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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in Switzerland.
IATA's mission is to represent, lead, and serve the airline industry. IATA represents some 240 airlines comprising 84% of scheduled international air traffic. The Director General and Chief Executive Officer is Tony Tyler. Currently, IATA is present in over 150 countries covered through 101 offices around the globe.
IATA was formed on 19 April 1945, in Havana, Cuba. It is the successor to the International Air Traffic Association, founded in The Hague in 1919, the year of the world's first international scheduled services. At its founding, IATA had 57 members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has about 243 members (as of April 2012) from more than 126 nations in every part of the world.
A code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture) into another form or representation (one sign into another sign), not necessarily of the same type.
In communications and information processing, encoding is the process by which information from a source is converted into symbols to be communicated. Decoding is the reverse process, converting these code symbols back into information understandable by a receiver.
One reason for coding is to enable communication in places where ordinary spoken or written language is difficult or impossible. For example, semaphore, where the configuration of flags held by a signaller or the arms of a semaphore tower encodes parts of the message, typically individual letters and numbers. Another person standing a great distance away can interpret the flags and reproduce the words sent.
In information theory and computer science, a code is usually considered as an algorithm which uniquely represents symbols from some source alphabet, by encoded strings, which may be in some other target alphabet. An extension of the code for representing sequences of symbols over the source alphabet is obtained by concatenating the encoded strings.
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Six a.m., the sun is coming up
And I'm sitting on a bench in Westerpark with my fake carreras on
Well I'm feeling halfway spun, I'm singing with the bums
But there's a smile on my face man I got love for everyone
Cause when life gives me lemons
I make gin and tonics
And when things get fucked up
That's when I'm happiest
And I know what you're thinking
That it looks like I've been up for weeks
And I'm sweating and I'm shaking but I'm smiling cause I know it's gonna be okay
So I'll keep my slip flops on
You can keep your fucking job
And if you put me in a cubicle
I'll use it to hang my hammock up
And if ya kiss this frog
You ain't gonna get no prince
You'll probably just get something
You need a prescription to fix
So when life gives you lemons
Just make gin and tonics
And when things get fucked up