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Generative art is the combination of computer technology with art. It uses a system that can independently determine the features of artwork that would otherwise require the work of the artist. It can be argued that the system only reproduces the artistic intent of the creator. It can also be argued that the system takes on the role of the creator. History. Georg Nees, one of the pioneers of the movement, in February 1965 presented a number of his works to the public in Stuttgart. They were described as "computer graphics". A few years later, Nees wrote a dissertation titled "Procedural Computer Graphics". "Procedural art" and similar terms began to be used in those years by other computer artists, including Manfred Mohr. The term "procedural art" in the sense of "dynamic systems of artworks capable of generating multiple artistic events" was first proposed at the "Procedural Art" conference in Milan in 1998. The term has also been used to describe geometric abstract art in which simple elements are repeated, transformed, or modified to create more complex shapes. It can be argued that in the late 1960s, the Argentine artists Eduardo McIntyre and Miguel Angel Vidal also practiced procedural art. In 1972, Paul Neagu, a native of Romania, created an association called the Generative Art Group in the UK. In 1972, Neagu gave a lecture on "forms of generative art" at Queen's University at the Belfast Festival. In 1970, the Department of Procedural Systems was created at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. According to Sonya Landy Sheridan, the main focus of his staff was on artistic practices using the new technologies for capturing, printing and transmitting images, as well as exploring the aspect of time in image transformation. In the mid-1990s, Brian Eno was also involved in the popularization of procedural music and procedural systems, which were closely associated with experimental music.
Osteocephalus mimeticus is a frog in the family Hylidae. It lives in the state of Amazonas in Brazil and the state of Amazonas in Venezuela. Scientists think it might also live in Colombia. This frog lives in forests with white sand in the ground. Appearance. The adult male frog is 47.5 – 58.4 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 54.6 - 65.3 m long. Adult male frogs have many large bumps on their skin and adult female frogs have small bumps. The adult frog is light brown, yellow-brown, or red-brown on the back. Some of them have dark brown or black marks. There is a dark stripe between the eyes. There is a dark line by each side of the jaw. The body's sides are yellow-white and may have brown spots or marks. The inner sections of the hind legs are light brown, and the belly is whitish in color. The lower sides of the legs are pink or orange in color. Young frogs are gray in color with darker gray marks. There is a gray stripe between the eyes. The tadpoles are 33.0 – 34.5 mm long from nose to the end of the tail. Threats. There are fewer of this frog than there were. This is because human beings change the places where it lives. Humans cut down trees to use the wood and to make farms. Because this frog only lives in forests with white sand, this is a larger problem than it is for other frogs.
Wolves in the Walls is a 2003 picture book by writer Neil Gaiman and illustrator Dave McKean. A surreal tale of wolves that lived within the walls and then took over the house and temporarily forced its inhabitants out. The book gained great popularity, was translated into foreign languages, and a successful children's musical was staged based on it.  The design of the book is interesting because McKean used various techniques to create illustrations: both ordinary drawings and computer graphics and photographs. According to Gaiman, the plot of the book was suggested to him by his daughter, who, at the age of four, had a terrible dream about wolves living in the walls.  The book was translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Polish and other languages. The Russian translation of the book by Maxim Nemtsov was published in 2014 by the Livebook.  Plot. One evening, the girl Lucy hears strange noises coming from the walls in the house. She believes that wolves live in the walls and talks about it to her mother (who fills jars with homemade jam), her father (who plays the tuba), her younger brother (who plays video games).  All of them, however, do not believe Lucy: mother says that they are mice, father that they are rats, and brother that they are bats. In addition, they are all sure that “when wolves crawl out of the walls, that’s all!”. However, the next day, wolves do break out of the walls and take over the house, while Lucy and her family huddle in the garden. They discuss where they should live now - at the North Pole, in the Sahara desert, in outer space? Lucy, having forgotten her favorite pig toy in the room, sneaks into the house inside the walls and takes it. The next evening, the family is still hesitant to enter the house, but Lucy invites everyone to go and spend the night there by walking inside the walls. The family does just that, seeing what the wolves are doing in the house (they watch TV at full volume, eat jam, throwing leftovers everywhere, dance). Unable to stand it, Lucy and her family take chair legs and chase away the wolves, who
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist and poet, one of the founders of "poetry of nonsense", author of numerous popular absurdist limericks. Biography. Edward Lear was born on May 12, 1812 in the London suburb of Highgate. He was the 20th child in the family, and his older sister Ann was involved in his upbringing. When Edward was 15 years old, he and his sister settled in a separate house. Being a talented artist, Lear began working as a book illustrator. At the age of 19, he published his first book, Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, 1830. Since childhood, Lear had poor health - he suffered from epilepsy, asthma, and in adulthood, partial loss of vision was added to this. In 1846, Lear published A Book of Nonsense (also translated as the Book of Nonsense or the Book of Nonsense), which included funny limericks. Soon this genre gained considerable popularity. The style and plots of Lear's nonsense influenced the work of his contemporary, Lewis Carroll, the French surrealists, Russian Oberiuts (Daniil Kharms was Lear's admirer). The poet died on January 29, 1888. Mentioned in the Beatles song "Paperback writer" (1966).
The theater of the absurd, or the drama of the absurd, is a trend in theatre (plays or acting) that uses absurdism. It started in the early 1950s in the theatre of France. In absurdist plays, unlike ordinary plays, the playwright conveys to the reader and the viewer his sense of a problem. This constantly violates logic. so the viewer, accustomed to ordinary theater, is confused and feels discomfort. That is the goal of "illogical" theater. It aims at getting the viewer to get rid of the patterns in his perception and look at his life in a new way. Supporters of the "logical" theater say that the world in the "theater of the absurd" is presented as a senseless, illogical pile of facts, deeds, words and destinies. When reading such plays, one can notice that they are made up of a number of quite logical fragments. The logic of the connection of these fragments differs sharply from the logic of the connection of the parts of an "ordinary" play. The principles of "absurdism" were most fully embodied in the dramas "The Bald Singer" (La cantatrice chauve, 1950) by the Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco and "Waiting for Godot" (1952) by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett.  History. The term "theater of the absurd" first appeared in the works of theater critic Martin Esslin He wrote a book with that title in 1962. Esslin saw in certain works the artistic embodiment of Albert Camus' philosophy of the meaninglessness of life, which he illustrated in his book The Myth of Sisyphus. It is believed that the theater of the absurd is rooted in the philosophy of Dadaism, poetry from non-existent words and avant-garde art of the 1910-1920s. Despite sharp criticism, the genre gained popularity after the Second World War. That demonstrated the uncertainty and ephemeral nature of human life. The introduced term was also criticized. There were attempts to redefine it as "anti-theater" and "new theater". According to Esslin, the absurdist theatrical movement was based on the
The Bald Soprano (French La Cantatrice Chauve) is the first play by the Franco-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. The play was written in 1948 and was first staged by Nicolas Bataille at the Théâtre des Noctambules (The Night Owl Theatre) in Paris; premiered on May 11, 1950. The play was not a success - until famous writers and critics, including Jean Anouilh and Raymond Quenot, supported it. Since 1957, she has been constantly going to the Théâtre de la Huchette (The Theater on rue Huchette). The play became one of the most frequently played in France. The idea for the play came to Ionesco while he was trying to learn English with the Assimil method. Impressed by the contents of the dialogues, often very sober and strange, he decided to write an absurd play named "L'anglais sans peine" ("English without toil").
Princess Christine of Ligne (born 11 August 1955 at Château de Belœil), is a Princess of Ligne by birth, as the daughter of Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne, and a Princess of Orleans-Braganza by marriage to Prince Antônio of Orleans-Braganza . Titles  11 August 1955 - 25 September 1981: Her Highness Princess Christine of Ligne  25 September 1981 - 15 July 2022: Her Highness Princess Christine , Princess of Orleans-Braganza, Princess of Ligne 15 July 2022 - 8 November 2024: Her Imperial Highness The Princess House Imperial Brazilian, according to monarchists.
The Government of the Italian Republic is the constitutional body that heads the executive branch of Italy. Its fundamental regulation is located in Title III of the Italian Constitution. It is composed of the President of the Council of Ministers and the Ministers, who form the Council of Ministers. Subsecretaries of State generally also form part of the Government, some of whom assume the role of deputy ministers. It has its official headquarters in the Chigi Palace in Piazza Colonna in Rome. Other headquarters of the representation of the Italian Government are Villa Doria Pamphilj, Villa Madama and the Farnesina Palace, all located in Rome. The current cabinet, called the Draghi Government, named after its President of the Council Mario Draghi, came into force on February 13, 2021 after being sworn in at the Quirinal Palace. Overview. The Government is a constitutional body as provided by the Italian Constitution in articles 92, 93, 94, 95 and 96 and insofar as it contributes, in a position of independence from other state bodies, to the formulation of the political direction. Title III, section II, of the Constitution determines its discipline and functions. In general, the government also includes deputy secretaries of state, some of whom may be given the title of deputy ministers. It is chaired by the President of the Council of Ministers, who ranks fourth in the order of precedence of Italian positions (after the President of the Republic, the President of the Senate, the President of the Chamber of Deputies President of the Council of Ministers. The president of the Council of Ministers has a position of pre-eminence over the other members of the government. He has the task of forming the government once the mandate has been received by the head of state and of electing the ministers. If he resigns, the whole government will have to resign too. In government, one or more ministers may hold the position of Vice President of the Council of Ministers, elected by the Council of Ministers. His task is to replace the latter when the President is absent or has a temporary impediment.
Carmine Coppola (1910-1991) was an American composer. He is known for composing movie music. He was also a flutist, pianist, and songwriter. He wrote music for "The Godfather", "The Godfather Part II", "Apocalypse Now", "The Outsiders", and "The Godfather Part III". All of these films were directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. He also had one Grammy Award nomination.
Hempstead House, also known as the Gould-Guggenheim Estate or Sands Point Preserve is a large estate in Naussau County, New York. It was built for Howard Gould and later for Daniel Guggenheim. The building is like a castle.The architectural style is Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals.  Several movies have been shot here. Examples include "The Godfather" (1972), "Scent of a Woman" (1992), "Malcolm X" (1992) and "Great Expectations" (1998).
Gangster film is a type of crime film. It is about gangs and organized crime. It is considered a subgenre of the crime genre. Notable directors in this subgenre are Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino and Brian De Palma. Notable actors in gangster films are Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Wesley Snipes, Ray Liotta, Christopher Walken, and Samuel L. Jackson.  History in the United States. Early Hollywood. The first official gangster film was "The Regeneration" (1915) and the first with sound was "The Lights of New York" (1928). There were a few notable films in the 1920s and early 1930s, including "Scarface" (1932), "Little Caesar" (1931) and "The Public Enemy" (1931)"." Films from th e 1930s to 1960s reflected political and cultural views on criminals. Punishment was strict and respect for authority important. Films showed criminals and organized crime as bad things. Several gangster films had warnings before the motion picture. Early films showed criminals as a result or product of society and not rebels. As a result, viewers could sympathize with the criminals. With the growth of the FBI, there were more films about police and government officials hunting criminals. Gangster films were often about trying to deal with crimes and detectives fighting crime.  New Hollywood. In 1968, the Hays Code that censored inappropriate films was removed. Directors now had more freedom. Some notable gangster films were made after 1968. They include "Bonnie and Clyde" by Arthur Penn and "Mean Streets" by Martin Scorcese"." The movie starred Robert De Niro. These films began to include move violence and gore.  In the 1970s, "The Godfather" films by Francis Ford Coppola showed the Italian-American Mafia in New York. "The Godfather" is considered one of the best movies of all time. "The" "Godfather" movies changed the genre and made the genre more
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation (WBPA), (formerly known as Warner Animation Group (WAG)) is an American animation studio by Jeff Robinov, the studio is the successor to the dissolved 2D traditional hand-drawn animation studio Warner Bros. Feature Animation, which shut down in 2004, and is also a sister to the regular Warner Bros. Animation studio. History. On January 7, 2013, Jeff Robinov (then head of the studio's motion picture division) founded a screenplay development department, nicknamed a "think tank" for developing theatrical animated films, known as the Warner Animation Group. Warner Bros. created the group with the hope that the box office reception of their films will be competitive with other animation studios' releases. On February 7, 2014, Warner Animation Group released their first film, "The Lego Movie", a film animated by Animal Logic, which also provided the animation for both spin-offs. It was met with critical praise and proved to be a box-office success. Due to the movie's success, a media franchise was created, with two spin-offs, "The Lego Batman Movie" and "The Lego Ninjago Movie" (both 2017), and a sequel, "" (2019). While "The Lego Batman Movie" proved to be successful at the box office, "The Lego Ninjago Movie" and "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" were both unable to recoup its budget, with "Ninjago" being the first film from the Warner Animation Group to be a box-office flop. Process. Similar to Paramount Animation and Sony Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation outsources their computer-animated films' production to other studios such as Animal Logic ("The Lego Movie" franchise, "DC League of Super-Pets and Toto"), Sony Pictures Imageworks ("Storks" and "Smallfoot"), Reel FX Creative Studios ("Scoob!"), Framestore ("Tom &amp; Jerry") and Industrial Light &amp; Magic (""). However, "Space Jam: A New Legacy" did also include hand-drawn animation, which is done in-house and also outsourced from Company 3 Animation
The Watertown Daily Times is a newspaper in Watertown, New York. It covers Jefferson County, Lewis County, St. Lawrence County and Oswego County. It started in 1861. The Watertown Daily Times Times makes a lot of different publications, like the NNY Business magazine, the NNY Living magazine, the Journal and Republican of Lowville, the Courier-Observer of Massena and Potsdam and the Oswego County News. All of these publications are published online by NNY360. The Watertown Daily Times is owned by the Johnson Newspaper Corporation, which owns newspapers across New York. The Johnson Newspaper Corporation also owns The Malone Telegram, The Daily News of Batavia, The Register-Star of Hudson, The Daily Mail of Catskill and the Livingston County News. The Watertown Daily Times owns the WWNY radio and television stations. The television station is called WWNY-TV, and the radio station is now WTNY.
"About Damn Time" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Lizzo. It was released April 12, 2022, through Nice Life and Atlantic Records. It is the lead single from her second studio album, "Special" (2022). The song has so far peaked at number two on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, becoming her second-highest peak in the US, after "Truth Hurts" was at the top of the Hot 100 in 2019.
Juan Roca Brunet (October 27, 1950 – July 9, 2022) was a Cuban basketball player. He won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Brunet died in Havana, Cuba at the age of 72.
Gary Oscar Moeller (; January 26, 1941 – July 11, 2022) was an American football coach. He was head coach at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1994. During his five seasons at Michigan, he won 44 games, lost 13 and tied 3. Moeller died on July 11, 2022 at the age of 81.
The Illinois Fighting Illini football team plays for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level.  The Fighting Illini are one of the first members of the Big Ten Conference. Illinois won five national championships and 15 Big Ten championships.
Monty Norman (born Monty Noserovitch; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was an English movie composer and singer. He was best known for composing the "James Bond Theme". Norman died on 11 July 2022 in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 94.
Bioenergetics is the study of energy transfer within living systems. For living organisms to function, they must transfer energy within their systems and between other organisms. These transfers happen following the laws of bioenergetics, which are themselves restatements of laws of thermodynamics.  Laws of bioenergetics. First law. The first law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. The total amount of energy must remain constant. Organisms cannot create energy, merely transform it from one form to another. For instance, plants do not create energy through photosynthesis, they convert energy from the sun into stored energy in food that can the be used to perform life functions.  Energy is able to move through the systems by undergoing these energy conversion. As an example, energy from the sun is converted from thermal energy into chemical energy by a producer; the producer is then eaten by a consumer; and the energy travels up the food chain.  Second law. At each level the amount of energy is reduced, following the second law of bioenergetics that states that energy transfer will always proceed in the direction of increased entropy, and the release of “free energy.” In this situation, most energy is lost as heat as it travels through the food chain.  How living organisms produce energy. In living organisms, the molecule that is the source of the stored energy used for cell functions comes in the form of Adenosine Triphosphate, or ATP. The energy is stored in the bonds between the phosphates in the ATP. When energy is needed to do work, like moving materials across the cell membrane or for chemical reactions, the bonds are broken and energy is released. Cells therefore have to produce the ATP through the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Bjørn Inge Mo (16 March 1968 – 10 July 2022) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. He was mayor of Kåfjord from 2003 to 2015. He was in the Sámi Parliament of Norway from 2017 to 2020. Mo died on 10 July 2022 at the age of 54.
The Sámi Parliament of Norway (, , Lule Sami) is the representative body for people of Sámi heritage in Norway.  The Parliament was opened on 9 October 1989. The seat is in the village of Kárášjohka (Karasjok) in Kárášjohka Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county.  It currently has 39 representatives, who are elected every four years by direct vote from 7 constituencies. The current president is Silje Karine Muotka who represents the Norwegian Sámi Association.
Webb's First Deep Field is the first operational image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. It was revealed to the public on 11 July 2022. Thousands of galaxies are visible in the image, which is the highest-resolution image of the early Universe ever taken. "Webb's First Deep Field" is the first full-color image from the JWST, and the highest-resolution infrared view of the universe. The image shows thousands of galaxies. It also shows extremely distant galaxies, showing the most detailed view of the early universe until now. It was first revealed to the public during a White House event on 11 July 2022 by U.S President Joe Biden.
Kåfjord ( ; ) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.  The city is the 116th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Kåfjord is the 277th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,071.
Microsoft Office 2019 (Second prepetual release Office 16) is an version of Microsoft Office for both Windows and Mac. It replaces Office 2016 and was replaced by Office 2021. It was release preview on April 27, 2018 for Windows 10 and June 12, 2018 for MacOS, later was retail release on September 24, 2018 on US/UK, October 1, 2018 on EU/EK and October 6, 2018 on India. Office 2019 has pubilshed on Office 365 subscribers are available this release. Microsoft plans will end extended support of Office 2019 on October 10, 2023, but it postponed on October 2025 because it unlike version. Office 2019 will ended support same as most Office 2016 and Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. History. In April 27, 2018, Microsoft release Office 2019 Preview version for Windows 10 and June 12, 2018 for MacOS, later was retail on September 24, 2018 on worldwide.
Víctor Benítez Morales (12 September 1935 – 11 July 2022) was a Peruvian footballer. He played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He played for the Italian clubs A.C. Milan, A.S. Roma and F.C. Internazionale Milano as well as Argentine club Boca Juniors. He won the European Cup title with A.C. Milan in 1963. He also made 11 appearances for the Peru national football team between 1957 to 1959. Benítez died on 11 July 2022 in Milan, Italy at the age of 86.
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (); mainly known as Rai since 2000 and it was known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the national public broadcasting company of Italy. It is owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It is one of the biggest broadcasters in Italy.