the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
SudokuGod of War: Chains of OlympusGod of War: Ghost of SpartaGrand Theft Auto: Liberty City StoriesGrand Theft Auto: Vice City StoriesGran TurismoHarry Potter and the Goblet of FireHarry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixJak and Daxter: The Lost FrontierKillzone: LiberationLara Croft Tomb Raider: LegendLego Batman: The VideogameLego Indiana Jones: The Original AdventuresLego Star Wars II: The Original TrilogyLemmingsLittleBigPlanetLocoRocoLocoRoco 2LuminesMedal of Honor: HeroesMedal of Honor: Heroes 2MediEvil: ResurrectionMidnight Club 3: DUB EditionMidnight Club: L.A. RemixModNation RacersMotoGPMotorStorm: Arctic EdgeNamco Museum Battle CollectionNaruto: Ultimate Ninja HeroesNeed for Speed Carbon: Own The CityNeed for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0Need for Speed: ProStreetNeed for Speed: UndercoverNeed for Speed: Underground RivalsOutRun 2006: Coast 2 CoastPeter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the MoviePrince of Persia: RevelationsPrince of Persia: Rival SwordsPro Evolution Soccer 2009Pro Evolution Soccer 2010Pro Evolution Soccer 2011Pro Evolution Soccer 5Pro Evolution Soccer 6Pursuit ForcePursuit Force: Extreme JusticeRatchet & Clank: Size MattersResistance: RetributionRidge RacerRidge Racer 2Secret Agent ClankSega Mega Drive CollectionSmash Court Tennis 3SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2Sonic RivalsStar Wars: Battlefront IIStar Wars: The Force UnleashedStreet Fighter Alpha 3 MaxSyphon Filter: Dark MirrorTekken 6Tekken: Dark ResurrectionTest Drive: UnlimitedThe Simpsons GameThe Sims 2The Sims 2: CastawayThe Sims 2: PetsTomb Raider: LegendTom Clancy's Rainbow Six: VegasTom Clancy's Splinter Cell: EssentialsTransformers: The GameVirtua Tennis: World TourWipeout PulseWipeout PureWorld Rally ChampionshipWorld Tour Soccer: Challenge EditionWorms: Open WarfareWWE SmackDown!
vs. Raw 2006WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010PlayStation 3 titlesArmy of TwoArmy of Two: The 40th DayAssassin's CreedAssassin's Creed II - Game of the Year EditionAssassin's Creed: BrotherhoodAssassin's Creed: RevelationsAvatar: The GameBatman: Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year EditionBattlefield: Bad CompanyBattlefield: Bad Company 2 - Ultimate EditionBioShockBioShock 2Borderlands - Game of the Year EditionBurnout ParadiseCall of Duty 3Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareCall of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2Call of Duty: World at WarColin McRae: DirtColin McRae: Dirt 2Dante's InfernoDead Rising 2Dead Space 2DiRT 3Dragon Age: OriginsDriver: San FranciscoThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Game of the Year EditionEyePet Move EditionFallout 3Far Cry 2FIFA 08FIFA 09FIFA 10FIFA 11FIFA Street 3
Fight Night Round 4
God of War Collection
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
HAZE
Homefront - Ultimate Edition
LittleBigPlanet - Game of the Year Edition
Midnight Club: Los Angeles – Complete Edition
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009
Pro Evolution Soccer 2012
Race Driver: Grid
Race Driver: Grid - Reloaded
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
Red Dead Redemption - Game of the Year Edition
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition
UFC 2009 Undisputed
Paul Rusesabagina (born 1954) is a Rwandan humanitarian.
He is known for hiding and protecting 1,268 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Rusesabagina was the assistant manager of the Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines.
Later, he was the manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates.
Both hotels are in Kigali, Rwanda.
During the genocide, he used his influence and connections with high ranking and important people to protect 1,268 Tutsis and Hutus from being killed by the Interahamwe.
Rusesabagina's story was the basis of the Academy Award winning 2004 movie Hotel Rwanda staring Don Cheadle.
Rusesabagina currently lives in Brussels, Belgium with his wife, four children and two adopted nieces.
On 20 September 2021, he was found guilty of terrorism-related charges.
During the court proceeding, he denounced president Paul Kagame and reported that he had been abducted from exile to stand trial in Rwanda.
Gameplay is the way players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.
Gameplay is the connection between player and the game, game rules, challenges and overcoming them, plot and overcoming them, plot and player's connection with it.
Video game gameplay is how attracting the graphics and audio are to the player.
Along with the rise of video game development in the 1980s, the term gameplay was used only in the context of video games.
Now its popularity has started to be used in the description of other, more traditional, game types.
Generally, gameplay is about the general experience of playing a video game.
It doesn't include other things like graphics and sound.
Game mechanics, on the other hand, is the set of rules in a game that are supposed to make an enjoyable gaming experience.
Academic discussions often use terms like game mechanics so they don't have to use gameplay.
This is because "gameplay" is too general for academic discussions.
Gameplay types
Emergent gameplay
Leveled gameplay
Nonlinear gameplay
Passive gameplay
Twitch gameplay
Desurvire, H., Caplan, M., & Toth, J. A. (2004).
Using heuristics to evaluate the playability of games.
CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, Vienna, Austria.
Fabricatore, C., Nussbaum, M., & Rosas, R. (2002).
Playability in video games: a qualitative design model.
Human-Computer Interaction, 17(4), 311-368.
Jegers, K. (2008).
Investigating the Applicability of Usability and Playability Heuristics for Evaluation of Pervasive Games.
Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2008.
ICIW '08.
Korhonen, H., & Koivisto, E. M. I. (2006).
Playability heuristics for mobile games.
In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Helsinki, Finland, September 12–15, 2006).
MobileHCI '06, vol.
ACM, New York, NY, 9-16.
doi: 10.1145/1152215.1152218
Korhonen H., Koivisto E.M.I. (2007).
Playability Heuristics for Mobile Multi-player Games.
In proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, DIMEA 2007, ACM Press (2007), pp.
doi: 10.1145/1306813.1306828
Nacke, L. (2009).
From Playability to a Hierarchical Game Usability Model.
In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Future Play on @ GDC Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 12–13, 2009).
FuturePlay '09.
ACM, New York, NY, 11-12.
doi: 10.1145/1639601.1639609
Nacke, L. E., Drachen, A., Kuikkaniemi, K., Niesenhaus, J., Korhonen, H. J., Hoogen, W. M. v. d., et al. (
Playability and Player Experience Research.
Proceedings of DiGRA 2009: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, London, UK. (
online slides)
Järvinen, A., Heliö, S. and Mäyrä, F. Communication and Community in Digital Entertainment Services.
Prestudy Research Report , Hypermedia Laboratory, University of Tampere, Tampere, 2002.
Crash Nitro Kart is a 2003 racing video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Universal Interactive Studios (along with Konami in the Japanese release) for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and N-Gage.
It is the second Crash Bandicoot racing game behind Crash Team Racing.
It is the ninth Crash Bandicoot game overall.
Activision's page on Crash Nitro Kart
The list of best-selling PlayStation video games are listed in order of greatest to least best-selling video game.
The video games listed here have sold or shipped at least one million copies.
Gran Turismo (10.85 million shipped)
Final Fantasy VII (9.72 million)
Gran Turismo 2 (9.97 million shipped)
Tekken 3 (8.3 million) approximately;
Final Fantasy VIII (7.86 million shipped)
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (7.13 million)
Tomb Raider (7 million)
Crash Bandicoot (6.82 million)
Tomb Raider II (6.5 million)
Metal Gear Solid (6.03 million)
Tomb Raider III (6 million)
Final Fantasy IX (5.30 million approximately;)
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (5.17 million)
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (5 million)
Resident Evil 2 (4.96 million)
Spyro the Dragon (4.832 million)
Dragon Warrior VII (4.12 million in Japan)
Rayman (4 million)
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (3.5 million)
3.451 million)
Frogger (3.37 million in US)
Tekken 2 (3.37 million approximately: 2 million in US, 1.37 million in Japan)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.32 million approximately: 3.02 million in US, 300,000 in UK)
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (3.283 million)
Driver (3.22 million in US)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (3.15 million approximately: 2.85 million in US, 300,000 in UK)
PaRappa the Rapper (3 million)
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (3 million)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (3 million)
Driver 2 (2.85 million approximately: 2.55 million in US, 300,000 in UK)
Resident Evil (2.75 million)
Dino Crisis (2.4 million)
Final Fantasy Tactics (2.3 million approximately: 1.35 million in Japan, 950,000 in US)
Namco Museum Volume 3 (2.24 million in US)
Crash Team Racing (2.2 million approximately: 1.9 million in US, 300,000 in UK)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (2.2 million approximately: 2.1 million in US, 100,000 in UK)
WWF War Zone (2.2 million in US)
Everybody's Golf (2.13 million in Japan)
Mortal Kombat Trilogy (2.01 million in US)
Derby Stallion (2 million in Japan)
Silent Hill (2 million)
WWF SmackDown! (
1.92 million approximately: 1.62 million in US, 300,000 in UK)
Crash Bash (1.9 million approximately, 1.6 million in US,  300,000 in UK)
2: Know Your Role (1.87 million approximately, 1.57 million in US,  300,000 in UK)
Spider-Man (1.85 million approximately: 1.55 million in US, 300,000 in UK)
Parasite Eve (1.799 million approximately: 1.05 million in Japan, 749,000 in US; 1.94 million shipped)
Tetris Plus (1.77 million in US)
Syphon Filter (1.75 million in US)
Twisted Metal 2 (1.74 million in US)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1.72 million approximately, 1.42 in US, 300,000 in UK)
Need For Speed III (1.7 million in US)
Forbidden Memories (1.653 million approximately: 1.1 million in US, 453.036 in Japan, 100,000 in UK)
Namco Museum Volume 1 (1.65 million in US)
Medal of Honor (1.64 million approximately, 1.44 in US,  200,000 in UK)
A Bug's Life (1.5 million in US)
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1.5 million)
Madden NFL 99 (1.5 million in US)
Tomb Raider Chronicles (1.5 million)
Madden NFL 2000 (1.48 million in US)
NFL GameDay '98 (1.47 million in US)
Rugrats: Search for Reptar (1.46 million in US)
Grand Theft Auto 2 (1.45 million approximately: 1.15 million in US, 300,000 in UK)
Everybody's Golf 2 (1.44 million in Japan)
Cool Boarders 3 (1.43 million in US)
Syphon Filter 2 (1.42 million approximately: 1.32 million in US, 100,000 in UK)
Need For Speed: High Stakes (1.39 million in US)
Jet Moto 2 (1.31 million in US)
WCW Nitro (1.3 million in US)
Twisted Metal III (1.29 million in US)
Dance Dance Revolution (1.27 million in Japan)
Jet Moto (1.27 million in US)
Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol (1.27 million in US)
Chrono Cross (1.269 million approximately: 580,000 in US, 688,614 in Japan; 1.5 million shipped)
Madden NFL 98 (1.25 million in US)
Pac-Man World (1.24 million in US)
The Legend of Dragoon (1.24 million approximately, 960,000 in US, 280,000 in Japan)
Cool Boarders 2 (1.21 million in US)
Dragon Warrior IV (1.2 million in Japan)
Resident Evil DC Dual Shock (1.2 million)
Tales of Destiny (1.193 million)
Dino Crisis 2 (1.19 million)
Monopoly (1.19 million in US)
Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon (1.166 million in Japan)
NASCAR 98 (1.16 million in US)
NBA Live 98 (1.15 million in US)
NASCAR 99 (1.14 million in US)
Xenogears (1.131 million approximately: 891,671 in Japan, 239,000 in US; 1.19 million shipped)
Resident Evil Director's Cut (1.13 million)
NFL GameDay '99 (1.12 million in US)
Arc the Lad (1.1 million in Japan)
Beatmania (1.1 million in Japan)
Derby Stallion '99 (1.1 million in Japan)
Devil Dice (1.1 million in Japan)
SaGa Frontier (1.1 million in Japan)
Star Ocean: The Second Story (1.094 million)
2 Xtreme (1.09 million in US)
Parasite Eve II (1.09 million shipped)
Test Drive 5 (1.08 million in US)
Twisted Metal (1.08 million in US)
Twisted Metal 4 (1.08 million in US)
SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge (1.06 million in US)
Arc the Lad II (1.04 million in Japan)
Densha de Go! (
1.04 million in Japan)
Winning Eleven 4 (1.02 million in Japan)
Intelligent Qube (1.01 million in Japan)
NBA Live 2000 (1 million in US)
Simple 1500 Series Vol.
1: The Mahjong (1 million in Japan)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1 million)
Tekken (1 million)
WCW/nWo Thunder (1 million)
Doko Demo Issyo (1.1 million in Japan)
Mary Ann Lee (18231899) was one of America's first professional ballerinas.
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to theatrical parents, and trained there with Paul Hazard of the Paris Opéra.
She made her ballet debut as Fatima in 1837 in The Maid of Cashmere at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.
Debuting in the same production was the great Augusta Maywood.
Night after night, the two girls were showered with applause and bouquets.
Lee studied in New York City with James Sylvain, and made her New York debut in June 1839 at the Bowery Theatre.
She did not confine herself to dance, but acted in melodramas and other stage works.
She toured the United States, then studied with Ballet Master Jean Coralli in Paris.
When she returned to the United States, she brought the directions for several popular ballets with her.
She danced the first American performance of Giselle in Boston in 1846.
She retired in 1847 at age 24 for health reasons.
She married William Vanhook, a Philadelphia merchant.
She made a few returns to the stage, and taught dance in later life.
She died in Philadelphia in 1899, and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
If she had pursued her career rather than retirement, she would likely have become a star of international renown.
Claire Antonia Forlani (December 17, 1971) is an English movie performer who also stars on TV programs.
She starred in the movie Mystery Men in 1999.
She also starred in other movies.
English actors
Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold (May 1918-May 2008) was an American pop icon during the 1950s and 1960s.
He sold almost 86 million albums and had many hit songs during his career.
He was born in Tennessee.
Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson (January 20, 1929 – July 3, 2019) was an American comedian and television, movie, and voice actor.
His career lasted for 50 years.
His career started in 1954 up until his retirement in 2005.
Johnson was a regular cast in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
His well-known "character" was that of a German soldier with his famous the catchphrase: "Verrrry interesting, but...['stupid', 'not very funny', and other versions]".
He won a Saturn Award.
Johnson was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
He was educated at the University of Illinois.
He was married to Gisela Johnson from 1968 until his death.
Johnson died on July 3, 2019 in Los Angeles from bladder and prostate cancer at the age of 90.
Salvia hispanica, flowering plant, sprouts and culinary chia seed
Salvia columbariae ("golden chia")
Salvia polystachya
Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Chía, Aragon, Spain
Personal names
Italian and Spanish surname
Sandro Chia, an Italian painter and sculptor
Chinese surname, also romanized as Xie or Tse
Alyssa Chia, a Taiwanese actress
Amber Chia, a Malaysian model
Danny Chia, a Malaysian golfer
Eric Chia, a Malaysian businessman
Gec Chia, a Filipino basketball player
Mantak Chia, a Thai author and teacher on Taoism and qigong
Nelson Chia, Singaporean actor, director and lecturer
Nicholas Chia, current Roman Catholic Archbishop of Singapore
Pei-yuan Chia, an American businessmann
Steve Chia, a Singaporean politician
Chia Thye Poh, a Singaporean political prisoner
Wenlan Chia, an American fashion designer
As a first name Chia is the Spanish variant of the name Lucia
Chia Pet
Chia Black Dragon, a fictional dark fantasy character
Chía (goddess), wife of Bochica in Colombian mythology
"Chia", a song by Four Tet from the album Rounds
Masala chai, called chia in Nepal
CHIA, Children's Hope In Action
Chía is a town in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia.
It is to the north of Bogotá on the main road to Zipaquira.
Its history goes back to the pre-Columbian time.
The name comes from the Chibchan language.
It means "moon" or "month".
People in this region speak patués, a dialect of the eastern Aragonese language.
Chía is in the Benasque Valley, on the foot of the Sierra de Chía, a short mountain range in the Pyrenees.
It is about  from Huesca, the capital city of the Huesca province.
The mean yearly temperature is  and the mean yearly rainfall is .
Saint Martin of Chía church, a small church with a Romanesque style of the 12th-13th centuries.
Saint Vincent church, also with a Romanesque style but it was changed a lot during the 18th century.
Local holiday
8 September - .
Chia or Baia di Chia is a coastal area in southern Sardinia (Italy).
It is part of the municipality of Domus de Maria in the  Province of Cagliari.
Loggia was born on January 3, 1930 in Staten Island, New York City to Benjamin Loggia and to Elena Blandino both of whom were born in Sicily, Italy.
Loggia was educated at Wagner College and journalism at the University of Missouri.
After his service in the US Army, Loggia began a his career in stage, movie, and television.
Loggia had a career span of 60 years since 1953, since then he appeared in many movies, including: An Officer and a Gentleman, Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771, based on the Air New Zealand Flight 103 incident, Scarface, Prizzi's Honor, Over the Top, Independence Day, Necessary Roughness, Return to Me, Armed and Dangerous, and Big (for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor).
Loggia was married to Marjorie Sloan from 1954 until they divorced in 1981.
He was married to Audrey O'Brien from 1982 until his death in 2015.
Loggia has two children of his own and a stepchild.
Loggia died at his home in Los Angeles, California from Alzheimer's disease, aged 85.
The Pigou effect is an economics term that refers to the stimulation of output and employment.
It is caused by increasing consumption due to a rise in real balances of wealth.
It often happens particularly during deflation.
Wealth was defined by Arthur Cecil Pigou as "the sum of the money supply and government bonds divided by the price level".
He explained that Keynes' General theory was incomplete because it was not clarifying a link from "real balances" to current consumption.
He also pointed out that it didn't include such a "wealth effect" would make the economy more 'self correcting' to drops in aggregate demand than Keynes predicted.
Because the effect derives from changes to the "Real Balance", this is also called the Real Balance effect.
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress and singer.
She and her older sister Olivia de Havilland were two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.
Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Suspicion (1941).
Fontaine was born in Tokyo to British parents.
She became an American citizen in 1943.
She has divorced four times.
She has one child from her second marriage.
Charing Cross station, is a central London rail terminus in the City of Westminster .
The rail station is one of 18 stations managed by Network Rail, and trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.
It is the fifth busiest rail terminal in London.
The station takes its name from the central London road junction of Charing Cross.
The front of the rail station faces The Strand.
The other end is the northern end of Hungerford Bridge, which is crossed by all trains serving the station.
Ticket barriers control access to all platforms, although the bridge entrance has no barriers.
The original station building was built on the site of Hungerford Market and opened on 11 January 1864.
The station has a single span wrought iron roof arching over the six platforms on its relatively cramped site.
A year later the Charing Cross Hotel opened on 15 May 1865, and gave the station an ornate front in the French Renaissance style.
At the same time, a replica of the Eleanor Cross was erected in the station forecourt, based on the original 13th century Whitehall Cross that had been demolished in 1647.
Distances in London are officially measured from the original site of the cross in Whitehall, now the statue of Charles I, and not from this replica cross.
Charing Cross tube station is a London Underground station at Charing Cross.
It has entrances in Trafalgar Square and The Strand.
The station is served by the Northern and Bakerloo lines and provides an interchange with the National Rail network at the Charing Cross rail station.
On the Northern Line it is between Embankment and Leicester Square stations on the Charing Cross branch, and on the Bakerloo Line it is between Embankment and Piccadilly Circus stations.
The station was served by the Jubilee Line between 1979 and 1999; acting as the southern terminus of the line during that period.
For most of the history of the Underground the name Charing Cross was associated with a different station, the one now called Embankment.
Shin Ik-hee (, June 9 1892 – May 5 1956) was a Resistance activists, politician, and educator of South Korea.
His nickname was Haegong (해공, 海公) and Haehoo (해후, 海候), customs name was Yeogu (여구, 如耉).
header of National Assembly of Koreas 1948 to 1954.
Cho Byung-ok
Chang Chun-ha
Shin Ik-hee:member of National Assembly of Koreas
Haegong Shin Ik-hee memorial museum
Haegong Shin Ik-hee memorial association
http://koreandb.nate.com/history/people/detail?sn=5381
http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=1119140&mobile&categoryId=200001082
The earliest known use of the term producer in games was by Trip Hawkins.
He became the first video game producer when he founded Electronic Arts in 1982.
Hawkins believed that a video game producer could be like a record producer, who takes control over the whole development of a video game.
Hawkins brought record producers from A&M Records to help train the first video game producers.
Back then, video game producer had a negative reputation as "imitation Hollywood" by game executives and press members.
However, it is now a term that is accepted and used more often in video games.
The role of the video game producer has been defined by different companies and different teams.
There are a number of positions of a producer.
Video game producers earn the third most money in the video game industry.
They earn an average of USD$75,000 annually.
Associate producers with less than three years experience earn $43,000.
However, those between three to six years of experience earn an average of $55,700 annually.
Executive producers with over six years experience earn an average of $103,000 annually.
Producer  at Eurocom
Justyn McLean - Game Boy at Mirror
Azathioprine is an immunosuppressant drug.
It is used in, for example, the organ transplantation of kidneys.
A game artist is an artist who creates art for video games.
Game artists are in charge of all game development of visual art.
Many game artists are asked to develop graphical environments and elements in which role-playing games take place.
For example, in the Monster Manual early Dungeons & Dragons artists created visual imitations of monsters players might see while playing the video game.
Visual art can help make the gameplay of a video game more appealing to a player.
Art for role-playing games can be expressed in a lot of different ways.
These can include from pencil drawings, pen and ink drawings, oil paintings or even 3D models created with a computer.
Video game music is any musical instruments or soundtrack and background music found in video games.
It can be from just a synthesizer tune to an orchestral piece.
The older a game is, the simpler the music will be.
In recent times, many games have had complex soundtracks similar to those of movies.
Interactive soundtracks in a video game is music changing into different sounds, depending on what the player does.
It is also common for a video game soundtrack to be sold in stores or performed in concerts.
Music is very important to gameplay.
There are many awards for composers who create the music in a video game.
Awards available are from the Ivor Novello Awards, Spike Video Game Awards, Grammy Awards, International Film Music Critics Association, Inside Gaming and the MTV Video Music Awards.
VGMdb Video Game Music and Anime Soundtrack Database | VGMdb
GamesSound.com  Academic articles on video game sound and music
Early Video Game Soundtracks 2001 article on video game music, orig.
published in In Magazine
High Score: The New Era of Video Game Music  at Tracksounds
"The Evolution of Video Game Music", All Things Considered, April 12, 2008
List of games with non-original music at uvlist.net
Pretty Ugly Gamesound Study Website studying pretty and ugly game music and sound.
CaptivatingSound.com Resources for design of game sound and music.
Audio and Immersion PhD thesis about game audio and immersion.
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine (OPM) was a monthly video game magazine.
It was published by Ziff Davis Media.
It was a sister publication of Electronic Gaming Monthly.
The magazine talked about anything that dealt with the PlayStation.
Topics included its hardware, software, and culture.
It covered new video game releases and critics gave reviews on games available on PlayStation One, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.
The magazine was known for its free demos it included in each issue.
The demos were upcoming or new video games that might be interesting to buy by the player.
The magazine was produced for almost ten years.
The first issue was the September 1997 issue and the final issue was released on January 2007.
In December 2007, one month after the magazine was discontinued, the PlayStation: The Official Magazine (PSM), replaced OPM as the official magazine focusing on Sony game consoles.
In the last issue of OPM staff included:
Editor-in-chief – Tom Byron
Managing editor – Dana Jongewaard
Senior editor – Joe Rybicki
Previews editor – Thierry "Scooter" Nguyen
News editor – Giancarlo Varanini
Art director – Ryan Vulk
Associate art director – Alejandro Chavetta
Disc editor – Logan Parr
Editorial director – John Davison
Managing editor – Gary Steinman
Managing editor – Din Perez
Managing editor – Dan Peluso
Reviews editor – Chris Baker
Associate editor – Mark MacDonald
Editor-in-chief – Wataru Maruyama
Editor-in-chief – Kraig Kujawa
Editor-in-chief – John Davison
Pwnageness - Waffle
OPM at 1UP.com
RadiOPM at 1UP.com  (official podcast)
Editor in Chief, Tom Byron
Managing Editor, Dana Jongewaard
Senior Editor, Joe Rybicki
Previews Editor, Thierry "Scooter" Nguyen
News Editor, Giancarlo Varanini
Adolphe Nourrit (3 March 1802 – 8 March 1839) was a French operatic tenor, librettist, and composer.
He was born in Montpellier, Hérault.
His father was an operatic tenor.
Nourrit was almost 20 when he made his professional operatic debut in 1821 in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride.
In 1826, he succeeded his father as the principal tenor at the Paris Opéra.
He held the position until 1836.
He became a pupil of Rossini, and created all the principal tenor roles in Rossini's French operas.
In time, he gained considerable power at the Opéra.
He was consulted by composers and his approval was sought for works in progress.
He was appointed to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1827.
He wrote many libretti for ballets at the Opéra, and, in 1832, he wrote the libretto for La Sylphide, the seminal romantic ballet.
In 1836, he went hoarse during a performance at the Opéra and thereafter turned to salon recitals, introducing Schubert's songs to the salon audiences.
He studied in Naples with Donizetti and made his debut in that city in 1838.
His physical and mental health declined and in 1839 he committed suicide.
He was buried in Montmartre Cemetery with his wife, who only survived him by a few months, dying in childbirth.
Evan Walker/Sarah Hibberd, relevant entry from the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie, London (1992),  and .
Henry Pleasants, The Great Singers, Macmillan Publishers, London (1983 revised edition), .
Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri (17 August 178222 August 1868) was a 19th century French set designer.
He was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, and died in Saint-Chéron, Essonne.
Cicéri designed the scenery for the first performance of La belle au bois dormant which opened on 2 March 1825 at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
He also designed the sets for a ballet version of Jocko ou le Singe du Brésil (Jocko or the Monkey of Brazil) by Frédéric-Auguste Blache with music by Alexandre Piccinni.
The ballet was first performed at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris on 16 March 1825.
He designed the scenery for the first performance of the ballet Giselle in 1841.
The ballet opened at the Opéra and was especially acclaimed for the setting of its second act.
He was awarded a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Jesse Manalastas Robredo (May 27, 1958 – August 18, 2012) was the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines.
Robredo was a member of the Liberal Party.
On July 9, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III named Robredo as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government.
Robredo was a former Mayor of Naga City in Camarines Sur.
He was the first Filipino Mayor to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2000.
On August 18, 2012 (PHT), the aircraft carrying Robredo crashed off Masbate bay.
He was scheduled to attend a political event in Naga City.
The Philippine Department of Interior and Local Government said that the pilot sent a distress call to the Masbate airport.
The pilot was requesting an emergency landing.
The plane never made it to the airport and crashed in the ocean.
His body was retrieved three days later, August 21, 800 meters from the shore and 180 feet below sea level.
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Michael S. Stuhlbarg (born July 5, 1968), is an American theatre, movie and television actor.
His most important movie roles are "Larry Gopnik" in A Serious Man (2009), and "Griffin" in Men in Black 3 (2012) .
Stuhlbarg is Jewish.
He recently appeared as "Dr. Robert Hoffstetler/Dimitri Mosenkov" in The Shape of Water (2017).
Mount Herzl (, ), also called Har HaZikaron (, which means "Mount of Remembrance"), is the national cemetery of Israel in Jerusalem.
It is named for Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism.
Yad Vashem, the main Holocaust museum of Israel is on the Mount of Remembrance.
It is an extension of Mount Herzl.
Mount Herzl is 834 meters above sea level.
The northern area is the National Military and Police cemetery and the southern area is the National Civil Cemetery of the State of Israel.
National Civil Cemetery of the State of Israel (Helkat Gdolei Ha'Uma)
The southern slope of Mount Herzl is dedicated to the leaders and important public persons of the state of Israel.
In Hebrew this cemetery is called Helkat Gdolei Ha'Uma ("the section of the great people of the nation").
The cemetery region includes national memorials of the Israeli public and memorial gardens of leaders that visit the state of Israel.
Mount Herzl Plaza
Mount Herzl Plaza is central ceremonial plaza in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
The plaza is used for the opening ceremony of Israel Independence Day every year.
On the northern side of the plaza is the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism.
The plaza is at the highest spot of Mount Herzl in the center of the national cemetery.
On 18 April 2012, during the rehearsals for the Independence Day ceremony, an electrical lamppost fell down.
It killed one soldier and wounded seven other soldiers.
The soldier was buried in the military cemetery nearby.
Menorah sculpture
The Menorah sculpture is at the entrance to Mount Herzl.
It is dedicated to the Third Temple.
It was made in 2002 by sculptor Ben Zion Tzefoni.
Garden of the Nations
The Garden of the Nations is a public garden.
It has been planted with olives trees by foreign leaders visiting Israel.
Each tree is has a plaque with the name of the leader who planted it.
The Herzl Museum is a biographical museum.
It tells the story of Theodor Herzl and his vision to create a Zionist country.
The museum opened in 2005.
Mount Herzl Educational Center - The Stella and Alexander Margolis Educational Center for study of Zionism is located beside the Herzl Museum.
It opened in 2013.
A small memorial garden to Norman Herzl was planted beside the study center.
Path to Yad Vashem
The memorial path was designed by the architect Uri Abramson and was built by Israeli youth organizations in 2003.
It tells the story of the birth of the state of Israel, from the beginning of the Zionism until the declaration of the state.
The path runs from the National Civil Cemetery to Yad Vashem.
Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial
The Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial is the main memorial for all victims of terrorism in Israel from 1851 until today.
The Memorial was opened in 1997, and every year, a ceremony is held on the plaza of the memorial.
National Military and Police Cemetery
The main Israel Defense Forces cemetery is on the northern slope of Mt. Herzl.
The cemetery includes memorials to members of the IDF who have fallen in the line of duty, and memorial gardens to the people who fought for the pre Zionist state.
The Israel Police cemetery, for police officers who have fallen in the line of duty, is also located there.
Garden of Those Missing in Action
The Garden of Those Missing in Action is a Memorial Garden in the National Military and Police Cemetery dedicated to people who have gone missing in action so that their burial place is unknown.
It is also dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers.
In the garden there is a wall of names of people hwo have gone missing starting in 1914 until the present day.
Beside it, empty graves represent missing soldiers and officers who have fought in the Israeli Defense Forces.
National Memorial Hall
The National Memorial Hall For Israel's Fallen () at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem is an initiative of the Israeli Ministry of Defense to commemorate all military Israeli casualties of war and Jewish fighters from 1860 until today.
The proposal to build the hall was announced by Defense Minister Ehud Barak in 2010.
In 2012, the Israeli government approved the establishment of the National Memorial Hall at a cost of $40 million.
Certification has been delayed because of a petition to the court by families of terror victims.
They say that there is no mention in the hall of the names of those victims, although the Hall is planned to be built next to the main memorial to Israeli terror victims.
Memorial of the Unknown Soldier
In the center of the hall is the eternal flame dedicated to the unknown soldiers of Israel.
This means at least one unidentified set of remains is buried there so that the families of soldiers whose bodies were never brought back can go there, imagine it is their dead relative, and mourn.
Ancient burial cave
An ancient Jewish burial cave from the Second Temple period was found in the military cemetery in 1954.
Architect Asher Hiram designed a new entrance for the cave, so it is included in the cemetery.
Gallery of Mount Herzl National Cemetery
Mount of Remembrance
The Mount of Remembrance is the western summit of Mount Herzl.
It is 806 meters above sea level.
It is called Mount of Remembrance in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem museum is on the top of the mountain.
Yad Vashem  is the national Holocaust museum of Israel.
The museum includes the International School for Holocaust Studies, the International Institute for Holocaust Research, the Valley of the Destroyed Communities, the Hall of Names, and the Righteous Among the Nations memorial path.
Official ceremonies
Memorial Day ceremony for Israel's Fallen Soldiers
Memorial Day ceremony for victims of terrorism, held at the memorial of terror in Israel
Seventh of Adar ceremony for fallen soldiers whose resting place is unknown, held in Garden of the Missing Soldiers
Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl Plaza
Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem
Helkat Gdolei Ha'Uma Section
Herzl family and the heads of the World Zionist Organization Section
Jewish Immigrants drowned in the sea at Ha'apala period Section
Ze'ev Jabotinsky and his family Section
Israel Police Section
Jewish Parachutists of Mandate of Palestine Section
Olei Hagardom Section
1948 Arab–Israeli War Section
1956 Suez Crisis Section
1967 Six-Day War and 1969-1970 War of Attrition Section
1973 Yom Kippur War Section
1982 Lebanon War Section
2006 Lebanon War Section
Zalman Shazar, 3rd President
Chaim Herzog, 6th President
Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin 5th Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir, 7th Prime Minister
Eliezer Kaplan, Ministry of Finance
Yosef Sprinzak, 1st Knesset speaker
Yisrael Yeshayahu, 5th Knesset speaker
Menachem Savidor, 8th Knesset speaker
Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem
Chief of General Staff
Yigael Yadin, 4th Chief of General Staff
David Elazar, 9th Chief of General Staff
Police Commissioners
Pinhas Kopel, 3rd Police Commissioner
Shaul Rosolio, 5th Police Commissioner
Haim Tavori, 6th Police Commissioner
Monuments and Memorials in Mount Herzl National Cemetery
Mount Herzl in "Commonwealth War Graves Commission" site
Mount Herzl museum
Mount Herzl on WikiMapia
Find a grave on Mount Herzl
Simulation of the National Memorial Hall on YNET website
Mount Herzl: The Creation of Israel's National Cemetery, Maoz Azaryahu
Mount Herzl Disaster in Haaretz site
the memorial of Terror Victims  in "la'ad" website
Stamp commemorating the opening of the Garden of the Missing Soldiers  by the Israel Postal Company
Israeli Soldiers "Missing in Action"
Military monuments and memorials in Israel
The National Library of Israel (NLI; ; formerly the Jewish National and University Library - JNUL, ), is the national library of the state of Israel.
It is on the campus of Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Givat Ram.
Saving the Holy of Holies of Jewish texts,  by Nir Hasson on Haaretz
The Israel Museum (, Muze'on Yisrael, Yerushalayim) is Israel's national museum.
It is in Jerusalem.
It is on a hill in the Givat Ram near The National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, Bible Lands Museum and the Knesset.
https://www.imj.org.il/en/node
Israel Museum website
1965 establishments in Israel
Museums in Jerusalem
The emperor newt (Tylototriton shanjing) is a highly toxic newt.
They live in pools and slow-moving streams in subtropical forests.
They mostly are awake during night and sleep during the day.
The emperor newt usually eats small insects.
These include crickets and worms.
It is also called the mandarin newt or mandarin salamander.
They can grow up to  long.
It has a ridged orange head.
A single orange ridge runs along its back.
This ridge is lined with two parallel rows of orange bumps on a black background.
The tail and legs are entirely orange.
There are different shades of orange.
When the newt is grabbed, the tips of the ribs will squeeze out poison.
Emperor newts have enough toxin to kill about 7,500 mice.
Gabrielle Shellise Varner (born February 12, 1989), simply known as Elle Varner is an American singer-songwriter.
Her parents, Mikelyn Roderick and Jimmy Varner were publishers and songwriters.
Elle signed a recording agreement with Sony Music in 2009.
Her debut album Perfectly Imperfect was released on August 7, 2012.
Two singles from the album were released: "Only Wanna Give It to You" and "Refill".
The singles reached the top twenty on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
1989-2010: Early life and career beginnings
Elle is of Cape Verdean descent.
She is the daughter of Mikelyn Roderick and Jimmy Varner.
They are publishers and songwriters.
Roderick was a backing vocalist for Barry White and has written and recorded with Tevin Campbell and Rahsaan Patterson.
Jimmy Varner has done collaborations with Gerald Alston, Kool & the Gang, and Will Downing.
Elle began playing the flute at age 6 and the piano at age 9.
She grew up around recording studios because of her parents jobs.
She attended Alexander Hamilton High School's Academy of Music's Vocal Jazz Group.
She wrote songs while being there.
One of which "Thankful" won the top prize at their talent show.
Because of this, she was accepted in NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.
She graduated there in 2008.
In October 2009, she signed a recording agreement with MBK/J-RCA Records along with an agreement with Sony Music.
She became the first artist to be featured on BET's Music Matters campaign that same year.
2011–present: Perfectly Imperfect
Elle's debut single "Only Wanna Give It to You" was released on August 6, 2011, from her debut album Perfectly Imperfect (2012).
It features American rapper J. Cole.
It got to number 20 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
In October 2011, Elle was listed as one of TheBoomBox's "15 Artists to Watch".
On October 7, 2011, Elle was moved to RCA Records.
Elle released a mixtape Conversational Lush on January 23, 2012, as a promotion of her new album.
The song "Refill" was released as the second single on January 31, 2012, on iTunes.
It debuted at number 78 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Elle's debut album was released on August 7, 2012 and got to number three on the US Billboard 200 albums chart.
Perfectly Imperfect (2012)
Conversational Lush (2012)
Elle Varner at last.fm
Elle Varner Discography
Perfectly Imperfect is the first album by American singer-songwriter Elle Varner.
It was released on August 7, 2012 by RCA Records.
Songwriters and producers on the album include Jermaine Lamar Cole, Andrew "Pop" Wansel, Warren "Oak" Felder, Frankie Storm and Darrhyl Camper.
On January 23, 2012, Varner released a mixtape, titled Conversational Lush as part of a promotion for the album.
The mixtape was released after the first single of the album, "Only Wanna Give It to You".
The mixtape includes 13 tracks, and production from J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Bei Maejor, Andrew "Pop" Wansel and Warren "Oak" Felderand.
There have been three singles to have been released.
The lead single "Only Wanna Give It to You" was released on August 16, 2011.
The second single "Refill" was released on January 31, 2012.
It got to number 10 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. "
I Don't Care" was released on July 16, 2012, the third single.
It got to number 80 on the same chart.
Allmusic compared the album to the debuts of American singer Chrisette Michele and Jazmine Sullivan.
Allmusic gave a positive review saying "Perfectly Imperfect sounds like the assured work of a singer and songwriter -- one who co-composes and co-produces her material -- who is on her third or fourth album."
They also liked Varner's vocals.
Credits for Perfectly Imperfect:
Conley Abrams - Engineer
Chuck Amo - Hair Stylist
Adrien Baker - Composer
Leonhard Bartussek - Cello
Robert Bell - Composer
Ronald Bell - Composer
Tanisha Broadwater - Composer, Production Coordination
George Brown - Composer
Jeff Byrd - Percussion
James Cage - Trumpet
Darhyl Camper - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
Charles Parker, Jr. - Violin
Chess Club - Producer
Jermaine Cole - Composer, Featured Artist
Ronald "Flippa" - Colson Programming
Nina Cottman - Violin
Carl Cox, Jr. - Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Kenneth Crouch - Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Strings
Dru DeCaro - Guitar
Peter Edge - Producer
Alex Evans - Bass
Warren "Oak" Felder - Associate Producer, Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
Dave Foreman - Guitar
Allan Fox - Composer
Chris Galland - Mixing Assistant
Thiannar Gomes - Guitar
Erwin Gorostiza - Creative Director
Marcel Hall - Composer
Frances Hathaway - Make-Up
Donna Johnson - Composer
Olga Konopelsky - Violin
Emma Kummrow - Violin
Gene Lake - Drums
Nayan Lassiter - Bass
Kristin Lum - Art Direction, Design
Erik Madrid - Mixing Assistant
Jonathan Maron - Bass
Manny Marroquin - Mixing
Donald Meadows - Composer
Donnie Meadows - Production Coordination
Melanie Daniels - Vocals (Background)
Robert "Spike" Mickens -Composer
Roy Morgan - Composer
Steve Mostyn - Bass, Guitar, Omnichord
RCA - Record Label
Ramon Rivas - Assistant Engineer
Jeff Robinson - Producer
Mikelyn Roderick - Vocals (Background)
Queen Rose - Violin
Karen Anna Schubert - French Horn
Al Shuckburgh - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
Stan Slotter - Trumpet
Claydes Smith - Composer
Adonis Sutherlin - A&R
Robert Taylor - Musician
Gregory Teperman - Violin
Dennis Thomas - Composer
Robert Thomas - Musician
Stephen Tirpak - Trombone
Miki Tsutsumi - Assistant Engineer, Engineer
Elle Varner - Composer, Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Lyricist, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals (Background)
Jimmy Varner - Bass, Composer, Keyboards, Piano, Producer, Vocal Producer
The Varners - Vocal Arrangement, Vocal Producer, Vocal Recording
Wouri Vice - Stylist
John Emmet Walsh - Trumpet
Andrew Wansel - Associate Producer, Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
Dexter Wansel - Composer, Horn Arrangements, Horn Conductor, Producer, String Arrangements, String Conductor
Mark Ward - Cello
Stuart White - Engineer
Marlon Williams - Composer
Suzette Williams - A&R, Producer
Dave Wood - Guitar (Acoustic)
Yohimbe - Guitar
Naomi Yusada - Make-Up
Elle Varner, an American singer-songwriter, has released one studio album, one mixtape, three singles, one promotional single and two music videos.
Varner, Elle
Friedrich Burgmüller (Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, 4 December 1806 – 13 February 1874) was a German pianist and composer.
He was born in Regensberg, Germany, to a musical family.
In 1832, he settled in Paris and adopted the French musical style.
He wrote many works for piano, especially etudes for children that are still played today.
His best known work is probably the Peasant pas de deus (originally Souvenirs de Ratisbonne) in Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle (1841).
It is not known how this music came to be inserted into the ballet.
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Link to Recording of the Opus 100 Etudes at the Piano Society Website
Description of the Opus 100 Etudes by Noriaki Nomoto
Hurricane Richard was the seventeenth named storm and the tenth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season.
The National Hurricane Center declared it a tropical storm on October 20.
Throughout Belize, Hurricane Richard caused about US$80 million in damage.
Two deaths took place in the country, one direct and the other indirect.
One person drowned after his ship broke during the storm.
Another was mauled to death by a jaguar that escaped its cage after a tree fell and broke the cage.
The Belize District is a district of the nation of Belize.
The district capital is the nation's largest city, Belize City.
San Pedro Town, which is on the island of Ambergris Caye, is also in the Belize District.
Caye Caulker and St. George's Caye are the island villages in this district.
Maskall, Bomba, Corozalito, Santana, Lucky Strike, Rockstone Pond, Boston, Crooked Tree, Biscayne, May Pen, Gardenia, Grace Bank, Sand Hill, Lord's Bank, Ladyville, Burrel Boom, Buttercup, Scotland Halfmoon, Flowers Bank, Bermudian Landing, Isabella Bank, Double Head Cabbage, Willows Bank, Saint Paul's Bank, Big Falls, Rancho Dolores, Hattieville, Freetown Sibun, Gracie Rock, La Democracia, and Gales Point are all mainland villages in the Belize District.
The Crooked Tree and Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuaries, the Belize Zoo (30 miles west of Belize City), as well as the ancient Maya ruins of Altun Ha are all in this district.
The Belize District was the area first settled by Europeans.
They lived along the rivers and creeks because these waterways were used for transportation.
Many of the estates were called the owner's 'bank'(as in the banks of a river).
Therefore, Mr. Lord's estate on the bank of the Belize River became Lord's Bank.
Mr. Flowers' home place on this same river became Flowers Bank.
Many of these old estates have grown into villages.
Other places such as Baker, Bob Eiley, Bocotora, Nago Bank, Washing Tree, Cedar Bank, Churchyard, Egypt, Watters Bank, and White Hill are old estates which did not become villages.
Some places like Davis Bank and Tropical Park have now become parts of larger communities.
Most of the Belize District is in the east central mainland of Belize.
The Belize District also includes offshore islands, including Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker, St. George's Caye, Caye Chapel, English Caye and Goff's Caye.
Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker are two of the country's main tourism areas.