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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermelinda%20DeLaVi%C3%B1a | Ermelinda DeLaViña is an American mathematician specializing in graph theory.
She is a professor in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences Department of the University of Houston–Downtown, where she is also Associate Dean of the College of Science and Technology.
Education
DeLaViña grew up in a working-class family in Texas, with roots stretching back for five generations there. Her parents came from Bishop, Texas, but raised her in Houston. Inspired by a 9th-grade algebra teacher, she aimed for a college education despite the discouragement of her school counselors. She started her undergraduate studies at the University of Houston, but dropped out after one term, and after working for two years began again at the University of Texas–Pan American, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a minor in computer science in 1989, becoming the first in her family with a college degree.
She returned to graduate school at the University of Houston and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics there in 1997. Her doctoral supervisor was Siemion Fajtlowicz, with whom she worked on the Graffiti computer program for automatically formulating conjectures in graph theory.
Career
After completing her doctorate, DeLaViña became an assistant professor at the University of Houston–Downtown. She was promoted to full professor there in 2010, and became associate dean in 2012.
Contributions
One of DeLaViña's results in graph theory is related to an inequality showing that every undirected graph has an independent set that is at least as large as its radius; DeLaViña showed that the graphs with no larger independent set always contain a Hamiltonian path.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Graph theorists
University of Texas–Pan American alumni
University of Houston alumni
University of Houston–Downtown faculty
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuxinha%20e%20Guto%20contra%20os%20Monstros%20do%20Espa%C3%A7o | Xuxinha e Guto contra os Monstros do Espaço () is a 2005 Brazilian computer-animated adventure film written by Flávio de Souza and directed by Moacyr Góes and Clewerson Saremba, produced by Diler Trindade and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Starring Xuxa Meneghel and Pedro Malta with the participation of the voice actors Flávia Saddy, Bernardo Coutinho, Guilherme Briggs, Gustavo Pereira, Milton Gonçalves.
The film follows Guto, a 7-year-old boy who gets help from his guardian angel - Xuxinha - to fight junk-eating alien monsters that come from the planet XYZ, and will live in Pumzão Stream, right in the neighborhood where Guto and his friend Jonas live. The Pumzão is the ideal place for the invaders, who eat garbage and want to transform the Earth into a dump. The two will go through innumerable adventures and rely on the help of the wise homeless philosopher Euclides Arquimedes, Detective Txutxucão, and Jonas. But the great help comes from Heaven: Guto and Jonas' guardian angels: Xuxinha and Biel. The big heroine is the blonde angel girl, who gives up her angelic powers to save Guto and the planet.
Still in 2004, Xuxa Meneghel considered the possibility of producing a cinematographic animation later that year. The project had the first title "Adventures of Xuxinha", but the project was canceled. Almost a year after the first announcement in 2005, Xuxa announced the launch of its first animated film. Betting on a new formula, TV hots left its traditional movie format and bet on an animation.
The film was a box-office bomb, grossing just R$ 2,948,878 from its budget of R$ 6 million, with an audience of 596,218 spectators, being the worst box office performance of a Xuxa movie since Xuxa Requebra (1999). The film has received negative reviews from specialist critics. A sequel, came to be considered, but was canceled due to the film's box office failure.
Plot
Like every 7-year-old, Julian (Pedro Malta) seeks answers and explanations for the existence of some spiritual beings. This is the case with the guardian angels. Xuxa Meneghel, always convinced of their existence, the elves and God, tells the nephew how she met her guardian angel, called Xuxinha.
When Xuxa grew up, she had to go her way without the help of a faithful protector. Xuxinha was given the job of protecting another child, Guto. Perhaps the most damned of all, the angel always had to do the impossible to save him from the confusions and dangers in which he entered. Xuxinha also counts on the aid of Biel, angel of the guard of Jonas, the great companion of adventures of Guto.
One day, the city is invaded by Xyzígenas, garbage-eating aliens from the planet XYZ, which is located in a distant galaxy. they escape from prison knowing that Earth's inhabitants used to throw debris into the streams, polluting all the rivers of the planet, they decided that it was the best place for domination there.
The first resident to believe in the invasion was the wise Euclid Archimedes. All |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20Military%20Care%20Network | Peak Military Care Network (PMCN) is a nonprofit based in Colorado Springs Colorado. Founded in 2004, PMCN’s mission is to connect military service members, veterans and their families to community resources in the Colorado.
History
PMCN was created in 2004 as the National Homeland Defense Foundation. Founded was proved by the El Pomar Foundation. In 2015, the National Homeland Defense Foundation relaunched as the Peak Military Care Network. Their goal is to connect military members and veterans with services in their community. The Pikes Peak is the only region to house a major Army installation (Fort Carson), three Air Force installations (Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station), and a leading service academy (U.S. Air Force Academy). One in four residents in the Pikes Peak area is a military member or veteran.
Services
PMCN provides a number of services and has a wide network of partners.
The services provided are:
Advocacy
Behavior Health
Caregiver Support
Child & Family Services
Crisis Intervention
Workforce Readiness
Educational Services
Financial & Benefits Assistance
Housing Assistance
Health Services
Social Services
Substance Abuse Treatment
Transition and Reintegration Assistance
Utility Service Assistance
Partners
PMCN has partnered with more than 40 organizations to provide an expansive network of care.
Their partner agencies include:
Amblicab
American Red Cross
Angels of America’s Fallen
AspenPointe Health Services
CASA
Cedar Springs Hospital
CPCD
Goodwill
El Paso County Department of Human Services
Veterans Service Office
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve
Family Care Center
SET Family Medical Clinics
Freedom Service Dogs
Give An Hour
Mt. Carmel Center of Excellence of Colorado
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Onward to Opportunity
Operation Homefront
Operation TBI Freedom
Peak View Behavior Health
Peak Vista Community Health Centers
Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments
The Phoenix
Pikes Peak State College
Pikes Peak Restorative Justice Council
Pikes Peak Suicide Prevention
Pikes Peak Therapeutic Riding Center
United Way
Pikes Peak Workforce Center
Project Sanctuary
Rocky Mountain Human Services
Silver Key Senior
TESSA
Home Front Cares
The Independence Center
The Resource Exchange
The Strum Center at the University of Denver
USO
Pikes Peak Community College
Veterans Squaring Away Veterans
YMCA
References
External links
Official site
2004 establishments in Colorado
Organizations based in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Non-profit organizations based in Colorado
Military-related organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20%28Disney%20song%29 | "Monster" is a song from the 2018 Broadway musical Frozen, an adaptation of the 2013 Disney’s computer-animated musical film of the same name. Sung by Elsa, the song takes place during the second act. The song was written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. the scene takes place after Elsa stikes Anna with her powers and starts questioning her own mortality, then Hans and his men come to capture Elsa in her ice palace.
Composition
"Monster" is written in D minor and vocals span from A3 to Eb5. The song contains an allusion to Dies Irae.
Release
The song was released on YouTube Vevo with a music video the same day the show opened on Broadway. This track was performed at New York City's Gotham Hall, and is the first of four original songs from the musical to be released weekly through the Disney on Broadway channel (the Anna and Kristof duet "What Do You Know About Love?", the Elsa solo "Dangerous to Dream", and the Anna solo "True Love").
Context
The soliloquy ballad sees Elsa ask herself if she is evil due to her magical abilities, and wonders if the world would be better without her. She first attempts this by running away to a far-off place and building an ice palace ("Let It Go"). When a winter is triggered regardless, she considers more extreme measures.
This song takes place after Elsa has just thrown Anna and Kristoff out of the ice palace, as Hans and his men from Arendelle arrive to capture her. She thinks about the damage she has caused, while she is buried under her self-doubt, fear, and uncertainty.
Critical reception
The Telegraph felt that the song "allows the audience to better understand her motivations" at this point in the story. Mashable deemed the piece an "earworm", while Digital Spy described the song as "pure Elsa".
References
2010s ballads
2018 songs
Songs about monsters
Songs from musicals
Disney songs
Songs from Frozen (franchise)
Songs written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Songs written by Robert Lopez |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Yang | Jean Yee Hwa Yang is an Australian statistician known for her work on variance reduction for microarrays, and for inferring proteins from mass spectrometry data. Yang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.
Education and career
Yang studied at Killara High School between 1987 and 1990 and at Barker College between 1991 and 1992. She earned a bachelor's degree with first class honours and a University Medal from the University of Sydney in 1996, in mathematics and statistics.
After working for half a year at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Yang then went to the University of California, Berkeley, for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in statistics in 2002. Her dissertation, "Statistical methods in the design and analysis of gene expression data from cDNA microarray experiment", was supervised by Terry Speed.
Yang did postdoctoral research in biostatistics and bioinformatics with Mark R. Segal at the University of California, San Francisco, where she became an assistant professor in 2003. In 2005 she returned to the University of Sydney with a faculty position.
Recognition
In 2015, Yang was the winner of the Moran Medal of the Australian Academy of Science for her "significant contributions to the development of statistical methodology for analyzing molecular data arising in contemporary biomedical research".
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Sydney alumni
Academic staff of the University of Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%203D%20Posts | Facebook 3D Posts was a feature on the social networking website Facebook. It was first enabled on October 11, 2017 by introducing a new native 3D media type in Facebook News Feed. Initially the users could only post 3D objects from Oculus Medium and marker drawings from Spaces directly to Facebook as fully interactive 3D objects. The feature was available for desktops and mobile phones that support the underlying WebGL API.
On February 20, 2018 Facebook added support for the industry-standard glTF 2.0 file format for Facebook 3D posts. This allowed artists and creators to share 3D content on Facebook from a variety of sources. To make 3D Posts glTF 2.0 compliant, the support for textures, lighting, and physically based rendering techniques was implemented. 3D posts also supported unlit workflows for photogrammetry and stylized art.
Facebook has since disallowed users from sharing 3D objects.
Creating 3D Posts
There were four ways to get a 3D asset to appear in a Facebook Post:
Drag and drop an asset into Facebook's Post composer and publish it.
Share a link to a web page that has Facebook Open Graph Sharing metadata tags.
Share a local asset on an Android device using Android's native Sharing action.
Create a 3D Post programmatically with the 3D Posts API.
Tools for authoring content
GLB files (binary form of glTF) were required to be loaded in Facebook 3D posts. These files could be obtained by converting from other files formats such as FBX or non-binary glTF. GLB files could also be directly exported from a variety of 3D editors, such as Blender, Vectary, Autodesk 3ds Max (using Verge3D exporter), Autodesk Maya, Modo, Microsoft Paint 3D, Substance Painter and others.
References
Facebook
Social software
Software features
Computer-related introductions in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aric%20Hagberg | Aric Hagberg is an American applied mathematician and academic, working in nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation and complex systems. He is the division leader of the computer, computational, and statistical sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He was educated at the University of Arizona (PhD, 1994).
Aric is also one of the authors of the NetworkX package.
References
External links
Hagberg's Google Scholar Profile
Hagberg's Page at LANL's Center for Nonlinear Studies
Living people
University of Arizona alumni
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain%20game | Video games that include elements that use blockchain technologies, including cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), allow players to buy, sell, or trade in-game items with other players. The game publisher takes a fee from each transaction as a form of monetization. A subset of these games are also known as play-to-earn games because they include systems that allow players to earn cryptocurrency through gameplay. Blockchain games have existed since 2017, gaining more widespread attention from the video game industry in 2021. Several AAA publishers have expressed intent to include this technology in the future. Players, developers, and game companies have criticized the use of blockchain technology in video games for being exploitative, environmentally unsustainable, and unnecessary.
Concept
Blockchain technology, such as cryptocurrencies and NFTs, provides potential monetization routes for video games. Many live-service games offer in-game customization options, such as character skins or other in-game items, which the players can earn and trade with other players using in-game currency. Some games also allow for trading of virtual items using real-world currency, but this may be illegal in some countries where video games are seen as akin to gambling. This has led to gray market issues such as skin gambling, and so publishers typically have shied away from allowing players to earn real-world funds from games. Blockchain games typically allow players to trade in-game items for cryptocurrency, which can then be exchanged for money, which may sidestep some problems associated with gray markets due to blockchain's traceability.
History
The first known game to use blockchain technologies was CryptoKitties, launched by Axiom Zen in November 2017 for personal computers. A player would purchase NFTs with Ethereum cryptocurrency, each NFT consisting of a virtual pet that the player could breed with others to create offspring with combined traits as new NFTs. The game made headlines in December 2017 when one virtual pet sold for more than . CryptoKitties also exposed scalability problems for games on Ethereum when it created significant congestion on the Ethereum network shortly after its launch, with approximately 30% of all Ethereum transactions at the time being for the game, and with the congestion delaying players' transactions. Axiom Zen feared that Ethereum would further struggle after they launched the mobile version of the game, particularly with an influx of users from China.
The Sandbox is a platform that bought the brandname of a 2012 crafting game of the same name, in 2018. Players could make in-game items by using the game's toolbox and then sell them, using a game-specific cryptocurrency, to others who could display them in their virtual landscapes.
Axie Infinity, released in 2018 by Sky Mavis, is an example of a "play-to-earn" game, where the game incentivizes players to purchase and then improve NFTs through in-game activ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2%20Ventures | H2 Ventures is a fintech, data and artificial intelligence focused venture capital investment firm based in Sydney, Australia. It runs the H2 Startup Accelerator. H2 Ventures is located in the NSW Government backed Sydney Startup Hub.
History
The H2 Ventures Accelerator was founded as the AWI Ventures Accelerator which was launched by the then Australian Federal Government Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull on 13 March 2014. It ran its first intake from June to November 2014 and a second intake from January to June 2015. In 2015, brothers Ben Heap and Dr Toby Heap left AWI to establish H2 Ventures and ran the third intake of the accelerator from February to July 2016.
In December 2015, First State Super and H2 Ventures announced they had entered into an investment partnership to invest in fintech start-up companies. The launch of the First State Super-H2 partnership was officiated by the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and was attended by the Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison, Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer, Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy and NSW Minister for Industry, Anthony Roberts.
In March 2016, Investec Australia announced an investment in H2 Ventures, enabling the expansion of the H2 Accelerator. The amount of the Investec investment was not disclosed, however, the head of principal investing at Investec Australia, David Phillips, joined the board of H2.
In January 2017, the NSW Government and Investec provided a $4 million funding facility for the H2 Accelerator. With this funding, H2 Ventures announced that it would expand its fintech accelerator to include startups with a focus on data and artificial intelligence. The H2 Accelerator ran its fourth and fifth intakes in February and August 2017.
Fintech100
H2 Ventures publishes an annual report of leading global fintech innovators titled ‘Fintech100’. The Fintech100 includes a list of the top 50 established fintech companies from around the world, and 50 emerging fintechs. Three Chinese firms, Ant Financial, ZhongAn and Qudian took the top three rankings in the 2017 Fintech100.
References
Australian companies established in 2014
Companies based in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Fury | Ion Fury (originally titled Ion Maiden) is a 2019 cyberpunk first-person shooter video game developed by Finnish studio Voidpoint and published by 3D Realms. It is a prequel to the 2016 video game Bombshell. Ion Fury runs on a modified version of Ken Silverman's Build engine and is the first original commercial game to utilize the engine in 20 years, the previous being World War II GI. An expansion, Ion Fury: Aftershock, was released in October 2023.
Plot
In Ion Fury, the player assumes the role of Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison, a bomb disposal expert aligned to the Global Defense Force. Dr. Jadus Heskel, a transhumanist cult leader, unleashes an army of cybernetically-enhanced soldiers on the futuristic dystopian city of Neo D.C., which Shelly is tasked with fighting through.
Development
Ion Fury is built on EDuke32, a fork of the Build engine which supports modern operating systems while also implementing a broader range of features. The source code of Ion Fury is part of the EDuke32 source port.
Name change
In May 2019, it was announced that the band Iron Maiden would be suing 3D Realms for $2 million for "[the] misappropriation and use of a virtually identical imitation of the Iron Maiden trademark". 3D Realms quickly responded on Twitter, stating that these are "frivolous claims anyone who has played Ion Maiden would find more over the top than Shelly's 'Loverboy', her signature 18-round triple-barreled revolver".
The lawsuit claims that Ion Maiden "has the same look and feel" to the Android/iOS game Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast previously released on July 5, 2016. It also lists several alleged similarities, including the name "Ion Maiden", the font used for the game title, the main character Shelly 'Bombshell' Harrison and Steve Harris, the skull symbol, and the Eddie character. However, several of the allegedly similar elements cited in the lawsuit were present in a previous 3D Realms game, Bombshell, released on January 29, 2016, including the main character name and the skull symbol. According to Scott Miller, founder of 3D Realms, "The name Ion Maiden comes from the basic weapon used by the same female hero in her first game, Bombshell."
On July 11, 2019, 3D Realms announced that the title of Ion Maiden was changed to Ion Fury. Also announced was that voice actor Jon St. John, best known for the character Duke Nukem, was confirmed to be voicing the game's main villain.
Reception
Critical reception
All versions of Ion Fury received positive reviews on Metacritic.
IGN gave the game a score of 7.5/10, saying it "authentic throwback to Duke Nukem 3D that certainly hails to the king but can't quite dethrone him." PCGamesN's Chris Capel called it "probably the best Build engine game ever" and "challenging, funny, cleverly designed, and shockingly attractive." GameRevolution's Alex Santa Maria called it "an updated take on Duke Nukem 3D that goes above and beyond nostalgic pandering to become one of the better first-person shooters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorien%20Herremans | Dorien Herremans is a Belgian computer music researcher. Herremans is currently an assistant professor in the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and research scientist (joint appointment) at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR. She also works as a certified instructor for the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and is director of SUTD Game Lab. Before going to SUTD, she was a recipient of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London, where she worked on the project MorpheuS: Hybrid Machine Learning – Optimization techniques To Generate Structured Music Through Morphing And Fusion. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Economics on the topic of Computer Generation and Classification of Music through Operations Research Methods. She graduated as a commercial engineer in management information systems at the [University of Antwerp] in 2005. After that, she worked as a Drupal consultant and was an IT lecturer at the Les Roches University in Bluche, Switzerland. She also worked as a mandaatassistent at the University of Antwerp, in the domain of operations management, supply chain management and operations research.
Herremans' current work focuses on automatic music generation, data mining for music classification (hit prediction) and other novel applications in the intersections of AI, machine learning/optimization and music. She is a senior member of the IEEE. In 2021 she was nominated to the Singapore 100 Women in Technology list.
Herremans' research on dance hit prediction, automatic piano fingering and AI automatic music generation systems (e.g. MorpheuS) has received attention in the popular press, including international magazines such as Motherboard from Vice Magazine, Channel News Asia's Documentary 'Algorithms: Episode 1: Rage Against The Machine, The Examiner, Belgian national TV and Belgian and French national radio.
Selected publications
Herremans D., Chuan C.H, Chew E. 2017. A Functional Taxonomy of Music Generation Systems. ACM Computing Surveys
Dorien Herremans D., Martens D., Sörensen K. 2014. Dance Hit Song Prediction. Journal of New Music Research, Special Issue on Music and Machine Learning. 43:3. pp. 291-302
Herremans, D., & Sörensen, K. (2013). Composing fifth species counterpoint music with a variable neighborhood search algorithm. Expert systems with applications, 40(16), 6427-6437
Herremans, D., & Chew, E. (2017). MorpheuS: generating structured music with constrained patterns and tension. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Chuan, C. H., & Herremans, D. (2018, April). Modeling temporal tonal relations in polyphonic music through deep networks with a novel image-based representation. In Proc. of the thirty-second AAAI conference on artificial intelligence
Lin, K. W. E., Balamurali, B. T., Koh, E., Lui, S., & Herremans, D. (2020). Singing voice separation using a deep convolutional neural network trained by ideal bin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Kitov | Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov (9 August 1920, Samara - 14 October 2005) was a pioneer of cybernetics in the Soviet Union.
Early life and education
Anatoly Kitov was born in Samara in 1920. The Kitov family moved to Tashkent in 1921, as Anatoly's father, Ivan Stepanovich Kitov, had served as a junior officer in the White Army and wanted to avoid the repercussions of the Russian Civil War. Anatoly excelled at secondary school and graduated in 1939. However, his enrollment at Tashkent State Technical University was interrupted when he was called up for military service.
While serving in the Red Army, his exceptional abilities caught the attention of Kliment Voroshilov, who ordered him to enlist in the High Artillery School in Leningrad. In June 1941, Kitov and his fellow students had to halt their studies and were urgently deployed to the front. Kitov was already a lieutenant at that time.
During lulls between battles, Kitov pursued his studies in mathematics and other university subjects. In 1943, at the age of 22, he conducted his first analytical work, proposing a new method of anti-aircraft shooting.
In August 1945, Kitov gained admission to the rocket armaments department of the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy, a prestigious military university in the USSR. He skipped the first academic year and joined in the second. Kitov took an active role as chairman of the academy's student scientific society. Throughout his studies, he worked on the development of a novel rocket weapon and received an "author's certificate on the invention" (patent) from the USSR State Committee on Inventions. His project proposal was later presented to Joseph Stalin, the supreme commander of the Red Army and General Secretary of the Communist Party. Furthermore, Kitov contributed to the efforts of Sergei Korolev's task force, which was engaged in the development of the Soviet R-1 missile.
In August 1945, Kitov gained admission to the rocket armaments department of the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy, a prestigious military university in the USSR. He skipped the first academic year and joined in the second. Kitov took an active role as chairman of the academy's student scientific society. Throughout his studies, he worked on the development of a novel rocket weapon and received an "author's certificate on the invention" (patent) from the USSR State Committee on Inventions. His project proposal was later presented to Joseph Stalin, the Red Army supreme commander and General Secretary of the Communist Party. Kitov also contributed to the efforts of Sergei Korolev's task force, which was engaged in the development of the Soviet R-1 missile.
In 1950, Kitov graduated from the academy with honors and received a gold medal.
Early research career
Kitov was the first user of the first Soviet serial computer "Strela" within the Military Ministry of the USSR. Kitov was the first in the USSR to organise and lead scientific work on solving military problems with the use of electronic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.N.%20%28Atlanta%29 | "B.A.N." is the seventh episode in the first season of the FX series Atlanta. The episode depicts Paper Boi being interviewed on Montague, a talk show on the fictional Black American Network (B.A.N). The entire episode is shot in the style of a block of television programming and includes both footage from the talk show and fake commercials.
The episode originally aired on October 11, 2016. It was written and directed by series creator Donald Glover. Glover won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for directing the episode.
Plot
After Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) makes a controversial tweet stating that he would never have sex with Caitlyn Jenner, Earn gets him a spot on an interview show hosted by Franklin Montague (Alano Miller) on the B.A.N. (aka the Black American Network). In the awkward interview, Paper Boi debates with fellow guest, transgender activist Dr. Deborah Holt (Mary Kraft). At first the two clash over race and gender, but later come to some agreement. The interview deteriorates into arguing when a new guest named Antoine Smalls (Niles Stewart) joins the round table. Smalls believes that his name is Harrison Booth and he is a 35 year-old white man from Colorado.
Meanwhile, a series of Dodge Charger commercials air on the channel, but they prove to just be a surreal interlude of an Atlanta man (Tim McAdams) celebrating his divorce. Other commercials air during the segment, including ads for real-life products like Arizona iced tea, Mickey's malt liquor and Swisher Sweets, as well as fictional items like Coconut Crunchos Cereal and a dubious self-improvement service.
The Coconut Crunchos segment is a reference to police brutality.
Production
Donald Glover wrote and directed "B.A.N"; however, he does not appear onscreen in the episode. His character Earn is addressed briefly by Paper Boi, implying he is either off-camera or backstage at the studio where "Montague" is filmed. The characters of Darius and Van do not appear in the episode either.
Reception
The episode earned mixed reviews from critics. Joshua Alston of The A.V. Club wrote that the episode "feels a little too experimental", while The Washington Post praised the episode and said that Atlanta is "the most random yet thought-provoking show on television".
Glover won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for directing the episode. He is the first black director in the history of the Emmys to win this particular award. He was also nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for this episode.
References
External links
Atlanta (TV series) episodes
2016 American television episodes
Television episodes written by Donald Glover
Television episodes directed by Donald Glover
Emmy Award-winning episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20165 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 165 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Barnard Castle to Whitby. The route is long and is fully open and signed in both directions.
History
The W2W was launched on 1 June 2005 as a cross-country cycle route from Walney Island in Cumbria to Sunderland on the River Wear . In 2007 a southern branch from Barnard Castle to Whitby was added. This southern branch was originally classified as regional route 52, it was upgraded to National Cycle Network Route 165 in 2012. The Walney to Whitby route is .
Route
The western trailhead is in Barnard Castle at a junction with Route 70. The route descends off the Durham Dales along the lower Tees Valley for to Croft-on-Tees near Darlington. Continuing on flat roads for until it reaches the North York Moors at Great Ayton. Following the Eskdale for the final the route crosses the River Esk four times before reaching its eastern trailhead at a junction with Route 1 on the outskirts of Whitby. This section includes several steep climbs and descents, some of them are on off-road tracks.
Related NCN routes
Route 165 is part of the W2W route along with:
Route 165 meets the following routes:
70 at Barnard Castle
715 at Whorlton
65 at Hutton Rudby
168 at Kildale
1 at Whitby
References
External links
The official website of the W2W
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20Microsoft%20Corp.%20%28disambiguation%29 | United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a 2001 U.S. antitrust law case.
United States v. Microsoft Corp. may also refer to:
Microsoft Corp. v. United States, a data privacy case that was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court as United States v. Microsoft Corp. during the 2017–2018 term
See also
Microsoft v. United States (2016) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20P%20Jue | Jason P Jue is a professor of computer science and the director of the Advanced Networks Research Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Education
Jue received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He then received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Davis in 1999.
Career
Jue is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas as well as being the director of the Advanced Networks Research Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. During his research he has published over 30 journal articles and 90 conference and workshop papers.
Awards and honors
Senior Member, IEEE
Best Paper Award, IEEE ICC 2011 Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, 2011.
Best Paper Award, 14th International Conference of Optical Network Design and Modeling, 2010
NSF Career Award, 2002
Books published
J. P. Jue and V. M. Vokkarane, Optical Burst Switched Networks, Springer, 2005.
Lightpath Establishment in Wavelength-Routed WDM Optical Networks.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Senior Members of the IEEE
University of California, Davis alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifur%20Khan | Latifur Khan joined the University of Texas at Dallas in 2000, where he has been conducting research and teaching as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science.
Education
Latifur Khan has received his B.Sc in Computer Science from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1993. He has done his M.Sc degree in Computer Science in the University of Southern California in 1996. He has also earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2000.
Career
Latifur Khan is working as a Professor of Computer Science, in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas since 2012. He initially joined the University of Texas at Dallas in 2000 and has held the title of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor. Khan has primarily done research in the fields of big data management, data mining, multimedia information management and semantic web and has published over 300 papers in 40 journals, in peer reviewed conference proceedings, and in three books.
Awards and honors
Fellow 2022 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE Technical Achievement Award, 2012
ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2012
NSF award for MRI: Development of an Instrument for Assured Cloud Computing, 2012
IBM Faculty Award (Research), 2016
NSF award for Secure and Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics Curriculum Development, 2017
Fellow of British Computer Society (BCS)
Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), and ACM transaction on Internet Technology (TOIT). These recognitions clearly demonstrate the quality of his work and authoritativeness in data mining area.
Books authored
Design and Implementation of Data Mining Tools.
Data Mining Tools for Malware Detection.
Big Data Analytics with Applications in Insider Threat Detection.
Analyzing and Securing Social Networks.
Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Senior Members of the IEEE
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni
University of Southern California alumni
Bangladeshi computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Language%20Network | An Irish Language Network () is a designation applicable to areas in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.
History
The Gaeltacht Act 2012 (in the Republic of Ireland) allowed for the designation by the cross-border body Foras na Gaeilge and the Irish Department of Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht of certain areas as Irish Language Networks () outside the traditional Irish-speaking areas collectively known as the . The designation recognises a certain level of community and State support for the Irish language, and is made by electoral division or settlement name. The designation is to be made where the commitment to the Irish language seems strong enough to justify it, and can be revoked if language plans are not followed-through successfully.
In February 2018, Foras na Gaeilge announced that five areas – West Belfast, Loughrea, Carn Tóchair, Ennis and the Dublin suburb Clondalkin – were to be designated as having the first Irish Language Networks, subject to the committees in the networks co-formulating and adopting approved Irish language plans which are since in place. Foras na Gaeilge have said that they expect to also designate other areas outside the Gaeltacht as Irish Language Networks, although as of 2023, no new designations have been made.
See also
Gaeltacht Irish speaking regions in Ireland
Bailte Seirbhíse Gaeltachta Gaeltacht Service Towns
Neo-Gaeltacht
Irish language in Northern Ireland
Irish language outside Ireland
Scottish Gaelic Gaeilge na hAlban / Gàidhlig.
Gàidhealtachd Scots Gaelic speaking regions in Scotland.
References
Irish words and phrases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A1Ah%20qu%C3%A9%20Kiko%21 | ¡Ah qué Kiko! (Oh, that Kiko, lit. What a boy, it's Kiko!) is a Mexican sitcom produced by Telerey for the Imevisión network (now TV Azteca). It stars Carlos Villagrán portraying Kiko, a modified version of his character of Quico from El Chavo del Ocho and Ramón Valdés as Don Ramón.
Synopsis
The series takes place in a small town where Don Ramón is the manager of a small grocery store called ‘La Sorpresa’ (The Surprise). Kiko is a frequent client who later starts working for him.
Cast
Carlos Villagrán as Kiko
Ramón Valdés as Don Ramón
Sergio "El Comanche" Ramos as Don Cejudo
Beatriz Olea as Pamela
Jorge Alejandro as Toto
Dacia Arcaraz as Nena
Tito Dreinhüffer as Fito
External links
Mexican television series
Spanish-language television shows
Television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway | Scaleway (previously Online SAS or Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a majority owned subsidiary of the Iliad group.
The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Scaleway Dedibox and Scaleway Elements brands,
domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Scaleway Datacenters.
The company is the second player in France with over Tb/s of Internet traffic.
History
In 1999, Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services
In August 2002, the domain name registrar BookMyName has been bought by Iliad from the concurrent LDCom.
In May 2006, rental of dedicated servers through the Dedibox brand was launched.
In December 2008, Iliad bought Alice ADSL: They also took over construction and operation of Datacenters, launched in 1999 by ISDnet, bought by Cable & Wireless in January 2000 acquired by Tiscali France in June 2003 and finally renamed as Iliad Datacenter.
In April 2010, Online merges with Dedibox, another subsidiary of Iliad, bringing together different hosting activities under a single brand.
In 2012, the company has opened its third datacenter of 11800 m² in Vitry-sur-Seine after 11 months of construction works. The site received the first Tier-III certification in France by Uptime Institute in January 2014.
Since 2012, the company publishes in real time the PUE of its datacenters on pue.online.net, in an effort of transparency.
In 2013, Online launched labs.online.net in preview. An infrastructure as a service offer, based on dedicated hardware and without virtualization, based on ARM CPUs. The hardware is made in a factory near Laval in France.
In April 2015 the service left its beta status and has been renamed as Scaleway. As the popularity of the platform grows, Online added servers with x86_64 based CPUs in March 2016.
Repeat software entrepreneur Yann Lechelle joined as CEO in early 2020; however, he parted ways with the company in December of 2022.
Infrastructure
Datacenters
Scaleway owns and operates several data centers, all located in the Île-de-France region.
DC2, with a size of m² in Vitry-sur-Seine, within the Val-de-Marne. The building has been constructed in 1989 by NMPP (Presstalis), then successively taken over by ISDNet, Cable & Wireless, Tiscali, then Telecom Italia, and is therefore an indirect product of the acquisition of Alice ADSL by Iliad.
DC3, with a size of m² in the same city is divided into several private spaces. It was built in 2012 by the group. It has reached its capacity in early 2016 and works have been planned to extend its capacity by m2.
DC4, with a size of m² on six floors in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, housed in the former anti-atomic fallout shelter of the "Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées". It was built between 1936 and 1939 by architect Gabriel Hé |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubei%20Television | Hubei Television, () is a television network in Hubei province. Programming includes the shows Informal Talks (非正式会谈) and Unlocking the Secrets of Chinese Characters ().
References
Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20and%20Waves | Flags and Waves is a short computer animation test clip which was created by animator Bill Reeves and Alain Fournier for Pixar sometime in 1986. The clip included waves reflecting a sunset and lapping against the shore. Reeves and Fournier made the project with the feedback of John Lasseter to work out details of rendering water and waves realistically, including lighting, motion, and shading.
It was first exhibited at SIGGRAPH in Dallas in August 1986, along with Lasseter’s landmark computer-animated short Luxo Jr. and another test project Beach Chair, by Eben Ostby. The methods developed during the creation of this project were the basis of the water in Finding Nemo. It is based on an oceanographic model of ocean waves which Fournier dug out of the literature from the nineteenth century.
Flags and Waves can also be found as an easter egg in the Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1 which was released in November 2007.
Content
The fourteen-second short begins with the title Flags and Waves and under it the title in French, Drapeaux et Vagues, superimposed on the SMPTE color bars while a high-pitch frequency sound is made. The bars are revealed to be a flag that is flapping in the wind, as the noise shifts to the sound of a calm beachside. The camera then pans up to show three more flags flapping in front of a beach as the bright sun appears to be setting.
References
External links
Flags and Waves on YouTube
1986 films
Pixar short films
1986 short films
1980s American animated films
1986 computer-animated films
American animated short films
Animated films without speech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sada%20News%20Agency | The Sada News Agency (), or SNA, is one of the Iraqi news agencies, one of the media sectors of the Iraqi Media Network is linked directly to the Federation of Journalists of Iraq, its headquarters in Baghdad and has branches and centers inside Iraq only. And certified in the Federation of Journalists of Iraq No. (1530) for the year 2008.
See also
National Iraqi News Agency
Kuwait News Agency
Jordan News Agency
References
External links
Official website
2008 establishments in Iraq
News agencies based in Iraq
Arabic-language mass media
Arabic-language websites
Arab news agencies
Mass media in Baghdad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fourth%20Paradigm | The Fourth Paradigm: Data-intensive Scientific Discovery is a 2009 anthology of essays on the topic of data science. Editors Tony Hey, Kristin Michele Tolle, and Stewart Tansley claim in the book's description that it presents the first broad look at the way that increasing use of data is bringing a paradigm shift to the nature of science.
Response
A review in The New York Times starts by explaining that the fourth paradigm is data science, and that paradigms one to three are, in order, empirical evidence, scientific theory, and computational science.
A commentator who agreed with the premise that data would change science questioned the history of this development, suggesting that computer scientists would have to develop better user interfaces to facilitate scientific discovery.
A commentator specializing in discussions about R claimed that as R and similar tools adapt to handle more data more easily the changes which the book describes will manifest more thoroughly.
A researcher credited the book as inspiration for examining the color of snow.
Further resources
The book's editors describe the text.
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References
2009 non-fiction books
Books about the history of science
Microsoft Research
Scientific revolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2010 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 10 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Cockermouth to North Shields in the United Kingdom. The route is long and is fully open and signed in both directions.
History
Route 10 forms the majority of the Reivers Cycle Route which was conceived to be a mirror image of the popular C2C cycle route. Originally Route 10 was designated as Sustrans regional route and signed with blue numbers. It has been reclassified as a national route with red numbers.
Route
Cockermouth to Carlisle
The western trailhead is at Cockermouth. It uses minor roads as far as Dalston where it joins Route 7 and follows the Caldew Cycleway riverside traffic-free path into central Carlisle.
Carlisle to Bellingham
Heading north out of Carlise the route continues to follow Route 7 on minor roads as far as Westlinton and continues as Route 10 into the Kershope Forest where it meets the Scottish border. Mainly traffic-free through the Kielder Forest to the reservoir where it continues on minor roads to Bellingham.
Bellingham to North Shields
Heading east the route follows minor roads to Ponteland. Passing to the north of Newcastle upon Tyne the route reaches its eastern trailhead at Percy Main, North Shields.
Related NCN routes
Route 10 is part of the Reivers Cycle Route along with:
Route 10 meets the following routes:
at Cockermouth
at Dalston and Westlinton
at Bellingham
at Percy Main
References
External links
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenike%20Osofisan | Adenike Osofisan (born 11 March 1950), is a Nigerian professor of Computer science, who specializes in data mining and knowledge management. She is the first Nigerian woman to hold a Ph.D. in Computer science, a feat she accomplished in 1989. In 2006, she became a full professor at University of Ibadan, a promotion that made her the first African woman to become a Computer Science professor.
Early life and education
Osofisan had her secondary education at Fiwasaiye Girls' Grammar School, Akure and Comprehensive High School, Ayetoro (1968). Between 1971 and 1976, she got her first degree from University of Ile-Ife, obtaining a federal government scholarship throughout most of her university years. She then proceeded to Georgia Institute of Technology in 1978, obtaining a master's degree in Information and Computer Science in 1979. Her PhD thesis on Data Processing Model for a Multi-access Computer Communication Network was completed in 1989 at the Obafemi Awolowo University under the supervision of Adebayo Akinde. In 1993, she completed her Master of Business Administration in Accounts and Finance from University of Ibadan, with her dissertation on An Asset Portfolio Management Model for Nigerian Commercial Banks: A Case Study, graduating as the best MBA student for the year.
Career
Lecturing career
Osofisan began her lecturing career at The Polytechnic, Ibadan in 1979. Over the next few years, she rose to become the dean of Faculty of Science at the same institution. In 1999, she joined University of Ibadan and immediately began to serve as the acting head of department of computer science. In 2003, she earned promotion to the rank of associate professor. She earned a full professor chair in 2006. She has also had visiting professorial stints at Lagos State University.
Memembership of professional bodies
*Member Board of Trustees of Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA)
*Former Member of Nigeria Mathematical Centre and Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM) Councils and now current
*Member of their Academic Boards.
*Member of Africa Academic Board of SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing).
Currently, Adenike is the Director of University of Ibadan School of Business (UISB) as the foundation Director. She was elected as the First Female Provost Nigeria Computer Society College of Fellows in July 2017.
Recognition
As a pioneer woman academic in her field, Osofisan is a recipient of several fellowships including "Nigeria Institute of Management" (1997), "Computer Association of Nigeria" (1998) and "Nigeria Computer Society" (life member, 2014). She is also the pioneer president of "Nigeria Women in Information Technology" (2003). From 2005 to 2009, she became the first female president and chairman of governing council of "Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria".
She was inducted into the Nigeria Women Hall of Fame on June 10, 2019 in Abuja.
Publications and commentaries
A 2009 study, wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Waldo | Jim Waldo is an American computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard University. He is the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Technology and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he was lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java, and helped develop Project Darkstar. He was also involved in some of the early design and development of the Java programming language and environment.
Biography
Jim Waldo graduated from the University of Utah in 1973 with a BS in philosophy, in 1975 with an MA in linguistics, and in 1976 with an MA in philosophy. He then attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for his PhD in philosophy, and graduated in 1980. After a year-long academic position at Hampshire College, he joined a startup company as a programmer. He moved to Apollo Computer in 1985 and stayed on when it got acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989. While at HP, he led the design and development of the first object request broker, and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first CORBA specification. He then moved to Sun Microsystems in 1992. He left Sun in 2010 and after a year at VMWare, he joined Harvard University where he was named CTO in 2011.
Bibliography
References
Living people
American computer programmers
University of Utah alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts alumni
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty
American computer scientists
Sun Microsystems people
Researchers in distributed computing
Computer science writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard Kennedy School faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Main%20Features%20of%20Cybernetics | "The Main Features of Cybernetics" () was a key text which led to the emergence of cybernetics in the Soviet Union, published in July–August 1955 volume of the state philosophical organ, Voprosy filosofii (Problems of Philosophy), No. 4. pp. 136–148. The article was attributed to three significant soviet scientists, Sergei Sobolev, Alexey Lyapunov, and Anatoly Kitov and, for the first time, presented the tenets of cybernetics to a Soviet audience. Alongside the article "What is Cybernetics" by Ernst Kolman, published in the same volume, Benjamin Peters has considered this article to have "set the stage for the revolution of cybernetics in the Soviet Union".
Kitov was the principal author. He had been delivering a number of lectures about cybernetics since 1953. He negotiated with Sobolev and Lyapunov to become joint authors, which they eventually agreed to.
The article outlined three areas of cybernetics:
Information theory, principally statistical approaches to processing and transmission of messages.
The theory of automatic high-speed electronic calculating machines – computers as the theory of self-organizing logical processes.
The theory of automatic control systems, principally feedback theory.
A political point was added at the end of the article:
"Foreign reactionary philosophers and writers strive to use cybernetics, like any new scientific field, in their class interests. By intensively advertising and often exaggerating the statements of individual cybernetic scientists concerning the achievements and prospects of the development of automation, reactionary journalists and writers carry out a direct order from the capitalists to inspire ordinary people to consider their own inferiority, about the possibility of replacing ordinary workers with mechanical robots and thus they seek to reduce the activity of the working masses in the fight against capitalist exploitation.
We must resolutely expose this manifestation of a hostile ideology. Automation in a socialist society serves to facilitate and increase human productivity."
Impact
The mathematician Victor Glushkov was living in Sverdlovsk when he read the article along with Kitov's book Electronic digital machines. He saw the importance of cybernetics as being in relationship to computer science, and started leading a team working on the "Kiev Computer". Rather than seeing the computers as just a big adding machine, Glushkov approach meant working on areas which came to be called artificial intelligence.
Text
Основные черты кибернетики On-line Russian language copy of the text made available by Virtual Computer Museum.
References
Cybernetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail%20Evans | Gail Hirschorn Evans (born 17 December 1941) is an American author, lecturer, and business executive. She is known for being the highest ranking female executive at Cable News Network and for her two books, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman and She Wins, You Win.
Early life
Evans was born on 17 December 1941 and received a bachelor's degree from Bennington College. Her first job was at the office of The Honorable William Fitts Ryan (D-NY). She later served as legislative and executive assistant to Sen. Harrison Arlington Williams of New Jersey. During the Johnson administration she served in Office of the Special Counsel to the President where she worked on the creation of the Presidents Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1965 Civil Rights Act. She later moved to the Import Export Bank when Hobart Taylor became president of the Bank. Lyndon B. Johnson Administration.
CNN
Evans began working at CNN at its inception in 1980. By the time she retired in 2001, she was executive vice president of the CNN Newsgroup. During that time she was responsible for program and talent development at all of CNN’s domestic networks overseeing national and international talk shows and the Network Guest Bookings Department, which scheduled about 25,000 guests each year. She is responsible for developing many of CNN’s talk shows including Crossfire, Burden of Proof, Talkback Live, Capital Gang and Crier & Co.
She is credited with helping to discover and guide the careers of Katie Couric and Greta Van Susteren.
Post-CNN Career
Her book Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman came out in September, 2001 and reached the top 10 on the New York Times bestseller list and being translated into 21 different languages. Following an appearance on Larry King Live, Evans' book spiked as high as #3 on Amazon.com's bestseller list.
In 2003, Evans wrote a follow-up, She Wins, You Win. Though not as much of a commercial success, the second book got strong reviews. Publishers Weekly described it as, "an aggressive but motivating handbook for women who are serious about career success."
Evans is also a corporate speaker and consultant on women in the workplace, giving lectures to AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Microsoft, JP Morgan , Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, KPMG, Cisco, IBM, Thomson Reuters, Deloitte, Intel, and Walmart.
She currently teaches organizational behavior as it relates to gender, race, and ethnicity at Georgia Tech.
Personal life
Evans was married to former CBS correspondent Bob Evans for more than 30 years before getting divorced in March 2000. They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
References
American businesspeople
Living people
American writers
Bennington College alumni
People from Atlanta
1941 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCIL | HCIL may refer to:
Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL)
University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL)
See also
HCI (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20August | Peter August is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, portrayed by Wes Ramsey. Peter is introduced as a media publisher in 2017, and is soon revealed to be the previously unknown son of Cesar Faison (Anders Hove) and Alex Marick (Finola Hughes). However, he was believed to be the son of Anna Devane (also Hughes), Alex's twin sister.
Peter’s introduction garnered very mixed reactions from both critics and viewers alike. While most felt the story undermined Anna's long history and backstory, a few, including ABC Soaps In Depth actually liked the umbrella affect the story had on the canvas. Despite the critiques about Peter being Anna's son, many praised Ramsey for his "compelling" and "nuanced" portrayal of the character. TV Insider hailed the revelation of Peter's lineage as one of the "Best Moments" of the year, while Michael Fairman TV said Peter was the "Most Polarizing Character" of the season and Soap Opera Digest felt it was too big a "rewrite" for fans to believe.
Storylines
In 2017, Peter is hired by "Jason" (Billy Miller) and Sam Morgan (Kelly Monaco) as the COO of their newly acquired media company, Aurora Media, and becomes the boss of Nina Cassadine (Michelle Stafford) and Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms). Aspiring journalist Lulu Falconeri (Emme Rylan) appeals to Peter for a job, and Peter advises her to bring him a "hard-hitting" story before he considers hiring her. With the revelation that the mysterious Patient 6 is the real Jason and Peter's boss is actually Jason's unknown twin brother Andrew Cain, Peter wants to capitalize on the drama, but Sam shoots down the idea. Peter is quite impressed when Lulu uncovers Mayor Janice Lomax (Shari Belafonte) stole the 2014 election, which leads to her resignation, but tells Lulu she needs an impressive follow story before he would put her on staff. Peter convinces Lulu to do a story on Cesar Faison (Anders Hove), the man responsible for switching Jason and Drew.
Although he is happy with Lulu’s article about Maxie's husband Nathan West (Ryan Paevey) being Faison's son, Peter isn't interested in a follow-up. Peter rejects a suggestion from Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) to plant a fake story about Faison's eldest son Henrik as a trap. Peter is nearly shot defending a pregnant Maxie from Faison. He survives, and helps Maxie care for Nathan, who is caught in the crossfire. Peter confronts a hospitalized Faison, and reveals himself to be Henrik. Peter admits he intentionally kept Jason alive to use him against Faison, and is further delighted when Faison dies from cardiac arrest upon hearing Nathan has died.
Peter steals the flash drive with Drew's memories to conceal his identity. Peter changes his mind about leaving town, having bonded with the widowed Maxie. He is terrified to learn Faison suffered from Huntington's disease and confides in Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart), who convinces him to get tested. Peter is relieved when both he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamra%20mundata | Bamra mundata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in India (Sikkim, Assam) and Sri Lanka, Caterpillars are known to feed on Albizia and Arachis hypogaea.
References
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1858 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomea%20rotundata | Diomea rotundata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1857. It is found in Sri Lanka, the Indian subregion, Taiwan, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines and Sumba.
Description
Forewings steely greyish black, and marked with black, including prominent discal spots. A larger white mark on the forewing costa can be seen sometimes. There is an irregular black submarginal line which is expanded into blocks sub-dorsally and at one third from the costa, with a smaller block on the costa. Hindwing with a longitudinal rectangle. The caterpillar is a fungus feeder. It is dirty white with indistinct pink marbling. A pink spot is found dorsally at the rear of each segment. The head lacks setae, but with glossy tubercles. Pupation begins on a tree or the fungus in a tight-fitting cocoon which is semi-ovoid in shape.
References
External links
Eight new records of the family Erebidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India
Two new species of Diomeu Walker (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from Japan, Taiwan and Myanmar
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1857 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioSimGrid | BioSimGrid was a project to make data sets from computer simulations in the field of modelling biological systems, particularly biomolecular structures, more accessible to researchers. The project began in 2004 and halted by 2009.
In 2004 designers presented the concept of the project as a "protein data bank extended in time". Other developers presented a web portal for accessing data in the project. Other designers described the project as efficient.
A review in 2006 described how BioSimGrid was a model project for making data from research more open.
BioSimGrid contributors accepted a grant from the National Institutes of Health in 2007.
References
External links
biosimgrid.org is now defunct and
file archive at SourceForge
Digital libraries
Online databases
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Serenata%20de%20Amor | Operation Serenata de Amor is an artificial intelligence project designed to analyze public spending in Brazil. The project has been funded by a recurrent financing campaign since September 7, 2016, and came in the wake of major scandals of misappropriation of public funds in Brazil, such as the Mensalão scandal and what was revealed in the Operation Car Wash investigations.
The analysis began with data from the National Congress then expanded to other types of budget and instances of government, such as the Federal Senate. The project is built through collaboration on GitHub and using a public group with more than 600 participants on Telegram.
The name "Serenata de Amor," which means "serenade of love," was taken from a popular cashew cream bonbon produced by Chocolates Garoto in Brazil.
Modules
Throughout development of the project, new modules have been newly introduced in addition to the main repository:
The main repository, serenata-de-amor, serves as the starting point for investigative work.
Rosie is the robot programmed to identify public funds expenses with discrepancies, starting with CEAP (Quota for Exercise of Parliamentary Activity); it analyzes each of the reimbursements requested by the deputies and senators, indicating the reasons that lead it to believe they are suspicious.
From Rosie was born whistleblower, which tweets under the name of @RosieDaSerenata, distributing the results found on social media.
Jarbas (Github repository) is a data visualization tool which shows a complete list of reimbursements made available by the Chamber of Deputies and mined by Rosie.
Toolbox is a Python installable package that supports the development of Serenata de Amor and Rosie.
History
Operation Serenata de Amor is an Artificial intelligence project for analysis of public expenditures. It was conceived in March 2016 by data scientist Irio Musskopf, sociologist Eduardo Cuducos and entrepreneur Felipe Cabral. The project was financed collectively in the Catarse platform, where it reached 131% of the collection goal paying 3 months of project development. Ana Schwendler, also a data scientist, Pedro Vilanova "Tonny", data journalist, Bruno Pazzim, software engineer, Filipe Linhares, a frontend engineer, Leandro Devegili, an entrepreneur and André Pinho took the first steps towards constructing the platform, such as collecting and structuring the first datasets.
Jessica Temporal, data scientist and Yasodara Córdova "Yaso", researcher, Tatiana Balachova "Russa", UX designer, joined the project after the financing took place.
The members created a recurring financing campaign, expanding the analysis of public spending to the Federal Senate. Donors make monthly payments ranging from 5 BRL to 200 BRL to maintain group activities. The monthly amount collected is around 10,000 BRL.
Results
In January 2017, concluding the period financed by the initial campaign, the group carried out an investigation into the suspicious activities found by th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N231%20highway | National Route 231 (N231) forms a part of the Philippine highway network. It is a secondary road that runs through southern Benguet, from the City of Baguio to Itogon.
Baguio
The northern section of the N231 runs through the Baguio Central Business District along Shanum Street, Lower Session Road and Upper Session Road.
Baguio to Itogon
The N231 continues to Itogon. The central section from Baguio to Kias is known as Loakan Road.
References
Roads in Benguet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1%20highway%20%28Philippines%29 | National Route 1 (N1) is a primary national route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, running from Luzon to Mindanao. Except for a gap in Metro Manila and ferry connections, the highway is generally continuous. Most sections of N1 forms the Pan-Philippine Highway except for sections bypassed by expressways.
Route description
N1 follows a route that runs from Laoag in Ilocos Norte to Zamboanga City via Bicol Region, Eastern Visayas and eastern parts of Mindanao. The highway connects most major regional centers on its route and runs through different landscapes. The highway is mostly named Maharlika Highway, but other sections use different names.
Ilocos Region
N1 begins at the intersection with N2 (Manila North Road) and N100 (Laoag Airport Road) in Laoag as Manila North Road (MaNor). It then crosses Padsan River via Gilbert Bridge and enters the city proper of Laoag, where it splits before turning to the east in front of Ilocos Norte Provincial Capitol, briefly following J.P. Rizal Avenue before turning to General Segundo Avenue; both are principal city streets passing through the city proper and through its outskirts. Approaching Bacarra, it becomes a rural highway. At Bacarra, it bypasses the town center to the north and runs through a rural area, and then enters Pasuquin, where it serves as a major municipal street. Between Bacarra and Burgos, it becomes a rural two-lane highway and passes through interspersed barangays along the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) coastline. It soon climbs the mountains upon approach to Burgos, where the highway directly serves the town. The highway zigzags through the rough terrain, and overlooks the beach where Bangui Wind Farm lies. It then passes through Bangui, where it runs as a major street on the town center, crosses Bulu River, and enters Pagudpud, which bypasses the town proper. N1 runs through the foothills that mark the edge of the Northern Luzon Cordillera and runs close to the coastline of Bashi Channel, where the highway zigzags through the cliffs through the Patapat Viaduct, a viaduct that is required for the highway to pass the steep cliffs marking the northern edge of the Cordillera Range.
Cagayan Valley
Entering the Cagayan Valley region, N1 follows Manila North Road up to barangay Bangag, Aparri, where it turns south and becomes Bangag-Magapit Road up to the Magapit Interchange in Lal-lo. In Lal-lo, N1 is carried by the Magapit Suspension Bridge over the Cagayan River before meeting the Magapit Interchange. At the interchange, it turns southeast and becomes Cagayan Valley Road from Magapit, Lal-lo to Tuguegarao, running parallel to the Cagayan River. In Tuguegarao, N1 turns east at the roundabout intersection with N106 (Tuguegarao Diversion Road) and N51 (Santiago–Tuguegarao Road) to bypass the city proper towards Peñablanca and run parallel to the Cagayan River up to Reina Mercedes, Isabela. It then enters the province of Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya as Maharlika High |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1%20expressway%20%28Philippines%29 | Expressway (E1) forms part of the Philippine expressway network. It runs through western Luzon from Quezon City in the south to Rosario in the north.
Quezon City to Mabalacat
The southern section of the E1 forms most of the North Luzon Expressway, a 4- to 8-lane limited-access toll expressway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines. It was built in the 1960s and has a length of .
The expressway begins in Quezon City at the Balintawak Interchange with EDSA as a continuation of Andres Bonifacio Avenue. It then passes through Caloocan and Valenzuela in Metro Manila, and the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga in Central Luzon. In Bulacan, it branches off as Tabang Spur Road that terminates at Tabang Interchange, a partial cloverleaf interchange with MacArthur Highway and Cagayan Valley Road in Guiguinto. The main section of NLEX currently ends at Mabalacat and merges with the MacArthur Highway, which continues northward into the rest of Central and Northern Luzon.
Originally controlled by the Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC), operation and maintenance of the NLEx was transferred in 2005 to NLEX Corporation, a subsidiary of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (a former subsidiary of the Lopez Group of Companies until 2008). A major upgrade and rehabilitation was completed in February 2005, with the road now having similar qualities to a modern French tollway.
It is also a part of the Asian Highway 26 (AH26) from Balintawak to Santa Rita exit, where N1 (Maharlika Highway) continues the AH26 designation.
Mabalacat to Tarlac City
The central section of the E1 forms part of the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway, a four-lane expressway built by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), a government owned and controlled corporation under the Office of the President of the Philippines. The Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) is the country's longest expressway at . Construction of the expressway started on April 5, 2005, while commercial operations started on April 28, 2008, with the opening of the Subic-Clark Segment and Zone A of the portion of Clark-Tarlac Segment. The opening of Zones B and C of the remaining Clark-Tarlac Segment on July 25, 2008 signaled the full operations of the SCTEX.
Tarlac City to Rosario
The northern section of the E1 forms the Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway, an four-lane expressway north of Manila, in the Philippines. It connects central to northern Luzon, with its southernmost terminal located in Tarlac City, Tarlac and its planned northernmost terminus currently slated to be at Rosario, La Union.
The first section of the project, from Tarlac City to Pura, Tarlac, has been operating on a "soft opening" basis since October 31, 2013, and begun full operations in November 2013.
Part of the second segment, which will take motorists up to Ramos, Tarlac, opened on December 23, 2013. The remaining section from Anao, Tarlac up to Rosale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLEX%20Harbor%20Link | NLEX Harbor Link (North Luzon Expressway Harbor Link), signed as E5 of the Philippine expressway network, is a four- to six-lane expressway that serves as a spur of North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) linking it to the Port of Manila to the west and Quezon City to the east. It runs from Katipunan (a component of Circumferential Road 5) and C.P. Garcia Avenues in Quezon City to Radial Road 10 in Navotas, which in turn leads to the Port of Manila. Currently, its segment from Mindanao Avenue in Valenzuela to Navotas is operational.
Route description
The NLEX Harbor Link Project is the extension of the North Luzon Expressway that runs currently from Mindanao Avenue in Valenzuela at the east to Radial Road 10 in Navotas at the west, where an access to the Port of Manila is found. It aims to connect with Port of Manila, while improving cargo movement between NLEX and Radial Road 10. It is divided into four segments, namely: Segment 8.1 (Mindanao Avenue Link), 8.2 (C-5 Link / Citi Link), 9 (Karuhatan Link), and 10 (Harbor Link). It forms part of the expressway's open section. Both Segments 8.1 and 9, located in Valenzuela, are components of Circumferential Road 5 (C-5) of Manila's arterial road network.
Mindanao Avenue to NLEX main
NLEX Segment 8.1 (Mindanao Avenue Link) is a four-lane, expressway that runs from the Harbor Link Interchange to Mindanao Avenue in Valenzuela. Lying on the ground level east of the interchange, it begins at the intersection with Mindanao Avenue in Barangay Ugong and then approaches the Mindanao toll plazas, widening to 6 lanes serving only westbound traffics. It terminates at the Harbor Link Interchange with NLEX Main and continues to the west as Segment 9 (Karuhatan Link).
NLEX main to Karuhatan
NLEX Segment 9 (Karuhatan Link) is a four-lane, expressway that runs from Harbor Link Interchange to MacArthur Highway in Karuhatan, Valenzuela. It is the first segment of the NLEX Harbor Link project. It begins at the Harbor Link Interchange with NLEX Main, picking-up from where Segment 8.1 (Mindanao Avenue Link) left off. Lying on the ground level west of the interchange, it then traverses Barangays Gen. T. De Leon, Parada, and Maysan, where two exits towards the first two barangays, respectively, are found. It then enters Barangay Karuhatan, where it approaches the Karuhatan toll plaza, widening to 6 lanes serving only eastbound vehicles, and Segment 10 (Harbor Link) and finally terminates at MacArthur Highway.
Karuhatan to Navotas
NLEX Segment 10 (Harbor Link), the second phase of the NLEX Harbor Link project, is a four-lane, fully elevated expressway which connects with the Karuhatan Link (Segment 9) in Valenzuela to C-3 Road in Caloocan, where two ramps carry it to the west for another up to Radial Road 10 (R-10) in Navotas. It begins at Karuhatan Exit with Segment 9 (Karuhatan Link) and MacArthur Highway. The section near the northern terminus traverses an industrial and residential area, which necessitated the demo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20rolling%20stock | List of Italian rolling stock. The following list includes rolling stock that works, or has worked, on the Italian national railway network Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and on private lines and lines in concession. The list is not exhaustive and additions are welcome.
Railways
The history of Italian railways may be divided into three periods:
Pre-1885, small railways were built, some privately owned and some state owned
1885–1905, the creation of the "great networks"
1905, nationalization
Abbreviations
FAS = Ferrovia Alessandria–Stradella
FS = Ferrovie dello Stato, Italian State Railways, established 1905
LVCI = Imperial-regia società privilegiata delle strade ferrate lombardo-venete e dell'Italia Centrale
RA = Rete Adriatica, Adriatic Network, 1885-1905
RM = Rete Mediterranea, Mediterranean Network, 1885-1905
SB = Südbahn, Southern Railway (Austria)
SFAI = Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia, Upper Italian Railways, 1865 to 1885
SFCS = Società per le Strade Ferrate Calabro-Sicule
SFM = Società per le Strade Ferrate Meridionali, 1862-1885
SFR = Società per le Strade Ferrate Romane, 1865-1885
SFSP = Strade Ferrate dello Stato Piemontese
SV = Società Veneta
VER = Victor Emmanuel Railway, 1853–1867, later SFCS
Locomotives
Rete Adriatica
Listed in order of Rete Adriatica (RA) number
Rete Mediterranea
Listed in order of Rete Mediterranea (RM) number
Società Veneta
Südbahn
References
Further reading
P.M. Kalla-Bishop: Italian State Railways Steam Locomotives. Tourret Publishing, Abingdon, 1986,
Locomotives of Italy
Rolling stock
Rete Adriatica steam locomotives
Rete Mediterranea steam locomotives
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
Italian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentorata | The Lentorata ('Flight track') is a planned railway line in Finland, designed to link Helsinki Airport to the Finnish long-distance railway network and to complement the current airport connection via the Ring Rail Line. Construction of the line is not expected to start until 2030, with the line operational several years later.
History
The Lentorata has been included in the Finnish Transport Agency's plans since 2010. Following the opening of the Ring Rail Line in 2015, Helsinki Airport gained its first railway connection through the Helsinki commuter rail network. Long-distance trains stop at Tikkurila railway station where frequent commuter trains take passengers to the airport. However, a need has also been identified for a rail link at the airport for long-distance traffic, with support from Finavia, the mayors of Helsinki and Tampere and the chief executive of the state-owned national rail company VR Group.
Route
The line is planned to travel in a long tunnel under built-up areas and to serve the underground Helsinki Airport station, allowing direct access to the airport terminal from long-distance rail services, as well as to free the rail capacity taken up by long-distance traffic in the current main corridor (the Helsinki–Riihimäki railway) for the increasing local commuter traffic. The tunnel would surface at Kerava railway station, and the line would then continue northward to Tampere as either an upgraded Riihimäki–Tampere railway or a brand new parallel line; and eastward to Kouvola using the planned new Itärata railway.
Cost
In 2019, Helsinki Times reported that, as part of a new rail connection with an expected travel time of one hour from Helsinki to Tampere via the airport, the project would cost a total of €5.5 billion.
See also
List of railway lines in Finland
Rail transport in Finland
Ring Rail Line
References
Railway lines in Finland
Proposed railway lines in Finland
5 ft gauge railways in Finland
Railway tunnels in Finland
Airport rail links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20Squad%20Hackers | Ghost Squad Hackers or by the abbreviation "GSH" is a politically motivated hacktivist team responsible for conducting cyber attacks on central banks, Fox News and CNN, leaking sensitive data of the United States Armed Forces, leaking sensitive data of the Israeli government, hijacking Afghanistan's Chief Executive's Twitter account, and much more. Led by the administrative de facto leader known as s1ege (Leet for "siege"). The group's prime intent and focus is embedded on anti-governmental and organization cyber protests within current involvements of media speculation and real life happenings in 2021 to present.They are also a team in and part of the hacktivist group Anonymous.
List of attacks on governments and organizations
Defacements of the Ethiopian government
In January 2016, GSH defaced Ethiopian government websites in response to the killing of nearly 500 students and activists by Ethiopian Security Forces during protests that became extremely violent was involved in the latter part of 2015 and then sparked again between August and October in 2016 Ethiopian protests.
Attacks on Donald Trump
On May 21, 2016 GSH targeted Donald Trump's official website by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for what they saw as racist comments made towards refugees and Mexicans. Shortly after targeting Trump's official website GSH shut down Trump's hotel collection websites.
Attacks on the Israeli Defense Force
The group gained more notoriety after having successfully leaked data of the Israeli Defense Force on April 7, 2016. This was the day #OpIsrael was launched along with Anonymous, leaking the Database of Israel Defense Force posting thousands of IDF soldiers, border patrol, and Israeli Air Force personnel information online.
Attacks on the Ku Klux Klan
On April 23, 2016 GSH targeted the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan by taking their websites down in the protest of racism while Anonymous vs. KKK protests were happening in the state of Georgia, U.S.A.
Attacks on Black Lives Matter
In 2016, GSH took down the official website of Black Lives Matter, claiming the organization fueled further racism.
Attacks on Banks
GSH and Anonymous worked in correlation together when "Operation Icarus" was first launched in February 2016. The op was aimed at attacking the central banking system which the attackers accused the banks with corruption and wanted to raise public awareness. This attack sparked the invitation of more hacking teams and affiliations of Anonymous to focus their attention towards that of the Central Banks in direct regards of further scrutiny and cyber attacks.
Ghost Squad Hacker's leader s1ege claimed responsibility for the attacks which were carried out on the Bank of England email server and dozens of other banking websites including the New York Stock Exchange, Bank of France, Bank of Greece, Bank of Jordan and the Bank of South Korea, among others. s1ege went on to state that they want to "start an onl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N64%20highway | National Route 64 (N64) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs through northern Cavite.
Route description
Kawit to Tanza
The northern section of N64 forms a physical continuation of E3 (Manila–Cavite Expressway) from Metro Manila. It runs along the Centennial Road, parallel to the coast of Cavite, bypassing Kawit, Imus, Noveleta, Rosario, General Trias, and Tanza. It forms a part of the Radial Road 1 of Metro Manila's arterial road network.
Its section between General Trias Drive in General Trias and Santa Cruz Street in Tanza forms part of the Noveleta–Naic–Tagaytay Road network.
Tanza to Trece Martires
At the junction in Tanza, N64 turns inland as Tanza–Trece Martires Road, , a 2- to 4-lane primary road to Trece Martires.
References
Roads in Cavite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N402%20highway | National Route 402 (N402) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs through the rural municipalities of Cavite.
Route description
N402 covers the Tanza to Tagaytay segment of Noveleta–Naic–Tagaytay Road, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Tanza to Naic
N402 starts at N64 (Antero Soriano Highway) as Santa Cruz Street, a one-way street into the población of Tanza. In front of the entrance to the Diocesan Shrine of Saint Augustine, it then turns southwest as San Agustin Street, becomes a two-way street at its intersection with Santo Domingo Street. It meets the Biwas Roundabout past the Tanza Bridge, and once again meets Antero Soriano Highway at the Tanza Junction and proceeds towards Naic.
Naic to Indang
Within the población of Naic, N402 turns southwest towards J. Poblete Street (some of its segments is also known as Sabang Road) and then, in front of the Naic Church, veers southeast as Capt. Ciriaco Nazareno Street. It then intersects with Governor's Drive and proceeds towards Indang as Naic–Indang Road. It then enters the población of Indang alternatively known as A. Mojica Street and ends at De Ocampo Street. It then continues as De Ocampo Street, San Miguel Street, and A. Mabini Street, veers southeast in front of Indang Church as San Gregorio Street, and continues as San Gregorio Extension.
Indang to Mendez
At the end of San Gregorio Extension, the road intersects Trece Martires–Indang Road and proceeds southeast towards Mendez as Indang–Mendez Road. It then enters the municipality of Mendez, where it becomes a one-way southbound street known as C. Llamado Street and Osorio Street before ending at the latter's junction with J.P. Rizal Street in Mendez población.
Mendez to Tagaytay
At the junction of J.P. Rizal and Osorio Streets, the road proceeds southeast towards Tagaytay as Mendez–Tagaytay Road. The Tagaytay segment is also known as Tagaytay–Cavite via Mendez Road. It finally terminates at Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway at Mendez Crossing, Tagaytay.
History
The direct predecessor of N402 is Highway 25, which connected Bacoor with Tagaytay via Naic especially during the 20th century.
Intersections
References
Roads in Cavite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N622%20highway | National Route 622 (N622) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It is one of the national secondary roads with two non-contiguous sections, one which runs through the municipalities of Kawit and Noveleta in Cavite, while the other road runs through the municipality of Daet in Camarines Norte; both of these roads are located in Luzon island.
Route description
Cavite
In Cavite, N622 runs near the municipal boundary of Kawit and Noveleta as Noveleta–Rosario Diversion Road or EPZA Diversion Road. It runs between N62 (A. Bonifacio Street) and N64 (Antero Soriano Highway).
Camarines Norte
In Camarines Norte, N622 runs in the municipality of Daet, where the entire signed road is known as Daet Airport Road (also known as Ninoy Aquino Avenue and Bagasbas Road). Starting from Vinzons Avenue (Tagas-Daet Poblacion-Magang Road) at the town proper of Daet, it serves as an access road to the coastal barangay of Bagasbas and Daet Airport. The route ends at the intersection with President Cory C. Aquino (Bagasbas Boulevard) in Bagasbas, while Daet Airport Road continues southeast as an unnumbered route towards the airport of the same name.
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Cavite
Roads in Camarines Norte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N62%20highway | National Route 62 (N62) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs south from Metro Manila to northeastern Cavite.
Route description
Based on the designation by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), N62 consists of the following segments, from east to west:
Parañaque to Las Piñas
N62 starts at the intersection with NAIA Road in Parañaque. The northern section forms a major north–south collector road in southern Metro Manila, Philippines. Originally a segment of the Calle Real, it is now a four-lane undivided arterial designated as a component of Manila's Radial Road 2 network. It runs parallel to Roxas Boulevard and its extension, the Manila–Cavite Expressway (Coastal Road). The northern section in Parañaque is known as Elpidio Quirino Avenue, while the southern section in Las Piñas is Padre Diego Cera Avenue.
Bacoor
The southern section of the N62 forms part of the Emilio Aguinaldo Highway, also known as Cavite-Batangas Road and Manila West Road, from Zapote Bridge to Tirona Highway in Bacoor.
Aguinaldo Boulevard
From Bacoor Junction, N419 branches out from Aguinaldo Highway to Manila–Cavite Expressway's (CAVITEX) Bacoor (Longos) Exit as Aguinaldo Boulevard, a 6-lane, thoroughfare serving the areas of Talaba, Zapote, and Longos in Bacoor. Longos Flyover, which carries the road over its junction with Alabang-Zapote Road and provides access to the northbound entrance to CAVITEX, is also part of N62.
Bacoor to Kawit
At the intersection near SM City Bacoor, N62 turns west towards Kawit as Tirona Highway, while Aguinaldo Highway continues south as N419.
Kawit to Noveleta
In Kawit, N62 turns south as the Magdiwang Highway, shifts towards a two-lane road in Barangay Magdalo, Kawit, becoming A. Bonifacio Street as it enters Noveleta. It then turns northwest at M. Salud Road, and returns to Magdiwang Highway before meeting the junction in Noveleta.
Noveleta to Cavite City
Finally, N62 turns north at the junction in Noveleta as Manila–Cavite Road, forming the final stretch of the highway. In Cavite City, the road is known as Miranda Street (one-way southbound) and P. Burgos Avenue. At the latter's intersection with Dra. Salamanca Street, it carries one-way eastbound traffic only. It terminates at the Trece Martires Centennial Plaza by Bacoor Bay in Barangay San Roque, where it continues as Parkway I towards Naval Base Cavite.
Landmarks
Several landmarks and historical sites are situated along N62, including Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite, where the first Philippine Republic was proclaimed in 1898. SM City Bacoor, the first SM Supermall outside Metro Manila, is located at the intersection of Aguinaldo and Tirona Highways.
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Metro Manila
Roads in Cavite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N405%20highway | National Route 405 (N405) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs through western Cavite. It connects the municipality of Naic to Caylabne Bay.
Route description
The highway, though consisting of component roads of different names, is officially named by DPWH as Juanito Remulla Sr. Road, which is the official name of one of its component roads, Governor's Drive.
Governor's Drive
N405 runs from the municipality of Naic to Ternate, Cavite as Governor's Drive. It starts at the intersection with N402, specifically the Naic–Indang Road and Capt. C. Nazareno Street in Barangay San Roque, Naic. It then passes through the municipalities of Maragondon and Ternate. Finally, it meets its intersection with Caylabne Road and Ternate–Nasugbu Road at the Mounts Palay-Palay–Mataas-na-Gulod Protected Landscape in Ternate.
Caylabne Road
N405 then turns north as Caylabne Road, which connects Ternate to Caylabne Bay. The highway ends at Point Mai, where a gate to Caylabne Bay Resort is found, as the road continues into the resort as an unnumbered street.
References
Roads in Cavite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N403%20highway | National Route 403 (N403) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs through central Cavite. It connects the city of Trece Martires to the municipality of Naic.
Route description
The segment of Governor's Drive from its intersection with N64 (Tanza–Trece Martires Road) and N404 (Trece Martires–Indang Road) in the city proper of Trece Martires to its intersection with Antero Soriano Highway and Sabang Road in the town proper of Naic. It also passes through the municipality of Tanza in between.
This route is also known as Trece Martires–Naic Road and Dasmariñas–Trece Martires City–Naic Road.
Intersections
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Cavite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N65%20highway | National Route 65 (N65) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs through central Cavite and northern Laguna.
Route description
Trece Martires to Dasmariñas
N65 forms the physical continuation of N403, known as Governor's Drive, from Naic. It starts at the junction with N64 (Tanza–Trece Martires Road) and N404 (Trece Martires–Indang Road) in Trece Martires, Cavite. It then traverses General Trias, where it crosses Crisanto M. de los Reyes Avenue in barangay Manggahan and Arnaldo Highway in barangay San Francisco, before entering Dasmariñas.
Dasmariñas to Carmona
N65 continues as Governor's Drive as it traverses Dasmariñas, where it intersects with N410 (Aguinaldo Highway), the boundary of General Mariano Alvarez and Silang, and Carmona.
In Dasmariñas, N65 also branches from Governor's Drive to Aguinaldo Highway as Pala-pala Road, diverting motorists from the junction of the two aforementioned highways.
Carmona to Biñan
In Carmona, N65 turns into the town proper as Loyola Street, while N651 diverts Governor's Drive away from the city proper. N65 then returns to Governor's Drive at the Carmona Rotonda before crossing over E2/AH26 (South Luzon Expressway), which is accessible via Carmona Exit. Past the Carmona Bridge at the provincial boundary of Cavite and Laguna, N65 continues as General Malvar Street (officially known as Biñan–Cavite Road) and ends at N1 (Manila South Road) in Biñan; the street continues as an unnumbered route into the old Biñan town proper.
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Cavite
Roads in Laguna (province) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N651%20highway | National Route 651 (N651) forms a part of the Philippine highway network. It is one of the national secondary roads with two non-contiguous sections, one which runs through the city of Carmona, Cavite in the Calabarzon region, while the other road runs within the island of Catanduanes in the Bicol Region.
Route description
Cavite
N651 runs through the section of Governor's Drive in the city of Carmona, Cavite, where the road is also known as Carmona Diversion Road as it bypasses the city proper. Upon reaching the Carmona Rotonda, the rest of the road going to the province of Laguna is merged by N65.
Catanduanes
In the Catanduanes province, N651 runs through the municipalities of Panganiban and Caramoran, where the entire signed road is known as Panganiban–Sabloyon Road. It connects with N650 (Catanduanes Circumferential Road) on both ends.
References
Roads in Cavite
Roads in Catanduanes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N410%20highway | National Route 410 (N410) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs from southern Cavite to Batangas.
Route description
Silang to Tagaytay
N410 starts at the boundary of Silang and Dasmariñas in Cavite as the physical continuation of N419 (Aguinaldo Highway). The route then shifts slightly to the east as J.P. Rizal Street, traversing the Silang town proper before returning to Aguinaldo Highway. It then enters the city of Tagaytay, where Aguinaldo Highway ends at the Tagaytay Rotonda.
Tagaytay to Calaca
Past the Tagaytay Rotonda, N410 turns southwest to become the Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway. It then cuts through the western part Tagaytay before going along the municipal boundaries of Alfonso, Cavite and Laurel, Batangas.
Calaca to Lemery
At the intersection past the welcome arches at the provincial boundary of Cavite and Batangas, N410 turns southeast as Diokno Highway, a secondary highway that connects Calaca to Lemery through a moutaineous terrain. The route ends at the Palico-Balayan-Batangas Road in Lemery.
Intersections
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Cavite
Roads in Batangas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20P.%20Laurel%20Highway | Jose P. Laurel Highway is a , two-to-six lane, major highway running within the province of Batangas. The highway forms part of National Route 4 (N4) of the Philippine highway network. It is also known as Santo Tomas Bypass Road in Santo Tomas, Manila–Batangas Road from its junction with General Malvar Street in Santo Tomas southwards, and Ayala Highway in Lipa.
The highway was named in honor of José Paciano Laurel, who served as the president of the Second Philippine Republic. Laurel was born in Tanauan, Batangas, through which the highway traverses.
Route description
Jose P. Laurel Highway starts at the Santo Tomas Junction, a roundabout intersection with the Maharlika Highway and Governor Carpio Avenue in Santo Tomas. It then enters Tanauan, Malvar, Lipa, where it diverts motorists around the poblacion as Ayala Highway, San Jose, and Batangas City, where it ends at Lawas Junction, its intersection with Palico–Balayan–Batangas Road and P. Burgos Street (Manila-Batangas Pier Road) in the poblacion. The Southern Tagalog Arterial Road mostly parallels the highway and crosses each other at Lipa and Batangas City.
History
Most of the highway is historically called Manila–Batangas Road. It was designated as Highway 19 or Route 19, a route that linked Santo Tomas to the then-municipality of Batangas and was the logical continuation of Route 1 (Manila South Road), an old road from Manila that includes the present-day Maharlika Highway, prior to the completion of its section towards Alaminos, Laguna circa 1930s. New alignments bypassing the downtowns of San Jose, Lipa (now known as Ayala Highway), and Santo Tomas (officially known as Manila–Batangas Diversion Road), respectively, were later built and made part of the present-day Jose P. Laurel Highway.
Intersections
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Batangas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgWeatherNet | AgWeatherNet is an automated agricultural weather station network operated by Washington State University in the Pacific Northwest. It is the first and the largest agricultural weather network in the United States. Every 5 seconds, over 175 sensors (as of 2018) record air temperature, relative humidity and dew point, soil temperature at 8 inches, rainfall, wind speed, wind direction, insolation and leaf wetness. The data is reported back from each sensor to WSU's Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, Washington and made available to the public on the Internet. The network can be used to predict and warn of crop hazards such as freezes (especially damaging to Washington fall crops like apples) and hailstorms.
Sensors are located mostly in the irrigated regions of Eastern Washington like the Yakima Valley, but also cover some non-irrigated areas like the Palouse and areas of Western Washington such as the Chehalis River valley. The Oregon Hop Commission funds three sensors in northwest Oregon. Several cranberry farming concerns fund a sensor at Grayland on the Pacific Coast.
The system began in 1988 with the name Public Agricultural Weather System (PAWS).
References
External links
1988 establishments in Washington (state)
Meteorological stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N11%20highway | National Route 11 (N11) is an major primary route that forms part of the Philippine highway network. It is a component and the main route of Circumferential Road 5 (C-5), connecting the cities of Taguig, Makati, Pasig and Quezon.
History
When the routes were assigned by the Department of Public Works and Highways, the segment of Circumferential Road 5 (C-5) from Taguig to Quezon City, except for its at-grade section below the Bagong Ilog Flyover in Pasig, was assigned as N11. These roads under C-5 include the Carlos P. Garcia Avenue, Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue, Bonny Serrano Avenue, and Katipunan Avenue.
Route description
The route's northern terminus starts from a route change from N129 while making a junction on C.P. Garcia Avenue, a tertiary road in Barangay U.P. Campus, Quezon City. It traverses to the cities of Quezon, Pasig, Makati and Taguig. In Quezon City, the highway then follows Katipunan Avenue's at-grade section parallel to the Katipunan/Aurora Flyover, classified as a tertiary road that carries traffic crossing N59. In Pasig, the highway is then carried by the Bagong Ilog Flyover in Pasig as it parallels another C-5 route (N141) below the flyover. Upon leaving Taguig, the route meets the respective interchanges of C-5 Southlink Expressway and South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) before its southern terminus at the East Service Road, a frontage road of the Skyway At-Grade section of SLEX.
References
Roads in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriological%20School | Theriological School – a professional and educational network that unites specialists in mammalogy of Ukraine and adjacent countries, first of all Poland, Belarus and, from time to time, Estonia, Russia and Romania. Theriological school as a community exists both as a network of professionals and as an annual meeting.
History
Theriological School was started as one of the sections of Ukrainian theriological society (UTS) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS) in Autumn 1993 (24 November 1993) by a joint decision of three institutions – Ukrainian Theriological Society, Ministry of Nature Conservation and the Commission on the Reserves of NAS of Ukraine. Since its foundation in 1993 and until now Therioschool became one of the main activity of UTS. Igor Zagorodniuk, deputy head of the UTS, is one of the initiators of the creation and a head of Theriological school (together with O. Fedorchenko, O. Kiselyuk and V. Pokinchereda).
The first newsletter (later: a regular newsletter and since 2000 – a bulletin “Novitates Theriologicae”) was distributed on 24 November 1993. The first (and in future: annual) conference (a school-seminar) was organized on 3 October 1994 at Carpathian Biosphere Reserve. The first issue of a journal "Proceedings of the Theriological School" was published in 1998 and presented during the V Theriological school on biological station of National University of Kharkiv. A website of Ukrainian Theriological Society was started in spring 2003 (25 May 2003).
All activities of Theriological school are maintained entirely on the enthusiasm of its Board and its regular participants. The Board of the school organizes each next seminar in another place – usually, in one of the nature or biosphere reserves or at biological stations of one of the universities, and much less often in cities on the base of universities, institutes or museums of the natural history (the XII-th Terioschool was held in Luhansk, the XIII-th – at Kamianets-Podilskyi and the XXIV – in Odesa).
Objectives
The concept of Theriological school was formulated in the journal "Nature Reserves in Ukraine" (1999) and these ideas were developed during all 24 schools. The key tasks of the society are:
organization of regular meetings of zoologists working at nature reserves, national parks, biological stations and also at natural faculties of universities and academic institutions; exchanging of the experience in conducting of field studies of mammals;
working out and unification of methodology in theriological investigations (a research of a species composition of local fauna; the estimation of a number of individuals and a development of modern intravital methods of investigations);
the approbation of scientific results;
the development of aсtivities important for nature protection and education. For example, the events called "The night of bats" and "The beast of the year", etc. are traditionally organized during each school-seminar (in 2017 Theri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Company%20%28video%20game%29 | Bad Company is a computer game developed by Vectordean and originally published by Logotron in 1990. Released for the Amiga and Atari ST computer systems, the game was based on the concept of 1984 arcade game Space Harrier, with a grittier and more militaristic visual design. In 1991, the Amiga version was re-issued in the UK on Prism Leisure's "16-Bit Pocket Power" imprint.
Reception
Bad Company received somewhat positive reviews from contemporary gaming magazines. Zero rated the game 78/100, calling it "very good value" and comparing it to a budget version of Space Harrier. gave the Amiga version a 74%, and Amiga Format gave it a 71%. The Games Machine gave the Atari ST version a 72%, calling the graphics "well-detailed" but the price "too expensive for such an old formula."
ACE gave the game a 642/1000, calling it "strong on atmosphere" and describing defeating tougher enemies as imparting "a considerable sense of achievement". However, it concluded that the game suffers from too little content, stating: "you soon tire of the simple pleasure of wasting things." Amiga Power gave it a 44/100, describing it as "failing to be [...] anything remotely complex" and "reasonably entertaining for five minutes or so." gave the game a 28/100, praising its presentation but stating there's "nothing behind it", concluding: "You are indeed in bad company with Bad Company if you bought it by mistake."
References
External links
Bad Company at Lemon Amiga
Bad Company at Atari Mania
1990 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Logotron games
Rail shooters
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by David Whittaker
Vectordean games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election%20security | Election cybersecurity or election security refers to the protection of elections and voting infrastructure from cyberattack or cyber threat – including the tampering with or infiltration of voting machines and equipment, election office networks and practices, and voter registration databases.
Cyber threats or attacks to elections or voting infrastructure could be carried out by insiders within a voting jurisdiction, or by a variety of other actors ranging from nefarious nation-states, to organized cyber criminals to lone-wolf hackers. Motives may range from a desire to influence the election outcome, to discrediting democratic processes, to creating public distrust or even political upheaval.
Legislation and policy best practices
A variety of experts and interest groups have emerged to address voting infrastructure vulnerabilities and to support democracies in their security efforts. From these efforts have come a general set of policy ideas for election security, including:
Transition from black-box proprietary voting systems to transparent open-source voting systems
Implement universal use of paper ballots, marked by hand and read by optical scanner, ensuring a voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT).
Pass voter machine certification requirements that, for example, phase out touch-screen voting machines – especially the most vulnerable direct-recording electronic (DRE) devices and follow recommendations like those by the US Election Assistance Commission.
Verify voting results by requiring election officials to conduct risk-limiting audits, a statistical post-election audit before certification of final results.
Ballot accounting and reconciliation to ensure all ballots are accounted for
Give voters an opportunity to fix any mistakes that would otherwise get their ballots thrown out
Ban electronic voting
Secure all voting infrastructure from databases to equipment using cyber hygiene tools such as the CIS “20 Critical Security Controls” or NIST's Cybersecurity Framework.
Provide resources, training and information-sharing to election leaders for cyber maintenance and on-going monitoring.
Designate elections as critical infrastructure and provide appropriate funding to implement infrastructure upgrades, audits, and cyber hygiene measures.
Pre-election logic and accuracy testing to check for equipment malfunctions
Institute a pre-election threat assessment plan to bolster technical support capacity for election officials requesting assistance.
Call upon outside experts to conduct cyber assessments – government specialists, white-hat hackers, cybersecurity vendors and security researchers – where needed.
Role of white hat hackers
The "white hat" hacker community has also been involved in the public debate. From July 27–30, 2017, DEFCON – the world's largest, longest running and best-known hacker conference – hosted a “Voting Machine Hacking Village” at its annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada to highlight election security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Population%20Commission | National Population Commission (NPC) is the principal data mining commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, responsible for collecting, collating, analysing and publishing data about the Nigerian people (its population) and economy. The commission is under the supervision of the Office of the Presidency (Nigeria), and its head is appointed by the President of Nigeria.
The commission is currently headed by Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra.
Organizational structure
The Commission is composed of a policy-making body consisting of 37 Federal Commissioners who are organized into different Standing Committees. The Commission is led by a Chairman, while the administrative head is the Director-General. Departments within the Commission include Cartography, Census, Finance & Accounts, Human Resources and Administration, ICT, Audit, Population Management and Development, Planning and Research, Population Studies, Public Affairs, Procurement, Special Duties, Vital Registration, and Legal Services, General Services.
The State offices are headed by the State Directors who are the administrative heads. Departments in the states are: Technical Unit, Vital Registration, Human Resource, and Management and Public Affairs.
At the Local Government Area level, Comptrollers serve as liaisons between the office, traditional institutions, and local government authorities. The Commission's Secretariat and Internal Audit are both under the office of the Chairman.
Substantive chairmen of National Population Commission
Below is a list of substantive chairmen of the National Population Commission of Nigeria.
List of federal commissioners
Below is a list of all the present 37 federal commissioners who make up the policy-making body of the National Population Commission.
History
The National Population Commission (NPC) is a Nigerian government agency established by Section 140 (1) of the 1979 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. However, it was suspended on 31 December 1983, following a military takeover of the democratically elected government of Nigeria. The commission was re-established by the National Population Commission Decree No. 23 of 1989, which is now known as the National Population Act, CAP – No_67, Law of the Federal Government of Nigeria (LFN) 2004. The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), under section 153 (i) (j) and part of (i) (j) of the third Schedule to the Constitution, and Births, Deaths, etc. (Compulsory Registration) Act, CAP B9, LFN 2004.
The Commission has the statutory powers to collect, analyse and disseminate population and demographic data in the country. It is also mandated to undertake demographic sample surveys, compile, collate and publish migration and civil registration statistics as well as monitor the country's population policy.
Prior to 1979, the Commission was known as the National Census Board, and conducted the 1973 Census. It was headed by Justice Adetokunbo Ademola. It was a temporal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20Me%20the%20Movie%21 | Show Me the Movie! was a weekly Australian television comedy panel show, which premiered on Network 10 on 22 March 2018 and ran until 28 March 2019. The program was hosted by Rove McManus who, with team captains Joel Creasey, Jane Harber (2018) and Brooke Satchwell (2019), and a panel of actors, comedians and international guests, contested a series of rounds. The title was a play on the iconic movie line, "show me the money", spoken by Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire.
Cast
Rove McManus - Host
Joel Creasey - Team Captain
Jane Harber - Team Captain (2018)
Brooke Satchwell - Team Captain (2019)
Production
In May 2018, the series was renewed for a second season. Rove McManus returned as host, as did team captain Joel Creasey, with newcomer Brooke Satchwell as the other captain. Season 2 premiered on 8 February 2019.
Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2019)
References
Network 10 original programming
2010s Australian comedy television series
2010s Australian game shows
2018 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Augusta%2C%20Georgia | The City of Augusta, Georgia has an expansive transport network. It consists of two airports, various road bridges, national and local bus service, a highway and street network, freight train service, and boat tours and marinas.
Airports
Augusta Regional Airport
Augusta is served by Augusta Regional Airport, formerly known as "Bush Field" (and still referred to as such on highway signs). It is located approximately south of downtown, on Doug Barnard Parkway. It is a relatively small airport, especially when compared to more major airports, such as Atlanta's Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It has one concrete and one asphalt runway. It opened in 1941 as a training facility for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC; the predecessor of the United States Air Force). It became the commercial airport for the city in 1950. In 2000, the facility was renamed "Augusta Regional Airport at Bush Field".
Daniel Field
Daniel Field is a public use airport. It is located approximately west of downtown, at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Wrightsboro Road. This airport is owned by the City of Augusta. It has two asphalt runways. It was dedicated in late 1927. During World War II, it also served as a training facility of the USAAC, and was known as "Daniel Army Airfield". At the end of 1945, it was returned to civilian use.
Named bridges
Bus service
National bus service
Southeastern Stages serves Augusta, via a bus station on Broad Street. There is also an intercity bus station on Fort Gordon. Greyhound Lines also uses this bus station. The public can access the Army base for certain events and services, such as utilizing this station. They have to provide proper identification.
Public transit
The city has an extensive system of bus service. Augusta Transit operates nine routes throughout the area. These routes are:
Walton Way
West Parkway
East Augusta
Turpin Hill
Washington Road
Gordon Highway
Augusta Mall
Barton Chapel
Lumpkin Road
Highways and streets
Augusta has an extensive highway and street network. It consists of two Interstate Highways, four U.S. Highways, ten state highways, and many streets, both major and minor.
Numbered highways
Major local streets
Numbered streets
Rail service
The January 2008 draft of the Freight Profile for the Augusta Regional Transportation Study indicates that rail cargo accounts for 7% of all freight in the region by weight (2006 TRANSEARCH). Some of the leading commodities shipped out of Augusta are clay, concrete, glass, and stone products. The leading commodity terminating in the area is lumber and wood products.
At-grade railroad crossings are located on many roads throughout the city. The crossings have been a part of city life for many years. Solutions have been sought to reduce the inevitable conflicts between railroad, motor vehicle, and pedestrian traffic. The availability of rail service is a major attraction for new industry and maintaining existing industry.
Passenger se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quezon%20Eco-Tourism%20Road | The Quezon Eco-Tourism Road is a , two-to-eight lane scenic road in the province of Quezon, Philippines.
The road forms part of National Route 422 (N422) of the Philippine highway network. Previously, the road was originally unnumbered as a barangay road at the time of completion.
Route description
After experiencing delays due to right-of-way issues, it finally opened to traffic in March 2016, the road bypasses the town propers of Candelaria and Sariaya and runs mostly in parallel to the southern coast of Quezon. It starts from Rosario–San Juan–Candelaria Road in the west and ends at the Lucena Diversion Road (Maharlika Highway) in Lucena. Travelers from Batangas shortens the travel time as an alternate route to the Bicol Region. Along the roadway, it is a scenic road—where it passes the agricultural land and plantations in the Quezon province.
The road is currently being extended to the north towards Tayabas and to the west to San Antonio via the Quezon Eco-Tourism-Sariaya-Candelaria-Tiaong-San Antonio Road.
Intersections
References
Roads in Quezon
Transportation in Quezon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator%20Salvation%3A%20The%20Machinima%20Series | Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series is an American computer animated science-fiction action web series and is part of the Terminator franchise. The series premiered on Machinima on May 18, 2009 and concluded on June 24, 2009. Taking place between the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation, the series was created using real-time computer animation from the video game and serves as a prequel to the game.
It was released on DVD on November 3, 2009.
Production
The web series is written by Andy Shapiro and co-directed by Tor Helmstein. Moon Bloodgood, who appeared in the 2009 film, provided her voice for the film's character Blair Williams in the series and the video game of the same name. Explained by McG, director of Terminator Salvation: "From a film maker's point of view, Machinima provides an incredibly dynamic way to explore live worlds and tell compelling new stories". The video game creator and Halcyon Games president Cos Lazouras said: "Re-purposing our game to produce the very first dramatic series in this medium is a fantastic innovation and will become the norm for game makers in the future". Diane Nelson, president of Warner Bros.: "After meeting with McG and Halcyon's creative teams we could easily see the power and potential of this type of content. The combination of McG and the Game maker's creative talent and the inherent essence of the man vs. machine concept made for a natural feature-length story".
Premise
Set in 2016, years after Judgment Day, the series follows Blair Williams, who is fighting the war against the machines in downtown Los Angeles, while tracking down the computer hacker Laz Howard and trying to persuade him to join sides with the resistance.
Cast
Moon Bloodgood as Blair Williams
Cam Clarke as Laz Howard
Jim Meskimen as Command
Episodes
References
External links
2009 web series debuts
2009 web series endings
American adult animated action television series
American adult animated adventure television series
American adult animated science fiction television series
American adult animated web series
American science fiction web series
YouTube original programming
Fiction set in 2016
Action adventure web series
Interquel television series
Prequel television series
Terminator (franchise) mass media
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television series by Wonderland Sound and Vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC%20TV | NSC TV is a Brazilian regional television network that operates in the state of Santa Catarina. The network, whose acronym stands for Nossa Santa Catarina (English: "Our Santa Catarina"), is an affiliate of Rede Globo.
NSC TV owns six affiliates in Santa Catarina, and the network's headquarters is in Florianópolis.
History
Beginning in 1979, Grupo RBS was the owner of six Rede Globo-affiliated television stations in Santa Catarina; those affiliates were operated as part of the RBS TV network. However, in 2011, Grupo RBS began to experience financial problems when its employees began to be detained for crimes against the country's national financial system as part of Operation Zelotes. Over the next four years, the group terminated the contracts of dozens of employees and rumors began to build about a potential sale of RBS TV's affiliates.
On March 7, 2016, RBS announced that its affiliates that are based in Santa Catarina would be sold to a new ownership group headed by the owner of Grupo NC. The sale was approved by CADE on July 15.
In October 2016, Grupo NC began to drop all instances of the RBS TV name from its newly acquired television affiliates. On August 15, 2017, those affiliates formed a new regional network under the name NSC TV.
Broadcasters
Local programs
Bom Dia Santa Catarina (local version of Bom Dia Brasil)
Jornal do Almoço
Globo Esporte SC (local version of Globo Esporte)
NSC Notícias
References
External links
Official website
Television networks in Brazil
Santa Catarina (state)
TV Globo affiliates
1979 establishments in Brazil
Television channels and stations established in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%27s%20Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202017 | The Japan's Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in Japan. The data is published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information on performance. For 2017, the list was published on December 8.
Year-end list
References
Billboard charts
2017 in Japanese music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Onthophagus%20species | This is a list of 2257 species in the genus Onthophagus. The species and subgenera reflect the Catalog of Life and the World Scarabaeidae Database (2023).
Onthophagus species
Genus Onthophagus Latreille, 1802
Subgenus Afrostrandius Moretto, 2009
Onthophagus adspersus Orbigny, 1908
Onthophagus bimetallicus Orbigny, 1907
Onthophagus demeyeri Moretto, 2009
Onthophagus granulipennis Lansberge, 1886
Onthophagus loxodontaphilus Moretto, 2009
Onthophagus plebejus Klug, 1855
Onthophagus pseudoplebejus Moretto, 2009
Onthophagus tigrinus Orbigny, 1908
Subgenus Altonthophagus Kabakov, 1990
Onthophagus cervenkai Kabakov, 2008
Onthophagus concolor Sharp, 1878
Onthophagus cupreiceps Arrow, 1907
Onthophagus inelegans Balthasar, 1935
Onthophagus kozlovi Kabakov, 1990
Onthophagus kukunorensis Kabakov, 1990
Onthophagus marmotae Kabakov, 1990
Onthophagus sibiricus Harold, 1877
Onthophagus tibetanus Arrow, 1907
Onthophagus turpidoides Kabakov, 2008
Onthophagus turpidus Reitter, 1887
Onthophagus uniformis Heyden, 1886
Subgenus Amphionthophagus Martín-Piera & Zunino, 1983
Onthophagus falzonii Goidanich, 1926
Onthophagus melitaeus (Fabricius, 1798)
Onthophagus numidicus Orbigny, 1908
Subgenus Bicornonthophagus Tagliaferri & Moretto, 2012
Onthophagus auriculatus Klug, 1855
Onthophagus beiranus Péringuey, 1908
Onthophagus cornifrons Thomson, 1858
Onthophagus decorsei Orbigny, 1908
Onthophagus emeritus Péringuey, 1901
Onthophagus latestriatus Orbigny, 1908
Onthophagus reticulatus Orbigny, 1902
Onthophagus rotundibasis Orbigny, 1902
Subgenus Colobonthophagus Balthasar, 1935
Onthophagus aenescens (Wiedemann, 1823)
Onthophagus agnus Gillet, 1925
Onthophagus armatus Blanchard, 1853
Onthophagus arunensis Scheuern, 1995
Onthophagus bengalensis Harold, 1886
Onthophagus bison Boucomont, 1919
Onthophagus caprai Frey, 1956
Onthophagus dama (Fabricius, 1798)
Onthophagus ephippioderus Arrow, 1907
Onthophagus hindu Arrow, 1931
Onthophagus lahorensis Kabakov, 2008
Onthophagus lunatus Harold, 1868
Onthophagus metalliceps Arrow, 1931
Onthophagus nagasawai Matsumura, 1938
Onthophagus neocolobus Scheuern, 1996
Onthophagus occipitalis Lansberge, 1885
Onthophagus paliceps Arrow, 1931
Onthophagus pardalis (Fabricius, 1798)
Onthophagus piceorufulus Kabakov, 1994
Onthophagus piffli Petrovitz, 1961
Onthophagus poggii Scheuern, 1996
Onthophagus quadridentatus (Fabricius, 1798)
Onthophagus ramosellus Bates, 1891
Onthophagus ramosus (Wiedemann, 1823)
Onthophagus shillongensis Scheuern, 1995
Onthophagus thai Kabakov, 1994
Onthophagus tragoides Boucomont, 1914
Onthophagus tragus (Fabricius, 1792)
Onthophagus transquadridentatus Scheuern, 1995
Onthophagus triceratops Arrow, 1913
Onthophagus urellus Boucomont, 1919
Subgenus Cryptonthophagus Dierkens, 2022
Onthophagus convexipennis Dierkens, 2022
Onthophagus flavipleurus Dierkens, 2022
Onthophagus granulopygu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Pie | Android Pie (codenamed Android P during development), also known as Android 9 (API 28) is the ninth major release and the 16th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as a developer preview on March 7, 2018, and was released publicly on August 6, 2018.
On August 6, 2018, Google officially announced the final release of Android 9 under the title "Pie", with the update initially available for current Google Pixel devices, and releases for Android One devices and others to follow "later this year". The Essential Phone was the first third-party Android device to receive an update to Pie, notably coming day-and-date with its final release. The Sony Xperia XZ3 was the first device with Android Pie pre-installed.
As of July 2023, 7.56% of all Android devices ran Android Pie, whose final security update was released on January 4, 2022.
History
Android Pie, then referred to as "Android P", was first announced by Google on March 7, 2018, and the first developer preview was released on the same day. The second preview, the first beta release, was released on May 8, 2018. The third preview, called Beta 2, was released on June 6, 2018. The fourth preview, called Beta 3, was released on July 2, 2018. The final beta of Android P was released on July 25, 2018.
Custom distributions
There are, as of August 2019, a handful of notable custom Android distributions (ROMs) of 9 Pie.
Features
User experience
Android Pie utilizes a refresh of Google's "material design" language, unofficially referred to as "Material Design 2.0". The revamp provides more variance in aesthetics, encouraging the creation of custom "themes" for the base guidelines and components rather than a standardized appearance. Bottom-aligned navigation bars are also more prominent. As applied to Android Pie's interface, rounded corners (influenced by the proprietary Google theme used by in-house software implementing Material Design 2.0) are more prominent. In addition, Pie contains official support for screen cutouts ("notches"), including APIs and system behaviors depending on their size and position. Android certification requirements restrict devices to two cutouts, which may only be along the top or bottom of the screen.
The most significant user interface change on Pie is a redesigned on-screen navigation bar. Unlike previous versions of Android, it only consists of a slim home button, and a back button rendered only when available. The bar utilizes gesture navigation: swiping up opens the "Overview" screen, a redesign of the existing recent apps menu. Swiping the handle to the right activates application switching. The gesture bar is used primarily on new devices such as the Pixel 3; existing devices may either use the previous navigation key setup or offer the ability to opt into gesture navigation. As opposed to the previous recent apps menu, Overview utilizes a horizontal layout rather than vertical, and text may also be selected and copied from apps app |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20models%20of%20social%20learning | Mathematical models of social learning aim to model opinion dynamics in social networks. Consider a social network in which people (agents) hold a belief or opinion about the state of something in the world, such as the quality of a particular product, the effectiveness of a public policy, or the reliability of a news agency. In all these settings, people learn about the state of the world via observation or communication with others. Models of social learning try to formalize these interactions to describe how agents process the information received from their friends in the social network. Some of the main questions asked in the literature include:
whether agents reach a consensus;
whether social learning effectively aggregates scattered information, or put differently, whether the consensus belief matches the true state of the world or not;
how effective media sources, politicians, and prominent agents can be in belief formation of the entire network. In other words, how much room is there for belief manipulation and misinformation?
Bayesian learning
Bayesian learning is a model which assumes that agents update their beliefs using Bayes' rule. Indeed, each agent's belief about different states of the world can be seen as a probability distribution over a set of opinions, and Bayesian updating assumes that this distribution is updated in a statistically optimal manner using Bayes' rule. Moreover, Bayesian models typically make certain demanding assumptions about agents, e.g., that they have a reliable model of the world and that the social learning rule of each agent is common knowledge among all members of the community.
More rigorously, let the underlying state be θ. This parameter could correspond to an opinion among people about a certain social, economic, or political issue. At first, each individual has a prior probability of θ which can be shown by P(θ). This prior could be a result of the agents' personal observations of the world. Then each person updates their belief by receiving some signal s. According to the Bayesian approach, the updating procedure will follow this rule:
where the term is the conditional probability over signal space given the true state of the world.
Non-Bayesian learning
Bayesian learning is often considered the benchmark model for social learning, in which individuals use Bayes' rule to incorporate new pieces of information to their belief. However, it has been shown that such a Bayesian "update" is fairly sophisticated and imposes an unreasonable cognitive load on agents which might not be realistic for human beings.
Therefore, scientists have studied simpler non-Bayesian models, most notably the DeGroot model, introduced by DeGroot in 1974, which is one of the very first models for describing how humans interact with each other in a social network. In this setting, there is a true state of the world, and each agent receives a noisy independent signal from this true value and communicates with other ag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Sager%20Weinstein | Lauren Sager Weinstein is the Chief Data Officer at Transport for London. She helps TFL use big data to optimise transport in London.
Early life and education
She grew up in Washington, D.C., in a family of engineers. Sager Weinstein completed a bachelor's of arts at Princeton University in 1995. She earned a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School in 2002. She met her husband, Jacob Sager Weinstein, whilst at Princeton University.
Career
Sager Weinstein worked as Field and Planning Deputy in Los Angeles where her husband was working as a screenwriter. She worked for the policy think-tank RAND Corporation. Based on this work, she published Return to Work in California Workers' Compensation in 2005. Sager Weinstein is interested in how transport networks influence cities and how they function.
Sager Weinstein began working for Transport for London in 2002 as a Senior Business Planner. She worked on the introduction of the Oyster card, London's contactless payment card system. She has held various roles at TFL, including Chief of Staff, Head of Oyster Development, Head of Analytics. She is the lead for data development. Over 30 million journeys are made on roads and public transport networks in London every day. TFL collect a significant range of data; including ticketing, bus journeys and records from SCOOT traffic detectors. They have a transparent approach to privacy. The big data sets help Sager Weinstein understand patterns and trends, helping customers travel across the network. TFL have an academic partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, looking to develop a big data solution to overcrowding on public transport.
Sager Weinstein established the first long-term funding packing for infrastructure investment at TFL. When Wandsworth Council were forced to close Putney Bridge for emergency repairs, Sager Weinstein set up a transport interchange and increased bus service on nearby routes to help passengers whose journeys might be affected. She provided the transport analysis which kept Londoners moving during the 2012 Summer Olympics. She led the TFL pilot using depersonalised WiFi Data for analysis. The WiFi connectivity pilot cost £100,000, but the data was worth £322 million. It revealed that passengers take more than 18 different routes when travelling between King's Cross St Pancras and Waterloo. Sager Weinstein published the report "Review of the TfL WiFi Pilot" in 2017.
In 2013 she spoke at the Big Data Analytics conference in London. She was listed in The Female Lead's 20 in Data & Technology.
References
People from Washington, D.C.
Princeton University alumni
American women engineers
American computer scientists
Harvard Business School alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century women engineers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foothills%20Christian%20Schools | Foothills Christian Schools (FCS) is a private Christian school network in San Diego County, California, covering grades preschool-12.
Schools
Schools in the network:
Foothills Christian Preschool - El Cajon
Foothills Christian School (K-5) - Lakeside
Foothills Christian Middle School - El Cajon
Foothills Christian High School - El Cajon
Athletics
Basketball coach Brad Leaf has coached the Foothills Christian High School boys basketball team to seven titles through 2020. In 2016 he was named California Interscholastic Federation Coach of the Year.
In basketball, T. J. Leaf attended the school, and played basketball under his father. As a junior, Leaf led Foothills Christian to the San Diego Section Division II championship. Cal-Hi Sports named him their Division II State Player of the Year. In his senior year, Leaf led the team to a No. 3 state ranking. Leaf finished his high school career second all-time in the San Diego Section in both points (3,022) and rebounds (1,476).
Notable alumni
Jaylen Hands, NBA G League basketball player
T. J. Leaf, Israeli-American NBA basketball player for the Indiana Pacers
Notable faculty
Brad Leaf, American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon and Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israel Premier League, coach
References
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Foothills Christian Schools
Christian schools in California
Private elementary schools in California
Private middle schools in California
Private high schools in California
Education in El Cajon, California
High schools in San Diego County, California
Schools in San Diego County, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Porter%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Thomas K. Porter is the senior vice president of production strategy at Pixar and one of the studio's founding employees.
Professional life
After receiving a master's degree in computer science at Stanford University in 1975, Porter worked at the National Institutes of Health on computer visualization of molecular models and wrote software at Ampex for the world's first commercial digital paint program, AVA.
Porter joined Lucasfilm's Computer Research and Development Division in early 1981. He and Tom Duff, another Lucasfilm employee, developed a new approach to compositing images; their 1984 paper, "Compositing Digital Images", is "[t]he seminal work on an algebra for image compositing", according to Keith Packard. "Porter-Duff compositing" is now a key technique in computer graphics.
Porter is listed as one of Pixar's 40 founding employees at the time of its spin-out as a corporation with funding from Steve Jobs in 1986.
Porter expanded on Robert L. Cook’s research into Monte Carlo techniques for image rendering, sampling visible objects not just (spatially) within each pixel but also (temporally) throughout the interval of time that the virtual shutter is open, creating a general solution for motion blur in computer-generated imagery. Porter created the image ‘1984’ as visual proof (and timestamp) of the breakthrough.
Porter's son, Spencer, was the inspiration for Luxo Jr., Pixar's mascot and the protagonist of the short film of the same name. Porter brought his infant son Spencer to work one day and John Lasseter, playing with the child, became fascinated with his proportions. It struck Lasseter as humorous that a baby's head is huge compared with the rest of its body, and he began to model a young lamp with that in mind.
Porter has received three Academy Scientific and Technical Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work with motion blur, digital compositing, and digital painting.
Porter worked on several Pixar films, notably as Supervising Technical Director of Monsters, Inc. and as associate producer of Cars and WALL-E, before assuming the role of SVP of film production at the studio.
Porter has an Erdős number of 3 in two distinct paths. One path is through Tom Duff, Porter's coauthor of "Composting Digital Images" in Computer Graphics. Duff was a coauthor of "Minimal-Energy Clusters of Hard Spheres" in Discrete & Computational Geometry with John Horton Conway and Conway coauthored "On the Distribution of Values of Angles Determined by Coplanar Points" with Paul Erdős (and H.T Croft and M.J.T Guy) in Journal of London Mathematical Society. The other path is through István Simon, Porter's coauthor on "Random Insertion into a Priority Queue Structure" in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Simon was a coauthor of "Repeated Random Insertion into a Priority Queue" in Journal of Algorithms with Béla Bollobás. Bollabás authored 18 papers with Paul Erdős, including "On the structure of edge graphs" an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Ellingson | Pat Ellingson is a Canadian television producer. consultant and executive. The head of children's programming at TVOntario from 1998 until her retirement in 2015, she played a prominent role in the development and expansion of the network's efforts in multiplatform digital media production, and was a producer or executive producer of shows such as Dino Dan, The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, Wild Kratts, Annedroids, This Is Daniel Cook, Peep and the Big Wide World, Gisèle’s Big Backyard, Reading Rangers, Super Citizens and Tumbletown Tales. She won a Gemini Award in 2006 as producer of Gisele's Big Backyard.
At the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television named Ellingson the winner of its Outstanding Media Innovation Award.
References
Canadian television producers
Canadian television executives
Living people
Canadian Screen Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian women television producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20child%20abuse | Online child abuse is a unique form of child abuse also known as “Cyber Molestation” due to its virtual, distanced, and anonymous nature. Such abuse may not happen face-to-face, nor does it necessarily require physical contact. However, online abuse can result in negative face-to-face consequences in the form of statutory rape, forcible sexual assault, harassment, etc. In the United States, online child abuse is recognized as a form of child abuse by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Online abuse of children can occur through a variety of forms. Including, but not limited, to cyber-bullying, grooming, and sexual abuse. Such abuse requires the use of the World Wide Web or cellphones, increasing its significance in an increasingly technological world. The perpetrator of such online abuse may be a stranger or someone who is previously known by the victim.
A report by the Data & Society Research Institute and the Center for Innovative Public Health Research showed that 72% of U.S. Internet users have witnessed some form of online harassment or abuse, while 47% have personally experienced it. This study found no distinction between genders with respect to harassment, but deduced that women were at risk for a wider variety of online abuse.
Governments across the world have acknowledged the importance of recognizing and combating online abuse of children. In the United States this effort is led by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. This task force consists of 61 individual task forces engaging with 4,500 federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies all with the goal of combating online abuse of children.
Cyber-bullying
Cyber-bullying, or Internet bullying, occurs when an individual or group electronically distributes negative, false, or otherwise harmful content about an individual or group using personal or private information that causes humiliation or distress to that individual. Cyber-bullying can happen through the use of any device that is able to connect to the Internet (desktop, mobile devices, gaming devices, etc.) of cellphones and does not require the perpetrator to be in the same vicinity of the victim.
Cyber-bullying is especially prevalent among children as an extension of bullying within schools. A Canadian research study found that children who were victims of cyber-bullying and also bullied in school were more likely to bully others over cyberspace.
Prevalence
Studies show a rising trend in online bullying. Although it remains the least-reported form of bullying it is relatively hidden and believed to be under-reported. Because victims often cannot evade cyber-bullies, they may harbor feelings of guilt, incompetence or despair. Upwards of 37% of victims of cyber-bullying do not report their abuse. According to statistics of cyber-bullying from the i-SAFE Foundation, more than 50% of adolescents have been the victims of cyber-bullying, where one-third of them have been threatened |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Bernecky | Robert (Bob) Bernecky is a Canadian computer scientist notable as a designer and implementer of APL. His APL career started at I.P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) in 1971.
Bernecky's first published APL work concerned with speeding up the iota and epsilon (index-of and membership) primitives functions by orders of magnitude. While at IPSA, he was a colleague of Roger Hui, Dick Lathwell, Eugene McDonnell, Roger Moore, Arthur Whitney, and APL inventor Ken Iverson.
He continued on after IPSA was acquired by Reuters on 1987-04-01, and left Reuters in 1990 to found Snake Island Research. He conducts research into functional array languages, APL compiler, and parallel-processing technology to this day.
Bernecky holds the Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
References
External links
Snake Island Research Inc.
Living people
APL implementers
California Institute of Technology alumni
Canadian computer scientists
I. P. Sharp Associates employees
Programming language designers
University of Toronto alumni
1947 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thlewiaza%20River | The Thlewiaza River is a river in Canada. Although some sources define the river as originating out of Nueltin Lake, according to the Canadian Geographical Names Database the river begins at Snyder Lake in northwestern Manitoba. From there the river flows northeast through Kasmere Lake into the southwest end of Nueltin Lake. It exits Nueltin Lake at its northern end in Nunavut and flows east through Edehon Lake and Ranger Seal Lake before emptying into Hudson Bay. Its drainage basin covers an area of .
The river's name in Chipewyan is Łuazedes (pronounced thlu-assee-des), meaning "little fish river", in reference to the plentiful grayling in its waters. It is known to the Inuit as the "big river" and used by them to travel inland where they trap arctic foxes and hunt caribou. A sighting of harbour seals at Edehon Lake has been documented and sightings further upstream at Nueltin Lake have also been reported.
The Thlewiaza was first mapped in 1912 by Ernest Oberholtzer and Billy Magee, an Ojibwe trapper. There are no permanent settlements in the area.
References
Rivers of Kivalliq Region
Rivers of Manitoba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daranagama%20Kusaladhamma%20Thero | Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero (29 July 1963 – 3 March 2018) () was a Sri Lankan Sinhalese Buddhist monk who founded the first Sri Lankan Buddhist media network and the television channel, The Buddhist. He served as the chief incumbent of the Colombo Sri Sambodhi Viharaya and the Sambodhi Community Development Foundation in London. He died on 3 March 2018 at the age of 54.
Biography
Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero was born on 29 July 1963 in Daranagama. He got the prefix name of "Daranagama" which was his birthplace. He educated at the Royal College, Colombo and received his master's degree at the University of Kelaniya.
Buddhist TV network
He went onto launch The Buddhist media network on 15 May 2011 with The Buddhist radio transmission. Ven. Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero was instrumental in launching Sri Lanka's first primary Buddhist channel in January 2012 under the title The Buddhist.
Death
After suffering from illness, Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero died on 3 March 2018 when he was 54 years old. His funeral took place at the Sports Ministry Ground at the Independence Square.
As a result of his death, the annual Big Match between Royal College and St. Thomas College, which is known as Royal-Thomian clash (Battle of the Blues), was postponed to 9 March 2018 as he was a past pupil of the Royal College.
See also
Buddhism in Sri Lanka
The Buddhist
Shraddha TV
Global Buddhist Network
References
1963 births
2018 deaths
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks
Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhists
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20fluid | An active fluid is a densely packed soft material whose constituent elements can self-propel. Examples include dense suspensions of bacteria, microtubule networks or artificial swimmers. These materials come under the broad category of active matter and differ significantly in properties when compared to passive fluids, which can be described using Navier-Stokes equation. Even though systems describable as active fluids have been observed and investigated in different contexts for a long time, scientific interest in properties directly related to the activity has emerged only in the past two decades. These materials have been shown to exhibit a variety of different phases ranging from well ordered patterns to chaotic states (see below). Recent experimental investigations have suggested that the various dynamical phases exhibited by active fluids may have important technological applications.
Terminology
The terms “active fluids”, “active nematics” and “active liquid crystals” have been used almost synonymously to denote hydrodynamic descriptions of dense active matter. While in many respects they describe the same phenomenon, there are subtle differences between them. “Active nematics” and “active liquid crystals” refers to systems where the constituent elements have nematic order whereas “active fluids” is the more generic term combining systems with both nematic and polar interactions.
Examples and observations
There are wide range of cellular and intracellular elements which form active fluids. This include systems of microtubule, bacteria, sperm cells as well as inanimate microswimmers. It is known that these systems form a variety of structures such as regular and irregular lattices as well as seemingly random states in two dimensions.
Pattern formation
Active fluids have been shown to organize into regular and irregular lattices in a variety of settings. These include irregular hexagonal lattices by microtubules and regular vortex lattice by sperm cells. From topological considerations, it can be seen that the constituent element in quasi stationary states of active fluids should necessarily be vortices. But very less is known, for instance, about the length scale selection in such systems.
Active turbulence
Chaotic states exhibited by active fluids are termed as active turbulence. Such states are qualitatively similar to hydrodynamic turbulence, by virtue of which they are termed active turbulence. But recent research has indicated that the statistical properties associated with such flows are quite different from that of hydrodynamic turbulence.
Mechanism and modelling approaches
The mechanism behind the formation of various structures in active fluids is an area of active research. It is well understood that the structure formation in active fluids is intimately related to defects or disclinations in the order parameter field (the orientational order of the constituent agents). An important part of research on active fluids i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoh%20Gitau | Dr. Shikoh Gitau (circa 1981) is a Kenyan computer scientist. She finished her undergraduate studies in Computer Science at the Africa Nazarene University and attained her PhD at University of Cape Town. She is known for inventing M-Ganga and Ummeli, mobile applications for promoting health and medicine and matching unemployed workers with employment opportunities. Gitau was the first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, received in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing based on her inventions and thesis. She contributes and manages the Technology Innovations for Inclusive Growth program, where she is presently employed in the Africa Development Bank (AfDB).
Early life
Gitau was born to a working-class family in Mathare. Soon after her birth, her family lost their property in Mathare in the aftermath of the 1982 Kenyan Coup D'état Attempt and were forced to settle with relatives in Nakuru. During her childhood in Nakuru, Gitau saw her first collegiate graduation ceremony on television. She credits witnessing a woman receive a PhD from then-president Daniel arap Moi during this broadcast with motivating her to pursue higher education.
Gitau completed her undergraduate studies at the Africa Nazarene University (ANU) in Nairobi. Her career at ANU was marked by academic excellence: she remained on the Honor Roll and Dean's List during all four years of her education, and earned the university's Merit and Leadership Awards in 2003 and 2005, respectively. After receiving her degree, she worked briefly as a UNICEF volunteer before taking a job as a program's assistant at the Centre for Multiparty Democracy, a Kenyan political activism group. She worked there until 2007, when she enrolled in the University of Cape Town to pursue an M.Sc. and subsequently a PhD in Computer Science.
Career
Gitau has worked in a plethora of different areas to benefit African development. Her most notable career achievement is her mobile application "Ummeli". This application, created in June 2010, matches unemployed people with employers in need of their skills. Due to its low cost and practical use, its potential to change unemployment in labor markets is very high. Umelli is available in South Africa now and is projected to become available in other African countries. In December 2010, Gitau started working for Google Inc's Emerging Markets where she "identified, researched and designed the www.beba.co.keconcept and worked on its introduction to Kenya’s Transit system". In January 2011, Gitau was a co-founder and research mentor for iHub_Research, where she was on the forefront of research on mobile internet usage in Africa and worked on the Microsoft oneApp project. Currently, Gitau works in the ICT department of the African Development Bank (AfDB) working on developing various projects with different governments across Africa.
Awards and Recognitions
On July 31, 2013, Gitau became one of three people to win the ABIE Change Agent A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustine%20Fotso | The Honorable Faustine Villanneau Chebou Kamdem Fotso born on the 12th of June, 1965, is a computer scientist, environmentalist, and lawyer from Cameroon.
Career
In 2012, Fotso was 1st Deputy Mayor of Baham, a town in Western Cameroon. In 2013, she was elected MP in the National Parliament Assembly, representing the highlands of the Western Region. She sits on the Constitutional Laws Committee and belongs to the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement.
Academic works
Fotso wrote the publication "Environmental Impact Study in French and Cameroonian Law" in 2009 as part of the Masters Program of International and Environmental Law at the University of Limoges.
Charitable works
Fotso is the founder of the charitable association "Flame of Love, of Peace and Justice" that had its inaugural meeting on September 20, 2016.
Awards
On May 20, 2016, Fotso was awarded the civilian medal to the rank of the officer of the order of value at the 44th National Day of Unity in Baham.
Personal life
Fotso is married to Lucas Fotso, regional director for the Cameroon electric company Aes Sonel Littoral. Together they have five children.
References
1965 births
Living people
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement politicians
Cameroonian environmentalists
Cameroonian lawyers
Cameroonian women lawyers
Members of the National Assembly (Cameroon)
Computer scientists
21st-century women lawyers
21st-century Cameroonian women politicians
21st-century Cameroonian politicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Paule%20Cani | Marie-Paule Cani (born 1965) is a French computer scientist conducting advanced research in the fields of shape modeling and computer animation. She has contributed to over 300 research publications having around 12000 citations.
In 2007, Cani received the national Irène Joliot-Curie Prize to acknowledge her actions in mentoring women in computer science. She wants to strengthen the presence of women in scientific careers and mentors doctoral students. She won the Eurographics Award in 2011 for her work in outstanding technical contributions to the creation of 3D content.
In 1999, Institut Universitaire de France awarded her with junior membership.
In 2019 she is elected at the French Academy of sciences.
Education
1987 M.Sc. in computer Science, Ecole Normale Supérieure & University Paris XI, France.
1990 Ph.D. in computer graphics, University Paris XI, France.
1995 Habilitation Computer Science, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble.
Positions held
In 2014, Cani became the chair of computer science at the Collège de France.
Since May 2017, Cani has been professor of computer science at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris-Saclay, France. Prior to this, she held the same position at Grenoble INP from 1997 where she was the head of the INRIA research group EVASION, part of Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, a joint lab of CNRS and Grenoble Université Alpes. She became a full Professor in 1997. For a period of five years, from 1993 to 1997, she served as an assistant professor at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. She started her academic career in 1990, as a lecturer at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
References
1965 births
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Learning%20Studio | Deep Learning Studio is a software tool that aims to simplify the creation of deep learning models used in artificial intelligence. It is compatible with a number of open-source programming frameworks popularly used in artificial neural networks, including MXNet and Google's TensorFlow.
Prior to the release of Deep Learning Studio in January 2017, proficiency in Python, among other programming languages, was essential in developing effective deep learning models. Deep Learning Studio sought to simplify the model creation process through a visual, drag-and-drop interface and the application of pre-trained learning models on available data.
Irving, TX-based Deep Cognition Inc. is the developer behind Deep Learning Studio. In 2017, the software allowed Deep Cognition to become a finalist for Best Innovation in Deep Learning in the Alconics Awards, which are given annually to the best artificial intelligence software.
Deep Cognition launched version 2.0 of Deep Learning Studio at NVIDIA's GTC 2018 Conference in San Jose, CA.
Fremont, CA-based computing products supplier Exxact Corp provides desktop computers specifically built to handle Deep Learning Studio workloads.
Features
Deep Learning Studio is available in two versions: Desktop and Cloud, both of which are free software. The Desktop version is available on Windows and Ubuntu. The Cloud version is available in single-user and multi-user configurations. A Deep Cognition account is needed to access the Cloud version. Account registration is free.
Deep Learning Studio can import existing Keras models; it also takes a data set as an input.
Deep Learning Studio's AutoML feature allows automatic generation of deep learning models. More advanced users may choose to generate their own models using various types of layers and neural networks.
Deep Learning Studio also has a library of loss functions and optimizers for use in hyperparameter tuning, a traditionally complicated area in neural network programming.
Generated models can be trained using either CPUs or GPUs. Trained models can then be used for predictive analytics.
Deep Learning Studio has been cited for being a user-friendly deep learning tool.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Artificial neural network
Data mining
Deep learning
Machine learning
Predictive analytics
References
External links
Official website
Official blog
Deep learning software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisions%20%28TV%20series%29 | is an anime television series directed by Gorō Taniguchi and animated by Shirogumi. The series aired from January to March 2019 on Fuji TV's +Ultra programming block.
Plot
Daisuke Dojima is a student who was kidnapped when he was a child. Now he and his friends are involved in one of the "Shibuya Drift" strange events, travelling 300 years into the future. There, the enemy known as "Revisions" fight using giant mechanical monsters. Daisuke and his friends are fighting to defeat the enemy and recover their present.
Characters
Daisuke is a 17-year old high school student at Seisho who has an extreme hero complex due to Milo telling him of his prophecy as a child, and grew up a strong believer of it.
Milo is an agent of AHRV from the year 2388 who assists the SDS in their battle against the Revisions. Her future self had encountered the SDS as children and told Daisuke of his prophecy, a time she would personally experience near the end of the series.
Gai is one of Daisuke's childhood friends and the twin brother of Lu. Officially, he is assigned to be the leader of the SDS
Lu is one of Daisuke's childhood friends and the twin sister of Gai.
Nicknamed Mari-mari, she is one of Daisuke's childhood friends and a member of SDS. Unlike the others, Mari-mari is originally very weak-willed, but she later overcomes this.
Keisaku is Daisuke's best friends and the only who accepts his hero complex, He's also a member of the SDS. Amongst the people in Shibuya who were transported to 2388, Keisuke came to the time period solely with his mother.
Chiharu is a member of the Revisions who eagerly awaits for her new body to complete.
Mukyu is a member of the Revisions.
Nicholas is a member of the Revisions and the main antagonist of the series. In public, he takes the form of a small and harmless teddy bear, however his true body has the frightening ability to control gravity and wreak major havoc.
Mikio is Daisuke's uncle.
Yumiko is a teacher at Seisho.
Kuroiwa is the police chief of Shibuya.
Muta is the Mayor of Shibuya. His ideals for survival highly differed from Kuroiwa, as he believed that negotiating with the Revisions would benefit them greatly.
Izumi is a police officer who works with SDS.
Anime
Fuji TV announced the series during a livestream event in March 2018. The series is directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Makoto Fukami and Taichi Hashimoto, with animation by studio Shirogumi. Character designs for the series are provided by Sunao Chikaoka and adapted for CG animation by Jun Shirai. Kazuhiko Takahashi serves as director of photography, Takamitsu Hirakawa is the CG director for the series, Jin Aketagawa is the sound director, Akari Saitō is the editor, and Azusa Kikuchi composes the series' music. Other staff includes Yōhei Arai (mecha design), Makoto Shirata (BG concept artist), Yutaka Ōnishi (matte paint director), Ryū Sakamoto (art, setting), and Akemi Nagao (color design). The opening th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20McDermid | John A. McDermid is a computer scientist and professor at the University of York, UK, and chairman of Rapita Systems Ltd. UK.
Education
McDermid received his undergraduate education at Cambridge University and later his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981.
Career
McDermid was with the UK Ministry of Defence as a research scientist and spent five years in the software industry.
He then moved to take up the position of chair in software engineering at the University of York since 1987.
He became head of Department of Computer Science for the years 2006-2012 and 2016-2017. He is author or editor of six books and has published over 370 papers. He was a vice president of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT from 2000 to 2003 and a founding member of the United Kingdom Computing Research Committee. He is a member of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council and the Rolls-Royce Electrical and Controls Advisory Board. He became chairman of Rapita Systems in January 2014.
Awards
He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and elected to Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a fellow of the BCS.
References
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Academics of the University of York
British computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Yuille | Alan Yuille (born 1955) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science with appointments in the departments of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Yuille develops models of vision and cognition for computers, intended for creating artificial vision systems. He studied under Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University on a PhD in theoretical physics, which he completed in 1981.
Biography
Alan Yuille obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1976, where he also earned his PhD in theoretical physics in 1981. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Yuille served as a research scientist first at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he stayed from 1982 until 1986, and then at Harvard University. Here, he was promoted to assistant professor of computer science in 1988 and associate professor in 1992. In 1995, he joined the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco as a senior research scientist. In 2002, he was appointed as a full professor in the department of statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles with joint appointments in the departments of computer science, psychiatry, and psychology. He also served as co-director of the UCLA Center for Cognition, Vision, and Learning. In 2016, Yuille joined Johns Hopkins University as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science. The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship program was established in 2013 by a gift from Michael Bloomberg to endow professors whose areas of expertise bridge traditional academic disciplines and promote cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. Yuille holds appointments in the department of cognitive science in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and in the department of computer science in the Whiting School of Engineering.
Research
Yuille develops mathematical models of vision and cognition that enable computers to reconstruct three-dimensional structures based on images or videos. His research interests include computational models of vision, mathematical models of cognition, medical image analysis, and artificial intelligence and neural networks. He directs the Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning (CCVL) research group at Johns Hopkins University. Yuille and the CCVL develop models for designing artificial vision systems to provide assistance for people with vision impairments; computational models of biological vision; computational models of cognition to study how humans and animals perform tasks such as learning and reasoning; and models for machine learning to interpret medical images.
Yuille is currently working on The Felix Project (named after the fictional potion Felix Felicis, which, in the world of Harry Potter, brings drinkers unusually good luc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism%20in%20United%20States%20college%20fraternities%20and%20sororities | Racism in United States college fraternities and sororities ("Greek life") has been linked to the experience of microaggressions, fewer opportunities to use the networking system built into Greek life, and harmful stereotypes. This fuels the experiences of people of color throughout their lives in various academic, work, and personal spaces, including Greek Life Organizations (GLOs). Many have argued that through the creation of these organizations, there has been a legacy of racism, which has fueled the elitist structure that has negatively impacted people of color the most.
History
Greek life has a long history of policies that have contributed to racism and lack of diversity in many Greek organizations, where fraternities are viewed as a place that "breeds snobbery, incubates hate, fosters foppery, reduces favoritism, and crushes individuality". In resistance to racism in GLOs, as far back as 1906, Black GLOs were founded. Members of other racial groups began to form their own fraternities and sororities. In 1912, the first Latino fraternity, Sigma Iota, was founded at Louisiana State University; in 1931, it merged to form Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest Latino fraternity. In 1948, the first MGLO fraternity was founded at the University of Toledo and the first Latina sorority were founded in 1975. In 1981, the first MGLO sorority was founded at Rutgers University. More MGLOs were founded “nationally and locally” the following years to continue as a “foundation transcending racial, national, and religious differences”. Soon after, Multicultural Greek Councils were formed to govern affiliated MGLOs, both national or local fraternities and sororities.
By the end of the 1960s, White Greek Life Organizations (WGLOs) eliminated official policies that prohibited race-based membership. However abolishing these clauses did not prevent GLOs from using other means of maintaining racist and exclusive practices. Following the elimination of explicitly racist policies, Greek organizations sustained their racist practices through more informal means of discrimination. This is often seen through forms of de facto segregation, white supremacist overtones at Greek parties and events, mock “slave auctions”, and accounts of white fraternity members dressing in “blackface”. For instance, several white fraternities have been found building homecoming floats with racist themes, staging racist skits, and holding parties with racist themes. Furthermore, in terms of de facto segregation, despite eliminating racially exclusionary policies, many white Greek life organizations failed to actively pursue and promote new members of color. Therefore, lack of diversity within Greek Life organizations remains relatively unchanged.
People of color continue to feel marginalized within these organizations. Because the foundations of Greek life were built on biased practices, WGLOs continue to provide a structure that enforces euro-centrism and conformity among its members. Altho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20and%20Valentino | Victor and Valentino is an American animated television series created by Diego Molano for Cartoon Network. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The series follows the titular duo, two half-brothers staying with their grandmother in the Mexican town of Monte Macabre, where they interact with supernatural beings that plague the town, many of whom are derived from Aztec, Olmec, and Mayan mythologies.
Molano later stated his excitement in "putting the "spotlight" on these cultures and in having more representation, calling the show "a baby step" in letting Latinos feel they are "part of this tapestry that’s America." Molano also called the series "a supernatural adventure comedy with some action elements," and stated that he loves how he can explore his "favorite subject" (mythology) by focusing on "Mesoamerican mythologies of pre-Hispanic indigenous people of the Americas."
On March 30, 2019, the show was greenlit for a full TV series, premiering simultaneously in the United States and Latin America. On July 15, the show was renewed for a second season which premiered on April 18, 2020. In February 2021, the show was renewed for a third season which premiered on September 4, 2021. In August 2022, the series was removed from HBO Max in the U.S.. Later, it was announced that the third season would be the final season of the show, with the series finale airing on August 26, 2022.
Synopsis
In the small quiet town of Monte Macabre, two total opposite half-brothers search about the town for adventure and find strange and supernatural happenings with the help of their supernatural grandmother.
Promotion, production, and release
The idea for the show originally started as a thesis project titled High Noon in Mexico in 2002 by Molano when he was a Maryland Institute College of Art student, where Victor and Valentino were part of a video game, along with a third brother named Vicente. In 2004, the idea took the name of "Victor, Valentino and Vicente." Years later, he revisited the project when interning for Titmouse, where he worked after graduating from MICA, and worked as a "clean-up artist" on Superjail!.
Being a Latin American folk-themed show, its pilot episode premiered directly on the channel on October 29, 2016 (two days before their local Day of the Dead). In this pilot, Molano voiced Victor, and planned on finding someone else. However, he decided to, ultimately, voice Victor in the main show. He later stated that he was, as a kid, just like Victor, thinking he could "do no wrong," and hoped the show would give a "good lesson for kids."
The main show itself, is produced at Cartoon Network's studio in Burbank, California. Molano noted that this is where all the writing, storyboarding, pre- and post-production is done, with 36 people working on pre-production, while the main production of the animation is done by two studios based in Seoul: SMIP Co., LTD. and Digital eMation, Inc. He further noted that the visual inspiration from the show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Hall%20Jennings | Helen Hall Jennings (September 20, 1905 – October 4, 1966) was a social psychologist and trailblazer in the field of social networks in the early 20th century. She developed quantitative research methods used to study sociometry, a quantitative method for measuring social relationships. This work is cited as being the birth of social network analysis.
Career
Jennings graduated from the New Jersey College for Women (now known as the Douglass Residential College at Rutgers University) in 1927 with a Bachelor of Letters degree.
Jennings pursued her graduate degree in psychology at Columbia University and specialized in empirical research design. While working in the lab of psychologist Gardner Murphy, she met Jacob L. Moreno. Through her knowledge of quantitative research methods and statistics, Jennings worked with Moreno to develop an empirical approach to social network research. Together they studied how "social relations affected psychological well-being” and “used quantitative methods for studying the structure of groups and the positions of individuals within groups."
Jennings and Moreno's research at Sing Sing and the New York Training School for Girls (also known as Hudson School for the Girls) "involved systematic data collection and analysis" and resulted in two published works: Application of the Group Method to Classification in 1932 and Who Shall Survive? A New Approach to the Problem of Human Interrelations in 1934. The approach of using quantitative data to study and measure relationships within groups of people resulted in the development of sociometry. Jennings and Moreno also became the first to use a stochastic network model (or, "chance sociogram", as they called it), predating the Erdős–Rényi model and the network model of Anatol Rapoport.
In 1931, Jennings received her Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. Her master's thesis was entitled "The nature of the pathetic." At that time she lived in Stelton, New Jersey. In 1943, Jennings completed her PhD thesis Leadership and Isolation: A Study of Personality in Interpersonal Relations, eventually published by Longman, Greens, and Company. Leadership and Isolation strove to examine how often-chosen leaders and isolates arise in a population. It was a continuation of analysis from the data collected at the New York Training School for Girls. Research participants were asked who they would like to work with and who they would like to live with. Eight months later, there was little change in the selected leaders and isolates.
Benjamin Karpman, a psychiatrist, describes the importance of Jennings's research in a review of the first edition of Leadership and Isolation for the Journal of Clinical Psychology. Karpman closes his review encouraging all psychiatrists to read Jennings’ book, stating, "it offers the most profound analysis of leadership and isolation in the social process this reviewer has discovered in the field of social psychology."
A second edition of Leade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C5%BEe%20Tomi%C4%87 | Anže Tomić is a Slovenian journalist best known for his podcast network Apparatus. He worked for Slovenian weekly magazine Monitor covering mobile technology. He is currently working as an online web editor at RTV Slovenija's Val 202 public radio
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He is known under various nicknames, most known being "Podcast Sultan", "Big Bird", and many more.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Zimmerman | Jill Loraine Zimmerman (born 23 March 1959) is an American computer scientist and the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College. Since 2006, she has been the head of the Goucher Robotics Lab.
Early life and education
Zimmerman is from Naperville, Illinois. While in high school in 1975, Zimmerman and her father built a computer with four kilobytes of memory after being inspired by the January cover story of Popular Mechanics by Ed Roberts on building your own computers. Zimmerman later remarked that it was this same article that inspired Bill Gates.
In 1981, Zimmerman earned a Bachelor of Science with distinction in Computer and Informational Sciences with a minor in Mathematics from Purdue University. At graduation, she ranked among the top ten students in the School of Science and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. Upon enrolling in doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, Zimmerman was named a Corporate Associate Fellow. In 1990, she earned a doctorate in computer science, specializing in computational and recursion theory. Zimmerman completed her dissertation titled Classes of Grzegorczyk-Computable Real Numbers under her doctoral advisor Marian Pour-El.
Career
Zimmerman joined the faculty at Goucher College in 1990 as a visiting professor. She was the principal investigator for the "Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Scholarship Program" where she received $220,000 from the National Science Foundation to be conducted between January 2002 – December 2005. Zimmerman has run the Goucher Robotics Lab since 2006. She is the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College.
Personal life
In 1985, Zimmerman married computer science professor James Gil de Lamadrid.
Selected works
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear%20Data | Dear Data is a collection of postcards containing data recorded from the everyday lives of information designers Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Press on September 1, 2016 and in North America by Princeton Architectural Press on September 6, 2016.
Prior to this year-long collaboration, the co-authors had only met twice. The premise of this project was to test firsthand how well one could get to know someone through reading their data. Postcards were exchanged between them on a weekly basis with the data being represented through a drawing on one side and a detailed key or legend on the other. A few of the topics include: A Week of Negative Thoughts, A Week of A Workspace, and A Week of New Things. The project has surface similarities with the quantified self projects like designer Nicholas Felton's annual reports that quantify and represent life events like number of books read or place visited, but is more personal and less analytical, with hand-drawn illustrations replacing computer generated charts. It "paints a human portrait with data." Dear data is also, in a way, the opposite of Big Data, it is composed of representations little data about on the minutiae of individuals' lives.
The original post cards as well as several accompanying notebooks are now part of the permanent collection at the MoMa.
Reception
Dear Data won two 2015 Information is Beautiful Awards, the Most Beautiful Award as well as Gold in the Dataviz Project category. It was also a finalist for the Innovation By Design Awards 2016 and nominated for the Design Museum Beazley Designs of the Year 2016. While the book was not widely reviewed, reviewers were generally positive. Wired called the book "charming", saying it is "filled with hand drawn postcards and full-page spreads with insights about how it feels to keep a microscope on your life for an entire year." It averages over four (out of five) stars in its more than seven hundred reviews on the social reading site Goodreads.
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Penguin Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete%20Sicula | Rete Sicula (Sicilian Network) referred to all the railway lines in operation and under construction in Sicily which, following the 1885 Conventions, was assigned to the Società per le strade ferrate della Sicilia for operation.
History
The company, formed with mainly foreign capital by a banking group based in Rome, took the place of the previous companies that ran the island railway lines including the failed Vittorio Emanuele Company, which at the time of taking over had not yet completed the construction programme expected. In 1885 the Sicula Network covered a total of 597 km. The network was gradually integrated with the sections from Palermo to Catania and, in 1895, those between Messina and Fiumetorto of the Palermo - Messina line. At the end of 1896 it had reached 1,093 km. In March 1896 the Sicula Network owned 156 steam locomotives, 456 coaches, 90 baggage cars and 2019 goods wagons. The network was nationalized and incorporated into the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane in 1905.
Locomotives
The network was equipped with its own Office for the design of rolling stock. This designed the excellent FS Class 910 locomotive. From 1901 to 1905 the engineer Riccardo Bianchi was the general manager of the company operating the Sicula Network.
Ferries
The Sicula Network was connected to the Strait of Messina, in November 1893, with the obligation to make two daily ferry trips between Messina and Reggio Calabria. In addition, two daily ferry trips to Villa San Giovanni were established at the time of completion of the Southern Tyrrhenian Railways.
Other railways
Some lines were not part of the Rete Sicula. These included the Palermo - Marsala - Trapani line (operated from 5 June 1881 by the Società della Ferrovia Sicula Occidentale), the Ferrovia Circumetnea and the Palermo – Corleone railway.
References
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History of rail transport in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societ%C3%A0%20per%20le%20strade%20ferrate%20della%20Sicilia | The Società per le strade ferrate della Sicilia, better known as Rete Sicula (Sicilian Network) was a company for the construction and operation of the railway lines of Sicily.
History
The company was formed, mainly with foreign capital, by a banking group with headquarters in Rome, following the agreements of 1885 that divided the Italian railway network into three large corporate groups. It replaced the previous companies that ran the island railway lines, among which was the Vittorio Emanuele Company which, had entered a serious phase of financial difficulties that led to bankruptcy. At the time of the takeover, the planned construction programme had not yet been completed. At 1 May 1876, the length of the Sicilian railway network was 550 kilometres. The Palermo - Marsala - Trapani line came into operation on 5 June 1881 by the Società della Ferrovia Sicula Occidentale. In 1885 the entire Sicilian network extended for a total of 597 km. The newly established company continued its construction programme slowly. In 1895, the Palermo - Messina railway was finally completed and, at the end of 1896, the network of Sicilian railways had reached 1,093 km. From 1901 to 1905 the engineer Riccardo Bianchi was the general director of the company
Ferries
In November 1893, the company was given the concession for navigation by steam through the Strait of Messina, with the obligation to make two daily ferry trips between Messina and Reggio Calabria. Two daily ferry trips to Villa San Giovanni were established at the time of completion of the Southern Tyrrhenian Railway. In 1894 the company ordered a pair of ferry-boats, with paddle drive and steam engines, which entered service at the end of 1896 as train ferries. The two ferry-ships were the Scilla and the Cariddi. The regular ferry service of freight wagons between Messina and Reggio Calabria began in November 1899 and, on 1 August 1901, the company inaugurated the passenger ferry with two coaches of the Rome-Syracuse direct train.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Vander%20Zaag | Elizabeth Vander Zaag (born 21 June 1952) is a Canadian media artist, writer, and entrepreneur who has been working in video and computer arts since the 1970s. She is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Vander Zaag is considered a pioneer of digital media.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and included in exhibitions such as c.1983 that examine the history of video art.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Vander Zaag was born in Alliston, Ontario in 1952. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and film from the University of Western Ontario. She also studied creative electronics at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.
After moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1974, Vander Zaag briefly studied computer arts at Simon Fraser University in nearby Burnaby, British Columbia.
In 2007, she received her master's degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia. Her graduate thesis, Mother Tongue : a study of participant affect in an interactive installation, combines research in linguistics and human–computer interaction to further her understanding of the academic context of her interactive speech installations. Along with her graduate thesis, Vander Zaag produced an interactive video installation entitled Speaking Mother Tongues (2007).
Career
Between 1977 and 1980, Vander Zaag created the Digit Series, a videotape series that was featured on the cable television program The Gina Show by producer John Anderson. The Digit Series explored both gender and technology. The Digit Series has been included in exhibitions such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art in 2015.
In 1981 Elizabeth Vander Zaag produced Thru the Holes, a short video in which the fragmentation of the video screen was used as a filter for human presence.
This and other video works by Vander Zaag from the 1980-1990s are distributed by Video Out and V/Tape.
Thru the Holes has been included in a number of retrospective exhibitions.
SyntheticSound: An Experimental Music/Video Retrospective (2016) examined experimental video and music from the 1970s onward. It was curated by Alan Kollins for the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel festival in 2016 and screened in both Canada and Germany. Vander Zaag's work is included to illustrate experimentation with video processing occurring in the 1980s.
c.1983 (2012) examined the development of video art, and the ways in which artists such as Vander Zaag "critiqued the commodification of the art object through the expansion of the powers and capacities of the photographic image."
Vander Zaag's work Hot Chicks on TV (1986) was included in the exhibition Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988, curated by Susan Ditta at the National Gallery of Canada in 1989. There it was discussed in the context of women's history, representations of the female body, and relationship of the personal to the political.
In 2000, Elizabeth Vander Zaag's voice interactive installation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji%20Okamura | is the Supervising coach of the Cyberdyne Ibaraki Robots in the Japanese B.League.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber%20Settle | Amber Settle is an American computer scientist and professor of education and theory in the department of Computer Science at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She is known for her work in computer science education and her continuing service and leadership in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). She is also known for her work on computational thinking.
Education
She received a bachelor of science in mathematics and a bachelor of arts in German from the University of Arizona. She also received a master of science and a doctor of philosophy in theoretical computer science from the University of Chicago.
Career
She served on the SIGCSE Board for six years, during which she served as Treasurer for three. SIGCSE is the premier international organization for computer science educators serving over 2700 members from more than 60 countries.
She is served as Past Chair on the ACM SIGCSE Board from 2016-2019.
Awards and honors
In 2011, she was awarded the ACM Women Senior Member Award for her leadership, technical, and professional accomplishments.
In 2015, she received the DePaul School of Computing Spirit of Inquiry Award for her work on Computational Thinking across the Curriculum.
Selected publications
2002. Settle, Amber, and Janos Simon. Smaller solutions for the firing squad. Theoretical Computer Science 276.1-2 (2002): 83-109.
2014. Linda Mannila, Valentina Dagiene, Barbara Demo, Natasa Grgurina, Claudio Mirolo, Lennart Rolandsson, Amber Settle, Computational thinking in K-9 education, Proceedings of the working group reports of the 2014 on innovation & technology in computer science education conference, Pages 1–29, ACM, 2014.
2016. Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of the Impact of Pre-College Computing Activities on Choices of Major, ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016.
See also
SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian%20Docherty | Gillian Docherty is a British computer scientist and CEO of The Data Lab and Chair of Scotland's AI Alliance, which helps Scottish industry innovate through data science and artificial intelligence. Gillian promotes the use of Data to drive economic, societal and environmental benefits. She was appointed the first Chair of Scotland's AI Alliance in 2021, created to implement the activities of Scotland's AI Strategy,
Education
Docherty completed a computer science degree at the University of Glasgow.
Docherty has been awarded an honorary doctorate in technology from Robert Gordon University.
Career
Docherty joined IBM in 1993. She spent 22 years at IBM, working in technical sales, financial services, hardware and software. She was a UK senior executive and led the team responsible for driving IBM software propositions to Scottish clients.
Docherty became CEO of The Data Lab in June 2015. The Data Lab was established in 2014, and has since completed over 100 data science projects in Scotland, earning the economy more than £100 million. In March 2017 Docherty was described as one of The Scotsman's most influential women in technology. In 2015 she launched The Data Lab's MSc programme. She believes that Scotland will become a world-leading destination for data science. In 2016 she doubled the cohort of Data Lab sponsored Master course spaces to meet the rising demand in big data. The Data Lab has hubs in Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It has received funding of over £25m in funding from Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and Highland and Island's Enterprise.
In June 2017 she delivered a TEDx talk '"2037 - Who's leading? Who's following?". She won the 2017 CEO Of The Year at the ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards. She is Deputy President of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. In 2017 she was listed in the top 10 most influential data professionals in the UK. She has spoken at many events over the last few years including the Big Data Analytics conference and the Glasgow Business Summit.
Docherty was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to information technology and business.
Personal
Docherty is married with a daughter who appeared on stage with her during her TEDx talk.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Rescue%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of the American reality series Bar Rescue premiered on March 11, 2018 and ended on September 29, 2019 on Paramount Network (formerly Spike).
Experts
Jon Taffer – Host/Star/Bar Consultant
Chefs
Vic Vegas
Anthony Lamas
Jason Santos
Tiffany Derry
Michael Ferraro
Ryan Scott
Aaron McCargo Jr.
Kevin Bludso
Frank Pinello
Mixologists
Lisamarie Joyce
Jacob Forth
Rob Floyd
Mia Mastroianni
Shawn Ford
Phil Wills
Charity Johnston
Emily DeLicce
Ashley Clark
Derrick Turner
Brian Van Flandern
Alex Goode
Amy Koffsky
Tommy Palmer
Other experts
Jillian Schmitz – dance expert
Renae Lemmens – adult entertainment expert
Oscar Sidia – clinical professional counselor
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
Bar Rescue Updates — Unaffiliated site that keeps track of bars being open or closed and has updates for each bar
2018 American television seasons
2019 American television seasons
Bar Rescue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Markovi%C4%87 | Nina Marković is a Croatian-American physicist. Her work focuses on quantum transport in low-dimensional systems, superconductivity, nanostructures, and quantum computing. She received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. Marković worked at Delft University of Technology, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University before joining the Goucher College Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2015.
Education
In 1993, Marković earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Zagreb under advisor Boran Leontić. At University of Minnesota in 1998, she earned a doctorate in physics. She completed her thesis titled Transport properties and quantum phase transitions in ultrathin films of metals under her doctoral advisor Allen Goldman and received the Aneesur Rahman Award for best thesis. From 1998 to 2000, Marković conducted postdoctoral research at Delft University of Technology with Herre van der Zant and Hans Mooij (de). She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University where she conducted research with Michael Tinkham from 2000 to 2002.
Career
Marković joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 2003. She was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. In August 2004, she was awarded $99,999 from the National Science Foundation to conduct a study on quantum entanglement of electrons. She won a $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue research on electrical properties in nanometer scale materials in 2006. Marković was promoted to associate professor at Johns Hopkins in 2009. In August 2011, she was awarded $360,000 from NSF to conduct a study on Spin Control in One-Dimensional Quantum Dots. In the fall of 2015, Marković joined the Goucher College Department of Physics and Astronomy as an associate professor in 2015. In August 2015, she was awarded $430,371 from NSF to conduct a study on Designing Quantum Matter with Superconducting Nanowires.
She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Materials Research Society.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20JENESYS%20Japan-ASEAN%20U-16%20Youth%20Football%20Tournament | 2017 Japan – East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths (JENESYS) Japan-ASEAN U-16 Youth Football Tournament () was the second edition of the football tournament event promoted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan as part of the Japan Football Association's commitment to support the JENESYS exchange program. The tournament took place from 8 March until 12 March 2018.
Indonesia earned the champion title after beating Vietnam 1–0 in the final.
Qualified teams
There was no qualification and all entrants advanced to the final tournament. The following 10 teams from member associations of the ASEAN Football Federation and 2 teams from Japan entered the tournament.
Regulation
The rules were as follows.
Matches consist of two halves and each half is 40 minutes long
Each team will consist with male players under the age of 16
12 teams will be divided in 4 groups of 3 teams
Round robin group stage followed by play-offs to decide rankings
Each teams may select up to 18 players and 6 officials
Group stage
All matches played in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
Times listed are local (UTC+9:00)
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group stage second-place playoff
Fifth/sixth place playoff
Seventh/eighth place playoff
Group stage third-place playoff
Ninth/tenth place playoff
Eleventh/twelfth place playoff
Knockout phase
Semifinal
Third place playoff
Final
Statistics
Winner
Tournament teams ranking
This table will show the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.
References
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2018 in Japanese football |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiovisual%20Communicators | Audiovisual Communicators, Inc. is a Philippine radio network. Its main headquarters is located at the 17th Floor, Strata 200 Bldg., F. Ortigas Jr. Rd., Ortigas Center, Pasig. ACI operates stations across major cities in the Philippines under the Monster Radio branding.
ACI stations
References
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Philippine radio networks
Privately held companies of the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Singh%20%28scientist%29 | Mona Singh is a Professor of Computer Science in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.
Education
Singh was educated at Indian Springs School, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was awarded a PhD in 1996 for research supervised by Ron Rivest and Bonnie Berger.
Career and research
Singh's research interests are in computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics and their interfaces with machine learning and algorithms.
Awards and honors
Singh was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001. She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”.
She was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 “for contributions to computational biology, spearheading algorithmic and machine learning approaches for characterizing proteins and their interactions”.
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