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The Floppotron is a musical instrument. It was made by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak. It is made of a set of computer hardware that plays music together. The latest version, the Floppotron 2.0, has 64 floppy drives, eight hard drives, and two flatbed scanners. Development. First version. The first version of the Floppotron was made in 2011. It is made of two floppy drives and an ATMega microcontroller. The sound is made by the magnetic head being moved by its stepper motor. The floppy drive's heads have be moved at the correct speed to make the correct sound. The instrument became well known thanks to a video of the instrument on YouTube playing the Imperial March, which has more than 6 million views. 2.0 version. In 2016, Paweł Zadrożniak made a better version of the Floppotron, which has 64 floppy drives, 8 hard drives, and two flatbed scanners. Every column of eight floppy drives is controlled by an ATMega16 microcontroller, and the hard drives are controlled by two SMD MOSFETs that push and pull. The flatbed scanner head are controlled by Arduino Uno boards. How it works. Any device that has an electric motor can make sound. Scanners and floppy drives use stepper motors to move the head with sensors that scan an image, or read or write, onto a magnetic disk. The faster the motor, the higher the pitch of the sound the motor makes. Hard disks use a magnet and a coil to tilt the head. When voltage is supplied for long enough, the head speeds up and hits the bound, which makes the "drum hit” sound. The Floppotron makes MIDI music files into commands that tell each device when to buzz, click, or be silent. Song covers. As of April 2019, Paweł Zadrożniak's YouTube page shows more than one hundred songs played with the Floppotron. Some of those songs are Queen's "Bohemian Rapsody", Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", White Stripes's "Seven Nation Army", Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
Taree is a town on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia. Taree was colonized in 1831 by William Wynter. The name Taree is derived from "tareebit", a word from the native language Biripi word which means "tree by the river", or more specifically, the Sandpaper Fig ("Ficus coronata"). According to the Australian census, the estimated population in the locality in the year 2016 is 16,197 people. Taree has passenger trains to and from Sydney.
MacOS Sierra (version 10.12) is the thirteenth major release of macOS (previously from 2001 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2016), Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh. It was the first version of the operating system issued under the June 2016 renaming as macOS. Sierra is named after the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California and Nevada.
The Intellivision Amico is a video game console made by Intellivision Entertainment. The console was revealed in October 2018 and pre-orders started in April 2019. The console will come out on April 15, 2021, delayed from October 10, 2020, along with 40 games being made for then. Concept. Most games will be 2D or 2.5D. Other games will be 3D games the company thinks are easy to play and learn. The company helps studios make games for the console with whatever the studios need. All games will have features they will only have on the console. All games will be rated E (Everyone) or E10+ (Everyone 10+) by the ESRB, or PEGI 3 or PEGI 7 by PEGI. Intellivision Entertainment plan to release new games, motion control games, card games and other tabletop games, educational games, and updated classic video games, such as some Intellivision games, some from Imagic, and Atari and arcade games, of which "Moon Patrol" and "BurgerTime" will come out at about the same time as the console. Some Intellivision compilations will have licenses from third-parties, such as "". Games can be downloaded for $9.99 or less when the console comes out, later a higher amount less than $40, or from an RFID card for US$20 to US$30. All games can be played by one player or, because the goal of the system is to go back to family gaming and co-op with people in the same place because the company thinks modern gaming and web-based multiplayer has gone away from that, up to eight players locally. Online multiplayer is planned for a later date. History. Development. In May 2018, Tommy Tallarico said he planned to make a new Intellivision console, and made a new company, Intellivision Entertainment, becoming the president of it. Intellivision Productions started to name itself Blue Sky Rangers Inc. instead, and Intellivision Entertainment got the video game things they owned instead.
Gena Turgel (née Goldfinger; 1 February 1923 – 7 June 2018) was a Jewish Polish author, educator, and Holocaust survivor. Her memoir, "I Light a Candle", was published in 1987. She spent much of her life educating British school pupils about the Holocaust.
Panagiotis "Taki" Theodoracopulos (; , ; born 11 August 1936) is a Greek journalist and writer. Theodoracopulos's column "High Life" has appeared in "The Spectator" since 1977, where he wrote a series of controversial articles. Some of his articles have been edited by Boris Johnson. In 2002, Theodoracopulos founded "The American Conservative" magazine with Pat Buchanan and Scott McConnell. He was also the publisher of the British magazine "Right Now!". He lives in New York City, London and Gstaad, Switzerland.
Professor Anthony Smith CBE (14 March 1938 – 28 November 2021) was a British broadcaster, author and academic. He was President of Magdalen College, Oxford, between 1988 and 2005. He worked for the Annan Committee on The Future of Broadcasting, and became engaged in the national debate which led to the foundation of the UK's Channel 4. Smith died on 28 November 2021 in London from renal failure, aged 83.
Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (22 December 1923 – 3 October 2020) was a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. Worsthorne spent the largest part of his career at the "Telegraph" newspaper titles, eventually becoming editor of "The Sunday Telegraph" for several years. He left the newspaper in 1997. Worsthorne died on 3 October 2020 at his home in Buckinghamshire, aged 96.
Lewis Wolpert (19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert was known for his work on the intracellular positional information that guides cellular development. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989. Wolpert died at a hospital in London on 28 January 2021 from COVID-19, aged 91.
2builders2tools (2b2t) is one of the oldest and most notorious "Minecraft" multiplayer game servers. It is the oldest anarchy server in minecraft. It was founded in December 2010 by an unknown owner known online as "Hausemaster". 2b2t is a "Minecraft Java Edition" 1.20 server that operates on a map without any resets since its creation. The server's spawn area is notoriously damaged, reflecting its chaotic nature and lack of rules. Cheating, griefing, violence, and racism are common occurrences on 2b2t. The server gained popularity due to its anarchic and unpredictable nature. As of October 2024, 2b2t is over 49,700 gigabytes in size and has had more than 821,220 unique players. The server has gained significant attention on YouTube, with numerous videos about it amassing millions of views. History. The "Minecraft" server 2b2t.org was founded in 2010 by an unknown owner, known online as "Hausemaster". It was advertised on 4chan and Reddit. Members from different forums launched raids against each other and their work. YouTuber TheCampingRusher uploaded a YouTube video on June 1, 2016, where he played on 2b2t. This caused a conflict on the server known as "The Rusher War". A queue to enter the server was soon added due to the massive influx of new players caused by the video's popularity. Players can also pay $20 to access a separate priority queue for a month. Since its creation, the server gained attention from the news. Articles were created about 2b2t on "Kotaku, Vice, IGN, Newsweek" and "The Independent". In the book "Master Builder 3.0 Advanced", in April 2015, 2b2t was described as crazy, that it can get "outright wild," and that the server is a "nightmare wasteland." The book also stated that it is known as "online royalty" among "Minecraft" servers.
Fay Weldon (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was a British author, essayist and playwright. Weldon's most known work is her novel "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" (1983), which she wrote at the age of 52. Weldon was born in Birmingham. She lived in New Zealand until the age of 15. She was married three times and had four children. Weldon died on 4 January 2023, at the age of 91.
James Haynes (10 November 1933 – 6 January 2021) was a British sociologist and writer. He was a former figure in the British "underground" and alternative/counter-culture scene of the 1960s. He was the founder of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, the paper "International Times" and the London Arts Lab in Drury Lane. Haynes died on 6 January 2021 at his home in Paris, aged 87.
Jerome Laurence Singer (February 6, 1924 – December 14, 2019) was an American psychologist. He was the Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Yale School of Medicine. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. He was known as "the father of daydreaming" due to his works about daydreaming. Singer was born in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. Singer died on December 14, 2019 at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 95.
Jerome Kagan (February 25, 1929 – May 10, 2021) was an American psychologist. He was the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Harvard University, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology. Kagan died on May 10, 2021 in Durham, North Carolina at the age of 92.
Mikey Madison (born Mikaela Madison Rosberg; March 25, 1999) is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Anora in the 2024 movie "Anora", which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Madison also starred as Max Fox on the FX television comedy series "Better Things" (2016–2022) and as Manson Family follower Susan Atkins (Sadie) in "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" (2019). She also played Amber Freeman in "Scream" (2022).  Personal life. Madison was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in the San Fernando Valley. She is Jewish. Madison originally trained as a competitive horseback rider before switching to acting at age 14. She was homeschooled after the seventh grade. Milkey is not dating to someone in the industry or neigther in relationship at moment. Career. Madison had her first acting role in 2012, appearing in the short movies "Retirement" and "Pani's Box". In 2014, after appearing in the short movie "Bound for Greatness", she had her first role in a major movie, "Liza, Liza, Skies Are Grey", which was not released until 2017. In 2016, Madison began a starring role as Max Fox, a sullen teenager, in the FX comedy-drama series "Better Things" created by Louis C.K.. From 2017 to 2018, she guest starred in the Bravo dark comedy series "Imposters". Madison had her first popular role as Manson Family member Susan "Sadie" Atkins in Quentin Tarantino's movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". She also had a voice role in the animated black comedy movie "The Addams Family". The following year, Madison was cast as Amber Freeman in "Scream", the fifth movie of the "Scream" franchise. In 2024, Madison starred as the main role as Anora, a stripper, in the Sean Baker movie "Anora" which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The movie won the Palme d'Or at the
Hallo aus Berlin (English: Hello from Berlin) is a British educational television miniseries made by the BBC and the Goethe-Institut working together. It is used in German lessons in the United Kingdom, United States, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands and Australia. The 10 episodes in the series were shown on BBC Schools TV from 19 September 1996. It shows things that have happened, people are asked questions about themselves, energetic music, and animated parts, all like how a magazine would do so. The series is designed for people who are anywhere from 11 years old to 14 years old who are beginning to learn German. The main characters are Marko Walther, Jessica König, Daniel Augustin, Esther Walk, Thomas Lindel, and Miriam Casten. They are young people who say what life is like in Berlin for them every day. Every episode has an animated sketch and song the host characters, Rolli und Rita, perform. The episodes can be watched on YouTube or the BBC website. Episodes. Episode 1 - "Wir". The characters of the series talk about themselves for the first time. This includes what they look like, their heights and their ages. Rolli und Rita appear for the first time. The Rolli und Rita sketch shows a hall of mirrors in a fairground and talks about colours and parts of the face in German. Thomas talks about his enjoying of cycling, Daniel shows his cartoons, and Jessica goes shopping. Marko talks about his guinea pig, and Miriam talks about her pet dog. Esther is seen doing athletics and talks about what she does. Rolli und Rita perform the song 'Hallo aus Berlin'. Episode 2 - "Familie". Daniel and his family come to see his grandparents. The other characters talk about their brothers, sisters and pets for the first time. Some people who live in Berlin are asked questions about themselves. Thomas visits the Berlin Zoo and talks about the different animals that are seen there for the first time. The Rolli und Rita sketch shows Rita with a snake at Rolli's house that can solve problems using mathematics. The snake becomes confused and wrecks the room after Rolli asks
Singleton is a town on the banks of the Hunter River, New South Wales, Australia. Singleton is northwest of Sydney and northwest of Newcastle. According to the 2016 Australian census, the estimated population number of the town was 13,214 people in the urban centres and localities. Transport. Singleton railway station is a railway station on the Scone branch of the Hunter Line. There are six services to Newcastle on weekdays and four on weekends and public holidays. There are three services to Scone with one additional service to Muswellbrook on weekdays and two all to Scone on weekends and public holidays.
Glide is a 3D graphics API made by 3dfx Interactive for their "Voodoo Graphics" 3D accelerator cards. It was proprietary at first, then 3dfx later made it open source. It was only designed to draw graphics, mostly geometry and texture mapping, in data formats like those used in their cards. It was popular in the late 1990s because 3Dfx 3D accelerator cards were widely used, but became obsolete because Microsoft's Direct3D got better, full OpenGL implementations from other graphics card vendors came out, and 3D hardware became more diverse. API. Glide is based on the basic geometry and "world view" of OpenGL 1.1. That version of OpenGL is an API that has 336 calls, most of which were not of use to draw graphics for video games at the time. Glide was designed to only have the features that were of use to draw graphics for video games at the time. The allowed the API to be small enough to fully run using late-1990s hardware. Use in games. Voodoo cards dominated the video game market during the last half of the 1990s because they ran fast and Glide was easy to use. The name Glide was chosen to reference OpenGL, which it was based on, while being different enough to not make trademark problems happen.  Glide wrappers and emulators. Glide emulator development started in the late 1990s. Before 3dfx ended, the company tried very hard to stop these attempts, ending early emulation projects using legal threats. Before it ended and Nvidia bought its assets, 3dfx made the Glide API, and also the Voodoo 2 and Voodoo 3 specifications, open source. It later became an open source project. No games released after 1999 only support Glide for 3D acceleration (Direct3D and OpenGL are used instead), but Glide emulation is still needed to run older games with hardware acceleration. Because the specifications and code are now open source, multiple emulators and wrappers are available that allow older games that use the Glide API to run on non-Voodoo hardware. Other projects, such as Glidos, allow even older games to use Glide.
Colum Eastwood MP MLA (born 30 April 1983) is a Northern Irish politician. He has been the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) since 2015. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011, and had since been re-elected. He quit in 2019. He was also the SDLP candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election to represent Northern Ireland. In December 2019 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Foyle. Eastwood was also mayor of Derry from 2010 to 2011.
Naomi Rachel Long (née Johnston; born 13 December 1971) is a Northern Irish politician. She has been leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland since 2016. She has again been a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East since 2020. She has also been minister of Justice in the government of Northern Ireland since 2020. From 2010 to 2015 she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Westminster constituency of Belfast East. She was the second elected female Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2009 to 2010.  In 2019, she was elected as the Alliance Party candidate for the European Parliament, becoming the first ever Alliance MEP.
Bronco Joseph Horvath (March 12, 1930 – December 17, 2019) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 434 games in the NHL between 1955 and 1968. Horvath played for New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars. He was born in Port Colborne, Ontario. Horvarth died on December 17, 2019 at the age of 89.
Tunç Başaran (October 1, 1938 – December 18, 2019) was a Turkish screenwriter, movie director, movie producer and actor. He was born in Istanbul. In 1964 he directed his first feature "Survival". By 1962, he had directed about 40 movies. He directed "Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde", "Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite" and "Piano Piano Kid". Başaran died on December 18, 2019 in Istanbul of soft-tissue sarcoma at the age of 81.
Zafar Ahmad Chaudhry (Urdu: ظفر احمد چودھری; 19 August 1926 – 17 December 2019), , was a Pakistani human rights activist and an airline executive. He was the first Chief of Air Staff of Pakistan Air Force, appointed in 1972 until his resignation in 1974. He was born in Sialkot, Punjab in British India. Chaudhry died on 17 December 2019 in Lahore of cardiac arrest at the age of 93.
Geulah Cohen (, 25 December 1925 – 18 December 2019) was an Israeli politician and activist. She founded the Tehiya party. She won the Israel Prize in 2003. She was born in Tel Aviv. Cohen was a member of Knesset between 1972 and 1992.  Cohen died on 18 December 2019 at the age of 93.
Kenneth Lynch, OBE (18 March 1938 – 18 December 2019) was an English rock singer-songwriter, entertainer and actor. He appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s. His best known single was "You Can Never Stop Me Loving You". An actor, his best known role were in "Carry On Loving" and "The Playbirds". He died in the early hours of 18 December 2019 of cancer, aged 81.
Filozoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor) that is in the Opisthokonta clade. It includes animals, and their close single-celled relatives. These relatives are more closely related to animals than they are to fungi, and other Opisthokonts. Three groups are in Filozoa: Filasterea, Choanoflagellatea, and Kingdom Animalia. Animalia is the most important one, which has all proper animals in it. Evolution. The phylogenic tree (evolution tree) below shows how clades broke into newer clades. This includes Filozoa.
Ibrahim Diarra (25 May 1983 – 18 December 2019) was a French rugby union footballer. He played as a flanker for Castres. He was born in Paris. He made his international debut for France. Diarra died on 18 December 2019 in Paris of a stroke at the age of 36.
Philip B. Heymann (October 30, 1932 – November 30, 2021) was an American lawyer, federal prosecutor, legal scholar and law professor. He was in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General during the Carter administration and was briefly Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration.  Heymann died on November 30, 2021 in Los Angeles, California from problems caused by a stroke, one month after his 89th birthday.
Diophantus of Alexandria was an ancient Greek mathematician. He is well known for his series of books called "Arithmetica". He mainly focused on solving algebraic equations. His work was built upon by Pierre de Fermat, a French mathematician, who claimed that a certain equation created by Diophantus was unsolvable. The attempts to prove this claim, now known as Fermat's Last Theorem, led to major advances in number theory. Biography. Not much is known of Diophantus's life. Some information is given by another Greek mathematician, Metroduros, through various problems that he wrote which supposedly contained hints about Diophantus' life.  "Arithmetica". Diophantus' main notable work is his series of books called "Arithmetica." It is a collection of problems and solutions to those problems. These problems have come to be known as Diophantine equations. The method in which they are solved is now called Diophantine analysis.
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights leader. He was the U.S. Representative for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Lewis, who as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Early Life. John Lewis was born in 1940 in Troy, Alabama to Eddie Lewis and Willie Mae Lewis (née Carter), who were sharecroppers in Pike County, Alabama. Sharecroppers were people who were allowed to rent a part of a piece of land for return of a share of the crops they harvested. He was the third of ten children. He experienced segregation as a young boy in the Southern United States. When he went to visit relatives in the Northern US, he learned that places there were integrated and served Black people and white people equally. Personal Life. Lewis married Lilian Miles in 1968. They had a son, John-Miles. Lillian died on December 31, 2012. Death. In December 2019, Lewis was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. He died in Atlanta, Georgia on July 17, 2020 from the disease, aged 80. His funeral was held at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church
is a Japanese politician. He was born in Nanto, Toyama, Japan. He was elected to the Diet in 1969, as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from July 2000 to November 2003.
was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) from 1996 to 2009, and from 2011 until his death in 2019. He was also Minister of the Environment from 2014 to 2015. He was a native of Shimizu, Shizuoka and a graduate of Chuo University. Mochizuki died on 19 December 2019 at a hospital in Shimizu, Shizuoka of liver failure. He was 72.
is a Japanese politician. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
List of speakers ("gichō") and vice-speakers ("fuku-gichō") of the House of Representatives.
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house. The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term.