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Times Square Ball 
 Every December 31 at 11:59 p.m. EST, the ball is lowered 141 feet (43 m) from a flagpole, reaching the bottom at midnight to signal the start of a new year.
Times Square Ball 
 1904 – The New York Times opens its new headquarters on Longacre Square (the city's second tallest building), and persuades the city to rename the triangular "square" for the newspaper.
Times Square Ball 
 Owner Adolph Ochs initiates a massive celebration in the square for New Year's, which is so popular (200,000 came) it permanently displaces the celebration from Trinity Church.
Times Square Ball 
 1907 – Walter F. Palmer, chief electrician for the Times, creates the first New Year’s Eve Ball in response to the behest of publisher Adolph Ochs to create some kind of spectacular midnight show that would draw attention to the Square.
Times Square Ball 
 The New Year’s Eve Ball first descended from a flagpole at One Times Square, constructed with iron and wood materials with 100 25-watt bulbs weighing  and measuring  in diameter.
Times Square Ball 
 1942 - 1943 – During World War II, the descending of the Ball was stopped due to wartime lighting restrictions in case of enemy attack.
Times Square Ball 
 1955 - 1980; 1989 - 1995 – The Ball gets replaced with a lighter version made from aluminum weighing .
Times Square Ball 
 1981 - 1988 – The ball has red light bulbs and a green "stem" alluding to The Big Apple, New York's nickname.
Times Square Ball 
 1990 – The ball's white bulbs were replaced by red, white, and blue bulbs to salute the troops of Operation Desert Shield.
Times Square Ball 
 2000 – The Ball gets an overhaul for the new millennium celebrations with a design from Waterford Crystal and new technology.
Times Square Ball 
 It weighed  measured  in diameter and installed with 504 crystal triangles, illuminated externally with 168 halogen light bulbs and internally with 432 light bulbs of clear, red, blue, green and yellow colors.
Times Square Ball 
 Each year there is a theme in the Waterford crystal concept with a particular chunk of designed crystals  being called something, and in previous years there have been "Star of Hope", "Hope for Abundance", "Hope for Healing", "Hope for Courage", "Hope for Unity", "Hope for Wisdom", "Hope for Fellowship", and "Hope for Peace".
Times Square Ball 
 There are strobe lights and mirrors to create bursts of excitement and special effects for the audience.
Times Square Ball 
 The ball is still a Waterford Crystal ball as in the millennial ball (described above), but brand new state of the art LED lighting provided by Philips is featured instead of the less efficient halogen bulbs.
Times Square Ball 
 The new LED fixtures produce over 16.7 million colors and can be programmed to create special effects.
Times Square Ball 
 The ball features 9,567 energy-efficient bulbs that consume the same amount of electricity as only ten toasters.
Times Square Ball 
 The New Year's Eve 2008 ball has been redesigned by a New York City lighting design firm called Focus Lighting.
Times Square Ball 
 2009 - present – The 2008 design is maintained, but is doubled in size and is 20% more energy efficient than the previous one.
Times Square Ball 
 The new ball, a 3-frequency icosahedral geodesic sphere, incorporates 3500 lighting cues designed by Focus Lighting, Inc. The new ball weighs  and is now  in diameter.
Times Square Ball 
 The flag pole on the top of One Times Square that the ball is hoisted atop was rebuilt and enlarged to accommodate the ball.
Times Square Ball 
 The numerical sign indicating the year (which remains atop the tower along with the ball itself) uses Philips LED lamps.
Times Square Ball 
 2009 - 2013 – The ball contained crystal patterns that were part of a Waterford series known as "World of Celebration".
Times Square Ball 
 The "14" numerals used Philips Hue multi-color LED lamps, allowing them to have computerized lighting cues.
Times Square Ball 
 2020 – .Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 2020–21 festivities were closed to the public.
Times Square Ball 
 Attendance was limited to the invited families of essential workers from the New York City area ("the Heroes of 2020"), performers, and members of the media.
Times Square Ball 
 In accordance with New York state health orders, face masks were mandatory, and households were placed within  "pens" with social distancing.
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 2021 – .On November 16, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the event would be held as normal for 2021–22, but with all attendees required to present proof of vaccination for COVID-19 and valid photo identification.
Times Square Ball 
 If covered by specific exemptions, unvaccinated attendees may alternatively present proof of a recent negative PCR test from within the past 72 hours; unvaccinated attendees will be required to wear a face mask.
Times Square Ball 
 Despite a rapidly increasing number of cases in the city and state tied to the Omicron variant (which has notably led to the suspension of several Broadway shows due to COVID-19 issues within casts and crew, and the reimplementation of a state mask mandate for indoor public spaces that do not require patrons to be vaccinated), de Blasio stated on December 16 that they were monitoring the situation, but emphasized "the great advantage" of the event being held outdoors with only vaccinated attendees, and that "if at any point we need to alter the plan, we will".
Times Square Ball 
 According to National Weather Service records the average temperature during the ball drop in nearby Central Park has been .
Times Square Ball 
 Affected by a continent-wide cold wave, the 2017–18 drop was the second-coldest on record, at  and   after wind chill.
Times Square Ball 
 The third coldest ball drop occurred during the 1962–63 event, when the temperature was  and the wind chill was .
Times Square Ball 
 Snow has fallen seven times, with the earliest being the 1926–27 event, and the most recent being the 2009–10 event, and rain/drizzle has fallen sixteen times, with the earliest being the 1918–19 event, and the most recent being the 2018–19 event.
Times Square Ball 
 The snowiest ball drop occurred during the 1948–49 event, when four inches of snow fell, and the rainiest occurred during the 2018–19 event, when 1.02 inches of rain fell.
Times Square Ball 
 Since 2008–09, an official webcast of the ball drop and its associated festivities has been produced, streamed via Livestream.com.
Times Square Ball 
 The event is covered as part of New Year's Eve television specials on several major U.S. television networks, which usually intersperse on-location coverage from Times Square with entertainment segments, such as musical performances (some of which held live in Times Square as part of the event).
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 By far the most notable of these is Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve; created, produced, and originally hosted by the entertainer Dick Clark until his death in 2012 and currently hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the program first aired on NBC in 1972 before moving to ABC, where it has been broadcast ever since.
Times Square Ball 
 New Year's Rockin' Eve has consistently been the most-watched New Year's Eve special in the U.S. annually, peaking at 25.6 million viewers for its 2017–18 edition.
Times Square Ball 
 Across the remaining networks, Fox has occasionally broadcast its New Year's specials from Times Square.
Times Square Ball 
 On cable, CNN carries coverage of the festivities, known as New Year's Eve Live, currently hosted by Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen (the latter first replacing Kathy Griffin for 2018).
Times Square Ball 
 Fox News carries All-American New Year, which was most recently hosted by Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Bill Hemmer from Times Square.
Emily VanCamp 
 She is most known for her roles in the WB series Everwood as Amy Abbott, as Rebecca Harper in the ABC series Brothers & Sisters, and as Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke in the ABC series Revenge.
Emily VanCamp 
 She began dancing at the age of 3, and she attended at the École supérieure de ballet du Québec in Montreal.
Buzz Lightyear 
 Buzz Lightyear, is one of the main characters in the movies Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, and Buzz Lightyear of the Star Command: The Adventure Begins.
Buzz Lightyear 
 He is voiced by actor Tim Allen in the films, Toy Story Toons, Toy Story Racer, Toy Story 2: The Video Game, commercials and in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins.
Buzz Lightyear 
 Patrick Warburton voice's Buzz for the TV series, and Pat Fraley voiced him for a few video games and the attractions in Disney Parks.
Western saloon 
 A lot of saloons offered poker, faro, brag, dice games, three-card monte, billiards, darts, and bowling.
Kaldor-Hicks efficiency 
 Kaldor–Hicks efficiency, named for Nicholas Kaldor and John Hicks, also known as Kaldor–Hicks criterion, is a measure of economic efficiency.
Kaldor-Hicks efficiency 
 Under Kaldor–Hicks efficiency, an outcome is considered more efficient if a Pareto optimal outcome can be reached by arranging sufficient compensation from those that are made better off to those that are made worse off so that all would end up no worse off than before.
Inferior good 
 In economics, an inferior good is a good that decreases in demand when the income of the consumer rises.
Inferior good 
 People with little income might buy bread in the supermarket, but when their income increases, they buy their bread in the bakery instead.
Inferior good 
 They did not buy from the bakery before, because the bread in the bakery is more expensive than the bread in the supermarket.
Marginal utility 
 Marginal utility is a concept from economics that describes the change in utility from consuming more or less of a good or service.
Marginal utility 
 Economists sometimes speak of a law of diminishing marginal utility, meaning that consuming the first unit usually has a higher utility than every other unit.
Veblen good 
 The goods are named after Thorstein Veblen, who first described the effect of conspicuous consumption in 1899.
Kragujevac 
 Kragujevac (Serbian: Крагујевац, Kragujevac, ; Kragujevac was named after bird Kraguj) is a city in central Serbia.
Kragujevac 
 It is the fourth largest city in Serbia, main city of Šumadija and the administrative centre of Šumadija district.
Kragujevac 
 According to official results of 2011 census, the city is settled by 150,835 citizens, while area around the city is populated by 179,417 inhabitants.
Kragujevac 
 Historically, Kragujevac was the first capital of free Serbia (from 1818 to 1839), and the first constitution ever proclaimed in Balkans was in this city on February 15, 1835 (state holiday).
Kragujevac 
 City is located 220 meters (220 ft) above sea level, with coordinates +44 ° 22 '; +20 ° 56', and it is in the valley of Lepenica river.
Kragujevac 
 The urban area of the city covers 835 km2 (322 sq mi), partially surrounded by mountains  Rudnik, Crni Vrh and Gledić.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 
 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money is the title of a book by John Maynard Keynes.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 
 Published in February 1936, it sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the "Keynesian Revolution", in the way economists thought – especially in relation to the proposition that a market economy tends naturally to restore itself to full employment after temporary shocks.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 
 Regarded widely as the cornerstone of Keynesian thought, the book challenged the established classical economics and introduced important concepts such as the consumption function, the multiplier, the marginal efficiency of capital, the principle of effective demand and liquidity preference.
Child development 
 Child development refers to biological, psychological and emotional changes that happen in humans between birth and the end of adolescence, at which time the individual goes from dependence to independence.
Child development 
 The development is strongly influenced by genetic, mental, physical and social factors that may happen during the progression.
Child development 
 In particular, children having autism spectrum troubles or Down syndrome may have different development than usual or substandard motor development.
Child development 
 In the time of the Enlightenment, people started to think differently about children and development.
Child development 
 Locke thought that the only way that children get knowledge is from doing different things in life and getting experience from those things.
Child development 
 Locke's ideas were opposed to church principles, strictly believing children should be reading fables and not religious texts.
Child development 
 He thought that children’s development of knowledge needed parents to help children experience new things and teach about those things.
Child development 
 Rousseau felt that adults should pay attention to children’s needs during their different stages of development.
Child development 
 The psychosexual theory focuses on how a child’s wants are controlled in early years and the effect it has when the child becomes an adult.
Child development 
 Freud thought that young children are ruled by the id. The id does not know or care about right and wrong.
Child development 
 If a child does not fix the problems, he or she can develop either the Oedipus complex (for boys) or the Electra complex (for girls).
Child development 
 To stop problems the boy or girl take up the values of their father (for boys) or mother (for girls).
Child development 
 Freud’s theory of child development is important because it was the first to point out the importance of parent-child relationships.
Child development 
 Erikson used Freud’s idea of the id, ego, and superego and his stages of development to build his own theory.
Child development 
 Erikson added more stages to his theory than Freud did, and some of his stages are similar to Freud’s.
Child development 
 Stage 1 : Basic Trust vs. Mistrust : trust develops because babies need adults to take care of their needs.
Child development 
 Stage 2 : Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt : Small children need to learn to do things like feeding, dressing, and bathing with help.
Child development 
 Erikson’s stages are important because they looked at society and culture and how they affect personality.
Child development 
 Classical conditioning is when an animal or person learns to react to stimulus, a thing that will cause a reaction.
Child development 
 Watson decided to test his theory by doing an experiment using a nine-month old baby, Little Albert.
Child development 
 Watson discovered that Albert was scared of the sound of a hammer hitting a steel gong with a hammer.
Child development 
 Also, Children are more likely to model behavior if the behavior gets positive reactions from adults.
Child development 
 The groups were made by breaking half of the children into an aggressive group and half into one that was not.
Child development 
 The children that were in aggressive groups saw the model go up the a Bobo doll in the room and play with it.
Child development 
 The children that were not in the aggressive group saw the model play with tinker toys and not pay attention to the Bobo doll.
Child development 
 Bandura's experiment showed that children can learn behavior from adults by watching the adult's behavior.
Child development 
 When the child does this, it uses mental representations, or pictures in the mind that are representative of different things.
Child development 
 Schemas can be changed and made from putting together and changing images and concepts in the child’s mind.
Child development 
 Preoperational StageThe preoperational stage has a large change in representative thought in the mind.
Child development 
 Egocentricism is when children cannot tell the difference between their view point and someone else’s.
Child development 
 Children in the concrete operational stage can also put things in order of qualities like length and weight.
Child development 
 Children who understand conservation know that changing a things shape or container does not change how much is there.
Child development 
 For example, in conservation of liquid children know that the amount of liquid does not change if it is put in a different glass.
Child development 
 In this stage, children can come up with rules about how things can happen without needing concrete items.
Child development 
 Piaget believed that there were two main parts of the formal operational stage: hypothetico-deductive reasoning and propositional thought.
Child development 
 Vygotsky thought that children’s development was formed from mainly social and cultural interactions.
Child development 
 Vygotsky thought that child development during the first two years have to do with direct connection with the world.
Child development 
 Vygotsky felt that growth of language leads to a huge change in how children think because they can communicate ideas with others.
Child development 
 Private speech is used when a job is hard, after an error is made, or when the child is unsure of what to do.
Child development 
 The zone of proximal development has jobs that are to hard to do alone but are able to be done with help.
Child development 
 Vygotsky thought that there are two important parts of social interaction: intersubjectivity and scaffolding.
The Emotions 
 The Emotions is an all female American R&B group who are well known for their hit single "Best of My Love".
Cheryl Lynn 
 Cheryl Lynn (11 March 1957) is an American R&B, disco and pop singer who was most popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
Z3 
 The Z3 was built with 2000 relays, implementing a 22 bit word length that operated at a clock frequency of about 5–10 Hz.
Z3 
 Zuse asked the German government for funding to replace the relays with fully electronic switches, but funding was denied during World War II since such development was deemed "not war-important".
Z3 
 A fully functioning replica was built in the 1960s by Zuse's company, Zuse KG, and is on permanent display in the Deutsches Museum.
Z3 
 Because of this machine and its predecessors, Konrad Zuse is often regarded as the inventor of the computer.
Barnum's American Museum 
 It was a collection of natural history curios originally stored in City Hall at the end of the 18th century.
Barnum's American Museum 
 P. T. Barnum bought the museum about 1830 and replaced the tired displays with more exciting live fare such as General Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt, and the "Siamese Twins", Chang and Eng.
Schlieffen Plan 
 The Schlieffen Plan was a strategic plan made by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, who worked for the German navy.
Schlieffen Plan 
 It was designed for a war between France on one side and the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Italy on the other.
Schlieffen Plan 
 When Schlieffen retired in 1906, and the WW1 came up 9 years later, in August 1915, the German officers and tactic leaders dug up the plan that Schlieffen had made and thought that the plan would work like it would in Schlieffen's hypothetical war.
Schlieffen Plan 
 However, the plan didn't work, because the plan was outdated and things had changed a lot within the decade.
Schlieffen Plan 
 Even though he did not have enough men to beat France, Moltke still attacked France through Belgium.
Schlieffen Plan 
 Moltke was sure that the Russo-Japanese War proved this because Japan always attacked, and Japan won.
Schlieffen Plan 
 Schlieffen said that a defender's men can ride trains to a place faster than an attacker's men can walk there.
Schlieffen Plan 
 A similar idea to the Schlieffen Plan was used by Hitler's generals Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian in World War II.
Schlieffen Plan 
 Because in the Schlieffen Plan Germany attacked mostly through northern Belgium, France thought Germany would do this again.
Danielle Brisebois 
 Danielle Brisebois (born June 28, 1969) is an American record producer, singer and actress who acted mostly in sitcoms.
Charlie Kunz 
 Charles "Charlie" Kunz (August 18, 1896 – March 16, 1958) was a British musician, who became well-known and liked during the British dance band era.
Charlie Kunz 
 He had a rhythmic, relaxed style and played popular music with his own way of expressing feeling and moods.
Charlie Kunz 
 Kunz liked London so well that he did not want to leave, so that band returned without him to Pennsylvania.
Charlie Kunz 
 In England, he soon became such a popular pianist that he gave up his own orchestra to just work at his piano playing.
Charlie Kunz 
 Two of Britain's most famous female vocalists were with his band in the 1930s; Vera Lynn  and Welsh songstress Dorothy Squires.
Charlie Kunz 
 His best known singer was George Barclay, who was known as a crooner, a popular singing style at that time.
To Hell with the Devil 
 The album was nominated for Best Gospel Performance - Duo, Group, Choir Or Chorus at the Grammy Awards but lost to Mylon and Broken Heart's Crack the Sky''.
Erin Moran 
 Erin Moran (October 18, 1960 – April 22, 2017) was an American actress She worked mostly in television.
Erin Moran 
 Moran died on April 22, 2017 at her mother-in-law's trailer in New Salisbury, Indiana from complications of Squamous cell carcinoma (rare skin cancer) found in the throat at the age of 56.
Margaret O'Brien 
 Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American movie, stage and television actress who began acting as a child.
Mackenzie Phillips 
 Mackenzie Phillips (November 10, 1959) is an American actress and musician who began acting when still a child.
Laurentia 
 Originally, it included the core of Greenland and the northwestern part of Scotland, known as the Hebridean Terrane.
Laurentia 
 It is a modern geological feature, and it is also a very ancient geological core made of igneous rock.
Laurentia 
 Much later, in the Proterozoic era, small plates and oceanic islands collided with and fused with the ever-growing Laurentia.
Laurentia 
 Together they made the huge, stable craton we see today as the north and center of North America and the west of Greenland.
Laurentia 
 Over a billion years ago, the Grenville Orogeny in the Canadian Shield made jagged peaks, higher than any of today's mountains.
Laurentia 
 The remaining, western, part of North America was added much later, after Pangaea split up, and the Americas moved west from Eurasia and Gondwana.
Laurentia 
 The cratonic rocks are metamorphic and igneous, while the overlying sedimentary rocks are composed mostly of limestones, sandstones, and shales.
Laurentia 
 The southwestern portion of Laurentia consists of Precambrian basement rocks deformed by continental collisions (violet area of the image above).
Laurentia 
 This area has been subjected to considerable rifting as the Basin and Range Province and has been stretched up to 100% of its original width.
The Help (movie) 
 The Help is a 2011 American drama movie based on Kathryn Stockett's novel and directed by Tate Taylor.
The Help (movie) 
 Each shift begins with a whisper, but the voices get louder and many people have many things to tell.
The Help (movie) 
 The Help won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Octavia Spencer in the category best actress in a supporting role.
Mthatha 
 Walter Sisulu, Bantu Holomisa, Yamkela Mhlana and Buyisiwe Yonela Mhlana , as well as Ndima Mhlana were also born in Mthatha.
House of Tusculum 
 The counts of Tusculum were influential figures in Roman politics and religion for more than a century.
House of Tusculum 
 1032 – 1045 Alberic III, (Imperialis palatii magister Consul et dux – Comes sacri palatii Lateranensis) brother of Theophylact II and Romanus;
House of Borgia 
 The Borgia family (also Borja, Borjia or Borges) were a noble family during the Renaissance in Italy.
House of Borgia 
 They were from Valencia, the name coming from the family fief of Borja, then in the kingdom of Aragon, in Spain.
House of Borgia 
 Two popes came from this family during this time: Alfons de Borja who ruled as Pope Callixtus III during 1455–1458 and Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia, as Pope Alexander VI, during 1492–1503.