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Fade (audio engineering) 
 In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase (fade-in) or decrease (fade-out) in the level of an audio signal.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 The term can also be used for film cinematography or theatre lighting, in much the same way (see: fade (filmmaking)).
Fade (audio engineering) 
 A recorded song may be gradually reduced to silence at its end (fade-out), or may gradually increase from silence at the beginning (fade-in).
Fade (audio engineering) 
 For example, the songs "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve and "Turn to Stone" by Electric Light Orchestra fade in from the beginning, while the songs "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf, "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste of Honey, and "Hey Jude" by The Beatles fade out.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 However, "Born to be Wild" and "Boogie Oogie Oogie" fade out in a matter of seconds, whereas "Hey Jude" takes over 2 minutes to completely fade out. "
Fade (audio engineering) 
 Some examples of this are "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles, "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley, "Thank You" by Led Zeppelin or "Undercover of the Night" by The Rolling Stones.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 The term fade is also used in multi-speaker audio systems to describe the balancing of power between front and rear channels.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 "Neptune", part of the orchestral suite, The Planets, by Gustav Holst, was an early piece of music to have a fade-out ending.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 Holst stipulates that the women's choruses are "to be placed in an adjoining room, the door of which is to be left open until the last bar of the piece, when it is to be slowly and silently closed", and that the final bar (scored for choruses alone) is "to be repeated until the sound is lost in the distance".
Fade (audio engineering) 
 Although commonplace today, the effect bewitched audiences in the era before widespread recorded sound—after the initial 1918 run-through, Holst's daughter, Imogen (in addition to watching the charwomen dancing in the aisles during "Jupiter") remarked that the ending was "unforgettable, with its hidden chorus of women's voices growing fainter and fainter... until the imagination knew no difference between sound and silence".
Fade (audio engineering) 
 The technique of ending a spoken or musical recording by fading out the sound goes back to the earliest days of recording.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 In the era of mechanical (pre-electrical) recording, this could only be achieved by either moving the sound source away from the recording horn, or by gradually reducing the volume at which the performers were singing, playing or speaking.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 With the advent of electrical recording, smooth and controllable fadeout effects could be easily achieved by simply reducing the input volume from the microphones using the fader on the mixing desk.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 In 2003, on the (now-defunct) website Stupid Question , John Ruch listed the following recordings as possible contenders:
Fade (audio engineering) 
 A fader is any device used for fading, especially when it is a knob or button that slides along a track or slot.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 A knob which rotates is usually not considered a fader, although it is electrically and functionally equivalent.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 A fader can be either analogue, directly controlling the resistance or impedance to the source (e.g. a Potentiometer); or digital, numerically controlling a digital signal processor (DSP).
Fade (audio engineering) 
 Digital faders are also referred to as virtual faders, since they can be viewed on the screen of a digital audio workstation.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 Modern high-end digital mixers often have piezo-electric actuators attached to the faders such that they can be multi-use and will jump to the correct position for the selected function and/or saved setting.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 A crossfader on a dj mixer essentially functions like two faders connected side-by-side, but in opposite directions.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 The technique of crossfading is also used in audio engineering as a mixing technique, particularly with instrumental solos.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 A mix engineer will often record two or more takes of a vocal or instrumental part and create a final version which is a composite of the best passages of these takes by crossfading between each track.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 Many DJ equipment manufacturers offer different mixers for different purposes (e.g. scratching, beatmixing, cut mixing, etc.).
Fade (audio engineering) 
 High-end mixers often have crossfade curve switches allowing the DJ to select the type of crossfade necessary.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 If a send mix is configured pre-fader, then changes to the main channel strip fader does not affect the send mix.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 This is useful for stage monitor mixes where changes in the Front of House channel levels would distract the musicians.
Fade (audio engineering) 
 If a send mix is configured post-fader, then the level sent to the send mix follows changes to the main channel strip fader.
Centenary Medal 
 It was set up to celebrate the Centenary of Federation of Australia and to honour people who have made a contribution to Australian society or government.
Centenary Medal 
 The front of the medal has a seven-pointed Commonwealth Star, for the six Australian states, with the seventh point for Australia's territories.
Centenary Medal 
 At the centre of the star is an image showing the Indigenous Australian traditions at the heart of the continent.
Centenary Medal 
 The other side has a seven pointed star, with the words "For Contribution Made to Australian Society" around the edge.
Centenary Medal 
 The colours in the ribbon are crimson, which represents federation, and blue and gold for the beginning of the 21st Century.
Backspace 
 Backspace is the keyboard key (sometimes labeled as:  ← ) that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards, and for modern computer screens, moves the cursor one position backwards, deletes the preceding character, and shifts back the text after it by one position.
Backspace 
 In typewriters, a typist would, for example, type a lowercase letter "a" with acute accent (á) by typing a lowercase letter "a" then backspace, and then the acute accent key (also known as overstrike).
Backspace 
 This is the basis for such spacing modifiers in computer character sets such as the ASCII caret (^, for the circumflex accent).
Backspace 
 It has to some degree been replaced with the combining diacritical marks mechanism of Unicode, though such characters do not work well with many fonts, and precomposed characters continue to be used.
Backspace 
 Some software like TeX or Microsoft Windows use the opposite method for diacritical marks, namely positioning the accent first, and then placing the base letter at that position.
Backspace 
 Pressing the backspace key on a computer terminal would generate the ASCII code 08, BS or Backspace, a control code which would delete the preceding character.
Backspace 
 That control code could also be accessed by pressing Control-H, as H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet.
Backspace 
 Terminals which did not have the backspace code mapped to the function of moving the cursor backwards and deleting the preceding character would display the symbols ^H (caret, H – see Caret notation) when the backspace key was pressed.
Backspace 
 This sequence is still used humorously for epanorthosis by computer literates, denoting the deletion of a pretended blunder, much like a strikethrough.
Backspace 
 A more concise alternative sometimes seen is ^W, which is the shortcut to delete the previous word in the Berkeley Unix terminal line discipline.
Backspace 
 The backspace is distinct from the delete key, which in paper media for computers would punch out all the holes to strike out a character, and in modern computers deletes text following it.
Backspace 
 Also, the delete key often works as a generic command to remove an object (such as an image inside a document, or a file in a file manager), while backspace usually has no effect.
Backspace 
 In modern systems, the backspace key is often mapped to the delete character (0x7f in ASCII or Unicode), although the backspace key's function of deleting the character before the cursor remains.
Backspace 
 In a mainframe environment, to backspace means to move a magnetic tape backwards, typically to the previous block.
Backspace 
 The backspace key is commonly used to go back a page when exploring folders in graphical environments, or when browsing the Web in web browsers.
Backspace 
 Although the term "backspace" is the standard name of the key which deletes the character to the left of the cursor, the actual key may be labelled in a variety of ways, for example delete, Erase (for example in XO-1, One Laptop Per Child), or with a left pointing arrow.
Australian Sports Medal 
 The Australian Sports Medal was an award given during 2000 to recognise achievements in Australian sport.
Australian Sports Medal 
 Winners of the award included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, office holders, and people who maintained sporting facilities and services.
Australian Sports Medal 
 The front design symbolises Australian sport showing the stars of the Southern Cross, and lines representing the athletics track at the Australian Sports Stadium.
Australian Sports Medal 
 The other side has the same lines as the front, and the words ‘to commemorate Australian sporting achievement’ appearing in the raised edge of the medal.
Marin Mersenne 
 Marin Mersenne, (born 8 September 1588, in modern-day Sarthe, died 1 September 1648, in Paris) was a French theologian and mathematician.
Marin Mersenne 
 This is especially true for mathematicians such as Pierre Gassendi, Gilles Personne de Roberval, Blaise Pascal und Pierre de Fermat.
Land Transport Authority 
 The Land Transport Authority (Abbreviation: LTA; Chinese: 陆路交通管理局 (shortform: 陆交局); Malay: Penguasa Pengangkutan Darat; ) of Singapore is a statutory board of the Ministry of Transport.
Land Transport Authority 
 It was founded in 1 September 1995, by merging four agencies, which are Registry of Vehicles, Mass Rapid Transit Corporation, Roads & Transportation Division of the Public Works Department of Singapore and Land Transport Division of the then-Ministry of Communications.
Usage share of web browsers 
 For example, when it is said that Internet Explorer has 7% usage share (April 2018), it means that some version of Internet Explorer is used by nearly 7 of every 100 visitors who visit a given set of websites.
Usage share of web browsers 
 It can be misleading to measure the browser usage in the number of requests (page hits) made by each user agent.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Not all requests are generated by a user, as a user agent can make requests at regular time intervals without user input.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Link prefetching in Gecko-based browsers is used on pages with enhanced markup, including Google search results.
Usage share of web browsers 
 A user who revisits a site shortly after changing or upgrading browsers may be double-counted under some methodologies; overall numbers at the time of a new version's release may be skewed.
Usage share of web browsers 
 This is done to trick attack sites that might display clean content to the scanner, but not to the browser.
Usage share of web browsers 
 The Register reported in June 2008 that traffic from AVG Linkscanner, using an IE6 user-agent, outstripped human link clicks by nearly 10 to 1.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Many types of software, such as Web validators or crawlers, fetch web pages, and send fictitious user-agent strings to appear more like normal traffic.
Usage share of web browsers 
 This generates hits to those sites on browser start or at times on launch of a new tab, in order to update the thumbnail images.
Usage share of web browsers 
 A graphical browser typically results in more hits than a text browser, as it downloads files referred to by the HTML document (e.g., images, CSS, and JavaScript).
Usage share of web browsers 
 Many browsers and download managers spoof a different user agent string to the web server to prevent erroneous or malicious browser sniffing which could result in receiving broken or incompatible code, or being completely blocked, and thus increasing the statistics for other browsers (as an example, prior to version 9, the Opera web browser had "Identify as Internet Explorer" as the default user setting).
Usage share of web browsers 
 Sometimes you can detect these spoofing browsers based on other things but some people do not do it. (
Usage share of web browsers 
 An example is Internet Explorer Mobile which ships in Windows Mobile 6.1.4 and 6.5 with the default user agent string as IE6 Windows XP.
Usage share of web browsers 
 JavaScript is only executed on pageload from net or disk cache, but not if it is loaded from DOM cache.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Some browser extensions and security programs (such as the popular Firefox extension NoScript) block JavaScript, Adobe Flash, Applets and some forms of HTML (HTML blocked through ClearClick) for non-whitelisted sites.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Many browsers accessing a site via one proxy are apt to be counted as only one access if the proxy caches the result; it is usual for browsers on mobile phones in particular to access the web via proxies (many of which violate HTTP's specifications for proxies; even if a web bug is designed to work despite proxying, the proxies run by mobile operators may well mislead it).
Usage share of web browsers 
 While most browsers generate additional page hits by refreshing web pages when user navigates back through page history, some browsers (such as Opera) reuse cached content without resending requests to the server.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Generally, the more faithfully a browser implements HTTP's cache specifications, the more it will be under-reported relative to browsers that implement those specifications poorly.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Netapplications bases its usage share mainly on the usage statistics of 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors.
Usage share of web browsers 
 On 2009-08-01, Net Applications began weighting its raw data based on the number of internet users in the countries concerned, using data from the CIA ; the changes were applied retroactively to older data.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Statcounter statistics are directly derived from hits (not unique visitors) from 3 million sites using Statcounter totalling more than 15 billion hits per month.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Wikimedia squid reports are based on server logs of about 4 billion page requests per month, based on the user agent information that accompanied the requests.
Usage share of web browsers 
 These server logs cover requests to the following Wikimedia Foundation projects: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity and others.
Usage share of web browsers 
 TheCounter.com identifies sixteen versions of six browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, and Konqueror).
Usage share of web browsers 
 Other browsers are categorised as either ‘Netscape compatible’ (including Google Chrome, which may also be categorized as 'Safari' due to its 'Webkit' subtag) or ‘unknown’.
Usage share of web browsers 
 More than the exact browser type, this data identifies the underlying web rendering engine used by various browsers, and the table below aggregates them in the same column.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Methodology: Only counts visits to local sites in 23 European countries and then averages the percentages for those 23 European countries independent of population size.
Usage share of web browsers 
 Chuck Upsdell's Browser Stats lists web stats from many different stats sources and gives the approximate current usage share of the most popular layout engines.
Usage share of web browsers 
 W3Schools' Browser Statistics lists the web stats only from the W3 Schools site, which gives the approximate usage share of browsers among "people with an interest for web technologies."
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The piece is written for an unusual combination of four instruments: clarinet (in B-flat), violin, cello, and piano.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 While being taken to the prisoner of war camp, Messiaen talked to another prisoner, Henri Akoka, who was a clarinettist.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 Two other professional musicians were also among the prisoners: Jean le Boulaire, a violinist and Étienne Pasquier, a cellist.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The combination of these four instruments is unusual,  although Paul Hindemith had written a work for the same combination in 1938.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The quartet was given its first performance in Görlitz, Germany (now called  Zgorzelec in Poland) on 15 January 1941.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 Messiaen was inspired by the words in the Bible where the angel says “There shall be time no longer”.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 These words have another meaning in relation to the music, because Messiaen does not write music with a regular number of beats in a bar.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 Messiaen had heard enough of soldiers marching to a regular one-two-three-four-one-two-three-four during the war.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The first movement is called “Liturgie de cristal” (“Chyrstal liturgy”) and describes the birds waking up.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The third movement is called “Abîme des oiseaux” (“Abyss of birds”) and is just played by the clarinet.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The fourth movement is “Intermède”  (“Interlude”) and is played by the violin, cello, and clarinet.).
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The sixth movement is called “Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes“ (“Dance of the Fury, for the seven trumpets”), played on all four instruments.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The seventh movement is called “Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps" (“Tangle of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of time”),  played by the full quartet.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 The eighth movement is “Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus" (“Praise to the immortality of Jesus"), for violin and piano.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 In the long preface at the front of the score Messiaen writes a short introduction to the music theory theory of his music.
Quatour pour la fin du temps 
 However, at the end, he says that it is not necessary to read all about his theory in order to perform the piece.
National parks of New Zealand 
 The national parks of New Zealand are 14 protected areas that are looked after by the Department of Conservation "for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the public".
National parks of New Zealand 
 These are popular among tourists, with 30% of tourists visiting at least one national park during their stay in New Zealand.
National parks of New Zealand 
 While the national parks contain some of New Zealand's most beautiful scenery, the first few that were created were all focused on mountains.
National parks of New Zealand 
 Since the 1980s more different kinds of New Zealand landscapes have been included in the national parks.
National parks of New Zealand 
 New Zealand's national parks are all important to preserve both nature and culture, and some are also historically important.
National parks of New Zealand 
 Tongariro National Park is one of 27 World Heritage Sites that is of both cultural and natural significance, and four of the South Island national parks form Te Wahipounamu, another World Heritage Site.
National parks of New Zealand 
 The National Parks Act of 1980 was written to record what national parks are for, and how they would be chosen and looked after.
National parks of New Zealand 
 The National Parks Act goes on to say that the public will be allowed to enter and use the parks freely, but with rules to avoid destroying the native plants and animals or the parks.
National parks of New Zealand 
 Access to specially protected areas (550 km²) as noted under the act is only allowed with special permits.
National parks of New Zealand 
 National parks are soil, water and forest conservation areas, and should be kept as natural as possible.
National parks of New Zealand 
 Native plants and animals are to be looked after and other plants and animals removed if they harm the natural wildlife.
National parks of New Zealand 
 Development in what the act calls "wilderness areas" is only foot tracks and huts used for wild animal control or scientific research.
National parks of New Zealand 
 The Act allows the Department of Conservation to provide hostels, huts, camping grounds, ski tows and other services, parking areas, roading and tracks within the parks.
National parks of New Zealand 
 As well as these, the department also provides some accommodation, transport and other services at entry points to the parks, but these are also offered by others.
National parks of New Zealand 
 Other services within the parks, such as guided walks and skiing tutorials, are provided by other companies, sometimes with help from the department.
National parks of New Zealand 
 The area around Waipoua Forest, north of Dargaville, was suggested to become a new Kauri National Park.
National parks of New Zealand 
 The area contains most of New Zealand's remaining kauri, including the largest known kauri, Tāne Mahuta.
National parks of New Zealand 
 These stands of kauri are also important because they are homes for many endangered species including the North Island brown kiwi.
National parks of New Zealand 
 In 2010 the New Zealand Government proposed removing some national park and conservation areas from Schedule 4 protection of the Crown Minerals Act which means that mining is not allowed in those areas.
National parks of New Zealand 
 In July the government decided against the proposal after receiving a large number of submissions, most of which were against mining.
Plumbaginaceae 
 Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants are about 560 species in 10 genera found all over the world.
Plumbaginaceae 
 They are generally grown for garden decoration or as cut flowers, either fresh or dried, and medicinal extracts are obtained from some species.
Polygonaceae 
 Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants are herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees comprising about 30 genera and 1,000 species.
Polygonaceae 
 Some well known members include buckwheat (Fagopyrum), sorrel (Rumex), rhubarb (Rheum), and knotweed (Polygonum).
Rudy Rucker 
 Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and philosopher.
Rudy Rucker 
 He got a grant (money to support scholarship) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, so he went to teach math at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980.
Rudy Rucker 
 Inspired by an interview with Stephen Wolfram, Rucker became a computer science professor at San José State University in 1986.
Rudy Rucker 
 He has written books connecting these two areas, for example: The Fourth Dimension; Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension; and Infinity and the Mind.
Rudy Rucker 
 Princeton University Press published new editions of Infinity and the Mind in 1995 and in 2005, both with new prefaces; the first edition is cited with fair frequency in academic literature.
Rudy Rucker 
 It is science fiction based on the author's own life and immediate perceptions, mixed with fantastic elements that symbolize psychological change.
Rudy Rucker 
 One example of Rucker's Transrealist works is Saucer Wisdom, a novel in which the main character is abducted by aliens.