CentralNotice Foot binding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Part of a series on Violence against women Issues Acid throwing Breast ironing Bride burning Dating abuse Date rape Domestic violence Marital rape Domestic violence and pregnancy Dowry death Honor killing Female genital mutilation Gishiri cutting Infibulation Female infanticide Femicide Foot binding Forced abortion Forced pregnancy Forced prostitution Genocidal rape Human trafficking Murder of pregnant women Rape In campus Corrective Prison Pregnancy from rape Sati Sexual slavery Sexual violence Violence against prostitutes Related topics Outline of domestic violence Prevention and management Prosecution v t e This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead ...

CentralNotice Cryovolcano From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs attention from an expert in Volcanoes or Solar System . Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. WikiProject Volcanoes or WikiProject Solar System (or their Portals ) may be able to help recruit an expert. (February 2008) Ganesa Macula (on Saturn 's moon Titan ) might be a cryo volcanic dome A cryovolcano (colloquially known as an ice volcano ) is a volcano that erupts volatiles such as water , ammonia or methane , instead of molten rock . [ 1 ] Collectively referred to as cryomagma or ice-volcanic melt, [ 1 ] these substances are usually liquids and form plumes , but can also be in vapour form. After eruption, cryomagma condenses to a solid form when exposed to the very low surrounding temper...

CentralNotice List of largest craters in the Solar System From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Following are the largest craters on various worlds of the Solar System . Body Crater Diameter Diameter of parent body Ratio Notes Mercury Caloris Basin 01.55 1,550 km (963 mi) 4880 32% Rembrandt 00.715 715 km (444 mi) 15% Venus Mead 00.28 280 km (170 mi) 12,100 2% Earth Vredefort 00.275 250–300 km (160–190 mi) 12,740 2% Moon Procellarum Basin 02.5 3,000 km (1,900 mi) 3470 86% Not confirmed as an impact basin. South Pole–Aitken basin 02.5 2,500 km (1,600 mi) 70% Mare Imbrium 01.145 1,145 km (711 mi) 33% Mars North Polar Basin 09.55 10,600 × 8,500 km (6,550 × 5,250 mi) 6780 140% Not confirmed as an impact basin Hellas Planitia 02.3 2,300 km (1,400 mi) 34% Largest visible crate...

CentralNotice Goat tower From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Goat Tower at Fairview, Paarl. A Goat Tower is a decorative goat house, modeled on a European garden Folly , an early example of which was built in Portugal in the 19th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A South African goat tower at Fairview Winery was built in the 20th century and became famous, inspiring additional copies throughout the world. [ 3 ] The first goat tower ( Torre das Cabras ) at a winery was built by Fernando Guedes da Silva da Fonseca (1871-1946) at Aveleda, one of the oldest and most famous wineries in the Vinho Verde region of Portugal. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 1 ] The second was built by Charles Back at Fairview in South Africa in 1981, Fairview Wine and Cheese farm and is a landmark in the Paarl winelands of South Africa . It is the second of five documented structures of t...

CentralNotice Microsoft Comic Chat From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Microsoft Comic Chat Microsoft Chat version 2.5 Original author(s) Microsoft Developer(s) David Kurlander, Microsoft Research Virtual Worlds Group Initial release August 13, 1996 Stable release 2.5 / March 1999 ; 15 years ago ( 1999-03 ) Development status Discontinued Written in C++ Operating system Microsoft Windows Platform IBM PC Available in Multiple languages [ 1 ] Type IRC clients License Proprietary Microsoft Comic Chat (later Microsoft Chat , but not to be confused with Windows Chat, or WinChat ) is a graphical IRC client created by Microsoft , first released with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research 's Virtual Worlds Group and l...

CentralNotice Persistent data structure From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search In computing , a persistent data structure is a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified. Such data structures are effectively immutable , as their operations do not (visibly) update the structure in-place, but instead always yield a new updated structure. (A persistent data structure is not a data structure committed to persistent storage , such as a disk; this is a different and unrelated sense of the word "persistent.") A data structure is partially persistent if all versions can be accessed but only the newest version can be modified. The data structure is fully persistent if every version can be both accessed and modified. If there is also a meld or merge operation that can create a new version from two previous ver...

CentralNotice 2010 Austin suicide attack From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search 2010 Austin terrorist attack Panorama of the building the day after the plane crash Location 9430 Research Boulevard Austin , Texas , U.S. Coordinates 30°23′6″N 97°44′37″W  /  30.38500°N 97.74361°W  / 30.38500; -97.74361 Coordinates : 30°23′6″N 97°44′37″W  /  30.38500°N 97.74361°W  / 30.38500; -97.74361 Date February 18, 2010 9:56 local (15:56 UTC) [ 1 ] ( UTC-6 ) Target Internal Revenue Service field office in Austin, Texas Attack type Terrorist attack Weapons Fixed-wing aircraft ( Piper Dakota ) Deaths 2 (including the attacker) Non-fatal injuries 13 [ 2 ] Victim Vernon Hunter [ 3 ] Perpetrator Andrew Joseph Stack III The 2010 Austin terrorist attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Sta...

CentralNotice GLX From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2012) GLX Original author(s) SGI Stable release 1.4 Written in C License SGI FreeB License [ 1 ] Website dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GLX GLX and AIGLX versus direct rendering . GLX over Utah GLX . GLX ( initialism for "Open GL Extension to the X Window System") provides the interface connecting OpenGL and the X Window System : it enables programs wishing to use OpenGL to do so within a window provided by the X Window System. The Linux DRI Graphic Stack in 2013 1 History 2 Features 3 Implementations 4 See also 5 References 6 External links H...

CentralNotice Deductive database From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search A Deductive database is a database system that can make deductions (i.e., conclude additional facts) based on rules and facts stored in the (deductive) database. Datalog is the language typically used to specify facts, rules and queries in deductive databases. Deductive databases have grown out of the desire to combine logic programming with relational databases to construct systems that support a powerful formalism and are still fast and able to deal with very large datasets. Deductive databases are more expressive than relational databases but less expressive than logic programming systems. In recent years, deductive databases such as Datalog have found new application in data integration, information extraction , networking, program analysis, security, and cloud computing...

CentralNotice STONITH From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search STONITH ("Shoot The Other Node In The Head" or "Shoot The Offending Node In The Head"), sometimes called STOMITH ("Shoot The Other Member/Machine In The Head"), is a technique for fencing in computer clusters . [ 1 ] Fencing is the isolation of a failed node so that it does not cause disruption to a computer cluster. As its name suggests, STONITH fences failed nodes by resetting or powering down the failed node. Multi-node error-prone contention in a cluster can have catastrophic results, such as if both nodes try writing to a shared storage resource. STONITH provides effective, if rather drastic, protection against these problems. Single node systems use a comparable mechanism called a watchdog timer . A watchdog timer will reset the node if the node does not tell the watchdog circ...

CentralNotice Comparison of UPnP AV media servers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The following table compares the operating system support and basic features of various UPnP AV media servers . Name License Cost OS X Unix-like Windows Audio Images Video Transcoding Web Interface DLNA support Multilingual [ 1 ] Implementation Subtitles [ 2 ] Still Supported 360 Media Server GPL Free No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Java Unknown Unknown aVia Media Player Prop. Free No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Unknown Java Unknown Yes BRisa MIT Free Partial [ 3 ] Partial [ 3 ] No Yes Yes Yes Yes [ 4 ] Yes Unknown Unknown Python Unknown Unknown Coherence MIT Free Partial [ 3 ] Partial [ 3 ] Partial [ 3 ] Yes Yes Yes Yes [ 5 ] Yes [ 4 ] Yes Unknown Python U...

CentralNotice Oleg of Novgorod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Oleg the Seer Grand Prince of Rus' Oleg of Novgorod by Viktor Vasnetsov Reign 879–912 Predecessor Rurik Successor Igor Died 912 Burial Kiev or Staraya Ladoga Religion Pagan Oleg of Novgorod ( Slavic : Олег, Old Norse : Helgi ) was a Varangian prince (or konung ) who ruled all or part of the Rus' people during the early 10th century. He is credited with moving the capital of Rus' from Novgorod the Great to Kiev and, in doing so, he laid the foundation of the powerful state of Kievan Rus' . He also launched at least one attack on Constantinople , capital of the Byzantine Empire . According to East Slavic chronicles, Oleg was supreme ruler of the Rus' from 882 to 912. This traditional dating has been challenged by some historians, who point...

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CentralNotice Jack Herer ( Cannabis ) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Jack Herer Jack Herer is a prized sativa -dominant sativa/indica hybrid of Cannabis well known for both its cerebral high and its strong body high. The strain is a cross between Skunk #1, Haze , and Northern Lights #5. [ 1 ] Jack Herer is the parent to many subset strains . The goal was to make a 50 percent Haze cross that kept the properties of this top-rated sativa, while shortening the painful 6 month flowering time that a full-blooded Haze demands. [ 2 ] 1 History 2 Awards 3 Medical uses 4 Characteristics 5 Subset strains 6 See also 7 References History [ edit ] The hybrid is named after hemp proponent Jack Herer , cannabis decriminalization activist, and author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes . Created by the Sensi Seed Bank in the Netherland...

CentralNotice Corpus callosotomy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Callosotomy" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Colostomy . Corpus callosotomy is a palliative surgical procedure for the treatment of seizures . As the corpus callosum is critical to the interhemispheric spread of epileptic activity , the procedure seeks to eliminate this pathway. “Efficacy and relatively low permanent morbidity in corpus callosotomy for medically intractable epilepsy have been demonstrated by more than six decades of experience. In addition to seizure reduction, behavior and quality of life may improve.” [ 1 ] The corpus callosum is usually severed in order to stop epileptic seizures. Once the corpus callosum is cut, the brain has much more difficulty sending messages between the hemispheres. Although the corpus callosum is the largest white ...

CentralNotice Phineas Gage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Phineas P. Gage The first identified (2009) portrait of Gage, here with his "constant companion for the remainder of his life"—his inscribed tamping iron. [ A ] Born July 9, 1823 (date uncertain) Grafton Co., New Hampshire [ B ] Died May 21, 1860 ( 1860-05-21 ) (aged 36) In or near San Francisco Cause of death Status epilepticus Resting place Warren Anatomical Museum , Boston (skull) Cypress Lawn Memorial Park , California (other remains) Residence New England Chile California Occupation Railroad construction foreman blaster stagecoach driver Known for Personality change after brain injury Home town Lebanon, New Hampshire [ B ] Spouse(s) None Children None [ 1 ] :39,319,327 [ 2 ] Phineas P. Gage (1823 – M...

CentralNotice Teledildonics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Teledildonics (also known as "cyberdildonics") are electronic sex toys that can be controlled by a computer to enable the human user to reach orgasm . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Promoters of these devices have claimed since the 1980s they are the "next big thing" in cybersex technology. [ 3 ] "Teledildonics" can also refer to the integration of telepresence with sexual activity that these toys make possible — the term was coined in 1975 by Ted Nelson [ 4 ] in his book Computer Lib / Dream Machines . In its original conception, this technology was to have been used for remote sex (or, at least, remote mutual masturbation ), where the physical sensations of touch could be transmitted over a data link between the participants. A report in the Chicago Tribune in 1993 suggested that teledildonics w...

CentralNotice Clathrate gun hypothesis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Methane clathrate is released as gas into the surrounding water column or soils when ambient temperature increases The clathrate gun hypothesis is the popular name given to the hypothesis that rises in sea temperatures (and/or falls in sea level) can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in seabeds and permafrost which, because the methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas , leads to further temperature rise and further methane clathrate destabilization – in effect initiating a runaway process as irreversible, once started, as the firing of a gun. [ 1 ] In its original form, the hypothesis proposed that the "clathrate gun" could cause abrupt runaway warming on a timescale less than a human lifetime, [ 1 ] and was respons...

CentralNotice Kennedy curse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Kennedy tragedies , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] commonly known as the Kennedy curse , is a term sometimes used to describe a series of events involving members of the Kennedy family . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The notion of a curse is superstitious and was created and fostered by the news media . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Chronology [ edit ] Believers in the curse generally cite the following events as evidence of the family's misfortunes: 1941— Rosemary Kennedy was often believed to have been mentally challenged . Some sources have claimed she was suffering from mental illness, such as depression and schizophrenia . Because of her increasingly violent and severe mood swings, her father, Joe, Sr. , arranged in secret for her to undergo a lobotomy . The lobotomy instead further i...

CentralNotice Rosemary Kennedy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For her mother, see Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald . Rosemary Kennedy Rosemary Kennedy in 1938, prior to her lobotomy, ready to be presented at Court. Born Rose Marie Kennedy September 13, 1918 Brookline, Massachusetts , United States Died January 7, 2005 ( 2005-01-07 ) (aged 86) Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin , United States Resting place Holyhood Cemetery Education Sacred Heart Convent Parents Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Rose Fitzgerald Relatives See: Kennedy family Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy (September 13, 1918 – January 7, 2005) was a member of the Kennedy family . She was the first sister of President John F. Kennedy , Senator Robert F. Kennedy , and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy . Considered psychologically unstable by her family, she underwent ...

CentralNotice Karl Marx From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Marx ) Jump to: navigation , search For other people named Karl Marx, see Karl Marx (disambiguation) . "Marx" redirects here. For other uses, see Marx (disambiguation) . Karl Marx Marx in 1875 Born Karl Heinrich Marx ( 1818-05-05 ) 5 May 1818 Trier , Kingdom of Prussia , German Confederation Died 14 March 1883 ( 1883-03-14 ) (aged 64) London, England, United Kingdom Residence Germany, France, Belgium, United Kingdom Nationality German Religion None (atheist; formerly Lutheranism ) Era 19th-century philosophy Region Western Philosophy , German philosophy School Marxism , Communism , Socialism , Materialism Main interests Politics, economics, philosophy , sociology , labour , history, class struggle , natural sciences Notable ideas Co-founder...

CentralNotice Pythia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Pythia (disambiguation) . Priestess of Delphi (1891) by John Collier ; the Pythia was inspired by pneuma rising from below The Pythia ( / ˈ p ɪ θ i ə / or / ˈ p aɪ θ i ə / , Greek : Πυθία [pyːˈtʰi.a] ), commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi , was the name of any priestess throughout the history of Temple of Apollo at Delphi , located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus , beneath the Castalian Spring (the new priestess was selected after the death of the current priestess). The Pythia was widely credited for her prophecies inspired by Apollo. The Delphic oracle was established in the 8th century BC, [ 1 ] although it may have been present in some form in Late Mycenaean times, [ 2 ] from 1400 BC and was abandoned, and there is evidence that Apollo took over the ...

CentralNotice Target Corporation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the American retail company. For its Canadian subsidiary, see Target Canada . For the separate Australian retail company, see Target Australia . Target Corporation Type Public Traded as NYSE : TGT ( S&P 500 Component ) Industry Retail Founded Minneapolis , Minnesota , U.S. (1902 ( 1902 ) , as Dayton Dry Goods) [ 1 ] Founders George Dayton Headquarters Target Plaza North & Target Plaza South , Minneapolis , Minnesota , U.S. Number of locations 1,916 (May 2014) [ 2 ] 1,789 (U.S.) 127 (Canada) [ 3 ] Area served United States , Canada Products Discount department store , hypermarket , supercenter , superstore Revenue US$ 72.6 billion (FY2013) [ 4 ] Operating income US$ 5.371 billion (FY2013) [ 5 ] Net in...

CentralNotice Tulpa (film) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Tulpa Theatrical poster Directed by Federico Zampaglione Produced by Maria Grazia Cucinotta Written by Federico Zampaglione Giacomo Gensini Dardano Sacchetti Starring Claudia Gerini Michela Cescon Nuot Arquint Michele Placido Enio Tozzi Ivan Franek Music by Francesco Zampaglione Andrea Moscianese The Alvarius Cinematography Giuseppe Maio Edited by Marco Spoletini Production company Italian Dreams Factory Distributed by Bolero Film (Italy) Release date(s) June 20, 2013 ( 2013-06-20 ) (Italy) Running time 82 minutes Country Italy Language English Tulpa is a 2012 Italian giallo - horror film directed by Federico Zampaglione . It premiered at the 2012 London FrightFest Film Festival [ 1 ] and was released in Italy on Ju...

CentralNotice Coriolis effect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the psychophysical perception effect, see Coriolis effect (perception) . In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black ball moves in a straight line. However, the observer (red dot) who is standing in the rotating/non-inertial frame of reference (lower part of the picture) sees the object as following a curved path due to the Coriolis and centrifugal forces present in this frame. In physics , the Coriolis effect is a deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame . In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the deflection is to the left of the motion of the object; in one with counter-clockwise rotation, the deflection is to the right. Although recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression ...