Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.

Its economy is primarily based on the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, media corporations, and convention venues.

Its major functions include facilitating trade negotiations and handling trade related matters, inter-government relations with foreign governments ; the promoting of investment in Hong Kong ; and liaising with the media and business community.

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

Its various media properties reach about 360 million people monthly.

Its success led to a wide range of media productions associated with the magazine's brand name.

Its verb form, " to stream ", refers to the process of delivering media in this manner ; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.

Its significance lies in providing a proof of concept that the project can actually integrate and deliver software, artwork and media, as well as maintain a community capable of creativity and innovation.

Its media were incompatible with standard audio MiniDiscs, which has been cited as one of the main reasons behind the format's failure.

Its absorbency makes it work with all painting media, including water-based media, different types of tempera, and oil paint.

Its MIME media type, application / rdf + xml, was registered by RFC 3870.

Its cultural impact was therefore significant since many Canadians had little or no choice for their information and entertainment other than from these two powerful media.

Its predecessor was Communication Studies in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and its establishment of coincides with the development of media increasingly influencing world affairs in a time of fast-growing globalization.

Its members are closely watched by both the national media as well as political watchers abroad.

Its most known products include the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server.

Its professional use today is very limited in German and spacing is only still used as a means of emphasis in typographic media where only one ( monospaced ) font is available, e. g. in typewritten communication or on text-only computer terminals.

Its small QWERTY keyboard has backlit buttons, and additional input devices are provided in the form of a trackpad and thumbstick located above the keyboard, a scrollwheel and media navigation buttons on the right side of the unit.

Its native format is the DGN format, though it can also read and write a variety of standard CAD formats including DWG and DXF and produce media output in such forms as rendered images ( JPEG and BMP ), animations ( AVI ), 3D web pages in Virtual Reality Modeling Language ( VRML ), and Adobe Systems PDF.

Its software includes user applications such as Ekiga ( a voice-over-IP and videoconferencing application ), GIMP ( a raster graphics editor ), Gnash ( a free Adobe Flash player ), gThumb ( an image viewer ), the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail and news client, the OpenOffice. org productivity suite, Pidgin ( an instant messaging and IRC client ), the Rhythmbox music player, and the Noatun and Totem media players.

Its Chart Dozen ( Чартова дюжина ) is the main rock chart in Russia, and its Nashestvie rock festival attracts around 100, 000 fans annually and was dubbed " Russian Woodstock " by the media.

Its alleged influence among the military and in national politics has attracted attention from the media.

Its mission, in its own words, is to provide " a contrast to Cuban media and provide its listeners with an uncensored view of current events.

Its forehead has a marking which resembles the Chinese character 王, which means " king "; consequently, many cartoon depictions of tigers in China and Korea are drawn with 王 on their forehead.

Its opening march, " The Entry of the Little Fauns ", first attracted Disney to the piece which at first provided suitable depictions of fauns he wanted.

Its books are marketed to a sophisticated audience, and may contain graphic violence, substance abuse, frank ( but not explicit ) depictions of sexuality, profanity, and controversial subjects.

Its nature and its works ) and Kunst und Rasse ( Art and Race ), the latter published in 1928, in which he argued that only racially pure artists could produce a healthy art which upheld timeless ideals of classical beauty, while racially mixed modern artists produced disordered artworks and monstrous depictions of the human form.

Its name reflects its similarity to classical depictions of Gautama Buddha, seated in a meditation pose with a forehead mark ( tikka ) and traditional topknot ( ushnisha ).

Its modern name is based on the figural depictions in red colour on a black background, in contrast to the preceding black-figure style with black figures on a red background.

Its myriad depictions of different people interacting with one another reveals the nuances of class structure and the many hardships of urban life as well.

Its illustrations by Stanley L. Wood have proved more significant, providing the first depictions of slender, super intelligent aliens with large, bald heads — the archetype of the famous Greys of modern science fiction.

Its note is a repeated " keek ", loud for so small a bird, and its vibrating rattle can with experience be distinguished from that of the larger species.

Its call is unique, loud and sounds like a " whooping kuk-kuk-cow-cow-cow-cowp-cowp.

Its song is a high pitched medley of whistles ; the call is piercing, often disyllabic " tseeweest ", strikingly loud for the bird's small size.

Its song is a short repetition of a loud disyllabic chir-ree chir-ree.

Its drumming can be very loud, often sounding like someone striking a tree with a hammer.

Its song is a loud swee swee chit chit weedleoo, and its call is a hard chink.

Its song is a series of descending notes typically in a loud, rapid series of chatter-like tones.

Its striking appearance is supplemented by its noisy nature, with a loud did-he-do-it call.

Its striking appearance is supplemented by its noisy nature, with a loud and scolding did-he-do-it call, often uttered at night.

Its flight call is a loud seeep.

Its song is a succession of loud creaks and squawks, lower in pitch than other Hippolais warblers, and slower in delivery.

Its calls are described as a deep tu-hoo-hoo or a soft huphuphuphuphuphup or a loud huhuhuhuhuhuhu.

Its original title was " Confessions in Thirteen Books ", and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit.

Its nature as an ill-omen is alluded to in the fourth book of John Keats ' " Endymion ": "... within ye hear / No sound so loud as when on curtain'd bier / The death-watch tick is stifled.

Its calls is one or several coarse bellows and loud growls, which may be weaker versions of the bellow.

Its English name comes from its loud voice, as does the specific name cachinnans, Latin for " laughing aloud " or " laughing immoderately ".

Its call is two-syllabled, harsh and loud.

Its loud and repetitive pulses in the middle of the shortwave radio bands led to it being known as the Russian Woodpecker by amateur radio ( ham ) operators.

Its song consists of loud, high-pitches whistles, but exact structure and timbre vary over its range.

Its voice is a loud " er-chill-chaar-char ".

Its characteristic exhaust and loud valve train are easily recognized, which is another similarity with the Sokół and the only with the Harley.

Its original bell was cast by Paul Revere, but was melted down and recast as it was not loud enough to serve as a fire alarm.