Academic literature on the topic 'Plumes de poulet'

This chapter recounts the first Bernac/Poulenc recital that took place at the École normale de musique after Francis Poulenc's North African tour with Maria Modrakowska in February 1935. It talks about Plume d'eau claire and Rodeuse au front de verre, which Poulenc thought belonged to his more familiar style of almost classical arrangement of harmonies spiced up with a few unimpeachable chromaticisms. It also describes Poulenc's compositions during the remainder of 1935 that turned their back temporarily on surrealism in favour of less demanding fare, including two pieces of incidental music. The chapter looks into Poulenc's devotion to film music and occasional collaborations with Georges Auric and Arthur Honegger, writing five scores between 1935 and 1951. It also assesses Poulenc's most interesting literary contributions that appeared during October 1935, Mes maîtres et mes amis, that was published in Conferencia.

With the exponential growth of the Internet and e-commerce, the need for secure transactions has become a necessity for both consumer and business. Even though there have been advances in security technology, one aspect remains constant: passwords still play a central role in system security. The difficulty with passwords is that all too often they are the easiest security mechanism to defeat. Kevin Mitnick, notably the most recognized computer hacker, made the following statement concerning humans and their passwords: …the human side of computer security is easily exploited and constantly overlooked. Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted, because none of these measures addresses the weakest link in the security chain. (Poulsen, 2000) Without secure passwords, e-commerce sites invite online criminals to attempt fraudulent schemes that mimic the goods and services that legitimate e-commerce merchants offer. With increasing numbers of users on an increasing array of e-commerce sites, often requiring the use of passwords, users often choose to reuse the same simplistic password, and do so on multiple sites (Campbell, Calvert, & Boswell, 2003). For most computerized systems, passwords are the first line of defense against hackers or intruders (Horowitz, 2001). There have been numerous published articles that have created guidelines on how to create better or safer passwords with the following recommendations: 1. passwords should be memorized and not written down; 2. passwords should be an eight- or nine-character word or phrase, and end users should randomly add 3. passwords should contain a mixture of letters (both upper- and lowercase), numbers, and punctuation characters; and 4. passwords should never be words that can be commonly found in a dictionary. But if an individual adheres to security experts’ suggestions about password authentication, it usually involves a trade-off. If a password is easy to create and remember, it is most likely that it is easy for others to guess or a hacker to crack. Eventually, any password can be cracked. Password crackers use a variety of methods and tools that can include guessing, dictionary lists, or brute force attacks. Dictionary lists are created by using an automated program that includes a text file of words that are common in a dictionary. The program repeatedly attempts to log on to the target system, using a different word from the text file on each attempt. A brute force attack is a variation of the dictionary attacks, but it is designed to determine passwords that may not be included in the text file. In a brute force attack, the attacker uses an automated program that generates hashes or encrypted values for all possible passwords and compares them to the values in the password file (Conklin, White, Cothren, Williams, & Davis, 2004). Unfortunately, many of the deficiencies of password authentication systems arise from the limitations of human cognitive ability (Pond, Podd, Bunnell, & Henderson, 2000). The requirements to remember long and complicated passwords are contrary to a well-known property of human memory. First, the capacity of human memory in its capacity to remember a sequence of items is temporally limited, with a short-term capacity of around seven items plus or minus two (Kanaley, 2001). Second, when humans remember a sequence of items, those items cannot be drawn from an arbitrary and unfamiliar range, but must be familiar “chunks” such as words or familiar symbols. Third, the human memory thrives on redundancy. In fact, studies have shown that individuals’ short-term memory will retain a password for approximately 30 seconds, thereby requiring individuals to attempt to memorize their passwords immediately (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968).

Two of Energy Answers Corporation’s (EnergyAnswers) waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities utilize mass burn stepped hearth refractory combustors. Three 120 ton per day (TPD) units are located at the Pittsfield (MA) Resource Recovery Facility and three 136 TPD units are at the Pioneer Valley Resource Recovery Facility in Agawam, MA. EnergyAnswers has over 20 years operating experience with these mass burn units which are known for their rugged construction and dependable operation. Over the past several years, EnergyAnswers operating personnel have developed and installed numerous improvements which

Le narrateur de La salle de bain (1985) est obsédé par le passage du temps : il contemple ainsi longuement une fissure dans le mur qui surplombe sa baignoire – causée vraisemblablement par l’humidité, et donc par l’eau –, y voyant le reflet de sa propre décrépitude. Ces ravages potentiels exercés par l’élément liquide s’étendent d’ailleurs à la société en son ensemble : en témoignent les visions du personnage de Paris noyé sous la pluie (comparé dès lors à un « aquarium ») ou de Venise submergée par la mer, si ce n’est son intérêt douteux pour le naufrage du Titanic. Cette métaphore filée trou