Pokemon Snap

Pokemon Snap

Pokémon Snap[a] is a first-person rail shooter and simulation video game co-developed by HAL Laboratory and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in Japan in March 1999, and was later released in June 1999 in North America and in September 2000 for PAL regions. It is a spin-off game in the Pokémon series, being one of the first console-based games for it, and featuring many Pokémon rendered for the first time in real-time 3D. The game was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in December 2007 as well as Wii U's Virtual Console in 2016. A sequel, New Pokémon Snap, is in development for the Nintendo Switch. 

Originally announced as a Nintendo 64DD title, development of Pokémon Snap was moved to the Nintendo 64 due to the 64DD's delays. The gameplay is similar to other first-person games, viewing from the perspective of protagonist Todd Snap as he moves automatically on a rail. The objective of the game is to take pictures of Pokémon, using items such as apples and "pester balls" to achieve better shots. After each round, players are judged based on the quality of their photos. The Virtual Console version features the ability to send pictures taken in the game to the Wii Message Board and send them to friends, whereas the Nintendo 64 cartridge could be taken to either Blockbuster or Lawson stores in North America and Japan to have pictures from the game printed on stickers.

Its release was promoted heavily by Nintendo, including being featured in more than 86,000 hotels, and a contest to send the winner to Australia. By the end of 1999, Pokémon Snap sold 1.5 million copies, and was a strong rental title in 1999 after its release. It was met with a mostly positive reception by critics, described as "addictive" by IGN and Boys' Life, and "innovative" by Electric Playground. It has also been compared to other video games with photography, such as Afrika, Dead Rising, and Beyond Good & Evil. It has also been used as a notable example of video games with photography.

Todd Snap (トオル, Tooru), a Pokémon photographer, is summoned by Professor Oak to Pokémon Island, a place with a variety of climatic and geographic regions where Pokémon live relatively undisturbed by humans. Oak needs quality pictures to accompany his scientific findings, and knows from past experience that Todd is the right person for the job. Using a motorized, amphibious buggy named the Zero-One, Todd explores the island and takes photographs of the wide variety of Pokémon that inhabit its environments.

From Professor Oak's research hub, the player can select between the game's levels and features using a menu system. The Zero-One follows a linear path throughout the level, similar to a rail shooter. Up to 60 pictures can be taken per visit. After completing a course, the player selects their best photos of each Pokémon to be rated by Professor Oak and added to the Pokémon Report. Scoring takes into account various aspects of the pictures, such as the Pokémon's size, its pose, and keeping the Pokémon in frame. Extra points are awarded for capturing a "special" pose or Pokémon, such as a surfing Pikachu, and if there are multiples of the same Pokémon within the frame. Scoring well in the Pokémon Report and photographing a wide variety of Pokémon is required to make progress in the game. Players can also use an "Album Mark" to bookmark their favorite pictures; this adds the pictures to a personal in-game album to view at a later date or show to friends.

Players start out with only a camera, but as they progress, Professor Oak will provide them with a number of special accessories used to obtain better photographs. The game features seven levels: Beach, Tunnel, Volcano, River, Cave, Valley, and the special course "Rainbow Cloud". However, the staggered acquisition of accessories ensures that the player must re-explore the courses to discover new material. Levels must be replayed after acquiring new accessories in order to locate hidden Pokémon, alternate routes, or photographic opportunities that yield the best scores. The first accessory, apple-shaped Pokémon food, can be thrown to either stun or attract Pokémon. Another, "Pester Balls", are able to knock out Pokémon or flush them out of hiding. The Poké-Flute object is used in a variety of ways, such as awakening, irritating, or hatching Pokémon. It can also cause Pokémon to dance, and it can play three different songs, resulting in different dances from certain Pokémon. Additionally, players can obtain a Dash Engine for the Zero One, allowing the vehicle to accelerate and move faster than normal.

The game features 63 of the original generation of 151 Pokémon.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Snap

Danny Masterson

Danny Masterson

Daniel Peter Masterson (born March 13, 1976)[1] is an American actor and disc jockey.  Masterson played the roles of Steven Hyde in That '70s Show (1998–2006) and Jameson "Rooster" Bennett in The Ranch (2016–2018). On June 17, 2020, he was arrested and charged in connection with three rape allegations

Masterson was born on Long Island, New York, the son of Carol, a manager, and Peter Masterson, an insurance agent.  He grew up in Garden City and East Williston, New York.  He has a brother, actor Christopher Masterson. Their maternal half siblings Jordan Masterson and Alanna Masterson are also actors. He also has a paternal half-brother, Will Masterson

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Masterson

جيه. كول

جيه. كول

جيه. كول (بالإنجليزية: J. Cole)‏ (و. 1985 م) هو رابر   ، ومنتج موسيقي  ، ومغني، ومخرج أفلام، وكاتب أغاني أمريكي، ولد في فرانكفورت

تعلم في Terry Sanford High School  ، وSt. John's University  .

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J. Cole

J. Cole

Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and record executive. Born on a military base in Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina  Cole initially gained recognition as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, in early 2007. Intent on further pursuing a solo career as a rapper, he went on to release two additional mixtapes, The Warm Up (2009) and Friday Night Lights (2010), after signing to Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint in 2009.

Cole released his debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story, in 2011. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.  His next album, Born Sinner (2013), also topped the Billboard 200. Moving into more conscious themes, 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014) topped the Billboard 200 and earned J.Cole a Best Rap Album nomination at the 2015 Grammy Awards.[5] His jazz influenced fourth album, 4 Your Eyez Only (2016), debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.  J.Cole's fifth album, KOD (2018), became his fifth number-one album on the Billboard 200 and featured a then-record six simultaneous top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, tying The Beatles. 

Self-taught on piano, Cole also acts as a producer alongside his rap career, producing singles for artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Janet Jackson, as well as handling the majority of the production in his own projects.  He has also developed other ventures, including Dreamville Records, as well as a non-profit organization called the Dreamville Foundation.  Dreamville's compilation album Revenge of the Dreamers III (2019) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2020 Grammy Awards. In January 2015, Cole decided to house single mothers rent-free at his childhood home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 

J.Cole has won 8 BET Hip Hop Awards, a Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Album, a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song, and three Soul Train Music Awards. All five of his albums have been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as Revenge of the Dreamers III.

Jermaine Lamarr Cole was born on January 28, 1985, at an American military base in Frankfurt, West Germany.  His father is an African-American veteran, who served in the U.S. Army,  and his mother, Kay, is a white American who was a postal worker for the United States Postal Service.  Cole's father later abandoned the family during his youth. At the age of eight months his mother moved with him and his older brother Zach to the United States, to Fayetteville, North Carolina.  Cole grew up in a multi-ethnic environment, and when asked about how closely his ethnicity impacts him, Cole commented, "I can identify with white people, because I know my mother, her side of the family, who I love. But at the end of the day,   never felt white. I can identify   but never have I felt like I'm one of them. I identify more with what I look like, because that's how I got treated not necessarily in a negative way".  During his youth, Cole expressed an affinity for basketball and music, and served as a first-chair violinist for the Terry Sanford Orchestra until 2003. 

Cole began rapping at the age of twelve, and saw it as an ideal profession in 2000, when his mother purchased an ASR-X musical sampler as a Christmas gift.  During this period, Cole heightened emphasis on improving his production skills, later beginning initial production under the pseudonym Therapist.  Cole later collaborated with local group Bomm Sheltuh, rapping and producing as a member of the group. 

Upon graduating high school with a 4.2 GPA,  Cole decided that his chances of securing a recording contract would be better in New York City. He moved there and accepted a scholarship to St. John's University. Initially majoring in computer science, Cole later switched to communication and business after witnessing the life of a lonely computer science professor. At the college, Cole was the president of Haraya, a pan-African student coalition.  He graduated magna cum laude in 2007, with a 3.8 GPA.  Despite graduating, Cole would officially receive his degree during a homecoming concert in 2015, revealing that he had owed money for a library book, causing the university to hold back from granting him his degree. 

Cole later worked in various part-time jobs in Fayetteville, including a working ad salesman for a newspaper, a bill collector, a file clerk, and a kangaroo mascot at a skate rink.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Cole

Aunt Jemima

Aunt Jemima

Aunt Jemima is a brand of pancake mix, syrup, and other breakfast foods owned by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. The trademark dates back to 1893, although the Aunt Jemima pancake mix debuted in 1889. The Quaker Oats Company first registered the Aunt Jemima trademark in April 1937. The character appears to have been a Reconstruction era addition to that cast. 

Following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests, on June 17, 2020 Quaker Oats announced that the Aunt Jemima brand would be replaced with a new name and image by Fall 2020 in order "to make progress toward racial equality.

St. Joseph Gazette editor Chris L. Rutt, of St. Joseph, Missouri, and his friend Charles G. Underwood bought a flour mill in 1888. Rutt and Underwood's Pearl Milling Company faced a glutted flour market, so they sold their excess flour as a ready-made pancake mix in white paper sacks with a trade name (which Arthur F. Marquette dubbed the "first ready-mix" 

1889 Formula for Aunt Jemima mix:

100 lb Hard Winter Wheat

100 lb Corn Flour

7½ lb B.W.T. Phosphates from Provident Chem St L[ouis 

2¾ lb Bicarb  Soda

3 lb Salt.

However, Rutt and Underwood were unable to make the project work, so they sold their company to the Randolph Truett Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1890.

The Davis Milling Company was renamed Aunt Jemima Mills in 1913.  The Quaker Oats Company bought the brand in 1926, and registered the Aunt Jemima trademark in 1937. 

Quaker Oats introduced Aunt Jemima syrup in 1966. This was followed by Aunt Jemima Butter Lite syrup in 1985 and Butter Rich syrup in 1991. 

Aunt Jemima frozen foods were licensed out to Aurora Foods in 1996, which in 2004 was absorbed into Pinnacle Foods Corporation.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima

سيف علي خان

سيف علي خان

سيف علي خان (بالهندية: सैफ़ अली ख़ान)‏ اسمه الحقيقي هو ساجد علي خان ولد في 16 أغسطس 1970 بنيودلهي الهند، وهو ممثل هندي في أفلام بوليوود. ينحدر من عائلة مسلمة وهو ابن "Nawab of Pataudi" منصور علي خان، والممثلة شارميلا طاغور.ولديه شقيقتان ؛ الممثلة صبا علي خان وسهى علي خان. وهو الوريث لـheadships في كل من البيوت المالكة في بوبال وباتودي والجدير بالذكر انه كان متزوج من الممثلة المشهورة امريتا سينج، وقد دام زواجهما طيله 15 عاما قبل ان ينفصلا عن بعضهما البعض بعد ان رزقا بالطفلين سارة وإبراهيم، تزوج بالممثلة الأكثر شهرة كارينا كابور في عام 2012م ولديهما ابن اسمه تيمور علي خان. وظهر خان لاول مرة في عام 1992 مع ' الانخفاض في 1990، ارتفع إلb الصدارة مع أدائه في ديل شاهتا هاي (2001)، والذي تميز بنقطة تحول في حياته المهنية. وكان أدائه في نيخيل أدفانى (2003) سببا لفوزه بجائزة أفضل فيلم في فيلمفير، وفاز بجائزة أفضل ممثل عن أدائه في الطنين (2004). ثم لاقى النجاح التجاري مع أفلام مثل السلام Namastè (2005) وتا را روم بوم (2007)، وتألق في مشاريع كبيرة مثل المشهود Parineeta (2005) وOmkara (2006). [7] هذه النجاحات وضعته بين الممثلين الأكثر نجاحا في هذه الصناعة. ومنذ عام 2009، اتجه خان إلى إنتاج الافلام.فهو مؤسس ومالك شركة إنتاج Illuminati Films.

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86

Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan (pronounced [ˈsɛːf əˈli ˈxaːn]; born Sajid Ali Khan on 16 August 1970)  is an Indian film actor and producer. The son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Khan made his acting debut in Yash Chopra's drama Parampara (1993), but achieved success with his roles in the romantic drama Yeh Dillagi and the action film Main Khiladi Tu Anari (both 1994). Khan's career prospect declined through much of the 1990s, and his biggest commercial success of the decade came with the ensemble drama Hum Saath-Saath Hain (1999). He rose to prominence with roles in two ensemble comedy-dramas—Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003).

The 2004 romantic comedy Hum Tum proved to be Khan's first success in which he played the sole male lead, earning him the National Film Award for Best Actor, and starring roles in the drama Parineeta and the romantic comedy Salaam Namaste (both 2005) established him as a leading actor in Bollywood. He earned wide critical praise for his portrayal of a manipulative businessman in the 2004 thriller Ek Hasina Thi, an apprentice in the 2006 English film Being Cyrus, a character based on William Shakespeare's antagonist Iago in the 2006 crime film Omkara, and a terrorist in the 2009 thriller Kurbaan. Khan's greatest commercial success came with the 2008 thriller Race and its 2013 sequel, the 2009 romance Love Aaj Kal, and the 2012 romantic comedy Cocktail. He followed it by starring in a series of films that under-performed at the box office, but received praise for playing a troubled policeman in the Netflix thriller series Sacred Games and a Rajput fort keeper in the historical drama Tanhaji (2020). The latter emerged as his highest-grossing release.

Khan is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award and six Filmfare Awards, and received Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award, in 2010.  He has been noted for his performances in a range of film genres—from crime dramas to thrillers and occasional romances—and his film roles have been credited with contributing to a change in the concept of a Hindi film hero. Khan was married to his first wife, Amrita Singh, for thirteen years, after which he married the actress Kareena Kapoor. He has three children—two with Singh and one with Kapoor. In addition to film acting, Khan is a frequent television presenter, stage show performer, and the owner of the production companies Illuminati Films and Black Knight Films.

Khan was born on 16 August 1970 in New Delhi, India to Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, a former captain of the Indian national cricket team, and his wife Sharmila Tagore, a film actress.  From 1952–71, Pataudi held the title of Nawab of Pataudi, but following his death a pagri ceremony was held in the village of Pataudi, Haryana to crown Khan as the tenth Nawab of Pataudi.  Khan has two younger sisters, Saba and actress Soha Ali Khan, and is the paternal grandson of Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi who played for the Indian cricket team in England in 1946.  Khan is of predominantly Bengali descent on his mother's side,  and on his father's side he is of Pashtun descent. 

Speaking about his childhood, Khan said that he was exposed to a "life beyond movies",  and his mother described him as someone who was "not an easy child [...] He was impulsive   spontaneous."  As a child, he recalls fond memories of watching his father playing cricket in the garden, and has emphasised his father's education and background as having a lasting impression on how family life was conducted.  Khan studied at The Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh and was later sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire at the age of nine. He next enrolled at Winchester College and explained that "I did not take advantage of my tenure [there]. My classmates went on to Oxford and Cambridge, but I was not academically inclined. When I applied myself, which was not often, I stood first. I should have studied harder." 

After graduating from the boarding school, Khan returned to India and worked for an advertising firm in Delhi for two months. He later appeared in the television commercial for Gwalior Suiting on the insistence of a family friend, and was subsequently cast by director Anand Mahindroo. The project eventually got cancelled but Khan relocated to Mumbai to pursue a career in film; he recalls, "Finally I had some direction and focus. I remember [...] feeling so excited that I could go to Mumbai, stay in my own place and enjoy the adventure of starting my own career.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saif_Ali_Khan