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Omid (name)
Omid ( fa, اُمید), also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit ( Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian male given name, meaning ''hope''. Given name * Omid Abolhassani, Iranian football player banned for four years * Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor * Omid Djalili, Iranian-British stand up comedian and actor * Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer * Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive * Omid Memarian, Iranian journalist and social activist * Omid Namazi, Iranian-American soccer player * Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician * Omid Rahimi, American anatomist * Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer * Omid Safi, American religion academic * Omid Tahvili, Iranian-Canadian criminal * Omid Walizadeh, American underground hip hop producer Surname * Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author * Pierre Omidyar, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of eBay Other uses *Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009 * "Omid", an elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ümit
Ümit is a unisex Turkish given name and occasional surname, meaning “hope”, originated from the Persian name, Omid. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Ümit Aydın (born 1980), Turkish footballer * Ümit Haluk Bayülken (1921–2007), Turkish diplomat and politician * Ümit Davala (born 1973), Turkish football coach * Ümit Kaftancıoğlu (1935–1980), Turkish TV producer * Ümit Karan (born 1976), Turkish football player * Ümit Korkmaz (born 1985), Austrian footballer of Turkish descent * Ümit Kurt (born 1991), Turkish footballer * Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan (1926–1984), Turkish poet * Ümit Özdağ (born 1961), Turkish politician * Ümit Sonkol (born 1982), Turkish basketball player * Ümit Şamiloğlu (born 1980), Turkish artistic gymnast Surname *Ahmet Ümit (born 1960), Turkish author and poet *Tarık Ümit Tarık Ümit (22 April 1947 in Düzce – 3 March 1995 in Marmaris) was a Turkish intelligence official in the National Intelligence Organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Safi
Omid Safi is a Sufi and Iranian-American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He served as the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center from July 2014 to June 2019 and was a columnist for ''On Being''. Safi specializes in Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history. He has served on the board of the Pluralism project at Harvard University and served as the co-chair of the steering committee for the Study of Islam and the Islamic Mysticism Group at the American Academy of Religion. Before joining Duke University, Safi was a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Before this, he was on faculty at Colgate University as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion from 1999-2004. Life and work Omid Safi was born in Jacksonville, Florida and is of Iranian descent. He was raised in Iran and migrated from Tehran to the United States with his family in 1985. Safi is a leader of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apache HBase
HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) or Alluxio, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop. That is, it provides a fault-tolerant way of storing large quantities of sparse data (small amounts of information caught within a large collection of empty or unimportant data, such as finding the 50 largest items in a group of 2 billion records, or finding the non-zero items representing less than 0.1% of a huge collection). HBase features compression, in-memory operation, and Bloom filters on a per-column basis as outlined in the original Bigtable paper. Tables in HBase can serve as the input and output for MapReduce jobs run in Hadoop, and may be accessed through the Java API but also through REST, Avro or Thrift gateway APIs. HBase is a wide-column store and has been w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Richest Man In Babylon (album)
''The Richest Man in Babylon'' is the third studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation. It was first released on September 30, 2002 in Belgium and on October 1, 2002 in the United States by ESL Music. The album features contributions from Emiliana Torrini, LouLou, Pam Bricker, and Notch, and features both electronic and live instrumentation. The album combines influences such as dub, jazz, dance music, rap, reggae, and Indian music, and incorporates protest music into the group's sound. A remix/dub version of the album was released in 2004 titled Babylon Rewound featuring the unreleased track "Truth And Rights". Reception The critical reception was mixed. BBC's Collective magazine said that "This, their third 'proper' album, is certainly their most complete work to date, and arguably the first to be presented as one complete, cohesive whole. .. Tis ranks as Thievery Corporation's finest yet." AllMusic's John Bush felt that the album "doesn't have the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thievery Corporation
Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton. Their musical style mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern music, hip hop and Brazilian music, including bossa nova. History Thievery Corporation was formed in the summer of 1995 at Washington D.C.'s Eighteenth Street Lounge. Rob Garza and Lounge co-owner Eric Hilton were drawn together over their mutual love of club life, as well as dub, bossa nova and jazz records. They decided to see what would come of mixing all these in a recording studio, and from this, in 1996 the duo started their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. The duo drew attention with their first two 12-inch offerings, "Shaolin Satellite" and "2001: a Spliff Odyssey", and with their 1996 debut LP, '' Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi''. In 2001, they released ''Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi'', a "best of" compilation of 1960s–1970s material of Verve Records that incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid
''Omid'' ( fa, امید, meaning "Hope") was Iran's first domestically made satellite. Omid was a data-processing satellite for research and telecommunications; Iran's state television reported that it was successfully launched on 2 February 2009. After being launched by an Iranian-made carrier rocket, Safir 1, the satellite was placed into a low Earth orbit. The launch, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and was supervised by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was also verified by NASA the following day as a success. Its Satellite Catalog Number or USSPACECOM object number is 33506. Ahmadinejad said the satellite was launched to spread "monotheism, peace and justice" in the world. The ''Tehran Times'' reported that "Iran has said it wants to put its own satellites into orbit to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation and improve its telecommunications." Foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the satellite was launched to "meet th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EBay
eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. eBay is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 32 countries, as of 2019. The company manages the eBay website, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide. The website is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for listing items after a limited number of free listings, and an additional or separate fee when those items are sold. In addition to eBay's original auction-style sales, the website has evolved and expanded to include: instant "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by Universal Product Code, ISBN, or other kind of SKU number (via Half.com, which was shut down in 2017); and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004. ''Forbes'' ranked Omidyar as the 24th-richest person in the world in 2021, with an estimated net worth of $21.8 billion. Since 2010, Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service ''Honolulu Civil Beat''. In 2013, he announced that he would create and finance First Look Media, a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill. Early life and education Omidyar was born in Paris, the son of Iranian parents who had immigrated to France for higher education. He was named Parviz. His mother, Elahé Mir-Djalali Omidyar, who earned her doctorate in linguistics at the Sor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghazal Omid
Ghazal Omid (Persian ) is an Iranian-Canadian author. She wrote an autobiographical work entitled ''Living in Hell: A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces''. She is known in the United States as an advocate for human rights and women's rights and is also a Shi'a legal scholar. Personal life Omid was born in Abadan, Iran. Her father was a multi-millionaire who abandoned the family and sought refuge in the United States when she was a child. She grew up in Isfahan and was 8 years old when the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Omid is a practicing Muslim and has made the religious pilgrimage to Mecca. In 1995, she fled Iran and moved to Canada. In 2008, she moved to Washington DC. Activism Omid's autobiography, ''Living in Hell'', is critical of Iran and the human rights abuses occurring there. Because of this, her book's website has been the focus of online abuse and threats from computer users in Iran, Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Walizadeh
Omid Walizadeh, also known as Omid or OD, is a hip hop producer based in Long Beach, California. He has produced tracks for the likes of Freestyle Fellowship, Busdriver, 2Mex, Subtitle, and Awol One. History Omid Walizadeh graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor's degree in recording arts. He has produced tracks since 1992. Inspired by the underground hip hop movement at the Good Life Cafe in the early 1990s, he released a collaborative album, ''Beneath the Surface'', in 1998. It featured over 30 rappers, mainly from Los Angeles. His solo debut album, ''Distant Drummer'', was released on Beneath the Surface in 2002. It was inspired by Dan Simmons' novel '' Hyperion'', the music of Sun Ra, among other things. In 2003, he released the album, ''Monolith'', on Mush Records. It featured contributions from the likes of Abstract Rude, 2Mex, Buck 65, Luckyiam, Aceyalone, Murs, and Slug. The title comes from Arthur C. Clarke's novel '' 2010: Odyssey Two''. In 2007, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Tahvili
Omid Tahvili ( fa, امید تحویلی; born on 31 October 1970, in Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian-Canadian sexual offender and kingpin of an organized crime family in Canada which is connected to various international crime organizations. In April 2008, Forbes.com, after consulting with law enforcement agencies around the world, listed him as one of the world's ten most wanted fugitives. Criminal activities Drugs According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Tahvili came to Canada from Iran in 1994. In November 2000, he was arrested with his brother-in-law for possession of of cocaine, in a joint operation between the Vancouver Police and the RCMP. Tahvili was found not guilty. By 2003, the RCMP recognized Tahvili as heading up one of the main criminal organizations operating out of an Iranian community in Canada. At that time, dozens of Iranian expatriates were working under him. Fraud From 1999 to 2002, he ran a fraudulent telemarketing business that targeted p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
