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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Barometer | The Arab Barometer is a nonpartisan research network that provides insight into the social, political, and economic attitudes and values of ordinary citizens across the Arab world. It has been conducting public opinion surveys in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) since 2006. It is the largest repository of publicly available data on the views of men and women in the MENA region. The project has conducted more than 70,000 interviews over five waves of surveys across 15 countries in MENA since 2006. The project is organized through a partnership between Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and regional partners across the Middle East and North Africa. The project is governed by a Steering Committee including academics and researchers from MENA and the United States.
History
The project was founded by Dr. Amaney Jamal (Princeton University) and Dr. Mark Tessler (University of Michigan). The first wave was carried out across seven countries from 2006 to 2007. Fieldwork was overseen by Dr. Fares Braizat of the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan. The second wave covered 10 countries (2010–11) and spanned the events of the Arab uprisings. The result of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia resulted in the expansion of coverage to include these cases. Fieldwork was overseen by Dr. Mohammad Al Masri of CSS. The third wave (2012–14) was conducted in 12 countries and fieldwork was led by Dr. Walid al-Khatib and Dr. Sara Ababneh of CSS.
In 2014, Dr. Michael Robbins was appointed as project director. Meanwhile, the project transitioned to a model with core partners across the region, including the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, and One to One for Research and Polling (Tunisia).
The fourth wave was carried out across 7 countries in 2016. The fifth wave (2018-19) was carried out across 12 countries and included larger sample sizes (2,400 respondents) in most countries. In total, more than 25,000 surveys were carried out making this the largest and most in depth publicly available survey ever carried out across the Middle East and North Africa. The survey was conducted in partnership with the BBC Arabic. Results were also covered in major media outlets across the world including The Economist, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and The Daily Star, among others.
The sixth wave (2020-2021) spanned the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and interviews were conducted in seven countries by computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). The seventh wave (2021-2022) returned to in-person interviewing via computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI). The wave covered 12 countries across the region including more than 26,000 interviews. The results were covered extensively in the media, including by the BBC Arabic, The Washington Post, The Arab News, The Wilson Center, The Middle East Ey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Organism | The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man is a book on psychology and neurology by Dr. Kurt Goldstein, first published under the title Der Aufbau des Organismus: Einführung in die Biologie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erfahrungen am kranken Menschen, in 1934.
A new edition of the English translation was published in 1995: The Organism : A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks, New York, Zone Books.
After the rise of Hitler, Goldstein escaped to Amsterdam, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, where he dictated his work, which would become his magnum opus, in just six weeks. Goldstein described the work being written while in a "time of enforced leisure" in the Netherlands during his flight from Nazi Germany, it was published with only minor revisions in English translation in 1939.
Goldstein's work helped institute the field of phenomenological psychiatry. In The Organism, Goldstein declared that human life cannot be compared to a system which simply returns to a state of balance after stimulation from outside. Goldstein, after critiquing different attempts to classify the instincts, writes that all instinctual manifestations emerge from "the drive to self-actualization." At any moment the organism has the fundamental tendency to actualize all its capacities, its whole potential, as it is present in exactly that moment, and in exactly that situation in contact with the world under the given circumstances. In fact, the term "self-actualization" was originally introduced by Kurt Goldstein as a biological concept to indicate the tendency of the organism's innate motivation to actualize as much as possible which was subsequently extended. Goldstein also referred to the same drive as an "actualizing tendency" and a "formative tendency."
In The Organism Goldstein's main concern was to apply the figure-ground principle of gestalt psychology from perception to the whole organism, presuming that the whole organism serves as the ground for the individual stimulus forming the figure - thus formulating an early criticism of the simple behavioristic stimulus-response-theory.
Goldstein pointed out the experience of individuals with lesioned brains makes it obvious that our neurological and neuropsychological functioning is socially intertwined with that of other brains. Goldstein described preferred behavior (in contrast to non-preferred behavior) as the realization of a reduced subset of all possible performances available to oneself (whether in motility, perception, posture, etc.) that are characterized by a feeling of comfort and correctness.
In his work, Goldstein claimed that specific colors elicit specific emotional responses. Subsequently, clinicians have asserted that children's use of color in art, for example, is a manifestation of their underlying emotional status.
In his foreword to the English edition, 1995, Oliver Sacks writes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20Racing | Fox Sports Racing is a motorsports-oriented cable network owned by the Fox Sports Media Group division of Fox Corporation. The network launched on August 17, 2013 as a replacement of the former cable network Speed for North American markets outside the United States, including Canada and the Caribbean.
The network primarily simulcasts racing events from Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, which would be otherwise unavailable to these international markets, with the remainder of its schedule filled with reruns of these events and Speed's previous reality series. The network retained the previous Speed branding until February 20, 2015.
History
Prior to its replacement with the general sports network Fox Sports 1, the motorsports-oriented network Speed was also carried outside the United States, particularly in Canada. Shortly after its launch as Speedvision, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) added the network to its list of foreign cable networks approved for carriage on Canadian cable and satellite providers in 1997. Prior to August 2013, Canadian viewers saw a largely identical schedule as the U.S. channel, although some programming, particularly live Formula 1 events, were blacked out to protect TSN, which holds domestic broadcast rights to F1 events (under CRTC rules, foreign services must own Canadian broadcast rights to the content they air). However, this point became moot when Speed eventually lost F1 rights to NBC Sports for the 2013 season, as NBCSN is not carried in Canada.
In Canada, as well as the Caribbean and Puerto Rico, Speed was not replaced with Fox Sports 1; it is unlikely that Fox Sports 1 would ever be approved for carriage in Canada, as it would compete directly with existing domestic sports network chains, such as Sportsnet and TSN. In parallel with the launch of Fox Sports 1, the former domestic version of Speed was silently replaced by an international version of the network on August 17, 2013. Its lineup primarily consists of live and repeat broadcasts of racing events and other automotive-oriented programming from Fox Sports' cable networks, along with reruns of Speed's past programs.
In early 2014, several major Canadian service providers, including Rogers Cable and Bell Satellite TV began to drop Speed upon the expiration of their carriage contracts. Shaw later announced they would drop Speed from their cable and satellite services on April 1, 2015. Reports indicated that Fox had attempted to raise the channel's carriage fees significantly, despite the major reductions in original programming for international viewers, and Rogers suggested Fox was unwilling to allow Speed to be moved to a more specialized package in light of the programming and cost changes.
On February 19, 2015, Fox Sports announced that it would re-brand Speed's international feed as Fox Sports Racing on February 20, 2015 to coincide with the opening event of the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. Fox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20Kids%21 | Just Kids! (Hindi) is an Indian television programming block which aired on Sahara TV. The show was hosted by Yash Pathak and included various cartoon series like The Great Book Of Nature, Zorro, The Story Of Cinderella, Christopher Columbus, Sandokan, Denver - The Last Dinosaur, Jungle Book etc.
Most of these animated series were Italian-Japanese and translated into Hindi after Sahara TV has acquired from the internationally popular Mondo TV, telecast rights for 260 hours of animated children's programming. The titles include the famous Simba - The Lion, Cinderella, Zorro, Christopher Columbus, Sandokan and The Great Book Of Nature. Mondo TV has 25,000 hours of television software and is in international competition with Walt Disney.
Two of these shows were shown everyday and Bhalu Sahab ki Kahani (The Great Book of nature) was shown at the end. This was one of the most watched kids show of that time.
Series
Bhallu Sahab Ki Kahani
Christopher Columbus
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
The Jungle Book
Simba The King Lion
The Legend of Zorro
Pocahontas
Sandokan
The Story of Cinderella
See also
List of programs broadcast by Sahara One
References
Sahara One original programming
Television programming blocks in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich%20Regensburg%20Prague%20Cycleway | The Munich-Regensburg-Prague Cycleway is part of an international network of cycling routes all over Europe.
The route starts in Prague on the Vltava, heads south-west to Pilsen, Furth im Wald and Regensburg before turning south to Munich. The route runs for 450 km.
The route is not generally signposted, it is instead an amalgam of other local routes, notably Czech Route 3, the Regental Radweg, the Donauradweg and the Isarradweg.
External links
Munich – Regensburg – Prague: Three perfect reasons for a 450 km cycle path
Cycleways in the Czech Republic
Cycleways in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglossa%20cordata | Euglossa cordata is a primitively eusocial orchid bee of the American tropics. The species is known for its green body color and ability to fly distances of over 50 km. Males mostly disperse and leave their home nests, while females have been observed to possess philopatric behavior. Because of this, sightings are rare and little is known about the species. However, it has been observed that adults who pollinate certain species of orchids will become intoxicated during the pollination.
Taxonomy and phylogeny
Euglossa cordata is a member of the genus Euglossa in the tribe Euglossini within subfamily Apinae of the hymenopteran family Apidae. Euglossini pollinate throughout the American tropics, and are known for their bright, metallic appearance. Euglossini is one of four tribes of the family Apinae, along with Meliponini (stingless bees), Bombini (bumble bees), and Apini (honey bees). There are five genera of Euglossini: Algae, Exaerete, Eufriesa, Eulaema, and Euglossa.
Description and appearance
Euglossa cordata is a small short-tongued species. Females possess claws with a basal tooth, while males have a similar or cleft claw with absent arolia (adhesive pads) in both. Unlike bees of the tribe Bombini, female mandibles have strong apical teeth. Male genitalia are extremely sclerotized with a distinct gonobase and small to moderately sized upper gonostylus. Larvae have small and pointed dorsolateral tubercles (a bone projection) on the thoracic and upper abdominal segment with two similarly shaped tubercles on the vertex. Among the genera of Euglossini, Euglossa are known to be especially metallic and glittery and smaller in body size, and E. cordata are no exception, as individuals are observed to be a brilliant green color.
Distribution and habitat
Euglossa cordata have an exclusive neotropical distribution and are spread out throughout the South American region, particularly in Brazil. They reside in areas with high humidity and relatively stable and mild temperatures, in which nests have been found in urban areas, such as parks and gardens, where the bees are able to form nests and gather pollen and nectar. These areas have been colonized recently as many natural habitats have been destroyed or severely damaged. Adults have been observed to fly great distances, sometimes more than 50 km, for nectar or floral odors used for sexual attraction. This leads to a dispersal of the species, which prevents inbred mating. Nests are constructed and lined with resin.
Colony cycle
A single female primarily starts a nest, and around 50% of the daughters of the next generation will remain with their mother in the nest, establishing a hierarchy with one dominant female and one to several subordinate females. Thus, there is no need for worker or queen bees in an independently moving species. Egglaying females remain in the nest for an average of 191 days; the longest observed duration for a foraging female was 53 days. Multi-female nests may exist du |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20media%20analytics | Social media analytics or Social media monitoring is the process of gathering and analyzing data from social networks. It is commonly used by marketers to track online conversations about products and companies. One author defined it as "the art and science of extracting valuable hidden insights from vast amounts of semi-structured and unstructured social media data to enable informed and insightful decision-making."
Techniques
Impacts on business intelligence
Recent research on social media analytics has emphasized the need to adopt a business intelligence-based approach to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting social media data. Social media presents a promising, albeit challenging, source of data for business intelligence. Customers voluntarily discuss products and companies, giving a real-time pulse of brand sentiment and adoption. Social media is one of the most important tools for marketers in the rapidly evolving media landscape. Firms have created specialized positions to handle their social media marketing. These arguments are in line with the literature on social media marketing that suggests that social media activities are interrelated and influence each other.
Moon and Iacobucci (2022) focused on the marketing applications of social media analytics. Such applications include consumer behavior on social media, social media impact on firm performance, business strategy, product/brand management, social media network analysis, consumer privacy and data security on social media, and fictitious/biased content on social media. In particular, consumer privacy and data security are becoming more and more important in the social media universe given the increasing risk stemming from social media data breaches. In a similar vein, suspicious social media postings have significantly increased along with the growth of social media. Luca and Servas (2015) reported that firms have a potential incentive to use fake postings when they have increased competition. Therefore, upgrading our ability to identify and monitor suspicious postings (e.g., fake reviews on Yelp) has become an important part of social media platform management.
Muruganantham and Gandhi (2020) proposed a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) model to prove that social media users' preferences, sentiments, behavior, and marketing data are related to social media analytics. Internet users are closely connected and show a high degree of mutual influence in social ideology and social networks, which in turn affects business intelligence.
Role in international politics
The possibilities of the dangers of social media analytics and social media mining in the political arena were revealed in the late 2010s. In particular, the involvement of the data mining company Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 United States presidential election and Brexit have been representative cases that show the arising dangers of linking social media mining and politics. This has raised the question of d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A4r%20%26%20fj%C3%A4rran | När & fjärran is a travel show which was broadcast on TV4 and later on TV4 Plus. During its first seasons it was named Reslust.
References
External links
TV4 (Sweden) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stj%C3%A4rnor%20p%C3%A5%20is | Stjärnor på is is a celebrity ice skating show which was broadcast on TV4 in 2008. Carina Berg and Carolina Gynning presented the show.
References
TV4 (Sweden) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swecha | Swecha is a non-profit organization formerly called as Free Software Foundation Andhra Pradesh (FSF-AP) later changed its name to Swecha. It is a Telugu Operating System released in the year 2005, and is a part of Free Software Movement of India (FSMI). The organization is a social movement working towards educating the masses with the essence of Free Software and to provide knowledge to the commoners.
Swecha organizes workshops and seminars in the Indian state of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Presently Swecha is active GLUG (GNU/Linux User Group) in many engineering colleges like International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad , Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, St. Martin's Engineering College, Sridevi Women's Engineering College, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, SCIENT Institute of Technology, CMR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Jyothishmathi College of Engineering and Technology, MVGR College of Engineering, K L University and Ace Engineering College.
Objectives
The main objectives of the organization are as follows:
To take forward free software and its ideological implications to all corners of our country from the developed domains to the underprivileged.
To create awareness among computer users in the use of free software.
To work towards usage of free software in all streams of sciences and research.
To take forward implementation and usage of free software in school education, academics and higher education.
To work towards e-literacy and bridging digital divide based on free software and mobilizing the underprivileged.
To work among developers on solutions catering to societal & national requirements.
To work towards a policy change favoring free software in all walks of life.
Activities
Swecha hosted a National Convention for Academics and Research which was attended by researchers and academicians from different parts of the country. Former President of India Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam while inaugurating the conference and declaring it open has asked everyone to Embrace Free Software and the Philosophy associated with it.
Technology should also be within the reach of everybody. At a time when technology has become all pervasive and people are increasingly dependent on it, transparency in software code is the need of the hour. "One needs to know what is going on in your mobile phone or computer," said D. Bhuvan Krishna, co-convener of Swecha project which code is available for anyone and everyone to modify fills this gap, felt speakers at an event organised to spread the word of Free and open-source software(FOSS) and celebrate the launch of latest web browser from the Mozilla Foundation's stable, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.
Swecha, has organised a 15-day workshop in Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology(CBIT) for budding software engineers from across the country. The idea is to provide students with an opportunity on the importance of stude |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20the%20Deadlines | After The Deadlines was an American evening news program of the early 1950s. It was broadcast on the ABC network from April 1951 to October 1952.
Typical of evening television news programs of the era, it lasted fifteen minutes. After the Deadlines aired at 7:00 PM, earlier than its competitors, Camel News Caravan (NBC, 7:45 PM) and Douglas Edwards with the News (CBS, 7:30 PM) in an attempt to draw news viewers from these more-established networks. Its predecessor was News and Views, and its successor was All-Star News and, eventually, ABC World News Tonight, as seen in this list:
ABC evening news programs
News and Views (August 11, 1948 – March 30, 1951)
After the Deadlines (April 2, 1951 – October 3, 1952)
All-Star News (October 6, 1952 – January 2, 1953)
(No weekday evening news broadcast, January 5, 1953 – October 9, 1953)
John Daly and the News (October 12, 1953 – September 12, 1958)
ABC News (September 15, 1958 – May 8, 1959)
John Daly and the News (May 11, 1959 – December 16, 1960)
ABC World News Tonight (December 19, 1960 – present ())
In 1951 and 1952, most American households did not have television receivers, and ABC was a distinctly minor network compared to NBC and CBS, so After the Deadlines was not a major factor in the overall news business, and the identity of the anchor or anchors of After the Deadlines may be lost to history.
References
Notes
ABC News
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1951 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
1950s American television news shows
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem%20medical%20data%20breach | The Anthem medical data breach was a medical data breach of information held by Elevance Health, known at that time as Anthem Inc.
On February 4, 2015, Anthem, Inc. disclosed that criminal hackers had broken into its servers and had potentially stolen over 37.5 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers. On February 24, 2015 Anthem raised the number to 78.8 million people whose personal information had been affected. According to Anthem, Inc., the data breach extended into multiple brands Anthem, Inc. uses to market its healthcare plans, including, Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Amerigroup, Caremore, and UniCare. Healthlink says that it was also a victim. Anthem says users' medical information and financial data were not compromised. Anthem has offered free credit monitoring in the wake of the breach. Michael Daniel, chief adviser on cybersecurity for President Barack Obama, said he would be changing his own password. According to The New York Times, about 80 million company records were hacked, and there is a fear that the stolen data will be used for identity theft. The compromised information contained names, birthdays, medical IDs, social security numbers, street addresses, e-mail addresses and employment information, including income data.
Theft of the data
The data was stolen over a period of weeks the month before the data breach was discovered.
Because no medical information was compromised, Anthem was not required by law to encrypt the data. However, Anthem faced several civil class-action lawsuits, which were settled in 2017 at a cost of $115 million. Anthem did not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement.
Data from the attack is expected to be sold on the black market.
Impact
Persons whose data was stolen could have resulting problems about identity theft for the rest of their lives. Anthem had a million insurance policy for cyber problems from American International Group. One report suggested that all of this money could be consumed by the process of notifying customers of the breach.
Responses
Anthem hired Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm, to review their security systems and advised people whose data was stolen to monitor their accounts and remain vigilant.
The theft of the data raised fears generally about the theft of medical information. A writer from Harvard Law School suggested that this data breach might spark reform of security practices and government data safety regulation.
An investigation conducted by several state insurance commissioners blames the breach on an attacker whose identity was withheld, and claims that the breach was likely ordered by a foreign government whose name was withheld. It also concluded that Anthem had taken reasonable measures to protect its data before the breach and that its remediation plan was effective at shutting down the breach once it was discove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Idolmaster%20Cinderella%20Girls%20episodes | The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls is a 2015 anime series based on the simulation social network game of the same name as part of Bandai Namco Entertainment The Idolmaster franchise. The series follows a group of rookie idols as they are recruited by 346 Production's Cinderella Project and aspire to become top idols. The anime is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Noriko Takao. Takao and writer Tatsuya Takahashi share supervision duty for the series screenplay, and Yūsuke Matsuo based the character designs on designs provided by illustrator Annin Dōfu; the music was composed by Hidekazu Tanaka of Monaca. The series aired in two separate seasons, alternating between reruns of the first The Idolmaster anime series. The first half aired on BS11 via satellite, and Tokyo MX and nine other local independent terrestrial stations between January 10 and April 11, 2015 and was simulcast by Daisuki. The second half aired from July 17 to October 17, 2015.
The opening theme for the first season is "Star!!" by Cinderella Project (Ayaka Ōhashi, Ayaka Fukuhara, Sayuri Hara, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Sumire Uesaka, Naomi Ōzora, Maaya Uchida, Nozomi Yamamoto, Ruriko Aoki, Aya Suzaki, Hiromi Igarashi, Natsumi Takamori, Yuka Ōtsubo, and Rei Matsuzaki). The second season's opening theme is "Shine!!" by Cinderella Project.
An anime adaptation of Kuma-Jet's Cinderella Girls Theater spin-off manga, produced by Gathering and directed by Mankyū, was announced on November 28, 2016, as part of the game's 5th anniversary via a 3-minute short film distributed online and premiered its first season which ran from April 4 to June 27, 2017. The series has since been renewed for three more seasons, with the second season premiering on October 3, 2017, the third running from July 3 to September 25, 2018 and the fourth, titled Climax Season, from April 2 to June 25, 2019.
Cinderella Girls episode list
Theater episode list
TV series
Web series
Blu-ray specials
Notes
References
External links
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls official website
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Theater official website
Lists of anime episodes
Cinderella Girls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barntrean | Barntrean was TV3's children's programming block between 1989 and 2005. The programmes were presented by Ingamay Hörnberg and Skurt and aired on late afternoons-early evening between Monday-Friday and Saturday and Sunday mornings. After over 17 years, Ingamay Hörnberg and Skurt left TV3, which no longer airs children's programming.
Programmes included
Biker Mice from Mars
Count Duckula
Duck Tales
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
Flintstones
Fantastic Max
James Bond Junior
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Scooby-Doo
Super Friends
The Smurfs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Real Ghostbusters
Tugs
Widget
Yogi Bear
Digimon
References
Swedish television shows featuring puppetry
TV3 (Sweden) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Eisenstat | Al Eisenstat (born 1930) was an American lawyer and business executive. He served as general counsel, Senior Vice President and board member at Apple Computer.
Career
Eisenstat was the co-founder of United Data Centers, which was later sold to Tymshare.
In 1982, Eisenstat was Apple's corporate secretary and vice president of marketing. In 1985 he was vice president of investor relations and also its chief legal officer. During his time with the company, Eisenstat recommended that Apple buy AOL. He also participated in the selection of Michael Spindler as CEO, replacing John Sculley. In 1993 Eisenstat sued Apple for wrongful dismissal.
References
Directors of Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. executives
1930 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWT | JWT may refer to:
James Webb Space Telescope
JWt (Java web toolkit), a software library
J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency
JSON Web Token, a metadata standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisenheim%20Alumni%20Association | The Vereinigung Ehemaliger Geisenheimer (VEG), since 2002 also known as Geisenheim Alumni Association, is one of the oldest and largest alumni networks in Germany. It was founded in 1894 at the former Royal Prussian Academy for orchards and vineyards (Königlich Preußische Lehranstalt für Obst- und Weinbau) in Geisenheim and represents more than 2,500 alumni worldwide.
The members of the alumni association derive from the fields of viticulture, horticulture, landscape architecture and beverage technology. Its alumni are graduates of today's Geisenheim University and its predecessor organisations like University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden (1971) or RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (2009).
"The association has the objective to foster research, science and education at Geisenheim University and the institutions of the Research Center Geisenheim, as well as to promote the contact and exchange of experience between alumni, faculty, staff and students."
History
In 1872, the Royal Prussian Academy for orchards and vineyards was founded in Geisenheim/Rheingau by decree of the Prussian Emperor Wilhelm I. Already in the first year six students, initially called ″Eleven″, started their four to six semesters lasting studies in horticulture and viticulture. The proposal to establish an association of former students came from the then first director of the research institute, Ökonomierat Rudolf Goethe. In the founding protocol of the Association on May 13, 1894, the main objectives were defined: linking function between the educational site and its graduates, placement of jobs matching the professional competence with appropriate remuneration and continuing vocational training of graduates.
References
Alumni associations of academic institutions
Non-profit organisations based in Hesse
Organizations established in 1894 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UOW%20College%20Hong%20Kong | UOW College Hong Kong (UOWCHK) is part of the global network of the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia, one of the world’s top 200 universities. Its heritage stems from the Community College of City University (CCCU), established in 2004 under the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), which has a long history of providing higher education to the Hong Kong community.
In 2014, CityU partnered with University of Wollongong (UOW) and the college was renamed to UOWCHK in 2020. The medium of instruction is mainly English with some courses supplemented by Cantonese.
History
Establishment
The Community College of City University, predecessor to UOWCHK, was established in 2004 as the Government announced a gradual phasing out of funding for sub-degree programmes.
Alliance With University of Wollongong
On 21 November 2014, The University of Wollongong (UOW) and CityU announced their partnership. The college was then renamed UOWCHK / CCCU and eventually in July 2020, the college was further renamed as UOW College Hong Kong.
CCCU successfully transitioned to UOWCHK after gaining approval as an independent accredited institute in 2019 under Hong Kong ordinance and officially separated from CityU in 2020 after a five year transition period beginning from 2015. CityU will continue to focus on academia and pursue excellence in professional education and translational research while UOWCHK will further grow as a degree granting University/College with international connection.
UOWCHK receives full support of UOW with educational resources and commitment to develop and enhance student experience via opportunities for mobility and global exposure. UOW has launched top-up degrees in Hong Kong via UOWCHK.
Past and Current Campuses
As of July 2023, the main campus will be reallocated from their current Kowloon City Campus to their new campus in Tai Wai for the 2023-2024 school year onward. The new campus sits on land secured from the Hong Kong government in 2016.
Tai Wai Campus (New Main Campus)
The new UOWCHK Campus, to be officially opened on 15 September 2023, is located in Tai Wai adjacent to The Wai shopping mall and the Tai Wai MTR Station with an entrance separate from the mall. The new campus has around 15,000 square meters of modern teaching space which includes a 200 seat auditorium, 100-seat lecture theaters, 30 small classrooms and purpose-built laboratories that can accommodate up to 3,300 students.
All students attending classes at the new Tai Wai Campus will have access to campus facilities such as the learning commons, cafeteria, Gym and dance studio located on the 3rd floor. The 2nd floor UOWCHK library is accessible from both inside and outside the campus for UOW college students and Hong Kong secondary school student alike.
Kowloon City Campus (Temporary Campus)
The Kowloon City Campus was used as a temporary campus for the transition period before relocating to their permanent main campus in Tai Wai in August 2023. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Sigint%20Cyber%20Unit | The Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU) is a Dutch government organisation, which was founded in 2013 and became operational on June 15, 2014. JSCU's primary tasks are intercepting radio and satellite traffic (Sigint) and obtaining intelligence through cyber-operations. The organisation cooperates closely with allied foreign intelligence agencies.
General
The decision to create a joint intelligence organisation was made in 2011. Preparations for the creation of the JSCU began in late 2012, by a joint team from the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) under the name Project Symbolon. The Joint Sigint Cyber Unit is governed by these two services.
The JSCU headquarters is located in the AIVD building in Zoetermeer, and houses approximately 350 employees. Other JSCU divisions are housed with the MIVD in The Hague.
Before the founding of the JSCU, the Nationale SIGINT Organisatie (NSO) was the organisation tasked with interception of radio and satellite traffic. The NSO also operated under the joint command of the AIVD and MIVD. The NSO formally became part of JSCU when it was created on June 15, 2014.
The JSCU specializes in Sigint and Cyber. Sigint includes intelligence gathered from (tele)communications. AIVD defines 'Cyber' as a group of activities related to computer networks and data streams. Examples given are mapping out the Internet landscape in (new) mission areas, informing allies about dangerous computer viruses, or hacking terrorist websites.
Interception stations
To intercept wireless communication the JSCU operates two interception stations, formerly managed by the NSO: at Burum for the interception of satellite traffic and at Eibergen for the interception of high-frequency radio traffic.
Burum
The interception station for satellite traffic is located in Burum (Kollumerland c.a. municipality) in the province of Friesland. It became fully operational in 2006. Construction of this station (officially named 'Satelliet Grondstation Burum') began in 2005 as a replacement for the former ground station in Zoutkamp in northern Groningen.
The telecom operator Stratos (formerly Xantic), operates a satellite ground station (formally Satellite ground station 12, but more commonly known by its nickname: (The Big Ear).) near Burum. The NSO interception station was created in the south-eastern corner of the existing Stratos satellite station property. Two large 18m diameter satellite dishes, nine smaller 11m diameter satellite dishes, and four so-called waffle-irons which are 4 meters in diameter were added for Sigint purposes.
Eibergen
A second JSCU intercept station is located on the military base Kamp Holterhoek in Eibergen in the Achterhoek region. Since 1967 the 898th signal battalion, stationed at Eibergen, has been intercepting radio traffic from the former Eastern Bloc countries. In 1998 the battalion merged with the 1st Air Force signal battalio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20Cluster%20Engine%20Project | Hierarchical Cluster Engine (HCE) is a FOSS complex solution for: construct custom network mesh or distributed network cluster structure with several relations types between nodes, formalize the data flow processing goes from upper node level central source point to down nodes and backward, formalize the management requests handling from multiple source points, support native reducing of multiple nodes results (aggregation, duplicates elimination, sorting and so on), internally support powerful full-text search engine and data storage, provide transactions-less and transactional requests processing, support flexible run-time changes of cluster infrastructure, have many languages bindings for client-side integration APIs in one product build on C++ language.
This project became the successor of Associative Search Machine (ASM) full-text web search engine project that was developed from 2006 to 2012 by IOIX Ukraine
The HCE project products
The hce-node core (HCE-node application) network transport cluster infrastructure engine.
The Bundle:
Distributed Crawler service (HCE-DC),
Distributed Tasks Manager service (HCE-DTM),
PHP language API and console management tools,
Python language API and management tools.
Python data processing algorithms
Utilities.
All of them are the set of applications that can be used to construct different distributed solutions like: remote processes execution management, data processing (including the text mining with NLP), web sites crawling (including incremental, periodic, with flexible and adaptive scheduling, RSS feeds and custom structured), web sites data scraping (include pre-defined and custom scrapers, xpath templates, sequential and optimized scraping algorithms), web-search engine (complete cycle including the crawling, scraping and distributed search index based on the Sphinx indexing engine), corporate integrated full-text search based on distributed Sphinx engine index and many more another applied solutions with similar business logic
HCE-node application
The heart and main component of the HCE project it is hce-node application. This application integrates complete set of base functionality to support network infrastructure, hierarchical cluster construction, full-text search system integration and so on.
Implemented for Linux OS environment and distributed in form of source code tarball archive and Debian Linux binary package with dependencies packages.
Supports single instance configuration-less start or requires set of options that used to build correspondent network cluster architecture.
Supposes usage with client-side applications or integrated IPI.
First implementation of client-side API and cli utilities bind on PHP.
HCE application area:
As a network infrastructure and messages transport layer provider – the HCE can be used in any big-data solution that needs some custom network structure to build distributed high-performance easy scalable vertically and horizontally data processing or data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelle%20von%20Wendland | Marcelle von Wendland (born 1970) is a British entrepreneur, executive, published author and expert in the area of risk and financial instruments as well as semantic data models and data utilities. She is known for her pioneering work on a semantic data model for financial instruments that allows facilitates industry wide data utilities such as the European Central Bank Central Securities Database (ECB CSDB). The approach known as The Building Block Approach is used by the ECB CSDB and covered in the book Pricing, Risk, and Performance Measurement in Practice ( and 9780080923048) co-authored by von Wendland and ECB Senior Economist Wolfgang Schwerdt. Von Wendland is also known for her amateur yacht racing.
Career
She is the co-founder and CEO of Bancstreet Capital Partners Ltd. She was Managing Director at Fincore Ltd which she now continues to support as a consultant. She has previously worked for Hypo-Vereinsbank, Barclays Bank, Goldman Sachs, LCH-Clearnet, the UK HM Revenue and Customs and others.
Von Wendland is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI). She has been deputy chair and elected member of the Risk Forum Committee of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) from 2002 to 2012 and 2008 to 2009 respectively.
Von Wendland has been an active member of the Private Sector Preparatory Group (LEI-PSPG) for the Legal Entity Identifier set up and run by the Financial Stability Board from 2011 onwards.
She has been an elected and served as member of the Governing Council of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) for two consecutive terms first from August 2010 to July 2012 and then from August 2012 to July 2015. She has also served on the RIN's Finance committee from 2007 to 2013 and the RIN Audit & Risk committee since 2013.
Politics
Von Wendland stood as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the 2018 Local Elections in Hounslow Central ward in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Research
She has co-authored the book Pricing, Risk, and Performance Measurement in Practice (), together with ECB Senior Economist Wolfgang Schwerdt. Her more recent research covers the area of blockchain, Distributed ledger Technology and semantics; this includes a paper with the title: Smart Contracts that are Smart and can function as Legal Contracts A Review of Semantic Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies.
Background
Von Wendland is also an experienced and commercially qualified Yacht Racing skipper and instructor with a wide range of experience that includes skippering the former Volvo Ocean Race Yacht BEL 1 Zest of Belgium in as series of RORC (Royal Ocean Racing Club) races.
She has skippered the 3/4 Tonner IOR Racing Yacht GET CARTER GBR4127R in the RORC Fastnet Races 2007, 2009,
2011 as well as 2013, and has gained an entry in the 2015 Fastnet Race for GBR 2Get Carter.
Von Wendland was born in Munich, Bavaria daughter of Franziska von Wendland and Georg Kress. She grew up first |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20and%20Views%20%28TV%20series%29 | News and Views was an early American evening news program. Broadcast on ABC from 1948 to 1951, it was ABC's first evening news program and one of the first such programs on any television network; Both CBS and NBC also initiated their evening news programs (respectively CBS Television News and Camel News Caravan, called Camel Newsreel Theatre at first) that same year, both debuting a few months before the first broadcast of News and Views on August 11, 1948.
The co-anchors (not called that, as that meaning of "anchor" was not yet extant) were H. R. Baukhage and Jim Gibbons. Baukhage was a veteran radio broadcaster whose staccato baritone and gruff and abrupt sign-on, "Baukhage talking", was familiar to radio listeners of that era. Jim Gibbons was less well known.
Typical of evening television news programs of the era, it ran for fifteen minutes. Its successor was After the Deadlines and, ultimately, ABC World News Tonight, as seen in this list:
ABC evening news programs
News and Views (August 11, 1948 – March 30, 1951)
After the Deadlines (April 2, 1951 – October 3, 1952)
All-Star News (October 6, 1952 – January 2, 1953)
(No weekday evening news broadcast, January 5, 1953 – October 9, 1953)
John Daly and the News (October 12, 1953 – September 12, 1958)
ABC News (September 15, 1958 – May 8, 1959)
John Daly and the News (May 11, 1959 – December 16, 1960)
ABC World News Tonight (December 19, 1960 – present ())
References
Notes
ABC News
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1948 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
1940s American television news shows
1950s American television news shows
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myzus%20boehmeriae | Myzus boehmeriae, also known as Myzus (Myzus) boehmeriae, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.
References
http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cgi-bin/nome.pl?organism=156080&glo=eng
Agricultural pest insects
Macrosiphini
Taxa named by Ryoichi Takahashi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20mapping | Power mapping is a visual tool used by social advocates to identify the best individuals to target to promote social change. The role of relationships and networks is very important when advocates seek change in a social justice issue. The power mapping process entails the use of a visual tool to conceptualize the sphere of a person or group's influence. The power map tool helps to visualize whom you need to influence, who can influence your target and what can be done to influence the identified person with power. Power Mapping is often politically focused and is frequently used to persuade decision makers to alter how they may vote on an issue. It can also be used to convince an organization to take a stand, persuade a foundation to give your organization a grant, or compel a newspaper to write a favorable editorial.
Steps to power mapping
Before power mapping
Identify and familiarize oneself with target social problem and major players or decision makers involved.
Step 1: Determine target
Power mapping is a visual tool that should be drawn. In the center is the person or institution that can make the decision or enact desired changes to address the identified social problem.
Step 2: Map influence to target
Next, it is important to think about associations, people or institutions that have relationships with the target individual and can potentially influence them. These could include work, political, family religious and neighborhood ties and they should be written in a ring around the problem. Creativity is important when identifying potential associations (barber/hairdresser etc.). Also, strategy is an important part of the process. Be sure to look at all major donors and constituency groups the person has interacted with. Finally, be thorough in the way you think about relationships. Spend time looking at each identified associate and think about the people and institutions they are connected to.
Step 3: Determine relational power lines
Begin to review the network that you have created and determine any connections between the target, as well as the different people and institutions. Remember to take indirect connections into account as well for example, a decision maker may not be directly involved with an organization, but may have family members that are.
Step 4: Target priority relationships
Circle the people with the most power relational lines drawn to them and identify people with few critical relational power lines that has a lot of influence. If there is someone without a clear relationship then develop a plan to find out more about the person.
Step 5: Make a plan
Create action steps for moving forward by determining the best way to access the individuals through the relationships determined.
This is one of many methods of power mapping. The Change Agency, Beautiful Trouble, Oxfam, and others have developed others.
Power mapping in clinical practice
Power mapping can be helpful for the clinician and the client or grou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID.me | ID.me is an American online identity network company that allows people to provide proof of their legal identity online. ID.me digital credentials can be used to access government services, healthcare logins, or discounts from retailers. The company is based in McLean, Virginia.
In the wake of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, ID.me was contracted by numerous state unemployment agencies to verify the identities of claimants. The US Internal Revenue Service also uses ID.me as its only online option in accessing its online taxpayer tools.
History
Origins as TroopSwap and Troop ID
ID.me was founded in early 2010 by Blake Hall and Matt Thompson as TroopSwap, a daily deals website similar to Groupon and LivingSocial with a focus on the American military community. The company evolved into Troop ID, which provided digital identity verification for military personnel and veterans. Troop ID allowed service members and veterans to access online benefits from retailers, such as military discounts, as well as government agencies like the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Rebrand to ID.me
In 2013, the company rebranded again as ID.me with the goal of providing a ubiquitous secure identity verification network. To that end, they expanded to include verification of credentials for first responders, nurses, and students for discounts. In 2013, ID.me was awarded a two-year grant by the United States Chamber of Commerce to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a pilot project intended to help develop secure digital identification methods.
In late 2014, ID.me won a contract with the General Services Administration to provide digital identity credentials with Connect.gov. Co-founder Matt Thompson left the company in 2015. In March 2017, ID.me received $19 million in its Series B funding round. In 2018, ID.me became the first digital identity provider to be certified by the Kantara Initiative at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) IAL2 level.
In 2019, ID.me signed a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to offer “virtual in-person identity proofing”, allowing veterans to verify their identity with the VA via video call. ID.me also signed a contract with the Social Security Administration for single sign-on, identity management, and multi-factor authentication in 2020. ID.me also began work with the state of California in 2019 to provide REAL ID document pre-screening for DMVs. Listed partners for discounts on ID.me’s website also include Under Armour, Apple, and Lenovo.
State Unemployment
In the wake of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 27 states contracted with ID.me to verify the identities of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claimants as required by federal law and the U.S. Department of Labor.
In late 2020, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) notified 1.4 million accounts th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph%20Walther | Christoph Walther (born 9 August 1950)
is a German computer scientist, known for his contributions to automated theorem proving.
He is Professor emeritus at Darmstadt University of Technology.
Selected publications
On automated program termination analysis
On the VeriFun verification system for functional programs
On order-sorted resolution
On induction proving
References
External links
Christoph Walther's home page at Darmstadt University
1950 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN%20Nation | SYN Nation was an Australian community radio station broadcasting to Melbourne, Victoria. First broadcast in April 2014, the station was operated by SYN Media, with programming presented entirely by volunteers aged 12–25 years old. The station broadcast from studios on the campus of RMIT University, alongside sister station SYN 90.7. The two stations were merged in April 2019 to create SYN.
History
On 1 April 2014, the station launched on DAB+ digital radio. The launch of SYN Nation was attended by then-Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull, federal MP for Melbourne Adam Bandt, and Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. Content for the station was supplied by volunteers at Bay FM Byron Bay, 2XX FM Canberra, Edge Radio Hobart, Gippsland FM Morwell, and 3WAY FM Warrnambool, as well as by Melbourne volunteers. In 2015, the station began broadcasting content from Wangki Yupurnanupurru Radio Fitzroy Crossing and 107.9 Radio Fremantle Fremantle, Western Australia.
On 16 April 2019, SYN Media announced that SYN Nation would merge with SYN 90.7 to create a single station, broadcasting on 90.7FM and DAB+ digital radio in Melbourne. The newly merged SYN commenced broadcasting on 22 April 2019.
Flagship programming (at time of closure)
Melbourne
Art Smitten (Arts and culture)
The Naughty Rude Show (Sex and relationships)
Represent (Political discussion)
Player One (Video game discussion)
Regional
The Edge (News & Current Affairs)
See also
Community radio
Digital radio in Australia
College radio
References
External links
SYN Nation website
Nation
Radio stations in Melbourne
Radio stations established in 2014
Radio stations disestablished in 2019
Defunct radio stations in Australia
2014 establishments in Australia
2019 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy%20League%20Digital%20Network | Ivy League Digital Network was an Internet television website and operated by the Ivy League. The internet network was first available to subscribers in the fall of 2013, and covered all eight of the Ivy League schools. The site used technology provided by NeuLion to feature live and on-demand content from a variety of sports across the eight schools and conference championship events. On April 4, 2018, it was announced that the Ivy League and ESPN agreed having the ESPN platform carry Ivy League athletic competitions. Under the ten-year deal, over 1,100 Ivy League events per year across 30 sports will be covered, including certain premier Ivy League events (e.g., the Harvard-Yale football game) which will air on its Linear Networks, but with the majority of sports and events being carried on ESPN+, its new direct-to-consumer streaming service that was launched on April 12, 2018. On July 12, 2018, the Ivy League Digital Network announced that their website would no longer provide services, all users' subscriptions would be automatically cancelled, and users should purchase a subscription to ESPN+ to continue to watch Ivy League athletic competitions.
Programming
Baseball
Basketball (Men's and Women's)
Cross Country
Field Hockey
Football
Golf (Men's and Women's)
Women's Gymnastics
Ice Hockey (Men's and Women's)
Indoor T&F
Lacrosse (Men's and Women's)
Outdoor T&F
Rowing (Men's and Women's)
Women's Rugby
Soccer (Men's and Women's)
Softball
Sprint Football
Squash (Men's and Women's)
Swimming/Diving (Men's and Women's)
Tennis (Men's and Women's)
Volleyball (Men's and Women's)
Water-polo (Men's and Women's)
Wrestling
References
External links
Ivy League Digital Network
Ivy League
Streaming television in the United States
American sport websites
Internet properties established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Majumdar | Simon Majumdar (born April 7, 1964) is a British-born food and travel author, and food television personality. He has appeared on many Food Network shows and is based in Los Angeles and London. He also judges tables on shows such as Iron Chef.
Early and personal life
Majumdar was brought up in Rotherham near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England by his Welsh mother and Indian father, a middle child out of four children. His father Pratip "Pat" Majumdar was born in Calcutta and was an Orthopedic consultant for Rotherham United F.C. His mother, Gwen John, was from Southern Wales and worked as a nurse; his parents met while working at the Royal Gwent Hospital in the 1950s.
Majumdar previously worked as a book publisher and started working with food after the age of 40. After his mother fell ill and eventually died, he was depressed and not enjoying his prior career in publishing so he decided in 2007 to "go everywhere, eat everything" which changed his life path.
He met his wife Sybil Villanueva while traveling in Brazil in 2010; Sybil is a Filipino American. He became a citizen of the United States on September 17, 2014.
Writing
He co-authored with his older brother Robin, a UK food blog "Dos Hermanos" from 2006 until 2012, which had thousands of readers a day. Majumdar is an author and contributor to; The Guardian, The Independent, AskMen.com, The Daily Beast, and more. He has written books titled Fed, White, and Blue; Eat My Globe; and Eating For Britain.
Television
He has appeared as a judge on the Food Network shows Cutthroat Kitchen (2013–2016), Iron Chef America (2010–2012), All Star Academy (2015), Beat Bobby Flay (2014–2017) and The Next Iron Chef (2010–2012). Majumdar is severely allergic to coffee and oysters, and will not taste any dishes prepared by a competitor that includes either of these ingredients. He is known for a love of Indian cuisine.
A guest on the show The Best Thing I Ever Ate (2010–2011) with foods found in California, Louisiana and Kansas. Majumdar was a guest critic on the UK show Market Kitchen.
Majumdar is occasionally a judge on Guy's Grocery Games. He has also worked with Guy Fieri on Food Network’s Tournament of Champions as a floor reporter for the blind taste test.
References
External links
Living people
English people of Indian descent
English people of Welsh descent
British television chefs
Food Network chefs
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Writers from Yorkshire
People from Rotherham
1964 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueKai | Oracle BlueKai Data Management Platform, formerly BlueKai, is a cloud-based data management platform which is a part of Oracle Marketing that enables companies to personalize online, offline, and mobile marketing campaigns. BlueKai was created in 2008 by Omar Tawakol, Alexander Hooshmand, and Grant Ries, as a marketing tech start-up based in Cupertino, California. It was acquired by Oracle on February 24, 2014, for approximately $400 million, and was renamed Oracle BlueKai Data Management Platform (DMP).
The company offers third party data collecting services. BlueKai collects PC and smartphone users' data to enhance ad marketing for their clients, and had about 700 million actionable profiles. BlueKai has worked with companies like Twitter and Facebook to ensure relevancy in the ads that appear for those companies' users. As a third party data collection company, they gather information on users surfing the web, though BlueKai claims not to collect sensitive financial details, adult material, or health issues.
Other clients and sites using BlueKai's services have included Live.com, Huffingtonpost.com, Walmart.com, Vimeo.com, Microsoft.com, and eBay.com.
After the 2014 Oracle acquisition, BlueKai’s data management platform became part of Oracle Marketing, which is part of the Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX) application suite. Companies use Oracle Marketing to run marketing campaigns and manage related data from the web, social media, mobile, and email. In October 2014, it was integrated with Oracle’s cross-channel marketing product suite. This allowed marketers to anonymize customer behavioral data, integrate it with DMP’s third-party data, and create specific audience models for retargeting.
Additional acquisitions that have been integrated into Oracle Marketing include Eloqua, Responsys, DataFox, Maxymiser, Compendium, and Infinity from Webtrends.
In June 2020, TechCrunch reported that security researcher Anurag Sen had found an unsecured BlueKai database accessible on the open Internet. The database held billions of records containing names, home addresses, email addresses, and web browsing activity like purchases and newsletter unsubscribes. TechCrunch reported that under California state law, companies are required to publicly disclose data security incidents, but that Oracle had not done so at the date of the story.
See also
Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)
Oracle Corporation
References
Computing platforms
Data collection
Technology companies established in 2008
Oracle acquisitions
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Digital marketing companies
Big data companies
Data management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar%20Pradesh%20Heritage%20Arc | The Uttar Pradesh Heritage Arc is a triangulation network stretching from Agra to Lucknow and Varanasi in India, covering an area of approximately 700 km.
History
The idea was conceived by the Government of Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav in 2014 to boost tourism in the state.
Berlin delegation, March 2015
The Minister for Tourism, Om Prakash Singh, led a delegation of senior officers to create awareness of Uttar Pradesh’s tourism-friendly policies and initiatives, and to conduct meetings with industry professionals.
Uttar Pradesh Travel Mart
The Uttar Pradesh Travel Mart 2015 was a government initiative that had UP Tourism as its face in coordination with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). The first edition held at Lucknow on 22–24 February looks at the promotion of strategic areas of tourism in a substantial way for the state. The motive behind the event has been to lay the ground for initial dialogue and interaction through B2B session wherein the foreign delegates gets to have on-hand experience of not only the destination product but also the subsidiaries, infra-structure, hotel industry, transport and other ancillary service providers.
References
Agra district
Lucknow district
Varanasi district
Tourist attractions in Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana%20Farmiga | Adriana Farmiga ( ; born July 17, 1974) is an American visual artist, curator, and professor based in New York City. She serves as a programming advisor for the non-profit La Mama Gallery in the East Village, and is the current Associate Dean at Cooper Union School of Art.
Early life
Farmiga was born and raised in a small Ukrainian community in Rosendale, New York. Her paternal first cousins are actresses Vera Farmiga and Taissa Farmiga. She was educated at Cooper Union, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996. Farmiga went on to study at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, where she was taught by the late installation artist Maryanne Amacher; she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Bard in 2004.
Career
Farmiga began teaching at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and at her alma mater Cooper Union. Additionally, she served as a visiting lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. In October 2017, Farmiga was appointed to the position of Assistant Dean at Cooper Union School of Art.
Farmiga has displayed her artwork at many solo exhibitions, including objects (2001) in New Orleans, 'Scape (2006) in Miami, and Versus (2012) in New York. In 2004, Farmiga was among a group of artists displaying their work in the exhibition The Reality of Things at Triple Candie in Harlem. In 2008, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park.
In 2011, Farmiga worked as a curator and artist for her cousin Vera Farmiga's directorial debut film Higher Ground. That same year, her work appeared in Thisorganized, a group exhibit curated by painter Hope Gangloff, which was displayed at the Susan Inglett Gallery. In 2013, Farmiga was part of the Screen Play exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz. The following year, she was one of 16 artists chosen, from over 320 applicants, to display her work in the Worlds of Wonder exhibition, also shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
In December 2016, Farmiga's work as part of CIM began showing at the Ukrainian Museum, where it was exhibited until September 2017. From January to February 2017, her work as part of Abandoned Luncheonette was exhibited at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York. In April 2018, it was announced that Farmiga was one of twelve visual artists whom had been granted a summer fellowship at the MacDowell Colony.
Exhibitions
Solo
Group
References
External links
1974 births
American women artists
American people of Ukrainian descent
Artists from New York City
Bard College alumni
Cooper Union alumni
Cooper Union faculty
Living people
People from Rosendale, New York
Temple University faculty
MacDowell Colony fellows
American women curators
American curators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Automation | GA General Automation was an American company, founded in 1968 by Larry Goshorn (a former marketing executive and a salesman from Honeywell), which manufactured minicomputers and industrial controllers.
In 1994, General Automation announced it would be relocating from Anaheim to Irvine. It announced it would be phasing-out its manufacturing operations but would retain its 50 employees.
Products
GA SPC-12 (Jan 1968)
Priced at $6400 and claiming $4,000 worth of free options
Totally integrated, binary, parallel, single address processor
8-bit data and 12 bit address
4,096 words (8 bit bytes) of memory with a 2.2 microsecond cycle time
Shared command concept that permits the SPC-12s 8-bit memory to handle 12-bit instructions.
Features included a real-time clock, expandable memory to 16K, a teletype interface, a control panel and a priority interrupt
GA SPC-8 (Nov 1968)
GA 18/30 (June 1968, IBM 1800 compatible)
GA SPC-16/30, /50 & /70 (November 1971)
GA SPC-16/40, /45, /65 & /85 (January 1972)
LSI-12/16 (January 1974)
These computers were initially produced with silicon on sapphire circuit technology provided by Rockwell International but yield problems caused a switch to conventional ICs by 1975.
GA 16/110 & /120 (December 1976)
GA 16/220 (July 1978)
GA 16/330
GA 16/440
GA 16/460
GA Zebra 1700/1750 (Introduced in 1985, a Motorola 68000 computer running Pick Operating System)
Parallel Computers, Inc. – fault-tolerant supermicro/minicomputer based on Unix, acquired 1987, sold 1988
References
External links
Computer History Museum
Documents at Bitsavers
18/30 Fortran IV Software Data Sheet
Minicomputers
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in California
Defunct technology companies based in California
Companies based in Anaheim, California
Computer companies established in 1968
Technology companies established in 1968
1968 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode%201%20%28T%C3%A1%20no%20Ar%29 | The first episode of the Brazilian situation comedy Tá no Ar premiered on the Globo Network on Thursday night, April 10, 2014. It was written by series creators Marcelo Adnet and Marcius Melhem, and directed by Maurício Farias.
This episode received generally positive reviews from critics, particularly for the writing and the parodies. According to Ibope, the episode were watched by 3.03 million viewers during their original broadcast in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two major advertising markets in Brazil.
Production
Development
On January 28, 2013, comedian Marcelo Adnet is hired by TV Globo, after leaving the MTV Brasil.
His first program, O Dentista Mascarado, created by Fernanda Young and Alexandre Machado, had low ratings, which resulted in its cancellation after 12 episodes. After the end of the program, Adnet was added to the cast of Fantástico, producing parody and entertainment blocks. However, he eventually left the program later.
Later, TV Globo asked Marcius Melhem, who had just finished Os Caras de Pau, produces a comedy show starring Adnet. Melhem created a sketches program, but with a different style from the other programs of this format in Brazil, very similar to TV Pirata, satirical series that made a success on TV Globo in the 1980s.
Release
The premiere took place on April 10, 2014, proceeding Doce de Mãe, composing the third slot of Thursday shows, which is usually displayed between 11:30 PM–12:30 AM.
Cast
Reception
Ratings
In its original airing on the Globo network, the first episode of Tá no Ar acquired a 10.0 Ibope Rating and 24,4 percent share of the audience, considering the measurement to Greater São Paulo. It was viewed in approximately 620,000 homes, considering that in the 2014-15 season, one point equals 62,000 homes. In terms of total viewers, the episode was watched by 1.93 million. In the 2014-15 season, each point represents 193.281 viewers. In Rio, the second largest advertising market in Brazil, the episode acquired an 11.0 Ibope Rating. Approximately 429,000 households and 1.1 million viewers watched the episode. This hearing is considered "satisfactory".
Critical
The debut of the series was well received by critics. Fernando Oliveira, of R7, labeled it "best premiere", and highlighted the satires and references to other programs. Mauricio Stycer, of Universo Online (UOL), was positive, and highlighted the parody of a northeastern activist.
References
Tá no Ar
2014 television episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode%207%20%28T%C3%A1%20no%20Ar%29 | The seventh episode of the Brazilian situation comedy Tá no Ar originally aired on the Globo Network on Thursday night, May 22, 2014. It was written by series creators Marcelo Adnet and Marcius Melhem, and directed by Maurício Farias.
The episode received negative reviews from the public by the sequence of "Christians" which satirizes the stereotypes that surround religion, as the payment of tithes and gospel teachings. According to Ibope, the episode were watched by 1.52 million viewers during their original broadcast in Greater São Paulo area.
Cast
Marcelo Adnet
Marcius Melhem
Danton Mello
Carol Portes
Georgiana Góes
Luana Martau
Maurício Rizzo
Márcio Vito
Renata Gaspar
Verônica Debom
Welder Rodrigues
Reception
Ratings
In its original airing on the Globo network, the seventh episode of Tá no Ar acquired an 8.2 Ibope Rating. This indicates that about 508.400 homes and 1.52 million viewers in the Greater São Paulo watched this episode. The episode finished second in its time slot behind A Praça é Nossa, which registered 9.0 rating.
Controversy
A sequence of this episode that parodies the opening of Friends caused controversy. The satire, titled "Christians", lampooning stereotypes involving religion, as the payment of tithes and gospel teachings. On final scene, the cast members sing the song "Pago o dízimo/10% para o pastor" (parody to the chorus "I'll be there for you / when the rain starts to pour"). The parody was met with negative criticism from the Evangelical Protestants public, which felt "offended" and "angry" on social networks. In response, Marcius Melhem, in an interview to Universo Online (UOL), said he did not believe the negative comments are representative to the evangelical public in general. "We joke with all religions. We joke, not offended," he added.
References
Tá no Ar
2014 television episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode%2010%20%28T%C3%A1%20no%20Ar%29 | The tenth episode of the Brazilian situation comedy Tá no Ar, first of the second season, premiered on the Globo Network on Thursday night, February 12, 2015. It was written by series creators Marcelo Adnet and Marcius Melhem, and directed by Maurício Farias.
This episode received generally positive reviews from critics, particularly for the writing and the parodies, besides music played at the end. According to Ibope, the episode were watched by 4.79 million viewers during their original broadcast in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two major advertising markets in Brazil.
Cast
Reception
Ratings
In its original airing on the Globo network, the tenth episode of Tá no Ar acquired a 13.8 Ibope Rating. This indicates that about 978,015 households and 2.6 million viewers watched this episode in Greater São Paulo. In Rio, the second largest advertising market in Brazil, the episode acquired 20.0 Ibope Rating. This means that 845,000 homes and 2.19 million people watched.
Critical
This episode received generally positive reviews from critics. Renato Kramer, of Folha de S. Paulo, praised the episode, saying "Tá no Ar came back to stay".
References
Tá no Ar
2015 television episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20Tank%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Shark Tank is an Australian reality competition television series that premiered on 8 February 2015 and aired until 7 August 2018 on Network Ten, in which aspiring entrepreneur-contestants made business presentations to a panel of "Shark" investors. Shark Tank was filmed at Fox Studios Australia.
Four seasons of the program were aired. It was announced on 31 October 2018 that the show would not return for a fifth season in 2019.
In March 2023, it was announced the series would return to Network 10 later in the year, with a new panel of investors to be confirmed, and will be produced by Curio Pictures. On 22 March 2023, Network 10 announced the new panel of investors. The fifth season premiered on 29 August 2023.
Season overview
Overview
Hosted by Sarah Harris, the show featured a panel of multimillionaire investors called "Sharks" who listened to entrepreneurs pitch businesses or products they wished to develop. If one or more Sharks were interested, investment deals could be made on the show. However, if all sharks declined, contestants left with nothing. A 2018 investigation by Fairfax Media revealed that during the 2017 season, fifty pitches resulted in twenty-seven deals, of which only four actually closed.
Shark Tank has been described as demonstrating "the drama of pitch meetings and the interaction between the entrepreneurs and tycoons." Sharks were compensated for their participation but invested their own money.
History
Shark Tank was the second Australian series to be based on the show format. A previous unsuccessful adaptation, Dragons' Den (2005), aired on the Seven Network.
Shark Tank premiered on 8 February 2015 and aired 15 episodes through to 7 June 2015 with a regular timeslot of 8:00pm Sunday. It was renewed for a second season in the season finale. Season 2 premiered in 2016 with Glen Richards replacing John McGrath as a panelist. The series was renewed for a third season that began airing on 20 June 2017.
Timeline of sharks
Season ratings
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
2015 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
2023 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian reality television series
2020s Australian reality television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Business-related television series
Australian television series based on Japanese television series
Australian television series based on American television series
Australian television series revived after cancellation
Shark Tank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20P.%20Mesirov | Jill P. Mesirov is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist who is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. She previously held an adjunct faculty position at Boston University and was the associate director and chief informatics officer at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Education
Mesirov did her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and earned a doctorate in mathematics from Brandeis University in 1974, under the supervision of Richard Palais.
Research and career
Her research concerns high-performance computing. Effective July 1, 2015, she has been appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.
She has worked at the University of California, Berkeley, the American Mathematical Society, Thinking Machines Corporation, and IBM before joining the Whitehead Institute of MIT in 1997, which eventually became part of the Broad Institute. She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1989 to 1991. She served on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) from 2017 to 2021.
Awards and honors
Mesirov became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996. In 2012, she was elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2012, and one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.
Publications
(co-ed.) Mathematical Approaches to Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, avec Klaus Schulten et De Witt Sumners, Springer, 254p.
(coll.) Research in Computational Molecular Biology, 9th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2005, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 14–18, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, 632p.
Very Large Scale Computing in the 21st Century, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, 1991, 345p.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women mathematicians
American women computer scientists
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Brandeis University alumni
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pari%20%27Koy | 'Koy (International title: My Holy Bro / ) is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Dingdong Dantes in the title role. It premiered on March 9, 2015, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing More Than Words. The series concluded on August 21, 2015, with a total of 118 episodes. It was replaced by Marimar in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Father Kokoy has to leave San Augustine and move to a chapel somewhere in Manila. As he starts his journey, he will get attached to the people and will eventually learn that he has a child "Pinggoy" with her ex-girlfriend, Michelle.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Jericho "Kokoy" Evangelista
Supporting cast
David Remo as Paul "Pinggoy" Ramos-Evangelista
Sunshine Dizon as Noemi Espiritu-Cruz
Chanda Romero as Martha Buenavista
Gabby Eigenmann as Jude Banal
Luz Valdez as Esther San Pablo
Dexter Doria as Salome Marasigan Espiritu
Jillian Ward as Sarah Espiritu Cruz
Jeric Gonzales as Eli Marasigan
JC Tiuseco as Timoteo "Timo" Espiritu
Carlo Gonzales as Simon Cruz
Rap Fernandez as Solomon "Sol" Castillo
Hiro Peralta as Samuel "Sam" Evangelista Jr.
Lindsay De Vera as Ava Buenavista
Jojit Lorenzo as Tomas Sacramento
Jhiz Deocareza as Japet Lazaro
Catherine Remperas as Maggie Tadeo-Espiritu
Recurring cast
Victor Neri as Matthew
Martin del Rosario as Jeremy
Spanky Manikan as Manuel Evangelista
Carla Abellana as Michelle Capistrano-Banal
Guest cast
Rita De Guzman as Joanna
Jak Roberto as Omar
Kris Bernal as Regine
Mark Herras as James
Andrea del Rosario as Melba
Leandro Baldemor as Daniel
Antone Lingeco as Melba and Daniel's son
Sheena Halili as Linda
Mike Tan as Dindo
Angie Ferro as Josie
Bon Vivar as Manuel
Vincent Magbanua as Abel
Kiel Rodriguez as Jojo
Will Ashley de Leon as Joshua Banal
Jayvhot Galang as Rihanna
Lee Jairus Gulilat as Arida
Shelly Hipolito as Ruthy
Joshua Uy as Marky Evangelista
Ken Alfonso as Ram
Paul Holmes as Zack
Alden Richards as young Kokoy
Jackie Lou Blanco as Kokoy's mother
Julia Lee as Jezza
Aaron Yanga as Anton
Tommy Abuel as John
Jaime Fabregas as Zachary
Maricel Morales as Alicia
Carme Sanchez as Maria
Michael Angelo Lobrin as Stephen
Mike Jovida as Nehem
Barbara Miguel as Daniella
Tanya Gomez as Daniella's mother
Louise delos Reyes as Beth
Frencheska Farr as Miriam
Sheila Marie Rodriguez as Nena
Francheska Salcedo as Mimay
Marita Zobel as Conchita Banal
Odette Khan as Delia Cruz
Arny Ross as Rhoda
Marco Alcaraz as Bart
Andrea Torres as Leila Romero
Nora Aunor as Lydia del Rosario
Orlando Sol as Joel del Rosario
Marian Rivera as a pregnant woman
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of 'Koy earned a 22.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 24.7% rating. The series had its highest rating on August 12, 2015, with a 25.1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrie%20multiplier | The Petrie multiplier is a thought experiment
or mathematical model
invented by British computer scientist Karen Petrie, and first described by Ian Gent in 2013.
The multiplier "shows that if the percentage of men and women in the room who make questionable remarks to the other sex is equal, then the average number of sexist remarks experienced by members of one party scales by the square of the proportion of one party to the other.
Mathematical formulation
Gent defined the multiplier in the following terms:
The Petrie multiplier corresponds to Lanchester's square law in battle and predator–prey dynamics.
Expanded model
The model assumes that men and women are equally sexist. Further, each sexist remark made by a man is assumed to randomly target one of the women and vice versa. A more complex analysis published in the Journal of Physics A modeled heterogeneous levels of sexism by assuming each person to make sexist remarks according to an independent Poisson process, maintaining the assumption that each sexist remark is directed to an individual of the opposite sex. Under these conditions the Petrie multiplier takes the form .
The Petrie multiplier has not been the subject of any empirical study.
However, one commentator used a Monte Carlo simulation to eliminate the assumption that people have a fixed number of sexist remarks to make, and found that women suffer from overwhelmingly more sexism in an environment where both genders are equally sexist.
Another probabilistic analysis found that the multiplier seemed to hold and suggested that the disparity could be even worse than quadratic.
References
Sexism
Women in computing
Thought experiments in ethics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Gent | Ian Gent is a British computer scientist working in the area of artificial intelligence and specialising in the area of constraint programming. He is a professor at the University of St Andrews. He (along with Toby Walsh) first wrote about the phase transition in many NP complete problems, in particular SAT. He was also one of the first researchers to investigate full generic methods to handle symmetry in constraint programming.
Gent founded recomputation.org, to promote reproducible experiments in computer science.
He was one of the founders of the csplib.org website, and popularised the Petrie Multiplier.
In January 2013 Gent founded the blog Depressed Academics with Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson.
References
External links
Living people
Academics of the University of St Andrews
British computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Service%20Oriented%20Computing | The International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, short ICSOC, is an annual conference providing an outstanding forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in service-oriented computing.
ICSOC has an 'A' rating from the Excellence in Research in Australia (ERA). Calls for Papers are regularly published on WikiCFP and on the conference website. The conference is also listed in Elsevier's Global Events List.
ICSOC applies high standards on its annual Committee Selection Process and requires all committee members and conference participants to follow its Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless and mobile computing, cloud computing, networking, scientific workflows, services science, management science, and software engineering. Since 2007 ICSOC operates under the auspices of the Scientific Academy for Service Technology e.V. (ServTech), a non-profit association located in Potsdam, Germany. Traditionally the ICSOC venue changes from year to year between Europe, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific Rim. Except for 2004, all conference proceedings were published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Up to ICSOC 2015, the proceedings listed below are openly accessible. For later issues, the date in parentheses specifies when open access will become effective.
Locations and organizers
Steering committee members
Boualem Benatallah (since 2008)
Athman Bouguettaya (since 2020)
Fabio Casati (2003-2022)
Paco Curbera (2003-2013)
Asit Dan (2007-2013)
Bernd Krämer (since 2007)
Winfried Lamersdorf (since 2012)
Heiko Ludwig (2013-2022)
Mike Papazoglou (since 2003, chair)
Paolo Traverso (2003-2013)
Jian Yang (since 2013)
Liang Zhang (since 2013)
Proceedings
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20984-0
Service-Oriented Computing - 20th International Conference,
ICSOC 2022,
Javier Troya, Brahim Medjahed, Mario Piattini, Lina Yao, Pablo Fernández, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés (eds)
Seville, Spain, November 29 – December 2, 2022.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13740, Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
, Volume 13740
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91431-8
Service-Oriented Computing - 19th International Conference,
ICSOC 2021,
Hacid, H., Kao, O., Mecella, M., Moha, N., Paik, H. (eds)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 22–25, 2021.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13121, Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
, Volume 13121
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-65310-1
Service-Oriented Computing - 18th International Conference,
ICSOC 2020,
Kafeza, E., Benatallah, B., Martinelli, F., Hacid, H., Bouguettaya, A., Motahari, H. (eds)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 14–17, 2020.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12571, Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
, Volume 12 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Life%20%28TV%20series%29 | Second Life (), is a 2015 television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The first episode premiered on February 23, 2015.
Cast
Wilfred Lau as Cheung Yuk-jit
Terence Yin as Owen Gin
Bondy Chiu as Joyce Chu
Maggie Wong as young Joyce Chu
Ann Ho as Yue Yue
Cherry Pau as young Yue Yue
Patrick Lui as Ho Zin-hou
Joey Tang as Leung Ka-bou
Ricksen Tam as young Leung Ka-bou
Nick Chong as Brandon Cheung
Kwok Fung as Cheung Kai-gam
Bonnie Wong as Wong Lai-fan
Maria Chen as Chan Sau-han
Rocky Chan as Will Leung
Emily Wong as Angel
Anita Chan as Charlie Kwan
Wong Ching as Chu Bak-gin
Mannor Chan as Sam Mei-jan
Lo Hoi-pang as Hung Fung
Luvin Ho as reporter, episode 5
Song list
"伴妳一生" by Terence Yin
"知錯" by Wilfred Lau
References
External links
Official website
Hong Kong Television Network original programming
2015 Hong Kong television series debuts
2010s Hong Kong television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Menu%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Menu (), is a 2015 television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The series is starred by Noel Leung, Catherine Chau, Kate Yeung and Gregory Wong, written by Pun Man-hung and directed by Ben Fong. The first episode premiered on 10 March 10, 2015. The plot revolves around the newspaper business.
The sequel was released on 4 August 2016 as a film.
Cast
Noel Leung as Alma Wong, Chief Editor for Smart Post
Janice Ting as young Alma Wong
Catherine Chau as Fong Ying, News Editor for Smart Post
Kate Yeung as Mallory Mak, Junior Reporter for Smart Post
Gregory Wong as Lok Ka-fai
Shek Sau as Eric Cheung, Alma's divorced husband
Sam Chan as young Eric Cheung
Benji Chiang as Kenny Wong
Kwok Fung as Kwan Chi-wai
Felix Lok as Simon Ting
Dexter Young as Mok Wun-choi, News Editor for Smart Post
Anita Chan as Emily Yuen
Lee Fung as Ho Lai-wan
Brian Wong as Sou Man-hong, a police officer and Fong Ying's friend
Cherry Pau as Winnie Chow
Rachel Lam as Noel Lee
Homan Ho as Sam, Alma's assistant
Jones Lee as Shek Chun-yin, Fong Ying's ex-boyfriend
Alan Luk as Fu Wing-hang, episode 5 to 8
Yu Mo-lin as Hang Mou, episode 5 to 8
Wong Man-piu as Daniel Wan
Eddie Li as Calvin, Simon's assistant
Wu Kwing-lung as Wong Chi-fat, Kenny Wong's triad brother
Leung Kin-ping as KY
Chan On-ying as Yiu Yuk-ling, Mallory's mother
Kong Fai as Ryan Ka, ICAC investigator
Luvin Ho as Siu Yin-wah, ICAC investigator, episode 12
Kathy Yuen as Flora Lau, Lok Ka-fai's ex-girlfriend
Candy Chu episode 14
Maggie Wong as Venus Cheung, Eric's daughter
Oscar Chan as Chris Li, Venus's husband
Eunice Ho as Katie Yung
Casper Chan as CID, episode 20
Mizz Eva as Ng Hei-tung, episode 23 and 24
Production
Filming started on 28 January 2013 and ended on 24 August 2013.
Sequel
Filming for the sequel started on 1 December 1, 2015 and was released on 4 August 2016. With Noel Leung leaving the cast, The Menu the film starred Gregory Wong, Catherine Chau, Kate Yeung and Ng Man-tat.
References
External links
Official website
Hong Kong Television Network original programming
2015 Hong Kong television series debuts
2010s Hong Kong television series
Television series about journalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefesh%20%28disambiguation%29 | Nefesh or Nephesh may refer to:
A Hebrew word for soul
A Semitic monument placed near a grave so as to be seen from afar
Nefesh (group) A networking organization for Torah-observant mental health professionals
Nefesh B'Nefesh, an organization that promotes Aliyah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiDoc | DigiDoc (Digital Document) is a family of digital signature- and cryptographic computing file formats utilizing a public key infrastructure. It currently has three generations of sub formats, DDOC- , a later binary based BDOC and currently used ASiC-E format that is supposed to replace the previous generation formats. DigiDoc was created and is developed and maintained by RIA (Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet, Information System Authority of Estonia).
The format is used to legally sign and optionally encrypt file(s) like text documents as part of electronic transaction. All operations are done using a national id card, a hardware token, that has a chip with digital PKI certificates to verify a person's signature mathematically. Signed file is a container holding actual signed, unmodified files and hence operation does not require any support from software that created those files.
Format container and its signatures can be created using application like qDigiDoc or a web service with user's web browser with signing extension. When an application is used, container is typically exchanged between signing parties as an email attachment until everyone has signed it and have their own complete copy.
Web services also utilize identity cards for session authentication using an authentication certificate which is also stored on the id-card.
Technical description
DigiDoc container contains actual files and metadata, including a hash that represents those files. When signing, software sends content hash using standardised PKCS 11 interface to the user's id-card. After verifying the user's PIN, id-card signs the hash internally and returns a signature which is then stored into DigiDoc container.
During the signing, the certificate validity of each signing party is checked, and a signed timestamp is retrieved, using an OCSP service. The signed timestamp makes it possible to prove later at what time a document was signed (as the timestamp is derived from the document hash) and that each signing certificate was not in certificate revocation list at the time of signing. Any signatures prior to the revocation are still valid (therefore, documents do not have to be resigned when the user receives new certificates).
ASiC-E
ASiC-E (Associated Signature Containers) and its extended variant is the latest DigiDoc container format. Used file extension is .asice.
BDOC
BDOC (Binary Document), of which the latest version is 2.1, is based on ETSI's ASiC signature container standards. It is official Estonian national standard EVS 821:2014. Files use the .bdoc file extension.
DDOC
DDOC (Digical document) is the first generation DigiDoc format. Files use the .ddoc file extension.
Software
The most widely used application is the qDigiDoc graphical desktop software that runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX and on various Linux distributions. qDigiDoc is Open Source Software that can be freely downloaded and installed. Applications also exist for Apple iPad tablet dev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcius%20Melhem | Marcius Melhem (; born February 8, 1972), is a Brazilian actor, humorist, contributing editor, comedian and voice actor mostly known for his work at Rede Globo, the largest television network in Brazil. He also works as a writer of television programs and author of plays. In 2018, he became head of the comedy department of Rede Globo, and was the one who wrote the most for that area.
Biography
Melhem has a degree in journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a director of journalism at Agência Leia de Notícias, which produced content in real time for the domestic financial market.
One of his most well-known works on television was the comedy show Os Caras de Pau, which aired from 2010 to 2013.
In late 2019, Melhem retired from his career for "personal reasons". One of his daughters needed severe health care. On August 14, 2020, his seventeen-year old contract with Rede Globo ends by mutual agreement. Globo thanks Melhem for the seventeen-year old of success. He is being accused of sexual assault by multiple women in an ongoing investigation. By February of 2022, eight more women came forward.
Filmography
Television
Films
Theater
Awards and nominations
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References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Brazilian male comedians
Brazilian male film actors
Brazilian male television actors
People from Nilópolis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita%20Mu%C3%B1oz | María Margarita Muñoz Parra (September 18, 1987 in Pitalito, Huila, Colombia) is a Colombian model and actress who has participated in soap operas for television networks like Caracol TV, RCN, TV Azteca, Televisa and Telemundo.
Biography
She lived in her farm in Pitalito, in this city she studied primary in the School of Presentation and part of her secondary education at the Liceo Andaki. Her dream of becoming a Colombian television made from 13 years for the city of Bogotá. She studied at the school of Julio César Luna.
Personal life
On February 23, 2013 she married the Argentine actor Michel Brown in the Archipelago of San Bernardo, Cartagena, Colombia.
Career
She began her career in television commercial recording, her manager is John Ceballos. She quickly joined the 2004 at age 16 the cast of the soap opera Caracol TV, El auténtico Rodrigo Leal where she played Valentina Manzur, a naughty little girl who wants attention regardless the consequences, demonstrating its sensuality and leaving a sigh in more than a man. In this production is interfered between the protagonists, Rodrigo and Carmen, played by Martin Karpans and Carolina Gómez papers, and holds an affair with Cesar, the character actor Juan Pablo Llano.
In 2005 popularity rose enough to join the cast as a young protagonist of the successful novel RCN, Los Reyes, which plays Pilar Valenzuela, better known as The Pilarica or The Goddess Crowned, a studious and serious young woman of high social class that is committed to Santiago Iriarte (Daniel Arenas) who is her boyfriend and belongs to a recognized millionaire family, but ends in love with Leo Reyes (Julián Román) simple mechanical neighbor. This year was chosen for the first time among the most beautiful in the Colombian Television magazine TV y Novelas publishing group Televisa.
On 1 October 2007 tore the recordings of the new Co-Production channel RCN Television and Televisa called The Clan of the Deceived in which Margarita was the protagonist, the recordings were made in the city of Miami and among the cast also included the Peruvian actresses Maricielo Effio and Alexandra Grana. This novel was released simultaneously in the United States, Mexico and Colombia, thus leading to Margarita international recognition.
In 2009 was the villain of the soap opera Niños ricos, pobres padres of RTI Colombia to Telemundo where Margarita Dominguez played Isabella, a wealthy 17-year-old maintains a bad temper and always likes to demonstrate her power. This was the first production of Margarita in Singapore, which the consolidated internationally and in which it was shown that its role quite like. She worked with players of great experience like Fabiola Campomanes, Aylin Mujica, Didier van der Hove, Gabriel Valenzuela among others; and the new talents of Colombian television, Carmen Villalobos, Juan Sebastian Caicedo, Margarita Vega and Javier Jattin.
In 2010 starred in the production of Caracol TV, Secretos de familia which represe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20sort%20order | In computing, natural sort order (or natural sorting) is the ordering of strings in alphabetical order, except that multi-digit numbers are treated atomically, i.e., as if they were a single character. Natural sort order has been promoted as being more human-friendly ("natural") than machine-oriented, pure alphabetical sort order.
For example, in alphabetical sorting, "z11" would be sorted before "z2" because the "1" in the first string is sorted as smaller than "2", while in natural sorting "z2" is sorted before "z11" because "2" is treated as smaller than "11".
Alphabetical sorting:
z11
z2
Natural sorting:
z2
z11
Functionality to sort by natural sort order is now widely available in software libraries for many programming languages. During the 1996 MacHack conference, the Natural Order Mac OS System Extension was conceived and implemented overnight on-site as an entry for the Best Hack contest. Dave Koelle wrote the Alphanum Algorithm in 1997 and Martin Pool published Natural Order String Comparison in 2000.
References
Collation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American%20women%20in%20computer%20science | African-American women in computer science were among early pioneers in computing in the United States, and there are notable African-American women working in computer science.
History
African-American women were hired as mathematicians to do technical computing needed to support aeronautical and other research. They included such women as Katherine G. Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, who had careers of decades at NASA. Among Johnson's projects was calculating the flight path for the United States' first mission into space in 1961. She is credited as co-author of 26 scientific papers. The practice in 1960 was to list only the head of the division as author. The crediting of Johnson as an author in a peer-reviewed NASA report is significant.
Black women were also among the ENIAC programmers, who programmed the first digital computer for the US Army. Their stories have not been documented. Given the dearth of information regarding the contributions of women in early computer science, it is likely that other Black women have made significant contributions to computer science and society.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) was founded in 1947, but computer science developed later as an academic field. In 1969, Clarence "Skip" Ellis became the first Black man to earn a doctorate degree in computer science. In 1981, Deborah Washington Brown became the first Black woman to earn a doctorate degree in computer science (then part of the applied mathematics program) from Harvard University. A year later, in 1982 Marsha R. Williams further integrated the field when she earned her doctorate degree in computer science.
In the mid-1980s, the representation of women in computer science peaked at approximately 40%. The decline in the representation of women has been attributed by some analysts to the increased marketing of personal computers and video games to boys.
There has been a decline in women of all races in computing in the United States; the representation of Black women in the field has continued to be lower than that of white female peers. For example, in 1985 when the number of women in computing was at a high, 77% of the related degrees were earned by White women, while fewer than 8% were earned by Black women. In 2002, 1.3% of the computer science doctorate degrees earned were awarded to Black women. In 2017, two female computer scientists Timnit Gebru and Rediet Abebe founded the workshop Black in AI, in order to help increases the presence and inclusion of Black people in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Statistics
The representation of black women in computer science has been historically low. The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) reports the following data:
Between 1977 and 2013 (the years in which data has been recorded by the NCES), the greatest number of Black women to earn a doctorate degree in computer science in one year was 10 (2008).
In 2012, the Computing Research Association (CRA) T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Lynn%20Harris | Gary Lynn Harris (born 1953) was a professor of electrical engineering at Howard University and director of that school's National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network facility. His research involved semiconductor fabrication of electronic and optical materials. He was one of the first two African Americans to receive a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University, along with Michael Spencer.
Life
Gary Lynn Harris received a B.S. in 1975, and an M.S. in 1976, for electrical engineering. From 1977 to 1980, he was an associate with the National Research and Resource Facility for Sumicron Structures (NRRFSS). From 1981 to 1982, he was a visiting scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory. In 1980 he became an associate professor at Howard University. In 1984 he became a consultant to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Harris remained a professor of electrical engineering at Howard University. He directed the school's National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network node, one of 14 in the nation. He was Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Provost for Research at Howard. Dr. Gary Harris died on Monday, October 26, 2020.
Notable works
References
1953 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Howard University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIC | DWIC (93.3 FM) was a radio station owned and operated by Bombo Radyo Philippines through its licensee Newsounds Broadcasting Network, Inc. It was formerly known as Star FM from its inception on June 29, 1992, to March 31, 2004, when it went off air due to financial losses. The frequency is currently owned by ACWS-United Broadcasting Network.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan
Radio stations established in 1992
Radio stations established in 2004
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Time%20Regional%20Gateway | The Real Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG) is a data processing and data mining system introduced in 2007 by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and deployed during the American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is able to store, fuse, search and analyze data from numerous sources, from intercepted communications to open source information. It was effective in providing information about Iraqi insurgents who had eluded less comprehensive techniques.
Development
The prototype of the Real Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG) was designed by the military and intelligence contractor SAIC. Instead of storing all data in centralized databases, as was NSA's traditional approach, RT-RG uses distributed computing, which means hundreds or even thousands of individual computers work together on one task.
This is managed by the Hadoop software, that was originally developed by Yahoo. The NSA created its own version, called Accumulo, which can manage extremely large data sets and also includes granular access controls. The successor of the Real Time Regional Gateway is named Nexus 7 and is now under development at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
At NSA the driving force behind the system was former NSA director Keith B. Alexander, who initiated a massive search for every piece of electronic information that could be found, after the Iraqi road side bombings reached an all-time high in 2005. Alexander's "collect it all" strategy is believed by Glenn Greenwald to be the model for the comprehensive worldwide mass collection of communications which NSA is supposedly engaged in.
Origins and deployment in Iraq
Under the secret interception programs that were started right after the September 11 attacks, which were codenamed STELLARWIND, the NSA got access to foreign communications at the switching points where international fiber-optic cables entered the United States. This enabled NSA not only to monitor many communications from Iraq, but also to initiate cyber attacks against Iraqi telephone and computer equipment.
When the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 began, the NSA exported this all-encompassing way of intelligence gathering and analysing to Iraq. As its name describes, the Real Time Regional Gateway was a gateway through which all sorts of information related to one region (Iraq) became available to analysts and soldiers in real time and they could search the data similar to a search-engine like Google.
The RT-RG derived its data from all kinds of sources, like raids, interrogations, and signal intelligence collected from ground sensors, as well as by airborne platforms like the RC-135 Rivet Joint and C-12 Huron aircraft, and SIGINT drones and satellites. With the RT-RG, field commanders and intelligence analysts in the field were for the first time able to directly access NSA databases, making that intercepted data were ten times faster available on the ground than in the past. On a screen they were provided with "every ty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.0%20%28Big%20Data%20album%29 | 2.0 is the debut studio album by American electronic music band Big Data. It was released on March 20, 2015 under Warner Bros. Records. From the album, two singles have been released; titled "Dangerous" featuring indie rock band Joywave and "The Business of Emotion" featuring White Sea.
The album peaked at 75 on the Billboard 200 chart.
This song "Clean" featuring Jamie Lidell featured in Konami video game, Pro Evolution Soccer 2017; "The Business of Emotion" was re-recorded in Simlish for the video game The Sims 4. "Dangerous" was used in MLB 14: The Show and ads for TD Insurance in Canada.
Track listing
All songs produced by Alan Wilkis.
References
2015 debut albums
Big Data (band) albums
Warner Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20database | The Clara database of women artists was a database named after Clara Peeters that was created and operated by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It contained biographical information on 18,000 women visual artists of all time periods and nationalities. The information was drawn primarily from materials in NMWA's own archives, but various portraits used to document the entries were obtained from other libraries in the NMWA's network. The Clara database was maintained from 2008 to 2012 but is no longer being updated. It is accessible on the Wayback Machine. Some of the artist profiles from the database are now a featured component on the NMWA website.
The name was chosen because two of Clara's works that had been purchased by Wilhelmina Holladay formed the beginning of the museum's collection.
References
The Clara database
Open-access archives
Women artists
Arts databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactDAQ | CompactDAQ is a data acquisition platform built by National Instruments that includes a broad set of compatible hardware and software. CompactDAQ integrates hardware for data I/O with LabVIEW software to enable engineers to collect, process and analyse sensor data. CompactDAQ systems are less expensive than equivalent systems within the NI PXI Platform.
Hardware
CompactDAQ systems are managed by a chassis controller module, which controls data transfer between up-to 8 I/O modules and a PC. The chassis controller contains a timing controller that synchronizes data acquisition from all connected I/O modules. The following types of chassis controllers are available:
USB Chassis - designed for small, portable, mixed-measurement systems on the benchtop or in the field
Ethernet Chassis - ideal for distributed measurement systems in locations where Ethernet networking infrastructure already exists
Wireless Chassis - zero configuration setup over Wi-Fi and support for over 50 measurement-specific modules
CompactDAQ systems connect to sensors via wired or wireless I/O modules, connected to a chassis controller. Currently only NI C Series modules are compatible with the CompactDAQ platform. Modules are available with analog inputs and outputs for various sensor and signal types, digital inputs and outputs, built-in signal conditioning and ADCs, and most modules provide electrical isolation.
Software
Sensor data is collected and analyzed using compatible PC software such as LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Measurement Studio and SignalExpress, also built by National Instruments. Application programming interfaces are also available for C/C++, and .NET languages such as C#.
LabVIEW integrates with CompactDAQ chassis controller hardware to connect to physical sensor or signal data sources. LabVIEW can also connect to oscilloscopes and USB DAQ systems using the Measurement and Automation eXplorer (MAX) LabVIEW component.
In LabVIEW, virtual instruments can be configured and simulated, in order to test data processing when physical hardware is not available. The Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA) is the back-end component that manages communication between LabVIEW and CompactDAQ hardware.
NI SignalExpress LE is provided with every chassis controller for basic data logging and analysis. NI SignalExpress is a Microsoft Windows application that provides features for acquiring, analyzing, and displaying data from compatible data acquisition devices and instruments.
See also
CompactRIO
References
External links
NI CompactDAQ
Real-time computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat | Voat Inc (; styled VOΛT) was an American alt-tech news aggregator and social networking service where registered community members could submit content such as text posts and direct links. Registered users could then vote on these submissions. Content entries were organized by areas of interest called "subverses". The website was widely described as a Reddit clone and a hub for the alt-right. Voat CEO Justin Chastain made an announcement on December 22, 2020 that Voat would shut down. The site was shut down on December 25, 2020.
Overview
Voat was a site which hosted aggregated content and discussion forums. According to Wired, Voat was "aesthetically and functionally similar to Reddit." Like Reddit, Voat was a collection of entries submitted by its registered users to themed categories (called "subverses" on Voat) similar to a bulletin board system. Unlike Reddit, Voat emphasized looser content restrictions and an ad-revenue sharing program. Voat was written in the C# programming language, while Reddit is written in Python.
Voat was described by media outlets including Quartz, The New York Times, New York, and the US and UK editions of Wired, as a hub for the alt-right. The site was also widely described as a clone of Reddit, or sometimes dubbed "the alt-right Reddit". In a January 2017 New Yorker article, Voat was described as a descendant of 2chan, 4chan, and 8chan, where users compete for shock value. The Verge described the site as "Imzys dark twin", in that both were indirect products of the Gamergate culture war. The site has also been described by The Verge as a model for other "censorship-free" alt-tech services, including Gab, Parler, and Hatreon.
The name "Voat" is a play on the words 'goat' and 'vote'. The site's mascot is a goat. The website used the American top level domain, .co, and was registered in November 2019.
Company and funding
Founded in April 2014 as WhoaVerse, the website was a hobby project of Atif Colo (known on Voat as @Atko), then a college student. He was later joined by Justin Chastain (known as @PuttItOut on Voat). The website has been labelled as an alternative to Reddit with a focus on freedom of expression. In December 2014, WhoaVerse changed its name to Voat for ease of use.
Although Voat was based in Switzerland, Voat became incorporated in the United States in August 2015. Colo explained in a post announcing the incorporation that this was because "Switzerland seemed like a great option in the beginning, but when it comes to freedom of speech, the main idea behind Voat, U.S. law by far beats every other candidate country we’ve researched." Following a large influx of users from Reddit in July 2015, Voat's operators were approached by investors interested in funding the project, though they said they "hadn't had the time to talk" about the offers.
In January 2017, Colo resigned as CEO of Voat, citing a lack of time available to devote to the site. Colo was replaced as CEO by Chastain.
Shutdown
In May |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Miller%20%28angler%29 | Peter Miller is a professional angler and three-time sailfish tournament world champion. Miller is the host of Bass 2 Billfish on the NBC Sports Network, which is in its 6th season. Miller has filmed Bass 2 Billfish in collaboration with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, including a two-part episode that premiered in January-February 2015. Other notable episodes of Bass 2 Billfish include a two-part episode filmed with the Florida Army National Guard, which premiered in February, 2015. Miller was chosen by Florida Governor Rick Scott to be part of the "Sportsman for Scott" Coalition which supports the rights of hunters and fishers in Florida.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American fishers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved%20deltas | Interleaved deltas, or SCCS weave is a method used by the Source Code Control System to store all revisions of a file. All lines from all revisions are "woven" together in a single block of data, with interspersed control instructions indicating which lines are included in which revisions of the file. Interleaved deltas are traditionally implemented with line oriented text files in mind, although nothing prevents the method from being applied to binary files as well.
Interleaved deltas were first implemented by Marc Rochkind in the SCCS in 1975. Its design makes all versions available at the same time, so that it takes the same time to retrieve any revision. It also contains sufficient information to identify the author of each line (blaming) in one block. On the other hand, because all revisions for a file are parsed, every operation grows slower as more revisions are added. The term interleaved delta was coined later in 1982 by Walter F. Tichy, author of the Revision Control System, which compares the SCCS weave to his new reverse delta mechanism in RCS.
Implementation in SCCS
In SCCS, the following weave block
^AI 1
^AD 2
foo
^AE 2
bar
^AI 2
baz
^AE 2
^AE 1
represents a file that contains the lines "foo" and "bar" in the first release and the lines "bar" and "baz" in the second revision. The string "^A" denotes a control-A character.
The control lines in the interleaved delta block have the following meaning:
^AI serial Start a block of lines that was inserted with the named serial number.
^AD serial Start a block of lines that was removed with the named serial number.
^AE serial Block end for a corresponding ^AI or ^AD statement that uses the same serial number.
Advantages
The time it takes to extract any revision from such an interleaved delta block is proportional to the size of the archive. The size of the archive is the sum of the size of all different lines in all revisions.
In order to extract a specific revision, an array of structures needs to be constructed, telling whether a specific block, tagged by a serial number in the interleaved deltas, will be copied to the output or not. The original SCCS implementation needs approx. 100 bytes of storage for each different serial number in the deltas in order to know how to extract a specific revision. A SCCS history file with one million deltas would thus need 100 MBytes of virtual memory to unpack. The size could be reduced by approx. 32 bytes per delta if no annotated file retrieval is needed.
The advantages of the weave method are the following:
Uniform retrieval time for all revisions of a file.
The possibility to annotate all lines of a file with revision of last change, author of last change and time of last change at no extra costs.
The possibility to merge in non-overlapping branches at no extra costs.
Software using interleaved deltas
Source Code Control System
Sun WorkShop TeamWare
BitKeeper
Bazaar intended to use interleaved deltas in 2006, b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal%3A%20A%20New%20Breed%20of%20Hero | Bilal: A New Breed of Hero is a 2015 English-language Emirati 3D computer-animated action-adventure film about the birth of Islam, produced by Barajoun Entertainment and co-directed by Khurram H. Alavi and Ayman Jamal. With a story by Jamal, the screenplay was written by Alavi, Alex Kronemer, Michael Wolfe and Yassin Kamel. With this film, Jamal aimed to depict heroes from the history of the Arabian Peninsula.
The film depicts the life of Bilal ibn Rabah, who, known for his beautiful voice, was freed from slavery and rose to a position of prominence in 632 AD. The voice cast features Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian McShane, China Anne McClain, Jacob Latimore, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Fred Tatasciore, Cynthia McWilliams, Jon Curry, Dave B. Mitchell and Michael Gross.
Bilal premiered on December 9, 2015, at the 12th Annual International Dubai Film Festival. Starting September 8, 2016, the film released throughout the MENA region. The film began an international rollout in February 2018.
Bilal won "Best Inspiring Movie" on Animation Day at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It won "Best Innovative Movie" at the BroadCast Pro Middle East Award 2016. Bilal was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2016 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the region's highest accolade for film.
Plot
Bilal lives a peaceful life with his mother and his younger sister on the outskirt of the village until the Byzantine soldiers come, enslave them, and kill his mother.
During his childhood, he is sold as a slave to the richest man in the city of Mecca, Umayyah, one of the Quraysh's leaders. While getting water for his master, he encounters Okba, another of Quraysh's leaders, who is persuading the people of Mecca to come to his shop and buy various types of idols from him, and the mysterious and masked Charlatan Priest, who tricks people to give their money to him with promises that the idols will grant them all of their desires.
In another part of the city, Safwan, Umayyah's son, is bullying Ghufaira, Bilal's sister, along with his friends and is about to shoot her with an arrow when Bilal intervenes and saves her. Umayyah hears about this from one of his merchants and reminds Bilal of his status with brutality before ordering the guards to whip him. After that, Umayyah slaps Safwan for losing to a slave and embarrassing him.
One day, Bilal meets and befriends a white horse, whom he rides until adulthood. He becomes friends with Saad, a skilled archer. On his way back to Umayyah's mansion, he stops a hungry young boy from stealing from the idol's bowl to spare him a beating from the Meccan Priest's guards. He gives the boy his own food instead. His act of kindness is seen by Abu Bakr, a man who believes in equality for everyone and sees greatness in Bilal. However, Bilal doubts him and his beliefs, unable to see a future where slaves are treated fairly. Unbeknownst to both of them, Safwan's servant had been watching them while they had their conversation.
After receiving a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QwameGaby | QwameGaby is the stage name of Gabriel Kwame, a Ghanaian gospel singer and early proponent of the Ghanaian "Gospel" genre. He is employed by Tigo, a mobile network.
Born in Accra, he began making music in his early school days. He studied at the Accra Academy School and then attended the Institute of Professional Studies, now University of Professional Studies in Accra. There he attained the CIM qualification from the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK, and is currently a Chartered Marketer
Recognition and musical style
QwameGaby began performing Ghana gospel music in June 2014 at the Kumasi Sports Stadium. His first hit single was "Wonderful God" featuring Cwesi Oteng, released in June 2014.
His second hit single was "Ogya" featuring D Black and produced by DJbreezy, released in September 2014.
Music videos
Wonderful God
Ogya
Singles
"Wonderful God featuring Cwesi Oteng".
"Ogya featuring D Black and produced by DJbreezy".
References
21st-century Ghanaian male singers
21st-century Ghanaian singers
Living people
1985 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamping%20Mill | Stamping Mill is an American experimental rock band, founded in 2009 in Northern California. The sole member of the band, who goes by the pseudonym of Joseph, composes songs using a computer program to generate musical notes randomly. The structure and collections of tones within each song are predetermined, while the sequence of notes is selected randomly and then recorded using guitars or xylophones or other instruments. This style of music, in which some element of the composition is left to chance, is known as aleatoric music. Aleatoric music is primarily associated with classical composers like John Cage and Witold Lutosławski and has only occasionally been used in the rock genre.
Stamping Mill's music is accompanied by bass, drums, and aggravated vocals that add to the disorderly arrangement. Their song structures generally exclude choruses and bridges and often include atonal sections. Stamping Mill's sound has been described as an abrasive, discordant, jarring, cacophonous blend of indie rock, metal, & punk.
Stamping Mill has released 3 EPs since 2011:
Sublevel Drift (2011)
Block Caving (2013)
Agitation Systems (2015)
References
American experimental musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202009%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2009 in music
List of number-one singles of 2009 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2009 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2009
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Vaishnavi | Vijay Kumar Vaishnavi is a noted researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field with contributions mainly in the areas of design science research, software engineering, and data structures & algorithms, authoring over 150 publications including seven books in these and related areas, and co-owning a patent. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University. He is Senior Editor Emeritus of MIS Quarterly and is on the editorial boards of a number of other major journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (through multiple multi-year research grants) as well as by the industry.
Education
After his early education at National High School, Srinagar, Vaishnavi completed his matriculation at Model Academy, Jammu in 1962 and pre-university course at GM Science College, Jammu, in 1963. He completed his B.E. degree in electrical engineering in 1968 from Regional Engineering College, Srinagar (currently National Institute of Technology, Srinagar). He completed his M.Tech. degree in electrical engineering with major in computer science in 1971, (thesis advisor: Hari V. Sahasrabudhe) and Ph.D. degree in 1975 (dissertation advisor: Sanat K. Basu), both from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He did his postdoctoral work in computer science with Derick Wood at McMaster University, 1977–79.
Professional career
Vaishnavi has mainly been on the faculty of Georgia State University and has also held faculty positions at a number of other universities in India, Canada, and the US such as Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (where he started his career); Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Concordia University; and Ohio University. He has conducted the bulk of his research and scholarly work at the Computer Information Systems (CIS) department of Georgia State University; he joined the department as an associate professor in 1981 and became a full professor in 1987, board of advisors professor in 2005, and professor emeritus in 2014. Over these years the GSU CIS department has gained considerable reputation; its research and academic programs are very highly ranked.
Honors and awards
Vaishnavi was elected as an IEEE Fellow, 2002, with the citation: "For contributions to the theory and practice of software development." He was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Conference on Design Science Research and Technology (DESRIST) in 2007 for "making significant fundamental contributions in design science research through research, leadership and mentorship." Vaishnavi has received Fulbright Fellowship twice, in 2004 (for 6 months) and in 2010 (for 6 months), for lecturing in India. As a Fulbright Fellow he was a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi (2004) and a visiting professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi (2010).
Research and scholarly work con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%20DE | RT DE (formerly RT Deutsch) was a television channel based in Moscow and Berlin. It was part of the RT network, a Russian state-controlled international television network, funded by the Russian government. The website was launched in late 2014.
After failing to secure the appropriate broadcast license, RT DE was banned in Germany in February 2022. Nonetheless, RT DE still has an accessible internet presence in Germany and offers live TV in German on its website.
History
On 6 November 2014, RT launched a German-language network.
In August 2021 Luxembourg denied a broadcast license for RT DE.
YouTube removed the station's two channels from its platform on 28 September 2021 for breaking its policies on COVID-19 misinformation. RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan urged the Russian authorities to ban German media organisations in Russia and impose sanctions against YouTube. The Russian government promised to adopt "retaliatory measures". According to Politico, RT's "German-language outlets have built an audience that leans to the political far right and is receptive to vaccine skepticism."
When a YouTube channel is removed, its owners are not allowed to create, own or use any other YouTube channels. In December 2021 RT tried to evade this restriction and created a new channel. The channel was removed.
Licensing issues
The parent organization TV Novosti tried unsuccessfully to apply for a television license in Luxembourg in June 2021. Serbia issued a permit in December. On December 16, RT DE went on the air via Eutelsat satellite and various transmission channels on the Internet. The broadcaster relies on a media directive from the Council of Europe that would entitle it to broadcast in Germany. The German supervisory authorities are not responsible because the program is produced in Moscow and broadcast from there.
One day later, on 17 December 2021, the German media regulator (MABB) launched proceedings against RT DE for broadcasting without a license. On 22 December 2021, the European satellite operator Eutelsat removed RT DE from its platform on Eutelsat 9B.
At the beginning of February 2022, RT DE announced its intention to appeal against the decision, though according to Reuters, it formally had only until the end of 2021 to respond. MABB and Germany's (ZAK) said the station needed a license meeting the terms of Germany's , because RT DE Productions GmbH is based in Berlin-Adlershof and not in Moscow. In a statement, ZAK said: "The organization and distribution of the TV program via live stream on the internet, via the mobile and smart TV app 'RT News' and via satellite must be discontinued."
In response, the Russian Foreign Ministry withdrew the accreditation of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and initiated proceedings to classify Deutsche Welle as a "foreign agent". The German government called for the ban to be revoked, and Secretary of State for Culture and Media Claudia Roth (Alliance 90/The Greens) called the ban an " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20as%20a%20service | Robot as a service or robotics as a service (RaaS) is a cloud computing unit that facilitates the seamless integration of robot and embedded devices into Web and cloud computing environment. In terms of service-oriented architecture (SOA), a RaaS unit includes services for performing functionality, a service directory for discovery and publishing, and service clients for user's direct access. The current RaaS implementation facilitates SOAP and RESTful communications between RaaS units and the other cloud computing units. Hardware support and standards are available to support RaaS implementation. Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) defines implementation constraints to enable secure Web Service messaging, discovery, description, and eventing on resource-constrained devices between Web services and devices.
RaaS can be considered a unit of the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Intelligent Things (IoIT) that deal with intelligent devices that have adequate computing capacity, Cyber-physical system (CPS) that is a combination of a large computational and communication core and physical elements that can interact with the physical world, and Autonomous decentralized system (ADS) whose components are designed to operate in a loosely coupled manner and data are shared through a content-oriented protocol.
The more common usage of the term Robot as a Service (RaaS), is as a financial model for the purchase and use of a physical industrial or service robot. In a RaaS purchase contract, the buyer is paying for the use of the physical device through a subscription-based contract. RaaS is differentiated from a lease contract in that the original manufacturer continues to own the physical robotic device and carries the machine as an asset on its books. RaaS is becoming popular for many robotics equipment providers as the buyer can purchase the equipment through operating expense budgets rather than through a capital expenditure. The service contract for RaaS requires that the original manufacturer update and maintain the robot in good working order throughout the contract life. All parts and labor for preventative maintenance is also included in the RaaS contract. The original manufacturer may swap out the physical robot with another, equivalent machine at any time. In addition, the original manufacturer may provide remote service, via the Web, to remotely monitor, triage and repair, or recover the system. RaaS takes its name from the software as a service (SaaS) business model, popularized in the enterprise software market.
History
The initial design and implementation of applying service-oriented computing in embedded systems and robots was presented in the 49th IFIP 10.4 Workgroups meeting in February 2006. In the initial design, a robot is the service client that looks up the service registry and consumes Web services on remote sites. Evolved from service-oriented robot, Robot as a Service is an all-in-one SOA unit, that is, the unit includes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile2 | Mile2 is an information technology security company that develops and provides proprietary accredited cybersecurity certifications. The company's technology security programs are utilized in the private and public sectors, including by Boeing, Canada's Department of National Defense, the National Security Agency, the United States Air Force, the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and others.
Mile2 has developed and provides 15 internationally recognized, proprietary cybersecurity certifications, which have been accredited by CNSS 4011-4016 and are approved on the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Security Careers and Studies' (NICCS) training schedule for the Department of Homeland Security. On January 13, 2013, Mile2 entered into a collaborative partnership with Merit Network to provide cybersecurity courseware and certifications through the Michigan Cyber Range.
In April 2021, Mile2 opened an office in Canada in order to "accommodate the growing demand for cybersecurity training and certifications from the Canadian government, corporate and academia clients.". The new Canadian office is located in Ottawa, Ontario.
The company also has been involved in training U.S. veterans for private sector opportunities in cybersecurity, holding training sessions for veterans around the nation.
References
External links
Mile2 official website
Mile2 on Twitter
Computer security companies
Companies based in Tampa, Florida
Business services companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20in%20South%20African%20television | This is a list of South African television related events from 2005.
Events
1 March - Cartoon Network launches its very first Boomerang channel in South Africa.
27 November - Karin Kortje wins the third season of Idols South Africa.
Debuts
Domestic
13 October - Binnelanders (M-Net/kykNET) (2005-2009)
Going Nowhere Slowly (SABC3)
International
8 January - Foyle's War (M-Net)
3 February - Rescue Me (M-Net)
5 February - Lost (M-Net)
6 February - Arrested Development (E.tv)
24 February - The 4400 (M-Net)
2 March - Joey (M-Net)
2 March - Two and a Half Men (M-Net)
28 March - 8 Simple Rules (SABC3)
7 April - Desperate Housewives (M-Net)
8 July - The Bachelorette (M-Net Series)
20 October - House (M-Net)
16 November - The Closer (M-Net)
// Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (M-Net)
Fifi and the Flowertots (M-Net)
Top Gear (BBC Prime)
Brandy and Mister Whiskers (E.tv)
American Dragon (E.tv)
6teen (SABC2)
New Captain Scarlet (M-Net)
Legend of the Dragon (M-Net)
Little Red Tractor (M-Net)
Mew Mew Power (M-Net)
Peppa Pig (SABC2)
/ Creepschool (M-Net)
/ W.I.T.C.H. (M-Net)
Transformers: Energon (SABC2)
Boohbah (SABC2)
The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Prime)
Funky Valley (M-Net)
The Island of Inis Cool (M-Net)
Changes of network affiliation
Television shows
1980s
Good Morning South Africa (1985–present)
Carte Blanche (1988–present)
1990s
Top Billing (1992–present)
Generations (1994–present)
Isidingo (1998–present)
2000s
Idols South Africa (2002–present)
New channels
February - MTV Base
1 March - Boomerang
Ending this year
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1999-2005)
Births
Deaths
See also
2005 in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klam%20value | In the parameterized complexity of algorithms, the klam value of a parameterized algorithm is a number that bounds the parameter values for which the algorithm might reasonably be expected to be practical. An algorithm with a higher klam value can be used for a wider range of parameter values than another algorithm with a lower klam value. The klam value was first defined by , and has since been used by other researchers in parameterized complexity both as a way of comparing different algorithms to each other and in order to set goals for future algorithmic improvements.
Definition
An algorithm is said to be fixed-parameter tractable if the number of elementary operations it performs has a bound of the form , where is some measure of the input size (such as the number of vertices in a graph), is a parameter describing the complexity of the input (such as the treewidth of the graph), is a constant that does not depend on or , and is a computable function.
Given a time bound of this form, the klam value of the algorithm (or more properly of the time bound) is defined to be the largest value of such that does not exceed "some reasonable absolute bound on the maximum
number of steps of any computation". More precisely both and use the number 1020 as this bound, and this has been followed by later researchers. To prevent artificially improving the klam value of an algorithm by putting more of its complexity into the part of the time bound, also limit to be at most three, valid for many known fixed-parameter tractable algorithms.
Examples
cites the example of vertex cover, with its natural parameter (the number of vertices in the cover). At that time the best known parameterized time bound had . Solving gives a klam value of approximately 129. However,
the part of the time bound can be simplified out of it, giving a bound of the form with both a larger constant factor hidden in the O-notation and a larger base of the exponent hidden in its approximate decimal value.
For a simple exponential bound such as this one, one can solve directly from which Niedermeier derives a klam value of approximately 165. Subsequent research has developed parameterized vertex cover algorithms with giving a klam value of approximately 190. That is, one can conclude from this analysis that vertex cover instances with cover size greater than 190 are out of reach of this algorithm, but instances whose cover size is sufficiently far below this limit are likely to be solvable.
Another example of a problem in which the klam value has been explicitly used as a goal for future research is the maximum leaf spanning tree problem, in which the goal is to find a spanning tree of a graph with as many leaf nodes as possible (parameterized by the number of leaves). develop an algorithm for this problem which they compare using the klam value to previous work on the same problem: previous algorithms had klam values of 1 and 5, and theirs has a klam value of 16. Howev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20domain | In computing, a failure domain encompasses a physical or logical section of the computing environment that is negatively affected when a critical device or service experiences problems. To put it another way, failure domains are regions or components of infrastructure that could fail. Each has its own risks and challenges to architect for.
The size of a failure domain and its potential impact depends on the device or service that is malfunctioning. For example, a router potentially experiencing problems would generally create a more significant failure domain than a network switch would. Smaller failure domains reduce the risk of disruption over a large section of a network, and eases the troubleshooting process.
Redundancy within failure domains is a key approach to help mitigate the risks of failure. For example, technologies like RAID helps mitigate the risks of drive failure by creating multiple data copies. Replication helps to mitigate the risks of server or storage array failure.
See also
Fault tolerance
References
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST%20Special%20Publication%20800-92 | NIST Special Publication 800-92, "Guide to Computer Security Log Management", establishes guidelines and recommendations for securing and managing sensitive log data. The publication was prepared by Karen Kent and Murugiah Souppaya of the National Institute of Science and Technology and published under the SP 800-Series; a repository of best practices for the InfoSec community. Log management is essential to ensuring that computer security records are stored in sufficient detail for an appropriate period of time.
Background
Effective security event logging and log analysis is a critical component of any comprehensive security program within an organization. It is used to monitor system, network and application activity. It serves as a deterrent for unauthorized activity, as well as provides a means to detect and analyze an attack in order to allow the organization to mitigate or prevent similar attacks in the future. However, security professionals have a significant challenge to determine what events must be logged, where and how long to retain those logs, and how to analyze the enormous amount of information that can be generated. A deficiency in any of these areas can cause an organization to miss signs of unauthorized activity, intrusion, and loss of data, which creates additional risk.
Scope
NIST SP 800-92 provides a high-level overview and guidance for the planning, development and implementation of an effective security log management strategy. The intended audience for this publication include the general information security (InfoSec) community involved in incident response, system/application/network administration and managers.
NIST SP 800-92 defines a log management infrastructure as having 4 major functions:
General - log parsing, event filtering and event aggregation;
Log Storage - rotation, archival, compression, reduction, normalization, integrity checking;
Log Analysis - event correlation, viewing and reporting;
Disposal - clearing;
NIST SP 800-92 address the following security log management challenges:
Log volume exceeding the rate of analysis;
Ensuring immutability during storage and transmission;
Inconsistent vendor log formats;
Importance of a consistent review schedule;
Retention issues involving purging, long term storage, and cost;
NIST SP 800-92 makes the following recommendations for security log management:
Establish policies and procedures for log management;
Prioritize log management appropriately throughout the organization;
Create and maintain a log management infrastructure;
Provide proper support for all staff with log management responsibilities;
Establish standard log management operational processes;
Compliance
The following federal regulations require the proper handling and storage of sensitive log data:
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996). Requires the mandatory safeguard of personal health information.
SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002). Req |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20Behavior%20Interventions%20and%20Supports | Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a set of ideas and tools used in schools to improve students' behavior. PBIS uses evidence and data-based programs, practices, and strategies to frame behavioral improvement relating to student growth in academic performance, safety, behavior, and establishing and maintaining positive school culture. PBIS tries to address the behavioral needs of at-risk students and the multi-leveled needs of all students, in an effort to create an environment that promotes effective teaching and learning in schools. Researchers such as Robert H. Horner believe that PBIS enhances the school staff's time for delivering effective instructions and lessons to all students.
In contrast to PBIS, many schools used exclusionary discipline practices including detentions, suspensions, or expulsions to separate students from the classroom and from peers. PBIS emphasizes preventing problem behaviors before they happen to increase the opportunity for students to learn by keeping them in the classroom. PBIS is a team-based framework for schools that borrows elements from response to intervention, an intervention that uses diagnostic data to develop personalized learning plans for all students.
Background
PBIS is an acronym for Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports. PBIS emphasizes the integrated use of classroom management and school-wide discipline strategies coupled with effective academic instruction to create a positive and safe school climate for all students. PBIS is based in a behaviorist psychology approach to improving student behavior, which means that teachers and students identify misbehavior, model appropriate behaviors, and provide clear consequences for behavior in the classroom context. In a PBIS model, schools must define, teach, and reinforce appropriate behaviors to ensure success. PBIS follows research showing that punishing students inconsistently without a positive alternative, is ineffective and only offers short-term solutions. Modeling and rewarding positive behaviors are more effective. The goal of PBIS is to establish a positive school climate. To do this, a continuum of behavior support has been established which can be applied at the school level (primary level), for small groups of students (secondary level), and for individual level (tertiary level). When PBIS is applied to the entire school, it is called schoolwide PBIS, or SWPBIS.
Core features
PBIS is a framework approach that helps schools to identify the key tasks in developing preventative positive behavior tailored to their own school. It is an approach defined by the following core design components.
Outcomes
The outcome is the goal for improved student behavior towards which the school community aims. The goals must be measurable, and must clearly be the result of implementing the PBIS model. Outcomes of a successful PBIS framework with a school can be measured in both behavior data and academic achievement of the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms-Aided%20Design | Algorithms-Aided Design (AAD) is the use of specific algorithms-editors to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. The algorithms-editors are usually integrated with 3D modeling packages and read several programming languages, both scripted or visual (RhinoScript, Grasshopper, MEL, C#, Python). The Algorithms-Aided Design allows designers to overcome the limitations of traditional CAD software and 3D computer graphics software, reaching a level of complexity which is beyond the human possibility to interact with digital objects. The acronym appears for the first time in the book AAD Algorithms-Aided Design, Parametric Strategies using Grasshopper, published by Arturo Tedeschi in 2014.
Further reading
Mario Carpo, "The second digital turn: design beyond intelligence", Writing Architecture, 2017,
"AD Scripting Cultures: Architectural Design and Programming", John Wiley & Sons, 1 edition 2011,
Kostas Terzidis, "Algorithmic Architecture", Routledge, 1 edition 2006,
Nicholas Pisca, "YSYT - Maya MEL Basics for Designers", 2009,
Arturo Tedeschi, AAD Algorithms-Aided Design, Parametric Strategies using Grasshopper, Le Penseur, Brienza 2014,
http://architosh.com/2016/05/inflection-point-disruptions-platforms-and-growth-with-rhino-grasshopper-part-1/
References
External links
Computer-aided design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev%27n | Rev’n is an American vehicle-oriented digital broadcast television network owned by Get After It Media and launched on December 1, 2014.
History
As early as October 2012, Luken Communications, LLC was planning a car focused channel then called My Car TV. The concept was later retooled and renamed prior to launch, with the network focusing on all automotive vehicles, including cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles and more.
Rev'n was announced by Luken Communications on November 3, 2014 and launched on with 26 affiliates in 24 markets reaching 29 million households.
Programs
A partial list includes:
Amazing World of Automobiles
Best of the World of Collector Cars
Bidding Wars
Classic Cars
Curator's Vault (E/I)
Dream Car Garage
Dream Ridez
Formula Drift
FreeRide
Hidden Heroes
Inside Drag Racing
Lokar Car Show
Mother's Car Show
Motorhead Garage
Motorz TV
My Classic Car
Off Road Action
On the Water
Operation Repo
Performance TV
Pleasure Boater
Reality Rides (E/I)
Rev'n News
Road Classics
Sam's Garage starring Sam Mahdavi
Sport Compact TV
Stacey David's GearZ
Steel Dreams
Superlift's Off-Road Adventures
Tech Garage
The Exciting World of Speed and Beauty
Trippin' on Two Wheels
Truck U
Two Guys Garage
USAR Racing
Valvoline Racing Radio on Rev'n
V8TV
World of Trucks
Unusually for a specialty network, both of Rev'n's federally mandated educational and informational programs are more or less exclusive to the channel, and with both carrying an automotive theme, Rev'n does not need to break from its format to air them. Each show airs multiple episodes during the week to fill the three-hour minimum requirements.
Affiliates
In addition to terrestrial affiliates, Rev'n is also available through a free Internet stream on the station's Web site, as well as through subscriptions to the Klowd TV, NKTelco, and FilmOn streaming services.
Former affiliates
References
External links
Luken Communications website
Television channels and stations established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval%20Radio%20Transmitter%20Facility%20Niscemi | Naval Radio Transmitter Facility Niscemi (NRTF Niscemi) is a transmission facility of the United States Navy at Niscemi, Sicily, maintained by the N92 Division of Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Sicily. The facility houses low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) transmitter and antenna systems, and certification of the new U.S. Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground terminals is in progress as of early 2015.
Installations
The joint American, Italian, and NATO facility houses an AN/FRT-95A Low Frequency Radio Transmitting System, hosts a USAF HF SCOPE Command, part of the High Frequency (HF) Global Communications System (HFGCS) and a US Navy MUOS Ground Station. The surrounding antenna field supports one 827 foot LF antenna, 44 HF (3–30 MHz) antennas, three MUOS Earth Terminal parabolic antennas, and 2 UHF Directional Helical antennas for satellite direction finding.
Several different types of HF antenna are installed, though the majority are no longer in use. 116 Antenna towers are installed which hold aloft 35 antenna transmission lines. Antenna types include four Horizontal Log Periodic (HLPA) with 2 tall towers each, four rotatable log periodic (RLPA), seven Horizontal Omnidirectional Broadband (HOBA) each with 4 antenna towers, seven High Take-Off Angle (HTOA), 11 Dual Mode (DM) antennae held aloft with 7 towers each, 1 Spira-cone, and 10 decommissioned Horizontal/Vertical HF Loop Antennae. The LF Transmitter uses non-line-of-sight propagation for communication with submarines.
Local opposition
Since 2009 the station has become the target of protests by the people of Niscemi, citing concerns over the expansion of the site, which is located inside the Riserva Naturale Sugherata di Niscemi, a protected Site of Community Importance, and the possible harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation on the local wildlife and inhabitants from the MUOS ground stations. In the face of the protests, in March 2013 the regional government revoked authorisation for the installation of MUOS, and commissioned an independent study by the Italian Istituto Superiore di Sanità ("Higher Health Institute"). The ISS report, issued in July 2013, concluded that there was no evidence that electromagnetic emissions posed a risk, but recommended further monitoring, and authorisation was re-granted. Local "No-MUOS" committees then organized demonstrations, and blocked road access to the site. In the face of this opposition the United States authorities have repeatedly stated that emissions from the site are well below agreed safety standards, and point to the operation of a similar site in Hawaii that has not reported any problems or incidents.
See also
Niscemi
References
Communications and electronic installations of the United States Navy
Military installations of the United States in Italy
Radio masts and towers in Europe
Niscemi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isn%27t%20It%20Shocking%3F | Isn't It Shocking? is a made-for-television comedy-mystery film that aired on the ABC network in 1973 as an ABC Movie of the Week. Written by Lane Slate, it stars Alan Alda, Louise Lasser and Edmond O'Brien, and was directed by John Badham.
Plot
Daniel Barnes (Alan Alda) is a small-town New England police chief. His life is complicated by a romance with local motel owner Mrs. Tate (Patricia Quinn). She is eager for him to move in with her and her children; Barnes is equally eager to keep their affair secret. Meanwhile, the village is beset by a killer preying on the town's elderly citizens. A few deaths later, the victims are all found to have one thing in common—they all graduated from the local high school in 1928. Working with police receptionist Blanche (Louise Lasser), Barnes pores through the 1928 yearbook and identifies another couple, the Yettas, as potential victims. When Barnes drives to the couple's isolated house, his police cruiser is rammed and disabled by another automobile, which turns around to finish him off. Barnes escapes into the woods. Circling around to the isolated house, he finds the Yettas already dead.
After another member of the class is killed, the coroner Lemuel Lovell (Will Geer) and his daughter Doc Lovell (Dorothy Tristan) theorize that a modified defibrillator machine is being used by the murderer to induce heart attacks. Because the Class of '28 was small, the process of elimination leads Barnes to focus on a surviving member of the class, Justin Oates (Edmond O'Brien). Until recently, Oates had been a guest at Mrs. Tate's motel. Daniel sets a trap for him. Oates takes the bait. When he is caught, it is revealed that he was traumatically humiliated by his classmates at a surprise birthday party for his 17-year-old fiancée. There, his beloved was discovered frolicking naked with another classmate. After Oates' arrest, Daniel surmises he will likely be remanded to the care of a mental health facility for the criminally insane.
A subplot woven throughout has Barnes considering a lucrative job offer from a nearby town. The pay raise would make it easier for him to settle down with Mrs. Tate and the kids. But Barnes ultimately turns down the offer and decides to stay put. He also considers marriage to Blanche.
Background
The movie is a series pilot and sequel to Lane Slate's 1973 movie They Only Kill Their Masters. In that film, set in a beach community, James Garner portrayed Police Chief Abel Marsh. In 1974, Andy Griffith starred in Slate's Winter Kill, a television movie, a series pilot that renamed the character (Sheriff Sam MacNeill) and changed the setting to a mountain town. When it failed to sell, the main character was renamed "Sheriff Sam Adams" for the series Adams of Eagle Lake, which lasted a mere two episodes. But that failure wasn't the end of the road. In 1977, Griffith appeared in two additional television movies (The Girl in the Empty Grave and Deadly Game), which restored the name of Griffith' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue%20of%20Spectroscopic%20Binary%20Orbits | The catalogue of spectroscopic binary orbits (SB) is a compilation of orbital data for spectroscopic binary stars which have been produced since 1969 by Alan Henry Batten of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and various collaborators.
At the 24th International Astronomical Union general assembly, in 2000, a working group was established to take responsibility for maintenance of the catalogue, and to take it from a paper based system to an online database. The 9th catalogue was published in 2004.
As of 7 August 2009, the catalogue database contained information on over 2940 binary systems, increasing to 3722 in March 2019. The main components of the current SB9 catalogue, as a work in progress, can be downloaded in gzipped tar ball format.
Applications
The catalogue is used for a variety of purposes:
Completeness assessments and statistical analysis
Generation of H–R diagrams and definition of shortest period
Computation of period & eccentricity relationships
References
Applied and interdisciplinary physics
Astronomical catalogues of stars
Spectroscopic binaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data3%E2%80%93Symantec%20Racing%20Team%20p/b%20Scody | Data#3-Symantec Racing Team p/b Scody is an Australian UCI Continental cycling team established in 2015.
Major wins
2015
Stage 2 New Zealand Cycle Classic, Craig Evers
Stage 1 (ITT) Tour of Borneo, Craig Evers
References
UCI Continental Teams (Oceania)
Cycling teams established in 2015
Cycling teams based in Australia
2015 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Resilience%20Review | The Cyber Resilience Review (CRR) is an assessment method developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is a voluntary examination of operational resilience and cyber security practices offered at no cost by DHS to the operators of critical infrastructure and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. The CRR has a service-oriented approach, meaning that one of the foundational principles of the CRR is that an organization deploys its assets (people, information, technology, and facilities) to support specific operational missions (or services). The CRR is offered in a facilitated workshop format and as a self-assessment package. The workshop version of the CRR is led by a DHS facilitator at a critical infrastructure facility. The workshop typically takes 6–8 hours to complete and draws on a cross section of personnel from the critical infrastructure organization. All information collected in a facilitated CRR is protected from disclosure by the Protected Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002. This information cannot be disclosed through a Freedom of Information Act request, used in civil litigation, or be used for regulatory purposes. The CRR Self-Assessment Package allows an organization to conduct an assessment without the need for direct DHS assistance. It is available for download from the DHS Critical Infrastructure Cyber Community Voluntary Program website. The package includes an automated data answer capture and report generation tool, a facilitation guide, comprehensive explanation of each question, and a crosswalk of CRR practices to the criteria of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. The questions asked in the CRR and the resulting report are the same in both versions of the assessment. DHS partnered with the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University to design and deploy the CRR. The goals and practices found in the assessment are derived from the CERT Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) Version 1.0. The CRR was introduced in 2009 and received a significant revision in 2014.
Architecture
The CRR comprises 42 goals and 141 specific practices extracted from the CERT-RMM and organized in 10 domains):
Asset Management
Controls Management
Configuration and Change Management
Vulnerability Management
Incident Management
Service Continuity Management
Risk Management
External Dependency Management
Training and Awareness
Situational Awareness
Each domain is composed of a purpose statement, a set of specific goals and associated practice questions unique to the domain, and a standard set of Maturity Indicator Level (MIL) questions. The MIL questions examine the institutionalization of practices within an organization. The performance of an organization is scored against a MIL scale. This scale depicts capability divided into five levels: MIL1-Incomplete, MIL2-Performed, MIL3-Managed, MIL4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPUS%20%28software%29 | OPUS is an open-source software package under the GNU General Public License used for creating Open Access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It provides tools for creating collections of digital resources, as well as for their storage and dissemination. It is usually used at universities, libraries and research institutes as a platform for institutional repositories.
History
OPUS, originally an acronym for the Online Publikationsverbund der Universität Stuttgart, was developed with the support of the Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN) in 1997 and 1998 at the University of Stuttgart Library. OPUS is used at many universities and library networks. The (BSZ) took over development from University of Stuttgart Library, however, since December 2010, the (KOBV) has taken over the development and management of the project at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB).
In Germany, the OPUS software is the most commonly used for the operation of open access repositories (according to a survey carried out in 2012, 77 repositories were based on OPUS). OPUS-based repositories may either be hosted and operated by universities on their own, or as part of hosting services provided by the German library network. The KOBV provides hosting for more than 35 instances of OPUS. Apart from Germany, OPUS is also used in Serbia by two research institutes.
Development
The current version, OPUS 4, is being developed by the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). The earlier development was coordinated by the Library Service Centre for Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) and the Stuttgart University Library.
Major partners have included the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), Bielefeld University Library, Saarland University and State Library Saarbrücken (SULB), University Library of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) and University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia (HBZ).
Technology
OPUS 3.x was written in PHP 4. The current version, OPUS 4, is developed in PHP (version 5.3) and is based on the Zend Framework and the search engine Solr. Data are stored in a MySQL database. Both versions are designed for LAMP environments.
Functionality
OPUS is a simple repository system for various types of objects and formats. These can be deposited, managed and provided with descriptive information (metadata) via a web interface. The objects themselves are not processed on the server side except for full-text search. Metadata can be harvested by different search engines (e.g OAI service providers, Google Scholar, WorldCat).
OPUS supports Uniform Resource Names (URN) for persistent identification of objects.
OPUS has a license module; various types of licenses (Digital Peer Publishing, Creative Commons, etc.) can be set up.
OPUS supports OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol.
OPUS supports XmetaDiss, the metadata set of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudike | Cloudike is an on-premise software product developed by Cloudike Inc., a San Francisco based company. The product enables cloud storage service from inside the customer’s data center & network. Usually, it is used by telco and consumer electronics companies to launch local alternatives to Apple iCloud, Google Drive + Photos + Contacts, Dropbox under their own brand and name.
History
Cloudike Inc started in 2009 as a developer of Software as a Service platform that grew into a multi-tier cloud service used to build on-premise white-label enterprise data storages for OEMs, Mobile and Internet service providers, consumer electronics distributors and fintech companies.
See also
Comparison of file hosting services
Comparison of online backup services
Comparison of file synchronization software
References
External links
Cloudike Official Website
Cloud Rendering Service
API Azure Cloud Services
Cloud applications
Data synchronization
File sharing software
Online backup services
File hosting for macOS
File hosting for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tynker | Tynker is an educational programming platform to help children learn coding skills, including game design, web design, animation and robotics. It includes courses in Minecraft Modding, Minecraft Game Design, Creative Coding, Python and CSS.
Tynker is based on HTML5 and JavaScript, and can be used in browsers, or on tablet computers or smartphones.
History
The Tynker company was founded by Krishna Vedati, Srinivas Mandyam and Kelvin Chong in 2012 in Mountain View, California, United States with funds raised from angel and institutional investors. Tynker for Schools was launched in April 2013, with Tynker for Home the year after. 60 million students, in 90,000 schools, have used Tynker.
In 2018, Tynker partnered with Mattel to produce branded coding experiences with Hot Wheels and Monster High. It also has partnerships with Apple, Google, Sylvan Learning, BBC Learning, Infosys Foundation USA, Microsoft, PBS and Lego.
In September 2021, Tynker was acquired by Byju's, an Indian multinational educational technology in order to expand in foreign market.
Mobile Applications
In July 2014 Tynker was released for iPad and Android The projects can be accessed from both the web and the tablet and used on either platform.
References
American educational websites
Byju's
Educational programming languages
Pedagogic integrated development environments
Video game development software
Visual programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Chicken%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken began airing in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on October 26, 2015, with the episode Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship.
Episodes
Notes
References
2015 American television seasons
2016 American television seasons
Robot Chicken seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked%20City%20%28TV%20series%29 | Wicked City is an American procedural drama television series created by Steven Baigelman for the broadcast network ABC. The series aired from October 27, 2015, to December 15, 2015. and focused on two LAPD detectives (Jeremy Sisto and Gabriel Luna) as they search for a pair of romantically linked serial killers (Ed Westwick and Erika Christensen) terrorizing the Sunset Strip. The main cast also includes Taissa Farmiga, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters, and Jaime Ray Newman.
On November 13, 2015, after airing only three episodes, ABC announced Wicked City had been cancelled, pulling the series from its fall schedule and stopping production following the completion of the eighth episode. The remaining episodes were made available by Hulu on December 22, 2015, with the finale being released on December 30, 2015.
Plot
In 1982 Los Angeles, police detectives Jack Roth and Paco Contreras are partnered up to investigate a series of murders on the Sunset Strip. The detectives enlist the help of journalist Karen McClaren, photographer Diver Hawkes, and Jack's mistress and undercover cop Dianne Kubek in order to identify and capture the Hollywood Slayer and his lover.
Cast and characters
Main
Jeremy Sisto as Jack Roth
Taissa Farmiga as Karen McClaren
Gabriel Luna as Paco Contreras
Jaime Ray Newman as Allison Roth
Evan Ross as Diver Hawkes
Ed Westwick as Kent Grainger
Anne Winters as Vicki Roth
Karolina Wydra as Dianne Kubek
Erika Christensen as Betty Beaumontaine
Recurring
Talia Toms as Jane
Kirk Baltz as Artie Bukowski
Sara Mornell as Eileen Miller
Olivia Moss as Mary
W. Earl Brown as Captain Dan Wilkinson
Lew Temple as Dave Keller
Kascee Murdock as Freddie Beaumontaine
Lola Wayne Villa as Tiffany Beaumontaine
Vincent Ventresca as Jimmy Lovett
Doug Simpson as Ralph Peyton
Heather Grace Hancock as Mallory Kharchenko
Tyson Ritter as Bucket
Guest stars
Stephen Pearcy as Roscoe
Joe Walsh as Director
Haley Strode as Rita Forrester
Gabriel Bateman as Cooper Flynn
Eric Pierpoint as Bruce Forrester
Sam Adegoke as Graham Walker
Heather Mazur as Penelope Evans
Episodes
Production
Development
It was first reported in September 2014 that the American Broadcasting Company network was developing a true crime series created by Steven Baigelman, and executive produced by Baigelman with Laurie Zaks, Todd Lieberman, and David Hoberman of Mandeville Films. Originally conceived as an anthology series, the project was described as "a character-driven, true crime procedural that explores sex, politics and popular culture across various noteworthy eras in L.A. history." On January 23, 2015, it was announced that ABC had given the project a pilot order. The original pilot, then titled L.A. Crime, was directed by Tom Shankland.
On May 7, 2015, the pilot was officially ordered to series by ABC, and its title was changed to Wicked City. At the network's Upfront, ABC president Paul Lee stated that the show was their highest testing pilot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder%20programming | Shoulder programming is a type of pre-event and post-event broadcast programming as a companion to live sporting events. This type of programming may be multi-platform and include both television and radio programs. Due to exclusive content or access, it may be included in a broadcast rights package for a particular sport or event. The purpose is to expand revenue opportunities through radio or television advertising or increased exposure to a pay-per-view event.
Examples
NFL
NFL Primetime, Monday Night Countdown, and SportsCenter Monday Kickoff have each been companion National Football League (NFL) programming for Monday Night Football on ESPN. Monday Night Football was highly rated on ABC from 1970 to 2005, but since ESPN took over in 2006, it could more directly surround the franchise with programming in the time-slots before and after the game.
UFC
The first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event on UFC on Fox was a title card between Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez in 2011. Networks such as Fox Deportes, Fuel TV (since re-branded Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports Radio broadcast many hours of programming leading up to and during the fight. Programming included specials by both Fox Deportes and Fuel TV. Replays of the previously-held Velasquez vs Lesnar fight and the weigh-in were aired by Fox Deportes and Fuel TV, respectively. Live radio coverage of the fight was broadcast by Fox Sports Radio. Other programming included a UFC primetime special and the pre-fight and post-fight shows by Fuel TV.
Criticism
ESPN has been criticized for devoting more or less air-time to a sport depending on whether it has rights to the primary organization or league of that sport. Examples include less air-time for National Hockey League (NHL), including the cancellation of NHL 2Night following their expiration of ESPN's rights contract and expanding air-time for NASCAR and the Arena Football League following rights deals.
References
Sports radio
Sports television
Television terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Berebichez | Deborah Berebichez is a Mexican physicist, data scientist, TV host, educator and entrepreneur who dedicates her career to promoting education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. She was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. She has developed models for cellular wave transmission which are in the process of being patented. Sometimes known as "The Science Babe", she appears in mainstream television and radio segments where she explains concepts in physics in everyday life.
Education
According to Berebichez, she was a curious girl, good at math and science and dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Growing up as a girl in a conservative community, she felt discouraged from pursuing a career in science. Despite being more interested in physics, she started studying philosophy and completed the first two years of university in Mexico City while secretly applying to schools in the US, after having heard that they allowed students to complete several majors. She is Jewish.
After passing an advanced placement test, she was accepted for a Wien scholarship at Brandeis University in Massachusetts where she at first continued her studies in philosophy. Here, she encountered her first science course, an intro-course to Astronomy and in her senior year she decided she needed give physics a try. Inspired by Edward Witten's previous switch from history to physics, she was allowed to switch from philosophy to physics and to skip the first two years of the physics major after passing a test in vector calculus. After studying math and physics over the summer for 12 hours each day she passed the test. In the end, she completed the four years physics curriculum in two years and graduated from Brandeis summa cum laude with highest honors in physics and philosophy.
After Brandeis, she returned to Mexico where she completed a master's in physics. She won a merit-based full scholarship from the Mexican government and went on to complete a PhD in physics from Stanford in 2004. While at Stanford, she worked with Nobel laureate Steven Chu from 1998 and co-created the Association for the Advancement of Women in Physics with another female student. It was through her interviews with professors, that she discovered that she was going to become the first woman from Mexico to earn a PhD in physics from Stanford.
Career
After completing her PhD, Berebichez was a post-doctoral researcher first at Columbia University's Applied Math and Physics Department and later at NYU's Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Berebichez has written scholarly articles on the subject of altering the structural design of optical, mechanical and electrical systems in order to prevent signal transmission loss due to wave scattering. She is a member of the American Physical Society.
Berebichez is the Chief Data Scientist at Metis, a leading data science training provider. At Metis she leads the creation and growth of dat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornfree%20Technologies%20Network | BTN Television, an acronym for Bornfree Technologies Network, is a television broadcaster on Arua Hill where they moved in 2015, after starting from Anyafio, a suburb of Arua. It is registered by Uganda Communications Commission to broadcast on UHF 23 in West Nile and UHF 61 in Kampala. It was the first television station from Arua and West Nile. It started broadcasts from the northern end of the outer crescent road off Oda Road.
History
BTN started test broadcasts in 2003, but celebrated 10 years of existence in 2014 alongside its sister radio station - 94.1 Nile FM that was launched in 2004. It is famous for premiering music videos by West Nile artistes who do not get enough airplay on other Ugandan TV stations. English and Lugbara are the most common languages heard on the station.
Programming
BTN TV is a house of music, movies, cartoons, documentaries, local shows and international news courtesy of mainly BBC Television. BTN focusses on TV programs that promote culture, democracy, peace, tolerance, reconciliation, health, agriculture and entrepreneurship. In 2014, locally produced shows included the news bulletins, Early Riser by Mara (Nsangi) - the Sweet Girl, BTN Sports with Aloro (Saidi) plus TOK, Lunch Beat Request by (Amina) Likia (around lunchtime) and Sunset Chat with Rashid and Lillian.
References
Television stations in Uganda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Cultural%20Districts%20Network | The Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) is a federation of global centers of arts and culture. Its members represent cities, cultural districts, and cultural institutions from around the world, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, China, and Singapore.[14]
History
GCDN was founded in 2013 by Adrian Ellis, and established by AEA Consulting, the New Cities Foundation, and the Dallas Arts District. Beatrice Pembroke was appointed as Director in March 2018 and Adrian Ellis is chair.
The network's formation was stimulated by a series of conversations among cultural leaders, who were aware that, though forums for cultural institutions to meet and discuss common issues did exist, there were none for those responsible for cultural districts.
Members
GCDN's 50+ members represent cities, cultural districts, cultural institutions, non-profits, foundations, and private initiatives from around the world, including Australia, the UK, Canada, the US, Dubai, China, and Singapore.
Members
GCDN's current members include:
Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism – Abu Dhabi, UAE
Adelaide Festival Centre – Adelaide, Australia
Alserkal Avenue – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Arizona Arts, University of Arizona – Tucson, USA
Auckland Live – Auckland, New Zealand
Better Bankside – London, UK
Brooklyn Cultural District (Brooklyn Academy of Music/Downtown Brooklyn Partnership/Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance) – New York City, USA
Canberra Theatre Centre – Canberra, Australia
City of Providence Art, Culture + Tourism Dept. – Providence, USA
Creative Estuary - Thames Estuary, UK
Culture Mile (Barbican Centre/Museum of London/City of London Corporation) – London, UK
Dallas Arts District – Dallas, USA
East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – London, UK
Exhibition Road Cultural Group (Discover South Kensington) – London, UK
Goldsmiths, University of London – London, UK
Harbourfront Centre – Toronto, Canada
HOTA, Home of the Arts – Surfers Paradise, Australia
Kingston Creative – Kingston, Jamaica
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura – Lugano, Switzerland
Melbourne Arts Precinct (Arts Centre Melbourne/Melbourne Recital Centre) – Melbourne, Australia
MiSK Foundation – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MuseumsQuartier Wien – Vienna, Austria
National Heritage Board – Singapore, Singapore
Navy Pier, Inc. – Chicago, USA
Newark Museum of Art (NMOA) – Newark, New Jersey, USA
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) – Newark, NJ, USA
New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy – Miami Beach, USA
Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage – Lausanne, Switzerland
Onassis Foundation – Athens, Greece
Parnell Square Cultural Quarter, Temple Bar – Dublin, Ireland
Perth Theatre Trust – Perth, Australia
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – Pittsburgh, USA
Quartier de la Création – Nantes, France
Quartier des Spectacles Partnership – Montreal, Canada
RAB/BKO – Brussels, Belgium
Sharjah Museums Authority – Sharjah, UAE
Southbank Centre – London, UK
The Bentway Conservancy – |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games%20and%20learning | Games and learning is a field of education research that studies what is learned by playing video games, and how the design principles, data and communities of video game play can be used to develop new learning environments. Video games create new social and cultural worlds – worlds that help people learn by integrating thinking, social interaction, and technology, all in service of doing things they care about. Computers and other technologies have already changed the way students learn. Integrating games into education has the potential to create new and more powerful ways to learn in schools, communities and workplaces. Games and learning researchers study how the social and collaborative aspects of video game play can create new kinds of learning communities. Researchers also study how the data generated by game play can be used to design the next generation of learning assessments.
Research
The games and learning research world studies how new digital media tools shift the topic of education research from recalling and repeating information to being able to find it, evaluate it and use it compellingly at the right time and in the right context. Games and learning research explores how games and game communities can lead to 21st-century educational skills such as higher order thinking, the ability to solve complex problems, think independently, collaborate, communicate and apply digital tools to effectively gather information.
Research shows the educational and social benefits of digital games. Games do not need to be specifically geared towards education to be educational tools. Games can bring together ways of knowing, ways of doing, ways of being, and ways of caring. As John Dewey argued, schools are built on an obsession with facts. Students need to learn by doing, and with gaming, students can learn by doing something as a part of a larger community of people who share common goals and ways of achieving those common goals, making gaming a benefit for social reasons as well. Gaming has also changed the look of content-driven curriculum in schools. In content-driven media, people learn by being told and reflecting on what they are told. In gaming, game designers create digital environments and game levels that shape, facilitate and even teach problem solving.
Games also teach students that failure is inevitable, but not irrevocable. In school, failure is a big deal. In games, players can just start over from the last save. A low cost failure ensures that players will take risks, explore and try new things.
Much of the debate about digital games for education was based on whether or not games are good for education. But that question is overly simplistic. The National Research Council's report on laboratory activities and simulations makes clear that the design and not merely the medium of a physical or virtual learning activity determines its efficacy. Digital games are a medium with certain affordances and constraints, just |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca%20cordata | Melaleuca cordata is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with erect branches, heart-shaped leaves and clusters of pinkish-red to purple flowers over an extended period.
Description
Melaleuca cordata is an erect, bushy shrub which grows to a height of between with dark grey, fibrous bark. Its leaves are egg-shaped to heart-shaped, between long and wide with a very short, or no stalk. They are glabrous when mature, spirally arranged around the stem with 5 to 9 veins and have a pointed end.
The flowers are deep pink to purplish-red, forming roughly spherical heads of flowers, thickly clustered on or near the ends of the stems. The flowers appear for extended periods from late spring to mid-summer. The fruit which follow flowering are woody capsules about in diameter, arranged in roughly spherical clusters.
Taxonomy and naming
Melaleuca cordata was first formally described in 1852 by the Russian botanist, Nikolai Turczaninow. The Latin specific epithet (cordata) means "cordate" or "heart-shaped", referring to the shape of the leaves.
Distribution and habitat
This melaleuca is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia from the Geraldton-Mullewa districts south to the Lake Grace-Lake King area and east to Coolgardie. It occurs in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee and Warren biogeographic regions. It grows in a range of habitats including sandy, often gravelly soils on sandplains.
Conservation status
Melaleuca cordata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Use in horticulture
Its unusual foliage and long flowering period may make M. cordata an attractive and useful garden plant. It grows in a wide range of soils in temperate areas with low winter rainfall.
References
cordata
Myrtales of Australia
Plants described in 1852
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR%20Holdings%20v.%20Hotels.com | DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P., , was the first United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision to uphold the validity of computer-implemented patent claims after the Supreme Court's decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. Both Alice and DDR Holdings are legal decisions relevant to the debate about whether software and business methods are patentable subject matter under Title 35 of the United States Code §101. The Federal Circuit applied the framework articulated in Alice to uphold the validity of the patents on webpage display technology at issue in DDR Holdings.
In Alice, the Supreme Court held that a computer implementation of an abstract idea, which is not itself eligible for a patent, does not by itself transform that idea into something that is patent eligible. According to the Supreme Court, in order to be patent eligible, what is claimed must be more than the abstract idea. The implementation of the idea must be something beyond the "routine," "conventional" or "generic." In DDR Holdings, the Federal Circuit, applying the Alice analytical framework, upheld the validity of DDR's patent on its webpage display technology.
Background
DDR Holdings, LLC ("DDR") was formed by inventors Daniel D. Ross and D. Delano Ross, Jr. following the asset sale of their dot-com company, Nexchange (which was formed to utilize their invention). DDR filed a lawsuit against twelve entities including Hotels.com, National Leisure Group, World Travel Holdings, Digital River, Expedia, Travelocity.com, and Orbitz Worldwide for patent infringement. DDR settled with all but three of these defendants prior to an October 2012 jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The jury found that neither of the patents at issue were invalid, that National Leisure Group, Inc. and World Travel Holdings, Inc. (collectively "NLG") directly infringed both these patents, that Digital River directly infringed one of the patents, and that DDR should be awarded $750,000 in damages.
Following the verdict, the district court denied defendants’ motions for Judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) and entered final judgment in favor of DDR, consistent with the jury's findings. Defendants appealed, however, by the time of oral argument, DDR settled with Digital River, and Digital River's appeal was subsequently terminated. NLG continued its appeal.
Patents-in-suit
DDR is the assignee of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,818,399 ("the '399 patent") and 6,993,572 ("the '572 patent"), both of which are continuations of an earlier patent—U.S. Patent No. 6,629,135 ("the '135 patent"). The court's § 101 analysis focused on the '399 patent, entitled "Methods of expanding commercial opportunities for internet websites through coordinated offsite marketing."
The Invention
The '399 patent addresses a particular problem in the field of e-commerce when vendors advertise their products and services through a hosting page of an affiliate:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NCAA%20Division%20III%20football%20win%E2%80%93loss%20records | The following data is current as of the end of the 2014 season, which ended after the 2014 NCAA Division III Football Championship. The following list reflects the records according to the NCAA. This list takes into account results modified later due to NCAA action, such as vacated victories and forfeits. Percentages are figured to 3 decimal places. In the event of a tie, the team with the most wins is listed first. This list also includes teams that are in the process of transitioning to NCAA Division III (Belhaven from NAIA).
In the process of transitioning to NCAA Division III
Alfred State College is transitioning and their football stats are incomplete
Belhaven is transitioning and their football stats are incomplete
*Ties count as one-half win and one-half loss.
References
Lists of college football team records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverview%20Health | Riverview Health (formally known as Riverview Hospital) is a hospital located in Noblesville, Indiana, in the United States. It is part of the Riverview Medical Group hospital network. Founded in 1909, it was the first hospital in Hamilton County and today, it is one of the largest employers in the county. It has 161 beds and employees over 350 medical professionals.
History
The hospital was founded in 1909 as the Harrell Hospital and Sanatorium. It was the first hospital in Hamilton County. It was built by Samuel Harrell. Harrell sold the hospital to the county in 1914. This made it the first hospital in the state owned by a county. The hospital provides services to Hamilton County and Tipton County. In 2014, Riverview Hospital changed its name to Riverview Health. That same year, the hospital agreed to pay $1.2 million for ten years for the naming rights to Westfield High School's football stadium.
As of 2012, the hospital was the 3rd least profitable hospital in the state.
References
External links
Official Website
Hospitals in Indiana
Buildings and structures in Hamilton County, Indiana
1909 establishments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20RE | HTC RE refers to a series of products made by HTC, including the RE Camera camera device, Vive virtual-reality headset, and the Grip fitness tracker.
References
HTC computer peripherals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce%20in%20Pakistan | Pakistan's e-trading mainly involves buying and selling goods, and services using internet or telephone, through the use of electronic means such as computer, fax machine, cellular phone, automated teller machines (ATMs), and other electronic appliances with or without using the internet. Online banking, e-tickets, share trading in stock exchange are few examples of e-commerce of modern advancement. With its potential, e-trading can reduce the cost per transaction, increase efficiency, support contest, lower prices and boost international demand. It can open new areas for business in the service sector like online education, medical services, consultancy, and data exchange. It can also provide expansion in trade through domestic and international market research, advertising and marketing. In the financial services area, it can make easy and speedy transactions and transfer of money at a minimum risk. The interesting feature of online trading is that an investor simply sitting in his office or home can buy or sell through the Internet via mobile/tablet or PC and before being an experienced trader he may learn a lot by watching market screens or web portals at his convenience.
Electronic trading under e-commerce
The term e-trading (or electronic trading) covers a series of systems ranging from simple order transmission service to full-fledged trade execution. e-trade is location neutral and is scalable that mainly providing electronic orders executed from users to the system owned by the seller or manufacturer. Electronic distribution of offer with the provision of transaction details – i.e., description of the offer, quality, cost, guarantee, validity, discounts, quantity etc. – is carried out through automated trade execution. Most commonly, three categories are well recognized under e-commerce, namely:
(i) Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce: customers deal directly with the organization, avoiding any intermediaries
(ii) Business-to-business (B2B) participants are organizations
(iii) Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) participants are individuals, with one serving as the buyer and the other as the seller
E-commerce is the name given to commerce activities, e.g. sale, purchase, transfer, or exchange of products, services, and/or information, conducted using electronic means and technologies. However, in the general sense, e-commerce is referred to as online transactions. Sometimes the terms e-commerce and e-business are used interchangeably but are distinct concepts involving three and four integrations, respectively. E-business is more difficult as compared to e-commerce. The E-marketplace is one of the forms of e-commerce organization with online trading and online shopping, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods, services, money or information or any consideration thereof.
E-commerce in Pakistan' was first started in 2001. With the ban of PayPal services in Pakistan, eCommerce business companies and merchants had to rely on cash |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20by%20Request%3A%20Johnny%20Mathis | Live by Request: Johnny Mathis is a live television concert by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that aired on May 28, 1998, on the A&E Network as part of its Live by Request series. According to the television industry magazine Broadcasting & Cable, the network "recorded its best ratings ever--a 2.3 rating/1.6 million homes according to Nielsen Media Research"—for the broadcast.
The set included "Why Did I Choose You", a song from the 1965 Broadway musical version of The Yearling that has never appeared on a Mathis album. Another rarity in the show is "Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)", which made its first appearance as a Mathis recording on his Ultimate Hits Collection compilation that was released just five weeks earlier, on April 21.
The concert was released on DVD on December 18, 2001.
DVD track listing
Program Start
"Wonderful! Wonderful!" (Sherman Edwards, Ben Raleigh)
"Chances Are" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman)
"I'm Coming Home" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed)
"Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner)
"A Certain Smile" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster)
"Moment to Moment" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer)
"It's Not for Me to Say" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman)
"Stranger in Paradise" (Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright, George Forrest)
"The Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster)
"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" performed with Deniece Williams (Nat Kipner, John Vallins)
"You Make Me Feel Brand New" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed)
"Why Did I Choose You" (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin)
"To the Ends of the Earth" (Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman)
"Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington)
"99 Miles from L.A." (Hal David, Albert Hammond)
"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand)
"Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)" (Ary Barroso, Bob Russell)
Credits
Notes
1998 television specials
Johnny Mathis live albums
2001 video albums
Live video albums
2001 live albums
Johnny Mathis video albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%20Poochega%20Sabse%20Shaana%20Kaun%3F | India Poochega: Sabse Shaana Kaun? is an Indian reality game show hosted by actor Shah Rukh Khan. Adapted from the "Who's Asking?" international format, it opened on 2 March 2015 on Zee Network's newly launched entertainment channel &TV. The format of the show is simple. Two pairs compete against each other for a winning amount of . They will first be asked questions by ordinary people. Once they clear that round, a galaxy of celebrities will ask the winning pair a set of questions. The usual lifelines are present and so on.
Format
The show is a first of its kind where the common man will don the hat of the 'asker', as well as that of the contestant. While the 'askers' shall pose the questions, the contestants will be seen demonstrating their street-smartness to win big bucks. In the first round, the contestants have to look at the options on the screen and pick a questioner for themselves. In the second round, the opposite team has to pick one for their competitors. The finalists will face a pyramid of 15 celebrity questioners.
Celebrity appearances
Reception
Subramanian Harikumar of Bollywood Life gave the show 3.5 out of 5 stars and said, "India Poochega: Sabse Shaana Kaun has everything that you expect from a Shah Rukh Khan show and the actor has put his best foot forward, turning on the charm to full swing, adding glitz and glamour to a rather simple yet entertaining show." Ankita Chaurasia of The Times of India also gave a positive review, citing that "The show is interactive and manages to engage the viewer; Shah Rukh Khan's jokes and impeccable timing spice things up and keep the audience engaged. It has managed to generate enough buzz to garner decent numbers in the first week. If you haven't watched the show as yet, here's an invitation to do so."
References
Indian game shows
&TV original programming
2015 Indian television series debuts
2015 Indian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Morgan%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Antony J. (Tony) Morgan (born c. 1944) is a British computer scientist, data modeling consultant, and Professor in computer science at INTI International University. He is known for his work on (2002) "Business rules and information systems," and the 2010 "Information modeling and relational databases," co-authored with Terry Halpin.
Life and work
Morgan obtained his BA in Earth Sciences from The Open University, his BSc in Computer Systems Engineering from Coventry University, where in 1984 he also obtained his MSc in Control Engineering. In 1988 he obtained his PhD, Computer Science from University of Cambridge with a thesis on automated decision-making using qualitative reasoning.
Morgan started his career in industry and worked on "projects in Europe and the US with companies such as Unisys and EDS (now part of Hewlett-Packard) across diverse industries such as Government, Transportation, Aerospace and Financial Services." In the late 1990s he worked for SD-Scicon PLC, which was affiliated with the National Computing Centre in Manchester. In 1988 he co-edited "Blackboard Systems. The Insight Series in Artificial Intelligence" with Robert S. Engelmore (1935-2003), and in the early 1990s he published several articles on artificial intelligence and simulation. From 1997 to 2002 he was Senior Consultant at Unisys.
In 2003 he was appointed Professor in computer science and vice president of Enterprise Informatics at Neumont University, and in 2010 he moved to the INTI International University in Malaysia, where he is appointed Professor of computer science.
Morgans research interests focus on "business rules and business processes and the rapid development of high-quality information systems."
Work
Business Rules and Information Systems, 2002
In the 2002 "Business Rules and Information Systems," Morgan argued that "Information systems often fail because their requirements are poorly defined." The work is intended to show "IT professionals how to specify more precisely and more effectively what their systems need to do. The key lies in the discovery and application of what are called business rules."
A business rule is defined by Morgan as a "compact and simple statement that represents some important aspect of a business. By capturing the rules for your business--the logic that governs its operation--you will gain the ability to create systems fully aligned with your business needs."
Business architecture
In "Business Rules and Information Systems," Morgan (2002) described business architecture as "a way of describing businesses and what they do or intend to do in the future. The building blocks available represent various aspects of the business. No single aspect is the most important; all are necessary to give a balanced picture of what a business is all about. We can use the business architecture to produce business models: descriptions of specific businesses, couched in a consistent and well-defined vocabulary. The business archi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifetime%20%28Southeast%20Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | Lifetime is an Asian television channel owned by A+E Networks Asia.
Unlike its U.S. & Korea counterpart, Lifetime airs mostly entertainment and lifestyle programs aimed for female audiences.
On December 14, 2018, Lifetime ceased on Astro until it was leaked on August 31, 2021 that Lifetime will be relaunch on Astro and September 15, 2021, Astro announced that Lifetime will relaunch on Astro on September 15, 2021, replacing FOX Life that will be ceased on October 1, 2021.
Programming
Current
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Dance Moms
Income Property
Mom's Time Out
My Haunted House
MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Asia
Right This Minute
The Amazing Race Australia
The Rap Game
The Best Moment to Quit Your Job
Tiny House Nation
Zombie House Flipping
Upcoming
Married at the First Sight: Australia
Backstreet Rookie
Previous
F Word Out Loud with Anne Curtis
Smile
Hoarders: Family Secrets
Hoarders (Currently re-airing Season 7 every weekdays at 8am SIN / 7am JKT TH)
The Amazing Race Canada
UnREAL
Married at the First Sight
Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne
Mixology
Orphan Black
Resurrection
King
Wife Swap
MasterChef Canada
MasterChef New Zealand
Wahlburgers
Zoo
See also
Lifetime U.S.A.
References
External links
A&E Networks
Women's interest channels
Television channels and stations established in 2013
English-language television stations
Mass media in Southeast Asia
Lifetime (TV network) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Not%20Happening%20%28TV%20series%29 | This Is Not Happening is an American storytelling show hosted by Roy Wood Jr. The show was originally hosted by its creator, Ari Shaffir. It airs on American cable television network Comedy Central, and had its premiere on January 22, 2015. Episodes focus on comedians telling real life experiences comedically.
History
Beginning as a live show, This Is Not Happening later debuted exclusively on the Internet for its first two seasons. The show was taped at Cheetah's Strip Club in Hollywood, and featured comedians such as David Koechner, T.J. Miller, Natasha Leggero, Kumail Nanjiani, and Joe Rogan. Comedy Central later announced it would be given an eight episode first season on television, making it the first series to be adapted from its digital department to its cable network. In advance of the show's premiere, the first episode was available for streaming on Amazon on January 12, 2015. Comedians featured on the first cable season of the show include Marc Maron, Keegan-Michael Key, Paul Scheer, and Iliza Shlesinger. For the 4th season, Ari Shaffir was replaced by Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr.
There are numerous bonus online segments unaired for television that have either Season intros with: Ari Shaffir in a wine-colored jacket with glasses (Season 1), Ari Shaffir in a denim suit with a low mohawk (Season 2), Ari Shaffir dressed in a purple & gold tux (Season 3) or Roy Wood Jr. (Season 4); as well as the show topic. These include:
Season 1: Duncan Trussell (Brain on Drugs), Marc Maron (Brain on Drugs), Will Weldon (Battle), Kevin Christy (Romance), Giulia Rozzi (Emergency), Sean O'Connor (Wonder Years), Ms. Pat (Wonder Years), Cy Amundson (Travel), Bobby Lee (Friendship);
Season 2: Ari & Mat Edgar (Psychedelia), Ben Roy (Crime), Artie Lange (Romance), Mark Normand (Romance), Bret Ernst (Bloodline), Christina Pazsitsky (Melee), Mike Lawrence (Disaster), Annie Lederman (Nostalgia), Ari & Al Madrigal (Karma), Solomon Georgio (Karma);
Season 3: Joe List (Scumbag), Jessa Reed (Drugs), Dan St. Germain (Drugs), Pete Johansson (Mortality), Ryan Sickler (Blunder), Dave Ross (The Law), Aaron Berg (Romance), Sofiya Alexandra (Family), Scruncho (Rage); and
Season 4: Tommy Pope (Filth), Brooks Wheelan (Romance), Krystyna Hutchinson (Romance), Pat Dixon (Nightmare), B-Phlat (Moms), Brandt Tobler (Dads), Chris Garcia (Combat), Doug Smith (Combat), and Kelsey Cook (Shame).
Online exclusives
This is Not Happening Presents: One Crazy Night (2013)
This is Not Happening Presents: Fisticuffs (2013–2014)
Television seasons
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2016)
Season 4 (2018–19)
References
External links
Comedy Central Official Page
Comedy Central original programming
2010s American stand-up comedy television series
2015 American television series debuts
Storytelling television shows |
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