In her twenties, Bauer had a career in advertising sales. After ten years, Bauer realized she did not like being a saleswoman and decided to quit to become a journalist. Joan Bauer made her writing debut with the book, "Squashed", which earned many positive reviews.
Grace Lin
Grace Lin is an American writer and children's illustrator. Her first book, "The Ugly Vegetables", was published in 1999. She has written four novels: "The Year of the Dog", "The Year of the Rat", "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon", and "Starry River of the Sky". She also writes a series for early readers with twins named Ling and Ting, as well as other books for younger readers. She brings her sketchbook everywhere, and writes down ideas for her books. She wanted to grow up to be a figure skater. She changed her mind because she enjoyed drawing pictures of herself as an ice skater.
Lin was born on May 17, 1974. Her parents were immigrants. She grew up in New York. She has one older sister named Lissy, and a younger sister named Ki-Ki. She married a man named Robert Mercer. He died from cancer in 2007. te a book called "Robert’s Snow" to raise money for cancer research. She now has a daughter who was born in 2012. In 2010, she married her second husband, Alex. Lin is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. She lives in Florence, Massachusetts.
"Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" received a 2010 John Newbery Honor. She also received an Honorable Mention from APAAL (Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature) in 2007 for "Year of the Dog." She was nominated for the 2007-08 Texas Bluebonnet Award. Several of her books have been chosen for Al Roker’s Today Show Book Club.
Nasrin Oryakhil
Nasrin Oryakhil (born 1964) is a gynecologist and obstetrician from Afghanistan. She received a 2014 International Women of Courage Award.
In 2004, Oryakhil became the Director of the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. At that hospital, she started the first clinic for obstetric fistula repair in Afghanistan. She is the president of the NGO Afghan Family Health Association, and a member of the Afghan Women's Network.
Oryakhil is also part of a group to create a Medical Council in Afghanistan. She supported the creation of the Afghan Midwives Association.
Oryakhil is a member of the Afghan Women’s Network. She speaks to the Parliament and at professional medical conferences. She is part of a working group to start a Medical Council in Afghanistan.
In 2014, Oryakhil received an International Women of Courage Award.
First Graders
First Graders () is a 1984 Iranian documentary feature movie. This movie was directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
Where Is the Friend's Home?
Where Is the Friend's Home? (, "Khane-ye doust kodjast") is a 1987 Iranian movie. This movie directed and written by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
Thermophile
A thermophile is an organism – a type of extremophile – that thrives at relatively high temperatures. That means between about . Many thermophiles are archaea. Thermophilic eubacteria may have been among the earliest bacteria.
Thermophiles are found in various geothermally heated parts of the Earth's surface. Examples are hot springs like those in Yellowstone National Park and deep sea hydrothermal vents. Also decaying plant matter, such as peat bogs and compost, makes higher temperatures.
Grant Gustin
Thomas Grant Gustin (born January 14, 1990) is an American actor and singer. He is known for portraying the roles of Sebastian Smythe on "Glee" and Barry Allen/The Flash on "The Flash".
He was born Norfolk, Virginia to his mother Tina Haney, a pediatric nurse. He attended the Governor's School for the Arts program in Norfolk for Musical Theatre. He has also been to Hurrah Players Incorporated and graduated from Granby High School. He would then go to the BFA Music Theatre Program at Elon University in North Carolina for two years.
From September 30, 2010 to September 23, 2011, Gustin played the role of Baby John in the Broadway Revival Tour of "West Side Story".
John Wesley Shipp
John Wesley Shipp (born January 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for portraying the roles of Barry Allen on the CBS television show "The Flash", Mitch Leery on "Dawson's Creek", Kelly Nelson on "Guiding Light", and Douglas Cummings on "As the World Turns".
He won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for "As the World Turns" in 1986. He also won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Performer in a Daytime Drama Series for "Santa Barbara" in 1987.
In 2014, it was announced that Shipp would be cast as Henry Allen, the father of Barry Allen in The CW's "The Flash".
Fatimata Touré
Fatimata Touré is a women's rights activist and the head of the Regional Forum on Reconciliation and Peace in Gao, Mali. She is also the head of Women’s Action, Research, Study and Training Group, which works against fistula. In 2014, she received the International Women of Courage Award.
During the 2012 and 2013 fighting in Mali, a hospital in Gao was attacked. Touré helped the fistula patients find a new place to live, and find medical help. Touré also gave care and shelter to those forced into marriages or raped. She also spoke against violence against women. She made a record of what happened, even as her own home was attacked.
Android
The word Android may mean one of two things:
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is a field of Computer science that looks at how non-trivial data can be obtained from a collection of information resources. Commonly, either a full-text search is done, or the metadata which describes the resources is searched. Depending on the content, there may also be other indices. Information retrieval is about finding existing information; it is different from knowledge discovery in databases which is about finding new relationships between different datasets, which were unknown.
Techniques from information retrieval are commonly used in internet search engines, but also when looking for information on a subject in a library, or when searching complex content such as images in a database. This kind of content is usually described using metadata.
When looking for information, the following problems are commonly encountered:
A system for information retrieval will attach a score to each document returned. This score reflects how well the document matches the query of the user. The documents with the best scores are shown to the user, who has the possibility to refine the query.
There are different kinds of models that are used in information retrieval
In addition, each model has parameters, which influence its performance. Some of the models make a number of assumption about the data; they were developed for a very special purpose. Using such a model for a different purpose may not yield good results.
House Party
House Party is a 1990 American comedy movie. The movie is about a group of teenagers who attend a house party. Martin Lawrence plays Bilal. Tisha Campbell plays Sydney.
"House Party" was released on March 9, 1990. It got positive reviews from critics.
Oinikhol Bobonazarova
Oinikhol Bobonazarova is a Tajikistani human rights activist. In 2014 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State.
In 1993, the Tajik government arrested Bobonazarova. They said Bobonazarova planned to take over the government by violence. Bobonazarova was in jail for a few months. Then she became a human rights counselor in the Tajik office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She also worked for the Tajik branch of the Open Society Foundation. In 2013, she became the head of the “Perspektiva Plus” human rights group. They work for the rights of prisoners, women, and Tajikistani labor migrants. She also worked to create Tajikistan's first independent prison monitoring program. In 2004, Tajik prisons closed to outsiders.