Progress
Progress may refer to:
History
- Social progress, the idea that societies can or do improve in terms of their social, political, and economic structures.
- Scientific progress, the idea that science increases its problem solving ability through the application of some scientific method.
- Philosophical progress, the idea that philosophy has solved or at least can solve some of the questions it studies.
OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
OpenEdge Advanced Business Language, or OpenEdge ABL for short, is a business application development language created and maintained by Progress Software Corporation (PSC). The language, typically classified as a fourth-generation programming language, uses an English-like syntax to simplify software development. The language was called PROGRESS or Progress 4GL up until version 9, but in 2006 PSC changed the name to OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (OpenEdge ABL) in order to overcome a presumed industry perception that 4GLs were less capable than other languages. A subset of the language, called SpeedScript, is used in the development of web applications.
OpenEdge ABL helps developers to develop applications optionally using its own integrated relational database and programming tool. These applications are portable across computing systems and allow access to various popular data sources without having to learn the underlying data access methods. This means that the end-user of these products can be unaware of the underlying architecture.
Progress (train)
Progress was an express train between Prague, then the capital of Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Introduced in 1974, Progress went through a number of iterations, and also endured a one-year period off the rails, until it ceased running altogether in about 1990.
History
Progress first ran in 1974. Initially, it was categorised as a Schnellzug, D76/77, and ran between Praha-Holešovice in Prague and Berlin-Lichtenberg in East Berlin, GDR.
In 1986, Progress was recategorised as one of the new top-of-the-line Interexpress services, and renumbered as IEx 78/79. Its route remained as before.
Progress ran as an Interexpress only until 1988, when it disappeared from the timetable.
The following year, Progress was revived, and its route extended further north, from East Berlin to Rostock Hauptbahnhof in Rostock, GDR. However, it was soon discontinued once again.
See also
Alegria
Alegria or Alegría or Allegria may refer to:
Places
Music and entertainment
- Alegría (song), a song from this show
- Alegría (1999 film), a 1999 film adaptation of this show
- Allegria (1990 album), a 1990 album by the Gipsy Kings
People
Alegría (Marcos Witt album)
Alegría is the thirtieth album released by Christian singer Marcos Witt. The album was recorded live from Santiago, Chile. This album was winner of the Latin Grammy and Billboard Music Award in the category of Best Christian album. Track number 10 was sung by his daughter, Elena Witt.
Track listing
Awards
In 2007, Alegría was winner of the Latin Grammy and Billboard Music Award in the category of Best Christian album. It was also nominated for a Dove Award for Spanish Album of the Year at the 38th GMA Dove Awards.
Credits
Buddy Skipper – Choir Arrangement
Marcos Witt – Producer
Sergio González – Arranger, Arreglos
Roberto Juan Martínez – Piano, Arranger
Marcos Lopez – Arreglos
Juan Sanchez Concha – Trombone
Orlando Rodriguez – Engineer, Mixing
Salvador González – Trombone
Allan Villatoro – Arranger, Keyboards
Pablo A. Medina – Vocals
Jorge Santos – Production Coordination
Laura Blanchet – Cover Design
Alegría (Wayne Shorter album)
Alegría is an album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter released on Verve Records in 2003. It is the second album to feature the 'Footprints Quartet' of Shorter, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade.
The piece "Orbits" is a complete and quasi-orchestral re-imagining of the song of the same name, originally recorded by the Second Miles Davis Quintet and released on the album Miles Smiles in 1967. "Capricorn 2" revisits another Shorter composition first recorded by Davis in 1967 (though not released until 1976 on the primarily Shorter-composed Water Babies), while "Angola" dates from Shorter's own 1965 album, The Soothsayer.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars, stating that "this disc seemed to confirm a long-awaited creative Indian summer for Wayne Shorter." Similarly, contemporaneous reviews by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times and CMJ New Music Report's Tad Hendrickson happily noted Shorter's return to form.Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman commended both the album's "startling diversity" and the "imaginative, high-flying freedom [that characterizes] Shorter's playing," adding that Alegria offered "convincing testimony to Shorter's undiminished creativity."
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