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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pigment is a 3D scene graph library designed to easily create rich application user interfaces. Pigment uses OpenGL for rendering, and supports OpenGL 1.2 to 2.1 and OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 plugins. Embedding of images and video utilizes GdkPixbuf and GStreamer, with fast video playback via hardware scaling and colour space conversion. Other features include asynchronous image loading, thread-safety, Gtk integration via a custom widget, and fully supported Python bindings.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacific is a town in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,518 at the 2000 census.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bennett (DD-473), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the U.S. Navy that was named for the naval aviator Floyd Bennett (1890–1928), who flew towards the North Pole with Richard E. Byrd in 1926, but did not make it there.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMCS Curlew was a commissioned minesweeper of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) that served in the First World War. Built as a fisheries patrol vessel for the Department of Marine and Fisheries, Curlew served on the East Coast. Along with sister ships CGS Constance and CGS Petrel, Curlew was fitted with mine sweeping gear in 1912. Both vessels were taken into naval service after the outbreak of war in 1914, and were used for patrol or examination duties. Curlew was sold in 1921.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Blanche was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was ordered towards the end of the American War of Independence, but only briefly saw service before the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793. She enjoyed a number of successful cruises against privateers in the West Indies, before coming under the command of Captain Robert Faulknor. He took the Blanche into battle against a superior opponent and after a hard-fought battle, forced the surrender of the French frigate Pique. Faulknor was among those killed on the Blanche. She subsequently served in the Mediterranean, where she had the misfortune of forcing a large Spanish frigate to surrender, but was...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the field of computer network administration, pcap (packet capture) consists of an application programming interface (API) for capturing network traffic. Unix-like systems implement pcap in the libpcap library; Windows uses a port of libpcap known as WinPcap.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Off*beat is an original English-language manga authored by Jennifer Lee Quick, first released September 13, 2005. It is both licensed and published by Tokyopop. The style of its writing and illustration is heavily influenced by urban culture and the fantasy genre. While critical reception to Off Beat has been largely positive, with praise from sources like ForeWord Magazine, it has received some negative criticism for being a stylistic oddity among Japanese manga and OEL manga.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Off Armageddon Reef is a science fiction novel written by David Weber and published by Tor Books. It is the first book in the open-ended Safehold series. It follows a group of humans who have settled a planet they name Safehold, far from the reach of an alien race known as the Gbaba which is bent on destroying all humans wherever they are found. While all other human colonies have been destroyed this one was saved by trickery. Over 800 years after the humans land on Safehold an android, Nimue, with the personality of one of the starship officers who helped found the world is revived and discovers that the technology level of the colony has been reset to a primitive level. A disagreement between...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tokyo Journal is an English-language magazine about Tokyo and Japan, which was started in 1981. Its first editor-in-chief was Don Morton, who later became the movie reviewer for Metropolis.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xenomyxa is a genus of fungi in the Ascomycota phylum. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Xenomyxa disseminata.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Goldreich (1929–24 May 2011) was a South African-Israeli abstract painter and a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement in the country of his birth.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CGS Margaret was a Canadian Government Ship, and was the first vessel to be built specifically for the Customs Preventive Service. Delivered in 1914, she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and served as HMCS Margaret during World War I. Following the war, Margaret was returned to the Customs Preventive Service, and was transferred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1932. Sold shortly thereafter, she was subsequently acquired by the Brazilian Navy and renamed Rio Branco.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Praat (also the Dutch word for "talk") is a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics. It has been designed and continuously developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various Unix versions, Mac and Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP, Vista). The program also supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Coast Professional Football League (PCPFL), also known as the Pacific Coast Football League (PCFL) and Pacific Coast League (PCL) was a professional American football league based in California, USA, and competed from 1940 through 1948 in sports. One of the few American professional sports leagues that competed in the years of World War II, the PCPFL was regarded as a minor league of the highest level, particularly in 1940-1945, at a time in which the major National Football League did not extend further west than Chicago and Green Bay. It was also the first professional football league to have a team based in Hawaii (the Hawaiian Warriors).

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yeoh Kean Thai (born 1966) is an artist from Malaysia.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Velvel Pasternak is a musicologist, conductor, arranger, producer, and publisher specializing in Jewish music. In 1981 he was described as "an expert on the music of the Hasidic sect and probably the largest publisher of Jewish music anywhere, although he is quick to note that publishing Jewish music is a business that attracts few rivals."

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America late at night and features "the Good, the Bad, the Foreign..." but mostly cult movies like Night of the Living Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and even more art house fare like The Third Man in a format not unlike the Creature Double Feature of the 1970s and 1980s. It originates from WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMCS Malaspina was a Canadian government fisheries patrol vessel pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1917 and again in 1939 and which therefore saw service during the First World War and Second World War.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Panorama Tools (also known as PanoTools) are a suite of programs and libraries originally written by the German physics and mathematics professor Helmut Dersch. Panorama Tools provides a powerful framework for re-projecting and blending multiple source images into immersive panoramics of many types. An updated version of the Panorama Tools library serves as the underlying core engine for many software panorama GUI front-ends.