Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

* Informally known as FORTRAN 66.

* Informally known as Fortran 90.

* Informally known as Fortran 95.

* Informally known as Fortran 2003.

Informally, Kajang is known as the " Satay Town ", and is famous among tourists and locals alike.

Informally, he may have been known as " Dickon ", according to a sixteenth-century legend of a note, warning of treachery, that was sent to the Duke of Norfolk on the eve of Bosworth: " Jack of Norffolke be not to bolde ,/ For Dyckon thy maister is bought and solde ".

Informally, it was known as the Dewitt Colony.

Informally known as LaGuardia Arts, or LaGuardia High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is the only school among the nine specialized high schools in New York City that receives special funding from the New York State legislature through the Hecht Calandra Act.

Informally this has been called the " Step Boundary ", although the step-like shape of the boundary was not apparent for several decades — the source of the Arkansas, believed to be near the 42nd parallel, was not known until John C. Frémont located it in the 1840s, hundreds of miles south of the 42nd parallel.

Informally, this nation was also simply known as Germany.

Informally known as " The Country Club of the South ," Furman was named one of the 362 most beautiful places in America by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Informally, it is still also known as ARD among viewers.

Informally known as " Ronchamp ", the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp (), completed in 1954, is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier and one of the most important examples of twentieth-century religious architecture.

Informally it was known as the Wang Jingwei regime (), the Nanjing Nationalist Government (), the Republic of China-Nanjing, the Nanjing regime, or New China.

Informally it is known as the neck of the tooth.

Informally, the creole is known by the term dialect, as the creole is often perceived by locals as a dialect variety of English instead of an English creole language.

Informally known as " Friends ' Central ," the school encompasses three divisions: lower school ( nursery through 4th grades ), middle school ( 5th through 8th ) and upper school ( 9th through 12th ).

Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin.

Informally, it is a permutation of the group elements such that the structure remains unchanged.

Informally, it is the similarity between observations as a function of the time separation between them.

Informally, this is true because polynomial time algorithms are closed under composition.

Informally basis vectors are like " building blocks of a vector ", they are added together to make a vector, and the coordinates are the number of basis vectors in each direction.

Informally, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by a computer.

Informally, the theorem says that the curvature of a surface can be determined entirely by measuring angles and distances on the surface.

Informally, w represents a " script " for the computable function f, and F represents an " interpreter " that parses the script as a prefix of its input and then executes it on the remainder of input.

Such a definition can be formulated in terms of equivalence classes of smooth functions on M. Informally, we will say that two smooth functions f and g are equivalent at a point x if they have the same first-order behavior near x.

Informally, an object is reachable if it is referenced by at least one variable in the program, either directly or through references from other reachable objects.

Informally, a computational problem consists of problem instances and solutions to these problem instances.

Informally, a relational database table is often described as " normalized " if it is in the Third Normal Form.

Informally, a graph is a good expander if it has low degree and high expansion parameters.

( Informally, input positions can be thought of as locations at token boundaries.

Informally, the expression " infinitesimal calculus " became commonly used to refer to Weierstrass ' approach but has become something of a dead metaphor.

Informally we can think of elements of the Lie algebra as elements of the group that are " infinitesimally close " to the identity, and the Lie bracket is something to do with the commutator of two such infinitesimal elements.

Informally, a measure has the property of being monotone function | monotone in the sense that if A is a subset of B, the measure of A is less than or equal to the measure of B.

Univac also offered a compiler for the 1100 series known as Fortran V. A spinoff of Univac Fortran V was Athena Fortran.

A Fortran compiler known as MNF ( Minnesota Fortran ) was developed by Lawrence A. Liddiard and E. James Mundstock at the University of Minnesota for the 6600.

Meanwhile, work on porting an APL interpreter to the system continued in parallel, using an 8008 emulator written in Fortran known as " INTERP / 8 ".

Among software engineers, Greenspun is known for his Tenth Rule of Programming: " Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Coarray Fortran ( CAF ), formerly known as F --, is an extension of Fortran 95 / 2003 for parallel processing created by Robert Numrich and John Reid in 1990s.

A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize.

* Meet Bill, a 2008 comedy film formerly known as Bill

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

February 29, also known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar, is a date that occurs in most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

Under the special agreement, also known as the compromise that was signed in December 2008 by Belize and Guatemala it was agreed that if the people of both nations approved, by way of a simultaneous referendum on the same day, that the dispute would proceed to the ICJ.

Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ) with Dave Arneson.

Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals ( according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 ) whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20, 000 and 22, 000 individuals in the eastern Pacific travelling between the waters off Alaska and Baja California Sur.

In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.

Windows Server 2008, released on 27 February 2008, was originally known as Windows Server Codename " Longhorn ".

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

As of 2008, there are between 28, 000 and 30, 000 distinct incunable editions known to be extant, while the number of surviving copies in Germany alone is estimated at around 125, 000.

In 2008, he became a patron of Population Matters, ( formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust ), which campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population to a sustainable level.

This model was made by Foxconn in 2008, and follows the ATX layout ( known as the " Computer form factor | form factor ") usually employed for desktop computers.

While his early compositional work was not widely known outside of Egypt at the time, El-Dabh would eventually gain recognition for his influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the late 1950s ( Holmes 2008, 156 – 57 ).

Since 2006, the Vikings have been known especially for their strong run defense (# 1 in the NFL in 2006, 2007, and 2008 ; they are the first NFL team to accomplish this since the AFL – NFL merger in 1970 ), anchored by the Williams Wall consisting of defensive tackle Kevin Williams and nose tackle Pat Williams ( no relation ).

Burma ( also known as Myanmar ) is unitary presidential constitutional republic under the 2008 constitution.

Apart from long-period comets, only four known objects have orbits which suggest that they may belong to the Oort cloud: 90377 Sedna, 2000 CR < sub > 105 </ sub >, 2006 SQ < sub > 372 </ sub > and 2008 KV < sub > 42 </ sub >.

A 2008 draft mathematics standard proposed that Kindergartners multiply to 30 by skip counting ( also known as counting by twos: 2, 4, 6, 8 ...), and that second graders solve simple algebra story problems.

A conservative position, taken by Lyle Campbell, is that it would have shared the " design features " of known human languages, such as grammar, defined as " fixed or preferred sequences of linguistic elements ", and recursion, defined as " clauses embedded in other clauses ", but that beyond this nothing can be known of it ( Campbell and Poser 2008: 391 ).

Reports in March 2008 have suggested that the Saturnian moon Rhea may have its own tenuous ring system, which would make it the only moon known to possess a ring system.