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Demeter Productions Presents River in Concert
No full textConcert program for a performance by the band River at the Monterey Peninsula College Music Hall in Monterey, California. Inside pages feature a photograph of the band, biographies of each member, and setlists for the first and second half of the concert. Information about Demeter and Demeter Productions is included on the back.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/demeter_concerts/1005/thumbnail.jp
Demeter Demystified
No full textMy understanding of what Karl's stuff is about, what it's good for, and what its limitations are. For the past eight years or so, Karl has been working on projects aimed at making object-oriented programming less onerous. In the process, he has developed a programming model and vocabulary that newcomers often find difficult. In this document, I will give my understanding of these projects and their significance. This is not a scholarly survey with proper citations. It is instead impressionistic and critical. I will try throughout to be as accurate as I can, but errors in fact or interpretation are of course mine, and not Karl's. When in doubt, consult Karl's book [1]. Karl's work seems to divide into four parts: ffl The Demeter system ffl The Law of Demeter ffl Propagation Patterns ffl Adaptive Programming 1 The Demeter System The Demeter system is a program framework for implementing the hierarchical data model in an object-oriented system. It starts with the notion of a class gr..
Robert Bridges' Masque Demeter and Oxford's Persephones
No full textThis essay takes as its focus Robert Bridges’ masque Demeter and its first performance in 1904 by the women students of Somerville, Oxford as part of the official opening ceremony for their new Library. It considers how Bridges’ elegant retelling of the myth of Persephone— which draws on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter—provides an appropriate allegory of wisdom and maturation and a suggestive commentary on how the higher education of women at this time was understood to prepare them for their future roles in society. The paper also shows how the occasion as a whole raised the profile of this all-female hall amongst the overwhelmingly male colleges and University of Oxford. Women students were very far from being on an equal footing with their male coevals at this time, not only in terms of educational status but also in terms of recreational opportunities. The performance of Demeter, however, set a firm precedent for dramatic performance within women’s halls. The paper describes how, soon after the performance, women scholars of Somerville contributed to the more decorative aspects of the Oxford University Dramatic Society’s Greek play productions from 1905; and how the classicist Gilbert Murray—who was actively involved in the education of women at Oxford, enjoying a long and special relationship with Somerville in particular—vigorously and practically encouraged the performance of Greek plays in translation and adaptation in the women’s halls
Demeter Colchagoff Interview
No full textDemeter G. Colchagoff was born on September 17, 1892 in Bansko, Bulgaria. His family fled Bulgaria during a revolution, and settled in East Toledo. He was among the first graduates of Waite High School in 1915, and after working at several factory jobs, he began working with the former Commercial Savings Bank and Trust Company. He later joined the staff of the Lucas County treasurer's office, and retired in 1965 as deputy treasurer for 25 years. He was active in organizations formed to preserve the cultures of foreign-born Toledoans, including the establishment of the International Institution of Greater Toledo. Mr. Colchagoff died on December 11, 1981 in Toledo
Demeter Productions Presents an Evening of Women\u27s Music with Meg Christian and Special Guests River
No full textConcert program for a performance by folk singer Meg Christian with special guests River at the Steinbeck Forum Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, California. Inside pages include biographies of Meg Christian, River, sign language interpreter Saundra Faulkner, and information about Demeter and Demeter Productions.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/demeter_concerts/1004/thumbnail.jp
Demeter goes skydiving
No full textA part of the "cuRRents" Canadian literature series.What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle bracelets, corn tassels, and garlands, and began a tour of our improbable culture? Award-winning poet Susan McCaslin exercises the profound mother-daughter trauma forged in the Demeter-Persephone myth with unapologetic modernity. This sequence takes on a novel life all its own: Hades steals away the maiden into a cult/culture of distorted body image, addiction, high anxiety, and rampant consumerism. Mother Demeter must negotiate this alien world of health clubs, paparazzi, and so-called reality shows locked in spiritual winter. McCaslin's lyrics are by turns profound, hilarious, and devastating as she journeys to the heart of a mother's love for her daughter. Here is poetry that seeks ties to the past inside the present, poetry that speaks to us all. --From publisher description.poetryCanadian literatur
Development of a European Multi-Model Ensemble System for Seasonal to Inter-Annual Prediction (DEMETER)
No full textA multi-model ensemble-based system for seasonal-to-interannual prediction has been developed in a joint European project known as DEMETER (Development of a European Multimodel Ensemble Prediction System for Seasonal to Interannual Prediction). The DEMETER system comprises seven global atmosphere–ocean coupled models, each running from an ensemble of initial conditions. Comprehensive hindcast evaluation demonstrates the enhanced reliability and skill of the multimodel ensemble over a more conventional single-model ensemble approach. In addition, innovative examples of the application of seasonal ensemble forecasts in malaria and crop yield prediction are discussed. The strategy followed in DEMETER deals with important problems such as communication across disciplines, downscaling of climate simulations, and use of probabilistic forecast information in the applications sector, illustrating the economic value of seasonal-to-interannual prediction for society as a whole
Demeter: Resource-Efficient Distributed Stream Processing under Dynamic Loads with Multi-Configuration Optimization
No full textDistributed Stream Processing (DSP) focuses on the near real-time processing of large streams of unbounded data. To increase processing capacities, DSP systems are able to dynamically scale across a cluster of commodity nodes, ensuring a good Quality of Service despite variable workloads. However, selecting scaleout configurations which maximize resource utilization remains a challenge. This is especially true in environments where workloads change over time and node failures are all but inevitable. Furthermore, configuration parameters such as memory allocation and checkpointing intervals impact performance and resource usage as well. Sub-optimal configurations easily lead to high operational costs, poor performance, or unacceptable loss of service.
In this paper, we present Demeter, a method for dynamically optimizing key DSP system configuration parameters for resource efficiency. Demeter uses Time Series Forecasting to predict future workloads and Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization to model runtime behaviors in relation to parameter settings and workload rates. Together, these techniques allow us to determine whether or not enough is known about the predicted workload rate to proactively initiate short-lived parallel profiling runs for data gathering. Once trained, the models guide the adjustment of multiple, potentially dependent system configuration parameters ensuring optimized performance and resource usage in response to changing workload rates. Our experiments on a commodity cluster using Apache Flink demonstrate that Demeter significantly improves the operational efficiency of long-running benchmark jobs
Oral History Interview: Mary Demeter Thurrell (1742)
No full textInterviewed by Maryo Gard EwellIn her 2018 oral history interview with Maryo Gard Ewell, Mary Demeter Thurrell talks about her life as an artist. As a child growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Thurrell was exposed to art at a young age through WPA projects and the "Let's Draw" program. Having developed a passion and penchant for art, Thurrell enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where she studied art, art history, and earned a degree in education. She went on to do graduate work at the University of Illinois - Urbana, after which she took a job at the State University of New York (SUNY) before returning to Madison where she taught Extension classes. Thurrell details her involvement with Extension, speaking at length about her experience critiquing art in rural Wisconsin where she had many opportunities to speak with women about their work
Validation of electron density and temperature observed by DEMETER
No full textMeasuring electron density (Ne) and temperature (Te) using a DC Langmuir probe in the ionosphere is very often degraded by the electrode contamination. In order to examine the accuracy of DEMETER observations, we compared DEMETER Ne and Te with several other satellites observations and IRI2012 as reference data. DEMETER Ne and Te show well-known dependencies on the solar irradiance except for the range of F10.7 > 100. However, DEMETER Ne are about 70% lower than those of IRI in day time data and its solar irradiance dependency is consistent with the reference data in night time data. It was confirmed that the negative slope appears in deep solar minimum solar cycle 23/24. DEMETER Te are higher than IRI data by 500-1500 K in day time and by 800 K in night time. The relation between Ne and Te is well defined by a negative slope both in DEMETER and IRI during day time, while such a similarity is not recognized in night time data. DEMETER Te is 700 K higher than IRI Te for the same value of Ne. When Ne is less than 10(4) cm(-3) in night time, significant reductions in DEMETER Te are observed, which is close to expected values. Such discrepancies from the reference data and some peculiar behaviors of DEMETER Te and Ne data necessitate a careful attention in using them in consideration of their data alterations. However, their relative variations and averaged behavior in time contain useful information for scientific studies such as dependencies on solar irradiance and wave-4 longitudinal structure under certain conditions (Ne > 10(4) cm(-3) and F10.7 < 100). (C) 2013 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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