Neal Zaslavsky (born June 22, 1968) is a Southern California-based Management and Political Consultant and commissioner on the West Hollywood, California Eastside Project Advisory Committee, the city's advisory commission for issues within its redevelopment zone.
Early life and education
Neal Zaslavsky, eldest son of Howard and Helene Wernick Zaslavsky, was born in 1968 in New York City and raised in the New Jersey suburbs. Upon graduation from high school at the age of 16, Zaslavsky enrolled at Boston University in the College of Arts and Sciences. After his grandmother suffered a severe and debilitating stroke during his freshman year of college, Zaslavsky relocated to Tucson, Arizona to look after his beloved grandmother while continuing his education. Upon baccalaureate graduation from the University of Arizona with degrees in Spanish Language and Literature and Political Science, he accepted a full graduate fellowship in American Political Institutions and Behavior from the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona.
Zaslavsky was very active in the Tucson community, and sat on the boards of multiple political and philanthropic organizations. Because of his well-established political involvement, including several terms as a county-wide deputy registrar, state committeeman, convention delegate, legislative district vice-chairman and member of both the county steering committee and county finance committee for his political party, he was a frequently-requested guest lecturer on the subject of local political organization, both for educational audiences and for local news stations’ election analysis and coverage.
Professional career
After finishing graduate school and a year in marketing and advertising, Zaslavsky relocated to the Los Angeles area and began a freelance management and political consulting practice. Catering to the large émigré community from the former Soviet Union on the west side of greater Los Angeles, he also owned and operated a franchised Russian language radio and television broadcasting service, which he eventually sold back to the parent franchisor at a profit.
Zaslavsky was president of the Rotary Club of West Hollywood, and has served several terms on the Board of Directors of the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce (1996 to 2003). Zaslavsky has advised numerous business start-ups, and has consulted on more than two dozen political races at the national, state and municipal levels. He has also written several policy papers and political speeches, including a State of the City address for former West Hollywood Mayor Sal Guarriello.
In November, 2006, Zaslavsky was unanimously appointed by the West Hollywood City Council to fill a vacant board seat on the Eastside Project Advisory Committee, the city’s advisory commission for issues within its redevelopment zone. In June 2007, he was unanimously appointed to a full two-year term on the commission. In September 2009, Zaslavsky was appointed to a third two-year term
Legal career
In late 2007, Zaslavsky took a sabbatical from his consulting practice to return to school to fulfill a lifelong dream of receiving his Juris Doctorate degree. Zaslavsky entered the prestigious SCALE program at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. Southwestern, founded in 1911, originally established the SCALE program in 1974 with a historical grant from the Federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. This elite, two full calendar year J.D. program, emphasizes conceptual learning and hands-on simulation training, promoting spontaneous, in-depth, two-way communication and continuous feedback to its small group of students.
During the summer of 2009, Zaslavsky worked as a judicial extern with the in Buenos Aires. Zaslavsky also guest-lectured on the structure of the American Judicial System and the American Grand Jury system at the University of Buenos Aires Law School and wrote an article on American Grand Juries published by the Fundación de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Jurídicas (Foundation for Higher Studies in the Juridical Sciences) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Miscellaneous
Zaslavsky is an avid traveler, and has visited 15 countries and 44 of the U.S. States. He was an international exchange student in Teruel, Spain. Zaslavsky is also a frequent op-ed contributor to the WeHo News, the local newspaper in West Hollywood.
Early life and education
Neal Zaslavsky, eldest son of Howard and Helene Wernick Zaslavsky, was born in 1968 in New York City and raised in the New Jersey suburbs. Upon graduation from high school at the age of 16, Zaslavsky enrolled at Boston University in the College of Arts and Sciences. After his grandmother suffered a severe and debilitating stroke during his freshman year of college, Zaslavsky relocated to Tucson, Arizona to look after his beloved grandmother while continuing his education. Upon baccalaureate graduation from the University of Arizona with degrees in Spanish Language and Literature and Political Science, he accepted a full graduate fellowship in American Political Institutions and Behavior from the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona.
Zaslavsky was very active in the Tucson community, and sat on the boards of multiple political and philanthropic organizations. Because of his well-established political involvement, including several terms as a county-wide deputy registrar, state committeeman, convention delegate, legislative district vice-chairman and member of both the county steering committee and county finance committee for his political party, he was a frequently-requested guest lecturer on the subject of local political organization, both for educational audiences and for local news stations’ election analysis and coverage.
Professional career
After finishing graduate school and a year in marketing and advertising, Zaslavsky relocated to the Los Angeles area and began a freelance management and political consulting practice. Catering to the large émigré community from the former Soviet Union on the west side of greater Los Angeles, he also owned and operated a franchised Russian language radio and television broadcasting service, which he eventually sold back to the parent franchisor at a profit.
Zaslavsky was president of the Rotary Club of West Hollywood, and has served several terms on the Board of Directors of the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce (1996 to 2003). Zaslavsky has advised numerous business start-ups, and has consulted on more than two dozen political races at the national, state and municipal levels. He has also written several policy papers and political speeches, including a State of the City address for former West Hollywood Mayor Sal Guarriello.
In November, 2006, Zaslavsky was unanimously appointed by the West Hollywood City Council to fill a vacant board seat on the Eastside Project Advisory Committee, the city’s advisory commission for issues within its redevelopment zone. In June 2007, he was unanimously appointed to a full two-year term on the commission. In September 2009, Zaslavsky was appointed to a third two-year term
Legal career
In late 2007, Zaslavsky took a sabbatical from his consulting practice to return to school to fulfill a lifelong dream of receiving his Juris Doctorate degree. Zaslavsky entered the prestigious SCALE program at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. Southwestern, founded in 1911, originally established the SCALE program in 1974 with a historical grant from the Federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. This elite, two full calendar year J.D. program, emphasizes conceptual learning and hands-on simulation training, promoting spontaneous, in-depth, two-way communication and continuous feedback to its small group of students.
During the summer of 2009, Zaslavsky worked as a judicial extern with the in Buenos Aires. Zaslavsky also guest-lectured on the structure of the American Judicial System and the American Grand Jury system at the University of Buenos Aires Law School and wrote an article on American Grand Juries published by the Fundación de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Jurídicas (Foundation for Higher Studies in the Juridical Sciences) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Miscellaneous
Zaslavsky is an avid traveler, and has visited 15 countries and 44 of the U.S. States. He was an international exchange student in Teruel, Spain. Zaslavsky is also a frequent op-ed contributor to the WeHo News, the local newspaper in West Hollywood.
Columbo Tip. Slang expression for someone who's "on it," well informed, and who "knows what he/she is doing." Thus, one would say, "He's really on the Columbo tip." This compliment can be for someone who is, for example, wearing the latest fashion, or being up-to-date on internet memes. Like all compliments, of course, this expression can be communicated in a sarcastic tone. For example, if one wanted to make fun of a person's outdated sense of style, one might say with a smirk, "ooooh, she's really on the Columbo tip."
Possible origin of this slang expression: , a 16th century lecturer in surgery, was thought to be the first (at least for the male, western world!), to identify the clitoris entry Clitoris. Hence, someone on the "Columbo tip" is thought to know where the clitoris is, figuratively speaking. This expression is rarely used in reference to sexual talents, however.
Possible origin of this slang expression: , a 16th century lecturer in surgery, was thought to be the first (at least for the male, western world!), to identify the clitoris entry Clitoris. Hence, someone on the "Columbo tip" is thought to know where the clitoris is, figuratively speaking. This expression is rarely used in reference to sexual talents, however.
AnimED - Visual Novel Tools is a free Open Source GUI-based toolkit for working with Japanese Visual Novel engines. It's primarily written in Object Pascal, compiled for Microsoft Windows and released under custom BSD-alike license. It's based on popular components and modules, such as ZLibEx, PNGImage, JVCL and others.
AnimED support it's own GUI translation into many languages. Natively, it's shipped with English (build-in) and Russian. There also were translations into Hungarian, Spanish and Ukrainian, but currently they're outdated and excluded from main trunk.
Features
AnimED is able to open, extract, decrypt, create and encrypt various archive, image, audio and script formats of the mostly common (and exotic) Visual Novel Engines, such as nScripter, KiriKiri2/KAG3, Will Co, IKURA GDL and many others. Since version 0.6.8.404, over 42 different engines are supported. The tool is under active development, so it's internals are constantly rewritten, and the number of supported formats expands from one release to another.
Since version 0.6.8.400, Unicode filenames for drag-n-drop, command line and shell dialogs are natively supported. The tool uses internal Unicode <-> Shift-JIS locale-independent conversion for filenames (which can be partially turned off in program preferences - it enables backwards-compatibility with older versions of AnimED and allows, for example, to create and handle "non-standard" archives with locale-dependant filename entries, just as if there was no Unicode support).
Interface
AnimED is made as solid all-in-one executable, which is virtually splitted into several independent tools-tabsheets, named "Game Archive Tool", "Audio Tool", "Image Tool", "Scenario Tool", etc.
Game archive tool
Game Archive Tool is the primary part of AnimED. It's interface resemble "normal" archivers in many ways, with several simplifications - there's no "Add file" or "Delete file" buttons and functionality (it's only possible to create new archives or extract an existant), no "visualised" directory structures (file pathes are shown as parts of filenames), etc. Such "incomplete" functionality was selected because most of VN archive format specifications do not allow changes for filetable structures. File and archive properties window design reproduces Windows Explorer analogue with integrated WinRAR shell extension, but with three cube bars instead of one.
Audio Tool
Audio Tool is currently under reconstruction.
Image Tool
Image Tool is the secondary important part of AnimED. It has two previews for loaded image, where the image base is shown on the left side, and it's alpha mask (or so-called alpha channel) is shown on the right side. Since Image Tool was developed especially for handling Visual Novel images, it support external loadable alpha-masks from grayscale (or automatically grayscaled on loading) image files, as well as "extraction" of alpha mask from right or left part of image (such type of mask image is natively used in nScripter and Visual Novels by Japanese studio CROWD). Along alpha mask handling, it supports simple image manipulations, such as color swapping (do not work for 16-bit images), negative (separately for image and alpha), vertical flipping, 6 different methods of grayscale conversion, etc.
Image Tool - GrapS
Image Tool - GrapS (acronym of Graphical Scanner) is a powerful tool for software reverse engineers. It allows to "salvage" image data from software memory dumps, as well as directly scan memory of the process by entering appropriate virtual memory addresses. It supports 16,24 and 32 bit graphics. 8-bit graphics is partially supported, since there's no way to correctly dump image's palette, because it's usually stored outside of image itself.
Scenario Tool
Scenario Tool is currently under reconstruction.
Misc Tool
Misc Tool is a simple file decryption tool. It support several conversion methods, including xor by constant, xor by key file, etc.
History
Originally started in January 2007 by Dmitri Poguliayev (WinKiller Studio) as unofficial SDK for working with data files.
Since April 2009, Nikita Voronov has joined the project. Also, many code has been contributed by Ilja "Serke", Vladimir "Vendor" (Honyaku-Subs), "Marisa-Chan" and Pavel "p4s".
AnimED support it's own GUI translation into many languages. Natively, it's shipped with English (build-in) and Russian. There also were translations into Hungarian, Spanish and Ukrainian, but currently they're outdated and excluded from main trunk.
Features
AnimED is able to open, extract, decrypt, create and encrypt various archive, image, audio and script formats of the mostly common (and exotic) Visual Novel Engines, such as nScripter, KiriKiri2/KAG3, Will Co, IKURA GDL and many others. Since version 0.6.8.404, over 42 different engines are supported. The tool is under active development, so it's internals are constantly rewritten, and the number of supported formats expands from one release to another.
Since version 0.6.8.400, Unicode filenames for drag-n-drop, command line and shell dialogs are natively supported. The tool uses internal Unicode <-> Shift-JIS locale-independent conversion for filenames (which can be partially turned off in program preferences - it enables backwards-compatibility with older versions of AnimED and allows, for example, to create and handle "non-standard" archives with locale-dependant filename entries, just as if there was no Unicode support).
Interface
AnimED is made as solid all-in-one executable, which is virtually splitted into several independent tools-tabsheets, named "Game Archive Tool", "Audio Tool", "Image Tool", "Scenario Tool", etc.
Game archive tool
Game Archive Tool is the primary part of AnimED. It's interface resemble "normal" archivers in many ways, with several simplifications - there's no "Add file" or "Delete file" buttons and functionality (it's only possible to create new archives or extract an existant), no "visualised" directory structures (file pathes are shown as parts of filenames), etc. Such "incomplete" functionality was selected because most of VN archive format specifications do not allow changes for filetable structures. File and archive properties window design reproduces Windows Explorer analogue with integrated WinRAR shell extension, but with three cube bars instead of one.
Audio Tool
Audio Tool is currently under reconstruction.
Image Tool
Image Tool is the secondary important part of AnimED. It has two previews for loaded image, where the image base is shown on the left side, and it's alpha mask (or so-called alpha channel) is shown on the right side. Since Image Tool was developed especially for handling Visual Novel images, it support external loadable alpha-masks from grayscale (or automatically grayscaled on loading) image files, as well as "extraction" of alpha mask from right or left part of image (such type of mask image is natively used in nScripter and Visual Novels by Japanese studio CROWD). Along alpha mask handling, it supports simple image manipulations, such as color swapping (do not work for 16-bit images), negative (separately for image and alpha), vertical flipping, 6 different methods of grayscale conversion, etc.
Image Tool - GrapS
Image Tool - GrapS (acronym of Graphical Scanner) is a powerful tool for software reverse engineers. It allows to "salvage" image data from software memory dumps, as well as directly scan memory of the process by entering appropriate virtual memory addresses. It supports 16,24 and 32 bit graphics. 8-bit graphics is partially supported, since there's no way to correctly dump image's palette, because it's usually stored outside of image itself.
Scenario Tool
Scenario Tool is currently under reconstruction.
Misc Tool
Misc Tool is a simple file decryption tool. It support several conversion methods, including xor by constant, xor by key file, etc.
History
Originally started in January 2007 by Dmitri Poguliayev (WinKiller Studio) as unofficial SDK for working with data files.
Since April 2009, Nikita Voronov has joined the project. Also, many code has been contributed by Ilja "Serke", Vladimir "Vendor" (Honyaku-Subs), "Marisa-Chan" and Pavel "p4s".
The Italo-Greek Orthodox Church or Italo-Byzantine Orthodox Church claims to be an independent group of churches in North America following a Greek Orthodox style of worship but with no canonical or sacramental ties to the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church. It is not to be confused with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy, a diocese of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople. It claims a following of 3,000 people spread across two parishes. However, the Archdiocese's home page provides no evidence of any functioning communities other than the Cathedral Parish in Utica, New York which has not had any scheduled services since at least Easter Season 2009.