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OpenMG. OpenMG is a digital rights management (DRM) system developed by Sony for managing and protecting digital music data on a personal computer. It was originally designed for audio files in ATRAC3 format; the compliant software, e.g. Sony SonicStage, is usually capable of transcoding MP3 and WAV files to OpenMG/ATRAC3. The file extensions OpenMG-encrypted files use are  and .

Sister technologies OpenMG Light (for mobile devices) and OpenMG X were also created.

Development
OpenMG was created alongside MagicGate in an effort to protect digital music copyright. It was released alongside the Memory Stick Walkman and VAIO Music Clip. It is compliant with the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) version 1.0 industry group specification formed in February 1999.

There has been at least one reported case when a security update of Windows XP and Windows 2000 broke OpenMG-compliant software. This issue was later resolved.

Method
Audio files encrypted using OpenMG cannot be played on another computer. OpenMG consists of a "check-in" and "check-out" system, whereby a music file can be transferred from a computer to up to three portable devices. It cannot be transferred to a fourth, unless at least one of the other three devices gets checked back in to the computer.

Compatible software
OpenMG Jukebox
SonicStage
MAGIQLIP2
BeatJam
Connect Player
x-app
VAIO Media

The compliant music organization systems work by "checking out" and "checking in" the files to/from portable players, keeping only one copy unlocked in order to hinder proliferation of copies.

SonicStage 3.4 includes an option to remove DRM from one's entire media library, allowing unrestricted use. However, this feature is disabled for copies without a license.

Criticisms of OpenMG
The 'checking in' and 'checking out' of files can be cumbersome and risky in comparison with unprotected data. Side effects include user complaints of being locked out of their own original recordings, unable to transfer them to the computer.  With some Sony portable audio players it is not possible to directly drag and drop the desired tracks to the device's visible directory. With the combination of OpenMG with MagicGate, Sony intends to restrict the files to be only moved instead of copied, artificially emulating the restrictions of physical objects.  However, as of the most recent releases of Sonicstage, files can be "checked out" of the library an unlimited number of times to a portable device, without the need to "check in" any of them.  There has been anecdotal evidence that OpenMG modules tend to "choke" reading corrupted MP3 ID3 tags.

A Wall Street Journal article that reviewed the Sony VAIO Music Clip player in 2000 noted that the OpenMG and MagicGate technologies "treats users like criminals".

Notes

External links
 ATRAC

Digital rights management systems
List of Australian architects. This is a list of Australian architects.

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See also 
 Australian architectural styles
 New South Wales Government Architect
 Principal Architect (Western Australia)

References

External links 
 

Architects
Australian
Australian architects
IET. 
IET can refer to:

Organizations

 Institute of Educational Technology, part of the Open University
 Institution of Engineering and Technology, a UK-based professional engineering institution
 Institute of Engineers and Technicians, which became part of the Institution of Incorporated Engineers in 1998 (which then became part of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2006)
 Institute of Engineering and Technology of Lucknow, India
 University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur University of Kanpur, India, formerly known as IET Kanpur
 Institute of Engineering Technology, Sri Lanka, a Government higher education institute that providing NDES (National Diploma in Engineering Sciences) Award in Sri Lanka
 IET Bhaddal, an engineering institute based in Bhaddal, Punjab
Islamic Educational Trust, Islamic organization in Nigeria
 Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ayodhya of Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Persons 

 iET (musician), a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands

Processes 

 Impulse excitation technique
 Initial Entry Training, the technical term for United States Army Basic Training
 Interval exchange transformation
 Interest Equalization Tax, an American tax initiative

Other 

 British Rail Class 800, a fleet of British high-speed trains, known as Intercity Express Trains by their operator Great Western Railway
 British Rail Class 802, another fleet of British high-speed trains, known as Intercity Express Trains by their operator Great Western Railway
 Indole-3-ethanol or tryptophol, a chemical compound
Pharmacosiderite. Pharmacosiderite is a hydrated basic ferric arsenate, with the chemical formula KFe4(AsO4)3(OH)4·(6-7)H2O and a molecular weight of 873.38 g/mol. It consists of the elements arsenic, iron, hydrogen, potassium, sodium and oxygen. It has a Mohs hardness of 2 to 3, about that of a finger nail. Its specific gravity is about 2.7 to 2.9, has indistinct cleavage, and is usually transparent or translucent. It has a yellow or white streak and a yellow, green, brown or red color. Its lustre is adamantine, vitreous and resinous, and it has conchoidal, brittle and sectile fracture.

Pharmacosiderite has an isometric crystal system, with yellowish-green, sharply defined cube crystals. Its crystals are doubly refracting, and exhibit a banded structure in polarized light. When placed in ammonium solution, a crystal changes color to a distinguishing red. Upon placing it into dilute hydrochloric acid the original color is restored.
This secondary origin mineral is normally formed in the oxidation zones of ore deposits. The alteration of arsenopyrite, tennantite and other primary arsenates can form pharmacosiderite. It can also form from the precipitation of hydrothermal solutions, but only rarely. It can be found in abundance in Cornwall, Hungary and the U.S. state of Utah.
When it was first discovered, pharmacosiderite was known as cube ore. The present name, given by J. F. L. Hausmann in 1813, is made up of the Greek words for arsenic and iron, the two most significant consisting elements. Pharmakos means poison, which is related to arsenic, and sideros means iron.
Pharmacolite and picropharmacolite, which are different arsenates, are not associated besides via nomenclature. Siderite, a carbonate mineral, only shares the common element iron with pharmacosiderite.

References

 WebMineral
 Mineral Galleries
 MinDat
Attribution:

Potassium minerals
Iron(III) minerals
Arsenate minerals
Cubic minerals
Minerals in space group 215
Dave O'Reilly. David J. O'Reilly (born January 1947 in Dublin, Ireland), is former chairman and CEO of  Chevron Corporation.

Education
In 1968, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from University College Dublin, from which he also received an honorary doctor of science degree in June 2002.

Career
He began his career with Chevron Research Co. as a process engineer in 1968. On 1 January 2000, he became chairman and CEO of Chevron, succeeding Kenneth T. Derr. He retired effective 31 December 2009.

In January 2010, O'Reilly joined the Board of engineering and construction giant, Bechtel Corporation. In August 2010, he was appointed a director on the board of Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. He also is vice chairman of the National Petroleum Council. He is a member of The Business Council, J. P. Morgan International Council, the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, and the American Society of Corporate Executives. O'Reilly also serves on the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.

In April 2002, O'Reilly received the Order of Kurmet from Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbaev.

In 2013, O'Reilly was awarded the UCD Foundation Day Medal.

References

External links
 

1947 births
Living people
American chief executives
Irish emigrants to the United States
Chevron Corporation people
Texaco people
Alumni of University College Dublin
Recipients of the Order of Kurmet
Directors of Chevron Corporation
People educated at Blackrock College
Rich client platform. The rich client platform (RCP) is a programmer tool that makes it easier to integrate independent software components, where most of the data processing occurs on the client side.

Overview
RCP is software consisting of the following components:

 A core (microkernel), lifecycle manager
 A standard bundling framework
 A portable widget toolkit
 File buffers, text handling, text editors
 A workbench (views, editors, perspectives, wizards)
 Data binding
 Update manager

With an RCP, programmers can build their own applications on existing computing platforms. Instead of having to write a complete application from scratch, they can benefit from proven and tested features of the framework provided by the platform. Building on a platform facilitates faster application development and integration, while the cross-platform burden is taken on by the platform developers. The platform allows the seamless integration of independent software modules like graphic tools, spreadsheets and mapping technologies into a software application with a simple click of the mouse.

Their creators claim that programs built with RCP are portable to many operating systems while being as rich as client–server applications which use traditional clients.

Open-source examples are the Eclipse, NetBeans and Spring Framework RCPs for Java.

See also
 rich client
 Component-based software engineering

References

External links
 Eclipse Rich Client Platform wiki
 Projecto Colibri RCP
 NetBeans Platform

Software architecture
Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College. Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology (GBPIET) (known as Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College before August 2017) is an autonomous institution for higher technical education located in Ghurdauri of Pauri Garhwal district, in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand. College run by the government of Uttarakhand, India. It was created in 1989 and named after the memory of the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, statesman and Bharat Ratna recipient Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant.

History
Gobind Ballabh  Pant  Institute of Engineering and Technology   was established by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1989. It started its first academic session in 1991. The institute is affiliated with Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun. since 2006.

It is located about 11 km from Pauri, the District headquarters, and is about 33 km from Dev Prayag, a historical and pilgrimage place. When the weather is clear a panoramic view of Himalayas as well as a short view of Srinagar can be seen from GBPIET. The college is financed by the Government of Uttarakhand and managed by the Board of Governors with the Minister of Technical Education, Government of Uttarakhand, as the Chairman.

Courses
The institute offers courses in MCA, M. Tech, and B. Tech. The college provides seven undergraduate, five postgraduate, and six doctoral courses.

Departments

 Applied Sciences and Humanities
 Biotechnology
 Civil Engineering
 Computer Science and Applications
 Computer Science and Engineering

 Electrical Engineering 
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
	  
The College offers undergraduate B. Tech. degrees in:
	 
  Biotechnology Engineering (60 seats)
  Civil Engineering (60 seats)
  Computer Science and Engineering (60 seats)
  Electrical Engineering (60 seats)
  Artificial Intelligence& Machine Learning(60 seats)
  Electronics and Communication Engineering (60 seats)
  Mechanical Engineering (60 seats)
  Production Engineering (15 seats)
	 
The College offers postgraduate programmes M.C.A. (Master of Computer Applications), M.Tech programmes in  biotechnology, digital signal processing, computer science and engineering, and production engineering.
	 
The Institute offers doctorate degrees Ph.D. in Biotechnology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science and Applications, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Production Engineering

References

External links
GBPEC Alumni website
GBPEC Official Website

Engineering colleges in Uttarakhand
Pauri Garhwal district
1989 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 1989
Exatron. Exatron manufactures a series of automated handling, testing, programming, and marking equipment for the packaged integrated circuit industry.

Products

Exatron designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services a wide variety of I.C. component handling and testing equipment. Exatron products are used in the testing and programming of PLDs and other integrated circuits.

Stringy Floppy and Entrepo

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Exatron designed and manufactured the Exatron Stringy Floppy (ESF) tape storage device for a variety of microcomputers.  Coleco also planned to use the ESF in their Colecovision Super Game Module; however, it ultimately proved to be unsuitable for the amounts and types of accesses that games inflict (the Super Game Module ended up being shelved in favor of the Adam computer, which used a different type of tape drive that Coleco developed internally).

Around this same time, Exatron announced that it was changing its name to Entrepo.  From Video Games magazine, June 1983, page 49:

"Last February the Exatron Corporation changed its name to Entrepo (meaning "a storage place")."

This name change caused some people to believe that there were two manufacturers of Stringy Floppy tape drives, when in fact there were not.  Note that since the company's present name is still Exatron, it is unclear if this name change never actually took place or if it was changed back at some point.

The ESF was available by mail-order through A&J Micro Drive, a related company.

References

External links
 Official Web Site

Electronics companies of the United States
Point-defence. Point defence (or point defense; see spelling differences) is the defence of a single object or a limited area, e.g. a ship, building or an airfield, now usually against air attacks and guided missiles. Point defence weapons have a smaller range in contrast to area-defence systems and are placed near or on the object to be protected.

Point defence may include:
 short-ranged interceptor aircraft
 Close-in weapon systems on ship
 land-based short-ranged anti-aircraft guns or surface-to-air missile systems
 Active protection systems on tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles

Coastal artillery to protect harbours is similar conceptually, but is generally not classified as point defence. Similarly, passive systems—electronic countermeasures, decoys, chaff, flares, barrage balloons—are not considered point defence.

Examples

Aircraft 
 Bachem Ba 349 Natter – vertical take-off rocket powered crewed interceptor (prototypes only)
 Messerschmitt Me 163 – World War II-era operational German rocket powered interceptor.

Close-in weapons systems 
 Goalkeeper CIWS – Gun CIWS in current service by the Dutch navy.
 Phalanx CIWS –  20 mm Vulcan cannon mounted on a swivelling base. Notably used on almost all major surface combatants of the US Navy.
 Kashtan CIWS – Gun-Missile CIWS in current service by the Russian navy.
 RIM-116 RAM – Missile CIWS in current use by the US Navy.
 Type 730 – in current use by the Chinese Navy.

Active Protection Systems 
 Arena APS – a Russian point defence system for individual armoured vehicles.
 Trophy APS - an Israeli APS in service with the IDF.

See also 
 Index of aviation articles
 List of established military terms
 Zero length launch
 List of government and military acronyms
 List of military tactics

References 

Military science
Sky Lift. Other usages: Skylift is an aerial tram or possibly a helicopter or an airlift.

"Sky Lift" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published 1953, and collected in Heinlein's The Menace from Earth.

In the story, a torchship pilot lights out from Earth orbit to Pluto on a mission to deliver a cure to a plague ravaging a research station. Due to the short time needed before everyone at the research station is dead and the long distance involved the torchship must accelerate at multiple gravities for days. The pilot is successful but is rendered an invalid due to the strain put on his body.

References

Fiction set on Pluto
Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein
1953 short stories
Baren (printing tool). Baren (馬連、馬楝)  is a disk-like hand tool with a flat bottom and a knotted handle used in Japanese woodblock printing. It is used to burnish (firmly rub) the back of a sheet of paper, lifting ink from the block.

Construction

A traditional (hon) baren is made of layers.  A flat coil of braided cord forms the core. This is placed on a disk (ategawa) consisting of 30–40 sheets of high-grade long-fibred hosokawa paper, wrapped in tissue and black lacquer. This is covered by a thin bamboo sheath (takenokawa) twisted in such a manner as to form the handle on the top. According to Hiroshi Yoshida's manual Japanese Woodblock Printing (1939) the madake species of bamboo, grown in Kyushu, southwest Japan, is considered the best one to use.

The bamboo-sheath covering the baren may need to be renewed after a day's printing.  Rewrapping requires great skill; a printer's ability is sometimes judged by their competence carrying out this work.

The disk inside the baren takes 40–50 days to create, as the craftsman glues one sheet of paper on the disk each day.  The disk must then dry for a year before the baren is assembled.  The coil and covering of the baren are woven and formed from parts of the bamboo plant, requiring the skill of a true master. Only one known person in Japan is still making traditional (hon) baren for a living — Hidehiko Goto of the Kikuhide workshop.

Alternatives
Large wooden spoons are also used as burnishing tools in printmaking, glass jars with a smooth circular base can also be used for some applications. Low-cost plastic and nylon barens are available from Speedball Art.

Some newer barens are similar in shape to the traditional one with small metal ball bearings embedded in the bottom surface that generate the high point contact pressures (supplied by the braided cord) and have the low friction (offered by the bamboo leaf covering) of a traditional baren.

Another interesting baren is one developed by Professor Seishi Ozakus and made from a bundle of bamboo toothpicks.

Nik Semenoff has developed a palm press that serves as a baren replacement, made with a number of roller bearings alternating on two close spaced shafts in a small hand held mounting.  The bearings have negligible friction and the pressures achievable are suitable for some offset lithography printing, though wider spacing of fewer contact points may make it less suited for traditional wood cut printing.

References

External links
Hidehiko Goto's website (in Japanese)
Musashino ISO's website (in Japanese)
Barens at McCain's printing supplies
The Baren Forum for Woodblock Printmaking
Printing Etchings with a Palm Press - instructions for using Palm Press made from furniture casters

Printmaking
Artistic techniques
Tasar. The Tasar is a  fiberglass 2 person sailing dinghy with a mainsail and jib. Designed by Frank Bethwaite of Sydney in 1975, the boat was technologically advanced for its time and continues to evolve. Aimed at a husband-and-wife or parent-and-child crew hence no spinnaker, it is designed for a combined crew weight of around 140 kg. The hull weighs 68 kg, and is of sandwich foam construction. The hull has a fine angle at the bow to reduce wave impact drag with unusually clean and sharp chines aft to ensure very free planing and outstanding stability. The foam cored hull is stiff and light and the advanced hull shape, together with an innovative rig which combines a rotating mast with a fully battened main sail, allows the Tasar to plane upwind with the crew normally hiked. The wide beam and a cockpit designed for comfortable hiking make the Tasar easy, fun and very exciting to sail in winds up to .

The Tasar is an international class, with strong fleets in Australia, USA, Britain, and Japan. The class gained status from the World governing body for sailing in November 2001 permitting the class to hold an officially recognised World Championships.

2006 saw the introduction of new PET film sails. In addition, the hull moulds have replaced and the class continues to evaluate.

The Tasar is constructed to the same specifications by licensed builders in Singapore and Canada. This keeps all boats as similar as possible and ensures a true one design class.

Events

Specifications

Length overall: 

Waterline length: 

Beam: 

Weight: Hull, fully rigged without spars, sails or foils: 

Crew: Two, design crew weight , minimum crew weight for racing  (When boats are sailed by crews weighing less than this, ballast is carried to equalize performance.)

Sails: Sails were originally polyester fiber. PET film sails were adopted in 2006.

Mainsail: PET film - ., 8.31 m2.
(Polyester fiber -  - 8.36 square metres)

Jib: PET film - ., 3.57 m2.
(Polyester fiber -  - 3.07 square metres)

Portsmouth Yardstick Handicap: 1015

D-PN: 88.2

Construction: GRP foam sandwich for the hull, hollow aluminium section for the spars

Designers: Frank Bethwaite, Ian Bruce

References

External links
 International Class Association
 Australian class website 

 
Classes of World Sailing
Dinghies
1970s sailboat type designs