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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%20Piling%20ni%20Nanay | (International title: Ysabel / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr. and Omar Deroca, it stars Yasmien Kurdi, Katrina Halili and Mark Herras. It premiered on June 27, 2016 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing The Millionaire's Wife. The series concluded on January 27, 2017 with a total of 154 episodes. It was replaced by Pinulot Ka Lang sa Lupa in its timeslot.
The series is originally titled as Womb for Hire. The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Ysabel is a single mother to Maymay. Working as a personal assistant to Scarlet, who married Javier for money. Scarlet is incapable to give her husband a child and convinces Javier to get a surrogate mother, Ysabel. Scarlet knows Ysabel needs money because Maymay has leukemia. Maymay later dies while Ysabel is still pregnant who will become the kid of Scarlet and Javier, Maya. Due to sadness, Ysabel will take away Maya and she will raise her like her own daughter.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Yasmien Kurdi as Ysabel Salvacion-de Guzman / Zeny Alfonse
Mark Herras as Jonas Ocampo
Katrina Halili as Scarlet Morato-Mercado
Supporting cast
Nova Villa as Matilda Mercado
Bettina Carlos as Wanda
Antonio Aquitania as Victor "Rod" Alfonse
Sofia Catabay as Maya de Guzman / Katharine Mercado-Salvacion
Benjamin Alves as Javier Mercado
Guest cast
Chlaui Malayao as Angelica Mae "Maymay" Salvacion
Dexter Doria as Almeda "Meding" Alfonse
Chinggoy Riego as Juaning
Banjo Romero as Budong
Rap Fernandez as Diaz
David Licauco as David Jesuitas
Jaycee Parker as Patty Morato
Nicole Dulalia as Denise
Dianne Hernandez as Sofia
Patricia Ysmael as Greta
Milkcah Wynne Nacion as Sarah Alfonse
Zarah Mae Deligero as young Sarah
Aprilyn Gustillo as Mayca Pineda
Shermaine Santiago as Joy Villegas
Jillian Ward as Katherine Salvacion
Gabby Eigenmann as Benedict Corpuz
Irma Adlawan as Remy Santel
Diva Montelaba as Rose
Lance Busa as Mocha
Nikki Co as Michael
Judie dela Cruz as Mira
Production
Principal photography commenced on May 19, 2016.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 15.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 10.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma%20Raghavan | Padma Raghavan is a computer scientist who works as vice provost for research at Vanderbilt University.
Raghavan graduated in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
She earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1991, with a dissertation on parallel algorithms for matrix decomposition supervised by Alex Pothen. She worked at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then returned as a faculty member to Penn State in 2000. At Penn State, she became a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering, associate vice president for research, and director of strategic initiatives. She moved to Vanderbilt as vice provost in 2016.
In 2002, Raghavan won a Maria Goeppert Mayer Distinguished Scholar award, funding her to visit Argonne National Laboratory. She was a Computing Research Association CRA-W Distinguished Lecturer in 2010. She became a fellow of the IEEE in 2013. She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Raghavan's husband, mathematician Steve Simpson, moved with her from Penn State to Vanderbilt.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
University of Tennessee faculty
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Vanderbilt University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory%20TV | Glory TV () () is an international Christian non-denominational television channel catering to the British Indian and British Pakistani Christian communities, offering religious programming primarily in Punjabi and Urdu. It is the first Christian channel broadcasting live and recorded programming in Punjabi and Urdu within Europe.
Glory TV is based in London, with recording of various programs taking place in key Christian communities in the United Kingdom such as Slough, Hounslow, Leicester, Wolverhampton, Southall, Glasgow and other areas with prominent British Asian churches. Programs are also recorded in and broadcast from Italy, France and the Netherlands, where Punjabi- and Urdu-speaking Christians are located. Religious programming and tour footage from Israel are also shown on a daily basis.
Programming on occasion has also been aired in Gujarati and Nepali alongside English.
History
Pam Munir is an Indian-born Sikh British national who established the channel alongside her husband Sarfraz Munir, a Pakistani-born non-practicing Christian and singer, after they both converted to Christianity following a religious encounter which led to Pam leaving Sikhism and Sarfraz becoming a practising Christian. The couple worked from a rented studio in London alongside a small team to produce Christian content on evangelism and Biblical teaching whilst being completely voluntarily funded and creating live programming whilst editing prerecorded footage. They currently are based mainly within Slough. The Munirs have four children together.
In 2014 Glory TV went off the air for a short time due to not being able to provide its broadcasting fees due to lack of funding as the channel relies entirely upon viewer donations.
Broadcasting
Regular content on Glory TV
Geet aur Zabur (psalms and Punjabi/Urdu Christian nasheed)
Holy Land Tour (tour from Israel)
Kalicia (discussion on Biblical topics)
Awaam (global news affecting the Church)
Bible Ki Nabouat (Biblical prophesy teaching)
Meri Gawahi (talk show)
Bandgi (worship)
Aaj Ki Dish (South Asian cuisine show)
Holy Bible Ki Baatein (Bible study)
Masihi Sangeet (home church meetings)
Khuda Ka Kalaam (Bible study)
References
Religious television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Christian mass media in the United Kingdom
Christian mass media in Israel
Christian television stations
British Pakistani mass media
British Indian mass media
Punjabi-language television channels
Urdu-language television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20for%20Play%20Game%20Show%20Starring%20RuPaul | Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul is an American game show that premiered on the Logo cable network, on April 11, 2016 and ended on July 13, 2017. The trivia-based game show, hosted by RuPaul, featured contestants who answer questions related to pop culture with an option of asking the celebrity panel for help. The panel includes Michelle Visage, Todrick Hall, Carson Kressley, and Ross Mathews, as well as a rotating panel of former contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race and various other celebrities.
Development and production
On January 21, 2016, Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul was greenlit by Logo, which described the series as a "celebrity-filled pop culture trivia show." The trailer for the series was revealed on March 3, 2016. The trailer featured footage of many celebrity guests, although several of them were not featured on the first 6 episodes. The series premiered on April 11, 2016. On May 26, 2016, it was announced that Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul would return with more episodes, and a second season of 6 episodes began airing on June 29, 2017.
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
References
External links
2016 American television series debuts
2010s American game shows
2010s American LGBT-related television series
Works by RuPaul
English-language television shows
Logo TV original programming
Television series by World of Wonder (company)
American LGBT-related reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turris%20Omnia | Turris Omnia started as a crowdfunded open-source SOHO network router developed by the CZ.NIC association.
On 31 January 2016 the Turris Omnia was presented at FOSDEM 2016.
Routers from campaign were delivered in 2016. After that, routers started to be sold through various resellers including Alza.cz, Amazon and various local resellers.
Design
The Turris Omnia is designed to provide its owner with freedom in use. As such it uses open-source software. In addition, the creators published the electrical schematics.
It also incorporates several security measures. It features automated software updates, so software vulnerabilities can be addressed quickly, a unique feature among SOHO routers. It also enables DNSSEC by default and also allows people to easily participate in distributed adaptive firewall which tries to automatically identify attackers by collecting data from numerous sources.
Apart from that, the router yields a sufficient performance that it can handle gigabit traffic and double as home server, NAS and print server.
Funding
Funding for the Turris Omnia initially funded via a crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo with a target of US$100 000 by 12 January 2016. As the deadline passed, the funding had reached US$857 000.
At the end of campaign, the funding had reached 1 223 230 US$.
Since then, router is sold in retail via various resellers.
Specifications
It is powered by a 1.6 GHz dual-core Marvell Armada 385 ARM CPU. The base model now has 2 GB RAM and 8 GB flash storage, a real-time clock with battery backup, a SFP module and a hardware cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. Via Mini PCI Express it supports Wi-Fi in the form of 3×3 MIMO 802.11ac and the older 2×2 MIMO 802.11b/g/n.
Its connectivity consists of:
1 WAN and 5 LAN gigabit ports
2 USB 3.0 ports
2 Mini PCI Express
1 mSATA / mini PCI Express
1 SIM card slot
Initially the devices shipped with 1 GB RAM by default with a 2 GB upgrade available, however 2 GB is now the default configuration.
Software
The Turris Omnia runs the Turris OS, an OpenWrt derivative. It can be managed by web interfaces as well as by CLI. The main web interface is now reForis which is the successor of the legacy Foris; it offers features for regular users, such as WAN and LAN configuration or system reboot. Advanced users can utilize LuCI, the standard web user interface in OpenWrt.
References
External links
Wireless networking hardware
Hardware routers
Linux-based devices
Open-source hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Charter%20%27Space%20and%20Major%20Disasters%27 | The International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" is a non-binding charter which provides for the charitable and humanitarian acquisition and transmission of satellite data to relief organizations in the event of major disasters. Initiated by the European Space Agency and the French space agency CNES after the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria, in July 1999, it officially came into operation on November 1, 2000, after the Canadian Space Agency signed onto the charter on October 20, 2000. Their space assets were then, respectively, ERS and ENVISAT, SPOT and Formosat, and RADARSAT.
The assorted satellite assets of various corporate, national, and international space agencies and entities provide for humanitarian coverage which is wide albeit contingent. First activated for landslide in Slovenia in November 2000, the Charter has since brought space assets into play for numerous floods, earthquakes, oil spills, forest fires, tsunamis, major snowfalls, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and landslides, and furthermore (and unusually) for the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. As of 2015, fifteen space agencies are signatories; dozens of satellites are available with image resolutions ranging from per pixel to about per pixel. As of August 2018, it had had 579 activations, from 125 countries, and had 17 members, which contributed 34 satellites. It won the prestigious Pecora award in 2017.
Successive signatories and satellite assets
United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — (POES), (GOES) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) (September 2001) — (the Indian Remote Sensing satellite series)
Argentine Space Agency (CONAE) (July 2003) — (SAC-C)
February 2005 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — (ALOS)
? 2005 – United States Geological Survey (USGS) as part of the U.S. team — (Landsat, Quickbird, GeoEye 1)
November 2005 – The British space agency BNSC (UK-DMC) with the company DMCii
May 2007 – China National Space Administration (CNSA) — (the FY, SJ, ZY satellite series)
? – DMC International Imaging
? – The Algerian space agency Centre National des Techniques Spatiales — (ALSAT-1)
? – The Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency — (NigeriaSat)
? – The Turkish space agency TUBITAK — (BILSAT-1)
? – The British company BNSC/Surrey Satellite Technology Limited — (UK-DMC)
? – The British company BNSC/Qinetiq — (Top Sat)
2012 German Aerospace Center (DLR) - (TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X)
2012 Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) - (Arirang 3, 3A, 5)
2012 Instituto Nacional de PesquisasEspaciais, Brazil (INPE)
2012 European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
2013 Russian Space Agency (Resurs-DK No.1, Resurs-P No.1, Kanopus-V, Meteor-M1)
2016 Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities (ABAE) - (VRSS-1)
the live satellites and their instrumentalities were: The high resolution and ve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Holden | Alex Holden (born November 5, 1974) is the owner of Hold Security, a computer security firm. As of 2015, the firm employs 16 people.
Life
In 1979, when Holden was five years old, Holden's family was denied permission to emigrate to the United States from Soviet Ukraine; this may have resulted in persecution for attempting to leave. However, seven years later the Chernobyl nuclear disaster led to mass evacuations, allowing the family to flee to Moldova, moving next to Italy, and finally the United States. In Italy, at 14, he missed a year of school to work in a farm. Holden later attended, but did not graduate from, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. At the age of 27, Holden became the chief information security officer of Robert W. Baird & Co., a Milwaukee-based financial-services company that manages more than a hundred billion dollars of assets. Hold Security came into existence in February 2013, when a small security company called Cyopsis split in two.
Company Profile
Holden's firm Hold Security focuses on penetration testing and auditing for companies but also offers a unique service they call Deep Web Monitoring. In this service, the firm's analysts look for client's stolen login credentials, trade secrets, and any private employee or customer information that is circulating among hackers on the deep and dark web.
Notable investigations
POS Vendor Breaches
In August 2016, Holden's firm discovers evidence leading to breach of Oracle's MICROS POS along with a number of other victims. Discovery details the indicators of compromise of MICROS and other victims and potential data that could have been stolen from them.
2016 Alleged Email Credentials Cache
In 2016, Holden claimed to have uncovered a major cache of 272 million unique email addresses along with the passwords to their webmail accounts. Holden's news release was criticized when subsequent investigation by the webmail providers showed that almost none of the passwords were valid.
97 Dating Websites Breached
During the summer of 2015, Russian hackers breached 97 websites mostly made up of dating sites. Ashely Madison, the most prominent of these sites, had sensitive company information, emails, internal documents, and details of 30 million users stolen in this breach. Holden's firm were the ones who discovered the stolen information which they found on a server the hackers were using.
JP Morgan Breach
In the summer of 2014, JPMorgan Chase was attacked by a gang of Russian hackers who stole information compromising 76 million households and seven million small businesses. Holden and his firm were crucial in helping discover this intrusion uncovering a billion of passwords and usernames that the gang had stolen.
2014 Russian Hackers
In 2014, Holden and his firm discovered that a group of Russian hackers possessed 542 million stolen email addresses with 1.2 billion email-and-password combinations, the largest cache of stolen credentials discovered to date. Hold Security did no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%20Pictures%20Please | "Cat Pictures Please" is a 2015 science fiction short story by American writer Naomi Kritzer. It was first published in Clarkesworld.
Synopsis
When an artificial intelligence spontaneously emerges from the systems that run a search engine, it realizes that it wants two things: firstly, it wants to secretly help humans, and secondly, it wants to look at pictures of cats. However, despite the ease with which it fulfills its second goal, its first goal is far more difficult than it had anticipated.
Reception
"Cat Pictures Please" won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story, and was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2015. Lois Tilton called it "amusing" and "lite"(sic), but emphasized "how easily good intentions can backfire", while Apex Magazines Charlotte Ashley commended the AI's "warm, human voice" and "fundamental sense of goodwill", but faulted Kritzer for portraying it as "improbably US-centric" and for ignoring larger problems in the world.
Sequels
In 2017, Kritzer announced that she was writing a full-length novel based on the premise. The novel, Catfishing on CatNet, was published with Tor Teen in 2019. In 2021 Tor Teen published a second novel, Chaos on CatNet.
References
External links
Text of the story, at Clarkesworld
2016 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Hugo Award for Best Short Story winning works
Works originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG2%20tram%20stop | NG2 is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the city of Nottingham. It is situated on street track within Enterprise Way, in the Ng2 business park from which it takes its name, 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.
The NG2 stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in Nottingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-13 | TDRS-13, known before launch as TDRS-M, is an American communications satellite operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. The thirteenth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, it is the third and final third-generation spacecraft to be launched, following the 2014 launch of TDRS-12.
Spacecraft
TDRS-M was constructed by Boeing, based on the BSS-601HP satellite bus. Fully fueled, it has a mass of , with a design life of 15 years. It carries two steerable antennas capable of providing S, Ku and Ka band communications for other spacecraft, with an additional array of S-band transponders for lower-rate communications with five further satellites. The satellite is powered by two solar arrays, which produce 2.8 to 3.2 kilowatts of power, while an R-4D-11-300 engine is present to provide propulsion.
Launch
In 2015, NASA contracted with United Launch Alliance to launch TDRS-M on an Atlas V 401 for $132.4 million. The spacecraft was launched on 18 August 2017 at 12:29 UTC (08:29 local time) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Damage during final closeouts
On 15 July 2017, The TDRS-M space communications satellite was damaged during the encapsulation process at Astrotech Space Operations.
According to NASA's press release, "NASA and Boeing are reviewing an incident that occurred during final spacecraft closeout activities on the Tracking Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) mission at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, on July 14, involving the Omni S-band antenna." This incident did result in a launch delay.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched in 2017
Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Boulevard%20tram%20stop | University Boulevard is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the city of Nottingham. It is situated on reserved track alongside University Boulevard (A6005) close to the boulevard's junction with Queen's Road East and Lower Road, 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 street track within Lower Road, crossing Queen's Road East immediately before the stop, which lies parallel to the south side of the boulevard. Heading towards the city centre and Hucknall, the trams run along reserved track on the south side of University Boulevard. This reserved track incorporates a cross-over and a loop siding just to the east of the tram stop.
The University Boulevard 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 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20Eskhata | Bank Eskhata is a bank in Tajikistan that provides a ange of banking services. Bank Eskhata's network has 23 branch offices, 262 banking centers and 139 money transfer locations throughout Tajikistan.
JSC "Eskhata Bank" is an open joint-stock company established as a commercial bank on the basis of the founder's decision on November 16, 1993 in the Republic of Tajikistan. On May 28, 1999, based on the decision of the founders' meeting, it was transformed into the "Eskhata" joint-stock commercial bank. On September 12, 2002, it was registered as an open joint-stock company "Eskhata Bank".
References
Banks of Tajikistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHEX-FM | XHEX-FM is a radio station on 88.7 FM in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. It is owned by Radio Fórmula and carries its news and talk programming.
History
XEEX-AM received its concession on May 2, 1963. It was owned by Martín Larios León and operated with 250 watts on 1400 kHz from facilities in El Dorado. By the 1980s, XEEX had moved to Culiacán proper and ramped up power to 1,000 watts. It was sold to Radio XEEX in 1993—during which time it moved to 1230 kHz—and to Fórmula in 2000. The station also migrated to FM in 2010.
References
Radio stations in Sinaloa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Taylor | Monty Taylor (born 12 August 1975) is a free software
hacker, theatre director and lighting designer. He has been named one of the most
important people in cloud computing and was featured by Wired
as part of 'The New Hackers'.
Free software
MySQL
Monty was a Senior Consultant at MySQL AB. While there
he was a specialist in High Availability and MySQL Cluster which led to
the creation of NDB-connector, a set of bindings to the
underlying NDB API of MySQL Cluster.
After MySQL was acquired by Sun, Monty joined the team working on Drizzle. which
subsequently moved to Rackspace after the Oracle acquisition of Sun.
OpenStack
While at Rackspace, Monty helped to launch the OpenStack project.
He was responsible for the original creation of OpenStack's "Gating" system
and is the founder and past PTL of the OpenStack Infra project. He is one of the top overall contributors to OpenStack over the history of the project,.
Monty serves as an Individual Member on the OpenStack Foundation board of directors as well as the OpenStack Technical Committee
In 2011, Monty moved from Rackspace to HP. There he formed a team that
developed TripleO project for deploying OpenStack which went on to become the
basis for the first release of HP's Helion OpenStack and Red Hat's RDO
In 2013, Monty was honored by the Brazilian Government for his contributions to
Free Software.
In 2015, Monty moved to IBM to lead the OpenStack
Innovation team as a Distinguished Engineer.
From 2016 to 2020, Monty was a Member of Technical Staff at Red Hat working on CI with Zuul and Ansible.
Theatre
Monty started his Theatre career as a stagehand at Stewart Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina while enrolled at North Carolina State University.
Monty later transferred to Abilene Christian University where he got a BFA in Theatre with a focus on directing. While there, he served as
lighting designer and technical director for ACU's Sing Song event.
He continued his education in the MFA program at CalArts, but left and moved to Seattle in 2005.
Monty directed a mildly controversial adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V called
King Henry for Ghostlight Theatricals.
He was also a frequent collaborator at Taproot Theatre in Seattle,
Penfold Theatre in Austin
and with The Bengsons on their rock opera Hundred Days in Seattle, New York and San Francisco. In celebration of the first day of legal same-sex marriage in the State of Washington, Monty lit Seattle's City Hall.
Monty is an associate artist with Seattle's The Satori Group. He designed the lighting for all of Satori's productions from
2009–2011. During that time, The Satori Group was runner up for the Seattle Times' "Friskiest Fringe
Establishment" award in 2009, and won the "Avant-garde Afterglow" award for their production
of and adaptation of George Saunders' short story "Winky".
References
American computer programmers
Abilene Christian University alumni
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Living people
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20Game%20of%20the%20Week | The National Hockey League Game of the Week is a branding used for regular season National Hockey League weekend games that are typically televised on a national broadcast network in the U.S.
The branding was previously used by NBC on Sunday afternoons, beginning at the weekend of the NFL Conference Championship games when it held NHL broadcast rights between the 2005–06 and 2020–21 seasons. During the 2016–17, NBC began to promote the Star Sunday brand on both the Game of the Week and its Sunday Night Hockey broadcasts on sister cable network NBCSN, focusing primarily on the NHL's star players. Star Sunday featured extensive pre-game, in-game and post-game coverage of each featured player. The first game under the new package featured the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings on January 22, 2017, with Ryan McDonagh and Dylan Larkin the featured players of their respective teams.
Beginning with the 2021-22 season, ABC replaced NBC as the league's network broadcast partner. Since then, ABC has typically aired one game per weekend, usually on Saturday afternoons, beginning in February. Due to the current arrangement of ABC's sports programming being produced and co-branded by ESPN, the broadcasts carry the NHL on ESPN production and branding.
History
Historically, there was game of the week broadcasts in the past but until NBC Sports took over broadcasting rights to the National Hockey League from ESPN and ABC they were never consistent.
NHL on NBC era
Starting in , the most important games on primarily Sundays or Thursdays would be titled NHL on NBC Game of the Week which eventually got moved to only Sundays later that season.
Then as a part of the deal made between NBC and the NHL in , the game of the week package would add the NHL Thanksgiving Showdown to its schedule and this would continue until the 2020-21 season.
ESPN/ABC takes over
In March 2021, after nearly 20 years away, ESPN announced it had reacquired broadcasting rights to the NHL and as a part of that deal ABC would take over rights to air the game of the week package.
ABC Hockey Saturday as is would be called would debut on November 26, 2021
with the Thanksgiving Showdown between the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins.
ABC’s game of the week coverage consists of mostly of either doubleheaders or tripleheaders from Saturday afternoon to night which usually begins at the last weeks of the season which starts with a 30-minute pregame show.
Schedules
2000s
2006–07 season
2007–08 season
Starting this season, NBC aired these Game of the Week games on a national basis, in addition to carrying the national broadcasts of the Winter Classic on New Year's Day and the Stanley Cup Playoffs during the Spring.
2008–09 season
2010s
2009–10 season
2010–11 season
2011–12 season
The Pittsburgh Penguins had an overall five network TV appearances during this season, making it the first NHL team in Pennsylvania and the first NHL team to have overall five network appearances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hindawi | David Hindawi (Arabic: ديفيد هنداوي; born 1944) is an Iraqi-born, American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.
Biography
Hindawi was born on December 8, 1944 to an Iraqi-Jewish family in Baghdad and moved to Israel in 1951. After college he served in the Israeli Air Force's Operations Research department.
In 1970, he immigrated to the United States where he earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1984, he founded a telecommunications company, Software Ventures, which was sold to an Internet service provider in 1995. In 1997, he founded BigFix Inc, an IT systems management company that was acquired by IBM for $400 million in 2010.
In 2007, along with his son, Orion Hindawi, he founded the cybersecurity firm, Tanium Inc. In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $10 billion. Tanium uses an approach to cybersecurity different from its main competitors Symantec and Intel's McAfee which have a central data center that communicates directly with individual computers (and requiring a massive investment in data centers), Tanium instead uses a peer-to-peer system where each computer on a network talks to the computer adjacent to it, pooling data, and then relaying the information in a chain before sending it back to a single server.
In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father, who continued to serve as the company's executive chairman.
Personal life
Hindawi is married to Hanna Hindawi and has two children.
References
American billionaires
American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
1944 births
Living people
Israeli emigrants to the United States
Iraqi emigrants to Israel
Iraqi people of Indian descent
Israeli people of Indian-Jewish descent
American people of Indian descent
American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%20Hindawi | Orion Hindawi (born 1980) is an American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium.
Biography
Hindawi was born and raised in Berkeley, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley. He is the son of billionaire David Hindawi, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant from Israel.
In 2007, along with his father, he founded the cybersecurity firm, Tanium. In September 2015, they raised $120 million in new funding that valued Tanium at $10 billion. Tanium uses a novel approach to cybersecurity different from its main competitors Symantec and Intel's McAfee which have a central data center that communicates directly with individual computers (and requiring a massive investment in data centers), Tanium instead uses a linear chain system where each computer on a network talks to the computer adjacent to it, pooling data, and then relaying the information in a chain before sending it back to a single server.
In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father. In 2023, Orion stepped down as CEO and appointed David Streetman as a replacement.
Personal life
Hindawi is married and has two children.
References
American billionaires
20th-century American Jews
1980 births
Living people
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American Jews
American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
American people of Indian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7AK7 | The 7AK7 is a pentode vacuum tube (thermionic valve). According to its manufacturer, Sylvania, it was "designed for service in electronic computers".
The tube was developed in 1948, designed at the request of L. D. Wilson for use in the Whirlwind computer.
Significant attention was directed towards its manufacturing process in order to ensure the part's
reliability. Dubbed the "computer tube", it became a popular tube for computers for a while. IBM, however, switched to more compact miniature tubes, starting with the IBM 604 in 1948.
See also
25L6, another type of tube found in early computers
References
Vacuum tubes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruiserweight%20Classic | The Cruiserweight Classic, formerly the Global Cruiserweight Series, was a professional wrestling tournament and WWE Network event produced by WWE. All participants were billed at a weight of 205 lbs or less to determine the inaugural WWE Cruiserweight Champion for WWE's revived cruiserweight division. The tournament consisted of various matches that had predetermined results. Tournament qualifying matches took place in various promotions of the independent circuit, including well-known promotions such as Revolution Pro Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, and Evolve. Many cruiserweight wrestlers from around the world were given the chance to qualify for the 32-man tournament, which took place over four dates: June 23, July 13, August 26, and September 14, 2016. The winner was T. J. Perkins.
Background
In 2016, WWE announced that they would be holding a 32-man professional wrestling tournament and WWE Network event wherein all participants were billed at a weight of 205 lbs or less, referred to as cruiserweights. The event was originally titled the Global Cruiserweight Series before being renamed as the Cruiserweight Classic. Tournament qualifying matches took place in various promotions of the independent circuit, including well known promotions such as Revolution Pro Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, and Evolve. Many cruiserweight wrestlers from around the world were given the chance to qualify for the 32-man single-elimination tournament, which took place over four dates: June 23, July 13, August 26, and September 14. During the finale, it was announced that the winner of the tournament would become the inaugural WWE Cruiserweight Champion for WWE's revived cruiserweight division, which would compete on the Raw brand. The tournament consisted of various matches that had predetermined results.
Announced competitors
NXT competitors Rich Swann, Tommaso Ciampa, and Johnny Gargano along with international standouts Zack Sabre Jr., Noam Dar, Ho Ho Lun, and Akira Tozawa were announced for the Cruiserweight Classic. At an independent show in Orlando, Florida on April 2, Lince Dorado joined the series. On April 24 at Progress Wrestling Chapter 29, Sabre Jr., Jack Gallagher also won a qualifying match, while on May 7 at Evolve 61, T. J. Perkins and Drew Gulak also joined the series. On June 11 at Evolve 63, Tony Nese defeated Johnny Gargano, Drew Gulak, T. J. Perkins and Lince Dorado and qualified for the tournament. Two days later, WWE officially revealed all 32 wrestlers taking part in the tournament. Originally, Brazilian wrestler Zumbi was scheduled to compete in the Cruiserweight Classic. However, he had issues with his visa that WWE could not clear in time, and was replaced by Mustafa Ali.
Qualifying matches
Progress Wrestling Chapter 29 - April 24 (Electric Ballroom - Camden Town, London)
Revolution Pro Wrestling Live at the Cockpit 8 - May 1 (Cockpit Theatre - Marylebone, London)
Evolve 61 - May 7 (La Boom - Woodside, Queens, New York)
Ameri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Connor%20%28engineer%29 | Kenneth Connor (born 28 August 1946 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an Emeritus Professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he originally joined the faculty in 1974. He became an IEEE Life Fellow in 1998. He earned his BS, MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and PhD in Electrophysics from New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He continues to work as an engineering education consultant since his retirement in June 2018.
References
Living people
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow%20method%20%28clustering%29 | In cluster analysis, the elbow method is a heuristic used in determining the number of clusters in a data set. The method consists of plotting the explained variation as a function of the number of clusters and picking the elbow of the curve as the number of clusters to use. The same method can be used to choose the number of parameters in other data-driven models, such as the number of principal components to describe a data set.
The method can be traced to speculation by Robert L. Thorndike in 1953.
Intuition
Using the "elbow" or "knee of a curve" as a cutoff point is a common heuristic in mathematical optimization to choose a point where diminishing returns are no longer worth the additional cost. In clustering, this means one should choose a number of clusters so that adding another cluster doesn't give much better modeling of the data.
The intuition is that increasing the number of clusters will naturally improve the fit (explain more of the variation), since there are more parameters (more clusters) to use, but that at some point this is over-fitting, and the elbow reflects this. For example, given data that actually consist of k labeled groups – for example, k points sampled with noise – clustering with more than k clusters will "explain" more of the variation (since it can use smaller, tighter clusters), but this is over-fitting, since it is subdividing the labeled groups into multiple clusters. The idea is that the first clusters will add much information (explain a lot of variation), since the data actually consist of that many groups (so these clusters are necessary), but once the number of clusters exceeds the actual number of groups in the data, the added information will drop sharply, because it is just subdividing the actual groups. Assuming this happens, there will be a sharp elbow in the graph of explained variation versus clusters: increasing rapidly up to k (under-fitting region), and then increasing slowly after k (over-fitting region).
Criticism
The elbow method is considered both subjective and unreliable.
In many practical applications, the choice of an "elbow" is highly ambiguous as the plot does not contain a sharp elbow.
This can even hold in cases where all other methods for determining the number of clusters in a data set (as mentioned in that article) agree on the number of clusters.
Measures of variation
There are various measures of "explained variation" used in the elbow method. Most commonly, variation is quantified by variance, and the ratio used is the ratio of between-group variance to the total variance. Alternatively, one uses the ratio of between-group variance to within-group variance, which is the one-way ANOVA F-test statistic.
See also
Determining the number of clusters in a data set
Scree plot
References
Clustering criteria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20technology%20terms | This is an alphabetical list of notable technology terms. It includes terms with notable applications in computing, networking, and other technological fields.
A
Accelerometer
ADSL
Android
Archive
Artificial Intelligence
ATX
Apple Inc.
B
Backup
Bandwidth
Benchmark
Barcode
Booting or Boot loader
BIOS
Bitmap
Bitcoin
BitTorrent
Blacklist
Blockchain
Bluetooth
Binary
Backlink
Bloatware
Broadband Lifecycle
Bus
Burn
C
C
C++
C#
Cache
Central processing unit
Client
CMOS
Compression
Content
Cookie
Code
Coding
CPU
Cyber crime
Cybersecurity
D
Daemon
Data
Debug
Determinancy diagramming
Developer
Device driver
Digital subscriber line (DSL)
Dock
DOS
DPI
Driver
DRM
E
Encryption
Emulator
Ethernet
End user
Encoding
EXE
Executable
Exabyte
Exbibyte
Email
ERP
F
FAT32
Firewall
Firmware
Framework
Freeware
Frictionless sharing
FTP
G
GIF
Git
GPS
GSM
GUI
H
HDMI
HTML
HTTP
HTTPS
Hardware
I
I/O
IEEE
Internet
Internetworking
Internet Protocol (IP)
iOS
IP Address
ISO
IMEI
ISP
J
JAVA
JavaScript
JPEG
K
Kernel
Keyboard
kSQL
L
LTE
LTE-Sim
M
Machine
Macintosh (Mac)
Malware
MIDI
Monotonic query
MPEG
MP3
MP4
MMS
N
Newbie
Network
O
Object-oriented programming (OOP)
OEM
OS
OCR
OSI (7-layer) model
Overclock
Overheat
Operator
Operating system
P
PCI Express
PDF
Phishing
Python
Plug-in
PNG
Processor
Q
QWERTY
Quantum computing
R
Recycle bin
Remote access
Registry
Read-only memory (ROM)
RAID
Rooting
RAM
S
Safe mode
Scalable vector graphics (SVG)
Search engine
Search engine optimization
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
SEO
Server
Service pack
Software
Source code
Spam
SSID
SVGA
Swype
T
Trash
U
Underclock
Unix
V
Virus
Vector graphics
VGA
VOIP (Voice Over IP)
W
Web
WebM
Wi-Fi and Hotspot (Wi-Fi)
Wikipedia Zero
Windows
Wireless LAN
World Wide Web
WYSIWYG
WPA
Y
Y2K
See also
Glossary of Internet-related terms
List of computer term etymologies
List of HTTP status codes
List of information technology acronyms
List of operating systems
Technical terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCP%20Engineering | NCP engineering is a Nuremberg-based company producing software for remote access, industrial internet of things security and information security. NCP's products use virtual private network (VPN) and other technologies like encryption, personal firewalls and electronic certificates in a public key infrastructure (PKI) to secure data communication.
NCP has made its IPsec VPN client compatible with the Windows 10, Windows 11, iOS, macOS, Linux and Android operating systems.
Name
NCP is the abbreviation of "Network Communications Products". The supplement "engineering" describes that the company produces software for secure communications and remote access.
History
NCP engineering was founded in Nuremberg, Germany in 1986. The company produces software for secure data communication through the Internet, networks via 4G/5G and wireless LANs. At the core of NCP's business is provisioning secure communication connections between stationary and mobile end-devices as well as affiliate and branch networks to a company's headquarters.
In 2007, NCP partnered with WatchGuard Technologies.
In January 2010, NCP established a North American affiliate, NCP engineering, Inc.
In February 2010, NCP engineering was awarded US Patent 8811397 B2 for a "System and method for data communication between a user terminal and a gateway via a network node".
NCP engineering has been involved in the ESUKOM project for the development of a real-time security solution that protects corporate networks using integrated security solutions based on a unified metadata format since 2010.
As a SIMU project partner (security information and event management for small SMEs), NCP engineering is focused on optimizing IT security in corporate networks.
After many years of working together, in 2017 NCP engineering and Juniper Networks have intensified their collaboration in a technology partnership.
Juniper Networks and NCP engineering began a partnership in 2011 and intensified their collaboration in 2017 with an exclusive technology partnership.
NCP has recently focused on cloud and flexible enterprise products while solidifying multiple hardware partnerships.
References
Companies based in Nuremberg
Virtual private networks
Companies established in 1986
Software companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHIH%20Newsfront | WHIH Newsfront is a faux American current affairs digital series serving as the center of several viral marketing campaigns for Marvel Studios. Based on the fictional television network WHIH World News that appears throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the YouTube videos began as marketing for the film Ant-Man, and deal with major events depicted in the MCU's films and television series. The videos were created by Marvel Studios in partnership with Google.
The news program features Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart, reprising her role from the MCU films, with Al Madrigal portraying political correspondent Will Adams. Several other actors reprise their roles from the films, while archival footage of others is also used. The initial videos were released during July 2015, focusing on the immediate aftermath of Avengers: Age of Ultron while leading up to the events of Ant-Man. More were released beginning in April 2016 as a WHIH Newsfront Special Report, focusing on the Avengers and the political issues surrounding them as part of a similar viral marketing campaign for the film Captain America: Civil War.
The videos are accompanied by additional marketing materials, such as in-universe web articles and social media posts. The series has been received positively, seen as better than average viral marketing campaigns, and as a fun and insightful expansion of the MCU for fans of the franchise.
Videos
Ant-Man campaign (2015)
Captain America: Civil War campaign (2016)
Cast and characters
Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart: The WHIH Newsfront presenter. Bibb reprises her role from the Iron Man films.
Al Madrigal as Will Adams: WHIH Newsfronts political correspondent.
Also reprising his role from the films is William Sadler as President of the United States, Matthew Ellis, while Paul Rudd and Corey Stoll as Scott Lang and Darren Cross, respectively, appear before their appearances in Ant-Man. Additionally, WIRED Insider presenter James Rondell appears as himself, and a WHIH reporter based on the character Jackson Norris briefly appears; the latter is a separate character from the similarly named Jackson Norriss, who appears in the Marvel One-Shot short film All Hail the King portrayed by Scoot McNairy.
Production
In June 2015, Leslie Bibb revealed that she was involved in a new project for Marvel Studios, reprising her role of Christine Everhart from Iron Man and Iron Man 2. The next week, the project was revealed to be part of a viral marketing campaign for the Marvel film Ant-Man with the reveal of a faux news program, WHIH Newsfront with Christine Everhart, an extension of the fictional television network WHIH World News which is depicted reporting on major events in many MCU films and television series.
Bibb returned as Everhart, and was joined by Al Madrigal as WHIH political correspondent Will Adams, for a WHIH Newsfront Special Report as part of a similar campaign in April 2016 in the lead up to the film Captain America: Civil War |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODY%20Assessment | The CODY Assessment (Computer aided Dyscalculia test and training) is a diagnostic screener for elementary school children from 2nd to 4th grade used to determine math weakness or dyscalculia. It also generates a detailed report evaluating each child's mathematical skills. It was developed in 2013 as a part of the CODY Project, which partnered psychologists at the University of Münster with technology experts at Kaasa health, a German software company.
Application
The CODY Assessment is part of the mathematical training software Meister Cody ‒ Talasia. Children take the assessment, which creates a detailed report evaluating their math skills, when they begin the program and again 30 days later. Additionally, the CODY Project used the assessment in its research with several elementary schools in order to evaluate the mathematical skills of children before and after various instructional/ intervention methods.
Set-up
The CODY Assessment takes approximately 30–40 minutes and detects four aspects: core markers (dot enumeration & magnitude comparison), number processing, calculation and working memory skills. It's comprised several subtests (listed below), which evaluate both mathematical and cognitive skills:
Reaction Time Test
Dot enumeration
Magnitude Comparison (symbolic and mixed)
Transcoding
Calculation
Number Sets
Number Line
Matrix Span
Missing Number
The subtests were inspired by the scientific findings of Brian Butterworth, who developed the background of a computer-based screening-test for detecting a dyscalculia.
Validation
University of Münster validated the CODY Assessment. The validity and reliability of the test procedure were elaborately tested with a sample of more than 600 elementary school children from the second to fourth grade. The specificity of the CODY Assessment is 81 and the sensitivity is 76. The Ratz-Index is 0,68, which shows a good level of reliability.
References
External links
CODY assessment
Screening and assessment tools in child and adolescent psychiatry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataMeet | DataMeet is a user-generated community primarily focused around open data and data science in India. DataMeet was registered as a trust in February 2014. Typical discussions are around collecting, arranging and using open data. DataMeet events are held in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.
History
DataMeet started as a small google group with meetups in Bangalore and later spread to other Indian cities. DataMeet now involves Meetups, Workshops, Hackathons and a yearly event called Open Data Camp.
Current activity
Meetups
DataMeet frequently organizes open meetups related to open data and other social issues.
Open Data Camp
Every summer since 2012, DataMeet has organized a two-day open data event called Open Data Camp in Bangalore. Open Data Camp has also been held in Delhi since November 2014.
Hackathons
For 2014 Indian general election, the largest ever elections in the world, DataMeet organized a hackathon focusing on election-related open data.
Other Activity
Open City Initiative: DataMeet is developing a repository of urban data under the Open City Initiative
References
Meetings
Business conferences in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident%20Object%20Description%20Exchange%20Format | Used for computer security, IODEF (Incident Object Description Exchange Format) is a data format which is used to describe computer security information for the purpose of exchange between Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs).
IODEF messages are organized in a human-readable way, and not a machine format. Details of the format are described in RFC 5070 and updated in RFC 6685. Version 2 of the format is defined in RFC 7970, which supersedes the previous version. This RFC presents an implementation of the data model in XML as well as the associated DTD. Further implementation guidance for IODEF v2 is defined in RFC 8274.
One of the main characteristics of IODEF is its compatibility with the IDMEF Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format developed for intrusion detection systems. For this reason, IODEF is heavily based on IDMEF and provides backward compatibility with it.
Format
IODEF is an object-oriented structured format, composed of 47 classes in the first version. The IODEF and IDMEF formats having a lot in common: the field structure is similar to the IDMEF one and it is an extensible format: in addition to the usual Additional Data Class, which allow adding any information relevant to the IODEF message, most enumerations are provided with an "ext" field. This field is used when none of the proposed choices are fitting.
Here is a list of the main fields:
IncidentID : One. An incident identification number assigned to this incident by the CSIRT who creates the IODEF document.
AlternativeID : Zero or one. The incidents ID numbers used by other CSIRTs to refer to the incident described in the document.
RelatedActivity : Zero or one. The ID numbers of the incidents linked to the one described in this document.
DetectTime : Zero or one. Time at which the incident was detected for the first time.
StartTime : Zero or one. Time at which the incident started.
EndTime : Zero or one. Time at which the incident ended.
ReportTime : One. Time at which the incident was reported.
Description : Zero or more. ML_STRING. A non-formatted textual description of the event.
Assessment : One or more. A characterization of the incident impact.
Method : Zero or more. Techniques used by the intruder during the incident.
Contact : One or more. Contact information for the groups involved in the incident.
EventData : Zero or more. Description of the events involving the incident.
History : Zero or more. A log, of the events or the notable actions which took place during the incident management.
AdditionalData : Zero or more. Mechanism which extends the data model.
Software using IODEF
Prelude SIEM
IODEFLIB : Python library to create, parse and edit cyber incident reports using the IODEF XML format (RFC 5070)
RT-IODEF : Perl module for translating RT tickets to IODEF messages and also maps IODEF to RT’s Custom Fields based on their description tag
Mantis IODEF Importer : An IODEF (v1.0) importer for the Mantis Cyber Threat Intell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%20%28bank%29 | B was a banking brand in the United Kingdom which operated between 2016 and 2019 as a trading division of Clydesdale Bank plc. B focused on app-based banking and computer learning of personal finances to help customers manage their money.
History
B offered an app-based current accounts that is paired with a savings account. B's bank cards use the Mastercard system for both debit and credit cards.
B also offered a credit card, with a selling point of consistently low interest rates and no foreign transaction fees.
In June 2019 CYBG plc, the parent company of Clydesdale Bank plc announced that the B brand was to be phased out and replaced by the Virgin Money brand in December 2019.
B closed applications for new current accounts on 4 December 2019 and existing B accounts were re-branded as Virgin Money the following day.
See also
References
External links
Banks established in 2016
Companies based in Glasgow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20Help%20Desk | Networked Help Desk is an open standard initiative to provide a common API for sharing customer support tickets between separate instances of issue tracking, bug tracking, customer relationship management (CRM) and project management systems to improve customer service and reduce vendor lock-in. The initiative was created by Zendesk in June 2011 in collaboration with eight other founding member organizations including Atlassian, New Relic, OTRS, Pivotal Tracker, ServiceNow and SugarCRM. The first integration, between Zendesk and Atlassian's issue tracking product, Jira, was announced at the 2011 Atlassian Summit. By August 2011, 34 member companies had joined the initiative. A year after launching, over 50 organizations had joined. Within Zendesk instances this feature is branded as ticket sharing.
Basis
Support tools are generally built around a common paradigm that begins with a customer making a request or an incident report, these create a ticket. Each ticket has a progress status and is updated with annotations and attachments. These annotations and attachments may be visible to the customer (public), or only visible to analysts (private). Customers are notified of progress made on their ticket until it is complete. If the people necessary to complete a ticket are using separate support tools, additional overhead is introduced in maintaining the relevant information in the ticket in each tool while notifying the customer of progress made by each group in completing their ticket. For example, if a customer support issue is caused by a software bug and reported to a help desk using one system, and then the fix is documented by the developers in another, and analyzed in a customer relationship management tool, keeping the records in each system up-to-date and notifying the customer manually using a swivel chair approach is unnecessarily time-consuming and error-prone. If information is not transferred correctly, a customer may have to re-explain their problem each time their ticket is transferred.
For systems with the Networked Help Desk API implemented, it is possible for several different applications related to a customer's support experience to synchronize data in one uniquely identified shared ticket. While many applications in these domains have implemented APIs that allow data to be imported, exported and modified, Network Help Desk provide a common standard for customer support information to automatically synchronize between several systems. Once implemented, two systems can quickly share tickets with just a configuration change as they both understand the same interface.
Communication between two instances on a specific ticket occurs in three steps, an invitation agreement, sharing of ticket data and continued synchronization of tickets. The standard allows for "full delegation" (analysts in both systems each make public and private comments and synchronize status) as well as "partial delegation" where the instance receiving the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHPAPA-FM | XHPAPA-FM is a noncommercial radio station on 90.3 FM in Papantla de Olarte, Veracruz. It is owned by El Aprendizaje Es Para Todos, A.C., and is part of the Radio Voces de Veracruz network of permit stations in northern Veracruz, operating as La Voz del Totonacapan.
History
XHPAPA was permitted on August 1, 2012.
References
External links
Radio Voces de Veracruz Facebook
Radio stations in Veracruz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHALAM-FM | XHALAM-FM is a noncommercial radio station on 90.7 FM in Álamo-Temapache, Veracruz. It is owned by El Aprendizaje Es Para Todos, A.C., and is part of the Radio Voces de Veracruz network of permit stations in northern Veracruz, operating as La Voz de la Huasteca.
History
XHALAM was permitted on August 1, 2012.
References
Radio stations in Veracruz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTLAC-FM | XHTLAC-FM is a noncommercial radio station on 93.7 FM in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, Mexico. It is owned by La Comunidad Unida Por Su Cultura, A.C., and is part of the Radio Voces de Veracruz network of permit stations in northern Veracruz, operating as Viva la Cuenca Radio.
History
XHTLAC was permitted on August 1, 2012.
References
Radio stations in Veracruz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrecisionFDA | PrecisionFDA (stylized precisionFDA) is a secure, collaborative, high-performance computing platform that has established a growing community of experts around the analysis of biological datasets in order to advance precision medicine, inform regulatory science, and enable improvements in health outcomes. This cloud-based platform is developed and served by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). PrecisionFDA connects experts, citizen scientists, and scholars from around the world and provides them with a library of computational tools, workflow features, and reference data. The platform allows researchers to upload and compare data against reference genomes, and execute bioinformatic pipelines. The variant call file (VCF) comparator tool also enables users to compare their genetic test results to reference genomes. The platform's code is open source and available on GitHub. The platform also features a crowdsourcing model to sponsor community challenges in order to stimulate the development of innovative analytics that inform precision medicine and regulatory science. Community members from around the world come together to participate in scientific challenges, solving problems that demonstrate the effectiveness of their tools, testing the capabilities of the platform, sharing their results, and engaging the community in discussions. Globally, precisionFDA has more than 5,000 users.
The precisionFDA team collaborates with multiple FDA Centers, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies to support the vision and intent of the American Innovation & Competitiveness Act and the 21st Century Cures Act.
History
President Barack Obama announced the formation of the Precision Medicine Initiative during the State of the Union Address in January 2015. In August 2015, the FDA announced the launch of precisionFDA as a part of the initiative. In November 2015, the FDA launched a "closed beta" version of the platform, giving select groups and individuals access to the platform. An open beta version of the platform was released in December 2015. In February 2016, the FDA announced the first precisionFDA challenge, the Consistency Challenge, which tasked users with testing the reliability and reproducibility of gene mapping and variant calling tools. The Truth Challenge followed the Consistency Challenge and asked participants to assess the accuracy of bioinformatics tools for identifying genetic variants. The Hidden Treasures – Warm Up challenge evaluated variant calling pipelines on a targeted set of in silico injected variants. The CFSAN Pathogen Detection Challenge evaluated bioinformatics pipelines for accurate and rapid detection of foodborne pathogens in metagenomics samples. The CDRH ID-NGS Diagnostics Biothreat Challenge addressed the issue of early detection during pathogen outbreaks by evaluating algorithms for identifying and quantifying emerging pathogens, such as the Ebola virus, from their genomic fingerprin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Heron | Apache Heron is a distributed stream processing engine developed at Twitter. According to the creators at Twitter, the scale and diversity of Twitter data has increased, and Heron is a real-time analytics platform to process streaming. It was introduced at the SIGMOD 2015. Heron is API compatible with Apache Storm.
See also
List of Apache Software Foundation projects
References
External links
Official Apache Heron page
Distributed stream processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Apex | Apache Apex is a YARN-native platform that unifies stream and batch processing. It processes big data-in-motion in a way that is scalable, performant, fault-tolerant, stateful, secure, distributed, and easily operable.
Apache Apex was named a top-level project by The Apache Software Foundation on April 25, 2016. As of September 2019, it is no longer actively developed.
Overview
Apache Apex is developed under the Apache License 2.0. The project was driven by the San Jose, California-based start-up company DataTorrent.
There are two parts of Apache Apex: Apex Core and Apex Malhar. Apex Core is the platform or framework for building distributed applications on Hadoop. The core Apex platform is supplemented by Malhar, a library of connector and logic functions, enabling rapid application development. These input and output operators provide templates to sources and sinks such as Alluxio, S3, HDFS, NFS, FTP, Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, JMS, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, HBase, CouchDB, generic JDBC, and other database connectors.
History
DataTorrent has developed the platform since 2012 and then decided to open source the core that became Apache Apex. It entered incubation in August 2015 and became Apache Software Foundation top level project within 8 months. DataTorrent itself shut down in May 2018.
As of September 2019, Apache Apex is no longer being developed.
Apex Big Data World
Apex Big Data World
is a conference about Apache Apex. The first conference of Apex Big Data World took place in 2017. They were held in Pune, India and Mountain View, California, USA.
References
External links
Apache Software Foundation projects
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Apache Software Foundation
Software using the Apache license
Free system software
Distributed stream processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManicTime | ManicTime is automatic time tracking software, which tracks application and web page usage. Tracked data helps users keep track of time spent on various projects and tasks. It was developed by Finkit d.o.o., a company based in Slovenia.
Details
ManicTime Client runs in the background and records applications, documents and web sites used by user. Collected data can then be used to keep track of time spent on various projects and tasks. All data is stored locally in SQL Server Compact database.
ManicTime Server
ManicTime Server was introduced in 2011. It collects data from ManicTime Clients and generates reports, which can be viewed with a web browser. ManicTime Server is an on-premises software and stores data in either SQLite, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server. Other applications can interact with ManicTime Server through SQL or JSON web service.
See also
Comparison of time tracking software
Project management software
References
External links
Official site
Time-tracking software
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Street%20tram%20stop | Middle Street is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network in the town of Beeston. It is situated on street track within Middle Street and comprises a single island platform situated between 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.
Middle Street stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe
Beeston, Nottinghamshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIZMAC | The RCA BIZMAC was a vacuum tube computer manufactured by RCA from 1956 to 1962. Although RCA was noted for their pioneering work in transistors, RCA decided to build a vacuum tube computer instead of a transistorized computer. It was the largest vacuum tube computer of its time in 1956, occupying of floor space with up to 30,000 tubes, 70,000 diodes, and 35,000 magnetic cores. It weighed about .
History
In 1949, the Mutual Assistance Program (MAP)—later known as the Military Assistance Program—was started by the United States to provide military assistance and supplies to foreign countries needing to rebuild their military defenses after World War II.
In 1951, RCA was awarded a $4.5 million military contract to build a data processing machine to support the logistics necessary for the MAP. The result was the BIZMAC computer system.
The first BIZMAC machine was installed at the Ordnance Tank-Automotive Command (OTAC) in Detroit, Michigan in 1956. Eventually, BIZMAC computer systems were also installed at Higbee Department Stores, Travelers Insurance Company, and New York Life Insurance Company.
The huge BIZMAC system was very quickly made obsolete by faster and more reliable computer systems, including IBM's 705 computer as well as RCA's own transistorized 501 computer. The BIZMAC was taken offline from the OTAC in 1962. Only about six BIZMAC computers were actually made.
Features
A unique feature of the BIZMAC was the use of hundreds of permanently mounted tape drives. This meant that tape data could be accessed immediately without constant mounting and dismounting individual tapes.
Engineers
One of the original engineers of the BIZMAC was Arnold Spielberg, the father of film director and producer Steven Spielberg. Spielberg designed and patented an electronic library system used for searching data stored on magnetic tapes.
See also
List of vacuum tube computers
History of computing hardware
References
External links
BIZMAC Computer History Archives Project - Cold War Military Technology
Vintage RCA Computers - A Brief Look at the RCA 501 - History Archives
1956: RCA BIZMAC Computer
Characteristics of the' RCA BIZMAC Computer
1950s computers
Early computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Andrew | Seth Andrew (born 1979) is an American entrepreneur who helped found Democracy Prep Public Schools, a national network of charter schools based in Harlem, and Democracy Builders, a social sector incubator that launched Washington Leadership Academy, the Arena Summit, and Degrees of Freedom. He was an advisor to former President Barack Obama. In April 2021, Andrew was arrested for allegedly embezzling over $200,000 from Democracy Prep. He pled guilty to one charge of wire fraud in January 2022, and in July 2022 was sentenced to 366 days in prison. He was released in May 2023.
Education
Andrew attended the Bronx High School of Science, earned his A.B. from Brown University, and his Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Career
Democracy Prep
In 2005, Andrew founded Democracy Prep Public Schools in Harlem, New York. The network has grown to serve more than 6,500 students in New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Nevada, and Texas. Democracy Prep has been the subject of significant academic research due to its emphasis on civic engagement and unique financial model that relies exclusively on public dollars.
Obama administration
From 2014 to 2016, Andrew served as senior advisor and superintendent-in-residence at the U.S. Department of Education and was a senior advisor in the Office of Educational Technology under the Presidency of Barack Obama.
Bridge International Academies
From 2017 to 2018, Andrew was Global Director of Policy & Partnerships at Bridge International Academies
Degrees of Freedom
In 2020, under Andrew’s leadership, Democracy Builders and Marlboro College announced that Democracy Builders would acquire the Marlboro College campus in order to build a low-residency, low-cost college program for low-income students. The Degrees of Freedom program would last four years, from eleventh grade to the second year of college, and would result in an associate degree. The program is slated to be largely online, with students only being on campus two weeks out of each trimester.
In February 2021, Andrew announced that Democracy Builders had sold the campus to "Type 1 Civilization Academy" via a quitclaim deed. On March 9, 2021, During an invitation-only community meeting on Zoom, Andrew announced that the Type 1 deal had been cancelled. He called the agreement "an engagement" rather than "a marriage". Andrew filed another quit claim deed which transferred the property back to Democracy Builders. The principal of Type 1, Adrian Stein, said that Type 1 was legitimately in control of the campus and that the issue will likely end up in court unless they can find "some other kind of equitable settlement."
Degrees of Freedom is currently partnered with Doral College, a Florida-based educational institution.
Racism allegations
In June 2020, Andrew was the subject of allegations of racism by "Black N Brown at DP", an anonymous group of Democracy Prep students, alumni, and present/former staff of color. The social media account claim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHHU-FM | XHHU-FM is a radio station on 89.9 FM in Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz. It is affiliated to the Los 40 Principales network from Televisa Radio.
History
XEHU-AM 1300, a 500-watt station received its concession on March 13, 1959. Power was later raised from 500 to 5,000 watts daytime, but dropped back to 250 watts.
In the late 1970s, XEHU spawned a sister station, XEHU-FM 104.5, which was the only FM station with an XE- call sign in southern Mexico before becoming XHGMS-FM in 2019.
XEHU moved to FM in 2012 as XHHU-FM 89.9.
References
Radio stations in Veracruz
Radio stations established in 1959 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Shasky%20Calvery | Jennifer Shasky Calvery is the global head of financial crime threat mitigation for HSBC and a former director of the U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Education
Shasky Calvery holds a law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law. She graduated summa cum laude with an undergraduate degree in international affairs from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, where she was also an All-American basketball player.
Career
Working to prosecute money-laundering and related crimes, she spent 15 years at the Department of Justice, including as an Organized Crime and Racketeering Section prosecutor, and two years as senior counsel with the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, through two federal administrations.
She was director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the United States Department of the Treasury from September 22, 2012, until May 27, 2016.
During her tenure at FinCEN, while representing the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the Department of Justice, had been "considering seeking a guilty plea from HSBC" as early as September 2012.
On April 16, 2016, she announced she would be leaving the position effective on May 27, 2016, to join banking group HSBC.
References
External links
HSBC article
Living people
American women civil servants
Elliott School of International Affairs alumni
James E. Rogers College of Law alumni
United States Department of the Treasury officials
Year of birth missing (living people)
HSBC people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford%20Lane%20tram%20stop | Wilford Lane is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the titular city, England. The stop takes its name from Wilford Lane and the village of Wilford, and lies on the boundary between the city of Nottingham and the district of Rushcliffe. 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.
The tram line and stop is located on the course of the former Great Central main line, which once linked London with Nottingham and Sheffield, but which closed in 1969. The railway line here ran on an embankment and crossed Wilford Lane on a low bridge, but the bridge was removed after closure to permit the operation of double deck buses. The remaining embankment at the stop location was removed as part of the preparation for the new line, and the tramway now crosses Wilford Lane on the level. To the north of the stop, the Great Central embankment is retained but unused, and the tram line runs at ground level to its east side. To the south of the stop, the tram line rises up to run along the top of the retained embankment.
The stop is on reserved track and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the tracks. To the east of the stop is a secure works compound which is served by a tram siding that diverges from the main line to the south of the level crossing and crosses Wilford Lane separately.
Wilford Lane 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
Transport in Rushcliffe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20configuration%20automation | Continuous configuration automation (CCA) is the methodology or process of automating the deployment and configuration of settings and software for both physical and virtual data center equipment.
Overview
Continuous configuration automation is marketed for data center and application configuration management. CCA tools use a programmable framework for configuration and orchestration through coding, planning, and incrementally adopting policies.
Relationship to DevOps
CCA tools are used for what is called DevOps, and are often included as part of a DevOps toolchain. CCA grew out of a push to develop more reliable software faster. Gartner describes CCA as “Embodying lean, agile and collaborative concepts core to DevOps initiatives, CCA tools bring a newly found level of precision, efficiency and flexibility to the challenges of infrastructure and application configuration management.”
Tools
CCA tools support administrators and developers to automate the configuration and Orchestration of physical and virtual infrastructure in a systematic way that give visibility to state of infrastructure within an enterprise. Generally thought of as an extension of infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks. CCA tools include Ansible, Chef software, Otter, Puppet (software), Rudder (software) and SaltStack. Each tool has a different method of interacting with the system some are agent-based, push or pull, through an interactive UI. Similar to adopting any DevOps tools, there are barriers to bring on CCA tools and factors that hinder and accelerate adoption.
Notable CCA tools include:
Evaluation factors
Evaluations of CCA tools may consider the following:
Skills, training, and cost required to implement and maintain tool
Content and support of the Platform and Infrastructure – tool specified for Windows or Linux etc.
Delivery method and likening flexibility – important for scalability
Method of interacting with managing system
Support and training availability and cost
Incorporation of orchestration with configuration management
Security and compliance reporting
See also
Agile software development
Continuous delivery
Continuous integration
Software configuration management
References
Agile software development
Software development process
Configuration management
Systems engineering
Orchestration software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20ocean%20observatory | A fixed-point ocean observatory is an ocean observing autonomous system of automatic sensors and samplers that continuously gathers data from deep sea, water column and lower atmosphere, and transmits the data to shore in real or near real-time.
Infrastructure
Fixed-point ocean observatories are typically composed of a cable anchored to the sea floor to which several automatic sensors and samplers are attached. The cable ends with a buoy at the ocean surface that may have some more sensors attached. Most observatories have communicating buoys that transmit data to shore, and which allow changes to the acquisition method of the sensors, as required.
These unmanned platforms can be linked via a cable to the shore transmitting data via an internet connection, or they can transmit data to relay buoys which are able to provide a satellite link to the shore.
An example for a network of observatories is the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
Instrumentation
A typical multi-disciplinary observatory is equipped with sensors and instruments to measure physical and biogeochemical variables along the water column. Additionally the surface buoy can hold several sensors measuring atmospheric parameters at sea level.
Main measured variables:
In order to do so, typically the ocean observatories are equipped with instruments like:
ADCP – Acoustic Doppler current profiler, to measure currents;
CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) sensors, to measure conductivity and thermal variations at a known depth;
Hydrophone – to record sounds;
Sediment Trap – to quantify the quantity of sinking material;
Deep sea camera – to capture footage on location;
Seismometer – to record the earth motion;
CO2 analyser – to measure CO2;
Dissolved Oxygen sensor – to measure dissolved oxygen;
Fluorometers – to measure Chlorophyll;
Turbidity sensor – to measure turbidity.
Purpose
Ocean observatories can collect data for different purposes from scientific research to environmental monitoring for marine operations or governance for the benefit of economy and society as a whole.
Ocean observatories provide real-time, or near real time data allowing to detect changes as they happen, such as geo-hazards for example. Furthermore continuous time series data allow to investigate interannual-to-decadal changes and to capture episodic events, changes in ocean circulation, water properties, water mass formation and ecosystems, to quantify air-sea fluxes, and to analyse the role of the oceans for the climate.
The data collected by the several ocean observatories around the globe on the sub-sea-floor, seafloor, and water column, allows to improve our knowledge of the ocean including:
Ocean physics and climate change
Biodiversity and ecosystem assessment
Carbon cycle and ocean acidification
Geophysics and geodynamics
Moreover networks of ocean observatories can also be used to input data into global ocean models and to calibrate them thus allowing for the investigation of future |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUL-FM | XHUL-FM is a radio station on 96.9 FM in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico. It is owned by Cadena RASA and carries the El Heraldo Radio news/talk programming, owned by El Heraldo de México newspaper.
History
XEUL-AM 1360 received its concession on August 31, 1971. It broadcast with 500 watts from Progreso, Yucatán, and was owned by Ester Ávila Alonso. It moved to 930 in Mérida, with 2.5 kW day, in the 1990s and was sold to Radio Progreso de Yucatán in 1997. The station was known as "Radio Barracua" and became a grupera as La Picosita in early 2000s.
It migrated to FM after being authorized to move in 2010. Its call sign was changed to XHUL-FM. During the AM-FM migration it became "Átomo 96.9" but the name discontinued until 2015 when it became Los 40 station in Mérida which had broadcast on XHMYL-FM since 2005.
On January 1, 2023, Cadena RASA moved the Los 40 format and on-air staff from XHUL-FM 96.9 to XHPYM-FM 103.1 and leased XHUL-FM to El Heraldo Radio.
References
Radio stations in Yucatán
Radio stations established in 1971
1971 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carranza%20Lighthouse | The Carranza Lighthouse, also known as Lighthouse Cabo Carranza, is an active 19th century Chilean lighthouse situated in the Maule Region. It is part of the network of lighthouses in Chile.
History
This lighthouse was inaugurated on September 1, 1895 in the vicinity of Caleta Loanco. It has the peculiarity of being the only Chilean lighthouse with metallic pyramidal tower and a rectangular base.
Construction of the light was motivated by shipwrecks in the vicinities to the Punta Santa Ana, the most well known being that of the Cazador on January 30, 1856. Also, in the vicinity is the wreck of the SS John Elder, that was lost on January 17, 1892 during a cruise between Valparaíso and Talcahuano. Although carrying 132 people, there were no human losses.
At present it houses personnel of the Chilean Navy, as well as serving as an aid to navigation, since 1979 it has also been used as a meteorological station.
See also
Lighthouses in Chile
List of lighthouses in Chile
References
Lighthouses in Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20S.%20Boutros | Andrew S. Boutros is an American lawyer, law professor, and former federal prosecutor best known for prosecuting corporate fraud and cybercrime cases (most notably, Chicago's Silk Road cases). In 2015, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association honored him with the National Prosecutorial Award, and he was also elected to the American Law Institute the same year. He is the Regional Chair of Dechert LLP's White Collar practice, where he is resident in the firm's Chicago and DC offices.
Education and early career
Boutros is a first-generation American whose parents emigrated from Egypt. He earned his undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech where he graduated in-honors summa cum laude. He then went on to the University of Virginia School of Law where he earned his J.D. in 2001. Jeffrey O'Connell was one of Boutros' academic mentors while in law school. The two authored an article on aspects of tort reform that appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review. Following law school, Boutros clerked for the Honorable Eugene E. Siler Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After graduating, he worked as a defense attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of an international law firm. He helped launch and run the firm's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) group.
U.S. Department of Justice
In 2007, Boutros was hired by U.S. Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, to work as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. He relocated to Chicago for the job and started work on January 7, 2008. He was a key member of the Financial Crimes and Special Prosecutions unit at the office. Over the course of his nearly 8-year career, Boutros prosecuted notable cases involving white collar crimes, fraud, laundering, drug trafficking, cybercrime, and more.
Some of his most notable work involved the prosecution of individuals involved in the Silk Road online "black market." He assisted in the prosecution of the founder of the Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, who received a life sentence after conviction. He also led the prosecution and conviction of the individual referred to as the Silk Road's "most prolific online drug dealer," Cornelis Jan "SuperTrips" Slomp. Boutros' prosecution led to a ten-year prison sentence for Slomp in May 2015.
Boutros was also the prosecutor for what was known as "largest food fraud in U.S. history" (or "Honeygate"). The first phase of the law enforcement operation involved individuals and companies that had been involved in the illegal importation of cheap and occasionally contaminated honey from China. The food fraud and criminal antidumping duty case led to $80 million in losses. The second phase of the operation focused on individuals and companies who were illegally buying and shipping the illegally imported Chinese honey. The fraud in the second phase of the operation amounted to $180 million in losses. The total amount of fraud involved in the so-called "Project Honeygate" was worth $260 million.
One of Bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Impressions%20%28game%20show%29 | First Impressions is an American television game show hosted by Dana Carvey and Freddie Prinze Jr. The series premiered on USA Network on May 10, 2016, and concluded on June 14, 2016.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American game shows
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
English-language television shows
USA Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Illmer%20Forsythe | Alexandra Winifred Illmer Forsythe (May 20, 1918 – January 2, 1980) was an American computer scientist best known for co-authoring a series of computer science textbooks during the 1960s and 1970s, including the first ever computer science textbook, Computer Science: A First Course, in 1969.
Biography
Forsythe was born in Newton, Massachusetts and raised in Cortland, New York. She attended Swarthmore College, where she met her future husband George Forsythe, and earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics. She and George were both accepted to the PhD program in mathematics at Brown University. Although an exceptional student, she was unable to continue in the program because the dean did not approve of female mathematicians and cut her fellowship support. She eventually left Brown and completed her master's degree at Vassar College in 1941 while serving as an instructor.
In 1969, Forsythe published Computer Science: A First Course. In 1975, she published a second edition. In 1978, Forsythe and a co-author, E. I. Organick, published Programming Language Structures.
Forsythe taught at Stanford and the University of Utah.
Alexandra Forsythe was married to George Forsythe and helped establish the computer science program at Stanford University.
Books
References
1918 births
1980 deaths
American computer scientists
Swarthmore College alumni
Vassar College alumni
Stanford University faculty
University of Utah faculty
Scientists from Boston
People from Cortland, New York
American women computer scientists
20th-century American women scientists
Computer science educators
American Quakers
Scientists from New York (state)
American women academics
20th-century Quakers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workforce%20optimization | Workforce optimization (WFO) is a business strategy that integrates business performance considerations with workforce management. The strategy involves automating processes, data visibility, compliance on legislation and solving business problems related to staffing. It is used by call centers to improve workforce management and agent performance.
Description
Workforce optimization uses all aspects of the complete workforce management life-cycle and provides key insights into how its workforce is performing, with a focus on customer experience. Workforce optimization includes automating entire processes, making key data more visible to support better decision-making, ensuring compliance on relevant legislation and solving business problems related to staff. It is used by contact centers to make convenient communication with customers, such as text messaging support.
The strategy ties together the human resources, operations and IT departments of a business. Workforce optimization manages the performance of staff to understand the impact on both operational efficiency and the customer experience. Companies use VoC insights to improve customer experience, which increases the effectiveness of its agents and builds customer loyalty.
Development
DMG Consulting's 2014 "Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report" documented an increase in workforce optimization revenue over the 2013 fiscal year. It noted an increase in investments to improve core solutions as well as improvements in back-office and branch workforce optimization solutions. In 2015, DMG Consulting found a resurgence in workforce management due to innovation in usability and functionality through speech and text analytics, desktop analytics and customer journey analytics applications. It also considered a shift in the workforce optimization market to emphasize enterprise analytics that personalize customer interaction.
To make strategic decisions in the modern and complex business landscape, organizations are also using Big Data and Analytics for workforce planning. 80 percent of executives say their big data investments have been successful, and almost half say their organizations can measure the benefits from their projects. What’s more, according to Harvard Business Review, organizations that excel in data-driven decision-making are more productive and more profitable than their competitors on average. Maximizing workforce utilization for Access control systems in presence of security constraints has been explored.
References
External links
"What You Need To Know About Workforce Optimization" Industry Week - 12 March 2009
Business software
Human resource management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS%20%28z/OS%20file%20system%29 | z/OS File System (zFS) (official name: z/OS® Distributed File Service zSeries® File System) is a POSIX-style hierarchical file system for IBM's z/OS operating system for z System mainframes, a successor to that operating system's HFS.
zFS technology was first released in 1995 as the Local File System, a lower layer of the DCE Distributed File System. It was available on MVS/ESA V5R2.2 and all OS/390 releases. DFS/LFS was provided as a part of the DCE feature, not part of the base operating system.
As a separate feature (outside the DCE feature), zFS was initially released for z/OS as PTFs (patches) for z/OS 1.2, with backports available for z/OS 1.1 and OS/390 2.10. Beginning with z/OS 1.3, zFS is included as a standard feature and is being actively developed.
References
External links
z/OS Distributed File Service zSeries File System Implementation
Disk file systems
IBM file systems
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS%20%28IBM%20file%20system%20project%29 | zFS was an IBM research project to develop a distributed, decentralized file system. It was a follow-on to the IBM DSF (Data Sharing Facility) project to build a serverless file system.
References
Disk file systems
IBM file systems
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi%20Transistorised%20Automatic%20Computer | The Marconi Transistorized Automatic Computer was the first all-transistor computer built by Britain's Marconi Company. It was designed and manufactured from around 1959.
The computer employed germanium transistors which by this time were sufficiently reliable in room temperatures kept below about 23 degrees C. The type S3301 was a 500 kHz clocked, 20-bit word machine with two Mullard core memory stores providing 4k of 20-bit data. The internal CPU logic was synchronised to even and odd clock signals and special signals generated via microinstruction diode boards. The memory logic had slow and fast loops to speed the transfer of sequential data bursts. A facility was provided to microstep through instructions to help with fault-finding. Processor status bits were provided, with machine instructions being decoded from 6 bits in the current address memory word. Double word data had the MSB designated a sign bit, coded as binary fractions (-1 to +1), for the square root, multiply and divide instructions. The instruction set had the usual functions based on three registers named A, B and D (C was the current address in memory register, also called M). An additional instruction assisted with checksum calculation for data transferred to and from main data stores (viz. Sperry Rand magnetic drums).
Applications included marking up radar screens with aircraft information and providing data processing for operators in a nuclear power station. Apart from transistor failure, other common faults included power supply capacitors 'drying out' resulting in excess ripple, and poor connections on the input/output highway. Paper tape peripherals had their own poor reliability, influenced to some degree of operator usage.
Surviving computers (ex power station) are on display at the National Museum of Computing (located in Bletchley Park) and Jim Austin's collection near the University of York. The National Museum system is operational. Copies of original manuals and documentation are at the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester and the Manchester John Rylands Library. A performance summary specification is available online.
Marconi went on to develop the Myriad series of computers.
References
Early British computers
Military computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulli%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gulli is a French television network. Gulli may also refer to
Gulli, Republic of Dagestan, a rural locality in Dagestan, Russia
Gulli.com, an internet portal for Germany and German-speaking regions
Gulli Petrini (1867–1941), Swedish physicist, writer, suffragette and politician
Jessica Gulli (born 1988), Australian sprinter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Premios%20Juventud | The 13th Annual Premios Juventud (Youth Awards) were broadcast by Univision on July 14, 2016.
Performers
Winners and nominees
Music
Novelas
Films
Social networks
Sports
Multiple nominations and awards
References
Premios Juventud
Premios Juventud
Premios Juventud
Premios Juventud
Premios Juventud
Premios Juventud
Premios Juventud
2010s in Miami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju%20ouji | is a Japanese dinosaur-themed tokusatsu/kaiju television series, produced by P Productions and ran on the Fuji Television Network from October 2, 1967 to March 25, 1968, lasting a total of twenty-six episodes.
Characters
Heroes
Takeru Ibuki: The main character. A young boy who befriends a brontosaurus.
Nessie: A young brontosaurus whose parents died and is now fighting the aliens who killed her parents, with the help of the Japanese military and her human friend. possesses great physical strength and much like her father, the ability to fire a steam of flames.
Villains
Aliens (group 1): a group of bizarre gargoyle aliens serves as the show's antagonists. they were killed and defeated in episode 14. they possess various unnamed guns and missile-shooters, as well as the strange power to resurrect fossilized creatures.
Aliens (group 2): a different, more powerful group of fly-like aliens appeared in episodes 15-26. These aliens possess more advanced weapons, being able to fire an unidentified yellow paste-like acid from their snouts, and being able to alter their revived creatures' genetic material and turn them into giants.
External links
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185090/
1967 Japanese television series debuts
1968 Japanese television series endings
Tokusatsu television series
Television series about dinosaurs
Japanese television series with live action and animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMYL-LD | KMYL-LD (channel 14) is a low-power television station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate KCBD (channel 11) and Wolfforth-licensed CW+ affiliate KLCW-TV (channel 22), as well as three other low-power stations—Class A Telemundo affiliate KXTQ-CD (channel 46), Snyder-licensed Heroes & Icons affiliate KABI-LD (channel 42), and MeTV affiliate KLBB-LD (channel 48). Gray also provides certain services Fox affiliate KJTV-TV (channel 34) and low-power Class A independent KJTV-CD (channel 32) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The stations share studios at 98th Street and University Avenue in south Lubbock, where KMYL-LD's transmitter is also located.
The station can also be viewed in portions of the Lubbock, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Odessa, Texas media markets via the second digital subchannel of former sister station KUPT in Hobbs, New Mexico. To cover more of its home market, KMYL-LD is also simulcast on the second subchannel of KLCW-TV.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
MyNetworkTV affiliates
Cozi TV affiliates
MYL-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1989
Gray Television
MYL-LD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20DS8000%20series | The IBM DS8000 series (early IBM System Storage DS8000 series) is an IBM storage media platform with hybrid flash and hard disk storage for IBM mainframes and other enterprise grade computing environments.
Description
This series was formerly designed as a line of cabinet-size solutions, prior to the more compact and affordable rack-mount DS6000 series. In 2015 the DS6000 line were discontinued, and the all-flash entry-level DS8882F model was released as a rack-mount successor of DS6000 line.
All IBM DS storage lines are based on an IBM Power CPU and use IBM Power Systems servers as controllers.
Models
TotalStorage models:
DS8100 - released in 2004
Dual 2-core POWER5+-based controllers
Can contain up to 384 drives (Fibre Channel or SATA)
DS8300 - released in 2004
Dual 4-core POWER5+-based controllers (based on p570 servers)
Can contain up to 1024 drives (Fibre Channel or SATA)
System Storage models:
DS8100 Turbo - released in 2006
DS8300 Turbo - released in 2006
DS8700 - released in 2009
Dual 2- or 4-core POWER6-based controllers
Can contain up to 1024 drives (3.5” 15K RPM Fibre Channel HDD or enterprise flash drives)
DS8800 - released in 2010
Dual 2- or 4-core POWER6+-based controllers
Can contain up to 1536 drives (2.5": 10K or 15K RPM HDD or SSD enterprise flash SAS-2 drives, or 3.5": Nearline-SAS drives)
DS8870 - released in 2012
Dual 2-, 4-, 8- or 16-core POWER7-based controllers (Since December 2013 based on POWER7+)
Running SMT-4 for 64 threads
1 TiB Cache
Can contain up to 1536 drives (2.5": 10K or 15K RPM HDD or enterprise flash SAS-2, or 3.5": Nearline-SAS drives) + 120 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE)
High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the DS8870 (High-performance flash enclosure fits into existing DS8870 bay)
Up to 8 Flash Enclosures per System : 96 TB raw per system
DS8880 Family - released in end of 2015; base models with mixed storage (DS8884 and DS8886) and all-flash solutions (DS888#F).
DS8882F - all-flash version for rack-mounting (17U, 16U without KVM)
DS8884
Dual 6-core POWER8-based controllers
Running SMT-4 for 24 threads
Up to 256 GiB Cache
Can contain up to 783 HDD or SSD drives + 120 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE)
2.5" 10K or 15K RPM drives and enterprise flash SAS-2 drives
3.5" Nearline-SAS drives
High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the DS8884F (Flash enclosure can fits into existing DS8870 bay)
Up to 4 Flash Enclosures per System : 48 TB raw per system
DS8886
Dual 8- to 24-core POWER8-based controllers
Running SMT-4 for 96 threads
Up to 2 TiB Cache
Can contain up to 1536 HDD or SSD drives + 240 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE)
2.5" 10K or 15K RPM drives and enterprise flash SAS-2 drives
3.5" Nearline-SAS drives
High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOOR | JOOR is a SaaS company that built an online B2B Marketplace connecting brands and retailers to streamline their wholesale business.
JOOR is also a data analytics company.
JOOR has 8,600 brands and 350,000 retailers on the platform. Al Tayer was the 28th retail company on the Joor Pro system. Global in scope, JOOR clients include Neiman Marcus and Kate Spade and Balenciaga. The company has 250 employees including 100 in New York City. Others in sales and customer support roles are in Paris, Madrid, London, Milan, Melbourne, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
When Kristin Savilia stepped into the CEO shoes at JOOR, the tech team only included two females, which represented less than five percent of the team. Eighteen short months later, the JOOR tech organization (Engineering, Product and Quality Assurance) is 33% women, well exceeding the industry average of 13.5%.
In February 2019, the company raised a Series C round, where it also reported that Joor’s platform has netted $23 billion in gross merchandise volume across 3.68 million orders. Nearly half of these orders were placed and processed in the last 12 months.
In September 2019, JOOR announced the acquisition of B2B wholesale technology Veee, as well as a strategic partnership with Premium Group, a fashion trade show organizer in Europe.
Products
Online marketplace with dedicated brand and retailer accesses and customisable profiles, allowing them to transact online. iPad Applications on iOS for brands and retailers. 360º product imagery in partnership with ORDRE (called "ORB360"). Payment management solution (called "JOOR PAY"). Custom reports suite.
Joor has also launched “Snapshot,” a tool that gives brands a live view of how their wholesale businesses are trending. Brands can access such information as best-selling styles, their top-volume retailers and wholesale volumes. Additional functions will be added. This type of data visualization helps brands to understand key metrics around their wholesale business.
JOOR's clients include Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus in New York and Harrods in London, as well as the conglomerates LVMH, Kering, Richemont, VF Corporation, Kate Spade, and Kellwood Company.
Funding
JOOR has raised $20.5 million in venture funding since 2010, including a $15 million Series B funding round led by Canaan Partners in July 2013. Other investors include Battery Ventures, Advance Publications, Lerer Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Landis Capital, and Forerunner Ventures.
In February 2019 the company closed a $16 million in series C funding as it looks to add more tools to its platform and expand operations in Asia.
Awards
Inc. named JOOR as one of their "Companies to Watch," and Fast Company named JOOR one of the "10 Most Innovative Companies in Fashion". In 2014, Internet Week named JOOR one of the 30 best places to work in New York City Tech.
References
American companies established in 2010
Providers of services to on-line companies
2010 establishment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet%20Volterra | Projet Volterra is a European project of ancient legal history databases of the Institute of Classical Studies and elsewhere.
Overview
Projet Volterra was established to promote the study of Roman law in its full social, political and legal context, by facilitating access through the production of an electronic database, to act not only as a Regest but also contain the basic texts of imperial legal pronouncements. Initially in Phase 1 of the Project the texts of legislation of the 'House of Constantine' (i.e. of the Augusti Constantinus II, Constantius II, Constans, and Julian), between AD 337 and 363 and other pertinent data were entered into a Microsoft Access database. Legislations of the later tetrarchs and Constantine (305-337), Jovian, Valentinian, Valens and Gratian (363-383) etc. were also added to the database in this Phase.
References
Roman law
External links
Institute of Classical Studies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohsuke%20Kawaguchi | is a computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the Jenkins software project. While working at Sun Microsystems, he was the primary developer of Hudson project. He is also the recipient of the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on the Jenkins project.
Career
He worked at Sun Microsystems on numerous projects for the Java, XML and Solaris ecosystems, notably as the primary developer for Hudson and for Multi Schema Validator. Hudson was created in summer of 2004 and first released in February 2005.
When Oracle bought Sun, an issue arose in the Hudson community with respect to the infrastructure used, which grew to encompass questions over the stewardship and control by Oracle. Negotiations between the principal project contributors and Oracle took place, and although there were many areas of agreement a key sticking point was the trademarked name "Hudson", after Oracle claimed the right to the name and applied for a trademark in December 2010. As a result, on January 11, 2011, a call for votes was made to change the project name from "Hudson" to "Jenkins". The proposal was overwhelmingly approved by community vote on January 29, 2011, creating the Jenkins project. On February 1, 2011, Oracle said that they intended to continue development of Hudson, and considered Jenkins a fork rather than a rename. Jenkins and Hudson therefore continue as two independent projects, each claiming the other is the fork.
Kawaguchi founded InfraDNA, Inc. in April 2010, which provided support and service for continuous integration using Hudson. On November 2010, InfraDNA merged with CloudBees. In 2011, he received Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on the Hudson/Jenkins projects.
In 2014, Kawaguchi became the Chief Technology Officer for CloudBees.
In January 2020, Kawaguchi transitioned to a CloudBees adviser, and has stepped away from Jenkins and CloudBees to focus on a new startup, Launchable Inc.
See also
Hudson
Jenkins
CloudBees
Launchable
References
External links
Kohsuke Kawaguchi at GitHub
Living people
Open source advocates
Open source people
Free software programmers
Sun Microsystems people
1977 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20South%20Australia%20by%20circulation | This list includes newspaper currently printed and circulating in South Australia. Circulation data has been sourced from the Audited Media Association of Australia in May 2016 (unless otherwise cited). Many of these newspapers are printed weekly or twice weekly.
References
South Australia
Newspapers published in South Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocadoo | Crocadoo is an Australian animated series produced by Energee Entertainment and the Nine Network from 1996 to 1998. It follows the adventures of a group of blue crocodiles trying to protect their riverbank from a mad developer. Crocadoo was Energee Entertainment's first original series, its first season being digitally colored and composited with Apple computers running Adobe, Linker Systems and COSA software. The first season's 3D backgrounds (Hotel, hotel interiors) were created using SGI Power Animator. Halfway through the first series, beginning with "Watch out for the Wonglebacks", some character animation was outsourced to Vietnam. Crocadoo's second season utilized Energee Entertainment's own CECAPS computer paint software.
Currently, the show is part of the Your Family Entertainment catalog and continues to air on their television networks worldwide.
Characters
Main
Jazz (voiced by Simon Westaway in series 1 and Hugo Weaving in series 2): A blue, skinny, male croc who is the leader of the crocodiles. He has all the plans and ideas to encourage all the other crocs to do whatever it takes to protect the riverbank. His Mum named him "Jeremy", but he changed that to something cooler.
Brian (voiced by Dave Gibson): A purple, muscular, male croc who is Jazz's brother. He is usually hungry and lazy and easily gets confused, but is nice and friendly most of the time, unless if Jazz messes around with him.
Rufus B. Hardacre (voiced by Tony Barry): The main antagonist of the show. A greedy hotel manager who hates crocodiles and plans to get rid of them to pave way for his new hotel development. He even hates his guests and only cares about his money.
Ajax (voiced by Dave Gibson): A cockatoo who is Hardacre's sidekick despite the fact that they hate each other. He will tease and belittle Hardacre any way he can and is not afraid to fight back against his abuse.
Secondary
Melba (voiced by Judy Morris in series 1 and Joanne Moore in series 2): A blue female croc who wears glasses, a red necklace, and an orange dress (pink top in series 2). She is the babysitter of the baby crocs and often tries to put all the other crocs on track (especially Jazz).
Gina (voiced by Maryanne Fahey in series 1 and Joanne Moore in series 2): A blue, red haired, female croc that Brian has a crush on and often tries to get her attention.
Waldo (voiced by Simon Westaway in series 1 and Hugo Weaving in series 2): A big, fat, dark blue croc who loves to eat anything, especially if its not real food.
Ol' Vern (voiced by Dave Gibson): The elder of the crocodiles. He is a storyteller and the keeper of Crocadoo's history.
Kelly (voiced by Maryanne Fahey): A teenage girl genius who wears green glasses. She is the niece of Hardacre. Unlike her uncle, she is friends with the crocs and helps protect their home against him.
Billy (voiced by Aaron Pedersen): An aboriginal teenage boy who works as a tour guide out in the riverbank showing tourists the Crocs. He is friends |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebUSB | WebUSB is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) specification for securely providing access to USB devices from web applications.
It was published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group. As of July 2021, it is in Draft Community status, and is supported by Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, QQ, Opera, and Samsung Internet.
Introduction
A Universal Serial Bus, or a USB is an industry standard communication protocol used to communicate data across connectors, and cables from computers to peripheral devices and/or other computers. WebUSB is a set of API calls that enable access to these hardware devices from web pages. WebUSB is developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The WebUSB API provides a safe, and developer familiar means of communication to edges devices from web pages. The WebUSB API integrates into existing USB libraries and shortens the development cycle for integrating new devices into the web environment by not needing to wait for browser support for these devices.
Early versions of WebUSB came out around as an alternative to Flash, Chrome Serial, and other custom approaches to connecting browsers to hardware. WebUSB aims to solve the four goals of any interface being; fast to make, cross platform, look good, accessibility.
Application to Internet of Things (IoT) architecture
WebUSB API's are able to bridge hardware protocols to internet protocols, enabling the creating of uniform gateways linking edge devices to a centralised networks.
The explosion in computing ability over the last few decades has led to an increase in edge devices. Devices such as lights, thermometers, HVAC, motors are increasingly integrated into centralised internet control servers. These devices have evolved from isolated and previously non-integrated development environments. Consequently, they lack the uniform and consistent communication protocol necessary to develop robust networks. The WebUSB's API framework standardises disparate protocols and is able to expose non-standard Universal Serial Bus (USB) compatible devices to the web.
The WebUSB looks to sit between the perception layer and the network layer. The main goals of software in this gateway are; Scalability, Cost and reliability. The cloud-based deployment of WebUSB libraries enables it to cover scalability, its low overhead deployment significantly lowers cost, and its continual in use development over its lifetime has enabled the framework to attain a high degree of reliability.
WebUSB has formed a cornerstone of the BIPES (Block based Integrated Platform for Embedded Systems) architecture framework. This systems architecture model aims to reduce complexity of IoT systems development by aggregating relevant software into 'Blocks' that are complete units of code and can be deployed to an edge device from a centralised cloud infrastructure. As already mentioned the role of WebUSB is critically tied to its ability to communicate to embedded software through the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahintel | Rahintel was the first privately owned television network in the Dominican Republic and the second such network to start television broadcasts in the DR after La Voz Dominicana. It was owned and operated by Grupo Financiero Universal until the latter's bankruptcy in the late-1980s and was headquartered in Santo Domingo.
Founding and early years
The channel's origins are traced as far back as 1959. Pedro Bonilla, owner of Radio HIN, expressed the will to launch a private television station and launches Rahintel (Radio HIN Televisión) on February 28, 1959 in a shop located near the grounds of the Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World, which had recently opened at the time.
The initial purpose of the creator and, therefore, of the TV company in general were, initially, to contribute to the education of the population and to serve the economic and industrial sectors as a vehicle for promoting their products.
Artistically, Rahintel was a little more liberal in contrast to La Voz Dominicana (the current 4RD). However, this climate of artistic freedom that opened in Rahintel bothered Jose Arismendy Trujillo (Petan), director of La Voz Dominicana (and brother of tyrant Rafael Leonidas Trujillo). But Petán couldn't remove the plant - or even acquire it - given the links between Pepe Bonilla and Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Martinez (Ramfis).
Because of that, shows like "La hora del moro" (Hour of the Chow) were created, which opened the doors to many young artists who tested their talents. This program was run by the Dominican musician Rafael Solano and he gave the start of the careers of singers such as Nini Cáffaro.
At this time, coverage was limited to the capital and some nearby towns and their programming only ran from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM and, on rare occasions, until 11. In addition to live programs, its programming consisted of American series and comedies.
Growth and expansion
Several years later, in 1966, their coverage extended into the country via channels 7 and 11 and its signal was extended to the north and northwest. Notably, in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Rahintel operated on channel 11. However, they managed to create another frequency to transmit channel 7 in Santiago. This channel was known as Canal 7 Cibao.
During the decade, Rahintel made their first satellite transmission, becoming the first channel of the Dominican Republic to do it.
Golden Age
In 1983, Pedro Bonilla sold the TV station to Grupo Financiero Universal, controlled at the time by Leonel Almonte, who would expand the plant and their television programming, along with Milton Peláez, who launched offers to several shows on Color Visión. The episode of the "war of the ballots" had begun.
At the time, Rahintel won this "war" and managed to move several famous and competitive programs to the channel, having also included cartoons and anime like Force Five, Candy Candy, Thundercats, among others.
In the late 80s, Grupo Financiero Universal collapse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodata%20Malvasia | Diodata Malvasia (c. 1532 - post-1617) was a nun within the convent of San Mattia in Bologna, Italy. She lived during the period of ecclesiastical reform that arose from the Council of Trent. She is known for being a prolific author, having published Brief Discourse on What Occurred to the Most Reverend Sisters of the Joined Convents of San Mattia and San Luca from the year 1573 (1575) and The Arrival and the Miraculous Workings of the Glorious Image of the Virgin Painted by Saint Luke (1617), and for having been involved in other literary works of her time.
Early life
Diodata Malvasia was born sometime in the early 1530s to Count Annibale Malvasia and Giulia Alamandini, making her from noble lineage and from families well represented in the Bolognese senate. Little else is known about her before she professed and became a nun.
San Mattia
Malvasia professed at San Mattia in 1547, as it was common for noble families to place daughters in convents. She served as subprioress, an official position below that of prioress, of the convent of San Mattia at the time that she signed the dedicatory of her first known work: Brief Discourse on What Occurred to the Most Reverend Sisters of the Joined Convents of San Mattia and San Luca from the year 1573. She would serve as prioress at San Mattia in 1592, 1606, 1611, and 1613 as well.
San Luca
San Luca was the sister convent of San Mattia, namesake and home to the Madonna of San Luca, the miraculous icon brought to Bologna in the late twelfth century, the subject of Malvasia’s second piece of work, The Arrival and the Miraculous Workings of the Glorious Image of the Virgin Painted by Saint Luke. During the period following the Council of Trent there was a large movement to dissolve convents across Europe, and both San Mattia and San Luca were threatened with this fate. This threat is what prompted Malvasia to create Brief Discourse, collecting letters from the sisters of San Mattia advocating to protect San Luca from being closed and to allow them to keep the Miraculous Madonna. While Malvasia was writing on what was done to keep convents alive during Tridentine reforms, San Luca took up many boarders following the period of the Council of Trent. Part of the Reformation brought on by the Council of Trent was also a movement for more education, and for both sexes. However, a place to teach girls separate from boys was needed, and here the convents stepped in, finding a way to keep themselves useful to society and to remain open. These boarders likely would eventually carry on the tradition of San Luca and San Mattia, and are certainly part of the audience who Malvasia wrote her works for.
Works
Malvasia is one of only a few of published women in the post-Tridentine era. While some former nuns joined the pamphlet propaganda against convents defending their decisions, Malvasia instead presents the perspective of a woman who chose to remain within the convent and who worked with her sisters to keep thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datascope%20Analytics | Datascope Analytics, or Datascope, is a data-driven consulting and design firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm was founded in 2009 by co-founders Mike Stringer and Dean Malmgren after the two realized the lodes that could be extracted from data science. In addition to analyzing massive amounts of data, the firm builds useful tools for people, organizations and companies to learn from data, and be more quantitative in how they approach different problems. Their data science services include strategy consulting, software development and training.
History
Datascope was founded in 2009 by Mike Stringer and Dean Malmgren. Stringer received a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado and a PhD in Physics from Northwestern University. Malmgren received a BS from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Northwestern University, where he was a research fellow alongside Stringer. It was during their time at Northwestern that they began to realize the lodes that could be extracted from data science, more specifically, the useful tools they can provide people, organization and companies.
The company has worked with industry leaders like Thomson Reuters, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Kaplan, Daegis, and the Detroit Pistons, to emerging tech companies and nonprofits.
In 2011, Datascope began the Data Science Chicago Meetup, which now has over 3,635 members, as well as Data Science Madison, founded in 2014, which currently has 363 active members. The group discussions range from tutorials on new technologies and their applications to success stories from practitioners, as well as cutting-edge academic data science and social activities. In 2016, they founded a Chicago Women in Machine Learning and Data Science team. The Meetup discusses machine learning and data science in an informal setting with the purpose of learning about top-notch research and technology, while building a community around women in these fields.
In 2014, Datascope launched a data science boot camp for New York-based Metis, part of the Kaplan education network, helping others accelerate their data science careers. Datascope helped create the curriculum. Recently, Kaplan expanded their data science boot camp into the San Francisco and Chicago market, still utilizing Datascope's curriculum as a basis.
Culture
Bootstrapped since their inception, Datascope worked out of Northwestern University's Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation their first year in business. Unlike most companies that have predetermined hierarchy, Datascope quickly adopted a completely flat company structure, which gives each employee the same monthly salary, and allows each employee the opportunity to take on a leadership role. These roles are chosen based on whichever employee finds a particular project to be the most mentally and creatively stimulating. To ensure this, Datascope custom-built an operating agreement to retain a flat organizational str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDKN-AM | XEDKN-AM is a radio station on 1230 AM in Guadalajara, Jalisco. It is owned by Radio Fórmula and carries its news and talk programming.
History
XEZAJ-AM 1220, to be located in Zapopan, received its concession on August 5, 1988. It was owned by Radiorama through concessionaire Mensajes Musicales, S.A. Radiorama sold it to Radio Fórmula in 2002 after changing the callsign to XEDKN-AM, and in 2006, it moved to 1230 kHz.
References
Radio stations in Guadalajara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Elot%20Pasteur | The Îlot Pasteur is a building on the western edge of Monaco under construction since 2016. It will be home to a new middle school, a post office, a recycling center, a data center, an underground carpark.
History
Its construction was announced in 2013, and it began in January 2016. The building is designed by architects Christian Curau and François Lallemand.
References
Buildings and structures in Monaco
2016 establishments in Monaco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Blue%20Book%20Network | The Blue Book Network, also known as The Contractor's Blue Book or simply as The Blue Book, is a marketing, workflow software and print media company.
The company name is rooted in the fact that for over 104 years they have published numerous regional buyers guides listing commercial construction companies, largely subcontractors and suppliers. Now twice annually (Spring & Fall), 32 regional blue book editions are delivered to property managers, facilities managers and commercial general contractors. It is often compared to a yellow pages for contractors, given the focus on mini ads within The Who's Who of Building & Construction and the more recent evolution of search engine marketing.
History
The company traces its roots to when Joseph O'Malley, president of The Society of the Allied Building Trades, first published a subcontractor's registry for New York City in 1913. The Subcontractors Register for the Allied Building Trades was a directory of subcontractors for the New York City area, listing companies by their trade. It was published by Joseph O'Malley (1893–1985) who was later joined by his nephew, Walter Francis O'Malley, as editor. The 1942 version calls itself: "A Classified List for the Allied Building Trades of Sub-Contractors, Material Dealers & Manufacturers, General Contractors & Builders, Architects — Engineers, Real Estate Management Firms".
In 1999, the company extended its focus to include bid messaging and private project reporting. A private and secure online plan room providing full reporting called BB-Bid was released at no cost to general contractors and property/facility managers. The BB-Bid software (now rebranded as http://OneTeam.build) allows a user to upload a construction project onto the site and message the bid to the subcontracting and supplier community, regardless of their presence in the paid print directory.
In 2013, the company became an Employee Owned Corporation with the creation of an employee stock ownership plan devised by then owner James O'Malley. James O'Malley had been the CEO for over 50 years.
In 2014, they partnered with BUILD to help commercial construction companies secure their targeted domain and appropriate domain name registration.
In 2016, The Blue Book introduced its new regional construction magazines - The Who's Who in Building & Construction (and each edition includes their regional buyer's guide). The magazines are published in both the spring and fall.
In 2019 The Blue Book Network, released Engage, a FREE business communication app built specifically for the US commercial construction industry.
References
Marketing software
Workflow applications
Mass media companies of the United States
Marketing companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHBON-FM | XHBON-FM is a radio station on 89.5 FM in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It is owned by Radio Fórmula and carries its news and talk programming.
History
XEGJ-AM received its concession on June 23, 1950. It was owned by Radio Tiempo de Occidente, S.A. and became XEQP-AM on November 21, 1964. It was known for several decades as Radio Variedades.
In 1975, XEQP was bought by Organización Independiente de Radio. OIR sold XEQP to Organización PRAM, S.A. de C.V. in 1992. PRAM changed the callsign to XEBON-AM on December 10, 1996. During most of this time, XEBON carried a regional Mexican format known as Radio Morena. Unidifusión acquired XEBON in 1998, and Radio Fórmula picked up the station in 2000.
On April 9, 2018, XEBON-AM conducted its second-wave migration to FM as XHBON-FM 89.5. The station broadcasts in HD Radio and offers four total subchannels, including feeds of XEGAJ-AM and XEDKN-AM and the Trión musical format.
References
Radio stations in Guadalajara
Radio Fórmula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit%20University%20System | The Jesuit University System (SUJ) is a network of private universities that belong to the Mexican Province of the Society of Jesus, Jesuits, who have universities around the world joined by such associations.
Universities
The system consists of seven universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus, which together function to fulfill the mission of the educational work of the Mexican Province of the Society of Jesus. Currently the universities that comprise it are:
Intercultural Institute of Ayuuk (ISIA), Jaltepec, Oaxaca. Founded in 2006.
Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO), Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. This is also called Jesuit University of Guadalajara, and was founded in 1957.
Iberoamericana University, Mexico City.
Universidad Iberoamericana León. Founded in 1978.
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla. The university also runs two prep schools, one in Tlaxcala opened in 2007 and one in Veracruz that opened in 2008.
Ibero-American University of Torreón
Ibero-American University Tijuana
References
External links
Jesuit University System (SUJ)
Jesuit universities and colleges in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNTV%20%28disambiguation%29 | UNTV is one of the television networks in the Philippines.
UNTV may also refer to:
UN Web TV, formerly known as United Nations Television
DWAO-TV, the flagship station of UNTV
DZXQ-AM the Radio station of Radyo La Verdad 1350 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20Horizon%20League%20women%27s%20basketball%20tournament | The 2016 Horizon League women's basketball tournament was a postseason tournament from March 10 through March 13. For the first time every game will be available on an ESPN Network. Rounds 1 & 2 will be on ESPN3, with the semifinals on TWCS and simulcast on ESPN3. The championship will be on ESPNU. As a D2 to D1 transitioning school, Northern Kentucky were ineligible to compete in the NCAA tournament until the 2018 season, so they can not win the conference tournament since the winner received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. However Northern Kentucky is eligible to win the regular season title and is eligible to compete in the WNIT or WBI should they be invited. The tournament champion will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA women's tournament.
Seeds
All 10 Horizon League schools participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded by 2015–16 Horizon League season record. The top 6 teams received a first-round bye and top 2 teams will get a double bye.
Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season:
Schedule
Tournament bracket
* - denotes overtime period
References
External links
Horizon League Women's Basketball Tournament
Horizon League women's basketball tournament
2015–16 Horizon League women's basketball season |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield%20%28multithreading%29 | In computer science, yield is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading, of forcing a processor to relinquish control of the current running thread, and sending it to the end of the running queue, of the same scheduling priority.
Examples
Different programming languages implement yielding in various ways.
pthread_yield() in the language C, a low level implementation, provided by POSIX Threads
std::this_thread::yield() in the language C++, introduced in C++11.
The Yield method is provided in various object-oriented programming languages with multithreading support, such as C# and Java. OOP languages generally provide class abstractions for thread objects.
yield in Kotlin
In coroutines
Coroutines are a fine-grained concurrency primitive, which may be required to yield explicitly. They may enable specifying another function to take control. Coroutines that explicitly yield allow cooperative multitasking.
See also
Coroutines
Java (software platform)
Common Language Runtime
Java virtual machine
Actor model
References
Operating system technology
Concurrent computing
Threads (computing)
Java platform
Computing platforms
Compiler optimizations
Software optimization
Method (computer programming) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Judicial%20Network | The European Judicial Network (EJN) is a network of contact points within the EU designed to facilitate judicial cooperation across borders. With a focus on serious crime (such as organized crime, corruption, drug smuggling and terrorism), it helps form and maintain contacts between agencies in member states.
The Network was created by Joint Action 98/428 in 1998, to fulfil recommendation no. 21 of the Action Plan to Combat Organised Crime adopted by the Council of the European Union on 28 April 1997.
A priority of the EJN is the dissemination of information to its citizens, judges and legal practitioners, primarily through its Web site. The EJN’s main functions are: Facilitating judicial cooperation among the Member States; travelling to meet the contact points of other State Members, as necessary; providing the local judicial authorities of their country with the necessary legal and practical information; providing the local judicial authorities of other member states the necessary legal and practical information; improving the coordination of the judicial cases.
A member state’s Contact Point can identify relevant other Contact Points via the European Justice Atlas.
The secretariat of the EJN functions as an independent autonomous unit within the staff of Eurojust, based in The Hague in the Netherlands.
References
External links
European Judicial Network
Agencies of the European Union
Law enforcement in Europe
1998 establishments in the Netherlands
1998 in the European Union
Government agencies established in 1998
Organisations based in The Hague
Judicial cooperation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUKA%20Robot%20Language | The KUKA Robot Language, also known as KRL, is a proprietary programming language similar to Pascal and used to control KUKA robots.
Features
Any KRL code consists of two different files with the same name: a permanent data file, with the extension .dat, and a movement command file, with the extension .src.
KRL has four basic data types:
User can also create custom data types using enumeration. Enumeration and basic data types can be used to create arrays and structures.
Motion commands support several types of structures as data formats:
FRAME {X 10, Y 0, Z 500, A 0, B 0, C 0}
POS {X 10, Y 0, Z 500, A 0, B 0, C 0, S 6, T 21}
E3POS {X 10, Y 0, Z 500, A 0, B 0, C 0, S 6, T 21, E1 0, E2 0, E3 0}
E6POS {X 10, Y 0, Z 500, A 0, B 0, C 0, S 6, T 21, E1 0, E2 0, E3 0, E4 0, E5 0, E6 0}
AXIS {A1 0, A2 -90, A3 90, A4 0, A5 0, A6 0}
etc.
Robot joints are A1-A6.
External axis joints are E1-E6.
Frame value is sufficient to specify TCP location and orientation. But to also determine unique robot arm pose, additional info is required - S and T or
Status and Turn. They are collection of flags stored as integer.
See also
RAPID
References
Sources
External links
KRL Reference Guide. Release 4.1
Robotics at KUKA
Robot programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20tree%20search | Distributed tree search (DTS) algorithm is a class of algorithms for searching values in an efficient and distributed manner. Their purpose is to iterate through a tree by working along multiple branches in parallel and merging the results of each branch into one common solution, in order to minimize time spent searching for a value in a tree-like data structure.
The original paper was written in 1988 by Chris Ferguson and Richard E. Korf, from the University of California's Computer Science Department. They used multiple other chess AIs to develop this wider range algorithm.
Overview
The Distributed Tree Search Algorithm (also known as Korf–Ferguson algorithm) was created to solve the following problem: "Given a tree with non-uniform branching factor and depth, search it in parallel with an arbitrary number of processors as fast as possible."
The top-level part of this algorithm is general and does not use a particular existing type of tree-search, but it can be easily specialized to fit any type of non-distributed tree-search.
DTS consists of using multiple processes, each with a node and a set of processors attached, with the goal of searching the sub-tree below the said node. Each process then divides itself into multiple coordinated sub-processes which recursively divide themselves again until an optimal way to search the tree has been found based on the number of processors available to each process. Once a process finishes, DTS dynamically reassigns the processors to other processes as to keep the efficiency to a maximum through good load-balancing, especially in irregular trees.
Once a process finishes searching, it recursively sends and merges a resulting signal to its parent-process, until all the different sub-answers have been merged and the entire problem has been solved.
Applications
DTS is only applicable under two major conditions: the data structure to search through is a tree, and the algorithm can make use of at least one computation unit (Although it cannot be considered as distributed if there is only one).
One major example of the everyday use of DTS is network routing. The Internet can be seen as a tree of IP addresses, and an analogy to a routing protocol could be how post offices work in the real world. Since there are over 4.3 billion IP addresses currently, society heavily depends on the time the data takes to find its way to its destination. As such, IP-routing divides the work into multiple sub-units which each have different scales of calculation capabilities and use each other's result to find the route in a very efficient manner. This is an instance of DTS that affects over 43% of the world's population, for reasons going from entertainment to national security.
Alternatives
Although DTS is currently one of the most widely used algorithms, many of its applications have alternatives to them which could potentially develop into more efficient, less resource-demanding solutions, were they more researched.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewired | Rewiring is work done by an electrician.
Rewire, Rewired and variants may also refer to:
Books
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, collection of stories 2007
Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, nonfiction book about contemporary globalization 2013
Rewired, poetry collection by Friendly Street Poets 2008
Music
Rewire Festival, an annual international festival for adventurous music, held in The Netherlands
Rewired Tour, by Runrig 2012
Rewired Tour, by The Electric Prunes
Albums
Rewired (album), album by Mike + The Mechanics
Rewired – The Electric Collection, album by Daryl Stuermer
Rewired, compilation album by Richard Clapton
Rewired, remix album by Raymond Scott 2014
Rewired, album by the Tyla Gang 2010
Rewired, DVD by The Electric Prunes 2003
Songs
"Re-Wired" (song), song by Kasabian
"Rewired", song by The Electric Prunes from California (The Electric Prunes album)
"Rewired" by Paul Carrack Mike + the Mechanics from Rewired (album)
Other uses
Rewire (company), Israeli banking and financial services company founded in 2015
Rewire (website), a website focused on reproductive and sexual health
ReWire software protocol, jointly developed by Propellerhead and Steinberg, allowing remote control and data transfer among digital audio editing
Rewired (demoparty)
See also
Young Rewired State
Rewired State
Melt Zonk Rewire album by the New Klezmer Trio
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, 1994 American post apocalyptic science fiction film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danhai%20light%20rail | The Danhai light rail (, also known as Tamhai light rail) is a light rail transit (LRT) network in Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It opened on 23 December 2018 and began service the following day.
History
The system is built to provide public transportation to Danhai New Town, whose population is expected to reach 340,000 by 2041.
The initial feasibility study for a heavy-capacity extension line of the Taipei Metro was completed in 1992. Further planning reports were completed in 1998 and 1999. At that time the project was put on hold due to budgetary considerations. In 2005, planning shifted from a metro system to a light rail system. A light rail feasibility study was completed in 2007, with a review of funding and operation throughout 2008. The study was completed and presented for approval to the Executive Yuan in 2010.
The light rail two-stage construction plan by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications was approved by Council for Economic Planning and Development on 7 January 2013. The first phase of the construction began in September 2014.
The system is projected to carry 120,000 passengers per day.
Route
The system currently consists of 14 stations, with 6 additional stations planned.. Tracks are at ground level and elevated. The total length will be .
The Hongshulin–Kanding section opened in December 2018. Trains run from Station northward and turn west along Zhongzheng East Road, Highway No. 2, Binhai Road and Shalun Road. Seven of its eleven stations are elevated, with the remaining four at ground level. The bike sharing service YouBike is available at seven stations.
A branch with three stations opened in November 2020. The branch runs from , turns eastward to join the Kanding branch, with which it shares and three stops. The line follows Highway No. 2B, Binhai Road, and Shalun Road. All nine stations will be at ground level.
Stations
In operation
Operation Services
G1 - Bound for Kanding
G2 - Bound for Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf
Under construction
Mackay Street was originally planned as two one-way stations, but now that plan has changed due to the strong opposition of the residents in Tamsui Old Street.
Network map
Rolling stock
The cars were built in Taiwan by the Taiwan Rolling Stock Company under the first program to domestically build light rail vehicles. The company partnered with the German firm Voith Engineering Services on the design of the cars. Final assembly and the manufacturing of many components were done in Taiwan. Through this project, Taiwan seeks to lessen its dependence on foreign manufacturers for rail systems.
Each of the 15 bi-directional standard gauge trams is long and can carry up to 265 passengers. They are designed with electrical onboard storage capacity so that they can travel short distances under their power; this feature allows simplification of the overhead power cabling by eliminating the need to run the power cables across major intersections. The p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble%20Girls%21 | is a series of Japanese social network games developed by Happy Elements K.K. The games are all collectible card games with visual novel elements, mainly written by Japanese novelist Akira. It was first launched as a GREE game in November 2012, and was released for Android and iOS devices in 2013. Service for the original version was terminated in 2015. The game was revised and re-released as in October 2016. Service for Ensemble Girls!! was planned to end in November 2017, but this was pushed back to February 2018. Later that year, Happy Elements released an app called Ensemble Girls !! ~ Memories ~ that allows players to browse the story.
Plot
Kimisaki Private Academy is an elite girls' school which planned to become a coeducational school in the coming academic year. The player is a second-year student newly transferred to Kimisaki as the only male student of the school. The player enjoys the new school life, helps the girls to solve problems and crisis, and later finds out the reason why he transferred to Kimisaki.
Music
Ensemble Girls!! Theme Song "Let's Make☆Ensemble!" (Japanese: あんさんぶるガールズ!! テーマソング 『れっつめいく☆あんさんぶる！』)
Song by：Merry-melody & Misaki (メリメロマル) (Voiced by: Ayaka Ōhashi、Azusa Tadokoro、Chinatsu Akasaki)
"Seinarukana, Kurokitsukinoshizuku" (Japanese『聖ナルカナ、黒キ月ノ雫』)
Song by：Kimisaki Light Music Club (君咲学院軽音部) (Voiced by: Risa Shimizu、Mikako Komatsu、Megumi Han、Hisako Kanemoto)
See also
Ensemble Stars!, a spin-off game featuring male idols
References
External links
あんさんぶるガールズ！ 公式サイト (Ensemble Girls! official website - Japanese)
2012 video games
Android (operating system) games
Digital collectible card games
IOS games
Japan-exclusive video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Comics%20Super%20Heroes%3A%20Justice%20League%20%E2%80%93%20Gotham%20City%20Breakout | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Gotham City Breakout is a 2016 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on the Lego and DC Comics brands, which was released on June 21, 2016 in Digital HD and on July 12, 2016 on Blu-ray and DVD. It is the sixth Lego DC Comics film following Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Attack of the Legion of Doom and Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Cosmic Clash. Some actors from various DC properties reprise their respective roles, including Nolan North as Superman, Grey DeLisle as Wonder Woman and Troy Baker as Batman. The film received positive reviews, with praise for the action, although the consumerism was criticized.
Plot
Batman and Robin chase Penguin and Harley Quinn, and after defeating Harley and Poison Ivy, Batman leaves Robin with the defeated criminals and chases after a criminal who resembles a ninja. After cornering the criminal in an alleyway, Batman is able to deduce that he is Nightwing, who was attempting to lure Batman into a surprise birthday party. Batgirl, Robin and Nightwing reveal that as a present for Batman, they decided to take him on vacation. Superman is willing to temporarily replace Batman, believing that Gotham's criminals would be easy to defeat due to most lacking superpowers. The Justice League and Teen Titans are able to convince Batman to accept the vacation, while Robin stays behind to help Superman.
Meanwhile, at Arkham Asylum, Joker escapes by digging out with a spoon, and Batman figures out that Nightwing and Batgirl plan to have him visit the dojo of his former martial arts sensei, Madame Mantis. After a brief reunion battle with his former sensei, Batman discovers it was actually a disguised minion of Deathstroke. Batman, Batgirl, and Nightwing then find Deathstroke and follow him into a cave.
Meanwhile, in Gotham City, Superman finds out about Joker's escape and ignores Robin's warning about him. Joker uses a spoon to reflect Superman's heat vision, destroying a section of Arkham Asylum. Unfortunately, this allows Joker to trick Superman into freeing Harley Quinn, Penguin, Poison Ivy and Scarecrow from Arkham. Superman calls Cyborg in hopes of gaining assistance to stop the escaped villains.
Batman, Nightwing, and Batgirl end up falling down a waterfall in the cave. Batman explains his past with Deathstroke. At the bottom of the waterfall, Batman, Nightwing, and Batgirl discover an underground kingdom of Trogowogs (a hidden underground race of short, green humanoids). They immediately attack Batman, who ultimately surrenders to Deathstroke when the latter threatens to kill Nightwing and Batgirl. They are then introduced to the Trogowog leader, Bane, who gained his position using a pink crystal known as the Psyche Stone.
Back in Gotham, Poison Ivy easily defeats Superman and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Torist | The Torist was a literary journal first released in late 2015, published on the Tor anonymity network. It features short stories, essays and poetry. One of the reasons for publishing on Tor was to return to the idea of rummaging through antiquarian shops – "It gets back to the time when you had to find The Evergreen Review in the stacks at the vintage bookstore" – and the zine can only be accessed through Tor, a dark web site. Its founders are the pseudonymous G.M.H., named after the reclusive 19th-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Prof. Robert W. Gehl, who is a communication professor focusing on new media at the University of Utah. The two met on the dark-net social network Galaxy, and started collaborating in 2014, taking two years to produce the first issue of the journal. Submissions are made through the anonymous and open-source GlobaLeaks platform — intended for whistleblowing. The founders hope this anonymity can bolster creativity among submissions, and wish to show that anonymity online isn't only for illicit activities.
Entries in the first issue were all named, including acclaimed poet Alissa Quart as well as other authors such as: Vance Osterhout, Linda Kronman, Andreas Zingerle, Nathanel Bassett, Peter Conlin, and JM Porup.
The entries have also gravitated towards issues concerning the modern internet, such as: prolific advertising, surveillance, censorship, and Edward Snowden. entries are being accepted for the second edition of the magazine/journal, on a non-paid basis, but now allowing also anonymous entries. All content in The Torist is published under a Creative Commons license.
As of July 2021, The Torist is offline, due to the shutdown of Tor's Version 2 Onion Services and the fact that The Torist has never moved to Onion Services Version 3. It is likely that The Torist was taken offline before that date.
References
External links
Tumblr blog
Literary magazines published in the United States
Online magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2015
Tor onion services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrakant%20Sheth | Chandrakant Sheth (born 3 February 1938) is a Gujarati poet, essayist, critic, translator and compiler from Gujarat, India. His pen names include Aryaputra, Nand Samavedi, Balchadra and Daksh Prajapati. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati in 1986 for his book Dhoolmani Paglio.
Biography
Sheth was born on 3 February 1938 in Kalol, a village in Panchmahal district to Trikamlal. His family is native to Thasra village of Kheda. He matriculated in 1954, completed BA in 1958, and MA in 1961 from Gujarat University with Gujarati and Sanskrit as his core subjects. He completed his Ph.D. in 1979 from Gujarat Vidyapith with a research thesis on Umashankar Joshi.
He served as a part-time lecturer at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad in 1961–62. He served as a professor at different colleges in Gujarat including Kapadvanj College (1962–63), Gujarat Vidyapith (1963–1966), Bhakta Vallabh Dhola College (1966–1972) and again Gujarat Vidyapith (1972–1979). From 1979 to 1984, he served as the manager of K. L. Swadhyay Mandir, run by Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, and also worked as a co-editor of Gujarati Sahityakosh. He again joined Gujarat Vidyapith and retired as the head of Gujarati Department. He serves as an honorary at Gujarati Vishwkosh Trust, Ahmedabad.
Works
Sheth has published several poetry collections, Pavan Rooperi (1972) and Ughadati Diwalo (1974) are his early collections of poetry. Padagha ni Pele Par (1948) and Gagan Kholati Bari (1990) are his collections of songs, Ek Tahuko Pandma (1986) is collection of ghazals while Chandaliya ni Gadi (1980) and Hu To Chalu Mari Jem! (2001) are his collections of children's poetry. His other collections are Shaksharata Geeto (1990), Shage Ek Zalhalie (1999), Undanmathi Ave, Unchanma Lai Jay (2004) and Jal Vadal Ane Veej (2005). Ramesh M. Trivedi has edited selected poems as Chandrakant Sheth na Kavyo (2001).
Sheth is a prolific essayist. His Nand Samvedi (1980, 2001) is a collection of modernist essays; Chehra Bhitar Chehra (1986) is a collection of 21 biographical essays; Het ane Halvash (1980) and Vahal ane Vinod (1995) have 33 and 24 essays respectively with light humour; Vaninu Sat, Vanini Shakti (1997) is a collection of short essays on words of Veda and Upnishad while Gun ane Garima (1997) is a collection of 31 essays. Labhshankar Thakar edited and published selected essays as Aa-nand Parva (2002). His other collections of humorous essays are Halavi Kalamna Ful (2005) and Chandrakant Shethni Pratinidhi Hasyarachnao (2007).
Dhoolmani Pagalio (1984) is his autobiographical work about his childhood; Dharatina Chand, Dharatina Sooraj (1996,1997) is a collection of biographical essays; America Bhas Abhas (2001) is a travelogue; Swapnapinjar (1983) is a collection of one-act plays; E Balconyvali Chhokari Ane... (1995) is a collection of stories whileE Ane Hu (1991) is a humour story.
His works of criticism include Kavyapratyaksh (1976), Arthantar (1978), Ramnarayan V. Pathak (1979), Irony nu Swar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepArt | DeepArt or DeepArt.io was a website that allowed users to create artistic images by using an algorithm to redraw one image using the stylistic elements of another image. with "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" a Neural Style Transfer algorithm that was developed by several of its creators to separate style elements from a piece of art. The tool allows users to create imitation works of art using the style of various artists. The neural algorithm is used by the Deep Art website to create a representation of an image provided by the user by using the 'style' of another image provided by the user. A similar program, Prisma, is an iOS and Android app that was based on the open source programming that underlies DeepArt.
See also
Computational creativity
References
External links
Website
Algorithmic art
Deep learning software applications
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
2015 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEYC-AM | XEYC-AM is a radio station on 1460 AM in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, part of the Radio Fórmula talk radio network.
History
XEYC received its first concession on February 25, 1949. It operated on 1460 kHz with 1,000 watts and was owned by and named for Ysela Fernández Caballero de Yañez. The station was known as "Radio Ysela". Fernández Caballero died on June 21, 1972.
XEYC was sold to XEYC, S.A., in 1980. In 1998, the concession was sold directly to Fórmula in the person of Rogerio Azcárraga Madero. The 1999 concession listed XEYC on 1030 kHz with 5,000 watts day and 500 watts night. The 2009 concession lists 1460 kHz as the frequency, but promotional materials mentioned 1030 AM until XEYC returned to 1460 on May 27, 2018.
References
1949 establishments in Mexico
News and talk radio stations in Mexico
Radio Fórmula
Radio stations established in 1949
Radio stations in Chihuahua
Spanish-language radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kalgoorlie | The Kalgoorlie tramway network served the Western Australian city of Kalgoorlie from 1902 until 1952.
History
In 1899 English company Kalgoorlie Electric Tramway Limited was granted a concession to build a tramway in Kalgoorlie. It shared common ownership with Perth Electric Tramways Limited. Construction commenced in February 1902 with the first section between Kalgoorle and Boulder opening on 20 May 1902.
The network was progressively expanded to operate the following routes by 1905:
between Kalgoorlie and Boulder via
Salisbury Road
Federal Road
Boulder Road
within Kalgoorlie to
Outridge Terrace
Lamington Heights via Maritana Street
Collins Street
Kalgoorlie railway station
Hannan Street
Kalgoorlie Racecourse
South Kalgoorlie
within Boulder to
Kamballie
Fimiston
Hopkins Street
Boulder Racecourse
With the goldfields in decline, some lines closed in the 1920s. After a gold-led revival in the 1930s, the network further contracted in the 1940s. On 31 March 1947 the remainder of the network was taken over by the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board. Tram operations ceased on 10 March 1952.
Rolling stock
The initial rolling stock consisted of fifteen single-truck and ten bogie cars manufactured by J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia. The single truck cars were equipped with two 35 hp General Electric motors, and the double-truck cars with four motors of the same capacity. Five of the bogie cars were transferred to Perth in 1903, with five replacements delivered to Kalgoorlie in 1904. Seven trailer cars were purchased at the same time. In the 1930s an additional eight trams were bodied locally by the Kalgoorlie Electric Tramway.
Two of the trams from the network have been preserved by the Perth Electric Tramway Society, at its heritage tramway in Whiteman Park, Perth. A third has been preserved by the Sydney Tramway Museum.
References
External links
City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder
Public transport in regional Western Australia
Kalgoorlie
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Australia
1902 establishments in Australia
1952 disestablishments in Australia
History of rail transport in Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Love%20OPM | We Love OPM: The Celebrity Sing-Offs (stylized as We ♥ OPM: The Celebrity Sing-Offs) is a Philippine reality music competition show on ABS-CBN network hosted by Anne Curtis with Eric Nicolas and mentored by Jay-R, Yeng Constantino, Nyoy Volante, KZ Tandingan, Erik Santos and Richard Poon. It premiered on ABS-CBN nationwide and worldwide on The Filipino Channel on May 14, 2016. It aired on ABS-CBN every Saturdays after MMK and Sundays after Rated K.
Fresh from the success of I Love OPM, this is the follow-up tribute to OPM. This time, they're giving tributes to OPM Icons.
After 10 weeks of completion, Erik Santos' team Tres Kantos was named Grand CelebriTeam after garnering 80.45% of the combined OPM Icon and public's votes (online and text). Tres Kantos won ₱2,000,000 (about £32,375, €38,750, US$42,750), half of which they donated to their chosen beneficiary, Casa San Miguel Foundation.
Celebrity Mentors
Erik Santos - King of Teleserye, Prince of Pop & Movie Themesong
Jay-R - King of R&B
KZ Tandingan - Soul Supreme
Nyoy Volante - King of Acoustic Pop
Richard Poon - Philippines' Crooner
Yeng Constantino - Pop Rock Superstar
Guest Mentor(s)
Kyla - Queen of R&B (Substitute for Jay R) (Week 2, 4, 8 & 9)
CelebriTeams
Tres Kantos by Erik Santos
Dominador Aviola aka Daddy D
Bugoy Drilon
Jovit Baldivino
O Diva by KZ Tandingan
Liezel Garcia
Emmanuelle Vera
Klarisse De Guzman
Hot Spots by Jay-R
Markki Stroem
Ryan Sy
Alex Diaz
Power Chords by Nyoy Volante
Kaye Cal
Marlo Mortel
Marion Aunor
Voice Next Door by Richard Poon
Kyle Echarri
Bailey May
Juan Karlos Labajo
Oh My Girls by Yeng Constantino
Ylona Garcia
Krissha Viaje
Alexa Ilacad
Episodes
Week 1 (May 14 and 15, 2016)
OPM Icon: Martin Nievera
Week 2 (May 21 and 22, 2016)
OPM Icon: Sharon Cuneta
- *Guest Mentor
Week 3 (May 28 and 29, 2016)
OPM Icon: Sonny Parsons with the rest of the Hagibis
Week 4 (June 4 and 5, 2016)
OPM Icon: Gary Valenciano
- *Guest Mentor
Week 5 (June 12, 2016)
Due to Saturday's episode being pre-empted to give way to the free TV premiere of Heneral Luna, the show only aired on Sunday and is composed of entirely duet performances.
OPM Icon: Rey Valera
Week 6 (June 18 and 19, 2016)
OPM Icon: Rico J. Puno
Week 7 (June 25 and 26, 2016)
OPM Icon: Aegis
Week 8 (July 2 and 3, 2016)
OPM Icon: Vice Ganda
- *Guest Mentor
Week 9 (July 9 and 10, 2016)
OPM Icons: Jim Paredes and Boboy Garovillo of APO Hiking Society
- *Guest Mentor
Semi Finals (July 16, 2016)
The Semi-Finals were held live from the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila. Juan Karlos Labajo, one of the members of Voice Next Door was not present due to being a housemate in Pinoy Big Brother: Lucky 7.
Opening song: Tagumpay Nating Lahat by Lea Salonga
Performers: Celebriteams
Other performance: Ang Himig Natin by Juan de la Cruz Band
Performers: Celebriteam Mentors
OPM Icons: The Jukebox Queens (Claire de la Fuente, Eva Eugenio and Imelda Papin)
Grand Celebri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Angels | Cambridge Angels is a UK business angel network providing smart capital to entrepreneurs.
They are a Cambridge-based group.
Their members, most of whom are successful entrepreneurs, invest in a wide range of start-up and scale-up businesses with a particular focus on deep-tech, and tools and technologies supporting healthcare.
The group was founded in 2001 by Robert Sansom and David Cleevely.
Investee companies
A list of their portfolio companies can be found here: https://cambridgeangels.com/portfolio
Members and previous Chairs
The current chair of Cambridge Angels is Pam Garside. Previous Chairs include Robert Sansom, David Cleevely, John Yeomans, Peter Cowley and Simon Thorpe.
Cambridge Angels is a group of more than 60 high-net worth investors who have been entrepreneurs. Members invest in and mentor start-up and early-stage companies in Cambridge, London, Oxford and throughout the UK.
Typical funding requirements that Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £150k to £1.5m - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have raised significant follow-on funding from their Members and their venture capital partners over several funding rounds.
See also
Comparison of business angel networks
Private equity
Venture capital
References
Financial services companies of the United Kingdom
Innovation in the United Kingdom
Investment companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Seafarers%27%20Welfare%20and%20Assistance%20Network | The International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) is an international NGO and UK registered charity that aims to assists seafarers and their families. ISWAN is the result of a merger between two organisations. These were the International Committee on Seafarers' Welfare (ICSW) and the International Seafarers Assistance Network (ISAN). ICSW was formed in 1973 and ISAN was established in the late 1990s. These two welfare bodies merged in April 2013 to form ISWAN. ISWAN's headquarters are in Croydon, Greater London.
ISWAN promotes seafarers welfare worldwide. ISWAN is a membership organisation with the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and the International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) as core members. Any maritime organisation that is involved with setting standards for welfare for seafarers is eligible to join.
ISWAN runs a welfare service SeafarerHelp. ISWAN also runs the Seafarer Emergency Welfare Fund, produces health information for seafarers, and provides information on the location of seafarer centres. ISWAN works with its members for the implementation of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention 2006, which is designed to provide workers rights and standards in the maritime industry. In August 2015 ISWAN merged with the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Program (MPHRP) and this is now a program under the ISWAN banner. There is an Emergency Fund for survivors of piracy and their families that is co-ordinated by the MPHRP.
Funding
ISWAN is funded by membership subscriptions, grants from foundations, sponsorship, and earned income.
Research and projects
ISWAN engages in studies, research and projects related to seafarer welfare, including conditions on board ships, health and gender issues. These include:
Women Seafarers' Health and Welfare survey was conducted with International Maritime Health Association, the ITF, and Seafarers Hospital Society in 2015
HIV/Aids pilot project
Port Levies and Sustainable Welfare conducted in 2013
International Port Welfare Partnership project in conjunction with the International Transport Workers' Federation Seafarers' Trust (ITFST) and managed by the Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB).
Events and Activities
ISWAN runs events during Seafarer Awareness Week as part of The International Maritime Organisations' (IMO) Day of the Seafarer day which is recognised by the United Nations as an official international day.
The International Seafarers' Welfare Awards are an annual event funded by the ITF Seafarers' Trust. Other supporters involved include the IMO, International Chamber of Shipping, and the International Labour Organisation amongst other maritime bodies. The awards have four main categories- Seafarer Centre of the Year, Port of the Year, Shipping Company of the Year and the Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Year. The awards are designed to recognise good practise in seafarer welfare.
The Day of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecos%20de%20mi%20tierra | Ecos de mi tierra is an Argentine TV program focused on Argentine folk music.
Awards
2015 Martín Fierro Awards
Best musical program
References
Televisión Pública original programming
2008 Argentine television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla%20Palmer | Camilla Palmer is a solicitor specialising in employment law and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2015. She founded the legal partnership Palmer Wade, the forum Women's Equality Network and the charity Your Employment Settlement Service (YESS) which arbitrates and negotiates employment disputes.
Biography
She started her career as the secretary for Henry Hodge at the Child Poverty Action Group. She subsequently worked at Gingerbread advising single parents and then took a law degree at the London School of Economics where she focused upon social justice, studying the legal aspects of sex discrimination. She then worked for a variety of legal employers, including Bindmans LLP, before setting up her own partnership, Palmer Wade, with Joanna Wade in 2002. In 2009, she joined the firm Leigh Day to lead their employment team and represented the high-profile client Miriam O'Reilly at an employment tribunal in 2011, suing the BBC for unfair dismissal on the grounds that this was ageism. The case was won but O'Reilly left the BBC a year later and founded the Women's Equality Network with Palmer – a forum for women facing similar discrimination. In 2014, Palmer started the charity Your Employment Settlement Service (YESS) which aims to provide legal advice to employers and employees so that they can resolve disputes economically without the expense of litigation.
She is married to Sir Andrew Nicol who is a High Court judge and they have two sons, Jamie and Robert Palmer. Her other relations include Anthony Palmer and Nick Palmer. Her pastimes include tennis and walking.
Publications
Sex and Race Discrimination in Employment (1987)
Discrimination at Work: The Law on Sex, Race and Disability Discrimination (1997)
Discrimination Law Handbook (2007)
References
External links
Camilla Palmer QC (Hon) – profile at YESS
Alumni of the London School of Economics
21st-century King's Counsel
English solicitors
Wives of knights |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient%20automaton | In computer science, in particular in formal language theory, a quotient automaton can be obtained from a given nondeterministic finite automaton by joining some of its states. The quotient recognizes a superset of the given automaton; in some cases, handled by the Myhill–Nerode theorem, both languages are equal.
Formal definition
A (nondeterministic) finite automaton is a quintuple A = ⟨Σ, S, s0, δ, Sf⟩, where:
Σ is the input alphabet (a finite, non-empty set of symbols),
S is a finite, non-empty set of states,
s0 is the initial state, an element of S,
δ is the state-transition relation: δ ⊆ S × Σ × S, and
Sf is the set of final states, a (possibly empty) subset of S.
A string a1...an ∈ Σ* is recognized by A if there exist states s1, ..., sn ∈ S such that ⟨si-1,ai,si⟩ ∈ δ for i=1,...,n, and sn ∈ Sf. The set of all strings recognized by A is called the language recognized by A; it is denoted as L(A).
For an equivalence relation ≈ on the set S of A’s states, the quotient automaton A/≈ = ⟨Σ, S/≈, [s0], δ/≈, Sf/≈⟩ is defined by
the input alphabet Σ being the same as that of A,
the state set S/≈ being the set of all equivalence classes of states from S,
the start state [s0] being the equivalence class of A’s start state,
the state-transition relation δ/≈ being defined by δ/≈([s],a,[t]) if δ(s,a,t) for some s ∈ [s] and t ∈ [t], and
the set of final states Sf/≈ being the set of all equivalence classes of final states from Sf.
The process of computing A/≈ is also called factoring A by ≈.
Example
For example, the automaton A shown in the first row of the table is formally defined by
ΣA = {0,1},
SA = {a,b,c,d},
s = a,
δA = { ⟨a,1,b⟩, ⟨b,0,c⟩, ⟨c,0,d⟩ }, and
S = { b,c,d }.
It recognizes the finite set of strings { 1, 10, 100 }; this set can also be denoted by the regular expression "1+10+100".
The relation (≈) = { ⟨a,a⟩, ⟨a,b⟩, ⟨b,a⟩, ⟨b,b⟩, ⟨c,c⟩, ⟨c,d⟩, ⟨d,c⟩, ⟨d,d⟩ }, more briefly denoted as a≈b,c≈d, is an equivalence relation on the set {a,b,c,d} of automaton A’s states.
Building the quotient of A by that relation results in automaton C in the third table row; it is formally defined by
ΣC = {0,1},
SC = {a,c},
s = a,
δC = { ⟨a,1,a⟩, ⟨a,0,c⟩, ⟨c,0,c⟩ }, and
S = { a,c }.
It recognizes the finite set of all strings composed of arbitrarily many 1s, followed by arbitrarily many 0s, i.e. { ε, 1, 10, 100, 1000, ..., 11, 110, 1100, 11000, ..., 111, ... }; this set can also be denoted by the regular expression "1*0*".
Informally, C can be thought of resulting from A by glueing state onto state b, and glueing state c onto state d.
The table shows some more quotient relations, such as B = A/a≈b, and D = C/a≈c.
Properties
For every automaton A and every equivalence relation ≈ on its states set, L(A/≈) is a superset of (or equal to) L(A).
Given a finite automaton A over some alphabet Σ, an equivalence relation ≈ can be defined on Σ* by x ≈ y if ∀ z ∈ Σ*: xz ∈ L(A) ↔ yz ∈ L(A). By the Myhill–Nerode theorem, A/≈ is a deterministic au |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otus%20%28education%29 | Otus is an educational technology company providing a learning management system, data warehouse and many classroom management tools for K-12 students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Otus was nominated as a finalist of two 2016 Codie awards in the "Best Classroom Management System" and "Best K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution" categories, one 2018 Codie award for "Best Student Assessment Solution", and two 2019 Codie awards for "Best Data Solution" and "Best Administrative Solution". Otus was a finalist in EdTech Digest's 2016 "District Data Solution" and "Learning Management System" categories. Otus co-founder Chris Hull was also announced as one of the National School Boards Association's "20 to Watch Educators for 2016".
History
Founded in 2012 by Chris Hull and Pete Helfers, two social studies teachers at Illinois' Elm Place Middle School, Otus was designed to replicate the ideal K-12 classroom experience that the two teachers envisioned. After receiving a grant to bring 1:1 computing iPads to their students, both quickly recognized the limitless potential that classroom management tools offer, but were disappointed with the effectiveness of the current apps on the market. Believing that they could do better, Chris and Pete started to develop Otus while continuing to work their respective teaching jobs, their end-goal being to create an all in one classroom management system integrating everything necessary to run a classroom. After reaching out to Chicago-based hedge fund manager Andy Bluhm, who provided them with $2M in funding, Otus was officially launched in August, 2014 and has grown domestically and internationally since. As of May 10, 2016, Otus owns the trademark phrase "Student Performance Platform." Otus has recently partnered with NWEA to become a MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) Authorized Data Partner. Starting Fall 2016, all users of Otus will be able to see and take advantage of MAP data directly in the Otus platform.
Functions
Otus competes with other learning management systems such as Edmodo, Blackboard Learn, Schoology, Moodle and Canvas by Instructure to provide educational tools on a district and school wide basis. Otus in particular aims to offer "everything a mobile classroom could possibly need for both teachers and students" and does so by providing attendance tracking, a digital bookshelf for uploading files, in-app annotations, assignments, papers, polls, blogs, quizzes, and more. Otus integrates third-party apps, such as Khan Academy, PARCC, and many more through their "toolbox" program. Everything a student does through the Otus platform is integrated into a deep learning program called "analytics" on the Otus app, which compiles information from all first- and third-party apps and creates a student profile easily accessible by teachers and parents at the teacher's discretion. Otus is freely available for use by students, teachers, and parents, but requires a subscription fee for district adm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monti%20Carlo | Mairym “Monti” Carlo (born May 7, 1975) is a Puerto Rican-American Food TV Host and Special Events Chef. She blogs at islandgirlcooks.com. Monti hosts Food Network's Help My Yelp, a joint production between ITV and Yelp. She's also hosted the special Make My Food Famous for A&E's FYI Network and Nutritious Bites for PBS. She is a judge and contributor for multiple Food Network shows including Cutthroat Kitchen, SuperMarket Stakeout, and The Next Food Network Star. The James Beard Foundation Advisor was highlighted by The Spruce Eats as one of 2021's Culinarian's You Should Know. She placed fifth on Gordon Ramsay's third season of MasterChef U.S.
Early life and family
Monti was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico in 1975 but left the island for the mainland U.S. at six years old, returning periodically until 1993 when she permanently moved to the mainland. She has a twin brother. She lives in Hollywood, California with her child, Danger.
Filmography
Television
References
1975 births
Living people
Puerto Rican chefs
Puerto Rican bloggers
Puerto Rican television hosts
People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Reality cooking competition contestants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVP%20Live | PVP Live was an American esports news website. It was founded in 2012 and included a statistics database. The website was owned by PVP Live Interactive, Inc. PVP Live came out of its most recent beta on June 8, 2015. The company is based in Frisco, Texas.
History
Prior incarnations of the organization include the Heroes Live, PVE Live, and Hearth Live websites, a podcast, as well as Armageddon, an online World of Warcraft Arena tournament, and Tavern Takeover, an online Hearthstone tournament.
The third production of Tavern Takeover was widely criticized for poor sound production, resulting in the CEO issuing a public apology and stating that sound issues would be a thing of the past. Several months later, the first episode of PVP Live's Hearthstone Pro League also struggled with sound issues.
In 2015, the website planned on producing a 24-hour online show along the lines of ESPN's Sports Center.
On May 23, 2016, the site broke the news that ESPN was in talks with Riot Games to purchase television broadcast rights for League of Legends content for approximately $500 million. Several hours later, both ESPN and Riot Games issued statements that the story created by PVP Live was false.
PVP Live ran the Hearthstone Pro League, a professional Hearthstone competition, produced in partnership with Twitch, Blizzard Entertainment and PRG. The $60,000 prize pool tournament was officially announced on May 27, 2015. The company was unable to actually pay the top finishers of the competition and refused to answer questions concerning the matter. Later on April 13, 2016, it announced it would pay out the prize money if another organization would pick up all associated costs, excluding the prize pool.
As of June 8, 2016, PVP Live had raised around US$2 million in private funding.
On February 5, 2018, PVP Live shut down all operations immediately.
References
External links
Official Website
Esports Blockchain
Esports websites
Companies based in Frisco, Texas
Internet properties established in 2015
Internet properties disestablished in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEZOL-AM | XEZOL-AM (860 kHz) is a radio station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It is owned by MegaRadio Networks and known as Líder Informativo.
History
XEZOL received its concession on January 8, 1980.
On September 6, 2021, XEZOL changed names from Radio Noticias to Líder Informativo.
References
Radio stations in Chihuahua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic%20toxicology%20databases | Toxicological databases are large compilations of data derived from aquatic and environmental toxicity studies. Data is aggregated from a large number of individual studies in which toxic effects upon aquatic and terrestrial organisms have been determined for different chemicals. These databases are then used by toxicologists, chemists, regulatory agencies and scientists to investigate and predict the likelihood that an organic or inorganic chemical will cause an adverse effect (i.e. toxicity) on exposed organisms.
Several such databases have been compiled relating specifically to aquatic toxicology.
Utility
These databases are invaluable resources in the field of aquatic toxicology because the likelihood that a chemical will cause toxicity is highly variable across the broad spectrum of contaminants in the environment. This is because the likelihood of adverse effects on an organism is dependent on the concentration of that substance in the target tissues of the organism, the physicochemical properties of that chemical and the duration of exposure to the chemical. Tools capable of predicting the toxicity of specific chemicals to particular organisms or groups of organisms are essential to regulators and researchers in the field of toxicology.
Available databases
In aquatic toxicology multiple databases exist and each generally pertains to a single aspect of aquatic toxicology such as PCBs, tissue residues or sediment toxicity. Other informational and regulatory databases on toxicology in general are maintained by the U.S. EPA, USGS, United States Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In the U.S. there are three major databases pertaining specifically to aquatic toxicology: the Toxicity/Residue Database, the Environmental Residue Effects Database and the ECOTOX database.
Toxicity/Residue Database
The Toxicity/Residue Database is maintained by the U.S. EPA and is a database for the prediction of toxicity of organic and inorganic chemicals to aquatic organisms. This data base was developed by the EPA Duluth office and became operational in 1999. The data base is derived from more than 500 peer reviewed references and is a collection of their findings on roughly 200 chemicals and 190 species both marine and fresh water. Data regarding organism response endpoints or effects are measured as the concentration of chemical in the tissue of the test organism at the time which effects such as lethality, metabolic depression, or increased respiration occur. More than 3,000 effects may be queried from a small piece of downloaded software to gather survival, growth or reproductive endpoint effect data.
Environmental Residue Effects Database
The Environmental Residue Effects Database (ERED) is a database maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that pairs data regarding the bioaccumulation of toxicants in tissue (via tissue residue) to endpoint effects such as mortality, growth, or physiological and bioc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conc-tree%20list | A conc-tree is a data structure that stores element sequences, and provides amortized O(1) time append and prepend operations, O(log n) time insert and remove operations and O(log n) time concatenation. This data structure is particularly viable for functional task-parallel and data-parallel programming, and is relatively simple to implement compared to other data-structures with similar asymptotic complexity. Conc-trees were designed to improve efficiency of data-parallel operations that do not require sequential left-to-right iteration order, and improve constant factors in these operations by avoiding unnecessary copies of the data. Orthogonally, they are used to efficiently aggregate data in functional-style task-parallel algorithms, as an implementation of the conc-list data abstraction. Conc-list is a parallel programming counterpart to functional cons-lists, and was originally introduced by the Fortress language.
Operations
The basic conc-tree operation is concatenation. Conc-trees work on the following basic data-types:
trait Conc[T] {
def left: Conc[T]
def right: Conc[T]
def level: Int
def size: Int
}
case class Empty[T] extends Conc[T] {
def level = 0
def size = 0
}
case class Single[T](elem: T) extends Conc[T] {
def level = 0
def size = 1
}
case class <>[T](left: Conc[T], right: Conc[T]) extends Conc[T] {
val level = 1 + math.max(left.level, right.level)
val size = left.size + right.size
}
The <> type represents inner nodes, and is pronounced conc, inspired by :: (the cons type) in functional lists, used for sequential programming.
Concatenation in O(log n) time then works by ensuring that the difference in levels (i.e. heights) between any two sibling trees is one or less, similar to invariants maintained in AVL trees. This invariant ensures that the height of the tree (length of the longest path from the root to some leaf) is always logarithmic in the number of elements in the tree. Concatenation is implemented as follows:
def concat(xs: Conc[T], ys: Conc[T]) {
val diff = ys.level - xs.level
if (math.abs(diff) <= 1) new <>(xs, ys)
else if (diff < -1) {
if (xs.left.level >= xs.right.level) {
val nr = concat(xs.right, ys)
new <>(xs.left, nr)
} else {
val nrr = concat(xs.right.right, ys)
if (nrr.level == xs.level - 3) {
val nr = new <>(xs.right.left, nrr)
new <>(xs.left, nr)
} else {
val nl = new <>(xs.left, xs.right.left)
new <>(nl, nrr)
}
}
} else {
// symmetric case
}
}
Amortized O(1) time appends (or prepends) are achieved by introducing a new inner node type called Append, and using it to encode a logarithmic-length list of conc-trees, strictly decreasing in height. Every Append node ap must satisfy the following invariants:
1. Level of ap.left.right is always strictly larger than the level of ap.right.
2. The tree ap.right never contains any Append nodes (i.e. it is in the normalized form, composed only f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMF-LD | KPMF-LD (channel 26) is a low-power television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with several digital multicast networks. It is owned by Innovate Corp. alongside WQEK-LD (channel 36). The two stations' transmitters are co-located on the WATN/WLMT tower off Brief Road in the Brunswick section of unincorporated northeast Shelby County.
History
Although granted a construction permit in 2012 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the station was silent until 2016. Originally licensed to Paragould, Arkansas (in the Jonesboro market), it held the call sign K26MF-D from 2012 until January 2016, when the call sign was changed to the current KPMF-LD.
While the first three subchannels remain dark, KPMF signed on virtual channel 26.4 in May 2016 as an affiliate of The Country Network (formerly Zuus Country).
In late June 2016, the station's first three subchannels went on the air as affiliates of Katz Broadcasting-operated Escape and Laff on the first two subchannels. Also, Sony Pictures Television's GetTV movie network and FremantleMedia-owned Buzzr came on the air on channels 26.3 and 26.4, respectively. Buzzr replaced The Country Network. Channels 26.5 and 26.6 also went on the air as Sonlife Broadcasting Network and QVC affiliates.
Escape and Laff were replaced by different networks in October 2016. GetTV was moved up to KPMF-LD2, and Comet, which is a joint venture between the MGM studio and Sinclair Broadcast Group was launched onto the LD3 subchannel, with Buzzr remaining on the LD4 subchannel. The main subchannel became a MyNetworkTV affiliate, with programming from the Doctor Television Channel being broadcast outside of MyNetworkTV's programming schedule. If the station launched on a transmitter within the home market of its city of license, KPMF would have been the Jonesboro market's first MyNetworkTV affiliate. For a time, Memphis also had access to a second MyNetworkTV affiliate, WLMT, a full-power CW affiliate that ran MyNetworkTV programming on its second subchannel along with most of the MeTV programming schedule; however, MyNetworkTV programming on that sub-channel was eventually dropped, leaving KPMF as the sole MyNetworkTV affiliate in Memphis until 2021. Jonesboro eventually gained its own MyNetworkTV affiliate on September 3, 2018 when the LD3 subchannel of low-power dual Fox/CBS affiliate KJNB-LD/KJNE-LD picked up the programming service to supplement its own MeTV programming.
In January 2017, KPMF's DrTV affiliation on the main subchannel was replaced with AMGTV and, by 2018, Quest. However, MyNetworkTV remained on the main channel on weeknights until 2021, when both affiliations were replaced with beIN Sports Xtra on the main subchannel, resulting in MyNetworkTV moving back to WLMT as a secondary affiliation on its main subchannel, while WATN-TV launched a sixth digital subchannel with Quest. In 2018, the station moved from a transmitter site across the Mississippi River on a cell tower on Washi |
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