Antoni Krauze (4 January 1940 – 14 February 2018) was a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied at the National Film School in Łódź (1966). He was born in Warsaw.
Krauze was known for his 2011 movie, "Black Thursday". He won an award at the Polish Film Festival in 2011 and FIPRESCI Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival in 2011.
Krauze died on 14 February 2018 in Warsaw of a heart attack at the age of 78.
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
On February 14, 2018, at around 2:20 pm EST, a shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, United States. It was near dismissal time when staff and students heard gunfire and enacted a "code red" lock down. At least 17 people were killed and many others injured. Originally, 20 people were reportedly injured, and the alleged shooter is in custody with the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
The suspect was transported to a local hospital for unknown reasons. He was transported from that hospital by the Sheriff's Office shortly thereafter. The shooter was later identified by police as 19-year-old Nicolas de Jesus Cruz. He is an expelled student of the school. The weapon used was a semi-automatic rifle.
President Donald Trump tweeted "Prayers and condolences. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school". Demonstrations and petitions toward gun control are also occur.
If Cruz is found guilty, he could face the death penalty.
Northern Illinois University shooting
The Northern Illinois University shooting was a school shooting on February 14, 2008, at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Steven Kazmierczak opened fire with a shotgun and three pistols in a crowd of students on campus. He killed five students and injuring an additional 17 people, before shooting himself.
The school placed the campus on lockdown; students and teachers were told to go to a safe place, take cover, and avoid the scene and all buildings near the scene of the shootings. Six people died in the incident, including the shooter, tying it with the University of Iowa shooting as the fifth-deadliest university shooting in United States history.
Alea iacta est
Alea iacta est is a Latin phrase that means "the die has been cast (thrown)". Suetonius credits Julius Caesar as having said it on January 10, 49 B.C when he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy. It means things have happened that can't be changed back.
The phrase, either in Latin or in translation, is used in many different languages.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998) was an American journalist, writer, feminist, and environmentalist. She was known for her strong support for defending the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development.
Douglas died at the age of 108 in Miami, Florida of natural causes on May 14, 1998. Upon her death, an obituary in "The Independent" in London stated, "In the history of the American environmental movement, there have been few more remarkable figures than Marjory Stoneman Douglas."
Inflection point
An inflection point is a point on a curve where the curve changes from being concave (going up, then down) to convex (going down, then up), or the other way around.
An undulation point is like an inflection point but the type of curve doesn't change.
Falcon Heavy
Falcon Heavy is a reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle designed and made by SpaceX. It is inspired from the Falcon 9 vehicle. This increases the low Earth orbit (LEO) maximum payload to , compared to for a Falcon 9 Full Thrust, for Delta IV Heavy, for the Space Shuttle and for Saturn V. Falcon Heavy is the world's fourth-highest capacity rocket ever built, after Saturn V, Energia and N1, and the most powerful rocket in operation as of 2020.
SpaceX conducted Falcon Heavy's first launch on February 6, 2018, at 3:45 p.m. EST (20:45 UTC). The rocket carried a Tesla Roadster belonging to SpaceX founder Elon Musk as a dummy payload into a path around the sun. The first commercial launch was on 11 April 2019, for Arabsat. It was a success.
Falcon Heavy was designed to carry humans into space, for example to the Moon and Mars, although as of February 2018, it is not certified and there are no plans to use it for crewed missions. It will instead be devoted to launching large satellites or space probes.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy overview page
Lerone Bennett Jr.
Lerone Bennett Jr. (October 17, 1928 – February 14, 2018) was an African-American scholar, author and social historian. He was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He was known for his analysis of race relations in the United States. His best-known works include "Before the Mayflower" (1962) and "Forced into Glory" (2000), a book about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was an editor for "Ebony".
Bennett Jr. died in Chicago, Illinois on February 14, 2018 of vascular dementia at the age of 89.
Bob Eubanks
Robert Leland Eubanks (born January 8, 1938) is an American disc jockey, television personality, and game show host, best known for hosting the game show "The Newlywed Game" on and off since 1966. He also hosted the successful revamp version of "Card Sharks" from 1986 to 1989.
Eubanks received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his television work in 2000. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Symbol rate
Symbol rate (also called baud rate and modulation rate) is the number of symbols that happen each second. The name "baud rate" comes from Émile Baudot, the person who invented the Baudot code.
'Symbol' in this sense means something like 'basic signal event'. The word symbol usually has a much wider meaning.
Mysterious Skin
Mysterious Skin is a Dutch-American drama movie. It was directed and produced by Gregg Araki. Araki also did the screenplay.
The screenplay was based on a 1995 novel.
The movie premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in 2004. But it wasn't widely released until 2005.
During summer 1981, Hutchinson, Kansas, two eight-year-old boys, Brian Lackey and Neil McCormick, are teammates in Little League baseball. Both boys have life-changing events.
Neil is the son of an irresponsible single mother. He is already learning he's homosexual. He is sexually abused by the Little League baseball coach, who leaves town afterward.
Brian has a neglectful father and working mother. He remembers it starting to rain during a game. The next thing he remembers is being inside a crawl space with a bloody nose. He doesn't have any memory of the intervening five hours.
Neil views his sexual abuse as love; he becomes mainly attracted to middle-aged men. He begins prostituting himself at age 15. Three years later, he moves to New York City. His best friend, Wendy Peterson, lives there.
For years after coming to in the crawl space, Brian has heavy nosebleeds, blackouts and wets the bed. When he's 18, Brian meets a woman, Avalyn Friesen, who believes aliens kidnapped her. They form a relationship. But when she comes on to him, he panics and refuses to speak to her again.
While trying to untangle his confused memories, Brian sees a photo of his Little League teammate Neil; he recognizes Neil as the boy from his dreams.
Brian wants to meet his former teammate Neil. But instead, he meets Neil's mother and his friend Eric Pressly; through Eric, Brian learns more on Neil.
After being beaten and raped, Neil returns to Hutchinson to celebrate Christmas with his mother.
Brian and Neil meet for the first time in over a decade. They break into a house that had been rented by the baseball coach. Neil begins telling Brian of that night.
When the baseball game was rained out, and Brian didn't have a ride home, the coach offered to drive Brian home with Neil. But instead, they went to the coach's house, where the coach had sex with the boys, and made the boys have sex with each other.