the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
They can hop and jump with their powerful legs.
These herbivores (plant-eaters) eat grass, leaves, and roots.
They swallow their food without chewing it and later regurgitate a cud and chew it.
They need very little water; they can go for months without drinking, and they dig their own water wells.
List of wallabies
Banded hare-wallaby, Lagostrophus fasciatus
Brown dorcopsis, Dorcopsis muelleri
White-striped dorcopsis, Dorcopsis hageni
Black dorcopsis, Dorcopsis atrata
Gray dorcopsis, Dorcopsis luctuosa
Small dorcopsis, Dorcopsulus vanheurni
Macleay's dorcopsis, Dorcopsulus macleayi
Lake Mackay hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes asomatus
Spectacled hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes conspicillatus
Rufous hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus
Eastern hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes leporides
Agile wallaby, Macropus agilis
Black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis
Tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii
Toolache wallaby, Macropus greyii (extinct)
Western brush wallaby, Macropus irma
Parma wallaby: Macropus parma (rediscovered, thought extinct for 100 years)
Pretty-faced wallaby: Macropus parryi
Red-necked wallaby: Macropus rufogriseus
Bridled nail-tail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata
Crescent nail-tail wallaby, Onychogalea lunata (extinct)
Northern nail-tail wallaby, Onychogalea unguifera
Short-eared Rock-wallaby, Petrogale brachyotis
Monjon, Petrogale burbidgei
Nabarlek, Petrogale concinna
Proserpine rock-wallaby, Petrogale persephone
Rothschild's rock-wallaby, Petrogale rothschildi
Yellow-footed rock-wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus
Allied rock-wallaby, Petrogale assimilis
Cape York rock-wallaby, Petrogale coenensis
Godman's rock-wallaby, Petrogale godmani
Herbert's rock-wallaby, Petrogale herberti
Unadorned rock-wallaby, Petrogale inornata
Black-flanked rock-wallaby, Petrogale lateralis
Mareeba rock-wallaby, Petrogale mareeba
Brush-tailed rock-wallaby, Petrogale penicillata
Purple-necked rock-wallaby, Petrogale purpureicollis
Mt. Claro rock-wallaby, Petrogale sharmani
Tasmanian pademelon, Thylogale billardierii
Brown's pademelon, Thylogale browni
Dusky Ppademelon, Thylogale brunii
Calaby's pademelon, Thylogale calabyi
Mountain pademelon, Thylogale lanatus
Red-legged pademelon, Thylogale stigmatica
Red-necked pademelon, Thylogale thetis
Swamp wallaby or black wallaby, Wallabia bicolor
Suphanburi was an ancient province.
Researchers found evidence that is over 2500 years old.
Artifacts have been found from the Stone Age, Iron Age and successive cultures including the Suwannapoom period, Funan, Aummarawadee and Sriwichai.
The old name of Suphanburi was Tarawadeesrisuphannapoom or Phan tumaburi, on a bank of Ta Jeen River.
In the Ayuttaya period it was a capital city.
Suphanburi was an outpost city and an important granary.
In the present, Suphanburi is in central Thailand.
It’s 108 kilometres away from Bangkok.
Its administration is divided into 10 Aumper, 110 communes (tambon), and 997 villages that are.
Aumper Muang Suphanburi
Aumper Dan Chang
Aumper Don Chedi
Aumper Song Pi Nong
Aumper Sam Chuk
Aumper Bang Pla Ma
Aumper Si Prachan
Aumper U- Thong
Aumper Nong Ya Sai
Aumper Doem Bang Nang Buat
The interesting places in Suphanburi
Buffalo Villages is at Aumper Sri Prajan.
It’s the place that shows about the way of life of Thai people with buffaloes and home stays for visitor at a low prize.
Samchuk 100 years Market is at Aumper Sam Chuk.
It was a Chinese community for a long time.
It’s a place that you should visit!
Because there are many old things for sale.
Banharn-Jamsai Tower is at Aumper Muang Suphanburi.
From this tower you can see views around Suphanburi province very far.
And around this tower there is an amusement park, too.
Bueng Chawak Aquarium is at Aumper Doem Bang Nang Buat.
It’s a very interesting place to visit.
There are many zones like the zoo, under water world, tree houses and Vegetables Park.
Sukhothai is a town in the lower portion of northern Thailand.
It is about 440 km from Bangkok.
There are about 6,596.092 km² of the area.
The general weather of Sukhothai follows the influence of the southwest monsoon and the northeast monsoon.
Seasons are separated into 3 seasons: summer, rainy and winter.
The average temperature is about 27.6 degree Celsius; the average high is 33.0 degree Celsius; and the average low temperature is 22.2 degree Celsius.
The average quantity of rain water is about 1,208.88 millimeters.
The American Hockey League or AHL, is a professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada.
It is considered the farm league of the National Hockey League.
The major championship in the AHL that the two winning teams of their conferences play for is the Calder Cup.
The oldest current team in the AHL is the Hershey Bears which began play in 1938.
Teams as of the 2021–22 season
On June 7, 2021, the alignment for the 2021–22 season was announced.
AHL teams of the past and present
Buffalo Bisons(1) (1936; folded)
Cleveland Falcons (1936–37; renamed the Cleveland Barons)
New Haven Eagles (1936–43; folded during World War II resurrected 1945)
Philadelphia Ramblers (1936–41, renamed Philadelphia Rockets)
Pittsburgh Hornets (1936–56; went on hiatus to wait for new arena, returned 1961)
Providence Reds (1936–76; renamed Rhode Island Reds)
Springfield Indians (1936–42; suspended during World War II; returned 1946)
Syracuse Stars (1936–40; became Buffalo Bisons)
Cleveland Barons (1937–1973; became Jacksonville Barons)
Hershey Bears (1938–present)
Indianapolis Capitals (1939–52; folded)
Buffalo Bisons(2) (1940–70; folded)
Philadelphia Rockets (1941–42; folded)
Washington Lions (1941–43; folded)
St. Louis Flyers (1944–53; folded)
New Haven Eagles (1945–46, renamed New Haven Ramblers)
Springfield Indians (1946–51; became Syracuse Warriors)
Philadelphia Rockets (1946–49; folded)
New Haven Ramblers (1946–50, renamed New Haven Eagles)
Washington Lions (1947–49; became Cincinnati Mohawks)
Cincinnati Mohawks (1949–52; transferred to IHL)
New Haven Eagles (1950–51, folded)
Syracuse Warriors (1951–54; became Springfield Indians)
Springfield Indians (1954–67; renamed Springfield Kings)
Rochester Americans (1956–present)
Quebec Aces (1959–71; became Richmond Robins)
Pittsburgh Hornets (1961–67; folded)
Baltimore Clippers (1962–76; folded)
Springfield Kings (1967–74; renamed Springfield Indians)
Montreal Voyageurs (1969–71; became Nova Scotia Voyageurs)
Nova Scotia Voyageurs (1971–84; became Sherbrooke Canadiens)
Boston Braves (1971–74; suspended, became Moncton Hawks)
Cincinnati Swords (1971–74; folded)
Richmond Robins (1971–76; folded)
Tidewater Wings (1971–72; played in Norfolk; renamed Virginia Wings)
Virginia Wings (1972–75; played in Norfolk; became Adirondack Red Wings)
Jacksonville Barons (1973–74; folded, franchise purchased and became Syracuse Eagles)
New Haven Nighthawks (1972–92; became New Haven Senators)
Springfield Indians (1974–94; became Worcester IceCats)
Syracuse Eagles (1974–75; folded)
Rhode Island Reds (1976–77; became Binghamton Dusters)
Hampton Gulls (1977–78; folded midseason)
Binghamton Dusters (1977–80; renamed Binghamton Whalers)
Maine Mariners (1977–92; original franchise became Utica Devils; expansion franchise became Providence Bruins)
Philadelphia Firebirds (1977–79; became Syracuse Firebirds)
New Brunswick Hawks (1978–82; became St. Catharines Saints)
Adirondack Red Wings (1979–99; became San Antonio Rampage)
Syracuse Firebirds (1979–80; folded)
Binghamton Whalers (1980–90; renamed Binghamton Rangers)
Erie Blades (1981–82; merged into Baltimore Skipjacks)
Fredericton Express (1981–88; became Halifax Citadels)
Baltimore Skipjacks (1982–93; became Portland Pirates)
Moncton Alpines (1982–84; renamed Moncton Golden Flames)
Sherbrooke Jets (1982–84; folded)
St. Catharines Saints (1982–86; became Newmarket Saints)
Nova Scotia Oilers (1984–88; became Cape Breton Oilers)
Sherbrooke Canadiens (1984–90; became Fredericton Canadiens)
Moncton Golden Flames (1984–87; folded)
Newmarket Saints (1986–91; became St. John's Maple Leafs)
Moncton Hawks (1987–94; folded)
Utica Devils (1987–93; became Saint John Flames)
Cape Breton Oilers (1988–96; became Hamilton Bulldogs)
Halifax Citadels (1988–93; became Cornwall Aces)
Binghamton Rangers (1990–97; became Hartford Wolf Pack)
Capital District Islanders (1990–93; became Albany River Rats)
Fredericton Canadiens (1990–99; became Quebec Citadelles)
St. John's Maple Leafs (1991–2005; became Toronto Marlies)
Providence Bruins (1992–present)
Hamilton Canucks (1992–94; became Syracuse Crunch)
New Haven Senators (1992–93; became Prince Edward Island Senators)
Albany River Rats (1993–2010; became Charlotte Checkers)
Portland Pirates (1993–2016, became Springfield Thunderbirds)
Prince Edward Island Senators (1993–96; became Binghamton Senators)
Saint John Flames (1993–2003; became Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights)
Cornwall Aces (1993–96; became Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins)
Springfield Falcons (1994–2016; became Tucson Roadrunners)
Syracuse Crunch (1994–present)
Worcester IceCats (1994–2005; became Peoria Rivermen)
Baltimore Bandits (1995–97; became Cincinnati Mighty Ducks)
Carolina Monarchs (1995–97; became Beast of New Haven)
Philadelphia Phantoms (1996–2009; became Adirondack Phantoms)
Hamilton Bulldogs (1996–2015; became second version of the St. John's IceCaps)
Kentucky Thoroughblades (1996–2001; became Cleveland Barons)
Cincinnati Mighty Ducks (1997–2005; became Rockford IceHogs)
Beast of New Haven (1997–99; folded)
Hartford Wolf Pack (1997–2010, 2013–present; became Connecticut Whale from 2010 to 2013)
Lowell Lock Monsters (1998–2006; became Lowell Devils)
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (1999–present)
Louisville Panthers (1999–2001; became Iowa Stars)
Quebec Citadelles (1999–2002; merged with Hamilton Bulldogs)
Norfolk Admirals (2000–15; became the San Diego Gulls)
Bridgeport Sound Tigers (2001–present)
Chicago Wolves (2001–present)
Grand Rapids Griffins (2001–present)
Houston Aeros (2001–13; became Iowa Wild)
Manchester Monarchs (2001–15; became the Ontario Reign)
Milwaukee Admirals (2001–present)
Cleveland Barons (2001–06; became Worcester Sharks)
Manitoba Moose (2001–11, 2015–present; were the St. John's IceCaps from 2011 to 2015)
Utah Grizzlies (2001–05; became Lake Erie Monsters)
Binghamton Senators (2002–17; became the Belleville Senators in 2017)
San Antonio Rampage (2002–present)
Toronto Roadrunners (2003–04; split from Hamilton Bulldogs, became Edmonton Road Runners)
Edmonton Road Runners (2004–05; dormant 2005–2010, became Oklahoma City Barons)
Iowa Stars (2005–08; became Iowa Chops)
Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights (2005–07; became Quad City Flames)
Peoria Rivermen (2005–13; became Utica Comets)
Toronto Marlies (2005–present)
Lowell Devils (2006–10; became Albany Devils)
Worcester Sharks (2006–15; became the San Jose Barracuda)
Lake Erie Monsters (2007–16; became Cleveland Monsters)
Quad City Flames (2007–09; became Abbotsford Heat)
Rockford IceHogs (2007–present)
Iowa Chops (2008–09; became Texas Stars)
Adirondack Phantoms (2009–14; became Lehigh Valley Phantoms)
Texas Stars (2009–present)
Abbotsford Heat (2009–14; became Adirondack Flames)
Albany Devils (2010–17; became the Binghamton Devils in 2017)
Charlotte Checkers (2010–present)
Oklahoma City Barons (2010–15; became the Bakersfield Condors)
Connecticut Whale (2010–13; reverted to Hartford Wolf Pack)
St. John's IceCaps (2011–17; original franchise became the Manitoba Moose in 2015, second franchise became the Laval Rocket in 2017)
Iowa Wild (2013–present)
Utica Comets (2013–present)
Adirondack Flames (2014–15; became the Stockton Heat)
Lehigh Valley Phantoms (2014–present)
Bakersfield Condors (2015–present)
Ontario Reign (2015–present)
San Diego Gulls (2015–present)
San Jose Barracuda (2015–present)
Stockton Heat (2015–present)
Cleveland Monsters (2016–present)
Springfield Thunderbirds (2016–present)
Tucson Roadrunners (2016–present)
Belleville Senators (2017–present)
Binghamton Devils (2017–present)
Laval Rocket (2017–present)
Colorado Eagles (2018–present)
Official AHL website
Beat Crusaders were a Japanese rock band.
They were known for wearing masks in public.
They did not wear their masks during concerts.
There were 5 members in this band.
The members were Hidaka Touru (vocals and guitar), Kubota Masahiko (bass), Katou Tarou (guitar), Mashi-ta (drums), and Keitaimo (keyboards).
The band started in 1997.
Almost all of their songs were written in English.
Their music genre is said to be melodic hard core, digital rock, and power pop.
The masks
The members of the band wear masks because they were once working as office workers and they could not show their faces.
After they became well known, they decided to keep wearing their masks.
The masks became a trademark for the band.
Sound Horizon is a Japanese musical group.
They released their first major album in 2004 with  Elysion ~Rakuen e no Zensōkyoku~. This album started as the number 14 most popular in Japan.
They call themselves a "fantasy band".
The band members change according to the song.
The composer, Revo is the only person who always participates in the band.
John Vane was an Australian bushranger who became a member of Ben Hall's gang.
He was one of the few members of the gang to die of old age, and not to be killed.
Vane was born at Jerry Plains near Singleton, New South Wales on 28 June 1842.
His grandparents had come to Australia as convicts but his father and mother were seen as respectable and wealthy.
They lived at Kelso, near Bathurst before moving to Jerry Plains in about 1841.
When John was about six years old the family moved back to Kelso and then onto Teasdale Park (Carcoar), near Hobbys Yards.
Teasdale Park was owned by George Chesher (Cheshire) who would become Vane's father-in-law.
The Vane family moved to Kempfield, near the Abercrombie caves where they stayed for a number of years.
John worked as a shepherd and the money he was paid helped his father buy land, probably their Wattle Grove home.
1850 John Vane and his brother William (Billy) went to work at James Hanrahan's Wentworth Gully Station near the Weddin Mountains.
It is not known if all the family went or just the two boys.
Billy taught John to ride horses while at Hanrahan's.
They stayed there for about a year and returned to the Kempfield district.
John was 14 years when sent to Bathurst, apprenticed to a blacksmith and wheelwright named McDonald.
He then went on to the Turon goldfields where he saved a some money before it was stolen from him.
He then drove a bullock team between Orange and Lambing Flat (Young).
He was described in 1863 as being about six feet tall, with dark hair and a ruddy complexion.
He worked as a stockman, looking after cattle and was said to be an excellent horse rider.
On Christmas Eve of 1862 John Vane, Billy Vane, George Chesher Jnr, James Burke and John McKellar were at Boyce's public house at Long Swamp near Trunkey Creek.
Warrants were issued for the five youth for robbery of the publican.
John Vane hid in the bush and eluded capture until his surrender later that year.
The others were captured by police but were released as there was not enough evidence to take them to court [1863 New South Wales Police Gazette].
John Vane and his good mate Micky Burke had built a reputation for providing locals with stolen beef and horses.
In July 1863 members of the Ben Hall gang were seeking fresh horses and new places to rob.
John Gilbert and John O'Meally came to the Carcoar district and sent out word that they needed Vane's local knowledge and skills.
The pair met with Vane at his camp at Millpost Creek and laid plans for an attack on the Carcoar bank.
On 30 July 1863 that plan was put into action.
Vane had provided information and support for the raid, though he did not participate.
Gilbert and O'Meally rode into town and performed the first daylight bank robbery in Australia.
Vane joined the gang and soon after so did his mate Micky Burke.
Ben Hall joined the other members of the gang and they began stealing around the district.
They bailed up store owners and gold buyers.
They held the town of Canowindra and all its people prisoner for three days.
They tied the pursuing police troopers to trees and took their uniforms and weapons.
They raided the large town of Bathurst and which sent the colonial government into turmoil.
The excitiment and adventure came to a tragic end when on the afternoon of 24 October 1863, the gang went to the home of Gold Commissioner Henry Keightley at Dunn's Plains, near Rockley.
At the house were Mrs. Keightley, house staff and Dr. Pechey.
During the gun battle Vane's mate Micky Burke was shot in the stomach, and through fear of being caught by police decided to shoot himself.
There is still debate today around who actually shot Burke.
Vane was enraged and wanted to kill Keightley in revenge.
It was decided though that the ransom Keightley would receive for killing Burke (₤500)should be sought by the gang.
Keightley's wife and Dr Pechey rode to Bathurst that night to get the money from Mrs Keightley's father, Henry Rotton.
Pechey and Rotton returned the next morning and the money was handed to Gilbert.
Keightley was immediately released.
The story of the ride was later turned into a stage play.
Many people say that John Vane is a handsome, old, lad but hated him dearly.
In November 1863 a priest, Father Tim M'Carthy met Vane by chance in the bush.
He later met the bushranger's mother.
They talked Vane into giving himself up.
It is said that John, cried and cried.
His Father and mother knew how he felt!
They gave him some food and money and told him sternly that a life as a bushranger was not good.
He eventually decided that there was no point continuing to hide, so he walked off with shredded pants and shirt.
He went with the priest to Nathaniel Connolly's home, who supplied them with a letter to secure Vane's passage to Bathurst courthouse.
Vane was sentenced to 15 years at Darlinghurst and released after six for good behavior.
He drove the mail coach between Carcoar and Mt Donald until retiring.
Vane continued to be in trouble with the police.
In 1880 the newspapers reported that John Vane, ex-bushranger, was in court at Bathurst, for stealing 431 sheep.
A friend, Terence M'Cann who had helped steal the sheep, was the main witness.
John Vane's brother-in-law, Thomas Parker, tried to stop M'Cann from giving evidence.
He was put in gaol for 12 months.
John was a known bushranger in the 1800's because of all the big and small things he stole.
He was also a help to the police in controlling, pubs, roads and the like.
Although it wasn't his intention he inadvertently made these places better today!
A book by Charles White, (1908) — John Vane, bushranger: Being a true narrative of his career faithfully depicted This book is part of the National Library of Australia's Digital Collection and can be viewed as a PDF.
Guns and Roses - Ik Junoon () is a Pakistani movie which was released in 1999, and it starred Shaan, Resham, Meera and Faisal Rehman.
Faisal Rehman made a comeback with this movie, after taking a sabbatical from the movie industry which spanned over a decade.
The music was composed by M Arshad.
The movie is mainly known for its soundtrack which included hits like Jeena Hai Jeena Tau Hai, Khat, and Qeher.
Tanvir Fatima Rehman produced the movie.
Inteha () is a Pakistani Urdu movie.
It was released in 1999 across theaters in Pakistan.
The movie was Samina Peerzada's debut directorial attempt, and established the careers of its two leading men Humayun Saeed and Zeeshan Sikander.
Incidentally, both the actors also made their debut with Inteha.
Mujhe Jeene Do is a 1999 Urdu movie.
It is directed by Javed Sheikh.
The movie stars Meera, Babar Ali, Sana and Javed Sheikh.
The music is by Amjad Bobby.
Cloud computing is when computing services are provided by a company or place outside of where they are being used.
It is like the way in which electricity is sent to users: they simply use the electricity that is sent to them and do not need to worry where the electricity is from or how it is made and brought to them.
Every month, they pay only for what they used and nothing more.
The idea behind cloud computing is similar: The user can simply use storage, computing power, or development environments, without having to worry how they work behind the scenes.
The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet based on how it is described in computer network diagrams.
Just as how in the real world, clouds hide parts of the sky from sight, the cloud in computing hides the complex infrastructure that makes the Internet work.
It is a type of computing in which IT-related actions are provided “as a service”, allowing users to access these services through the Internet ("in the cloud").
They do not have to know or control the technologies behind them, preventing them from running into ethical and legal problems.
According to the IEEE, cloud computing is a concept where information is placed on servers and sent over the Internet to other devices, such as computers, laptops, handhelds, and sensors.
It includes the idea of having software as a service (SaaS), such as Web 2.0, that depend on the Internet to meet the needs of their users.
For example, Google has made several office suite apps which are accessed from a web browser.
Unlike other software that does the same tasks, including Microsoft Office, the software and data are stored on Google's servers, not on the machine in which they are used.
grid computing: a form of distributed computing whereby a "super and virtual computer" is composed of a cluster of networked, loosely-coupled computers, working together to perform very large tasks
utility computing: the packaging of computing resources, such as computation and storage are provided as a measured service that have to be paid similar to a traditional public utility such as electricity
autonomic computing: computer systems capable of self-management.
Cloud computing often uses grid computing, has autonomic characteristics and is billed like utilities, but cloud computing can be seen as a natural next step from the grid-utility model.
Some successful cloud architectures have little or no centralised infrastructure or billing systems including peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent and Skype.
Power BI Certification
Power BI, the latest business intelligence product by Microsoft, is covered in depth in the Microsoft Power BI Training, which was developed to aid people in dynamic learning about the latest business intelligence tool by Microsoft.
This training introduces new learners to more advanced concepts, including data kinds, generation, and exploration, as well as adding slicers, optimizing data, and charting, to name a few.
In this course, you'll learn how to leverage Microsoft Power BI Certification to effectively understand and communicate analytics and data visualization.
The majority of cloud computing infrastructure currently consists of reliable services delivered through data centers that are built on computer and storage virtualization technologies.
The services are accessible anywhere in the world, with The Cloud appearing as a single point of access for all the computing needs of consumers.
Commercial offerings need to meet the quality of service requirements of customers and typically offer service level agreements.
Open standards and open source software are also critical to the growth of cloud computing.
As customers generally do not own the infrastructure or know all details about it, mainly they are accessing or renting, so they can consume resources as a service, and may be paying for what they do not need, instead of what they actually do need to use.
Many cloud computing providers use the utility computing model which is analogous to how traditional public utilities like electricity are consumed, while others are billed on a subscription basis.
By sharing consumable and "intangible" computing power between multiple "tenants", utilization rates can be improved (as servers are not left idle) which can reduce costs significantly while increasing the speed of application development.
A side effect of this approach is that "computer capacity rises dramatically" as customers do not have to engineer for peak loads.
Adoption has been enabled by "increased high-speed bandwidth" which makes it possible to receive the same response times from centralized infrastructure at other sites.
Cloud computing is being driven by providers including Google, Amazon.com, and Yahoo!
as well as traditional vendors including IBM, Intel, Microsoft and SAP.
It can adopted by all kinds of users, be they individuals or large enterprises.
Most internet users are currently using cloud services, even if they do not realize it.
Webmail for example is a cloud service, as are Facebook and Wikipedia and contact list synchronization and online data backups.
The Cloud is a metaphor for the Internet, or more generally components and services which are managed by others.
The underlying concept dates back to 1960 when John McCarthy expressed his opinion that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility"  and the term Cloud was already in commercial use in the early 1990s to refer to large ATM networks.
By the turn of the 21st century, cloud computing solutions had started to appear on the market, though most of the focus at this time was on Software as a service.
Amazon.com played a key role in the development of cloud computing when upgrading their data centers after the dot-com bubble and providing access to their systems by way of Amazon Web Services in 2002 on a utility computing basis.
They found the new cloud architecture resulted in significant internal efficiency improvements
2007 observed increased activity, including Google, IBM and a number of universities starting large scale cloud computing research project, around the time the term started gaining popularity in the mainstream press.
It was a hot topic by mid-2008 and numerous cloud computing events had been scheduled.
Clouds cross many country borders and "may be the ultimate form of globalisation".
As such it is the subject of complex geopolitical issues, whereby providers must satisfy  many legal restrictions in order to deliver service to a global market.
This dates back to the early days of the Internet, where libertarian thinkers felt that "cyberspace was a distinct place calling for laws and legal institutions of its own"; author Neal Stephenson envisaged this as a tiny island data haven in his science-fiction classic novel Cryptonomicon.
Although there have been efforts to match the legal environment (such as US-EU Safe Harbor), providers like Amazon Web Services usually deal with international markets (typically the United States and European Union) by deploying local infrastructure and allowing customers to select their countries.
However, there are still concerns about security and privacy for individual through various governmental levels, (for example the USA PATRIOT Act and use of national security letters and title II of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Stored Communications Act).
In March 2007, Dell applied to trademark the term '"cloud computing" in the United States.
It received a "Notice of Allowance" in July 2008 which was subsequently canceled on August 6, resulting in a formal rejection of the trademark application in less than a week later.
In November 2007, the Free Software Foundation released the Affero General Public License (abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL), a version of GPLv3 designed to close a perceived legal loophole associated with Free software designed to be run over a network, particularly software as a service.
According to the AGPL license application service providers are required to release any changes they make to an AGPL open source code.
Cloud architecture is the systems architecture of the software systems involved in the delivery of cloud computing (e.g. hardware, software) as designed by a cloud architect who typically works for a cloud integrator.
It typically involves multiple cloud components communicating with each other over application programming interfaces (usually web services).
This is very similar to the Unix philosophy of having multiple programs doing one thing well and working together over universal interfaces.
Complexity is controlled and the resulting systems are more manageable than their monolithic counterparts.
Cloud architecture extends to the client where web browsers and/or software applications are used to access cloud applications.
Cloud storage architecture is loosely coupled where metadata operations are centralized enabling the data nodes to scale into the hundreds, each independently delivering data to applications or users.
Key characteristics
Capital expenditure minimized, therefore low barrier to entry as infrastructure is owned by the provider and does not need to be purchased for one-time or infrequent intensive computing tasks.
Services are typically being available to or specifically targeting retail consumers and small businesses.
Device and location independence which enables users to access systems regardless of location or what device they are using (for example PC, mobile,... etc.).
Multitenancy enabling sharing of resources (and costs) among a large pool of users, allowing for:
Centralization of infrastructure in areas with lower costs (e.g. real estate, electricity)
Peak-load capacity increases (users need not engineer for highest possible load levels)
Utilization and efficiency improvements for systems that are often used only 10-20%.
Performance is monitored and consistent but can be affected by insufficient bandwidth or high network load.
Reliability by way of multiple redundant sites, which makes it suitable for business continuity and disaster recovery, however IT and business managers are able to do little when an outage hits them.
Historical data on cloud outages is tracked in the Cloud Computing Incidents Database.
Scalability which meets changing user demands quickly, without having to engineer for peak loads.
Massive scalability and large user bases are common but not an absolute requirement.
Security which typically improves due to centralization of data, increased security-focused resources, etc.
but which raises concerns about loss of control over certain sensitive data.
Accesses are typically logged but accessing the audit logs themselves can be difficult or impossible.
Sustainability through improved use of resources, more efficient systems and carbon neutrality.
Cloud computing poses privacy concerns because the service provider can access the data that is in the cloud at any time.
It could accidentally or deliberately alter or delete information.
Many cloud providers can share information with third parties if necessary for purposes of law and order without a warrant.
That is permitted in their privacy policies, which users must agree to before they start using cloud services.
Solutions to privacy include policy and legislation as well as end-users' choices for how data is stored.
A cloud application influences The Cloud model of software architecture, often eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computer, thus reducing software maintenance, ongoing operations, and support.
Peer-to-peer/volunteer computing (Bittorrent, SETI@home, Skype)
Web application (Facebook)
Software as a service (Google Apps, Salesforce)
Software plus services (Microsoft Online Services)
A cloud client is computer hardware and/or computer software which relies on The Cloud for application delivery, or which is specifically designed for delivery of cloud services, and which is in either case essentially useless without a Cloud.
Mobile (Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile)
Thin client (CherryPal, Zonbu gOS based systems)
Thick client/Web browser (Google Chrome,Mozilla Firefox)
Cloud infrastructure (e.g. Infrastructure as a service) is the delivery of computer infrastructure (typically a platform virtualization environment) as a service.
Full virtualization (GoGrid, Skytap)
Grid computing (Sun Grid)
Management (RightScale)
Paravirtualization (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud)
A cloud platform (e.g. Platform as a service) (the delivery of a computing platform and/or solution stack as a service) facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers.
Web application frameworks
Python Django (Google App Engine)
Ruby on Rails (Heroku)
Web hosting (Mosso)
Proprietary (Azure, Force.com)
A cloud service (e.g. Web Service) is "software system[s] designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network" which may be accessed by other cloud computing components, software (e.g. Software plus services) or end users directly.
Identity (OAuth, OpenID)
Integration (Amazon Simple Queue Service)
Mapping (Google Maps, Yahoo!
Maps)
Payments (Amazon Flexible Payments Service, Google Checkout, PayPal)
Search (Alexa, Google Custom Search, Yahoo!
BOSS)
Others (Amazon Mechanical Turk)
Cloud storage is the delivery of data storage as a service (including database-like services), often billed on a utility computing basis (e.g. per gigabyte per month).
Database (Amazon SimpleDB, Google App Engine's BigTable datastore)
Network attached storage (MobileMe iDisk component, Nirvanix CloudNAS)
Synchronisation (Live Mesh Live Desktop component, MobileMe push functions)
Web service (Amazon Simple Storage Service, Nirvanix SDN)
Traditional storage vendors have recently begun to offer their own flavor of cloud storage, sometimes in conjunction with their existing software products (e.g. Symantec's Online Storage for Backup Exec ).
Others focus on providing a new kind of back-end storage optimally designed for delivering cloud storage (EMC's Atmos), categorically known as Cloud Optimized Storage.
A cloud computing provider or cloud computing service provider owns and operates cloud computing systems serve someone else.
Usually this needs building and managing new data centers.
Some organisations get some of the benefits of cloud computing by becoming "internal" cloud providers and servicing themselves, though they do not benefit from the same economies of scale and still have to engineer for peak loads.
The barrier to entry is also significantly higher with capital expenditure required and billing and management creates some overhead.
However, significant operational efficiency and quickness advantages can be achieved even by small organizations, and server consolidation and virtualization rollouts are already in progress.
Amazon.com was the first such provider, modernising its data centers which, like most computer networks were using as little as 10% of its capacity at any one time just to leave room for occasional spikes.
They opened it up to outsiders as Amazon Web Services in 2002 on a utility computing basis.
A user is a consumer of cloud computing.
The privacy of users in cloud computing has become of increasing concern.
The rights of users is also an issue, which is being addressed via a community effort to create a bill of rights (currently in draft).
A vendor sells products and services that facilitate the delivery, adoption and use of cloud computing.
Computer hardware (Dell, HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems)
Storage (3PAR, EMC, MogileFS)
Infrastructure (Solace Systems, Layer 7 Technologies, F5 Networks)
Computer software (3tera, GigaSpaces, Hadoop)
Operating systems (Windows Azure, Linux and Solaris)
Platform virtualisation (Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Sun xVM)
A cloud standard is one of a number of existing (typically lightweight) open standards that have facilitated the growth of cloud computing, including:
Communications (HTTP, XMPP)
Security (OAuth, OpenID, SSL/TLS)
Syndication (Atom)
Browsers (AJAX)
Offline (HTML 5)
Virtualization (OVF)
Solution stacks (LAMP, Space-based architecture)
Data (XML, JSON)
Web Services (REST)
Jones, M. Tim, Cloud Computing with Linux from IBM DeveloperWorks (2008-09-10).
Kaye, Russell, Cloud Computing (QuickStudy) from ComputerWorld (2008-05-08).
Martin & Hoover, Guide to Cloud Computing  from InformationWeek (2008-07-21).
Cloud Computing Community Wiki is a "new resource put together by several industry executives and bloggers".
Cloud Computing Incidents Database (CCID) tracks and "provides historical data on cloud outages".
Lyarchdesign  - A video where Tim O’Reilly, Dan Farber, Matt Mullenweg and others answer this question.
Avant-garde music, or experimental music, is a type of music that is meant to push the boundaries of "what music is."
It started in the 1940s and 1950s after World War II.
Some famous avant-garde composers were John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Henry Cowell.
Examples of avant-garde songs
4' 33"
This was a song written by John Cage that is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of complete silence.
It is meant to make the audience listen to the sounds around them.
This is a song by the popular English rock band The Beatles.
It appeared on their album The Beatles, also known as The White Album (released in 1968.) "
Revolution 9" is over 8 minutes of random sounds, and someone repeatedly saying "number 9...number 9...number 9...number 9..." It was mostly the work of John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono.
Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me
This is a song by the American grunge band Pearl Jam.
It is the last song on their third album Vitalogy, released in 1994.
It is over seven minutes long.
It is made up of conversations between mental patients in asylums, and psychiatrists, with distorted bass guitar and drums laid over them.
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.
The red deer lives in most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor and parts of western and central Asia, in Kashmir as the state animal.
They can also be found in the Atlas Mountains region between Algeria and Tunisia in northwestern Africa.
They are the only species of deer in Africa.
Red deer have been introduced to other areas including Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.
In many parts of the world the meat (venison) from red deer is widely used as a food source.
Lisa Gerrard (born 12 April 1961)  is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to fame as part of the group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry.
Gerrard received a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award nomination for the score for the 2000 film Gladiator on which she teamed up with Hans Zimmer.
Vocal ability
Gerrard possesses the vocal range of a contralto, spanning from E3-F5.
Her voice has been described as rich, deep, dark, mournful and unique.
She also has the ability to extend upwards into the dramatic mezzo-soprano range, examples of such would be on the songs The Host of Seraphim, Elegy,  Space Weaver, Come This Way and One Perfect Sunrise.
Gerrard however performs more predominantly in the dramatic contralto range in her other songs, Sanvean, Sacrifice, Largo and Not Yet.
Gerrard sings many of her songs, such as Now We Are Free, Come Tenderness, Serenity, The Valley of the Moon, Tempest, Pilgrimage of Lost Children, Coming Home and Sanvean in an idioglossia (an idiosyncratic language) that she has developed since the age of twelve.
The stop sign is a sign that is often placed at crossroads, when a road does not have traffic lights.
This sign instructs the drivers to stop when they reach the crossroad and wait for other vehicles to pass.
They can only proceed when the road is clear.
This sign is one of the most significant and well-known signs of road traffic.
Variants for the stop sign
The stop sign is very common in every country.
In some countries the stop sign is also written in the local language.
For example in Japan, the stop sign is written in Japanese and English.
Some decades ago a different symbol was used to indicate the stop sign.
Stop signs around the world
Salwar kameez (also spelled shalwar kameez or shalwar qameez) is a traditional dress worn by both women and men in Southern Asia.
Salvars or shalvars are loose pajama-like trousers.
The legs are wide at the top, and narrow at the bottom.
The kameez is a long shirt or tunic.
The side seams (known as the chaak) are left open below the waist-line, which gives the wearer greater freedom of movement.
It is the most common dress for men in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
It is also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z , Latin Z, and  Cyrillic Ze З.
Ocimum tenuiflorum (also known as Ocimum sanctum, Tulsi,  Tulasī) is an plant in the family Lamiaceae.
It is also called Holy Basil.
Holy Basil, as the name suggest has a holy meaning for people of India, especially towards North and South India.
It is usually placed or grown in every household in India and carries religious meanings.
In bigger households, the holy basil or tulsi plant is placed in the centre of the house and prayers are offered in the morning time.
People usually light an incense stick or agarbatti and pour water on the plant during the prayer.
Allspice (also called Jamaica pepper, Kurundu, Myrtle pepper, pimento, allspice berries, or newspice) is a spice which is the dried unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant, a tree native to the West Indies, southern Mexico and Central America.
The tree Pimenta dioica is from the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), and it is very valued for its berries.
The allspice was named because the flavor of the berry is like a mixture of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
It is used very much in baking, mostly for making mincemeat and mixed pickling spice.
It was discovered first by the early Spanish explorers, who mistook it for a type of pepper.
Allspice is the only spice grown in the Western Hemisphere.
But after that, the wild trees were cut down to get the berries and only a few allspice are left.
There are many plantations in Mexico and Central America, too.
However, the best allspice comes from Jamaica where the weather and soil are best for the berries.
Allspice was used by the Mayans and by other South American Indians when making chocolate.
The name Jamaica comes from Xamayca.
This means ‘land of wood and water’ in the language of the Arawaks.
The Arawaks used allspice to help keep the meat from rotting, or sometimes against their enemies.
The spice was imported to Europe after it was discovered.
There were many tries to plant it in the East, but it did not work because the trees could not give a lot of fruit.
Even though it had a rich smell and a tasty flavor, allspice never had the same caché in Europe as cinnamon or pepper.
The English started taking the spice by ship to England in 1737, but by that time the want for spices had been taken over by other kinds of products such as sugar and coffee.
It was still a little popular in England though, where it came to be known as the English Spice.
In the Napoleonic war of 1812, Russian soldiers put the spice in their boots to keep their feet warm.
Because of this, today the pimento oil from the allspice is usually used for the men’s dress.
Dried allspice berries look like large brown peppercorns and their colors are cocoa brown.
When the berries are not yet ripe, they are harvested and dried by the sun.
They are different in size from between 4 and 7 mm (1/8 - 1/4 in) in diameter and are dark brown.
Their skin is very wrinkled, and  the outer case has two seeds.
Allspice can be eaten ground or whole.
Whole dried allspice can keep without a time limit if they are properly kept in airtight jars.
They also must not face the light.
It can be ground in a mill or an electric coffee grinder.
After it is ground, the spice loses its flavor in a few days.
The peony or paeony (Paeonia) is the only genus in the flowering plant family Paeoniaceae.
They are native to Asia, southern Europe and western North America.
It is the national flower of China.
American tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), also called tulip poplar or yellow poplar is a type of tree.
It is one of the two species in the genus Liriodendron.
L. tulipifera can be found in Eastern North America.
The tree can grow to over .
It often has no limbs until it reaches 25-30 m (80-100 feet) in height.
This makes it a good tree for timber.
ActionScript is a scripting language similar to JavaScript.
It is used for Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex.
import flash.text.
TextField;
import flash.display.
ActionScript Technology Center
Adobe - Flash Developer Center
Kisean Anderson (born February 3, 1990) better known by his stage name Sean Kingston, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer.
He is best known for his number 1 single "Beautiful Girls".
On May 29, 2011, Kingston was seriously injured along with a female passenger in a jet ski accident in Miami, Florida.
He was reported to be in critical condition.
Released: July 31, 2007
Label: Epic/Beluga Heights
Chart positions: 6 U.S.
RIAA certification: Platinum
Released: 2009
Awards/nominations
2008, Outstanding New Artist (Nominated)
2007: Best Reggae Acts
2007: Choice R&B Track "Beautiful Girls"
2007: Choice Summer Track "Beautiful Girls" (nominated)
DJBooth.net Interview
Exclusive Music Interview
People from Kingston, Jamaica
Singers from Miami, Florida
Galaga is a sci-fi arcade game released by Namco in 1981.
It is the sequel to Galaxian.
In this game, the player controls a spaceship and shoots enemies coming down in different directions.
Sellers, John (2001).
Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games.
Running Press, 160 pages. .
Galaga at the Killer List of Videogames
Galaga at the Arcade History database
Funker Vogt is a German aggrotech band, formed by Gerrit Thomas and Jens Kästel in 1995.
Thanks for Nothing (1996)
We Came to Kill (1997)
Killing Time Again (1998) (part new material, part remixes)
Execution Tracks (1998)
Maschine Zeit (2000)
T (2000/2001) (contains 4 new tracks and 10 remixes)
Survivor (2002)
Revivor (2003) (remix album)
Navigator (2005)
Aviator (2007)
Blutzoll (2010)
Words of Power (1997)
Take Care (1997)
Tragic Hero (1998)
Gunman (2000)
Subspace (2001)
Date of Expiration (2002)
Red Queen (2003)
Fallen Hero (2005)
Official English site
Official German site
Funker Vogt dot com (English Fansite)
Funker Vogt - "We love provocation !" -
Artists signed
16 Volt
The A.K.A.s (Are Everywhere!)
Amduscia
Angels and Agony
À Rebours
Assemblage 23
backandtotheleft
Battery Cage
Cesium_137
Combichrist
Das Ich
Decoded Feedback
Diary of Dreams
Electric Six
Excessive Force
Flesh Field
Grendel (band)
Hanzel und Gretyl
IAMX
Kevorkian Death Cycle
Lights of Euphoria
Mindless Faith
mind.in.a.box
Psyclon Nine
System Syn
Terrorfakt
Velvet Acid Christ
Wolfsheim
:Wumpscut:
1990s establishments in Pennsylvania
Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian  musical group.
They have achieved success with a brand of upbeat and danceable synthpop, winning awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia.
Apoptygma Berzerk (abbreviated to APB or APOP) has toured Europe, North America, South America and Israel with bands such as VNV Nation, Beborn Beton and Unheilig.
Stephan Groth (Grothesk) - front-man and original member, largely responsible for the "APB sound"
Geir Bratland - Keyboard
Fredrik Brarud - Drums
Audun Stengel (Angel) - Guitar
Anders Odden - Guitar (rejoined the band late 2003 after having left it some years before to pursue his own musical projects)
Jon Erik Martensen - former member 1989-90s & co-writer of some of Harmonizer
Per Aksel Lundgreen - former member and live keyboardist 1991-1994 & co-writer of "Wrack'em To Pieces" and "Electronic Warfare".
Also responsible for the bands booking and promotion from 1991-1994.
Full-length studio albums and EPs
The 2nd Manifesto [EP] (1992)
Soli Deo Gloria (1993)
7 (1996)
Mourn [EP] (1997)
The Apopcalyptic Manifesto (1998)
Welcome to Earth (2000)
Harmonizer (2002)
7 (Remastered) (2002)
Soli Deo Gloria (Remastered) (2002)
The Singles Collection (2003)
Unicorn [EP] (2004)
You and Me Against the World (2005)
Black EP (2006)
Sonic Diary (2006)
Soli Deo Gloria (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
7 (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
The Singles Collection (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
Welcome to Earth (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
Harmonizer (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
Unicorn & The Harmonizer DVD (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
Rocket Science (2008)
Black EP Vol.
2 (2011)
Stop Feeding the Beast (2014)
Videodrome (2015)
Xenogenesis (2016)
Exit Popularity Contest (2016)
SDGXXV (2019)
Faceless Fear (B-Sides & Rarities) (2020)
Disarm (B-Sides & Rarities) (2020)
Nein Danke! (
APBL98 (1999)
APBL2000 (2001)
APBL2000 (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
APBL2009 Imagine There’s No Lennon (Live-CD and DVD) (2010)
Ashes to Ashes 12" (1991)
Bitch (1993)
Deep Red (1994)
Non Stop Violence (1995)
Paranoia (1998)
Eclipse (1999)
Kathy's Song (2000)
Kathy's Song 12" I. (2000)
Kathy's Song 12" II. (