Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide range of purposes ; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information ; doing scientific studies using computers ; making computer systems behave intelligently ; creating and using communications and entertainment media ; finding and gathering information relevant to any particular purpose, and so on.

Its portfolio of solutions includes content network capabilities, guidance technology, content protection, and entertainment metadata.

* OSI Restaurant Partners, the restaurant and entertainment group that includes Outback Steakhouse

The week's entertainment includes jousters and strolling players, dressed in medieval attire, in addition to a medieval encampment complete with jesters, musicians, rat-catchers, alchemists and fire eaters.

Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, approximately southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort covers an area of and includes four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels ( excluding eight more that are on-site, but not owned by the Walt Disney Company ), including a campground, two spas and physical fitness centers, five golf courses, and other recreational venues and entertainment.

Based mostly on aggregation from other sources on the Web and gathered by a small editorial staff and stringers, UPI's daily content consists of a newsbrief summary service called " NewsTrack ," which includes general, business, sports, science, health and entertainment reports, and " Quirks in the News.

It includes chapters on how to acquire food, clothing, furniture, transportation, land, housing, education, medical care, communication, entertainment, money, dope, and other assorted items and services.

It was identified as well with such entertainment legends as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Milton Berle ( many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco – see Texaco Star Theatre, which includes the sponsorship lyrics of the opening theme: " We're the men of Texaco, We work from Maine to Mexico ...").

Another important field of collecting that is also big business is memorabilia, which includes collectables related to a person, organization, event or media, including t-shirts, posters, and numerous other collectables marketed to fans ; but also includes ephemera from historical, media, or entertainment events, items that were meant to be thrown away but were saved by fans and accumulated by collectors.

Traditionally held on the July 3, Benicia ’ s 4 July parade stretches all the way down First Street and typically includes music, dancing, floats, horses, clowns, and live entertainment.

It is primarily responsible for providing entertainment, welfare and information services to students and also representing students interests to organisations including the University itself, which includes senior members being entitled to seats on the University Court.

Events at the Seafood Festival are singers / bands, shops, food, crafts, and childrens entertainment, which includes carnival rides.

The event includes free music, entertainment, fireworks and fun.

The event includes a parade, a beauty pageant, reenactment of the James / Younger Bank of Columbia robbery, 5-K run, pet show, train rides for the kids, kids carnival, face painting, inflatables, live entertainment, food, fun, clowns, choirs, and more.

The festival's live entertainment includes cabarets, comedy, music and theatre.

The Turkey Trot festival also includes a Miss Turkey Trot Pageant, a Miss Drumsticks Competition ( best legs ), dinners, musical entertainment, a 5 kilometer run, a parade ( which has included former Arkansas governor and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ), and a nationally recognized turkey calling contest sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation.

The festival includes free entertainment, bed races, an antique tractor pull, pageant, parade, craft and antique vendors, and carnival.

The fair includes 4-H exhibits, a midway, demolition derbies, harness racing, and musical entertainment and has been run consecutively since its inception in 1859, making it the longest, consecutive-running fair in Indiana.

Held in August, it includes music concerts, a talent show, a tractor pull, games for children, and other local entertainment.

The city holds a Labor Day celebration which serves as its annual community festival and includes a parade, barbecue, and other entertainment.

It includes an art show, a fun run, games, contests, and other entertainment.

Sponsored by local businesses and organizations, the Fair includes a 4-H livestock sale, carnival, live music, and other entertainment.

* Maywood, until the late 90s a quiet, isolated residential area, now part of the large " Village West " project that includes the upscale, sprawling " Legends " shopping and entertainment district, " Sporting Kansas City " soccer stadium, " T-Bones " baseball park, " Schlitterbahn " amusement waterpark, " Kansas Speedway " NASCAR track and upcoming " Hollywood Casino ".

The event includes a parade, a beauty pageant, reenactment of the James / Younger Bank of Columbia robbery, 5-K run, pet show, train rides for the kids, kids carnival, face painting, inflatables, live entertainment, food, fun, clowns, choirs, and more.

President Kennedy's invitation to the Spanish-born master said, `` We feel your performance as one of the world's greatest artists would lend distinction to the entertainment of our guests ''.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.

* Show: entertainment and performance, e. g. Artistic cyclings.

Such entertainment may include watching a film or theatrical production and other live performance such as circus, plays, musicals, farces, monologues and pantomimes provide cinematic and theatric entertainment.

There can be both a moral and psychological scope to the work, as well as entertainment value, depending upon the nature of the teller, the style of the telling, the ages of the audience members, and the overall context of the performance.

Originally, it was considered a somewhat expensive fad, as it lacked the live atmosphere of a real performance and 100 yen in the 1970s was the price of two typical lunches, but it caught on as a popular kind of entertainment.

Conversely, Slam poetry movement founder Marc Smith has been critical of the commercially successful Def Poetry television and Broadway live stage shows produced by Russell Simmons, decrying it as " an exploitive entertainment that diminished the value and aesthetic of performance poetry ".

The introduction of this technology coincided with the rise of 3D entertainment applications and was designed to improve the CPU's vector processing performance of graphic-intensive applications.

The CBC has made programs for mass audiences and for smaller audiences interested in drama, performance arts, documentaries, current affairs, entertainment and sport.

In New York City in 1843, Dan Emmett and his Virginia Minstrels broke blackface minstrelsy loose from its novelty act and entr ' acte status and performed the first full-blown minstrel show: an evening's entertainment composed entirely of blackface performance.

They hold the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and other forms of live entertainment.

Performance art is a term usually reserved to refer to a conceptual art which conveys a content-based meaning in a more drama-related sense, rather than being simple performance for its own sake for entertainment purposes.

In reference to Presence and Resistance by Philip Auslander, a performance art critic, Sally Banes writes “… by the end of the 1980s, performance art had become so widely known that it no longer needed to be defined ; mass culture, especially television, had come to supply both structure and subject matter for much performance art ; and several performance artists, including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Willem Dafoe, and Ann Magnuson, had indeed become crossover artists in mainstream entertainment .”

Puppetry is used in almost all human societies both as entertainment – in performance – and ceremonially in rituals and celebrations such as carnivals.

HomePNA 3. 1 was developed for entertainment applications such as IPTV which require consistent high performance.

Copy testing, also known as " pre-testing ," is a form of customized research that predicts in-market performance of an ad before it airs, by analyzing audience levels of attention, brand linkage, motivation, entertainment, and communication, as well as breaking down the ad ’ s flow of attention and flow of emotion.

* Copy testing – predicts in-market performance of an ad before it airs by analyzing audience levels of attention, brand linkage, motivation, entertainment, and communication, as well as breaking down the ad ’ s flow of attention and flow of emotion.

By using the black caricatures and so-called black music, the minstrels added a touch of the unknown to the evening's entertainment, which was enough to fool audiences into accepting the whole performance as authentic.

Kool Herc instead originated the idea of creating a sequence for his own purposes, introducing the idea of the DJ as the " feature " of parties, whose performance on any given night would be examined critically by the crowd on both a technical and entertainment level.