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WIC (other)
WIC may stand for: Businesses and organizations * WIC program, the U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children * Dutch West India Company, in the 17th and 18th centuries * West Island College, a system of three private schools in Canada * Western International Communications, a former Canadian media company * Women's Industrial Council a 1894 - c.1917) British feminist organisation * World In Common, a libertarian-left political project * World Internet Conference, an annual event organized by the Chinese government Science and technology * WAN Interface Card, a specialized network interface controller card * Windows Imaging Component, an imaging codec framework Transportation * Wickford railway station, Basildon, England, station code WIC * Wick Airport, Scotland, IATA airport code WIC Other uses * -wīc, an Anglo-Saxon suffix used for -wich towns * Washington International Competition, a competition held by the Friday Morning Music Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIC Program
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is an American federal assistance program of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for healthcare and nutrition of low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children under the age of five as part of child nutrition programs. Their mission is to be a partner with other services that are key to childhood and family well-being. WIC serves 53% of all infants born in the United States. The basic eligibility requirement is a family income below 185% of the federal poverty level. Most states allow automatic income eligibility, where a person or family participating in certain benefits programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, may automatically meet the income eligibility requirements. History The WIC Program began as a pilot program through an amendment to section 17 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickford Railway Station
Wickford railway station is a junction stop on the Shenfield to Southend Line and also the western terminus of the Crouch Valley Line in the east of England, serving the town of Wickford in the Basildon district of Essex. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the west and, to the east, on the Southend Line and on the Crouch Valley Line. The Engineer's Line Reference for the line is SSV, the station's three-letter station code is WIC. Most Southend services connect to the Great Eastern Main Line at for northbound connections. Peak-time trains to/from also run through to London. Wickford station, and all trains serving it, are currently operated by Greater Anglia. History The line from Shenfield to Wickford, along with the station, were opened for goods on 19 November 1888 and for passengers on 1 January 1889 by the Great Eastern Railway. The station was previously called Wickford Junction, when the Crouch Valley route to Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World In Conflict
''World in Conflict'' is a 2007 real-time tactics video game developed by the Swedish video game company Massive Entertainment and published by Vivendi Games for Microsoft Windows. The game was released in September 2007, receiving generally favorable reviews and several awards. The game is considered by some to be the spiritual successor of ''Ground Control (video game), Ground Control'', another game by Massive Entertainment, and is generally conceived by its designers to be a real-time tactics game, despite being marketed as a RTS game. The game's setting and story takes place in an Alternate history, alternate 1989, in which an impending History of the Soviet Union (1982–91)#Dissolution of the USSR, economic collapse and the failure to achieve aid diplomatically from the West, leads the Soviet Union to invade Western Europe, triggering World War III. The single-player story sees players assume the role of a United States Army officer who takes command of battalions of US an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wichita Language
Wichita is a Caddoan language spoken in Anadarko, Oklahoma by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. The last fluent heritage speaker, Doris Lamar-McLemore, died in 2016, although in 2007 there were three first-language speakers alive. This has rendered Wichita functionally extinct; however, the tribe offers classes to revitalize the languageWichita Language Class. ''Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.'' 18 Feb 2009 (retrieved 14 Nov 2019) and works in partnership with the Wichita Documentation Project of the University of Colorado, Boulder. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wic Kjellin
Wic Kjellin (8 April 1914 – 9 March 1987) was a Swedish film editor. She edited more than a hundred films during her career. Kjellin was employed at Europafilm where she worked for 30 years. At first she worked as an editing assistant, but as a 22-year-old she had to edit her first feature film, Our Boy. She went on to make six films with Göran Gentele and Vilgot Sjöman respectively, four for Jörn Donner and Jan Halldoff and two for Tage Danielsson and Mai Zetterling. She became a very important person in the film industry during the 1960s and 1970s, partly as a result of her work with Bo Widerbergs Barnvagnen (1963) and Kvarteret Korpen the same year. Kjellin made a total of about a hundred films between 1936 and 1980. For her efforts, she received the Ingmar Bergman Prize in 1978. She is buried in the memorial grove at Sundbyberg's cemetery. Selected filmography * ''Our Boy'' (1936) * '' The Quartet That Split Up'' (1936) * ''The People of Bergslagen'' (1937) * '' Bashful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friday Morning Music Club
The Friday Morning Music Club originated in Washington, D.C. in the mid-1880s as an informal club for the study of music. Members of the club were required to audition to become a part of the club, and had to take part in musical performances. Early activities included reading from musical periodicals, the creation of a musical library, the creation of a lecture series, and the hosting of other musical groups for their DC performances. Over the years, the club grew in size, and requirements for membership became more rigorous. In 1894, the club was incorporated in the District of Columbia, and the headquarters moved from the various members’ homes to the music room of the Washington Club, located at 1710 I Street. As the club has grown over the years, it has been located in various places, including the Assembly room of the Cosmos Club, the Raleigh Hotel, and the Charles Sumner School. Today, its archives are located at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 801 K St., N.W., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
-wīc
A "-''wich'' town" is a settlement in Anglo-Saxon England characterised by extensive artisanal activity and tradean " emporium". The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon suffix , signifying "a dwelling or fortified place". Such settlements were usually coastal and many have left material traces found during excavation. Eilert Ekwall wrote: As well as ''-wich'', ''-'' was the origin of the endings and , as, for example, in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire. Four former "-''wīc'' towns" are known in England as the consequence of excavation. Two of these Jorvik (Jorwic) in present-day York and Lundenwic near Londonare waterfront sites, while the other two, Hamwic in Southampton and Gipeswic (Gippeswic) in Ipswich are further inland.R. Hodges, ''The Anglo-Saxon Achievement: archaeology and the beginnings of English society'', 1989:69–104; and, as emporia, C. Scull, "Urban centres in pre-Viking England?" in J. Hines, ed. ''The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wick Airport
Wick John O' Groats Airport () is located north of the town of Wick, at the north-eastern extremity of the mainland of Scotland. It is owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport provides commercial air travel connections for Caithness, with scheduled services to Aberdeen Airport and, until early 2020, Edinburgh. It remains regularly used by helicopters servicing local offshore oil operations and the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm. It also serves as a stop-over for light aircraft ferry flights between Europe and North America via Iceland. The airport also operates an out of hours call-out service for air ambulances, coastguard and police flights. The airport has one usable runway. Two are disused. History Wick was originally a grass airfield, used by Captain E. E. Fresson's Highland Airways Ltd. (later Scottish Airways Ltd.) from 1933 until 1939. Requisitioned by the Air Ministry during the Second World War, the airfield was extended with hard ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows Imaging Component
Windows Imaging Component (WIC) is a COM-based imaging codec framework introduced in Windows Vista (and later available in Windows XP Service Pack 3) for working with and processing digital images and image metadata. WIC enables application developers to perform image processing operations on any image format through a single set of common APIs, without requiring prior knowledge of specific image formats. Features Windows Imaging Component provides an extensible architecture for image codecs, pixel formats, and metadata, with automatic run-time discovery of new formats. It supports reading and writing of arbitrary metadata in image files, with the ability to preserve unrecognized metadata during editing. While working with images, it preserves high bit depth image data, up to 32 bits per channel, throughout the revamped high dynamic range image processing pipeline built into Windows Vista. Windows Imaging Component supports Windows Color System, the ICC V4-compliant co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company () was a Dutch chartered company that was founded in 1621 and went defunct in 1792. Among its founders were Reynier Pauw, Willem Usselincx (1567–1647), and Jessé de Forest (1576–1624). On 3 June 1621, it was granted a :wikisource:Charter of the Dutch West India Company, charter for a trade monopoly in the Dutch West Indies by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over Dutch participation in the Atlantic slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America. The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Cape of Good Hope) and the Americas, which included the Pacific Ocean and ended east of the Maluku Islands, according to the Treaty of Tordesillas. The intended purpose of the charter was to eliminate competition, particularly Spanish or Portuguese, between the various trading posts established by the merchants. The company became instrumental in the largely eph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAN Interface Card
A WAN interface card (WIC) is a type of specialized network interface controller card (NIC) made by Cisco that allows a network device such as a router to connect and transmit data over a wide area network. A WIC has a built-in channel service data unit ( CSU/DSU) interface to connect to a digital circuit and provide error correction and line monitoring. A WIC is inserted into a WIC (or HWIC, or EHWIC) expansion slot in a Cisco device. According to Cisco, "Cisco interface cards are classified according to the technologies they support. For example, WAN interface cards (WICs) support WAN technologies, such as Gigabit Ethernet; and voice interface cards (VICs) support voice technologies. Voice/WAN interface cards (VWICs) can support voice, data, and voice and data applications, depending on the capabilities of the router in which the VWIC is installed." The WIC is supported by many Cisco devices, particularly their branch routers including the 2500 series routers and its successors. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Internet Conference
The World Internet Conference (WIC; zh, s=世界互联网大会, labels=no), also known as the Wuzhen Summit ( zh, s=乌镇峰会, labels=no), is an annual event, first held in 2014, organized by the government of the People's Republic of China to discuss global Internet issues and policies. It is organized by the Cyberspace Administration of China. Wuzhen Declaration At the first World Internet Conference in 2014, an unknown party distributed a draft joint statement affirming the right of individual nations to develop, use, and govern the Internet, a concept Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, general secretary and paramount leader Xi Jinping calls Network sovereignty, cyber sovereignty. Attendees received a draft of the statement overnight, slid under their hotel doors. As some objected to the statement, the organizers made no mention of it in the conference's final day. Summits 1st World Internet Conference The inaugural World Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
