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The Bible Broadcasting Network (BBN) is a listener-supported global Conservative Christian radio network staffed and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was founded in 1971 by Lowell Davey, who was the network's president until his death in 2017. It remains under family control, with Davey's daughter Barbara Redemann and her husband Carl Redemann leading BBN.
BBN's mission statement is "to get the Word of God into the hearts and minds of as many people as possible using the most efficient means" and its motto is "Giving the Winds the Bible Voice". Doctrinally, the programming is biblically and doctrinal in approach.
Programming content consists of traditional Christian music, including vocalists, choirs, and instrumentalists; Bible teaching and sermons; prayer times; children's and teens' programs; and family guidance programs.
Programs
Among the notable ministries having long-running programs on the network are: Running to Win and Moody Church Hour with Erwin Lutzer, Love Worth Finding by Adrian Rogers, Gateway to Joy by Elisabeth Elliot, and the Pacific Garden Mission's radio drama, Unshackled!. Reruns of the Children's Bible Hour and Sugar Creek Gang radio plays are heard daily on the afternoon Captain’s Club program. Adventures in Odyssey, one of the most popular Christian radio shows in the U.S., is aired for teens and preteens.
Founding
The network was founded in 1971 by Lowell Davey (July 22, 1933–February 18, 2017). Hailing from Minnesota, he had previously served in the U.S. Air Force. Upon completing his enlistment, Davey attended Bob Jones University.
Davey entered the field of Christian radio broadcasting when he acquired a bankrupt radio station, WYFI, in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 28, 1969. The station began broadcasting under his ownership on October 2, 1971, at 5 p.m. BBN was still headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, when it bought Charlotte radio station WSOC (AM), which became WYFQ (AM).
Stations
BBN owns and operates 56 full-power stations and 90 low-power translators in 32 states and Bermuda, distributed by satellite. According to the network's website, they also operate AM and FM radio stations in 14 countries of North and South America. BBN also broadcasts around the world full-time via streaming on the Internet in eight languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, and Russian.
Stations in italics are not owned by Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc., but broadcast BBN programming.
Translators
In addition to its full-power stations, BBN is relayed by 90 translators to widen its broadcast area.
References
External links
American radio networks
Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1971
1971 establishments in North Carolina
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9l%C3%A1dy%27s%20anomaly
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In computer storage, Bélády's anomaly is the phenomenon in which increasing the number of page frames results in an increase in the number of page faults for certain memory access patterns. This phenomenon is commonly experienced when using the first-in first-out (FIFO) page replacement algorithm.
In FIFO, the page fault may or may not increase as the page frames increase, but in optimal and stack-based algorithms like LRU, as the page frames increase, the page fault decreases.
László Bélády demonstrated this in 1969.
Background
In common computer memory management, information is loaded in specific-sized chunks. Each chunk is referred to as a page. Main memory can hold only a limited number of pages at a time. It requires a frame for each page it can load. A page fault occurs when a page is not found, and might need to be loaded from disk into memory.
When a page fault occurs and all frames are in use, one must be cleared to make room for the new page. A simple algorithm is FIFO: whichever page has been in the frames the longest is the one that is cleared. Until Bélády's anomaly was demonstrated, it was believed that an increase in the number of page frames would always result in the same number of or fewer page faults.
Bélády's anomaly is unbounded
Bélády, Nelson and Shedler constructed reference strings for which FIFO page replacement algorithm produced nearly twice as many page faults in a larger memory than in a smaller one and they formulated the conjecture that 2 is a general bound.
In 2010, Fornai and Iványi showed that the anomaly is in fact unbounded and that one can construct a reference string to any arbitrary page fault ratio.
References
External links
Bélády's 1969 paper: An anomaly in space-time characteristics of certain programs running in a paging machine
FIFO anomaly is unbounded.
Internet Problem Solving Contest Solutions – Problem L – Librarian
Memory management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus%20News
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Indus News was an English language Pakistani international news channel launched in November 2018. It was part of Aap Media Network and was broadcast on Paksat. The channel was based in Islamabad.
History
The channel was owned by Pakistani business tycoon and founder of Bahria Town, Malik Riaz Hussain. The network's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was Saniya Malik.
On 14 September 2021, the channel temporarily suspended operations, citing "unavoidable legal and technical issues". It was the second channel owned by him to be shut down, after Aap News.
Anchors and shows
Ejaz Haider – In Focus South Asia
Chef Basim Akhund – Indus Cuisine
Waqar Rizvi – Scope
Mina Malik Hussain – Coffee Table
Nosheen Bukhari — iBuzz
Alamdar Khan – The Sports Insight
Addiel Sabir — Quest
Hira Mustafa – Visitor's Book
Raja Sarosh Sohaib - News Anchor
Joseph Hayat - News Anchor
See also
List of news channels in Pakistan
References
Bahria Town
24-hour television news channels in Pakistan
Defunct television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
English-language television stations in Pakistan
2018 establishments in Pakistan
2021 disestablishments in Pakistan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ghanaian%20regions%20by%20population
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This is a list of Ghanaian regions by population, ranked according to the latest census, which took place on 26 September 2010. Past census data (1960, 1970, 1984, and 2000) is included for comparison.
(Note: The current boundaries of Ghana's administrative regions were not fully established until 1983. As such, population figures for 1960 and 1970 reflect the analysis of subregional census data from those periods.)
See also
Regions of Ghana
List of Ghanaian regional ministers
List of Ghanaian regions by area
References
External links
Ghana Statistical Service Official Website
GSS 2010 Population Statistics Page
Demographic, Social, Economic and Housing Characteristics Report
Regions
Ghana, Regions of, by population
Ghana, population
by population
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Central%20%28TV%20series%29
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South Central is an American comedy-drama television sitcom that aired on the Fox network from April 5, 1994 to June 7, 1994. It was cancelled following its first season, after ten episodes aired.
Synopsis
The series was set in 1990's South Central Los Angeles, and dealt with the lives of an African American family, the Moseleys, and issues such as gang violence, drugs, dating, sex, school, and unemployment. Joan Moseley (Tina Lifford) is a divorced mother, raising three children with no assistance from her ex-husband. Her oldest son Marcus having been murdered years earlier by a gang member, Joan's financial situation becomes complicated after she is laid off. Her remaining children include Andre (Larenz Tate), Tasha (Tasha Scott), and foster son Deion Carter (Keith Mbulo). Rounding out the cast of characters are Joan's friend "Sweets" (Paula Kelly) and Andre's mentor Dr. Ray McHenry (Ken Page).
South Central featured many guest stars including Jennifer Lopez, Shar Jackson, and Maia Campbell. The series, which was produced on a smaller budget than most sitcoms, was popular among critics for what was perceived as a realistic and sometimes dark portrayal of urban life.
Cancellation
The show aired on Tuesday evenings following Roc. Due to the decline in ratings of the entire night of programming, Fox cancelled all the shows on that night (as well as Thursday comedies The Sinbad Show and In Living Color). The cancellation of the series, all of which had predominantly black casts, prompted Jesse Jackson to call for a boycott of the network for perceived institutional racism. Fox maintained that the series was low rated and the decision to cancel was not racially motivated.
Series co-creators Ralph Farquhar and Michael J. Weithorn would go on to create other series independently: Farquhar would co-create the UPN sitcom Moesha, along with Sara V. Finney and Vida Spears. The series (a more traditional sitcom) was set in Leimert Park, a middle-class neighborhood near View Park-Windsor Hills Los Angeles. Lamont Bentley and Shar Jackson were members of the cast. Weithorn went on to create the Fox series "Ned and Stacey" (starring Thomas Haden Church and Debra Messing) and later the CBS series "The King of Queens" (starring Kevin James, Leah Remini and Jerry Stiller).
Cast
Main
Tina Lifford — Joan Mosely
Larenz Tate — Andre Mosely
Tasha Scott — Tasha Mosely
Keith Mbulo — Deion Carter
Recurring
Lamont Bentley — Rashad
Paula Kelly — Sweets
Ken Page — Dr. Ray McHenry
Michael Beach - Isaiah Washington
Earl Billings — Mayo Bonner
Maia Campbell — Nicole
Shar Jackson — Shanelle
Jennifer Lopez — Lucille
Clifton Powell — Bobby Deavers
Malinda Williams — Candi
Episodes
Syndication
Episodes of South Central aired in the United States on TV One.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1994 American television series debuts
1994 American television series endings
1990s American black sitcoms
1990s American sitcoms
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Cooke
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Pete Cooke (born 1956) is a British computer games programmer, best known for his work published in the 1980s for the ZX Spectrum.
Career
His software often used a point and click GUI. As most Spectrum users did not own a mouse the pointer was manipulated by keyboard or joystick.
Cooke's games were often innovative. For example, Tau Ceti (released 1985) featured a form of solid 3D graphics but was also set on a planet with day and night cycles with dynamically drawn shadows. Micronaut One (released 1987) was set inside futuristic biocomputers with the player controlling a microscopic craft attempting to clear the tunnels of an insect-like life form called Scrim. This game also used fast-moving 3D graphics as well as featuring an enemy that went through a realistic (if speeded-up) life-cycle, beginning each level as eggs and progressing to larvae and eventually adult Scrim which would then lay more eggs. Even Cooke's more straightforward games, like the 1988 shoot 'em up Earthlight, featured their own complexities and technical gimmicks.
As well as these games, Cooke programmed the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions of Stunt Car Racer and also released a game for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST in 1990 called Tower of Babel.
He worked at Leicester College as an IT lecturer and he teaches students how to create computer games using Microsoft XNA.
Recently he has created and released games for Apple Devices (iOS), including Zenfit and Everything Must Go.
Games
Invincible Island (1983)
The Inferno (1984)
Urban Upstart (1984)
UDG Generator (1984)
Maze Chase (1984)
Upper Gumtree (1985)
Ski Star 2000 (1985)
(1985)
Tau Ceti (1985)
Room 10 (1986)
Academy (1987)
Micronaut One (1987)
Brainstorm (1987)
Earthlight (1988)
Zolyx (1988)
A Whole New Ball Game (1989)
Stunt Car Racer – ZX Spectrum conversion of Geoff Crammond's game (1989)
Granny's Garden (1989)
Tower Of Babel (1990)
Grand Prix (1992)
Grand Prix 2 (1996)
Grand Prix 3 (2000)
Zenfit (iOS) (2012)
Everything Must Go (iOS) (2013)
References
External links
Feature on Pete Cooke from a 1987 issue of Crash magazine.
Pete Cooke by Retro Gamer Team, 15 July 2014.
Zenfit on Apple App Store Zenfit on Apple App Store.
Everything Must Go on Apple App Store Everything Must Go on Apple App Store.
1956 births
British video game designers
British computer programmers
British video game programmers
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93robot%20interaction
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Human–robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between humans and robots. Human–robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing, design, and psychology. A subfield known as physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) has tended to focus on device design to enable people to safely interact with robotic systems.
Origins
Human–robot interaction has been a topic of both science fiction and academic speculation even before any robots existed. Because much of active HRI development depends on natural language processing, many aspects of HRI are continuations of human communications, a field of research which is much older than robotics.
The origin of HRI as a discrete problem was stated by 20th-century author Isaac Asimov in 1941, in his novel I, Robot. Asimov coined Three Laws of Robotics, namely:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
These three laws provide an overview of the goals engineers and researchers hold for safety in the HRI field, although the fields of robot ethics and machine ethics are more complex than these three principles. However, generally human–robot interaction prioritizes the safety of humans that interact with potentially dangerous robotics equipment. Solutions to this problem range from the philosophical approach of treating robots as ethical agents (individuals with moral agency), to the practical approach of creating safety zones. These safety zones use technologies such as lidar to detect human presence or physical barriers to protect humans by preventing any contact between machine and operator.
Although initially robots in the human–robot interaction field required some human intervention to function, research has expanded this to the extent that fully autonomous systems are now far more common than in the early 2000s. Autonomous systems include from simultaneous localization and mapping systems which provide intelligent robot movement to natural-language processing and natural-language generation systems which allow for natural, human-esque interaction which meet well-defined psychological benchmarks.
Anthropomorphic robots (machines which imitate human body structure) are better described by the biomimetics field, but overlap with HRI in many research applications. Examples of robots which demonstrate this trend include Willow Garage's PR2 robot, the NASA Robonaut, and Honda ASIMO. However, robots in the human–robot interaction field are not limited to human-like robots: Paro and Kismet are both robots designed to elicit emotional response from humans, and so fall into the category of human–robot interaction.
Goals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woops%21
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Woops! is an American postapocalyptic sitcom that aired on the Fox network from September 27 to December 6, 1992. The series was created by Gary Jacobs, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Touchstone Television.
Synopsis
The series centered around the six survivors of a world nuclear holocaust. They live together in an abandoned farm house while trying to survive and re-establish civilization. Thirteen episodes were made, but only 10 were aired before Fox cancelled the series. In July 2002, TV Guide named Woops! the 42nd-worst TV show of all time, and referred to as a "post-apocalyptic Gilligan's Island".
Characters
Mark Braddock (Evan Handler), formerly a schoolteacher, is the narrator of the show by writing in his journal. The pilot episode focuses on Mark, showing him finishing his classes and making a deposit at a drive-up window at the bank when a flash of light (the nuclear attack) occurs, and everything is turned to ruins except for Mark and his automobile, which was a Volvo. (The joke being that Volvos have a reputation for being well-built, reliable, and safe cars.)
Jack Connors (Fred Applegate), formerly a homeless man and a great practical joker, revealed he survived the nuclear war because he was sleeping under an expressway overpass, whose structure protected him. Jack considered his finding the farm advantageous, as he is no longer homeless.
Alice McConnell (Meagen Fay) was a progressive feminist stereotype. She reveals she worked in an old bookstore that had been built in the 1960s and equipped with a fallout shelter, which was converted into the basement. She ran out of register tape and went to the basement to get a fresh roll, thus being spared when the attack occurred.
Frederick Ross (Cleavant Derricks) was formerly a research biologist. His excellent knowledge of science is vital to the survival of the community. Although he considered it ironic that he was possibly the only Black man to have survived the nuclear war, and occasionally mused over the possible loss of a Black female companion, he genuinely enjoyed his White friends and living on the farm.
Suzanne Skillman (Marita Geraghty), a hair salon employee, ia a dumb blonde stereotype, although her hair color was clearly brunette.
Curtis Thorpe (Lane Davies) was formerly an aggressive venture capitalist. He finds adjusting to farm life difficult, as most of the business skills he had before are not needed on the farm, although he was surprisingly athletic, having participated in track and field at Harvard.
Episodes
See also
Whoops Apocalypse, a 1982 television sitcom that aired on ITV detailing the weeks leading up to the apocalypse
The Last Man on Earth, a 2015 postapocalyptic comedy that also aired on Fox, but with greater success
References
External links
1992 American television series debuts
1992 American television series endings
1990s American sitcoms
English-language television shows
Fox Broadcasting Company original programmi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20Where%20the%20Monkey%20Gets%20Away
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"The One Where the Monkey Gets Away" is the nineteenth episode of Friends first season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on March 9, 1995.
Plot
Rachel finds out that her ex-fiancé, Barry, is engaged to marry Mindy, the woman who was to be Rachel's maid of honor. Ross still pines over Rachel, and is about to ask her out when he's interrupted by the rest of the gang. He asks Rachel to watch Marcel for him, but Rachel lets him escape. Not knowing that Ross' ownership of Marcel is illegal, she calls Animal Control for assistance.
The responding Animal control agent, Luisa (Megan Cavanagh), is a former high school classmate of Rachel and the Gellers. Since Luisa was none too fond of Rachel, she isn't willing to cut any slack. She eventually relents when she accidentally shoots Phoebe in the rear with a tranquilizer dart. The monkey runs off and ends up being taken by Mr. Heckles, where they find the monkey and when Luisa threatens prison, Rachel in return threatens to report her for shooting Phoebe.
After they get Marcel back, Ross is about to tell Rachel of his feelings when Barry bursts in and tells Rachel he's still in love with her.
Reception
In the original broadcast, the episode was viewed by 29.4 million viewers. Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy ranked the episode #235 on his ranking of the 236 Friends episodes. Telegraph & Argus ranked "The One Where the Monkey Gets Away" #206 on their ranking of all 236 Friends episodes. In a joint review with "The One with All the Poker", "The One Where the Monkey Gets Away" received a mixed review from the AV club.
References
1995 American television episodes
Friends (season 1) episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMG%20%28company%29
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CMG (Computer Management Group) was a consulting company focused on telecommunications and computing and based in London, United Kingdom. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it merged with Logica in 2002.
History
The company was founded in 1964 by Bob Collins, Bryan Mills and Chairman Doug Gorman – the first letters of their surnames forming the original company name. In fact, Bob Collins never actually commenced with the company, his place being taken by Bob Fawcett.
CMG started trading in August 1965, when Bryan Mills and Bob Fawcett gave up their jobs (with Burroughs and Honeywell respectively) and started working out of the homes. By late 1965 they had moved into the basement of Doug Gorman's house in Blackheath, South East London. Doug had also left his job and was working full-time for the company having worked out his 3 months notice at Cooper Bros. One of the earliest employees, Barbara Ward, who joined the company in 1965 as a secretary, worked her way up in the company to Group Director of Personnel and became one of the best-paid women in Britain.
By the time she was hired, the founders had developed, and were selling, the Accountants' Time Ledger package. They bought only as much computer time as was needed for the work available, and produced a fully comprehensive package service. In 1966 they opened offices in Davis House in Croydon. A rapid expansion ensued followed by a move to Sunley House in Croydon and offices being opened in the Netherlands in 1969 and later in Germany. In 1985 CMG acquired the bureau business of Baric Computing Services from ICL. This acquisition brought several new locations to its UK business and, when merged with the existing Croydon based bureau operation, formed the basis of CMG's growth in Outsourcing and Managed Services throughout the 1990s.
Although Bryan Mills and Bob Fawcett left CMG in the 1980s, Doug Gorman continued to lead CMG until his death in 1995. Doug Gorman in his role as chairman of CMG was succeeded by Cor Stutterheim. Bob Fawcett died in 2012.
Company values
CMG was known for its no-nonsense equality rules, which included eating lunch together daily in "the kitchen", calling all employees by their first names, ranking all employees per company holding each year and publishing this ranking (including salaries!) to its members, and demanding compliance to the company quality system "Commander" by all employees, all of the time. Sanctions included a "CAR" or Corrective Action Request, which could and often did result in demotion (lower ranking and sometimes lower salary). Since the company offered salary services as a product, salary management was understandably an open topic of conversation within CMG walls.
All staff were required to wear suits, even junior engineers.
Management
Each CMG company had approximately 150 employees, with between 60-80 consultants, one managing director (MD), one associate director per 10-12 consultants (AD), one quality manager, one
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Pirate Islands is an Australian children's television program screened on Network Ten in 2003. A sequel called The Lost Treasure of Fiji premiered on Network Ten in 2007.
In the United States, episodes 1-13 were broadcast on FoxBox, a programming block operated by 4Kids Entertainment. In the United Kingdom, the show aired on both CITV in 2003 and Nickelodeon UK in early 2008. In Vietnam, it is aired on VTC9 - Let's Viet (Aug, Sept-2009), and also screened in Spain and Portugal by Disney Channel.
Plot summaries
Part 1
Kate Redding, a sister of Nicholas and Sarah, is playing a new computer game called Pirate Islands, which has been created by her father. After Sarah tampers with the computer scanner, lightning strikes the house, and the scanner goes wild, zapping the three siblings inside the computer game. After teleporting inside the game, Kate meets Mars, the main character of the video game. Blackheart, the pirate captain, takes the siblings aboard the pirate ship and threatens to walk them off the plank, Mars climbs aboard and cuts the rope, causes the sails to fall against the pirates, the siblings escape and attempt to find their scanner, only to be cornered by the pirates and drop it into Blackheart's grasp, who uses it unknowingly to zap his crew-mate, causing him to pixelate and melt.
Kate discovers that users are transported between islands in the game through icons, after jumping inside, she ends up on castaway island only to find that Carmen, the second in command, has stolen all the items from Kate's bedroom. The pirates arrive and chase the gang off the island, causing Sarah to trip against a tree trunk which triggers a secret entrance inside the tree, which contains stairways up towards a hidden treehouse, the gang store their few belongings and decide to call this place their new home.
A hidden cabinet inside the tree house stores wet boots, which are found by Kate, who discovers they are power-ups in the game which allows the characters to walk on water, after raiding the pirate ship and discovering a treasure map, Blackheart reappears and threatens them with the scanner, but Mars knocks it out of his hand and they escape from the ship. Kate, furious, returns the next day with the power-up boots and takes control of the ship, stealing the scanner and escaping, she discovers back at the treehouse the batteries are dead as Blackheart has used it multiple times, saddened by this outcome, Kate announces they will have to stay here, 'A little bit longer.'
A new icon is found which transports Kate to haunted island, where the ghost of Captain Quade hides, a previous member of Blackheart's crew who he murdered when Quade abandoned ship to search for the treasure. After almost being killed, Kate luckily grabs Quade's logbook and escapes the ship. After searching the logbook for clues, Kate realises her music box has batteries identical to the one's needed for the computer scanner, however after multiple events, it has ended up in Bl
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A podcast client, or podcatcher, is a computer program used to stream or download podcasts, usually via an RSS or XML feed.
While podcast clients are best known for streaming and downloading podcasts, many are also capable of downloading video, newsfeeds, text, and pictures. Some of these podcast clients can also automate the transfer of received audio files to a portable media player. Although many include a directory of high-profile podcasts, they generally allow users to manually subscribe directly to a feed by providing the URL.
The core concepts had been developing since 2000, the first commercial podcast client software was developed in 2001.
Podcasts were made popular when Apple added podcatching to its iTunes software and iPod portable media player in June 2005. Apple Podcasts is currently included in all Apple devices, such as iPhone, iPad and Mac computers.
Podcast clients
See also
Comparison of audio player software
References
External links
"Podcast Software (Clients)" at podcastingnews.com – Archived page
podcatchermatrix.org compares the features of a number of podcast clients.
"Podcast Client Feature Comparison Matrix" as a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
Podcasting software
Podcast clients
Clients
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NASCO%20member%20cooperatives
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Below is a list of cooperatives that are members of North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO). Members of NASCO are given services such as board and officer training, member training, networking opportunities as part of the connection to co-op movement, and assistance on special projects. Currently, members span the contiguous US and Canada. An up-to-date directory of NASCO members can be found on their website.
Members
US Members
Canada Members
NASCO Properties
NASCO Properties was established in the late 1980s to help NASCO become more directly involved in student cooperatives and permanent housing cooperatives. NASCO Properties is governed as a "co-op of co-ops", where representatives of each co-op within NP make decisions through their seats on the board on issues that relate to the entire NASCO Properties system.
Each co-op within NASCO Properties has its own mission, board, and budget, and local co-ops have complete autonomy over local policies, distribution of rents, membership criteria, and most other issues. NASCO Properties maintains financial reserves for local maintenance needs, potential vacancies, and expansion. NASCO Properties manages property taxes, insurance, major renovations, and trainings for the members of each participating co-op.
Properties
See also
Fellowship for Intentional Community (website)
US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (website)
CHS (website)
The Cooperative Foundation (website)
National Cooperative Bank (website)
Equal Exchange (website)
List of condominiums and housing cooperatives in New York
References
Mem
Mem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy%27s%20Boneyard
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Ozzy's Boneyard (formerly The Boneyard) is a radio station featuring a classic rock/hard rock format on Sirius XM Radio channel 38 and Dish Network 6019.
The station was the home of The Rock of Jericho, hosted by WWE wrestler Chris Jericho, until its cancellation in December 2006. The Rock of Jericho episodes continue to be re-run on sister channel Octane. Eddie Trunk started hosting a four-hour show on The Boneyard in December 2006.
In February 2012, Sirius/XM partnered with Sharon Osbourne to relaunch The Boneyard, rebranding it Ozzy's Boneyard. Trunk was dropped as host; he said Osbourne had some unspecified but long-running disagreement with him. Osbourne never allowed her husband Ozzy Osbourne to appear on That Metal Show or to be interviewed by Trunk.
Core artists
AC/DC
Metallica
Van Halen
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Rush
Dio
Guns N' Roses
Motörhead
References
External links
SiriusXM: Boneyard
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
Sirius XM Radio channels
Radio stations established in 2001
Radio stations established in 2009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20Perth
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Triple M Perth (official callsign: 6MMM) is a commercial radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Triple M network. The station is broadcast to Perth, Western Australia from studios in Subiaco.
The station commenced broadcasting in 1937 as 6PM, initially on the AM band at a frequency of 1000 kilohertz, before converting to the FM band as 6PM-FM on 31 December 1990. The station was later branded as PMFM, The All New 92.9, 92.9 and Hit 92.9. On 1 December 2020, the station was relaunched as Triple M, switching network affiliation with sister station Mix 94.5.
History
92.9 was originally 6PM on the AM band, beginning broadcasting on 22 April 1937 making it the third commercial radio station in Perth. Originally broadcasting from a radio mast in Fremantle, the station moved its transmission mast to Coffee Point in South Perth in 1940 to give better reception to listeners north of Perth.
By the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, it broadcast a Top 40 format on 1000, later 990 kHz. The station secured significant listener market (ACNielsen) share despite a rival station (96FM) gaining a monopoly on the FM band in the 1980s.
On 31 December 1990, the station was one of two additional Perth radio stations to gain a licence to convert to the FM band. They became 92.9 6PM-FM; then subsequently PMFM. The official call sign was changed to 6PPM for regulatory purposes to reflect the move to FM. During most of the 1990s PMFM was Perth's number one radio station.
2001 saw PMFM change their name to The All New 92.9, and then to just 92.9. In February 2006, 92.9 changed its logo in line with the rest of the Today Network. In 2007 92.9 and sister station Mix 94.5 moved to a new purpose-built building at 450 Roberts Road, Subiaco.
On 19 January 2015, Southern Cross Austereo rebranded 92.9 as Hit 92.9.
On 1 December 2020, Hit 92.9 relaunched as Triple M Perth, joining the Triple M network and adopting a mainstream rock music format. The Hit Network affiliation was switched to sister station Mix 94.5. The station was officially launched at 8:00am with a welcome message from Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, with "All My Life" being the first song played on the newly relaunched station. The station later announced that Channel 7 broadcaster and Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas would host the stations breakfast program along wth former AFL footballer Xavier Ellis and The West Australian columnist Jenna Clarke from 2021.
Transmission
Since being on the FM band, Triple M Perth has broadcast from a transmitter site next to the Channel 7 tower from Bickley in the Perth Hills. It shares its transmitter with sister station Mix 94.5 and 96fm. They use a combiner and share the same antenna array. The Bickley site is redundant now and the main site is at Carmel into the same antenna array as Nova 93.7 and Mix 94.5. The original AM transmitter for 6PM was at Coffee Point in Applecross. The ERP is at 40 kW, covering the north and south of Perth. As w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix%2094.5
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Mix94.5 (official call sign 6MIX) is a commercial FM radio station owned by Southern Cross Austereo in Perth, Western Australia, and is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network.
History
The station originally began as 6KY, beginning broadcasting on 23 October 1941 on 1210 kHz and would eventually end up at the frequency 1206 kHz. The original building, at 17-19 James Street, East Perth, was the first building in Western Australia to be built specifically as a radio station. Consisting of five studios and an auditorium, the station was then owned by the Australian Workers' Union. The radio station was employer of a significant number of notable Western Australian announcers early careers.
FM era
On 1 June 1991, under then General Manager Peter Perrin, 6KY became one of two Perth radio stations to convert from the AM to FM bands. The station became known upon conversion to FM as 6KYFM, and later as 94.5 KYFM, with the official call sign 6JKY, the transition from AM to FM was considered one of the most successful in Australia. The Perth conversion process was in fact the second round of auctions for that city as the first round was unsuccessful, leaving 96FM, the first and only commercial FM station in the city. The on-air identity was later shortened to 94.5FM under the management of well-known Perth broadcaster Gary Roberts and then around 1997–1998 it adopted the name Mix94.5. The official call sign is now 6MIX.
In September 2005, Mix94.5 changed its logo.
In March 2007, Mix94.5 and sister station 92.9 moved from the premises at 283 Rokeby Road, Subiaco to a new purpose-built broadcast centre at 450 Roberts Road, Subiaco.
The switch between Mix94.5's Rokeby Road studios and the new purpose-built broadcast centre in Roberts Road took place at 2 pm on 5 March. The first song played was "Friday on My Mind" by The Easybeats which was #43 in the "Top 294 Songs For Grown Ups" that Mix94.5 was playing across the long weekend.
In May 2009 the station began broadcasting its signal on Digital Radio as well. Perth was the first Australian city to switch the digital transmitters.
In December 2020, Mix94.5 joined the SCA Hit Network brand, replacing its sister station 92.9 who rebranded as Triple M.
Ratings
Mix94.5 has a reputation across Australia and in Perth as one of the most beloved radio stations as it has dominated radio ratings since the final survey of 1999.
In 2006, in the second radio ratings survey of the year, Mix94.5 topped the survey as the most popular per-capita station in Australia. Mix94.5 attracted 18.1% of listeners whilst other radio stations across Australia such as Sydney's 2GB, Melbourne's 3AW, Brisbane's FM104 MMM and Adelaide's Mix102.3 achieved between 13 and 16.5% of listeners.
Mix94.5 remained the most highly rated radio station in Perth for 12 and a half years, from 1999 to 2012. This dominant period culminated in the station winning its 100th consecutive radio ratings survey in May 2012. Mix94.5 proved its domi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20sort
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A comparison sort is a type of sorting algorithm that only reads the list elements through a single abstract comparison operation (often a "less than or equal to" operator or a three-way comparison) that determines which of two elements should occur first in the final sorted list. The only requirement is that the operator forms a total preorder over the data, with:
if a ≤ b and b ≤ c then a ≤ c (transitivity)
for all a and b, a ≤ b or b ≤ a (connexity).
It is possible that both a ≤ b and b ≤ a; in this case either may come first in the sorted list. In a stable sort, the input order determines the sorted order in this case.
A metaphor for thinking about comparison sorts is that someone has a set of unlabelled weights and a balance scale. Their goal is to line up the weights in order by their weight without any information except that obtained by placing two weights on the scale and seeing which one is heavier (or if they weigh the same).
Examples
Some of the most well-known comparison sorts include:
Quicksort
Heapsort
Shellsort
Merge sort
Introsort
Insertion sort
Selection sort
Bubble sort
Odd–even sort
Cocktail shaker sort
Cycle sort
Merge-insertion sort
Smoothsort
Timsort
Block sort
Performance limits and advantages of different sorting techniques
There are fundamental limits on the performance of comparison sorts. A comparison sort must have an average-case lower bound of Ω(n log n) comparison operations, which is known as linearithmic time. This is a consequence of the limited information available through comparisons alone — or, to put it differently, of the vague algebraic structure of totally ordered sets. In this sense, mergesort, heapsort, and introsort are asymptotically optimal in terms of the number of comparisons they must perform, although this metric neglects other operations. Non-comparison sorts (such as the examples discussed below) can achieve O(n) performance by using operations other than comparisons, allowing them to sidestep this lower bound (assuming elements are constant-sized).
Comparison sorts may run faster on some lists; many adaptive sorts such as insertion sort run in O(n) time on an already-sorted or nearly-sorted list. The Ω(n log n) lower bound applies only to the case in which the input list can be in any possible order.
Real-world measures of sorting speed may need to take into account the ability of some algorithms to optimally use relatively fast cached computer memory, or the application may benefit from sorting methods where sorted data begins to appear to the user quickly (and then user's speed of reading will be the limiting factor) as opposed to sorting methods where no output is available until the whole list is sorted.
Despite these limitations, comparison sorts offer the notable practical advantage that control over the comparison function allows sorting of many different datatypes and fine control over how the list is sorted. For example, reversing the result of the comparison function allo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%204
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System 4 or System IV may refer to:
Acorn System 4, the early minicomputer
The fourth release of Classic Mac OS
International Computers Limited#English Electric LEO Marconi (EELM), also known as ICL System 4
Not-released Unix system between UNIX System III and UNIX System V
STS-4 (Space Transportation System-4), the Space Shuttle mission
See also
IBM System/4 Pi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEUS%20%28particle%20detector%29
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ZEUS was a particle detector at the HERA (Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage) particle accelerator at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg. It began taking data in 1992 and was operated until HERA was decommissioned in June 2007. The scientific collaboration behind ZEUS consisted of about 400 physicists and technicians from 56 institutes in 17 countries.
The ZEUS detector comprised many different detector components, including a depleted uranium plastic-scintillator calorimeter, a central tracking detector (which was a wire chamber), a silicon microvertex detector and muon chambers. In addition, a solenoid provided a magnetic field. The ZEUS detector measured 12 m × 11 m × 20 m and weighed 3600 tons.
Like its partner experiment H1, the ZEUS experiment studied the internal structure of the proton through measurements of deep inelastic scattering by colliding leptons (electrons or positrons) with protons in the interaction point of ZEUS. These measurements were also used to test and study the Standard Model of particle physics as well as to search for particles beyond the Standard Model, laying the foundation to much of the science done at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle physics laboratory today.
Background
The German national laboratory DESY was founded in 1959 and started operating its first particle accelerator in 1964. Since then, it has been a highly regarded center for particle physics, photon science, astroparticle physics, and the development, construction and operation of particle accelerators. The design effort for ZEUS can be traced back to 1982. A Letter of Intent was submitted in 1985.
The ZEUS detector was operational with the first collisions of the HERA collider in 1992. The last electron–proton collisions at ZEUS were recorded on 30 June 2007.
The other multi-purpose experiment at the HERA collider was the competing H1 experiment. Since May 2012, the former ZEUS detector hall has been used as a lab space for the international European XFEL project.
Detector
The main components of the ZEUS detector were the tracking components, the calorimeter and the muon detectors. The purpose of the ZEUS detector was to collect data to allow the reconstruction of physics events in a consistent way so they can be analyzed.
Calorimeter
The ZEUS Calorimeter was a uranium scintillator based sampling calorimeter and divided into three main sections: the BCAL (Barrel CALorimeter), FCAL (Forward CALorimeter), and RCAL (Rear CALorimeter). Each section was subdivided transversely into towers, and longitudinally into EMC (Electro-Magnetic Calorimeter) or HAC (HAdronic Calorimeter). The smallest subdivision in the calorimeter was called a cell. Each cell was read out by two photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), which helped ensure that there were no holes in the coverage if one of the two PMTs failed.
Uranium was chosen as an absorber so that the calorimeter would be compensating. Electrons and photons deposit energy differently
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocoyo
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Pocoyo ( in Spanish and stylised as POCOYO) is a Spanish preschool interactive comedy computer animated television series created by Guillermo García Carsí, Colman López, Luis Gallego and David Cantolla, and is produced by the Spanish animation company Zinkia Entertainment, with the first two series were co-productions with Granada Kids, and the first series was a co-production of Cosgrove Hall Films, both in the United Kingdom.
Four series have been produced, each consisting of 52 seven-minute episodes. English actor and comedian Stephen Fry narrates the English-language version of the first two series of the show, while Stephen Hughes narrates the third series, called Let's Go Pocoyo, and the fourth series. José María del Río narrates the Castilian Spanish version of the show. In 2009, a new spin-off show called Pocoyo World was created.
On October 12, 2022, the fifth series has been greenlit to commemorate the show's 20th anniversary which was supposed to release in mid-2023, but delayed for a 2024 release. It will feature significant changes for the characters designs and will feature more new characters such as Pocoyo's little sister, Pocoyina. Similar to the series 4 episode "Dragon Island", five of the episodes will be mixed into live action.
In 2023, the franchise was acquired by Animaj. As then, the series is renewed for Season 6 around 2025 or 2026. A feature film is releasing around 2027 or 2028.
Overview
Set in a 3D space, with a plain white background and usually no backdrops, it is about Pocoyo, a four-year-old boy, interacting with his friends Elly, Pato, Nina, Fred the Octopus, Loula and Sleepy Bird. Viewers are encouraged to recognize situations that Pocoyo is in, and things that are going on with or around him. The Narrator usually speaks explicitly to the viewers and to the characters as well. Each character has its own distinctive dance and also a specific sound (usually from a musical instrument), and most episodes end with the characters dancing.
Characters
Main
Pocoyo (voiced by Alex Marty in series 1, Montana Smedley in series 2, Isabella Foy in series 3, and Gigi Hatt in series 4) is the title character of the series. He is a 4-year-old boy who is full of curiosity and loves to play games and discover new things. He is very acrobatic and moves at a quick speed. Pocoyo is a very innocent, happy, and childish character who is always depicted wearing a blue three-flap hat, a blue jacket with a yellow zipper, and a pair of blue pants and shoes. His best friends are Pato, Elly, Loula, Sleepy Bird, and Baby Bird. He has a red race car and a shapeshifting bird-like spaceship called Vamoosh. Although he is very friendly and sweet and almost always in a good mood, Pocoyo is also highly self-centered, distracted by the simplest things, easily frustrated, frequently jealous of his friends, and he can be very disobedient but tries his hardest to fight his flaws and learn morals and he is also very affectionate and caring towa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20education%20in%20Italy
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Higher education in Italy is mainly provided by a large and international network of public and state affiliated universities. State-run universities of Italy are under the supervision of Italian's Ministry of Education. There is also a number of private universities and state-run post-secondary educational centers providing a vocational instruction.
Italian universities are among the oldest universities in the world. In particular the University of Bologna (founded in 1088, the oldest university in the world), the University of Padua, founded in 1222, and the University of Naples, founded in 1224, are among the most ancient state universities in Europe. Most universities in Italy are state-supported.
33 Italian universities were ranked among the world's top 500 in 2019, the third-largest number in Europe after the United Kingdom and Germany. The Bocconi University, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, LUISS, Polytechnic University of Turin, Polytechnic University of Milan, Sapienza University of Rome, and University of Milan are also ranked among the best in the world.
Structure
Universities
Universities in Italy fits the framework of the Bologna Process since the adoption, in 1999, of the so-called 3+2 system. The first level degree is the Laurea triennale that can be achieved after three years of studies. Selected students can then complete their studies in the following step: two additional years of specialization which leads to the Laurea Magistrale.
The "Laurea triennale" corresponds roughly to a bachelor's degree while the "Laurea Magistrale" corresponds to a master's degree. Only the Laurea Magistrale grants access to third cycle programmes (Post-MA degrees, doctorates or specializing schools), that last 2 to 5 years (usually completing a PhD takes 3 years). However, there is just a single five-year degree "Laurea Magistrale Quinquennale" (Five-Year Master of Arts) for some programmes such as Law (Facoltà di Giurisprudenza), Arts (Accademia di Belle Arti) and Music (Conservatorio di Musica). Medical schools (Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia) are part of some universities and they only offer six-year courses. The title for MA/MFA/MD/MEd graduate students is Dottore (abbreviation in Dott./Dott.ssa or Dr., meaning Doctor). This title is not to be confused with the PhD and Post-MA graduates, whose title is Dottore di Ricerca (Research Doctor or Philosophy Doctor).
The Italian master's degree should not be confused with Italian "Masters" that are one-year specialistic postgraduate courses which guarantee a more practical education but do not necessarily give access to doctoral studies.
Universities in Italy can be divided into 4 groups:
state-funded public universities: this category comprises most Italian universities, particularly the largest institutions.
universities funded by other public authority (other than the state, such as Provinces): this is the case of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
private universities officiall
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Knight
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Magic Knight is a computer game franchise created by freelance programmer David Jones originally for the 1985 game Finders Keepers on the Mastertronic budget label. Finders Keepers is a flip-screen platform game released on the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64. The game spawned three additional sequels (also starring Magic Knight) on the Mastertronic Added Dimension budget label: Spellbound (1985), Knight Tyme (1986) and Stormbringer (1987). The three sequels are far less action-orientated, being effectively graphic adventure games using a basic menu system ("Windimation") for Magic Knight to interact with characters and items instead of typed commands.
Plot
Finders Keepers
Magic Knight is ordered by the King to go to Spriteland and bring back a fitting birthday present for the Princess. Magic Knight is transported to the castle in Spriteland and can either amass as much treasure as possible or find a suitable present and return to the King.
Spellbound
The wizard Gimbal accidentally mixes up a spell, which results in casting himself, Magic Knight and an array of other characters into an unknown castle. Magic Knight must find Gimbal and reverse the spell to return everyone home.
Crime Busters by IJK Software in 1986 used significant portions of the Spellbound code without permission, and was ultimately removed from sale.
Knight Tyme
After freeing Gimbal, the spell to send Magic Knight home goes wrong, and instead of being sent back to the Middle Ages, he awakens on the USS Pisces in the 25th century. Magic Knight must then find a way to reach the Tyme Guardians and return home.
Stormbringer
On returning from the 25th century, Magic Knight finds his local village terrorised by the "Off-White Knight", who has taken residence in the castle. Further investigation shows the Off-White Knight to be the evil side of Magic Knight himself, and the task is to join the two together again.
Gameplay
Descriptions are based on the ZX Spectrum versions, although all versions are broadly the same in gameplay.
Finders Keepers
The game is a traditional flip-screen platform game, with a very small Magic Knight having to negotiate screens filled with numerous monsters, which move in pre-defined paths. There are also two scrolling mazes that Magic Knight must traverse to enter new sections of the map. Variation is added to the gameplay by the addition of objects, which can be picked up and utilised, or traded with the Traders that are scattered throughout various points in the castle (and coincidentally look exactly like Magic Knight). Certain objects, when carried at the same time will react to create new objects. Magic Knight has four lives, each with its own energy bar that is depleted by collisions with monsters, or certain parts of the floor.
Spellbound
This game marked a significant departure from Finders Keepers. Magic Knight increased in size and the monsters were disposed of. This game also introduced the Windimation system, whereb
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru%20%28disambiguation%29
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A guru is a spiritual teacher.
Guru or The Guru may also refer to:
Computing
Guru.com, a software company and job board service
Guru, a language with dependent types
.guru, an Internet top-level domain
Film
The Guru (1969 film), a Merchant–Ivory film
Guru (1980 film), a Tamil film starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi
Guru (1989 film), a Hindi-language film directed by Umesh Mehra
Guru (1997 film), a Malayalam film directed by Rajiv Anchal
The Guru (2002 film), a British film directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Guru (2003 film), a Bengali film directed by Swapan Saha
Guru (2005 film), a Telugu film directed by B Jaffer
Guru (2006 film), a film about the yoga guru K. Pattabhi Jois directed by Robert Wilkins
Guru (2007 film), a Hindi film directed by Mani Ratnam
Guru (2012 film), a Kannada film directed by Jaggesh
Guru (2016 film), a Marathi film directed by Sanjay Jadhav
Guru (2017 film), a Telugu film directed by Sudha Kongara
Places
Guru, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
Guru, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
Guru, Jiroft, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
Guru, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
Language and literature
Guru (prosody), a "heavy" syllable in Sanskrit prosody
Gurmukhi alphabet (ISO 15924 code Guru), one of three scripts for writing the Punjabi language
GuRu, a 2018 book by RuPaul
Music
Guru (rapper) (1961–2010), hip hop MC from Gang Starr
Guru (Ghanaian rapper) (born 1987)
The Guru (album), a 2005 album by PSD
Guru (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the 2007 film
"Guru", a song by Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung from À la Carte
Other media
"The Guru" (Avatar: The Last Airbender), an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Guru (Sly Cooper), a character from the video game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Guruji, an antagonist played by Pankaj Tripathi in the Indian television show Sacred Games
People
Gurutze Fernández (born 1979), or Guru, Spanish footballer
Eric Grothe Sr. (born 1960), Australian former rugby league footballer nicknamed "Guru"
Other uses
Guru, Hindu astrological name for the planet Jupiter
Guru Studio, a Canadian animation studio
Global Urban Research Unit, at Newcastle University
See also
GuRoo, a humanoid robot
Expert, a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a particular domain
Gru (disambiguation)
Mahaguru (disambiguation)
Guruji (surname), an Indian surname
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsimulation
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Microsimulation is a category of computerized analytical tools that perform analysis of activities such as highway traffic flowing through an intersection, financial transactions, or pathogens spreading disease through a population on the granularity level of individuals. Synonyms include microanalytic simulation and microscopic simulation. Microsimulation, with its emphasis on stochastic or rule-based structures, should not be confused with the similar complementary technique of multi-agent simulation, which focuses more on the behaviour of individuals.
For example, a traffic microsimulation model could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of lengthening a turn lane at an intersection, and thus help decide whether it is worth spending money on actually lengthening the lane.
Introduction
Microsimulation can be distinguished from other types of computer modeling in looking at the interaction of individual units such as people or vehicles. Each unit is treated as an autonomous entity and the interaction of the units is allowed vary depending on stochastic (randomized) parameters. These parameters are intended to represent individual preferences and tendencies. For example, in a traffic model some drivers are cautious and wait for a large gap before turning, while others are aggressive and accept small gaps. Similarly, in a public health model individuals could vary in their resistance to a virus, as well as in personal habits that contribute to the spread of the virus (e.g. how frequently/thoroughly they wash their hands).
The International Microsimulation Association, defines microsimulation as a modelling technique that operates at the level of individual units such as persons, households, vehicles or firms. Within the model each unit is represented by a record containing a unique identifier and a set of associated attributes – e.g. a list of persons with known age, sex, marital and employment status; or a list of vehicles with known origins, destinations and operational characteristics. A set of rules (transition probabilities) are then applied to these units leading to simulated changes in state and behaviour. These rules may be deterministic (probability = 1), such as changes in tax liability resulting from changes in tax regulations, or stochastic (probability <=1), such as chance of dying, marrying, giving birth or moving within a given time period. In either case the result is an estimate of the outcomes of applying these rules, possibly over many time steps, including both total overall aggregate change and (importantly) the way this change is distributed in the population or location that is being modeled.
Econometric microsimulation
In applied econometrics research, microsimulation is used to simulate the behavior of individuals over time. The microsimulation can either be dynamic or static. If it is dynamic the behavior of people changes over time, whereas in the static case a constant behavior is assumed.
There are several micr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20Where%20Rachel%20Finds%20Out
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"The One Where Rachel Finds Out" is the 24th and final episode of Friends first season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on May 18, 1995.
Plot
Joey participates in a fertility study at NYU. Part of the study requires that he abstain from sex for two weeks, impacting his relationship with new girlfriend Melanie (co-owner of a fruit basket company). The gang holds a barbecue to celebrate Rachel's birthday; Ross finds out he has to go to China at the last minute for an important paleontology find. He drops off a present for Rachel before he leaves.
While opening her presents (Chandler got her Travel Scrabble; Joey got her an Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss), Rachel finds Ross gave her a cameo pin she had admired several months ago. Chandler accidentally lets slip that Ross is in love with her. Rachel rushes to the airport to talk to Ross, but is unable to reach him before he gets on his flight. Rachel then spends the next few days deciding what to do, and on the night Ross is due to arrive back from China, even tries going on a date with another man to take her mind off it. However, when she keeps fantasizing about Ross during the date, she finally decides to give their relationship a chance and rushes off to greet him at the airport. Unbeknownst to her, Ross has started dating another woman while in China.
Reception
In the original broadcast, the episode was viewed by 31.3 million viewers.
Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy ranked it #70 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes, and called it a popular episode with a strong cliffhanger ending.
Telegraph & Argus ranked it the 10th best episode on their ranking of all 236 Friends episodes.
References
1995 American television episodes
Friends (season 1) episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLMDB
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The Lifelong Labour Market Database (LLMDB2) is a panel data set, owned by the Department for Work and Pensions in Britain. LLMDB2 holds a 1% sample from the new National Insurance Recording System (NIRS2) and is a fully representative sample of around 600000 people. LLMDB2 started to record the income and other characteristics of its individuals in 1978. It is especially useful for the analysis of private pension contributions. It is used for the Pensim2 microsimualtion model.
External links
LLMDB2 at DWP
Department for Work and Pensions
Economic data
Panel data
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastham%20Rake%20railway%20station
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Eastham Rake railway station is a railway station which serves the village of Eastham in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network south west of Liverpool Lime Street.
Facilities
The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV. There is a payphone, a vending machine and a booking office. There are departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. Each of the two platforms has sheltered seating. There is a free car park with 101 spaces, a cycle rack with 6 spaces, and a secure cycle locker with 44 spaces. Access to the station booking office is on the pavement. Access to each of the two platforms is by a stepped ramp. This allows relatively easy access for passengers with wheelchairs or prams.
Services
Trains operate every 15 minutes between Chester and Liverpool on weekdays and Saturdays until late evening when the service becomes half-hourly, as it is on Sundays. Additionally there is a half-hourly service between Liverpool and Ellesmere Port all day, every day. Northbound trains operate via Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead and the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool. Southbound the next station is Hooton, where the lines to Chester and Ellesmere Port divide. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.
Gallery
References
Further reading
External links
Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
DfT Category E stations
Railway stations opened by Railtrack
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1995
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%20vs%20E
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G vs E (later retitled Good vs Evil) is an American supernatural comedy-drama television series that had its first season air on USA Network during the summer and autumn of 1999. For the second season the series moved to Sci Fi in early 2000. The series stars Clayton Rohner, Richard Brooks and Marshall Bell.
G vs E pitted a group of agents who are assigned to "the Corps", a secret agency under the command of Heaven, against the "Morlocks", a group of evildoers from Hell.
The series has a 1970s retro-hip style that is similar to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. The show is fast-moving and harkens back to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. It also mixes spy-fi elements with the end of the millennium Zeitgeist of the late 1990s.
Plot
Chandler Smythe (Clayton Rohner) is murdered on his 35th birthday. He is then recruited as an agent of the Corps and becomes a partner to Henry McNeil (Richard Brooks). Henry was killed in the 1970s and still dresses like Shaft. The Corps, best described as God's police force on Earth, has the mission of locating citizens who have made a Faustian-style bargain with the agents of evil. When the Corps find a lost soul, they must decide whether to rehabilitate them or eliminate them from existence if they are beyond redemption.
Overseeing their patrols are Decker (Googy Gress) and Ford (Marshall Bell), who give the weekly assignments. Deacon Jones acts as series narrator and appears on screen as "the Deacon". The Deacon is the head of the Corps as shown in the last episode and all Corps agents are ranked beneath him. However he is not god. God is never seen on the show.
Chandler's teenage son Ben, played by Tony Denman, occasionally appears. Chandler guides him in subtle ways.
The Corps itself functions much like any police force does, with various departments and a city-based structure. Paramedics, supply officers, spies, intelligence agents, forensic specialists, therapists, and munitions experts are all on hand to help with cases. They operate throughout the world in various cities. Chandler and Henry work out of the Hollywood station. They are based at Ravenswood, a high-rise art-deco establishment, which also doubles as purgatory.
All the agents of the Corps have gone through a violent, mortal death, but merely being alive again does not render them immortal. They can "die" again, and they face immediate judgement upon dying, which may be a problem for those who have not completed their redemption. Injury can happen to them, as can all the usual mental anguish that mortals suffer. Corps agents have no magical powers to give them an advantage over the opposition. Another limitation is that agents of the Corps are not allowed to have sexual relations with others, due to the fact that sleeping with a Morlock will turn an agent into one. They also cannot overtly contact their friends and family from before they died.
The Corps battle with two types of foes: Faustians and Morlocks. The Faustians are ordinary p
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20McNeill%27s%20Breakfast%20Club
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Don McNeill's Breakfast Club was a long-running morning variety show on NBC Blue Network/ABC radio (and briefly on television) originating in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted by Don McNeill, the radio program ran from June 23, 1933, through December 27, 1968. McNeil's 35½-year run as host remains the longest tenure for an emcee of a network entertainment program, surpassing Johnny Carson (29½ years) on The Tonight Show and Bob Barker (34⅔ years) on The Price Is Right, albeit split between radio and television, whereas the latter two were television only.
History
In Chicago during the early 1930s, McNeill was assigned to take over an unsponsored early morning variety show, The Pepper Pot, with an 8 a.m. timeslot on the NBC Blue Network. McNeill re-organized the hour as The Breakfast Club, dividing it into four segments which McNeill labeled "the Four Calls to Breakfast".
McNeill's revamped show premiered in 1933, combining music with informal talk and jokes often based on topical events, initially scripted by McNeill but later ad-libbed. The series eventually gained a sponsor in the Chicago-based meat packer Swift and Company, beginning February 8, 1941. McNeill is credited as the first performer to make morning talk and variety a viable radio format.
Format and performers
The show's structure was tightly formatted to fit the needs of its audience, who could wake up and eat breakfast while it was on, and then leave for work or school. Every quarter-hour came the "Call to Breakfast" — including the popular "march around the breakfast table," a rousing band march. In addition to comedy performances, vocal groups and soloists, and instrumental dance music, regular segments included inspirational verse, conversations with members of the studio audience, and a moment of silent prayer. There was often a "trip down memory lane," as audience members recalled their decades-earlier encounters with the show, such as being born while it was on the air, or knitting socks for Don McNeill's baby when he announced the birth on-air. Riddles and jokes were submitted and performed by audience members, shout-outs were made to the home towns of those in attendance. and brief interviews were conducted with groups of high school students and members of clubs and trade organizations who were visiting Chicago.
The program showcased many musicians and comedians, including Fran Allison (later of Kukla, Fran and Ollie fame) as "Aunt Fanny", plus Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers, and comedy bits by Sam Cowling. Guests included Bob Hope, Emmett Kelly, Ilka Chase, Warren Hull, Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly, the Anita Kerr Singers, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Jerry Lewis, and Charlie Applewhite, with Ted Mack as a guest host. Featured vocalists on the show included Dick Noel, Anita Bryant, Cathie Taylor, and, under her professional name of Annette King, Charlotte Thompson Reid, who later became an Illinois congresswoman for five terms (1962–71). Eileen Parker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Computing%20Classification%20System
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The ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) is a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The system is comparable to the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) in scope, aims, and structure, being used by the various ACM journals to organize subjects by area.
History
The system has gone through seven revisions, the first version being published in 1964, and revised versions appearing in 1982, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1998, and the now current version in 2012.
Structure
It is hierarchically structured in four levels. For example, one branch of the hierarchy contains:
Computing methodologies
Artificial intelligence
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Ontology engineering
See also
Computer Science Ontology
Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme
arXiv, a preprint server allowing submitted papers to be classified using the ACM CCS
Physics Subject Headings
References
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External links
dl.acm.org/ccs is the homepage of the system, including links to four complete versions of the system:
the 1964 version
the 1991 version
the 1998 version
the current 2012 version.
The ACM Computing Research Repository uses a classification scheme that is much coarser than the ACM subject classification, and does not cover all areas of CS, but is intended to better cover active areas of research. In addition, papers in this repository are classified according to the ACM subject classification.
Computing Classification System
Classification systems
Computer science literature
1964 in computing
Computer-related introductions in 1964
Computing Classification System
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue%20system
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A dialogue system, or conversational agent (CA), is a computer system intended to converse with a human. Dialogue systems employed one or more of text, speech, graphics, haptics, gestures, and other modes for communication on both the input and output channel.
The elements of a dialogue system are not defined because this idea is under research, however, they are different from chatbot. The typical GUI wizard engages in a sort of dialogue, but it includes very few of the common dialogue system components, and the dialogue state is trivial.
Background
After dialogue systems based only on written text processing starting from the early Sixties, the first speaking dialogue system was issued by the DARPA Project in the USA in 1977. After the end of this 5-year project, some European projects issued the first dialogue system able to speak many languages (also French, German and Italian). Those first systems were used in the telecom industry to provide phone various services in specific domains, e.g. automated agenda and train tables service.
Components
What sets of components are included in a dialogue system, and how those components divide up responsibilities differs from system to system. Principal to any dialogue system is the dialogue manager, which is a component that manages the state of the dialogue, and dialogue strategy. A typical activity cycle in a dialogue system contains the following phases:
The user speaks, and the input is converted to plain text by the system's input recogniser/decoder, which may include:
automatic speech recogniser (ASR)
gesture recogniser
handwriting recogniser
The text is analysed by a natural language understanding (NLU) unit, which may include:
Proper Name identification
part-of-speech tagging
Syntactic/semantic parser
The semantic information is analysed by the dialogue manager, which keeps the history and state of the dialogue and manages the general flow of the conversation.
Usually, the dialogue manager contacts one or more task managers, that have knowledge of the specific task domain.
The dialogue manager produces output using an output generator, which may include:
natural language generator
gesture generator
layout manager
Finally, the output is rendered using an output renderer, which may include:
text-to-speech engine (TTS)
talking head
robot or avatar
Dialogue systems that are based on a text-only interface (e.g. text-based chat) contain only stages 2–5.
Types of systems
Dialogue systems fall into the following categories, which are listed here along a few dimensions. Many of the categories overlap and the distinctions may not be well established.
by modality
text-based
spoken dialogue system
graphical user interface
multi-modal
by device
telephone-based systems
PDA systems
in-car systems
robot systems
desktop/laptop systems
native
in-browser systems
in-virtual machine
in-virtual environment
robots
by style
command-based
menu-driven
natural language
speech
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPEI
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WPEI (95.9 FM) is a WEEI Sports Radio Network station serving the Portland, Maine, area. The station is owned by Atlantic Coast Radio.
History
On July 18, 1982, WPEI signed on as WPIG with a country format and the slogan "Southern Maine's Country: FM-96 WPIG". In 1984, it became hot adult contemporary WHYR with slogans "Your Stereo", and then "R-96". In July 1990, WHYR flipped to contemporary hit radio as "96-HYR". In 1995, WHYR changed calls to WRED, but kept the same format and was known on air as "Red Hot 95" with the slogan "Portland's Hot Hits". Some time later, WRED went rhythmic top 40 as "Red Hot 95.9" with the slogan "Maine's #1 for Blazin' Hot Hits".
On August 31, 2008, at 6p.m., WRED dropped its rhythmic top 40 format after a farewell from station DJs (airstaff and listeners had been notified a week in advance). WRED and WJJB-FM (which was simulcasting The Big JAB) then flipped to programming provided by Boston's WEEI, with the simulcast of The Big JAB moving to 96.3 FM. (WGEI had initially planned to use the WTEI call sign, and for a week in September 2008 used the WUEI call letters.)
Up until April 1, 2009, WEEI's programming was also heard on sister station WGEI (95.5 FM), and the stations were known as WEEI on the 95's. As of April 2009, WGEI was simulcasting AM sister station WLOB, as WLOB-FM; that station eventually returned to simulcasting with WPEI in August 2011, and is now WPPI.
Programming
WPEI does not carry Boston College football. It does carry Boston Celtics basketball, as well as Boston Red Sox baseball in tandem with The Big JAB. WPEI carries ESPN Radio when not airing WEEI; it had previously carried Fox Sports Radio (now on The Big JAB) and Sporting News Radio (simulcast from The Big JAB, before WZAN dropped the FSR affiliation). WPEI has been the flagship station of the Portland Sea Dogs since 2012, taking over for WBAE/WVAE that year.
References
External links
WEEI official website
PEI
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1982
PEI
Saco, Maine
1982 establishments in Maine
ESPN Radio stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emporis%20Skyscraper%20Award
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The Emporis Skyscraper Award was an award for architectural excellence regarding the design of buildings and their functionality.
The award was presented annually by Emporis, a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The award is given to the building representing the "Best new skyscraper for design and functionality". To qualify, nominated buildings must have been completed during the year of the award, and must be at least 100 meters in height. Nominees and winners were chosen by Emporis editors, and the award would have been announced the following January and is usually presented at the following spring or summer. Prior to 2000, the award was known as the Skyscrapers.com Award.
Winners of the Emporis Skyscraper Award
See also
Emporis
List of architecture prizes
References
External links
Emporis Awards Official Site
Architecture awards
Skyscrapers
Year of establishment missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20Words
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After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network's weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
The program airs on Saturday at 10 p.m. Eastern Time, with encores on Sunday at 12 p.m. and at 9 p.m., and Monday at 12 a.m.
History
After Words debuted on January 2, 2005, with Norman J. Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute interviewing Newt Gingrich about his book Winning the Future. , After Words has produced more than 260 hours of programming.
Noteworthy authors and guest hosts who have appeared on the program include: Jimmy Carter, interviewed by Douglas Brinkley; Bob Dole, interviewed by Rick Atkinson; Andrea Mitchell interviewed by Samuel Robert Lichter and Simon Schama interviewed by Edna Medford.
Show format
The program is an hour-long author interview-based talk show, focusing on non-fiction writers, with different participants each week. On each program an author is interviewed about their book by a guest host who is an expert on the topic of the book. The goal of this format, as stated by C-SPAN, is to put a "different spin" on the usual format of author interview programs. After Words is now a weekly part of Book TV'''s schedule, along with History on Book TV, Book Parties and Festivals, Public Lives and Encore Booknotes''.
References
External links
Literary criticism
C-SPAN original programming
2005 American television series debuts
2000s American television talk shows
2010s American television talk shows
2020s American television talk shows
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20%28computer%20vision%29
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In computer vision and image processing, a feature is a piece of information about the content of an image; typically about whether a certain region of the image has certain properties. Features may be specific structures in the image such as points, edges or objects. Features may also be the result of a general neighborhood operation or feature detection applied to the image. Other examples of features are related to motion in image sequences, or to shapes defined in terms of curves or boundaries between different image regions.
More broadly a feature is any piece of information which is relevant for solving the computational task related to a certain application. This is the same sense as feature in machine learning and pattern recognition generally, though image processing has a very sophisticated collection of features. The feature concept is very general and the choice of features in a particular computer vision system may be highly dependent on the specific problem at hand.
Definition
There is no universal or exact definition of what constitutes a feature, and the exact definition often depends on the problem or the type of application. Nevertheless, a feature is typically defined as an "interesting" part of an image, and features are used as a starting point for many computer vision algorithms.
Since features are used as the starting point and main primitives for subsequent algorithms, the overall algorithm will often only be as good as its feature detector. Consequently, the desirable property for a feature detector is repeatability: whether or not the same feature will be detected in two or more different images of the same scene.
Feature detection is a low-level image processing operation. That is, it is usually performed as the first operation on an image, and examines every pixel to see if there is a feature present at that pixel. If this is part of a larger algorithm, then the algorithm will typically only examine the image in the region of the features. As a built-in pre-requisite to feature detection, the input image is usually smoothed by a Gaussian kernel in a scale-space representation and one or several feature images are computed, often expressed in terms of local image derivative operations.
Occasionally, when feature detection is computationally expensive and there are time constraints, a higher level algorithm may be used to guide the feature detection stage, so that only certain parts of the image are searched for features.
There are many computer vision algorithms that use feature detection as the initial step, so as a result, a very large number of feature detectors have been developed. These vary widely in the kinds of feature detected, the computational complexity and the repeatability.
When features are defined in terms of local neighborhood operations applied to an image, a procedure commonly referred to as feature extraction, one can distinguish between feature detection approaches that produce local decisi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Corporation
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Amiga Corporation was a United States computer company formed in the early 1980s as Hi-Toro. It is most famous for having developed the Amiga computer, code named Lorraine.
History
1982
In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari staffers, had become fed up with management and decamped. In September 1982, they set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, California, called Hi-Toro (which meant "high bull" to them, later renamed to Amiga), where they could have some creative freedom. There, they started to create a new 68000-based games console, codenamed Lorraine, that could be upgraded to a full-fledged computer. The initial start-up financing of Amiga Corporation was provided by three dentists in Florida, who later regained their investment once Commodore bought the company.
To raise money for the Lorraine project, Amiga designed and sold joysticks and game cartridges for popular game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, as well as an input device called the Joyboard, essentially a joystick the player stood on.
1983
During development in 1983, Amiga had exhausted venture capital and was desperate for more financing. Jay Miner approached his former employer, Atari, which then paid Amiga to continue development work. In return Atari was to obtain one-year exclusive use of the design. Atari had plans for a 68000-based machine, code-named "Mickey", that would have used customized chips, but details were sparse.
During this period a downturn started in the video game business that turned into the Video game crash of 1983. By the end of the year, Atari was losing about $1 million a day, and its owner, Warner Communications, sought to sell the company. For some time, no one was interested.
1984
Meanwhile, at Commodore International a fight was brewing between Jack Tramiel, the president, and Irving Gould, the primary shareholder. Tramiel was pressing the development of a 32-bit machine to replace their earlier Commodore 64 and derived machines, fearing a new generation of machines like the Apple Macintosh would render the 64 completely obsolete. The fighting continued until Tramiel was dismissed on January 13, 1984.
Tramiel formed a holding company, Tramel Technology, Ltd., (a phonetic spelling of "Tramiel") and visited various US computer companies with the intention of purchasing a company for manufacturing and possible technology acquisitions. Tramiel visited Mindset (run by Roger Badersher, former head of Atari's Computer Division), and Amiga. Amiga's talks eventually fell through as Tramiel told Amiga staff that he was very interested in the chipset, but not the staff. In the meantime, he had set his chief engineer (former Commodore engineer Shiraz Shivji) the task of developing a new low-cost, high-end computer system.
Tramiel's design for his next generation computer was 95% completed by June (which only fueled speculation that Shivji and other engineers had taken technology with them from
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping%20lemma%20for%20context-free%20languages
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In computer science, in particular in formal language theory, the pumping lemma for context-free languages, also known as the Bar-Hillel lemma, is a lemma that gives a property shared by all context-free languages and generalizes the pumping lemma for regular languages.
The pumping lemma can be used to construct a proof by contradiction that a specific language is not context-free. Conversely, the pumping lemma does not suffice to guarantee that a language is context-free; there are other necessary conditions, such as Ogden's lemma, or the Interchange lemma.
Formal statement
If a language is context-free, then there exists some integer (called a "pumping length") such that every string in that has a length of or more symbols (i.e. with ) can be written as
with substrings and , such that
1. ,
2. , and
3. for all .
Below is a formal expression of the Pumping Lemma.
Informal statement and explanation
The pumping lemma for context-free languages (called just "the pumping lemma" for the rest of this article) describes a property that all context-free languages are guaranteed to have.
The property is a property of all strings in the language that are of length at least , where is a constant—called the pumping length—that varies between context-free languages.
Say is a string of length at least that is in the language.
The pumping lemma states that can be split into five substrings, , where is non-empty and the length of is at most , such that repeating and the same number of times () in produces a string that is still in the language. It is often useful to repeat zero times, which removes and from the string. This process of "pumping up" with additional copies of and is what gives the pumping lemma its name.
Finite languages (which are regular and hence context-free) obey the pumping lemma trivially by having equal to the maximum string length in plus one. As there are no strings of this length the pumping lemma is not violated.
Usage of the lemma
The pumping lemma is often used to prove that a given language is non-context-free, by showing that arbitrarily long strings are in that cannot be "pumped" without producing strings outside .
For example, if is infinite but does not contain an (infinite) arithmetic progression, then is not context-free. In particular, neither the prime numbers nor the square numbers are context-free.
For example, the language can be shown to be non-context-free by using the pumping lemma in a proof by contradiction. First, assume that is context free. By the pumping lemma, there exists an integer which is the pumping length of language . Consider the string in . The pumping lemma tells us that can be written in the form , where , and are substrings, such that , , and for every integer . By the choice of and the fact that , it is easily seen that the substring can contain no more than two distinct symbols. That is, we have one of five possibilities for :
for some
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm%20OS%20Simulator
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Palm OS Simulator (also known as PalmOS Simulator) is a version of the Palm OS compiled for x86-based computers. No emulation is used, as it runs natively on top of Microsoft Windows.
There are only Palm OS simulators for Palm OS 5 and newer. The Palm OS Emulator requires a ROM file of a real Palm, however the Simulator uses specific builds for different devices.
There are simulators for reference releases of Palm OS 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 and 6.1, and also device-specific simulators (Tungsten C, Treo 650, LifeDrive, etc.).
See also
POSE (Palm OS Emulator)
StyleTap
Garnet VM
References
External links
Device specific simulators and more, account required. It is very difficult to find any real information on ROMs belonging to specific Palm models.
MotionApps Classic
Palm OS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%2C%20Inc.
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Amiga, Inc. is a company that used to hold some trademarks and other assets associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation).
Early years
In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari, Inc. staffers, set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga Corporation), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari, Inc. went into contract with Amiga for licensed use of the chipset in a new high end game console and then later for use in a computer system. $500,000 was advanced to Amiga to continue development of the chipset. Amiga negotiated with Commodore International two weeks prior to the contract deadline of 30 June 1984. In August 1984, Atari Corporation, under Jack Tramiel, sued Amiga for breach of contract. The case was settled in 1987 in a closed settlement. (See "Amiga Corporation".)
In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who in turn went bankrupt in 1996. The Commodore-Amiga assets were then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for the Amiga. However, in 1999, Gateway sold the assets (except for the patents, which were only licensed) to Amino Development for almost 5 million dollars. Gateway still retained ownership to the Commodore-Amiga patents. The last of the Commodore-Amiga patents (EP0316325B1 for "Cursor controlled user interface system", based on US887053) expired on July 14, 2007.
Dispute and settlement with Hyperion
Amiga, Inc. licensed the rights to make hardware using the AmigaOne brand to a computer vendor based in the UK, Eyetech Group. However, due to poor sales Eyetech suffered substantial losses and ceased trading.
In 2007 Amiga, Inc. announced specs for a new line of Amiga computers: low end and high models. At the same time Amiga, Inc. sued Hyperion Entertainment, a company developing AmigaOS 4 for AmigaOne boards for trademark infringement in the Washington Western District Court in Seattle, USA. The company claimed Hyperion was in breach of contract, citing trademark violation and copyright infringement concerning the development and marketing of AmigaOS 4.0.
Also in 2007, Amiga, Inc. intended to become the naming-rights sponsor for a planned ice hockey arena in Kent, Washington, but failed to deliver a promised down payment.
Pentti Kouri, chairman of the board and a primary source of capital for Amiga, Inc., died in 2009.
On 20 September 2009 Amiga Inc and Hyperion Entertainment reached a settlement where Hyperion is granted an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide right to AmigaOS 3.1 in order to use, develop, modify, commercialize, distribute and market AmigaOS 4.x and subsequent versions of AmigaOS (including AmigaOS 5).
Licensing rights
In 2010 Commodore USA announced they acquired the rights to the Amiga name and relaunch Amiga branded desktops running AROS
and Linux, which however Hyperion Ente
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping%20Flash%21%202
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Jumping Flash! 2, known in Japan as , is a platform video game developed by Exact and MuuMuu and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1996. It is the direct sequel to Jumping Flash!, which was released the previous year. It was later re-released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable via the PlayStation Network in 2009.
The game revolves around the robotic rabbit Robbit as he searches for lost MuuMuus, which are scattered throughout different levels in the game by Captain Kabuki. Robbit must explore each expansive new world to recapture all the lost MuuMuus. As with its predecessor, the game is presented in a first-person perspective. Much of the interface was transferred from the first Jumping Flash! to the second in order to save time during development. New features include a much longer draw distance, updated enemy AI and a meter displaying whether or not Robbit can triple-jump.
Similar to its predecessor, Jumping Flash! 2 was well received by critics, who praised the game for its updated interface, advanced graphics and gameplay. However, also like its predecessor, it was criticised for its short length, lack of challenging gameplay and close similarities to the first game. Despite this, Jumping Flash! 2 gained enough popularity to spawn a final sequel, Robbit Mon Dieu.
Plot
The game is set an undisclosed amount of time after the first installment in the series, Jumping Flash!. After Robbit denounces Baron Aloha's plans to take over Crater Planet (events from the first game), Aloha flees for his life and returns to his home planet, Little Muu.
While planning his revenge, however, Aloha's turn to face the fear of having his planet attacked comes. A hostile alien invader known as Captain Kabuki (voiced by Lorelei King) descends upon Little Muu and starts taking it apart, piece by piece, contrasting on what Aloha himself had once tried to do to Crater Planet in the first game. Aloha flees the onslaught in his space pod, and lands on an asteroid far away from Little Muu, where he calls for help from his sworn enemy, Universal City Hall. Once again, Robbit is dispatched to help, and manages to free the parts of Little Muu which Kabuki has taken, and ultimately faces Kabuki one-on-one in mortal combat. Robbit defeats Kabuki, resulting in the latter escaping.
Still carrying a grudge against Robbit, Aloha seeks Kabuki and convinces him to form an alliance so that they can destroy Robbit together. In exchange, Aloha will pay Kabuki a large amount of money, and Kabuki, also desiring revenge against Robbit, agrees. Aloha and Kabuki attack Little Muu together, prompting Robbit to take action again. Eventually, Robbit and Kabuki battle each other one last time, and Robbit manages to destroy Kabuki once and for all while Aloha flees for his life once again. At the end of the game, Aloha returns to Little Muu, but is disowned by all the MuuMuus, who now resent him for teaming with Kabuki (who had tried to destroy th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20line%20segment%20intersection
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In computational geometry, the multiple line segment intersection problem supplies a list of line segments in the Euclidean plane and asks whether any two of them intersect (cross).
Simple algorithms examine each pair of segments. However, if a large number of possibly intersecting segments are to be checked, this becomes increasingly inefficient since most pairs of segments are not close to one another in a typical input sequence. The most common, and more efficient, way to solve this problem for a high number of segments is to use a sweep line algorithm, where we imagine a line sliding across the line segments and we track which line segments it intersects at each point in time using a dynamic data structure based on binary search trees. The Shamos–Hoey algorithm applies this principle to solve the line segment intersection detection problem, as stated above, of determining whether or not a set of line segments has an intersection; the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm works by the same principle to list all intersections in logarithmic time per intersection.
See also
Bentley–Ottmann algorithm
References
Further reading
Chapter 2: Line Segment Intersection, pp. 19–44.
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition. MIT Press and McGraw-Hill, 1990. . Section 33.2: Determining whether any pair of segments intersects, pp. 934–947.
J. L. Bentley and T. Ottmann., Algorithms for reporting and counting geometric intersections, IEEE Trans. Comput. C28 (1979), 643–647.
External links
Intersections of Lines and Planes Algorithms and sample code by Dan Sunday
Robert Pless. Lecture 4 notes. Washington University in St. Louis, CS 506: Computational Geometry (cached copy).
Line segment intersection in CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
"Line Segment Intersection" lecture notes by Jeff Erickson.
Line-Line Intersection Method With C Code Sample Darel Rex Finley
Geometric algorithms
Geometric intersection
Computational geometry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Arrested%20Development%20episodes
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Arrested Development is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the Fox network from November 2, 2003, to February 10, 2006. Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, the show centers on the Bluth family, a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family, and is presented in a continuous format, incorporating hand-held camera work, narration, archival photos, and historical footage. The series stars Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter. Ron Howard serves as an executive producer on the show, as well as its narrator.
The first season consists of 22 episodes, which premiered on November 2, 2003, and concluded on June 6, 2004. Fox picked up a full 22-episode second season, which premiered on November 7, 2004, but its production order was later cut down to 18 episodes. The second season concluded on April 17, 2005. The show's third season premiered on September 19, 2005, and was also originally slated for 22 episodes, but the production order was later cut down to 13. The final four episodes of the series' original run were shown in one two-hour block on February 10, 2006, against NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. A total of 53 episodes of Arrested Development were produced over its original three seasons.
Since its debut, the series has won a variety of different awards including six Primetime Emmy Awards (including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2004), three Television Critics Association Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award. Despite widespread approval from critics, Arrested Development never gained a sizable audience and was canceled by Fox in 2006.
In November 2011, however, it was announced that Netflix would license a new season. The fourth season of Arrested Development began filming in August 2012 and debuted on Netflix's streaming video service on May 26, 2013. Netflix announced on May 17, 2017, that it officially renewed the series for a fifth season, which consists of 16 episodes split into two eight-episode parts; the first half premiered on May 29, 2018, and the second half on March 15, 2019.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2003–04)
The first season of Arrested Development consists of 22 episodes, which are listed below as ordered on the DVD collection and not in their original broadcast/production order.
Season 2 (2004–05)
The second season of Arrested Development consists of 18 episodes, which are listed below as ordered on the DVD collection and not in their original production order.
Season 3 (2005–06)
The third season of Arrested Development consists of 13 episodes, which are listed below as ordered on the DVD collection and not in their original production order.
Season 4 (2013)
Six years after the show had been canceled by Fox, filming for a revived fourth season began on August 7, 2012. The season consists of 15 new episodes, which debuted at the sam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Computing%20Services
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RCS, originally Radio Computing Services, is a provider of scheduling and broadcast software for radio, Internet and television stations.
History
RCS was founded in 1979 by Dr. Andrew Economos. The idea for RCS and its first product, Selector, came to him when he was in charge of computing activity at NBC. Economos saw a need for a way to automate the music scheduling process at company-owned stations, and replace the existing paper-based system, and he proposed the development of music scheduling software.
NBC executives deemed the project not important enough for the network to commit resources to. Economos left NBC after 15 years to develop the product on his own. Initial marketing of Selector was difficult due to the high cost of personal computers, and some resistance from stations who wanted to keep their paper-based scheduling systems. Sales of Selector gradually improved, and by 2006, the product had around 6,000 client stations in 100 countries.
On January 26, 2006, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) purchased RCS as a subsidiary company. Clear Channel had acquired automation software company Prophet Systems in 1997. In January 2007, Clear Channel announced that the two companies would be merged. In September 2018, at the NextRadio conference in London, RCS president Philippe Generali announced that GSelector and Zetta would be available as cloud services.
Family of Companies
As RCS has grown, the company has made several acquisitions.
Air Check real-time analysis of songs and commercials
Florical Systems television automation and integrated playout
Hit Predictor listeners rate popular songs
Mediabase monitored airplay information
Media Monitors local media monitoring
Test All Media digital media research platform
RCS2GO mobile
Revma streaming solutions
References
External links
RCS website
Check website
Florical Systems website
Hit Predictor website
Mediabase website
Media Monitors website
Test All Media website
website
The state of the radio industry - the role of RCS in the industry. (June 21, 1996)
Multinational companies headquartered in the United States
Software companies based in New York (state)
Software companies established in 1979
American companies established in 1979
2006 mergers and acquisitions
2007 mergers and acquisitions
IHeartMedia
Software companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Deering
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Michael Frank Deering (born 1956) is a computer scientist, a former chief engineer for Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California, and a widely recognized expert on artificial intelligence, computer vision, 3D graphics hardware/software, very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design and virtual reality. Deering oversaw Sun's 3D graphics technical strategy as the chief hardware graphics architect and is a co-architect of the Java 3D API, developing Java platform software. He is the inventor of deferred shading, inventor of Geometry compression, co-inventor of 3D-RAM, and the chief architect for a number of Sun's 3D graphics hardware accelerators. Many of his inventions have been patented.
Deering's research endeavors have included development of correct perspective viewing equations, correcting for the optics of both human eyeballs and glass cathode ray tubes, predictive head trackers and other virtual reality interface hardware.
Deering has published articles on computer graphics architectures, virtual reality systems, and 3D interface technologies.
Education and early career
In 1978, Deering received his bachelor's degree, and in 1981 his PhD, in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an alumnus of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley.
Prior to his tenure with Sun, Deering worked for Schlumberger Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, engaged in graphics and imaging research.
Published works
2002 'The SAGE graphics architecture', Michael Deering, David Naegle, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques SIGGRAPH '02, volume 21, no 3, ACM Press
2000 The Java 3d API Specification with Cdrom, Henry Sowizral, Kevin Rushforth, Michael Deering, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co.
1998 "Introduction to Programming with Java 3D", Henry Sowizral, Dave Nadeau, Michael Deering, Mike Bailey, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, SIGGRAPH '98, ACM Press
1995 "Geometry compression", Michael Deering, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, SIGGRAPH '95, vol 29, p 13-20, ACM Press,
1992 "High resolution virtual reality", Michael Deering, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques SIGGRAPH '92, vol 26, no 2, p 195-202, ACM Press
1988 "The triangle processor and normal vector shader: a VLSI system for high performance graphics", Michael Deering, Stephanie Winner, Bic Schediwy, Chris Duffy, Neil Hunt, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, SIGGRAPH '88, vol 22, no 4, p 21-30, ACM Press
1986 Database Support for Storage of AI Reasoning Knowledge. In Expert Database Systems, M. Deering, J. Faletti, Benjamin Cummings (publisher)
References
External links
MichaelFrankDeering.com - Michael D
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Television
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Bangladesh Television (), commonly known by its acronym BTV (), is the state-owned television network of Bangladesh. The network was originally established as the East Pakistan branch of PTV in 1964. It is the oldest Bengali-language television network in the world, and is the sister to the radio broadcaster Bangladesh Betar, which, along with BTV, are both owned and operated by the government.
Bangladesh Television is the country's only television network provided on terrestrial television. It is primarily financed through television licence fees. Although it has produced many award-winning programs, it has often been accused of being the mouthpiece of the government and their lack of quality programming. Both the headquarters and the administrative building of Bangladesh Television are located at Rampura in Dhaka.
Prior to the late 1990s, Bangladesh Television was the sole television broadcaster provided in Bangladesh, and was a very successful network in terms of viewership until the launch of several satellite television channels, which led to the network's downfall and stagnation, mostly due to the fact that it was used for spewing government propaganda ever since Bangladesh's independence.
It operates two main television stations, BTV Dhaka and BTV Chittagong, and fourteen relay stations all over Bangladesh, along with a satellite television channel, BTV World. It is a member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and Asiavision, and is an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union. Bangladesh Television also plans to launch six more television channels.
BTV can be received via satellite throughout Asia and parts of Europe and Africa. Bangladesh Television is also the sister network of Sangsad Television, a parliamentary television channel. BTV World is also to be converted into an independent entertainment television channel with a different schedule compared to BTV Dhaka. BTV Dhaka broadcasts eighteen hours a day on terrestrial television, and twenty-four hours a day on satellite television. Its satellite feed relays BTV World's transmissions during the off-air hours of its terrestrial feed. BTV Chittagong broadcasts on a full-day basis daily.
History
1964–1971: Pakistan Television era
BTV first commenced transmissions on 25 December 1964 at 19:00 (Dhaka Standard Time), as a pilot project in the then East Pakistan under the name, Pilot Television Dhaka, airing a song titled "Oi Je Akash Nil Holo Akash", sang by singer Ferdausi Rahman. It broadcast from the DIT Bhaban on a four-hour basis, with broadcasting equipments provided by NEC. After three months on the air, it was officially converted into a service of Pakistan Television.
This was Pakistan Television's second television station after the one in Lahore. The first drama telecast on PTV's Dacca television station, Ektala Dotala, written by Munier Choudhury, was aired in 1965. The reality television series Notun Kuri premiered on the station in 1966. It was later tak
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Kiss TV is a music television channel owned by Channel Four Television based on the format of the Bauer Media Audio UK-owned national radio station Kiss.
The channel's programming predominantly consists of classic and mainstream hip-hop, dance, grime, EDM and R&B music videos.
History
The original incarnation of Kiss TV was created by Guy Wingate, was bought back in to head up EMAP's fledgling TV division by then Kiss Chief Executive and the station's original founder, Gordon 'Mac' McNamee. The channel ran for one hour a night on the Mirror Group's L!VE TV cable circuit and after a year moved up to the Granada satellite and cable platform, taking a similar slot in the evening.
Although the original idea for the channel was proposed in 1993 (three years after Kiss FM launched as a legal station).
The channel's presenters included DJs such as BBC Radio 1's Judge Jules. By the time the channel was one year old, it had attracted major sponsorship from blue-chip brands such as Levi's, Sony consumer products and The Guardian.
Availability
The channel is available on digital television platforms and is part of a network of channels owned by The Box Plus Network. On 2 April 2013, all Box Television channels went free-to-air on satellite, apart from 4Music which went free-to-view. As a result, the channels were removed from the Sky EPG in Ireland. However, Kiss TV launched on Freesat on 15 April 2013, alongside three other Box Television channels. Kiss TV and its sister channels returned to Freesat on 8 December 2021.
Kiss TV also broadcasts in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Pay-TV channel, through various digital TV providers without commercials. Music videos are played in place of commercials.
See also
Kiss Network
Kiss 100 London
Kiss 101
Kiss 105-108
References
External links
Kiss TV on Box Plus
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
Channel 4 television channels
Kiss Network
Music video networks in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 1998
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Route 55 was a tram route on the Melbourne tram network. The 12.5 kilometre route operated between Coburg West and Domain Interchange, was operated out of Essendon depot with Z and B-class trams. It ceased on 30 April 2017 and was replaced by route 58.
History
Proposals for a tram or railway route to West Coburg date to the late 19th century. Construction of the tramway began in 1923, initially only to Brunswick West, then extended to Bell Street in 1927. The tramway was extended south to St Kilda Road during World War II to alleviate congestion during the war. Proposed extensions north of Bell Street have not been constructed.
Until November 1986, route 55 operated from West Coburg to St Kilda Beach via William Street, St Kilda Road and Fitzroy Street. Route 56 offered a truncated service that ran from West Coburg to Domain Road. Following the opening of a terminating platform at Domain Interchange on 14 November 1986, through-routing to St Kilda Beach was discontinued.
Between 1971 and July 2005 route 55 (and 56 before 1986) only operated on Mondays to Saturdays. On Sundays, the section from West Coburg to the city was covered by route 68. Route 55 began to run seven days a week from 1 August 2005, with its first Sunday services on 7 August 2005.
During the 2006 Commonwealth Games the route was merged with route 5 to Malvern to alleviate congestion along St Kilda Road.
On 30 April 2017 as part of works associated with the closure of Domain Interchange and construction of Anzac railway station, route 55 ceased. It was replaced by route 58 that traversed the same route as route 55, and then continued south from Domain Interchange to Toorak, partly replacing route 8.
Route description
The route ran along Melville Road from the Bell Street intersection, then Dawson Street, Grantham Street, through to Royal Park along a scenic track passing the Royal Park Golf Course and the Melbourne Zoo, coming out at Flemington Road where it intersected Abbotsford Street, then it travelled along Peel Street, William Street, Flinders Lane, Market Street, Queens Bridge, Queensbridge Street, Kings Way and finally Park Street before terminating at the Domain Interchange.
Route 68
Route 68 was a Sunday-only version of the route 55 service from West Coburg, diverting at Haymarket roundabout to operate along Elizabeth Street to Flinders Street station, instead of along William Street from Domain Interchange. First operated on 6 July 1971, the route was withdrawn on 31 July 2005 when route 55 was altered to operate seven days a week.
Operation
Routes 55 was operated out of Essendon depot with Z and B class trams.
Route map
References
External links
055
1995 establishments in Australia
2017 disestablishments in Australia
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is a video game in the Mega Man Battle Network series for mobile phones developed by Capcom. The game was only released and made available in Japan. It is most well known for featuring five original characters that did not appear in any other video games: the magician with his NetNavi and son , as well as the NetNavis and Cache. All of these characters, however, appeared in the Rockman EXE anime series. The game was followed by a Japan-exclusive sequel for mobile phones entitled Rockman EXE Legend of Network.
As of January 1, 2018, Phantom of Network, along with Legend of Network, has been taken offline and is no longer available for purchase.
References
External links
ケータイカプコン：i-mode (Official homepage)
Phantom of Network
Role-playing video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Mobile games
Tactical role-playing video games
Video games developed in Japan
2004 video games
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Metadata management involves managing metadata about other data, whereby this "other data" is generally referred to as content data. The term is used most often in relation to digital media, but older forms of metadata are catalogs, dictionaries, and taxonomies. For example, the Dewey Decimal Classification is a metadata management system developed in 1876 for libraries.
Metadata schema
Metadata management goes by the end-to-end process and governance framework for creating, controlling, enhancing, attributing, defining and managing a metadata schema, model or other structured aggregation system, either independently or within a repository and the associated supporting processes (often to enable the management of content). For web-based systems, URLs, images, video etc. may be referenced from a triples table of object, attribute and value.
Scope
With specific knowledge domains, the boundaries of the metadata for each must be managed, since a general ontology is not useful to experts in one field whose language is knowledge-domain specific.
Metadata Manager
In the process of developing a knowledge management solution, creating a metadata schema, and a system in which metadata is managed, a dedicated resource may be appointed to maintain adherence to metadata standards as defined by data owners as well as general best practice. This person is responsible for curation of the business and technical layers of the metadata schema, and commonly involved with strategy and implementation. A metadata manager is not required to master all aspects, or be involved with everything concerning the solution, but an understanding of as much of the process as possible to ensure a relevant schema is developed.
Metadata management over time
Managing the metadata in a knowledge management solution is an important step in a metadata strategy. It is part of the strategy to make sure that the metadata are complete, current and correct at any given time. Managing a metadata project is also about making sure that users of the system are aware of the possibilities allowed by a well-designed metadata system and how to maximize the benefits of metadata. Regularly monitoring the metadata to ensure that the schema remains relevant is advised.
Wikipedia metadata
Wikipedia is a project that actively manages metadata for its articles and files. For example, volunteer editors carefully curate new biographical articles based on the notability (claim to fame), name, birth, and/or death dates. Similarly, volunteer editors carefully curate new architectural articles based on name, municipality, or geo coordinates. When new articles with a valid alternate spelling are added to Wikipedia that match up to existing articles based on metadata, these are then manually checked and if needed, tagged for merging. When new articles are added that are considered out of scope or otherwise unfit for Wikipedia, these are nominated for deletion. To help keep track of metadata on Wikipedia, the
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The CAMEL Application Part (CAP) is a signalling protocol used in the Intelligent Network (IN) architecture. CAP is a Remote Operations Service Element (ROSE) user protocol, and as such is layered on top of the Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) of the SS#7 protocol suite. CAP is based on a subset of the ETSI Core and allows for the implementation of carrier-grade, value added services such as unified messaging, prepaid, fraud control and Freephone in both the GSM voice and GPRS data networks. CAMEL is a means of adding intelligent applications to mobile (rather than fixed) networks. It builds upon established practices in the fixed line telephony business that are generally classed under the heading of (Intelligent Network Application Part) or INAP CS-2 protocol.
Protocol specification
The CAMEL Application Part (CAP) portable, software provides mechanisms to support operator services beyond the standard GSM services for subscribers roaming within or outside the Home PLMN (HPLMN). The CAP product extends the IN framework to GSM/3G networks for implementing IN-based services within GSM/3G networks.
CAMEL is used when the subscriber is roaming between networks, allowing the home network to monitor and control calls made by the subscriber. CAMEL provides services such as prepaid roaming services, fraud control, special numbers (e.g., 123 for voicemail that works everywhere) and closed user groups (e.g., office extension numbers that work everywhere).
As with CAMEL, CAP has been defined in four phases, each of which has an accompanying specification that builds upon the previous phase. Each CAP phase provides the message set and procedures needed to support the corresponding CAMEL phase requirements, as defined in 3GPP TS 22.078 (service aspects) and 3GPP TS 23.078 (technical realization).
The definition of the protocol may be considered to be split into three sections:
the definition of the Single Association Control Function (SACF)/Multiple Association Control Function (MACF) rules for the protocol, defined within the prose of the specification;
the definition of the operations transferred between entities, defined using Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1);
the definition of the actions taken at each entity, defined by the state transition diagrams.
References
Signaling System 7
Application layer protocols
Year of introduction missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKWT-FM
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CKWT-FM is a radio station of Wawatay Radio Network in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada. The station airs a programming format for First Nations, and serves much of Northwestern Ontario through a network of rebroadcast transmitters.
Rebroadcasters
Notes
On March 4, 2016, the CRTC approved Wawatay's application for a broadcasting licence to operate a low-power Type B Native FM radio station in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. The station would operate at 89.9 MHz (channel 210A1) with an effective radiated power of 224 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height above average terrain of 18.5 metres).
See also
CIDE-FM
CHWR-FM
CJWT-FM
References
External links
Query the REC's Canadian station database for Wawatay Native Communications Society
Kwt
Kwt
Sioux Lookout
Year of establishment missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Frazer%20%28architect%29
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John Frazer (born 1945, Lancashire, England) is a British architectural academic.
Frazer's early work in computer technologies related to architecture, urbanism and design was developed at the Architectural Association in London, Cambridge University and the University of Ulster (where he was awarded a personal chair in 1984). He has been Swire Chair Professor, Head of the School of Design and Director of the Design Technology Research Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Head of the School of Design at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. He is Professor of Digital Design at The European Graduate School.
Publication
Frazer J.H., An Evolutionary Architecture, Architectural Association, London, 1995
References
External links
Personal Web site http://www.johnfrazer.com/
20th-century English architects
1945 births
Living people
Academic staff of Queensland University of Technology
21st-century English architects
Architects from Lancashire
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Eagle Computer, Inc., was an early American computer company based in Los Gatos, California. Spun off from Audio-Visual Laboratories (AVL), it first sold a line of popular CP/M computers which were highly praised in the computer magazines of the day. After the IBM PC was launched, Eagle produced the Eagle 1600 series, which ran MS-DOS but were not true clones. When it became evident that the buying public wanted actual clones of the IBM PC, even if a non-clone had better features, Eagle responded with a line of clones, including a portable. The Eagle PCs were always rated highly in computer magazines.
CP/M models
Multi-image models
The AVL Eagle I and II had audio-visual connectors on the back. As a separate company, Eagle sold the Eagle I, II, III, IV, and V computer models and external SCSI/SASI hard-disk boxes called the File 10 and the File 40.
The first Eagle computers were produced by Audio Visual Labs (AVL), a company founded by Gary Kappenman in New Jersey in the early 1970s to produce proprietary large-format multi-image equipment. Kappenman introduced the world's first microprocessor-controlled multi-image programming computers, the ShowPro III and V, which were dedicated controllers. In 1980, AVL introduced the first non-dedicated controller, the Eagle. This first Eagle computer used a 16 kHz processor and had a 5-inch disk drive for online storage.
The Eagle ran PROCALL (PROgrammable Computer Audio-visual Language Library) software for writing cues to control up to 30 Ektagraphic projectors, five 16 mm film projectors and 20 auxiliary control points. Digital control data was sourced via an RCA or XLR-type audio connector at the rear of the unit. AVL's proprietary "ClockTrak" (a biphase digital timecode similar to, but incompatible with SMPTE timecode) was sourced from the control channel of a multitrack analog audio tape deck. The timed list of events in the Eagle was synchronized to the ClockTrak. Later versions of PROCALL included the option of using SMPTE timecode.
Most programmers abandoned ClockTrak for SMPTE, as more multi-image programs began to incorporate video.
Two separate digital data streams were output from the Eagle via RCA or XLR-type audio connectors. These two telemetry streams, called "PosiTrak", each controlled up to five external slide projector control devices manufactured by AVL, known as "Doves". The Dove units received biphase data from the Eagle via audio cables and interpreted the Eagle's data streams to control as many as three Kodak Ektagraphic projectors (for large screens, compatible Xenon-lamped projectors) and two dry-closure contacts per Dove unit. So then, on its own, the AVL Eagle can drive a multi-image slideshow of up to 30 projectors. AVL also made the Raven, a device similar to the Dove, for comprehensive control of a single 16 mm film projector and numerous other external control devices for lighting, sound, video projectors, and sources, etc.
When properly set up and powered, AVL Ea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20memory
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The term external memory is used with different meanings in different fields:
For the use of the term in psychology, see external memory (psychology)
For the use of the term in computing, see auxiliary memory
For the use of the term in computer science, see external memory algorithm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karloff%E2%80%93Zwick%20algorithm
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The Karloff–Zwick algorithm, in computational complexity theory, is a randomised approximation algorithm taking an instance of MAX-3SAT Boolean satisfiability problem as input. If the instance is satisfiable, then the expected weight of the assignment found is at least 7/8 of optimal. There is strong evidence (but not a mathematical proof) that the algorithm achieves 7/8 of optimal even on unsatisfiable MAX-3SAT instances. Howard Karloff and Uri Zwick presented the algorithm in 1997.
The algorithm is based on semidefinite programming. It can be derandomized using, e.g., the techniques from to yield a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm with the same approximation guarantees.
Comparison to random assignment
For the related MAX-E3SAT problem, in which all clauses in the input 3SAT formula are guaranteed to have exactly three literals, the simple randomized approximation algorithm which assigns a truth value to each variable independently and uniformly at random satisfies 7/8 of all clauses in expectation, irrespective of whether the original formula is satisfiable. Further, this simple algorithm can also be easily derandomized using the method of conditional expectations. The Karloff–Zwick algorithm, however, does not require the restriction that the input formula should have three literals in every clause.
Optimality
Building upon previous work on the PCP theorem, Johan Håstad showed that, assuming P ≠ NP, no polynomial-time algorithm for MAX 3SAT can achieve a performance ratio exceeding 7/8, even when restricted to satisfiable instances of the problem in which each clause contains exactly three literals. Both the Karloff–Zwick algorithm and the above simple algorithm are therefore optimal in this sense.
References
Approximation algorithms
Randomized algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Television
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Global Television or Global TV may refer to:
Global Television Network, a major English-language television network in Canada
CanWest Global, its former corporate owner
Global News, its news division
Global Television (Australia), an Australia-based television production company
Global TV (T&T), a television station in Trinidad and Tobago
Global TV (Venezuela), a regional television station in Venezuela, serving the state of Zulia
Global News Network, a news channel in the Philippines shown on the Global Destiny Cable line up
GTV (Indonesia), formerly Global TV, a television network in Indonesia
Global Television, a television channel in Bangladesh.
Red TV (Peru), formerly Global Televisión, a television network in Peru
See also
China Global Television Network, a government-owned broadcaster based in China
Global Broadcasting, a television broadcaster based in Rhode Island
Rede Globo, a television network in Brazil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican%20Mission%20in%20Canada
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The Anglican Coalition in Canada (ACiC) is a Canadian Anglican group that is part of the Anglican Mission in the Americas.
Silas Ng is the bishop of the ACiC and Peter Klenner is the Network Leader. Many of the congregations came from the Diocese of New Westminster, while others are located in Vancouver Island, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. The group was formed a month after the New Westminster synod voted to allow the blessing of same sex unions, in July 2002.
The ACiC was founded as the Anglican Communion in Canada. However, in 2005, Corporations Canada asked ACiC to change its name since the Anglican Church of Canada is the sole representative of the Anglican Communion in Canada.
See also
Anglican Communion Network
Anglican Essentials Canada
Anglican Network in Canada
References
External links
Anglican Coalition in Canada website
Anglican Church in North America
Anglican realignment
Anglicanism in Canada
Christian organizations established in 2002
Anglican denominations established in the 21st century
2002 establishments in Canada
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Phred on Your Head Show is an American children's television series produced for Noggin, a cable channel co-founded by MTV Networks and Sesame Workshop. The first episode aired on June 6, 1999. Noggin aired encore showings of the first episode throughout June and started airing the show regularly on July 26, 1999. The show stars a small green character named Phred, voiced by Doug Preis, who has his own variety show. In each episode, Phred hops across different people's heads to find a host, who then chooses a selection of Noggin programs to play.
Phred was animated by two studios: MTV Animation and Possible Worlds. The show was linked with Noggin's website, Noggin.com, and Phred's home was said to be inside the "dot" of Noggin.com. The episodes encouraged viewers to visit Noggin.com and send in their own ideas, comments, and questions for future episodes. These were integrated into the show as part of a segment called "Phred's Got Mail." Other segments called "We Show It" and "Out of Your Mind" featured short films that were created by Noggin viewers.
Phred on Your Head Show debuted to successful ratings, posting a 2.2 Nielsen score in 1999. Multichannel News reported that the show drew record traffic to Noggin's website. The show ran for two seasons and aired its last new episode on September 9, 2001, with a spin-off series called The URL with Phred Show later premiering in its place. The spin-off was formatted as an online art showcase hosted by Phred, and it had more emphasis on viewers' submissions to Noggin.com.
Format
Opening
The show opens with a prologue explaining Phred's backstory. He was a mascot for a pickle company called Phantastic Pickles and lived on a pickle jar. One day, Phred's pickle jar rolled off of a supermarket shelf and set him free. He was curious about the outside world and looked for a good place to think, which led him to the dot of Noggin.com. There, he became Noggin's spokesperson and went from "pickle jar to TV star."
The rest of the show centers on Phred presenting his own variety show from the head of a child. An unseen character named Big Voice gives Phred the name of the upcoming episode's host. Phred hops from head to head of different people, and when he finds the host, a stop-motion theme song plays. It has replaceable lyrics that change to fit in the host's name. Once the host has been introduced, Phred tells the Noggin crew to "pickle" the host. This teleports the host and Phred into Noggin.com, where they choose different Noggin programs to show.
Segments
Featured content - Each episode usually includes clips from certain Noggin programs while Phred is "searching" for the host. These include Doug, Nick News, Dirk Niblick of the Math Brigade, The Further Adventures of Zook & Alison, Sesame Street Unpaved, Mathnet, and The Electric Company. Occasionally, a short from "Snick Snack" or Short Films by Short People was also shown.
Cecile and Her Very Own Universe - A series of animated shorts, speciall
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The Andrew Marr Show is a Sunday morning talk show presented by Andrew Marr. It was broadcast on BBC One from 2005 to 2021.
The programme replaced the long-running Breakfast with Frost as the network's flagship Sunday talk show when David Frost decided to retire. Originally launched as Sunday AM, it was renamed The Andrew Marr Show in September 2007 when the show returned after its summer break. Marr interviewed political figures and others involved in the current events of the week in every episode. The programme begins with a review of the Sunday papers, for which Marr is joined by two or three different guests. It also featured BBC News and BBC Weather updates. The programme shared a studio with Sunday Politics, Newsnight and HARDtalk, BBC World News, GMT, Impact, Global and Focus on Africa. Following Marr's departure from the BBC in 2021, the show was broadcast under the temporary title Sunday Morning.
Editors included Rob Burley and founding editor Barney Jones, whose last show was on 18 January 2015. The programme's title sequence was a pastiche of the television series The Prisoner. The programme was recorded at New Broadcasting House after September 2012.
The programme aired for the final time on 19 December 2021, and was replaced by Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, which began airing on 4 September 2022.
Guests
The Andrew Marr Show usually featured one Cabinet-level UK minister, a representative from the Opposition, one big-name, non-political guest and two or three celebrities or journalists to review the Sunday papers. A guest live music act closed the programme.
Notable interviewees included: Dmitry Medvedev (then President of Russia), Morgan Tsvangirai (then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe), Tony Hayward (then CEO of BP), Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Ban Ki-moon (UN Secretary-General), Michael Caine, Kevin Rudd (then Prime Minister of Australia), David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Musical guests included: Tom Jones, Sting, Jay-Z, Snow Patrol, George Ezra, James Bay, Rag 'n' Bone Man, Sir Ray Davies, Marc Almond, Jools Holland, Florence and the Machine, Lulu, Boy George, and Sir Elton John.
Guest presenters
Summer replacement
Guest presenters hosted the programme through July and it was replaced in August by BBC News at Nine.
Guest presenters included: Zeinab Badawi, Sophie Raworth, Fiona Bruce, Stephanie Flanders, Huw Edwards, Martha Kearney, Emily Maitlis, James Landale and Jeremy Vine.
2013 guest presenters
In January 2013, Marr suffered a stroke and was replaced by guest presenters. Marr appeared as a guest on the show on 14 April to speak about Margaret Thatcher's legacy, and spoke about the incident and his recovery. Paralysis of the left side of his body was evident, but his speech was unaffected, and he expressed determination to return to the presenter's role. Marr conducted pre-recorded interviews with David Miliband and David Cameron for the editions of 14 and 21 July respectively, and retu
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"Lisa the Greek" is the fourteenth episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 23, 1992. In the episode, Homer bonds with Lisa when he discovers her ability to pick winning football teams. When Lisa learns her father is only using her talent to help him gamble, she thinks he does not care for her.
The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, and directed by Rich Moore. The episode was designed to satirize the Simpsons staff members' "love affair with gambling, particularly on football". "Lisa the Greek" references both the Super Bowl and the National Football League (NFL). It aired only days before Super Bowl XXVI, and correctly predicted that the Washington Redskins would win.
Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 14.2, and was the highest-rated show on Fox the week it aired.
Plot
When Lisa complains to Marge that Homer does not share her interests, Marge suggests doing something he likes, so Lisa watches a televised football game with him. After being cheated by a premium rate betting advice hotline, a desperate Homer asks Lisa to pick a winner. She picks the Miami Dolphins, so Homer calls Moe's Tavern to place a $50 bet. Homer and Lisa celebrate the Dolphins' victory.
Since Lisa is adept at picking winning teams, Homer declares every Sunday during football season Daddy-Daughter Day. Lisa sustains her winning streak for eight weeks, earning her father more money as the Super Bowl approaches. Homer buys his family expensive gifts and meals with his gambling earnings. When Lisa asks Homer if they can go hiking the Sunday after the Super Bowl, he tells her that Daddy-Daughter Days are over until next football season. Lisa realizes that Homer only wanted her to help him gamble and does not treasure her company.
After a nightmare in which she dreams that her childhood sports betting with Homer caused her to grow up to become a compulsive gambler, Lisa, completely heartbroken, gives away all the toys Homer bought her with his betting stash. She tells Homer who will win the game, but she warns him that she is so distraught she might unconsciously want him to lose. She makes a cryptic prediction: if she still loves him, Washington will win; if she does not, then Buffalo will prevail. As Homer anxiously watches the game at Moe's, Washington scores at the last second and wins. Overjoyed that his daughter still loves him, Homer cancels his bowling date with Barney and goes hiking with Lisa the very next weekend.
In the subplot, Marge arranges a Mother-Son Day with Bart by taking him clothes shopping. She forces him to try on unfashionable clothes and humiliates him by flinging open the fitting room door, causing Sherri and Terri and the other customers to laugh at him in his underwear. Bart spends the rest of the day locked in the car to avoid
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In computing, rpath designates the run-time search path hard-coded in an executable file or library. Dynamic linking loaders use the rpath to find required libraries.
Specifically, it encodes a path to shared libraries into the header of an executable (or another shared library). This RPATH header value (so named in the Executable and Linkable Format header standards) may either override or supplement the system default dynamic linking search paths.
The rpath of an executable or shared library is an optional entry in the .dynamic section of the ELF executable or shared libraries, with the type DT_RPATH, called the DT_RPATH attribute. It can be stored there at link time by the linker. Tools such as chrpath and patchelf can create or modify the entry later.
Use of the DT_RPATH entry by the dynamic linker
The different dynamic linkers for ELF implement the use of the DT_RPATH attribute in different ways.
GNU ld.so
The dynamic linker of the GNU C Library searches for shared libraries in the following locations in order:
The (colon-separated) paths in the DT_RPATH dynamic section attribute of the binary if present and the DT_RUNPATH attribute does not exist.
The (colon-separated) paths in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, unless the executable is a setuid/setgid binary, in which case it is ignored. LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be overridden by calling the dynamic linker with the option --library-path (e.g. /lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path $HOME/mylibs myprogram).
The (colon-separated) paths in the DT_RUNPATH dynamic section attribute of the binary if present.
Lookup based on the ldconfig cache file (often located at /etc/ld.so.cache) which contains a compiled list of candidate libraries previously found in the augmented library path (set by /etc/ld.so.conf). If, however, the binary was linked with the -z nodefaultlib linker option, libraries in the default library paths are skipped.
In the trusted default path /lib, and then /usr/lib. If the binary was linked with the -z nodefaultlib linker option, this step is skipped.
Failing to find the shared library in all these locations will raise the "cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error.
Notes:
readelf -d <binary_name> | grep 'R.*PATH' displays the RPATH or RUNPATH of a binary file. In gcc, for instance, one could specify RPATH by -Wl,-rpath,/custom/rpath/.
The option --inhibit-rpath LIST of the dynamic linker instructs it to ignore DT_RPATH and DT_RUNPATH attributes of the object names in LIST. To specify a main program in the LIST, give empty string.
Libraries specified by the environment variable LD_PRELOAD and then those listed in /etc/ld.so.preload are loaded before the search begins. A preload can thus be used to replace some (or all) of the requested library's normal functionalities, or it can simply be used to supply a library that would otherwise not be found.
Static libraries are searched and linked into the ELF file at link time and are not searched at ru
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinemation
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Kinemation was one of the first inverse kinematics packages for 3D computer animation, created for Wavefront Technologies' package The Advanced Visualizer (TAV). In 1995, Wired described Kinemation as "a huge breakthrough in motion animation". It was used in the mid-1990s by companies such as Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company (Judge Dredd). Portions of Kinemation were disassembled and re-assembled into Alias-Wavefront's flagship product Maya.
References
External links
An Animation That Was made in 1995 with Kinemation, pre-Maya (mirror, original site unavailable)
Kleiser Walczak Studios
Robotics software
Computer graphics
1990s in robotics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus%20Data%20Shield
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Cactus Data Shield (CDS) is a form of CD/DVD copy protection for audio compact discs developed by Israeli company Midbar Technologies. It has been used extensively by EMI (subsequently acquired by Sony Music), BMG and their subsidiaries. CDS relies on two components: Erroneous Disc Navigation and Data Corruption.
As of September 2006, all of Macrovision's CD copy protection products, including CDS, had quietly disappeared from their website. The December 2006 issue of Billboard announced that EMI had decided to abandon Copy Control worldwide.
History
Erroneous Disc Navigation
CDS discs contain an initial audio session, similar to that of an unprotected disc. In addition the disc contains a second (data) session and a software player configured for auto-play with a lower-quality, compressed version of the audio for it to play.
The second session on the disc causes some CD/DVD players to hang, typically some car players (allegedly using CD-ROM drive mechanisms) and some MP3 capable players that can see but not understand the second data session.
The second session has been circumvented by another method, which is to either place masking tape around the disc near the edge, or mark a strip next to the edge with permanent marker. Because it is a multi-session disc, this method will hide the second session, leaving only the first audio session visible. This trivial circumvention of Macrovision's copy protection allows protected CDs to be copied using CD-ROMs or played in CD players that struggled to understand CDS multi-session discs.
On older Windows operating systems, disabling auto-play either once when loading the disc, or permanently, can stop the software player from launching and may be all that is required to access the audio session for drives that recognise both sessions. Newer versions of Windows since Vista have fixed the auto-run vulnerability thus all the user needs to do is simply choose not to run the software.
A side effect of the second session containing the music in compressed form is that the maximum length of music on a CDS disc is reduced, being approximately 70 minutes. The remaining space is use for the compressed audio (and the player software and other files though these are small by comparison).
Data Corruption
The second aspect of Cactus Data Shield is careful corruption of the audio data, as described in the Midbar patent "Prevention of disk piracy" US patent number 6,425,098. As usual for patents this is freely available on the US Patent Office web site.
In summary the method described detects during mastering when the waveform of the music comes close to being a straight line for at least the size of a "frame" (information on the disc is encoded in blocks or sectors, each sector contains 98 frames of music for a CDDA disc) and marks the frame and replaces it with erroneous data that violates the T.sub.max (according to the IEC 908) in which there is no transition between the high and low data levels (1 to 0
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20knowledge%20networking
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Personal knowledge networks are methods for organizations to identify, capture, evaluate, retrieve, and share information. This method was primarily conceived by researchers to facilitate the sharing of personal, informal knowledge between organizations. Instead of focusing on the organizational context, some researchers investigate the intra-firm aspects at the personal level of organizational knowledge networks, where knowledge management (KM) processes both begin and end. Various technologies and behaviors support personal knowledge networking, including wikis, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), and relationship networks. Researchers propose that knowledge management can occur with little explicit governance. This trend is referred to as "grassroots KM" as opposed to traditional, top-down enterprise KM.
Origin
New models have emerged for the continuous operation of knowledge management. Apart from formal arrangements for official alliances, individuals often know each other and interact beyond their official duties, leading to knowledge flows and learning.
Drawbacks of Traditional Knowledge Management
Traditional Knowledge Management focuses more on technology than on social interaction. Organizations should first look at the culture inherent inside, as it significantly affects the social interaction among members involved.
Technical Support from Social Network
Social software provides an answer to this previous question. It is a means of giving people what they want in terms of their traditional knowledge management activities, in a way that also benefits the firm.
Comparison between KM and PKN
Structural Aspect
Content-Centric vs User-Centric
A content-based process is regarded as a major factor leading to the incompatibility of Knowledge Management in the current situation. In contrast, a user-based process focuses on each individual in a learning process, shifting the driving force of knowledge from an organization's content database to the learners themselves. Furthermore, knowledge can only be evaluated or managed by individuals, emphasizing its unique nature.
Centralized vs Distributed
In the PKN model, knowledge learning is undertaken with a high consideration of its natural distributed format. In comparison, the centralized feature has been proven to perform well in guiding an organized and structured learning session. However, the well-structured guidance could hardly satisfy the various and timely requirements of today's users.
Top-Down vs Bottom-Up
Top-down models and hierarchically controlled structures are the enemies of innovation. In general, learners and knowledge workers love to learn, but they hate not being given the freedom to decide how they learn and work (Cross, 2003). Given this fact, a better way to cope with this system is to let them develop and emerge naturally in a free-form way, which could be abstracted to a bottom-up structure.
Enforcement vs Voluntary
Traditional KM mainly adopts a pushing model
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEAF%20%28AM%29
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WEAF (1130 AM) is an Urban contemporary gospel formatted radio station in Camden, South Carolina, United States. The station is owned by Jeff Andrulonis. Much of the programming is featured from the Rejoice! Musical Soul Food satellite feed.
On November 8, 2016 WEAF was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to move to 1120 kHz from a new transmitter site, change the community of license to Saint Stephen, decrease day power to 390 watts and eliminate night operation.
History
At one time, this station had the letters WAME and an adult standards format. Then-owners GHB Broadcasting switched the format to Sports Talk and changed the callsign to WQIS.
In 2006, Glory Communications Inc. purchased WEAF from Colonial Radio Group Inc., and the format was Urban contemporary gospel.
From 1922 to 1946, WEAF was the callsign of the radio station that became WNBC and the flagship station of the NBC Red network. This station is now known as WFAN (AM) in New York. In the mid-1970s, WEAF was the callsign of the current WPTI in Eden, North Carolina.
Ownership
Colonial Radio Group acquired then-WQIS in 2003. In April 2006, Glory Communications Inc. (Alex Snipe, president) reached an agreement to purchase WEAF from Colonial Radio Group Inc. (Jeffrey Andrulonis, president) for a reported sale price of $222,500.
References
External links
Kershaw County, South Carolina
Gospel radio stations in the United States
EAF
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
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Jigsaw is a television crime drama that aired as an element of the wheel series The Men, part of the ABC network's 1972-73 lineup. Universal Television produced Jigsaw; the same studio had previously been responsible for a series which, in part, inspired The Men: The NBC Mystery Movie.
Overview
The program starred James Wainwright as Lt. Frank Dain, who worked as an investigator for the California State Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons. Dain was a rebel who chafed at standard police procedures and techniques, but was always effective in finding the person for whom he was searching. He pieced each case together as if it were a jigsaw puzzle. Shortly before the series' cancellation, Dain was booted from the bureau and set up shop as a private eye.
Episodes
References
External links
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1970s American crime drama television series
1972 American television series debuts
1973 American television series endings
Television series by Universal Television
English-language television shows
Television shows set in California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Lotus%20Spring
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The Legend of Lotus Spring is a graphical adventure computer game co-developed by Women Wise and Xing Xing and released on Valentine's Day in 2000 in North America. It was originally released by Xing Xing in 1998 in China.
Development
Conception
The game was created by Vancouver-based developer Xing Xing. The Toronto-based publisher Women Wise found out about the game by accident; Xing Xing had sent it to many publishers, and they had found it on someone's reject pile. WomenWise founder and producer Anne-Marie Huurre took and played it, and thought it was worth pursuing. Women Wise decided that the game's fringe target market should be "older girls, young women". This is because Huurre had a positive response when she tested the finished game on women due to its animation, visuals, and pace.
Design
She decided to target the game specifically to women due to there being so few female-targeted games on the market. Huurre proposed that Dreamcatcher Interactive distribute it. Other publishers had rejected it due to fears it wouldn't sell due to girls not playing games. Dreamcatcher believed in the concept, but required more work to be done on the game before release, so Women Wise officially became the game's second developer. They worked with historians to recreate the Garden of Perfect Brightness, an 800-acre secret hideaway for the elite outside of Beijing. Huurre added production values that would appeal specifically to the female demographic, for instance commissioning a free PDF novella set in the world of the game, which was written by romance author C. Anne Williams. Williams' research included the culture and history of the Garden of Perfect Brightness, and reading Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China by Sterling Seagrave, and The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China by Caleb Carr, as well as the history of the British-Sino opium wars. The team hoped to release the novella as an audiobook. They cross-promoted the game with the free PDF off of iReadRomance.com. There was also a contest to win a Rocket eBook from Rocket Reader when players purchased the game or entered on the women-wise web site. They were also developing CDs and a TV program to add to the project. The Legend of Lotus Spring became the first title released under the Women Wise brand.
Plot and gameplay
The Legend of Lotus Spring is set during the Qing dynasty with a historical Chinese theme. It takes place in Beijing's Yuan Ming Yuan, a real-world location. The plot centres around the love between the ruling emperor Xian Feng and the women he loves - a concubine called HeHanQu who he renamed Lotus Spring who live together in the Garden of Perfect Brightness, until she disappears. The finished game uses a real-world historical background, and features an emotional story centered on its characters, in the style of Myst.
Critical reception
In reviewing the game, IGN said that, "in the quest to make a game suit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDR
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NDR may refer to:
Computing
Non delivery report, a return email message to a sender indicating failed message delivery
Network Data Representation, an implementation of the OSI model presentation layer
Network Detection and Response, (Security) detects abnormal system behaviors on the network traffic data.
Science and technology
Negative differential resistance
Naming and Design Rules in metadata
Neighborhood deformation retract, a kind of topological subspace
National Data Repository, a system to store data about a nation's natural resources
Others
Nador International Airport (IATA code name: NDR), airport in Morocco
National Driver Register, United States
Norddeutscher Rundfunk, a public radio and television broadcaster in northern Germany
Norwich Northern Distributor Road or Broadland Northway, a major route around the north of Norwich, England
Singapore National Day Rally, an annual address that the Prime Minister of Singapore makes to the nation
Non-invasive disc rehabilitation, NDR Method
Nash Dom Rossiya (Наш Дом Россия, Our Home – Russia), Russian political party
North Diversion Road, which is a nickname to North Luzon Expressway and formerly its official name
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINTO
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MINTO (Mixed Integer Optimizer) is an integer programming solver which uses branch and bound algorithm.
MINTO is a software system that solves mixed integer programming problem by a branch and bound algorithm with linear programming relaxations. It also provides automatic constraint classification, preprocessing, primal heuristics and constraint generation. It also has inbuilt cut generation and can create knapsack cuts, GUB cuts, clique cuts, implication cuts, flow cuts, mixed integer rounding and Gomory cuts. Moreover, the user can enrich the basic algorithm by providing a variety of specialized application routines that can customize MINTO to achieve higher efficiency for a problem class.
MINTO does not have a linear programming (LP) solver of its own. It can use most of the LP solvers, like CLP, CPLEX, XPRESS through the OSI interface of COIN-OR. MINTO can read files in MPS and can also be called as a solver from AMPL. It can run on both Linux and Windows operating system. MINTO is a non-commercial solver and the executables are available for free download from its home page at COR@L.
See also
COIN-OR (Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research)
References
J.T. Linderoth and T.K. Ralphs, Noncommercial Software for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming, Integer Programming: Theory and Practice, John Karlof (ed.), CRC Press Operations Research Series, 2005, 253–303. (Working Paper Version PDF)
External links
MINTO Homepage
Mathematical optimization software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rome%20%28TV%20series%29%20episodes
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Rome, a dramatic television series created by John Milius, William J. MacDonald and Bruno Heller, premiered on 28 August 2005 on the HBO Network in the United States and ended on 25 March 2007, after 2 seasons and a total of 22 episodes.
Rome is a historical drama depicting the period of history surrounding the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire; a change driven by civil warfare between radical populares and conservative optimates, the decay of political institutions, and the actions of ambitious men and women.
The first and second seasons of Rome were released on DVD in the U.S. in 2006 and 2007, respectively; and Blu-ray versions were released in 2011. A complete series box set with additional features was released in 2009, on both DVD and Blu-ray.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2005)
Season 2 (2007)
References
External links
Lists of American drama television series episodes
Lists of British drama television series episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockman.EXE
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Rockman.EXE may refer to:
Mega Man (character), the main protagonist of the Mega Man multimedia franchise (known in Japan as Rockman.EXE)
Mega Man Battle Network (originally titled Rockman.EXE in Japan), part of the Mega Man franchise of video games
Mega Man Battle Network (video game), the first game in the series (released in Japan as Battle Network Rockman EXE)
MegaMan NT Warrior (released in Japan under the name Rockman.EXE), the anime and manga series based upon the Battle Network series
See also
Mega Man – a multimedia franchise known as Rockman in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS-X
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MIPS-X is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor and instruction set architecture (ISA) developed as a follow-on project to the MIPS project at Stanford University by the same team that developed MIPS. The project, supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), began in 1984, and its final form was described in a set of papers released in 1986–87. Unlike its older cousin, MIPS-X was never commercialized as a workstation central processing unit (CPU), and has mainly been seen in embedded system designs based on chips designed by Integrated Information Technology (IIT) for use in digital video applications.
MIPS-X, while designed by the same team and architecturally very similar, is instruction-set incompatible with the mainline MIPS architecture R-series processors. The MIPS-X processor is obscure enough that, as of November 20, 2005, support for it is provided only by specialist developers (such as Green Hills Software), and is notably missing from the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
MIPS-X has become important among DVD player firmware hackers, since many DVD players (especially low-end devices) use chips based on the IIT design (and produced by ESS Technology), as their central processor. Devices such as the ESS VideoDrive system on a chip (SoC) also include a digital signal processor (DSP) (coprocessor) for decoding MPEG audio and video streams.
External links
The original MIPS-X paper from Stanford
Instruction set architectures
MIPS architecture
Stanford University
32-bit microprocessors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamation%20%28software%29
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Dynamation was a 3D computer graphics particle generator program sold by Wavefront to run on SGI's IRIX operating system as part of The Advanced Visualizer. The core software was originally developed by Jim Hourihan while at Santa Barbara Studios, a visual effects company owned by effects pioneer John Grower. The software was licensed to Wavefront Technologies in 1992, and passed through to the merged company Alias/Wavefront. It was introduced as a product at SIGGRAPH in 1993. In 1996, Jim Hourihan received a Scientific and Engineering Award for the primary design and development of Dynamation.
Dynamation could create behavioral particle systems that responded to gravity, air resistance, and other real world physics. It gave users an interactive environment to create and modify dynamic events such as water, clouds, rain, fire and dust. The interactive aspect of this software was revolutionary at the time. Users were able to change parameters and the particle system updated in real time.
The software was used to create visual effects in movies such as Twister, Last Action Hero, Balto, Crimson Tide, Heaven's Prisoners, Michael, Moses, Anaconda, Godzilla, Stuart Little, and Starship Troopers. It was also utilized in the opening credits of Star Trek: Voyager to create an intricate interaction of the starship traveling through cosmic dust.
Dynamation's interactive particle engine has been integrated into the 3D computer graphics package Maya and is no longer sold as a separate product.
References
3D graphics software
Animation software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV%20%28TV%20station%29
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HSV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, its first and oldest station. It launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne. HSV-7 is the home of AFL coverage.
The HSV building (also known as 'Broadcast Centre Melbourne') was the network's operations hub, where the Master Control Room was located, controlling all metropolitan and regional feeds. Programming lineup, advertisement output, feed switching, time zone monitoring and national transmission output was previously delivered there. All Seven Network owned and operated studios had their live signals relayed there: for instance, ATN's output was fed to HSV and then transmitted via satellite or fibre optics to towers around metropolitan Sydney. In 2019 this function was transferred to a new centre in Sydney as part of a joint venture with Nine Network. As with other Melbourne terrestrial stations, its original transmission tower was atop Mount Dandenong.
History
HSV-7 began test transmissions in July 1956, becoming the first 7 station in Australia and the first television station in Melbourne. It began broadcasting on 4 November, soon after the Commonwealth Government started issuing television licences. In the opening ceremony, Eric Pearce declared :
HSV-7 and rival station GTV-9 were formed in time to broadcast the Melbourne Olympics, while Sydney stations TCN-9 and ATN-7 in Sydney relayed the Melbourne coverage. HSV-7 was originally owned by the Herald & Weekly Times, owners of The Herald and The Sun (now merged as the Herald Sun). These two newspapers gave rise to the call sign HSV (the 'V' stands for Victoria, as is the normal protocol for television call signs to have the third letter indicate the state where the station is licensed, although for publicity purposes HSV was said to stand for Herald Sun Vision just as sister station ATN became the Australian Television Network rather than New South Wales).
In March 1960, the station converted an old cinema in Fitzroy into the southern hemisphere's first fully remote studio, equipped with RCA TRT video tape recorders, camera cranes and AV mixing equipment. It featured a larger stage and backstage rooms, and audience capacity for up to 600. It was called the Channel 7 Teletheatre and connected to the station's main Dorcas Street studios in South Melbourne by multiple microwave links. The teletheatre opened with a major live show featuring the US entertainer Bob Crosby and his band and the British comedian Jimmy Edwards, among others. Many popular children's shows and variety programs (e.g. Sunnyside Up and The Happy Show) originated there in front of live audiences.
This station commissioned many of Australian TV's earliest and longest-running courtroom and police procedural dramatic series such as Crawford's Consider Your Verdict and Homicide.
One of the longest-serving station and general managers during the tr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20Emergency%20%28TV%20series%29
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Medical Emergency is an Australian reality television series screened on the Seven Network. Medical Emergency is narrated by actor Chris Gabardi who also appeared in drama series All Saints. It was previously hosted and narrated by actress Georgie Parker, who also appeared in All Saints. Medical Emergency is filmed under strict protocol at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital's trauma unit.
Medical Emergency is a ratings hit in Australia and has screened alongside other popular reality series such as Border Security, Police Files: Unlocked and The Real Seachange. A second series started airing Tuesday nights at 8:00pm from 17 July 2007. A third series started airing Tuesday nights at 9:30pm from 8 April 2008. Then three weeks later it was moved to Wednesdays at 8:00pm. The last new episode aired in 2010, however repeats are still aired on the Seven Network on a regular basis.
One notable inclusion is registrar Brett Sutton, who would go on to be Victoria's Chief Health Officer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
See also
List of Australian television series
RPA
Young Doctors
Kings Cross ER: St Vincent's Hospital
References
External links
Channel Seven
Medical Emergency – Official Site
Australian medical television series
Australian factual television series
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
2005 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian reality television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20Li%3A%20Rise%20to%20Honor
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Jet Li: Rise to Honor is an action-adventure video game developed by Foster City Studio (now San Mateo Studio) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It was originally released in 2004. The game features the likeness, voice acting and motion capture work of martial arts actor Jet Li, and features martial arts choreography by Corey Yuen. It is notable for being the only game fully developed by San Mateo Studio, which is located in Sony Computer Entertainment's headquarters and mainly does support work.
Gameplay
Rise to Honor features a cinematic presentation designed to mimic an action film, with no loading screens and sections of the game split up into "scenes". A DVD-like chapter selection menu allows the player to go back to any past scenes once they have been cleared previously.
Played from a third-person perspective, the majority of the game is a beat 'em up, with the player using the right analog stick to direct blows at enemies, similar to the Xbox game Star Wars: Obi-Wan. The game also features a number of levels where the player uses firearms with unlimited ammunition. During levels, the player constantly builds up a store of adrenaline, which the player can unleash to perform powerful hand-to-hand combat strikes. An alternative is, when using firearms, the player initiates a temporary bullet time mode similar to the video game Max Payne. During the firearm scenes, the player can take cover behind various objects such as garbage cans or walls.
Plot
The game follows Kit Yun (Jet Li), an undercover Hong Kong police officer who is assigned as a bodyguard to Boss Chiang, a friend of Kit's father. A year into Kit's undercover assignment, Boss Chiang decides to leave the life of organized crime, but not without getting outraged protests by Kwan, one of his associates, only to have various gang members attempt the assassination of Boss Chiang. Despite Kit's efforts, Boss Chiang gets assassinated by a mysterious sniper.
During Chiang's dying moments, he tells Kit to deliver an envelope containing information about the crime syndicate to his estranged daughter, Michelle. Being a childhood friend of Michelle's, Kit obliges and heads for San Francisco to deliver the message to her, despite whatever obstacles come in his way.
In San Francisco, Kit meets up with Chi, friend of Kit and Michelle's. While being pursued by thugs led by local gang boss Billy Soon, Kit and Chi successfully manage to regroup with Michelle only to end up being held captive by Billy. Kit eventually learns that Kwan hired Billy to find the envelope and that Billy is ordered to execute the three of them. Kit and Chi manage to escape captivity, defeat Billy, and free Michelle. After a melee fight, a defeated Billy attempts to shoot Michelle with his handgun, only for Chi to use his body as a human shield, which enrages Kit to kill him. Shortly after Chi succumbs to his gunshot wound, Michelle is resolved to return to Hong Kong and put an end to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20Airways%20Corporation
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Vision Airways Corporation was an airline based in Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
On 25 November 1994 its operating licenses were suspended.
Code data
IATA Code: V6
ICAO Code: VSN
Callsign: VISION
See also
List of defunct airlines of Canada
External links
Canadian Transportation Agency
Defunct airlines of Canada
Airlines disestablished in 1994
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMP128
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The COMP128 algorithms are implementations of the A3 and A8 functions defined in the GSM standard. A3 is used to authenticate the mobile station to the network. A8 is used to generate the session key used by A5 to encrypt the data transmitted between the mobile station and the BTS.
There are three versions of COMP128. They were originally confidential. A partial description of the first version was leaked in 1997 and completed via reverse engineering. This led to a full publication in 1998. The second and third versions were obtained via reverse engineering of software which verifies SIM cards compliance.
Introduction
For details on the way A3 and A8 are used see Authentication Center.
A3 and A8 both take a 128-bit key (Ki) and a 128-bit challenge (RAND) as inputs. A3 produces a 32-bit response (SRES) and A8 produces a 64-bit session key (Kc). A3/A8 is the combined function with Ki and RAND as inputs and SRES and Kc as outputs.
As A3 and A8 are not further specified, operators can freely choose the concrete algorithms used for A3 and A8.
COMP128 algorithms
The COMP128 algorithms implement the A3/A8 function. There are three of them:
COMP128-1 – original algorithm with known weaknesses
COMP128-2 – stronger algorithm which still clears the 10 rightmost bits of Kc
COMP128-3 – same algorithm as COMP128-2 with all 64 bits of Kc generated
All of them are built around a compression function with two 128 bits inputs and one 128 bits output, hence their names. Ki and RAND are used as the inputs of the compression function. Bits from its output are then used to fill SRES and Kc.
COMP128-1 description
COMP128-1 uses a compression function with eight rounds which is based on a butterfly structure with five stages. SRES is filled with the first 32 bits of the output. Kc is filled with the last 54 bits of the output followed by ten zeroes.
For a full description of the algorithm, the reader can view the OsmocomBB implementation.
COMP128-2/3 description
The implementation of COMP128-2 and COMP128-3 is noticeably more complex than COMP128-1. For a full description of the algorithm, the reader can view the OsmocomBB implementation or FreeRADIUS implementation, both based on the Python code from the Secrets of Sim article. COMP128-2 is identical to COMP128-3 except for the fact that at the end, it clears the 10 rightmost bits of Kc.
Security
The COMP128-1 hash function is considered weak because there is insufficient diffusion of small changes in the input. Practical attacks have been demonstrated that can recover the subscriber key from the SIM.
The session keys produced by COMP128-1 and COMP128-2 intentionally have only 54 bits of entropy. This significantly weakens the A5 or A6 encryption.
References
External links
GSM standard
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax%20%28programming%20languages%29
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In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured statements or expressions in that language. This applies both to programming languages, where the document represents source code, and to markup languages, where the document represents data.
The syntax of a language defines its surface form. Text-based computer languages are based on sequences of characters, while visual programming languages are based on the spatial layout and connections between symbols (which may be textual or graphical). Documents that are syntactically invalid are said to have a syntax error. When designing the syntax of a language, a designer might start by writing down examples of both legal and illegal strings, before trying to figure out the general rules from these examples.
Syntax therefore refers to the form of the code, and is contrasted with semantics – the meaning. In processing computer languages, semantic processing generally comes after syntactic processing; however, in some cases, semantic processing is necessary for complete syntactic analysis, and these are done together or concurrently. In a compiler, the syntactic analysis comprises the frontend, while the semantic analysis comprises the backend (and middle end, if this phase is distinguished).
Levels of syntax
Computer language syntax is generally distinguished into three levels:
Words – the lexical level, determining how characters form tokens;
Phrases – the grammar level, narrowly speaking, determining how tokens form phrases;
Context – determining what objects or variables names refer to, if types are valid, etc.
Distinguishing in this way yields modularity, allowing each level to be described and processed separately and often independently. First, a lexer turns the linear sequence of characters into a linear sequence of tokens; this is known as "lexical analysis" or "lexing". Second, the parser turns the linear sequence of tokens into a hierarchical syntax tree; this is known as "parsing" narrowly speaking. Thirdly, the contextual analysis resolves names and checks types. This modularity is sometimes possible, but in many real-world languages an earlier step depends on a later step – for example, the lexer hack in C is because tokenization depends on context. Even in these cases, syntactical analysis is often seen as approximating this ideal model.
The parsing stage itself can be divided into two parts: the parse tree, or "concrete syntax tree", which is determined by the grammar, but is generally far too detailed for practical use, and the abstract syntax tree (AST), which simplifies this into a usable form. The AST and contextual analysis steps can be considered a form of semantic analysis, as they are adding meaning and interpretation to the syntax, or alternatively as informal, manual implementations of syntactical rules that would be difficult or awkward to describe or implement forma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Frontiers%20Georgia
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Electronic Frontiers Georgia (EFGA) is a non-profit organization in the US state of Georgia focusing on issues related to cyber law and free speech. It was founded in 1995 by Tom Cross, Robert Costner, Chris Farris, and Robbie Honerkamp, primarily in response to the Communications Decency Act.
One of the organization's early causes was to oppose Georgia House Bill 1630 (HB1630), an attempt to ban anonymous speech on the internet in Georgia. Though the bill was passed into law, after being challenged in court by the EFGA, the ACLU, and the national Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the law was deemed unconstitutional.
Origins
Electronic Frontiers Georgia began after a suggestion by Stanton McCandlish of the EFF in conversations with Atlanta businessman and computer store owner Robert Costner. Costner expressed concern after Philip Elmer-DeWitt's Time magazine article claimed that pornography was pervasive on the internet. Costner was angered because he thought the article was bogus. While DeWitt later apologized for the article, the "correction by Time sought to downplay, rather than apologize for, misleading their readers". It was a precursor to the Communications Decency Act.
Seeking partners to provide in-kind donations, Costner approached the Georgia ACLU for meeting space and Comstar, an internet hosting company, for rackspace for an internet server from Costner's store.
On local newsgroups Costner announced a public meeting to be held at the ACLU's downtown offices. From this, and similar meetings, Georgia residents joined in and became part of Electronic Frontiers Georgia. Most notable were Tom Cross, Chris Farris, and Robbie Honerkamp. At a later point Andy Dustman and Scott M. Jones joined the organization in significant capacities.
The EFGA's mission is to explore the intersection of public policy and technology.
Distinction from the EFF
Though often confused with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the EFGA is a separate organization. The EFF is the premier online civil liberties organization. The EFF fostered local organizations which had similar goals and names, but which were not chapters of EFF; they were separate organizations. While seeding these organizations the EFF asked that the singular name "Electronic Frontier" not be used, but that the local independent organization use the plural, Electronic Frontiers. The groups have worked together on many projects.
Shari Steele, executive director of EFF shared a stage with Robert Costner, executive director of EFGA at Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston, Georgia. EFF accepted an invitation to participate in the HB1630 lawsuit, and EFGA has signed onto several amicus briefs along with the EFF. The EFF is a regular participant in EFGA's Electronic Frontiers Forums.
Projects
Electronic Frontiers Georgia has led various projects since its inception. These include the HB1630 lawsuit concerning internet anonymity, the Georgia Cracker anonymous remailer, encryption legislat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versit%20Consortium
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The versit Consortium was a multivendor initiative founded by Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM and Siemens in the early 1990s in order to create Personal Data Interchange (PDI) technology, open specifications for exchanging personal data over the Internet, wired and wireless connectivity and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). The Consortium started a number of projects to deliver open specifications aimed at creating industry standards.
Computer Telephony Integration
One of the most ambitious projects of the Consortium was the Versit CTI Encyclopedia (VCTIE), a 3,000 page, 6 volume set of specifications defining how computer and telephony systems are to interact and become interoperable. The Encyclopedia was built on existing technologies and specifications such as ECMA's call control specifications, TSAPI and industry expertise of the core technical team. The volumes are:
Volume 1, Concepts & Terminology
Volume 2, Configurations & Landscape
Volume 3, Telephony Feature Set
Volume 4, Call Flow Scenarios
Volume 5, CTI Protocols
Volume 6, Versit TSAPI
Appendices include:
Versit TSAPI header file
Protocol 1 ASN.1 description
Protocol 2 ASN.1 description
Versit Server Mapper Interface header file
Versit TSDI header file
The core Versit CTI Encyclopedia technical team was composed of David H. Anderson and Marcus W. Fath from IBM, Frédéric Artru and Michael Bayer from Apple Computer, James L. Knight and Steven Rummel from AT&T (then Lucent Technologies), Tom Miller from Siemens, and consultants Ellen Feaheny and Charles Hudson. Upon completion, the Versit CTI Encyclopedia was transferred to the ECTF and has been adopted in the form of ECTF C.001. This model represents the basis for the ECTF's call control efforts.
Though the Versit CTI Encyclopedia ended up influencing many products, there was one full compliant implementation of the specifications that was brought to market: Odisei, a French company founded by team member Frédéric Artru developed the IntraSwitch IP-PBX. Odisei was later acquired by semiconductor company 8x8, which deployed the IntraSwitch technology as the second largest standalone U.S. VoIP service provider.
Personal Data Interchange
In 1995, the Consortium proposed and went on to create the and technologies. were intended to make it easy for many people using computers connected to the Internet to exchange contact information, while were intended to make it easy for people to swap scheduling information.
In 1996, all rights to these technologies were transferred to the Internet Mail Consortium, an organization founded by Paul Hoffman (VPNC), which continued to maintain the standards until 2002, when the IMC ceased its activities.
This was later extended to create technologies for VToDo, to transfer ToDo details between computing devices, and , to transfer URLs between computing devices.
External links
Minčių Sodas - Archive - Thinking Powerfully - Number 184 (Andrius Kulikauskas' reasoning for opposing XML as
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inova%20Health%20System
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Inova Health System is a not-for-profit health organization based in Falls Church, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The system is a network of hospitals, outpatient services, assisted living and long-term care facilities, and healthcare centers in the Northern Virginia market.
The system's hospitals provide much of the healthcare needs for citizens in Northern Virginia, including the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church and Fairfax County and Loudoun County. The flagship hospital, Inova Fairfax Hospital, has been recognized as one of the best hospitals in the nation by HealthGrades and U.S. News & World Report.
History
In the early 1950s, residents of Fairfax County, Virginia, perceived a need for a community hospital, as county residents were forced to travel to Arlington, Alexandria, or Washington, D.C., to obtain hospital services and care. The Fairfax County Hospital Commission incorporated the Fairfax Hospital Association (FHA) in February 1956.
Five months after Franklin P. Iams took on the role of administrator in July 1958, construction of the $6 million Fairfax Hospital began in November, and the hospital opened in February 1961. In 1976, the association took over the lease of Commonwealth Doctors Hospital in the City of Fairfax and opened Mount Vernon Hospital in the southeastern portion of the county. The following year, the association opened an emergency care center, ACCESS (Ambulatory Care Center- Emergency Services System) in Reston.
Following the retirement of Franklin P. Iams, J. Knox Singleton became president of the Fairfax Hospital Association in 1984. The association took the Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Alexandria in August 1985, and opened the $27 million Fair Oaks Hospital in June 1987, replacing Commonwealth Doctors Hospital, which was converted into a long-term care center.
The Fairfax Hospital Association began operating under the Inova name in 1987, but did not formally take on the Inova name until 1991, when its successor corporation Fairfax Hospital System became Inova Hospitals.
In March 1988, Inova opened the Cameron Glen Care Center nursing home in Reston; and merged with the nearly 125-year-old Alexandria Hospital in July 1996. Inova opened the Inova HealthPlex, an ambulatory care center, in the Franconia/Springfield area in April 2001.
In 2003, Inova laid off 113 of its 14,000 employees and considered moving Inova Mount Vernon Hospital in an attempt to cut costs.
In October 2004, the system merged with Loudoun Healthcare, adding the Loudoun Hospital Center to its portfolio.
Mark S. Stauder became the chief operating officer of Inova Health Systems in September 2006.
Inova in June 2008 dropped its plans to merge with Prince William Health System, which ran the Prince William Hospital, following a legal challenge by the Federal Trade Commission. Prince William Health System instead merged with North Carolina-based Novant Health the following year.
In 2010, Inova sold its Cameron Glen Care
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsham%20Computer%20Centre
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The Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) is an underground British Ministry of Defence (MoD) installation in Corsham, Wiltshire, built in the 1980s. According to the MoD, the centre "processes data in support of the Royal Navy". The centre has been similarly described by Des Browne in 2007, then Secretary of State for Defence, as a "data processing facility in support of Royal Navy operations".
In written evidence to the Defence Select Committee in 2007, the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament suggested that the centre supports the software maintenance of the United Kingdom nuclear deterrent programme, Trident. A The Herald newspaper report in 2016 stated that the "UK Software Facility" (UKSF), responsible for the Trident targeting system which was upgraded in 2015, was believed to be located at the Corsham Computer Centre.
The facility was built near Hudswell Quarry, and close to the Box Tunnel part of the broader complex of tunnels and quarries in the Corsham area and adjacent to the former Central Ammunition Depot built before the Second World War. It is located a few hundred metres north east of the current MoD Corsham.
The site falls within a wider facilities management contract, the Bristol Bath Total Facilities Management project. It was awarded to Debut Services, a special purpose vehicle of Babcock Defence and Bovis Lend Lease, in September 2007 for a period of three years, with the option to extend the contract for a further three years.
References
External links
Phil Chamberlain, "Secret NATO Command Bunker", Indymedia, 11 November 2003. Includes photograph of Corsham Computer Centre entrance.
Buildings and structures in Wiltshire
Corsham
Data centers
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Military communications of the United Kingdom
Military installations of the United Kingdom
Nuclear bunkers in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Wiltshire
Trident (UK nuclear programme)
United Kingdom nuclear command and control
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CC
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2CC is a commercial radio station on the AM band in Canberra, Australia. It began broadcasting on 1210 kHz in 1975 changing to 1206 kHz in 1978. It is jointly owned by Capital Radio Network and Grant Broadcasters.
History
2CC, which began broadcasting on 31 October 1975, was Canberra's second commercial radio station, originally broadcasting popular contemporary music. 2CC began test transmission on 29 October 1975. 2CC continued its dominance over Canberra's other commercial radio station, 2CA, throughout the latter half of the 1970s and most of the 1980s. In June 1983, Australian Broadcasting Company Pty Ltd (now ARN) purchased the station. On 1 February 1986, the station began broadcasting in AM stereo. In 1988, KIX106 and FM 104 went to air as supplementary FM licences. KIX106 was a supplementary licence of 2CC, and FM 104.7 a supplementary licence of 2CA. In the mid-1990s, ARN (owner of 2CC and Mix 106.3) and Austereo (owner of 2CA and 104.7) merged to form a joint venture ownership of both FM stations, selling 2CC and 2CA to the Capital Radio Network in the years 1994 and 1997 respectively. In 2004, 50% ownership of 2CC and 2CA was sold to Grant Broadcasters. Currently, 2CC broadcasts a news talk format with some of Australia's best known and highest rating presenters, such as Ray Hadley and Alan Jones.
The broadcast range of the 5,000 watt transmitter covers Canberra and the Southern tablelands region of NSW including Yass, Queanbeyan and Bungendore. The 5,000 watt AM signal travels as far as Cowra, Gundagai, Goulburn, Cooma and Braidwood. 2CC also broadcasts from Black Mountain Tower in Digital (DAB+) and streams its program on its website at www.2cc.net.au as well as other streaming platforms.
2CC was originally located on Bellenden St in Crace, before moving to Hoskins St in Mitchell. The AM towers are located near the original studio building.
In August 2019, 2CC and its sister station 2CA, moved into a multi-million dollar state of the art broadcast centre (Canberra Radio Centre) directly next door to 2CC's old original premises on Bellenden St, Crace.
Programming
Local content
2CC broadcasts Canberra's only commercial talkback format. It has a local breakfast program with Stephen Cenatiempo, which debuted on 13 July 2020.
In July 2019, 2CC axed its local breakfast show, hosted by Tim Shaw, in favour of relaying the 2GB breakfast show with Alan Jones live from Sydney. Shaw was moved to the afternoon drive program when the change took effect. Jones was previously heard on 2CC in a one-hour highlights package which began airing in 2010 from 11am until midday. The 11am highlights package was replaced by the final hour of 2GB's Ray Hadley Morning Show, which 2CC also airs live from Sydney.
The decision to replace a local breakfast show with a Sydney program was criticised by local ABC Radio Canberra newsreader Julian Abbott who expressed his disappointment at 2CC being left with just one weekday local program. Just a month after
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX-3SAT
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MAX-3SAT is a problem in the computational complexity subfield of computer science. It generalises the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) which is a decision problem considered in complexity theory. It is defined as:
Given a 3-CNF formula Φ (i.e. with at most 3 variables per clause), find an assignment that satisfies the largest number of clauses.
MAX-3SAT is a canonical complete problem for the complexity class MAXSNP (shown complete in Papadimitriou pg. 314).
Approximability
The decision version of MAX-3SAT is NP-complete. Therefore, a polynomial-time solution can only be achieved if P = NP. An approximation within a factor of 2 can be achieved with this simple algorithm, however:
Output the solution in which most clauses are satisfied, when either all variables = TRUE or all variables = FALSE.
Every clause is satisfied by one of the two solutions, therefore one solution satisfies at least half of the clauses.
The Karloff-Zwick algorithm runs in polynomial-time and satisfies ≥ 7/8 of the clauses. While this algorithm is randomized, it can be derandomized using, e.g., the techniques from to yield a deterministic (polynomial-time) algorithm with the same approximation guarantees.
Theorem 1 (inapproximability)
The PCP theorem implies that there exists an ε > 0 such that (1-ε)-approximation of MAX-3SAT is NP-hard.
Proof:
Any NP-complete problem by the PCP theorem. For x ∈ L, a 3-CNF formula Ψx is constructed so that
x ∈ L ⇒ Ψx is satisfiable
x ∉ L ⇒ no more than (1-ε)m clauses of Ψx are satisfiable.
The Verifier V reads all required bits at once i.e. makes non-adaptive queries. This is valid because the number of queries remains constant.
Let q be the number of queries.
Enumerating all random strings Ri ∈ V, we obtain poly(x) strings since the length of each string .
For each Ri
V chooses q positions i1,...,iq and a Boolean function fR: {0,1}q->{0,1} and accepts if and only if fR(π(i1,...,iq)). Here π refers to the proof obtained from the Oracle.
Next we try to find a Boolean formula to simulate this. We introduce Boolean variables x1,...,xl, where l is the length of the proof. To demonstrate that the Verifier runs in Probabilistic polynomial-time, we need a correspondence between the number of satisfiable clauses and the probability the Verifier accepts.
For every R, add clauses representing fR(xi1,...,xiq) using 2q SAT clauses. Clauses of length q are converted to length 3 by adding new (auxiliary) variables e.g. x2 ∨ x10 ∨ x11 ∨ x12 = ( x2 ∨ x10 ∨ yR) ∧ ( R ∨ x11 ∨ x12). This requires a maximum of q2q 3-SAT clauses.
If z ∈ L then
there is a proof π such that Vπ (z) accepts for every Ri.
All clauses are satisfied if xi = π(i) and the auxiliary variables are added correctly.
If input z ∉ L then
For every assignment to x1,...,xl and yR's, the corresponding proof π(i) = xi causes the Verifier to reject for half of all R ∈ {0,1}r(|z|).
For each R, one clause representing fR fails.
Therefore, a fraction
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVPO%20%28FM%29
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WVPO (96.7 MHz) is an FM radio station in Lehman Township, Pennsylvania known as "Bigfoot Country 96.7 & 97.3". The station is owned by Seven Mountains Media, programming a country music format.
History
This station began operation on October 23, 1970, as WDLC-FM. The station ran a country music format initially. Their AM station played a Middle Of The Road (MOR) music format playing songs from the 1940s up to and including current songs. The stations WDLC 1490 and 96.7 WDLC-FM were owned by Oscar Wein and family. His son Bob Wein along with the rest of the family were active with the station.
By the mid 1970s, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) relaxed simulcast restrictions between AM and FM radio stations. Because WDLC-FM was automated, they decided to begin simulcasting both stations. WDLC and WDLC-FM, upon simulcasting, continued the MOR format from 5 to 10 a.m. as well as from 3 to 7 p.m.; played country music from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and instrumental easy listening music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.. On Sundays, the station had many specialty shows.
In 1984 WDLC-FM began separate programming from the AM station, and eventually changed its call sign to WTSX for Tri-State Crossroads. The new station began playing an Adult Contemporary format. Both WTSX and WDLC did rather well in terms of ratings and profitability through the 1980s, and later that decade, Oscar Wein retired and his son Bob Wein took over operations. (Oscar Wein died on December 18, 2000, at the age of 82.)
From 1994-1999, WTSX did have some success with its new morning show, "The Morning Thing" with Alan James, but overall both stations began to have financial troubles during the 1990s. As a result, in 1997, half the staff (including WDLC's newly hired morning man and program director) was laid off and WTSX began to automate evenings and overnights. WDLC had automated several years before using a satellite delivered adult standards format. In September 1998, Robert Wein began leasing WDLC and WTSX to Nassau Broadcasting in a local marketing agreement. The airstaff and sales staff stayed, but now became Nassau Broadcasting employees. Alan James left WTSX in 1999 due to differences in philosophy with management over the direction of the morning show, and of WTSX in general.
Nassau changed WTSX to a 1964-1969-based oldies format, mixing in some early 1970s, late 1950s and early 1960s oldies as well. The ratings were low in the Southern Hudson Valley, but decent in the Sussex County radio market. However, in February 2001, Nassau sold the Local Marketing agreement of WDLC and WTSX to Clear Channel Communications, along with full ownership of WSUS, WNNJ, and WHCY.
Under Clear Channel, the station was modified to a 1964-to-1975-based oldies format, with a small amount of late 1970s and pre-1964 songs. The station began to focus more on the 1970s as most FM oldies stations began to do.
In September 2004, the Local Marketing Agreement with Clear Channel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Virginia
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The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Virginia which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
WBBL
WBDY
WBVA
WCLM-LP
WDIC
WDUF
WFNR
WJRX-LP
WJYI
WLEE
WMVA
WODI
WORJ-LP
WOWZ
WPEX
WPUV
WPVC-LP
WQLU
WRAP
WRRW-LP
WSVG
WUDS-LP
WVAB
WXMY
WXZR-LP
See also
Virginia media
List of newspapers in Virginia
List of television stations in Virginia
Media of cities in Virginia: Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Virginia Beach
References
Bibliography
External links
(Directory ceased in 2017)
Virginia Association of Broadcasters
Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club
Images
Virginia
Radio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice%20%28aggregator%29
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Juice is a podcast aggregator for Windows and OS X used for downloading media files such as ogg and mp3 for playback on the computer or for copying to a digital audio player. Juice lets a user schedule downloading of specific podcasts, and will notify the user when a new show is available. It is free software available under the GNU General Public License. The project is hosted at SourceForge. Formerly known as iPodder and later as iPodder Lemon, the software's name was changed to Juice in November 2005 in the face of legal pressure from Apple, Inc.
Development
The original development team was formed by Erik de Jonge, Robin Jans, Martijn Venrooy, Perica Zivkovic from the company Active8 based in the Netherlands, Andrew Grumet, Garth Kidd and Mark Posth joined the team soon after the first release. The development team credited the program concept to Adam Curry who wrote a little Applescript as a proof of concept and provided the first podcast shows (then referred to as 'audio enclosures') but primarily to Dave Winer who was the inspiration for Adam Curry. The first version also included a screenscraper for normal HTML files. Initially it was not clear that podcasting would be completely tied to RSS. Although that was eventually the method chosen, during the early development phase a diverse range of people were working on alternatives, including a version based on Freenet.
The program is written in Python and, through use of a cross-platform UI library, runs on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP. A Linux variant has not been developed.
The 2004 growth of podcasting inspired other podcatching programs, such as jPodder, as well as the June 2005 addition of a podcast subscription feature in Apple's iTunes music player. This development quickly put an end to the popularity of the Juice application.
In 2006 the team effectively stopped further development of the program, the developers started working in other fields, some Podcasting related. The team from Active8 created PodNova (http://www.podnova.com) an application which still integrates very well with Juice with the opml interface. Adam Curry and Andrew Grumet started working on a commercial show network (podshow) where all the shows are sponsored and the distinction between show and commercial is faded to the background. Others went on to other ventures.
Forks
There have been several forks of Juice:
PodNova, which was available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but closed at the end of February 2010.
See also
Comparison of feed aggregators
References
External links
Digital audio
Free multimedia software
Free software programmed in Python
Podcasting software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See%20Homer%20Run
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"See Homer Run" is the sixth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 20, 2005.
Plot
On Father's Day, Homer is unimpressed with Lisa's gift, a book she created with caricatures of herself and Homer as unicorns. Trying to make Lisa feel better, he hangs the book on the refrigerator, but it falls into the refrigerator's water dispenser and gets wet and ruined. Worse, Homer blames the magnet, which Lisa gave him for his birthday.
Lisa takes out her frustrations at school, leading her into trouble, and her parents are called to talk with Principal Skinner. The school psychiatrist Dr. J. Loren Pryor determines Lisa is going through a developmental condition spurned by Homer's antics and could wind up with a hatred for men for the rest of her life, which can only be resolved by Homer trying to make amends for everything. He dresses up as The Safety Salamander, a mascot meant to warn children about electrical power lines, but on the school bus, causes myriad dental injuries when he has Otto stop the bus promptly, and then a fireworks display during a school assembly causes a massive fire in the auditorium.
Meanwhile, Bart—on a dare from the bullies, who plant the idea in his head that he is allowed to steal public property that has his name on it—steals a "Bart Boulevard" street sign. This leads to a fiery multi-vehicle pileup. Homer, still dressed in his Safety Salamander costume, runs to the rescue, extracting people who were trapped in their cars. Homer gets a rousing reception, and Mayor Joe Quimby is blamed for the bumbling response. Springfield's residents criticize Quimby for his many other failures and demand a recall election.
On Lisa's suggestion, Homer decides to run for mayor against candidates numbering in excess of 200, playing on his popularity as the Safety Salamander and building a huge lead in the polls. However, after Marge washes Homer's salamander costume after he vomits in it, it falls apart during a debate forum, and the crowd turns on him. None of the new candidates gain the 5% of master vote needed to oust Quimby. Nevertheless, Lisa confides in Homer that she is proud of him and glad he is her father. They then dance in the deserted ballroom.
Production
In a reference to the "lesser of two evils" justification the public often give when voting for a political party, Homer's campaign slogan for Springfield mayor is "the lesser of 25 evils".
Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age cites the episode to illustrate an example of "it's only funny because it's true" humour. In the episode Mayor Quimby undergoes a recall election that includes hundreds of questionably-qualified candidates, one of which is Rainer Wolfcastle. This obscure joke references actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger (on whom Wolfcastle is based), who won the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election when
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%20%28series%29
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The Falcon line of computer games is a series of simulations of the F-16 Fighting Falcon combat aircraft. The games, mostly published by Spectrum HoloByte, were noted for their high level of realism unseen in contemporary simulation games.
On May 4, 2023, MicroProse announced it had re-acquired the copyright to the Falcon series.
Series
F-16 Fighting Falcon
F-16 Fighting Falcon was developed by Nexa Corporation (later merged to Spectrum Holobyte) and published by ASCII Corporation in 1984 for the MSX. Designed by Gilman Louie and Les Watts, it used bitmapped 3D MiG-21s as adversaries, several years before Origin's Wing Commander used a similar graphics engine. Sega's Yuji Naka ported the game to the Master System.
Falcon
Falcon is the first official entry in the series. Originally developed by Sphere for Macintosh and MS-DOS in 1987 and ported to several platforms between 1988 and 1992, the game earned commercial success and critical acclaim.
Falcon A.T.
Falcon A.T. (MS-DOS 1988), also known as Falcon 2, was one of the first flight sims to use EGA graphics as well as one of the earliest commercially released games to require a 286 or better PC. In comparison to the older game, this version allows external viewing of the player aircraft, enables a "head-to-head" multiplayer mode, and includes the MiG-29 as an adversary.
ACE wrote: "If you really want the terror, exhiliration and sheer everything-happens-at-once confusion of combat flying, this game delivers. The graphics help too, of course!" Computer Gaming World gave the game 3 stars out of 5 in their June 1992 issue.
Falcon 3.0
Falcon 3.0 was published in 1991 for MS-DOS as the third official main entry in the series.
Falcon 3.0 based games
Falcon 3.0 was sold as being the first of a series of inter-linked military simulations that Spectrum Holobyte collectively called the "Electronic Battlefield". Two games released in this range were the 1993 flight simulators for the F/A-18 (Falcon 3.0: Hornet: Naval Strike Fighter) and the MiG-29 (MiG-29: Deadly Adversary of Falcon 3.0) that could be played as stand-alone games or integrated into "Electronic Battlefield" network games.
Further games in the range were expected - rumours abounded of a simulator for the AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship, and even one or more tank simulators. The only one the company actually admitted to working on was a flight simulator of the A-10 Thunderbolt, but was never released.
Computer Gaming World in November 1993 criticized MiG-29s new redout/blackout model as unrealistic, and lack of fixes to existing bugs, but approved of the improved modem play and its "new set of challenges designed to broaden Falcons appeal". In a January 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title four stars out of five, stating that the game was "mandatory" for serious players but not for "the casual weekend flyer".
Computer Gaming World in April 1994 approved of Hornets "Excellent enemy AI" and "intense" air-to-ground comba
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20beaches%20in%20Chicago
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The beaches in Chicago are an extensive network of waterfront recreational areas operated by the Chicago Park District. The Chicago metropolitan waterfront includes parts of the Lake Michigan shores as well as parts of the banks of the Chicago, Des Plaines, Calumet, Fox, and DuPage Rivers and their tributaries. The waterfront also includes the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Historically, the waterfront has been used for commerce, industry, and leisure. Leisure, such as fishing, swimming, hunting, walking and boating, was much more prevalent throughout the river sections of the waterfront system early in the 19th century before industrial uses altered the landscape. By midcentury, much leisure shifted to Lake Michigan as a result of industrial influence. The first City of Chicago Public Beach opened in Lincoln Park in 1895. Today, the entire Chicago lakefront shoreline is reclaimed land, and primarily used for public parks. In the parks, there are 24 sand beaches along the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan.
Typically, Chicago beaches take the name of the east-west street that runs perpendicular to the lake at each beach's location.
History
Chicago's earliest sand beaches resulted naturally from capturing sand moved by the current south along the shoreline toward the Indiana Dunes, but these beaches were dynamic, shifted and eroded. When Chicago began building piers and other structures into the lake, large sandy beaches formed generally to the north of a pier due to sand capture. Early beaches were generally funded by private entities such as hotels and private clubs, screened from the public.
Late 19th century city ordinances prohibited public bathing, but popular norms created demand for public beaches. Proponents saw public beaches as an opportunity to accommodate demand for public baths and eliminate the expenditure of enforcement resources on ordinance violations for public bathing. The city responded by opening the first public bathing beach in 1895 in Lincoln Park primarily as a response to the efforts of the Free Bath and Sanitary League (formerly the Municipal Order League). Spaces were designated for public use and the city accepted responsibility for maintaining the beaches. By 1900 the lakefront was divided into zones of recreational, residential, agricultural and industrial uses. Lake Michigan water quality concerns lead to the reversal of the Chicago river with deep cut of the Illinois & Michigan canal in 1871 and the construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal at the start of the 20th century. The 1909 Burnham Plan led to development of the lakefront. Recreational development on the city lakefront became a priority due to the influence of Aaron Montgomery Ward. His belief that the public's access to the Lake left its impression on the development of Jackson, Burnham, Grant and Lincoln Parks. Continued popular support, led to the opening of several municipal beaches in the second
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect6
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Connect6 (; Pinyin: liùzǐqí; ;; ) introduced in 2003 by Professor I-Chen Wu at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is a two-player strategy game similar to Gomoku.
Two players, Black and White, alternately place two stones of their own colour, black and white respectively, on empty intersections of a Go-like board, except that Black (the first player) places one stone only for the first move. The one who gets six or more stones in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) first wins the game.
Rules
The rules of Connect6 are very simple and similar to the traditional game of Gomoku:
Players and stones: There are two players. Black plays first, and White second. Each player plays with an appropriate color of stones, as in Go and Gomoku.
Game board: Connect6 is played on a square board made up of orthogonal lines, with each intersection capable of holding one stone. In theory, the game board can be any finite size from 1×1 up (integers only), or it could be of infinite size. However, boards that are too small may lack strategy (boards smaller than 6×6 are automatic draws), and extremely large or infinite boards are of little practical use. 19×19 Go boards might be the most convenient. For a longer and more challenging game, another suggested size is 59×59, or nine Go boards tiled in a larger square (using the join lines between the boards as additional grid lines).
Game moves: Black plays first, putting one black stone on one intersection. Subsequently, White and Black take turns, placing two stones on two different unoccupied spaces each turn.
Winner: The player who is the first to get six or more stones in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) wins. (This is a departure from Gomoku, where it must be exactly five in a row.)
According to Professor Wu, the handicap of black's only being able to play one stone on the first turn means that the game is comparatively fair; unlike similar games such as Gomoku and Connect Four, which have been proven to give the first player a large advantage, possibly no additional compensation is necessary to make the game fair.
Fairness
In principle, even some complex games are not fair: either the first or second player has an advantage. (Games such as Gomoku have been mathematically proven to give an advantage to one player or another; complex games such as chess are generally too complicated to analyze fully.) Herik, Uiterwijk, and Rijswijck give an informal definition of fairness (Herik, Uiterwijk, and Rijswijck, 2002) as follows: A game is considered a fair game if it is a draw and both players have roughly equal opportunities for making mistakes. From this, it is argued that Connect6 is fair in the following senses:
Each player always has one more stone than the other after making each move.
For about one thousand opening templates, Professor Wu let the AI program written by his team play against itself, and the r
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Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.
The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them to other platforms including Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 16/Plus/4. By the late 80s, Blue Ribbon were also releasing games for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 including reissues of games for publishers including Superior Software, Bubble Bus and Artic as well as games originally published at full price by CDS. This included the first stand alone releases for games previously only available on compilations (e.g. Syncron and Camelot from Superior and Video Card Arcade and Dominoes from CDS). The Superior games were released as joint Superior/Blue Ribbon releases and carried advertisements for current Superior full price games. Although a small number of compilations were released on disk, all individual releases were on cassette between £1.99 and £2.99. The label's final releases were in 1991 and CDS never used the Blue Ribbon label for 16-bit releases.
Releases
Original releases
Astro Plumber (BBC, Electron, CPC, C16, MSX)
Bar Billiards (BBC, Electron)
Condition Red (BBC, Electron)
Diamond Mine II (BBC, Electron, CPC, C16/Plus/4, MSX)
Joey (BBC, Electron, C16)
Ravage (BBC, Electron)
M-Droid (MSX)
Trapper (BBC, Electron)
Return of R2 (BBC, Electron)
Mango (BBC, Electron)
3D Dotty (BBC, Electron)
Spooksville (BBC, Electron)
System 8: The Pools Predictor (BBC, Electron, Atari, CPC, C16, C64, ZX, MSX)
Turf-Form: Beat the Bookie (BBC, Electron, Atari, CPC, C16, C64, ZX, MSX)
Hi-Q-Quiz (BBC, Electron, CPC, C64, ZX)
Syntax (CPC, C64, ZX)
Wulfpack (CPC, C64, ZX)
Balloon Buster (BBC, Electron, CPC)
Reissues and ports
MRM Software
3D Munchy / Hangman (BBC)
Banana Man / Secret Sam 1 (BBC)
Guy In The Hat / Secret Sam 2 (BBC)
Castle Assault (BBC, Electron, Atari, CPC)
Darts (BBC, Electron, Atari, CPC, C64, ZX, MSX)
Diamond Mine (BBC, Electron, Atari, CPC, C16)
Q Man (BBC)
Q Man's Brother (BBC)
Screwball (BBC, Atari, CPC)
Artist (aka Artmaster) (BBC, CPC)
Nightmare Maze (BBC, Electron, Atari, CPC)
CDS Software
Caterpillar / Leapfrog (ZX)
Gobble a Ghost / 3D Painter (ZX)
Spectrum Safari / Winged Warlords (ZX)
Timebomb / Magic Meanies (ZX)
Pool (CPC, ZX)
Video Card Arcade (BBC, Electron, CPC, C64, ZX) - previously only available as part of The Complete Home Entertainment Centre
Golf (BBC, Electron) - reissue of Birdie Barrage
Steve Davis Snooker (BBC, Electron, Atari, CPC, C16, C64, ZX, MSX)
Dominoes (BBC, Electron, CPC, ZX) - previously only available as part of The Complete Home Entertainment Centre
Bubble Bus Software
The Ice Temple (CPC, C64, ZX)
Wizard's Lair (CPC, C64, ZX, MSX)
Moonlight Madness (ZX)
Cave Fighter (C16, C64)
Artic Computing
Rugby (ZX) - reissue of International Rugby
Artworx
Ice Hockey (C64) - reissue of International Hock
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20stack%20search
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Beam stack search is a search algorithm that combines chronological backtracking (that is, depth-first search) with beam search and is similar to depth-first beam search. Both search algorithms are anytime algorithms that find good but likely sub-optimal solutions quickly, like beam search, then backtrack and continue to find improved solutions until convergence to an optimal solution.
Implementation
Beam stack search uses the beam stack as a data structure to integrate chronological backtracking with beam search and can be combined with the divide and conquer algorithm technique, resulting in divide-and-conquer beam-stack search.
Alternatives
Beam search using limited discrepancy backtracking (BULB) is a search algorithm that combines limited discrepancy search with beam search and thus performs non-chronological backtracking, which often outperforms the chronological backtracking done by beam stack search and depth-first beam search.
References
Search algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai%20Ti%21
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Hai Ti! was a comic strip that spread the word about the ways that computers and the Internet can transform learners' and teachers' lives. It was created by SchoolNet Namibia. It was unique in being the first publication of its kind to be published under international Creative Commons rules in Namibia. The strip won third place at the World Summit Awards in 2005.
The comic ceased publication in 2009 after SchoolNet fell out of favour with the Namibian government.
References
External links
2005 comics debuts
2009 comics endings
Educational comics
Namibian culture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%20Vision%20Thing
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"That Vision Thing" is episode 2 of season 3 in the television show Angel. Written by Jeffrey Bell and directed by Bill L Norton, it was originally broadcast on October 1, 2001 on the WB network. In "That Vision Thing", Cordelia's vision gift grows dangerous when it begins physically affecting her. She is on the verge of death when Angel discovers Wolfram & Hart lawyer Lilah Morgan is sending the painful visions to force Angel to free a man imprisoned in an alternate dimension.
Plot
Wesley and Gunn eat take-out in the lobby and Fred eats her food under the table until Wesley convinces her to come out, while Cordelia waits for her next vision. Wolfram & Hart lawyer Gavin Park visits to inform them of the Hyperion Hotel's building code violations. After Gavin leaves, Cordelia gets a vision about a coin with a hole in it and a clawed beast. In the bathroom where she recovers, Cordelia informs Wesley through the door that there are five claws, but leaves out that there are claw marks across her stomach. Angel makes arrangements for Cordelia to be taken home by Fred. He knows Cordelia's visions are getting worse, but she refuses to acknowledge how bad they are. Wesley, Angel, and Gunn leave to find the coin, ending up at a herb shop owned by an elderly couple who turn demonic when they ask about the coin. The gang knock out the couple and Angel finds the coin around the neck of the elderly man.
Gavin informs Lilah that he's been moved into her department, and the two share bitter words about their approaches to dealing with Angel. At her apartment, Cordelia tries to force Fred to leave, but another violent vision leaves her with boils on her face. The whole gang meets at her place and she tries to describe her vision, but Angel is more interested in what's happening to her. They question why The Powers That Be would inflict pain on their messenger. Wesley sends Angel to find the key that goes with the coin while Lorne tries to question the Powers That Be about their actions. Cordelia fears losing her visions, but is persuaded to try anyway.
Lilah has a young man wearing a fez sign some papers before meditating on a table. Removing his hat, the man reveals a split skull and exposed brain. As a result of the man's mental efforts, Cordelia gets hit with a massive vision about fire that flings the Host across the room and burns her face and limbs. From his contact with Cordelia, the Host realizes the visions originate from Wolfram & Hart. Angel visits Lilah, who informs him that, unless he uses the key and coin to free an "unfairly imprisoned" man from a hell dimension, the physical effects of Cordy's visions will worsen.
Back at the hotel, Wesley tells Angel the coin and key are items of good nature, so those holding and associated with the objects are likely good as well. Wesley points out that rescuing this man is going against Angel's mission. Angel inserts the key into the coin's hole, which transports him to a hell dimension where he encounters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LwIP
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lwIP (lightweight IP) is a widely used open-source TCP/IP stack designed for embedded systems. lwIP was originally developed by Adam Dunkels at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and is now developed and maintained by a worldwide network of developers.
lwIP is used by many manufacturers of embedded systems, including Intel/Altera, Analog Devices, Xilinx, TI, ST and Freescale.
lwIP network stack
The focus of the lwIP network stack implementation is to reduce resource usage while still having a full-scale TCP stack. This makes lwIP suitable for use in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for around 40 kilobytes of code ROM.
lwIP protocol implementations
Aside from the TCP/IP stack, lwIP has several other important parts, such as a network interface, an operating system emulation layer, buffers and a memory management section. The operating system emulation layer and the network interface allow the network stack to be transplanted into an operating system, as it provides a common interface between lwIP code and the operating system kernel.
The network stack of lwIP includes an IP (Internet Protocol) implementation at the Internet layer that can handle packet forwarding over multiple network interfaces. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported dual stack since lwIP v2.0.0 . For network maintenance and debugging, lwIP implements ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol). IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) is supported for multicast traffic management. While ICMPv6 (including MLD) is implemented to support the use of IPv6.
lwIP includes an implementation of IPv4 ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) and IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol to support Ethernet at the data link layer. lwIP may also be operated on top of a PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) implementation at the data link layer.
At the transport layer lwIP implements TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) with congestion control, RTT estimation and fast recovery/fast retransmit. UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is implemented with experimental UDP-Lite extensions.
APIs and sockets
lwIP provides a specialized no-copy application programming interface (API) for enhanced network stack performance. The Berkeley socket API is optional. Raw sockets, or raw pcbs (protocol control blocks), are provided depending on the API used.
Application layer support
At the application layer the lwIP network stack may be supported through the implementation of the following protocols. The DNS (Domain Name System), an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) agent, in v1, v2 or v3, with private MIB (management information base) support and MIB compiler.
Operating systems that implement the lwIP TCP/IP stack may provide a range of supporting clients and servers at the application layer. Such as an IPv4 DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) client or IPv4 link-local addresses (AutoIP). Specialized raw API applications include: an HTTP server, a SNTP client, a SMTP client, a NetBIOS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Information%20System
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The Open Source Information System (OSIS) is the former name of an American unclassified network serving the U.S. intelligence community with open source intelligence.
Since mid-2006, the content of OSIS is now known as Intelink-U while the network portion is known as DNI-U.
Contents
OSIS contents include:
CIRC (Central Information Reference and Control)
A database of over 10 million titles on scientific and technical topics, including patents, standards, military equipment and systems.
Conference Database of upcoming symposia, congresses, and conventions in the areas of science, technology, engineering, politics, and economics.
DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) map collection [from The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Association (NIMA)] provides global coverage.
OSC (Open Source Center, formerly FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service) products include the Daily Reports, Science & Technology Perspectives, Trends, and Pacific Rim Economic Review.
IC ROSE database service provides searchable text articles from hundreds of periodicals on a wide range of subjects.
TCOM (Telecommunications) contains abstracts and complete articles on telecommunications related topics.
TEL (Technical Equipment List) indexes over 100,000 brochures and manuals on telecommunications and related equipment.
Additional commercial datasources, such as Oxford Analytica, as well as unclassified library holdings of several OSIS member agencies, including DIA, reside on OSIS.
OSIS also offers specialized software and other tools to assist users in analysis and graphical interpretations of data.
Real time translation
OSIS makes available the National Air Intelligence Center's (NAIC) SYSTRAN machine translation (MT) capability to provide "real time" rough translations of foreign language information. This was the first MT system to be integrated with the Web; implemented by the MITRE Corporation in the early 1990s.
OSIS users access the World Wide Web and employ the full range of Internet protocols to collect information and conduct business with U.S. Government, academic and industrial organizations. OSIS users are seen by non-U.S. Government Internet clients as "osis.gov".
A firewall prevents non-OSIS Internet users from accessing the OSIS.
References
External links
DNI-U Remote Access website
See also
Intelink
Wide area networks
Intelligence analysis
Open-source intelligence in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20Security%3A%20Australia%27s%20Front%20Line
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Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian factual television programme in the form of an observational documentary that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of the Department of Home Affairs, Australian Border Force, and biosecurity officers as they enforce Australian immigration, customs, quarantine and finance laws. All three of these government agencies cooperate with filming. Officers from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and personnel from the Australian Defence Force have also appeared on the show.
Most of the programme is filmed at Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports; scenes from the Sydney international mail arrival facility are also shown. Occasionally, the programme features other locations such as Perth Airport, seaports, international mail centres, raids on workplaces suspected of employing persons contrary to the restrictions of their visa or immigrant status and the work of Australian Border Force vessels and aircraft in the waters of Northern Australia.
The series has so far produced 15 series as of 2021.
Broadcast
The show premiered in Australia in 2004 and became a ratings hit. The first series was hosted by Grant Bowler, who stopped appearing on camera in subsequent series; however Bowler continues to provide the voice over for every episode. It is classified PG. The series also airs on the Australian pay TV channel The LifeStyle Channel and overseas on the Australia Network.
The show is also broadcast internationally. In New Zealand, it airs on TVNZ's TV1, as well as eden. It airs in the United Kingdom on Sky Witness, Pick and Sky Crime, and in Ireland on Virgin Media One (airing as Nothing to Declare in both the UK and Ireland), in the United States on NBC Universo.
It airs on Tele 5 in Poland (in Polish), on vtm in Belgium and on Veronica in the Netherlands, where it is dubbed into Dutch. Kanal 9 airs the series in Sweden, on Jim in Finland, on the TV 2 channel in Denmark, on Prosieben Maxx and Nitro in Germany dubbed into German; and also in Italy on DMAX dubbed into Italian, where it is broadcast as Airport Security, and in France on CStar, dubbed into French and broadcast as . It is broadcast as Grensevakten in Norway on TVNorge.
Border Security also airs across Asia in countries such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Macau. In Singapore it airs on Fox Crime. In Canada, the series airs on BBC Canada and DTour.
Criticism
Writer Bob Burton in his book Inside Spin: The Dark Underbelly of the PR Industry expressed concern that the television show, by being subject to post-production editing, allows the producers to remove anything that shows any mistakes made by the government agencies concerned. Instead, Burton argues, the show gives the viewing public the sense that the government is effectively and fairly administering border security policy.
In 2009 Media Watch suggested that the Department of Immigration and Citizenship used its working
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota%20Technological%20Institute%20at%20Chicago
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Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC or TTI-Chicago) is a private graduate school and research institute focused on computer science and located in Chicago, Illinois within the University of Chicago campus. It is supported by the earnings on an endowment of approximately $255 million as well as by the income from research awards received by its faculty.
History
TTIC was founded by the Toyota Technological Institute (TTI), in Nagoya in Japan, a small private engineering school with an endowment provided by the Toyota Motor Corporation. TTI established TTIC as an independent computer science institute with the intention of creating a world-class institution. In addition to historical ties, there remains active collaboration between TTIC and TTI in Nagoya. However, TTIC has no formal ties with either TTI or the Toyota Motor Corporation.
TTIC officially opened for operation in September 2003 and three students entered its Ph.D. program in September 2004.
Academics
Research
TTIC focuses primarily on the following areas within computer science:
Machine learning
Theoretical Computer Science—Algorithms & Complexity
Computer Vision
Speech and Language Technologies
Computational Biology
Robotics
PhD program
TTIC offers a graduate program leading to a doctorate in computer science, with graduate students conducting research primarily within its areas of focus. TTIC has degree-granting authority in the state of Illinois and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Relationship with University of Chicago
TTIC is located on the University of Chicago campus and has a close relationship with the University of Chicago Computer Science Department. An agreement between the University of Chicago and TTIC allows cross-listing of computer science course offerings between the two institutions, providing students from each institution the opportunity to register in the other's courses. Faculty and students enjoy full privileges of the university library system, athletic facilities, and other services.
References
External links
Educational institutions established in 2003
Graduate schools in the United States
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Research institutes of the University of Chicago
Toyota
Private universities and colleges in Illinois
2003 establishments in Illinois
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