The IFC African, Latin American, and Caribbean Fund ( referred to as the IFC ALAC Fund ) was created in 2010 and is worth $ 1 billion.

Since its inception in 2004, Apple has traditionally referred to the codec as Apple Lossless, though more recently has begun to use the more commonly used outside of Apple abbreviated term ALAC when presenting or discussing the codec.

These include the Governmental Advisory Committee ( GAC ), which is composed of representatives of a large number of national governments from all over the world ; the At-Large Advisory Committee ( ALAC ), which is composed of representatives of organizations of individual Internet users from around the world ; the Root Server System Advisory Committee, which provides advice on the operation of the DNS root server system ; the Security and Stability Advisory Committee ( SSAC ), which is composed of Internet experts who study security issues pertaining to ICANN's mandate ; and the Technical Liaison Group ( TLG ), which is composed of representatives of other international technical organizations that focus, at least in part, on the Internet.

However there are criticisms from ICANN constituencies including the Noncommercial Users Constituency ( NCUC ) and the At-Large Advisory Committee ( ALAC ) that there is not enough public disclosure and that too many discussions and decisions take place out of sight of the public.

Common lossless audio codecs include FLAC, ALAC, Monkey's Audio and others.

Apple Lossless, also known as Apple Lossless Audio Codec ( ALAC ), or Apple Lossless Encoder ( ALE ), is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.

These other lossless codecs, such as FLAC and Shorten, are not natively supported in Apple's iTunes software, either in desktop operating systems ( Mac OS or Windows ) or iOS devices, so users of iTunes software who want to use a lossless format which allows the addition of metadata ( unlike WAV / AIFF or other PCM-type formats, where metadata is usually ignored ) have to use ALAC.

All current iDevices can play ALAC – encoded files.

ALAC also does not use any DRM scheme, but by the nature of the MP4 container, it is thought that DRM could be applied to ALAC much the same way it can with files in other QuickTime containers.

The Apple Lossless Encoder ( the software for encoding into ALAC files ) was introduced into the Mac OS X Core Audio framework on April 28, 2004 together with the QuickTime 6. 5. 1 update, and thus available in iTunes as of version 4. 5 and above.

** Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV / WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus ( AAC +), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( APE ), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC / Musepack / Mpeg +, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD ( Amiga Module ), XM, NSF ( NES Sound Format ), SPC ( SNES ), GYM ( Genesis ), SID ( Commodore 64 ), Adlib, YM ( Atari ST ), ADPCM ( Nintendo GameCube ), and CDDA.

In February 1980 with her sister Asma Jahangir, she co-founded Pakistan's first all-female legal aid practice, AGHS Legal Aid Cell ( ALAC ) in Lahore.

Lisbon, Portugal: ALAC ( África Literatura Arte e Cultura ), 1988.

These include lossy ones such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, or lossless ones such as ALAC, FLAC, or WavPack using external encoders.

; Audio formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MACE, Mod, MP3, PLS, QCP, QDM2 / QDMC, RealAudio, Speex, Screamtracker 3 / S3M, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack, WMA ( WMA 1 / 2, WMA 3 partially ).

The United States has encouraged Belarus to conclude and adhere to agreements with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on the program of macroeconomic stabilization and related reform measures, as well as to undertake increased privatization and to create a favorable climate for business and investment.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has stated that 361 animal and plant species have been discovered in Borneo since 1996.

The Acquisition Fund has since established itself as a model for similar funds in cities and states across the country.

This area of tropical forest has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Cameroonian Highlands forests ecoregion with Mount Cameroon considered separately because as an active volcano it has a distinct environment from the other mountains.

In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.

| Arab Dinar has been proposed ever since the creation of the Arab Monetary Fund, expected for serious plans of doing so, after the creation of the proposed Arab Union.

Gabon has earned a poor reputation with the Paris Club and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for poor management of its debt and revenues.

India has also played an important and influential role in other international organizations like East Asia Summit, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), G8 + 5 and IBSA Dialogue Forum.

Glover has continued to support Ithaca Hours through community outreach to present, most notably through the Ithaca Health Fund ( now incorporated as part

His work has been heavily criticised by the scientific community, and it has been widely described as racist, as has the Pioneer Fund, the research foundation he has been head of since 2002.

Since 2002, Rushton has been the president of the Pioneer Fund.

According to a World Wildlife Fund study in 1992, Latvia has unusual populations of Black Storks, Lesser Spotted Eagles, Otters, Beaver, Lynx, and Wolves.

According to the International Monetary Fund, " despite efforts to simplify licensing and business registration, there has been no significant improvement in the business climate.

However, since 2003, the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) has identified Monaco, along with 36 other territories, as a tax haven.

Since the early 1980s, the Moroccan government has pursued an economic program toward accelerating real economy growth with the support of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Paris Club of creditors.

This northern plain has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Eastern Miombo woodlands ecoregion.

The Bushveld area has been demarcated by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Angolan Mopane woodlands ecoregion, which extends north across the Cunene River into neighbouring Angola.

In the north near the border with Angola there is a flat area that has been designated by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Angolan Mopane woodlands ecoregion.

As the Bursar of the Cambridge University King's College, he managed two investment funds, one of which, called Chest Fund, invested not only in the then ' emerging ' market US stocks, but also periodically included commodity futures and foreign currencies, albeit to a smaller extent ( see Chua and Woodward, 1983 ).

The entrance fees paid by new Fellows on election to the Society are invested to help increase the Research Fund.

In June 2005, the Norwegian government sold the $ 52. 7 million it had invested in the company through the Government Petroleum Fund ( one of the biggest investment funds of the world ), characterizing Kerr-McGee's contract in Western Sahara as having " particularly serious violations of fundamental ethical norms ".

Since 1986, The Harold Greenberg Fund / Le Fonds Harold Greenberg has invested almost $ 73 million in the Canadian film and television industry.

Surpluses from the Social Security Trust Fund are invested in this type of security.

Sweeney also proposed creating a Center for Strategic Campaigns to coordinate all national contract campaigns ; creating a Strategic Campaign Fund to provide grants to unions in difficult organizing and contract fights ; creating a Strike Support Team of organizers that could be deployed to help support strikes ; and establishing a Pension Investment Clearinghouse to provide information on how pensions are invested and to help mobilize investments in support of organizing.

She received an inheritance of 74. 25 gulden, which she left invested in the Orphans ' Fund until 1838.

Zuckerman invested US $ 25 million with Merkin ’ s Ascot Fund in 2006 through his Charitable Remainder Trust or CRT Investments Limited and personally invested US $ 15 million with Merkin ’ s Gabriel Capital.

Draper Atlantic and the Wasatach Venture Fund also invested, and Tim Draper made another personal investment.

Cisco, Disney and several venture capital firms including Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund, Norwest Venture Partners and Vantage Point Venture Partners had invested $ 48. 5 million in MovieBeam.

The accumulated surpluses are invested in special non-marketable Treasury securities ( treasuries ) issued by the U. S. government, which are deposited in the Social Security Trust Fund.

£ 35 million has been invested by the Big Lottery Fund on the Forces in Mind Trust ( FIMT ), a partnership of UK forces charities and mental health organisations, led by the Confederation of Service Charities ( COBSEO ).

Some funds in the Registered Retirement Savings Plan or Registered Retirement Income Fund at their bank may not be covered if they are invested in mutual funds or held in specific instruments like debentures issued by government or corporations.

The Premiere Fund invested £ 8 million of Lottery funding per year into mainstream, commercially-driven films encouraging the involvement of British creative talent in a range of films to attract audiences the world over.

Founders Fund is focused on investing in early-stage companies, has $ 500 million in aggregate capital, and has invested in Quantcast, Path, and Knewton.

In December 2002, STSN announced that they were one of several firms invested in by Intel Communications Fund in order to " accelerate Intel voice and data communications and wireless networking initiatives.

Most of that money is invested in the firm's flagship fund, Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund ( Ticker: AVEMX ); other funds include Ave Maria Growth Fund ( AVEGX ), Ave Maria Rising Dividend Fund ( AVEDX ), the Ave Maria Bond Fund ( AVEFX ), and the Ave Maria Opportunity Fund ( AVESX ).