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George by pushing him down a deserted well in the garden of Audley Court. Robert grieves for his friend George until Luke Marks, who was fatally injured in the fire, manages, before dying, to tell Robert that George survived Lady Audley's attempted murder and that George, with Luke's help, left intending to return to A... | George. When the two seek an audience with the new Lady Audley, she makes many excuses to avoid their visit, but he and Robert are shown a portrait of her by Alicia Audley, Robert's cousin. George appears greatly struck by the portrait, unbeknownst to Robert (who credits the unfavourable reaction to that evening's stor... |
controlled independently) surrounded by circular and radial muscles. Because the volume of the tentacle remains constant, contracting the circular muscles decreases the radius and permits the rapid increase in length. Typically a 70% lengthening is achieved by decreasing the width by 23%. The shorter arms lack this cap... | invertebrates, and they can out-accelerate most fish. The jet is supplemented with fin motion; in the squid, the fins flap each time that a jet is released, amplifying the thrust; they are then extended between jets (presumably to avoid sinking). Oxygenated water is taken into the mantle cavity to the gills and through... |
copper cable or an optical fiber. Some of the signal power may be reflected back to its origin rather than being carried all the way along the cable to the far end. This happens because imperfections in the cable cause impedance mismatches and non-linear changes in the cable characteristics. These abrupt changes in cha... | practice this is often measured in a dimensionless ratio known as voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) with a VSWR bridge. The ratio of energy bounced back depends on the impedance mismatch. Mathematically, it is defined using the reflection coefficient. Because the principles are the same, this concept is perhaps easies... |
In 1962, in the midst of the civil rights movement, Emory embraced the initiative to end racial restrictions when it asked the courts to declare portions of the Georgia statutes unconstitutional. Previously, Georgia law denied tax-exempt status to private universities with racially integrated student bodies. The Suprem... | to any institution of higher education in American history. Twenty-first century The latest additions to the Atlanta Campus include buildings for cancer research, biomedical research, scientific computation, mathematics and science, vaccine research, and the performing arts. Prior to 2018 the campus was in an unincorpo... |
name and site of the ancient oracle of Dodona. Oedipus the King was shot here in 1967. Municipality The present municipality Dodoni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that | the ancient city of same name and site of the ancient oracle of Dodona. Oedipus the King was shot here in 1967. Municipality The present municipality Dodoni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, |
both religious and non-religious, as an aspect of a new religious movement, as rooted in Hinduism, and as a non-religious practice for self-development. The public presentation of the TM technique over its 50-year history has been praised for its high visibility in the mass media and effective global propagation, and c... | had been taught to millions of individuals and the Maharishi was overseeing a large multinational movement. Despite organizational changes and the addition of advanced meditative techniques in the 1970s, the Transcendental Meditation technique has remained relatively unchanged. Among the first organizations to promote ... |
VoC or voc may refer to: Science and technology Open-circuit voltage (VOC), the voltage between two terminals when there is no external load connected Variant of concern, a category used during the assessment of a new variant | Vancouver Olympics Vannes Olympique Club, a French association football club VOC Amsterdam, a women's handball club in the Netherlands Other uses V. O. Chidambaram Pillai (1872–1936), Indian lawyer, trade union leader, shipping magnate and freedom fighter |
of their Indonesian activities (except trading in Banten) and focused on other Asian interests. Growth In 1619, Jan Pieterszoon Coen was appointed Governor-General of the VOC. He saw the possibility of the VOC becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. On 30 May 1619, Coen, backed by a force of nineteen ship... | To manage such risk, the forming of a cartel to control supply would seem logical. In 1600, the English were the first to adopt this approach by bundling their resources into a monopoly enterprise, the English East India Company, thereby threatening their Dutch competitors with ruin. In 1602, the Dutch government follo... |
liquid during acoustic cavitation. The more technical name is sonofusion. The term was coined in 2002 with the release of a report by Rusi Taleyarkhan and collaborators that claimed to have observed evidence of sonofusion. The claim was quickly surrounded by controversy, including allegations ranging from experimental ... | bubble fusion were published by the Taleyarkhan group, claiming that the results of previous experiments had been replicated under more stringent experimental conditions. These results differed from the original results in that fusion was claimed to occur over longer times than previously reported. The original report ... |
deal since its inception in 1893. Some of their early accomplishments include passage of the city's first zoning laws, contributing input to the planning of the city's subway line, and the commissioning of public art throughout the city. By the 1950s, scores of notable Manhattan buildings were lost to redevelopment aro... | City Landmarks Law, enacted in 1965. In 1965, public outrage over the destruction of Pennsylvania Station and the Brokaw Mansion helped fuel the Society's mission towards preservation. With like-minded groups, they finally succeeded in establishing New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission, and New York's Landmarks ... |
City of New York is home to many arts organizations. They include: American Dance Festival Bronx Council on the Arts Brooklyn Academy of | York Foundation for the Arts The Public Theater New York City-related lists Culture of New York City |
of the Los Angeles Community College District and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It serves 22,000 students each semester. The college began with 70 students and 18 faculty members on September 15, 1947. Originally known as the Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture, the institution'... | for Pierce College hosts Farmwalk, an outdoor festival including animals, activities, displays, games and music. The Farmwalk also includes face-painting, a petting-zoo and hayrides for children, all to benefit the Pierce College farm. The Farm Center on the corner of Victory and De Soto is a parcel that was partnered ... |
students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages: over half of all LACCD students are older than 25 years of age, and more than a quarter are 35 or older. LACCD educates almost three times as many Latino students and nearly four times as many African-American students as all of the University of California campuses c... | is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California, and some of its neighboring cities and certain unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Its headquarters are in Downtown Los Angeles. Over the past seventy-seven years LACCD has served as educator to more than three million students. In addition to t... |
work cluster might be done by sending a JMS message to a 'message queue' and could also be handled by a Message Driven Bean, but this time listening to a queue (the message paradigm and the queue is used, since the sender doesn't have to care which worker executes the job, but it does need assurance that a job is only ... | To support JAX-WS, the session bean is annotated with the @WebService annotation, and methods that are to be exposed remotely with the @WebMethod annotation.. Although the EJB specification does not mention exposure as RESTful web services in any way and has no explicit support for this form of communication, the JAX-R... |
executor of Ellison's collected works. After the strike ended, the producers of the new Twilight Zone needed to create more episodes to be able to sell the series into syndication with a complete 65-episode package. They hired Straczynski as executive story editor to fill in the remaining number of needed episodes. Str... | runs on Thor and Fantastic Four. He is also the author of the Superman: Earth One trilogy of graphic novels, and he has written Superman, Wonder Woman, and Before Watchmen for DC Comics. Straczynski is the creator and writer of several original comic book series such as Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, Dream Police, and ... |
the amount dissolved in water is too great; for sonoluminescence to occur, the concentration must be reduced to 20–40% of its equilibrium value) and varying amounts of water vapor. Chemical reactions cause nitrogen and oxygen to be removed from the bubble after about one hundred expansion-collapse cycles. The bubble wi... | after about one hundred expansion-collapse cycles. The bubble will then begin to emit light. The light emission of highly compressed noble gas is exploited technologically in the argon flash devices. During bubble collapse, the inertia of the surrounding water causes high pressure and high temperature, reaching around ... |
13% of all students). Those from developing countries made up about 60%, representing a total of 123 nations. The largest contingents came from Bulgaria (10.5%), Russia (8.8%), Poland (7.4%), China (6.2%) and Ukraine (5.7%). There are 508 professors at the university, including 70 women. In addition, the university emp... | (8.8%), Poland (7.4%), China (6.2%) and Ukraine (5.7%). There are 508 professors at the university, including 70 women. In addition, the university employs 1,549 research assistants, with an additional 765 at the clinic, and 1,462 other assistants (3,736 at the clinic). Partner universities The University of Cologne ma... |
been unhappy with court life in general but bored in Shōshi's court. He speculates she would have preferred to serve with the Lady Senshi, whose household seems to have been less strict and more light-hearted. In her diary, Murasaki wrote about Shōshi's court, "[she] has gathered round her a number of very worthy young... | Murasaki gives the impression in her diary that she disliked court life, the other ladies-in-waiting, and the drunken revelry. She did, however, become close friends with a lady-in-waiting named Lady Saishō, and she wrote of the winters that she enjoyed, "I love to see the snow here". According to Waley, Murasaki may n... |
XA architecture The JTA API consists of classes in two Java packages: The JTA is modelled on the X/Open XA architecture, but it defines two different APIs for demarcating transaction boundaries. It distinguishes between an application server such as an EJB server and an application component. It provides an interface, ... | defines as a managed bean (which includes CDI managed beans). The code sample below illustrates the usage of @Transactional in a request scoped CDI managed bean: @RequestScoped public class ExampleBean { @Transactional public void foo() { // A transaction is active here // Do work } // After the method returns transact... |
learning to extract marginalization in general graphs Japan Tennis Association, the governing body for professional and amateur tennis in Japan Jianquan Taijiquan Association, a well known school teaching Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan Jim Thorpe Association, a civic and charity organization based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.... | distributed transactions to be done across multiple X/Open XA resources in a Java environment Java Telephony API, supports telephony call control Japan Transocean Air, an airline based in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan Japan Tourism Agency, an organization which was set up on October 1, 2008 as an extra-ministerial bu... |
monarchs and magnates increasingly came to reflect the opinions of the Roman Catholics. Construction of Orthodox churches in some parts of present-day Belarus had been initially prohibited, as was the case of Vitebsk in 1480. On the other hand, further unification of the, mostly Orthodox, Grand Duchy with mostly Cathol... | work with them. Thus Belarusian units were created, and Piasecki was transferred to a Warsaw school of infantry cadets. In the summer of 1920, during the Polish–Soviet War, Piasecki fought in the Battle of Radzymin. The frontiers between Poland, which had established an independent government after World War I, and the... |
analogous to the root or top of a directory tree for a file system. Below is an example of creating an initial context: Hashtable contextArgs = new Hashtable<String, String>(); // First you must specify the context factory. // This is how you choose between jboss implementation // vs. an implementation from Sun or othe... | This is how you choose between jboss implementation // vs. an implementation from Sun or other vendors. contextArgs.put( Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.jndiprovider.TheirContextFactory" ); // The next argument is the URL specifying where the data store is: contextArgs.put( Context.PROVIDER_URL, "jndiprovider-dat... |
prophets and the teachers of the church. According to the 13th-century Greek historian Niketas Choniates, the emperor John II Comnenus celebrated a revived Roman triumph after his victory over the Danishmendids at the siege of Kastamon in 1133. After proceeding through the streets on foot carrying a cross with a silver... | gilded silver quadriga bearing the icon of the Virgin from the now-demolished East Gate (or Gate of St Barbara, later the ) in the Propontis Wall, to Hagia Sophia for a thanks-giving service, and then to the imperial palace. In 1181, the daughter of the emperor Manuel I, Maria Comnena, and her husband, the caesar Renie... |
The 1998 book Family Outing detailed how Bono's coming out "catapulted me into a political role that has transformed my life, providing me with affirmation as a lesbian, as a woman, and as an individual." In the same book, Bono reported that Cher, who was both a gay icon and an ally of LGBT communities, was quite uncom... | and "went ballistic" before coming to terms with it: "By August 1996, one year after I came out publicly, my mother had progressed so far that she agreed to 'come out' herself on the cover of The Advocate as the proud mother of a lesbian daughter." Cher has since become an outspoken LGBT rights activist. Bono's paterna... |
indoor climbing terrain is constructed of plywood over a metal frame, with bolted-on plastic hand and footholds, and sometimes spray-coated with texture to simulate a rock face. Most climbing competitions are held in climbing gyms, making them a part of indoor climbing. Compared to outdoor climbing Indoor and outdoor c... | of the hand holds. More recently, indoor climbing terrain is constructed of plywood over a metal frame, with bolted-on plastic hand and footholds, and sometimes spray-coated with texture to simulate a rock face. Most climbing competitions are held in climbing gyms, making them a part of indoor climbing. Compared to out... |
Western Slavic features inherited during the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia (863–885). The only well-preserved manuscript of the Moravian recension, the Kiev Folia, is characterised by the replacement of some South Slavic phonetic and lexical features with Western Slavic ones. Manuscripts writte... | often differs depending on the area that a text originated from. Consonants The letter щ denoted different sounds in different dialects and is not shown in the table. In Bulgaria, it represented the sequence , and it is normally transliterated as št for that reason. Farther west and north, it was probably or like in mo... |
point in time, as a result of the treaty, Caucasian Albania will follow suit. Rome also gains five satrapies beyond the Tigris, which are perhaps given to Tiridates to administer. To celebrate his victory over the Persians, Galerius commissions the Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki (modern Greece). In this or the follow... | Sarmatians and the Marcomanni, attacking through a swamp to defeat a Sarmatian army. Having first crossed into Africa in 296, Emperor Maximian concludes his campaigns against the Quinquegentiani and other Berbers. His campaigns had ranged as far as Mauretania in the west and Tripolitania in the east. Julianus, a rebel ... |
possibly campaigns on the Nubian frontier. In either this year or in 300/1, he makes agreements with the Meroitic Nubians and the Blemmyes. He agrees to pay subsidies to both peoples, and he cedes the Dodecashoenos to the Nubians on the understanding that the Nubians will defend the region against the Blemmyes. Caesar ... | (CCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Faustus and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 1051 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 298 for this year has been used since the early medieval period... |
as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius (or, less frequently, year 1050 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 297 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Diocle... | early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Diocletian introduces an empire-wide taxation system based on census and indiction. Diocletian watches over the Syrian provinces while Caesar Galerius makes preparations ... |
proposed full economic cooperation ("Nordek") in 1968. Nordek was agreed in 1970, but Finland then backtracked, stating that its ties with the Soviet Union meant it could not form close economic ties with potential members of the EEC (Denmark and Norway). Nordek was then abandoned. As a consequence, Denmark and Norway ... | and the Nordic Investment Bank. The council's remit was also expanded to include environmental protection and, in order to clean up the pollution in the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic, a joint energy network was established. The Nordic Science Policy Council was set up in 1983 and, in 1984, representatives from Gree... |
the Year of the Consulship of Augustus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1141 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 388 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Battle of th... | in command of an army including Goths, Huns and Alans. Valentinian II, now 17, is restored as Roman Emperor. August 28 – Magnus Maximus surrenders at Aquileia, and is executed. Theodosius I devotes himself to gluttony and voluptuous living. Maximus' son Flavius Victor is executed at Trier, by Valentinian's magister mil... |
period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Spring – Emperor Theodosius I increases the taxes in Antioch. A peasant uprising leads to a riot, and public buildings are set afire. Theodosius sends imperial troops to quell the disturbance, ... | the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Eutropius (or, less frequently, year 1140 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 387 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming ye... |
raid the Roman garrisons on the northern frontier. They are met midstream by a well-armed fleet, and their rafts and dugouts sink. Those not drowned are slaughtered. Magnus Maximus invades Italy; he destroys Novara for supporting his rival Valentinian II. Theodosius I begins to rebuild the present-day Basilica of Saint... | Buddhism. Prince Dao Wu Di, age 15, becomes the first emperor (see Northern dynasties). By topic Religion Saint Ambrose defends the rights of the Catholic Church with respect to those of the State. Theodosius I is converted to Christianity. John Chrysostom becomes a presbyter; he also writes eight Homilies entitled "Ad... |
Theodosius I. Armenia is divided in two kingdoms, and becomes a vassal state of the Roman Empire and Persia. The friendly relations survive for 36 years. Asia King Chimnyu ascends to the throne of Baekje (Korea); he welcomes the Indian Buddhist monk Marananta into his palace, and later declares Buddhism the official re... | Shapur III signs a treaty with Theodosius I. Armenia is divided in two kingdoms, and becomes a vassal state of the Roman Empire and Persia. The friendly relations survive for 36 years. Asia King Chimnyu ascends to the throne of Baekje (Korea); he welcomes the Indian Buddhist monk Marananta into his palace, and later de... |
has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Britannia Niall of the Nine Hostages becomes the first High King of Ireland. Hadrian's Wall, the northern Roman frontier in Britain, is overrun by the Picts and falls ... | of Wales. Roman Empire January 19 – Arcadius is elevated to Emperor. Roman troops in Britain proclaim Magnus Maximus Emperor. He crosses over to the continent and makes Trier his capital. Gaul, the Italian provinces and Hispania proclaim loyalty to him. August 25 – Emperor Gratian, age 24, is assassinated at Lugdunum (... |
Events By place Roman Empire October 3 – Emperor Theodosius I commands his general Saturninus to conclude a peace treaty with the Visigoths, allowing them to settle south of the Danube. They are installed as foederati in Moesia and Thrace with the title of "Allies of the Roman People", in exchange for furnishing a cont... | Syagrius (or, less frequently, year 1135 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 382 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire October 3 – Emperor Theodosius I commands his general Saturn... |
development of the borders between the Finnic peoples and the Balts was under way. The first fortified settlements, Asva and Ridala on the island of Saaremaa and Iru in Northern Estonia, began to be built. The development of shipbuilding facilitated the spread of bronze. Changes took place in burial customs, a new type... | legations in Tallinn, Riga and Helsinki. US Foreign Service employee Henry W. Antheil Jr. was killed in the crash. On 16 June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded Estonia. Molotov accused the Baltic states of conspiracy against the Soviet Union and delivered an ultimatum to Estonia for the establishment of a government appro... |
barbarian leaders begin to play an increasingly active role in the Roman Empire. November 24 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople. Queen Mavia defeats, with her Saracen forces, the Roman army in southern Syria. Europe The Visigothic chieftain Fritigern dies after ravaging the Balkans;... | naming years. Events By place Roman Empire January or February – Emperor Theodosius I is baptized. February 27 – Edict of Thessalonica: Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity, in accordance with the patriarchs of Rome and... |
to avoid his outposts being overrun. This opens the passes, allowing the Goths, Huns and Alans to break out into the lowlands of southern Thrace. Autumn – Bands of predatory "barbarians" spread throughout the province in search of food, supplies and booty. Most Roman troops are bottled up in the towns. Some elite units... | (occupied by the Goths) takes a fearsome toll. Fritigern and his followers appeal for help, but the governors Lupicinus and Maximus regard them as second-class citizens. Little help is forthcoming, and thousands starve to death. The pressure on the Roman frontier is still severe, with the Taifali and other hostile band... |
government at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier), but ministers wishing to retain the loyalty of the Illyrian army fear a usurper. They proclaim Valentinian's 4-year-old son Valentinian II co-emperor with his mother, Justina, as regent. Gratian reserves for himself the administration of the Gallic provinces, and hands o... | the dissident Berber prince Firmus is delivered to the Romans by his brother Gildon. India Emperor Chandragupta II becomes ruler of the Gupta Empire (India). He is the son of Samudragupta the Great and retains his reign by an aggressive expansionist policy. Asia Geungusu becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Baekje. By... |
Burundi. It is one of the few countries in Africa (along with Rwanda, Botswana, Lesotho, and Eswatini) to be a direct territorial continuation of a pre-colonial era African state. Kingdom of Burundi (1680–1966) The origins of Burundi are known from a mix of oral history and archaeology. There are two main founding lege... | and Eswatini) to be a direct territorial continuation of a pre-colonial era African state. Kingdom of Burundi (1680–1966) The origins of Burundi are known from a mix of oral history and archaeology. There are two main founding legends for Burundi. Both suggest that the nation was founded by a man named Cambarantama. Th... |
of the acute phase response (APR) to infection. The APR can be triggered by lipopolysaccharides and peptidoglycans from bacterial cell walls, bacterial DNA, and double-stranded viral RNA, and viral glycoproteins, which can trigger production of a variety of proinflammatory cytokines. These can have an indirect effect o... | withdrawal Bipolar disorder Cancer Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome Cannabis withdrawal Celiac disease Chronic kidney disease Chronic pain Common cold Constipation COPD COVID-19 Crohn's disease Dehydration Dementia Depression Ebola Fatty liver disease Fever Food poisoning Gastroparesis Hepatitis HIV/AIDS Hypercalcemia ... |
brands such as Dior, Guerlain, Chaumet or Citroën. She was made Officer (Officier) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture of France in 2003 and in 2015, it was revealed that she had refused the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur). Early life She was born 17 November 1966 in... | star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), Anna Karenina (1997) and as Elektra King in the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Some of her later films tackle critical social issues such as Arrêtez-moi (2013), Jailbirds (2015) or Everything Went Fine (2021). Marceau has appeared ... |
small amount of digital signal processing (DSP) to the recorded speech. DSP often makes recorded speech sound less natural, although some systems use a small amount of signal processing at the point of concatenation to smooth the waveform. The output from the best unit-selection systems is often indistinguishable from ... | based on the maximum likelihood criterion. Sinewave synthesis Sinewave synthesis is a technique for synthesizing speech by replacing the formants (main bands of energy) with pure tone whistles. Deep learning-based synthesis Deep learning speech synthesis uses deep neural networks (DNN) to produce artificial speech from... |
of Teotihuacan (Mexico). By topic Religion December 7 – The people of Milan astonish Ambrosius, governor of Aemilia-Liguria, by acclaiming him bishop. He is the second son of the former praetorian prefect of Gaul, and becomes a creative thinker whose ideas will provide the paradigm for medieval church-state relations. ... | people of Milan astonish Ambrosius, governor of Aemilia-Liguria, by acclaiming him bishop. He is the second son of the former praetorian prefect of Gaul, and becomes a creative thinker whose ideas will provide the paradigm for medieval church-state relations. Births Fu Liang, official of the Liu Song Dynasty (d. 426) G... |
sparking a huge backlash among fans of the brand. India Sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts (13%), skim cow milk powder (8.7%), low fat cocoa powder (7.4%), emulsifier (Lecithin - INS 322), contains added flavour (nature identical flavouring substance - vanillin). Italy Sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts (13%), fat-reduced cocoa powder... | in various facilities. In the North American market, it is produced at a plant in Brantford, Ontario, Canada and more recently in San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico. For Australia and New Zealand, Nutella has been manufactured in Lithgow, New South Wales, since the late 1970s. Two of the four Ferrero plants in Italy... |
so named because Britta Perry confused the singer with Susan B. Anthony. In 2019, Hawkins completed a sold-out tour around the U.S.; the same year she also appeared on the German TV show Night Grooves, singing several songs, discussing her past, and showing off her drumming talent. Personal life Hawkins has two childre... | discussing her past, and showing off her drumming talent. Personal life Hawkins has two children, Dashiell (b. 2008) and Esther Ballantine (b. 2015). Esther was conceived using an embryo she had frozen 20 years earlier. In an interview with Rock Cellar Magazine in 2012, Hawkins said that she identified as omnisexual. A... |
LaserDisc provided picture quality nearly double that of VHS tape and analog audio quality far superior to cheap mono VHS recorders (although the difference to the more expensive VHS HiFi stereo recorders was minuscule). Philips later teamed up with Sony to develop a new type of disc, the compact disc or CD. Introduced... | VHS format was less expensive, offered comparable video quality, and could be recorded over. The advent of recordable CDs, inexpensive recorders, and compatible DVD players spurred VCD acceptance in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, DVD burners and DVD-Video recorders were available by that time, and e... |
Asiatic Society. He also coined the term cyclone, meaning the coil of a snake. In 1842, he published his landmark thesis, Laws of the Storms. Structure There are a number of structural characteristics common to all cyclones. A cyclone is a low-pressure area. A cyclone's center (often known in a mature tropical cyclone ... | of significant convective activity, and are warm core. Mesocyclones form as warm core cyclones over land, and can lead to tornado formation. Waterspouts can also form from mesocyclones, but more often develop from environments of high instability and low vertical wind shear. Cyclolysis is the opposite of cyclogenesis, ... |
However, its inherent moisture content is sometimes as high as 75 percent and its ash content ranges from 6–19 percent, compared with 6–12 percent for bituminous coal. As a result, its carbon content on the as-received basis (i.e., containing both inherent moisture and mineral matter) is typically just 25-35 percent. T... | energy requirements from lignite. Lignite was also an important chemical industry feedstock via Bergius process or Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in lieu of petroleum, which had to be imported for hard currency following a change in policy by the Soviet Union in the 1970s, which had previously delivered petroleum at below m... |
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marinianus and Asclepiodotus (or, less frequently, year 1176 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 423 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By ... | Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marinianus and Asclepiodotus (or, less frequently, year 1176 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 423 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming ... |
of the Consulship of Castinus and Victor (or, less frequently, year 1177 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 424 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire October 23 – Emperor Theodos... | to Theodosius's own daughter Licinia Eudoxia, who is only 2 years old. Roman usurper Joannes sends Flavius Aetius, governor of the Palace (cura palatii), to the Huns to ask for their assistance. After negotiating, he returns to Italy with a large force. Winter – A Roman army under the command of Ardaburius leaves Thess... |
regent. Flavius Aetius leads a force of Huns (60,000 men) into Northern Italy. He reaches a compromise with Placidia, in return for obtaining the rank commander-in-chief (magister militum) in Gaul. The Huns advance unopposed on Constantinople, but are halted by a plague that decimates their hordes (see 433). Palestine ... | early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Summer – Joannes, Roman usurper, is defeated at the fortified city of Ravenna and brought to Aquileia. After a humiliating parade on a donkey and the insults of the populace, he ... |
year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Felix and Taurus (or, less frequently, year 1181 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 428 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calen... | urbe condita). The denomination 428 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Flavius Felix is elected consul for the Western Empire and issues consular diptychs during his political... |
of wood, brick or rubble. Some 400,000 slaves perform the menial work of Rome, with middle-class citizens often owning eight; the rich from 500 to 1,000; an emperor as many as 20,000. Free urban workers enjoy 17 to 18 hours of leisure each day, with free admission to baths, sport events and gladiatorial games. Severus ... | on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Antoninus (or, less frequently, year 955 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 202 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era be... |
Vijaya becomes king of the Andhra Empire. During his reign, the empire is broken apart into smaller independent principalities. China Battle of Xiakou: Warlord Sun Quan battles his rival Huang Zu along the Yangtze River near Wuhan. By topic Religion Origen of Alexandria replaces Clement as the head of the Christian sch... | place Roman Empire Emperor Septimius Severus rebuilds Byzantium and expands the southern frontier of Africa with the metropolis Carthage re-fortified. Gaius Fulvius Plautianus and Publius Septimius Geta become Roman Consuls. An arch dedicated to Septimius Severus is erected near the Forum. The Portico of Octavia is rec... |
Historically, industry in Bolivia has been dominated by mineral processing and the preparation of agricultural products. However, in the urban center of La Paz, small plants carry out a large portion of the industry. Food, tobacco products, clothing, various consumer goods, building materials, and agricultural tools ar... | Spanish colonial rule as part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, before Bolivia gained independence. Since its founding, the city was the site of numerous revolts. In 1781, the indigenous leader and independence activist Túpac Katari laid siege to the city for a total of six months, but was finally defeated. On... |
calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Armenius and Aemilianus (or, less frequently, year 997 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 244 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe ... | with the honorific Augustus. He nominates his son Philippus, age 6, with the title of Caesar and makes him heir to the throne; gives his brother Priscus supreme power (rector Orientis) in the Eastern provinces; and begins construction of the city of Shahba (Syria) in the province of his birth. The vassal Upper Mesopota... |
and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 246th year of the 1st millennium, the 46th year of the 3rd century, and the 7th year of the 240s decade. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Praesens and Albinus (or, less frequently, year 999 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 246 for this year has been use... | has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Philip the Arab fights the Germans along the Danube River. The first of two Councils of Arabia in the Roman Christian Church is held in Bostra, Ar... |
the Year of the Consulship of Philippus and Severus (or, less frequently, year 1000 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 247 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Rome becomes 1,00... | was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Philippus and Severus (or, less frequently, year 1000 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 247 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the... |
anniversary of Rome, with the ludi saeculares, organized by Philip the Arab. Asia Jungcheon becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo (until 270). By topic Religion Cyprian, Christian writer of Berber descent, becomes bishop of Carthage. Origen writes an eight-volume work, criticizing the pagan writer Celsus. Bir... | Severus (or, less frequently, year 1001 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 248 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire The revolts of Pacatianus in Moesia and Iotapianus in Syria a... |
249 (CCXLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gavius and Aquilinus (or, less frequently, year 1002 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 249 for this year has been used since the early medieval peri... | the homes of Christians. Births Shi Chong (or Jilun), Chinese politician and statesman Deaths February 9 Bi Gui (or Zhaoxian), Chinese politician Cao Shuang, Chinese general and regent Deng Yang (or Xuanmao), Chinese politician He Yan (or Pingshu), Chinese philosopher Huan Fan (or Yuanze), Chinese general Li Sheng (or ... |
the Euphrates. Timesitheus becomes ill and dies under suspicious circumstances. Shapur I retreats to Sassanid Empire, giving up all the territories he has conquered. Emperor Gordian III appoints Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect (after the death of Timesitheus) and proceeds with his campaign in Mesopotamia.... | Gordian III appoints Philip the Arab as his new praetorian prefect (after the death of Timesitheus) and proceeds with his campaign in Mesopotamia. Cohors I Ubiorum, the garrison at Capidava in Scythia Minor, is replaced by Cohors I Germanorum Civium Romanorum, until the end of the 3rd century AD. Asia Fan Chan of Funan... |
the Consulship of Gratus and Lepidus (or, less frequently, year 995 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 242 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Gordian III begins a camp... | founder of the Sassanid Empire, dies after a 30-year reign. He is succeeded by his son and co-ruler Shapur I. By topic Religion Patriarch Titus succeeds Eugenius I as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 272). </onlyinclude> Births Saloninus, Roman emperor (d. 260) Deaths Ammonius Saccas, Egyptian philosopher (b. 175) Ar... |
Pompeianus (or, less frequently, year 994 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 241 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Winter – Emperor Gordian III reaches Antioch and prepares, ... | Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus becomes praetorian prefect and de facto ruler of the Roman Empire. Persia Prince Shapur I succeeds his father Ardashir I as ruler of the Sassanid Empire. He begins his expansion in India. Shapur I annexes parts of the Kushan Empire. The ancient city of Bagram (modern Afghanistan... |
the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Venustus (or, less frequently, year 993 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 240 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years... | Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire The Roman Empire is threatened on several fronts at the same time. Africa revolts and tribes in northwest Germania, under the name of the Franks, are raiding the Rhine frontier. Persia April 12 – Prince Shapur I bec... |
locative cases, which correspond to locational prepositions in English. The remaining five cases are: Elative case ("out of") Illative case ("into") Allative case ("onto") Adessive case ("on") Ablative case ("from") Finnish The Finnish language inessive uses the suffix or (depending on vowel harmony). It is usually add... | genitive stem. In Moksha, () is added. In Hungarian, the suffix is most commonly used for inessive case, although many others, such as and others are also used, especially with cities. In the Finnish language, the inessive case is considered the first (in Estonian the second) of the six locative cases, which correspond... |
becomes identical to the elative morpheme of Estonian; for example: . Russian In some rare cases the elative still exists in contemporary Russian, though it was used more widely in 17-18th cc. texts: (out of the forest), (blood from the nose), (from Yaroslavl). See also Other locative cases are: Inessive case ("in") Il... | (Finnish = "houses") - "out of the house, from the house" (Estonian = "house") - "out of the house" (Hungarian = "house") In some dialects of colloquial Finnish it is common to drop the final vowel of the elative ending, which then becomes identical to the elative morpheme of Estonian; for example: . Russian In some ra... |
By place Asia Cao Fang succeeds his adoptive father Cao Rui as emperor of the Cao Wei state, in the Three Kingdoms period of China. A Chinese expeditionary force from the Eastern Wu state discovers the island of Taiwan. By topic Religion Origen publishes the Old Testament in five languages (approximate date). Deaths Ja... | of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gordianus and Aviola (or, less frequently, year 992 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 239 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming ye... |
removing the 'h' if a simple long vowel would result. For example, + Vn becomes with a simple long 'oo'; cf. + hVn becomes , without the elision of 'h'. This unusually complex way of adding a suffix can be explained by its reconstructed origin: a voiced palatal fricative. (Modern Finnish has lost palatalization and fri... | cases, and has the basic meaning of "into (the inside of)". An example from Hungarian is ('into the house', with meaning 'the house'). An example from Estonian is and ('into the house'), formed from ('house'). An example from Finnish is ('into the house'), formed from ('a house'), another from Lithuanian is ('into the ... |
(table) and laual (on the table), Hungarian asztal and asztalnál (at the table). It is also used as an instrumental case in Finnish. In Finnish, the suffix is -lla/-llä, e.g. pöytä (table) and pöydällä (on the table). In addition, it can specify "being around the place", as in koululla (at the school including the scho... | term is most frequently used in Uralic studies. In Uralic languages, such as Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, it is the fourth of the locative cases with the basic meaning of "on"—for example, Estonian laud (table) and laual (on the table), Hungarian asztal and asztalnál (at the table). It is also used as an instrument... |
vicinity of the school". With time, the use is the same: ruokatunti (lunch break) and ... lähti ruokatunnille ("... left to the lunch break"). Some actions require the case, e.g. kävely - mennä kävelylle "a walk - go for a walk". It also means "to" or "for", for example minä (me) and minulle (to/for me). The other loca... | of locative grammatical case. The term allative is generally used for the lative case in the majority of languages that do not make finer distinctions. Finnish In the Finnish language (Uralic language), the allative is the fifth of the locative cases, with the basic meaning of "onto". Its ending is -lle, for example pö... |
elderly Marcus Antonius Gordianus yields to public demand that he succeed Maximinus and rules jointly with his 46-year-old son Gordian II. April 12 – Battle of Carthage: Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus invade Africa with support of Legio III Augusta. Gordian II is killed and after a siege of 36 days, Gordian I commi... | Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pius and Pontianus (or, less frequently, year 991 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 238 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Even... |
my brother is unique". In Finnish, the essive case is technically categorized as an old locative case, a case that, in some way, indicates spatial location. However, in the present language, the case has lost the majority of its spatial meaning. The case instead typically denotes a state that is temporary or inclined t... | is the present)" Example: ' "My brother is a composer in an orchestra". Example: ' "As a composer my brother is unique". In Finnish, the essive case is technically categorized as an old locative case, a case that, in some way, indicates spatial location. However, in the present language, the case has lost the majority ... |
the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns on the rivers Danube and Rhine in Germania, defeating the Alemanni, and never visits Rome. He is accepted by the Roman Senate, but taxes the rich aristocracy heavily, and engenders such hostility among them, ... | Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns on the rivers Danube and Rhine in Germania, defeating the Alemanni, and never visits Rome. He is accepted by the Roman Senate, but taxes the rich aristocracy heavily, and engenders ... |
kuudeksi "by six o' clock" Examples in Estonian, where the ending is -ks: pikk "long", venis pikaks "(it) stretched long" must auk "black hole", (muutus/muundus) mustaks auguks "(turned into) a black hole" kell kuus "(at) six o' clock", kella kuueks "by six o' clock" In Estonian, translative can also express a temporar... | o' clock" Examples in Estonian, where the ending is -ks: pikk "long", venis pikaks "(it) stretched long" must auk "black hole", (muutus/muundus) mustaks auguks "(turned into) a black hole" kell kuus "(at) six o' clock", kella kuueks "by six o' clock" In Estonian, translative can also express a temporary or random state... |
the instructive case is a grammatical case used in the Finnish, Estonian, and Turkish languages. Finnish In the Finnish language, the instructive case has the basic meaning of "by means of". It is a comparatively rarely used case, though it is found in some commonly used expressions, such as omin silmin → "with one's o... | "by air" ("lentää" = "to fly"). Estonian In Estonian, the instructive case (Estonian: viisiütlev) also exists, but only in some words. (f.e: "jalgsi" - "on foot", from "jalg" - foot) Turkish In Turkish, the suffix -le is used |
abessive, the Nimeta baar (the nameless bar) and the Nimega baar (the bar with a name). Skolt Sami The abessive marker for nouns in Skolt Sámi is -tää or -taa in both the singular and the plural: Riâkkum veäʹrtää. "I cried for no reason." The abessive-like non-finite verb form (converb) is -ǩâni or -kani: Son vuõʹlji d... | Martuthunira In Martuthunira, the privative case is formed with either -wirriwa or -wirraa. In Uralic languages Finnish In the Finnish language, the abessive case is marked by -tta for back vowels and -ttä for front vowels according to vowel harmony. For example: raha "money" rahatta "without money" An equivalent const... |
in which comitative relations can be expressed is by serial-verb constructions. In these languages, the comitative marker is usually a verb whose basic meaning is "to follow". A language which marks comitative relations with serial-verb constructions is Chinese. Examples Indo-European languages French French uses prepo... | the accompanier-companion relationship, the relationship was often called associative case, a term still used by some linguists. It is important to distinguish between the comitative and the associative because the associative also refers to a specific variety of the comitative case that is used in Hungarian. Expressio... |
outrages the Roman legions and he loses the trust of the troops. China Battle of Wuzhang Plains between the Chinese states of Shu Han and Cao Wei. Korea Saban becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Baekje. He is succeeded by Goi of Baekje later in the same year. Births Porphyry, Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher (d. c.... | prefers to negotiate for peace by buying off the Alemanni. This policy outrages the Roman legions and he loses the trust of the troops. China Battle of Wuzhang Plains between the Chinese states of Shu Han and Cao Wei. Korea Saban becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Baekje. He is succeeded by Goi of Baekje later in th... |
'by ship' or in Central Alaskan Yup'ik 'by river' or 'by sled'. Basque grammars frequently list the nortzat / nortako case (suffix -tzat or -tako) as "prolative" (prolatiboa). However, the meaning of this case is unrelated to the one just described above for other languages and alternatively has been called "essive / t... | because an adjective will agree with the prolative: "Hän hoiti asian pitkitse kirjeitse" ("He/she dealt with the matter by way of a long letter"). The prolative exists in a similar state in the Estonian language. The vialis case in Eskimo–Aleut languages has a similar interpretation, used to express movement using a su... |
starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Claudius and Paternus (or, less frequently, year 986 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 233 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calen... | (in reality, Severus Alexander advanced towards Ctesiphon in 233, but as corroborated by Herodian, his armies suffered a humiliating defeat against Ardashir I). He is soon summoned to the Rhine frontier, where the Alamanni invade what is now modern-day Swabia. German tribes destroy Roman forts, and plunder the countrys... |
after heavy losses on both sides, a truce is signed. By topic Religion Relics of St. Thomas are brought to Edessa from India. Origen founds a school of Christian theology in Palestine. Pope Heraclas of Alexandria is the first Bishop of Alexandria to use the appellation of "Pope". Births August 19 – Marcus Aurelius Prob... | Ab urbe condita). The denomination 232 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Alexander Severus launches a three-pronged counterattack against the Pers... |
down the cable toward the source, causing a condition called standing waves. RF current may be carried efficiently over transmission lines such as coaxial cables. Frequency bands The radio spectrum of frequencies is divided into bands with conventional names designated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)... | distribution. Energy from RF currents in conductors can radiate into space as electromagnetic waves (radio waves). This is the basis of radio technology. RF current does not penetrate deeply into electrical conductors but tends to flow along their surfaces; this is known as the skin effect. RF currents applied to the b... |
Estonian, this case is often used to express unknown identities and irresultative actions. For example, it is found in the following circumstances, with the characteristic ending of -a or -ta: After numbers, in singular: "kolme taloa" → "three houses" (cf. plural, where both are used, e.g. sadat kirjat "the hundreds of... | many Estonian words, the difference between the full and partial object cases is only in vowel or consonant quantity (long vs overlong), which is not marked in writing, except for stop consonants. Thus, the distinction between a total and partial object may be apparent in speech but not in writing. For example, the sen... |
("the boy came") and as the object of the transitive clause Irakasleak mutila ikusi du ("the teacher has seen the boy") in which the subject bears the ergative ending -a-k. In very few cases, a marked absolutive has been reported, including in Nias and Sochiapam Chinantec. Other uses Occasionally, the term 'absolutive ... | verbs or the objects of transitive verbs in the translational equivalents of nominative–accusative languages such as English. In ergative–absolutive languages In languages with ergative–absolutive alignment, the absolutive is the case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive ... |
the soundtrack. Mitch Miller had a hit with a recording of both marches. In many tense, dramatic scenes, only the sounds of nature are used. An example of this is when commandos Warden and Joyce hunt a fleeing Japanese soldier through the jungle, desperate to prevent him from alerting other troops. Historical accuracy ... | not fall onto the plunger, and the bridge suffers only minor damage. Boulle nonetheless enjoyed the film version though he disagreed with its climax. Casting Although Lean later denied it, Charles Laughton was his first choice for the role of Nicholson. Laughton was in his habitually overweight state, and was either de... |
Vienna, until 24 September 1919). Province of the Sudetenland (Provinz Sudetenland), the regions of northern Moravia and Austrian Silesia; proclaimed a constituent state of the German-Austrian Republic with Troppau (Opava) as capital, governed by a Landeshauptmann: Robert Freissler (1877–1950), 30 October – 18 December... | Land of Upper Austria; administered by Kreishauptmann (district captain): Friedrich Wichtl (1872–1922) from 30 October 1918. German South Moravia (Deutschsüdmähren), proclaimed a District (Kreis) of the existing Austrian land Lower Austria, administered by a Kreishauptmann: Oskar Teufel (1880–1946) from 30 October 1918... |
was released by Famous Players-Lasky, a division of Paramount Pictures. Plot Kru, the farmer depicted in the film, battles leopards, tigers, and even a herd of elephants, all of which pose a constant threat to his livelihood. As filmmakers, Cooper and Schoedsack attempted to capture real life with their cameras, though... | all the people and animals involved. Tigers, leopards, and bears are slaughtered on camera, while the film's climax shows Kru's house being demolished by a stampeding elephant. Release Home media Chang was released for the first time on DVD by Image Entertainment on November 21, 2000. Milestone Video would release the ... |
production of A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on September 5 and ran until October 17, 2009. This production, directed by Liv Ullmann, starred Cate Blanchett as Blanche, Joel Edgerton as Stanley, Robin McLeavy as Stella and Tim Richards as Mitch. From July 2009 until October 2009, Rachel Weisz and Ruth Wilson starre... | Bond as Steve Hubbell Nick Dennis as Pablo Gonzales Peg Hillias as Eunice Hubbell Vito Christi as Young Collector Richard Garrick as Doctor Ann Dere as Nurse (later called the Matron) Gee Gee James as Negro Woman Edna Thomas as Mexican Woman Other early productions The first adaptation of Streetcar in Greece was perfor... |
message "topic". Subscribers may register interest in receiving messages published on a particular message topic. In this model, neither the publisher nor the subscriber knows about each other. A good analogy for this is an anonymous bulletin board. Zero or more consumers will receive the message. There is a timing dep... | messages, the queue holds them until a consumer registers to consume them. Publish-and-subscribe model The publish-and-subscribe model supports publishing messages to a particular message "topic". Subscribers may register interest in receiving messages published on a particular message topic. In this model, neither the... |
information systems (EIS) as part of enterprise application integration (EAI). This is a low-level API aimed at vendors that the average application developer typically does not come in contact with. Web profile In an attempt to limit the footprint of web containers, both in physical and in conceptual terms, the web pr... | that possibly involve a large volume of data and which may need to be periodically executed. Jakarta Connectors is a Java-based tool for connecting application servers and enterprise information systems (EIS) as part of enterprise application integration (EAI). This is a low-level API aimed at vendors that the average ... |
License, and is released under the project name phoneME. The platform uses the object-oriented Java programming language. It is part of the Java software-platform family. Java ME was designed by Sun Microsystems, acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010; the platform replaced a similar technology, PersonalJava. Originall... | most basic set of libraries and virtual-machine features that must be present in each implementation of a J2ME environment. When coupled with one or more profiles, the Connected Limited Device Configuration gives developers a solid Java platform for creating applications for consumer and embedded devices. The configura... |
– returns an Object containing the result of invoking the method for the instance of the first Object parameter passed to invoke(). The remaining Object... parameters are passed to the method. (If the Method object represents a static method then the first Object parameter is ignored and may be null.) – returns the new... | type. – the class that allows operations on threads. – the class for strings and string literals. and – classes for performing string manipulation (StringBuilder as of J2SE 5.0). – the interface that allows generic comparison and ordering of objects (as of J2SE 1.2). – the interface that allows generic iteration using ... |
work, how you lifted it above its measure by your great gift." Among Kazan's other films were Panic in the Streets (1950), East of Eden (1955), Baby Doll (1956), Wild River (1960), and The Last Tycoon (1976). Directing style Preference for unknown actors Kazan strove for "cinematic realism", a quality he often achieved... | youth." Kazan recalls his impressions of Beatty: Warren—it was obvious the first time I saw him—wanted it all and wanted it his way. Why not? He had the energy, a very keen intelligence, and more chutzpah than any Jew I've ever known. Even more than me. Bright as they come, intrepid, and with that thing all women secre... |
adds up to 180%, making a wry allusion to the notoriety of software development projects significantly over-running their schedules (see software development effort estimation). The anecdote expresses both the rough allocation of time to easy and hard portions of a programming undertaking, and the cause of the lateness... | a wry allusion to the notoriety of software development projects significantly over-running their schedules (see software development effort estimation). The anecdote expresses both the rough allocation of time to easy and hard portions of a programming undertaking, and the cause of the lateness of many projects in the... |
August 1784 Maskelyne married Sophia Rose, then of St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex. Their only child, Margaret (25 June 1785–1858), was the mother of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823–1911) professor of mineralogy at Oxford (1856–95). Maskelyne's younger sister, Margaret, married Robert Clive. Maskelyne is buried... | on board ship and to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites. The three methods on trial were John Harrison's sea watch (now known as H4), Tobias Mayer's lunar tables and a marine chair made by Christopher Irwin, intended to help observations of Jupiter's satellites on ... |
astronomers. Because the position of "3 Cassiopeiae" does not precisely match that of Cassiopeia A, and because the expansion wave associated with the explosion has been worked backward to the year 1667 and not 1680, some historians feel that all Flamsteed may have done was incorrectly note the position of a star alrea... | Marble stone or Monument, with an inscription in Latin, in memory of the late Reverend Mr. John Flamsteed". It seems no such monument was created, and almost 200 years later, a plaque was placed to mark his burial in the chancel. After his death, his papers and scientific instruments were taken by his widow. The papers... |
singularity and the known universe. Despite the research, there is currently no theoretical model that explains the earliest moments of the universe's existence (during the Planck epoch) due to a lack of a testable theory of quantum gravity. Nevertheless, researchers of string theory, its extensions (such as M-theory),... | solutions to assist in the explanation of the universe's earliest moments. Cosmogonists have only tentative theories for the early stages of the universe and its beginning. The proposed theoretical scenarios include string theory, M-theory, the Hartle—Hawking initial state, string landscape, cosmic inflation, the Big B... |
Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The film centers... | Gattaca's mission director Josef killed the administrator because he threatened to cancel the mission. Vincent learns that the detective who closed the case was his brother Anton, who consequently has discovered Vincent's presence. The brothers meet, and Anton warns Vincent about his illegal actions, but Vincent assert... |
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