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Loie Fuller
Career
In connecting free dance, billowing skirts and materials, color and lighting effects, Fuller was in sympathy with several other dancers of that period. All performed in Paris, on the Moulin Rouge or Folies Bergère stage, or both. These stages, as was usual in music hall generally, offered a series of separate acts rather than one continuous work.
Patents
Fuller held patents related to stage lighting. They including chemical compounds for creating color gel and the use of chemical salts for lluminescent lighting, and garments (stage costumes US Patent 518347). She tried to create a patent of her Serpentine Dance to stop imitators from using her choreography or claiming to be her. Fuller gave a written description of her dance to the United States Copyright Office; however, a US Circuit Court judge denied Fuller's request for an injunction. The Serpentine Dance told no story and was therefore not eligible for copyright protection. At that time dance was only protected if it qualified as "dramatic" and Fuller's dance was too abstract for this qualification. The precedent set by Fuller's case remained in place from 1892 until 1976, when Federal Copyright Law extended protection to choreographic works.
Written works
Fuller's autobiographical memoire "Quinze ans de ma vie" was written in French and published by in 1908 with an introduction by Anatole France. She drafted her memoires again in English a few years later, which were published under the title "Fifteen Years of a Dancer's Life" by Herbert Jenkins (London) in 1913. The New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Collection holds the nearly complete manuscript to the English edition and materials related to the French edition.
Pentane
Pentane is an organic compound with the chemical formula of. It is an alkane with five carbon atoms. Usually, "pentane" represents all three isomers (n-pentane, isopentane and neopentane). But in the IUPAC, pentane only represents n-pentane. In the IUPAC, the other two isomers is 2-methylbutane and 2,2-dimethylpropane. Cyclopentane's chemical formula is, so it is not an isomer of pentane.
Reaction
All isomers of pentane burn with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and water:
Subbasement
A subbasement, sub-basement or subcellar is a floor level below the main or uppermost basement level. Sub-basements are common in commercial buildings at high, dry altitudes but rare in houses.
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (song)
"Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" is the first single off American electronic dance music producer Skrillex's second extended play Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. The song was released on October 22, 2010. The song and album's name was inspired from the 1980 David Bowie album and song Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).
The song was able to make it to #3 on the Heatseekers Songs, #10 on the Dance/Electronic Digital Songs, and #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Billboard also named it as one of their 100 Songs That Defined the 2010s. The song was certified 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song won Best Dance/Electronic Recording at the 54th Grammy Awards.
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Richmond Hill is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. In 2021, 202,022 people lived there. It is between the cities of Markham and Vaughan.
Homestead (buildings)
A homestead is a largely self sufficient farmhouse.
Live burial
Live burial or premature burial is interred in a grave while still alive. Some cases of premature burial occurred because the technology to accurately determine death didn't exist so people were routinely wrongfully pronounced dead when in a coma or similar vegetative state. To guard against this, some cultures buried the dead with bells that could be rung if the person in the coffin was still alive, so they could be rescued. Live burial has also been used as a form of murder or execution. A related practice is immurement.
Angie Bowie
Mary Angela "Angie" Barnett (born September 25, 1949) is an American (born in British Cyprus ) model, actress, writer and media personality. She is well-known for being the wife of David Bowie from 1970 until 1980.
During the 1970s, she made frequent appearances on talk shows. She has also acted in several television shows and had a career in music. Recently, Barnett has become a journalist.
Angie and David a child, Duncan. After she split from David, she let him have full custody of their son and is now estranged (not in contact) with her son.
In 2016, she made an appearance on the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother. While on the show, she found out that David Bowie had died. She told Tiffany Pollard, who mistakenly thought that Angie had told her David Gest (who was also on the show) had died. Barnett later withdrew from the show.
Robert Woolsey
Robert Rollie Woolsey (August 14, 1888-October 31, 1938) is an American actor and Comedian in a Double act with Bert Wheeler because his Woosley Scream and he is always wears round glasses in 1929 and 1937 just like Harold Lloyd.
Death
He died of Kidney failure at the age of 50 in the End of October in 1938 in Malibu, California at Halloween.
GoldenEye
GoldenEye is a 1995 British action-adventure espionage movie. It was released in November 1995. Starring in this are Pierce Brosnan (as James Bond) and Judi Dench (she plays M). GoldenEye was the seventeenth spy feature in the James Bond series. This was also the first one after a six-year break, which was the result of legal disputes. GoldenEye made over $350 million worldwide. According to critics, Brosnan acted the role of James Bond much better than his predecessor Timothy Dalton. Tina Turner sings the title song of the movie.
Face Down
"Face Down" is the first single off American rock band the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's first studio album Don't You Fake It. The song was released on July 4, 2006.
The song was able to make it to #3 on the Alternative Airplay, #10 on the Mainstream Top 40, and #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. It made it to #52 on Billboard's year-end Hot 100 Songs chart. It was also certified 5× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The song is about domestic violence. In the song, Ronnie Winter asks the woman why she still stays in the abusive relationship and asks the man if he feels strong abusing her. Ronnie Winter and his brother Randy Winter said they wrote the song because they grew up watching their mother suffer from domestic violence.
A music video for the song was released. In the video, A woman arrives home from work. The band plays in the living room. She looks in the mirror at bruises on her body. She walks through the house while furniture is thrown around and the house is being destroyed. While walking, she looks at pictures of her and her boyfriend. At the end of the video, she throws the pictures in the garbage.
Zoning in the United States
Zoning can also regulate things like the appearance of buildings, in a similar fashion as deed restrictions.
Covenant (law)
Deed restrictions, also called restrictive covenants, CCRs, or covenants, conditions and restrictions are rules imposed usually by a real estate developer to promote uniformity and cleanliness in a subdivision.
Colleen Camp
Colleen Celeste Camp (born June 7, 1953 in San Francisco, California) is an American movie and television actor. She has acted in many movies and televison shows. Camp debuted in 1973 in ''Battle for the Planet of the Apes, one of the Planet of the Apes sequels. She played Connie in Die Hard with a Vengeance. Camp was the first to play character Kristin Shepard in Dallas. Camp is also a movie producer.
Commercial building
A commercial building is an enclosed structure designed to be occupied by businesses. Building codes tend to be stricter for commercial buildings than residential ones, as on matters of accessibility and in the United States are usually limited to commercial only zoning districts. Examples of commercial buildings include
Charles the Younger
Charles the Younger (772 - 4 December 811) was Frankish King of Neustria and Franken. His parents were the Frankish emperor Charlemagne and Hildegard of Swabia.
Max Pezzali
Massimo Pezzali (born 14 November 1967), also known as Max Pezzali, is a Italian singer and songwriter from Pavia. Alongside Mauro Repetto he is the founder of the pop rock band 883 Who were really popular in Italy during the 1990s. He Is considered One of the most popular singers of Italy.
Subdivision
A subdivision, real estate development or tract is a large piece of land and divided into land lots. Subdivisions are usually residential and typically have deed restrictions and sometimes homeowners associations or their equivalent. When residential, subdivisions are often called housing developments, housing estates, etc.
Tiky
Tiky is a soft drink that tastes like pineapple from Guatemala, owned by Fabrica de Bebidas Gaseosas Salvavidas, S.A, part of the Coca-Cola company.
Katariina Tamm
Katariina Tamm (born March 2, 1989 ) is an Estonian actress.
She graduated from the theater class of the Tallinn Old Town College of Education in 2007. In 2011 she graduated from the Turku Art Academy, majoring in puppetry. In 2019 she obtained a master's degree at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She then worked at the Estonian Youth Theatre, and then at the Von Krahl Theater in Talinn.
Ursula Andress
Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss television and movie actress who played the Bond girls in Dr. No and Casino Royale. She also starred in many other movies besides that. Andress was born in Ostermundigen to a Swiss mother and German father.
Zoning
Zoning is a method of urban planning. A local government divides land into areas called zones. Each of these has regulations for new development different from other zones.
Zones may be defined for a single use (e.g. residential, industrial), or they may combine several uses. Regulations may govern the density, size and shape of buildings, whatever their use.
Zoning laws that limit the construction of new housing may be a big factor in segregation in the United States by income and race.
Some countries, like the United Kingdom, have town planning, but not strict zoning
Scinax rostratus
The Caracas snouted tree frog (Scinax rostratus) is a frog that lives in Panama, Suriname, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.
Raorchestes menglaensis
The Mengla bush frog, Mengla small tree frog, Mengla shrub frog, or Zhishihe's bubble-nest frog (Raorchestes menglaensis) is a frog. It lives in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
Alisan Porter
She was in the movies Curly Sue and Parenthood. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
John William Rogan
John William Rogan (16 February 1868 - 12 September 1905) was the second tallest man to ever live. His height was 8 ft. He was 5 cm shorter than Robert Wadlow. He developed ankylosis during his teenage years.
Bhasania Union
Bhasania union council of Homna Upazila in Cumilla District of Bangladesh.
History
Bhasania Union was established in 1960 before its name was No. 10 Bhasania Union Parishad. Later renamed as 7 No Bhasania Union Parishad in 2005.
Location and boundaries
Bhasania Union is located in the southeast of Homna Upazila. To the west of this union is Jaipur Union, to the north-west is Gharmora Union, to the north is Achadpur Union, to the north-east is Chanderchar Union and Ramchandrapur South Union of Muradnagar Upazila, to the east is Muradnagar Sadar Union of Muradnagar Upazila and to the south is Kalakandi Union of Titas Upazila.
communication system
The distance of Union Parishad from Homna Upazila headquarters is 7.17 km. One can reach Kashipur Bazar in Bhasania Union by rickshaw or CNG from Homna Upazila Health Complex.
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is one of the last remaining large, nearly intact ecosystems in the northern temperate zone of the Earth. It is partly in Yellowstone National Park.
Its management has sometimes been controversial. The area is a flagship site for conservation groups that promote ecosystem management. The Greater Yellow Ecosystem (GYE) is a kind of natural laboratory in landscape ecology and geology. It is a world-renowned recreational site, and home to the animals of Yellowstone.
History
The Yellowstone National Park boundaries were drawn in 1872 to include all the geothermal basins in the area. By the 1970s, the grizzly bear's (Ursus arctos) range in and near the park became the unofficial minimum boundary of a Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. This had at least 16000 km2. Since then, definitions of the greater ecosystem's size have steadily grown larger. A 1994 study listed the size as 76890 km2, while a 1994 speech by a Greater Yellowstone Coalition leader enlarged that to 80000 km2.
In 1985 the United States House of Representatives Subcommittees on Public Lands and National Parks and Recreation held a joint subcommittee hearing on Greater Yellowstone. The result was a 1986 report by the Congressional Research Service which said that different agencies were not working well together, and the area's essential values were at risk.
There are other areas within the Greater Yellowstone area which are managed by federal authorities. They include the Gallatin, Custer, Caribou-Targhee, Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests, the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, the National Elk Refuge and Grand Teton National Park. The GYE also includes some private lands around those managed by the U.S. Government.
Outside of Yellowstone National Park, ten wilderness areas have been established in the National Forests since 1966 to get more habitat protection than usual.
The Dark Knight Trilogy
The Dark Knight Series is a set of three Christopher Nolan Batman movies. It includes Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, and Cillian Murphy appeared in all three movies.
Background
All cast and crew members worked on all three movies, except for music composer James Newton Howard who did not work on The Dark Knight Rises. Composer Hans Zimmer worked together with Howard on the first two films and made the soundtrack for the last movie by himself. Katie Holmes played Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins, but was replaced by Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Dark Knight. Liam Neeson appeared as Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins and in The Dark Knight Rises.
Each of the three movies was a success in the box office; The Dark Knight was the number one grossing movie in 2008. The Dark Knight Rises is the third highest grossing movie of 2012. Batman Begins is the ninth highest grossing movie in 2005. Batman Begins earned $372,710,015 worldwide. The Dark Knight earned $1,023,045,358. The Dark Knight Rises earned $1,081,041,287, passing the receipts of The Dark Knight.
In both Batman Begins and in The Dark Knight, Gotham City was shot in Chicago, Illinois. In The Dark Knight Rises, Gotham City was shot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, New York City, New York, and Los Angeles, California.
Derek Hough
Derek Hough (born May 17, 1985 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American dancer, choreographer, musician, actor, and director.
He has been a professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars since fall 2007. He has competed with Ricki Lake, Nicole Scherzinger, Brooke Burke, Jennifer Grey, Maria Menounos and Shawn Johnson.
Personal life
Hough's sister is Julianne Hough, also a dancer in Dancing with the Stars until 2009.
2015 FIFA corruption case
The 2015 FIFA corruption case was a court case that was about corruption in FIFA and its associations.
Puyo Puyo (series)
Puyo Puyo is the puzzle tile-matching video game series created by Compile. Seven year later, Sega was owned the Puyo Puyo franchises, with games being developed by Sonic Team. Puyo Puyo series was created as an spin-off series from Madō Monogatari (Sorcery Saga), the series of first-person dungeon crawler role-playing games published by Compile, where the Puyo Puyo characters originated.
Compile games
Later, Compile and Sega was colaborated to created an arcade version of Puyo Puyo. It was released in October 1992 for Sega's System C2 hardware. The game was ported to Sega Mega Drive, and becoming a best-selling video game.
The game followed by its sequel Puyo Puyo 2 in September 1994, also released in Sega's System C2 hardware. Puyo Puyo 2 adds the ability to counter the opponent's chain, additionally, it changes the single-player gauntlet from a linear structure to a roulette -based that requires player to pass sertain score thresholds to advance. Like the original game, Puyo Puyo 2 has released on many platfoms. Except PlayStation 2, for the compilations of Sega Ages 3500 line.
The final game was developed by Compile, Puyo Puyo DA! a dancing game released in 1997 for PlayStation.
Shelley Conn
Shelley Deborah Conn is a British actress.
Charithra Chandran
Charithra Surya Chandran (born 17 January 1997) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Edwina Sharma in season two of the Netflix series Bridgerton and her role in the science fiction series Alex Rider.
Ballycastle
Ballycastle can refer to:
Django Unchained
Django Unchained is a 2012 American western movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is set in 1858. It stars Jamie Foxx as Django, Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie. This comedy-drama is about the Antebellum South. There has been controversy related to its subject matter. Django Unchained was released on Christmas 2012 in the United States.
Valdagno
Valdagno is a comune in the province of Vicenza, in Italy
Massachusetts (Bee Gees song)
"Massachusetts" is a 1967 song. It was written by Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb. It was performed by Bee Gees. The band released a single from their fourth studio album Horizontal and went to number 1 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and South Africa, number 11 in the United States and number 2 in Switzerland, Australia, Ireland, Denmark and Canada.
Kate Maberly
Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (born March 14, 1982) is a theatre, movie and television actress who first became famous via the 1993 drama movie The Secret Garden. She carried mostly TV roles, however. Maberly was born in and originally from England.
Machinima
Machinima ( or ) is a type of animation and digital moviemaking style. It is the use of 3D computer graphics with a 3D video game or computer game to create the 3D animation. The creator who is making the video will record in-game animation and edit it with voice recordings. Machinima can be script-driven, meaning the cameras, characters, and effects are scripted for playback in real time. Unlike other types of animation, the scripting is driven by events and not keyframes.
Machinima limits the controls of other animation types. This is according to Machinima.org. For example, Machinima videos can be shot live or scripted in real time. So it becomes much faster to produce than traditionally animated movies.
Machinima productions can remain close to their gaming roots and feature stunts or other portrayals of gameplay. Popular genres include dance videos, comedy, and drama. Alternatively, some filmmakers attempt to stretch the boundaries of the rendering engines or to mask the original 3-D context. The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting machinima, recognizes exemplary productions through Mackie awards given at its annual Machinima Film Festival. Some general film festivals accept machinima, and game companies, such as Epic Games, Blizzard Entertainment and Jagex, have sponsored contests involving it.\
The Making of Machinima
The AMAS defines machinima as "animated filmmaking within a real-time virtual 3-D environment". In other 3-D animation methods, creators can control every frame and nuance of their characters but, in turn, must consider issues such as key frames and in-betweening. Machinima creators leave many rendering details to their host environments, but may thus inherit those environments' limitations. Because game animations focus on dramatic rather than casual actions, the range of character emotions is often limited. However, Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd state that a small range of emotions is often sufficient, as in successful Japanese anime television series.
Another difference is that machinima is created in real time, but other animation is pre-rendered. Real-time engines need to trade quality for speed and use simpler algorithms and models. In the 2001 animated film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, every strand of hair on a character's head was independent; real-time needs would likely force them to be treated as a single unit. Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd argue that improvement in consumer-grade graphics technology will allow more realism; For cut scenes in video games, issues other than visual fidelity arise. Pre-rendered scenes can require more digital storage space, weaken suspension of disbelief through contrast with real-time animation of normal gameplay, and limit interaction.
Like live action, machinima is recorded in real-time, and real people can act and control the camera. Filmmakers are often encouraged to follow traditional cinematic conventions, such as avoiding wide fields of view, the overuse of slow motion, and errors in visual continuity. Unlike live action, machinima involves less expensive, digital special effects and sets, possibly with a science-fiction or historical theme. Explosions and stunts can be tried and repeated without monetary cost and risk of injury, and the host environment may allow unrealistic physical constraints. University of Cambridge experiments in 2002 and 2003 attempted to use machinima to re-create a scene from the 1942 live-action film Casablanca. Machinima filming differed from traditional cinematography in that character expression was limited, but camera movements were more flexible and improvised. Nitsche compared this experiment to an unpredictable Dogme 95 production.
Berkeley sees machinima as "a strangely hybrid form, looking forwards and backwards, cutting edge and conservative at the same time". Machinima is a digital medium based on 3-D computer games, but most works have a linear narrative structure. Some, such as Red vs. Blue and The Strangerhood, follow narrative conventions of television situational comedy. Nitsche agrees that pre-recorded ("reel") machinima tends to be linear and offers limited interactive storytelling; he sees more opportunities in machinima performed live and with audience interaction. In creating their improvisational comedy series On the Campaign Trail with Larry & Lenny Lumberjack and talk show Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will, the ILL Clan blended real and virtual performance by creating the works on-stage and interacting with a live audience. In another combination of real and virtual worlds, Chris Burke's talk show This Spartan Life takes place in Halo 2's open multiplayer environment. There, others playing in earnest may attack the host or his interviewee. Although other virtual theatrical performances have taken place in chat rooms and multi-user dungeons, machinima adds "cinematic camera work". Previously, such virtual cinematic performances with live audience interaction were confined to research labs which had powerful computers.
Machinima can be less expensive than other forms of filmmaking. Strange Company produced its feature-length machinima film BloodSpell for less than £10,000. Before using machinima, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum of Rooster Teeth Productions spent US$9,000 to produce a live-action independent film; in contrast, the four Xbox game consoles used to make Red vs. Blue in 2005 cost $600. The low cost caused a product manager for Electronic Arts to compare machinima to the low-budget independent film The Blair Witch Project, without the need for cameras and actors. Because these are seen as low barriers to entry, machinima has been called a "democratization of filmmaking". Berkeley weighs increased participation and a blurred line between producer and consumer against concerns that game copyrights limit commercialization and growth of machinima.
Comparatively, machinimists using pre-made virtual platforms like Second Life have indicated that their productions can be made quite successfully with no cost at all. Creators like Dutch director Chantal Harvey, producer of the 48 Hour Film Project Machinima sector, have created upwards of 200 films using the platform. Harvey's advocacy of the genre has resulted in the involvement of film director Peter Greenaway who was a juror for the Machinima category and gave a keynote speech during the event.
Character and camera control
Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd list four main methods of creating machinima. From simple to advanced, these are: relying on the game's AI to control most actions, digital puppetry, recamming, and precise scripting of actions. Although simple to produce, AI-dependent results are unpredictable, thus complicating the realization of a preconceived film script. For example, when Rooster Teeth produced The Strangerhood using The Sims 2, a game that encourages the use of its AI, the group had to create multiple instances of each character to accommodate different moods. Individual instances were selected at different times to produce appropriate actions.
In digital puppetry, machinima creators become virtual actors; each crew member controls a character in real-time, as in a multiplayer game. The director can use built-in camera controls, if available. Otherwise, video is captured from the perspectives of one or more puppeteers who serve as camera operators. Puppetry allows for improvisation and offers controls familiar to gamers, but requires more personnel than the other methods and is less precise than scripted recordings. However, some games, such as the Halo series, (except for Halo PC and Custom Edition, which allow AI and custom objects and characters), allow filming only through puppetry. According to Marino, other disadvantages are the possibility of disruption when filming in an open multi-user environment and the temptation for puppeteers to play the game in earnest, littering the set with blood and dead bodies. However, Chris Burke intentionally hosts This Spartan Life in these unpredictable conditions, which are fundamental to the show. Other works filmed using puppetry are the ILL Clan's improvisational comedy series On the Campaign Trail with Larry & Lenny Lumberjack and Rooster Teeth Productions' Red vs. Blue. In recamming, which builds on puppetry, actions are first recorded to a game engine's demo file format, not directly as video frames. Without re-enacting scenes, artists can then manipulate the demo files to add cameras, tweak timing and lighting, and change the surroundings. This technique is limited to the few engines and software tools that support it.
A technique common in cut scenes of video games, scripting consists of giving precise directions to the game engine. A filmmaker can work alone this way, as J. Thaddeus "Mindcrime" Skubis did in creating the nearly four-hour The Seal of Nehahra (2000), the longest work of machinima at the time. However, perfecting scripts can be time-consuming. Unless what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing is available, as in Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, changes may need to be verified in additional runs, and non-linear editing may be difficult. In this respect, Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd compare scripting to stop-motion animation. Another disadvantage is that, depending on the game, scripting capabilities may be limited or unavailable. Matinee, a machinima software tool included with Unreal Tournament 2004, popularized scripting in machinima.
Limitations and solutions
When Diary of a Camper was created, no software tools existed to edit demo files into films. Rangers clan member Eric "ArchV" Fowler wrote his own programs to reposition the camera and to splice footage from the Quake demo file. Quake movie editing software later appeared, but the use of conventional non-linear video editing software is now common. For example, Phil South inserted single, completely white frames into his work No Licence to enhance the visual impact of explosions. In the post-production of Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, Rooster Teeth Productions added letterboxing with Adobe Premiere Pro to hide the camera player's head-up display.
Machinima creators have used different methods to handle limited character expression. In the Halo video game series, helmets completely cover the characters' faces. To prevent confusion, Rooster Teeth's characters move slightly when speaking, a convention shared with anime. Some machinima creators use custom software. For example, Strange Company uses Take Over GL Face Skins to add more facial expressions to their characters filmed in BioWare's 2002 role-playing video game Neverwinter Nights. Similarly, Atussa Simon used a "library of faces" for characters in The Battle of Xerxes. In some cases, some game companies may provide such software; examples include Epic Games' Impersonator for Unreal Tournament 2004 and Valve Corporation's FacePoser for Half-Life 2. Another solution is to blend in non-machinima elements, as nGame did by inserting painted characters with more expressive faces into its 1999 film Berlin Assassins. It may be possible to point the camera elsewhere or employ other creative cinematography or acting. For example, Tristan Pope combined creative character and camera positioning with video editing to suggest sexual actions in his controversial film Not Just Another Love Story.
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12, 1992) was an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Psycho and its sequels, where he played Norman Bates, a serial killer who suffered from dissociative identity disorder.
Perkins was born in New York City and was the son of actor Osgood Perkins (1892-1937). He moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1942.
Personal
Perkins was bisexual. He was married to photographer Berry Berenson (1948-2001) from 1973 until his death from AIDS in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1992. The couple had two sons, actor Oz (born 1974) and musician Elvis (born 1976). Berenson was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. She was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 when it was hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center.
Taffy (TV series)
Taffy is a French animated comedy television series. It was produced in the program, Adobe Animate, by Cyber Group Studios and Turner Broadcasting System Europe. The show aired in Boomerang since December 17, 2018 and has since been renewed for a second season. The show focuses on a raccoon named Scraggs, who is mistaken for a cat named "Taffy" by Mrs. Muchmore, an old woman who also owns a pet dog. Bentley, her dog in question, thus will have to reveal to her "Taffy"'s secret.
Un ballo in maschera
Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an Italian opera in three acts. The music was written by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Antonio Somma. It is based on Eugène Scribe's Gustave III ou Le Bal Masqué.
The opera was first performed at the Teatro Appollo in Rome, on February 17, 1859. One of Verdi's richest middle-period works, it relates the events surrounding the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, but because of censorship, the story was transposed to 17th century Boston, with Gustav becoming an English governor, Richard of Warwick. Nowadays, most productions present the opera in its original Swedish setting.
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French silent movie. It is based loosely on Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon. In French, the title of the movie is Le Voyage dans la lune. The movie was written and directed by Georges Méliès. He had some some help from his brother Gaston. The movie runs about 14 minutes. It was very popular when it was shown for the first time. It is the best-known of the many movies made by Méliès. A Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction movie. The movie has many new twists on animation and special effects. One of the most well known images is the one showing a spaceship landing in the Moon's eye. A Trip to the Moon was named one of the 100 greatest movies of the 20th century by The Village Voice. It was ranked at #84.
Story
Six astronomers agree to take a trip to the moon. They build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet. A huge cannon shoots it into space with the help of "marines". These marine are mostly pretty girls in sailor outfits. Some of the marines are men though. The Man in the Moon watches the capsule as it moves toward the moon. He gets hit in the eye.
The astronomers get out of the capsule. They are tired. They unroll their blankets and sleep. A comet passes. The Big Dipper appears with human faces looking out of each star. Snowfall wakes the astronomers. They go into a cavern and find giant mushrooms. One astronomer opens his umbrella. It turns into a giant mushroom.
The Last Man on Earth (1964 movie)
The Last Man On Earth is a 1964 post-apocalyptic movie. It is based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend. The Last Man on Earth is in the public domain.
Homna Upazila
Homna is an upazila of Bangladesh Comilla District.
History
In 1905 Daudkandi Thana was divided and Homna Thana was formed. In 1984 Homna Thana was upgraded to Upazila. In 2001, 4 Unions of Homna Upazila (Chalibhanga, Chandanpur, Manikarchar and Radhanagar Union) were merged with Meghna Upazila to form Meghna Upazila. At present Homna Upazila consists of 1 municipality and 9 union parishads.
Administration
Homna Upazila is divided into Homna Municipality and nine Union Parishads Asadpur, Chanderchor, Dulalpur, Garmora, Ghagutia, Joypur, Mathabhanga, Nilokhi and Bhasania. The union parishads are subdivided into 70 moujas and 154 villages. On the other hand, Homna Municipality is subdivided into 9 wards and 13 mahallas.
Yu Hui
Yu Hui is an archer from China. She was born on 31 March 1980. Hui competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Safety Last!
Safety Last! is a 1923 silent movie. It is a romantic comedy. It stars Harold Lloyd. The image of Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic is well known. The movie was very successful and critically hailed. It cemented Lloyd's status as a major figure in early movies. It is still popular with movie buffs. Lloyd performed some of his climbing stunts despite losing a thumb and forefinger in an accident while making a movie four years earlier.
Zhang Juanjuan
Zhang Juanjuan is an archer from China. She was born on 2 January 1981. Juanjuan competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Division of Newcastle
The Division was one of the original 75 divisions set up for the first Federal election in 1901. It has been held by the Australian Labor Party since it was created. Labor has never got less than 58 percent of the two-party vote in a general election. It has only come close to losing it once, when it got 53 percent in a 1935 by-election. It is the only original Division to be held by just one party since the first Federal election.
Juan Echavarría
Juan Echavarría is a retired archer from Colombia. He was born on 28 January 1962. Echavarría competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Division of Newcastle
Members
The Division of Newcastle has had just five members since 1901. This is the fewest of any of the original Divisions. From 1901 to 1958, the seat was held by the Watkins family. David Oliver took over from his father David in 1935. Allan Morris' brother, Peter was also in the Federal Parliament, representing the Division of Shortland. Charles Jones' brother, Sam, was in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Carolina Aguirre
Carolina Aguirre Giraldo is an archer from Colombia. She was born on 29 January 1996. Aguirre competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
USB-C
USB-C (USB Type-C) is a 24-pin USB connector. This type of USB connector is commonly found on Android devices and computers. The USB-C specifications were first published and finalized in August of 2014, roughly the same time as USB 3.1 specification. It is both smaller and faster than USB-A. The USB-C 3.1 has the potential to have higher data transfer speeds. It can also deliver 100 watts of power over a single cable (this is done by upping the voltage to 20 volts).
Seletar Airport
Seletar Airport in Singapore is a local airport located 16 kilometres northwest from the Changi Airport, the country's main airport. Seletar Airport is originally operated in 1928 known as RAF Seletar, military airbase of the British Royal Air Force. In 1971, the base was handed back to Singapore and now mostly serves turbo-prop and smaller-sized private and business jet.
Zhang Zheng
Zhang Zheng is an archer from China. He was born on 18 May 1963. Zheng competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Polly Walker
Polly Alexandra Walker (born 19 May 1966) is a British actress. She has starred in the movies Enchanted April (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Sliver (1993), Restoration (1995), The Gambler (1997), and Savage Messiah (2002),Rome (2005–2007). She is also known for her roles in BBC One dramas Prisoners’ Wives (2012–2013), Line of Duty (2016, 2019) and Netflix Original period drama Bridgerton (2020-).
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson (born November 5, 1986) is an American politician. He is the 45th and current mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 2021. He was Milwaukee Common Council president as well as Milwaukee's 2nd District alderman.
In April 2022, Johnson won a special election, becoming the first African-American elected mayor of Milwaukee.
Australian Labor Party (NSW)
The Australian Labor Party (NSW) was an Australian political party commonly known as Lang Labor. It was the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party which broke away from the national party and acted independently from 1931 to 1936.
This led to a split between the Federal and State leaders of the Labor party. In 1931 Lang's supporters voted with the United Australia Party Opposition in the House of Representatives to bring down the Scullin government. This caused an early election. The New South Wales Branch ran candidates as the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales). They were known as "Lang Labor" candidates. Supporters of the federal party (led in New South Wales by Ted Theodore and Ben Chifley) were known as Federal Labor candidates.
The elections were a huge defeat for Labor, but most of the Lang members had safe working class seats and survived. Ward was narrowly defeated in East Sydney. (He was re-elected at a by-election in 1932). Theodore and Chifley were both defeated, and Federal Labor won only three seats in New South Wales. At the 1934 federal elections Federal Labor won only one seat (Newcastle).
In 1935 John Curtin became the new federal Labor leader. In February 1936 he brought about a reconciliation with the New South Wales Branch. At the 1937 elections Labor ran as a united party in New South Wales.
Plants vs. Zombies (video game)
Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense video game developed and published by PopCap Games. It was created in 2009. Plants vs. Zombies was first released for Windows and Mac OS X, and it has been ported to consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. In this game, the player is a homeowner who must defend against a zombie apocalypse. Zombies appear on multiple lanes that can reach the player's house. The player defends by placing plants that attack zombies. Plants can be bought with a currency called sun. If a zombie makes it to the house on any lane, the player loses and must restart the level.
Plants vs. Zombies was designed by George Fan. He initially was going to make a game that would be a more defense-oriented game sequel to his fish simulator game Insaniquarium. During development, he converted it into a tower defense game featuring plants fighting against zombies. The game takes inspiration from multiple games and movies. It took three and a half years to make Plants vs. Zombies. Rich Werner was the main artist, Tod Semple programmed the game, and Laura Shigihara composed the game's music. In order to make the game interesting for casual and hardcore gamers, the tutorial was designed to be simple and spread throughout Plants vs. Zombies.
Plants vs. Zombies was given positive reviews by critics. The game was also nominated for multiple awards, including "Download Game of the Year" and "Strategy Game of the Year" as part of Golden Joystick Awards 2010. Reviewers praised the game's humorous art style, simplistic but engaging gameplay, and soundtrack. When it was released in May 2009, it was the fastest-selling video game developed by PopCap Games and quickly became their best-selling game, much faster than Bejeweled and Peggle. By 2010, Plants vs. Zombies had sold over a million copies worldwide.
In 2011, PopCap was bought by Electronic Arts (EA). Electronic Arts had fired George Fan and 49 other employees. Since then, it has marked the transition to mobile and social gaming. After EA bought PopCap Games, Plants vs. Zombies has grown into an entire franchise. This includes two direct sequels, three third-person shooters, and two spin-offs.
Gameplay
In Plants vs. Zombies, the player takes on the role of a homeowner in a suburban neighborhood who must defend their house from zombies with the help of various plants. The game is divided into several levels, each taking place in a different location around the house. The player must plant various types of plants, each with their own unique abilities, to defend against waves of zombies that approach from the right side of the screen.
Raorchestes vellikkannan
The silver-eyed shrub frog (Raorchestes vellikkannan) is a species of frog. It lives in India. Scientists have seen it in the Western Ghat mountains in the state of Kerala.
María Echavarría
María Echavarría is an archer from Colombia. She was born on 7 July 1960. Echavarría competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine is a game engine made by Epic Games, it was first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal. It has since been used mainly in three-dimensional (3D) and is also used in the film and television industry. Unreal Engine is written in C++ and supports many desktop, mobile, console and virtual reality platforms.
Steam Deck
The Steam Deck is a mobile gaming computer made by Valve and released on February 25, 2022. The Steam Deck can be played as a handheld or connected to a monitor similar to the Nintendo Switch. It is an x86-64-v3 that lets user access the Steam library and other Microsoft Windows PC games there was always kind of this classic chicken and egg problem with the Steam Machine.
Sheffield Drive
Sheffield Drive is a street in El Dorado Hills, California. It begins at Francisco Drive and Promontory Point Drive and ends at Carnelian Circle and Cardiff Circle. It was named after a boy named Ethan Sheffield who spat on the road a few times.
Florida Seminoles
The Florida Seminoles are a college football team that plays in the NCAA.
Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink
Patsy Matsu Mink (née Takemoto; December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002) was the first woman of color to be elected into Congress. She spent her time in Congress speaking out and writing laws related to gender equality in education. Mink was also the first woman to be an approved lawyer in the state of Hawaii. Mink founded the Oahu Young Democrats in 1954. In 1962, she finally won a seat in the Hawaii Senate. Mink helped write the Women’s Educational Equity Act which provides 30 million dollars per year to promote gender equality in schools. It also increases educational and job opportunities for women. Along with that, she was the co-writer of the Title IX law which requires public schools to provide equal and fair treatment to all genders in education. Mink was the first Asian American to run for president. During her second time in congress, Mink co-founded the Congressional Asian Pacific American Council. She also protested against the promotion of Clarence Thomas to the supreme court after claims of sexual harassment. In 1977 she served under President Jimmy Carter as assistant secretary of state for oceans and international, environmental and scientific affairs. Mink was a member of Congress until her death in 2002.
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It began on 17 February 1917 when the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party (NLP) joined together. The Nationalist Party held government until 1929. It was the major opposition to the Labor party. In 1931 it joined with a group who left the Labor Party led by Joseph Lyons and became the United Australia Party. This was the basis of the Liberal Party of Australia which began in 1944.
History
In October 1915 Prime Minister Andrew Fisher retired. The Australian Labor Party (ALP) chose Billy Hughes to be the new leader and Prime Minister. He was a strong supporter of Australia's participation in World War I. After a visit to Britain in 1916 he decided that conscription was necessary to get enough soldiers for the Australian army. Most of his party, especially the trade unions, did not support conscription. There were also many Irish Roman Catholics in the Labor Party who did not want to support the British government. This was because of the British government's actions against the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916. In October Hughes held a plebiscite to get support to start conscription, but the plebiscite was narrowly defeated. Melbourne's Catholic Archbishop, Daniel Mannix, was his main opponent on the conscription issue. Hughes continued to argue in favour of conscription. This produced a deep and bitter split within the Australian community, as well as within the members of his own party.
On 15 September 1916 NSW branch of the Labor Party forced Hughes from the Labor Party. When the Federal Parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, there was a lot of argument. Hughes and 24 other Labor members walked out. The remaining 43 members passed a motion of no confidence in the leadership. This removed Hughes and the other members from the ALP.
Hughes and his followers formed a new party, the National Labor Party. They were able to govern with support from Joseph Cook and his Commonwealth Liberal Party. In February 1917, the two groups joined to form the Nationalist Party, with Hughes as leader and Cook as deputy leader. The Nationlists, with Liberal and Labor members, were able to present an image of national unity.