibiting commercial re-sale, the CRX engine is open source. In 2013 the assets license was loosened somewhat, which allowed the game package to be included in certain Linux distributions, such as Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.
Since July 2023, Alien Arena is available on the Linux App Store Flathub. Since August 2023, Alien Arena is also available for free on the indie games website itch.io.
Gameplay
The game features an internal server browser for finding other players online, and the external Galaxy program performs the same function without having to launch the game, akin to The All-Seeing Eye. It also serves as an IRC client for chat between players. The game uses modified Quake II physics. Most Quake II trickjumps, such as strafejumping, will work in Alien Arena. However, dodging, which isn't found in Quake II, has also been added to the game.
Development
Although it had been in development since 2003, Alien Arena was first released as a beta in August 2004, with the title CodeRED: Alien Arena. The first stable version was released in October. Two single-player, campaign-style games, CodeRED: Battle for Earth and CodeRED: Martian Chronicles, were released during 2003. Following these games, Alien Arena received greater development focus. The final upgrade to the two single-player games was made available on February 18, 2005. The "CodeRED" title continued to be used until Alien Arena 2006 was released in November 2005, promoted as a "sequel" to the old CodeRED version.
In September 2012, Alien Arena was also made available as an online version through Roozz. By installing a small plugin, players can play the game in any browser on the Windows operating system.
Game engine
The game is powered by the id Tech 2-based CRX game engine, which has been rewritten to include support for such features as 32-bit high-resolution textures, 3D models used as architecture in maps, GLSL per-pixel lighting effects, parallax mapping, normal mapping, ragdoll physics using the Open Dynamics Engine, server-side antilag code, shaders (GLSL and rscript), textured particles, semi-true reflective water with per-pixel distortion shaders, reflective surfaces on entities, light bloom, real-time shadows, overbright bits, real-time vertex lighting, and other graphical effects, all of which can be turned on or off in the menu. As of CRX version 7.30, OpenAL is used for sound on all platforms. Physics support was added in version 7.50 using the Open Dynamics Engi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationlink
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Nationlink may refer to:
Nationlink (interbank network), an interbank network in the Philippines
NationLink Telecom, a telecommunications operator in Somalia and the Middle East
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20archaeology
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There are two conceptualisations of data archaeology, the technical definition and the social science definition.
Data archaeology (also data archeology) in the technical sense refers to the art and science of recovering computer data encoded and/or encrypted in now obsolete media or formats. Data archaeology can also refer to recovering information from damaged electronic formats after natural disasters or human error.
It entails the rescue and recovery of old data trapped in outdated, archaic or obsolete storage formats such as floppy disks, magnetic tape, punch cards and transforming/transferring that data to more usable formats.
Data archaeology in the social sciences usually involves an investigation into the source and history of datasets and the construction of these datasets. It involves mapping out the entire lineage of data, its nature and characteristics, its quality and veracity and how these affect the analysis and interpretation of the dataset.
The findings of performing data archaeology affect the level to which the conclusions parsed from data analysis can be trusted.
The term data archaeology originally appeared in 1993 as part of the Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project (GODAR). The original impetus for data archaeology came from the need to recover computerised records of climatic conditions stored on old computer tape, which can provide valuable evidence for testing theories of climate change. These approaches allowed the reconstruction of an image of the Arctic that had been captured by the Nimbus 2 satellite on September 23, 1966, in higher resolution than ever seen before from this type of data.
NASA also utilises the services of data archaeologists to recover information stored on 1960s-era vintage computer tape, as exemplified by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP).
Recovery
There is a distinction between data recovery and data intelligibility. One may be able to recover data but not understand it. For data archaeology to be effective, the data must be intelligible.
A term closely related to data archaeology is data lineage. The first step in performing data archaeology is an investigation into their data lineage. Data lineage entails the history of the data, its source and any alterations or transformations they have undergone. Data lineage can be found in the metadata of a dataset, the para data of a dataset or any accompanying identifiers (methodological guides etc). With data archaeology comes methodological transparency which is the level to which the data user can access the data history. The level of methodological transparency available determines not only how much can be recovered, but assists in knowing the data. Data lineage investigation involves what instruments were used, what the selection criteria are, the measurement parameters and the sampling frameworks.
In the socio-political manner, data archaeology involves the analysis of data assemblages to reveal their dis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat
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Agat or AGAT may refer to:
Agat, Burma, a village in Ayeyarwady Region, Burma
Agat, Eritrea, a railway station in Eritrea
Agat, Guam, a village in Guam
Agat (computer), Soviet 8-bit computer
Agat (given name), Russian masculine first name
JW Agat, a unit of the Polish Special Forces
AGAT, an abbreviation for arginine:glycine amidinotransferase, an enzyme
AGAT, an abbreviation for O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, a protein
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBSS
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IBSS may refer to:
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Independent basic service set, in wireless computer networking
International Business School of Scandinavia, a business school in Denmark
International Business School Suzhou, the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University business school in Suzhou, China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Jafarkhani
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Hamid Jafarkhani () (born 1966, in Tehran) is an Iranian-born American electrical engineer and professor. He serves as the Chancellor's Professor in electrical engineering and computer science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). His research focuses on communications theory, particularly coding and wireless communications and networks.
Biography
Prior to studying at the University of Tehran, he was ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian universities in 1984. After receiving his B.S. degree in 1989, he studied at the University of Maryland College Park and obtained his M.S. degree in 1994 followed by his Ph.D. in 1997. After graduating, Jafarkhani joined AT&T Laboratories-Research in August 1997 before moving to Broadcom in July 2000 and to the University of California, Irvine in September 2001.
Within the wireless communications field, Jafarkhani is best known as the primary/main inventor of space-time codes (jointly with Siavash Alamouti and Nambirajan Seshadri) and for his two seminal papers which established the field of space–time block coding, published whilst working for AT&T. The first of these, "Space–time block codes from orthogonal designs", established the theoretical basis for space–time block codes, and the second, "Space–time block coding for wireless communications: performance results", provided numerical analysis of the performance of the first such codes. Space–time codes rely on the use of multiple antennas at the transmit side of a wireless link. Multiple copies of the same data are transmitted from these multiple antennas in such a way that the receiver has a much better chance of correctly detecting the signal in the presence of corruption and noise than if just one copy is sent. The performance of space–time coded systems, in terms of the reliability of the transmission is significantly better than non-coded systems. Space–time block codes in particular are known to be simple to implement and effective, and Jafarkhani's ideas in these two papers triggered the massive international research effort into them that continues today.
Later, in 2001, Jafarkhani introduced quasi-orthogonal space–time block codes which overcome some of the difficulties inherent in earlier codes, at a cost of transmitting less data. These too are now widely studied. Then, in 2003 he introduced a more powerful version of his original codes, the super-orthogonal space–time trellis codes which combine the effects of both block codes and space–time trellis codes. Again, this work has led to significant research efforts around the world.
Jafarkhani received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in January 2003 which "recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge". He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contribut
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Harvey%20Birdman%2C%20Attorney%20at%20Law%20episodes
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is an American animated sitcom that was created by Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter and aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series is about the life and career of Harvey Birdman, an attorney for Sebben & Sebben law firm, who regularly represents various Hanna-Barbera characters.
An early version of the pilot episode originally aired months prior to the launch of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network unannounced on December 30, 2000. It later made its official debut on Adult Swim on September 2, 2001 (the same night the network launched) and ended on July 22, 2007, with a total of 39 episodes, over the course of 4 seasons. The entire series has been made available on DVD, and other forms of home media, including on demand streaming on Hulu. A half-hour long special, entitled Harvey Birdman: Attorney General, premiered on Adult Swim on October 15, 2018.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2000–03)
Season 2 (2004)
Note: From episode 10 to the end of the series, all episodes were directed by Richard Ferguson-Hull.
Season 3 (2005)
Season 4 (2006–07)
Special (2018)
References
External links
Lists of American adult animated television series episodes
Lists of American sitcom episodes
Episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20News%20First
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10 News First is an Australian television newscast, produced by Network 10. The network's ninety-minute long news program airs at 5pm each evening covering local, national and world news, including sport and weather. Weekend editions are presented nationally from Network 10's studios in Pyrmont, Sydney.
Network 10's news division also assists in the production of the morning show Studio 10 and prime-time current affairs program The Project, and produced in association with CBS News, which is in-house since the 2017 acquisition. It also draws upon the resources of ITN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage outside that of Paramount Global.
History
Network 10 introduced its news service in 1965 and was a pioneering force behind the concept of the hour-long news bulletin with co-anchors in the form of Eyewitness News from 1973 onwards. The 1980s were the network's most successful period as a news provider with its local Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane bulletins often rating highest for their 6pm timeslots. Network 10's flagship national nightly bulletin news services has undergone a number of name changes since inception in 1965 including: ATV News in Melbourne, SASTEN News in Adelaide, NewsWatch in Brisbane, TEN News, TEN Evening News, and Ten Eyewitness News, whilst state bulletins titles have included ATV News in Melbourne, SASNEWS in Adelaide and Newswatch in Brisbane
A major change to the service occurred in January 1992 when all five of its local bulletins were moved to the 5.00pm time slot. In 1994 all local weekend bulletins were axed across the network and replaced by a 30-minute network bulletin from Sydney – Ten Weekend News, initially presented by John Gatfield and later by Tracey Spicer, Natarsha Belling and Bill Woods.
A localised version of Ten Weekend News was received from Sydney for Perth, while during the Australian Football League season Adelaide and Melbourne viewers received local news on a Saturday, presented from Melbourne by George Donikian. For a short period in 2009, Ten Weekend News also included localised sport inserts for each market.
10 News First has often been described as a 'training ground' for some of Australia's best-known television journalists. Some of the best-known reporters and presenters who launched or spent a major part of their careers at Network 10 include Jana Wendt, Kerry O'Brien, Katrina Lee, Charles Slade, Ann Sanders, Steve Liebmann, Tim Webster, Ron Wilson, Anne Fulwood, Juanita Phillips, Harry Potter, Liz Hayes, Jo Pearson, David Johnson, Bill McDonald, Chris Masters, Larry Emdur, Eddie McGuire, John Gatfield, Kay McGrath, Graeme Goodings, Sharyn Ghidella, Laurie Oakes, Geraldine Doogue, Helen Kapalos, Jennifer Keyte, Deborah Knight, Bruce McAvaney, Nathan Templeton, Mel McLaughlin, Karl Stefanovic, Mark Beretta, Amber Sherlock and George Donikian amongst others.
In September 2010, the network announced a major expansion of its news service. From 24 January 2011, It expanded it
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20scheduling
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List scheduling is a greedy algorithm for Identical-machines scheduling. The input to this algorithm is a list of jobs that should be executed on a set of m machines. The list is ordered in a fixed order, which can be determined e.g. by the priority of executing the jobs, or by their order of arrival. The algorithm repeatedly executes the following steps until a valid schedule is obtained:
Take the first job in the list (the one with the highest priority).
Find a machine that is available for executing this job.
If a machine is found, schedule this job on that machine.
Otherwise (no suitable machine is available), select the next job in the list.
Example
Suppose there are five jobs with processing-times {4,5,6,7,8}, and m=2 processors. Then, the resulting schedule is {4,6,8}, {5,7}, and the makespan is max(18,12)=18; if m=3, then the resulting schedule is {4,7}, {5,8}, {6}, and the makespan is max(11,13,6)=13.
Performance guarantee
The algorithm runs in time , where n is the number of jobs. The algorithm always returns a partition of the jobs whose makespan is at most times the optimal makespan. This is due to the fact that both the length of the longest job and the average length of all jobs are lower bounds for the optimal makespan. The algorithm can be used as an online algorithm, when the order in which the items arrive cannot be controlled.
Ordering strategies
Instead of using an arbitrary order, one can pre-order the jobs in order to attain better guarantees. Some known list scheduling strategies are:
Highest level first algorithm, or HLF;
Longest path algorithm or LP;
Longest-processing-time-first scheduling, or LPT; this variant decreases the approximation ratio to .
Critical path method.
Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time or HEFT. For the case heterogeneous workers.
Anomalies
The list scheduling algorithm has several anomalies. Suppose there are m=3 machines, and the job lengths are: 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 9Further, suppose that all the "4" jobs must be executed after the fourth "2" job. Then, list scheduling returns the following schedule:
3, 9
2, 2, 4, 4
2, [2 idle], 4, 4
and the makespan is 12.
Anomaly 1. If the "4" jobs do not depend on previous jobs anymore, then the list schedule is:
3, 4, 9
2, 2, 4
2, 4, 4
and the makespan is 16. Removing dependencies has enlarged the makespan.
Anomaly 2. Suppose the job lengths decrease by 1, to 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 8 (with the original dependencies). Then, the list schedule is:
2, 3, 3
1, 1, 3, 8
1, [1 idle], 3
and the makespan is 13. Shortening all jobs has enlarged the makespan.
Anomaly 3. Suppose there is one more machine (with the original lengths, with or without dependencies). Then, the list schedule is:
3, 4
2, 4, 9
2, 4
2, 4
and the makespan is 15. Adding a machine has enlarged the makespan.
The anomalies are bounded as follows. Suppose initially we had m1 machines and the makespan was t1. Now, we have m2 machines, the dependencies are the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Store
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C-Store is a database management system (DBMS) based on a column-oriented DBMS developed by a team at Brown University, Brandeis University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Boston including Michael Stonebraker, Stanley Zdonik, and Samuel Madden. The last release of the original code was in 2006; Vertica a commercial fork, lives on.
C-Store differs from most traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) designs in many ways, primarily in that it stores data by column and not by row, optimizing the database for reading of data rather than writing.
C-Store is licensed under the BSD license. Stonebraker and his colleagues have formed Vertica, a company to commercialize C-Store.
See also
H-Store
Bibliography
External links
Free database management systems
Discontinued software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomba%21%202%3A%20The%20Evil%20Swine%20Return
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Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return, or simply Tomba! 2, is a platform-adventure game developed by Whoopee Camp and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The game was released in Japan in 1999 and in other territories the following year. The game is a sequel to Tomba! and centers on the exploits of the eponymous feral child as he attempts to rescue his friend Tabby from an evil race of anthropomorphic pigs.
While Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return retains the basic game mechanics and "event" system of its predecessor, it features the additions of fully 3D environments and an assortment of collectible suits that augment Tomba's abilities. The game was received positively by critics, with particular praise going to the gameplay variety, controls, and visuals. Reception to the audio was mixed, and criticism was directed at the large number of tedious events and simplistic, repetitive boss battles. Whoopee Camp disbanded following the game's lackluster commercial performance. The game was re-released on the PlayStation Network in Japan in 2011, in Europe in 2012, and in North America in 2015.
Gameplay
Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return is a side-scrolling platform-adventure game with RPG elements. The player controls the titular character Tomba, who must defeat the Evil Pigs and rescue his girlfriend Tabby. The game is displayed in a full three-dimensional perspective in which movement is performed on predetermined linear paths. Whenever Tomba reaches a point where additional paths intersect with his current one, a set of flashing arrows appear above his head. At that point, Tomba can move in any direction that the arrows point. Some areas allow the player to explore them in an isometric view. Signposts scattered throughout the environment can be used to save the player's progress.
Along with the ability to jump, Tomba can attack enemy characters by leaping onto and biting into their back before tossing them in a straightforward trajectory. Attacking enemies in this fashion raises a magic meter on the bottom-left corner of the screen. Tomba can also attack enemies by obtaining various weapons such as flails, boomerangs and mallets. Throughout the game, different suits that can augment Tomba's abilities or protect him can be obtained. For example, the flying squirrel suit allows Tomba to glide long distances while the pig suit allows Tomba to communicate with friendly pigs. When Tomba defeats a boss character, he can wear their robe and use special powers at the cost of some magic. Magical feathers scattered throughout the game can be used to instantly transport Tomba to any area that has previously been visited.
When Tomba interacts with a certain character or environmental element, an "event" may be initiated, in which Tomba is given a task to accomplish or an obstacle to overcome. Such events may consist of finding a lost item, rescuing a stranded character or clearing a blockade in the imminent path. Upon completing an event, th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20Love%20or%20Money%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
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For Love or Money is an American reality television show initially broadcast as summer programming on NBC in 2003 and 2004. Four seasons of the program were shown in linked pairs, and all seasons were hosted by Jordan Murphy. It was produced by Nash Entertainment with Bruce Nash and J. D. Roth as two of the executive producers.
Overview
The series was a dating game show where the chosen winner had to choose between starting a relationship with the central bachelor or bachelorette, or taking home a cash prize while not being permitted any further contact with the central contestant. Eliminated contestants were forced to rip up the checks that represented the money they could have won.
Seasons 1 and 2
The first season of the show aired in the summer of 2003. Rob Campos chose among sixteen suitors, unaware that each woman was informed that she was set to win a million dollars if she rejected Rob in the end. The selection boiled down to Erin Brodie and Paige Jones. The two women assumed that Erin would take the money and Paige would take Rob. But in an unexpected move, Rob chose Erin, leaving Paige to tear up her check. But, as expected, Erin rejected Rob and took the million dollars to help care for her ailing father - former NFL quarterback John Brodie, sending Rob home. Paige's emotional displays were later parodied in I Want to Marry Ryan Banks and The Joe Schmoe Show 2.
The second season aired immediately after the first. Erin returned to the house three weeks after she took her million-dollar check. She returned to risk her million dollar-check by being in Rob's position, this time choosing among 15 male suitors. If the final man she chose were to choose her over a million dollars, her million dollars would double; otherwise, the million dollars (in essence) will be passed to him, leaving her with nothing. The men did not know that Erin had already participated in a similar competition.
When she trimmed her choices down to just three, Rob returned as a "fourth man," returning to woo her the second time. It was not revealed to the original contestants that Erin and Rob had already participated in a version of the competition; Rob was implied to be Erin's ex-boyfriend. Although Rob made it to the final three suitor, Erin ultimately rejected him, leaving her to choose between Wade Whistler and Chad Viggiano. In the end, Erin chose Chad, who chose her. As a result, she won both Chad and two million dollars, $500,000 of which she gave to Chad. Chad and Erin eventually broke up, Erin went on to eventually marry Dr. Will Kirby of Big Brother fame. Chad went on to date San Francisco based model, Natasha Hahn.
Seasons 3 and 4
The third season, which aired in 2004, featured Preston Mercer choosing from among a set of sixteen female suitors. Because the show was cast and filmed after the first version of the series aired, a new twist was incorporated: each woman was initially presented a seemingly blank check that she would have the opti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Lieberman
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Dave Lieberman (born 1980) is an American chef and physician. Lieberman was the host of the Food Network series Good Deal with Dave Lieberman and is a New York Times bestselling author.
Early life
Lieberman attended The Philadelphia School and The Shipley School, before matriculating at Yale University. Campus Cuisine, his first cooking show at Yale, was a public-access television show that combined "sophisticated and accessible cooking with crazy college adventures." His show was featured on the cover of the In Dining section of The New York Times.
Career
Lieberman's first book, Young & Hungry, was published in 2005. Soon after, he made People magazine's 50 Hottest Bachelors (June 27 issue). In October 2006, he published a second cookbook; Dave's Dinners: A Fresh Approach to Home-Cooked Meals.
On November 21, 2006, the Food Network premiered their first web-exclusive series, called Eat This with Dave Lieberman. Lieberman visits five United States cities uncovering trends and crazes in cuisine, including specialty meats, flavored salts, dessert bars and more. Lieberman also starred in the Yahoo! series In Search of Real Food, and in the PBS series, America's Heartland.
In 2007, Lieberman moved to Los Angeles but returned to New York City in 2008 to work with The New York Times health reporter, Anahad O'Connor, on their New York Times bestselling book, The 10 Things You Need to Eat, published in 2009.
Good Deal with Dave Lieberman
Good Deal with Dave Lieberman was a television cooking show hosted by Dave Lieberman that aired on the Food Network in the United States and Food Network Canada in Canada. The show premiered on Food Network on April 16, 2005. Lieberman's show presented affordable gourmet quality recipes.
Medical career
Lieberman went on to attend medical school at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and graduated in 2016. Lieberman moved to Philadelphia to begin a career as an Internal Medicine physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
References
American food writers
American television chefs
American male chefs
Jewish American writers
Living people
Television personalities from Philadelphia
Shipley School alumni
Yale University alumni
Alpert Medical School alumni
21st-century American Jews
1980 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menus
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Menus may be:
the plural of "menu" (see Menu for use in restaurants, and Menu (computing) for use in user interfaces)
Les Menus, a commune in France
"Menus" (New Girl), an episode of the TV series
Menus of Megara, ancient Greek athlete
See also
Menu (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECsystem
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DECsystem was a line of server computers from Digital Equipment Corporation. They were based on MIPS architecture processors and ran DEC's version of the UNIX operating system, called ULTRIX. They ranged in size from workstation-style desktop enclosures to large pedestal cabinets.
The DECSYSTEM name was also used for later models of the PDP-10, namely the DECSYSTEM-10 and DECSYSTEM-20 series.
Models
DECsystem 3100
Identical to the DECstation 3100, but was intended to be used as a multiuser system. It was announced in early May 1989 at the UniForum exhibition in San Francisco. It was shipped in June 1989. Code name PMAX.
DECsystem 5000 Series
Rebranded Personal DECstation 5000 Series without any graphics. Code name MAXINE.
DECsystem 5000 Model 100 Series
Rebranded DECstation 5000 Model 100 Series without any graphics. Codename 3MIN.
DECsystem 5000 Model 200 Series
Rebranded DECstation 5000 Model 200 Series without any graphics. Code name 3MAX. (5000/260 3MAX+)
DECsystem 5100
A desktop uniprocessor entry-level server. It replaced the DECsystem 3100. Code name MIPSMATE.
DECsystem 5400
A pedestal uniprocessor system based on the Q-Bus. It shared many hardware options with the 3x00-series MAYFAIR VAXes, including TK70 tape drive, MS650-BA memory and DSSI disk drives. SCSI was not available except with third party add in hardware. The unit shipped with a MicroVAX diagnostic processor, which would run similar ROM diagnostics to the MicroVAX series, as well as boot the tape based MicroVAX Diagnostic TK70 tape. Once the console transferred control of the computer to the MIPS processor the MicroVAX sat essentially unused until the next boot. Code name MIPSFAIR.
DECsystem 5500
A pedestal uniprocessor system based on the Q-Bus. It replaced the DECsystem 5400.
The 5500 came with native SCSI support, as well as support for DSSI disk drives.
Code name MIPSFAIR-2.
The DECsystem 5500 is shipped in a BA430 enclosure, which provides a 12-slot backplane and room for four mass storage devices. The base system contains the following:
* A KN220-AA module set. This consists of a KN220 I/O module in slot 1 and a KN220 CPU module in slot 2.
The CPU module contains:
o 30 MHz R3000 CPU with R3010 FPU.
o 512 kBytes of Prestoserve (NFS accelerator) battery backed RAM.
The I/O module contains:
o Q22-bus interface
o SGEC Second Generation Ethernet Controller
o DSSI Digital Storage System Interconnect port
o SII-based SCSI port.
* From 1 to 4 MS220-AA 32MB memory modules, installed in slots 3 through 7.
DECsystem 5800 Series
The DECsystem 5800 Series are high-end multiprocessor systems. The series comprised the DECsystem 5810, 5820, 5830, and 5840, with the third digit referring to the number of processors. These systems can be considered to be the MIPS/RISC alternatives of the VAX 6000 operating the XMI and BI bus. The 5810 and 5820, using 25 MHz R3000 microprocessors and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade%20%28TV%20series%29
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Arcade was an Australian television soap opera shown in 1980 that was one of the least successful in the history of Australian television.
It aired on Network Ten with the premiere (76-minute) episode shown on 20 January 1980. The series then ran five nights a week, Mondays to Fridays, as a 25-minute serial.
It was produced solely by Network Ten (as an in-house production) with a start-up budget of almost $1 million.
The series was set in a fictitious shopping mall (hence the "Arcade" of the title) in the northern suburbs of Sydney, Arcade dealt with the lives and loves of the characters who worked at the various stores within the shopping complex.
Production
The plan was to have the show on the air before the ratings season started to build an audience, however the serial quickly proved itself a ratings disaster, which actually caused the shows on rival networks it was programmed against to improve in the ratings.
A total of 50 episodes were actually filmed and produced, but the series was cancelled after six weeks, so only 30 episodes ever went to air.
Theme music
The disco-style, metaphoric theme song "(Walking Through an) Arcade" was composed by New Zealand-born Mike Perjanik and performed by Australian singer Doug Parkinson. The opening title sequence feature aerial shots of a real building and shopping arcade, which was actually the exterior of the Strata Motor Hotel located on Military Road, in Cremorne.
Set designs
Rupert Murdoch in collaboration with the network spent almost $1 million to pour a new concrete floor in Studio A at the Sydney Channel 10 studios; install a complete new lighting grid and lighting system; new editing software; upgraded control rooms and cameras and, of course, the construction of the massive Arcade set itself.
The shows set was one of the most elaborate and realistic ever built for an Australian Studio at the time
Not long before the show was axed, there was talk the series might be moved to a later time slot allowing it to become a bit "raunchier" (similar to the hit series Number 96) and a large new set had been built featuring a "western-style" saloon bar, so that more of the action could take place in a venue that supplied alcohol.
There were also moves (before the show was axed) to have some of the regular characters "perform" in the bar/nightclub setting, as many of the actors appearing in the show had a background as cabaret artists, singers, comedians and so on, and it was felt that these skills should be utilised and might help save the series. However, the series was cancelled before these plans could be brought to fruition.
The shops
The shops featured in the initial episodes were:
Kitty's Record Bar (a record and tape store)
Aristocrat (a dry cleaning store)
FlashBack Leisure Centre (a pinball parlour)
Toby's (a sit down restaurant)
Pendleton's Health Studio (a health and workout studio)
The Bookworm (a book store and news agency)
Magda's Gifts (a gift shop)
Surf 'n' Ski (a sport
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyways%20%28TV%20series%29
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Skyways is an Australian television soap opera drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network.
Production and casting
The series, which aired from 1979 to 1981, was set at the fictional Pacific International Airport and dealt with the lives of the pilots, airline staff and management team who worked there.
Skyways was mainly taped in a television studio where, in many interior-set scenes, Colour Separation Overlay created the illusion of a bustling airport with taxiing planes outside the window. Many of the exterior scenes were shot on location at Melbourne Airport.
The show's regular cast members included Tony Bonner as airport manager Paul MacFarlane, later replaced by Gary Doolan (Gerard Kennedy). Tina Bursill played glamorous and ruthless assistant manager Louise Carter. Bill Stalker, played head of airport security Peter Fanelli, an ex-detective. When Skyways ended Fanelli was moved to Crawford police procedural Cop Shop, while Brian James' character George Tippett was transplanted to Holiday Island.
Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan roles
Years before Neighbours and international pop stardom, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan appeared together in one episode as siblings.
Storylines
An early storyline featured a lesbian flight attendant (Judy Morris) unsuccessfully attempting to seduce a colleague (Deborah Coulls) who revealed she was heterosexual. Morris' character was soon afterwards stabbed to death in the shower as part of a murder-mystery storyline.
International broadcast
The series screened across Europe and the UK during 1984-1986 on Sky Channel which would later become Sky One. It also aired in the UK on Astra Satellite channel Lifestyle during 1990 at 1.00 p.m Monday to Friday.
Syndication
During the first week of January 2006 the entire series was replayed Thursday early mornings weekly at 2.00am then at the later time-slot of 3.00am on WIN TV in Wollongong, South Coast NSW as part of the early morning Crawfords Classics TV series.
Cast
Tony Bonner – Paul MacFarlane
Tina Bursill – Louise Carter
Ken James – Simon Young
Bruce Barry – Douglas Stewart
Bill Stalker – Peter Fanelli
Brian James – George Tippett
Joanne Samuel – Kelly Morgan
Deborah Coulls – Jacki Soong
Kris McQuade – Faye Peterson
Bartholomew John – Nick Grainger
Judy Morris – Robyn Morris
Andrew McKaige – Alan MacFarlane
Gaynor Martin – Mandy MacFarlane
Gerard Kennedy – Gary Doolan
Kerry Armstrong – Angela Murray
Maurie Fields – Chas Potter
Kylie Foster – Belinda Phipps
Charles Tingwell – Harold Forbes
Ron Falk – Derek Powell
Cecily Polson – Jocelyn Powell
Carmen Duncan – Elaine MacFarlane
Anne Charleston – Wendy Stewart
Belinda Giblin – Christine Burroughs
Fred Parslow – David Rankin
Irene Inescort – Mrs. Young
John Walton – Bryan Johnson
Susanna Lobez – Janet Patterson
Kit Taylor – Tim Barclay
Dina Mann – Fiona Woods
Jeff Kevin – Geoff Goodwin
Michael Duffield – Sir Joseph Miles
Penelope Stewart – Barbie Beach
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment%20%28TV%20series%29
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Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for Network Ten in 1981.
Set in a fictional men's prison, the series attempted to present a male version of its female counterpart Prisoner, which was set in a woman's prison. Attempts by the show's makers to differentiate the series from Prisoner saw Punishment imbued with greater realism; however, the formula did not attract high viewing figures. Network Ten deemed the new series a failure after only three episodes had gone to air, and it was quickly removed from the schedules. The remainder of the 26 episodes produced were shown out-of-ratings later that year. Unusually for a soap opera, the series was taped using the single camera technique.
Grundy produced Punishment mainly to complement Prisoner in international sales, to a point that the pilot was initially telecast in the United States before debuting in Australia. KTLA, the Los Angeles television station that helped launched Prisoner in the United States, originally expressed interest in doing the same with Punishment; it is unknown if KTLA had screened any episodes of Punishment, in light of its failure on Network Ten in Australia.
The programme created by Reg Watson was produced and directed by Alan Coleman. The regular cast featured many notable Australian actors. Mel Gibson played a prisoner in the first two episodes. Kris McQuade played the girlfriend of Gibson's character and was phased out of the series after the first few episodes due to Gibson's departure.
Cast
Mel Gibson - Rick Munro (2 episodes)
Ken Wayne - Jack Hudson
Brian Wenzel - Wally Webb
Stephen Yardley - Mike Rogers
Barry Crocker - Governor Alan Smith
Ralph Cotterill - Russell Davis
Michael Preston - Larry Morrison
Brian Harrison - Sam Wells
Michael Smith - Paul Wells
George Spartels - David Roberts
Julie McGregor - Julie Smith
Kris McQuade - Kate Randall
Cornelia Frances - Cathy Wells
Arthur Sherman - Andy Epstein
Anne Haddy - Alice Wells
Penne Hackforth-Jones - Heather Rogers
Lisa Peers - Roslyn Rowney
Episode list
Home media
Available at (National Film and Sound Archives)
References
External links
Aussie Soap Archive: Punishment
Punishment at the National film and Sound Archive
Australian television soap operas
Network 10 original programming
1981 Australian television series debuts
1981 Australian television series endings
Australian prison television series
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
1980s prison television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenview%20High
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Glenview High is an Australian television drama series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Seven Network between 1977 and 1978.
Story
English teacher Greg Walker (Grigor Taylor) transfers from the country to Glenview High, a tough high school in Sydney. He clashes with rebellious students Tony Moore (Brandon Burke) and Danny Smith (Brett Hinch ). Despite his toughness, Tony has a grudging respect for Mr Walker while Danny is only interested in being popular with the female students.
Other staff at the school are efficient yet sympathetic principal Margaret Gibson (Elaine Lee), and cynical science teacher Harry Carter (Bill Kerr) who regards all students as the enemy.
Greg's home life is also shown. He moves in with his brother Tom (Ken James), who boards platonically with flight attendant Robbie Dean (Rebecca Gilling) and the ditzy Jill Beamish (Camilla Rountree).
Cast
Main cast
Grigor Taylor as Greg Walker
Brandon Burke as Tony Moore
Brett Hinch as Danny Smith
Elaine Lee as Margaret Gibson
Bill Kerr as Harry Carter
Ken James as Tom
Rebecca Gilling as Robbie Dean
Camilla Rountree as Jill Beamish
Guest cast
Bruce Barry
Tom Burlinson as Robbie’s Dream Man
Alan Cinis
Mike Dorsey as Doyle
James Elliot
Anne Haddy as Mrs O’Brien
Sheila Kennelly as Val Deevney
Elisabeth Kirkby as Mrs Mackay
Anne-Louise Lambert as Susan
Tracy Mann as Cheryl Harrison
Monica Maughan as Mrs Wills
Ray Meagher as Policenan
Tex Morton as Grant
Thelma Scott as Kathleen
Fiona Spence as Maxine
Sigrid Thornton as Georgiana
Rowena Wallace as Pam Wilson
Bettina Welch as Fiona
Frank Wilson
Wendy Playfair
Ben Gabriel
Christine Amor
References
External links
Glenview High at Classic Australian Television
Glenview High at the National Film and Sound Archive
Glenview High at AustLit
1970s Australian drama television series
Australian high school television series
Television shows set in Sydney
1977 Australian television series debuts
1979 Australian television series endings
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
Australian television soap operas
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverie
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Inverie (; ) is the main village on the Knoydart peninsula in the Scottish Highlands. It is located on the north side of Loch Nevis and, although on the mainland of Britain, the network of single-track roads surrounding the village is not connected to the rest of the British road network. Inverie is only reachable by a hike over mountainous terrain or by a regular ferry from Mallaig. This physical isolation gives the village a Guinness National Record for remoteness within the United Kingdom.
Geography
Inverie lies on the north side of Loch Nevis. On approach by sea, Sgurr Coire Choinnichean at forms an impressive backdrop.
The Inverie ferry sails from Mallaig. It runs several times a day year-round with a second, competing ferry service, MV Western Isles, operating on weekdays from the start of April to the end of October.
Local people
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c.1698-1770), poet who wrote many immortal works of Scottish Gaelic literature and local Tacksman of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald.
Amenities
The Old Forge pub at Inverie holds the Guinness World Record for the remotest pub in mainland Great Britain, being furthest from roads connected to the national network in time and journey distance. After being owned and operated for 10 years by Belgian Jean-Pierre Robinet, in March 2022 it was purchased as community property by the residents of the Knoydart peninsula through The Old Forge Community Benefit Society. The pub was closed from January 2023 to early August 2023 for renovations, and then re-opened for business.
A few bed and breakfasts compete with rental lodges, cottages, and a campsite for tourists' patronage throughout the year. Knoydart Lodge and the Hide opened as luxury accommodation in the 21st century, and there is a shop and a meal caterer.
References
Populated places in Lochaber
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20Bayesian%20estimation
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In probability theory, statistics, and machine learning, recursive Bayesian estimation, also known as a Bayes filter, is a general probabilistic approach for estimating an unknown probability density function (PDF) recursively over time using incoming measurements and a mathematical process model. The process relies heavily upon mathematical concepts and models that are theorized within a study of prior and posterior probabilities known as Bayesian statistics.
In robotics
A Bayes filter is an algorithm used in computer science for calculating the probabilities of multiple beliefs to allow a robot to infer its position and orientation. Essentially, Bayes filters allow robots to continuously update their most likely position within a coordinate system, based on the most recently acquired sensor data. This is a recursive algorithm. It consists of two parts: prediction and innovation. If the variables are normally distributed and the transitions are linear, the Bayes filter becomes equal to the Kalman filter.
In a simple example, a robot moving throughout a grid may have several different sensors that provide it with information about its surroundings. The robot may start out with certainty that it is at position (0,0). However, as it moves farther and farther from its original position, the robot has continuously less certainty about its position; using a Bayes filter, a probability can be assigned to the robot's belief about its current position, and that probability can be continuously updated from additional sensor information.
Model
The measurements are the manifestations of a hidden Markov model (HMM), which means the true state is assumed to be an unobserved Markov process. The following picture presents a Bayesian network of a HMM.
Because of the Markov assumption, the probability of the current true state given the immediately previous one is conditionally independent of the other earlier states.
Similarly, the measurement at the k-th timestep is dependent only upon the current state, so is conditionally independent of all other states given the current state.
Using these assumptions the probability distribution over all states of the HMM can be written simply as:
However, when using the Kalman filter to estimate the state x, the probability distribution of interest is associated with the current states conditioned on the measurements up to the current timestep. (This is achieved by marginalising out the previous states and dividing by the probability of the measurement set.)
This leads to the predict and update steps of the Kalman filter written probabilistically. The probability distribution associated with the predicted state is the sum (integral) of the products of the probability distribution associated with the transition from the (k - 1)-th timestep to the k-th and the probability distribution associated with the previous state, over all possible .
The probability distribution of update is proportional to the product o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%20Hill%20%28TV%20series%29
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Richmond Hill is an Australian television soap opera made in 1988 by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network. It was devised by Reg Watson who also created Neighbours. It debuted on 27 January 1988 in a two-hour episode on Network 10 at 7.30pm. The series was only moderately successful and was cancelled on 22 June 1988. A total of 91 episodes were produced. As of March 2021, there has been no DVD Release of Richmond Hill.
Synopsis
Whereas Neighbours was set in Melbourne, this series was set in a small fictional Australian country town near Sydney and most of the scenes revolved around the local police station, a real estate agency, and the pub. The serial drew comparisons to the hugely popular Seven Network soap operas, A Country Practice and Cop Shop. The programme was produced in Sydney, some location shooting took place in Mona Vale, New South Wales. Connie Ryan's house in the series was in Berryman Street, North Ryde NSW.
The cast was intentionally made up of experienced soap actors in a bid to secure immediate success. Well-known names included Maggie Kirkpatrick, Amanda Muggleton, Paula Duncan and Tim Elston from Prisoner. Popular veteran actress, Gwen Plumb, famous for her long-running role as Ada Simmonds in The Young Doctors, starred as Mum Foote. There were also several actors from Sons and Daughters, including Tom Richards, Rona Coleman, Angela Kennedy and Michael Long, as well as an assortment of young beginners, Ashley Paske, Emily Symons (pre Home and Away), Marc Gray, and Melissa Tkautz, all made their TV debuts in the series. Former comedy star Ross Higgins of Kingswood Country played the central role of the local police officer and family man Dan Costello.
Broadcast history
Richmond Hill was broadcast on Network Ten in an evening timeslot 19:30–20:30 as two one-hour episodes each week on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The series, although quite popular, was considered a lukewarm success in the Australian ratings, and was cancelled after six months in June 1988, and ended abruptly at episode 92 later that year. The decision came as a shock to producers, not least due to the fact that key actors contracts had just been extended for another year. As a result, the actors continued to be paid even though the series was no longer in production. There was not a definitive conclusion to the series because production was expected to continue. A final blow was the series had just been sold to the ITV network in the UK the very week it was axed in Australia, but ITV still aired all the episodes.
During early 1989, Channel Ten replayed Richmond Hill at 3.00pm weekday afternoons though after only 35 episodes that were replayed it was then abruptly removed from its programming schedule in replacement of US chat shows like Donahue and The Oprah Winfrey Show. The remaining episodes have still not been seen on Ten since their original 1988 broadcast.
Foxtel's UKTV Gold channel in Australia replayed the entire Richmond Hill series during
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel%20Story
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Hotel Story was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions (now Crawfords Australia) for the Ten Network in 1977.
The series, intended as a replacement for The Box, was set in a luxury international hotel. The regular characters were the hotel workers and in each one-hour episode they hosted a new batch of glamorous guest-star hotel guests, and rather like a drama version of The Love Boat stories would focus on both the self-contained dramas of the passing guests and the ongoing problems of the hotel staff.
The regular cast was headed by Terence Donovan as the hotel manager, and also included Carmen Duncan, George Spartels, and American actor Richard Lawson.
The title sequence was shot on film at the then Old Melbourne Inn on Flemington Road, North Melbourne. This distinctive looking hotel building is now an accommodation hostel owned by RMIT University. Interior sequences were largely shot on video at Channel Ten's Nunawading studios, giving the series a soap opera look.
Hotel Story was cancelled before it even went to air. Originally planned to run for at least 26 episodes, the series was cancelled after only seven episodes had been produced, and before any had been broadcast. In Melbourne, ATV-O ran full-page advertisements in newspapers on the day the first episode was shown, describing it as "The most discussed TV series produced this year", ending with "You be the judge". There was some positive feedback and while it was too late for Hotel Story itself, the concept was later revived for the series Holiday Island. Six of the seven episodes were shown in Sydney across two consecutive weeks from 27 December 1977.
In 1978 actor June Salter won a Sammy Award for Best Actress in a Single TV Performance for her guest performance in one episode. Salter played the American head of a cosmetics firm, Annabelle Lee, a lesbian. Her main co-star was Jane Harders.
Former The Box regular and Network Ten weather girl Christine Broadway also made a guest appearance in one episode. “Hotel Story” was also the debut show that future TV actress, sex symbol and animal campaigner Lynda Stoner played a guest role too.
Cast
Main cast
Terence Donovan - Hotel manager
Carmen Duncan
George Spartels
Richard Lawson
Guest cast
June Salter - Annabelle Lee
Peter Aanensen
Peter Adams
Frank Taylor
Maurie Fields
Moya O'Sullivan
Jane Harders
Christine Broadway - Beauty pageant contestant
Lynda Stoner
Chuck Faulkner
Patsy King
Diane Craig
Max Meldrum
Jon Fabian as Detective
Elli Maclure
Clare Binney
Rod McLennan
See also
List of television series cancelled before airing an episode
Notes
External links
Hotel Story at the National Film and Sound Archive
Network 10 original programming
Australian television soap operas
1977 Australian television series debuts
1977 Australian television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Gaurico
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Luca Gaurico (in Latin, Lucas Gauricus) (Giffoni March 12, 1475 – March 6, 1558, in Rome) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, astrological data collector, and mathematician. He was born to a poor family in the Kingdom of Naples, and studied judicial astrology, a subject he defended in his Oratio de Inventoribus et Astrologiae Laudibus (1508). Judicial astrology concerned the fate of man (astrologia judiciaria; mundane astrology) as influenced by the stars. His most famous work is the Tractatus Astrologicus. Later in life he was named a bishop of the Catholic Church.
Career as astrologer
Gaurico's reputation was such that he served as an "astrological consultant" to Catherine de' Medici. Gaurico had predicted the accession to the papacy of Catherine's great-uncle Giovanni de Medici (when he was 14 – who later became Leo X) and predicted Catherine's uncle Giulio de Medici involvement in important political struggles and numerous descendants. Giulio de Medici later was to become Pope Clement VII, who involved with disputes with both Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Henry VIII of England.
Giovanni II Bentivoglio, ruler of Bologna, consulted him about his destiny. Displeased with Gaurico's prophecy, Bentivoglio subjected Gaurico to the torture of mancuerda, the effects of which he suffered for the rest of his life, and exiled the astrologer. When Bologna fell to Pope Julius II, Gaurico returned to general favor.
Gaurico became famous after predicting the ascension of Alessandro Farnese, a prediction that came true with Farnese's ascension as Paul III. Gaurico foretold also the sickness and death of this Pontiff, who died on November 20, 1549, the day said to have been indicated by Gaurico. Paul III obviously did not wait for his death in order to verify Gaurico's prediction. Paul III, who encouraged astrologers to come to Rome and work under his protection, made Gaurico his unofficial astrologer, and he was made a Papal Table Companion, knighted, and appointed bishop of Giffoni (Salerno province), and thus described as Episcopus Geophonensis, in 1539. Paul III made Gaurico bishop of Civitate (San Severo), in Capitanata, in southern Italy, in 1545. Four years after the death of Paul III, Gaurico abandoned these duties and settled in Rome.
The Tractatus Astrologicus contained the natal charts of popes and cardinals, kings and nobles, scholars, musicians and artists. Gaurico systematically examined each natal chart, compared it to the life of the person in question, and in the case of living subjects, predicted the outcome of their lives and careers. Gaurico also attempted to calculate the exact date of Jesus' crucifixion, and the number of hours between it and the resurrection. Allegedly, both he and Nostradamus were responsible for predicting the death of Henry II of France in a tournament in 1559.
Allegedly, Catherine de' Medici had wished to know Henry's destiny as the Apparent Heir of France. Allegedly, Gaurico replied that
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Maidens
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Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series, made by Portman Productions for the ITV network. Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series was partly financed by a German company, Werbung im Rundfunk (Advertising in Broadcasting), which dealt with distributing funding from the limited commercials shown on West German public TV. In this case, it was acting on behalf of the channel ZDF, which showed the series in West Germany.
Overview
The series presents a "battle of the sexes" and role reversal scenario in which male protagonists must escape servitude to women of an advanced civilization. The planet Medusa, home to a highly evolved and technologically advanced humanoid race, was already ruled by its women when a rogue comet knocked it out of its orbit of Proxima Centauri. Drifting through space, the orphan planet's surface became uninhabitable, and the inhabitants survived by building underground cities. The series begins with Medusa's entry into Earth's solar system. At first heartened to discover Earth, the Medusans are disappointed to learn that the human men are dominant there. Two Medusan men escape by stealing a ship and flying to Earth. Despite a successful escape, the two are pursued by the Medusan security forces. When the Medusans fail to re-capture the two men, they bring two human hostages—a man and a woman—back with them to their home planet. The series' 13 episodes concern the two groups' attempts to adapt to life on the different planets while brokering an exchange for the hostages. In the series finale, the Medusans' ship is pursued by another spacecraft, this one belonging to an alien race that has hunted Medusans in the past. Despite their technology and the antagonism they displayed throughout the series, the Medusans prove incapable of actually fighting an enemy, and only the intervention of a Medusan ship flown by an Earth man defeats the enemy. The saved Medusans return home, likely with an altered opinion of men.
Regarded as something of a camp novelty, it featured some female dominance elements. The series has some similarities with the British science-fiction series Space: 1999, whose second season was in pre production at Pinewood around the same time. Although Star Maidens was shot at Bray Studios by a different production company and did not benefit from as large a budget, both series featured the work of production designer Keith Wilson, whose props and set designs from Space: 1999 were adapted for Star Maidens, leading to a very similar look and feel. Even many of the sound effects from Space: 1999 were used. Lead actresses Judy Geeson and Lisa Harrow appeared in guest roles in the first season of Space: 1999, Geeson in the episode "Another Time, Another Place" and Harrow in "The Testament of Arkadia".
For the series' German dub, German natives Christiane
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn%20Affair
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Autumn Affair is an Australian television series made by and aired by Network Seven station ATN-7, and also shown in Melbourne on Nine Network station GTV-9. Television in Australia had only been broadcasting since 1956 and Seven was the first commercial station to make drama a priority. It premiered 24 October 1958 and continued until 1959. The series was the first ever Australian television soap opera. It was also the second regular Australian-produced dramatic television series of any kind, with previous locally produced drama consisting of religious series The House on the Corner, and one-off plays largely aired on ABC.
Synopsis
The love lives of a middle aged widow, Julia, and her daughter, Meg.
Cast
Muriel Steinbeck as Julia Parrish
Queenie Ashton as Granny Bishop
Leonard Bullen as Steve Meadows
Janette Craig as Meg Parrish
John Juson as Mark
Diana Perryman as Julie
Owen Weingott as Larry Muir
Production
The program was conceived from a conversation between radio writer Richard Lane and Len Mauger, station manager of Seven. There was a quarter hour gap in the schedule and Mauger was keen to develop use of video tape for drama. It was decided to make a 15-minute show using skills developed by those involved in The House on the Corner.
Originally conceived as Julia: An Early Autumn Affair, the title was later shortened to just Autumn Affair.
Many of the actors and writers involved in the production had previously worked on radio soap opera, and were inexperienced with television acting.
Episodes were fifteen minutes in duration, recorded as kinescopes in black and white, and were screened Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8:45 AM. a part of the station's Today breakfast program.
There were three main conditions for the production:
it had to be written, produced and acted by Australians
it had to stand on its own as entertainment and compare with American imports
it had to be sold to other stations at comparable rates to the American imports.
The series went into production without a sponsor, as the station ATN7 wanted to gain experience in television drama production.
The cast comprised just six regulars; the story focused on Julia (Muriel Steinbeck), a widow in a love triangle situation with two men.
Filmink later wrote that "Steinbeck was... a natural choice to play the lead... She laughed, loved and suffered with jolly good decency – the quintessential Muriel Steinbeck part." Ailsa McPherson, who worked on the show as script assistant, wrote "for performance quality Autumn Affair relied heavily on Muriel Steinbeck's professionalism and her photographic memory. She had a prodigious capacity to remember lines and to be almost word perfect after reading them aloud only three or so times. It saved the episode on a good many occasions."
The series was well-received when originally broadcast.
Richard Lane wrote every episode. There were only two main sets and a could of small side pieces. Actors also would leave the series - Janet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakers%20%28TV%20series%29
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Breakers is an Australian television series that aired on Network Ten from 2 February 1998 to 3 November 1999, producing 430 episodes.
The series revolves around The Breakers building situated near Bondi Beach, and the lives of the people who work and live there. The building houses three businesses all run by the same family. Breaker's Modelling School is run by Paul Simmons, The Breaker, a local newspaper is run by Eve, Paul's ex-wife, and Kate's Cafe, run by Kate Markham, Eve's sister.
Australian Senator Karen Synon considered the depiction of Lucy Hill, in a lesbian relationship to be "inappropriate" given the program's afternoon timeslot, and requested the Australian Broadcasting Authority investigate if the show had breached broadcasting guidelines. The ABA told The Daily Telegraph that the storyline was "normal" and the show's PG rating was appropriate for the timeslot.
Cast
Helen O'Connor as Kate Markham
Richard Healy as Paul Simmons
John Atkinson as Steve Giordano
James Stewart as Alex Markham
Don Hany as Alex Markham
Louise Crawford as Lucy Hill
Ada Nicodemou as Fiona Motson
Paul Pantano as Cameron
Heath Bergerson as Reuben Neeson
Ben Tate as Danny Simmons
Angela Keep as Cheree Walker
Simone Robertson as Monique Fairbairn
Jean-Marc Russ as Boris McCann
Michelle Avery as Jenny
Paula Duncan as Karen Fairbarn
Megan Connolly as Lily
Anja Coleby as Crystal
Kieran Darcy-Smith as Slim
Jason Crewes
Simon Munro
Emily Perry
Julie Haseler
Ling-Hsueh Tang
Shae Potter
Emma Kenny
Samantha Kenny
References
External links
Breakers at the National Film and Sound Archive
Network 10 original programming
Australian television soap operas
1998 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Sydney
Television series by Screentime
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles%20per%20instruction
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In computer architecture, cycles per instruction (aka clock cycles per instruction, clocks per instruction, or CPI) is one aspect of a processor's performance: the average number of clock cycles per instruction for a program or program fragment. It is the multiplicative inverse of instructions per cycle.
Definition
The average of Cycles Per Instruction in a given process () is defined by the following weighted average:
Where is the number of instructions for a given instruction type , is the clock-cycles for that instruction type and is the total instruction count. The summation sums over all instruction types for a given benchmarking process.
Explanation
Let us assume a classic RISC pipeline, with the following five stages:
Instruction fetch cycle (IF).
Instruction decode/Register fetch cycle (ID).
Execution/Effective address cycle (EX).
Memory access (MEM).
Write-back cycle (WB).
Each stage requires one clock cycle and an instruction passes through the stages sequentially. Without pipelining, in a multi-cycle processor, a new instruction is fetched in stage 1 only after the previous instruction finishes at stage 5, therefore the number of clock cycles it takes to execute an instruction is five (CPI = 5 > 1). In this case, the processor is said to be subscalar. With pipelining, a new instruction is fetched every clock cycle by exploiting instruction-level parallelism, therefore, since one could theoretically have five instructions in the five pipeline stages at once (one instruction per stage), a different instruction would complete stage 5 in every clock cycle and on average the number of clock cycles it takes to execute an instruction is 1 (CPI = 1). In this case, the processor is said to be scalar.
With a single-execution-unit processor, the best CPI attainable is 1. However, with a multiple-execution-unit processor, one may achieve even better CPI values (CPI < 1). In this case, the processor is said to be superscalar. To get better CPI values without pipelining, the number of execution units must be greater than the number of stages. For example, with six executions units, six new instructions are fetched in stage 1 only after the six previous instructions finish at stage 5, therefore on average the number of clock cycles it takes to execute an instruction is 5/6 (CPI = 5/6 < 1). To get better CPI values with pipelining, there must be at least two execution units. For example, with two executions units, two new instructions are fetched every clock cycle by exploiting instruction-level parallelism, therefore two different instructions would complete stage 5 in every clock cycle and on average the number of clock cycles it takes to execute an instruction is 1/2 (CPI = 1/2 < 1).
Examples
Example 1
For the multi-cycle MIPS, there are five types of instructions:
Load (5 cycles)
Store (4 cycles)
R-type (4 cycles)
Branch (3 cycles)
Jump (3 cycles)
If a program has:
50% load instructions
25% store instructions
15% R
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%27s%20Law
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Carson's Law is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1982-1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson. The episodes revolved around the cases taken on by Jennifer, and the various personal intrigues of her family.
Brief Synopsis
The series' premiere was billed as a 90-minute "movie-length" episode on 24 January 1983, with another two-hour episode in the same timeslot the following night, before settling into its twice-weekly 60-minute format the following week. Carson's Law was noted for its quality scripts and period production values. Despite being popular in Melbourne, where the series was based and filmed, it did not succeed in Sydney. Attempts to revamp the series to make it appeal more to Sydney audiences eventually alienated the programme's core audience, and it was cancelled in 1984 after 184 episodes. The final episode aired on ATV-10 on 1 December 1984; after being shuffled around the TEN-10 schedule, then reduced to one episode per week, then pushed back from 8:30pm to 9:30pm and, finally, to the even later 10:40pm slot, the final episode eventually aired in Sydney on 18 April 1985. '
International Broadcasts
Carson's Law was bought by several members of the UK ITV network. TVS aired edited half-hour episodes on Thursdays and Fridays at 3.30pm in 1987 and 1988. At the same time, Yorkshire Television showed a considerable number of episodes on Thursdays at 1.30pm between October 1984 and March 1988. Television South West screened a slightly lower number in their 6.35pm slot on Tuesdays during 1984. Ulster Television aired episodes on Monday nights at 11.10pm up until at least October 1992.
Carson's Law was also shown in Portuguese television, and is being currently re-played at RTP memoria (trans. "RTP Memory").
Carson's Law was shown in Catalan television (TV3) as well. The Catalan name for the series is Carson i Carson advocats.
Carson's Law was also shown in the Netherlands for its entirety by the NCRV broadcasting company. The company adapted the title to simply 'The Carsons'. It ran in the afternoon, and was quite popular.
Carson's Law was also shown in Israeli television (Channel 2, experimental broadcasting). It was called The race to the top of Jennifer Carson ("Ha-Merotz La-Tzameret Shel Jennifer Carson"). It ran on a weekly basis for about two years.
Carson's Law was also shown in Germany in the early 90s. It ran daily in the afternoon and was called "Carson & Carson".
DVD Releases
The first 13 episodes of the series was released onto Region 2 DVD in the Netherlands in September 2009. The disc set has removable Dutch subtitles with all audio in English. In Australia seven volumes covering the entire series of 184 episodes are available to purchase from the Crawford Australia website (Region 4). From November 2015 all seven volumes can be purchased in the rest of the world through Crawford'
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20and%20Friends
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Family and Friends is a short-lived Australian television soap opera which debuted on 7 February 1990.
The series was intended to be the Nine Network's response to the already successful soaps on the rival channels - Neighbours and E Street on the Network Ten and Home and Away on the Seven Network.
Synopsis
Set in a suburban community the series focused on two families - the Chandler and the Italian-Australian Rossi families - who were linked by a long-standing vendetta stemming from an accidental death in the 1950s. Old enmities were renewed by the Romeo-and-Juliet style romance between Jennifer Chandler (Roxane Wilson) and Robert Rossi (Renato Bartolomei).
Despite a strong cast which included actors known for previous soap roles: Abigail (Sons and Daughters), Diane Craig (Prisoner), Anne Phelan (Prisoner), Justine Clarke (Home and Away), and Alyce Platt (Sons and Daughters), the series failed to catch on with the viewers. Episodes were initially broadcast in one-hour installments up against Ten's E Street on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 19:30–20:30, but ratings were disastrous. The show was promptly reformatted as half-hour episodes stripped at 17:30 weeknights, but ratings remained very low. And now that it was lead-in to National Nine News's 6pm bulletin its low ratings meant it remained in a precarious position.
The series then underwent a major revamp which included the loss of six cast members and addition of new cast members including Rebecca Rigg. A week's worth of episodes were produced in the new format, when the series was abruptly canceled on 26 April 1990. The final episodes went to air in a late-night timeslot during the 1990-1991 summer non-ratings period. In total 96 episodes had been produced.
Cast
Abigail - Doreen Stubbs
Renato Bartolomei - Robert Rossi
Rachael Beck - Claudia Rossi
Justine Clarke - Cheryl Brooks
Diane Craig - Pamela Chandler
Robert Forza - Joe Rossi
Jonathan Hardy - Brother Ignatius
Gavin Harrison - Renato
Maxine Klibingaitis - Gloria Stubbs
Adrian Lee - Marco Rossi
Dominic McDonald - Greg Chandler
Anna-Maria Monticelli - Luciana Rossi
Sean Myers - Greg Chandler
Ross Newton - Bartholomew Purvis (Thommo)
Anne Phelan - Dawn Rossi
Alyce Platt - Stephanie Collins
Rebecca Rigg - Pasquelina
Mario Rossello - Mikey Rossi
Dinah Shearing - Antoinetta Rossi
Wendy Strehlow - Janet Simmonds
Simon Westaway - Damien Chandler
Kym Wilson - Blondie
Roxane Wilson - Jennifer Chandler
Notes
External links
Australian television soap operas
Nine Network original programming
1990 Australian television series debuts
1990 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Quality%20Act
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The Information Quality Act (IQA) or Data Quality Act (DQA), passed through the United States Congress in Section 515 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001 (). Because the Act was a two-sentence rider in a spending bill, it had no name given in the actual legislation. The Government Accountability Office uses the name "Information Quality Act".
IQA directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue government-wide guidelines that "provide policy and procedural guidance to federal agencies for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated by Federal agencies". Other federal agencies are also required to publish their own guidelines for information quality and peer review agendas.
Text of the IQA
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001 Sec. 515 reads:
(a) In General. – The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, by not later than September 30, 2001, and with public and Federal agency involvement, issue guidelines under sections 3504(d)(1) and 3516 of title 44, United States Code, that provide policy and procedural guidance to Federal agencies for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated by Federal agencies in fulfillment of the purposes and provisions of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Paperwork Reduction Act.
(b) Content of Guidelines. – The guidelines under subsection (a) shall –
(1) apply to the sharing by Federal agencies of, and access to, information disseminated by Federal agencies; and
(2) require that each Federal agency to which the guidelines apply –
(A) issue guidelines ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated by the agency, by not later than 1 year after the date of issuance of the guidelines under subsection (a);
(B) establish administrative mechanisms allowing affected persons to seek and obtain correction of information maintained and disseminated by the agency that does not comply with the guidelines issued under subsection (a); and
(C) report periodically to the Director –
(i) the number and nature of complaints received by the agency regarding the accuracy of information disseminated by the agency; and
(ii) how such complaints were handled by the agency.
Guidelines developed pursuant to IQA
OMB guidelines
OMB, Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies, Final Guidelines, with Request for Comments (Oct 1, 2001)
OMB, Guidelines (Draft of Jan. 3, 2002)
OMB, Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies, Final Guidelines (corrected), 67 Fed. Reg. 8452 (Feb. 22. 2002)
Guidelines developed by agenci
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday%20Island
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Holiday Island is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten. The show aired twice weekly from 1981 to 1982, with the first episode going to air on 17 June 1981.
Series synopsis
Like preceding Crawford's series, the aborted Hotel Story, Holiday Island was a Love Boat-style drama series set in a luxury hotel. This time the location was a tropical resort island in Queensland. In each episode the regular characters - the various islanders and hotel workers - hosted a new batch of guest star hotel guests. Various plots and situations on the show included a fierce cyclone hitting the island, children being kidnapped, a siege where the hotel workers were held hostage by less than pleasant guests, drug trafficking, the resort being terrorised by a biker gang and a politician dying of a heart attack while staying at the island's resort.
The series became notorious amongst critics for its allegedly poor production values, and the wintry conditions under which the tropical drama was shot became the focus of most jibes. Though set in a tropical hotel with palm trees, sunshine and beautiful beaches, for practical reasons all interiors scenes - and the bulk of exterior scenes - were shot at the Ten Network's studios in Nunawading, Melbourne. The exterior set made heavy use of awnings in an attempt to disguise Melbourne's propensity for overcast skies, but attempts to mask the icy breath of the bathing beauties was not always successful. Attempts to shoot location footage in Queensland were hampered by the fact that the local television crews assigned to the shoot had experience only in shooting news footage, and the fact that heavy rain fell for several days of a planned shoot. Ray Meagher, a guest star in the show's first episode, later jokingly referred to the show as Horror Day on Iceland.
Location footage in Queensland was taken at the Tangalooma Island Resort on Moreton Island, east of Brisbane Queensland. The "Tangalooma Ship-Wrecks" were often seen chroma-keyed as a background to the studio sequences of 'Banjo's' beachside shack.
Cast
Regular cast
Nick Tate as Neil Scott
Tom Oliver as Wally Simmons
Peter Mochrie as Tony 'Zack' Zackarakis
Alyson Best as Lisa Kendall
Frank Wilson as Banjo Paterson
Patricia Kennedy as Emily Muldoon
Caz Lederman as Angela Scott
Steven Grives as Jason Scott
Gaynor Martin as Kylie McArthur
Marilyn Mayo as Dusty Davis
Brian James as George Tippett
Olga Tamara as Victoria Buckland
Ronne Arnold as Alex Utalo
Tracy Mann as Wendy Robinson
Guest cast
Anne Phelan
Brian Blain as Jack Fitzsimmons
Briony Behets
Christine Amor
Diane Craig as Marie-Claude (1 episode)
Jane Clifton as Fran
Jill Forster (2 episodes)
Joanna Lockwood (1 episode)
John Blackman
Judy Nunn
Julieanne Newbould (1 episode)
June Salter
Leslie Dayman
Lisa Crittenden
Penne Hackforth-Jones as Dellie Kramer (2 episodes)
Ray Meagher
Rebecca Gilling as Trish McKenzie
Rowena Wallace as Marjorie Quin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession%20%28TV%20series%29
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Possession is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network in 1985. It was the brainchild of the television producer, Reg Watson. The pilot was written by Bevan Lee and executive produced by Don Battye.
The series began with a convoluted espionage incident that uncovered the interpersonal dramas and family secrets of several wealthy, powerful and glamorous women, their handsome young lovers, and long-lost children.
It was not a popular success and only ran to 52 episodes. Production was cancelled in May 1985. Director of publicity for Nine, Sue Ward said "We did a complete series. We just didn't take up the option of a second series because it didn't rate." The later episodes played out in a late-night time slot due to low ratings.
Nine asked the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal to extend the local drama quota time past 10.00 pm to allow the network to move the low-rated series out of prime time and still have the episodes count toward their local drama content. When the tribunal agreed Nine moved Possession to a graveyard slot.
Cast
Original cast members
Bruce Barry as David Macarthur, a wealthy tycoon killed off by ASIS agents in the show's premiere
Lou Brown as Alan Morton
Tracey Callander as Kathleen Dawson, Greg's fiancée
Anne Charleston as Elizabeth Macarthur, David's wife
Lyn Collingwood as Iris Dawson
Maggie Millar as Claudia Valenti, Louise's business partner
Lloyd Morris as Greg Macarthur, David's son
Eric Oldfield as Gerry Foster
Tamasin Ramsay as Jane Andrews, illegitimate daughter of David and Louise
David Reyne as Detective Vince Bailey, investigating David's murder
Darien Takle as Louise Carpenter, David's former mistress
Norman Yemm as John Andrews, Jane's adopted father
Later additions
Briony Behets as Eve Cambridge
Max Cullen as Harry Keane, an intelligence agent
Maggie Dence as Lady Shannon
Ally Fowler as Nicola Shannon
Bryan Marshall as Oliver Hearst
References
External links
Possession at the National Film and Sound Archive
Nine Network original programming
Australian television soap operas
1985 Australian television series debuts
1985 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Power%2C%20The%20Passion
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The Power, The Passion is an Australian television daytime soap opera produced by the Seven Network in 1989.
The series was devised to lure audiences away from American imports such as The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless but failed to make an impact and was cancelled due to low ratings after 168 episodes.
Cast
Kevin Miles – Gordon Byrne
Olivia Hamnett – Ellen Edmonds
Tracy Tainsh – Kathryn Byrne
Susie Cato – Anna Wright
Ian Rawlings – Ryan McAllister
Danny Roberts – Samuel Wright
Jill Forster – Sarah McAllister
George Mallaby – Justin Wright
Lucinda Cowden – Danielle Edmonds
Nick Carrafa – Nick Cassala
Alan Cassell – Dr. Andrew Edmonds
Ross Thompson – Thomas
Jane Clifton – Carla Graham
Jon Finlayson – William Somerset
Julian McMahon – Kane Edmonds
Neil Grant – Adam Edmonds
Susan Ellis – Talia Edmonds
Libby Purvis – Rebecca Wright
Jacqui Gordon – Susan Walsh
Joe Spano - Steven
Julian McMahon made his TV debut in the series. At one point the program included a gay male character, Steven (Joe Spano). The character was killed off after a few months.
References
External links
Aussie Soap Archive: The Power, The Passion
Australian television soap operas
Seven Network original programming
1989 Australian television series debuts
1990 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starting%20Out
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Starting Out is an Australian television soap opera made for the Nine Network by the Reg Grundy Organisation in 1983.
Background
The five-night-a-week series was created by Reg Watson as the network's replacement for the long-running serial The Young Doctors. It was produced by Sue Masters who had also been the producer of The Young Doctors.
It was set at a medical college with an emphasis on young people getting their first experience of living away from home and leading independent lives. Starting Out debuted 18 April 1983 and aired in an early evening slot before the network's news service.
Cast
The youthful cast included:
Leander Brett – Aggie Dean
Antoinette Byron – Laurel Adams
David Clencie – Ben McNamara
Nikki Coghill – Margot Fallon-Smith
Tottie Goldsmith – Trixie Sheldon
Rowena Mohr – Michelle Rivers
Julie Nihill – Tessa Staples
Peter O'Brien – Craig Holt
David Reyne – Paul Harding
Yves Stenning – Will Brodie
Gary Sweet – Rod Turner
Paul Williams – Peter Nolan
The more experienced cast members complementing the young leads included:
Maurie Fields – Mac Rankin
Suzy Gashler – Yvonne Rivers
Caroline Gillmer – Eleannor Harris
John Grant – Dr. Greg Munro
Jill Forster – Dr. Judith Holt
John Hamblin – Dr. James Holt
Gerard Maguire – Dr. John Rivers
Anne Phelan – Mrs. De Soosa
Marie Redshaw – Mrs. Lynch
Colin Vancao – Russell Dean
Cancellation
The series failed to gain sufficient ratings and was quickly cancelled and removed from network schedules by 20 May 1983. Some of the unaired episodes were screened sporadically out-of-ratings in late 1983. Not until a late night repeat run during the later half of 1989 several years after production did all of the 85 produced episodes go to air.
External links
Starting Out at the National Film and Sound Archive
Notes
Australian television soap operas
Nine Network original programming
1983 Australian television series debuts
1983 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Apple%20Inc.
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Apple Inc., originally named Apple Computer, Inc., is a multinational corporation that creates and markets consumer electronics and attendant computer software, and is a digital distributor of media content. Apple's core product lines are the iPhone smartphone, iPad tablet computer, and the Macintosh personal computer. The company offers its products online and has a chain of retail stores known as Apple Stores. Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created Apple Computer Co. on April 1, 1976, to market Wozniak's Apple I desktop computer, and Jobs and Wozniak incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, in Cupertino, California.
For more than three decades, Apple Computer was predominantly a manufacturer of personal computers, including the Apple II, Macintosh, and Power Mac lines, but it faced rocky sales and low market share during the 1990s. Jobs, who had been ousted from the company in 1985, returned to Apple in 1997 after his company NeXT was bought by Apple. The following year he became the company's interim CEO, which later became permanent. Jobs subsequently instilled a new corporate philosophy of recognizable products and simple design, starting with the original iMac in 1998.
With the introduction of the successful iPod music player in 2001 and iTunes Music Store in 2003, Apple established itself as a leader in the consumer electronics and media sales industries, leading it to drop "Computer" from the company's name in 2007. The company is also known for its iOS range of smart phone, media player, and tablet computer products that began with the iPhone, followed by the iPod Touch and then iPad. As of June 30, 2015, Apple was the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$1 trillion as of August 2, 2018. Apple's worldwide annual revenue in 2010 totaled US$65 billion, growing to US$127.8 billion in 2011 and $156 billion in 2012.
1971–1985: Jobs and Wozniak
Pre-foundation
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, referred to collectively as "the two Steves", first met in mid-1971, when their mutual friend Bill Fernandez introduced then 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. Their first business partnership began in the fall of that year when Wozniak, a self-educated electronics engineer, read an article in Esquire magazine that described a device that could place free long-distance phone calls by emitting specific tone chirps. Wozniak started to build his original “blue boxes”, which he tested by calling the Vatican City pretending to be Henry Kissinger wanting to speak to the pope. Jobs managed to sell some two hundred blue boxes for $150 each, and split the profit with Wozniak. Jobs later told his biographer that if it hadn't been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't have been an Apple."
By 1972, Jobs had withdrawn from Reed College and Wozniak from UC Berkeley. Wozniak designed a video terminal that he could use to log on to the minicomputers at Call Computer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Danthine
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André Danthine was a professor of computer science at the University of Liège from 1967 to 1997; he is now a professor emeritus there. He specialized in computer networks and created the university's Research Unit in Networking in 1972.
In 2000, Danthine won the SIGCOMM Award "for basic contributions to protocol design & modelling and for leadership in the development of computer networking in Europe".
References
Belgian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Liège
Walloon people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Time%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29
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Prime Time is an Australian soap opera drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that aired on the Nine Network in from January 1986 to January 1987. Prime Time was the last Australian soap produced with exterior location scenes shot on film and interior scenes shot on videotape. The series was not a popular success and was cancelled after sixty episodes.
Premise
The series was set at a fictional television station, Channel 5, and dealt with the behind-the-scenes goings-on on the set of a current affairs series called Assignment.
Cast
Chris Orchard – David Lockhart
Anthony Hawkins – Harry Jones
Nina Landis – Kate Macarthur
Peter Kowitz – Jim Donnegan
David Whitney – Stephen Lockhart
Julianne White – Diana Fields
Peter Whitford – Charles Garrett
Gary Sweet – Craig Lawrence
Sonja Tallis – Georgina Jones
Tottie Goldsmith – Jamie
Katrina Foster – Jocelyn Cole
Ben Mendelsohn – Bart Jones
John Hannan – John Balenko
Jane Hall – Sandy Lockhart
Kathy Caswell – Carol Foster
Antonia Murphy – Kylie Garrett
Garry McDonald
Rachel Friend
External links
Crawford Productions
Prime Time at the National Film and Sound Archive
1986 Australian television series debuts
1987 Australian television series endings
1980s Australian drama television series
Australian television soap operas
English-language television shows
Nine Network original programming
Television series by Crawford Productions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus%20Rising
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Taurus Rising is an Australian soap opera produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network in 1982. Originally intended by the network to be a replacement for The Sullivans, the series was one of a number of attempts to provide an Australian alternative to the glossy American supersoaps Dallas and Dynasty and featured two wealthy Sydney-based feuding families, the Brents and the Drysdales. To this end, it represented something of a stylistic departure for Grundy's. Unlike most other Australian soap operas which were recorded on videotape, Taurus Rising was shot entirely on film. Series began at 8.30pm time-slot in a 2 hr movie pilot and continued for a couple of weeks on Tuesday nights due to decline in ratings was delegated to Friday nights at 10pm by the time of the TV series finale during 1982. TV series was never screened on Nine network since the original screening.
It cost $2 million to make.
Taurus Rising proved to be an expensive failure after it failed to win an audience and was cancelled after 21 episodes. The series did later prove popular in international markets and was subsequently sold to American cable television, marketed as a 21-part "miniseries".
Cast
References
Mercardo, A., 2004, Super Aussie soaps. North Melbourne: Pluto Press.
External links
Australian television soap operas
Nine Network original programming
Television shows set in New South Wales
1982 Australian television series debuts
1982 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos%20algorithm
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The Lanczos algorithm is an iterative method devised by Cornelius Lanczos that is an adaptation of power methods to find the "most useful" (tending towards extreme highest/lowest) eigenvalues and eigenvectors of an Hermitian matrix, where is often but not necessarily much smaller than . Although computationally efficient in principle, the method as initially formulated was not useful, due to its numerical instability.
In 1970, Ojalvo and Newman showed how to make the method numerically stable and applied it to the solution of very large engineering structures subjected to dynamic loading. This was achieved using a method for purifying the Lanczos vectors (i.e. by repeatedly reorthogonalizing each newly generated vector with all previously generated ones) to any degree of accuracy, which when not performed, produced a series of vectors that were highly contaminated by those associated with the lowest natural frequencies.
In their original work, these authors also suggested how to select a starting vector (i.e. use a random-number generator to select each element of the starting vector) and suggested an empirically determined method for determining , the reduced number of vectors (i.e. it should be selected to be approximately 1.5 times the number of accurate eigenvalues desired). Soon thereafter their work was followed by Paige, who also provided an error analysis. In 1988, Ojalvo produced a more detailed history of this algorithm and an efficient eigenvalue error test.
The algorithm
Input a Hermitian matrix of size , and optionally a number of iterations (as default, let ).
Strictly speaking, the algorithm does not need access to the explicit matrix, but only a function that computes the product of the matrix by an arbitrary vector. This function is called at most times.
Output an matrix with orthonormal columns and a tridiagonal real symmetric matrix of size . If , then is unitary, and .
Warning The Lanczos iteration is prone to numerical instability. When executed in non-exact arithmetic, additional measures (as outlined in later sections) should be taken to ensure validity of the results.
Let be an arbitrary vector with Euclidean norm .
Abbreviated initial iteration step:
Let .
Let .
Let .
For do:
Let (also Euclidean norm).
If , then let ,
else pick as an arbitrary vector with Euclidean norm that is orthogonal to all of .
Let .
Let .
Let .
Let be the matrix with columns . Let .
Note for .
There are in principle four ways to write the iteration procedure. Paige and other works show that the above order of operations is the most numerically stable.
In practice the initial vector may be taken as another argument of the procedure, with and indicators of numerical imprecision being included as additional loop termination conditions.
Not counting the matrix–vector multiplication, each iteration does arithmetical operations. The matrix–vector multiplication can be done in arithmetical operations where is the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo%20Station%20%28TV%20series%29
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Waterloo Station was a short-lived Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network in 1983.
Synopsis
Waterloo Station focused on two sisters, both married to policemen, and their adult children starting careers in the police force. The main locations were a police station, a police training academy in Sydney, and a large boarding house that provided accommodation for several characters.
Waterloo Station was an attempt by Grundy's to reproduce for Channel Nine the success of their earlier shows The Restless Years and The Young Doctors which focused on youth situations. Like Crawford Productions' successful police series Cop Shop, Waterloo Station combined police procedural elements with domestic situations involving the police personnel and their families.
The series was recorded at the Eric Porter studios in North Sydney.
Cast
Ron Graham – Jack Edwards
Sally Tayler – Sally Edwards
Pam Western – Liz Edwards
Danny Roberts – Trevor Brown
Julianne White – Stacey Daniels
John Bonney – George Logan
Jenny Ludlam – Ann Logan
Bartholomew John – Tony Harris
Steven Grives – Steve Colby
Malcolm Cork – David Keller
Tex Morton – Harry McDowell
Gerry Sont – Rick Thompson
Paul Smith – Joey Daniels
Jennifer West – Rosie Wallace
Andrew Clarke – Chris Cooper
Patrick Phillips – criminal
Ian Gilmour
Jude Kuring
Episodes
Season 1 (1983–1984)
Home Media
There is yet to be a DVD Release of Waterloo Station.
Screening
The series was programmed against the popular new series Carson's Law in key markets including Melbourne, and achieved only mediocre ratings. It was cancelled after 40 episodes. Andrew Clarke, Danny Roberts and Sally Tayler all subsequently found greater success as regular cast members of another Grundy produced soap opera, Sons and Daughters.
After Waterloo Station, on 18 April 1983, Grundy launched Starting Out which featured youthful characters attempting to enter the medical profession. This series was similarly short-lived.
During late 1987 while “The Midday Show” was taking a summer Christmas holiday break Nine network Sydney replayed Waterloo Station TV series weekdays at 12pm followed at 1.00pm “Private Benjamin” US comedy TV series. It has never been replayed since on commercial or pay TV here in Australia.
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Australian television soap operas
Nine Network original programming
1983 Australian television series debuts
1984 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
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Uncle Morty's Dub Shack is a television series produced by the cable network ImaginAsian TV from 2004 through 2006. Written, directed by and starring Trevor Moore and James Matison ("Jimbo") and also starring John Chou, Aladdin Ullah and Patrick T. McGowan, the show ran for two seasons, though there is conflicting information about how many total episodes were produced. Moore left his role as writer/director for the majority of the second season, but returned for on-camera roles.
The show centered on a ramshackle audio studio run by Matison's fictitious Uncle Morty (McGowan), a grouchy old man suffering from hearing loss. When Morty is assigned to create English dubbed versions of poorly made Asian B-movies without scripts or translations, he enlists Matison and his out-of-work friends (Moore, Chou and Ullah, all using their real first names) as voice actors. Each episode features approximately 12 minutes of original sitcom footage, intercut with 10 minutes of an Asian film with new and unrelated replacement dialogue of a humorous nature. The sitcom section frequently featured animated sequences.
After the show initially wrapped, several episodes were recut with different pairings between original segments and the movies featured. Films featured included Chinese kung-fu movies from the 1970s such as Fist of Fury and Taoism Drunkard, as well as Bollywood films from the 1990s such as Kyon and Dand Nayak, plus a single Japanese film, Blowback 2: Love and Death.
Guests
The show featured frequent guest stars, including comedians Master Lee, Aziz Ansari and Mike Dobbins, actress Elaine Kwon, and punk band Peelander-Z.
Reaction
ImaginAsian TV had limited coverage (restricted to a few major metropolitan areas), so the show remained largely unknown throughout its run. However, several major press outlets ran favorable reviews of the show, including the San Francisco Examiner and Salon.com. Most compared the show to a faster-paced Mystery Science Theater 3000.
References
2000s American sitcoms
English-language television shows
2004 American television series debuts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel%20Homer
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"Colonel Homer" is the twentieth 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 March 26, 1992. In the episode, Homer and Marge quarrel after he embarrasses her at a movie theater. Later Homer visits a redneck bar, where he discovers Lurleen Lumpkin, a talented singer-songwriter, waiting tables. Homer becomes her manager, unaware she has fallen in love with him. When Marge grows upset because she suspects Homer is cheating on her, he must remain faithful to her after Lurleen makes romantic advances toward him.
The episode was written by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, and directed by Mark Kirkland. It is the only episode of the series for which Groening received an individual writing credit. American singer and actress Beverly D'Angelo guest starred in the episode as Lurleen. Although the character makes several cameos after this episode, Lurleen makes her second full-time appearance sixteen years later in "Papa Don't Leech". The episode features cultural references to songs such as "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. and "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" by Herman's Hermits, and the films Deliverance, Look Who's Talking and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Since airing, "Colonel Homer" has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It attained a Nielsen rating of 14.8, and was the highest-rated show on Fox the week it aired. The episode was selected for inclusion in a video collection of selected episodes, titled The Last Temptation of Homer, which was released on November 9, 1998. An action figure set based on "Colonel Homer" was released in March 2002, and two of Lurleen's songs from the episode appeared on the Simpsons compilation album Songs in the Key of Springfield.
Plot
The Simpsons visit the local multiplex. After Homer makes distracting sounds and loudly reveals the film's ending to the audience, Marge berates him and the other patrons heckle and pelt him with refreshments. Marge tries to apologize on the way home, but Homer is so angry that he drops Marge and the children at home and drives into the night.
Homer stops at a redneck bar, where an attractive waitress and singer-songwriter named Lurleen performs country songs on stage. After she sings a song that perfectly matches Homer's predicament, he drives to her mobile home several days later to beg a copy. When Lurleen reveals she has not recorded the song, Homer persuades her to join him at a recording booth, after which they are approached by a representative for a local radio station. Lurleen's songs are instant hits on the station.
Marge disapproves of Homer seeing Lurleen because she fears they will form a romantic relationship. Her fears increase after Homer becomes Lurleen's manager, and she buys him an expensive white cowboy suit, which he wears at home. Homer denies having an affair with Lurleen, but insists he will manage her career, with or without Marge
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Etheria: (International title: Etheria: The Fifth Kingdom of Encantadia) is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the second installment of the Encantadia franchise. Directed by Mark A. Reyes and Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Sunshine Dizon, Iza Calzado, Karylle, Diana Zubiri, Dingdong Dantes and Dennis Trillo. It premiered on December 12, 2005 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Encantadia. The series concluded on February 17, 2006 with a total of 50 episodes. It was replaced by Encantadia: Pag-ibig Hanggang Wakas in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
After peace was restored in Encantadia, the past sneaks up on the sisters. With the lives of their loved ones at stake, they must go back in time to stop a tribe in their plan to destroy the present. In their journey, questions would be answered and the sisters must destroy the past to save the present.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Sunshine Dizon as Pirena
Iza Calzado as Amihan
Karylle as Alena
Diana Zubiri as Danaya
Dingdong Dantes as Ybrahim / Ybarro / Alexus
Alessandra de Rossi as Andora
Francine Prieto as Avria
Jopay as Juvila
Nadine Samonte as young Mine-a
Pauleen Luna as Odessa
Dennis Trillo as young Raquim
Supporting cast
Benjie Paras as Wahid
Alfred Vargas as Amarro
Cindy Kurleto as Cassiopeia
Ryan Eigenmann as Marvus
Sid Lucero as young Asval
Aiza Marquez as young Gurna
Justin Cuyugan as Arkrey
Paolo Paraiso as Animus
Rainier Castillo as Nakba
Mike "Pekto" Nacua as Banak
Empress Schuck as young Cassiopea
Ella Guevara as Cassandra
BJ Forbes as young Aquil
Arthur Solinap as Muros
Ping Medina as young Hagorn
Tirso Cruz III as Barkus
Tonton Gutierrez as Memen
Raymond Bagatsing as Emre
Gary Estrada as Meno
Glydel Mercado as Ornia
Angel Aquino as Ether
Daniel Fernando as Cilatus
Chinggoy Alonzo as Evades
Nonie Buencamino as Bartimus
Rachel Lobangco as As'nan
Michael Flores as Arvark
Maricel Morales as Ora
Simon Ibarra as Arde
Jason Zamora as Anghel ng Liwanag
Rich Vergara as Anghel ng Dilim
Noel Urbano as the voice of Imaw / Aegen
Andrei Felix as Enuo
Frank Garcia as Xenos
KC Montero as Eldrin
Neil Ryan Sese as Viktu
References
External links
2005 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Encantadia
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine time travel television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millom%20railway%20station
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Millom is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . The station, situated north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the town of Millom in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
It was originally opened by the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway on 1 November 1850 as Holborn Hill. The station's name was changed to Millom for Holborn Hill on 1 August 1866, and Millom during the 1890s.
Until 1968, there was a short goods-only branch from here to the ironworks at Hodbarrow. This was abandoned after the works closed but the disused trackbed can still be seen from passing trains, whilst the old works site is now a nature reserve.
The station buildings also house Millom Heritage Museum And Visitor Centre (which runs the rail ticket office) and a small workshop offering furniture restoration.
Facilities
The booking office operates on a part-time basis (07:00–15:00, Mondays through Saturdays); outside these times tickets can be purchased from a vending machine on the southern side (as Northern have installed these at all stations on the route that didn't previously have them). Information screens and posters provide train running details for passengers. Both platforms have separate step-free access and are linked via a footbridge.
Services
Monday to Saturdays, there is generally an hourly service southbound to Barrow-in-Furness and northbound to Carlisle (one terminates at ) - however there is no service northbound after 21:00, with the last few trains from Barrow terminating here. Some services extend from Barrow along the Furness Line to Lancaster and .
Northern introduced a Sunday service from the station (for the first time since 1976) from the summer 2018 timetable change. This runs broadly hourly from mid-morning until early evening.
References
External links
Railway stations in Cumbria
DfT Category F1 stations
Former Furness Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
Northern franchise railway stations
Millom
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Sellafield is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . The station, situated north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves Sellafield in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
The station, which dates from 1850, is a busy freight location, because much of the nuclear waste for Sellafield's THORP nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is carried there by train from the docks in Barrow-in-Furness, or from rail-connected nuclear power stations elsewhere in the UK. The facility also generates significant commuter traffic for the railway, with workers travelling by train from nearby towns and villages.
The station is at the end of the single-line section from Whitehaven, which is operated using the electric key token system. From there, the line south towards Ravenglass and Barrow is double track, except for the final section between Park South Junction (south of ) and Barrow, which was reduced to a single track in the late 1980s.
The station configuration is unusual in that the southbound ('up' line) is bi-directional through the station and has platform faces on both sides. However, only the eastern platform face is used, the other side being fenced off. This allows trains from the south to terminate and turn back without having to enter the single-line section to . The signal box controlling the layout is located at the north end of the station, whilst the exchange sidings for the plant, and the loco depot used by Direct Rail Services freight trains, are to the south. There are two water cranes at the station, one at each end.
The station used to be the southern terminus of the former Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway line from Egremont, from August 1869 until the line's closure in March 1964.
Facilities
The station is not staffed, but there is now a ticket machine in the main building for passengers to buy tickets prior to travel. There is a waiting room on the southbound platform and a shelter on the opposite side; the rest of the main buildings are in private commercial use. The platforms are linked by a footbridge which does not include ramps, so only the Barrow platform has step-free access. Train running information is provided by digital information screens, timetable posters and telephone.
Services
There is a basic hourly service (with a few variations) in each direction. Certain southbound trains continue to , and one service from the south terminates and turns back at Sellafield on weekdays only. Since the summer 2018 timetable came into effect on 20 May, trains operate later into the evening than previously and also on Sundays, the latter provision being the first since May 1976.
It was reported in November 2011 that Direct Rail Services (DRS) had applied to the Office of Rail Regulation to operate one train in each direction between Carlisle and Sellafield to carry workers to Sellafield. Between May 2015 and December 2018, four trains per day each way ran to provide add
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"Old Money" is the seventeenth episode of the second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 28, 1991.
The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky and directed by David Silverman. Professor Frink makes his debut in this episode. Audrey Meadows, star of the 1950s TV comedy The Honeymooners, guest stars as Beatrice "Bea" Simmons, Grampa's girlfriend. It features cultural references to films such as Tom Jones and If I Had a Million, and the Star Wars and Batman film franchises.
Since airing, the episode has received mixed reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 12.3 and was the highest-rated show on Fox for the week.
Plot
Grampa falls in love with Beatrice "Bea" Simmons, a new resident at the Springfield Retirement Castle. Homer insists Grampa join the rest of the Simpsons at a cheap lion safari for their "fun day with Grampa" and ignores Grampa's protests that he's getting ready for Bea's birthday, dismissing her as a figment of Grampa's imagination. The safari trip goes wrong when Homer goes onto an unauthorized pathway that leaves the family surrounded by lions and trapped overnight until a warden rescues them. When he finally returns to the home, Jasper tells him that Bea has died of a burst ventricle, though a devastated Grampa believes she died of a broken heart. Deeply distressed by her death, Grampa attends her funeral, where he furiously tells a despondent Homer that it is his fault that he missed his last chance to be with Bea and disowns him, much to Homer's heartbreaking grief and his family's horror.
Grampa inherits $106,000 from Bea's estate and initially plans to spend it on himself, making sure to call Homer and tell him that he is not getting any of the inheritance. After Bea's ghost visits him on an amusement park roller coaster, he instead decides to give the money to people in need, and while he heeds Bea's plea to forgive Homer he also tells Homer he still won't get the money. Several of the townspeople visit Grampa with frivolous, greedy, and destructive proposals, disgusting him so much that he goes for a walk to clear his mind. Seeing the plight of Springfield's homeless residents during his walk, he realizes he does not have enough money to solve the city's problems.
Grampa goes on a gambling junket at Jasper's suggestion, hoping to win so much money that he can help everybody. Homer finds him on a winning streak at a casino's roulette tables and pleads for him to stop while he is ahead. The two struggle over the bet, and Homer manages to drag Grampa's chips off the table just before the wheel stops on a number he had not covered. After Grampa thanks Homer for saving him from losing the inheritance, they finally have a sincere reconciliation. Grampa uses the money to renovate the retirement home and has the dining room renamed in Bea's honor.
Production
The episode was written by Jay Ko
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Bees%20railway%20station
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St Bees railway station is a railway station serving the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
It is the location of the only passing loop on the lengthy single track section between Whitehaven and Sellafield, and trains are often scheduled to pass each other here.
St Bees is famous for the rocky St Bees Head, the starting point of the Coast to Coast Walk which runs from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, and many walkers alight at the station to start the walk. The station has the distinction of being the most westerly in Northern England.
History
The Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway, a line which would link the town of Whitehaven with the Furness Railway at , was authorised in 1847. It was opened in stages and the first section, that between Whitehaven and , opened on 1 June 1849. St Bees station opened on 21 July 1849.
In 1848 Canon Richard Parkinson, Vicar of St Bees and Principal of the Theological College, wrote in his diary: "November 8th., 1848. The Railway-whistle heard for the first time in this quiet valley. Its peace is gone!" Later, on 12 February 1849, he records, "Ash Wednesday. Good congregation. The first train of coal wagons on this day (dies cinerum) ["Day of Ashes"] went on the railway to Braystones". Despite deploring this shattering of the valley's peace, Parkinson travelled on the official train when the line was opened as far as Ravenglass in 1849. The imposing station buildings, consisting of station master's house, waiting rooms and ticket office, were built in 1860 by Mr J Townley of Whitehaven.
Derailment
At about 6:45 am on 30 August 2012 a two-carriage passenger train en route to Sellafield was derailed a mile south of St Bees following a landslide caused by heavy rain.
Extensive civil engineering repair work has now been carried out to prevent a recurrence. In addition the underbridge at Seamill Lane was replaced in 2013.
Description
The railway station is a stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line, south-west of Carlisle. It is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. The station master's house and ticket office, on the up (southbound) platform, date from 1860 and was formerly a restaurant with a railway theme, but is now a private house. On the down (northbound) platform, the waiting room is still a period timbered Furness railway structure, slightly modified to become a private dwelling.
To the east of the "up" platform is the site of the goods yard which was heavily used for the stone traffic from the sandstone quarries at St Bees in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also handled the traffic from Walker's scone flour works and pickle factory, and the luggage traffic for St Bees School at the beginning and end of term. The yard is now a public car park which is subsidised for free public use by the Parish Council. The coal yard was off the down line o
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Corkickle railway station is a railway station serving the suburb of Corkickle near Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. The station opened on 3 December 1855, and is at the southern end of the tunnel from Whitehaven. Between 1855 and 1957, the station was known as Whitehaven Corkickle.
Facilities
The station building survives as a private residence. The station is a single platform and has shelters, display information and disabled access.
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is hourly service northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Barrow-in-Furness. There are no trains after 21:00 on Mondays-Saturdays, but since the May 2018 timetable change a Sunday service now operates (for the first time since 1976) from mid-morning until early evening.
Freight
The area immediately south of the station was for many years a busy freight location, handling haematite ore traffic from Moor Row mine as well as chemical tankers up & down the incline at the nearby Preston Street goods depot (the one time W&FJR passenger terminus) and associated yard. Two signal boxes (Corkickle No. 1 & No. 2) supervised the sidings, as well as controlling access to and from the incline and the Moor Row branch (the surviving portion of the former Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway line to Egremont & Sellafield). Although sufficiently busy to require its own resident shunting locomotive well into the 1970s, the gradual loss of traffic from the early 1980s onwards saw facilities run down and following the demise of Preston Street depot, the yard eventually closed (along with both signal boxes, which had been replaced by standard LMR-designed structures in 1958–59) on 15/16 February 1997. Today no trace remains of the sidings or either signal box, only the one surviving running line southwards towards St Bees & Sellafield.
The Corkickle Brake
In 1881 the Corkickle Brake, a roped incline in length and with gradients of between 1 in 5.2 and 1 in 6.6 was built from the Furness Railway main line, a short distance to the south of Corkickle station, to the Earl of Lonsdale's Croft Pit.
The 'brake' closed in 1931 due to the worsening financial situation of the colliery's owners, Lonsdale's Whitehaven Colliery Co. In May 1955, the incline was re-opened, this time to serve the factory of Marchon Products - a subsidiary of Albright and Wilson - at Kells. It was used mainly to haul rail tanker wagons containing sulphuric acid from the main line - by now in the ownership of British Railways - to the Marchon factory. The Corkickle Brake closed for good on 31 October 1986 when it was the last commercial roped incline in Britain. The task of transporting acid and other chemicals was taken over by road tankers.
References
Sources
British Railways London Midland Region Passenger Timetable, 16 September 1957 to 8 June 1958.
GB Rail Timetable Winter Edition 13 December
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Whitehaven railway station is a railway station serving the coastal town of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
The first station at Whitehaven was opened on 19 March 1847 by the Whitehaven Junction Railway (WJR) as the terminus of their line from . This station lay to the south of the present station, with the main entrance on Bransty Row (at ).
On the southern side of the town, the first section of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway (W&FJR) opened on 1 June 1849 from a terminus at Whitehaven (Preston Street) to , but there was no connection between this line and the WJR suitable for passenger trains. In between the two stations stood the town centre, and to the east of that Hospital Hill, so a tunnel long was built beneath the latter, being completed in July 1852. In 1854, the W&FJR passenger trains began using the WJR station at Whitehaven (Preston Street becoming a goods-only station). In 1865, the W&FJR was absorbed by the Furness Railway (FR), and in 1866, the WJR was absorbed by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
The LNWR station (formerly WJR) was replaced on 20 December 1874 by a new one named Whitehaven Bransty; it was jointly owned by the LNWR and the FR. This station had its name simplified to Whitehaven on 6 May 1968. The original buildings were demolished and replaced by a modern single-story ticket hall in the mid-1980s. The former goods yard site beyond and behind platform one is now occupied by a supermarket.
The station formerly had four operational platforms, but today only two remain in use (the former platforms three and four having lost their tracks when the layout was simplified and the buildings replaced). The double line from Parton becomes single opposite the station signal box (which still bears the original station name Whitehaven Bransty) and then splits into two - one runs into platform one (a bay used by most terminating services from Carlisle) and the other runs into platform two, which is the through line to Sellafield, Millom and Barrow. Trains heading south must collect a token for the single line section to St Bees from a machine on the platform (with the co-operation of the signaller) before they can proceed. Conversely trains from Barrow must surrender the token upon arrival, the driver returning it to the machine before departing for Workington. Only then can the signaller allow another train to enter the single line section.
Facilities
The ticket office is open six days per week (closed evenings and Sundays) and there is also a ticket machine available. Digital display screens, a P.A. system and information posters provide train running information. Step-free access is available through the main building to both platforms.
Services
There is generally an hourly service northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Barrow-in-Furness (no late evening servic
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The Data Universal Numbering System, abbreviated as DUNS or D-U-N-S, is a proprietary system developed and managed by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) that assigns a unique numeric identifier, referred to as a "DUNS number" to a single business entity. It was introduced in 1963 to support D&B's credit reporting practice. It is standard worldwide. DUNS users include the European Commission, the United Nations, the United States government, and Apple. More than 50 global industry and trade associations recognize, recommend, or require DUNS. The DUNS database contains over 300 million entries for businesses throughout the world.
On April 4, 2022, the United States federal government stopped using the DUNS Number to uniquely identify entities. Since then, entities doing business with the United States federal government use the Unique Entity ID created in SAM.gov.
Details
The DUNS number is a nine-digit number, issued by D&B, assigned to each business location in the D&B database, having a unique, separate, and distinct operation for the purpose of identifying them. The DUNS number is random, and the digits have no apparent significance. Until approximately December 2006, the DUNS number contained a mod-10 check digit to support error detection. Discontinuing the check digit increased the inventory of available DUNS numbers by 800 million. As of 25 February 2017, the website shows that there is no charge to get a DUNS number, and the time to create the number is 24 to 48 hours. When obtaining a DUNS number online, the wait is usually 30 business days, but the assignment of a number can be immediate for UK businesses that provide their company registration number. When purchasing the "Small Business Starter" from Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, the wait time reduces to 5 business days or less.
Unlike national employer identification numbers, a DUNS number may be issued to any business worldwide. Certain U.S. government agencies require that a vendor have a DUNS number and a U.S. Employer Identification Number (EIN). Other agencies, such as some United Nations offices and Australian government agencies, require certain businesses to have a DUNS number.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a United States federal agency, announced in the 27 June 2003 issue of the Federal Register that a DUNS number would be required for all grant applicants for new or renewal awards submitted on or after 1 October 2003. The DUNS number supplements other identifiers, such as the EIN, and is required whether the application is made electronically or on paper.
A DUNS number is sometimes formatted with embedded dashes to promote readability, such as "15-048-3782". Modern usage typically omits dashes and shows the number as in the form "150483782". The dashes are not part of D&B's official definition of the DUNS number.
Businesses may choose to append four extra alphanumeric characters to their DUNS number. This is called a DUNS+4 number. The suffix is for the use
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Parton railway station is a railway station serving the village of Parton in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Immediately north and south of Parton, the line runs almost on the seashore, at the foot of cliffs which require supervision and occasional stabilisation to prevent landslides. Sea erosion is also a danger, and 15 m.p.h speed restrictions are in force over much of the section between here and Harrington, which is restricted to a single line.
There was a signal box immediately to the north of the station that formerly controlled this section, but this was closed and demolished due to its deteriorating condition in May 2010 (control passing to the adjacent box at Whitehaven Bransty).
Facilities
There are no permanent buildings here other than brick shelters on each platform. The station is not staffed and anyone wishing to travel must buy their ticket on the train or in advance, as no ticket machine is available. Train running information is provided by telephone, digital CIS screens and timetable posters. No step-free access is available to either platform.
Services
There is generally an hourly service northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Whitehaven with most trains going onward to Barrow-in-Furness (no late evening service operates south of Whitehaven). A few through trains operate to/from Lancaster via the Furness Line.
Train operator Northern introduced a regular through service to Barrow via the coast at the May 2018 timetable change, the first such service south of Whitehaven for more than 40 years. Services run approximately hourly from mid-morning until early evening, with later trains terminating at Whitehaven. This represents a major upgrade on the former infrequent service of four per day each way to/from Whitehaven only that previously operated.
References
External links
Railway stations in Cumbria
DfT Category F2 stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847
Northern franchise railway stations
Railway request stops in Great Britain
1847 establishments in England
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Harrington railway station is a railway station serving the village of Harrington in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Harrington Hump
The station came to national prominence in 2008 when it was chosen as the initial site for the installation of an experimental ramp to raise the height of the platform to improve access to modern rolling stock. Christened the Harrington Hump, the ramp was built for £25,000 – 10% of the estimated cost of the conventional rebuilding that would have otherwise been required to make the platform fully DDA compliant. The modular design has since been deployed at several other rural stations across the UK where the cost of platform upgrades would otherwise have been considered prohibitive.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed (like most others on the route), but now has been provided with a ticket machine to allow passengers to buy tickets before travelling. Shelters are located on both platforms, which are linked by a footbridge. Step-free access is available only on the southbound side (where the main entrance is situated). Train running information is provided via telephone, digital information screens and timetable posters.
Service
There is generally an hourly service northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Whitehaven with most trains going onward to Barrow-in-Furness (no late evening service operates south of Whitehaven). A few through trains operate to/from Lancaster via the Furness Line.
Train operator Northern introduced a regular Sunday through service to Barrow via the coast at the May 2018 timetable change – the first such service south of Whitehaven for more than 40 years. Services run approximately hourly from mid-morning until early evening, with later trains terminating at Whitehaven. This represents a major upgrade on the former infrequent service of four per day each way to/from Whitehaven only that previously operated. In addition, it was announced that Harrington would no longer be a request stop.
References
External links
Railway stations in Cumbria
DfT Category F2 stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1846
Northern franchise railway stations
1846 establishments in England
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Workington railway station is a railway station serving the coastal town of Workington in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
The first Workington station on the Cumbrian Coast Line was built in the area known as Priestgate Marsh for the Whitehaven Junction Railway. Although the WJR was opened from Maryport to Workington in 1845 the WJR was advertising for tenders for building the station at Workington in October 1846. The WJR station had a single arrival and departure platform (the line was single until 1860) and no platform canopy "the platform is open to the prevailing winds, and " (we) " believe Workington is the only first-class station in Great Britain so unprovided with shelter" complained the Workington town trustees in 1858. In 1854 mis-set points led to a Maryport-Whitehaven goods train being routed into the end bay used by the Workington - Cockermouth trains: the goods train demolished the buffers and "dashed through" the booking office, the porter's office, and the gentleman's waiting room, carrying away the street wall of the station building, and finally coming to rest at the far wall of the ladies' waiting room. The booking office clerk having seen the train approaching, ensured there were no deaths but "the station" reported the Cumberland Pacquet "is of course a perfect wreck" and had to be re-built. (Immediately after the accident, the gas supply to the station was turned off at the meter, but it was noted that three gas lights continued to burn - the town trustees (who owned the town gasworks) declined to restore the supply until the WJR gave a satisfactory explanation or adequate compensation).
The London & North Western Railway took over the Whitehaven Junction and Workington & Cockermouth lines in 1866, and replaced the WJR station. The LNWR station was extended further north than the WJR one, with its principal entrance now facing Station Road; a footpath through the goods yard was suppressed, and South Quay (linking the harbour with the town) was carried over the railway on a bridge, replacing a dangerous level crossing.
At the height of railway development, two other stations served Workington: on the Cockermouth and Workington Railway, and on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. - both are now closed. The station on the coast line retained first claim on Workington, but after the opening of Workington Central could be distinguished from it by local papers as 'the Workington low railway station': it could be formally known as Workington LNWR (to distinguish it from Workington Central, Workington Bridge was also an LNWR station) or (post-grouping, when all three stations were LMS) as Workington Main; with the closure of the other stations it has reverted (both formally and informally) to being simply 'Workington' railway station. Trains from the Cockermouth and Keswick direction ended with the cl
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Flimby railway station serves the coastal village of Flimby in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
Flimby railway station was opened by the Whitehaven Junction Railway in 1846 along with the rest of the stations on the line from Maryport to Whitehaven Bransty.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and has no buildings other than a footbridge and waiting shelters. Tickets can be purchased from the ticket machine. The two platforms are of differing construction - the southbound is stone whereas the northbound one is wooden. Step-free access is only available for southbound passengers, as the footbridge does not have ramps. Train running information is provided by telephone and timetable posters, with digital information screens due to be commissioned here in the winter of 2019.
Services
There is generally an hourly service northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Whitehaven with most trains going onward to Barrow-in-Furness (no late evening service operates south of Whitehaven). All of these trains only stop at Flimby on request.
Train operator Northern introduced a regular through service to Barrow via the coast at the May 2018 timetable change - the first such service south of Whitehaven since 1976. Services run approximately hourly from late morning until early evening, with later trains terminating at Whitehaven. This represents a major upgrade on the former infrequent service of four per day each way to/from Whitehaven only that previously operated.
In the aftermath of the November 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods Flimby saw its passenger numbers soar because of the closure of road transport between the north and south of the town of Workington. Additional peak-time services were added for 26–27 November, followed by a new hourly shuttle service northbound to Maryport and southbound to Workington. This shuttle train was timetabled to always stop at Flimby, briefly reversing its status as a request-only stop. This operated between 30 November 2009 and 28 May 2010. Workington North railway station, a temporary station, opened south of Flimby on 30 November 2009, reducing the pressure on trains at Flimby. In addition, all services between Workington, Workington North, Flimby and Maryport were free of charge for this period.
In January 2014, services through the station had to be suspended for several days following flood damage to a 200yd (180m) section of track south of the station caused by strong winds and tidal surges (the railway runs very close to the seashore at this point). The line was closed for a week whilst repairs were carried out.
Accidents
On 1 February 1858, near Flimby colliery which is around a mile north of Flimby railway station, a coal train from Maryport was struck by a scheduled mixed goods and passenger train. It was said that the sharp curve on the line prevented the drivers from seeing each
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Maryport railway station is a railway station serving the coastal town of Maryport in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. It is unstaffed and passengers must buy their ticket on the train or at an automatic ticket machine outside the platform. Step-free access to the platform is available; train running information is provided by digital information screens and timetable posters.
A new "eco-friendly" waiting shelter was erected at the station in the autumn 2011 (at a cost of £120,000) to replace the more basic facilities previously offered.
The station is somewhat unusual in that it consists of a single bi-directional platform rather than the usual two side platforms used elsewhere on the double-track sections of the Cumbrian Coast line. Southbound trains have to cross over to the northbound line to reach the platform before returning to the correct line south of the station. This can cause delays if two trains are scheduled to call in quick succession or if one or more trains are running late. Network Rail plans to address this issue as part of a future resignalling scheme.
History
Two railway companies originally served the town - the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&C), which opened the line to Carlisle in stages between 1840 and 1845, and the Whitehaven Junction Railway which ran southwards to Workington and Whitehaven and opened in 1847. The latter company was taken over by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1866, but the M&C remained independent right up until absorption into the LMS in January 1923.
The station is the second to be built in the town, it dates from 1860 and replaced the original 1840 one built by the M&CR for its opening. The old M&CR headquarters formed part of the substantial station building formerly located here (see photo), but this was demolished in the 1970s.
Service
There is generally an hourly service northbound to and southbound to Whitehaven with most trains going onward to Barrow-in-Furness (no late evening service operates south of Whitehaven). A few through trains operate to/from via the Furness Line (four each way in the winter 2022 timetable).
Train operator Northern introduced a regular through Sunday service to Barrow via the coast at the May 2018 timetable change - the first such service south of Whitehaven for more than 40 years. Services run approximately hourly from mid-morning until early evening, with later trains terminating at Whitehaven. This represents a major upgrade on the former infrequent service of four per day each way to/from Whitehaven only that previously operated.
In the aftermath of the 2009 Cumbria floods, an additional hourly shuttle service operated southbound stopping at stations to Workington. All services between Workington, Workington North, Flimby and Maryport were free of charge until this service was terminated on 28 May 2010.
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Aspatria railway station is a railway station serving the town of Aspatria in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
The station was opened by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway on 12 April 1841, although the line heading north-east to Wigton was not completed until 1845.
The station was once the junction for the branch line to Mealsgate. Passenger trains on this line began on 2 April 1866, but ceased on 22 September 1930. Complete closure of the line followed on 1 December 1952.
The station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, and then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Railways.
The station signal box was the last surviving example built by the Maryport and Carlisle company, prior to its closure and demolition in 1998.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and has no ticket machine (though one is to be installed during 2019), so tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train (the main buildings are now in private residential use). Shelters are located on both platforms. Timetable posters, digital information screens and a telephone are provided to give train running information, whilst there is also public wifi access on offer. The platforms are linked by footbridge and there is step-free access to each one.
Services
Following the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by an hourly service between and , with some trains continuing to . During the evening, the station is served by an hourly service between Carlisle and Whitehaven. All services are operated by Northern Trains.
Rolling stock used: Class 156 Super Sprinter and Class 158 Express Sprinter
In May 2018, Northern introduced a Sunday service between and Barrow-in-Furness, the first Sunday service to operate south of Whitehaven for over 40 years.
See also
Listed buildings in Aspatria
References
Sources
Marshall, J. (1981) Forgotten Railways North-West England, David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott.
Station on navigable Ordnance Survey map
Further reading
External links
Railway stations in Cumbria
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Maryport and Carlisle Railway stations
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Wigton railway station is a railway station serving the market town of Wigton in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
The station was opened by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway on 10 May 1843, following the completion of the route from Carlisle. It would act as a temporary terminus until the opening of the line heading south-west towards Aspatria in 1845.
It subsequently become the junction station for the eastern end of the loop to Mealsgate from 1878. This portion of the route did not prove profitable, and the single daily return passenger service was withdrawn by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway in 1921.
Goods facilities at the station were withdrawn by British Rail in October 1970. A private siding for the nearby plastics factory remains in place, but this has been disused for a number of years. The station's signal box is still operational, and acts as a fringe to Carlisle PSB.
In December 2018, the Victorian-era footbridge connecting the platforms was deemed unsafe by Network Rail, and access to it was prohibited. The bridge was removed in March 2019 for repairs, and reinstalled in July 2019.
Facilities
Wigton is one of the mandatory stops on this part of the Cumbrian Coast Line, along with and . As with most other stations on the line, it is unstaffed, and has been so since 1969. The two side platforms here are slightly offset and linked by a footbridge. A ticket machine is now in service to allow intending travellers to buy before boarding. There are waiting shelters on both platforms, but the surviving station buildings are no longer in railway use. Step-free access is available to each platform, whilst train running information is provided by display screens, telephone and timetable posters.
Services
Following the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by an hourly service between and , with some trains continuing to . During the evening, the station is served by an hourly service between Carlisle and Whitehaven. All services are operated by Northern Trains.
Rolling stock used: Class 156 Super Sprinter and Class 158 Express Sprinter
In May 2018, Northern introduced a Sunday service between and Barrow-in-Furness, the first Sunday service to operate south of Whitehaven for over 40 years.
References
External links
Railway stations in Cumbria
DfT Category F1 stations
Former Maryport and Carlisle Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1843
Northern franchise railway stations
1843 establishments in England
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Dalston railway station serves the village of Dalston near Carlisle in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
It was opened in 1843 by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway, with trains running through to from the beginning of the following year. It became an unstaffed halt in 1967, but has kept its period stone waiting shelter on the northbound platform, lattice footbridge and main buildings on the opposite side (the latter are in private commercial use). It is also one of the last active freight locations on this route - an oil terminal on the eastern side of the line just south of the station receives regular trainloads of fuel oil from Grangemouth Refinery in Scotland. Two crossovers operated from ground frames located at the station are used for shunting purposes when trains require access to the terminal sidings.
Facilities
Along with most other stations on the line, it is unstaffed, meaning that passengers need to purchase tickets on the train. Step-free access is available to both platforms and train running information is provided by telephone and timetable posters. Digital information screens and a ticket machine are also being installed by Northern in 2019 as part of a rolling station improvement plan in the area.
Services
Following the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by an hourly service between and , with some trains continuing to . During the evening, the station is served by an hourly service between Carlisle and Whitehaven. All services are operated by Northern Trains.
Rolling stock used: Class 156 Super Sprinter and Class 158 Express Sprinter
In May 2018, Northern introduced a Sunday service between and Barrow-in-Furness, the first Sunday service to operate south of Whitehaven for over 40 years.
References
External links
Railway stations in Cumbria
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Maryport and Carlisle Railway stations
Northern franchise railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1843
Dalston, Cumbria
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"Marge in Chains" is the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 6, 1993. In the episode, Marge is arrested for shoplifting after forgetting to pay for an item at the Kwik-E-Mart. The family hires attorney Lionel Hutz to defend her at trial, but she is found guilty and sentenced to 30 days imprisonment. Homer and the rest of the family have trouble coping without Marge. The townspeople start a riot when an annual bake sale missing Marge fails to raise enough money for a statue of Abraham Lincoln and they have to settle for a statue of Jimmy Carter. Mayor Quimby has Marge released from jail in order to save his career and quell the riot.
The episode was written by
Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed by
Jim Reardon. After its initial airing on Fox, the episode was later included as part of a 1997 video release titled The Simpsons: Crime and Punishment. It was released again on the 2005 edition of the same set. The episode is included on The Simpsons – The Complete Fourth Season DVD box set released on June 15, 2004.
"Marge in Chains" received a positive reception from television critics.
The authors of I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide commented positively on the episode, as did reviews in The Daily Mirror and The Observer.
Plot
Troy McClure and Dr. Nick star in a TV advertisement for a juicer called the "Juice Loosener", which is manufactured in and shipped from Osaka, Japan. Many of Springfield's residents are persuaded to buy Juice Looseners because of the advertisement. However, one of the packers in Osaka has the flu and every package contains some of his germs. The "Osaka Flu" spreads through Springfield.
Every member of the Simpson family catches the flu, except Marge, who quickly becomes exhausted by caring for four family members. On a trip to the Kwik-E-Mart, Marge's exhaustion causes her to forget to pay for a bottle of bourbon that Grampa Simpson had requested, and she is soon charged with shoplifting. Mayor Quimby dramatically reveals Marge's shoplifting to the town in a public address. Marge's reputation is damaged and the townspeople no longer trust her. The Simpson family hires Lionel Hutz to defend Marge, but due to Hutz's incompetence, Marge is convicted and sentenced to 30 days in prison.
Marge's absence is felt by the family and the house falls into disarray. The annual bake sale also suffers – without Marge's marshmallow squares, the Springfield Park Commission fails to raise enough money to pay for a statue of Abraham Lincoln; they instead purchase a statue of Jimmy Carter. The townspeople are enraged by this, and riot. When Marge is released early on the orders of Quimby, she is given a hero's welcome. They unveil a statue for her, though it is just the Carter statue with Marge's hair added. The statue is then converted into a teth
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Some large blocks of IPv4 addresses, the former Class A network blocks, are assigned in whole to single organizations or related groups of organizations, either by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), or a regional Internet registry.
Each block contains 256 = 2 = 16,777,216 addresses, which covers the whole range of the last three delimited segments of an IP address.
As IPv4 address exhaustion has advanced to its final stages, some organizations, such as Stanford University, formerly using , have returned their allocated blocks (in this case to APNIC) to assist in the delay of the exhaustion date.
List of reserved /8 blocks
List of assigned /8 blocks to commercial organisations
List of assigned /8 blocks to the United States Department of Defense
List of assigned /8 blocks to the regional Internet registries
The regional Internet registries (RIR) allocate IPs within a particular region of the world.
Note that this list may not include current assignments of /8 blocks to all regional or national Internet registries.
Original list of IPv4 assigned address blocks
The original list of IPv4 address blocks was published in September 1981. In previous versions of the document, network numbers were 8-bit numbers rather than the 32-bit numbers used in IPv4. At that time, three networks were added that were not listed earlier: 42.rrr.rrr.rrr, 43.rrr.rrr.rrr, and 44.rrr.rrr.rrr.
The relevant portion of RFC 790 is reproduced here with minor changes:
000.rrr.rrr.rrr Reserved [JBP]
001.rrr.rrr.rrr BBN-PR BBN Packet Radio Network [DCA2]
002.rrr.rrr.rrr SF-PR-1 SF Packet Radio Network [JEM]
003.rrr.rrr.rrr BBN-RCC BBN RCC Network [SGC]
004.rrr.rrr.rrr SATNET Atlantic Satellite Network [DM11]
005.rrr.rrr.rrr SILL-PR Ft. Sill Packet Radio Network[JEM]
006.rrr.rrr.rrr SF-PR-2 SF Packet Radio Network [JEM]
007.rrr.rrr.rrr CHAOS MIT CHAOS Network [MOON]
008.rrr.rrr.rrr CLARKNET SATNET subnet for Clarksburg [DM11]
009.rrr.rrr.rrr BRAGG-PR Ft. Bragg Packet Radio Net [JEM]
010.rrr.rrr.rrr ARPANET ARPANET [VGC]
011.rrr.rrr.rrr UCLNET University College London [PK]
012.rrr.rrr.rrr CYCLADES CYCLADES [VGC]
013.rrr.rrr.rrr Unassigned [JBP]
014.rrr.rrr.rrr TELENET TELENET [VGC]
015.rrr.rrr.rrr EPSS British Post Office EPSS [PK]
016.rrr.rrr.rrr DATAPAC DATAPAC [VGC]
017.rrr.rrr.rrr TRANSPAC TRANSPAC [VGC]
018.rrr.rrr.rrr LCSNET MIT LCS Network [DDC2]
019.rrr.rrr.rrr TYMNET TYMNET [VGC]
020.rrr.rrr.rrr DC-PR D.C. Packet Radio Network [VGC]
021.rrr.rrr.rrr EDN DCEC EDN [EC5]
022.rrr.rrr.rrr DIALNET DIALNET [MRC]
023.rrr.rrr.rrr MITRE MITRE Cablenet [APS]
024.rrr.rrr.rrr BBN-LOCAL BBN Local Network [SGC]
025.rrr.rrr.rrr RSRE-PPSN RSRE / PPSN [BD2]
026.rrr.rrr.rrr AUTODIN-II AUTODIN II [EC5]
027.rrr.rrr.rrr NOSC-LCCN NOSC / LCCN [KTP]
028.rrr.rrr.rrr WIDEBAND Wide Band Satellite Network [CJW2]
029.rrr.rrr.rrr DCN-COMSAT COMSAT Dist. Comp. Network [DLM1]
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"Marge on the Lam" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 4, 1993. After Marge invites her neighbor Ruth Powers to attend the ballet, they become friends. Homer grows jealous of their friendship and pursues them, resulting in a police chase led by Chief Wiggum that ends in near-disaster.
The episode, which serves largely as a parody of the film Thelma & Louise and the Dragnet franchise, was written by Bill Canterbury and directed by Mark Kirkland. Phil Hartman, Pamela Reed and George Fenneman were the guest stars.
Plot
After donating money to public television, Marge receives complimentary ballet tickets. Marge guilts Homer into accompanying her by reminding him of how he once volunteered as a human guinea pig in a United States Army experiment to avoid visiting Patty and Selma with her. However, Homer gets both of his arms stuck in vending machines at work. Disappointed and doubting Homer's story, Marge invites her neighbor, Ruth Powers, to go with her instead. They enjoy themselves and continue spending time together visiting bars and clubs in Springfield. Ruth demonstrates how to use a pistol to Marge, and they use a forlorn farmer's "precious antique cans" for target practice.
To show he can have a good time without Marge, Homer visits the hilltop where he and Marge used to spend time before they got married, but finds it is no fun without Marge. While tending his moonshine still on the hill, Chief Wiggum spots Homer, and Wiggum offers Homer a ride home. At one point, Wiggum tries to make a routine traffic stop, but Ruth speeds up, revealing to Marge that she is driving her ex-husband's stolen car as revenge for his failure to pay child support. Still in Wiggum's backseat, Homer realizes Marge is in Ruth's car and suspects she is leaving him after discovering that she can have a better time without him. Ruth successfully evades Wiggum by turning off her headlights.
After seeing Marge and Ruth again the next morning, Wiggum continues his chase, joined by other police cars. Homer sees a cliff ahead and mistakenly thinks Marge and Ruth are attempting suicide. He uses a megaphone to apologize to Marge for all of his shortcomings and urges them not to drive into the Grand Chasm. Ruth, suddenly aware of the cliff, slams on the brakes and stops near its edge. Homer and Wiggum fail to stop in time, fly off the cliff's edge, and land in a mountain of landfill debris. They emerge slightly soiled from the garbage but otherwise unscathed. Because of Lionel Hutz's incompetence, the charges against Ruth are dropped and her ex-husband is forced to pay all back child support.
Production
Dan Castellaneta actually used a bullhorn to record his part when Homer was talking on one. The sunset shown when Marge and Ruth are at the café was airbrushed in, although the episode was done before computer animation was put into practice
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Stu Megan (Stewart A. Megan, born 1952 in Bristol, England) is now retired, having been a computer software professional since 1968, a career spanning 46 years. He began this career working on early core memory computers such as the LEO Computers LEO III (a room-sized machine that used only switches for control and ferrite rods for memory) to working at Netscape as the System Test Engineering Manager for more recent internet technology products such as Netscape's Directory Server (NDS).
Stu emigrated to Canada in 1981, working for a company called GEAC as a system programmer/developer. GEAC built their own hardware and software systems, compilers and were a leading Canadian corporation. Stu then emigrated to the US with GEAC and worked on many system developer projects there. After working at First Interstate IT Services, he moved to Silicon Valley working at many companies including Syntelligence - an Stanford AI company, both in the US and back in UK, he worked for Netscape as Senior QA Manager on Directory Server ( the birth of the internet ) and more. He subsequently began his own QA TestLab Services Consulting Service, initially providing hands on testing and later becoming a QA infrastructure service for small businesses who needed to start their own internal QA. This involved building the environment and then acquiring the resources needed ( people, software, hardware).
Stu (Stewart) also worked in the computer game industry for several years, including Sierra's INN network and later MicroProse/Spectrum Holobyte where he is credited with working on several games.
In his spare time, he has been involved in volunteering on social projects. One of these was the Spacewatch project in Arizona. His time there involved searching for Near Earth Asteroids. Stu also created and ran a supplemental support site, fmogroup.org for the volunteers on the project. By analyzing online images, he discovered among others, the close-approaching asteroids 2004 BV18 on January 19, 2004 and 2004 UH1 on October 23, 2004. He analysed over 10,000 online images during his time on the project and discovered 5 asteroids of note.
In July 2004, the asteroid designated 15462 Stumegan was named 'stumegan' in honor of Stewart A Megan's at the Spacewatch FMO project. The citation states Stewart A. Megan (b. 1952) discovered the Near Earth Object 2004 BV18 in conjunction with the Spacewatch Fast-Moving-Object Project. This find, made using real-time images transferred to volunteers over the Internet, was the subject of much press coverage encouraged others to join the online search. In February 2014, Stu Megan retired after 46 years in the industry, due to health and family issues, which made it impossible for him to continue his business. He is currently working on two novels in his new career as a writer.
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Minor Planet Center Citation
Spacewatch FMO Project
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WSFX-TV (channel 26) is a television station in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by American Spirit Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Television, owner of NBC affiliate WECT (channel 6), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on Shipyard Boulevard in Wilmington, while WSFX-TV's transmitter is located near Winnabow, North Carolina.
History
The station signed on September 24, 1984, as WJKA, a CBS affiliate. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 26 leasing space on the tower of ABC affiliate WWAY in unincorporated Brunswick County. The station was originally owned by Wilmington Telecasters, a company owned by Robinson and Katherine Everett of Durham. The station originally operated from studios located at 1926 Oleander Drive/US 76 in Wilmington (this address is now occupied by a tire store).
Prior to WJKA's start-up, Wilmington was one of the few markets in the United States without its own CBS affiliate and one of the few in the Eastern Time Zone without full network service. Future sister station WECT had a secondary CBS affiliation until cable arrived in the area in the 1970s while Florence, South Carolina's WBTW covered most of the market with a Grade B signal. From the 1970s until WJKA's sign-on, most local cable systems in the market carried Greenville affiliate WNCT-TV or WBTW while Raleigh affiliate WTVD (now an ABC owned-and-operated station) was carried by some cable providers.
Channel 26's tenure as a CBS affiliate was far from successful. The station operated on a shoestring budget. It mostly served as a "pass-through" for automated CBS programming, and produced almost no local content. The fact that WNCT and WBTW provided at least Grade B coverage to some parts of the market did not help matters either. Further complicating matters, Raleigh's WRAL-TV (now an NBC affiliate), which had been available on cable in Wilmington for decades, switched from ABC to CBS a year after WJKA's sign-on. This move forced the fledgling station to compete against three of the strongest CBS affiliates in the Southeastern United States. Under those circumstances, WJKA barely registered as a blip in the local Nielsen ratings against rivals WECT and WWAY.
In 1994, WJKA along with sister station KECY-TV in El Centro, California–Yuma, Arizona switched their affiliations to Fox; while this occurred shortly after CBS lost broadcasting rights of the NFL's National Football Conference to Fox and before the inaugural season of the Carolina Panthers the following year, the change followed several disputes between Robinson O. Everett and CBS (including one over a planned upgrade of KECY's translator in Palm Springs to a full-power station). On September 18, channel 26 changed its call letters to the current WSFX-TV.
Before the switch, Wilmington was the only portion of North Carolina (and one of the few in the Eastern Time Zone) without an over-t
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"Much Apu About Nothing" is the twenty-third episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 5, 1996. In the episode, a referendum is placed on the ballot that will require all illegal immigrants in Springfield to be deported. After learning that Apu will be deported if the measure passes, Homer helps him prepare for a United States citizenship test so that he can become a legal citizen.
The episode was written by David S. Cohen, and directed by Susie Dietter. Joe Mantegna guest stars in the episode as Fat Tony. The title of the episode is a parody of William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.
Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 8.2, and was the fourth highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired.
Plot
A brown bear roams the streets of Springfield, frightening the townspeople despite its docile and curious, rather than aggressive, behavior. After Homer ignores official advice to remain indoors in order to buy beer, he comes face-to-face with the bear after failing to get into his car via the power line, whereupon the police tranquilize the bear (and Barney Gumble, accidentally). Despite bears being a rare sight in Springfield, Homer leads a march of angry citizens to city hall, where they demand Mayor Quimby do something to protect them from bears. After Quimby deploys a bear patrol, which involves the use of high tech vehicles, including B2 Spirit aircraft, Homer is angry to learn his taxes have increased by $5 to maintain it. Another crowd of angry citizens marches to the mayor's office demanding lower taxes. To appease them, Quimby blames the higher taxes on illegal immigrants. He creates Proposition 24, which will force all illegal immigrants in Springfield to be deported.
Springfield residents start to harass local immigrants, regardless of status. At the Kwik-E-Mart, Apu confides in Homer that he is also an illegal immigrant. Apu fears that if Proposition 24 passes, he will be forced to leave the United States, since his visa originally issued for his computer science studies expired many years before. After blackmailing Kearney when he attempts to buy beer using a fake ID, Apu visits Fat Tony to obtain false citizenship. At Tony's urging, Apu pretends to be an American citizen, even speaking in a faux American accent, but soon feels guilty about committing fraud and abandoning his Indian heritage, and destroys his fake passport.
After seeing how distraught Apu is at the prospect of being deported, Homer vows that he and his family will help him. Selma refuses to marry Apu for citizenship purposes, chiefly on the grounds of wanting to marry for love or money, and not wanting an (even more so) unwieldy multibarrelled surname. Lisa discovers that Apu, as a long-term resident in the U.S., will not have to leave if he passes a citizen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another%20Simpsons%20Clip%20Show
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"Another Simpsons Clip Show" is the third episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 25, 1994. In the episode, Marge reads a romance novel in bed, and it prompts her to have a family meeting, where the Simpson family recall their past loves in form of clips from previous episodes.
The episode was written by Jon Vitti (credited as "Penny Wise") and directed by David Silverman. It is the second The Simpsons episode featuring a clip show format and uses clips from all the previous five seasons. The episode features cultural references to the 1992 book The Bridges of Madison County. The episode has received generally negative reviews even compared to other Simpsons clip shows. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 8.7 and was the fourth highest rated show on the Fox network that week.
Plot
Marge is reading The Bridges of Madison County one night and wakes up Homer to ask if he thinks the romance has gone out of their marriage. Homer ignores her and tosses the book into the fireplace.
The next morning, Marge gets the family together to discuss romance. She tells the family about the time she almost had an affair with a bowler named Jacques, which prompts Homer to tell the story of how he was tempted to cheat on Marge with a co-worker who had a similar personality. Lisa recounts the story of her doomed relationship with Ralph Wiggum and Bart remembers his first crush, both of which ended in heartbreak. Desperately searching for a love story with a happy ending, they also recount Marge's sister Selma's failed marriage to Sideshow Bob and the love triangle between Abe Simpson, Montgomery Burns and Marge's mother Jacqueline.
Marge sadly notes that it seems that all love stories have sad endings. Homer, however, saves the day when he tells the story of how he and Marge got together in high school. They passionately embrace while the kids run off to watch Itchy & Scratchy.
Production
As the title of the episode suggests, it is the second clip show episode of The Simpsons after "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", the 18th episode of the fourth season. It was written by Jon Vitti, who used the pseudonym Penny Wise in the closing credits because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show, and it was directed by David Silverman. The episode also includes contributions from John Swartzwelder, Frank Mula, David Richardson, Jeff Martin, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky, Nell Scovell, David M. Stern, George Meyer, Conan O'Brien, Robert Cohen, Bill Canterbury, and Dan McGrath.
During the early years of the show, the staff was forced by the Fox network into doing clip shows to save money. There was originally intense pressure on the producers of the show to create extra episodes in each season, and the plan was to make four clip shows per season to meet that l
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20vs.%20Patty%20and%20Selma
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"Homer vs. Patty and Selma" is the seventeenth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 26, 1995. In the episode, Homer loses all his money in pumpkin futures and must turn to Patty and Selma for a loan. Meanwhile, Bart takes up ballet lessons, with an instructor voiced by actress Susan Sarandon.
The episode was written by Brent Forrester and directed by Mark Kirkland, with David Mirkin serving as the executive producer. Sarandon had wanted to guest star on The Simpsons because her children were fans of the show; she made a later appearance in the series in the episode "Bart Has Two Mommies" as the voice of a computer. Mel Brooks also makes an appearance in "Homer vs. Patty and Selma", and had previously accompanied his wife Anne Bancroft to the recording studio when she had a role in the episode "Fear of Flying".
Chris Turner cites scenes from the episode in describing Homer's characteristic qualities in his book Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation. Turner notes that the episode illustrates Homer's impulsiveness, silliness, and "physical stupidity". Contributor Raja Halwani writes in the compilation work The Simpsons and Philosophy that the episode shows Homer's tendency to habitually lie to Marge, and cites Homer's covering for Patty and Selma when they are caught smoking as a positive aspect of his character. The episode also received positive mention from Turner in Planet Simpson, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood in their book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, and Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide.
Plot
Homer invests in pumpkins, but loses his entire investment. Late on a mortgage payment, he tries to borrow money, to no avail. After Patty and Selma receive promotions at the DMV, Homer realizes they are his last resort. They agree to lend him money on the condition that he becomes their humble servant. Homer begs Patty and Selma to help conceal his money woes from Marge, who soon finds out after seeing his IOU note to her sisters.
Homer becomes a chauffeur to earn more money, but is stopped by Chief Wiggum for not having a chauffeur's license. Homer visits the DMV with Marge to apply for one; Patty and Selma are his evaluators. The two mercilessly fail his driving and written test. To celebrate Homer's failure, they light up cigarettes but are caught by their supervisor, who threatens to demote them for smoking on the job. After seeing Marge's dismay at the situation, Homer reluctantly covers for them by claiming the lit cigarettes are his. To thank Homer for helping them avoid demotion, Patty and Selma forgive the loan.
In the subplot, Bart is late for school on the day students choose their physical education classes. When he arrives, ballet is the only class that is available. Despite his initial reluctance, Bart soon discovers he is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20programming%20language
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Programming languages that natively and seamlessly allow objects to continue existing after the program has been closed down are called persistent programming languages. JADE is one such language.
A persistent programming language is a programming language extended with constructs to handle persistent data. It is distinguished from embedded SQL in at least two ways:
In a persistent programming language:
The query language is fully integrated with the host language and both share the same type system.
Any format changes required between the host language and the database are carried out transparently.
In Embedded SQL:
Where the host language and data manipulation language have different type systems, code conversion operates outside of the OO type system, and hence has a higher chance of having undetected errors.
Format conversion must be handled explicitly and takes a substantial amount of code.
Using Embedded SQL, a programmer is responsible for writing explicit code to fetch data into memory or store data back to the database.
In a persistent programming language, a programmer can manipulate persistent data without having to write such code explicitly.
The drawbacks of persistent programming languages include:
While they are powerful, it is easy to make programming errors that damage the database.
It is harder to do automatic high-level optimization.
They do not support declarative querying well.
Examples
MUMPS
JADE
Caché ObjectScript
See also
Object-relational mapping
Object-oriented database management systems
Object prevalence
Phantom OS - persistent OS project
Programming language classification
Persistent programming languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until%20Tomorrow
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Until Tomorrow is an Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson. The series was produced in colour by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Seven Network in 1975. It was the second soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation, the first having been Class of '74. It is notable for having been made in Brisbane as opposed to Sydney or Melbourne, and was one of the few Australian soap operas produced for a daytime slot.
Series synopsis
Until Tomorrow examined the activities of various residents of the suburban Vale Street. Storylines involved revenge plots, murder, affairs, and blindness. The cast included Ron Cadee as Bill Wainwright, the corner shop keeper; television personality Hazel Phillips as Marge Stewart, a "widowed gossip on the look out for a mate"; Kaye Stevenson, Muriel Watson, Sue Robinson, Babette Stephens, and Barry Otto.
Critical response
The Sun-Herald, TV writer Allen Glover, said that Until Tomorrow had "the edge over the American serials" in that "the characters are Australian – and believable". However TV critic for The Age, John Pinkney, was withering about the show:
Broadcast
The series debuted in February 1975 and screened at 2.30 pm, opposite US serial General Hospital. It experienced low ratings and by July was moved to 11.30 am. It was cancelled after a run of 180 episodes with none of the current storylines concluded in the final episode.
Until Tomorrow was Reg Watson's first Australian soap opera. He went on to devise the more successful soap operas The Young Doctors (1976), The Restless Years (1977), Prisoner (1979), Sons and Daughters (1981), and Neighbours (1985).
Notes
External links
Australian television soap operas
1975 Australian television series debuts
1975 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo%20Point%20%28TV%20series%29
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Echo Point is an Australian television soap opera produced by Southern Star Group for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995.
The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to rival the opposition soap Home and Away on the Seven Network. The series focused on several families and teenagers in a coastal community, and a key on-going storyline concerned renewed interest in a long-unsolved local murder mystery.
Transmissions
Echo Point originally aired at 7:00pm weeknights (scheduled against Home and Away and Sale of the Century) to low ratings. The series was then shifted to the 6.00pm timeslot but was cancelled after 130 episodes had been produced. The final episodes were aired in a late night 11.30pm slot.
UK
The only two ITV stations purchased the series in the UK. Grampian Television started screening the series from Monday, 1 September 1997 as a replacement for Paradise Beach, shown Monday to Wednesday at 17:10–17:40, until November 1997. The series reappeared in early August 1998 when it was broadcast at 10.30am each weekday, From November 1998 it was screened each weekday at 04.30am alongside Shortland Street to clear off the episodes.
Central Television screened the series Tuesday to Thursday at 13:00–13:30 as the replacement for A Country Practice from Tuesday, 1 September 1998 and completed the series in June 1999.
New Zealand
TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show which featured former Shortland Street actor Martin Henderson.
Cast
In alphabetical order:
Rose Byrne – Belinda O'Connor
Liddy Clark – Iris Delaney
John Clayton – Maurie Barnard
Louise Crawford – Shelley Radcliffe
Kimberley Davenport – Holly Winton
Jack Ellis – Marty Radcliffe
Philip Gordon – Daniel Blake
Diarmid Heidenreich – Dean Loman
Martin Henderson – Zac Brennan
Mick Innes – Darcy Brennan
Tom Long – Dave Campbell
Allan Lovel – Gordon Amadio
Rebecca Murphy – Frannie Loman
Jessica Napier – Edwina Amadio
Victoria Nicolls – Trish Loman
Hayley Phillips – Lisa Loman
Sean Scully – Neville Loman
Rowena Wallace – Elizabeth O'Connor
Roxane Wilson – Coral O'Connor
David E Woodley – Hooper Hadley
References
External links
Echo Point at the National Film and Sound Archive
Network 10 original programming
Australian television soap operas
1995 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series by Endemol Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motel%20%28TV%20series%29
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Motel is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Seven Network's ATN-7 studios from 1968 to 1969.
Motel, like British serial Crossroads dealt with a family who ran a motel. In this case the Gillian family running the fictional Greenfields Motel.
Selected cast
Tony Bazell - Mark Jefferies
Jack Thompson - Bill Burke
Jill Forster- Gaye Gillian
Enid Lorimer - Bunty Creighton
Brian James - Paul Drennan
Ross Higgins - Reverent Larcombe
Gregory Ross - Chris Gillian
Noel Trevarthen - Rod Gillian
Production
The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 135 episodes. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson.
Reception
According to Richard Lane, who worked on the series as a writer, the series was very successful as a day time program, which was how it was conceived. But when Channel Seven management "became over enthusiastic and repeated it at nighttime it was a disaster."
Notes
External links
Motel at the National Film and Sound Archive
Clip from Show at YouTube
Seven Network original programming
Australian television soap operas
1968 Australian television series debuts
1968 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Drive
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Pacific Drive is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow in association with New World International for the Nine Network which screened for 390 episodes from 29 January 1996 to December 1997, when it concluded it was show in reruns being in a late night timeslot for years. It was also repeated (and edited to tone down its racier overtones) for a daytime slot on Nine while they lobbied (unsuccessfully) to the Australian Broadcasting Authority for a daytime drama to count towards their local drama quota points.
Despite getting 1.7 million viewers for its first episode at 9.30pm, within a few weeks the show was getting just 135,000 viewers in its regular 11pm timeslot. Most critics described it as rubbish but some changed their minds during the show's second season. 'The Sydney Morning Herald said it was "immeasurably improved in looks, acting and writing" while The Sunday Telegraph named it one of the 10 Best Shows on TV for 1997. The "final" episode was screened on 6 April 2000 before Nine realised a mistake had been made (when the first three episodes had been edited down into a punchier one hour premiere) so they eventually screened the last episode a year later as a one-off send-off. Had it aired without interruption, it would have taken just 18 months to complete its run instead of five years.
Series synopsis
The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic soap opera and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American soap opera Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines drew comparisons to Nine's early 90s drama series, Chances, and some critics described Pacific Drive as "...Chances on Vallium" – storylines included corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian love triangle (the first on an Australian TV soap) – saw the series gain a cult reputation.
Storylines
The soap opera opened with the murder of Sonia Kingsley and introduced all the characters via her murder investigation (the 4WD killer turned out to be her secret lover Adam). Daughter Amber Kingsley came to town and married her stepfather Trey in a bid to get her mother's fortune which was based around a radio station. But her bitchy ways pushed Trey over the edge and he snapped and became a serial killer, eventually murdering Callie, Sondra, Nick, Cameron and his sister-in-law Georgina. He was arrested while holding Amber hostage but was found innocent after faking multiple personalities and escaped the Drive with Bethany, only to electrocute himself while trying to drown her.
Pacific Drive was the first Australian drama to get its own website and the feedback from fans revealed that they loved some characters and loved to hate some others. One who didn't get a mention either way was Laura so writer Bevan Lee did a lookalike story but avoided the twin cliche. When doppelgänger Anna came to town coveting Laura's life (and her fiancé Luke who had been
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20Street%20%28TV%20series%29
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E Street is an Australian television soap opera created by Forrest Redlich and produced by his production company, Westside Television Productions, for Network Ten. It was broadcast twice weekly, from Wednesday, 24 January 1989 to Thursday, 20 May 1993. The series won several Logie awards.
E Street is short for Eden Street, which is based in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The action of the soap opera revolves around the local community.
The soap opera, Richmond Hill, which was produced by the Grundy Organization, was cancelled by Network Ten to make way for E Street. E Street initially rated poorly in Australia, but early audience research indicated that it had attracted both a significant proportion of the 14–35 audience demographic and a large male viewership. After a radical overhaul of the show, revised storylines and updated characters targeting the niche demographics, the ratings steadily climbed.
E Street ran for 404 episodes, each one hour long. Like many Australian soap operas before it, E Street was broadcast as two one-hour episodes each week and until the premiere of HeadLand in November 2005, it had been the last Australian soap opera to screen its episodes in this format. Notably, in the U.K., E Street aired as edited half-hour episodes, stripped 5 days a week.
About E Street
Beginnings
E Street was created and produced by Forrest Redlich. The structure of the original cast and the format of the first episodes were modelled on A Country Practice, a highly successful serial on Seven Network Redlich had worked on as a writer, script editor, and a producer for several years until 1988. The earliest episodes of E Street could be seen as an urban version of that soap, tackling human interest, issue-led stories over two weekly hour-long episodes, with continuing storylines carried by the small regular ensemble cast. Further similarities included setting much of the action around the local police station, a pub, and a doctor's surgery with the regular cast established as working at one of these locations. While in rural A Country Practice, a veterinary practice was featured regularly, in suburban E Street, this was replaced with a legal aid centre.
A more obvious comparison with A Country Practice was the addition of actress Penny Cook as E Streets leading, anchor character, Doctor Elly Fielding. Penny Cook had previously had a popular run as veterinarian Vicky Dean in A Country Practice from the series inception in 1981 through to 1985. After a break of over two years, it was announced in late 1988 that Cook would be returning to television in a brand new series in a role created especially for her: Dr Elly in E Street. Elly was a single Mum to young tomboy Claire (Brooke Mikey Anderson), and they lived in the flat above Elly's surgery. Also, Claire's father and Elly's ex-husband, Dr David Fielding (Noel Hodda), a celebrity TV doctor, would occasionally appear in early episodes, usually to stir up trouble f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak%20High
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Heartbreak High is an Australian television programme created by Michael Jenkins and Ben Gannon that ran from 1994 to 1996 on Network Ten and 1997 to 1999 on the ABC, for seven series. It was also partially funded from 1996 by BBC2, with some episodes airing in the UK ahead of their Australian release. The drama has been described as more gritty and fast-paced than many of its contemporaries, and follows the lives of students and staff at a multicultural Sydney high school.
The first five series were set at the fictional Hartley High and filmed in Maroubra Bay High School in Maroubra, New South Wales in the Eastern Suburbs. Series six and seven were set at the fictional Hartley Heights, and filmed in Warriewood in the Northern Beaches.
The show is a spin-off of the 1993 Australian feature film The Heartbreak Kid, which also featured Alex Dimitriades, Nico Lathouris, Doris Younane, Scott Major and Katherine Halliday as early versions of their Heartbreak High characters.
In 2020, Netflix produced a reboot, created by Hannah Carroll Chapman, which aired in September 2022.
Series synopsis
Heartbreak High had its origins in the 1987 stage play, The Heartbreak Kid, written by Richard Barrett and starring Gia Carides and Arky Michael. The play centered on Papa, a 22-year-old Greek-Australian teacher at an inner city school, who has an affair with her student, Nicky, and explored the restrictiveness of Greek culture, as well as racial tensions within Australian society. The play was first performed by the Griffin Theatre Company at the Stables Theatre in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, and adapted into the 1993 film The Heartbreak Kid, directed by Michael Jenkins and filmed in the inner suburb of Prahran, Victoria. Jenkins and producer Ben Gannon developed Heartbreak High as a spin-off of the film, with several cast members reprising their roles, reimagined in a Sydney setting.
The first series, which was initially centered around the Poulos family, consisted of 38 episodes and premiered on Network Ten on 27 February 1994. A second series of 14 episodes premiered on 21 May 1995, and began following a floating timeline, with the students established as being in their last school year and preparing for the HSC, but not sitting for their exams until the beginning of series five (after enduring several cast changes and with nearly two years passing in real time). A third series of 13 episodes premiered on 20 August 1995.
The show was axed after two years on Network Ten, however 26 more episodes were subsequently produced with funding from BBC2. They aired the first thirteen episodes in the UK from 26 March 1996 to 16 June 1996, then thirteen more episodes from 3 September 1996 to 3 December 1996. Network Ten eventually aired these episodes to meet their local drama quota in a late night timeslot from 5 August 1996 to 11 November 1996, splitting the 45-minute episodes into 23-minute parts, allowing two episodes to be aired weekly across four nights (Mon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Word%20Film%20Review
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The Four Word Film Review (FWFR) is an interactive website founded in 1999 by Benj Clews. It is an online database of film summaries, all written in four words or fewer and submitted by site members. The database currently contains more than 275,000 reviews covering some 25,000 films.
The Four Word Film Review was nominated in 2005 for a Webby Award in the Humor category.
Reviews
Users of the site, or "FWFRers" (sometimes pronounced "fwiffers"), write the reviews and submit them for site publication. Submitted reviews are put on the FWFRer’s Pending Approval list. Clews and a team of anonymous volunteer editors (called "MERPs", an acronym for the site's Multiple Editor Review Processing system) to weed out submissions according to broadly defined selection guidelines. If the review passes the Pending Approval process, it is added to the site and other FWFRers have the opportunity to vote on it.
Exactly what constitutes an “acceptable” Four Word Film Review is often a source of heated debate on the site’s message board. The general rules are listed in the site's FAQ, although their interpretation is ever evolving, subject to both the decisions of the site’s creator/owner, and the interpretation of the MERPs.
One common reason for the editors to decline a submitted review is that it is "too generic," meaning it doesn’t make specific enough reference to the film in question and may include fanboy statements. According to the site's FAQ, other reasons a review may be declined include exceeding the four-word limit, using a quotation from the film itself rather than written in the voice of the site user, similarity to one that is already posted, or being incomprehensible to MERPs. The reviewer is entitled to one appeal for a declined review, in which the user may explain the review and reasons why it should be accepted. Appeals are limited to 100 characters or fewer. All submissions and declines are ultimately at Clews' discretion except for the rule that all reviews must be four words or fewer.
Every page of the website features a “What Film?” box, which randomly selects one of the many thousands of reviews. The "What Film?" box allows the visitor to guess which film to which it refers, then follow a link to the film to see if he or she was correct. The box reflects the site's philosophy that it must be possible to deduce a film from its review.
Examples of reviews
"Martin spins Sellers' grave." (for The Pink Panther; review written by Randall)
"Waterworld, starring Al Gore." (for An Inconvenient Truth; review written by The Prof)
"Julia gets in Gere." (for Pretty Woman; review written by george fourman)
"Princess suffers sleeping curse." (for Sleeping Beauty; review written by MelissaS)
"Virtual viral villain vanquished." (for The Matrix Revolutions; review written by SoS)
"Indiana Jones' Temple, Doom." (for Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple; review written by wildheartlivie)
"Depp: Shear genius." (for Edward Scissorhands; review
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDMP
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NDMP, or Network Data Management Protocol, is a protocol meant to transport data between network attached storage (NAS) devices and backup devices. This removes the need for transporting the data through the backup server itself, thus enhancing speed and removing load from the backup server. It was originally invented by NetApp and Intelliguard, acquired by Legato and then EMC Corporation. Currently, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) oversees the development of the protocol.
Most contemporary multi-platform backup software support this protocol.
External links
NDMP at the SNIA web site
TechTarget -- NDMP definition
Backup
Network protocols
Network-attached storage
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20sort
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Q sort or Qsort may refer to:
Computing
Quicksort
qsort
Psychology
Q methodology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NER%201001%20Class
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The North Eastern Railway (NER) 1001 Class was a class of long-boiler 0-6-0 steam locomotive originally designed by William Bouch for the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Technical data
A NER 1001 class locomotive weighed about , with a wheelbase of and diameter driven wheels. Its diameter boiler produced over of tractive effort at .
History
The "long boiler" design dated back to a Stephenson design of 1842. At that time there was a controversy about keeping the centre of gravity low. Another point of view was espoused by John Gray who set out to improve efficiency and increase the pressure in shorter boilers using single drivers instead of coupled wheels. His ideas led to the design of the highly successful Jenny Lind locomotive.
The long boiler design with coupled wheels continued for slower heavier work. A total of 192 NER 1001 class locomotives were built from 1852 by a number of private manufacturers, as well as the NER's own works at Darlington and Shildon.
The small size of the firebox would seem remarkable in later years, but the engines were ideal where trains might spend long periods standing, waiting for a path, or when shunting. A minimum amount of fuel would have delivered sufficient heat to the large boiler to start heavy loads.
The last ten NER 1001s were delivered in 1875. Many were rebuilt in the following twenty five years. The last was withdrawn in 1923.
Having travelled an official mileage of , locomotive number 1275 is preserved at the National Railway Museum in York.
Accidents and incidents
On 5 November 1900, locomotive No. 1245 was hauling a freight train when it ran away and was derailed by trap points at Lingdale Junction, Yorkshire.
On 8 August 1909, a locomotive of the class was hauling a freight train which was derailed at Hartley, Cumberland due to heat buckled track.
References
External links
The Bouch NER '1001' Class 0-6-0 Locomotives
The Great Western Archive
1001
0-6-0 locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1852
Freight locomotives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%20University
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Galileo University is a private university in Guatemala City. It was founded and authorized on October 31, 2000. Initially, it was the School of Computer Engineering (FISICC) of Universidad Francisco Marroquín. It stands out for its technological contribution in higher education in Guatemala.
History
The university was founded as a school of systems, IT (Information Technology) and computer science engineering at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. In 1977 the school created Santo Domingo foundation, which came to assist in the educational, technological, cultural, and artistic heritage of Guatemala. After 22 years, the foundation initiated procedures for the approval of a new university. It was authorized by the Superior Council of Private Education in October 31st, 2000 as a university. The name honors astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei.
Buildings
The university has three towers, each identified with the name of an astronomer. The first is called Galileo, the second Copernicus, and the third Kepler.
Schools
Galileo university has seven schools:
School of Systems, Information Technology and Computer Science Engineering (FISICC)
School of Science, Technology, and Industry (FACTI)
School of Education (FACED)
School of Communication Science (FACOM)
School of Sport Science and Technology (FACTEDE)
School of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy (FABIQ)
School of Construction Engineering (FICON)
School of Health Science (FACISA)
Vocational schools
It has seven vocational schools:
Art School (ESA)
School of Continuing Education (ESEC)
School of Diplomacy and International Relations (ESDRI)
Technical School (ESTEC)
School of Public Image (ESIP)
School and Professional Development (ESDAP)
Institutes
It has six institutes:
Open Learning Institute (IDEA)
Institute for Security Studies (IES)
Research Institute for Earth Science and Astronomy (IICT)
Energy Resources Institute (IRE)
Institute of Family Studies (ICF)
Von Neumann Institute (IVN)
Galileo Educational System
Galileo Educational System (GES) is an online education platform, which serves to support courses and as the real environment of online courses at Galileo University. Is adapted by the university on the platform dotLRN, which is supported by its presence in many prestigious universities such as MIT, the University of Heidelberg or the UNED of Spain, among others. The platform is active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Guarantee the import and export of course content, classroom materials, homework, tests, etc. And the administration of courses, qualifying and post notes, directly online. Students have the ability to respond tests, homework, projects, etc. Participate in discussion forums in courses, FAQs, view course materials, among others.
Administration
President, Dr. José Eduardo Suger Cofiño
Vice President, Dra. Mayra Roldán de Ramírez
Vice President Administrative, Lic. Jean Paul Suger
Secretary General, Lic. Jorge Francisco Retolaza MSc.
External l
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Biskup
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Thomas Biskup (born 2 July 1971) is a German software engineer and computer scientist. He is the creator and developer of Ancient Domains of Mystery, a popular roguelike video game first released in 1994.
Biskup is currently CEO of the German software firm QuinScape. He lives in Witten, Germany.
References
External links
RPGVault interview
Personal website
German software engineers
Living people
German game designers
1971 births
German computer scientists
Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia
21st-century German scientists
21st-century German engineers
People from Witten
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT-55
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VT-55 or variant, may refer to:
VT55, a computer terminal from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
VT 55 railcar; a Deutsche Bundesbahn railcar
VT-55, a variant of the MT-55 combat support vehicle
See also
VT-55A
VT 5 (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin%20Crocker
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Erin Mary Crocker Evernham (born March 23, 1981) is an American race car driver and broadcaster with the Motor Racing Network's Winged Nation. In the past, she played soccer, tennis, and varsity lacrosse on both her high school and college teams. She eventually moved to focus more on building a family after starting a personal relationship with her team owner and superior, Ray Evernham, whom she eventually married.
Early career
Crocker first started racing quarter midgets at the age of 7 in the Custom Quarter Midget Club, based in Thompson, Connecticut, and the Silver City Quarter Midget Club from Meriden, Connecticut and was named the Most Improved Novice during her first year of competition. She then moved on to win several awards and three Northeast Regional Quarter Midgets of America championships from 1993 to 1996 while in middle and high school. In 1997, Crocker began running Mini Sprints at Whip City Speedway in Westfield, MA. She became the youngest driver and the first female to win a race at the track. In 1998 she again competed in a 1200cc Mini sprint at Whip City and also with the Central New York Mini Sprint Association (CNYMS). In 1999, she moved to the Eastern Limited Sprint Series, and was named Rookie of the Year.
Crocker started racing professionally in the World of Outlaws while attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in industrial and management engineering in 2003. In 2002, Crocker signed with Woodring Racing to drive a 360 winged sprint car. She won five feature races as well as twelve heat events, earning her the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Outstanding Newcomer Award. The following season, she switched to 410 Dirt Sprints, and became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals. She won the 410 division's Rookie of the Year honors at season's end.
NASCAR and ARCA
2004
In 2004, Crocker won an opportunity to drive for Ford Motor Company's driver development program, and tested a Ford sprint for Bob East (racing) and Steve Lewis that season. She also became the first World of Outlaws driver to win a feature race that year in Tulare, California.
2005
The following season, she left Ford to join Evernham Motorsports' driver development program. During the season, she raced in the ARCA RE/MAX Series and collected three top 5s, including a second-place finish, five top 10s, and two poles in six starts. She also made her NASCAR debut that season at Richmond International Raceway driving the No. 6 Dodge for Evernham in the Busch Series. She started 42nd after a wreck in qualifying, and proceeded to finish 39th after another wreck. In her next start at Dover International Speedway, she qualified ninth, but wrecked eleven laps into the race after being tapped by Justin Labonte. Crocker sustained a cracked rib from the incident forcing her to sit out some races she was scheduled to compete in. She ran two more races that season, one for Evernham and t
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In computing, external storage refers to non-volatile (secondary) data storage outside a computer's own internal hardware, and thus can be readily disconnected and accessed elsewhere. Such storage devices may refer to removable media (e.g. punched paper, magnetic tape, floppy disk and optical disc), compact flash drives (USB flash drive and memory card), portable storage devices (external solid state drive and enclosured hard disk drive), or network-attached storage. Web-based cloud storage is the latest technology for external storage.
History
Today the term external storage most commonly applies to those storage devices external to a personal computer. The terms refer to any storage external to the computer.
Storage as distinct from memory in the early days of computing was always external to the computer as for example in the punched card devices and media. Today storage devices may be internal or external to a computer system.
In the 1950s, introduction of magnetic tapes and hard disk drives allowed for mass external storage of information, which played the key part of the computer revolution. Initially all external storage, tape and hard disk drives are today available as both internal and external storage.
In the 1964 removable disk media was introduced by the IBM 2310 disk drive with its 2315 cartridge used in IBM 1800 and IBM 1130 computers. Magnetic disk media is today not removable; however disk devices and media such as optical disc drives and optical discs are available both as internal storage and external storage.
Earlier adoption of external storage
As a consequence of rapid development of electronic computers, capability for integration of existing input, output, and storage devices was a determinant factor in their adoption. IBM 650 was a first mass-produced electronic computer that encompassed wide range of existing in technologies for input-output and memory devices, and it also included tape-to-card and card-to-tape conversion units. Earlier "transportable personal storage" was introduced by IBM's 2315 disk cartridges, which were used in IBM 1800 and IBM 1130 computers. Operating systems of the earlier 1960s provided a general-purpose file system for external storage, which included hierarchical directories, symbolic links, and access control to time-sharing mainframe computers. Some of such earlier examples include UNIVAC, MULTICS, and UNIX.
Types of external storage
Paper data storage
Punched tape
Punched card
Magnetic storage
Magnetic tape
Floppy disk
External hard disk drives
Optical storage
Optical storage devices have media that use laser light technology for data storage and retrieval.
Compact disc
Types of Compact Discs (CDs) include:
CD-ROM: (Compact Disc Read Only Memory) It can only be read through the drive. And are usually manufactured by in bulk by a stamp type system.
CD-R: (Compact Disc Recordable) was invented in the 1990s. Using CD-R, it is possible to write data once on a disc at hom
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In metadata, a data element definition is a human readable phrase or sentence associated with a data element within a data dictionary that describes the meaning or semantics of a data element.
Data element definitions are critical for external users of any data system. Good definitions can dramatically ease the process of mapping one set of data into another set of data. This is a core feature of distributed computing and intelligent agent development.
There are several guidelines that should be followed when creating high-quality data element definitions.
Properties of clear definitions
A good definition is:
Precise - The definition should use words that have a precise meaning. Try to avoid words that have multiple meanings or multiple word senses. The definition should use the shortest description. The definition should not use the term you are trying to define in the definition itself. This is known as a circular definition.
Distinct - The definition should differentiate a data element from other data elements. This process is called disambiguation - The definition should be free of embedded rationale, functional usage, legal metadata registration.
Definitions should not refer to terms or concepts that might be misinterpreted by others or that have different meanings based on the context of a situation. Definitions should not contain acronyms that are not clearly defined or linked to other precise definitions.
If one is creating a large number of data elements, all the definitions should be consistent with related concepts.
Critical Data Element – Not all data elements are of equal importance or value to an organization. A key metadata property of an element is categorizing the data as a Critical Data Element (CDE). This categorization provides focus for data governance and data quality. An organization often has various sub-categories of CDEs, based on use of the data. e.g.:
Security Coverage – data elements that are categorized as personal health record.personal health information or PHI warrant particular attention for security and access
Marketing Department Usage – The marketing department could have a particular set of CDEs identified for identifying Unique Customer or for Campaign Management.
Finance Department Usage – The Finance department could have a different set of CDEs from Marketing. They are focused on data elements which provide measures and metrics for fiscal reporting.
Standards such as the ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry specification give guidelines for creating precise data element definitions. Specifically chapter four of the ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry standard.
Using precise words
Common words such as play or run database documents over 57 different distinct meanings for the word "play" but only a single definition for the term dramatic play. Fewer definitions in a chosen word's dictionary entry is preferable. This minimizes misinterpretation related to a reader's context and background. Th
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Darren Cahill (born 2 October 1965) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Australia. In addition, Cahill is a tennis analyst for the Grand Slam events on the US sports network ESPN and a coach with the Adidas Player Development Program and at ProTennisCoach.com.
Career
Player
Cahill turned professional in 1984. He won his first tour doubles title in 1985 at the Melbourne Outdoor tournament. In 1987, he won his first top-level singles title at New Haven.
Cahill's best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1988 US Open, where he knocked out Lawson Duncan, Boris Becker, Marcelo Ingaramo (a walkover after Ingaramo withdrew), Martin Laurendeau, and Aaron Krickstein on the way to reaching the semifinals, where he lost to eventual champion Mats Wilander.
In 1989, Cahill finished runner-up in men's doubles at the Australian Open partnering fellow Aussie Mark Kratzmann. Also with Kratzmann, Cahill won the ATP Championships in Cincinnati.
Cahill was a member of the Australian team which reached the final of the Davis Cup in 1990. The team lost 3–2 to the United States in the final. Cahill compiled a 6–4 career Davis Cup record (4–0 in doubles and 2–4 in singles).
Cahill won his last tour singles title in 1991 at San Francisco. His last doubles title came in 1994 in Sydney.
In 1989, Cahill's reached his career peak doubles ranking of world no. 10 and his peak singles ranking of no. 22 in 1989. After chronic knee injuries and ten operations, he retired from the professional tour in 1995.
Coach
Since retiring from the tour, Cahill has been a successful tennis coach and guided Lleyton Hewitt to become the youngest player ever ranked world no. 1. After Hewitt, Cahill coached Andre Agassi, who under Cahill became the oldest player ever to be ranked world no. 1 in May 2003. Cahill joined the Adidas Player Development Program after Agassi retired in 2006 and has worked with high-profile players, including Andy Murray, Ana Ivanovic, Fernando Verdasco, Daniela Hantuchová, Sorana Cîrstea, and Simona Halep. In 2017 and 2018, he coached Halep to No.1 on the WTA Tour and the 2018 French Open championship. After a year away, Cahill rejoined with Halep in 2020.
In addition to coaching individual players, Cahill was the Australian Davis Cup coach from 2007 until February 2009. He is also an Adidas talent scout and works with promising junior players worldwide. He is now a member of the Adidas Player Development Program. With Roger Rasheed, Brad Gilbert, and Paul Annacone, Cahill is a coach at ProTennisCoach.com, an open-access, professional coaching website. Cahill is also involved with PlaySight Interactive, a sports technology company behind the SmartCourt. Along with Paul Annacone, he heads up PlaySight's Coaching and Player Development team, helping the company to bring its technology to more tennis coaches and players across the world.
In January 2022, Cahill began coaching tennis player Amanda Anisimova as a trial coa
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The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) is open-source software for building climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science software applications. These applications are computationally demanding and usually run on supercomputers. The ESMF is considered a technical layer, integrated into a sophisticated common modeling infrastructure for interoperability. Other aspects of interoperability and shared infrastructure include: common experimental protocols, common analytic methods, common documentation standards for data and data provenance, shared workflow, and shared model components.
The ESMF project is distinguished by its strong emphasis on community governance and distributed development, and by a diverse customer base that includes modeling groups from universities, major U.S. research centers, the National Weather Service, the Department of Defense, and NASA. The ESMF development team was centered at NCAR until 2009, after which it moved to the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.
Editing Earth System Modeling Framework is free software released under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License.
Purpose
ESMF increases the interoperability of Earth-science modeling software developed at different sites and promotes code reuse. The idea is to transform distributed, specialized knowledge and resources into a collaborative, integrated modeling community that operates more efficiently, can address a wider variety of problems more effectively, and is more responsive to societal needs.
Software architecture
ESMF is based on principles of component-based software engineering. The components within an ESMF software application usually represent large-scale physical domains such as the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, or land surface. Some models also represent specific processes (e.g. ocean biogeochemistry, the impact of solar radiation on the atmosphere) as components. In ESMF, components can create and drive other components so that an ocean biogeochemistry component can be part of a larger ocean component.
The software that connects physical domains is called a coupler in the Earth system modeling community. Couplers follow the mediator pattern and take the outputs from one component and transform them into the inputs that are needed to run another component. Transformations may include unit conversions, grid interpolation or remapping, mergers (i.e., combining land and ocean surfaces to form a completely covered global surface) or other specialized transformations. In ESMF, couplers are also software components.
Capabilities
ESMF represents user data in the form of data objects such as grids, fields, and arrays. The user data within a component may be copied or referenced into these ESMF objects. Once user data is part of an ESMF data object, framework methods can be used to transform and transfer the data as required to other components in the system. This generally happens within a
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"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" is the eleventh episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 19, 1997. It was written by Jennifer Crittenden and directed by Chuck Sheetz. The episode guest stars Jack Lemmon as Frank Ormand and Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony. In the episode, Marge buys a franchise in a pretzel business.
Plot
The Springfield Investorettes – Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Agnes Skinner, Luann Van Houten and Edna Krabappel – expel
Marge from their investment group because she is wary of high-risk ventures. The group returns Marge's $500 initial contribution, and Lisa persuades her to use the money to buy a business franchise. To compete with the Investorettes' Fleet-A-Pita enterprise, Marge buys a Pretzel Wagon franchise from owner Frank Ormand.
Marge parks her Pretzel Wagon outside the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, and Homer persuades his coworkers to patronize it. The Investorettes' Fleet-A-Pita van parks nearby and lures away Marge's customers. To drum up business, the Pretzel Wagon sponsors a giveaway at the Springfield Isotopes baseball stadium. Before fans can consume their free pretzels, they learn that Mr. Burns has won a minivan and instead begin throwing the snacks at him and it. Retired pitcher Whitey Ford pleads for the crowd to calm down, but is knocked unconscious in the hail of pretzels. Marge becomes deeply depressed over her business struggles, so Homer searches for someone who can help her.
After discovering that both Frank and the executor of his estate have died in a car accident, Homer turns to Fat Tony and the Springfield Mafia for help in saving Marge's business. The criminals oblige him by coercing clients to place large orders and driving Marge's competitors out of business through intimidation and violence, eventually destroying the Investorettes' Fleet-A-Pita van with a car bomb. Fat Tony and his men confront Marge on the outskirts of town and reveal the agreement Homer made with them, then give her 12 hours to turn over all her profits. Homer admits to the deal, saying that he was only trying to help, and Marge decides not to pay.
Once time runs out, the Springfield Mafia arrives at the Simpsons' house and advances on Marge, only to be interrupted by the arrival of the Investorettes and their own criminal associates in the Japanese yakuza. A brutal fight breaks out between the rival gangs, and the Simpsons retreat into their house for safety. Marge forgives Homer for meddling and making the situation worse, and instructs the kids to go back to bed when they overhear the racket caused by the gangs.
Production
The main plot of the episode concerning the two rival snack food franchises was selected because at the time of production, pita bread and pretzels were "becoming popular". Josh Weinstein expressed his wish that the ideas had been changed to something more "fun", as both snacks have si
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Compal Electronics () is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM), handling the production of notebook computers, monitors, tablets and televisions for a variety of clients around the world, including Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc., Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu. It also licenses brands of its clients.
It is the second-largest contract laptop manufacturer in the world behind Quanta Computer, and shipped over 48 million notebooks in 2010.
Overview
The company is known for producing selected models for Dell (Alienware included), Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, and Toshiba. Compal has designed and built laptops for all major brands and custom builders for over 22 years. The company is listed in Taiwan Stock Exchange. As of 2017, revenues were US$24 billion, with a total workforce of 64,000. The company's headquarters is in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in mainland China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Compal's main production facility is in Kunshan, China.
Compal is the second largest notebook manufacturer in the world after Quanta Computers, also based in Taiwan.
History
Compal was founded in June 1984 as a computer peripherals supplier. It went public in April 1990.
In September 2011, Compal announced it would form a joint venture with Lenovo to make laptops in China. The venture was expected to start producing laptops by the end of 2012.
In January 2015, Toshiba announced that due to intense price competition, it will stop selling televisions in the USA and will instead license the Toshiba TV brand to Compal.
In September 2018, it was revealed that due to overwhelming demand for the Apple Watch, Compal was brought on as a second contract manufacturer to produce the Apple Watch Series 4.
CCI
Compal subsidiary Compal Communications (華寶通訊, CCI) is a major manufacturer of mobile phones. The phones are produced on an ODM basis, i.e., the handsets are sold through other brands. In 2006, CCI produced 68.8 million handsets and was the largest mobile handset ODM in the world. CCI's largest customer by far was Motorola. Motorola's volumes have been reduced year by year, and CCI's volumes have followed. In 2007, the volume was 48.7 million.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
Company website
Display technology companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Manufacturing companies based in Taipei
Computer companies established in 1984
Electronics companies established in 1984
1984 establishments in Taiwan
Companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
Multinational companies headquartered in Taiwan
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Edatata Narayanan (1907–1978) was a journalist and a freedom fighter from India. He took part in the freedom struggle through the Congress Socialist Party, a caucus within the Congress Party for activists with socialist leanings. He was among those who were disillusioned with the progress of Congress party on socialism and formed a new party, Socialist Party in 1948. He however left that party along with Aruna Asaf Ali and they visited Moscow along with Rajani Palme Dutt. Both of them joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) before Joseph Stalin's death but left the party in 1956 following Nikita Khrushchev's disowning of Stalin. Edatata Narayanan started a daily newspaper, Patriot (1963)° as the Chief Editor and was also associated with a weekly, Link in 1958 along with Aruna Asaf Ali. The publications became prestigious due to patronage of leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Krishna Menon and Biju Patnaik. When Edatata Narayanan wanted to make some editorial changes amidst reported opposition from the editorial staff, he told them in no uncertain terms that he belonged to the school of journalism where the editor's view is final. He brought Patriot into the spotlight by publishing the income tax returns of top industrialists in it and thus, bringing the information into public domain. He pursued a pro-CPI and pro-Left editorial policy - Indira Gandhi, a good friend and later the Prime Minister of India herself was pro-left. The publications and the associated publishing house were successful. The relationship between him and Aruna Asaf Ali was controversial as they were believed to be living together, despite no formal marriage. He wrote a book titled Praja Socialism: Monopoly's Pawn on the merger of the Socialist Party with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (founded by Acharya Kripalani).
External links
An Obituary of Mrs. Aruna Asaf Ali by Inder Malhotra in The Guardian
Approach of Narayanan as a tough boss
Edatata among top Indian editors
O. V. Vijayan under Edatata Nrayanan
Publishing the Income tax returns of top industrialists
Book by Edatata Narayanan.
Editorial approach of Patriot
Indian independence activists
Indian male journalists
Indian newspaper editors
Indian magazine editors
1907 births
1978 deaths
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"Dumbbell Indemnity" is the sixteenth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 1, 1998. It was written by Ron Hauge and directed by Dominic Polcino. The episode sees Moe trying to keep his new girlfriend by using a large amount of money, but when it runs out, he decides to commit insurance fraud. Homer helps him, but is caught and sent to jail, and attempts to take revenge on Moe when he does not bail him out. Helen Hunt makes a guest appearance as Moe's girlfriend, Renee. The episode contains several cultural references and was generally well-received.
Plot
With Moe Szyslak depressed at having gone four years without a date, Homer takes him to meet a woman at Stu's Disco, but he fails to do so. Further resigned to his misery, Moe starts a conversation with a flower vendor named Renee and ends up asking her out. Moe and Renee seem to form a strong relationship, but Moe is insecure about his hold on her and feels he must spend large amounts of money so she will stay with him.
In need of more money once his Player's Club card gets maxed out, Moe concocts a scheme to commit insurance fraud, convincing Homer to steal his car and park it on train tracks so it will be destroyed. The night the scheme is supposed to take place, Moe and Renee attend a police charity event aboard a yacht; the event's attendance by all the officers in town ensures Homer will not get caught perpetrating the scheme, and gives Moe an alibi so that no one will suspect he was behind the act. Homer botches the plan by stopping to watch a drive-in movie, missing the train that was supposed to destroy Moe's car. Instead, Homer drives the car off the cliff, but is unable to escape and sinks into the water near the yacht where the police charity event is taking place.
Moe gets the insurance payout but Homer is arrested and jailed. He persuades Moe to bail him out, but when Renee talks about wanting to vacation in Hawaii, spends the money on that instead. Moe is then confronted by his own conscience, in the form of Homer, who makes him feel bad for his betrayal. Moe tells Renee the truth about the insurance fraud scheme; at first she is happy he was honest, but when Moe starts scheming for a way to get Homer out of jail without paying the bail - involving setting his bar on fire - Renee is disgusted and leaves him. When he realizes she has left him, Moe sets the bar on fire by accident. Meanwhile, Homer escapes jail and goes to confront Moe, the two fight but then fall unconscious from smoke inhalation. Barney Gumble rescues them (and several kegs of beer) before the bar is completely destroyed. Homer reconciles with Moe and vows to help him get back on his feet, by temporarily relocating Moe's bar to the Simpsons' home.
Production
The episode was written by Ron Hauge, who has said he thought of the episode while attempting to create a story involving general illegal ac
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The Electrologica X1 was a digital computer designed and manufactured in the Netherlands from 1958 to 1965. About thirty were produced and sold in the Netherlands and abroad.
The X1 was designed by the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam, an academic organization that had been involved in computer design since 1947, and manufactured by Electrologica NV, a company formed expressly for the purpose of producing the machine.
The X1 was a solid-state binary computer ("completely transistorized") with magnetic core memory. Word-length was 27 bits and peripherals included punched and magnetic tape. It was one of the first European computers to have an interrupt facility.
The X1 was the subject of Edsger Dijkstra's Ph.D. dissertation, and the target of the first complete working ALGOL 60 compiler, completed by Dijkstra and Jaap Zonneveld. In 1965, the X1 was superseded by the X8. Electrologica was taken over by Philips a few years later.
Instruction set
The X1 allowed conditional execution of every instruction, not just branches as is the case in most computers. A similar capability existed in the Zuse Z22 and the ZEBRA, and much later in the ARM architecture. The approach used in the X1 is more flexible than these others: it makes execution conditional on the current state of the condition flag that is set by a previous instruction if it includes a modifier for that purpose, but untouched otherwise. As a result, conditional execution can be based on tests made some number of lines earlier, rather than being conditional only based on the result of the most recent arithmetic operation. This allowed for compact expression of programs. The following example demonstrates the loading of the value of memory at n into the accumulator A, calling a subroutine (which presumably uses that value in A), and finally setting A to be the absolute value of the number read:
2A n P // copy [n] to A, set condition flag to "yes" if positive
6T fn 0 // call the function at fn, which will return with the condition flag preserved
N 5P AA // if condition flag is "no", copy -A to A
The X1 arithmetic operators used binary ones' complement arithmetic.
Assembler
The X1 included a simple assembler in its read-only memory. It has rather basic features: symbolic addresses may be defined, but symbols are only two letters long. Instructions are named by a combination of a digit representing the operation, and a letter designating the register to be operated on, or one or two letters indicating an operation class. For example, "0A" means "add memory content to accumulator A", and "5P" means "set an accumulator to the negative of another accumulator". The normal use of symbolic addresses is to name "paragraphs", i.e., related blocks of code or data. The symbolic addresses would be modified by a "line number" (a numeric offset) and a "page number" (a number in the range 0 to 31). For example, "3 FE 6" is line number 3, page number 6, representing an offset of
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Homicide was an Australian television police procedural drama series made by production firm Crawford Productions for the Seven Network. It was the television successor to Crawfords' radio series D24. The "Consummate Homicide cast" includes the four characters that are the best known: Det. Snr. Sgt. David "Mac" MacKay (Leonard Teale), Det. Sgt. Peter Barnes (George Mallaby), Inspector Colin Fox (Alwyn Kurts) and Sen. Det. Jim Patterson (Norman Yemm).
Synopsis
The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based directly on real cases, although the characters (including the detectives) were fictional. 510 episodes were produced and aired from 20 October 1964 to January 1977 (12 years and 6 months), making it the longest-running Australian weekly primetime drama in history.
With 510 episodes produced (the last episode is numbered 509, due to the pilot episode being numbered with an 'A' suffix, making a total of 510), for many years it held the record for most episodes produced in an Australian weekly primetime drama. When Blue Heelers ended in 2006, the show equalled this record. However, Homicide ran on-air for longer than Blue Heelers, and had a greater cumulative running time due to five feature-length episodes.
Cast and characters
Main Cast
Scripts
Homicide scripts explored a number of major social issues, such as:
pack rape (episode 21, "The Violators")
sex work (episode 23, "The Brand")
loneliness, suicide and mercy killing (episode 31, "An Act Of Love")
the occult (episode 34, "Witch Hunt")
police shooting of criminals (episode 76, "The Snipers")
road safety (episode 123, "No Licence To Kill")
drugs (episode 128, "Freakout")
the plight of pensioners (episode 208, "Everybody Knows Charlie")
pollution (episode 314, "Fighting Fred")
use of firearms (episode 405, "Time And Tide")
‘poofter bashing’ (episode 411, "A Crime Against Nature")
youth gangs (episode 434, "The Graduation Of Tony Walker")
child abuse (episode 463, "The Life And Times Of Tina Kennedy")
the dangers of hitch-hiking (episode 478, "Wipe Out")
Many early episodes were introduced by Fegan speaking directly to camera, to highlight their significance and, presumably, to indicate they may not be suitable for younger viewers.
Scripts were frequently based on real murder cases, including:
Episode 211, "I, Mick O'Byrne", based on the recent case of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia.
Episode 37, "Colour of Hate", based on the real-life murder of a young police constable. The victim's family later wrote a very appreciative letter to Crawfords in which they described the episode as ‘a fine tribute to our son’s courage and devotion to duty’. The letter was later read out by Teale in the documentary The Homicide Story, who noted that it held a special place in the production team's files.
Episode 39, "A Lonely Place", based on the case of serial kil
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Division 4 is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
Synopsis
The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success of the earlier Crawford Productions crime show Homicide and dealt with the wide variety of cases dealt with by police in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central (modelled on St Kilda).
Awards
The series was both popular - winning 10 Logie Awards, including two Gold Logie awards (for Australia's most popular entertainer) for Gerard Kennedy - who played Frank Banner, the series was critically acclaimed, winning a number of Penguin and Awgie awards for its scripts and actors.
In 1972 Frank Taylor received the Penguin Award for the Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series.
After Kennedy decided to leave Division 4, the Nine Network summarily cancelled the series; only one episode was made with his replacement John Stanton.
Theme song
The opening theme Power Drive by Johnny Pearson was sampled by TISM in their 1998 single Thunderbirds Are Coming Out.
Regular cast
Home media
As of February 2017, twelve volumes of this series have been released on DVD through Crawfords/WinTV, representing the entire series run (with the exception of episode 102A "Conspiracy", which exists as a partial episode only and was not included).
References
External links
Division 4 at Classic Australian Television
Division 4 at Crawford Productions
Division 4 at the National Film and Sound Archive
Division 4 - "Return of John Kelso" at Australian Screen Online
Nine Network original programming
1960s Australian drama television series
1960s Australian crime television series
1969 Australian television series debuts
1975 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Television series by Crawford Productions
1970s Australian drama television series
1970s Australian crime television series
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Matlock Police is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network (now known as the 10 Network) between 1971 and 1976. The series focused on the police station and crime in the Victorian town of Matlock and the surrounding district, and the backgrounds and personal lives of the main policemen.
Background
The series was the 0-10 Network's attempt to come up with a police show to rival Homicide (shown by the 7 Network) and Division 4 (on the 9 Network). Matlock Police was different from its Melbourne-based predecessors by being set in a small country town, the fictional Matlock, Victoria (a real Matlock exists in Victoria but is much smaller than the town depicted by this series, which is loosely based on Shepparton). These program's introduction featured an overhead shot of a town with a divided road, thought to be of Bairnsdale in Victoria. Series writers had a reference manual giving full details of the town’s geography, amenities, social structure, etc., as well as that of the surrounding area - neighbouring towns included Wilga, Chinaman's Creek, Possum's Creek and Burrabri, and there was an offshoot of the Great Dividing Range called the Candowies. The town's colourful history included the local Aboriginal tribe (the ‘Bangerang’), the town founder (George Matlock), a gold rush, a bushranger (‘Holy’ Joe Cooper - so called both for his theft of a shipment of holey dollars and because he was a preacher) and a town patriarchy (the Falconers). About the only landmark the Matlock district lacked for dramatic purposes was a beach.
Broadcast history
The first episode was broadcast in Melbourne on 22 February 1971. Initially filmed in black and white, the series switched to colour in episode 162, "Loggerheads". Matlock Police was cancelled in 1975 after 229 episodes had been produced (while the final episode is numbered 228, an earlier episode had an A suffix, making a total of 229).
Main cast
Detective Sergeant (later Detective Senior Sergeant) Vic Maddern (Michael Pate), head of Matlock's C.I. (Criminal Investigation) Branch, who grew up in the Matlock district and is an accomplished bushman and career cop (apart from a spell in the army where he fought in Korea). Aged in his forties, Maddern is divorced and has two children (his wife Kay is moving out in the first episodes). Dedicated, with an authoritative personality and a direct approach to his work, Maddern is well respected in the town. Maddern is eventually shot and severely wounded in mountainous bushland while pursuing small-time cattle-duffers and is evacuated to Melbourne for treatment (episode 192, "Have A Good Weekend"). Dialogue in later episodes indicates that he is recovering from his wounds, but will probably be transferred to a Melbourne squad once out of hospital.
Senior Detective Alan Curtis (Grigor Taylor), aged in his mid-20s, who has just arrived in Matlock from Melbourne and is essentially a city boy, sent to his first c
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Solo One is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network and screened in 1976. There were 13 half-hour episodes.
Synopsis
The series was a spin-off from Crawford's other police show Matlock Police and featured Paul Cronin reprising his role as Senior Constable Gary Hogan, but tailored for a younger audience.
It was set in the real country town of Emerald in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne and used the town's actual police station.
In the series Hogan sorts out problems for the locals. His call sign is Solo One, hence the series title.
Cast
Paul Cronin as Senior Constable Gary Hogan
Aileen Britton as Aunt Nan
Keith Eden as Joe Porter
Terry Norris
Lionel Long
George Spartels as Harry Thomas
Episode list
DVD releases
The complete 13 episodes of this series are available on DVD and were released on 12 September 2017.
References
External links
Solo One at Classic Australian Television
Solo One at Crawford Productions
Solo One at the National Film and Sound Archive
at Australian Television
1970s Australian drama television series
1970s Australian crime television series
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
1976 Australian television series debuts
1976 Australian television series endings
Television series by Crawford Productions
Australian television spin-offs
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Bluey is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network in 1976.
The series was a police drama from Crawford Productions, but was different from their previous series—Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police—in that it focused on a single detective rather than an ensemble, and that the characters were not stock standard archetypes usually seen in police dramas. Stand-up comedian Lucky Grills was cast as the titular Det. Sgt. "Bluey" Hills who, in contrast to the relatively straight detectives seen in Crawford's previous shows, was obese, drank heavily (even on duty), smoked heavily, visited local prostitutes, and would often enact physical violence on criminals.
Cast
Main Cast
Lucky Grills as Det. Sgt. ‘Bluey’ Hills
Gerda Nicolson as Sgt. Monica Rourke
John Diedrich as Det. Gary Dawson
Ken Goodlet as Assistant Commissioner
Terry Gill as Det. Sgt. Reg Truscott
Victoria Quilter as Jo Goldman
Mercia Deane-Johns as Debbie Morley (6 eps)
Fred Parslow as Superintendent
Regular/guest cast
Anthony Hawkins as David Andrews (1 ep)
Belinda Giblin as Sergeant Tracey Alexander (1 ep)
Billie Hammerberg as Stella Hedley / Alice Collins / Mrs Gruman (3 eps)
Briony Behets as Kate Wallace (1 ep)
Don Barker as Det. Sgt. Harry White
Elspeth Ballantyne as Rhoda Lewis (1 ep)
Garry Meadows as Ted Powees (1 ep)
Gary Waddell as Terry Baxter / Davidson (2 eps)
Gerard Maguire as Larry Davis (1 ep)
John Bluthal as Newsman (1 ep)
John Orcsik as Dino Rossi
Jonathan Hardy (1 ep)
Judy McBurney as Janey / Sandra Gibson (3 eps)
Julieanne Newbould as Sue Golding (1 ep)
Leila Hayes as Georgie (2 eps)
Lynette Curran as Jenny (1 ep)
Michael Beecher
Michael Long
Penny Ramsey as Belinda Dempsey (1 ep)
Patsy King as Tina Golding (1 ep)
Reg Evans as Wally 'Birds' Avery (1 ep)
Sigrid Thornton as Helen Laughton (1 ep)
Tracy Mann as Marcia Franks (1 ep)
Vivean Gray as Mrs Jenkins (1 ep)
Overview
Bluey was set at Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, with "Bluey" Hills heading his own squad ("Department B"), due to his inability to work within the existing police squads. Department B was given cases that the other departments could not readily solve by conventional means, with Hills applying his unconventional methods to bring about their resolution.
Bluey was supported in his investigations by newly assigned Det. Gary Dawson (John Diedrich) long-time cohort Sgt. Monica Rourke (Gerda Nicolson), and undercover officer Det. Sgt. Reg Truscott (Terry Gill), who spent his time ostensibly working as a small-time burglar, and supplying Bluey with information on the activities of local criminals. Victoria Quilter also featured in early episodes as Dawson's girlfriend Jo Goldman, later replaced by Mercia Deane-Johns as Debbie Morley. Whilst a constant thorn in the side of the Assistant Commissioner (Ken Goodlet) and Superintendent (Fred Parslow), Bluey's methods were highly effective—while other squads didn't want hi
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