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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%21%20%28Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand%29 | E! was an Australian and New Zealand pay television channel, owned by NBCUniversal International Networks. Much like its American counterpart it featured entertainment-related programming, reality television and Hollywood news. It was available, at the time of closure, through the Foxtel and FetchTV platforms in Australia. It was available on the Sky platform in New Zealand, from April 2002 until 15 January 2023. It was also available on the Austar service prior to 2012. In 2014, it became available on Australian streaming service Foxtel Play.
NBCUIN signed a content agreement with Seven West Media in the Australian spring of 2022, which includes the launch of a new terrestrial channel, 7Bravo on 15 January 2023, that now includes E! content; with this, the previous content agreement with Foxtel was not renewed, and E! closed at 5:59a.m. local time on 1 February 2023, which is considered the last minute of the 31 January broadcast day.
History
E! was relaunched in 2012, shortly after the American version of E! did the same rebrand, which included a revised logo. Kim Kardashian visited Australia to promote the rebranding.
The channel issued a casting call for journalists to become the face of E! Australia, and report on local entertainment news. The contest was won by Ksenija Lukich.
Programming
Original local programming
Fashion Bloggers (season 2 only, season 1 aired on sister channel Style Network)
The Hype (starts October 17, 2015)
Acquired programming from American E!
Botched
Botched by Nature
Christina Milian Turned Up
Dash Dolls
E! True Hollywood Story
Famously Single
Fashion Police
Good Work
Hollywood Cycle
I Am Cait
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Mariah's World
New Money
Rich Kids of Beverly Hills
Sex with Brody
Stewarts and Hamiltons
The Soup
The Grace Helbig Show
Total Bellas
Total Divas
WAGS
We Have Issues
Acquired programming from other distributors
Burning Love
Former programming
Chasing The Saturdays
Chelsea Lately
E! Host Australia Search
Hello Ross
House of Carters
Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?
Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane
Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings
Opening Act
Sunset Tan
The Soup Investigates
The Wanted Life
What Would Ryan Lochte Do?
References
English-language television stations in Australia
E!
2004 establishments in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2023 disestablishments in Australia
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023
2023 disestablishments in New Zealand
Defunct television channels in New Zealand
Defunct television channels in Australia
English-language television stations in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20Science%20%28Rocket%20Science%20album%29 | Rocket Science is the eponymous debut album by the collaborative quartet assembled by trumpeter Peter Evans and featuring British saxophonist Evan Parker, pianist Craig Taborn and computer musician Sam Pluta. It was recorded live at the Vortex in London, at the start of the quartet's first tour which then visited the Bimhuis in Amsterdam and the Moers Festival in Germany. Evans recorded Scenes in the House of Music with the Parker-Guy-Lytton trio, and is a member of Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. Taborn played piano in Parker's Transatlantic Art Ensemble which recorded Boustrophedon. Pluta is a member of the Peter Evans Quintet that recorded Ghosts.
Reception
In a review for All About Jazz, Mark Corroto states "With a unit like Rocket Science, Evan Parker can finally realize his improvising conception of real time electronic processing, improvisation, and extended technique. The sound is presented with no overdubs or edits, and the quartet falls into a comfortable, yet restless sound."
In a review for JazzTimes Bill Beuttler says "This music takes concentration, which might be easier to come by when experiencing it live. But there is beauty to be found in it, for those willing to make the effort."
Track listing
All compositions by Rocket Science
"Fluid Dynamics" – 17:14
"Life Support Systems" – 16:26
"Flutter" – 12:54
"Noise Control" – 10:59
Personnel
Evan Parker – tenor sax, soprano sax
Peter Evans – trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Craig Taborn - piano
Sam Pluta - laptop
References
2013 live albums
Evan Parker live albums
Peter Evans (musician) live albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel%20Bellamy | Ethel Frances Butwell Bellamy (17 November 1881 – 7 December 1960) was an English astronomical computer and seismologist. She helped catalogue the position of over a million stars.
Biography
Bellamy was born in Oxford on 17 November 1881 to Montague Edward James Butwell Bellamy (1850–1908) and Mary Bellamy (née Castell). Her uncle Frank Arthur Bellamy was the senior of the two assistants at the Radcliffe Observatory of the University of Oxford; in 1899, at 17 years old, Ethel started to work for him, on a part-time basis from home, as an assistant. She performed computations for Oxford's contributions to the Carte du Ciel and Astrographic Catalogue projects, under the directions of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Herbert Hall Turner. In 1912 Turner appointed her as second assistant at the observatory, a permanent full-time post, for £50 a year. The job that she took had previously been occupied by another of her uncles, Frederick Bellamy, who had died at an early age before she was born.
After the completion of Oxford's role in the Astrographic Catalogue, Turner decided to assist the Vatican Observatory, which was having difficulty with its computations. From 1911 to 1928, Bellamy performed the reductions on the measurements and prepared the results for publication; the analysis of the Vatican's zone was "wholly in [her] hands". In recognition of her work the Vatican awarded her a silver medal in 1928; however, her work on the matter was unpaid. By 1928 she and her uncle had catalogued the position of over a million stars.
In 1918 Bellamy became the observatory's seismology assistant. She operated seismographs, managing correspondence with up to six hundred seismograph stations, and collated the data to be analysed. After Turner, or, from 1923, a new assistant called Joseph Hughes, had computed the epicentres of earthquakes, she prepared the results for publication in the International Seismological Summary (ISS). Moreover, she computed the epicentres herself for six issues during the Second World War while Hughes was serving in the armed forces. In this post she worked in an unheated hut until 1927, which caused her discomfort in addition to her generally poor health. In 1930, the year of Turner's death, she became the editor of the ISS; in his memory, she voluntarily produced an index of epicentres for 1925–1935 and a map of the world showing their locations. Between 1913 and 1939 she published nine papers, including two with her uncle. Her uncle died in 1936 and despite their long partnership her uncle left a valuable collection to Cambridge University and surprisingly he left no money. Ethel's finances were helped when Cambridge University refused her uncle's bequest so that it could be sold.
In 1939, Ethel published a paper in Nature in 1939 that focuses on the geographical distribution of epicenters of earthquakes recorded by the Seismological Committee of the British Association from 1913–1932.
Edith lived with her uncle Frank B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine%20Living%20%28European%20TV%20channel%29 | Fine Living (Sometimes called Fine Living Network or FLN) was a European television channel, initially owned and operated by Scripps Networks Interactive and later by Discovery Inc., from 2018 onwards. It broadcast from to . It featured documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to home, cooking, travel, lifestyle and health.
History
The channel was operated by Scripps Networks Interactive in a joint venture with Chello Zone from the launch till 2018 when Discovery, Inc. acquired Scripps Networks Interactive.
Fine Living HD launched in Europe on 1 September 2015.
Fine Living ceased broadcasting in the Netherlands and Flanders on 31 January 2019. Content from former Scripps television channels Travel Channel, Fine Living and Food Network has been integrated into the programming of Discovery, TLC and Investigation Discovery in the Benelux.
On 31 December 2020, it was announced that the television channel has been dissolved following a bankruptcy proceeding due to accumulated debt of over €30 million, and was replaced by the pan-European version of HGTV.
Programming
Programs on Fine Living were of factual entertainment and originated from the categories of Design & Décor, Food & Drink and Travel & Adventure, and dedicated to inspiring and empowering people to live better and maximize their time.
All TV shows
10 Grand in Your Hand
Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America
Amazing Water Homes
America's Most Desperate Kitchens
Beachfront Bargain Hunt
Brian Boitano Project
Brian Boitano's Italian Adventure
Candice Tells All
Caribbean Life
Color Splash
Cool Pools
Cousins on Call
Curb Appeal
Daryl's Restoration Over-Hall
Dear Genevieve
Desperate Landscapes
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Drop 5 lbs with Good Housekeeping
Extreme Homes
Fixer Upper
Flea Market Flip
Flip or Flop
Giada at Home
Giada Entertains
Giada in Paradise
Giada's Weekend Getaways
Going Yard
Hawaii Life
Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger
Healthy Gourmet
High Low Project
House Hunters
The Insider's List
Island Life
The Jennie Garth Project
Junk Gypsies
Kitchen Cousins (John Colaneri & Anthony Carrino)
Kitchen Impossible
Million Dollar Closets
Million Dollar Rooms
Model: NYC
Mom Caves
My First Renovation
Platinum Weddings
Rehab Addict
Restoration SOS Virginia
Selling LA
Texas Flip N Move
See also
Fine Living Network
Fine Living (Italian TV channel)
References
Fine Living Network
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Defunct television channels in the Netherlands
Defunct television channels in Portugal
Former E. W. Scripps Company subsidiaries
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emepa%20Alerce | The Alerce is an Argentine railcar produced by the Emepa Group in Chascomús, Buenos Aires Province. , the units are produced for the General Belgrano Railway's narrow gauge network and are currently used on commuter rail services, though a broad gauge variant is currently in the works. They are designed to be easily converted into Electric Multiple Units, though only diesel variants have been produced to date. The Alerce's namesake is the common name of Fitzroya cupressoides, a coniferous tree native to Argentina and Chile.
Overview
The first prototype of the Alerce began circulating the Belgrano Norte Line on test runs in 2012 from Boulogne Sur Mer to Retiro Belgrano railway station and the National Government then decided to purchase 20 trains from Emepa for use on the line. Each train has a capacity for 240 passengers and feature intelligent doors, air conditioning, security cameras, disabled access and Wi-Fi.
The Alerce's engine is located between the two carriages on its own articulated bogie with an access corridor between the two carriages. The trains use 90% of its parts from Argentine origin, with the remaining 10% being specialised parts imported from abroad, such as the German brakes and Austrian intelligent doors. The trains are also designed to be easily converted into Electric Multiple Units should the lines they run on be electrified.
In June 2015 it was announced that Emepa would produce a broad gauge variant of the Alerce for use on local service on the General Roca Railway.
Usage
The narrow gauge variant of the Alerce is currently used for differential services on the Belgrano Norte Line commuter rail service in Buenos Aires. The service stops at Retiro Belgrano railway station, the University of Buenos Aires' Ciudad Universitaria campus, Aristóbulo del Valle and Del Viso with prices ranging from AR$ 1.50-17 with a SUBE card and AR$3–34 without a SUBE card. The journey time between Retiro and Del Viso is 65 minutes. Unlike the rest of the line operated by Ferrovías, the service is operated by the state-owned Trenes Argentinos. The service was also going to have a stop at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport, however this station was cancelled with the Ministry of the Interior and Transport citing the station causing a possible increase in security concerns at the airport as the reason for its cancellation.
The broad gauge variant of the Alerce will be used on the General Roca Railway between Constitución railway station and Dolores on a rural service which will stop at all stations between the two termini.
In April 2018, Emepa provided the two last Alerce vehicles (from a total of 20) that had been commissioned to be used in the regional services Tren de las Sierras (Córdoba Province) and Salta – Gral. Güemes (Salta Province). In 2020, two coaches else commissioned to Emepa were added to the Salta Service.
See also
Materfer CMM 400-2 - another Argentine-built DMU
Trenes Argentinos - primary operator
Belgrano Norte Line
Tre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20Telemetric%20and%20Command%20Exchange | XTCE (for XML Telemetric and Command Exchange) is an XML based data exchange format for spacecraft telemetry and command meta-data. Using XTCE the format and content of a space systems command and telemetry links can be readily exchanged between spacecraft operators and manufacturers. XTCE was originally standardized by the OMG. In April 2007 the OMG released revision 1.1 of XTCE as an OMG available specification. Version 1.0 of the XTCE specification is a CCSDS green-book specification and version 1.1 has been adopted as a CCSDS blue-book specification.
Overview
During the entire ground system development and operation phases of a mission, telemetry and telecommand definitions may be exchanged between multiple systems and organizations. Without a standard format, databases need dedicated converters to convert between the various proprietary database formats and editors. Allowing for a common database exchange format throughout the entire mission lifecycle will significantly reduce the cost of database conversions that occur in many space projects. XTCE has been developed as part of an international cooperation involving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Goddard Space Flight Center, the European Space Agency, the United States Air Force and private industry including RT Logic, Harris, SciSys, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The standards development effort has been coordinated via the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems and the Object Management Group. The XML Telemetry and Command Exchange standard is now in active use as a means to exchange mission databases improving interoperability while reducing mission readiness costs.
External links
XTCE home
References
AIAA conference - SpaceOps 2006, The XTCE Standardization approach of Telemetry and Command Databases - The ESA example: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930203552/http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMSPOPS06_1317/PV2006_5582.pdf
AIAA conference - SpaceOps 2006, Exchanging Databases with Dissimilar Systems using CCSDS XTCE: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930203413/http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMSPOPS06_1317/PV2006_5801.pdf
CCSDS, MOIMS-SMC Working Group: http://cwe.ccsds.org/moims/docs/MOIMS-SMandC
GSAW conference - 2006, Exchanging Databases with Dissimilar Systems using CCSDS XTCE, https://web.archive.org/web/20060511171958/http://sunset.usc.edu:80/GSAW/gsaw2006/s2/merri.pdf
Aerospace Conference, 2004, XTCE: a standard XML-schema for describing mission operations databases
AIAA conference - SpaceOps2006, A Model for a Spacecraft Operations Language, https://web.archive.org/web/20070929190020/http://www.rheagroup.com/AIAA-2006-5708-129.pdf
Space standards
XML
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar%20Pastor%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Óscar Pastor (born 3 March 1962 in Valencia) is a Spanish computer scientist, Professor of software production methods at the Department of Information Systems and Computing of Universitat Politècnica de València, and the director of the Research Centre in Software Production Methods (PROS).
Biography
Óscar ended high school in Instituto Benlliure (Valencia) in 1980. In 1985, he received a bachelor's degree on Physics from Universitat de València, where he specialised in Electronics and Computer Science. In 1992, he received a PhD from Universitat Politècnica de València with his thesis Diseño y Desarrollo de un Entorno de Producción Automática de Software basado en el Modelo Orientado a Objetos, supervised by Isidro Ramos.
Former researcher at HP Labs (Bristol, UK), in 1986 he became an associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of Universitat Politècnica de València. From 1996 to 2002 he was a tenured professor. From 2002 to date, he is Full Professor.
Work
His main research interests include Software Engineering, Conceptual modeling, Model-driven development, genomic information systems (for Bioinformatics, Translational bioinformatics, Health informatics, etc.), and Empirical software engineering. He received the ER Fellow Award in 2010 for his contributions to the conceptual modeling area, and has been keynote speaker at a dozen of international conferences. He has also been strongly committed to technology transfer activities through the creation of spin-off companies such as Integranova and GEM Biosoft.
Within the area of model-driven software development, he advocates a full-model driven software lifecycle. He authored the OO-Method, an object-oriented, model-driven method for enterprise information systems, that is currently supported by the Integranova Software Solutions technology. The OO-Method covers the Platform-independent model layer (according to the Model-driven architecture paradigm). To tackle with modelling layers that are closer to the business stakeholders, he has explored several requirements engineering methods and languages (ranging from use cases to BPMN). Among them, he co-authored Communication Analysis, a business process modelling and requirements engineering method with a communicational orientation, as well as its integration with the OO-Method, in a way that Communication Analysis covers the Computation-independent model layer.
Awards
2016: Peter P. Chen Award, Elsevier
Publications
Óscar Pastor is author of over 200 scientific publications in conference proceedings, journals and books, among which the following stand out:
2007. Model-Driven Architecture in Practice: A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling. With Juan Carlos Molina. Springer.
References
Living people
1962 births
Spanish computer scientists
Software engineers
Software engineering researchers
Academic staff of the Technical University of Valencia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellness%20Corporate%20Solutions | Wellness Corporate Solutions is a company that works to promote healthy workplace cultures through biometric screenings, health coaching, and comprehensive wellness programming. Founded in 2004 by Fiona Gathright and Juliet Rodman, Wellness Corporate Solutions recorded 644% revenue growth between 2010 and 2013. WCS 's clients include a variety of large public and private-sector organizations, including a few Fortune 100 corporations.
WCS gives all its employees standing desks, mid-day fitness breaks, and workout groups.
References
Companies based in Bethesda, Maryland
Occupational safety and health organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20Al-Mina%27a%20SC%20season | The 2015–16 season was Al-Minaa's 40th season in the Iraqi Premier League, having featured in all 42 editions of the competition except two.
Squad
Players Data
Transfers
In
Out
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date
! Pos.
! Name
! To
! Fee
|-
| July 2015
| MF
| Júnior
| End of contract
| –
|-
| July 2015
| FW
| Gleisson
| End of contract
| –
|-
| July 2015
| MF
| Omar Alaa Ahmed
| End of contract
| –
|-
| July 2015
| DF
| Ali Jassim
| End of contract
| –
|-
| July 2015
| FW
| Hussein Ali Wahed
| Al-Shorta
| Undisclosed
|-
| July 2015
| MF
| Hussein Abdul Wahed
| Al-Shorta
| Undisclosed
|-
| July 2015
| DF
| Mohammed Abdul Karim
| Naft Al-Janoob
| Undisclosed
|-
| August 2015
| GK
| Amjad Rahim
| Al-Shorta
| Undisclosed
|-
| September 2015
| MF
| Hamid Mido
| Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
| Undisclosed
|-
| December 2015
| DF
| Ali Hussein
|
| Released
|-
| December 2015
| MF
| Ghiyath Shokor
|
| Released
|-
| December 2015
| FW
| Omar Khribin
| Al-Dhafra
| Undisclosed
|-
Technical staff
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Position
! Name
|-
| Coach
| Hussam Al Sayed
|-
| Assistant coach
| Ahmad Rahim
|-
| Fitness coach
| Waleed Juma
|-
| Goalkeeping coach
| Aqeel Abdul Mohsin
|-
| Club doctor
| Faris Abdullah
|-
| Doctor's assistant
| Fuad Mahdi
Board members
Kit
Stadium
During the previous season, the stadium of Al-Mina'a demolished. A company will build a new stadium that will be completed in 2016. Since they can't play their games at Al Mina'a Stadium, they will be playing at Basra Sports City during this season.
Friendlies
Iraqi Premier League
Group stage : Group – 2
Summary table
Results by matchday
Matches
Away matches
Home matches
Final stage
Results by matchday
Matches
Iraq FA Cup
Squad statistics
Top scorers
Sources
FIFA.COM
Iraqi League 2015/2016
Al-Minaa SC: Transfers and News
Al-Minaa SC seasons
Al Mina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG-PON2 | NG-PON2 (also known as TWDM-PON), Next-Generation Passive Optical Network 2 is a 2015 telecommunications network standard for a passive optical network (PON). The standard was developed by ITU and details an architecture capable of total network throughput of 40 Gbit/s, corresponding to up to 10 Gbit/s symmetric upstream/downstream speeds available at each subscriber.
A passive optical network is a last mile, fibre-to-the-x telecommunications network that broadcasts data through fibre optic cables. PONs are managed by passive optics such as unpowered splitters and filters, offering high reliability and low cost compared to active networks. The PON data stream is generally converted to a more traditional service such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi at the subscriber's location.
NG-PON2 is compatible with existing PON fibre by replacing optical line terminal (OLT) at the central office, and the optical network unit (ONU) near each end-user.
Unique to this standard is the use of both active filters and tunable lasers in the ONU.
From 2019 until 2021 a series of new Recommendations under the header Higher Speed PON (G.9804 series) was released intended as successors to NG-PON2.
Technical details
Wavelength allocations include 1524 nm to 1544 nm in the upstream direction and 1596 nm to 1602 nm in the downstream direction.
The architecture calls for time- and wavelength-division multiplexing (TWDM) in the upstream and downstream directions. Wavelength-division multiplexing is provided in the downstream direction by combining light from four fixed wavelength OLT lasers with a wavelength mux. The light is then filtered at each ONU with an actively tunable filter that passes only the desired downstream wavelength to its receiver. In the upstream direction, tunable lasers at each ONU are dynamically assigned to a wavelength. Fibres from all ONUs are combined with a passive mux/splitter. Time-division multiplexing is provided in the upstream direction through the use of burst lasers at each ONU.
Each upstream/downstream wavelength is capable of providing up to 10 Gbit/s symmetric bandwidth to each subscriber if the channel is not time-division multiplexed between several ONUs. With wavelength-division multiplexing on four available wavelengths, NG-PON2 can provide up to 40 Gbit/s throughput to the entire optical network.
Deployments for several downstream/upstream subscriber rates are described within the standard including 10/10 Gbit/s at each subscriber, 10/2.5 Gbit/s, and 2.5/2.5 Gbit/s. Additionally, some wavelengths are reserved for potential use in Point-to-Point applications.
NG-PON2 was designed to include backwards-compatibility, or coexistence, with previous architectures to ease deployment into existing optical distribution networks. Wavelengths were specifically chosen to avoid interference with GPON, 10G-PON, RF Video, and OTDR measurements. The standard provides spectral flexibility to occupy reserved wavelengths in deployments devoid of le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20Saturday%20Primetime | ESPN NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC is the name for National Basketball Association (NBA) games produced by ESPN and televised on its sister network the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). As these games air in primetime, they are considered the showcase games for ABC's NBA coverage.
ABC has been the NBA's broadcast TV partner since 2002, and games have mostly aired on Sunday afternoons. In 2006, ABC Sports was absorbed by ESPN, and all sports telecasts on ABC since then air under the ESPN on ABC banner.
The Saturday primetime games – usually featuring marquee matchups of the league's most prominent teams – began in the 2015–2016 season.
Saturday primetime games begin airing on ABC in December or January, following the completion of college football season which features the network's Saturday Night Football telecasts.
Games and results
2024
2022–2023
2021–2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
References
2016 American television series debuts
ABC Sports
American Broadcasting Company original programming
ABC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Central%20Regional%20Transit%20District | The North Central Regional Transit District operates a network of several local and intercity bus routes in northern New Mexico, serving Santa Fe, Española, Taos, and many smaller communities along a network of 25 fixed routes and one demand-response route, one dial-a-ride and complementary Paratransit service in the Taos area. Routes operate Monday through Friday only, with the exceptions of the "Taos Express," which operates only on weekends, the Mountain Trail route to the Santa Fe National Forest and Ski Santa Fe, which operates daily, and seasonal daily service from the Town of Taos to Taos Ski Valley. All routes are fare-free, with the exception of the Taos Express and Mountain Trail route which are premium fare-based routes. The service is supported primarily by transit gross receipt taxes, which provides approximately 70% of the RTD's revenues. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
History
The North Central RTD was created in September 2004 by the New Mexico Transportation Commission under the Regional Transit Act, a law passed by Governor Bill Richardson that authorized the creation of Regional Transit Districts in New Mexico. The RTD first began public transit operations in 2007 after consolidating with local transit services in Rio Arriba County and the City of Española. In the following years, NCRTD expanded service further, aided by a gross receipts tax of one-eighth of one percent that was approved by voters in 2008.
In January 2015, NCRTD took over operations of the weekend Taos Express bus service, and in July took over operations of the local Chile Line bus service in the town of Taos. In September 2015, the RTD opened a new route serving the Santa Fe Ski Area. And in March 2016, the RTD began service along a new route between Santa Fe and La Cienega.
In partnership with the Jicarilla Apache Nation, the District launched the 170 Jicarilla Route in October 2017. The route provides service between Chama, Dulce and Farmington, NM.
Current members of the district include Los Alamos County, Rio Arriba County, Santa Fe County and Taos County, as well as several pueblos, including Ohkay Owingeh, Pojoaque, Nambe, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara and Tesuque.; and the Cities of Española and Santa Fe, the Town of Taos and Edgewood and the Village of Chama. The Rio Metro RTD, based in Albuquerque, sits on the Board as an ex-officio member.
Blue Bus Tracker
In March 2015, NCRTD launched the Blue Bus Tracker, which allows riders to view bus routes and stops, as well as to view service alerts and expected departure times based on real-time GPS data. Each bus stop on the network is identified by a unique number, which is displayed at the stop; by inputting the number into the Blue Bus Tracker or by texting the number to an automated service number, real-time information can be viewed for that stop.
Recognition
In October 2014, NCRTD was one of five rural transit agencies nationwide recognized by the Federal Trans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden%20Faces%20%28Hong%20Kong%20TV%20series%29 | Hidden Faces () is a 2015 Hong Kong medical drama series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The first episode premiered on 24 July 2015.
Cast
Frankie Lam as Dr. Jack Cheuk, plastic surgeon
David Chiang as Dr. Chui Chun-pong, family physician
Wilson Tsui as Dr. Chan Pun-yuen, gynecologist
Kate Yeung as Amber / Jodie / Phoenix
Leanne Ho as Hui Wai-sum, nurse
Lesley Chiang as Chui Man-yee, Dr. Chui Chun-pong's daughter
Sam Chan as Lam Chi-ho
Rain Lau as Chiu Choi-king, works as a waitress in Cha chaan teng
Philip Keung as Ma Sai-kwong, Chiu Choi-king's husband
Maria Chen as Kimmy Kam
Queenie Chan as Regina Chung
Benji Chiang as Avery Chow, Hui Wai-sum's husband
Rachel Lam as Kelly, personal assistant for Dr. Jack Cheuk
Karen Lee as Sammi, nurse
Yetta Tse as Lau Ming-chu, nurse
Deon Cheung as Tin Jun
Carlos Chan as Kenny
Yan Ng as Liu Ho-yan, Yeung Chiu-hung's wife
Wong Kwun-bun as Yeung Chiu-hung, part of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance
Jackeline Cheung as Sophia, Dr. Chan Pun-yuen's wife
Candy Cheung as Abby
Jel Lam as Alice
Jacky Yeung as Ben
Eddie Li as Fong Chun-wai
Bryant Mak as Frankie
Carlos Koo as Arthur
Jan Tse as waitress
Release
A 9-minute preview was released on HKTV's YouTube channel on 15 July 2015.
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%20Chase%20Australia | The Chase Australia is an Australian television quiz show based on the British program of the same name. It is broadcast on the Seven Network and premiered on 14 September 2015. Four contestants play against an opponent, known as the "chaser", who plays for the bank. The show was originally hosted by Andrew O'Keefe until July 2021, when he was replaced by Larry Emdur. The series began with Brydon Coverdale, Anne Hegerty, Matt Parkinson and Issa Schultz as chasers, with Mark Labbett joining in 2016. Shaun Wallace appeared as a guest chaser in 2018, and Cheryl Toh has appeared as a chaser since 2019. Mara Lejins joined as a chaser in 2022, and David Poltorak will join as a chaser in 2024.
The series has also spawned a prime-time celebrity series, and a spin-off called Beat The Chasers.
History
In mid-2014 it was reported that the Seven Network had considered producing a local version of The Chase on the back of good ratings for the British version of the show which has been airing in the 3:00 pm timeslot since August 2013. A pilot episode on the UK set was made, but ultimately it was decided not to proceed.
However, interest in a local version was renewed in May 2015 and in July the Seven Network commissioned the show to eventually replace Deal or No Deal and Million Dollar Minute in the 5:00 pm timeslot in a bid to revive ratings for its struggling 6:00 pm nightly news.
From June 2020, social distancing measures were applied on set due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with contestants spaced apart from each other. In August 2020, it was announced that beginning with the spin-off, Beat The Chasers, production of The Chase Australia would move from Melbourne to Sydney in September 2020 due to COVID restrictions in Victoria at the time.
On 2 February 2021, Seven announced that the network did not renew host Andrew O'Keefe's contract in December 2020 and parted company with him after he was charged with domestic violence. On 22 February 2021, it was announced that Larry Emdur would replace O'Keefe as host of the program, with future episodes to continue to be recorded in Sydney. The final new episode with O'Keefe as host aired on 20 July 2021. Episodes with Emdur as host began airing from 26 July 2021.
Gameplay
Cash Builder and Head-to-Head rounds
Each contestant plays the first two rounds alone. In the first round, the "Cash Builder", they have one minute to answer as many questions as possible, earning $2,000 per correct answer. Next, the contestant faces the day's chaser in a head-to-head contest, attempting to move the money down to the bottom of a seven-step gameboard and into the team bank ("home"). They may start three steps down from the top (giving a three-step head start and requiring five correct answers to reach home) and play for the money earned in the Cash Builder, start one step farther down for a lesser award, or start one step farther up for a greater award. The latter two awards are stated by the chaser; since 2016, lesser awards ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wireless%20network%20technologies |
This is a list of generations of wireless network technologies in mobile telecommunications.
* latest and optimal iteration of technology
** originally not considered 4G, only after a revision of 4G specification
0G
0G systems did not use cellullar systems. Referred to as pre-cellular (or sometimes zero generation, that is, 0G mobile) systems.
1G
1G or (1-G) refers to the first generation of cellular network technology. These are the analog telecommunication standards that were introduced in 1979 and the early to mid-1980s and continued until being replaced by 2G digital telecommunications. The main difference between these two mobile telephone generations is that in 1G systems the audio was encoded as analog radio signals (though call set-up and other network communications were digital), while 2G networks were entirely digital.
1.5G
2G
2G (or 2-G) provides three primary benefits over their predecessors: phone conversations are digitally encrypted; 2G systems are significantly more efficient on the spectrum allowing for far greater mobile phone penetration levels; and 2G introduced data services for mobile, starting with SMS (Short Message Service) plain text-based messages. 2G technologies enable the various mobile phone networks to provide the services such as text messages, picture messages and MMS (Multimedia Message Service). It has 3 main services: Bearer services is one of them which is also known as data services and communication.
Second generation 2G cellular telecom networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991.
The North American Standards IS-54 and IS-136 were also second-generation (2G) mobile phone systems, known as (Digital AMPS) and used TDMA with three time slots in each 30 kHz channel, supporting 3 digitally compressed calls in the same spectrum as a single analog call in the previous AMPS standard. This was later changed to 6 half rate time slots for more compressed calls. It was once prevalent throughout the Americas, particularly in the United States and Canada since the first commercial network was deployed in 1993 on AT&T and Rogers Wireless Networks.
IS-95 was the first ever CDMA-based digital cellular technology. It was developed by Qualcomm using Code Division Multiple Access and later adopted as a standard by the Telecommunications Industry Association in TIA/EIA/IS-95 release published in 1995. It was marketed as CDMAOne and deployed globally including China Unicom in 2002 and Verizon in the United States, competing directly with GSM services offered by AT&T and T-Mobile.
2.5G
2.5G denotes 2G-systems that have implemented a packet-switched domain in addition to the circuit-switched domain. It does not necessarily provide faster service because bundling of timeslots is used for circuit-switched data services (HSCSD) as well. Also called General Packet Radio Service or GPRS
2.75G
GPRS networks evolved to EDGE networks with the introducti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adober%20Studios | Adober Studios, formerly known as Chicken Pork Adobo, was a YouTube multi-channel network owned and operated by Filipino media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. It was the country's first and only YouTube-certified multi-channel network.
Background
Initially, Chicken Pork Adobo had 90 content creators whose channels on YouTube tackle a variety of topics ranging from toys and games, fashion, comedy, music, lifestyle, vlogs, entertainment, arts and crafts, food, parenting, and inspirational. Among the YouTube channels under Chicken Pork Adobo was Kids' Toys which was launched in May 2012 and was currently the network's biggest channel. Also part of the network's content creators are Lloyd Cafe Cadena† who became popular in social media because of his funny videos and memes about love, school, as well as pop culture parodies, solo musician Ian Rondilla, actor Xian Lim, actor JC De Vera, actress Melissa Ricks, former Rugby player and comedian/host Eric Tai, and artist manager and tabloid writer Ogie Diaz. Another channel under the network was The Soshal Network starring three lawyers with entertaining commentaries on how to become a socialite and Plump Pinay by Cai Cortez who advocates of being comfortable of your own body. Also part of Chicken Pork Adobo was Kitchen Queen (later renamed as Chef Liza) of Liza Diño. As of August 2016, Chicken Pork Adobo had over 300 content creators. Among the newest content creators were Bretman Rock, Kristel Fulgar, Alexa Ilacad, and Andrea Brillantes. As of 2017, the network had over 350 content creators.
Adober Studios ceased its operations on August 31, 2020, as part of the retrenchment by ABS-CBN Corporation, due to the denial of ABS-CBN's legislative franchise by the House of Representatives on July 10, 2020.
References
External links
Chicken Pork Adobo on ABS-CBN website
Chicken Pork Adobo on YouTube
ABS-CBN Digital Media
Philippine entertainment websites
Internet properties established in 2014
Internet properties disestablished in 2020
Multi-channel networks
ABS-CBN subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HYPERchannel | HYPERchannel, sometimes rendered Hyperchannel, was a local area networking system for mainframe computers, especially supercomputers, introduced by Network Systems Corporation in the 1970s. It ran at the then-fast speed of 50 Mbits/second, performance that would not be matched by commodity hardware until the introduction of Fast Ethernet in 1995. HYPERchannel ran over very thick coax cable or fibre optic extensions and required adaptor hardware the size of a minicomputer. The networking protocol was entirely proprietary. Solutions for Control Data, IBM and Cray computers were their primary products, but a wide variety of support emerged in the 1980s, including DEC VAX and similar superminicomputers.
The introduction of 10 mbit/sec Ethernet in the 1980s was a major problem for the HYPERchannel product, one the company never clearly addressed. The company introduced products to allow HYPERchannel protocols to travel over Ethernet, and systems that allowed Ethernet-equipped computers to connect to HYPERchannel systems, as well as TCP/IP and other standard protocol support. However, these generally had the side-effect of further eroding the need for the product, other than raw performance, and it found itself pressed into an ever smaller niche that was eventually killed off by new systems with dramatically higher performance.
Hyperchannel operation
"Hyperchannel" referred to an early, proprietary LAN protocol. The earlier, "A-series" Hyperchannel "adapter" had a device interface and a trunk (LAN) interface, which could drive up to four coaxial trunks, each carrying 50 Mbit/s. Intercommunication between adapters was always across the trunk.
The A-series adapter had a processor made from discrete, high-speed ECL components, with an 8K program memory and a 4K or an 8K data memory. Data memory was divided, so that one half could be being filled from the device interface while the other half was emptying onto the trunk interface, or vice versa.
The device interface was interchangeable, and could use a selected board to attach to an IBM FIPS channel, or to a Cray channel, CDC channel, or to a communications link so it could communicate with remote installations. A major product was RDS (Remote Device Support), in which an IBM mainframe could connect to an adapter through its FIPS channel, which would communicate over a trunk to an adapter with a comms link, possibly to another continent, where it could drive a remote FIPS channel to drive IBM peripherals such as tape units, printers and the like. This gave remote backup possibilities to save data onto a remote site in real time, to protect data in case of disaster at the host location. Both sites could have host computers, and backup could be bidirectional. For RDS, the remote adapter emulated the IBM host by producing the channel protocol.
The Hyperchannel Trunk was a LAN made of up to four parallel coaxial cables carrying 50 Mbit/s, which, at the time, was considered bleeding-edge technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SatNOGS | SatNOGS (Satellite Networked Open Ground Station) project is a free software and open source hardware platform aimed to create a satellite ground station network. The scope of the project is to create a full stack of open technologies based on open standards, and the construction of a full ground station as a showcase of the stack.
History
The SatNOGS project was initiated during NASA SpaceApps Challenge in 2014 at Athens Hackerspace. The project then took part in and won the first place of the Hackaday Prize 2014 competition. SatNOGS is currently a project of the Libre Space Foundation.
Overview
SatNOGS aims to provide a stack of technologies needed for a distributed network of low Earth orbit satellite ground stations. In order to implement such a stack the four following different sub-projects are developed
Network
SatNOGS Network is a web application for scheduling observations across the network of ground stations.
Database
SatNOGS Database is a crowd-sourced application allowing its users to suggest satellite transmitter information for currently active satellites. Its data is available via an API.
Client
SatNOGS Client is the software to run on ground stations, usually on embedded systems, that receives the scheduled observations from the Network, receives the satellite transmission and sends it back to the Network web app.
Ground Station
SatNOGS Ground Station is an open source hardware ground station instrumentation with a rotator, antennas, electronics and connected to the Client. It is based on 3D printed components, readily available materials.
Operation
A November 2019 SatNOGS blog post summarizes total statistics since establishment:
300+ operational ground-stations
12,000,000+ observations
380+ satellites with 810+ transmitters monitored
51,000,000+ data frames
Tracking
The global array of ground stations contribute to an effective network for monitoring orbital satellites.
The European Space Agency utilized the SatNOGS network to gain initial status observations from the OPS-SAT CubeSat after launch in December 2019.
Notes and references
See also
UPSat
External links
SatNOGS Website
Ground stations
Open-source hardware
Amateur radio
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorsport.com | Motorsport.com is a website specializing in motor racing news. It posts content in thirteen languages. It is part of the Motorsport Network company. Motorsport.com's headquarters are in Miami, United States.
History
Motorsport.com was formed in 1994.
In March 2015, Motorsport.com acquired ToileF1.com., followed by Worldcarfans.com and Edimotive S.r.l. in May. In May, the Grand Prix Drivers' Association and Motorsport.com joined forces to allow followers of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship to voice and share their opinions about the sport through an extensive worldwide survey for fans. More than 200,000 respondents from 194 countries participated in the survey. In June, Motorsport.com acquired TotalRace.com.br, RaceFansTV and Formulawahad.com, while later gaining the technical archive of Giorgio Piola in September, also announcing a partnership with MSN.com. In October, Motorsport.com became the official media partner of Ferrari for the 2016 Ferrari Finali Mondiali and a global partner of GPTicketShop.com. In November, Motorsport.com acquired Wildsoft Digital F1 Encyclopedia. The following month, the site formed a global digital content partnership with VICE Sports and AOL’s Autoblog.com.
In 2016 Motorsport.com acquired French pan-european TV-station Motors TV after it went into a bankruptcy procedure. In 2018 the renamed Motorsport.TV decided to stop broadcasting as a television station and closed down the television operation.
In January 2016, Motorsport.com appointed Zak Brown as non-executive chairman of Motorsport.com In February, the site announced a strategic merchandising partnership with UK-based Branded-London and Puma Company. In March 2016, Motorsport.com became the official digital media partner of the FIA World Endurance Championship, while also extending exclusive digital rights agreement to host the F1 video magazine Series Inside Grand Prix. On 15 March 2016, Motorsport.com acquired Spain’s moto racing digital media company Motocuatro.com. In April 2016, Motorsport.com acquired TurkiyeF1.com, Turkish auto racing website. In May 2016 Motorsport.com acquired gp-live.hu. In June 2016 Motorsport.com acquired F1-Ukraine.com.ua. The following month, the site become official media partner” of the 2016 TCR International Series. In March 2017, Motorsport.com launched a tri-language Swiss edition in partnership with businessman Lorenzo Senna.
In 2016, Motorsport.com expanded to Japan through a joint venture with digital media company, Kotsu Times Sha Co.
Staff writers
Its current editor-in-chief is Charles Bradley, having been appointed to the position of global editorial leader in May 2015.
The team's current roster of leading staff journalists includes Formula 1 Editor Jonathan Noble, MotoGP Editor Oriol Puigdemont, European News Editor Pablo Elizalde, Swiss News Motorsport Italian Edition Antonio Russo, Swiss News Motorsport German Edition, Swiss News Motorsport French Edition, US Editor David Malsher, News Manager Nick DeGro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojeed%20Olayide%20Abass | Mojeed Olayide Abass, OON (born 1943) is a Nigerian professor of computer science at the University of Lagos and former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos.
Education and career
Abass obtained a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Lagos before he proceeded to the University of Waterloo where he received a master (M.sc) and doctorate degree (Ph.D.).
He joined the University of Lagos as academic staff and rose to the position of full Professor before he was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of the university.
In 2008, he retired from the University of Lagos having attained the compulsory retirement age of 65 years and was honored by the university with the book entitled: Olayide Abass: On the dynamics of an Evolving Knowledge Society making him the fourth retired University of Lagos scholar to be honoured with the book.
In 2012, he was elected as fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science.
He is currently the President of the University of Lagos Alumni Association.
References
1943 births
Academic staff of the University of Lagos
University of Lagos alumni
Living people
Yoruba academics
University of Waterloo alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nigerian expatriates in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Free%20%282015%20TV%20series%29 | Home Free was an American television reality competition series that premiered on the Fox network on July 22, 2015. It featured couples competing to win a dream home. The series is hosted by Mike Holmes and Co hosted by His Son Mike Holmes Jr. The first season has 8 episodes. On March 21, 2016 it was announced that the series would return for a second season on Thursday, June 16 with a new twist and new co-host Tim Tebow.
Home Free did not return for 2017-2018 TV season, leaving it cancelled after two seasons.
Premise
Season 1 opening Introduction: (narrated by Mike Holmes)
Season 2 opening Introduction: (narrated by Tim Tebow)
Judging
For Season 1:
Each episode, home improvement and real estate experts will judge the final renovations of the homes. The couples will break down into two teams (Green Team and Gold Team). At the end of each build, the two teams will be judged on three of Mike's criteria: Quality, Creativity and Teamwork.
Experts:
John Gidding, Architect and Interior Designer, host of Curb Appeal
Danisha Danielle Hoston, Real Estate Broker and Investor
Season 2:
At the end of each week, team members who received a red tag during work orders have to compete. The person who fails the competition will be cut from the show and their hero wins that week's house. Leaders who have the gold tag, the person who won the first competition, can either save someone or send someone to the competition.
Competitors
Season 1
Kathy / Brian – Housekeeper / Landscaper – dating for 6 years
Heather / Ricky – Furniture Restorer / Firefighter – married with 2 children
Jamaal / Sheena – Brooklyn Teachers – newlyweds
Josh / Lauren – Design School Grads – engaged
Tiffany / Oreonna – Mothers / Athlete – married with 1 child
Kate / Andi – Fashion Designers – twin sisters competing for parents
Susie / Victor – Designer-Stylist / Material Science Engineer – dating for 2 years
Aidah / Siddiq – Jewelry Designer / Film Maker and Motion Graphic Artist – married with 2 children
Ben / Kasey – Carpenter / Mother – married 13 years with 4 children
Season 2
Valerie – Student – playing for community leaders, David and Angela of HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Success) who changed Stephen, her late brother's life
Patrick – School Principal and Farmer – playing for an inspirational teacher Dennis Toliver
Nick – War Veteran – playing for his hero, U.S. Air Force officer Garrett Knight, who saved his life
Morgan – Business School Grad – playing for her mother, Stephaine, who fought to give her an education
Maggie – Real Estate Agent, Owner of a Home Improvement Company, and Aspiring FBI Agent – playing for her older brother, Brian, who raised her when their father left
Kevin – Police Officer – playing for his mother-in-law, Pat Weaver, who helped him through cancer
James – Landscaper, Pastor – playing for his mother, Betty and step father, Virlyn, who lost everything they had
Carre – Architect – playing for her best friend, Babette, a single mom who was diagnose |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking%20In%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Checking In" is the premiere episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 7, 2015, on the cable network FX. The episode was co-written by creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and directed by Murphy.
Plot
Two female Swedish tourists check into the Hotel Cortez in downtown Los Angeles. They find a disfigured creature who was inside their room's mattress.
Detective John Lowe is investigating the torture-murder of a couple and goes to the Cortez for clues. He sees a vision there of his missing son Holden, who was abducted five years earlier. Heroin addict Gabriel checks in and is violently raped by the Addiction Demon.
The resident couple, Countess Elizabeth and Donovan, have a foursome with a couple they met, murdering them after and savoring their blood. In a 1994 flashback, it is revealed that the hotel manager Iris shoved a woman out a window to her death after the woman drugged Donovan to death. Detective Lowe receives a text from his wife saying that she is in trouble. He rushes to the scene with his daughter in the car. His daughter then finds two dead men in the house. To keep his family safe, Detective Lowe moves out of his home and into Room 64. The new owner of the hotel, Mr. Will Drake, and his son arrive to live in the Penthouse. The Countess takes Drake's son to a secret room containing white-haired children and introduces him to Detective Lowe's abducted son, Holden.
Reception
Ratings
"Checking In" gained a 3.0 18–49 ratings share and was watched by 5.81 million viewers, leading the night on cable, about a 5% dip from the American Horror Story: Freak Show premiere. It also topped the social ratings, driving 878,000 tweets seen by over 5.4 million people. The episode averaged a 3.0 rating in the 18–49 years adult demographic, the most sought after by advertisers, and ranked second among all primetime series aired on Wednesday night, only behind Fox's drama Empire. After factoring in delayed viewing, the episode rose to 9.1 million, with 6.13 million in the 18–49 demographic, while combined linear, non-linear and encore viewing, it drew 12.17 million viewers through October 11. "Checking In" is notable for being the second longest episode in the series' history, clocking in at 64 minutes, tied with the premiere of the fourth season.
Critical response
The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 79% based on 14 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "American Horror Story: Hotel opens spectacularly with "Checking In," though its shocking moments and stylistic flourishes outweigh a compelling narrative."
Amber Dowling of TheWrap gave a positive review, saying, "It's a visual, visceral romp into what is being set up to be another haphazard foray into the world of horror, as imagined by Murphy and his writing counterpart Brad Falchuk. The show has rarely made sense in terms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Brooklyn | Apache Brooklyn is an open-source framework for modeling, deploying and managing distributed applications defined using declarative YAML blueprints. The design is influenced by Autonomic computing and promise theory and implements the OASIS CAMP (Cloud Application Management for Platforms).
Apache Brooklyn blueprint
Brooklyn blueprint can define application topology, application topology component and cloud or non-cloud location.
Related projects
Cloudsoft AMP expands Apache Brooklyn and allows to write application blueprints in TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) as well as in CAMP.
References
External links
https://brooklyn.apache.org/learnmore/theory.html
https://brooklyn.apache.org/learnmore/features/index.html
Configuration management
Brooklyn
Software using the Apache license
Java platform
Software distribution
2012 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Money%20%28TV%20series%29 | New Money is an American reality television series that premiered on May 29, 2015 on the E! cable network. The six-part series documents how the extremely rich spend their money and the lifestyles they lead. The series is produced by Leftfield Pictures.
The series premiered in the United States on May 29, 2015 to 221,000 viewers. The opening episode lost 183,000 viewers from its lead-in The Soup. In Australia, the series premiered on June 3, 2015 on the Australian version of E!.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
E! original programming
Upper class culture in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Babcock-McGraw | Patricia Babcock-McGraw is a sportswriter for the Daily Herald, a color analyst/sideline reporter for the Chicago Sky, and a women's college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network.
She was named Indiana Miss Basketball during her senior year in high school (in 1990) and was a three-time all-state selection. She ended her high school career with 2,199 points, the second all-time leading scorer in state history. Her career high-school averages were 26.8 points, 13.2 rebounds, and 3.6 blocks per game. She graduated from Northwestern University among career leaders in points (1,353), rebounds (813) and FG% (.546). She was a two time all-Big Ten and two-time academic All-Big Ten selection.
She was inducted into the Indiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
References
American sportswriters
Northwestern Wildcats women's basketball players
Women's National Basketball Association announcers
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women sportswriters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko%20Sou%C4%8Dek | Branko Souček (Bjelovar, 25 April 1930 – Bari, 12 December 2014) was a Croatian academic and computer scientist who authored the first Croatian-made digital computer and the first computer paper in 1959. Souček founded the first laboratory of Cybernetics. Souček and IRIS are the authors and editors of ten books presenting the Sixth Generation Projects results.
Biography
Souček was born in 1930 in Bjelovar, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was of Czech descent through his father František. He graduated in electrical engineering at the Zagreb University in 1955. He subsequently worked at the Ruđer Bošković institute from 1955 to 1976. By the year 1959 at the institute, he devised and led a team to construct the first digital computer in the country. He constructed the project "256-channel analyzer, memory, logic and programs" and published it in the journal "Elektrotehnika" in 1959. Souček's computer was advanced for its time and it aroused global interest from the scientific circles. The director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, William Higinbotham, personally came to Yugoslavia to see the computer. The computer was about 2 metres high, the programmes were executed with million cycles per second, logical circuits were based on vacuum tubes. It was the recipient of numerous awards in 1960 and 1963.
He was a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was an associate member in United Nations Industrial Development Organization and International Atomic Energy Agency as well as NASA, IBM, Siemens, Schering, BNL and the Ruđer Bošković institute. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
His biography was included in various publications, such as "International scientist 2003", "Who's Who in the world 2001.", and "Who's Who in science and engineering 2004".
Work
Branko Souček spent fifty years working out the self-organization of life intelligence. Over this time period, Souček pioneered research, development, and theory on a universal set of cell, brain, mind, and sex laws describing the fundamental nature of courting and mating.
Cell Internal Language Organization (CILO)
Brain Internal Language Organization (BILO)
Mind, Language Bank and Trust
Natural and Financial Sex Behaviour
Neural and Intelligent Systems
The theory behind intelligent systems can be viewed as a complement to the genetic DNA code. At the core of mind and brain is quantum information processing. Souček discovered that through primary waveforms, neural networks and mental processes such as memory and behavior are generated from agents or oscillators in neural structures. Furthermore, these quantum processes describe the fundamental mechanics of individual neurons and their interactions present within consciousness. These mechanics can be studied to reveal their processes and features.
On a macro-level, primary oscillators can be studied to explain psychological phenomena and behavior.
Pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Byington | Lisa Byington (born May 18, 1976) is a play-by-play announcer, studio host, and feature producer/reporter. She has broadcast games for Fox Sports, FS1, Big Ten Network, CBS, Turner Sports, Pac-12 Network, ESPN, SEC Network.
Byington has worked primarily as a play-by-play announcer and reporter on FOX Sports and Big Ten Network's coverage of college football and basketball games. In 2017, Byington became the first female play-by-play to call a college football game for the Big Ten Network.
Byington announced the 2019 Women's World Cup for Fox and the 2020 Olympic Games as a play-by-play announcer for men's and women's soccer. Byington has also worked as a sideline reporter for the NCAA men's basketball tournament with CBS and Turner since 2017. On March 19, 2021, she became the first woman to do play-by-play in March Madness history for CBS and Turner Sports.
In 2021 Byington became the first female full-time play-by-play voice for a major men's professional sports team when she became the full time play-by-play announcer of the Milwaukee Bucks. Byington also handles play-by-play work for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky.
Byington, a native of Portage, Michigan, was a two-sport athlete at Northwestern University, playing four years of basketball and two years of soccer. Both teams made the NCAA Tournament.
References
1976 births
Living people
People from Portage, Michigan
American television sports announcers
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Northwestern Wildcats women's basketball players
Women sports announcers
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
Women's National Basketball Association announcers
National Football League announcers
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Milwaukee Bucks announcers
Softball announcers
American women's soccer players
Soccer players from Michigan
Women's association football defenders
Northwestern Wildcats women's soccer players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TF101 | TF101 may refer to:
Toyota TF101, a Formula One car
Asus Eee Pad Transformer, an Android computer
TF-101B, a variant of the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%20King%3A%20Hero%20Is%20Back | Monkey King: Hero Is Back () is a 2015 Chinese computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Tian Xiaopeng as his directorial debut. The film was released on 10 July 2015. The film was the highest-grossing animated film in China until it was surpassed by the 2016 films Zootopia and Kung Fu Panda 3.
Plot
The all-powerful Monkey King, Sun Wukong, is imprisoned by the Buddha within an ice cage deep within the mountains for rebelling against heaven.
500 years later, Mountain Trolls attack a group of travelers, all except for a baby boy named Liuer are killed, and Liuer is adopted by a monk. Several years later, the same trolls invade a small village and kidnap 49 young children. Liuer saves one of the baby girls and is chased by the trolls for doing so. He stumbles into the cave where the Monkey King was imprisoned, and unknowingly releases him from his curse. Sun Wukong defeats the trolls, although he is only able to use physical attacks, since a remnant of Buddha's seal prevents him from regaining his magical powers, causing him pain whenever he tries to harness his magic.
Wukong attempts to break the Buddha's seal to no avail. Liuer and the girl enthusiastically greet Wukong, not knowing he has lost his powers. Annoyed, Wukong attempts to avoid the two, but is unable to evade them. A stone monster, created by the Buddha to keep Wukong imprisoned, attacks the three. Liuer manages to undo the spell on the monster, but falls off a cliff in the process. When he awakes, he finds out Wukong has saved him.
The three come upon Pigsy, a war god that Wukong defeated in a battle 500 years ago, now reincarnated into a pig demon. Though Wukong is again hesitant, Pigsy joins the group as well. They stay overnight at an inn, but its owners turn out to be Trolls in disguise, who try to kidnap the baby. More trolls arrive and Wukong fights them off. The leader of the monsters, Hun Dun, appears, defeating Wukong and capturing the girl. After Wukong refuses to pursue them, Liuer goes ahead to save them on his own.
Hun Dun reveals his plan to sacrifice all the children they have kidnapped in order to gain magical powers. Liuer meets with his mentor, Fa Ming, to try to rescue them but nearly get captured. Wukong finds a doll of himself that Liuer had and realises how important of a figure he is. He and Pigsy go to help Liuer. Saving Liuer and the 49 children, Wukong defeats the monsters. However, a solar eclipse occurs, and Hun Dun turns into a giant monstrous beast. Liuer is seemingly crushed by the rubble from Hun Dun's rampage. Upon seeing the boy's apparent death, Sun Wukong is devastated. Full of fury, he forcibly breaks Buddha's Seal with sheer brute force, regaining his original supernatural powers, and easily defeats Hun Dun. In the end, Liuer is shown to have survived Hun Dun's rampage, and they return the abducted children to their families.
Cast
Crowdfunding
7.8 million yuan ($1.23 million) of the film's marketing costs was raised through crow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V500 | V500 may refer to:
V500 Aquilae, a nova
LG G Pad 8.3, a tablet computer produced by LG Electronics, also known as V500
Motorola V500, a mobile phone produced by Motorola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Mitchell | Kerry Mitchell (born 1961) is an American artist known for his algorithmic and fractal art, which has been exhibited at the Nature in Art Museum, The Bridges Conference, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, and for his "Fractal Art Manifesto".
Life
Mitchell was born in Iowa, United States, in 1961. His parents were LeRoy and Shirley Mitchell. His father was an art teacher and mother was a stay-at-home mother until Mitchell started seventh grade. Mitchell was a Presidential Scholar in 1979 and went on to pursue engineering at and graduated from Purdue University in aerospace engineering, did a master's degree at Stanford University, and then a PhD work at Purdue. He worked at NASA doing aerospace research. He then worked as a scientist at Arizona Science Center. He served as a mathematics and science professor at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona. As of 2015, he works as a manager at Maricopa County Community College District in Tempe, Arizona.
Artwork
Alongside his technical career, Mitchell works on algorithmic art. He ascribes his artistic awakening to a 1985 article in Scientific American on the Mandelbrot set, explaining:
In 1999, Mitchell published his Fractal Art Manifesto. The artist Janet Parke notes that in the manifesto, Mitchell suggests that fractal art cannot be made by a computer alone, and that not everyone who has a computer can necessarily make good fractal art. Instead, she explains, Mitchell is arguing that the artist's creative process is needed to inject elements such as the considered selection of colours and gradients, the merging of multiple layers, and decisions on composition such as by zooming in to a fractal.
Mitchell also prepared tutorials on how to create fractal art with tools including Ultra Fractal. In 2011 he served on the panel of the "Fractal Art Contest".
Exhibitions, collections
Nature in Art Museum, Gloucestershire, 2007
The Bridges Conference, 2015
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), 2015-2016
Works
Books
Selected Works (self-published with Lulu.com), 2009.
Papers
Fractal Art Manifesto, 1999
Introduction to Ultra Fractal version 2, 2001
Using Ultra Fractal as a Drawing Tool, 2001
Techniques for Artistically Rendering Space-Filling Curves
A Statistical Investigation of the Area of the Mandelbrot Set, 2001
Rendering Fractal Images using Photographs, 2001
Modeling Vortical Flows
Fractal Tessellations and the Pythagorean Theorem
Sequences and Patterns Arising from Mancala on an Infinite Board
Toward a Chaotic World View
Transcendental Signature Sequences
Fun with Chaotic Orbits in the Mandelbrot Set
Spirolateral Images from Integer Sequences
Fun with Whirls
References
External links
Kerry Mitchell website
Mathematical Imagery at the American Mathematical Society
Fine Art America: Kerry Mitchell
1961 births
Living people
Artists from Iowa
Purdue University alumni
Stanford University alumni
American digital artists
Mathematical artist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Celebrity%20Apprentice%20Australia%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia premiered on the Nine Network on Wednesday 16 September 2015. Mark Bouris returned as CEO, while Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Shelley Barrett became the new boardroom advisors. On 21 July 2015, the cast was officially announced.
On 18 November, Sophie Monk was declared the winner of the season with the money going to her charity of choice, Make A Wish Foundation.
Candidates
Weekly results
The candidate won the competition and was named the Celebrity Apprentice.
The candidate won as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate lost as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate was on the losing team.
The candidate was brought to the final boardroom.
The candidate was fired.
The candidate lost as project manager and was fired.
The candidate quit the competition.
The candidate was re-instated into the competition.
The candidate was absent during this week.
Tasks
Task 1
Airdate: 16 September 2015
Task 2
Airdate: 23 September 2015
Task 3
Airdate: 30 September 2015
Task 4
Airdate: 7 October 2015
Task 5
Airdate: 14 October 2015
Task 6
Airdate: 21 October 2015
Task 7
Airdate: 28 October 2015
Task 8
Airdate: 4 November 2015
Task 9
Airdate: 11 November 2015
Final Task
Airdate : 18 November 2015
Ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
Australia 4
2015 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntinlupa%E2%80%93Cavite%20Expressway | The Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway (MCX), signed as E2 of the Philippine expressway network, is a controlled-access toll expressway linking the southern province of Cavite to Muntinlupa in the Philippines.
Opened to traffic on July 24, 2015, it is currently the shortest expressway in the Philippines, connecting the South Luzon Expressway to the Daang Hari Road and Daang Reyna Road near Las Piñas and Bacoor.
After being operated by MCX Tollway Inc., a subsidiary of Ayala Corporation's AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp., it was acquired on August 10, 2023 by Villar Group. The purchase was made by a company that it controls, Prime Asset Ventures Inc.
Route description
Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway acts as a connector between Daang Hari and South Luzon Expressway. The expressway passes near the vicinity of New Bilibid Prisons and Southville 2A, one of the relocation areas of informal settlers who once lived beside the Philippine National Railways line.
The expressway starts with a T-interchange with South Luzon Expressway near Susana Heights. It follows a slight curving route paralleling Magdaong River, which acts as a boundary between barangays Poblacion and Tunasan. It soon passes near the New Bilibid Prisons, where several access roads are rerouted with the construction of the expressway. The expressway ends as a roundabout with Daang Hari, Daang Reyna, and Biazon Road.
Toll
Tolls are assessed in each direction at the toll barrier, based on class. An interoperability agreement signed by the operators of Muntinlupa–Cavite and South Luzon Expressways was signed three days before the formal opening of the former.
The result of the agreement is that motorists using the Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway will have to pay a toll fee depending on the vehicle class in addition to the toll fee from the South Luzon Expressway or Skyway to Susana Heights Exit. Eastbound vehicles opting to pay in cash are given tickets at MCX Toll Plaza and will pay their toll fees upon exit from SLEX or STAR Tollway or at Skyway Main Toll Plaza. In accordance with law, all toll rates include a 12% value-added tax.
The expressway implements an electronic toll collection (ETC) system, using the RFID-based Autosweep. The ETC system is shared with SMC Infrastructure tollways such as SLEX, Skyway, STAR Tollway, NAIAX, and TPLEX.
Source: Toll Regulatory Board
Exits
Notes
References
External links
Toll roads in the Philippines
Roads in Metro Manila
2023 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowGood | HowGood is an American sustainable food rating company based in Brooklyn, New York. It comprises the world's largest database on sustainable food. It develops markets and operates a program in grocery stores designed to provide a sustainability score for food products using up to 60 industry-specific indicators.
HowGood was co-founded as "Scryve" by Alexander Gillett and Arthur Gillett in 2007. Starting in 2014, HowGood's food sustainability ratings were made public with their mobile app, available to iPhone and Android users. On September 17, 2014, HowGood closed a $2 million round of funding from participating investors including FirstMark Capital, Highline Venture Partners, Serious Change LP, Jake Lodwick and Joanne Wilson.
References
2007 establishments in New York (state)
American companies established in 2007
Food and drink companies of the United States
Sustainable food system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GELID%20Solutions | GELID Solutions Ltd. is a designer and manufacturer of CPU and VGA coolers, chassis fans, thermal compounds, accessories and other equipment for computers and electronic devices. The company is based in Hong Kong and has multiple manufacturing facilities in Mainland China and Taiwan.
History
GELID Solutions was founded in 2008 by Gebhard Scherrer and VC Tran.
In 2009, GELID Solutions launched the GC-Extreme thermal compound which is fully compatible to extreme overclocking and subzero liquid nitrogen cooling. The GC-Extreme thermal compound is reportedly used by famous enthusiast overclockers, such as Matei Mihatoiu, Winner of MSI Master Overclocking Arena EMEA 2011, and Lau Kin Lam, Winner of G.Skill OC World Cup 2015.
In 2013, GELID Solutions manufactured the world's first cooling unit for routers, switches, media players and many other small form-factor devices, the IcyPad. In 2014, the company launched the first 6-channel fan controller with touch screen and 30W power output per channel, the SpeedTouch 6.
In June 2015, GELID Solutions announced a new product series, wearables and wireless chargers at Computex Taipei.
Products
Air and liquid cooling
Wearables
Energy management accessories
See also
Cooler Master
Deepcool
Thermaltake
Thermalright
Arctic
Zalman
References
External links
Chinese companies established in 2008
Electronics companies of Hong Kong
Computer hardware cooling
Manufacturing companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20S2%208.0 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 is an Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. Belonging to the high-end "S" line, it was announced on 20 July 2015 and was released in September 2015 along with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7. It is available in Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi/4G LTE variants.
History
The Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 was announced on July 20, 2015 from a Samsung press release.
The computer tablet was released on September 3, 2015 at $399.
A refreshed model series was released in late 2016 (UK early 2017),(Tab S2 VE, SM-T710/715/719) replacing the older Exynos 5433 SoC with an newer Snapdragon 652 SoC. Besides some minor software changes and Android 7.x, it is mostly the same as the previous model.
Features
The device currently runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with the TouchWiz software suite. The Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 is available in WiFi-only and 4G/LTE & WiFi variants. Storage ranges from 32 GB to 64 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion up to 128 GB. The display is a Super AMOLED (4:3) screen with a resolution of 2048x1536 pixels. It also features a 2.1 MP front-facing camera and an 8.0 MP AF rear-facing camera without LED flash. It also has the ability to record HD videos. The hardware home button serves as the fingerprint sensor.
The Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 takes design cues from the 2015 Samsung Galaxy A series phones because the device has a painted metal frame with chamfered edges and a plastic back, along with a camera design similar to the Galaxy S6. It is available in black, white, or gold/beige colors. At 5.6mm thick, the Tab S2 8.0 is, as of September 2015, the world's thinnest tablet together with the bigger screen Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7.
See also
Comparison of tablet computers
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Samsung Galaxy S series
Samsung Galaxy A series
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2015
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20S2%209.7 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 is an Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. Belonging to the high-end "S" line, it was announced on 20 July 2015 and was released in September 2015 along with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0. It is available in Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi/4G LTE variants.
History
The Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 was announced on 20 July 2015 from a Samsung press release.
The Android 7.0 update rollout began in April 2017.
Features
The device runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with Samsung's TouchWiz software suite. An update to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow was released in June 2016. The Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 is available in Wi-Fi-only and 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi variants. Storage ranges from 32 GB to 64 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion up to 128 GB. It has a 3GB RAM capacity for decent computing. The display is a Super AMOLED (4:3) screen with a resolution of 2048x1536 pixels. It also features a 2.1 MP front-facing camera and an 8.0 MP AF rear-facing camera without LED flash. It also has the ability to record HD videos. The hardware home button serves as the fingerprint sensor.
The Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 takes design cues from the 2014 Galaxy Note 4 and 2015 Galaxy A series phones because the device has a painted metal frame with chamfered edges and a plastic back, along with a camera design similar to the Galaxy S6 It is available in black, white, or gold/beige colors. At 5.6mm thick, the Tab S2 9.7 is, as of September 2022, still one of the world's thinnest tablets together with the smaller screen Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0.
See also
Comparison of tablet computers
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Samsung Galaxy S series
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2015
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi%20Ustrell%20Aguil%C3%A0 | Jordi Ustrell Aguilà (Barcelona, August 3, 1955) is a Computer Engineer. As an entrepreneur, he has developed diverse Projects related with emerging technologies, some of which left their mark in the history of Computing.
Development of the first Spanish Microcomputer
At the end of the 70s, the development of the first microprocessor made possible the production of computers affordable both in terms of cost and size. This marks the beginning of a time of great activity in the field of computer systems engineering worldwide.
Eina Informàtica was born following the path paved by the pioneers of this revolution in California. Jordi Ustrell became its president and technical director.
In 1979, Jordi Ustrell designed what would be considered the first personal microcomputer developed in Spain. The project caught the attention of publications specialized in the history of modern computing technology.
He also developed some personal and professional Computer systems.
Reference works in CD-ROM format and the Spanish publishing Industry
The development in 1982 of the Compact Disc (CD) by Sony and Philips, and its later version designed to contain date, the CD-ROM, drew the attention of Publishing Companies due to the large capacity and low cost of these discs. At this time, Publisher Marin founded an engineering company called ComCal SA with the objective of making major reference works and large document datebases available through microcomputers. Jordi Ustrell had been the technical director of the Company since its foundation.
ComCal developed the so called LST software, a software solution that converted reference works such as encyclopedias or pharmaceutical vademecums to large datebases, making those works computer-readable. LST software processed the same SGML format (precursor of HTML) files used by publishers. In the pre-Internet era, the possibilities of this technology were revolutionary.
One of the most important projects Jordi Ustrell led during this period was the publication of the CD-ROM Dictionary of Medicine Marin. Together with Vademecum: Pharmaceutical Specialties, this was the first CD-ROM publication in Spanish, presented at the Liber Publishing Fair 87.
The Internet revolution
Later, he became director of Technological Innovation at Banco Sabadell. From this position, he experienced firsthand the birth of the Internet in Spain and participated in an array of projects merged thanks to the possibilities provided by the network.
In the early 90s, before the introduction of the Internet in Spain, Jordi Ustrell collaborated with ISO as a member of the National Committee for Standardization CTN - 71/21, in relation with the interconnection of open systems. The OSI standards for communication between systems, which ended up being assimilated to the TCP/IP, are currently the standards used by DARPA on the Internet.
Early Internet
In the early years of the Internet, Jordi Ustrell helped to spread the potential of the net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JamBase | JamBase is an online database and news portal of live music and festivals with a focus on jam bands. It was founded by Andy Gadiel and Ted Kartzman in 1998. The website primarily acts as a service, providing a public API that concert promoters and venues use to publish concert data to the site. The data is also used by third-party developers for other products. In addition to raw data, the website includes a news section publishing information about concerts in a blog format.
, JamBase ranks as the 4,945th most visited sites in the United States according to Alexa, and 27,837th globally.
, JamBase's public API at http://api.jambase.com has been re-enabled, allowing developers to incorporate concert listings into their apps and services.
References
External links
Online databases
1998 establishments in the United States
American music websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo%20di%20Roma | The Museo di Roma is a museum in Rome, Italy, part of the network of Roman civic museums. The museum was founded in the Fascist era with the aim of documenting the local history and traditions of the "old Rome" that was rapidly disappearing, but following many donations and acquisitions of works of art is now principally an art museum. The collections initially included 120 water-colours by the nineteenth-century painter Ettore Roesler Franz of Roma sparita, "vanished Rome", later moved to the Museo di Roma in Trastevere.
History
The museum was founded by the art historian , who was director of the Antichità e Belle Arti ("antiquities and fine arts department") of the government of Rome. It was the first civic museum of the city. It was housed in the , a large former pasta factory in Piazza Bocca della Verità, overlooking the Circo Massimo in the via dei Cerchi, in the Ripa rione of the city. The factory building also housed the Museo dell'Impero Romano, and was renamed "Palazzo dei Musei". The Museo di Roma opened on 21 April 1930; Muñoz was its first director. When the Second World War began in 1939, the museum closed.
The museum re-opened only in 1952, in a new political climate and in a new location at Palazzo Braschi, a Neoclassical palace near Piazza Navona, built in the early years of the nineteenth century by Luigi Braschi Onesti, which since 1949 had already housed the new Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna.
Collections
The collection of the museum was at first intended only to illustrate and document the past. Thanks to numerous bequests, donations and acquisitions – among them a collection of some 5000 drawings, engravings and old illustrated books belonging to Antonio Muñoz – the holdings of the museum now include many works of art, and it has become primarily an art museum. Artists represented include Pompeo Batoni, Giuseppe Bottani, Ippolito Caffi, Antonio Canova, Giuseppe Ceracchi, Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Lievin Cruyl, Felice Giani, Pietro Labruzzi, Francesco Mochi, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Joshua Reynolds and Nicola Salvi (designer of the Trevi Fountain).
References
External links
Art museums and galleries in Rome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Ward%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Steve Ward is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, where his recent teaching and research activities revolve around areas of computer system architecture. He holds three degrees from MIT – a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science.
One of his research projects, the 1979 Nu machine, became a model for microprocessor-based workstations. Numerous software products have been created due to inspiration of its UNIX port and system software, and the NuBus was an industry standard from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. In the late 1970s Professor Steve Ward and his research group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) developed the TRIX operating system. Ward's inventions include a novel dynamic memory chip architecture and a real-time controller design. He was involved with the Curl project, which aimed to formulate a new language for creating web documents with almost any sort of content, from simple formatted text to complex interactive applets, in the 90s. In the early 2000s he worked on organic computing – alternative ways of building systems so that they behave more like organisms than like conventional computer systems.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor%20mount | A monitor mount is a supportive bracket or arm designed to hold up a computer monitor, laptop, notebook or other display screen. Monitor arm and monitor bracket are other common terms for this device.
History
Flat panel monitors became increasingly popular as the technology grew less expensive during early to mid 2000s. These lighter monitors were better suited for a wider range of movement than the heavier cathode ray tube monitor that was previously sold with most computers. The patent for inventing the monitor mount belongs to Rob Mossman and is dated from September 20, 2006; however monitor mounts have been available for at least six years before the patent was issued. Several companies like Ergotron, Multibrackets ab, Mount- it, Loctek and Herman Miller have been producing mounts since the early 2000s.
Significance
The added functionality of monitor mounts has made them very popular. Depending on the model, monitor mounts can move up and down, rotate, tilt, retract and swivel.
VESA is an organization that manages the standards for mounting solutions. In 1997, VESA came up with a standard hole size and screwing pattern for flat panel screens, called Flat Display Mounting Interface (usually known as VESA mount), which is still valid today. Almost all monitor mounts follow this VESA standard in one form or another. Monitor manufacturers typically create a standard VESA hole pattern on the back of the monitor for mounting purposes.
Health advantages
A monitor mount placed at the appropriate height, distance and angle can help “prevent possible health effects such as excessive fatigue, eye strain, and neck and back pain.” Monitor mounts are especially important for anyone using a standing or walking desk because of the dynamic height and stability requirements for those applications.
Monitor mounts offer ergonomic benefits by allowing users to adjust screen height, tilt, and angle, promoting a neutral neck position and reducing musculoskeletal strain. They help minimize eye strain by ensuring an optimal viewing distance and angle. By freeing up desk space, mounts support better posture, leading to reduced muscle fatigue. Dual or triple screen setups enhance productivity and decrease cognitive fatigue. Proper screen positioning, especially in dynamic work environments like adjustable desks, ensures consistent ergonomic benefits.
Types
Installation
Wall-mounted – mounts onto a wall.
Clamp – clamp hardware fastens to edge of a desk.
Grommet – hardware is inserted through a hole in the desk and secured underneath.
Common workstation setups
Single monitor arm – the most common usage.
Multiple monitor arms – with the rise of multi-screen setups, mounts with multiple monitor arms are becoming more common.
Laptop arm – designed to support a laptop.
Mixed-use – dual-arm mount supporting a monitor and a laptop or tablet.
Portable monitor mounts - designed with travelers in mind, they securely fasten monitors to tables or other surfaces.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%20Roske | Brent Roske is the founder of the Flamingo Network on Roku as well as a film and television director (feature film 'Diana In Love' starring Shanti Fiennes as Princess Diana). Roske is the former Creative Director for NBC Skycastle and MJA Advertising.
Recent works include the feature film 'Diana In Love', starring Shanti Fiennes (niece of Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes). His works include the 2022 campaign for Radford Motors with TV host Ant Anstead and Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button, the Emmy nominated TV program Roske on Politics, featuring POTUS candidates, journalists, actors and more, Chasing The Hill with Emmy nominee Robin Weigert, and Courting Des Moines . He lives in Iowa and California with his wife, Dana and daughter. He directed PSAs for 'Justice 4 Vets' with Martin Sheen and the cast of 'The West Wing' and Got Your 6 with singer Gavin DeGraw.
Brent Roske directed and edited the TV special ‘Radford - Cars & Guitars’ for Discovery+.
Roske appears with Oscar nominee Lasse Hallstrom ('Cider House Rules'), BAFTA nominee Colm Bairead ('The Quiet Girl') and actress Shanti Fiennes ('Diana In Love') in an Apple podcast from Film Prestige.
Roske has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and received a Los Angeles Commemorative Emmy Award for producing a special for NBC Sports.
Career
Brent Roske is the former Creative Director for NBC Skyacastle and MJA Advertising. Recent projects include 'Radford: Cars & Guitars' for Discovery+, 'Justice 4 Vets' with Martin Sheen, Oscar winner Allison Janney and the rest of the cast of NBC's 'The West Wing' which premiered at a gala on the Warner Brothers backlot hosted by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald. Roske wrote and directed the political drama Chasing the Hill and the sequel Courting Des Moines. Roske hosted the bi-partisan TV series Roske on Politics (Emmy Award nominee for Best Politics/ Government Program), featuring conversations with the presidential candidates, politicians, journalists, entertainers and community leaders. Roske was a creative director at NBC Universal for nine years earning an Emmy Award and another three at MJA Advertising in Beverly Hills. His works appear at roske.tv.
The Des Moines Register wrote an article titled ‘Consider Iowa - California Transplants Collaborate On Video Praising States Charms’ about a video Roske directed starring professional skateboarder Mike Vallely
Political campaigns
In 2014, Roske ran for US Congress in California's 33rd district while living on a yacht anchored off Marina del Rey."
Roske was an independent candidate in the 2018 Iowa gubernatorial election, and was endorsed by Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss: "The people of Iowa might look for years for a candidate as bright, committed, and independent in truth and behavior as Brent Roske. I have no doubt in the decency of Brent, in the fierceness of his desire to serve, and for his ability to be truly bi-partisan in his approach," Dreyfuss said in the statem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Pozzi | Luca Pozzi (Milan, 31 January, 1983) is an Italian artist.
Inspired by the worlds of art, physics, multi-messenger cosmology and computer science, after graduating with a degree in painting at the Brera Academy and specializing in computer graphics and systems, he collaborates with visionary scientific communities, including the Loop Quantum Gravity (PI), the Compact Muon Solenoid (CERN) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (INFN, NASA).
Studying quantum gravity, entanglement, time travel, cosmology, and particle physics, his holistic approach converts the theoretical research in a series of hybrid installations characterized by magnetized sculptures, levitating objects, light drawings and a performative use of photography based on a strange feeling of frozen time and multidimensionality.
His work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries in Italy and abroad, and his pieces are part of public and private collections, including the MART of Rovereto, the MAMbo of Bologna, the MEF of Turin, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “LA FARNESINA” and the Archive of Spatial Aesthetics and Praxis of New York.
He is known for his photographic series “Supersymmetric Partners”, that shows real jumps in front of the Renaissance paintings by Paolo Veronese, and for the use of electromagnetic levitation technologies in futuristic installations such as the “Schröedinger’s cat through Piero Della Francesca influence" (Museo Marino Marini, 2010), the “9 Churches 9 Columns” (Moscow Biennale, 2011) and “The Star Platform” (Marrakech Biennale, 2012).
In 2013, he presented the "ORACLE" device to draw with light by remotely during DLD - Digital Life Design, at Haus der Kunst, in Munich; In 2015 he published “The Messengers of Gravity” monograph at Museo Ettore Fico, in Turin, including interviews and texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Ute Meta Bauer, Carlo Rovelli and Sabrina Tarasoff.
In 2017 he activated the cross-disciplinary “Blazing Quasi-Stellar Object” project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva) as the third chapter of The Internet Saga curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and he attended “Documenta 14” as part of the “Eternal Internet Brotherhood community” (Kassel).
In 2018 he creates "The Grandfather Platform" an immersive installation in direct connection with fresco cycle "History of the foundation of Rome" depicted by the Carracci Brothers in 1590, at Palazzo Magnani.
In 2019 he had a lecture performance on the "Art in the era of Quantum Gravity and Multi-Messenger Cosmology" at TEDx Roma.
In 2009 he won the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art at the Centre International d’accueil et d’échanges de Récollets in Paris and was artist in residence at PROGRAM (Initiative for Art + Architecture collaborations) in Berlin and in 2011 at Mazama, Winthrop (WA), in the United States.
He has been honored with the Ettore Fico Award (Turin, 2012), Premio Icona (Verona, 2010) and the Premio Internaz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian%20Choice%20Awards | The Indonesian Choice Awards was an entertainment industry award given by the Indonesian television network, NET. to the artists in the world entertainment who have worked hard to win the hearts of the people of Indonesia, in conjunction with network's anniversary. Nominations were determined by a jury of people in the entertainment industry, and voting takes place by members of the public through social media. The show was first held on May 18, 2014 and held until its fifth edition in 2018.
Location and hosts
Categories
Music
Male Singer of the Year
Female Singer of the Year
Song of the Year
Album of the Year
Instrumental Album of The Year (2018-)
Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Group/Band/Duo of the Year
Music Video of the Year (2017-)
Movies
Movie of the Year
Actor of the Year
Actress of the Year
Television
TV Program of the Year
Other
Creative and Innovative Person of the Year (2016-)
Digital Persona of the Year (2015)
Special award
Lifetime Achievement Award
Nomination process
Nominations are made by a committee of members of MUSISI (Society For Indonesian Music). They consist of Dhani Pette, Adib Hidayat (Rolling Stone), Frans Sartono (Kompas), Qaris Tajudin (Tempo), Gilang AR (The chairman of the association MD Indonesia), Jan. Dhuhana (senior producer), Denny MR (senior music writer), Danni Satrio (Hai), Oppie Andaresta, and Piyu.
TV programs are nominated based on their quality, not their ratings, and the show must appear on a channel other than NET. This nomination is done for award's credibility.
See also
List of Asian television awards
References
External links
Annual television shows
Awards established in 2014
2014 establishments in Indonesia
Indonesian music awards
Indonesian television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Greenberg%20%28executive%29 | Paul Greenberg is the CEO of Butter Works, a digital consulting firm. He was formerly executive vice president and general manager of FYI Network and executive vice president of 45th & Dean, a multiplatform video and audio storytelling hub, at A+E Networks.
Education
Greenberg graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 1986 and graduated from Columbia College in 1990 with a bachelor's degree. He also received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1997.
Career
For his work with TV Guide Digital, Greenberg was named to the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power 2009 list of top 50 new-media executives.
In 2010, Greenberg signed on with Time Inc. as Digital Lifestyle President, taking over 10 website properties including Real Simple and Health.com. He spent just over seven months at Time before leaving to become CEO of CollegeHumor, a comedy website, which he joined in October 2010 to lead web, social, TV, and mobile efforts. He left CollegeHumor to become the CEO of fashion magazine Nylon in 2014. Prior to his move to Nylon, Greenberg was president of SFX Entertainment.
References
Living people
21st-century American businesspeople
American chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people)
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Columbia Business School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybe%20I.%20Rispens | Sybe I. Rispens (born April 17, 1969) is a Dutch writer, scientist and cyber security expert.
Education and Work
Rispens was born in Dokkum, Netherlands on April 17, 1969. He received his bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leewarden, before further completing his master's degree at TU-Twente. He received his Master's in the Philosophy of Science from the University of Amsterdam in 1996. In 2005, Rispens was awarded a PhD in the History of Artificial Intelligence from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen with the dissertation, Machine Reason: A History of Clocks, Computers and Consciousness. He is a certified ISO27001 IT-security consultant.
Rispens is a prolific writer and contributor to such publications as the Dutch periodicals Natuurwetenschap en Techniek, Intermediair, and NRC Handelsblad, and the German newspaper, Die Zeit and the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He has published several books, including Einstein in Nederland: Een intellectuele biografie in 2006 and co-authored The Communication Revolution: New Perspectives on Photonics‘ in 2010.
In 2007, Rispens founded the ICT and security consulting and software production company knowledgeatwork UG. The organisation specializes in secure, GxP-certified software and developing industry-grade, ISO27000 certified applications. In 2011, he co-founded the former Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technologiekommunikation GmbH (IWTK) in Berlin Germany, a privately held company that focuses on innovation processes in research and technology-centered organizations.
Currently Rispens works as a senior cyber security expert for organisations in the medical sector, critical infrastructures, and payment service providers. He publishes on topics related to cyber security on https://medium.com/@drrispens.
Peter Debye Controversy
In Rispens’ 2006 book, Einstein in Nederland: Een intellectuele biografie (Einstein in the Netherlands: An Intellectual Biography), he revealed that during the period of 1933–1945, Albert Einstein was upset by Nobel Prize winning chemist Peter Debye, whom Einstein believed to be serving the Third Reich more than he considered ethically correct.
Rispens cited a memo written by Debye during his time as Director of the Physics Section at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, which reads:
“In light of the current situation, membership by German Jews as stipulated by the Nuremberg laws, of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft cannot be continued. According to the wishes of the board, I ask of all members to whom these definitions apply to report to me their resignation. Heil Hitler.”
The release of this information inspired a monograph and several formal investigations. Two prominent Dutch universities--Utrecht University and the University of Maastricht—hastily denounced Debye and stripped him of his honors a decision that was later reversed.
The Cornell University department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology's investigation found the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered%20business%20method%20patent | A covered business method (CBM) patent is defined in section 18 of the America Invents Act (AIA) as a patent that "claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of a financial product or service," but is not for a "technological" invention. The AIA statute provides for CBM review of CBM patents. This review is an administrative proceeding to determine the validity of the patent under review. Congress created CBM review because of a concern with "litigation abuse over business method patents."
A CBM patent is defined further by regulations that the statute directed the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or PTO) to promulgate. Under these regulations, a CBM patent is one relating to monetary matters, and a technological invention is one in which “the claimed subject matter as a whole recites a technological feature that is novel and unobvious over the prior art; and solves a technical problem using a technical solution.”
The USPTO has published a Trial Practice Guide explaining CBM procedures and amplifying its regulations on what is not a technological invention:
a) Mere recitation of known technologies, such as computer hardware, communication or computer networks, software, memory, computer-readable storage medium, scanners, display devices or databases, or specialized machines, such as an ATM or point of sale device.
b) Reciting the use of known prior art technology to accomplish a process or method, even if that process or method is novel and non-obvious.
c) Combining prior art structures to achieve the normal, expected, or predictable result of that combination.
CBM proceedings are tried before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a newly created adjudicatory arm of the PTO. The standard for whether the PTAB will institute a CBM proceeding is whether a petition by an interested party (ordinarily, a party that the patentee sued for patent infringement) requesting institution of the proceeding establishes that it is more likely than not that at least one claim of the challenged patent is unpatentable. Although the issue was hotly contested for a time, it is now established that any statutory ground of invalidity may be considered, including patent ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Cunningham%20%28journalist%29 | Bill Cunningham (born 1932) is a former Canadian television journalist, who was associated at different times in his career with the CTV, CBC and Global networks.
Originally from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, he began his journalism career in 1954, working for the Times & Transcript, local radio stations in New Brunswick, and Broadcast News before joining the CBC. He was executive producer of The National in the 1960s, and spearheaded the change in CBC's policies which saw the position of anchor transferred from a voice announcer to an actual professional journalist, resulting in Stanley Burke succeeding Earl Cameron as anchor of the program in 1965. He was CBC Television's Vietnam War correspondent in the late 1960s, and was promoted to head of network news by 1972. After just a year in that job, however, he left to head the news department at the fledgling Global network, holding that role until 1980.
He then moved to CTV as executive producer of W5, and moved back into an on-air role with that series in 1983. In 1991, he was laid off from CTV as part of a decision to refocus W5 more squarely on journalist Eric Malling.
He then returned to the CBC as a foreign correspondent and host of documentary programming for CBC Newsworld and Newsworld International.
He is currently a media spokesperson for Dying with Dignity, a Canadian assisted suicide advocacy organization.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20Urika-XA | The Cray Urika-XA extreme analytics platform, manufactured by supercomputer maker Cray Inc., was an appliance that analyzes the massive amounts of data—usually called big data—that supercomputers collect. It was introduced in 2015 and discontinued in 2017. Organizations that use supercomputers have traditionally used multiple smaller off-the-shelf systems for data analysis. But as organizations see a dramatic increase in the amount of data they collect—everything from research data to retail transactions—they need data analytics systems that can make sense of it and help them use it strategically. In a nod to organizations that lean toward open-source software, the Urika-XA comes pre-installed with Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop and Apache Spark.
References
Further reading
Nicole Hemsoth (15 Oct 2014) "Cray Launches Hadoop into HPC Airspace." HPCWire.
"The Evolution of Data Analytics." Infographic.
Eileen McNulty (22 May 2014). "Understanding Big Data: The Seven V's." Dataconomy.
Andy Patrizio (30 Jun 2017). "Cray adds big data software to its supercomputers." NETWORKWORLD.
Cray products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20Urika-GD | The Cray Urika-GD graph discovery appliance is a computer application that finds and analyzes relationships and patterns in the data collected by a supercomputer.
Cray Urika-GD produces meaningful graphs based on large amounts of data, often from multiple sources, and to make useful connections among those data. Many organizations now have vast stores of information like this—called "big data"—that they can analyze and use to improve their operations, products or services.
One example of the appliance in use would be a healthcare organization that helps to find, among its 13 million patient records, information that doctors could use to develop treatment plans. Graphing the records of existing patients by categories such as illness, age, treatment and outcome may provide guidance on treating another patient.
Big data is also being tapped in professional sports. In 2014, Cray revealed that a Major League Baseball team was using a Urika-GD appliance to graph and analyze its own performance statistics.
References
External links
"Global Supercomputer Leader Cray Inc. Awarded $80 million by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)." Dataconomy. 18 November 2014.
"The Evolution of Data Analytics." Infographic.
Eileen McNulty (22 May 2014). "Understanding Big Data: The Seven V's." Dataconomy.
Cray products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucker%20Path | Trucker Path is an American transportation network company specializing in online and mobile services for the trucking industry. In early 2013, the company released its trip planning and resource locating mobile app Trucker Path. In mid-2015, it was followed by Truckloads, a marketplace available on the web and mobile devices specializing in connecting freight companies with carriers. By March 2015 the Trucker Path app had 100,000 users. One year later, Trucker Path reached one million downloads on iOS and Android combined. By June 2016, the number of active monthly users surpassed 450,000, which represented 30% of all Class 8 truckers in the U.S. Truckloads became the most installed freight-matching mobile app with over 250,000 installs by the end of 2016. In February 2017, Trucker Path reached over 1.5 million total installs and is the first in the trucking industry to have over one million installs on the Google Play Store. In December 2017, Renren announced that it acquired Trucker Path.
History
The early version of the application for truck drivers was developed by Viktor Radchenko who was inspired to create it after hearing his trucker friends complain about the difficulties they had finding truck stops. Trucker Path was the fourth application Radchenko had developed since moving to Silicon Valley from his native Ukraine in 2010. Before creating Trucker Path, he did not have any direct involvement in the freight industry.
The early beta version of the app was launched in February 2013, and by August had reached 50,000 active weekly users. In October 2013 Radchenko began working together with Ivan Tsybaev to found the company officially, with Tsybaev acting as the organization's first CEO and Radchenko as the chief technology officer. Tsybaev envisioned the company becoming a freight transportation marketplace. To build up a user base, he decided to focus on positioning Trucker Path as a crowdsourced navigational assistant that would make it easy for truckers to plan their trips by helping them find truck stops, parking, rest areas, washers and other POI. Initially, the application focused on providing trucking information primarily for the United States of America but has since added locations across Canada.
At the 2013 LA Auto Show, Trucker Path was named one of the eight finalists for Fastpitch, a competition for automobile-related startups. In February 2014, Radchenko left his job as chief technology officer at Trucker Path.
In September 2014, the company raised US$1.5 million in seed funding from Renrenren, a China-based social media company founded by an American citizen and MIT/Stanford graduate Joseph Chen. Renren prefers to invest in the U.S. based companies that have the potential to expand into China. Their other investments include SoFi, a digital finance and p2p lending company, and a Swiss-Israeli secure mobile phone company Sirin Labs.
In June 2015, Trucker Path raised $20 million in a Series A round from Chicago-based Wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mick | The Mick may refer to:
The Mick (TV series), an American show broadcast on Fox Network from 2017-2018
Mickey Mantle, a Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees, playing from 1951–1968
See also
Mick (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpoint%20security | Endpoint security or endpoint protection is an approach to the protection of computer networks that are remotely bridged to client devices. The connection of endpoint devices such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, Internet-of-things devices, and other wireless devices to corporate networks creates attack paths for security threats. Endpoint security attempts to ensure that such devices follow a definite level of compliance to standards.
The endpoint security space has evolved during the 2010s away from limited antivirus software and into a more advanced, comprehensive defense. This includes next-generation antivirus, threat detection, investigation, and response, device management, data leak protection (DLP), and other considerations to face evolving threats.
Corporate network security
Endpoint security management is a software approach that helps to identify and manage the users' computer and data access over a corporate network. This allows the network administrator to restrict the use of sensitive data as well as certain website access to specific users, to maintain, and comply with the organization's policies and standards. The components involved in aligning the endpoint security management systems include a virtual private network (VPN) client, an operating system and an updated endpoint agent. Computer devices that are not in compliance with the organization's policy are provisioned with limited access to a virtual LAN. Encrypting data on endpoints, and removable storage devices help to protect against data leaks.
Client and server model
Endpoint security systems operate on a client-server model, with the security program controlled by a centrally managed host server pinned with a client program that is installed on all the network drives. There is another model called software as a service (SaaS), where the security programs and the host server are maintained remotely by the merchant. In the payment card industry, the contribution from both the delivery models is that the server program verifies and authenticates the user login credentials and performs a device scan to check if it complies with designated corporate security standards prior to permitting network access.
In addition to protecting an organization's endpoints from potential threats, endpoint security allows IT admins to monitor operation functions and data backup strategies.
Endpoint protection platforms
An endpoint protection platform (EPP) is a solution deployed on endpoint devices to prevent file-based malware attacks, detect malicious activity, and provide the investigation and remediation capabilities needed to respond to dynamic security incidents and alerts. Several vendors produce systems converging EPP systems with endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms – systems focused on threat detection, response, and unified monitoring.
See also
Network security
Internet security
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadnet | The National Research and Academic Network (NREN) of Greece the period 1984 -1995, also known as Ariadne, Ariadne network, Ariadne-t, initiated in 1984 as Programme Ariadne by Nicolas Malagardis (worked at INRIA in France) under the Ministry of Research and Technology (minister Georgios Lianis), in line with R&D policy of the EU Commission (DGXIII) and became founding member of COSINE (Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe) and RARE, with contributions to its technical reports.
In 1987 the first full packet switching node in Greece connected to the French X.25 node in Paris at 9.6K bps via a local HELPAK line from OTE in Athens and a COSINE Project. The report was published in 1988.
In 1988, the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (secretary Prof. Eleftherios Economou at the University of Crete) assigned a new management for Programme Ariadne to be Prof. Costantine Halatsis, Institute director at the "Demokritos". All facilities (equipment, communication lines, offices) were relocated to the campus of Demokritos (Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications) at Agia Paraskevi, Attica from downtown Athens. As a RARE member Ariadne participated to the joining with RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens), or European IP Networks.
In 1990 Ariadne with the encouragement and support of Tony Bates, the approval of Peter Kirstein and James Hutton of the UK NREN JANET acquired internet NSFNET connectivity via a 64kbit/s X.25 from IXI-COSINE, this took place before the EuropaNET IP service was established. IANA providing resources for network and Autonomous system addressing. Registration in .ARPA provided by RedIRIS gratis Ignacio Martinez and JANET.
When Prof. C.Halatsis moved to the University of Athens, the management was assigned to Dr. A. Arvilias, director of Computer Center of "Demokritos" around 1991. During this period the first public ISP in Greece was created registered in the global DNS as "ariadne-t dot gr".
In 1991 Ariadne participated in CHEOPS an advanced network experiment (8 Mbit/s) with CERN via Olympus satellite and an SRI International report requested a contributing text. The team of Ariadne helped Scientists of "Demokritos" understand, use in their work and disseminate to their communities the importance of Internet.
In 1992 Ariadne supported by Brian Carpenter established a 9.6kbit/s direct link to CERN that later became part of EBONE, a network map shows the status of the network in 1993.
During 1992-1994 the EU's DGXIII VALUE II project - v.5805 "Open Systems Interconnection national nodes and Administrators" assigned to the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of the national research center "Demokritos" was implemented that devised a mixed technology plan (TCP/IP and X.400, X.25 ) that resulted in large scale development of internet connectivity to universities, government, and SMEs. The project registered in DNS as "EPMHS dot GR", the pattern "MHS" signifying the main application bei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20sign | A blue sign or blue board is used by inland waterways vessels within the Trans-European Inland Waterway network when performing a special manoeuvre or passing on the starboard side. On navigable waterways vessels normally pass each other on the port-side, so the display of the blue sign and flashing white light signal intention to pass each other on the starboard-side. This process is known as blue boarding or historically blue flagging.
The (CEVNI) regulations require upstream vessels operating on the opposite side to display a light-blue sign and scintillating (flashing) white light. Article 3.03 states that the board must be rectangular and 1-metre × 1-metre for large vessels, or 0.6-metres × 0.6-metres for small vessels.
The presence and status of the blue sign is transmitted by the ship's Inland-Automatic Identification System (Inland-AIS) transponder to other vessels. The status of the sign is transmitted using two bits of the "regional application flags"/"special manoeuvre field" in the AIS position reports. This must be transmitted every ten seconds.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHOI%20%28FM%29 | KHOI (89.1 FM) is a community radio station in Story City, Iowa and serving the Ames area. The station primarily broadcasts a mix of music, news and local public affairs programming. KHOI also is affiliated with the Pacifica Radio network.
As a community station, all local programs are hosted by volunteers. The station's founder and manager is Ursula Ruedenberg, who oversees Pacifica's affiliate network of around 200 stations.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
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HOI
Community radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy%20Brunson | Cindy Brunson is a sports anchor and reporter, most known for ESPN's SportsCenter. She is currently working as part of the Pac-12 Networks broadcast team as a football and men's basketball sideline reporter and women's basketball play-by-play announcer.
Biography
Brunson graduated from Curtis Senior High School in University Place, Washington. She is an alumna of Washington State University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast communications.
Broadcasting career
Brunson joined ESPN as an ESPNEWS anchor in September 1999. She served as co-host alongside David Lloyd on the network's weekend morning SportsCenter programs. Prior to ESPN, Brunson served as a weekend sports and news anchor/reporter at KATU in Portland, Oregon, from July 1998 to August 1999. While in Portland, she covered the Portland Trail Blazers, the University of Oregon and Oregon State University football, and men's and women's basketball programs.
Prior to KATU, Brunson served as a weather anchor and news reporter at KHQ-6 in Spokane, Washington.
Brunson was anchoring when ESPNEWS covered Florida Marlins rookie Aníbal Sánchez's no-hitter, thrown September 6, 2006. She was also anchoring SportsCenter when San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 755th and 756th career home runs, tying and surpassing Hank Aaron for most all-time.
Brunson officially left ESPN on December 29, 2012 after co-anchoring her final SportsCenter broadcast alongside Bram Weinstein. She co-anchored her first SportsCenter broadcast in February 2001 alongside her future husband, Steve Berthiaume.
Brunson joined the Arizona Diamondbacks broadcast team in March 2013. She cohosted pre-game and post-game shows with Jody Jackson on Sunday games.
Personal life
Brunson is a native of Tacoma, Washington. She is married to current Arizona Diamondbacks play-by-play man and former SNY and ESPN anchor Steve Berthiaume. She is also an avid Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners fan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu%20M2%20Note | The Meizu M2 Note is a smartphone designed and produced by the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which runs on Flyme OS, Meizu's modified Android operating system. It is a previous phablet model of the M series, succeeding the Meizu M1 Note and preceding the Meizu M3 Note. It was unveiled on June 2, 2015, in Beijing.
History
Initial rumors appeared in May 2015 after a possible render image of the new device had been leaked. Unlike the predecessor, the M1 Note, the new device would have a physical home button instead of a capacitive one.
On May 29, the specifications of the device have been allegedly sighted on the Android benchmark application GFXBench. According to this release, the device would feature 2 GB of RAM and a MediaTek MTK MT6753 system-on-a-chip.
The following day, Meizu officially confirmed that there will be a launch event for the M2 Note in Beijing on June 2.
Release
As announced, the M2 Note was released in Beijing on June 2, 2015.
The M2 Note was launched in India on August 10, 2015.
Over 1.2 million devices have been sold in the first month after the release.
Features
Flyme
The Meizu M2 Note was released with an updated version of Flyme OS, a modified operating system based on Android Lollipop. It features an alternative, flat design and improved one-handed usability.
Hardware and design
The Meizu M2 Note features a MediaTek MTK MT6753 system-on-a-chip with an array of eight ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, an ARM Mali-T720 MP3 GPU and 2 GB of RAM.
The M2 Note reaches a score of 31,890 points on the AnTuTu benchmark.
The M2 Note is available in four different colors (white, blue, pink and grey) and comes with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage.
The M2 Note measures x x and weighs . It has a slate form factor, being rectangular with rounded corners and has only one central physical button at the front.
Unlike most other Android smartphones, the M2 Note doesn't have capacitive buttons nor on-screen buttons. The functionality of these keys is implemented using a technology called mBack, which makes use of gestures with the physical button. Unlike some other Meizu devices, a fingerprint sensor isn't integrated into the home button.
The M2 Note features a fully laminated 5.5-inch IGZO capacitive touchscreen display with a FHD resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels. The pixel density of the display is 403 ppi.
In addition to the touchscreen input and the front key, the device has volume/zoom control buttons and the power/lock button on the right side, a 3.5mm TRS audio jack on the top and a microUSB (Micro-B type) port on the bottom for charging and connectivity.
The Meizu M2 Note has two cameras. The rear camera has a resolution of 13 MP, a ƒ/2.2 aperture, a 5-element lens, autofocus and an LED flash.
The front camera has a resolution of 5 MP, a ƒ/2.0 aperture and a 4-element lens.
Reception
The M2 Note received generally positive reviews.
Android Authority gave the M2 Note a rating of 8 out of 10 possible points |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Madison%20data%20breach | In July 2015, an unknown person or group calling itself "The Impact Team" announced they had stolen the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker(s) copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personally identifying information if Ashley Madison would not immediately shut down. As evidence of the seriousness of the threat, the personal information about more than 2,500 users was initially released. The company initially denied that their records were insecure, and continued to operate.
Because of the site's lack of adequate security and practice of not deleting users' personal information from its database – including real names, home addresses, search history and credit card transaction records – many users feared being publicly shamed. Their fears proved well founded.
On 18 and 20 August, more than 60 gigabytes of company data was publicly released, including user details. The released data even included personal information about users who had paid the site to delete their personal information, since the company had not deleted the data that they claimed to have erased.
Timeline
The Impact Team announced the attack on 19 July 2015 and threatened to expose the identities of Ashley Madison's users if its parent company, Avid Life Media, did not shut down Ashley Madison and its sister site, "Established Men".
On 20 July 2015, the Ashley Madison website put up three statements under its "Media" section addressing the breach. The website's normally busy Twitter account fell silent apart from posting the press statements. One statement read:
The site also offered to waive its account deletion charge.
More than 2,500 customer records were released by "The Impact Team" on 21 July, but the company initially denied the claim that its main database was insecure and had been hacked. However, more than 60 gigabytes of additional data was released on 18 August and was confirmed to be valid. The information was released on BitTorrent in the form of a 10 gigabyte compressed archive and the link to it was posted on a dark web site only accessible via the anonymity network Tor. The data was cryptographically signed with a PGP key. In its message, the group blamed Avid Life Media, accusing the company of deceptive practices: "We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data ... Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn't deliver."
In response, Avid Life Media released a statement that the company was working with authorities to investigate, and said the hackers were not "hacktivists" but criminals. A second, larger, data dump occurred on 20 August 2015, the largest file of which comprised 12.7 gigabytes of corporate emails, including those of Noel Biderman, the CEO of Avid Life Media.
In July 2017, Avid Life Media (renamed Ruby Corporation) agreed to settle two dozen lawsui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadine%20Technologies | Acadine Technologies Holdings Limited was a systems software company specializing in mobile operating systems for mobile, wearable, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its core product is H5OS, a web-centric operating system that is primarily based on the open web standard HTML5. It is derived from Firefox OS, whose development company founder Li Gong had overseen as president of Mozilla Corporation.
Acadine Technologies was founded on March 25, 2015, and was based in Hong Kong with operations in Beijing, Taipei, Palo Alto, and London. Initially started under the name "Gone Fishing", the startup recruited various staff from Mozilla apart from Gong, including James Ho, former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal and employees of Mozilla Taiwan. When Mozilla announced in December 2015 that it would cease its efforts to partner with mobile carriers to use Firefox OS on smartphones, it was reported that Acadine would take over this mission with H5OS. It released the first version of H5OS on 17th Feb 2016.
It was announced on July 15, 2015 that Acadine Technologies would receive $100M in first-round funding from Tsinghua Unigroup International, a Hong Kong entity controlled by Tsinghua University and the Chinese government. In the same year, Li Gong stated that the company was already seeking a second round of funding from international investors, a main rationale being "to dispel very early the incorrect perception that we are somehow a China-backed company. We are really a pure Silicon Valley-style startup".
On April 27, 2016, it was reported that the funds from Tsinghua Unigroup were not being transferred and Acadine started a reorganization.
H5OS was discontinued in May 2016, and was never publicly released.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20X2-05 | Nokia X2-05 is an entry-level mobile phone running on the Nokia Series 40 operating system. It was announced on October 11, 2011 and was released two months later. The phone was available in Black, Silver, White and Bright Red, and came with a stereo headset and a MicroUSB cable. The suggested price was €46 before taxes and excluding subsidies (SIM-free).
Features
Nokia X2-05 is focussed on music: it has support for a wide range of audio formats, such as MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB. The handset has a built-in 106phon loudspeaker and includes an FM radio with a speakerphone option and a possibility to record radio transmissions. The phone can be connected via USB either via Nokia PC Suite, or act as a USB mass storage device. The device supports Bluetooth v2.1, including A2DP and EDR profiles.
Software
The X2-05 comes with an audio player, Nokia Browser 1.0, which uses compression technology, e-mail, instant messaging, Facebook and Twitter client apps, and supports Java for third-party applications, which can be downloaded from the Nokia Store (Opera Store as of July 2015).
Nokia Life Tools 1.7 was included on devices made for Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, and Nigerian markets.
Devices for the Chinese market included Mobile QQ (an instant messaging program popular in China) and a Chinese dictionary.
MSN Messenger IM functionality may not work, because Microsoft shut down the .NET Messaging Service in favour of Skype. Alternative instant messaging services are supported via Java (J2ME) apps.
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External links
http://mobiles.sulekha.com/nokia_x2-05_mobile.htm
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_x2_05-4242.php
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Mobile phones introduced in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Barrat | James Rodman Barrat (born 1960) is an American documentary filmmaker, speaker, and author of the nonfiction book Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era.
Career
Barrat’s career began as a writer. He had two stage plays produced while in his 20s. His first broadcast job was documentary scriptwriting for National Geographic Television.
He now writes, directs, and produces documentary film. Broadcasters have included the National Geographic Channel, PBS NOVA, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, Animal Planet, the Travel Channel, and The Learning Channel. Barrat has created dozens of documentaries and worked in over 70 countries.
Among his films, Barrat wrote, produced, and directed the 2014 National Geographic film ‘’Rise of the Black Pharaohs’’. Barrat also is the producer of the 2015 documentary Rise: The Promise of My Brother's Keeper airing in June 2015 on the Discovery Channel and OWN.
In 2010, Barrat was the producer and director for the PBS NOVA documentary "Extreme Cave Diving." The filmmaker cowrote, directed, and produced the documentary special The Gospel of Judas, which aired in 2006 with high ratings for the National Geographic Channel.
Barrat cowrote and produced the 2008 National Geographic Television documentary special Herod's Lost Tomb He also directed and produced the National Geographic documentaries Lost Treasures of Afghanistan and Secrets of Jerusalem's Holiest Sites. He is interviewed in the 2018 documentary on artificial intelligence Do You Trust This Computer?
Book reception
Barrat began writing Our Final Invention in 2010. It was published in 2013.
In 2014, Time magazine identified Barrat as one of the "5 Very Smart People Who Think Artificial Intelligence Could Bring the Apocalypse". Barrat's book was named one of eight "Definitive Tech Books of 2013" by The Huffington Post. He has been interviewed about artificial intelligence by CNN News and the BBC World Service Business Daily.
Personal life
Barrat is married and has two children. He is a 1983 graduate of Davidson College with a B.A. in philosophy.
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1960 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452 | Extrasolar PlanetsEncyclopaediadata
Kepler-452 is a G-type main-sequence star located about 1,800 light-years away from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. Although similar in temperature to the Sun, it is 20% brighter, 3.7% more massive and 11% larger. Alongside this, the star is approximately six billion years old and possesses a high metallicity. Thus, Kepler-452 can be considered a solar twin, although it could be considered a solar analog due to its age.
Nomenclature and history
Prior to Kepler observation, Kepler-452 had the 2MASS catalogue number 2MASS 19440088+4416392. In the Kepler Input Catalog, it has the designation of KIC 8311864. When it was found to have a transiting planet candidate, it was given the Kepler object of interest number of KOI-7016.
Planetary candidates were detected around the star by NASA's Kepler Mission, a mission tasked with discovering planets in transit around their stars. The transit method that Kepler uses involves detecting dips in brightness of stars. These dips in brightness can be interpreted as planets whose orbits pass in front of their stars from the perspective of Earth, although other phenomena can also be responsible which is why the term "planetary candidate" is used.
Following the acceptance of the discovery paper, the Kepler team referred to the star as Kepler-452, which is the normal procedure for naming exoplanets discovered by the spacecraft. Hence, this is the name usually used by the public to refer to the star and its planet.
Candidate planets that are associated with stars studied by the Kepler Mission are assigned the designations ".01", ".02", and so on, after the star's name, in the order of discovery. If planet candidates are detected simultaneously, then the ordering follows the order of orbital periods from shortest to longest. Following these rules, there was only one candidate planet detected, with an orbital period of 384.843 days. The name Kepler-452 derives directly from the fact that the star is the catalogued 452nd star discovered by Kepler to have confirmed planets.
The designation b, derives from the order of discovery. The designation of b is given to the first planet orbiting a given star, followed by the other lowercase letters of the alphabet. In the case of Kepler-452, there was only one planet, so only the letter b is used.
Stellar characteristics
Kepler-452 is a G-type star that is approximately 104% the mass of and 111% the radius of the Sun. It has a temperature of 5757 K and is roughly 6 billion years old. In comparison, the Sun is about 4.6 billion years old and has a temperature of 5778 K.
The star is metal-rich, with a metallicity (Fe/H) of about 0.21, or about 162% of the amount of iron and other heavier metals found in the Sun. The star's luminosity is somewhat normal for a star like Kepler-452, with a luminosity of around 120% of that of the solar luminosity.
The star's apparent magnitude, or how bright it appears from Earth's perspective, is 13.426. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Punisher%20%281990%20computer%20game%29 | The Punisher is a 1990 video game developed by Paragon Software and released by MicroProse, which stars the Marvel Comics antihero, the Punisher. An unrelated game for Amiga and Atari ST was released by The Edge also in 1990.
In the same year, there was also a third unrelated The Punisher game for NES, released by LJN.
Gameplay
The DOS version features three different modes of gameplay: driving the Punisher's "Battle Van", walking through NYC's streets and select buildings, and scuba diving.
The player takes the role of the Punisher and will try to take revenge upon the organised crime, who has killed Punisher's family. The equipment consists of a knife, several semi-automatic guns, grenades, the Battle Van, and a scuba gear.
Reception
In the issue number 77 of Computer Gaming World (December 1990), Charles Ardai stated that the DOS version of The Punisher "is wish-fulfillment of the highest order, a Death Wish revenge fantasy mixed with an honest cry from the gut for justice [...]. For real New Yorkers dealing with an all-too-real" crime waves, and predicted strong sales in urban areas. He gave the game a qualified recommendation, however, because of flaws including graphics of inconsistent quality, poor controls, bugs, and ineffective, manual-based copy protection.
In the issue number 148 of the same magazine, Punisher as in the Paragon Software developed version is mentioned as the fifteenth most memorable hero of all time.
In October 1991, The Punisher was indexed by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons of Germany in a list for games deemed to be a bad influence for younger gamers.
See also
List of video games based on Marvel Comics
References
External links
The Punisher at the Hall of Light
1990 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
DOS games
MicroProse games
Video games based on Punisher
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in New York City
Single-player video games
Paragon Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyCreator | KeyCreator is a commercial software application for 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting available since 2004.
History
KeyCreator is a non-parametric, non-history based, "direct" 2D/3D solid modeling CAD program. Originally known as CADKEY, it was first released in 1984, running on DOS, UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was among the first CAD programs with 3D capabilities for personal computers. Besides solid modeling, KeyCreator is also capable of wire-frame and surface modeling, as well as drafting.
Design
File formats and versions
KeyCreator’s native file format is .ckd.
Languages
KeyCreator is available for English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Extensions
KeyCreator is capable of translating and editing the following file formats from other CAD software:
AutoCAD .dwg, .dxf
Autodesk Inventor .ipt, .iam
CADKEY .prt
Catia .mod, .model, .catproduct, .catpart
SolidWorks .sldprt, .sldasm
Pro/Engineer .prt, .asm
PTC Creo .prt
Siemens NX .prt
Unigraphics .prt
Neutral formats such as STEP .stp, IGES .igs, Parasolid .x_t, and ACIS .sat
Stereolithography (for 3D printing) .stl
Add-On Software
KeyCreator has several additional software options for varying functions.
XMD - Expert Mold Designer provides intelligent automation, custom plate stack layouts, and part revision management. XMD includes tens of thousands of standard components designers need for mold, die, fixture, and machine design.
KeyCreator Machinist is a 2 and 3 axis CAM solution for Mold, die & tooling, wood working, rapid prototyping and general machining.
KeyCreator Artisan allows 3D models to be turned into photorealistic renderings.
KeyCreator CKD Viewer is a no-cost program for reviewing 3D models and drawings stored in CKD files.
Designed with KeyCreator
Aero Tec Laboratories used KeyCreator to design crash resistant, nonexploding fuel-bladder tanks for aircraft, race cars, and performance boats. They have made custom bladder tanks for NASCAR, Ferrari, Boeing, Lockheed, NASA and the U.S. Military.
See also
CADKEY
References
External links
KeyCreator Official Website
1984 software
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20level%20analysis | Error level analysis (ELA) is the analysis of compression artifacts in digital data with lossy compression such as JPEG.
Principles
When used, lossy compression is normally applied uniformly to a set of data, such as an image, resulting in a uniform level of compression artifacts.
Alternatively, the data may consist of parts with different levels of compression artifacts. This difference may arise from the different parts having been repeatedly subjected to the same lossy compression a different number of times, or the different parts having been subjected to different kinds of lossy compression. A difference in the level of compression artifacts in different parts of the data may therefore indicate that the data has been edited.
In the case of JPEG, even a composite with parts subjected to matching compressions will have a difference in the compression artifacts.
In order to make the typically faint compression artifacts more readily visible, the data to be analyzed is subjected to an additional round of lossy compression, this time at a known, uniform level, and the result is subtracted from the original data under investigation. The resulting difference image is then inspected manually for any variation in the level of compression artifacts. In 2007, N. Krawetz denoted this method "error level analysis".
Additionally, digital data formats such as JPEG sometimes include metadata describing the specific lossy compression used. If in such data the observed compression artifacts differ from those expected from the given metadata description, then the metadata may not describe the actual compressed data, and thus indicate that the data have been edited.
Limitations
By its nature, data without lossy compression, such as a PNG image, cannot be subjected to error level analysis. Consequently, since editing could have been performed on data without lossy compression with lossy compression applied uniformly to the edited, composite data, the presence of a uniform level of compression artifacts does not rule out editing of the data.
Additionally, any non-uniform compression artifacts in a composite may be removed by subjecting the composite to repeated, uniform lossy compression. Also, if the image color space is reduced to 256 colors or less, for example, by conversion to GIF, then error level analysis will generate useless results.
More significant, the actual interpretation of the level of compression artifacts in a given segment of the data is subjective, and the determination of whether editing has occurred is therefore not robust.
Controversy
In May 2013, Dr Neal Krawetz used error level analysis on the 2012 World Press Photo of the Year and concluded on his Hacker Factor blog that it was "a composite" with modifications that "fail to adhere to the acceptable journalism standards used by Reuters, Associated Press, Getty Images, National Press Photographer's Association, and other media outlets". The World Press Photo organizers respon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Armenian%20films%20before%201920 |
1910s
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1898
Lists of 1910s films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20Network%20of%20Western%20Switzerland | The Library Network of Western Switzerland (; RERO) was founded by several major libraries in 1985, in the French-speaking region of Romandy in western Switzerland. RERO is a syllabic abbreviation of "Réseau Romand" ("Romand Network").
Until 2020, RERO used to include most of the cantonal, academic, public, and specialized libraries in Switzerland, including the library academic universities in Western Switzerland, including Geneva, Fribourg, and Neuchâtel. In 2020, however, two-thirds of the institutions taking part to RERO moved to the competing network Swisscovery, which spans all of Switzerland and includes the majority of its academic institutions.
References
External links
VIAF partner page
1985 establishments in Switzerland
Buildings and structures in Valais
English-language websites
French-language websites
German-language websites
Libraries established in 1985
Libraries in Switzerland
Library cataloging and classification
Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland
University of Fribourg
University of Geneva
University of Neuchâtel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria%20de%20Paiva | Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and computer scientist.
Her work includes research on logical approaches to computation, especially using category theory,
knowledge representation and natural language semantics, and functional programming with a focus on foundations and type theories.
Education
De Paiva earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1982, a master's degree in 1984 (on pure algebra) and completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 1988, under the supervision of Martin Hyland. Her thesis introduced Dialectica spaces, a categorical way of constructing models of linear logic, based on Kurt Gödel's Dialectica interpretation .
Career and research
She worked for nine years at PARC in Palo Alto, California, and also worked at Rearden Commerce and Cuil before joining Nuance. She is an honorary research fellow in computer science at the University of Birmingham. She is currently on the Council of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2020–2023).
Selected publications
Applied Category Theory in Chemistry, Computing, and Social Networks. (with Baez, Cho, Ciccala and Otter). Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 69, number 2, February 2022.
Term Assignment for Intuitionistic Linear Logic. (with Benton, Bierman and Hyland). Technical Report 262, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. August 1992.
Lineales. (with J.M.E. Hyland) In "O que nos faz pensar" Special number in Logic of "Cadernos do Dept. de Filosofia da PUC", Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, April 1991.
A Dialectica-like Model of Linear Logic. In Proceedings of Category Theory and Computer Science, Manchester, UK, September 1989. Springer-Verlag LNCS 389 (eds. D. Pitt, D. Rydeheard, P. Dybjer, A. Pitts and A. Poigne).
The Dialectica Categories. In Proc of Categories in Computer Science and Logic, Boulder, CO, 1987. Contemporary Mathematics, vol 92, American Mathematical Society, 1989 (eds. J. Gray and A. Scedrov)
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Brazilian computer scientists
American computer scientists
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Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Brazilian logicians
Category theorists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Scientists at PARC (company)
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20C2-05 | Nokia C2-05 is a sliding model device running on Nokia's Series 40 mobile operating system. It was released in December 2011. It was also the last Nokia phone with sliding keypad ever released and the last in the Nokia Cseries line. The screen of the device is of 2.0 inches TFT with resolution of 240x320 pixels. Its battery BL-4C is of 860 mAh. The device is Bluetooth v2.1 enabled with A2DP and EDR. As of 2015 July, its cost in India is about Rs. 3340. Outside India it is sold for a cost of $74.22 approx.
Special Features
The device has touch and type features. It is available in 3 different colours, mainly - Pink, Dynamic Grey and Peacock Blue. It has the feature of predictive text input. It supports GPRS class 12, EDGE, Bluetooth and Internet access via WAP. But lacks features like 3G, Wi-Fi, IrDA. It has a camera of 4X Digital zoom. The device has an internal memory of 10MB, 16MB RAM and 64MB ROM. Also, the device is featured with expandable memory of 32GB. It supports FM Recording and RDS. It can be connected to a PC via PC Suite or Mass Storage with its micro USB v2.0 port. The facility of photocalk is also present in this device.
Software
The device is Java (J2ME) MIDP 2.1 enabled. It has Facebook and Twitter clients. The device also supports MP4, H263 playback. The sound playback of the device support MP3, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+ format. It is equipped with Nokia Map, Nokia Store, Nokia messaging service and has preinstalled color themes. It is also java compatible.
References
External links
Nokia_C2-05 specifications - Microsoft UK
Nokia_C2-05 specifications - Phone Arena
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
C2-05
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery
Slider phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia%20Le%20Channel | Jia Le Channel () is a 24-hour Chinese and Hokkien language/dialect television network, broadcasting on the Singtel TV IPTV television service. Its content includes Chinese and Hokkien language programming, as well as foreign programs targeted at Chinese viewers. Jia Le Channel available Broadcast in Singapore via Singtel TV on Channel 502 and Jia Le Channel Video On Demand.
Taiwan programs
型男大主厨 / Stylish Man
超级夜总会 / Super Nightclub
超級紅人榜 / Top Singers
炮仔聲 / The Sound Of Happiness
在一起，就好 / Stand By Me
Mainland China programs
爸爸回來了 2 / Dad Came Back 2
让世界听见 / Hear Us
谈判官 / The Negotiator
独步天下 / Rule The World
Singapore programs
你是福建人吗? / Are You Hokkien?
你是福建人吗? 2 / Are You Hokkien? 2
Availability
External links
Programme Guide
2011 establishments in Singapore
Direct broadcast satellite services
Cable television companies
Satellite television
Television channels and stations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypp%20Sports%20HD | HyppSports is an in-house IPTV network in Malaysia dedicated to broadcasting sports-related content 24 hours a day. It is available exclusively on unifi TV via Channel 701 (HD) to subscribers of either stand-alone channel pack, Ultimate Pack, or any of the ethnic-curated packs (Aneka Plus, Ruby Plus, Varnam Plus).
Launched in 2012 as one of unifi TV original channels, HyppSports Illustrated 1 (a joint-venture between unifi TV and Sports Illustrated Asia) offers a sports of international sporting events such as football, badminton, motorsport, rugby, volleyball and golf. unifi TV also operates two sister channels, HyppSports Illustrated 2 and HyppSports 3 on Channels 702 & 703 respectively, along with a high definition simulcast of all channels.
HyppSports 2
HyppSports Illustrated 2 is the first sister channel of HyppSports Illustrated 1. Launched on 15 November 2012, it is broadcast on unifi TV via Channel 702 in high-definition. Sporting events that are aired on this network include the American competitions like NFL and NHL and the Mexican competitions like Copa MX. On 1 August 2018, the channel, along with HyppSports 1 HD will be off-aired on unifi TV due to declining popularity of viewers.
HyppSports 3
HyppSports 3 is the second sister channel of HyppSports. Launched in 2012, it is broadcast on Channel 703 in high-definition. This channel is the home of Bundesliga, International Champions Cup, with exclusive and extensive live coverage of football matches and behind-the-scenes feature curated for fans.
HyppSports 4
HyppSports 4 was the third sister channel of HyppSports. Launched in 2012, it was broadcast on HyppTV Channel 704 in HD. This channel service ended on 1 July 2017.
On 2 February 2018, a joint-venture has been made between unifi TV and Football Malaysia LLP to bring HyppSports Plus – unifi Malaysia Super League HD channel, where it is dedicated to the live football matches of the 2018 Malaysia League. The channel then replace the defunct HyppSports 4 HD on Channel 704 for a limited time only. Selected live matches are also available for telecast on HyppSports 3 HD (Channel 703).
Sister Names
Dunia Sinema HD
HyppInspirasi HD
HyppSensasi HD
Pesona HD
Salam HD
Broadcast platform
Malaysia: unifi TV
External links
Sports television in Malaysia
HD-only channels
Astro Malaysia Holdings television channels
Defunct television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercials%20%28TV%20specials%29 | Infomercials is an umbrella title for independent, quarter-hour television comedy specials airing on Adult Swim. Unlike actual paid programming, all of the programs are fictitious, and for the most part maintain no continuity with each other.
Most of the specials closely resemble & lampoon the format of infomercials, while others parody tropes in niche media such as closed-circuit hotel information channels, industrial films, sitcoms, outdated reality television formats, and public-access television. A number of the titles have a purposeful standard definition look and framing, to match a dated aesthetic. The specials typically air at 4 a.m. ET/PT.
There is no title card or common identifier for the specials, and on some program guide listings, it can be confused with an actual segment of paid programming; if there is a description, it is sometimes blank, with no season or episode numbers. Every title has a different look, as outside of the Williams Street production logos, there are no common directors, cast or crew between the specials, though some directors have returned.
One in particular, "Too Many Cooks", is notable for gathering media interest in November 2014. It contains a long-form introduction sequence common to 1980s and 1990s TV shows, except with a seemingly endless cast that continued to be introduced for 11 minutes straight.
Specials
All the titles are or have been aired under the homonym banner, according to the Adult Swim schedule.
Scrapped
The Six Pack Comedy Minute
Ultimate Beetles Collection
Notes
References
External links
2000s American anthology television series
2010s American anthology television series
2020s American anthology television series
2000s American black comedy television series
2010s American black comedy television series
2020s American black comedy television series
2000s American parody television series
2010s American parody television series
2020s American parody television series
2000s American satirical television series
2010s American satirical television series
2020s American satirical television series
2009 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Adult Swim original programming
Television articles with incorrect naming style |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%205 | Radial Road 5, more commonly referred to as R-5, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the fifth radial road of Manila in the Philippines. The road links the City of Manila with Mandaluyong and Pasig in the east, leading out of Metro Manila into the province of Rizal and south towards Laguna. It is the only arterial road traversing the east side of Laguna de Bay.
Route
The road consists of the following segments:
Victorino Mapa Street
R-5 begins as Victorino Mapa Street in Santa Mesa, Manila from the intersection with Magsaysay Boulevard to where it connects to P. Sanchez Street at a junction with Victorino Mapa Street Extension. It is the main north-south road of Santa Mesa.
P. Sanchez Street
R-5 is known as P. Sanchez Street along the rest of the route in Santa Mesa. Named after Francisco de Paula Sanchez, a Jesuit priest from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, it links Santa Mesa to Mandaluyong east of the San Juan River.
Shaw Boulevard
The main segment of R-5 in Mandaluyong and Pasig is known as Shaw Boulevard. Padre Sanchez Street merges with Shaw Boulevard at the intersection with General Kalentong Street. It travels east-southeast near the border with San Juan and passes through the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club before arriving at the intersection with Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (C-4). East of EDSA, R-5 forms the southern boundary of the Ortigas Center business district and quickly enters the city of Pasig after crossing San Miguel Avenue. It passes through the Capitol Commons development at the former Rizal Provincial Capitol complex before turning south on Pasig Boulevard at the junction with Hillcrest Drive in Bagong Ilog, Pasig.
Pasig Boulevard
Between Shaw Boulevard and Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5), R-5 is known as Pasig Boulevard. It marks the boundary between barangays Kapitolyo and Bagong Ilog running north-south towards the Pasig River before turning east towards C-5 by the Rizal Medical Center.
Ortigas Avenue
The area of the old city proper of Pasig (Malinao, etc.) east of Bagong Ilog from Pasig Boulevard has a short and narrow street layout. Hence, R-5 follows C-5 northbound and continues its eastward route instead along Ortigas Avenue towards Rizal. From Rosario, Pasig, R-5 passes through the municipalities of Cainta and Taytay turning south on Taytay Diversion Road at the Tikling Junction.
Taytay Diversion Road
Between Ortigas Avenue Extension and the Manila East Road, R-5 is known as the Taytay Diversion Road. It runs north-south traversing the Taytay poblacion of Dolores where SM City Taytay is located.
Manila East Road
R-5 in the rest of southern Rizal and eastern Laguna province is known as the Manila East Road. It travels east-southeast mostly along the shore of Laguna de Bay from Angono to Pililla. It crosses the Sierra Madre border between Rizal and Laguna and continues along the lakeshore from Mabitac south towards Pagsanjan.
See also
List of roads in Metro Manila
References
R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%204 | Radial Road 4 (R-4), informally known as the R-4 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the fourth arterial road of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the cities and municipalities of Makati, Manila, Pasig, Pateros, Taguig, and Taytay in Metro Manila and Rizal.
Route description
Pasig Line Street
R-4 begins as Pasig Line Street in San Andres district from the intersection with Pedro Gil Street to where it connects to Kalayaan Avenue at the city's border with Makati. This segment of R-4 is named for the old Manila Electric Railway line destroyed and abandoned after World War II which connected Manila with San Joaquin, Pasig.
Kalayaan Avenue
The segment of R-4 in Makati is known as Kalayaan Avenue. It follows the former Pasig Line of the Manila Electric Railway from Tejeros at the intersection with Zobel Roxas Street to East Rembo at the intersection with J.P. Rizal Avenue Extension. A portion of this segment of R-4 is non-contiguous as part of the former railroad has been converted into a residential street within the gated community of Bel-Air Village. East of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (C-4), it forms the northern boundary of Bonifacio Global City and continues east towards Makati's border with Pasig near the Napindan Hydraulic Control Structure.
M. Concepcion Avenue
Between the Buting Bridge over the Taguig River, which serves as the Makati-Pasig boundary, to R. Jabson Street in San Joaquin, R-4 is known as M. Concepcion Avenue. It passes through the San Guillermo Parish Church in Buting and Manggahan Shrine just north of the municipality of Pateros before merging with Elisco Road past the R. Jabson-A. Luna Street junction.
Elisco Road
R-4 is known as Elisco Road in the rest of the Pasig barangays of San Joaquin and Kalawaan. This road turns south upon arriving in Kalawaan and ends at the Taguig–Pateros boundary. It is unknown where R-4 would connect to Pinagbuhatan east of the Pasig River to continue its eastward journey to Taytay in Rizal.
Highway 2000
R-4 picks up east of the Manggahan Floodway in Taytay and continues as Highway 2000 towards the Taytay poblacion of Dolores at the intersection with Taytay Diversion Road and Manila East Road (R-5). It is unknown if R-4 would follow the route of R-5 along Taytay Diversion Road or if R-4 would follow a different alignment or build a new road segment.
Notes
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Klagenfurt | The Klagenfurt tram network operated in various forms between 1891 and 1963, which was when diesel buses took over, reflecting lower operating costs at a time of relatively low prices for oil based fuels.
In 2005, in response to exceptional levels of particulates pollution in Klagenfurt the city authorities proposed a resumption of tram services. A feasibility study was commissioned, but concluded that the cost of the necessary investment would be prohibitive.
History
By the 1880 the population of Klagenfurt had reached almost 20,000, which was enough to justify fresh public transport investment. Between 1883 and 1885 various companies put forward plans for a tram powered by horses, steam or even electricity. It was not till 15 May 1891, however, that the city awarded its first tram concession. The company set up by the Vienna entrepreneur Adolf Springer was contracted to operate a horse powered tram service, and an experimental operation was almost immediately put in place. The first tram line, using a one-meter gauge, connecting the main station, on the city's south side, with the "Holy Ghost Square" (Heiligengeist Platz) in the city centre was completed on 30 June 1891, and services began on 5 July 1891. The service expanded to the point where it employed a large number of summer tramcars, three winter tramcars and, at busy times, up to 24 horses. Helped by low personnel costs, the operation was cost-effective and popular, especially during the summer months, in a city with an economy that by now was already heavily impacted by a large scale but highly seasonal level of tourist business. Passenger numbers peaked in 1910 at 386,766. 1910 was also the system's final year of horse traction.
In 1910 Siemens, working under a contract agreed with the city the previous year, began work on an electric tram system which was to replace its horse-drawn precursor. The first electric tram service, which connected the main railway station with "Theatre Square" (Theaterplatz) opened on 6 May 1911. Significant further expansion followed later in the same year. In 1935, which coincidentally was the year in which traffic in Klagenfurt switched to driving on the right side of the road, saw a new tram service connecting the Military Swimming School with the city's newly expanded opened bathing beach on the Wörthersee. The total length of tram lines now comprised 10.2 km (slightly more than 6 miles). The open ended "summer tramcars" that had been taken over from the horse-drawn trams in 1911 were still in use, and they were held in great affection so that now a new batch was ordered for the new line, with only very minor technical modifications.
Operational problems nevertheless arose from lack of infrastructure investment which meant that right up to the end most of the Klagenfurt tram system operated on a single track network. In 1944 irreparable bomb damage at the Kreuzbergl caused the a section of tramline to be replaced with a tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Walker | Marilyn A. Walker is an American computer scientist. She is professor of computer science and head of the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Her research includes work on computational models of dialogue interaction and conversational agents, analysis of affect, sarcasm and other social phenomena in social media dialogue, acquiring causal knowledge from text, conversational summarization, interactive story and narrative generation, and statistical methods for training the dialogue manager and the language generation engine for dialogue systems.
Biography
Walker received an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 1987, and an M.A in linguistics and a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.
Walker was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship at the University of Sheffield from 2003 to 2009. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in December 2016 for "fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog". She served as the general chair of the 2018 North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2018) conference.
Walker pioneered the use of statistical methods for dialog optimization at AT&T Bell Labs Research where she conducted some of the first experiments on reinforcement learning for optimizing dialogue systems. She also pioneered the use of statistical NLP methods for Natural Language Generation with the development of the first statistical sentence planner for dialogue systems. Her research on Centering Theory is taught in standard textbooks on NLP.
She has published over 200 papers and is the holder of 13 U.S. patents. Her work on the evaluation of dialogue systems conducted at AT&T Bell Labs Research (PARADISE: A framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents) is a classic, having been cited more than 800 times. At UCSC, her lab focuses on computational modeling of dialogue and user-generated content in social media such as weblogs, including spoken dialogue systems and interactive stories. She leads the Athena team, selected as one of the contenders of Alexa Prize Challenge 3, with seven lab members competing in the 2019/2020 Alexa Prize.
References
External links
List of publications
from Google Scholar
Project on Healthcare intervention
Project on teaching computers to understand sarcasm
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
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University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Stanford University alumni
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Natural language processing researchers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasFlight | masFlight was a US cloud-based, big data, SaaS aviation software and data services company based in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices in Reston, Virginia and Ontario, California. The company was founded in 2010 and was acquired by Global Eagle Entertainment on August 4, 2015. The company is now part of the GEE Operations Solutions business unit. masFlight focused on the collection and analysis of large amounts of commercial aircraft operational data globally, from sources such as global flight information systems, schedules, ADS-B and proprietary information sources. masFlight's technology used the cloud to store daily flight profiles and tracks of individual commercial aircraft. The company sold this data and analysis to airlines and related parties such as aircraft lessors and aircraft OEMs.
masFlight is a Strategic Partner of the International Air Transport Association (IATA)
The company was regularly cited in media reports on commercial aviation issues, including the Wall St Journal, CNBC, CNN, TIME Magazine and Bloomberg News.
References
External links
American companies established in 2010
Companies based in Bethesda, Maryland
Internet technology companies of the United States
American travel websites
Aviation websites
Internet properties established in 2010
Privately held companies based in Maryland
Aerospace companies of the United States
2010 establishments in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul%27s%20Drag%20Race%20All%20Stars%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars premiered on the Logo network on a new night; Thursday, August 25, 2016. Returning judges included RuPaul, Michelle Visage, with Carson Kressley joining the panel, while the space previously occupied by Ross Mathews was filled by Todrick Hall. Cast members were announced on June 17, 2016. This season featured ten All-Star contestants, selected from the show's second season through to its seventh season, who competed to be inducted into the "Drag Race Hall of Fame".
A new twist was revealed for this season, changing the format of the show. In previous seasons, the bottom two queens had to "Lip-sync for their Life" to avoid elimination. This season had the top two performing queens of the challenge "Lip-sync for their Legacy," with the winner of the lip-sync earning $10,000 and choosing which one of the bottom queens gets eliminated. The prizes for the winner were a one-year supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics and a cash prize of $100,000. It is also the first All Stars season to feature Snatch Game, a challenge that debuted in the second season of the regular series.
The winner of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars was Alaska, with Detox and Katya being the runners-up.
Contestants
Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Notes:
Contestants' progress
Lip syncs
Legend:
Guest judges
Listed in chronological order:
Raven-Symoné, actress, comedian, singer and model
Ross Mathews, comedian and television personality
Jeremy Scott, fashion designer
Nicole Scherzinger, singer and actress
Graham Norton, television and radio personality
Aubrey Plaza, actress and comedian
Special guests
Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage:
Episode 2
Raven, runner up from season two and season one of All Stars
Jujubee, contestant from season two and season one and five of All Stars
Shangela, contestant from season two and three and season three of All Stars
Bianca Del Rio, winner of season six
Episode 4
Big Freedia, actor and singer
Victoria "Porkchop" Parker, contestant from season one
Episode 5
Chad Michaels, runner-up from season four and winner of season one of All Stars
Victoria "Porkchop" Parker, contestant from season one
Chelsea Peretti, actress and comedian
Akashia, contestant from season one
Jessica Wild, contestant from season two
Mystique Summers Madison, contestant from season two
Nicole Paige Brooks, contestant from season two
Sonique, contestant from season two and season six of All Stars
Alexis Mateo, contestant from season three and season one and five of All Stars
Mariah Paris Balenciaga, contestant from season three and season five of All Stars
Yara Sofia, contestant from season three and season one and six of All Stars
Jiggly Caliente, contestant from season four and season six of All Stars
Madame LaQueer, contestant from season four
Monica Beverly Hillz, contestant from season five
Vivienne Pinay, contestant from season five |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-to-one%20%28data%20model%29 | In systems analysis, a one-to-one relationship is a type of cardinality that refers to the relationship between two entities (see also entity–relationship model) A and B in which one element of A may only be linked to one element of B, and vice versa. In mathematical terms, there exists a bijective function from A to B.
For instance, think of A as the set of all human beings, and B as the set of all their brains. Any person from A can and must have only one brain from B, and any human brain in B can and must belong to only one person that is contained in A.
In a relational database, a one-to-one relationship exists when one row in a table may be linked with only one row in another table and vice versa. It is important to note that a one-to-one relationship is not a property of the data, but rather of the relationship itself. A list of mothers and their children may happen to describe mothers with only one child, in which case one row of the mothers table will refer to only one row of the children table and vice versa, but the relationship itself is not one-to-one, because mothers may have more than one child, thus forming a one-to-many relationship.
See also
One-to-many (data model)
Many-to-many (data model)
External links
Design pattern: many-to-many (order entry), Tomjewett.com
Data modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-to-many%20%28data%20model%29 | In systems analysis, a one-to-many relationship is a type of cardinality that refers to the relationship between two entities (see also entity–relationship model) A and B in which an element of A may be linked to many elements of B, but a member of B is linked to only one element of A. For instance, think of A as books, and B as pages. A book can have many pages, but a page can only be in one book.
In a relational database, a one-to-many relationship exists when one row in table A may be linked with many rows in table B, but one row in table B is linked to only one row in table A. It is important to note that a one-to-many relationship is not a property of the data, but rather of the relationship itself. A list of authors and their books may happen to describe books with only one author, in which case one row of the books table will refer to only one row of the authors table, but the relationship itself is not one-to-many, because books may have more than one author, forming a many-to-many relationship.
The opposite of one-to-many is many-to-one. The transpose of a one-to-many relationship is a many-to-one relationship.
Entity relationship diagram (ERD) notations
One notation as described in Entity Relationship modeling is Chen notation or formally Chen ERD notation created originally by Peter Chen in 1976 where a one-to-many relationship is notated as 1:N where N represents the cardinality and can be 0 or higher.
A many-to-one relationship is sometimes notated as N:1.
See also
One-to-one (data model)
Many-to-many (data model)
References
Data modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelans%20in%20Uruguay | Venezuelan Uruguayans are people born in Venezuela who live in Uruguay, or Uruguayan-born people of Venezuelan descent.
According to official data, over 12,000 Venezuelans entered Uruguay in 2016.
Overview
There are many Venezuelan-born individuals living in Uruguay, for a number of reasons. Both countries share the Spanish language; their historical origins are common (part of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate, Spanish Empire); both countries are members of MERCOSUR, there is no need for special migration documents, and circulation is relatively easy. It is also easy for Venezuelans to obtain permanent residence in Uruguay.
Uruguay is a very small, quiet country, with wide beaches on the Atlantic Ocean, so many well-off Venezuelans choose Uruguay as their usual holiday destination, some of them even as permanent residence. Other Venezuelans of a lower social condition come to Uruguay in search of job opportunities, as part of a big inflow of Latin Americans coming to Uruguay.
The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed almost 1,000 people who declared Venezuela as their country of birth. As of 2013, there were 62 Venezuelan citizens registered in the Uruguayan social security. In 2015, more and more Venezuelans are coming to Uruguay, running away from their uncertain future; some ask for political asylum. Among schoolchildren born abroad, Venezuelans are the fourth-biggest group, among 62 countries that are represented in Uruguayan schools.
Lately, there are some young Venezuelan immigrants who have tried politics in different political parties.
Gastronomy
Venezuelans are strongly influencing gastronomy in Montevideo with their arepas, tequeños, Hallacas, cachapas and other delights.
See also
Uruguay–Venezuela relations
Uruguayans in Venezuela
Immigration to Uruguay
References
External links
Venezolanos en Uruguay
Amigos venezolanos en Uruguay
Clasificados veneguayos
Immigration to Uruguay
Ethnic groups in Uruguay
Uruguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream | DeepDream is a computer vision program created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev that uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like appearance reminiscent of a psychedelic experience in the deliberately overprocessed images.
Google's program popularized the term (deep) "dreaming" to refer to the generation of images that produce desired activations in a trained deep network, and the term now refers to a collection of related approaches.
History
The DeepDream software, originated in a deep convolutional network codenamed "Inception" after the film of the same name, was developed for the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in 2014 and released in July 2015.
The dreaming idea and name became popular on the internet in 2015 thanks to Google's DeepDream program. The idea dates from early in the history of neural networks, and similar methods have been used to synthesize visual textures.
Related visualization ideas were developed (prior to Google's work) by several research groups.
After Google published their techniques and made their code open-source, a number of tools in the form of web services, mobile applications, and desktop software appeared on the market to enable users to transform their own photos.
Process
The software is designed to detect faces and other patterns in images, with the aim of automatically classifying images. However, once trained, the network can also be run in reverse, being asked to adjust the original image slightly so that a given output neuron (e.g. the one for faces or certain animals) yields a higher confidence score. This can be used for visualizations to understand the emergent structure of the neural network better, and is the basis for the DeepDream concept. This reversal procedure is never perfectly clear and unambiguous because it utilizes a one-to-many mapping process. However, after enough reiterations, even imagery initially devoid of the sought features will be adjusted enough that a form of pareidolia results, by which psychedelic and surreal images are generated algorithmically. The optimization resembles backpropagation; however, instead of adjusting the network weights, the weights are held fixed and the input is adjusted.
For example, an existing image can be altered so that it is "more cat-like", and the resulting enhanced image can be again input to the procedure. This usage resembles the activity of looking for animals or other patterns in clouds.
Applying gradient descent independently to each pixel of the input produces images in which
adjacent pixels have little relation and thus the image has too much high frequency information.
The generated images can be greatly improved by including a prior or regularizer that prefers inputs
that have natural image statistics (without a preference for any particular image), or are simply smooth.
For example, Mahendran et al. used the total |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabado%20Badoo | Sabado Badoo () is a 2015 Philippine television comedy anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Betong Sumaya and Sef Cadayona, it premiered on March 14, 2015. The show concluded on July 25, 2015 with a total of 20 episodes.
Segments
ArtistaGram
Hugot Lines
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Sabado Badoo earned a 13.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.4% rating.
References
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Philippine comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario%20Tramway | The Rosario Tramway was a planned mass transit tramway network in Rosario, Argentina. Nevertheless, the project never surpassed the bidding process stages. The project was assessed by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana and was largely inspired by the network the company runs in Valencia, though at one point a metro system was envisioned. The municipal and provincial governments undertaken discussions with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for financing the project, as well as Siemens to provide the rolling stock. Once the project was completed, it would be the first time trams have run in the city on a mass scale since the closure of the city's tramway network in 1963, which had reached a maximum extension of 192 km.
Background
The project was first put forward as a metro network which, upon the completion of the Córdoba Underground, would mean that the city would have become the third in the country with an underground network as currently only the Buenos Aires Underground is in operation. An underground system for the city had first been proposed in 1930 following the success of the Subte in Buenos Aires, though this was never carried-out, with trams being favoured instead.
The contemporary project to build a Metro in Rosario first appeared in 2008, but was dropped in 2010. After 4 years of silence on the project, it was again put on the table in July 2014 but was approached with caution, evaluating all possibilities before undertaking expensive underground works. By November of that year, the Chinese companies CITIC Group and China Machinery Engineering Corporation both showed interest in the project and both had invested in Argentine infrastructure before, in the purchase of CITIC-CNR cars for the Buenos Aires Underground and investment in infrastructure on the Belgrano Cargas network operated by the state-owned freight company Trenes Argentinos Cargas y Logística. Both an overground and underground network were put forward to the companies, while the chosen project would be carried-out on a turnkey basis.
The Metro proposal saw the creation of 20 km of tunnels starting from the recently rebuilt Rosario Sur Station at a cost of US$620 million. The rolling stock would consist of 35 trains with 4 cars each, while the frequency of services would be one train every 4 minutes. The proposal received the backing of the Ministry of the Interior and Transport on a national level, as well as politicians on a provincial level, but was opposed by delegates from the Socialist Party who favoured a tram system over a metro. Another proposal was a broader Sistema Integrado de Movilidad Urbana (Integrated System of Urban Mobility, or SIMU) which would combine street level transport with underground transport, monorails, the existing trolleybus network and other initiatives such as bicycle lanes and was deemed less costly than a Metro system by its proponents.
The governor of Santa Fe Province Antonio Bonfatti (also of the Socialist Party |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriented%20energy%20filters | Oriented energy filters are used to grant sight to intelligent machines and sensors. The light comes in and is filtered so that it can be properly computed and analyzed by the computer allowing it to “perceive” what it is measuring. These energy measurements are then calculated to take a real time measurement of the oriented space time structure.
3D Gaussian filters are used to extract orientation measurements. They were chosen due to their ability to capture a broad spectrum and easy and efficient computations.
The use of these vision systems can then be used in smart room, human interface and surveillance applications. The computations used can tell more than the standalone frame that most perceived motion devices such as a television frame. The objects captured by these devices would tell the velocity and energy of an object and its direction in relation to space and time. This also allows for better tracking ability and recognition.
References
Artificial intelligence
Lidar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wettererkundungsstaffel | Wettererkundungsstaffeln (also known as Wekusta or Westa) were flying units of the Luftwaffe of squadron strength used for weather reconnaissance. Their primary task was to collect weather data in areas that only aircraft could penetrate.
For the planning and conduct of military operations, the ability to produce accurate weather forecasts can be a decisive factor. However, international weather data required for this purpose were not readily available to the German military at the time of the Second World War. The Wehrmacht therefore created a global network of weather stations, weather ships and weather aircraft. The weather aircraft were organised into special squadrons and were usually directly subordinate to the Luftwaffe or Luftwaffenführungskommando. Overall, there were eleven Wekustas, each of which had between three and twelve two-engined aircraft. Many meteorologists were conscripted into the squadrons to collect the weather data and more than 200 of them were killed.
Units
Notes:The squadron identification code painted on the side of the aircraft was based on the standardized Geschwaderkennung four-place alphanumeric characters used by the Luftwaffes combat wing and group-sized units, two characters on either side of the Balkenkreuz national insignia. For example, from the table above, B7 + _A = where _ is replaced by the identification letter of the individual aircraft Ob.d.L. = Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe [Commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe] Lfl.= Luftflotte
Notable personnel
Hans Bonath (1919–2004, Knight's Cross recipient)
Erich Etienne (1915–1942, geophysicist)
Hans Heinrich Euler (1909–1941, physicist)
Leo Gburek (1910–1941, geophysicist)
Martin Teich (1911–2004, a meteorologist at the German Weather Service and weatherman for German public-service television broadcaster ZDF)
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%20Murata | Takeshi Murata is an American contemporary artist who creates digital media artworks using video and computer animation techniques. In 2007 he had a solo exhibition, Black Box: Takeshi Murata, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. His 2006 work "Pink Dot" is in the Hirshhorn's permanent collection, and his 2005 work "Monster Movie" is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His 2013 short film "OM Rider" was selected to screen as an animated short film at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Background and influences
Murata's parents are both architects, which he said has given him an awareness of the spaces around him. He says that focusing on animation as his medium was a natural direction for him: I've always loved cartoons, and when I finally saw experimental animation, and what independent artists were making outside of the studio system, I knew it's what I wanted to do. The combination of the studios art, in time, with sound, and having the illusionary powerful [sic] to create immersive narrative spaces, is exciting. I still love it.
Murata also cites horror movies as an influence.
Works and reception
Key works completed by Murata in the mid-2000s exploited the introduction of distortions to previously recorded videos, a practice commonly found in glitch art. "Monster Movie," "Untitled (Silver)," and "Untitled (Pink Dot)," all made between 2005 and 2007, share this characteristic.
A 2009 article in Artforum about Murata's art noted that "the artificial palette, flashing lights, abstract patterns, and coarsely pixelated texture of Pink Dot and other works by Murata locate him in the tradition of electronic animation pioneered by John Whitney and Lillian Schwartz. But while his predecessors were testing the computer's ability to replicate the cinematic illusion of movement, Murata uses the tools of consumer-level film-editing software to undo that illusion, with trails of pixel dust tracking the changing positions of the image from frame to frame.".
"Monster Movie"
Display notes for the work "Monster Movie" in the 2015 Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition Watch This! Revelations in Media Art state:
"Monster Movie" is a mesmerizing digital video projection with an aggressive audio track. Murata sourced video from the 1981 B-movie Caveman, and beginning with a process called datamoshing, mixed it into a kind of digital liquid. Much as [Raphael Montañez] Ortiz punched holes in 16mm filmstock, Murata punched virtual holes through the compressed video file, disrupting the video's logic and revealing a monster beneath the surface of the video, inside the digital script."
Untitled (Silver)
A 2006 review of Murata's work "Untitled (Silver)" stated: "A main part of Murata's technique involves digitally compressing the footage so that the movement of a series of frames is reduced to a single twitching image that records only the net difference in movement from one frame to the next. Ironic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeSkulptor | CodeSkulptor is an interactive, web-based Python programming environment that allows Python code to be run in a web browser. The application was developed by Scott Rixner, a professor of computer science at Rice University. Its features include visualization of program execution; the ability to conveniently store, edit, and share code online with other users; and cogent error messages that are helpful for debugging code.
Currently, CodeSkulptor must be run in Chrome 18+, Firefox 11+, or Safari 6+ for full functionality.
CodeSkulptor is currently used by students, as well as in Coursera programming courses.
References
External links
: for Python 2
CodeSkulptor3: official version for Python 3
Python (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Grant | Barbara Grant is an American businesswoman. She served in a variety of senior management positions at IBM for 21 years including vice president and General Manager in the Data Storage Division of Removable Media Storage Solutions. She continues to serve start-up and major corporations in a variety of capacities.
Education
Grant received her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Arizona State University and her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University.
IBM
Grant was employed at IBM for 21 years where she held several executive positions. Her last position was Vice President and General Manager in the Data Storage Division.
Career accolades
Over her career she helped develop and introduce over 50 new products and received 8 patents. She has authored many publications in a variety of technology sectors. In 1996 she was elected to the inaugural group of the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.
Current board memberships
Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance
Integrated Materials, Inc.
Agoura Technologies, Inc.
PlanarMag, Inc.
Lumetric Lighting, Inc.
Research Advisory Board - University of California, Davis
Sacramento Area Region Technology Alliance (SARTA)
Recognition
1996 - Induction, Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, Women in Technology International
References
Businesspeople in technology
American women business executives
American business executives
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen
IBM employees
Arizona State University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roda%20%28markets%29 | Roda (, Stork) is a chain of retail stores that began operating in 1994 by opening its first location in Kula. By developing a retail network of megamarkets, first in Vojvodina, and then throughout Serbia, Roda positioned itself as a store for large and family purchases.
History
In October 2006, Mercator Group from Slovenia bought 76% of shares of the M-Rodić company at 116 million euros and thus became the majority owner of Roda Markets. The process of the complete take-over of the company was completed in 2009, when Roda became a part of Mercator-S, and since April 2021 it has been an integral part of the Fortenova Group retail.
Retail network
Under the slogan "Where the family is", Roda meets the needs of large family purchases. This brand has 33 stores throughout Serbia.
See also
List of supermarket chains in Serbia
References
Serbian brands
Supermarkets of Serbia
Agrokor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCIM%20Cor%20Baayen%20Award | The Cor Baayen Award is an annual award given to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics.
In 1995, the award was created to honor the first ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) president.
As a young researcher award, nominees must have obtained their PhD in the three years before the yearly nomination deadline.
A researcher can be nominated for the award only once.
The award is presented as a check for 5000 Euro and a certificate. The awardee is then invited to ERCIM meetings the following autumn.
An article is published in ERCIM news with the name of the winner, and all nominees of the year.
See also
List of computer science awards
List of mathematics awards
References
Computer science awards
Mathematics awards
European awards
Awards established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20von%20Neumann%20Center | The John von Neumann Center (JVNC) was one of the five pioneering US supercomputer centers created by the National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1985. The JVNC was the only national center to use the cryogenic ETA10 supercomputer. Named for John von Neumann, the Center was located in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey at Princeton University and operated by The Consortium of Scientific Computing, Inc. an organization of 13 institutes from several states.
The von Neumann center had supported the research of 1,400 from about 100 institutes. Eight industrial corporations utilized the facilities. The NSF cancelled the center’s 69 million dollar, five year funding beyond September 1990. The NSF closed the John von Neumann Center in April 1990.
The facility originally used several Control Data Corporation Cyber 205 computers, and after much delay, received several air-cooled ETA10 computers and one cryogenic ETA10 supercomputer. The first ETA10 was installed after a one-year delay in March 1988. The NSF review panel found that the ETA10 suffered a software failure once every 30 hours, and that its ability to run programs on more than one of its eight processors at any one time was poor.
In addition to those computers, the facility had a Pixar H, two Silicon Graphics IRIS, and had video animation capabilities.
ETA Systems, the company that made the ETA10 supercomputers, shut down in April 1989. As a result, the NSF gave the Princeton center a 6-month extension to create an alternate plan. Although the NSF’s peer review panel voted 5-2 to continue NSF support for the facility, as long as the center could raise money to upgrade the requested four-processor Cray Y-MP computer to an eight-processor computer. The center quickly obtained commitments from several of its large users, yet agency officials voted to cancel the decision. Only two of the 10 members of the Princeton center’s consortium of state, industry, and academic users from outside New Jersey had agreed to help fund the $5 million Cray upgrade.
The NSF closed the John von Neumann Center in April 1990.
References
National Science Foundation
Supercomputer sites
Organizations established in 1985
Organizations disestablished in 1990
Princeton University
1985 establishments in New Jersey
1990 disestablishments in New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20diffusion | Collaborative Diffusion is a type of pathfinding algorithm which uses the concept of antiobjects, objects within a computer program that function opposite to what would be conventionally expected. Collaborative Diffusion is typically used in video games, when multiple agents must path towards a single target agent. For example, the ghosts in Pac-Man. In this case, the background tiles serve as antiobjects, carrying out the necessary calculations for creating a path and having the foreground objects react accordingly, whereas having foreground objects be responsible for their own pathing would be conventionally expected.
Collaborative Diffusion is favored for its efficiency over other pathfinding algorithms, such as A*, when handling multiple agents. Also, this method allows elements of competition and teamwork to easily be incorporated between tracking agents. Notably, the time taken to calculate paths remains constant as the number of agents increases.
References
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20janitor | A data janitor is a person who works to take big data and condense it into useful amounts of information. Also known as a "data wrangler", a data janitor sifts through data for companies in the information technology industry. A multitude of start-ups rely on large amounts of data, so a data janitor works to help these businesses with this basic, but difficult process of interpreting data.
While it is a commonly held belief that data janitor work is fully automated, many data scientists are employed primarily as data janitors. The Information technology industry has been increasingly turning towards new sources of data gathered on consumers, so data janitors have become more commonplace in recent years.
References
Information science
Computer occupations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Maryland%20College%20of%20Computer%2C%20Mathematical%2C%20and%20Natural%20Sciences | The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) at the University of Maryland, College Park, is home to ten academic departments and a dozen interdisciplinary research centers and institutes. CMNS is one of 13 schools and colleges within the University of Maryland, College Park.
In January 2015, CMNS had 339 tenure/tenure-track faculty members, 39,380 alumni, 4,912 undergraduate students and 1,424 graduate students. In October 2010, the University of Maryland's College of Chemical and Life Sciences and College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences merged to form the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
CMNS students receive national awards, including Rhodes, Truman, Goldwater, Fulbright and Hollings Scholarships; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships; and NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships. In addition, undergraduate and graduate students conduct research in faculty research laboratories on campus or in the wide range of federal laboratories, research institutes and private companies in the Baltimore-Washington corridor.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (formerly the Department of Meteorology) is an academic department at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Affiliated institutions
The Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) is a joint center between the Departments of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Geology, and Geographical Science at the University of Maryland, in cooperation with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. ESSIC also administers the Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, which is a joint center with the NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).
The NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, which houses NCEP's Weather Prediction Center, the Climate Prediction Center, the Ocean Prediction Center, and the Environmental Modeling Center, as well as the Air Resources Laboratory, is located in the University of Maryland's research park M Square. The department has various collaborations with NOAA laboratories as well as NASA Goddard.
Rankings
In 2019, UMD was ranked 14th globally in the Academic Ranking of World Universities in atmospheric science. In 2018, it was ranked 9th. In the U.S. News & World Report rankings for best global universities in geosciences, UMD was ranked 12th in 2019. In the 2010 United States National Research Council rankings, the department was ranked in the top 10 national doctoral programs by both the average regression rank and the average survey rank. Its department of computer science is ranked 13th according to Computer Science Open Rankings, which combines scores from multiple independent rankings.
Faculty
Eugenia Kalnay
Rachel Pinker
Former faculty
Antonio Busalacchi Jr.
Andrew Dessler
Helmut Landsberg
Cliff Mass
Alan R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kaliningrad | The Kaliningrad Tram network is the most westerly urban tram network in Russia, and the only surviving tram network in the Kaliningrad Oblast, the administrative district that approximately corresponds with the northern part of what was, until 1945, East Prussia.
Electrified progressively between 1895 and 1901, it is the earliest electric tram network within the current territory of Russia. It is also one of only two Russian tram networks still using a one-meter gauge. (The other serves Pyatigorsk.)
Königsberg's tram network reached its greatest extent in 1937, at which time it was organised into 15 routes with a total length of . During many decades of Kaliningrad's history as a German and then a Russian city, the trams have been an important element in the city's overall public transport provision, although in recent years the trams have lost out to the powerfully promoted share taxi businesses in the city: on some routes trams have been replaced by trolley buses.
History
Horse power
Early trams in Königsberg (as the city was known before 1945) used horse traction. The first line opened on 26 May 1881. A second line was in operation from 5 June 1881, and was extended on 16 May 1882. A third line entered service on 29 June 1881 and a fourth on 11 October 1881. The central network was completed with a fifth line at the start of 1882. This fifth line included a steep slope which necessitated the use of extra horses. Trams ran on all the lines at ten-minute intervals. The network was operated by the "Königsberg Horse-tram Company" ("Königsberger Pferdeeisenbahn-Gesellschaft").
The city's horse tram network at this stage used a 1435 mm gauge, which reflected standard practice across Germany. The system continued to be extended and enhanced during the next few years, but in 1895 it retained its basic five line configuration.
Electric power during the Königsberg years
By 1897 the basic network had been expanded to eight lines. In the meantime, in 1895 Königsberg began to bring electric trams into service. The first line, linking the (pulled down even before 1945) "Pillau mainline station" ("Pillauer Bahnhof") to the "New Market place" ("Neuen Markt", today Moskowskij-Prospekt) was opened on 31 May 1895. It crossed the existing horse-tram line at Kaiser Wilhelm Platz, but at this stage the electric trams had no interconnections with the horse trams, and they used a narrower one meter gauge which allowed for tighter turns. By the New Market Place was the Mühlenberg electricity works and the first depot for the electric trams. (These were later built over.) The first electric line was extended to Augusta Street (Augustastraße / ul. Griga) on 22 June 1895. The electric tram service was operated at this stage by the service provider, "Königsberg Urban Electric Trams" ("Städtische Elektrische Straßenbahn Königsberg"). A second electric tram line opened on 6 March 1898, with a branch added on 15 September 189 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactores | Olfactores is a clade within the Chordata that comprises the Tunicata (Urochordata) and the Vertebrata (sometimes referred to as Craniata). Olfactores represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, as the Cephalochordata are the only chordates not included in the clade. This clade is defined by a more advanced olfactory system which, in the immediate vertebrate generation, caused the appearance of nostrils.
A rudimentary neural crest is present in tunicates, implying its presence in the olfactores ancestor also, as vertebrates have a true neural crest. For this reason, they are also known as Cristozoa.
Olfactores hypothesis
While the hypothesis that Cephalochordata is a sister taxon to Craniata is of long standing and was once widely accepted—likely influenced by significant tunicate morphological apomorphies from other chordates, with cephalochordates even being nicknamed ‘honorary vertebrates’—studies since 2006 analyzing large sequencing datasets strongly support Olfactores as a clade. The name Olfactores comes from Latin *olfactores ("smellers," from purposive supine olfactum of olfacio, "to smell," with plural masculine agentive nominalizing suffix -tores), due to the development of pharyngeal respiratory and sensory functions, in contrast with cephalochordates such as the lancelet which lack a respiratory system and specialized sense organs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewarts%20%26%20Hamiltons | Stewarts & Hamiltons is an American reality documentary television series. Announced in April, the eight-part one-hour television series debuted on July 26, 2015 on the E! network. The show follows the blended families of Alana Stewart, including her children Kimberly Stewart, Ashley Hamilton and Sean Stewart, as well as her ex-husband and now best friend George Hamilton. In October 2015, the show was cancelled after airing one season.
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Broadcast
The series premiered in Australia and New Zealand on July 28, 2015 on E! Australia, and in the United Kingdom on the same day.
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2010s American reality television series
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
E! original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by Bunim/Murray Productions
Television shows set in Los Angeles |
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