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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Kong%202%3A%20Ikari%20no%20Megaton%20Punch
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is a 1986 Family Computer action adventure game by Konami. It was released only in Japan and based on the film of the same year, King Kong Lives (King Kong 2 being the film's title in Japan).
Plot
After being shot down from the World Trade Center, Kong is kept alive in a coma for about ten years. When another Kong-sized female gorilla is found, a blood transfusion is arranged from the female and an artificial heart is installed inside Kong. With a functioning heart, Kong escapes from the facility and seeks to procreate with the female Kong still held in captivity.
Gameplay
The player assumes the role of King Kong, who is in search of his female ape companion, Lady Kong, who is in captivity. The player must travel through nine different maze-like worlds consisting of military facilities, mountain ranges, jungles, cities and underground locations. The entire game takes place at an overhead view. He must destroy enemies and landscapes by punching, stomping, and throwing giant rocks as projectiles. Some of these enemies include robots, blob creatures, and even large animals. By destroying the landscape in all of these worlds, various hidden items and doorways can be uncovered in the process. Power-ups can increase Kong's maximum life (hit points) as well as the maximum amount of rocks he can hold. There are also power-ups which will make his rock projectile more powerful, increase his speed, and even make him temporarily invincible. Doorways, hidden all over each world, will either transport Kong to another location within the world or to another world completely. These doorways, which on some occasions do not need to be uncovered, are the only means to reaching different worlds in the game. Other doorways contain rooms with hidden power-ups or a world's boss.
The player must find and defeat each of the bosses in the game's first eight worlds to which they will yield a key. When all eight keys are collected, the player can enter a large door in world 9, which holds the game's final boss and rescue Kong's love.
The player is given three lives to complete the game, with a sparing amount of opportunities to gain extra lives and no continues. Once the player memorizes where power-ups, doors and boss locations are sited, the game is made considerably shorter to complete.
Reception
King Kong Lives: Ikari no Megaton Punch is in line with many video games based on films, offering a cohesive but generally underwhelming gaming experience.
References
1986 video games
King Kong (franchise) video games
Konami games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Japan-exclusive video games
Video games scored by Kinuyo Yamashita
Video games scored by Kiyohiro Sada
Video games developed in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIR
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nVIR is an obsolete computer virus which can replicate on Macintosh computers running any System version from 4.1 to OS 8. The source code to the original nVIR has been made widely available, and so numerous variants have arisen. Each variant causes somewhat different symptoms, such as: application crashes, printing errors on laser printers, slow system response time, or unpredictable system crashes. nVIR spreads through any nVIR-infected program, but due to the long period of time nVIR lies basically dormant in a host system, nVIR generally finds its way into system backups and is not detected until the first overt symptoms appear. For example, if a disk used in an infected Macintosh is removed and inserted in a second Macintosh, the other machine will become infected if any application on that disk is executed in the second machine. Further, any method used to transfer programs between Macintoshes will spread nVIR, including file transfer over a network. However, nVIR cannot spread via a print network's hardware.
nVIR carries an additional code resource, CODE 256 (though some variants carry CODE 255), and patches the jump table to point to it. The original application's entry point is saved in the nVIR 2 resource. nVIR introduces to the System file the INIT 32 resource which is executed at startup, at which time nVIR patches the TEInit trap. Any application subsequently calling this trap will be infected. The nVIR 3 (or nVIR 5) resource is a copy of INIT 32. An nVIR 10 resource in the System file will prevent nVIR infection. If an application calls OpenResFile prior to TEInit, that application will be damaged.
nVIR 0 resource holds a counter that is set to 1000 on the first infection of the system. Each reboot decrements the counter by 1. Each application launch decrements it by 2. When the counter reaches 0, nVIR will beep 1 out of 8 reboots and 1 of 4 infected application launches. If MacinTalk is installed in the machine's System folder, the machine may occasionally say "Don't Panic". Otherwise, it may beep unexpectedly.
nVIR has been known to 'hybridize' with different variants of nVIR on the same machine.
References
External links
Mac OS/nVIR virus, by McAfee
nVIR A, by Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg
nVIR B, by Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg
nVIR C, by Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg
nVIR B countermeasures, UC Berkeley
Classic Mac OS viruses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLT
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KLT may refer to:
Kalmar Länstrafik, a regional transportation authority of Kalmar County, Sweden.
Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi Feature Tracker, a computer vision algorithm
Karhunen–Loève transform, a mathematical procedure
Kawamata log terminal, a type of singularity in algebraic geometry
Kernel-level thread
Kernev, Leon and Treger, the Breton names for Cornouaille, Leon and Trégor
Kleinladungsträger, German name to indicate Euro container
Kids Learning Tube, an American educational web series created by Matthew Lawrence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20cleansing
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Data cleansing or data cleaning is the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database and refers to identifying incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate or irrelevant parts of the data and then replacing, modifying, or deleting the dirty or coarse data. Data cleansing may be performed interactively with data wrangling tools, or as batch processing through scripting or a data quality firewall.
After cleansing, a data set should be consistent with other similar data sets in the system. The inconsistencies detected or removed may have been originally caused by user entry errors, by corruption in transmission or storage, or by different data dictionary definitions of similar entities in different stores. Data cleaning differs from data validation in that validation almost invariably means data is rejected from the system at entry and is performed at the time of entry, rather than on batches of data.
The actual process of data cleansing may involve removing typographical errors or validating and correcting values against a known list of entities. The validation may be strict (such as rejecting any address that does not have a valid postal code), or with fuzzy or approximate string matching (such as correcting records that partially match existing, known records). Some data cleansing solutions will clean data by cross-checking with a validated data set. A common data cleansing practice is data enhancement, where data is made more complete by adding related information. For example, appending addresses with any phone numbers related to that address. Data cleansing may also involve harmonization (or normalization) of data, which is the process of bringing together data of "varying file formats, naming conventions, and columns", and transforming it into one cohesive data set; a simple example is the expansion of abbreviations ("st, rd, etc." to "street, road, etcetera").
Motivation
Administratively incorrect, inconsistent data can lead to false conclusions and misdirect investments on both public and private scales. For instance, the government may want to analyze population census figures to decide which regions require further spending and investment on infrastructure and services. In this case, it will be important to have access to reliable data to avoid erroneous fiscal decisions. In the business world, incorrect data can be costly. Many companies use customer information databases that record data like contact information, addresses, and preferences. For instance, if the addresses are inconsistent, the company will suffer the cost of resending mail or even losing customers.
Data quality
High-quality data needs to pass a set of quality criteria. Those include:
Validity: The degree to which the measures conform to defined business rules or constraints (see also Validity (statistics)). When modern database technology is used to design data-capture systems, validity is fairly easy to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20scrubbing
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Data scrubbing is an error correction technique that uses a background task to periodically inspect main memory or storage for errors, then corrects detected errors using redundant data in the form of different checksums or copies of data. Data scrubbing reduces the likelihood that single correctable errors will accumulate, leading to reduced risks of uncorrectable errors.
Data integrity is a high-priority concern in writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing of the computer data in computer operating systems and in computer storage and data transmission systems. However, only a few of the currently existing and used file systems provide sufficient protection against data corruption.
To address this issue, data scrubbing provides routine checks of all inconsistencies in data and, in general, prevention of hardware or software failure. This "scrubbing" feature occurs commonly in memory, disk arrays, file systems, or FPGAs as a mechanism of error detection and correction.
RAID
With data scrubbing, a RAID controller may periodically read all hard disk drives in a RAID array and check for defective blocks before applications might actually access them. This reduces the probability of silent data corruption and data loss due to bit-level errors.
In Dell PowerEdge RAID environments, a feature called "patrol read" can perform data scrubbing and preventive maintenance.
In OpenBSD, the bioctl(8) utility allows the system administrator to control these patrol reads through the BIOCPATROL ioctl on the /dev/bio pseudo-device; as of 2019, this functionality is supported in some device drivers for LSI Logic and Dell controllers — this includes mfi(4) since OpenBSD 5.8 (2015) and mfii(4) since OpenBSD 6.4 (2018).
In FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD, patrol can be controlled through a RAID controller-specific utility mfiutil(8) since FreeBSD 8.0 (2009) and 7.3 (2010). The implementation from FreeBSD was used by the OpenBSD developers for adding patrol support to their generic bio(4) framework and the bioctl utility, without a need for a separate controller-specific utility.
In NetBSD in 2008, the bio(4) framework from OpenBSD was extended to feature support for consistency checks, which was implemented for /dev/bio pseudo-device under BIOCSETSTATE ioctl command, with the options being start and stop (BIOC_SSCHECKSTART_VOL and BIOC_SSCHECKSTOP_VOL, respectively); this is supported only by a single driver as of 2019 — arcmsr(4).
Linux MD RAID, as a software RAID implementation, makes data consistency checks available and provides automated repairing of detected data inconsistencies. Such procedures are usually performed by setting up a weekly cron job. Maintenance is performed by issuing operations check, repair, or idle to each of the examined MD devices. Statuses of all performed operations, as well as general RAID statuses, are always available.
File systems
Btrfs
As a copy-on-write (CoW) file system for Linux, Btrfs provides fault isolation,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape%20Escape%203
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Ape Escape 3 is a platform video game published and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 video game console.
The game has been rated for release on PlayStation 4 but no announcement of its release has been made.
Plot
Specter, the Pipo Monkeys' leader, finds a Monkey Helmet, and hires the human scientist to aid him in his evil plans. They establish television stations protected by the Freaky Monkey Five where they plan to broadcast TV shows worldwide. The television shows that are broadcast on every television put every human except the twins Kei and Yumi (Satoru and Sayaka outside of North America), their aunt Aki, and Natalie (Natsumi outside of North America) into a mindless trance. When Natalie informs Kei and Yumi that Spike (Kakeru), Jimmy (Hikaru) and the Professor were all infected by the television show, Kei and Yumi go out to catch the monkeys and thwart Specter and Tomoki.
Their mission was to go to every movie set and capture all the monkeys there and destroy the satellite there. Kei and Yumi easily capture Monkey White, Monkey Blue, and Monkey Yellow. When they reach the TV Station where Monkey Pink is, Kei and Yumi's attempts to capture her fail and she escapes, although they manage to stop her Specter TV broadcast anyway. They manage to capture Monkey Red afterwards.
When they reach Tomoki City, Tomoki challenges them to a battle in his giant Tomo-King robot. Upon being defeated by Kei and Yumi, Tomoki's afro is revealed to be a wig covering a Pipo Helmet grafted to his head, which he reveals was the result of a lab accident where he was a test subject for the original Peak Point Helmet. Specter arrives via video broadcast and mocks Tomoki, who, in response, takes the side of Kei and Yumi, granting them permission to take his rocket to space to defeat his former partner. Once they reach Specter's outer space base of operations, Space Station SARU-3, they capture all the monkeys and deactivate the movie sets on their way to Specter. When they reach Specter, he tells them his plan about how he will use his space station to cut the Earth in half and keep half of it for the monkeys (leaving the other half, originally meant for Tomoki, to the humans). Afterwards he gets in his new Gorilliac Mech and tries to activate his plan. He is defeated and the two escape from the satellite, leaving Tomoki to deactivate the Twin Heavens via the self-destruct button, seemingly losing his life in the process. However, during the game's credits, it is revealed that he has survived the explosion.
After Specter is defeated, Monkey Pink releases him and the rest of the Freaky Monkey Five. After Kei and Yumi re-battle and re-capture the Freaky Monkey Five, Aki pinpoints the location where Specter is hiding out, and so Kei and Yumi travel there to face Specter once more and capture him again.
To complete the game one hundred percent, all the four hundred and forty-two monkeys have to be caught, all the time trials have to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Reference%20Model
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The Data Reference Model (DRM) is one of the five reference models of the Federal Enterprise Architecture.
Overview
The DRM is a framework whose primary purpose is to enable information sharing and reuse across the United States federal government via the standard description and discovery of common data and the promotion of uniform data management practices. The DRM describes artifacts which can be generated from the data architectures of federal government agencies. The DRM provides a flexible and standards-based approach to accomplish its purpose. The scope of the DRM is broad, as it may be applied within a single agency, within a community of interest, or cross-community of interest.
Data Reference Model topics
DRM structure
The DRM provides a standard means by which data may be described, categorized, and shared. These are reflected within each of the DRM's three standardization areas:
Data Description: Provides a means to uniformly describe data, thereby supporting its discovery and sharing.
Data Context: Facilitates discovery of data through an approach to the categorization of data according to taxonomies. Additionally, enables the definition of authoritative data assets within a community of interest.
Data Sharing: Supports the access and exchange of data where access consists of ad hoc requests (such as a query of a data asset), and exchange consists of fixed, re-occurring transactions between parties. Enabled by capabilities provided by both the Data Context and Data Description standardization areas.
DRM Version 2
The Data Reference Model version 2 released in November 2005 is a 114-page document with detailed architectural diagrams and an extensive glossary of terms.
The DRM also make many references to ISO standards specifically the ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry standard.
DRM usage
The DRM is not technically a published technical interoperability standard such as web services, it is an excellent starting point for data architects within federal and state agencies. Any federal or state agencies that are involved with exchanging information with other agencies or that are involved in data warehousing efforts should use this document as a guide.
See also
Enterprise architecture framework
Enterprise application integration
Enterprise service bus
Federal Enterprise Architecture
ISO/IEC 11179
Metadata publishing
Semantic spectrum
Semantic web
Synonym ring
External links
US Department of Defense Data Reference Model
US Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Data Reference Model Version 2.0
Computer data
Data management
Reference models
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SevenDust%20%28computer%20virus%29
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SevenDust is a computer virus that infects computers running certain versions of the classic Mac OS. It was first discovered in 1998, and originally referred to as 666 by Apple.
SevenDust is a polymorphic virus, with some variant also being encrypted. It spreads by users running an infected executable. Some variants of SevenDust also delete all non-application files accessed during certain times.
See also
Computer virus
Comparison of computer viruses
References
External links
666, by McAfee
Classic Mac OS viruses
1998 in technology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards
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The 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards, commemorating excellence in American daytime programming from 2005, was held on Friday, April 28, 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. This was the first time that the Daytime Emmys were held outside New York. ABC televised the ceremonies in the United States. Creative Arts Emmy Awards were presented on April 22, 2006, while nominations were announced on February 8.
This year's Lifetime Achievement Award went to Caroll Spinney, a television entertainer for over four decades, who has portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street since 1969, appearing in over 4,000 episodes.
Nominations and winners
The following is a partial list of nominees, with winners in bold:
Outstanding Drama Series
As the World Turns
General Hospital
Guiding Light
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos, General Hospital)
Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, General Hospital)
Thorsten Kaye (Zach Slater, All My Children)
Robert Newman (Joshua Lewis, Guiding Light)
Ron Raines (Alan Spaulding, Guiding Light)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Bobbie Eakes (Krystal Carey, All My Children)
Beth Ehlers (Harley Cooper, Guiding Light)
Susan Flannery (Stephanie Douglas Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Kelly Monaco (Sam McCall, General Hospital)
Kim Zimmer (Reva Lewis, Guiding Light)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Tyler Christopher (Nikolas Cassadine, General Hospital)
Jordan Clarke (Billy Lewis II, Guiding Light)
Trent Dawson (Henry Coleman, As the World Turns)
Grayson McCouch (Dusty Donovan, As the World Turns)
Greg Rikaart (Kevin Fisher, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Tracey E. Bregman (Lauren Fenmore, The Young and the Restless)
Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer, Guiding Light)
Jennifer Ferrin (Jennifer Munson, As the World Turns)
Renée Elise Goldsberry (Evangeline Williamson, One Life to Live)
Gina Tognoni (Dinah Marler, Guiding Light)
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Scott Clifton (Dillon Quartermaine, General Hospital)
Michael Graziadei (Daniel Romalotti, The Young and the Restless)
Bryton McClure (Devon Hamilton, The Young and the Restless)
Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan Randall, Guiding Light)
Jesse Soffer (Will Munson, As the World Turns)
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Mandy Bruno (Marina Cooper, Guiding Light)
Camryn Grimes (Cassie Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Christel Khalil (Lily Winters, The Young and the Restless)Jennifer Landon (Gwen Norbeck, As the World Turns)Leven Rambin (Lily Montgomery, All My Children)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
One Life to LiveThe Young and the RestlessOutstanding Drama Series Directing Team
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our LivesGeneral HospitalThe Young and the Restless
Outstanding Game/Audience Participation ShowJeopardy!Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Outstanding Game Show Hos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangle
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Mangle can refer to:
Mangle (machine), a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers
Box mangle, an earlier laundry mangle using rollers and a heavy weight
Mangled packet, in computing
Mangrove, woody trees or shrubs
Name mangling, in computing
Mangle, an animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy's 2
See also
Mangel (disambiguation)
Mangles (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislature%20broadcasters%20in%20New%20Zealand
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Legislature broadcasters in New Zealand are broadcasters of the New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives. Television channel Parliament TV and radio network AM Network are funded by the New Zealand House of Representatives to broadcast full and unedited coverage of its proceedings. The Office of the Clerk also funds a fully independent written, audio and video political reporting service of Parliamentary proceedings called Parliament Today.
Sitting hours are seasonal and are generally within five weekly sessions. Normal sittings are 14:00 and 18:00 Tuesdays; 19:30 and 22:00 Tuesday nights; 14:00 and 18:00 Wednesdays; 19:30 and 22:00 Wednesday nights; and 14:00 and 18:00 Thursdays. Special circumstances can allow Parliament to sit under urgency, usually between 09:00 Tuesday morning and 24:00 Saturday evening.
History
Prior to the AM Network, parliamentary broadcasts were carried on the Concert programme, with New Zealand becoming the first country in the world to regularly broadcast parliament proceedings on 25 March 1936.
Veteran press gallery journalist and political commentator Charles Wheeler introduced the broadcast of the opening of the 25th Parliament, with Speaker-elect Barnard. Wheeler told listeners on the first broadcast that "for the first time in the history of New Zealand broadcasting, the microphone has been introduced into Parliament itself so that even the most distant elector may gain some first-hand knowledge of the more important happenings". He said New Zealand was blazing the trail in allowing parliamentary broadcasts.
Since the 1980s, the AM Network has used to broadcast all live Parliamentary proceedings in full. On 17 July 2007, Parliamentary coverage was expanded to television.
Services
Parliament TV
Parliament TV is managed by Kordia under a long-term contract to the House of Representatives. and is made freely available to media companies. It broadcasts though media such as TVNZ and MediaWorks New Zealand, as streaming video on the Internet, and, since 9 October 2007, on Freeview channel 31 and Sky Channel 086.
Programming on Parliament TV is limited to live coverage of Parliament and scheduled repeats of Question Time on Parliamentary sitting days. It closes down outside non-sitting hours.
In The House
Christchurch-based Tandem Studios is contracted to the Clerk of the House to live stream Parliament TV's broadcasts, and record, re-format and re-purpose the coverage as small highlight package videos on their In The House website and YouTube account. More than 22,000 videos have been uploaded, and the company claims the videos have received more than 3 million views.
Several videos from the final reading of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013 were redistributed by The New Zealand Herald and other media. A video of one speech in favour of the Act, by National Party MP Maurice Williamson, went viral on YouTube, Huffington Post, Gawker, New York Times and Pink News. It was broadcast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertown%20Challenge
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Supertown Challenge was a Canadian comedy series, which aired from 1998 to 2000 on The Comedy Network. A spoof of game shows, the show featured contestants (played by actors) competing in a series of challenges for the right to have their hometown declared Canada's "supertown". Real Canadian communities were used, but the portrayal of them within the series was fictionalized and parodic rather than literal.
The show starred Colin Mochrie as host Dick Powell and Jenny Parsons as judge Gwen Mason. The series was produced by Steve Smith's S&S Productions, and filmed at the studios of CHCH-DT in Hamilton, Ontario.
Bruce Pirrie received two Canadian Comedy Award nominations for Best Direction in a Television Series, at the 1st Canadian Comedy Awards in 2000 and the 2nd Canadian Comedy Awards in 2001.
References
External links
1998 Canadian television series debuts
2000 Canadian television series endings
1990s Canadian satirical television series
2000s Canadian satirical television series
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
Television shows filmed in Hamilton, Ontario
1990s Canadian sitcoms
2000s Canadian sitcoms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBP
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KBP can mean:
Kabye language, ISO 639-3 code
Knowledge-based_processor, used for processing packets in computer networks
Kilo-base pair (kb or kbp), a unit of measurement of DNA or RNA length used in genetics
Boryspil International Airport, its IATA airport code
KBP Instrument Design Bureau, a weapons manufacturer
Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (Association of Broadcasters in the Philippines), the independent and self-regulatory association of radio and television stations and broadcasters in the Philippines.
Kappa Beta Pi, a legal association and former sorority.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Magic%20%28manga%29
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is a cyberpunk manga written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. It was first published as a dōjinshi in 1983, and was later reprinted in tankōbon format by Seishinsha in 1985. The series was later adapted into an OVA in 1987 which was directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. AIC and Animate provided the animation/production while Bandai Visual was chosen as the distributor. The OVA is very loosely based on one of the chapters of the manga and centers around the efforts of a female journalist named Sybel, trying to save a young girl from an out-of-control military android created by the girl's grandfather.
Plot
OVA
A military transport chopper is flying to an undisclosed location with secret cargo – two fully equipped, but un-programmed M-66 battle androids. It becomes apparent that the chopper is suffering from some sort of attack, as one of the turbines flares up before exploding. Both men evacuate the doomed craft and it crashes in a remote forest miles away from Center City, and both of the M-66's storage pods are thrown from the wreckage. The pods open as the M-66s automatically begin their mission. Sybel, a freelance journalist, receives an intercepted Military Broadband Transmission and loads up her equipment to go see what type of footage she can get of the event to sell to the major networks. She's joined by Leakey, her cameraman. Rushing to the scene of the accident, the two of them abandon their truck and try to sneak closer to the crash site, which has already been sealed and cordoned off by the military's retrieval teams.
The military's Special Ops Forces are directed by a professional soldier who is identified only as the 'Major', his status rank. Among the retrieval team is the assistant professor of the android's main design programmer. The M-66s are active searching out their target as well, this becomes apparent when the lead designer, Professor Matthews arrives at the site and talks to Professor Slade, his assistant. It seems that Slade loaded a 'dummy' program into the M-66s before they were transported, which mimics an actual mission engagement. Professor Matthews tells the Major that the SpecOps Forces must find and rescue his granddaughter Ferris, as she is the target the M-66s have been tasked with killing. The Major decides that the best course of action is to confront the androids on their way into the city area, and he sets a trap for both of the cunning machines.
Sybel and Leakey, meanwhile – had been captured by the SpecOps Forces in the forest, their equipment was taken, and they were arrested. Both were to be administered a shot of sodium pentothal – but only Leakey is given the shot- the android's arrival at the soldier's temporary base allows Sybel enough time to try to knock out the guard, but she is ineffective and he shouts at her to quit resisting. Another soldier walks over to their vehicle with a machine gun, and the guard shouts at him to watch Sybel and Leakey, before jumping out to run and join in the battle.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Night%20Videos
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Friday Night Videos (later becoming Friday Night and then Late Friday) is an American music video show that was broadcast on NBC from July 29, 1983, to May 24, 2002. It was the network's attempt to capitalize on the emerging popularity of music videos as seen on MTV. From January 5, 2001, to August 30, 2002, the show changed to Late Friday showcasing new stand-up comedian talent with original video of sets from a stand-up club like setting, with an established comedian as guest host.
History
Early years
Friday Night Videos was initially produced by Dick Ebersol. From 1974 until 1981, in his role as Director of Late Night Programming at NBC, he co-produced The Midnight Special with that series' creator, Burt Sugarman. Ebersol departed from The Midnight Special in 1981 to take over as the executive producer of his co-creation with Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night Live. Upon doing this, The Midnight Special was canceled and replaced by the Canadian-import sketch comedy program SCTV, which turned out to be a placeholder on NBC's late Friday night/early Saturday morning schedule for a two-year period. SCTV was a quick, cheap solution to an emergency scheduling gap created by Ebersol's urgent departure and was probably not intended to be permanent to start with.
As such, while at SNL, a show that had just gotten back on its feet after some years of decline due to break-out cast members such as Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, Ebersol decided that he would attempt another Friday night music-based program and, instead of simply reviving The Midnight Special, his idea grew into what would become Friday Night Videos, which would replace SCTV in 1983; that show ran for one more year on the pay cable channel Cinemax in the U.S. before discontinuing production in 1984.
In its early years, MTV was still a phenomenon that only a minority of Americans actually could see in their homes, as there were many areas not yet serviced by cable television (particularly rural areas and inner-city neighborhoods), and not all cable television providers offered MTV at first. Friday Night Videos took advantage of that fact and proved to be the next best thing for many viewers. While it primarily showcased music videos by popular top 40 acts of the day, unlike its cable rival, Friday Night Videos tended to offer more variety. As such, it featured artists from the genres of pop, rock, R&B, and rap.
In the beginning, like its predecessors The Midnight Special and SCTV, the show ran 90 minutes in length, and consisted of music videos introduced by an off-camera announcer. In addition to this, classic artists of the 1960s and 1970s occasionally appeared in "Hall of Fame Videos", major stars were profiled in "Private Reels", and new clips made their network debuts as "World Premiere Videos".
The most popular feature was "Video Vote". Two videos were played back-to-back, and viewers across the country, with the exception of the West Coast (where the program was seen on tape delay)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGBP-TV
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WGBP-TV (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Opelika, Alabama, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network LX and owned by CNZ Communications, LLC. WGBP-TV is broadcast from a two-site distributed transmission system, with transmitters at Cusseta and Warm Springs, Georgia.
Channel 66 was allocated to Opelika in the early 1978 and went on air as WSWS-TV in 1982. It was an independent station for its first two years before airing the programs of the Christian Television Network for a decade. The station returned to secular programming in 1995 as an affiliate of The WB; it moved its programming to a cable channel in the Columbus market in 1998, leaving channel 66 an independent again until then-owner Pappas Telecasting affiliated some of its stations with UPN in 1999. The transmitter was moved from near Opelika to Cusseta, Georgia, in 2005. After The WB and UPN merged into The CW in 2006, channel 66 was an affiliate of that network until a sudden affiliation move in April 2009, amidst the bankruptcy of Pappas. The station was off the air for most of the period from June 2010 to June 2012 and was the last broadcast property held by a liquidating trust for Pappas, finally being sold in 2016 to CNZ Communications. CNZ built the Warm Springs transmitter, placing sufficient signal over parts of the Atlanta metropolitan area and allowing it to ask for must-carry pay television coverage within the far larger Atlanta market.
History
In Opelika: Early years
At the petition of Wardean, Inc., the Federal Communications Commission allocated channel 66 to Opelika in 1978. Wardean then filed for and obtained a construction permit for the channel in 1979. However, it opted to wait to start the station because of high interest rates stifling the economy.
WSWS-TV went on the air on May 23, 1982, a week after starting test broadcasts, as an independent station. Two years later, it was sold to the Christian Television Network (CTN) of Largo, Florida, airing Christian ministry programs as well as financial news from the Financial News Network. It was CTN's first television ministry outside of Florida. As a ministry, the station was hindered by its location in Opelika and not the main population center in its coverage area, Columbus, Georgia. When station manager Ron E. Cottle proposed opening a Columbus studio in 1987, neighbors near the planned facility protested its location in a residential area. Its signal was weak on local cable systems, and Phenix City Cable removed the station from its lineup in 1988 to add TNT.
Affiliations with The WB, UPN, and The CW
After a decade, the station started to emerge from Christian programming. It was sold to RCH Broadcasting, also known as Genesis Broadcasting, of Tampa and affiliated with The WB after taking programming from America One to replace its Christian programs. RCH then sold it to Pappas Telecasting. The WB, however, was not a panacea for its poor signal, which continued to trouble local
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Computing Today was a computer magazine published by Argus Specialist Publications, it was printed in the UK from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. It began life as a supplement to Electronics Today International for four issues and became an independent publication in March 1979. Some time after 1982 it bought out rival computing magazine Microcomputer Printout (formerly Printout) and the two magazines merged into one. The magazine ceased publication in September 1985.
It gave computer hardware and software reviews, programming tutorials and program listings for many of the popular home computers of the time. UK subscription cost 10 pounds 50 pence including postage circa 1981.
Weblinks
Computing Today at Archive.org
References
1979 establishments in the United Kingdom
1985 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Home computer magazines
Magazines established in 1979
Magazines disestablished in 1985
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Amiga Format was a British computer magazine for Amiga computers, published by Future plc. The magazine lasted 136 issues from 1989 to 2000. The magazine was formed when, in the wake of selling ACE to EMAP, Future split the dual-format title ST/Amiga Format into two separate publications (the other being ST Format). In 1991, the magazine was selling 135,000 copies a month.
History
Amiga Format can be thought of the "mother" or "big sister" magazine of Amiga Power, which it both predated and outlived. Whereas Amiga Power was strictly games-only, Amiga Format covered all aspects of Amiga computers, both hardware and software, both application and gaming uses. A further spin-off was Amiga Shopper, which dealt purely with the hardware and "serious" software side of the Amiga scene.
The magazine was published on a monthly basis and offered various multi-issue tutorials on different application software, such as C programming or LightWave graphics rendering. The last tutorial was cut short in the middle because of the cancellation of the magazine.
Amiga Format pioneered the concept of putting complete application software on a magazine coverdisk as a response to a moratorium on complete games titles being cover-mounted.
Amiga Format was the second-to-last regularly issued print magazine about the Amiga in the United Kingdom. The last was Amiga Active, which ran for 26 issues from October 1999, although Amiga Format was the only such magazine after CU Amiga Magazine's closure in October 1998 until the launch of Amiga Active.
Regular features
Reader Games
A notable regular feature in the later stage of the magazine (introduced by then-editor Nick Veitch) was Readers' Games. Here readers of the magazine could send in games they had programmed themselves, and the magazine staff would then publish a brief review of them. In the CD-ROM edition of the magazine, all the Readers' Games were also included on the covermount CD-ROM. Most of the games were written in AMOS BASIC or Blitz BASIC.
In one issue a competition was run to find the best game developed by a reader using a previously covermounted version of Blitz BASIC. A game called Total Wormage was entered by Andy Davidson.
Although Total Wormage was disqualified as it was not submitted with working source code, Acid Software introduced Andy Davidson to Team17 who would go on to release the game commercially as Worms.
Emulators
While the continuing uncertainty about the Amiga platform's future slowed software development, there was an increase in the interest surrounding emulation software. Longtime contributor Simon Goodwin contributed one of the longest running series to the magazine, which broke down emulators by target platform and went through the mechanics of getting them working
Just the FAQs
Introduced in issue 129 and continuing until the final issue, Just the FAQs consisted of a single page each month containing an interview with a prominent figure in the Amiga community, with the ex
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"Inside Out" is episode 17 of season four in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Steven S. DeKnight, it was originally broadcast on April 2, 2003 on the WB network. Angel roughs up the demon guide Skip to find out why Cordelia has turned evil. Skip tells them a higher being has manipulated events over the past few years to cause itself to be reborn. Meanwhile, Cordelia convinces Connor to mystically expedite the birth using the blood of a virgin. Angel arrives in time to stop him, but hesitates, and Cordelia gives birth to a full grown woman.
Production details
The costume for Skip took three and a half hours to put on, and required an additional five hours of makeup. Although David Denman hated the process, he was "surprised and very excited" after learning that Skip was actually a villain.
Julie Benz was called back to reprise her role as Darla, in her first and only scene with Vincent Kartheiser, who plays her character's son. "I loved the dynamic between the two of them," Benz says. "Darla really is the mother who gave up everything for her son and he doesn't appreciate it." To subtly emphasize that Darla finally achieved redemption, the wardrobe department had Darla wear a soft, virginal dress, and lit her in warm candlelight. Benz explains that she attempted to convey "the pure love that exists in a relationship between mother and son. It's an unconditional love, and it’s probably the most simple relationship Darla has ever had."
Reception and reviews
Author Peter David said he was "underwhelmed" by the suggestion that all events of consequence in the series had been manipulated so that Jasmine could be born. "That's pushing predestination to the point where it seems that every decision the characters have made was fated," he complains. However actor David Denman, who plays Skip, calls this episode "probably the best so far. You find out what Skip's all about and where he's from."
References
Further reading
John Kenneth Muir. The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television (2nd edn), p. 70 (McFarland; 2008)
External links
Angel (season 4) episodes
2003 American television episodes
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"Home" is episode 22 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Tim Minear, it was originally broadcast on May 7, 2003 on the WB network. In the Season Four finale, Connor – having defeated Jasmine in the previous episode – plans to blow himself up with a comatose Cordelia and other hostages, while an undead Lilah Morgan offers Angel Investigations control of the Wolfram & Hart L.A. branch.
Plot
While Wesley doubts that the Lilah before them is real, Angel (with his preternatural vampire senses) confirms that it is really her. Lilah also shows her beheading scar as she explains that the "Senior Partners", the ruling counsel of the demonic firm who are based in Hell, are offering them control as thanks for bringing back chaos and discord in Los Angeles, which the group intended for the greater good. On the streets, while people raid stores, Connor spots a cop on top of a building, and catches him before he shoots himself with his own gun. The confused cop reveals that he has a family that are his "home". Enraged by the thought that the man would leave his family, Connor attacks the cop.
Wesley confides his doubts to Gunn, worrying his remaining feelings for Lilah cloud his perspective. Lorne returns without news on Connor or Cordelia, but with the news that mayhem has been released on the streets in the aftermath. Angel warns the others against going to Wolfram & Hart, but as dawn approaches, the group finds themselves drawn to the offer of touring the Wolfram & Hart offices. One by one, they sneak off and get into the limo, surprised to see the others there.
At the office, the group is approached by guides for their individual tours. Lorne is introduced to the manager of the entertainment department, who gives Lorne a glimpse of the talent managed by the firm. Wesley's guide, former Watcher Rutherford Sirk, impresses him with a vast collection of mystical references. Fred's guide is Knox, a smart young man who shows off the science department which she would run. Lilah shows Angel his new office, private elevator, and special windows that allow him to be in the sun without burning. She presents him with a file labeled "Sunnydale" and an amulet that Buffy needs for her upcoming battle with the First Evil, but he still acts uninterested. But when Lilah shows him a TV news report about Connor holding several people hostage, including the comatose Cordelia, in a sporting-goods store, Angel is finally ready to make a deal. Gunn is met by an attractive woman, and after mentioning he does not see how he would fit in at Wolfram & Hart, she takes him on a long elevator ride to the White Room. Alone in the room, Gunn is greeted by a black panther.
Connor shouts at one of his captives, who struggles to hold his crying daughter because of a broken arm, then notices Angel has arrived. Meanwhile, Wesley knocks Sirk unconscious and makes his way to the records room, where Lilah finds him searching through the files. Wesley finds her c
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20Fantasia
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is a role-playing video game (RPG) developed by Pre-Stage and Japan Media Programming and published by ASK Kodansha on July 25, 1997 for Sega Saturn. A port for the PlayStation, simply titled , was published on October 2, 1997.
The game features three cute girls as main characters solving a quest. The graphics of the game were dated already by 1997 and so it heavily stressed on voice acting. There was a lot of spoken parts albeit not all the actors were famous by the time the game was made.
Yui Horie also started her career as a voice actress in this game.
1997 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
Role-playing video games
Sega Saturn games
Video games developed in Japan
Japan Media Programming games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENAI
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SENAI, or ('National Service for Industrial Training'), is a network of profitable secondary level professional schools established and maintained by the Brazilian Confederation of Industry (a patronal syndicate). SENAI is one of the most important institutions in the country providing formal training for specialized workers for the industry, in the areas of chemistry, mechanics, construction, etc.
SENAI has 744 operational units in all states of the Union, which offer more than 1,800 courses.
SENAI is part of an integrated social action system which was founded by industry and political leaders in the 1950s, under the leadership of Euvaldo Lodi, which includes SESI (Social Service for Industry), and the Instituto Euvaldo Lodi.
Social Services for Industry
The Brazilian Social Services for Industry (Serviço Social da Indústria (SESI) in Portuguese) is a private not-for-profit institution that operates throughout the country. It was set up in July 1946 with the aim of promoting social welfare, cultural development and improving the lives of workers and their families and the communities they live in.
Role
The roles of SESI and the National Industrial Apprenticeships Association(SENAI) were set out in Acts 4.048, of 22 January 1942, 4.936, of 7 November 1942, 6.246, of 5 February 1944 and 9.403, of 25 June 1946. According to these bills, the roles referred to are owed by industrial establishments classified as such by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI),along the lines that they are required to pay a monthly contribution for the funding of social work among industrial workers and their dependents for the setting up and maintenance of training schools.
Regional Departments
SESI maintains a presence in every state in Brazil and in the Federal District of Brasília through a chain of regional departments, each of which has jurisdiction and technical, financial and administrative autonomy. Its function is the delivery of social services in the areas of health, education, leisure, culture, food and the promotion of citizenship, having in mind improvements in quality of life among industrial workers and their families. Besides providing services in their activity centres and operational units, the regional departments develops operations within industry and in harmony with the needs and expectations of the workers. Various projects also benefit the community through partnerships and agreements with international and national governmental and private institutions.
Theatre
Osmar Rodrigues Cruz, theatre director, founded the SESI Popular Theatre Company in 1963, presented the play 'Murderous City' (Cidade Assessina) which took Brazilian theatre by storm. Trouxe peças de teatro e nomes da música popular brasileira, que se tornaram de bastante sucesso na época. Os ingressos eram de distribuição gratuita e disputados pela população, pois eram limitados. Osmar Cruz queria oferecer um teatro de qualidade, ajudando na formação de público das ca
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Amicima, Inc. was a software company headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, United States, developing new network protocols for client–server and peer-to-peer communication over the Internet and applications using the protocols. Amicima's assets were acquired by Adobe Systems in late 2006.
History
Amicima was founded in 2004 by Matthew Kaufman and Michael Thornburgh, and incorporated in 2005.
Amicima's base transport-layer protocol is the Secure Media Flow Protocol (MFP).
Amicima made implementations of both MFP and the companion MFPNet peer-to-peer layer available for download as GPL-licensed open-source software libraries.
In May 2006 Amicima released amiciPhone, a Skype-like application for voice over IP, instant messaging, user presence, and file transfer (including photo sharing), as a demonstration of the MFP and MFPNet protocol technology.
Amicima applications used a Diffie-Hellman key agreement mode for perfect forward secrecy and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 for encryption.
By early 2007, the company website was redirected to an Adobe page that announced it had acquired Amicima's assets.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies based in California
Companies based in Santa Cruz County, California
Defunct companies based in California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%20Data%20Network
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The Defense Data Network (DDN) was a computer networking effort of the United States Department of Defense from 1983 through 1995. It was based on ARPANET technology.
History
As an experiment, from 1971 to 1977, the Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) purchased and operated an ARPANET-type system from BBN Technologies for the Prototype WWMCCS Intercomputer Network (PWIN). The experiments proved successful enough that it became the basis of the much larger WIN system. Six initial WIN sites in 1977 increased to 20 sites by 1981.
In 1975, the Defense Communication Agency (DCA) took over operation of the ARPANET as it became an operational tool in addition to an ongoing research project. At that time, the Automatic Digital Network (AUTODIN), carried most of the Defense Department's message traffic. Starting in 1972, attempts had been made to introduce some packet switching into its planned replacement, AUTODIN II. AUTODIN II development proved unsatisfactory, however, and in 1982, AUTODIN II was canceled, to be replaced by a combination of several packet-based networks that would connect military installations.
The DCA used "Defense Data Network" (DDN) as the program name for this new network. Under its initial architecture, as developed by the Institute for Defense Analysis, the DDN would consist of two separate instances: the unclassified MILNET, which would be split off the ARPANET; and a classified network, also based on ARPANET technology, which would provide services for WIN, DODIIS, and SACDIN. C/30 packet switches, developed by BBN Technologies as upgraded Interface Message Processors, would provide the network technology. End-to-end encryption would be provided by ARPANET encryption devices, namely the Internet Private Line Interface (IPLI) or Blacker.
After MILNET was split away, the ARPANET would continue be used as an Internet backbone for researchers, but be slowly phased out. Both networks carried unclassified information, and were connected at a small number of points which would allow total separation in the event of an emergency.
As a large-scale, private internet, the DDN provided Internet Protocol connectivity across the United States and to US military bases abroad. The Defense Communications Engineering Center (DCEC), part of DCA, handled DDN network engineering and DDN network operations. The DCEC was located in Reston, Virginia from the mid-1980s until it was closed and merged with a DISA site in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia in the early 2000s (long after DCA had been merged into the new Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)).
Throughout the 1980s it expanded as a set of four parallel military networks, each at a different security level. The networks were:
Military Network (MILNET) for UNCLASSIFIED traffic
Defense Secure Network One (DSNET 1) for SECRET traffic
Defense Secure Network Two (DSNET 2) for TOP SECRET traffic
Defense Secure Network Three (DSNET 3) for TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compa
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University is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the University of Sunderland and suburb of Ashbrooke, City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear. It joined the network on 31 March 2002, following the opening of the extension from Pelaw to South Hylton.
History
The station is located on the alignment of the former Penshaw branch of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, the line having closed to passengers in May 1964, following the Beeching Axe.
University is the nearest station to the University of Sunderland's City Campus, with the campus located about north east of the station. The University of Sunderland is also served by the station at St. Peter's – this being the nearest to The Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St. Peter's.
Along with other stations on the line between Fellgate and South Hylton, the station is fitted with vitreous enamel panels designed by artist, Morag Morrison. Each station uses a different arrangement of colours, with strong colours used in platform shelters and ticketing areas, and a more neutral palate for external elements.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramped access to both platforms at University. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.
There is no dedicated car parking available at the station. There is the provision for cycle parking, with six cycle pods available for use.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
References
External links
Timetable and station information for University
Sunderland
University of Sunderland
2002 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2002
Tyne and Wear Metro Green line stations
Transport in the City of Sunderland
Transport in Tyne and Wear
Railway stations at university and college campuses
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Shoot for the Stars is a game show created and produced by Bob Stewart, and aired on the NBC television network. The show aired from January 3 to September 30, 1977, and was produced in New York City. During most of its run, it videotaped at NBC's headquarters in Rockefeller Center, but some weeks of episodes were recorded at Studio 50 at CBS, also known as the Ed Sullivan Theater. Shoot for the Stars was the last NBC game show to originate from New York City.
The theme song, performed by Bob Cobert, was later reused on Jackpot.
Game play
Two teams competed, each consisting of a civilian player and a celebrity. The game board consisted of 24 numbered boxes. Hidden behind these numbers were money values ranging from $100 to $300, one $500 value, one "Double Your Score" card, four stars, and an "Instant Car" card.
Both teams began with $100 and took turns playing, starting with the challengers. During each turn, the team in control chose a box, whose contents were revealed, and then tried to decipher an awkward phrase. For example, the phrase "Infant mug / Ozzie or Harriet" led to "Baby Face Nelson." The two halves of the phrase were separated by a line; the player could answer only the first part, and the celebrity could answer only the second. A correct answer rewarded the team as follows:
Money amount: Added to the team's total.
Double your score: Immediately doubled the team's total.
Star: The team decided how much of their total they wanted to wager on the phrase, up to and including all of it. A correct answer added the value of the wager, while a miss deducted it.
Instant car: Awarded the player a new car.
An incorrect response carried no penalty, except when a star was in play.
The first team to accumulate $1,500 or more won the game. If the challengers reached this goal first in proper turn, the champions were not given a chance to catch up. The winning player received exactly $1,500, forfeiting any portion of the team's score above that total, while the losing player received parting gifts and kept any money or bonus prizes won in previous games.
Bonus round
The winning team hit a plunger to stop a randomizer on a number between five and nine (originally between four and eight), which determined the number of correct answers needed in 60 seconds to win the round.
One team member was shown a two-word phrase and had to get their partner to guess it by describing each word separately. If the team gave the required number of answers before time ran out, the player won a cash jackpot that began at $1,000 and increased by $500 after every unsuccessful attempt.
Any player who made five attempts at the bonus round received a new car and retired from the show.
Broadcast history
NBC first slotted Shoot for the Stars at 11:30 AM (10:30 Central), replacing the Allen Ludden-hosted Stumpers. It faced Happy Days reruns on ABC and Love of Life on CBS until April 25, when ABC placed Family Feud in that slot.
On June 13, NBC moved Shoot for
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Filetab is a decision table-based computer programming language widely used in business in the 1960s and 1970s.
History
Filetab has a long history, originally designed in the late 1960s and descended from the DETAB programming. Filetab was developed by the National Computing Centre (NCC) and originally used on ICL operating systems such as GEORGE 2/3 and VME, but ported to a large number of others.
The original architect of Filetab was Tom Barnard, who developed the program (LITA - LIst and TAbulate) for Morgan Crucible when employed by them as a programmer on an ICL 1902 from 1965–1968. Its purpose was to produce simple ad hoc reports similar to those created with a plugboard on a punched card tabulator, bypassing the necessity to write an assembly language program in PLAN. It required only a few cards to specify the input and output formats, headings, sequencing and totalling. LITA could not be described as a programming language as it only required run-time parameters indicating field types and locations in records and no compilation. In those days there was no concern by Morgan's regarding ownership or copyright when Barnard left to further develop the software as Filetab.
In 2009 facing financial difficulty NCC sold the rights to Filetab to a newly formed company "NCC Filetab Limited". The Managing Director of NCC Filetab Limited was also the Managing Director of NCC at this time, although NCC Filetab Limited, despite the similarity of its name, was not owned by NCC. In 2010 NCC was declared insolvent and was liquidated.
Variants
Versions produced include:
TABN for ICL 1900 series mainframes
TAB-360 for IBM System/360 (also known as DETAB-360)
UNITAB for UNIVAC
HTAB for Honeywell
TAB-11 for RSTS/E on PDP-11
FTL6 for ICT 1900 series
DTPL for ICT 1900 series – slightly different from FTL6
RPL-11 for RT-11, RSTS/E, RSX-11 on PDP-11
RPL-3 for IBM System/3
Filetab-D for x86 and PDP-11
FPL - Fast programming Language. Written in 8086 Assembler for IBM PCs and compatibles. (Released in 1986). Written by Kevin Powis.
Rapid-Expert and expertGenius extended syntax for Microsoft Windows, Unix and OpenVMS
RapidGen compiler and FILETAB legacy converters for Windows, Unix and OpenVMS
A Linux version was produced in 2001, which although free to use was not Open Source and licensed under the GPL, drawing some criticism from the Open Source Software Community.
References
External links
RapidGen Software For Windows, Unix and OpenVMS versions of Filetab development tools
Filetab Developers Guide, 2001, NCC
ICL programming languages
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486 (four hundred and eighty-six) is the natural number following 485 and preceding 487; see 400 (number)#480s
486 may refer to a year:
486 BC
486 AD
1486
486 may also refer to:
i486, a computer processor
4-8-6, a proposed locomotive type
RU-486, the trial designation of the abortifacient drug Mifepristone
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Imperialism is a turn-based strategy game for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers, developed by Frog City Software and published by Strategic Simulations in 1997. In Imperialism, the player is the ruler of a 19th-century country and aims to become ruler of the world by conquest or by vote. Imperialism was followed by Imperialism II: Age of Exploration.
Gameplay
There are two ways to play Imperialism: in a fictional, randomly generated world, or in a historical scenario. In the first case, the player selects one of seven "great powers" and starts ruling in 1815, a year considered by many historians the beginning of the 19th-century era in the real world. The goal is to be voted world ruler by a two-thirds majority in the "Council of Governors", in which all provincial governors of the world convene once in a decade. Governors in "minor nations" tend to vote for great powers that have favored their country in trade and diplomacy, whereas governors in great powers vote for strong military powers. If no two-thirds majority is ever reached, the game continues until the year 1915, when the power with the largest number of governors behind it wins the game. Although victory is determined by the Council of Governors, the game score is determined by how much a player has built, including the size of a Great Power's military, workforce, transportation network, merchant marine, diplomatic standing and number of provinces controlled.
Empire building can be achieved either through diplomacy or through conquest. In either case, the empire must have a solid economic grounding, which is established by the exploitation of the country's resources (wood, ore, etc.), by industry (for example, turning raw materials iron and coal into steel) and by trade.
In the historical scenarios, the player chooses a European power - available are Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and, depending on the period chosen, Prussia and Sardinia, or respectively Germany and Italy. The game starts not in 1815 but either in 1820 (apparently so that France isn't too weak at the start of the game), in 1848, the year of revolutions, or in 1882, at the start of the arms race that eventually led to World War I. The end of the game is still the same, except that in the third scenario (1882) the Council of Governors does not convene until 1915.
Imperialism is entirely turn-based. Each turn, players make their decisions in five screens: the map screen, where "specialists" (prospectors, engineers, etc.) are put to work, and military orders are given; the transport screen, where transport capacity is allocated; the industry screen, where production is determined and workers are trained in various ways; the trade screen, where offers and bids for the next trade session are determined; and the diplomacy screen, where diplomatic decisions are made.
As the game progresses the players will also be given the option to buy Research. Research can allow incr
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TV2 Østjylland is one of eight regional TV-stations in the TV 2 network in Denmark. The station was founded in 1990, and the first news broadcast was made on 1 April the same year. The station covers the eastern part of Jutland, which includes ten municipalities: Aarhus, Randers, Silkeborg, Horsens, Syddjurs, Norddjurs, Favrskov, Skanderborg, Odder and Samsø.
History
TV2 Østjylland originally started out in an old warehouse in the city of Randers, the second largest city in the station's broadcast area. This was a political decision, meant to force the station to produce news that did not entirely focus on the area's largest city, Aarhus.
In 1999 TV 2/Østjylland moved from Randers to a purpose-built TV-station in the northern part of Aarhus, Skejby. The new building was - contrary to the old warehouse in Randers - designed to house a modern TV-station. The new building was packed with new technology. Based on the Sony DNE-2000 news editing system, the new station was completely digital and thereby it was - at the time - the most technologically advanced TV station in Europe.
Broadcasting
The station's motto is "Near and necessary" (Nær og nødvendig, in Danish), a motto the station tries to fulfill by spreading out reporting to even the smallest town in the area of coverage. TV2 Østjylland has the ambition to bring the best coverage and the coverage that is closest to the station's viewers. Therefore, TV 2/Østjylland prioritises the experiences and problems of ordinary people in contrast to "expert sources" in the stations news coverage.
A typical day's broadcast on TV 2/Østjylland starts at 11 a.m. (11.00 o'clock) with a 30-minute program which features the stations most popular reporters such as Kurt Leth, Michael Nørgaard and Anne Louise Tranæs Didriksen. These programs are followed by an inter-regional program called Danmark Rundt. 12.10 a.m. the station broadcasts its most popular talkshow Go' Aften Østjylland a program that embrasses every story rooted in the eastern part of Jutland in a warm atmosphere. This show nearly always includes three interesting guests, their pets, their tricks, their beliefs or simply just their story.
At 4.05 p.m. (16.05 o'clock) TV 2/Østjylland returns with a brief newsbulletin with the day's headlines. This bulletin is preceded by a TV 2-Denmark news update on national and international news.
Another, slightly longer, news update is sent at 6.10 p.m. (18.10 o'clock). This broadcast is also preceded by 10 minutes of national and international news from TV 2-Denmark.
At 7.30 p.m. (19.30 o'clock) TV 2/Østjylland's main news broadcast of the day is aired. 30 minutes of local and regional news, features, and other programs. This program is extremely popular and usually around 2/3 of all TV-sets in the area are tuned in.
From 8-9 p.m. TV 2/Østjylland broadcast an hour on the new regional digital channel Kanal Østjylland. It is here Go' Aften Østjylland has premiere together with many of those longer featur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Stock
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"Future Stock" is the twenty first episode in the third season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 53rd episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 31, 2002.
Plot
Planet Express holds its stockholders' meeting, and the state of the business is not good. Uninterested in the meeting, Fry and Dr. Zoidberg wander off in search of food. Fry finds his way into a support group meeting for cryogenic clients who have been defrosted, where he meets a sleazy 1980s businessman (referred to only as "That Guy" throughout the episode, though named in the script as Steve Castle). Resembling Gordon Gekko, That Guy arranged to have himself frozen to await a cure for his terminal "boneitis", having gutted a company that was close to developing a cure for $100,000,000.
Fry and That Guy return to the Planet Express stockholders' meeting, where a revolt against Professor Farnsworth is in progress. Fry nominates That Guy as new CEO, and That Guy beats out the Professor by one vote. That Guy names Fry his new Vice Chairman, and sets out to remake Planet Express by giving it an expensive image overhaul.
That Guy spends tremendous amounts of money on lavish, pricey, flashy items such as flying chairs, expensive suits, and an enigmatic television commercial. Annoyed, Zoidberg sells his stock to That Guy for a sandwich, exclaiming, "Net gain for Zoidberg!". After draining the company's funds and its employees' morale, That Guy announces that he is selling Planet Express to Mom. Fry, feeling guilty over letting his co-workers lose their jobs, vows to stop the merger.
The takeover begins at the orbiting Intergalactic Stock Exchange, and all the Planet Express employees vote against it. Unfortunately, the stock That Guy bought from Zoidberg gave him a controlling interest and That Guy outvotes them. Mom and her sons vote for the merger.
However, before the final approval takes place, That Guy abruptly succumbs to a lethal attack of boneitis, causing his body to contort as his bones snap, twist and curl. In his death-throes, That Guy admits he was so busy "being an '80s guy", he had forgotten to cure the disease.
Fry gains control of That Guy's shares, and announces his intention to vote against the merger. The Planet Express staff initially tries to convince him to sell the company, because the sale of their stock will make them all rich. However, Fry's speech drove the stock's price through the floor to three cents each. Since the staff will be poor no matter what he does, he votes against the merger. The staff leaves to spend the weekend in disappointment over the loss of their potential wealth, with Fry content in saving Planet Express.
Cultural references
The title is wordplay on Future Shock, a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. The Planet Express advert, in which a woman hurls a Planet Express box at a giant glass screen with Mom on it, is a parody of the famous 1984
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediEvil%202
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MediEvil 2 (stylised as MediEvil II in North America) is a 2000 action-adventure game developed by SCE Cambridge Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It is the second instalment of the MediEvil series and a sequel to MediEvil. Taking place 500 years after the events of the first game, it follows series' protagonist Sir Daniel Fortesque's revival in Victorian-era London as he attempts to stop sorcerer Lord Palethorn and Jack the Ripper's plans to terrorise the city by raising the dead.
Following the positive reception of the first game, Sony Computer Entertainment commissioned SCE Cambridge Studio to make a sequel to MediEvil before the end of the PlayStation's lifespan. The original concepts for MediEvil 2 went through many transformations during development before the Cambridge team finally settled on making a sequel set during the Victorian Gothic revival, largely reminiscent of its predecessor.
The game received mostly positive reviews from critics upon release, with praise including slight improvements over its predecessor, such as artificial intelligence and graphical enhancements, but was criticised for lack of innovation from the original.
Gameplay
MediEvil 2 once again sees players in control of Sir Daniel Fortesque as he travels through several levels set in Victorian-era London to thwart the evil Palethorn and his undead army. Along with returning weapons and equipments such as swords and shields, Dan can now obtain more modern weaponry such as a pistol, a blunderbuss, and a gatling gun. MediEvil 2 adds a new feature that allows the player to select two weapons that Dan can toggle between in real-time. Like in the previous game, Dan can earn more weapons by finding the Chalice of Souls in each level, which is filled up by defeating enemies. Dan can also visit merchants known as Spivs for ammo and services, and speak with Winston the ghost to receive hints and save during longer levels. Collecting Life Bottles hidden in certain levels expands Dan's life meter, which can be replenished via Life Vials and Life Fountains. In the middle of the game, Dan unlocks the ability to place his head on a zombified hand to become Dan Hand, allowing him to explore areas that his normal body cannot while also being able to alternate control between them.
Plot
The game's plot takes place in 1886, 500 years after Sir Daniel Fortesque's battle against the evil sorcerer Zarok in the previous game. In Kensington, a wealthy industrialist and sorcerer named Lord Palethorn discovers Zarok's spellbook and casts its spell of raising the dead over the city of London. However, the pages of the book soon scatter across London, and Palethorn gains a demon-like appearance as a result. The spell Palethorn casts once again resurrects Dan, whose body had been on display in a nearby museum. He is recruited by a professor named Hamilton Kift and his ghostly sidekick Winston Chapelmount (a play on Winston Churchill) to recover the pa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20break
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In computer programming a control break is a change in the value of one of the keys on which a file is sorted which requires some extra processing. For example, with an input file sorted by post code, the number of items found in each postal district might need to be printed on a report, and a heading shown for the next district. Quite often there is a hierarchy of nested control breaks in a program, e.g. streets within districts within areas, with the need for a grand total at the end. Structured programming techniques have been developed to ensure correct processing of control breaks in languages such as COBOL and to ensure that conditions such as empty input files and sequence errors are handled properly.
With fourth generation languages such as SQL, the programming language should handle most of the details of control breaks automatically.
References
Conditional constructs
Data management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltics%20%28album%29
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Deltics is the second studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea. It was released in 1979 on Magnet Records. The album is named after the East Coast rail network's Deltic-class locomotives that were used in the 1960s and 1970s. The album is Rea's first album to chart on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number fifty-four. The single "Diamonds" peaked at number 44 on both the UK Singles Chart, and Billboard Hot 100, where it charted for eight weeks. The B-side of this single, "Cleveland Calling", was not included on the CD reissue of the album. The album producer Gus Dudgeon had made several early albums with Elton John.
Track listing
All songs by Chris Rea.
"Twisted Wheel" – 5:15
"The Things Lovers Should Do" – 3:35
"Dance! (Don't Think)" – 3:52
"Raincoat and a Rose" – 4:09
"Cenotaph/Letter from Amsterdam" – 5:49
"Deltics" – 5:28
"Diamonds" – 4:51
"She Gave It Away" – 4:00
"Don't Want Your Best Friend" – 3:44
"No Qualifications" – 2:20
"Seabird" – 2:52
Singles
"Diamonds" b/w "Cleveland Calling"
"Raincoat and a Rose" b/w "No Qualifications"
Personnel
Musicians
Chris Rea – lead and backing vocals, pianos, synthesizers, accordion, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitars, slide guitar
Graham Watson – organ
Eddie Guy – acoustic guitar (2)
Martin Jenner – acoustic guitar (8)
Kevin Peek – acoustic guitar (11)
Mick Hutchinson – bass
Norman Nosebait – drums
Gus Dudgeon – percussion (1, 2, 3, 6)
Morris Pert – percussion (4, 7, 8)
Bruce Baxter – brass arrangements (1, 7), string arrangements (1, 3, 4, 7, 11)
Steve Gregory – brass arrangements (6, 9, 10), saxophone solo (10)
Vicki Brown – backing vocals (3)
Liza Strike – backing vocals (3)
Joy Yates – backing vocals (3)
Stuart Epps – backing vocals (6)
Production
Gus Dudgeon – producer
Stuart Epps – engineer
Gordon Vicary – mastering
Media Visual Arts Ltd. – sleeve design
Jacques Lowe – photography
Recorded at Moonlight Studio (London, UK)
Mastered at Utopia Studios (London, UK)
Charts
References
Chris Rea albums
1979 albums
Albums produced by Gus Dudgeon
Magnet Records albums
United Artists Records albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20National%20League%20Championship%20Series%20broadcasters
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The following is a list of the national television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast National League Championship Series games over the years. It does not include any announcers who may have appeared on local broadcasts produced by the participating teams.
National television
2020s
Notes
2020 – Joe Davis called play-by-play for Game 7 due to Joe Buck calling the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Green Bay Packers NFL game for Fox.
2021 – Bob Costas took over for Ernie Johnson as pregame host for TBS due to Johnson's Inside the NBA duties for TNT.
2022 – Matt Vasgersian filled in for Kevin Burkhardt as pregame host for Game 5 due to Burkhardt calling the Kansas City Chiefs–San Francisco 49ers NFL game for Fox.
2010s
Notes
The 2010 NLCS did not air in some Philadelphia-area homes after Cablevision pulled local Fox station WTXF off its lineup on October 16 as the result of a carriage dispute with News Corporation, Fox's parent company.
Brian Anderson took over for Ernie Johnson as the lead play-by-play man for TBS during the 2011 postseason because Johnson had to care for his son Michael (who suffered from Muscular dystrophy and was placed in intensive care around the same time as the playoffs).
Nielsen ratings for Game 7 of the 2012 NLCS between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals showed that 31.8% of households in the St. Louis area watched the game compared with 27.5 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nationally, Nielsen found that 8.1 million viewers saw this game, a 4.9% share of households. The rating peaked at 5.8 at 7:30 p.m. (Central Time Zone) before declining as viewers switched to Monday Night Football or the presidential debate.
Beginning in 2014, when Fox Sports began a new television contract with Major League Baseball, FS1 airs 40 regular season MLB games (mostly on Saturdays), along with up to 15 post-season games (eight Divisional Series games and one best-of-7 League Championship Series). The deal resulted in a reduction of MLB coverage on the Fox network, which will air 12 regular season games, the All-Star Game, and the World Series.
Game 1 of the 2014 NLCS was simulcast on Fox Sports 1 and hosted by Kevin Burkhardt, Gabe Kapler and C. J. Nitkowski, who offered sabermetric analysis of the game.
2017 – Anderson again took over for Johnson as the NLCS play-by-play announcer for TBS, this time because of Johnson's Inside the NBA duties for TNT.
2000s
Notes
In , Game 5 of the NLCS and Game 4 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net. This came off the heels of Fox airing an NFL doubleheader that particular day (October 21).
In , Game 1 of the NLCS and Game 2 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net. The regional split was done in order for Fox to avoid televising a weekday afternoon game.
In , Game 1 of the ALCS and Game 2 of the NLCS were split between Fox and FX.
In , Game 1 of the NLCS and Game 2 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net. Also in 2004, Game 5 of the ALCS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20League%20Championship%20Series%20broadcasters
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The following is a list of the national television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast American League Championship Series games over the years. It does include any announcers who may have appeared on local broadcasts produced by the participating teams.
National television
2020s
Notes
2023 – Matt Vasgersian filled in for Kevin Burkhardt as pregame host for Games 1 and 6 due to Burkhardt calling the San Francisco 49ers–Cleveland Browns Week 6 and Detroit Lions–Baltimore Ravens Week 7 NFL games for Fox.
2010s
Notes
2011 – Terry Francona filled for Tim McCarver for the first two games of Fox's coverage during the ALCS because McCarver was recovering from a minor heart procedure.
Beginning in 2014, when Fox Sports began a new television contract with Major League Baseball, FS1 airs 40 regular season MLB games (mostly on Saturdays), along with up to 15 post-season games (eight Divisional Series games and one best-of-7 League Championship Series). The deal resulted in a reduction of MLB coverage on the Fox network, which will air 12 regular season games, the All-Star Game, and the World Series.
2014 – Mike Bordick, a color analyst for the Orioles' regular-season telecasts, and Steve Physioc, a play-by-play man for the Royals' TV/radio broadcasts, were employed as field-level commentators for TBS' coverage along with Matt Winer.
The start of Game 1 was delayed by four minutes due to floodlights from TBS' pre-game show set not being turned off in time.
2016 – Sportsnet, a property of Toronto Blue Jays owner Rogers Communications, aired all games in Canada using the TBS feeds.
2018 – Brian Anderson took over for Ernie Johnson as the lead play-by-play man for TBS, after Johnson dropped out of TBS’ postseason coverage entirely after announcing that he had been diagnosed with blood clots in both of his legs. Anderson would’ve taken Johnson's place anyway due to the latter's Inside the NBA duties for TNT.
2019 – Joe Davis called play-by-play for Game 4 due to Joe Buck calling Thursday Night Football for Fox.
2000s
Notes
Game 6 of the 2000 ALCS is the last baseball game that NBC televised until a game between the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox on May 8, 2022. In Houston, due to the coverage of the 2000 U.S. presidential debates, KPRC-TV elected to carry NBC News' coverage of the debate while KNWS-TV carried NBC's final baseball game.
In , Game 5 of the NLCS and Game 4 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net. This came off the heels of Fox airing an NFL doubleheader that particular day (October 21).
In , Game 1 of the NLCS and Game 2 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net. The regional split was done in order for Fox to avoid televising a weekday afternoon game.
In , Game 1 of the ALCS and Game 2 of the NLCS were split between Fox and FX.
In , Game 1 of the NLCS and Game 2 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net. Also in 2004, Game 5 of the ALCS ran way into the time slot of Game 5 of t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECAI
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ECAI may refer to:
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
External Credit Assessment Institutions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Shulman
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Daniel Shulman is a Canadian sportscaster with Sportsnet as well as the American network ESPN.
Shulman serves as the play-by-play announcer and the moderator for the Toronto Blue Jays telecasts on Sportsnet. During 2018 and 2020 he hosted the baseball-themed podcast, Swing and a Belt with Dan Shulman. He also serves as the lead announcer for ESPN's men's college basketball coverage (teaming with Jay Bilas), and previously called regular-season and postseason Major League Baseball on ESPN and ESPN Radio.
Previously, Shulman served as the play-by-play announcer for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball (with Aaron Boone and Jessica Mendoza), a position he resigned from at the conclusion of the 2017 season.
Education
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Shulman graduated from the University of Western Ontario in actuarial science but moved into a career in sports broadcasting.
Broadcasting career
Early career
Shulman began his broadcasting career at the University of Western Ontario, becoming a main voice of university football and basketball for the Western Mustangs on CHRW radio in London, Ontario, and later at radio station CKBB in Barrie, where he volunteered for the local community television station. During the early 1990s, he was hired by the Fan 1430 (a sports radio station in Toronto now known as Sportsnet 590 The Fan) and would go on to host Prime Time Sports. He worked for CTV in its coverage of the 1994 Winter Olympics from Lillehammer, Norway, covering hockey, and the 1994 World Championships of Basketball.
TSN
In 1995, he became the play-by-play voice on TSN for their broadcasts of Toronto Blue Jays baseball games alongside former Blue Jays catcher Buck Martinez. Shulman remained with the network for seven years, during which time he also worked as the network's secondary play-by-play voice for NHL hockey and secondary announcer for NBA basketball. He also covered CHL games and backed up host Dave Hodge on TSN Inside Sports. Until 2007, Shulman continued to work with Buck Martinez for TSN during the World Series, filing daily reports. In 2011, he returned to TSN as an analyst and contributor.
ESPN
Shulman began working part-time for ESPN while still employed by TSN. In 2001, he moved to ESPN full-time to cover sporting events like baseball and college basketball. ESPN signed Shulman to a five-year contract extension in 2007 and assigned him to call NBA games for the network. Shulman remains the network's lead announcer for NCAA basketball.
On July 27, 2007, Shulman called Barry Bonds's 754th home run for ESPN.
From 2002 to 2007, he served as the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN Radio's MLB coverage, teaming with Dave Campbell to call the network's Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts as well as the All-Star Game, Home Run Derby, and select postseason games. In 2008, Gary Thorne succeeded Shulman as the lead Sunday Night Baseball voice; however, Shulman once again teamed with Campbell to call that year's All-Star and postseason events and conti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDUC-8
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The EDUC-8, pronounced "educate", was an early microcomputer kit published by Electronics Australia in a series of articles starting in August 1974 and continuing to August 1975. Electronics Australia initially believed that it was the first such kit, but later discovered that Radio-Electronics had just beaten it with their Mark-8 by one month. However, Electronics Australia staff believed that their TTL design was superior to the Mark-8, as it did not require the purchase of an expensive microprocessor chip.
The EDUC-8 was an 8-bit bit-serial design with 256 bytes of RAM. The internal clock speed was 500 kHz, with an instruction speed of approximately 10 kHz, due to the bit-serial implementation. The instruction set was based on the DEC PDP-8. Although the instruction set was based on the PDP-8 it was missing quite a few instructions, along with some important flags. This was essentially an education machine designed to put people on a path to understanding how a computer worked and how to start programming what was at the time, a common computer in the market.
Unlike the MITS Altair 8800, the EDUC-8 included two serial input and two serial output ports at the back of the computer. The EDUC-8 also had front panel lights and switches to program the computer. The later articles included a variety of peripherals, allowing the computer to interface to a keypad, octal display, paper tape loader, paper tape puncher, printer, keyboard, music player, teleprinter, magnetic tape recorder and alphanumeric display. The articles were collected into a book, where additional information was published detailing how to expand the number of I/O ports to 256, adding up to 32KB of additional memory, and using the computer to control various switches.
Like the PDP-8 this machine was equipped with the same register arrangement. Program counter, Memory Address, Memory Buffer, Accumulator and Switch Register which made programming largely the same as the original.
References
External links
EDUC-8 kit computer at the Computer History Museum.
The Electronics Australia EDUC-8 microcomputer
Educ-8 Documentation
sworld EDUC-8 Micromputer
The Educ-8 article collection at Archive.Org
Early microcomputers
Home computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth-delay%20product
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In data communications, the bandwidth-delay product is the product of a data link's capacity (in bits per second) and its round-trip delay time (in seconds). The result, an amount of data measured in bits (or bytes), is equivalent to the maximum amount of data on the network circuit at any given time, i.e., data that has been transmitted but not yet acknowledged. The bandwidth-delay product was originally proposed as a rule of thumb for sizing router buffers in conjunction with congestion avoidance algorithm random early detection (RED).
A network with a large bandwidth-delay product is commonly known as a long fat network (LFN). As defined in , a network is considered an LFN if its bandwidth-delay product is significantly larger than 105 bits (12,500 bytes).
Details
Ultra-high speed local area networks (LANs) may fall into this category, where protocol tuning is critical for achieving peak throughput, on account of their extremely high bandwidth, even though their delay is not great. While a connection with 1 Gbit/s and a round-trip time below 100 μs is no LFN, a connection with 100 Gbit/s would need to stay below 1 μs RTT to not be considered an LFN.
An important example of a system where the bandwidth-delay product is large is that of geostationary satellite connections, where end-to-end delivery time is very high and link throughput may also be high. The high end-to-end delivery time makes life difficult for stop-and-wait protocols and applications that assume rapid end-to-end response.
A high bandwidth-delay product is an important problem case in the design of protocols such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in respect of TCP tuning, because the protocol can only achieve optimum throughput if a sender sends a sufficiently large quantity of data before being required to stop and wait until a confirming message is received from the receiver, acknowledging successful receipt of that data. If the quantity of data sent is insufficient compared with the bandwidth-delay product, then the link is not being kept busy and the protocol is operating below peak efficiency for the link. Protocols that hope to succeed in this respect need carefully designed self-monitoring, self-tuning algorithms. The TCP window scale option may be used to solve this problem caused by insufficient window size, which is limited to 65,535 bytes without scaling.
Examples
Moderate speed satellite network: 512 kbit/s, 900 ms round-trip time (RTT)
Residential DSL: 2 Mbit/s, 50 ms RTT
Mobile broadband (HSDPA): 6 Mbit/s, 100 ms RTT
Residential ADSL2+: 20 Mbit/s (from DSLAM to residential modem), 50 ms RTT
Residential Cable internet (DOCSIS): 200 Mbit/s, 20 ms RTT
High-speed terrestrial network: 1 Gbit/s, 1 ms RTT
Ultra-high speed LAN: 100 Gbit/s, 30 μs RTT
International research & education network: 100 Gbit/s, 200 ms RTT
TCP congestion control algorithms
Many TCP variants have been customized for large bandwidth-delay products:
HSTCP
FAST TCP
BIC TCP
CUBI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20K%20class%20%281877%29
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The NZR K class of 1877 was the first example of American-built locomotives to be used on New Zealand's rail network. Their success coloured locomotive development in New Zealand until the end of steam.
History
In 1877, the new Chief Mechanical Engineer of the NZR, Allison D. Smith, required additional motive power for the fledgling Government system. It had been intended to order more J Class locomotives that were of English design. American civil engineer Walton W. Evans had been promoting the advantages of U.S.-built engines to railways of South America and further abroad. His efforts, having secured an order of two locomotives for Australia's Victorian Railways the previous year, had enticed Smith (see Vogel railways), and an order was placed with the Rogers Locomotive Works of New Jersey, for two tender locomotives with a wheel arrangement of 2-4-2. The initial two Rogers locos were ordered prior to Smith’s appointment as Locomotive Engineer on 10 April 1877 (he had been manager of the Wellington section), and were ordered through Evans. The locomotives were described by R.D. Grant as having the design hallmarks of Roger's Superintendent William H. Hudson, with his truck design innovations and his patented compensated springing throughout from the front bissel truck to the driving wheel springs and to the rear swinging truck.
Upon their arrival to New Zealand, the locomotives created quite a stir with their bar frames, Gothic-style wooden cabs, locomotive bell, ornate embellishments and, rakish appearances which were at odds with the traditional English locomotive appearance in New Zealand at the time and were described by journalist Charles Rous-Marten as "a watch with all its works outside". One Christchurch paper suggested that they needed a glass case to protect them from the weather. They looked flimsy because of the bar frames rather than the heavier plate frames of the Js. In addition, this first pair, K 87 "Lincoln" and K 88 "Washington", reputedly wore a kaleidoscope of colours – green, blue, yellow, red, purple, and gold in addition to their Russian Iron boiler jackets. The Baldwin and Rogers locomotives reflected the styling adopted in the 1870s by American builders with elements from the Renaissance Revival and Neo-Baroque architectural styles, and with Islamic Moorish (from Alhambra) influences. Bold colours and painted decorations were used.
In service
After arrival in the South Island at Lyttelton, the locomotives were quickly put into service. K 87 "Lincoln" quickly distinguished itself by hauling the first bogie-carriage passenger train, and both the locomotives soon earned a reputation as fast and free runners, with mild coal consumption. K 88 "Washington" hauled the first train between Christchurch and Dunedin in 1878 on the just-completed Main South Line, assisted by the Double Fairlie "Josephine" south of Oamaru until "Josephine" had to be taken off the train due to mechanical issues - caused by how K 88 was b
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism%20II%3A%20Age%20of%20Exploration
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Imperialism II: Age of Exploration is a turn-based strategy computer game developed by Frog City Software and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) in 1999. It is the successor to the 1997 game Imperialism. In Imperialism II, the player starts as ruler of a 16th-century European country, and must build an empire.
Since 2001 Ubisoft owns the rights to the Imperialism trademark.
Gameplay
Imperialism II is a turn based 4X game, where you have to "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate" in order to achieve victory. The game however focus on the economic aspect by introducing the concepts of variable worker productivity, variable terrain productivity, labor allocation, resource allocation and logistics.
The economic aspect
Allocative dilemmas
The game presents the player with an economic problem that is composed of three allocative dilemmas plus the necessity to supply food for workers and military units plus the necessity to finance scientific research.
- Transportation dilemma: Where to allocate the limited transportation capacity of the merchant marine? The options can be to transport raw materials and precious materials from the New World, to import goods or to transport fish.
- Labor allocation dilemma: Given the collected raw materials, which semi-finished materials should the workers produce?
- Resource allocation dilemma: Which use should be given to the semi-finished materials produced by the labor force?
Raw materials which depend terrain improvements to be extracted and on logistics to be transported have to be processed by workers into semi-finished materials. Those semi-finished materials can then be turned into units or workers, used to increase terrain productivity or used to sustain workers of higher productivity. Logistics also depends on semi-finished materials for expansion through additions to the merchant marine and improvements to the road network.
On Imperialism II raw materials have to be transported first and then processed, access is not enough. In order to build a unit or an improvement a specific quantity of specific raw materials needs to be transported and processed into semi-finished materials before it becomes possible to build a unit. An example, to build 1 Ship-of-the-line unit the following quantities of semi-finished materials are required:
14 lumber + 8 bronze + 4 fabric + 1 worker
This requirement represents in raw-material terms the following:
28 timber + 8 tin ore + 8 copper ore + 12 (wool or cotton)
But in order to build another unit, such as a Carbine Cavalry a different mix is needed:
3 fabric + 6 steel + 5 horses + 1 worker
In raw material terms this necessity would mean:
6 iron ore + 6 coal + 5 horses + 10 (wool or cotton)
Labor productivity and food supply
Every worker, ship and military unit requires one unit of food (wheat, meat or fish) every turn. Because of this necessity, enlarging the labor force depends on the increase of the food supply. Increasing the food supply d
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUbuntu
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nUbuntu or Network Ubuntu was a project to take the existing Ubuntu operating system LiveCD and Full Installer and remaster it with tools needed for penetration testing servers and networks. The main idea is to keep Ubuntu's ease of use and mix it with popular penetration testing tools. Besides usage for network and server testing, nUbuntu will be made to be a desktop distribution for advanced Linux users.
Contents
nUbuntu uses the light window manager Fluxbox.
It includes some of the most used security programs for Linux, such as Wireshark, nmap, dSniff, and Ettercap.
History
2005-12-18 - nUbuntu Project is born, developers release Testing 1
2006-01-16 - nUbuntu Live developers release Stable 1
2006-06-26 - nUbuntu Live developers release version 6.06
2006-10-16 - nUbuntu featured in Hacker Japan , a Japanese Hacker Magazine
2006-11-21 - nUbuntu Live developers release version 6.10
As of April 4, 2010, the official website is closed with no explanation.
Releases
Below is a list of previous and current releases.
Further reading
Russ McRee (Nov 2007) Security testing with nUbuntu, Linux Magazine, issue 84
External links
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
Ubuntu derivatives
Pentesting software toolkits
Linux distributions
de:Liste von Linux-Distributionen#Ubuntu-Derivate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202741
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The IBM 2741 is a printing computer terminal that was introduced in 1965. Compared to the teletypewriter machines that were commonly used as printing terminals at the time,
the 2741 offers 50% higher speed, much higher quality printing, quieter operation, interchangeable type fonts, and both upper and lower case letters.
It was used primarily with the IBM System/360 series of computers, but was used with other IBM and non-IBM systems where its combination of higher speed and letter-quality output was desirable. It was influential in the development and popularity of the APL programming language.
It was supplanted, starting in the mid-1970s,
primarily by printing terminals using daisy wheel mechanisms.
Design
The IBM 2741 combines a ruggedized Selectric typewriter mechanism with IBM SLT electronics and an RS-232-C serial interface.
It operates at about 14.1 characters per second with a data rate of 134.5 bits/second (one start bit, six data bits, an odd parity bit, and one and a half stop bits). In contrast to serial terminals employing ASCII code, the most significant data bit of each character is sent first.
As with the standard office Selectrics of the day, there were 88 printing characters (not quite enough for the entire EBCDIC or ASCII printing character set including the lower case alphabet) plus space and a few nonprinting control codes,
more than can be represented with six data bits, so shift characters are used to allow the machine's entire character set to be used. This could cause a significant reduction in the print speed since printing "Armonk, New York, U.S." requires 10 shift characters resulting in a total of 32 characters transmitted to print 22 characters.
The machine was packaged into its own small desk, giving the appearance of square tabletop with a Selectric typewriter partly sunken into the surface, with the electronics in a vertically oriented chassis at the rear. This allowed a significant reduction in the noise it generated.
It supplanted the earlier IBM 1050, which was more expensive and cumbersome, in remote terminal applications.
The IBM 1050 and its variations were designed for a higher duty cycle
and so were frequently used as console devices for computers such as the IBM 1130 and IBM System/360.
By contrast, the 2741 was primarily focused on remote terminal applications.
Character codes
The IBM 2741 came in two different varieties, one using "correspondence coding" and the other using "PTT/BCD coding". These refer to the positioning of the characters around the typeball and, therefore, the tilt/rotate codes that have to be applied to the mechanism to produce a given character.
A "correspondence coding" machine can use type elements from a standard office Selectric (i.e. elements used for "office correspondence").
"PTT/BCD coding" machines need special elements, and did not have as wide a variety of fonts available.
The IBM 1050 and its derivatives were only available in PTT/BCD coding.
The two
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northanger%20Abbey%20%281987%20film%29
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Northanger Abbey is a 1987 made-for-television film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 novel Northanger Abbey, and was originally broadcast on the A&E Network and the BBC on 15 February 1987. It is part of the Screen Two anthology series.
Plot
The film is set in the late 18th century, when Jane Austen wrote the novel although it was published after her death in 1817. Northanger Abbey is the story of a young woman, Catherine Morland, who is invited to Bath, Somerset, with family friends, the Allens; they hope that the waters at Bath will help Mr. Allen's gout. Catherine (called "Cathy" by her many younger siblings) is a 17-year-old young lady who has been quite sheltered all her life, escaping only by reading Gothic novels, and so is delighted to go to Bath. Mrs. Allen introduces Catherine to the Thorpe family, including an older girl, Isabella, who befriends Catherine. The girls have bonded over their love of similar novels when their brothers arrive. James (Catherine's brother) falls in love with Isabella, who is a hardened flirt. Likewise, John (Isabella's brother and James's friend) pursues Catherine, who does not like John nearly as much as John likes himself.
Catherine is falling in love with a quirky 26-year-old clergyman, Henry Tilney, whom she met at a dance. She befriends Henry's sister, Eleanor, and goes on many outings with the two of them, after their brother Frederick Tilney comes to Bath. Isabella, having learned that James (to whom she is now engaged) is poor, begins to flirt with Frederick and ultimately ends her engagement with James. Eleanor invites Catherine to stay with her at the Tilneys' home, Northanger Abbey.
Catherine accepts the invitation with pleasure, although she imagines that the Abbey will be rather like one of the gloomy castles in her books. Catherine is at first welcomed by General Tilney (Henry's father), who has been bragged to by John Thorpe that Catherine (whom John thinks is in love with him) is an heiress. When the General realizes that Catherine is not rich, however, he sends her packing. Once back at home, Catherine is unhappy, missing Henry and disillusioned about her precious Gothic novels. Henry appears and proposes, however, and the story ends happily.
Cast
Katharine Schlesinger as Catherine Morland
Peter Firth as Henry Tilney
Robert Hardy as General Tilney
Googie Withers as Mrs. Allen
Geoffrey Chater as Mr. Allen
Cassie Stuart as Isabella Thorpe
Jonathan Coy as John Thorpe
Ingrid Lacey as Eleanor Tilney
Greg Hicks as Frederick Tilney
Philip Bird as James Morland
Elvi Hale as Mrs. Thorpe
Helen Fraser as Mrs. Morland
David Rolfe as Mr. Morland
Elaine Ives-Cameron as Marchioness
Angela Curran as Alice
Tricia Morrish as Miss Digby
Oliver Hembrough as Edward Morland
Anne-Marie Mullane as Thorpe Sisters
Michelle Arthur as Thorpe Sisters
Sarah-Jane Holm as Jenny
Raphael Alleyne as page boy
References
External links
Northanger Abbey at PBS.org
BBC television dramas
Films b
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20Networks
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The Spice Networks are a group of television channels operated on a pay-per-view basis that broadcast adult and pornographic content. The channels are owned by Aylo, but they were originally launched by Playboy Enterprises in March 1994. They are available via cable, IPTV, and satellite in over 72 countries including the United States and formerly New Zealand.
History
The channels first launched in November 1994. By 2005, there were seven channels in the family: Spice, Spice 2, The Hot Network, The Hot Zone, Spice Hot, Spice Live, and Spice Platinum. There were several international networks in the family as well, which included Private Spice in European territories, Spice TV Korea, Spice and Spice 2 in New Zealand, and Adult Channel, Playboy TV UK, Playboy One, and Spice Extreme in the United Kingdom.
On November 1, 2006, the US channels were renamed Fresh!, Shorteez, ClubJenna and Spice Xcess. The other three networks were shut down. The New Zealand network was renamed Spice Xcess around the same time. In late 2009, Shorteez was renamed to SKiN TV. The UK channels also saw changes around this point – Spice Extreme was removed from the Sky EPG in March 2010, while Playboy One later saw a rebranding to Paul Raymond TV, Top Shelf TV and My Ex-Girlfriends.
In November 2011, Playboy Enterprises sold the Spice Networks, along with the namesake Playboy TV channel, and the operating rights to Playboy's websites (excluding the Playboy Cyber Club, which was later shut down) to Manwin (now MindGeek). In January 2013, the US networks rebranded with the names of brands owned by MindGeek – Brazzers TV, BangU, RKTV and Mofos. The international networks were later rebranded as well, with Private Spice becoming Brazzers TV Europe and RKTV, My Ex-Girlfriends becoming Babes and Brazzers, and Spice Xcess in New Zealand rebranding under Brazzers TV which later ceased broadcasting. The South Korean version of Spice TV remains the only Spice Networks channel that still broadcasts under the name.
References
External links
Playboy Enterprises Inc.: Corporate Overview archived 26 March 2006
Brazzers TV Europe Program Guide
MindGeek
Television pornography
Television networks in the United States
Defunct television channels in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Pornographic television channels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christofides%20algorithm
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The Christofides algorithm or Christofides–Serdyukov algorithm is an algorithm for finding approximate solutions to the travelling salesman problem, on instances where the distances form a metric space (they are symmetric and obey the triangle inequality).
It is an approximation algorithm that guarantees that its solutions will be within a factor of 3/2 of the optimal solution length, and is named after Nicos Christofides and Anatoliy I. Serdyukov, who discovered it independently in 1976.
This algorithm still stands as the best polynomial time approximation algorithm that has been thoroughly peer-reviewed by the relevant scientific community for the traveling salesman problem on general metric spaces. In July 2020 however, Karlin, Klein, and Gharan released a preprint in which they introduced a novel approximation algorithm and claimed that its approximation ratio is 1.5 − 10−36. Their method follows similar principles to Christofides' algorithm, but uses a randomly chosen tree from a carefully chosen random distribution in place of the minimum spanning tree. The paper was published at STOC'21 where it received a best paper award.
Algorithm
Let be an instance of the travelling salesman problem. That is, is a complete graph on the set of vertices, and the function assigns a nonnegative real weight to every edge of .
According to the triangle inequality, for every three vertices , , and , it should be the case that .
Then the algorithm can be described in pseudocode as follows.
Create a minimum spanning tree of .
Let be the set of vertices with odd degree in . By the handshaking lemma, has an even number of vertices.
Find a minimum-weight perfect matching in the induced subgraph given by the vertices from .
Combine the edges of and to form a connected multigraph in which each vertex has even degree.
Form an Eulerian circuit in .
Make the circuit found in previous step into a Hamiltonian circuit by skipping repeated vertices (shortcutting).
The steps 5 and 6 do not necessarily yield only one result. As such the heuristic can give several different paths.
Approximation ratio
The cost of the solution produced by the algorithm is within 3/2 of the optimum.
To prove this, let be the optimal traveling salesman tour. Removing an edge from produces a spanning tree, which must have weight at least that of the minimum spanning tree, implying that .
Next, number the vertices of in cyclic order around , and partition into two sets of paths: the ones in which the first path vertex in cyclic order has an odd number and the ones in which the first path vertex has an even number.
Each set of paths corresponds to a perfect matching of that matches the two endpoints of each path, and the weight of this matching is at most equal to the weight of the paths.
Since these two sets of paths partition the edges of , one of the two sets has at most half of the weight of , and thanks to the triangle inequality its corresponding matching has weig
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Metafile%20vulnerability
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The Windows Metafile vulnerability—also called the Metafile Image Code Execution and abbreviated MICE—is a security vulnerability in the way some versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system handled images in the Windows Metafile format. It permits arbitrary code to be executed on affected computers without the permission of their users. It was discovered on December 27, 2005, and the first reports of affected computers were announced within 24 hours. Microsoft released a high-priority update to eliminate this vulnerability via Windows Update on January 5, 2006. Attacks using this vulnerability are known as WMF exploits.
The vulnerability was located in gdi32.dll and existed in all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 3.0 to Windows Server 2003 R2. However, attack vectors only exist in NT-based versions of Windows (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003). Exploits taking advantage of the vulnerability on Windows NT-based systems facilitated the propagation of various types of malware, typically through drive-by downloads.
Due to extreme impact, this bug won the 2007 Pwnie Award for "Mass 0wnage" and "Breaking the Internet".
Affected systems
All versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system support the Windows Metafile graphics standard. All versions from Windows 3.0 to Windows Server 2003 R2 contain this security flaw. However, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP, unless patched, are more vulnerable than earlier versions because their default installation enables Windows Metafile code execution, the source of the vulnerability. Later versions of Windows do not have this vulnerability.
According to computer security expert Steve Gibson, Windows NT 4 is vulnerable to known exploits if image preview is enabled. Windows operating systems that do not have image preview enabled or that have hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP) active for all applications should not be susceptible to this exploit.
Operating systems other than Windows (e.g., macOS, Unix, Linux, etc.) are not directly affected. However, a non-Windows system could become vulnerable if it runs software to view Windows WMF files. This could include software that incorporates or clones Windows' native Graphics Device Interface (GDI) Dynamic-link library (DLL) or that run Windows or Windows programs through an emulator or compatibility layer. A Unix-like system that uses Wine to emulate Windows, for example, could be exploited. Gibson wrote the program MouseTrap, which his company distributes as freeware, to detect Windows Metafile vulnerability in systems running Windows and Windows emulators.
The vulnerability
According to assessments by F-Secure, the vulnerability is an inherent defect in the design of WMF files, because the underlying architecture of such files is from a previous era, and includes features which allow actual code to be executed whenever a WMF file opens. The original purpose of this was mainly to handle the cancellation of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
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In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is a pun on the name of Werner Heisenberg, the physicist who first asserted the observer effect of quantum mechanics, which states that the act of observing a system inevitably alters its state. In electronics, the traditional term is probe effect, where attaching a test probe to a device changes its behavior.
Similar terms, such as bohrbug, mandelbug, hindenbug, and schrödinbug (see the section on related terms) have been occasionally proposed for other kinds of unusual software bugs, sometimes in jest.
Examples
Heisenbugs occur because common attempts to debug a program, such as inserting output statements or running it with a debugger, usually have the side-effect of altering the behavior of the program in subtle ways, such as changing the memory addresses of variables and the timing of its execution.
One common example of a heisenbug is a bug that appears when the program is compiled with an optimizing compiler, but not when the same program is compiled without optimization (as is often done for the purpose of examining it with a debugger). While debugging, values that an optimized program would normally keep in registers are often pushed to main memory. This may affect, for instance, the result of floating-point comparisons, since the value in memory may have smaller range and accuracy than the value in the register. Similarly, heisenbugs may be caused by side-effects in test expressions used in runtime assertions in languages such as C and C++, where the test expression is not evaluated when assertions are turned off in production code using the NDEBUG macro.
Other common causes of heisenbugs are using the value of a non-initialized variable (which may change its address or initial value during debugging), or following an invalid pointer (which may point to a different place when debugging). Debuggers also commonly allow the use of breakpoints or provide other user interfaces that cause additional source code (such as property accessors) to be executed stealthily, which can, in turn, change the state of the program.
Time can also be a factor in heisenbugs, particularly with multi-threaded applications. Executing a program under control of a debugger can change the execution timing of the program as compared to normal execution. Time-sensitive bugs, such as race conditions, may not occur when the program is slowed down by single-stepping source lines in the debugger. This is particularly true when the behavior involves interaction with an entity not under the control of a debugger, such as when debugging network packet processing between two machines and only one is under debugger control.
Heisenbugs can be viewed as instances of the observer effect in information technology. Frustrated programmers may humorously blame a heisenbug on the phase of the moon, or (if it has occurred only once
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLSR-TV
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KLSR-TV (channel 34) is a television station in Eugene, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Cox Media Group alongside low-power, Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate KEVU-CD (channel 23). Both stations share studios on Chad Drive in Eugene, while KLSR's transmitter is located on South Ridge.
History
KLSR signed on the air on Halloween in 1991 as KEVU, and was Eugene's second UHF station to sign on the air. Prior to that, Fox programming was seen on Class A station K25AS (now sister station KEVU-CD). KEVU changed its call letters to KLSR-TV on April 1, 1997.
On February 24, 2022, it was announced that California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. would sell KLSR-TV and KEVU-CD to Atlanta-based Cox Media Group for $7,222,000; the sale was completed on May 3.
Newscasts
KVAL-TV produces live 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts for KLSR entitled Oregon's News @ 7 and Oregon's News @ 10, on weekdays and KVAL News @10 on Fox, a repeat of the evening news on weekends. In September 2010, KVAL started producing a live morning newscast for KLSR called Fox News Mornings, which was later dropped and replaced by a replay of KVAL's 6 a.m. hour of morning news.
KVAL's newscasts on KLSR started broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen in late September 2010, and were upgraded to HD (along with KVAL's other newscasts) in February 2020.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
In August 2019, then-owner California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. upgraded the full-market simulcast of KEVU-CD over KLSR-DT2 to the 720p HD picture format; prior to this upgrade, the subchannel was being presented in 480i 4:3 SD. This is concurrent with the upgrade of KEVU-CD to the 1080i full HD picture format.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KLSR-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, at 12:01 a.m. on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 34.
Translators
Controversy
In November 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined KLSR $13,000 for not filing paperwork for children's E/I programming for its Eugene translator, K19GH-D, in the previous four years. While the station has since caught up on its paperwork, the FCC has said that it is no excuse for not doing it in the first place.
See also
KEVU-CD
References
External links
Bill Smullin: Southern Oregon TV's pioneer
Fox network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1991
LSR-TV
1991 establishments in Oregon
Cox Media Group
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEbus
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The STEbus (also called the IEEE-1000 bus) is a non-proprietary, processor-independent, computer bus with 8 data lines and 20 address lines. It was popular for industrial control systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s before the ubiquitous IBM PC dominated this market. STE stands for STandard Eurocard.
Although no longer competitive in its original market, it is valid choice for hobbyists wishing to make 'home brew' computer systems. The Z80 and probably the CMOS 65C02 are possible processors to use. The standardized bus allows hobbyists to interface to each other's designs.
Origins
In the early 1980s, there were many proprietary bus systems, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Most had grown in an ad-hoc manner, typically around a particular microprocessor. The S-100 bus is based on Intel 8080 signals, the STD Bus around Z80 signals, the SS-50 bus around the Motorola 6800, and the G64 bus around 6809 signals. This made it harder to interface other processors. Upgrading to a more powerful processor would subtly change the timings, and timing restraints were not always tightly specified. Nor were electrical parameters and physical dimensions. They usually used edge-connectors for the bus, which were vulnerable to dirt and vibration.
The VMEbus had provided a high-quality solution for high-performance 16-bit processors, using reliable DIN 41612 connectors and well-specified Eurocard board sizes and rack systems. However, these were too costly where an application only needed a modest 8-bit processor.
In the mid 1980s, the STEbus standard addressed these issues by specifying what is rather like a VMEbus simplified for 8-bit processors. The bus signals are sufficiently generic so that they are easy for 8-bit processors to interface with. The board size was usually a single-height Eurocard (100 mm x 160 mm) but allowed for double-height boards (233 x 160 mm) as well.
The latter positioned the bus connector so that it could neatly merge into VME-bus systems.
IEEE Working Group P1000 initially considered simply repinning the STD Bus,
replacing its card edge connector with the DIN41612 connector.
But they decided to create a completely new high-performance 8-bit bus.
They decided to make a bus more like the VMEbus and Futurebus.
The STEbus was designed to be manufacturer independent, processor independent, and have multimaster capability.
Maturity
The STEbus was very successful in its day. It was given the official standard IEEE1000-1987.
Many processors were available on STEbus cards, across a range of price and performance. These boards included the Intel 8031, 8085, 8088, 80188; the National Semiconductor 32008 and 32016; the Motorola 6809, 68000, and 68008; The Zilog Z80 and Z280; the Hitachi HD64180; and the Inmos Transputer.
The STEbus is designed for 8-bit microprocessors. Processors that normally use a wider data bus (16-bit, etc.) can use the STEbus if the processor can handle data in byte-wide chunks, giving the slave as
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEVU-CD
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KEVU-CD (channel 23) is a low-power, Class A television station in Eugene, Oregon, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Cox Media Group alongside Fox affiliate KLSR-TV (channel 34). Both stations share studios on Chad Drive in Eugene, while KEVU-CD's transmitter is located on South Ridge.
Due to KEVU's low-power status, the station is simulcast on KLSR's second digital subchannel to expand its broadcasting radius. This signal broadcasts on channel 34.2 from the same transmitting tower on South Ridge.
In August 2019, then-owner California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. upgraded KEVU-CD to the 1080i full HD picture format; prior to this upgrade, programming was being presented in 480i 4:3 SD. Concurrent with this upgrade, the full-market simulcast over KLSR-DT2 was upgraded to the 720p HD picture format; prior to that, the full-market simulcast of KEVU-CD over KLSR-DT2 was also being shown in 480i 4:3 SD.
History
The station signed on as independent station K25AS (channel 25) on April 15, 1985. On October 9, 1986, the station affiliated with Fox. The station reverted to an independent when KEVU (channel 34, now KLSR-TV) signed on in 1991, taking the Fox affiliation from K25AS. On January 16, 1995, K25AS became a UPN affiliate. In 1997, the station's callsign was changed to KEVU-LP when channel 34 concurrently became KLSR. In 2002, the station became an independent for the third time when the UPN affiliation moved to KTVC (channel 36). KEVU-LP later became affiliated with MyNetworkTV when that network launched on September 5, 2006, and later changed its callsign to KEVU-CD in 2011. The station flash cut to digital in June 2010.
On February 24, 2022, it was announced that California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. would sell KEVU-CD and KLSR-TV to Atlanta-based Cox Media Group for $7,222,000; the sale was completed on May 3.
Programming
Newscasts
In March 2014, KEVU started rebroadcasting some news programming of KPTV, Portland, Oregon. As of July 2015, it simulcasts the 8 a.m. program of Good Day Oregon (previously tape-delayed at 9 a.m.) on weekdays, the Saturday 6 a.m. half-hour and the Sunday 7 a.m. half-hour. It also tape delays the first half-hour of The 5 O'Clock News at 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and the first half-hour of The 10 O'Clock News at 11 p.m. every night.
Sports programming
KEVU-CD is the Eugene area over-the-air TV station for the Portland Timbers and the Portland Trail Blazers.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Translators
Coos Bay
Coos Bay
See also
KLSR-TV
References
External links
Bill Smullin: Southern Oregon TV's pioneer
MyNetworkTV affiliates
Dabl affiliates
EVU-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Oregon
EVU-CD
Portland Timbers broadcasters
Major League Soccer over-the-air television broadcasters
Cox Media Group
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%2012%20oz.%20Mouse%20episodes
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12 oz. Mouse is an American surreal humour and psychological thriller animated television series created by Matt Maiellaro for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. The series revolves around Mouse Fitzgerald, nicknamed "Fitz" (voiced by Maiellaro), an alcoholic mouse who performs odd jobs so he can buy more beer. Together with his chinchilla companion Skillet, Fitz begins to recover suppressed memories that he once had a wife and a child who have now vanished. This leads him to seek answers about his past and the shadowy forces that seem to be manipulating his world.
The pilot first aired as a special presentation on June 19, 2005, and the series later started officially airing from October 23, 2005, until ending on December 17, 2006, with a total of 20 episodes over the course of 2 seasons. A special, entitled "Spider-Man Special", aired on November 6, 2005, and a stand-alone webisode, entitled "Enter the Sandmouse", was later released online on May 16, 2007.
In 2018, a double-length special, entitled "Invictus", aired on October 14 and it was announced that 12 oz. Mouse had also been revived as a series. The final episode of the third season originally aired unannounced on April 1, 2020, as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools Day stunt. The first 10 episodes from the third season premiered nightly (except weekends) from July 20 to July 31, 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2005–06)
Spider-Man Special (2005)
Season 2 (2006)
Webisode (2007)
"Invictus" (2018)
Season 3 (2020)
New Years Marathon (2005)
A marathon aired on the night of New Year's Eve 2005 on Adult Swim, consisting of the first six episodes of season 1, and concluding with then unfinished season finale, "Adventure Mouse."
The bumps aired during the marathon featured new scenes, such as:
Fitz and Skillet surfing.
Fitz and Skillet shooting at a skeleton.
Fitz & Skillet continue shooting at the skeleton to pieces.
Peanut Cop getting blown up by a bomb at Rhoda's Bar.
Peanut Cop gets blown up on streets by another bomb.
Peanut Cop in a crudely drawn Jail Cell gets blown up by a bomb.
Green Sweater Woman talking to Liquor in his liquor store.
Green Sweater Woman complaining to the Producer Man with flowers.
Eye tap dancing on an island.
In "Eighteen", Eye claims that this 'eyeland' is his home.
Fitz playing his guitar at the Music Void.
Golden Joe reading an excerpt from The Great Gatsby.
See also
12 oz. Mouse
References
External links
Lists of American adult animated television series episodes
Lists of American espionage television series episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Palmer%20%28computer%20businessman%29
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Robert B. Palmer (born September 11, 1940) is an American businessman in the computer industry.
Palmer was the final Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Equipment Corporation.
Education
Palmer majored in Math and Physics at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
Career
Mostek Corporation
Palmer was a founder of Mostek Corporation, founded in 1969 by former employees of Texas Instruments. Mostek manufactured logic, memory, and microprocessor chips. In 1980, United Technologies Corporation (UTC) acquired Mostek Corporation, and Palmer became executive vice president of semiconductor operations.
Digital Equipment Corporation
In 1985, Palmer joined Digital, and in 1992, he was appointed president and chief executive officer (CEO).
From 1995 to 1998, Palmer served as chairman of the board until Digital was sold to Compaq.
Digital Equipment Corporation restructuring
From 1993 to 1998, Palmer undertook numerous restructurings, massive layoffs of more than 60,000 people, and plant closings, in an effort to remain competitive.
In 1993, Mitsubishi agreed to manufacture Digital's new Alpha 21066.
In 1994, Digital sold its Rdb database software operations to Oracle Corporation.
In 1995, Digital and Raytheon formed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement to upgrade the onboard computer of the US Navy's E-2C Hawkeye aircraft.
In 1997, Digital sold its printing systems business to Virginia-based GENICOM.
In 1997, Digital sued Intel, accusing it of using some of Digital's patented technology to develop the Pentium microprocessor. Intel countersued, accusing Digital of violating 14 Intel patents. To settle the litigation, Digital sold its semiconductor production operations to Intel in 1998.
In 1997, Digital sold its networking business to Cabletron.
On 13 November 1997, Palmer announced that the corporate strategy would focus on the Internet in Enterprise Computing.
Sale of Digital to Compaq
In June 1998, Compaq paid approximately $9 billion to acquire Digital, and Palmer stepped down after negotiating the merger.
After Digital Equipment Corporation
Palmer has served on the boards of a number of companies, including Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), SEMATECH, the Semiconductor Industry Association, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Cicada Semiconductor Inc., and NLine Corporation.
Palmer is on the board of trustees of the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research, a non-profit preventive medicine research and education organization.
Awards
In 1995 Robert Palmer was honored with an Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career.
References
1940 births
Living people
Texas Tech University alumni
Digital Equipment Corporation people
Businesspeople in computing
American technology chief executives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete%20Mathematics
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, first published in 1989, is a textbook that is widely used in computer-science departments as a substantive but light-hearted treatment of the analysis of algorithms.
Contents and history
The book provides mathematical knowledge and skills for computer science, especially for the analysis of algorithms. According to the preface, the topics in Concrete Mathematics are "a blend of CONtinuous and disCRETE mathematics". Calculus is frequently used in the explanations and exercises. The term "concrete mathematics" also denotes a complement to "abstract mathematics".
The book is based on a course begun in 1970 by Knuth at Stanford University. The book expands on the material (approximately 100 pages) in the "Mathematical Preliminaries" section of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Consequently, some readers use it as an introduction to that series of books.
Concrete Mathematics has an informal and often humorous style. The authors reject what they see as the dry style of most mathematics textbooks. The margins contain "mathematical graffiti", comments submitted by the text's first editors: Knuth and Patashnik's students at Stanford.
As with many of Knuth's books, readers are invited to claim a reward for any error found in the book—in this case, whether an error is "technically, historically, typographically, or politically incorrect".
The book popularized some mathematical notation: the Iverson bracket, floor and ceiling functions, and notation for rising and falling factorials.
Typography
Donald Knuth used the first edition of Concrete Mathematics as a test case for the AMS Euler typeface and Concrete Roman font.
Chapter outline
Recurrent Problems
Summation
Integer Functions
Number Theory
Binomial Coefficients
Special Numbers
Generating Functions
Discrete Probability
Asymptotics
Editions
Errata: (1994), (January 1998), (27th printing, May 2013)
References
External links
ToC and blurb for Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd ed.
Preface for Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd ed.
1988 non-fiction books
Computer science books
Mathematics textbooks
Books by Donald Knuth
Addison-Wesley books
American non-fiction books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Calderbank
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Robert Calderbank (born 28 December 1954) is a professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke University. He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc from Oxford in 1976, and a PhD from Caltech in 1980, all in mathematics. He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from AT&T Labs in 2003 as Vice President for Research and Internet and network systems. He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in 2010 to become Dean of Natural Sciences.
His contributions to coding and information theory won the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 1995 and 1999.
He was elected as a member into the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for leadership in communications research, from advances in algebraic coding theory to signal processing for wire-line and wireless modems. He also became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Calderbank won the 2013 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the 2015 Claude E. Shannon Award.
He was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for deep contributions to information theory".
He is married to Ingrid Daubechies.
References
External links
Dean Profile at Duke.
Faculty Profile at Princeton.
Publications on the DBLP.
Publications from the arXiv.
Publications from Google Scholar.
1954 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Alumni of the University of Oxford
California Institute of Technology alumni
Princeton University faculty
Duke University faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Text
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Oracle Text is search engine and text analysis software developed and sold by Oracle Corporation. It is proprietary software, sold as part of Oracle Database, a proprietary relational database management system.
When integrated with a text storage system, it can analyze text and provide text-filtering and text-reduction for speed-reading and summary-viewing. It can return grammatical assessments of the text it processes, checking for grammatical errors and rating the quality and style of the writing.
History
Oracle Corporation introduced Oracle ConText first as a software option, then as an Oracle data cartridge (a server-based software module) for text retrieval when it released version 8 of the Oracle database in 1997. It used the default schema CTXSYS and the default tablespace DRSYS.
With the appearance of version 8i of the Oracle database in 1999, a re-designed ConText became Oracle interMedia Text — part of the separately-priced Oracle interMedia bundle of products.
With the release of version 9i of the database in 2001 Oracle Corporation renamed the software as Oracle Text and again marketed it as a standalone subsystem, integrated with and included in the cost of the database software.
Oracle Corporation continues to support Oracle Text as of Oracle Database release 12 (2013).
Implementation
Oracle Text uses the ctx library.
See also
Oracle Ultra Search
External links
Oracle Text
History, name-changes and functionality-changes
References
Oracle software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Florida%20Channel
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The Florida Channel is a government-access television network operated by Florida State University's WFSU-TV and the Florida State Legislature. The channel is currently carried by 46 cable TV systems throughout the State of Florida either on a part-time or full-time basis as well as through up to 18 live Internet streams and via satellite. The station operates 24 hours a day though its normal broadcast schedule starts at 6:00 a.m. ET and ends at 6:00 p.m. ET with the day's programming repeated in a loop throughout the night. The Florida Channel also airs on the digital subchannels of most Florida PBS member stations and on some public independent and local cable-only stations.
When the state legislature is in session, live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Florida Senate and the Florida House of Representatives is carried until the end of legislative business and is then usually followed by Capitol Update at 5:30 p.m. ET, which provides comprehensive coverage of each day's most significant legislative events.
When the legislature is not in session, other live gavel-to-gavel programming is carried, including the Florida Supreme Court, the meeting of the governor and cabinet and the Florida Public Service Commission meetings. When there is no live gavel-to-gavel meetings, other local or statewide public affairs programming is carried.
The Florida Channel's offices and studios are located on the 9th floor of the Capitol Building in Tallahassee.
Current affiliates
The following is a list of current affiliates of the Florida Channel which includes "over-the-air" and local and systemwide cable networks in addition to the live stream available on their website and using the Roku streaming device.
Controversy
In June 2011, it was revealed that the Florida Channel would receive $1.8 million for continued operation of the network, as part of the $2.8 million in funding that WFSU will receive. This is despite the $4.8 million of funding to other public radio and television stations vetoed by Governor Rick Scott in May 2011.
References
External links
Television stations in Tallahassee, Florida
Commercial-free television networks
Television networks in the United States
Florida State University
Florida Legislature
Legislature broadcasters in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus%20Communications
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Exodus Communications, the world's largest web hosting provider at the time, was a data center provider that provided retail and commercial server colocation and was an Internet service provider to dot-com businesses. Exodus went public in 1998 amid massive business growth (40% quarterly growth over 13 quarters) and achieved a peak market value of approximately $32 billion US dollars in 2000. Along with many of its customers, Exodus experienced the bursting of the dot-com bubble and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001. Exodus was purchased by Cable and Wireless.
The company created and enabled many "firsts" for the "modern Internet", including the first "storage as a service" cloud service branded as DataVault in partnership with Cisco systems and Sun Microsystems. This was years before Amazon S3 came into existence. The tape backup portion of the DataVault business unit was acquired by Sanrise Inc. Exodus Communications built and operated the first truly global anycast Domain Name System in 1999, using its globally deployed BGP autonomous system.
Exodus acquired American Information Systems, Cohesive, Arca Systems, and Network-1's professional services division.
In December 1999, Exodus headed by Ellen Hancock CEO acquired Global OnLine Japan (GOL), Japan's first ISP, launched in 1994 by a Canadian entrepreneur, Roger J. Boisvert together with his wife, Yuriko Hiraguri. Exodus opened its Tokyo IDC in April 2000 together with Nomura Research Institute. In September 2000, the company bought GlobalCenter, Global Crossing's web hosting unit, for $6.5 billion in stock. By the time the deal closed in January 2001, the stock was only worth $1.95 billion.
In January 2003, Cable and Wireless Japan sold Global OnLine Japan to Japanese VoIP operator Fusion Communications, merging its existing consumer Internet and VoIP efforts to create Fusion Network Services. The Fusion group was later acquired by Rakuten Group.
In March 2004, Cable and Wireless America, including the Exodus assets, were acquired by SAVVIS. Cable and Wireless Japan sold its IDC operations to the SoftBank Group in February 2005.
References
American companies established in 1994
American companies disestablished in 2001
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001
Computer companies established in 1994
Computer companies disestablished in 2001
Defunct companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
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SurfCity Cable TV is a pay television operator based in Gisborne, New Zealand. The company retransmitts channels produced by SKY Network Television.
The company was set up in conjunction with PacSat Communications who operate a cable television network in Greymouth, New Zealand and was formerly known as PacSat Cable TV but changed its name in October 2001.
The company operates a mixture of cable television and microwave-based networks to deliver service in the Gisborne and Wainui.
External links
SurfCity Website.
Television networks in New Zealand
New Zealand subscription television services
Mass media in Gisborne, New Zealand
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Cyberdreams Interactive Entertainment was a video game publisher located in California that specialized in adventure games developed in collaboration with famous names from the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres between 1990 and 1997.
History
Patrick Ketchum, who had founded Datasoft before, founded the company in 1990. In 1995, an "internal shake-up" took place in which the investors removed management and installed a "turnaround management team" that could accomplish the transition to third-party publishing. Ketchum left the company and started a career as a photographer. The company went defunct early in 1997.
Cyberdreams' most successful titles were Dark Seed, incorporating the art of H. R. Giger, and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, based upon Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name. Cyberdreams other published titles included CyberRace, a futuristic racing game using the vehicle designs of Syd Mead, Noir: A Shadowy Thriller, a film noir interactive movie, and a sequel to Dark Seed.
List of published titles
Dark Seed (1992)
CyberRace (1993)
Red Hell (1993)
Dark Seed II (1995)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995)
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller (1996)
Titles announced by Cyberdreams but never completed include Hunters of Ralk, a role-playing video game designed by Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax, and Wes Craven's Principles of Fear, based on a concept by film director Wes Craven. Other announced, but unreleased games are Evolver, an adaptation of Species, Reverence, and The Incredible Shrinking Character. Only two survived with the help of other publishers: Ares Rising and Blue Heat. Reverence was also eventually leaked as a playable prototype.
References
External links
Cyberdreams, Inc. at MobyGames
Cyberdreams titles at the Internet Movie Database
Cyberdreams company history at Game Nostalgia
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game companies established in 1990
Video game companies disestablished in 1997
Companies based in Calabasas, California
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CyberRace is a futuristic single player racing game developed and published by Cyberdreams in 1993 for MS-DOS. It features flying car vehicles, called sleds, designed by industrial designer Syd Mead.
The 1995 game Cyber Speedway is a spiritual sequel to CyberRace.
Plot
In the game manual the background setting for the game's universe is told. There are two main rivaling empires: Terra and Kaladasia. After the galaxy was nearly destroyed, war battles were replaced with racing competition. The player in the role of Clay Shaw is forced to become a sled pilot for the Terran team, as his girlfriend is held captive by a Terran agent named Dobbs. Terra wants Shaw as a pilot because his father, John Shaw, was a well-known, successful pilot, and Clay is hoped to become equally good.
Gameplay
The player can select strategy options and equipment for the sled before the race. The races take place on different planets which provide the background for the racing circuits. The player must fly the sled along the circuit for several rounds, the number of rounds increasing with progression in the game. The player and computer-generated competitors can use weapons (e.g. missiles) and shields.
Release
CyberRace was released in two editions: on six 3½-inch floppy disks and on one Compact Disc. Both packages included a manual, a quick reference card, a small plastic model of a racing sled and a signed card by Syd Mead. As the game was programmed for DOS, playing it on modern PCs is usually not possible under modern operating systems without the use of an emulator such as DOSBox.
Reception
Computer Gaming World stated in February 1994 that CyberRace was "primarily action intensive", but that with Mead helping to develop the storyline, "the story itself may actually eclipse game play", with "strong appeal among sci-fi fans and racing enthusiasts". A longer review in March 1994 described the graphics as "spectacular ... amazing" and the racing as "a lot of fun", albeit "fairly easy" after time. It reported, however, that CyberRace did not live up to the hype of a game "from the man who brought you Blade Runner", stating that Mead's influence was only visible in the sled designs and that good voice acting did not compensate for poor writing, non-racing animation, and not enough playtesting. The magazine concluded that "CyberRace is a fun, visually stunning race simulator with a rather weakly constructed and executed narrative framework". In April 1994 the magazine said that "while the racing can be mildly interesting ... an uninteresting plot and characters fail to keep interest, despite some pretty neat artwork".
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared CyberRace the 39th-worst computer game ever released.
References
External links
1993 video games
Cyberdreams games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Science fiction racing games
Racing video games
Science fiction video games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games
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Empire Sports Network was an American regional sports network that was owned by the Adelphia Communications Corporation. The network was available on cable providers in much of upstate New York (stretching from Buffalo to Albany), as well as parts of northern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. The network ceased operations on March 7, 2005, in the midst of Adelphia's financial collapse and bankruptcy.
History
Beginnings
Empire Sports Network launched on December 31, 1990; its first broadcast that evening was a National Hockey League game between the Buffalo Sabres and the Philadelphia Flyers. Founded by John Rigas (founder and chief executive officer of network parent Adelphia Communications), the idea for Empire Sports was first conceived in 1989; Rigas decided to operate the new network in Buffalo, instead of in Adelphia's corporate homebase of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, a rural borough dozens of miles away from the nearest major sports teams. Originally broadcasting as a part-time service for four hours each night from 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., the network originally carried games from the Sabres (carrying locally televised games not broadcast on Fox affiliate WUTV (channel 29), which carried the team's games under a separate contract), the Buffalo Bisons of the International League and Major League Baseball games from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Empire was an outgrowth of the Niagara Frontier Sports Network (NFSN), a partnership between the Sabres and Adelphia that had carried Sabres games on cable on a part-time basis through much of the 1980s.
Adelphia launched the network without seeking a specified carriage fee rate, offering Empire Sports to cable providers for free on a "good faith" basis. However, in June 1991, Tele-Communications Inc. briefly dropped the network from its systems in New York state, after TCI decided against carrying it without a firm carriage agreement. In October 1991, the network became an affiliate of the Prime Network group of regional sports networks; at that time, the network expanded its programming schedule to 19 hours per day, operating from 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
On August 10, 1994, Empire acquired the exclusive regional television rights to the Sabres; as part of the deal, Empire also struck a deal with WUTV parent Act III Broadcasting to air over-the-air simulcasts of ten regular season games (a third of the 30 games that the station had been carrying under a separate contract with the team) and any playoff games during the term of the agreement. By 1995, Empire had expanded its carriage to TCI systems in Rochester and Syracuse; the network expanded its statewide coverage eastward to Albany and Binghamton. The next year, 1996, saw the Prime Network converted to Fox Sports Net, and Empire thus became an FSN affiliate, airing nationally provided sports programming from Fox and in turn contributing footage to FSN shows such as Fox Sports News.
The Sabres' relationship with Empire Sports strengthened in 1998, when
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The New Zealand F class was the first important class of steam locomotive built to operate on New Zealand's railway network after the national gauge of was adopted. The first locomotives built for the new gauge railways were two E class double Fairlies for the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway Company. The F class was the first class ordered by the central government, and between 1872 and 1888, a total of eighty-eight members of the class were constructed.
Design
The F class was an . They operated essentially everywhere on New Zealand's railway network doing a variety of jobs. F class locomotives could haul light passenger trains at speeds up to or pull up to of freight on flat trackage. Originally the design was meant for use on the Southland Railways, and three prototypes were built by Neilsons of Glasgow in 1872; among these was what would become F 13, now preserved at the Ferrymead Railway in Christchurch.
The engines were originally given names from the works of Sir Walter Scott by order of a Government official. Originally some had New Zealand names; for example F 36 (later F 13) was originally named Clutha, and later renamed Edie Ochiltree. Some were at times classified as the O class as these had Cartazzi axles, but by the nationwide renumbering of 1890 all were classified F. By this time none of the engines carried names any more.
In service
The F class had originally been conceived as a mainline mixed-traffic tank locomotive, and their capabilities exceeded the expectation of even Charles Rous-Marten, who wrote of having observed them in all manner of duties while in New Zealand. As time went on and lines were extended, it became clear that the F class could no longer keep running as it did on the mainline, and so larger engines were introduced, thus pushing the F class to branchline and shunting duties.
The class is unique in that it has been used on every line in New Zealand to be operated by the New Zealand Railways, and indeed, some operated by the Public Works Department. Several were also owned by the Westport Harbour Board, whose assets were later acquired by the NZR. In all, a total of 88 were acquired by the Government and by various private railways, notably the Westport Harbour Board and the Thames Valley & Rotorua Railway (TVRR).
Not all of the 88 locomotives were in NZR service at one time. One locomotive, Neilson 1842, was sold to the Public Works Department before the nationwide numbering scheme of 1890 was implemented. Another twelve locomotives were rebuilt as FA class locomotives. This ensured that only 75 engines of the type were in service with the NZR at any one time, given the length of the period over which NZR acquired these engines.
By the 1940s, the F class were in retreat with the largest concentrations being on Christchurch, Invercargill, and Greymouth, where they were still used for shunting duties. The Christchurch locomotives were retained to shunt the Lyttelton wharves (their short wheel-base g
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Ripcord Networks was a voice and video cryptographic security company. Their headquarters was in San Mateo, California in the United States.
Ripcord Networks was founded in 2003. Board members included Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer's co-founder; John McAfee, McAfee Antivirus founder, Ellen Hancock, the former CEO of Exodus Communications, former CTO of Apple Computer, and former EVP of IBM. Ripcord's founder and CEO was Alex Fielding.
External links
www.ripcord.com
Wired News reference
Software companies based in California
Defunct software companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20A%20class%20%281873%29
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The NZR A class of 1873 consisted of three types of steam locomotives used on New Zealand's railway network of similar specification but differing detail. The first and most numerous were from the Dübs and Company, the next from the Wellington firm E.W. Mills Lion Foundry, and the last from the Scottish firm of Shanks. The specifications are for the Dubs Yorkshire engines.
Dubs
The A class was the second class of steam locomotive (after 1872's F class) ordered to work on New Zealand's national railways. Initially ordered by the Public Works Department for use in the construction of lines in Canterbury and Taranaki, the A class was a small tank locomotive with a wheel arrangement of 0-4-0T. An initial twelve were constructed by Dübs and Company in 1873 and two more were built in 1875 by Yorkshire Engine Company. They were not just used by the Public Works Department; the New Zealand Government Railways also utilised the class to operate revenue services on smaller branch lines. Quickly outmoded for use on the lines they helped build, only one (A62) remained in government service by 1905, used on the Piha Tramway and later on NZR's Stores Branch Piha Tramway. By 1906 all Dubs A class locomotives were out of service for NZR.
Their small size made them perfect for use on bush tramways and small private industrial sidings. Many members of the class survived for decades in private use, and although all are now retired from commercial service, four have survived to be preserved by railway enthusiasts and two of the four are currently in fully operational condition. One of these preserved locomotives, A 67, was the first in a cavalcade of locomotives at the celebration of the hundredth birthday of the Dunedin Railway Station.
Mills
A batch of A class engines, with differing external details, was built at Wellington by E.W. Mills' Lion Foundry in 1873, for use on the Foxton Section. These appear to be the first NZR locomotives actually built in the country. Like other so-called contractors engines, they were quickly outmoded for line haulage and were sold to industrial operators. "Opossum" was sold in 1877 and served industrial and timber companies for eight decades. The other two were likewise sold by 1885.
Shanks
A further batch was built by Alexander Shanks and Company, of Arbroath, Scotland in 1876 on behalf of the Otago Provincial Council for construction work on the Riverton and Otautau lines in Southland. Both were sold by 1882 and one, Mouse spent the next four decades in the local timber industry. The other went to similar work in Westland.
Didos
The term "Dido", as applying to New Zealand shunting locomotives, can be traced back to the small A class. Crew members from the ship , moored at Bluff Harbour, in May, 1875 were looking for a night on the town, while in port. They took a small 4-wheeled rail trolley and taking turns, both rode and pushed the trolley into Invercargill. When the southern enginemen saw the first A class locomoti
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Dark Seed II is a psychological horror point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Cyberdreams in 1995, and is the sequel to the 1992 game Dark Seed. It sees recurring protagonist Mike Dawson's continued adventures in the H. R. Giger artwork-based "Dark World". Designed and written by Raymond Benson, the game was released for Microsoft Windows 3.x, Macintosh, Sega Saturn, and Sony PlayStation. As was the case with Dark Seed, console versions of Dark Seed II were released only in Japan, though they were additionally fully dubbed in Japanese. Unlike the original game, the Saturn version of Dark Seed II does not support the shuttle mouse.
Storyline
After previously saving the world from the Ancients, Mike Dawson suffers a mental breakdown from his experiences in the Dark World. He spends a year living with his mother in his childhood hometown of Crowley, Texas in an attempt to regain his sanity, but still suffers from vivid nightmares and memory lapses. Following his high school reunion, Mike's girlfriend Rita is found murdered, and Mike is named the prime suspect by Crowley's incompetent sheriff, Butler. Mike is forced to try and clear his name, aided by his only friend, Jack. He also regularly visits his therapist, Dr. Sims; suffering strange nightmares about the Dark World and Crowly's inhabitants while under hypnosis. Upon discovering a portal to the Dark World hidden inside the mirror maze at the local carnival, Mike realizes that the Ancients have returned and are once again plotting to conquer the Earth.
Mike meets the Keeper of the Light in the Dark World; one of the three Keepers who sustained peace on the Dark World before the Ancients' arrival, alongside the Keepers of the Scrolls and the Sword. In her final moments, she explains that he must destroy the Ancients' power generator before it can empower their "Behemoth", a monster capable of draining all life on Earth and delivering it to the Ancients to feed off of. Mike explores the Dark World and reunites with the imprisoned Keeper of the Scrolls. She informs him that the Ancients have sent an agent called the "Shape Shifter" to Earth, which is capable of travelling between worlds and is the one truly responsible for killing Rita, having stolen her head to use her brain cells to power the generator.
Mike begins to investigate the Dark World in search of the missing Light and Sword, as well as Crowley to discover the Shape Shifter's true identity. Mike begins to suspect Crowley's lecherous coroner, Doc Larsen, Mayor Fleming, and Sheriff Butler after learning that they were all at some point involved with Rita, as well as local thug Jimmy Gardner. However, Mike's suspicions begin to fall apart after Fleming and Larsen are killed and placed inside the Ancient's generator, and Gardner ends up in a coma after a fight with Mike and Jack. In the Dark World, Mike learns more about Ancients' tyrannical rule, and how they have drained almost all life from the planet.
Mike's inv
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Multipoint%20Virtual%20Private%20Network
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Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network (DMVPN) is a dynamic tunneling form of a virtual private network (VPN) supported on Cisco IOS-based routers, and Huawei AR G3 routers, and on Unix-like operating systems.
Benefits
DMVPN provides the capability for creating a dynamic-mesh VPN network without having to pre-configure (static) all possible tunnel end-point peers, including IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) and ISAKMP (Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol) peers. DMVPN is initially configured to build out a hub-and-spoke network by statically configuring the hubs (VPN headends) on the spokes, no change in the configuration on the hub is required to accept new spokes. Using this initial hub-and-spoke network, tunnels between spokes can be dynamically built on demand (dynamic-mesh) without additional configuration on the hubs or spokes. This dynamic-mesh capability alleviates the need for any load on the hub to route data between the spoke networks.
Technologies
Next Hop Resolution Protocol,
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), , or multipoint GRE if spoke-to-spoke tunnels are desired
An IP-based routing protocol, EIGRP, OSPF, RIPv2, BGP or ODR (DMVPN hub-and-spoke only).
IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) using an IPsec profile, which is associated with a virtual tunnel interface in IOS software. All traffic sent via the tunnel is encrypted per the policy configured (IPsec transform set)
Internal routing
Routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP v1 or v2 or BGP are generally run between the hub and spoke to allow for growth and scalability. Both EIGRP and BGP allow a higher number of supported spokes per hub.
Encryption
As with GRE tunnels, DMVPN allows for several encryption schemes (including none) for the encryption of data traversing the tunnels. For security reasons Cisco recommend that customers use AES.
Phases
DMVPN has three phases that route data differently.
Phase 1: All traffic flows from spokes to and through the hub.
Phase 2: Start with Phase 1 then allows spoke-to-spoke tunnels based on demand and triggers.
Phase 3: Starts with Phase 1 and improves scalability of and has fewer restrictions than Phase 2.
References
External links
Cisco Systems
Cisco DMVPN Design Guide
Residential Proxies Reference
Bypass Censorship In The UAE
Cisco protocols
Network architecture
Virtual private networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-banded%20tree%20snake
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The many-banded tree snake (Boiga multifasciata) is a species of rear-fanged colubrid. Not much is known about it and it is rated as "data deficient" by the IUCN.
Description
Dorsally, it is grayish with oblique black crossbars, and has a series of whitish spots along the vertebral line. On the head, it has a pair of black streaks from the prefrontals to the occiput, another black streak from the eye to the commissure of the jaws, and another along the nape. The upper labials are black-edged. Ventrally, it is spotted or checkered with dark brown or black. Adults are about 875 mm (34.5 in) in total length.
Geographic range
It is found in India (Himachal Pradesh up to Sikkim), Nepal and Bhutan.
References
Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004 Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp.
Blyth,E. 1861 Proceedings of the Society. Report of the Curator. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal xxix [1860]: 98, 107-111
multifasciata
Reptiles of South Asia
Reptiles described in 1861
Taxa named by Edward Blyth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine%20Safety%20Datalink
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The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the adverse effects of vaccines.
Four large health maintenance organizations, including Kaiser Permanente, were initially recruited to provide the CDC with medical data on vaccination histories, health outcomes, and subject characteristics. The VSD database contains data compiled from surveillance on more than seven million people in the United States, including about 500,000 children from birth through age six years (2% of the U.S. population in this age group).
The VSD data-sharing program is now being administered by the National Center for Health Statistics Research Data Center. The data sharing guidelines have been revised to include comments from interested groups as well as recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the VSD, and the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) Network are tools by which the CDC and FDA measure vaccine safety to fulfill their duty as regulatory agencies charged with protecting the public. Data from the VSD Project have been used to address a number of vaccine safety concerns; examples include a study clarifying the risk of anaphylaxis after vaccine administration and several studies examining the rejected hypothesis of a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.
Participating healthcare organizations
The following organizations are members of the project:
Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, Washington
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts
HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, Minnesota
Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, Oregon
Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California
Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin
Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States (Rockville, MD)
Acumen (Burlingame, CA)
Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN)
OCHIN (Portland, OR)
Notes
External links
NationalAcademies.org – 'Independent Oversight of Vaccine Safety Data Program Needed To Ensure Greater Transparency and Enhance Public Trust', National Academies (February 17, 2005)
WHO.int (pdf) – 'The Vaccine Safety Datalink: immunization research in health maintenance organizations in the USA', R.T. Chen, F. DeStefano, R.L. Davis, L.A. Jackson, R.S. Thompson, J.P. Mullooly, S.B. Black, H.R. Shinefield, C.M. Vadheim, J.I. Ward, S.M. Marcy & the Vaccine Safety Datalink Team, World Health Organization
Vaccination-related organizations
Drug safety
Vaccination in the United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Southbank tram depot is located in Southbank, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operated by Yarra Trams, it is one of eight tram depots on the Melbourne tram network.
History
Southbank tram depot opened on 8 February 1997 on the site of the former Montague shipping shed replacing South Melbourne depot. When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Southbank depot passed to Yarra Trams. The depot was extended in 2009 as part of the E-class tram project.
Layout
The main yard has nine roads, two of these inside a maintenance shed. There are also two stabling roads for the three Colonial Tramcar Restaurant cars, which also operate from this depot. Two entrances exist, East Gate and West Gate.
Rolling stock
As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 65 trams:
23 A1 Class trams
3 A2 Class trams
5 C2 Class trams
7 E Class trams
16 E2 Class trams
3 SW6 Class trams
8 W8 Class trams
Servicing of Z3-class trams from other depots is performed at Southbank, however these trams are not used on Southbank routes.
Routes
The following routes are operated from Southbank depot:
: Victoria Gardens to St Kilda
: St Vincent's Plaza to Central Pier Docklands
: City Circle
: Coburg West to Toorak shared with Essendon depot
: Brunswick East to St Kilda Beach
Light rail station
A light rail station with the same name is located approximately 250 metres from the depot, located along Normanby Road and on the former Port Melbourne railway line.
Yarra Trams operates one route via Southbank Tram Depot light rail station:
: Box Hill – Port Melbourne
References
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1997
1997 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Melbourne (LGA)
Southbank, Victoria
Transport in the City of Melbourne (LGA)
Tram stops in Melbourne
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Glenhuntly tram depot is located on Glen Huntly Road, Caulfield South, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operated by Yarra Trams, it is one of eight tram depots on the Melbourne tram network.
History
Glenhuntly tram depot opened in 1923 and is one of eight depots on the Yarra Trams network.
When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Glenhuntly depot passed to M>Tram. It passed to Yarra Trams when it took control of the entire tram network in April 2004.
Layout
The main yard has 12 roads, six of these inside a maintenance shed. A single, double-track entrance exists, one for trams entering the depot and the other for trams leaving the depot.
Rolling stock
, the depot had an allocation of 49 trams: 4 A1 Class, 26 B2 Class and 19 Z3 Class.
Routes
The following routes are operated from Glenhuntly depot:
3: Melbourne University to Malvern East
64: Melbourne University to Brighton East
67: Melbourne University to Carnegie
Until 30 April 2017 Route 78 was operated from Glenhuntly Depot when it was transferred back to Kew tram depot to allow more B2 class trams to be operated from here.
References
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1923
1923 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Glen Eira
Transport in the City of Glen Eira
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Schoof's algorithm is an efficient algorithm to count points on elliptic curves over finite fields. The algorithm has applications in elliptic curve cryptography where it is important to know the number of points to judge the difficulty of solving the discrete logarithm problem in the group of points on an elliptic curve.
The algorithm was published by René Schoof in 1985 and it was a theoretical breakthrough, as it was the first deterministic polynomial time algorithm for counting points on elliptic curves. Before Schoof's algorithm, approaches to counting points on elliptic curves such as the naive and baby-step giant-step algorithms were, for the most part, tedious and had an exponential running time.
This article explains Schoof's approach, laying emphasis on the mathematical ideas underlying the structure of the algorithm.
Introduction
Let be an elliptic curve defined over the finite field , where for a prime and an integer . Over a field of characteristic an elliptic curve can be given by a (short) Weierstrass equation
with . The set of points defined over consists of the solutions satisfying the curve equation and a point at infinity . Using the group law on elliptic curves restricted to this set one can see that this set forms an abelian group, with acting as the zero element.
In order to count points on an elliptic curve, we compute the cardinality of .
Schoof's approach to computing the cardinality makes use of Hasse's theorem on elliptic curves along with the Chinese remainder theorem and division polynomials.
Hasse's theorem
Hasse's theorem states that if is an elliptic curve over the finite field , then satisfies
This powerful result, given by Hasse in 1934, simplifies our problem by narrowing down to a finite (albeit large) set of possibilities. Defining to be , and making use of this result, we now have that computing the value of modulo where , is sufficient for determining , and thus . While there is no efficient way to compute directly for general , it is possible to compute for a small prime, rather efficiently. We choose to be a set of distinct primes such that . Given for all , the Chinese remainder theorem allows us to compute .
In order to compute for a prime , we make use of the theory of the Frobenius endomorphism and division polynomials. Note that considering primes is no loss since we can always pick a bigger prime to take its place to ensure the product is big enough. In any case Schoof's algorithm is most frequently used in addressing the case since there are more efficient, so called adic algorithms for small-characteristic fields.
The Frobenius endomorphism
Given the elliptic curve defined over we consider points on over , the algebraic closure of ; i.e. we allow points with coordinates in . The Frobenius endomorphism of over extends to the elliptic curve by .
This map is the identity on and one can extend it to the point at infinity , making it a group morphism from
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Glest is a free and open-source real-time strategy computer game from 2004. Glest is set in a medieval fantasy world with two factions, and was compared with Warcraft III and the Empire Earth series. The game received positive to mixed reviews from the press, has been downloaded over two million times, and spawned several derivative continuation projects which are under active development.
Development
The game was started by a team based in Spain around 2004.
Release of version 3.0 added online multiplayer LAN/Internet support. Glest is designed to be moddable, with game elements defined by editable XML files, and includes a map editor.
Since April 2009, development on the original game has ceased. However, two forks, MegaGlest and the Glest Advanced Engine (GAE) have continued developing the game and its engine further. While MegaGlest is focused on stable releases which provide reliable cross platform multi-player games and deliver new game content out of the box, GAE is primarily oriented towards improving the game engine and providing more options for full conversions, and is more experimental in nature.
In 2011 it was suggested that the two forks should merge but due to different philosophies and goals amongst the developers of both forks this effort was called off during the planning stage.
Gameplay
Glest is set in a medieval fantasy world with two factions, named Magic and Tech, each with their own set of units, buildings and upgrades. The Tech faction uses traditional human warriors and has medieval mechanical devices in its arsenal, and are strong in melee combat. The Magic faction is designed for advanced players with most of their units morphed from or summoned by others. It lacks the hand-to-hand combat strength of the Tech faction but features more versatile units. Tilesets and maps are selected at the new game setup menu and determine the graphical nature of the Glest game world.
Because of the moddability of the engine, Glest can play games from a variety of player-created mods. These range from futuristic science fiction themes to dark, high fantasy settings.
Reception
Acid Play: Rating: 9.2 "A totally awesome 3D strategy game based in the magic forests during medieval times."
CNET Download.com gave Glest v3.1 5 Stars (User Rating 4 out of 5 stars) and compared it to Warcraft III and the Empire Earth series in 2009:
The Linux Game Tome (happypenguin.org): Rating: 4.48 out of 5 stars
Casualty gamer: In October 2008 reviewed version 3.1.2.
About.com: Reviewed the game and highlighted the detailed 3D graphics in Glest, but criticized the underdeveloped gameplay and small number of maps in that version.
By July 2016 Glest had been downloaded on SourceForge alone over 2,300,000 times.
See also
List of open-source games
References
External links
Official MegaGlest site
Free software programmed in C++
Strategy video games
Windows games
Linux games
Open-source video games
MegaGlest
Real-time strategy video games
Lua (prog
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Horn%20%28computer%20scientist%29
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Paul M. Horn (born August 16, 1946) is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist who has made contributions to pervasive computing, pioneered the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing, and he helped manage the development of deep computing, an important tool that provides business decision makers with the ability to analyze and develop solutions to very complex and difficult problems.
Horn was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for leadership in the development of information technology products, ranging from microelectronics to supercomputing.
Early life and education
Horn was born on August 16, 1946, and graduated from Clarkson University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He obtained his PhD from the University of Rochester in physics in 1973.
Career
Horn has, at various times, been Senior Vice President of the IBM Corporation and executive director of Research. While at IBM, he initiated the project to develop Watson, the computer that competed successfully in the quiz show Jeopardy!.
He is currently a New York University (NYU) Distinguished Scientist in Residence and NYU Stern Executive in Residence. He is also a professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In 2009, he was appointed as the Senior Vice Provost for Research at NYU.
Awards
Industrial Research Institute (IRI) Medal in honor of his contributions to technology leadership, 2005
American Physical Society, George E. Pake Prize, 2002
Hutchison Medal from the University of Rochester, 2002
Distinguished Leadership award from the New York Hall of Science, 2000
Bertram Eugene Warren Award from the American Crystallographic Association, 1988
References
External links
IBM Bio
1946 births
Living people
Clarkson University alumni
New York University faculty
American computer scientists
Computer hardware researchers
Computer systems researchers
IBM employees
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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This is a list of models and clones of Amiga computers.
Development
The first Amiga computer was the "Lorraine" developed using the Sage IV system. It consisted of a stack of breadboarded circuit boards.
Production timeline
Commodore Amiga models
Original Chipset (OCS)
Enhanced Chipset (ECS)
Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA)
PowerPC-based AmigaOS models (post Commodore)
These models are not hardware compatible with the 68k Amigas.
Video chipsets
Unproduced chipsets
These chipsets were planned but never fabricated.
Other AmigaOS compatible computers
Some computers were released by other companies which were AmigaOS compatible.
DraCo: Released by MacroSystem in 1994. This was a high end machine which ran AmigaOS 3.1, but did not include the Amiga chipset, instead using a graphics card. A second version was known as the Draco Vision. A newer model, the Draco Casablanca, was released in 1997. The machines featured a 68040 or 68060 CPU.
The Access: Released by Index Information in 1998. This was an Amiga compatible similar to the A1200, but on a motherboard which could fit into a standard 5 1/4" drive bay. It featured either a 68020 or 68030 CPU, with a redesigned AGA chipset, and ran AmigaOS 3.1.
Minimig is a hardware compatible open source re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
Vampire V4 Standalone, released by Apollo Team in 2019, provides ECS/AGA chipset re-implementation, plus "68080" CPU and "Super AGA" graphics, also using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
The Pegasos II and Sam440ep can run AmigaOS 4.
Unreleased models
Prototypes:
A3500: Prototype of the Amiga 3000T, it was housed in a Commodore PC60-III tower case.
Due to management turmoil, some viable Amiga models under development were cancelled prior to release:
A3000+: Prototyped in 1991, it used the AGA chipset and had an AT&T DSP3210 chip, high-fidelity audio, telephone line interface, and 2.5 Mbit/s RS-485 network port.
A1000+: Intermediate in price and features between the A1200 and A3000+, it would have been a detached keyboard system with expansion slots (two Zorro slots, video slot, CPU slot).
Unreleased models (after Commodore)
A number of new Amiga models were announced after the end of the Commodore model era. However, very few of them were ever produced beyond simple prototypes (if they even got that far). Some of these were announced by companies who later owned, or sought to own, the Amiga rights. Others were unofficial machines which would run AmigaOS, whilst others still were intended to run an operating system compatible with Amiga software. Some models that were never produced include:
The Amiga Walker: Announced early 1996 by Amiga Technologies, this was supposed to be a new, compact Amiga computer. Its case design, quite unlike those of past Amiga models, comprised a metallic grey shell about the size of a games console, with a distinctive curved rear. Jokes were made comparing the shape to that
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Paul Horn may refer to:
Paul Horn (musician) (1930–2014), American jazz flutist
Paul Horn (computer scientist) (born 1946), American computer scientist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resel
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In image analysis, a resel (from resolution element) represents the actual spatial resolution in an image or a volumetric dataset.
The number of resels in the image may be lower or equal to the number of pixel/voxels in the image.
In an actual image the resels can vary across the image and indeed the local resolution can be expressed as "resels per pixel" (or "resels per voxel").
In functional neuroimaging analysis, an estimate of the number of resels together with random field theory is used in statistical inference.
Keith Worsley has proposed an estimate for the number of resels/roughness.
The word "resel" is related to the words "pixel", "texel", and "voxel", and Waldo R. Tobler is probably among the first to use the word.
See also
Kell factor
References
Bibliography
Keith J. Worsley, An unbiased estimator for the roughness of a multivariate Gaussian random field, Technical report, 2000 July.
Image processing
Computer graphics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapperboard%20%28TV%20series%29
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Clapperboard is a 1970s children's television programme hosted by Chris Kelly, which covered film and television production. The show was made by Granada Television for the ITV network and ran for 254 episodes. It was produced by Muriel Young and broadcast between April 1972 and January 1982. Young herself fronted the show on occasions when Kelly was unavailable.
References
Clapperboard at the BFI Film and TV Database
External links
1972 British television series debuts
1982 British television series endings
1970s British children's television series
1980s British children's television series
ITV children's television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP%20class%20SM03
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SM03 is the name of a Polish diesel locomotive class in the PKP railway operator designation. The letters SM describe a diesel shunting locomotive.
Technical data
It is a small shunting locomotive with mechanical transmission. Power from the engine is transmitted to wheel sets through the main clutch and quadruple gearbox.
Engine
The SM03 is powered by a fourstroke, six-cylinder diesel engine 2DSR 150 with automatic ignition and rated power of 150 hp at 1500 rpm.
The engine is started by an electric starter, powered from 300 Ah acid batteries.
Gearbox
Locomotives of this series were built with two types of gearbox: first 1P154 had a one-speed range (factory designation: Ls150), and the other a quadruple gearbox 1P154/2 with two-speed ranges (factory designation: 2Ls150). Accordingly, the former had a maximal speed of 25.7 km/h, and the letter was capable of 45.8 km/h.
Gearbox steering is of mechanical-hydraulic type, while fuel dosing and motion direction change are mechanical.
Brakes
The locomotive is equipped with Westinghouse type air brakes, additional non-automatic Knorr type brakes, and hand screw brakes. Wheel sets are stopped one-sided by cast iron blocks.
Body
The locomotive has a chassis with two axles and welded frame. Bushing bumpers, screw and air couplings are mounted to the front and back of the frame. The body of the locomotive is composed of two engine compartments (front and back) and the elevated engineer compartment in between. The compartments are welded. Engine compartments have doors on all sides, providing convenient access to all the systems inside.
The engineer compartment has large front, back and side windows with hand-powered wipers. In cold weather it is heated with fluid from the engine cooling system flowing through two radiators
Equipment
The SM03 is fitted with an air-propelled sound horn, sanding device and two fire extinguishers. The electrical system (24 V) is powered from the alternator installed on the engine or from batteries.
History
The SM03 was designed in 1958 by CBKPTK (Central Design Bureau of Railway Stock Industry) in Poznań. Its purpose was servicing locomotive parks and small and medium-sized stations, and industrial service. Apart from PKP, this locomotive type was widely used in industry and storage.
Introduction
Serial production was placed in national works Fablok in Chrzanów. The first item was produced in 1959. From 1965 this loco was also produced at Zaodrzańskie Zakłady Przemysłu Metalowego Zastal in Zielona Góra. The 2Ls150 variety was produced only for PKP as a shunting-line type.
Production
Present day
A few locomotives of this class are still in operation at PKP. Many had been taken out of service and can be seen abandoned on sidetracks.
Nicknames
Kogucik (en: Little rooster) - from its size.
Kaczka (en: The duck) - from its size and look.
References
See also
Polish locomotives designation
External links
Modern Locos Gallery
Rail Service
Mikoleje
Chabówka Rail Museum
MaS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaclava%20Junction
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Balaclava Junction is the only extant grand union in Australia. Located at the intersection of Balaclava Road and Hawthorn Road, Caulfield North on the Melbourne tram network, trams can go in all directions from all directions.
It is the only surviving example of a grand union in the southern hemisphere. Adelaide previously had three grand unions, but none exist today.
Balaclava Junction dates from November 1913, originally being built by the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust, at the time it was the most complex junction on the network. It has been rebuilt a number of times since opening, most recently in 2005 by Yarra Trams.
Tram routes 3, 16, and 64 all travel through Balaclava Junction.
References
External links
Trams in Melbourne
Transport in the City of Glen Eira
Road junctions in Australia
Rail infrastructure in Victoria (state)
1913 establishments in Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20rock%20%28radio%20format%29
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Progressive rock (sometimes known as underground rock) is a radio station programming format that emerged in the late 1960s, in which disc jockeys are given wide latitude in what they may play, similar to the freeform format but with the proviso that some kind of rock music is almost always played. It enjoyed the height of its popularity in the late 1960s and 1970s. The name for the format began being used circa 1968, when serious disc jockeys were playing "progressive 'music for the head and discussing social issues in between records. During the late 1960s, as long-playing records began to supplant the single in popularity with rock audiences, progressive rock stations placed more emphasis on album tracks than did their AM counterparts. Throughout the 1970s, as FM stations moved to more structured formats, progressive rock evolved into album-oriented rock (AOR).
Origins
When FM broadcasting licenses were first issued by the FCC, broadcasters were slow to take advantage of the new airwaves available to them because their advertising revenues were generated primarily from existing AM broadcasting stations and because there were few FM radio receivers owned by the general public. This void created an opportunity for the disenchanted youth of the counterculture of the 1960s and their counterparts, Hippies and Flower Children, to express themselves by playing music that was largely ignored by mainstream outlets. In this sense, progressive rock radio was more of a social response than a product marketed to fill a need.
This change coincided with the greater emphasis on albums as opposed to singles in the rock market. Underground stations clearly disdained Top 40 music and made it a policy to avoid playing it. A dilemma grew because many underground artists were contractually obligated to release a certain amount of singles and FCC regulations required such songs to be 3 minutes long, or less. These "single versions" were often quite different than what was on the originating albums. Underground radio could liberally play what were referred to as "the album versions" of songs, no matter how long they were. By the same token, hugely popular and successful albums such as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant did not contain any singles. In fact, the actual song, "Alice's Restaurant", is the entire Side A of the album, coming in at 18:20 long (some sites state 18:34), making it way over the 3-minute mandate. Many DJs at underground stations also chose to play entire sides of albums that contained multiple tracks, which could range from 20 to 30 minutes. At that time, these actions were considered very bold, so there was clearly a need for a radio format that could not only explore beyond the Top 40, but be allowed to do so with the DJs leading the way. This in turn led to established and new rock artists placing greater emphasis on long or experimental album tracks, knowing they would receive ra
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Wallasey Grove Road railway station serves the town of Wallasey in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the Wirral Line west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network.
History
The station was built on the Wirral Railway's route from Birkenhead Park to New Brighton, opening as a temporary terminus from 2 January to 30 March 1888. Through services via the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool commenced in 1938, when the London Midland and Scottish Railway electrified the line.
Facilities
The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV. There is a payphone, a vending machine and a waiting room on platform 1, a booking office, live departure and arrival screens, for passenger information, and each of the two platforms also has a further sheltered waiting area. The station has a free "Park and Ride" car park with 168 spaces, a drop-off point, a cycle rack with six spaces and secure storage for 20 cycles. Both platforms can be easily accessed by separate entrances, which are a walk apart, without the use of staircases. However, there is no easier access, cross-platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams, as other access is by staircase only.
Services
Current service levels are every 15 minutes to Liverpool and New Brighton during Monday to Saturday daytime, and every 30 minutes at other times. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.
Wallasey Grove Road has been adopted by the Edible Wirral Partnership for the growing of fresh fruits and vegetables on the station's platforms.
Gallery
References
Sources
External links
Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
DfT Category E stations
Former Wirral Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1888
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Wallasey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation%20%28video%20game%29
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Corporation (released as Cyber-Cop in North America) is a video game for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS, later ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis. It was developed for Core Design by Dimension Creative Designs by Bill Allen with graphics and design by Kevin Bulmer.
The PC and Sega versions were published by Virgin Games. Originally released for Amiga in 1990, it is one of the earliest 3D first-person shooter games, predating id Software's Wolfenstein 3D (1992). It was also the first of its kind to utilize dynamic lighting. Gameplay was very complex for its time, featuring role-playing, stealth and hacking elements, similar to the later System Shock and Deus Ex series of games.
Plot
Corporation is set in a dark future, and centers around the Universal Cybernetics Corporation, or U.C.C., responsible for employing a large percentage of the population of London and is a keystone in the stability of the economy, thus controlling the government's popularity. U.C.C.'s London headquarters' factory is under the government suspicion of illegally producing genetically engineered hostile mutants. The U.C.C. is a successful "corporation" that works with pride on (legal) genetic experiments, cybernetic implants and body modifications. Recently, however, one of the U.C.C.'s experiments has escaped and is wreaking havoc on London, which is where the player comes in, taking control of a national security spy (or a "cyber cop" in the North American Genesis version) working for the agency known as ZODIAC, assigned to infiltrate and expose the illegal activity.
Gameplay
The player is given the option of choosing between one of six agents (two men, two women, and two androids, each with variable ability and skill levels). The game is played in a first-person perspective, rendered with 3D polygon environments. The agent lands on the building's roof with the goal of to progressing from the fifth floor down to the basement on level eight. The mission involves the search of incriminating evidence, which would allow the authorities to shut down the illegal genetic experiments taking place.
Game elements include hacking electronic door locks from terminals, avoiding alarm triggers and security cameras, battling enemies, and staying alive through the planned use of the items bought in advance before the mission. The conservation of energy is key, but more batteries can be found as floor pick-up items. In a special menu the player is able to heal wounds on specific parts of body, manage various electronic devices scattered throughout the game, apply body modifications and other items, and gather information. In order to reach lower floors, the player must locate special key cards or terminals to acquire higher security clearances to operate the elevators.
The Amiga and Atari ST version also had customisable content: a suitable registration card with a request could be sent to Core containing details of the player and a passport-sized photograph attached. Core would then send t
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Extreme programming (XP) is an agile software development methodology used to implement software projects. This article details the practices used in this methodology. Extreme programming has 12 practices, grouped into four areas, derived from the best practices of software engineering.
Fine scale feedback
Pair programming
Pair programming means that all the codes which is produced by two people programming on one task on one workstation. One programmer has control over the workstation and is thinking mostly about the coding in detail. The other programmer is more focused on the big picture, and is continually reviewing the code that is being produced by the first programmer. Programmers trade roles after minute to hour periods.
The pairs are not fixed; programmers switch partners frequently, so that everyone knows what everyone is doing, and everybody remains familiar with the whole system, even the parts outside their skill set. This way, pair programming also can enhance team-wide communication. (This also goes hand-in-hand with the concept of Collective Ownership).
Planning game
The main planning process within extreme programming is called the Planning Game. The game is a meeting that occurs once per iteration, typically once a week. The planning process is divided into two parts:
Release Planning: This is focused on determining what requirements are included in which near-term releases, and when they should be delivered. The customers and developers are both part of this. Release Planning consists of three phases:
Exploration Phase: In this phase the customer will provide a shortlist of high-value requirements for the system. These will be written down on user story cards.
Commitment Phase: Within the commitment phase business and developers will commit themselves to the functionality that will be included and the date of the next release.
Steering Phase: In the steering phase the plan can be adjusted, new requirements can be added and/or existing requirements can be changed or removed.
Iteration Planning: This plans the activities and tasks of the developers. In this process the customer is not involved. Iteration Planning also consists of three phases:
Exploration Phase: Within this phase the requirement will be translated to different tasks. The tasks are recorded on task cards.
Commitment Phase: The tasks will be assigned to the programmers and the time it takes to complete will be estimated.
Steering Phase: The tasks are performed and the end result is matched with the original user story.
The purpose of the Planning Game is to guide the product into delivery. Instead of predicting the exact dates of when deliverables will be needed and produced, which is difficult to do, it aims to "steer the project" into delivery using a straightforward approach. The Planning Game approach has also been adopted by non-software projects and teams in the context of business agility.
Release planning
Exploration phase
This is an iterative
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Herbert Baum (February 10, 1912 – June 11, 1942) was a Jewish member of the German resistance against National Socialism. Baum organized a large network of resisters within Berlin. Most of these activists, like Baum, were Jewish and had backgrounds in the pre-1933 German-Jewish youth organizations, and most were affiliated with the German Communist Party (KPD), the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and/or their youth movements. While often described as a "Communist" (KPD) organization, in reality the Baum Group was a leftist organization (or network of small groups) that included socialists, anti-Stalinist leftists, some who were influenced by anarchism, and so on.
Life
Baum was born in Moschin, Province of Posen; his family moved to Berlin when he was young. After he graduated from secondary school there, he began an apprenticeship as an electrician, which became his profession.
By 1926, he was an active member of different left wing and Jewish youth organizations, and from 1931 he became a member of the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD).
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists he began, together with his wife Marianne Baum (February 9, 1912 - August 18, 1942) and their friends, Martin and Sala Kochmann, to organize meetings dealing with the threat of Nazism, meeting in the Kochmann drawing room and in the apartments of other members. The circle of friends, most of whom were Jewish, designated Herbert Baum as chairman. Up to 100 youths attended these meetings at various times, engaging in political debates and cultural discussions. The group openly distributed leaflets arguing against National Socialism.
In 1940 Baum was rounded up and forced into slave labour at the electromotive works of the Siemens-Schuckertwerke (today Siemens AG). From 1941, he headed a group of Jewish slave labourers at the plant, who, to escape deportation to concentration camps, went into the Berlin underground.
On 18 May 1942, the group organised an arson attack on an anticommunist and anti-Semitic propaganda exhibition known as
The Soviet Paradise prepared by Joseph Goebbels at the Berliner Lustgarten. The attack was only partially successful and, within days, a large number of the group's members were arrested and 20 were sentenced to death. Baum and his wife Marianne were arrested on May 22. Herbert Baum was tortured to death in Moabit Prison, dying on June 11, 1942. The Gestapo reported his death as a suicide. His wife, Marianne, was executed in Plötzensee Prison on August 18, 1942.
Listing of some of the Baum Group's members with their dates of birth and death; they were all executed in Berlin-Plötzensee on March 4, 1943:
Heinz Rotholz (1922–1943), Heinz Birnbaum (1920–1943), Hella Hirsch (1921–1943), Hanni Meyer (1921–1943), Marianne Joachim (1922–1943), Lothar Salinger (1920–1943), Helmut Neumann (1922–1943), Hildegard Löwy and Siegbert Rotholz (1922–1943).
There is some disagreement as to the manner of death of at least one of the m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum3D
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Quantum3D is an American computer graphics company. It was founded on 31 March 1997 as a spin-off from 3dfx that was created to bring 3dfx's scalable graphics technologies (the Voodoo family of graphics chips) to the game enthusiast, coin-op/arcade/LBE and visual simulation and training market. Despite its close relationship with 3dfx in its earlier years, it was founded as an independent, venture-backed company.
Founded by 3dfx, Gemini Technology and SGI co-founders, along with former Intel and Sun Microsystems employees including Ross Q. Smith, John Archdeacon, Charles "Herb" Kuta, Dan Downum, Phil Huelson, and Dale Stimson, the company has developed a range of 3dfx and now NVIDIA-based board level and system level products for advanced, realtime 3D graphics and video intensive applications. Quantum3D was instrumental in bringing advanced graphics products to the PC-game enthusiast market (first SLI graphics boards) and for bringing PC-based, open architecture systems to both the coin-op/arcade/LBE market (Graphite ArcadePC) and to the visual and sensor simulation and training (VSST) market (AAlchemy PC-IG) for both military and commercial applications. In addition, Quantum3D has also been a pioneer in bringing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) graphics subsystems into the embedded visual computing (EVC) market for avionics, vetronics and command and control applications.
Concurrent with the sale of 3dfx assets to NVIDIA in 2000, Quantum3D switched to NVIDIA as its primary graphics technology supplier. Since that date, Quantum3D has introduced a number of VSST and EVC products including the AAlchemy and Independence family of COTS image generators for flight simulation and other training applications as well as the Sentiris PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC), ExpeditionDI dismounted infantry training system, Thermite tactical visual computer and Farsight programs that have resulted in COTS technology being placed in numerous commercial and military avionics and vetronics applications. The company also has a dedicated US Federal subsidiary, CG2, which provides visual computing related services and products to the United States Department of Defense via SBIR and BAA programs.
The company is privately held and had approximately 50 employees as of August 2020.
References
External links
Quantum3D website
Companies established in 1997
Computer companies of the United States
Electronics companies of the United States
Software companies based in California
Graphics hardware companies
Companies based in San Jose, California
Nvidia
Software companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinguaStream
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LinguaStream is a generic platform for natural language processing, based on incremental enrichment of electronic documents. LinguaStream is developed at the GREYC (French: Groupe de recherche en informatique, image, automatique et instrumentation de Caen) computer science research group (Université de Caen) since 2001. It is available for free for private use and research purposes.
Description
LinguaStream allows complex processing streams to be designed and evaluated, assembling analysis components of various types and levels: part-of-speech, syntax, semantics, discourse or statistical. Each stage of the processing stream discovers and produces new information, on which the subsequent steps can rely. At the end of the stream, several tools allow analysed documents and their annotations to be conveniently visualised.
LinguaStream is a virtual laboratory targeted to researchers in natural language processing. It allows for complex experiments on corpora to be realised conveniently, using various types of declarative formalisms, and reducing considerably the development costs. Its uses range from corpora exploration to the development of fully functional automatic analysers. An integrated environment is provided with the platform, where all the steps of the realisation of an experiment can be achieved.
Technology
As a platform, LinguaStream provides an extensive Java API. For example, it can be integrated with Java EE servers to develop web applications based on processing streams. It is also used for teaching, and provides specific modules dedicated to students.
References
External links
Official site
Natural language processing toolkits
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic%20target
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Therapeutic target may refer to:
Biological target, a protein or nucleic acid whose activity can be modified by an external stimulus
Therapeutic Targets Database, a database to provide information about the known and explored therapeutic targets
Therapeutic target range, an alternative reference range
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20linker
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In computing, a dynamic linker is the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries needed by an executable when it is executed (at "run time"), by copying the content of libraries from persistent storage to RAM, filling jump tables and relocating pointers. The specific operating system and executable format determine how the dynamic linker functions and how it is implemented.
Linking is often referred to as a process that is performed when the executable is compiled, while a dynamic linker is a special part of an operating system that loads external shared libraries into a running process and then binds those shared libraries dynamically to the running process. This approach is also called dynamic linking or late linking.
Implementations
Microsoft Windows
Dynamic-link library, or DLL, is Microsoft's implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. These libraries usually have the file extension DLL, OCX (for libraries containing ActiveX controls), or DRV (for legacy system drivers). The file formats for DLLs are the same as for Windows EXE files that is, Portable Executable (PE) for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and New Executable (NE) for 16-bit Windows. As with EXEs, DLLs can contain code, data, and resources, in any combination.
Data files with the same file format as a DLL, but with different file extensions and possibly containing only resource sections, can be called resource DLLs. Examples of such DLLs include multi-language user interface libraries with extension MUI, icon libraries, sometimes having the extension ICL, and font files, having the extensions FON and FOT.
Unix-like systems using ELF, and Darwin-based systems
In most Unix-like systems, most of the machine code that makes up the dynamic linker is actually an external executable that the operating system kernel loads and executes first in a process address space newly constructed as a result of calling exec or posix_spawn functions. At link time, the path of the dynamic linker that should be used is embedded into the executable image.
When an executable file is loaded, the operating system kernel reads the path of the dynamic linker from it and then attempts to load and execute this other executable binary; if that attempt fails because, for example, there is no file with that path, the attempt to execute the original executable fails. The dynamic linker then loads the initial executable image and all the dynamically-linked libraries on which it depends and starts the executable. As a result, the pathname of the dynamic linker is part of the operating system's application binary interface.
Systems using ELF
In Unix-like systems that use ELF for executable images and dynamic libraries, such as Solaris, 64-bit versions of HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD, the path of the dynamic linker that should be used is embedded at link time into the .interp section of the executable's P
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichigai%20WHO
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Nichigai WHO, organized by Nichigai Associates, is a searchable database of over 300,000 historical and contemporary figures. The database was created to facilitate research related to publishers, mass communications, research institutes, libraries, and freelancers.
Nichigai Associates
Nichigai Associates (日外アソシエーツ株式会社) was founded in 1965. Its purpose has been to facilitate the acquisition of accurate information. In 1969, Nichigai Associates started a technical information retrieval service and began publishing the encyclopedias, indices, and directories. Following the current digitalization, its main service has been various online databases, such as WHO series, MAGAZINEPLUS and BOOKPLUS, among others. The databases focus on providing the information regarding prominent figures, bibliographies, magazines, awards, translation, and other reference materials.
Nichigai WHO Series
Nichigai WHO has four series: WHO I, WHO II, WHO III, Sakka shippitsusha jinbutsu file (作家・執筁E��E��物ファイル, lit. Writers EFile), and the latest WHOPLUS. This WHO series is divided by fields of occupational activity. WHO I catalog important figures in economics, society, and politics, WHO II in academic research, literary, and journalism, and WHO III in arts, entertainment, and sports. The Sakka shippitsusha jinbutsu file compiles over 36,000 writers, critics, journalists, and researchers in humanities and social sciences from Meiji period to the present. However, the Sakka shippitsusha jinbutsu file service had finished in March 2006.
Nichigai WHOPLUS
WHO and Jinbutsu Odan File
Nichigai WHOPLUS is divided into two categories: WHO and Jinbutsu odan file (人物ファイル横断, lit. Figures Cross-reference). WHO provides a full text search with the option to post limits, while Jinbutsu odan file searches name headings and full text.
WHO
WHO is a database that catalogs profiles and bibliographic information of over 260,000 prominent figures. The profiles include their notations and readings of names, occupations and position titles, date of birth and death, academic backgrounds, personal history, and awards among others.
Two search methods are available: one is the full text search (全文検索) and the other is the advanced search (条件指定, lit. search by limiting the subjects). If searching Tsuda Umeko by full text, 19 figures related to Tsuda Umeko will be displayed as the search results. If searching Tsuda Umeko, limiting by female, deceased, and Japanese, only Tsuda Umeko will appear as the result. Subject includes full text search by profile, name of the figure, gender, living or deceased, the area of occupational activity, the year of birth and death, place of employment, position title, contact information, hometown, affiliated college, and nationality.
Bibliographic information of the figures are divided into three parts; Jinbutsu bunken, Tosho, and Kiji ronbun. Jinbutsu bunken (人物文献, lit. Literature Concerning Figures) catalogs the books and articles writing about the searched
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Nagar
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Data Nagar () is a residential neighbourhood in the Orangi municipality of Karachi, Pakistan.
It is administered as part of Karachi West district, but was part of the Orangi Town borough until that was disbanded in 2011.
The neighbourhood was named after a famous Sufi, Hazrat Bābā Farīduddīn Mas'ūd Data Ganjshakar.
There are several ethnic groups in Orangi Town including Muhajirs, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras and Ismailis.
References
External links
Karachi Website
Neighbourhoods of Karachi
Orangi Town
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepac%C3%ADfico
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Telepacífico is a Colombian regional public television network, created in 1986 as the city of Cali celebrated its 450th anniversary. It started broadcasting on July 3, 1988, with 24 weekly programming hours. It was the third regional network in the country, after Teleantioquia, created in 1985, and Telecaribe, created in 1986.
Its signal reaches Western Colombia (Valle del Cauca, Chocó, Cauca and Nariño), although it can be received via satellite since 1996.
Telepacífico stands out for its educational and informative programming. The EDUCA TV programme, started in 2001, was taken by Colombian Education Ministry as a national model.
Some of the most known and talented Colombian newscasters and journalists have worked at its news shows: Mabel Kremer, Vicky Dávila, Isaac Nessim, Claudia Palacios, and Silvia Corzo.
References
External links
Spanish-language television stations
Television networks in Colombia
1986 establishments in Colombia
Mass media in Cali
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisi%C3%B3n%20Regional%20del%20Oriente
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Televisión Regional del Oriente (Eastern Regional Television, TRO) is a Colombian regional public television network, created in 1997. Its signal reaches Santander and Norte de Santander and broadcasts from Bucaramanga and Cúcuta.
Most of TRO's programming is educational and cultural.
References
External links
Official site
Television stations in Colombia
Television networks in Colombia
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Mass media in Cúcuta
Mass media in Bucaramanga
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstack
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Superstack may refer to:
The Inco Superstack, a superstructure in Canada
The SuperStack series of network switches manufactured by 3Com
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBKB-TV
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WBKB-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Alpena, Michigan, United States, affiliated with CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and MyNetworkTV. It serves as the flagship television property of The Marks Group. WBKB-TV's studios are located on North Bagley Street in Alpena, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated Alcona County (near M-72) south of Hubbard Lake.
WBKB is the only commercial over-the-air television station in one of the smallest media markets in the United States; the Alpena market consists of Alpena and Alcona counties, and is the third smallest media market in the United States. The station shares the market with the cable-only CW+ affiliate Alpena CW, which is controlled by local cable provider Charter Spectrum and offers limited local advertising, along with WCML, a PBS member station which is a satellite of Mount Pleasant-based WCMU-TV.
History
Thunder Bay Broadcasting Corporation was formed in the State of Michigan in September 1971 by Thomas Scanlan, a U.S. Air Force Captain stationed in Indianapolis, for the express purpose of establishing a commercial television station in Alpena, Michigan. At the time Alpena and its surrounding area was one of the last places in the Eastern United States without any over-the-air television service, as defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Such areas were called 'white areas'. Scanlan had just completed a tour of duty in Germany, where he and three other active-duty airmen, Thomas Disinger, S. Peter Neumann and Curtis Smith had been engaged in creating the first use of live satellite feeds to Europe of events specifically targeted to military personnel stationed in Europe. This first use was the live Apollo 11 Moon walk and events surrounding it from blast off to touchdown.
Beside his stock and stock reserved for Disinger, Neumann and Smith, Scanlan sold off stock to 43 other stockholders, mostly residents of Alpena. The construction permit application was filed on September 22, 1971 and specified using the tower of WHSB (107.7 FM) at Manning Hill, near Lachine, Michigan, some west of Alpena. Expectations were that the permit would be granted and the station could be on the air by the summer of 1972, most likely as an ABC affiliate. On November 22, 1971, a competing application was filed for Channel 11 by a group headed by cable operator Bruce Freel. Freel's North American Broadcasting Company specified a much larger coverage area than that applied for by Scanlan, with a tower near Millersburg, and coverage extending well to the west of Interstate 75. To maximize its opportunity to receive a grant in the event the FCC designated the two applications for a hearing, Scanlan amended the Thunder Bay application in 1972 to specify a shared tower with Alpena's non-commercial WCML-TV channel 6. With both Freel's and Scanlan's group applying for facilities that would duplicate, to a small degree, that of Traverse City's WGTU, Channel 29, the President of WGTU, Thomas Kiple, urge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffless
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"Duffless" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 18, 1993. After getting arrested for drunk driving, Homer tries to remain sober, at Marge's request. Meanwhile, Lisa attempts to prove that Bart is less intelligent than a hamster after he ruins her first science fair project.
The episode was written by David M. Stern, and directed by Jim Reardon.
The episode had a positive reception.
Plot
While having breakfast with her family, Lisa shows them her project for Springfield Elementary School's upcoming science fair, a steroid-enhanced tomato she hopes will cure world hunger. At school, three days before the fair, Lisa leaves her tomato in Bart's care for a moment and he hurls it at Principal Skinner's buttocks. When Lisa returns, she is furious that Bart destroyed her project. She asks Marge for help, who suggests she run a hamster through a maze. Inspired, Lisa decides to run a series of tests on a hamster and Bart (without Bart's consent) to determine who is smarter. After two easy tests, the hamster leads two to zero.
Homer sneaks out early at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and accompanies Barney on a tour of the Duff brewery. Afterward, Homer refuses to let a drunk Barney drive home and forces him to hand over his keys. On their way out of the parking lot, their car is pulled over by police Chief Wiggum, along with Eddie and Lou. After administering a field sobriety test on Homer, which he passes, the policemen tell Homer he is free to go. However, as revenge for not being allowed to drive, Barney tells the policemen to give Homer a breathalyzer, which detects that Homer has recently had alcohol. Homer is arrested, loses his license, and is ordered by a judge to attend traffic school and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. In bed, Marge gives Homer a magazine quiz about his drinking. Hearing Homer's answers, Marge asks him to give up beer for a month, and he reluctantly agrees to.
Bart discovers Lisa's plans to humiliate him at the science fair and pre-empts her project with a project of his own, "Can hamsters fly planes?", showing her hamster in the cockpit of a miniature plane. Despite Lisa's objection concerning the lack of scientific merit, everyone is distracted by how cute the hamster is, and a proud Skinner hands Bart the winning ribbon.
During the month that Homer spends without beer, he loses weight and saves over $100. After thirty days of sobriety, despite many temptations, Homer goes back to Moe's for a beer, despite Marge telling him she would like to spend time with him in that moment. Homer orders a beer at Moe's, but thinks about what Marge said to him, and leaves after a steady, appraising look at Barney and the other barflies. Homer and Marge ride a bike into the sunset while singing "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".
Production
Bart's go-go ray idea was "stolen" from the opening cred
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20News%20Talk
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Fox News Talk was a satellite radio channel showcasing talk shows and news reports from Fox News Channel personalities, along with other Fox News and talk programming. Fox News Talk carried a combination of Fox News syndicated radio programming, Fox News Channel show audio simulcasts, and hourly newscasts from Fox News Radio.
Fox News Radio programs carried included shows hosted by Brian Kilmeade, Jimmy Failla and Guy Benson, with repeats outside of live hours. None of the Fox News Channel's primetime figures had their shows aired on Fox News Talk, as they were already distributed by other radio syndicators.
History
After advertising from XM Satellite Radio regarding a new exclusivity deal for Fox News content, FNC's full-time audio simulcast was pulled from Sirius Satellite Radio on January 1, 2006. Fox News Talk launched on XM the next day. After listener demand, along with some FNC hosts wanting listeners of both services to have access, the exclusivity deal was broken and the FNC simulcast returned to Sirius on March 14, 2006, along with the new Fox News Talk channel.
In April 2006, morning show host Tony Snow left the network when he became White House Press Secretary. Replacing him was the duo of Brian Kilmeade, and Andrew Napolitano as Brian and the Judge. Napolitano left the show in 2010, leaving Kilmeade to host solo.
XM Radio Canada added the channel on June 1, 2007.
In September 2007, Tom Sullivan joined Fox News Radio and helped launch Fox Business. Ten years later, Sullivan left Fox News in 2017 to join a national syndicator with his radio show.
Also carried was Westwood One's syndicated The Radio Factor with former FNC personality Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly was moved out of the live time slot on January 15, 2009, anticipating his departure from the show on February 26 of that year. Fox News announced it would move John Gibson to the noon-to-3 p.m. time slot, after Bill O'Reilly left the time slot. Gibson also left Fox News Talk in June 2017.
On May 4, 2011, Fox News Talk moved to XM 126 from XM 168 and to Sirius 126 from Sirius 145. By the end, it was carried on both Sirius and XM's channel 450.
The Fox News Talk service ended on October 12, 2019.
Broadcasting use
The Fox News Talk name remains as part of an internal distribution service Fox Corporation provides though its existing audio distribution agreement with iHeartMedia for its talk shows.
References
External links
Official Web site
Fox Corporation subsidiaries
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2006
Radio stations disestablished in 2019
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stifflip%20%26%20Co.
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Stifflip & Co. is a graphic adventure game published by Palace Software in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC computers. The game is set in the early 20th century, between the two World Wars, and affectionately parodies the character and attitudes of the later British Empire.
Plot
From the blurb on the game box:
Gameplay
Gameplay is in the form of a graphic adventure with the player controlling four different characters: Viscount Sebastian Stifflip, Miss Palmyra Primbottom, Professor Braindeath and Colonel R. G. Bargie. The characters and their environment are presented in a comic strip format on-screen with the player controlling them via a mixture of icons and point-and-click options (albeit controlled by a keyboard and joystick rather than a mouse).
The four different characters all have different skills and so only certain characters can solve certain puzzles. For example, anything requiring scientific knowledge requires Professor Braindeath to deal with it.
References
External links
Review of the Spectrum version from Your Sinclair magazine.
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Adventure games
Commodore 64 games
Europe-exclusive video games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games scored by Richard Joseph
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Single-player video games
Video games set in the 20th century
Parody video games
Palace Software games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Footy
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Fox Footy (stylised as FOX FOOTY) is an Australian rules football subscription television channel dedicated to screening Australian rules football matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Australia operated out of their Melbourne based studios and available throughout Australia on Foxtel, and Optus Television. The channel is a revival of the former Fox Footy Channel, which was in operation between 2002 and 2006. The channel recommenced prior to the 2012 AFL season after a new broadcast agreement was reached between the former Premier Media Group, Austar, Foxtel and the Australian Football League (AFL).
As of the week of 24 September 2023, the channel reached 753,000 viewers, making the highest rated channel owned by Fox Sports Australia and the second highest rated subscription channel on Foxtel behind Lifestyle.
History
Foxtel had previously operated the original Fox Footy Channel from 2002 to 2006, but closed the channel when Foxtel's AFL broadcast deal ended at the end of the 2006 season after failing to agreeing at the time a new agreement with free-to-air broadcasters Seven and Ten. On 8 February 2007, Foxtel had come to an agreement to broadcast 4 games a week from 2007 to 2011, up from 3 during 2002–2006 on Fox Sports channels, although it didn't include an AFL channel.
It was announced on 28 April 2011 that the channel would be revived for the 2012 AFL season, as part of the new broadcast rights deal that gave Foxtel rights to show all regular-season AFL matches live. The channel returned exclusively on Foxtel and its broadcasting partners, under the proposed new name of "Fox Sports AFL", which was later changed back to its original name "Fox Footy". The channel relaunched at 5:00 pm AEDT on Friday 17 February 2012 with the first NAB Cup round-robin match between Hawthorn, Richmond and North Melbourne.
Fox Footy has live broadcast rights to all Marsh Community Series matches, all AFLW home and away matches, all AFLW Finals matches including the Grand Final, all AFL home and away matches and all AFL Finals matches until the AFL Grand Final which is shown on delayed with the game being screened exclusively live on Seven. All matches are broadcast live to air in Standard, High Definition and in 4K Ultra HD with no commercial breaks during play. When two live matches are being played simultaneously, Fox Sports 503 broadcasts one of the matches.
From the start of the 2012 AFL season, Fox Footy had become the most watched Pay-TV network in Australia. In 2017, the AFL preliminary finals had 556,000 and 441,000 viewers. Beginning in 2020, Fox Footy and more Fox Sports Australia channels began carried in Canada on the premium streaming service DAZN.
The 2022 season saw some changes to the channel, with the network cutting ties with Eddie McGuire and the subsequent launch of two new programs, 'Best on Ground' and 'Face to Face' in addition to a time slot change for On the Couch. The network was rocked by further public int
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