![]() ![]() ![]() If you prefer to give your English a British flair, consider sprinkling in “autumn” in the next few months. If you observe daylight savings time, “fall” fits excellently into the mnemonic “fall back, spring forward” to remember when each type of time change occurs. ![]() This all begs the question: Which of these terms should you use? There is no definitive answer. For revolutionary reasons or otherwise, the two nations diverged, with the British overwhelmingly favoring “autumn” while Americans favored “fall,” a trend that has continued to this day. “Autumn” was supposedly more popular at first in the British American colonies, with “fall” not being recorded as a term for a season until Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language” was published in 1755. Despite “fall” being newer and arguably more evocative of the season, “autumn” rose in popularity in England during the 1600s, surpassing “fall” as the preferred term for the season.Īround this time, English was spreading via colonization to the Americas, leading to the regional divide we observe today. Poets were inspired to use “fall” and “spring” in this way, adding an artistic flair to “fall” despite its seemingly simple origins. While the broader usage of “fall” to describe downward-moving objects was already long-established with its Old English predecessor “feallan,” the seasonal meaning of “fall” appeared in conjunction with “spring,” in reference to “fall of the leaf” and “spring of the leaf” as ways to describe the times between summer and winter. “Autumn” gets its roots from the Latin “autumnus,” which refers to the season we know today. Both “fall” and “autumn” originated in England, with the latter predating the former by about 200 years. What the meme does get right is the regional divide between the two terms: While the names are interchangeable in the United States, in Great Britain, autumn is much more common. Perhaps I’m prejudiced against “autumn” because of this mildly pretentious meme what’s wrong with naming a season after one of its most characteristic features? Is there something inherently better about a word with Latin etymology? But on a personal level, I’ve always preferred “fall” for its simplicity. The Associated Press’ style guidelines have no preference, which is surprising given its penchant for highly specific rules (“OK” versus “okay,” “toward” versus “towards” and anything involving a hyphen come to mind). Leaves are changing color, midterms are in full swing and I’m feeling an uncontrollable urge to decorate my room with miniature gourds. ![]()
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![]() I’ve heard some people describe the enemy difficulty as Souls-like. ![]() Kind of think of Kena: Bridge of Spirits as having similar gameplay to the Tomb Raider reboot series or Horizon: Zero Dawn. The Rot will further enhance her combat abilities she can trap enemies in a circle of Rot, temporarily distracting them, or use them to clear out an area of corruption. Throughout her journey, she collects these little creatures known as the Rot. She wields a staff that can be used for more than just whacking enemies with it: it can also be used as a bow. In case you’re not aware of how the game works, it’s set up in third-person, where you’re in control of Kena. Not only this, but the game got an anniversary update that includes New Game+, spirit guide trials, new outfits for Kena, equippable charmstones that enhance her abilities, and updates to the photo mode that include more poses and lighting setups. Fast forward a year later, and now the game is available on Steam. It originally launched for PlayStation consoles and the Epic Games Store on September 21, 2021. Clearly, these guys are fans of Eiji Aonuma and Koji Kondo’s work.īut back to Kena. Yet another reference to Majora’s Mask is made in-game with the use of masks to uncover secret paths or collectibles. Both of these musicians have composed fan-made arrangements of the game’s soundtrack, and both of them were involved in the music for Kena. You may have heard of the name Theophany or ROZEN. They certainly carried over their 3D animation blood to Kena.įurther ode to Zelda: Majora’s Mask is taken from some of the music composers. The former cinematic has garnered nearly 12 million views on YouTube. They also made the original sci-fi short film called Dust. In 2016 they created the short film Majora’s Mask – Terrible Fate. A title with beautiful artwork, an amazing soundtrack that penetrates right into the heart, cinematics that are comparable to Disney’s quality, and a story that’s emotionally captivating.īut if we dig a little deeper into the history of Ember Lab, things will start to make more sense. It’s an incredibly ambitious first project, especially with an independent studio so small. It was actually composed of just a small group of 14 individuals who make up Ember Lab. Kena, a young girl who is known as a Spirit Guide, sets out on a journey to unravel the mysteriousness of this community, unlocking the backstories of the people who once controlled the land, while at the same time clearing the corruption and the spirits who are causing it.įrom the trailers or the artwork, one might think this game was developed by a AAA studio. This decay is known as corruption, and it spreads throughout an abandoned village. and are used with permission.Spirits are trapped between worlds. Musical compositions are © 2000 Nintendo Co., Ltd. ![]() Materia Collective, Theophany, and its affiliates are in no way affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Nintendo Co., Ltd. The Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask, and related Zelda properties are © 2000 Nintendo Co., Ltd. Licensing and release - Sebastian Wolff / Materia Collective Thank you Jeremy Gan for putting us in touch Violin (written and performed by), Deku Palace Guitar (written and performed by), Tracks 04 and 05 The ensemble appears on tracks 01, 04, 08, 10 and in the Majora's Mask short film "Terrible Fate" by Ember Lab. Vocal Ensemble, Additional Production Odolwa's Mask Guitar, Mandolin, Reeds, Trumpet, Oud, Vocals, Voice Actor, Additional Arrangement Vocals, Flute, Pennywhistle, Additional Arrangement ![]() ![]() I’m just delighted they wanted me.”Īmid his film gigs, Grodin became a familiar face on late-night TV, perfecting a character who would confront Johnny Carson or others with a fake aggressiveness that made audiences cringe and laugh at the same time. “It’s not like I have this stack of wonderful offers. “I’m not that much in demand,” Grodin replied. Asked why he took up such a role, he told The Associated Press he was happy to get the work. “Beethoven” brought him success in the family-animal comedy genre in 1992. “I moved a little more toward drama and he moved a little toward comedy,” Grodin said at the time. One line he threw at De Niro: “You ever had sex with an animal, Jack?” Often Grodin was genuinely trying to amuse his more intimidating co-star. Grodin and De Niro improvised in many scenes in the film, revered as among the greatest buddy comedies. They’re being chased by police, another bounty hunter and the Mob, and because Grodin is afraid of flying, they are forced to go by car, bus, even boxcar. In 1988′s “Midnight Run,” Grodin was a bail-jumping accountant who took millions from a mobster and De Niro was the bounty hunter trying to bring him cross-country to Los Angeles. His turn in 1981’s “The Great Muppet Caper” was typically dedicated as a thief wooing Miss Piggy. ![]() He was Warren Beatty’s devious lawyer in “Heaven Can Wait,” and Gene Wilder’s friend in “The Woman in Red” (Less successfully, he appeared in May’s 1987 adventure comedy “Ishtar,” a notorious flop). In the next few years, Grodin played in a lavish 1976 film remake of “King Kong” as the greedy showman who brings the big ape to New York. If it wasn’t for Elaine May, I probably would never have had that movie career.” “I thought the character in ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ was a despicable guy, but I play it with full sincerity,” Grodin told the A.V. He commented: “After seeing the movie, a lot of people would approach me with the idea of punching me in the nose.” The movie was a hit and Grodin received high praise. He starred as a Jewish newlywed who abandons his comically neurotic bride to pursue a beautiful, wealthy blonde played by Cybill Shepherd. Grodin did have a small role in “Rosemary’s Baby” and was part of the large cast of Nichols’ adaptation of “Catch-22″ before he gained wide notice in the 1972 Elaine May comedy “The Heartbreak Kid.” Grodin became a star in the 1970s, but might have broken through years earlier: He auditioned for the title role in Mike Nichols’ 1967 classic “The Graduate,” but the part went instead to Dustin Hoffman. They just gave me more time.” He spelled out that advice in his first book, “It Would Be So Nice If You Weren’t Here,” published in 1989. I did that, so I didn’t suffer from the frustration of all the rejections. He also wrote plays and television scripts, winning an Emmy for his work on a 1997 Paul Simon special, and wrote several books humorously ruminating on his ups and downs in show business.Īctors, he wrote, should “think not so much about getting ahead as becoming as good as you can be, so you’re ready when you do get an opportunity. In the 1990s, Grodin made his mark as a liberal commentator on radio and TV. Steve Martin, who co-starred with Grodin in 1984′s “The Lonely Guy,” remembered him as “one of the funniest people I ever met.” (The lawyer instead took a shine to Letterman.) Hosting “Saturday Night Live,” he pretended to not understand live television, ruining all the sketches. In his many late-night appearances, he once brought a lawyer with him to threaten David Letterman for defamation. His commitment, whether acting across De Niro or Miss Piggy, was unsurpassed. With bone-dry understatement, Grodin could steal entire scenes with just a look. ![]() Known for his dead-pan style and everyday looks, Grodin also appeared in “Dave,” “The Woman in Red,” “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Heaven Can Wait.” On Broadway, he starred with Ellen Burstyn in the long-running 1970s comedy “Same Time, Next Year,” and he found many other outlets for his talents. Grodin died Tuesday in Wilton, Connecticut, from bone marrow cancer, his son, Nicholas Grodin, said. Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat actor and writer who scored as a caddish newlywed in “The Heartbreak Kid” and later had roles ranging from Robert De Niro’s counterpart in the comic thriller “Midnight Run” to the bedeviled father in the “Beethoven” comedies, has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Love life and husbandĮrica prefers to keep the details of her love life to herself, but has still allowed her fans to have a glimpse into it. She also has a Facebook page, which is today followed by more than 100,000 people – Erica’s most recent update was on 27 January 2020. She launched her Twitter account in February 2009, and has since tweeted close to 15,000 times, mostly breaking various news to her fans. Presence on social media networksĮrica seems to be enjoying the attention which she’s receiving from her close to 50,000 followers on Instagram she’s uploaded nearly 800 pictures onto the network, most of which have been taken during her everyday life. She returned full-time to CNN as their national correspondent and lead fill-in anchor on 19 April 2018, and so left “On the Story with Erica Hill”. On 6 June 2016, Erica revealed that she was returning to CNN’s Headline News, because she was invited to anchor their daytime news show “On the Story with Erica Hill”. She has since still been reporting daily news on both NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. On 3 November 2012, Erica became a national correspondent for NBC News, and started co-anchoring their show “Weekend Today” she held the job for four years, until revealing on 3 April 2016 that she was leaving the show, because she wanted to spend more time with her family. Between September and November 2012, she was a special correspondent for CBS News, contributing to nearly all of the CBS shows, but didn’t actually appear on-air during these three months. On 13 January 2010, she became the host of the weekly edition of “The Early Show”, and in the summer of the same year, she anchored the network’s flagship show “CBS Evening News” while its original anchor Katie Couric was away. ![]() ![]() She co-anchored the show “CNN Tonight” between November 2009 and January 2010.īeginning on 22 September 2008, Erica became the co-anchor of CBS’ “The Early Show”, but quit CNN in January 2010, so that she could focus on working at CBS News. From 2006 to 2008, she was the anchor of the show “Prime News”, and in February 2008 became the full-time member of the news show “Anderson Cooper 360°”. The following year saw her become a national correspondent for CNN Newsource, and in 20, Erica co-hosted the show “Prime News Tonight”. She joined CNN’s cable news channel Headline News in January 2003, as a general news anchor for multiple of their shows. The most notable story which Erica had covered while at TechTV was the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. Upon matriculating in 1994, she enrolled at Boston University, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1998 during her four years at college, Erica learned to speak French, and was a member of the sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi.Įrica launched her career in 1998, when she joined the online news show “PC Week Radio” as their production assistant, while simultaneously working at Software Publishers Association Europe, as a conference co-ordinator.īetween 20, Erica was employed at the now-defunct 24-hour cable and satellite channel TechTV she was their reporter for her first year there, and was then promoted to being their correspondent and co-anchor. She was interested in sports while attending a local high school, and played soccer for the school team, while Erica also enjoyed practicing dancing, and acting with the school’s drama club. Early life and educationĮrica was raised in Clinton alongside her younger sister, by their father Steven Holmes Hill and mother Cheryl not a lot is known about Erica’s family, as she respects their privacy, but it’s said that her father was a high school teacher, and that her mother was a real estate agent.Įrica became interested in journalism at an early age, mostly because she spent an hour nearly every day watching news on TV with her father. She’s a journalist who’s probably known best for the work which she has done for the American multinational news-based pay TV network CNN, also for having co-hosted the NBC show “Weekend Today” between 20. Erica Ruth Hill was born in Clinton, Connecticut USA, on 20 July 1976 – her zodiac sign is Cancer, and she holds American nationality. ![]() ![]() ![]() In truth, only about 11 percent - or 46,000 - of enrollees in the early Connector days bought non-subsidized “Commonwealth Choice” coverage online the rest got subsidized coverage that required personal assistance from live agents. Still, the state’s march toward near-universal coverage through the Connector won widespread applause, including the 2009 Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Combined with premium subsidies for lower-income residents and a mandate on individuals, Massachusetts showed that a viable, bipartisan path to near-universal coverage could be successfully legislated and implemented. The Connector, a governmental health insurance marketplace created by the 2006 Massachusetts Universal Health Care Law (aka Romne圜are) and reinvented via the ACA (aka ObamaCare) demonstrated to the nation between 20 that a state could reform and expand its market for individual health insurance by enabling consumers to make apples to apples comparisons and buy coverage in a user-friendly, web-based environment. Today, the Connector is a marquee success for the still-youngish Baker administration - an ironic twist for a Republican governor who was never a fan of the ACA, Barack Obama’s marquee presidential achievement. By early February 2016, 201,000 state residents had successfully enrolled in plans for 2016, including 36,000 new members. The launch of the third open enrollment since the 2013 implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) was less than a minute away with lots on the line. Would months of hard preparation avoid another website calamity that could jeopardize health insurance for hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents?Īs the website opened at midnight and kept humming without a hitch throughout the night and following days, sighs of relief were heard across the Commonwealth as a major governmental embarrassment was averted. Among them was Louis Gutierrez, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, appointed the previous February by newly inaugurated Gov. AT 11:59 PM on October 31, 2015, about 20 nervous state officials and contractors hunched around computer terminals in a non-descript office in the Charles F. ![]() ![]() To begin with, its title character-the princess Buttercup (Robin Wright), who wants to marry a commoner named Westley (Elwes) but is betrothed to the evil Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon)-is written and directed, for the most part, like a sack of gold rather than a sentient person. Much about it is rooted in the dated standards of its times and, thus, is ripe for reimagination. In the case of “The Princess Bride,” which is based on William Goldman’s adaptation of his own novel, I’d say that the door is wide open-not least because it’s far from a perfect movie. That’s why I’d like to make a modest proposal to the film industry in response to the “Princess Bride” outcry: namely, remake everything, or, at least, anything, and see whether a filmmaker, a screenwriter, a producer, and a group of actors have the insight and the imagination to meet the challenges and the inspirations of the classics. They are wrong, of course, but their critical delusions don’t prevent anyone from enjoying the originals. There are people who think that Jim McBride’s 1983 remake of “Breathless” is better than the original some viewers find Brian De Palma’s 1983 “Scarface” superior to Howard Hawks’s 1932 version. It seems self-evident that no film is literally damaged by a remake-and that if any damage results it’s of a psychological, not a cinematic, nature. Among the most over-the-top of the fretters, for instance, was the movie’s co-star Cary Elwes, who tweeted this riff on one of the movie’s famous lines: “There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. ![]() Judging by the outcry from Hollywood stars over a Sony executive’s vaguely floated notion this week of remaking “The Princess Bride,” you’d think that the idea wasn’t to make a new film but to alter or destroy Rob Reiner’s 1987 original. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first 2 bytes, ca02 are the length, as a little-endian varint (see Protocol Buffers for the varint specification). Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project. The complete official description of the snappy format can be found in the google GitHub repository. The size of the dictionary was limited by the 1.0 Snappy compressor to 32,768 bytes, and updated to 65,536 in version 1.1. The length is the number of bytes to copy from the dictionary. ![]() The offset is the shift from the current position back to the already decompressed stream. The copy refers to the dictionary (just-decompressed data). 11 – Copy with length stored as 6 bits of tag byte and offset stored as four-byte little-endian integer after the tag byte.10 – Copy with length stored as 6 bits of tag byte and offset stored as two-byte integer after the tag byte.01 – Copy with length stored as 3 bits and offset stored as 11 bits one byte after tag byte is used for part of offset.Lengths larger than 60 are stored in a 1-4 byte integer indicated by a 6 bit length of 60 (1 byte) to 63 (4 bytes). 00 – Literal – uncompressed data upper 6 bits are used to store length (len-1) of data.The element type is encoded in the lower two bits of the first byte ( tag byte) of the element: The remaining bytes in the stream are encoded using one of four element types. ![]() The lower seven bits of each byte are used for data and the high bit is a flag to indicate the end of the length field. The first bytes of the stream are the length of uncompressed data, stored as a little-endian varint, which allows for use of a variable-length code. The format uses no entropy encoder, like Huffman tree or arithmetic encoder. Snappy encoding is not bit-oriented, but byte-oriented (only whole bytes are emitted or consumed from a stream). Snappy does not use inline assembler (except some optimizations ) and is portable. Decompression is tested to detect any errors in the compressed stream. It can be used in open-source projects like MariaDB ColumnStore, Cassandra, Couchbase, Hadoop, LevelDB, MongoDB, RocksDB, Lucene, Spark, and InfluxDB. Snappy is widely used in Google projects like Bigtable, MapReduce and in compressing data for Google's internal RPC systems. The compression ratio is 20–100% lower than gzip. Compression speed is 250 MB/s and decompression speed is 500 MB/s using a single core of a circa 2011 "Westmere" 2.26 GHz Core i7 processor running in 64-bit mode. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger.Snappy (previously known as Zippy) is a fast data compression and decompression library written in C++ by Google based on ideas from LZ77 and open-sourced in 2011. snappy 1.1.8 3.el8 i686 38 k snappy-1.1. baseos Fast compression and decompression library https BSD Snappy is a compression/decompression library. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. Snappy is a compression/decompression library. In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on CentOS 8. 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![]() In December 1991, Computer-schach & Spiele is referring to Chessbase's recently released Fritz as a 'Schach-motor,' the German translation for 'chess engine. By 1990, the developers of Deep Blue, Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell were writing of giving their program a 'searching engine,' apparently referring to the software rather than the hardware. In 1986, Linda and Tony Sherzer entered their program Bebe into the 4th World Computer Chess Championship, running it on 'Chess Engine,' their brand name for the chess computer hardware made, and marketed by their company Sys-10, Inc. The meaning of the phrase 'chess engine' has evolved over time. And it evaluates the position as.25 = at 7500 Kn/s after about 20 minutes, which is a bit too optimistic (or anything under at least -1.00) for white. I downloaded Stockfish DD (64-bit) and set it to 8 processors after 1.e4,e5 2.f4,exf4 3.Nf3,d6! All ivona voices full download. It is also much stronger than the best human chess grandmasters. Stockfish is one of the strongest chess engines in the world. Stockfish is a powerful and open source chess engine. Earlier versions are free for non-commercial use (up to version 1.5a), but later versions (2.0 and onwards) are commercial. It is influenced by open source engines IPPOLIT/RobboLito, Stockfish, and Crafty. Houdini (chess) Houdini is a UCI chess engine developed by Belgian programmer Robert Houdart. The list includes chess engines like Stockfish, Komodo, Texel, Bagatur and many others. Over the last years, there are chess engines available for mobile phones and tablets, which makes their usage easier. ![]() This allows the user to play against multiple engines without learning a new user interface for each, and allows different engines to play against each other. Engines are usually used with a front end, a windowed graphical user interface such as Chessbase or WinBoard that the user can interact with via a keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. ![]() A chess engine is usually a back end with a command-line interface with no graphics or windowing. In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest. ![]() |
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