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Triple M Brisbane is a commercial FM rock radio station in Brisbane, Australia. It broadcasts on the Triple M network on 104.5 MHz frequency.
Station history
Triple M Brisbane started on the FM band at 104.1 MHz on 22 August 1980. Brisbane businessman Leo Williams was the driving force behind the venture while the station manager was Rob McKay, who left the station soon after allowing program manager Ted Seymour to take the reins. Their first format was contemporary rock. It was rebranded as FM104 in December 1982 with the new slogan "Rock in Stereo", and focused on the typical Queensland lifestyle of beaches and barbecues.
Their playlists then included AC/DC, The Angels, Van Halen, ZZ Top and the Talking Heads as well as supporting Australian pub rock bands such as INXS, Hunters & Collectors and the Choirboys.
On 10 January 1982, pioneering program 'incontact,' was launched, one of the first Christian music programs to feature in ratings time (5 am-12 midnight) in Australia. The Sunday night show held the stations rating audience through to midnight and played weekly through to April 1990. Over 21 Australian premieres and the World Premiere of US rock band Whiteheart's 'Emergency Broadcast' album featured in the music as well as co-promotion of the 1987 Stryper concert at Brisbane's Festival Hall.
During 1983, they started using the popular slogans, "FM104 Rocks the Weekend", "FM104 Rocks Brisbane", and "FM104 Rock in Stereo". The first number one ratings success was in the 7 to midnight time slot in the second survey of 1983, reaching an impressive 26 share. The station went number one overall in October 1984 with a share of 18.2% total audience.
They peaked at 37.9% share in the Brisbane expo year, 1988, the only radio station to achieve this. They were number one in Brisbane from late 1984 until 1990. The breakfast shift, with Bill Healy and Mr T was also consistently number one. Promotions including the Skyshow featuring the first afterburner F111's in the world, and involvement in all things Brisbane supplemented the sizzling on-air format.
During their 1980's domination FM104 also pioneered cross-platform endeavours, noteworthy the weekly late night music show "Sevenrock in Stereo" hosted by programmer Bill Riner. Sevenrock was a simulcast with BTQ Channel 7 broadcasting monaural video and FM104 the stereo sound. Other simulcast ventures included Star Wars with TVQ Channel 0.
In 1988, Hoyts Entertainment, the new owners of the station, forced FM104 to take on the Triple M brand to become part of the newly created Triple M nationwide network. From then on it became known as FM104 Triple M, maintaining its callsign 4MMM. A change of frequency to 104.5 MHz occurred on 5 November 1989.
During 1990, management and staff changes started a slide. Triple M was toppled from the top spot by new FM station B105, with the onset of rap and dance music. When the Austereo group purchased the station as part of its takeover and merger of the Tripl
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Redrow plc is one of the largest British housebuilders with a network of 12 operational divisions across the UK. It is based in Flintshire, Wales and employs 2,300 people. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is currently a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
Steve Morgan had been working as a site agent for Wellington Civil Engineering when, in 1974, the parent company decided it was to be closed. Morgan offered to take over the contract, borrowed £5,000 from his father, and completed the contract at a profit. Further work was carried out for Wellington and, still aged only 21, Morgan registered his new company – Redrow. Redrow gradually expanded through small civil engineering work and, with Simon Macbryde, formed a separate building company; these were later merged to leave Macbryde with 17 percent of the enlarged company. Geographically, Redrow moved from its north Wales base into Cheshire and in the early 1980s made significant construction acquisitions in Manchester and the Wirral.
Redrow's entry into housebuilding came in 1982 and by 1985 it had grown sufficiently to separate it out from the construction business. A small acquisition in Kent provided the base for a south-east housing operation; a midlands housing subsidiary was formed in 1986 and in 1987 Redrow bought Whelmar Lancashire, one of the five housing subsidiaries then being sold by Christian Salvesen. By now, Redrow was selling over 1,000 houses a year. Further expansion took Redrow into the south-west, south Wales and Yorkshire but Redrow had pulled out of the vulnerable south-east market just ahead of the 1989 property collapse. Redrow returned to the south-east in 1993 as the housing recession neared its end, buying Costain Homes from the troubled Costain Group; this took Redrow's housing sales up to 2,000 a year.
The construction business was sold and with Redrow now purely a development business the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1994. Redrow grew steadily through the rest of the decade reaching sales of 3,000 a year. In 2000 Steve Morgan announced his intention to leave the company, retaining only a 14 percent stake in the company. Paul Pedley, who had joined Redrow as finance director in 1995, took over as managing director. In 2006 Redrow saw its 50,000th customer. In 2009, Steve Morgan returned to Redrow as executive chairman, having increased his shareholding to just under 30 percent.
In 2010, Redrow launched its Heritage Collection followed by the Regent Collection and more modern Abode Collection.
In February 2017, Redrow acquired Radleigh Homes in Derby, an established company which delivered 200 new homes in 2016. It has since been re-branded to Redrow Homes (East Midlands). Then, in September 2017, it was announced that Morgan would "ease back" to a non-executive chairman role with Redrow.
On 18 October 2018, Redrow announced its 100,000th customer and released statistics on the number of direct jobs it had created (
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putty%20%28disambiguation%29
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Putty may refer to:
Putty, plastic material
PuTTY, ssh/telnet client and terminal emulator
Putty (computer game)
Silly Putty, children's toy
Putty, New South Wales, a small town north west of Sydney
Putty Patrollers, from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
"Jeweler's putty", tin (IV) oxide, formerly known as stannic oxide
Putty Thing, the villain in The Mask: Animated Series
See also
Putti (disambiguation)
Puttee, covering for the lower part of the leg from the ankle to the knee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momel
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Momel (Modelling melody) is an algorithm developed by Daniel Hirst and Robert Espesser at the CNRS Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence:
for the analysis and synthesis of intonation patterns.
Purpose
The analysis of raw fundamental frequency curves for the study of intonation needs to take into account the fact that speakers are simultaneously producing an intonation pattern and a sequence of syllables made up of segmental phones. The actual raw fundamental frequency curves which can be analysed acoustically are the result of an interaction between these two components and this makes it difficult to compare intonation patterns when they are produced with different segmental material. Compare for example the intonation patterns on the utterances It's for papa and It's for mama.
Algorithm
The Momel algorithm attempts to solve this problem by factoring the raw curves into two components:
a macromelodic component - modelled as a quadratic spline function . This is assumed to correspond to the global pitch contour of the utterance, and which is independent of the nature of the constituent phonemes. The underlying hypothesis is that this macromelodic component is, unlike raw fundamental frequency curves, both continuous and smooth. It corresponds approximately to what we produce if we hum an utterance instead of speaking it.
a micromelodic component consisting of deviations from the macromelodic curve - called a micromelodic profile. This residual curve is assumed to be determined entirely by the segmental constituents of the utterance and to be independent of the macromelodic component.
The quadratic spline function used to model the macromelodic component is defined by a sequence of target points, (couples <s, Hz> each pair of which is linked by two monotonic parabolic curves with the spline knot occurring (by default) at the midway point between the two targets. The first derivative of the curve thus defined is zero at each target point and the two parabolas have the same value and same derivative at the spline knot. This in fact defines the most simple mathematical function for which the curves are both continuous and smooth.
Implications
On the one hand, two utterances "For Mama!" and "For Papa!" could thus be modelled with the same target points (hence the same macromelodic component) while "For Mama?" and "For Papa?" would also have the same target points but which would probably be different from those of the first pair.
On the other hand, the utterances "For Mama!" and "For Mama?" could be modelled with the same micromelodic profile but with different target point, while "For Papa!" and "For Papa?" would also have the same micromelodic profile but which would be different from those of the first pair.
The Momel algorithm derives what its authors refer to as a phonetic representation of an intonation pattern which is neutral with respect to speech production and speech perception since while not explicitly derived from a mod
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fat%20Guy%20Strangler
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"The Fat Guy Strangler" is the 17th episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 27, 2005. In the episode, Lois discovers she has a long-lost brother, Patrick who was institutionalized after seeing his mother being seduced. Lois gets him released, but after a childhood flashback induced by Peter, Patrick becomes traumatized and starts murdering overweight people.
The episode was written by Chris Sheridan and directed by Sarah Frost, whilst guest stars were Bob Barker, Dave Boat, Max Burkholder, Barclay DeVeau, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Easley, Kim Parks, Will Sasso, Anne-Michelle Seiler and Tara Strong.
Plot
Instead of going to his physical, Peter goes out with Brian, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe to eat steaks. When Lois finds out, she takes him to the doctor herself. Dr. Hartman pronounces him healthy, but fat. Peter takes this badly, even accidentally smashing a picture of Lois' family. Trying to salvage it, Lois discovers another child in the picture: a boy. She telephones her father Carter, who tells her she doesn't have a brother and quickly terminates the call, but she persists: she breaks into her parents' house. She finally learns that her brother Patrick has been living in a mental hospital for decades, ever since he suffered a nervous breakdown as a young child, upon walking in on his mother having an affair with Jackie Gleason.
Meanwhile, Peter announces to the family that he is fat and decides to create the "National Association for the Advancement of Fat People" (NAAFP). Peter hosts the first meeting of the association, but it is unsuccessful due to those attending were making too much noise, such as breathing heavily, passing gas, and munching junk food the entire way through.
Believing Patrick to be sane, Lois authorizes his release, and arranges for Patrick to stay with the family. Patrick soon announces he has a wife, Marion, although she is imaginary and nobody else other than him can see her. This leads Brian and Stewie to believe he is crazy. Lois attempts to overlook the evidence, and instead tries to persuade Peter not to encourage people to be fat. Later Peter unintentionally frightens Patrick by dressing up like Ralph Kramden and repeatedly using one of Kramden's catchphrases "Pow, right in the kisser!" which brings back memories of Gleason telling him to get out. This triggers Patrick to start killing fat people.
Lois' father, Carter, calls her and tells her how violent Patrick is, but she assures him Patrick is safe, although she becomes worried after seeing on the news that a fat man has been murdered. Lois remains in denial as more murders are committed, even though Brian tries to convince her that Patrick is the killer.
Peter brings the fat men back to his home to protect them, but after learning from Brian that Patrick is the killer, a chase between the fat men and Patrick ensues. Brian, still at the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERPROM
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TERPROM (terrain profile matching) is a military navigation Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) employed on aircraft and missiles, which uses stored digital elevation data combined with navigation system and radar altimeter inputs to compute the location of an aircraft or missile above the surface of the Earth. It is also used as a warning system to prevent aircraft from flying too close to the ground. The acronym TERPROM has become a trademark in its own right.
TERPROM was initially conceived in 1977 within the Bristol-based Guided Weapons New Projects Office of British Aerospace as a private venture project. The private venture status continued until the mid-1980s. British Aerospace later received a MoD funded contract to advise the Government on the development options and applications of tactical cruise missiles.
TERPROM utilises Terrain Referenced Navigation to provide aircraft with a Predictive Ground Collision Avoidance System (PGCAS) as well as Obstruction Warning and Cueing (OWC)
TERPROM is produced by Atlantic Inertial Systems, Plymouth, UK, formerly a subsidiary of BAE Systems, acquired in December 2009 by Goodrich Corporation, itself bought by United Technologies Corporation in 2012 branded as Collins Aerospace. As of 2020, the company merged with Raytheon to become Raytheon Technologies (RTX).
TERPROM has been fitted, and used operationally, on the following platforms:
F-16, Mirage 2000, Harrier, SEPECAT Jaguar, Panavia Tornado, A-10, Eurofighter Typhoon, BAE Hawk, C-130 and C-17 aircraft
Storm Shadow cruise missile, although Storm Shadow uses a different form of Terrain Profile Matching navigation and terrain avoidance system, developed by MBDA from the flight-proven TERPROM design and development by British Aerospace at Bristol.
Customised versions are available for fixed wing fast jet, fixed wing transport, rotary wing and missile platforms.
References
External links
Official Website
Missile guidance
Military electronics of the United Kingdom
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper%20Cell%20%28TV%20series%29
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Sleeper Cell is an American one-hour drama on the Showtime network that began airing on December 4, 2005. The tagline for the first season was "Friends. Neighbors. Husbands. Terrorists." and the tagline for the second season was "Cities. Suburbs. Airports. Targets." The series was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Miniseries. The eight-episode second season of the series, titled Sleeper Cell: American Terror, premiered on December 10, 2006. Both seasons of Sleeper Cell were originally aired in an unusual fashion, by filming the entire season ahead of time and then airing the episodes on consecutive nights, such that each brand new season was aired for the first time over a period of less than two weeks. In Australia, both seasons originally aired on the Showtime Australia channel in 2006/2007. Re-runs as of 2008 have screened on the showcase channel (part of the Showtime Australia group of channels).
As extra material on the first season DVDs reveal, the show was originally named The Cell.
Synopsis
Darwyn Al-Sayeed, a 30-year-old American undercover FBI agent who is a Muslim and embracing Islam as his religion, is assigned to infiltrate a terrorist sleeper cell that is planning an attack in Los Angeles. The cell is run by an Arab extremist named Faris al-Farik who disguises himself as a Jew. The members of the cell come from a variety of racial backgrounds and conflicting personalities. The series also portrays the hypocrisy and dichotomy of the cell members who claim to be Muslims but engage in behavior that is sinful in Islam (e.g. sex outside marriage) yet they profess a desire to be martyred for Islam.
Darwyn is supervised by FBI senior agent Ray Fuller, also a close friend who worries for Darwyn's safety.
In the second season, Darwyn infiltrates a new cell that has formed to avenge the defeat of the original cell. When his second handler, Patrice Serxner, is killed in Sudan, Darwyn must try to work with yet another handler, Special Agent Russell. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Gayle is drawn deeper into the intrigue when she's caught between Russell, Darwyn and a member of the cell.
The writers once again offered a non-stereotypical mix of cell members, including a white European woman, a Latino-American man and, in a first for American television, a gay Muslim man.
Cast
Season 1
Recurring
James LeGros—Special Agent Ray Fuller
Albert Hall—The Librarian
Michael Desante—FBI Special Agent Alim Saleh
Joshua Feinman—FBI Tech
Sonya Walger—Special Agent Patrice Serxner
Megan Ward—Mrs. Fuller
John Fletcher—Deputy Attorney General of the US
Ally Walker—Lynn Ellen Emerson
Raj Mann—Radical Muslim Man
Luis Chavez—Khashul
Saïd Taghmaoui—Hamid
Amro Salama-Abbas
Season 2
Recurring
Jay R. Ferguson—Special Agent Russell
Michael Rady - Jason
Susan Pari - Samia
Sarah Shahi - Farah
Angela Gots - Carli
Yvette Nicole Brown - Fatima
Crew
Writers
Ethan Reiff
Cyrus Voris
Angel Dean Lopez
Alexander Woo
Kamran Pasha
Katherine Li
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File sharing is a method of distributing electronically stored information such as computer programs and digital media. Below is a list of file sharing applications, most of them make use of peer-to-peer file sharing technologies.
This comparison contains also download managers that can be used as file sharing applications. For pure download managers see the comparison of download managers, and for BitTorrent-only clients the comparison of BitTorrent clients.
Table
Note that several applications had adware or spyware tied in during the past and may have it again in the future. The same goes for forks of open source apps, e.g. eMule. This list attempts to display the current status only.
No longer available from their websites: Acquisition, Audiogalaxy, Bearshare, Bitblinder, CuteMX, edonkey2000, Grokster, iMesh, Kazaa, Kazaa Lite, LimeWire, Manolito, Morpheus, Napster, Pando and Scour Exchange
Opera web browser no longer includes P2P functionality.
See also
Other comparisons
Notes
File sharing applications
File sharing software
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, the x86 architecture is used in most high end compute-intensive computers, including cloud computing, servers, workstations, and many less powerful computers, including personal computer desktops and laptops. The ARM architecture is used in most other product categories, especially high-volume battery powered mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
Some Xeon Phi processors support four-way hyper-threading, effectively quadrupling the number of threads. Before the Coffee Lake architecture, most Xeon and all desktop and mobile Core i3 and i7 supported hyper-threading while only dual-core mobile i5's supported it. Post Coffee Lake, increased core counts meant hyper-threading is not needed for Core i3, as it then replaced the i5 with four physical cores on the desktop platform. Core i7, on the desktop platform no longer supports hyper-threading; instead, now higher-performing core i9s will support hyper-threading on both mobile and desktop platforms. Before 2007 and post-Kaby Lake, some Intel Pentium and Intel Atom (e.g. N270, N450) processors support hyper-threading. Celeron processors never supported it.
Intel processors table
See also
Intel Corporation
List of Intel processors
List of Intel Atom processors
List of Intel Itanium processors
List of Intel Celeron processors
List of Intel Pentium processors
List of Intel Pentium Pro processors
List of Intel Pentium II processors
List of Intel Pentium III processors
List of Intel Pentium 4 processors
List of Intel Pentium D processors
List of Intel Pentium M processors
List of Intel Xeon processors
List of Intel Core processors
List of Intel Core 2 processors
List of Intel Core i3 processors
List of Intel Core i5 processors
List of Intel Core i7 processors
List of Intel Core i9 processors
List of Intel CPU microarchitectures
List of AMD processors
List of AMD CPU microarchitectures
Table of AMD processors
List of AMD graphics processing units
List of Intel graphics processing units
List of Nvidia graphics processing units
External links
Intel- Intel Source for Specification of Intel Processor
Comparison Charts for Intel Core Desktop Processor Family
Intel - Microprocessor Quick Reference Guide
Intel
Comparison
Intel processors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20Ross%27s%20New%20Girlfriend
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"The One with Ross's New Girlfriend" is the first episode of Friends second season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on September 21, 1995.
Plot
Continuing where the first season finale left off, Rachel goes to the airport to greet Ross as he returns from China and tell him she would like to give their relationship a chance. However, she sees Ross arrive with his new girlfriend, paleontologist and former graduate school classmate Julie. Chandler, feeling guilty for both telling Ross to move on from Rachel and letting slip to her Ross's feelings for her, talks with Ross to get an explanation of how everything happened and how it is going with Julie. Chandler's talk with Ross fails to console Rachel, as Ross confirms that he is having a great time with Julie. Everyone soon tires of Ross and Julie's displays of affection – including Rachel, who has a one-night stand with old flame Paolo in order to try and get over it.
Rachel finally tells Ross that she and Paolo are not getting back together and that it was a mistake, and is about to confess her feelings for him. But after Ross gets his feelings for Paolo, specifically that he is "scum", off his chest, he tells Rachel he thinks she should be with someone who considers himself lucky to have her – like he is with Julie. When she hears this, Rachel has nothing more to say to him, realizing that Ross is truly happy with Julie.
Chandler needs a pair of pants altered, so Joey sends him to the Tribbiani family tailor. All is fine – until the tailor measures Chandler's inseam a little too well. Chandler comes back angry and blames Joey for the fiasco. Joey still thinks that is how tailors do inseams, until Ross and Chandler convince him about the real intentions of the tailor. Joey realises and is found calling all his relatives about the problem.
Meanwhile, Monica wants Phoebe to give her a new haircut, since she did such a great job with Joey's and Chandler's haircuts. Phoebe, aware of Monica's pickiness, declines at first but eventually relents. Monica requests that Phoebe cut her hair like Demi Moore; Phoebe gets confused and cuts her hair like Dudley Moore. Monica is very upset and the rest of the gang try hard to console her. In the tag scene, Julie asks Phoebe to cut her hair for her like Andie MacDowell. When she asks Rachel for advice on how to cut it, Rachel gets her revenge on Julie by describing Andie MacDowell as "the guy from Planet Of The Apes".
In a deleted scene, Phoebe pokes fun at Rachel when she demands to know who gave Julie the number to her and Monica's apartment.
Reception
In the original broadcast, the episode was viewed by 32.1 million viewers.
Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy ranked it #215 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes, and called the episode fine, but not especially funny. Telegraph & Argus also ranked it #215 on their ranking of all Friends episodes.
References
1995 American television episodes
Friends (season 2) episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s%20Pony
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"Lisa's Pony" is the eighth 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 November 7, 1991. In this episode, Homer goes drinking at Moe's Tavern instead of buying a new reed for Lisa's saxophone, making her flop at the school talent show. Desperate to win back his daughter's love, Homer gives Lisa the one thing she has always wanted: a pony. Homer struggles with two jobs to cover the cost of sheltering and feeding it. After seeing the sacrifices he endures to pay for it, Lisa decides to part with her pony.
The episode was written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss and directed by Carlos Baeza. Lunchlady Doris, a recurring character on The Simpsons, made her first appearance on the show in this episode. "Lisa's Pony" features cultural references to films such as The Godfather and 2001: A Space Odyssey the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, and the Chuck Berry song My Ding-a-Ling.
Since airing, the episode has received positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 13.8 and was the highest-rated show on Fox the week it aired.
Plot
Lisa needs a new saxophone reed for the school talent show. Homer agrees to buy her one but visits Moe's Tavern first. When he arrives at the music shop next door, it has closed for the night. Dejected, Homer returns to the bar, where he finds the shop's owner. Moe convinces him to re-open his store, but when Homer reaches the school with the new reed, Lisa has already butchered her performance. Humiliated and dejected, she ignores her father's attempts to appease her. While watching old family videos, Homer realizes how much he has neglected Lisa over the years.
After Homer's attempts to mend his relationship with Lisa fail, he buys her, using a loan through the power plant credit union, the one thing she has always wanted: a pony. Lisa wakes one morning – the pony is lying next to her in bed. She is delighted with her and names her Princess; she forgives her father. Homer is glad Lisa respects him again, but Marge is upset when he ignores her warning that they cannot afford the horse.
To pay for Princess' stabling, Homer moonlights at the Kwik-E-Mart, which exhausts him over time. Marge tells the children about the sacrifices their father is making but says that Lisa must decide for herself whether to part with Princess. After watching Bart take advantage of a sleep-deprived Homer at the Kwik-E-Mart, Lisa shares a heartbreaking goodbye with her pony. She tells Homer there is a "big dumb animal" she loves even more than Princess: her father. When Homer—who was lazy, stole from the Kwik-E-Mart, and was rude to the customers—quits his job, Apu admits that he was the "best damned employee a convenience store ever had" despite these failings.
Production
"Lisa's Pony" was written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who were show runners of The Simpsons when the episode was produced. According to Reiss, be
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An Internet Data Exchange (IDX, also known as Information Data Exchange) refers to the agreement between listing (Selling) Agents or Brokers and Buyers' Agents to display Multiple Listing Service properties online, across multiple websites (via Real Estate Syndication where the listing Agent/Broker allows a listing to be Syndicated).
IDX search users are home buyers or sellers in the market to buy or sell real estate. Their interests may focus on new development, land, condos, rentals, and any other property listed by a particular MLS.
Real estate agents use IDX to market homes, attract leads, and close more sales. By displaying listings online, agents can reach a larger audience and better match available homes to prospective buyers.
Certain rules apply to the real estate companies' ability to display each detail about a property. These "display rules" are set by the Multiple Listing Service organization, which generally forms its policy around the recommendations of the National Association of Realtors. Pricing for IDX services is set by MLS boards and third-party vendors. In some cases basic IDX services are free, and premium features are available for a fee.
IDX implementations and standards have changed drastically over recent years, as brokers and agents using IDX services along with companies proving IDX services have focused on the inherent ability to optimize websites with IDX-driven listing content. A variety of options for displaying IDX content on individual websites exist, including the practice of "truly embedding" IDX content into pages to iframe-driven implementations, which some consider a hidden implementation, since the true site delivering the IDX service is only framed into another website. Policies around these implementations as well as IDX content on social media is a hot topic in many circles.
An alternative policy called the Internet Listing Display was considered in 2005, but later abandoned in the same year as a result of investigation from the U.S. Department of Justice into anti-competitive practices by traditional real estate brokers.
A common and standard data exchange protocol for IDX information is the Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS).
See also
Internet Listing Display (ILD)
Multiple listing service (MLS)
Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS)
Virtual Office Website (VOW)
References
https://www.kumkvj.com/2021/06/Web-Information-Trade-Internet-Data-Exchange.html==External links==
IDX (Internet Data Exchange) Information and Resources, National Association of Realtors (This site requires a NAR membership.)
RESO
Real estate in the United States
Data interchange standards
Online real estate databases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wily%20%26%20Right%20no%20RockBoard%3A%20That%27s%20Paradise
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is a business simulator video game developed and published by Capcom for the Family Computer exclusively in Japan in 1993. It is a spin-off video game to the original Mega Man series. It is similar to the board game Monopoly, in which players and the computer AI take turns going around a set of connected circles, buying up property, and charging other participants rent when they land on those spaces.
Critical reception for the game from Western gaming websites has been generally negative. An unreleased English translation and a canceled Game Boy version may have been in development.
Gameplay
Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise is a business simulation game in which the player chooses among several characters in the original Mega Man series and competes with other players or the computer AI in purchasing spaces of property. The characters include Roll, Dr. Light, Dr. Wily, Dr. Cossack, and Kalinka. Each participant is given a turn, moving a certain number of spaces on the board. If they land on a property square, they are given the option to buy it with a certain about of Zenny (the game's currency). They can then charge other characters rent when they land on that building. However, other characters can also buy part of the same square, allowing each owner to charge a smaller amount of rent. Some squares contain cards that cause various effects on the board such as raising property prices or the development level of a building. The game's winning conditions can vary depending on the set rules. The winner may be the character with the most owned spaces, the most remaining Zenny, or the most developments.
Development
Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise was developed by Capcom during a time when the Mega Man franchise was at its height of its popularity. Series artist Keiji Inafune had very little involvement in the development of Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise, simply designing the cover art and the new character Reggae. When developing the game, the team wanted to include as many bosses from previous titles in the series as possible. However, they ultimately decided to leave room for an original character that fans could associate with the new game. When discussing a bird character labeled , one of the team members misread it as , resulting in Reggae's resemblance to the species.
The January 1993 issue of the Mexican magazine Club Nintendo featured Wily & Right no RockBoard as part of a preview article for the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show. Titling the game as "Mega Board", the article even had a screenshot featuring English text. An unreleased Game Boy version was also in the works by the Japanese company Dual, which listed the game on the credits page of its official website, and the ROM of which was recovered in the Nintendo Gigaleak. Hitoshi Sakimoto was responsible for the audio in this version.
Reception
Critical reception for Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise outside Japan has been poor. GameSpot co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVER-CD
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KVER-CD (channel 41) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Indio, California, United States, serving the Palm Springs Area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside UniMás affiliate KEVC-CD (channel 5, also licensed to Indio), Palm Springs–licensed NBC affiliate KMIR-TV (channel 36) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KPSE-LD (channel 50). KVER and KEVC share studios on Corporate Way in Palm Desert; KMIR and KPSE maintain separate facilities on Parkview Drive, also in Palm Desert. KVER's transmitter is located atop Edom Hill in Cathedral City.
KVER's signal was formerly relayed on low-powered translator KVES-LD (virtual channel 28, UHF digital channel 36) in Palm Springs.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
External links
KVER official webpage
Entravision official site
Indio, California
Univision network affiliates
VER-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in California
VER-CD
VER
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUNA-LD
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KUNA-LD (channel 15) is a low-power television station licensed to Indio, California, United States, serving the Coachella Valley as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongside Palm Springs–licensed ABC affiliate KESQ-TV (channel 42), Cathedral City–licensed Class A CBS affiliate KPSP-CD (channel 38), Class A Fox affiliate KDFX-CD (channel 33.2, licensed to both Indio and Palm Springs), and Palm Springs–licensed CW affiliate KCWQ-LD (channel 2). The stations share studios on Dunham Way in Thousand Palms, while KUNA-LD's transmitter is located in the Indio Hills.
In addition to its own digital signal, the station is simulcast in high definition on KPSP's second digital subchannel, and in standard definition on KESQ's eighth digital subchannel. Both KPSP and KESQ transmit from Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City and I-10.
History
KUNA-LD signed on the air originally as K15EI on May 15, 1996, and then switched call letters to KUNA-LP on March 31, 2003. The station filed a license to cover application for digital operations on December 14, 2021. The digital license was issued on February 4, 2022, with the station changing its call sign to KUNA-LD.
Subchannel
See also
KESQ-TV
KDFX-CD
References
External links
Official website
Telemundo network affiliates
UNA-LD
Indio, California
News-Press & Gazette Company
Television channels and stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in California
UNA-LD
UNA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quepasa
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Quepasa Corporation was a US-based social media technology company catering to Latino Audiences worldwide. Quepasa owned and operated Quepasa.com, a social network, Quepasa Games (formerly Techfront), a social game development studio, and Quepasa Contests, a social media advertising solution (formerly Quepasa DSM). Initially founded as a Hispanic web portal and later revived by its founder as a social network that grew to over 30 million users, Quepasa was the first publicly traded company focused on the bilingual English/Spanish language U.S. Hispanic internet demographic.
In 2012, Quepasa suspended operations after a $100 million acquisition, name change and sale to MeetMe.
About
Founded in Phoenix, Arizona, and later with headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida (with offices in Scottsdale, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and Mexico), Quepasa Corporation owned Quepasa.com, one of the world's largest, bicultural and bilingual Latino Social Networks on-line. Quepasa.com, and sister site Corazones.com served users in the U.S., Mexico, Latin America and the world in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. In July, 2011, the company merged with teen social network myYearbook
History
Quepasa Corporation was founded by Jeffrey Peterson and co-founded by Michael Silberman in 1997. The company was headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, with offices in Los Angeles, California and West Palm Beach, Florida.
In 1998 Quepasa raised US$20 million from private investors, including television broadcaster Telemundo and Phoenix sports businessman Jerry Colangelo. Costa Rican president Jose Maria Figueres and former CNBC chief business commentator William Siedman joined the board of directors.
Quepasa had its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market on June 24, 1999, selling 4.6 million shares at $12 per share. During the first two weeks the value increased to $26 per share. By July 1999, Quepasa had raised over $100 million. Quepasa shares registered billions of dollars per month in trading volume on Nasdaq during the dot-com Internet boom.
In July 2011, the company led a merger with myYearbook a teen focused social network.
Growth
In 1999 Quepasa invested tens of millions of dollars in thousands of outdoor Spanish-language billboard advertisements, network radio promotions and various national television brand-building campaigns featuring the music of its corporate spokesperson and investor, Gloria Estefan.
At the peak of the Internet boom in the year 2000, market research firm Cheskin Research ranked Quepasa as the most popular destination for U.S. Hispanics, despite costly marketing campaigns by Starmedia and Terra. Shares of Quepasa rose on Nasdaq to a market value of $400 million at their peak.
In 2010, an article published by Adweek noted "record setting numbers for Quepasa" in a "fierce latin social networking climate" with Facebook, Hi5, Tagged.com, Sonico and others.
In 2011 Quepasa announced a partnership with PRISA Digital, a Spanish media
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters%20of%20Horror
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Masters of Horror is an anthology television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network.
Origin
In 2002, director Mick Garris invited some director friends to an informal dinner at a restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California. The original ten "masters" attending were John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, Bill Malone, and Garris himself.
Subsequently, Garris organized regular dinners with the group and invited other horror and other genre directors to attend, including Dario Argento, Eli Roth, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Tim Sullivan, Rob Zombie, Bryan Singer, Fred Dekker, William Lustig, Lucky McKee, Ernest Dickerson, Katt Shea, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, James Gunn, Mary Lambert, Tom Holland, Peter Medak, Ti West, Lloyd Kaufman, and others. In 2005, Garris created and produced an original anthology television series of one-hour movies, written and directed by many of the "masters," which was originally broadcast in the U.S. on the Showtime cable network. In several international territories, the films were released theatrically.
The series debuted to excellent reviews in the U.S. on October 28, 2005, with the premiere episode "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," co-written and directed by Don Coscarelli, based on the short story by Joe R. Lansdale. New episodes premiered every Friday at 10 p.m. EST throughout the series' two seasons. The show followed an anthology series format, with each episode featuring a one-hour film directed by a well-known horror film director. In 2009, Chiller began airing the show on their Sunday evening line-up of shows, and in 2010, Reelz Channel began airing episodes of Masters of Horror edited (despite keeping its TV-MA rating) and with commercials.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2005–06)
Episode 4, "Jenifer", was accidentally made available on-demand to a select audience at the same time as episode 2, "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House". The episode was cut for graphic violence during its initial television broadcast, and the cut scenes can only be viewed in a featurette separate from the film on the R1 DVD release.
Episode 13, "Imprint", originally scheduled to premiere on January 27, 2006, was shelved by Showtime due to concerns over its content. Mick Garris, creator and executive producer of the series, characterized the episode as "the most disturbing film I've ever seen". It is available only on DVD and Blu-ray by Anchor Bay Entertainment, along with the rest of the episodes in the first season. "Imprint" was shown in the UK on Bravo (7 April 2006).
Season 2 (2006–07)
Related series
Fear Itself
Series creator Mick Garris stated that Showtime opted not to show the third season and that film studio Lionsgate had begun funding the series. The Hollywood Reporter reported on September 25, 2007, that Mick Garris and Lionsgate signed a 13-episode deal with NBC. Instead of a t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch
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Zarch (also known under its ported name of Virus) is a computer game developed by David Braben (better known as the co-author of Elite) in 1987, for the release of the Acorn Archimedes computer. Zarch started off as a demo called Lander which was bundled with almost all releases of the Acorn Archimedes.
In 1988, Zarch was ported (under the new name, Virus) to the Atari ST, Amiga (coded by David Braben), and IBM PC (coded by Chris Sawyer). It was later ported to the ZX Spectrum by Steven Dunn.
The game was groundbreaking for the time, featuring a three-dimensional mouse-controlled craft (the "lander") flying over a tile-rendered landscape that dazzled reviewers in a primarily 2D-dominated game industry - ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) magazine led with the headline "SOLID 3D - the future of games?" when it reviewed Zarch with a score of 979, the highest rating ACE had given at that time, only bettered by the later Amiga port Virus at 981.
Virus was one of the first solid 3D games and was also the first to have 3D lighting effects and shadowing, although these are less sophisticated than those of Zarch.
Plot
The plot of the game is reminiscent of the arcade game Defender, in that the player, piloting a lone craft with limited firepower, must defend a finite landscape against ever increasing waves of enemy craft. In Zarch, the landscape is being invaded by aliens who are spreading a virus across the landscape. The Seeder vessels are slow-moving, predictable, and easily destroyed, but as the game progresses they are supported by increasing numbers of flying support craft, which do not scatter said virus but instead attack the player.
The Seeder vessels scatter red virus particles across the landscape. As they land, they turn the green landscape to brown and red, and cause the trees to mutate. Some flying enemies shoot the mutated trees, to cause themselves to become much more aggressive and dangerous. To clear each attack wave, the player must destroy all enemy vessels.
At the conclusion of each attack wave the player is awarded bonus points for the amount of landscape which remains uninfected. After four attack waves have been successfully repelled, the player is awarded a new landscape; however, there is comparatively less land and more water, making complete infection more likely.
Gameplay
Zarch is a notoriously difficult game for beginners. Controls are extremely sensitive; simply moving the mouse while taking off can cause the lander to explode on the launchpad.
The lander has a single thruster pointing directly downwards beneath it. Firing the thruster causes the lander to fly straight upwards. The lander has a flight ceiling above which the thruster will not fire. To fly in any direction requires the lander to be tilted in that direction. The lander can only pitch and yaw; it cannot roll. Too much tilt can cause the lander to turn upside-down, a position which may be difficult to recover, and can cause the player to crash the l
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoring
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Authoring may refer to:
Writing, as by an author
Authoring systems, computer based systems that allow the creation of content for intelligent tutoring systems
Optical disc authoring and DVD authoring, the process of creating a DVD or a CD from multimedia source materials.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Ground%20Collective
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The Common Ground Collective is a decentralized network of non-profit organizations offering support to the residents of New Orleans. It was formed in the fall of 2005 in the Algiers neighborhood of the city in the days after Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread flooding, damage and deaths throughout the city.
History
Common Ground Relief, or Common Ground Collective, was founded on September 5, 2005, based on the ideas of Malik Rahim, a local community organizer and former member of the Black Panther Party; Scott Crow, an anarchist organizer from Texas; and Sharon Johnson, a resident of Algiers neighborhood. Other key organizers included Jackie Sumell, Jimmy Dunson, Kerul Dyer, Suncere Shakur, Naomi Archer (Ana Oian Amets), Emily Posner, and Jenka Soderberg.
Common Ground started with delivery of basic aid (food, water, and supplies) that was arriving daily from the Veterans for Peace Bus. Led by Desert storm Veteran Dennis Kyne, they carried food and supplies brought in from Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas. Plenty International would also play an instrumental role in the beginning of relief efforts and the establishment of a greatly needed medical clinic in Algiers. The effort expanded to providing assistance to homeowners and residents trying to move back into other areas of the city and region—such as the Lower Ninth Ward, St. Bernard Parish, and Houma—where flood-protection infrastructure had failed after the hurricane.
Common Ground Health Clinic had its beginnings when The Veterans for Peace allocated contributions to purchase medical supplies. This money would come from the messages Michael Moore sent to his followers. The first doctors and nurses providing services came through the VFP volunteer camp set up at PineView Middle School.
Providing outreach many volunteers began riding around on bicycles asking residents if they needed medical attention. Locals were surprised to be approached in this way, since no representatives of government agencies or of the Red Cross had appeared up to that point. The clinic offered first aid, took blood pressure, tested for diabetes, and asked about symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other disease.
Common Ground volunteers helped to provide free services and home gutting in the Upper & Lower Ninth wards. As of March 1, 2009, more than 23,000 people, mostly young white people from throughout the United States and Europe, had volunteered with Common Ground Relief for various lengths of time. They worked in the predominantly black neighborhoods that were severely affected by flooding and damage from the storm, and where many residents were poor. An ABC News Nightline report described the volunteers as "mostly young people filled with energy and idealism, and untainted by cynicism and despair, and mostly white, [who] have come from across America and from countries as far away as Indonesia." The health clinic was especially helpful to remaining residents of New Orleans immediately after the hurric
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Alliance%20for%20Breastfeeding%20Action
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The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a network of people working on a global scale to eliminate obstacles to breastfeeding and to act on the Innocenti Declaration. The groups within this alliance tackle the problems from a variety of perspectives or point of views, such as consumer advocates, mothers, and lactation consultants.
Among the various organizations and individuals involved in the creation of WABA, Derrick and Pat Jelliffe, two experts in tropical paediatrics and infant nutrition, were instrumental in its founding and in the launching of some of its more visible early initiatives.
WABA organises the World Breastfeeding Week, held annually August 1 through the 7th, to put together the efforts of all breastfeeding advocates, governments, and the public in more than 170 countries.
Campaigns
Several campaigns are associated with the WABA:
1991 to present - The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a joint campaign by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, and focuses mainly on hospital practices, implementing the principles of the Innocenti Declaration.
1993 - This campaign tackled the problem of developing mother-friendly workplaces. In general, they wanted mothers to be able to combine breastfeeding with their working atmosphere.
1994 - The main focus of the '94 campaign was to implement again the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes in all countries to meet the demands of the Innocenti Declaration.
International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes
International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (Rules for industries, health workers, and governments to regulate the promotion of baby products through marketing):
No advertising of any of these products to the public.
No free samples to mothers.
No promotion of products in health care facilities, including the distribution of free or low-cost supplies.
No company sales representatives to advise mothers.
No gifts or personal samples to health workers.
No words or pictures idealizing artificial feeding, or pictures of infants on labels of infant milk containers.
Information to health workers should be scientific and factual.
All information on artificial infant feeding, including that on labels, should explain the benefits of breastfeeding, and the costs and hazards associated with artificial feeding.
Unsuitable products, such as sweetened condensed milk, should not be promoted for babies.
Manufacturers and distributors should comply with the Code's provisions even if countries have not adopted laws or other measures.
References
External links
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action Website
World Breastfeeding Week Website
Breastfeeding organizations
Medical and health organisations based in Malaysia
International medical and health organizations
Child-related organisations in Malaysia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%209
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Level 9 may refer to:
Level 9 Computing, a software developer primarily known for their 1980s text adventures
Level 9 (TV series)
Level 9 (band)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNN
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LNN may refer to:
Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola, a South African television programme
Lindsay Manufacturing, a manufacturer of irrigation systems
London News Network, a television news service
Lorediakarkar language, an Austronesian language of Vanuatu
Willoughby Lost Nation Municipal Airport, Ohio, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology%20language
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In computer science and artificial intelligence, ontology languages are formal languages used to construct ontologies. They allow the encoding of knowledge about specific domains and often include reasoning rules that support the processing of that knowledge. Ontology languages are usually declarative languages, are almost always generalizations of frame languages, and are commonly based on either first-order logic or on description logic.
Classification of ontology languages
Classification by syntax
Traditional syntax ontology languages
Common Logic - and its dialects
CycL
DOGMA (Developing Ontology-Grounded Methods and Applications)
F-Logic (Frame Logic)
FO-dot (First-order logic extended with types, arithmetic, aggregates and inductive definitions)
KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format)
Ontolingua based on KIF
KL-ONE
KM programming language
LOOM (ontology)
OCML (Operational Conceptual Modelling Language)
OKBC (Open Knowledge Base Connectivity)
PLIB (Parts LIBrary)
RACER
Markup ontology languages
These languages use a markup scheme to encode knowledge, most commonly with XML.
DAML+OIL
Ontology Inference Layer (OIL)
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
RDF Schema (RDFS)
SHOE
Controlled natural languages
Attempto Controlled English
Open vocabulary natural languages
Executable English
Classification by structure (logic type)
Frame-based
Three languages are completely or partially frame-based languages.
F-Logic
OKBC
KM
Description logic-based
Description logic provides an extension of frame languages, without going so far as to take the leap to first-order logic and support for arbitrary predicates.
KL-ONE
RACER
OWL.
Gellish is an example of a combined ontology language and ontology that is description logic based. It distinguishes between the semantic differences among others of:
relation types for relations between concepts (classes)
relation types for relations between individuals
relation types for relations between individuals and classes
It also contains constructs to express queries and communicative intent.
First-order logic-based
Several ontology languages support expressions in first-order logic and allow general predicates.
Common Logic
CycL
FO-dot (First-order logic extended with types, arithmetic, aggregates and inductive definitions)
KIF
See also
Domain theory
Formal concept analysis
Galois connection
Lattice (order)
Modeling language
OntoUML
Notes
References
Oscar Corcho, Asuncion Gomez-Perez, A Roadmap to Ontology Specification Languages (2000)
Introduction to Description Logics – DL course by Enrico Franconi, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Modeling languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emporis
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Emporis was a real estate data mining company that was headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022.
On 12 September 2022, the managing director of CoStar Europe posted a letter on Emporis.com, informing its community members of the decision which had been made to retire the Emporis community platform, effective 13 September 2022.
Emporis offered a variety of information on its public database, Emporis.com. Emporis was frequently cited by various media sources as an authority on building data.
Emporis originally focused exclusively on high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, which it defined as buildings "between 35 and 100 metres" tall and "at least 100 metres tall", respectively. Emporis used the point where the building touches the ground to determine height. The database had expanded to include low-rise buildings and other structures. It used a point system to rank skylines.
History
Michael Wutzke started a website about skyscrapers in Frankfurt in 1996. In 2000 he started skyscrapers.com, which was folded into Emporis in 2003.
In 2005 Emporis formed a partnership with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), under which Emporis served as the official CTBUH high-rise buildings database until the launch of The Skyscraper Center in 2011.
In 2007 venture capital firm Neuhaus Partners and KfW Bankengruppe invested several million euro in the company. Effective 1 January 2009, the company moved its headquarters from Darmstadt to Frankfurt. In 2011, the company moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg.
On 26 October 2020, CoStar Group, Inc., based in Washington, D.C., completed its acquisition of Emporis GmbH. CoStar Group added Emporis to its portfolio of brands. The other brands included LoopNet, Apartments.com, Apartment Finder, Belbex, amongst several others.
The merger of Emporis GmbH into CoStar Group subsidiary STR, Inc's German division, STR Germany GmbH, was finalized on 27 January 2021, with Emporis GmbH's removal from the Common Register Portal of the German Federal States ()
On 14 September 2022, the entirety of the Emporis website's original content, including the building database, articles and data regarding Emporis Skyscraper Award recipients, and corporate information, was removed.
In 2023, former editors of the Emporis website created a new website called SKYDB, a website that acts the same purpose as this one.
Emporis Skyscraper Award
In 2000 a group of Emporis senior editors began presenting the Emporis Skyscraper Award. Eligible buildings are selected from a list of all buildings in the world at least 100 meters tall which were completed that year.
SKYDB
SKYDB is a website that collects data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which have been published since January 2023.
It is the result of merging Phorio with the now-defunct Emporis, which caused Phorio to shut down and create
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict%20Resolver
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Conflict Resolver is an application used by Apple's sync services. Data can be synced between services like MobileMe and Gmail to devices like Macs, PCs, and mobile devices. The sync services are utilized by several applications including Address Book, iCal, Mail. Conflict Resolver is executed in the event that a sync service cannot decide on which version of the data to use, creating a conflict. The user is prompted to choose which version of the data to use (MobileMe or local) and whether the user wishes to apply the same changes to all conflicts or review them individually.
Conflict Resolver resides at:
in versions of Mac OS X since 10.5. In Mac OS X 10.4, the application was located at .
External links
MobileMe
MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
MacOS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA%20Radio%20Network
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USA Radio Network is an American mass media company, specializing in long-form spoken word (talk radio) and radio newscasts, produced and distributed with a generally conservative focus.
USA Radio Network produces and distributes 24-hour news, news/talk, information, opinion and talk/entertainment radio programming to approximately 1,100 radio stations around the world on two full-time satellite channels and through various digital protocol systems.
It has no connection to NBCUniversal Cable's USA Network.
History
USA Radio Network was established in 1985 by Marlin Maddoux. Maddoux had hosted his own local conservative news talk program, Point of View, in Dallas since 1972. In 1982, the program began broadcasting nationwide on the Satellite Radio Network. Maddoux identified the need for a national news service for radio stations not served by the major networks. The newly chartered USA Radio Network went on the air with its first newscast via satellite on September 15, 1985. Maddoux died on March 4, 2004.
In 2008, USA Radio Network merged its corporate structure under Larry Bates of Memphis, Tennessee, with Information Radio Network, with programming on the two networks remaining separate. The combined company was known as IRN/USA Radio Network. The old IRN became IRN/USA-1, and the two existing USA Radio Network channels became channels 2 and 3. IRN/USA Radio Network went into receivership in 2013 due to the legal issues of its sister company First American Monetary Consultants. Cross Platform Media took over day-to-day management of the network under the direction of the courts until Cross Platform purchased it from receivership in September 2014.
Cross Platform Media immediately removed the IRN moniker, shut down all of IRN's programming, and relaunched the original USA Radio Network brand as the first step in an revitalization program that included overhauling USA Radio News and rebuilding its programming lineup. Russ Jones stepped in as Senior Vice President and News Director to oversee the 24-hour news department.
On October 9, 2015, Liftable Media, a company that specializes in digital and social news websites, acquired USA Radio Networks from Cross Platform Media. On October 15, Liftable hired former nationally syndicated conservative talk show host Rusty Humphries as Senior Vice President of Programming.
Nevada Radio, LLC based in Washoe Valley, Nevada, acquired the network in 2018. It then severed ties with Humphries.
Daybreak USA is the network's long-running morning news magazine. The program was replaced by Doug Stephan's Good Day in June 2022.
USA Radio brought Wyatt Cox on board in December 2015 to produce a 24-hour old-time radio Christmas special. Old-time radio broadcasts were a staple of the network for many years, with Wyatt Cox as host since December 26, 2015. The broadcasts aired under the umbrella title "Classic Radio Theater." In May 2023, it was reported that Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox had left USA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asio%20C%2B%2B%20library
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Asio is a freely available, open-source, cross-platform C++ library for network programming. It provides developers with a consistent asynchronous I/O model using a modern C++ approach.
Boost.Asio was accepted into the Boost library on 30 December 2005 after a 20-day review. The library has been developed by Christopher M. Kohlhoff since 2003. A networking proposal based on Asio was submitted to the C++ standards committee in 2006 for possible inclusion in the second Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions (TR2).
Notes
External links
Asio home page
Boost Asio documentation
Samples
C++ libraries
Software using the Boost license
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Iron%20Chef%20America%20episodes
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This is the list of the episodes for the American cooking television series and competition Iron Chef America, produced by Food Network. The series is based on the Japanese series Iron Chef and is a cooking competition in which a challenger chef "battles" one of the resident "Iron Chefs" by cooking five or more dishes in a one-hour time slot based around a secret ingredient or ingredients, and sometimes theme. In most episodes, three judges score the meal in three categories, with 10 points available to each judge for taste, 5 points for creativity, and 5 points for presentation, for a possible total of 60 points. Exceptions are noted for individual episodes.
Episodes
Battle of the Masters: 2004
Iron Chef America was first aired as a mini-series entitled Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters. For Battle of the Masters, two of the original Iron Chefs competed along with three Food Network personalities in various match ups with one another.
This is Wolfgang Puck's only battle as an Iron Chef.
This episode had four judges, and thus a maximum possible score of 80.
Season 1: 2005
Roberto Donna completed only two of the required five dishes.
The cheeses in this battle consisted of five traditional Italian cheeses: mascarpone, ricotta, Parmigiano-Reggiano, gorgonzola and mozzarella.
Season 2: 2005
Tamara Murphy is the first female challenger to lose to the Iron Chef. The three previous female competitors won their respective battles.
In this match Milliken and Feniger only had one sous-chef to adhere to the three-to-a-kitchen rule.
Season 3: 2006–2007
Roberto Donna is the first chef to request a re-match.
First aired on Food Network Canada on May 3, 2006.
Eme brought only one sous-chef to the competition; his other sous-chef was needed to operate his restaurant in his absence. Eme is married to actress Jeri Ryan, who later served as a judge on ICA.
Chef Morou won a Washington D.C. preliminary competition in December, 2005 for the chance to compete on the show.
Patricia Yeo is the first former ICA sous chef (under Bobby Flay) to compete against an Iron Chef.
Elizabeth Falkner was a sous chef under Cat Cora for several ICA episodes.
This was a special 90-minute episode that pitted two guest Food Network personalities against each other. Each personality was paired with an Iron Chef.
Walter Royal had a third sous chef for the first five minutes of the competition. This sous chef, who primarily participated by peeling potatoes, was a 12-year-old working in a mentor program with Chef Royal.
This first aired on the Throwdown! with Bobby Flay Marathon on January 1, 2007.
Season 4: 2007
First aired on Food Network Canada on February 11, 2007.
Lynn Crawford is the first Canadian woman to compete in Kitchen Stadium. She is a Food Network Canada personality as part of the series Restaurant Makeover.
This episode featured a guest mixologist paired with each competing chef. The mixologists were required to prepare a drink to acco
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asio%20%28disambiguation%29
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Asio is a genus of owls.
Asio or ASIO may also refer to:
asio C++ library, a programming library for asynchronous I/O
Audio Stream Input/Output, computer sound card driver protocol for low-latency digital audio
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
"ASIO", a song by Redgum from Frontline
"ASIO" a song by Benny Cristo
See also
AZO (disambiguation)
ACO (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aux
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Aux or AUX may refer to:
Science and technology
Auxiliary connector or AUX jack, typically used for analog audio signals
Aux/IAA repressors, related to auxin plant hormones
Computing
AUX: (for auxiliary), a DOS text device
AUX (CONFIG.SYS directive), changes assignment for AUX: device in DR-DOS
A/UX, a Unix operating system by Apple
Other uses
Auxiliary (disambiguation) (abbreviation)
Aux (TV channel), a Canadian music TV channel
Araguaína Airport (IATA airport code), Tocantins, Brazil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Pemberton
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Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with the Distributed and Interactive Systems group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands.
He was one of the designers of ABC, a programming language released in 1987, and editor-in-chief of the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI)'s Bulletin from 1993-1999 and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s Interactions from 1998-2004.
Contributions to web standards
Pemberton was a contributing author of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 4.0 and HTML 4.01, and chair of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group. He was a contributing author of the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) specifications 1.0 in 2000 and 1.1 in 2001, and chair of the XHTML 2 Working Group from 2006-9.
He chaired the first W3C workshop on style sheets in 1995, and was a contributing author of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1 specification in 1996, Level 2 in 1998, and CSS Color Module Level 3 in 2002.
Pemberton was co-chair of the W3C XForms Working Group from 2000-2007, and in 2003 co-authored the XForms 1.0 specification. In 2009 he co-authored the XForms 1.1 and XML Events specifications. He was co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group from 2010-2012.
Awards
2009: SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.
2022: SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award.
References
External links
Personal website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAM-MD5
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In cryptography, CRAM-MD5 is a challenge–response authentication mechanism (CRAM) based on the HMAC-MD5 algorithm. As one of the mechanisms supported by the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), it is often used in email software as part of SMTP Authentication and for the authentication of POP and IMAP users, as well as in applications implementing LDAP, XMPP, BEEP, and other protocols.
When such software requires authentication over unencrypted connections, CRAM-MD5 is preferred over mechanisms that transmit passwords "in the clear," such as LOGIN and PLAIN. However, it can't prevent derivation of a password through a brute-force attack, so it is less effective than alternative mechanisms that avoid passwords or that use connections encrypted with Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Protocol
The CRAM-MD5 protocol involves a single challenge and response cycle, and is initiated by the server:
Challenge: The server sends a base64-encoded string to the client. Before encoding, it could be any random string, but the standard that currently defines CRAM-MD5 says that it is in the format of a Message-ID email header value (including angle brackets) and includes an arbitrary string of random digits, a timestamp, and the server's fully qualified domain name.
Response: The client responds with a string created as follows.
The challenge is base64-decoded.
The decoded challenge is hashed using HMAC-MD5, with a shared secret (typically, the user's password, or a hash thereof) as the secret key.
The hashed challenge is converted to a string of lowercase hex digits.
The username and a space character are prepended to the hex digits.
The concatenation is then base64-encoded and sent to the server
Comparison: The server uses the same method to compute the expected response. If the given response and the expected response match, then authentication was successful.
Strengths
The one-way hash and the fresh random challenge provide three types of security:
Others cannot duplicate the hash without knowing the password. This provides authentication.
Others cannot replay the hash—it is dependent on the unpredictable challenge. This is variously called freshness or replay prevention.
Observers do not learn the password; this is called secrecy.
Weaknesses
No mutual authentication: the client does not verify the server. However, SASL authentication is usually done over a TLS connection, which verifies the server's identity.
Weak password storage: some implementations require access to the users' plain text passwords, while others (e.g. Dovecot) use the intermediate step of the HMAC process to store the MD5-hash of the password (strictly speaking of HMAC's internal variables i_key_pad and o_key_pad). Such implementations leverage that for computing md5(something_with_64_bytes || something_else), only md5_internal(something_with_64_bytes) and something_else are needed to know (because of Merkle–Damgård usage in MD5; md5_internal is md5 without t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking%20Truck
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The Walking Truck or Cybernetic Walking Machine was an experimental quadruped walking vehicle created by General Electric in 1965. It was designed by Ralph Mosher to help infantry carry equipment over rough terrain. It alternatively bore the name of "CAM", an acronym for "Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine". It appeared in a segment of the Walter Cronkite–hosted The 20th Century in 1968.
Operation
The stepping of the robot was controlled by a human operator through foot and hand movements coupled to hydraulic valves. The complex movements of the legs and body pose were done entirely through hydraulics. The hydraulic fluid and pressure was supplied through an off-board system. The walking truck was one of the first technological hardware design applications to incorporate force feed-back to give the operator a feel of what was happening.
As of 2019, the surviving prototype can be seen at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum in Fort Eustis, Virginia. The robot weighed and could walk up to . It was exhausting to control and, according to program lead Ralph Mosher who was the designer and primary driver, operators could only drive the walking truck for a limited time.
Modern variants
Plustech, a Finnish subsidiary of American agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery manufacturer John Deere, developed a "Timberjack Walking Machine" or "Walking Tractor" meant to traverse forested terrain. Locomotion is provided by six articulated legs, and it is capable of moving forward, backward, sideways, and diagonally.
See also
Hardiman, another project of Ralph Mosher's
BigDog
Iron Dobbin
Walker (Star Wars), in particular the AT-AT
Strandbeesten
References
Further reading
External links
A photograph of the truck.
1969 – GE Walking Truck – Ralph Mosher (American), CyberneticZoo.com
YouTube video of the "CAM"
Robots of the United States
Military vehicles of the United States
Walking vehicles
1960s robots
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Window%20selection
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Selections, cut buffers, and drag-and-drop are the mechanisms used in the X Window System to allow a user to transfer data from one window to another. Selections and cut buffer are typically used when a user selects text or some other data in a window and pastes in another one. Drag-and-drop is used when a user selects something in a window, then clicks on the selection and drags it into another window.
Since the two windows may be handled by two different applications, these mechanisms require two different clients connected with the same X server to exchange data. The X Window System core protocol includes some requests and events that are specific to selection exchange, but the transfer is mainly done using event sending and window properties, which are not specific to selection transfer.
Different types of data can be transferred: it is usually text, but can also be an image, a number, a list of objects, etc. In the following, only the case of text is considered.
Active and passive selections
The methods for transferring data can be classified into active and passive, depending on whether the client handling the selected data has to actively participate in the transfer to a client requesting it:
Passive When some data is selected, the client handling the window where this selection is done transfers it somewhere, and no longer needs to care about it;
Active Transfer of data to a client requires the client "holding" the selection to actively participate in the exchange.
Selections and drag-and-drop are active mechanisms: after some text is selected in a window, the client handling the window must actively support a protocol for transferring the data to the application requesting it. By contrast, cut buffers are a passive mechanism: after some text is selected, it is transferred to a cut buffer and remains there even if the application handling the window terminates and the window is destroyed. The X clipboard is a passive mechanism as perceived by the client holding the selection, but requires the xclipboard client to actively support any subsequent data transfer.
An advantage of active mechanisms is that the data can be converted to a different format before the transfer. In particular, the client receiving the data can request the selection data to be converted into a suitable form. If the sending client refuses to do so, the receiver can request a different format. For example, a piece of text rendering HTML code can be transferred as text to a requester that can only handle text, but can also be transferred as HTML code if the requester can handle it. Such negotiation of format cannot be done by passive mechanisms, in which the client holding the selection (and giving it semantics) transfers the selection and is not involved in the further transfer into a client requesting it.
Another advantage of the active mechanisms is that large pieces of data can be transferred in a sequence of transfers rather than a single one. Passive
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoGaiden
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VideoGaiden is a Scottish computer games television show that was broadcast by BBC Two Scotland. Its creators and presenters, Robert Florence ("Rab") and Ryan Macleod, were responsible for the internet-distributed videogaming show Consolevania, upon which the show is based.
The show began as six ten-minute episodes on BBC Two Scotland, broadcast at around midnight on Fridays starting in December 2005. The episodes were also able to be viewed online from the BBC's web site. A second series, consisting of six half-hour episodes, was commissioned by popular demand and began broadcast on Sunday 5 November 2006 at 11:10pm, with episodes once again available on the BBC's website. A third series consisting of eighteen weekly 11-minute online episodes began in December 2007, with three half-hour TV specials episodes also being produced. A Christmas special aired on 23 December 2007.
A fourth series of the show was announced on 31 December 2015. Series 4 began in March 2016, and consists of six online episodes and one televised special.
Gaiden (外伝) is a Japanese word meaning 'side-story', a reference to the show's relationship to its predecessor Consolevania.
Format
Series One (2005)
Each episode opened with a brief satirical mention of the show's status within the BBC and the feedback it has received. This was typically followed by the first of many discursive game reviews. These featured one of the two lead presenters walking around an indoor or outdoor setting discussing the game in question. Footage from the game was superimposed on background objects and occasionally cut to directly during the discussion.
Somewhat in keeping with the way in which Consolevania was shot on MiniDV, the majority of series was filmed on a Sony HVR-Z1U This small scale camera made in possible to shoot series in 16:9, but without an expensive DigiBeta kit and crew; something that the small production budget would not allow.
Recurring features unique to the first series were sketches about terrible video game pitches (like Black and White Minstrel Show 2006), Glasgow hard-man Barry Anoki reporting on video game news, and a spoof soap opera about video game development called DevCo. The "Gaiden Top 100" was ostensibly a series of talking-head interviews on the best games of all time, but in fact provided thinly veiled mockery or game-inspired jokes.
Each episode in this series ended with a brief sketch which ran over the end credits, featuring a fictional world-famous video gamer called Legend (a carry-over from Consolevania) discussing his childhood.
Series Two (2006)
The second series had less of a sketch basis. While the opening comments and the style of reviews were the same and the Top 100 returned, most of the comedy was changed. This series also included a wide range of special guests, such as journalist Charlie Brooker and actor Colin Baker appearing in character as the Sixth Doctor.
Non-game reviews were featured in the style of a new games journalism pan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Circutz
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Short Circutz was a series of short computer-animated videos that were played between television shows on YTV every weekend afternoon and evening from September 10, 1994 (coinciding with the premiere of ReBoot), until September 1, 1996. YTV's Short Circutz continued one more year in Canada from September 1996 until August 1997. Most videos were 30 to 120 seconds long, often played between other computer-animated shows, such as ReBoot and Beasties. The videos were all sampled from three film collections: The Mind's Eye, its sequel Beyond the Mind's Eye and Imaginaria. Some of the films were re-edited with alternate music, most notably replacing nearly all of the vocal songs used in the Imaginaria shorts.
List of shorts
There were a total of 32 shorts featured in Short Circutz:
Virtual Reality
Seeds Of Life
Afternoon Adventure
Brave New World
Transformers
Too Far
Windows
Nothing But Love
The Pyramid
Theatre Of Magic
Voyage Home
Creation
Civilization Rising
Heart Of The Machine
Technodance
Post Modern
Love Found
First Flight (Leaving The Bonds Of Earth)The TempleImaginariaAnything Is PossibleLocomotionPear PeopleAll Shapes & Sizes
Rubber Duckies
Gourmet Records
Night Magic
Down The Road
Lucy & RemoStyro The DogMore Bells and WhistlesGoing HomeTrivia
Footage from the Laserdisc game Cube Quest is used more often than footage from any other individual clip in the shorts. Some examples include the jungle tunnel in "Creation," the many tunnels in "All Shapes and Sizes" and the flying ship in "All Shapes and Sizes."
"More Bells and Whistles" is one of the earliest of Wayne Lytle's productions; Lytle now produces more complex variations on the idea with his company, Animusic.
Some clips from the shorts are CGI commercials and promos, like an ID for MusiquePlus in Anything is Possible.
See alsoFunpak''
External links
YTV's official website
Canadian computer-animated television series
YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Canadian motion picture television series
1990s Canadian animated television series
1990s Canadian anthology television series
1994 Canadian television series debuts
1996 Canadian television series endings
Canadian children's animated anthology television series
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Higher%20Education%20Consortium
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The Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) is an association whose members are the four universities in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It describes itself as "A Network of Learning for the Western Cape".
It was originally registered as the Western Cape Tertiary Institutions Trust in August 1993, and was known as the "Adamastor Trust". In 2002 the Vice-Chancellors of the member institutions signed a compact to lay down the visions and principles of collaboration, and to form a replacement institution, which was CHEC.
The primary purpose of the Trust is to facilitate co-operation between the participating institutions, and to establish the Western Cape as a strong area for tertiary education. The Board of Directors consists of one Vice-Rector or Deputy Vice-Chancellor nominated by each institution.
The Trust receives and administers donations and grants for collaborative projects. One of its major projects is CALICO (the Cape Library Consortium) which unified the library computer systems of the four member institutions so that searches could be made across all the libraries, and making the processing of inter-library loans easier.
Members
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
University of Cape Town
University of Stellenbosch
University of the Western Cape
References
External links
Official website
Universities in the Western Cape
College and university associations and consortia in Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase5
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Phase5 Digital Products is a defunct German computer hardware manufacturer that developed third-party hardware primarily for the Amiga platform. Their most popular products included CPU upgrade boards, SCSI controllers and graphics cards.
Notable products
Like other third-party Amiga developers, Phase5 developed a range of CPU boards utilizing Motorola 68000 family processors, which powered Amiga systems at the time. Such boards also typically featured onboard RAM controllers with access to faster and greater capacity memory.
Notably, Phase5 were unique amongst Amiga developers in offering the Blizzard PPC and CyberStorm PPC products. These boards had a unique dual-CPU design utilizing both a Motorola 68k processor and a higher performance PowerPC processor. They operated in a novel fashion where both CPUs could execute concurrently while sharing the system address space. This architecture was enforced by the fact that AmigaOS was still 68k-based at the time and the required emulation software had not yet been developed to run natively on the PowerPC architecture. This design suffered from the need to flush CPU caches following context switches between 68k and PowerPC code. From a software development standpoint, this made mixing code ad hoc and often impractical. Minimizing such context switches required a large amount of effort and planning, making adoption of mixed binaries somewhat unpopular.
Phase5 developed a PowerPC kernel called PowerUP which ran alongside the 68k-based AmigaOS. Effectively, a programmer could then utilize the PowerPC CPU as a coprocessor. German company Haage & Partner developed a competing multi-tasking kernel called WarpOS for the Phase5 PowerPC boards which operated in a similar manner, but was not code-compatible with PowerUP.
The most common current reference to Phase5 is in the Linux port to APUS computer systems. Phase5 PowerPC boards are also able to run AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
Corporate history
Phase5 was founded in 1992 as subsidiary company of AS&S (Advanced Systems & Software) by Wolf Dietrich and Gerald Carda, which were the owners of AS&S. Phase5 focused on the development of general Amiga hardware, but mainly CPU boards, SCSI controllers and graphics cards.
The company Phase5 Elektronikfertigungs GmbH (hardware manufacturing) was founded in 1996 as a subsidiary, which produced all of the Phase5 expansions from that time on.
Following the initial PowerPC boards plans were announced on 22 July 1999 for new PowerPC boards based on the G3. These were to be developed with QNX Software Systems with the intention of building an alternative to the official Amiga solution of the time, to be known as AMIRAGE K2. These products were never released.
On 9 February 2000 the company filed for insolvency and on 27 April 2000 the company was liquidated. DCE bought licenses before liquidation and produced some of the Phase5 hardware products under its own name. The A\Box, a concept for a complete computer scheduled
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APUS%20%28computer%29
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APUS stands for "Amiga Power Up System", and describes a computer comprising an Amiga computer with a Phase5 PowerUP PowerPC accelerator board.
See also
References
Amiga
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202005
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The World Cyber Games 2005 was held in Singapore at Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre from 16 to 20 November 2005. There were over 800 players from 67 countries. Over 39,000 spectators turned up at the games to cheer for the players. The grand prize for the game is US$435,000.
Games played at WCG 2005
Official games
PC games
Counter-Strike: Source
FIFA Football 2005
Need For Speed: Underground 2
StarCraft: Brood War
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Xbox games
Dead or Alive Ultimate
Halo 2
Special tournament game
freestyle
Mobile tournament games
Bruce Lee
Chopper Rescue
Goolie
Midtown Madness 3
Promotional event game
Carom 3D
Awards and medals
Players' village
The Costa Sands Resort (Downtown East) in Singapore served as the WCG 2005 Players' Village.
About 800 national representatives who advanced from the WCG 2005 national championships stayed at the Players' Village during the WCG 2005 Grand Final.
Sponsors
Worldwide sponsor
Samsung Electronics
Premier sponsors
Intel
Razer USA Ltd
Official sponsors
Singapore Telecommunications
Video Pro
Official suppliers
ProCurve
Kingston Technology
Ablerex
Seagate
ASUS
Foxconn
Cooler Master
VRnet
DVDrama
Radioitg
Host broadcaster
MediaCorp
Official media partners
Gameaxis
HardwareZone
Hardware Magazine
PHOTO-i
PC Magazine
Official gaming magazine
Gameaxis
Playworks
Official partners
Blizzard Entertainment
EA Sports
EA Games
Microsoft
Tecmo
THQ
Valve
Xbox Live
Commentators
Online audio and video coverage was provided by Inside the Game.
Marcus Graham (djWHEAT)
Games covered: Counter-Strike: Source, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Halo 2
Stuart Saw (TosspoT)
Games covered: Counter-Strike: Source, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, FIFA Football 2005
Paul Chaloner (ReDeYe)
Games covered: Counter-Strike: Source, Need For Speed: Underground 2, FIFA Football 2005
Jason Hutchison (NiceGuyEd)
Games covered: Counter-Strike: Source, FIFA Football 2005, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Halo 2
Christopher Iannitti (WaCKSteVeN)
Games covered: StarCraft: Brood War, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Nicolas Plott (Tasteless)
Games covered: StarCraft: Brood War, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Kim Phan (bunny)
Games covered: StarCraft: Brood War, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Results
Official
Special
Mobile
Promotional
Results by table
Notable participant
Verena Vlajo (Austria), the first female participant
References
External links
World Cyber Games Official Website
World Cyber Games events
2005 in Singaporean sport
2005 in esports
Esports competitions in Singapore
November 2005 sports events in Asia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary-based%20transformation
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In metadata, a vocabulary-based transformation (VBT) is a transformation aided by the use of a semantic equivalence statements within a controlled vocabulary.
Many organizations today require communication between two or more computers. Although many standards exist to exchange data between computers such as HTML or email, there is still much structured information that needs to be exchanged between computers that is not standardized. The process of mapping one source of data into another is often a slow and labor-intensive process.
VBT is a possible way to avoid much of the time and cost of manual data mapping using traditional extract, transform, load technologies.
History
The term vocabulary-based transformation was first defined by Roy Shulte of the Gartner Group around May 2003 and appeared in annual "hype-cycle" for integration.
Application
VBT allows computer systems integrators to more automatically "look up" the definitions of data elements in a centralized data dictionary and use that definition and the equivalent mappings to transform that data element into a foreign namespace.
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) language also support three semantic equivalence statements.
Companies or products
IONA Technologies
Contivo and Delta by Liaison Technologies
enLeague Systems
ItemField
Unicorn Solutions
Vitria Technology
Zonar
See also
Controlled vocabulary
Data dictionary
Enterprise application integration
Metadata
Semantic equivalence
Semantic spectrum
XSLT
External links
Gartner Glossary of Terms Gartner definition Vocabulary-based transformation
Gartner Hype Cycle 2003
Data management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20equivalence%20%28computing%29
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In computer metadata, semantic equivalence is a declaration that two data elements from different vocabularies contain data that has similar meaning. There are three types of semantic equivalence statements:
Class or concept equivalence. A statement that two high level concepts have similar or equivalent meaning.
Property or attribute equivalence. A statement that two properties, descriptors or attributes of classes have similar meaning.
Instance equivalence. A statement that two instances of data are the same or refer to the same instance.
Example
Assume that there are two organizations, each having a separate data dictionary. The first organization has a data element entry:
<DataElement>
PersonFamilyName
The name of a person shared with other members of their family.
<DataElement>
and a second organization has a data dictionary with a data element with the following entry:
<DataElement>
IndividualLastName
The name of an individual person shared with other members of their family.
<DataElement>
these two data elements can be considered to have the same meaning and can be marked as semantically equivalent.
See also
Logical equivalence
Metadata
Vocabulary-based transformation
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
References
World Wide Web OWL Language Reference
Universal Data Element Framework Web Site Semantic Equivalency for Standards and Integrations
External links
OWL definition of Class Equivalency
OWL definition of Property Equivalency
Metadata
Semantics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturdays%20of%20Thunder
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"Saturdays of Thunder" is the ninth 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 November 14, 1991. In the episode, Homer realizes he knows little about Bart and strives to be a better father. When he learns Bart is competing in a Soap Box Derby, Homer helps him make a racer. Bart drives Martin's far superior racer instead, hurting Homer's feelings. Homer eventually realizes he must be a good father by supporting Bart.
The episode was written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs, and directed by Jim Reardon. American actors Larry McKay and Phil Hartman voiced guest appearances as a television announcer and Troy McClure respectively. "Saturdays of Thunder" features cultural references to films such as Ben-Hur, Lethal Weapon, and Days of Thunder.
"Saturdays of Thunder" is the first episode to feature the full Alf Clausen arrangement of the show's theme song, which is still in use to this day, though it was slightly revamped beginning with "'Round Springfield".
Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics, who praised its sports theme. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 14.9, and was the highest-rated show on Fox the week it aired.
Plot
Marge makes Homer take a fatherhood quiz and discovers he knows next to nothing about his son. After a pep talk at the National Fatherhood Institute, Homer offers to help Bart build his own Soap Box Derby racer. At the qualifying race, Bart and Martin Prince form an alliance vowing to beat bully Nelson and his intimidating racer, the Roadkill 2000.
The racer that Bart and Homer build is so poorly made that it fails to accelerate and breaks down before reaching the finish line. Martin wins the race, but his aerodynamically designed vehicle veers out of control and crashes into a wall at high speed, leaving him with a broken arm. He allows Bart to take his place as driver. Feeling betrayed, Homer rejects Bart's attempt to apologize for switching vehicles, denounces both boys, and angrily tells Bart to do whatever he wants.
Marge reminds Homer that she has defended him in the past, but his recent actions prove he is a bad father. As Bart prepares for the finals with Martin's newly tuned racer, Homer takes the fatherhood quiz again and finds that he can now answer all the questions due to having spent so much time with Bart. Homer hurries to the race and wishes Bart luck, telling Bart he will be proud of him regardless of who wins. Nelson repeatedly tries to cheat and force Bart to crash, but Bart wins the race and the championship. He and Homer savor their victory, though Martin tries to take all the credit as he actually built the winning racer.
Production
The episode was written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs, and directed by Jim Reardon. The inspiration for it originated from a line in "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", a previous episode in which Marge bans Bart and Lisa from watch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation%20%28computing%29
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Hibernation (also known as suspend to disk, or Safe Sleep on Macintosh computers) in computing is powering down a computer while retaining its state. When hibernation begins, the computer saves the contents of its random access memory (RAM) to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage. When the computer is turned on the RAM is restored and the computer is exactly as it was before entering hibernation. Hibernation was first implemented in 1992 and patented by Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, Texas. Microsoft's Windows 10 employs a type of hibernation (fast startup) by default when shutting down.
Uses
After hibernating, the hardware is powered down like a regular shutdown. The system can have a total loss of power for an indefinite length of time and then resume to the original state. Hibernation is mostly used in laptops, which have limited battery power available. It can be set to happen automatically on a low battery alarm. Most desktops also support hibernation, mainly as a general energy saving measure and allows for replacement of a removable battery quickly. Google and Apple mobile hardware (Android, Chromebooks, iOS) do not support hibernation. Apple hardware using macOS calls hibernation Safe Sleep.
Comparison to sleep mode
Many systems support a low-power sleep mode in which the processing functions of the machine are lowered, using a trickle of power to preserve the contents of RAM and support waking up. Instantaneous resumption is one of the advantages of sleep mode over hibernation. A hibernated system must start up and read data from permanent storage and then transfer that back to RAM, which takes longer and depends on the speed of the permanent storage device, often much slower than RAM memory. A system in sleep mode only needs to power up the CPU and display, which is almost instantaneous. On the other hand, a system in sleep mode still consumes power to keep the data in the RAM. Detaching power from a system in sleep mode results in data loss, while cutting the power of a system in hibernation has no risk; the hibernated system can resume when and if the power is restored. Both shut down and hibernated systems may consume standby power unless they are unplugged.
Hibernation is a means of avoiding the burden of saving unsaved data before shutting down and restoring all running programs and re-opening documents and browser tabs. Both hibernation and sleep preserve memory fragmentation and atrophy that lead to mobile devices working more poorly the longer you avoid a power off. This is why many experts recommend a frequent shut down or reboot of electronic devices.
First implementation
The first working retail hibernation was in 1992 on the Compaq LTE Lite 386 as noted in its sales material. It is made possible in part due to the sleep and protected mode opcodes in the Intel 386 CPU. It was implemented in ROM and worked independently of the operating system with no drivers needed. The LTE would sense low batte
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyfuse%20%28PROM%29
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A polyfuse is a one-time-programmable memory component used in semiconductor circuits for storing unique data like chip identification numbers or memory repair data, but more usually small to medium volume production of read only memory devices or microcontroller chips. They were also used as to permit programming of Programmable Array Logic. The use of fuses allowed the device to be programmed electrically some time after it was manufactured and sealed into its packaging. Earlier fuses had to be blown using a laser at the time memory was manufactured. Polyfuses were developed to replace the earlier nickel-chromium (ni-chrome) fuses. Because ni-chrome contains nickel, the ni-chrome fuse, once blown had a tendency to grow back and render the memory unusable.
History
The first polyfuses consisted of a polysilicon line, which was programmed by applying a high (10V-15V) voltage across the device. The resultant current physically alters the device and increases its electrical resistance. This change in resistance can be detected and registered as a logical zero. An unprogrammed polyfuse would be registered as a logical one. These early devices had severe drawbacks like a high programming voltage and unreliability of the programmed devices.
Modern polyfuses
Modern polyfuses consist of a silicided polysilicon line, which is also programmed by applying a voltage across the device. Again, the resultant current permanently alters the resistance. The silicide layer covering the polysilicon line reduces its resistance (before programming), allowing the use of much lower programming voltages (1.8V–3.3V). Polyfuses have been shown to reliably store programmed data and can be programmed at high speed. Programming speeds of 100ns have been reported.
See also
Programmable read-only memory
References
References
Resistive components
Non-volatile memory
Computer memory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Fernandez
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Bill Fernandez is a user-interface architect and innovator who was Apple Computer's first full time employee when they incorporated in 1977 and was issued badge number 4. He is the son of Jeryy Fernandez and Bambi Fernandez (both Stanford University graduates). He is credited with introducing fellow Homestead High School student Steve Jobs to his friend (and Homestead alumn) Steve Wozniak and developing schematics for the Apple II so the computer could be mass produced.
Career at Apple
Fernandez worked on the Cream Soda Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1971, the first computer designed by Wozniak and built using spare parts from Wozniak's job. He would later join Apple and work on both the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, and in the 1980s was a member of the Apple Macintosh development team. He contributed to several user interface aspects of the classic Mac OS, QuickTime and HyperCard and owns a user interface patent granted in 1994. He was laid off from Apple in 1993.
Popular culture
Fernandez appeared in the 2011 documentary about Apple, One Last Thing.
Fernandez is portrayed by the actor Victor Rasuk in the 2013 film Jobs.
References
External links
Apple's First Employee: The Remarkable Odyssey of Bill Fernandez by Jason Hiner
Fernandez Bill n°4
Living people
American computer businesspeople
21st-century American engineers
Apple II family
Year of birth missing (living people)
Homestead High School (California) alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITX
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ITX may refer to:
Isopropyl thioxanthone
Information Technology eXtended computer form factors: Mini-ITX, Nano-ITX, Pico-ITX, Mobile-ITX
ITX-Cheongchun, ITX-Saemaeul, Intercity Train Express, South Korea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mind%20of%20the%20Married%20Man
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The Mind of the Married Man is a television series that ran on the HBO network for two seasons consisting of twenty episodes between September 2001 and November 2002. The story focused on the challenges of modern-day married life from a male perspective.
The theme song was the title song of the musical I Love My Wife (1977), written by Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart.
Cast
Mike Binder as Micky Barnes
Sonya Walger as Donna Barnes
Ivana Miličević as Missy
Jake Weber as Jake Berman
M. Emmet Walsh as Randall Evans
Taylor Nichols as Doug Nelson
Doug Williams as Kevin
Bobby Slayton as Slayton
Brigitte Bako as Bianca
Kate Walsh as Carol Nelson
Reception
The Mind Of The Married Man received mixed-to-negative reviews. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly rated it the worst show on television in 2002, calling it "Mike Binder's rancid little barf-com" and described it as more offensive than similar shows on other non-subscription networks "because it could be more explicit in its moronic sexism". Phil Gallo in Variety described it as an "overblown take on the sexual predilections and peccadilloes of a trio of ribald Chicago newspaper columnists" and that while it aspired to be "a male Sex and the City, it does not have any of that show’s strengths — character, plot, reality." In a marginally more positive review, Julie Salamon of The New York Times said Married Man wants to copy Sex and the City, but it isn't nearly as deft or surprising and "adheres to many sitcom clichés", yet is "cleverly produced and compelling in part because its characters are so annoying (and so close to certain truths). Women especially will enjoy feeling superior to these sad souls with their pathetic dreams."
HBO cancelled the show after 20 episodes over two seasons. According to Carolyn Strauss, who was the executive vice president of program development for HBO at the time, "Mind turned out to be a divisive show within households [...] Women wouldn't watch it, so husbands didn't watch it with their wives, and boyfriends didn't with their girlfriends."
In a 2011 retrospective review, Metro called it "outdated" and that it "looked as though it could have been straight out of the early 1990s. Everything from the boxy jackets to the less-than-perfect visual quality of the filming looked oddly old-fashioned." The review added, "Although it had its funny moments, the writing wasn’t snappy enough to compensate for all of this."
Episodes
Season 1 (2001)
Season 2 (2002)
References
External links
HBO original programming
2001 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2000s American comedy-drama television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Chicago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Management%20Server
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In relational database management systems and in the particular context of an Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) environment, an Oracle Management Server (OMS) is a software system that functions as a middle tier between Oracle intelligent agents and Oracle management consoles. The system may operate on multiple nodes and by default uses a schema named DBSNMP. Through this system, database administrators may view and control their OEM domain(s).
An OMS has special links with a repository database, used for storing OEM details.
References
External links
of Oracle Enterprise Manager - Oracle Management Server
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Oracle software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20Antiwar%20Network
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Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) is an American independent grassroots network of students opposing the occupation of Iraq and military recruiters in US schools. It was founded prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and claims to be the largest campus-based antiwar organization in the United States.
History
The Campus Antiwar Network was created on January 17, 2003 by delegates from over 70 colleges and universities at twin conferences at George Washington University and San Francisco State University. Its purpose was opposition to the planned invasion of Iraq.
Because it is decentralized, CAN's size and impact do not necessarily correlate with its national events and organizations, but the group's history can be tracked roughly by its national conventions.
First National CAN Convention
Chicago, Illinois—February 22–23, 2003
CAN's first national conference occurred very soon after its formation, the weekend of February 22–23, in Chicago, and formalized the organization's structure and politics. The 2003 convention occurred during a period of rapid growth of the antiwar movement, just prior to the invasion of Iraq and soon after the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest, the largest in world history. The convention was attended by more than 350 delegates from approximately 100 campus groups.
At its 2003 convention, CAN adopted a structure under the principle that it be student owned and operated. The specific directives were:
CAN will remain independent, and is not affiliated with any other organization, though it pledges to work with all forces in the antiwar movement; it is democratic, so that each member campus can elect delegates through their local antiwar student coalitions and each affiliated campus group has an equal voice within CAN; CAN accepts affiliation from every campus or school antiwar organization and respects the right of its member committees to organize independent antiwar actions locally.
CAN adopted its first four Points of Unity:
No war on Iraq, whether backed by the U.S. or the United Nations
End the UN sanctions which have killed more than 1 million Iraqis
Oppose the attacks on civil liberties and racist scapegoating at home
Money for jobs, education, and health care, not war.
CAN also decided to call for an April 5 national mobilization in a few major cities following on the heels of the student-labor week of action already being organized from March 31 to April 4.
Second National CAN Convention
Chicago, Illinois—November 1–2, 2003
The U.S. antiwar movement lost momentum with the failure of mass protests to prevent the invasion, and the Campus Antiwar Network was affected by the trend. CAN's second convention, on November 1–2, 2003, was attended by approximately 100 members, from 34 different campuses around the country.
The primary goals of the activists were to discuss the past six months of work since CAN's creation in January, and to organize future goals as well as further codifying the Points of Unity. A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarians%20for%20Global%20Action
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Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) is a non-profit, non-partisan international network of committed legislators, that informs and mobilizes parliamentarians in all regions of the world to advocate for human rights and the rule of law, democracy, human security, non-discrimination, gender equality, and climate justice. PGA Membership is open to individual legislators from elected parliaments. Currently, it consists of approximately 1,200 members in 139 parliaments. PGA was established in 1978 in Washington, D.C., by a group of concerned parliamentarians from around the world to take collective, coordinated and cohesive actions on global problems, which could not be successfully addressed by any one government or parliament acting alone. Founded during the Cold War era, an early focus and priority of the organization was the mobilization of parliamentarians worldwide in support of nuclear disarmament. The vision of PGA is "to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe, and democratic world".
The main office of PGA is located in New York City, while the seat of the PGA Foundation is in The Hague (The Netherlands), in proximity to the International Court of Justice, The Hague Academy of International Law and the International Criminal Court.
PGA promoted the establishment of a permanent international criminal court since 1989 and the ratification of the International Criminal Court treaty - the Rome Statute - and its full implementation in national legislations . PGA has contributed to the ratification of 78 out of 123 States Parties to the Rome Statute to the ICC and the adoption of domestic legislation implementing the Rome Statute in 37 countries.
The most important event of the PGA International Law and Human Rights Programme is the Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the International Criminal Court and Rule of Law (CAP-ICC). From 2002 to 2004, the Consultative Assembly met on an annual basis in 2002 in Ottawa, in 2003 in New York, and in 2004 in New Zealand. Under its current biennial format, the fourth session took place in Japan (2006), the fifth in Santo Domingo (2008), the sixth in Kampala, Uganda (2010), the seventh in Rome, Italy (2012), and the eighth session is planned to take place in Rabat, Morocco in December 2014.
PGA’s Peace and Democracy Program focuses on marshaling global parliamentary support for improved regulation of the international arms trade, in particular where its inadequacies play a demonstrated role in destabilizing countries, causing or fuelling conflict and/or delay the emergence of countries from conflict. In particular, PGA Members worldwide advocate in favor of improved regulation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) exports through strengthened domestic legislation, broader adherence to relevant regional Conventions, and the UN Programme of Action on SALW. As of November 5, 2014, PGA Members have made important contributions to moving the Arms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20literacy
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Statistical literacy is the ability to understand and reason with statistics and data. The abilities to understand and reason with data, or arguments that use data, are necessary for citizens to understand material presented in publications such as newspapers, television, and the Internet. However, scientists also need to develop statistical literacy so that they can both produce rigorous and reproducible research and consume it. Numeracy is an element of being statistically literate and in some models of statistical literacy, or for some populations (e.g., students in kindergarten through 12th grade/end of secondary school), it is a prerequisite skill. Being statistically literate is sometimes taken to include having the abilities to both critically evaluate statistical material and appreciate the relevance of statistically-based approaches to all aspects of life in general or to the evaluating, design, and/or production of scientific work.
Promoting statistical literacy
Each day people are inundated with statistical information from advertisements ("4 out of 5 dentists recommend"), news reports ("opinion poll show the incumbent leading by four points"), and even general conversation ("half the time I don't know what you're talking about"). Experts and advocates often use numerical claims to bolster their arguments, and statistical literacy is a necessary skill to help one decide what experts mean and which advocates to believe. This is important because statistics can be made to produce misrepresentations of data that may seem valid. The aim of statistical literacy proponents is to improve the public understanding of numbers and figures.
Health decisions are often manifest as statistical decision problems but few doctors or patients are well equipped to engage with these data.
Results of opinion polling are often cited by news organizations, but the quality of such polls varies considerably. Some understanding of the statistical technique of sampling is necessary in order to be able to correctly interpret polling results. Sample sizes may be too small to draw meaningful conclusions, and samples may be biased. The wording of a poll question may introduce a bias, and thus can even be used intentionally to produce a biased result. Good polls use unbiased techniques, with much time and effort being spent in the design of the questions and polling strategy. Statistical literacy is necessary to understand what makes a poll trustworthy and to properly weigh the value of poll results and conclusions.
For these reasons, and others, many programs around the world have been created to promote or improve statistical literacy. For example, many official statistical agencies such as Statistics Canada and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have programs to educate students in schools about the nature of statistics. A project of the International Statistical Institute is the only international organization whose focus is to promote national progra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic%20optical%20fiber
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Plastic optical fiber (POF) or polymer optical fiber is an optical fiber that is made out of polymer. Similar to glass optical fiber, POF transmits light (for illumination or data) through the core of the fiber. Its chief advantage over the glass product, other aspect being equal, is its robustness under bending and stretching.
History
Since 2014 a full family of PHY transceivers have been available in the market enabling the design and manufacturing of home networking equipment delivering Gigabit speeds into the home.
One of the most exciting developments in polymer fibers has been the development of microstructured polymer optical fibers (mPOF), a type of photonic crystal fiber.
Materials
Traditionally, PMMA (acrylic) comprises the core (96% of the cross section in a fiber 1mm in diameter), and fluorinated polymers are the cladding material. Since the late 1990s much higher performance graded-index (GI-POF) fiber based on amorphous fluoropolymer (poly(perfluoro-butenylvinyl ether), CYTOP) has begun to appear in the marketplace.
Whereas glass fibers are only manufactured by drawing, polymer optical fibers can also be manufactured by drawing.
Characteristics of PMMA POF
PMMA is used as the core, with a refractive index of 1.49.
Generally, fiber cladding is made of fluorinated polymers (refractive index <1.40).
High refractive index difference is maintained between core and cladding.
High numerical aperture.
Have high mechanical flexibility and low cost.
Industry-standard (IEC 60793-2-40 A4a.2) step-index fiber has a core diameter of 1mm.
Attenuation loss is about @
Bandwidth is @
Applications
Data networks
POF has been called the "consumer" optical fiber because the fiber and associated optical links, connectors, and installation are all inexpensive. Due to the attenuation and distortion characteristics of PMMA fibers, they are commonly used for low-speed, short-distance (up to 100 meters) applications in digital home appliances, home networks, industrial networks (PROFIBUS, PROFINET, Sercos, EtherCAT), and car networks (MOST). The perfluorinated polymer fibers are commonly used for much higher-speed applications such as data center wiring and building LAN wiring.
In relation to the future requirements of high-speed home networking, there has been an increasing interest in POF as a possible option for next-generation Gigabit/s links inside the home. To this end, several European Research projects are active, such as POF-ALL and POF-PLUS .
Sensors
Polymer optical fibers can be used for remote sensing and multiplexing due to their low cost and high resistance.
It is possible to write fiber Bragg gratings in single and multimode POF. There are advantages in doing this over using silica fiber since the POF can be stretched further without breaking, some applications are described in the PHOSFOS project page.
Standards
Optical fiber used in telecommunications is governed by European Standards EN 60793-2-40-2011.
Several s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday%20%28Angel%29
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"Birthday" is episode 11 of season 3 in the television show Angel. Written by Mere Smith and directed by Michael Grossman, it was originally broadcast on January 14, 2002 on the WB network. In "Birthday", Cordelia has a precognitive vision so painful that she goes into a coma. She is met by a demon guide who allows her to go back in time and choose a different path, so that she can avoid becoming afflicted with the visions that are killing her. Although in this alternate timeline Cordelia is a successful sitcom actress, she decides to accept the visions once again so that she can help people.
Plot
During Cordelia's 21st birthday celebration at the Hyperion Hotel, Cordelia experiences a vision so painful that she is rendered unconscious. Fred and Gunn find Cordelia's prescription pain pills and the results of a CAT scan that reveals severe brain damage – Cordelia is dying. When Cordelia wakes, no one can see or hear her and she concludes that she has been knocked into an astral state. A friendly demon called Skip (the one that used to guard Billy) introduces himself as her guide, and says the visions which Doyle gave her were never intended for a human and that they are killing her. She has two options: go back in time and choose a different path, or return to her body and die when the next vision strikes. Skip tells Cordelia that if she had not reconnected with Angel at the party where she first ran into him, she would have instead become a famous actress – and she can choose to have that life instead.
Skip brings Cordelia's astral body to witness Angel demanding that the Powers That Be take back Cordelia's visions to save her life; when she overhears Angel call her "weak", she is hurt and decides to go back in time to become a famous actress. She is instantly transported to a luxurious life where she is a celebrity, an Emmy winner, and star of her own television show. However, she is haunted by the name of the Hyperion Hotel, and heads over there after the show wraps. She makes her way up to the room she recognizes as Angel's, which triggers her memory of the vision that knocked her unconscious earlier – a young girl in danger. She goes to the girl's house, Cynthia, who confesses she was trying to use magic. A demon materializes, and they try to defend themselves, until a one-armed Wesley and Gunn burst in to kill the demon. When Cordelia explains what has happened, they take her to see Angel, who – in this timeline – inherited Doyle's visions instead of Cordelia, which appear to have driven Angel insane, mostly because Cordelia was not there to help him. However, depressed and saddened by her friend in such a horrific state, Cordelia takes the visions back by kissing Angel.
Skip appears, reminding her of their deal. He argues it is the fate she chose and that it is not easy to shake it off. Cordelia disagrees, saying she is too valuable to the Powers. They come to an agreement: since the visions are going to kill her as a human, Skip turns h
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gavaghan
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David J. Gavaghan (born 10 February 1966) is Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also the director of the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, Principal Investigator of the Integrative Biology project and Research Fellow in Mathematics at New College, Oxford.
Education
Gavaghan completed his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Durham University in 1986. This was followed by a Master of Science in Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling in 1987 and his Doctor of Philosophy on the development of Parallel Numerical Algorithms in 1991 at Linacre College at the University of Oxford.
Research and career
Gavaghan's research is interdisciplinary and involves the application of mathematical and computational techniques to problems in the biomedical sciences. Gavaghan serves on the advisory board chair for the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).
References
1966 births
Living people
British bioinformaticians
Alumni of Grey College, Durham
Fellows of New College, Oxford
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Alumni of Linacre College, Oxford
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20network%20programming
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Computer network programming involves writing computer programs that enable processes to communicate with each other across a computer network.
Connection-oriented and connectionless communications
Very generally, most of communications can be divided into connection-oriented, and connectionless. Whether a communication is connection-oriented or connectionless, is defined by the communication protocol, and not by . Examples of the connection-oriented protocols include and , and examples of connectionless protocols include , "raw IP", and .
Clients and servers
For connection-oriented communications, communication parties usually have different roles. One party is usually waiting for incoming connections; this party is usually referred to as "server". Another party is the one which initiates connection; this party is usually referred to as "client".
For connectionless communications, one party ("server") is usually waiting for an incoming packet, and another party ("client") is usually understood as the one which sends an unsolicited packet to "server".
Popular protocols and APIs
Network programming traditionally covers different layers of OSI/ISO model (most of application-level programming belongs to L4 and up). The table below contains some examples of popular protocols belonging to different OSI/ISO layers, and popular APIs for them.
See also
Software-defined networking
Infrastructure as code
Site reliability engineering
DevOps
References
W. Richard Stevens: UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Prentice Hall, 1998,
Computer programming
Inter-process communication
Computer networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Humanitarian%20Response%20Depot
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The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) is an international network of six humanitarian support hubs located strategically around the world, that provide supply chain solutions to the international humanitarian community. The hubs are located in Brindisi (Italy), Dubai (UAE), Accra (Ghana), Panama City (Panama), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Las Palmas (Spain).
It is managed by the World Food Programme and currently serves 86 partners, such as UN organizations, government agencies and NGOs. It enables these partners to assist people affected by natural disasters or other complex emergencies by prepositioning vital relief items and allowing them to be dispatched rapidly to critical areas. In addition, the UNHRD network offers services and knowledge that allow various humanitarian partners to fulfill their missions rapidly and effectively.
Background
Today's UNHRD Network dates back to an initiative by the Italian government in the mid-1980s: to pre-position relief items and support equipment for humanitarian operations at its military airport facilities. Expanding on the success of this method and envisioning a global network, WFP transformed the humanitarian depot into a logistic hub for emergency preparedness and response. In line with the United Nations Reforms for better coordinated development system and more effective humanitarian structures, UNHRD enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance, with the specific mandate to "assist the population living in countries affected by natural disasters or complex emergencies, through a prepositioning of relief and survival items and their rapid demobilization to the affected countries."
History
The original UNHRD depot was inaugurated in Brindisi in the year 2000 to replace the United Nations Supply Depot (UNSD) in Pisa, then managed by the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Upon decision of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) the mandate to provide rapid and accessible stockpiling and demobilisation services to partners inside and outside the United Nations was transferred from OCHA to WFP. Subsequently, the hub was moved to the military airport at Brindisi in an effort to set up a new and robust logistics platform, available to all partners as a "shared resource".
In 2006, based on its own requirements and that of its partners, WFP replicated the successful Brindisi model by setting up further emergency response facilities in strategic locations worldwide, creating a network of HRDs in Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia and Latin America. Each of these locations has been selected to provide easy access to an airport, port and road systems, making access to a wide range of transportation methods available and allowing for consistently low response times of 24-48 hours.
Functions
When Governments, UN agencies and NGOs look to respond quickly and efficiently to a disaster, they call on emergency supplies that are immediately
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Networks%20Americas
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Paramount Networks Americas (PNA) (formerly MTV Networks Latin America, Viacom International Media Networks The Americas, then ViacomCBS Networks Americas) is a subsidiary of Paramount Global. PNA's operational headquarters is located in Miami, Florida.
Channels
The following channels are:
Hispanic America
MTV
MTV Hits (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
MTV Live (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
MTV 00s (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
Nickelodeon (based in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Nickelodeon (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
Nick Jr. (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
TeenNick (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
NickMusic (operated by Paramount Media Networks)
Comedy Central
Paramount Network
Telefe (based in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Telefe Internacional (based in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chilevisión (based in Santiago, Chile)
Brazil
MTV
MTV Hits (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
MTV Live (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
MTV 00s (operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA)
Nickelodeon
Nick Jr.
NickMusic (operated by Paramount Media Networks)
Comedy Central
Paramount Network
Telefe Internacional
Canada
PNA also manages the Paramount brands in Canada, through joint-ventures or license agreements:
MTV (owned by Bell Media)
MTV2 (owned by Bell Media)
Nickelodeon (owned by Corus Entertainment)
CMT (owned 90% by Corus Entertainment, 10% by Paramount Networks Americas)
Former channels
MTV Jams (2002–2015)
Nickelodeon GAS (1999–2009)
VH1 Soul (1998–2015)
VH1 (Latin America) (2004–2020)
MTV Hits (Latin America) (2008–2020)
Nicktoons (Latin America) (2013–2020)
Smithsonian Channel (2018–2023)
VH1 (Brazil) (2005–2014)
VH1 HD (2009–2020)
VH1 MegaHits (2010–2020)
VH1 (Europe) (1995–2021, in Latin America 2020-2021)
MTVNHD (2008–2011)
MTV Live HD (2011–2021)
MTV Dance (2017–2020)
Offices
The company has regional offices in:
Bogotá, Colombia (MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Paramount Network)
Mexico City, Mexico (MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Paramount Network)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, Telefe, Nick Jr.)
Santiago, Chile (MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, Chilevisión, Nick Jr.)
São Paulo, Brazil (MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, Nick Jr.)
Toronto, Canada (MTV, MTV2, Nickelodeon and CMT owned by Bell Media and Corus Entertainment respectively used under licensed by Paramount Global).
Rebranding
The Brazilian operations of what was then-known as MTVNLA, prior to the rebranding as VIMN The Americas, were called Viacom Networks Brasil, since Abril, the parent company of MTV Brasil, has the exclusive rights to the MTV brand in that country, though, from October 2013, VIMN The Americas reclaimed the MTV brand in Brazil and relaunched the channel, currently a broadcast network, as a cable channel. Viacom International Media Networks The Americas has announced the more localizatio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20Data%20Input/Output
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Management Data Input/Output (MDIO), also known as Serial Management Interface (SMI) or Media Independent Interface Management (MIIM), is a serial bus defined for the Ethernet family of IEEE 802.3 standards for the Media Independent Interface, or MII. The MII connects media access control (MAC) devices with Ethernet physical layer (PHY) circuits. The MAC device controlling the MDIO is called the Station Management Entity (SME).
Relationship with MII
MII has two signal interfaces:
A Data interface to the Ethernet MAC, for sending and receiving Ethernet frame data.
A PHY management interface, MDIO, used to read and write the control and status registers of the PHY in order to configure each PHY before operation, and to monitor link status during operation.
Electrical specification
The MDIO interface is implemented by two signals:
MDIO Interface Clock (MDC): clock driven by the MAC device to the PHY.
MDIO data: bidirectional, the PHY drives it to provide register data at the end of a read operation.
The bus only supports a single MAC as the master, and can have up to 32 PHY slaves.
The MDC can be periodic, with a minimum period of 400 ns, which corresponds to a maximum frequency of 2.5 MHz. Newer chips, however, allow faster accesses. For example, the DP83640 supports a 25 MHz maximum clock rate for MDC.
The MDIO requires a specific pull-up resistor of 1.5 kΩ to 10 kΩ, taking into account the total worst-case leakage current of 32 PHYs and one MAC.
Bus timing (clause 22)
Before a register access, PHY devices generally require a preamble of 32 ones to be sent by the MAC on the MDIO line. The access consists of 16 control bits, followed by 16 data bits. The control bits consist of 2 start bits, 2 access type bits (read or write), the PHY address (5 bits), the register address (5 bits), and 2 "turnaround" bits.
During a write command, the MAC provides address and data. For a read command, the PHY takes over the MDIO line during the turnaround bit times, supplies the MAC with the register data requested, then releases the MDIO line.
When the MAC drives the MDIO line, it has to guarantee a stable value 10 ns (setup time) before the rising edge of the clock MDC. Further, MDIO has to remain stable 10 ns (hold time) after the rising edge of MDC.
When the PHY drives the MDIO line, the PHY has to provide the MDIO signal between 0 and 300 ns after the rising edge of the clock. Hence, with a minimum clock period of 400 ns (2.5 MHz maximum clock rate) the MAC can safely sample MDIO during the second half of the low cycle of the clock.
MDIO Packet Format (clause 22)
PRE_32
The first field in the MDIO header is the Preamble. During the preamble, the MAC sends 32 bits, all '1', on the MDIO line.
ST
The Start field consists of 2 bits and always contains the combination '01'.
OP
The Opcode consists of 2 bits. There are two possible opcodes, read '10' or write '01'.
PA5
5 bits, PHY address.
RA5
The Register Address field indicates the r
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal/MT%2B
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Pascal/MT+ was an ISO 7185 compatible Pascal compiler written in 1980 by Michael Lehman, founder of MT MicroSYSTEMS of Solana Beach, California. The company was acquired by Digital Research in 1981 which subsequently distributed versions that ran on the 8080/Z80 processor under the CP/M operating system. Later versions ran on the 68000 CPU under CP/M-68K, and the 8086 CPU under CP/M-86 and MS-DOS.
Pascal/MT+, for the 8086, was available for CP/M-86, PC DOS/MS-DOS as well as RMX-86 (a proprietary OS from Intel). Pascal/MT+86 still runs today on even the latest version of Microsoft Windows and DR-DOS.
External links
Pascal/MT+ Language Manuals
Pascal/MT+ Binaries for CP/M
CP/M software
Pascal (programming language) compilers
Pascal programming language family
1980 software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Quest
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Adventure Quest may refer to the following games:
AdventureQuest (computer game), an online single-player RPG developed by Artix Entertainment in 2002
Adventure Quest (Level 9 game), a fantasy text adventure game developed by Level 9 Computing in 1983
Adventure Quest (movie), a movie by Disney Channel (Asia)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antic%20%28magazine%29
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Antic was a print magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit family of home computers and later the Atari ST. It was named after the ANTIC chip in the 8-bit line which, in concert with CTIA or GTIA, generates the display. The magazine was published by Antic Publishing from April 1982 until June/July 1990. Antic printed type-in programs (usually in BASIC), reviews, and tutorials, among other articles. Each issue contained one type-in game as "Game of the Month." In 1986, STart magazine was spun off to exclusively cover the Atari ST line.
Its main rival in the United States was ANALOG Computing, another long-lived magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit line. Multi-system magazines COMPUTE! and Family Computing also served Atari 8-bit owners with type-in programs.
Starting in 1984, the catalog for Antic Software was bound into issues of Antic.
History
NASA programmer Jim Capparell was an early Atari 8-bit computer owner. He quit his job on 15 January 1982 to found a magazine covering the 8-bit systems. On-Line Systems, Broderbund, and Synapse Software agreed to purchase advertising in the new publication, and Capparell's staff distributed the first issue of 30 pages at the March 1982 West Coast Computer Faire. The first issue of Antic was published in April 1982. While it began as a bimonthly magazine, within a year it had gone monthly.
By Christmas 1983 the magazine was 148 pages, but in 1984 Antic saw advertising sales drop by 50% in 90 days. The Antic Software catalog, bound into each issue, contained public domain software, re-released products from the Atari Program Exchange after it folded, and original titles. It helped the company avoid bankruptcy, and in 1985 it started II Computing for the Apple II series.
Antic started selling games and application software under the name Antic Software after the Atari Program Exchange was closed by Atari, Inc. The Antic Software catalog was bound into issues of the magazine and included former APX titles.
In 1985 Antic began ST Resource, a section of the magazine devoted to the Atari ST line. In 1986 it began STart magazine for the computer. The daughter magazine would outlive its parent by about a year. When Antic ended, it continued as a section of STart, appearing in six more issues. A magazine for the Amiga, the primary competitor of the Atari ST, was published from 1989 until 1991 under the name Antic's Amiga Plus.
The last issue of Antic was June–July 1990. All told, 88 issues and a "Best of" book were published.
TYPO
A utility called TYPO ("Type Your Program Once," a play on typographical error) was used to verify that programs were typed in correctly that generated set of check-sums for different portions of the lines of code, but it didn't help users find exactly which line had the error. TYPO was later succeeded by TYPO II, a smaller, faster program that generates a checksum two letter code for each Atari BASIC line entered in a program. By comparing each line's checksum with that printed in the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Pascal
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GNU Pascal (GPC) is a Pascal compiler composed of a frontend to GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), similar to the way Fortran and other languages were added to GCC. GNU Pascal is ISO 7185 compatible, and it implements most of the ISO 10206 Extended Pascal standard.
The major advantage of piggybacking GNU Pascal on the GCC compiler is that it is instantly portable to any platform the GCC compiler supports. However since GPC is a frontend, it does have to adapt if major changes are done to GCC (like a major new version). Typically, new major versions are adopted only slowly (still mostly at 3.x, with 4.x experimental builds). This is probably one of the reasons why developers are looking at a C targeting backend.
In July 2010 a developer publicly asked opinion (it vanished from the web between July 2014 and June 2015) on the future of GNU Pascal, due to developer shortage and maintenance issues as a GCC port. There was a lively discussion on the maillist where the developers seemed to lean towards reimplementing in C++ with a C code generating backend. The maillist went to sleep again, and no further releases or announcements about the future course of the project have been made.
Dev-Pascal is a graphical IDE that supports GNU Pascal.
See also
Free Pascal
External links
Git repo of one of the GPC developers.
The GNU Pascal (GPC) website
Standard Pascal – Resources and history of original, standard Pascal
Pascal User's Group Newsletters – An early Pascal history resource containing many letters from Wirth and others concerning Pascal
Pascal and its Successors – An article by Niklaus Wirth about the development of Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon
Free Pascal Compiler – A currently maintained alternative to the GNU Pascal Compiler - See also Wikipedia article on Free Pascal
Notes
Free software
Pascal (programming language) compilers
Pascal programming language family
Procedural programming languages
Statically typed programming languages
Structured programming languages
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ANALOG Computing was an American computer magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was published from 1981 until 1989. In addition to reviews and tutorials, ANALOG printed multiple programs in each issue for users to type in. Almost every issue included a machine language video game—as opposed to Atari BASIC—which were uncommon in competing magazines. Such games were accompanied by the assembly language source code. ANALOG also sold commercial games, two books of type-in software, and access to a custom bulletin-board system. After the Atari ST was released, coverage of the new systems moved to an ST-Log section of the magazine before spinning off into a separate publication under the ST-Log name.
The title began as an acronym for Atari Newsletter And Lots Of Games, which was only spelled out in the first two issues. Originally the title as printed on the cover was A.N.A.L.O.G. 400/800 Magazine, but starting with the sixth issue it was shortened to A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing. Though the dots remained in the logo, over time it became ANALOG or ANALOG Computing inside the magazine.
While the program listings were covered under the magazine's copyright protections, users were granted the right to type them into their computer for personal use, so long as they were not sold or copied.
History
ANALOG was co-launched by Lee H. Pappas and Michael DesChesnes who met at a Star Trek convention in 1978. The first issue of the magazine was January / February 1981. It was published bi-monthly through the November / December 1983 issue and then monthly beginning with the January 1984 issue.
Following the Atari ST announcement in 1985, ANALOG expanded its scope to include the new computer line. Starting with the April 1986 issue, ST coverage was consolidated into a supplementary section titled ST-Log. With its 10th issue, in January 1987 ST-Log became a separate magazine and ANALOG returned to being fully devoted to the Atari 8-bit computers. (This paralleled STart magazine being spun off from Antic.)
In the April 1998 issues of ST-Log and ANALOG Computing, Pappas announced that both magazines were under new ownership and the offices moved from Worcester, Massachusetts to North Hollywood, California. Circulation was interrupted between issues 58 and 59 (from October 1987 to March 1988). Details of the acquisition were not mentioned in the editorial, but the masthead showed the publisher as L.F.P., Inc. (for Larry Flynt Publications). Subscribers were not told ahead of time.
In the September 1989 issues of both ANALOG and ST-Log, it was announced that the two magazines would be recombined into a single Atari resource under the ANALOG name, beginning with the November issue. Two issues of the combined magazine were published before L.F.P., Inc. shut it down. STart magazine reported this, incorrectly claiming that both magazines were dropped less than a month after the announcement, but correctly reporting that production staff merged in
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KVYE (channel 7) is a television station licensed to El Centro, California, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned by Entravision Communications, which provides certain services to Calipatria, California–licensed UniMás affiliate KAJB (channel 54) under a joint sales agreement (JSA) with Calipatria Broadcasting Company. The two stations share studios on North Imperial Avenue in El Centro; KVYE's transmitter is located atop Black Mountain.
History
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an original construction permit on August 3, 1989, to build a television station licensed in El Centro. Before its license grant, the permit was extended four times and modified twice. On March 23, 1994, the FCC canceled the permit, but restored it five days later.
The station made its debut in June 1996; however, the station maintained its construction permit status.
On March 15, 1998, Entravision Communications (which operated KVYE under a local marketing agreement) bought station licensee La Paz Wireless Corporation for $700.000. Entravision obtained the initial license for the station on November 26, 1999.
On November 8, 2002, the FCC granted a permit to construct the station's digital facilities (requested in 1999). The station completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in June 2007, and was granted a license on January 29, 2010.
In February 2017, KVYE began to carry Azteca América on 7.2; prior to this affiliation, Azteca América was seen in the market solely through carriage of the network's national feed on Time Warner Cable.
On March 12, 2018, the digital multicast networks Comet and Charge! began broadcasting on digital subchannels 7.3 and 7.4, respectively.
In 2019, KVYE added a fifth digital subchannel, affiliated with Court TV.
On December 31, 2022, Azteca América ceased operations. TV Azteca content in the U.S. thusly moved to Estrella TV, seen in the market on a subchannel of KYMA.
News operation
KVYE presently broadcasts five hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each weekday); the station does not carry newscasts on Saturdays or Sundays.
The newscast debuted on January 26, 2015.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KVYE shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 7.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in California
Univision network affiliates
Circle (TV network) affiliates
Comet
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KECY-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to El Centro, California, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of Fox, MyNetworkTV, ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate KESE-LD (channel 35); NPG also provides certain services to Yuma-licensed dual CBS/NBC affiliate KYMA-DT (channel 13) through a shared services agreement (SSA) with Imagicomm Communications. The three stations share studios on South 4th Avenue in downtown Yuma, with an advertising sales office on West Main Street in El Centro; KECY-TV's transmitter is located in the Chocolate Mountains.
History
On April 18, 1962, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) signed an agreement with Mexico, effective September 4, allowing the allocation of channels 7 and 9 to El Centro and giving the Imperial Valley its first opportunity for local VHF television. Before the channels were added to the Table of Allocations, Tele-Broadcasters of California, Inc., applied to build a station on channel 7 on July 5, 1962, requesting a waiver from the FCC to do so. KXO-TV, Inc., submitted a rival channel 7 bid on September 14, 1962, meaning that the FCC would need to decide who would be awarded the construction permit. To avoid delays in build-out, Tele-Broadcasters agreed to amend its application on November 9, 1962, to specify operations on channel 9. The FCC approved both applications on April 10, 1963, with channels 7 and 9 being designated as KXO-TV and KECC-TV respectively, and soon after, ABC announced that it would affiliate with KECC, who expected to be on the air by September 1.
The station would not be constructed on time, as the owner of KIVA, channel 11 in Yuma, filed for reconsideration of the grant of KECC's construction permit, claiming that the Yuma–El Centro market could not support multiple local television stations, and predicting economic injury to his station. KIVA's claim was denied by the FCC on July 30, 1963, but was referred to a federal appeals court, where the case was decided May 22, 1964, in favor of the El Centro stations. After the case was settled, KECC was still not ready to go to air, and the FCC had to extend its construction permit several times.
In April 1966, Tele-Broadcasters announced its sale to United Broadcasting Co., headed by Richard Eaton, in a $1.9 million deal, which included the KECC construction permit and two radio stations. United Broadcasting filed the purchase application on August 29, and the FCC approved it the following April.
The station received a significant boost in February 1968, when the FCC granted it permission to move its transmitter location from downtown El Centro to Black Mountain and to increase power from 55 kW to 120 kW, allowing its signal to serve both El Centro and Yuma. KECC-TV received program operation authorization from the FCC on December 6, 1968, and on December 11, more than six years after the st
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandango%20%28game%20show%29
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Fandango is a country music-themed quiz show which aired on The Nashville Network from March 8, 1983 to August 26, 1988, with reruns airing through March 31, 1989, when it was replaced by Top Card. Fandango was the first TV game show to air on TNN and was one of the longest-running game shows on a cable network.
The show was hosted by singer Bill Anderson, who was joined by Blake Pickett as co-host in 1987. Radio and television personality Charlie Chase has often been identified as the voice of "Edgar the Talking Jukebox", but Anderson's autobiography Whisperin' Bill names Edgar's voice as being that of Anderson's long-time friend, radio announcer Bill Robinson.
Gameplay
Main game
Three contestants (including a returning champion) answered country music questions to win prizes. The returning champion stood behind the blue podium and his/her two challengers stood at red and yellow podiums.
1983
In round one, Anderson asked a toss-up question to all three contestants worth 10 points. Whoever buzzed-in with the right answer wagered any or all of his/her score and chose one of nine categories. The center category was always the "Star of the Day". A correct answer added the wager to his/her score and a wrong answer deducted it. Later in the run, a "Secret Square" was shown to the home audience, and if chosen, it would double the wager for a correct answer. Gameplay continued until time expired or until all nine categories were used. In round two, toss-ups were worth 20 points but overall gameplay remained the same.
Some questions had a bonus prize attached to it, which Edgar would mention prior to the question.
1987
The game started with a 10-point toss-up question. The first contestant to buzz-in and answer correctly won the points and chose from one of eight categories for bonus points, worth anywhere from 20–100 points. If the contestant answered the bonus question correctly, he/she won the points. If the contestant was incorrect, whichever opponent currently had the lower score had a chance to answer and steal the points. If the contestant with the lowest score missed, the third contestant was given a chance to respond. If the two opponents were tied, the question became a toss-up between them. Round two was played the same way as round one, except that the point values were now doubled.
In the middle of each round, Edgar the Talking Jukebox would interrupt the game, usually with a joke, and then announce a bonus prize, to be awarded to the contestant who answered the next question correctly.
Final Question
Each round ended with one final question. Originally, it was played for 50 points in both rounds, and all three contestants answered by writing their response on a card. In the second round, 50 points was taken away for a wrong answer. Starting in 1987, if the difference was less than 200 points between two or all three contestants, the final question was worth +/- 100 points. If a contestant led by more than 200 points, the final ques
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Charlie Chase (born October 19, 1952) is an American radio and television host best known for his work on The Nashville Network program Crook & Chase.
Childhood
Chase was born October 19, 1952, in Rogersville, Tennessee. He attended school at Rogersville City School and began his radio career at age 13, working part-time—and later full-time—at WRGS AM 1370 Radio in Rogersville.
Early career
Chase graduated from Rogersville High School in 1970, after working on-air jobs as Program Director and Music Director at stations in Kingsport and Knoxville. He moved to Nashville in 1974, where he went to work at WMAK Radio (AM-1300), the city's top-rated station at the time. Later, he moved to the home of the Grand Ole Opry, WSM AM 650, replacing Pat Sajak when Sajak decided to pursue television (today he's the host of Wheel of Fortune).
While working at WSM Radio, Chase began doing music reports for WSM-TV (now WSMV) in Nashville. It led to his being offered the host position for the station's long-running midday magazine program in 1982.
Television career
It was during that stint that television producer Jim Owens got in contact with Chase and pitched the idea for the television show This Week in Country Music, which was cohosted by Owens's soon-to-be wife Lorianne Crook and debuted in 1983.
During this period, Chase also hosted and produced a series of specials: Funny Business with Charlie Chase and The Crook and Chase Show.
In September 1993, Chase released an album, My Wife… My Life, on Epic Records.
In October 2009, Charlie began to appear in television ads for the Hormone Replacement Center.
On December 22, 2009, Charlie chose to leave Tennessee Mornings to care for an ailing family member.
Discography
Albums
Singles
See also
Lorianne Crook
Rogersville, Tennessee
The Nashville Network
WRGS Radio; Rogersville, Tennessee
References
External links
1952 births
Living people
People from Rogersville, Tennessee
American television personalities
Male television personalities
Epic Records artists
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Anne-Marie Osawemwenze Ore-Ofe Imafidon (pronounced: , ; is a British-Nigerian social entrepreneur and computer scientist. She founded and became CEO of Stemettes in 2013, a social enterprise promoting women in STEM careers. In June 2022, she was announced as the 2022–2023 President of the British Science Association.
Early life and education
Imafidon obtained a masters degree in mathematics and computing science from the University of Oxford.
Stemettes and entrepreneurship
Imafidon is the founder and CEO of Stemettes, a social initiative promoting women in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) careers.
Other work
In 2019, Imafidon hosted the Women Tech Charge podcast for The Evening Standard, where she conducted interviews with tech figures such as Jack Dorsey, and other celebrities such as Rachel Riley, and Lewis Hamilton.
She is a trustee of the Institute for the Future of Work, which researches ways to improve work and working lives.
In September 2021, Imafidon co-hosted a special episode of Channel 4's Countdown – broadcast for the channel's Black to Front Day campaign as arithmetician. She reprised the role later that year — standing in on 60 episodes for Rachel Riley while she was on maternity leave;
In December 2022, Imafidon guest-edited BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
In 2022, she was announced by the British Science Association as that organisation's president for the year 2022-3.
In June 2023, Imafidon was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific podcast, discussing diversity and equality in science, recorded at the Cheltenham Arts Festival.
Recognition
Imafidon was awarded an MBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to young women and the STEM sector. She was listed as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2017. In 2020, she was given a Suffrage Science award by the London Institute of Medical Sciences. She is an Honorary Fellow at Keble College, Oxford.
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
Mental calculators
English people of Nigerian descent
People from Barking, London
People educated at St Joseph's Convent School
Place of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British women computer scientists
Science communicators
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Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 adult animated neo-noir cyberpunk thriller film directed by Mamoru Oshii and adapted by frequent Oshii collaborator Kazunori Itō. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow. It stars the voices of Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ōtsuka, and Iemasa Kayumi. It is a Japanese-British international co-production, executive produced by Kodansha, Bandai Visual and Manga Entertainment, with animation provided by Production I.G, with the screenplay by Kazunori Itō.
The film is set in 2029 Japan and follows Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg public-security agent, who hunts a enigmatic hacker/ghost known as the Puppet Master. The narrative incorporates philosophical themes that focus on self-identity in a technologically advanced world. The music, composed by Kenji Kawai, includes vocals in classical Japanese. The film's visuals were created through a combination of traditional cel animation and CGI animation.
Upon release, Ghost in the Shell received positive reviews, with critics praising its narrative, visuals, and musical score. The film was initially considered a box-office failure before developing a cult following on home video. Since then, it has grown in esteem and is now considered to be one of the best anime and science-fiction films of all time. It inspired filmmakers such as the Wachowski brothers, creators of the Matrix films. James Cameron described it as "the first truly adult animation film to reach a level of literary and visual excellence." The film received numerous accolades and was nominated five Annie Award categories (including Best Animated Feature) in 24th Annie Awards, making it the most nominations for a Japanese animated film ever at the awards.
An updated version of the film, Ghost in the Shell 2.0, was released in 2008, featuring newly added digital effects, additional 3D animation and new audio. Oshii directed Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, released in 2004, which was billed as a separate work and a non-canon sequel.
Plot
In 2029, with the advancement of cybernetic technology, the human body can be augmented or even completely replaced with cybernetic parts. Another significant achievement is the cyberbrain, a mechanical casing for the human brain that allows access to the Internet and other networks. An often-mentioned term is "ghost," referring to the consciousness inhabiting the body (the "shell").
Major Motoko Kusanagi is an assault-team leader for Public Security Section 9 of "New Port City" in Japan. Following a request from Nakamura, chief of Section 6, she successfully assassinates a diplomat of a foreign country to prevent a programmer named Daita from defecting. The Foreign Minister's interpreter is ghost-hacked, presumably to assassinate VIPs in an upcoming meeting. Believing the perpetrator to be the mysterious Puppet Master, Kusanagi's team follows the traced telephone calls that sent the virus. After a chase, they capture a garbage man and a thug. However, both are only
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The Talking Moose is an animated talking utility for the Apple Macintosh. It was created in 1986 by Canadian programmer Steven Halls. It is the first animated talking agent on a personal computer and featured a moose that would appear at periodic intervals with some joke or witticism. The moose would also comment on system events and user actions and could speak what a user typed using the Moose Proof desk accessory.
Design
According to Halls, the original purpose of the moose was to make use of the Mac's Macintalk text-to-speech engine in a novel manner. A Doonesbury strip in which the characters were commented on by a talking computer provided inspiration, and Halls found that a moose head with antlers was recognizable even on low-resolution computer screens.
The moose was the first facially animated talking agent with lip synchronization and it became the seed idea for future talking agents, such as Clippy the paperclip in Microsoft Windows, Bonzi Buddy, and Prody Parrot from Creative SoundBlaster.
The Talking Moose used Apple's Macintalk software, the first version of which famously made the original "Never trust a computer you can't lift" speech at the Macintosh launch in 1984. Apple's development of Macintalk had petered out and they granted Halls permission to use, and continue refining, the software for free. Halls did not just improve the fluidity of the speech and the reliability of the interpretation but gave the moose a library of comedic observations and wisecracks which gave it a distinctive character.
Around 1990, a version of the Talking Moose software was commercially published by Baseline Publishing. This commercial release of the Talking Moose included color graphics and additional software that allowed users to create and edit phrases to be spoken. A stripped-down version of the Baseline release of the Talking Moose was distributed with the Bob LeVitus book Stupid Mac Tricks in 1989.
In the 1990s, the Moose was rewritten by Uli Kusterer under the name Uli's Moose - for which he later obtained Steve Halls' blessing. This Moose was included in Bob LeVitus' iMac (and iBook) book "I Didn't Know You Could Do That".
Versions
Version 1.0 of the Talking Moose was released in 1986 by Steve Halls.
Version 2.0 was released in 1987, and ran on Macintosh systems 6.0.4 - 7.1. The Macintalk voice used for the Moose was 'Fred'.
Around 1990, Baseline Publishing commercially published the talking moose, and released version 4, introducing new characters from a "Cartoon Carnival" supposedly run by the titular ungulate.
Uli Kusterer — the next author of the moose — got rid of the cartoon carnival, and worked more in the spirit of the original moose, releasing version 2.1 which supports System 7.1 - Mac OS 9.2. These were released initially on CompuServe, and later on the internet. Uli also developed the first OS X native version (v3.0.5) of the Moose, which works with all PowerPC versions of Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.7. The last Macint
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Crowds is a proposed anonymity network for anonymous web browsing. The main idea behind Crowds anonymity protocol is to hide each user's communications by routing them randomly within a group of similar users. Neither the collaborating group members nor the end receiver can therefore be sure where in the group the packet originated. Crowds was designed by Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin. It defends against internal attackers and a corrupt receiver, but provides no anonymity against a global attacker or a local eavesdropper (see "Crowds: Anonymity For Web Transactions"). Crowds is vulnerable to the predecessor attack; this was discussed in Reiter and Rubin's paper and further expanded in "The Predecessor Attack: An Analysis of a Threat to Anonymous Communications Systems" by Matthew K. Wright, Micah Adler, And Brian Neil Levine. Crowds introduced the concept of users blending into a crowd of computers.
How crowds works
Each user joins a crowd of other users by registering himself at the blender which is a single server responsible for membership management. When a user registers, all the other members in the crowd are notified. The blender is also responsible for key distribution, as it distributes symmetric keys to individual pairs of jondos, used for encryption and decryption, respectively of packets routed along the virtual paths.
Each user is represented by a jondo on her machine which is an application that runs on a user's computer.
Each jondo either submits a request to the end server or forwards it to a randomly chosen jondo (possibly itself). Other jondo tasks are to strip out any personal information such as cookies, identifying header fields.
A jondo cannot tell if a request is initiated by the previous jondo or one before it.
Request and reply follow the same virtual paths which are constructed using an algorithm involving probabilities. The virtual paths are torn down and reconstructed on a regular basis to allow anonymity for newly added members.
Definitions
Crowds uses and defines the following terms:
Sender The initiator of a message
Receiver The final recipient of a message
Probable Innocence The attacker is unable to have greater than 50% confidence that any node initiated the message (a node appears equally likely to have initiated the message as to not have - each user is more likely innocent than not.)
Local Eavesdropper An attacker that can observe all incoming and outgoing messages for any proper subset of the nodes
Corrupt Node A node is corrupt if it uses information obtained from forwarding the message to determine the sender
The number of corrupt nodes
The number of nodes ( is the number of good nodes)
The probability of forwarding
Basic Design
Crowds works by making each node seem equally likely to be the initiator of the message. As we said each node joins the network by starting a jondo (from "John Doe"), which is a small process that will forward and receive requests from other users.
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Toonsylvania is an American animated television series, which ran for two seasons in 1998 on the Fox Kids Network block (usually placed in a block called "The No Yell Motel" that contained other scary kids' shows such as Goosebumps and Eerie, Indiana) in its first season, then was moved to Monday afternoons from September 14, 1998 until January 18, 1999, when it was cancelled. It was executive produced in part by Steven Spielberg, as DreamWorks' first animated series.
The show had recurring cartoon series that appeared in each episode. Unlike Animaniacs, Toonsylvania did not have a wide range of characters and almost every episode had the same content. The main segments were "Frankenstein", "Night of the Living Fred" (most episodes on season one), "Attack of the Killer B Movies" (some episodes from season 1), "Igor's Science Minute", and "Melissa Screetch's Morbid Morals".
Plot summary
Frankenstein
A typical episode of Toonsylvania starts with a cartoon series called "Frankenstein" (a parody of Mary Shelley's novel of the same name), about the adventures of Dr. Vic Frankenstein (voiced by David Warner), his assistant Igor (voiced by Wayne Knight) who always sets out to prove that he is a genius like his master, and their dim-witted Frankenstein Monster known as Phil (voiced by Brad Garrett).
During the season two restructuring, Igor, Dr. Vic Frankenstein and Phil interacting with a variety of new characters, including a snooping next-door neighbor Seth Tuber (voiced by Jonathan Harris), who was based on Norman Bates from Psycho. He interacted with his "immobile" mother by putting his hand over his mouth and talking into it. There was also a typical Transylvanian angry mob that was, in fact, a cheerful group of Beatles-esque hipsters. Most of these new characters were voiced by Paul Rugg, who also improvised many of their lines.
Remote control gags
Before the second cartoon, there is an animated vignette where Igor is on the couch with Phil and tries to use the remote control, only for a problem to occur (a running gag akin to the couch gags seen on The Simpsons) before the TV turns on to show the cartoon in question.
Night of the Living Fred
After that, there is a cartoon series called "Night of the Living Fred", about a family of zombies that consists of Fred Deadman (voiced by Billy West), his sister Ashley Deadman (voiced by Kath Soucie), his mother Stiffany Deadman (voiced by Valery Pappas), and his father Dedgar Deadman (voiced by Matt Frewer in season one, Jess Harnell in season two). This segment was created by cartoonist Mike Peters.
Attack of the Killer B-Movies
Sometimes, a parody of a B-list horror movie would air instead of a "Night of the Living Fred" cartoon.
Igor's Science Minute
A short segment where Igor gives a science lesson (be it a musical piece or a spoken piece) that always ends in disaster.
Melissa Screetch
When Phil the Frankenstein Monster does something bad, Igor punishes him by reading a horror tale from the
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Rathaus Schöneberg (Schöneberg Town Hall) is a station on the line of the Berlin underground train network.
Designed by architect Johann Emil Schaudt, who also built the Bismarck Monument in Hamburg, the station was first opened in 1910 as Stadtpark (City Park). From 1940 to 1951 it was closed due to damage sustained during the Second World War. It re-opened under the current name in 1951.
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U4 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations
Buildings and structures in Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Art Nouveau architecture in Berlin
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1910
Art Nouveau railway stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSGN
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CSGN can mean:
Cyber Sports Gaming Network; An online gaming community/network for semi professional gamers.
The stock ticker symbol for Credit Suisse on the SWX Swiss Stock Exchange
Cruiser Strike Guided-missile Nuclear – the US Navy's strike cruiser proposal
Sign function for real and complex expressions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20Russ
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"The One with Russ" is the tenth episode of Friends second season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on January 4, 1996.
Plot
Monica gets back together with her old boyfriend, Fun Bobby. When the group discovers that they somehow went through five bottles of wine, they realise exactly what puts the "Fun" in Fun Bobby: alcohol. Monica convinces him to quit drinking, which turns out to be a bad idea – he becomes, as Chandler refers to him, "Ridiculously Dull Bobby". In order to put up with Bobby's boring stories, Monica develops a drinking habit of her own. Bobby then dumps her because he does not feel he can be in a co-dependent relationship.
Meanwhile, Rachel starts dating Russ, a periodontist who bears an eerie resemblance to Ross (although at first, Rachel thinks Russ reminds her of Bob Saget). She remains oblivious to the group's concerns until she catches Ross and Russ arguing, sees the similarities, and freaks out.
Joey's agent, Estelle, gets him an audition for a part on Days of Our Lives. However, the female casting agent implies that he will get the part if he sleeps with her; Joey is conflicted, wanting to advance his career but not wanting it to be because of a fling. At the audition, he refuses to sleep with the casting agent, but as he leaves, she offers him an even bigger role, Dr. Drake Ramoray, which he accepts. He then tells the other friends that he has to shower, implying he slept with the casting agent for the part.
At the end of the episode, Russ comes into Central Perk and reveals to Chandler and Phoebe that Rachel broke up with him, telling him he reminds her too much of someone else but she cannot figure out who. Julie then arrives to give Ross some of his stuff back. She locks eyes with Russ and they fall in love at first sight. In a scene cut from the original broadcast, Russ and Julie then leave the coffeehouse together.
Reception
In the original broadcast, the episode was viewed by 32.2 million viewers.
Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy ranked the episode #52 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes, and wrote: "One of the most significant episodes, even if it's probably not the funniest".
Telegraph & Argus also ranked the episode #52 on their ranking of all 236 Friends episodes.
References
1996 American television episodes
Friends (season 2) episodes
Television episodes directed by Thomas Schlamme
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20Must%20Be%20Traded%2C%20Charlie%20Brown
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Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown is the 42nd prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the ABC network on August 29, 2003.
It was released on VHS and DVD on March 2, 2004, and again on May 1, 2012, as part of a single disc called Happiness is...Peanuts: Team Snoopy.
Plot
It's the beginning of baseball season, and Charlie Brown is looking forward to the new season with a mixture of joy and apprehension. The apprehension is mainly due to Lucy, who is constantly bothering him with idiotic questions, sarcastic remarks and non-sequiturs, to the point where Charlie Brown literally becomes physically ill on the pitcher's mound.
After his team loses their first game to Peppermint Patty's team, Charlie Brown then thinks of a great idea of trading one of his team players to Peppermint Patty. He decides to trade Snoopy for five of Peppermint Patty's players (because Snoopy is the only player Patty would want). However, the team is angry with Charlie Brown for this, and Charlie Brown finally decides to rip up the contract made for the trade, which is just as well, as it turns out the five players whom Patty was to trade would rather give up baseball than play for Charlie Brown.
The team continues to play throughout the season normally until Peppermint Patty suggests that they should trade right-fielders, which Charlie Brown does. Peppermint Patty gets Lucy, while Charlie Brown gets Marcie (and a pizza). Marcie, however, chooses to not play at her position but spend the entire game next to Charlie Brown on the pitcher's mound. Meanwhile, Lucy, over on Peppermint Patty's squad, gets into her usual fuss-budget business by failing Peppermint Patty at every game the team plays by doing something stupid. Peppermint Patty finally has had enough and asks Charlie Brown for the trade to be reversed, which Charlie Brown agrees to do, though he admits that he had already eaten the pizza included in the trade. Once Lucy is returned, Charlie Brown starts to regain confidence before the game is suddenly brought to an end by a flood-inducing rain.
Source material
The storyline involving Snoopy's botched trade to Peppermint Patty's team was based on a lengthy Peanuts storyline from the fall of 1967. The storyline involving Lucy's and Marcie's trades originated in a storyline from 1988.
Of note is the fact that Peppermint Patty refers to Snoopy as "that funny-looking kid with a big nose," which is in line with the content of Peanuts in 1967 when the original strips were drawn. In the actual strip, Peppermint Patty did not learn Snoopy was a dog until 1974 and never referred to him as a "kid with a big nose" afterwards.
Voice cast
Serena Berman as Lucy van Pelt
Wesley Singerman as Charlie Brown
Corey Padnos as Linus van Pelt
Daniel Hansen as Peppermint Patty
Melissa Montoya as Marcie
Megan Taylor Harvey as Sally Brown
Christopher Ryan Johnson as Schroeder
Bill Melendez as Snoopy and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXNT
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WXNT (1430 AM) is a commercial radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and carries an all-sports radio format, as an affiliate of the CBS Sports Radio Network. WXNT's schedule consists of CBS Sports Radio shows and live sporting events.
WXNT studios and offices are located on N. Meridian Street, along with sister stations 99.5 WZPL and 107.9 WNTR. The transmitter and antenna are located off Knollton Road at West 46th Street, on the northwest side of Indianapolis. WXNT operates at 5000 watts around the clock, using a non-directional antenna by day. But at night a directional antenna is required to protect other stations on AM 1430 from interference.
History
WXNT first signed on as WKBF in 1926 at 1400 kHz. Eleven years later, the station changed its call letters to WIRE, as announced by the Federal Communications Commission on March 16, 1935. In 1941, the station moved to its current dial position at 1430 kHz, when the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement or NARBA required many AM stations to change their frequencies.
The station was mentioned as officially opening its new studios on the show "Nightbeat" on October 27, 1950. For most of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, its programming consisted of country music, which proved an enormous ratings success. In 1970, WIRE's country format was number one in the Indianapolis radio market with a 25.6 Pulse rating share, also making it the highest-rated country station in the nation, according to a 1970 Billboard magazine article. But over time, country music fans shifted their listening to FM radio.
When Mid America Radio flipped WXTZ (103.3 FM) from easy listening to adult contemporary in 1989, the format and call letters moved to AM.
On November 28, 1990, the station became WFXF, which simulcast then-sister station WFXF-FM 103.3 and its classic rock format known as "103.3 The Fox." (Today that station is alternative rock/active rock WOLT). On May 18, 1992, the call letters for AM 1430 were changed to WCKN.
On September 8, 1994, the station switched to a syndicated adult standards format known as "The Music of Your Life," using the call sign WMYS. The station also aired Indianapolis Ice hockey games. On October 22, 2001, the station changed its call sign to WXNT, with the NT standing for News/Talk, its new format. WXNT would broadcast Notre Dame Fighting Irish football and previously broadcast Butler University basketball.
On January 2, 2013, WXNT switched to all-sports, becoming a CBS Sports Radio Network affiliate. The station continues to be the Indianapolis home for Notre Dame football.
On February 13, 2019, Cumulus Media and Entercom announced an agreement in which WXNT, WZPL, and WNTR would be swapped to Cumulus in exchange for WNSH (now WXBK) in New York City and WHLL and WMAS-FM in Springfield, Massachusetts. Under the terms of the deal, Cumulus began operating WXNT under a local marketing agreement on March 1, 2019. The swap was co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20New%20Hampshire
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The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
WCNH (Bow, New Hampshire)
WQNH-LP
References
New Hampshire
Radio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumapanel
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The Lumapanel is a motion picture light designed in the 1990s. It uses new-technology ballasts to drive 28 fluorescent bulbs resulting in a low-power, high-output computer-controlled fixture. It is used by various Hollywood cinematographers.
Projects
Iron Man (2008)
Pursuit of Happyness (2007)
Smokin' Aces (2007)
Live Free or DieHard (2007)
Next (2007)
Blades of Glory (2007)
Freedom Writers (2006)
RV (2006)
You, Me and Dupree (2006)
NEXT (2006)
#23 (2006)
Fast and Furious III (2006)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2006)
Smokin' Aces (2006)
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Madonna (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
The Terminal (2004)
Matchbox Twenty Concert Tour (2002)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
98° Concert Tour (2000)
External links
http://www.lumapanel.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001834/http://www.ascmag.com/magazine_dynamic/July2007/DieHard4/page1.php
http://www.theasc.com/magazine/jan03/karma/index.html
Cinematography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIN%20TV
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WIN TV may refer to:
Win Sports, a Colombian sports television network
WIN Television, an Australian regional television network
WIN (TV station), the flagship station of WIN Television
WIN TV (Trinidad and Tobago), a former television station in Trinidad and Tobago
WinTV, a product range produced by Hauppauge Computer Works
See also
WINK-TV
WINP-TV
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V44
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V44 may refer to:
V44 (vodka), a Lithuanian vodka
ITU-T V.44, a data compression standard
, a torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy
Vanadium-44, an isotope of vanadium
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakan%20Sansai%20Zue
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The is an illustrated Japanese leishu encyclopedia published in 1712 in the Edo period. It consists of 105 volumes in 81 books. Its compiler was Terashima or Terajima (), a doctor from Osaka. It describes and illustrates various activities of daily life, such as carpentry and fishing, as well as plants and animals, and constellations. It depicts the people of "different/strange lands" (ikoku) and "outer barbarian peoples". As seen from the title of the book (wa , which means Japan, and kan , which means China), Terajima's idea was based on a Chinese encyclopedia, specifically the Ming work Sancai Tuhui ("Pictorial..." or "Illustrated Compendium of the Three Powers") by Wang Qi (1607), known in Japan as the . Reproductions of the Wakan Sansai Zue are still in print in Japan.
References
External links
Scans of the pages are available in the Digital Library of the National Diet Library, Japan.
Scans of copies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are available at the Internet Archive: volumes 1-8, 9-15, 16-36, 37-47, 48-60, 66-72, 72-77, 78-87, 88-95, 96-105 with index.
Edo-period works
Japanese encyclopedias
18th century in Japan
1712 books
18th-century encyclopedias
Leishu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eelco%20van%20Asperen
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Eelco van Asperen (11 April 1965, Rotterdam – 31 May 2013) was a Dutch computer scientist. and associate professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, at the School of Economics.
On the first webpages created by Tim Berners-Lee, Van Asperen was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Van Asperen "ported the line-mode browser [to] the PC under PC-NFS; developed a curses version."
Van Asperen published several articles in scientific journals, mostly in the field of computer simulation and logistics. In 2009, he obtained his PhD at Erasmus University with the dissertation Essays on Port, Container, and Bulk Chemical Logistics Optimization.
References
External links
Archive of "People involved in the WorldWideWeb project"
1965 births
2013 deaths
Dutch computer scientists
Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni
Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Scientists from Rotterdam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20Fatigue%20%28video%20game%29
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Metal Fatigue (also known as Metal Conflict), is a futuristic science fiction, real-time strategy computer game developed by Zono and published by Psygnosis (in Europe) and TalonSoft (in the United States).
The game was re-released on June 21, 2018 on GOG.com and Steam by Nightdive Studios, who had acquired the rights to the game.
Plot
During the 23rd century, man has discovered faster-than-light travel and has finally reached the stars. Galactic exploration had confirmed man's worst two fears. First, a warlike, alien race with vastly superior technology does exist. The exploration fleet reported sentient structures which appear to have been annihilated eons ago, scattered all over the galaxy.
Incidentally, the exploration consisted of vessels from three large Earth corporations or, as they are called in the game, CorpoNations (Rimtech, Mil-Agro, and Neuropa). It began as an industrial alliance, and the opportunity to plunder alien technology spurred them onward towards the Hedoth homeworld. As survey ships finally reached the Hedoth sector, the three CorpoNations massed their war fleets nearby. They were prepared for the ultimate conflict, only to discover that man's second worst fear was realized—that humanity is all alone in the universe; the Hedoth homeworlds were vacant.
The Hedoth initially left no clue of where they went, but their departure was remarkably tidy. Scattered installations and miscellaneous war machines were all they left behind.
The discovery set off a frenzied "gold rush" among the three CorpoNations for the Hedoth technology and its potential power.
At the end of the game, the Hedoth revealed that the humans were merely being tested, to see if they were worthy of being soldiers in the Hedoth's armies. The Hedoth concluded that humans would make excellent soldiers in the Hedoth armies, and that "Humanity is ready to learn obedience."
Gameplay
The game is fully 3D, mapped by an invisible grid; vehicles tilt to meet hilly terrain, and projectiles can be realistically blocked by obstructions. The camera is free-moving and can zoom in and out, rotate, and pan up or down while navigating the battlefield.
In the game, the usual real-time strategy elements such as base building and resource gathering are followed, but Metal Fatigue differs from the other titles by offering players to do battle with giant high-tech mech-style juggernauts called Combots.
Combots can be customized by four main combot parts: a torso, a single pair of legs, and two separate pieces of arm (excluding the combot pilots). The game also allows players to salvage destroyed enemy Combots and their various parts. Salvaged parts can be grafted onto the player's own combots (either by a combot in the field, or brought back and built into a new one,) and, more importantly, they can be researched and reverse-engineered, adding the component into the player's technology base.
In-game, units are unable to increase in rank through experience. However, after
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voja%20Antoni%C4%87
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Vojislav "Voja" Antonić (, ʾ, 12 July 1952) is a Serbian inventor, journalist, and writer. He is known for creating a build-it-yourself home computer Galaksija and originating a related "Build your own computer Galaksija" initiative with Dejan Ristanović. This initiative encouraged and enlightened thousands of computer enthusiasts during the 1980s in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Antonić has donated many of his personal creations to the public domain. He was also a magazine editor and contributed to a number of radio shows.
Biography
While in school, Voja Antonić found a passion for HAM radios. He obtained a licence and a callsign to broadcast his own waves. One day, the state police seized all CB Band units known to operate in the country, creating a new trend for HAM radio units which bored Voja Antonić who decided to move on towards new digital technologies.
His first creation with a microprocessor was Conway's Game of Life machine which shows its state using 16x16 matrix of red LEDs. Without a computer, Voja Antonić wrote the code on paper and operated the input in the system byte by byte using rotary switches. LEDs being expensive back then, it took him months to buy and install the last LEDs. A replica of his machine reportedly worked flawlessly almost continuously for 40 years.
When personal computers arrived on the market, they were not accessible in Yugoslavia. Voja Antonić asked a friend in the USA to disassemble a TRS-80 Model I and send it to him and received it labelled as "technical junk". He received it, reassembled it, and started his new computer passion.
While studying at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in the late 1970s, he started to build computer systems capable of rendering animations.
Prior to the Winter of 1981/1982, the Skiing Federation of Serbia timed the competitors using regular stopwatches and hand signaling. The upcoming Balkan competition required this to be improved and more precise. In 1981, Antonić created a small, battery powered computer packed together with liquid crystal display, printer and keyboard in Samsonite suitcases. Over the years five different models were built, named from "Arbitar" to "Arbitar 5", and were used for many years. In 1982, he designed an alarm system for Elektronika inženjering.
While on holiday in Risan, Montenegro in 1983, Antonić learned of the interesting way to have the CPU generate video signal, using an Zilog Z80A microprocessor instead of the more expensive traditional graphics card. When he returned home, he tested the idea; the result was a cheaper build-it-yourself computer with a more simplified design. Near the same time that Antonić made his discovery, Dejan Ristanović, a computer programmer and journalist was entrusted with preparing a special edition of the Galaksija magazine that would be focused on home computers. Antonić initially thought about publishing his information in the popular SAM magazine in Zagreb but after becoming acquainted with R
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejan%20Ristanovi%C4%87
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Dejan Ristanović (, Belgrade, 16 April 1963), is a well known Serbian writer and computer publicist.
In January 1981 he wrote the first article on personal computers for the popular science magazine Galaksija (Galaxy). During the following years he wrote many articles about programmable calculators and home computers.
In December 1983 he wrote a special edition of Galaksija called "Computers in Your Home" (Računari u vašoj kući), the first computer magazine in former Yugoslavia. This issue featured entire schematic diagrams guides on how to build computer Galaksija, created by Voja Antonić.
The series of special editions was eventually developed into computer magazine Računari (Computers). Ristanović was a contributor of Računari for 11 years. After that, in 1995 Ristanović founded the PC Press publishing company and magazine PC, the first privately owned computer magazine in Serbia. Ristanović has been the editor-in-chief of PC for more than 10 years.
In 1989 he co-founded Sezam BBS, which eventually become a major BBS system and evolved to Internet provider Sezam Pro, which in 2009 merged in Orion Telecom.
Dejan Ristanović is the author of about 20 books and more than 500 magazine articles about computers, written in the Serbian and English languages. He also operates the www.ti59.com nostalgia home page of TI-59 programmable calculators.
Dejan Ristanović is alumnus of Mathematical Gymnasium Belgrade, graduated in 1981 (search term in the list: "Ристановић Дејан").
References
External links
Dejan Ristanović's home page
Dejan Ristanovic's home page
List of publications
TI-59 page
Sezam Pro Internet provider
Orion Telecom
Mathematical Gymnasium Belgrade
Magazine founders
Serbian technology writers
Computer programmers
Serbian businesspeople
Serbian journalists
Galaksija (computer)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Serbian magazine editors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAJB
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KAJB (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Calipatria, California, United States, serving the Yuma, Arizona–El Centro, California market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned by Calipatria Broadcasting Company, which maintains a joint sales agreement (JSA) which Entravision Communications, owner of El Centro–licensed Univision affiliate KVYE (channel 7), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on North Imperial Avenue in El Centro, while KAJB's transmitter is located atop Black Mountain.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KAJB was originally assigned UHF channel 50 for its digital companion channel, however, with Mexican television station XHRCS-TV broadcasting on the same frequency from San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, KAJB could not build its facilities without causing interference. The station released its allocation and participated in the FCC second round elections, selecting UHF channel 36 for its digital allocation instead. After years of efforts to obtain Mexican coordination for the use of channel 36, KAJB was granted a construction permit to build digital facilities in August 2008, nearly nine years after requesting authorization, and began airing in March 2009. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 54, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
References
External links
UniMás official website
Television channels and stations established in 2000
UniMás network affiliates
LATV affiliates
2000 establishments in California
AJB
AJB
Entravision Communications stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scannerless%20parsing
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In computer science, scannerless parsing (also called lexerless parsing) performs tokenization (breaking a stream of characters into words) and parsing (arranging the words into phrases) in a single step, rather than breaking it up into a pipeline of a lexer followed by a parser, executing concurrently. A language grammar is scannerless if it uses a single formalism to express both the lexical (word level) and phrase level structure of the language.
Dividing processing into a lexer followed by a parser is more modular; scannerless parsing is primarily used when a clear lexer–parser distinction is unneeded or unwanted. Examples of when this is appropriate include TeX, most wiki grammars, makefiles, simple application-specific scripting languages, and Raku.
Advantages
Only one metalanguage is needed
Non-regular lexical structure is handled easily
"Token classification" is unneeded which removes the need for design accommodations such as "the lexer hack" and language reserved words (such as "while" in C)
Grammars can be compositional (can be merged without human intervention)
Disadvantages
Since the lexical scanning and syntactic parsing are combined, the resulting parser tends to be more complicated and thus harder to understand and debug. The same will hold for the associated grammar, if a grammar is used to generate the parser.
The resulting parser tends to be significantly less efficient than a lexer-parser pipeline with regard to both time and memory.
Implementations
SGLR is a parser for the modular Syntax Definition Formalism (SDF), and is part of the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment and the Stratego/XT program transformation system.
JSGLR, a pure Java implementation of SGLR, also based on SDF.
TXL supports character-level parsing.
dparser generates ANSI C code for scannerless GLR parsers.
Spirit allows for both scannerless and scanner-based parsing.
SBP is a scannerless parser for boolean grammars (a superset of context-free grammars), written in Java.
Laja is a two-phase scannerless parser generator with support for mapping the grammar rules into objects, written in Java.
The Raku grammars feature of the general purpose programming language Raku.
PyParsing is a scannerless parser written in pure Python.
META II Has built in token parsers functions.
TREE-META Like META II also is scannerless having builtin lexer functions.
CWIC compiler for writing and implementing compilers. Has token rules as part of its language. Rules in CWIC were compiled into boolean functions returning success or failure.
Notes
This is because parsing at the character level makes the language recognized by the parser a single context-free language defined on characters, as opposed to a context-free language of sequences of strings in regular languages. Some lexerless parsers handle the entire class of context-free languages, which is closed under composition.
References
Further reading
Parsing algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Associates%20International%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Altai%2C%20Inc.
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Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc., 982 F.2d 693 (2d Cir. 1992) is a decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that addressed to what extent non-literal elements of software are protected by copyright law. The court used and recommended a three-step process called the Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test. The case was an appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in which the district court found that defendant Altai's OSCAR 3.4 computer program had infringed plaintiff Computer Associates' copyrighted computer program entitled CA-SCHEDULER. The district court also found that Altai's OSCAR 3.5 program was not substantially similar to a portion of CA-SCHEDULER 7.0 called SYSTEM ADAPTER, and thus denied relief as to OSCAR 3.5. Finally, the district court concluded that Computer Associates' state law trade secret misappropriation claim against Altai was preempted by the federal Copyright Act. The appeal was heard by Judges Frank Altimari, John Daniel Mahoney, and John M. Walker, Jr. The majority opinion was written by Judge Walker. Judge Altimari concurred in part and dissented in part. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling as to copyright infringement, but vacated and remanded its holding on trade secret preemption.
Background of the case
Computer Associates (CA) created a job scheduling program called CA-SCHEDULER which sorts, runs, and controls the various tasks (jobs) given to a computer. This scheduler was designed to be compatible with IBM System 370 computers which ran any of three different IBM mainframe operating systems: DOS/VSE, OS/MVS, and VM/CMS. Traditionally, a program must be specifically compiled to run on a designated operating system. In order to allow the same code to run on the different operating systems, the CA-SCHEDULER included a component called ADAPTER that was designed to translate the language of the program into commands understandable to that particular operating system. This way the CA-SCHEDULER could use the same code but run on different operating systems.
In 1982, Altai established their own job scheduler called ZEKE written for the VSE operating system. In efforts to create a version of ZEKE to run on the MVS operating system, Altai employee James Williams recruited his longtime friend Claude Arney, an employee of Computer Associates, to create the MVS version. Williams claims that at the time he did not know about the ADAPTER component or that Arney had familiarity with the CA-SCHEDULER and ADAPTER code. Arney left CA to work on Altai's ZEKE program, taking the VSE and MVS versions of the source code for ADAPTER with him. Using his knowledge of ADAPTER, Arney then convinced Altai to restructure the program to include a program translator to interface with various operating systems. Arney created the translator OSCAR 3.4 for Altai in which about 30% of OSCAR's source code was taken directly from CA's ADAP
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fj%C3%B6lnir%20%28programming%20language%29
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Fjölnir (also Fjolnir or Fjoelnir) is a programming language developed by professor Snorri Agnarsson of computer science at Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland) that was mostly used in the 1980s. The source files usually have the extension fjo or sma.
Features
Fjölnir is based on the concept of representing programs as trees, and packages by substitutions on trees using algebraic operators. For example, in the Hello World example below, "GRUNNUR" is a package, the block of code between braces is a package, and * is an operator that substitutes names in one package with elements from another. In this case, skrifastreng (which writes a string to the standard output) is imported from "GRUNNUR".
Code examples
;; Hello world in Fjölnir
"hello" < main
{
main ->
stef(;)
stofn
skrifastreng(;"Hello, world!"),
stofnlok
}
*
"GRUNNUR"
;
External links
Fjölnir package (DOS, works in older versions of Windows)
PDF about Fjölnir (In Icelandic)
99 Bottles of Beer in Fjölnir
The original source for both Fjölnir 1 and Fjölnir 2; coded in Fjölnir itself.
References
Non-English-based programming languages
Icelandic language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavilan%20SC
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The Gavilan SC is a laptop computer that was the first ever to be marketed as a "laptop". The computer ran on an Intel 8088 microprocessor running at 5 MHz and sported a touchpad for a pointing device, one of the first computers to do so. The laptop was developed by Manuel "Manny" Fernandez and released by the Gavilan Computer Corporation, the company he founded and owned, in May 1983.
History
The brainchild of Gavilan Computer Corporation founder Manuel (Manny) Fernandez, the Gavilan was introduced in May 1983, at approximately the same time as the similar Sharp PC-5000. It came to market a year after the GRiD Compass, with which it shared several pioneering details, notably a clamshell design, in which the screen folds shut over the keyboard.
The Gavilan, however, was more affordable than the GRiD, at a list price of around US$4000. Unlike the GRiD, it was equipped with a floppy disk drive and used the MS-DOS operating system, although it was only partially IBM PC-compatible. Powered by a 5 MHz Intel 8088 processor, it was equipped with a basic graphical user interface, stored in its 48 KB of ROM. The operating system used a FORTH-like interpreter to generate very compact code. An internal 300-baud modem was standard. A compact printer that attached to the rear of the machine was an option.
The machine's included software was a terminal program, MS-DOS, and MBasic (a version of the BASIC programming language). An Office Pack of four applications—Sorcim SuperCalc and SuperWriter, and pfs:File and pfs:Report—was optional.
It was far smaller than competing IBM compatible portables, such as the Compaq Portable, which were the size of a portable sewing machine and weighed more than twice the Gavilan's 4 kg (9 lb), and unlike the Gavilan they could not run off batteries. Gavilan claimed the SC could run up to nine hours on its built-in nickel-cadmium batteries.
Jack Hall, an award-winning industrial designer, was chosen to work out the ergonomics, mechanics and overall appearance of the Gavilan. An extremely compact printer module was the result of a collaboration between Hall Design and C. Itoh of Japan. Additionally, several patentable features such as the unique display hinge and printer attachment mechanism were embodied in the design.
The Gavilan sported an LCD display with an unusual resolution of 400×64 pixels. It included a pioneering touchpad-like pointing device, installed on a panel above the keyboard. It used static CMOS memory, and came with 64 kilobytes standard. Memory was expandable through plug-in modules, for which there were four slots available (each 32 KB "CapsuleRam" module cost and included a backup battery); these slots could also be used for software ROM cartridges.
With standards for microfloppy drives still emerging, Gavilan was designed to accommodate both a 3.0-inch 320 KB microfloppy drive as well as a 3.5-inch floppy drive. Slow sales, due to the as yet undeveloped market for laptops, caused Gavilan Computer Co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pengam%20railway%20station
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Pengam railway station is situated in Pengam on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network in South Wales. It is also the nearest station to the town of Blackwood and is the 2nd busiest station on the Rhymney Line, after Caerphilly.
Service
The weekday train service is four trains per hour south to Cardiff Central and onwards to . Northwards there are also four trains per hour - three terminating at and one train per hour continuing to . In the evenings the service drops to hourly each way and to two-hourly on Sundays (when southbound trains run to ).
External links
Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20and%20cut
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Branch and cut is a method of combinatorial optimization for solving integer linear programs (ILPs), that is, linear programming (LP) problems where some or all the unknowns are restricted to integer values. Branch and cut involves running a branch and bound algorithm and using cutting planes to tighten the linear programming relaxations. Note that if cuts are only used to tighten the initial LP relaxation, the algorithm is called cut and branch.
Algorithm
This description assumes the ILP is a maximization problem.
The method solves the linear program without the integer constraint using the regular simplex algorithm. When an optimal solution is obtained, and this solution has a non-integer value for a variable that is supposed to be integer, a cutting plane algorithm may be used to find further linear constraints which are satisfied by all feasible integer points but violated by the current fractional solution. These inequalities may be added to the linear program, such that resolving it will yield a different solution which is hopefully "less fractional".
At this point, the branch and bound part of the algorithm is started. The problem is split into multiple (usually two) versions. The new linear programs are then solved using the simplex method and the process repeats. During the branch and bound process, non-integral solutions to LP relaxations serve as upper bounds and integral solutions serve as lower bounds. A node can be pruned if an upper bound is lower than an existing lower bound. Further, when solving the LP relaxations, additional cutting planes may be generated, which may be either global cuts, i.e., valid for all feasible integer solutions, or local cuts, meaning that they are satisfied by all solutions fulfilling the side constraints from the currently considered branch and bound subtree.
The algorithm is summarized below.
Add the initial ILP to , the list of active problems
Set and
while is not empty
Select and remove (de-queue) a problem from
Solve the LP relaxation of the problem.
If the solution is infeasible, go back to 3 (while). Otherwise denote the solution by with objective value .
If , go back to 3.
If is integer, set and go back to 3.
If desired, search for cutting planes that are violated by . If any are found, add them to the LP relaxation and return to 3.2.
Branch to partition the problem into new problems with restricted feasible regions. Add these problem to and go back to 3
return
Pseudocode
In C++-like pseudocode, this could be written:
// ILP branch and cut solution pseudocode, assuming objective is to be maximized
ILP_solution branch_and_cut_ILP(IntegerLinearProgram initial_problem) {
queue active_list; // L, above
active_list.enqueue(initial_problem); // step 1
// step 2
ILP_solution optimal_solution; // this will hold x* above
double best_objective = -std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity; // will hold v* above
while (!active_list.empty()) { // step 3 above
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatically%20switched%20optical%20network
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Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) is a concept for the evolution of transport networks which allows for dynamic policy-driven control of an optical or SDH network based on signaling between a user and components of the network. Its aim is to automate the resource and connection management within the network. The IETF defines ASON as an alternative/supplement to NMS based connection management.
The need for ASON
In an optical network without ASON, whenever a user requires more bandwidth, there is a request for a new connection from the user to the service provider. The service provider must then manually plan and configure the route in the network. This is not only time consuming, but also wastes bandwidth if the user sparingly uses the connection. Bandwidth is increasingly becoming a precious resource and expectations from future optical networks are that they should be able to efficiently handle resources as quickly as possible. ASON fulfills some of the requirements of optical networks such as:
Fast and automatic end-to-end provisioning
Fast and efficient re-routing
Support of different clients, but optimized for IP
Dynamic set up of connections
Support of optical virtual private networks (OVPNs)
Support of different levels of quality of service
(These requirements are not restricted to optical networks and can be applied to any transport network, including SDH Networks.)
Logical architecture of an ASON
The logical architecture of an ASON can be divided into three planes:
Transport plane
Control plane
Management plane
The Transport Plane contains a number of switches (optical or otherwise) responsible for transporting user data via connections. These switches are connected to each other via PI (Physical Interface).
The Control Plane is responsible for the actual resource and connection management within an ASON network. It consists of a series of OCC (Optical Connection Controllers), interconnected via NNIs (Network to Network Interfaces). These OCCs have the following functions:
Network topology discovery (resource discovery)
Signaling, routing, address assignment
Connection set-up/tear-down
Connection protection/restoration
Traffic engineering
Wavelength assignment
The Management Plane is responsible for managing the Control plane. Its responsibilities include Configuration Management of the Control Plane Resources, Routing Areas, Transport resource in Control Plane and Policy. It also provides Fault Management, Performance Management, Accounting and Security Management functions. The Management Plane contains the Network Management Entity which is connected to an OCC in Control Plane via the NMI-A ( Network Management Interface for ASON Control Plane) and to one of the switches via NMI-T ( Network Management Interface for the Transport Network).
The traffic from user connected to an ASON network contains data for both Transport and Control Plane. The user is connected to Transport plane via a PI (Physic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAM
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OAM may refer to:
Science and technology
Object access method, a function available in IBM's z/OS
OCP Accelerator Module, a computer hardware design specification published by the Open Compute Project
Operations, administration, and management, processes involved in maintaining a system, often a computer system
Oracle Access Manager, a software component of the Oracle Identity Management software suite
Orbital angular momentum (disambiguation) in physics
Other
Oamaru Aerodrome, New Zealand
Observatorio Astronómico de Mallorca, an observatory in Spain
U.S. Office of Alternative Medicine, whose duties have been taken over by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Official Museums of Amsterdam, Netherlands
On a Mission (disambiguation)
Order of Australia Medal, an Australian national honour
Ozy and Millie, a furry webcomic
Office of Air and Marine, a federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
OverActive Media, an esports and entertainment company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC%20429
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ARINC 429, the "Mark 33 Digital Information Transfer System (DITS)," is the ARINC technical standard for the predominant avionics data bus used on most higher-end commercial and transport aircraft. It defines the physical and electrical interfaces of a two-wire data bus and a data protocol to support an aircraft's avionics local area network.
Technical description
Medium and signaling
ARINC 429 is a data transfer standard for aircraft avionics. It uses a self-clocking, self-synchronizing data bus protocol (Tx and Rx are on separate ports). The physical connection wires are twisted pairs carrying balanced differential signaling. Data words are 32 bits in length and most messages consist of a single data word. Messages are transmitted at either 12.5 or 100 kbit/s to other system elements that are monitoring the bus messages. The transmitter constantly transmits either 32-bit data words or the NULL state (0 Volts). A single wire pair is limited to one transmitter and no more than 20 receivers. The protocol allows for self-clocking at the receiver end, thus eliminating the need to transmit clocking data. ARINC 429 is an alternative to MIL-STD-1553.
Bit numbering, transmission order, and bit significance
The ARINC 429 unit of transmission is a fixed-length 32-bit frame, which the standard refers to as a 'word'. The bits within an ARINC 429 word are serially identified from Bit Number 1 to Bit Number 32 or simply Bit 1 to Bit 32. The fields and data structures of the ARINC 429 word are defined in terms of this numbering.
While it is common to illustrate serial protocol frames progressing in time from right to left, a reversed ordering is commonly practiced within the ARINC standard. Even though ARINC 429 word transmission begins with Bit 1 and ends with Bit 32, it is common to diagram and describe ARINC 429 words in the order from Bit 32 to Bit 1.
In simplest terms, while the transmission order of bits (from the first transmitted bit to the last transmitted bit) for a 32-bit frame is conventionally diagrammed as
First bit > 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ... 29, 30, 31, 32 < Last bit,
this sequence is often diagrammed in ARINC 429 publications in the opposite direction as
Last bit > 32, 31, 30, 29, ... 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 < First bit.
Generally, when the ARINC 429 word format is illustrated with Bit 32 to the left, the numeric representations in the data field are read with the most significant bit on the left. However, in this particular bit order presentation, the Label field reads with its most significant bit on the right. Like CAN Protocol Identifier Fields, ARINC 429 label fields are transmitted most significant bit first. However, like UART Protocol, Binary-coded decimal numbers and binary numbers in the ARINC 429 data fields are generally transmitted least significant bit first.
Some equipment suppliers publish the bit transmission order as
First bit > 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 … 32
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Computable%20Functions
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In computer science, Programming Computable Functions (PCF) is a typed functional language introduced by Gordon Plotkin in 1977, based on previous unpublished material by Dana Scott. It can be considered to be an extended version of the typed lambda calculus or a simplified version of modern typed functional languages such as ML or Haskell.
A fully abstract model for PCF was first given by Robin Milner. However, since Milner's model was essentially based on the syntax of PCF it was considered less than satisfactory. The first two fully abstract models not employing syntax were formulated during the 1990s. These models are based on game semantics and Kripke logical relations. For a time it was felt that neither of these models was completely satisfactory, since they were not effectively presentable. However, Ralph Loader demonstrated that no effectively presentable fully abstract model could exist, since the question of program equivalence in the finitary fragment of PCF is not decidable.
Syntax
The types of PCF are inductively defined as
nat is a type
For types σ and τ, there is a type σ → τ
A context is a list of pairs x : σ, where x is a variable name and σ is a type, such that no variable name is duplicated. One then defines typing judgments of terms-in-context in the usual way for the following syntactical constructs:
Variables (if x : σ is part of a context Γ, then Γ ⊢ x : σ)
Application (of a term of type σ → τ to a term of type σ)
λ-abstraction
The Y fixed point combinator (making terms of type σ out of terms of type σ → σ)
The successor (succ) and predecessor (pred) operations on nat and the constant 0
The conditional if with the typing rule:
(nats will be interpreted as booleans here with a convention like zero denoting truth, and any other number denoting falsity)
Semantics
Denotational semantics
A relatively straightforward semantics for the language is the Scott model. In this model,
Types are interpreted as certain domains.
(the natural numbers with a bottom element adjoined, with the flat ordering)
is interpreted as the domain of Scott-continuous functions from to , with the pointwise ordering.
A context is interpreted as the product
Terms in context are interpreted as continuous functions
Variable terms are interpreted as projections
Lambda abstraction and application are interpreted by making use of the cartesian closed structure of the category of domains and continuous functions
Y is interpreted by taking the least fixed point of the argument
This model is not fully abstract for PCF; but it is fully abstract for the language obtained by adding a parallel or operator to PCF.
Notes
References
Appeared as
External links
Introduction to RealPCF
Lexer and Parser for PCF written in SML
Programming languages created in 1977
Academic programming languages
Educational programming languages
Functional languages
Programming language theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted%3A%20Monty%20Mole
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Wanted: Monty Mole is a platform video game published in July 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 home computers. It is the first game released by Gremlin Graphics and the first game in the Monty Mole series. Monty Mole is a fictional mole created by Ian Stewart, the director of the company.
Gameplay
The player controls the titular mole who has to travel around a coal mine collecting pieces of coal and other miscellaneous objects while avoiding various nasties and the infamous crushers. The style of gameplay is typical of platform games of the 1980s. The ZX Spectrum version is a flip-screen game while the Commodore 64 version uses scrolling. The game was inspired by the UK miners' strike of 1984–85, and even featured a character based on union leader Arthur Scargill.
Music
The tune that plays when Monty loses a life is the hymn Abide with Me.
The music is a downtempo cover of the Colonel Bogey March.
Reception
Wanted: Monty Mole reached number 2 in the all-formats sales charts behind Daley Thompson's Decathlon
in the week up to 13 September 1984. It topped the ZX Spectrum charts in the same week before being replaced by Daley Thompson's Decathlon the following week. Gremlin Graphics reported that they had sold 20,000 copies in the first six weeks.
The game received a positive reception from critics. Crash rated it 92%, describing it as a "fantastic Jet Set Willy type of game with excellent graphics and a good use of colour throughout". Personal Computer Games gave it 80%, saying "if you can put up with a measure of frustration, Monty Mole will unearth a great deal of action for your money", while also praising the graphics.
It also won Crash magazine's readers award for best platform game in 1984.
Sequels
Monty is Innocent (1985). In this game, Monty has been sentenced to five years in Scudmore Prison for stealing a bucket of coal. Monty's best friend, the mysterious masked weasel, Sam Stoat, is determined to set Monty free.
Monty on the Run (1985). In this episode, Monty is on the run from the authorities after his intervention in the Miners' strike. He must escape from his house and head for the English Channel and freedom in Europe.
Auf Wiedersehen Monty (1987). In this instalment, Monty travels around Europe collecting money in order to buy a Greek island - Montos, where he can safely retire.
Moley Christmas (1987). Released as a covertape with Your Sinclair magazine, Monty is tasked with recovering the source code to his latest game and getting it to the duplication plant.
Impossamole (1990), remaking Monty as a cape-clad superhero who is recruited by aliens to retrieve their sacred scrolls.
Monty: Revenge of the Mole (2013), released after it was selected as the winner of a Monty Mole game design competition held by Games Britannia in British schools; the game was developed by Steel Minions Studio, as adapted from the winning design. All proceeds from sales of the games went to the charity SpecialEffect, a charity aime
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