...This photograph is of Ed Mirvish in front of his store, Honest Ed's, on the corner of Bathurst and Bloor St. West in Toronto and was taken in 1983. The photograph was taken by Tibor Kolley for the Globe and Mail and was sourced on their website from the news article on the history of Honest Ed's. This image interested me because of Honest Ed's recent closure, as well as because I find it visually interesting as there is something going on in the fore, middle, and background of the image. Reading Reflection #1: Barthes’ concepts of Connotation & Dennotation This image relates to Barthes concept of the photographic message, specifically in relation to the “denotation” and “connotation” of the messages that can be read from press images. To summarize, Barthes describes that a press photograph has both a denoted message and a connoted message. Essentially, the denoted message is whatever is in the image (Barthes 17). In the case of my own chosen photograph, it is an older male in a suit standing in front of a street corner with a gathering of people around a building behind him. Secondly, press photographs also have a connoted message, which the public decides based on what they see and what they can interpret from the denoted image (17). For example, assuming that the man owns (what might be) a store behind him is a connoted message. Or that the people behind him are lined up for a big sale is also a connoted message; it is making inferences about the image based on already...
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...Interim Report Due Date: 27/02/12 Adam Beere (10212183) Table of Contents Section 1: Company Briefing 3 Section 2: Project Issues 5 Section 3: Gantt Chart of Project Schedule 6 Section 1: Company Briefing Company: MCD Productions Ltd. (Gaiety Investments) Brief History Established in 1980 by Denis Desmond and Eamonn McCann, M.C.D. Productions Ltd. is Ireland’s largest event management company, which organizes, promotes and manages; music concerts, festivals, events and theatrical shows in the UK and Ireland. MCD owns and operates a number of venues including The Olympia, The Gaiety, The Ambassador, and The Academy and also holds a 50% stake in Abrakebabra Investments. MCD Productions Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Gaiety Investments Limited and is based in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. MCD has an extensive history in promoting and organizing major events across the UK and Ireland, which include: * 250,000+ attendances at three day U2 show. * 80,000+ attendances at annual three day Oxegen, Kildare festival since 2000. * 80,000+ attendances at annual three day T In The Park, Scotland festival. * 80,000+ attendances at annual Slane Castle, Meath concert. Recent Developments April 2005- MCD Productions and Live Nation UK formed a partnership company called Hamsard Ltd. with each owning 50.1% and 49.9% respectively, acquiring The Mean Fiddler Music Group, which had interests...
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...Adam Bock Theater Appreciation Joann White 12/11/12 BATMAN LIVE WORLD TOUR Batman Live Tour The plot of this play is about Batman as most of us know is a marvel comics super hero who dresses as a bat. This story tells of how Batman had come to be. It also tells the story of how young Dick Grayson who eventually becomes Robin grows up and eventually becomes the trusted and legendary sidekick of the fearless Batman to be Batman’s trusted sidekick. After young Bruce Wayne’s parents are murdered he turns to a life of fighting crime in the city of Gotham. Along his way after Batman has been fighting crime for years battling villains such as the Joker or the Scarecrow and all the armies of low life scum they recruit to help take over Gotham he is faced with a new dilemma which commissioner Gordon ask as a personal favor to him. This being taking care of a young boy whose parents were murdered in the same manner as young Bruce Wayne’s. After taking young Dick Grayson in he soon discovers the hidden life of Mr. Bruce Wayne. In that he is in fact Batman. This excites young dick and makes him eager to help Bruce battle crime. Alfred who is Bruce’s butler and best friend thinks this would be good for Bruce and Dick as well as they both share similar childhood experiences with the murder of their parents. As Bruce and Dick bond they start to realize that they are similar and Bruce decides that Dick should harness his rage of revenge for good...
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...Maziarulhana Marcella Mazlan Professor Sassan Barkeshli CIS10 Research Project 10/3/2011 Virtual Imaging On a New Level There are two technologies that are being presented in the video clip, which is called Photosynth and Sea Dragon. Photosynth is a software application that is jointly developed by Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington, and is powered by Sea Dragon, which is an acquisition of Microsoft. Sea Dragon is created to give Photosynth the capability of zooming smoothly and in more detailed with its high-resolution digital photographs. Regardless of the size and amount of image data, end users can navigate through an image smoothly by using Sea Dragon. On the other hand, Photosynth is a technology that takes a wide variety of images and fusing the images according to similarities to generate three-dimensional models. What I was looking at on the screen in the beginning of the clip are the collective of images on Sea Dragon and its feature of being able to access photos and data either remotely or locally interactive with numerous amount of images. The only way to limit the performance system is depending on the number of pixels on the screen of every end user. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, speaker for Photosynth demo, continues to introduce a project called Photosynth that connects two different technologies, Sea Dragon and computer vision research by a graduate student of University of Washington. An example model of Notre Dame Cathedral is shown...
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...of Linux Security Modules (LSM) in the Linux kernel. It is not a Linux distribution, but rather a set of kernel modifications and user-space tools that can be added to various Linux distributions. Its architecture strives to separate enforcement of security decisions from the security policy itself and streamlines the volume of software charged with security policy enforcement. The key concepts underlying SELinux can be traced to several earlier projects by the United States National Security Agency. The United States National Security Agency (NSA), the original primary developer of SELinux, released the first version to the open source development community under the GNU GPL on December 22, 2000. The software merged into the mainline Linux kernel 2.6.0-test3, released on 8 August 2003. Other significant contributors include Network Associates, Red Hat, Secure Computing Corporation, Tresys Technology, and Trusted Computer Solutions. Experimental ports of the FLASK/TE implementation have been made available via the TrustedBSD Project for the FreeBSD and Darwin operating systems. It provides an enhanced mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common...
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...entertainment industry from the 1970’s to the mid-1980. In 1984, Atari Inc. was split, and the arcade division was turned into Atari Games Inc. Atari Games receive the rights to the original 1972-1984 arcade hardware properties, as well as the rights to use the logo and brand name with appended text “Games” on arcade games. Atari Consumer Electronic Division properties were in turn sold to Jack Tramiel’s Tramel Technology Ltd., which renames itself to Atari Corporation. On June 27, 1972 Atari, Inc. hired Al Alcorn as their first design engineer. Al Alcorn produces an arcade version of the Magnavox Odyssey’s Tennis game, which became Pong. In Japanese when a prediction comes true or when someone wins the lottery the word “Atari” is used. A project came up to design a successor to the 2600 started as soon as the system shipped. The original development team estimated that the 2600 had a lifespan of about 3 years, so they decided to build the most powerful machine they could, given that time frame. Mid-way through that time-frame, the home computer revolution was taking off, so the new machines were adapted, with the addition of a keyboard and various inputs, to produce the Atari 800, and its smaller version, the 400. Even though a variety of issues made them less attractive than the Apple 2 for some users, the new machines had some success when they became available in quantity in 1980. The Atari 5200 was released in 1982, based on the 400 and 800 models, but without a keyboard....
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...The Xbox One is a gaming console made by Microsoft, Inc. It is in the middle of its product life, 2 years old at the time of this paper. The success of the original Xbox, and Xbox 360 provided a platform for Xbox one to succeed and capture market share for competition - Sony PS3 and Nintendo. Xbox one has become a bestselling gaming console with millions of units sold around the world. Genesis: Video games were originated first in laboratories by scientists. “This first idea came from their imaginations in late 1940s but unfortunately it did not reach the people as they were confined only to laboratories. This situation was observed till early 1970s until arcade games became popular. Then later on a new start-up named “Atari” unleashed a new era in the industry. Atari introduced the first programmable home video game and the Video Computer System.” (Greco, 2002) The introduction of programmability meant that the home video game market could capitalize on the growing craze and video games became a house hold device. Adoption of video games created demand for gaming content and soon, several companies started developing new titles for gaming console. “Gaming industry started decline trend in 1980’s as low quality content flooded the market and destroyed user experience. Introduction of PC into the market soon provided an alternative to gaming devices and developers flocked to create content on PCs’ and made PC a standard in the industry. This trend continued until Nintendo...
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...RocNation Change Management ISCOM 472 12-12-2015 RocNation Change Management Roc Nation is a full-service entertainment company, inclusive of artist, songwriter, producer and engineer management; music publishing; touring & merchandising; film & television; new business ventures; and a music label (RocNation, 2015). The company has added other entities since their initial startup. Roc Nation Sports, a division of Roc Nation, launched in spring 2013 (RocNation, 2015). The organization use the supply chain to gain competitive advantage within the entertainment industry and still considering three categories of improvement such as cycle time, quality, cost concerns and developments. Cycle time measures the amount of time according to the unit using minutes and customer hours adding and subtracting one from another will not provide an average value (International Six Sigma Institute, 2015). Quality reduces variation of processes surrounding targets to include goals, objectives, mission, and organizations vision eliminating faults, failures, and satisfying customer expectations (International Six Sigma Institute, 2015). Cost basis is the term used for the tax cost of an asset. It usually starts out as the purchase price (plus commissions and fees) but "stuff" happens that can cause it to change. Things called corporate actions occur such as stock spinoffs, mergers, splits, split-offs, rights, or return of capital, all of which affect your cost basis (CostBasis...
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...Microsoft’s XBOX 365 Portable Gaming Device Marketing Plan Jason Hudson MKTG522 / Herbig 10/19/2012 1.0 Executive Summary Are you tired of playing “Angry Birds, Words with Friends, or Song Tune on your mobile phone…bored with your iPad? Are your kids fed up with beating Mario in races and his 3D worlds? Ever wanted to take the live-action first-person shooter, “Call of Duty” or “Madden” on the road and play against friends during a road trip or a long flight? Well guess what? Us…good folks here at Microsoft have been working day and night to on some monumental news!!! Microsoft’s ambitions have been nothing short of amazing and being a huge pioneer in the IT industry, dating back to its inception in the early 1980’s. Microsoft is the world’s number one leading in software development and has controlled an overwhelming share of the personal computer operating system market. Microsoft’s products, do not stop at the development of software, nor operating systems; the company supplies the world with a number and variety of different types of products, including their office software, Zune (digital music player), CRM applications, sever and storage software, and last but not least XBOX as well as, the XBOX 360 video gaming consoles. Now that we are entering 2013, XBOX has stood by idle, in the portable gaming device market as we watched Sony & Nintendo dominate their way through this particular gaming market. Well now!! Microsoft has been absence for far...
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...Official Kali Linux Documentation This PDF has been autogenerated on docs.kali.org - Aug 19, 2013 00. Introduction to Kali Linux What is Kali Linux ? Kali Linux is an advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing Linux distribution. Kali Linux Features Kali is a complete re-build of BackTrack Linux, adhering completely to Debian development standards. All-new infrastructure has been put in place, all tools were reviewed and packaged, and we use Git for our VCS. More than 300 penetration testing tools: After reviewing every tool that was included in BackTrack, we eliminated a great number of tools that either did not work or had other tools available that provided similar functionality. Free and always will be: Kali Linux, like its predecessor, is completely free and always will be. You will never, ever have to pay for Kali Linux. Open source Git tree: We are huge proponents of open source software and our development tree is available for all to see and all sources are available for those who wish to tweak and rebuild packages. FHS compliant: Kali has been developed to adhere to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, allowing all Linux users to easily locate binaries, support files, libraries, etc. Vast wireless device support: We have built Kali Linux to support as many wireless devices as we possibly can, allowing it to run properly on a wide variety of hardware and making it compatible with numerous USB and other wireless devices. Custom kernel patched for injection:...
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...SSO Trends and Security Concerns The constantly changing landscape of contemporary technology, presents many challenges. Of these challenges, maintaining the security and confidentiality many have come to expect has been the most important. The convenience and simplicity of single sign-on may offer many conveniences but it also presents many challenges. The former trend of users needing to have multiple usernames and passwords is obsolete with the implementation of technology from Microsoft .NET Passport and similarly the Liberty system for corporations. The security risks significantly vary with each trend. Although, the latest trend in single sign-on for the Internet may boast ease of use, it presents several significant security concerns for the protection of personal data. Internet users commonly browse multiple sites that may request personal information including but not limited to name, email address, username and password. Remembering and entering various credentials for every website visited can be very inconvenient for the user. A single sign-on system allowing a user to browse various websites using only one login is a convenient option compared to the alternatives that requires remembering multiple usernames and passwords. Single sign-on technology utilizes a single login at one particular site, to grant access to other sites. The single sign-on software collects all the users sign in credentials, which authenticates...
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...money and fame. Madonna had very little musical background and no contacts when she arrived in New York. However, that did not stop her. Even with this lack of training she knew that she needed to meet more people and have more exposure to get ahead. She watched and listened to current trends in music and adjusted her career to the dance music industry that was becoming popular. Madonna was a great relationship builder and motivator. She used those skills to gain more exposure which eventually led to a very successful stint with Warner Records. Madonna also realized that she needed to expand beyond music; through movies, through children’s book publishing, through a distribution deal with Warner Records, and through a contract with Live Nation. She has always managed to stay just enough in the public eye without drawing too much attention, but was very aware that when needed she could turn it on and reinvent herself. She is a brand, and the quote by the London Telegraph says it best, “What doesn’t change and hopefully never will, is Ms. Ciccone’s hypercaffeineated zeal to make the world pay attention” (“Madonna mistress of metamorphosis,” 2008). As our book points out, strategy is about winning. Madonna has shown this through a continued understanding of what it takes to be a success. Madonna whether she realized it or not, was constantly performing SWOT throughout her career. She knew her strengths; developing relationships, understanding trends. She knew her...
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...“Birch” DNS Server The Mail server will be using fedora as the OS. First step will be to install fedora on the server. After successful install there are 3 packages that need to be installed. The first package will be the bind package. Next will be the bind-utils and bind-chroot packages. After successful install of all packages we will start with adding files to the chroot directory that will be implemented for security. We will do this in anticipation if anyone hacks into the server they will be confined to that directory. To do this a copy of the named.config, named.rfc1912.zones, and the named.root.hints files will made in the /var/named/chroot/etc directory.Also copy the default zone files from/user/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named into var/named/chroot/var/named directory. In the /etc/named.config file we need to add the DNS server Birch.company.com with the ip address 206.207.208.12, mail server Cedar.company.com 206.207.208.11, and web server Aspen.company.com 206.207.208.10 to the list of servers to be added to the DMZ zone.. In the /etc/resolve.config file we need to point the DNS server to quiry the ISP DNS 82.83.84.85 for unknown names or domains. This setup will allow clients on the Corp. side to query the DMZ DNS which will in turn query the ISP DNS for any name resolution and protect the internal network from being compromised. In addition to the using chroot we will also implement SELinux as addition security. To ensure DNS will run automatically at system boot...
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...using households in the US, which found that although the number of “television households” has only risen by 1.6%,the number of game consoles in those households has risen by 18.5% in the same period of time. Moreover by the end of 2006 there were 45 million homes with the console and 148 million people had access to at least one system. The use of connected consoles-consoles that connect to the internet has grown steadily over the years to 4 million even before the introduction of PlayStation 3 and Wii in late 2006.Systems such as PlayStation 2, XBOX and XBOX 360 appear to have made connected consoles commonplace in the home and online gaming services are becoming more popular than ever, as evidenced by the success of Microsoft’s Xbox live service. In addition to this, consoles come with great benefits which include their easy setup, there are little or no sound adjustment. The patching of games is limited and rarely causes much delay for games you play more often. Furthermore, required updating for consoles is limited. Along with the fact that the popularity of consoles is rising day by day, the rise of the popularity of video games cannot be neglected. A recent report from...
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...Blockbuster vs. Netflix Introduction Blockbuster opened in 1985 and in its “first 20 years of business, the movie rental giant opened 9.100 stores in 25 countries” (Laudon, 2007, p. 121). Netflix launched in 1998 using a new business model and became Blockbusters biggest threat. The paradigm shift in the rental industry from having to travel to a store and rent a movie to being able to have a movie delivered to your mailbox changed the way people think about media entertainment. The next shift will be having the technology to download movies and shows directly to a television. Analysis Blockbuster and Netflix are using two different information system strategies. Blockbuster, which is a traditional retail store with a physical location focused on creating a market niche. It used “an automated point-of-sale system” and was able to use “these data to monitor sales and to analyze the demographics, and rental and sales patterns for each store to improve its marketing decisions” (Laudon, 2007, p. 121). Netflix came onto the scene with a completely different strategy, product differentiation. Emphasizing convenience, they created a system to allow consumers to order movies sent to their customers homes and returned on the individual’s time schedule. Netflix was able to use mass customization and give consumers an individually tailored service without increasing the needed resources. Using the Business Value Chain Model, Netflix has used information technology on almost...
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