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Riverstone Networks, was a provider of networking switching hardware based in Santa Clara, California. Originally part of Cabletron Systems, and based on an early acquisition of YAGO, it was one of the many Gigabit Ethernet startups in the mid-1990s. It is now a part of Alcatel-Lucent and its operations are being wound down via a Chapter 11 filing by their current owners.
Company history
7 February 2006 - Riverstone's partner Lucent Technologies signed an Asset Purchase agreement to acquire Riverstone Networks
21 March 2006 - Lucent Technologies wins the auction for Riverstone Networks over rival Ericsson. The final price was $207 million
18 April 2006 - Lucent Technologies are currently in the process of a merger of equals with Alcatel
1 December 2006 - Lucent Technologies completed the process of a merger of equals with Alcatel. Assets of Riverstone Networks are now part of Alcatel-Lucent
Products
All of Riverstone Networks products were geared towards IP over Ethernet, often for a Metro Ethernet solution. All the products were multilayer switches (or switch-routers) and specialized in MPLS VPNs.
15000 Family
The 15000 Family (referred to as the 15K) differed from the RS family as the 15K is not flow-based. Flow-based routers use the main CPU to process new flows and packets through the switch. The 15K differed by letting the line card processors do the work for the network traffic, leaving the main CPU to work on the system itself. This type of network processing is similar to Cisco's dCEF.
The 15K products were based on a different operating system than other Riverstone products, called ROS-X. It was designed to be modular and more like the common command line interface of Cisco.
15008 - The highest performance product from Riverstone. It supported a 96 port 10/100 Ethernet card, 12 or 24 port 1GB Ethernet cards and 1 or 2 port 10GB Ethernet cards. Support for ATM and PoS was planned.
15100/15200 - Designed with the same architecture and operating system as the 15008, the 15100 and 15200 were designed more for an access/distribution network role. They were semi-modular in design with some fixed 1G Ethernet ports and GBIC uplinks for either 1GB or 10GB.
RS Family
The RS family of products were flow-based multilayer switches. They ran ROS software, which had a command line interface but could also be configured via SNMP.
1x00 - Fixed hardware configuration
3x00 - Semi-modular in design, came with 32 fixed 100BaseT Ethernet ports and 2 modular bays
8x00 - Fully modular hardware, came in either 8 slot (8000) or 16 slot (8600) versions. The modules for the 8x00 included Control Modules, 100BaseT Ethernet, 1000BaseT Ethernet, 1000BaseX GibabitEthernet with interchangeable GBICs, including PoS, ATM, Serial, T1/E1, and T3/E3.
38000 - Fully modular hardware, differed from the rest of the RS range physically due to the modular slots being vertical.
ES Family
ES 2010 - Fixed 24 10/100 port multilayer switch designed for network acce
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRAM
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NRAM may refer to:
Nano-RAM, a proprietary computer memory technology
Landmark Mortgages, formerly NRAM plc, a British asset holding and management company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoline
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epoline is a set of web-based computer programs and services enabling applicants, patentees and their representatives to file patent applications online before the European Patent Office (EPO), as well as to monitor the status of patent applications during their prosecution and patents during an opposition. The epoline products and services have been implemented and are maintained by the EPO, according to the Decision of the President of the EPO dated 29 October 2002.
Products and services
Besides being available for filing European patent applications with the EPO, the epoline online filing software (also called "Online Filing", "OLF", "eOLF" or "epoline Online Filing") can also be used since December 3, 2003 for filing any official document during patent prosecution. The use of on-line filing passed the 50% level of patent application filings in January 2008. The epoline online filing software also allows to file patent applications online with the national patent offices that support it.
Until March 4, 2009, the epoline online filing software could not be used for filing oppositions or appeal. This had been confirmed by a Board of Appeal decision in T 514/05 of September 8, 2005, according to which "[a]n appeal filed via epoline [could not] have any legal effect absent explicit permission of the President of the EPO." The explicit permission of the President of the EPO has since been provided. Since March 5, 2009 indeed, documents in all proceedings under the EPC, including opposition, appeal, revocation, limitation and review proceedings, may be filed with the EPO in electronic form, i.e. with the epoline software or, subject to prior approval by the EPO, with other software. Priority documents however cannot be filed electronically, "unless they have been digitally signed by the issuing authority and the signature is accepted by the European Patent Office."
WebRegMT is a monitoring tool for monitoring data from the online European Patent Register. The tool sends e-mail alerts when a change occurs in the status of a selected patent application or patent.
See also
Electronic Filing System (USPTO)
Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA) filing software PaTrAS
References
External links
Official website
Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 26 February 2009 concerning the electronic filing of documents as published on the EPO web site.
Axel H. Horns, On Data Formats for the »epoline« System, epi Information 2/2003 p. 58 (and full text: in the ipjur.com web site)
Paul Brewin, Regarding “On Data Formats for the ‘epoline’ System”, Information from the European Patent Office, July 14, 2003
European Patent Organisation
Patent search services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20light%20gun%20games
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This is a list of light gun games, video games that use a non-fixed gun controller, organized by the arcade, video game console or home computer system that they were made available for. Ports of light gun games which do not support a light gun (e.g. the Sega Saturn version of Corpse Killer) are not included in this list. Arcade games are organized alphabetically, while home video games are organized alphabetically by the system's company and then subdivided by the respective company's systems in a chronological fashion.
Arcade
2 SPICY (Sega, 2007)
Alien 3: The Gun (Sega, 1993)
Aliens: Armageddon (Raw Thrills, 2014)
Aliens: Extermination (Global VR, 2006)
Area 51 (Atari, 1995)
Area 51: Site 4 (Atari Games, 1998)
Area 51 / Maximum Force Duo (Atari Games, 1998)
Bang! (Gaelco, 1998)
Bazooka (Taito, 1995)
Balloon Gun (Sega, 1975)
Battle Shark (Nintendo, 1977)
Bullet Mark (Sega, 1975)
Beast Busters: Second Nightmare (SNK, 1999)
Beast Busters (SNK, 1989)
Behind... Enemy Lines (Sega, 1998)
Big Buck Hunter 2006 Call Of The Wild (Incredible Technologies, 2005)
Big Buck Hunter II Sportsman's Paradise (Incredible Technologies, 2003)
Big Buck Hunter Pro Open Season (Raw Thrills, Inc., 2009)
Big Buck Hunter Pro (Raw Thrills, Inc., 2006)
Big Buck Hunter Shooter's Challenge (Incredible Technologies, 2002)
Big Buck Hunter (Incredible Technologies, Inc., 2000)
Big Buck Safari (Raw Thrills, Inc., 2008)
Big Buck World (Raw Thrills, Inc., 2010)
Born To Fight (International Games, 1989)
Bronx (Bootleg, 1986)
Bubble Trouble: Golly! Ghost! 2 (Namco, 1994)
CarnEvil (Midway, 1998)
Carnival King (Incredible Technologies, 2002)
Cheyenne (Exidy, 1984)
Chiller (Exidy, 1986)
Clay Pigeon (Exidy, 1986)
Claybuster (Taito, 1978)
Combat / Catch-22 (Exidy, 1985)
Confidential Mission (Sega of America, Inc., 2000)
Cops (Atari, 1994)
Cosmoswat (Namco, 1984)
Crackshot (Exidy, 1985)
Crazy Fight (Seta, 1996)
Crime Patrol (American Laser Games, 1993)
Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars (American Laser Games, 1993)
Crisis Zone (Namco, 1999)
Crossbow (Exidy, 1983)
Crypt Killer (Konami, 1995)
Cycle Shooting (Taito, 1986)
Dead Eye (Konami 1978/1996)
Death Crimson Ox (Sega, 2000)
Deer Hunting USA (Sammy USA, July 18, 2000)
Desert Gun (Midway, 1977)
Desert Patrol (Taito, 1977)
Dragon Gun (Data East, 1993)
Egg Venture (The Game Room and Innovative Concepts in Entertainment, 1997)
Evil Night / Hell Night (Konami, 1998)
Extreme Hunting 2 (Atomiswave, 2006)
Extreme Hunting (Atomiswave, 2005)
Friction (Friction Game Studios, 2011)
Gallagher's Gallery (American Laser Games, 1992)
Ghost Hunter (HanaHo Games, 1996)
Ghost Squad (Sega, 2004)
Ghost Squad Evolution (Sega, 2007)
Ghoul Panic (Eighting/Raizing, 1999)
Golden Gun (Sega Shanghai Software, 2010)
Golgo 13 Kiseki No Dandou (Eighting/Raizing,, 1999)
Golgo 13 (Eighting/Raizing, 1999)
Golly! Ghost! (Namco, 1990)
Great Guns (Stern Electronics, 1983)
Gun Champ (Taito, 1980)
Gunblade NY (Sega, 1996)
Gunbuster (Taito, 1992)
Gunmania (Konami, 2000)
Gunslinger Stra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registry%20cleaner
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A registry cleaner is a class of third-party utility software designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system, whose purpose is to remove redundant items from the Windows Registry.
Registry cleaners are not supported by Microsoft, but vendors of registry cleaners claim that they are useful to repair inconsistencies arising from manual changes to applications, especially COM-based programs.
The effectiveness of Registry cleaners is a controversial topic. The issue is further clouded by the fact that malware and scareware are often associated with utilities of this type.
Advantages and disadvantages
Due to the sheer size and complexity of the Registry database, manually cleaning up redundant and invalid entries may be impractical, so Registry cleaners try to automate the process of looking for invalid entries, missing file references or broken links within the Registry and resolving or removing them.
The correction of an invalid Registry key (such as one or more that remain after uninstallation of a program application) can provide some benefits; but the most voluminous will usually be quite harmless, obsolete records linked with COM-based applications whose associated files are no longer present.
Registry damage
Some Registry cleaners make no distinction as to the severity of the errors, and many that do may erroneously categorize errors as "critical" with little basis to support it. Removing or changing certain Registry data can prevent the system from starting, or cause application errors and crashes.
It is not always possible for a third-party program to know whether any particular key is invalid or redundant. A poorly designed Registry cleaner may not be equipped to know for sure whether a key is still being used by Windows or what detrimental effects removing it may have. This may lead to loss of functionality and/or system instability, as well as application compatibility updates from Microsoft to block problematic Registry cleaners. The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility was a Microsoft-supported utility for addressing Windows Installer related issues.
Malware payloads
Registry cleaners have been used as a vehicle by a number of trojan applications to install malware, typically through social engineering attacks that use website pop-up ads or free downloads that falsely report problems that can be "rectified" by purchasing or downloading a Registry cleaner. The worst of the breed are products that advertise and encourage a "free" Registry scan; however, the user typically finds the product has to be purchased for a substantial sum, before it will effect any of the anticipated "repairs". The rogue security software "WinFixer" including Registry cleaners has been ranked as one of the most prevalent pieces of malware currently in circulation.
Scanners as scareware
Rogue Registry cleaners are often marketed with alarmist advertisements that falsely claim to have pre-analyzed your PC, displaying bogus warnings to take "corrective" a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel%20Meridian
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Nortel Meridian is a private branch exchange telephone switching system. It provides advanced voice features, data connectivity, LAN communications, computer telephony integration (CTI), and information services for communication applications ranging from 60 to 80,000 lines.
History
Exploratory development on digital technology, common for the SL-1 (PBX) and the DMS (public switch) product lines, began in 1969 at Northern Telecom, while R&D activities related to the SL-1 started in 1971. SL stands for Stored Logic.
The original products were developed in a Bell-Northern Research developed proprietary toolset and language, similar to Pascal called Protel, and ran without a specific operating system. In the 1990s it was evolved onto VxWorks, a commercial real time embedded operating system, at which time the model numbers were evolved to add the letter C to the end of the option numbers.
It was introduced by Northern Telecom in December 1975, with an original capacity from 100 to 7,600 lines, and became the first fully digital PBX announced on the global market aimed at the smaller PBX market. In the early 1970s, most PBXs were either electromechanical (e.g. cross-bar) or based on a hybrid technology (e.g. switching matrix made from a two-dimensional array of contacts but control performed by an electronic logic). For this reason, the SL-1 enjoyed a great success on the enterprise market both in North-America and globally.
Its success went on to power the company into a leadership position in the telephony world, and led to expanded designs "up and down" to provide products at all sizes, including the DMS series high-end machines, and the Meridian Norstar for smaller installations up to 200 users. The SL-1 was gradually enhanced (peripheral hardware, packaging, etc.) and renamed Meridian-1 in the late 1980s. The Meridian-1 has evolved to support IP telephony and other next generation IP services.
Impact
The Meridian has 43 million installed users worldwide, making it the most widely used PBX.
The Meridian was one of the few PBXs still available from a major communications supplier that can be configured as non-VOIP PBX and could be upgraded to a hybrid system with VoIP added.
Models
The Meridian 1 range currently consists of several models:
Meridian 1 Option 11C (60-800 lines)
Meridian 1 Option 11C Mini (60-128 lines)
Meridian 1 Option 61C (600-2000 lines)
Meridian 1 Option 81C (200-16,000 lines)
Additionally, other products have been sold using the Meridian brand:
The Norstar key telephone system was sold as the Meridian Norstar in some markets, until the mid-1990s
A large-scale switch based on the DMS-100 is sold as the Meridian SL-100
Resellers, and accessory manufacturers frequently but erroneously use the phrase "Meridian Option" to refer to the Meridian 1 range, to distinguish it from the smaller and larger Norstar and SL-100
Digital Line Card
A digital line card is an intelligent peripheral equipment (IPE) device which can be inst
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20100%20and%20Howard%20101
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Howard 100 and Howard 101 are two uncensored channels on Sirius XM, a satellite radio service that broadcasts programming affiliated with Howard Stern and The Howard Stern Show. Though the channels were first broadcast on September 29, 2005 with the former company Sirius Satellite Radio, Stern could not officially broadcast until January 1, 2006, as Stern was still at WXRK, the terrestrial radio station where he had to finish his FM radio contract. A merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio occurred in the summer of 2008.
Programming
Howard 100
, radio programs on Howard 100 include:
The Howard Stern Show, live Monday–Wednesday (7am-11am est) with replays of Mondays and Tuesdays shows on Thursdays and Fridays.
Howard 101
, radio programs on Howard 101 include:
The Howard Stern Wrap-Up Show, live Monday–Friday (1pm-2pm est) discussing the day's episode of The Howard Stern Show
Sternthology, new Monday–Friday featuring nostalgic clips relevant to topics discussed on the day's episode of The Howard Stern Show
References
External links
Howard 100
Howard 101
Sirius XM Radio channels
Howard Stern
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2005
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%20algorithm
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In statistical mechanics, the Gibbs algorithm, introduced by J. Willard Gibbs in 1902, is a criterion for choosing a probability distribution for the statistical ensemble of microstates of a thermodynamic system by minimizing the average log probability
subject to the probability distribution satisfying a set of constraints (usually expectation values) corresponding to the known macroscopic quantities. in 1948, Claude Shannon interpreted the negative of this quantity, which he called information entropy, as a measure of the uncertainty in a probability distribution. In 1957, E.T. Jaynes realized that this quantity could be interpreted as missing information about anything, and generalized the Gibbs algorithm to non-equilibrium systems with the principle of maximum entropy and maximum entropy thermodynamics.
Physicists call the result of applying the Gibbs algorithm the Gibbs distribution for the given constraints, most notably Gibbs's grand canonical ensemble for open systems when the average energy and the average number of particles are given. (See also partition function).
This general result of the Gibbs algorithm is then a maximum entropy probability distribution. Statisticians identify such distributions as belonging to exponential families.
References
Statistical mechanics
Particle statistics
Entropy and information
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KARJ%20%28FM%29
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KARJ (92.1 MHz) is an FM radio station serving the North County of San Diego County, California, United States, airing a Worship music format from the Air1 network, and is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.
KARJ's transmitter and antenna are located at in Escondido, California near Frank's Peak on Mount Whitney. The station broadcasts with 580 watts of effective radiated power (ERP).
History
Country (1978- 199?)
This station began program testing in 1966, However, it didn't sign on until August 1978, when it became KOWN-FM. It broadcast a country music format known as "The Cow." In 1987, it became KWNQ, later becoming KOWF-FM, At this point, the station broadcast country music from local studios in Escondido.
Classical (199?-2001)
The callsign was changed KFSD while owned by the Astor Broadcast Group, who chose a format of classical music acquired from Lotus Communications in 1997.
Alternative (2001-2003)
In 2001 switched to an alternative rock format as Premium 92/1, still with the KFSD call letters. Station management admitted that the classical format has been in the red for years and the change was made to increase revenue.
Country (2003-2017)
In 2003, KFSD-FM was purchased by Jefferson Pilot Communications and turned into KSOQ-FM, the simulcasting partner for their popular country music station KSON-FM, which faced geographical challenges to its signal's penetration into the North County area of San Diego County as well as into southern Riverside County, problems largely solved by the addition of KSOQ. Fans of the alternative format were directed to listen to Lincoln's KBZT.
On December 8, 2014, Entercom announced that it will purchase Lincoln Financial Group's entire 15-station lineup (including KSOQ) in a $106.5 million deal, and would operate the outlets under a LMA deal until the sale was approved by the FCC. The sale was consummated on July 17, 2015.
Contemporary Christian (2017-2019)
On September 26, 2017, Entercom announced a divestment of three stations (KSOQ, WGGI, and KSWD) to the Educational Media Foundation as part of its merger with CBS Radio (which locally owned KEGY and KYXY) to comply with FCC ownership rules in the San Diego market; the FCC approved the sale of all three stations on November 2. Upon the closing of the acquisition on November 16, EMF flipped the station to its then Contemporary Christian Air 1 network at 1:00pm that day, at exactly the same time as KSWD's switch to CCM programming. EMF also changed the station's call letters to KYDQ, the callsign is similar to repeater station KYDO.
Worship (2019-present)
The station adopted its current format at midnight on January 1, 2019 when the whole Air 1 network shifted to worship music. On April 11, 2019, this station changed its callsign to KARJ, the new callsign resembles "Air1". This is the second time EMF had changed the callsign, the first being when EMF took control in 2017.
HD Programming
Under its previous owner, an HD Radio transmitt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMDS
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VMDS abbreviates the relational database technology called Version Managed Data Store provided by GE Energy as part of its Smallworld technology platform and was designed from the outset to store and analyse the highly complex spatial and topological networks typically used by enterprise utilities such as power distribution and telecommunications.
VMDS was originally introduced in 1990 as has been improved and updated over the years. Its current version is 6.0.
VMDS has been designed as a spatial database. This gives VMDS a number of distinctive characteristics when compared to conventional attribute only relational databases.
Distributed server processing
VMDS is composed of two parts: a simple, highly scalable data block server called SWMFS (Smallworld Master File Server) and an intelligent client API written in C and Magik. Spatial and attribute data are stored in data blocks that reside in special files called data store files on the server. When the client application requests data it has sufficient intelligence to work out the optimum set of data blocks that are required. This request is then made to SWMFS which returns the data to the client via the network for processing.
This approach is particularly efficient and scalable when dealing with spatial and topological data which tends to flow in larger volumes and require more processing then plain attribute data (for example during a map redraw operation). This approach makes VMDS well suited to enterprise deployment that might involve hundreds or even thousands of concurrent clients.
Support for long transactions
Relational databases support short transactions in which changes to data are relatively small and are brief in terms in duration (the maximum period between the start and the end of a transaction is typically a few seconds or less).
VMDS supports long transactions in which the volume of data involved in the transaction can be substantial and the duration of the transaction can be significant (days, weeks or even months). These types of transaction are common in advanced network applications used by, for example, power distribution utilities.
Due to the time span of a long transaction in this context the amount of change can be significant (not only within the scope of the transaction, but also within the context of the database as a whole). Accordingly, it is likely that the same record might be changed more than once. To cope with this scenario VMDS has inbuilt support for automatically managing such conflicts and allows applications to review changes and accept only those edits that are correct.
Spatial and topological capabilities
As well as conventional relational database features such as attribute querying, join fields, triggers and calculated fields, VMDS has numerous spatial and topological capabilities. This allows spatial data such as points, texts, polylines, polygons and raster data to be stored and analysed.
Spatial functions include: find all features within
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolve%20Uganda
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Resolve Uganda began as the Uganda Conflict Action Network (also referred to as Uganda-CAN) and was an online monitoring and analysis project seeking to raise awareness of the suffering caused by the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency of northern Uganda. The campaign began in 2005. In early 2007, Uganda-CAN became Resolve Uganda, a full-scale organization aimed at securing the US leadership needed to end the war through grassroots efforts and lobbying initiatives.
History
Two University of Notre Dame students traveling abroad in Uganda formed the Uganda Conflict Action Network in 2005. While overseas, Peter Quaranto and Michael Poffenberger became aware of the 19-year-long warfare atrocities caused by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This hidden war left thousands of people dead, over 25,000 children abducted, and roughly 1.6 million people in camps of horrific conditions.
Inspired by the suffering of the oppressed Ugandans, they worked together to create Uganda-CAN upon their return to the states. Quaranto and Poffenberger recognized the influence that Americans could have on the Ugandan government to bring a peaceful resolution to the war. The Africa Faith and Justice Network, based in Washington, sponsored the organization. The purpose was to educate policymakers about what was taking place, with the hope that increased awareness amongst political leaders would lead to the action necessary to end the crisis. Uganda-CAN advocated peace and the renewal of the Great Lakes region of Africa, while stressing the importance of a government that answers to the needs of its most vulnerable citizens. The staff and volunteers of Uganda-CAN have worked to form partnerships in Congress and with other African related organizations in Washington as well as Ugandan organizations.
Evolution
Uganda-CAN originally provided information about the LRA crisis and recommendations on how to solve it in hopes that political leaders would take action. The founders quickly realize that would not be enough.
Because of competing priorities and no organized mobilization of citizens, few elected leaders were motivated or felt they had a public mandate to help end a violent conflict affecting remote communities in Africa.
Making a change would take using the knowledge gained on the crisis to create nationwide awareness and advocacy campaigns. Resolve Uganda took the place of Uganda-CAN in 2006 in hopes to. When the LRA attacked the neighboring border regions of South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic, the organization opted to become known simply as Resolve in 2010. Resolve now works towards advancing policy change, forming partnerships with organizations such as Invisible Children, Human Rights Watch, and Refugees International.
See also
Human rights in Uganda
Internally displaced person
References
'Uganda Conflict Action Network" Human Security Report Project. 25 Oct. 2005. Web.
P. Quaranto. "Help End the Hidden War in Northern U
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20time%20%28disambiguation%29
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Prime time is the block of television programming during the middle of the evening.
Prime Time may also refer to:
Literature
Prime Time, a novel by Joan Collins
Prime Time (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures novel
Music
Prime Time (band), a group formed by Ornette Coleman
Albums
Prime Time (Count Basie album)
Prime Time (Deion Sanders album)
Prime Time (Don McLean album)
Prime Time (FireHouse album)
Prime Time, by Tony Orlando and Dawn
Songs
"PrimeTime" (song), by Janelle Monáe
"Prime Time", by The Alan Parsons Project from Ammonia Avenue
"Prime Time", by FireHouse from Prime Time
"Prime Time", by Haircut 100 from Paint and Paint
"Prime Time", by The Tubes from Remote Control
"Primetime", by Jay-Z and Kanye West from Watch the Throne
Radio
PrimeTime Radio, a British radio station
Prime Time (radio program), a Canadian radio program
Sport
Primetime (TV channel), a pay-per-view boxing channel
Deion Sanders, American football player
Elix Skipper, professional wrestler
Film and television
Prime Time (film), a 2021 Polish drama thriller film
Prime Time (Australian TV series), a 1986–1987 Australian soap opera/drama television series that aired on Nine Network
Prime Time (Canadian TV program), a 1974–1975 Canadian current affairs television program that aired on CBC
Prime Time (Irish TV programme), an Irish current affairs television programme that has aired on RTÉ One since 1992
Primetime (American TV program), a 1989–2012 American news magazine television program that aired on ABC
CBC Prime Time News, a Canadian television news programme
Primetime (Cartoon Network), a 2001 Cartoon Network programming block
UWN Primetime Live, a professional wrestling series
Other
Prime Time, a beer produced by Asahi Breweries, Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest%20remaining%20time
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Shortest remaining time, also known as shortest remaining time first (SRTF), is a scheduling method that is a preemptive version of shortest job next scheduling. In this scheduling algorithm, the process with the smallest amount of time remaining until completion is selected to execute. Since the currently executing process is the one with the shortest amount of time remaining by definition, and since that time should only reduce as execution progresses, the process will either run until it completes or get pre-empted if a new process is added that requires a smaller amount of time.
Shortest remaining time is advantageous because short processes are handled very quickly. The system also requires very little overhead since it only makes a decision when a process completes or a new process is added, and when a new process is added the algorithm only needs to compare the currently executing process with the new process, ignoring all other processes currently waiting to execute.
Like shortest job next, it has the potential for process starvation: long processes may be held off indefinitely if short processes are continually added. This threat can be minimal when process times follow a heavy-tailed distribution. A similar algorithm which avoids starvation at the cost of higher tracking overhead is highest response ratio next (HRRN).
Limitations
Like shortest job next scheduling, shortest remaining time scheduling is rarely used outside of specialized environments because it requires accurate estimates of the runtime of each process.
References
Processor scheduling algorithms
de:Prozess-Scheduler#Strategien
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Sutin
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Stewart Sutin is an American academic administrator. He currently serves on the advisory board of the STAR Scholars Network.
Education
Sutin earned his doctorate in Latin American history from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975.
Career
Sutin served as president of the Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania. Under Sutin, the college was criticized for cutting class offerings while raising the salaries of administrators by double digit percentages. In 2004, Sutin received a $20,000 bonus while the college was in a self-described financial crisis. Sutin was criticized by Allegheny County chief executive Dan Onorato for taking expensive trips and buying a CCAC-paid membership in the Duquesne Club.
Sutin also served as an associate director of the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE) at the University of Pittsburgh.
References
Further reading
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pacific%20hurricanes%20before%201900
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The following is a list of Pacific hurricanes before 1900. Data on most of the storms that formed is unavailable, however, some regions had a large enough coastal population or ship traffic to give data on the occurrence of hurricanes. Tropical cyclones in the region typically formed between May and November.
Seasons
1537
A hurricane struck Tlapa in Guerrero, Mexico, producing strong winds, hail, excessive rains, and other natural phenomena. Juan Bautista Moya, an Augustinian missionary friar in Tlapa and Chilapa viewed this tempest as "a miraculous prodigy of the Lord to confirm his missionary preaching among the indigenous people. The wind unleashed over the town of Tlaba and lashed the countryside and cottages like a giant whip. The fury of the gale uprooted and demolished trees. Hail shattered the maize corn grains without pity. Successive earthquakes at quick intervals further terrorized the populace." In this and other cases, the "earthquakes" probably entered the records because the hurricane winds shook houses and other occupied buildings, and survivors likened the shaking to that of a continuous earthquake.
1573
On 14 November, a violent hurricane lasted 3 hours at Colima City in Mexico. Earthquakes accompanied the storm, and many houses and the church building fell.
1609
A hurricane tore the cover off the church and ruined many houses in the town of Huaynamota in Jalisco, Mexico.
1832
In December 1832, according to a log from a German Merchant Marine vessel later left at Deutsche Seewarte, a tropical cyclone occurred southeast of the Hawaiian Islands; it then tracked west-northwestward, approaching 350 miles south of Ka Lae, Hawaii (island), and thence to a point near Johnston Atoll.
The new ship Japan encountered a "severe hurricane" near .
1839
On 1 November 1839, a destructive hurricane struck Mazatlán, Sinaloa, doing heavy damage to boats and watercraft; most of the twelve ships then in the harbor sunk with their crews.
1840
On November 1, a destructive hurricane did heavy damage to shipping and sunk three vessels at San Blas, Nayarit.
1842
A hurricane, between June and October, crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and entered the Gulf of Mexico.
1843
I.
The American barque Lark, sailing from Canton (now Guangzhou) for Valparaíso, experienced a "severe gale" on 23 September 1843 at . Afterwards, the master of this barque found necessary making port at Tahiti. The barque perhaps earlier encountered a violent typhoon off Formosa. German shipping logged this storm that day at 139°W. Someone later charted the storm to . These points suggest a trajectory toward the Big Island of Hawaii.
1847
A tropical cyclone existed On October 24 of this year.
1849
A system existed on June 21 and 22.
1850
Eight systems are recorded.
I. One existed on an unknown date.
II. On or about 24 June 1850, the Joseph Butler encountered a "severe gale of wind" near , 260 miles from the coast of Mexico, which carried away her main-mast (sail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuwa%20Plain%20National%20Park
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Liuwa Plain National Park is a national park in Zambia's Western Province. "Liuwa" means "plain" in the local Liuwa language, a dialect of Lozi language, and the plains originally served as a hunting ground for Lubosi Lewanika, the Litunga (king or paramount chief) of the Lozi people. The area was designated as a protected area by Lubosi Lewanika in the early 1880s, and as a national park in 1972, when Zambia's government took over management. The nonprofit conservation organization African Parks has managed Liuwa in partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife and the Barotse Royal Establishment since 2003.
The park's grasslands support a variety of large mammals, including tens of thousands of blue wildebeest, whose annual migration is Africa's second-largest. Frequently sighted large predators include the cheetah, spotted hyena, and lion, the most famous of which was a female resident called Lady Liuwa, who was the subject of a National Geographic documentary (The Last Lioness) before she died of natural causes in 2017. Lady Liuwa was the only remaining lion in the area, following years of excess hunting, prior to African Parks' assuming management and introducing additional lions to encourage the re-establishment of a pride. More than 300 bird species have been recorded in Liuwa, which has experienced limited tourism until recently. Animal populations have since stabilized, despite declines and local extinctions during the 1990s–2000s.
History
Before the national park was established, the area served as the hunting ground for Lubosi Lewanika (1842–1916), who was the Litunga (king or paramount chief) of the Lozi people in Barotseland between 1878 and 1916. Lubosi Lewanika designated Liuwa Plain as a protected area in the early 1880s.
National park designation was granted in 1972, and Zambia's government took over management. Despite gaining such status, increased human pressure led to an increase in poaching in the park. African Parks has managed the park in partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) and the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) since 2003. Local interest in preserving the park and its wildlife has reportedly subsequently increased since management has improved and the area's connection to the Litunga was restored.
Tourism
Tourism to the park was limited until recently, with only 50 tourists visiting Liuwa in 2000, and less than 800 people reportedly visiting in 2014. African Parks and Norman Carr Safaris opened a luxury lodge and helicopter service, to make the park more accessible for tourists. The safari company worked with African Parks to fund the lodge, worth US$1.6 million. King Lewanika Lodge, named after the former Litunga, can accommodate fifteen guests and includes six villas, one of which has two bedrooms. In 2016, Profligh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%20Scheme
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Dr Scheme is a Scheme (programming language) dialect of Digital Research, Inc.
Dr Scheme may also refer to:
DrScheme, an IDE of Racket (programming language).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keychain%20%28software%29
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Keychain is the password management system in macOS, developed by Apple. It was introduced with Mac OS 8.6, and has been included in all subsequent versions of the operating system, now known as macOS. A Keychain can contain various types of data: passwords (for websites, FTP servers, SSH accounts, network shares, wireless networks, groupware applications, encrypted disk images), private keys, certificates, and secure notes.
Storage and access
In macOS, keychain files are stored in ~/Library/Keychains/ (and subdirectories), /Library/Keychains/, and /Network/Library/Keychains/, and the Keychain Access GUI application is located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. It is free, open source software released under the terms of the APSL-2.0. The command line equivalent of Keychain Access is /usr/bin/security.
The keychain database is encrypted per-table and per-row with AES-256-GCM. The time which each credential is decrypted, how long it will remain decrypted, and whether the encrypted credential will be synced to iCloud varies depending on the type of data stored, and is documented on the Apple support website.
Locking and unlocking
The default keychain file is the login keychain, typically unlocked on login by the user's login password, although the password for this keychain can instead be different from a user's login password, adding security at the expense of some convenience. The Keychain Access application does not permit setting an empty password on a keychain.
The keychain may be set to be automatically "locked" if the computer has been idle for a time, and can be locked manually from the Keychain Access application. When locked, the password has to be re-entered next time the keychain is accessed, to unlock it. Overwriting the file in ~/Library/Keychains/ with a new one (e.g. as part of a restore operation) also causes the keychain to lock and a password is required at next access.
Password synchronization
If the login keychain is protected by the login password, then the keychain's password will be changed whenever the login password is changed from within a logged-in session on macOS. On a shared Mac/non-Mac network, it is possible for the login keychain's password to lose synchronization if the user's login password is changed from a non-Mac system. Also, if the password is changed from a directory service like Active Directory or Open Directory, or if the password is changed from another admin account e.g. using the System Preferences. Some network administrators react to this by deleting the keychain file on logout, so that a new one will be created next time the user logs in. This means keychain passwords will not be remembered from one session to the next, even if the login password has not been changed. If this happens, the user can restore the keychain file in ~/Library/Keychains/ from a backup, but doing so will lock the keychain, which will then need to be unlocked at next use.
History
Keychains were initia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetInfo
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NetInfo is the system configuration database in NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X versions up through Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger". NetInfo replaces most of the Unix system configuration files, though they are still present for running the machine in single user mode; most Unix APIs wrap around NetInfo instead. NetInfo stores system wide network-type configuration information, such as users and groups, in binary databases; while Mac OS X machine and application specific settings are stored as plist files.
History
NetInfo was introduced in NeXTSTEP version 0.9, and replaced both the Unix system configuration files and Sun Microsystems' Network Information Service (Yellow Pages) on NeXT computers. It immediately caused controversy, much unfavorable. Not only was NetInfo unique to NeXT computers (although NeXT later licensed NetInfo to Xedoc, an Australian software company who produced NetInfo for other UNIX systems), DNS queries went through NetInfo. This led to a situation where basic tasks such as translating a UNIX UID to a user name string would not complete because NetInfo was stalled on a DNS lookup. At first, it was possible to disable NetInfo and use the Unix system files, but as of NeXTSTEP version 2 disabling NetInfo also disabled DNS support. Thus, NeXT computers became notorious for locking a user out of everyday tasks because a DNS server had stopped responding.
The Mac OS X version of NetInfo remedied this (and many other problems), but due to the early problems, NetInfo never took over the world of Unix system configuration.
Apple has moved away from using NetInfo towards LDAP, particularly in Mac OS X Server. . Mac OS X v10.4 is the last version to support Netinfo. Beginning with Mac OS X v10.5, Netinfo has been completely phased out and replaced by a new local search node named dslocal, which files are located in /var/db/dslocal/ and are standard property list (XML-based) files.
Files
The NetInfo Database is stored in , and can only be accessed by root. It can be viewed and modified through its application programming interface, the NetInfo Manager utility, or command line tools such as .
As Netinfo has been completely removed from Mac OS X 10.5, the Netinfo-based command line tools have also been phased out and replaced by other tools. Also, Netinfo Manager has been removed.
Data
Netinfo stores the following data:
afpuser_aliases
aliases
exports (nfs shares)
groups
machines
mounts
networks
printers
protocols
rpcs
services
users
See also
Apple Open Directory
References
External links
NetInfo man page
MacOS
NeXT
Directory services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeto
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Zeto may refer to:
Zeto (Greek), a Greek interjection
A trade name for the drug Azithromycin
, a 1960s Polish computer company; see
ZETO building; see Halina Skibniewska
See also
N'Zeto, a town located in Zaire, Angola
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20Image
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Silicon Image is a provider of semiconductors for the mobile, consumer electronics and personal computers (PCs). It also manufactures wireless and wired connectivity products used for high-definition content. The company’s semiconductor and IP products are deployed by the electronics manufacturers in devices such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions (DTVs), other consumer electronics, as well as desktop and notebook PCs. Silicon Image, in cooperation with other companies, has driven the creation of some global industry standards such as DVI, HDMI, MHL, and WirelessHD.
Silicon Image was founded in 1995, and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, employs around 600 people worldwide and has regional engineering and sales offices in India, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
History
The company was founded in 1995 by Silicon Valley engineers Dr. David Lee and Brian Underwood. In October 1999 it raised $46.8 million in initial public offering
March 2000: Silicon Image Inc. agreed to buy the closely held DVDO Inc. for $45 million in stock to add technology for digital televisions, DVD players and high-definition video.
June 2001: acquired CMD Technology Inc., a provider of SCSI and Fibre Channel storage controllers for the UNIX, Open Systems and PC markets as well as a supplier of IDE/Ultra ATA semiconductors (including CMD064x chips) for the PC and embedded markets.
January 2007: Silicon Image completes acquisition of Sci-worx GmbH
June 2007: Silicon Image shipped its 1 millionth DTV input processor
January 2009: Silicon Image wins Emmy Award for HDMI technology
December 2010: Silicon Image introduces ViaPort technology
February 2011: Silicon Image completes acquisition of Anchor Bay Technologies
May 2011: Silicon Image completes acquisition of SiBEAM, Inc.
May 2011: Silicon Image unveils third-generation WirelessHD 60 GHz chipsets
August 2013: MHL Consortium announces new specification with major advancements for mobile and consumer electronics connectivity
September 2013: Silicon Image announces first 4K UltraHD MHL 3.0 receiver IC with HDCP 2.2 in support of secure premium content
March 2015: Silicon Image is acquired by Lattice Semiconductor for $600 million.
Products
The company sells semiconductor hardware and intellectual property (IP) products. Silicon Image's products are deployed by electronics manufacturers in consumer devices like PCs, mobile phones, tablets and digital cameras.
The company is involved in industry standards such as HDMI, DVI, Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT), Mobile High-definition Link (MHL), and the standard for wireless HD video - WirelessHD (WiHD).
See also
Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
Mobile High-definition Link (MHL)
Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS)
References
External links
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Fabless semiconductor companies
Semiconductor companies of the United States
Companies establis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20encapsulation
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Data encapsulation, also known as data hiding, is the mechanism whereby the implementation details of a class are kept hidden from the user. The user can only perform a restricted set of operations on the hidden members of the class by executing special functions commonly called methods to prevent attributes of objects from being easily viewed and accessed. Data encapsulation may refer to:
The wrapping of private data in classes in object-oriented programming languages: see Encapsulation (object-oriented programming), information hiding, separation of concerns
The wrapping of network data by a lower layer in the OSI model into a single unit where a higher layer can extract the relevant data: see Encapsulation (networking)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFPH-DT
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KFPH-DT (channel 13), branded on-air as UniMás Arizona, is a television station licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to northern and central Arizona. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Phoenix-based Univision outlet KTVW-DT (channel 33). In Flagstaff, Univision maintains offices on Fourth Street, though most operations are run from its Phoenix studios. The KFPH-DT transmitter is located atop Mormon Mountain, about south of Flagstaff in the Coconino National Forest.
In Phoenix, KFPH-DT is rebroadcast through KFPH-CD (channel 35). That station converted to an ATSC 3.0 station in 2018, though its subchannels were distributed onto other Phoenix stations for transmission. The UniMás subchannel is carried on KTVW-DT's transmitter.
Channel 13 in Flagstaff received a construction permit in October 1984, but seven years and a sale passed before the station began broadcasting as KKTM on December 31, 1991. KKTM operated as a local independent station for the Flagstaff area and became an affiliate of The WB in 1995 as KWBF. However, the sale of the station to an affiliate of Paxson Communications Corporation in 1996 heralded its conversion to infomercial programming and, beginning in 1998, the company's new Pax television network as KBPX. KBPX was paired with a translator to provide the network in Phoenix until KPPX-TV (channel 51) was completed in 1999. Two years later, Pax sold KBPX to Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which briefly programmed home shopping programming until Univision purchased the station as part of its then-new Telefutura network, today's UniMás.
History
In 1984, two groups—Minority Television of Flagstaff and Ware Communications—filed for construction permits to build a new television station on channel 13 in Flagstaff. Minority Television was granted the construction permit on October 27, and the station took the call sign KKTM. A year later, Michael Gelfand, a doctor from Bethesda, Maryland, acquired the construction permit from Minority Television principal Katherine T. Mansfield.
Construction work began in August 1991. Meanwhile, to make way for KKTM to begin testing, a translator for Phoenix station KTSP-TV moved to the UHF band. Studio space was also secured in the Greenlaw Village shopping center on Fourth Street.
KKTM began broadcasting at half power from Mormon Mountain on December 31, 1991. Most of its programming came from two services primarily used by low-power stations, Channel America and Main Street TV. The station also produced several local programs, including a newscast and a country music show taped at Flagstaff's Redwood Inn. The newscast ceased production in June 1994.
KKTM became a charter affiliate of The WB when it launched on January 11, 1995, and changed its call sign to KWBF. However, Gelfand decided he did not have sufficient resources to support the station economically; in September, he agreed to sell KWBF for $1.4 millio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computron
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Computron may refer to:
Computron (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
Computron tube, an electron tube computing device
See also
Computon, a unit of computing power
Computronium, a hypothetical substance
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20I/O
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Data I/O is a provider of manual and automated data programming and security provisioning systems for flash memory, microcontrollers, and logic devices. Founded in 1972 yet incorporated in 1969, the company developed equipment that allowed electronic designers to program non-volatile semiconductor devices with data stored on punched cards or ASCII-encoded(eight-level) punched paper tape. These products were used for the design and manufacturing of systems used in industries such as IoT, medical development, and consumer electronics. Over the next three decades, the company was involved in technologies such as Bipolar, EPROM, EEPROM, NOR FLASH, Antifuse, FRAM, NAND FLASH, eMMC , and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) devices.
History
Data I/O is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, with offices in Shanghai, China , and Gräfelfing, Germany.
More recently, the company has extended the automated pre-programming system to include security provisioning capabilities for authentication systems secure microcontrollers, microprocessors , and secure flash with their security deployment platform for Original Electronics Manufacturers (OEMs) as well as other markets. The company's products integrate a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliant HSM into an automated programming system which is intended to enable provisioning of credentials into security ICs and microcontrollers in high volume.
Products
Current
Introduced in 2000, Data I/O FlashCORE technology is optimized for programming of NAND and NOR-based flash devices and Flash microcontrollers and is sold in FlashPAK, PS-System, FLX500, and ProLINE-RoadRunner programmer models spanning engineering to high-volume offline and inline "just-in-time" manufacturing. Data I/O provides Tasklink for Windows software to set up FlashCORE programmers and specify data sources. In addition, they develop software that manages automated and remote programming, secures data, and manages device serialization. Many of these work with TaskLink, while others are independent software packages.
Data I/O manufactures two device programmers that can accommodate DIP (through-hole) devices, the Plus-48 and the Optima. Both are aimed at the small, (relatively) low-cost, desktop programmer (engineering) market.
Legacy
Model 1
One of their first attempts at a 'Universal' programmer was Model 1, Model 5 (TTL-Sequencer based), Model 9 (Microprocessor based), and System 19 (introduced in the late 1970s). It utilized interchangeable device sockets and configuration plug-in printed-circuit cards, consisting mainly of resistors, diodes , and jumpers, to allow the reading and programming of a variety of memory devices.
System 29
In the early 1980s, the System 29 series emerged. The first model, the 29A, added user RAM and eliminated the need for configuration cards by offering keypad-programmable 'Family' and 'Pinout' codes to configure the programmer. Introduced along with the 29A was the 'Unipak,' a large plug-in adapter that featured multiple
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20McAvaney
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Bruce William McAvaney OAM (born 22 June 1953) is an Australian sports broadcaster with the Seven Network. McAvaney has presented high-profile events including the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup, Australian Open, Test cricket and both Winter and Summer Olympics, as well as annual special events such as the Brownlow Medal. McAvaney is well known for his commentary of AFL matches as well as covering every Summer Olympic Games from Moscow 1980 to the Tokyo 2020.
Early years
The son of an Adelaide accountant, McAvaney developed an early interest in sport and race calling.
After attending Woodville High School (and failing Year 12) he spent five years as a Telecom clerk. Then in 1976 during a sickie, McAvaney travelled to Kilmore, Victoria, to bet on some races. There, he met Kevin Hillier, an Adelaide race caller, who suggested McAvaney help him out back in Adelaide. This launched his career in the sports media, joining Adelaide radio station 5DN, calling horse races and later hosting a sports show.
Television career
McAvaney moved to television in 1978, when he joined Adelaide station ADS-7 to read sport news and produce the weekly Racetrack program. His career received a boost when colleague Sandy Roberts covered the 1980 Moscow Olympics for Seven, and Bruce was chosen to host the Adelaide end of the telecast for the station.
From 1981 until 1983, McAvaney was the chief sports presenter for Seven News in Adelaide. He was also the lead commentator for Seven's telecasts of the South Australian National Football League competition, calling the 1983 SANFL Grand Final with former player Robert Oatey. He also hosted the league's Magarey Medal telecasts.
In late 1983, he moved to Melbourne and joined Ten Melbourne to read sport news. The following year he was the secondary host and commentated track and field events at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics for the Ten Network.
Between 1985 and 1988, McAvaney also called the Melbourne Cup and hosted various major sporting telecasts for Ten, including the 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, the 1987 World Athletics Championships in Rome and the 1988 IAAF Grand Prix in Berlin. McAvaney went on to co-host Ten's telecast of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a role which won him significant acclaim.
In 1989, McAvaney negotiated a two-year premature end to his contract with Ten, and returned to the Seven Network on the condition that he could cover the 1992 Olympics.
Since his return to Seven, McAvaney has hosted and called a broad range of the network's sports coverage, including the Melbourne Cup, World Athletics Championships, Motor Racing, the Australian Open Tennis, Australian Masters Golf and all Summer Olympic Games from Barcelona 1992 to Rio 2016, except London 2012 (because Seven did not have the rights to those Games). His extensive history covering Olympic Games has led to the nickname "Mr Olympics".
In an interview with the Herald Sun, McAvaney announced informally that he would no longer commentate Men's ga
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Welsh%20%28sports%20journalist%29
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Pat Welsh is a retired Australian sports journalist and reporter. Welsh is currently a sports presenter on Seven News Brisbane.
Career
In 1975, Welsh joined the Seven Network as a sports presenter and reporter. Pat is an Australian sports journalist, commentator, and sports editor.
Welsh is best known for his rugby league and golf commentary and has travelled extensively throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States for the Seven Network. He has covered a wide array of events, including the Bathurst 1000, Melbourne Cup, international rugby league, Summer Olympic Games (Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, Rio), and Winter Olympic Games (Nagano, Salt Lake City, Torino).
Welsh began co-hosting the Breakfast with Pat & Heals breakfast program with former Australian cricketer Ian Healy on September 7, 2020, when SEN Track was launched in both North Queensland and South East Queensland. The program was also heard on the new digital station SENQ in 2021. Welsh continued co-hosting the program when 693 SENQ launched on the 693 AM frequency in Brisbane on July 1, 2022, after the Sports Entertainment Network acquired the license of long-running Brisbane music station 4KQ from the Australian Radio Network, a subsidiary of HT&E.
In January 2023, Welsh announced his resignation from the Seven Network after 47 years. Ben Davis will replace him as sports editor.
Personal life
In June 2010, Welsh announced that he was engaged to Cecilynne Jurss.
In July 2013, he was appointed an Ambassador for Alzheimer's Australia (QLD) and a Dementia Australia Ambassador in October 2017.
References
Australian television journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Seven News presenters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creta%20Channel
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Creta Channel (now as TV Creta) is a television channel broadcast to the majority of Crete. Its programming is split between TV shopping and entertainment and cultural content.
External links
Crete
Greek-language television stations
Television channels in Greece
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20Relay%20assembler/disassembler
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A FRAD (Frame Relay access device or Frame Relay assembler/disassembler) is a device that turns data packets into Frame Relay frames that can be sent over a Frame Relay network and turns the received Frame Relay frames into data packets. Its assembly and disassembly functionality is similar to a packet assembler/disassembler (PAD), which is used for accessing X.25 networks.
References
Frame Relay
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogcritics
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Blogcritics is a blog network and online magazine of news and opinion. The site was founded in 2002 by Eric Olsen and Phillip Winn. Blogcritics features more than 100 original articles every week, and maintains an archive of all its published content.
History
The site was founded in 2002 with 50 members and has substantially increased that number by allowing anyone to contribute. A team of editors reviews every article prior to publication on the site.
In August 2008, the blog search engine, Technorati, acquired Blogcritics for an undisclosed amount of money. As a result, publisher Olsen and technical director Winn became full-time Technorati employees. One of the first collaborative ventures of the two entities was for Blogcritics writers to begin writing descriptions of Technorati tags.
In April 2009, Blogcritics underwent a complete site redesign and switched content management systems.
In his official email newsletter, sent during the week of 12 Sep 2010, publisher Eric Olsen stated that he was leaving Blogcritics and Technorati:
As of November 22, 2011, Blogcritics has 3,997 blog writers registered.
In March 2014, Blogcritics was acquired by executive editors Barbara Barnett and Jon Sobel under their new company Critical Lens Media, Inc.
Honorable recognition
Blogcritics has won several blog awards, including a Bloggie and recognition as a Forbes.com Best Media Blog. In addition, the site is an accredited news source for both Google News and Yahoo! News.
References
External links
American news websites
Blog networks
Internet properties established in 2002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20license%20server
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A software license server is a centralized computer software system which provides access tokens, or keys, to client computers in order to enable licensed software to run on them.
In 1989, Sassafras Software Inc developed their trademarked KeyServer software license management tool. Since that time, other computing technology firms have adopted the phrase "key server" to be used interchangeably with "software license server."
It is the job of a software license server to determine and control the number of copies of a program permitted to be used based on the license entitlements that an organization owns. Typically, an end-user customer organization will install a software license server on a host computer to provide licensing services to an enterprise computing environment.
Publisher-specific license servers are commonly provided by software publishers, or through third party providers, to manage software licensing for a specific software publisher's products. Publisher-specific license servers are more commonly used for industry specialized software products than for common software products due to the high value of the managed software products.
The server component of a client–server application may also contain an internal license server.
References
See also
Floating licensing
Product activation
Digital rights management
Information technology management
Software licenses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros%203D
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Rhinoceros (typically abbreviated Rhino or Rhino3D) is a commercial 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) application software that was developed by TLM, Inc, dba Robert McNeel & Associates, an American, privately held, and employee-owned company that was founded in 1978. Rhinoceros geometry is based on the NURBS mathematical model, which focuses on producing mathematically precise representation of curves and freeform surfaces in computer graphics (as opposed to polygon mesh-based applications).
Rhinoceros is used for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), rapid prototyping, 3D printing and reverse engineering in industries including architecture, industrial design (e.g. automotive design, watercraft design), product design (e.g. jewelry design) as well as for multimedia and graphic design.
Rhinoceros is developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system and macOS. A visual scripting language add-on for Rhino, Grasshopper, is developed by Robert McNeel & Associates.
Overview
Characteristics
Rhinoceros is primarily a freeform surface modeler that utilizes the NURBS mathematical model. Rhinoceros's application architecture and open SDK make it modular and enable the user to customize the interface and create custom commands and menus.
Since version 7, Rhinoceros has improved real-time rendering capabilities for improved lighting and shading.
File formats
The Rhinoceros file format (.3DM) is useful for the exchange of NURBS geometry. The Rhino developers started the openNURBS Initiative to provide computer graphics software developers the tools to accurately transfer 3-D geometry between applications. An open-source toolkit, openNURBS includes the 3DM file format specification, documentation, C++ source code libraries and .NET 2.0 assemblies to read and write the file format on supported platforms – Windows, Windows x64, Mac, and Linux.
Compatibility
Rhinoceros offers compatibility with other software as it supports over 30 CAD file formats for importing and exporting.
The following CAD and image file formats are natively supported (without the use of external plug-ins):
DWG/DXF (AutoCAD 200x, 14, 13, and 12)
IGES
STEP
SolidWorks SLDPRT and SLDASM
SAT (ACIS, export only)
MicroStation DGN
Direct X (X file format)
FBX
X_T (Parasolid, export only)
.3ds
LWO
STL
SLC
OBJ
AI
RIB
POV
UDO
VRML
CSV (export properties and hydrostatics)
BMP
TGA
uncompressed TIFF
VDA
GHS
GTS
KML
PLY
SketchUp
The following CAD file formats are supported with use of external plug-ins:
3DPDF
ACIS
CATIA V4
CATIA V5
CATIA V6
CGR
Inventor
JT
Parasolid
PLMXML
Creo Parametric
Solid Edge
Siemens NX
When opening CAD file formats not in its native .3dm file format, Rhinoceros will convert the geometry into its native format; when importing a CAD file, the geometry is added to the current file.
When Autodesk AutoCAD's file format changes (see DWG file format for more information), th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Mousecapade
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Mickey Mousecapade, released in Japan as , is a platform video game based on Disney's Mickey Mouse franchise. It was developed and published by Hudson Soft originally in 1987 for the Family Computer in Japan. Capcom published the game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States in 1988.
Summary
Mickey Mousecapade's gameplay consists of players controlling Mickey Mouse through 2D platforming, while Minnie Mouse follows Mickey and occasionally gets kidnapped.
The game's plot involves Mickey and Minnie traveling through a fun house, an ocean, a forest, a pirate ship, and a castle to rescue Alice from Alice in Wonderland. In the Japanese version, Alice is prominently featured on the box art and instruction manual. However, Alice is vaguely referred to as "a friend" in the American version's advertisements and instruction manual, despite her still appearing in the ending cutscene. Various villains from Disney cartoons and animated films appear throughout the game as bosses.
The Japanese and American versions contain a variety of differences from each other, including: enemies, items, weapons, boss characters, and level names.
Reception
Allgame's Skyler Miller described the visuals as serviceable, but the music as overly repetitive. Miller awarded the game two out of five stars. IGN rated it the 86th greatest NES game of all time.
See also
List of Disney video games
Notes
References
External links
1987 video games
Alice in Wonderland (franchise)
Disney games by Capcom
Disney video games
Hudson Soft games
Mickey Mouse video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Platform games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games scored by Takeaki Kunimoto
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20system
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Intelligent system may refer to:
Intelligent Systems, a game developer
a system with artificial intelligence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20plexus
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A nerve plexus is a plexus (branching network) of intersecting nerves. A nerve plexus is composed of afferent and efferent fibers that arise from the merging of the anterior rami of spinal nerves and blood vessels. There are five spinal nerve plexuses, except in the thoracic region, as well as other forms of autonomic plexuses, many of which are a part of the enteric nervous system. The nerves that arise from the plexuses have both sensory and motor functions. These functions include muscle contraction, the maintenance of body coordination and control, and the reaction to sensations such as heat, cold, pain, and pressure. There are several plexuses in the body, including:
Spinal plexuses
Cervical plexus - serves the head, neck and shoulders
Brachial plexus - serves the chest, shoulders, arms and hands
Lumbosacral plexus
Lumbar plexus - serves the back, abdomen, groin, thighs, knees, and calves
Subsartorial plexus - below the sartorius muscle of thigh
Sacral plexus - serves the pelvis, buttocks, genitals, thighs, calves, and feet
Pudendal plexus
Coccygeal plexus - serves a small region over the coccyx
Autonomic plexuses
Celiac plexus (solar plexus) - serves internal organs
Auerbach's plexus (myenteric plexus) - serves the gastrointestinal tract
Meissner's plexus (submucosal plexus) - serves the gastrointestinal tract
Pharyngeal plexus of vagus nerve - serves the palate and pharynx
Cardiac plexus - serves the heart
Spinal plexuses
The following table shows the nerves that arise from each spinal plexus as well as the spinal level each plexus arises from.
Cervical plexus
The cervical plexus is formed by the ventral rami of the upper four cervical nerves and the upper part of fifth cervical ventral ramus. The network of rami is located deep to the sternocleidomastoid within the neck. The cervical plexus innervates muscles of the neck and areas of skin on the head, neck and chest. The deep branches innervate muscles, while the superficial branches supply areas of skin. A long branch (primarily of fibers of C4 and with contributions of fibers from C3 and C5; nervus phrenicus) innervates muscles of the diaphragm. The cervical plexus also communicates with the cranial nerves vagus nerve and hypoglossal nerve.
Brachial plexus
The brachial plexus is formed by the ventral rami of C5-C8-T1 spinal nerves, and lower and upper halves of C4 and T2 spinal nerves. The plexus extends toward the armpit. The ventral rami of C5 and C6 form upper trunk, the ventral ramus of C7 forms the middle trunk, and the ventral rami of C8 and T1 join to form the lower trunk of the brachial plexus. Under the clavicle, the trunks reorganize to form cords (fasciculi) around the axillary artery (arteria axillaris). The lateral cord (fasciculus lateralis) is formed by the upper and middle trunk, all three trunks join to form the posterior cord (fasciculus posterior), the lower trunk continues to the medial trunk (fasciculus medialis). The nerves (containing motor and sensory f
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An electrogastrogram (EGG) is a computer generated graphic produced by electrogastrography, which detects, analyzes and records the myoelectrical signal generated by the movement of the smooth muscle of the stomach, intestines and other smooth muscle containing organs. An electrogastroenterogram or electroviscerogram (or gastroenterogram) is a similar display of the recording of myoelectrical activity of gastrointestinal or other organs which are able to generate myoelectrical activity.
These names are made of different parts: electro, because it is related to electrical activity, gastro, Greek for stomach, entero or viscero, Greek for intestines, gram, a Greek root meaning "to write".
An electrogastrogram (EGG), electroviscerogram (EVG) or a gastroenterogram are similar in principle to an electrocardiogram (ECG) in that sensors on the skin detect electrical signals indicative of muscular activity within. Where the electrocardiogram detects muscular activity in various regions of the heart, the electrogastrogram or electroviscerogram detects the myoelectrical activity of the wave-like contractions of the stomach, intestines or other organs (peristalsis).
Walter C. Alvarez discovered the EGG signal and pioneered early studies of electrogastrography in 1921–22.
Physiological basis
Motility of gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) results from coordinated contractions of smooth muscle, which in turn derive from two basic patterns of electrical activity across the membranes of smooth muscle cells—slow waves and action potentials. Slow waves are initiated by pacemakers—the interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC). Slow wave frequency varies in the different organs of the GI tract and is characteristic for that organ. They set the maximum frequency at which the muscle can contract:
stomach – about 3 waves in a minute,
duodenum – about 12 waves in a minute,
jejunum – about 11 waves in a minute.
ileum – about 8 waves in a minute,
rectum – about 17 waves in a minute.
The electrical activity or more properly termed myoelectrical activity of the GI tract can be subdivided into two categories: electrical control activity (ECA) and electrical response activity (ERA). ECA is characterized by regularly recurring electrical potentials, originating in the gastric pacemaker located in the body of stomach.
The slow waves are not a direct reason of peristalsis of a GI tract, but a correlation between deviations of slow waves from norm and motility abnormalities however is proved.
Cutaneous electrogastrography
Recording of the Electrogastrogram can be made from either the gastrointestinal surface mucosa, serosa, or the external skin surface. The cutaneous electrogastrography provides an indirect representation of the electrical activity, that has been demonstrated in numerous studies to exactly correspond to simultaneous recordings of the mucosa or serosa. Since it is much easier to perform, the cutaneous electrogastrography has been used most frequently.
Several
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In computer programming, data-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the program statements describe the data to be matched and the processing required rather than defining a sequence of steps to be taken. Standard examples of data-driven languages are the text-processing languages sed and AWK, and the document transformation language XSLT, where the data is a sequence of lines in an input stream – these are thus also known as line-oriented languages – and pattern matching is primarily done via regular expressions or line numbers.
Related paradigms
Data-driven programming is similar to event-driven programming, in that both are structured as pattern matching and resulting processing, and are usually implemented by a main loop, though they are typically applied to different domains. The condition/action model is also similar to aspect-oriented programming, where when a join point (condition) is reached, a pointcut (action) is executed. A similar paradigm is used in some tracing frameworks such as DTrace, where one lists probes (instrumentation points) and associated actions, which execute when the condition is satisfied.
Adapting abstract data type design methods to object-oriented programming results in a data-driven design. This type of design is sometimes used in object-oriented programming to define classes during the conception of a piece of software.
Applications
Data-driven programming is typically applied to streams of structured data, for filtering, transforming, aggregating (such as computing statistics), or calling other programs. Typical streams include log files, delimiter-separated values, or email messages, notably for email filtering. For example, an AWK program may take as input a stream of log statements, and for example send all to the console, write ones starting with WARNING to a "WARNING" file, and send an email to a sysadmin in case any line starts with "ERROR". It could also record how many warnings are logged per day. Alternatively, one can process streams of delimiter-separated values, processing each line or aggregated lines, such as the sum or max. In email, a language like procmail can specify conditions to match on some emails, and what actions to take (deliver, bounce, discard, forward, etc.).
Some data-driven languages are Turing-complete, such as AWK and even sed, while others are intentionally very limited, notably for filtering. An extreme example of the latter is pcap, which only consists of filtering, with the only action being “capture”. Less extremely, sieve has filters and actions, but in the base standard has no variables or loops, only allowing stateless filtering statements: each input element is processed independently. Variables allow state, which allow operations that depend on more than one input element, such as aggregation (summing inputs) or throttling (allow at most 5 mails per hour from each sender, or limiting repeated log messages).
Data-driven languages frequently have
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Transport 21 was an Irish infrastructure plan, announced in November 2005. Its aims were to greatly expand Ireland's transport network. A cost estimate of €34 billion was attached to the plan at the time.
The plan included continuing investment in Ireland's road network, along with investment in public transport in the form of buses and rail.
After the collapse of the Irish banking system the Transport 21 project was cancelled in May 2011.
A significant portion of this investment would focus on the creation of an integrated rail network in Dublin. Projects included a tunnel under Dublin city centre connecting Heuston Station with Pearse Station and Docklands station at Spencer Dock. This would facilitate the expansion of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) system from one line to two. Also included were several new Luas lines, a metro system, and tighter integration between all rail systems, particularly at the planned St. Stephen's Green interchange. This would create a single integrated rail network in Dublin that served the north, south, east and west of the city.
Other rail investment included the planned Western Railway Corridor, redevelopment of a rail link from Navan to Dublin and upgrading and extending suburban rail in Cork.
Also included in the plan was the significant expansion of the Dublin Bus passenger-carrying capacity, completion of the motorway system linking all the major urban centres on the island, and better integration of all transport systems.
Luas - Dublin
St. Stephen's Green to Luas Red Line (Line BX)
The RPA (Railway Procurement Agency) announced the new preferred route extension from the Green Line stop at St. Stephen's Green to Luas Red Line (Line BX) in 2011. The route continues on from St. Stephen's Green towards Dawson Street, Grafton Street Lower, College Green, Westmoreland Street, O'Connell Street and Parnell Square. Construction of the line began in June 2013 and was opened on 9 December 2017.
Connolly to Point Depot (Line C1)
The route for the Red Line extension (Line C1) from Connolly to the Point Depot was fixed in the early 2000s and the Railway Order was signed by the Minister of Transport in December 2006. Construction works got underway in June 2007, with the centrepiece being a new bridge at the Harbourmaster Place end of Mayor Street. It was officially opened in 2009.
Sandyford to Brides Glen (Line B1)
The route for the Green Line extension (Line B1) from Sandyford to Brides Glen was chosen by the RPA and the Railway Order was signed by the Minister of Transport in August 2006. The line opened on 16 October 2010.
Brides Glen to Bray (Line B2)
The route for this line had been selected (Route 2). This project is currently being reconsidered by the National Transport Authority.
Belgard to Saggart (Line A1)
A Red Line extension was planned from Belgard to Saggart to be built as a Public Private Partnership Initiative (PPP). The line received planning permission in June 2008 and construction got
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Branimir Makanec (born 17 May 1932) is a Croatian computer engineer and programmer. Outside of his research work, he is also known in his native country as a pioneering advocate for computer literacy amongst school-aged children.
Background and education
Makanec is the son of Croatian nationalist academic and Ustashe politician Julije Makanec, a member of the aristocratic Makanec family who have produced many scholars and politicians. He was born in Koprivnica near the present-day Hungarian border when his father was a teacher at the local gymnasium. After his father's execution by Yugoslav Partisans and the end of World War II in 1945, Branimir and his mother returned to Zagreb.
Makanec graduated from the Electrotechnical Faculty at the University of Zagreb in 1961.
Career
Establishing a cybernetics group at the university in 1962, Makanec designed a TIOSS (remote self-organizing system) robot prototype that displayed rudimentary AI behaviour like handing out the pamphlets to public. He spent some time in the United States in 1968 to study the computing infrastructure and was exposed to the accessibility of computers, then considered to be exclusively for the scientific and research community, to the masses.
In 1968, Makanec established the Multimedia Center of the Zagreb University Referral Center (MMC). The MMC was an open type computer center intended to be used for non-numerical purposes. The MMC was equipped with a Hewlett-Packard HP 2000 Time-Sharing BASIC system, computer terminals, and teleprinter. The MMC, during nearly twenty years of existence, gave thousands of children and students an opportunity to learn programming and socialise with people of similar interests.
Makanec worked for Ivasim (hr) and was part of the team responsible for the development of the Ivel Ultra. It was the first Yugoslav-designed personal computer.
In 2003, the Croatian Ministry of Education and Science awarded Makanec the lifetime technical achievement award "Faust Vrancic".
See also
Ivel Ultra
References
Lifetime Achievement record at Croatian Science and Education Ministry
HP 2000 TSB web page
1932 births
Living people
People from Koprivnica
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb alumni
Roboticists
Croatian engineers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Emtage
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Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) is a Bajan-Canadian computer scientist who conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web Internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. It is widely considered the world's first Internet search engine.
Life
Emtage was born in Barbados, the son of Sir Stephen and Lady Emtage. He attended high school at Harrison College from 1975 to 1983 (and in 1981 became the owner of a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory), where he graduated at the top of his class, winning the Barbados Scholarship.
In 1983 Emtage entered McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, studying for an honors Bachelor's degree in computer science which was followed by a Master's degree in 1987 from which he graduated in 1991. Emtage was part of the team that brought the first Internet link to eastern Canada (and only the second link in the country) in 1986. In 1989 while a student and working as a systems administrator for the School of Computer Science, Emtage conceived and implemented the original version of the Archie search engine, the world's first Internet search engine.
In 1992, Emtage along with Peter Deutsch, also a McGill graduate, formed Bunyip Information Systems in Montreal—the world's first company expressly founded for and dedicated to providing Internet information services with a licensed commercial version of the Archie search engine.
Emtage was a founding member of the Internet Society and went on to create and chair several working groups at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the standard-setting body for the Internet. Working with other pioneers such as Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Mark McCahill (creator of Gopher) and Jon Postel, Emtage co-chaired the Uniform Resource Identifier working group which created the standard for Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
In 2017, Emtage was inducted as an Innovator by the Internet Society into the Internet Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Los Angeles. In 2019, Emtage was conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of the West Indies, and in 2022 received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from McGill University.
Emtage has spoken and lectured on Internet Information Systems and is chief technical officer at Mediapolis, a Web engineering company in New York City.
Works
A. Emtage, P. Deutsch, archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet Winter Usenix Conference Proceedings 1992. Pages 93–110.
Michael F. Schwartz, Alan Emtage, Brewster Kahle, B. Clifford Neuman, A Comparison of Internet Resource Discovery Approaches, Computing Systems, Fall 1992, pp. 461–493, 5(4),
P. Deutsch, A. Emtage, A. Marine, How to Use Anonymous FTP (RFC1635, May 1994)
Alan Emtage, "Publishing in the Internet environment", Proceedings of the Sixth Joint European Networking Conference, 1995
Alan Emtage, "Can You Imagine A World Without Search?", Medium, September 2015
References
Additional sources
The Search:
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Mike David Fischer CBE is the co-founder of the computer company RM plc.
Fischer graduated with a physics degree from Oxford University. In 1973, with Mike O'Regan (who had an economics degree from Cambridge), Fischer co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then software company for the educational market. He was CEO for 24 years and became a non-executive director and lifetime president in 1997. He stood down as a non-executive director in 2004, but retains his position as lifetime president of the company.
Fischer is a founder of the Fischer Family Trust which runs projects in health and education. In education, the key project of the Fischer Family Trust has been to change the way school performance is measured in England.
Fischer is also Director of SBL, a (Community Interest) Company dedicated to improving patient treatment options through high quality, collaborative and clinically focused research, and co–founder of Alamy Ltd, a stock photography agency. Fisher is also co-founder and Chair of Videoloft Ltd, a cloud video surveillance software platform.
He and RM co-founder Mike O'Regan were awarded honorary degrees by the Open University in 2002.
Personal life and education
Fischer completed an undergraduate degree in physics at Oxford University in 1971 and a second undergraduate degree in physiological sciences at Oxford University in 1978. He has also been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University in 2002 with the other RM cofounder, Mike O’Regan. Fischer was awarded a CBE for services to Business and to Charity in 2006.
Business Ventures
RM
Fischer and Mike O’Regan founded RM (as Research Machines) in 1973 as a mail-order supplier of electronic components. The company has since been expanded to provide information technology products and services to educational organisations and establishments. Fischer was CEO for 24 years and became a non-executive director and lifetime president in 1997. He stood down as a non-executive director in 2004, but retains his position as lifetime president of the company.
After studying Japanese companies, Fischer was heavily influenced by the excellent manufacturing quality standards facilitated by a systemised approach to quality and improvement. This approach is championed by the studies of William Edwards Deming and Joseph M Juran, a.k.a. Six Sigma. According to Fischer, “ensuring high-quality manufacturing standards was the key that would unlock RM's expansion”.
Alamy
Fischer is the co-founder with James West of Alamy, an online stock photography agency launched in 1999. Alamy was acquired by PA Media Group in February 2020.
Videoloft
Fisher is co-founder of Videoloft, along with James West of Alamy and Tim Pearson of RM. Videoloft's software cloud-enables traditional CCTV systems, making them inherently more secure and adding powerful business intelligence.
Philanthropy
FFT and the Fischer Family Trust in Education
Fischer is best known for his work in t
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Adaptive resonance theory (ART) is a theory developed by Stephen Grossberg and Gail Carpenter on aspects of how the brain processes information. It describes a number of neural network models which use supervised and unsupervised learning methods, and address problems such as pattern recognition and prediction.
The primary intuition behind the ART model is that object identification and recognition generally occur as a result of the interaction of 'top-down' observer expectations with 'bottom-up' sensory information. The model postulates that 'top-down' expectations take the form of a memory template or prototype that is then compared with the actual features of an object as detected by the senses. This comparison gives rise to a measure of category belongingness. As long as this difference between sensation and expectation does not exceed a set threshold called the 'vigilance parameter', the sensed object will be considered a member of the expected class. The system thus offers a solution to the 'plasticity/stability' problem, i.e. the problem of acquiring new knowledge without disrupting existing knowledge that is also called incremental learning.
Learning model
The basic ART system is an unsupervised learning model. It typically consists of a comparison field and a recognition field composed of neurons, a vigilance parameter (threshold of recognition), and a reset module.
The comparison field takes an input vector (a one-dimensional array of values) and transfers it to its best match in the recognition field.
Its best match is the single neuron whose set of weights (weight vector) most closely matches the input vector.
Each recognition field neuron outputs a negative signal (proportional to that neuron's quality of match to the input vector) to each of the other recognition field neurons and thus inhibits their output.
In this way the recognition field exhibits lateral inhibition, allowing each neuron in it to represent a category to which input vectors are classified.
After the input vector is classified, the reset module compares the strength of the recognition match to the vigilance parameter.
If the vigilance parameter is overcome (i.e. the input vector is within the normal range seen on previous input vectors), then training commences:
The weights of the winning recognition neuron are adjusted towards the features of the input vector
Otherwise, if the match level is below the vigilance parameter (i.e. the input vector's match is outside the normal expected range for that neuron) the winning recognition neuron is inhibited and a search procedure is carried out.
In this search procedure, recognition neurons are disabled one by one by the reset function until the vigilance parameter is overcome by a recognition match.
In particular, at each cycle of the search procedure the most active recognition neuron is selected and then switched off, if its activation is below the vigilance parameter
(note that it thus releases the remai
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The Lane Cove Tunnel is a twin-tunnel tollway in Sydney, New South Wales that is part of the Sydney Orbital Network. Owned by toll road operator Transurban, It connects the M2 Motorway at North Ryde with the Gore Hill Freeway at Artarmon and forms part of Sydney's M2 route, with the M2 Hills Motorway constituting the rest of the M2 route.
History
On 1 October 2003, the Lane Cove Tunnel Company was awarded a $1.1 billion contract to design and construct the tunnel to a joint venture between Thiess and the John Holland Group. The company, later known as Connector Motorways, would operate the tunnel as well as the associated Falcon Street Gateway (now Military Road E-ramp).
It was intended to replace the few kilometres motorists had to drive along Epping Road, through the suburb of Lane Cove, between two sections of freeway.
During construction, in the early hours of 2 November 2005, the roof of a ventilation tunnel for the project collapsed. The collapse caused a 10 by 10 metre crater to appear near the southbound exit ramp of the Pacific Highway. It also damaged a three-storey building at 11–13 Longueville Road, forcing the evacuation of 47 people. Emergency crews pumped 1000 cubic metres of concrete into the hole to try to stop the housing block from collapsing into it. An investigation by Workcover NSW found that the collapse was caused by geological conditions at the site, the large span width of the tunnel, and inadequacy of roof support. The proximity of the excavations to the surface resulted in the property damage.
The tunnel was opened on 25 March 2007, two months ahead of schedule, by four workers who represented the 9,000 who had worked on the Lane Cove Tunnel, the Military Road E-Ramp and the widened Gore Hill Freeway Project. Following the opening there was a one-month toll-free period (as occurred with the Westlink M7).
Connector Motorways was supposed to operate the tunnel concession until 2037. However, the project was a disaster for the company, which went into receivership in January 2010 after a string of losses. Toll road operator Transurban bought the tunnel in May 2010 for $630 million and became the new operator.
Alternative routes
Before the opening of the tunnel, motorists had to drive along Epping Road through the suburb of Lane Cove, for the few kilometres between two freeway sections. Studies by the tunnel operator indicated that the Lane Cove Tunnel would cut road travel times by up to 17 minutes and save motorists over $4 a trip.
After the completion of the consequential surface road changes in March 2008, the existing Epping Road was slated to have 24-hour bus lanes to reduce travel times for east and west bound bus services, a new bus interchange, a shared cyclist and pedestrian path, and other measures were implemented to improve public transport and local traffic in the corridor. Changes to the road network in the area had the primary aim of encourage traffic to use the new tolled tunnel instead of the unto
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20i870
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The Motorola i870 is a clam-style cellular telephone designed for use with iDEN Networks. It was released for SouthernLINC networks in mid-October 2005, and for Nextel on October 31, 2005 as a replacement for the i860. A variation of this phone, the i875, was released for Boost Mobile as a replacement for the i860 Tattoo.
Background
Like the Motorola i850, i760, and even the i920/i930, the i870 sports WiDEN compliance with band support for both iDEN 800 and 900. The iDEN 900 band is also supported, helping relieve 800MHz spectrum pressures during Sprint's 800MHz rebanding effort, moving iDEN up to 862-869MHz while public safety radios utilize spectrum from 851-860MHz.
Unlike the i930, the i870 does not operate under Windows Mobile 2003. While this is the case, it utilizes Bluetooth support with OBEX and hands-free earpiece compliance first found on the i605 (the i605 was not well-received due to its monolith form-factor).
The i870 sports the same display properties as with the i860 (96x64 12-bit LCD STN external, 176x220 18-bit LCD TFT/TFD internal, both color displays).
The i870 adds selective dynamic group call, MP3 support from 8-192 kbit/s (up to 320 kbit/s with a firmware update), external music controls, MIDI/WAV support, and TransFlash/Micro SD support for cards up to 2 GB-to-date. The i870 also features an improved camera found on the i850, but the resolution has been increased to 1.3 megapixels, and the video recording up to 30 seconds is limited only to the size of memory. Other than the added features new for the i870, the phone retains all the features that made the i860 one of Motorola's hot-selling iDEN phones.
The i870 is the first phone to feature AgION anti-microbial housing, which is said to negate product erosion due to germ contact. An updated version of the i870, the Motorola i880, also sports this feature.
Regulatory information
The phone was approved by the FCC with the ID of AZ489FT5846 on August 26, 2005. A Class II Permissive Change was issued on September 30, 2005 for Hearing Aid compatibility purposes.
See also
Motorola iDEN phone models
Sprint Nextel
Telus
External links
Motorola i870 Developer Information
Motorola i870 Manual in PDF Format
iDEN Developer Community at Motorola
Motorola i870 Specs
I870
IDEN mobile phones
Mobile phones introduced in 2005
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Stieg Hedlund (born 1965) is a computer and video game designer, artist, and writer. He has worked on more than thirty games in the video game industry. He is best known for his work in action RPGs, and has also worked on games on real-time strategy, tactical shooter, beat-'em-up and action-adventure games.
Works
Hedlund moved on to Japanese publisher Koei in 1990, which had established a North American subsidiary, Koei Corporation, in California two years earlier. Working at Koei both in Northern California and Japan, he either created or was the lead designer for a number of games including Liberty or Death, Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye, Gemfire and Saiyuki: Journey West. In 1995, shortly after Hedlund left the company, the subsidiary ceased its game development efforts.
After working on an unreleased Lord of the Ringsbased title for Electronic Arts in the early '90s, Hedlund began working for the Sega Technical Institute (STI) in 1994, where, as an artist and game designer, he worked on titles like Comix Zone, The Ooze and Sonic X-treme.
In 1996, three years after he first interviewed with the company, Hedlund ran into the three founders of Condor. He was impressed by the potential of their latest game, Diablo, and immediately joined the team taking on the lead design role. Three months before the release of Diablo, Blizzard acquired Condor and renamed the company Blizzard North. Diablo would go on to become one of the most highly rated games of 1996.
In the wake of Diablo'''s success, Hedlund designed Diablo II which performed well (For more details, visit Diablo II Awards and Sales).
While at Blizzard, he also participated in the design of both StarCraft and the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion pack. StarCraft was the best-selling PC game of 1998 and received numerous Game of the Year awards. Diablo II: LOD was released in 2001, and helped to “reinforce the staying power of an already legendary RPG”. It too received numerous awards, including several for Best Expansion Pack of the Year, and tied with Baldur’s Gate II for Best RPG of the Year.
On April 17, 2000, Hedlund announced that he would be leaving Blizzard North "as soon as his responsibilities for Diablo II (had) been fulfilled" in order to start a new game-development firm called Full-On Amusement Company with business partners, programmers, and artists from Virgin Interactive, Sega, Sony Computer Entertainment, Electronic Arts, and Maxis. During this time, Hedlund collaborated with director David Lynch on his unreleased Woodcutters from Fiery Ships game project.
Later in 2000, Hedlund joined Konami as the company's Creative Director and worked on titles such as the iconic Frogger and Contra series. In 2002, he went to work as Creative Director for Ubisoft/ Red Storm Entertainment on games such as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown, as well as contributing to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. He also spent some time
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Robert B. Ingebretsen (30 March 1948 – 2 March 2003) was a pioneer in the development of digital sound.
As a teenager in the 1960s, Ingebretsen built robots and primitive computers that could talk.
As a University of Utah graduate student in the early 1970s, Ingebretsen assisted Dr. Thomas G. Stockham in the development of Stockham's restoration technique for sound and images. This work led to RCA's Caruso-A Legendary Performer that applied Stockham's restoration techniques to acoustic recordings of opera great Enrico Caruso.
Ingebretsen worked with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull in 1972 to produce one of the first digital films, a 20-second portrait of a human hand.
After graduation in 1975, Ingebretsen joined Stockham at Soundstream Inc., a Utah company where Ingebretsen wrote the software for the first practical digital audio editing system. Soundstream briefly operated an editing studio at a Paramount Pictures studio lot in Los Angeles. Ingebretsen commuted from Utah to Los Angeles, where he supervised the new digital recording for the 1982 re-release of Disney’s Fantasia.
Soundstream dissolved in 1985 and Ingebretsen spent the next 15 years in near anonymity in Salt Lake City, founding a series of small high-tech companies. In 1999 Stockham and Ingebretsen received a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their pioneering work in digital audio editing.
Ingebretsen also helped pioneer satellite communications technology. In recent years, he worked for a Centerville-based startup that develops software for hand-held computers.
On 2 March 2003 Ingebretsen died of heart failure at the age of 54 at his Salt Lake City home.
See also
Soundstream
Thomas Stockham
References
1948 births
2003 deaths
University of Utah alumni
People from Salt Lake City
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Valence bond (VB) computer programs for modern valence bond calculations:-
CRUNCH, by Gordon A. Gallup and his group.
GAMESS (UK), includes calculation of VB wave functions by the TURTLE code, due to J.H. van Lenthe.
GAMESS (US), has links to interface VB2000, and XMVB.
MOLPRO and MOLCAS include code by David L. Cooper for generating Spin Coupled VB wave functions from CASSCF calculations.
VB2000 version 2.7 (released, 2014), by Jiabo Li, Brian Duke and Roy McWeeny allows the use of Group Function theory, whereby different groups can be handled by different methods (VB or Hartree–Fock). Many types of VB, including spin-coupled VB, and CASVB calculations are possible. It is part of the GAMESS (US) release and can be compiled into the GAMESS(US) executable. There is a more limited stand-alone program. Earlier versions were interfaced to GAUSSIAN.
XMVB (previously known as XIAMEN), by Lingchun Song, Yirong Mo, Qianer Zhang and Wei Wu. This allows several VB methods, including breathing orbital VB. The code now interfaces to GAMESS (US) in a similar manner to VB2000. Earlier versions interfaced to GAUSSIAN 98.
Note that several other programs, as well as some of those above, can do Goddard's Generalized Valence Bond (GVB) methods. GAMESS (US) does this either without the VB2000 interface or with it.
See also
Quantum chemistry computer programs
References
Computational chemistry software
Quantum chemistry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire%20Ted
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Billionaire Ted is a series of comedic sketches that ran on World Wrestling Federation (WWF) programming in 1996. They were created to parody media mogul Ted Turner, who owned rival World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and several WCW wrestlers. The skits consisted of mocking Turner and WCW by referencing the age of their wrestlers as well as bringing up concerns about steroids. The skits were viewed as gradually becoming more malicious rather than parody, as they were broadcast in addition to the WWF chairman Vince McMahon complementing them with anti-Turner press advertisements outside of WWF programming. The skits were ended by USA Network president Kay Koplovitz, who felt they had moved away from parody and towards mirroring McMahon's personal opinions of Turner and WCW.
Background
During the 1980s, the WWF had been the top professional wrestling organization in the United States, although it had a solid challenger in Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), which Turner purchased in 1988 and renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW). By the mid-1990s, WCW began recruiting high-profile former WWF superstars from the 1980s, such as Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. In 1995 it directly targeted the WWF by creating its own flagship television show, WCW Monday Nitro. They scheduled it on TNT in the same time slot as the WWF's flagship show WWF Monday Night Raw, which aired on the USA Network. In response to these and other tactics, WWF chairman Vince McMahon decided to create a series of sketches lampooning Turner and WCW. Despite going against his long-time policy of not acknowledging his competition, McMahon decreed to his aides: "It's going to be the funniest thing we've ever done".
The skits parodied Turner, who was referred to as "Billionaire Ted" and portrayed as a bumbling, out-of-touch hillbilly initially trying to improve his WCW product compared with the perceived superiority of WWF programming. Also parodied alongside him in the skits were former 1980s WWF talents who had defected to WCW, namely Hulk Hogan (who became "The Huckster"), "Macho Man" Randy Savage (who became known as the "Nacho Man"), and WCW interviewer "Mean" Gene Okerlund (who was parodied as "Scheme Gene"). Hogan and Savage were portrayed as elderly and incapable wrestlers, while Okerlund was depicted as a con man who wanted to scam money from fans via premium phone lines.
Original sketches
The first few sketches (originally promoted as "Billionaire Ted's Rasslin' Warroom") feature Billionaire Ted in his boardroom trying to copy WWF programming but his older wrestlers stating they are unable to do the more athletic moves or use original promotional tactics. McMahon made the point that the WWF promoted it as satire to protect them from any possible defamation lawsuits. Some of the skits also include allusions to WCW's in-house drug testing compared with the WWF's independent drug testing program. The WCW vice-president Eric Bischoff, who had previously called the WWF to express his
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In computing, a shell builtin is a command or a function, called from a shell, that is executed directly in the shell itself, instead of an external executable program which the shell would load and execute.
Shell builtins work significantly faster than external programs, because there is no program loading overhead. However, their code is inherently present in the shell, and thus modifying or updating them requires modifications to the shell. Therefore, shell builtins are usually used for simple, almost trivial, functions, such as text output.
Because of the nature of some operating systems, some functions of the systems must necessarily be implemented as shell builtins. The most notable example is the cd command, which changes the working directory of the shell. Since each executable program runs in a separate process, and working directories are specific to each process, loading cd as an external program would not affect the working directory of the shell that loaded it.
See also
BusyBox
Internal DOS command
References
External links
List of special shell builtin commands
List of MS-DOS internal commands
Command shells
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20Kapuso%20Foundation
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GMA Kapuso Foundation Inc. (formerly Bisig Bayan Foundation and GMA Foundation) is a socio-civic organization organized by GMA Network Inc. to facilitate social programs and outreach to the public.
Since it was founded in 1991, GMA Kapuso Foundation has been touching the lives of communities everywhere. Its projects help uplift the life of countless beneficiaries.
Implemented singly or in partnership with other agencies, the foundation's thrusts are focused on helping and supporting impoverished families, needy children, calamity victims, prisoners and ex-prisoners, aspiring singers and songwriters, including dependents of GMA employees.
Projects
Health
Bisig Bayan Medical Assistance (BB)
Kalusugan Karavan (KK)
Education
Kapuso School Development (KSD) Project
Unang Hakbang sa Kinabukasan (UHSK)
Disaster Relief
Operation Bayanihan (OpsBay)
Values Formation
Kapuso ng Kalikasan (KNK) Project
Sagip Dugtong Buhay
Give-A-Gift: Alay sa Batang Pinoy
Give-A-Gift: Feed a Child
Awards
53rd Anvil Awards
Silver Anvil Award (Public Relations Tools – Publications category):
‘20 Years of Serbisyong Totoo: The GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc. 2016 Annual Report’
Silver Anvil Award (Public Relations Tools: Multimedia/Digital Online Video/Online News):
‘Kapuso Para sa Kawal Project,’ Layong Matulungan ang mga Sundalong Lumalaban sa Marawi
Silver Anvil Award (Public Relations Tools: Multimedia/Digital Online Video/Online News):
Rebuild Marawi MTV
52nd Anvil Awards
Silver Anvil Award (Public Relations Tools – Publications category):
Empowering the Youth: The GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc. 2015 Annual Report
34th Agora Awards
Outstanding Achievement In Advocacy Marketing
GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Philippine Quill Awards
Merit Award
The Worst of Times. The Best of Times: The GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc. 2009 Annual Report
45th Anvil Awards
Anvil Award of Excellence Ryu Watanabe
GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc. Annual Report
References
GMA Network (company)
Foundations based in the Philippines
Organizations established in 1991
1991 establishments in the Philippines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memotech
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Memotech Limited was a British computer company founded by Geoff Boyd and Robert Branton in Witney in Oxfordshire, England. They started out during the early 1980s producing memory expansion packs ("RAMpacks") and other hardware expansions for the Sinclair ZX81. However, they eventually went on to develop and sell their own MTX family of computers in 1983. The range included the following models: MTX500, MTX512 and RS128. The MTX 512 was based on the Zilog Z80 processor. Although well-regarded, these computers were not commercially successful, and the company went into receivership in 1985.
History
In 1984, the Norwegian company Norbit Elektronikk Norge A/S run by A. S. Fiko developed a complete Input/Output (I/O) control system with 4× 16-bits by using the blue Memotech 8-bit Dual in-line package DIL socket for I/O controls. The socket was located on the computer motherboard. Norbit Elektronikk used their Super ToolBox system and was able to use 16-bits by adding two data blocks of 8 bits at the same time. Digital I/O ports, Analog-to-digital converter and Digital-to-analog converter with all kind of sensor systems for robotics and controls were developed. The control system was designed for the same aluminum casing as the main MTX512 unit.
In 1984/85 Memotech was working on a huge project to deliver the CP/M-based MTX512 together with the FDX and the control unit from Norbit Elektronikk to 64,000 schools in the USSR with the potentials to sell about 200,000 units. The USSR was at that time under embargo by the United States, and companies were not allowed to deliver the new IBM Personal Computer with MS-DOS to USSR. CP/M computers were not included in the Soviet embargo blockage and Memotech's MTX512 was therefore a good option.
Memotech went into receivership in 1985. A contributing factor, beyond the poor commercial success of the MTX, was the substantial investment Memotech made in preparing the MTX512 for the Soviet deal. This required a red brushed aluminum case instead of the black (made at a factory in the Netherlands), Russian BASIC, Russian character encoding, Russian keyboard and Russian documentation. Memotech worked with a professor at University of Oxford for the internationalization.
The Soviet government was also evaluating computer systems from other home computer manufacturers. Memotech was relying on the British government for funding the project, but ultimately, they only received about £1m and did not receive the full funding required. As a result, Memotech required cash payments from the USSR prior to supplying the 64,000 computers. The Soviets decided against this cash deal and instead agreed to acquire MSX computers from Yamaha (another later big deal was with Daewoo) with bartering mainly in steel and oil. Only a few thousand MSX computers were supplied to USSR schools and other educational institutions before the deal went dead. The main reason was the USSR thought that MSX was the new Microsoft Operating syste
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSCN
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DSCN is an abbreviation which may refer to -
Digital Still Capture Nikon
Data Set Change Notice (in UK National Health service), sometimes also DSC Notice
Deep Space Communications Network, more often Deep Space Network
Danish Society for the Conservation of Nature (Danmarks Naturfredningsforening)
Digital Scan (ASCII)
Dispersion-Strengthened Cupro-Nickel
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Steve Liebmann (born 4 May 1944) is an Australian retired television presenter, journalist and radio broadcaster.
Liebmann is best known for co-hosting Today on the Nine Network between 1982 and 1986, and again from 1990 to 2005.
Early life and career
Born in Cooma, New South Wales, he attended Monaro High School. He became a journalist in Cooma on Radio 2XL while still in high school. He hosted "Teen Scene" from 5:30 pm to 6:00pm on week days, playing the latest records. His sign-off at the end of the show was "Yip yip yehodie, you're a little beauty".
Liebmann relocated to Canberra in 1962 and worked at radio 2CA, before moving to Sydney in 1967 to take up a position with Seven Network's Sydney bureau as news editor and on-air presenter. The following year, he became a senior journalist at Radio 2UE, and presented an afternoon news and public affairs program on the station which became the top show in its timeslot. He eventually became director of news and public affairs at the station.
In 1976, he left to join 2SM, and also became the host of Seven's 11AM program, as well as anchoring the station's Sydney evening news. He hosted the Willesee program on several occasions.
As a journalist Liebmann wrote articles for The Bulletin and Men In Vogue.
Today show
Liebmann joined the Nine Network in late 1981, to become the inaugural co-host of the national breakfast show Today, alongside Sue Kellaway, staying with the program until the end of 1986, when he joined the Ten Network to anchor TEN-10 Sydney's Eyewitness News, alongside Geraldine Doogue.
He rejoined Today in 1990 and remained at the Nine Network, presenting the program across Australia five days a week, until February 2005. He cited a mild heart attack as the reason for his retirement from the show at the age of 60. he was replaced by National Nine News US Correspondent Karl Stefanovic.
After leaving the program, Liebmann expressed disappointment to an AAP journalist about the content and format of Today under its new management, saying it had become a "poor imitation" of its Seven Network rival, Sunrise.
TV presenting – other programs
During 2002 and 2003, Liebmann appeared on television in a counter-terrorism advertising campaign on behalf of the Australian government.
He presented Ten Weekend News in Sydney during 2006, and hosted Crime Investigation Australia on Foxtel, focusing on infamous Australian crimes. He also had a contract with 2UE, as well as doing some corporate work and public speaking.
In December 2009, Liebmann replaced Steve Price as Morning Show host on 2UE, but resigned in November 2010.
Awards and recognition
Liebmann is the recipient of several journalistic awards, including the "News Presenter of the Year" from the Australian Commercial Radio Industry and the Penguin Award for Special Recognition for Contribution to News.
He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours.
References
External links
Steve Liebmann (arc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane%20%28data%20page%29
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on methane.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed. Annotation "(s)" indicates equilibrium temperature of vapor over solid. Otherwise temperature is equilibrium of vapor over liquid. Note that these are all negative temperature values.
Spectral data
References
Cited sources
Chemical data pages
Methane
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal%20TV
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Unreal TV is an Australian television show showcasing advertisements and weird video footage. It was hosted by Tim Ferguson and lasted from 1999 to 2001.
External links
Network 10 original programming
1990s Australian reality television series
1999 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings
2000s Australian reality television series
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on n-butane.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as eChemPortal, and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
n-Butane: Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed.
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Data page
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20recursion
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In computer science, anonymous recursion is recursion which does not explicitly call a function by name. This can be done either explicitly, by using a higher-order function – passing in a function as an argument and calling it – or implicitly, via reflection features which allow one to access certain functions depending on the current context, especially "the current function" or sometimes "the calling function of the current function".
In programming practice, anonymous recursion is notably used in JavaScript, which provides reflection facilities to support it. In general programming practice, however, this is considered poor style, and recursion with named functions is suggested instead. Anonymous recursion via explicitly passing functions as arguments is possible in any language that supports functions as arguments, though this is rarely used in practice, as it is longer and less clear than explicitly recursing by name.
In theoretical computer science, anonymous recursion is important, as it shows that one can implement recursion without requiring named functions. This is particularly important for the lambda calculus, which has anonymous unary functions, but is able to compute any recursive function. This anonymous recursion can be produced generically via fixed-point combinators.
Use
Anonymous recursion is primarily of use in allowing recursion for anonymous functions, particularly when they form closures or are used as callbacks, to avoid having to bind the name of the function.
Anonymous recursion primarily consists of calling "the current function", which results in direct recursion. Anonymous indirect recursion is possible, such as by calling "the caller (the previous function)", or, more rarely, by going further up the call stack, and this can be chained to produce mutual recursion. The self-reference of "the current function" is a functional equivalent of the "this" keyword in object-oriented programming, allowing one to refer to the current context.
Anonymous recursion can also be used for named functions, rather that calling them by name, say to specify that one is recursing on the current function, or to allow one to rename the function without needing to change the name where it calls itself. However, as a matter of programming style this is generally not done.
Alternatives
Named functions
The usual alternative is to use named functions and named recursion. Given an anonymous function, this can be done either by binding a name to the function, as in named function expressions in JavaScript, or by assigning the function to a variable and then calling the variable, as in function statements in JavaScript. Since languages that allow anonymous functions generally allow assigning these functions to variables (if not first-class functions), many languages do not provide a way to refer to the function itself, and explicitly reject anonymous recursion; examples include Go.
For example, in JavaScript the factorial function can be d
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Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), sometimes called probabilistic model-building genetic algorithms (PMBGAs), are stochastic optimization methods that guide the search for the optimum by building and sampling explicit probabilistic models of promising candidate solutions. Optimization is viewed as a series of incremental updates of a probabilistic model, starting with the model encoding an uninformative prior over admissible solutions and ending with the model that generates only the global optima.
EDAs belong to the class of evolutionary algorithms. The main difference between EDAs and most conventional evolutionary algorithms is that evolutionary algorithms generate new candidate solutions using an implicit distribution defined by one or more variation operators, whereas EDAs use an explicit probability distribution encoded by a Bayesian network, a multivariate normal distribution, or another model class. Similarly as other evolutionary algorithms, EDAs can be used to solve optimization problems defined over a number of representations from vectors to LISP style S expressions, and the quality of candidate solutions is often evaluated using one or more objective functions.
The general procedure of an EDA is outlined in the following:
t := 0
initialize model M(0) to represent uniform distribution over admissible solutions
while (termination criteria not met) do
P := generate N>0 candidate solutions by sampling M(t)
F := evaluate all candidate solutions in P
M(t + 1) := adjust_model(P, F, M(t))
t := t + 1
Using explicit probabilistic models in optimization allowed EDAs to feasibly solve optimization problems that were notoriously difficult for most conventional evolutionary algorithms and traditional optimization techniques, such as problems with high levels of epistasis. Nonetheless, the advantage of EDAs is also that these algorithms provide an optimization practitioner with a series of probabilistic models that reveal a lot of information about the problem being solved. This information can in turn be used to design problem-specific neighborhood operators for local search, to bias future runs of EDAs on a similar problem, or to create an efficient computational model of the problem.
For example, if the population is represented by bit strings of length 4, the EDA can represent the population of promising solution using a single vector of four probabilities (p1, p2, p3, p4) where each component of p defines the probability of that position being a 1. Using this probability vector it is possible to create an arbitrary number of candidate solutions.
Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs)
This section describes the models built by some well known EDAs of different levels of complexity. It is always assumed a population at the generation , a selection operator , a model-building operator and a sampling operator .
Univariate factorizations
The most simple EDAs assume that decision variables are indepe
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Neuroinformatics is the field that combines informatics and neuroscience. Neuroinformatics is related with neuroscience data and information processing by artificial neural networks. There are three main directions where neuroinformatics has to be applied:
the development of computational models of the nervous system and neural processes.
the development of tools for analyzing and modeling neuroscience data,
the development of tools and databases for management and sharing of neuroscience data at all levels of analysis,
Neuroinformatics is related to philosophy (computational theory of mind), psychology (information processing theory), computer science (natural computing, bio-inspired computing), among others. Neuroinformatics doesn't deal with matter or energy, so it can be seen as a branch of neurobiology that studies various aspects of nervous systems. The term neuroinformatics seems to be used synonymously with cognitive informatics, described by Journal of Biomedical Informatics as interdisciplinary domain that focuses on human information processing, mechanisms and processes within the context of computing and computing applications. According to German National Library, neuroinformatics is synonymous with neurocomputing. At Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing was introduced the following description: Cognitive Informatics (CI) as a transdisciplinary enquiry of computer science, information sciences, cognitive science, and intelligence science. CI investigates into the internal information processing mechanisms and processes of the brain and natural intelligence, as well as their engineering applications in cognitive computing. According to INCF, neuroinformatics is a research field devoted to the development of neuroscience data and knowledge bases together with computational models.
Neuroinformatics in neuropsychology and neurobiology
Models of neural computation
Models of neural computation are attempts to elucidate, in an abstract and mathematical fashion, the core principles that underlie information processing in biological nervous systems, or functional components thereof. Due to the complexity of nervous system behavior, the associated experimental error bounds are ill-defined, but the relative merit of the different models of a particular subsystem can be compared according to how closely they reproduce real-world behaviors or respond to specific input signals. In the closely related field of computational neuroethology, the practice is to include the environment in the model in such a way that the loop is closed. In the cases where competing models are unavailable, or where only gross responses have been measured or quantified, a clearly formulated model can guide the scientist in designing experiments to probe biochemical mechanisms or network connectivity.
Neurocomputing technologies
Artificial neural networks
Artificial neural networks (ANNs), usually
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20world%20backgammon%20champions
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The following is a list of world backgammon champions:
See also
Computer Olympiad - Backgammon
List of world championships in mind sports
References
External links
Backgammon
Backgammon
Backgammon
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Small Rockets was a British computer game developer located in Guildford, England. The company was founded in October 2000 and created and sold PC games online.
History
Small Rockets was born from the ashes of Fiendish Games, a department of Criterion Games (also known as Criterion Software), that was started to test the waters for delivering games online rather than through traditional retail channels. When Fiendish Games was shut down, the then head of department Jonathan Small set up Small Rockets to continue where Fiendish Games had left off. The company licensed the games created by Fiendish Games from Criterion, and most of the Fiendish Games employees moved with Jonathan to the new company.
(Note, Fiendish Games has no connection with the board game company of the same name; the board game company changed its name to Fiendish Board Games after coming to an agreement with Criterion Games).
In addition to its commercial games Small Rockets also produced a bespoke 'one off' game called 'HP Spy Academy' for a HP exhibition at 'Stuff Live' in 2002.
Work continued on several more PC titles and a Game Boy Advance title until most of the employees had to be let go, largely for financial reasons, in 2003.
Due to the increasing costs of running a UK-registered limited-liability company from the US, the decision was made in 2012 to shut the company down. The Small Rockets website displayed a formal notice of the shutdown from early July 2012, at which point the site's shop was also disabled. Full shutdown of the Small Rockets servers (including the website itself) occurred in late August 2012. Jonathan has stated that he hopes to continue Small Rockets' Red Ace franchise.
Small Rockets Games
Games originally written as part of Fiendish Games
Natural Fawn Killers (abbreviated NFK)
Tower of the Ancients
Master of the Skies: The Red Ace (previously known as Hunt for the Red Baron)
Art is Dead
Hot Chix 'n' Gear Stix
Hot Chix 'n' Gear Stix 2
Small Rockets Poker
Small Rockets Mah Jongg
Small Rockets Backgammon
Games released wholly by Small Rockets
NFK: Santa's Gone Postal
Star Monkey
Ultra Assault
Red Ace Squadron
Assimilation
Sean Murray Wakeboarding (GBA)
Sinbad (PC)
References
External links
The Small Rockets website, on the Internet Archive
Small Rockets entry at MobyGames
Video game development companies
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
mad:Global Thermonuclear Warfare
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20map
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Reflection map may refer to:
Reflection mapping in computer graphics
A reflection (mathematics), specifically
an element of a reflection group
an element of a Weyl group
Reflection map (logic optimization), a conventional Gray code Karnaugh map in logic optimization
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atarisoft
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Atarisoft was a brand name used by Atari, Inc. in 1983 and 1984 to publish video games for non-Atari home computers and consoles. Each platform had a specific color for its game packages: video games sold for the Commodore 64 were in green boxes, games for the TI-99/4A in yellow, the IBM PC in blue, and so on.
Atarisoft was so successful during the Christmas 1983 shopping season that the company released games for the discontinued TI-99/4A. By 1984 a rumor stated that Atari planned to discontinue hardware and only sell software. Despite being in existence for less than two years, Atarisoft had a huge video game library with dozens of game versions released. Almost all Atarisoft releases were produced by third-party developers, as Atari only developed for their own systems.
The Atarisoft label did not bear Atari's recognizable "Fuji" logo nor the official logos of the games, rather, the game names were written in a different typeface.
The Atarisoft brand as used by Atari, Inc. was discontinued shortly after Warner Communications sold Atari's consumer division to Jack Tramiel in 1984. Many additional games were in production at the time. Most went unreleased although a few were eventually released by other companies. Some games were complete, such as IBM PC port of Stargate , but never published.
The new Atari Corporation initially used the Atarisoft brand. Several Atari 8-bit family titles (both game and non-game) were published by Atari UK and Atari France using the Atarisoft label in 1985. Atari did not use the Atarisoft label again after 1985.
Cross-platform games
Released
These were published during 1983–84. Most were released by Atari, Inc., but some of these were released by Atari Corporation later in 1984.
Battlezone (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC)
Centipede (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, Intellivision, TI-99/4A)
Crystal Castles (Apple II, C64)
Defender (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, Intellivision, TI-99/4A)
Dig Dug (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A, Intellivision)
Donkey Kong (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A)
Galaxian (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, ZX Spectrum)
Gremlins (Apple II, C64, IBM PC)
Joust (Apple II, IBM PC)
Jungle Hunt (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A)
Moon Patrol (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A)
Ms. Pac-Man (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum)
Pac-Man (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, Intellivision, TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum)
Picnic Paranoia (TI-99/4A)
Pole Position (BBC Micro, C64, VIC-20, TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum)
Protector II (TI-99/4A)
Robotron: 2084 (Apple II, BBC Micro/Acorn Electron, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC)
Shamus (TI-99/4A)
Stargate (Apple II, C64)
Track & Field (Apple II, C64)
Unreleased
Promoted, partially developed, or fully completed games, but Atari did not publish them.
Asteroids Deluxe (BBC Micro)
Battlezone (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron)
Centipede (IBM PCjr)
Crystal Castles (IB
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Michele Scarabelli (born April 11, 1955) is a Canadian actress. She is probably best known for her role as Tenctonese Newcomer Susan Francisco on the Fox Network science fiction series Alien Nation and the five television movies that followed.
Career
Scarabelli's other roles include Charlotte in the 1986 movie Perfect Timing, Agent 3 in the Journeyman Project series of computer games, Jo Santini on season four of Airwolf, and numerous TV movies and guest appearances including the War of the Worlds episode "A Multitude of Idols" and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "In Theory" in which she played Lt. Jenna D'Sora, a short-term girlfriend of the android officer Lt. Commander Data. In addition, Scarabelli played Ray Krebbs' unstable lover Connie Hall in six episodes of Dallas in 1988 and made appearances on Philip Marlowe, Private Eye, and Supernatural. She also voiced Six in Nelvana's Seven Little Monsters. Scarabelli guest starred as Martha Kent in the CW television series Superman & Lois.
She also provided the voice of Michelle Visard in the video games The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime, The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time and The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
The Official Michele Scarabelli website
Canadian film actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian voice actresses
Canadian people of Italian descent
McGill University Faculty of Science alumni
Canadian video game actresses
Actresses from Montreal
1955 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo%20Contra
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is the tenth video game in the Contra series published by Konami. It was developed by Team Neo Kijirushi, a group of staff members within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and released for the PlayStation 2 in 2004. The game is a direct follow-up to Contra: Shattered Soldier, but returns to the multidirectional shooting format and departs from the traditional scrolling shooter formula used in previous games. It was the first game in the series to receive an ''M'' rating from the ESRB and was the only installment to receive this rating until the release of Rogue Corps in 2019.
Gameplay
Neo Contra returns the series once again to three-dimensional gameplay. However, unlike the titles developed under Appaloosa Interactive, players only need to aim in the third dimension on rare occasions. Additionally, this title moves away from the boss-oriented gameplay of Hard Corps and previous 32-bit titles in favor of longer free-form shooting sequences that are interspliced with boss encounters; in this regard, it is more reminiscent of the 8-bit and SNES Contra games.
Additionally, gameplay varies depending on the level and camera angle presented (the camera cannot be user-controlled). Most of the game is played from an isometric perspective, although some portions are side-scrolling or overhead-behind. The player cannot jump; instead, two new defensive moves, dash and spin, allow for the player to effectively evade enemies in the new dimensions. Dash gives the player a quick burst of speed to evade hostiles, while spin provides the player with brief invulnerability. The hit-ratio system introduced in Shattered Soldier has been kept in this title.
The game uses a modified version of the three-weapon configuration from Shattered Soldier. The player has two types of firearms to use against ground-level targets; one with regular ammo, and another with flammable rounds, plus a third weapon used to lock on to airborne targets. The player can choose from one of the three initially available weapon sets (one of which includes the famous Spread Shot from the earlier Contra games, which was missing in Shattered Soldier), with four additional sets that are time-release. The Type F configuration features the GV Laser and Ripple Laser, both weapons from Gradius V.
The weapon sets can be variated from the weaponry depending on the character used since Katana Jaguar uses his katana sword in all his sets.
Sets available are:
Type A: Machine Gun, Grenade Launcher, and Lock-On Missile.
Type B: Charge Shot, Fire Whip. and Lock-On Laser.
Type C: Spread Shot, Fireball. and Lock-On Thunder.
Type D: Lightning, G.Bazooka, and Heaven Laser.
Type E: Drill Shot, Reflect Laser, and Fairy Laser.
Type F: Ripple Laser, GV Laser, and Variable Weapon.
There are a total of seven stages in the game. Like Shattered Soldier, the four initial stages can be played in any order and can be replayed anytime for higher grading. The fifth stage can only be selected after clearing the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARDF
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ARDF is a four-letter acronym that can have several meanings:
Airborne Radio Direction Finding, a military technology used for battlefield reconnaissance
Alaska Resource Data Files, published by the United States Geological Survey
Amateur radio direction finding
Automatic Radio Direction Finder
Automatic Reversing Document Feeder, a type of automatic document feeder
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Transmission-Block%20character
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End-of-Transmission-Block (ETB) is a communications control character used to indicate the end of a block of data for communications purposes. ETB is used for segmenting data into blocks when the block structure is not necessarily related to the processing function.
In ASCII, ETB is code point 23 (0x17, or in caret notation) in the C0 control code set. In EBCDIC, ETB is code point 0x26.
References
Nichols A., Nichols et al.: Data Communications for Microcomputers (1982)
ASCII
Control characters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexenta%20OS
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Nexenta OS, officially known as the Nexenta Core Platform, is a discontinued computer operating system based on OpenSolaris and Ubuntu that runs on IA-32- and x86-64-based systems. It emerged in fall 2005, after Sun Microsystems started the OpenSolaris project in June of that year. Nexenta Systems, Inc. initiated the project and sponsored its development. Nexenta OS version 1.0 was released in February 2008.
In late 2011, the Nexenta OS brand was terminated and replaced with Illumian, which is derived from community development for illumos and OpenIndiana, but was distinguished by its use of Debian packaging. Illumian version 1.0 was released in February 2012. Following the initial release of Illumian in 2012, the Illumian project was discontinued.
Repositories
There were initially two official APT repositories: "testing" and "unstable", totalling more than 9000 packages. A third "stable" was added for the first official release. Nexenta OS is available as InstallCD and VMware images. A Live CD is also available, but only for releases up to alpha 5.
Nexenta repositories follow the general Debian structure (main contrib non-free). Stable releases use a subset of this structure. Packages originate from Debian GNU/Linux. The nexenta.org website was retired in early 2012.
Development
Since Nexenta OS does not use the Linux kernel, and Sun only recently began releasing the code of their Solaris operating system as free and open source software, it supports less diverse hardware than other Debian variants.
The Nexenta OS team has decided to focus on a minimal OpenSolaris effort called the Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) which forms the basis of the NexentaStor NAS storage solution. Version 1.0 of Nexenta Core Platform was released on February 10, 2008.
Nexenta Core Platform was the first operating system to combine the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU userland tools. It aimed to bring technologies such as ZFS and Zones to the GNU/Debian community. An additional purpose of the OS was to provide a kernel allowing proprietary closed source hardware drivers to be produced for inclusion in an open source operating system.
Releases and History
Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 was released on February 10, 2008. It was based on Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" and OpenSolaris b82. The release included:
ZFS root/boot
Zones integrated with dpkg/apt-get
BrandZ with preconfigured support for Debian and Ubuntu
Stable toolchain
Server/storage software support
Xen DomU/Dom0
Nexenta Core Platform 2.0 was released on May 25, 2009. It included packages based on Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" LTS.
Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1 was released on September 17, 2010. The release included many updated packages, support for ZFS deduplication, and Crossbow support, among other fixes.
NexentaStor
NexentaStor is a proprietary operating system built by Nexenta Systems on top of the Nexenta Core Platform. It is optimized for use in virtualized server environments including NAS, iSCSI, and Fi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Admission%20Control
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Network Admission Control (NAC) refers to Cisco's version of Network Access Control, which restricts access to the network based on identity or security posture. When a network device (switch, router, wireless access point, DHCP server, etc.) is configured for NAC, it can force user or machine authentication prior to granting access to the network. In addition, guest access can be granted to a quarantine area for remediation of any problems that may have caused authentication failure. This is enforced through an inline custom network device, changes to an existing switch or router, or a restricted DHCP class. A typical (non-free) WiFi connection is a form of NAC. The user must present some sort of credentials (or a credit card) before being granted access to the network.
In its initial phase, the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) functionality enables Cisco routers to enforce access privileges when an endpoint attempts to connect to a network. This access decision can be on the basis of information about the endpoint device, such as its current antivirus state. The antivirus state includes information such as version of antivirus software, virus definitions, and version of scan engine.
Network admission control systems allow noncompliant devices to be denied access, placed in a quarantined area, or given restricted access to computing resources, thus keeping insecure nodes from infecting the network.
The key component of the Cisco Network Admission Control program is the Cisco Trust Agent, which resides on an endpoint system and communicates with Cisco routers on the network. The Cisco Trust Agent collects security state information, such as what antivirus software is being used, and communicates this information to Cisco routers. The information is then relayed to a Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) where access control decisions are made. The ACS directs the Cisco router to perform enforcement against the endpoint.
This Cisco product has been marked End of Life since November 30, 2011, which is Cisco's terminology for a product that is no longer developed or supported.
Posture assessment
Besides user authentication, authorization in NAC can be based upon compliance checking. This posture assessment is the evaluation of system security based on the applications and settings that a particular system is using. These might include Windows registry settings or the presence of security agents such as anti-virus or personal firewall. NAC products differ in their checking mechanisms:
802.1x Extensibile Authentication Protocol
Microsoft Windows AD domain authentication - login credentials
Cisco NAC Appliance L2 switch or L3 authentication
Pre-installed security agent
Web-based security agent
Network packet signatures or anomalies
External network vulnerability scanner
External database of known systems
Agent-less posture assessment
Most NAC vendors require the 802.1x supplicant (client or agent) to be installed. Some, in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indy%20%28software%29
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Indy is a music discovery tool for computers with an Internet connection. It uses collaborative filtering to automatically download music the user is likely to enjoy listening to. Indy is similar to iRATE radio, but does not include a built-in file manager. Indy automatically downloads music from public websites and continuously plays new titles. The user can rate the titles during or after playback. These ratings are then matched against the tastes of other listeners, and newly downloaded titles are meant to be more likely to be enjoyable to the listener.
Every track can be given a rating from 1 to 5 stars. If the song is still playing when the user assigns the score, a rating lower than 3 stars skips to the next title. Indy's user interface is highly simplified. The makers of the program recommend to only use Indy to discover music, and to utilize other applications to organize and repeatedly listen to it.
Indy is written in Java and therefore runs on most modern operating systems.
As of October 3, 2007, the official homepage contains only an image and the text Revver is undergoing maintenance at the moment. We promise to return soon.
External links
Official homepage
Review of Indy published on infoAnarchy, November 3, 2005.
Recommender systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis%20%281992%20film%29
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Nemesis is a 1992 American cyberpunk action film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Yuji Okumoto, Marjorie Monaghan, Brion James and Deborah Shelton. Set in a near future world populated by androids, the film centers on Alex Rain (Gruner), a cybernetically-enhanced, ex-counterterrorism operative charged by his former employers with assassinating his former lover, the leader of an underground militant group. This is the first installment in the Nemesis film series, and was followed by four direct sequels and a spinoff film. After premiering in Japan, it was released in the United States by Imperial Entertainment in January 1993.
Plot
In the year 2027, illegal androids (called cyborgs in the film) have become commonplace, and many criminals enhance themselves with cybernetic components, making them "more than human". Alex Rain is a disillusioned assassin/bounty hunter for the LAPD. During a routine mission, he is attacked by a militant group known as The Red Army Hammerheads. Nearly killed by the surviving leader, Rosaria, Alex resists her assertion that he is a mindless robot: "Eighty-six point five percent [of him] is still human."
After months of cybernetic reconstruction and recovery, Alex tracks Rosaria to Baja and kills her. Soon after this, his handlers show up—his former lover Jared, who is an android, and another android, Sam. Alex decides he has had enough and leaves the LAPD, becoming a freelance hustler and triggerman. However, his LAPD bosses are just letting him run free for a while. His old boss Commissioner Farnsworth has him kidnapped and brought in for one final assignment. According to Farnsworth, Jared has stolen vital security information regarding an upcoming summit between Japan and the United States, and must be stopped before she leaks the plans to the Hammerheads. Alex is told by Farnsworth that a bomb was implanted in his heart during his latest repairs. He is given three days to find Jared before she meets with the leader of the Hammerheads, Angie-Liv; otherwise, the bomb will detonate and kill him. After flying to the town of Shang-Loo on Java, he is turned loose as bait for Jared.
In reality, the Hammerheads are not only battling against government control of people's lives, but for humanity's future. A newly-designed android is infiltrating the higher echelons of human society, copying the minds of powerful leaders into synthetic bodies, Farnsworth among them - who has been replaced by Sam who was redesigned to look like him. Jared threatens their plans, and so Alex's real mission is to smoke her out for the synthetics to destroy. Burnt-out, Alex halfheartedly begins his search, checking into a local hotel. He is soon intercepted by Julian, a cyborg representing Jared. She tells him he is being followed by an LAPD strike team led by "Farnsworth", waiting for the opportunity to hit the Hammerheads and Jared.
It turns out that Jared was fatally wounded in her es
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-ITX
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Nano-ITX is a computer motherboard form factor first proposed by VIA Technologies at CeBIT in March 2003, and implemented in late 2005. Nano-ITX boards measure , and are fully integrated, very low power consumption motherboards with many uses, but targeted at smart digital entertainment devices such as DVRs, set-top boxes, media centers, car PCs, and thin devices. Nano-ITX motherboards have slots for SO-DIMM.
There are four Nano-ITX motherboard product lines so far, VIA's EPIA N, EPIA NL, EPIA NX, and the VIA EPIA NR. These boards are available from a wide variety of manufacturers supporting numerous different CPU platforms.
Udoo has now released at least 1 nano-ITX board: the Udoo Bolt.
See also
Mini-ITX
Pico-ITX
Mobile-ITX
EPIA, mini-ITX and nano-ITX motherboards from VIA
Ultra-Mobile PC
Minimig, is an open source re-implementation of an Amiga 500 in Nano-ITX format
References
External links
Jetway Computer Corp. J8F9 AMD Nano-ITX Mainboards Nano ITX Manufacturer, Mainboard OEMs, Daughterboards etc.
VIA EPIA N-Series Nano-ITX Mainboard
VIA EPIA NL-Series Nano-ITX Mainboard
VIA EPIA NX-Series Nano-ITX Mainboard
VIA EPIA NR-Series Nano-ITX Mainboard
Digital video recorders
Motherboard
Motherboard form factors
Set-top box
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Douglas
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Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge.
Biography
Early life
Douglas was born on 21 May 1921 in London. At age eight, his family moved to Cromwell Road, near what would become the London Air Terminal.
A 74 bus ride for one old penny took me to Exhibition Road, from which I could go towards South Kensington station to my father's office (which is still there) and workshop (now demolished) down by what became the Lycée Français. Alternatively, I could turn north to the Science Museum – a trip I took often.
In the winter of 1938–39, Douglas and his future wife Andrey Parker made a snowman in the grounds of the Natural History Museum. Douglas and his wife would go on to have two children and at least two grandsons.
During the Blitz, in 1940–41, Douglas's Home Guard Unit, 'C' Company of the Chelsea and Kensington Battalion of the KRRC, had its headquarters in the basement of the Royal School of Mines, just the other side of Exhibition Road from the museums. He appeared to commission into the Corps of Royal Engineers on 7 March 1943 as a second lieutenant, but this was later corrected to show that he actually commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals.
Cambridge
Douglas attended the University of Cambridge in 1950. In 1952, while working towards earning his PhD, he wrote a thesis which focused on human-computer interactions and he needed an example to prove his theories. At that time, Cambridge was home to the second stored-program computer, the EDSAC or Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (the first being Manchester University's "Baby", which ran its first program on 21 June 1948). This gave Douglas the opportunity to prove his findings by programming the code for a simple game where a player can compete against the computer, OXO.
Jobs
Trinity College
1953–1957
1953: Elected as a Prize Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Douglas spends a year at the University of Illinois Computation laboratory as assistant Professor.
1955: Became Junior Bursar of Trinity College. The Junior Bursar is responsible for the administration of the College buildings: allocation of accommodation, building works, security, staff, and general maintenance
Leeds
1957: The Leeds Pegasus computer was installed in autumn 1957 in the Eldon Chapel on Woodhouse Lane. Douglas set up the Computer Laboratory of the University of Leeds, and it was there that he first became interested in the application of computers to business problems
The Pegasus holds an especial place in my affection, it being the machine I installed as the central University machine in a disused chapel in Leeds in 1957 – it was known as Lucifer, for Leeds University Computing Installation (FERranti). Our au pair girl from Spain made a beautiful little devilish dol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparsh
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Sparsh, the Sanskrit word for "touch", may refer to:
Sparsh (film), a 1980 Indian Hindi film
Sparsh (software), a data-transfer program
Sparsh (festival), an annual cultural festival at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology in Surat, India
Sparsh (album), a 2000 album by Zubeen Garg
Sparsh Khanchandani (born 2000), Indian actress
Sparsh Shah (born 2004), American rapper, singer, and songwriter
See also
Sparśa, a Buddhist term
Sparsha (film), a 1999 Indian Kannada film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG%20Maker%202003
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RPG Maker 2003 (RPGツクール 2003) is the third in the series of programs for the development of role-playing games, developed by Kadokawa Games. It features a database of pre-made backgrounds, music, animations, weapons and characters.
On April 24, 2015, RPG Maker 2003 received an official English translation, and was released into the Steam platform.
RPG Maker 2003 was superseded by RPG Maker XP.
Etymology
It is named after Windows Server 2003.
Features
Graphics
All graphics within RPG Maker 2003 are in 2D like its predecessor, RPG Maker 2000, and makes use of the same graphical resources with a few minor changes in resolution (though some tilesets, while similar in style to those included in RPG Maker 2000, include redrawn resources). In addition, Battle Character and System2 sets are used to go with RPG Maker 2003's new battle system.
Sprites
The majority of all graphics within the game are achieved with sprites, or single images that has a composition of frames in a specific orientation so that the graphics rendering software of RM2k3 can give the impression of movement.
Music
RPG Maker 2003 allows the use of MIDI and WAV much like RPG Maker 2000, its predecessor, for background music. Both programs received an update on May 14, 2003, to support MP3 files (which was a strongly desired feature by users) and ADPCM compressed WAV. The developers provided a tool for compressing sound effects on the same day. RM2k3 does not support any audio editing software so a third party program is needed in order to compose desired sounds.
Runtime Package
RPG Maker 2003, much like its predecessor RPG Maker 2000 and its successor RPG Maker XP, comes with its own set of Runtime Package files, also known as the RTP. The RTP is a whole set of default graphics, music, and sound effects that are used in RPG Maker 2003 and, in most cases, the RTP must be downloaded to the computer to play the games made with RPG Maker 2003. Thanks to the RTP, created games can lessen their file size if a lot of material from the RTP was used.
Bonus contents
Early order also included RPG Maker Alpha (RPGツクールα) I-mode i-appli for NTT DoCoMo 503 or later platform.
Enhancements from RPG Maker 95 and 2000
Perhaps RPG Maker 2003's most notable new feature is its battle system, which is in third-person side view rather than the first person view that was used in the previous RPG Maker programs. In addition, unlike its predecessors, RPG Maker 2003 makes use of a real-time "ATB" system, like in the Final Fantasy games, instead of the classical "turn-based" system. At what point a character or enemy can take actions depends on their agility levels instead of being rigidly defined as a turn, though the software shipped with a bug that causes battle speed to dramatically slow down when there is a large disparity between Agility values of different combatants. This was never addressed by Enterbrain, though it can typically be avoided by users setting all combatants to have Agility values r
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20Multiplexing%20for%20ATM
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Inverse Multiplexing for ATM (IMA) is a standardized technology used to transport ATM traffic over a bundle of T1 or E1 lines, which is called an IMA Group. This allows for gradual increase in data link capacity where implementing a higher capacity solution like T3/E3 or SONET/SDH is not deemed feasible. The maximum number of lines in an IMA Group is 32, bringing the total data rate to roughly 64 Mbit/s. The standard specification was initially approved by The ATM Forum in July 1997, and was later updated to version 1.1 in March 1999.
ATM cell insertion happens in the round robin fashion and is transparent for the terminal equipment on the ends of the link. IMA inverse multiplexing functionality requires some overhead (ICP or IMA Control Protocol cells, typically one ICP cell in every IMA frame—commonly 128 cells in length—and in CTC or Common Transmit Clock mode, an ICP stuff cell must be inserted after every 2048 cells), and an IMA sublayer on the physical layer.
See also
Inverse multiplexing
External links
The ATM Forum IMA specification, version 1.1, https://web.archive.org/web/20100616001651/http://broadband-forum.org/ftp/pub/approved-specs/af-phy-0086.001.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk39/tk356/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080174992.shtml
Multiplexing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFax
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WinFax (also known as WinFax PRO) is a discontinued Microsoft Windows-based software product designed to let computers equipped with fax-modems communicate directly to stand-alone fax machines, or other similarly equipped computers.
History
The product was created by developer Tony Davis at Toronto-based Delrina in 1990, and soon became the company's flagship product. Delrina started out by producing a set of electronic form products known as PerForm and later, FormFlow.
In 1990 Delrina devoted a relatively small space to WinFax at that year's COMDEX, where it easily garnered the most attention of any Delrina product being demonstrated at that show. This interest convinced Delrina of the commercial viability of the product. The rapid acceptance of this program in the market soon overtook that of the initial forms product in terms of revenues, and within a few years of its launch, WinFax would account for 80% of the company's revenues.
Several versions of WinFax were released over the next few years, initially for Windows 3.x and then a Windows 95-based version. Versions were also created for the Apple Macintosh ("Delrina Fax Pro") and DOS ("DosFax"). The Windows versions were also localized to major European and Asian languages. The company made further inroads by establishing tie-ins with modem manufacturers such as U.S. Robotics and Supra that bundled simple versions of the product (called "WinFax LITE") that offered basic functionality. Those wanting more robust features were encouraged to upgrade to the "PRO" version, and were offered significant discounts over the standalone retail version. All of this rapidly established WinFax as the de facto fax software. By 1994, almost 100 companies were bundling versions of WinFax, including IBM, Compaq, AST Research, Gateway 2000, Intel and Hewlett-Packard.
WinFax was frequently used by business travelers as an ad hoc printer. By connecting to a regular phone line, or to an office/hotel room phone via an adapter, a user could send a document to a fax machine (in an era when nearly all business class hotels had a fax machine at the front desk, but very few offered printers for guest use). While the 200DPI was not as smooth as the (max) 300DPI offered by high-end laser printers, it was generally superior to dot matrix.
WinFax PRO 3.0 was launched in November 1993 for Windows 3.x machines. This was followed by a version for Macintosh systems. This version of this product saw long life as a "non-PRO" version that was bundled with various fax modems by the end of its product cycle.
The release of WinFax PRO 4.0 in March 1994 brought together a number of key features and technologies. It introduced an improved OCR engine, introduced improvements aimed specifically at mobile fax users, better on-screen fax viewing capabilities and a focus on consistency and usability of the interface. It also included for the first time the ability to integrate directly with popular new email products such as cc:Ma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Grace
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Andy Grace (born 24 July 1970 in Melbourne, Australia) is a commercial radio and television broadcaster and computer software developer.
Grace started his career in 1995 on Fox FM in Melbourne, but became best known for the national Net@Nite IT and computer talkback radio show, networked to all the Today Network's Austereo network stations around Australia.
The show featured the country's first live web-streamed concert performances, game reviews, technology news and live computer tech support and advice in both audio and video.
He was instrumental in producing and hosting the Telstra Concert of the Century Netcast in 1998, a nine-hour long production in both narrowband and near-broadcast quality video for cable modems - a world first, less than a year after their commercial launch.
Grace then controversially moved to rival Melbourne station TTFM to present their night show, initially losing substantial audience share, but regaining it within twelve months and eventually achieving the number one ratings slot in the show's second year.
He then left Australia to host the national net2nite show across the United States and returned in 2002 to take up a position on Sydney's then newest radio station Nova 96.9. He rated number one in both afternoon and evening timeslots according to the commercial radio industry's Nielsen ratings system.
From 2005 until mid-2007 he joined Triple M as the station's floater, but left to take up the position of breakfast anchor for Mix 106.5 Sydney, joining Seven Network personalities Sonia Kruger and Todd McKenney in 2008.
In September 2009 the Sonia and Todd Breakfast show was axed, however Grace continued to present the breakfast show solo until the end of the year. From 2010 until 2012, Grace hosted The Andy Grace Night Show on WSFM and Gold 104.3.
In 2012, he reappeared on DMG's SmoothFM in Sydney and Melbourne, previously called 91.5 (Melbourne) and 95.3 (Sydney).
From 2012, Grace has been developing software to deliver mobile, broadcast-quality video over IP networks for online and news media companies, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Associated Press and the New South Wales State Emergency Service.
In March 2017, Grace returned to the airwaves on the Nine Network for weekly guest appearances on Today Extra, again teaming up with his former radio co-host Sonia Kruger and David Campbell.
He is married to Eloise Grace , an actor, model, lawyer and former TV news reporter, and is father to three children.
References
External links
Andy Grace Media Content Delivery
101.7 WSFM Sydney
Gold 104.3 Melbourne
1970 births
Living people
Radio personalities from Melbourne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton-on-Trent%20railway%20station
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Burton-on-Trent railway station is a mainline railway station located in the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, although only CrossCountry services call at the station.
History
First station (1839-1883)
The original Burton on Trent station was opened in 1839 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway on its original route from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden meeting the London and Birmingham Railway for London. The station originally consisted of a hut and an adjacent level crossing. A more substantial two-storey building was later constructed.
Second station (1883-1970)
In 1881, an increase in passengers and goods using the railway led to the old station being demolished and a temporary island platform constructed. A new station was constructed 150 yards further south and separated from the roadway on the bridge by iron palisading. There was a large covered cab-stand, which offered access to the booking hall, 65 ft wide, 27 ft deep and 35 ft high in the early English style, partly timbered. The stairs provided access to the island platform on which were built waiting rooms for ladies and gentlemen, and a first-class refreshment and dining room and a third-class refreshment room. A WH Smith newsagent stall was also located on the platform. The platforms were covered with a glass canopy and extended close to one-quarter of a mile in length. The station was designed by the company architect John Holloway Sanders and erected by Messrs Cox of Leicester. The bridge was constructed under the supervision of the company engineer, Mr. Campion. The new station re-opened in 1883.
Until the 1960s the station also served as the terminus for a number of secondary routes, such as the South Staffordshire line to , the Leicester–Burton upon Trent line to via and to . These all closed to passenger traffic between 1960 and 1965.
Third station (1970-present)
As part of the British Railways modernisation plans, the station was rebuilt again in 1970. Of the previous station, only the staircase down to platform level remains. During the summer and autumn of 2011, the station underwent a £700,000 refurbishment, including removal of asbestos, improved facilities for disabled people, improved lighting and a refurbished waiting room.
In late 2019, the forecourt in front of the station was redeveloped to add a new taxi rank and bus departure bays.
Station Masters
J. Hackett ca. 1850
Mr. Harrison 1860 - 1866
Joseph Heaton 1866 - 1870
Joseph Hawkins 1871 - 1893
George Cook 1893 - 1901 (afterwards station master at Derby)
John Morton Jacques 1901 - 1916 (formerly station master at Market Harborough)
Thomas Pitt 1916 - 1922 (formerly station master at St Albans)
Harry l’Anson 1922 - 1927
John Winnington 1927 - 1928
Arthur Ernest Chandler 1928 - 1932 (formerly station master at Cheltenham, afterwards station master at Leeds)
T. W. Leach 1932 - 1938 (formerly station master at Mansfield
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondon%20railway%20station
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Spondon railway station serves the Spondon area of Derby, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. It is north of London St Pancras.
Spondon is a penalty fare station if travelling with EMR. It is an unstaffed station equipped with a permit to travel machine.
History
Lying on the Derby–Nottingham line, the first station on the site was opened by the Midland Counties Railway (MCR) on 5 June 1839. The fifth station from Nottingham, it was kept by a Mr. Carter.
Trains to Spondon originally left from the north end of Derby station before turning east towards Nottingham. However, on 27 June 1867 the Midland Railway, successor to the MCR, opened a new route towards Nottingham (and London) which led from the south end of Derby station (so that Manchester – London trains would no longer have to reverse at Derby). The new route and the old joined immediately west of Spondon, which was to remain a junction station until 1969, when the original, more northerly, connection to Derby was closed as a through route.
The station was enlarged in the early 20th century to cope with the volume of traffic for the nearby British Celanese plant. In the 1920s, more than 14,000 worked here. The station is also the location of the junction for rail freight traffic into the British Celanese works.
It was planned that both platforms would be extended by up to 25 metres no later than 2012.
Stationmasters
On 13 August 1924 the station master, Henry Ernest Haines, was killed in the stationmaster’s house when a lorry crashed into the building. The driver of the lorry was heading for the British Celanese works and had crossed the canal bridge when he realised that the level crossing gates were closed. He was unable to stop and rather than run into the gates he steered into the stationmaster’s house and office.
Joseph Chambers 1857 - 1876
G. Bailey 1876 - 1886
James C. Chidgey 1886 - 1897 (afterwards station master at Redland, Bristol)
Samuel Pitt 1897 - 1898 (formerly station master at Oakley, Bedfordshire, afterwards station master at Rowsley)
Frank Porter 1898 - 1901 (formerly station master at East Langton, afterwards station master at Bakewell)
William Cope 1901 - 1909 (afterwards station master at Duffield)
James Harford 1909? - 1921 (formerly station master at Tibshelf, afterwards station master at Chinley)
Henry Ernest Haines 1921 - 1924
Ernest J. Brooks 1925 - 1931 (formerly station master at Thrapstone)
W.B. Barker 1932 - 1940
Edmund T. Jackson 1940 - 1947 (formerly station master at Dronfield, afterwards station master at Belper)
G.R. Hemmings 1947 Onwards (formerly station master at Rowsley)
Current services
Train services at Spondon are operated by East Midlands Railway and CrossCountry.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
1 tph to
1 tph to via
The station is also served by a small number of CrossCountry services between , and Nottingham.
Prior to May 2021, the station was served by a li
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Fleury
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Marc Fleury is a Franco-American computer scientist, physicist, musician and businessperson. He is a pioneer of the Open Source movement and the creator of JBoss, an open-source Java application server.
Early life and education
Fleury was born in Paris, France, to a French father and Spanish mother, and came to the US in the early nineties to work on his doctoral thesis as a visiting scientist at MIT. He earned his Ph.D.from the École Polytechnique, in Paris, France in 1997. He holds a Masters in Theoretical Physics from the École Normale Supérieure. rue d'Ulm (1993). His undergraduate degree was in Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (1992). He served in the military, as a paratrooper, with the rank of lieutenant in the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment.
Software Entrepreneur: JBoss
Fleury worked in France for Sun Microsystems before moving to the United States where he has worked on various Java projects. Fleury's research interest focused on middleware, and he started the JBoss project in 1999. JBoss Group, LLC was incorporated in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia. JBoss became a corporation under the name JBoss, Inc. in 2004. Fleury pioneered business models of Open Source known as Professional Open Source. After selling his company to Red Hat, Fleury became Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss Division. On 9 February 2007, his departure from Red Hat was made public.
Technology Investments
In 2008, Fleury started a new open source project called OpenRemote, to build home automation systems.
The Church of Space and Poèmes Électroniques
Fleury co-founded the theater and electronic music act known as "The Church of Space" or "Poèmes Électroniques" (The CoS). The CoS served a 3 years residency (2016, 2017, 2019) at Moogfest Music and Arts festival. Poèmes Électroniques was featured on NPR public radio for its premiere in Atlanta in 2015. Since 2018 Poèmes Électroniques has been co-headed with Prof. Stuart Gerber of the Georgia State music dept.
References
École Polytechnique alumni
Free software programmers
Living people
1968 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%20unit
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In chemistry, a formula unit is the smallest unit of any Ionic compound or covalent network solid or metal (not for molecular substances). . And it can also refer to the chemical formula for that unit. Those structures do not consist of discrete molecules, and so for them, the term formula unit is used. In contrast, the terms molecule or molecular formula are applied to molecules. The formula unit is used as an independent entity for stoichiometric calculations. Examples of formula units, include ionic compounds such as and and covalent networks such as and C (as diamond or graphite).
In most cases the formula representing a formula unit, will also be an empirical formula e.g. calcium carbonate or sodium chloride but this isn't always the case. For example the ionic compound Potassium persulfate has formula unit which isn't an empirical formula. And the ionic compound is not an empirical formula as you see those compounds have formula units with ratios that are not in simplest/reduced form. The empirical formulae for those ionic compounds would be and respectively.
In mineralogy, as minerals are almost exclusively either ionic or network solids, the formula unit is used. The number of formula units (Z) and the dimensions of the crystallographic axes are used in defining the unit cell.
References
Chemical formulas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20tram%20route%201
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Melbourne tram route 1 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network from East Coburg to South Melbourne Beach. The route is operated out of Brunswick depot with Z and B class trams.
History
The line between East East Coburg and South Melbourne Beach via Sturt Street was allocated Route 1 on 13 September 1953. However, route 1 had been used on a few different routes prior to this date. When route numbers were introduced into Melbourne's electric tramways as a trial on 19 December 1928, route 1 was allocated to the service between East Coburg and Elsternwick. Following this successful trial, route numbers were permanently allocated to all Swanston Street tram services, route 1 still being allocated to this service. Following the conversion of the Brunswick Street cable tram to electric traction on 26 October 1930, route 1 was reallocated to run between East Coburg and St Kilda Beach via South Melbourne. Trams from East Coburg initially turned left at Clarendon Street to terminate at St Kilda Beach, while trams from Collins Street terminated at South Melbourne Beach. On 13 September 1953, this was amended so that both tram services ran through the junction, resulting in South Melbourne Beach becoming the terminus of route 1.
The origins of route 1 lie in separate tram lines. The section of track between Queensberry Street (Stop 4) and the junction to St Kilda Road (near Stop 14) is the oldest section of this route, dating back to the Brighton Road cable tram line which opened on 11 October 1888 by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company. This track was converted to electric traction 3 August 1926. The section between Clarendon Street (Stop 24) and Beaconsfield Parade (Stop 32) also dates from the cable era as the South Melbourne line, which opened on 17 June 1890. This section was converted on 25 July 1937. The section north of Queensberry Street until East Coburg was constructed by the Melbourne, Brunswick & Coburg Tramway Trust (MBCTT). Construction of the electric tramway began in June 1914, and on 31 October 1916, East Coburg was connected to Melbourne at Queensberry Street, where the terminus of the Swanston Street cable trams were at the time. On 31 October 1925, the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board constructed a tram line from St Kilda Beach via South Melbourne to St Kilda Road at City Road. Route 1 traverses the section of this line between Clarendon Street and St Kilda Road. As part of the City Road and St Kilda Road separation project, the northernmost section of track along Sturt Street was relocated to Nolan Street (now Southbank Boulevard) on 16 March 1970.
For a long time, the section between Moreland Road (Stop 129) and East Coburg was built by the MBCTT with a single track and crossing loops. The section between Moreland Road and Crozier Street (Stop 132) was eventually duplicated on 2 May 1927. A siding was constructed at the Bell Street terminus on 3 July 1928. The section of track north of Crozier Street was
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNSAP
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RNSAP (Radio Network Subsystem Application Part) is a 3GPP signalling protocol responsible for communications between RNCs Radio Network Controllers defined in 3GPP specification TS 25.423. It is carried on the lur interface and provides functionality needed for soft handovers and SRNS (Serving Radio Network Subsystem) relocation (handoff between RNCs). It defines signalling between RNCs, including SRNC (Serving RNC) and DRNC (drift RNC).
SRNC | DRNC
| IUR |
RNSAP | RNSAP
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Converge protol | Converge protol
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AAL 5 | AAL5
ATM | ATM
Physical links------→→→ Physical links
RNSAP Layer Architecture
Procedures
RNSAP Basic Mobility Procedures-
This set of procedures is used to handle mobility with in the UTRAN.This is the most important of the RNSAP procedures. The
procedures belonging to this set includes SRNC relocation, inter-RNC cell update and UTRAN registration area update.
RNSAP DCH procedures-
This set of procedure used to handle dedicated channel traffic (it includes DCH, DSCH and TDD USCH) between two RNCs. Unlike the basic mobility procedures which is used only for signalling, this set of procedures provides support for data transfer over the Iur interface. The data transfer takes place using a frame protocol. The procedures belonging to this set include establishment, modification and release of dedicated channel in the DRNC due to hard and soft handover, set-up/release of dedicated transport connections over Iur interface and data transfer for dedicated channels.
RNSAP Common Transport Channel Procedures-
This set of procedures is used to handle common and shared channel traffic (it excludes DCH, DSCH and TDD USCH) between two RNCs. In particular, this set of procedures facilitates the set-up and release of common channel transport connections over the
Iur interface.
RNSAP Global Procedures-
Implementation of this is considered as optional.
Summary of Functions
Radio link management and supervision
Physical channel reconfiguration
Measurements on dedicated resources
Downlink power drifting correction
Rate control (used by DRNC to control the uplink and downlink transfer rate for each DCH configured for the radio links of the UE).
Common control channel signaling transfer
Paging
Common transport channel resource management
Relocation procedures (SRNC to DRNC)
Reporting of general error situations
Measurements on common resources
Information exchange
Iur interface reset
References
Network protocols
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hawes
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James Hawes is a British television director. He has worked in British television drama since the mid-1990s, and has also produced documentaries for British and American television networks. His work has ranged across high-end period pieces and prime-time adventure drama, including the re-launch of Doctor Who and Enid, a biopic starring Helena Bonham Carter about the celebrated children's author Enid Blyton, which won Hawes a BAFTA nomination as Best Director at the 2010 ceremony.
Early life
Hawes was born in Wimbledon, England, but his father's career in the mining industry soon moved the family to South America. Hawes started school in Lima, Peru. Eventually returning to the UK, the family settled in Cornwall where Hawes attended the local Constantine Primary School before moving on to Truro School. He read law at the University of Warwick, combining his studies with acting and directing in the student drama society. Around him at the time was an unusually talented group of students who would go on to considerable success as actors, writers, directors, producers and agents – including Ruth Jones, Stephen Thompson, Paul W. Anderson, Lawrence Till and Paul Stephens. On the Warwick academic staff at this time was Andrew Davies, soon to become a celebrated screenwriter.
In his graduate year, Hawes directed his own adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry plays, touring it to commercial venues.
TV career
Hawes began his television work in factual programming, working in the BBC's documentary and current affairs departments. In parallel, he launched The Young Shakespeare Company, a professional touring theatre company, which he ran as artistic director and which performed in the UK and US. In 1990, he directed Prince Charles in The Earth in Balance, the prince's documentary about the challenges facing the global environment, which filmed across the world, including locations such as Hong Kong harbour, to Kennedy Space Center and the Sumatran jungles. The film was to set Hawes on a future that often found him shooting in challenging locations. Other documentary work includes the investigative strand, Inside Story for the BBC, the Emmy Award-nominated Egypt's Golden Empire and the 2003 drama-documentary, Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World, which he both wrote and directed. It used the story of Lawrence's life as a prism through which to study the shaping of the Middle East in a post-9/11 world.
Move to drama
Hawes moved into drama, earning his spurs on popular drama The Bill. Hawes' work on the BAFTA winning Doctor Who has been particularly well received. He directed Christopher Eccleston in "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" which won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006. As a result, Hawes was hired to helm episodes of the second season, directing the Christmas special and introducing David Tennant as the new Doctor. "School Reunion" was also nominated for the 2007 ceremony. Hawes was awarded the B
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAIN%20%28industry%20standard%29
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The CECED Convergence Working Group has defined a new platform, called CHAIN (Ceced Home Appliances Interoperating
Network), which defines a protocol for interconnecting different home appliances in a single multibrand system.
It allows for control and automation of all basic appliance-related services in a home: e.g., remote control of appliance operation, energy or load management, remote diagnostics and automatic maintenance support to appliances, downloading and updating of data, programs and services (possibly from the Internet).
See also
CECED
KNX/EIB
LonWorks
OSGi
Home automation
Interoperability
ja:欧州家電機器委員会#CHAIN
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex%20Calixtinus
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The (or Codex Compostellus) is a manuscript that is the main witness for the 12th-century ('Book of Saint James'), a pseudepigraph attributed to Pope Calixtus II. The principal author or compiler of the Liber is thus referred to as "Pseudo-Calixtus", but is often identified with the French scholar Aymeric Picaud. Its most likely period of compilation is 11381145.
It was intended as an anthology of background detail and advice for pilgrims following the Way of Saint James to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great, located in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. The collection includes sermons, reports of miracles and liturgical texts associated with Saint James, and a set of polyphonic musical pieces. In it are also found descriptions of the route, works of art to be seen along the way, and the customs of the local people.
History
The compilation of Codex Calixtinus predates 1173, most likely taking place during the late 1130s to early 1140s. This compilation is most likely due to the French scholar Aymeric Picaud.
Each of the five books is prefaced with a pseudepigraphic letter attributed to Pope Calixtus II (d. 1124). The appendix contains a letter by Pope Innocent II (d. 1143), presenting the finished work to Santiago.
There are some clues suggestive of a later date of around 1160, but none of them render impossible a date of around 1140. The miracles in book II are recounted with their dates, between 1080 and 1135, so that the completion of the compilation can with some certainty be dated to between 1135 and 1173, and with highest probability to the 1140s.
While the individual texts have a complex history, and each of the five books was probably in existence before their compilation in a single "encyclopedia for the pilgrimage and cult of St. James", Codex Calixtinus is the archetype manuscript for the composite Liber sancti Jacobi. For this reason, the terms Liber sancti Jacobi and Codex Calixtinus are often used interchangeably.
The historical content of the compilation is emergence of Saint James as a patron saint for the fight against Islam in Iberia.
It has also been suggested that the book was written in deliberately bad Latin and is actually a kind of grammar book.
The oldest copy of the Codex, known as The Ripoll (after the monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll in Catalonia) was made in 1173 by the monk Arnaldo de Monte. This date serves as terminus ante quem for the compilation of the Liber (excluding appendices). Many later copies of the work exist.
Codex Calixtinus was long held in the archives of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and was rediscovered there by the Jesuit scholar Padre Fidel Fita in 1886.
The first edition of the text was prepared in 1932 by Walter Muir Whitehill, and published in 1944 by Spain's Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, together with a musicological study by Silos's Dom Germán Prado O.S.B., and another on the miniature illustrations by Jesús Carro García.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolving%20classification%20function
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Evolving classification functions (ECF), evolving classifier functions or evolving classifiers are used for classifying and clustering in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, typically employed for data stream mining tasks in dynamic and changing environments.
See also
Supervised Classification on Data Streams
Evolving fuzzy rule-based Classifier (eClass )
Evolving Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems (eTS )
Evolving All-Pairs (ensembled) classifiers (EFC-AP )
Evolving Connectionist Systems (ECOS)
Dynamic Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems (DENFIS)
Evolving Fuzzy Neural Networks (EFuNN)
Evolving Self-Organising Maps
neuro-fuzzy techniques
hybrid intelligent systems
fuzzy clustering
Growing Neural Gas
References
Classification algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest%20logging%20software
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Contest logging software refers to specialized computer software programs designed for use by competitors in amateur radio contesting. Most contest logging software is written by individual programmers who are active radio contesters.
Purpose
The primary purpose of contest logging software is to record the details of two-way radio contacts made during amateur radio contests. At a minimum, these details include the time, band or frequency of operation, the call sign of the other station, and the received "exchange" data. This log data is recorded in a binary or ASCII format. Most contest logging software packages will also compute a running score for the contest during operation and will help track which multipliers have been "worked" and which have not. Typical contest logging software includes features for post-contest processing of the log to prepare it for submission to the contest sponsor. There is great variation in the features offered and their specific implementation, which can lead to passionate debates among the supporters of specific software packages.
Common features
Many programs offer advanced features for controlling external devices; this can include controlling the frequency of a radio, sending Morse code over a serial port or parallel port interface, interfacing with sound cards used for the transmission and reception of digital modes such as RTTY, or controlling antenna or amplifier hardware. Some software programs include specific features for single operator two radios (SO2R) operations. A related market exists for software designed to analyze, convert, or manipulate log data recorded during radio contests.
Contest logging software, whether free or commercial, is available for DOS, Linux, and Windows platforms. Some contesters dedicate older computers specifically to running their favorite contest logging software.
Available software packages
The following contest logging software packages are widely used and available. Some are offered for sale, and others are available without charge under various licenses.
Contest Loggers - Current
Free
HamRacer Uses synthesized voice keyer
N1MM Logger
QARTest
SD by EI5DI
TR4W
VK Contest Log Mostly Australasian contests with some international events
TLF by PA0R, now maintained by DL1JBE Linux
DXLog - free since 2019
Free - VHF-Only
MINOS by G0GJV For European VHF/UHF contests
RoverLog by N1MU Multiplatform, VHF/UHF for fixed stations and rovers - Not updated since 2017
Tucnak by OK1ZIA Linux Multiplatform, VHF (Limited HF support)
Commercial
N3FJP Log
Win-Test by F5MZN
WriteLog by W5XD
Legacy Contest Loggers - not in Development
CQ/X de NO5W GPS Enabled for Mobile Contesting
KLog Linux
MobileLog by N0HR PocketPC/Windows Mobile PDA
NA by K8CC DOS
TR Log by N6TR DOS
VHFCONT by KC6TEU
VHFCTest4Win by S52AA VHF Reg1Test
VHFTEST by WG3E
Post-contest log analysis and conversion software
Contest LogChecker by UU0JC
LM contestsoftware by DL8WAA - Legacy, not updated since 2
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Japanese%20TV%20channel%29
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Nickelodeon was a Japanese television channel which was targeted mainly at children, teens and adults, operated by ViacomCBS Networks Japan K.K. (a subsidiary of ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA division of ViacomCBS). It originally launched in November 1998 as a cable and satellite television channel, but due to declining viewership, the television channel was taken off the air on September 30, 2009. The channel was revived for OTT media services from January 30, 2018 to January 31, 2022.
History
Nickelodeon launched on DirecTV channel 272 on November 15, 1998 in Japan. The withdrawal of DirecTV from Japan led to Nickelodeon moving to SKY PerfecTV! channel 278 on October 1, 2000. In January 2006, Nickelodeon switched to telecommunications service utilization broadcasting, and moved to channel 751 on SKY PerfecTV! while also being available on select cable providers. The channel was renewed in October 2006.
Nickelodeon stopped broadcasting on September 30, 2009 due to robust domestic and international competition. Viacom continued to distribute select Nickelodeon series to its other networks (including MTV Japan), DTH satellite channels, and terrestrial television networks. NHK Educational TV, which had already been airing SpongeBob SquarePants, premiered The Penguins of Madagascar and iCarly in 2010. Nickelodeon's programs were also broadcast on Animax in Japan under a television block titled "NickTime", starting with SpongeBob SquarePants from September 1, 2010. The official Nickelodeon website remained online, with program information, website games and downloadable content.
On October 18, 2017, Viacom announced it would re-launch the Nickelodeon channel on dTV (a subscription TV streaming service of NTT Docomo). Nickelodeon re-launched on dTV and Hulu Japan on January 30, 2018. An official Facebook account opened on April 20. The Nickelodeon channel launched on Amazon Prime Video on July 3. Nickelodeon was available on music.jp from March 15, 2019 to January 31, 2021. On April 28, 2021, Rakuten TV began offering Nick+, a collection of Nickelodeon programs available for 440 yen per month. On January 31, 2022, the linear Nickelodeon channel was discontinued. The following day, Nickelodeon renewed its video-on-demand distribution agreement with Amazon Prime Video. Some of the network's series continue to broadcast through separate syndication deals with Japanese broadcasters.
Programs
1998-2009
スポンジ・ボブ
ドーラといっしょに大冒険
ジミー・ニュートロン 僕は天才発明家!
Oops!フェアリーペアレンツ
オール・ザット
トロールズ☆
キーナン&ケル
ぼんじゅール?!イボン
ラグラッツ
ドレイク&ジョシュ
ラグラッツ・ザ・ティーンズ
インベーダー・ジム
ユリーカのお城
アレン・ストレンジの不思議な旅
ジェニーはティーン☆ロボット
ジンジャーの青春日記
ダグ
グローバル・ガッツ
ぼくら、バックヤーディガンズ!
私はケイトリン
チョーク・ゾーン
アレグラの扉
ヘイ・アーノルド!
セイディ my ダイアリー
ロケット・パワー
ワイルド・ソーンベリーズ
キャットドッグ
シャーリー・ホームズの冒険
アマンダ・ショー
ぎゃあ!!!リアル・モンスターズ
レンとスティンピー
アングリー・ビーバーズ
ネイキッド・ブラザーズ・バンド
ブルーズ・クルーズ
ワンダー・ペッツ
ワンだー・エディ
マペット放送局
ロッコーのモダンライフ
オーイェイ・カートゥーンズ!
カブラーム!
クラリッサ
ぴっくみー
いとこのスキーター
ロメオ!
リトル・ビル
アバター 伝説の少年アン
ハナモスキー
シェルビーの事件ファイル
うら返しくん
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC%20Bank%20Australia
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HSBC Bank Australia Limited (formerly the Hong Kong Bank of Australia Limited) is the Australian subsidiary of HSBC. The bank offers a wide range of financial services in Australia through a network of 36 branches and offices. These services include retail and commercial banking, financial planning, trade finance, treasury, and financial markets, payments and cash management, and securities custody.
HSBC Bank Australia was granted a banking license in 1986, although the bank had originally established an Australian presence as Hongkong Finance Ltd in 1964. It is a foreign bank in Australia, offering a wide range of banking products and services to the retail, commercial, corporate and institutional sectors.
The bank's headquarters is located in Barangaroo, a suburb in central Sydney.
History
HSBC was granted an Australian banking license in 1986 after the Australian federal government changed the rules to allow foreign banks into the country. HSBC was not the first foreign bank to enter Australia, the first was Chase-AMP, but HSBC was one of the first foreign entrants into the business banking sector.
1986 — launched Commercial Financial Services
1991 — launched Personal Financial Services
1992 — began to be profitable after several years of losses
1995 — introduced discount home loans in Australia
1997 — introduced telephone banking and credit cards
1998 — established HSBC InvestDirect (Australia) Limited
— introduced financial planning services in Australia
2001 — acquired NRMA Building Society Limited
— launched internet banking for personal customers in Australia
2005 — sold Australian asset management business to Challenger Financial Services
2006 — sold broker-originated mortgage book to Firstmac
— acquired Westpac sub-custody business in Australia and New Zealand
— sold margin lending portfolio to St. George
— sold Australian online stockbroking business to E-Trade
2008 — established Global Investments business
Products and services
Bank accounts
HSBC offers a wide range of bank accounts in Australia, including transaction and savings accounts, term deposits, and foreign currency accounts.
All of HSBC's transaction accounts include a linked Visa Debit card, fee-free access to over 3000 ATMs Australia-wide, which include those from HSBC and banks that offer access to fee-free ATMs, access to mobile and internet banking, and are rated 5 stars for outstanding value by Canstar.
HSBC Premier, which is available in Australia and other markets within the HSBC Group, is a premium banking service that is available for its wealthy clients and includes a personal financial planning service, an online share trading platform, and SMSF assistance to advise upon all types of personal and business investments.
Credit cards
HSBC credit cards include low-rate, low-fee, and rewards cards, with features including low-interest rates and annual fees, balance transfer offers, and an ability to earn HSBC Rewards points which can be redeemed for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20game%20theorists
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This is a list of notable economists, mathematicians, political scientists, and computer scientists whose work has added substantially to the field of game theory.
Derek Abbott – quantum game theory and Parrondo's games
Susanne Albers – algorithmic game theory and algorithm analysis
Kenneth Arrow – voting theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972)
Robert Aumann – equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005)
Robert Axelrod – repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Tamer Başar – dynamic game theory and application robust control of systems with uncertainty
Cristina Bicchieri – epistemology of game theory
Olga Bondareva – Bondareva–Shapley theorem
Steven Brams – cake cutting, fair division, theory of moves
Jennifer Tour Chayes – algorithmic game theory and auction algorithms
John Horton Conway – combinatorial game theory
William Hamilton – evolutionary biology
John Harsanyi – equilibrium theory (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
Monika Henzinger – algorithmic game theory and information retrieval
Naira Hovakimyan – differential games and adaptive control
Peter L. Hurd – evolution of aggressive behavior
Rufus Isaacs – differential games
Ehud Kalai – Kalai-Smorodinski bargaining solution, rational learning, strategic complexity
Anna Karlin – algorithmic game theory and online algorithms
Michael Kearns – algorithmic game theory and computational social science
Sarit Kraus – non-monotonic reasoning
John Maynard Smith – evolutionary biology
Oskar Morgenstern – social organization
John Forbes Nash – Nash equilibrium (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
John von Neumann – Minimax theorem, expected utility, social organization, arms race
Abraham Neyman – Stochastic games, Shapley value
J. M. R. Parrondo – games with a reversal of fortune, such as Parrondo's games
Charles E. M. Pearce – games applied to queuing theory
George R. Price – theoretical and evolutionary biology
Anatol Rapoport – Mathematical psychologist, early proponent of tit-for-tat in repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Julia Robinson – proved that fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games
Alvin E. Roth – market design (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
Ariel Rubinstein – bargaining theory, learning and language
Thomas Jerome Schaefer – computational complexity of perfect-information games
Suzanne Scotchmer – patent law incentive models
Reinhard Selten – bounded rationality (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994)
Claude Shannon – studied cryptography and chess; sometimes called "the father of information theory"
Lloyd Shapley – Shapley value and core concept in coalition games (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012)
Eilon Solan – Stochastic games, stopping games
Thomas Schelling – bargaining
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIX%20%28telephony%29
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BIX (building industry cross-connect) is part of a telephony cross-connect system (integrated building distribution network – IBDN) created in the 1970s by Nortel Networks. As a system, it consists of various sizes of punch-down blocks, cable distribution accessories (such as moulded rings and strips), and a punch-down tool to terminate wires at the punch-down block. The BIX cross-connect system as a whole is certified for Category-5e. The BIX cross-connect system is primarily composed of two parts: the mounts, and the connectors.
Mounts
BIX mounts are wall-mounted frames, generally built from 16 gauge steel. The frames feature a rectangular plastic backplate, and two plastic brackets that extend from either side of the backplate to fit between two and ten BIX connectors. The connectors are oriented horizontally on the mount. The BIX mounts are referred to as either '12E','10A' or '10C'. The 12E frames will mount up to 12 connectors; The 10A frames will mount up to 10 connectors; the 10C frames will mount 2 connectors.
Connectors
BIX connectors are rectangular punch-down blocks used to terminate up to 25 pairs. The connectors have a slip-in fitting which automatically strips the wire as it is punched down, eliminating the need for pre-stripping. BIX connectors also have a pair-splitter to facilitate fast arranging of wires on the punch-down block.
There are many types of BIX connectors, the most popular kinds being the 1A and the 1A4.
1A: Distribution connector, 5-pair markings
1A4: Distribution connector, 4-pair markings
2A: Bridging connector, 12 2-pair clips
5A: Multiplying connector, 5-pair markings
7A: Key apparatus connector
9A: Diode connector, 24 diodes
36B, 36C, 36D: Modular RJ-11 jack connector
GigaBIX
NORDX/CDT developed the GigaBIX IDC–based system with a transmission performance that
goes beyond the Category-6 standard and is available in two topologies: the Patch Cord topology and the Cross-Connect Wire topology. It is based on the mature BIX technology, which is over 25 years old and well-established in the telecommunications industry. The termination and installation procedures have been improved, allowing the quality of the system to surpass Category-6. The system guarantees channel bandwidths up to 300 MHz, and can transmit data up to 4.8 Gbit/s.
The GigaBIX system is primarily made up of mounts and connectors. The Patch Cord topology utilizes GigaBIX PS6+ patch cords which are 4 pair 23-AWG UTP cords with a channel bandwidth of 250 MHz or 300 MHz, depending on how they are employed. The Cross-Connect topology utilizes GigaBIX cross-connect wire. Both topologies utilize the same mounts, connectors, distribution frames, and other accessories (such as designation strips, wire guards, covers, distribution rings, and many other accessories).
History
Since the 1970s, Northern Telecom (Nortel), who designed the BIX system, had been manufacturing BIX mounts, connectors and tools in house. Northern Telecom's manufacturi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s%20%28poignant%29%20Guide%20to%20Ruby
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why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby, sometimes called w(p)GtR or just "the poignant guide", is an introductory book to the Ruby programming language, written by why the lucky stiff. The book is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
The book is unusual among programming books in that it includes much strange humor and many narrative side tracks which are sometimes completely unrelated to the topic. Many motifs have become inside jokes in the Ruby community, such as references to the words "chunky bacon". The book includes many characters which have become popular as well, particularly the cartoon foxes and Trady Blix, a large black feline friend of why's, who acts as a guide to the foxes (and occasionally teaches them some Ruby).
The book is published in HTML and PDF. Chapter three was reprinted in The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky (Apress, 2005).
Contents
About this book
Kon'nichi wa, Ruby
A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes): basic introduction to central Ruby concepts
Floating Little Leaves of Code: evaluation and values, hashes and lists
Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream: case/when, while/until, variable scope, blocks, methods, class definitions, class attributes, objects, modules, introspection in IRB, dup, self, module
Downtown: metaprogramming, regular expressions
When You Wish Upon a Beard: send method, new methods in existing classes
The following chapters are "Expansion Packs":
The Tiger's Vest (with a Basic Introduction to IRB): discusses IRB, the interactive Ruby interpreter.
External links
Original Site
Actively maintained fork
3rd-party PDF version: Ruby Inside
Computer programming books
Creative Commons-licensed books
Ruby (programming language)
Books about free software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBCA
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KBCA (channel 41) is a television station in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Heroes & Icons. The station is owned by Wilderness Communications, and broadcasts from a transmitter in Oakdale, Louisiana.
History
Early history
In early 2004, rumors had been spreading in the Alexandria market of a possible new television station to be launched. Local media insiders believed White Knight Broadcasting, then owners of Fox affiliate WNTZ (channel 48) was negotiating the purchase of the new channel with plans of moving the Fox affiliation to it. Eventually, upon petitioning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the new channel, the plans were denied. The owners of White Knight eventually spoke to the previous of owners of WNTZ, Delta Media Corporation. Delta Media executives created a new corporate name, Dimension Broadcasting (a shell company for Wilderness Communications, LLC, another shell broadcasting company Delta Media owned and operated), and petitioned the FCC for the new license and won, becoming Dimension's charter station.
KBCA first signed on the air on June 1, 2005 as a WB affiliate. At the time of KBCA's sign-on, The WB Television Network had a group of cable-only stations in markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States, called The WB 100+ Station Group. Since the WB 100+ was created before digital television was easily available in the United States, most WB 100+ stations were only available on cable, with a few over-the-air broadcast stations. Prior to KBCA's sign-on, the WB was only available to local cable subscribers. During this time, the "WB station" in Alexandria was identified by two different station call letters. It was known as "KAXN" WB channel 65.
White Knight Broadcasting was instrumental in assisting Dimension Broadcasting establish a relationship with the WB 100+ Station Group for the new KBCA, since White Knight also had previously owned the LMA to the Alexandria WB 100+ cable-only affiliate, KAXN. Furthermore, the Dimension/Wilderness and White Knight relationship helped the owners of Dimension/Wilderness eventually purchase two more stations, KLWB in Lafayette, Louisiana, and KCEB in Tyler, Texas. Both of these stations became WB affiliates (under the WB 100+ Station Group). In turn, the Dimension Broadcasting ownership allowed White Knight to operate KBCA under a LMA, managed by the staff of WNTZ. The headquarters and master control operation for KBCA (and later KLWB) eventually were established in Carencro, Louisiana, in space once occupied by a restaurant owned by Delta Media that houses that company's television and radio properties. KBCA established its local base of operation within offices Delta Media own along Alexandria's Jackson Street, which at the time were being rented by White Knight for WNTZ's base of operation.
On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. Television unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced they w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20order%20reduction
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In computer science, partial order reduction is a technique for reducing the size of the state-space to be searched by a model checking or automated planning and scheduling algorithm. It exploits the commutativity of concurrently executed transitions that result in the same state when executed in different orders.
In explicit state space exploration, partial order reduction usually refers to the specific technique of expanding a representative subset of all enabled transitions. This technique has also been described as model checking with representatives. There are various versions of the method, the so-called stubborn set method, ample set method, and persistent set method.
Ample sets
Ample sets are an example of model checking with representatives. Their formulation relies on a separate notion of dependency. Two transitions are considered independent only if they cannot disable another whenever they are mutually enabled. The execution of both results in a unique state regardless of the order in which they are executed. Transitions that are not independent, are dependent. In practice dependency is approximated using static analysis.
Ample sets for different purposes can be defined by giving conditions as to when a set of transitions is "ample" in a given state.
C0
C1 If a transition depends on some transition relation in , this transition cannot be invoked until some transition in the ample set is executed.
Conditions C0 and C1 are sufficient for preserving all the deadlocks in the state space. Further restrictions are needed in order to preserve more nuanced properties. For instance, in order to preserve properties of linear temporal logic, the following two conditions are needed:
C2 If , each transition in the ample set is invisible.
C3 A cycle is not allowed if it contains a state in which some transition is enabled, but is never included in ample(s) for any states s on the cycle.
These conditions are sufficient for an ample set, but not necessary conditions.
Stubborn sets
Stubborn sets make no use of an explicit independence relation. Instead they are defined solely through commutativity over sequences of actions. A set is (weakly) stubborn at s, if the following hold.
D0 , if execution of the sequence is possible and leads to the state , then execution of the sequence is possible and will lead to state .
D1 Either is a deadlock, or such that , the execution of is possible.
These conditions are sufficient for preserving all deadlocks, just like C0 and C1 are in the ample set method. They are, however, somewhat weaker, and as such may lead to smaller sets. The conditions C2 and C3 can also be further weakened from what they are in the ample set method, but the stubborn set method is compatible with C2 and C3.
Others
There are also other notations for partial order reduction. One of the commonly used is the persistent set / sleep set algorithm. Detailed information can be found in Patrice Godefroid's thesis.
In sym
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus%20Leader
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The Argus Leader is the daily newspaper of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is the largest newspaper by total circulation in South Dakota.
It is owned by Gannett and part of the USA Today Network.
History
The Argus Leader traces its history back to 1881 when the weekly Sioux Falls Argus began publication. The Argus-Leader (then hyphenated) was the result of the Sioux Falls Argus' merger with the Sioux Falls Leader in 1887.
The paper was aligned with the Democratic Party until the 1896 election when it switched to the Republican Party and was notably supportive of William McKinley. (It is no longer aligned with any political party.)
Speidel newspapers bought the Argus Leader in 1963.
In 1977, Gannet purchased Speidel creating one of the largest holding companies of newspapers with 73 papers. It was the second-largest newspaper purchase in U.S. history at the time.
In 2021, the paper made the decision to shut down its print production plant in Sioux Falls and consolidate those operations with other Gannett-owned newspapers in Des Moines, Iowa. This announcement led to speculation that the Argus Leader building itself may be for sale. The following year, the Argus Leader building was sold. At the time, the newspaper had an agreement which could be extended to continue occupying part of the building.
Readership
The Argus Leader is South Dakota's largest newspaper in total circulation as of 2023. The weekday circulation for the newspaper was 23,721 as of October 2017. The Sunday edition has a circulation of 32,981 as of October 2017.
Its website boasts the most traffic and unique visitors in its market, according to Comscore data. The company claimed to have over 786,000 unique users visit the site every month in 2018.
The newspaper publishes an economic weekly, the Sioux Falls Business Journal, as part of its Sunday publication.
The company estimates that it informs and engages 75% of adults in Sioux Falls MSA in a typical week and 84% over a month across its print and digital brands.
Notable Reporting
In 2011, the newspaper sought information about the federal food stamps program through a Freedom of Information Act request. The request was denied, and eight years later, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government by a 6–3 decision.
The newspaper reported that the FBI had 'mined secrets about the past' of 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern in more than 1,400 files requested by a Freedom of Information Act.
See also
List of newspapers in South Dakota
References
External links
Argus Leader website
Official mobile website
Brandon Valley Challenger
Dell Rapids Tribune
Sioux Falls Business Journal
Newspapers published in South Dakota
Mass media in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Gannett publications
Newspapers established in 1881
1881 establishments in Dakota Territory
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The MOS Technology 8568 Video Display Controller (VDC) was the graphics processor responsible for the 80 column or RGBI display on the Commodore 128DCR personal computer. In the Commodore 128 service manual, this part was referred to as the "80 column CRT controller." The 8568 embodied many of the features of the older 6545E monochrome CRT controller plus RGBI color.
The original ("flat") Commodore 128 and the Commodore 128D (European plastic hausing) used the 8563 video controller to generate the 80 column display. The 8568 was essentially an updated version of the 8563, combining the latter's functionality with glue logic that had been implemented by discrete components in physical proximity to the 8563. Unlike the 8563, the 8568 included an unused (in the C-128) active low interrupt request line (/INTR), which was asserted when the "ready" bit in the 8568's status register changed from 0 to 1. Reading the control register would automatically deassert /INTR. Owing to differences in pin assignments and circuit interfacing, the 8563 and 8568 are not electrically interchangeable.
The Commodore 128 had two video display modes, which were usually used singularly, but could be used simultaneously if the computer was connected to two compatible video monitors. The VIC-II chip, also found in the Commodore 64, was mapped directly into main memory—the video memory and CPUs (the 8502 and Z80A processors) shared a common 128 KB RAM, and the VIC-II control registers were accessed as memory locations (that is, they were memory mapped).
Unlike the VIC-II, the 8568 had its own local video RAM, 64K in the C-128DCR model (sold in North America) and, depending on the date of manufacture of the particular machine, either 16 or 64K in the C-128D model (marketed in Europe). Addressing the VDC's internal registers and dedicated video memory must be accomplished by indirect means. First the program must tell the VDC which of its 37 internal registers is to be accessed. Next the program must wait until the VDC is ready for the access, after which a read or write on the selected internal register may be performed. The following code is typical of a register read:
ldx #regnum ;VDC register to access
stx $d600 ;write to control register
loop bit $d600 ;check bit 7 of status register
bpl loop ;VDC not ready
lda $d601 ;read from VDC register
...
The following code is typical of a register write operation:
ldx #regnum ;VDC register to write to
stx $d600 ;write to control register
loop bit $d600 ;check bit 7 of status register
bpl loop ;VDC not ready
sta $d601 ;write to VDC register
...
Owing to this somewhat cumbersome method of controlling the 8568, the maximum possible frame rate in bit-mapped mode is generally too slow for arcade-style action video games, in which bit-intensive mani
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20Ohio
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Bally Sports Ohio is an American regional sports network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and is operated as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events in the state of Ohio, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Cleveland and Cincinnati, which are broadcast on separate programming feeds, as well as Columbus.
Bally Sports Ohio is available on cable providers throughout Ohio, as well as parts of Indiana, Kentucky, northwestern Pennsylvania, eastern Tennessee, border communities of West Virginia, and extreme southwestern New York; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
History
The channel originally launched on February 9, 1989, as SportsChannel Ohio. It launched as an affiliate of SportsChannel, a slate of regional sports networks operated as a joint venture between Cablevision and NBC. SportsChannel Ohio initially held the broadcast games from the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cleveland Indians. The channel also aired select Cincinnati Reds games produced by SportsChannel Cincinnati, Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball and football games, and Ohio State Buckeyes sporting events (with the exception of football and basketball).
In 1997, News Corporation and Liberty Media purchased a 40% interest in Cablevision's sports properties including the SportsChannel America networks (as well as Madison Square Garden and its NBA and NHL team tenants, the New York Knicks and New York Rangers) in a deal worth $850 million, forming the venture National Sports Partners to run the owned-and-operated regional networks. As part of a gradual rebranding of the SportsChannel networks that began that month, SportsChannel Ohio was rebranded as Fox Sports Ohio in January 1998.
The channel was then rebranded as Fox Sports Net Ohio in 2000, as part of a collective brand modification of the FSN networks under the "Fox Sports Net" banner; subsequently in 2004, the channel shortened its name to FSN Ohio, through the networks' de-emphasis of the brand.
In February 2005, News Corporation (which spun off most of its entertainment properties into 21st Century Fox in July 2013) acquired Cablevision's ownership stakes in Fox Sports Ohio and Fox Sports Florida, following an asset trade in which Fox sold its interest in Madison Square Garden, the Knicks and the Rangers, to Cablevision, in exchange for acquiring sole ownership of the two networks. The channel reverted to the Fox Sports Ohio moniker in 2008.
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including Fox Sports Ohio, sister network SportsTime Ohio, and Fox's 50% stake in the network's Cincinnati sub-feed. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through t
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