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Entry requirements
A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Applicants should also have gained experience of working in museums or related organisations (this experience is often gained in a voluntary capacity).
English language requirements
If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.
The English language level for this programme is: Good
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About this degree
Students are equipped with a range of skills that they can apply in any museum and develop critically aware perspectives on professional practice and research processes. The programme's main aim is to provide an in-depth understanding of approaches to the research, documentation, communication, public engagement, interpretation, presentation and preservation of curated materials in museums, while responding to their audiences and communities.
Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.
The programme consists of four core modules (75 credits), two optional modules (30 credits), work placement (15 credits) and a research dissertation (60 credits).
Core modules
All students are required to take the following:
- The Museum: Critical Perspectives
- Managing Museums
- Collections Management and Care
- Museum Communication
Optional modules
Students also choose further options to the value of 30 credits from the following:
- Antiquities and the Law
- Collections Curatorship
- Cultural Heritage, Globalisation and Development
- Cultural Memory
- Exhibition Project
- Intangible Dimensions of Museum Objects from Egypt
- Oral History from Creation to Curation
- Curating Science & Technology
- Nature, culture and the languages of art: theories and methodologies of art interpretation
- Archaeologies of the Modern World
- GIS in Archaeology and History
All students undertake an independent research project on a museological topic which culminates in a dissertation of 10,000 words (60 credits).
Teaching and learning
The programme is delivered through lectures, small group seminars, practical workshops, student-led panel meetings, museum visits and guest speakers. Students are required to undertake a work placement for a total of 20 days. Assessment is through coursework assignments, projects, essays, field reports, portfolio and the dissertation.
Students are required to undertake a minimum of 20 days' work in a museum (or similar institution). Drawing from an extensive network of musuems we collaborate with, the aim is to arrange placements that match students' prior skills, interests and expectations. Placements usually take place one day per week during term-time, although other arrangements may be possible. Students create and present a poster, through which they are assessed, and organise a poster session and placement provider reception.
Recent placements have included: Brent Museum, the British Museum, The Jewish Museum, Freud Museum, Hackney Museum, London Transport Museum, Handle Hendrix Museum, Alexandra Palace, the Royal Academy, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, Royal Historical Palaces, St Paul's Cathedral, Benjamin Franklin Museum, Islington Museum, the House of Illustration, Marx Memorial Museum, UCL Museums & Collections and the Wallace Collection.
Institute of Archaeology Master's Awards: a small number of grants up to the value of £1,000 are available for the academic year 2018/19. All UK/EU and Overseas fee-paying students with an offer to start any Master's degree offered by the IoA are eligible to apply. For an application form please email Lisa Daniel. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2018.
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Some recent graduates of the programme have gone on to complete a PhD while others have pursued a career in professional organisations associated with the museum and/or heritage sector. 90% of UK graduates from this degree take up employment in the museum sector within six months.
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The MA in Museum Studies facilitates the development of both practical skills relevant to a professional career in the museum and galleries sector and a solid understanding of, and critical engagement with, theoretical issues involved in contemporary museum practice. Core practical skills include collections care procedures, packing and storing objects, documentation, collections-based research, exhibition production, and display evaluation. A museum-based placement and optional modules can be chosen to enable students to focus on specific additional areas of theory and practice. Transferable skills include independent research, writing and communication skills, interpersonal skills, use of IT, time management and group working.
Careers data is taken from the 'Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education' survey undertaken by HESA looking at the destinations of UK and EU students in the 2013–2015 graduating cohorts six months after graduation.
Why study this degree at UCL?
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is the largest and most diverse department of archaeology in the UK, and provides a stimulating environment for postgraduate study in related fields such as museum studies, heritage studies and conservation.
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London's many museums and galleries are a wonderful source of discussion and material for this degree, but in particular UCL's own important museums and collections are drawn upon for teaching and research, including those of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, the Art Museum, and the Grant Museum of Zoology. Students participate in real-life projects through a number of courses and placements offered on the programme. Students also have access to MA degree programmes taught in other UCL departments. Please note that students need to contact the relevant programme co-ordinators to register their interest since there are only limited spaces available.
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Student / staff numbers › 63 staff including 25 postdocs › 246 taught students › 115 research students
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Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.
Application fee: There is an application processing fee for this programme of £75 for online applications and £100 for paper applications. More details about the application fee can be found at www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught/application.
Who can apply?
The programme is intended primarily for those who wish to enter the museum profession in the UK or abroad or else pursue PhD studies on museological topics. It provides a balance of practice and theory for students from a wide range of academic backgrounds and cultures.
Application deadlines
- All applicants
- 19 January 2018
Due to the high demand for places on this programme, candidates are advised to submit their admissions application by the end of December for September start the following year.
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Three weeks after hip surgery, the old Baltimore Colts center is off theinjured list. Buzz Nutter is back at work.
He no longer blocks charging linebackers such as pro football Hall ofFamers Sam Huff and Ray Nitschke. But Nutter does operate heavy machinery atthe beverage distributorship he owns in Waldorf. He runs forklifts. He makesdeliveries, driving trucks up to 100 miles a day.
Not bad for a guy who is soon to turn 74.
Nutter is one of a cadre of aging former Colts who continue to work intotheir 70s. They played football here at a time when salaries were meager andathletes needed off-season jobs. Their lives were built on a lunch-pail workethic, born of being raised during the Great Depression.
It's a far cry from the NFL today, where the Colts reside in Indianapolisand play host to the Ravens tonight.
Jim Mutscheller was part of Baltimore's most famous Colts teams. Now 74,Mutscheller clocks in at 7:30 a.m. An insurance agent for a Hunt Valley firm,he works despite having had a knee and a shoulder replaced. Mutscheller playedtight end for eight years and helped the Colts win NFL championships in 1958and 1959.
Selling insurance, he says, keeps him active and chasing goals. "I enjoymaking a [tough] sale," Mutscheller says. "It's like catching a pass onthird-and-10 and getting a first down."
That's the point, says Jim Taylor, a sports psychologist in San Francisco.
"Athletes are, by definition, doers," Taylor says. "Their gratificationcomes from accomplishments - and living on past laurels only goes so far froma self-worth perspective.
"Old players like setting goals, too. Some don't need to work. But formany, doing nothing is not an option.
"Ultimately, you have to live with who you are, not who you were."
Few players earned as many accolades as Lenny Moore, the Colts Hall of Famerunning back. The basement of his Randallstown home is filled with hardwarefrom a 12-year career that began in 1956.
Yet Moore continues to draw a paycheck. At 71, "Spats" works as atroubleshooter for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, mentoringhigh-risk children and counseling their families.
"All of us [old Colts] know the value of work," says Moore, whose footballsalary peaked at $30,000. "I can't sit at home. What good is it to take what Ihave to offer to the grave?
"Do nothing and you're just speeding up your getting-out-of-here time."
Moore says he knows old-timers from other NFL teams who are strugglingfinancially. In the 1950s, few players earned more than $15,000 a year.Today's average NFL salary is $1.26 million.
Player pensions vary for those who suited up 50 years ago, but generally,benefits are $200 per month for each year played.
"Health insurance is the problem," Moore says. "We've reached the age wherethings are happening to us. Three years ago, when I had my prostate removed, Ineeded a number of [injections] that cost $2,500 a shot.
"Without my work insurance, I couldn't have met the expense."
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It's noon at his restaurant, and All-Pro Andy Nelson greets the lunch blitzin full uniform: white apron, disposable gloves and a T-shirt that reads, HogsSmell Better Barbecued.
Behind the take-out counter, Nelson serves up sandwiches of pulled pork andbeef to a hurried clientele. At 71, he still moves easily in the busy kitchenof the barbecue joint that he opened in Cockeysville in 1981.
"Hey, Mr. Nelson!" a customer shouts. "How are the ribs today?"
"Tender as a mother's love," the owner drawls.
Nelson does not have to sling 'cue. His two sons run much of the businessthat bears his name. But 6 a.m. still finds the one-time defensive back in thekitchen, stripping meat off pork shoulders that have been cooking all night.
"Getting up early feels good," says Nelson, who played for the Colts from1957 through 1963. "I'm like an old milkhorse. Hard to stop when you've beendoing it so long."
Nelson, raised on the family's cotton farm in Alabama, signed with theColts out of Memphis State for $6,200. That's him, third row, sixth from theright in the '58 team photo nailed to the restaurant wall. He played everydown on defense that year.
"If I'd known that [sudden-death] championship game would be so famous, I'dhave asked for a $5,000 raise," he says. Instead, the bump he got was $1,500.
Nelson, who worked every off-season "to make ends meet," shrugged it off.Even now, he rejects any talk of retiring.
"I'm old school," he says. "Keep moving and the joints stay loose."
He stops, wipes his greasy hands and signs a football for a fan.
"Plus, it's nice to be remembered."
For Nelson, pulling pork - like picking off passes - may be just a matterof being driven.
`Passion to be good'
"The same qualities that made them good athletes have kept them moving,"says Karlene Sugarman, a sports psychology consultant in San Mateo, Calif."It's a passion to be good at something and a never-give-up attitude.
"Those feelings sustained them as players and as businessmen - and theydon't want to give that up."
Raymond Berry, 71, helps train salesmen for a California insurance firm.
"Pass receiver, salesman - it's all about preparation and attention todetail," says Berry, who parlayed those traits into a 13-year Hall of Famecareer with the Colts. "I've enjoyed putting into words a lot of things thatwere instinctive for me."
At 80, Art Donovan still putters around Valley Country Club in Towson,which he opened in 1957. He mows the grass, cleans the pool and helps in thekitchen, frying crab balls between sips of Schlitz.
"Why do that? So the devil can't keep up with me," says Donovan,Baltimore's Hall of Fame defensive tackle.
Also in 1957, Doug Eggers, a Colts linebacker, begged for an off-season jobwith a construction equipment company in Savage. Today, Eggers, 74, ownsChesapeake Supply.
"I've kind of turned the business over to my son, but ... nothing is set inconcrete," Eggers says. Most days, he arrives at the office at 7 a.m. andworks until midafternoon.
Recently, he presented his old football contracts, which he had squirreledaway in a shoebox, to the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore.
"My best year, I made $8,500," Eggers says. "Hard to believe, but I nowmake twice as much [in pension benefits] for not playing football."
Then there is Bert Rechichar, a defensive back and kicker who, in 1953,booted a then-NFL-record 56-yard field goal for the Colts. Half a centurylater, he drives a school bus in western Pennsylvania "just to have somethingto do."
The kids, some of whose grandparents may not have been born when Rechicharstarted playing, call their 74-year-old driver "Big Bert."
Retiring is "not part of our mentality," says Nutter, the Colts center fromLa Plata, who had hip replacement surgery last month. Buoyed by a cane, hebounced right back to his job as head of Center Distributors.
"I'm programmed to work," says Nutter, who played for the Colts from 1954through 1960 and again in 1965. "I never missed a day of practice in my wholefootball career - and sometimes it took a lot to get there.
"If I could make it to practice, then I can make it to work."
Whether it's Nutter operating a forklift, Nelson slinging pork or Moorecounseling troubled youths, the old Colts are probably happier than theirmodern counterparts who can walk away from the game set for life, says Taylor,the psychologist.
"My feeling is that old-time athletes are more satisfied than those who areretiring today," he says. "Those older guys already had lives outside of thegame. It's not like that now."
For a decade, Taylor has advised high-profile athletes of their retirementoptions, a transition few seem prepared to make.
"They think money will bring them happiness, but my research shows that itdoesn't," he says. "The most successful post-career athletes are those who cantake the identity and life skills that they learned in sports and apply themto another area of life.
"You can have all of the money in the world, but you still have to fillyour time. You can only play so many rounds of golf. You can only have so muchstuff."


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by Lou Mancinelli
While a three-decades-long successful career in corporate America that includes working for Fortune 50 companies and later running one's own consulting company has its rewards, economic benefits being perhaps the most notable among them, for a local holistic practitioner that lifestyle proved to be void of sufficient meaning.
After she reached the place many college graduates think they want to reach, long-time Chestnut Hill resident Kathy Corbett, owner of the Mindfulness Practice Center (MPC) in Chestnut Hill, says she felt unfulfilled.
"In 1980 I had a corner office overlooking Rockefeller Plaza," says Corbett, who opened MPC, located at 8419 Germantown Ave. in 2000. "I got caught up climbing the career ladder. When I got there I thought, OK, this is it?"
Today, in addition to teaching mindfulness meditation at MPC and the Won Institute of Graduate Studies in Glenside, she teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the Mindfulness Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Lankenau and Bryn Mawr Hospitals. On March 1 Corbett, who requested that her age not be mentioned, participated in a presentation entitled "The Role of Complementary Medicine for People with Cancer and Their Loved Ones," hosted by the Center on the Hill in partnership with the Cancer Resource Center of Chestnut Hill Hospital.
While scientific research has only begun to explore the effects of meditation on the brain during the past three decades, mindfulness itself is an ancient practice that can be traced back to the Upanishads, part of the ancient Hindu scriptures, according to Wikipedia. It is rooted in Buddhist meditation and "correct or right mindfulness," the seventh element of the Buddha's eight-step path to enlightenment.
By calming the body and focusing on one's breath and noting, but not thinking about, the items in the room or the thoughts passing through the mind, as if the mind were a lake and the rest of the world reflecting off the water on the surface, it is said the mind begins to work on a clearer level. The goal is to train the mind by meditating for 10 to 20 minutes, twice a day.
"I think it's a good way, especially if you are approaching a very difficult operation, to center yourself and calm your mind and prepare for the operation," says Jack Roberts, M.D., 86, a retired Chestnut Hill Hospital and private surgeon who has studied mindfulness meditation with Corbett for the past three years at her program at The Hill at Whitemarsh, a community for seniors. Roberts opined that if a busy, often rushed general practitioner took one minute to practice mindfulness before seeing each patient it would help the doctor's mind stay focused, where otherwise it might have the tendency to think about the entire day's work and patient load.
While in the past three decades studies have indicated meditation might lower blood pressure and increase one's attention span, last year a Harvard Medical School study found that MBSR leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density, an important factor in a healthy brain.
After graduating from Penn State University in the late '60s with a degree in education, Corbett, who was raised in Easton, taught for a short while before going into business. She could only find temporary teaching assignments.
That's when she made the jump into the business world. She worked for 15 years in corporate America, first with the Farmers Bank of Delaware and then with General Electric and Drake America, an international marketing firm in New York City. In 1985 she moved to Philadelphia and founded Corbett Associates, an organizational development consulting company. There Corbett helped often-stressed executives develop effective leadership skills.
"It was too successful," says Corbett, who eventually taught a consulting class at the University of Pennsylvania based on her experience. "I was working insane hours."
But around the end of the century she felt there was something missing. Because she often worked with executives who were stressed and angry, in 1997 she attended a work shop hosted by world-famous Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh designed to help psychotherapists work with their clients' anger.
"I had one of those moments that are indelible," said Corbett. "He walked into the room, and he didn't say a word. I was transfixed. He emanates such deep peace…" In 1967, Dr. Marin Luther King nominated Hanh, who has published more than 100 books, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Corbett became an aspirant in Hanh's order, marking her introduction into the studies of meditation. Not long after, she folded Corbett Associates, reconnected with her teaching education, and in 1999 volunteered with the now-defunct Quaker Ministry To People With AIDS.
A short time after that, Corbett applied what she learned at the Quaker Ministry to care for her terminally ill father and her dying 101-year-old-grandmother. Following that experience, from 2002 through 2005 she worked with Keystone Hospice, based in Wyndmoor, where she was director of its volunteer faith-in-action program. In 2005, she returned to school full-time to earn a master's degree in applied meditation, a form of Buddhist psychology.
Most of the work Corbett does in her private practice focuses on "applied meditation." This year is also her first year teaching "The Use of Buddhist Psychology and Working With Difficult Emotions and Clients" at The Won Institute. The class is geared to teach workers in the health care services how to bring mindfulness into their daily work.
At her private practice, Corbett works with entrepreneurs, artists, mothers, graduate students, seniors, working professionals and more. In additional to mindfulness meditation, she is also a certified bereavement counselor and offers those services through MPC.
For more information about The Mindfulness Practice Center, call 215-248-7441.


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- 1 NVidia Quadro NVS Series (Notebooks) work with nvidia package
- 2 (U)EFI support
- 3 XRandR support
- 4 NVoption Online
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- 6 Nvidia 173xx
- 7 custom kernel
- 8 '/dev/nvidia0' Input/Output error... suggested fixes
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NVidia Quadro NVS Series (Notebooks) work with nvidia package
All cards up from Quadro NVS 130M the NVidia Quadro NVS Series (Notebooks) work with the NVidia package (Linux Display Driver - x86 310.44 2.4.20, the nvidia package in pacman, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=nvidia , as confirmed by the nvidia website: http://www.nvidia.de/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en&QNF=1 )
The 130M was issued in 2007, the 140M was build into the popular ThinkPad T61, so there will be quite a lot of people who have one of those.
All other cards in this series (110M and 120M) work with the nvidia-304xx package from the official repositories.
(U)EFI support
I was told in this thread that the proprietary nvidia drivers do not work with EFI (by what appeared to be a senior community member), and repeated attempts to install the drivers on a UEFI system have met with little success. As a result, I am placing the warning back. Apologies if this isn't in keeping with wiki etiquette!
--Rsmb (talk) 02:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- I had success using the nvidia driver on a efi system by adding 'nomodeset' to the kernel parameters. This prevents kms from loading, which causes a blank screen and is probably the source of the problems most users are seeing. X afterwards works just fine. I was able to play Doom 3 with a high fps rate :)
Davvil (talk) 10:59, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
- I have also had no problems with the current proprietary drivers after I blacklisted the i915 module on an ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 mobo and a Zotac 9600 GT 512MB video card.
Polychoron (talk) 03:44, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
- Blacklisting i915 also works for me
Davvil (talk) 19:10, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
XRandR support
As far as i understand it the recent drivers support XRANDR, which is probably much better than Xinerama/Twinview. Should we remove the Xinerame/Twinview instructions alltogether and just mention to use the standard XRandR methods for multiscreen setups?
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[I'm using gmplayer with gl and twinview] [1]http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/nv-online/
Maybe someone can put this in better words: Logging out, or switching to a different terminal using ctrl+alt+F<2-9> consistently resulted in a black screen, and killing Xorg with ctrl-alt-backspace resulted in a terminal screen with only the top line visible. It turned out that a 'vga=773' added to kernel line was the cause of this. After removing that the problem was solved. Probably something to do with KMS? B.t.w. I have only used x with 'startx', so possibly specific for that way of starting X. rwd
- Was it with this driver or nouveau? The proprietary drivers don't have KMS. thestinger 17:42, 13 December 2010 (EST)
This was with the proprietary driver. I originally had put vga=.. because it made gave the bootup screen a higher resolution, and because the beginners guide mentions it (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#GRUB). Apart from leaving out the vga option, I discovered that setting it to the native resolution as explained on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution fixes the black screens as well. Maybe a warning for using vga= option with with proprietary drivers would be useful.rwd
Well the thing is that vga= is meant for the proprietary drivers only - open source drivers already set the native resolution without a vga command. It can be removed from the beginners' guide though, since it breaks open source drivers, and if the card doesn't support the vga command, it breaks the closed source ones too. thestinger 20:13, 13 December 2010 (EST)
Nvidia 173xx
The nvidia-173xx package no longer exists (29 Oct 2011).
Has it been replaced by nvidia-173xx-all? If so, this package hasn't been updated since Feb 2011.
Will it need to be updated to be able to use the latest xorg 1.11?
In the meantime, please include instructions for which xorg related packages pacman should ignore.
- [2] -- Karol 21:14, 28 October 2011 (EDT)
- I commented out the info about older drivers, since they're not compatible with Xorg 1.11. Maybe if someone create the appropriate packages for Xorg 1.10 in AUR, then we could add back some info, but until it's misleading I think. --City-busz 23:32, 3 November 2011 (EDT)
- nvidia-96xx and nvidia-71xx are in the AUR, you can't use pacman to install them. -- Karol 00:03, 4 November 2011 (EDT)
- You can't install these packages from AUR, because they requires Xorg 1.10/1.7, which is not available in official repos, nor in AUR. Once NVidia make them compatible with Xorg 1.11, then someone should add them back to the official repos. Another option is to someone create xorg-server-1.10, xf86-input-evdev-1.10 etc. packages to support these drivers. --City-busz 01:31, 4 November 2011 (EDT)
- You can use ARM or some other mirror that holds old packages and still use nvidia-173xx and older drivers. My question is, why did you put
# pacman -S nvidia-96xx nvidia-96xx-utilsinstead of "install nvidia-96xx-allAUR and nvidia-96xx-utilsAUR from the AUR."??
- The latter still works with out of date packages while the former does not, because I'm not aware of any repo that has nvidia-96xx. -- Karol 09:06, 4 November 2011 (EDT)
- You can use ARM or some other mirror that holds old packages and still use nvidia-173xx and older drivers. My question is, why did you put
- You can't install these packages from AUR, because they requires Xorg 1.10/1.7, which is not available in official repos, nor in AUR. Once NVidia make them compatible with Xorg 1.11, then someone should add them back to the official repos. Another option is to someone create xorg-server-1.10, xf86-input-evdev-1.10 etc. packages to support these drivers. --City-busz 01:31, 4 November 2011 (EDT)
- nvidia-96xx and nvidia-71xx are in the AUR, you can't use pacman to install them. -- Karol 00:03, 4 November 2011 (EDT)
- I commented out the info about older drivers, since they're not compatible with Xorg 1.11. Maybe if someone create the appropriate packages for Xorg 1.10 in AUR, then we could add back some info, but until it's misleading I think. --City-busz 23:32, 3 November 2011 (EDT)
The following section was commented in the article. I am moving it here instead:
These drivers are not compatible with the latest Xorg release in the official repo.
- Whereas users with older cards should install (GeForce 5 FX series cards [NV30-NV38]):
# pacman -S nvidia-173xx nvidia-173xx-utils
- or (GeForce2 MX, GeForce3 and GeForce4 series cards [NV11 and NV17-NV28]):
# pacman -S nvidia-96xx nvidia-96xx-utils
- or (Riva TNT, TNT2, GeForce and GeForce2 series cards [NV03-NV10 and NV15-NV16]):
# pacman -S nvidia-71xx nvidia-71xx-utils
-- pointone 10:31, 4 April 2012 (EDT)
custom kernel
The package changed for kernel 3.0 and the instructions no longer work. Please fix this. Z.T. 09:14, 23 November 2011 (EST)
'/dev/nvidia0' Input/Output error... suggested fixes
Can anyone verify that the BIOS related suggestions work and are not coincidentally set (either automatically when changing the IRQ or turning off ACPI) while troubleshooting? I have found little information that confirms any of the suggestions would work. The file permissions thing seems to be completely unfounded and never works (as noted in the article) that I could find. It would probably be a good idea if we cleaned out items that have not been verified to work. For my setup I was having this error and none of the items in the wiki nor the many file permission search results worked. -- click, them so hard 19:16, 4 March 2012 (EST)
- I've added an Accuracy template, please next time add it yourself so that discussions like this are more visible. -- Kynikos 05:40, 6 March 2012 (EST)
I think the "Installing" section is a little ambiguous and could use a bit of rewording. Because the steps are numbered, and little indication is given otherwise, it is implied that you need both the packages named like nvidia-173xx, and the regular nvidia packages. I don't actually have my nvidia drivers working properly, so maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but if I'm right in assuming that you need either the specifically named drivers like nvidia-173xx or the plain ol' nvidia drivers, step 2 needs to be reworded. I would suggest displaying two separate [code] blocks, one with # pacman -S nvidia-173xx nvidia-173xx-utils, and the one that's there now. Then make it explicitly clear that you need to do one or the other, not both. --Sotanaht 18:45, 17 May 2012 (EDT)
Oh, I forgot that the nvidia-173xx drivers were not in the official repos. Scratch the part about including the command for installing that. I still think it's important to make clear that people using the nvidia-173xx drivers do not need the regular nvidia drivers. Also make it clear that people using the regular nvidia drivers do not need any nvidia-XXXxx drivers. --Sotanaht 18:49, 17 May 2012 (EDT)
- Well, I've never had to use the old Nvidia drivers, but the note says that the old modules don't support Xorg 1.11 (Arch provides 1.12 now). Unless the situation has changed, those drivers are useless unless you also write instructions on how to safely downgrade Xorg. Please correct me if I'm wrong. -- Kynikos (talk) 11:27, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Bad performance, e.g. slow repaints when switching tabs in Chrome suggestion broke emerald/compiz
Firefox performs quite poorly for me, so I tried this suggestion and it ended up breaking my WM. All new window borders changed to solid white and would not move around. Can someone else confirm? If so there should probably be a note or amendment to the suggestion. Biltong (talk)
Run a test
There is confusing paragraph saying You can run a test to see if the Xorg server will function correctly without a configuration file.. IMHO, it should be clarified what kind of test the author has in mind, an exact command would be helpful. Currently, this suggestion is simply confusing, especially to less experienced users. --Mloskot (talk) 19:52, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Several of the commands which are suggested to be run with nvidia-xconfig (such as nvidia-xconfig --twinview) don't work with the current nvidia packages in the repository. I just went through setting mine up so I intend to clean up the ones that I can from my experience. Some don't seem to have a 1:1 replacement (there is a --dynamic-twinview argument now; is that the same as --twinview was?). Teh (talk) 13:10, 20 June 2013 (UTC)


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[…the continuing 1941 diary of Sicily Island, Louisiana native, Bea Bryan Denham. References to WWII are in red.]
July 1, Tuesday
Sunny and hot.
Jo Anne went to Vacation Bible School, and as soon as I finished cleaning up I went to Mamma's. Earl had already gone. He and Carter worked all day, got the cold water lines run, but no hot ones yet. Oh, I'm so glad it's being done, I've surely wanted them to have water in their house long enough. I wish we could fix the commode, but I guess we will have to be satisfied with this awhile.
July 2, Wednesday
Earl worked all day on the water system at Mamma's, and I tagged about after him. They got the hot water almost finished, but it will take a little while in the morning to finish it up.
July 3, Thursday
Rowland called Earl this morning about a car, so Earl and Carter finished the water system about 11, and we began getting ready to go to Thibodaux. Dave Clark and his family came by, but we got off at 2 after eating dinner with Mamma. Visited May Usher a few minutes, and also Nelson and Faye. The car was considerably more than we wanted to spend, but Earl said it was a good buy, and if we can sell ours it won't be so bad. It was $650, we paid $300 down, and want to pay the rest before 60 days to eliminate the carrying charges. It was after 12 when we got here, in Thibodaux. We are going to Grand Isle tomorrow. Saw Kidd on the road.
July 4, Friday
We left about nine and drove down to Grand Isle, got two rooms in a private home, and went sight seeing. It was too hot to swim, so we went to the docks and hired a boat which took us out beyond Grand Terre, where we looked at the old Fort Livingston, built during the war of 1812, and now partly in the sea. We saw porpoises swimming about, and surely did enjoy the ride. Later we went swimming, but Jo Anne enjoyed it most of all. She really learned to take the waves as they came. It's a nice place to stay awhile, we met the Easterly's down on the beach.
July 5, Saturday
We swam early, stayed in a long time since there was no sun. Jo Anne and I were sick in the night, but seem to be all right today. We also went back in this afternoon, with the Easterly's and got a pretty bad scare when we found ourselves too deep. It's lots of fun swimming where the waves break. We have had a real nice time all the trip, I'm so glad we came. I think both Jo Anne and Earl enjoyed it immensely, and I always love to see them do things they enjoy. We will swim early, and leave early in the morning. The sunset was beautiful today.
Sunday, July 6
They all went swimming this morning but Velma and I stayed and packed up, got ready to leave. Easterlys left, too, Earl and Rowland helped them get the trailer out and going. We left Grand Isle around eleven, got to Thibodeaux about two, but ate dinner in Golden Meadow, wasted a lot of time. Brought Elaine and Lily Belle up to Baton Rouge, came on out to Quitman's, where we're going to spend the night. The car seems to be all right, we will conclude the bargain tomorrow. We hated to leave Grand Isle, we all enjoyed it, but Jo Anne especially did.
Monday, July 7
Sunny and hot.
We came into town and fixed up the papers on the car, notes of $175 for Aug. 7 and Sept. 7, and left it to be gone over. We visited Aunt Leona a good while in the afternoon, Anna, Anna Bess, Anna May, Dollie, and Tom came in while we were there. We also went to Jewel's, and found them living in a negro cabin, just about so bad as they've ever been. Came back by Quitman's and decided to spend the night with C.L. When we got out there, Kidd had been calling us, so we went to the University, she had letters from Margaret and Florelle for us. I am going to be glad to get in bed, I'm tired tonight.
Tuesday, July 8
Sunny and quite hot.
I thought we were going home early this morning, but Earl got to fooling with C.L's garden tractor, so Marcia and I decided to go see a table Beverly [Kate's husband] had made Kate [Marcia's sister], and on to town for a pair of shoes for me. We got the play board for the bridge table, and went to see Sis. Fooled around at C.L.'s the rest of the day, left them at 6:00. Had to drive both cars, Earl said Jo Anne should have been twins, so we'd each have a daughter to ride with. Jo Anne said it was my fault she wasn't, that I could have borned two as easy as one. We stopped at May Usher's, got home at 10:45. Ate supper in Natchez. Trip cost $25.00.
July 9, Wednesday
Sunny and hot.
I've cleaned and put away all day, and the house still looks like a wreck. Went to Mamma's and Julia's, and fixed dinner, washed underclothes, took clothes to Liza, and have been busy the whole day with no results. Well, I guess that's a cross section of life. Wrote Minnie Lea, Velma, Florelle, Marcia, and asked Fortuny for the ninety eleventh time to send my manuscripts back to me. We went to see Edward awhile tonight, took Mamma and Daddy. Burk is getting better but is still in the hospital. The pipe for Mamma was $16.26.
July 10, Thursday
Margaret came this afternoon and asked me to go to Monroe tomorrow. I guess I'll go, I want to get Sprague a wedding present. We spent a good while at Mamma's, I wrote Easie and Aunt Leona. Seems as if I'll never get all the letters written.
The Battle of Britain is rather quiet, but the Battle of Russia is raging. Russia is bound to lose, but at least they're putting up a fight. England is bombing German and French cities pretty briskly, seems as if she is just beginning to take the offensive.
July 11, Friday
Went to Monroe, got a beautiful pair of pillow cases for Sprague. Mr. Dewitt got a suit to wear to the wedding. We stayed till about 1, but I didn't buy anything except a belt for Earl and some ribbons for Jo Anne. We were in a terrible rain coming back. I left my dress and Earl's suit in Wisner, guess I'll have to go after them tomorrow.
July 12, Saturday
Cloudy, no rain
We cleaned up good for Sunday, I got everything ready for our early departure tomorrow. Kidd and Edward came in this afternoon, we went to Mamma's and stayed most of the time. Kidd and Mamma went to Wisner with me after the clothes. Daddy spent the day, and is to stay the night, in Winnsboro, visiting friends and Aunt Florelle, who has been sick. We tried to get Mamma to go to Harrisonburg but she wouldn't, decided we'd take Pop and Julia. We stayed til about ten, at Kidd's, came back by the Holy Roller church and watched them awhile. Today was Aunt Minnie's birthday.
July 13, Sunday
We got up early; Cecil, Margaret and Mr. Dewitt went with us to see Sprague and Hazel married. It was a beautiful home wedding, Hazel looked awfully pretty. Cecil said all the bosses were terminated Saturday, and it undoubtedly won't be long until the other job will begin. Nelson and family came this afternoon, we went to Wisner to see "Ziegfield Girl" – fair. Edward took our old car, said he'd try to sell it if he could. We need to get rid of it as soon as possible. Everything is going up, especially groceries.
July 14, Monday
Earl went to Leesville after the tent lumber today, got in at 12:30 tonight. Said they had a nice trip. Nelson went with him and Carter. He said it seemed the job will open this coming Monday. I washed and ironed, and spent a while at Mamma's. I wrote Florelle, and must try to do the posting at the shop tomorrow. Faye was here a little while. Mr. Dewitt was out here with no way to get home, so Jo Anne and I took him out there.
July 15, Tuesday
More rain
I'm afraid the cotton will ruin, it's raining so much during the blooming season. I posted at the shop, got everything straight so far as I know. Jo Anne, Patsy and I went to Harrisonburg to get tires for a trailer, Earl has been working on one all day long, so far it's cost us $12. I do hope we get orders to go to work Monday, it's awful waiting and nothing coming in, but all you've saved going out. Wish we could sell our old car, that would make us certainty of the payments on this new one. Went to Mamma's, but didn't stay very long.


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"The only thing on the level is mountain-climbing."
- Eddie Quinn, Montreal wrestling promoter
For several months now, I've travelled throughout the Ottawa Valley and up to Northern Ontario promoting my book about Larry Kasaboski and the history of old time wrestling as we once knew it.
I've made stops from Wilno to Ottawa to Sudbury and many centres in between. Wherever and whenever there's been an opportunity, I've gladly gone to discuss the book. I'm starting to feel like the well-known, glad-handing Ottawa politician, who it was once said, would attend the opening of an envelope.
To say the least, it's been an exhilarating ride and I've taken more than a few bumps at book stores, libraries, museums and cafes. But that's the reality of selling books in today's marketplace; you strike when the iron is hot.
It was inevitable that sooner or later I would make my way to the Mecca of the marketplace, namely a professional wrestling show. I will be afforded that opportunity on Friday, May 30 at the Petawawa Civic Centre when Capital City Championship Combat-C*4 brings pro wrestling back to the Valley after a considerable absence.
For sure, the rasslers are coming back to the area and most wrestling fans I've talked to are eagerly awaiting their return. For me, it will be deja vu all over again. Once a regular at rough and rowdy local shows, it's been a long time since I've seen the dust fly off the canvas while excited fans cheered on their heroes and booed the villains.
Wrestling night has always been a night of pizzazz, panache and punishment. There's no longer any pretense that it's real. So wrestling's not on the level... so get over it.
The game is pure entertainment and the more entertaining, the better for local, action-starved fans.
I've always compared a wrestling troupe to any theatrical group. Among them are good actors and bad actors. Some nights they shine, other nights they stink the joint out. You pay your buck and take your chances. If it isn't entertaining, you're not likely to go back.
Young Mark Pollesel represents the new breed of wrestling promoter. At age 24, he's a far cry from some of the cigar-smoking, carny-like promoters of the past, who when they weren't putting one over on the fans, were shortchanging their own performers.
Pollesel, who prefers to remain in the background, is only interested in putting on a good show for the fans. He's a federal government employee by day with aspirations to become a filmmaker and screenwriter. He helped promoters on other shows before striking out on his own.
Now he promotes shows under the banner of C*4 and he'll be the first to tell you that promoting wrestling shows is a slippery slope.
We mutually agreed that it would be a nice contrast between old time wrestling and the new style wrestling craze if I attended the show to sign copies of my book and discuss wrestling as it once was in the Valley.
But the main action will be in the ring featuring some of the more talented up and comers in the business today. They're not exactly household names, but what they lack in experience they more than make up for in determination and drive. And they bring a fresh approach to the squared circle.
This isn't a casual gig for some of these wrestlers. They are focused on making it to the big time and along with Pollesel, realize the importance of winning over the fans with an entertaining show. And that's why you're likely to get a more solid effort than what you see on the slick TV packaged performances.
Names like The Flatliners, the Super Smash Brothers, Xtremo and Hallowicked may not mean much to you now, but by the end of the evening, new stars may be born.
But regardless of the abundant mix of mat maulers on this show, you will still be able to pick out your favourite villain along the lines of the once-feared Don "One-Man-Gang" Evans. And there's likely a crowd pleaser on the card that will put you in mind of Larry Kasaboski.
Among all the devastating dropkicks, errant elbow smashes and flying chairs, I'll be there.
Bell time is 8 p.m.
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STILLWATER (AP) — Brandon Weeden threw for a school-record 502 yards and four touchdowns, and Joseph Randle scored the final, tiebreaking 23-yard touchdown with 2:16 remaining to lift No. 3 Oklahoma State to a 52-45 victory against No. 17 Kansas State on Saturday night.
The Cowboys (9-0, 6-0 Big 12) matched the best start in school history and survived quite a scare from K-State (7-2, 4-2), which had three shots at the end zone in the final 12 seconds.
Collin Klein missed on 5-yard passes intended for Tyler Lockett and Chris Harper and then overshot Tramaine Thompson in the end zone as time expired. Oklahoma State's players rushed on to the field to celebrate, their national championship hopes still intact.
All-America receiver Justin Blackmon caught 13 passes for 205 yards and two touchdowns, atoning for his two-fumble game with a 54-yard touchdown catch with 4:47 remaining that pulled the Cowboys out of a 38-37 deficit.
He also caught the 2-point conversion for a 45-38 lead.
Kansas State responded right back with Lockett's 80-yard kickoff return and three straight runs by Klein, who barged in from 12 yards out to tie it up with 3:18 remaining.
It took Oklahoma State's quick-strike offense just four plays and 62 seconds to respond again. Weeden found Isaiah Anderson for a 33-yard gain, and Randle ran through a big hole on third-and-1 before dodging safety Jordan Zimmerman to waltz in for the game-winner.
Klein drove the Wildcats down for a chance to tie — or perhaps go for the win with a 2-point conversion — by converting a fourth-and-4 with a quarterback keeper and then connecting with Harper for 22 yards to set up first-and-goal at the 5-yard line.
With no time to rely on his potent running game, coach Bill Snyder called three straight passing plays but none got the job done.
Klein finished with 231 yards passing with one touchdown and one interception. He also ran for 144 yards and three scores.
Minutes after the game ended, the stadium shook from an apparent aftershock from a 4.7-magnitude earthquake earlier in the day.
The thrilling finish came after a wild back-and-forth game filled with turnovers and plenty of offense — nothing like what was on display in LSU-Alabama clash in the SEC that ended 9-6 in overtime.
While LSU will likely remain first when the BCS standings come out on Sunday, Oklahoma State will probably be the new No. 2.
With starting receivers Josh Cooper and Hubert Anyiam out, Tracy Moore set career-highs with nine catches for 146 yards for Oklahoma State.
Oklahoma State capitalized on Klein's fumble on the Wildcats' second play from scrimmage to strike first with Randle's 4-yard touchdown run, and it was soon 14-0 after Weeden hit Moore for a 44-yard gain to set up the Cowboys' second score.
Blackmon stutter-stepped at the line to get Nigel Malone on his heels, then caught Weeden's pass and stutter-stepped again to get past him for an 11-yard score.
Then the Cowboys' stars made a series of mistakes to let K-State get back in the game.
Blackmon fumbled on a punt return to set up Anthony Cantele's 37-yard field goal, then Weeden gave the ball right back by throwing a pick to Tysyn Hartman on a deep ball. Angelo Pease and Klein had short TD runs on Kansas State's next two possessions before another Weeden interception was returned 60 yards for a score by Allen Chapman.
Kansas State led 24-14 — the biggest home deficit this season for the Cowboys — then started piling up errors of its own.
James Thomas intercepted a pass that Klein threw into coverage and Brodrick Brown tipped. His 47-yard return set up Weeden's 5-yard TD pass to Moore on the next play. Then, instead of pinning Oklahoma State deep, Ryan Doerr's punt went out of bounds after only 19 yards and gave OSU good field position to drive for Quinn Sharp's 29-yard field goal and a 27-24 halftime lead.
The Cowboys were 1 yard away from claiming a 41-31 lead late in the third quarter when Blackmon fumbled for the second time in the game and Lyndell Johnson recovered in the end zone for Kansas State.
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Moscow Looks to Blockchain for Fair Elections
The city of Moscow is looking to evolve their Active Citizen polling network to log votes in upcoming elections. Thus making the election process transparent to all and tamper-free.
Active Citizens Decide for Themselves
As the white house continues to deny any allegations of collusion with Russian hackers and the FBI doggedly turns over more and more evidence of Russia's influence on the 2016 elections the city of Moscow is making moves to make sure it can't happen there.
Since 2014 the Russian city has had a program in place called Active Citizen. This program allows citizens to vote on big projects in order to eliminate corruption. So far citizens have cast their votes on the seat colors at the new Luzhinki stadium, whether or not to participate in a major housing renovation program and the official badges that doctors will wear in all the cities hospitals.
Blockchain Tech Can Help to Ensure Fair Election Polling
In 2017 the Active Citizen program was moved on to a Blockchain network where ideally the data can never be deleted or changed and the system cannot be hacked. Today it has added a private version of the Ethereum network to the existing architecture with a view towards implementing this into the city's voting process.
In this way, city officials hope to soothe citizen's fears of vote manipulation while showing the world's governments that free and fair elections can be had in Russia.
"Of course, sometimes we hear that not all the votes are trusted," said Andrey Belozerov, the strategy and innovations advisor to the city's CIO;
"So, we decided to use a blockchain for the Active Citizen project, as a platform of electronic trust. The idea is to put all the votes to the blockchain to make it open so everybody can connect to our blockchain network, and to check the voting process, and so on and so-forth."
Using blockchain technology to ensure that every vote is uniquely logged and that the process is absolutely transparent is a long way from the antiquated voting process still used in the United States.
Citizens of the US still vote using a system developed in the 19th century to make collecting and counting votes over the massive country feasible. Rules and regulations vary from state to state and in some case still rely on hundred-year-old machines.
As future elections will undoubtedly be influenced and tampered with by hackers both inside and out of the country a decentralized blockchain voting system not only makes sense but seems essential to maintaining a democracy in the digital era.
At the moment the Active Citizen system in Moscow has recorded 88 million votes on over 2,700 projects. With the implementation of blockchain for their next elections, there can be no dispute over results. The only hurdle left for fair and transparent election process will be resistance from government officials, not only in Moscow and the US but all over the world.
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HYPE Sports Innovation Launches World's First Blockchain Accelerator for Sports Technology
HYPE Sports Innovation (HYPE), a global platform which facilitates connections and investments among the sports innovation ecosystem, today announced the launch of the first ever Blockchain accelerator for Sports Tech. The program will feature 14 week accelerators for 10 of the leading startups from around the world focusing on blockchain for sports technology. The accelerators will run globally, and startups selected for the 2 bootcamps will participate at the Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport at New York University as well as the ISDE Higher Institute of Law and Economics in Barcelona.
Interested companies can learn more and apply for the program by visiting the blockchain accelerator homepage.
Blockchain technology is already revolutionizing the sports industry with its many unique applications. Italian soccer club Juventus launched the "Official Fan Token" to enable the clubs' 340 million fans worldwide to interact with and create a personal connection to the club, while the LA Kings of the National Hockey League launched the first augmented reality blockchain authentication platform, utilizing blockchain's authentication features to ensure fans can easily verify the authenticity of their memorabilia purchases.
"The accelerators are at the heart of everything we do at HYPE," said Bernd Wahler, Chairman of HYPE and former CMO of Adidas. "Sports has the unique ability to create magical moments for players and fans alike and technology is changing the way we experience and share those moments and celebrate our sports heroes. Our team at HYPE is always on the lookout for innovators and entrepreneurs that can make a meaningful impact on the games we all grew up loving."
HYPE's blockchain accelerator is the 12th unique accelerator program offered by HYPE and is designed to identify the most promising companies working on blockchain applications, and aid them in their quest to improve the world of sports. The program includes an intensive two day bootcamp, personalized mentoring processes, weekly remote classes from top experts, and access to an unrivaled ecosystem all culminating in a demo-day in front of partners, investors and sports clubs. To date, HYPE has 11 accelerator programs partnered with leading sports brands such as FC Cologne and Shakhtar Donetsk, as well as universities such as University of Queensland, George Washington University and Loughborough University.
"We are very excited about launching the world's first blockchain accelerator," said Dr. Ilan Hadar, CEO of HYPE. "While blockchain is a relatively new technology, it has limitless potential, particularly when it comes to sports. With the launch of this new accelerator, we will provide the entrepreneurs in our program with unmatched access to our global network of teams, investors and partners, helping turn their startups into real game-changers and market leaders."
HYPE leverages an ecosystem of over 11,000 startups, 750 Investors and VCs, 450 global sports teams and 40,000 members worldwide to offer accelerator participants unrivaled resources in the world of sports technology. Of the 125 graduates of the 11 existing accelerator programs to date, 58 have signed equity agreements with HYPE, 27 have raised significant funding during the accelerator cycles, and 4 have signed major deals with strategic partners.
Kudelski Security Partners with Hosho To Secure Blockchain Ecosystems
Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division of the Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) today announced a strategic partnership with Hosho, a global leader in blockchain security and smart contract auditing, to extend the capabilities of Kudelski Security's recently launched Blockchain Security Center (BSC). The partnership makes the companies' unique skillsets, market-leading services, and proven intellectual property (IP) available to help forward-leaning organizations better secure their use of blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Smart contracts are the most critical piece of a blockchain company's technical ecosystem – contract vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious actors, leading to stolen and often unrecoverable funds, or unintentional code executions that could result in the locking up of millions of dollars. According to Hosho, security vulnerabilities have cost blockchain companies more than $2 billion in lost or stolen capital in 2018, and their own audit of smart contracts found that more than one in four have critical vulnerabilities and three in five have at least one security issue.
"Hosho has deep expertise and a world-class reputation for auditing the 'smart contracts' that are essential to blockchain business process workflows," said Rich Fennessy, CEO of Kudelski Security. "Combined with our expertise in cryptography, embedded security down to silicon level, and secure application development, Hosho is an ideal partner in what we believe will be a growing coalition of likeminded organizations focused on improving the underlying security of blockchain and expanding its use in business applications."
Increasingly, organizations are investing in understanding how blockchain technology can optimize business processes as well as developing applications aimed at improving efficiencies, lowering costs and enabling new business models. The combination of resources enabled through this partnership provides business executives, investors, engineers, and blockchain developers greater confidence in designing, building, and running secure applications. The result is the potential for less risk, higher efficiency, and ultimately, greater value realized from these investments.
"Hosho and Kudelski Security share the same vision for cyber resilience. It is the first time a blockchain cybersecurity leader has joined forces with a publicly traded cybersecurity company," said Hartej Sawhney, Co-Founder and President of Hosho. "Enterprises are rapidly investing into incorporating decentralized ledger technologies into their legacy systems. Companies such as Kudelski, with 30 plus years of experience in cybersecurity, IoT, and public access solutions, are needed to meet the increasingly complex demands of the Fortune 500."
Kudelski Security's blockchain expertise is built on more than 30 years' experience in information security, cryptographic design as well as more recent work in public blockchain coin design and implementation, point of sale technology development, detailed audits of application code, protocol creation, and cryptographic algorithms for major industry players in the cryptocurrency, digital communications and IoT markets. In addition to providing security audits, architecture reviews, and development services, the Kudelski Security BSC is developing a suite of expanded cryptographic solutions, full-stack enterprise blockchain security recommendations, and developer tools to support the entire blockchain ecosystem.
Avnet Leads Industry by Accepting Cryptocurrency
Avnet, a leading global technology solutions company, is working with BitPay, the largest global blockchain payment provider, to accept cryptocurrency for products and services. Today's developers are looking for flexibility as they take their products to market, and this announcement provides our customers with more convenient ways to complete their financial transactions.
"We're working with BitPay to facilitate secure blockchain payments for all types of customers so they can focus on developing their products, not how to pay for them. Whether it's Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash, we can handle it," said Sunny Trinh, vice president of demand creation, Avnet.
When a customer elects to make a purchase with Bitcoin (BTC) or Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Avnet will work with BitPay to verify the funds, process the order and complete the transaction. Avnet and BitPay will also have the ability to manage and process cryptocurrency requests outside the U.S. on a country-by-country basis. BitPay processes more than $1 billion annually from thousands of merchants and B2B customers globally.
"As one of the largest global technology solution providers on the Fortune 500 list, Avnet is truly an innovative company that listens to the needs of their customers, as demonstrated by their decision to accept bitcoin payments," said Sonny Singh, chief commercial officer, BitPay. "Not only is paying with bitcoin easier and faster than with credit cards and bank wires, it is less expensive and acceptance of it is growing. I predict Avnet will attract many new blockchain-focused customers from around the world that want to take advantage of paying with bitcoin."
Bitcoin transactions are on the rise, with at least 250,000 on-ledger bitcoin transactions per day in 2019, according to Blockchain.com. Avnet has already closed several multi-million-dollar cryptocurrency transactions within the first month of accepting bitcoin. This includes working with Bitcoin.com to develop a new hardware wallet that will further enable cryptocurrency storage and provide the highest level of security for transactions. To learn more, visit: https://www.avnet.com/BitPay.
By accepting bitcoin as a payment option, Avnet is continuing to break down the barriers customers face when getting their ideas to market by enabling easier access to its unique end-to-end ecosystem of design, product, marketing and supply chain expertise at every stage of the product lifecycle. This ecosystem, comprised of small-scale specialists Farnell, Newark and element14; design-focused Hackster.io; manufacturing solution provider Dragon Innovation; and software and AI strategist Softweb Solutions; reduces the time, cost and complexities of bringing products to market.
Maxonrow Blockchain to Launch in Taiwan, Targeting Asia's Digital Economy Market
In response to the global upsurge of blockchain technology, Maxonrow has convened sectors in finance, economy, transportation, entertainment, technology, organizations with the United Nations, political officials domestic and abroad, blockchain industry experts and influential representatives of businesses to its Official Global Launch Press Conference.
Maxonrow's Global CEO Mark stated, "Blockchain technology has become an influential force in the FinTech industry. Not only is blockchain present in digital financial exchanges, but it's also gradually being adopted by the general public, transportation services and in other areas, creating a more convenient and new way of living. In contrast to countries like Europe or the United States where the blockchain industry is mature, Taiwan has the advantage of being a blockchain-friendly market regarded as Asia's Media Center. For this reason, we can't underestimate the growth potential it has. Maxonrow has chosen Taiwan as its anchor point to enter the Asian market and wishes to collaborate with Taiwan's government authorities and business corporations. Through Maxonrow, governments, businesses, and societies are connected with the real economy through blockchain technology."
Maxonrow has the Right Mix of Secure, Cost-Effective, Efficient and Regulatory Compliant Blockchain Solutions
Security Token Offers or STO is most commonly used in the international blockchain market. Maxonrow came up with an improved solution, the world's first True Asset Issuing, or TAI mechanism. It ensures the True Asset tokens issued by the Maxonrow blockchain are transparent and traceable, fortifying the credibility and reliability of user transactions.
Maxonrow's CEO of the Asia Region Jin said, "The key technical aspect of Maxonrow is its state of the art KYC mechanism. Aside from providing businesses and societies a more transparent and reliable financial transaction method, it can effectively assist governments in digital financial management, resulting in the prevention and elimination of financial crimes from happening."
Maxonrow has landed partnerships with Far Eastern Air Transport, National Taiwan Normal University ASIS POP Research Center, MusicBravo, MU Global Holding Limited, Red Star, TeaCoin, FansDAQ, and Huafu Group. In addition, Maxonrow is working on numerous projects related to the academic sector.
Maxonrow's CEO of Asia Region Jin stated, "When it comes to Maxonrow KYC is not only limited to governments and businesses, we're also seeking to expand to cooperate with society and academic sectors. The agreement with NTNU ASIS POP is to utilize their expertise in industry-academic cooperation in adopting real-world application of Maxonrow KYC Blockchain technology." Director of NTNU ASIS POP Dr. Ho-pu Lee adds, "ASIS POP is proud to be Maxonrow's academic partner. We want to promote Taiwan's music industry by employing blockchain technology that can provide complete assurance of the intellectual property rights of artists. "
Representatives of United Nations Organization Show Their Support
Maxonrow's Global Launch Event will be attended by guests from Taiwan's industrial, political and academic sectors. Also showing support for the event is former WOGC-UNSDGs Vice President Andrey Abramov and Vice Secretary General Muleta Tembo, "Godfather of Chinese Securities" Jing-sheng Guan, former Thailand Minister of Education Wiboon Shamsheun, and many other key figures from around the world.
"This Maxonrow Global Launch provides an opportunity for beginning dialogue and debate with all sectors of society crucial for making the Block chain technology further develop. We look forward to engaging powerfully with the rapidly growing global community of blockchain thought leaders to responsibly apply this transformative technology to achieve profound social impact in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals. So let us join together to ensure that our partnership forged at this Launch, with support of Governments and other actors, brings better lives to those who have been left behind in the current world economy. And to the Maxonrow team, I wish every success in your work which holds so much promise for our future," said Andrey Abramov, Vice President of the World Organization of Governance and Competitiveness.
Koi Trading Unveils AML Compliance-as-a-Service Using IdentityMind Digital Identities Platform
Koi Trading, an innovative OTC trading desk that provides private, efficient, and compliant cryptocurrency liquidity to counterparties around the world, today announced a partnership with IdentityMind, Digital Identities You Can Trust, to provide Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance-as-a-service to money services businesses globally under the brand Koi Compliance.
Koi Compliance offers the first plug-and-play AML compliance solution that supports digital currency. Koi Compliance will pair their legal expertise and compliance analysts with IdentityMind's platform that already supports over 35 digital currency exchanges worldwide. This enables companies to focus on running their business, while Koi Compliance leverages industry best practices to perform the legally required Know Your Customer (KYC), transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, recordkeeping and regulatory reporting through IdentityMind.
"We're excited to work with an innovative company like Koi Trading," said Kieran Sherlock CTO, IdentityMind. "They have created a new way for more entrants into the digital currency space to be compliant from day one, and effectively serve their customers across different markets and geographies while minimizing their regulatory risk."
"When we first set out to help companies with compliance, we immediately chose IdentityMind as our primary platform," said Harry Zhou, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Koi Trading. "IdentityMind's immense experience in digital currency and their risk-based AML solutions enable Koi Compliance to provide the best technology-driven digital currency AML compliance services for exchanges, OTC desks and stablecoin projects that face rapidly evolving regulatory landscapes around the world."
Cryptocurrency Firm Agrees to Stop Using Alibaba Name
A cryptocurrency firm said it will stop using trademarks including the term "Alibaba" as part a settlement of a lawsuit brought by Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd, the Chinese e-commerce retailer.
ABBC Foundation announced the settlement on Monday, in a statement confirmed by its U.S.-based lawyer.
The firm, which has offices in Dubai and Belarus and was also known as Alibabacoin Foundation, said it regretted any public confusion arising from its "former use of Alibabacoin." Its cryptocurrency is now called ABBC Coin.
Alibaba did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A U.S.-based lawyer for Alibaba declined to comment.
The Chinese company had accused ABBC of confusing customers and hurting its business in the United States by using its trademarked name to raise more than $3.5 million in Alibabacoins.
ABBC countered that it was not trying to piggyback off the Alibaba name, and that China's September 2017 ban on initial coin offerings eliminated a main source of potential confusion.
The case is Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd v. Alibabacoin Foundation et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 18-02897.
Bittrex Lists Chain Token (CRO) Ahead of Go-Live Next Week
Crypto.com announced that its Chain Token (CRO) has been listed on Bittrex International, an international exchange by a premier U.S.-based blockchain trading platform Bittrex. The Crypto.com Chain is a high-performing native blockchain powering Crypto.com Pay, which allows customers to pay for goods and services with cryptocurrency while receiving generous cashback rewards. For merchants, Crypto.com Pay offers the option to get paid in any crypto without being exposed to its inherent volatility and enjoy greatly reduced processing fees and near instant settlement.
Kris Marszalek, Co-Founder and CEO of Crypto.com said, "The Crypto.com Pay SDK has shipped and we will open the platform to our 400,000 users next week. The CRO token serves as a cross-currency settlement instrument for our native blockchain. Further listings of the token will increase liquidity necessary to support transaction volumes and settlement for our growing list of merchants."
About Crypto.com
Crypto.com was founded in 2016 to accelerate the world's transition to cryptocurrency. Key products include: the Crypto.com Wallet & Card App, the best place to buy, sell, and pay with crypto, the MCO Visa Card, a metal card with no annual fees, and the Crypto.com Chain, which enables users to pay and be paid in any crypto, anywhere, for free. Crypto.com is headquartered in Hong Kong with a 120+ strong team. For more information, please visit: www.crypto.com
About Bittrex
Bittrex is the premier U.S.-based blockchain platform founded in 2014 by three cybersecurity engineers, providing lightning-fast trade execution, dependable digital wallets and industry-leading security practices. Its mission is to help advance the blockchain industry by fostering innovation, incubating new and emerging technology, and driving transformative change.
Berlin Proposes Register for Blockchain, Other Electronic Securities
Germany is proposing to boost the use of blockchain technology and other electronic instruments by setting up a government-run electronic register to regulate the sector and protect investors, according to initial guidelines released on Friday.
In a seven-page paper, Germany's justice and finance ministries mapped out plans to prevent abuses and protect investors, while facilitating the potential of the technology that underpins cyrptocurrencies, and strengthening Germany's role in digitalisation and financial technology.
It is a first step toward development of a blockchain strategy, as agreed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) in their March 2018 coalition accord. The ministries said they would draft a revised proposal after seeing reaction to the proposed measures.
It also proposed easing the current requirement which mandates that financial instruments must have tangible, physical counterparts that can be held by investors.
The plans would initially apply only to electronic bonds, with digital stocks to be dealt with a subsequent step. Few major economies worldwide have crafted comprehensive strategies on how to nurture the emerging industry.
The ministries said they were pressing ahead of the European Union to set up the regulatory framework, since any EU-wide measures could take years to enact, and even current regulations for securities were not harmonised among the 28 members.
At the same time, they said they hoped to avoid a "uniquely German" solution by taking into account recent European and international discussions about "initial coin offerings" (ICOs).
A range of industries including cars, pharmaceuticals, energy and public sector administration hope to transform mass market processes via blockchain, but say they need a regulatory framework to move ahead.
Quantstamp Expands to Japan with Investment from Nomura Holdings and Digital Garage
Quantstamp, a Y Combinator-backed smart contract security company, is proud to announce it is establishing a limited liability company, Quantstamp Japan GK, to assist Japanese startups and enterprises in using secure blockchain technology. This establishment follows significant investment from Nomura Holdings and Digital Garage.
Quantstamp uses computer-based reasoning tools to provide services that help identify and secure vulnerabilities in smart contracts — a key component of blockchain technology. It provides an automated tool for developers and users to check smart contracts for well-known vulnerabilities, as well as white-glove auditing services to help secure large-scale blockchain projects. It's services have been used to secure more than $500 million of transaction value.
"I'm pleased to announce Quantstamp's formal expansion to Japan, Japan is an important market in digital payments," says Richard Ma, co-founder, and chief executive officer of Quantstamp Inc. "We're expanding our presence as we think that the market for smart contract-driven applications here is strong and will only be growing."
"As blockchain technology is adopted in the financial world, smart contracts will play an increasingly important role. Security assurances through auditing and certification will become increasingly indispensable," notes Chuzaburo Yagi, Senior Managing Director in charge of Innovations at Nomura Holdings, Inc. "I believe Quantstamp is well positioned to support this role as they work to secure smart contract technology."
"I think that Quantstamp offers the best service on the market. It's the best solution for identifying and mitigating smart contract vulnerabilities, " says Yasuhiro Mimura, Managing Director of DG Incubation Co., Ltd. "With their knowledge and experience on smart contract security, we are hoping for further breakthroughs in the future. "
Quantstamp is a leader in smart contract security, preventing security breaches at some of the world's largest blockchain companies. Quantstamp's engineering team is familiar with software security, formal verification, static analysis and have more than 900 Google Scholar citations.
MultiVAC Launched Testnet 1.0 "Phoenix", World's First Fully-Sharded Blockchain
Public blockchain MultiVAC formally launched its first testnet named "Phoenix" at the end of February 2019. As MultiVAC's 1.0 testnet version, "Phoenix" is already developed with core modules including shard generating and splitting, Byzantine consensus family, storage nodes, and simple communication mechanism. It is also equipped with an all-dimensional sharded base-layer in terms of computation, storage, and transmission. Users can view transaction and block generating process via the blockchain browser.
MultiVAC testnet's average block generating time is approximately 8 to 10 seconds. In comparison, Ethereum takes 15 seconds and Bitcoin, 10 minutes. In last year's lab testing, MultiVAC reached at a peak of 30,784 TPS in a network comprised of 64 shards and 12,800 nodes, which was an outstanding performance. The whole network also achieved perfect linear scalability.
Lack of scalability is the main challenge that third-generation public blockchain projects are overcoming. Mainstream solutions like super nodes represented by EOS are criticized for centralization. The off-chain solution, represented by side-chain, state channels, and Layer-2, fails to include the renewal for blockchain's underlying protocol. New technologies like DAG are still in the early stage. Among all the directions, sharding as a classic database scaling scheme is seen most promising. Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, recently said publicly that "Sharding is coming" and planned to fulfill Etherum's sharding upgrading in 2020. Other sharding projects like Zilliqa and Quarkchain have also drawn much attention.
Dr. Shawn, MultiVAC's CTO, stated that "the main challenges for sharding technology lie in, firstly, how to maintain the security of single shard as whole-network level, and secondly how to resolve the overload in storage and transmission when the blockchain net grows day by day. Most of the existing sharding solutions only achieved sharding the miners but haven't addressed the bottleneck of data-keeping scale and communication costs."
MultiVAC's underlying protocol makes the world's first fully-sharded blockchain base-layer in terms of computing, storage, and transmission. On the miner and computing level, it pioneers VRF dynamic re-sharding, organic shard splitting, an innovative PoS approach, and others to ensure the shards'security and self-growth capacity. MultiVAC has also built an innovative distributed storage and cross-shard transmission mechanism, which helps solve the bookkeeping storage and bandwidth overloading issues when the network expands, and is hopeful to bring in a complete blockchain system scalability.
Testnet "Phoenix" is the engineering achievement born out of the MultiVAC all-dimensional sharding yellow paper released in September last year. There are 20 algorithm researchers and engineers in its development team who are from top universities such as Harvard, Stanford, and Tsinghua, and working in Internet giants such as Google, Microsoft, Tencent, and Facebook. In particular, among them are 6 Ph.D. holders and 7 Google engineers.
MultiVAC says it will continue upgrading its testnet. The 2.0 version will launch mining client for an ordinary PC, and the 3.0 will be equipped with an innovative economic system as well as an incentive model.
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