Pam Sheyne
Pamela Eileen Sheyne is a British songwriter best known for co-writing Christina Aguilera's Grammy Award-winning single "Genie in a Bottle" with David Frank. Her songs have sold more than 50 million records, and she has won the Ivor Novello Award and two BMI awards for songwriting.
Biography
Pam Sheyne grew up in New Zealand and moved to the UK. She began her career as a backing vocalist for artists including Bryan Adams, Celine Dion and Elton John. Sheyne was introduced to songwriter David Frank by a friend, and with Steve Kipner they wrote "Genie in a Bottle," which went on to become a major hit for Christina Aguilera; the song won a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Sheyne won an Ivor Novello Award for International Hit of the Year, as well as a BMI Pop Award. She later went on to write for artists including Dream, Jessica Simpson, Backstreet Boys, Hayley Westenra and Corinne Bailey Rae, and worked on the soundtrack to Pokemon: The Movie, The Princess Diaries, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Sonny With a Chance, Lizzie McGuire, Beverly Hills 90210, Roswell, American Idol and Good Morning America.
Netpbm
Netpbm is an open-source package of graphics programs and a programming library, used mainly in the Unix world. It is included in all major open-source Unix-like operating system distributions and also works on other Unix-like operating systems, Windows, Unix operating systems such as Mac OS X, and other platforms.
File formats and programs
Netpbm defines a set of graphics formats called the Netpbm formats:
Netpbm contains over 220 separate programs in the package, most of which have "pbm", "pgm", "ppm", "pam", or "pnm" in their names. For example, you might use pamscale to shrink an image by 10%, pamcomp to overlay one image on top of another, pbmtext to create an image of text or reduce the number of colors in an image with pnmquant.
The Netpbm package can, for example, use two successive conversion programs to turn a picture in the PBM format into a .bmp file:
PAM
Pam or PAM may refer to:
Businesses and organisations
In military use
People
PAM (cooking oil)
PAM is a cooking spray currently owned and distributed by ConAgra Foods. Its main ingredient is canola oil.
PAM was introduced in 1961 by Leon Rubin who, with Arthur Meyerhoff, started Gibraltar Industries to market the spray. The name PAM is an acronym for Product of Arthur Meyerhoff. In 1971, Gilbraltar Industries merged with American Home Products (now Wyeth) and became part of the Boyle-Midway portfolio. When Reckitt & Colman (now Reckitt Benckiser) acquired Boyle-Midway from American Home Products in 1990, PAM became part of the American Home Foods subsidiary. In 1996, AHF was acquired by Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst Inc., and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company from American Home Products, becoming International Home Foods, which in turn was acquired by ConAgra in 2000. PAM is marketed in various flavors, such as "butter" and "olive oil", meant to impart the flavor of cooking with those ingredients. Flavors such as "lemon" or "garlic" are also offered. PAM also markets high-temperature sprays formulated for use when grilling, etc., and one containing flour suitable for dry-cooking as in baking. PAM is marketed as a nominally zero-calorie alternative to other oils used as lubricants when using cooking methods such as sauteing or baking (US regulations allow food products to claim to be zero-calorie if they contain fewer than 5 calories per Reference Amount Customarily Consumed and per labeled serving). Similar sprays are offered by other manufacturers.
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