The Norfolk & Dedham Group

The N&D Group is a group of mutual insurance companies based in Dedham, Massachusetts. The group comprises three regional property and casualty insurance companies which market personal and commercial insurance product lines through independent insurance agents. The group conducts business in New England, New Jersey, and Arkansas, and writes about a third of a billion dollars in annual insurance premium. Originally founded as The Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1825, the group is one of the oldest mutual insurance companies in the United States.

History

Douglas DC-7B N836D

N836D is a former Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-7B restored to flying condition and previously operated from Opa-Locka, Florida. The aircraft's airworthiness certificate expired in June 2013 and it remains at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on static display.

Design

The Douglas DC-7 is a four-engined low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by four Wright R-3350-30W 18-cylinder air cooled radial engines. The type first flew in 1953 and was in production between 1953 and 1958.

History

The aircraft (serial number 45345, line number 928) was originally delivered on January 23, 1958. It flew with Eastern as an airliner in scheduled service until retirement in 1965, when it was sold to California Airmotive, a used aircraft dealer. California Airmotive sold the aircraft to Detroit-based Nomads Travel Club in 1966. The club used it until the early 1970s when it was replaced by a Lockheed Electra. After retirement by Nomads, it was parked at Detroit's Metropolitan Wayne County Airport until 1972 when it was sold again to Joe Kocour and flown to St. Paul's Downtown Airport/Holman Field. It stayed there unused for 32 years, with the owners occasionally running the engines but never flying the airplane. In November 2003, it was sold to two aviation enthusiasts who prepared the aircraft for a ferry flight to their hometown of Miami, where restoration could begin in earnest at their home base of Opa-locka Executive Airport.

Leet

Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for many languages that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t.

The term leet is derived from the word elite. The leet alphabet is a specialized form of symbolic writing. Leet may also be considered a substitution cipher, although many dialects or linguistic varieties exist in different online communities. The term leet is also used as an adjective to describe formidable prowess or accomplishment, especially in the fields of online gaming and in its original usage – computer hacking.

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Dóc

Dóc is a village in Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

Geography

It covers an area of 49.43 km² (19 sq mi) and has a population of 813 people (2002).

Coordinates: 46°26′N 20°08′E / 46.433°N 20.133°E / 46.433; 20.133

DC

DC, D.C., Dc, or dc may refer to:

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Canon EOS-1D C

The Canon EOS-1D C is an 18.1-megapixel CMOS digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR) made by Canon in the Cinema EOS range. It shares many features with the Canon EOS 1D X. It was publicly announced on April 12, 2012, and was released in March 2013 with suggested retail price of US$15,000 (body only). The Canon EOS-1D C is stated to be the world's first 4K resolution DSLR camera.

The 1D C has a full frame sensor but uses an APS-H-sized portion to record 4K resolution (4096 x 2160 pixels) video at 24p and 25p without downscaling in Y'CbCr 4:2:2 format. The pixel size of the sensor is 6.95 microns and records 4K in 8-bit 4:2:2 using Motion JPEG. The other modes in 8-bit 4:2:0, using MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 IBP or ALL-I format.Uncompressed video over HDMI up to 1080p is also possible.

In November 2013, Canon announced that the 1D C was the first DSLR to meet the European Broadcasting Union HD Tier 1 requirements for use in HD broadcast production.

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N.D.C. (song)

"N.D.C." is the third single from Australian alternative rock band Jebediah's self-titled album, Jebediah. It was released 1 July 2002 and peaked at number 92 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

Song meaning

During an interview following a live performance at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia, the band revealed that the song title is ambiguous, and could be a pun on the phrase, "indie scene", or an acronym for "No Definite Conclusion".

Track listing

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