Polaris Digital is a small web development and post production company based in Manchester, England who provide full service web hosting and produce open source software for the web. Founded in 2001 by Sam Clark, Polaris Digital initially ran as a pseudonym for services provided by himself.
In April 2006 Polaris Digital was incorporated as a Limited Company with Companies House in the United Kingdom and has been trading as Polaris Digital Limited ever since.
Software
Polaris Digital currently specialise in producing accessible web sites, using current best practices and actively contribute to the Simple PHP Framework by Tyler Hall hosted on Google Code.
Polaris Digital has produced two pieces of Open Source software to date, although it should be noted that neither have achieved a version 1.0 status to date. PDnH Server is a modular Content Management Framework written in PHP using a MySQL database backbone and more recently, Symposa.
In April 2007 Polaris Digital announced a new event management system called Symposa (sic) (from the word 'symposium') that will enable online communities to organise and manage events in the real world, allowing online communities to meet outside of the world wide web. Alongside this announcement, Polaris Digital announced that all their software releases would be licenced under an Open Source agreement from April 2007, although they did not specify which licences they would adopt.
Government work
JISC Collections have contracted Polaris Digital to maintain and update both the JISC Collections and NESLi2 web sites from September 2007 until further notice.
In February 2007 JISC Collections and Polaris Digital launched a new web site to observe the effectiveness of e-books in education, called the National e-Books Observatory Project. This project is managed by Caren Milloy of JISC Collections and exclusively developed and hosted by Polaris Digital.
Awards
In 2004, Sam Clark was awarded the Royal Television Society Student Non-Factual Award for the short film The Möbius Strip Act 1, a modern interpretation of Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio and Powers of Ten by the Office of Ray and Charles Eames juxtaposed. This short film was originally a student project for Sam Clark's final year at The University of Teesside, however in 2006 Sam Clark announced that Polaris Digital are working to complete Act 2.
In April 2006 Polaris Digital was incorporated as a Limited Company with Companies House in the United Kingdom and has been trading as Polaris Digital Limited ever since.
Software
Polaris Digital currently specialise in producing accessible web sites, using current best practices and actively contribute to the Simple PHP Framework by Tyler Hall hosted on Google Code.
Polaris Digital has produced two pieces of Open Source software to date, although it should be noted that neither have achieved a version 1.0 status to date. PDnH Server is a modular Content Management Framework written in PHP using a MySQL database backbone and more recently, Symposa.
In April 2007 Polaris Digital announced a new event management system called Symposa (sic) (from the word 'symposium') that will enable online communities to organise and manage events in the real world, allowing online communities to meet outside of the world wide web. Alongside this announcement, Polaris Digital announced that all their software releases would be licenced under an Open Source agreement from April 2007, although they did not specify which licences they would adopt.
Government work
JISC Collections have contracted Polaris Digital to maintain and update both the JISC Collections and NESLi2 web sites from September 2007 until further notice.
In February 2007 JISC Collections and Polaris Digital launched a new web site to observe the effectiveness of e-books in education, called the National e-Books Observatory Project. This project is managed by Caren Milloy of JISC Collections and exclusively developed and hosted by Polaris Digital.
Awards
In 2004, Sam Clark was awarded the Royal Television Society Student Non-Factual Award for the short film The Möbius Strip Act 1, a modern interpretation of Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio and Powers of Ten by the Office of Ray and Charles Eames juxtaposed. This short film was originally a student project for Sam Clark's final year at The University of Teesside, however in 2006 Sam Clark announced that Polaris Digital are working to complete Act 2.
Sam Byfield (born 1981) is an Australian poet.
Byfield was born in Newcastle, Australia. He graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2003 with a BA in Australian foreign policy and from the Australian National University with a Master of International Affairs in 2004. He works in the international development sector.
Publications
Byfield's first book, From the Middle Kingdom (ISBN 1-58998-528-1), was published in 2007.
He has been published in Australian magazines including , Southerly and Island; in such international magazines as The Asia Literary Review, The National Poetry Review and The Warwick Review; and extensively online including in Eclectica Magazine. In 2008 he appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival,. He also headlined at the National Young Writers' Festival, and read at various venues in Beijing and Melbourne.
In 2009 he was Highly Commended in the Brisbane-Reason Poetry Prize and Commended in the Bauhinia Literary Awards Open Poetry section and the Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Prize.
Byfield was born in Newcastle, Australia. He graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2003 with a BA in Australian foreign policy and from the Australian National University with a Master of International Affairs in 2004. He works in the international development sector.
Publications
Byfield's first book, From the Middle Kingdom (ISBN 1-58998-528-1), was published in 2007.
He has been published in Australian magazines including , Southerly and Island; in such international magazines as The Asia Literary Review, The National Poetry Review and The Warwick Review; and extensively online including in Eclectica Magazine. In 2008 he appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival,. He also headlined at the National Young Writers' Festival, and read at various venues in Beijing and Melbourne.
In 2009 he was Highly Commended in the Brisbane-Reason Poetry Prize and Commended in the Bauhinia Literary Awards Open Poetry section and the Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Prize.
Miles Holmwood is a musician from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and is well known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the pop band Stereos. The band was featured on an episode of the Canadian television program DisBAND on MuchMusic.
Biography
Miles was born in High Level, Alberta, Canada and grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Attended Salisbury Composite High School. Before his success in the band Stereos he was an Aeronautical Technician. He played Guitar in a previous band called Calico Drive for 5 years. After Calico Drive disbanded in 2006/07 He pursued a professional career in Boxing. As well, Miles won 12 Golden Glove championships over the years. . In 2008 "Stereos" was formed. Miles is a Lego lover and an avid Checkers player. He currently resides in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
*Main Rig
*Orange Amps Rockerverb 50
*Orange Amps AD30
*Krank Amps 4x12
*Krank Amps 2x12
*Gibson SG Goddess
*Gibson Les Paul Studio
*Musicman Albert Lee
*Korg DTR 200
*TC Electronics G-Major
*Shure ULX Wireless
*ISP Decimator Pro Rack G
*BBE Sonic Maximizer
*GCX Audio Controller
*Ground Control Pro
*DBX eq131
*DBX 266L Compressor
*MXR Zakk Wylde Overdrive
*ZVEX Super Hard On
*Maxline Road Cases
Biography
Miles was born in High Level, Alberta, Canada and grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Attended Salisbury Composite High School. Before his success in the band Stereos he was an Aeronautical Technician. He played Guitar in a previous band called Calico Drive for 5 years. After Calico Drive disbanded in 2006/07 He pursued a professional career in Boxing. As well, Miles won 12 Golden Glove championships over the years. . In 2008 "Stereos" was formed. Miles is a Lego lover and an avid Checkers player. He currently resides in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
*Main Rig
*Orange Amps Rockerverb 50
*Orange Amps AD30
*Krank Amps 4x12
*Krank Amps 2x12
*Gibson SG Goddess
*Gibson Les Paul Studio
*Musicman Albert Lee
*Korg DTR 200
*TC Electronics G-Major
*Shure ULX Wireless
*ISP Decimator Pro Rack G
*BBE Sonic Maximizer
*GCX Audio Controller
*Ground Control Pro
*DBX eq131
*DBX 266L Compressor
*MXR Zakk Wylde Overdrive
*ZVEX Super Hard On
*Maxline Road Cases
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Georgia Neurosurgical Institute (GNI) is a surgical hospital in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1954 by a group of local physicians: Robert Clark, Samuel Hightower, Morgan Cowan, Robert Sears, Hugh Smisson Jr, and Charles Rowley. GNI was continued by Joe Robinson, Kim Johnston, Hugh Smisson III, Arthur Grigorian and Richard Rowe.
The Institute includes a physical therapy center and an imaging center, which provides access to magnetic resonance imaging scanners (MRI), CT scanners, and x-ray imaging.
Treatment is provided for disorders that include neck and back pain, headaches, stroke, movement disorders, and brain and central nervous system tumors. The procedures performed include: intracranial, trauma, peripheral nerve surgery, pediatric neurosurgery, seizure and movement disorders, complex pain, trigeminal neuralgia and spinal surgery.
Georgia Neurosurgical Institute (GNI) is a surgical hospital in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1954 by a group of local physicians: Robert Clark, Samuel Hightower, Morgan Cowan, Robert Sears, Hugh Smisson Jr, and Charles Rowley. GNI was continued by Joe Robinson, Kim Johnston, Hugh Smisson III, Arthur Grigorian and Richard Rowe.
The Institute includes a physical therapy center and an imaging center, which provides access to magnetic resonance imaging scanners (MRI), CT scanners, and x-ray imaging.
Treatment is provided for disorders that include neck and back pain, headaches, stroke, movement disorders, and brain and central nervous system tumors. The procedures performed include: intracranial, trauma, peripheral nerve surgery, pediatric neurosurgery, seizure and movement disorders, complex pain, trigeminal neuralgia and spinal surgery.