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In digital puppetry, machinima creators become virtual actors; each crew member controls a character in real-time, as in a multiplayer game.
The director can use built-in camera controls, if available.
Otherwise, video is captured from the perspectives of one or more puppeteers who serve as camera operators.
Puppetry allows for improvisation and offers controls familiar to gamers, but requires more personnel than the other methods and is less precise than scripted recordings.
However, some games, such as the Halo series, (except for Halo PC and Custom Edition, which allow AI and custom objects and characters), allow filming only through puppetry.
According to Marino, other disadvantages are the possibility of disruption when filming in an open multi-user environment and the temptation for puppeteers to play the game in earnest, littering the set with blood and dead bodies.
However, Chris Burke intentionally hosts This Spartan Life in these unpredictable conditions, which are fundamental to the show.
Other works filmed using puppetry are the ILL Clan's improvisational comedy series On the Campaign Trail with Larry & Lenny Lumberjack and Rooster Teeth Productions' Red vs. Blue.
In recamming, which builds on puppetry, actions are first recorded to a game engine's demo file format, not directly as video frames.
Without re-enacting scenes, artists can then manipulate the demo files to add cameras, tweak timing and lighting, and change the surroundings.
This technique is limited to the few engines and software tools that support it.
A technique common in cut scenes of video games, scripting consists of giving precise directions to the game engine.
A filmmaker can work alone this way, as J. Thaddeus "Mindcrime" Skubis did in creating the nearly four-hour The Seal of Nehahra (2000), the longest work of machinima at the time.
However, perfecting scripts can be time-consuming.
Unless what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing is available, as in Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, changes may need to be verified in additional runs, and non-linear editing may be difficult.
In this respect, Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd compare scripting to stop-motion animation.
Another disadvantage is that, depending on the game, scripting capabilities may be limited or unavailable.
Matinee, a machinima software tool included with Unreal Tournament 2004, popularized scripting in machinima.
Limitations and solutions
When Diary of a Camper was created, no software tools existed to edit demo files into films.
Rangers clan member Eric "ArchV" Fowler wrote his own programs to reposition the camera and to splice footage from the Quake demo file.
Quake movie editing software later appeared, but the use of conventional non-linear video editing software is now common.
For example, Phil South inserted single, completely white frames into his work No Licence to enhance the visual impact of explosions.
In the post-production of Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, Rooster Teeth Productions added letterboxing with Adobe Premiere Pro to hide the camera player's head-up display.
Machinima creators have used different methods to handle limited character expression.
In the Halo video game series, helmets completely cover the characters' faces.
To prevent confusion, Rooster Teeth's characters move slightly when speaking, a convention shared with anime.
Some machinima creators use custom software.
For example, Strange Company uses Take Over GL Face Skins to add more facial expressions to their characters filmed in BioWare's 2002 role-playing video game Neverwinter Nights.
Similarly, Atussa Simon used a "library of faces" for characters in The Battle of Xerxes.
In some cases, some game companies may provide such software; examples include Epic Games' Impersonator for Unreal Tournament 2004 and Valve Corporation's FacePoser for Half-Life 2.
Another solution is to blend in non-machinima elements, as nGame did by inserting painted characters with more expressive faces into its 1999 film Berlin Assassins.
It may be possible to point the camera elsewhere or employ other creative cinematography or acting.
For example, Tristan Pope combined creative character and camera positioning with video editing to suggest sexual actions in his controversial film Not Just Another Love Story.
—Also as:
Academic machinima bibliography to 2007
Academic machinima bibliography to 2011
Warcraft Movies, a resource for World of Warcraft machinima
Machinima, a resource for all  machinima works
Blue Entertainment, a resource for battlefield 2 machinima
T.O.M.B. The Online Motions Box, links to thousands of Machinima motions
GamersTube, a resource for various machinima
The Movie Vault, a competitive machinima video website
Flight Sim Machinima , links to flight-sim machinima
Machinination , a resource for machinima artists
Machinima Central- Machinima Community/Resources
Oswald is a children's animated television series co-produced by Nickelodeon and HIT Entertainment.
It first aired on August 20, 2001, on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the United States.
The show was created by Dan Yaccarino.
It was also broadcast on Noggin and CBS (during the Nick Jr. on CBS block) in reruns.
26 episodes were produced.
Oswald on NickRewind Jr. and NickRewind in the United States The added to Paramount+ in July 2021.
The series is set in Big City, a colorful world populated by anthropomorphic animals, mythological creatures and humanoid beings.
Each episode follows the daily experiences of an anthropomorphic blue octopus named Oswald (voiced by Fred Savage), accompanied by his beloved pet hot dog Weenie, and their life in the cheerful and whimsically-designed community of Big City.
Commonly, the program concentrates on Oswald's experiences with friends, acquaintances and neighbors, including Henry, a penguin, and Daisy, a flower, among others – and his patient methods of coping with or tolerating different situations and dilemmas, along with his thoroughly optimistic outlook on life.
Animals in fiction
Oswald (TV series), a television series from Nick Jr., or the title character of the show
Oswald (given name), a  given name
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Pelswick Oswald the Third
Clara Oswald, a character from the British series Doctor Who
Jason and the Argonauts is a 1963 movie.
It stars Todd Armstrong as Jason.
The movie is about the quest for the Golden Fleece.
It was directed by Don Chaffey.
The special effects were the creation of stop-motion animation expert Ray Harryhausen.
The movie is famous for its monsters and the battle with the skeletons.
Hercules is another movie on the Golden Fleece theme that was made about the same time.
It stars legendary bodybuilder Steve Reeves.
1960s epic movies
Movies directed by Don Chaffey
Ulysses is a 1955 3-D Italian adventure movie.
It is based on Homer's poem The Odyssey, and tells of Odysseus's attempts to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Silvana Mangano plays two roles, as Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses and the sorceress, Circe.
Kirk Douglas stars the Greek hero, Ulysses.
Anthony Quinn plays Antinous.
1955 movies
Clash of the Titans is a 1981 movie.
It is about the Greek hero Perseus.
He is played by Harry Hamlin.
The movie features the final work of stop motion artist, Ray Harryhausen.
It made $41 million in the United States.
It was the 11th highest money-making movie of the year.
Warner Bros. released a remake in 3D on April 2, 2010.
Many big stars were in the movie including Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, and Ursula Andress.
King Acrisius of Argos (Donald Houston) has his daughter Danaë (Vida Taylor) imprisoned in a tower, out of jealousy for her beauty.
However, Zeus (Laurence Olivier), king of the Greek gods, impregnates her and the product of this affair is Perseus.
Fearing that his grandson will one day grow up to kill him, Acrisius has both mother and child set out to sea in a wooden chest, in the hopes of killing them.
However, out of revenge, Zeus has Acrisius killed and orders the sea god Poseidon (Jack Gwillim) to release the last of the Titans, a giant humanoid sea monster called the Kraken, to destroy Argos.
Meanwhile, Danaë and Perseus miraculously survive and land on the island of Seriphos, where Perseus grows into a young man.
Calibos (Neil McCarthy) is a young man who is the son of the sea goddess Thetis (Maggie Smith) and due to be married to Andromeda (Judi Bowker), daughter of Queen Cassiopeia (Siân Phillips) and heiress to the throne of Joppa; however, he has killed off every living thing in the Wells of the Moon (which he was entrusted to guard), among them Zeus' sacred herd of winged horses (except for Pegasus).
To punish him, Zeus transforms Calibos into a monstrous satyr and has him exiled by his people.
In retribution, Thetis transports the adult Perseus (Harry Hamlin) to an abandoned amphitheatre in Joppa where he encounters the aged poet Ammon (Burgess Meredith) from whom he learns that Andromeda is under a curse and is unable to marry unless her suitors can correctly answer a riddle; those who fail are burned at the stake.
To aid his son, Zeus sends Perseus an invisibility helmet from Athena (Susan Fleetwood), a magic sword from Aphrodite (Ursula Andress) and a shield from Hera (Claire Bloom).
Wearing the helmet, Perseus manages to capture Pegasus and follows Andromeda to learn the next riddle.
Calibos nearly kills Perseus, but he escapes, losing his helmet in the process and also managing to sever Calibos' hand.
With the help of Thallo (Tim Pigott-Smith), Perseus presents himself as a suitor and correctly answers the riddle, presenting Calibos' severed hand and winning the hand of Andromeda in marriage.
When Calibos finds his mother cannot act against Perseus, he commands her to take vengeance on Joppa.
When Cassiopeia compares her daughter's beauty to that of Thetis', the enraged goddess demands that Andromeda must be sacrificed to the Kraken or Joppa will be destroyed.
While Perseus tries to find a way to conquer the Kraken, Pegasus is captured by Calibos' henchmen.
Zeus commands Athena to give her owl Bubo to Perseus, but she convinces the gods' blacksmith Hephaestus (Pat Roach) to create a golden replica instead, who leads Perseus to a trio of hags called the Stygian Witches (Flora Robson, Anna Manahan and Freda Jackson), who have one tooth and eye between them.
By taking their magic eye, Perseus forces them to reveal that the only way for the Kraken to be killed is by killing the gorgon, Medusa, who lives on an island at the edge of the Underworld.
The group continues on their journey, minus Andromeda and Ammon, who return to Joppa.
While on the Gorgon's island, Perseus and his companions are attacked by Dioskilos, Medusa's two-headed hellhound.
During the fight, one of the party is killed by the beast, before he is eventually slain by Perseus.
He leads his two remaining allies into the gorgon's lair, where Medusa herself kills the two men, shooting one of them with an arrow and petrifying the other.
Perseus uses his shield's reflective side to deceive Medusa and decapitates her.
He collects her head, but his shield is dissolved by the gorgon's caustic blood.
As Perseus and his party set to return they are attacked by Calibos, who punctures the bag containing Medusa's severed head, and three giant scorpions called Scorpiochs rise out of the blood.
They attack Thallo, who managed to kill one of the scorpions, who Calibos later kills.
Perseus slays the two remaining scorpions and Calibos, and later grieves for Thallo.
Weakened from his fight, Perseus sends Bubo to rescue the captive Pegasus.
Bubo succeeds in freeing the horse and he also manages to destroy Calibos' camp.
Perseus manages to reach the Joppa amphitheater, but collapses from exhaustion.
Andromeda is chained to the cliffs near Joppa and the Kraken is summoned.
Bubo arrives and diverts the monster's attention until Perseus (whose strength was secretly restored by Zeus) arrives, mounted on Pegasus.
In the battle, he uses Medusa's head to turn the Kraken to stone, causing to crumble into pieces.
Perseus then throws Medusa's head into the ocean, frees Andromeda and subsequently marries her.
The gods predict that Perseus and Andromeda will live happily for the rest of the lives and have children.
Zeus also forbids the gods from pursuing vengeance against them.
The constellations of Perseus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia  and Pegasus are created in their honor.
Epic movies
Childhood is the period between birth and puberty.
Childhood ends when a human being begins puberty.
The state or period of being a child is called childhood.
In many places, childhood ends at a fixed age of majority.
The child becomes an adult, sometimes with a rite of passage.
Another word for teenagers and adolescents is "youth".
Engen (延元) was a  of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Kemmu and before Kōkoku.
This period started in February 1336 and ended in April 1340.
The monarchs during this time were  and .
The Northern Court pretender in Kyoto was .
Events of the Engen era
17 May 1336 (Engen 1, 6th day of the 4th month): Former-Emperor Go-Fushimi died.
19 September 1339 (Engen 4, 16th day of the 8th month): Emperor Go-Daigo died.
1340 (Engen 5): Sightings of a "broom star" (comet) are recorded.
Northern Court nengō
Kemmu, 1329-1338
Ryakuō, 1338-1342
1336 establishments in Japan
1340 disestablishments
1340s disestablishments in Japan
Kōkoku (興国) was a  of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Engen and before Shōhei.
This period started in April 1340 and ended in December 1346.
The monarch during this time were was .
Events of the Kōkoku era
1342 (Kōkoku 3):  was removed from his position as daijō daijin.
1344 (Kōkoku 5): Shogun Ashikaga Takauji offered prayers at Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū.
Kōei, 1342–1345
Jōwa, 1345–1350
1340 establishments
1340s establishments in Japan
The Anglo-Saxon runes are runes that were used from the 5th to the 8th century.
It extends Elder Futhark from 24 to between 26 and 33 characters.
Like the Elder Futhark, it is named after the first few letters in the series: These transliterate to Futhorc in modern English.
The script was used to record Old English and Old Frisian.
Inscriptions using Futhorc are rare after the 9th century, and completely disappear after the Norman conquest.
8th-century disestablishments
For the Japanese era from 931 through 938, see Jōhei.
year name) of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Kōkoku and before Kentoku.
This period started in December 1346 and ended in July 1370.
The Northern Court pretenders in Kyoto were ,  and .
Events of the Shōhei era
2 December 1348 (Shōhei 3, 11th day of the 11th month): Former-Emperor Hanazono died.
1349 (Shōhei 4): Go-Murakami fled to A'no.
1350 (Kannō 5): Yoshinori guarded Kyoto.
1350–1352 (Shōhei 5–7): Armed conflict, variously known as the  or Kannō no Juran.
1352 (Shōhei 7): Emperor Go-Murakami captured former-emperors Kōgon, Kōmyō and Sukō; and they were permitted to return to Kyoto in 1357 (Shōhei 12).
1354 (Shōhei 9): Kitabatake Chikafusa dies.
1358 (Shōhei 13): Death of Ashikaga Takauji; Ashikaga Yoshiakira was appointed as the new shogun.
1361 (Shōhei 16): Snowfall was unusually heavy; and there was also a disastrous fire in Kyoto as well as a violent earthquake.
1368 (Shōhei 23): Ashikaga Yoshimitsu became the third shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate.
29 March 1368 (Shōhei 23, 11th day of the 3rd month): Go-Murakami died; and his oldest son received the succession.
Kannō, 1350–1352
Bunna, 1352–1356
Enbun, 1356–1361
Kōan, 1361–1362
Jōji, 1362–1368
Ōan, 1368–1375
1346 establishments
1370 disestablishments
1370s disestablishments in Japan
Hercules Against the Moon Men is a 1964 Italian/French movie.
It was directed by Giacomo Gentilomo.
It stars Alan Steel (real name Sergio Ciani).
The movie blends (mixes) elements from Roman, Greek, Cretan and Egyptian mythologies.
In the original Italian language version, the hero was not Hercules.
The hero was Maciste.
Maciste was a hero in Italian silent movies.
Its original Italian title was Maciste e la regina di Samar (Maciste and the Queen of Samar).
Its French title was Maciste contre les hommes de pierre (Maciste Against the Men of Stone).
The English distributors dubbed the hero Hercules, because Maciste was not well known to American audiences.
A race of evil moon men land on Earth.
For years, they have terrorized the city of Samar.
They have made the people of Samar give them children to be sacrifices.
Now, the queen of Samar has made an pact with the moon men to take control of the world.
She wants to become the most powerful woman alive.
The people of Samar do not like all the chaos.
They cheer when the mighty Hercules shows up to end it all.
1960s science fiction movies
Kentoku (建徳) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Shōhei and before Bunchū.
The period started in July 1370 and ended in April 1372.
The Southern Court monarch in Yoshino during this time was .
Events of the Kentoku era
1370 (Kentoku 1): Imagawa Sadayo sent to subdue Kyūshū.
1370 establishments
1370s establishments in Japan
1372 disestablishments
Bunchū (文中) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Kentoku and before Tenju.
This period started in October 1372 and ended in May 1375.
Events of the Bunchū era
1373–1406 (Bunchū 2–Ōei 13): Embassies between China and Japan.
1374 (Bunchū 3): En'yū became the head of the Northern Court.
1372 establishments
Tenju (天授) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Bunchū and before Kōwa.
This period started in May 1375 and ended in February 1381.
Events of the Tenju era
1375 (Tenju 1): Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu visits Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū.
1377 (Tenju 3): Goryeo diplomatic envoy Jeong Mongju met with the  in Kyūshū, Imagawa Ryōshun.
The diplomats discussed steps to control pirates (wakō).
1378 (Tenju 4): Yoshimitsu moved into his new home in Muromachi; and the luxurious house and grounds are called Hana-no-Gosho
26 July 1380 (Tenju 6, 24th day of the 6th month): Former pretender Kōmyō died at age 60.
Eiwa, 1375–1379
Kōryaku, 1379–1381
1375 establishments
1381 disestablishments
1380s disestablishments in Japan
Kōwa (弘和) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Tenju and before Genchū.
This period started in February 1381 and ended in April 1384.
The Southern Court monarchs in Yoshino during this time-frame were  and .
The Northern Court monarchs in Kyoto were  and
1381 establishments
1380s establishments in Japan
1384 disestablishments
was a  of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Kemmu and before Kōei.
The period started in August 1338 and ended in April 1342.
The pretender in Kyoto was .
Kōmyō's Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time was .
Events of the Ryakuō era
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19 September 1339 (Ryakuō 3, 16th day of the 8th month): Emperor Go-Daigo died.
1340 (Ryakuō 3''): Sightings of a "broom star" (comet) are recorded.
Engen, 1336–1340
Kōkoku, 1340–1346
1338 establishments
1330s establishments in Japan
1342 disestablishments
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was a  of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Ryakuō and before Jōwa.
This period started in April 1342 and ended in October 1345.
Kōmyō's Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time-frame was .
Events of the Kōei era
1342 (Kōei 1, 2nd month):  was removed from his position as Prime Minister (daijō daijin).
1342 (Kōei 1, 12th month): The mother of Ashikaga Takauji died.
1343 (Kōei 2, 4th month): Nijō Yoshimoto, the author of Masukagami, was made Minister of the Right (udaijin).
1344 (Kōei 3, 1st month): Shogun Takauji offered prayers at Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū.
Kakitsu, 1441–1444
Bun'an, 1444–1449
1342 establishments
1345 disestablishments
Women's movies is a movie genre.
These movies are ones that moviemakers expect women to like.
They are about women.
They have themes that moviemakers think would interest women such as home, family life, being a mother, making sacrifices, and romance.
Women's movies are movies that were made for women by predominantly male screenwriters and directors whereas "women's cinema" is movies that have been made by women.
Women's movies have been made for years and years, ever since the silent movie days.
It took a while for the term "woman's movie" to be used though.
These movies were called "melodramas" at first.
They were very popular during World War II.
Their production fell off in the 1960s.
The term "woman's movie" went south in the 1960s even though such movies were still being made.
George Cukor, Douglas Sirk, Max Ophüls, and Josef von Sternberg directed woman's movies.
Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Barbara Stanwyck made many woman's movies.
Mildred Pierce, Jezebel and Stella Dallas are examples of woman's movies.
Handshakes and Middle Fingers is the second major release studio album by Canadian rapper, Classified.
Handshakes and Middle Fingers was released on March 22, 2011.
The album spawned three singles "That Ain't Classy", "The Day Doesn't Die" and "Maybe It's Just Me". "
That Ain't Classy" peaked at #45 on the Canadian Hot 100 while "The Day Doesn't Die" peaked at #83 on the Canadian Hot 100.
The album peaked at #7 on the Canadian Albums Chart and also hit #2 on the iTunes top seller list.
The Wedding Singer is a 1998 American romantic comedy movie starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.
It follows a wedding singer falling in love with a waitress in 1984.
Rafael Landry Tanubrata (born in Garut, West Java, Indonesia, November 16, 1986)  is an Indonesian pop and R&B singer-songwriter, hip hop dancer and actor.
He is a member of the boy band SM*SH.
Rafael Landry Tanubrata born in November 16, 1986 star sign in Scorpio.
favorite song Daniel Bedingfield "If You're Not the One" (2002) and Mario "Let Me Love You" (2004).
"Cinta Cenat Cenut" (2011) as Rafael
"Cinta Cenat Cenut 2" (2011) as Rafael
"Cinta Cenat Cenut 3" (2012) as Rafael
Vokalis band (2003) (before joining SM*SH)
SM*SH (2010) as a member SM*SH
Step Forward (2012) as a member SM*SH
"Tiada Kata Berpisah (There is no word Split)" (2015)
Official SM*SH Website
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions movie.
It stars Hayley Mills, George Sanders, and Maurice Chevalier.
The movie was directed by Robert Stevenson.
It was based on Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
The movie was Mills's third of six movies for the Disney Studios.
The movie was a box office hit.
The Sherman brothers (Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman) wrote the songs "Castaway", "Merci Beaucoup", "Let's Climb", and "Enjoy It".
Movie critic Hal Erickson wrote, "[The movie] is a roller-coaster of a Disney film, making up in excitement what it lacks in credibility or coherence...the film was ideal Saturday-matinee fodder for the kiddie trade in 1963."
Hayley Mills as Mary Grant, Captain Grant's daughter
Keith Hamshere as Robert Grant, Captain Grant's son
Jack Gwillim as Captain Grant, a castaway
Maurice Chevalier as Jacques Paganel, friend to Mary and Robert
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lord Glenarvan
Michael Anderson, Jr. as John Glenarvan, his son
George Sanders as Thomas Ayerton
Wilfrid Brambell as Bill Gaye, a castaway
Antonio Cifariello as Thalcave, Indian Chief
Inia Te Wiata as Maori Chief
Teenager Mary Grant, her brother Robert, and their friend Professor Paganel, persuade Lord Glenarvan to rescue shipwrecked Captain Grant.
They sail halfway around the world on Lord Glenarvan's yacht.
The friends survive an earthquake, a flood, a fire, an attack by a giant condor, and a volcanic eruption before rescuing Captain Grant from fierce Maoris.
A subplot involves a criminal named Thomas Ayerton, a former crew-member of Captain Grant's ship.
He was responsible for Captain Grant's disappearance.
Another subplot involves a romance between Mary and Lord Glenarvan's son John.
The Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is a division of UNESCO that tries to improve and encourage conservation and sustainability around the world.
It was created in 1971.
Its main focus is a network of biosphere reserves.
The programme acts as a kind of forum for exchanging ideas and experiences on sustainable development and management of these reserves.
Biosphere reserves are areas that are supposed to develop creative ideas, test them and share the results.
To date, there are 621 biosphere reserves in 117 countries.
1 Includes the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean, shared between Morocco and Spain*Table not up to date
Searchable list of UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves
Frequently Asked Questions on Biosphere Reserve
A-Z of Areas of Biodiverity Importance: Biosphere Reserves (MAB)
Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes written as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 adventure movie.
It stars David Niven, Cantinflas, and Shirley MacLaine.
It was produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.
The movie was directed by Michael Anderson.
The screenplay was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and S. J. Perelman.
It was based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne.
The music score was composed by Victor Young.
The cinematography was by Lionel Lindon.
The movie won many Academy Awards, including "Best Picture".
Many well known actors made small appearances in the movie.
These stars include Charles Boyer, Marlene Dietrich, and Frank Sinatra.
1950s American adventure movies
Movies directed by Michael Anderson
Lake retention time (also called the residence time of lake water, or the water age or flushing time) is the calculated average time that water (or a dissolved substance) spends in a lake.
At its simplest this figure is the result of dividing the lake volume by the flow in or out of the lake.
It describes the amount of time that is needed for a substance to flow in and out of a lake.
Mysterious Island is a 1961 movie.
It was released by Morningside Productions through Columbia Pictures.
The movie was based on the book The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
The movie was produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray Harryhausen.
It was directed by Cy Endfield.
The movie was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England as a showcase for Harryhausen's stop-motion animation effects.
The music was composed by Bernard Herrmann.
The movie stars Michael Craig as Captain Harding; Joan Greenwood as Lady Mary Fairchild; and Herbert Lom as Captain Nemo.
Union soldiers escape in a hot air balloon from a Confederate prison camp during the American Civil War.
They crash-land in the ocean.
They are washed ashore on an unknown island where gigantic animals live.
The animals are the result of experiments by Captain Nemo.
He is an unknown benefactor to the castaways as they struggle to survive on the island.
A volcano threatens to erupt.
The stranded group escapes from the island on a pirate ship.
The volcano destroys the island.
The animated "monsters" that the castaways encounter are a giant crab, a giant flightless bird, giant bees, and a giant cephalopod.
In hydrology, discharge is the outflow of water from a river or lake or other body of water.
The discharge describes how much water flows through, in a certain amount of time.
The amount is usually expressed in  (cubic metres per second).
Bagnolet is a town in the east suburbs of Paris, France.
It is 5.2 km (3.2 mi) from the center of Paris and is in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
About 34,595 people lived there in 2006.
Official website (in French)
Orly is a town near Paris, France.
It is in the Val-de-Marne département and the Île-de-France region.
There are about 21,372 people in the town (as of 2007).
The École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) was built at Orly in 1949.
It was there from 1949 to 1969.
The buildings are still visible from the road going to the airport of Paris Orly.
Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French moviemaker.
He led the way in the use of special effects, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour in his work.
His movies include Conquest of the Pole, A Trip to the Moon, and The Impossible Voyage.
These movies involve strange, surreal voyages, like those in Jules Verne's books.
These movies are among the most important early science fiction movies.
Méliès's The Haunted Castle is an early horror movie.
Méliès was born in Paris, France in 1861.
He liked drawing and playing with a puppet theater as a child.
He went to the theater often as a young man.
About 1888, Méliès bought the Théatre Robert-Houdin and worked there as a magician.
He became obsessed with moviemaking after seeing a movie by Antoine Lumière in 1895.
In May 1896, he acquired his own movie camera and set up a movie studio.
At the end of 1896, he formed a new company, Star Film.
Méliès began making movies that were three to nine minute long.
He wrote, designed, filmed, and acted in nearly all of his movies.
He liked putting magic tricks into his movies.
While filming a street scene one day, the camera stopped briefly.
When Méliès looked at the movie later, he noticed that at the moment of the break, the bus he had been filming suddenly disappeared and new vehicles replaced it.
Making items appear and disappear by stopping and starting the camera would become one of his most commonly used movie tricks.
In 1902, Méliès produced his first masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.
It was inspired by several works of the time that speculated about life on the moon.
H.G. Wells and Jules Verne wrote about space travel, for instance, and Offenbach composed an opera about a trip to the moon.
Trip was a huge success in France.
Méliès hoped to make a fortune showing it in the United States.
Thomas Edison and other moviemakers made copies of Trip however, and made money on Méliès's work.
Musser, Charles.
History of the American Cinema: Volume 1, The Emergence of Cinema.
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Georges Méliès: A Brief Biography
Encyclopedia of World Biography: Georges Méliès
The Haunted Castle  is an 1896 three-minute-long French movie written, directed, and produced by Georges Méliès.
The movie contains many traditional pantomime elements.
It was meant to amuse people, not frighten them.
It is considered to be the first horror and vampire movie.
The Haunted Castle is now in the public domain.
In English, this movie has been known as The Haunted Castle, The Devil's Castle, The Devil's Manor, The Manor of the Devil, and The House of the Devil.
It was released on Christmas Eve, 1896, at the Theatre Robert Houdin, 8 boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
A large bat flies into a castle.
The bat circles slowly while flapping its monstrous wings.
Suddenly, it changes into Mephistopheles (Georges Méliès).
After preparing a cauldron, the demon produces skeletons, ghosts, and witches from the bubbling contents of a cauldron.
One of those summoned from the underworld holds up a crucifix.
Satan vanishes in a blast of smoke.
Free download at https://archive.org/details/LeManoirDuDiable-GeorgesMelies1986
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Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui (born 16 October 1983 in Stockholm), better known by her stage name Loreen, is a Swedish pop singer and music producer.
She has Moroccan-Berber ancestry.
Loreen represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
She sang "Euphoria".
She was discovered in the Swedish casting show "Idol".
After winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, her song was number one in the billboard charts in many countries.
Computer speakers are speakers external (meaning that they are on the outside) to a computer.
Speakers contain amplifiers which vibrate to produce the sound.
They come in many different forms.
Some speakers are already attached to a computer.
Some speakers are wireless.
They work by Bluetooth.
This is a list of bridges in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
They are listed from west to east for the Ottawa River or North to South for the Rideau River and Canal.
Spanning the Ottawa River
OCRR railway bridge
Connects Vydon Acres to Pontiac-Station, Quebec near Chats Falls.
Champlain Bridge
Connects Island Park Drive in Westboro to Place Samuel-de-Champlain in the Aylmer sector of Gatineau, Quebec.
Owned by the National Capital Commission.
Prince of Wales Bridge
Railway bridge connecting Mechanicsville to the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec via Lemieux Island
Chaudière Bridge
Connects Booth Street in Lebreton Flats to Rue Eddy in Hull; Ottawa's oldest bridge.
Portage Bridge
Connects Wellington Street in Lebreton Flats to Boulevard Maisonneuve in Hull.
Interprovincial (Alexandra) Bridge
Connects St. Patrick Street and Murray Street in Lower Town to Boulevard des Allumettières in Hull.
Macdonald-Cartier Bridge
Connects King Edward Avenue in Lower Town to Autoroute de la Gatineau (Autoroute 5) in Hull.
Spanning the Rideau River
Sussex Drive
Connects Lower Town and New Edinburgh via Sussex Drive
Minto Bridges
Connects King Edward Avenue in Lower Town to Union Street in New Edinburgh
St. Patrick Bridge
Connects St. Patrick Street in Lower Town to Beechwood Avenue in Vanier.
Cummings Bridge
Connects Rideau Street in Sandy Hill to Montreal Road in Vanier.
Hurdman Bridge
Connects Sandy Hill and Eastway Gardens via the Queensway, Highway 417.
Pedestrian bridge
Connects the University of Ottawa's Lees Avenue campus (formerly Algonquin College's Rideau Campus) in Ottawa East to Hurdman Park.
Transitway
Connects the Lees Transitway Station and Hurdman Transitway Station.
George McIlraith Bridge
Connects Main Street in Old Ottawa South to Smyth Road in Alta Vista.
Billings Bridge
Connects Old Ottawa South and Alta Vista via Bank Street.
G. Dunbar Bridge
Connects Carleton University and Riverside Park via Bronson Avenue.
O-Train bridge
Connects Carleton and Confederation stops
Heron Road Bridge
Connects Baseline Road in Courtland Park to Heron Road in Alta Vista.
Also crosses the Rideau Canal.
Hog's Back Road
Connects Rideau View and Riverside Park via Hog's Back Road.
Also crosses over the Rideau Canal.
Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Federal Bridge
Connects the Merivale area to the Mooney's Bay neighbourhood.
Michael J. E. Sheflin Bridge
Connects Clearview to Airport-Uplands via Hunt Club Road.
Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge (under construction)
Planned completion date for 2012 and will connect Barrhaven and Riverside South via Strandherd Drive and Earl Armstrong Road.
Nicolls Island Road
Connects Nicolls Island to the mainland in Gloucester.
Connects Bridge Street in Manotick to Mitch Owens Road in Osgoode.
Regional Road 6
Connects Roger Stevens Drive in Kars to Snake Island Road in Osgoode.
Highway 416
Connects Reevecraig to Sabourins Crossing
West Branch of the Rideau River
Barnsdale Road
Connects Nepean to Manotick
Connects downtown Manotick to Long Island.
Spanning the Rideau Canal
Plaza Bridge
Connects Wellington Street in Centretown to Rideau Street in the By Ward Market.
Mackenzie King Bridge
Connects Albert and Slater Streets in Centretown to Waller Street in Sandy Hill.
The Transitway also uses this bridge.
Laurier Bridge
Connects Centretown and the University of Ottawa via Laurier Avenue.
Corktown Footbridge
Connects Centretown to Campus Transitway Station
Connects The Glebe and Centretown with Old Ottawa East via Highway 417.
Pretoria Bridge
Connects Elgin Street in The Glebe with Hawthorne Avenue in Old Ottawa East.
This is a Lift bridge.
Bank Street Bridge
Connects The Glebe and Old Ottawa South
Bronson Bridge
Connects The Glebe and Carleton University via Bronson Avenue
Rail tunnel (just west of Dows Lake)
Used by O-Train; connects Carleton and Carling stations
Hog's Back Bridge
A swing bridge.
Connects Riverside Drive and Prince of Wales Drive
Other bridges
Pooley's Bridge
The oldest bridge entirely within Ottawa , spanning the tailrace in Lebreton Flats
Somerset Street bridge   or (a.k.a. "
O-Train Bridge" )
Connects Somerset Street West over the O-Train tracks
Triodia is a large genus of grass endemic to Australia.
They are often called spinifex, but they are not a part of the genus Spinifex, which is only found near the coast.
There are 64 known species.
Triodia is a perennial grass that grows in dry areas.
They have spikey, pointed leaves, about 30-40 centimetres long.
The leaf tips can break off in people's skin, causing infections.
Spinifex has been used by Australian Aborigines in many things.
The seeds are collected for food.
Spinifex resin is used as a glue in spear-making.
The grasses were also burned to make smoke signals, to communicate with groups a long way away.
Some species are used for building shelters.
Others are used to make traps for catching fish.
Lazarides, M. (1997). "
A revision of Triodia including Plectrachne (Poaceae, Eragrostideae, Triodiinae)."
Australian Systematic Botany 10: 381-489.
Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards.
The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references.
Version: 28 November 2005
Macquarie University's "Hummock Grasslands in Australia"
The 38th G8 summit was held at Camp David, Maryland in the United States on May 18-19, 2012.
The summit venue was moved from Chicago to rural Maryland in March 2012.
They are asked to participate in some, but not all, G8 summit activities.
The leaders of four African nations were invited by the US president:
Yayi Boni, President
Meles Zenawi Prime Minister
John Atta-Mills, President
Jakaya Kikwete, President
African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, President
African Union  Yayi Boni, Chairperson
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Strive Masiyiwa, Chairman
Schedule and Agenda
Changes taking place across the Middle East and North Africa
Greece in the euro zone
Iran’s nuclear energy plans
Protesters  and demonstrations
When the venue for the summit was changed from Chicago, a White House spokesman said security and the possibility of protests were not factors in the decision.
Some protest groups took credit for the change of venue.
Business opportunity
For some, the G8 summit was a profit-generating event; as for example, the G8 Summit magazines which have been published since 1998.
US Dept.
of State,  G8 Summit 2012;  Media Resources
Tourism Council of Frederick County Maryland, Camp David summit
The Alpine marmot is a species of marmot.
It can be found in mountain regions of central and southern Europe.
It is the third-largest rodent on the European continent.
The Eurasian beaver and the Crested porcupine are both larger than it.
Alpine marmots mature in their third year.
For this reason, marmots live in family groups of up to twenty animals.
Alpine marmots have been around since the ice age.
Today, their range is limited to the higher mountain regions.
Western Christianity is a part of the Christian religion.
Western Christianity talks about the religious traditions of Christians whose ancestors were from Western Europe.
Western Christianity includes people who are members of the Catholic Church, as well as people who are members of Protestant churches.
The Protestant churches were formed by people who were former members of the Catholic Church.
Many Protestant churches started during the Protestant Reformation in about 1600.
As the Protestant leaders were former members of the Catholic Church, Protestants share many, but not all, religious beliefs and religious traditions with Catholics.
However, Western Christianity is different from Eastern Christianity, which has a different set of religious traditions, but many of the same religious beliefs.
Western denominations
Western Christianity makes up about 90% of Christians worldwide.
The Roman Catholic Church has over half of all Christians.
The many Protestant and related denominations make up another 40%.
Baptists, Lutherans, and Anglicans are some of the larger and older Western denominations which are not the Roman Catholic Church.
Western churches
Paul Signac (11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter.
His work with Georges Seurat helped create the pointillist style of painting.
FIFA, also known as FIFA Football or FIFA Soccer, is a series of association football video games, released yearly by Electronic Arts.
The most recent FIFA game released was "FIFA 22" released October 1st, 2021.
The FIFA video games franchise has versions in 10+ languages.
It is available in 50+ countries.
The series has sold more than 100 million copies.
FIFA 2000 (PS2)
FIFA 2001 PS2
FIFA Football 2002 (PS2)
FIFA Football 2003 (PS2)
FIFA Football 2004 (PS2)
FIFA Football 2005 (PS2)
FIFA 06 (PS2)
FIFA 07 (PS3)
FIFA 08 (PS3)
FIFA 09 (PS3)
FIFA 10 (PS3)
FIFA 13 (PS3)
FIFA 14 (PS4)
FIFA 15 (Xbox One) (Feel the Game)
FIFA 16 (Xbox One) (PS4)
FIFA 17 (Xbox One) (PS4)
FIFA Mobile 17 (Android) (iOS)
FIFA 18 (Xbox One) (PS4) (Nintendo Switch)
FIFA Mobile 18 (Android) (iOS)
EA Sports Football
ABC Kids (US): A children's television service run by the American Broadcasting Company
ABC Kids (Australia): Children's programming slot run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, operated over ABC TV Plus.
FIFA 14 is a 2013 association football simulation video game created by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts.
It was released for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Microsoft Windows.
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions were released on the consoles' respective launch dates.
It is the only game to be released on three different PlayStation consoles (PS2, PS3, and PS4).
Lionel Messi is the cover athlete of the game.
Since it was released on September 23, 2013, it has gotten good reviews.
A biosphere reserve is an ecosystem with plants and animals of unusual scientific and natural interest.
It is a label given by the UNESCO to help protect the sites.
The plan is to promote management, research and education in ecosystem conservation.
This includes the 'sustainable use of natural resources'.
If, for example, fish or trees are taken for human use, this is done in ways which least damage the ecosystem.
i) Core zone: No human activity is permitted in this zone.
ii) Buffer zone: It surrounds the core area, where a limited access permits to local people for the gathering of resources.
iii) Free zones: It is the outermost zone, which is open to human settlements and resource gathering.
The program is run by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program.
It has started a World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
The MAB program has built up the World Network of Biosphere Reserves since 1971.
Biosphere reserves, exchange knowledge and experiences on new ideas for sustainable development.
They are areas used to develop new ways of doing things, test these ways and share the results.
The objective is to get a balanced relationship between mankind and nature.
The biosphere is very important to humans.
Lake Amadeus () is a huge salt lake in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory, in Australia.
It is about  north of Uluṟu.
The lake is 180 km long and 10 km wide.
It is the largest salt lake in the Northern Territory.
Because of the dryness of the area, the lake is usually a dry salt crust.
When it rains enough, water flows through it towards the east.
It eventually connects to the Finke River.
Lake Amadeus holds up to 600 million tonnes of salt.
The groundwater soaks into the ground, and the lake supports several reliable springs.
The first European to find the lake was the explorer Ernest Giles in 1872.
He had seen Kata Tjuta from far away and was making his way there.
The lake blocked his path.
He could not go over it because the dry lake bed was not able to hold the weight of his horses.
He described the lake as "an infernal lake of mud and brine".
Giles was going to name it "Lake Ferdinand" after Baron Ferdinand von Mueller.
But Mueller asked Giles to instead name it after King Amadeus I of Spain.
Amadeus had honoured Mueller a few years before.
Lakes of the Northern Territory
Elder Futhark is the oldest known runic script.
It was used by Germanic tribes during the 2nd to 8th century.
It consists of 24 different characters that are used like an alphabet; each character represents a sound or syllable.
All Germamic tribes used the same form and same language.
Its use lasted to the mid 8th century.
Scholars are still discussing when it was first used: The oldest known use which is not disputed is a comb on the Vimose inscriptions from Denmark.
It dates around the year 160.
There are also runes on the Meldorf fibula, which date from the year 50.
The inscription on the fibular is made of characters that are probably runes.
The problem is that these characters can also represent symbols in the Latin alphabet.
Many of the characters from Elder Futhark resemble Latin or etruscan ones.
For this reason, Elder Futhark had probably modelled form Southern Europe.
The ordering of the Futhark letters is completely different from other known alphabets.
In contrast, the ordering of the Latin alphabet is the same as the Greek one, which preceded it.
de:Futhark#Das ältere Futhark
sv:Futhark#Den äldre futharken
Faith was born in Acton, London.
He died of a heart attack in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is It!
The Adam Faith website
A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French silent movie.
It is based loosely on Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon.
In French, the title of the movie is Le Voyage dans la lune.
The movie was written and directed by Georges Méliès.
He had some some help from his brother Gaston.
The movie runs about 14 minutes.
It was very popular when it was shown for the first time.
It is the best-known of the many movies made by Méliès.
A Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction movie.
The movie has many new twists on animation and special effects.
One of the most well known images is the one showing a spaceship landing in the Moon's eye.
A Trip to the Moon was named one of the 100 greatest movies of the 20th century by The Village Voice.
It was ranked at #84.
Six astronomers agree to take a trip to the moon.
They build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet.
A huge cannon shoots it into space with the help of "marines".
These marine are mostly pretty girls in sailor outfits.
Some of the marines are men though.
The Man in the Moon watches the capsule as it moves toward the moon.
He gets hit in the eye.
The astronomers get out of the capsule.
They unroll their blankets and sleep.
A comet passes.
The Big Dipper appears with human faces looking out of each star.
Snowfall wakes the astronomers.
They go into a cavern and find giant mushrooms.
One astronomer opens his umbrella.
It turns into a giant mushroom.
Selenites appear.
They are insectoids that live on the moon.
The astronomers fight them.
They are captured.
They are taken to the Selenite Palace.
One astronomer destroys the Chief Selenite.
The astronomers run to their space capsule.
They take off.
They land in an ocean on Earth.
A ship rescues them.
A celebration is held in honor of the brave men.
Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) on YouTube (hand-colored with narrated stills of missing final scene)
Filmsquish — Blog-A-Thon of critics celebrating the film
Was the Nasa splash down inspired by Georges Méliès?
— A letter to NASA
A 192 page book about the film and its color version by the Technicolor Foundation
Younger Futhark is a runic script that developed from Elder Futhark, and was used mainly in Scandinavia.
Younger Futhark was used form around the year 800.
It uses 16 symbols instead of 24, for Elder Futhark.
At the same time, the language developed from Proto-Norse to Old Norse, which used more that 16 sounds.
sv:Futhark#Den yngre futharken
Hard Candy is the 11th studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna.
It was released on April 19, 2008 by Warner Bros. The first single from the album, "4 Minutes" has Justin Timberlake and Timbaland singing in it.
It went on to top charts around the world and reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The second single, "Give It 2 Me", has vocals from Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes.
It reached the top ten in Canada and the UK.