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	Acting assignment - Part 2 of 2
		During an acting assignment, the employee is subject to the terms and conditions, applicable to the higher classification level.
		An employee in receipt of acting pay may be required to perform other duties on an acting basis, or may be appointed to a new substantive level that is the same, lower or higher classification level than that for which the acting pay is being paid.
		The acting rate of pay of the AS-02 position shall be the rate that is nearest to but not less than the rate of pay in the AS-01 position that the employee was receiving immediately prior to the acting assignment.
	www.tbs-sct.gc.ca /pubs_pol/hrpubs/tbm_11a/aa-ai1_e.asp (11177 words)

	Theater terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brechtian acting: acting style in which the actors purposefully try to alienate the audience from the characters in order to constantly remind them they are watching a play, based on the theories of Bertolt Brecht
		Method acting: acting style in which the ideal of a "true"(or "real") moment or impulse is valued most highly; the actors try to feel the emotions of the character so that the actors' choices and the characters' would be as one---i.e.
		The audience is given the freedom to explore the space together with the performance, and there is generally an element of audience interaction in the play.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acting_terms (1762 words)

	Acting For Animators - Articles
		Acting classes are a historically recent development, dating back only to 1897 when Constantin Stanislavski began his workshops at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia.
		Acting teachers, from the start, have been dependent on this same self-starting initiative on the part of the student actor.
		I was hired in 1996 to teach acting to the character animators at Pacific Data Images in Palo Alto, California, a cutting-edge animation powerhouse that was in pre-production for its first full-length animated feature, "Ants", for DreamWorks.
	www.actingforanimators.com /News/articles/actanima.html (1239 words)

	Entertainment Industry Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Act Curtain: Curtain usually closest to the proscenium, which when opened reveals the scene of playing area to the audience.
		Acting Area: The area of the stage where the play is performed.
		The Auteur theory insists that a film be considered in terms of the entire canon of a director and that each Auteur earns that title by displaying a unique cinematic style.
	celebrity-network.net /acting_terms/a.html (1048 words)

	Singh v C: SARS 63 SATC 490 - 2002/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Commissioner for SARS, acting in terms of s 31(1) of the Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991 made assessments in respect of a vendor’s Vat, penalty, interest and additional tax liability for a specified period.
		The Commissioner, acting in terms of s 40(2)(a) of Act 89 of 1991, filed with the court registrar a statement in which the amount was certified as owing by the vendor, such statement having the effect of a civil judgment.
		On the scheme of the Act and on its provisions no recourse to a court is required before the Commissioner files the statement and takes judgment.
	www.butterworths.co.za /taxalert/restrict/cases/2002-03/singh.htm (265 words)

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		Since well-formed terms ;;; are a particular case of terms of a signature (the signature that ;;; returns t for every eqlablep object and natural number), we could ;;; have proved the results for well-formed terms by functional ;;; instantiation of the corresponding results for signatures.
	www.cs.us.es /~jruiz/unificacion-dag/terms.lisp (1752 words)

	Acting Faces :: Terms & Conditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		These Terms govern your access to the Service except where there are separate terms and conditions relevant to particular areas of the Service, which are indicated on if required on the appropriate page of the site.
		Laws and Miscellaneous Provisions These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and you hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
		If any provision of these Terms is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the law then such provisions shall be construed as far as possible to reflect the intention of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect.
	www.actingfaces.com /terms.asp (1130 words)

	ACTING DEPOT: Terms Of Service
		Acting Depot provides its service to you, subject to the following Terms of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you.
		Acting Depot also may offer other services from time to time and may be governed by different Terms of Services.
		Acting Depot may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice.
	www.actingdepot.com /termsofservice.htm (441 words)

	SPECHT v NETSCAPE,
		As the foregoing cases suggest, receipt of a physical document containing contract terms or notice thereof is frequently deemed, in the world of paper transactions, a sufficient circumstance to place the offeree on inquiry notice of those terms.
		That is, even though the parties' dispute concerns matters clearly collateral to the Communicator license terms, we must determine whether plaintiffs by their particular allegations have brought the dispute within the license terms.
		There, the plaintiff's terms of use of its information were well known to the defendant, which took the information daily with full awareness that it was using the information in a manner prohibited by the terms of the plaintiff's offer.
	fsnews.findlaw.com /cases/2nd/017860.html (8915 words)

	Theatre Dictionary II
		Given circumstances Stanislavsky's term, describing the situation of a character(s) at the scene, which actor must construct in his exposition.
		Modernism the general trend in the methods, styles, and philosophy of artists involving a break with the traditions of the past and a serach for new modes of expression.
		poor theater: Jerzy Grotowski's term for a theater which seeks (by choice or necessity) to eliminate everything not entirely essential to the performance (e.g., scenery, elaborate costumes, makeup, high-tech lighting); "found" objects and costumes are used and the actors themselves create effects to support the production (see also via negativa).
	afronord.tripod.com /thr/dict.html (1576 words)

	Page 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It acts as a buffer between the active ingredients and prevents their going into reaction when exposed to moisture.
		The fast acting acid, mono calcium phosphate, reacts when the baking powder is dissolved in cold water.
		Slow acting baking powder is best used for a batter that must stand as only 1/3 of the CO is released into the cold batter.
	www.library.ubc.ca /ereserve/hunu201/fdmanual/page97.htm (556 words)

	ABWAG to learn acting
		Acting is like a hang nail; why pull it when you can cut it.
		The actor has to learn all the acting principles, then the principles have to become subliminal in their acting.
		Acting on the stage and for the camera are the same, the difference is proportions.
	www.abwag.com (1083 words)

	Theater - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.
		In addition to the standard narrative dialog style, theatre takes such forms as opera, ballet, mime, kabuki, classical Indian dance, Chinese opera, mummers' plays and pantomime.
		A comedy of manners is concerned with social usage and the question of whether or not characters meet certain social standards.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Theater (1428 words)

	Wikinfo \| Theater
		Theater, spelled theatre in British English and by a large number of American theatre professionals, is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, sound and spectacle - indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.
		In addition to the standard narrative dialog style, theater takes such forms as opera, ballet, mime, and pantomime.
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	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Theater (728 words)

	Acting Glossary
		Emotional memory Stanislavsky's term, describing an actor's "work on himself" in acting.
		When the actors assume roles in a drama, they are acting "as if" they are someone else.
		Scenic unity the practice of harmonizing acting style, costumes, and sets to creat the illusion of a single, unified environment on the stage.
	www.vtheatre.net /acting/dict.html (1785 words)

	acting terms
		Definitions of terms and phrases commonly used in film, acting and cinemagoing.
		James Kendrick's review with list of DVD features: "In some ways, 'Cat People' is like 'Exorcist II,' particularly in terms of its sloppy storytelling, but it is more grounded and...
		If the camp is for sports, acting, or some other competitive nature, how competitive are the kids allowed to be?
	www.actingschoolz.com /acting/actingterms.html (623 words)

	Acting with Anatoly, Part One - Character
		Since most of acting is acquired through experience, it's extremely difficult to bring it in formulas, terminology and rules.
		Introduces the basics of acting for the camera, an area of growing interest to students today.
		Contains an appendix of sample scenes that can be used as exercise material for students and an appendix of useful plays for students' further reading and practice.
	act.vtheatre.net /part1.html (1337 words)

	DR-Glossary
		Refers to Stanislavskian acting technique in which an actor recreates an emotion on stage by remembering a parallel experience in his or her life.
		It is essentially by means of structure, staging, and acting that alienation is effected; it is for the purpose of alienation that Brechtian structure, staging, and acting are what they are.
		An artistic movement particularly strong in the theatre of the 1920s which sought to replace the representational use of external objects to create a verisimilar reality with an emotional use in which objects became the depictions of a character's or author's moods, understanding, or subjectivity.
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/ContempDrama/DR-Glossary.htm (5834 words)

	Modeling and Acting Terms
		Curtain call: - A term used in theatre where the performers come out on the stage at the conclusion of the performance for the audience to show their appreciation by clapping while the actors take a bow or two.
		Method acting: - acting style in which the "true"(or "real") moment or response is performed.
		YOur resume outlines all the projects you have been involved in, the roles you played, the companies you have modeled for, the training you have and any skills or talent you have including dance, singing, sports or any talents other talents you think might be worth mentioning.
	www.extrasformovies.com /acting_modeling_terms.asp (1666 words)

	Acting terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Brechtian acting : acting style in which theactors purposefully try to alienate the audience from the characters in order to constantly remind them they are watching a play,based on the theories of Bertolt Brecht
		Emotionalmemory : in Method acting, when an actor attempts to drawupon memories of prior emotions to match the emotions of their character
		Method acting : acting style in which the ideal of a"true"(or "real") moment or impulse is valued most highly; the actors try to feel the emotions of the character so that theactors' choices and the characters' would be as one---i.e.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/acting-terms-20718.html (1460 words)

	Theater terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Brechtian acting : acting style in which the actors try to alienate the audience from the in order to constantly remind them they watching a play based on the theories Bertolt Brecht
		Emotional memory : in Method acting when an actor attempts to draw memories of prior emotions to match the of their character
		Method acting : acting style in which the ideal a "true"(or "real") moment or impulse valued most highly; the actors try to the emotions of the character so that actors' choices and the characters' would be one---i.e.
	www.freeglossary.com /Acting_terms (1607 words)

	Acting School - KD Studio - Short Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		His acting philosophy is based on these principles...He felt that acting should come from the heart first, not the head and was bothered by the feeling that there was a loss of connection between actors when performing (people going off and doing their own thing rather than staying connected and collaborating).
		His approach to acting is primarily aimed at creating a truthful exchange between actors.
		She has acted, directed and taught professionally in New York and around the US in many of the regional theaters.
	www.kdstudio.com /shortcourses.html (2475 words)

	Acting Terms Hatha Yoga Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Home hatha yoga acting terms hatha yoga advanced hatha yoga postures anatomy of hatha yoga benefits of hatha yoga bikram hatha yoga...
		I thought of yoga in terms of progress in my practice, but lately I've come to see that yoga...
		Only after it was brought in the Western world, the terms in which it was described were changed.
	obtainfull.info /yoga/Acting-Terms-Hatha-Yoga.html (275 words)

	Acting Terms-The Audition Studio
		Allows non-union actors to work their first union job and any others within a 30-day period of the first booking without having to join the union.
		Acting done with the script in your hand, unmemorized or partially memorized.
		It is for the technitians and the designers, and the 'acting' must take a back seat.
	www.theauditionstudio.com /business/terms.html (1554 words)

	Star Search Casting Forums -> Glossary of Acting Terms
		Acting for CD-ROM's is a new arena for actors.
		Now officially called "Showcase code", the term "Equity waiver" is still used informally.
		WAIVERS - Union-approved permission for deviation from the terms of a contract.
	www.starsearchcasting.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=538 (3486 words)

	Book Reviews - Coming to Terms With Acting: An Instructive Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I am learning sense memory in my acting class and I use the book and my teacher say "great!" but I know I got it from the book.
		I have studied with some really good acting teachers but this book has made an incredible difference in my understanding of the craft of acting.
		I don't think anyone can learn acting from a book, but if you could, this would be the book to do it.
	www.book-reviews.ws /book-reviews/0896761215 (333 words)

	Theater terms
		Anti-naturalist: acting style in which the audience is kept aware that they are watching a performance rather than reality (see Brectian Acting)
		A final practice of the play before performance, with all actors wearing full costumes.
		Promenade a performance of a play in which the actors and audience occupy the same space, with no distinction bewteen acting area and audience area.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/th/theater_terms.html (1531 words)

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