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Information: - A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years. United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practice. - In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as a typically audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through a transmission medium such as air or water. In physiology and psychology, sound is the "reception" of such waves and their "perception" by the brain. Humans can hear sound waves with frequencies between about 20Hz and 20kHz. Sound above 20kHz is ultrasound and below 20Hz is infrasound. Other animals have different hearing ranges. - A game engine is a software framework designed for the creation and development of video games. Developers use them to create games for consoles, mobile devices and personal computers. The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes a rendering engine (renderer) for 2D or 3D graphics, a physics engine or collision detection (and collision response), sound, scripting, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, streaming, memory management, threading, localization support, scene graph, and may include video support for cinematics. The process of game development is often economized, in large part, by reusing/adapting the same game engine to create different games, or to make it easier to "port" games to multiple platforms. - Monolith Productions (or simply Monolith) is a Kirkland, Washington-based Video game developer founded in October 1994 by Brian Goble, Garrett Price, Paul Renault, Toby Gladwell, Brian Waite and Jace Hall.The Company is known for their games "Blood", the "No One Lives Forever" series, "F.E.A.R" and more recently, "". Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine LithTech, which has been used for most of their games and premiered with "" in September 1998; they also used Brian Goble's Windows Animation Package 32 engine for their 2D games. Between 1997 and 1999, Monolith also published games, some developed by the studio, some by third parties. - Monolith Productions ( or simply Monolith ) is a Kirkland , Washington - based computer game developer known for their games Blood , the No One Lives Forever series , F.E.A.R and more recently , Middle - earth : Shadow of Mordor . Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine LithTech , which has been used for most of their games and premiered with Shogo : Mobile Armor Division in September 1998 ; they also used Brian Goble 's Windows Animation Package 32 engine for their 2D games . Between 1997 and 1999 , Monolith also published games , some developed by the studio , some by third parties . In 2004 , Monolith Productions was acquired by Warner Bros. , a subsidiary of Time Warner . - LithTech is a game engine which was initially developed by Monolith Productions in collaboration with Microsoft. Monolith later formed a separate company, LithTech Inc., to deal with further advancements of the engine technology and currently, after a change of its corporate identity, LithTech Inc. is known as Touchdown Entertainment. - Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. As of 2016, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. - Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 87,281 at the 2015 census estimate, which made it the 6th largest city in King County and the 12th largest city in the state. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'monolith productions' exhibits the relationship of 'inception'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - 10 - 1994 - 1997 - 1998 - 20 - 2015 - 2016
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1994

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Information: - The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated to NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. "The New York Times" has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. - Maureen Bridgid Dowd ( / dad / ; born January 14 , 1952 ) is an American columnist for The New York Times and best - selling author . During the 1970s and the early 1980s , she worked for Time magazine and the Washington Star , where she covered news as well as sports and wrote feature articles . Dowd joined the Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter and eventually became an Op - Ed writer for the newspaper in 1995 . In 1999 , she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration . - The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, "The New York Times". Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., has served as chairman since 1997. It is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. - The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'maureen dowd' exhibits the relationship of 'employer'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - capital - new york - new york city - the new york times - the new york times company
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the new york times company