Kerner Company
Kerner may refer to: * Kerner (grape), a variety of white grape * Kerner (surname), name origin and list of people with the surname Kerner * Kerner Commission, established in 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of race riots in the United States * Kerner Optical, a motion picture visual effects company See also * Durand–Kerner method, root-finding algorithm for solving polynomial equations in numerical analysis * Kerning In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between Character (symbol), characters in a Typeface#Proportion, proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual le ...

Kerner (grape)
The Kerner grape is an aromatic white grape variety. It was bred in 1929 by August Herold by crossing Trollinger (a red variety also known as Schiava grossa or Vernatsch) and Riesling.Vitis International Variety Catalogue: Kerner
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Kerner (surname)
Kerner is an occupational surname of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) origin. There are various possible derivations, including as a name for a farmer or a nickname for a small person, from a Middle High German ''kerne'' ("kernel seed pip"); German ''Kern'' or Yiddish ''kern'' (''grain''), among others. Middle English ''kerner'' is a variant of ''cherner'' ("churner; one who churns butter"). It may also derive from "carter" or "carrier", from the German word ''kerenere''. The name was found in Bavaria, Germany, in the medieval period. People with the surname include: Literature * Charlotte Kerner (born 1950), biographer and science-fiction writer * Elizabeth Kerner (born 1958), fantasy author * Justinus Kerner (1786–1862), a German lyric poet of the Swabian school Politics * Johann Georg Kerner (1770–1812), political journalist, critical chronicler of the French revolution, brother of Justinus Kerner * Otto Kerner, Jr. (1908–1976), Illinois Governor and judge on ...
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Kerner Commission
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor of Illinois, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission (United States), Presidential Commission established in July 1967 by President of the United States, President Lyndon B. Johnson in to investigate the causes of over Long, hot summer of 1967, 150 race riots throughout the United States in the summer of 1967. The Commission sought to provide recommendations that would prevent the riots from reoccurring. The 426-page Kerner Report concluded that the direct cause of the riots was rooted in the social consequences of White supremacy, white racism, such as disparities in Housing discrimination in the United States, housing, Employment discrimination, employment, education and Police brutality in the United States, policing. However, the Lyndon Johnson administration, Johnson administration did not directly address the report's recommend ...
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Kerner Optical
Kerner Optical was an American practical visual effects company based in San Rafael, California. Originally the practical effects division of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), it was spun off as an autonomous company in 2006. After five years of operating independently, Kerner declared bankruptcy and ceased operations in 2011. History Kerner's history dates to George Lucas's founding of Industrial Light and Magic. In the late 1970s, ILM moved to facilities in San Rafael, California, on Kerner Boulevard; the sign outside the building identified it as the Kerner Company. The company hid in plain sight and was known to locals, industry insiders, clients and suppliers as Kerner. George Lucas explained that the name Kerner was a "deception designed to keep kids from rummaging through garbage bins". In 2006, the practical effects department was, like Pixar in 1986, spun off from Industrial Light & Magic. When George Lucas moved the computer graphics team to the Presidio of San Fran ...
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Durand–Kerner Method
In numerical analysis, the Weierstrass method or Durand–Kerner method, discovered by Karl Weierstrass in 1891 and rediscovered independently by Durand in 1960 and Kerner in 1966, is a root-finding algorithm for solving polynomial equations. In other words, the method can be used to solve numerically the equation ''f''(''x'')0, where ''f'' is a given polynomial, which can be taken to be scaled so that the leading coefficient is 1. Explanation This explanation considers equations of degree four. It is easily generalized to other degrees. Let the polynomial ''f'' be defined by : f(x) = x^4 + ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d for all ''x''. The known numbers ''a'', ''b'', ''c'', ''d'' are the coefficients. Let the (potentially complex) numbers ''P'', ''Q'', ''R'', ''S'' be the roots of this polynomial ''f''. Then : f(x) = (x - P)(x - Q)(x - R)(x - S) for all ''x''. One can isolate the value ''P'' from this equation: : P = x - \frac. So if used as a fixed-point iteration : x_1 := ...
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