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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot%20Picobook%20Pro | The Apricot Picobook Pro is the first product of the reformed Apricot Computers. It is a netbook based on the VIA NanoBook, first shown to the press on October 15 2008.
Specifications
CPU: VIA C7-M ULV at 1.2 GHz.
Chipset: VIA VX800 System Media Processor (Northbridge and Southbridge integrated).
Monitor: TFT 8.9 inch, 1024x600 pixels. Support to internal/external/dual monitor, or TV.
Graphics: 3D/2D S3 Graphics Chrome9 HC3 chipset integrated, shared VRAM to a max of 64 MB; DirectX 9.0. and HD video support.
RAM: 1 GB of SO-DIMM DDR2 RAM at 667 MHz.
Dimensions: 230 x 171 x 38.7 mm
Weight: 0.98 kg (2.16 lb).
Ports: On the left, VGA DE-15 and one USB 2.0 port. On the right, a second USB port, Kensington Security Slot, 8P8C and power supply. In the front, two minijack (mic/ear) and 4 in 1 Card-reader. Open, integrated Webcam of 1.3 megapixels over the TFT, keyboard and touchpad at bottom.
Keyboard: QWERTY, 80 keys
Hard disk 60 GB
Sound card: VIA Vinyl VT1708A HD Audio codec. Up to 8 HD channels. 192 kHz sampling rate
Connectivity
Ethernet: Realtek RTL8101E 10/100 Mbit/s
Wi-Fi: Realtek RTL8187SE 802.11 a/b/g
Bluetooth
WiMAX: optional
Input/Output :
4 in 1 Card-reader.
1 VGA DE-15
2 USB 2.0
1 8P8C Ethernet
Audio connectors:
1 minijack for microphone
1 minijack line out
Battery : 4400mA Lithium-ion battery, 2200 mA, four cells, up to 4 hours use.
Power International auto-sensing adapter 110-240 V
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home (Nanobook Pro VX) or Novell SUSE Linux
Reception
The Apricot was very poorly received. A review by PC Pro in 2009 awarded it two stars, the worst marks of the notebooks on test in the categories of build quality, speaker quality, keyboard and cursor quality, and screen quality, and advised readers to avoid it at all costs. A "first look" review by IT Pro in 2008 also awarded it two stars, calling it unattractive, with a dubious build quality, and all but impossible to type on.
References
External links
with drivers and manuals
Netbooks
Apricot Computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Languages%3A%20Application%20and%20Interpretation | Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (PLAI) is a free programming language textbook by Shriram Krishnamurthi. It is in use at over 30 universities, in several high-schools.
The book differs from most other programming language texts in its attempt to wed two different styles of programming language education: one based on language surveys and another based on interpreters. In the former style, it can be too easy to ignore difficult technical points, which are sometimes best understood by trying to reproduce them (via implementation); in the latter, it can be too easy to miss the high-level picture in the forest of details. PLAI therefore interleaves the two, using the survey approach to motivate ideas and interpreters to understand them.
The book is accompanied by supporting software that runs in the Racket programming language.
Since PLAI is constantly under development, some of the newer material (especially assignments) is found on course pages at Brown University.
PLAI is also an experiment in publishing methods. The essay
Books as Software discusses why the book is self-published. The current public release is version 3.2.2 (2023-02-26) is available as a free electronic edition for screen use or printing.
References
Third edition full text
Second edition full text
Book homepage
An essay on the pointlessness of language paradigms; this guides the design of the book
An essay on the Books as Software philosophy; this guides the publication of the book
Computer programming books
Computer science books
Interpreters (computing)
Programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMX%20%28programming%20environment%29 | EMX (Eberhard Mattes eXtender; also known as emx+gcc) is a programming environment for MS-DOS and OS/2. It allows creating and executing of 32-bit mode applications, presenting a POSIX API and, on OS/2, access to the OS/2 APIs.
Contents
The EMX package consists of:
The emx.exe program, a DOS extender, that allows running a 32-bit mode application in DOS and emx.dll and helper dlls in single threaded (for DOS compatibility) and multithreaded forms for running under OS/2.
A C library that provides a POSIX API, for use on both DOS and OS/2.
Additional libraries for OS/2.
Ports of the C and C++ compilers of GNU GCC, the GNU binutils, gdb, GNU make, and other tools for program development.
Tools for creating OS/2 shared libraries.
History
The latest version is emx 0.9d, released in 1998 and last updated in March 2001.
See also
Cygwin
DJGPP
MinGW
References
External links
Main emx+gcc download site
DOS software
OS/2 software
DOS extenders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20%28novel%20series%29 | Millennium is a series of Swedish crime novels, created by journalist Stieg Larsson. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, an asocial computer hacker with a photographic memory, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called Millennium. Seven books in the series have been published, with the first three, known as the "Millennium Trilogy", written by Larsson.
Larsson planned the series as having 10 installments, but completed only three before his sudden death in 2004. All three were published posthumously by Norstedts Förlag: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2005, The Girl Who Played with Fire in 2006, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest in 2007. Larsson's novels were originally printed in Swedish, with English editions by Quercus in the United Kingdom and Alfred A. Knopf in the United States translated by Steven T. Murray. The books have since been translated by many publishers in over 50 countries. By March 2015, 80 million copies of the first three books had been sold worldwide.
In 2013, Norstedts Förlag commissioned Swedish author and crime journalist David Lagercrantz to continue the Millennium series with Larsson's characters. The Girl in the Spider's Web was published in 2015, followed by The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye in 2017, and The Girl Who Lived Twice in 2019. With Lagercrantz's first two installments, the Millennium series had sold over 100 million copies worldwide by May 2019, making it one of the best-selling book series in history. The series has been adapted into Swedish and American films, as well as graphic novels by Vertigo Comics.
In November 2021, publishing house Polaris acquired the rights to the series from Larsson's estate and announced a new trilogy of books written by Swedish author Karin Smirnoff. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons was published in 2022.
Production
Origins
After his death, many of Larsson's friends said the character of Lisbeth Salander was created out of an incident in which Larsson, then a teenager, witnessed three of his friends gang-raping an acquaintance of his named Lisbeth, and did nothing to stop it. Days later, wracked with guilt, he begged her forgiveness — which she refused. The incident, he said, haunted him for years afterward, and in part moved him to create a character with her name who was also a rape survivor. The veracity of this story has since been questioned, after a colleague from Expo magazine reported to Rolling Stone that Larsson had told him that he had heard the story secondhand and retold it as his own.
In the only interview he ever did about the series, Larsson stated that he based the character on what he imagined Pippi Longstocking might have been like as an adult. Another source of inspiration was Larsson's niece, Therese. A rebellious teenager, she often wore black clothing and makeup and told him several times that she wanted to get a tattoo of a dragon. The author often emailed Therese whil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Civil%20Liberties%20Network | European Civil Liberties Network is a Europe-wide civil liberties advocacy group.
See also
American Civil Liberties Union
External links
Organizations established in 2005
Civil liberties advocacy groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulu%20University%20Secure%20Programming%20Group | The Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) is a research group at the University of Oulu that studies, evaluates and develops methods of implementing and testing application and system software in order to prevent, discover and eliminate implementation level security vulnerabilities in a pro-active fashion. The focus is on implementation level security issues and software security testing.
History
OUSPG has been active as an independent academic research group in the Computer Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering in the University of Oulu since summer 1996.
OUSPG is most known for its participation in protocol implementation security testing, which they called robustness testing, using the PROTOS mini-simulation method.
The PROTOS was co-operated project with VTT and number of industrial partners. The project developed different approaches of testing implementations of protocols using black-box (i.e. functional) testing methods. The goal was to support pro-active elimination of faults with information security implications, promote awareness in these issues and develop methods to support customer driven evaluation and acceptance testing of implementations. Improving the security robustness of products was attempted through supporting the development process.
The most notable result of the PROTOS project was the result of the c06-snmp test suite, which discovered multiple vulnerabilities in SNMP.
The work done in PROTOS is continued in PROTOS-GENOME, which applies automatic structure inference combined with domain specific reasoning capabilities to enable automated black-box program robustness testing tools without having prior knowledge of the protocol grammar. This work has resulted in a large number of vulnerabilities being found in archive file and antivirus products.
Commercial spin-offs
The group has produced two spin-off companies, Codenomicon continues the work of the PROTOS and Clarified Networks the work in FRONTIER.
References
External links
Computer security organizations
Software testing
Secure Programming Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20AmigaOS%204%20dispute | The following history of the AmigaOS 4 dispute documents the legal battle mainly between the companies Amiga, Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment over the operating system AmigaOS 4. On 30 September 2009, Hyperion and Amiga, Inc. reached a settlement agreement where Hyperion was granted an exclusive, perpetual and worldwide right to distribute and use 'The Software', a term used during the dispute and subsequent settlement to refer to source code from AmigaOS 3 and earlier, and ownership of AmigaOS 4.x and beyond.
Background
Amiga, Inc.
After Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994, its name and IP rights, including Amiga, were sold to Escom. Escom kept the Amiga products and sold the Commodore name on to Tulip Computers. Escom went bankrupt in 1997 and sold the Amiga IP to Gateway 2000 (now only Gateway). On 27 December 1999, Gateway sold the Amiga name and rights to Amino Development, who changed the company name to Amiga, Inc. once the assets had been acquired. The 'Amino' Amiga, Inc. and the 'KMOS' Amiga, Inc. are seen by Hyperion as legally distinct entities, contracts to one are of no relevance to the other.
Hyperion's OS4 project
Hyperion Entertainment released AmigaOS 4 (OS4) to the public in 2004. The five year development process led to accusations of vapourware and producing a modern PowerPC OS, given that Hyperion claimed that they had the original AmigaOS 3.1 source code to reference (a claim later proven accurate). This was made worse by the apparent much more rapid progress and maturity of competitor and alternative AmigaOS clone MorphOS, which had been begun several years earlier. Perhaps the most important feature of OS4 as regards the legal dispute is the presence of an entirely new PowerPC native kernel. ExecSG replaces the original Amiga Exec and is claimed entirely the work and property of Hyperion's subcontracted developers Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden. Neither Amiga, Inc. nor Hyperion actually own ExecSG, so technically cannot demand or hand it over, leaving the OS with fragmented and confused ownership.
The supposed rebirth of Amiga
In 2007 The Inquirer reported that the Amiga was inching closer to rebirth with the long-awaited release of AmigaOS 4.0, a new PowerPC-native version of the classic AmigaOS (Motorola 68k) from the 1980s. This new PowerPC OS would run on the AmigaOne machines, now out of production, which could only run Linux while waiting for the new PowerPC OS to be released. The year after, Amiga, Inc. also announced a new AmigaOS 4 compatible system that would be available shortly. The new machine was neither Genesi's Efika, nor the project codenamed Samantha, (now known as the Sam440ep from ACube Systems). The new hardware was from a new entrant, the Canadian company ACK Software Controls, and would have consisted of a budget and advanced model.
The dispute
Four days after Amiga, Inc. announced the new Amiga OS4 (OS4) compatible machines, they sued Hyperion Entertainment (Hyperion). Amiga, Inc. stated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Roman | In computing HP Roman is a family of character sets consisting of HP Roman Extension, HP Roman-8, HP Roman-9 and several variants. Originally introduced by Hewlett-Packard around 1978, revisions and adaptations were published several times up to 1999. The 1985 revisions were later standardized as IBM codepages 1050 and 1051. Supporting many European languages, the character sets were used by various HP workstations, terminals, calculators as well as many printers, also from third-parties.
Overview
HP Roman is a family of single byte character encodings supporting several Latin script based languages of Europe. It was originally introduced by Hewlett-Packard around 1978 as 7- and 8-bit HP Roman Extension for some of their computer terminals and printers. Early versions of the 8-bit variant were also used by some HP workstations in 1978/1979. Several revisions led to more characters being added before the 8-bit variant of the character set became officially known as HP Roman-8 in 1983. Soon later, this became the default character set of the HP-UX operating system and the page description language PCL for inkjet and laser printers in 1984. The character set was again expanded in 1985. A modified adaptation of the 1984 definition of Roman-8 was used in the HP Portable series of computers, whereas a derivation of the updated 1985 definition of Roman-8 was used in several early RPL calculators and corresponding thermal printers since 1986. The latest off-spring of the family is HP Roman-9, which was introduced in 1999 to include the euro sign. PCL Ventura International is based on HP Roman-8.
Character set
Roman Extension
The character set was originally introduced by Hewlett-Packard as extended ASCII 7-bit codepage named HP Roman Extension, which existed at least since 1978. This character set was used as a secondary character set in conjunction with the primary character set, which was identical to ASCII, except for character 127, which was a medium shaded box instead of the delete character. The first 32 characters, that normally functioned as C0 control codes, also had graphical non-control alternatives, that could appear during self-test or display functions mode. Switching between character sets was done using the Shift Out and Shift In characters, or alternatively, on systems supporting 8-bit mode, using the high bit of the character. Before the name "Roman-8" was established for the 8-bit variant in 1983, this was sometimes called "8-bit Roman Extension" or "HP Roman-8 Extension". Over the years both variants were revised to include more characters. The final 1985 revision of the secondary character set was also standardized by IBM in 1989 as code page 1050 (CP1050 or ibm-1050).
Although strictly speaking not part of Roman Extension, the following table shows those rows of the primary character set that differed from ASCII. Note that the first two rows are normally the same and only appear as graphical characters in special circumstances, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM%2003.38 | In mobile telephony GSM 03.38 or 3GPP 23.038 is a character encoding used in GSM networks for SMS (Short Message Service), CB (Cell Broadcast) and USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data). The 3GPP TS 23.038 standard (originally GSM recommendation 03.38) defines GSM 7-bit default alphabet which is mandatory for GSM handsets and network elements, but the character set is suitable only for English and a number of Western-European languages. Languages such as Chinese, Korean or Japanese must be transferred using the 16-bit UCS-2 character encoding. A limited number of languages, like Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and a number of languages used in India written with a Brahmic scripts may use 7-bit encoding with national language shift table defined in 3GPP 23.038. For binary messages, 8-bit encoding is used.
GSM 7-bit default alphabet and extension table of 3GPP TS 23.038 / GSM 03.38
The standard encoding for GSM messages is the 7-bit default alphabet as defined in the 23.038 recommendation.
Seven-bit characters must be encoded into octets following one of three packing modes:
CBS: using this encoding, it is possible to send up to 93 characters (packed in up to 82 octets) in one SMS message in a Cell Broadcast Service.
SMS: using this encoding, it is possible to send up to 160 characters (packed in up to 140 octets) in one SMS message in the GSM network.
USSD: using this encoding, it is possible to send up to 182 characters (packed in up to 160 octets) in one SMS message of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data.
It is important (especially when a message is to be segmented using concatenated SMS mechanism) that characters from the Basic Character Set table take one septet, characters from the Basic Character Set Extension table take two septets.
Note that the second part of the table is only accessible if the GSM device supports the 7-bit extension mechanism, using the ESC character prefix. Otherwise, the ESC code itself is interpreted as a space, and the following character will be treated as if there was no leading ESC code.
Most of the high part of the table is not used in the default character set, but the GSM standard defines some language code indicators that allows the system to identify national variants of this part, to support more characters than those displayed in the above table.
In a standard GSM text message, all characters are encoded using 7-bit code units, packed together to fill all bits of octets. So, for example, the 140-octet envelope of an SMS, with no other language indicator but only the standard class prefix, can transport up to (140*8)/7=160, that is 160 GSM 7-bit characters (but note that the ESC code counts for one of them, if characters in the high part of the table are used).
Longer messages may be sent, but will require a continuation prefix and a sequence number on subsequent SMS messages (these prefix bytes and sequence number are counted within the maximum length of the 140-octet payload of the en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapster%20%28software%29 | Trapster was a navigation social networking mobile application and website, provided for free, that maps out and alerts users in real time to the presence of live police speed traps, DUI checkpoints, traffic, red light cameras, speed cameras, and areas where police often hide. Further, it allows users to record trip data and share it via the web, including interfaces with Facebook and Twitter. Trapster was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 10 Best iPhone Apps for Dads in June 2009. In addition, Wired listed Trapster as the number 1 application in their 10 Mobile Applications that Make the Most of Location and CNET named Trapster as their number 1 free iPhone automotive app.
Trapster's mobile GPS app supported the operating systems Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile, webOS, S60, and unlocked Java ME phones with GPS. In addition to these mobile phones, Trapster had support for both Garmin and TomTom navigation units.
Features
Trapster can use Wi-Fi or GPS to pinpoint the user's current location and send them audio alerts or text messages when they are approaching a ticket threat. Users report the existence of a trap by pressing the touch screen or using a key combination on the mobile device. To negate the effect of pranksters or the police entering bogus locations, users can verify the locations of existing traps in the same manner. Trapster gives greater weight to traps that are rated more reliably. Users can customize the alerts via the Trapster website or the mobile app so that they only receive notifications of conditions they are interested in, such as red light cameras or live police. Information about static traps, such as red light cameras and speed cameras, stays in Trapster's database indefinitely. Live speed trap locations are kept in the system for one hour, as it is likely that the officers will move on to a new location.
History
Pete Tenereillo launched Trapster, the modern equivalent of headlight flashing, where motorists warn other motorists of police speed traps, in November 2007, and by early 2009, had 1/2 a million users signed up. On July 20, 2009, Trapster had signed up its 1 millionth user. Less than a year later, the company claimed to have in excess of 4 million users. As of October 2012, the company had over 17 million users, and peaked at 22 million users before being shut down in 2014.
Law enforcement officials have differing reactions to Trapster, although it is thought to be legal in all 50 US states, and in most countries worldwide. Washington D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier denounced the technology as a 'cowardly tactic' and said that "It's designed to circumvent law enforcement — law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives." Later, a D.C. police spokesperson said that Lanier was misquoted and that the department has no opinion on the matter. Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations stated that he is all for it if the result is that p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joli%20OS | Joli OS was an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution created by Tariq Krim and Romain Huet co-founders of the French company Jolicloud (also the name of the operating system until version 1.2). Joli OS is now an open source project, with source code hosted on GitHub.
On 22 November 2013, Tariq Krim decided to discontinue Joli OS, but keep the source code open.
Jolicloud was discontinued on April 1, 2016.
History
The project was launched in 2008 by Netvibes founder Tariq Krim and Romain Huet. Krim originally wanted to build a laptop using environmentally friendly manufacturing methods, but the two co-founders refocused the effort on building an operating system. After purchasing a few netbooks and renewing their acquaintance with Linux, they rented office space in the Montorgueil area of Paris and were later joined by another developer, Tristan Groléat. Venture capital firms Atomico Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners have provided $4.2 million in funding.
Version 1.0 was released in July 2010 and version 1.1 was released on 7 December 2010. Version 1.2 was released on 9 March 2011.
Design, hardware compatibility
Joli OS was at the beginning built on top of Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and as with that Linux distribution, was tweaked for netbooks and other computers with limited disk storage, memory, and screen size. Joli OS is now built on top of Ubuntu with a customized kernel.
Joli OS was designed for easy installation, with Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and 3G modem support all included. The operating system supports all the major netbooks, including models from Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, MSI, Samsung and Sony. Jolicloud claims the OS supports 98% of netbooks with out-of-the-box compatibility but also works on a very large number of other devices, up to 10 years old: laptops, desktops and tablets.
Version 1.0 of the operating system incorporates a user interface built primarily with HTML5 that includes an application launcher, a library of compatible applications with one-click installation and removal, a display of all machines associated with a user account, and a social activity stream that enables users to compare installed applications. The launcher displays only those applications supported in the library, but the identical configuration can be viewed from any machine running Joli OS. Account management is available from any computer with an HTML5-compatible browser. Jolicloud's HTML5 implementation is through the Chromium web browser, which serves as middleware for Web rendering.
Version 1.0 reviews, response
Reviewers evaluating Joli OS differed in their appraisals, depending on whether they were writing for a user who is new to Linux or is more experienced with the operating system. Writing on a Condé Nast Traveler blog, Mike Haney called Joli OS "an easy, free OS that you don't have to be a code-monkey to install and does everything you need your netbook to do, quickly. I put it on a Lenovo netbook this weekend that was running like molasses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Hinrichs | Lars Hinrichs (born 18 December 1976, Hamburg, Germany) is a German entrepreneur and investor. Hinrichs is best known as the founder of XING, a Germany focused, but worldwide available, social networking website dedicated mostly to cultivating business contacts.
Career
One of his first ventures, politik-digital.de, was an award-winning platform for politics and new media, which he launched at the age of 22. The company has since evolved into a consultancy for politics, with headquarters in Berlin.
In 2003 Hinrichs founded the Open Business Club GmbH, today XING AG, where both business people and students or job seekers manage their contacts. He took XING public in December 2006 and led the company to a profitable business with annual sales of €35 million and an EBITDA margin of 35%. On 15 January 2009 he resigned from his function as CEO and joined the board of directors. Later in November 2009 Lars Hinrichs sold his stake in XING to Hubert Burda Media. Accordingly, he gave up his board membership at XING in January 2010.
In 2010 he founded HackFwd, a pre-seed investment company that supported European "geeks" investing in prototypes or demos for a fixed timeframe of 12 months. The company was shut down December 2013 due to its inability to sell any single share of the 16 companies they invested in.
Lars supports entrepreneurship and Internet policy on a local, national and European level, and has for example held several meetings with the German chancellor Angela Merkel and with Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission. He is serving on the Supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom AG.
The Apartimentum, a housing project in Hamburg-Rotherbaum, is Hinrichs latest project. It deals with living in the future while focusing on the special needs of Expats.
Hinrichs is an active member of the Young Global Leaders (YGL) of the World Economic Forum and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).
Personal life
Hinrichs lives in Hamburg, Germany, and has two children, aged 13 and 11.
Awards
In 2007 Lars Hinrichs received the Media Award LeadAward and the German Internet Prize 2004 of the Federal Ministry of Economics. In August 2008 he was elected Germany's most important web entrepreneur by the Startups Initiative.
References
External links
Profile of Lars Hinrichs on Xing
1976 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20computing | Semantic computing is a field of computing that combines elements of semantic analysis, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge graphs, and related fields.
Semantic computing addresses three core problems:
Understanding the (possibly naturally-expressed) intentions (semantics) of users and expressing them in a machine-processable format
Understanding the meanings (semantics) of computational content (of various sorts, including, but is not limited to, text, video, audio, process, network, software and hardware) and expressing them in a machine-processable format
Mapping the semantics of user with that of content for the purpose of content retrieval, management, creation, etc.
The IEEE has held an International Conference on Semantic Computing since 2007. A conference on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing has been held since 2015.
See also
Computational semantics
Semantic audio
Semantic compression
Semantic technology
References
External links
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
IEEE International School on Semantic Computing
International Journal of Semantic Computing
Semantic Computing Research Group
Semantic Link Network
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1999.
Events
Debuts
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present).
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
Venture (1985–2007)
1990s
Bob and Margaret (1998–2001)
Cold Squad (1998–2005)
Da Vinci's Inquest (1998–2005)
Daily Planet (1995–present)
eTalk (1995–present, entertainment newsmagazine program
Emily of New Moon (1998–2000)
La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)
Life and Times (1996–2007)
Made in Canada (1998–2003)
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998-2000)
The Passionate Eye (1993–present)
Power Play (1998–2000)
Riverdale (1997–2000)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2008)
The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993–present)
Traders (1996–2000)
Twitch City (1998–2000)
Wind at My Back (1996–2000)
Witness (1992–2004)
TV movies
Milgaard
My Gentleman Friends
Win, Again!
See also
1999 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1999
References
External links
List of 1999 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1998.
Events
Debuts
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present).
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
Venture (1985–2007)
1990s
Black Harbour (1996–1999)
Cold Squad (1998–2005)
Comics! (1993–1999)
Due South (1994–1999)
La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)
Life and Times (1996–2007)
The Passionate Eye (1993–present)
Riverdale (1997–2000)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2008)
The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993–present)
Traders (1996–2000)
Wind at My Back (1996–2000)
Witness (1992–2004)
TV movies
American Whiskey Bar
Television stations
Debuts
Network affiliation changes
See also
1998 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1998
References
External links
List of 1998 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQUA%40home | AQUA@home was a volunteer computing project operated by D-Wave Systems that ran on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It ceased functioning in August 2011. Its goal was to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. It designed and analyzed quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques.
AQUA@home was the first BOINC project to provide multi-threaded applications. It was also the first project to deploy an OpenCL test application under BOINC.
References
External links
Papers resulting from AQUA@home's computations
Science in society
Volunteer computing projects
Quantum information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPUGRID.net | GPUGRID is a volunteer computing project hosted by Pompeu Fabra University and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It performs full-atom molecular biology simulations that are designed to run on Nvidia's CUDA-compatible graphics processing units.
Former support for PS3s
Support for the PS3's Cell microprocessor and the subsequent PS3GRID project was dropped in 2009 due to updated firmware preventing the installation of required third party software. This included Linux distributions that are required to run BOINC. The massive throughput of Nvidia GPUs has also made the PS3 client largely redundant. As of September 2009, a mid-range Nvidia GPU ran GPUGRID applications approximately five times faster than the Cell microprocessor.
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
Molecular dynamics
GPGPU
References
Further reading
Research topics in GPUGRID website's science sections
GPUGRID's about us section
External links
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking%40Home | Docking@Home was a volunteer computing project hosted by the University of Delaware and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. Volunteer computing allows an extensive search of protein-ligand docking conformations and selection of near-native ligand conformations are achieved by using ligand based hierarchical clustering. The ultimate aim was the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.
The project was retired on May 23, 2014.
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
References
Further reading
External links
Science in society
Volunteer computing projects
Internet properties disestablished in 2014
University of Delaware
Free science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Zagreb | The Zagreb tram network, run by the Zagrebački električni tramvaj (ZET), consists of 15 day and 4 night lines in Zagreb, Croatia. Trams operate on of metre gauge route. During the day every line runs on average every 5–10 minutes, but almost every station serves at least two routes. Nighttime lines have exact timetables averaging at about every 40 minutes. The first horsecar tram line was opened in 1891, and the first electric tram ran in 1910. Zagreb's tram system transported 204 million passengers in 2008.
History
At the end of the 19th century rapid urbanisation took place in Zagreb. City fathers started discussing the idea of installing horsecar system in Zagreb. The construction of one gauge tram track began on 11 May 1891. Trams should have been put in service on 15 August 1891, on the opening day of the Jubilee Economic-Forestry Exhibition. Due to vehicle delivery delay, however, the tram was instead put in service on 5 September 1891. That day was officially taken as the beginning of organised public transit system in Zagreb. The gauge was 0.76 m and track length was approximately .
The first electric tram track was opened on 18 August 1910. The horse-drawn trams were kept until a tram electric network was finished, and then they were moved to Velika Gorica where they remained in use until 1937.
The oldest rolling units of the post-World War II tram system were the two-axle TMK 101 trams. Three prototype units were built by ZET workshops in early 1950s, and other 68 units until 1965 by Đuro Đaković factory, with 110 matching trailers. A few of them were replaced by GT6, but they were in regular use until the TMK 2200 series came. They started to be replaced in the 2000s (decade), as the TMK 2200 started going into operation, and by mid-2007, only about 15 units of type 101 were still operational, serving only as a substitute for other vehicles. They were eventually pulled out of service in late 2008.
Current lines
Daytime lines
Lines 10 and 16 no longer exist. Line 10 used to connect Savski most and Borongaj via the Central railway station. It was discontinued in the early 1980s, when a reorganisation of lines reintroduced line 1 and consequently made it impossible to have a line number 10; due to shift numbering, the lines 1 and 10 would end up overlapping. Line 16 used to connect Črnomerec and Zapruđe, but it was discontinued in 1991, due to a shortage of drivers when the Croatian war of independence started.
Line 15 is a specific exception: the line is closer to a light rail line than an actual tram line. It runs for approx. 3 km from Mihaljevac to Dolje. The line runs on a completely segregated right of way. A special type of catenary was developed for the line, which allows trams to reach speeds of 60 km/h. Thus, the line from Mihaljevac to Dolje is the fastest and the shortest line in the entire tram network. It was opened in the 1960s.
Night-time lines
Night-time lines are often substituted by buses due to track maintena |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys%20OS%202200%20databases | The OS 2200 database managers are all part of the Universal Data System (UDS). UDS provides a common control structure for multiple different data models. Flat files (sequential, multi-keyed indexed sequential – MSAM, and fixed-block), network (DMS), and relational (RDMS) data models all share a common locking, recovery, and clustering mechanism. OS 2200 applications can use any mixture of these data models along with the high-volume transaction file system within the same program while retaining a single common recovery mechanism.
The database managers are implemented as a protected subsystem and are called a procedure from user programs and other subsystems. The implementation as a subsystem means that there is no upper limit to the potential concurrency of activities (threads) executing in the database manager. The thread of each user executes the database manager code but within its protection domain so that misbehaved and malicious programs cannot affect the integrity of the database. This approach also reduces the path lengths and overhead involved as messages do not have to be sent between the caller and the database manager. All communication is through parameters.
This commonality has made it possible for clients to modernize applications moving from language files, to a network database, to a relational database. They can use a mixture of these at the same time in a single program while retaining full recoverability. With all the recovery, clustering, locking, and cache management centralized, applications do not have to deal with those aspects. In OS 2200 locking is generally implicit in the database verbs used. For example, a read-for-update implies setting a certain type of lock and the corresponding update write implies clearing it.
The database managers support access using many common distributed data access protocols and APIs including JDBC, OLE DB, and ODBC. See also Unisys OS 2200 distributed processing.
The heart of the database and transaction system is Integrated Recovery. “Integrated” implies the integration of all data models, the transaction file manager, the transaction scheduler, and the message queues. All activity in all of these areas is journaled (written to the audit trail). The audit trail is managed by the Exec which ensures synchronization for all users.
The Integrated Recovery Utility (IRU) is the heart of the recovery system. It provides database backup synchronized with executing transactions and the audit trails. Transactions and batch applications do not need to be stopped to back up the database. IRU makes that unnecessary. All backups can be performed in a running system. Start-of-backup and complete-backup sentinel blocks are written to the audit trail. IRU uses these blocks and other information on the audit trail to perform the fastest possible recovery operations.
There are three main types of recovery actions. All are designed to work across clustered systems. Short recove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys%20OS%202200%20programming%20languages | OS 2200 has had several generations of compilers and linkers in its history supporting a wide variety of programming languages. In the first releases, the Exec II assembler (SLEUTH) and compilers were used. The assembler was quickly replaced with an updated version (ASM) designed specifically for the 1108 computer and Exec 8 but the early compilers continued in use for quite some time.
Universal Compiling System
The modern compiling system for OS 2200 is known as UCS, Universal Compiling System. The UCS architecture uses a common syntax analyzer, separate semantic front ends for each language and a common back-end and optimizer. There is also a common language runtime environment. The UCS system was developed starting in 1969 and initially included PL/I and Pascal. FORTRAN and COBOL were soon added. Ada was added later. The currently supported languages include COBOL, FORTRAN, C, and PLUS. PLUS, Programming Language for Unisys (originally UNIVAC) Systems, is a block structured language somewhat similar to Pascal which it predates.
Legacy compilers
Previous PLUS, COBOL and FORTRAN compilers are also still supported. An even earlier FORTRAN compiler (FORTRAN V), while no longer supported, is still in use for an application developed in the 1960s in that language.
Compilers previously existed for ALGOL, Simula, BASIC, Lisp, NELIAC, JOVIAL, and other programming languages that are no longer in use on the ClearPath OS 2200 systems.
Assembler
The assembler, MASM, is heavily used both to obtain the ultimate in efficiency and to implement system calls that are not native to the programming language. Much of the MASM code in current use is a carryover from earlier days when compiler technology was not as advanced and when the machines were much slower and more constrained by memory size than today.
Linking
There are two linking systems used. The collector (@MAP) combines the output relocatable elements of the basic-mode compilers and assemblers into an absolute element which is directly executable. While this linker is intended primarily to support basic mode, the relocatable and absolute elements may contain extended-mode as well. This is often the case when an existing application is enhanced to use extended mode or call extended mode libraries but still contains some basic mode code. The Exec is an example of such a program.
The linker (@LINK) is the modern linking environment which combines object modules into a new object module. It provides both static and dynamic linking capabilities. The most common usage is to combine the object modules of a program statically but to allow dynamic linking to libraries.
Java
OS 2200 provides a complete Java environment.
Java on OS 2200 has evolved from an interesting additional capability for small servlets and tools to a full environment capable of handling large applications. The Virtual Machine for the Java Platform on ClearPath OS 2200 JProcessor is a Linux port of the Orac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare%20Cost%20and%20Utilization%20Project | The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
General Information
HCUP provides access to healthcare databases for research and policy analysis, as well as tools and products to enhance the capabilities of the data. HCUP databases combine the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal Government to create a national information resource of patient-level healthcare data. State organizations that provide data to HCUP are called Partners.
HCUP includes multiyear hospital administrative (inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department) data in the United States, with all-payer, encounter-level information beginning in 1988. These databases enable research on health and policy issues at the national, State, and local levels, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to healthcare, and outcomes of treatments.
AHRQ has also developed a set of software tools to be used when evaluating hospital data. These software tools can be used with the HCUP databases and with other administrative databases. HCUP’s Supplemental Files are only for use with HCUP databases.
HCUP databases have been used in various studies on a number of topics, such as breast cancer, depression, and multimorbidity, incidence and cost of injuries, role of socioeconomic status in patients leaving against medical advice, multiple chronic conditions and disparities in readmissions, and hospitalization costs for cystic fibrosis.
HCUP User Support Website (HCUP-US)
The HCUP User Support website is the main repository of information for HCUP. It is designed to answer HCUP-related questions; provide detailed information on HCUP databases, tools, and products; and offer technical assistance to HCUP users. HCUP’s tools, publications, documentation, news, services, HCUP Fast Stats, and HCUPnet (the online data query system) may all be accessed through HCUP-US. HCUP-US is located at https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov.
HCUP Overview Course
HCUP has developed an interactive online course that provides an overview of the features, capabilities, and potential uses of HCUP. The course is modular, so users can either move through the entire course or access the resources in which they are most interested. The On-line HCUP Overview Course (https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/overviewcourse.jsp) can work both as an introduction to HCUP data and tools and a refresher for established users.
HCUP Online Tutorial Series
The HCUP Online Tutorial Series (https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/tech_assist/tutorials.jsp) is a set of interactive training courses that provide HCUP data users with information about HCUP data and tools, and training on technica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC%20TV | SEC TV (formerly SEC Network) was a syndicated package featuring live broadcasts of college football and basketball events from the Southeastern Conference. It was owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television and shown in more than 50 percent of households in the United States, mostly Southeastern United States markets. SEC TV's football games typically aired in the noon eastern slot that was former home to the Jefferson-Pilot/Raycom Sports SEC game of the week. Games were shown locally on broadcast stations, regional sports networks, as well as on ESPN GamePlan, ESPN Full Court, and WatchESPN.
SEC TV was replaced with a 24-hour cable network devoted to the conference, also named SEC Network, after the 2013–14 college sports season. The new SEC Network would assume the duty of broadcasting football games in the "early" window used by SEC TV.
History
In 2008, ESPN reached a 15-year deal to become the Southeastern Conference's main media rightsholder, assuming the majority of football and basketball rights (besides portions that would still be held by CBS), including the syndicated package produced by Raycom Sports and its predecessors (which had broadcast SEC basketball games for 22 years, and football for 17). Besides games on its cable networks, ESPN chose to retain the syndicated package, moving it under its competing ESPN Regional Television (also previously known on-air as ESPN Plus) unit under the on-air brand SEC Network.
The first SEC Network game was the Tennessee Volunteers football team's 63-7 blowout win over the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers on September 5, 2009. Dave Neal (an original Jefferson-Pilot/Raycom play-by-play football commentator) and Andre Ware were the play-by-play commentators, and Cara Capuano was the sideline reporter. Unlike Jefferson-Pilot/Raycom Sports, SEC TV also carried some regular season Women's basketball games in syndication on Sunday afternoons during basketball season.
In 2013, with the announcement that ESPN would be launching an SEC cable network under the same name in 2014, SEC Network was re-branded as SEC TV on September 7, 2013. SEC TV folded following the 2013 football season and the 2013-2014 basketball season. The quarterfinals of the 2014 men's conference basketball tournament. The standalone SEC Network cable outlet launched August 14 of that year.
SEC TV was available through 102 over-the-air television stations in the now-11-state SEC footprint, as well as other stations outside SEC markets, regional sports networks, and ESPN platforms such as ESPN3 and ESPN GamePlan/Full Court.
On-air personalities
Play-by-play commentator
Dave Neal (football and men's basketball, 2009-2014)
Carter Blackburn (men's basketball, 2010-2012)
Dave Baker (men's basketball, 2012-2014)
Color analysts
Andre Ware (football, 2009-2013)
Mark Gottfried (men's basketball, 2010-2011)
Dave LaMont (men's basketball, 2012-2014)
Clay Matvick (men's basketball, 2010-2013)
Sideline reporters
Cara Capuano (footb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVESA | Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA), formerly known as GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit automotive industry alliance that develops reference approaches for integrating operating systems and middleware present in connected vehicles and the associated cloud services. The alliance was founded as GENIVI Alliance on March 2, 2009, by BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Visteon, and Wind River Systems. It rebranded as COVESA in October 2021.
Overview
The industry alliance develops a common hardware and software architecture for system providers for the automotive industry. This includes Linux-based services, middleware and open application layer interfaces.<ref name=
History
GENIVI was announced at CeBit 2019 as a new Open Source development platform for the auto industry. Its founding members included BMW, Delphi, General Motors, Intel, Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Visteon and Wind River, and its goal was to jointly develop Linux-based infotainment software. It was incorporated as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization. The name GENIVI was a portmanteau of Geneva and IVI, which stood for in-vehicle infotainment. In January 2016, the organization released an Automotive Grade Linux Unified Code Base distribution featuring GENIVI components, and announced new members including Ford, Subaru, Mazda and Mitsubishi Motors. In October 2021, the organization renamed itself as the Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA), to add an emphasis on the group's work with cloud computing and data exchange. In October 2022, the group's work with vehicle operating systems and software platforms was reviewed, categorized and presented by researchers at the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC).
Projects
The group's projects are divided into groups including the Common Vehicle Interface Initiative (CVII), the Android Automotive Special Interest Group (SIG), the Vehicle Payments Special Interest Group (SIG) and the Automotive Cybersecurity Team. Notable projects include the development of vehicle signal specifications (VSS) including related APIs for vehicle signals and service catalogs, as well as using service-oriented architecture to accelerate integration of new features into automotive systems. The group also works with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Automotive Working Group, consisting of experts from vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, solution providers and researchers.
References
Automotive software
Embedded Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20Cell%20Network | The Stem Cell Network (SCN) is a Canadian non-profit that supports stem cell and regenerative medicine research, teaches the next generation of highly qualified personal, and delivers outreach activities across Canada. The Network has been supported by the Government of Canada, since inception in 2001. SCN has catalyzed 25 clinical trials, 21 start-up companies, incubated several international and Canadian research networks and organizations, and established the Till & McCulloch Meetings, Canada's foremost stem cell research event.
The organization is based in Ottawa, Ontario.
Activities
Annual Scientific Conference
Since 2001, SCN has hosted an annual scientific conference. This conference is open to SCN investigators and trainees, and provides a forum to share new research. The conference takes place in a different Canadian city each year. In 2012, the annual conference was re-branded as the Till & McCulloch Meetings. The establishment of the Meetings ensured that the country's stem cell and regenerative medicine research community would continue to have a venue for collaboration and the sharing of important research. The Till & McCulloch Meetings are Canada's largest stem cell and regenerative medicine conference.
Research Funding Programs
Training
The SCN training program includes studentships, fellowships, research grants and workshops. Since 2001, SCN has offered training opportunities to more than 5,000 trainees.
Organization
Member institutions
SCN and its membership engage in collaborative funding and research activities. Current members institutions include:
Partners
References
Medical and health organizations based in Ontario
Stem cell research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WANdisco | WANdisco, plc. develops technology that moves large Internet of Things (IoT) datasets, edge data, and Hadoop. The company is dual-headquartered in Sheffield, England and San Ramon, California.
History
The name WANdisco is an acronym for wide-area network distributed computing. WANdisco was co-founded in 2005 by David Richards and Dr. Yeturu Aahlad. They grew the company without raising any private equity, venture capital, or angel funding and led it to a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange on June 1, 2012.
In 2012, WANdisco acquired AltoStor and entered the big data market with its non-stop Hadoop product.
On March 9, 2023, the company's shares were suspended from trading in London, citing “significant, sophisticated and potentially fraudulent irregularities with regard to received purchase orders and related revenue and bookings, as represented by one senior sales employee”.
On July 25, 2023, the company's shares were readmitted to The London Stock Exchange. The company also announced that Stephen Kelly had become chief executive, having served as interim chief executive since 10 May 2023.
Name Change
At the company's Annual General Meeting on 30 August 2023, shareholders voted in favor of the name change to Cirata PLC. It is expected that the transition of the Company name and ticker be completed by early October 2023, with the Company's shares to trade under the ticker "CRTA".
References
External links
WANdisco web site
Software companies of England
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in San Ramon, California
Software companies established in 2005
2005 establishments in California
Companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market
Companies based in Sheffield
Big data companies
Cloud computing providers
Hadoop
2012 initial public offerings
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokode | A bokode is a type of data tag which holds much more information than a barcode over the same area. They were developed by a team led by Ramesh Raskar at the MIT Media Lab. Bokodes are intended to be read by any standard digital camera, focusing at infinity. With this optical setup, the tiny code appears large enough to read. Bokodes are readable from different angles and from away.
The bokode pattern is a tiled series of Data Matrix codes. The name is a portmanteau of the words bokeh—a photographic term for defocus—and barcode. Rewritable bokodes are called bocodes. Bokodes are circular with a diameter of . A bokode consists of an LED covered with a photomask and a lens. Powered bokodes are relatively expensive because of the LED and the power it requires. However, prototypes have been developed which function passively with reflected light like a typical barcode.
Bokodes convey a privacy advantage compared to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags: bokodes can be covered up with anything opaque, whereas RFID tags must be masked by material opaque to radio frequencies, such as the sleeve provided by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles when issuing their enhanced state IDs.
References
External links
Camera Culture Group
Didactic article on Bokode "The Future of Barcodes"
Bokode FAQ
Automatic identification and data capture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coates%20%28supercomputer%29 | Coates is a supercomputer installed at Purdue University on July 21, 2009. The high-performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Steele built in 2008, Rossmann built in 2010, and Hansen and Carter built in 2011. Coates was the largest campus supercomputer in the Big Ten outside a national center when built. It was the first native 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) cluster to be ranked in the TOP500 and placed 102nd on the June 2010 list.
Hardware
The Coates cluster consists of 982 64-bit, 8-core HP Proliant DL165 G5p and 11 64-bit, 16-core HP Proliant DL585 G5 systems using AMD 2380 and AMD 8380 processors with various combinations of 16-128 gigabytes of RAM, 500 GB to 2 terabytes of disk and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) local to each node. Coates uses Cisco and Chelsio network equipment. The cluster's nodes are arrayed in five logical sub-clusters each with different memory and storage configurations designed to meet the varying needs of the researchers using Coates.
Software
Coates nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 (RHEL5.6) and use Portable Batch System Professional 10.4.6 (PBSPro 10.4.6) for resource and job management. The cluster also has compilers and scientific programming libraries installed.
Cooling system
Coates has a heat-exchanging cooling system that recycles the hot water for use on the Purdue campus.
Construction
Coates was largely built in less than four hours on July 21, 2009, by a team of more than 200 Purdue computer technicians and volunteers, including volunteers from Indiana University, the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. It was the second such "high-tech barn raising" hosted by Purdue to assemble a cluster in a single morning. The process was first used for the Steele cluster in 2008.
Funding
The Coates supercomputer and Purdue's other clusters are part of the Purdue Community Cluster Program, a partnership between ITaP and Purdue faculty. In Purdue's program, a "community" cluster is funded by hardware money from grants, faculty startup packages, institutional funds and other sources. ITaP's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing administers the community clusters and provides user support. Each faculty partner always has ready access to the capacity he or she purchases and potentially to more computing power when the nodes of other investors are idle.
Users
The Purdue departments and schools by which Coates is used vary broadly, including Aeronautics and Astronautics, Agronomy, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communications, Computer Science, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Physics, the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory and Statistics. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1997.
Events
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present).
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
Venture (1985–2007)
1990s
Black Harbour (1996–1999)
Comics! (1993–1999)
Due South (1994–1999)
Life and Times (1996–2007)
The Passionate Eye (1993–present)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2008)
The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
The Rez (1996–1998)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993–present)
Traders (1996–2000)
Wind at My Back (1996–2000)
Witness (1992–2004)
TV movies
Television stations
Debuts
Network affiliation changes
See also
1997 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1997
References
External links
List of 1997 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1996.
Events
Debuts
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present).
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Fred Penner's Place (1985–1997)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
Venture (1985–2007)
1990s
Comics! (1993–1999)
Due South (1994–1999)
Madison (1993–1997)
North of 60 (1992–1997)
The Passionate Eye (1993–present)
Ready or Not (1993–1997)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2008)
The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993–present)
Witness (1992–2004)
TV movies
The Colony
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
Giant Mine
Handel's Last Chance
Night of the Twisters
Once a Thief
Robin of LocksleyThe Wrong Woman''
Television stations
Debuts
Births
July 6 - Robert Naylor, actor
August 23 - Cesar Flores, actor
Deaths
February 7 - Barbara Hamilton, actress, 69
May 22 – Robert Christie, actor and director, 82
June 7 - Marjorie Gross, writer and producer, 40 (ovarian cancer)
July 29 – Sean Roberge, actor, 24
References
See also
1996 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1996
External links
List of 1996 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Aleluia | The Rede Aleluia (Hallelujah Network) is 64 affiliated Brazilian radio stations network owned/rented by the UCKG (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God) in 22 of the 27 states, that cover 75% of the Brazilian territory mostly in southeastern region, and also there is an internet radio version on its site. The radio broadcasts the programming of TV Universal since 2011.
History
Rede Aleluia was created in 1995 with 19 affiliated radio stations retransmitting the central signal via satellite from the radio 105 FM in Rio de Janeiro. Since the second half of 2002 the central transmission has been from the radio 99.3 FM in São Paulo.
Programming
The basic Rede Aleluia programming is composed of gospel national and international songs and instrumental melodies specially from Line Records and New Music record label, news and guidelines every two hours and local programming of the UCKG.
Stations
This is a list of the radio stations by cities, generally the radio stations also have signal in neighbor cities.
Central-west
Distrito Federal
Brasília - 99.3 FM
Goiás
Anápolis - 100 FM
Mato Grosso
Cuiabá 100.9 FM
Mato Grosso do Sul
Campo Grande - 102.7 FM
North
Amazonas
Manaus - 95.1 fM
Pará
Belém - 98 FM
Rondônia
Porto Velho - 96.9 FM
Northeast
Bahia
Ilhéus - 97.9 FM
Itabuna - 96.9 FM
Salvador - 96 FM
Ceará
Fortaleza - 99.9 FM
Maranhão
São Luís - 105.5 FM
Paraíba
João Pessoa - 99.7 FM
Pernambuco
Garanhuns - 550 AM
Recife - 91.9 FM
Piauí
Teresina - 94.1 FM
Rio Grande do Norte
Natal - 102.9 FM
Sergipe
Aracaju - 98.1 FM
South
Paraná
Curitiba - 88.5 FM
Londrina - 105.5 FM
Rio Grande do Sul
Caxias do Sul - 93.5 FM
Pelotas - 93.3 FM
Porto Alegre - 100.5 FM
Santa Catarina
Florianópolis - 99.3 FM
Southeast
Espírito Santo
Vitória - 90.1 FM
Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte - 90.7 FM
Juiz de Fora - 93.5 FM
Poços de Caldas - 96.7 FM
Uberaba - 103.7 FM
Uberlândia - 99.9 FM
Rio de Janeiro
Angra dos Reis - 101 FM
Cabo Frio - 102 FM
Campos dos Goytacazes - 89 FM
Macaé - 103 FM
Rio de Janeiro - 105 FM
Volta Redonda - 101.5 FM
São Paulo
Araçatuba - 104.3 FM
Bauru - 103.7 FM
Botucatu - 93.1 FM
Campinas - 100.3 FM
Catanduva - 94.9 FM
Franca - 98.3 FM
Guarujá/Santos - 94.3 FM
Jaú - 98.5 FM
Limeira - 95.1 FM
Lins - 103.1 FM
Marília - 92.9 FM
Piracicaba - 97.1 FM
Registro - 750 AM
Ribeirão Preto - 103.5 FM
São Carlos - 96.9 FM
São José do Rio Preto - 97.1 FM
São José dos Campos - 99.7 FM
Sorocaba - 99.7 FM
Taubaté - 106.5 FM
Vinhedo/Jundiaí - 94.1 FM
Votuporanga - 99 FM
See also
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
Line Records
External links
official website page about the history
Central-West
North
Northeast
South
Southeast
Brazilian radio networks
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20Channel | The Illinois Channel is a 501 c (3) nonprofit corporation, modeled after C-SPAN, which produces programming on Illinois state government, politics and public policy.
Early history
In 1999, Barbara Ferrara, of the University of Illinois at Springfield, wrote a grant request to launch a study into what would be needed to start an Illinois version of C-SPAN. The Joyce Foundation approved the grant and awarded $396,000 to fund the project. The MacArthur Foundation also donated $50,000 toward the project. Terry Martin, a former member of C-SPAN's Congressional coverage team, who had also worked in local news covering Illinois politics, was selected as the study's Project Director.
The study was guided by a 50-member Blue Ribbon panel, led by former Illinois Governor, Jim Edgar, and former US Senator Paul Simon. During the first meeting of the Planning Study's Advisory Board, the name Illinois Channel was selected as the new name for this effort to launch a statewide public affairs network. During the study an examination of other states' efforts were examined, the nonprofit corporation was established under IRS rules, and initial production and distribution was begun. The first Illinois Channel program, involved coverage of the Illinois Supreme Court hearing a case on redistricting Illinois' political districts, following the 2000 census.
Independent Nonprofit Corporation
In December 2002, the Illinois Channel Planning Study concluded. Among the recommendation of the study, was that the nonprofit organization operating the Channel, should be free of any affiliations with other organizations, including the University of Illinois Springfield, which had conducted the study. This was done, so that every institution of high education in Illinois would feel it had an equal opportunity to have their public affairs programming televised.
In January 2003, the Illinois Channel began independent operations in the Illinois Municipal League's building at 500 East Capitol Street, in Springfield. Among the initial Board members to serve on the new nonprofit, were former US Senator Adlai Stevenson, whose father had twice run for President [ 1952 & 1956 ], Illinois newsman Mike Lawrence, who was a confidant of both Gov. Jim Edgar and Senator Paul Simon. Terry Martin, who had led the Planning Study, stayed with the project as Executive Director.
Funding the Illinois Channel remained a private sector function, and was launched with a $50,000 grant from Boeing, a $3000 grant from the Illinois Bar Association, and some $30,000 in remaining funds from the planning study.
Growth & Benchmarks
In subsequent years, more and more communities added the Illinois Channel's programming. Though the study had called for the Illinois Channel to be operated 24/7, across the state, a lack of adequate funds continued to limit the Channel to producing two hours of weekly programming. But this programming was well received, and over the next few years, the Illinois Channel's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-recursive%20function | Non-recursive function might refer to:
Recursion (computer science): a procedure or subroutine, implemented in a programming language, whose implementation references itself
μ-recursive function, defined from a particular formal model of computable functions using primitive recursion and the μ operator
Computable function, or total recursive function, a function computable by a Turing machine
See also
Recursive function (disambiguation)
cs:Rekurzivní funkce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Halcombe%20Laning | J. Halcombe "Hal" Laning Jr. (February 14, 1920, in Kansas City, Missouri – May 29, 2012) was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer pioneer who in 1952 invented an algebraic compiler called George (also known as the Laning and Zierler system after the authors of the published paper) that ran on the MIT Whirlwind, the first real-time computer. Laning designed George to be an easier-to-use alternative to assembly language for entering mathematical equations into a computer. He later became a key contributor to the 1960s race to the Moon, with pioneering work on space-based guidance systems for the Apollo Moon missions. From 1955 to 1980, he was deputy associate director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory.
In 1956 he published the book Random Processes in Automatic Control (McGraw-Hill Series on Control System Engineering), with Richard Battin as a coauthor.
In collaboration with Phil Hankins and Charlie Werner of MIT, he initiated work on MAC (MIT
Algebraic Compiler), an algebraic programming language for the IBM 650, which was completed by early spring of 1958.
Career
Laning received his PhD from MIT in 1947 with a dissertation titled "Mathematical Theory of Lubrication-Type Flow". His undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering (1940) was also from MIT.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for his work in aerospace engineering, particularly his "unique pioneering achievements in missile guidance and computer science—the Q-guidance system for Thor and Polaris [missiles] and George". He was also an honorary member of the American Mathematical Society.
Laning features prominently in the third episode of the Science Channel's documentary miniseries titled Moon Machines which aired in June 2008.
Apollo Program
He later worked in the MIT Draper Lab, with Richard H. Battin, to develop a scheme for doing onboard navigation on the Apollo program's command/service module guidance system. He designed the Executive and Waitlist operating system for the LGC (Lunar Module Guidance Computer) in the mid 1960s; he built it up from scratch with no examples to guide him, and the design is still valid. The allocation of functions among a sensible number of asynchronous processes, under control of a rate and priority-driven preemptive executive, still represents the state of the art in real-time GN&C computers for spacecraft. His design saved the Apollo 11 landing mission when the rendezvous radar interface program began using more register core sets and "Vector Accumulator" areas than were physically available in memory, causing the infamous 1201 and 1202 errors. Had it not been for Laning's design the landing would have been aborted for lack of a stable guidance computer.
References
External links
A portrait of J. Halcombe Laning, taken in 1997
NASA people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
1920 births
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
2012 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand%20networking | Brand networking is the engagement of a social networking service around a brand by providing consumers with a platform of relevant content, elements of participation, and a currency, score, or ranking. Brand networking creates communities that serve as interactive destinations to encourage brand participation online and off. This evolved level of user participation with the brand facilitates strong relationships with consumers, leverages sales, and generates fan equity.
History
The development and growth of social networking in the early 2000s gave birth to brand networking. Brands saw the immediate potential to reach and interact with consumers through online platforms like Facebook and MySpace. At first, the ability to reach consumers through these platforms was inadequate; brands had the option to join as members or simply advertise on these sites. The potential existed to not only display advertisements to consumers, but to encourage them to interact with the brand. This is when brands made the shift to create their own networking platforms.
Less evolved attempts to connect brands with consumers via networking are typically built as online platforms meant only to complement a product/service and are limited in functionality. Typically these sites offer consumers the opportunity to interact through discussion boards and group pages. The Guiding Light Community was built to complement the popular CBS television soap opera. The site offers members reward points for contributing content to discussion boards and blogs (which is all geared toward the show).
Structure
Brand networking is more than the utilization of a social networking platform; it is connecting consumers together and constructing relationships directly with the brand. Three key elements, in unity, create effective brand networking: relevant content, elements of participation, and a competitive currency.
Websites in conjunction with other media types (TV, radio, print, etc.) present relative content around a vertical industry or sector of interest or cultural/social issues for a brand. This can be in the form of weight loss, marketing, or business—any content relative to the brand message. Relative content is not only provided by the brand, but also in the form of consumer-generated media. By creating a network, consumers interact and create content for online sites.
Next, a brand provides participation with consumers online and off. This is accomplished through the combination of typical social networking features online (personalized page, friends, groups, messaging), to interconnect fans, and elements of involvement offline. This is not simply connecting an online platform with mobile devices, but providing separate mobile features jointly with a secondary media type to drive online usage and build relationships with the brand on the go. By participating in mobile campaigns, users are interacting with the brand outside of traditional brick and mortar or e-comme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda%20Electronics | Panda Electronics is a Chinese manufacturer and brand for electronic products. The products include mobile phones, datacards, TV sets and set top boxes, administrative software, electronic instruments, satellite and mobile communication.
History
Panda Group was originally a radio manufacturer established in 1936 under the Nationalist government. The company was moved to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War and the remaining plant was re-established as Nanjing Wireless Electronics Plant and in 1995 renamed Panda Electronics Group. Nanjing Panda Electronics Co Ltd, controlled by the Panda Group, was listed on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges in 1996. The company has links to the People's Liberation Army and also has a joint venture in North Korea in collaboration with the North Korean government.
U.S. sanctions
In November 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the United States Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included Panda Electronics.
References
Electronics companies of China
Mobile phone companies of China
Software companies of China
Telecommunication equipment companies of China
Manufacturing companies based in Nanjing
Electronics companies established in 1936
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Chinese brands
Defence companies of the People's Republic of China
Chinese companies established in 1936
Radio manufacturers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemke | Lemke may refer to:
Lemke (surname)
Lemke (Marklohe), a small village in Germany
14327 Lemke, an asteroid
See also
Lemke's algorithm, by Carlton Lemke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Fischer | Michael Fischer may refer to:
Michael J. Fischer (born 1942), computer scientist
Michael M. J. Fischer, professor of anthropology
Mike Fischer (active from 1973), British physicist and businessman
See also
Michael Fisher (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Indian%20Bank | The South Indian Bank Limited (SIB) is a major private sector bank headquartered at Thrissur in Kerala, India. As on March 31st 2023, the Bank had a network of 942 banking outlets (941 Branches & 1 Service Branch) and 1304 ATMs/CRMs (1170 ATMs and 134 CRMs) spanning in 26 States and 4 Union Territories).
History of SIB
South Indian Bank was registered in 1929 under the Companies Act. It commenced business on 29 January 1929 at Round South, Thrissur.
It was included in the second schedule of the Reserve Bank of India and became a scheduled Bank on 7 August 1946. SIB was the first scheduled Bank in the private sector in Kerala to get the license under Section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 from the RBI on 17 June 1957.
The Bank has won the 'UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021' for Best Automation under crisis for business continuity.
Board of directors
V J Kurian - Chairman
P R Seshadri - Managing Director & CEO
Pradeep M. Godbole - Director
George Korah - Director
Paul Antony - Director
R A Sankaranarayanan - Director
Radha Unni - Director
Benny P Thomas - Director
See also
Banking in India
List of banks in India
Reserve Bank of India
Indian Financial System Code
List of largest banks
List of companies of India
Make in India
References
External links
Official web site
Interview of Dr. V.A Joseph, Former Managing Director & CEO, South Indian Bank
South Indian Bank
Banks based in Thrissur
Banks established in 1929
Private sector banks in India
Indian companies established in 1928
Indian companies established in 1929
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGrio | TheGrio, styled as thegrio, is an American television network and website with news, opinion, entertainment and video content geared toward African-Americans.
History
TheGrio is to "focus on news and events that have a unique interest and pronounced impact within the national African Americans audience," offering what co-founder and Executive Editor David Wilson feels "are underrepresented in existing national news outlets".
The website's name is derived from the word griot, the term for a West African oral historian and storyteller.
The website originally launched in June 2009 as a division of NBC News, it became a division of MSNBC in 2013. It was founded by the team who created the documentary film Meeting David Wilson. In 2014, it was sold to its founders. In June 2016, Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios acquired the site.
The TV channel was founded as Light TV in 2016 by reality television producer Mark Burnett and his wife, actress Roma Downey, as an inspirational network as part of his chairmanship of MGM Television, which operated the network. It was sold to Entertainment Studios in late 2020, and relaunched as TheGrio TV in January 2021, with a Black-specific programming focus.
After Entertainment Studios purchased the assets of the bankrupt Black News Channel in late July 2022, that network was merged into TheGrio TV on August 1, including the former's existing cable, satellite and advertiser supported on-demand streaming carriage, and plans to add more news and commentary to TheGrio TV's schedule.
Television network
Light TV (2015–2020)
The then-new over-the-top (OTT) faith-based channel was under development as early as September 2014 when MGM purchased 55% of One Three Media and LightWorkers Media, owned by Hearst Entertainment, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, and consolidated them into United Artists Media Group. With MGM purchasing Hearst and Burnett and Downey's shares in UAMG, the channel was still a planned streaming service. However, Hearst and Burnett and Downey retained their stakes in the channel.
MGM announced the formation of Light TV on December 15, 2015, with a launch planned for December on thirteen major market stations owned by Fox Television Stations. The network launched on January 20, 2016 with two stations, and the rest of the group's stations.
The network was intended to carry new and original content from LightWorkers as part of Burnett's chairmanship of MGM's television division, but never ended up carrying any new content, only featuring rerun and library content already seen on MGM's This TV (a film-oriented network) and MGM HD, along with low-cost barter programming such as Heartland, which was already in wide syndication across multiple channels, along with other generic inspirational or family-friendly content. By 2019, the network added paid programming which made up its late night and early morning schedule, reducing its programming commitment further.
TheGrio TV (2021–present)
Light TV and This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimited%20search | In computing, delimited search refers to a simple search user interface allowing search in three steps:
First a user types a query string,
second the system computes the query on the whole body of searchable content,
third the user gets results (if they exist) for that query string from the system.
This search mode is the default search system implemented in most operating systems, word processing systems, many online full-text search interfaces.
Incremental search
The contrary of delimited search is incremental search in which a user gets instant feedback as he/she types a query based on what may exist in the content searched, thereby allowing him/her to adjust the query based on actual coverage of the target content instead of waiting for the system to compute results and possibly returning a "not found" error.
Critique
The renowned interface design guru, Jef Raskin, defined delimited search and compared it to his more favorite search interface (incremental search). Here are his own words in his famous work, "The Human Interface": "With a delimited search, the computer waits for the user to type a pattern and delimit it, after which it is the user who waits while the computer does the search. When using a delimited search the user must guess, beforehand, how much of a pattern the computer needs to distinguish the desired target from other, similar targets. With an incremental search, he can tell when he has typed enough to disambiguate the desired instance, because the target appeared on the display. (..) In spite of near agreement about the desirability of incremental searches on the part of both designers and users, almost all interface-building tools make it easy to implement delimited searches and difficult or impossible to implement incremental searches."
References
External links
If It Isn't Incremental, It's Excremental — Programming and Human Factors by Jeff Atwood.
User interface techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohde%20%26%20Schwarz | Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG (, ) is an international electronics group specializing in the fields of electronic test equipment, broadcast & media, cybersecurity, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, and radiocommunication. The company provides also products for the wireless communications, electronics industry, aerospace and defense, homeland security and critical infrastructures.
In addition to the Munich headquarters, there are regional headquarters in the United States (Columbia, Maryland) and in Asia (Singapore). About 7,700 of the company's employees work in Germany. Worldwide the company has a total of around 13,000 employees in over 70 countries. Exports account for around 85 percent of revenues.
History
PTE and World War 2
The company was founded by Lothar Rohde and Hermann Schwarz who met while studying physics in Jena. They built their first T&M instrument in 1932, and in August 1933, the Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. Rohde & Dr. Schwarz (known as PTE) started in business.
Ceramic insulation for frequencies above 1 MHz were improved in second half of the 1920s when German firm Hermsdorf-Schomburg-Isolatoren-Gesellschaft, also known as Hescho produced new types of ceramic material with very low loss at RF, due to the absence of iron. These parts were difficult to measure, but PTE developed suitable test equipment.
In 1934, a British manufacturer of electrical insulation placed an order with them for a similar device. In 1937, the small laboratory moved into a former bakery on Tassiloplatz, not far from Munich's Ostbahnhof. Rohde & Schwarz already employed 35 workers and offered 24 different devices in its catalog at this time. In 1938, it manufactured the first portable quartz clock with a weight of 36 kg.
PTE Started a second factory "Messgerätebau GmbH" in 1941 in Allgäu on the Swiss border. The Wehrmacht's sustained demand for radio equipment forced manufacturers to concede their production as part of the militarization of the Third Reich's Economy. The measurement equipment for HF-technology promoted the development of radar and radio systems of Wehrmacht in WW2.
Internationalisation after 1945
After business activities were resumed in 1945, the US Army placed a major order to equip the than United States Air Force base in Erding that ensured the company's continued existence. In the same year the company was renamed Rohde & Schwarz (R&S).
The company became one of the most important suppliers for radar and reconnaissance companies of the newly founded Bundeswehr. The company also quickly worked closely with the German Federal Intelligence Service, which was founded in 1956.
Since 2000
Although the US secret services operated SIGINT reconnaissance stations in cooperation with BND, for example in Bad Aibling, Rhode & Schwarz's communications were also intercepted by NSA. Rhode & Schwarz is or was on an NSA hit list made public by 2010 surveillance disclosures of Edward Snowden.
In 2012 R&S acquired the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Fulkerson | Aaron Roe Fulkerson is an American information technology businessman and founder of MindTouch, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core business model, collaborative networks, and the application of Web Oriented Architecture to enterprise software.
Fulkerson is founder and board member at MindTouch, a supplier of open source and collaborative network software. Prior to co-founding MindTouch with Steve Bjorg, Aaron was a member of Microsoft’s Advanced Strategies and Policies division, and worked on distributed systems research. Previously, he owned and operated a successful software and Information Technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP. He won a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship in 2002.
Aaron advises Microsoft on open source practices, and is a founding advisory member of the OuterCurve Foundation (formerly known as the CodePlex Foundation). He is also the technical editor to MCGraw Hill's "Implementing Enterprise 2.0." Aaron is a contributing blogger and writer for Forbes, GigaOm OSTATIC, TechWeb Internet Evolution, Fortune Magazine, CNNMoney.com, CMSWire and ReadWriteWeb.
In 2008, Aaron was cited one of seven "Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists" by ReadWriteWeb. Aaron is also a frequent speaker on the topics of enterprise software, Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM (SCRM), open source, education, and entrepreneurship,
In March 2010, he was named on the Mindtouch website as the forty-sixth in the list of "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source".
References
External links
OSCON Speaker at Oscon 2009
Google Profile
Fulkerson Personal Blog
Open Core Licensing
WOA Pioneer
WOA Presentation
Floss 89: Interview with Aaron Roe Fulkerson about Mindtouch
Linux Journal video interview with Aaron Fulkerson
Developer Video
podcast about Wiki's
Podcast interview
Read Write Web
Fulkerson Interviews
American computer businesspeople
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Businesspeople in information technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNOF | UKNOF (United Kingdom Network Operators' Forum) is an open forum for the exchange of operational and technical information for Internet network operators in the United Kingdom.
Three one-day events are held per year, and are vendor-supported so attendance is free.
UKNOF is notable for including regular Internet history presentations as part of a project to collect information about the history of the UK Internet.
Events are primarily organised by a 17-strong volunteer Programme Committee drawn from UK and international Internet ops community – the people on this committee come from a wide and representative range of organisations: large telcos, mobile operators and IXPs, through to regional and local players and freelance technologists.
The UKNOF legal entity is overseen by a six-person Board of Directors, guided by an Advisory Committee.
References
External links
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Internet in the United Kingdom
Internet Network Operators' Groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20security%20conference | A computer security conference is a convention for individuals involved in computer security. They generally serve as meeting places for system and network administrators, hackers, and computer security experts.
Events
Common activities at hacker conventions may include:
Presentations from keynote speakers or panels. Common topics include social engineering, lockpicking, penetration testing, and hacking tools.
Hands-on activities and competitions such as capture the flag (CTF).
"Boot camps" offering training and certification in Information Technology.
List of general computer security conferences
General security conferences might be held by non-profit/not-for-profit/for-profit professional associations, individuals or informal group of individuals, or by security product vendor companies.
44Con An Infosec conference and training event that occurs annually in London, UK.
ACM-CCS (Conferences on Computer and Communications Security), security conference held since 1993.
ACSAC, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference - oldest information security conference held annually.
ASIA or the Annual Symposium on Information Assurance that serves as the academic track for the New York State Cyber Security Conference, an annual information security conference held in Albany, NY usually for two days during June targeted at academic, government, and industry participants.
Black Hat, a series of conferences held annually in different cities around the world. Black Hat USA, held in Las Vegas immediately before DEF CON, is one of the largest computer security events in the world.
BlueHat Conference, a twice a year, invitation-only Microsoft security conference aimed at bringing Microsoft security professionals and external security researchers together.
Brucon, yearly conference, previously held in Brussels, since 2012 it is held in Ghent. Lasting 2 days, and preceded by a training.
CanSecWest, in Vancouver is held at the end of March and hosts the Pwn2Own hacking contest.
CSS - International Conference on Cryptography and Security System in Poland.
CIA Conference - A series of international conference on cyber security which aims to bridge the gap between the corporate need of cyber security to the fancy world of hacking.
DeepSec, in Vienna covers many security aspects of computing and electronic communications as well as security management and social aspects. DeepSec is visited by a broad international audience, academics, researchers, vendors, finance, public administration etc. (2 days trainings, 2 days conference). Presentations are published on Vimeo and YouTube.
DEF CON-is one of the world's largest and most notable hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference, an annual conference that focuses on the computer security needs of the United States federal government, military, and defense contractors.
FSec - Croatian annual security conference held at the Faculty of o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Football%202005 | This Is Football 2005, known as World Tour Soccer 2006 in North America, is a sports video game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PlayStation 2.
Reception
This is Football 2005 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
External links
2004 video games
Association football video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
This Is Football
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
London Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avivamiento%20Broadcasting%20Network | Avivamiento Broadcasting Network (also known as ABN) is a Colombian local religious television channel, based in Bogotá. It is owned by the Centro Mundial de Avivamiento, a Christian congregation led by pastors Ricardo Rodríguez and María Patricia Patty Rodríguez. ABN started broadcasting 21 June 2001.
References
External links
Official site, includes live Windows Media stream
Television networks in Colombia
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television stations in Colombia
Evangelical television networks
Spanish-language television stations
Mass media in Bogotá |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Away%20From%20My%20Mom | "Get Away From My Mom" is the pilot episode of the American animated sitcom Home Movies. It originally aired on the UPN network in the United States on April 26, 1999. In the episode, eight-year-old Brendon Small discovers that his mother, Paula, is set to have a date with Brendon's soccer coach, the lazy, profane alcoholic John McGuirk. Brendon resents McGuirk for this and expresses his outrage throughout the episode. The date goes terribly and McGuirk and Paula decide to not pursue a relationship. Meanwhile, Brendon and his friends Melissa and Jason film a new movie about a rogue police officer.
Production involved retroscripting, a process by which the actors completely improvised all dialogue, as the first time this technique was used for an animated television production. Certain script material was provided by series co-founder and director, Loren Bouchard. The pilot is based on the Squigglevision style of animation which was used for season 1. In its original broadcast, "Get Away From My Mom" received a 1.4/2 Nielsen Rating, the lowest UPN had ever received in that time slot. The episode received mixed reviews from television critics, particularly pertaining to its employment of improvisation.
Plot
After soccer practice, eight-year-old aspiring filmmaker Brendon Small shows his mother Paula a self-made trailer for his upcoming film, The Dark Side of the Law, a crime film about a rogue police detective. Paula expresses indifference to the production. At breakfast the next morning, Paula informs Brendon she plans to go on a date that night with Brendon's soccer coach, John McGuirk, much to Brendon's chagrin. Brendon seeks advice from his friend Melissa and her father Erik, but they are unable to advise him as they are late for a violin recital.
When McGuirk shows up at Brendon's house for the date that night, Brendon tries to scare him off by acting as if he is his son, but it proves unsuccessful. During the date, Paula becomes agitated at McGuirk's inappropriate, boring subject matter, and she becomes drunk in order to entertain herself. Meanwhile, Brendon, Melissa, and their friend Jason film a scene from The Dark Side of the Law in Brendon's basement, where Brendon's character is in a French prison, confronted by his mother, played by Melissa. They stop filming when Jason's nose starts running, and he demonstrates how he can move the mucus up and down to their disgust.
At soccer practice the next day, Brendon—still upset with his mother's decision to date his coach—is uncooperative and chastises McGuirk for dating his mother, accusing him of desires to engage in a relationship with all the soccer players' mothers. While being driven home by Erik, Brendon asks Erik to fight McGuirk as revenge, but Erik denies his request and suggests he take his mind off the topic by playing a car game. Eventually, Brendon decides to apologize to McGuirk for his behavior, and the two reconcile. Later, McGuirk and Paula decide over the phone to end the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McAllester | David McAllester may refer to:
David A. McAllester (born 1956), computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher
David P. McAllester (1916–2006), ethnomusicologist
David S. McAllester (born 1983), founder of BIGPLAY and host of the BIGPLAY Reflog Show
See also
David McAllister (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Thomas%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | James Thomas (March 26, 1946 – August 6, 2010) was an American computer scientist in the field of visualization.
He spent much of his career at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Life
James Joseph Thomas was born March 26, 1946, in Spokane, Washington.
He majored in mathematics at Eastern Washington University, and received a master's degree from Washington State University in computer science.
His professional career started at General Motors, where he worked in the area of computer-aided graphics and design soon after graduate school in early 1970s. He later returned to his home state to join the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (later renamed Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) as a computer scientist in 1976. He rose through the ranks from senior scientist, staff scientist, chief scientist, to laboratory fellow.
In the 1980s, he was a member of the founding team who conceptualized and developed the core concepts for what is today’s William R. Wiley Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE scientific user facility located at PNNL. In the early 1990s, to address the problem of information overload, Thomas headed a team of information technology researchers to develop the SPIRE document Visualization (computer graphics) visualization and analytics system. As of 2019, the successor to this system, IN-SPIRE, is still in use. In the early 2000s, Thomas led and coordinated a team to formally define a new research area, visual analytics. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC) at PNNL in 2004, naming Thomas as its founding director.
On July 31, 2009, Thomas retired from his position at PNNL after 33 years. He died on August 6, 2010.
Professional Societies
Thomas organized the SIGGRAPH conference in 1987, founded and organized the first ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) gathering in 1989, chaired ACM SIGGRAPH from 1989 to 1992, served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications from 2002 to 2006.
He chaired the IEEE Visualization conference in 2003.
He helped found the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium that began in 2006. Thomas has also served on industry, government, and international advisory boards.
Awards
1985: Science Digest's Top 100 Scientific Innovations
1986: R&D Magazines R&D 100 Award
1989: Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
1996: R&D Magazine's R&D 100 Award
1998: Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
2007: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2009: Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland Security Award
References
American computer scientists
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2010 deaths
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Guenthner | Franz Guenthner is a German linguist who is a professor of Computational Linguistics at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. His background is in philosophy and linguistics.
Guenthner's research interests include computational linguistics, and has collaborated to the development of a number of online search platforms since 1996, including AltaVista, Fast Search and Transfer (now purchased by Microsoft), and JobaNova. He was a professor of General and Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen (1977–1989) before joining the LMU in 1990. His research interests include all areas of text processing and in particular the transformation of textual corpora in lexical and grammatical representations (i.e. computationally deployable electronic dictionaries and local grammars). He was also instrumental in the design and realization of a number of search engines, in particular of the first large-scale scientific search engine on the web www.scirus.com. Later work concerned the use of linguistic techniques in page and link analysis on the web, especially for the construction of vertical search engines.
See also
Defeasible reasoning
References
External links
Personal page at CIS in Munich
2007 interview on the topic of online job search (in German)
Books and other Publications by Franz Guenthner
Profile as a Speaker at the 7th Annual Bielefeld Conference in Germany
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Linguists from Germany
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
Corpus linguists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentai%20Filmworks | Sentai Filmworks, LLC (or simply Sentai) is an American entertainment company owned by AMC Networks. Located in Houston, the company specializes in the dubbing and distribution of Japanese animation and Asian cinema. Its post-production arm is Sentai Studios.
The company has its origins in A.D. Vision, which was founded in 1992 by video game fan John Ledford and Matt Greenfield. ADV collapsed due to low sales and eventually liquidated their assets in 2009. Ledford founded Sentai in 2008 and acquired the majority of ADV's titles. Sentai was then acquired by New York City-based AMC Networks in 2022 and became its subsidiary. Its offices are in the International District in Southwest Houston.
History
Origins
In 1990, John Ledford, a native of Houston, started a Japanese video game and video console import business. He was introduced to anime when he watched My Neighbor Totoro at his friend's suggestion. His friend, Matt Greenfield, born in Sacramento, California, ran a local anime club called Anime NASA. Both men established A.D. Vision, which officially opened for business on August 17, 1992. Ledford contacted Toho about optioning the rights to license Devil Hunter Yohko, which became the first title to be released by ADV.
Ledford establishes Sentai
In June 2006, the Japanese Sojitz Corporation acquired a 20% stake in ADV Films. This was done as a means for ADV Films to acquire more titles in the Japanese market. From this point on, virtually all titles that ADV acquired were with Sojitz's help. The following year, Sojitz announced that Japan Content Investments (JCI), Development Bank of Japan, and film distribution company KlockWorx, planned to contribute money to ADV, in return for equity in the company. Ledford was to remain the majority shareholder and CEO. JCI subsidiary ARM also planned to contribute money for ADV to use in acquiring new distribution licenses. The investment was to ADV Films to raise its output of new anime titles, which had dropped in 2006, back to previous levels or above. In return, ADV planned to assist Sojitz with the acquisition of North American and European content for importation into Japan. According to ADV, they also reportedly had "big plans" for its manga line.
However, in January 2008, ADV mysteriously removed a large number of titles from their website. Among the titles which were subsequently removed was Gurren Lagann, which had test disks sent out with dubbed episodes. As a result, ADV sued ARM Corporation and its parent Sojitz for a breach in a contract made previously. In the suit, the exact amount ADV paid to license twenty-nine titles was disclosed. The lawsuit was withdrawn and no ruling was made. That July, Funimation announced the acquisition of thirty of these titles licensed by Sojitz from ADV.
Ledford established Sentai Filmworks in October 2008. Among its first titles to be released were Clannad, Princess Resurrection, Indian Summer, Appleseed and Mahoromatic (formerly licensed by Geneon). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSCS | LSCS may refer to:
Lone Star College System
Lower segment Caesarean section
La Salle Computer Society, a professional student organization in De La Salle University College of Computer Studies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Familia | La Familia ( "the family") may refer to:
Film and television
La familia (film), or The Family, a 2017 Venezuelan film
La familia, a 1969 Mexican telenovela
La Familia Network, a 1994–2015 American Spanish-language TV network
Music
La Familia (rap group), a Romanian hip hop group
La Familia (album), a 2014 album by J Balvin
"La Familia" (song), a 1995 song by Frost
La Familia, a 2001 album by Djakout Mizik
"La Familia", a 2016 song by Kevin Gates from Islah
Other uses
La Familia (Beitar supporters' group), an ultra supporters' group of Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem
La Familia (professional wrestling), a 2007–2009 WWE stable
La Familia Michoacana, a Mexican drug cartel
Las Meninas, or La Familia, a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez
See also
Familia (disambiguation)
Family (disambiguation)
Sagrada Familia (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaSynth | MetaSynth is a sound design and music production tool developed by U&I Software for the Macintosh operating system, that allows the creation of sound from images. It was most notably used on The Matrix (for bullet-speed special effects), but has also appeared on the electronic artist Aphex Twin's single "Windowlicker" in the title track and the B-side track "ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C[i]Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[n−1]]."
Awards
Electronic Musician 2006 Editor's Choice Award for Best Sound-design Application
Electronic Musician 1999 Editor's Choice Award
Keyboard Magazine Key Buy Award (April '98 and July '00)
MacWorld Eddy Nomination, TEC award nomination
Musician Magazine Editor's Pick (1999)
References
External links
Electronic Musician review
Classic Mac OS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Planetary%20Data%20Alliance | The International Planetary Data Alliance (IPDA), founded in 2006, is a closely cooperating partnership to maintain the quality and performance of data (including data formats) from planetary research using instruments in space. Specific tasks include promoting the international exchange of high-quality scientific data, organized by a set of standards to facilitate data management. NASA's Planetary Data System is the de facto standard for archiving planetary data. Member organizations participate in both its Board and on specific projects related to building standards and interoperable systems.
In 2008, a Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) resolution made the IPDA an official body to set standards around the world regarding the archiving of planetary data.
See also
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
Le site du Centre national d'études spatiales
Centre National d'Études Spatiales
European Space Agency
German Aerospace Center
Indian Space Research Organisation
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
UK Space Agency
References
External links
The International Planetary Data Alliance
ESA Planetary Science Archive
NASA Planetary Data System
Space organizations
International scientific organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoEduNet | RoEduNet is a Romanian educational and research network NREN, member of the European research and education network GÉANT. The network is under the administration of the Administration Agency of the National Network for Education and Informatics Research, AARNIEC (Romanian: Agenția de Administrare a Rețelei Naționale de Informatică pentru Educație și Cercetare).
History
The RoEduNet network appeared as a consequence of an evolutionary process that started after the Romanian Revolution of 1989
1990
Universitatea Politehnica of Bucharest and Technische Universitat Darmstadt started a project whose aim was to develop an experimental e-mail system, and to develop a communications infrastructure connected to the international data network. The German partner donated the equipment and in October 1990 the e-mail system became operational, and the international connectivity was actually a dialup connection.
1991-1992
A new project was developed in collaboration with Deutsches Forschungsnetz. Its purpose was to install a communications server in Bucharest, connected to the German Scientific Network WIN using x25. At the end of 1992, a dedicated x25 line was operational between Bucharest and Germany, and also other Romanian Universities was using the system for e-mail messages.
1993
Universitatea Politehnica implements its first LAN in November, and it was connected to EuropaNet through a 9.6 kbit/s dedicated line, whose other end was in Düsseldorf - Germany.
1996
128 kbit/s line
References
External links
Educational organizations based in Romania
Internet in Romania
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1994.
Events
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present).
Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
Mr. Dressup (1967–1996)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Fred Penner's Place (1985–1997)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
Road to Avonlea (1989–1996)
Venture (1985–2007)
1990s
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–1996)
Comics! (1993–1999)
Madison (1993–1997)
Neon Rider (1990–1995)
North of 60 (1992–1997)
The Passionate Eye (1993–present)
Ready or Not (1993–1997)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2008)
The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993–present)
Witness (1992–2004)
TV movies
For the Love of Aaron
Television stations
Debuts
See also
1994 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1994
External links
List of 1994 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy-enhanced%20computer%20display | Developed by Mitsubitshi Electric Research Laboratories, a privacy-enhanced computer display allows information that must remain private to be viewed on computer displays located in public areas (i.e. banks, hospitals and pharmacies) by employing the use of both ferroelectric shutter glasses and a unique device driver.
History
Prior to the invention of privacy-enhanced computer display by the Mitsubitshi Electric Research Laboratories, several static systems that serve a similar purpose were established.
Static system is a preventive tool that protects the public computer display without any dynamic alterations to the video stream itself. For instance, a security screen that prevents any users who are not on the right angle to see the display is a static system. Another example of the static system is the front polarizer of the LCD screen. Such polarizer is removed when the computer display is in "secure use". The authorized users who have access to the confidential information need to wear a polarized sunglasses to see the screen.
Technology
Privacy-enhanced computer display technology utilizes a public display image ( denoted Pij for the pixel value at location i,j in the public image), a secret display image (Sij, similarly denoted for pixel value at pixel location i,j ), a proprietary device driver, a CRT capable of rapid refresh rates (up to 120 Hz) and a set of synchronized ferroelectric shutter glasses. The device driver causes the computer monitor to alternately display the pixelwise difference (Pij – Sij) and the unaltered secret image (Sij).
When viewed directly without the shutter glasses, the human eye's persistence of vision blurs the two images into [(Pij – Sij + Sij) / 2], which reduces to (Pij / 2), which is the public image, effectively preventing an unintended recipient from viewing the secret image.
The intended recipient, wearing the synchronized glasses, will see only the (Sij) secret image.
Advantages and disadvantages
The major advantage of the shutter glass system was that it allowed the same display to be used for multiple unrelated images, one of which was visible without any glasses at all. Unfortunately, the contrast ratio of the public image is only 1/2 the available contrast ratio of the CRT when driven with only a public image.
A secondary issue was that although the image was privacy-enhanced, it was not secure. The secret image appeared as a "ghost" if one moved one's head rapidly - or struck the viewer's head with a soft object, thereby offsetting the two image fields and revealing the edges of the difference image.
With the rapid growth of handheld phones with integrated digital cameras (and fast shutters) the phone's camera video will often reveal alternating frames of the public and secret images. This effectively breaks the privacy capability of the system.
A final issue is the decline of the CRT and the rise of the LCD in display technology, because nearly all LCDs are too slow to support th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz%20Railways | The Kyrgyz Railway (KTJ) is the national railway developer of Kyrgyzstan.
Track Network and Rolling Stock
Kyrgyz Railway operates about 320 km of single track lines (with a total track length of 428 km). After the Soviet Union broke up, Kyrgyz Railways obtained 2,500 freight cars, 450 passenger cars and 50 locomotives from the Soviet railways. However, the 1998 financial crisis drastically reduced spending on the railways.
The current rail network is based on the inheritance from the former Soviet Union and as such has a broad gauge of .
Traffic
Freight traffic is now only 13% of its 1990 level, 330 million tkm in 2001, compared to 2,620 million tkm in 1990 and is still falling. Passenger traffic is only about 25% of what it was in 1990. While freight services are profitable, passenger services are losing money, since fares are regulated by the Anti-Monopoly Committee, and travel is due to long distances and slow railways partly taken over by air travel. Also, the line which once linked Bishkek and Osh became untenable once the complex post-Soviet borders in the Fergana Valley became less permeable in the later 1990s: the 'domestic' route had looped around through Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Khujand (Tajikistan) crossing newly internationalized frontiers nine times.
Electrification
In 2008 it was announced that work will commence on the electrification of the line which connects the capital Bishkek with the Kazakhstan railway network. work has not begun yet.
Rail links with adjacent countries
Kazakhstan - yes - Bishkek branch - same gauge
Uzbekistan - yes - Osh branch - same gauge
Tajikistan - no - same gauge
China - no - Break of gauge /
See also
Transport in Kyrgyzstan
References
External links
Image gallery
Kyrgyz Railways Official Site
Rail transport in Kyrgyzstan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohjinsha | Kohjinsha was a Japanese PC manufacturer best known outside Japan for their current SA1F00 UMPC. In November 2006, the company announced KOHJINSHA SA, a series of lightweight computers of simple configuration, that come with a high specification for the price, attracting the attention of enthusiast market. According to market information firm BCN, it was the market leader in Japan for computers with screens smaller than 11 inches.
External links
Defunct computer hardware companies
Ultra Mobile PC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%2C%20the%20Daughter%20of%20the%20Devil | Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil is an American adult computer-animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim. It was created and directed by Loren Bouchard and Fluid Animation. The show starred Melissa Bardin Galsky as Lucy, the daughter of the Devil, who is voiced by H. Jon Benjamin. It is the first computer-animated Adult Swim series & the first to feature a female protagonist.
Production
The pilot episode "He's Not the Messiah, He's a DJ" first aired on October 30, 2005. After nearly 2 years and a number of re-airings, the show was picked up for a full season, which premiered on September 9, 2007. Although the show was in 4:3, there were black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, making it seem like a show in 16:9. Sometimes, characters and shots would appear behind the black bars.
Some changes were made between the pilot and the full series. The voice of Lucy was changed from Jessi Klein to Melissa Bardin Galsky; the third Special Father character, a black man missing an eye, was discarded and replaced with the Special Sister; and the cover of "Maneater" used as opening music was replaced for rebroadcasts.
Premise
The show follows the titular 21-year-old Lucy, who lives in San Francisco and has been ordained by her father, the devil, to fulfill her destiny as the Antichrist, whether she likes it or not. Along the way she meets up with a DJ named Jesús, who turns out to be the Second Coming of the messiah and the two begin dating from the first episode after Lucy saves him from a fire created by her father to kill him.
Meanwhile, her father tries different schemes in his quest to take over the world with the help of his "advocate," Becky, who acts as something of a personal assistant. At the same time a group of "Special Clergy," two priests and a nun, are on a mission from the Vatican to find and destroy Lucy.
Characters
Lucy (voiced by Melissa Bardin Galsky) is the Antichrist, born of The Devil and an unnamed woman in exchange for a Datsun 280 ZX. An apparently normal young woman with the single exception of a small pair of devil horns, she has graduated from art school but is on no fixed career path, instead helping her father out in his ventures to conquer the world and taking a more-or-less permanent position as a bartender at his restaurant, Tequila Sally's, in the meanwhile. She is in a relationship with DJ Jesús, helps him in his different stunts, and seems to want to get him and her father close together. Lucy was voiced by Jessi Klein in the pilot.
Jesús (voiced by Jon Glaser) is a DJ, claustrophobic escape artist, and the messiah who performs "nearacles" ("almost miracles, but not quite.") during his sets. He has a Hispanic accent.
The Devil (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) is the figure of pure evil, though he seems more playful and naughty than malevolent, and is willing to take over the world slowly and through schemes. Though he is certainly willing to outright kill th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20line%20VI | The line VI of the Barcelona Metro network was an ambitious 1965 project for a proposed underground railway line in the city of Barcelona. The line would have stretched from the Zona Franca towards Plaça de Francesc Macià (then known as Calvo Sotelo), and from there into Travessera de Gràcia, Glòries, the Besòs River area, northern Badalona, and Montigalà in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. This very costly project was progressively abandoned: first, in 1984, by shortening the line. Later, in 1996, a new plan was devised for the city's public transport infrastructures. In 2001 yet another plan (PDI) was put forward, discarding the line, and proposing other transport projects instead.
The different projects devised by Francoist Spain during the 1960s were very ambitious. Plaça de Francesc Macià was in contemporaneous plans an important transport hub with other (later discontinued) projected metro lines. As of 2009, both the 22@ and Francesc Macià areas have no metro service, but the projected extension of line L8 and the construction of L9 and L10 follow it very closely.
See also
Desarrollismo
List of Barcelona Metro stations
List of proposed Barcelona Metro lines
References
External links
Project map on Wefer.com
Proposed Barcelona Metro lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20Diagonal%20line | The Diagonal line of the Barcelona Metro network was a proposed underground railway service in the Spanish city of Barcelona. The proposal was made by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) between 1989 and 1992. It would have been a line crossing the city's most important avenue, Avinguda Diagonal, from southwest to northeast, through central Barcelona. However, the project was finally abandoned.
As of 2009 the current project to link the two main modern tram systems (Trambaix and Trambesòs) through Avinguda Diagonal may be considered its successor, even though the exact location of the stations and the nature of the tram system to be used have not been finalized.
Stations never built
Many of the stations numbered in this project would have been connection stations with other than existing or projected metro services, although a number of these stations were never built as such and are only part of this project. Also, other stations became instead part of the tram networks. These are:
Econòmiques - A Line 9 station will be roughly in the same location.
Pius XII - Currently a Trambaix station.
Numància - Currently a Trambaix station.
Ganduxer -
Francesc Macià - Currently a Trambaix terminus station. It will become part of Line 8, and was part of the project called line VI-
Muntaner
Balmes
Llúria
Nàpols
Bilbao
Pere IV - Currently a Trambesòs station.
Josep Pla
See also
List of proposed Barcelona Metro lines
Disused Barcelona Metro stations
References
External links
Map of the project
Proposed Barcelona Metro lines
Avinguda Diagonal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20reduction | Data reduction is the transformation of numerical or alphabetical digital information derived empirically or experimentally into a corrected, ordered, and simplified form. The purpose of data reduction can be two-fold: reduce the number of data records by eliminating invalid data or produce summary data and statistics at different aggregation levels for various applications. Data reduction does not necessarily mean loss of information. For example, the body mass index reduces two dimensions (body and mass) into a single measure, without any information being lost in the process.
When information is derived from instrument readings there may also be a transformation from analog to digital form. When the data are already in digital form the 'reduction' of the data typically involves some editing, scaling, encoding, sorting, collating, and producing tabular summaries. When the observations are discrete but the underlying phenomenon is continuous then smoothing and interpolation are often needed. The data reduction is often undertaken in the presence of reading or measurement errors. Some idea of the nature of these errors is needed before the most likely value may be determined.
An example in astronomy is the data reduction in the Kepler satellite. This satellite records 95-megapixel images once every six seconds, generating dozens of megabytes of data per second, which is orders-of-magnitudes more than the downlink bandwidth of 550 kB/s. The on-board data reduction encompasses co-adding the raw frames for thirty minutes, reducing the bandwidth by a factor of 300. Furthermore, interesting targets are pre-selected and only the relevant pixels are processed, which is 6% of the total. This reduced data is then sent to Earth where it is processed further.
Research has also been carried out on the use of data reduction in wearable (wireless) devices for health monitoring and diagnosis applications. For example, in the context of epilepsy diagnosis, data reduction has been used to increase the battery lifetime of a wearable EEG device by selecting and only transmitting EEG data that is relevant for diagnosis and discarding background activity.
Types of Data Reduction
Dimensionality Reduction
When dimensionality increases, data becomes increasingly sparse while density and distance between points, critical to clustering and outlier analysis, becomes less meaningful. Dimensionality reduction helps reduce noise in the data and allows for easier visualization, such as the example below where 3-dimensional data is transformed into 2 dimensions to show hidden parts. One method of dimensionality reduction is wavelet transform, in which data is transformed to preserve relative distance between objects at different levels of resolution, and is often used for image compression.
Numerosity Reduction
This method of data reduction reduces the data volume by choosing alternate, smaller forms of data representation. Numerosity reduction can be split into 2 groups: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20Air%20Force%20network%20squadrons | The following is a list of network squadrons of the United States Air Force.
Cyberspace Operations Squadrons
Information Operations Squadrons
Network Operations Squadrons
Network Support Squadrons
Network Warfare Squadrons
References
See also
List of United States Air Force intelligence squadrons
List of United States Air Force squadrons
Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badbunny | Bad bunny, also known as SB/Bad Bunny-A (Sophos) and StarOffice/Bad Bunny (McAfee), is a multi-platform computer worm written in several scripting languages and distributed as an OpenOffice.org document, commonly named "badbunny.odg", containing a macro written in Star Basic.
Discovered on May 21, 2007, the worm spreads itself by dropping malicious script files that affect the behavior of popular IRC programs mIRC and X-Chat, causing it to send the worm to other users.
Effects
If the macro is opened from the affected document, it displays the following message:
"Title: ///BadBunny\\\"
Body: "Hey '[USERNAME]' you like my BadBunny?" and loads one of four different scripts named badbunny.js (JS.Badbunny) under Windows, badbunny.pl (Perl.Badbunny) under Linux/Unix, or either badbunny.rb or badbunnya.rb (Ruby.Badbunny) under Mac OS X. Upon loading, the user is shown a pornographic image of a man dressed as a rabbit having sex with a scantily clad woman in the woods.
References
Computer worms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20base%20media%20file%20format | The ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) is a container file format that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data such as video and audio.
It is standardized in ISO/IEC 14496-12, a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 12, and was formerly also published as ISO/IEC 15444-12, a.k.a. JPEG 2000 Part 12.
It is designed as a flexible, extensible format that facilitates interchange, management, editing and presentation of the media. The presentation may be local, or via a network or other stream delivery mechanism. The file format is designed to be independent of any particular network protocol while enabling support for them in general.
The format has become very widely used for media file storage and as the basis for various other media file formats (e.g. the MP4 and 3GP container formats), and its widespread use was recognized by a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award presented on 4 November 2021 by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
History
The ISO base media file format is directly based on Apple's QuickTime container format. It was developed by MPEG (in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, originally Working Group 11 MPEG, currently Working Group 3 MPEG Systems). The first MP4 file format specification was created on the basis of the QuickTime format specification published in 2001. The MP4 file format known as "version 1" was published in 2001 as ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001, as revision of the MPEG-4 Part 1: Systems. In 2003, the first version of the MP4 file format was revised and replaced by MPEG-4 Part 14: MP4 file format (ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003), commonly known as MPEG-4 file format "version 2".
The MP4 file format was generalized into the ISO base media file format (ISO/IEC 14496-12:2004 or ISO/IEC 15444-12:2004), which defines a general structure for time-based media files. It is used as the basis for other file formats in the family such as MP4, 3GP, and Motion JPEG 2000).
Historically, the text was also published as ISO/IEC 15444-12 (JPEG 2000 Part 12), although the JPEG 2000 version of the standard was withdrawn in January 2017 since it was redundant with the MPEG-4 publication.
Extensions
The ISO base media file format is designed as an extensible file format. A list of all registered extensions for the ISO base media file format is published on the official registration authority website, www.mp4ra.org. The registration authority for code-points (identifier values) in "MP4 Family" files is Apple Inc. and it is named in Annex D (informative) in MPEG-4 Part 12. Codec designers should register the codes they invent, but the registration is not mandatory and some of invented and used code-points are not registered. When someone is creating a new specification derived from the ISO base media file format, all the existing specifications should be used both as examples and a source of definitions and technology. If an existing specification already covers how a particular media type is stored in the file format (e.g. MPEG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20DMA%20Services | In computing, Virtual DMA Services (VDS) refer to an application programming interface that allow DOS and Win16 applications and device drivers to perform DMA operations while running under protected or virtual 8086 mode.
References
Complete Text PW0519: Virtual DMA Services (VDS), Support., Microsoft 1992
DOS memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1992.
Events
Debuts
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present).
Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
Mr. Dressup (1967–1996)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
CODCO (1987–1993)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Fred Penner's Place (1985–1997)
Good Rockin' Tonite (1989–1992)
Katts and Dog (1988–1993)
The Kids in the Hall (1989–1994)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
Road to Avonlea (1989–1996)
Street Legal (1987–1994)
Under the Umbrella Tree (1986–1993)
Venture (1985–2007)
Video Hits (1984–1993)
1990s
African Skies (1991–1994)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–1996)
E.N.G. (1990–1994)
Material World (1990–1993)
Northwood (1991–1994)
Neon Rider (1990–1995)
The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
TV movies
Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer
Networks and services
Network launches
Television stations
Debuts
See also
1992 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1992
References
External links
List of 1992 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Next%20Producer | America's Next Producer is a 2007 reality show in which ten contestants competed for the title of America's Next Producer, as part of which they received TV Guide Network deal, office space in Hollywood, 17" MacBook Pro, 23" monitor, Final Cut Studio video editing software, and $100,000. Each week they were challenged to produce a certain genre within a certain amount of time with what they are given, with one contestant eliminated each week until a winner was chosen.
Gwen Uszuko send in a video to the official website, and this was chosen as one of the three videos that anyone could vote online, the winner getting a spot on the show. She emailed about the contest to two of Notre Dame's teachers and her message was posted where students could see it. This resulted in her getting twice the voices as the person who came in second.
Candidates
The candidates were:
* as of the date of the programme.
(WINNER) Producer was chosen by viewers as the winner of The Fashion Show.
[(1ST) RUNNER-UP] Producer came in second place in the votes.
(WIN) Producer was selected by judges as the winner of the challenge.
(HIGH) Producer had one of the best project determined by the judges.
(LOW) Producer was called last before the final two.
(LOW) Producer was in the bottom two.
(OUT) Producer was eliminated.
[SAFE] Producer was good enough to move on to the next round.
Episodes
Episode 1 (July 18, 2007)
Genre: comedy
Challenge: produce a 1-minute comedic field piece.
Judges: David Hill, Matt Roush, and David Freeman (guest judge)
WINNER: Daniel Hosea
ELIMINATED: Bradley Gallo
Episode 2 (July 25, 2007)
Genre: reality
Challenge: produce a 2-minute pitch reel for the next hit reality TV show.
Judges: David Hill, Matt Roush, and Chris Moore (guest judge)
WINNER: Sharon Nash
ELIMINATED: Lindsay Liles
Episode 3 (August 1, 2007)
Genre: comedy
Challenge: to produce a 3-minute sitcom piece.
Judges: David Hill, [Matt Roush, and Robin Shorts (guest judge)
WINNER: Steve Schleinitz aka Schliz
ELIMINATED: Sharon Nash
Episode 4 (August 8, 2007)
Genre: children's show
Challenge: create 2 segments for a new children's show
Judges: David Hill, Matt Roush, Claude Brooks (guest judge), and Gelila Asres (guest judge)
WINNER: Jessica Iaccarino
ELIMINATED: Adam Mutterperl
Episode 5 (August 15, 2007)
Genre: public service announcement
Challenge: produce a 30-second public service announcement
Judges: David Hill, Matt Roush, and Daniel Hinerfeld (guest judge)
WINNER: Alphonzo Wesson aka Zo
ELIMINATED: Steve Schleinitz aka Schliz
Episode 6 (August 22, 2007)
Genre: game show
Challenge: create a new dating game show
Judges: David Hill, Matt Roush, and J. D. Roth (guest judge)
WINNER: none
ELIMINATED: Evie Shapiro
Episode 7 (August 29, 2007)
Genre: news
Challenge: produce a feature news story for live broadcast
Judges: David Hill, Matt Roush, and Lisa Kridos (guest judge)
WINNER: none
ELIMINATED: Daniel Hosea
Reception
Variety magazine comments on the low production value bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempus%20Fugit%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Tempus Fugit" is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was directed by Rob Bowman, and written by Frank Spotnitz and series creator Chris Carter. "Tempus Fugit" featured guest appearances by Joe Spano, Tom O'Brien and Brendan Beiser, and saw the return of Scott Bellis as alien abductee Max Fenig. The episode helped to explore the overarching mythology, or fictional history of The X-Files. "Tempus Fugit" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.9, being watched by 18.85 million people in its initial broadcast. The title translates from Latin as "time flies."
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In the episode, Max Fenig—an old acquaintance of Mulder—is found dead following an airplane crash, which Mulder believes to have been caused by a UFO attempting to abduct Fenig. "Tempus Fugit" is a two-part episode, with the plot continuing in the next episode, "Max".
"Tempus Fugit" was conceived when the series' special effects supervisor Dave Gauthier constructed an elaborate rig capable of simulating a crashing airplane. Carter and Spotnitz expanded upon the idea of a crash to bring back the character of Fenig, who had last been seen in season one's "Fallen Angel". "Tempus Fugit" received mixed to positive critical reception, and earned the production crew two Emmy Award nominations, including a win for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series.
Plot
Four years after his abduction, Max Fenig (Scott Bellis) is traveling on Flight 549, which is flying over upstate New York. He watches another man on the plane who seems to be following him. The man heads to the plane's bathroom, where he assembles a zip gun. However, when he comes back out, the airplane begins shaking and a bright light flashes outside, showing that the plane is encountering a UFO. The emergency door next to Max's seat is opened.
Elsewhere, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) celebrate Scully's birthday. They are approached by a woman named Sharon Graffia, who claims to be Max's sister; she tells them that Max planned to deliver something to Mulder, but that his flight to Washington has crashed. The agents head to the crash site in Northville, New York, and attend an NTSB meeting where Flight 549's final transmissions are shown. Mulder theorizes that the plane was forced down by aliens attempting to abduct Max; the NTSB team, led by chief investigator Mike Millar (Joe Spano), dismisses his claims.
When Mulder and Scully survey the crash site, they realize that there is a nine-minute disparity between the crash and the time on the victims' wristwatches, indicating missing time. Mulder believes that Max was abducted from the plane and that his body will not be found. Meanwhile, Scott Garrett, a Man in Black posing as an NTSB investi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulmont%20Magnum | The Dulmont Magnum is an early laptop computer designed initially by Australian power line equipment manufacturer Dulmison Pty Ltd and subsequently marketed by Dulmont Pty Ltd. Exhibited in September 1983, it was the world's first true battery-powered laptop computer.
Dulmont was a joint venture between Dulmison and an Australian subsidiary of their electrical utility customer the Belgian National Electricity Authority, Tramont Ltd. The Magnum was sold from 1983 to 1986. The company found itself undercapitalized as it sought to enter the international market and faced increased competition from other laptops. It was taken over twice, with Dulmont eventually taken over in 1984 by Time Office Computers (Manufacturing) Pty. Ltd.
Development and promotion
The initial concept was hatched in 1981 by Clive Mackness. He was then no. 2 to owner Philip Dulhunty at Dulmison and assigned Dulmison freelancing engineer David Irwin the task of designing a product. Terry Crews and others were brought into the team that spent the first months on feasibility.
John Blair led the software engineering team. Development dragged on and the project was in danger of folding due to Dulmison's limited financial resources but was revitalised when Mackness secured a A$800,000 federal government grant.
The Magnum was to have been enabled by a custom power management integrated circuit that was to be developed in the VLSI and Systems Technology Laboratory at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) over 4 months in early 1982 by Graham Hellestrand. The ~10,000 transistor, 5μ nMOS technology chip, however, never saw the light of day.
Terry Crews was the initial Engineering Manager and contracted Barry Wilkinson to design the hardware based on discrete components as he had doubts about the custom chip. The form factor and cosmetic design was developed first and this then dictated the physical dimensions of the hardware. This was in contrast to the usual method of encasing the electronics as the last process and their subsequent bulkier designs.
The Dulmont joint venture having been formed in 1982 and with the benefit of a cash injection of about A$1.5 million from Tramont, the Magnum went into production, Crews became Marketing Manager and the hardware engineering role was taken over by Chris Todter. Crews traveled the world showcasing the product. It attracted substantial interest and some large orders. The Magnum was marketed in Australia from 1983 to early 1986, thus being developed and launched prior to the development of the Grid Compass.
The Magnum was launched publicly at the 10th Australian Computer Conference on same day that Australia won the America's Cup in September 1983.
Design and features
The Magnum was one of the first computers to use the 16-bit Intel 80186 processor, and was sold in versions with 96K to 256K of RAM, and inbuilt LCD screens from 8x80 to 25x80 characters. It had a word processor, spreadsheet, telecommunications, file manager, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising%20Children%20Network | Raising Children Network operates the Australian raisingchildren.net.au website launched in 2006. It is funded by the Australian Government as a means to produce and maintain educational tools and resources for families raising children in Australia.
History
The raisingchildren.net.au (originally "Raising Children") website, which was launched in May 2006, is a resource for parenting information in Australia. It is a comprehensive website covering information required for raising children provided to new and expecting parents.
As a companion to the Raising Children website and to extend its reach, the Raising Children DVD was produced in 2007. In November 2007, Australia became the first country in the world to initiate a universal parenting education program when it started distributing the companion Raising Children DVD to every family in the country, at the birth of their child in the hospital. Over 250,000 are distributed each year.
The Raising Children DVD contains five hours of content — divided into three short movies: Newborn, Baby, and Child as well as a section called ‘What About Me?’ which focuses on parental feelings. It takes advantage of basic DVD technology to provide users with a fully interactive experience which enables them to opt into extended content topics and demonstration clips while watching the main videos.
Its effectiveness, according to the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) independent evaluation, is due to a combination of factors including: the quality of production, the primary use of documentary style parent interviews, a comedic host and the inclusion of visual demonstrations of key skills, like breastfeeding and safe bathing.
In 2007, the Raising Children website and DVD swept the relevant interactive media awards in Australia. The Raising Children DVD won the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) award for the Best Learning & Education category. The expert judges commented that the DVD is,
“in essence an interactive documentary for parents & carers, allowing them to explore and engage with information about parenting that enables the active construction of knowledge.”
The Raising Children website won the AIMIA award for the Best Non-profit & Government category with judges commending the site’s innovative features:
“The pop-up glossary terms are a fantastic solution to get information quickly and effectively to the user without sending them to a whole different page, and Make a Book is an invaluable function for tired parents to be able to refer back to without logging on.”
The Raising Children website also won the NetGuide Australian Web Awards Best Parenting Website and took home their highest honour, 2007 Site of the Year as well. According to NetGuide, RCN “takes a huge topic — parenting — and presents masses of useful and reliable information in a well-designed site that’s a delight to visit”.
In 2009, the Australian Government announced funding for the Raisin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSY%20railway%20station | UCSY railway station (University of Computer Studies station) is a railway station on the Yangon Circular Railway in Yangon, Burma.
References
Railway stations in Yangon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20power%20flow%20controller | A unified power flow controller (UPFC) is an electrical device for providing fast-acting reactive power compensation on high-voltage electricity transmission networks. It uses a pair of three-phase controllable bridges to produce current that is injected into a transmission line using a series transformer. The controller can control active and reactive power flows in a transmission line.
Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), as a representative of the third generation of FACTS devices, is by far the most comprehensive FACTS device, in power system steady-state it can implement power flow regulation, reasonably controlling line active power and reactive power, improving the transmission capacity of power system, and in power system transient state it can realize fast-acting reactive power compensation, dynamically supporting the voltage at the access point and improving system voltage stability, moreover, it can improve the damping of the system and power angle stability.
The UPFC uses solid state devices, which provide functional flexibility, generally not attainable by conventional thyristor controlled systems. The UPFC is a combination of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) and a static synchronous series compensator (SSSC) coupled via a common DC voltage link.
The main advantage of the UPFC is to control the active and reactive power flows in the transmission line. If there are any disturbances or faults in the source side, the UPFC will not work. The UPFC operates only under balanced sine wave source. The controllable parameters of the UPFC are reactance in the line, phase angle and voltage. The UPFC concept was described in 1995 by L. Gyugyi of Westinghouse. The UPFC allows a secondary but important function such as stability control to suppress power system oscillations improving the transient stability of power system.
Power flow controller for direct current
A counterpart for unified power flow controller that can be used in direct current systems was proposed for use in high-voltage direct current grids and for low-voltage direct current microgrids. It uses a high-frequency isolated dc-dc converter cascaded with a controllable full-bridge inverter that creates a small bipolar voltage in series with the line. The controller can control the power and compensate for accumulated voltage drop in a distribution line.
The main advantage of the solution is the ability to control the bulk power flow in the line while actively processing only a small fraction of the bulk power. The partial power processing leads to increased system efficiency and use of derated components. The use of derated components results in small and cost-efficient designs.
See also
Synchronous condenser
Static VAR compensator
Static synchronous compensator
References
External links
NR Electric PCS-8200 UFPC Solution
Electricity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheuristics | Matheuristics are problem agnostic optimization algorithms that make use of mathematical programming (MP) techniques in order to obtain heuristic solutions. Problem-dependent elements are included only within the lower-level mathematic programming, local search or constructive components. An essential feature is the exploitation in some part of the algorithms of features derived from the mathematical model of the problems of interest, thus the definition "model-based heuristics" appearing in the title of some events of the conference series dedicated to matheuristics matheuristics web page.
The topic has attracted the interest of a community of researchers, and this led to the publication of dedicated volumes and journal special issues besides to dedicated tracks and sessions on wider scope conferences.
A word of caution is needed before delving into the subject, because obviously the use of MP for solving optimization problems, albeit in a heuristic way, is much older and much more widespread than matheuristics. However, this is not the case for metaheuristics. Even the very idea of designing MP methods specifically for heuristic solution has innovative traits, when opposed to exact methods which turn into heuristics when enough computational resources are not available.
Some approaches using MP combined with metaheuristics have begun to appear regularly in the matheuristics literature. This combination can go two-ways, both in MP used to improve or design metaheuristics and in metaheuristics used for improving known MP techniques, even though the first of these two directions is by far more studied.
References
External links
Matheuristics 2006 1st International Workshop on Mathematical Contributions to Metaheuristics.
Matheuristics 2008 2nd International Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
Matheuristics 2010 3rd International Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
Matheuristics 2012 4th International Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
Matheuristics 2014 5th International Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
Matheuristics 2016 6th International Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
Matheuristics 2018 7th International Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
Selected publications
Maniezzo, Vittorio, Boschetti, Marco Antonio, Stützle, Thomas: Matheuristics, Algorithms and Implementations. Springer International Publishing (2021)
M. Caserta, S. Voß: A math-heuristic algorithm for the DNA sequencing problem. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6073 (2010), 25 - 36
Boschetti, Marco Antonio, Maniezzo, Vittorio: Matheuristics: using mathematics for heuristic design. 4OR 20(2), 173–208, 2022
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YANG | Yet Another Next Generation (YANG, /jæŋ/, which rhymes with "hang") is a data modeling language for the definition of data sent over network management protocols such as the NETCONF and RESTCONF. The YANG data modeling language is maintained by the NETMOD working group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and initially was published as in October 2010, with an update in August 2016 (). The data modeling language can be used to model both configuration data as well as state data of network elements. Furthermore, YANG can be used to define the format of event notifications emitted by network elements and it allows data modelers to define the signature of remote procedure calls that can be invoked on network elements via the NETCONF protocol. The language, being protocol independent, can then be converted into any encoding format, e.g. XML or JSON, that the network configuration protocol supports.
YANG is a modular language representing data structures in an XML tree format. The data modeling language comes with a number of built-in data types. Additional application specific data types can be derived from the built-in data types. More complex reusable data structures can be represented as groupings. YANG data models can use XPATH expressions to define constraints on the elements of a YANG data model.
History
Many network management protocols have associated data modeling languages. The first widely deployed Internet standard for network management was the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The data modeling language associated with SNMP was called the Structure of Management Information (SMI). The SMI language itself was based on the 1988 version of the Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). The current version of the SMI language, SMIv2 defined in , has developed into an extended subset of ASN.1.
In the late 1990s, a project was started to create a replacement for SMIv2, which was called SMIng. One motivation was to decouple SMIng from the management protocol SNMP and to give SMIng a syntactic structure that is both easy to parse for computer programs and easy to learn for people familiar with programming languages that use a C-like notation. While the SMIng project did not succeed in the IETF, the SMIng specifications were published as experimental documents in May 2004 ().
Soon after the development of the NETCONF protocol in the IETF, it became clear that a data modeling language was needed to define data models manipulated by the NETCONF protocol. A design team created a proposal that became the basis of the YANG language. The syntactic structure and the base type system was essentially borrowed from SMIng. However, based on the lessons learned from the SMIng project, no attempts were made to make the YANG protocol neutral. Instead, YANG ties into concepts of the NETCONF protocol, such as the assumption that data model instances can be serialized into XML. Standardization of YANG started with the formation of the NETMOD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20Pav%C3%A3o%20Martins | João Pavão Martins is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon).
He was one of the persons behind the creation of the Computer Science and Engineering degree of Instituto Superior Técnico in 1988, and one of the founders of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the same institute in 1998.
Between 2002 and 2004 he was the head of this Department and again in 2009, for a two-year term.
He is also a software industry entrepreneur.
In 1986, together with Ernesto Morgado, he founded SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos, SA, a start up company devoted to the applications of Artificial Intelligence. Together they led the company to develop and deploy a series of complex software systems in railway and metro companies throughout the world. These systems plan and manage more than 20,000 people, affect the life of millions of passengers, and have been awarded by several prestigious organisations in Europe and the United States.
João Pavão Martins has a Licentiate degree in mechanical engineering (1976) from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon), a Master of Science in computer science (1979) and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence (1983) from State University of New York at Buffalo.
Publications
João Pavão Martins is also an author and co-author of the following publications:
EPIA-89 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 390, Heidelberg, West Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1989 (Martins, J.P. e Morgado, E.M.)
Introduction to computer Science using PASCAL, Wadsworth Inc., 1989 (Martins, J. P.)
An AI-Based Approach to Crew Scheduling, Proc. IEEE Conference on AI Applications - CAIA 93, 1993 (Martins, J.P. e Morgado, E.M.)
Introdução à Programação usando o PASCAL, McGraw-Hill Portugal, 1994 (Martins, J. P.)
Programação em scheme, IST Press, 2004 (Martins, J. P. and Cravo, Maria dos Remédios )
The Chronicle of the Fountain Pen, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007 (Martins, J. P.; Leite, Luiz, Gagean, António)
Meerschaum Pipes@eBay (1999-2010), www.blurb.com, 2010 (Martins J. P. (ed.))
Pipes@eBay (1999-2010), www.blurb.com, 2010 (Martins J. P.)
Parker: An Illustrated History, www.blurb.com, 2011 (Martins J. P., Leite L. e Gagean A.)
Sheaffer: An Illustrated History, www.blurb.com, 2011 (Martins J. P., Leite L. e Gagean A.)
Lógica e Raciocínio, Cadernos de Lógica e Computação Volume 6, College Publications, 2014,(Martins J.P.)
Programação em PYTHON: Introdução à Programação Utilizando Múltiplos Paradigmas, IST Press, 2015 (Martins J. P.)
References
Artificial intelligence researchers
Portuguese businesspeople
Living people
Instituto Superior Técnico alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Knox%20Trail | The Henry Knox Trail, also known as the Knox Cannon Trail, is a network of roads and paths that traces the route of Colonel Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" from Crown Point to the Continental Army camp outside Boston, Massachusetts early in the American Revolutionary War.
History
Knox was commissioned by Continental Army commander George Washington in 1775 to transport 59 cannons from captured forts on Lake Champlain, 30 from Fort Ticonderoga and 29 from Crown Point, to the army camp outside Boston to aid the war effort there against British forces. They included forty-three heavy brass and iron cannons, six cohorns, eight mortars, and two howitzers. Knox, using sledges pulled by teams of oxen to haul these cannons, many weighing over a ton, crossed an icy Lake George in mid-winter. He proceeded to travel through rural New York and the snow-covered Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, finally arriving to the aid of the beleaguered Continental Army in January 1776.
Marker placement
In 1926, the 150th anniversary of Knox's march, the states of New York and Massachusetts both began installing commemorative plaques at 56 locations in the two states that trace the route the expedition passed through. The exact nature of the collaboration between the two states is unclear, however the work was completed in 1927. The New York markers' bronze reliefs were designed by Henry James Albright, and the Massachusetts reliefs by Henry L. Norton.
In 1975, the marker locations between Kinderhook, New York, and Alford, Massachusetts, were updated after new research, confirming theories originally advanced by North Egremont, Massachusetts, postmaster Joseph Elliott, found Knox did not pass through Claverack, New York. A new marker was added to the trail at Roxbury Heritage State Park in Boston in 2009, adjacent to a house owned by General John Thomas, who guided the weapons received from Knox to their final placement on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston.
Table of Knox Trail Markers
Photo gallery
References
External links
Knox Trail monuments (Flickr set) – As of 13 May 2010 includes photos of the fifteen markers from Rensselaer to Westfield.
American Revolutionary War sites
Historic trails and roads in the United States
Massachusetts in the American Revolution
New York (state) in the American Revolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenlivet%20Estate | The Glenlivet Estate is located in Glenlivet, Scotland in the Cairngorms National Park. It measures and is part of The Crown Estate Scotland .
The estate welcomes visitors and has a network of car parks, waymarked walks, adventure playground and a mountain bike centre. A visitor centre in Tomintoul provides more information, open all year, Mon - Fri, 9am -5pm. www.glenlivetestate.co.uk.
See also
Scalan
External links
Glenlivet Estate
Crown Estate Scotland
Glenlivet and the Cairngorms
Moray
Highland Estates
Glenlivet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireDaemon | FireDaemon Pro is an operating system service management application. FireDaemon Pro allows you to install and run most standard Windows applications as a service. These include regular standard Windows executables as well as applications written in scripting languages such as Perl, Java, Python and Ruby. FireDaemon is popular amongst the online gaming community for running dedicated servers such as Minecraft, Rust, and America's Army.
It is possible to add services to Windows without FireDaemon Pro or use other free tools found in the Windows Resource Kits. However, setting up services manually can be complicated and error-prone as the Windows registry needs to be edited directly. Windows services by default will generally be restarted after a minimum of 1 minute has passed. However, FireDaemon Pro proactively monitors the application and ensures an immediate restart. This can be critical when using server-based applications such as web servers, SFTP servers, etc.
Installation Procedure
FireDaemon Pro is available as a .exe package. The installation package doesn't contain any malware or spyware.
Licensing
FireDaemon Pro is released as licensed software.
Limitations
FireDaemon Pro is sometimes unable to close all error popup windows for applications such as Source Dedicated Server. This is because FireDaemon only intercepts popups of type WS_POPUP and the window class is #32770. Workarounds include leaving the computer logged in rather than logged out or writing custom GUI automation scripts with tools such as AutoIT to automatically close popups. Windows Error Reporting can also interfere with the correct function FireDaemon Pro and should generally be disabled.
Security Issues
FireDaemon Lite was used in a variety of trojans and worms from around 1999 to 2004 that exploited various security holes in Windows (e.g. Symantec: W32. Tkbot. Worm, Backdoor. Vmz, NAI: Generic Dropper.h, BAT/Mumu.worm.c). Typically, very old or cracked versions of FireDaemon would have been included in the trojan/worm payload and was used to run tools that facilitated the establishment of botnets (e.g. IRC, FTP servers). The use of FireDaemon in botnets is well documented across several security forums as well as written about in several books on botnets and internet security (e.g. Hacking Exposed). Probably the best known botnet that included FireDaemon is XDCC. On rare occasions, anti-malware products may misidentify recent legitimate versions of FireDaemon Pro as being a potential threat by performing "trojan like behaviour". Advances in anti-malware software since 2005 has resulted in malware authors ceasing to use FireDaemon Pro. As such, there have been no reports of FireDaemon Pro being used in malware since 2005.
See also
Operating system service management
References
External links
Trojan/Worm Cleanup Notes
Windows-only proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo%20Uittenbogaard | Theo Uittenbogaard (born Amstelveen, Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 1946 – 2022) was a Dutch radio & TV-producer, who worked for almost all nationwide public networks in The Netherlands since 1965. His training was on-the-job, since no school or academy geared to that profession existed in The Netherlands those days. He started as a 19-year-old apprentice reporter for a daily radio news-show. Made radio-documentaries and variety-shows. In 1969 he was invited to contribute to a television-magazine, which portrayed interesting ordinary people. He remained working for television the next decades. In a wide variety and range of shows, as a director, as a contributor, as an editor, as an executive-producer alternately. He traveled the world from Siberia to The Marshall Islands to report, from Panama and Morocco to just around the corner. He did shows and documentaries on countries, people, history, politics, dance, music. In 1984 he directed for VPRO-tv an iconic concerto by Ástor Piazzolla, the renowned bandoneon-player from Argentina. He did a documentary on Boat People from Vietnam. He made a 16-episodes series on Dutch language. He wrote a comedy on housekeeping. And about 250 productions more. He retired in 2013, after a fifty years spanning career in media.
References
External links
Biography at media-archives Beeld en Geluid, Hiversum, Netherlands
Oeuvre at Beeld en Geluid
YouTube Channel
People from Amstelveen
Dutch television producers
Living people
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20IP%20Solutions | Global IP Solutions (also known as GIPS) was a United States-based corporation that developed real-time voice and video processing software for IP networks, before it was acquired by Google in May 2010. The company delivered embedded software that enabled real-time communications capabilities for video and voice over IP (VoIP). GIPS was perhaps best known for developing the narrowband iLBC and wideband iSAC speech codecs.
GIPS software was generally delivered as “engines” that packaged together voice and video processing components for smoother integration and better performance. GIPS’ customers are primarily service providers, application developers, and manufacturers of IP phones, gateways or voice and video conferencing systems.
History
The company (formerly known as Global IP Sound) was founded in July 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden by signal processing experts Roar Hagen (then GIPS’ CTO) and Bastiaan Kleijn (then GIPS’ Chief Scientist), Espen Fjogstad and Ivar T. Hognestad. The founders recognized that, at the time, most VoIP technology had been developed for circuit switched networks, and were therefore was not suited to handle the network delay, jitter and packet loss presented by IP networks.
In May 2010, Google bought GIPS for $68.2 million. In June 2011, Google released WebRTC, a proposed standard for pluginless peer-to-peer audiovisual communication between browsers, with GIPS technology.
References
External links
iLBCfreeware site
Global IP Solutions Website
Companies formerly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
Companies based in San Francisco
Google acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu%20Asahi%20Broadcasting | is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with National Radio Network (NRN) on radio and All-Nippon News Network (ANN) on TV.
With its relay transmitters in Saga, KBC functions as the default ANN affiliate for the said prefecture, as that area doesn't have an ANN affiliate of its own.
History
Early history
After the establishment of the "Three Radio Laws" (Radio Law, Broadcasting Law, and Radio Supervisory Committee Establishment Law) in 1950, Japan established a system where public broadcasting (NHK) and commercial broadcasting coexisted.
Among the 16 companies that were able to receive the license, two of them are from Fukuoka Prefecture: Radio Kyushu (later renamed RKB Mainichi Broadcasting) and Nishinippon Broadcasting (not related to RNC in Kagawa Prefecture). However, due to the latter failing to raise enough funds, the license was then returned in January 1952. But the then founders of Nishinippon Broadcasting, Shigetomo Nakahara, did not give up and applied for a radio broadcasting license in 1953, which was then granted on May of the same year. With financial support from the Asahi Shimbun, Nishinippon Broadcasting was then renamed to Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting on August 18, 1953.
Founding
Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting then opened on August 21, 1953 with its headquarters initially located in the Asahiya Department Store in Kurume City. On December 24, 1953, KBC began trial radio broadcasts, which officially started broadcasting on New Year's Day of 1954.
In 1956, KBC received an expansion license for its radio broadcast to extend its coverage to whole of Fukuoka.As part of its radio expansion, they permanently moved their headquarters to the Hananoseki Building in Nakasu, Fukuoka City on November 30, 1956.
Expansion to television broadcasting
In October 1956, KBC applied for a TV broadcasting license for the Fukuoka City and Kokura areas. However, at that time, multiple companies applied for a TV license in the prefecture. Under the mediation of the Ministry of Post (currently the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications), KBC received their license on October 22, 1957.
After obtaining their license, KBC then planned to move its headquarters to Nagahama, Fukuoka City in order to meet the facility requirements for TV broadcasting. Prior to the start of TV broadcasting, KBC management made it clear it will broadcast as a dual affiliate to both Fuji TV and Nippon Educational Television (NET) (current TV Asahi). On July 15, 1958, KBC established its relay transmitter in Kokura City in Kitakyushu as part of its preparations for TV broadcasting.
KBC started its TV operations on March 1, 1959 at 10am. At that time it allotted to air at least 70% of programs from Nippon Educational Television and 30% of programs from Fuji TV. In July 1961, KBC obtained another license for the whole of Kitakyushu City in Fukuoka and started to place its relay transmitters on Mount Sarakura. Fuji TV programming has been dropp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1991.
Events
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present).
Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
Mr. Dressup (1967–1996)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
The Tommy Hunter Show (1965–1992)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
CODCO (1987–1993)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Fred Penner's Place (1985–1997)
Good Rockin' Tonite (1989–1992)
Katts and Dog (1988–1993)
The Kids in the Hall (1989–1994)
The Journal (1982–1992)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
The Raccoons (1985–1992)
Road to Avonlea (1989–1996)
Street Legal (1987–1994)
Under the Umbrella Tree (1986–1993)
Venture (1985–2007)
Video Hits (1984–1993)
1990s
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–1996)
E.N.G. (1990–1994)
Material World (1990–1993)
Neon Rider (1990–1995)
TV movies
Television stations
Debuts
Closures
See also
1991 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1991
External links
List of 1991 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Library%20station | West Library is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, nearby the Library neighborhood of South Park, Pennsylvania. Primarily a park and ride stop, it features 115 spaces, designed to facilitate the flow of South Park commuters to Downtown Pittsburgh.
History
A stop was established at West Library when the Pittsburgh Railways interurban line from Charleroi to Pittsburgh was opened through South Park on September 12, 1903. Passengers initially changed at Castle Shannon to continue their journey to Downtown via the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad. It was cut back to Library in 1953 and was converted from PCC operation to light rail in 1988.
References
External links
Station from Library Road from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1903
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Creek%20station | Sandy Creek is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop was added to the route to serve the nearby Sandy Creek Apartment complex, for which the stop was named. However, the only pedestrian access that remains is from the Timberidge apartment complex on the opposite side of the line. A variety of townhouses and condominiums have been located near the stop, as part of a transit village model designed to encourage public transit as the primary form of transportation for residents.
Sandy Creek was originally one of 13 stops along the Port Authority Light Rail lines to be discontinued on June 25, 2012, in an effort to shorten commute times. However, Port Authority officials found the 1/2 mile walk from this stop to the next nearest stop (West Library) unsafe as it required going down a steep hill and crossing Library Road (Route 88). As a result, the Sandy Creek stop remains open.
References
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle%20station | Beagle is a station on the Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
References
External links
Station from Beagle Drive from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%20School%20station | King's School is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
History
A stop was established at Kings School when the Pittsburgh Railways interurban line from Charleroi to Pittsburgh was opened through Bethel Park on September 12, 1903. Passengers initially changed at Castle Shannon to continue their journey to Downtown via the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad. It was cut back to Library in 1953 and was converted from PCC operation to Light Rail in 1988.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
PCC 1776 at King's School stop in 1973
Station from Kings School Road from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1903
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%20station%20%28Pittsburgh%20Regional%20Transit%29 | Logan is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
Station from Logan Road from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20station | Sarah is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
References
External links
Station from Sarah Street from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latimer%20station%20%28PAAC%29 | Latimer was a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop was designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walked to the train so they could be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
Latimer was one of eleven stops closed on June 25, 2012, as part of a system-wide consolidation effort.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
Former Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations closed in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munroe%20station%20%28Pittsburgh%20Regional%20Transit%29 | Munroe is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh. The stop straddles West Munroe Street so that stationary rail vehicles do not block the road. There is a small shelter for northbound passengers.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
Station from Munroe Street from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20in%20Canadian%20television | This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1990.
Events
Debuts
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
Television shows
1950s
Country Canada (1954–2007)
Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
The National (1954–present)
Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)
1960s
CTV National News (1961–present)
Land and Sea (1964–present)
Man Alive (1967–2000)
Mr. Dressup (1967–1996)
The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
Question Period (1967–present, news program)
The Tommy Hunter Show (1965–1992)
W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)
1970s
Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)
1980s
Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
Beetlejuice the animated series (1989-1991)
CityLine (1987–present, news program)
CODCO (1987–1993)
The Comedy Mill (1986–1991)
Degrassi High (1989–1991)
Fashion File (1989–2009)
Fred Penner's Place (1985–1997)
Good Rockin' Tonite (1989–1992)
Katts and Dog (1988–1993)
The Kids in the Hall (1989–1994)
The Journal (1982–1992)
Just For Laughs (1988–present)
Midday (1985–2000)
My Secret Identity (1988–1991)
On the Road Again (1987–2007)
The Raccoons (1985–1992)
Road to Avonlea (1989–1996)
Street Legal (1987–1994)
Super Dave (1987–1991)
Talk About (1988-1990)
Under the Umbrella Tree (1986–1993)
Venture (1985–2007)
Video Hits (1984–1993)
TV movies
Divided Loyalties
Getting Married in Buffalo Jump
The Little Kidnappers
The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir) - English version
Television stations
Network affiliation changes
See also
1990 in Canada
List of Canadian films of 1990
References
External links
List of 1990 Canadian television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Park%20station%20%28Pittsburgh%20Regional%20Transit%29 | South Park is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
History
A rebuilt PAT PCC streetcar, No. 4007 is on display in front of the Schoolhouse Arts Center, east of the station. This trolley operated on the route before it was converted to Light Rail operation. The rebuild car number has been removed at the request of a local family as this vehicle was involved in a fatal accident whilst operating on the 47 Drake route. However, it was later given the number 1729 (thought to be its original number), but this was later found to be in error and at some point the car may be renumbered to its actual original number of 1719.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
Station from South Park Road from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesta%20station | Mesta is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
History
A stop was established at Mesta when the Pittsburgh Railways interurban line from Charleroi to Pittsburgh was opened through Bethel Park on September 12, 1903. Passengers initially changed at Castle Shannon to continue their journey to Downtown via the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad. It was cut back to Library in 1953 and was converted from PCC operation to Light Rail in 1988.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
Station from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1903
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytle%20station | Lytle is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The station serves area commuters, serving most notably as a park and ride station with 286 spaces. Many residences are also within walking distance, providing local access to Downtown Pittsburgh.
History
Lytle was originally a street level stop but reopened as a high-level platform park-and-ride station in 2004.
An old Montour Railroad trestle, the Summit Park Bridge, was located over the Lytle stop. It was removed in 1993, 17 years after the last train ran across the bridge.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
Station from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20110 | The Hewlett-Packard HP 110 (aka HP Portable and HP 45710A) is an MS-DOS compatible portable computer released in 1984. It uses a Harris 80C86 running at 5.33 MHz with of RAM. It has an 80 character by 16 line monochrome () liquid crystal display, runs MS-DOS 2.11 in ROM, and has the application programs MemoMaker, Terminal Emulator and Lotus 1-2-3 in ROM.
The LCD can be tilted for visibility, and can be folded down over the keyboard for transport, unlike computers such as the TRS-80 Model 100 which has the display in the same fixed plane as the keyboard. The HP 110 is similar to the Dulmont Magnum and the Sharp PC-5000, but all three computers were separately developed by their respective companies. At introduction it had a list price of .
HP 110 Plus
In 1985 the HP 110 Plus (aka HP Portable Plus and HP 45711A) was released with a higher-speed internal modem (1200 baud vs. 300 baud), more resident applications, reduced price, and an 80 character by 25 line display, which improved compatibility with desktop software applications. In text mode, the machine supported either a derivation of the 1984 version of the HP Roman-8 character set (in "HP mode") or IBM code page 437 (in "ALT mode").
Reception
BYTE in January 1985 acknowledged the HP 110's high price, but stated that it was "a computer with true desktop capability and performance well worth its cost for those who need the power". It praised the keyboard, and predicted that the built-in Lotus 1-2-3 "will likely account for more HP 110 sales than any other single feature".
Creative Computing said that the 110 was "the overwhelming winner" in the category of notebook portables when "price is no object" for 1984. The magazine stated that the $2995 price was "surprising modest" for its hardware, Lotus 1-2-3 and other software, and excellent manufacturer support.
See also
HP 95LX
HP 100LX
HP 200LX
Notes
References
External links
Review of HP 110
110
Computer-related introductions in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20roads%20in%20Bangladesh | The road network of Bangladesh consists of national highways (designated by a number preceded by "N"), regional highways (R numbers) and zilla or district roads (Z numbers) which are maintained by Roads and Highways Department, as well as Upazila Roads, Union Roads, and Village Roads which are maintained by Local Government Engineering Department. The total length is more than 375,000 km.
Expressways
Dhaka–Bhanga Expressway 55 km
Dhaka Elevated Expressway 20 km
Under construction
Chittagong Elevated Expressway 16 km
Dhaka Bypass Expressway 48 km
Purbachal Expressway 13 km
Dhaka–Ashulia Elevated Expressway 24 km
Approved
Bhanga–Benapole Expressway 129 km
Dhaka East West Elevated Expressway
Rampura-Amulia-Demra Expressway
Proposed/Planned
Gabtoli–Nabinagar–Paturia Expressway
Tamabil–Gundum Expressway
Gobrakura–Payra port Expressway
Kotalipara–Mongla Port Expressway
Burimari–Bhomra Expressway
Banglabandha–Jaldhaka Expressway
Joypurhat–Tamabil Expressway
Sonamashjid–Brahmanbaria Expressway
Benapole–Laksham Expressway
Roads and highways
List of regional roads
List of zilla (district) roads
Major bridges in Bangladesh
See also
List of roads in Nepal
National Highways of Pakistan
List of National Highways in India by highway number
Transport in Bhutan
External links
Official website
References
Roads in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Lists of buildings and structures in Bangladesh
Bangladesh transport-related lists |
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