ONS (TV channel)

ONS (formerly NostalgieNet) is a Dutch commercial television channel of Just Media Group, which is dedicated to viewers aged 49 years or older. ONS's main target is the older audience. ONS airs footage from the forties to the eighties. Each month a specific theme is on the channel. Topics such as the Dutch East Indies, Netherlands Waterland, railroads, mills, work, food and household are broadcast. The channel launched as NostalgieNet on 1 January 2006 and changed its name into ONS on 13 September 2015.

ONS can be received through Ziggo, KPN, CAIW, KBG, CanalDigitaal, CAI, Glashart Media and HSO in the Netherlands, and through TV Vlaanderen in Flanders.

Programs

ONS broadcasts include the following programs:

Additionally ONS's television broadcasts including De Dageraad, Sil de Strandjutter and Portret van een Passie. On Wednesdays Dutch films, like Het meisje met den blauwen hoed, De dijk is dicht and Kort Amerikaans.

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TV Channel 16/12

TV channel 16/12 — is the only independent news TV channel in Kazakhstan.

Persecution of the Channel

The Kazakhstan’s authorities have repeatedly tried to stop the broadcasting of Channel 16/12. The Channel’s employees were intimidated, arrested, their offices were searched and the equipment needed for their work seized. Specifically, in 2014, officers of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, along with law enforcement officers of Russia, burst into the office of the production company which was making videos for the TV Channel 16/12. They conducted a search, withdrew hard discs from the operating computers and took them away. Soon after that, a similar search was conducted in the Astana office of a company which was also making videos for the opposition channel. During the search, the equipment needed for their work was seized. Prior to this, Sanat Urnaliyev, journalist of TV Channel 16/12, and Viktor Gudz, the cameraman, were subjected to administrative arrest on a fake charge, along with a correspondent of Radio Azattyk, the Kazakh service of the Radio Liberty.

Convoy ON 92

Convoy ON 92 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 92nd of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed Liverpool on 6 May 1942 and were joined on 7 May by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3. The convoy was discovered by Wolf pack Hecht on 11 May; and seven ships were sunk before the U-boats lost contact on 13 May. Surviving ships reached Halifax on 21 May.

U-Boats

The convoy was attacked by Wolf pack Hecht, which comprised 9 u-boats, namely

Ships in the convoy

In popular culture

The convoy ONS-92 is mentioned in a song "Wolfpack" by Swedish power metal band Sabaton. The theme of the song is the attack of the wolf pack Hecht on the convoy.

Channel (programming)

In computing, a channel is a model for interprocess communication and synchronization via message passing. A message may be sent over a channel, and another process or thread is able to receive messages sent over a channel it has a reference to, as a stream. Different implementations of channels may be buffered or not, and either synchronous or asynchronous.

Channels are fundamental to the process calculus approach to concurrency, and originated in communicating sequential processes (CSP), a formal model for concurrency, and has been used in many derived languages, such as occam, and Limbo programming language (via Newsqueak and the Alef programming language). They are also used in the C programming language threading library libthread, and in Plan 9 from Bell Labs, which uses libthread, as well as in Stackless Python and the Go programming language.

Channel implementations

Channels modeled after the CSP model are inherently synchronous: a process waiting to receive an object from a channel will block until the object is sent. This is also called rendezvous behaviour. Typical supported operations are presented below using the example of the libthread channel API.

Price channels

A price channel is a pair of parallel trend lines that form a chart pattern for a stock or commodity. Channels may be horizontal, ascending or descending. When prices pass through and stay through a trendline representing support or resistance, the trend is said to be broken and there is a "breakout".

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Octophonic sound

Octophonic sound is a form of audio reproduction that presents eight discrete audio channels using eight speakers. For playback, the speakers may be positioned in a circle around the listeners or in any other configuration. "Typical arrangements are eight spaced on a circle by 45° (oriented with first speaker 0° or at 22.5°), or the vertices of a cube to bring in a double quadraphonic set-up with elevation" (Collins 2010, 60). In reference to his own work, Karlheinz Stockhausen made a distinction between these two forms, reserving the term "octophonic" for the arrangement in a cube, as found in his Oktophonie and the electronic music for scene 2 and the Farewell of Mittwoch aus Licht, and using the expression "eight-channel sound" for the circular arrangement, as used in Sirius, Unsichtbare Chöre, or Hours 13 to 21 of the Klang cycle (Stockhausen 1993, 150; Stockhausen 2000, 60). While quadraphonic sound uses four speakers positioned in a square at the four corners of the listening space (either on the ground or raised above the listeners), this cubical kind of octophonic spatialization allows not only front-back and left-right "surround sound", but also up-down and diagonal movements—a 3D spatialization of sound. In order for such movement in space to be heard, it is necessary that rhythms be slow, and pitches change mainly in small steps or in glissandos (Stockhausen 1993, 151, 163).