Kendra initiative - Kendra initiative The Kendra initiative is an initiative to create ways of using the Internet to discover, use, share and pay for digital media such as music, web content, books and films, by creating compromises between the desires of producers and consumers of digital media. See also: micropayments metadata intellectual property copyright file sharing MusicBrainz.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer plot summary - can do any harm to the world. Season Two Season two continues with many stand alone, supernatural-high-school focused episodes. The primary action of the season, however, revolves around the tragic relationship between Buffy and her vampire lover Angel. The Master is replaced by the younger vampire couple Spike and Drusilla. Halfway through the season, Buffy and Angel finally make love for the first time; however, due to an unknown caveat in his gypsy curse, this results in Angel losing his soul and becoming evil. This is perhaps the most potent example of the show's metaphorical mandate to explore universal adolescent themes: Angel turning evil as an allegory for the girl who sleeps with a man and discovers that he now won't return her phone calls. Angel joins with Spike and Drusilla,.
Metadata - It also ensures variety, so that if one topic has two names, each of these names will be used. For example, an article about sports utility vehicles would also be given the metadata keywords '4 wheel drives', '4WDs' and 'four wheel drives', as this is what they are known as in Australia. For an example of Metadata for an Audio CD look at the MusicBrainz project, or the Musicbrainz Metadata Initiative Some filesystems keep metadata about files off-band while others keep it in the filename or inside the file. Examples of metadata are the filetype, abstracts, iconss. Examples of filesystems that keep metadata separate but related to the actual data are the BFS of BeOS, HPFS of OS/2 and ReiserFS of Linux. See also XML, RDF, Dublin Core, Kendra initiative, MOF,.
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Initiative - Initiative In political science, the initiative is a means by which a petition can force a public vote on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment, or ordinance. Some well-known examples of initiatives are various ballot measures or propositions enacted by voters in states such as Oregon and California, such as California Proposition 13 (1978), which limited real estate tax rates. An initiative is distinguished from a referendum in that a referendum is submitted to voters by a vote of a legislature, while an initiative can be placed on the ballot in another way, often by obtaining a sufficient number of signatures on a petition. The availability, if any, of an initiative or referendum process varies from state to state (or political jurisdiction). See also: recall..
United Religions Initiative - United Religions Initiative The United Religions Initiative (URI), founded by Bishop William Swing (from California, member of the Episcopal Church), is an attempt to establish a religious analogue of the United Nations. The movement to found it began in 1997, culminating in the signing of the United Religions Initiative Charter in 2000. The URI emphasises a decentralised, grass roots structure. This emphasis on grass roots representation, instead of representation of the world's major religious organizations, means that its goal (of being to religions what the UN is to nations) seems unlikely to succeed. To some it appears to duplicate the work of pre-existing bodies, such as the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions..
Kodachrome - of January 2004. A recent Kodak announcement that it will be reducing the number of production runs of the remaining Kodachrome films coupled with the dwindling number of labs which process Kodachrome are expected to expidite the films demise. Despite these trends there are still a number of loyal Kodachrome photographers. The musician Paul Simon included a song titled Kodachrome on his 1973 album There Goes Rhymin' Simon. The National Geographic Society led an initiative to name a state park in Utah after the Kodachrome film. Kodachrome Basin State Park contains unique, beautiful, and varied color in its rocks..
Krav Maga - fighting principles are that every self defense response must meet all of the following criteria: In the given situation, the defense or attack must be the fastest the strongest the shortest the most natural and to the point (for instance, if you mean to escape, escape; if you mean to hit, hit). The basic idea is to first deal with the immediate threat (e.g. hands around one's neck), prevent the attacker from re-attacking, then neutralize the opponent. An emphasis is put on taking the initiative from the attacker immediately. It is ok to run away (tactical withdrawal), if the situation dictates that. Krav Maga can be used against opponents who are armed, and against multiple opponents. It is also good in closed areas, such as airplanes. Krav Maga includes many disarming.
Kurdistan Workers Party - people have been killed, a great many of which were innocent civilians. Estimates of the total number of villagers in Turkey forcibly evacuated from their homes as a result of the terrorism varies according to which side provides the figures but is believed to be approximately half a million displaced persons. Turkish authorities captured PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in Kenya in early 1999 and a Turkish Court subsequently sentenced him to death. In August 1999, Ocalan announced a peace initiative, ordering members to refrain from violence and requesting dialogue with the government of Turkey on Kurdish issues. In 2002 the government of Turkey accepted certain conditions for entry into the European Union including abolition of the death penalty which will spare the life of Abdullah Öcalan, plus changes to official government.
Jacobite Rebellion - son, James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, on the throne. It was raised by the disgruntled Earl of Mar, Bobbin' John, in response to having his attempts to gain office in the incoming Hanoverian government rebuffed. It was organised without reference to the Stuarts in France who were not prepared for it. The Old Pretender's arrival in Britain was delayed by illness, and he was unable to take advantage of the initiative taken by his followers. The second "rebellion", in 1745, was led by James II's grandson, Bonnie Prince Charlie (though his father was still alive), and came close to overturning the status quo and placing the Stuarts back on the throne. After the fiasco of the Battle of Culloden, the Jacobites never again had a serious opportunity of military.
Jamaican Free Zones - Zones The Jamaican Free Zones are a government initiative to encourage foreign investment. Businesses operating within these zones have no tax on their profits, duty exemption on imports and exports, and relaxed customs procedures. However, they must export 85% of their produce outside of CARICOM. Created under the Jamaica Export Free Zones Act the zones are operated by the government. Businesses that operate in the zones must be in the fields of warehousing and storing, manufacturing, redistribution, processing, refining, assembling, packaging, and also service operations. These businesses gain 100% tax holiday in perpetuity, no import licensing requirements, and exemption from customs duties on capital goods, raw materials, construction materials, and office equipment. Jamaica has four free trade zones but companies outside of the zones can apply for Free Zone status as.
Jay Garner - Fort Bliss, Texas. Garner helped to develop the Patriot missile system and commanded missile batteries during the Gulf War. After the war he was put in charge of securing Kurdish areas in Iraq. He was later named commander of the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command (working primarily on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative missile shield program), and concluded his Army career as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, retiring in 1997 at the rank of Lieutenant General. After leaving the Army, Garner became president of SYColeman, a defense contractor which designs missile communications and targeting systems used in the Patriot and Arrow missile systems. (He has been on unpaid leave from the company since January 2003.) Garner served on a presidential panel, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld, which specializes in space.
James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth - Council to administer the Government grant for the public education in Great Britain. He is remembered as having founded at Battersea, London, in conjunction with E Carleton Tufnell, the first training college for school teachers (1839-1840); and the system of national school education of the present day, with its public inspection, trained teachers and its support by state as well as local funds, is largely due to his initiative. In 1842 he married Lady Janet Shuttleworth, assuming by royal licence his bride’s name and arms. A breakdown in his health led him to resign his post on the committee in 1849, but subsequent recovery enabled him to take an active part in the working of the central relief committee instituted under Lord Derby, during the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861-1865. He.
VFW-Fokker GmbH - Flugtechnische Werke started in 1969 that, from then on, controlled the ERNO initiative..
VHSIC Hardware Description Language - and time, plus arrays of bit called bit_vector and of character called string. A problem not solved by this edition, however, was "multi-valued logic", where a signal's drive strength (none, weak or strong) and unknown values are also considered. This required IEEE standard 1164, which defined the 9-value std_logic. The second issue of IEEE 1076, in 1993, made the syntax more consistent, allowed more flexibility in naming, extended the character type to match the full 8-bit ASCII definition, added the xnor operator, etc. More recently, the language has been extended by introducing signed and unsigned types to facilitate arithmetical operations; analog and mixed-signal circuit design extensions; VITAL (VHDL Initiative Towards ASIC Libraries); microwave circuit design extensions. Discussion VHDL is in fact a fairly general-purpose programming language, provided that you have a.
Virtual machine - CMS, though; some preferred to run some form of OS/360 (or eventually MVS) in one or more virtual machines, to provide traditional batch processing services to those users who wanted that. VM is still used today on IBM mainframes, and in some which are used as Web servers, the operating system run in each of many virtual machines is Linux. The plex86 and VMware packages do the same thing on modern PCs, trapping all hardware accesses and simulating all of a motherboard except for the processor. Emulation of a non-native system Some of this class of virtual machines are emulators; these allow software written for one machine to run on another. Please note that emulation for computer systems can include emulation for both different machine architectures, and operating systems. Others produce.
Jeanne Sauvé - for youth. At Rideau Hall, she established two awards for students wishing to enter the field of special education for exceptional children. And at the end of her mandate, she established the Jeanne Sauvé Youth Foundation, dedicated to the cause of youth excellence in Canada. Mme. Sauvé's concern for youth and peace were two of the three central themes of her mandate – the third was national unity. She travelled extensively, making her role as Governor General – a symbol of common Canadian identity – accessible to all Canadians. In her installation speech, she spoke about the need for Canadians to forego a narrow sense of their nation and become more tolerant. "This is the price of our happiness," she said, "but happiness will never be found in the spirit of.
Jeb Bush - alleged that some African-American voters were deliberately prevented from voting in the 2002 election through the use of inaccurate voter "purge" lists of felons and deceased people. An October 2002 report in the Miami Herald details Bush's involvement in a questionable Nigerian deal, where money was allegedly used to bribe government officials for approval of a $74 million water pump sale. There have also been claims of political hypocrisy because Bush's daughter Noelle Bush was sent into rehabilitation for her drug use, while Jeb Bush simultaneously called for harsh punishment of nonviolent drug offenders (and actively opposed a ballot initiative that would send them into treatment instead). The fact that the Bush family -- President George H. W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Governor Jeb Bush -- has been so heavily.
Jefferson Memorial - States presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. President Franklin Roosevelt thought that Thomas Jefferson also deserved a monument. In 1934, following his initiative, Congress passed a resolution to create a monument commemorating Jefferson. The memorial was designed by John Russell Pope,(1874 - 1937), the architect of the National Gallery of Art. It reflects characteristics of buildings designed by Jefferson such as Monticello and the Rotunda, which were a result of his fascination with Roman architecture. It bears a close resemblance to the Pantheon of Rome. The cornerstone was laid in 1939 and the monument cost slightly more than $3 million. It was officially dedicated in 1943, after Pope's death. One of the last American public monuments in the Beaux-Arts tradition, it was severely even criticised as it was being.
John Wyclif - Gaunt, rallied to him. Before any further steps could be taken at Rome, Gregory XI died (1378). But Wyclif was already engaged in one of his most important works, that dealing with the truth of Holy Scripture. The sharper the strife became, the more Wyclif had recourse to Scripture as the basis of all Christian doctrinal opinion, and expressly proved this to be the only norm for Christian faith. In order to refute his opponents, he wrote the book in which he showed that Holy Scripture contains all truth and, being from God, is the only authority. He referred to the conditions under which the condemnation of his 18 theses was brought about; and the same may be said of his books dealing with the Church, the office of king, and.
