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Right Media, Inc. is an online advertising company that operates the Right Media Exchange (RMX), a marketplace that enables advertisers, publishers, and ad networks to trade digital media. Technology providers develop services for the Exchange via APIs.
Right Media was founded, in 2003, by Michael Walrath and brothers Noah and Jonah Goodhart. Former CTO Brian O'Kelley and former director of analytics Mike Nolet subsequently co-founded AppNexus, in 2007.
On October 17, 2006, Yahoo! made a strategic investment in Right Media. Since the Yahoo! acquisition on April 29, 2007, Right Media has been integrated with Yahoo!'s offerings to small businesses. Right Media's customers included Yahoo! (also an investor) and Fox Interactive Media.
On April 30, 2007, Yahoo! announced the acquisition of Right Media in a total transaction valued at approximately $680 million.
References
External links
Official website of Right Media, Inc.
"Right Media's Big Ambitions" BusinessWeek 2007-03-06
"The quest for the perfect online ad" Business 2.0 Magazine 2007-02-26
"Yahoo! Leads Investment in Ad Auction Company Right Media" TechCrunch 2006-10-17
"RMX Direct: alternative ad networks battle for your blog" TechCrunch 2006-08-12
"Buying and Selling Ads Based on Performance" ClickZ, 2005-11-22
"Click for Dollars", Fortune Magazine 2005-04-04
"How I Did It: Mike Walrath, Founder, Right Media", Inc. Magazine 2005-04-04
Digital marketing companies of the United States
Online marketplaces of the United States
Companies based in New York City
Marketing companies established in 2003
Yahoo! Advertising
Yahoo! acquisitions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum%20%281981%20video%20game%29
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Asylum is an adventure game created by William F. Denman Jr. and released in 1981 by Med Systems (later known as Screenplay) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the TRS-80 computer. It combines a text adventure with simple line graphics to create a first-person perspective 3D game. Med Systems had earlier released games like Rat's Revenge, Deathmaze 5000, and Labyrinth with the same kind of graphics; these games were among the earliest commercial examples of 3D games.
A sequel named Asylum II was released in 1982. The sequel was later enhanced with bitmapped graphics, color, and improved descriptions, and released simply as Asylum for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983, and Commodore 64 and IBM PC in 1985.
Plot
The story takes place in a labyrinthine asylum. One rather confusing feature of that labyrinth is that some sections of it seem to exist in several places at once. So an item dropped in a certain place will also show up in another place of the labyrinth, in a corridor of the same shape (but different orientation), and vice versa.
Reception
Debuting in February 1981, the game sold 5,000 copies by June 1982, appearing on Computer Gaming Worlds list of top sellers. BYTE stated that "Not only is [Asylum] a devious game, it is a very good buy for the money". PC Magazine stated that the game's use of graphics "is one of the features that makes it more exciting than Adventure". While criticizing its copy protection, the reviewer liked the time limit and stated that her daughter found the game "cool".
References
External links
Magic Chris' ASYLUM Pages contain maps and walkthroughs
1981 video games
Adventure games
Med Systems Software games
Single-player video games
TRS-80 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in psychiatric hospitals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautical%20Message%20Handling%20System
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Air Traffic Services Message Handling Services (AMHS) is a standard for aeronautical ground-ground communications (e.g. for the transmission of NOTAM, Flight Plans or Meteorological Data) based on X.400 profiles. It has been defined by the ICAO.
Levels of service
ICAO Doc 9880 Part II defines two fundamental levels of service within the ATSMHS;
Basic ATSMHS and
the Extended ATSMHS.
Additionally, ICAO Doc 9880 (Part II, section 3.4) outlines different subsets of the Extended ATSMHS. The Basic ATSMHS performs an operational role similar to the
Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network with a few enhancements. The Extended ATSMHS provided enhanced features but includes the Basic level of service
capability; in this way it is ensured that users with Extended Service capabilities can inter-operate, at a basic level, with users having Basic Service capabilities and vice versa.
The ATSMHS is provided by a set of end systems, which collectively comprise the ATS Message Handling System. The systems co-operate to provide users (human or automated) with a data communication service. The AMHS network is composed of interconnected ATS Message Servers that perform message switching at the application layer (Layer 7 in the OSI model).
Direct users connect to ATS Message Servers by means of ATS Message User Agents. An ATS Message User Agent supporting the Extended level of service will use
the Basic level of service to allow communication with users who only support the Basic ATSMHS.
Interoperability
In order to ensure unobstructed communication between the ANSPs, the European Air Navigation Planning Group (EANPG) of ICAO has defined 59 test cases in its EUR AMHS Manual (V5.0), 17/06/2010 (Appendix D, AMHS Conformance Tests), ASIA/PAC AMHS Manual (Annex B, AMHS Conformance and Compatibility Test, V2.0, 22/09/08) which have to be performed prior to establishment of bilateral links between the ANSPs. Those tests are conducted using a test engine (AMHS Conformance Test Tool) and verify the conformance to the AMHS standard, which is defined in ICAO Doc 9880-AN/466: Manual on Detailed Technical Specifications for the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) using ISO/OSI Standards and Protocols, Second Advanced Edition - 2016, Part II.
In the context of Single European Sky (SES) initiative and the European regulation EC552/2004 EUROCONTROL developed a specification to complement the regulation. The use of the specifications facilitates the demonstration of conformity to the essential requirements and regulatory provisions.
Implementations
In order to facilitate the transition from legacy protocols to this new standard EUROCONTROL launched a project called ECG (European or EATM Communications Gateway) to develop a gateway between AFTN and AMHS. The ECG was developed by the French manufacturer THALES and the German manufacturer FREQUENTIS COMSOFT. Meanwhile, nearly all AMHS systems in Europe are derived from the ECG (see table below).
Similar solu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20Capabilities%20Center
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The Cyberspace Capabilities Center (CCC), located at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the primary organization that develops cyber domain requirements in the United States Air Force.
The center's goals are to attain a unity of effort of functions and tasks across cyber organizations, to improve scalability of resources, to prioritize demand via multiple requirements processes, and delineate enterprise information technology roles from cyber operation missions' services. “Simply put, the CCC will provide future opportunities to enhance how the Air Force provides Enterprise Information Technology capabilities and will better support and develop Airmen working in this mission set,” said Brig. Gen. Chad Raduege, Director of Cyberspace and Information Dominance, during the designation ceremony in 2019.
The Center traces its history to the establishment of the Army Airways Communications System Wing in 1943.
History
On 15 November 1938 the Army Airways Communications System was established within the Directorate of Communications of the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps, as a staff branch. The organization first became a unit, as opposed to a staff branch, with the creation of the Army Airways Communications System Wing and its assignment to the Flight Control Command when it was activated with the effective date of 26 April 1943.
The organization became the:
Air Communications Service (13 March 1946)
Airways and Air Communications Service (11 September 1946)
Air Force Communications Service (1 July 1961)
Air Force Communications Command (15 November 1979)
In October 1990 much of AFCC's personnel, organizations, and responsibilities were transferred to the Air Force major commands in the field. Each host base gained command responsibility for the local communications unit formerly commanded by AFCC. Total personnel assigned to AFCC fell to slightly under 8,000. AFCC retained the responsibility for engineering, installing, removing, and relocating Air Force communications, computer, and air traffic control systems. AFCC kept the Computer Systems Division at Gunter Air Force Base, AL., and the Engineering Installation Division at Tinker Air Force Base, OK. It also organized a new Technology Integration Center at Scott Air Force Base, co-located with AFCC headquarters.
On 28 May 1993 Air Force Communications Command became the Air Force Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Agency. Just over three years later, on 13 June 1996, a further change occurred, to the Air Force Communications Agency (AFCA). The AFCA's status changed from a field operating agency of USAF to a subordinate unit of the Air Force Communications and Information Center on 1 April 1997. Its status changed again, from a subordinate unit of the Air Force Communications and Information Center to a USAF Field Operating Agency on 1 October 2000. It was subordinated to Air Force Space Command on 4 May 2009.
In 2012 it was announced that AFNIC would be restructured, transf
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Hill%20%28video%20game%29
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is a 1999 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami. The first installment in the video game series Silent Hill, the game was released from February to August, originally for the PlayStation. Silent Hill uses a third-person view, with real-time rendering of 3D environments. To mitigate limitations of the console hardware, developers used fog and darkness to muddle the graphics. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the player character of Silent Hill is an "everyman".
The game follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the eponymous fictional American town of Silent Hill; stumbling upon a cult conducting a ritual to revive a deity it worships, he discovers her true origin. Five game endings are possible, depending on actions taken by the player, including one joke ending.
Silent Hill received positive reviews from critics on its release and was commercially successful. It is considered by many to be one of the greatest video games ever made, as well as a defining title in the survival horror genre, as it moved away from B movie horror elements toward a more psychological horror style, emphasizing atmosphere. Various adaptations of Silent Hill have been released, including a 2001 visual novel, the 2006 feature film Silent Hill, and a 2009 reimagining of the game, titled Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. The game was followed by Silent Hill 2 in 2001, and a direct sequel, Silent Hill 3, in 2003.
Gameplay
The objective of the player is to guide main protagonist and player character Harry Mason through a monster-filled town as he searches for his lost daughter, Cheryl. Silent Hills gameplay consists of combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving. The game uses a third-person view, with the camera occasionally switching to other angles for dramatic effect, in pre-scripted areas. This is a change from older survival horror games, which constantly shifted through a variety of camera angles. Because Silent Hill has no heads-up display, the player must consult a separate menu to check Harry's "health". If a DualShock controller is used, a heart beat rhythm can be felt signifying that the player is at low health.
Harry confronts monsters in each area with both melee weapons and firearms. An ordinary man, Harry cannot sustain many blows from enemies, and gasps for breath after sprinting. His inexperience in handling firearms means that his aim, and therefore the player's targeting of enemies, is often unsteady. A portable radio collected early in the game alerts Harry to the presence of nearby creatures with bursts of static.
The player can locate and collect maps of each area, stylistically similar to tourist maps. Accessible from the menu and readable only when sufficient light is present, each map is marked with places of interest. Visibility is mostly low due to fog and darkness; the latter is prevale
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KARD%20%28TV%29
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KARD (channel 14) is a television station licensed to West Monroe, Louisiana, United States, serving the Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansas market as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which acquired the station in 2003 as part of its purchase of Quorum Broadcasting. Nexstar provides certain services to El Dorado–licensed NBC affiliate KTVE (channel 10) through a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mission Broadcasting. Both stations share studios on Pavilion Road in West Monroe, while KARD's transmitter is located in Columbia, Louisiana.
In addition to its own digital signal, KARD is simulcast in high definition on KTVE's second digital subchannel (10.2) from its transmitter northwest of Huttig, Arkansas.
History
The station that became KARD first signed on on August 19, 1967 as KUZN-TV on channel 39 and was owned by Howard E. Griffith was a television counterpart of KUZN radio. This was Griffith's second foray into television, as he was the co-owner of Monroe's first TV station, KFAZ, which signed on in 1953 but went off the air the next year. The station aired a local newscast, the BBC series Panorama, and old Western movies. The station ceased operations on January 12, 1968 but was sold to Northeast Louisiana Broadcasting Corporation.
It resumed operations on August 31, 1970 as KYAY-TV. During this incarnation, KYAY, again, aired news and off-network Westerns and movies, as well as ABC, NBC and CBS programming not carried on KNOE and KTVE, such as That Girl, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Lawrence Welk Show, Engelbert Humperdinck, The NBC Tuesday Night Movie, and The Merv Griffin Show. KYAY proved to be no more successful than KUZN had been, and it also went dark, on August 16, 1971.
In 1974, the station returned with a new callsign, KLAA, a reallocation to channel 14, and became an NBC affiliate. Since 1972, when KTVE changed its affiliation to ABC, it and KNOE-TV carried selected NBC programs during the hours when their primary networks (CBS in KNOE's case) were not broadcasting (with some exceptions), but never the full NBC lineup. KLAA debuted on October 6, 1974, giving southern Arkansas and northeastern Louisiana full service from all "Big Three" networks for the first time ever. Today, channel 39 is occupied by KMCT-TV, a religious station, and that station now occupies KUZN/KYAY/KLAA/KARD's former studios.
On December 6, 1981, KLAA became an ABC affiliate, while KTVE retook the NBC affiliation that it held in the 1950s and 1960s. Exactly a year later, the station changed its calls to KARD, with the station manager citing the call sign change a reflection on the station's progress at the time. (Years later, the former KARD-TV in Wichita became a sister station to the current KARD upon the Nexstar/Media General merger in 2016.) In 1984, KARD's era of local ownership came to end when it was purchased by Woods Communications, owned by Charles Woods of Alabama.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Hill%203
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Silent Hill 3 is a 2003 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami. The game was released from May to August, originally for the PlayStation 2. The third installment in the Silent Hill series and a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game, it follows Heather, a teenager who becomes entangled in the machinations of the town's cult, which seeks to revive a malevolent deity. A port for Microsoft Windows was released later in October, and a remastered high-definition version was released as part of the Silent Hill HD Collection, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.
Originally planned to be a rail shooter, as a result of the initially slow sales of Silent Hill 2 in Japan, Silent Hill 3 was developed almost simultaneously alongside another installment in the series, Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004). Among the influences on Silent Hill 3 are the film Jacob's Ladder and the works of horror novelist Stephen King. Silent Hill 3 sold more than 300,000 copies by November 2003 and was critically successful, garnering praise for its presentation, including the environments, graphics and audio, as well as the overall horror elements and themes that are continued from past installments; there also were minor criticism of the game's short length, camera, and gameplay mechanics. Its plot was loosely adapted into the 2012 film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D.
Gameplay
Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror video game in which the player takes control of Heather, a teenager who awakens from a nightmare in a shopping mall and tries to return home to her father, while navigating environments that oscillate between reality and the Otherworld, a bloodier, supernatural version of it. Gameplay in Silent Hill 3 resembles closely that of its two predecessors, with gameplay set in the third-person view and divided among elements of combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving. The difficulty of both the combat and puzzle elements of the game can be set separately. In the case of the puzzle difficulties, there is a considerable difference between the "medium" difficulty level and the "hard" difficulty level; one of the puzzles on the "medium" level requires only simple pattern recognition, while the "hard" difficulty level version of the same puzzle requires knowledge of Shakespearean plays to complete.
To aid in exploration, Heather obtains a flashlight and radio early on, the latter of which crackles when monsters are in proximity. She can find "health" restoratives, such as first aid kits and energy drinks; beef jerky, used to lure monsters away from her path; and a range of firearms and melee weapons to fend off the monsters with. She can also block and perform side-step maneuvers to avoid enemies. Heather will also update any relevant maps of the area with notes on locked doors, inaccessible areas, and potential clues to puzzles. While the floor plans of the various environments largely remains con
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Chi
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MTV Chi was a spin-off network from MTV that was targeted at Chinese Americans. The network featured various styles of music such as Mando pop, Canto pop and Chinese American hip hop. It broadcast in English and featured a mix of original programming with the best of MTV's International programming. It launched on December 6, 2005, from MTV's studios in New York City. MTV Chi aimed to show the world what Asian American pop culture is all about, with music videos imported from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China as well as original programming showcasing up-and-coming artists in the United States and around the world.
Jin's music video "Learn Chinese" was the first video ever to be played on MTV Chi.
On February 15, 2007, MTV Networks announced that MTV Chi would be shutting down. It ceased broadcasting on April 30, 2007.
VJs
Gregory Woo
Angel Tang
Simon Yin
Xiao Wang
Shows on MTV Chi
Artist Profile
Canton-In Chart
Classic Chi
J-K Music Non Stop
Live From...
Mandarin Top 20
Maximum Chi
MTV Chi News
Music Wire News
Top 10 Chi Countdown
Untapped Chi
WA KOW!
MTV Chi Rocks!
MTV Chi Rocks was the first concert celebrating young Chinese Americans held in San Gabriel, CA on September 23. The concert featured the hottest names in Asian American music including Frequency5, Vienna Teng, Siris, Burning Tree Project, Kaila Yu, Adrienne Lau, Putnam Hall, and Far East Movement. Headlining the blowout event was Jin the Emcee and hip hop group Jeff and Machi.
See also
MTV
MTV Asia
External links
Official Site
Chinese-American culture
MTV channels
Music video networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
Overseas Chinese organisations
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MTV Desi is a digital platform from MTV that targeted Desis (people of South Asian origin) in the United States, as the name implies. The network features various styles of music such as electronic tabla music and English-Gujarati hip-hop, interspersed with Bollywood videos. It also broadcasts brief documentary clips profiling Desis/famous Indians in music, comic skits about South-Asian American generational conflicts, interviews with bi-cultural artists and Desi house parties, live performances and animated series. It launched as a cable network on July 12, 2005 and was shut down in 2007. It was relaunched as a digital platform in 2012.
Rabbi Shergill's video "Bullah Ki Jaana" was the first video played on MTV Desi.
References
External links
Official site
Indian-American television
Defunct television networks in the United States
Desi culture
Music video networks in the United States
MTV
South Asian American culture
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Hill%204%3A%20The%20Room
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is a 2004 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami. The fourth installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in Japan in June and in North America and Europe in September. Silent Hill 4 was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows. Its soundtrack was released at the same time. In 2012, it was released on the Japanese PlayStation Network. On October 2, 2020, it was re-released on GOG.com with patches to make it playable on Windows 10.
Unlike the previous installments, which were set primarily in the town of Silent Hill, this game is set in the southern part of the fictional city of Ashfield, and follows Henry Townshend as he attempts to escape from his locked-down apartment. During the course of the game, Henry explores a series of supernatural worlds and finds himself in conflict with an undead serial killer named Walter Sullivan.
Silent Hill 4 features an altered gameplay style with third-person navigation and plot elements taken from previous installments. Upon its release, the game received generally favorable critical reaction, but its departure from the typical features of the series received a range of reactions.
Gameplay
The objective of Silent Hill 4: The Room is to guide player character Henry Townshend as he seeks to escape from his apartment. Gameplay centers on the apartment, which is shown through a first-person perspective and contains the only save point. The other areas of the game are reached through holes formed in the apartment. For the first half of the game, the room restores Henry's health; in the second half of the game, however, the room becomes possessed by hauntings that drain his health.
In the main levels of the game the player uses the usual third-person view of the Silent Hill series. The player has a limited item inventory which can be managed by leaving unneeded items in a chest in Henry's room. Silent Hill 4 emphasizes combat during gameplay, with a near-absence of complex puzzles in favor of simple item-seeking tasks. Unlike previous games in the series, separate difficulty settings for combat and puzzles are not available; changing the combat difficulty also affects the difficulty of puzzles. In the second half of the game Henry is accompanied and helped in combat by his neighbor Eileen Galvin. Eileen cannot die while she is with Henry, although as she takes damage she succumbs to possession, which also occurs if she is given a firearm. The damage Eileen takes in the game determines whether or not she dies during the final boss fight, directly affecting the ending achieved.
Combat
Combat in Silent Hill 4 follows the pattern set by the other games with a few key differences. The player has access to a variety of melee weapons but only two firearms. Certain melee weapons are breakable. Items which can be equipped such as talismans (which protect the player from damage from the hauntings in Henry's
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWE%20%28TV%20network%29
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AWE (A Wealth of Entertainment; formerly Wealth TV) is an American lifestyle and entertainment cable network. Privately held by Herring Networks, Inc., the network operates several domestic and international television feeds while its primary production facilities and corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California.
History
AWE debuted in 2004, under the name Wealth TV. It was founded by Robert Herring Sr. and his sons.
Herring hired Dean Harris as general manager and gave him a 5% stake in the channel. Harris was a former stock broker and convicted felon who was barred from trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission and served a 32-month federal prison sentence. Herring said that he did not know of Harris' prison term until he was informed by a reporter for Reuters.
In 2007 and 2008, Wealth TV filed carriage access complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against the owners of iN DEMAND, namely Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, and Cox Communications. Herring alleged that the companies refused to air Wealth TV because it competed against a lifestyle network co-owned by them. In March 2013, an appeals court ruled in favor of the cable operators.
On January 14, 2022, DirecTV announced that its contract with Herring Networks, including carriage of AWE and its controversial sister channel One America News Network (OANN), would not be renewed, and the networks would be removed in early April from its satellite and U-verse TV services. The channels were removed on April 4, 2022. On July 30, 2022, Verizon FiOS removed the channel from its lineup.
Programming
AWE operates a 24/7 channel domestically as well as an international feed with alternate programming in which it owns the worldwide rights. The network also offers its 24/7 feeds and programs on demand through multiple digital media playing devices.
Live championship boxing
In 2011, WealthTV began airing live professional boxing branded under "Wealth TV's Fight Night". In July 2012, the network aired its first live pay-per-view (PPV) event branded "Wealth TV PPV". Wealth TV received multiple recognitions for its boxing efforts in 2012. The Boxing Writers Association of America, BWAA, recognized six fights for 2012 as nominees for best fight of the year, two of which were aired live on Wealth TV. David Price, a heavyweight boxer featured exclusively in the US on Wealth TV in 2012, was recognized by leading boxing authority Dan Rafael of ESPN as the top Prospect of the Year.
AWE has aired many bouts, including the matchup of Ricky Burns against Ray Beltran for the world lightweight title (2013), and the crowning of American, Terence Crawford, after his defeat of Ricky Burns (2014).
References
External links
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Companies based in San Diego
2004 establishments in California
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Mix FM may refer to:
Radio stations
Brazil
Mix FM (Brazil), a Brazilian CHR radio network
Latvia
Mix 102.7, Riga
Australia
92.7 Mix FM, Maroochydore, Queensland
Mix 94.5, Perth, Western Australia
Mix 101.1, a defunct adult contemporary radio station in Melbourne, now KIIS 101.1
Mix 102.3, Adelaide
Mix 104.9, Darwin, Northern Territory
Mix 106.3, Canberra
Mix 106.5, a defunct adult contemporary radio station in Sydney, now KIIS 106.5
Mix FM Townsville (106.3 FM), a defunct radio station in Townsville, now Star 106.3
Armenia
Mix FM (Stepanakert) (105.0), Stepanakert, Karabakh
Canada
Mix FM (Ottawa) (91.9), Ottawa, Ontario
CJPG-FM (Mix 96.5), Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
CILT-FM (Mix 96.7), Steinbach, Manitoba
Cyprus
Mix FM Cyprus (102.3 & 90.8), Limassol
Fiji
Mix FM (Fiji) (93.8 & 93.6)
Lebanon
Mix FM Lebanon (104.4 & 104.7 FM), Beirut
Malaysia
Mix (Malaysian radio station)
Philippines
DXMX (105.9 Mix FM), Davao City
DYOT (MiX FM Oton), a Manila Broadcasting Company station
United Kingdom
Mix 96 (Aylesbury), Buckinghamshire, England
Mix 107, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
United States
WHLK (formerly branded Mix 106.5) in Cleveland, Ohio
KAMX (Mix 94.7) in Austin, Texas
KMGE (formerly Magic 94.5, now Mix FM 94.5) in Eugene, Oregon
KHIX (Mix 96.7) in Carlin, Nevada
KDMX (Mix 102.9) in Dallas, Texas
KHMX (Mix 96.5) in Houston, Texas
KMXB (Mix 94.1) in Las Vegas, Nevada
KMXG (Mix 96 in the Quad Cities
KONA-FM (Mix 105.3) in Kennewick, Washington
KMXP (Mix 96.9) in Phoenix, Arizona
KMXZ-FM (Mix 94.9) in Tucson, Arizona
KRAV-FM (Mix 96) in Tulsa, Oklahoma
KXXM (Mix 96.1) in San Antonio, Texas
KYMX (Mix 96) in Sacramento, California
WBVI (Mix 96.7) in Findlay, Ohio
WWBX (Mix 104.1) in Boston, Massachusetts
WEIU (FM) (Hit Mix 88.9) in Charleston, Illinois
WFMX (Mix 107.9) in Skowhegan, Maine
WFTN-FM (Mix 94.1) in Franklin, New Hampshire
WKJX (Mix 96) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina
WLXR (FM) (Mix 96.1) in Tomah, Wisconsin
WMXA (Mix 96.7) in Auburn, Alabama
WMXD (Mix 92.3) in Detroit, Michigan
WMXW (Mix 103.3) in Binghamton, New York
Mix (XM), XM satellite radio channel
WMGI (100.7 MIX FM) in Terre Haute, Indiana
WMNP (99.3 FM MIXX 993) in Newport, Rhode Island
WWKL (FM) (formerly branded Mix 106.7) in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
WWMX (Mix 106.5) in Baltimore, Maryland
See also
Mixx FM (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%2012
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News 12 may refer to:
KSLA-TV Shreveport, Louisiana
News 12 Networks, 24-hour local cable news television network in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York
WRDW-TV Augusta, Georgia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romfs
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In computing, romfs (ROM filesystem) is an extremely simple file system lacking many features, intended for burning important files onto an EEPROM. It is available on Linux, and possibly other Unix-like systems.
It is very useful as an initial ROM holding kernel modules that can be loaded later as needed. It is very small, code wise.
The description of the filesystem layout is available on LXR romfs.txt.
Bo Brantén has created a RomFS file system driver for Windows NT/2k/XP.
Nikolay Aleksandrov has written RomFS image extraction and manipulation tool called romfser. Primarily targeted at the BSD family of operating systems because they lack support for RomFS.
References
Free special-purpose file systems
File systems supported by the Linux kernel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Night%20In%20with%20John%20Foreman
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The Big Night In with John Foreman was an Australian variety show airing on Network Ten and Ovation. It premiered on 3 December 2005 and concluded its first series 6 January 2006 then returned for another season in October 2006.
It ran overnight, usually starting at either 11.30pm or past 12am. The show's premise is based on having musical acts perform and give interviews in a late-night chat show format with a bigger focus on musical guests and interviews with those guests. It was hosted by John Foreman, a renowned Australian musician who has appeared on shows such as Good Morning Australia and Australian Idol as a musical director.
The show was notable for its premiere when an in-depth and engaging interview was featured with Russell Crowe. Crowe later performed two songs for the show. This episode also featured guests Tina Cousins and Deborah Conway. It often included ad lib promotions by the cast and guests, in a style reminiscent of Graham Kennedy's variety programs.
Episode guide
Series 1
Series 2
Burt Bacharach Special
On 10 October 2007, ‘John Foreman Presents Burt Bacharach’, a special presentation of The Big Night In, was broadcast on Network Ten. It was taped at the State Theatre in Sydney, and featured a line-up of Australian artists performing songs composed by Bacharach, accompanied by the Sydney Sinfonia. Bacharach appeared on the show, was interview by Foreman and performed his composition, “Alfie”.
New Year's Eve 2006 special
On 31 December 2006, a special episode was broadcast on the Ten Network featuring Anthony Callea, John Paul Young, Matthew Newton, New Zealand band Dragon, Jade MacRae and cabaret performer Maria Venuti. It was meant to be different from the telecasts that the Nine Network had provided in past years in that it was mainly aimed at a younger audience.
Despite that clear focus, older viewers and families complained about the content on the programme, calling talkback radio stations such as 2GB to complain the programme had strong language and sexual references; and that Newton was intoxicated, though there was little to none of the alleged content in the programme. Based on the talkback reaction, The Daily Telegraph, along with the daily tabloid programmes on competing networks (Today Tonight and A Current Affair) attacked Ten's broadcast. It is thought that those viewers and media sources may have been confused by another televised presentation the same night involving the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
The show aired from 9:30pm until 11:30pm, and was the lead-up to Network Ten's coverage of the New Year's Eve Sydney Fireworks.
The show was one of the last variety productions to be taped at Global Television's studios in North Ryde, NSW (Network Ten's former Sydney headquarters).
References
External links
Official website
The Big Night In MySpace Page
Series 1 Official Site
Australian variety television shows
Australian music television series
Network 10 original programming
2005 Aust
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Liddle
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David Liddle is co-founder of Interval Research Corporation, consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University. While at Xerox PARC he was credited with heading development of the Xerox Star computer system. In 1982 he co-founded Metaphor Computer Systems. He has served on the board of many corporations. He was chair of the board of trustees of the Santa Fe Institute from 1994 to 1999. Liddle holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in EECS from the University of Toledo, in Ohio.
In January 2012, he joined the board of directors of SRI International.
References
External links
Biography at Stanford
Living people
Directors of SRI International
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
University of Michigan alumni
Santa Fe Institute people
University of Toledo alumni
Scientists at PARC (company)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Have%20No%20Mouth%2C%20and%20I%20Must%20Scream%20%28video%20game%29
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a 1995 point-and-click adventure horror game developed by Cyberdreams and The Dreamers Guild, co-designed by Harlan Ellison, published by Cyberdreams and distributed by MGM Interactive. The game is based on Ellison's short story of the same title. It takes place in a dystopian world where a mastermind artificial intelligence named "AM" has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, whom he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years by constructing metaphorical adventures based on each character's fatal flaws. The player interacts with the game by making decisions through ethical dilemmas that deal with issues such as insanity, rape, paranoia, and genocide.
Ellison wrote the 130-page script treatment himself alongside David Sears, who decided to divide each character's story with their own narrative. Producer David Mullich supervised The Dreamers Guild's work on the game's programming, art, and sound effects; he commissioned film composer John Ottman to make the soundtrack. The game was released on October 31, 1995 and was a commercial failure, though it received critical praise. Its French and German releases were censored due to Nazi themes and the game was restricted for players under the age of 18.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream won an award for "Best Game Adapted from Linear Media" from the Computer Game Developers Conference. Computer Gaming World gave the game an award for "Adventure Game of the Year", listed it as #134 on their "150 Games of All Time" and named it one of the "Best 15 Sleepers of All Time". In 2011, Adventure Gamers named it the "69th-best adventure game ever released".
Gameplay
The game uses the S.A.G.A. game engine created by game developer The Dreamers Guild. Players participate in each adventure through a screen that is divided into five sections. The action window is the largest part of the screen and is where the player directs the main characters through their adventures. It shows the full figure of the main character being played as well as that character's immediate environment. To locate objects of interest, the player moves the crosshairs through the action window. The name of any object that the player can interact with appears in the sentence line. The sentence line is directly beneath the action window.
The player uses this line to construct sentences telling the characters what to do. To direct a character to act, the player constructs a sentence by selecting one of the eight commands from the command buttons and then clicking on one or two objects from either the action window or the inventory. Examples of sentences the player might construct would be "Walk to the dark hallway," "Talk to Harry," or "Use the skeleton key on the door." Commands and objects may consist of one or more words (for example, "the dark hallway"), and the sentence line will automatically add connecting words like "on" and "to."
The spiritual barometer is on the lo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBYD-CD
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WBYD-CD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with Jewelry TV. Owned by Bridge Media Networks, it broadcasts from the WQED's antenna tower in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. Until 2015, the station was licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is famous for televising a live auction for two years from 2001 to 2002. The station is not carried on any local cable TV system or DBS provider in the Pittsburgh area.
History
W35AZ signed on in the early 1990s on analog channel 35. It was a Network One affiliate for the life of the short-lived network. After the demise of Network One, the station became an affiliate of America's Collectibles Network (now Jewelry TV). In 2001, it changed its call letters to WONT-LP, and started broadcasting live programming from its studios, which at the time were located at the Eastland Mall in North Versailles, Pennsylvania.
WANT-TV was a live auction of salvage merchandise that ran from 7p.m. until midnight daily. Originally, the show had multiple hosts, but by the first six months of the show, Cheryl McCall became the show's main host. As a low-budget, live six-hour show, the show gained a cult following from college students and over the air viewers in the Pittsburgh area.
In mid-2001, WANT-TV was renamed to Live Auction Television, and its hours were reduced to three days a week (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) from 7p.m. to 1a.m. Also, WONT ended its affiliation with ACN, and became an affiliate of the Shop at Home Network.
In 2002, the show was renamed Auction Live, and started being simulcast on its sister stations at the time, WIIC-LP and WPTG-LP. During this time, the station changed its callsign from WONT-LP to WBYD-CA, and became a Class A station.
In August 2002, Auction Live went on hiatus due to declining sales of merchandise on the show. It returned two months later, but the show ceased airing by the end of 2002.
WBYD-CA then began showing limited locally originated programming, including a local talk show created by the Pittsburgh-based band American Metal.
In 2005, the owner of the Eastland Mall, Benderson Development, announced the mall was going to be demolished, and cancelled the leases of all the remaining tenants, including WBYD. The station was moved to a trailer next to the broadcast tower of PBS member station WQED (channel 13).
WBYD-CA requested and was granted by the FCC a STA to go silent in early 2013 for financial reasons, since the owner of the station at the time (Abacus Television) was unable to build digital facilities at the same time paying to operate the analog facilities. On May 15, 2015, the station returned to the air, initially rebroadcasting the feed of HSN affiliate WOSC-CD (channel 61), on its new channel, channel 39. In August 2015, it started broadcasting Jewelry TV on its main channel 39.1, and added 39.2 shortly afterwards, which is a subchannel of infomercials.
WBYD-CA was owned by Abacus Television until
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Application%20Environment
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The Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) is a software package introduced by Apple Computer in 1994 which allows certain Unix-based computer workstations to run System 7 and its application software.
Overview
MAE uses the X Window System to provide the Macintosh Finder graphical user interface in a window.
MAE 1.0 was launched in 1994 for SPARC-based systems running Solaris 2.3 and PA-RISC-based systems running HP-UX 9.0, at . It features a special version of System 7.1 with its integrated MultiFinder environment, running on an emulated 68LC040 CPU (which lacks floating-point support). Up to 70% of host RAM can be allocated to MAE using its customized Memory control panel. The custom environment omits support for some Macintosh functionality, such as QuickTime, sound, serial, networking, and hardware drivers within CDEVs and INITs. Host integration was introduced to compensate, with the host system's storage, including floppy and CD-ROM drives, being available to Macintosh applications. Files within the emulated environment are stored in the host's filesystem. Clipboard integration permits textual and graphical copying and pasting between the Macintosh and X Window System environments.
MAE includes a license manager, allowing floating network licenses.
The final version of 3.0 provides System 7.5.3, and runs on Solaris 2.5 and later and HP-UX 9.05 or 10.10. MAE was discontinued on May 14, 1998.
Reception
Reviewed as an "impressive piece of work" in 1994 by Open Systems Today magazine, MAE 1.0's performance on a SPARCclassic workstation with 32 MB of RAM was "sluggish" with screen redraws "slower than a Mac Plus", but higher-end workstations have performance comparable to a Macintosh IIci.
See also
Classic (Mac OS X)
Wabi (software)
Solaris OpenStep
A/UX
References
External links
Apple's MAE page
Apple Inc. software
Unix emulation software
Products introduced in 1994
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Bell%20%28game%20designer%29
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Douglas Andrew Bell (born February 24, 1961)
is a computer game developer, best known for his role as the lead designer and programmer for the Dungeon Master series of computer games, which met with critical success, from San Diego studio FTL Games.
Work
Doug Bell worked as director, lead designer and developer for Dungeon Master. But before he joined in 1983 FTL Games, the game was titled Crystal Dragon, and developed together with Andy Jaros (Artwork) in their development studio PVC Dragon for the 8-bit Apple II computer. Then after the merger, the game was rescheduled to be launched after the release, and for the target platform of the 16-bit Atari ST computer, which offered more possibilities. Bell was the lead developer and technical director of FTL from 1986 until 1995, the company ceased operations in 1996.
Game credits
Lead programmer for the Atari ST version of SunDog: Frozen Legacy (1985)
Lead developer for Dungeon Master (1987) (also did the X68000 port of Dungeon Master)
Project manager and developer for Chaos Strikes Back (1989)
Lead developer for Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep (1993)
Trion Network Platform for the 2013 title Defiance (Trion).
Other commercial software
Developed the Research Assistant module for the Encyclopædia Britannica CD (2000, 2001)
Bibliography
References
External links
1961 births
Living people
American computer programmers
American video game designers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%2B%2B
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J++ may refer to:
Visual J++, Microsoft's discontinued implementation of the Java programming language.
Journalism++, a European datajournalism network.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20network
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A phylogenetic network is any graph used to visualize evolutionary relationships (either abstractly or explicitly) between nucleotide sequences, genes, chromosomes, genomes, or species. They are employed when reticulation events such as hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, recombination, or gene duplication and loss are believed to be involved. They differ from phylogenetic trees by the explicit modeling of richly linked networks, by means of the addition of hybrid nodes (nodes with two parents) instead of only tree nodes (a hierarchy of nodes, each with only one parent). Phylogenetic trees are a subset of phylogenetic networks. Phylogenetic networks can be inferred and visualised with software such as SplitsTree, the R-package, phangorn,
and, more recently, Dendroscope. A standard format for representing phylogenetic networks is a variant of Newick format which is extended to support networks as well as trees.
Many kinds and subclasses of phylogenetic networks have been defined based on the biological phenomenon they represent or which data they are built from (hybridization networks, usually built from rooted trees, ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) from binary sequences, median networks from a set of splits, optimal realizations and reticulograms from a distance matrix), or restrictions to get computationally tractable problems (galled trees, and their generalizations level-k phylogenetic networks, tree-child or tree-sibling phylogenetic networks).
Microevolution
Phylogenetic trees also have trouble depicting microevolutionary events, for example the geographical distribution of muskrat or fish populations of a given species among river networks, because there is no species boundary to prevent gene flow between populations. Therefore, a more general phylogenetic network better depicts these situations.
Rooted vs unrooted
Unrooted phylogenetic network
Let X be a set of taxa. An unrooted phylogenetic network N on X is any undirected graph whose leaves are bijectively labeled by the taxa in X.
A number of different types of unrooted phylogenetic networks are in use like split networks and quasi-median networks. In most cases, such networks only depict relations between taxa, without giving information about the evolutionary history. Although some methods produce unrooted networks that can be interpreted as undirected versions of rooted networks, which do represent a phylogeny.
Rooted phylogenetic network
Let X be a set of taxa. A rooted phylogenetic network N on X is a rooted directed acyclic graph where the set of leaves is bijectively labeled by the taxa in X.
Rooted phylogenetic networks, like rooted phylogenetic trees, give explicit representations of evolutionary history. This means that they visualize the order in which the species diverged (speciated), converged (hybridized), and transferred genetic material (horizontal gene transfer).
Classes of networks
For computational purposes, studies often restrict their attenti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook%20%28computer%20program%29
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Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta, by a team led by Jonathan Schaeffer and consisting of Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar. The program's algorithms include an opening book which is a library of opening moves from games played by checkers grandmasters; a deep search algorithm; a good move evaluation function; and an end-game database for all positions with eight pieces or fewer. All of Chinook's knowledge was programmed by its creators, rather than learned using an artificial intelligence system.
Man vs. Machine World Champion
Chinook is the first computer program to win the world champion title in a competition against humans. In 1990 it won the right to play in the human World Championship by being second to Marion Tinsley in the US Nationals. At first, the American Checkers Federation and English Draughts Association were against the participation of a computer in a human championship. When Tinsley resigned his title in protest, the ACF and EDA created the new title Man vs. Machine World Championship, and competition proceeded. Tinsley won with four wins to Chinook's two, with 33 draws.
In a rematch, Chinook was declared the Man-Machine World Champion in checkers in 1994 in a match against Marion Tinsley after six drawn games, and Tinsley's withdrawal due to pancreatic cancer. While Chinook became the world champion, it never defeated the best checkers player of all time, Tinsley, who was significantly superior to even his closest peer.
In 1995, Chinook defended its man-machine title against Don Lafferty in a 32-game match. The final score was 1–0 with 31 draws for Chinook over Lafferty. After the match, Jonathan Schaeffer decided not to let Chinook compete any more, but instead try to solve checkers. At the time it was rated at 2814 Elo. The solution was achieved, and the result published in 2007.
Algorithm
Chinook's program algorithm includes an opening book, a library of opening moves from games played by grandmasters; a deep search algorithm; a good move evaluation function; and an end-game database for all positions with eight pieces or fewer. The linear handcrafted evaluation function considers several features of the game board, including piece count, kings count, trapped kings, turn, runaway checkers (unimpeded path to be kinged), and other minor factors. All of Chinook's knowledge was programmed by its creators, rather than learned with artificial intelligence.
Timeline
1997 - Jonathan Schaeffer writes a book about Chinook called One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers. An updated version of the book was published November 2008.
May 24, 2003 - Chinook completes its 10 piece database with 5 pieces on each side.
August 2, 2004 - The Chinook team announces that the tournament-opening in checkers called the White Doctor (10–14 22–18 12–16) is proven to be a draw.
January 18, 2006 -
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAT4
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CAT4 or Cat 4 may refer to:
Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4) used to predict student success by assessing verbal, non-verbal, mathematical, and spatial reasoning.
Category 4 cable, network cabling that consists of four unshielded twisted-pair wires
Qualicum Beach Airport (ICAO code), an airport in British Columbia, Canada
Category 4 hurricane
LTE User Equipment Category 4 in mobile communications standards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Families%20of%20Structurally%20Similar%20Proteins%20database
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Families of Structurally Similar Proteins or FSSP is a database of structurally superimposed proteins generated using the "Distance-matrix ALIgnment" (DALI) algorithm.The database currently contains an extended structural family for each of 330 representative protein chains. Each data set contains structural alignments of one search structure with all other structurally significantly similar proteins in the representative set (remote homologs, < 30% sequence identity), as well as all structures in the Protein Data Bank with 70-30% sequence identity relative to the search structure (medium homologs). Very close homologs (above 70% sequence identity) are excluded as they rarely have marked structural differences. The alignments of remote homologs are the result of pairwise all-against-all structural comparisons in the set of 330 representative protein chains. All such comparisons are based purely on the 3D co-ordinates of the proteins and are derived by automatic (objective) structure comparison programs. The significance of structural similarity is estimated based on statistical criteria. The FSSP database is available electronically from the EMBL file server and by anonymous ftp (file transfer protocol). The database is helpful for the comparison of protein structures.
See also
CATH
SCOP
References
External links
FSSP Search page at EBI
Protein structure
Protein classification
Biological databases
Protein superfamilies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/ROSE
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A/ROSE (the Apple Real-time Operating System Environment) is a small embedded operating system that runs on Apple Computer's "Macintosh Coprocessor Platform", an expansion card for the Apple Macintosh.
The idea was to offer a single "overdesigned" hardware platform on which third party vendors could build practically any product, reducing the otherwise heavy workload of developing a NuBus-based expansion card. However, the MCP cards were fairly expensive, limiting the appeal of the concept. A/ROSE saw very little use, apparently limited solely to Apple's own networking cards for serial I/O, Ethernet, Token Ring and Twinax. GreenSpring Computers developed the RM1260, which is an IndustryPack (IP) carrier card with a 68000 CPU running A/ROSE and is intended for the data acquisition market.
History
A/ROSE and the MCP originally came about in August 1987 during the development of the Macintosh II. While working on various networking products for the new system, the developers realized that the existing classic Mac OS would make any "serious" card difficult to create, due to large latencies and the difficulty of writing complex device drivers. Their solution was to make an "intelligent" NuBus card that was essentially an entire computer on a card, containing its own Motorola 68000 processor, working space in RAM mirrored in the main system, and its own basic operating system. The first version of the system was ready for use in February 1988.
A/ROSE was internally called MR-DOS (Multitasking Realtime Distributed Operating System), but Microsoft (developer of MS-DOS) did not appreciate the name and put pressure on Apple to change its name. Eric M. Trehus, a QA engineer on the Token Ring card that ran A/ROSE reportedly said "A/ROSE by any other name is still MR-DOS."
A/ROSE is infamous for its esoteric purpose, which is generally not understood by Mac end users, as well as for causing many Mac emulators, such as Basilisk II, to produce a system error at boot time.
Overview
A/ROSE itself is very small, the kernel using only 6 KB, and the operating system as a whole about 28 KB. A/ROSE supports pre-emptive multitasking with round-robin task scheduling with a 110 microsecond context switch time and only 20 microseconds of latency (guaranteed interrupt response time). The system's task is primarily to move data around and start and stop tasks on the cards, and the entire API contains only ten calls.
A/ROSE is a message passing system, and the main calls made by programs running under it are Send() and Receive(). Messages are short, including only 24 bytes of user data, and sent asynchronously. To find the appropriate endpoint, A/ROSE includes a name server that allows the applications to bind their names to their task IDs, allowing them to move in the system and be found dynamically. The OS also supported a number of routines for finding, starting and stopping tasks on other cards, one of those "cards" being the host computer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re%20on%20the%20Road%20to%20D%27ohwhere
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"We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" is the eleventh episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 29, 2006.
Plot
While messing around in the school’s underground steam tunnels, Bart and Milhouse trigger a massive escape of steam that destroys the school. Although Milhouse is free to go, Principal Skinner proposes that Bart be sent off to "Upward Bound", a behavioral modification camp for troublemaking children based in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile, Moe announces that he is treating Homer, Lenny, Carl and Barney with renting a minivan and taking them on a trip to Las Vegas, after a suicide attempt led to him suing the rope company that made a faulty noose and earning a hefty settlement. While the others pack their luggage and load it into the minivan near Moe's Tavern, Homer drives Bart to the airport to send him to the camp before going to Vegas. However, it is discovered that Bart is on the No Fly List after an incident in Atlanta where Bart unbuckled his seat belt before the plane could come to a complete stop.
Homer now has to drive Bart to the camp and is annoyed at having to miss the Vegas trip with his friends. While they stop at a roadside diner, Bart pretends to respect Homer in order to escape; his plan works and he heads off home. However, he then reluctantly rescues Homer from almost driving off a cliff and they are soon back on the road, now with Bart chained and duct-taped in his seat, Homer now unable to trust his son. Homer gets Bart to the camp, and leaves him there as Bart sadly watches Homer reluctantly drive away. As he drives to Vegas, Homer begins to feel guilty, and decides to bring Bart back. Meanwhile, Bart is thoroughly enjoying his stay at the camp, and begins to realize he does not have to feel good by doing pranks, until he sees Homer run down a horse with his car, and leaves with Homer to go to Vegas in return for washing the horse's blood off the car.
Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa have a yard sale, selling all of Homer and Bart's stuff with the intention of using the profits to buy knick-knacks and curios. It is initially a total failure until Otto discovers that Marge is selling the family's expired prescription drugs. Although reluctant, Marge soon makes much money selling prescription drugs, but Chief Wiggum eventually discovers the scheme and arrests her. Lisa returns home from school and gets two phone messages: one from Marge begging Homer for bail money and another from Homer, who made it to Vegas, but ended up in prison for fighting with a pit boss and losing track of Bart. Lisa tells Maggie that she anticipated the day when the two of them would be the only members of the family left to fend for themselves and states that she will look for work in the morning.
Reception
The original airing of the episode was watched by 9.04 million viewers.
References
External links
Episode information at SimpsonsCha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius%20XM%20NHL%20Network%20Radio
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SiriusXM NHL Network Radio is SiriusXM's talk channel dedicated to the sport of hockey and the National Hockey League. It features hockey talk during the day and play-by-play at night. It is the only Canadian-produced satellite radio channel available to both subscribers of XM and Sirius Radio in the United States. The director of programming on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio is Peter Berce, while daily on-air contributors include Scott Laughlin, Jim "Boomer" Gordon, Steve Kouleas, Mike Johnson, Mick Kern, Nick Alberga, Jake Hahn, Tyler Madarasz, and Gord Stellick. Former contributors include Jamie Shalley, Mike Ross, Shawn Lavigne, and Gary Green.
History
Home Ice (2005–2007)
Home Ice began in November 2005 as XM Radio Canada launched its line of channels on the XM platform. Home Ice actually began on the XM Satellite Radio United States platform before the official launch of XM Radio Canada. It was the first full-time channel launched by XM Radio Canada. Due to a licensing agreement with Sirius, XM was not permitted to use the NHL logo at launch, and instead created their own logo for the NHL package. Home Ice was a part of XM's NHL hockey package, with five other dedicated channels for game play-by-play. This enabled XM to air most NHL games. In addition, French language channel Radio Parallèle airs French play-by-play of the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators.
Home Ice concluded its first season on air the morning of June 20, 2006, when the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup. Gametime aftermath show Ice Cap had an extended show to take calls from fans.
Home Ice continued on Channel 204 through the 2006–2007 season.
NHL Home Ice (2007–2013)
On July 1, 2007, XM became the exclusive satellite radio home of the NHL and officially rebranded the Home Ice channel to NHL Home Ice. Beginning with the 2007-08 NHL season, XM carried the play-by-play of every regular season and playoff game.
Following the Sirius / XM merger, NHL Home Ice was added to Sirius on September 30, 2008 as part of its "Best of XM" package on channel 208. Despite being programmed by XM Canada, and with as their satellite counterparts still two separate entities.
On November 16, 2009, the afternoon show Power Play began simulcasting video live on the NHL Network, joining NHL Live, which on March 17, 2008, became the first satellite radio program to be simulcast in high definition.
SiriusXM NHL Network Radio (2013–present)
During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, the channel's name was changed from NHL Home Ice to SiriusXM NHL Network Radio.
On October 18, 2013, the station moved channels on XM from 92 to 211. The channel again shifted positions on July 17, 2014. The were Sirius 211 and XM 218.
In August 2015, the network switched to Channel 91 on both Sirius and XM Radio. The beginning of the 2015–2016 NHL season also brought a change in programming, with the Hockey This Morning and War Room shows being replaced with new content.
References
External links
SiriusXM NH
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mergers%20and%20acquisitions%20by%20Alphabet
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Google is a computer software and a web search engine company that acquired, on average, more than one company per week in 2010 and 2011. The table below is an incomplete list of acquisitions, with each acquisition listed being for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Google and the acquisition subject. As Google is headquartered in the United States, acquisition is listed in US dollars. If the price of an acquisition is unlisted, then it is undisclosed. If the Google service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here. Google itself was re-organized into a subsidiary of a larger holding company known as Alphabet Inc. in 2015.
, Alphabet has acquired over 200 companies, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Motorola Mobility, a mobile device manufacturing company, for $12.5 billion. Most of the firms acquired by Google are based in the United States, and, in turn, most of these are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area. To date, Alphabet has divested itself of four business units: Frommers, which was sold back to Arthur Frommer in April 2012; SketchUp, which was sold to Trimble in April 2012, Boston Dynamics in early 2016 and Google Radio Automation, which was sold to WideOrbit in 2009.
Many Google products originated as services provided by companies that Google has since acquired. For example, Google's first acquisition was the Usenet company Deja News, and its services became Google Groups. Similarly, Google acquired Dodgeball, a social networking service company, and eventually replaced it with Google Latitude. Other acquisitions include web application company JotSpot, which became Google Sites; Voice over IP company GrandCentral, which became Google Voice; and video hosting service company Next New Networks, which became YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group. CEO Larry Page has explained that potential acquisition candidates must pass a sort of "toothbrush test": Are their products potentially useful once or twice a day, and do they improve your life?
Following the acquisition of Israel-based startup Waze in June 2013, Google submitted a 10-Q filing with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) that revealed that the corporation spent $1.3 billion on acquisitions during the first half of 2013, with $966 million of that total going to Waze.
Key acquisitions
In October 2006, Google announced that it had acquired the video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13, 2006.
On April 13, 2007, Google reached an agreement to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, transferring to Google valuable relationships that DoubleClick had with Web publishers and advertising agencies. The deal was approved despite anti-trust concerns raised by competitors Microsoft and AT&T.
On August 15, 2011, Google made its largest-ever acquisition to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsMap
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SportsMap is a sports radio network that is distributed by Gow Media.
The SportsMap Radio Network supplies its network affiliates with a 24-hour schedule of sports programming, including call-in shows and sports updates. Over its history, through cross-branding agreements, the SportsMap Radio Network has gone by the names SB Nation Radio, Yahoo! Sports Radio, Sporting News Radio, and One-on-One Sports.
History
SEN (1991–1993)
Originally, the network was called the Sports Entertainment Network and was headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Founded in 1991, it was the third all-sports radio network in the United States. The prior two networks were Enterprise Sports Network which existed briefly in the late '70s and early 1980s, and RTV Sports which operated out of Mashpee, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod) in 1987 and 1988 and was syndicated on 27 stations across the US. RTV's owner, Tom Star, abruptly shut it down and absconded with the assets and paychecks suddenly in the summer of 1988 without a word to the staff and talent.
One on One Sports (1993–2001)
In 1993, One on One Sports bought Sports Entertainment Network, moved it to Northbrook, Illinois, and renamed it. One on One Sports was founded in 1991 and delivered closed-circuit broadcasts to spectators attending sporting events such as golf tournaments and auto races, utilizing custom radio receivers. They audio coupled play-by-play commentary with special programming for the listeners at the event. One on One Sports had sports updates every 20 minutes, that it called "One On One Sports Flash". SEN/One on One Sports was the nation's first 24/7 sports radio network; beating out SportsFan Radio Network, Prime Sports Radio (based in Dallas), and ESPN Radio (which was mainly nights and weekends through the late 1990s). One on One Sports' program clock mirrored WFAN's with "One on One Sports Flash" updates at :00, :20, & :40, past the hour. During its peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s, major market affiliates for One on One Sports included KTCK, Dallas/Ft. Worth; KILT, Houston; KDUS, Phoenix; KJR, Seattle; WQAM, Miami; WNST, Baltimore. Hosts & Sports Flash anchors from the One on One Sports-era included: Art Mehring, Bruce Jacobs, Scott "Football" Franzke, Papa Joe Chevalier, Bob Kemp, Jay Mariotti, Peter Brown, Doug Russell, Kevin Wheeler, Scott Wetzel, Andy Masur, Rick Ballou, Arnie "Stinkin' Genius" Spanier, plus Bob Berger and Bruce Murray hosting the 6-hour long weekend scoreboard shows from 1-7p.m. ET (Berger and Murray were also the main fill-ins for the weekday daytime shows).
One on One eventually acquired several O&O owned and operated radio stations including 620 WJWR (now WSNR) in New York City, 950 WIDB (now WNTD) in Chicago, 1540 KCTD (now KMPC) in Los Angeles, California and 1510 WNRB (now WMEX) in Boston, Massachusetts. Most of One on One's O&O stations were low-rated, but they had high-profile local hosts including Brian Kilmeade (now of FOX News) hosting on WJWR, Tony Brun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20VIA%20chipsets
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This is a list of computer motherboard chipsets made by VIA Technologies. Northbridge chips are listed first, primarily by CPU-socket or CPU-family; southbridge chips are listed in a later table.
Background
VIA chipsets support CPUs from Intel, AMD (e.g. the Athlon 64) and VIA themselves (e.g. the VIA C3 or C7). They support CPUs as old as the i386 in the early 1990s. In the early 2000s, their chipsets began to offer on-chip graphics support from VIA's joint venture with S3 Graphics beginning in 2001; this support continued into the early 2010s, with the release of the VX11H in August 2012.
VIA chipsets declined in popularity as other chipsets began to offer better performance, VIA entered other markets and Intel began to offer more powerful integrated graphics on their CPU dies.
Chipsets by CPU socket
The term V-Link indicates VIA's northbridge/southbridge interconnect bus.
Socket 3
Socket 5 and Socket 7
All chipsets listed support a maximum cache memory size of 2 MB and are PCI 2.1 compliant
The only difference between the Apollo Master and the Apollo Master Plus is that the Plus does not support pipelined burst cache memory.
The Apollo VP and Apollo VP2 chipsets were initially referenced by VIA as Apollo VP-1 and Apollo VP-2 respectively, later renamed to Apollo VP and Apollo VP2 when the "/97" upgrades became available.
The Apollo VPX chipset is a low-cost solution that replaced the Apollo VP but with features similar to the VP2.
AMD licensed the VIA Apollo VP2/97 core logic architecture for its AMD 640 chipset.
Socket 8, Slot 1 and Socket 370
ProSavage PM133 - graphics core from S3, derived from a combination of the 3D component of Savage4 and 2D from Savage 2000.
PLE133 and PLE133T - graphics core from Trident, derived from Blade3D.
CLE266 (Castle Rock) - graphics core from S3, derived from S3 Savage series under the brand name UniChrome.
Asus advertised some boards as Apollo Pro 133Z. 133Z appears to be a late revision of or step up from 133A, but it is not listed on the VIA site.
Slot A and Socket A
KT266 contains a hardware bug which causes system instability when using the AGP slot at the specified max capacity of 4×.
ProSavage KM133, KM133A, KM266, KM400, KM400A - Similar to the above, but with integrated graphics. After KM133, DDR is supported. The KM133 uses an IGP consisting of the S3 Savage4 3D core and Savage 2000 2D functionality. KM266's ProSavage8 IGP is similar but has an additional 3D pipeline. The KM400 chipset and its "A" variant use the VIA UniChrome IGP. KM400A supports FSB 400 unlike the KT400A
Later revisions of the KT333 (sometimes called KT333CF) are rebadged KT400 chips with AGP 8x disabled. On motherboards with this chipset AGP 2x cards which require 3.3V are not supported.
KT133E (= VT8363E + VT82C686B) appears on Gigabyte 7IXEH but is not listed on the VIA site. Based on the specifications of that motherboard, KT133E appears to be equivalent to (or a cost-reduced rehash of) KT133, supportin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfam
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Pfam is a database of protein families that includes their annotations and multiple sequence alignments generated using hidden Markov models. The most recent version, Pfam 35.0, was released in November 2021 and contains 19,632 families.
Uses
The general purpose of the Pfam database is to provide a complete and accurate classification of protein families and domains. Originally, the rationale behind creating the database was to have a semi-automated
method of curating information on known protein families to improve the efficiency of annotating genomes. The Pfam classification of protein families has been widely adopted by biologists because of its wide coverage of
proteins and sensible naming conventions.
It is used by experimental biologists researching specific proteins, by structural biologists to identify new targets for structure determination, by computational biologists to organise sequences and by evolutionary biologists tracing the origins of proteins. Early genome projects, such as human and fly used Pfam extensively for functional annotation of genomic data.
The Pfam website allows users to submit protein or DNA sequences to search for matches to families in the database. If DNA is submitted, a six-frame translation is performed, then each frame is searched. Rather than performing a typical BLAST search, Pfam uses profile hidden Markov models, which give greater weight to matches at conserved sites, allowing better remote homology detection, making them more suitable for annotating genomes of organisms with no well-annotated close relatives.
Pfam has also been used in the creation of other resources such as iPfam, which catalogs domain-domain interactions within and between proteins, based on information in structure databases and mapping of Pfam domains onto these structures.
Features
For each family in Pfam one can:
View a description of the family
Look at multiple alignments
View protein domain architectures
Examine species distribution
Follow links to other databases
View known protein structures
Entries can be of several types: family, domain, repeat or motif. Family is the default class, which simply indicates that members are related. Domains are defined as an autonomous structural unit or reusable sequence unit that can be found in multiple protein contexts. Repeats are not usually stable in isolation, but rather are usually required to form tandem repeats in order to form a domain or extended structure. Motifs are usually shorter sequence units found outside of globular domains.
The descriptions of Pfam families are managed by the general public using Wikipedia (see History).
As of release 29.0, 76.1% of protein sequences in UniprotKB matched to at least one Pfam domain.
Creation of new entries
New families come from a range of sources, primarily the PDB and analysis of complete proteomes to find genes with no Pfam hit.
For each family, a representative subset of sequences are aligned into a high-quality s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch%20FM
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The Touch FM network was a group of local commercial radio stations owned by Quidem. The network included stations in Coventry, South Staffordshire, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Nuneaton & Hinckley, Loughborough, Banbury and Rugby.
The network of stations are listed below.
Touch FM (Coventry), formerly Kix 96
Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon), formerly The Bear 102
Touch FM (Warwick)
Touch FM (Burton, Lichfield and Tamworth), formerly Centre FM
107.1 Rugby FM
Banbury Sound, formerly Touch FM 107.6
Oak FM, which served the Hinckley, Nuneaton and Loughborough areas, was formerly owned by the Lincs FM Group until 2012, when it was acquired by Quidem. Oak FM and Touch FM (Burton, Lichfield and Tamworth) broadcast from a studio centre in Coalville, Leicestershire. Oak FM was sold to ATR Media in 2015 and later ceased broadcasting in July 2016 after running into financial difficulties.
All of Quidem's stations were broadcast from a studio in Honiley, near Kenilworth in Warwickshire.
Station rebrands
In September 2019, Quidem announced it had entered a brand licensing agreement with Global, citing financial losses. Two months later, following permission from regulator, Ofcom to change the station's format, it was confirmed that Quidem's stations would merge and launch as Capital Mid-Counties on 2 December 2019.
The Touch FM stations, Rugby FM and Banbury Sound ceased broadcasting at 7pm on Friday 29 November 2019.
References
Former British radio networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov%20Gabbay
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Dov M. Gabbay (; born October 26, 1945) is an Israeli logician. He is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London.
Work
Gabbay has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international journals, and of many reference works and handbooks of logic, including the Handbook of Philosophical Logic (with Franz Guenthner), the Handbook of Logic in Computer Science] (with Samson Abramsky and T. S. E. Maibaum), and the Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming (with C.J. Hogger and J.A. Robinson).
He is well-known for pioneering work on logic in computer science and artificial intelligence, especially the application of (executable) temporal logics in computer science, in particular formal verification, the logical foundations of non-monotonic reasoning and artificial intelligence, the introduction of fibring logics and the theory of labelled deductive systems.
He is Chairman and founder of several international conferences, executive of the European Foundation of Logic, Language and Information and President of the International IGPL Logic Group. He is founder, and joint President of the International Federation of Computational Logic. He is also one of the four founders and council member for many years of FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, from which he is now retired. He remains a life member.
He is co-founder with Jane Spurr of College Publications, a not-for-profit, start-up academic publisher, intended to compete with major expensive publishers at affordable prices, and not requiring copyright assignment from authors. A two volume Festschrift in his honor was published in 2005 by College Publications.
Regular positions
1968–1970 – Instructor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1970–1973 – Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
1973–1975 – Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
1975–1977 – Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University
1977–1983 – Lady Davis Professor of Logic, Bar-Ilan University
1983–1998 – Professor of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
1998–present – Professor of Computing, Professor of Philosophy, Augustus De Morgan Professor of Logic, King's College, London
2009–present – Special Professor Bar-Ilan University
2015–2017 – Professor of Logics, Ashkelon Academic College
Selected writings
Samson Abramsky, Dov M. Gabbay, T.S.E. Maibaum. Handbook of Logic in Computer Science, Vols.1-5. Clarendom Press, Oxford, 1992–2000.
Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Luis C. Lamb, Dov Gabbay. Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning. Springer, 2009.
Michael D. Fisher, Dov M. Gabbay, Lluis Vila (eds). Handbook of temporal reasoning in artificial intelligence. Elsevier, 2005.
Dov M. Gabbay: Theoretical foundations for non-monotonic reasoning in expert systems.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coterie
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Coterie may refer to:
A clique
The Coterie, a British society
Coterie (band), an Australian-New Zealand band
a family group of black-tailed and Mexican prairie dogs
in computer science, an antichain of sets which are pairwise intersecting
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenix%20Project
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Fenix Project is the codename for a GNU project to create a free compiler for a scripting language derived from the one created by Hammer Technologies for the game development suite DIV Games Studio. However, several features have been added which make it incompatible with most games programmed with DIV Games Studio.
Features
Fenix is an interpreted language focused on 2D video game development. Its main feature, inherited from DIV, is the pseudo-parallel programming similar to Coroutines, i.e. it gives the developer the chance of programming different processes (enemies, characters, etc.) separately, and the engine will synchronize them. This makes video game developing much easier.
Most of its features are now based on Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) which makes Fenix a very portable project.
Other features include full 2D support (scaling, transparencies, blend ops...), 16 bpp color, sound (.ogg, .mod, .it, .s3m, .wav), joystick support, mode7 and extensions via libraries.
Supported platforms
Official: Windows, Linux, Mac OS, BSD, BeOS
Unofficial: GP32, GP2X, GP2X Wiz, Dreamcast, PS2
Status
Its current version is 0.92a (beta) and no project maintainer is currently taking care of updating it. The old 0.84 branch — which happened to be quite unstable — was retaken by SplinterGU, a developer from Argentina who cleaned of all known bugs. Also a GNU default Automake/Autoconf build system, which increases portability, has been implemented, making it very easy to add support for BSD systems in Fenix.
Although SplinterGU mainly focused on stabilizing the 0.84 branch, he has also added some new capabilities to Fenix, like a better control of the debug console (also making it display more information).
Some of the Fenix 0.8 developers have started a Fenix 2 branch, which should feature a completely rewritten core, on top of which users (game developers) may plug the required libraries, thus increasing flexibility and modularity. However, this second effort seems to be taking a long time, and no ETA or further news about the project has been given by its developers, so it might not be made public soon.
SplinterGU, after publicly showing interest in separating the Fenix core from the rest of the interpreter, and some disagreements with some members of the community, decided to fork Fenix into BennuGD and continued working on this.
BennuGD has come a long way and is currently in a much more advanced and stabilized state than the current version of Fenix (0.92a). The program has been separated into a core and multiple modules. The core has been much improved, for example by optimizing the process handling, the modules have been tidied up and many bugfixes have been done. In addition to these improvements, the language itself has been expanded with more functionality, like error handling and goto. The Bennu Forum is quite active and the Bennu Wiki is a good source of documentation.
Running Fenix
Fenix comes as a console program. There are several ID
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RandstadRail
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RandstadRail () is a light rail network in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area in the west of the Netherlands that is jointly operated by HTM Personenvervoer (HTM) and Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram (RET). It connects the cities of Rotterdam, The Hague and Zoetermeer, primarily using former train and existing tram tracks.
Named after the Randstad conurbation, the light rail network came into operation in 2006, after regular train services on the Hofpleinlijn and Zoetermeer Stadslijn had been discontinued. The system consists of four routes and serves 73 stations, with a total length of approximately . In 2018, it had a daily ridership of around 125,000 passengers.
Light rail network
The RandstadRail network consists of four routes: one metro line (E) between The Hague and Rotterdam, and three tram-train lines (3, 4 and 34) between The Hague and Zoetermeer. Line E is operated by RET and uses high-floor Flexity Swift vehicles, while lines 3, 4 and 34 are operated by HTM and use low-floor RegioCitadis vehicles. Stations that are served by both types of carriages have extended platforms with a higher and a lower part.
Line E
Line E (formerly ) is a metro line, which also belongs to the Rotterdam Metro network. For a great part, it runs on the former Hofpleinlijn railway line between Den Haag Centraal railway station and Rotterdam Hofplein railway station. After the train services had been discontinued, the track was re-opened as a RandstadRail line in September 2006, running between Nootdorp and Hofplein. In November 2006, the line was extended to The Hague.
As part of the line's conversion to RandstadRail operation, it began using RET metro trains, and more stops were added and train frequencies increased. Although the conversion had not been flawless, with a series of technical problems and a derailment, the line has been in full operation since September 2007.
In 2010, Hofplein terminus was replaced with the , a bored tunnel connecting the line with the local metro network at Rotterdam Centraal railway station. In December 2011, the line was further extended to Slinge metro station in the south of Rotterdam, sharing the section between Rotterdam Centraal and Slinge with the already existing line D.
Lines 3, 4 and 34
The RandstadRail network originally included two tram-train lines: line 3 between Loosduinen and Zoetermeer Centrum-West, and line 4 between De Uithof and Lansingerland-Zoetermeer. On 23 July 2020, a third tram-train line was added to the network: line 34, which serves as a combination of lines 3 and 4, connecting Loosduinen to Lansingerland-Zoetermeer railway station.
West of Den Haag Centraal railway station, these lines are operated as regular street-running tram lines, partially interlined with the local network and passing through the , a tunnel under the in the city centre. Between Den Haag Centraal and Zoetermeer, they operate on dedicated tracks as a light rail system. The section from Den Haag Centraal to Laa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetScout%20Systems
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NetScout Systems, Inc. (stylized as NETSCOUT) is a provider of application performance management and network performance management products located in Westford, Massachusetts.
In July 2015, NetScout acquired the communications business of Danaher Corporation, including Arbor Networks, Fluke Networks, Tektronix Communications and VSS Monitoring. NetScout has subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.
History
NetScout Systems was founded by Anil Singhal and Narendra Popat as Frontier Software in 1984. NetScout created the first RMON-based Ethernet Probe in 1992.
In November 2007, NetScout acquired the Sniffer, Infinistream, and Network Intelligence product lines of Network General. NetScout merged both product lines to allow their Performance Manager product to use both probes and Infinistream technologies.
In April 2011, NetScout acquired voice and video management company, Psytechnics, from Ipswich U.K. It then acquired Fox Replay, a privately held Dutch company in 2011, and later that year, after many years of partnering and complementing solutions for network switch port aggregation, NetScout moved directly into competition with its partners by acquiring privately held Simena Networks.
In October 2014, NetScout Systems announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Communications business of science and technology company Danaher Corporation for about $2.6 billion. Upon completion of the merger, Danaher's shareholders would own nearly 59.5 percent of the combined company, and NetScout shareholders would own the remaining stake. Analyst firm 451 Research, a technology-industry syndicated research and data firm, predicted in May 2015 that with the acquisition, NetScout will be the largest company in the network visibility management space, with "more than 3,000 employees and well over $1bn a year in revenue".
In July 2015, NetScout finalized its acquisition of the communications business of Danaher Corporation, including Arbor Networks (security systems), Fluke Networks (RF and Wi-Fi network troubleshooting and analytics), Tektronix Communications (traffic inspection, customer experience management and analytics) and VSS Monitoring (network packet brokers). In a prepared statement, the company noted that the acquisition "accelerates NetScout's strategic progress by enabling the company to offer [...] innovative service assurance and cyber security solutions" and adds new employees to NetScout.
Acquisitions
NetScout Systems acquired Network General in 2007. Network General developed the original network packet sniffer (The Sniffer) in 1986; it merged with McAfee Associates in 1997 to form Network Associates. In mid-2004, Network Associates sold off the Sniffer Technologies business to Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group for $275 million in cash to form Network General. In early 2006, Network General acquired Fidelia Technology, adding the NetVigil Business Service Monitoring technology to their netwo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak
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Emacspeak is a free computer application, a speech interface, and an audio desktop (as opposed to a screen reader). It employs Emacs (which is written in C), Emacs Lisp, and Tcl. Developed principally by T. V. Raman (himself blind since childhood, and who has worked on voice software with Adobe Software and later IBM), it was first released in April 1995. It is portable to all POSIX-compatible OSs. It is tightly integrated with Emacs, allowing it to render intelligible and useful content rather than parsing the graphics (hence it is sometimes referred to not as a separate program, but a subsystem of Emacs); its default voice synthesizer (as of 2002, IBM's ViaVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS)) can be replaced with other software synthesizers when a server module is installed. Emacspeak is one of the most popular speech interfaces for Linux, bundled with most major distributions. In 2014, Raman wrote an article describing how the software's design was impacted by shifts in computer technology and its general usage over 20 years.
Emacspeak achieves its integration by being written largely in Emacs Lisp using "advice", enabling it to literally be a wrapper around most functions that change or otherwise modify the display. Auditorily, verbalizations are pre-emptible, and common actions like opening a menu or closing a file have a brief sound associated with that particular action; it also immediately verbalizes all insertions of characters, and attempts to speak as much of the context sentences around the cursor's present location as possible.
Emacspeak facilitates access to a wide variety of content, from the web to DAISY books.
On Monday, April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian Museum's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Version history
As of August 5, 2023, Emacspeak is at version 58. Each release was codenamed after a dog.
References
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/#synths
External links
Official list of Emacs applications that work with Emacspeak (~146); notably Sawfish, Dired, w3m/lynx, erc, mplayer, OpenSSH, ispell etc.
Emacspeak mailing list
Paper on Emacspeak by T. V. Raman
Blog by T. V. Raman, on using Emacspeak
Emacspeak Installation HOWTO -(from The Linux Documentation Project)
"A Gentle Introduction to Emacspeak: a quickstart for normal people"
Emacspeak on the EmacsWiki
Emacspeak Tricks
Emacs
Free screen readers
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in Lisp
Free software programmed in Tcl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INIT
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Init or INIT may refer to:
init, the first process started during boot of a Unix system
INIT (Mac OS), a system-extension mechanism in Apple Macintosh operating system prior to OS X
INIT II, an intranasal insulin clinical trial
Init Records, an American record label
International IT College of Sweden
INIT, a German-headquartered IT company working in public transport
See also
Initialization (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20Brothers
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Elliott Brothers may refer to:
Elliott Brothers (computer company), an early computer company (1950s–1960s), U.K.
Elliott Brothers (builders merchant), a builders' merchant, Southampton, U.K.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20selection
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Model selection is the task of selecting a model from among various candidates on the basis of performance criterion to choose the best one.
In the context of machine learning and more generally statistical analysis, this may be the selection of a statistical model from a set of candidate models, given data. In the simplest cases, a pre-existing set of data is considered. However, the task can also involve the design of experiments such that the data collected is well-suited to the problem of model selection. Given candidate models of similar predictive or explanatory power, the simplest model is most likely to be the best choice (Occam's razor).
state, "The majority of the problems in statistical inference can be considered to be problems related to statistical modeling". Relatedly, has said, "How [the] translation from subject-matter problem to statistical model is done is often the most critical part of an analysis".
Model selection may also refer to the problem of selecting a few representative models from a large set of computational models for the purpose of decision making or optimization under uncertainty.
In machine learning, algorithmic approaches to model selection include feature selection, hyperparameter optimization, and statistical learning theory.
Introduction
In its most basic forms, model selection is one of the fundamental tasks of scientific inquiry. Determining the principle that explains a series of observations is often linked directly to a mathematical model predicting those observations. For example, when Galileo performed his inclined plane experiments, he demonstrated that the motion of the balls fitted the parabola predicted by his model .
Of the countless number of possible mechanisms and processes that could have produced the data, how can one even begin to choose the best model? The mathematical approach commonly taken decides among a set of candidate models; this set must be chosen by the researcher. Often simple models such as polynomials are used, at least initially . emphasize throughout their book the importance of choosing models based on sound scientific principles, such as understanding of the phenomenological processes or mechanisms (e.g., chemical reactions) underlying the data.
Once the set of candidate models has been chosen, the statistical analysis allows us to select the best of these models. What is meant by best is controversial. A good model selection technique will balance goodness of fit with simplicity. More complex models will be better able to adapt their shape to fit the data (for example, a fifth-order polynomial can exactly fit six points), but the additional parameters may not represent anything useful. (Perhaps those six points are really just randomly distributed about a straight line.) Goodness of fit is generally determined using a likelihood ratio approach, or an approximation of this, leading to a chi-squared test. The complexity is generally measured by counting t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cr%C4%81kei%20railway%20station
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Ōrākei railway station in the Auckland suburb of Remuera is located on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. Eastern Line services of the Auckland railway network are the only services that regularly stop at the station. It has an island platform layout and can be reached by an overbridge from Ōrākei Road. It is backed by a car-park and a shopping complex.
History
The station was originally constructed, along with five others, in 1929 on the route of the Westfield Deviation, which was being built to divert the Auckland–Westfield section of the North Island Main Trunk line (NIMT) via a flatter, faster eastern route to link up with the original NIMT tracks at Westfield Junction.
The station closed in March 2023 for Stage 2 of the Rail Network Rebuild, with an expected reopening in January 2024. The Eastern Line closed between Ōtāhuhu and Britomart for major track renewal work and to prepare the Eastern Line for the opening of the City Rail Link.
Ōrākei Bay Village
From 2016 warehouses beside the station were converted for use as shops and a cinema, after a 2008 plan by the Redwood development group, for several skyscraper apartment buildings, green space and waterfront access, had been defeated. A plan limited to six stories was then discussed. It would have retained public access and amenities, and provided a covered train station.
Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services between Britomart Transport Centre and Manukau station via this station. The basic weekday off-peak timetable is:
3 tph to Britomart
3 tph to Manukau
Bus route 781 serves Ōrākei station.
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
References
Rail transport in Auckland
Railway stations in New Zealand
Railway stations opened in 1930
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 1930s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbank%20railway%20station%2C%20Auckland
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Meadowbank railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. Eastern Line services of the Auckland railway network are the only services that regularly stop at the station. It has an island platform layout and can be reached by an overbridge at the corner of Purewa Road and Manapau Street where there is a carpark.
History
The station opened on 21 July 1947, replacing the Purewa railway station which was located next to the Purewa Cemetery.
The station closed in March 2023 for Stage 2 of the Rail Network Rebuild, with an expected reopening in January 2024. The Eastern Line closed between Ōtāhuhu and Britomart for major track renewal work and to prepare the Eastern Line for the opening of the City Rail Link.
Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services between Britomart and Manukau via Meadowbank. The basic weekday off-peak timetable is:
3 tph to Britomart
3 tph to Manukau
Bus route 782 serves Meadowbank station.
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
References
Rail transport in Auckland
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 1940s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20Innes%20railway%20station
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Glen Innes railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. Eastern Line services of the Auckland railway network are the only regular services that stop at the station. It has an island platform layout. Every hour it has at least three services towards Manukau and at least three towards Britomart. In 2006 the station had a major upgrade and is one of the most used non-terminus stations by the public.
History
The station was originally constructed, along with five others, in 1929 on the route of the Westfield Deviation, which was being built to divert the Auckland–Westfield section of the North Island Main Trunk line (NIMT) via a flatter, faster eastern route to link up with the original NIMT tracks at Westfield Junction.
The station closed in March 2023 for Stage 2 of the Rail Network Rebuild, with an expected reopening in January 2024. The Eastern Line closed between Ōtāhuhu and Britomart for major track renewal work and to prepare the Eastern Line for the opening of the City Rail Link.
Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services between Britomart and Manukau via Glen Innes. The basic weekday off-peak timetable is:
3 tph to Britomart
3 tph to Manukau
Bus routes 74, 75, 76, 650, 744, 747 and the Tāmaki Link serve Glen Innes station.
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
References
Rail transport in Auckland
Railway stations in New Zealand
Railway stations opened in 1930
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 1930s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panmure%20railway%20station%2C%20Auckland
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Panmure railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. Eastern Line services of the Auckland railway network are the only regular services that stop at the station. The original Panmure Station opened on 16 November 1930, on a site to the south of the current station. The station was relocated to its current site in 2007. Panmure Station received a major upgrade and became a significant bus-rail interchange, as part of the AMETI project, during the 2012–2014 period.
History
The original station was constructed, along with five others, in 1929 on the route of the Westfield Deviation, which was being built to divert the Auckland–Westfield section of the North Island Main Trunk line (NIMT) via a flatter, faster eastern route to link up with the original NIMT tracks at Westfield Junction.
The deviation was opened for traffic on 11 May 1930. Panmure Station opened on 16 November 1930, and was situated about 100m west of Ireland Road. A small station building was located in the middle of the station's island platform. At the time of opening, the area surrounding the station was predominantly rural. Access to the station was originally provided by two pedestrian bridges. A ramp from the northern end of the platform led to a bridge between Ireland Road and the western side of the station, from where a path provided access to the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway. From the southern end of the platform, a bridge provided access from the platform to a path which led to the Mount Wellington Highway.
By the end of the 1950s the area surrounding the station had become substantially more developed. Ireland Place had become a residential street, and there was a mix of residential and light industrial development on Mount Wellington Highway. Several side-streets had been built between Mount Wellington Highway and the railway. Access from the northern bridge to Ireland Road had been removed, and ramps were added from the southern bridge to William Harvey Place (off Mount Wellington Highway) and Ireland Road.
By the turn of the century, Panmure had grown substantially. The condition of the station, however, had deteriorated. The original station building had been replaced by a much smaller one, the northern footbridge had been removed, and the platform itself had begun to deteriorate. In addition, patronage was low (recorded as 83 boardings per day in 2003) and the station was not located close to the town centre. It was therefore decided to close the original Panmure Station and open a new station between Ellerslie-Panmure Highway and Mountain Road. The new station would be more modern, be closer to the town centre, and provide better connections with bus services. The station was opened in the first half of 2007. It has two side platforms, located below road level. Access is from Ellerslie-Panmure Highway, Mountain Road, and the carpark. A park and ride facility is located adjacent to the eastbound platform. The station's relocation ha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20McLennan
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Jamie McLennan (born June 30, 1971) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who is now an analyst for TSN, TSN Radio 1050, NBC Sports and NHL Network. He spent eleven seasons in the National Hockey League with the New York Islanders (1993–96), St. Louis Blues (1997–2000), Minnesota Wild (2000–01), Calgary Flames (2002–04, 2006–07), New York Rangers (2004) and Florida Panthers (2005–06). His active playing career ended in 2008 after a year with the Nippon Paper Cranes of Asia League Ice Hockey. He is popularly known by his nickname Noodles because of his preference for eating Crockpot Kraft Dinner instead of normal human food on minor-league bus rides before away games. Noodles was once snubbed by Rock Legend Eddie Vedder and 25 years later still holds a grudge.
Playing career
Following a productive season with the Western Hockey League's Lethbridge Hurricanes in which McLennan backstopped the Hurricanes to the WHL Finals, he was drafted in the third round, 48th overall by the New York Islanders in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. After a two and a half-year stint playing for the Islanders' minor league affiliates in the American, International and East Coast Hockey Leagues, McLennan backed-up veteran Ron Hextall in the 1993–94 season, posting a winning record. He spent the following two seasons with the Islanders organization, alternating between the NHL club and the Islanders' IHL affiliate.
A few weeks after the 1995–96 NHL season had been completed, McLennan drove from Salt Lake City, Utah to Lethbridge, Alberta, on his way home to Edmonton. While visiting family in Lethbridge he fell ill. He went to a hospital on May 6, 1996, after feeling sick all evening, with immobility setting in. What was thought to be the flu turned out to be bacterial meningitis. After nearly dying that day, he spent the following week in intensive care. The Islanders declined to renew his contract on July 1.
The St. Louis Blues signed him to a contract on July 15. After a relatively quick recovery he spent the following season in the AHL. He returned to the NHL as the Blues' back-up goaltender for the 1997–98 NHL season. That year he played 30 games, posting 16 wins, two shutouts and a 2.17 goals against average. He was awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, awarded to the NHL player who best displays perseverance and dedication to hockey. He was picked off the Blues' roster by the Minnesota Wild in the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft. After a season playing for the expansion Wild, he played the following season in the AHL.
The Calgary Flames acquired him in a trade at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, where he again played the role of NHL backup, achieving two wins in 17 decisions. Despite his 2–11–4 record, he remained with the team as Roman Turek's backup. When Turek became injured in the 2003–04 season, McLennan was thrust into the starting role. He played well, but as the season wore, Miikka Kiprusoff, who had been acquired earlier in the season by the Flam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Disney
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Saturday Disney is a long running Australian children's television program which aired on the Seven Network in Australia for over 26 years, with the first episode going to air on 27 January 1990. The show was a television block which aired on Saturday mornings, consisting mainly of Disney television series dispersed between hosted content. The original presenters were Jeniene Mapp, James Sherry and Sofie Formica, and the final presenters were Nathan Morgan, Candice Dixon and Teigan Nash. Many hosts have gone on to achieve successful careers in Australian television.
On 5 September 2009, the show celebrated its 1,000th episode. Saturday Disney aired its final episode on 24 September 2016.
Hosts
Notes
Saturday Disney had three hosts at any one time, always consisting of two females and one male.
The presenters were also credited as segment producers, and they wrote and researched their own stories.
The only exception of having more than three hosts on air at one time was whenever a co-host was leaving and their replacement was introduced on screen, either a number of weeks beforehand, or during the final episode of the co-host who was leaving.
Shae Brewster was the longest-serving presenter in the history of the show. She hosted the show for three months short of eleven years.
Appearances by hosts after leaving the show
Both Shelley Craft and Melanie Symons returned to the show as guests after their departures. Craft returned on 26 October 2002 to talk about her new hosting role on Perfect Match and via satellite on 29 October 2005 for the 800th episode. Symons returned on 2 August 2003 to promote Australia's Best Backyards.
Several hosts have appeared after their departure through old footage. On the 999th episode on 29 August 2009, footage of every previous presenter who had been on the show was aired, looking back at the show's then 19-year history.
Sally Stanton was interviewed by Teigan Nash on 2 May 2015 at the Cinderella red carpet event. Stanton was reporting for Event TV.
Melanie Symons, Daniel Widdowson, Shae Brewster, Sally Stanton and Jack Yabsley featured as guests in the final episode which aired 24 September 2016. James Sherry also appeared via a video message.
History
Part of the Seven Network's output deal and long-running relationship with Disney in the late 1980s was to adopt a local program to feature new animated series such as DuckTales mixed with local studio segments. This was part of an international franchise of programs in the global market to be named Disney Club, the Australian version being located in Brisbane. The producers of this version convinced Disney to allow them to use the Saturday Disney title to avert confusion with The Mickey Mouse Club, a title which seemed dated. The original set was designed to reflect Queensland architecture and make the viewers feel like they were visiting a friend's house on a Saturday morning. The set has since changed several times, the most recent set being introdu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood%20%28computer%20virus%29
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Westwood is a computer virus, a variant of the Jerusalem family, discovered August 1990, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
The virus was isolated by a UCLA engineering student who discovered it in a copy
of the "speed.com" program distributed with a new motherboard. Viral infection was first indicated when an early version of Microsoft Word reported internal checksum failure and failed to run.
Infection
Westwood was an early variant of the Jerusalem virus, which was the first DOS file infector to become common. Upon execution of an infected file, Westwood becomes memory resident. Any file of COM, EXE, or OVL types is infected upon execution, except COMMAND.COM.
Symptoms
A number of symptoms are associated with Westwood:
COM files executed will increase by 1,829 bytes in size; EXE and OVL files will increase by between 1,819 and 1,829 bytes.
Interrupts 8 and 21 will be hooked; on Friday the 13th, interrupt 22 will also be hooked.
Thirty minutes after the virus goes memory resident, the system will slow down, and a small black box will appear in the bottom left-hand corner of the machine, as common among most Jerusalem variants.
These symptoms are not indicative of a Westwood infection, although the final symptom is certainly not regular program behaviour, and any automatic file size increase of executables is suspicious. The infection mechanism in Westwood is better-written than the original Jerusalem's. The original would re-infect files until they grew to ridiculous sizes. Westwood infects only once.
As with most Jerusalem variants, Westwood contains a destructive payload. On every Friday the 13th, interrupt 22 will be hooked. All programs executed on this date while the virus is memory resident will be deleted.
Westwood is functionally similar to Jerusalem, but the coding is quite different in many areas. Because of this, virus removal signatures used to detect the original Jerusalem had to be modified to detect Westwood. Organisations such as Virus Bulletin used to use Westwood to test virus scanners for ability to distinguish Jerusalem variants.
Prevalence
The WildList , an organization tracking computer viruses, never reported Westwood as being in the field. However, its isolation was made after the virus had made infections in the community of Westwood. It is unknown how much Westwood spread outside California (with a few reports in neighbouring states), especially as Westwood is easily mis-diagnosed as Jerusalem.
Since the advent of Windows, even successful Jerusalem variants have become increasingly uncommon. As such, Westwood is considered obsolete.
External links
McAfee Description
DOS file viruses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%27s%20Valley
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is a computer virus, a member of the Slow virus family and distantly related to the Jerusalem virus family. It was discovered in September 1990 in Scotts Valley, California.
It is named after the city of Scotts Valley, although that is spelled without an apostrophe.
Infection
Scott's Valley is a very standard memory resident DOS file infector. Upon execution, it goes memory resident and infects COM and EXE files as they are opened. It does not infect COMMAND.COM. Because Scott's Valley has never been fully analysed, it is unknown whether it also infects OVL files as most Jerusalem variants do.
Symptoms
Scott's Valley is only partially analysed, and as such, this list of symptoms may be incomplete.
COM files executed will increase by 2,131 bytes in size; EXE files will increase by between 2,131 and 2,140 bytes.
Interrupt 21 will be hooked.
Infected files will contain the seemingly meaningless hex string 5E8BDE909081C63200B912082E.
Scott's Valley is a member of the Slow virus family, which has been associated with system slowdowns, although this symptom is unconfirmed. This could stem from the Slow virus' (and thus the Scott's Valley virus') relationship to the Jerusalem virus, which slowed down the system after 30 seconds and displayed a black box in the lower lefthand corner. It is not believed that Scott's Valley exhibits the "black box" behaviour, nor that it carries Jerusalem's destructive payload.
Prevalence
The WildList , an organisation tracking computer viruses, never reported Scott's Valley as being in the field. Although it was isolated in the field spreading in California, there is no evidence to suggest it ever became common. Like most older, rare DOS viruses, it is probable that Scott's Valley has become extinct, and obsolete at the minimum.
External links
McAfee Description
DOS file viruses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20%28computer%20virus%29
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Sunday is a computer virus (program file virus), a member of the Jerusalem virus family. It was discovered in November 1989 after a number of simultaneous reports from Seattle, Washington, United States, and surrounding areas. Several other Seattle outbreaks, including AirCop, were later traced to Asia.
Infection
Sunday is a standard patched Jerusalem variant in the way it infects files. It is a type of program file virus. It is a directly modified version of the original Jerusalem.1803. It infects .EXE, .COM, and files. Like the original Jerusalem, infected files occasionally become corrupted.
Symptoms
Sunday is less easily identified than the original Jerusalem, in part because of corrected errors and in part because its payload is poorly written and fails to execute.
COM and EXE files increase by size. COM files increase by a set amount, while EXE files increase by somewhere between that amount and 9 or 10 bytes less. Unlike the original Jerusalem, files will not be infected many times.
Interrupt 21 will be hooked.
Infected files will contain the string "Today is SunDay! Why do you work so hard? All work and no play make you a dull boy! Come on! Let's go out and have some fun!"
The capitalization of "Sunday" is reported variously as "Sunday" or "SunDay", and may depend on the variant.
Because of an error in coding, the virus fails to execute its payload, intended to set off on Sundays of every year other than 1989. This is to print the previously indicated text on the screen and then delete all files run while the virus is memory resident, as the original Jerusalem did every Friday the 13th.
Prevalence
The WildList, an organisation tracking computer viruses, listed Sunday as spreading in various forms from shortly after the list was started until 1998. Like all DOS viruses, Sunday suffered with the debut of Windows. It is now considered obsolete, although the virus was common enough that the use of previously dormant files has resulted in recent infections. However, anything other than a localised outbreak is unlikely.
References
DOS file viruses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCC%20Summit
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The GCC Summit was an annual conference for developers of the GNU Compiler Collection and related free software technologies. The conference was a 3-day event and was held from 2003–2010 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with the exception of the 2009 summit, which was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has been replaced by the GNU Tools Cauldron.
GCC Summit dates
2003: May 25–27 (proceedings)
2004: June 2–4 (proceedings)
2005: June 22–24 (proceedings)
2006: June 28–30 (proceedings)
2007: July 18–20 (proceedings)
2008: June 17–19 (proceedings)
2009: June 8–10 (proceedings)
2010: October 25–27 (proceedings, individual papers and slides)
GNU Tools Cauldron
The GCC Summit has been replaced by the GNU Tools Cauldron, a conference held by GNU mainly focused on GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), but also GNU Debugger, GNU Binutils, and others.
See also
Summit (meeting)
Compiler
References
Free-software conferences
Linux conferences
Recurring events established in 2003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse%20Crespo
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Alphonse Crespo (aka Luis Crespo) is a Swiss orthopedic surgeon. Founder in 2007 of Medicine & Liberty a medical network dedicated to the study and advocacy of liberty, ethics & market in medical services. President of the Cercle de philosophie politique Benjamin Constant at the Institut Libéral a Swiss free-market think tank. Author of Esculape Foudroyé, ed. Les Belles Lettres Paris 1991 and of numerous essays and articles such as Medicine: Deregulated or Dead , Black Market Medicine an Ethical alternative to State Control , Outlawing Medicine or The End of Welfare and its effect on the Poor. From Adam Smith to Karl Marx... and back Une sieste à La Havane & autres récits obituaires" (fiction). Amazon books of "La désobéissance civile" (2012) in "Libres" . Le serment d'Hippocrate et l'éthique de la liberté in "Au chevet du système de santé", ed. Institut Liberal 2013..
His writings advocate a libertarian approach to medical ethics and a full return of medicine to the free market.
References
Sources
FMH - Swiss Federation of Doctors
Medicine & Liberty,
Amazon books,
Swiss orthopedic surgeons
Swiss libertarians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shopping%20Bags
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The Shopping Bags was a Canadian television series that aired on the W Network in Canada and on Fine Living in the United States. Launched in 2002, the series focused on consumer affairs and better shopping. Each week, the program looked at several goods and services to discover which one was the best. This was also done to guide viewers towards which product or service may best suit their needs. The program looked at day-to-day shopping and big ticket items, as well as having a final "Shopping Thought" at the end of each program.
The Shopping Bags was produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Worldwide Bag Media Inc. The hosts and show creators are award-winning journalists Anna Wallner and Kristina Matisic. The show first aired on the W Network, a television channel in Canada aimed at women. The program was also broadcast on Fine Living in the United States, a channel aimed at both male and female viewers.
In 2005, a companion book to The Shopping Bags television show was written by Wallner and Matisic and published in 2006. The book is titled The Shopping Bags: Tips, Tricks, and Inside Information to Make You a Savvy Shopper.
The show received seven awards including the 2007 Leo Award for Best Hosts in an Information or Lifestyle Series and the 2006 Leo Award for Best Hosts in an Information or Lifestyle Series.
The show ended in 2008, and was replaced by Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag.
List of guest experts
(Names are from the episodes)
Martha Stewart, American business magnate, author, editor, former stock broker, model, homemaking advocate, and convicted felon (insider trading).
Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion Designer
Randy Bachman
Robin Coope, Physicist
Nina Hirvi, Nutritionist
Vincent Pastore, Television Actor and Sirius Satellite Radio Broadcaster
Candice Olson, Interior designer
Paula Begoun, Beauty Expert and Author
Jason Rivers, Dermatologist
Massimo Marcone, Food scientist
Rob Feenie, Chef
Robert Colin Newell, Coffee expert-writer-blogger
Dr. Derek Swain, Child psychologist and School Counselor
See also
Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag
Anna & Kristina's Beauty Call
References
External links
Anna & Kristina's (The Shopping Bags) official website
Program website from W Network
Program website from Fine Living
Excerpt from The Shopping Bags book from Good Morning America
Kristina Matisic's bio on Anna & Kristina's official website
Anna Wallner's bio on Anna & Kristina's official website
TV show fan page for The Shopping Bags on Facebook
Anna & Kristina's photostream on Flickr
Anna & Kristina's tweets on Twitter
Anna & Kristina's videos on YouTube
Worldwide Bag Media Inc. corporate information
CoffeeCrew.com Canada's oldest coffee website
2000s Canadian television news shows
Television shows filmed in Vancouver
Television series by Force Four Entertainment
Consumer protection television series
W Network original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal%20or%20No%20Deal%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29
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Deal or No Deal is an Australian game show that originally aired on the Seven Network from 13 July 2003 to 4 October 2013. It was the first international version of the game show, after the original from the Netherlands. It was the first of the versions to use the Deal or No Deal name. It was hosted by Andrew O'Keefe for its entire 10-year run.
Many changes were made to Deal or No Deal during its run. These included, among others, changing from a weekly format to a daily format, which resulted in the reduction of the top prize from $2,000,000 to $200,000; interactive features inviting home viewers to play along with "Double Deal Friday"; and additional special features added to the game (such as "Double or Nothing" and "Super Case"). The show included many special episodes including several hour-long prime-time specials (such as the "Test of the Psychics Special" and the "Unluckiest Players Special") and the successful Dancing with the Deals which occurred in conjunction with Dancing with the Stars.
No new episodes were produced between October 2013 and September 2015, with only repeat episodes airing at 5:00 pm weeknights during this time period. It was announced in March 2014 that no new episodes would be produced, and in August 2015 it was announced that the show, along with Million Dollar Minute, would be axed and replaced by a new one-hour game show titled The Chase Australia.
In October 2023, it was announced Network 10 would be reviving the series in 2024, with new host Grant Denyer.
Format
Weekly Format
Preliminary rounds
The game begins with 200 people in the audience divided into eight numbered "blocks" of 25. In the first round, the audience is divided into a red team (blocks 1-4) and a blue team (blocks 5-8). The players had to answer three multiple choice questions using keypads. Each correct answer scored their team a point, the team with the most points after the three questions moved on to the next round where the four blocks of the winning team played each other over three more questions. The block with the most points after this round moves onto "the podium". At this point another player is selected at random from the remaining seven blocks to re-join the game.
The players on the podium play another round of trivia questions, this time playing individually. Players get points for correct answers equal to the number of players who answer incorrectly, for example if 10 players answer correctly, that means 16 answered incorrectly so the 10 players who answered correctly get 16 points each. In case of a tie, players are ranked by how quickly they lock in their answer. The two players with the highest score and/or fastest answers after five questions move on to "the Orb".
At the Orb, the two final players have to guess an answer with the help of up to six clues. The round is played in a sudden death style - if either player buzzes in and gives an incorrect answer or hesitates for too long, then their opponent wins and moves
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Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering—
Bedsores—
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Biochemistry topics list —
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Biotelemetry —
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Brain implant
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Cochlear implant —
Corrective lens —
Crutch —
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Dental implant —
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Functional electrical stimulation
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Genetic engineering —
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Health care —
Heart-lung machine —
Heart rate monitor —
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Implant —
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator —
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Safety engineering —
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Tissue engineering —
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaFLO
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MediaFLO was a technology developed by Qualcomm for transmitting audio, video and data to portable devices such as mobile phones and personal televisions, used for mobile television. In the United States, the service powered by this technology was branded as FLO TV.
Broadcast data transmitted via MediaFLO includes live, real time audio and video streams, as well as scheduled video and audio clips and shows. The technology could also carry Internet Protocol datacast application data, such as stock market quotes, sports scores, and weather reports.
In October 2010, Qualcomm announced it was suspending new sales of the service to consumers. In December 2010, AT&T announced that it will purchase Qualcomm's FCC licenses in the 700 MHz band. FLO TV discontinued service on March 27, 2011.
Overview
The "FLO" in MediaFLO stood for Forward Link Only, meaning that the data transmission path is one way, from the tower to the device. The MediaFLO system transmitted data on a frequency separate from the frequencies used by current mobile telephone networks. In the United States, the MediaFLO system used frequency spectrum 716-722 MHz, which had previously been allocated to UHF TV channel 55.01Nov2004 Qualcomm press release regarding 700 MHz spectrum usage for MediaFLO
FLO was standardized within ETSI as TS 102 589, and has components standardized within the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA 1099, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1120, 1130, 1132, 1146 and 1178.)
MediaFLO was a competitor to the Korean T-DMB, the Japanese 1seg and the European DVB-H standards.
Qualcomm conducted MediaFLO technical trials internationally, with the intention of forming partnerships with existing multi-channel content providers and service operators, but has since discontinued development.
Technology
The protocol was developed because of the inherent spectral inefficiency of unicasting high-rate full-motion video to multiple subscribers. Additionally, traditional analog television and over-the-air terrestrial digital television signals (DVB-T) were difficult to implement on mobile devices, due mostly to issues of power consumption. ATSC, used only by the United States and its neighbors, also has difficulty even with fixed reception due to multipath, and mobile ATSC-M/H (which is free-to-air from individual TV stations) was not finalized until 2008.
In addition, the transmission need not convey as high a resolution as would be needed for a larger display. MediaFLO streams are only 200-250 kbit/s, which would be insufficient for a larger screen size.
In the now defunct United States implementation, FLO was transmitted by a network of high-power broadcast transmitters operating at effective radiated powers as high as 50 kilowatts. This allowed for a coverage area of a transmitter to be as large as . The activation of many of these transmitters were delayed due to the official end of analog TV broadcasting on channel 55 being delayed. Immediately following the transition, the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Glutton%20Bowl
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The Glutton Bowl (or The Glutton Bowl: The World's Greatest Eating Competition) is a two-hour competitive eating special that was broadcast Fox Network on February 21, 2002 and was sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. The special, which was co-executive produced by Nash Entertainment and IFOCE co-founder Richard Shea, featured Mark Thompson and IFOCE co-founder George Shea as hosts/color commentators. The 32-eater tournament was won by Takeru Kobayashi of Japan. The event also included such noteworthy world record eaters as Eric "Badlands" Booker, Dominic "The Doginator" Cardo, Don "Moses" Lerman, Edward "Cookie" Jarvis, and Bill "El Wingador" Simmons.
Contest Set Up
The competition was set up to have 3 rounds — the qualifiers, the wild card round, and the finals. In each round competitors were to eat the most of one specified food in a set amount of time. The winner of each qualifying competition was automatically in the finals. The runner up in each qualifier competed in the wild card round and the winner of that was the last person put in the final.
Round-by-Round
The list of foods eaten in each round and the winning amount eaten are as follows (each competition was 12 minutes long):
Qualifying Rounds
Hard-boiled eggs
the winner, Eric "Badlands" Booker (USA), ate 38 eggs
Quarter-pound sticks of butter
the winner, Don "'Paula Deen' Moses" Lerman (USA), ate 10 sticks
Whole beef tongue
to each tongue
the winner, Dominic "The Doginator" Cardo (USA), ate 1 tongue plus a few bites of another
Hot Dogs
the winner, Takeru Kobayashi (Japan), ate 31 hot dogs — bun and all
Mayonnaise
per bowl.
the winner, Oleg Zhornitskiy (Ukraine) ate 4 bowls which is equivalent to of mayo
Hamburgers
meat patties plus the bun (fast food type burgers)
the winner, Jed "The Jalapeno King" Donahue (USA), ate 11 hamburgers
Sushi
, . sushi roll, including two pieces of wasabi
the winner, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons (USA), consumed
Wild Card Round
Cooked (but not fried) Rocky Mountain Oysters
Finals
Cow brain ( each)
one plate and on to second ( per platter and for additional platter)
won by Takeru Kobayashi (Japan)
References
Competitive eating
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
2002 television specials
2000s American television specials
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonelli%E2%80%93Shanks%20algorithm
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The Tonelli–Shanks algorithm (referred to by Shanks as the RESSOL algorithm) is used in modular arithmetic to solve for r in a congruence of the form r2 ≡ n (mod p), where p is a prime: that is, to find a square root of n modulo p.
Tonelli–Shanks cannot be used for composite moduli: finding square roots modulo composite numbers is a computational problem equivalent to integer factorization.
An equivalent, but slightly more redundant version of this algorithm was developed by
Alberto Tonelli
in 1891. The version discussed here was developed independently by Daniel Shanks in 1973, who explained:
My tardiness in learning of these historical references was because I had lent Volume 1 of Dickson's History to a friend and it was never returned.
According to Dickson, Tonelli's algorithm can take square roots of x modulo prime powers pλ apart from primes.
Core ideas
Given a non-zero and a prime (which will always be odd), Euler's criterion tells us that has a square root (i.e., is a quadratic residue) if and only if:
.
In contrast, if a number has no square root (is a non-residue), Euler's criterion tells us that:
.
It is not hard to find such , because half of the integers between 1 and have this property. So we assume that we have access to such a non-residue.
By (normally) dividing by 2 repeatedly, we can write as , where is odd. Note that if we try
,
then . If , then is a square root of . Otherwise, for , we have and satisfying:
; and
is a -th root of 1 (because ).
If, given a choice of and for a particular satisfying the above (where is not a square root of ), we can easily calculate another and for such that the above relations hold, then we can repeat this until becomes a -th root of 1, i.e., . At that point is a square root of .
We can check whether is a -th root of 1 by squaring it times and check whether it is 1. If it is, then we do not need to do anything, as the same choice of and works. But if it is not, must be -1 (because squaring it gives 1, and there can only be two square roots 1 and -1 of 1 modulo ).
To find a new pair of and , we can multiply by a factor , to be determined. Then must be multiplied by a factor to keep . So, when is -1, we need to find a factor so that is a -th root of 1, or equivalently is a -th root of -1.
The trick here is to make use of , the known non-residue. The Euler's criterion applied to shown above says that is a -th root of -1. So by squaring repeatedly, we have access to a sequence of -th root of -1. We can select the right one to serve as . With a little bit of variable maintenance and trivial case compression, the algorithm below emerges naturally.
The algorithm
Operations and comparisons on elements of the multiplicative group of integers modulo p are implicitly mod p.
Inputs:
p, a prime
n, an element of such that solutions to the congruence r2 = n exist; when this is so we say that n is a quadratic residue mod p.
Outputs:
r
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSB-TV
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VSB-TV (channel 11) was a television station in Hamilton, Bermuda, which served the British territory as an affiliate of the American network NBC. The station was owned by the DeFontes Group, a Bermuda-based company which also owned and operated radio stations on the island.
On August 31, 2014, VSB-TV ceased broadcasting over the air due to financial difficulties; it had not launched digital operations in ATSC, Bermuda's digital television format. The news operation continued online for one more year before DeFontes completely ceased operations.
Programming and newscasts
VSB's schedule ran an hour ahead of the Eastern Time Zone without any delays, which meant prime time began at 9:00 p.m. Atlantic Time and Today began live at 8:00 a.m. AT, with the late local news carried at midnight AT. The station also ran Access Hollywood Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Other station newscasts were carried at 7:00 p.m. AT and 8:30 p.m. AT, with the NBC Nightly News airing live at 7:30 p.m. AT.
Discontinuation of operations
On August 29, 2014, the ownership of VSB announced that over-the-air broadcasting would be suspended indefinitely due to financial losses, effective August 31, 2014, while expressing the hope that the station might reorganize and return to the air in the future. Declining advertising revenues resulting in continual deficits were cited by DeFontes Group. A daily 20-min. video streaming of VSB News Online continued for another year, produced by VSB staff.
On September 1, 2015, it was announced that Defontes Group would cease all remaining operations and lay off all 19 of its staff. The station's news director said, "declining advertising revenues concurrent with the explosion of electronic media had been our death knell", when DeFontes Broadcasting ceased operations completely on September 30, 2015, including its radio stations and online streaming.
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1991 establishments in Bermuda
2014 disestablishments in Bermuda
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop%20shadow
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In graphic design and computer graphics, a drop shadow is a visual effect consisting of a drawing element which looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it. The drop shadow is often used for elements of a graphical user interface such as windows or menus, and for simple text. The text label for icons on desktops in many desktop environments has a drop shadow, as this effect effectively distinguishes the text from any colored background it may be in front of.
A simple way of drawing a drop shadow of a rectangular object is to draw a gray or black area underneath and offset from the object. In general, a drop shadow is a copy in black or gray of the object, drawn in a slightly different position. Realism may be increased by:
Darkening the colors of the pixels where the shadow casts instead of making them gray. This can be done with alpha blending the shadow with the area it is cast on.
Softening the edges of the shadow. This can be done by adding Gaussian blur to the shadow's alpha channel before blending.
Inset drop shadows are a type which draws the shadows inside the element. This allows the interface element to appear as if it is sunken into the interface.
Use
Generally, window managers which are capable of compositing allow drop shadow effects, whereas incapable window managers do not. In some operating systems like macOS, drop shadow is used to differentiate between active and inactive windows.
Websites are able to use drop shadow effects through the CSS properties box shadow, text shadow, and filter. The first two are used for elements and text respectively, while the drop shadow filter additionally to the element's content, letting it support oddly shaped elements or transparent images.
External links
Drop shadow definition at Mozilla
References
Computer graphics
Graphic design
Shadows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%20to%20Me%20%281996%20film%29
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Talk to Me is a 1996 made-for-TV drama film directed by Graeme Campbell and starring Yasmine Bleeth and Ricky Paull Goldin. The film aired on the ABC network.
Plot
Diane Shepherd is an idealistic talk-show producer, who is conscience-stricken, when she clashes with her ratings-obsessed and ruthless talk-show executive boss. Diane is forced to produce a tantalizing program about a prostitute which
potentially harms the prostitute, who is trying to turn her life around.
Kelly Reilly is a teenaged mother whose life is exposed on The Howard Grant Show. Kelly desperately wants to lead a normal life, but society is
dragging her back down.
Cast
Yasmine Bleeth as Diane Shepherd
Jenny Lewis as Kelly Reilly
Peter Scolari as Howard Grant
Ricky Paull Goldin as Dwayne
Veronica Hamel as Sadie
Brenda Devine as Jeri Lonigan
Dawn Greenhalgh as Brenda Reilly
Robin Brille as Lucille-Ann
Dorion Davis as Krystal
Tracy Dawson as Thelma
Heather Dick as Kathleen
Terri Drennan as Bo-Peep
D. Garnet Harding as Alan
Kate Hennig as Stacy
Karen Hines as Myra
Lisa Hynes as Wanda
Martin Julien as Randy
Brian Kaulback as Cameraman
Scott Wickware as Bill
Mairlyn Smith as Lana
Laina Timberg as Joey
R.D. Reid as Vernon
Martin Roach as Alex
Cliff Saunders as Chyron
Alison Sealy-Smith as Miriam
Shakura S'Aida as Scarecrow
James Kidnie as Redneck
Walter Alza as Pusher
Suzanne Coy as Prostitute
Dominic Cuzzocrea as The Driver
Reg Dreger as Manager #2
Sam Malkin as The Director
Ralph Small as Manager #1
Jeff Topping as Son
Anne Wessels as Elegant Woman
Louis Wrightman as Junkie
Production credits
Graeme Campbell (Director)
Dan Bronson (Writer)
Steve White (Executive Producer)
Jim Lichtenstein (Co-Executive Producer)
John Perrin Flynn (Producer)
Megan Callaway (co-producer)
External links
imdb link
1996 television films
1996 drama films
1996 films
Films directed by Graeme Campbell (director)
American drama television films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20%28computer%20virus%29
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Alabama is a computer virus, discovered in October 1989 on the campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Infection
Alabama is a fairly standard file infector outside its odd behaviour of deciding what files to infect. When an infected file is executed, Alabama goes memory resident. Whenever a .EXE file is executed from this point on, Alabama will search out for another file to infect. This is probably intended to place blame on the file that is being executed instead of the virus itself. Files infected by Alabama increase in size by 1,560 bytes.
Symptoms
A number of symptoms are associated with Alabama:
EXE files will increase by 1,560 bytes in size upon infection.
On Fridays, Alabama will begin to modify the File Allocation Table. As a result, when a file is executed, another may appear in its place. This is potentially dangerous. For more information, see the payload section.
One hour after an infected program is run, Alabama will bring up a flashing box with the text "SOFTWARE COPIES PROHIBITED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW..............Box 1055 Tuscambia ALABAMA USA."
The third symptom is by far the clearest indication of an Alabama infection. It is unknown what the PO Box address in the virus refers to. However, the implication of the message is that Alabama was released in an attempt to curb software piracy. Similar motivations led to the creation of the first known PC virus, Brain. This message also suggests that the PO Box may very well not belong to the author: the author clearly meant Tuscumbia, Alabama, as Tuscambia is not a city. This supports the theory that the virus originated in Israel.
Payload
On Fridays, Alabama will begin to modify the File Allocation Table in an odd way. Instead of searching for a file to infect, Alabama searches for a file to cross-reference. The virus modifies the FAT entry so that when the user executes one file, another will appear. For instance, on a machine where Alabama is resident, executing PROGRAM1.EXE on a Friday may cause the virus to search for another program and find PROGRAM2.EXE. Alabama will then modify the FAT so that whenever PROGRAM1.EXE is executed, PROGRAM2.EXE displays instead. This certainly can result in confusion, and may result in programs being lost or incorrectly deleted.
Prevalence
The WildList , an organisation tracking computer viruses, never reported Alabama as being in the field. It was isolated spreading in Israel, but this may have been a limited local outbreak.
Since the advent of Windows, even successful DOS viruses have become increasingly rare. As such, Alabama can be considered obsolete.
Variants
There is one known variant of Alabama. Alabama.B was distributed as a modified SDIR.COM. SDIR.COM was a program created to replace the DOS DIR command. Like the original Alabama, the "B" variant does not infect .COM files. The modified SDIR.COM is simply used as a dropper.
References
External links
F-Secure
McAfee
Panda Security
DOS file viruses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf%20Kirkvaag
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Rolf Kirkvaag (20 September 1920 – 24 January 2003) was a Norwegian journalist, and a radio- and TV personality. He worked for NRK, the Norwegian state broadcasting network, between 1947 and 1959, and 1969 and 1990. From 1972 to 1985 he was entertainment director.
Already a popular public persona, his fame grew enormously after an incident in 1956. Kirkvaag was among the passengers on a Braathens SAFE plane that crashed by Hommelfjell, the Hummelfjell Accident. Two people were dead and ten still alive. Kirkvaag – with a broken bone in his foot – and another passenger had to walk for help. The incident made Kirkvaag a national hero, and he has since been referred to as Norway's first celebrity.
Among the shows he hosted were the children's show Titten Tei and the radio quiz show 20 spørsmål (20 Questions). He was also a commentator for numerous sporting events, like the 1952 Winter Olympics. Rolf Kirkvaag's son, Trond Kirkvaag, was a well-known television comedian. Trond, who died in 2007, wrote a controversial biography of his father shortly before his own death. Here he described Rolf's darker side, and alleged that he had been an emotionally distant and occasionally violent father.
References
External links
1920 births
2003 deaths
Norway men's national ice hockey team coaches
Norwegian sports broadcasters
Norwegian television personalities
NRK people
Writers from Oslo
Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents
20th-century Norwegian journalists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20Romania
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The dialling plan for mobile networks (numbers starting with 07) and new landline operators (numbers starting with 03) is closed; all subscriber numbers must be dialled in full. For landline numbers starting with 02, the dialling plan used to be open; the trunk digit and area code could be omitted if the caller was in the same area code as the callee. However, starting May 3, 2008, all landline numbers must be dialled in full.
History
Landlines
Prior to 1990, there was no direct international access. Numbers had 5 digits except for Bucharest, where numbers were 6 digits long. Area code started with 9 and were 2 digits long for Bucharest (90-xxx-xxx) and 3 digits long (9pp-xx-xxx) for the rest of the country. The Bucharest surrounding area had the area code 909, followed by 5 digits number.
Somewhere in the end of the 80s, some big cities' area codes were upgraded, including the last digit of the area code into the local number, thus making it 6-digits long. However, calling between non-local areas always required dialling the area code, even when the called party's code was the same as the caller's. For example, a number from Iași was 981-xx-xxx, then it became 98-1xx-xxx. A number from Suceava was 982-xx-xxx, but then it became 98-2xx-xxx. Apart from Bucharest, Brașov was the first city to have 6-digit numbers.
Many smaller town or rural area calling implied using manual commutation circuits operated by humans.
Short numbers for special services, like cab companies, were three digits long, starting with 0:
00 used for checking the phone line.
01, later 011 local exchange operator (free number)
02, later 021 telephone line service (possibly telephone service, if bought or rented from the telephone company)
023 elevators service (only in Bucharest)
03, later 031 telephone directory
05, later 051 informations
055 police (unknown implementation on 2-digit codes)
058 exact time (every 10 seconds)
059 weather forecast (recorded message)
06, later 061 ambulance (free number)
07, later 071 international calls via operator
08, later 081 fire brigade (free number)
09, later 091 domestic calls via operator (reverse charge or calls to manual commutation lines)
After 1989, the then-monopolistic state-owned phone company started a process of upgrading its facilities. In 1992, it started increasing the size of a number to 7 digits in Bucharest and 6 digits in the rest of the country and by changing the prefixing scheme. The long distance code was changed from 9 to 0, the area code for Bucharest became 01, while to the rest of the country was temporarily given a 0 before the older area codes. For a short period, the surrounding of Bucharest (now Ilfov county) had the area code 0179, which has been eventually included into the Bucharest numbering plan as 01-79x-xxxx. The 02 code was used for calls to the Republic of Moldova.
In 1993, the other counties were given new area codes (30 to 69). The previous area code system did not follow the coun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20data%20structure
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In computer science, an implicit data structure or space-efficient data structure is a data structure that stores very little information other than the main or required data: a data structure that requires low overhead. They are called "implicit" because the position of the elements carries meaning and relationship between elements; this is contrasted with the use of pointers to give an explicit relationship between elements. Definitions of "low overhead" vary, but generally means constant overhead; in big O notation, O(1) overhead. A less restrictive definition is a succinct data structure, which allows greater overhead.
Definition
An implicit data structure is one with constant space overhead (above the information-theoretic lower bound).
Historically, defined an implicit data structure (and algorithms acting on one) as one "in which structural information is implicit in the way data are stored, rather than explicit in pointers." They are somewhat vague in the definition, defining it most strictly as a single array, with only the size retained (a single number of overhead), or more loosely as a data structure with constant overhead (). This latter definition is today more standard, and the still-looser notion of a data structure with non-constant but small overhead is today known as a succinct data structure, as defined by ; it was referred to as semi-implicit by .
A fundamental distinction is between static data structures (read-only) and dynamic data structures (which can be modified). Simple implicit data structures, such as representing a sorted list as an array, may be very efficient as a static data structure, but inefficient as a dynamic data structure, due to modification operations (such as insertion in the case of a sorted list) being inefficient.
Examples
A trivial example of an implicit data structure is an array data structure, which is an implicit data structure for a list, and requires only the constant overhead of the length; unlike a linked list, which has a pointer associated with each data element, which explicitly gives the relationship from one element to the next. Similarly, a null-terminated string is an implicit data structure for a string (list of characters). These are considered very simple because they are static data structures (read-only), and only admit the simple operation of iteration over the elements.
Similarly simple is representing a multi-dimensional array as a single 1-dimensional array, together with its dimensions. For example, representing an m × n array as a single list of length m·n, together with the numbers m and n (instead of as a 1-dimensional array of pointers to each 1-dimensional subarray). The elements need not be of the same type, and a table of data (a list of records) may similarly be represented implicitly as a flat (1-dimensional) list, together with the length of each field, so long as each field has uniform size (so a single size can be used per field, not per record).
A les
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tour
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The Tour may refer to:
The Tour de France cycling race
The Tour (album), a 1998 live album by Mary J. Blige
The Olivia Tremor Control/Black Swan Network, an album also known as The Tour EP
The Tour (Kiss and Mötley Crüe), a 2012 concert tour
The Tour (film) (Turneja), a 2008 Bosnian/Serbian film
See also
The Grand Tour, a tour of Europe and the Holy Land conducted by British gentleman in the 18th and 19th century
1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States, widely and controversially known as The Tour in New Zealand
ABBA: The Tour, third and final concert tour by ABBA
Streisand: The Tour, unofficial name of Barbra Streisand's fall 2006 North American concert tour
Anthems: The Tour, debut headlining concert tour of Kerry Ellis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20logic%20network
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A Markov logic network (MLN) is a probabilistic logic which applies the ideas of a Markov network to first-order logic, enabling uncertain inference. Markov logic networks generalize first-order logic, in the sense that, in a certain limit, all unsatisfiable statements have a probability of zero, and all tautologies have probability one.
History
Work in this area began in 2003 by Pedro Domingos and Matt Richardson, and they began to use the term MLN to describe it.
Description
Briefly, it is a collection of formulas from first-order logic, to each of which is assigned a real number, the weight. Taken as a Markov network, the vertices of the network graph are atomic formulas, and the edges are the logical connectives used to construct the formula. Each formula is considered to be a clique, and the Markov blanket is the set of formulas in which a given atom appears. A potential function is associated to each formula, and takes the value of one when the formula is true, and zero when it is false. The potential function is combined with the weight to form the Gibbs measure and partition function for the Markov network.
The above definition glosses over a subtle point: atomic formulas do not have a truth value unless they are grounded and given an interpretation; that is, until they are ground atoms with a Herbrand interpretation. Thus, a Markov logic network becomes a Markov network only with respect to a specific grounding and interpretation; the resulting Markov network is called the ground Markov network. The vertices of the graph of the ground Markov network are the ground atoms. The size of the resulting Markov network thus depends strongly (exponentially) on the number of constants in the domain of discourse.
Inference
The goal of inference in a Markov logic network is to find the stationary distribution of the system, or one that is close to it; that this may be difficult or not always possible is illustrated by the richness of behaviour seen in the Ising model. As in a Markov network, the stationary distribution finds the most likely assignment of probabilities to the vertices of the graph; in this case, the vertices are the ground atoms of an interpretation. That is, the distribution indicates the probability of the truth or falsehood of each ground atom. Given the stationary distribution, one can then perform inference in the traditional statistical sense of conditional probability: obtain the probability that formula A holds, given that formula B is true.
Inference in MLNs can be performed using standard Markov network inference techniques over the minimal subset of the relevant Markov network required for answering the query. These techniques include Gibbs sampling, which is effective but may be excessively slow for large networks, belief propagation, or approximation via pseudolikelihood.
See also
Markov random field
Statistical relational learning
Probabilistic logic network
Probabilistic soft logic
Resources
External lin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20device
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In computer networking, an edge device is a device that provides an entry point into enterprise or service provider core networks. Examples include routers, routing switches, integrated access devices (IADs), multiplexers, and a variety of metropolitan area network (MAN) and wide area network (WAN) access devices. Edge devices also provide connections into carrier and service provider networks. An edge device that connects a local area network to a high speed switch or backbone (such as an ATM switch) may be called an edge concentrator.
Functions
In general, edge devices are normally routers that provide authenticated access (most commonly PPPoA and PPPoE) to faster, more efficient backbone and core networks. The trend is to make the edge device smart and the core device(s) "dumb and fast", so edge routers often include quality of service (QoS) and multi-service functions to manage different types of traffic. Consequently, core networks are often designed with switches that use routing protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) or Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) for reliability and scalability, allowing edge routers to have redundant links to the core network. Links between core networks are different—for example, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routers are often used for peering exchanges.
Translation
Edge devices may translate between one type of network protocol and another. For example, Ethernet or Token Ring types of local area networks (LANs) or xDSL equipment may use an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) backbone to other core networks. ATM networks send data in cells and use connection-oriented virtual circuits. An IP network is packet oriented; so if ATM is used as a core, packets must be encapsulated in cells and the destination address must be converted to a virtual circuit identifier. Some new types of optical fibre use a passive optical network subscriber loop such as GPON, with the edge device connecting to Ethernet for backhaul (telecommunications).
Multiservice units
An edge switch for a WAN may be a multiservice unit, meaning that it supports a wide variety of communication technologies, including Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), T1 circuits, Frame Relay, and ATM. An edge device may provide enhanced services, such as virtual private networking (VPN) support, Voice over IP, and QoS services.
Networking hardware
Internet of things
Ambient intelligence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Real%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
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Get Real is an American comedy-drama series that aired on the Fox Network and ran from September 1999 to April 2000. It follows the fictional Green family headed by parents Mitch and Mary and consisting of three teenagers—Meghan, Cameron, and Kenny. It stars Eric Christian Olsen, Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Debrah Farentino, and Jon Tenney. The series marked both Hathaway and Eisenberg's onscreen debuts. Hathaway and Olsen portrayed the older siblings to Eisenberg's central character.
Premise
The series follows the dysfunctional Green family. Parents Mitch and Mary, who first became parents when they were teenagers, find their marriage has hit the skids. Oldest child Meghan is an achiever who is nominated for class valedictorian and is accepted to UC Berkeley, but she drops a bombshell on her parents when she announces she is foregoing college. Middle child Cameron is a slacker who upsets his mom by bringing girls to stay over for the night. Youngest child Kenny is awkward and a target of bullies. Living with the Greens is Mary's mom Elizabeth, who has taken up residence in their home after the death of her husband.
The Green kids periodically address the camera, a technique show creator Clyde Phillips employed in his previous teen series Parker Lewis Can't Lose. These asides to the audience are sometimes delivered in a sarcastic tone that references popular culture and other TV shows. In the pilot, Meghan comments to the audience, "I know what you're thinking. 'This is another one of those smart-ass shows where the kids talk to the audience' like on um, Dawson's Creek, which, actually come to think of it, I'm not even sure does voice-overs. See, personally I wouldn't be caught dead watching it because there is nothing more obnoxious than self-aware teens who know more about life's great mysteries than their parents. And don't worry, we're not gonna get all sturmy-eyed either like on My So-Called Life. Although, you know, that chick didn't do so bad for herself."
Cast
Jon Tenney as Mitch Green
Debrah Farentino as Mary Green
Eric Christian Olsen as Cameron Green
Anne Hathaway as Meghan Green
Jesse Eisenberg as Kenny Green
Natalie Ramsey as Jennell Hutchison
Scott Vickaryous as Clay Forman
Christina Pickles as Elizabeth Parker
Episodes
Reception
Ray Richmond of Variety reviewed the show positively, saying "it manages to feel sassy, hip and provocative" and "[carries]...sophistication, angst and wit while adding a healthy dash of self-aware irony to the stew." Of the pilot, he added, "[Clyde] Phillips and [Scott] Winant dare viewers to dismiss their show as so much hypersensitive blather, using the characters to satirize the show's zeitgeist via the script's liberal pop-culture referencing", and that "what saves the production as a whole, is its giddy irreverence and sharp observations about the ways that family members at different stages of life endure their distinctive brands of hell."
The Star Tribune also gave a positive rev
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONU
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ONU may refer to:
United Nations in other languages, e.g. French Organisation des Nations Unies and Arabic: منظمة الأمم المتحدة
Olivet Nazarene University
Ohio Northern University
Optical Network Unit, the IEEE term for Optical Network Terminal
Order of Nunavut
Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos, a Puerto Rican criminal organization
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo%20Effect%20%28band%29
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Placebo Effect is a German dark electro band formed in 1989.
History
The band was formed in the late 1980s by Axel Machens (vocals, synth, harmonizer, drum computer), Christoph Kunze (vocals, synth, sampler, percussions) and Achim Windel (vocals, sampler, sequencer, synth). Axel met Christoph in a club in 1989 where Christoph was an EBM DJ. The pair soon discovered that they each owned a synthesizer which led them to begin experimenting with making music together. Achim soon joined Christoph and Axel and the trio began making recordings on four track tapes.
After self-producing several cassette tapes, the band recorded their first full-length album, Galleries of Pain, in 1992. The album was recorded and mixed with the assistance of Bruno Kramm of Das Ich at his Danse Macabre Studio, then released on Kramm's Danse Macabre label. The band informally credited Bruno as the fourth "secret" band member in the studio not only due to his production assistance, but owing to the availability of his studio's electronic music equipment which greatly expanded on what the band had available at the time. Galleries of Pain is considered by many to be a classic EBM album.
Two releases followed Galleries - the Slashed Open EP in 1993 and Manipulated Mind Control in 1994. The creation of Manipulated Mind Control became a turning point for the band due to difficulties during production. External pressures to produce dancefloor oriented tracks in opposition to the band's characteristic atmospherics and internal conflicts left the band not on talking terms post-production. Frustrated and not having the energy to work on new material, the band released a compendium of earlier and rare material in order to finish out their contract with Ausfahrt records. Other than a pair of live shows in 1999 and 2004, the band was effectively defunct until 2014.
In 2011, as part of the Infacted Recordings classics collection, Gargoyles & Galleries was re-mastered and released worldwide limited to 1000 copies. Tracks 1-14 were originally released as the 1992 debut album Galleries of Pain. Tracks 15 to 18 were originally released as the 1990 demo tape Gargoyles.
Placebo Effect played live at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen Leipzig in June 2014 – their first live WGT concert since 2004. The setlist included 2 new songs "Nothing to Cry" and "Slave." The same year, the band re-released Slashed Open as a Limited Deluxe Edition on Purple Vinyl, hand numbered (500 copies) in Gatefold-Cover, including two bonus tracks and one remix.
In 2016, founding member Achim Windel passed away unexpectedly. Achim's death brought Axel and Christoph back into contact and began talk of new collaboration.
In 2017 the remaining two members of the group announced work on a new album, Shattered Souls. The group went on to play live shows in 2018 at the Dark EBM Souls international industrial festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, at Das Bett in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Fortyfication-Festival in Berlin. Live shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20WD%20class
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The NZR WD class was a class of tank locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works to operate on New Zealand's national rail network.
Essentially a more advanced version of 1898's WB class, the eighteen members of the WD class were ordered in 1901 and most entered service that year, though three were not introduced until the start of 1902. Based in locations all around the country, from Auckland in the north to Dunedin in the south, the WD class were suitable for a variety of trains from freight to suburban passenger services. Withdrawal of the class began with WD 356 in January 1933, with the final three, 327, 359, and 360, written off in March 1936. A number were not actually scrapped or dumped but were sold to work on private industrial lines.
Industrial use
Although designed as a large suburban tank locomotive, four WD class locomotives were sold for industrial use after withdrawal by NZR. WD 316 and WD 356 were sold in April 1934 and January 1933 to Wilton Collieries Ltd. for use on their private line between Ngauruwahia and Glen Massey; both were listed as unserviceable by 1935 and were sold for scrap. WD 317 was sold in December 1934 to the Ohai Railway Board for use on their private railway between Ohai and Wairio. This locomotive remained in working order up until 1944, when it was placed in storage and scrapped in 1952.
WD 357 was withdrawn in March 1935 and placed in storage before it was sold to the Timaru Harbour Board in 1938. It remained in use at Timaru until 1964, when it was donated to the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society's Canterbury Branch for preservation on the Ferrymead Railway.
Preservation
WD 357, preserved at Ferrymead Railway, is still fitted with its original boiler and is currently in storage pending overhaul to working order.
During the 1990s, the remains of WD 356 were discovered at Konini, near Pahiatua. It had been dumped for erosion protection during World War II; the frames of the locomotive had been separated into three sections, comprising the front, centre and trailing sections and buried along the riverbank. The front and centre sections were salvaged by Hugh McCracken and moved to Steam Incorporated's depot at Paekakariki. The remains of the locomotive were moved to the Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust's workshops at Maymorn in 2006, pending restoration.
See also
NZR W class
NZR WA class
NZR WB class
NZR WE class
NZR WF class
NZR WG class
NZR WW class
NZR WS / WAB class
Locomotives of New Zealand
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links
Baldwin Steam Trust's official page
Weka Pass Railway's article on WD 357
Wd class
2-6-4T locomotives
Baldwin locomotives
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of New Zealand
Railway locomotives introduced in 1901
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUTH-DT
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KUTH-DT (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Provo, Utah, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision and UniMás networks to Salt Lake City and the state of Utah. The station is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision, and maintains studios on West Amelia Earhart Drive in the northwestern section of Salt Lake City; its transmitter is located west of Orem, in the Lake Mountains.
History
The station first signed on the air on April 17, 2003, as KCBU, operating as an independent station; it was originally owned by Cocola Broadcasting. Univision Communications bought the station in October 2004 and entered into an outsourcing agreement with Equity Broadcasting (which Univision's principals held a stake in at the time) to operate the station. At that time, channel 32 swapped affiliations and call signs with what was then KUTH (Utah's original full-power Univision affiliate on channel 12, licensed to Logan, Utah, which became KUTF in 2005) and became the new Univision affiliate.
When Univision sold the last of its shares in Equity Broadcasting in 2007, KUTH was supposed to go to Equity outright; however, the transfer of KUTH from Univision to Equity never materialized. Later, Univision planned to purchase KUTF to create a duopoly with KUTH but cancelled its plans shortly after Newport Television announced the sale of its Salt Lake City duopoly to High Plains Broadcasting; by that time, private-equity firm Providence Equity Partners owned sizable stakes in both Univision and Newport Television. This cancellation resulted in Newport Television retaining ownership of KTVX (channel 4) and selling only KUCW (channel 30) to High Plains Broadcasting (with Newport Television continuing to control both of those stations).
Under Equity's management of the station, all of KUTH's programming originated from Equity's master control hub at the company's headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas. This arrangement ended on June 12, 2009, as part of the completion of the digital television transition, at which time Univision took over the operations of KUTH outright.
News operation
Under Equity's management of the station, KUTH began airing weeknight newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. The newscasts were produced out of the company's headquarters in Little Rock, with reports filed by Salt Lake City-based reporters. The newscasts were canceled in June 2008, after Equity instituted a companywide suspension of news programs on its Univision-affiliated stations. Local newscasts would not return to KUTH until September 30, 2013, when Univision launched weeknight 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts branded Noticias 32 Salt Lake City.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Translators
Delta
Fillmore, etc.
Leamington
Scipio
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a companion channel for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Pollutant%20Inventory
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The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is a database of Australian pollution emissions managed by the Australian Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments. A condensed version of the information collected is available to the public via the NPI website www.npi.gov.au.
Emissions
The NPI records and makes publicly available the emissions from industrial facilities and diffuse sources of 93 different chemical substances to air, land and water.
Objectives
The objectives of the NPI are to:
Assist industry and government with environmental planning and management;
Provide the community with up to date information about pollutant emissions from industrial facilities; and
Promote waste minimisation, cleaner production, eco-efficiency and energy and resource efficiency.
Sources of data
Australian industrial facilities that use certain amounts of the 93 NPI substances must estimate and report their emissions directly to their state or territory environment agency annually. The state and territory environment agencies review all NPI reports for accuracy and forward
the data to the Australian Government. The reports are then displayed on the NPI public website
Exemptions
The following industrial activities are exempt from the NPI's mandatory reporting requirements:
Mobile emission sources (for example, an aircraft in flight or a ship at sea) operating outside the boundaries of a fixed facility
Petrol stations
Dry cleaners which employ less than 20 people
Scrap metal handling facilities that do not reprocess batteries or engage in metal smelting
Agricultural production facilities, including the growing of trees, aquaculture, horticulture or livestock raising unless it involves intensive livestock production (for example, a piggery, poultry farm or a cattle feedlot) or processing agricultural produce.
During a review of the NPI undertaken in 2005, it was suggested that two industries have their exemptions lifted. They were aquaculture, and crematoria. Reasons given were for their discharges of nutrient to the sea, and mercury to the atmosphere respectively. In 2007, Environment Ministers voted against the lifting of the reporting exemption for aquaculture, despite the review receiving 12 submissions supporting the recommendation, and 5 opposing it.
Aquaculture in Spencer Gulf
This omission of the aquaculture industry from mandatory reporting is significant for Spencer Gulf, South Australia. In this region, southern bluefin tuna and yellowtail kingfish sea-cage aquaculture are the two largest industrial contributors of nitrogenous nutrient pollution to the marine environment. The Spencer Gulf is particularly vulnerable to impacts because its water exchange with the ocean is constrained and the waters are naturally very low in nutrients by world standards. The existing marine communities have evolved to these unique circumstances, and are therefore particularly susceptible to changes in their environment. Iconic marine species of the region i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT%20%28programming%20language%29
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APT (Automatically Programmed Tool) is a high-level computer programming language most commonly used to generate instructions for numerically controlled machine tools. Douglas T. Ross is considered by many to be the father of APT: as head of the newly created Computer Applications Group of the Servomechanisms Laboratory at MIT in 1956, he led its technical effort. APT is a language and system that alleviates the tedious mathematics of writing toolpaths for numerically controlled equipment. This early language was used widely through the 1970s and is still a standard internationally. Derivatives of APT were later developed.
Programming language
APT is used to program numerically-controlled machine tools to create complex parts using a cutting tool moving in space. It is used to calculate a path that a tool must follow to generate a desired form. APT is a special-purpose language and the predecessor to modern computer aided manufacturing (CAM) systems. It was created and refined during the late 1950s and early 1960s to simplify the task of calculating geometry points that a tool must traverse in space to cut the complex parts required in the aerospace industry. It was a direct result of the new numerical control technology becoming available at that time and the daunting task that a machinist or engineer faced calculating the movements of the machine for the complex parts for which it was capable. Its development was centered at the same MIT labs that hosted the Numerical Control and the Milling Machine Projects. APT also was US Air Force sponsored and is notable for being the world's first major cooperative programming venture, combining government agencies, universities, and a 14-company team organized within the Aircraft Industries Association (now Aerospace Industries Association). APT was created before graphical user interfaces were available, and so it relies on text to specify the geometry and toolpaths needed to machine a part. The original version was created before even FORTRAN was available and was the very first ANSI standard. Later versions were rewritten in FORTRAN.
APT shares many similarities with other computer programming languages such as FORTRAN. A general-purpose computer language takes source text and converts the statements to instructions that can be processed internally by a computer. APT converts source statements into programs for driving numerically-controlled machine tools. The output from an APT processor may be a cutter location (CL) file which is then run through a post-processor specific to the desired control - machine pair. The resulting file is then run by the control of the machine to generate tool motions and other machine actions. Most commonly, this file is in some form of RS-274 format instructions, commonly known as G-code.
Example program
PARTNO APT-1
CLPRNT
UNITS / MM
NOPOST
$$ GEOMETRY DEFINITION
P1 = POINT / 50, 50, 0
P2 = POINT / -50, -50, 0
L1 = LINE / P1, PARLEL, (LINE / YAXIS)
L2 = LINE / P2
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ZX%20Spectrum%20games
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This is a sortable list of games for the ZX Spectrum home computer. There are currently games in this incomplete list.
Original run (1982–1994)
Homebrew
References
External links
Spectrum Computing, an up-to-date database of ZX Spectrum software
World Of Spectrum
ZX Spectrum games, List of
ZX Spectrum
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Python%20software
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The Python programming language is actively used by many people, both in industry and academia, for a wide variety of purposes.
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for Python
Atom, an open source cross-platform IDE with autocomplete, help and more Python features under package extensions.
Codelobster, a cross-platform IDE for various languages, including Python.
EasyEclipse, an open source IDE for Python and other languages.
Eclipse ,with the Pydev plug-in. Eclipse supports many other languages as well.
Emacs, with the built-in python-mode.
Eric, an IDE for Python and Ruby
Geany, IDE for Python development and other languages.
IDLE, a simple IDE bundled with the default implementation of the language.
Jupyter Notebook, an IDE that supports markdown, Python, Julia, R and several other languages.
Komodo IDE an IDE PHOTOS Python, Perl, PHP and Ruby.
NetBeans, is written in Java and runs everywhere where a JVM is installed.
Ninja-IDE, free software, written in Python and Qt, Ninja name stands for Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE
PIDA, open source IDE written in Python capable of embedding other text editors, such as Vim.
PyCharm, a proprietary and Open Source IDE for Python development.
PyScripter, Free and open-source software Python IDE for Microsoft Windows.
PythonAnywhere, an online IDE and Web hosting service.
Python Tools for Visual Studio, Free and open-source plug-in for Visual Studio.
Spyder, IDE for scientific programming.
Vim, with "lang#python" layer enabled.
Visual Studio Code, an Open Source IDE for various languages, including Python.
Wing IDE, cross-platform proprietary with some free versions/licenses IDE for Python.
Replit, an online IDE that supports multiple languages.
Unit testing frameworks
Python package managers and Python distributions
Anaconda, Python distribution with conda package manager
Enthought, Enthought Canopy Python with Python package manager
pip, package management system used to install and manage software written in Python
Applications
A-A-P, a tool used to download, build and install software via Makefile-like "recipes"
Anaconda (installer), an open-source system installer for Linux distributions primarily used in Fedora Linux, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Anki, a spaced repetition flashcard program
Ansible, a configuration management engine for computers by combining multi-node software deployment and ad hoc task execution
Bazaar, a free distribution deed revision computer control system
BitBake, a make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux cross compilation
BitTorrent, original client, along with several derivatives
Buildbot, a continuous integration system
Buildout, a software build tool, primarily used to download and set up development or deployment software dependencies
Calibre, an open source e-book management tool
Celery, an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing
Ch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTEMS
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Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS), formerly Real-Time Executive for Missile Systems, and then Real-Time Executive for Military Systems, is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for embedded systems. It is free and open-source software.
Development began in the late 1980s with early versions available via File Transfer Protocol (ftp) as early as 1993. OAR Corporation is currently managing the RTEMS project in cooperation with a steering committee which includes user representatives.
Design
RTEMS is designed for real-time, embedded systems and to support various open application programming interface (API) standards including Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) and µITRON. The API now known as the Classic RTEMS API was originally based on the Real-Time Executive Interface Definition (RTEID) specification. RTEMS includes a port of the FreeBSD Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP stack) and support for various file systems including Network File System (NFS) and File Allocation Table (FAT).
RTEMS provides extensive multi-processing and memory-management services, and even a System-database alongside many other facilities. It has extensive documentation.
Architectures
RTEMS has been ported to various target processor architectures:
ARM
Atmel AVR
Blackfin
Freescale, now NXP ColdFire
Texas Instruments – C3x/C4x DSPs
Intel – x86 architecture members 80386, Pentium, and above
LatticeMico32
68k
MIPS
Nios II
OpenRISC
PowerPC
Renesas – H8/300, M32C, M32R, SuperH
RISC-V RV32, RV64 using QEMU
SPARC – ERC32, LEON, V9
Uses
RTEMS is used in many application domains. The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) community includes multiple people who are active RTEMS submitters. RTEMS is also popular for space uses since it supports multiple microprocessors developed for use in space including SPARC ERC32 and LEON, MIPS Mongoose-V, ColdFire, and PowerPC architectures, which are available in space hardened models. RTEMS is currently orbiting Mars as part of the Electra software radio on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter.
License
RTEMS is distributed under a modified GNU General Public License (GPL), allowing linking RTEMS objects with other files without needing the full executable to be covered by the GPL. This license is based on the GNAT Modified General Public License with the language modified to not be specific to the programming language Ada.
See also
Comparison of open-source operating systems
Qi hardware
References
External links
Wiki
RTEMS Centre
Embedded operating systems
Real-time operating systems
ARM operating systems
MIPS operating systems
Computer-related introductions in 1993
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20O%20class
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The NZR O class consisted of six steam locomotives that operated on New Zealand's national rail network. Ordered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Pennsylvania in 1885, three arrived in time to begin work in December 1885, while two more were placed in service in January 1886 and the sixth in February 1886. After almost four decades of service, all six were withdrawn in May 1922. None survived to be preserved, although two engine frames and 5 tenders from O class locomotives are known to exist near Summit on the former Rimutaka Incline.
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 e.g. Moorish (from Alhambra) influences. Bold colours and painted decorations were used. Many Baldwin locomotives were in Olive Green ground colour, although the Baldwin N and O classes of the 1880s had Tuscan Red ground colour.
External links
Baldwin Steam Trust statistics on the O class
Plan of an O class locomotive by Derek Brown
References
Citations
Bibliography
O
2-8-0 locomotives
Baldwin locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1885
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of New Zealand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPulse
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iPulse is a visual system monitoring tool by The Iconfactory. It visualizes information about CPU, memory, network, battery and disk usage. Though iPulse uses vector graphics to draw most of its visualizations, it is currently limited to 128 pixels in size. The newest version has a monitor in the menu bar as well.
The appearance of the window can be customized via an iPulse Jacket file. The file is actually a plist file containing the color settings for the various bars & graphs as well as the user specified background images.
External links
iPulse page at The Iconfactory
MacOS-only proprietary software
The Iconfactory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNN
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FNN may refer to:
False nearest neighbor algorithm
Farnborough North railway station, in England
Feedforward neural network
Financial News Network, a defunct American television network
Flat neighborhood network, a type of computer network
Fox News Network, U.S. cable news network
Fuji News Network, a Japanese television network
Fuzzy neural network
Fake news network, a mockery used for CNN primarily during and a while after the 2016 USA election.
Friday Night Nexus, a fictional wrestling gameplay series on YouTube by HeelDiggy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate%20300
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The eMate 300 was a personal digital assistant designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer to the education market as a low-cost laptop running the Newton operating system. It was the only Apple Newton Device with a built-in keyboard. The eMate was introduced on March 7, 1997 for US$799 and was discontinued along with the Apple Newton product line and its operating system on February 27, 1998.
Features
The eMate 300 featured a 6.8" 480x320 resolution 16-shade grayscale display with a backlight, stylus pen, keyboard, infrared port, and standard Macintosh serial/LocalTalk ports.
The keyboard was roughly 85% the size of a standard "full size" keyboard.
Power came from built-in rechargeable batteries, which lasted up to 28 hours on full charge. In order to achieve its low price, the eMate 300 did not have all the features of the contemporary Newton equivalent, the MessagePad 2000. The eMate used a 25 MHz ARM 710a RISC processor and had less memory than the MessagePad 2000 which used a StrongARM 110 RISC processor and was more expandable. However the eMate 300 was faster than the previous MessagePad 130.
Expansion
Unlike the MessagePad line, the eMate 300 featured an internal memory expansion slot. It was located in the hatch under the battery door, next to the ROM card. Both cards fit into both slots, but the ROM card was larger. The expansion card is on the left. Companies like Newertech produced cards for the eMate. Most cards expanded the data bus from 16 bits to 32 bits, as well as providing additional DRAM (program memory), and flash (storage). When one of these cards was installed, the internal DRAM was disabled, but the internal flash RAM is combined with the flash on the card. For example: If a memory card were to have 4 MB of DRAM and 2 MB of flash, the Newton would report having 4 MB of flash, and 4 MB of DRAM, not 5 MB of DRAM.
In addition to the expansion slot, the eMate also featured a single non-CardBus PCMCIA slot. It could be used for a number of different cards, including modems, Ethernet cards, wireless cards, bluetooth cards, and flash memory (linear and ATA/Compact Flash).
Design
The eMate 300 featured a green-colored translucent durable case designed for intense use in classrooms. The eMate 300 featured a dark green-colored keyboard similar to that of PowerBooks of the same era. Purple, clear, red, and orange colored eMate prototypes were produced for show only and were never put into mass production.
Timeline
See also
AlphaSmart Dana
iPad
Notes
References
External links
Everymac.com – eMate 300 Specifications
The Apple Museum – Newton eMate 300
Applefritter – eMate 300
IGM – eMate 300 review
Compare the eMate and iBook
Overclocking
"Apple Gets An 'A'" at BusinessWeek
Salon.com's review
STREETtech.com's review
Retrospective review at the-gadgeteer.com
Newtontalk: The Apple Newton mailing list
Byte Cellar: Newton eMate 300 As A Serial Terminal
Apple Newton
Apple Inc. personal digital assistants
it:EMate 300
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Intelligent%20Printer%20Data%20Stream
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Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) is Info Print Solution Company's Systems Application Architecture host-to-printer data stream for Advanced Function Presentation subsystems. It provides an attachment-independent interface for controlling and managing all point addressable (APA) printers that allow the presentation of pages containing an architecturally unlimited mixture of different data types, including text, image, graphics, bar code, and object container. It is used by a variety of Info Print and OEM print servers that drive all points addressable (APA) page printers. Generally, these printers are at the medium to the high end of the print speed and volume spectrum.
"One of the strengths of IPDS is that independent applications can create source data for each data block. The output of these independent applications is merged at the printer to create an integrated mixed data page."
The IPDS architecture allows for both spooled data and print job management to flow bidirectionally between the print server (or print driver) and the Printer Controller.
Examples of print job management controls are:
Printer resolution
Media jam
Pre- or post-processor exceptions
Storage usage
Paper tray capabilities
Duplexing capabilities
Examples of spooled data can be:
Positioning Information for locating objects within the page
Fonts
Text
Images
Bar codes
Electronic overlays
IPDS data streams are purely used to carry print information and data. This is above the network transport layer (typically TCP/IP or SNA) and the supporting hardware LANs, channels, and network controllers.
IPDS carries data and instructions from the print server to the printer in structured fields. The printer controller processes these IPDS commands and returns an acknowledgment to the print server.
Similar to PPDS, IPDS uses binary encoded commands and parameters, but IPDS is not compatible with PPDS.
"IPDS is the 'online' way being used to print AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) documents. They can also be printed using the AFPDS format 'offline'."
Printers
A number of printers support IPDS directly.
Compuprint—"Heavy Duty IPDS Desktop Matrix Printers in speeds of up to 1100 CPS"
HP—various printers using a plug-in Flash memory device.
IBM—IBM no longer manufactures printers.
Printronix—"IPDS Matrix Line Printers in speeds of 500 LPM, 1000 LPM, 1500 LPM, and 2000 LPM"
Ricoh—"IPDS Matrix Line Printers in speeds of 500 LPM, 1000 LPM, 1500 LPM and 2000 LPM. Heavy Duty IPDS Desktop Matrix Printers in speeds of up to 1100 CPS"
Tally-Dascom—Heavy Duty IPDS Desktop Matrix Printers in speeds of up to 1000 CPS
Zebra—Thermal & Thermal Transfer Printers for Printing Labels and Bar Codes
A number of print servers are available from companies such as MPI Tech, IPDS Printing Solutions, IOCorp, Xerox, and Microsoft.
See also
MO:DCA, Mixed Object Document Content Architecture
References
External links
Intelligent Printer Data Stream Reference
Ricoh IPDS printers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable-space%20protection
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In computer security, executable-space protection marks memory regions as non-executable, such that an attempt to execute machine code in these regions will cause an exception. It makes use of hardware features such as the NX bit (no-execute bit), or in some cases software emulation of those features. However, technologies that emulate or supply an NX bit will usually impose a measurable overhead while using a hardware-supplied NX bit imposes no measurable overhead.
The Burroughs 5000 offered hardware support for executable-space protection on its introduction in 1961; that capability remained in its successors until at least 2006. In its implementation of tagged architecture, each word of memory had an associated, hidden tag bit designating it code or data. Thus user programs cannot write or even read a program word, and data words cannot be executed.
If an operating system can mark some or all writable regions of memory as non-executable, it may be able to prevent the stack and heap memory areas from being executable. This helps to prevent certain buffer overflow exploits from succeeding, particularly those that inject and execute code, such as the Sasser and Blaster worms. These attacks rely on some part of memory, usually the stack, being both writable and executable; if it is not, the attack fails.
OS implementations
Many operating systems implement or have an available executable space protection policy. Here is a list of such systems in alphabetical order, each with technologies ordered from newest to oldest.
For some technologies, there is a summary which gives the major features each technology supports. The summary is structured as below.
Hardware Supported Processors: (Comma separated list of CPU architectures)
Emulation: (No) or (Architecture Independent) or (Comma separated list of CPU architectures)
Other Supported: (None) or (Comma separated list of CPU architectures)
Standard Distribution: (No) or (Yes) or (Comma separated list of distributions or versions which support the technology)
Release Date: (Date of first release)
A technology supplying Architecture Independent emulation will be functional on all processors which aren't hardware supported. The "Other Supported" line is for processors which allow some grey-area method, where an explicit NX bit doesn't exist yet hardware allows one to be emulated in some way.
Android
As of Android 2.3 and later, architectures which support it have non-executable pages by default, including non-executable stack and heap.
FreeBSD
Initial support for the NX bit, on x86-64 and IA-32 processors that support it, first appeared in FreeBSD -CURRENT on June 8, 2004. It has been in FreeBSD releases since the 5.3 release.
Linux
The Linux kernel supports the NX bit on x86-64 and IA-32 processors that support it, such as modern 64-bit processors made by AMD, Intel, Transmeta and VIA. The support for this feature in the 64-bit mode on x86-64 CPUs was added in 2004 by Andi Kleen, a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dallas%20Quest
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The Dallas Quest is a graphic adventure game based on the soap opera Dallas. The game was programmed by James Garon for the TRS-80 Color Computer and published by Tandy Corporation in 1984. It was the second game in the "Animated Adventure" series, following The Sands of Egypt, and uses the same split-screen display. Datasoft published versions for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64 in the same year.
The player takes the role of a detective. After an initial sequence at Southfork Ranch, the setting moves to South America, and the game has little to do with the TV show.
Development
Lorimar Productions, the studio that produced Dallas, licensed the rights to its characters to Datasoft and provided a script by two "screenwriter's assistants" for the show. James Garon adapted the script into a text adventure game, with graphics provided by professional artists.
Reception
A five star Your Commodore review praised the graphics as some of the best in the genre, though they "take a long time to be reproduced." The reviewer disliked the sparse use of music and was not impressed with the music that does exist. Overall, it was called "one of the best games out on the CBM 64."
Arnie Katz concluded a 1984 Electronic Games review with, "Once you get past the fact that Dallas Quest isn't very closely tied to the show, it turns out to be somewhat entertaining and reasonably challenging."
References
External links
The Dallas Quest at Atari Mania
The Dallas Quest at the official site for the TV series
1984 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Dallas (TV franchise)
Datasoft games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games based on television series
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Texas
Video games set in the 1980s
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer%20tracking
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Trailer tracking is tracking the position of an articulated vehicle’s trailer unit through a tracking device fitted to the trailer. A communication network or satellite network is then used to transfer this positional data to a centralized collection point. Trailer tracking is used to increase productivity by optimizing the use of trailer fleets.
Trailer tracking system
Trailer tracking systems can provide essential information to trailer operators on; status, location, door activity, coupling/uncoupling, and history. These systems utilize the information to provide reliable and protected services to shippers of perishable commodities.
Trailer Tracking is also a trucking term in which, when a Semi turns a corner the trailer tires will be closer to the curb (even jump the curb if semi turns to sharp) than the truck cab will be.
Trailer tracking systems require 4 essential components to operate.
Tracking Device
Communication Network
Back-end Server and Database
User Interface Software
See also
GPS tracking server
GPS tracking unit
References
External links
Important things to know about trailer tracking
Logistics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus%20Project
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The CITRUS (Comprehensive I18N Framework Towards Respectable Unix Systems) project aims to implement a complete multilingual programming environment for BSD-based operating systems. The goals include the creation of the following things for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS and DragonFly BSD:
An ISO C/SUS V2-compatible multilingual programming environment (locale/iconv support).
Development of an implementation of gettext and POSIX NLS catalog under the BSD license.
Multi-script framework, which decouples C API and actual external/internal encoding.
To develop system standard multi-script encoding by internationalization of filename.
, the aim is to reach the same level of functionality as Solaris 7.
See also
Internationalization and localization
External links
Free software projects
Berkeley Software Distribution
Internationalization and localization
Unix programming tools
Programming tools
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20%28New%20Zealand%29
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Living is a New Zealand television station. The channel focuses entirely on programming relating to lifestyle and is similar to The LifeStyle Channel in Australia or HGTV in the US. It broadcasts on Sky in New Zealand and features local programming as well as a range of international programming. It features programming in areas such as design, health, well-being, travel, pets, fashion, automotive, antiques, gardening, fitness, art, homemaking and food. Programmes include Antiques Roadshow UK, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones, Grand Designs, Homes Under the Hammer, Better Homes and Gardens, Holmes Inspection, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green, Location, Location, Location, What Not to Wear, and The Secret Millionaire.
The channel was launched on Sky Network Television in 2001 by The Living Channel New Zealand Limited.
The Living Channel New Zealand Limited, which owned Living as well as sister channel Food TV was acquired by Discovery, Inc. on July 2, 2014. Food TV was rebranded as Food Network in 2018.
On 1 March 2021, Living's sister channel Food Network closed and a selection of Food Network shows were moved to Living.
References
External links
Sky Network Television Website
Television channels in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2001
English-language television stations in New Zealand
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic%20Crystal%20Structure%20Database
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Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) is a chemical database founded in 1978 by Günter Bergerhoff (University of Bonn) and I. D. Brown (University of McMaster, Canada). It is now produced by FIZ Karlsruhe in Europe and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. It seeks to contain information on all inorganic crystal structures published since 1913, including pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds (with atomic coordinates). ICSD contains over 210,000 entries and is updated twice a year.
A Windows-based PC version has been developed in co-operation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and a PHP-MySQL web based version in co-operation with the Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) Grenoble.
See also
Crystallographic database
References
External links
ICSD Fiz
ICSD NIST
Inorganic chemistry
Chemical databases
Crystallographic databases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20%28New%20Zealand%29
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Food Network was a New Zealand pay television channel focused entirely on programming relating to food. It was based in Auckland and was New Zealand's only channel dedicated to the food, wine and restaurant society. The network never originated its own domestic content.
The channel was launched on Sky on 1 November 2005 as Food TV by The Living Channel New Zealand Limited.
The Living Channel New Zealand Limited, which owned Food TV as well as sister channel Living was acquired by Discovery, Inc. on July 2, 2014.
On 1 December 2018, Food TV was rebranded as a localised version of the American Food Network.
On 3 February 2021, Sky announced that Food Network would close in New Zealand and a selection of Food Network shows would be moved to its sister channel, Living. On 1 March 2021 the channel's schedule was replaced with a localised version of Investigation Discovery.
References
Sky TV Press release. 25 August 2005. Retrieved 23 Feb 2006.
External links
Television channels in New Zealand
English-language television stations in New Zealand
New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
2005 establishments in New Zealand
2021 disestablishments in New Zealand
Defunct television channels in New Zealand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20C90
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The Cray C90 series (initially named the Y-MP C90) was a vector processor supercomputer launched by Cray Research in 1991. The C90 was a development of the Cray Y-MP architecture. Compared to the Y-MP, the C90 processor had a dual vector pipeline and a faster 4.1 ns clock cycle (244 MHz), which together gave three times the performance of the Y-MP processor. The maximum number of processors in a system was also doubled from eight to 16. The C90 series used the same Model E IOS (Input/Output Subsystem) and UNICOS operating system as the earlier Y-MP Model E.
The C90 series included the C94, C98 and C916 models (configurations with a maximum of four, eight, and 16 processor respectively) and the C92A and C94A (air-cooled models). Maximum SRAM memory was between 1 and 8 GB, depending on model.
The D92, D92A, D94 and D98 (also known as the C92D, C92AD, C94D and C98D respectively) variants were equipped with slower, but higher-density DRAM memory, allowing increased maximum memory sizes of up to 16 GB, depending on the model.
The successor system was the Cray T90.
External links
Cray Research and Cray computers FAQ Part 5
References
Computer-related introductions in 1991
C90
Vector supercomputers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekday%20cartoon
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A weekday cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated series programming that was typically scheduled on weekday mornings and afternoons in the United States on many major television networks and in broadcast syndication since the 1960s.
History
1960s and 1970s
Weekday cartoons began as far back as the early 1960s on commercial independent station in the major US media markets. On such stations, cartoon blocks would occupy the 7–9 a.m. and the 3–5 p.m. time periods, with some stations (such as WKBD-TV and WXON (now WMYD) in Detroit) running cartoons from 6–9 a.m. and 2–5 p.m. In smaller markets, network affiliate sometimes filled the 3 or 4 p.m. hour with such programming. In the 1970s, additional independent stations signed on running such programming (such as WUAB in Cleveland, Ohio; WXNE-TV (now WFXT) in Boston, Massachusetts; WKBS-TV, WTAF-TV (now WTXF-TV) and WPHL-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). The programs were distributed on various television stations (many of which were independent stations) through broadcast syndication.
A number of these weekday cartoons, especially the early ones such as Colonel Bleep, Batfink and Clutch Cargo, were serials that aired in daily, five-minute segments (as opposed to the standard half-hour format typical of most other cartoons today). A glut of such shows were produced in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, then syndicated continuously for the next two decades. These programs were usually distributed to local stations to air within their locally produced children's program showcases – which in addition to cartoon shorts, also included games, locally produced or franchised costumed characters (the best known example being Bozo the Clown), and entertainment to form a variety show. This program model slowly died out during the 1980s.
1980s
In the 1980s, independent stations signed on in many mid-sized and small markets. This market was meant for made-for-television cartoons which had grown as a result. Many of these stations started running cartoon blocks on weekdays as early as 6 in the morning and as early as 2 in the afternoon. There were some stations that had aired cartoons as late as 6 p.m. on weekdays. Most large and mid-sized markets had at least two local stations running such programming in the 6 to 9 a.m. and the 2:30 to 5 p.m. timeslots. Some markets had as many as three. Traditionally, the local stations had been airing reruns of either old theatrical cartoons or TV cartoons produced for the nationwide channels. However, this was soon to change as producers realized the potential of selling their cartoons directly to the independent stations. The first cartoon series to be produced for first-run syndication were He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Inspector Gadget, both premiering with 65 half-hour episodes in the fall of 1983.
The 1981 Action for Children's Television made it permissible for animated series to be used to promote toylines and merchandise, and the many serie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards
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The 24th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on May 21, 1997, at Radio City Music Hall, New York City. to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1996). The Lifetime Achievement award was presented to Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers).
Winners in each category are in bold.
Outstanding Drama Series
All My Children: Francesca James
Days of Our Lives: Ken Corday
General Hospital: Wendy Riche
The Young and the Restless: William J. Bell & Edward J. Scott
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Eric Braeden (Victor Newman, The Young and the Restless)
David Canary (Adam Chandler/Stuart Chandler, All My Children)
Justin Deas (Buzz Cooper, Guiding Light)
Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, General Hospital)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Jensen Buchanan (Vicky Hudson, Another World)
Genie Francis (Laura Spencer, General Hospital)
Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
Jess Walton (Jill Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos, General Hospital)
Ian Buchanan (James Warwick, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Stuart Damon (Alan Quartermaine, General Hospital)
Brad Maule (Tony Jones, General Hospital)
Aaron Lustig (Tim Reid, The Young and the Restless)
Scott Reeves (Ryan McNeil, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Eva La Rue (Maria Santos, All My Children)
Vanessa Marcil (Brenda Barrett, General Hospital)
Victoria Rowell (Drucilla Winters, The Young and the Restless)
Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Romalotti, The Young and the Restless)
Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie Spencer, General Hospital)
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Steve Burton (Jason Morgan, General Hospital)
Jonathan Jackson (Lucky Spencer, General Hospital)
Kevin Mambo (Marcus Williams, Guiding Light)
Shemar Moore (Malcolm Winters, The Young and the Restless)
Joshua Morrow (Nicholas Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Sarah Brown (Carly Roberts, General Hospital)
Sharon Case (Sharon Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Christie Clark (Carrie Brady, Days of Our Lives)
Kimberly McCullough (Robin Scorpio, General Hospital)
Heather Tom (Victoria Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Talk Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Outstanding Talk show Host
Rosie O'Donnell (The Rosie O'Donnell Show)
Oprah Winfrey (The Oprah Winfrey Show)
Leeza Gibbons (Leeza)
Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
Montel Williams (The Montel Williams Show)
Outstanding Game Show
The Price is Right
Debt
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy!
Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House
O
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybermind
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Cybermind is an Internet mailing list devoted to "the philosophy and psychology of cyberspace".
History
It was co-founded by Alan Sondheim and Michael Current in mid-1994 to explore, exemplify and discuss multiple aspects of cyberspace, both from theoretical and experiential perspectives. The list was born in the split of the spoon collective lists from the Thinknet group, over issues of free speech and appropriate philosophical expression. Early membership involved much overlap with the Futureculture List. In more recent years discussions have become more general, but the list still has members from its founding period. Michael Current died shortly after the founding of the group.
List discussion has resulted in books, articles, conferences, more than one academic thesis, a group novel (now available through Lulu.com), and a strong ongoing community. Cybermind itself has been the subject of academic research, including an anthropological doctoral dissertation by Jonathan Marshall at the University of Sydney, which has now been published as the book Living on Cybermind. The book details the life of people on Cybermind over the period from 1994 to 2006 and uses many quotations from list members to analyse the ambiguities of net presence and absence (which is called asence), the paradoxes of the public/private divide, difficulties arising around authenticity and aggression, netsex, net-politics, and the construction of 'community'.
The other major gathering of writing about Cybermind is a collection of online essays about gender online and its role in the group's life.
Publications
Refereed
Argyle, Katie. "Life After Death", in Rob Shields ed. Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. Sage, London 1996.
Cubbison, Laurie. "What does it Mean to Write from the Body", Women and Language vol. 20, no. 1, 1997, pp. 31–35.
Don, Alexanne. "The dynamics of gender perception and status in email-mediated group interaction", Transforming Cultures eJournal, vol. 2, no. 2 (2007).
Kiley, Dean. "John John and Di Die Live on the Internet: Cyberbullying on Academic Mailing Lists", Mesh: a Journal of Experimental Media Arts, 13, 1999/2000.
Marshall, Jonathan Paul. "Culture, Disorder, and Death in an Online World", in Honglei Li (ed) Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories. IGI Global, 2012: pp. 330–346.
Marshall, Jonathan Paul. "Ambiguity, Oscillation and Disorder: Online Ethnography and the Making of Culture", Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal 2(3), 2010: 1–22.
Marshall, Jonathan Paul "Cybermind: Paradoxes of Relationship in an Online Group", in Samantha Holland (ed). Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang 2008.
Marshall, Jonathan Paul. "Gender in Online Worlds: An Introduction to, and Summary of, Cybermind Research", Transforming Cultures eJournal, vol. 2, no. 2 (2007)
Marshall, Jonathan. "The Mobilisation of Race and Gender on an Internet Mailing List", Transforming Cultures
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBOSS
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EMBOSS is a free open source software analysis package developed for the needs of the molecular biology and bioinformatics user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Also, as extensive libraries are provided with the package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole.
EMBOSS is an acronym for European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite. The European part of the name hints at the wider scope. The core EMBOSS groups are collaborating with many other groups to develop the new applications that the users need. This was done from the beginning with EMBnet, the European Molecular Biology Network. EMBnet has many nodes worldwide most of which are national bioinformatics services. EMBnet has the programming expertise.
In September 1998, the first workshop was held, when 30 people from EMBnet went to Hinxton to learn about EMBOSS and to discuss the way forward.
The EMBOSS package contains a variety of applications for sequence alignment, rapid database searching with sequence patterns, protein motif identification (including domain analysis), and much more.
The AJAX and NUCLEUS libraries are released under the GNU Library General Public Licence. EMBOSS applications are released under the GNU General Public Licence.
EMBOSS application groups
See also
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
Soaplab - A SOAP web service interface including EMBOSS
Genostar - Integration of some of EMBOSS tools in a graphical application
References
External links
Bioinformatics software
Free science software
Science and technology in Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burh
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A burh () or burg was an Anglo-Saxon fortification or fortified settlement. In the 9th century, raids and invasions by Vikings prompted Alfred the Great to develop a network of burhs and roads to use against such attackers. Some were new constructions; others were situated at the site of Iron Age hillforts or Roman forts and employed materials from the original fortifications. As at Lundenburh (medieval London), many were also situated on rivers: this facilitated internal lines of supply while aiming to restrict access to the interior of the kingdom for attackers in shallow-draught vessels such as longships.
Burhs also had a secondary role as commercial and sometimes administrative centres. Their fortifications were used to protect England's various royal mints.
Name
and were Old English developments of the Proto-Germanic word reconstructed as , cognate with the verb ("to shut in for protection"). They are cognate with German , Dutch and Scandinavian and, in English, developed variously as "borough", "burg", and (particularly in the East Anglian region of England and Scotland) "burgh".
was the plural form of and : "forts", "fortifications". It was also the dative form: "to the fort" or "for the fort". This developed into "bury" and "berry", which were used to describe manor houses, large farms, or settlements beside the fortifications.
In addition to the English foundations described here, these names were sometimes used in Old English calques or variants of native placenames, including the Brittonic and Welsh , as at Salisbury.
Background
Burhs were originally built as military defences. According to H. R. Loyn, the burh "represented only a stage, though a vitally important one, in the evolution of the medieval English borough and of the medieval town". The boundaries of ancient burhs can often still be traced to modern urban borough limits. Most of these were founded by Alfred the Great in a consciously planned policy that was continued under his son Edward the Elder and his daughter, Æthelflæd, the 'Lady of the Mercians', and her husband Æthelred, Ealdorman of Mercia. The Mercian Register tells of the building of ten burhs by Æthelflæd, some as important as Tamworth and Stafford, others now unidentifiable.
Some were based upon pre-existing Roman structures, some newly built, though others may have been built at a later date. Æthelstan granted these burhs the right to mint coinage and in the tenth and eleventh centuries the firm rule was that no coin was to be struck outside a burh.
A tenth-century document, now known as the Burghal Hidage and so named by Frederic William Maitland in 1897, cites thirty burhs in Wessex and three in Mercia. At the time, Mercia was ruled by the West Saxon kings. These burhs were all built to defend the region against Viking raids.
Only eight of the burhs achieved municipal status in the Middle Ages: Chester, Bridgnorth, Tamworth, Stafford, Hertford, Warwick, Buckingham and Maldon. The largest we
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Denning
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Peter Denning may refer to:
Peter J. Denning (born 1942), computer scientist
Peter Denning (cricketer) (1949–2007), cricketer for Somerset County Cricket Club
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamtrum
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Tamtrum was an Aggrotech duo from Aix-en-Provence (France), composed of artists Benoit XVI and Sylvicious. They released many singles on many different compilation albums such as Cyberlab Volume 5.0. The friendship of Benoit and Sylvicious started in a French black metal band called Mandragor. When this band broke up, Sylvicious continued with his band Lucky Striker 201 until he met Benoit, who had already composed a couple of songs which would later be included on Some Atomik Songz. They sent demos out to several labels until the French label La Chambre Froide picked up the band. The resulting release after Some Atomik Songz would Versus (2004) - a split CD featuring Lok-8.
The band has become well known because of their live shows. Sonic manipulations are accompanied by fire breathing and other uncanny acts you would rather expect to see at a carnival than a concert. By touring Europe extensively they made a name for themselves due to their harsh, grinding elektro which manages to mix the genre in its essence and the atmospheres of black metal. In 2005 they released the mega hit Le Son de la Pluie (The Sound of the Rain) on the Alfa Matrix compilation Endzeit Bunkertracks: Act I. It became number one on the DAC.
They had a touring member besides the core who went by the name of Ins-ext. He added a lot to Tamtrum's show including fire breathing and live support, but after a few shows he left the band and was replaced by Fixxxer (also known as Fixhead).
In late 2005/early 2006 Tamtrum entered the studio to record the album Elektronic Black Mess and this for their new label Alfa Matrix. The line up for this album included the whole band and also holds guest vocals by the ex-Anorexia Nervosa singer Rose Hreidmarr. Some tracks had vocals by Fixxxer, who also contributed with the writing of the music which had been done by Benoit only. Elektronic Black Mess was released in two different versions, a single disc edition and a 2CD limited edition set, the bonus disc containing remixes. The limited edition CD also comes with the Vatican-Approved Condom and two live appearance videos.
Musical groups from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative%20matrix%20factorization
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Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF or NNMF), also non-negative matrix approximation is a group of algorithms in multivariate analysis and linear algebra where a matrix is factorized into (usually) two matrices and , with the property that all three matrices have no negative elements. This non-negativity makes the resulting matrices easier to inspect. Also, in applications such as processing of audio spectrograms or muscular activity, non-negativity is inherent to the data being considered. Since the problem is not exactly solvable in general, it is commonly approximated numerically.
NMF finds applications in such fields as astronomy, computer vision, document clustering, missing data imputation, chemometrics, audio signal processing, recommender systems, and bioinformatics.
History
In chemometrics non-negative matrix factorization has a long history under the name "self modeling curve resolution".
In this framework the vectors in the right matrix are continuous curves rather than discrete vectors.
Also early work on non-negative matrix factorizations was performed by a Finnish group of researchers in the 1990s under the name positive matrix factorization.
It became more widely known as non-negative matrix factorization after Lee and Seung investigated the properties of the algorithm and published some simple and useful
algorithms for two types of factorizations.
Background
Let matrix be the product of the matrices and ,
Matrix multiplication can be implemented as computing the column vectors of as linear combinations of the column vectors in using coefficients supplied by columns of . That is, each column of can be computed as follows:
where is the -th column vector of the product matrix and is the -th column vector of the matrix .
When multiplying matrices, the dimensions of the factor matrices may be significantly lower than those of the product matrix and it is this property that forms the basis of NMF. NMF generates factors with significantly reduced dimensions compared to the original matrix. For example, if is an matrix, is an matrix, and is a matrix then can be significantly less than both and .
Here is an example based on a text-mining application:
Let the input matrix (the matrix to be factored) be with 10000 rows and 500 columns where words are in rows and documents are in columns. That is, we have 500 documents indexed by 10000 words. It follows that a column vector in represents a document.
Assume we ask the algorithm to find 10 features in order to generate a features matrix with 10000 rows and 10 columns and a coefficients matrix with 10 rows and 500 columns.
The product of and is a matrix with 10000 rows and 500 columns, the same shape as the input matrix and, if the factorization worked, it is a reasonable approximation to the input matrix .
From the treatment of matrix multiplication above it follows that each column in the product matrix is a linear combination of the 10 column vecto
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