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Others include the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court of St. Macrina, Legion of Mary, and over 20 department-run honor societies. |
In 2009, the UST Knights of Columbus were rated among the top 3% of college councils in the United States. |
Shugart bus |
The Shugart bus is the "de facto" standard for floppy disk drive interfaces created by Shugart Associates. |
It encompasses a 50-pin interface for 8-inch disk drives, and a 34-pin for -, - and 3-inch disk drives. |
Shugart 50-pin and 34-pin are similar in pinout. |
However the 34-pin used in -inch drives is not similar to the IBM PC type -inch format. |
Anti-Machiavel |
Anti-Machiavel is an 18th-century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of Voltaire, consisting of a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal of "The Prince", the 16th-century book by Niccolò Machiavelli. |
It was first published in September 1740, a few months after Frederick became king. |
The work, written in French, was produced at a turning point in Frederick's life, after his turbulent and rebellious youth, and immediately before his assumption of the throne of Prussia. |
Frederick had, of course, read Machiavelli long before; it is not exactly clear what drew his attention to this subject in the late 1730s, although his affiliation with Voltaire and his impending change in rank most certainly contributed to the project. |
It is known from letters to Voltaire that Frederick began to ruminate on the project early in 1738; his draft of the brief work was completed by the end of 1739. |
Voltaire took over in Summer 1740. |
Living in Huis Honselaarsdijk, the Prussian residence near The Hague, and working with a dubious printer named Jan van Duren, Voltaire revised the text extensively on purpose and in order to get the manuscript back. |
There was also a combined edition, with Voltaire's emendations as footnotes. |
Frederick sent Francesco Algarotti to London to take care of the publication of Anti-Machiavel in English. |
In the meantime, Frederick had become king, and his authorship — which was a very open secret — made the book an instant success and bestseller. |
Not surprisingly, Frederick had other matters to occupy his attention, and he did not return to the work in an appreciable way. |
Frederick's argument is essentially moral in nature: he asserts that Machiavelli offered a partial and biased view of statecraft. |
His own views appear to reflect a largely Enlightenment ideal of rational and benevolent statesmanship: the king, Frederick contends, is charged with maintaining the health and prosperity of his subjects. |
On the one hand, then, Machiavelli erred by assigning too great a value on princely machinations that, Frederick claims, ended in disaster, as the king's evil actions are taken up by his subjects. |
On the other hand, and in support of the first idea, Frederick points out the numerous cases in which Machiavelli had ignored or slighted the bad ends of the numerous malefactors he describes and praises. |
EyeTap |
An EyeTap is a concept for a wearable computing device that is worn in front of the eye that acts as a camera to record the scene available to the eye as well as a display to superimpose computer-generated imagery on the original scene available to the eye. |
This structure allows the user's eye to operate as both a monitor and a camera as the EyeTap intakes the world around it and augments the image the user sees allowing it to overlay computer-generated data over top of the normal world the user would perceive. |
In order to capture what the eye is seeing as accurately as possible, an EyeTap uses a beam splitter to send the same scene (with reduced intensity) to both the eye and a camera. |
The camera then digitizes the reflected image of the scene and sends it to a computer. |
The computer processes the image and then sends it to a projector. |
The projector sends the image to the other side of the beam splitter so that this computer-generated image is reflected into the eye to be superimposed on the original scene. |
Stereo EyeTaps modify light passing through both eyes, but many research prototypes (mainly for reasons of ease of construction) only tap one eye. |
"EyeTap" is also the name of an organization founded by inventor Steve Mann to develop and promote EyeTap-related technologies such as wearable computers. |
Although the language in the article reads as if this were a real device, it is a concept. |
Steven Mann claims to have invented various forms of wearable computing devices, but there are no records of working models ever being available for commercial or public sale. |
An EyeTap is somewhat like a head-up display (HUD). |
The important difference is that the scene available to the eye is also available to the computer that projects the head-up display. |
This enables the EyeTap to modify the computer generated scene in response to the natural scene. |
One use, for instance, would be a sports EyeTap: here the wearer, while in a stadium, would be able to follow a particular player in a field and have the EyeTap display statistics relevant to that player as a floating box above the player. |
Another practical use for the EyeTap would be in a construction yard as it would allow the user to reference the blueprints, especially in a 3D manner, to the current state of the building, display a list of current materials and their current locations as well perform basic measurements. |
Or, even in the business world, the EyeTap has great potential, for it would be capable of delivering to the user constant up to date information on the stock market, the user's corporation, and meeting statuses. |
On a more day-to-day basis some of Steve Mann's first uses for the technology was using it to keep track of names of people and places, his to-do lists, and keeping track of his other daily ordeals. |
The EyeTap Criteria are an attempt to define how close a real, practical device comes to such an ideal. |
EyeTaps could have great use in any field where the user would benefit from real-time interactive information that is largely visual in nature. |
This is sometimes referred to as "computer-mediated reality", commonly known as "augmented reality". |
Eyetap has been explored as a potential tool for individuals with visual disabilities due to its abilities to direct visual information to parts of the retina that function well. |
As well, Eyetap's role in sousveillance has been explored by Mann, Jason Nolan and Barry Wellman. |
Users may find that they experience side effects such as headaches and difficulty sleeping if usage occurs shortly before sleep. |
Mann finds that due to his extensive use of the device that going without it can cause him to feel "nauseous, unsteady, naked" when he removes it. |
The EyeTap has applications in the world of cyborg logging, as it allows the user the ability to perform real-time visual capture of their daily lives from their own point of view. |
In this way, the EyeTap could be used to create a lifelong cyborg log or “glog” of the user's life and the events they participate in, potentially recording enough media to allow producers centuries in the future to present the user's life as interactive entertainment (or historical education) to consumers of that era. |
Steve Mann created the first version of the EyeTap, which consisted of a computer in a backpack wired up to a camera and its viewfinder which in turn was rigged to a helmet. |
Ever since this first version, it has gone through multiple models as wearable computing evolves, allowing the EyeTap to shrink down to a smaller and less weighty version. |
Currently the EyeTap consists of the eyepiece used to display the images, the keypad which the user can use to interface with the EyeTap and have it perform the desired tasks, a CPU which can be attached to most articles of clothing and in some cases even a Wi-Fi device so the user can access the Internet and online data. |
The EyeTap is essentially a half-silvered mirror in front of the user's eye, reflecting some of the light into a sensor. |
The sensor then sends the image to the aremac, a display device capable of displaying data at any fitting depth. |
The output rays from the aremac are reflected off the half-silvered mirror back into the eye of the user along with the original light rays. |
In these cases, the EyeTap views infrared light, as well as the overall design schematic of how the EyeTap manipulates lightrays. |
A conceptual diagram of an EyeTap: |
CCD Cameras (Charge-coupled device) are the most common type of digital camera used today. |
Bantam |
Bantam may refer to: |
The End of the Affair |
The End of the Affair (1951) is a novel by British author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films (released in 1955 and 1999) that were adapted from the novel. |
Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the novel examines the obsessions, jealousy and discernments within the relationships between three central characters: writer Maurice Bendrix; Sarah Miles; and her husband, civil servant Henry Miles. |
Graham Greene's own affair with Catherine Walston played into the basis for "The End of the Affair". |
The British edition of the novel is dedicated to "C" while the American version is made out to "Catherine." |
Greene's own house at 14 Clapham Common Northside was bombed during the Blitz. |
The novel focuses on Maurice Bendrix, a rising writer during the Second World War in London, and Sarah Miles, the wife of an impotent civil servant. |
Bendrix is based on Greene himself, and he reflects often on the act of writing a novel. |
Sarah is based on Greene's lover at the time, Catherine Walston, to whom the book is dedicated. |
Bendrix and Sarah fall in love quickly, but he soon realises that the affair will end as quickly as it began. |
The relationship suffers from his overt and admitted jealousy. |
He is frustrated by her refusal to divorce Henry, her amiable but boring husband. |
When a bomb blasts Bendrix's flat as he is with Sarah, he is nearly killed. |
After this, Sarah breaks off the affair with no apparent explanation. |
Later, Bendrix is still wracked with jealousy when he sees Henry crossing the Common that separates their flats. |
Henry has finally started to suspect something, and Bendrix decides to go to a private detective to discover Sarah's new lover. |
Through her diary, he learns that, when she thought he was dead after the bombing, she made a promise to God not to see Bendrix again if He allowed him to live again. |
Greene describes Sarah's struggles. |
After her sudden death from a lung infection brought to a climax by walking on the Common in the rain, several miraculous events occur, advocating for some kind of meaningfulness to Sarah's faith. |
By the last page of the novel, Bendrix may have come to believe in a God as well, though not to love Him. |
"The End of the Affair" is the fourth and last of Greene's so-called "Catholic novels". |
Though often considered as among Greene's best novels, and having been chosen by Robert McCrum for his list of the '100 Greatest Novels in English', the author Jonathan Franzen said that he considered E. M. Forster and Graham Greene overrated, in particular highlighting "The End of the Affair". |
However, he did also comment that he believed that part of the reason for this was his being American, as he said that many authors' brilliance is lost when it crosses the Atlantic. |
He said that he believed that the effect may have occurred with David Foster Wallace. |
In 1955, the book was made into a film, directed by Edward Dmytryk, with the screenplay adaptation by Lenore J. |
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David Lewis was the producer and David E. Rose executive producer. |
It starred Deborah Kerr as Sarah Miles, Van Johnson as Maurice Bendrix, John Mills as Albert Parkis, and Peter Cushing as Henry Miles. |
In 1999, the novel was made into another film ("The End of the Affair"), directed by Neil Jordan. |
Jordan also wrote the screenplay and produced the film with Stephen Woolley. |
It starred American actress Julianne Moore as Sarah Miles, English actor Ralph Fiennes as Maurice Bendrix, and Irish actor Stephen Rea as Henry Miles. |
Julianne Moore was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. |
In 2004, Jake Heggie composed an opera based on the novel. |
It premiered at the Houston Grand Opera in March of that year, and was subsequently revised into its final form. |
In 2011, the novel was adapted into a play by Karla Boos and had its world premiere at Quantum Theatre. |
In 2012, an audio edition performed by Colin Firth and produced by Audible.com was released; the recording was recognized as Audiobook of the Year at the Audies Gala in May 2013. |
Various websites have suggested that the 2012 Bollywood film "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" might have drawn inspiration from the novel. |
The Italian band Daisy Chains has released an album titled "A Story Has No Beginning or End", which is the first line of the novel, and the album's second track is titled "The End of the Affair". |
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