source stringlengths 32 199 | text stringlengths 26 3k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFDA | OpenFDA is a project indexing and formatting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data, and making it accessible to the public. The ultimate goal of enabling the data accessibility is to educate people and save lives.
The currently provided API of accessing data is under beta version. The project is open source and the code is available from GitHub.
External links
The official website of OpenFDA
The code on GitHub
Open data
Free culture movement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Illinois%20Urbana-Champaign%20University%20Library | The University Library at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign is the network of libraries, including both physical and virtual library spaces, which serves the university's students, faculty, and staff, as well as scholars and researchers worldwide. The University Library continues to evolve to serve the needs of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign campus.
History of the University Library
The University Library came into being before the university with which it is affiliated, as the university board considered it essential that students and faculty would have books waiting to greet them when the university opened its doors. However, this earliest collection was very small and did not yet have its own library building. As a result, the University Library has moved as it has grown throughout its history, a trend that continues to this day. While its collections had previously resided elsewhere, Altgeld Hall (known as Library Hall at the time) was the first building built specifically to house the university's library. Today, Altgeld Hall is home to the university's Math Department; the University Library moved in the 1920s to what is now called the Main Library.
Growing collections
The earliest Library collection consisted of around one thousand items. The collection remained small for some time, and in the early 1900s the Library was smaller than those of other large public libraries, as well as private institutions such as the University of Chicago. This would, however, quickly change. The Library underwent a period of growth from the mid-1930s until 1940, becoming (by some measures) the country's fifth-largest library. A strong library collection became increasingly important to the university's standing and to its retention of students, as well as to the implementation of a successful graduate school program at the university.
The Undergraduate Library (UGL) emerged in part from the surge in collections, deriving both from the influx of the shuttered University of Illinois at Galesburg's collection in 1949 and from the need to grant undergraduates free access to research materials. The Undergraduate Library building was constructed in 1969, built underground in order to maintain open spaces and leave unobstructed sun for the university's experimental cornfield.
The Oak Street High Density Storage facility also grew out of the surge in collections. The facility, which opened in 2004, provides a "climate-controlled" environment for the integrity of the materials housed therein, and is kept around "50°Fahrenheit and 30% humidity."
University librarians
Early board members' concern for the University Library did not extend beyond purchasing books for student and faculty use: the Library lacked a librarian, and for more than twenty years, between 1873 and 1894, faculty members assumed the management of the small collection. Percy Bicknell, hired in 1894 as the first University Librarian, strove to bring the University Librar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutes%20and%20Ladders%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Chutes and Ladders" is the second episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 14, 2015 on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Tim Minear and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
Will Drake, the new owner of the Cortez, hosts a fashion show in the hotel starring model and actor Tristan Duffy. Tristan quits the show and gets into the elevator to leave the hotel. The elevator stops on floor 7, which is dark and appears deserted. Tristan meets Mr. March. The Countess turns Tristan into a vampire, and the two engage in a relationship. Donovan becomes jealous, resulting in The Countess ending their relationship.
Iris tells Detective Lowe the history of the hotel. Lachlan Drake shows Lowe's eight-year-old daughter Scarlett a room that contains coffins for The Countess' vampire children. Scarlett recognizes her brother, Holden, in one of the coffins and later finds Holden in the secret room playing video games. She takes a photo with him to prove to her parents that he is alive, but they do not believe her. When Scarlett shows them the photo, Holden's face is blurred.
Reception
"Chutes and Ladders" was watched by 4.06 million viewers during its original broadcast, and gained a 2.2 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. It also generated 225,000 tweets seen by over 2.97 million people, ranking first for the second consecutive week.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, earning an 77% approval rating based on 13 reviews, with an average score of 7.4/10, on Rotten Tomatoes. The critical consensus reads: ""Chutes and Ladders" adds welcome backstory to Hotel growing mythology while still packing plenty of shock value."
References
External links
2015 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Hotel episodes
Television episodes written by Tim Minear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INWIT | Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane S.p.A. or, in abbreviated form, INWIT S.p.A., is an Italian joint-stock company headquartered in Milan, which operates in the wireless network infrastructure sector.
With over eleven thousand towers, INWIT is currently Italy's major Tower Operator providing, as Neutral Host, widespread coverage throughout the country, hosting the transmission equipment for all main national operators. In addition to hosting telco operators on its towers, INWIT is in the process of setting up a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) network that will guarantee excellent coverage in densely populated urban areas like some of Italy's historic centres and other public areas, as well as in large enclosed areas such as stadiums, railway stations, concert areas, historic villages, museums, hotels.
History
INWIT was founded on January 14, 2015, and has been operational since April 1, 2015 following the spin-off of the "Tower" branch of Telecom Italia. From 22 June 2015 INWIT is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in the FTSE Italia Mid Cap index. During the initial public offering, the company raised €875.3 million, with a capitalization of around €2.2 billion. Currently the company has achieved a market capitalization of over €5.5 billion.
On March 31, 2020, thanks to an agreement with Vodafone, the merger of Vodafone Towers Italia into INWIT was completed.
Operations
In 2018 INWIT confirmed the trend of progressive increase in turnover. Revenue at 31 December 2018 amounted to €378.5 million, up 6.1% compared to the previous year. EBITDA is €215.4 million, up 12.2% compared to the previous year. The 2018 EBIT amounted to 200.3 million euros with an increase of 11.7% compared to the previous year. Net Profit amounts to 140.8 million euros, up 11.1% compared to the 2017 figure.
Competitors
INWIT interacts, in the same market, with Rai Way, EI Towers, which is controlled by Mediaset, and Cellnex (Abertis Group).
See also
Telecom Italia
Vodafone
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of Italy
Companies based in Milan
Italian brands
Italian companies established in 2015
Telecommunications companies established in 2015
TIM Group
Vodafone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Tamad%20%28TV%20series%29 | Juan () is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Soxie Topacio, it stars Sef Cadayona in the title role. It premiered on August 23, 2015 replacing Alamat. The series concluded on March 13, 2016 with a total of 29 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sef Cadayona as Juan Damat-Magbangon
Supporting cast
Max Collins as Marie Guiguinto
Melanie Marquez as Candy Guiginto
Carlos Agassi as Iggy Imperial
Roi Vinzon as George Damat-Magbangon
Marissa Sanchez as Siony Damat-Magbangon
Gene Padilla as Steve Guiguinto
Gab Bayan as Rocco Nachino
Jon Timmons as TomDen Rodriguez
Jhaykien Nuyad as Bernardo "Nards" Carpio
Tommy Peñaflor as Mark Rehas
Kim Last as Jepoy Bagalihog
Guest cast
Valeen Montenegro as Mayumi
Kim Rodriguez as Diw Diwata
Jaclyn Jose as a recruiter
Betong Sumaya as Guapple
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Juan earned a 22.2% rating. While the final episode scored a 10.6% rating.
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford%20Village%20tram%20stop | Wilford Village is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the city of Nottingham. The stop takes its name from the village of Wilford on the south bank of the River Trent, and is situated between that village and the Wilford Toll Bridge that takes the tramway across the river. It is situated on reserved track and comprises a single island platform situated between the tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Phoenix Park via the city centre to Clifton, and trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Wilford Village opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20Medical%20Centre%20tram%20stop | Queen's Medical Centre is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network. The stop serves the Queen's Medical Centre, a hospital in the city of Nottingham. The stop is on line 1 of the NET, from Hucknall via the city centre to Beeston and Chilwell. Trams run at frequencies that vary between four and eight trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
The tram stop is situated on a viaduct that rises alongside the campus of the University of Nottingham, crosses the Nottingham Ring Road (A52), runs between the South Block of the Queen's Medical Centre (to the north) and the Nottingham Treatment Centre (to the south), crosses the River Leen, and finally descends back to street level. The tram stop is on the section between the hospitals, and direct access bridges have been constructed from the platforms to the two buildings that will be opened once the necessary changes have been made within the buildings. Access is also available by staircase and lift from ground level in the hospital grounds, and by a walkway along the viaduct from another staircase and lift to the university side of the ring road.
Queen's Medical Centre opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two. The adjacent bridge over the city's ring road was named the Ningbo Friendship Bridge at a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham and the Vice-Mayor of Ningbo in China. The name celebrates Nottingham's links with its twin city and the presence there of a campus of the University of Nottingham.
The tram line through the QMC had to be specially designed to avoid electromagnetic interference which could affect hospital equipment. The overhead line masts are individually fed with power, to limit interference.
Gallery
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Nottingham%20tram%20stop | University of Nottingham is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the English city of Nottingham and adjacent to the University Park Campus of the University of Nottingham. It is situated on reserved track between University Boulevard (A6005) and the campus, and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the tracks. The stop is on line 1 of the NET, from Hucknall via the city centre to Beeston and Chilwell. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
From the Chilwell direction, trams approach this stop along reserved track on the south side of University Boulevard, crossing the boulevard on a traffic light controlled crossing immediately before the stop, which lies parallel to the north side of the boulevard. Heading towards the city centre and Hucknell, the trams curve around the back of the Djanogly Art Gallery before climbing a ramp to reach the viaduct to the Queen's Medical Centre tram stop.
The University of Nottingham stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015
Tram stop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton%20Centre%20tram%20stop | Clifton Centre is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the city of Nottingham suburb of Clifton. It is situated on street track within Southchurch Drive, and comprises a single island platform situated between the running tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Clifton via the city centre to Phoenix Park. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. To the south of the stop, a reversing siding is located between the running tracks, allowing trams from the city centre to terminate at Clifton Centre and stand clear of through services.
Clifton Centre stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
Gallery
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015
Clifton, Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyson%20Green%20Market%20tram%20stop | Hyson Green Market is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit network, serving the suburb of Hyson Green, City of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England.
History
The stop opened on 9 March 2004, as part of the first phase of the network, between Hucknall or Phoenix Park and Station Street. It is located on a one-way section of the tramway, and is served only by southbound trams. The nearest northbound stop is Noel Street. It has one side platform flanking the single track, which is shared with other road traffic.
On 25 August 2015, the network was extended south, with branches to Clifton South and Toton Lane.
Services
As of January 2022, services operate at a combined 3–8 minute frequency between David Lane and Nottingham Station. Heading south, trams continue to Clifton South and Toton Lane up to every 7–15 minutes. Heading north, trams continue to Hucknall and Phoenix Park up to every 7–15 minutes.
Rolling stock used: Alstom Citadis and Bombardier Incentro
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QPACE2 | QPACE 2 (QCD Parallel Computing Engine) is a massively parallel and scalable supercomputer. It was designed for applications in lattice quantum chromodynamics but is also suitable for a wider range of applications..
Overview
QPACE 2 is a follow-up to the QPACE supercomputer and the iDataCool hot-water cooling project.
It is a combined effort of the particle physics group at the University of Regensburg and the Italian company Eurotech. The academic design team consisted of about 10 junior and senior physicists.
Details of the project are described in.
QPACE 2 uses Intel Xeon Phi processors (a.k.a. KNC), interconnected by a combination of PCI Express (abbreviated PCIe) and FDR InfiniBand.
The main features of the QPACE 2 prototype installed at the University of Regensburg are
scalability
high packaging density
warm-water cooling (no chillers are needed)
high energy efficiency
cost-effective design
The prototype is a one-rack installation that consists of 64 nodes with 15,872 physical cores in total and a peak performance of 310 TFlop/s. It was deployed in the summer of 2015 and is being used for simulations of lattice quantum chromodynamics. In November 2015, QPACE 2 was ranked #500 on the Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers and #15 on the Green 500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers of the world.
QPACE 2 was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of SFB/TRR-55 and by Eurotech.
Architecture
Many current supercomputers are hybrid architectures that use accelerator cards with a PCIe interface to boost the compute performance. In general, server processors support only a limited number of accelerators due to the limited number of PCIe lanes (typically 40 for the Intel Haswell architecture). The common approach to integrate multiple accelerators cards into the host system is to arrange multiple server processors, typically two or four, as distributed shared memory systems. This approach allows for a higher number of accelerators per compute node due to the higher number of PCIe lanes. However, it also comes with several disadvantages:
The server processors, their interconnects (QPI for Intel processors) and memory chips significantly increase the foot-print of the host system.
Expenses for the multiprocessor design are typically high.
Server processors significantly contribute to the overall power signature of hybrid computer architectures and need appropriate cooling capacities.
The server processor interconnect can hinder efficient intra-node communication and impose limitations on the performance of inter-node communication via the external network.
The compute performance of server processors is typically an order of magnitude lower than that of accelerator cards, thus their contribution to the overall performance can be rather small.
The instruction set architectures and hardware resources of server processors and accelerators differ significantly. Therefore, it is not alwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Press%20Network | The Arab Press Network (APN) () is a network of organisations that support and promote the development of the press in the Arab world. It is run by the World Association of Newspapers, with its headquarters in Paris, and is supported by the Danish newspaper group JP/Politiken.
According to APN, their mission is to facilitate associations between Arab journalists and editors in order to promote a free press. On a commercial level, the network supports newspapers to grow and expand through practical advice.
The APN website contains news about the Arab world and on developments therein relating to freedom of the press.
Papers
The Arabic newspapers Al Arab, Al Hayat, Al Quds Al Arabi, Asharq Al-Awsat are members. There are also Arabic, French and English newspapers who are members of the APN:
Algeria (Al Fadjr, Echorouk El Yawmi, El Khabar, El Watan, Place Quotidien d'Oran, Liberté)
Egypt (Akhbar Al Yom, Al Ahram, Al Ahram Weekly, Al Ahrar, Al Gomhuria, Al Masry Al Youm, Al Messa, Al Shaab, Al Wafd, El Akhbar, Nahda Misr, Rose El Yossef, Tea Egyptian Gazette)
Bahrain (Akhbar Al Khaleej, Al Ayam, Al Meethaq, Al Wasat, Bahrain Tribune, Gulf Daily News)
Comoros (Al Watwan, Kashkazi, La Gazette des Comores)
Djibouti (Al Qurn, La Nation)
United Arab Emirates (7Days, Akhbar Al Arab, Al Bayan, Al Khaleej, Emarat al-Youm, Emirates Today, Gulf News, Khaleej Times)
Jordan (Addustour, Al Anbat, Al Arab, Al Yawm, Al Ghad, Al Some, Jordan Times)
Iraq (Ad Dustur, Al Adala, Al Ahali, Al Bayyna, Al Ittihad, Al Ittijah, Al Akhbar, Al Jihad, Al Mada, Al Mashriq, Al Safeer, Al Siyadah, Al Ta'akhi, Al-Sabah, Alsabah Algadeed, Az-Zaman, Baghdad, Tariq Al Shaab, Xebat)
Kuwait (Al Anbaa, Al Qabas, Al Some al Aam, Al Seyassah, Al Watan, Arab Times, Kuwait Times)
Lebanon (Ad Diyar, Al Akhbar, Al Anwar, Al Balad, Al Mustaqbal, Urges Nahar, As-Safir, L'Orient-Place Jour, Tea Daily Star)
Libya (Al Fajr al Jadeed, Al Jamahiria, Al Shams, Tripoli Post)
Mauritania (Akhbar Nouakchot, Al Aqsa, Al Qalam, Al Shaab, Al Siraj, L'Eveil Hebdo, Place Calame, Nouakchott Info, Rajoul Esharee)
Morocco (Al Ahdath al Maghribia, Al Alam, Al Bayane Alyaoume, Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki, Al Massae, Al Sabah, Aujourd'hui place Maroc, L'Economiste, L'Opinion, La Vie Economique, Place Journal Hebdomadaire, Place Matin side Sahara et side Maghreb, Libération, Nichane, Tamazight, TelQuel)
Oman (Al Watan, Oman Daily, Oman Observer, Shabiba, a Tea Week, Times of Oman)
Palestine (Al Ayyam, Al Hayat al Jadida, Al Quds, Palestine Times)
Qatar (Al Raya, Al Sharq, Al Watan, Gulf Times, Tea Peninsula)
Saudi Arabia (Al Eqtisadiah, Al Jazirah, Al Madina, Al Riyadh, Al Watan, Al Yaum, Arab News, Okaz, Tea Saudi Gazette)
Somalia (Ayaamaha, Dalka, Warsan)
Sudan (Akhir Lahza, Al Anbaa, Al Ayam, Al Gray Al Aam, Al Sahafa, Al Sudani, Sudan Vision)
Syria (Abyad wa Aswad, Al Iqtissadiyah, Al Thawra, Al-Watan, Syria Times, Tishreen)
Tunisia (Al Chourouk, Al Mawkif, Al Tariq Al Jadid, Assabah, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%20Yonghua | Lu Yonghua is a Chinese billionaire businessman. He founded and currently serves as CEO for Linyang Electronics, founded in 1995. From 1988 to 1996, he was the general manager of the computing firm Qidong Changtong Computer. He also founded Hanwha SolarOne, originally called Jiangsu Linyang Solarfun.
References
Businesspeople from Nantong
Billionaires from Jiangsu
People from Qidong, Jiangsu
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadows%20Embankment%20tram%20stop | Meadows Embankment is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network. The stop is situated in the Meadows area of the city of Nottingham just to the north of the Wilford Toll Bridge across the River Trent. It is situated on reserved track and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Phoenix Park via the city centre to Clifton, and trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Meadows Embankment opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
The stop is situated near the junction of Queens Walk and Victoria Embankment, and in the original plans for NET phase two, the stop was known as Queens Walk tram stop. However, by popular demand this name was transferred to the next stop north on Queens Walk, nearer the Queens Walk Park and Community Centre, and the current name adopted as a synthesis of The Meadows and Victoria Embankment.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Zandan | Peter A. Zandan (born 1953) is an American entrepreneur and expert in the field of data science and analytics. Zandan is a data advisor, board member, and executive advisor to numerous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Zandan is the executive chairman of Quantified Communications, an advanced analytics and communications software company. Zandan served as global vice chairman at Hill+Knowlton Strategies from 2011 until 2021. He was founder of IntelliQuest Information Group Inc., an Austin-based global research firm, and served as chairman and CEO, taking the company public in 1996. Through IntelliQuest, Zandan pioneered the use of electronic surveys and the internet in the field of market research. Zandan founded and served as CEO of Zilliant, where he pioneered the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for pricing optimization.
In 1998, he developed and sponsored the IntelliQuest Poll which became the Zandan Poll, a survey among Austin residents that covers a variety of topics including the economy, affordability, growth, education, policy issues and the overall cultural identity of Austin. Zandan is currently a member of the President's Circle of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Zandan has served on the board of KLRU, the public television station of Austin, Texas, and is currently a Member of the Advisory Council of Red McCombs School of Business at University of Texas at Austin. Having moved to Austin in the 1970s, Zandan earned his MBA and Ph.D. in evaluation research at the University of Texas at Austin.
Early life and education
Born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Zandan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1975. In the latter half of the 1970s, Zandan moved to Mexico to pursue international studies. After several years abroad, he returned to the United States and earned an MBA and PhD in evaluation research in 1983 from the University of Texas at Austin.
Career
IntelliQuest
Zandan founded his first major company in 1984 under the name of IntelliQuest, and subsequently served as the company's chairman and CEO until 1999. IntelliQuest focused on changing the way companies performed market research by pioneering ‘disk-by-mail’ methodologies, and later utilizing internet based electronic surveys. IntelliQuest was the fastest growing market research company worldwide through the 1990s as it provided new product, marketing, and branding services to corporations such as Apple, IBM, McKinsey & Co., Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard. The company provided marketing information to technology companies and direct marketing services to Internet marketers. Additionally it supplied information about tech markets on a subscription and proprietary project basis. During this period, IntelliQuest grew to over 500 employees with offices in Austin, Silicon Valley, New York City, and London. Under Zandan’s leadership, IntelliQuest was included twice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s%20Night%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Devil's Night" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 28, 2015, on the cable network FX. This episode was written by Jennifer Salt and directed by Loni Peristere.
Plot
Richard Ramirez, who died in 2013, checks in for the Devil's Night. Liz Taylor leads him to his room, where a married couple is sleeping. After killing the husband, the wife runs screaming from the room, where she is killed by James March.
While answering a phone call from Scarlett, John Lowe notices his ceiling and wall are bleeding. Miss Evers is having trouble getting out a difficult bloodstain as well. Every Halloween, she is reminded of her son, who was kidnapped in 1925. John arrives to question the blood coming from her room, and they talk as she explains that her son was taken to a ranch outside town, and all they found was the costume. His kidnapper had taken and killed many children and disposed of their bodies with quick lime and set them in a mass grave. After the recounting, her mood upswings as she blathers on about preparations for the festivities. Alex Lowe has brought Holden home, but the family dog rejects him. As she returns with a glass of juice for Holden, she finds him feeding on the dog's neck. He does not feel well, and wants his "other mommy".
Alex returns with Holden to the hotel, and the boy scampers to his coffin. Elizabeth appears and explains that she saves children from neglect and speaks about John as she walked Holden away from the carousel herself. She goes on to explain the viral infection. An aggravated Alex holds her at gunpoint, wanting a cure, but Elizabeth wants loyalty in exchange for passing on the virus to her. John discovers the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders that Evers mentioned took place 85 years prior. He heads to the hotel's bar to drink a double martini. Aileen Wuornos enters for her 13th Devil's Night, and John recognizes her as Halloween costume. Liz mentions that John is a special guest of the hotel and a cop. Aileen offers him sex, and they go to his room.
While tied to a chair, he slowly realizes what Devil's Night at the Hotel Cortez involves, and they fight until he handcuffs her in the bathroom and finds her (true) Driver's License. He returns to the guestbook and finds plenty of serial killers have signed in. Liz describes March's annual tradition and discovers John himself is on the invitation list. He arrives at Room 78 for dinner. There March introduces himself and John reminds him that March would have died 85 years prior. March counter-reminds him that anything is possible in the hotel. John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer introduce themselves, and John recognizes the Zodiac Killer, Aileen, and Richard Ramirez on his own, when Gacy handcuffs him to his chair.
As the dinner continues, Evers brings out a drugged young man as an appetizer. John tries to shoot Dahmer to prevent him from trepanning the young man, not knowing that the shot w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliver%20polygon | A sliver polygon, in the context of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), is a small polygon found in vector data that is an artifact of error rather than representing a real-world feature. They have been a recognized source of error since overlay was first invented in the 1970s.
History
These meaningless polygons were recognized early in the development of GIS. In fact, in 1978 Michael Goodchild found that they constituted the majority of all polygons in some operational GIS. Early programs for performing vector overlay, such as WHIRLPOOL, developed mechanisms for preventing sliver polygons, such as the "epsilon filter" (fuzzy tolerance) In recent decades, most of the focus of software vendors and practitioners has been on improving the quality of GIS data to prevent them.
Cause, Prevention, Repair
Sliver polygons are typically created when polygons are automatically generated from lines that should be coincident (e.g., an international boundary following a river de jure, or two adjacent counties) but are not, due to the natural discrepancies that arise from manual or automated digitization. This can occur when a single layer is digitized and adjacent polygons are traced separately, or during vector overlay when separate polygon layers are merged.
They can be prevented during the digitization process by ensuring that lines that are supposed to be coincident actually are coincident. The editing systems in most GIS software provides for snapping, in which a point placed near an existing point "snaps" to the exact same coordinate. The user can usually control the process, such as setting a snap tolerance (the maximum distance to consider "close enough"), and which layers and which parts of those layers to snap to. In addition, many systems have tracing tools, so that newly digitized lines can exactly follow existing lines.
During the overlay process, the preferred mode of sliver polygon prevention is the use of a fuzzy tolerance, which is sometimes called a "xy tolerance" (ArcGIS) or "snapping threshold" (GRASS), and was originally called an "epsilon filter." The user provides a tolerance distance, and as the lines of the input layers are being combined topologically, any lines that are roughly parallel, consistently closer together than the fuzzy tolerance, are combined into a single line. The choice of a proper fuzzy tolerance depends on the situation, especially the scale of the data, and can be a challenge. If it is set too large, narrow but meaningful polygons (e.g., islands in a river) can be collapsed.
If sliver polygons still exist in a dataset, they may be removed manually or automatically. Some GIS systems provide a tool for topological verification, which searches for topological errors in a data set (sliver polygons being one among many potential types of error), flagging them for correction. One option is to attempt to remove them automatically; many GIS systems provide a tool (usually called Eliminate) that finds very small |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Metro%20%282008%20proposal%29 | Sydney Metro was a proposed rapid transit railway network in Sydney, intended to connect the central business district (CBD) with the inner and outer city suburbs Rouse Hill, Westmead, Malabar and lower North Shore. Initially proposed in 2008 as ‘Metro Link’, the plan was modified and renamed later that year. After half a billion dollars was spent on planning, property acquisitions and a tender process, it was cancelled in 2010.
The fate of the initial Metro proposal was tied to the fate of a plan to privatise much of the then state-owned electricity sector, a plan which would have released tens of billions of dollars in capital for investment in new infrastructure. When the privatisation plan was dramatically scaled back under pressure from the union movement, the Metro proposal was reduced to a nine-kilometre shuttle between the CBD and the inner-western suburb of Rozelle, raising questions about the project's value for money.
The cycle of announcement, re-announcement and cancellation of rail projects was a familiar pattern under the Labor government that ruled New South Wales between 1995 and 2011. The short life of the Sydney Metro proposal was a significant contributing factor to Labor's rout at the 2011 state election.
Although Labor's Sydney Metro proposals were not revived, an alternative rapid transit system was proposed by the O'Farrell government elected in 2011. Construction of this scheme, also known as Sydney Metro, began in 2013 and the first line opened in 2019.
Early proposals
Although Sydney Metro would have been the first rapid transit metro to be built in Australia – and one of only a handful in the Southern Hemisphere – the idea was not new. John Bradfield, the Chief Engineer who planned the electrification of the Sydney rail network and construction of the City Underground, was heavily influenced by his observations of the New York City Subway and referred to aspects of his scheme as "rapid transit".
A true rapid transit system, separate from the increasingly congested suburban rail system, was proposed in 1968 by the new State Planning Authority's Sydney Region Outline Plan (SROP). At the time, a number of cities were planning or building modern, standalone metros, including Toronto (opened 1954), Lisbon (1959), Montreal (1966), São Paulo (1974), Seoul (1974), Santiago (1975), Washington DC, (1976) and Hong Kong (1979).
The Authority noted that because Sydney's suburban train system was not built from scratch as a passenger-only network, commuter trains often shared track with long-distance passenger and freight services, constraining reliability. The 1964 introduction of the first double-deck carriages boosted capacity to an extent, but also increased dwell times, swallowing up much of the intended capacity benefit.
SROP's solution was a rapid transit system that would have augmented the city's most crowded rail line, the Main West, with a fast, single-deck operation between the CBD and Parramatta. But though SRO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20Political%20Leaders | Women Political Leaders (WPL) is a non-profit foundation that operates as a global network of female political leaders at national level, including the European Parliament, of whom there are currently around 9,000. WPL provides a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences and best practices between female political leaders.
WPL is an independent, international, charitable and post-partisan foundation established with the purpose of advancing society by building a network between women in Parliaments. The foundation is based in Reykjavik, Iceland.
History
In 2013, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, former vice-president of the European Parliament (2009-2011) and Member of the European Parliament (2004-2014), founded and chaired the Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL). The WPL Board is chaired by Hanna Birna Kristjansdottir, former Minister of Interior of Iceland, Mayor of Reykjavík, and President of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Parliament of Iceland.
Women are a small minority in politics. Today, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, almost 80% of parliamentary seats are held by men. In total, globally around 9,000 women are members of national Parliaments. WPL was created with the mission of advancing society by increasing the number and influence of women in political leadership.
Organisation
WPL consists of Members of Parliaments at national levels, including Members of the European Parliament. Organs of WPL are the advisory board, the Administrative Board, the Executive Board and the network of WPL Ambassadors.
WPL is also supported by a variety of non-governmental organizations, foundations, institutions and other civil society actors, which are valuable contributions to WPL's mission.
Activities
WPL carries out a broad variety of work to promote women's political participation. This includes hosting global and regional summits, conducting academic research and promoting female leadership with advocacy campaigns. WPL's work is not focused on classical gender policies.
Summits
Female politicians from around the world convene at the WPL Summits. WPL Summits offer an opportunity for participants to take part in political dialogue that reflect perspectives in many policy areas of today's female decision-makers.
2013 WPL Inaugural Summit "Advancing Society" in the European Parliament On the occasion of 120-year anniversary of the first time women were allowed to vote (in New Zealand), the inaugural Summit took place in Brussels at the European Parliament where around 400 Members of Parliament attended representing 100 countries. Keynote speakers included Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica (2012-2016), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland (2009-2013).
2014 WPL Summer Summit in Parliament of Rwanda The 2014 WPL Summer Summit took place at the Parliament of Rwanda with around 200 Members of Parliament from 51 countries. The WPL Summit was part of the 20t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mechanical%20keyboards | Mechanical keyboards (or mechanical-switch keyboards) are computer keyboards which have an individual switch for each key.
The following table is a compilation list of mechanical keyboard models, brands, and series:
Mechanical keyboards
References
Computer keyboards
Mechanical keyboards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Place%20to%20Call%20Home%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the Seven Network television series A Place to Call Home premiered on SoHo on 27 September 2015 and concluded on 29 November 2015. The series is produced by Chris Martin-Jones, and executive produced by Penny Win and Julie McGauran.
Production
Helen Vnuk from TV Week confirmed that a third season had been commissioned in May 2014. However, one month later, the magazine reported that Channel Seven had passed on the option to renew the series and had recently told the cast and crew they would not be required for a third season.
On 15 October 2014, it was announced that Foxtel had finalised a deal with Channel Seven that would see third and fourth seasons written, using the outlines created by Bevan Lee, produced by Seven Productions, but aired on Foxtel.
On 25 October 2014, Amy Harris of The Daily Telegraph announced that A Place to Call Home had been officially renewed for another two seasons and would return in late 2015, airing on Foxtel channel SoHo. It was also announced that all the original cast and crew members would return. Production was scheduled to resume in March 2015 in Camden, the show's original filming location.
On 19 November 2014, it was announced that Bevan Lee had stepped down as the script producer and had hand-picked Susan Bower to take over. As well as a new script producer, a new writing team, consisting of David Hannam, Sarah Lambert, Giula Sandler and Katherine Thomson, was also hired.
The season has been written by Susan Bower, Katherine Thomson, Sarah Lambert, David Hannam, Giula Sandler, Deborah Parsons, Kim Wilson and John Ridley, and directed by Ian Watson, Shirley Barrett, Lynn-Maree Danzey and Chris Martin-Jones.
Plot
In season three of A Place to Call Home: as Australia faces internal and external threats to its way of life so too do the people of Inverness, and previous alliances and relationships are tested. Sarah's dilemma, between her feelings for George and her duty to her husband Rene, is exacerbated by a heartbreaking secret. James and Olivia's relationship is under pressure when the true parentage of baby George is threatened with exposure. Elizabeth Bligh's decision to leave Ash Park to explore a life of her own proves more difficult than she thought. Anna and Gino face the difference between the fairytale romance and the reality of married life. Independent lovers Carolyn and Jack try to move closer to a commitment. Through it all, Regina's manipulative behaviour weaves an impenetrable web around George. In the sleepy village of Inverness, sex, death and secrets are never far below the surface.
Cast
Main
Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Nordmann
Noni Hazelhurst as Elizabeth Bligh
Brett Climo as George Bligh
Craig Hall as Dr. Jack Duncan
David Berry as James Bligh
Abby Earl as Anna Poletti
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood as Olivia Bligh
Aldo Mignone as Gino Poletti
Sara Wiseman as Carolyn Bligh
Jenni Baird as Regina Bligh
Frankie J. Holden as Roy Briggs
Recurring & Guest
Deborah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Terekhov | Andrey Nikolaevich Terekhov (; 3 September 1949) is a Russian IT developer who created the Algol 68 LGU Telecommunication systems.
Education
Terekhov studied Computer Science at Leningrad State University, graduating with Honors. He has a Doctorate in Physical Mathematical Sciences.
Memberships
Terekhov is a member of ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. In 2004 he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of RUSSOFT.
Research positions
In 1971, Terekhov began working at Leningrad State University as a junior research associate. He was ultimately promoted to head of System-Programming there. In 1984 he was appointed Deputy Director at Zvezda and Krasnaya Zarya. Seven years later he founded and became Director of a smart software solutions company Lanit-Tercom and in 1996 founded and led the Software Engineering Chair of St. Petersburg State University.
In 2002 Terekhov was behind the organization and guidance of the Scientific Research Institute of Information Technology of St. Petersburg State University.
References
Soviet computer scientists
1949 births
Computing in the Soviet Union
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
Living people
Russian businesspeople in information technology
ALGOL 68 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulakshana%20Khatri | Sulakshana Khatri is an Indian actress who mainly works in television serials.
Filmography
Films
Abu Kala (1990)
Meera Dataar (1999)
Angaar: The Fire (2002)
Krishna Aur Kans (2012) as Putna (voice role)
Television
References
External links
Living people
Indian film actresses
Indian television actresses
Indian soap opera actresses
Actresses in Gujarati cinema
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Hindi television
20th-century Indian actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuits%20Cloud | Circuits Cloud is an online free analog/digital circuits simulator. It is a NGSPICE-based simulator. Circuits Cloud is a cloud-computing-based application, where the user can access the application through the internet, while all their data are stored online. The Circuits Cloud project cost about BD 7000 (around $18.6K). Total development time until the first release was 4 years.
History
Circuits Cloud was created and developed for educational purposes, by Eng. Shaffee Mayoof. The initial release was on 20 June 2014. Circuits Cloud was initially developed as an online digital circuits simulator, but updated later on by Eng. Mayoof and computer engineering students who were candidates in the industrial training program provided by the application owner, Script For Information Technology Solutions, to support analog circuits simulation.
See also
Comparison of EDA Software
List of free electronics circuit simulators
References
External links
Circuits Cloud Youtube
Electronic design automation software
Electronic circuit simulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%20Show | Churchill Show (formerly Churchill Live) is a Kenyan comedy show hosted by comedian Daniel "Churchill" Ndambuki, that premiered on 2007 on the network NTV. It is recorded live at Carnivore grounds in Nairobi.
Churchill Raw
A 30-minute show and subsidiary of Churchill Show. It is hosted by comedian MC Jesse. The series often airs content that may not air on Churchill Show.
Comedians
Eric Omondi (comedian)
Felix Omondi
MC Jessie
Chipukeezy
Fred Omondi
Karis (comedian)'
YY (Oliver Otieno)
Janyando Mig Mig
Owago Onyiro
Poet Teardrops
Teacher Wanjiku
Eddie Butita
Alex Mungahi
Mammito Eunice
Steven Oduor
Kenya broadcast
Churchill Show (then:Churchill Live) premiered on NTV (Kenya) in 2007 and continued until late 2009. The series returned for a second season on January 17, 2013. It originally aired Thursdays at 8 p.m. EAT, but was later moved to Sundays at 8 p.m. , in its fifth season, it was the network's most viewed show and one of the most watched in East Africa. It is also broadcast in East Africa in StarTimes syndicate channel StarTimes Swahili.
References
External links
2007 Kenyan television series debuts
Kenyan comedy television series
English-language television shows
Swahili-language television shows
2000s Kenyan television series
NTV (Kenyan TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankoff | Sankoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Sankoff (born 1942), mathematician, bioinformatician, computer scientist and linguist
Gillian Sankoff, sociolinguist
Irene Sankoff, musical theatre creator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miras%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Miras () ('Inheritance' in Turkmen) is one of the eight state-owned television channels of Turkmenistan. Programming on the network is in the Turkmen language and focuses on Turkmen art and culture.
The channel broadcasts from 07:00 to 23:30 (on average) and transmits all editions of Watan Habarlary along with Altyn Asyr and Ýaşlyk.
Almost all Miras programs are of its own production. These include news programs related to the cultural life of the country and abroad, discussion programs, and broadcasts from concert and theater venues.
Miras relays two hours of pre-recorded programming from Russia's Channel One. Before giving permission to broadcast them, the management of the Miras TV channel, together with curators from the Ministry of National Security, carefully studies the content of the programs broadcast from Moscow
References
Television stations in Turkmenistan
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak%20Conservative%20Party | The Slovak Conservative Party (, abbreviated SKS), formerly known as Network (, self-styled #SIEŤ), was a centre-right political party in Slovakia. It was established by Radoslav Procházka, a former member of Christian Democratic Movement (KDH).
History
The party was founded by Radoslav Procházka in June 2014, after the 2014 presidential election. Sieť polled above 10% being second to Smer and was expected to become the major centre-right party after 2016 parliamentary election.
The party received only 5.6% of votes and 10 seats in the actual election. The low support of Sieť was one of many surprises of the election. Sieť became part of governing coalition led by Smer which led to split in the party and another loss of support and departure of members including 3 MPs. Sieť fell to 1% in polls. Procházka was replaced by Roman Brecely in August 2016. 5 MPs led by Andrej Hrnčiar then left the party with intention to join Most-Híd. This left Sieť with only 2 MPs.
Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on 19 August that Sieť ministers will resign and Sieť will be integrated into one of other coalition parties. In January 2017, Sieť announced that it would be integrated into small Slovak party European Democratic Party. Integration was likely to happen in Spring 2017.
When Radoslav Procházka decided to give up on his seat, Sieť lost another MP. Procházka was replaced by Zuzana Simenová who decided to be independent. On 3 May 2017, Sieť lost its last MP.
Roman Brecely resigned as the party's leader on 10 May 2017. Marek Čepko became acting leader. On 10 September 2017, Ivan Zuzula was elected the new leader.
Sieť announced in June 2018 that it will change its name to Slovak Conservative Party. The name was changed on 4 July 2018.
In July 2021, SKS signed a memorandum with KDH which included that SKS will join KDH. At this point the party had several hundred members with 40 to 50 active ones. Their website has been offline since February 2022.
Leaders
Radoslav Procházka (2014–2016)
Roman Brecely (2016–2017)
Ivan Zuzula (since 2017)
See also
Politics of Slovakia
List of political parties in Slovakia
2016 Slovak parliamentary election
Footnotes
2014 establishments in Slovakia
Political parties established in 2014
2022 disestablishments in Slovakia
Political parties disestablished in 2022
Centrist parties in Slovakia
Christian democratic parties in Slovakia
Conservative parties in Slovakia
Social conservative parties
Christian Democratic Movement breakaway groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ultraman%20Ginga%20characters | is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the company and is part of the New Ultraman Retsuden programming block on TV Tokyo. It was succeeded by later instalments Ultraman Ginga S and Ultra Fight Victory.
Protagonists
Hikaru Raido
The main protagonist, is a teenager that moved to London due to his parents' desires to become musicians. He returned and took a visit back to his hometown, Furoboshi, during the summer break after receiving a strange vision, which led him to the possession of Ginga Spark, an ancient item that allows him to unite with Ultraman Ginga through . Due to this, he was guided by Ultraman Taro to defeat and collect Spark Dolls that used by evil-hearted people, at the same time trying to discover the perpetrator behind these chaos. After every Spark Dolls had been freed from their curses, Hikaru was tasked by Ginga to go on an adventure around the Earth and meet him again once his job had done.
Two years later in Ultraman Ginga S, he returned to Japan again after receiving another vision during his travel in Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. He was dragged into the battle again when a new villain, Exceller wanted to usurp the Earth's supply of Victoriums. Hikaru joined the attack team UPG and reunites with his old friend, Tomoya and Taro as well as Ultraman Ginga. He also receives aid from Sho, a Victorian prince who becomes the host of Ultraman Victory. At the end of the series, when both Hikaru and Sho defeated Vict Lugiel, the two parted ways and Hikaru resumes his travel on the world.
During the event of Ultraman Ginga S The Movie, Hikaru returns to UPG after a year travelling abroad but once again joining forces with Sho/Victory after Etelgar tried to imprison their Ultras. The two were trained by Ultraman Zero to cooperate with each other and gained the Ultra Fusion Brace when their training had been approved by him. Along with Zero, they freed the imprisoned Heisei Ultras and fought against Etelgar and his army of Eteldummy. In Ultra Fight Victory, Hikaru/Ginga was captured and made as a hostage in Satellite Golgotha by Yapool as a plot to revive Juda. Ace tried to free Ginga but Victory Killer overpowered him until Sho/Victory Knight saved them. Soon Hikaru joined the Showa Ultras to fight Super Grand King Spectre while Victory defeated Juda Spectre.
Hikaru Raido is portrayed by . As a child, Hikaru is portrayed by .
Tomoya Ichijoji
is a child prodigy of the Ichijoji Group that moved to the Furuhoshi sometime before Hikaru's arrival. He is talented in academic and sports but lives under his parents' shadow after his dream of becoming just like his father had been denied. He was given the Dark Dummy Spark and Jean-Killer's Spark Doll, using it to attack Ginga by controlling the robot with Gunpad. Having kidnapped Taro, Tomoya tried to use him to defeat Hikaru but failed and was banished when his service was no longer needed. Hikaru gives him a dream, to su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Caucasus%20Railway | South Caucasus Railway (, ) is the sole railway company in Armenia, owned by Russian Railways, responsible for all inter-city, commuter, and freight rail transport in Armenia. The network consists of 780 kilometers (480 mi) of track with all lines in the Russian gauge.
Main information
On 13 February 2008, the Government of Armenia signed an agreement to transfer 100% of the state-owned Armenian Railways to Russian Railways. According to the agreement, the concession period is 30 years, with a possible extension for another 10 years by mutual agreement of the parties. In accordance with the terms of the tender, existing railway employees (4,300 people), except those of retirement age, were transferred to the staff of South Caucasus Railway on salary increases of up to 20%.
Routes
South Caucasus Railway currently operates the following services:
1. Armenia–Georgia express/sleeper service: Yerevan to Tbilisi / Batumi via Gyumri and Vanadzor
2. Yerevan to Araks (Myasnikan) / Gyumri - 3 services a day plus 1 additional short journey to Araks, and a weekend express service (without stops between Yerevan and Gyumri). An onward branch from Gyumri to Artik, Pemzashen and Maralik has not run a passenger service since 2013, whilst a freight only line also branches from Armavir [the station prior to Araks] to the Metsamor power plant.
3. Yerevan to Ararat & Yeraskh - 1 service a day
4. Summer-only service from Yerevan (Almast station) to Hrazdan, Sevan and Shorzha
(a branch from Hrazdan to Dilijan via the 8km-long Meghradzor-Fioletovo tunnel has not been used since 2012 [and onward to Ijevan since 1992])
The latter route is used year round by freight trains, running beyond Shorzha to transport gold ore from Sotk mine just beyond Vardenis back via the Yerevan western bypass freight railway line to the refinery in Ararat (as well as by trains serving the Hrazdan Cement plant located 5km up the Dilijan branch).
A link also exists to the Yerevan Metro at Charbakh Depot via the Karmir Blur siding.
Rolling stock
Passenger trips are served by two types of trains: Soviet ER2 and modern EP2D trains.
The Soviet ER2 trains consist of 3-4 cars, and run on Yerevan - Araks, Yerevan - Gyumri (evening departure from Yerevan, morning from Gyumri), and Almast - Shorzha routes.
EP2D trains consist of 2 cars, and run on the Yerevan - Yeraskh, Yerevan - Gyumri (morning and afternoon from Yerevan, noon and evening from Gyumri), and the Yerevan - Gyumri weekend express routes.
International links
Azerbaijan – closed – same gauge
Georgia – open – same gauge
Iran – via Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan enclave – closed – break of gauge – /
Turkey – Akhuryan/Doğukapı, closed since 1993 – break of gauge -/
Except for the one with Georgia, all international railway links between Armenia and its neighbors have been closed since 1993. In the ceasefire agreement that ended the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, Armenia and Azerbaijan committed to "unblocking communications" betwee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio%20Ausiello | Giorgio Ausiello is an Italian computer scientist. Born in 1941, in 1966 he graduated in physics under the supervision of Corrado Böhm. From 1966 to 1980, he served as a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). In 1980, he became a professor of compilers and operating systems at Sapienza University of Rome and since 1990 he has been a professor of theoretical computer science in the department of computer, control and management engineering, where he has been until recently the leader of the research group on algorithm engineering. At academic level Giorgio Ausiello has been chairman of the degree in computer engineering, director of the graduate school, then member of the academic senate and finally chairman of the research committee of Sapienza University. In 2012 he has been nominated professor emeritus of Sapienza University of Rome.
Throughout his research career, Ausiello has addressed various research domains ranging from theory of programming to algorithms and complexity. Major scientific contributions concern database theory, approximability of NP-hard optimization problems, dynamic and online algorithms, graph algorithms, directed hypergraph algorithms. Most of the research work has been carried on in cooperation with some of the main European academic groups in the context of EU research projects.
Ausiello has contributed to several initiatives for the development of theoretical computer science in Italy and in Europe. In 1972, he was among the founders of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) of which he has been president from 2006 to 2009. In 2014 he has been nominated Fellow of EATCS. In 1997, with Jozef Gruska, he took part in the creation of the IFIP Technical Committee for 'Foundations of Computer Science' (IFIP-TC1) and was the first Chairman of TC1.
From 2001 to 2015 Ausiello has been Editor in Chief of the journal Theoretical Computer Science Series A (Algorithms, Automata, Complexity and Games). He is also co-Editor in Chief of the Springer series "Advanced Research in Computing and in Software Science" (ARCoSS, a subline of LNCS), member of the advisory board of the "Monograph series of EATCS", member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, member of the editorial board of Computer Science Review. He has been elected member of Academia Europaea in 1996. In 2004 he has become Doctor Honoris Causa of the Paris-Dauphine University.
At international level he has been Italian national representative in the Board of EU IST research programs (1988-1994 and 2006–2009) and member of the Board of Trustees of the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA. (1997-2001). In Italy he has consulted for some of the main research institutions in the field. Since 1979 to 1994 he has been involved in the major national research efforts in informatics as member of the scientific board of the CNR projects "Informatics", "Robotics" an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibana | Kibana is a source-available data visualization dashboard software for Elasticsearch.
History
Kibana provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.
Kibana also provides a presentation tool, referred to as Canvas, that allows users to create slide decks that pull live data directly from Elasticsearch.
The combination of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, referred to as the "Elastic Stack" (formerly the "ELK stack"), is available as a product or service. Logstash provides an input stream to Elasticsearch for storage and search, and Kibana accesses the data for visualizations such as dashboards. Elastic also provides "Beats" packages which can be configured to provide pre-made Kibana visualizations and dashboards about various database and application technologies.
In December 2019, Elastic introduced Kibana Lens product, which is a simpler drag-and-drop user interface than the original aggregation based visualizations.
In May 2021, OpenSearch released the first beta of OpenSearch Dashboards, the Apache-licensed fork of Kibana sponsored by Amazon Web Services after Elastic discontinued the open source project and switched to proprietary software development.
References
External links
Data visualization software
Articles containing video clips |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPKI | MPKI may refer to:
Managed Public Key Infrastructure, a computer security technology offered as service
Missed Predictions per 1000 (=Kilo) Instructions, a characteristic variable in computer architecture to measure the quality of branch prediction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealDownloader | RealDownloader is a freemium download manager by RealNetworks that downloads embedded Internet videos in multiple formats including MOV and FLV from sites such as YouTube, CollegeHumor, Facebook, Funny or Die and Dailymotion. This software utility lets users share downloaded videos on social networks and transfer them to their mobile devices. CNET reviewed it on July 19, 2011 and gave it a 4.5 / 5 rating.
Features
Features of the freeware version include:
Automatic embedded video detection
Integration with web browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
Downloads files in parallel
Integrated video viewing capabilities
Built-in sharing to social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace
Premium features include:
Download, convert and copy files to a specific device
Accelerated download
Download audio only from a video file
References
Download managers
2011 software
Downloader |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Tevie | Mr. William Tevie is a Ghanaian Computer Scientist formerly known as the Director General for the National Communications Authority and member of the Internet Society of Ghana Chapter.
About
Mr. William Tevie was the Director General for the National Communications Authority and was appointed by the President in July 2015. He has been involved in the IT industry for over 26 years, in areas including software development, IT, Telecoms, management consultancy, Network Routing and leadership training. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in Ghana and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Ghana and West Africa. He is the Tech point of contact for the. GH top-level domain. He is amongst the first African instructors at Internet Society's INET workshops in Canada, Malaysia and in other countries for developing countries to train engineers from the developing world on networks build-out in the early 1990s This program later translated to the Africa Network Operators Group (AfNOG) workshop of which he was an instructor in the maiden edition in Cape Town, South Africa. Over his 26-year involvement in IT, he has worked with Internet Society, AFNOG, AFRINIC (the Africa Regional IP Organization) and other international organizations in the networking space. He is a board member of data protection council and Former chairman of Research Subcommittee of NCA.]
[https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/standardization/201603/Pages/TEVIE-William-NCA-Ghana.aspx
He was the Director General for the National Information Technology Agency.
Professional Affiliation
Association for Computing Machinery
Internet Engineering Task Force
Member - Internet Society (International)
Program Director - Internet Society, Ghana Chapter
Board Member 'hana Network Information Centre
Technical Point of Contact (.GH)
Country Code Top Level Domain Member AFNOG
AFRINIC founding member
Member – Ghana Institute of Information Technology Member
Ghana ISP Association Member
IT Association of Ghana
Publications
• The development of the Internet in Ghana - 1996
• The expansion of the Internet in Ghana - 1998
Education
Sept. 1986 - July 1988 BSc- Computer Science, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana.
Sept. 1981 - June 1984 Dip Data Processing, University of Science, and Technology Kumasi, Ghana.
He was the Director General for the National Information Technology Agency.
Corruption allegations
On 22 December 2017 Amankwah was arraigned before court following a committee set up by the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo to investigate complaints and corruption allegations levelled against him and four others. The committee was set up based on the provision stipulated under section 23(1) and section 179(3)(a) of the Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29 of the Ghanaian constitution. It was alleged that Mr. William Tevie and four others caused financial loss to the state due to a contract entered |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Belshe | Mike Belshe (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He's a co-founder and CEO of BitGo, Inc. and a cofounder of Lookout Software in 2004. He is the co-inventor of the SPDY protocol and one of the principal authors of the HTTP/2.0 specification.
Career
Belshe received his bachelor's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Belshe started his career at Hewlett-Packard, followed by Silicon Valley startup Netscape Communications Corp., where he worked on the Netscape Enterprise Server. After Netscape he joined Good Technology before co-founding Lookout Software with Eric Hahn. Joining in 2006, he was one the early hires on the Google Chrome team, and was part of the Google Chrome Comic. As part of the Chrome team he worked on protocol research, and later co-authored the SPDY protocol. He submitted SPDY to the IETF in 2011, and was an author of HTTP/2. As part of the IETF standardization effort, Belshe argued for encryption by default within the protocol.
References
Living people
1961 births
American computer businesspeople
People associated with Bitcoin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenspiel%20plot | A Levenspiel plot is a plot used in chemical reaction engineering to determine the required volume of a chemical reactor given experimental data on the chemical reaction taking place in it. It is named after the late chemical engineering professor Octave Levenspiel.
Derivation
For a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR), the following relationship applies:
where:
is the reactor volume
is the molar flow rate per unit time of the entering reactant A
is the conversion of reactant A
is the rate of disappearance of reactant A per unit volume per unit time
For a plug flow reactor (PFR), the following relationship applies:
If is plotted as a function of , the required volume to achieve a specific conversion can be determined given an entering molar flow rate.
The volume of a CSTR necessary to achieve a certain conversion at a given flow rate is equal to the area of the rectangle with height equal to and width equal to .
The volume of a PFR necessary to achieve a certain conversion at a given flow rate is equal to the area under the curve of plotted against .
References
Chemical reaction engineering
Plots (graphics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BisQue%20%28Bioimage%20Analysis%20and%20Management%20Platform%29 | BisQue is a free, open source web-based platform for the exchange and exploration of large, complex datasets. It is being developed at the Vision Research Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. BisQue specifically supports large scale, multi-dimensional multimodal-images and image analysis. Metadata is stored as arbitrarily nested and linked tag/value pairs, allowing for domain-specific data organization. Image analysis modules can be added to perform complex analysis tasks on compute clusters. Analysis results are stored within the database for further querying and processing. The data and analysis provenance is maintained for reproducibility of results. BisQue can be easily deployed in cloud computing environments or on computer clusters for scalability. BisQue has been integrated into the NSF Cyberinfrastructure project CyVerse. The user interacts with BisQue via any modern web browser.
History
Project BisQue originally started in 2004 as part of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) supported Center for Bio-Image Informatics at UCSB, to facilitate integration of database and image analysis methods, specifically in the context of microscopy images. Given the diversity of imaging equipment and image formats, there was an urgent need to access multiple formats in a uniform way. More importantly, there was also a need for maintaining the analysis provenance for reproducing image analysis results. Very early on, it was realized that BisQue has to go schema-less to support the needs of diverse biological experiments—each experiment and analysis results are unique and slightly different. Further, from the beginning, BisQue focused on using the web browser as the standard interface. These posed unique database and visualization challenges while dealing with large scale multimodal data, and in the process BisQue has developed a unique and novel framework for visualizing very large images (100k x 100k pixels, for example), and currently supports over 250 different image file formats. Within the browser, users can now visualize 2D, 3D, 4D and 5D images, and export them to many other standardized formats. Over the years the BisQue team has closely worked with the iPlant Cyberinfrastructure (now the CyVerse), supporting the image database management needs of the plant biology community.
Going beyond Bioimaging applications, BisQue has been used in analyzing underwater images and video (REF here) and in medical imaging applications. The current BisQue interface now supports the latest DICOM standard. BisQue has integrated over 100 different image features in its feature service and the next release will include support for deep learning methods and feature classification services.
Features
BisQue provides an online resource for management and analysis of 5D biological images. In addition to image collection management, the system facilitates common biological workflows typical of
biological images: imaging, experimental annotation, re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Hajiaghayi | Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi () is a computer scientist known for his work in algorithms, game theory, social networks, network design, graph theory, and big data. He has over 200 publications with over 185 collaborators and 10 issued patents.
He is the Jack and Rita G. Minker Professor at the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science.
Professional career
Hajiaghayi received his PhD in applied mathematics and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 advised by Erik Demaine and F. Thomson Leighton.
His thesis was The Bidimensionality Theory and Its Algorithmic Applications. It founded the theory of bidimensionality which later received the Nerode Prize and was the topic of workshops.
Hajiaghayi has been the coach of the
University of Maryland ACM International Collegiate Programming team in the World Finals.
Honors and awards
Hajiaghayi's has received National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2010), Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2011), University of Maryland Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award (2015), as well as Google Faculty Research Awards (2010 & 2014). So far Hajiaghayi has raised more than $4 million in terms of grant award money from government and industry since joining the University of Maryland.
With his co-authors Erik Demaine, Fedor Fomin, and Dimitrios Thilikos, he received the 2015 European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Nerode Prize for his work (also the topic of his Ph.D. thesis) on bidimensionality, a general technique for developing both fixed-parameter tractable exact algorithms and approximation algorithms for a wide class of algorithmic problems on graphs.
Hajiaghayi has been elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 "for contributions to the fields of algorithmic graph theory and algorithmic game theory."
Hajiaghayi has been elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to algorithmic graph theory and to algorithmic game theory." Hajiaghayi has been elected as an EATCS Fellow in 2020 "his contributions to the theory of algorithms, in particular algorithmic graph theory, game theory, and distributed computing."
In 2019, Hajiaghayi was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2020, he was selected as an honoree of Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
References
External links
Hajiaghayi's homepage
List of publications
Citations of his work
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
Iranian computer scientists
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
People from Qazvin
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuhu | Fuhu was a company that made the Nabi series of tablet computers. The company filed for bankruptcy, eventually leading to the company's closure on January 9, 2016. Mattel later acquired and continued the brand with the Nabi SE for a few years until the Nabi line was quietly discontinued in 2019.
History
Fuhu was founded in 2008 by Robb Fujioka and brothers Jim and Steve Hui. The company name was formed by taking the first two letters of the co-founders' last names. Jim Hui previous co-founded computer manufacturer eMachines, and his friends in the hardware business supplied the $1.5 million in seed money for Fuhu's startup.
John Hui advised Fujioka to stay away from hardware development, which had notoriously small profit margins, and only develop software to be licensed to run on other manufacturers' hardware. The company's early products included digital trading cards called urFooz, a software called urDrive that allowed devices to run applications directly from a USB drive, and Fooz Kids, a mobile device platform designed to give children ages 3 to 10 access to approximately 33,000 kid-friendly areas of the Internet while employing parental controls that prevent them from accessing more adult-oriented sites and services. The platform was praised by child safety advocates and "mommy bloggers".
Introduction of the Nabi
In mid-2011, Foxconn, a major licensee for Fuhu software, asked Fujioka for ideas to unload a surplus of Foxconn's low-end tablets. Fujioka and Fuhu CEO Jim Mitchell experimented with loading the Fooz Kids platform on the tablets, but the setup proved too unstable to be marketable. Enamored of the concept, however, Fujioka and Mitchell ignored Hui's advice and purchased a higher quality, generic tablet on which they loaded the Fooz Kids platform as a prototype. They added a rubber bumper around the edges of the tablet to protect it from shock damage, which gave the device a butterfly-like appearance. They called the device "Nabi", the Korean word for "butterfly".
In anticipation of the upcoming holiday shopping season, Fuhu struck a deal with Toys "R" Us to be the exclusive distributor of the Nabi. The toy retailer placed an order for 10,000 units of the Nabi, which were delivered a week before Christmas and sold out in two weeks. After Toys "R" Us followed up with an order for only 15,000 units, decided to end the partnership in January 2012, by stopping production on the Nabi. Taking out a $10 million loan to continue operations, the company began designing the Nabi 2 for a launch ahead of the 2012 holiday season. Distributing through Walmart, Best Buy, and Target, Fuhu sold 750,000 units of the Nabi 2. The success of the Nabi 2 brought the company's sales to $117.9 million in 2012.
In September 2012, Fuhu filed suit against Toys "R" Us, claiming breach of contract, fraud, unfair competition and stealing trade secrets after the toy retailer launched a competing tablet, the Tabeo, the next year. Fuhu said Toys "R" Us did "vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20listed%20buildings%20in%20Kirkgunzeon%2C%20Dumfries%20and%20Galloway | This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Kirkgunzeon, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
List
|}
Key
Notes
References
All entries, addresses and coordinates are based on data from Historic Scotland. This data falls under the Open Government Licence
Kirkgunzeon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20countries%20by%20percentage%20of%20urban%20population | The map data is for year 2014 from the World Bank. Numbers are in percentage.
Table
The table uses 2014, 2015 and 2018 data from the World Bank. Numbers are as a percentage.
See also
Plotted maps
European countries by electricity consumption per person
European countries by employment in agriculture (% of employed)
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy)
European countries by health expense per person
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure
European countries by percent of population aged 0-14
European countries by percentage of women in national parliaments
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
External links
Demographics of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20countries%20by%20military%20expenditure%20as%20a%20percentage%20of%20government%20expenditure |
Map
The map data is for year 2020 from the World Bank. Numbers are in percentage.
See also
Plotted maps
European countries by electricity consumption per person
European countries by employment in agriculture (% of employed)
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy)
European countries by health expense per person
European countries by percent of population aged 0-14
European countries by percentage of urban population
European countries by percentage of women in national parliaments
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
military expenditure
Military in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20countries%20by%20percent%20of%20population%20aged%200-14 |
Map
The map data are for the year 2014 from the World Bank. Numbers are in percentage.
Table
The table data are for the year 2017 from the World Bank. Numbers are in percentage.
See also
Plotted maps
European countries by electricity consumption per person
European countries by employment in agriculture (% of employed)
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy)
European countries by health expense per person
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure
European countries by percentage of urban population
European countries by percentage of women in national parliaments
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
External links
Population 0-14
Youth in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20countries%20by%20fossil%20fuel%20use%20%28%25%20of%20total%20energy%29 |
Map
The map data is from year 2013, where data is available, from the World Bank. Numbers are in percentage.
Table
The table uses an interval of years from the World Bank. Numbers are in percentage.
See also
Plotted maps
European countries by electricity consumption per person
European countries by employment in agriculture (% of employed)
European countries by health expense per person
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure
European countries by percent of population aged 0-14
European countries by percentage of urban population
European countries by percentage of women in national parliaments
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
External links
Lists of countries in Europe
Energy in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20countries%20by%20electricity%20consumption%20per%20person | The map data is for year 2012 from the World Bank. Numbers are in kWh per year.
Table
The table uses 2012 data from the World Bank. Numbers are in kWh per year.
See also
Plotted maps
European countries by employment in agriculture (% of employed)
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy)
European countries by health expense per person
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure
European countries by percent of population aged 0-14
European countries by percentage of urban population
European countries by percentage of women in national parliaments
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
External links
Electric power in Europe
Electricity economics
Lists of countries by per capita values |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20countries%20by%20employment%20in%20agriculture%20%28%25%20of%20employed%29 |
Map
The map uses the latest data from the World Bank as of August 2016. Numbers are in percentage.
Table
The table uses data from the World Bank. Numbers are in percentage.
See also
Plotted maps
European countries by electricity consumption per person
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy)
European countries by health expense per person
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure
European countries by percent of population aged 0-14
European countries by percentage of urban population
European countries by percentage of women in national parliaments
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
External links
employment in agriculture
Agriculture in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20countries%20by%20percentage%20of%20women%20in%20national%20parliaments |
Map
The map data is for the year 2017 from the World Bank. Numbers are as a percentage, and are based on the proportion of women who hold national seats.
Table
The table data is for an interval of years from the World Bank. Numbers are as a percentage, and are based on the proportion of women who hold national seats.
See also
Plotted maps
European countries by electricity consumption per person
European countries by employment in agriculture (% of employed)
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy)
European countries by health expense per person
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure
European countries by percent of population aged 0-14
European countries by percentage of urban population
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
External links
women in national parliaments
Women in Europe
E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommy%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Mommy" is the third episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 21, 2015 on the cable network FX. This episode was written by James Wong and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
Tristan Duffy meets with James March and they talk about secret places in the Hotel. Will reviews the hotel blueprints and notes that they bear little resemblance to the reality of the building. Tristan attempts seduction as a distraction, and almost stabs Will, when he notes Countess Elizabeth watching disapprovingly.
Iris has researched where she and Donovan will move on to, but he refuses. After a heated argument, Donovan coldly tells Iris to kill herself and leaves. He comes upon Ramona Royale, who appears to have car trouble. He intends to knife her, but she tasers him in response.
Elizabeth has a rendezvous with Will and is nearly successful in seducing him, when Tristan intervenes. Elizabeth admits to Tristan that she invested badly in Bernie Madoff's pyramid scheme. Her motive was to marry Will and bleed him of money, afterwards killing him.
Alex presents John with divorce papers, who becomes distraught and apologizes for his failings as a husband and father. While leaving the hotel Alex finds a bloody Claudia in the hallway before coming across Holden who calls Alex "Mommy". Sally helps Iris to commit suicide by drugging her, before clarifying that Iris would not return to haunt the hotel. Sally awaits her demise, but is interrupted by the arrival of Donovan, who at the sight of his dying mother, slits his wrist and revives her, and Sally is amused by the twisted poetic justice.
Reception
The episode was watched by 3.20 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. It topped the Nielsen Social ratings for the third consecutive week, with 129,000 tweets seen by over 1.99 million people.
The episode received favorable reviews from critics, earning an 81% approval rating based on 16 reviews, with an average score of 7.6/10, on Rotten Tomatoes. The critical consensus reads: "By highlighting an especially twisted mother-son relationship in "Mommy", Hotel continues to be a thoroughly creepy stay."
References
External links
2015 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Hotel episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EagleView%20Technologies | EagleView is a technology provider of aerial imagery, data analytics and geographic information system mapping based in Bellevue, Washington in the Seattle metropolitan area with operations in Rochester, New York. The company was founded by Chris Pershing and Dave Carlson in 2008. EagleView merged with aerial imagery provider Pictometry International in 2013, was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in June 2015 and received additional funding from Clearlake Capital in 2018.
Software and offerings
In 2022, EagleView introduced EagleView Assess™, helping contractors capture complete measurements and roof condition data through the deployment of autonomous drones.
In 2008, EagleView introduced an aerial roof measurement technology, using algorithms to infer size, shape, pitch, and area of the roof.
In 2011, EagleView introduced EagleView SunSite, a solar 3D-roofing report for solar integrators and solar installers that estimates solar exposure, rafter lengths, grid layout and overall roof orientation in degrees.
In 2012, EagleView added wall measurement reports that assess damage to siding, walls and windows to its products.
In 2014, EagleView introduced the QuickSquares report and QuickSquares app which allows contractors to create a customized estimate report including an aerial photo of the proposed property to give to the owner before a sale is made.
References
Companies based in Bothell, Washington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap%20curriculum | Bootstrap is based at Brown University (USA), and builds on the research and development done there. Bootstrap curriculum consists of 4 research-based curricular computer science modules for grades 6-12. The 4 modules are Bootstrap:Algebra, Bootstrap:Reactive, Bootstrap:Data Science, and Bootstrap:Physics. Bootstrap materials reinforce core concepts from mainstream subjects like Math, Physics and more, enabling non-CS teachers to adopt the introductory materials while delivering rigorous and engaging computing content drawn from Computer Science classes at universities like Brown, WPI, and Northeastern.
Bootstrap:Algebra is the flagship curriculum for students ages 12–16, teaching algebraic concepts through coding. By the end of the curriculum, each student has designed their own video game using the concepts (e.g. - order of operations, linear functions, function composition, the pythagorean theorem, inequalities in the plane, piecewise functions, and more).
Their mission is to take students' excitement around gaming and drive it towards mathematics and computer programming. Beyond simply expanding students’ interest in math, Bootstrap:Algebra is among the first curricula to demonstrate real improvement in students' algebra performance.
Bootstrap:Algebra can be integrated into a standalone CS or mainstream math class, and aligns with national and state math standards. And since every child takes algebra - regardless of gender or background - Bootstrap is one of the largest providers of formal CS education to girls and underrepresented students nationwide.
The other modules model physics, data science, and sophisticated interactive programs, and can be integrated into Social Studies, Science, Math, Intro and even AP CS Principles courses. Teachers can mix-and-match content across various modules to fit their needs.
Bootstrap works with schools, districts and organizations across the United States, reaching hundreds of teachers and tens of thousands of students since its foundation in 2006. Workshops are also offered throughout the country, where teachers receive specialized training to deliver the class.
Curriculum
The Bootstrap curriculum consists of four modules, Bootstrap:Algebra, Bootstrap:Reactive, Bootstrap:Data Science, and Bootstrap:Physics.
Bootstrap:Algebra
Bootstrap:Algebra is a 25+ hour curricular module that applies mathematical concepts and rigorous programming principles to creating a simple videogame, and is aligned to National and State Standards for Mathematics, as well as the CSTA standards and K12CS frameworks. Students create a simple, 3-character game involving a player, a target and a danger. They design what each character looks like, and use algebraic concepts to detect collisions, handle keystrokes, and determine how they move and interact.
The primary concepts covered are:
Mathematics
Word Problems
Coordinate planes
Order of Operations
Variables
Functions
Input/Output Tables
Domain and Range
Functio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymio | Thymio II is an educational robot in the 100 Euros price range. The robot was developed at the EPFL in collaboration with ECAL, both in Lausanne, Switzerland. A purely-visual programming language was developed at ETH Zurich
. All components, both hardware and software, are open source. The main features of the robot are a large number of sensors and actuators, educational interactivity based on light and touch, and a programming environment featuring graphical and text programming. Thymio has over 20 sensors and 40 lights and integrates with third party languages such as MIT's Scratch.
One of the unique features of these robots is its design, production, and commercialization by a full open-source and non-profit chain of actors. This very alternative approach has been justified by the educational goal of the project. The design has been mainly made by universities (EPFL, écal and ETHZ) within research programs (NCCR Robotics). Mechanics, electronics and software are open source. The company producing Thymio, called Mobsya is a non-profit organization.
Many articles have been written about how to teach with Thymio in the classroom including the article, "Classroom robotics: Motivating independent learning and discovery" on Robohub. Research and new Thymio projects are constantly being done as noted by IEEE. In 2020 Thymio's pedagogical design was evaluated by Education Alliance Finland. In the evaluation, a group of teacher-evaluators in Switzerland assessed Thymio's curriculum alignment, pedagogy, and usability through using a science-based product evaluation method, developed by Education Alliance Finland and Finnish educational researchers. The product evaluation was funded by Stiftung Mercator and as an outcome of the evaluation, Thymio was granted a pedagogical quality certification.
The robot is in production and distributors of Thymio include TechyKids.com.
Simulation
A simulation model of the Thymio II compatible with Aseba Studio is available in Webots and a 3D interactive model of the robot can be found here.
Contests
Since August 18, 2017, the Thymio II robot is used in various international online contest on Robotbenchmark.
References
Robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.J.%20Walsh%20%28chess%20player%29 | Jim "J.J." Walsh is an Irish chess player, chess correspondent and the compiler of the daily chess puzzle in The Irish Times. Walsh started contributing a weekly chess column and puzzle in the Irish Times in April 1955, and since September 1972 the daily chess puzzle, making his puzzle one of the longest running chess articles in the world.
He played chess in the Leinster leagues for Clontarf, Eoghan Ruadh and Dublin Chess Club, winning the Armstrong Cup on a number of occasions as well as the Irish National Club Championships. Jim represented Ireland in three Olympliads, Amsterdam 1954, Moscow 1956 (playing on board 1) and Munich 1958. Walsh won the Leinster Schools chess competition in 1949, and won the Leinster Chess Championship in 1954 and 1961.
As well as for The Irish Times, Jim also wrote contributed articles to other papers such as The People and The Sunday People. He edited the Irish Chess Journal on occasions, and has contributed articles and chess book reviews to a number of publications.
In recognition of his contribution to Irish Chess, in 2014, Jim was made a life member of the Irish Chess Union, and also name trophy in his honour.
References
1932 births
Living people
Irish chess players
The Irish Times people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gailly | Gailly is a French surname that may refer to
Étienne Gailly (1922–1971), Belgian soldier and Olympic runner
Jean-loup Gailly, French computer programmer
Paul Gailly (1894–?), Belgian water polo player
Christian Gailly (1943–2013), French writer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20State%20Hacking%20Division | The Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD) or The United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) is a merger of several hacker groups self-identifying as the digital army for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS/ISIL). The unified organization comprises at least four distinct groups, including the Ghost Caliphate Section, Sons Caliphate Army (SCA), Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA), and the Kalashnikov E-Security Team. Other groups potentially involved with the United Cyber Caliphate are the Pro-ISIS Media group Rabitat Al-Ansar (League of Supporters) and the Islamic Cyber Army (ICA). Evidence does not support the direct involvement of the Islamic State leadership. It suggests external and independent coordination of Pro-ISIS cyber campaigns under the United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) name. Investigations also display alleged links to Russian Intelligence group, APT28, using the name as a guise to wage war against western nations.
Concerns
The group's actions have included online recruiting, website defacement, social media hacks, denial-of-service attacks, and doxing with 'kill lists.' The group is classified as low-threat and inexperienced because their history of attacks requires a low level of sophistication and rely on publicly available hacking tools.
Experts raised doubts about the source and nature of data from released 'kill lists' containing personal information about U.S. Military personnel claimed stolen from hacked U.S. government servers. There is no evidence that the United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) compromised U.S. systems. The data included public, unclassified, and often outdated information about civilians, non-U.S. citizens, and others built from old data breaches or web scraped data.
U.S., French, and German intelligence Investigated attacks following the French Television Channel TV5Monde hack and The U.S. CENTCOM Twitter attack. All three countries linked actions by the United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) to APT 28 (aka Fancy Bear), a Russian intelligence group.
History
The group first emerged in hacking operations against U.S. websites in January 2015 as the Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA). In March 2015, the Islamic State published a "kill list" on a website that included names, ranks, and addresses of 100 U.S. military members.
A pattern of similar attacks emerged after the media coverage. At least 19 individual 'kill lists,' including personal information of American, Canadian, and European citizens released between March 2015 and June 2016. On April 4, 2016, all four groups united as the United Cyber Caliphate (UCC).
In June 2016, the Middle East Media Research Institute found and revealed to the media an alleged list of approximately 8,300 people around the world as potential lone-wolf attack targets.
Successful attacks since mid-2014
Website beloging of the Hobart Airport was defaced.
French TV5Monde live feed hacked, social media hacked and defaced with the message "Je Suis ISIS". French investigators later discounted this, instead suspecting th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau%2013%20%28video%20game%29 | Bureau 13 is a graphic adventure game developed by Take-Two Interactive and published by GameTek for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and Microsoft Windows in 1995. It is based on the role-playing game system Bureau 13 and was created by the authors of Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller. Ports to the Amiga and CD32 were cancelled.
Reception
A reviewer for Next Generation commented that "Although in some ways it's a bit basic compared to its competition, Bureau 13 has enough originality to make it worth a second look." He gave it two out of five stars.
Retrospectively, Richard Cobbett of PC Gamer opined "Bureau 13 is a really dumb game with some clever ideas - one of the kind that doesn't actually work, but really should have," having "the clumsiest interfaces ever inflicted on the world, and one of the dullest worlds."
References
External links
Bureau 13 at MobyGames
1995 video games
Adventure games
Cancelled Amiga games
DOS games
1990s horror video games
Science fantasy video games
Single-player video games
Take-Two Interactive games
Video games about vampires
Video games based on tabletop role-playing games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring female protagonists
Windows games
Video games about witchcraft
GameTek games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2069 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 69 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Hest Bank to Cleethorpes. The route is incomplete and consists of one long section in Lancashire, and seven short sections in West Yorkshire. The open sections are signed in both directions.
History
The route uses several railway paths including the Midland Railway route to Morecambe and the Great Northern Railway's Queensbury lines.
According to the year 2000 Official Guide to the National Cycle Network, the designation 69 was slated to be used for a route from Derby to Berwick upon Tweed, however that route has been given the number 68.
Route
Starting at a junction with Route 6 on the towpath of the Lancaster Canal, Route 69 leaves Hest Bank in a south west direction following the promenade to Morecambe. The Midland Hotel signals the start of The Way of the Roses, a challenge ride from Morecambe to Bridlington. The Way of the Roses follows route 69 as far as Clapham. Heading inland the route follows a railway path to Lancaster where it crosses the River Lune on the Lune Millennium Bridge. It crosses the Lune again at Crook o'Lune and immediately joins the roads for the rest of this section routing via Greesingham, Hornby and Wray. This section of NCN 69 ends at the junction with NCN 68 in Clapham, North Yorkshire. 68 can be followed to Gargrave, but it doesn't connect with the following section of 69.
The next section of the route starts at Silsden, following a minor road before joining the Leeds & Liverpool Canal to reach Riddlesden and a junction with NCN 696.
The next two sections, ( in total), are between Cullingworth and Queensbury and make up the Great Northern Railway Trail. The first section crosses the viaducts at Cullingworth () and Hewenden (). The second, between Thornton and Queensbury crosses the Thornton viaduct ().
Plans to complete Route 69 between Keighley and Halifax are under development. Sustrans have published a study into "the economic impact of reopening walking and cycling routes around Queensbury Tunnel."
A further four discontinuous, short traffic free sections of route are spread through Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Wakefield.
The long term plan is for the route to extend to Cleethorpes via Pontefract, Althorpe and Caistor.
Related NCN routes
Route 69 is the western end of the Way of the Roses along with:
Route 69 meets the following routes:
6 at Hest Bank and Lancaster
700 at Hest Bank and Lancaster
68 at Clapham, North Yorkshire
696 at Keighley
66 at Halifax, Bradley and Dewsbury
References
External links
Route 69 on the Sustrans web site
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM%20Splitter | A KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) Splitter, also known as a Reverse KVM switch, is a hardware device that allows users to control a single computer from one or more sets of keyboards, video monitors, and mice. With a KVM splitter, users access the connected computer consecutively rather than simultaneously. It differs from a KVM Switch which allows multiple computers to be controlled, usually, by a single keyboard, monitor and mouse.
Types
There are two main functional designs of KVM splitters:
Emulation In an emulation based design, the KVM splitter feeds the emulated controls from the active keyboard and mouse to the connected computer. A PS/2 KVM splitter must be emulation based, because PS/2 computers only have two PS/2 connectors – one designated for a keyboard and one for a mouse. In contrast, a USB computer tends to have multiple USB ports, which are not designated for a specific device. Keyboards, mice, external storage devices, printers, etc. can be connected to the USB ports on a computer. USB KVM splitters can also be emulation based, but they tend to be built using a hub-based design.
Hub Based When a KVM splitter is hub based, it functions similar to having multiple keyboards and mice connected to a single computer. Instead of sending one emulated signal to the computer based on an active keyboard and mouse, the hub-based splitter continuously feeds the active controls and emulation is not needed.
Signals
Common input and output video signals for KVM splitters include HDMI, DVI, and VGA. Keyboard and mouse input and output signals are PS/2 or USB. Some KVM splitters also offer additional USB input ports to connect peripheral devices, such as external hard disk drives and printers, which can be shared across all users.
Monitor
As one computer is feeding video for multiple monitors, there are a few ways KVM splitters can handle the potentially different DDC and EDID transmissions from the monitors.
Pass-through: the KVM splitter transfers the EDID data directly from a display connected to the primary port to a source. If all monitors are identical, this will not be an issue. However, if different monitors are used, the EDID from the primary monitor may not be compatible with others.
Built-in: the KVM splitter fakes the EDID data using an EEPROM with a generic EDID. This provides less compatibility as there is no communication between the monitors and the computer, and monitors that do not support the generic EDID may not work.
EDID learning: the KVM splitter reads EDID from all connected monitors and creates a new EDID table with the common resolutions amongst the displays. This ensures the best compatibility when many different monitors are used.
Usage
A KVM Splitter can be used by multiple users to control a single computer from multiple locations. Any user can access the computer and its programs from their workstation. There are a few activation modes KVM splitters operate in, which limits simultaneous user activity.
U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidmesh%20Networks | Fluidmesh Networks was a hardware and software manufacturer of wireless point-to-point networks, wireless point-to-multipoint networks, and wireless mesh networks. Fluidmesh products are used in video-surveillance, enterprise, industrial, railway, maritime, and military projects.
Corporate history
Fluidmesh was founded in 2005 by four Italian engineers: Umberto Malesci, Cosimo Malesci, Andrea Orioli, and Torquato Bertani. Fluidmesh was a spin-off company from MIT where Umberto Malesci and Cosimo Malesci were graduate students in the Department of Engineering. In 2005, Umberto Malesci was a graduate student working at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with Prof. Samuel Madden (MIT) when he developed Fluidmesh's initial software based on the Roofnet open-source project leveraging Click Modular Router. The Company was initially incubated at the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. Over the years, Fluidmesh Networks expanded into the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, and obtained exposure on the Italian national press and television as a successful example of innovation-driven entrepreneurship in the high tech space. Within ten years, Fluidmesh had sold and installed approximately 24,000 miles of wireless links.
In 2010, Fluidmesh partnered with CCTV camera manufacturer, Pelco.
In April 2011, Fluidmesh Networks announced it had been acquired by Generation 3 Capital and Waveland Investments, two private equity firms based in Chicago.
In 2016, Fluidmesh Networks and Cisco announced a partnership to combine Cisco Connected Rail Solutions and Fluidmesh train-to-ground wireless technology into a single solution.
On April 6, 2020, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Fluidmesh. The acquisition was completed July 7, 2020.
Products and services
Trackside WiFi and Mobile Connectivity for Trains and Railroads
Internet of Things (IoT) for Vessels and Maritime Applications
Wireless Backhaul for fixed wireless networks
References
External links
Computer companies established in 2005
Networking companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
Wireless networking hardware
2005 establishments in New York City
Cisco Systems acquisitions
2020 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 2005
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDataSoft | Opendatasoft is a French company that offers data sharing software. Based in Paris, it also has a subsidiary in Boston (United States) and an office in Nantes (France).
Opendatasoft has developed a tool for sharing and reusing the data of companies and public administrations. Its software lets you organize, share, and visualize any type of data. The software can be used by both private companies and public entities.
History
Opendatasoft was founded in 2011 by Jean-Marc Lazard (CEO), Franck Carassus (CEO North America), and David Thoumas (CTO).
In 2014, the company was integrated into the incubation program of the Open Data Institute to promote the sharing of public data. That same year, Opendatasoft was ranked by the Electronic Business Group as one of the ten most innovative startups in France.
In June 2015, Opendatasoft was awarded €1.5 million in seed funding from the venture capital fund Aurinvest.
In 2016, Opendatasoft was included in the "IDC Innovators: Smart City Open Data Platforms"report. In the same year, the company opened its North American headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
In October 2016, Opendatasoft was granted €5 million in Series A funding from Aster Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Aurinvest., and Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, who were joined two years later by UL Ventures.
In November 2018, Opendatasoft launched "Data on Board," an annual summit for enthusiasts of data and data sharing. In 2018, 250 people attended the event. During the second edition, held at Campus Station F in Paris, 500 participants and 20 French and international speakers met to discuss the challenges surrounding the use and sharing of data.
The Opendatasoft solution
Opendatasoft is a SaaS (software as a service) solution that allows companies, local authorities, and public administrations to organize, share, and visualize any type of data (as tables and graphs), as well as make data available via APIs.
The company's founding principles are based on the sharing of public data as open data: historically, its customers include entities of the French government and local French communities. In recent years, Opendatasoft has broadened the scope of its activities and now works with all types of companies, both public and private, in France and around the world. Users of the software can share their data publicly as open data to create services for citizens, users of public transportation, companies, and associations. The data can also be published in a limited way within an organization or a group of organizations for use by partners or employees.
Opendatasoft's customers come from a variety of sectors: energy & utilities, local communities, transportation & mobility, government, banking & insurance, luxury goods, IoT, etc.
To date, Opendatasoft has earned the trust of more than 280 customers worldwide: in Europe (France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal), North America (United States, Canada), Mexico, Aust |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale%20brain%20network | Large-scale brain networks (also known as intrinsic brain networks) are collections of widespread brain regions showing functional connectivity by statistical analysis of the fMRI BOLD signal or other recording methods such as EEG, PET and MEG. An emerging paradigm in neuroscience is that cognitive tasks are performed not by individual brain regions working in isolation but by networks consisting of several discrete brain regions that are said to be "functionally connected". Functional connectivity networks may be found using algorithms such as cluster analysis, spatial independent component analysis (ICA), seed based, and others. Synchronized brain regions may also be identified using long-range synchronization of the EEG, MEG, or other dynamic brain signals.
The set of identified brain areas that are linked together in a large-scale network varies with cognitive function. When the cognitive state is not explicit (i.e., the subject is at "rest"), the large-scale brain network is a resting state network (RSN). As a physical system with graph-like properties, a large-scale brain network has both nodes and edges and cannot be identified simply by the co-activation of brain areas. In recent decades, the analysis of brain networks was made feasible by advances in imaging techniques as well as new tools from graph theory and dynamical systems.
Large-scale brain networks are identified by their function and provide a coherent framework for understanding cognition by offering a neural model of how different cognitive functions emerge when different sets of brain regions join together as self-organized coalitions. The number and composition of the coalitions will vary with the algorithm and parameters used to identify them. In one model, there is only the default mode network and the task-positive network, but most current analyses show several networks, from a small handful to 17. The most common and stable networks are enumerated below. The regions participating in a functional network may be dynamically reconfigured.
Disruptions in activity in various networks have been implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, Alzheimer's, autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, ADHD and bipolar disorder.
Core networks
Because brain networks can be identified at various different resolutions and with various different neurobiological properties, there is currently no universal atlas of brain networks that fits all circumstances. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping has the Workgroup for HArmonized Taxonomy of NETworks (WHATNET) group to work towards a consensus regarding network nomenclature. While the work continues, Uddin, Yeo, and Spreng proposed in 2019 that the following six networks should be defined as core networks based on converging evidences from multiple studies to facilitate communication between researchers.
Default Mode (Medial frontoparietal)
The default mode network is active when an individual is awake and at rest. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Fab%2040th | My Fab 40th is an American reality television series which premiered on the Bravo cable network, on August 25, 2015. Announced in March 2015, the six-part one-hour series chronicles various "from unlimited budgets to lavish delicacies and over-the-top entertainment" fortieth birthday celebrations, with each episode featuring different people.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
Bravo (American TV network) original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ties%20That%20Bind%20%28TV%20series%29 | Ties That Bind is a Canadian-American drama series that premiered on the UP network on August 12, 2015. The first season consisted of 10 episodes. It was cancelled after the first season. In the UK it was screened as "Detective McLean".
The series stars Kelli Williams as experienced police officer Allison McLean who balances life with her job, husband Matt (Jonathan Scarfe), and teenage children Jeff (Mitchell Kummen) and Rachel (Natasha Calis). Allison's life changes when her brother Tim (Luke Perry) is arrested and sent to prison. She takes in his teenage children—her niece and nephew Cameron (Rhys Matthew Bond) and Mariah (Matreya Scarrwener). Allison and her family must adjust to their new situation and band together.
Cast
Kelli Williams as Allison McLean, a police detective, Matt's wife, and mother to Jeff and Rachel
Jonathan Scarfe as Matt McLean, Allison's husband, and father to Jeff and Rachel
Dion Johnstone as Devin Stewart, Allison's partner
Mitchell Kummen as Jeff McLean, Allison and Matt's teenage son
Luke Perry as Tim Olson, Allison's brother, and father to Cameron and Mariah
Natasha Calis as Rachel McLean, Allison and Matt's teenage daughter
Rhys Matthew Bond as Cameron Olson, Tim's teenage son, and Allison's nephew
Matreya Scarrwener as Mariah Olson, Tim's teenage daughter, and Allison's niece
Episodes
References
External links
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
2010s American drama television series
2015 Canadian television series debuts
2015 Canadian television series endings
2010s Canadian drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposed%20epoch%20analysis | Superposed epoch analysis (SPE or SEA), also called Chree analysis after a paper by Charles Chree
that employed the technique, is a statistical tool used in data analysis either to detect periodicities within a time sequence or to reveal a correlation (usually in time) between two data sequences (usually two time series).
When comparing two time series, the essence of the method is to: (1) define each occurrence of an event in one data sequence (series #1) as a key time; (2) extract subsets of data from the other sequence (series #2) within some time range near each key time; (3) superpose all extracted subsets from series #2 (with key times for all subsets synchronized) by adding them. (To effectively superpose data from series #2 that are recorded at different or even irregular times, data binning is often used.) This approach can be used to detect a signal (i.e., related variations in both series) in the presence of noise (i.e., unrelated variations in both series) whenever the noise sums incoherently while the signal is reinforced by the superposition.
To search for periodicities in a single time series, the data sequence can be broken into separate subsets of equal duration, and then all subsets can be superposed. Some hypothesis for the length of the period is required to set the subsets' duration.
The approach has been used in signal analysis in several fields, including geophysics (where it has been referred to as compositing)
and solar physics.
References
Multivariate time series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristie%20Schoen | Cristie M. Schoen Codd (September 3, 1976 — March 12, 2015) was a Spanish-born chef. She came to prominence as a contestant in the eighth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star.
Early life
Cristie Schoen was born in Madrid, Spain. She grew up cooking primarily Cajun cuisine with her father. Her father was in the U.S. Air Force and she moved around frequently, including stays in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
Food Network Star
In 2012, it was announced that Schoen had been selected as a contestant on the eighth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star. On May 13, 2012, she became the first contestant of the season to be eliminated, which she attested to her strong passion for cooking coming across as "angry". Following her appearance on the show, she stated to have remained close friends with fellow contestants Judson Allen, Josh Lyons and Kara Sigle.
Personal life
Cristie's husband, J.T. Codd, was a key grip; they married in 2014. At the time of her death, Cristie was five months pregnant with their first child, a girl, who was to be named Skylar.
Death
Cristie and Joseph were reported missing on March 15, 2015, when their family was unable to reach them. An investigation by police led to the arrest of local contractor Robert Jason Owens, who was charged with their murders. Owens is notable for being a person of interest in the disappearance of Zebb Quinn in 2000. To date, no motive has been established for the murders; and while Owens reportedly admitted that he "struck and killed Codd" in the manner of vehicular homicide, the exact nature of Schoen's murder has not been released. Authorities undertook a search of Owens's property; the couple's remains were found in his woodstove. It was later concluded that the couple had been killed on March 12.
Owens' double-wide trailer burned down on March 24, 2015. On August 4, it was reported that the state of North Carolina would be seeking the death penalty for Owens if he is convicted.
Owens later admitted killing Cristie and Joseph Codd in March 2015. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of dismembering human remains. In a plea deal, his attorneys reached with North Carolina's Assistant Capital Attorney Victoria Jayne and Buncombe County's District Attorney Todd Williams, Owens was sentenced on April 27, 2017, to spend a minimum of 59.5 years to a maximum of 74.5 years in prison.
References
External links
1976 births
2015 deaths
2015 murders in the United States
21st-century Spanish women
Businesspeople from Madrid
Food Network Star contestants
People murdered in North Carolina
Spanish emigrants to the United States
Spanish television chefs
Spanish women chefs
Spanish people murdered abroad
Female murder victims |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20Asian%20%26%20Pacific%20Islander%20Men%20of%20New%20York | GAPIMNY (formerly Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York) is an all-volunteer-run organization that provides a range of social, educational, and cultural programming for queer and transgender people who are Asian and/or Pacific Islander in the New York City metropolitan area to support each other. The organization's community building efforts is intricately tied to political education and mutual aid.
History
After the retreats in May 1988 and October 1988 that gathered together Asian and Pacific Islander (API) gay men, Don Kao, John Chin, and John Manzon decided to start organizing in New York City. In March 1990, an API-facilitated workshop around racism sponsored by Men of All Colors Together generated interest to start Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York. The organization made its public debut at the 1990 Lesbian and Gay Heritage of Pride Parade.
In 1991, the leaders of GAPIMNY, alongside the Asian Lesbians of the East Coast (ALOEC), protested against Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's and the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center’s use of Miss Saigon in their fundraisers. The protesters expressed anger over the way Asian men and women were portrayed in Miss Saigon and demanded to be recognized as part of the LGBT community. Yoko Yoshikawa wrote on behalf of The Heat Is On Miss Saigon Coalition that they were outraged by the way that it perpetuated the idea that Asian women were self-erasing and Asian men were contemptible. When Lambda Legal refused to drop the fundraiser, the coalition staged demonstrations on April 6 and 11, 1991. Yoko observed that six men were arrested.
The organization took a few years to establish organizational infrastructure. In 1995, by-laws were put into effect, the first official steering committee meeting took place, and an information phone line was established. In the following years, GAPIMNY hosted workshops on topics related to the community as a way to outreach and raise awareness. In 1996, GAPIMNY established an online presence through leftnet.edu. In the same year the logo of interlocking male symbols within an apple was created. In 1997, organizers created an annual DynasTea Dance, which became a signature event of the organization through 2006. In 2000, the organization established its own web domain with hosting through queernet. It also launched a newsmagazine called PersuAsian that was funded with a grant from the Gill Foundation. GAPIMNY received recognition when it was honored by Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and City Council member Alan Gerson at "A Celebration of GLBT Pride" in 2002.
The Details magazine controversy
In 2004, Details magazine published the satirical feature "Gay or Asian?" GAPIMNY, Asian American Journalists Association, and Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) criticized the implications. GAPIMNY co-sponsored with Asian Media Watchdog a protest outside the editorial office on April 16. Two hundred people showed up and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badri%20Roysam | Badrinath "Badri" Roysam (born 1961) is an Indian-American professor and researcher. He is the current chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Roysam is notable as the creator of the FARSIGHT project, which is a collaborative effort to create an open source software toolkit to analyze multidimensional images. Roysam's work as a researcher focuses on cancer immunotherapy and neuroscience.
In addition to interdisciplinary collaborations such as FARSIGHT, Dr. Roysam is also a proponent of the Electrical Power Analytics Consortium, which aims to improve the state of the power grid in the hurricane-prone Houston area.
Education
Roysam received his Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1984. He then went on to earn his master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1987, and his Doctor of Science degree from the same institution in 1989.
Career
Roysam began his career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1989, where he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering. Here, he became director of the Rensselaer branch of the Center for Subsurface Imaging and Sensing Systems (CenSISS) from 2001 until his departure in 2010. CenSISS is a multi-institution and multidisciplinary NSF funded center. In 2006, it was endowed by the Bernard Marshall Gordon foundation and renamed the Bernard Marshall Gordon Center for Subsurface Imaging and Sensing Systems (Gordon-CenSISS).
Roysam initiated the development of FARSIGHT while at RPI, with the intention of developing an interdisciplinary resource for imaging tools. The development of the FARSIGHT project triggered interest, and subsequently funding, from federal institutions such as DARPA and the NIH. The success of FARSIGHT also led to industry collaborations, such as with Kitware, a local New York City company founded by an RPI alumnus.
In 2010, Roysam left RPI for the University of Houston, becoming the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen endowed professor, as well as an administrative role as the chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Here he continued his work with FARSIGHT, and was part of the collaborative effort to develop a tool for the analysis of high dimensional data (STrenD). In recent years, Roysam has been recognized for his research in cancer immunotherapy using bioinformatics. Working in partnership with M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Houston, Roysam and his colleagues have developed software that can single out cancer cells and profile their interactions on a cell-to-cell level. This allows close study of immune system cells and how they can be used to neutralize cancer cells.
References
External links
[ The Farsight Toolkit Wiki], which provides a catalog of information relating to the FARSIGHT project, its source code, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Moln%C3%A1r | Vera Molnár (born 1924) is a Hungarian media artist living and working in France. Molnar is widely considered to be a pioneer of computer art and generative art, and is also one of the first women to use computers in her art practice.
Born in Hungary, she studied aesthetics and art history at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In the 1940s and 50s, she created non-representational paintings. By 1959 she was making combinatorial images; in 1968, she would use a computer to create her first algorithmic drawings.
In the 1960s, she founded two groups in France concerned with the use of technology within the arts: the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel and Art et Informatique. In 1976 took place her first solo exhibition in the gallery of the London Polytechnic.
Her work has been widely collected by major museums; in 2007, she was named a Chevalier of Arts and Letters in France.
She was selected as one of 213 artists for the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.
Life
Vera Molnár, born in 1924 in Hungary, is one of the pioneers of computer and algorithmic arts. Trained as a traditional artist, Molnár studied for a diploma in art history and aesthetics at the Budapest College of Fine Arts. She iterated combinatorial images from as early as 1959. In 1968 she began working with computers, where she began to create algorithmic paintings based on simple geometric shapes and geometrical themes.
Work
Molnár created her first non-representational images in 1946. These were abstract geometrical and systematically determined paintings. In 1947 she received an artists’ fellowship to study in Rome at the Villa Giulia, and shortly after moved to France, where she currently resides.
In the 1960s, Molnár co-founded several artist research groups. The first, in 1960, was Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, which investigate collaborative approaches to mechanical and kinetic art. The second was Art et Informatique, with a focus on art and computing. Molnar learned the early programming languages of Fortran and Basic, and gained access to a computer at a research lab in Paris where she began to make computer graphic drawings on a plotter.
Legacy
Molnár was part of the 2010 exhibition "On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition demonstrated the history of drawing lines.
A 2015 retrospective exhibition called "Regarding the Infinite | Drawings 1950-1987" was held at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery in New York City.
Awards
In 2005 Molnár received the DAM Digital Arts Award for her life’s work, which includes €20,000 prize, and a cataloged exhibition. Vera Molnár’s exhibit, (Un)Ordnung.(Dés)Ordre. at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv shows her early freehand drawings never exhibited before, from her late-1960s to the new installation at Museum Haus Konstruktiv.
Molnár was appointed Chevalier of Arts and Letters (2007), and won the outstanding merit award AWARE in 2018.
Molnár is one of 213 artists announced as part of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9gep%20%C3%A0%20distance | Cégep à distance is a distance-education CEGEP that offers services which are complementary to those offered by the CEGEP network. It welcomes a diverse student body, many of whom come from the CEGEP network.
History
Cégep à distance was created in 1991 by the Collège de Rosemont which had been mandated by the Ministère de l'Éducation to develop a distance education CEGEP. Initially known as the Centre collégial de formation à distance, Cégep à distance adopted its new name in 2002. In 2005, the ministry entrusted it with the mandate to develop distance education for the English-speaking community. Since 2023, Cégep à distance’s English course selection is only available to visiting students with an authorization to study (commandite) from their college.
Mandate
The main function of Cégep à distance is to offer through distance education college-level studies programs that lead to a diploma of collegial studies (DCS/DEC) or to an attestation of collegial studies (ACS/AEC), both inside and outside Québec.
As part of that mandate, Cégep à distance may also fulfils the following functions:
Design and produce distance-education materials.
Conduct studies and research on distance education.
Promote partnership and dialogue with the CEGEPs.
Promote and develop distance education.
Develop courses and services in English.
Client groups
Cégep à distance accepts two types of clients:
Admitted students enrol directly at Cégep à distance. These are students who come to Cégep à distance to…
Take general education courses (common to all DCSs/DECs) or complementary courses to complete a DCS/DEC
Earn prerequisites needed to enter university
Earn a DCS/DEC or ACS/AEC to access the job market or make a career change
Visiting students with a signed authorization form (commonly referred to as a commandite) from their college to study at Cégep à distance. Their CEGEP issues a commandite so they can enrol simultaneously at Cégep à distance, usually because one of their courses causes a scheduling conflict or because it is not offered in the current session at their home CEGEP. Cégep à distance works with the other CEGEPs to help their students in their educational pathway and allow them to graduate sooner.
A few facts and figures
14,500 students per year
Over 160 courses, a number of which are designed in English
26,000 courses registrations each year
References
Higher education in Canada
Distance education institutions based in Canada
Canadian educational websites
Education in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary%20of%20Irish%20Architects | The Dictionary of Irish Architects is an online database which contains biographical and bibliographical information on architects, builders and craftsmen born or working in Ireland during the period 1720 to 1940, and information on the buildings on which they worked. Although it is principally devoted to architects, it includes engineers who designed buildings and structures, some builders, some artists and craftsmen, and some amateurs and writers on architectural subjects.
Architects from Britain and elsewhere who never resided in Ireland but designed buildings there are not given full biographical treatment, and only their Irish works are listed. Irish-born architects who emigrated are similarly treated; their careers after their departure from Ireland are not described in detail, and only their Irish works are listed in full.
The Dictionary of Irish Architects was created and compiled in the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA) over a period of thirty years. It was made publicly available online in January 2009. According to the IAA it remains a "work in progress" with new data added and updated since its initial release. As of 2018, it reportedly contained 6,700 entries.
References
External links
Online databases
Architecture in Ireland
Architects
Online encyclopedias |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Nicdao | Charlotte Nicdao (born 14 August 1991) is an Australian actress. She is known for starring as Jackie Lee in the Nine Network series A gURLs wURLd (2010–2011) and as Poppy Li in the Apple TV+ comedy Mythic Quest (2020–present).
Career
Nicdao attended Victorian College of Arts and studied jazz and classical music. After an audition for a role in which she did not get the part, Nicdao discovered that her true love was acting.
Nicdao's big break happened in 2008 when she was cast as Jackie in A gURLs wURLd. Nicdao auditioned when she was 17. The show filmed in Sydney, Singapore, and Hamburg, so Nicdao completed the final year of high school by distance education with the goal to return to Melbourne and make a career out of jazz singing.
Nicdao starred in the short film Emo, directed by Neil Tiffett, which won a 'special mention' at the prestigious Berlinale International Film Festival in 2014 - the runner up to the Crystal Bear for best short film in Berlinale’s Generation section. When the short was adapted to a full-length film Emo: The Musical, released in 2016, she was credited as an associate producer.
In 2014, Nicdao joined the second season cast of Josh Thomas' Australian TV series Please Like Me, and played the role of Tom's girlfriend Jenny.
In 2019, Nicdao starred as Lucy in Content, a made-for-phone online video series. The first episode, about a millennial who wanted to go viral, actually went viral when the video of her crashing her car was shared by many who thought it was footage of a real accident.
In 2020, Nicdao starred as Poppy in Mythic Quest. Nicdao described the role as her dream role. About the advent of more roles for people of Asian heritage, Nicdao stated about her role in Mythic Quest, "I think there was a time with the only characters available to me were very one dimensional and now I'm getting to play this very complex woman at the center of a story and it's beautiful."
Nicdao voiced a princess character in Adventure Time.
Personal life
Nicdao was inspired by her father, Filipino Australian actor Alfred Nicdao. As a child, she would often be called to auditions by her father's agent.
Nicdao has stated that if she could be a book, she would be If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino because "every chapter is a new story and a new world".
In 2012, Nicdao formed pop music group Charlotte Nicdao and the Sloth Orchestra with friends from college. In January 2013, the band successfully crowdfund their debut EP, recorded at Sing Sing studios with Australian music engineer Adam Rhodes. Plans to release the album in March 2013 were put on hold when Nicdao was cast in the NBC television series Camp, and delayed the release of the EP to 2014. Nicdao describes herself as "a passive-aggressive sunshine pop fairy". Nicdao started training as a jazz singer when she was 15, inspired by Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Keith Jarrett.
Nicdao and her husband Bayden Hine ran a plant store in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluentd | Fluentd is a cross-platform open-source data collection software project originally developed at Treasure Data. It is written primarily in the Ruby programming language.
Overview
Fluentd was positioned for "big data", semi- or un-structured data sets. It analyzes event logs, application logs, and clickstreams. According to Suonsyrjä and Mikkonen, the "core idea of Fluentd is to be the unifying layer between different types of log inputs and outputs.", Fluentd is available on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
History
Fluentd was created by Sadayuki Furuhashi as a project of the Mountain View-based firm Treasure Data. Written primarily in Ruby, its source code was released as open-source software in October 2011.
The company announced $5 million of funding in 2013.
Treasure Data was then sold to Arm Ltd. in 2018.
Users
Fluentd was one of the data collection tools recommended by Amazon Web Services in 2013, when it was said to be similar to Apache Flume or Scribe. Google Cloud Platform's BigQuery recommends Fluentd as the default real-time data-ingestion tool, and uses Google's customized version of Fluentd, called google-fluentd, as a default logging agent.
Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit is a log processor and log forwarder which is being developed as a CNCF sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd project. Fluentd is written in C and Ruby and built as a Ruby gem so it consumes some amount of memory resources. On the other hand, since Fluent Bit is written only in C and has no dependencies, the consumed memory usage much decreased compared to Fluentd which makes it easy to run on the embedded Linux and container environment.
References
Further reading
Goasguen, Sébastien (2014). 60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack: Using the CloudStack Ecosystem, "Chapter 6: Advanced Recipes". O'Reilly Media.
Wilkins, Phil (2022). Logging in Action, With Fluentd, Kubernetes and more. Manning.
External links
Source Code on GitHub
Big data companies
Data warehousing products
Data security
Computer security companies
Free software
Free software programmed in Ruby
System administration
Data mining and machine learning software
Free science software
Free data analysis software
Free artificial intelligence applications
Computer logging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201994 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1994 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201995 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1995 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201996 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1996 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%20Terveen | Loren Terveen is an American computer scientist and was the president of the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCHI professional group from 2015 to 2018. Terveen is a professor of computer science and engineering and studies human-computer interaction at GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota.
In 2008, Terveen and colleagues created Cyclopath, a path recommender system for cyclists in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. Terveen co-authored the article "Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems", which has been cited almost four thousand times in scientific research.
In 2023, Terveen received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award.
Terveen's family is from Emery, South Dakota. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
References
External links
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Minnesota faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20SIGLOG | ACM SIGLOG or SIGLOG is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation. It publishes a news magazine (SIGLOG News), and has the annual ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) as its flagship conference. In addition, it publishes an online newsletter, the SIGLOG Monthly Bulletin (formerly the LICS Newsletter), and "maintains close ties" with the related academic journal ACM Transactions on Computational Logic.
The creation of this special interest group was suggested in 2007 by Moshe Vardi and Dana Scott, and Vardi was the primary author of a more detailed proposal for its creation. It was founded in 2014, with Prakash Panangaden as its founding chair, and with Andrzej Murawski as the founding editor of the newsletter.
Alonzo Church Award
In 2015, SIGLOG established, in cooperation with EATCS, EACSL and the Kurt Gödel Society, the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation. The list of past award winners is maintained by the EACSL.
2016 Rajeev Alur and David Dill "for their invention of timed automata, a decidable model of real-time systems, which combines a novel, elegant, deep theory with widespread practical impact."
2017 Samson Abramsky, Radha Jagadeesan, Pasquale Malacaria, Martin Hyland, Luke Ong, and Hanno Nickau "for providing a fully-abstract semantics for higher-order computation through the introduction of game models, thereby fundamentally revolutionising the field of programming language semantics, and for the applied impact of these models."
2018 Tomás Feder and Moshe Y. Vardi "for fundamental contributions to the computational complexity of constraint-satisfaction problems."
2019 Murdoch J. Gabbay and Andrew M. Pitts for "their ground-breaking work introducing the theory of nominal representations, a powerful and elegant mathematical model for computing with data involving atomic names."
2020 Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Renée J. Miller, Lucian Popa, and Wang-Chiew Tan for "their ground-breaking work on laying the logical foundations for data exchange."
2021 Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Reinhard Pichler, Klaus U. Schulz, and Luc Segoufin for "fundamental work on logic-based web data extraction and querying tree-structured data."
2022 Dexter Kozen for "his fundamental work on developing the theory and applications of Kleene Algebra with Tests, an equational system for reasoning about iterative programs".
References
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20Coast%20Medical | Gold Coast Medical is an Australian factual television which premiered on the Seven Network. The series was filmed at Gold Coast University Hospital and follows the work done by staff in the Gold Coast's largest hospital. Ten episodes of the program have been produced.
The Seven Network previously screened a similar medical factual series Medical Emergency in 2005.
Broadcast
The series was due to air on the Seven Network in September 2015 however its debut was delayed for over a year, and given a new start date of 25 October 2016. The program was again delayed with a revised premiere date of 1 November 2016.
Distributed internationally by Lineup Industries, the series was acquired by Pick in the United Kingdom.
Episodes
References
External links
Seven promotion, Yahoo!7
Australian factual television series
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
2016 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Gold Coast, Queensland
Australian medical television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20Cops | Beach Cops is an Australian factual television series produced by and screened on the Seven Network. The series is filmed on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and follows the New South Wales Police Force operating in the local area while performing their duties.
The program is narrated by Layne Beachley. Northern Beaches local area commander Superintendent Dave Darcy had veto power over content in the series. This series follows on from other observational documentary series featuring police on the Seven Network such as The Force: Behind The Line and Highway Patrol.
Broadcast
The six episode first season premiered in Australia on the Seven Network on 11 October 2015. A second season debuted on 19 October 2016. A third season began on 9 August 2018.
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2018)
Notes
This episode did not air in Western Australia due to staggered network schedule in that state, and aired at a later date.
This episode was originally scheduled to air on 15 November 2015, however was pulled from the schedule for special news coverage of the November 2015 Paris attacks.
This episode did not air in Victoria or South Australia due to staggered network schedule in those states, and aired at a later date.
This episode did not air in South Australia due to staggered network schedule in that state, and aired at a later date.
See also
Gold Coast Cops
Territory Cops
Kalgoorlie Cops
References
External links
Catch Up on PLUS7, Yahoo!7
Australian factual television series
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
2015 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian reality television series
Television shows set in Sydney
Documentary television series about policing
Television series by Seven Productions
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGS%20%28TV%20series%29 | WAGS, also known as WAGS LA, is an American reality documentary television series that ran for three seasons on the E! television network. The reality show chronicles both the professional and personal lives of several WAGs (an acronym for wives and girlfriends of sportspersons).
The series had three spin-off shows, all on the E! network: WAGS Miami (2016-2017), which ran for two seasons, WAGS Atlanta (2018), which ran for one season, and Relatively Nat & Liv (2019), starring Olivia Pierson and Natalie Halcro of WAGS LA, which ran for one season.
Cast
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Sophia Pierson and Tia Shipman joined the cast of WAGs; North departed as a series regular.
Season 3 (2017)
Michelle Beltran, Amber Miller, and Dominique Penn joined the cast of WAGs; Pierson and Shipman departed as series regulars.
Broadcast
The eight-episode series premiered at 10:00PM ET in the United States on the E! cable network and airs weekly starting on August 18, 2015. The series has aired internationally, in Australia and New Zealand, the series premiered on the local version of E! on August 20, 2015.
Spin-offs
In May 2016, it was announced that WAGS would receive a spin-off, titled WAGS Miami. The series features wives and girlfriends of sports stars centered in Miami. The series premiered on October 2, 2016. On May 4, 2017, it was announced that a second spin-off, WAGS Atlanta, was in development with James DuBose serving as executive producer of the series.
Cancellation
On February 1, 2018, E! executives announced that WAGS LA and WAGS Miami were cancelled because of declining ratings.
See also
WAGS Atlanta
WAGs Boutique
WAGS Miami
WAG Nation
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2015 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
English-language television shows
E! original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf%20in%20the%20United%20States | Golf in the United States is played by about 25 million people, or 8% of the population.
Professional golf is aired on several television networks, such as Golf Channel, NBC, ESPN, TNT, CBS and Fox.
Organizations
USGA
The United States Golf Association has about 10,000 club members and courses. The organization is responsible of the Rules of Golf together with the British-based R&A.
The USGA conducts national championships open to professionals: the U.S. Open (since 1895), U.S. Women's Open (since 1946), U.S. Senior Open (since 1980), and U.S. Senior Women's Open (since 2018), as well as national championships for amateur, juniors, seniors and four-ball teams.
The USGA co-organizes the Walker Cup and Curtis Cup together with the respective British & Irish organizations, and competes at the Eisenhower Trophy and Espirito Santo Trophy, which are amateur tournaments for national teams. Also, the USGA gives the Bob Jones Award recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf since 1955.
PGA of America
The Professional Golfers' Association of America was founded in 1916 and has 28,000 club professional members. They organize three tournaments for tour players: the PGA Championship (since 1916), Senior PGA Championship (since 1937) and Women's PGA Championship (since 2015), as well as the PGA Professional National Championship (since 1968) for club players. The PGA of America also co-organizes the Ryder Cup and PGA Cup.
Professional tours
The PGA Tour is the main professional golf tour in the United States. It was established by the PGA of America in 1929 and was spun off in 1968.
Its calendar features the four major tournaments and World Golf Championships, but do not organize them. The PGA Tour organizes several tournaments, most notably The Players Championship and Tour Championship. In addition it co-organizes the biennial Presidents Cup.
The PGA Tour also operates other professional tours. The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour since 1990. PGA Tour Champions has been the main senior tour since 1980, and the PGA Tour organizes two of the five senior major championships: The Tradition and Senior Players Championship. The organization also operates tours in Canada, Latin America and China.
There is not a well defined third tier of golf tours in the United States. The larger regional tours include the Gateway Tour and Swing Thought Tour; there is a constantly changing roster of small "mini-tours".
The LPGA Tour is the main women's professional tour, founded in 1950. Its calendar features several major championships and national golf opens. It organizes several tournaments, including the ANA Inspiration, one of the major tournaments, and the CME Group Tour Championship. The LPGA Tour also co-organizes the biennial Solheim Cup. The Symetra Tour has been the official development tour of the LPGA Tour since 1999.
Media
Television
The current television partners of the PGA Tour are CBS, NBC and the Golf Channel. NBC also airs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDEA%20Nanoscience%20Institute | IMDEA Nanoscience Institute is a private non-profit foundation within the IMDEA Institutes network, created in 2006-2007 as a result of collaboration agreement between the Community of Madrid and Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. The foundation manages IMDEA-Nanoscience Institute, a scientific centre dedicated to front-line research in nanoscience, nanotechnology and molecular design and aiming at transferable innovations and close contact with industries. IMDEA Nanoscience is a member of the Campus of International excellence, a consortium of research institutes promoted by the Autonomous University of Madrid and Spanish National Research Council (UAM/CSIC).
Organization
The foundation is governed by the board of trustees, consisting of the representatives of the Institute Administration, involved universities, regional government, scientific experts and industrial collaborators. Scientific Advisory Committee consists of the leading experts in the field of nanoscience. From February 2007 Dr Rodolfo Miranda is the director of the Institute.
Research
Research at IMDEA Nanoscience is concentrated on developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology, combining the efforts of specialists in condensed matter physics, chemistry, computer modelling, spectroscopy, microscopy, surface sciences, molecular biology. One of the aims of the institute is to attract international scientists on a competitive basis, as well as raising new generations of Spanish scientists. More than 50 international and regional projects are run in parallel, including work on polymer solar cells, OLED, biosensors, lasers, drug delivery, bioimaging, etc., in 7 scientific programs:
Molecular nanoscience;
Scanning probe microscopies and surfaces;
Nanomagnetism;
Nanobiosystems: biomachines and manipulation of macromolecules;
Nanoelectronics and superconductivity;
Nanosurfaces and nanodevices;
Nanomedicine.
See also
IMDEA
References
External links
IMDEA Nanociencia presentation on VIMEO
Presentation of IMDEA Nanoscience by Dr Rodolfo Miranda
Research institutes in the Community of Madrid
Science and technology in Spain
Non-profit organisations based in Spain
2000s establishments in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20in%20Love%20with%20a%20Monster | "I'm in Love with a Monster" is a song recorded by American girl group Fifth Harmony for the 2015 computer animated fantasy-comedy film, Hotel Transylvania 2. It was written by Harmony Samuels, Carmen Reece, Sarah Mancuso, Edgar Etienne and Ericka Coulter with production handled by Samuels. It was released to digital retailers on August 14, 2015 through Epic Records and Syco Music and serviced to contemporary hit radio in the United States four days later on August 18. "I'm in Love with a Monster" is a pop song that blends elements of R&B, soul, and hip hop with "jazzy" rhythms along with heavy and funky beats. Critics drew comparisons to the musical style of girl groups such as The Supremes.
Lyrically, the track is about someone who is in love with a mischievous person, using "monster" as a hyperbole to describe their personality. The song failed to chart in domestic and international charts but did enter the Belgium charts, peaking at number 23. Its music video premiered at the Sony billboard in Times Square on August 27, 2015 and features the group dancing in front and inside a hotel with actors dressed as monsters, in reference to the song's addition in the movie. Each member played a character for this video. Live performances for this track included The Late Late Show, hosted by James Corden and a special radio performance at On Air with Ryan Seacrest.
The song was released to digital retailers as a single, and was later featured on the Japanese deluxe edition of the group's debut studio album, Reflection.
Recording and release
An announcement of the artist involved in the track for Hotel Transylvania 2 was first made public by Lia Vollack, president of Worldwide Music for Sony Pictures Animation, on June 16, 2015. When making the announcement at the press release, Vollack commented that there were "few groups out there" that could match the "incredibly fun feel" and the "animated vision" that Genndy Tartakovsky brought to the movie and stated that Fifth Harmony "knocked it out of the park." According to Vollack, the track was exactly what "we were hoping for." A preview of "I'm in Love with a Monster" was featured in a trailer for the movie which was released on June 17, 2015. The song was released for digital download on August 14. and serviced to contemporary hit radio four days later on August 18.
"I'm in Love with a Monster" was written by Harmony Samuels, Carmen Reece, Sarah Mancuso, Edgar Etienne and Ericka Coulter. Samuels also produced the track, as well as being responsible for trombones, drums, percussion, bass and vocal production. When speaking on working with group, Samuels, who previously worked on the Reflection track "Body Rock" stated that the girls knew how to "work among themselves" and made the production process "very easy". In other interviews, he called the group "mature" and that after several years recording music, they are "starting to explore their individualities", which was a goal producing this track.
Com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWE%20Media%20Networks | The BWE Media Networks, LLC. is the parent company of The BWE Television Network and The Los Angeles Television Festival.
The BWE Television Network
With an announced launch date of January 1, 2018, The BWE will premiere with several series from its production company The BWE Studios. "Hot Video Countdown" and "Lakeland", have both been announced.
Hot Video Countdown
The studio's flagship series is Hot Video Countdown, a daily music video countdown series. Viewers who vote online or text in their votes will see there favorite videos make the top 5 countdown of the day, in addition to celebrity interviews and live performances. The show is hosted by Josh Skinner (On Air with Ryan Seacrest), actress Brit Sheridan (Kate, Supernatural), actor and model Sam Sarpong and Deja Riley, daughter of music legend Teddy Riley. The series premieres October 2015.
Lakeland
Lakeland follows the lives of several diverse students attending Lakeland High School. The reality teen drama is a collaboration between the network and actor Michael Copon's production company, Michael Copon Studios.
The Los Angeles Television Festival
The Los Angeles Television Festival (LATF) is an annual festival that allows independent filmmakers and executives the opportunity to celebrate indie produced TV pilots. LATF is held at The Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles, CA inside partnering venues.
References
External links
The BWE Media Networks
Television broadcasting companies of the United States
Companies based in Virginia
Television production companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec | Word2vec is a technique for natural language processing (NLP) published in 2013. The word2vec algorithm uses a neural network model to learn word associations from a large corpus of text. Once trained, such a model can detect synonymous words or suggest additional words for a partial sentence. As the name implies, word2vec represents each distinct word with a particular list of numbers called a vector. The vectors are chosen carefully such that they capture the semantic and syntactic qualities of words; as such, a simple mathematical function (cosine similarity) can indicate the level of semantic similarity between the words represented by those vectors.
Approach
Word2vec is a group of related models that are used to produce word embeddings. These models are shallow, two-layer neural networks that are trained to reconstruct linguistic contexts of words. Word2vec takes as its input a large corpus of text and produces a vector space, typically of several hundred dimensions, with each unique word in the corpus being assigned a corresponding vector in the space.
Word2vec can utilize either of two model architectures to produce these distributed representations of words: continuously sliding bag-of-words (CBOW) or continuously sliding skip-gram. In both architectures, word2vec considers both individual words and a sliding context window as it iterates over the corpus.
The CBOW can be viewed as a ‘fill in the blank’ task, where the word embedding represents the way the word influences the relative probabilities of other words in the context window. Words which are semantically similar should influence these probabilities in similar ways, because semantically similar words should be used in similar contexts. The order of context words does not influence prediction (bag-of-words assumption).
In the continuous skip-gram architecture, the model uses the current word to predict the surrounding window of context words. The skip-gram architecture weighs nearby context words more heavily than more distant context words. According to the authors' note, CBOW is faster while skip-gram does a better job for infrequent words.
After the model has trained, the learned word embeddings are positioned in the vector space such that words that share common contexts in the corpus — that is, words that are semantically and syntactically similar — are located close to one another in the space. More dissimilar words are located farther from one another in the space.
History
In 2010, Tomáš Mikolov (then at Brno University of Technology) with co-authors applied a simple recurrent neural network with a single hidden layer to language modelling.
Word2vec was created, patented, and published in 2013 by a team of researchers led by Mikolov at Google over two papers. Other researchers helped analyse and explain the algorithm. Embedding vectors created using the Word2vec algorithm have some advantages compared to earlier algorithms such as latent semantic analysis.
By 2022, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Gren | Martin Gren (born September 15, 1962) is a Swedish entrepreneur and inventor of the first network camera.
In 1984, Gren founded Axis Communications, together with Mikael Karlsson and Keith Bloodworth, a company that initially developed and sold print servers, but which later came to be a world leader in network video. In 1996 Gren invented the first network camera, the AXIS 200, NetEye, together with Carl-Axel Alm.
Professional career
Martin Gren has had both executive and operational roles within Axis Communications, including as Chief Technology Officer of Axis Camera Division and Director of New Projects. He is currently a member of the board of the parent company Axis AB, and board member of Askero storybook Publishing Co., Eikos Corporation, Grenspecialisten AB, Handelsbolaget decade, H. Lundén Holding Ltd. and Tobii Technology AB.
Martin Gren has received numerous prizes including the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the security trade magazine Detektor in 2009.
References
American chief technology officers
1962 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20I | System I may refer to:
IBM System i, a series of computer systems
CCIR System I, an analogue broadcast television standard
See also
System One (disambiguation)
System 1 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko%20Asakawa | is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility. A Netscape browser plug-in she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available. She is the recipient of numerous industry and government awards.
Education and career
Asakawa was born with normal sight, but after she injured her optic nerve when she hit her left eye on the side of a swimming pool at age 11, she began losing her sight, and by age 14 she was fully blind. She earned a bachelor's degree in English literature at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka in 1982 and then began a two-year computer programming course for blind people using an Optacon to translate print to tactile sensation. She joined IBM Research with a temporary position in 1984, and became a permanent staff researcher there one year later. In 2004 she earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo.
Contributions
Asakawa's research projects have included developing a word processor for Braille documents, developing a digital library for Braille documents, developing an application to improve accessibility of streaming services, developing a Netscape browser plug-in that converted text to speech and provided a more convenient web navigation mechanism for blind people, and developing a system that would allow sighted web designers to experience the web as blind people. Her browser plugin became a 1997 IBM product, the IBM Home Page Reader, and within five years it had become the most widely used web-to-speech system available.
More recently her work has also studied accessible control of multimedia content, technological and social changes that would allow elderly people to work for more years before retiring, and the development of technology that would make the physical world more accessible to blind people. Currently, Asakawa has finished working on a lightweight suitcase robot helping blind people navigate through complicated terrain.
Awards and honors
Asakawa was added to the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2003.
She became an IBM Fellow, IBM's top honor for its employees, in 2009, becoming the fifth Japanese person and first Japanese woman with that honor. In 2011 the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology gave her their Women of Vision Award. She was a keynote speaker at the Fourth International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAIE 2012). In 2013 the Japanese government awarded her their Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon. A paper she wrote in 1998 with Takashi Itoh describing their work on web user interfaces for blind people was the winner of the 2013 ACM SIGACCESS Impact Award.
In 2017, she was elected as an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering for developing technologies for the visually impaired to access digital information.
References
External links
IBM employee profile
Living people
Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20of%20Dudley%27s%20Railway | The Earl of Dudley’s Railway or Pensnett Railway, was a railway that developed from a single line opened in 1829 to, at its maximum extent, a long network around the Earl of Dudley’s Iron Works at Round Oak near Brierley Hill.
History
Origins
In the 19th century, the Ward family, owners of Dudley Castle, had large holdings of land in the Black Country region of England. They had added to their possessions in the 18th century by the enclosure of Pensnett Chase which had formerly been common land and, much further back in time, a hunting ground for the Barons of Dudley. Much of this land covered coal seams and deposits of industrial material including iron ore and fire-clay. Canals had been cut into the Black Country region in the second half of the 18th century but not all were conveniently close to the mines of the Dudley Estate. It was therefore decided to construct a railway linking coal mines near Shut End to a purpose-built canal basin at Ashwood on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, a distance of around .
The Kingswinford Railway
An agreement to construct a rail line was signed in 1827 by James Foster, a local ironmaster, and Francis Downing, the mineral agent of John William Ward, the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward, soon to become the 1st Earl of Dudley. James Foster (1786-1853) controlled the company John Bradley & Co a large industrial concern that owned the Stourbridge Iron Works. In 1823 John Bradley & Co., had taken a lease of land at Shut End, Kingswinford from J.H.H. Foley. In addition to John Bradley & Co., James Foster was also involved with the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick and, in 1819, they formed the company Foster Rastrick & Co. Rastrick had experience of steam engine construction and railway engineering.
The line opened on 2 June 1829 with the steam locomotive Agenoria purpose-built to haul wagons of coal from pits to the canal basin. The railway crossed land either owned by the Dudley Estate or leased by James Foster. The line was known as the Kingswinford Railway although sometimes it was called the Shutt (or Shut) End Railway. It was a standard gauge line set on stone blocks. From the Ashwood canal basin, the line ran up an incline for around 500 yards before reaching a level section which extended for around 2 miles. The line then tilted upwards again for a second incline to the vicinity of Shut End. A short level section brought it to its termination at Corbyn's Hall collieries. Agenoria only had sufficient power to pull carriages along the level section of the line. The two inclines were worked by self-acting mechanisms where loaded coal wagons moving down the slope pulled empty wagons uphill. The locomotive, constructed by Foster Rastrick & Co of Stourbridge ran for in excess of three decades. After a period of neglect, it was eventually donated to the Science Museum in South Kensington in 1885 and is now on display at the National Railway Museum in York.
The Pensnett Railway
In 1843 a consultant, F. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CockroachDB | CockroachDB is a commercial distributed SQL database management system developed by Cockroach Labs.
History
Cockroach Labs was founded in 2015 by ex-Google employees Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell. Kimball and Mattis had been key members of the Google File System team, while Darnell was a key member of the Google Reader team.
While at Google, all three had used Google-owned DBMS’s Bigtable and its successor, Spanner. After leaving Google, they wanted to design and build something similar. Spencer Kimball wrote the first iteration of the design in January 2014, and began the open-source project on GitHub in February 2014, allowing outside access and contributions.
Development on GitHub attracted substantial contributions, which earned the project the Open Source Rookie of the Year award by Black Duck Software.
The co-founders actively supported the project with conferences, networking, meet-ups, and fund-raising financial rounds.
In June 2019, Cockroach Labs announced that CockroachDB would change its license from the free software license Apache License 2.0 to its source-available license, known as the Business Source License (BSL), which forbids “offer[ing] a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service without buying a license,” while remaining free for community use.
Features
CockroachDB stores copies of data in multiple locations to deliver speedy access.
It is described as a scalable, consistently-replicated, transactional data store. A single instance can scale from a single laptop to thousands of servers.
CockroachDB is designed to run in the cloud and has a high fault tolerance. According to popular news outlets, it is described as “almost impossible” to take down.
See also
Comparison of relational database management systems
List of tech companies in the New York metropolitan area
YugabyteDB
TiDB
References
External links
Cloud databases
Distributed computing
NewSQL
Software companies based in New York City
Software companies of the United States
Distributed data stores |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL%20network | The NPL network, or NPL Data Communications Network, was a local area computer network operated by a team from the National Physical Laboratory in London that pioneered the concept of packet switching.
Based on designs first conceived by Donald Davies in 1965, development work began in 1968. Elements of the first version of the network, the Mark I, became operational during 1969 then fully operational in January 1970, and the Mark II version operated from 1973 until 1986. The NPL network followed by the ARPANET in the United States were the first two computer networks that implemented packet switching and the NPL network was the first to use high-speed links. It was, along with the ARPANET project, laid down the technical foundations of modern internet.
Origins
In 1965, Donald Davies, who was later appointed to head of the NPL Division of Computer Science, proposed a commercial national data network based on packet switching in Proposal for the Development of a National Communications Service for On-line Data Processing. After the proposal was not taken up nationally, during 1966 he headed a team which produced a design for a local network to serve the needs of NPL and prove the feasibility of packet switching. The design was the first to describe the concept of an "Interface computer", today known as a router.
The next year, a written version of the proposal entitled NPL Data Network was presented by Roger Scantlebury at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. It described how computers (nodes) used to transmit signals (packets) would be connected by electrical links to re-transmit the signals between and to the nodes, and interface computers would be used to link node networks to so-called time-sharing computers and other users. The interface computers would transmit multiplex signals between networks, and nodes would switch transmissions while connected to electrical circuitry functioning at a rate of processing amounting to mega-bits. In Scantlebury's report following the conference, he noted "It would appear that the ideas in the NPL paper at the moment are more advanced than any proposed in the USA".
Larry Roberts incorporated these concepts into the design for the ARPANET. The NPL network initially proposed a line speed of 768 kbit/s. Influenced by this, the planned line speed for ARPANET was upgraded from 2.4 kbit/s to 50 kbit/s and a similar packet format adopted.
Packet switching
The first theoretical foundation of packet switching was the work of Paul Baran, in which data was transmitted in small chunks and routed independently by a method similar to store-and-forward techniques between intermediate networking nodes. Davies independently arrived at the same model in 1965 and named it packet switching. He chose the term "packet" after consulting with an NPL linguist because it was capable of being translated into languages other than English without compromise. Davies gave the first public presentation of packet switching |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Forest%20History%20Society | The Australian Forest History Society is a network of people interested in the history of Australia's forests and woodlands. It was formed in 1988 and was formally incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) on 27 May 1998. The Society membership stood at about 90 in 2014. It produces a newsletter three times a year and a national conference every 3–4 years. For example, the 2015 conference focused on social and environmental history of planted forests, and the role of Australian species planted overseas.
The Society is in contact with other international forestry organizations such as the Forest History Unit of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and is a member of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO).
ACT forester John Dargavel was instrumental in establishing the organization after a number of papers presenters at a conference in Canberra in May 1988, resolved that "...an Australian Forest History Society should be established, with the aim to advance historical understanding of human interaction with Australian forest and woodland".
References
External links
Publications downloads
Non-profit organisations based in the Australian Capital Territory
Historical societies of Australia
1988 establishments in Australia
Forestry in Australia
Forest history
Environmental history of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Database%20on%20Designated%20Areas | The Common Database on Designated Areas or CDDA is a data bank for officially designated protected areas such as nature reserves, protected landscapes, national parks etc. in Europe.
The data bank, which went live in 1999, is a community project of the European Environment Agency (EEA) of the Council of Europe and the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).
The data bank is divided into a national area and an international area. The national area is for member states of the EU or EEA about the European Environment Information and Observation Network or EIONET. Data cleansing for the national area of non-EEA members and the international area is carried out by UNEP-WCMC systems.
The data bank follows the system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the standards of the United Nations in order to ensure compatibility with similar data banks worldwide, especially the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA).
The data bank can be accessed from the Internet using the website of the European Nature Information System (EUNIS).
To date, true marine protected areas such as the Marine Protected Areas in the Atlantic Arc (MAIA) have not been included in the data bank. This is being pursued.
References
Databases in Europe
Environmental policy
Protected areas of Europe
European Union and the environment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Decisions | Super Decisions is decision-making software which works based on two multi-criteria decision making methods.
Super Decisions implements the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP).
It has been used in many research and practical fields such as manufacturing, environmental management, aviation, small hydropower plants and agriculture.
References
Decision-making software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20%28Spanish%20TV%20channel%29 | Mega is a Spanish television channel owned by Atresmedia. Its programming is aimed towards a male audience.
The network is available on digital terrestrial television (TDT as it is known in Spain) as well as cable and satellite.
History
On May 6, 2014, Atresmedia was forced to close Nitro, Xplora and la Sexta 3 channels due to a supreme court ruling, so the programming aimed at the male audience had to be placed on other group channels such as Neox or LaSexta. After this event, Atresmedia sought to recover the license that was leased to Gol Televisión, setting the end of 2015 as a limit.
In May 2015, Atresmedia and Mediapro signed the rescission of the frequency rental agreement, since Mediapro would launch a new channel in association with BeIn Sports, so Gol Televisión would stop broadcasting. During June 2015, Gol Televisión broadcast free-to-air for a few hours to promote the new channel, ending its broadcasts on June 30, which also meant the end of pay DTT in Spain.
After recovering the frequency, Atresmedia announced that the new channel would be called Mega, finally, the channel began broadcasting on July 1, 2015.
Programming
Mega's programming is aimed at a male audience, including series, action movies, factuals, documentaries and reality television, as well as sports talk shows such as El Chiringuito de Jugones and the retransmission of programs that had been broadcast on Antena 3 and La Sexta. Most of the documentaries, factuals and reality shows broadcast on Mega are produced by The History Channel.
References
External links
Official website
Television stations in Spain
Atresmedia Televisión
RTL Group
Men's interest channels
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2015
2015 establishments in Spain
Atresmedia channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilma%20Da%20Silva | Dilma Menezes Da Silva is a Brazilian-American systems software researcher known for her work in cloud computing. She holds the Ford Motor Company Design Professorship II at Texas A&M University, and is head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M.
Biography
Da Silva earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of São Paulo in 1986 and 1990 respectively. She completed her doctorate in 1997 from the Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Karsten Schwan. She returned to the University of São Paulo as a senior lecturer in 1995, and on completion of her doctorate became an assistant professor there. In 2000 she moved to IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where she worked as a research staff member in IBM's Advanced Operating System Group. At IBM, her contributions included work on the file system of the K42 experimental operating system. In 2012 she moved to Qualcomm's Silicon Valley Research Center. At Qualcomm, her work was centered on cloud computing. In 2014 she returned to academia as the Ford Professor at Texas A&M, and as the new head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Awards
Da Silva became a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2011.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brazilian computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Brazilian women computer scientists
Brazilian emigrants to the United States
University of São Paulo alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
Texas A&M University faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20in%20Mexico | Radio in Mexico is a mass medium with 98 percent national penetration and a wider diversity of owners and programming than on television. In a model similar to that of radio in the United States, Mexican radio in its history has been largely commercial, but with a strong state presence and a rising number of noncommercial stations in the 2000s and early 2010s. In August 2015, there were 1,999 legal radio stations, almost 75 percent of them on the FM band.
History
The 1920s: Pioneers and establishment
Radio was not invented in Mexico declares PhD Elizabeth Rodríguez Montiel.
The first transmission of the First Radio Station in Mexico was on October 9, 1921, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The Electrical Engineer Constantino de Tarnava who previously had made experimental transmissions since 1919 made the first Broadcast service in Mexico under the call sign TND. He himself announced this indicative in order to honor the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Tarnava Notre Dame got in 1929 the call signs XEH and this radio station operates until today (2021).
Besides this fact, the development of Mexican radio would take place simultaneously in various cities around the country, as opposed to the rather centralized, Mexico City-based development of television. One of the first radio transmissions (not Broadcast Service but radio telephone and radiotelegraph stations) it seems to be taken in 1921 as well. This as part of celebrations of the centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Córdoba, which formalized Mexican independence. On September 27, 1921, during the Centennial International Commercial Exposition in Mexico City, a small radio station (telephone station) was set up by the government and run by Agustín Flores, an inspector in the General Directorate of Telegraphy. That same night, the Gómez Fernández brothers mounted their first radio transmissions, also in Mexico City; their station, with 20 watts power, would operate until January 1922, with programs of one hour on Saturday and Sunday.
As written before, Constantino de Tárnava, a ham radio operator in Monterrey, Nuevo León, began in October 9th 1921, regular transmissions of a station he called TND (Tárnava Notre Dame); de Tárnava would later own XEH-AM, one of Nuevo León's first licensed radio stations. The next year, radio stations would begin operations in Mexico City, Pachuca, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Morelia, San Luis Potosí, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, and Ciudad Juárez. Also in 1922, the National Radio League (Liga Nacional de Radio), the first radio association in Mexico, was formed.
On May 8, 1923, the station "El Universal/La Casa del Radio" (later CYL) came to air in Mexico City with 50 watts of power. The station was co-owned by the El Universal newspaper and Raúl Azcárraga, owner of the La Casa del Radio chain of radio stores. Andrés Segovia and Manuel Ponce were among the luminaries present at the station's formal inauguration that evening. That September, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Jr.%20Channel | The Nick Jr. Channel (sometimes shortened to Nick Jr.) is an American pay television channel spun off from Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. programming block. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Group. The channel launched on September 28, 2009, replacing Noggin. The channel primarily targets preschoolers and toddlers ages 2 to 6 years old. Its lineup features a mix of originally-produced programming, along with series from the Nickelodeon weekday block; to avoid confusion between the two different entities, the separate channel has been identified on-air as the "Nick Jr. Channel" since March 2018 to the present day for promos and until September 2023 for the on-screen graphic.
The channel replaced Noggin, which was relaunched as a streaming service in 2015 and acts as a separate sister brand. Noggin's programming is distinct from the Nick Jr. channel's: it mainly carried pre-teen-oriented programs at its launch, and its 2015 streaming service features a variety of exclusive series. From May 2021 to March 2022, the Nick Jr. channel aired an hour-long block of programming from the Noggin app every Friday. The block, titled "Noggin Hour," featured shows such as Noggin Knows and Kinderwood.
The Nick Jr. channel and the Nick Jr. block are both currently running. The latter airs weekdays on Nickelodeon from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET (those hours vary during the summer months, other school break periods and on major national holidays), having traditional commercial breaks for certain programs. As of September 2018, Nick Jr. is available to approximately 70.310 million pay television households in the United States.
History
Nick Jr. block (1988–present)
Since its inception in 1977, Nickelodeon's channel space had aired preschool-oriented programs, including Pinwheel, which was their first original series. These were usually played on weekday mornings when older children were in school and younger children were not. This block ran from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. On January 4, 1988, Nickelodeon debuted a name for its preschool block: Nick Junior. Between September 1988 and mid-1989, the name was shortened to Nick Jr. on-air.
At launch, the block mostly showed imported series purchased from other companies. Eureeka's Castle was the first original series that Nickelodeon made for the block. Brown Johnson, the former vice president of Nick Jr., stated in a 2000 interview that after Eureeka ended production, Nick Jr. became "a neglected daypart" compared to the main Nickelodeon. "Without the investment of energy or money, the block floundered until 1994 when the network poured $30 million into a full-scale relaunch," said Johnson.
On September 5, 1994, the Nick Jr. block began its relaunch and introduced Face, its first host and no longer ran commercial breaks as intermissions during shows. Gullah Gullah Island and Allegra's Window, the second and third original series made for Nick Jr., premiered. They resulted in 50% rating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber-Forensics%20and%20Training%20Alliance | The National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance or NCFTA established in 2002 in Pittsburgh is an American non-profit corporation focused on identifying, mitigating, and neutralizing cyber crime threats through strategic alliances and partnerships with subject matter experts (SME) in the public, private, and academic sectors.
The organisation has been involved in many high-profile operations such as take down of the carding site DarkMarket in 2008 and the hacker forum Darkode in 2015.
References
External links
Non-profit organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival%20Cravings | Carnival Cravings (also known as Carnival Cravings with Anthony Anderson) is an American television series on Food Network about unique food found at American carnivals. The series features actor/host Anthony Anderson as he samples culinary creations only available at carnivals, fairs and festivals around the country. The show premiered on August 12, 2015 and airs on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. EDT.
Premise
Opening Introduction: (narrated by Anthony Anderson)
Episodes
References
External links
Official website
Food Network original programming
2015 American television series debuts |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.