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- Vivienne Soan | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Vivienne Soan Voice & Recorder Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #02 30 August 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Tom Scott | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Tom Scott Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #176 15 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- NHS Pharmacy First Service
Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back NHS Pharmacy First Service Start Time 12:30 Running Time 30 Minutes Location 8. Pender Pharmacy Event Type Talk About the Event Introduction THIS EVENT IS BEING UPDATED Stephen Kane, longtime Gravesend resident and owner of Pender Pharmacy, introduces the NHS Pharmacy First Service. This new initiative allows patients to seek treatment for common conditions directly at the pharmacy, bypassing GP visits for faster, accessible care. More on the event lead Stephen Kane, a pharmacist who has served Gravesend since 1988, is now the owner of Pender Pharmacy on the High Street. Founded by Jack Pender in the early 1970s, the pharmacy has a strong community legacy, transitioning from a traditional dispenser to a centre for clinical advice and modern services. Joining Stephen will be local resident and toxicologist Mark, with a background in mechanical engineering. Mark brings expertise in the pharmaceutical manufacture of cytotoxic medicines, including freeze-dried vials and tablet forms. Later in the day, Mark will present a separate talk focused on the complexities of medicine packaging. Event Information This event is Free Suitable for 16+ ___ Even more information ___ At Penders Pharmacy, Stephen will outline the benefits of the newly introduced NHS Pharmacy First Service, a program designed to handle eight clinical pathways where patients can directly approach the pharmacy for treatment. This initiative marks a shift in the role of pharmacies in the UK, focusing on clinical care and reducing reliance on GPs. Stephen will discuss the types of conditions treated, from minor ailments to more common health concerns, and how Penders offers a walk-in, community-based solution, minimizing wait times and enhancing accessibility. The session will also reflect on the transformation of pharmacy over the decades, from counting tablets to delivering clinical services and direct medical advice - highlighting how pharmacies like Penders continue to adapt to meet community needs in a changing healthcare landscape. ___ What is Pharmacy First? Pharmacy First will enable community pharmacists to supply prescription-only medicines, including antibiotics and antivirals where clinically appropriate, to treat seven common health conditions without the need to visit a GP. What are the seven common conditions? Sinusitis Sore throat Earache Infected insect bite Impetigo (a bacterial skin infection) Shingles Uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women. Previous Next
- Aidan Searle | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Aidan Searle Drums Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 28 May 2025 Flimflam 24 September 2025 Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Ras Cassette | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Ras Cassette Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 Out of gallery Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Nick Roth | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Nick Roth Amplified Saxophone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Jan23 9 January 2023 Boat-Ting Jan 2023 http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Benjy Sandler | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Benjy Sandler Alto Saxophone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #39 28 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST) | FourthPortal
< Back Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST) In 2018, the Fourth Portal curated delivery of the £5m EPSRC FAST programme to the music industry at Abbey Road studios, demonstrating the very latest technologies for end-to-end music production and delivery. The videos that follow provide an overview of the programme and demonstrators developed. C4DM, Queen Mary, University of London 3 Mar 2024 The Fusing Audio and Semantic Technology (FAST) programme was presented to the music industry at Abbey Road Studios in 2018. Its mission was to demonstrate the very latest technologies to bear on the complete industry, end-to-end, producer-to-consumer, making the production process more fruitful, the consumption process more engaging, and the delivery and intermediation more automated and robust. https://vimeo.com/297989936 Background Music is probably the most pervasive of the performing arts, and perhaps, the most abused (think of your recent shopping trips!). It has tremendous power to influence our emotions, often subliminally. The advent of recording in the 19th Century made it possible to enjoy music at a time, and in a place, different from the performance. Compression, broadband and the ever-increasing capacity to aggregate large collections mean that the issues confronting music consumers have totally changed in nature: equally so for professionals, such as broadcasters (playlists for radio, music for documentaries, etc.) and those at the creative heart of the process: musicians, sound engineers and producers. The recorded music industry has grappled unsuccessfully with digital technology and the rate of adoption of new technologies has been slow, ironically, mostly in fear of piracy and loss of revenue. Given the social and economic importance of music, it is vital that the industry's crisis is averted and its decline reversed. Simple semantics and metadata are already helping (for example in recommendation and sharing services) but this is just the beginning. The next-generation semantic technologies that are the focus of this proposal have the power to exact the turnaround that music (and other content industries) needs but this should be established via a fundamental and principled exploration of how semantic technologies underpin music throughout the value chain. The proposal brought the latest technologies to bear on the complete industry, end-to-end, producer to consumer, making the production process more fruitful, the consumption process more engaging, and the delivery and intermediation more automated and robust. In this project we will address 3 premises: (i) that Semantic Web technologies should be deployed throughout the content value chain from producer to consumer; (ii) that advanced signal processing should be employed in the content production phases to extract "pure" features of perceptual significance and represent these in standard vocabularies; (iii) that this combination of semantic technologies and content-derived metadata leads to advantages (and new products and services) at many points in the value chain, from recording studio to end-user (listener) devices and applications. https://vimeo.com/297974486 Partners The project will work with partners from industry - BBC R&D, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Omnifone) as well as internationally - the International Audio Labs, a joint initiative of the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen and the local university, and the Internet Archive, one of the world's major on-line libraries. We will engage with other universities in the UK supported by a partnership fund and via the BBC Audio Research Partnership. https://vimeo.com/297981584 Present Impact This programme is fostering new ways for professionals to work with music in the studio and for consumers to engage in their homes. It will support new business models that emphasise the whole experience of musical involvement, and discover ways to monetise the metadata as well as the essential content. The technologies to be researched support new ways of learning (about and playing) music as well as new ways of teaching and performing. And because the project will encompass vast quantities of music data and metadata, from heterogeneous sources, and will stress test emerging principles of big data, distributed intelligence and future generation web, it also addresses key questions of wide significance to EPSRC's ICT Programme, particularly relating to Intelligent Information Systems and Working Together. https://vimeo.com/297970119 https://www.semanticaudio.ac.uk/software/ For more: Meta Tags, Algorithm, Linked Data, AI, Design, Audio, Standards Previous Next
- Benji | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Benji Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #1 31 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Mihee Kim | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Mihee Kim Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Andrei Abramov | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Andrei Abramov Electronics Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #38 9 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Mick Beck | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Mick Beck Bassoon / Tenor Sax Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct 2025 http://Website or social media email or phone number

