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Here are the server name origins I got after asking this in our correspondent forums, as compiled by the Doctor Correspondent, Agent001, and reposted in the Valcyn galaxy by the Commando Correspondent, Garvin (in which he added Valcyn to the list). I hope Q-3P0 doesn't nerf us for taking away a friday feature idea now
Ahazi A New Republic Hajen-class fleet tender assigned to the Fifth Battle Group. It was destroyed on its final training mission near Bessimir when it overshot its hyperspace exit point. It plunged into the planet's atmosphere and disintegrated.
BloodfinThis was name the used by Darth Maul to describe his Sith Speeder. It was named for a vicious ocean predator Maul had encountered on a remote planet.
BriaThis Starmite-class freighter was the first ship Han Solo and Chewbacca ever used on their own. It was leased from Lando Calrissian, and was named after Bria Tharen. It was heavily modified, and was constantly breaking down. The ship saw duty during the Battle of Nar Shaddaa, and Solo used it to deliver the Hutts' bribe to Admiral Greelanx shortly after the battle. When Han was discovered by Tedris Bjalin and blamed for the death of Greelanx, Han and Chewie were forced to make a quick escape. They were caught by the Imperial ships and fired upon, but managed to escape in a life pod before the Bria was destroyed in a hail of turbolaser fire
ChilastraThis converted MOD-17 freighter was part of the small fleet which was hastily assembled to transport refugees off the planet Druckenwell, when the Yuuzhan Vong took control of the planet. The speciallized containers of the freighter were refitted to provide shelter and life support to the refugees who crammed into them. The Chilastra was commanded by Captain Yesha Bergeron during the evacuation, and it was rumored that a Jedi Knight was hiding aboard the Chilastra. This rumor quickly reached the ears of Yuuzhan Vong Commander Malik Carr, who dispatched a commando team to capture the ship and its Jedi. A battle ensued between the freighter and a Yuuzhan Vong boarding party, which tried to capture the untrained but Force-sensitive Ka-Tu-Un. The Yuuzhan Vong managed to get aboard the freighter by traveling the shuttle Yorva-9, which outwardly seemed to be a normal shuttle.
ChimaeraThis Imperial-II class Star Destroyer commanded by Captain Pellaeon. It was used as Grand Admiral Thrawn's flagship, after Thrawn returned from the Unknown Regions to take control of the Empire some five years after the Battle of Endor. It is a ship which has survived numerous battles, most notably the Battle of Endor and the Battles of Sluis Van and Bilbringi. After Thrawn's death, Pellaeon retained command of the Chimaera, and used it as the command ship of the remaining Imperial fleet. However, as part of Operation Shadow Hand, the Chimaera was dispatched to capture the planet Duro. In the battle, the ship took heavy damage and had to be abandoned. The New Republic took possession of the ship and refitted it, but soon lost it - to Pellaeon himself - at the Battle of Gravlex Med. After the resolution of the Caamas Incident and the discredting of Moff Disra and Grodin Tierce, the Chimaera served as the site of the peace negotiations between Pellaeon and New Republic President Gavrisom. The aging ship became the stuff of legends, continuing to serve as Pellaeon's flagship during the years in which the Empire retreated into the Imperial Remnant. When the Yuuzhan Vong finally decided to attack the Imperials, the Chimaera was once again forced into battle, this time to protect Bastion. The Yuuzhan Vong attack was swift and deadly, and the Battle of Bastion resulted in a rout of the Imperial forces. The Chimaera took heavy damage to her hyperdrive, and Pellaeon was forced into a coma by injuries he sustained at the helm. The crew managed to get the ship back to Yaga Minor, where it was refitted and made battle-worthy once again
CorbantisThis New Republic battle cruiser was part of the primary fleet stationed at Durren. When Seti Ashgad instigated pirate attacks on Ampliquen during his attempt to gain control of the galaxy with Dzym, the Caelus and the Corbantis were dispatched to Ampliquen. Both ships were infected with the Death Seed plague by Ashgad's agents, and once the crews were killed the ships were disposed on on distant planets. The Corbantis was scuttled on Damonite Yors B, but seventeen crewmembers managed to stay alive by huddling near the reactor core. Despite the radiation sickness they were exposed to, the emissions from the damaged power core probably killed off the Death Seed plague and allowed them to survive until Han Solo and Lando Calrissian rescued them
EclipseThis Imperial action IV bulk freighter made a regular trip to the planet Ando, secretly collecting unusual species of ocean life from the planet and taking them to a hidden research lab. Chief among the species collected by the Eclipse were Andoan mineral-fish, which were illegally harvested for use in extracting uridium on the barren moon of Uridia
EclipseThe first Eclipse-class Star Destroyer, the Eclipse was used as the flagship for the reborn Emperor Palpatine. It was destroyed when the Force storm Palpatine sent to destroy Luke Skywalker turned on Palaptine himself. The storm consumed Palpatine and eradicated the Eclipse
FarStarThis modified CR-90 corvette was dispatched by the New Republic, under the command of Kaiya Adrimetrum, to locate Moff Sarne in the Kathol Sector and neutralize him. It had been originally purchased by the Chandrilan government and commissioned as the Freedom's Messenger, but suffered major damage during the Battle of Ord Torrenze and was scrapped. The Empire rebuilt the ship, naming it the Renegade and placing it in the 15th Deep Core Reserve Fleet under the command of Kentor Sarne. When Sarne fled to Kal'Shebbol in the wake of the Battle of Endor, he took the Renegade with him and began refitting the ship for future use with the DarkStryder technology. When Page's Commandos assaulted Kal'Shebbol and drove off Sarne, the Renegade was liberated from the fleet and outfitted to chase after Sarne. Newly renamed the FarStar, it was crewed with a variety of volunteers and available Republic personal, since the rest of the Republic's fleet was spread too thin trying to eliminate pockets of Imperial resistance. It was originally commanded by Keleman Ciro, until he was captured by Sarne and imprisoned on Q'Maere. The ship was described by its engineering crew as a collection of bailing wire and Spatch-Coat, and was always in a state of repair. The starboard side of the ship had been modifed to accept a docking area for use with Imperial TIE Inerceptors, and the New Republic used it to house several X-Wings and Defender starfighters. The hangar and docking bay gave the ship a lopsided appearance. The FarStar was armed with six double turbolaser cannons, each of which was equipped with "predict and pinpoint" targetting systems. The Republic's gunners had trouble adjusting to the experimental Imperial technology, and often turned it off. In addition to her crew of 120 officers and ten gunners, the FarStar was given over a hundred droids to complete her crew complement, including a variety of astromechs, security droids, and labor automata. Unknown to the New Republic at the time of the assault on Kal'Shebbol, the FarStar had also been equipped with Sarne's Deeplink system, which allowed Sarne to track the ship's position whenever it was in realspace. Shortly after leaving Demonsgate, the FarStar was disabled by a series of shockwaves when the Eradicator was destroyed by a lightstorm at the edge of the Kathol Rift. The ship managed to reach Kathol - the "DarkStryder Planet" - and was able to take the fight to the Imperial warships in orbit around the planet. However, as the Imperial forces were augmented by reinforcements, the FarStar took heavy damage, and Captain Adrimetrum was forced to abandon the ship. After the crew was able to evacuate, the FarStar crashed into Kathol and exploded in a fireball. Luckily for the forces of the New Republic, the FarStar destroyed the Imperial garrison on Kathol, eliminating the forces Moff Sarne had kept on the planet.
FlurryAn Alliance Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier commanded by Captain Manchisco. It was one of several ships donated to the Alliance by the Sullustans to the Virgillian Alignment forces during the Virgillian Civil War, and was one of the larger ships sent to Bakura to help the Imperial government there battle the Ssi-ruuk. It was equipped with 20 X-Wings (including the ships of Rogue Squadron), 3 A-Wings, and 4 B-Wings. The Flurry was also modified to use General Dodonna's prototype Battle Analysis Computer. For all this, the Flurry was destroyed when Nereus ordered Thanas to open fire on the Alliance ships, following a battle with the Ssi-ruuk. The Dominant, under Thanas' command, opened fire on the cruiser and exploded it, killing her crew.
GorathThis Imperial Strike-class cruiser was part of Warlord Foga Brill's fleet. It was commanded by Voba Dokrett during the chase for the Teljkon vagabond. Dokrett attacked the vagabond, and the ship responded with force. The Gorath was disabled by the vagabond, with all hands lost in the attack.
Infinity A smuggling ship ship owned by the Dim-U priests of Tatooine, the Infinity was piloted by BoShek just before the Imperial blockade of Tatooine. BoShek was flying with bogus transponder codes, and was trying to get the ship back to Tatooine for a new set of codes when he was intercepted by two Star Destroyers. He was forced to land the Infinity in the Dune Sea
IntrepidThis New Republic Nebulon-B frigate was part of the supply convoy travelling to Liinade III, when it was brought out of hyperspace by the Interdictor cruiser Binder near system M2934738. The attacking ships, under the direction of Prince-Admiral Krennel, pounded the lead ship - the Pride of Selonia - the instant it dropped into realspace, preventing any sort of counterattack. The Pride of Selonia was destroyed in the attack. The Intrepid managed to pour a large amount of laser fire into the Binder before the Reckoning fired on her. The might of the Reckoning's assault broke the Intrepid into two pieces, which spiralled away from each other as the ship died in space.
Intrepid This New Republic Endurance-class fleet carrier was built and assigned to the Fifth Battle Group just prior to the Yevethan Great Purge. It served as the flagship of the fleet, under the command of Etahn A'baht. It led the initial, though unsuccessful, blockade of Doornik-319
Kauri One of the ships dispatched to intercept the Teljkon vagabond, the Kauri was the ship that was able to get nearest to the vagabond. Lando Calrissian's yacht, the Lady Luck, was tethered to the vagabond after Lando boldly gained access to the strange ship. When Pakkpekatt ordered the Kauri nearer, the vagabond severed the connection to the Lady Luck and fired on the Kauri before jumping into hyperspace. The Kauri sustained a great amount of damage, and there were many casualties and injuries. The dead and wounded were taken to Nichen on the Kettemoor
Kauri This New Republic Agave-class interdiction picket ship was assigned to the Glorious, during its attempt to capture the Teljkon vagabond. The Kauri was assigned to keep the vagabond from jumping to hyperspace by projecting a false mass-shadow into hyperspace near the ship. The Kauri was destroyed when the vagabond fled into hyperspace after Lando Calrissian breached its inner hull.
Kettemoor This New Republic Sacheen-class light escort vessel was part of the fleet sent, under the command of Pakkpekatt, to intercept the Teljkon vagabond at Gmir Askilon. After the mission failed to secure the vagabond, the Kettemoor was used to transport the injured and dying crew of the Kauri to Nichen, after the vagabond fired on the other ship and fled
Lowca This Yuuzhan Vong warship was captured by the Jedi Knights near Talfaglio, as part of the defense of their base on Eclipse, some two years after the initial invasion of the galaxy
Naritus This New Republic Mon Calamari MC80a cruiser was a veteran of New Republic military operations when it was assigned to intercepte Belindi Kalenda's Ugly starfighter when it arrived at Coruscant, following her discovery of rise of the Human League on Corellia. Captained by Genkal, it assisted in eliminating the last of the Khuiumin Survivors, and later assisted in the evacuation of the Thanta Zilbra system
Radiant VII This consular ship served the Old Republic for 34 years before transporting Qiu-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Naboo, for their negotiations with the Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray. The ship delivered the Jedi on time, but was ordered destroyed by Darth Sidious. The ship, along with her crew of 8, were reduced to smoldering cinders by the Federation's automated defense systems. A beautiful Corellian Engineering Corporation Republic Cruiser, the Radiant VII measured 115 meters in length. Its forward section resembled that of the later Corellian Gunship, while its aft section was dominated by three Dyne 577 radial atomizing sublight engines. Being a purely diplomatic vessel, as noted by its red coloration, the ship had no weaponry, but did have 9 escape pods to handle its maximum of sixteen passengers
Scylla This warship was commanded by Daala during the years surrounding the Black Fleet Crisis. Having come out of retirement to help the New Republic win the Battle of Nam Chorios, Daala returned to the Deep Core and tried to establish a new Imperial fleet. The Scylla served as her flagship, and led her brief charge into New Republic territory against Garm Bel Iblis. Unfortunately, Bel Iblis was able to trap Daala's fleet using a pair of CC-7700 frigates. In order to escape, Daala rammed one of the frigates with the Scylla before limping into hyperspace. Due to damage to the ship's navigational systems, the Scylla's jump was blind, and Daala was not seen again
Shadowfire It's a ship owned by a Corellian explorer named Derrend Montis. It was later confiscated by Popara the Hutt. It's from an RPG adventure called "Tempest Fued."
Starsider This old Dreadnaught was part of the New Republic fleet which massed near Kashyyyk during the year following the Battle of Coruscant. The Starsider served as a sort of mobile crew quarters, housing the various commanders and leaders who supported the New Republic's raids into Yuuzhan Vong-controlled space
Sunrunner This immense, ocean-going cutter was one of the fastest ships on the planet Maramere, during the years following the Battle of Naboo. Ambassador Loreli Ro turned control of the ship over to Nym and his mercenaries, during their search for Sol Sixxa. The Sunrunner was unarmed, so Nym's crew took weaponry from their starhsip Havoc and mounted them aboard the Sunrunner. The ship was destroyed in the final battle between Nym and Sol Sixxa, when Nym purposely overloaded its power generators and crashed it into the Trade Federation cutter commanded by Ruuk. With the Federation ship out of the way, Nym asked Sol Sixxa to join his mercenary gang in fighting the Trade Federation's occupation of the Karthakk System
Tarquinas This Lambda-class shuttle was believed to have been assigned to the first Death Star's contingent of starships
Tempest This Victory-class Star Destroyer was nearly destroyed near Dulathia, about four years after the Battle of Endor. Under the command of Captain Emba, it was carrying the components for an ion cannon, and slipped away from the battle. It managed to reach Garos VI, where it deposited the cannon
Valcyn This was the name of Darth Bane's personal starship. He fled the destruction of the planet Ruusan aboard the ship, having survived the explosion of Lord Kaan's thought bomb. The Valcyn was a blade-shaped craft, but it was severely damaged by the spirit of Lord Qordis when Darth Bane arrived at Dxun. After reaching the planet's surface, the Valcyn exploded, stranded Darth Bane on the moon
Wanderhome This modified Gallofree Yards medium transport was one of the many civilian ships that agreed to help the New Republic transport refugees from planets which had been attacked by the Yuuzhan Vong. When the ship tried to reach Ralltiir, it was discovered by a Yuuzhan Vong warship and was forced to flee. It made it to Gyndine, but the New Republic officer on duty was reluctant to send help, especially after learning that the refugees were mainly Ryn and Ranats. A group of freelance operatives stepped in to help defend the Wanderhome, helping it reach Ralltiir intact
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what, no test center
also there are 2 entries for intrepid.
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go Ioo!
/cheer for Agent!
Darka Golloum
NWW Ranger
Teh GaLaCtIc IrReGuLaRs
"Bring insanity to a town near j00!"
TGi The Galactic Irregulars
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MasterNerfSlayer wrote:Bria *snip* It was heavily modified, and was constantly breaking down. *snip*
Bria *snip* It was heavily modified, and was constantly breaking down. *snip*
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_______________________________Colonel Elalk Obesa "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddamn stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life."
"I don't suffer from insanity, I am enjoying it."
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~OKAG - LEE'LADBriaCommando - Trader~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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That explains everything, I guess the Devs are trying to preserve continuity of our servers namesake.
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TK868 wrote:
Bria was also the name of one of Han Solo's old g/f's...
EDIT: On second I think it was one of Luke's old g/fs... (you know, before he became a Jedi...)
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you were right the first time!!
read the Han Solo Trilogy books...
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Dear all,
we produce various system that bring it the Q24CL002 FW 657c09gm.
Until today we were satisfied but in the last month with some SIM card UK we get some problem , the system doesn't recognize it.
The system try to initialize but it's is not recognize it so the system cut the feeding.
Is it a SIM card that is not compatible with module firmware ?
Thanks for your help

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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/17/ibm_1401_fiftieth_anniversary/
Sputnik, spaghetti and the IBM SPACE machine
The 50th anniversary of the 1401
Posted in Data Centre, 17th November 2009 06:19 GMT
The fall of 1957 was a low point not only for the United States, but for another high-minded world power: IBM.
As the US looked up at Sputnik, without a satellite of its own, IBM was haunted by a rival machine known as the Gamma 3. Built by an upstart French outfit, the Gamma had trumped Blue Blue's fledgling computer tech - not to mention its European sales - and the company lacked even the blueprint for a response. In the fall of 1957, the International Business Machines Corporation had no major business machine in development.
But just as the US would reclaim lost ground with the Mercury space program, IBM would battle back with the 1401, a seminal stored-program machine fated to become the most popular computer of the 1960s.
This year marks the machine's 50th anniversary, and last week, at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, three of the system's founding fathers gathered for a night of nostalgia. Introducing the venerable trio - chief architect Francis Underwood, project head Charles Branscomb and planning manager Sheldon Jacobs - current Big Blue marketing boss John Iwata called them "IBM's version of the Mercury astronauts".
WWAM. Bam. No thank you, Ma'am
Shipped in 1953 by a French outfit known as Compagnie des Machines Bull, the Gamma 3 was an early electronic computer that served as both accounting machine and general purpose calculator. Big Blue had dominated the accounting machine market for decades, but according to Charles Branscomb - an exec in IBM's Endicott, New York lab at the time - its technology had suddenly fallen behind.
"It was a wake-up call. The Gamma 3 was a calculator that actually attached to an accounting machine, and the IBM Europe people were very concerned," Branscomb says. "They came to the corporation and alerted the corporation that there was a competitive threat - and that something had to be done about it."
Big Blue's initial response was to fashion a transistor-based system known as the Worldwide Accounting Machine, WWAM for short. Its processor was designed at IBM's French lab in Paris, its punchcard reader and printer at a German lab outside Stuttgart.
In 1957, Branscomb was appointed area manager for accounting machines at the Endicott lab, and his first task was to review the WWAM's progress. That October, he flew to France for a meeting with the product manager overseeing the processor design. And as Branscomb sat down, the Frenchman couldn't help but mention the satellite the Soviets had launched the day before.
"The Russians put up Sputnik yesterday, and it goes around the world saying 'Beep, beep, beep,'" the Frenchman said. "Then, when it gets to the US, it says 'Ha, ha, ha.'"
The IBM 1401 (right), with card reader and printer
The irony is that the IBM - including the Frenchman himself - was in much the same position as the Sputniked Americans. After Paris, Branscomb flew to Germany, and he soon told the corporation that the WWAM project should be terminated. Like so many accounting machines that came before it, the WWAM was programmed through plugboard.
"[The European labs] had done some creative work. They had tried to make the best use of a control panel, but it was still a control panel machine and technology was on the move and my conclusion was that it was not going to get the job done," Branscomb remembers.
"Here it was, late third, early fourth quarter 1957, and IBM's largest revenue base had no machine in development."
chief architect
Except that it did. To replace the WWAM, IBM turned to a system design sketched out by a single man working in Branscomb's Endicott lab. "I was called the chief architect of the 1401," Francis Underwood says. "But as a matter of fact, that was a made-up title. It wasn't official. It implies there were lots of other non-chief architects floating around. But they're weren't any."
The line is played for laughs. And Underwood goes on to praise the contributions of countless other IBMers in actually getting the system built. But in pegging himself the sole architect, he isn't far from the truth. Branscomb calls him the project's "creative fire".
After a stint in the Navy and a 75-cents-an-hour job as a tool maker in Washington, DC, Underwood was hired by IBM as a "customer engineer," someone who would answer the needs of the contracted clientele. But in his spare time, he designed machines of his own, "breaking out the old drawing board" when he came home in the evenings.
Francis Underwood
Eventually, he shared two designs to his supervisor: one for calculating keypunch, a device that could not only punch holes in the machine-readable data cards of the day but also make calculations on its own, and another for a newfangled interpreter, something that could both read cards and print to them. The supervisor sat on both. But within a week, Underwood had arranged his own interview with the lab in Endicott, and that nameless supervisor was soon left behind.
In Endicott, Underwood would join IBM's advanced systems development department, a group of engineers and mathematicians charged with predicting the future. "We were supposed to figure out what was coming ten years out," Underwood says. "But what we really did was screw around - and pretend we knew what we were talking about."
If Underwood screwed around, that wasn't all he did. Under the advanced systems aegis, he would lay out the design for what would become the 1401. Appropriately enough, he called it the SPACE project, short for Stored-Program Accounting and Calculating Equipment. Like the Gamma 3, it combined accounting machine with calculator. But unlike the Gamma - and unlike the WWAM - it didn't use a plugboard.
"We weren't interested in building an accounting machine," Branscomb says. "We wanted to take people to a whole new world."
No spaghetti for you
For decades, electromechanical accounting machines had processed data stored on punchcards - literally pieces of paper with holes in them. And since the early years of the 20th century, such machines had been programmed via plugboards, arrays of wires and wire-jacks.
"We have an image here of a fairly simple control panel," Branscomb deadpans, pointing to a mass of interwoven wires on a screen behind him. "They looked like a bunch of spaghetti, but this is how you controlled the machine in those days."
When Underwood laid eyes on the WWAM's plugboard - which accounted for nearly half its cost - he was, in his own words, appalled. "It was huge - it had to be," he says. "And all the electronics that drove the panel did nothing but that. They didn't help the customer solve his problem. They just drove the control panel."
The SPACE Machine would take a very different path. "I said 'From now on, no more control panels. We can use the money in a much better way,'" Underwood explains. "We could go to the kind of technology we saw in the large scale binary computers, go to a stored program." In this way, programming could be treated like native logic. "It could be manipulated and executed at high-speed."
Underwood calls the SPACE machine "my own little project. It could sit there and I could hug and pat it, slice it and dice it, and do anything I wanted to do. Nobody was telling me what to do." But in the wake of the WWAM's demise, it would become much more.
Joined by the 1402 (a card reader) and the 1403 (a printer), the 1401 was announced to the world on October 5, 1959, just two years - to the day - from Branscomb's Paris Sputnik meeting. The first unit shipped in September of the following year.
Clock speed: 87 kilohertz
Weighing four tons and consuming 13 kilowatts of power, 1401 machine included 500,000 separate components. Borrowing the WWAM's data path design, it was one of IBM's earliest transistor-based machines, with discrete germanium alloy-junction transistors designed by Big Blue and eventually built by Texas Instruments.
Made up of 2,300 printed circuit cards - each about 2.6-inches wide and 4.5-inches long - the core processor ran at 87 kilohertz. Core memory was no more than a stack of donut-shaped magnets circling tiny wire threads, and it stored somewhere between 1,400 to 16,000 positions, each holding 8 bits of data.
The 1403, the 1402, and the 1401 - with a tape drive
Machine-level programming was handled through a language dubbed Autocoder, but compilers were soon added for Cobol and Fortran. Though there was no operating system per se, Big Blue did provide a library of input and output utilities, and for later units equipped with tape drives, the company offered sort and merge programs as well.
The typical 1401 sold for around $500,000 - roughly $3.4m in today's dollars. But you could rent one for a mere $6,500 a month.
For some, Fran Underwood's SPACE machine wasn't the most important IBM system of the 60s. The System/360 mainframe played Apollo to its Mercury. But as Charles Branscomb puts it: "The 1401 made a huge contribution to the 360. It paid for it."
Instructions past
In 2004, IBM research and design veteran Robert Garner set out to restore a 1401 to working order. And five years later, he and his team have not one but two up and running at the History Museum.
The 1402 card reader
The machines have a cycle time of roughly 11.5 microseconds, and they need about 50 cycles to add a 20 digit number. That makes them about a million times slower than a modern PC. But in some respects, Fran Underwood says, the 1401 is still the superior machine.
With his SPACE machine, Underwood remembers, you could calculate the powers of 2 with a mere nine instructions. "Today, you'd need tens of thousands," he says. "That's terrible." ®


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Doctor Who Fans Unite delivers all sorts of Gallifreyan goodness this Friday, Oct. 15, with a free TARDIS build/cosplay meeting and a free screening of the 1975 "Doctor Who" serial "Pyramids of Mars," featuring the iconic Fourth Doctor played by Tom Baker.
The fun begins Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Blue Star Brewing Co. with a meeting to discuss the replica TARDIS build and some apropos cosplay. Bring your "Doctor Who" costumes and/or ideas for Doctor wardrobes, along with any blueprints and other ideas for finalizing the makeshift TARDIS.
After a feast of "Who" outfits and craft construction, feast your eyes on "Pyramids of Mars" next door at the Overtime Theater at 10 p.m. The four-part serial has the Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane Smith face off against killer mummy robots and the evil Sutekh of the alien Osirians. Very scary, keeds!
It's all free but bring some cash anyway for Sutekh dolls and dolls of those creepy clockwork men/women from "The Girl in the Fireplace." Donations are also welcome.
• Lego TARDIS explores time and relative dimensions with interlocking bricks
• TARDIS salt and pepper shakers spice up the time-space continuum
• VIDEOS: 'Doctor Who' theme with a didgeridoo, metal guitars & more versions
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The Washington, DC Bar Association is presenting a two-part seminar titled A Practical Guide to Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine. On both Wednesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 18, the program will be held from 6 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. at the DC Bar Conference Center, 1250 H Street, NW in Washington, DC.
This program will explore perhaps the most important legal doctrine with which any lawyer must be familiar: the attorney-client privilege. Lawyers face privilege issues nearly every time they communicate, and this program will focus on the types of communications in which lawyers are most likely to engage.
Topics to be covered include participants in privileged communications, the content of the communication, the context of the communication and waiver, including the sharing of privileged communications outside the company, inside the company beyond those with a "need to know" and the dangerous possibilities of an implied waiver. The session will also cover the very different but related work product doctrine, including the "temporal" and "motivational" elements of the doctrine, how work product protection might be overcome by a client's adversary, and waiver.
Thomas Spahn, McGuireWoods LLP, will lead the program.
For information about available CLE credits and fees, see CLE Events on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at www.metrocorpcounsel.com.
For more information and to register for the seminar visit www.dcbar.org.


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Deadline: 1 April 2016 International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking applications from women journalists from all over the world for its reporting trip to Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from July 12 – 24, 2016. Two groups of six women journalists will report from CAR and the DRC on issues related to civic engagement. All Fellows will begin their trip in Nairobi, Kenya, where they will complete comprehensive security training and an … [Read more...]
Asia-Europe Foundation: Journalists' Workshop on "Asia-Europe Digital Connectivity"
Deadline: 14 March 2016 The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) is inviting applicants for ASEF Journalists' Workshop on "Asia-Europe Digital Connectivity" to provide an opportunity for 20 journalists to come together to share their professional media experiences and perspectives from national and regional levels, in a direct exchange with their regional counterparts. It is a two day event which will be held from 7-11 May 2016 in Guangzhou, China. This workshop will be a platform for the … [Read more...]
UNESCO World Heritage Youth Forum 2016: Deepening Youth Knowledge and Understanding!
Deadline: 25 March 2016 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is seeking applications from young people for its World Heritage Youth Forum 2016 entitled "At the Crossroads of Multi-Layered Heritage" that will be held from 29 June, 2016 - 12 July, 2016. The Forum will provide the opportunity to exchange ideas, broaden their outlook and contribute to the discussions and immerse in topics such as urban life and its culture, natural landscape, importance and … [Read more...]
Earthwatch Earth Skill Networks 2016: An Open Opportunity to improve Management Practices to Protected Areas in Africa!
Deadline: 26 February 2016 Earthwatch and its Earth Skill Network (ESN) is seeking applications for its annual opportunity for funded training and mentoring in organizational and business management practices to protected areas in Africa. The Earth Skills Network is a partnership between Earthwatch, UNESCO, IUCN and corporate partners, who are working together to improve the business management skills of staff working in protected areas. The Earth Skills Network is the evolution of the … [Read more...]
Emerging Institutions Fellowship Program for Global Young business and Development Leaders
Deadline: 30 November 2015 The Landmark Development Initiative (LDI) Africa is calling applications for its Emerging Institutions Fellowship Program (EIFP) to provide hands-on service opportunities for global young business and development leaders at Africa's leading profit and nonprofit firms. The program is designed to match financial capital invested in emerging African businesses with the human capital needed to take these institutions to scale. Benefits While working with their … [Read more...]
Opportunity by PAS to Strengthen Academic Linkages and Education Programs in Pakistan
Deadline: 1 April 2015 The Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the Embassy of the United States in Islamabad, Pakistan is accepting applications for the open competition for assistance awards. The objective is to promote academic cooperation, civic engagement, and education sector reform through linkages and programs that strengthen relationships between practitioners, policy makers, trainers, or teachers from the U.S. and Pakistan, or within Pakistan. Following are the goals: Strengthen … [Read more...]
USAID's Development Innovation Ventures: A life changing opportunity for NGOs
Call for Concept Notes Deadline: Round the Year The United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is a grant program open to NGOs around the world to apply and get support for project ideas that provide breakthrough solutions to development challenges around the world. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) to provide funding of up to $100,000 for new project ideas … [Read more...]
Humanitarian Innovation Fund has 3 open funding opportunities
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Funding Opportunity : Media & Communication Skills Training Program for Women Parliamentarians of Afghanistan
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Funding Opportunity : Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Assistance Program 2013
Deadline- March 26, 2013 U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) offers funding opportunity for 2013 Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Assistance Program. The primary purpose of the Rural Program is to enhance the safety of rural victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking and support projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas. The Rural Program welcomes applications … [Read more...]
Rockefeller Foundation's $100,000 grant opportunity for those working for the poor
The Rockefeller Foundation is requesting for nominations of those who are working to improve the lot of poor and vulnerable people around the world. There is opportunity for selected NGOs or individuals to apply for grants of up to $100,000 from the foundation. The Next Century Innovators Awards is open to those who are applying innovation in new and different ways to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. To participate in the Awards, you need to nominate a person (which may be … [Read more...]
Applications invited for United Nations University(UNU-IAS) PhD Fellowship Programme 2013
Deadline- 28 February 2013 United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies is offering PhD Fellowships Programme to pursue PhD level studies in the field of Science and Technology for Sustainable Societies, Sustainable Urban Futures, Biodiplomacy Initiative, Sustainable Development Governance, Traditional Knowledge Initiative and Marine/Coastal Governance and Urban Biodiversity (UNU-IAS OUIK). The Fellowship Programme provides the successful applicant with a unique opportunity … [Read more...]
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Deadline- February 14, 2013 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to offer funding opportunity to support a program entitled "Improving Malaria Care (IMC). This Project Improving Malaria Care (IMC) aims to- Improve malaria prevention in support of the National Malaria Strategic Plan; Improve malaria diagnosis and treatment interventions in support of the National Malaria Strategic Plan Strengthen the National Malaria Control Program's capacity to … [Read more...]
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ISC Requiires Capacity Building Director – Asia
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The Lottie Project
"Hi! I'm Charlie (Don't call me Charlotte – ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't."
For a school history project, Charlie starts writing the diary of Lottie, a Victorian serving girl. Lottie shares Charlie's real name, Charlotte, and is also eleven, but that's where the similarities seem to end. Unlike Charlie, Lottie has to work to help her mum support their big, poor family. It seems a million miles from Charlie's life – until Mum loses her job. Suddenly Charlie sees how much she can learn from Lottie's hardships and struggles. For a start, Lottie would definitely know what to do about Mum's dreadful boyfriend and his wimpy son! Jacqueline Wilson delivers another winner with this thought-provoking tale of two girls who share similar problems but live in different times.
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As usual, Jacqueline brings a touch of magic and learning to all her books.
I love learning about the Victorians!
28 March 2016
We were learning about victorians at school and this certainly was great for it!
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This book is a bit boring but it was ok.
9 March 2014
This is my favorite book by Jacqueline Wilson
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Very interesting and fun
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Europe Congress
Krafcik to keynote European congressMarch 19
John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, the Google affiliate working on autonomous vehicle technology, will be the keynote speaker at the Automotive News Europe Congress in Turin on June 6.
Congress takes field in BarcelonaJune 26, 2017
The European auto industry's movers and shakers gathered in Barcelona, Spain, for the Automotive News Europe Congress on June 20-21. They heard speakers and panelists discuss the future of the industry, mobility, changing consumer tastes and more.
BMW exec says brands need to take more risksJune 22, 2017
Automakers must be prepared to take more risks to reach digital natives and not shy away from edgy subject matter, BMW marketing executive Hildegard Wortmann said.
Land Rover Defender will appeal to new generation, design chief saysJune 23, 2017
The launch of the new Land Rover Defender is "not far away," the brand's design boss, Gerry McGovern, said.
Ford sees LCVs as key to European profit despite Brexit headwindsJune 22, 2017
A strong sales performance in light commercial vehicles will help Ford be profitable in Europe this year, the automaker's regional boss said.
Lamborghini boss uses F1 experience to push brand furtherJune 22, 2017
Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali is trying to instill a sense of urgency in the supercar maker.
Volvo eyes even tougher sales targetJune 21, 2017
Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson says the automaker has the potential to exceed its goal of selling 800,000 vehicles annually by 2020. Volvo sold a record 534,332 vehicles last year.
Toyota knows it needs partners to meet mobility services challengeJune 21, 2017
Toyota is open to partnerships to counter the challenges posed by new mobility companies such as Uber, Executive Vice President Didier Leroy said.
Cooperation, customer focus key to mobility services successJune 21, 2017
Cooperation, customer focus and profitability should be priorities as traditional car companies expand into future mobility services such as car-sharing, industry experts said.
Lynk & CO boss says simplicity is key to brand's successJune 21, 2017
Lynk & CO's boss believes the key for the upstart brand's future success is to be "brutally simple."
EVs are 'clearly' the future despite slow start, Renault's Normand saysJune 21, 2017
The global market for electric cars has not grown as fast as Renault expected but EVs are "clearly" the future, says the automaker's EV boss, Gilles Normand.
Lynk & CO's Visser to speak at Europe CongressJune 12, 2017
The head of the new Chinese-owned brand that is challenging standard vehicle distribution practice will speak at the Automotive News Europe Congress in Barcelona next week.


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You are devastated that your connection appears to be headed for a split up and neither of you actually wants that. How do you revive the flame that you each hoped would last permanently?
Splurge and stay in a five greece hotel that you have just dreamed about staying at. There are factors they are five stars : because they are better and more high-class in virtually every way possible. Exactly what better way to relax and revel in the night?
If you want to know more, why visitors love staying in these resorts then here are more. These types of hotels quite often offer discount rates to their tourists. The special discounts come in accommodation and fooding. The hotels also offer deals and these packages act as discount rates to the tourists. Packages are available in different rates. London resort discounts are quite popular and therefore are available mostly in away from season. Some star type and hotels greece also offer discount rates to their tourists during the winter or winters.
These hotels are extremely different from other accommodations that are offered to those that are traveling to the location. These hotels are much simpler to stay in for long periods of time since they offer anything. These hotel greece s are usually major brands of resort chains, thus they have a specific set of standards they must stick to. Most of the times, there is no method for the staff to have individual one on one relationship with their visitors, simply because there are so many guests which are staying in the hotel. Nevertheless , this is one of those aspects that many people are willing to give up due to all the advantages of staying in the hotel greece.
These chains maybe spending budget or luxury chains. There is certainly money in both of these as everybody have all levels of budget. Simply because the people stay in a cheaper location they will still expect great service and be treated nice with respect. Some supervisors may start at a lower degree and then try to move to a bigger chain after gaining a couple of years experience in smaller functions where they may have to do some everything.
Get ready to receive offers to purchase your timeshare, and don't forget to close up the deal too. If you're no experienced closer, there are unit closing companies that are specialists at what they do. They will help you save a lot of time, and they will save you lots of hassle, from doing all of the paperwork related to the shutting of your sale.


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The ST-HDoC-TEST-MINI is a 4.3 inch IP camera tester with an 800 x 400 capacitive touch screen designed for the installation of analog, IP, HD-TVI and HD-CVI cameras. With an ONVIF PTZ controller this meter supports more than 40 customized IP camera protocols, mobile apps to view IP camera images and contains built-in WiFi to receive network images and data. The FTP Server, Static IP address, DHCP, simultaneously test different segments of IP cameras along with network bandwidth testing. The PoE 24W power supply can power IP cameras and test PoE voltage while the DC12V/2A power output will power most analog cameras. The HDMI signal output supports 1080p. Additional features include USB 5V 2A power output to mobile phones, PoE port finder, link monitoring, IP camera ping testing, IP address scan and a BNC input & output. Both IP and analog images can be zoomed in up to four times. The meter supports snapshot, video recording and playback. It has a built in 4GB SD card, NTSC/PAL auto-selection, video signal measurement, analog PTZ control, preset settings, UTP cable testing, PTZ data analysis, RS485 communication address scan and audio input testing. The 7.4V DC 5000mAh lithium polymer battery can power the unit for up to 16 hours after charging for seven hours.
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Where is the A-Team?
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At many companies around the world right now, executive management is feverishly looking for ways to cut costs and eliminate headcount to bolster the bottom line. As I have heard many times before, many are probably asking themselves, "Do we really need an A-Team to handle our enterprise risk and compliance activities?" As a result, risk management and compliance are areas that are typically cut first. While that may be helpful to the bottom line in the short run, it typically comes back to haunt companies as we are seeing today in the many corporate failures related to poor risk management and compliance practices.
So, those same executives shoud be asking themselves, "Do we have the right talent to address our risk management and compliance activities?" Some key skills required for the "A-team" include:
- Solid understanding of the business
- Well informed on regulatory and compliance requirements
- Ability to see the big picture beyond just the rules
- Uncompromising integrity and courage
- Strong communications skills to articulate risk exposures as well as opportunities
- Capability to persuade and influence appropriate behavior in others


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Texas Instruments
The project encompassed development and incorporation of a waste treatment process for alkaline soak cleaners used in our aluminum chemical finishing processes. The chelating agents in our cleaners were tying up the heavy metals (in particular chromium, the major contaminant) in our waste chemical streams. This prevented complete precipitation of the chromium for proper filtration removal in our waste treatment facility.
P2 Application:
The old method of disposal was to have the cleaning solutions either drummed up or placed in a tank truck for off-site disposal. This was not desirable due to trucking/disposal costs and potential liabilities. Another method of disposing of the solution was suggested by the manufacturer of the cleaning solution. This method involved breaking the chelating effect, thereby rendering the solution treatable through our existing waste treatment facility. The chelating effect was broken by adding calcium oxide (lime), mixing the treated solution for one hour, and finally adding the mixed solution to the waste treatment pH adjust tank at a controlled rate for treatment. While the calcium oxide (lime) treatment process was an alternative, there was the cost of additional process equipment (mixing tank, mixer, metering pump, etc.) and time involved. Another alternative investigated was reducing the rate at which the cleaner was metered into the waste treatment process. While this did reduce the level of chromium in the effluent, the levels exhibited with practical cleaner flow rates still did not provide chrome levels below 1 ppm (total chrome), as desired. One final study was initiated. This involved the possible use of nucleation agents to improve the precipitation process. Some of the possible nucleating agents were coprecipitated metals such as copper, nickel, zinc, iron, calcium, aluminum or cationic polymers. Looking for a naturally occurring source of one of the above metals, the concept for possible use of aluminum, which builds up in our alkaline etch solution was researched. A 50/50 mix of the waste soak cleaners and alkaline etch solutions, when added at low percentages by volume of reduced chrome solution, provided satisfactory chrome levels in the waste treatment process effluent. This was, in part, due to the dissolved aluminum in the alkaline etch acting as a nucleating agent for more effective precipitation of heavy metals, while reducing the effects of the chelating agents in the cleaners.
Environmental Benefits:
This use of waste alkaline etch solutions provided an innovative means for improved in-house treatment of alkaline soak cleaners, thereby eliminating the costs and liabilities of having to transport these waste solutions (some 1600 gallons/year) off-site for disposal.
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This process saved some $2300/year in trucking/disposal costs per tank, while being a process which was accomplished without the cost of additional equipment and processing time.
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Pictures: Professional soccer players make stop at Dorchester's Kroc Center
Posted by Patrick Rosso March 22, 2013 04:25 PM
(Image courtesy New England Revolution)
Players from the New England Revolution, the area's professional men's soccer team, recently paid a visit to the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Uphams Corner.
The players made a stop at the center to teach local youths some skills as part of their "Turf Tour" before their season opener Mar. 23.
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Briton gives birth to biggest baby ever born naturally in Spain
A 40-year-old British woman gave birth to the biggest baby ever born naturally in Spain-a girl weighing 6.2 kilos (13 pounds).
Maxime Marin delivered the baby at 4:43 am at the Hospital Marina Salud in the Mediterranean city of Denia, the hospital said in a statement.
Larger babies are often delivered via caesarean section, but Marin did not even need an epidural, a painkiller delivered into the spine during childbirth.
Marin, who lives in Spain with her partner who is from Colombia, said she knew the baby would be big "but not that big", the statement said.
She has given birth to three other children, all of them weighing at least 4.5 kilos when they were delivered.
Both the baby — named Maria Lorena Marin — and the mother are doing well after the birth although the newborn remains in the neonatal care unit.
The hospital said the baby is the "biggest baby ever born in Spain through natural childbirth".
"In my 40-year professional career I have never known of any case of a birth with this weight by natural childbirth. We are all very satisfied with the work which we carried out," the head of the hospital's department of obstetrics & gynaecology, Javier Rius, said in the statement.
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Jerome Boateng says former Manchester City teammate Mario Balotelli is in inspired form going into the Euros final.
Boateng, who played with City last year, saw Italy striker Balotelli defeat his Germany this week.
Boateng, who signed for Bayern Munich last year, said: "Balotelli, in this form, is a world-beater.
"People talk about all the controversial things he does but when he's focused he's unstoppable.
"We didn't underestimate him, we just couldn't cope with him. He just took us to pieces.
"He's frightening. Considering his age and the talent he has he's more than capable of becoming one of the best strikers in the world.
"In this tournament he has undoubtedly proved there are few strikers that can live with him."


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plainbox 0.38.0
Toolkit for software and hardware integration testing
PlainBox is a toolkit consisting of python3 library, development tools, documentation and examples. It is targeted at developers working on testing or certification applications and authors creating tests for such applications.
PlainBox can be used to both create simple and comprehensive test tools as well as to develop and execute test jobs and test scenarios. It was created as a refined and rewritten core of the CheckBox project. It has a well tested and documented core, small but active development community and a collection of associated projects that use it as a lower-level engine/back-end library.
PlainBox has a novel approach to discovering (and probing) hardware and software that is extensible and not hardwired into the system. It allows test developers to express association between a particular test and the hardware, software and configuration constraints that must be met for the test to execute meaningfully. This feature, along with pluggable test definitions, makes PlainBox flexible and applicable to many diverse testing situations, ranging from mobile phones, traditional desktop computers, servers and up to testing "cloud" installations.
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My wife set me a 8pm curfew and left me when I defied her
Monday February 29 2016
I have been a reader of your column for a long time, and I must say I find the advice you give helpful. I am 37, and have been married for four years. My wife and I have one child, who is three. Throughout our four years of marriage, we have hardly known any peace.
My wife has always been insecure, and often accuses me of being unfaithful, which is not true.
This is not all, she is rude and verbally abusive, and becomes hostile when I ask her to account for the money I give her for our upkeep – I found out some time ago that she sends some of it to her mother.
Due to these problems, in 2013, we went to a counsellor, who after listening to us, told me that my marriage will always be troubled, because my wife can't change her bad attitude.
I didn't chase her away though, hoping that she would change, something that did not happen.
In January this year, she left me, claiming that I arrive home late. Mind you, I work in Thika, yet we live in Nairobi.
She insisted that if I get home later than 8pm, she would not attend to me in any way. I was of course defiant, and would get home later than that.
Now my question is, should I go get her or do I forget her and move on? Please, I need your help.
From your email, it is clear that your marriage has been a difficult and unhappy one. Generally, relationships are tough.
They require daily management and sacrifice to keep them afloat.
Although the challenges and conflict we go through provide opportunities for growth of our relationship, this may leave it strained and beaten up, particularly where issues are re-current or are not fully dealt with.
Unresolved issues and unfulfilled demands have a way of undermining a relationship.
Also, the perspective a spouse may have on the other plays a lot on the faith the two have in each other, and hence the relationship.
Your wife's perspective of you is that of suspicion, and this of course created a certain level of mistrust which cannot just be washed away by denial or by ignoring the elephant in the room.
I also feel that to only attribute this disharmony to her insecurities and negative attitude may be naive to a certain extent.
This does not mean that I am defending her actions. My worry is that you seem to think that she is the only one that needs changing.
Perhaps you need changing to. What makes her doubt your faithfulness for instance? Have you done something to make her lose trust in you?
The fact is that you cannot afford to demand blind trust.
Also, the complaint of her lack of financial accountability should be separated from her desire to support her parents.
There is nothing wrong with her supporting her mother, but you need to come to an agreement about how to do this, rather than her doing it in secrecy.
How much, when to send, who to send it to and the period within which such support will be given.
My philosophy is that if you decide to look for the bad in others, you will find it in plenty. The reverse is also true, look for the good that is in others and there will be plenty to unearth.
What I see in your relationship is some elements of competition, and seeking to find fault in each other.
However, I believe that the two of you must have found something pleasurable in each other at some point.
Building on the good will help you to find common ground to deal with the injuries in your relationship.
Her leaving says that you do not listen to her, even when she raises issues that she feels need genuine attention.
If her complains about you are totally untrue, meaning that you never come home late, and are not unfaithful as she claims, then she has a problem.
But if her complains are true, but lack understanding of why this is happening, then you two should sit down and talk.
This time though, do not scratch the surface of these issues, rather, dig until you get to the bottom.
Dear Kitoto,
Mine is a very complicated case. I have been dating sporadically for a number of years. My last relationship, which I thought could have led to marriage flopped after my partner cheated on me. We tried to solve the issues that were undermining our relationship, but it did not work, so I let it go. I'm in my late thirties, and I really want to find a mature person to settle down with. The problem is that there is more often a very big age gap between me and the women I meet. Those that I meet, who are my age mates, already have two or three children. Is age difference a factor to consider while looking for someone to marry? Kindly advice.
Hi Evans,
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that my disappointment with many singles is their failure to realise that success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate.
As you look for the right person to settle down with, you must first strive to be the right person, with the kind of values that others will find attractive.
If you don't have attractive attributes, you can be sure that no one will want to know you more. Remember the old saying, "Birds of a feather flock together."
Second, you need to know the kind of values you are looking for in a marriage partner.
Without this, you will drift all over the place, like a boat tossed about by the strong waves of the sea, pushed to whatever direction the winds may take it.
In essence, our values help us determine behaviour, choices, attitudes, and the way we live our lives. This is what attracts certain people to you.
Those attracted to you either don't have those values that you have, and therefore admire them, or they embrace the same values, and therefore sense the kindered spirit in you
Enough about you and your values. To get the right person to spend the rest of your life with, you need to list the values you would want in the woman you are looking for.
If the women that gravitate towards you don't have these values, then move on swiftly, because the relationship will just not work.
Look at the women that hang around you through the lens of your expectations. These expectations include age, which seems to be a big deal to you.
What I have observed is that age is not such a big factor particularly where the woman is younger than the man.
Unfortunately, it is not in my place to determine which age would suitable for you, only you can decide that.
I have also observed that many of us tend to be swayed by what others think when it comes to our relationship.
We are controlled by what other people think of our relationship that what we feel about it.
When you do get into a relationship, ensure that what you value about the relationship is enough to sustain an argument on why you got into the relationship in the first place, otherwise people will sway you with their ideas about what you should or should not do.
Also, it is easier to confess love for someone than it is to carry out the responsibilities that accompany this confession.
Suppose you admire all the qualities you see in her but she turns out to be much younger than you are, will you walk away?
We decide that a person is right for us if we feel good, safe, and fulfilled when with them.
I am of the conviction that the right person will be themselves before you, communicate their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment, and desire to grow through the experiences you face together.
To find out whether you are compatible with each other, you should make an effort to find out about that person's background, beliefs, likes, dislikes, values, practices and associations – this is what will tell you what they value.
What I am saying is that the success of any relationship is directly linked to shared values. Age is relative.
Hello Mr kitoto,
I am an avid reader of your column. I am 25, and at university, hoping to graduate in December this year. I am in love with a collegemate - she is doing the same course as I am doing, but she is behind me by a year. I feel she also loves me, going by how she responds to me, For instance, when I text her, she texts me back. She also listens attentively when I speak, and respects my opinions. A week ago, I confessed to her that I was in love with her, only for her to inform me that in her eyes, I am a brother and friend. Sir, how can I convince her to love me back?
Hi there,
The fact is that in some cases, that woman you secretly love sees you as a friend, and nothing more – you are simply someone she can confide in and hang out with. For some, this feeling may be temporary, but as they learn more about you, the platonic love they feel could change.
Hang in there, but if she does not change her mind after sometime, accept the inevitable – she does not see herself with you beyond your current friendship. From your email, it is clear that she has no romantic interests towards you.
If you keep pestering her, she will begin to feel uncomfortable, and might just end your friendship.
A wise man is the one that knows when it is time to walk away. Don't deny yourself the opportunity to meet others as you pine over love that might just never be requited.
Until your friend opens the door, which she might not do, you will have to admire her from a distance and remain just a friend.
One more thing to bear in mind is that your once free and easy friendship might become uneasy, now that you have declared your love. It is not easy spending time with someone who rejected you, no matter how gently or politely. Be ready for this.


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Khaleesi is an invented name introduced to the world by inventive and prolific author George R. R. Martin for his wildly popular Game of Thrones series—it's Dothraki for "queen" and is one of the titles of the character Daenerys. It entered the US Top 1000 at Number 756 in 2014, and was Number 765 in 2016.
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Mag+ and Appboy have announced a partnership to empower digital publishers to isolate specific readers for targeted offers and upsell campaigns, converting passive or one-time readers into loyal subscribers in the process.
Mag+'s digital publishing platform contains nearly 1,500 apps, including The Atlantic and New York Magazine. Developers of these digital publications can access Appboy's "mobile relationship management" platform through Mag+'s iOS experience, with pricing based on the number of subscribers.
Appboy's technology allows developers to target specific groups of readers and then send automated messages to those groups. As an example, publishers could send passive readers an exclusive offer for an annual subscription. This targeting can be fine tuned to only send messages to users that have opened the app within the last week, for instance.
This partnership also gives developers access to an in-app customer support tool aimed at lowering negative app store reviews, access to push notifications, email services and more.
"Monetization and engagement are the biggest challenges of digital publishing today," said Mike Haney, co-founder and chief creative officer of Mag+, in a company statement. "Appboy helps companies by offering deep insights about their readers and targeted communications to segments of those readers. By bringing sophisticated marketing tools to mobile, the platform empowers digital publishers to derive more value from their apps."
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STILLWATER — A convicted Rensselaer County sex offender is accused of feeding sleep medication to a 5-year-old, Stillwater police said.
Police arrested Jason P. George, 37, of Johnsonville, who is being held without bail in the Saratoga County Jail on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment, both misdemeanors. He was also charged with a felony — being a sex offender and failing to report a change of address.
Police said George put medication in the child's food several times, causing the risk of serious injury. The youngster received medical care and has recovered, the police said, without providing detail.
State records show George was committed to prison in 2008 in Saratoga County and in Steuben County in 2002. He was convicted in 2008 of attempted assault, a felony, and served a sentence from January 2008 through August 2011. He also was convicted of first-degree attempted sexual abuse in 2002 and served a sentence from May 2002 through October 2004, records show.


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A$AP Rocky Pleads Guilty to Attempted Grand Larceny: Report
Billboard -- A$AP Rocky has pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny for an altercation dating back to July. A$AP was arrested after him and two other photographers got caught up in a brawl in which A$AP allegedly attacked two men taking photos of him, according to TMZ. He "attempted to grab the camera during the melee -- which is where the larceny charge comes from," continues TMZ. Charges of assault and attempted robbery in the second degree were dropped in exchange for A$AP pleading guilty. The rapper was sentenced to three days of community service, a $250 fine, and to stay out of trouble until his next court date which is in February.
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Sceptre 37" LCD 1920 x 1080 Flat Panel HDTV
Part 1
November, 2005
by John E. Johnson Jr.
I think it is safe to say that most Secrets readers either have, plan to buy, or would like to have an HDTV.
The problem at first, several years ago, was the cost. We could expect to pay $5,000 to $10,000 for one, and most of them were CRT rear projection TVs.
The 9" CRTs in rear projection TVs could resolve 1080i, but smaller CRTs, such as 7", could not. Scan generators were capable of showing 1080i, but not 720p, so everything was scaled to 1080i.
Of course, it didn't really matter anyway, as programming was scarce as well. So, we just oohed and ahhed at the TV stores, watching a golf game or other odd program that was piped in for demonstration. If we were lucky, we got to see something off a high definition demo tape.
Then, the prices started coming down, and whoops, they went back up again when flat panel TVs were introduced. If you wanted a 50" plasma TV, you were talking $15,000. And, it was 720p at best. No 1080i in flat panels. This time it was not scan generators that were the problem, it was the number of pixels.
It was the same for front projectors. Between $5,000 and $10,000 for an LCD digital projector. Again, it was 720p.
In the last year or so, we started seeing DLP rear projection TVs that touted 1080i. Well, it was sort of 1080i. They used a technique that moved the pixels on the screen, back and forth, to get 1080 resolution, but the projection panel itself did not really have 1920 x 1080 pixels. It worked though, until something better came along, namely true 1920 x 1080 panels.
We are now seeing true 1920 x 1080 rear projection TVs, flat panel TVs, as well as digital projectors. They are expensive, because there are not very many models available. But next year (2006), we will see 1920 x 1080 TVs and projectors from numerous companies, and let the price wars begin.
Surprisingly, one of the first 1920 x 1080 LCD flat panel TVs comes from a brand almost no one has heard of before: Sceptre.
You can find Sceptre LCD TVs in several sizes on the Internet in various places. I have not seen one in a TV store (yet).
The Sceptre 37" LCD HDTV under review here is only available at CostCo, and only by ordering it on-line (link shown in the specification box above).
There are a small number of LCD HDTVs on the market that will show native 1920 x 1080 images. What makes the Sceptre unique is its price: $1,699. That is less than half what you could expect to pay from the major TV manufacturers. So, even if you don't purchase this particular TV, it will bring the prices of the other brands down to remain competitive. I understand that Westinghouse also marketed a 37" 1920 x 1080 LCD HDTV recently, but it uses the older DVI connection. I suspect the Sceptre is built by the same factory, and it now has the HDMI connection.
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The Sceptre is a true 1920 x 1080 LCD flat panel HDTV, meaning there are actually that number of pixels across and down the screen. And . . . get this . . . it will accept 1080p input, from such sources as the HD-DVD players that are soon to hit the shelves, and it will show those sources in 1080p. If you input 1080i, it scales to 1080p.
Broadcasters are already talking about 1080p programming. Yes, that's right. Just as the ATSC standard of 1080i is about to be available to the masses, the industry is already touting something that goes beyond ATSC standard resolutions. I suspect this is just the beginning. In 5 years, perhaps we will see 2160p. Anything to keep us buying new TVs. And, won't you want one? Yeah, me too.
The Sceptre has one HDMI/DVI (HDCP-compatible) input, along with all the usual other inputs, component video, S-Video, composite video, and VGA.
It comes mounted on a table stand, and also includes stereo speakers that are mounted on the sides. You can opt to use other speakers rather than the included ones, which is what I did (I used two Krix bookshelf speakers instead).
The remote control (click on the photo to see a larger version) is easy to handle, with well-marked, tactile, shaped buttons. It is not backlit, but the distinctive placement and shape of the buttons makes it easy to know where you are on the remote in the dark.
There is a PIP function, but you need two external tuners to use it. There are two buttons labeled "Source PC" and "Source AV" which are used to select the input among HDMI, DVI, Component, etc. Oddly, HDMI and DVI are selected using the Source PC button, while Component is selected with the Source AV button. It would seem to me that just having one button to scroll through all the sources would be fine, but perhaps the designers felt that having one button on the right would disturb the symmetry of the remote.
On this HDTV, you can change the aspect ratio of HDTV signals as well as NTSC signals. On my older HDTV, I could not change the aspect ratio of any HDTV image. The advantage of this is that sometimes a native 480p camera image is scaled to 720p or 1080i for broadcast, and it almost, but not quite, fills the 16:9 screen. You might want to zoom the image so that it fills the 37" screen, and you can do that with this TV.


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EDUC501 - Issues in Special Education
This course is designed to provide a full overview of the historical analysis of Special Education: classifications/definitions and patterns of behavior, description of assessment and intervention strategies, legislation and litigation, outside forces that influence special Education, and an introduction to the people in Special Education and their relationship to the system. Students will concentrate on their particular area of education as it relates to Special Education. Students will complete ten logged hours of field experience.
EDUC511 - Learning and cognition
This course is an in-depth examination of the research on issues of learning and cognition and how it applies to the classroom. A major research paper is required.
EDUC513 - Teaching Foreign Language and ESL
This course is designed to introduce students to the prominent theories and applied research in the field of second and foreign language. It aims to promote students' knowledge and skills of teaching language courses at the K-12 level. Students will learn traditional and innovative classroom techniques and strategies for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Discussions center on the role of the teacher, the needs of the learner, language testing and assessment, materials design, use of new technology in language teaching, and the development of lesson plans, including the selection and uses of texts and other materials. The course is designed as a laboratory experience, using multiple constructivist techniques and strategies of instruction. Students taking this course are expected to engage in extensive reading, research, class discussion, written reflection, and self-evaluation through dialogue, group projects, and field work. The course should only be taken by students who plan to teach French or Spanish.
EDUC514 - Theories of Second Language Acquisition
This course provides students a comprehensive introduction to the prominent theories and research of second language acquisition (SLA), explores factors that influence L2 learning process, compares the similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, and discusses the implications of these theories for second language teaching. Course topics include second language acquisition theoretical models, the processes of first and second language acquisition, their similarities and differences, individual differences, second language teaching styles, the role of affective factors, the role of error correction, and implications of language acquisition research for language teaching. The course is designed as a laboratory experience, sing multiple constructivist techniques and strategies of instruction. Students taking this course are expected to engage in extensive reading, research, class discussion, written reflection, and self-evaluation through dialogue, group projects, and field work.
EDUC517 - Multicultural Education
This course is designed to enable students to examine and survey various anthropological, historical, sociological, and political perspectives on multicultural education and apply relevant theories and principles to educational practices in different educational settings: general education, ESL, and EFL. It equips students with the knowledge, skills, and cultural competencies that enable them to facilitate learning among students from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Students are expected to develop an in-depth understanding of multiculturalism at an individual and societal level and to raise their own sensitivity to issues that affect diverse cultural and linguistic groups. Students will be able to explore and analyze the issues of language, culture, ethnicity, racism, diversity, multicultural education. It also enhances students' ability to develop culturally responsive lesson plans that include strategies for teaching and assessing multicultural and multilingual language learners. The course is designed as a laboratory experience, using multiple techniques and strategies of instruction. Students are expected to engage in extensive reading, research, class discussion, written reflection, and self-evaluation through dialogue, group projects, and field work.
EDUC539 - Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Development
This course provides an introduction to early adolescent and adolescent development and investigates the implication of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development in educational settings. Major developmental and psychological theories and research relevant to teaching and learning are explored. Content areas include adolescent growth and development, conflicts and issues associated with different development, conflicts and issues associated with different developmental levels, approaches to instruction, and cultural and socioeconomic diversity. The emphasis will be on the practical relevance of this material for students in grades 4-8.
EDUC603 - Reading Strategies for Middle and Secondary Content Area
This course will focus on expository reading, development in content areas such as language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and music, as well as the use of literature to supplement content texts. Emphasis will be given to the reading process and effective teaching practices that aid students' comprehension, vocabulary, critical thinking, studying, and writing. A variety of current research literature will also be reviewed. This is a course for Reading Specialists, middle level, and secondary education majors that meet state standards for certification in a content area. Students will create a portfolio of reading strategies that may be employed before, during, or after reading a middle level or secondary level content area textbook. Ten hours of classroom observation is required.
EDUC682 - Evaluation and Assessment of Students in the Inclusive Settings
This course examines the assessment and evaluation processes used for determining progress for students with and without Individual Educational Programs. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandates that all students have access to the general education classroom and curriculum. The course will provide teachers with the necessary knowledge and skills to assess and evaluate all students. The course will examine historical, philosophical and legal considerations and models of the assessment process and various types of assessments will be examined.
EDUC684 - Inclusive Education with Field Experience
This course examines the concept of Inclusion and what it means to both the special educator and the general educator. Students will learn to use effective inclusion strategies in the general education classroom and examine the various ways special and regular educators can work effectively together. Students will have ten hours of field experience in inclusive education settings.
EDUC610 - Student Teaching
Observation and teaching in an approved classroom with guidance and evaluation. At least 12 weeks of full-time student participation is required. Students must apply for student teaching at least two semesters in advance.
EDUC620 - Practicum
This course is a seminar to synthesize academic disciplines and relate them to the development and learning of the pupil in school and focus on the needs of the student teacher. If offers opportunities to gain skill, insight and perspective in the relationship of theory to practice in the teaching-learning process. To be scheduled concurrently with student teaching