"Eye of the Tiger" is a 1982 hard rock song under the American rock band Survivor. This rock ballad was from the hard rock studio album of the same name. It was recorded under the request of the actor Sylvester Stallone for his boxing drama movie "Rocky III". That happened when rock group Queen didn't give him permission to use the song "Another One Bites the Dust" in his movie. The movie version had tiger growls within it.
In the United States, "Eye of the Tiger" hit #1 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100. It stayed at #1 for six weeks.
The song was nominated for a 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Song. This was the only nomination for "Rocky III". It lost to "Up Where We Belong" from "An Officer and a Gentleman". It was also nominated for a 1983 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. It lost, though, to Willie Nelson's hit "Always on My Mind".
In 2012, Survivor sued Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in Illinois federal court. Gingrich had been using "Eye of the Tiger" without asking permission in his political rallies dating back to 2009.
Operation Amsterdam
Operation Amsterdam is a 1959 British World War II action movie directed by Michael McCarthy and was based on the novel "Adventures in Diamonds" by David E. Walker. It stars Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Malcolm Keen, Christopher Rhodes, Oscar Quitak and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Merge sort
Merge sort (or mergesort) is an divide and conquer algorithm for sorting a list of items. John von Neumann first presented it in 1945. It is similar to quicksort, developed in 1960. The difference is that with merge sort, dividing the lists is trivial, and merging them together isn't. With quicksort, dividing the lists is more complex, but the merging step is trivial.
Merge sort is a stable sorting algorithm, while quicksort is not. It has a worst-case complexity of O(n*log(n)). Merge sort is also highly parallelizable. It can be used for solving the inversion counting problem.
Stable sorting algorithm
A sorting algorithm is called stable if it preserves the order of elements with the same sorting key. Otherwise it is called unstable.
Merge sort is an example of a stable sorting algorithm, quicksort is an example of an unstable sorting algorithm.
Note that being stable has nothing to do with how difficult it is to do the sorting (known as complexity). Bubble sort is very easy to implement, but takes a very long time. It is a stable sorting algorithm.
Heapsort is very efficient, but it is not stable.
Geoff Peddle
Geoffrey Curtis Ralph "Geoff" Peddle (1 January 1963 – 8 October 2020) was a Canadian Anglican prelate. He was the bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador from 2014 to 2020. Peddle was born in Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Peddle died on 8 October 2020 at the age of 57.
Helmut Giesbrecht
Helmut Giesbrecht (February 18, 1943 – October 9, 2020) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian educator and politician. He represented Skeena in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 2001 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member. From 1981 to 1985, he was Mayor of Terrace, British Columbia.
Giesbrecht died on October 9, 2020, aged 77.
John J. Creedon
John Joseph Creedon (August 1, 1924 – October 11, 2020) was an American businessman. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from 1983 to 1989. Creedon was born in New York City.
Creedon died on October 11, 2020 in Larchmont, New York at the age of 96.
Larchmont, New York
Larchmont is a village located within the Town of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York, approximately northeast of Midtown Manhattan. The population of the village was 5,864 at the 2010 census.
Heapsort
Heap sort or heapsort is a sorting algorithm. It was presented in 1964, and helped make a data structure known as heap popular. Heapsort divides the input into a sorted and an unsorted region. It then takes the largest element from the unsorted region and inserts it into the sorted region. The unsorted region is kept as a heap, which allows finding the largest element quickly. Heapsort is not stable. It has a worst-case complexity of O(n*log(n)).
Donald Pellmann
Donald Pellmann (August 12, 1915 – October 11, 2020) was an American centenarian multi world-record-setting masters athlete. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Pellmann held the current M90 world record (for men aged 90 or above) in the long jump, high jump, discus throw, and indoor pole vault.
He participated in the 100 metres, triple jump, shot put, and javelin throw.
Pellmann died on October 11, 2020 in Santa Clara, California from problems caused by a broken hip at the age of 105.
Jay Porter
J. W. "Jay" Porter (January 17, 1933 – October 11, 2020) was an American Major League Baseball player. He appeared with the St. Louis Browns in 1952, Detroit Tigers between 1955 to 1957, Cleveland Indians in 1958, Washington Senators in 1959, and St. Louis Cardinals in 1959. Porter was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Porter died of respiratory failure on October 11, 2020 in Jupiter, Florida at the age of 87.
Jean Cardot
Jean Cardot (20 July 1930 – 13 October 2020) was a French sculptor. He was born in Saint-Étienne, France. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 9 November 1983 and president in 1992 and 1997. He is best known for his statues in Paris of Sir Winston Churchill 1998 on the Right Bank of the Seine in front of the Petit Palais.
Cardot died on 13 October 2020 in Paris at the age of 90.
Académie des Beaux-Arts
The Académie des Beaux-Arts (, "Academy of Fine Arts") is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current President of the Academy (2016) is .
The Academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671).
Nevzat Güzelırmak
Nevzat Güzelırmak (1 January 1942 – 12 October 2020) was a Turkish football defender and later manager. He played 18 times for Turkey from 1962 to 1968. He also played for Göztepe S.K. between 1960 to 1975.
Güzelırmak died on 12 October 2020 at the age of 78.
The Incident (movie)
The Incident is a 1967 American crime thriller movie directed by Larry Peerce and was based on the teleplay "Ride with Terror" by Nicholas E. Baehr. It stars Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges, Ruby Dee, Tony Musante, Ed McMahon, Victor Arnold, Thelma Ritter, Donna Mills, Jan Sterling, Jack Gilford, Brock Peters, Robert Fields and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Göztepe S.K.
Göztepe Spor Kulübü (, Göztepe Sports Club) also known as Göztepe, is a Turkish sports club based in the Göztepe and neighborhoods of İzmir.
The club became the Turkish champions in 1950. In 1969 Göztepe became the first Turkish football team to play a semi-final in European competitions.
Fernando Lopes (swimmer)
Fernando Lopes (21 November 1964 – October 2020) was an Angolan swimmer. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Lopes died in October 2020 at the age of 55.
Carlos M. Rivera
Carlos M. Rivera (1934 – October 12, 2020) was an American firefighter. He was the first Hispanic commissioner in the New York City Fire Department's 127-year history. He was appointed the 27th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor David N. Dinkins on January 1, 1990. He resigned on August 31, 1993.
Rivera died on October 12, 2020 in New York City at the age of 86.
Chairman of the Communist Party of China