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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indothais%20gradata | Indothais gradata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
References
External links
MNHN, Paris: syntype
Petit, de la Saussaye. (1850). Description de coquilles nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 1: 402-406, pl. 13.
Reeve, L. A. (1846). Monograph of the genus Purpura. In: Conchologia iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, Vol. 3. L. Reeve & Co., London. Pls. 1-13 and unpaginated text
Schepman M. M. (1919). On a collection of land- and freshwater Mollusca and a few marine Mollusca chiefly collected by Dr. H.A. Lorentz from New Guinea, the Aru Islands, Timor and Borneo. Nova Guinea. Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1912 et 1913 sous les auspices de A. Franssen Herderschee. Vol 8. Zoologie. pp 155-196, pls 4-8
gradata
Gastropods described in 1846 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%202018%20American%20television%20debuts | These shows premiered in 2018. The premiere dates may have changed depending on a variety of factors.
See also
2018 in American television network changes
2018 deaths in American television
2018 in American television
References
2018 in American television
2018-related lists
Mass media timelines by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAITSSS | BAITSSS (Backward-Averaged Iterative Two-Source Surface temperature and energy balance Solution) is biophysical Evapotranspiration (ET) computer model that determines water use, primarily in agriculture landscape, using remote sensing-based information. It was developed and refined by Ramesh Dhungel and the water resources group at University of Idaho's Kimberly Research and Extension Center since 2010. It has been used in different areas in the United States including Southern Idaho, Northern California, northwest Kansas, Texas, and Arizona.
History of development
BAITSSS originated from the research of Ramesh Dhungel, a graduate student at the University of Idaho, who joined a project called "Producing and integrating time series of gridded evapotranspiration for irrigation management, hydrology and remote sensing applications" under professor Richard G. Allen.
In 2012, the initial version of landscape model was developed using the Python IDLE environment using NARR weather data (~ 32 kilometers). Dhungel submitted his PhD dissertation in 2014 where the model was called BATANS (backward averaged two source accelerated numerical solution). The model was first published in Meteorological Applications journal in 2016 under the name BAITSSS
as a framework to interpolate ET between the satellite overpass when thermal based surface temperature is unavailable. The overall concept of backward averaging was introduced to expedite the convergence process of iteratively solved surface energy balance components which can be time-consuming and can frequently suffer non-convergence, especially in low wind speed.
In 2017, the landscape BAITSSS model was scripted in Python shell, together with GDAL and NumPy libraries using NLDAS weather data (~ 12.5 kilometers). The detailed independent model was evaluated against weighing lysimeter measured ET, infrared temperature (IRT) and net radiometer of drought‐tolerant corn and sorghum at Conservation and Production Research Laboratory in Bushland, Texas by group of scientists from USDA-ARS and Kansas State University between 2017 and 2020. Some later development of BAITSSS includes physically based crop productivity components, i.e. biomass and crop yield computation.
Rationale
The majority of remote sensing based instantaneous ET models use evaporative fraction (EF) or reference ET fraction (ETF), similar to crop coefficients, for computing seasonal values, these models generally lack the soil water balance and Irrigation components in surface energy balance. Other limiting factors is the dependence on thermal-based radiometric surface temperature, which is not always available at required temporal resolution and frequently obscured by factors such as cloud cover. BAITSSS was developed to fill these gaps in remote sensing based models liberating the use of thermal-based radiometric surface temperature and to serve as a digital crop water tracker simulating high temporal (hourly or sub-hourly) and spatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliographie%20de%20civilisation%20m%C3%A9di%C3%A9vale | The Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM) is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for the entire period from AD 300 to 1500. It aims to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography of monographs and listings of miscellany volumes published worldwide between 1958 and 2009. This way, it is compatible with the International Medieval Bibliography, which focuses on individual articles in journals and miscellany volumes.
The database currently comprises over 65,000 records on every aspect of the Middle Ages. The records are based on the bibliographical supplement to the Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, published by the Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM) at the University of Poitiers.
In 2004, the CESCM has joined forces with the IBM and Brepols Publishers. A joint interface enables the user to search simultaneously for articles in the IMB and monographs in the BCM.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
References
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Medieval studies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Bibliography%20of%20Humanism%20and%20the%20Renaissance | The International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR) is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering European culture and history for the 16th and 17th centuries. Its geographical scope extends outside Europe by including publications on European interactions with the wider world. Chronologically, it extends beyond the Renaissance through the inclusion of modern hermeneutics and reception studies.
The database currently comprises over 355,000 records on every aspect of the Renaissance humanist period. Annually, about 20.000 records are added. Publications in English, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Japanese are eligible for inclusion.
Between 1965 and 2013, the Bibliographie internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance was coordinated and published by Librairie Droz in Geneva, Switzerland. Brepols Publishers of Turnhout, Belgium, acquired the rights to the bibliography in 2013 and has since developed it into an online database.
References
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhildi%20Junction%20railway%20station | Bhildi Junction railway station is a major railway station in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western Railway network. Bhildi is a junction railway station having two line Bhildi-Gandhidham line, Bhildi-Samdari line and Bhildi-Patan line Bhildi Junction railway station is from . Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt here.
Nearby stations
Jasali is the nearest railway station towards , whereas Lorwada is the nearest railway station towards .
Trains
The following Express and Superfast trains halt at Bhildi Junction railway station in both directions:
22483/84 Gandhidham–Jodhpur Express
19151/52 Palanpur–Bhuj Intercity Express
14805/06 Yesvantpur–Barmer AC Express
14803/04 Bhagat Ki Kothi–Ahmedabad Weekly Express
12489/90 Bikaner–Dadar Superfast Express
14321/22 Ala Hazrat Express (via Bhildi)
12959/60 Dadar–Bhuj Superfast Express
14817/18 Bhagat Ki Kothi–Bandra Terminus Express (via Bhildi)
19271/72 Bhavnagar Terminus-Haridwar Express
References
Railway stations in Banaskantha district
Ahmedabad railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disa%20railway%20station | Disa railway station is a railway station in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western Railway network. Disa railway station is 27 km far away from . Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt here.
Lorwada is nearest railway station towards , whereas Chandisar is nearest railway station towards .
Major trains
Following Express and Superfast trains halt at Disa railway station in both direction:
19151/52 Palanpur–Bhuj Intercity Express
14805/06 Yesvantpur–Barmer AC Express
14803/04 Bhagat Ki Kothi–Ahmedabad Weekly Express
14321/22 Ala Hazrat Express (via Bhildi)
12959/60 Dadar–Bhuj Superfast Express
References
Railway stations in Banaskantha district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diyodar%20railway%20station | Diyodar railway station is a railway station in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western Railway network. It serves Diyodar town. Its station code is 'DEOR'. Diyodar railway station is 71 km away from . Passenger, Express, and Superfast trains halt here.
Nearby stations
Mitha is the nearest railway station towards , whereas Dhanakwada is the nearest railway station towards .
Trains
The following Express and Superfast trains halt at Diyodar railway station in both directions:
19151/52 Palanpur–Bhuj Intercity Express
14321/22 Ala Hazrat Express (via Bhildi)
12959/60 Dadar–Bhuj Superfast Express
References
Railway stations in Banaskantha district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalpur%20railway%20station | Santalpur railway station is a railway station in Patan district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western Railway network. Santalpur railway station is 157 km far away from . One Passenger, two Express, and one Superfast trains halt here.
Nearby stations
Garmadi is the nearest railway station towards , whereas Chhansara is the nearest railway station towards .
Major trains
The following Express and Superfast trains halt at Santalpur railway station in both directions:
12959/60 Dadar–Bhuj Superfast Express
19151/52 Palanpur–Bhuj Intercity Express
14321/22 Ala Hazrat Express (via Bhildi)
References
Railway stations in Patan district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unjha%20railway%20station | Unjha railway station is a railway station in Mahesana district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network. Unjha railway station is 21 km away from . Passenger, Express, and Superfast trains halt here.
Nearby Stations
Kamli is the nearest railway station towards , whereas Unawa Aithor is the nearest railway station towards .
Major Trains
The following Express and Superfast trains halt at Unjha railway station in both directions:
14805/06 Yesvantpur - Barmer AC Express
14803/04 Bhagat Ki Kothi - Ahmedabad Weekly Express
12989/90 Dadar - Ajmer Superfast Express
22473/74 Bandra Terminus - Bikaner Superfast Express
22931/32 Bandra Terminus - Jaisalmer Superfast Express
12915/16 Ahmedabad - New Delhi Ashram Superfast Express
19565/66 Okha - Dehradun Uttaranchal Express
19707/08 Bandra Terminus - Jaipur Amrapur Aravali Express
19413/14 Ahmedabad - Kolkata Sare Jahan Se Accha Express
19411/12 Ahmedabad - Ajmer Intercity Express
19031/32 Ahmedabad - Haridwar Yoga Express
19223/24 Ahmedabad - Jammu Tawi Express
References
Railway stations in Mahesana district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhpur%20railway%20station | Siddhpur railway station is a railway station in Patan district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network. Siddhpur railway station is 35 km away from . Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt here.
Nearby stations
Dharewada is the nearest railway station towards , whereas Kamli is the nearest railway station towards .
Trains
The following Express and Superfast trains halt at Siddhpur railway station in both directions:
14805/06 Yesvantpur - Barmer AC Express
14803/04 Bhagat Ki Kothi - Ahmedabad Weekly Express
22915/16 Bandra Terminus - Hisar Superfast Express
16507/08 Jodhpur - Bangalore City Express (via Hubballi)
22473/74 Bandra Terminus - Bikaner Superfast Express
19565/66 Okha - Dehradun Uttaranchal Express
19707/08 Bandra Terminus - Jaipur Amrapur Aravali Express
19413/14 Ahmedabad - Kolkata Sare Jahan Se Accha Express
19411/12 Ahmedabad - Ajmer Intercity Express
19031/32 Ahmedabad - Haridwar Yoga Express
19223/24 Ahmedabad - Jammu Tawi Express
References
Railway stations in Patan district
Ahmedabad railway division
Siddhpur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhapi%20railway%20station | Chhapi railway station is a railway station in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western railway network. Chhapi railway station is 16 km far away from . Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt here.chhapi railway station is located in village named Chhapi
Nearby Stations
Umardashi is nearest railway station towards , whereas Dharewada is nearest railway station towards .
Major Trains
Following Express and Superfast trains halt at Chhapi railway station in both direction:
19707/08 Bandra Terminus - Jaipur Amrapur Aravali Express
12989/90 Dadar - Ajmer Superfast Express
References
Railway stations in Banaskantha district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patan%20railway%20station | Patan railway station is a major railway station in Patan district, Gujarat, India on the Western line of the Western Railway network. Patan railway station is 40 km far away from . Patan is well connected by rail to , and .
Patan is 108 km from Ahmedabad railway station. It is also connected by rail to Mehsana, Mumbai, Jodhpur and Okha. Work is in progress on Patan and Palanpur railway sections.
Trains
The following trains halt at Patan railway station in both directions:
Bhagat Ki Kothi–Bandra Terminus Express (via Bhildi)
Bhagat Ki Kothi–Sabarmati Intercity Express
Patan Mehsana Junction Passenger
Sabarmati–Patan DEMU
Patan–Ahmedabad Passenger
Mumbai Dadar–Bhagat Ki Kothi Festival Special
Dadar–Bikaner Festival Special
Bhavnagar Terminus-Haridwar Express
References
Railway stations in Patan district
Ahmedabad railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaidML | PlaidML is a portable tensor compiler. Tensor compilers bridge the gap between the universal mathematical descriptions of deep learning operations, such as convolution, and the platform and chip specific code needed to perform those operations with good performance. Internally, PlaidML makes use of the Tile eDSL to generate OpenCL, OpenGL, LLVM, or CUDA code. It enables deep learning on devices where the available computing hardware is either not well supported or the available software stack contains only proprietary components. For example, it does not require the usage of CUDA or cuDNN on Nvidia hardware, while achieving comparable performance.
PlaidML supports the machine learning libraries Keras, ONNX, and nGraph. However, Keras have dropped support of multiple backends and latest Keras version isn't compatible with PlaidML. An integration with Tensorflow-Keras is planned as a replacement for Keras.
History
In August 2018 Intel acquired Vertex.AI, a startup whose mission statement was “deep learning for every platform”. Intel released PlaidML as free software under to the terms of the Apache Licence (version 2.0) to improve compatibility with nGraph, TensorFlow, and other ecosystem software.
References
External links
Tensors
Compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Coxon | Anthony Peter Macmillan Coxon (1938–2012), better known as Tony Coxon, was a sociologist and pioneer of multidimensional scaling. His fields of research included religion, occupations, social networks and male sexuality. Appointed professor at the age of 35, Coxon later became first director of the ESRC Research Centre and subsequently worked at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex, where he managed the British Household Panel Survey.
Education
Tony Coxon's education began at The King's School, Canterbury and Cheadle Hulme School. Thereafter, he attended the universities of Leeds and Edinburgh.
Career and research
Coxon lectured at the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Cardiff where he specialised in research methods, and subsequently in sexualities and health studies. Thanks to a research scholarship and visits to Harvard and MIT, Coxon became familiar with pre-Internet computing and Artificial Intelligence at an early stage. From Occupational Cognition, he moved on to Multidimensional Scaling and Content Analysis. At 37, Coxon was offered a chair of Sociological Research Methods at Cardiff University, where he soon became Department head. In 1989 he took up the post of Director of the new Interdisciplinary Research Centre of the University of Essex, as the ESRC was then called. Thereafter, from 1997 to 2002, he was Professor of Sociology and Health Studies.
Sundry activities
Tony Coxon was Co-Director of the Institute for Behavioural Research on AIDS, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, and professor in the Bro Tâf Health Authority. He was a member of the health education subcommittee of the DHSS expert advisory group on health education and AIDS and a member of the Welsh Office Health Education advisory committee, subcommittee on AIDS. He was co-founder with Dr Tom McManus and Dr Peter Davies of the panel study funded by the MRC and DHSS, Project SIGMA (Sociosexual Investigations of Gay Men and Aids) and was principal investigator at the South Wales and Essex sites (1982–2002); consultant and adviser of WHO Special (later, Global) Programme on AIDS (1987–92) and coordinator of the seven nation International Studies of Gay and Bisexual Behaviour and Aids and a member and Chair of the ESRC Steering Group on AIDS. He was also consultant to Barnet, Brent and Harrow, Bro Tâf, South-East London and North Essex Health Authorities’ HIV/AIDS research advisory and Education Units on PSE (Public Sex Environment) and Outreach Project (1996–2002).
Political life
Coxon was a member of the Committee of 100, and of the National Administrative Council of the Independent Labour Party.
References
British sociologists
2012 deaths
1938 births
Academics of the University of Essex
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202019%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2019 in Mexico. The airplay chart rankings are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Mexico using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are compiled from Monday to Sunday.
The streaming charts are published by AMPROFON (Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas).
Chart history (airplay)
Besides the General chart, Monitor Latino publishes "Pop", "Popular" (Regional Mexican music) and "Anglo" charts. Monitor Latino provides two lists for each of these charts: the "Audience" list ranked the songs according to the estimated number of people that listened to them on the radio during the week.
The "Tocadas" (Spins) list ranked the songs according to the number of times they were played on the radio during the week.
General
Pop
Popular
Anglo
See also
List of number-one albums of 2019 (Mexico)
References
2019
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Johnson-Davies | David Johnson-Davies is a British computer scientist and journalist.
Born in London, he studied Experimental Psychology in Cambridge and later joined Acorn Computers. As the founder and managing director of Acornsoft, he published video games and business software. After leaving Acornsoft in 1986, he established Human Computer Interface, which developed Macintosh-based programs compatible with BBC BASIC and BBC Micro software. Johnson-Davies contributed articles to Acorn User and created Identifont, a website that identifies typefaces from samples. He also developed Fontscape and Fontifier.
Early life and education
David Johnson-Davies was born in London and has three children.
He studied Experimental Psychology in Cambridge (where he currently resides), and became a researcher at the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit (now the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).
Career
In 1980, Johnson-Davies completed a PhD and then went on to join Acorn Computers, developers of the BBC Micro. Johnson-Davies was the founder and managing director of Acornsoft, publisher of video games such as Elite and the VIEW business software range by Mark Colton.
In 1982, Johnson-Davies wrote Practical Programs for the BBC Computer and Acorn Atom.
In 1986, he left Acornsoft and established Human Computer Interface shortly afterwards. The company developed Macintosh-based programs compatible with BBC BASIC and BBC Micro software, disks and networks, including for Hitachi and Royal Mail.
Johnson-Davies also contributed several articles to Acorn User.
In May 1986, he discussed the graphical potential of Benoit Mandelbrot’s mathematics in "Join the Mandelbrot Set". In July 1986, Johnson-Davies applied the Newton–Raphson method for finding the roots of an equation to create images that display fractal behaviour, featured in "Back to the Roots". In the October 1986 issue, he wrote "Spider Power" alongside quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch.
In 2000 he created Identifont, a website which identifies typefaces from provided samples.
David then went on to develop Fontscape (copyrighted in 2000) and Fontifier.
References
Living people
British computer scientists
Journalists from London
Scientists from London
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patinho%20Feio | Patinho Feio (Portuguese for "Ugly Duckling", in reference to the fairy tale) was the first minicomputer designed and manufactured entirely in Brazil. It was made between 1971 and 1972 in the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo by the Digital Systems Laboratory (currently called Department of Computer Engineering and Digital Systems).
Technology
Patinho Feio was an 8-bit minicomputer with a memory of 8 kB and an instruction cycle of 2 microseconds. It was programmed in assembly language.
See also
Zezinho
References
Computers designed in Brazil
Minicomputers
Early microcomputers
One-of-a-kind computers
University of São Paulo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima%20Anandkumar | Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar is the Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology. She is a director of Machine Learning research at NVIDIA. Her research considers tensor-algebraic methods, deep learning and non-convex problems.
Education and early career
Anandkumar was born in Mysore. Her parents are both engineers, and her grandfather was a mathematician. Her great-great-grandfather was the Sanskrit scholar R. Shamasastry. She began to study Bharatanatyam and she learnt this style of dancing for many years. She studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and graduated in 2004. She joined Cornell University for her graduate studies, earning a PhD under the supervision of Lang Tong in 2009. Her first project looked at distributed statistical estimation. She was an IBM Fellow at Cornell University between 2008 and 2009. Her thesis considered Scalable Algorithms for Distributed Statistical Inference. During her PhD she worked in the networking group at IBM on end-to-end service-level transactions. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 2010, where she worked in the Stochastic Systems Group with Alan Willsky.
Research
In 2010 Anandkumar joined University of California, Irvine, as an assistant professor. At the time, the technology industry was at the beginning of the big data revolution. Here she started working on tensor decompositions of latent variable models. She joined Microsoft Research in New England as a visiting scientist in 2012. In 2013 she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to investigate big data and social networks. She was made an assistant professor with tenure at UC Irvine in 2016. She specialised in large-scale machine learning and high-dimensional statistics. Anandkumar was a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services from 2016 to 2018. She worked with the Apache MXNet tool, introducing new functionality and developing multi-modal processing algorithms. She represented Amazon Web Services at the Anita Borg Institute in 2017, the Mulan forum for Chinese women entrepreneurs and Shaastra in 2018, discussing Deep Learning. She also worked on Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly. She was involved with the launch of Amazon SageMaker, an opportunity for developers to use machine learning models.
Anandkumar joined the Machine Learning Conference Board of Advisors in 2018. In 2018 Anandkumar joined NVIDIA as Director of Machine Learning Research, and Caltech as the Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. At NVIDIA she opened a new core laboratories in artificial intelligence and machine learning in Santa Clara. She has pushed for governments to invest in robotics and artificial intelligence. She spoke at the 2018 TEDxIndiana University about the algorithms she has developed to process big data.
Diversity in technology
Anandkumar is committed to improving diversity in the technology sector. She laun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boobay%20and%20Tekla%20Show | The Boobay and Tekla Show (also known as TBATS: Tawa Is Life) is a Philippine television comedy talk show broadcast by YouTube and GMA Network. The show premiered as a streaming television show on YouTube in 2018. Directed by Rico Gutierrez and Frasco Mortiz, it is hosted by Boobay and Super Tekla. It premiered on terrestrial television on January 27, 2019 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up.
Hosts
Boobay
Super Tekla
The Mema Squad
Pepita Curtis
Ian Red
Jennie Gabriel
Buboy Villar
John Vic De Guzman
Jessica Villarubin
Production
In March 2020, the admission of a live audience in the studio and production were suspended due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on September 13, 2020.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in Television Homes, the pilot episode of The Boobay and Tekla Show earned a 5.3% rating. The show got its highest rating on May 12, 2019 with a 7.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2018 web series debuts
2019 Philippine television series debuts
Comedy web series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Non-fiction web series
Philippine comedy television series
Philippine television talk shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Lynn%20Palmer | J. Lynn Palmer is an American biostatistician known for her research on missing data and on treatment of cancer.
Education and career
Palmer studied sociology as an undergraduate at Oklahoma State University, earned a bachelor's degree there in 1976, and stayed on for a master's degree in 1978. After being inspired by the statistics classes she took in her graduate program, she earned a second master's degree at Oklahoma State in statistics in 1980. She completed her Ph.D. in biometry in 1988, at the University of Texas School of Public Health.
She worked at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for many years, and in 2013 became director of programs for the American Statistical Association.
Recognition
In 2010 Palmer was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
She became president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 2012 term.
She is also an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Oklahoma State University alumni
UTHealth School of Public Health alumni
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202019 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new non-fiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2019
2019 in American television
2019-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202019 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2019
QandA
2019-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caruna | Caruna distributes electricity and maintains, repairs and builds a weatherproof electricity network for its 690,000 customers in South, Southwest and West Finland, as well as in the city of Joensuu, the sub-region of Koillismaa and Satakunta. Caruna is responsible for about a fifth of Finland's electricity distribution. The CEO is Jyrki Tammivuori.
Organization
Caruna includes two separate network companies. Caruna Espoo Oy operates in urban areas with a high cabling rate and a high number of customers to share the expenses per metres of network. Caruna Oy operates mainly in rural, sparsely populated, areas where their amount of network to be maintained, built and repaired is high. The length of the network is 168 metres per customer in Caruna Oy's area. In Caruna Espoo Oy's area, the corresponding number is 36 metres per customer.
Caruna was founded in 2014, but its story really began in 1912 in a place called Karuna where a new electricity company started out. Caruna has approximately 300 employees and contracts 1,000 additional workers across Finland. Caruna's operations are regulated by the Finnish Energy Authority, in charge of monitoring the electricity network business in Finland.
Caruna is owned by Finnish employment pension companies Elo (7.5%), as well as international infrastructure investors KKR (40%), OTPP (40%) and AMF (12,5%).
Electricity network
The length of electricity network in total is .
In 2019, a total of of electricity network was placed underground, where it is protected from the fluctuating weather conditions. The cabling rate is 56 per cent of the network. In 2019, the company distributed electricity to its customers with a reliability rate of 99.99 per cent. The newest substation is in Suurpelto, Espoo and it takes care of the electricity supply for the 20,00 customers in the area.
Turnover
In 2022 the net sales amounted to EUR 484 million. Caruna paid a total of EUR 6.3 million in corporation tax in 2022. Caruna invested 127 million on building a reliable, weatherproof electricity network.
In 2017 Caruna turnover was €145 million and state tax rate 4% (€6 million). In 2017 Caruna paid its stakeholders 8.17% interest (77 million) while market loans were 1.5–3 % interest. Company interest cost were reduced from the taxable income based on Sipilä Cabinet taxation rules.
References
Electric power distribution network operators in Finland
OMERS companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spots%20%28file%20sharing%29 | "Spots" refer to (typically) human-created index entries, most commonly within decentralized file sharing databases such as newsgroups. A spot includes a downloadable file and accompanying metadata, and is intended to be shared with other users. While similar, a spot differs from a traditional search engine index entry in that it is typically user-generated and intended to help people (rather than an index retrieval system) identify, organize, and share content.
Format
Formats vary depending on the program being used, but a spot typically contains the following information:
Title
Includes the status of a spot and the type of spot (application, media, image, etc.).
Spot Information
Includes information about the spot itself, including the user that posted the spot, the date and time a spot was created, as well as the number of views, downloads, and comments a spot has generated.
Content information
Contains information about the content within the spot. This may include a written summary of the contents, images, links to relevant web pages, language and subtitles, and category/genre info.
File(s)
The shareable file or files being referenced by the spot, including extension type, file size, and number of files.
User-generated content
User ratings and reviews, user comments, or searchable tags.
References
File sharing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybertecture%20Egg | The Cybertecture Egg is a 13-story commercial building located in Bandra kurla complex Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Architect James Law designed the Cybertecture Egg along with Ove Arup's building systems and engineering firm. The building was designed with sustainability in mind and has 33,000 sqm of office space, an elevated garden, and three levels of basement with 400 parking spaces, all in about 15% less space than a traditional office building. The structure of the Cybertecture Egg uses a diagrid exoskeleton, which forms a rigid structural system and allows it to be built with less building material than a traditional orthogonal building. The building will use wind turbines and solar photovoltaic panels to generate onsite electricity. There is also a greywater recycling system which uses water for landscaping and irrigation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fences%20in%20Ming%20China | A fence or receiver () was a merchant who bought and sold stolen goods. Fences were part of the extensive network of accomplices in the criminal underground of the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. Their occupation entailed criminal activity, but as fences often acted as liaisons between the more respectable community to the underground criminals, they were seen as living a “precarious existence on the fringes of respectable society”.
A fence worked alongside bandits, but in a different line of work. The network of criminal accomplices that was often acquired was essential to ensuring both the safety and the success of fences.
Fencing as an Occupation
Entering the Occupation
The path into the occupation of a fence stemmed, in a large degree, from necessity. As most fences came from the ranks of poorer people, they often took whatever work they could - both legal and illegal.
Like most bandits operated within their own community, fences also worked within their own town or village. For example, in some satellite areas of the capital, military troops lived within or close to the commoner population and they had the opportunity to hold illegal trades with commoners.
In areas like Baoding and Hejian, local peasants and community members not only purchased military livestock such as horses and cattle, but also helped to hide the “stolen livestock from military allured by the profits”. Local peasants and community members became fences and they hid criminal activities from officials in exchange of products or money from these soldiers.
Fencing as a “side business”
Most fences were not individuals who only bought and sold stolen goods to make a living. The majority of fences had other occupations within the "polite" society and held a variety of official occupations. These occupations included laborers, coolies, and peddlers. Such individuals often encountered criminals in markets in their line of work, and, recognizing a potential avenue for an extra source of income, formed acquaintances and temporary associations for mutual aid and protection with criminals. In one example, an owner of a teahouse overheard the conversation between Deng Yawen, a criminal, and others planning a robbery and he offered to help to sell the loot for an exchange of spoils.
At times, the robbers themselves filled the role of fences, selling to people they met on the road. This may actually have been preferable for robbers, in certain circumstances, because they would not have to pay the fence a portion of the spoils.
Butchers were also prime receivers for stolen animals because of the simple fact that owners could no longer recognize their livestock once butchers slaughtered them. Animals were very valuable commodities within Ming China, and a robber could potentially sustain a living from stealing livestock and selling them to butcher-fences.
Types of Stolen Goods
Information as a Good
Although the vast majority of the time, fences worked with physical stolen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Sports%20%28TV%20channel%29 | One Sports is a Philippine free-to-air television network owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and jointly operated by TV5 Network, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. media arm of PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund. One Sports is currently carried through analog via DWNB UHF TV Channel 41 in Metro Manila and other relay and affiliate stations nationwide, and as a digital television subchannel in select areas of the country. It operates Mondays to Saturdays from 6:00 AM to 12:00 MN and Sundays from 6:00 AM to 1:00 AM.
One Sports is the second MediaQuest channel launched under the One branding (presently known as the One Network Media Group), along with the English-language news channel One News, Filipino-language news/talk channel One PH, lifestyle portal One Life, and now-defunct premium entertainment channel One Screen.
History
Prior to the launch, it was then known as 5 Plus, a dedicated sports channel launched on January 13, 2019 replacing AksyonTV.
On March 8, 2020, One Sports was launched as a free-to-air television channel by Cignal TV (which owns the said brand on its own cable channel) and TV5, with TV5 Network's sports division adopted the same branding coinciding with the start of the 2020 PBA season.
From March 30 to June 14, 2020, the terrestrial network temporarily suspended its broadcast due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the enforcement of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon.
Following the closure of ABS-CBN Sports after 70 congressmen denied ABS-CBN Corporation's new franchise, One Sports replaced certain programming such as the NFL, the NCAA (US) and Philippine Super Liga with some sports whose rights were previously held by ABS-CBN Sports, such as the NBA, ONE Championship, UAAP and Premier Volleyball League.
Programming
One Sports programming includes extreme sports, collegiate sports, e-sports, sports entertainment, and other sports-related content. The network may take on the responsibility of airing sports programs produced by One Sports division in the event that TV5 is unable to carry them due to breaking news or any special programming. A selection of One Sports sports coverage will be made available online through their official website and various social media platforms.
One Sports+
One Sports+ is a Philippine pay TV channel owned by Cignal TV. It is the cable/satellite counterpart of the main One Sports channel. Unlike its terrestrial network counterpart, the channel broadcasts sports-related programs and live sporting events 24 hours a day, all year round.
The original One Sports channel was launched on January 9, 2019, on satellite provider Cignal, replacing Hyper. On March 8, 2020, following the launch of the One Sports brand on free-to-air television (replacing 5 Plus), the original One Sports channel on Cignal was rebranded as One Sports+, making them the fourth One-branded channel.
One Sports+ current programming
Premier Volleyball League
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketbal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felienne%20Hermans | Felienne Hermans, Felienne (/Fay-lee-nuh/), is a scientist working at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a full professor. Her research interests include programming education and spreadsheets.
Academic career
Hermans received her MSc in computer science from Eindhoven University of Technology, and her PhD in software engineering in 2013 from Delft University of Technology. Following that she was an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, heading the Spreadsheet Lab.
Currently Hermans is head of the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL).
Business
Hermans is the founder and former CEO of Infotron, a spinoff company of TU Delft that implements risk assessment software for spreadsheets.
Hermans is active with DigiLeerkracht, the computational thinking teaching by Future.nl, and teaches programming, including one day a week at the Lyceum Kralingen in Rotterdam.
In addition, Hermans is a referee at the FIRST LEGO League, where children build a robot from LEGO.
She was a board member at Devnology Nederland, an organisation for software developers. She is a co-organiser of the yearly conference Joy of Coding.
Outreach
In 2011, Hermans gave a TEDx talk in Delft.
Hermans has given research talks at conferences including StrangeLoop, NDC, GOTO, and DDD Europe, a conference about Domain-driven design.
Since 2016, she is a host of SE Radio.
Hermans produced several MOOCs on edX, with topics including programming in Scratch for teachers and children. She self-published an e-book about the creation of games for children. In 2017, she started a program for Rotterdam elementary students to receive programming lessons. In 2020, Hermans launched the Hedy programming language, to teach children Python in a gradual way.
Awards
Hermans' online data analysis course was awarded the Wharton-QS gold education award for best education innovation project entry in Europe.
Hermans won the SURF Education Award in 2017, SURF being the collaborative ICT organisation for Dutch education and research.
In 2018, the Open Education Consortium awarded her the Open Education Award for Excellence.
Also in 2018, Hermans won the Tech Inspirator Award at the Techionista Awards.
References
Living people
21st-century Dutch businesswomen
21st-century Dutch businesspeople
Dutch women academics
Academic staff of Leiden University
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
Delft University of Technology alumni
Eindhoven University of Technology alumni
Dutch women engineers
1984 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Ni | Lionel Ming-shuan Ni (; born December 13, 1951), is serving as the provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and concurrently the Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Prior that, he was the vice rector (academic affairs) at the University of Macau (UM) from January 2015 to 2019. Before joining UM, he was also the Chair Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he now returns to.
Before going to HKUST in 2002, he had spent more than 2 decades since 1981 as a full Professor in computer science and engineering at Michigan State University after he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1980. During his stay, he served as the program director of the United States National Science Foundation Microelectronic Systems Architecture Program, directed 54 Ph.D. students and published numerous papers in pervasive computing, mobile computing, big data, sensor networks, parallel architectures, etc. He was elevated to the rank of a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1994 for his contribution to parallel processing and distributed systems. He owned 8 patents whilst more than 18 pending. His research papers were cited for more than 32000 times as of January 2019.
Footnotes
References
National Taiwan University alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
1951 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20of%20access%20to%20personal%20data | The right of access, also referred to as right to access and (data) subject access, is one of the most fundamental rights in data protection laws around the world. For instance, the United States, Singapore, Brazil, and countries in Europe have all developed laws that regulate access to personal data as privacy protection. The European Union states that: "The right of access occupies a central role in EU data protection law's arsenal of data subject empowerment measures." This right is often implemented as a Subject Access Request (SAR) or Data Subject Access Request (DSAR).
Brazil
According to the Brazilian General Data Protection Law, subject access requests need to be fulfilled within 15 days.
European Union
The right of access is enshrined as part of the fundamental right to data protection in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It is in fact the only one of the practical rights relating to personal data that is listed there.
In the GDPR, this right is defined in various sections of Article 15. There is also a right to access in the GDPR's partner legislation, the Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has considered it "necessary to provide more precise guidance on how the right of access has to be implemented in different situations". When the EU Directive is transposed into Member State national law, the right of access may be suspended or restricted, as in the case of Germany in Article 34 of its Bundesdatenschutzgesetz. Moreover, on the European level, Europol offers a right of access.
Singapore
Personal data in Singapore is protected under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA). The PDPA establishes a data protection law that comprises various rules governing the collection, use, disclosure and care of personal data. Access to personal data is laid out as part of Part IV, chapter 21 which states that on request of an individual, an organization shall, as soon as reasonably possible, provide the individual with:
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the website of the Information Commissioner's Office states regarding Subject Access Requests (SARs):
Before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018, organizations could charge a specified fee for responding to a SAR, of up to £10 for most requests. Following the GDPR:
United Nations
The aspirational Sustainable Development Goal 16, target 9, calls for the provision of legal identity for all human beings. "In the digital economy, this becomes the right to a digital identity." Such an identity could help in filing subject access requests.
United States
Five federal laws include a right of access to personal data:
FCRA Fair Credit Reporting Act,
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act,
COPPA Children's Online Privacy Protection Act,
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Privacy Act of 1974.
In addition, some state laws like the CC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Sports%20%28Indian%20TV%20network%29 | Star Sports is a group of South Asian pay television sports channels owned by Disney Star, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India.
The networks were initially formed in 1991 as Star Hospital a joint venture between Star TV and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) known as Prime Sports, taking their name from TCI's U.S. regional sports networks of the same name. In 1996, Star agreed to merge its sports networks in Asia with those of its rival ESPN, forming ESPN Star Sports. In June 2012, News Corporation acquired ESPN's stake in the joint venture; its corporate successor 21st Century Fox was, in turn, acquired by ESPN's majority-owner The Walt Disney Company in 2019.
Star Sports is a major broadcaster of cricket in India, holding the pay television rights to domestic national team matches, the Indian Premier League, and International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments. Streaming rights to many Star Sports properties are held in India by sister streaming service Disney+ Hotstar.
History
Hong Kong-based Star TV launched Prime Sports (later renamed Star Sports) in partnership with American company TCI, which owned Prime-branded regional sports channels. The channel was broadcast across Asia, including India, as with the footprint of AsiaSat 7. Star TV has since regionalized the channel with several versions. Later, ESPN joined the region as a competitor to Star Sports.
In October 1996, Star Sports announced an agreement to merge its operations with those of ESPN International in the region, forming a Singapore-based joint venture known as ESPN Star Sports.
In June 2012, it was announced that Star TV, by then owned by News Corporation, would acquire ESPN's share in ESPN Star Sports. The sale was completed in January 2013. On 11 March 2013, Star Sports 2, a Hindi-language sports channel, was launched as a sister channel to Star Sports, Star Cricket and ESPN.
On 6 November 2013, Star Sports introduced a new brand identity and re-aligned its channels in India; Star Sports became Star Sports 1; Star Cricket and Star Hospital became Star Sports 3, a Hindi language channel; ESPN became Star Sports 4, a Tamil language channel, and Star Cricket HD, Star Hospital HD and ESPN HD became Star Sports HD1 and HD2 and Star Hospital HD1,HD2,HD3,HD4,HD5 respectively. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, the ESPN Star Sports channels were relaunched by Fox International Channels Asia Pacific as Fox Sports. ESPN International later established a partnership with Multi-Screen Media in October 2015, which rebranded Sony Kix as Sony ESPN in January 2016.
Star India planned to replace the troubled Channel V India with Star Sports 1 Kannada on 16 November 2017, but the delay in regulatory approval meant the plan was postponed. Later, Star India replaced Channel V into the current iteration of Star Sports 3 on 15 September 2018, and launched Star Sports 1 Telugu and Star Sports 1 Kannada as new channels on 7 and 29 December 2018, respectively. In the meantime, K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%20Health%20System | Freeman Health System is a three-hospital network in Joplin, Newton County, Missouri, USA. Freeman operates two campuses in Joplin and a satellite hospital in Neosho, Missouri. The largest hospital in the system, Freeman West, is a 339-bed teaching hospital with a 41-bed ICU. With over 3000 employees, the hospital system is the largest employer in the Joplin area.
History
Freeman Hospital was founded in 1922 by John W. Freeman at 2008 Sergeant Avenue. In 1958, it moved to the East 34th Street location now known as Freeman East. Its main facility, the Freeman West campus at 1102 West 32nd Street, was added in 1975.
In 1977, Freeman became the first hospital to use ultrasound in diagnostic services and nuclear medicine.
In 2007, Freeman West expanded its complex to include a six-story annex to its two-story main building, the Gary and Donna Hall Tower.
2011 Joplin tornado
Freeman's role in the aftermath of the 2011 Joplin tornado was crucial to the community, treating more than 1700 injured patients, more than half within the first day. The hospital only narrowly escaped the almost mile-wide path of complete destruction across the southern half of the city, being just six blocks south of the storm-ravaged St. John's Regional Medical Center (now known as Mercy Hospital Joplin). Freeman itself sustained some damage to its facilities, losing a portion of its roof. Following its competitor's nearby relocation and reconstruction, the two hospitals are now more than a mile apart.
Other
Freeman is a Meditech hospital. It is also part of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals group. The current President/CEO is Paula Baker.
External links
Official Website
References
Companies based in Joplin, Missouri
Buildings and structures in Joplin, Missouri
Hospital buildings completed in 1975
1922 establishments in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit%20Gebru | Timnit Gebru (; Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; born 13 May 1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born political activist and computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founder of Black in AI, a community of Black researchers working in artificial intelligence (AI). She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR).
In December 2020, Gebru was the center of a public controversy stemming from her abrupt and contentious departure from Google as technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team. Higher management had requested she withdraw an as-yet-unpublished paper or remove the names of all Google coauthors, and said that the paper ignored recent research. She requested insight into the decision and warned that non-compliance would result in her negotiating her departure. Google terminated her employment immediately, stating they were accepting her resignation.
Gebru has been recognized widely for her expertise in technology and artificial intelligence. She was named one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and one of Nature's ten people who shaped science in 2021, and in 2022, one of Time's most influential people.
Early life and education
Gebru was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 13 May 1983. Her father, an electrical engineer with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), died when she was five years old, and she was raised by her mother, an economist. Both her parents are from Eritrea. When Gebru was 15, during the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, she fled Ethiopia after some of her family was deported to Eritrea and compelled to fight in the war. She was initially denied a U.S. visa and briefly lived in Ireland, but she eventually received political asylum in the U.S., an experience she said was "miserable." Gebru settled in Somerville, Massachusetts, to attend high school, where she says she immediately started to experience racially based discrimination, with some teachers refusing to allow her to take certain Advanced Placement courses, despite being a high-achiever.
After she completed high school, an encounter with the police set Gebru on a course toward a focus on ethics in technology. A friend of hers, a Black woman, was assaulted in a bar, and Gebru called the police to report it. She says that instead of filing the assault report, her friend was arrested and remanded to a cell. Gebru called it a pivotal moment and a "blatant example of systemic racism."
In 2001, Gebru was accepted at Stanford University. There she earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering and her PhD in computer vision in 2017. Gebru was advised during her PhD program by Fei-Fei Li.
During the 2008 United States presidential election, Gebru canvassed in support of Barack Obama.
Gebru presented her doctoral research at the 2017 LDV Capital Vision Summit competition, where computer vision scientists present |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Braun | Jacob H. Braun (born October 3, 1975) is an American politician, cyber and national security expert. He was appointed by President Joseph Biden as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary's Senior Advisor to the Management Directorate. Braun is also a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies where he teaches courses on cyber policy and election security. He previously served as the Executive Director for the University of Chicago Harris Cyber Policy Initiative (CPI).
From 2009 to 2011, Braun served as White House Liaison to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He has also served as National Deputy Field Director for Obama for America in 2008 and as the Michigan Field Director for John Kerry in 2004.
Braun is co-founder of the DEF CON Voting Machine Hacking Village (Voting Village) hacker conference. He is the former CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors (CGA), a bipartisan consulting firm based in Washington, DC.
Education
Braun is a graduate of Troy St. University where he earned an MA in International Relations. He also has a Master’s in Secondary Education from National Louis University in Chicago and a BA in Philosophy from Loyola University of Chicago.
Career
Braun began his career as a journalist reporting for newspapers in Illinois and Taiwan. Braun has worked on political campaigns for Democratic and progressive candidates. He has headed initiatives for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and multiple state Democratic Party committees. He was National Deputy Field Director to the 2008 Obama for America Campaign. Braun previously oversaw the field program for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign in Michigan and worked in Iowa during the 2004 presidential primary.
Braun served on the Presidential Transition Team in 2008-2009 for the Obama Administration as Deputy Director for the National Security Agencies Review, which oversaw the agency review process for the State Department, DOD, DHS, CIA, USAID. He was appointed White House Liaison to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on January 21, 2009, where he facilitated key DHS public engagements. Prior to his appointment,
Braun focused on cybersecurity issues. He serves in the President’s Circle on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and as a strategic advisor to the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon on cybersecurity. He was the co-founder and CEO of CGA. As of 2018, CGA was advising the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on policy, workforce development and other cybersecurity issues. Braun also served as Managing Director of Cambridge Global Capital where he identifies investment opportunities and raises capital for cybersecurity and other start-up companies.
In 2017, following intelligence reports highlighting Russian hacking attempts and interference in the 2016 presidential election, Braun co-founded DEF CON’s Voting Village as an effort to il |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20DocumentDB | Amazon DocumentDB is a managed proprietary NoSQL database service that supports document data structures, with some compatibility with MongoDB version 3.6 (released by MongoDB in 2017) and version 4.0 (released by MongoDB in 2018). As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB can store, query, and index JSON data. It is available on Amazon Web Services. As of March 2023, AWS introduced some compliance with MongoDB 5.0 but lacks time series collection support.
Main features
A document database natively stores JSON data. DocumentDB provides single document lookups, index scans, regular expression queries, and aggregations. It can create single-field, compound, and multi-key indexes to improve the performance of query patterns. Reads from the indexes on the primary instance are read-after-write consistent and users can delete or create new indexes at any time.
DocumentDB was an enhancement to the Amazon Aurora relational database system, specifically the PostgreSQL-compatible edition. Its architecture separates storage and computing so that each layer can scale independently, though the system is limited to a single writable primary. Amazon DocumentDB, through Aurora PostgreSQL, uses the Aurora Storage Engine, originally built for the MySQL relational database. This storage engine is distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing, and durable, which it maintains by replicating data six ways across three AWS Availability Zones (AZs). Amazon DocumentDB databases cannot span AWS Regions or span cloud providers, nor can Amazon DocumentDB run on-premises. The system can support up to 15 low-latency readable replicas and continuously backs up all changes to Amazon S3.
See also
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Relational Database Service
References
External links
A Guide To Amazon Web Services
Comparing MongoDB to DocumentDB
DocumentDB Test Compatibility With MongoDB
DocumentDB
Cloud storage
Distributed data stores
Structured storage
NoSQL products
Cloud databases
Computer-related introductions in 2019
Document-oriented databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape%20genetics | Landscape genetics is the scientific discipline that combines population genetics and landscape ecology. It broadly encompasses any study that analyses plant or animal population genetic data in conjunction with data on the landscape features and matrix quality where the sampled population lives. This allows for the analysis of microevolutionary processes affecting the species in light of landscape spatial patterns, providing a more realistic view of how populations interact with their environments. Landscape genetics attempts to determine which landscape features are barriers to dispersal and gene flow, how human-induced landscape changes affect the evolution of populations, the source-sink dynamics of a given population, and how diseases or invasive species spread across landscapes.
Landscape genetics differs from the fields of biogeography and phylogeography by providing information at finer temporal and spatial scales (i.e., at the level of individual genetic variation within a population). Because it focuses on sampling individuals, landscape genetics has the advantage of not having to subjectively define discrete populations prior to analysis. Genetic tools are used to detect abrupt genetic differences between individuals within a population and statistical tools are used to correlate these genetic discontinuities with landscape and environmental features. The results of landscape genetics studies have potentially important applications to conservation biology and land management practices.
History
Landscape genetics emerged as its own discipline after the seminal article entitled "Landscape genetics: combining landscape ecology and population genetics" by Manel et al. appeared in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution in 2003. According to that article, the concept that landscape patterns affect how organisms are distributed dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries in the writings of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and Alfred Russel Wallace. The modern field is interdisciplinary and integrates not only population genetics and landscape ecology, but also the field of spatial statistics. As of 2008, over 655 articles had been published in the field in a variety of genetics and ecological journals.
Advances and applications
Landscape genetics has advanced ecological and evolutionary theory by facilitating an understanding of how gene flow and adaptation occur in real heterogeneous landscapes. It has also allowed for the estimation of functional connectivity across landscapes. Elucidating landscape features that act as barriers or facilitators of dispersal can inform the construction or preservation of wildlife corridors that connect fragmented landscapes. Landscape genetics can also help predict how diseases will spread across a landscape or how proposed management actions will affect populations. Finally, landscape genetics can help predict how well populations will adapt to continuing global change.
Methods
Genetic marker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelle | Nelle is a given name, and may refer to:
Nelle Benson, fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network
Nelle G. Burger (1869-1957), American temperance leader
Nelle A. Coley (1909–1999), a noted educator from Greensboro, NC
Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871–1944), American librettist, poet, and teacher
Nelle Isabel Law (1914–1990), generally known as Nel Law, Australian artist, poet and diarist
Nelle Harper Lee (1926–2016), or Harper Lee, American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird
Nelle Lee, Brisbane-based actress, producer and writer best known for theatre work
Nelle Morton (1905–1987), American theologian, professor, feminist activist, and civil rights leader
Nelle Nugent (born 1939), American independent Broadway producer
Nelle Peters (1884–1974), one of Kansas City's most prolific architects, designing a wide range of buildings there
Nelle Porter, fictional character on the Fox television show Ally McBeal
Rhoda-Nelle Rader (1920–2016), wife of Edward Nassour, the American film producer, businessman, and special effects animator
Nelle Wilson Reagan (1883–1962), the mother of United States President Ronald Reagan and his older brother Neil "Moon" Reagan
Nelle Scanlan MBE (1882–1968), New Zealand journalist and novelist
Nelle Brooke Stull of Elyria, Ohio, founder and president of the Widows' & Widowers' Club
Lou Nelle Sutton (1905–1994), businesswoman and former state representative from San Antonio, Texas
See also
Van Nelle Factory on the Schie in Rotterdam, a prime example of the International Style based upon constructivist architecture
Nelle Brown Memorial Library, 166 West Liberty Street, Lyons, Georgia, a branch of the Ohoopee Regional Library System
Lange Nelle Lighthouse, lighthouse in Oostende, Flanders, Belgium
Nele
Nell
Nelles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Peters%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Jan Peters (born August 14, 1976) is a German computer scientist. He is Professor of Intelligent Autonomous Systems at Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Peters is renowned for his research in machine learning and robotics.
Life
Jan Peters graduated from the University of Hagen in 2000 with a diplom in computer science and from Technical University of Munich in 2001 with a diploma in electrical engineering. From 2000 to 2001, he spent two semesters as visiting student at the National University of Singapore. He then studied at the University of Southern California where he earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of Science degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2007. During his Ph.D., he received a presidential fellowship and his Ph.D. thesis received the Dick Volz Runner-Up Award for the Best US PhD Thesis based both on thesis quality as well as post-graduation impact. From 2007 to 2021, he was head of the Robot Learning Group first at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (up to 2011) and later at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (until 2021). Since 2011 he has been Head of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Institute at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and since 2022, he is the head of the Department of Systems AI for Robot Learning at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
In 2008, Nicholas Roy, Russ Tedrake, Jun Morimoto, and Jan Peters founded the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Technical Committee on Robot Learning.
Awards
For his contributions, he has received the Robotics & Automation Early Career Award, the highest ranked early career award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Young Investigator Award of the International Neural Network Society. In addition, he received an ERC Starting Grant in 2014 as well as numerous best paper awards. He was appointed Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2019 "for contributions to robot learning of dexterous motor skills".
Public appearances
Peters was a speaker at TEDx RheinMain 2018.
Publications
Peters J., Vijayakumar S., Schaal S. (2005) Natural Actor-Critic. In: Gama J., Camacho R., Brazdil P.B., Jorge A.M., Torgo L. (eds) Machine Learning: ECML 2005. ECML 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3720. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
References
External links
His website at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
Curriculum Vitae
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
University of Hagen alumni
Academic staff of Max Planck Society
Technical University of Munich alumni
University of Southern California alumni
1976 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Q%20System%20One | IBM Quantum System One is the first circuit-based commercial quantum computer, introduced by IBM in January 2019.
This integrated quantum computing system is housed in a airtight glass cube that maintains a controlled physical environment. A cylindrical protrusion from the center of the ceiling is a dilution refrigerator, containing a 20-qubit transmon quantum processor. It was tested for the first time in the summer of 2018, for two weeks, in Milan, Italy.
IBM Quantum System One was developed by IBM Research, with assistance from the Map Project Office and Universal Design Studio. CERN, ExxonMobil, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are among the clients signed up to access the system remotely.
From April 6 to May 31, 2019, the Boston Museum of Science hosted an exhibit featuring a replica of the IBM Quantum System One.
On June 15, 2021, IBM deployed the first unit of Quantum System One in Germany at its headquarters in Ehningen.
See also
IBM Eagle
IBM Quantum Platform
Timeline of quantum computing and communication
Superconducting quantum computing
Qiskit
References
External links
Official website
Quantum computing
Computer-related introductions in 2019
IBM computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billund%20railway%20line | The Billund railway line was a planned railway line of 19 km to connect the existing Danish rail network at Jelling to Billund Airport and Billund itself to cater to the Legoland resort there.
Background
In 2014 planning of the line was agreed, with a projected cost of 734 million DKK. The planned opening of the line was estimated to be 2020. However, in 2021, the Danish government cancelled the project.
References
Proposed railway lines in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahiem%20Bacchus | Fahiem Bacchus (March 16, 1957 - September 22, 2022) was a Canadian professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2006).
Early life and career
Fahiem Bacchus was born in 1957. In 1979 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Alberta. After working in industry for a couple of years he returned to academic pursuits and in 1983 received a Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Toronto. A year later he returned to the University of Alberta and graduated from there with a Ph.D. in computer science in 1988. Immediately after graduation he became a postdoc at the University of Rochester and in July of the same year he became an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, achieving the rank of professor in 1999. He moved to the University of Toronto in 1999 and has been a professor in the department of computer science since then.
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
University of Alberta alumni
University of Toronto alumni
University of Rochester faculty
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20scalability | Database scalability is the ability of a database to handle changing demands by adding/removing resources. Databases use a host of techniques to cope.
History
The initial history of database scalability was to provide service on ever smaller computers. The first database management systems such as IMS ran on mainframe computers. The second generation, including Ingres, Informix, Sybase, RDB and Oracle emerged on minicomputers. The third generation, including dBase and Oracle (again), ran on personal computers.
During the same period, attention turned to handling more data and more demanding workloads. One key software innovation in the late 1980s was to reduce update locking granularity from tables and disk blocks to individual rows. This eliminated a critical scalability bottleneck, as coarser locks could delay access to rows even though they were not directly involved in a transaction. Earlier systems were completely insensitive to increasing resources.
Once software limitations had been addressed, attention turned to hardware. Innovation occurred in many areas. The first was to support multiprocessor computers. This involved allowing multiple processors to handle database requests simultaneously, without blocking each other. This evolved into support for multi-core processors.
A much more significant change involved allowing distributed transactions to affect data stored on separate computers, using the two-phase commit protocol, establishing the shared-nothing architecture.
Still later, Oracle introduced the shared-everything architecture, which provided full functionality on multi-server clusters.
Another innovation was storing copies of tables on multiple computers (database replication), which both improved availability (processing could continue on a copy even if the main system was unavailable) and scalability particularly for query/analysis, in that requests could be routed to the copy if the primary reached its capacity.
In the early twenty-first century, NoSQL systems gained favor over relational databases for some workloads. Motivations included still greater scalability and support for documents and other "non-relational" data types. Often sacrificed was the strict ACID consistency protocols that guaranteed perfect consistency at all times in favor of eventual consistency that ensured that all nodes would eventually return the latest data. Some even allowed for transactions to occasionally be lost, as long as the system could handle sufficiently many requests. The most prominent early system was Google's BigTable/MapReduce, developed in 2004. It achieved near-linear scalability across multiple server farms, at the cost of features such as multi-row transactions and joins.
In 2007, the first NewSQL system, H-Store, was developed. NewSQL systems attempt to combine NoSQL scalability with ACID transactions and SQL interfaces.
Dimensions
Database scalability has three basic dimensions: amount of data, volume of requests and si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20neighborhood%20problem | In mathematics, the second neighborhood problem is an unsolved problem about oriented graphs posed by Paul Seymour. Intuitively, it suggests that in a social network described by such a graph, someone will have at least as many friends-of-friends as friends.
The problem is also known as the second neighborhood conjecture or Seymour’s distance two conjecture.
Statement
An oriented graph is a finite directed graph obtained from a simple undirected graph by assigning an orientation to each edge. Equivalently, it is a directed graph that has no self-loops, no parallel edges, and no two-edge cycles. The first neighborhood of a vertex (also called its open neighborhood) consists of all vertices at distance one from , and the second neighborhood of consists of all vertices at distance two from . These two neighborhoods form disjoint sets, neither of which contains itself.
In 1990, Paul Seymour conjectured that, in every oriented graph, there always exists at least one vertex whose second neighborhood is at least as large as its first neighborhood. Equivalently, in the square of the graph, the degree of is at least doubled. The problem was first published by Nathaniel Dean and Brenda J. Latka in 1995, in a paper that studied the problem on a restricted class of oriented graphs, the tournaments (orientations of complete graphs). Dean had previously conjectured that every tournament obeys the second neighborhood conjecture, and this special case became known as Dean's conjecture.
A vertex in a directed graph whose second neighborhood is at least as large as its first neighborhood is called a Seymour vertex.
In the second neighborhood conjecture, the condition that the graph have no two-edge cycles is necessary, for in graphs that have such cycles (for instance the complete oriented graph) all second neighborhoods may be empty or small.
Partial results
proved Dean's conjecture, the special case of the second neighborhood problem for tournaments.
For some graphs, a vertex of minimum out-degree will be a Seymour vertex. For instance, if a directed graph has a sink, a vertex of out-degree zero, then the sink is automatically a Seymour vertex, because its first and second neighborhoods both have size zero. In a graph without sinks, a vertex of out-degree one is always a Seymour vertex. In the orientations of triangle-free graphs, any vertex of minimum out-degree is again a Seymour vertex, because for any edge from to another vertex , the out-neighbors of all belong to the second neighborhood of .
For arbitrary graphs with higher vertex degrees, the vertices of minimum degree might not be Seymour vertices, but the existence of a low-degree vertex can still lead to the existence of a nearby Seymour vertex. Using this sort of reasoning, the second neighborhood conjecture has been proven to be true for any oriented graph that contains at least one vertex of out-degree ≤ 6.
Random tournaments and some random directed graphs graphs have many Seymour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Davie | Bruce Davie is a noted Australian computer scientist known for his work in the networking field. He has co-authored several textbooks, including (with Larry L Peterson) Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. Dr. Davie received his B.E. (Elec) from the University of Melbourne in 1984 and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1988.
He recently served as the Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at VMware Inc. He joined VMware via the acquisition of software-defined networking (SDN) company Nicira, where he was Chief Service Provider Architect. Prior to Nicira, he was a Fellow at Cisco Systems, where he led the team of architects responsible for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
From 1993 to 2012, he was an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force and co-authored 17 RFCs. He was a visiting lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2011, and named as an ACM Fellow in 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he was the chair of ACM SIGCOMM. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. He is listed as co-inventor on over 40 U.S. Patents.
In 2021, he joined the advisory boards of bloXroute Labs, a blockchain scaling startup, and Intentionet, an SDN startup.
He has been active as a long-distance runner throughout his career, with a best marathon time of 2:46:51. He was also President of Greater Boston Track Club from 2004 to 2010 and now runs with Old Xavierians Athletic Club in Melbourne.
External links
L. Peterson and B. Davie. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 5th Edition, 2012.
B. Davie and Y. Rekhter. MPLS: Technology and Applications. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2000.
References
Australian computer scientists
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20Gallagher | Jackson Gallagher is an Australian actor and professional photographer from Victoria, Australia. Gallagher began his career starring in the Nine Network children's series The Saddle Club and later ventured into film playing the titular character in the 2013 horror film Patrick. He gained wider recognition for his role as Josh Barrett in the soap opera Home and Away. He left the series in 2016 and soon secured more television roles including AFL player Connor Marrello in the Network Ten drama series Playing for Keeps. He has also completed additional film roles scheduled for release in 2019. Aside from acting Gallagher has worked as a stills photographer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network.
Early life
Gallagher was born in Melbourne and his family moved to Daylesford, Victoria. They made home on a one-hundred-acre farm which allowed Gallagher to practise horse riding. When he finished school Gallagher went to New York City and found work in a circus and later as a photography assistant. There he developed a liking for photography. He also studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. He secured a pre-med course at Melbourne University which he opted to quit in favour of completing a Bachelor of Arts in film and anthropology. He graduated from the university in 2012. In 2014, Gallagher was caught up in two rockfalls while on a climbing expedition at the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. He escaped without any injuries.
Career
Gallagher began his career starring in the Nine Network children's series The Saddle Club as Ashley 'Chewie' Becker. The actor later went onto secure his first film role in the 2013 horror genre film Patrick. He played the titular character, but spent most of the film shoot bedbound. Film director Mark Hartley praised Gallagher's performance for bringing "inner menace" to the role.
In 2013 Gallagher worked as a professional photographer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network. He has stated that being a still photographer for the network allowed him to learn on-set technique. That year Gallagher joined the cast of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing the role of Josh Barrett. He was joined by Tai Hara who played his on-screen brother Andy Barrett. The two characters appeared in their own stand-alone webisodes titled Home and Away Extras, before making their debuts in the main show. Gallagher was hesitant about auditioning for the role of a sixteen-year-old because he thought he looked too old which could ruin his chances of success. He auditioned for the role on a Friday and was offered the role the following Monday. At the time Gallagher said "whatever idea they had in their heads of Josh, I happened to fit that image." The actor relocated to Sydney for filming and recalled being "terrified" about completing his first day on set. Jackson remained in the role for three years before he was written out in 2016.
In 2016, the actor played the part of gay character Kyle in Josh Thoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202008 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2008 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Best%20%28disambiguation%29 | Michael Best is an American law firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Michael Best may also refer to:
Michael Best (tenor), American operatic tenor
Michael L. Best, American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barca%20d%27Alva%E2%80%93La%20Fuente%20de%20San%20Esteban%20railway | The Barca d'Alva–La Fuente de San Esteban railway is a closed Iberian gauge line which connected on the Linha do Douro, in northeastern Portugal, to the Spanish railway network. Passenger and cargo trains ran from Porto to Salamanca from its opening in 1887 until its closure on the Spanish side in 1985, with the Portuguese side also subsequently truncated to Pocinho three years later.
See also
History of rail transport in Spain
History of rail transport in Portugal
References
Railway lines in Spain
Bar
Railway lines opened in 1887
Railway lines closed in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal%20Arbel | Tal Arbel is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill University who specialises in computer vision. She is interested in the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Early life and education
Arbel was born in Montreal. Arbel's father was an electrical engineer. As a child Arbel was given a TRS-80 computer, which she used to play video games like pong. Alongside her computer, Arbel's father encouraged her to play with model planes and Lego. She studied science at CEGEP, before joining McGill University for her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. She completed her Bachelor's (1992), Master's (1995) and PhD (2000) at McGill University. Her PhD considered object recognition using entropy maps. Her PhD thesis was awarded the D.W. Ambridge Prize for the best dissertation in Physical Sciences and Engineering at McGill University. After completing her PhD, Arbel worked at the Montreal Neurological Hospital, where she developed computer vision methods for neurology and neurosurgery. She became interested in using software to detect tumours and lesions in brain images.
Career
She works on algorithms to interpret medical images, which are used to assist in drug discovery and diagnostics. She is particularly interested in graphical models for pathology in large datasets of patient images. Her software can be used for image-guided neurosurgery. She was appointed to McGill University as a Research associate in 2000 and made an Assistant Professor in 2001. She has worked on facial attribute classification and labelling in real-world videos. She received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to launch the Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program in Medical Image Analysis (CREATE-MIA) program.
At McGill, Arbel leads the Probabilistic Vision Group, which is part of the Centre for Intelligent Machines. She is also an Associate Member of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA). She is interested in the biomarkers that can be used to improve medical care for people who suffer from Multiple Sclerosis. This project is a collaboration with Dr. Arnold at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital and looks to identify Multiple Sclerosis lesions from magnetic resonance images. She created an Adaptive Multi-level Conditional Random Field (AMCRF) framework that can leverage spatial and temporal information. She demonstrated that cortical folding patterns in the brain vary over the population. Her recent work looks to use deep learning in medical image analysis. For MS diagnostics, including a 3D MS lesion segmentation convolutional neural network (CNN). In an effort for to understand brain morphometry, Arbel has developed models for computational neuroanatomy.
Arbel is the first woman to be made a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill University. She is committed to improving diversity in engineering, and is part of several women in computer vision committees. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhillock%20Substation | Blackhillock Substation is an electrical substation located in the north east of Scotland, near the town of Keith in Moray.
It is owned and operated by Scottish Southern Electricity Network (SSEN). Covering an area the size of 24 football pitches, it is as of January 2019, the UK's largest substation and Europe's second biggest.
Construction began in early 2015 to upgrade the existing substation so it could accommodate the new 1,200 MW Caithness - Moray Link. The £1bn construction project had four main elements: 400kV and 132kV gas-insulated substations, one 275kV air-insulated substation, a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) converter for the Caithness - Moray subsea link and a HVDC underground cable from the substation to Portgordon. In January 2019 construction and commissioning were completed making it the UK's largest operating substation. It is seen as integral to the UK electricity grid as the north of Scotland generates much renewable energy via windfarms. The upgrade was primarily done to accommodate the Beatrice Windfarm.
A 300 MW / 600 MWh grid battery started construction at the site in 2023.
See also
Electrical Generation in the UK
Renewable energy in the United Kingdom
References
National Grid (Great Britain)
Converter stations
Buildings and structures in Moray
Electric power infrastructure in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%20Radio | UFO Radio (also known as UFO Network) is a radio station in Taiwan.
The station covers Chinese music and talk. It also plays international, country, rock, and folk music. UFO Radio was launched on 16 October 1996. It has the slogan "Air Dreamer" (空中的夢想家).
References
External links
UFO Radio website
1996 establishments in Taiwan
Radio stations established in 1996
Radio stations in Taiwan
Chinese-language radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAS%20file%20format | The LAS (LASer) format is a file format designed for the interchange and archiving of lidar point cloud data. It is an open, binary format specified by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). The format is widely used and regarded as an industry standard for lidar data.
File structure
A LAS file consists of the following overall sections:
Point data records
A LAS file contains point records in one of the point data record formats defined by the LAS specification; as of LAS 1.4, there are 11 point data record formats (0 through 10) available. All point data records must be of the same format within the file. The various formats differ in the data fields available, such as GPS time, RGB and NIR color and wave packet information.
The 3D point coordinates are represented within the point data records by 32-bit integers, to which a scaling and offset defined in the public header must be applied in order to obtain the actual coordinates.
As the number of bytes used per point data record is explicitly given in the public header block, it is possible to add user-defined fields in "extra bytes" to the fields given by the specification-defined point data record formats. A standardized way of interpreting such extra bytes was introduced in the LAS 1.4 specification, in the form of a specific EVLR.
Compression
LAS file format is not compressed but there is an open source project LASzip which defined the open file format LAZ to losslessly compress LAS data.
References
External links
LASer (LAS) File Format Exchange Activities at American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Official ASPRS LAS Page on GitHub
GIS file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCFTA | NCFTA may refer to:
National Center for Traditional Arts, an art center in Taiwan
National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance, a corporation in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202019%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
ARIA Charts
2019 in music
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2019
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive%20research | Intrusive research is the gathering of data from individuals through interviewing, observation, or surveying, when consent is legally required, yet the test subjects don't have the capacity to give such consent due to mental illness or developmental disability. It is a legal issue addressed by the United Kingdom Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Intrusive research and UK's Mental Capacity Act
UK's Mental Capacity Act 2005 criminalizes intrusive research if it was carried out without securing the consent of the person involved, who has the mental capacity to make the decision. It is also unlawful to involve a person lacking mental capacity without the approval of an "appropriate body". The appropriate body pertains to the authority appointed by the Secretary of State in England and the National Assembly for Wales (e.g. Research Ethics Committee). The Act also applies to non-interventional research such as observational research. The law provides the statutory framework and provisions for the participation of people without the capacity to give consent in intrusive research.
The Act also applies to clinical trials of treatments and procedures, but doesn't apply to trials of medicinal products, for which there is a separate regulation (The Medicines for Human Use Regulations, 2004).
The Mental capacity Act code of practice, 2007, gives examples of intrusive research:
Clinical research into new types of treatments (except clinical trials of medicines that are covered by separate regulations)
Health or social care services research to evaluate the effectiveness of a policy intervention or service innovation.
Research in other fields, (e.g. criminal justice, psychological studies, lifestyle or socioeconomic surveys)
Research on tissue samples (i.e. tissue removed during surgical or diagnostic procedures)
Research on health and other personal data collected from records.
Observations, photography or videoing of humans.
Other usage
A broader conceptualization defines intrusive research as a method of data gathering that entails the participation of the investigator as opposed to non-participant observation. It includes various types of interviews such as structured interview and in-depth interview.
See also
Regulation of science
Scientific ethics
References
Medical research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dark%20Overlord%20%28hacker%20group%29 | The Dark Overlord (also known as the TDO) is an international hacker organization which garnered significant publicity through cybercrime extortion of high-profile targets and public demands for ransom to prevent the release of confidential or potentially embarrassing documents.
The group gained its initial notoriety through the sale of stolen medical records on TheRealDeal, a darkweb marketplace. Major targets for the group included the extortion of Netflix, which resulted in the leak of unreleased episodes of the series Orange Is the New Black, and Disney.
In 2017, the group broke its trend of hacking and extortion, and began a series of terror-based attacks starting with the Columbia Falls school district in Montana. The group sent life-threatening text messages to students and their parents, demanding payment to prevent the murder of children. These attacks forced the closure of more than 30 schools across multiple school districts, resulting in more than 15,000 students being home from school for an entire week. During a senate committee hearing Senator Steve Daines (MO) referred to these attacks as "unprecedented".
On December 31, 2018, TDO announced the Lloyd's of London and Silverstein Properties "9/11 Papers" hack on Twitter, with thousands of incriminating documents to be released in stages unless US$2,000,000 in bitcoin were paid.
TDO was subsequently banned from many social media platforms including Twitter, Reddit, Pastebin and removed from the front end of an uncensorable blockchain called Steem/Hive. Platforms unrelated to TDO such as www.hpub.org also had their social media accounts eliminated or followers deleted for serving as mirrors of TDO hacked documents.
Arrests
Nathan Wyatt, a member of The Dark Overlord hacking group was extradited from the UK to the US in December 2019 to face charges in St. Louis for his involvement in the group. According to the charges, Wyatt "conspired to steal sensitive personally identifying information from victim companies and release those records on criminal marketplaces unless victims paid Bitcoin ransoms. In September 2020 Wyatt was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison on a charge of " conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and computer fraud" and was ordered to pay almost $1.5 million in restitution.
Attribution
In 2020, the group became the feature of Hunting Cyber Criminals, a non-fiction book by cybersecurity author Vinny Troia (Wiley Books). In the book, Troia suggest the core members are two teenage boys, Christopher Meunier and Dionysios "Dennis" Karvouniaris, living in Calgary, Canada. He also claimed that members of The Dark Overlord became part of ShinyHunters and GnosticPlayers.
The majority of research on the group's history and attribution was published in an investigative report titled "The Dark Overlord: Cyber Investigation Report", published by Night Lion Security and authored by security researcher Vinny Troia. The report claims that the core members of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoHunter | NeoHunter is a video game developed by American studio Ronin Entertainment and published by Virgin Interactive for MS-DOS and Windows in 1996.
Gameplay
NeoHunter is an action game with a cyberpunk theme, and dialogue written by author Orson Scott Card.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "This is an awful game. Look at the box, you might not think so. [...] But don't be fooled."
Reviews
PC Player (Germany) - Jan, 1997
Computer Gaming World - Mar, 1997
Computer Games Magazine - 1996
References
1996 video games
Action games
Cyberpunk video games
DOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Ronin Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Virgin Interactive games
Windows games
Works by Orson Scott Card |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNRS%20conjecture | In theoretical computer science and metric geometry, the GNRS conjecture connects the theory of graph minors, the stretch factor of embeddings, and the approximation ratio of multi-commodity flow problems. It is named after Anupam Gupta, Ilan Newman, Yuri Rabinovich, and Alistair Sinclair, who formulated it in 2004.
Formulation
One formulation of the conjecture involves embeddings of the shortest path distances of weighted undirected graphs into spaces, real vector spaces in which the distance between two vectors is the sum of their coordinate differences. If an embedding maps all pairs of vertices with distance to pairs of vectors with distance in the range then its stretch factor or distortion is the ratio ; an isometry has stretch factor one, and all other embeddings have greater stretch factor.
The graphs that have an embedding with at most a given distortion are closed under graph minor operations, operations that delete vertices or edges from a graph or contract some of its edges. The GNRS conjecture states that, conversely, every minor-closed family of graphs, other than the family of all graphs, can be embedded into an space with bounded distortion. That is, the distortion of graphs in the family is bounded by a constant that depends on the family but not on the individual graphs. For instance, the planar graphs are closed under minors. Therefore, it would follow from the GNRS conjecture that the planar graphs have bounded distortion.
An alternative formulation involves analogues of the max-flow min-cut theorem for undirected multi-commodity flow problems. The ratio of the maximum flow to the minimum cut, in such problems, is known as the flow-cut gap. The largest flow-cut gap that a flow problem can have on a given graph equals the distortion of the optimal embedding of the graph. Therefore, the GNRS conjecture can be rephrased as stating that the minor-closed families of graphs have bounded flow-cut gap.
Related results
Arbitrary -vertex graphs (indeed, arbitrary -point metric spaces) have embeddings with distortion . Some graphs have logarithmic flow-cut gap, and in particular this is true for a multicommodity flow with every pair of vertices having equal demand on a bounded-degree expander graph. Therefore, this logarithmic bound on the distortion of arbitrary graphs is tight. Planar graphs can be embedded with smaller distortion, .
Although the GNRS conjecture remains unsolved, it has been proven for some minor-closed graph families that bounded-distortion embeddings exist. These include the series–parallel graphs and the graphs of bounded circuit rank, the graphs of bounded pathwidth, the 2-clique-sums of graphs of bounded size, and the -outerplanar graphs.
In contrast to the behavior of metric embeddings into spaces, every finite metric space has embeddings into with stretch arbitrarily close to one by the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, and into spaces with stretch exactly one by the tight span construction.
See also
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20cut%20optimization | Graph cut optimization is a combinatorial optimization method applicable to a family of functions of discrete variables, named after the concept of cut in the theory of flow networks. Thanks to the max-flow min-cut theorem, determining the minimum cut over a graph representing a flow network is equivalent to computing the maximum flow over the network. Given a pseudo-Boolean function , if it is possible to construct a flow network with positive weights such that
each cut of the network can be mapped to an assignment of variables to (and vice versa), and
the cost of equals (up to an additive constant)
then it is possible to find the global optimum of in polynomial time by computing a minimum cut of the graph. The mapping between cuts and variable assignments is done by representing each variable with one node in the graph and, given a cut, each variable will have a value of 0 if the corresponding node belongs to the component connected to the source, or 1 if it belong to the component connected to the sink.
Not all pseudo-Boolean functions can be represented by a flow network, and in the general case the global optimization problem is NP-hard. There exist sufficient conditions to characterise families of functions that can be optimised through graph cuts, such as submodular quadratic functions. Graph cut optimization can be extended to functions of discrete variables with a finite number of values, that can be approached with iterative algorithms with strong optimality properties, computing one graph cut at each iteration.
Graph cut optimization is an important tool for inference over graphical models such as Markov random fields or conditional random fields, and it has applications in computer vision problems such as image segmentation, denoising, registration and stereo matching.
Representability
A pseudo-Boolean function is said to be representable if there exists a graph with non-negative weights and with source and sink nodes and respectively, and there exists a set of nodes such that, for each tuple of values assigned to the variables, equals (up to a constant) the value of the flow determined by a minimum cut of the graph such that if and if .
It is possible to classify pseudo-Boolean functions according to their order, determined by the maximum number of variables contributing to each single term. All first order functions, where each term depends upon at most one variable, are always representable. Quadratic functions
are representable if and only if they are submodular, i.e. for each quadratic term the following condition is satisfied
Cubic functions
are representable if and only if they are regular, i.e. all possible binary projections to two variables, obtained by fixing the value of the remaining variable, are submodular. For higher-order functions, regularity is a necessary condition for representability.
Graph construction
Graph construction for a representable function is simplified by the fact that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria%20TV%20%28Turkey%29 | Syria TV (, transliterated: ) is a pro-opposition Syrian television network launched in March 2018 in Istanbul. It broadcasts a variety of programs and news shows in Arabic, covering society, politics, entertainment and culture. The channel's headquarters are currently in Istanbul. Syria TV is part of the Fadaat Media network, of which Qatari sponsored The New Arab is also a member
Syria TV, according to the station's profile, aims at "bridging the spaces and gaps between the members of
the Syrian nation.", by trying to reflect the conditions Syrians encounter, both inside Syria and abroad. The channel is said to being funded by Syrian and Arab businessmen.
The current CEO of the channel is Hamzah Al-Mustafa.
Political Stance
The former channel's CEO Anas Azrak told The New Arab newspaper during an interview that the channel is "for all Syrians with the exception of the killers." He added that Syria TV will be the platform the for the people "who want Syria to be a united, civil country, where power is transferred through elections and the rule of law prevails"
Azraq added that the channel will try to transmit the values of the Syrian Revolution. "We refuse to view Syrians based on their religious beliefs, ethnicity or where they are from," he said.
The new channel aims at filling a void in the partisan Syrian media landscape.
Syria TV Programs
Syria TV station broadcast programs discussing Syrian people issues, whether inside or outside Syria, along with airing other variety programs discussing different issues, whether political, social, economic, and/or cultural.
Reunion
A daily window overlooking at Syrians’ major issues, whether inside Syria or in exile. This window tries to touch upon Syrians’ daily life, and to get them together, regardless of their different views or opinions, throughout 2 hours. This can be achieved via discussing Syrian people's sufferings, fears, and joys. The Program topic, which is presented by Ayham Nabei, Yara Edriss, Abed Molhem, Assiya Hisham, and Noor Abdulrahman, is based on Syrian families reunion via social media. So, it is inspired from what is often discussed at WhatsApp/Facebook family groups. So, this topic is meant to create a platform capable of unifying the Syrians, inspired by social media tools, but it is using television tools instead. This means that this program is following up the stories taken from real life along with tracking Syrians’ reactions at social media. Thus, the program serves as a two-way social platform depending on viewers. Probably, Media Talk section, being dependent on social media platforms, as it reports the latest news circulated there, is the section that is based so much on this pattern, along with other sections such as: What Happened? Our Families, and Extra Time.
Exclusive Interview
A program presenting a weekly interview with political figures influencing Syrian reality, wherein they will be asked direct questions about current issues related to Syria.
The B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Cybersecurity | The Journal of Cybersecurity is an open access peer reviewed academic journal of cybersecurity. It is published by Oxford University Press. It was first issued in 2015.
Its editors in chief are Tyler Moore and David Pym.
The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal concentrates on the belief that computer science approaches are critical, but are not enough to tackle cybersecurity threats. Moreover, the article maintains the belief that interdisciplinary academic contributions are needed to understand the different facets of cybersecurity.
References
Oxford University Press academic journals
Open access journals
Computer science journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Effros | Michelle Effros is the George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She has made significant contributions to data compression.
Early life and education
Effros earned her bachelor's degree at Stanford University in 1989. She was awarded the Stanford University Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award for excellence in engineering. She remained there for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1990 and a PhD in 1994. She worked under the supervision of Robert M. Gray. She spent 1988 and 1989 at Hughes Aircraft Company, studying modulation schemes and future space technology. Her graduate studies were supported by the Hughes Aircraft Company, National Science Foundation and AT&T. She worked on lossy and lossless compression and source coding.
Research
She moved to California Institute of Technology in 1994 as an assistant professor. Here she founded the Caltech Data Compression Lab, where she continued her work in source coding and point-to-point networks. In the Data Compression Lab, Effros investigates network source coding. Her work was initially supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She established ways to calculate the capacity of large communication networks, building computational tools to bound them. She has written about the rise of wireless networks and their independence of fix infrastructure. Working with Qian Zhao, Effros developed a new technique to compress data using a multiple access source code. In 2001 Effros was selected as one of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Top Innovators Under 35. She introduced an approach that used random linear network coding to transmit and compress information. They went on to show the benefits of this technique over routing-based approaches.
Effros was awarded the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2009 for her work on linear network coding. In 2015 she served as President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society. She delivered a talk at the Claude Shannon Centennial Symposium, discussing communication theory and reliability.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
Electrical engineering academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager%20I%20%28video%20game%29 | Voyager I: Sabotage of the Robot Ship is a computer game designed and programmed by William D. Volk, and published by the Microcomputer Games division of Avalon Hill. It was originally released for the Apple II in 1981, with later versions for the Atari 8-bit family, TRS-80 Color Computer, TRS-80, and Commodore PET.
Gameplay
Voyager I is a real-time science fiction game in which the player must prevent an alien ship from destroying Earth.
Reception
Dave Jones reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "I feel that while the graphics of Voyager I are good the game design itself is too simplistic to hold the interest of the average computer game player for very long. If persistence is your "thing" you will find Voyager I interesting but those who enjoy employing strategies or arcade arcade skills will probably want to look elsewhere."
Bruce Berrien reviewed Voyager I in Space Gamer No. 67. Berrien commented that "the game is slow-moving and rather boring [...] Voyager I quickly becomes predictable."
References
External links
Softalk review
1981 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Commodore PET games
FM-7 games
Microcomputer Games games
NEC PC-8801 games
Space combat simulators
TRS-80 games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia%20Harlan | Olivia Harlan Dekker (born April 8, 1993) is an American sportscaster, working as a sideline reporter for ESPN College Football, the NFL on Westwood One Sports, and Big Ten Network basketball.
Early life and education
Harlan grew up in Mission Hills, Kansas. Her father is play-by-play announcer Kevin Harlan. Her grandfather is former Green Bay Packers chief executive officer Bob Harlan. She was named Miss Kansas Teen USA in 2010. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2014.
Career
Harlan has covered SEC and ACC football for FOX Sports South and Raycom. She has co-hosted a daily Green Bay Packers training camp web series and worked as a sideline reporter for preseason games on Packers TV Network. She has been a sideline reporter for Atlanta Hawks games on FOX Sports South. With her father Kevin Harlan as play-by-play announcer and Olivia as sideline reporter, the Harlans became the first father-daughter duo to call an NFL game together. She joined ESPN in 2015. She covered World TeamTennis for CBS Sports in 2019. In 2020, she covered football games for the Big Ten Network. In 2021, she joined BetMGM as host.
Personal life
Harlan has three brothers and sisters. She is married to professional basketball player Sam Dekker with whom she has a son. The couple was named 2018 People of the Year by The Sheboygan Press. She serves on the board of directors for the Children's Cancer Family Foundation.
References
External links
Olivia Harlan profile at ESPN Media Zone
1993 births
Living people
ESPN people
American sports journalists
Green Bay Packers announcers
University of Georgia alumni
Women sports commentators
National Football League announcers
College football announcers
National Basketball Association broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Reid%20%28entertainment%20reporter%29 | Richard Reid is an Australian-based American entertainment reporter. He is known for his daily Hollywood gossip segment on the Nine Network's breakfast program Today from 2006 until 2015. During this time, he was also the resident style expert on Nine's makeover show, Domestic Blitz and appeared on other Nine programs such as 20 to One.
More recently, he has been a regular contributor to Network Ten's morning program, Studio 10.
In 2015, Reid appeared on the fourth season of Nine's reality show, The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
In 2019, Reid appeared on the fifth season of Network Ten reality show, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Early life
Reid studied at Hunter College in New York City, where he graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences with honours in the film and theatre literature degree.
Biography
Hired as an entertainment reporter for Northwest Cable News in Seattle, Washington, Reid caused a stir in 1999 when he became the first openly gay on-air personality in the region. He quickly became known for his hilarious celebrity interviews, insider gossip and his ‘Richard’s Reels’ movie reviews.
In 2004, Reid moved to Hollywood and established a name for himself as a producer, creating daily stories for Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider and the E! Network. While working on the Paramount Pictures lot, he began doing the occasional gossip cross for the Australian Today Show which immediately caught on with viewers. Soon, that once-a-week segment became a permanent fixture, culminating with four live crosses to Hollywood each and every day. He remained with the show for 8 years.
In 2008, Reid joined forces with Scott Cam and Shelley Craft as a team member on the popular Sunday night reality series Domestic Blitz. The show ran for four series.
From 2009 to 2015, Reid has been an entertainment and Hollywood gossip reporter on radio shows The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Australian station 2Day FM, Morning Crew on Malaysian station Hitz.fm and on the Breakfast show on South African station Jacaranda FM.
Having parted ways with Today in 2015, he would return to the Nine Network in the same year as a cast member on the fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia. While he appeared on every episode, he was fired in a double elimination on the second to the last episode.
In 2019, Reid returned to the reality show genre, participating in the fifth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in South Africa. He was crowned "King of the Jungle" after winning the series, which had high viewer ratings.
In July 2019, Reid made his Australian stage debut in Bonnie Lythgoe’s spectacular 3D musical production of Jack and Beanstalk at Sydney's historic State Theatre.
Dividing his time between Los Angeles and Sydney, Reid appears as a contributing panelist on Network Ten's morning show Studio Ten.
In February 2020, Reid was featured in First Dates Australia.
References
External links
1968 births
Living pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam.py%20%28web%20framework%29 | Jam.py is event driven low-code development platform for database-driven business web applications, based on DRY principle, with emphasis on CRUD.
Jam.py is free and open-source low-code/no-code "full stack" WSGI rapid application development framework for the JavaScript and Python programming language.
The server component runs on any computer with Python 2.6 or later.
It offers a built-in web server, GUI builder and database access for third-party databases.
Features
Single distribution which runs with both Python 2.6+ and 3.x
Can run as a standalone web development server or be used with any web server which supports WSGI
Built-in GUI builder called Application Builder
Support for JSON client data (for REST and JavaScript clients)
Support for popular databases Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Firebird (database server), SQLCipher
Example
The following code shows a simple web application that displays "Hello World!" when visited:
Task/client module:
task.create_menu($("#menu"), $("#content"), {
splash_screen: '<h1 class="text-center">Hello World!</h1>',
view_first: true
});
PythonAnywhere
PythonAnywhere Python 3.x deployment is supported
Awards
2015. 10 Best Frameworks for Web Design
2016. 35 Best HTML5 and CSS3 Responsive Frameworks
Notes
References
See also
Flask (web framework)
Pylons project
Web2py
Django (web framework)
Comparison of web frameworks
List of low-code development platforms
External links
2015 software
Free software programmed in Python
Python (programming language) web frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantara%20Satu | Nusantara Satu (formerly known as PSN VI or PSN-6) is an Indonesian communications satellite. It is a large high-throughput satellite (HTS) providing voice and data communications, and Internet access throughout the Indonesian archipelago and Southeast Asia.
Nusantara Satu was built by Space Systems Loral (SSL) and was launched on 22 February 2019 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 launch vehicle along with the satellite Beresheet (2019-009B) Moon lander by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the microsat S5 (2019-009D) by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Overview
Nusantara Satu is a communications satellite developed and designed by SSL for PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), the first private company in the telecommunications and information services sector in Indonesia. The project's cost is US$230 million.
The massive satellite features solar-electric ion thrusters but also employs conventional chemical propellant for stationkeeping while in orbit.
Service
The Nusantara Satu satellite carries 26 C-band, 12 extended C-band transponders and 8 Ku-band transponders. The satellite offers a total bandwidth of 15 gigabits per second. Its expected service time is a minimum of 15 years. It will provide communications links to rural parts of Indonesia, allowing PSN to expand broadband internet services into these regions.
References
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
SpaceX commercial payloads
Communications in Indonesia
Satellites using the SSL 1300 bus
Spacecraft launched in 2019
2019 in Indonesia
Satellites of Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet%20%28series%208%29 | The eighth series of the British comedy-drama television series Cold Feet aired on the ITV network during January 2019.
Cast
Main
James Nesbitt as Adam Williams
Robert Bathurst as David Marsden
Hermione Norris as Karen Marsden
John Thomson as Pete Gifford
Fay Ripley as Jenny Gifford
Ceallach Spellman as Matt Williams
Supporting
Jacey Salles as Ramona Ramirez
Daisy Edgar-Jones as Olivia Marsden
Sylvie Briggs as Ellie Marsden
Jack Harper as Adam Gifford
Madeleine Edmondson as Chloe Gifford
Siobhan Finneran as Nikki Kirkbright
Lucy Robinson as Robyn Duff
Eve Myles as Karen's friend and Adam's love interest - Caitlin Henderson
Guest
Episodes
Production
ITV commissioned an eighth series of Cold Feet, the third since its 2016 revival, on 30 October 2017. The series began filming in Manchester on 19 March 2018 and continued until July. It will begin airing in January 2019.
References
External links
2019 British television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdeaList | IdeaList was a commercially marketed free form text database application originally published by Blackwell Software, a division of Blackwell Science Ltd. The incomplete software source for version 4.0 was sold in the late 1990s to Bekon Marketing Ltd. who continued to develop the product up to version 5.5 before trading ceased.
IdeaList originated as a DOS program, later 16 bit and 32 bit versions were developed for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh computers. The software allowed complete textual documents to be entered into a database and had built in text retrieval (search) functions to allow rapid retrieval of documents. It featured script programming to allow it to carry out tasks such as printing to labels, envelopes or letters and was also capable of publishing standalone search-only databases.
References
External links
Idealist Google Group
CHIC - Idealist in Museums
(abstract) Idealist for Windows 3.0 ISSN 1753-8548 EUP
Idealist for Windows User's Guide
Idealist for Macintosh User's Guide
Discontinued software
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Personal information managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapp%20%28disambiguation%29 | Snapp is a village in Västerbotten County, Sweden.
Snapp or SNAPP may also refer to:
Science for Nature and People Partnership, a nature conservation initiative
Snapp!, a transportation network company operating in Iran
SNAPPs, an artificially designed polymer
People
Helen Wyatt Snapp (1918–2013), American aviator
Henry Snapp (1822–1895), American politician
Howard M. Snapp (1855–1938), American politician
Red Snapp (1888–1974), American baseball player
Wilbur Snapp (1920–2003), American musician
See also
Snapp House (disambiguation)
Snapper (disambiguation)
Snappy (disambiguation)
Snap (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Awyu | North Awyu is a Papuan language of Papua, Indonesia. Its exact position within the Awyu languages is unclear due to lack of data.
References
Languages of western New Guinea
Awyu–Dumut languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikarinen | Oikarinen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Toivo Oikarinen (1924–2003), Finnish cross country skier
Jarkko Oikarinen (born 1967), Finnish computer scientist
Ossi Oikarinen (born 1970), Finnish engineer
Finnish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Siegel%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David Mark Siegel (born 1961) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He co-founded Two Sigma, where he currently serves as co-chairman. Siegel has written for Business Insider, The New York Times, Financial Times and similar publications on topics including machine learning, the future of work, and the impact of algorithms used by search and social media companies.
Early life and education
Siegel was born in 1961 and spent his early childhood in the Bronx, New York and focused on computer science at a young age. By 12 years old, he had built memory and logic boards and learned to program a supercomputer at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. As a freshman in high school, he taught a programming course to high school students at an NYU summer program.
After attending Mamaroneck High School, Siegel graduated from Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science and he went on to receive a PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There, he conducted research at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and developed thermal and tactile sensors for the Utah-MIT dexterous four-fingered hand, as well as a computational architecture for controlling the system.
Career
After leaving MIT, Siegel worked alongside Jeff Bezos at D.E. Shaw & Co and became the company's first Chief Information Officer. During this time he founded FarSight Financial Services, the first integrated personal financial services website. FarSight performed the first retail stock trade on the Internet and was acquired by Merrill Lynch. He later served as Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director at Tudor Investment Corporation. In 1999, Siegel founded Blink.com, a web-based browser bookmark storage, organization, and sharing service that automatically searched for new sites related to users' existing bookmarks. Blink was later sold to the Vendare Group.
Two Sigma
In 2001, Siegel co-founded Two Sigma, a New York City-based company that applies data science and technology to financial services. Siegel has stated that he believes investment managers that take a scientific approach to investing – by using machines, data, and artificial intelligence – have a distinct advantage. Two Sigma now manages $60B assets globally, and has offices in New York, Houston, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It employs approximately 1,600 people — two thirds in research and development roles, with science and math backgrounds, including about 250 people with Ph.D.s.
Siegel has spoken about encouraging employees to branch out from their daily work at Two Sigma, taking on outside engineering challenges and coding competitions. In May 2019, a Two Sigma team competed in the inaugural New York City FIRST robotics corporate challenge after setting up a temporary robotics lab in its New York office.
Siegel supports employees contributing to the company's Data Clinic, which uses the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nake | Nake may refer to:
Nake language
Frieder Nake (born 1938), mathematician, computer scientist, and computer artist
Nake M. Kamrany (born 1934), American economist and academic
See also
Knake (disambiguation)
Knacke (disambiguation)
Naked (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Russell%20%28actor%29 | Nicholas Russell is an Australian television actor, producer and director from Melbourne. Known professionally as Nick Russell, he began his career aged twelve when he starred in the Nine Network children's series Pig's Breakfast as Rodney Green. He studied science/law at university and took a job with a law firm which filled his time between acting roles which included guest parts on the soap opera Neighbours and the comedy drama series Sleuth 101.
When he decided to focus solely on acting, Russell began to secure numerous television roles during 2014. His most prominent role came as Gabe Reynolds on the Seven Network drama series Winners & Losers. In 2018, he played Brody Schneider in the Network Ten drama series Playing for Keeps. Aside from acting, Russell owns a production company.
Early life
Russell wanted to become an actor during high school. He attended a private school and became the school captain. Russell's drama teacher had received a casting call for the Nine Network children's series Pig's Breakfast. He put Russell forward and he secured his first acting role aged twelve. He was then credited as Nicholas Russell.
After leaving school, Russell decided to study a double science and law degree at Monash University. In 2011, he took work at a law firm in Melbourne. Russell practised law because he needed a profession in case his acting career was unsuccessful. In 2012, Russell thought that his career in law had overshadowed his acting career and decided to solely concentrate on gaining roles.
Russell lives in Melbourne and is married to solicitor Stephanie Russell. They have two children together.
Career
Russell appeared in three short films during the 2000s titled A World of His Own (2000), Soma (2007) and Signs (2008). His television roles following A Pig's Breakfast include Johnny Brightstar in Nine Network series The Saddle Club, David in My Brother Jack and a small role in Showcase drama Satisfaction. In 2007, he appeared as Caleb Maloney in the soap opera Neighbours. He later appeared as Cary in the 2010 ABC1 comedy series Sleuth 101.
After leaving his law career permanently, Russell secured many roles. He played Vincent Foster in ABC drama series The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Andrew Hodson in the Nine Network drama Fat Tony & Co. and Damian in the Australian comedy show Utopia. Russell then joined the cast of the Seven Network drama series Winners & Losers, playing Gabe Reynolds. The character was originally intended to be a small role in which Gabe would be a one-night stand of main character Jenny Gross (Melissa Bergland). Producers liked the chemistry between the two and made Gabe a permanent role in the series. Russell also secured a lead role in the television pilot titled Minimum Way as Tim. The show focuses on the poor running of a dysfunctional city bar.
In 2018, Russell secured the guest role of Brody Schneider in the Network Ten drama series Playing for Keeps. In August that year it was announced that Russell woul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbriar%20Capital%20Corp | Greenbriar Capital Corp is a developer of real estate, real estate blockchain, artificial intelligence, and renewable energy. Greenbriar targets deep value assets directed at shareholder value. Greenbriar is a public company and trades on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol GRB.
History
Greenbriar Capital Corp is a US-based company founded by Jeff Ciachurski in 2009, a Canadian citizen who develops renewable energy projects and real estate properties around the world. The company has developed an 80-megawatt wind energy project in Utah, a 100 Megawatt solar project in Puerto Rico and a 1,072 unit housing project in California. The company headquarters is in Boise, Idaho.
Jeff Ciachurski is the CEO of Greenbriar Capital Corp., and previously the founder of Western Wind Energy Corp. Ciachurski created Western Wind Energy in 2002 with $250,000 in start-up capital and subsequently sold the company in 2013 to a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management for $420 Million in cash.
References
External links
Companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange
American companies established in 2009
Companies based in Boise, Idaho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N7%20highway | National Route 7 (N7) is a , two to six lane, major primary route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, running from Bacolod to Bayawan in the island of Negros.
Route description
Bacolod
The route starts at the intersection of N69 (Negros Occidental Eco-Tourism Highway / Alijis Road) and N6 (Bacolod South Road / Lacson Street), which it continues, in Bacolod, the capital city of Negros Occidental. It then heads north towards downtown Bacolod.
Bacolod to San Carlos
The route continues north as Bacolod North Road from the Negros Occidental kilometer 0 in front of the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol onwards. It traverses several municipalities and cities in the northern and eastern part of the province. After reaching the boundary of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental, the road ends and turns to Dumaguete North Road.
Vallehermoso to Dumaguete
The route continues as Dumaguete North Road from the provincial boundary of Negros Oriental onwards. Mostly a straight road with turns and curves, it traverses the eastern coastal towns and cities of Negros Oriental up to its provincial capital, Dumaguete.
Dumaguete to Bayawan
The route continues south as Dumaguete South Road from the Negros Oriental kilometer 0 in front of the Negros Oriental Provincial Capitol onwards. Unlike Dumaguete North Road, the direction is forward, which means the kilometer count is ascending. In the Dumaguete city proper, it splits into two one-way roads, i.e. Silliman Avenue and Governor Perdicles Street for southbound traffic and Real Street (Mayor Ramon T. Pastor Street) and Lamberto Macias Avenue for northbound traffic. It then traverses the southern and eastern coastal towns and cities of Negros Oriental up to Bayawan, where it ends at the intersection with N717 (Bayawan–Kabankalan Road) and N712, which continues Dumaguete South Road to the rest of the province.
History
The direct predecessor of N7 is Highway 1 that inscribed Negros Island incompletely. Highway Routes were announced during 2014 as part of the new Philippine highway network.
References
Roads in Negros Occidental
Roads in Negros Oriental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20D.%20Guiry | Michael Dominic Richard Guiry (born 1949), is an Irish botanist, who specialises in phycology (algae). See for example the articles. He is the founder and director of the algal database, AlgaeBase.
He is a graduate of both University College Cork and the University of London. In addition to his interest in the taxonomy and the databasing of algae, his algal site promotes the sustainable use of seaweed resources.
Since 2009 he has been an emeritus professor at the Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland, in Galway.
Some published names
Achnanthes armillaris (O.F.Müller) Guiry
Aglaothamnion priceanum Maggs, Guiry & Rueness
Capreolia implexa Guiry & Womersley
Chondracanthus canaliculatus (Harvey) Guiry
Chondracanthus corymbiferus (Kützing) Guiry
Nostoc flagelliforme Harvey ex Molinari, Calvo-Pérez & Guiry
(in AlgaeBase, as Guiry, over 300 algal species listed, not all currently accepted)
Publications
(incomplete)
Books
Articles
pdf
References
20th-century Irish botanists
Living people
1949 births
Phycologists
21st-century Irish botanists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Cartoon%20Network | Cartoon Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is part of The Cartoon Network, Inc. unit of the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery which primarily focuses on animated programs.
1986–1992: Development
On August 9, 1986, Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists from Kirk Kerkorian; due to concerns over the debt load of his companies, on October 18, 1986, Turner was forced to sell MGM/UA back to Kerkorian after approximately only 75 days of ownership. However, Turner kept much of MGM's film and television library made before May 1986 (as well as some of the United Artists library) and formed Turner Entertainment Co.
On October 3, 1988, its cable channel Turner Network Television was launched and had gained an audience with its extensive film library. At this time, Turner's animation library included the MGM cartoon library, the pre-1948 color Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, the Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies shorts (except Lady, Play Your Mandolin!), and the Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios Popeye cartoons.
In 1991, Turner beat out bidders including MCA Inc. (then-owner of Universal Studios) and Hallmark Cards when it made a deal to purchase the library of animation studio Hanna-Barbera for $320 million. Ted Turner selected Betty Cohen, then-Senior Vice President of TNT, to devise a network that would house these programs. Many names were proposed for the channel such as Toon City, Toon TV, Turner Toons, Toon Alley, The Cartoon Channel and Cartoonia before deciding on Cartoon Network. On February 18, 1992, Turner Broadcasting announced its plans to launch Cartoon Network as an outlet for Turner's considerable library of animation.
1992–2004: Checkerboard and Powerhouse eras
1992–1994
On October 1, 1992, Cartoon Network launched to the finale of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with a backdrop of cartoon explosions, followed by a special event titled Droopy's Guide to the Cartoon Network hosted by the MGM cartoon character Droopy, during which the first cartoon on the network, Rhapsody Rabbit, was shown. Initial programming on the channel consisted exclusively of reruns of Warner Bros. cartoons (the pre-1948 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies), the 1933–1957 Popeye cartoons, MGM cartoons, and Hanna-Barbera cartoons. At first, cable providers in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Ohio, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Dallas, and Detroit carried the channel. By the time the network launched, Cartoon Network had an 8,500-hour cartoon library. From its launch until 1995, the network's announcers said the network's name with the word "The" added before "Cartoon Network," thus calling the network "The Cartoon Network."
Cartoon Network was not the first cable channel to have relied on cartoons to attract an audience, however, it was the first 24-hour single-genre channel with animation as its m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am%20Heath%20Ledger | I Am Heath Ledger is a 2017 Paramount Network documentary film about actor Heath Ledger, who died in 2008. Directed by Adrian Buitenhuis and Derik Murray, the film presents interviews with Ledger's family and friends.
Featured cast of subjects
Heath Ledger as himself (archive footage)
Ben Harper as himself, musician and friend of Ledger's
N'fa as himself, musician and friend of Ledger's
Ben Mendelsohn as himself, actor and friend of Ledger’s
Naomi Watts as herself, actress and ex-partner of Ledger’s
Djimon Hounsou as himself, actor
Emile Hirsch as himself, actor
Ang Lee as himself, filmmaker
Matt Amato as himself, filmmaker
Catherine Hardwicke as herself, filmmaker
Edward Lachman as himself, filmmaker
Christina Cauchi as herself, model and ex-partner of Ledger’s
Justin Vernon as himself, musician (Bon Iver)
Mia Doi Todd as herself, musician
Grace Woodroofe as herself, musician
Carlos Niño as himself, music producer
Steve Alexander as himself, agent
Gerry Grennell as himself, dialect coach
Ledger's parents Sally and Kim, sisters Kate, Olivia and Ashleigh, and childhood friends
Notably Michelle Williams, ex-partner of Ledger and mother of his daughter Matilda, was not in the film.
Production
Ledger's family agreed to participate only after Williams "gave her blessing" and when Ledger's friend Matt Amato got involved in the project.
References
External links
2017 films
2017 documentary films
English-language Canadian films
Documentary films about actors
Films directed by Derik Murray
Canadian docufiction films
Heath Ledger
2010s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20to%20Amish | Return to Amish is an American reality television series on the TLC television network that debuted May 22, 2014. It is a spinoff and continuation series to Breaking Amish which ran four seasons from 2012 to 2014. The series deal with the original cast members of Breaking Amish returning to their hometowns and trying to adjust to living in their Amish communities once again, but come across problems or make choices along the way that interfere with that goal and thus remain shunned for the time being.
Production
On May 1, 2014, it was announced that Breaking Amish was spawning a spin-off, entitled Return to Amish following the Breaking Amish cast members of seasons one and two who all lived in Pennsylvania at the time of production, except for Kate, who resided in New York City. The two-hour premiere debuted on June 1, 2014, with the season airing seven episodes.
A second season of Return to Amish premiered on May 31, 2015. On June 14, 2016, the show was renewed for a third season with a premiere date of July 10, 2016. A trailer released by TLC revealed much of the original cast returning, including Mary and Sabrina, who appeared in seasons one, two and three, but was absent from the fourth. The fourth season was originally set to be Mary's last and it possibly being the final season altogether.
The show's fifth season premiered on November 18, 2018. Jeremiah, Mary, and Sabrina returned but not Abe and Rebecca. The returning three cast members were joined by several new cast members: Dawn, Shelly, Lowell, and Ada. Cast member Matt from the fourth season of Breaking Amish makes guest appearances this season. The season follows Jeremiah and his wife Carmela as they travel across country running their donut business with the help of Amish and Mennonite workers who are eager to break loose into the English world. Critics have claimed some of the episodes have scripted elements.
On November 14, 2022, it was announced that the seventh season would premiere on March 14, 2023.
Cast
Season 1
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2015)
Sabrina High does not return full-time but does make guest appearances. Mary Schmucker has stated this will be her final season. Rebecca Schmucker has stated it will also be the final season for her and Abe.
Season 3 (2016)
Season 4 (2017)
For this season, the episodes are all two hours long (including commercials).
Season 5 (2018–19)
For this season, the episodes return to the hour-long format (including commercials) of the first five seasons with the exception of the season premiere and the sixth, seventh and eighth episodes, which run two hours like the previous season episodes.
Season 6 (2021)
Season 7 (2023)
See also
Amish in the City
Breaking Amish
References
External links
Official site
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
Amish in popular culture
English-language television shows
TLC (TV network) original programming
Television shows set in L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partha%20Mitra | Partha Pratim Mitra is an Indian-American neuroscientist and computer scientist. He is the Crick-Clay Professor of Bioinformatics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Mitra currently holds the H.N. Mahabala Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research at IIT Madras and he is a Senior Visiting Researcher at RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan.
Biography
Partha Mitra received his PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University under the guidance of Bertrand Halperin in 1993. He worked in quantitative neuroscience and theoretical engineering at Bell Laboratories from 1993 to 2003 and as an assistant professor in Theoretical Physics at Caltech from 1996 before moving to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2003 where he is a Crick-Clay professor of biomathematics. Professor Mitra also holds adjunct positions in the NYU School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College.
Research
Mitra's research aims to study the complex biological systems from a “theoretical engineering” perspective. He combines theoretical, computational and experimental approaches and currently understanding how brains work. Professor Mitra initiated the idea of brain-wide mesoscale circuit mapping and founded the Brain Architecture Project in collaboration with RIKEN Brain Science Institute and Monash University. He has published over 240 research articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, PRL and holds eight U.S. patents. He has also co-authored a book titled Observed Brain Dynamics published by the Oxford University Press
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Harvard University alumni
Indian neuroscientists
American neuroscientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20von%20Matt | Hans von Matt (7 May 1899 - 8 November 1985) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He was at the heart of an artists' network, known to some contemporaries as much for their fun-loving lifestyle as for serious artistic endeavour. He emerged as a writer on the arts and a "culture politician". He was born and lived in Central Switzerland.
Life
Hans Caspar von Matt was born in Stans, the administrative capital of the Nidwalden, a small rural German-speaking canton on the south side of Lake Lucerne. His father, also called Hans von Matt (1869-1932), was a book dealer and local magistrate who took up politics and became a CVP member of the Swiss parliament.
After successful completion of his schooling, in 1918 Hans von Matt enrolled in the class of Joseph von Moos at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts on the far side of the lake. The next year he moved further afield, entering the École des Beaux-Arts (as it was known at that time) in Geneva. Here he studied painting and sculpture under David Estoppey and James Vibert respectively. Von Matt was becoming an assiduous networker, and during his time in Geneva he made contact with Kurt Seligmann and Alberto Giacometti. During 1920 he undertook a lengthy study trip to Florence where he was much impressed by what he saw of the work of Sandro Botticelli. He was a student at the Munich Fine Arts Academy between 1921 and 1923. Later in the 1920s he attended several of the winter courses given in Paris by André Lhote.
In 1924 he began establishing himself as an artist, and later also as a sculptor, in Stans, his hometown, where in 1927 he built his own studio. On 25 September 1935 Hans von Matt married the artist-model Annemarie Gunz in Stans. She was a prominent participant in the central Switzerland arts scene of the time, and sat as the model for several of Hans von Matt's better known paintings of women.
Around 1939 Hans von Matt set out on a parallel career as a writer on themes such as folklore and local history. He also published a number of monographs on well known personalities from Central Switzerland. These included the artists Melchior Wyrsch and Heinrich Danioth, along with the sculptor Josef Maria Christen. Another was the Lucerne-based conservator and arts patron Paul Hilber.
In 1927 he became a member of the Swiss Werkbund (artists' association). In 1937 he became a member of the Luzern Arts Society ("Kunstgesellschaft Luzern"), serving as its vice-president from 1958. He was a member of the National Arts Commission ("Eidgenössische Kunstkommission") between 1941 and 1953, and its vice-president between 1949 and 1953. He was a founder, and between 1944 and 1953 a member of the executive board with the Swiss Luke Society for Promoting Church Art ("Schweizerische Lukasgesellschaft zur Förderung der kirchlichen Kunst"). And between 1947 and 1974 he was a member of the Nidwalden canton Historical Society.
Works
Hans von Matt's career as an ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xander%20Kiriakis | Xander Kiriakis is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. The character, created by Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell, is portrayed by Paul Telfer.
Introduced in 2015 as the nephew of tycoon Victor Kiriakis who grew up in Scotland with his mother, Xander is a member of the Kiriakis family. Telfer's performance has been met with critical acclaim, having garnered him a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020.
Casting
In 2015, Paul Telfer joined the cast of Days of Our Lives as Xander Cook, the nephew of Victor Kiriakis. He made his first on screen appearance on March 24, 2015. Before debuting as Xander, he played Victor's henchman, Damon for six episodes, and was hired to be a potential one-week stand-in for James Scott, who played EJ DiMera.
In April 2019, it was revealed Telfer would return as Xander in a regular capacity; he returned during the final moments of the April 29 episode.
Storylines
Xander first showed up in Salem in March 2015. As the head of an international blood diamond smuggling ring, he compelled his friend and lover, Serena Mason through threats, to steal the diamonds from the elephant statue that she and Eric Brady bought from Africa few years ago. Xander met with his uncle Victor Kiriakis where it was revealed that he has been doing criminal operations for him in Cyprus and Cuba in addition to money laundering for the Kiriakis family. As a cover for his criminal activities, Xander owns a European pharmaceutical company that supplies various charities around the world.
He met Nicole Walker and fell for her right away, she pretended to show interest in him and used Xander to make her ex-boyfriend Daniel Jonas jealous then started dating Daniel again and wanted nothing to do with Xander. Nicole also uncovered Xander's history with Serena and Eric, including his criminal records. Xander continued pursuing Nicole even after being warned by Victor not to.
At Titan, Xander tracked down Nicole for betraying him, locking her up to die in the furnace room along with her lover Eric, who came to save her. He and his female accomplice destroyed all the evidence before leaving. As Xander was preparing to abscond, he was kidnapped by Victor's henchmen on Victor's order for not following the orders and putting their business in jeopardy by bringing their criminal activities to attention. Xander explained his devotion and was let go, but only to be stripped of his privileges and wealthy lifestyle. He worked as a gardener at the Kiriakis mansion briefly as part of the punishment where he was seduced by Theresa Donovan who falsely accused him of rape when Brady walked in on them. Xander was arrested by the police on charges of attempted rape and assault.
In September 2016, Xander was seen serving his time in prison with Clyde Weston and Orpheus. Xander wanted revenge on Theresa and Nicole. As the trio are being transported with other pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-pose | In computer animation, a T-pose, also known as a bind pose or reference pose, is a default posing for a 3D model's skeleton before it is animated. It is called so because of its shape: the straight legs and arms of a humanoid model combine to form a capital letter T. When the arms are angled downwards, the pose is sometimes referred to as an A-pose instead. Likewise, if the arms are angled upward, it is called a Y-pose.
Usage
The T-pose is primarily used as the default pose in animation software, which is then manipulated to create animation.
Outside of being default poses in animation software, T-poses are typically used as placeholders for animation not yet completed, particularly in 3D animated video games. In some motion capture software, a T-pose must be assumed by the actor in the motion capture suit before motion capturing can begin. There are other poses used, but this is the most common one.
As an Internet meme
Starting in 2016 and resurfacing in 2017, the T-pose has become a widespread Internet meme due to its bizarre and non sequitur appearance, especially in video game glitches where there would otherwise be an animation. As an Internet meme, it is often used to convey the idea of asserting dominance over others.
In a prerelease video of the game NBA Elite 11, the demo was filled with glitches, notably one unintentionally showing a T-pose in place of the proper animation for the model of player Andrew Bynum. The glitch later gained fame as the "Jesus Bynum glitch". Publisher EA eventually cancelled the game as they found it unsatisfactory. A similar occurrence happened with Cyberpunk 2077.
See also
Vitruvian Man, a diagram by Leonardo da Vinci with the figure of a man making a T and a jack
References
Visual effects
3D imaging
3D graphics software
3D computer graphics
Computer graphics
Internet memes
Internet memes introduced in the 2010s
Internet memes introduced in 2010
Internet memes introduced in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Gorcenski | Emily Gorcenski (born 1982) is an American data scientist and activist who now resides in Germany. Gorcenski was a counter-protester at the Unite the Right rally in 2017, and subsequently created the site 'First Vigil' to track the trial information of white nationalists.
Early life and education
Emily Gorcenski grew up in Columbia, Connecticut. She attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she studied aeronautical and mechanical engineering before graduating with a degree in mathematics. Gorcenski is a transgender woman.
Activism
Unite the Right
In August 2017, Gorcenski was a counter-protester at the Unite the Right rally in her city of residence of Charlottesville, Virginia. At the August 11 "torch" rally, she was sprayed in the face with pepper spray by white supremacist Christopher Cantwell, who pleaded guilty to charges of assault and was barred from Virginia for 5 years, and was also attacked by Atomwaffen Division member Vasillios Pistolis.
In the wake of her assault at the rally, Gorcenski and one other counter-protester pressed charges against Cantwell, who in turn filed a federal lawsuit against them. In response, Gorcenski and her co-defendant counter-sued Cantwell. In the lawsuit, Gorcenski was repeatedly misgendered by both Cantwell and his attorney, Elmer Woodard. Woodard's motions to have the court refer to Gorcenski by her pre-transition name (and for the court to use male pronouns) were both denied. Both lawsuits were settled in 2018 with a mutual release of claims.
Due to her public opposition to the rally, Gorcenski was harassed online and doxed. She told The Intercept that she had been victim to transphobic harassment from before the rally in Charlottesville. Gorcenski was swatted in October 2017 after the rally's organizer Jason Kessler reportedly doxed her. Kessler was subsequently arrested, though charges were dismissed when new evidence showed Kessler did not control the account that posted Gorcenski's address. In 2018, due to safety concerns, Gorcenski left Charlottesville for Berlin, Germany, where she now resides.
Digital activism
Gorcenski's experiences at Unite the Right led her to use her skills as a data scientist to help identify and dox white nationalists and members of the alt-right engaged in criminal activity. Gorcenski created the website 'First Vigil' to track the trial information of white nationalists and associated individuals. The site uses court documents and other public records. Gorcenski was named one of the fifty most influential feminists in 2018 by Bitch magazine for her work in creating First Vigil. In 2016, Gorcenski criticized the ethics of a study by an independent researcher who released the private information on approximately 70,000 users of the dating website OkCupid. The study in question was widely panned for being unethical, racist, and a breach of user privacy. Gorcenski covered the issue in a discussion with Sarah Jeong at Mozfest in 2017. Gorcenski sometimes speaks a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Knowledge%20%28game%20show%29 | Common Knowledge is an American television game show hosted by Joey Fatone that aired on Game Show Network from January 14, 2019 to August 13, 2021. On April 17, 2019, media reports stated that GSN had renewed the show for a 130-episode second season. On March 25, 2021, GSN renewed the show for a third season, which premiered on May 17, 2021.
Gameplay
Common Knowledge "tests contestants on everyday questions that, in theory, they should know the answers to." Two teams of three players consisting of family, friends, or co-workers will compete answering multiple-choice questions in three rounds of play with the winning team going on to the bonus round to play for $10,000. Some Season 2 episodes are "Second Chance Shows," featuring two teams who lost in Season 1.
Round 1
Fatone shows the teams four categories, each containing one question. Each question has three multiple-choice options. After a team selects a category, the question and the choices are revealed. Each player on the team secretly locks in their choice without conferring. Correct answers are worth 10 points each, and the team receives an additional 50 points if all three members answer correctly. Each team plays two questions in this round.
Round 2
This round is played in the same manner as the first round, except that the point values are doubled (20 points per individual correct answer, and 100 bonus points if all three players are right).
Round 3
In this round, the questions are given without multiple-choice options. Each team confers and writes down their answer. The team that chooses the category is given the first opportunity to reveal their answer. Unlike the previous rounds, the opposing team can steal the points with a correct answer if the first team is wrong. Each team's first question is worth 200 points, and their second question is worth 400 points. At the end of this round, the team with the most points wins the game and plays the bonus round for $10,000. If at any time either team cannot catch up, the game ends immediately.
If teams are tied after the third round, the team captains are given one multiple-choice question. Buzzing in with a correct answer wins the game, while a wrong answer loses the game.
The winning team earns $1,000.
Bonus round
The winning team plays the bonus round for $10,000. The game begins with the first player at the central podium. Fatone asks a series of Common Knowledge questions, each with three choices. The player must answer without conferring with their teammates. As long as the player continues to answer questions correctly, they remain at the podium. A player who answers incorrectly is eliminated from the round, and the next player in line comes up to the podium. The team may pass on one question during the round without penalty.
If the team answers seven questions before all three players are eliminated, their winnings are increased to $10,000.
References
External links
KATU interview with Joey Fatone
2010s American game sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie%20Harper | Brodie Harper (born 1 September 1981) is an Australian TV presenter.
Career
Brodie Harper is a presenter for the Nine Network's travel and lifestyle program Postcards. She is also a weather reporter for Nine News nightly news bulletin, having filled in for Livinia Nixon. She has also appeared on other Nine programs such as Hole in the Wall and 20 to One.
Brodie is the face of the Chemist Warehouse Beauty Break franchise.
Personal life
Harper is married to Heath Meldrum, and they have one daughter together.
References
External links
1981 births
Australian television presenters
Australian women television presenters
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Scanlon | Patricia Scanlon (born 1974 or 1975) is an Irish technologist and businesswoman. She founded SoapBox Labs in 2013, a company that applies artificial intelligence to develop speech recognition applications that are specifically tuned to children's voices. Scanlon was CEO of SoapBox Labs from its founding until May 2021, when she became executive chair. In 2022, Scanlon was appointed by the Irish Government as Ireland’s first Artificial Intelligence Ambassador. In this role, she will "lead a national conversation" about the role of AI in people's lives, including its benefits and risks.
Early life and education
Scanlon grew up in the town of Naas, County Kildare, where her father worked for a building provider and her mother was a town councillor.
Scanlon completed a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1997 and then completed a PhD from University College Dublin in digital signal processing for speech recognition in 2005. She did two years of research at Columbia University in New York, then six months of research at IBM in Dublin.
Career
Scanlon worked as a software engineer at Accuris, a Dublin tech firm, with short stints in both Holland and Australia. After completing her PhD, she worked at Bell Labs in Dublin on projects in immersive communications, e-health and acoustic signalling.
Scanlon founded SoapBox Labs in 2013, after noting that most speech recognition technology was built for adults and didn't work as well for kids who have higher pitched voices and different speech patterns and who don't tend to modify their speech when interacting with AI. She received backing from Enterprise Ireland and worked out of Trinity College Dublin's incubation centre from 2014 until 2016. SoapBox used thousands of hours of audio of children aged 2-12 from 192 countries in real-world noisy environments to create its own dataset. By 2021, the company had raised over $US12 million in funding, including a 1,5 million euro grant by EU SME in 2017. The technology has been used in a range of toy and education apps. In 2018 the technology was available in Mandarin, Spanish and Portuguese and later in 2019 in French, German and Italian.
In May 2021, Scanlon stepped down as CEO of SoapBox, becoming executive chair while Martyn Farrows, the company's former COO, became CEO.
Scanlon has spoken at conferences including Inspirefest in 2017, SXSW EDU in 2021, and the Women in Tech Global Conference in 2022. In 2019, she gave a TEDx talk at the University of Limerick on "How Technology Transforms a Child’s Reading Journey".
In 2022, Scanlon was appointed as the first Artificial Intelligence Ambassador by the Irish Government. Scanlon's appointment was announced by Minister of State Robert Troy after an open expression of interest call and assessment process. Scanlon's role is to lead a national conversation about the place, benefits, and risks of AI, working with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Scuttlebutt | Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem. Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow, which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency. Messages are digitally signed and added to an append-only list of messages published by an author. SSB is primarily used for implementing distributed social networks, and utilizes cryptography to assure that content remains unforged as it is propagated through the network.
In contrast to the major corporate social media platforms, user data and content on Secure Scuttlebutt is not monetized, there are no software design decisions being made in order to maximize user engagement or boost marketing metrics, and there is no paid advertising. According to Forbes, "Scuttlebutt itself isn't supported by venture capital. Instead ... Scuttlebutt is backed by grants that helped jump-start the process ... [and] there are now hundreds of users who personally donate to the cause and an estimated 30,000 people using one of at least six social networks on the protocol".
History
SSB was created by Dominic Tarr in 2014 as part of experimental development in alternative databases and distributed systems. Tarr lived on a sailboat with unreliable internet connection, and became interested in creating an offline-friendly secure gossip protocol for social networking. The word scuttlebutt is slang for "water-cooler gossip" among sailors. SSB gained popularity on the wave of privacy controversies raising against the traditional social media.
Protocol
Secure Scuttlebutt operates as a database of immutable append-only feeds, which allows resilient replication over the Internet, local area networks, and sneakernets. Messages are hashed with SHA256 and verified with an Ed25519 signature; this makes it impossible to forge a message without the private key of the author. Users only download messages from peers that they follow (and optionally friends of friends), which prevents harassment and spam. This makes the network invite-only, meaning that new peers who join the network aren't visible until someone follows them.
User content in SSB is organized as an append-only sequence of immutable messages, where messages cryptographically sign adjacent messages for the purpose of guaranteeing unforgeabilitity of the sequences as they are replicated to other peers. SSB peers exchange asymmetric keys and establish authenticated connections between each other using an Authenticated Key Exchange protocol, Secret Handshake.
Applications and documentation
The reference implementation was written using Node.js, as code that runs on a JavaScript engine. There are active implementation efforts in the Go programming language, as well as in Python, and Rust. Documentation for these implementations can be found at the official SSB development site.
Many independent applications have been implemented on SSB, including a social network, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Tekla | Romeo Librada (born January 13, 1982), better known in his stage name Super Tekla or simply Tekla, is a Filipino actor, comedian and television host. He is best known for appearing in GMA Network's variety show, Wowowin as one of its hosts.
Early life
Librada was born in the small town of Pigcawayan, a town in Cotabato wherein he was raised by the Manobo tribe and was trained to be a farmer. His mother died at an early age, according to him. Due to this, he supported his own education until he finished high school. He has seven siblings.
Career
Stand-up comedy
Out of curiosity, Librada went alone to Manila wherein he found himself singing on stage at malls and comedy bars for fun. He was then discovered and got regular stints as a singer first, then a stand-up comedian, at a popular comedy bar. He is best known for his Celine Dion and Whitney Houston voice impersonations.
Television
In 2016, Librada appeared as a contestant in GMA Network's game show, Wowowin main host Willie Revillame saw his potential in comedy and hired him as one of his co-hosts. He later formed a comedic duo with Donita Nose in the said show. A year after, he was allegedly fired by Revillame due to his alcoholic and gambling vices, in which Librada denied. On 2020, he was once welcomed again by Wowowin after guesting.
In 2017, Librada was signed by GMA Artist Center and appeared on several GMA Network shows like Alyas Robin Hood, Trops, and Celebrity Bluff.
In 2018, Librada got his first major role in Inday Will Always Love You when he was cast as Kimberlou, the gay sidekick of lead actress Barbie Forteza. His life story has been featured on the Kapuso drama anthology Magpakailanman, which gained high ratings for the show. Since then, he has been guested by the drama show twice, appearing in various true-to-life lead roles.
He is currently hosting comedy talk show The Boobay and Tekla Show along with comedian Boobay.
Personal life
Although visually presented as gay, Librada identifies himself as a straight man. He has a daughter from his ex-wife named Irene Gonzales.
Sexual misconduct allegation
In October 2020, Librada's live-in partner, Michelle Bana-ag, alleged in Raffy Tulfo in Action that the comedian had repeatedly sexually abused her and her child from an earlier marriage. This included demanding sexual intercourse in exchange for food while Michelle was ailing due to side-effects of contraceptive injection. Librada denied any wrongdoing, contending he would never rape Bana-ag as he has a daughter. Librada was later exonerated when Bana-ag was unable to provide sufficient evidence against the comedian, and testimonies from Librada's colleagues revealed past abuses from Bana-ag, namely her methamphetamine addiction as well as her lesbian relationship with a female partner. This ultimately led to Raffy Tulfo withdrawing his previous pledge to support Bana-ag after the latter declined to take a drug test to prove her innocence.
Filmography
Television
Film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTBC%20Drama%20Festa | JTBC Drama Festa () is a one-act play TV series that airs on JTBC, a South Korean subscription television network.
List of dramas
See also
Drama Special
Drama Stage
Notes
References
JTBC television dramas
Korean-language television shows
2017 South Korean television series debuts
2020s South Korean television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notschrei%20Skiing%20Trail | The Notschrei Skiing Trails are a network of trails spanning approximately 40 kilometres. The trails are located on the Notschrei (1,119 m above NHN), which is a pass between the villages of Oberried and Todtnau in the Black Forest. The Notschrei Skiing Trails are also one of the five Biathlon base camps in Baden-Württemberg.
Trails
Four skiing trails are located on the Nothschrei:
Stübenwasen Trail (20 km starts on the Notschrei (1119m), continues over the Stübenwasen (1386m) and the Todtnauer Hütte (1300m) which is located on the Feldberg and finally leads all the way back. The elevation difference is about 260 metres and the total ascent is about 550 metres. There are several shortcuts: 6 km, 11 km, 13 km und 15 km. These shortcuts lead the Nordic skier to Muggenbrunn and the trails of Todtnauberg and the Feldberg. The trail has been changed oftentimes over the course of the last few years. The segment which led the Nordic skier over the biathlon area and all around the Ahornkopf was closed. Instead a loop and more elevation in the beginning were added.
Schauinsland Trail (18 km starts on the Notschrei, continues over the Trubelmattskopf which is located close to the Wiedener Eck, and finally leads all the way back above the village of Muggenbrunn. This trail also includes some shortcuts: : 6 km, 9 km und 15 km. The Nordic skier here also has the possibility to visit Muggenbrunn, the mountain inn Knöpflesbrunnen and the Wiedener Eck, where there crosses another skiing trail which leads the Nordic Skier to the cross-country skiing centre Hohtann.
Halden Trail is a floodlight trail which length varies depending on the snow situation. Its length is variable, most times however, 2.5 km. It is accessible via the Schauinsland Trail by a junction after approximately 1 km, the length of this said trail is approximately 1,5 km. The trail also offers connections tot the Hofgrund Trail and the summit station Schauinsland.
The Biathlon Trail has an approximate length of 3 km. Regional and nationwide championships are being staged here.
All four trails are circular tours, which means they all lead back to where the trails started. Due to the various connection possibilities to adjacent trails, the Notschrei Trails can also be used as hiking trails. The hiking trail Schonach-Belchen, which is 100 km long, runs between the Todtnauer Hütte and Hörnle on the Notschrei Trails. All trails are always prepared to be used for classic and skating-technique skiing.
Since 2000, the number of Nordic skiers increased drastically due to global warming and the rising popularity of Nordic skiing. The Stübenwasen Trail is one of the few snow-sure trails in the Black Forest.
Foundation and service
In 1975, the association Notschrei-Loipe e.V. was founded by the municipalities Freiburg im Breisgau, Kirchzarten, Münstertal, Oberried, Todtnau, Wieden and the Landesforstverwaltung Baden-Württemberg. Since 1997, around 5.700 private members have joined the club, including |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard%20Earth%20Observing%20System | The Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) is an integrated Earth system model and data assimilation system developed at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The components of the model use the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF), enabling them to be connected in a flexible manner and supporting the investigation of many different aspects of Earth science, in particular questions related to coupled processes involving the atmosphere, ocean, and/or land. Uses of GEOS span a range of spatiotemporal scales and include the representation of dynamical, physical, chemical and biological processes.
References
Earth system sciences
Goddard Space Flight Center
Numerical climate and weather models
Science software
Weather prediction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Complex%20Networks | The Journal of Complex Networks is a peer reviewed academic journal of complex networks. It is published by Oxford University Press.
The journal was established in 2013, with Ernesto Estrada as its editor-in-chief.
References
Oxford University Press academic journals
Mathematics journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecyberna | Mecyberna or Mekyberna () was a town of Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia, which stood at the head of the Toronaic Gulf, which was also called Sinus Mecybernaeus. Mecyberna was the port of Olynthus. and lay between that town and Sermyle.
The town was a member of the Delian League, as its name appears in tribute lists from 454/3 to 433/2 BCE. It was taken from the Athenians by the Chalcidic Thracians (420 BCE), and surrendered to Philip II of Macedon before the siege of Olynthus (349 BCE).
The site of Mecyberna is near the modern Molyvopyrgos.
References
Populated places in ancient Macedonia
Former populated places in Greece
Members of the Delian League |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoAccess | GoAccess is an open-source web analytics application for Unix-like operating systems.
The application has both a text-based and a web application user interface.
GoAccess can provide real-time analytics by continuously monitoring web server logs.
See also
List of web analytics software
References
External links
Web analytics
Free web analytics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Universal%20Computer%20Science | The Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) is a monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering all aspects of computer science.
History
The journal was established in 1994 and is published by the J.UCS Consortium, formed by nine research organisations. The editors-in-chief are Muhammad Tanvir Afzal (Capital University of Science & Technology), Wolf-Tilo Balke (Leibniz University Hannover), Christian Gütl (Graz University of Technology), Rocael Hernández Rizzardini (Galileo University), Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen University), Stefanie Lindstaedt (Graz University of Technology), Peter Serdyukov (National University), and Klaus Tochtermann (Graz University of Technology).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.066.
References
External links
Academic journals established in 1994
Computer science journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Open access journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan%20economy | Fan economy in the traditional sense refers to operational income generating behavior relationship between fans and the people who are followed. Most of them are stars, network celebrities and industry celebrities, even an enterprise. Fan economy is a kind of operation mode to obtain the economic and social benefits through promoting the users’ loyalty to optimize the effect of word of mouth marketing. The core is the emotional capital. Different from the traditional economy, consumers are leading role in fan economy. It is dominated by consumers to achieve the purposes of adding value idols and the brand.
Background
According to the research of American scholar Janet Staiger, fans in the broad sense can be traced back to Victorian times. Chinese fans began to appear in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were called "style-conscious fans" at that time, unlike today's popular name "fans". In the contradictory process of being identified and preventing the cultural homogeneity of mainstream culture simultaneously , fans have formed their own unique style within their own circles. The fan culture is attracting more and more experts and scholars to study in the course of being suspected to be accepted.
Scholar Yang Ling defined the triple degree for the "fan economy" : the emotional economy, the gift economy and the informal economy. She thinks the ultimate significance of "fans economy" in the field of culture is to break the centralized power structure, thus to give more power to consumers, to promote the diversity of cultural . She drew the theory of western fans research and made her reflections on the power relations between producers and consumers implied by the emotional economy. Yang ling believes that the ideas of fan economy that are popular domestic currently are relatively narrow. They defined fan economy as a kind of brand marketing narrowly in the new media era. They only treated fans who were increasing rapidly as the loyal customers and followers and ignored the autonomy of fan community autonomy. So it is necessary for us to pay more attention to the moral and legal issues, which are not involved in the interests in the economic system in the discussion of fan economy in the future. And to explore whether "fan economy" brought a more fair distribution of rights and interests. And whether the beneficiaries of fan economy are the fan community and fan culture or not.
Scholars Li Wenming and Lv Fuyu believes the following aspects should be focused in terms of the development trend of fan economy: meeting the demand of fans and guiding the fans demand; managing to fans circle and fans community. The main strategies that comply with the development trend of fan economic can be divided into several aspects broadly: laying the solid foundation on fan economy; building distinctive fans brand; creating a new situation in electronic commerce of fans economy; maximizing the advantages of fan economy in community business. The essence of th |
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