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The presence of the Custard Factory has enticed two media training agencies to locate nearby. The old Trades Union Studies Centre, very near, is now a media and arts annexe of South Birmingham College. In 2005, the VIVID media centre has moved from the Jewellery Quarter to a site very near the Custard Factory. About 800 yards away from the Factory is the new "Progress Works" complex, opened in 2005 as part of the Custard Factory quarter, on Heath Mill Lane. Three-quarters of a mile away is BIAD, the largest British university art & design teaching and research centre outside London. ...

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Custard Factory, Custard Factory - Development, Custard Factory - Future plans, Custard Factory - Co-located media training, Custard Factory - Nearby locations

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There are seven different denominations, each having a distinctive colour and size. The design for each of them has a common theme of European architecture in various artistic periods. The front (or recto) of the note features windows or gateways while the back (or verso) has bridges. Care has been taken so that the architectural examples do not represent any actual existing monument, so as not to induce jealousy and controversy in ...

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The "paper" used for Euro banknotes is in fact 100% pure cotton fibre, which improves their durability as well as imparting a distinctive feel. The following member overseas territories are shown: the Azores, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Madeira, Martinique, Réunion, and the Canary Islands. Cyprus and Malta are not shown, as they only joined the EU in 2004; also Malta is too small to be shown, with the minimum size for depiction being 400km². ...

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Italy, Greece and Austria have asked several times to introduce lower denominations of Euro notes. The ECB has stated that "printing a €1 note is more expensive (and less durable) than minting a €1 coin". On 18 November 2004 the ECB decided definitively that there was insufficient demand across the Eurozone for very low denomination banknotes. On 25 October 2005, however, more than half of the MEPs tabled a motion calling onto the European Commission and the European Central Bank to recognise the definite need for the introduction of € ...

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For a full list see List of Croats. Nobel Prize winners Ivo Andrić - literature Vladimir Prelog - chemistry Lavoslav Ružička - chemistry Literature Miroslav Krleža - novelist Antun Gustav Matoš - poet August Šenoa - writer Marko Marulić - writer Ivan Dživo Gundulić - poet Science Ruđer Bošković - physicist and Jesuit Faus ...

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The "paper" used for Euro banknotes is in fact 100% pure cotton fibre, which improves their durability as well as imparting a distinctive feel. The following member overseas territories are shown: the Azores, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Madeira, Martinique, Réunion, and the Canary Islands. Cyprus and Malta are not shown, as they only joined the EU in 2004; also Malta is too small to be shown, with the minimum size for depiction being 400km². ...

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Euro banknotes, Euro banknotes - Denominations, Euro banknotes - Description of banknotes, Euro banknotes - Special features for the blind, Euro banknotes - Security features, Euro banknotes - Serial Number, Euro banknotes - Country letters, Euro banknotes - Printing works, Euro banknotes - Design changes and smaller Euro denominations

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Somewhat hidden on the front of the note is a second, smaller sequence where the first letter identifies the actual printer of the note. The printer code need not coincide with the country code, i.e. notes issued by a particular country may have been printed in another country (e.g. some Finnish notes have in fact been produced by a UK printer). The A, C and S codes have been reserved for printers currently not printing Euro banknotes. As from 2002, the individual national central banks (NCBs) are responsible for the production of one ...

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The notes of Luxembourg currently use the prefix belonging to the country where they were printed. Country codes are alphabetised according to the countries' names in the official language of each country, but reversed: United Kingdom Sverige Suomi Portugal Österreich [Oesterreich] Nederland Luxembourg Italia Ireland France España [Espana] Ελλάδα [Ellada] Deutschland

Main article: Demographics of Croatia The population of Croatia has been stagnating over the last decade. The 1991-1995 war in Croatia had previously displaced large parts of the population and increased emigration. The natural growth rate is minute or negative (less than +/- 1%), as the demographic transition has been completed half a century ago. Average life expectancy is approximately 7 ...

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Unlike the Euro coins, the Euro notes do not have a national side indicating where they're from. This information is instead encoded within the note's serial number. The first letter of the serial number uniquely identifies the country that issues the note. The remaining numbers (when added up and the digits of the resulting sum then added together again until a single digit remains) give a checksum also particular to that country. The W, K and J codes have been reserved for the EU member ...

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The design of euro banknotes include several characteristics suggested in cooperation with organizations representing blind persons. These characteristics aid both persons who are visually impaired (people who can see the banknotes, but cannot necessarily read the printing on them) and those who are entirely blind. Euro banknotes increase in size with increasing denominations, which helps both the visually impaired and the blind. The predominant coloring of the notes alternates between “warm” and “cool” hues in adjacent denomi ...

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Works authored by an individual, under his own name or a known pseudonym, are protected for fifty years following the individual's death. Works authored anonymously or under an unknown pseudonym are protected for fifty years following publication. Cinematographic works, as well as works authored by corporations, where the individual author or authors are unknown, are protected for seventy years following publication (or seventy years following creation, if the work is not published). Neighboring rights apply for fifty ...

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Japanese copyright law, Japanese copyright law - Author's rights, Japanese copyright law - Applicability, Japanese copyright law - Moral rights, Japanese copyright law - Economic rights, Japanese copyright law - Neighboring rights, Japanese copyright law - Performers' rights, Japanese copyright law - Phonogram producers' rights, Japanese copyright law - Broadcasters' and wire diffusers' rights, Japanese copyright law - Exceptions, Japanese copyright law - Length of protection, Japanese copyright law - Recent movement, Japanese copyright law - Copy-protected CDs, Japanese copyright law - Compensation system for digital private recording, Japanese copyright law - Downloadable tunes for mobile phones, Japanese copyright law - Right of communication to the public, Japanese copyright law - Copyright management business law, Japanese copyright law - Right of transfer of ownership, Japanese copyright law - Right of presentation

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Some people mistakenly refer to a toe loop done from the outside three turn entrance with a change of foot as a toe walley; a true toe walley takes off from a back inside edge, not an outside edge. Under International Skating Union rules, the toe loop and toe walley are considered interchangeable. Although the name of the toe loop is derived from that of the loop jump, one should not think of the toe loop as being simply a toe-assisted loop because the mechanics of the two jumps are fundamentally very different. The loop jump h ...

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The toe loop was invented in the 1920's by Bruce Mapes, an American professional show skater. Toe loops can be done as singles (one revolution is completed in the air), doubles, triples, and even quadruples. Thomas Litz was the first skater to land a triple toe loop at the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships; Kurt Browning was the first to land a quadruple toe loop at the 1988 World Championships. Today, many elite-level male skaters perform quadruple toe loops as a regular part of their repertoire, but as of yet, no female skater has been cred ...

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In the 1980s and early 1990s the writers Cost and Revs became the first to get up with their name with the new techniques that would become a new form of graffiti, i.e. Post-Graffiti (a term which comes from the French artist Stak), also known as Street Art. Street artists use media such as sticker, stencil, wheatpaste and poster, but also scratch, paint and put up installations in any urban space. They all have put up all such work illegally, but have various aims. Some fol ...

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Main article: Politics of El Salvador, Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, List of political parties in El Salvador El Salvador is a democratic republic governed by a president and an 84-member unicameral Legislative Assembly. The president is elected by universal suffrage and serves for a five year term by absolute majority vote. A second round runoff is required in the event that no candidate receives more than 50% of the first round vote. Members of the assembly (called deputies, diputados), also elected by universal ...

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Marcus argues that the real protagonist of the story is Rome itself; a Rome formed out of a Triumvirate of the people, the place, and its historical identity. The frequent referencing of maps in the mise-en-scene to maps of Rome shows how the Nazis plan to divide the city up according to the Schroeder method which enables the occupiers to maintain control. By comparison the other map is in Francesco's apartment marking centres of resistance activism: ' In diametrical opposition to Bergmann's map Francesco's aspires to unify and co-ordinate t ...

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When using analog technology, sound recordings exhibit a type of noise known as tape hiss. This is related to the particle size and texture used in the magnetic emulsion that is sprayed on the recording media, and also to the relative tape velocity across the tape heads. The first widely used audio noise reduction technique was developed by Ray Dolby in 1966. Intended for professional use, Dolby Type A was an encode/decode system in which the amplitude of frequencies in four bands was increased during recording (encoding), then decrea ...

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Noise reduction, Noise reduction - Audio noise reduction, Noise reduction - Image noise reduction, Noise reduction - Types of noise, Noise reduction - Removing image noise

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Sitney (1995) reads the film in the propagandistic light with strong justification and in the conclusion of his 15 page critique argues that:'Roberto Rossellini's film propagandises for a broad popular consensus, encompassing both the Left and the Church, predicated on an unquestioned valorising of the nuclear family, heterosexuality, and the good will of Italians. By melodramatically interweaving versions of the histories of Gullace, Negarville, and the children's Resistance groups with the biography of Don Morosini, he emphasised the centrality of Catholic ...

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The comic aspects of the film based in commedia dell'arte also portray an affectionate 'bumbling heroism' in marked contradistinction to the Teutonic model of efficiency which always seems to miss its target. The initial search for Manfredi is partially forestalled by seemingly naive old women, Don Pietro manages to hide the bomb and weapon kept by Romoletto the crippled resistance minded boy. To do this a scene of comic tension using dramatic inter-cutting ensues, where Don Pietro is found by suspicious fascists administering the last rites ...

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Graffiti often has a reputation as part of a subculture that rebels against authority, although the considerations of the practitioners often diverge and can relate to a wide range of attitudes. Some see graffiti not only as an art but also as a lifestyle. It can express a political practice and can form just one tool in an array of resistance techniques. One early example includes the political punk band Crass, who conducted a campaign of stencilling anti-war, anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist messages around the ...

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Types of graffiti, Types of graffiti - Aerosol or spray can art, Types of graffiti - Bombing, Types of graffiti - Graffiti art battles, Types of graffiti - Aerosol safety and removal, Types of graffiti - Street art and Post-Graffiti, Types of graffiti - Radical and political graffiti, Types of graffiti - Computer-generated graffiti, Types of graffiti - Online Graffiti, Types of graffiti - Other graffiti forms, Types of graffiti - Bathroom graffiti, Types of graffiti - Poster graffiti, Types of graffiti - Challenge graffiti, Types of graffiti - Drunk-shaming, Types of graffiti - Invisible graffiti, Types of graffiti - Tree graffiti, Types of graffiti - Man-made Crop circles, Types of graffiti - Airplane graffiti

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An early film example might be Dear Brigitte with Bill Mumy as a prodigious son of a professor. Although there are films with child prodigies that predate that one. A recent work showing characters who began life as child prodigies is the film The Royal Tenenbaums. A film depicting the struggles of a doting working-class mother trying to care for a child prodigy is Little Man Tate. Child prodigies are also a staple in much science fiction. Several episodes of the X-Files featured varying kinds of child prodigies; ranging from n ...

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