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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserman%209-Panel%20Plot | The Wasserman 9-Panel Plot, often called a Nine-Panel Plot, is a standard layout for the graphical representation of data produced by a cardiopulmonary exercise test. The layout was updated in 2012. The graphs give an overview of cardiovascular, ventilatory, and gas exchange parameters.
Eponym
The Wasserman 9-Panel Plot is named for American physiologist Professor Karlman Wasserman M.D. Ph.D., who first displayed the data in this manner. Professor Wasserman worked extensively on pulmonary physiology, and also described the "gear wheel model" used for explaining results obtained from the test.
References
Cardiac procedures
Graphs (images)
Medical tests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigers%20on%20the%20Prowl%202 | Tigers on the Prowl 2 is computer wargame released in 1996 by HPS Simulations. It is the sequel to Tigers on the Prowl.
Gameplay
Tigers on the Prowl 2 is a World War II tactical wargame.
Maps are about 3 x 7 km. One hex represents 100metres. Turns are a minute and a game usually last 90 minutes but you can play a game indefinitely. Forces vary in size from a battalion to a brigade (3 battalions) plus support units. You can create your own custom force choosing from a huge database of Russian & German soldiers, guns, vehicles and planes. The map is viewed top down and has coloured contours for hills etc. There are lots of different terrain types including buildings, roads, swamps etc. The game can be played single player against A.I. or PBEM two player.
Reception
In Computer Gaming World, Jim Cobb wrote, "The most realistic WWII tactical game on the market gets even better with improved AI and interface." However, he criticized its visuals and audio, and wrote that its high difficulty and limited accessibility make it "very intimidating, even for veteran gamers." Computer Games Strategy Pluss Rex Whitfield called it "a must-buy" for experienced wargame players, but noted that "novices may find themselves overwhelmed". He praised its interface for being easier to use than its predecessor's.
The editors of Computer Game Entertainment awarded Tigers on the Prowl 2 their 1996 "Best War Game" prize. A writer for the magazine concluded, "Though sometimes the pace is glacial, and on occasion the game seems more work than play, Tigers 2 is so good at what it does that I can't really see any other choice for the best wargame [of 1996]."
References
1996 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Civil%20Liberties%20Organizations | The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) is a network of 15 independent, national human rights organizations from different countries in the North and South that work together to promote fundamental rights and freedoms. INCLO supports and mutually reinforces the work of member organizations in their respective countries and collaborates on a bilateral and multilateral basis. INCLO works on four issues: protest rights and policing; surveillance and human rights; religious freedom and equal treatment; and protecting civic space.
Members
Agora International Human Rights Group (Russia)
American Civil Liberties Union (United States)
Association for Civil Rights Israel (Israel)
Canadian Civil Liberties Association (Canada)
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (Argentina)
Dejusticia (Colombia)
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (Egypt)
Human Rights Law Centre (Australia)
Human Rights Law Network (India)
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (Hungary)
Irish Council for Civil Liberties (Ireland)
Kenya Human Rights Commission (Kenya)
KontraS (Indonesia)
Legal Resources Centre (South Africa)
Liberty (United Kingdom)
References
External links
Civil liberties advocacy groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB%20Killer | A USB Killer is a device that is designed to be portable and sends high-voltage power surges repeatedly into the data lines of the device it is connected to, which will damage hardware components on unprotected devices. The device has been designed to test components for protection from power surges and electrostatic discharge.
Mechanism
The device typically contains several capacitors and charge and discharge circuitry. When the device is connected to a USB port, the capacitors are charged from the USB port's 5volt supply. When they are fully charged, the device discharges them through step-up circuitry, which delivers a high voltage back into the USB port. Versions of the device have been reported to deliver a pulse of around 200V. This greatly exceeds the normal voltage the USB host adapter is designed to accept; the intention is that the device will destroy it (and perhaps the southbridge which it often forms part of). In many cases, this will render the computer inoperable.
This device has been compared to the Etherkiller, part of a family of cables that feed mains electricity into low-voltage sockets such as RJ45.
Models
There are different models of the device, the latest being USB Killer v4. Earlier generations, including USB Killer v2, were developed by a Russian computer researcher with the alias Dark Purple.
Similar homemade devices have been constructed from camera flash parts, both of which already feature high-voltage circuitry.
A more recent version uses the piezo inverter transformer from a CCFL driver with a simple two-transistor resonant Royer oscillator, one-shot timer and a spark gap as a lightweight way to generate an 1800 V sharp pulse more closely simulating a low-power electrostatic discharge for mitigation and circuit testing purposes. The prototype has a countdown timer and ascending bleep warning to reduce the chances of accidental or malicious use.
Malicious use
In April 2019, a student at College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York pleaded guilty to destroying 66 computers in his college using a USB killer. He also destroyed seven computer monitors and computer-enhanced podiums. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, followed by a year of supervised release. He was ordered to pay $58,471 in restitution.
Mouse version
There are also computer mice with a built-in USB killer. The idea was born at the Silesian University of Technology in Poland.
References
USB
Hardware testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjini%20Kundu | Shinjini Kundu (born 1990) is an Indian American physician and computer scientist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research focuses on designing artificial intelligence systems to detect diseases that may be imperceptible to humans. She was named one of Forbes 30 under 30, MIT Technology Review's 35 innovators under 35, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a winner of the Carnegie Science Award.
Early life and education
Before completing high school at 16, Kundu would help her father, a computer engineer, take apart computers. This influenced her studies at Stanford University, where she graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering, and served as editor in chief of the university's undergraduate research journal. During this time, a class on medical imaging led Kundu into the medical field, where she believed she could use her expertise to diagnose patients faster. Kundu enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program conducted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her doctoral program, Kundu also trained as an Indian classical dancer and performed at Madison Square Garden.
Research
Kundu's research focuses on "transport-based morphometry," or TBM, which applies machine learning techniques to identify latent disease not readily observable by humans reviewing traditional magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs). Kundu has authored or co-authored eighteen peer-reviewed articles, including in the journals Nature Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and has presented at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
In 2018, Kundu was a speaker at the United Nations A.I. for Good global summit in Geneva, Switzerland, where her input on transparent A.I. in medicine was adopted as a priority area under Sustainable Development Goal 3.
Accolades
In 2018, Dr. Kundu was listed to Forbes 30 under 30's 2019 list, recognizing her contributions in healthcare. She was also named one of MIT Technology Review's 35 innovators under 35 for her creation of "an artificial-intelligence system that can analyze them [medical images] to find patterns undetectable to the naked eye. Her innovation could have a fundamental impact on the way we detect and treat diseases." Dr. Kundu was also the winner of the 2018 Carnegie Science Award.
In 2017, Dr. Kundu was one of four academics recognized at NRI of the Year, Times Now's annually televised Indian awards show recognizing achievement by those of Indian descent. In 2017, an Elle magazine article remarked, “Not only is she one of the world’s youngest MD-PhD scientists, she has developed technology that could possibly diagnose diseases as early as three years before the symptoms manifest in the patient and she actively works towards the inclusion of more women in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math).”
In 2016, Dr. Kundu was recognized in Pittsburgh Magazine's "40 Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derick%20Wood | Derick Wood (1940–2010) was an English computer scientist who worked for many years as a professor of computer science in Canada and Hong Kong. He was known for his research in automata theory and formal languages, much of which he published in collaboration with Hermann Maurer and Arto Salomaa, and also for his work in computational geometry.
Wood was born in 1940 in Lancashire, and educated at the University of Leeds.
He earned his PhD from Leeds in 1968 under the supervision of Mike Wells.
After postdoctoral studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, he took his first faculty position at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
Before joining the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1995, Wood also taught at the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario.
He became a chair professor at HKUST in 2006. He died on 4 October 2010 in Sunnyside Long-Term Care, Kitchener, where he moved after his retirement.
Wood together with Darrell Raymond founded the Workshop on Implementing Automata, later to become the International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA). The Journal of Universal Computer Science published a special issue in honor of his 70th birthday. The University of Waterloo continues to offer an annual graduate scholarship in his memory.
References
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2010 deaths
English computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Academic staff of McMaster University
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Academic staff of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Researchers in geometric algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNUZ-TV | KNUZ-TV was a television station broadcasting on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 39 in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with the DuMont Television Network. It signed on the air on October 22, 1953, as Houston's third television station (four, including KGUL-TV channel 11 in Galveston) and first UHF outlet; it closed on June 25, 1954, after having lost money its entire existence and competing with two existing commercial very high frequency (VHF) outlets. KNUZ-TV's studios and transmitter were located at 4343 Cullen Boulevard in the Texas Television Center on the University of Houston campus.
History
On September 11, 1952, radio station KNUZ filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a television station on channel 39 in Houston, which was granted on January 7, 1953. As part of promotional activities, the station set up a temporary UHF transmitter for what was billed as "the first public UHF transmission in Texas", a demonstration at the downtown Houston Joske's store.
In May 1953, groundbreaking was held on KNUZ-TV's studios, which would be located at 4343 Cullen Boulevard in the Texas Television Center on the campus of the University of Houston; channel 39 would share the tower of the university's KUHT. The Television Center was designed to accommodate other stations: the construction permit for KXYZ-TV 29 also specified the site. Programs began October 22, 1953, after a test pattern was sent out starting on the 11th. However, some broadcasts were made during the test period: the first broadcast of a Houston high school game, between Austin and Pasadena, on September 15 and a DuMont boxing telecast two days later. After the initial launch, however, the station had to go off the air and wait for the antenna to be properly mounted on the tower, which took a week. At the outset, in addition to network programming, KNUZ-TV aired a local cooking show and shopping program, as well as the sports programs. By December, the majority of its lineup consisted of local fare. The station even produced a remote telecast direct from HMS Sheffield when it was in Houston in March 1954.
As an early UHF station in the days before the All-Channel Receiver Act, like others, channel 39 was hindered by the fact that many televisions of the day did not receive UHF stations without tuning strips or converters fitted. The station claimed that 45,000 sets were converted by November 1953 and that 77,000 had converted by May 1954, but that was little comfort to the parents of a girl who sung on a channel 39 program; they had to drive to a television showroom to watch their daughter perform.
Despite boasting that business was up and more people were buying UHF-equipped television sets, not all was well at channel 39. On May 20, 1954, the station filed a protest with the FCC. It claimed that, in allowing KGUL-TV channel 11 in Galveston to move to a site that also provided coverage of Houston, the commission was "st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon%20Golden%20Network | Nippon Golden Network (ニッポンゴールデンネットワーク, abbreviated NGN) is a cable television network broadcasting Japanese programs in Hawaii, United States. It is viewable in 4 islands in Hawaii (Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Hawaii) and California. Some of their shows have English subtitles.
The network has three channels at the moment, NGN (Japanese dramas, musical and variety shows, documentaries and educational programs), NGN2 (Japanese programs from NHK via TV Japan) and NGN3 (subtitled, classic and modern Japanese movies). NHK World is broadcast in partnership with NGN as NGN4.
Former programs (incomplete)
Ensen Isan (Railside Treasures)
Anime
Dragon Ball (Japanese with English subtitles)
Dragon Ball Z (Japanese with English subtitles)
Dr. Slump (Japanese with English subtitles)
GeGeGe no Kitarō (1985 series; Japanese with English subtitles)
Galaxy Express 999 (Japanese with English subtitles)
Fist of the North Star (Japanese with English subtitles)
Futari wa Pretty Cure (Japanese with English subtitles)
Drama
Oshin (Japanese with English subtitles)
Lipstick (Japanese with English subtitles)
Shumatsukon (Japanese with English subtitles)
Densetsu no kyoshi (Japanese with English subtitles)
Seigi wa Katsu (Japanese with English subtitles)
Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari (Japanese with English subtitles)
The Fierce Battles of Edo (Japanese with English subtitles)
Choshichiro Edo Nikki
Own shows
Bringing the Legacy of Katsu Goto to Life
See also
KIKU
References
Television channels and stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Hawaii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Jacobson | Anderson Jacobson, also known for a time as CXR Anderson Jacobson and today as CXR Networks, is a vendor of communications equipment. Anderson Jacobson was an early manufacturer of acoustic modems and was spun off from SRI International (then the Stanford Research Institute). In the 1970s and 1980s, the company manufactured modems, some intended for consumers. The company was acquired by CXR Telecom in 1988, at which time The Times was following Anderson Jacobson's earnings reports. The flow of new products continued.
Today the company is a privately owned communication equipment vendor supplying products to Telecom Carriers, Service Providers, and the Defense, Transport and Utility markets. The company is headquartered in Abondant, France.
History
Anderson Jacobson was primarily a California-based manufacturer of acoustic coupler modems, but they also manufactured printing terminals designed to replace
teletypes.
Modems
Anderson Jacobson began early in 1967 as a manufacturer of one of the first acoustic data couplers. This technical advancement was a step beyond directly wiring to phone lines. By 1973, the company had
acoustic coupler products that transmitted at 150, 300 and 1200 baud.
Terminals
Some of their terminals were CRTs and others were Printer/Keyboard devices.
Historical Table of Anderson Jacobson terminals
Among the terminals that were marketed by Anderson Jacobson are:
CXR
After the merger, industrial references varied, including "Anderson Jacobson (CXR)"
CXR was purchased by Emrise Corporation an international manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and subsystems and telecommunications equipment. and, in 2016 sold for 690,000 British pounds to its former chairman/CEO.
CXR, described as "manufactures network telecommunications equipment," was still operating as of 2017, albeit not in the areas for which AJ had begun in 1967.
See also
SRI International
List of SRI International spin-offs
References
External links
AJ/CXR name change 2003 press release
1967 establishments in California
1988 disestablishments in California
1988 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1967
American companies disestablished in 1988
Computer companies established in 1967
Computer companies disestablished in 1988
Computer terminals
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Modems
Networking companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated%20incremental%20pruning%20to%20produce%20error%20reduction%20%28RIPPER%29 | In machine learning, repeated incremental pruning to produce error reduction (RIPPER) is a propositional rule learner proposed by William W. Cohen as an optimized version of IREP.
References
Links
Data Mining Algorithms In R/Classification/JRip
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20for%20Victory%3A%20Velikiye%20Luki | V for Victory: Velikiye Luki is 1992 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It is part of the V for Victory series.
Gameplay
As with all games in the V for Victory series, the game is played on a hex map with units represented by coloured squares. Control is with the mouse, using normal gestures like clicking, dragging and shift-clicking to input commands. Much of the system is automated, with the computer taking over behind-the-scenes roles like handling the movement of supplies and the introduction of reinforcements.
This scenario pack covers the Soviet offensive against the German occupation during the Battle for Velikiye Luki in late 1942. The city is bisected by the Lovat River, and crossing it represents a significant logistical challenge for the Soviet side. The game is marked by slow movement as each side attempts to gather its supplies in an effort to take the offensive.
There are several scenarios that can be played on either side, with the most basic also being used as the tutorial for new players. In addition to the scenarios, there are several options that affect global settings like the amount of supplies and the weather.
Development
Reception
A 1993 survey of wargames gave V for Victory II: Velikiye Luki three-plus stars.
John Vanore reviewed the game in Computer Gaming World for their April 1993 edition. He was generally very positive, stating that it was "an excellent extension of the series." He does point to some vocal criticism by players, especially over a distinct lack of aggressiveness on the part of the computer when it commands the Soviet forces, but passes this off to the Soviets having little supply. The only major complaint he has was that the game was initially not able to be played within the game engine of the earlier entries in the series, noting that the company admitted this was a mistake and was looking to fix it. He concludes that "I wholeheartedly recommend it to any Mac or DOS computer gamer."
In contrast, while writing about the last instalment in the series months later in the same magazine, Terry Coleman was far less impressed. He criticized Velikiye Luki as buggy and flawed, and described the boring gameplay as "perilously close to sleepwalking."
The game was awarded war game of the year by Computer Game Review.
References
1992 video games
Atomic Games games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Three-Sixty Pacific games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20for%20Victory%3A%20Market-Garden | V for Victory: Market-Garden is 1993 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It is part of the V for Victory video game series.
Gameplay
The game covers Operation Market Garden and various actions by the units involved.
Development
The game was released for Mac computers in March 1993.
Reception
A 1993 survey of wargames in Computer Gaming World gave V for Victory III: Market Garden four stars. Another reviewer for the magazine criticized Market Garden as buggy and flawed.
Chris W. McCubbin reviewed V for Victory: Market Garden in Pyramid #4 (Nov./Dec., 1993), and stated that "V For Victory'''s sophistication is not easy to summarize in a nutshell. This game does so many things so effortlessly that it's impossible to list all its surprising capabilities in a review this size. My advice, if you have any interest at all in strategic computer games, is simply to check out V For Victory: Market Garden for yourself. I doubt you'll be disappointed."
In 1994, the editors of PC Gamer US wrote, "The V for Victory series is quite simply the most playable war games available, with an easy-to-master interface and admirable depth of game play." They continued, "We single out Utah Beach because it launched the series — but by all means, check out Velikiye Luki, Gold*Juno*Sword, and Market Garden, too."
The V for Victory series collectively won Computer Games Strategy Pluss 1992 "Game of the Year" award. The magazine's Brian Walker wrote that it "achieved what many computer wargames have been trying to do for years: successfully convert a board wargame onto computer." Computer Games'' likewise named it the year's best wargame.
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Oct, 1993
Computer Gaming World - Aug, 1993
References
External links
Review in Compute!
Review in Electronic Games
1993 video games
Atomic Games games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Three-Sixty Pacific games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20for%20Victory%3A%20Gold-Juno-Sword | V for Victory: Gold-Juno-Sword is 1993 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It is part of the V for Victory series.
Gameplay
The game revisits the D-Day beaches, this time covering the operations in the British and Canadian sectors and their battle to take Caen.
Development
Reception
While praising V for Victory: Gold-Juno-Swords documentation and SVGA graphics, Computer Gaming World stated that the fourth game "succeeds only a technological level, bereft of soul" and compared the series to "a line of books without an editor". The magazine concluded that "Three-Sixty's reputation in the hobby has suffered a major blow".
In 1994, the editors of PC Gamer US wrote, "The V for Victory series is quite simply the most playable war games available, with an easy-to-master interface and admirable depth of game play." They continued, "We single out Utah Beach because it launched the series — but by all means, check out Velikiye Luki, Gold*Juno*Sword, and Market Garden, too."
Gold-Juno-Sword was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Worlds Wargame of the Year award in June 1994, losing to Clash of Steel. The editors wrote, "Although basically a sequel, the improvements to the system bring it to the realms of wargame finalist".
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Dec, 1993
References
1993 video games
Atomic Games games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Three-Sixty Pacific games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy.Computer | Poppy.Computer is the debut studio album by American singer and YouTube personality Poppy. It was released on October 6, 2017, by Mad Decent, followed by a 34-city, 40-concert Poppy.Computer Tour.
Background
Poppy.Computer was written in Los Angeles during 2016 by Poppy and Titanic Sinclair, with help from songwriter Simon Wilcox and Chris Greatti of Blame Candy. Near the end of the year, Poppy and Titanic went to Japan to work with producers on the record, then went back in the spring of 2017 to finish it.
On May 6, 2017, Poppy confirmed on Twitter that her debut album was finished. On the same tweet Poppy also confirmed that there would be a tour to promote the album and that she knows when the album will be released. When asked by a fan if she could release the album herself she stated, "There's too much fun to be had from now to then." After being interviewed for an article with the Wired, the website accidentally leaked the release date of Poppy's album as October 6, 2017, which is also the anniversary of Poppy's YouTube channel creation.
On September 8, 2017, Poppy officially announced her upcoming album in the video "Poppy.Computer".
A remix EP was released on iTunes on March 16, 2018.
Singles
"I'm Poppy" was released on February 14, 2017, as the first single from Poppy.Computer.
"Computer Boy" was released on May 19, 2017, as the second single from the album.
"Let's Make a Video" was released on June 22, 2017, as the third single from Poppy.Computer A music video was released on July 11, 2017.
"Interweb" was released as the fourth single on July 17, 2017, with a music video released on July 21, 2017. To promote the single, she made her late night debut to perform the song on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
"My Style" was released as the fifth single on September 1, 2017.
Music videos were also released for "Moshi Moshi" on November 10, 2017 and "Bleach Blonde Baby" on December 13, 2017. The latter was also performed on Total Request Live on January 29, 2018.
Critical reception
AllMusic's Neil Z. Yeung noted an "injection" of J-pop into Poppy's "computer veins", mentioning that the album results in a "winking piece of art pop that sounds like Fame-era Lady Gaga meets Grimes or L.A.M.B.-era Gwen Stefani going full 'Harajuku Girl[s]'", also suggesting to "think of this as the 'Material Girl' for the Internet age". Rolling Stones Maura Johnston said that "[it] adds her airy voice to hyper-stylized, detail-rich gloss-pop", also stating that "Poppy.Computers off-kilter recounting of microcelebrity, hiccuping vocals and intricate production help her neatly avoid that fate".
Year-end lists
Track listing
Credits adapted from Tidal.
Charts
Release history
Poppy.Remixes
Poppy.Remixes is a remix extended play (EP) by Poppy, released digitally on March 16, 2018 by Mad Decent. EP contains a remix of "Interweb" and four remixes of "Moshi Moshi", songs originally from Poppy.Computer.
Track listing
Credits adapted from Tidal.
Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Smith%20%28chef%29 | Jason Smith is an American home baker who came to prominence as the winner of the thirteenth season of the Food Network television series Food Network Star. He had previously won the third season of Holiday Baking Championship. Smith most recently served as a judge on the Food Network series Best Baker in America. He was a guest judge on the fourth season of the Christmas Cookie Challenge, appearing in episode 4. Jason Smith served as judge along with Shinmin Li during the first season of the Food Network series Holiday Wars.
References
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1977 births
American television chefs
Date of birth missing (living people)
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star winners
Living people
American male chefs
People from Grayson, Kentucky
Chefs from Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20reality%20in%20primary%20education | Virtual reality (VR) is a computer application which allows users to experience immersive, three dimensional visual and audio simulations. According to Pinho (2004), virtual reality is characterized by immersion in the 3D world, interaction with virtual objects, and involvement in exploring the virtual environment. The feasibility of the virtual reality in education has been debated due to several obstacles such as affordability of VR software and hardware. The psychological effects of virtual reality are also a negative consideration. However, recent technological progress has made VR more viable and promise new learning models and styles for students. These facets of virtual reality have found applications within the primary education (K-8th grade) sphere in enhancing student learning, increasing engagement, and creating new opportunities for addressing learning preferences.
General education
Virtual reality (VR) can be used in numerous ways in an educational setting. Seeing virtual reality as a continued improvement from PC-based simulation systems, researchers recognize its potential to provide special learning experiences which traditional education methods cannot. Although studies agree that restrictions still exist for classroom applications of virtual reality systems, researchers have been experimenting with using VR as part of the teaching method in many aspects of the general education.
Following are example attempts at applying virtual reality in classrooms.
Augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology which superimposes virtual generated images on the real world. The coexistence of virtual objects and real environments have encouraged experimentation and developments in educational settings which are not possible in the real world.
A study done by Antonietti et al. (2000) found that giving children an in-depth virtual tour of a painting and letting them examine all aspects of the painting helped with their description and interpretation of the painting, when compared to a control group that studied the painting without the usage of VR. Another experiment was carried out on 91 sixth-grade primary students where they used an augmented reality application "WallaMe" which taught a didactic unit in art education. After analyzing the results, the study found a statistically significant improvements in academic performance, motivation, analysis of information, and collaboration.
Augmented reality has also had developments into more mainstream academic settings. 3D rendition of textbooks provide students with a more synergetic way of learning. The Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology has launched a geology textbook which allows students to learn traditional information while virtually interacting with the different layers of the Earth's core.
Another benefit of augmented reality is capitalizing on different learning styles. While virtual reality provides a more immersive experience, augmented rea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosanthes%20tricuspidata | Trichosanthes tricuspidata is a climbing plant in the family Cucurbitaceae.
Subspecies
The following subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life:
T. t. asperifolia
T. t. seramensis
T. t. siberutensis
T. t. javanica
T. t. rotundata
T. t. tricuspidata
T. t. flavofila
T. t. strigosa
T. t. tomentosa
Gallery
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Flora of tropical Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Eric%20Robinson | Michael Eric Robinson (born March 11, 1956) is an American composer associated with both contemporary classical music and computer music. His work is influenced by jazz, Indian classical music and European musical traditions.
Life
Born in New York, New York, in 1956, Robinson was raised in Long Island, NY, earning the Louis Armstrong award in 1974. Robinson studied at SUNY Potsdam (with a BM in Composition from the Crane School of Music) followed by graduate study at CalArts. Private studies included jazz improvisation with Lee Konitz, Paul Jeffrey, Ken McIntyre and Indian classical music with Harihar Rao and Pandit Jasraj - as well as composition studies with John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Lewin, Charles Dodge and Steve Reich. Additional education included summer programs at Tanglewood with Leonard Altman, Gunther Schuller, Jacob Druckman, John Chowning, Ralph Shapey and Leonard Bernstein.
As a composer and musicologist, Robinson has been a lecturer at UCLA, Bard College, California State University at Long Beach and California State University at Dominguez Hills. His recordings are in the music library collections of New York University, Princeton University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. A comprehensive collection of Robinson’s scores are used for study and teaching purposes at New York University.
Composition style and process
Robinson's work has been described by Titus Levi as a musical rendering of abstract expressionism. In Keyboard Magazine he explains in his 1991 Discoveries article featuring Robinson: "Robinson’s sense of timing, phrasing, form, and flow guide listeners toward his alternative vision. His music has the clarity and ingenuousness of Chinese brush painting, some of the hard geometric edginess of Kandinsky, and a detached, ethereal, and abstract quality that nonetheless seems bound to the tight forms found in some abstract Expressionist paintings."
Christina V. Godbey of The Los Angeles Times (May 30, 1992) wrote of Robinson’s process: “Michael Robinson is a composer of the modern age...Since 1985, he has written compositions exclusively for the computer, and it has produced some rather unusual sounds. Robinson composes music with traditional notations on paper before it is translated and encoded into the computer.”
Amanda MacBlane describes Michael Robinson's style and process in her August 2002 NewMusicBox article: "Making use of alternative tunings and blending tradition with technology, Robinson is able to transcend cultural and spiritual boundaries."
Robinson has composed over 400 works and has released over 100 albums. His musical style is informed by American, South Asian, and European traditions. "...his production methodology is also unique: although the performance of a typical Robinson piece sounds as if spontaneous improvisation is involved, his compositions are, amazingly, entirely programmed using the Meruvina and thus fully notated.”
Piano improvisations
Known for his electronic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20path%20analysis | Main path analysis is a mathematical tool, first proposed by Hummon and Doreian in 1989, to identify the major paths in a citation network, which is one form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It has since become an effective technique for mapping technological trajectories, exploring scientific knowledge flows, and conducting literature reviews.
The method begins by measuring the significance of all the links in a citation network through the concept of ‘traversal count’ and then sequentially chains the most significant links into a "main path", which is deemed the most significant historical path in the target citation network. The method is applicable to any human activity that can be organized in the form of a citation network. The method is commonly applied to trace the knowledge flow paths or development trajectories of a science or technology field, through bibliographic citations or patent citations. It has also been applied to judicial decisions to trace the evolving changes of legal opinions. Main path analysis has attracted scholars attention recently. Academic research related to main path analysis saw a fast growing since 2007. A list of academic articles that introduce, explain, apply, modify, or extend the method originated in Hummon and Doreian can be found here. Nevertheless, there are issues not broadly discussed in applying the method, including the handling of citation data, choosing a proper traversal weight scheme, search options, and interpretation of the resulting paths.
History
Main path analysis is first proposed in Hummon and Doreian (1989) in which they suggest a different approach for analyzing a citation network "where the connective threads through a network are preserved and the focus is on the links in the network rather than on the nodes." They call the resulting chain of the most used citation links "main path" and claim that "It is our intuition that the main path, selected on the basis of the most used path will identify the main stream of a literature." The idea was verified using a set of DNA research articles. To make the method more practical, Liu and Lu (2012) extends the method to include the key-route search. The most useful feature of the key-route search is that one is able to view the different level of main paths by adjusting the key-route numbers.
The method
Main path analysis operates in two steps. The first step obtains the traversal counts of each link in a citation network. Several types of traversal counts are mentioned in the literature. The second step searches for the main paths by linking the significant links according to the size of traversal counts. One needs to prepare a citation network before proceeding for main path analysis.
Preparing a citation network
It is necessary to prepare a citation network before starting main path analysis. In a citation network, the nodes represent the documents such as academic articles, patents, or legal cases. These nodes are connected using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E%20%28German%20TV%20channel%29 | A&E is a pay-TV channel of A&E Networks, headquartered in Munich. A&E stands for Arts and Entertainment, which has been the title of A&E Network in America for many years. The channel broadcasts its full program in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A&E is a registered trademark of The History Channel (Germany) GmbH & Co. KG. In the German-speaking world, the non-functional digital transmitter is operated in a joint venture between NBC Universal Global Networks Deutschland GmbH and A+E Networks.
A&E radiates reallife documentary around extraordinary protagonists. Crime, Deals, Family and Paranormal are the four core genres of the station. The program is compiled entirely by A+E Networks Germany and consists of synchronized productions of the American counterpart, broadcasts of the German program partner ZDF and other suppliers. The offer includes single items, weekly thematic content as well as series and series.
History
A&E replaced The Biography Channel on all dissemination channels on September 22, 2014 in the German-speaking market.
The channel ceased broadcasting on June 29, 2019 and it was replaced by Crime & Investigation.
Programming
Source:
Attic Gold (Attic Gold - Das Glück liegt auf dem Dachboden) (2016–present)
Barry'd Treasure (Barry'd Treasure - Der Trödelexperte) (2014-2016)
Behind Bars: Rookie Year (Job im Knast - 60 Tage auf Bewährung) (2016–present)
Beyond Scared Straight (Vollzug auf Probe - Teenager hinter Gittern) (2014–present)
Brandi & Jarrod: Married to the Job (Brandi & Jarrod - Ein perfektes Team) (2015–present)
Celebrity Ghost Stories (Übersinnliche Begegnungen - Stars erzählen) (2014–present)
Cold Case Files (Cold Case Files - Wahre Fälle der US-Ermittler) (2017–present)
Diabolical Women (Weiblich, Clever, Kriminell) (2015–present)
Die Tierdocs (2016–present)
Don't Trust Andrew Mayne (Andrew Mayne - Alles Illusion) (2014-2015)
Duck Commander: Before the Dynasty (2015–present)
Duck Dynasty (2014–present)
Garage Gold (2015–present)
Hoarders (Leben im Chaos) (2014)
House of Love (2015–present)
House Rules (House Rules - Dein Haus, meine Baustelle) (2015–present)
I Escaped My Killer (2016–present)
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini: Ein Leben nach Scientology) (2017–present)
Monster in My Family (Blutsverwandt - Der Mörder in der Familie) (2016–present)
Motive to Murder (2018–present)
My Crazy Ex (2015–present)
Protokolle des Bösen (2016–present)
Storage Wars (Storage Wars - Die Geschäftemacher) (2014–present)
Surviving Marriage (Surviving Marriage - Ehe auf dem Prüfstand) (2015–present)
The Great Christmas Light Fight (2014–present)
The Haunting of... (Schatten der Vergangenheit) (2014–present)
The Killing Season (2016–present)
The Mind of a Murderer (Interview mit einem Mörder) (2016–present)
Wahlburgers (2014–present)
Audience share
Germany
References
External links
A&E Networks
Defunct television channels in Germany
Television stations in Germany
Television stations in Austria
Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle%20File%20Format | Kindle File Format is a proprietary e-book file format created by Amazon.com that can be downloaded and read on devices like smartphones, tablets, computers, or e-readers that have Amazon's Kindle app. E-book files in the Kindle File Format originally had the filename extension .azw; version 8 (KF8) introduced HTML5 & CSS3 features and have the .azw3 extension, and version 10 introduced a new typesetting and layout engine featuring hyphens, kerning, & ligatures and have the .kfx extension.
History
Kindle devices and apps are designed to use Amazon's e-book formats: AZW that is based on Mobipocket; in fourth generation and later Kindles, AZW3, also called KF8; and in seventh generation and later Kindles, KFX. When uploaded via the Send to Kindle service Kindles now support the EPUB file format used by many other e-book readers. Similar to EPUB, Amazon's file formats are intended for reflowable, richly formatted e-book content and support DRM restrictions, but unlike EPUB, they are proprietary formats. AZW files debuted with the first Amazon Kindle in 2007.
Software such as the free and open source Calibre, Amazon's KindleGen, and the email based Send-to-Kindle service are available to convert e-books into supported Kindle file formats. Kindle devices can also display some generic document formats such as plain text (TXT) and Portable Document Format (PDF) files; however, reflowing is not supported for these file types.
In late 2011, the Kindle Fire introduced "Kindle Format 8" (KF8), also known as AZW3 file format. AZW3 supports a subset of HTML5 and CSS3 features, while acting as a container for a backwards-compatible MOBI content document.
In August 2015, all the Kindle e-readers released within the previous two years were updated with a new typesetting and layout engine that adds hyphens, kerning and ligatures to the text; e-books that support this engine require the use of the "Kindle Format 10" (KFX) file format. E-books that support the enhanced typesetting format are indicated in the e-book's description on its product page.
In 2017, Amazon released Kindle Create, a tool that can convert Microsoft Word files to Kindle file format.
In 2022, while the Send-to-Kindle service only supported the original .mobi/.azw ebook formats (along with some other non-ebook file formats), Amazon announced removing this support in favor of .epub which will be converted to Amazon's KF8 (.azw3) from late-2022.
References
Amazon (company)
Computer file formats
Electronic paper technology
Ebooks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes%20Prep%20Northline | YES Prep Northline is a charter middle school. It is a part of the YES Prep network, the 17th campus. The mascot is Revolutionaries.
It will open in 2017 with 6th grade students. Its school facility was originally a hospital which opened in the early 1960s. St. Stephens Baptist Church acquired it in 2000, and Yes Prep acquired it in 2016. It is in proximity to Northline Elementary School. It opened in the 2017–2018 school year with 6th grade students. It is serving 6th through 8th graders in the 2019–2020 school year. By 2024, YES Prep Northline will graduate its first class of 12th grade students (seniors). The school is on 5815 Arline Dr.
See also
List of state-chartered charter schools in Houston
References
External links
Yes Prep Northline
Charter schools in Houston
Middle schools in Houston
Charter high schools in Houston
Middle schools in Harris County, Texas
High schools in Harris County, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World%20War%20II%20anti-fascism | Post–World War II anti-fascism, including antifa groups (), anti-fascist movements and anti-fascist action networks, saw the development of political movements describing themselves as anti-fascist and in opposition to fascism. Those movements have been active in several countries in the aftermath of World War II during the second half of the 20th and early 21st century.
History
The immediate aftermath of the Second World War saw Fascism and its ideological successors discredited as the ideologies of the defeated Axis powers, with eradication of Fascist ideologies a stated goal of the victorious Allies, culminating in processes like the Nuremberg trials and de-Nazification. The onset however, of the Cold War saw the urgency attached to these goals diminish in the face of superpower competition, and anti-fascist activities becoming less prominent.
Europe
The appearance of rightist political parties and their upsurge since the Dissolution of the Soviet Union has stimulated a corresponding growth of anti-fascist movements. In Germany Neo-Nazism was never eradicated, and former Nazis including Reinhard Gehlen and former chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger rose to positions of great power. The Freedom Party of Austria was founded by politicians including former Nazis in 1955. In France, where the far-right National Rally was founded in 1972. In post-WWII Great Britain, skinheads and football hooligans often promoted vehement racism; the English Defence League was founded in 2009. The Netherlands has seen the rise of a number of rightist parties, starting with the Centre Party, then the NVU, and then the PVV with Geert Wilders and the young Forum voor Democratie. The German right has grown rapidly since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and the far-right party Alternative for Germany was founded in 2012, followed shortly thereafter by the anti-immigrant Pegida movement.
Germany
After the defeat of Nazi Germany, groups called , or , all typically abbreviated to Antifa, spontaneously re-emerged in Germany in 1944, mainly involving veterans of pre-war KPD, KPO and SPD politics as well as some members of other democratic political parties and the Confessing Church, which had opposed the Nazi co-optation of the Lutheran Church during the 1930s and 1940s. Communists tended to make up at least half of the committees. In the western zones, these anti-fascist committees began to recede by the late summer of 1945, marginalized by Allied bans on political organization and by re-emerging divisions between Communists and others and the emerging state doctrine of anti-communism in what became West Germany. In East Germany, the Antifa groups were absorbed into the new Stalinist state.
The subsequent post-war history of the anti-fascist movement in Germany includes two distinct traditions, an East German tradition and a tradition that arose in West Germany during the 1970s, both drawing inspiration from the Antifa committees and from the earlier of the Weimar Republi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maacher%20Jhol%20%282017%20feature%20film%29 | Maacher Jhol is an Indian language Bengali film produced by Sony Pictures Networks and Mojo Productions directed by Pratim D. Gupta, starring Ritwick Chakraborty, Paoli Dam and Mamata Shankar in the lead roles. It is the first Bengali food film that revolves around a Paris-based chef who comes back to Kolkata after 13 years to attend to his ailing mother.
Plot
Dev D (Devdatto) is a renowned chef who quit his job as an engineer in Kolkata and moved to France train at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. In doing so, he left behind his wife Sreela and his parents. When his mother falls ill, he returns to Kolkata after 13, he must come to terms with his past.
Cast
Ritwick Chakraborty as Dev D aka Devdatto
Mamata Shankar as Maa
Paoli Dam as Sreela
Arjun Chakrabarty as Palash
Kaya Blocksage
Sauraseni Maitra
Sumanta Mukherjee
Production
Development
Pratim D. Gupta revealed that the idea of the film came during his trip to Italy where he was surprised to find local restaurants serving the recipes of mothers and grandmothers.
He also said that it was his eagerness to work with Ritwick Chakraborty again after Shaheb Bibi Golaam resulted in conceiving a character for him - Chef Dev D.
Casting
While Pratim and Ritwick have worked together in Shaheb Bibi Golaam, the film marks the first collaboration between the director and Paoli Dam. Mamata Shankar, known to be choosy about her roles, agreed to do the film immediately after reading the script.
Filming
Shooting for the film started from March 2017.
Music
The music for Maacher Jhol is composed by Anupam Roy and the lyrics have been penned by Anupam himself. One of the songs has been written by Rabindranath Tagore with a French section written and sung by Anupam. The music rights have been acquired by Zee Music Company.
References
External links
Bengali-language Indian films
2010s Bengali-language films
2017 films
Films about fish
Sony Pictures films
Columbia Pictures films
Sony Pictures Networks India films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Dabbar | Paul M. Dabbar (born July 8, 1967) is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Bohr Quantum Technology, a company developing quantum networking systems. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
During the presidency of Donald Trump, he was a United States Department of Energy Under Secretary, serving as Under Secretary of Energy for Science. He served as the Department’s principal advisor on fundamental energy research, energy technologies, and science, driving this mission through programs including nuclear and high energy particle physics, basic energy, advanced computing, fusion, and biological and environmental research, and direct management over a majority of the Department’s national labs. In addition, he managed the environmental and legacy management missions of the Department, addressing the U.S. legacy of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. Dabbar was also the lead for technology commercialization activities for the Department and its 17 national labs.
Prior to that role, he was a managing director at J.P. Morgan & Co. He also served on the United States Department of Energy's Environmental Management Advisory Board.
Dabbar is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and Columbia Business School. He served as a nuclear submarine officer aboard the out of Mare Island, California, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including deployment to the North Pole, where he conducted environmental research. He has been a lecturer at the U.S. Naval Academy and has conducted research at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
References
Living people
1967 births
United States Naval Academy alumni
Columbia Business School alumni
United States Department of Energy officials
Trump administration personnel
American investment bankers
People from Bartlesville, Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20New%20York%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce | The Greater New York Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit business advocacy and networking group located in New York City and is a member of the US Chamber of Commerce Association. The Chamber's mission is to improve the business climate and quality of living in the New York Metropolitan Area for businesses, workers, residents and visitors. The Chamber hosts networking events, trade delegations, and works with the local, state, and federal government to promote the business interests of over 30,000 business and civic leaders in the New York Metropolitan Area.
References
Non-profit organizations based in New York City
Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20P.%20DenBaars | Steven P. DenBaars is an American material scientist, electrical engineer, and academic. He is a professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the executive director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and was selected as a Member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2012 for contributions to gallium nitride-based materials and devices for solid state lighting and displays.
Education
DenBaars received his bachelor's degree in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from University of Arizona in 1984. He was selected as the outstanding senior in metallurgical engineering, and valedictorian of his class. He then enrolled at University of Southern California, and earned his master's degree in materials science, and a Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and 1988, respectively.
Career
DenBaars started his academic career as a research assistant at the University of Southern California Compound Semiconductor Laboratory in 1984. Following this, he held appointment as an assistant professor in Materials Department in 1991, and was promoted to associate professor in 1994, and became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998.
DenBaars also held administrative appointments in his career. He served as an executive director at Solid State Lighting and Display Center from 2002 till 2007, and at Solid State Lighting and Energy Center from 2007 till 2014. He currently serves as an executive director of Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center.
DenBaars also has professional experience in his field. He was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett Packard's Optoelectronics Division from 1988 to 1991, where he developed high brightness visible LEDs. He has served on the editorial board of MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Research, Compound Semiconductor Magazine, and as an editor for Materials Research Society Conference Proceedings since 2010. From 2013 until 2020, he was the chairman and co-founder of Soraa Laser Diode Inc. He has served as a Scientific Advisor for CREE Inc., as a Consultant for Seoul Semiconductor, and is currently the Endowed Mitsubishi Chemical Chair in Solid State Lighting and Display, and on the advisory board of Crystals, and on the board of directors for Akoustis Inc.
Research
DenBaars has published over 800 papers, has been cited over 84,000 times, and has a Google Scholar H-index of 143. His research primarily focuses on MOCVD growth of wide-bandgap semiconductors (GaN-based) and their application to blue and UV LEDs and laser diodes as well as RF and high-power electronic devices. This research has led to the first U.S. University demonstration of a blue GaN laser diode, first RF Power measurements from GaN HEMTs, and highest efficiency Micro-LEDs.
In early studies, DenBaars focused on the formation process of quantum‐sized |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Landay | James Landay is professor of computer science at Stanford University, He specializes in human–computer interaction. He was formerly professor of information science at Cornell Tech in New York City and before that professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He received his BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
References
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Stanford University faculty
University of Washington faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Wade | Sophie Wade is a businessperson, founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist of consulting firm Flexcel Networks. She is the author of the book Embracing Progress: Next steps for the Future of work and a speaker on Future-of-Work issues. She serves on the Presidents’ Assembly Steering Committee of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) after serving as the President of the New York City chapter of NAWBO 2015-17.
Early life and career
Wade was born and grew up in London, England. Wade has a B.A. degree from Oxford University in Oriental Studies (Chinese) and an MBA degree from INSEAD business school in France. She lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Europe and U.S.A. In her career, she has worked at or consulted with large corporations as well as startups in strategy and finance roles assisting entrepreneurs and major corporations to build teams and ventures and create partnerships. In 2011, she founded Flexcel Network initially to advocate for and expand the implementation of workplace flexibility. She is a writer and speaker on the Future of Work, talent management, employer branding, career transitioning and portfolio careers, as well as flexible working.
Books
In her book, she described approaches for workforce development. Approaches described by her include adapting new technologies, engagement through culture and mindset, good leadership, transparency, and empathy, coaching for productivity, performance, and creativity, focusing on values, cultural impact, and environmental issues, treating freelancers and contractors as employees.
Personal life
Wade currently lives in Manhattan, New York. She is divorced with two children Liam and Gigi.
References
External links
Sophie Wade on HuffPost
Sophie wade on Fortune Magazine
Living people
HuffPost writers and columnists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Oxford
INSEAD alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micaela%20Papa | Micaela Papa is a Filipino journalist who has worked for the BBC in London and GMA Network in Manila. She is one of the youngest international award-winning broadcast journalist in the Philippines, best known for disaster coverages such as her firsthand report of Supertyphoon Haiyan in 2013 (part of the GMA News collective entry that won the prestigious Peabody award) and her documentaries on social issues, such as 2013's Brigada documentary "Gintong Krudo" which garnered several awards, including the Silver World Medal at the New York Festivals and the One World Award from the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers.
Papa has served as presenter and reporter for episodes of the BBC World Service programmes “The Compass,” and “World Hacks,” and has produced episodes of “Profile” for BBC Radio 4. She has also done two-way interviews for other international media networks such as Canada's CBC News.
Papa was a recipient of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship and the One World Media Production Grant.
References
1989 births
Living people
Filipino reporters and correspondents
Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
University of the Philippines Diliman alumni
BBC World Service presenters
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs people
BBC News people
Typhoon Haiyan
Mensans
Filipino women journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duewag%20GT8%20Typ%20Freiburg | The three-part eight-axle articulated trams used on Freiburg im Breisgau's tram network are the DUWAG GT8s. From 1971 to 1991, they were exclusively produced for the Freiburger Verkehrs by the Düsseldorfer Waggonfabrik in three series, which is why they are defined as Typ Freiburg. They have been designed to be used uni-directionally.
Construction
The structural requirements of Freiburg made it necessary for their own tram type to be created. This was because trams with Jacobs bogies were not suitable for the partially narrow curved radii. Freiburg's trams were based on the type used in Mannheim, also produced by Duewag and built from 1969. This was based on the classic Duewag articulate tram from 1956. In contrast to conventional articulated trams, however, the centre of gravity of Freiburg's trams were not the Jacobs bogies, but underneath the middle section, into which two tram end parts were attached. In addition to the all-axle drive, which was easier to implement, a better structure gauge was also used, totalling of length.
After the twelve-axle tram were manufactured by the Rhein-Haardtbahn company, Freiburg's trams were regarded as the second longest tram car in the world.
Series
First Series (1971/72)
Between the years of 1971 and 1972, the Freiburger Verkehrs AG initially obtained four vehicles using so-called Geamatic controls. They were given operating numbers 201–204. Carriage 202 (externally distinguishable bu its central double head light) was the first to receive an automatic set point adjuster. From the outset, they were designed for travel without conductors and replacing some of the obsolete and personal-intensive vehicle-type sidecars from the early 1950s, which were still based on the War Tram Cars.
They were originally equipped with a head light and cream lacquer. During the middle part of the 1980s, they were adjusted to normal trams and had two headlights installed, which were fitted to the central part next to each other. At the same time, they were repainted red and white in 1981.
In 2001, they were decommissioned for use in Freiburg. They were later used across Łódź's tram network, where they were served by Międzygminna Komunikacja Tramwajowa on line 46 to Ozorków. Tram 2-4 was later scrapped during this period.
Second Series (1981/82)
After good experiences with the first four trams and the decision to expand the network, ten more trams were ordered towards the end of 1970s. These were commissioned in 1981 and 1982 and were given the numbers 205–214, also referred to as GT8K. They were lacquered in red and white and had two central front head lights. On journeys, there was no need for a conductor and the last type of trams with sidecars were discarded.
At a length of 2.32 metres, they are twelve centimetres wider than the trams from the first series, which in some curves of the network, required new track to be laid. An example of this was at the Schwabentor. The larger width made it possible to make tram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOTCA | Versatile Object-oriented Toolkit for Coarse-graining Applications (VOTCA) is a Coarse-grained modeling package, which focuses on the analysis of molecular dynamics data, the development of systematic coarse-graining techniques as well as methods used for simulating microscopic charge (and exciton) transport in disordered semiconductors. It was originally developed at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and is now maintained by developers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Eindhoven University of Technology and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology with contributions from researcher worldwide.
Features
VOTCA has 3 major parts, the Coarse-graining toolkit (VOTCA-CSG), the Charge Transport toolkit (VOTCA-CTP) and the Excitation Transport Toolkit (VOTCA-XTP). All of them are based on the VOTCA Tools library, which implements shared procedures.
Coarse-graining toolkit (VOTCA-CSG)
VOTCA-CSG supports a variety of different coarse-graining methods, incl. (iterative) Boltzmann Inversion, Inverse Monte Carlo, Force Matching (also known as the multiscale coarse-graining method) and the Relative entropy method and hybrid combinations of those as well as optimization-driven approaches, like simplex and CMA. To gather statistics VOTCA-CSG can use multiple molecular dynamics package incl. GROMACS, DL_POLY, ESPResSo, ESPResSo++, LAMMPS and HOOMD-blue for sampling.
Charge Transport toolkit (VOTCA-CTP)
VOTCA-CTP is a module, which does molecular orbital overlap calculations and can evaluate energetic disorder and electronic couplings needed to estimate charge transport properties.
Excitation Transport toolkit (VOTCA-XTP)
VOTCA-XTP is an extension to VOTCA-CTP, allowing to simulate excitation transport and properties. Therefore, it provides its own implementation of GW-BSE and a basic DFT implementation, employing localized basissets. Polarized QM/MM calculations for excited states are provided in the Thole framework. It features an interface to the Quantum Chemistry package ORCA for large scale production runs.
Release names
Major releases have names assigned to them:
1.1 SuperAnn
1.2 SuperDoris
1.3 SuperUzma
1.4 SuperKurt - in occasion of Kurt Kremer's 60th birthday
1.5 SuperVictor - named after Victor Rühle, one of the original core developers
1.6 SuperPelagia
1.6.2 SuperGitta
See also
GROMACS
MARTINI
OpenMM
References
Molecular modelling software
Molecular dynamics software
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus%20Silver | Robin Angus Silver is Professor of Neuroscience and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at University College London. His laboratory studies neurotransmission and artificial neural networks by combining in vitro and in vivo experimental approaches with quantitative analysis and computational models developed in silico.
Education
Silver was educated at Coventry Polytechnic where he graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Sciences. He completed postgraduate study at University College London where he was awarded a PhD in Neuroscience in 1990 for research investigating calcium signalling and second messenger systems in neural growth cones.
Research and career
Silver's work has contributed to our understanding of synaptic and neuronal function and to information processing in the brain. By developing and applying methods for quantifying synaptic properties his work has shown how central synapses transmit and transform signals and can sustain high frequency signalling. He has quantified the functional properties of electrical synapses and established how neurons can perform certain arithmetic operations.
Using theoretical approaches, he has provided insights into the structure and function of neural circuits, showing that synaptic connectivity within the cerebellar input layer is optimal for encoding information and separating overlapping activity patterns.
Silver's group have developed new tools for studying circuit function. These include a high-speed random access 3D scanning fluorescence microscope that uses an acousto-optic lens to scan and focus the laser beam, enabling measurement of spatially distributed neuronal activity at high speed. He has also coordinated the development of software for building models of neural circuits, (neuroConstruct), a language for standardising model descriptions (NeuroML), and a repository of standardized models and infrastructure for collaborative model development, OpenSourceBrain.
Silver's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), European Research Council (ERC) and the Wellcome Trust.
Awards and honours
Silver was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.
References
Fellows of the Royal Society
British neuroscientists
Alumni of Coventry University
Alumni of University College London
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mickey%27s%20Farm%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from Mickey's Farm which is a Canadian children's television series produced by Best Boy Entertainment in St. John's, Newfoundland and airs on The Pet Network in Canada and in the U.S. on the Trinity Broadcasting Network-owned Smile network, which picked up the U.S. rights to the show in 2012.
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3 (2010)
Season 4
Season 5
References
Lists of Canadian television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Be%20Afraid%20of%20the%20Dark%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is the second episode of the seventh season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 12, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Tim Minear, and directed by Liza Johnson.
Plot
Ally sees a clown in the bed with her and runs downstairs. Ivy inspects the bedroom and finds nothing.
Beverly Hope reports on Kai's assault which was caught on camera. Kai announces his campaign for a seat on the city council. The Wiltons move into the Chang's former home. They invite Oz over to see Harrison's colony of bees. Harrison discloses to Ally and Ivy that he is gay.
Roger, the sous-chef at the Butchery on Main, bickers with a Hispanic employee named Pedro. Later that night, after the Butchery's security alarm trips, Ally discovers Roger hanging on a hook in the meat locker. Detective Samuels singles out Pedro as the most likely suspect. Afterwards, Kai canvasses at Ally's doorstep. Kai unnervingly belittles her political positions.
That night, Winter offers Oz advice on overcoming nightmares and draws a bath for Ally. Winter attempts to seduce Ally but is interrupted by the power going out. Harrison alleges that there is a multi-state power outage. Winter flees and abandons Ally by herself with Oz. Ivy, after a frantic phone call with Ally is cut short by Ally's phone dying, sends Pedro to the house with a charger and some other supplies. Ally is terrorized by multiple clowns before grabbing Oz and planning to vacate. Upon opening the backdoor, Ally instinctively shoots Pedro with the gun, which she had been lent to her by the Wiltons.
Reception
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" was watched by 2.38 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.2 ratings share among adults and teens, aged 18–49.
The episode received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" holds an 88% approval rating, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 6.89 out of 10.
Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a 3.5 out of 5, saying "[this episode] continues to shade the atmosphere of American Horror Story: Cult with false leads and red herrings. Everyone will be part of the hive by the end. We are all pods." He also praised Lourd's performance, calling her "positively hypnotic, magnetic as a new age guru", but criticized the acting of Pill.
Kat Rosenfield from Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a B, and praised in particular the introduction of the Wiltons. Vulture'''s Brian Moylan gave the episode a 4 out of 5, saying "Subtle, intimate, and insightful aren't adjectives I’m used to using when talking about AHS, but I really like it. Let’s hope it stays that way."
Matt Fowler of IGN'' gave the episode a 6.8 out of 10, with a mixed to positive review. He said "the madhouse manipulation of Ally started becoming a bit too obvious, and unbelievable, this week as it felt like she was being easily steered in whatever direc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suneet%20Singh%20Tuli | Suneet Singh Tuli is the co-founder of DataWind. He was born in 1968 to Lakhvir Singh, the head of an entrepreneur, Sikh family. He graduated from Toronto University in 1990 in Applied Sciences in Engineering. While being student he started working In his brother Raja Tuli's entrepreneurial firm, Widekom. He started work with the objective of developing sales of large size fax machines. He got large size fax machines recorded in Guinness book of world records. By getting boosting sale of 600 machInes in six months at Can $20000 ; Tuli brothers turned into millionaires.
In his second innovative venture, he started creating battery operated handheld printers and hand held scanners under the name of the DocuPort Company.
These two companies were among first formed by people of Indian origin in making public offerings on NASDAQ.
Most recently, Datawind's Aakash/Ubislate tablets have attracted worldwide attention due to its affordable price to weaker sections of world's population for empowering them with computational and internet access.
Awards & Recognitions
Suneet Singh Tuli has been recognised by Forbes Magazine in its 2012 Impact 15 list as a Class Room Revolutionary
Ban Ki-moon Secretary General of United Nations, while launching his product Aakash 2 tablet spoke about it being great enabler to transform people's lives, in educating and empowering poor with internet and computing access.
In 2012, he and his brother received a technology achievement award from the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Chief Khalsa Dewan honoured him on 65th and 66th World Sikh educational conference in 2014, 2016 consecutively and in 2012 he has been recognised as Enterpreuner of the Year at World Sikh awards.
References
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian people of Punjabi descent
1968 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTR%20Moldova | RTR Moldova is a channel that is based in Moldova. It retransmits programmes of Rossiya 1.
Programming
The programmes that the channel have is Vesti-Moldova which is on Mondays to Fridays in Romanian and Russian at 13:00, 16:00 and 20:45, Pyatnitsa S Anatolem Golya is at Fridays at 19:00, Azbuka Vkusa which is on Sundays at 12:00 in Russian and at Mondays to Fridays at 09:00 in Romanian and the ever popular morning show called Dobroe Utro, Strana which in Russian on Mondays to Fridays at 06:00 and in Romanian called Dimineata La RTR which on Fridays at 12:00.
See also
Rossiya 1
RTR-Planeta
References
External links
Russian-language television stations
Television channels in Moldova
Television channels and stations established in 2013
2013 establishments in Moldova
Mass media in Chișinău |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice%20of%20Games | Choice of Games LLC is a video game developer based in California that creates interactive fiction.
They create their games in the custom-made ChoiceScript programming language, which is designed for writing multiple-choice games with a small number of variables.
The company was founded by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse in 2009. It has been noted for making games that are accessible to the visually impaired. Its games have been praised for their diverse portrayals of gender and sexuality.
The company also hosts user-submitted games under the Hosted Games label on their site and app store listing in exchange for a share of the profits. In late 2019 the company introduced the romance-focused label Heart's Choice.
Titles
Hosted titles
References
External links
American companies established in 2009
Video game companies based in California
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 2009
Interactive fiction
2009 establishments in California
Privately held companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slissenko%20%28surname%29 | Slissenko or Slisenko is a Ukrainian-language surname. Notable people with the surname include::
Anatol Slissenko, Soviet, Russian and French mathematician and computer scientist
Vasyl Slisenko, Ukrainian physicist, director of the Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU
Ukrainian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odis | ODIS is the Offender Data Information System.
ODIS may also refer to:
Online Database for Intermediary Structures
ODIs is the plural of ODI (see ODI (disambiguation)). It most often refers to:
One Day International, a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs
Oral direct inhibitor, a type of anticoagulant
Odis is a given name. Notable people with this name include:
Odis Flores (born 1987), American rapper
Odis McKinney (born 1957), American football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPK%20networks | Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) networks are the pathways and signaling of MAPK, which is a protein kinase that consists of amino acids serine and threonine. MAPK pathways have both a positive and negative regulation in plants. A positive regulation of MAPK networks is to help in assisting with stresses from the environment. A negative regulation of MAPK networks is pertaining to a high quantity of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the plant.
MAPK networks
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) networks can be found in eukaryotic cells. MAPK pathways in plants are known to regulate cell growth, cell development, cell death, and cell responses to environmental stimuli. Only a few of the MAPK mechanism components are known and have been studied. The components such as Arabidopsis MAPKKKs YODA, ANP2/ANP3, and MP3K6/MP3K7 functions in the development of the cell. MEKK1 and ANP1 function in the response to environmental stress. Unfortunately, only eight out of the twenty mitogen-activated protein kinases have been studied. The most commonly studied MAPKs are MPK3, MPK4, and MPK6, which are activated by a diversity of stimuli including abiotic stresses, pathogens, and oxidative stressors. MPK4 negatively regulates biotic stress signaling, while MPK3 and MPK6 function as positive mediators of defense responses. The plant has these positive and negative mediators allowing for normal plant growth and development, which has been proven true by the severely dwarfed phenotype of mpk4 and the embryo lethal phenotype of mpk3 and mpk6 mutants.
Positive regulation pathways in plants
Plants have many protection mechanisms to cope with stresses from the environment, which include ultraviolet light, cold or hot weather, windy days, and mechanical wounding. There are multiple pathways, but one pathway that plants have been able to develop is a self-defense mechanism by recognize pathogens through pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) via cell surface-located pathogen-recognition receptors. These receptors induce intracellular signal pathways within the plant cells, while also resulting in PAMP-triggered immunity. Responses to PAMPs target broadly instead of specifically. This immunity requires downstream components via the MAPK cascade to activate the MAP kinases. The flagellin, a peptide of flg22, triggers a rapid and strong activation of MPK3, MPK4, and MPK6. MPK4 and MPK6 can be activated by harpin proteins. MPK3 and MPK6 are very similar proteins and have a function as regulators in abscission, stomatal development, signaling various abiotic stresses, and defense responses to certain pathogens. Experimentation has proposed that the MAPK module MEKK1-MKK4/MKK5-MPK3/MPK6 may be responsible for flg22 signal transmission. All of the proposed modules appear to be correct expect for MEKK1 because plants with mekk1 mutated have a compromised flg22-triggered activation of MPK4, yet they have normal activation of MPK3 and MPK6. Data has shown that MA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20in%20Oz%20%28TV%20series%29 | Lost in Oz is an American computer-generated imagery animated series that premiered in full on August 7, 2017 streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Originally part of a pilot program, the pilot episode was later re-released as Lost in Oz: Extended Adventure on November 2, 2016, combining the first three episodes. The full series was released later.
Synopsis
Dorothy Gale is a precocious child who, with her dog Toto, is swept up to the Land of Oz without a clear way home. To travel back, Dorothy must collect all the different types of magical elements with her newfound friends, the streetwise witch West and friendly Munchkin Ojo, while a sinister plot unfolds around them. (Episodes 1–13)
Dorothy and Toto, working together with their friends, must find their way out of the Deadly Desert and save Emerald City from the Nome Kingdom to have any chance of getting back to Kansas. (Episodes 14–26)
Cast
Ashley Boettcher as Dorothy Gale
Nika Futterman as West
Jorge Diaz as Ojo
Chris Cox as Toto, Pugmill, Patchwork Doll
Alexander Polinsky as Fitz
Keith Ferguson as Reigh the Cowardly Lion
Stephen Stanton as Scarecrow, Xandort
Gina Gershon as Langwidere
Jennifer Hale as Glinda the Good Witch
Allison Mack (originally season 1), Grey DeLisle (season 1 redub-ROS) as Evelyn, Dorothy’s mother., As of June 2018, Allison Mack was dubbed out of her role for future airings due to her arrest in connection with controversial organization NXIVM.
Garrett McQuaid as Nome King
Eric Bauza as Kaliko, Axel
Bumper Robinson as Smith and Tinker
Kath Soucie as Cyra
Fred Tatasciore as General Guph, Jo
Debra Wilson as Brenda
Episodes
Season 1 (2015–2017)
Season 2 (2018)
Awards
At the 44th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the series won Outstanding Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Sound Editing - Animation, Outstanding Sound Mixing - Animation, and was nominated for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program, and Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special.
Notes
References
External links
2010s American animated television series
2017 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
Amazon Prime Video children's programming
Amazon Prime Video original programming
Television series by Amazon Studios
Animated television series by Amazon Studios
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
American computer-animated television series
American television shows based on children's books
Animated television series about orphans
Animated television series about dogs
Animated television series about lions
Animated television series based on The Wizard of Oz
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaklopac | Zaklopac () is a village in Croatia.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Zaklopac had 23 inhabitants.
Note: From 1890-1948 it include data for the former settlements of Donji Zaklopac and Gornji Zaklopac.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Zaklopac had 76 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as all Serbs.
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Zaklopac had 544 inhabitants in 3 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Book: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880-1991: po naseljima, author: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
Populated places in Zadar County
Lika
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201993%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1993, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Éxitos internacionales en México" ("International hits in Mexico"), which listed the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
Chart history
See also
1993 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1993 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20City%20of%20Literature | Melbourne City of Literature is a City of Literature located in Victoria, Australia, as part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. It was designated by UNESCO in 2008 as the second City of Literature, after Edinburgh. In 2014, the Melbourne City of Literature Office was established, directed by David Ryding. The Office is hosted at the Wheeler Centre and is dedicated to supporting Melbourne as a City of Literature through one-off programs and projects, partnerships with the literary sector, and international exchanges with other UNESCO Cities of Literature.
The Melbourne City of Literature Office is funded by Creative Victoria and the City of Melbourne. In 2017, the Office was awarded a "gold star assessment" from the UN.
Projects
Travel Fund
Conference Subsidy Program
Known Bookshops
Walking the City of Literature
Sleipnir's Literary Travels
Public Artwork Design Concept Award 2017
Art Book Fair (in association with the National Gallery of Victoria to assist the attendance of international book publishers)
References
External links
Official website
Culture of Melbourne
UNESCO
Organisations based in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villopotamon | Villopotamon is a genus of freshwater crabs, recorded from Thailand and Vietnam. Data are deficient concerning their IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status.
Species
Villopotamon klossianum (Kemp, 1923)
Villopotamon sphaeridium (Kemp, 1923)
Villopotamon thaii Dang & Hô, 2003
References
External links
Potamoidea
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalatomon | Dalatomon is a genus of freshwater crabs, named after the Dalat area, where it is found in Vietnam. Data are deficient concerning their IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status.
Species
Dalatomon laevior (Kemp, 1923)
Dalatomon loxophrys (Kemp, 1923)
References
External links
Potamoidea
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balssipotamon | Balssipotamon is a genus of freshwater crabs, found in Vietnam. Data are deficient concerning their IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status, but B. fruehstorferi is considered to be vulnerable.
Species
Balssipotamon fruehstorferi (Balss, 1914)
Balssipotamon ungulatum (Dang & Hô, 2003)
References
External links
Potamoidea
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laevimon | Laevimon is a genus of freshwater crabs, found in Vietnam. Data are deficient concerning their IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status.
Species
Laevimon kottelati Yeo & Ng, 2005
Laevimon tankiense (Dang & Tran, 1992)
References
External links
Potamoidea
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolarnaudia | Neolarnaudia is a genus of freshwater crabs, in the subfamily Potamiscinae and found in Vietnam. Data are deficient concerning their IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status.
Species
Neolarnaudia botti Türkay & Naiyanetr, 1987
Neolarnaudia phymatodes (Kemp, 1923)
References
External links
Potamoidea
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler%20Labs | Doppler Labs was a San Francisco-based audio technology company, founded in 2013. The company designed and manufactured in-ear computing technology, including earplugs and wireless smart earbuds.
History
Doppler Labs was co-founded by Noah Kraft and Fritz Lanman. Kraft had previously worked in the entertainment industry, and was employed as a strategic consultant for Google working for John Hanke on a mobile game called Ingress. Kraft also worked for Lyor Cohen during the founding of 300 Entertainment. Lanman was an executive at Microsoft and a prominent angel investor.
Before voice assistants or true wireless technology were prevalent, Doppler Labs envisioned that computing would move onto the body and into the ear and that voice would become a more primary interface for how humans interact with technology. With Apple's removal of the headphone jack, the launch of the AirPods, and the prevalence of Alexa, the smart earbud category that Doppler helped create was expected to become a $40 billion industry by 2020.
In July 2015, Doppler raised $17 million in series B funding bringing the company's total funding to over $50 million. The round was led by The Chernin Group, Wildcat Capital Management, and Acequia Capital and included luminary investors like Henry Kravis, David Geffen, Blake Krikorian, Dan Gilbert, David Bonderman and Barry Sternlicht.
Doppler Labs first product was DUBS Acoustic Filters, high-tech ear plugs designed that used a proprietary 17-piece physical acoustic filter system to reduce the sound pressure at different frequencies while maintaining acoustical fidelity. In July 2016, Doppler Labs Labs launched Here Active Listening at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and in 2017 launched its flagship product Here One, a pair of wireless smart earbuds that allowed users to selectively filter ambient sound, stream music, and amplify speech. It could also be used to take phone calls and selectively filter certain sounds, such as background noise. Here One was called the world's first in-ear computer.
In March 2017, Doppler Labs sued Bose for trademark infringement of their Here Buds trademark.
The company supported the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017 (OTC Hearing Aid Act).
On November 1, 2017, Doppler Labs announced that the company would be winding down operations, and officially closed on December 1. The company cited problems raising additional Series C funding as the reason for the company shutting down. Wired wrote that the company unsuccessfully explored options to stay afloat including partnership, investment, and acquisition from companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook. It was preparing to launch its next product, Here Two, in 2018.
Partners
In addition to its pre-existing partnerships with the Tao Group, Coachella, Bonnaroo and Outside Lands, in November 2016, Doppler Labs announced seven new partnerships with The New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Fine A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML%20metadata | The SAML metadata standard belongs to the family of XML-based standards known as the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) published by OASIS in 2005. A SAML metadata document describes a SAML deployment such as a SAML identity provider or a SAML service provider. Deployments share metadata to establish a baseline of trust and interoperability.
Introduction to SAML metadata
To securely interoperate, partners share metadata in whatever form and by whatever means possible. In any case, at least the following metadata must be shared:
Entity ID
Cryptographic keys
Protocol endpoints (bindings and locations)
Every SAML system entity has an entity ID, a globally-unique identifier used in software configurations, relying-party databases, and client-side cookies. On the wire, every SAML protocol message contains the entity ID of the issuer.
For authentication purposes, a SAML message may be digitally signed by the issuer. To verify the signature on the message, the message receiver uses a public key known to belong to the issuer. Similarly, to encrypt a message, a public encryption key belonging to the ultimate receiver must be known to the issuer. In both situations—signing and encryption—trusted public keys must be shared in advance.
Once the message is signed and encrypted, the issuer sends the message to a trusted protocol endpoint, the location of which must be known in advance. Upon receipt, the message receiver decrypts the message (using its own private decryption key) and verifies the signature (using a trusted public key in metadata) before mapping the entity ID in the message to a trusted partner.
The previous scenario requires each party to know the other in advance. To establish a baseline of trust, parties share metadata with each other. Initially, this may be as simple as sharing information via email. Over time, as the number of SAML partners grows, the natural tendency is to automate the metadata sharing process.
To fully automate the metadata sharing process, a standard file format is needed. To this end, the SAML V2.0 Metadata specification defines a standard representation for SAML metadata that simplifies the configuration of SAML software and makes it possible to create secure, automated processes for metadata sharing.
Metadata-driven interoperability
As SAML technology has matured, the importance of SAML metadata has steadily increased. Today an implementation that supports SAML web browser requires a schema-valid SAML metadata file for each SAML partner. (See the SAML V2.0 Profiles specification for more information about SAML web browser SSO.)
Static metadata configuration
The term static metadata refers to a metadata file that is configured directly into the SAML application by an administrator. In doing so, the administrator becomes responsible for the maintenance of the metadata regardless of how the metadata was obtained in the first place. Thus static metadata contributes to the overall static configuratio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shih-Fu%20Chang | Shih-Fu Chang is a Taiwanese American computer scientist and electrical engineer noted for his research on multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, machine learning, and signal processing.
Chang is currently the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University, where he is also the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor. He served as the chair of the Special Interest Group of Multimedia (SIGMM) of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 2013 to 2017. He was ranked as the Most Influential Scholar in the field of Multimedia by Aminer in 2016. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.
Biography
Chang received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1985. He received a master of science and a doctor of philosophy in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and in 1993, respectively.
After receiving his doctorate degree, he joined Columbia University as an assistant professor. He served as the Chair of Electrical Engineering from 2007 to 2010 and received joint appointment in Computer Science in 2011. He served as a co-PI and later as Co-Director of Columbia University’s ADVENT Industry Consortium, which includes more than 25 industry sponsors in the area of media technologies, from 1993 to 2003. He became the Senior Vice Dean (2012-2015) and later Senior Executive Vice Dean (2015-2022) of Columbia's Engineering School, assuming a major role in the School’s efforts in Strategic Planning, Special Research Initiatives, Faculty Development, and International Collaboration. He is currently the dean of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Chang is noted for his influential work in multimedia information retrieval, with broad applications in large-scale image/video search, mobile visual search, image authentication, and information retrieval with semi-supervised learning. His research has resulted in more than 10 technology licenses to companies and the creation of three startup companies. As of January 2023, his publications have been cited more than 67,000 times with an h-index of 130.
Awards
Chang’s notable awards include:
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2023
Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2022
Academician, Academia Sinica 2018
Fellow, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), 2017
Most Influential Scholar in the Field of Multimedia, 2016
Honorary Doctorate, University of Amsterdam, 384th Anniversary, 2016
Great Teacher Award, The Society of Columbia Graduates, 2013
Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2012
Technical Achievement Award, ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia, 2011
Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, 2009
Fellow, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2004, for contributions to digital video and multimedia technologies.
Research
Chang’s research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masergy%20Communications | Masergy Communications ( ) is a software-defined networking services company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Plano, Texas. The services they provide include Managed SD-WAN, Unified Communications, Cloud Contact Center, and Managed Security. Masergy was acquired by Comcast on October 8, 2021.
Some of Masergy's partners are Huisman, Pattonair, PRGX, Inc., Eurostar, Dolby Laboratories, and the Hallmark Channel.
Corporate structure
Acquisitions and Subsidiaries
Chris MacFarland joined Masergy as its chief operating officer in 2008 and was named its CEO in 2010. In August 2011, Masergy was acquired by ABRY Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm, for an undisclosed price.
Masergy acquired Broadcore Communications for an undisclosed purchase price in July 2012. Broadcore offered communications services, including video calling and call recording, for businesses.
In April 2014, Masergy acquired Global DataGuard, broadening its portfolio to include managed security services for enterprise customers. Its Unified Enterprise Security solution includes advanced persistent threat management and adaptive network behavioral analysis.
Masergy was acquired by Berkshire Partners in 2016 for an undisclosed amount and had been previously acquired by ABRY Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm, for an undisclosed price.
In September 2018, James Parker was named the new CEO.
In May 2020, Chris MacFarland was named the new Chairman & CEO.
In August 2021, Masergy Communications was acquired by Comcast Business.
Services
Masergy delivers Managed SD-WAN, Unified Communications, Cloud Contact Center, and Managed Security to global enterprises for clients in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, entertainment, finance, broadcasting, and more.
In March 2019, Masergy launched its new AI-Powered Intelligent Virtual Agent which powers Masergy's virtual assistant and chatbot features for their Global UCaaS solutions.
In July 2019, Masergy launched its Integrated SD-WAN and Security Bundles, including options for Unified Threat Management, Threat Monitoring and Response as well as Managed Security Services.
In August 2019, Masergy launched an updated experience for its Intelligent Service Control (ISC) portal, simplifying and unifying network & application management.
In September 2019, Masergy announced the introduction of AIOps, the Industry’s First Integrated AI-based Network, Security & Application Optimization Solution, taking the first step towards their vision of autonomous networking.
In April 2020, Masergy Delivered its 2020 CCaaS and UCaaS Trends Report.
In July 2020, Masergy announced its Zenith Partner Program, enhanced its service level agreements, and expanded its SD-WAN portfolio for more service flexibility.
In August 2020, Masergy expands its SD-WAN portfolio offering the broadest choice, flexibility, and built-in SASE. The new portfolio, based on Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) tenets, is designed with f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Orr | Royal Orr is a Canadian former radio host, best known as the host of CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup from 1992 to 1994.
Originally a reporter for the network's bureau in Quebec City and an activist with the anglophone Quebecer lobby group Alliance Quebec, he became the organization's president in 1987. In 1988, he sued Le Journal de Montréal and Télé-Métropole for libel, when both organizations falsely reported that he was the "prime suspect" after the organization's offices were destroyed by arson. The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court.
He left Alliance Quebec in 1989 to become a host for Montreal commercial radio station CJAD, remaining with that station until joining public broadcaster CBC's Cross Country Checkup in 1992. He transitioned from Checkup in 1994 to become host of Daybreak, the local morning program on the network's Montreal station CBM. He left the show in 1996, attributing his decision to the fact that as a resident of Hatley, the job required him to either get up at 2:30 a.m. or stay in Montreal away from his family for most of the week.
He then became host of Spirit Connection, a documentary series about faith and spirituality produced by the United Church of Canada for VisionTV. At WorldFest-Houston in 2004, he won awards for two Spirit Connection documentaries, "All My Friends Just Fade" and "God's People, Among All God's People".
He received the Sheila and Victor Goldbloom Distinguished Community Service Award from the Quebec Community Groups Network in 2015.
References
Canadian radio journalists
Canadian talk radio hosts
CBC Radio hosts
Canadian television hosts
Canadian documentary film directors
Anglophone Quebec people
People from Estrie
Living people
20th-century Canadian journalists
21st-century Canadian journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Pelayo%2C%20Valladolid | San Pelayo is a municipality in the Province of Valladolid, Spain.
Population: 54 (based on the data from 2017)
Post code: 47129
Municipalities in the Province of Valladolid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNNVARA | BNNVARA () is a broadcasting association and network within the Dutch public broadcasting system.
History
BNNVARA was founded on 1 January 2014 through a merger of the BNN (founded 1997) and VARA (founded 1925) associations. These continued to exist without broadcasting directly until 2018. In 2011 VARA and BNN announced that they would merge. On 6 November 2011 the members of VARA voted for the merger, after the member council of BNN had already done so a week earlier. The merger was opposed by the VVD and the Freedom Party. BNN and VARA announced on 8 February 2012 that the decision to merge was definite.
On 1 September 2018, existing members of BNN and VARA were converted into members of BNNVARA, thus ending the separate member associations that still existed.
Network
After the merge, BNN and VARA kept using their separate branding, but on 24 August 2017 it was announced that as a new broadcaster, BNNVARA (formerly BNN-VARA) would start to show programs though VARA, and for radio later the following morning on 28 August.
In 2017, controversy arose when the documentary Jesse, about the leader of the GroenLinks party Jesse Klaver, was aired by BNN-VARA. The documentary was seen as too biased towards Klaver, fuelling accusations that BNN-VARA lacked journalistic integrity.
References
External links
Dutch companies established in 2014
Dutch companies established in 2018
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Television channels and stations established in 2017
Dutch-language television networks
Dutch public broadcasting organisations
Netherlands Public Broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruvno | Bruvno () is a village in Croatia.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Bruvno had 92 inhabitants.
History
Napomena: In 1857 include part of data for the settlement of Rudopolje Bruvanjsko.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Bruvno had 292 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Bruvno had 1,379 inhabitants in 8 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
1712–14 census
The 1712–14 census of Lika and Krbava registered 658 inhabitants, all of whom were Serbian Orthodox.
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, author: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
External links
Populated places in Zadar County
Lika
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20M.%20Kensek | Karen M. Kensek is on the faculty of the USC School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. She is a leading figure in architectural computing, focusing on analytical building information modeling and building science.
On January 29, 2020, it was announced that Kensek had been named a "Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture," (ACSA) and would receive the award at the ACSA annual conference in March 2020.
Background
Kensek completed an undergraduate degree in architecture at MIT, and a Master of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. She taught for several years at Berkeley prior to joining the faculty at the University of Southern California in 1991.
Architectural Computing
She has written books on building information modeling, and has completed more than 100 research papers and 30 grants. In 1991, she founded the CLIPPER Lab with Douglas Noble at USC to support research and education in architectural computing. Together, they also conducted early architecture design studio experiments including a "supercomputing studio" in 1988 and one of the first fully "paperless studios" in 1993. She served as president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture in 1995. She has collaborated with noted architects and educators, including Pierre Koenig, Douglas E. Noble, Marc Eugene Schiler, and Ralph Lewis Knowles.
Facade Tectonics
With Noble and Mic Patterson, she co-founded the Facade Tectonics Institute in 2007 as a university-based research and education organization. The Facade Tectonics Institute has hosted conferences and published research papers focused on building facade technology.
NotLY: Licensing in Architecture
Together, Noble and Kensek have received several awards for their innovative "NotLY: Not Licensed Yet" support system for individuals preparing for the Architect Registration Examination.
Awards
Design Intelligence 30 Most Admired Educators for 2015.
ACSA Creative Achievement Award, 2014.
AIA California Council (AIACC) Academy for Emerging Professionals (AEP) Educator Award, 2014.
The NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy, 2007.
2019 PCI Foundation Community Engagement Award.
2020 Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
Books by Kensek
Kensek, K. (2014). Building Information Modeling. Routledge
Kensek, K., & Noble, D. (2014). Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice. John Wiley & Sons.
Kensek, K. (2015). Manuel BIM: Théorie et Applications. Éditions Eyrolles
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women academics
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design alumni
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty
University of Southern California faculty
MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favor%20%28Vindata%20song%29 | "Favor" is a song by American producers Vindata and Skrillex, and American-Haitian vocalist NSTASIA. It was released on August 8, 2017, via Owsla.
Production
Described as progressive melodic dance-pop, the song is composed of warm chords and a 'flute-driven' drop. The official audio was released on Owsla's YouTube channel on August 7, 2017. NSTASIA's multi-layered vocal harmonies are credited as why "the production sounds grand and immersive".
References
Skrillex songs
Future bass songs
2017 songs
2017 singles
Owsla singles
Songs written by Poo Bear
Songs written by Skrillex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL%20Crime%20%28German%20TV%20channel%29 | RTL Crime (stylized as RTL CRIME since 15 September 2021) is a German pay television channel owned by the RTL Group. The channel was launched on 27 November 2006. Its programming is centred towards action and crime series.
Distribution
Since 1 October 2007, RTL Crime was launched on Sky Deutschland. On 1 September 2011, a localised feed of the channel was launched in the Netherlands.
On 15 May 2012, the channel launched its own high-definition simulcast feed, which started to be carried on Unitymedia. On 25 September 2014, RTL Crime HD was launched on Sky Deutschland.
Since 1 August 2017, the channel is also available in HD at Kabel Deutschland in the "HD Premium" package.
Programming
Abschnitt 40 (2011-2014)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) (2014–present)
Altes Geld (2016-2018)
American Gods (2018–present)
Arrow (2014–present)
Ash vs Evil Dead (2016–present)
Autopsy (Autopsie - Mysteriöse Todesfälle) (2009–present)
Balko (2006-2011, 2015–2016)
Black Mirror (2013–present)
Born to Kill? (Born to Kill - Als Mörder geboren?) (2008–present)
Born to Kill?: Class of Evil (Born to Kill - A Class of Evil) (2017)
Breakout Kings (2012–present)
Cagney & Lacey (2016–2018)
Cold Justice: Sex Crimes (2017)
Crimes of the Century (Ridley Scott: Crimes of the Century) (2014–present)
Crossbones (Crossbones - Im Reich der Piraten) (2015–present)
CSI: Cyber (2015–present)
Death Row Stories (Death Row Stories: Geschichten aus dem Todestrakt) (2016–present)
CSI: Cyber (2015–present)
Deutschland 83 (2018–present)
Dirk Gently (2012-2015)
Forensic Files (Medical Detectives – Geheimnisse der Gerichtsmedizin) (2006-2010, 2012–present)
From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (From Dusk Till Dawn - Die Serie) (2016–present)
F/X: The Series (F/X - Die Serie) (2009-2011, 2013)
Guyane (Gier - Rausch des Goldes/Ouro) (2017–present)
Hit & Miss (2013-2016)
Hostages (Die Geiseln/Bnei Aruba) (2017–present)
Humans (2016–present)
Killers: Behind the Myth (Mythos Serienkiller) (2015–present)
King (2013–2018)
Kojak (2005) (2007–2009)
Liar (2018–present)
Meadowlands (Meadowlands - Stadt der Angst) (2009-2012)
Mörder (2015–present)
Mr. Robot (2017–present)
Profiler (2016–present)
Ransom (2017–present)
Rillington Place (Rillington Place - Der Böse) (2017–present)
Ripper Street (2013–present)
Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (Matrioshki - Mädchenhändler) (2009-2015)
SK-Babies (2007-2008)
SS-GB (2017–present)
Stieg Larsson: Millennium (2016–present)
The Bureau (Büro der Legenden/Le Bureau des Légendes) (2017)
The Grid (The Grid - Netz des Terrors) (2007-2008, 2010)
Utopia (2014–present)
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall (2008-2012, 2014–present)
White Collar (2012-2017)
Audience share
Germany
Logos
References
External links
Television stations in Germany
Television stations in Austria
Television stations in Switzerland
German-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Germany
Mass media in Cologne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekow%20Mensah | Ekow Mensah is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and speaker who is founder and CEO of The African Network of Entrepreneurs (TANOE).
Early life
Mensah was born in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. He has a degree in mathematics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Ekow Mensah is married to Mrs A.J Mensah.
Career
As the CEO of The African Network of Entrepreneurs, he oversees 5 networks and 6 projects which are actively involved in various impact activities across Ghana. The African Network of Entrepreneurs holds a membership of over 1750 entrepreneurs across Africa primarily in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Liberia, Kenya and Zambia. He also recently launched Ghana's first creative arts hub and co-working space, known as the TANOE Hub which provides space and resources to creatives in Accra, Ghana.
Ekow was recently appointed by Premium Bank Ghana Ltd to head its HelpStation initiative and also chairs the Board of the Ghana Startup Awards. He was also an independent consultant with British Council Ghana and DwellWorks, USA and mentors participants of the Regional YALI West Africa programme and students of Ashesi University.
His article on President Donald Trump was highly published and recommended across Africa.
Awards and recognition
In 2015, Mensah was ranked among the 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians by Avance Media and was subsequently recognised by Coca-Cola among 60 Young Leaders in Ghana.
References
Living people
Ghanaian businesspeople
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glogovo%2C%20Croatia | Glogovo () is a village in Croatia.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Glogovo had 11 inhabitants.
Napomena: In 1857 and 1869 data is include in the settlements of Gračac and Kijani, and in 1880 part of data is include in the settlement of Kijani.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Glogovo had 66 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Glogovo had 460 inhabitants in 2 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, author: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
External links
Populated places in Zadar County
Lika
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab%2C%20Zadar%20County | Grab () is a village in Croatia.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Grab had 78 inhabitants.
Napomena: In census period 1857–1880 it include data for the settlement of Vučipolje.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Grab had 219 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Grab had 721 inhabitants in 2 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, author: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
External links
Populated places in Zadar County
Lika |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdillo | Cyberdillo is a first-person shooter developed by Pixel Technologies and published by Panasonic in 1996. It was released for the 3DO and MS-DOS. The game received mixed reviews.
Gameplay
Cyberdillo is a first-person shooter in which the player takes the role of the Cyberdillo, an armadillo who was run over by a car and was made into a cyborg. Starting off with a plunger gun, Cyberdillo must collect items such as platform shoes or bellbottoms to progress to the next level.
Enemies the player come across include hairspray and bipedal hotdogs. The player can also collect power-ups like the bone flute, which temporarily causes the screen to go black (a play on the myth about masturbation), and the laxative which will kill you if you're unable to find a toilet in time.
Development
Cyberdillo was developed by Pixel Technologies and published by Panasonic in January 1996.
Reception
Cyberdillo received mixed reviews from video game critics.
A reviewer for GamePro called the gameplay "redundant" and lacking Doom's suspense. The reviewer was also mixed on the game's music. While calling it "tongue-in-cheek" and adding charm to the game, they added that the player's tolerance would depend on their liking of disco. They also described the voice acting as "unintelligible".
Steve Bauman from Computer Games Magazine considered the soundtrack to be the best part of the game, while calling the game mediocre.
Hardcore Gaming 101 criticized the controls for being too slippery and its level designs for being confusing.
Next Generation reviewed the 3DO version of the game, and stated that "Although Cyberdillo moves surprisingly fast on 3DO, the control is very loose and the graphics are far from cutting edge. The developers deserve credit for trying to make something that's different, but in the end, Cyberdillo is either a cute novelty of a run-of-the-mill Doom game – neither of which make for much long-term entertainment."
References
External links
Cyberdillo at GameFAQs
Cyberdillo at Giant Bomb
Cyberdillo at MobyGames
Fictional armadillos
1996 video games
3DO Interactive Multiplayer games
DOS games
First-person shooters
Single-player video games
Video games about cyborgs
Video games developed in the United States
Video games with 2.5D graphics
Sprite-based first-person shooters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kom%2C%20Croatia | Kom () is a village in Croatia.
Population
According to the 2011 census, Kom had 34 inhabitants.
Napomena: It include data for the former settlement of Rujišta.
1991 census
According to the 1991 census, settlement of Kom had 208 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this:
Austro-hungarian 1910 census
According to the 1910 census, settlement of Kom had 753 inhabitants in 10 hamlets, which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:
Literature
Savezni zavod za statistiku i evidenciju FNRJ i SFRJ, popis stanovništva 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. i 1991. godine.
Knjiga: "Narodnosni i vjerski sastav stanovništva Hrvatske, 1880–1991: po naseljima, author: Jakov Gelo, izdavač: Državni zavod za statistiku Republike Hrvatske, 1998., , ;
References
External links
Populated places in Zadar County
Lika
Serb communities in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine%20Van%20Huffel | Sabine J. A. Van Huffel (born 26 September 1958) is a Belgian computer scientist, applied mathematician, and electrical engineer, whose research concerns computational methods for medical diagnostics, and in particular methods based on total least squares.
Education and career
Van Huffel was born in Menen. She earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees from KU Leuven in 1981 and 1987,
with Joos Vandewalle as her doctoral advisor. Her dissertation, Analysis of the Total Least Squares Problem and its use in parameter estimation, concerned total least squares methods for parameter estimation.
She is a full professor at KU Leuven since 2002 . and a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) since 2014 (until 2022).
Book
With Vandewalle, Van Huffel is the author of the book The Total Least Squares Problem: Computational Aspects and Analysis (SIAM, 1991).
Recognition
Van Huffel is a fellow of the IEEE
and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from TU/e.
In 2016 she was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for esteemed accomplishments in bridging the gap between advanced numerical linear algebra techniques and biomedical signal processing". She was elected to the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2017.
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
Belgian women computer scientists
Belgian women mathematicians
KU Leuven alumni
Academic staff of KU Leuven
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20My%20Korean%20Jagiya%20episodes | My Korean Jagiya () is a 2017 Philippine television drama comedy romance series directed by Mark A. Reyes, starring Heart Evangelista and Alexander Lee. The series premiered on GMA Network's GMA Telebabad primetime block and aired worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV on August 21, 2017, replacing I Heart Davao.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in television homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
In the tables below, the represent the lowest ratings and the represent the highest ratings.
August 2017
September 2017
October 2017
November 2017
December 2017
January 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub | ActivityPub is an open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol. It provides a client/server API for creating, updating, and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content.
Project status
ActivityPub is a standard for the Internet in the Social Web Networking Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standard was co-authored by Evan Prodromou, creator of StatusNet (now known as GNU social). At an earlier stage, the name of the protocol was "ActivityPump", but it was felt that ActivityPub better indicated the cross-publishing purpose of the protocol. It is the most widely supported standard (by some margin) in the Fediverse.
In January 2018, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the ActivityPub standard as a Recommendation. Lead author Christine Lemmer-Webber notes that the team predominantly identified as queer, which led to features that help users and administrators protect against "undesired interaction." She also notes that the team authoring ActivityPub had no corporate participation.
The W3C Social Community Group organizes a yearly free conference called ActivityPub Conf about the future of ActivityPub.
Former Diaspora community manager Sean Tilley wrote an article that suggests ActivityPub protocols may eventually provide a way to federate Internet platforms.
Notable implementations
Federated (server-to-server) protocol
Friendica, social networking software; implemented ActivityPub in version 2019.01.
Lemmy, software for running Reddit-style news aggregators and discussion forums. Any instance can use ActivityPub to interact with other forums and form a federated social network.
Libervia (in beta )
Mastodon, social networking software; implemented ActivityPub in version 1.6 and released in September 2017. It is intended that ActivityPub offers more security for private messages than the previous OStatus protocol.
Micro.blog, a microblogging social network, added support for ActivityPub in 2018 and was enabled by default for new users in October 2022.
Misskey, a federated self-hosted software for microblogging with special reaction and Markdown formatting, akin to Tumblr and Discord, mostly popular in Japan.
Mobilizon, a federated event organising server
Nextcloud, a federated file-hosting service.
PeerTube, a federated video-streaming service.
Pixelfed, a federated image-sharing service resembling Instagram.
WordPress via a plug-in to post blogs from users. In October 2023, federation support based on the plugin became available on WordPress.com.
Expected or announced future implementations
In November 2022, Tumblr announced that they will be adding support.
Threads, an Instagram application.
GitLab
Forgejo
Other support
Flipboard
See also
Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
Comparison of microblogging and similar services
Fediverse
Micropub
References
F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%20Live%20II | "Drew Live II" is the fifth episode of the sixth season of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show, and the 132nd overall. It first aired on November 8, 2000, on the ABC network in the United States. The episode's plot sees Drew (Drew Carey) open an employment agency, but he has trouble finding jobs for his friends Lewis Kiniski (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald Lee Harvey (Diedrich Bader).
The episode was written by Brian Scully and directed by Gerry Cohen. It was conceived after the success of the first live Drew Carey Show episode, which aired the previous year. Improvisational segments were added to a basic plot, and producers chose to keep many elements of the episode a secret from the cast. The episode was performed live three times for the Eastern/Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones. It featured guest appearances by several Whose Line Is It Anyway? cast members and talk show host Jay Leno.
"Drew Live II" was seen by an estimated 15.2 million viewers, finishing just outside the Top 20 in the ratings for the week of November 6–12, 2000. It was the sixth highest-rated show on ABC that week. Production mixer Klaus Landsberg was recognised for his work on the episode with a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Plot
Drew (Drew Carey) returns to the Winfred-Louder department store to speak with his former boss Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson) about his rejected unemployment claim. Wick tells him that he should not have quit his job, but Drew argues that he was fired. Mr. Wick tells him to take it up with the assistant director of personnel, which was Drew's former job. They go back and forth, until Drew gives up and Wick declares to the other employees that the show is over. Drew's co-worker, Eugene (Colin Mochrie) does not join in with the applause and tells Wick that he thinks what he did to Drew was cruel, so Wick fires him. Drew vows to help Eugene find a new job, before deciding to open his own employment agency.
Drew's friends Lewis Kiniski (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald Lee Harvey (Diedrich Bader) tell Drew that they are unhappy in their current jobs, so Drew offers to recommend them for mystery diner positions at Shenanigans restaurant. Drew later reveals that there is only one position available, but Lewis and Oswald have already quit their jobs. Drew cannot decide whom to pick, so Kate O'Brien (Christa Miller) suggests they go to Shenanigans to see who is better at the job. Both Lewis and Oswald are terrible, so Drew tells them they can work for him. Oswald realises that he went into the wrong office when he quit his job and returns to work. Lewis and Drew visit Lewis' boss (Jay Leno) at DrugCo to ask him to give Lewis his job back.
Production
Following the first live episode of The Drew Carey Show in 1999, which achieved high ratings, a second live episode was conceived in a bid to repeat that success and capitalise on the November sweeps ratings period. The producers also wanted to "push the envelope even further" than before, so they decided to kee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Kraizmer | Leonid Pavlovich Kraizmer () (29 May, 1912 – 2002) was leading Soviet cybernetician who was active in Leningrad before moving to Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Publications in English
Bionics (1963) U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, Joint Publications Research Service
Technical Cybernetics (1967) translation of Tekhnicheskaia kibernetika (1958) Moscow: Energiia Moskva
High Speed Ferromagnetic Memory Units'' (1967)
References
Soviet cyberneticists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Cybernetics in the Soviet Union had its own particular characteristics, as the study of cybernetics came into contact with the dominant scientific ideologies of the Soviet Union and the nation's economic and political reforms: from the unmitigated anti-Americanist criticism of cybernetics in the early 1950s; its legitimization after Stalin's death and up to 1961; its total saturation of Soviet academia in the 1960s; and its eventual decline through the 1970s and 1980s.
Initially, from 1950-1954, the reception of cybernetics by the Soviet Union establishment was exclusively negative. The Soviet Department for Agitation and Propaganda had called for anti-Americanism to be intensified in Soviet media, and in an attempt to fill the Department's quotas, Soviet journalists latched on to cybernetics as an American "reactionary pseudoscience" to denounce and mock. This attack was interpreted as a signal of an official attitude to cybernetics, so, under Joseph Stalin's premiership, cybernetics was inflated into "a full embodiment of imperialist ideology" by Soviet writers. Upon Stalin's death, the wide-reaching reforms of Nikita Khrushchev's premiership allowed cybernetics to legitimize itself as "a serious, important science", and in 1955, articles on cybernetics were published in the state philosophical organ, Voprosy Filosofii, after a group of Soviet scientists realized the potential of this new science.
Under the formerly suppressive scientific culture of the Soviet Union, cybernetics began to serve as an umbrella term for previously maligned areas of Soviet science, such as structural linguistics and genetics. Under the leadership of academician Aksel Berg, the Council of Cybernetics was formed, an umbrella organization dedicated to providing funding for these new lights of Soviet science. By the 1960s, this fast legitimization put cybernetics in fashion, as "cybernetics" became a buzzword among career-minded scientists. Additionally, Berg's administration left many of the original cyberneticians of the organization disgruntled; complaints were made that he seemed more focused on administration than scientific research, citing Berg's grand plans to expand the council to subsume "practically all of Soviet science". By the 1980s, cybernetics had lost relevance in Soviet scientific culture, as its terminology and political function were succeeded by those of informatics in the Soviet Union and, eventually, post-Soviet states.
Official criticism: 1950–1954
The initial reception of cybernetics in the stifling scientific culture of Soviet state-sanctioned media and academic publication was exclusively negative. Under the plans of the Soviet Department for Agitation and Propaganda, Soviet anti-American propaganda was to be intensified, in order "to show the decay of bourgeois culture and morals" and "debunk the myths of American propaganda" in the wake of the formation of NATO. This imperative put Soviet newspaper editors in a frantic search for topics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Broadcast%20Unlimited | Information Broadcast Unlimited, Inc. (IBU), is a privately owned Philippine radio and television network based in Angeles City in Pampanga. IBU also known as DZCL-TV was assigned to Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Channel 38 in Pampanga and provisional authority in other provinces in the Philippines.
The IBU corporate address is 2510 Raffles Building, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig. Due to limited broadcast spectrum resources, IBU has no UHF assignment in Metro Manila. It operates 105.5 FM in Angeles City, Pampanga. It has a wide coverage in Central Luzon with its signal reaching Metro Manila households.
Congressional franchise
On April 28, 2009, House Bill No. 3058 was approved by the House of Representatives. It was approved by the Senate of the Philippines on third reading last May 11, 2009 for approval of the Philippine president, then Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. On July 12, 2009, it was enacted and lapsed into law as Republic Act 9652 without Arroyo's actual signature.
Republic Act 9652 grants IBU a franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain for commercial purposes and in the public
interest, radio and/ or television broadcasting stations in the Philippines, where frequencies and/or channels are still available for radio and/or television broadcasting, including digital radio and television system, through microwave, satellite or whatever means, including the use of any new technology that may hereafter or in the future developed in the field of radio and television broadcasting, with the corresponding technological auxiliaries and facilities, special broadcast and other program and distribution services and relay stations for 25 years.
Private owners
In September 2007, six private individual investors led by businessman Leonardo S. Dayao formed Information Broadcast Unlimited, Inc. with authorized capital stock of 10 million pesos. IBU facilities are located at ComClark Annex Building, M.A. Roxas Highway cor. Ninoy Aquino Ave., Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, Philippines together with Angeles Cable Television Network (ACCTN) and various cable networks in Central Luzon.
IBU Stations
All stations are affiliated under UNTV (Philippines), listed as of June 2016:
TV Stations
Inactive Stations
Radio Stations
References
Television networks in the Philippines
Television stations in Metro Manila
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusability%20%28disambiguation%29 | Reusability is a term in computer science.
Reusability may also refer to:
The quality of being fit for reuse
Reusable packaging
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Cyber%20Corps | United States Cyber Corps, the U.S military cyber forces, may refer to:
Current units
United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)
Twenty-Fourth Air Force (AFCYBER)
United States Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER)
Cyber Branch (United States Army)
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command
Marine Corps Cyberspace Command (MARFORCYBER)
Defunct units
Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional)
U.S. Navy Cyber Forces (CYBERFOR)
See also
Information Warfare Corps (U.S. Navy)
Cyberwarfare in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium%20Gift%20of%20Life%20Network | The Trillium Gift of Life Network was an agency of the Government of Ontario responsible for the province's organ donation strategy, promotion, and supply. Ronnie Gavsie was the President & CEO. The agency maintained the popular BeADonor.ca website. It was subsequently subsumed under Ontario Health in 2019.
Statistics
Statistics can be a great way to see the reasons behind needing certain registries in a country. The following are statistics on the wait-list and the transplants performed in Canada in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The data is from the Canadian Institute for Health Information that focuses on British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.
From 2001 to 2010, kidney and liver waitlists decreased, respectively by 330 and 27 patients. The pancreas waitlist, however, increased by 24 patients since 2001. Heart, lung, and heart with lungs remained moderately stable. These trends are indicated in the Organ wait-list by organ for 2001 to 2010. Transplants from 2001 to 2010, however, indicated an increased trend by 275 operations in deceased and living kidney, kidney pancreas, deceased and living liver, heart and lung transplants. Heart with lung transplants remained stable. These trends are indicated in the Organ transplant by organ for 2001 to 2010.
Canadian organ wait-list
Looking at the statistics for Canada, one can see that there has been an increase in the number of people waiting for a transplant between 2009 and 2010, while between 2008 and 2009 there was a decrease in the number of people on the wait-list.
Ontario organ transplants
Since 2008 there has been a steady increase of people receiving transplants. Comparing the number of transplants performed to the number of people waiting in 2010, there are twice as many people waiting then there is transplants being performed. This may be a sign of what is to come in future years. If the wait-list continues to increase at a faster rate than the number of transplants performed, the demand is not going to meet the supply.
References
External links
Medical and health organizations based in Ontario
Organ donation
Ontario government departments and agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Stream%20Analytics | Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics is a serverless scalable complex event processing engine by Microsoft that enables users to develop and run real-time analytics on multiple streams of data from sources such as devices, sensors, web sites, social media, and other applications. Users can set up alerts to detect anomalies, predict trends, trigger necessary workflows when certain conditions are observed, and make data available to other downstream applications and services for presentation, archiving, or further analysis.
Query Language
Users can author real-time analytics using a simple declarative SQL-like language with embedded support for temporal logic. Callouts to custom code with JavaScript user defined functions extend the streaming logic written in SQL. Callouts to Azure Machine Learning helps with predictive scoring on streaming data.
Scalability
Azure Stream Analytics is a serverless job service on Azure that eliminates the need for infrastructure, servers, virtual machines, or managed clusters. Users only pay for the processing used for the running jobs.
IoT applications
Azure Stream Analytics integrates with Azure IoT Hub to enable real-time analytics on data from IoT devices and applications.
Real-time Dashboards
Users can build real-time dashboards with Power BI for a live command and control view. Real-time dashboards help transform live data into actionable and insightful visuals.
Data Input Sources
Stream Analytics supports three different types of input sources - Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hubs, and Azure Blob Storage. Additionally, stream analytics supports Azure Blob storage as the input reference data to help augment fast moving event data streams with static data.
Stream analytics supports a wide variety of output targets. Support for Power BI allows for real-time dashboarding. Event Hub, Service bus topics and queues help trigger downstream workflows. Support for Azure Table Storage, Azure SQL Databases, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure SQL, Document DB, Azure Data Lake Store enable a variety of downstream analysis and archiving capabilities.
References
External links
Cloud computing
Cloud computing providers
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud platforms
Microsoft cloud services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch-type%20Read%20and%20Spell | Touch-type Read and Spell is a computer program that uses the Orton-Gillingham Method to teach phonics and typing. It is a multi-sensory approach. Keyboarding lessons present words on the screen, play them aloud and provide visual cues of the intended hand movements. The program is multi-step and focuses on accuracy over speed. This makes it appropriate for students with dyslexia and other specific learning differences, ADHD, dyspraxia, adults who struggle with literacy skills and aphasic individuals recovering from a stroke. TTRS has been featured in the Guardian and Forbes and the course and its approach are commonly discussed in books concerning special needs classroom instruction and dyslexia.
References
Phonics
Educational software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manocha%20%28disambiguation%29 | Manocha is a village in Mozambique.
Manocha may also refer to:
Dinesh Manocha, American computer scientist
Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI
Inder Manocha (born 1968), British Asian stand-up comedian and actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognito | Cognito may refer to:
Technology
Amazon Cognito, a user identity service by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cognito, an identity verification and compliance platform owned by Plaid Inc.
Cognito, a cybersecurity platform owned by Vectra AI
People
Ian Cognito, a British stand-up comedian
Cognito, a hip hop documentarian who documented the making of The Ecstatic
Cognito, a rapper formerly associated with record label Strange Music
Other uses
Cognito, a video game label owned by Eutechnyx
Cognito, Inc., a fictional organization in the TV series Inside Job
See also
Livein Cognito, an album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Big Satan
The Great Cognito, a claymation short film
Cogito (disambiguation)
Incognito (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documenting%20Hate | Documenting Hate is a project of ProPublica, in collaboration with a number of journalistic, academic, and computing organizations, for systematic tracking of hate crimes and bias incidents. It uses an online form to facilitate reporting of incidents by the general public. Since August 2017, it has also used machine learning and natural language processing techniques to monitor and collect news stories about hate crimes and bias incidents. , over 100 news organizations had joined the project.
History
Origin
Documenting Hate was created in response to ProPublica's dissatisfaction with the quality of reporting and tracking of evidence of hate crimes and bias incidents after the United States presidential election of 2016. The project was launched on 17 January 2017, after the publication on 15 November 2016 of a ProPublica news story about the difficulty of obtaining hard data on hate crimes.
Introduction of the Documenting Hate News Index
On 18 August 2017, ProPublica and Google announced the creation of the Documenting Hate News Index, which uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API for automated monitoring and collection of news stories about hate crimes and bias incidents. The API uses machine learning and natural language processing techniques. The findings of the Index are integrated with reports from members of the public. The Index is a joint project of ProPublica, Google News Lab, and the data visualization studio Pitch Interactive.
Response
Participation
, thousands of incidents had been reported via Documenting Hate. , over 100 news organizations had joined the project, including the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Vox, and the Georgetown University Hoya.
Relationship to government statistical monitoring
A policy analyst for the Center for Data Innovation (an affiliate of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), while supporting ProPublica's critique of the present state of hate-crime statistics, and praising ProPublica for drawing attention to the problem, has argued that a nongovernmental project like Documenting Hate cannot solve it unaided; instead, intervention at the federal level is needed.
See also
Unite the Right rally
References
External links
Documenting Hate on ProPublica (www.documentinghate.com redirects to this ProPublica page)
Documenting Hate News Index
Google News Lab
Google Cloud Natural Language API
Pitch Interactive
Data mining
Data journalism
Hate crime
Knowledge bases
Applications of artificial intelligence
Media analysis organizations and websites
Natural language processing
Social statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beat%20with%20Ari%20Melber | The Beat with Ari Melber is an American news and politics program hosted by Ari Melber, who is the chief legal correspondent for the network MSNBC. It airs weekdays at 6 PM ET and is one of the "most-watched news programs on cable."
The A.P. reported in 2023, “'The Beat' is often the most-watched [show] on MSNBC. The Emmy-winning NBC News legal analyst ... brings a methodical, 'follow the facts' style to the issues he addresses."
Format
The show features news reporting, one-on-one interviews, panels, and special reports by the anchor. The show includes a "Fallback Friday" segment every Friday, and two series with extended interviews, "Mavericks," and "The Summit Series."
History
The Beat with Ari Melber was announced after Greta Van Susteren's program For the Record with Greta ended. The network tapped Melber as one of its "most valuable utility players" for anchoring the 6 p.m. slot, according to the Associated Press, an effort to shore up an hour when MSNBC has historically drawn fewer viewers, trailing cable stars Bret Baier and Wolf Blitzer, who host the 6 p.m. shows on Fox News and CNN. Upon its debut, it was part of MSNBC's evening ratings surge among key demographics on cable television, and went on to draw a larger nightly audience than any hour of CNN.
The Beat with Ari Melber has been noted for its reporting on Facebook's role in elections and journalism. Mediaite wrote about its coverage of Facebook's role in the 2016 Philippines election, noting "host Ari Melber has carved out an important niche as arguably the leading critic of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in all of television."
Notable interviews Melber has conducted include U.S. Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Richard Blumenthal, Dick Durbin, Mark Warner, and Cory Booker; Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had a newsworthy legal exchange on the show, former White House adviser Stephen Bannon, former Trump aide Sam Nunberg, who later credited the interview for his decision to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, also Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has appeared on the show multiple times and musician Talib Kweli, who joined a discussion with Fat Joe and conservative Bill Kristol that Fortune called "one of the most delightfully diverse panels ever. Really."
The show also features musical and cultural guests, such as 50 Cent, Method Man, Vic Mensa, French Montana, Black Panther actor Winston Duke, Sean Penn, novelist Alice Walker, Andrew Leon Talley, DJs Stretch Armstrong, Bobbito Garcia and Jay Smooth, Desus and The Kid Mero (who both co-host Desus & Mero), and the rapper Havoc, (who noted Melber quoted his lyrics to explain a legal concept and announced a forthcoming Mobb Deep album in an interview on the show).
Reception
The Detroit Free Press named The Beat with Ari Melber to its "best" TV shows of 2017, noting its reporting "helped untangle the implications of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, revealing the actual law obscured by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%20app | Car apps are a genre of software that offer a car and its driver abilities above what is built-in to the vehicle. Examples of Third-party software for cars include allowing data input while moving, traffic jam assistance, diagnostics and lane-keeping.
These pieces of software can be standalone or linked to the cars computers via the "OBD" (On-board diagnostics) port that is present in almost all cars made since the mid-1990s.
Overview
Android, Windows, and iPhone Operating System (IOS) all offer software to connect a smartphone with a car. Car Play and Android Auto apps transmit the home screen of any Android or IOS smartphone to the car built-in display. Therefore, apps installed on the connected smartphone will become available on car screen. Sometimes car apps require additional hardware which plugs into the on-board diagnostics (OBD) port to record, collect and provide the data about engine errors. Some apps, along with additional hardware, give keyless access to the car and let the owner start the engine using a smartphone. Drivers can install a dash cam app and use a smartphone to capture the driving process. Information about the owner's driving habits can be recorded by car software with the help of OBD port. If the vehicle's speedometer is not functioning properly, car apps can provide accurate car speed. Car software collects live data about road signs, speed limits and traffic cameras ahead. Some car apps send real-time notifications about road accidents and traffic jams en route.
Types of car apps
OBD apps
On-board Diagnostic apps require an additional piece of hardware called an OBD adapter to be plugged into the OBD port. The OBD app is installed on an appropriate smartphone or tablet, connecting to the OBD adapter through Wifi or Bluetooth signals. Car owners can monitor their vehicle in real time, and receive information about engine temperature, and car performance. OBD codes indicate the location and nature of problems. Often OBD apps offer additional features such as journey recording, CO2 emission calculation, horsepower evaluation, dynamo meter, fuel consumption, and driving time. An alarm feature is usually present as well – such apps alert the driver about speeding, low voltage, and high temperature. Some apps perform an analysis of driving behavior, recording car owner's habits, calculating money spent on every mile, and giving tips on improving the riding process.
Navigation apps
Navigation software can provide data on altitude, moon phase, traffic cameras, and traffic jams. Users can look for addresses using geo-tagged images, and some apps provide a worldwide maps feature where one app contains maps of various cities around the world. Some software can calculate speed, distance covered and provide estimated time to the destination point.
Dash cam apps
Dash cam apps record everything that happens on the road and can provide essential evidence when investigating road accidents. Most dash cam apps have YouTube |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TER%20Grand%20Est | TER Grand Est or TER Fluo is the regional rail network serving the region of Grand Est, northeastern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2016 from the previous TER networks TER Alsace, TER Lorraine and TER Champagne-Ardenne, when the respective regions were merged.
History
On 1st January 2016, the three administrative regions of Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne merged. As a result, on 11 December 2016, TER Grand Est was created out of the three existing systems TER Alsace, TER Lorraine and TER Champagne-Ardenne, including TER 200 and TER Vallée de la Marne.
In spring 2019, TER Grand Est was integrated into the intermodal network Fluo Grand Est. The new branding is used to signify TER train services operated in the region.
Network
The rail and bus network as of February 2021:
Rail
Bus
See also
Réseau Ferré de France
List of SNCF stations in Grand Est
Notes and references
Notes
References
External links
Official Site (SNCF)
TER |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cork%20Museum | The Cork Museum of Palafrugell, Spain, is a museum about the cork industry in Catalonia. Founded in 1972, the Cork Museum is part of the Costa Brava Museum Network and the Network of Local Museums of Catalonia in Girona.
The Cork Museum is located in a modernist factory around a small cork forest. The exhibition consists of an audiovisual space, a journey from the forest to work at the factory to obtain plugs, discs, paper and agglomerate, a space to experiment and a space for participation.
The building
The Cork Museum is divided into three spaces. Two of them are heritage buildings (recognized as Bé Cultural d'Interès Local - BCIL, that means a cultural heritage of local interest): the industrial buildings and Cal Ganxó. The third space, newly constructed, is a reception hall, installation space and warehouse.
Spaces
Permanent exhibition -located in the ground floor and first floor.
Manufactures space. - exhibition space.
Reception hall - welcome location for visitors and gift shop
Geminus" space - workshops.
Miquel Auditorium
History
In 1972, archaeologist Miquel Oliva and local researchers Joan Badia and Albert Recasens founded the Palafrugell Museum. At the beginning of the 1980s, the museum was divided to create the current Palafrugell archive, including a new monographic specialization on the cork industry.
In 1986, the first conservative square was created. In 1989, the Palafrugell Cork Museum became part of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (mNACTEC). In 1991, the first permanent exhibition spaces were opened at the Tarongeta street building.
On June 29, 2012 the Palafrugell Cork Museum opened a new headquarters in the modernist cork factory of Can Mario. It was now the largest cork museum in the world.
Other spaces
The Cork Museum also manages the Centre d'Interpretació del Dipòsit Modernista de Can Mario and the Conjunt Monumental de Sant Sebastià de la Guardia.
The Centre d'Interpretació del Dipòsit Modernista de Can Mario shows how that facility regulated the water supply and water pressure in the Can Mario cork factory. It is a Bé Cultural d'Interès Nacional - BCIN (cultural heritage of national interest) in Spain.
The Conjunt Monumental de Sant Sebastià de la Guarda is an historic site with a watchtower, an 18th-century hermitage and a 19th-century lighthouse.
The Cork Museum offers guided tours, educational activities and visits to both facilities.
Documentation center
The Cork Museum has a collection of 6,200 object. It is also an important cork documentation center, that has received more than 2.000 inquires.
References
Bibliography
Fernàndez, M. (coord.) i alt. El Museu del Suro de Palafrugell. Quaderns de Didàctica i Difusió-7. Publicacions del Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya.
ESPADALÉ, Pep: «El Museu del Suro de Palafrugell: un passat amb feina feta i un futur ambiciós». Revista del Baix Empordà, núm. 29, juny-set. 2010.
External links
Lloc web oficial de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20divide%20in%20Germany | The digital divide in Germany, the second most populous state and leading economic powerhouse in Europe, refers to the ever-growing gap between members of society without computer or Internet access and those with access. There are several factors contributing to the digital divide in Germany, including age, gender, family structure, education, ethnicity, and motivation. With a large market of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Germany, there are still areas that don't have access to high-speed internet. Internet access in Germany is more available in big cities compared to rural communities. The German government has taken initiative to increase internet access through the rural communities by adding free internet access throughout the communities, as well as, increase internet education in schools.
ICT related to Germany
While, overall, Germany's ICT market is the fourth largest worldwide and the largest in Europe, high-speed internet is hardly seen in its more rural areas.
ICT stands for information and communication technologies, and includes any devices and systems utilized in digital technology and communication. That being said, the ICT market involves the buying and selling of these devices and systems. Germany's Its ICT market grew significantly between 2004 and 2014. Revenue from foreign exports in ICT services jumped from $10.2 billion to $25.8 billion. In 2014 alone, revenue from foreign exports in ICT hardware and consumer electronics that were made in Germany reached $37.3 billion. Market researcher, Marketline, predicts a compound annual growth rate of 5.5 percent between 2016 and 2019. While Germany's ICT market is succeeding globally, within the country itself, ICT success is mainly only prevalent in the larger cities.
Potential Solutions
Germany differs from most other countries in that the digital divide cannot be significantly attributed to disparities in infrastructure. Generally, rural areas are placed at a much higher price point for high-speed Internet access as opposed to urban areas. However, the German digital divide is regionally affected by attainable benefits of Internet access. The regional differences are not so much due to geographic barriers, but instead revolve around the different subgroups of the population that make up each region. An assessment made through Wikipedia and Twitter reported that minority and regional languages are underrepresented online. Germans of all ages are using more and more social networks in past years, a strong indicator of a diminishing digital divide. From 2010 to 2013, the percentage of German citizens over the age of 65 using social networks increased from 50 percent to 66 percent.
Effects of the digital divide in Germany
Germany is the leading economic nation in Europe and the second most populous European nation. With several different ICT innovations brought by Germany, the industry continues to expand all around the world. Information access is a vital s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20NeuroGenderings%20Network | The NeuroGenderings Network is an international group of researchers in neuroscience and gender studies. Members of the network study how the complexities of social norms, varied life experiences, details of laboratory conditions and biology interact to affect the results of neuroscientific research. Working under the label of "neurofeminism", they aim to critically analyze how the field of neuroscience operates, and to build an understanding of brain and gender that goes beyond gender essentialism while still treating the brain as fundamentally material. Its founding was part of a period of increased interest and activity in interdisciplinary research connecting neuroscience and the social sciences.
History
The group, comprising scholars who specialized in feminism, queer theory and gender studies, formed to tackle "neurosexism" as defined by Cordelia Fine in her 2010 book Delusions of Gender: "uncritical biases in [neuroscientific] research and public perception, and their societal impacts on an individual, structural, and symbolic level." Research can suffer from neurosexism by failing to include the social factors and expectations that shape sex differences, which possibly leads to making inferences based on flawed data.
By contrast, the network members advocate "neurofeminism", aiming to critically evaluate heteronormative assumptions of contemporary brain research and examine the impact and cultural significance of neuroscientific research on society's views about gender. This includes placing greater emphasis on neuroplasticity rather than biological determinism.
Conferences
In March 2010, the first conference – NeuroGenderings: Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain – was held in Uppsala, Sweden. Organisers Anelis Kaiser and Isabelle Dussauge described its long terms goals "to elaborate a new conceptual approach of the relation between gender and the brain, one that could help to head gender theorists and neuroscientists to an innovative interdisciplinary place, far away from social and biological determinisms but still engaging with the materiality of the brain." The NeuroGenderings Network was established at this event, with the group's first results published in a special issue of the journal Neuroethics.
Further conferences have since been held on a biennial basis: NeuroCultures — NeuroGenderings II, September 2012 at the University of Vienna's physics department; NeuroGenderings III – The First International Dissensus Conference on Brain and Gender, May 2014 in Lausanne, Switzerland; and NeuroGenderings IV in March 2016, at Barnard College, New York City.
Members
The members of the NeuroGenderings Network are:
Robyn Bluhm
Tabea Cornel
Isabelle Dussauge
Gillian Einstein
Cordelia Fine
Hannah Fitsch
Giordana Grossi
Christel Gumy
Nur Zeynep Gungor
Daphna Joel
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Anelis Kaiser
Emily Ngubia Kessé
Cynthia Kraus
Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Gina Rippon
Deboleena Roy
Raffaella Rumiati
Sigrid Schmitz
Cather |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogel%20Bearings | Kogel Bearings is a manufacturer in the bicycle industry. Headquartered in El Paso, Texas, Kogel Bearings are marketed and sold online and through a network of bicycle dealers across North America, in Europe and Asia.
The company specializes in high quality ball bearings. Kogel Bearings began selling products in January 2014 and the product line was first featured in an online article on August 3 of the same year. Kogel Bearings offers branded products along with OEM and co-branded products to third-party companies.
History
Kogel Bearings was founded by Ard Kessels, a Dutch native who sold his bicycle shop in Antwerp, Belgium before moving to the United States to follow his wife’s career. After being frustrated with the bearing qualities offered on premium bicycles, he felt that there was a need for a better ball bearing.
The first offering was a line of ceramic bottom brackets available for upgrading or replacing a worn bottom bracket. A complete line of rear derailleur pulleys and wheel bearings were added over time.
Products
The key products offered by Kogel Bearings are hybrid ceramic bearings with specific seals for road and off-road use. Off-road seals are designed for cyclocross and mountain bike configurations. With these bearings, the company produces a line of bottom brackets, derailleur pulleys and wheel bearing sets.
Product development relies heavily on Kogel’s collaboration with their professional athletes, who will put products to the test in a way that cannot be replicated in a laboratory.
Professional rider sponsorship
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling (men's team) has been using Kogel Bearings since the brand’s first year on the market. Other athletes and teams consist of Helen Wyman and the Maxxis Shimano team in cyclocross, Amanda Nauman in gravel racing and Johannes Moldan in triathlon.
References
Companies based in Texas
El Paso County, Texas
American companies established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normaliz | Normaliz is a free computer algebra system developed by Winfried Bruns, Robert Koch (1998–2002), Bogdam Ichim (2007/08) and Christof Soeger (2009–2016). It is published under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Normaliz computes lattice points in rational polyhedra, or, in other terms, solves linear diophantine systems of equations, inequalities, and congruences. Special tasks are the computation of lattice points in bounded rational polytopes and Hilbert bases of rational cones. Normaliz also computes enumerative data, such as multiplicities (volumes) and Hilbert series. The kernel of Normaliz is a templated C++ class library. For multivariate polynomial arithmetic it uses CoCoALib.
Normaliz has interfaces to several general computer algebra systems: CoCoA, GAP, Macaulay2 and Singular. It can be used interactively via its Python interface PyNormaliz. Its use in SageMath is in preparation.
Jesús A. De_Loera cites Normaliz among his favorite programs for computing Hilbert basis.
See also
Comparison of computer algebra systems
References
External links
Publications and examples of Normaliz applications
http://github.com/normaliz/Normaliz
Computer algebra system software for Linux
Computer algebra system software for macOS
Computer algebra system software for Windows
Cross-platform free software
Free computer algebra systems
Computer algebra systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2025%29 | Season twenty-five of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 18, 2017, on the ABC network.
On November 21, 2017, actor and singer Jordan Fisher and Lindsay Arnold were crowned the champions, while violinist Lindsey Stirling and Mark Ballas finished in second place, and actor Frankie Muniz and Witney Carson finished in third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured thirteen celebrity contestants. Good Morning America announced the professional dancers who would be competing in the upcoming season on August 27, 2017. Alan Bersten, a member of the troupe since season 20, was promoted to pro. Drew Scott was announced as the first celebrity competing for the season, partnered with Emma Slater. On September 6, the rest of the cast was revealed on Good Morning America.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. Julianne Hough did not return as a permanent judge this season, though she did return as a guest judge during the first night of the finals. On October 23, singer Shania Twain joined the panel as a guest judge.
Dance troupe
The troupe consisted of former pros Sasha Farber and Jenna Johnson, and prior troupe members Artur Adamski, Brandon Armstrong, Hayley Erbert, and Britt Stewart.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: Ballroom Night & Latin Night
The couples had to prepare two new dances to be performed on two consecutive nights. On Monday, the couples performed an unlearned ballroom routine, with one couple being eliminated at the end of the show. On Tuesday, the remaining couples performed an unlearned Latin routine, with another couple being eliminated. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Night 1 (Ballroom)
Night 2 (Latin)
Week 3: Guilty Pleasures Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to a song that reminded them of their secret guilty pleasure. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
At the start of the show, a moment of silence was held to honor the victims of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, which had occurred the previous day. It was announced at the beginning of the show that, due to the tragedy, no elimination would take place.
Vanessa Lachey performed with Alan Bersten this week while Maksim Chmerkovskiy was absent dealing with a "personal matter".
Week 4: Most Memorable Year Night
The couples danced one unlearned dance to celebrate the most memorable year of their lives. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: Disney Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to a song from a Disney film. All perfo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aql%20%28company%29 | aql is a telecommunications company based in Leeds, UK. It is principally known for operating carrier neutral data centres, and for providing services relating to colocation, mobile messaging, IP telephony, and secure mobile connectivity for the internet of things (IoT).
The company's head office is located at the historic Salem Chapel in Hunslet, Leeds.
Company history
aql was founded in 1998 by former University of Leeds lecturer and Ministry of Defence communications specialist Professor Adam Beaumont as a domain name registrar and email and web hosting company.
By 2003, aql had expanded into wholesale telecommunications, supplying UK phone numbers to the broadband industry to support IP telephony/VoIP services, providing mobile messaging services and supplying wholesale messaging platforms to international and UK networks. The company is responsible for more than 94 million numbers on 42 different telecoms networks. It also hosts 40 million UK numbers for voice services.
Beaumont purchased Salem Chapel in 2009. The Grade II listed building was renovated and restored to house aql's head office, including two data centres, an exhibition space and a conference facility.
The firm had a turnover of £7 million and employed around 40 people in 2013.
Also in 2013, aql announced plans to invest £43 million to build a data centre on the former site of Yorkshire Chemicals in Hunslet, Leeds.
The company acquired a 57,000 sq ft former council building located at South Point, Leeds for around half a million pounds in 2015. The company announced plans to convert the site into another data centre.
In September 2015, aql purchased Isle of Man-based BlueWave Communications following the death of its founder, former The Apprentice contestant Stuart Baggs.
In March 2017, aql won the contract to serve the UK's universities, colleges and teaching hospitals with secure data storage via a framework contract operated by Jisc.
aql unveiled its first autonomous vehicle in April 2018, and announced a consortium of partners, including Gulf Oil, the University of Leeds, Leeds and Bradford city councils, Citu and CitiPark, to trial the vehicles in Leeds.
IXLeeds
Since 2011, one of aql's Salem Chapel data centres has housed the Leeds internet exchange, IXLeeds. IXLeeds is the UK's only fully independent internet exchange outside London. Beaumont co-founded the exchange, and serves as company secretary.
Leeds' WiFi telephone boxes
In 2013, aql reconditioned 24 Giles Gilbert Scott-designed red telephone boxes. The boxes were painted blue, converted into solar-powered free WiFi access points, and placed around Leeds city centre.
The boxes are known as Leeds Electronic Ordnance and Digital Information System, or LEODIS, after the old English name for the city of Leeds.
In July 2017, aql announced that the initiative had seen 100,000 unique users since its introduction.
Sponsorship and local support
In May 2017, aql was announced as the Communications Sponsor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet%20%28series%207%29 | The seventh series of the British comedy-drama television series Cold Feet began broadcasting on the ITV network on 8 September 2017. There will be seven episodes and it is the second full series of Cold Feet since 2003 since it was revived in 2016.
Cast
Main
James Nesbitt as Adam Williams
Robert Bathurst as David Marsden
Hermione Norris as Karen Marsden
John Thomson as Pete Gifford
Fay Ripley as Jenny Gifford
Leanne Best as Tina Reynolds
Ceallach Spellman as Matt Williams
Supporting
Jacey Salles as Ramona Ramirez
Daisy Edgar-Jones as Olivia Marsden
Ella Hunt as Ellie Marsden
Jack Harper as Adam Gifford
Madeleine Edmondson as Chloe Gifford
Siobhan Finneran as Nikki Kirkbright
Robert Glenister as George Kirkbright
Paul Ritter as Benjamin Stevens
Lucy Robinson as Robyn Duff
Amy Huberman as Sarah Poynter
Alastair Mackenzie as Jamie Poynter
Ruth Madeley as Tracey McHarrie
Shannon Hayes as Bridie Sellers
Marji Campi as Barbara Blyth
Sally Rogers as Sheila Blyth
Eileen O'Brien as Vera Goulbourne
Ziggy Heath as Luke Harris
Faith Alabi as Eliza Schumacher
Aaron Cobham as Jules Watson
Izabella Malewska as Receptionist
Guest
Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman, Jenny Campbell, and Tej Lalvani as themselves
Episodes
Production
On 17 October 2016, ITV renewed Cold Feet for a seventh series consisting of seven episodes, following a positive response of sixth series from television critics and viewers. Filming for the series began in March 2017 in Manchester, and concluded on 30 June 2017. It was announced on 15 August 2017, that Siobhan Finneran had joined the cast of the upcoming series. The series will begin airing from 8 September. In episode 6, The Dragons from the BBC television series Dragons' Den appeared as themselves in a dream sequence.
References
External links
2017 British television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureOS | PureOS is a Linux distribution focusing on privacy and security, using the GNOME or KDE Plasma desktop environment. It is maintained by Purism for use in the company's Librem laptop computers as well as the Librem 5 smartphone.
PureOS is designed to include only free software, and is included in the list of Free Linux distributions published by the Free Software Foundation.
PureOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution, merging open-source software packages from the Debian “testing” main archive using a hybrid point release and rolling release model. The default web browser in PureOS is GNOME Web. The default search engine is DuckDuckGo.
See also
GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines
List of Linux distributions based on Debian testing
branch
References
External links
ARM operating systems
Debian-based distributions
Free mobile software
Free software only Linux distributions
GNOME Mobile
Linux distributions
Mobile Linux
Mobile operating systems
Mobile/desktop convergence
Rolling Release Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimeCamp | TimeCamp is a web-based application launched in 2009 by Kamil Rudnicki, a programmer and founder of Time Solutions, to track the activity of computer users. The application is dedicated either to freelancers or teams. The tool is a time tracking software to invoice the employees' work based on an hourly rate, measuring the work effectiveness and project management.
TimeCamp, Inc. (formerly Time Solutions LLC) ─ a system manufacturer of TimeCamp ─ is an IT company based in Wrocław, founded in 2009 by Kamil Rudnicki, a 21-year-old student back then. The main investors of Time Solutions are Asseco Poland and Venture Incubator, which financed Time Solutions in 2011.
Features
One of the characteristics of TimeCamp is automation of the processes connected to project and task management by the use of automatic time tracking. TimeCamp tracks billable and non-billable project hours, enabling its users to generate invoices automatically and use timesheets. The tool can be integrated with many project management platforms such as − Asana and Basecamp, as well as tools used for marketing automation, such as Zapier, Freshbooks and Slack.
Reception
In 2009, TimeCamp was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal's article ''Tools to Manage Online Time Wisely''. Then, in 2014, The American Genius devoted the whole its article to the tool. In 2015, Minda Zetlin wrote about TC in INC, while in 2016 Forbes included it in the list of the best time tracking software. In 2017, GetApp reviewed TimeCamp and put it among ''Billing & Invoicing Category Leaders''.
Kevin Getch described TimeCamp as “easily input time on tasks that have been assigned (...) also provides great reporting and allows you to assign users with different roles.”
See also
Comparison of time-tracking software
Computer and network surveillance
References
Task management software
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futility%20Closet | Futility Closet is a blog, podcast, and database started in 2005 by editorial manager and publishing journalist Greg Ross. As of February 2021 the database totaled over 11,000 items. They range over the fields of history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and recreational mathematics.
The associated Futility Closet Podcast was a weekly podcast hosted by Greg and his wife Sharon Ross. It presented curious and little-known events and people from history, and posed logical puzzles.
History
In January 2005, Greg Ross started the Futility Closet website, an online wunderkammer of trivia, quotations, mathematical curiosities, chess problems, and other diversions. The site has spawned two printed collections, and continues to be updated daily. Gary Antonick of the New York Times''' Numberplay blog described the first book as "the literary equivalent of Trader Joe's Tempting Trail Mix".
Futility Closet has sometimes been a conduit or used to popularize results by John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy, Lee Sallows, Solomon W. Golomb, and many other well-known mathematicians when they dabbled in recreational mathematics.Golomb Rulers Futility Closet: Science & Math, November 12, 2014 Puzzles from Futility Closet have frequently been featured in the New York Times puzzle section and the New York Times blog. Futility Closet was recommended by the Honduran newspaper La Tribuna. Its puzzles and paradoxes have been cited by El País and Il Post.
Podcast
In March 2014 Futility Closet launched a thirty-minute weekly podcast hosted by Greg and Sharon Ross. A typical episode lasts thirty minutes and consists of three segments: first the week's core topic, typically a curious story from history; second, listener mail; third, a lateral thinking puzzle, posed by one of the hosts for the other to solve. Some episodes depart from this format, for instance by presenting several short items or open questions culled from research, or by presenting several puzzles in lieu of other content. Many earlier episodes include an advertisement. Most episodes also include a reference to Sasha, the Futility Closet cat until the cat died in 2020.
On the November 15, 2021, podcast Sharon announced the podcast would be ending at the end of November.
Content and sources
The podcast has a wide scope and is not restricted to any particular era, but most episodes concern colorful personalities and strange events from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Victorian oddities are a mainstay of the show, as are unexplained mysteries, forteana, hoaxes and impostors, sensational murders, remarkable animals, and the adventures of mariners, aviators, and explorers. Subjects are often prompted by listener suggestions. Some content has been sourced directly from Wikipedia without attribution.
Music
The podcast's opening theme is an instrumental bass composition, "Fallen Star", which was written and performed by Doug Ross, brother of Greg. Doug Ross also supplies the bass riffs that pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20C.%20Hearn | Anthony C. Hearn is an Australian-American computer scientist and adjunct staff member at RAND Corporation and at the Institute for Defense Analyses Center for Computing Sciences. He is best known for his pioneering contributions in mathematical software development, most notably in developing the computer algebra system REDUCE, which is the oldest such system still in active use. He was also one of the founders of the CSNET computer network, for which he shared the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award with Peter J. Denning, David Farber, and Lawrence Landweber in 2009. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2006 "for contributions to computer algebra and symbolic computation."
Biography
Hearn attended the University of Adelaide for his bachelor's degree, graduating in 1958. He attended the University of Cambridge for his PhD in theoretical physics and graduated in 1962. From 1962 to 1964, he was a research associate in physics at Stanford University, returning as an assistant professor and Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1965 after a year at the Rutherford Laboratory in England. While at Stanford, he worked with Sidney Drell and formulated the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule for connecting the Compton scattering amplitudes to the inclusive photoproduction cross sections in particle physics. In 1969, he joined the faculty at the University of Utah as an associate professor of physics and became full professor in 1971. Around this period he began using ideas and tools from computer science to help solve problems symbolically in high energy physics. From 1973 until 1980, he was professor and chair of the University of Utah School of Computing. He joined RAND Corporation in 1980 as head of the Information Sciences Department, where he served until 1984. He worked at the National Science Foundation as a member of the Program Advisory Committee for the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing from 1984 to 1986. He was a resident scholar at RAND from 1990 to 1996.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Australian computer scientists
University of Adelaide alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Stanford University faculty
University of Utah faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
RAND Corporation people
Sloan Research Fellows
Internet pioneers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt.%20Stubby%3A%20An%20American%20Hero | Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero is a 2018 computer-animated adventure film centering on the real-life Sergeant Stubby, a stray Boston Terrier. Directed and co-written by Richard Lanni, it features the voices of Logan Lerman, Helena Bonham Carter and Gérard Depardieu. The film was released in North America on April 13, 2018, by Fun Academy Motion Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised it for its "sensitivity and charm", but was a box office bomb, grossing less than $5 million against its $25 million budget.
Plot
With World War I looming, young U.S. Army doughboy Robert Conroy (Logan Lerman) has his life forever changed when a Boston Terrier puppy with a stubby tail wanders into camp, as the men of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division train on the parade grounds of Yale University. Conroy gives his new friend a name, a family, and a chance to embark on the adventure that would define a century.
Despite lacking formal military working dog training, Stubby and his human companions find themselves in the trenches of the Western Front in France and on the path to history. French poilu Gaston Baptiste (Gérard Depardieu) befriends the duo and accompanies them along their epic journey through harsh conditions and incredible acts of courage.
As narrated by Robert's sister Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter), Stubby's combat service includes sniffing incoming gas attacks, finding wounded allies in No Man's Land, and even catching a German infiltrator in the trenches. Back home, Stubby's exploits are retold in newspapers across the country.
For his valorous actions, Stubby is still recognized as the most decorated dog in American history and the first canine ever promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the United States Army.
Cast
Logan Lerman as Robert Conroy
Helena Bonham Carter as Margaret Conroy
Gérard Depardieu as Gaston Baptiste
Jordan Beck as Elmer Olsen, Butcher Shop Owner
Jim Pharr as Hans Schroeder
Jason Ezzell as Sergeant Ray Casburn
Nicholas Rulon as Captain George S. Patton
Brian Cook as Clarence Ransom Edwards
Production
On November 8, 2016, it was announced that Fun Academy Media Group, Ltd. – a new family entertainment production company headquartered in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland – would produce an animated film based on the life of the World War I dog, Sergeant Stubby, and would self-distribute in North America through Columbus, Georgia-based subsidiary Fun Academy Motion Pictures. The film was animated by Mikros Image in Montreal and Paris, was directed by Richard Lanni, and written by Lanni with Mike Stokey II. The film involved Bibo Bergeron as head of story, and featured an original score composed by Patrick Doyle.
Sgt. Stubby himself does not speak, as the filmmakers wanted to maintain as much historical accuracy as possible while still making the film's portrayal of World War I accessible to children.
Release
The film was released in United States and North America on April |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Shemer | Joshua Shemer (; born 7 December 1949) is an Israeli professor, doctor, and chair of the Assuta Medical Centers network in Israel, currently building and developing the new advanced highly sophisticated public hospital in the city of Ashdod, the first of its kind built in Israel in the past forty years. He formerly served as Director General of Maccabi Healthcare Services, providing health services to 24% of the Israeli population. Shemer served as director general of the Ministry of Health and Surgeon General of the Israel Defense Forces Military Health Corps, holding the rank of brigadier general.
Biography
Shemer was born in Israel and received his medical degree from The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. He is a Full professor of Internal medicine at Tel Aviv University and is Board-certified in both internal medicine and health administration.
Shemer was recruited to the Israeli Defense Forces in 1966. In 1972 he began his residency at the Soroka Medical Center. During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, he performed his first field operation – on an Egyptian soldier on the West Bank of the Suez Canal. He later served as Battalion and Brigade Doctor. He was promoted to Chief Medical Officer of the Northern Command at the time of the Israeli deployment in south Lebanon. Following his experience as head of the branch of the medical corps on biological and chemical warfare and his promotion to the role of Deputy Surgeon General during the Gulf War, Shemer was responsible for the development of the passive hood distributed to protect the Israeli population during chemical warfare.
Professional career
In 1992 Shemer founded the Israeli Center for technology assessment in Health Care at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research at Tel HaShomer and continues to serve as the center's Director.
He was Director of the School of Public health at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, lecturer at the Faculty of Administration and head of the MBA Multi-disciplinary Program for Emergency and Disaster Management at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, university. Shemer initiated BA studies at the School for health professions at the Center for Academic Studies in Or Yehuda and currently lectures on HTA in this program.
Other activities
For the past nine years Shemer has been a member of the board of directors of El Al Airlines, He also was the founder and Head of Administration for Medical Technology and Infrastructure at the Israeli Ministry of Health.
Books edited
Shemer J, Shoenfeld Y. Terror and Medicine. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich, Germany, 2003 (, (USA)).
Shemer J, Barel V. Injury in Israel. The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2002 ().
Chinitz D, Cohen J, Co-editors: Shamai N, Shemer J, Siebzheiner M.
Governments and Health Systems – Implications of Differing Involvements.
John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, 1998 ().
Shemer J, Schersten T. Technology As |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordana%20Grossi | Giordana Grossi is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor of psychology at SUNY New Paltz, New York, and a member of The NeuroGenderings Network, a group which promotes "neurofeminism".
Education
Giordana Grossi received her Ph.D. from the University of Pavia, Italy, and her B.A. from the University of Padova, Italy.
Research
Her main areas of research are language and sex differences research, in particular the methodological and epistemological problems within sex differences research.
Publications
Book chapters
Grossi, Giordana; Fine, Cordelia (2014), "The role of fetal testosterone in the development of “the essential difference” between the sexes: Some essential issues", in Pdf.
Journal articles
Pdf.
See also
Cognitive neuroscience
Gender essentialism
Neuroscience of sex differences
List of cognitive neuroscientists
List of developmental psychologists
References
External links
Italian cognitive neuroscientists
Developmental psychologists
Feminist philosophers
Living people
State University of New York at New Paltz faculty
Italian women neuroscientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn%20Bluhm | Robyn Bluhm (born 1969), is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, as well as a member of The NeuroGenderings Network – a group which promotes "neurofeminism". She is the current joint editor of the IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Research
Bluhm's research interests include the philosophy of evidence-based practice and the use of functional neuroimaging in psychiatry.
Books
See also
Cognitive neuroscience
Gender essentialism
Neuroscience of sex differences
List of cognitive neuroscientists
References
External links
Canadian philosophers
1969 births
Feminist philosophers
Living people
Michigan State University faculty
University of Western Ontario alumni
Canadian women philosophers |
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