Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is Microsoft's new technology for powerful, general purpose data access. This technology provides a fully-integrated query language, available in both C# 3.0 and VB 9.0, for high-level data access against objects, relational databases, and XML documents. In this Short Cut you'll learn about LINQ and the proposed C# 3.0 extensions that support it. You'll also see how you can use LINQ and C# to accomplish a variety of tasks, from querying objects to accessing relational data and XML. Best of all, you'll be able to test the examples and run your own code using the latest LINQ CTP, available free from Microsoft. This Short Cut includes a complete reference to the standard LINQ query operators.

"… Двадцать лет радовал своим искусством советских и зарубежных слушателей квартет "Аккорд". Участники его с успехом выступали по радио, на телевидении, в разнообразных международных программах, озвучивали кинофильмы. Сотрудничали с лучшими эстрадными оркестрами страны.
"Золотая пластинка" на фестивале в Канне (Франция) - заслуженное признание этого коллектива. Не сразу сложился этот ансамбль. А началось все на Московском фестивале молодежи и студентов. В финале конкурса встретились два вокальных квартета: столичный женский, состоящий из дирижеров-хоровиков под руководством Зои Куликовой, и тбилисский мужской из Политехнического института под командой инженера Шота Харабадзе. Вскоре после конкурса возник вокальный дует в составе Зои и Шота Харабадзе. Затем к ним присоединилась Инна Мясникова (сопрано) и окончивший училище имени Гнесиных Вадим Лынковский (баритон)…"

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Bai Ling (Traditional Chinese: 白靈; Simplified Chinese: 白灵; pinyin: Bái Líng) (born October 10, 1970) is a Chinese American actress. Bai is her surname, which literally means "white". Ling, a common given name for Chinese, means alert, intellegent, or spirit.
Bai Ling was born in Chengdu, China. Her father was a music teacher, and her mother was a dancer and stage actress. Her parents were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution because of their jobs, and soon after her birth, Bai moved to her grandmother's residence elsewhere in Sichuan. She has described herself as a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing. She has since said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. She began a three-year stint as a "soldier" in the People's Liberation Army in Tibet at the age of 14. Her main activity there was to entertain with musical theater.