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This year
Shinichido - Kendo and Iaido in Crawley - Iaido
by Takwann
(via)
The origin of the forms of Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Seitei Kata started in 1967 when it was realised that the majority of modern Kendo practitioners in the ZNKR had little or no experience of the techniques of using a real or live sword. And had realised that Kendo had become the way of the shinia . A committee was set up, comprising of the following members (...).
Rapa Nui National Park
by innipukinn
(via)
The resource requirements in manpower and services in the Park include additional ranger
personnel and their training, the creation of a documentation centre on the island itself, and improvement of
signage and visitor facilities. The new management plan currently being prepared with the active support of the
world Monuments Fund will make a substantial contribution to the improvement of the present situation, it is
recommended that this should be submitted to the world Heritage Committee for comment by the secretariat
and by ICOMOS as soon as it is completed.
McGill University Archives > History and Archives Committee of the JCCCM Collection
by karlcow
History and Archives Committee of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (JCCCM)
Airedalerescue.net
by jallatte
The mission of the Rescue Committee is to facilitate the rescue, fostering and careful placement of lost, abandoned, abused or unwanted purebred Airedale Terriers…
Bryan Clark » Blog Archive » Design by Committee
by greut
(via)
Decisions vs. Choices
The difference between choices and decisions is subtle , some of it has to do with the quality of your ingredients and some of it has to do with compromise at the wrong stage of development. Is the process all that matters? A process that is used to constantly create new possible options and choose from those instead of making Frankenstein out of the options given? The design process will constantly emphasize the goal in the iteration of options leading to a choice. I don’t think that definition clear, but it’s the best we came up with.
hackers and painters
Bouncing Red Ball » 6 Winners of the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division
by sbrothier
The Media Arts Festival Executive Committee, composed of people from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, the National Art Center and CG-ARTS Association, has announced the winners of the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival. 2,091 works from 43 countries and regions were evaluated to come up with winners in Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. Here are 6 worthy winners in the Entertainment Division.
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2008
Welcome to the Shared Digital Future | www.hathitrust.org
by parmentierf
(via)
As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (pronounced hah-TEE) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions.
HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Partnership is open to all who share this grand vision.
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2008: Best of the Web Nominations
by sbrothier
Recognizing achievement in heritage Web site design, a committee of museum professionals selects the Best of the Web each year.
t r u t h o u t | Citing Privilege Bush Again Snubs Waxman
by soul1383
The Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee, escalating a fight over the White House role in U.S. policy on greenhouse-gas emissions and ozone air quality s
IATE - IATE: recherche par requête
by pooky_a
IATE (= “Inter-Active Terminology for Europe”) is the EU inter-institutional terminology database. IATE has been used in the EU institutions and agencies since summer 2004 for the collection, dissemination and shared management of EU-specific terminology. The project partners are:
§ European Commission
§ Parliament
§ Council
§ Court of Justice
§ Court of Auditors
§ Economic & Social Committee
§ Committee of the Regions
§ European Central Bank
§ European Investment Bank
§ Translation Centre for the Bodies of the EU
[...]
UNICEF Japan challenges child porn with online petition | The Japan Times Online
by karlcow
The Japan Committee for UNICEF said Tuesday it has launched a petition drive on its Web site to push the government into taking stronger action against child pornography.
東京ONLYPIC2008
by oqdbpo
オンリーピック（OnlyPic)とは、 国際オンリーピック委員会 (IOPC：International OnlyPic Committee) が開催する、 21世紀の新しいスポーツ大会です。
OnlyPicはOnly Pictures （他にない唯一の競技映像）の略で、
世界の個性的なクリエイター達により「想像」され「創造」された、唯一無二のスポーツ競技大会を目指します。
スキージャンプ・ペア競技の生みの親でもある、真島理一郎によって提唱され、
それに賛同したクリエイター達により、生み出された新スポーツを、一般に「オンリーピック競技」と呼びます。
「No.1にならなくてもいい。オンリー１のスポーツ大会になればいい」という、
どこかで聞いたスローガンの下、個性的で、新しいスポーツの楽しみ方を提案するエンターテイメントイベントです。
プロのみならずアマチュアや一般の方々に広く門戸を開き、単に競技を見るだけではなく、
積極的に参加して（誰もが競技を創って）楽しむという特徴を持つ新しい時代のスポーツ大会です。
Democracy Now! | Ralph Nader Launches Presidential Exploratory Committee to Mull '08 Run
by ravi
The same day John Edwards exited the race, longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader launched a presidential exploratory committee to decide whether to run as an independent candidate.
Telco immunity stalled: Senate blocks key vote
by ravi
The increasingly tangled debate over federal surveillance powers reached a new milestone today when a Republican cloture motion failed to pass after receiving only 48 of the required 60 votes. If the cloture motion had passed, it would have blocked all further attempts to remove controversial telecom immunity provisions from a Senate intelligence committee surveillance bill by forcing an immediate vote on the bill itself.
2007
Apache UIMA - Apache UIMA
by ogrisel
& 1 other
(via)
Unstructured Information Management applications are software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user. UIMA is a framework and SDK for developing such applications. An example UIM application might ingest plain text and identify entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or relations, such as works-for or located-at. UIMA enables such an application to be decomposed into components, for example "language identification" -> "language specific segmentation" -> "sentence boundary detection" -> "entity detection (person/place names etc.)". Each component must implement interfaces defined by the framework and must provide self-describing metadata via XML descriptor files. The framework manages these components and the data flow between them. Components are written in Java or C ; the data that flows between components is designed for efficient mapping between these languages. UIMA additionally provides capabilities to wrap components as network services, and can scale to very large volumes by replicating processing pipelines over a cluster of networked nodes.
Apache UIMA is an Apache-licensed open source implementation of the UIMA specification (that specification is, in turn, being developed concurrently by a technical committee within OASIS , a standards organization). We invite and encourage you to participate in both the implementation and specification efforts.
Inter-Locale: Software Globalization, Régionalisation
by pvergain
Is your software ready for the world? This site is about internationalization and localization; the processes and designs you need to make "globalized software". The content, demos, and links here come from the experiences and problems faced by Addison Phillips, a Globalization Architect at Yahoo!.
Addison has been the chair of the W3C Internationalization Core Working Group. He is also a member of the Internationalization and Unicode Conference Review Board and Advisory Committee.
Voir: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalisation
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