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50286 | Bugs Bunny | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bugs%20Bunny | Bugs Bunny
critics.
In 1997, Bugs appeared on a U.S. postage stamp, the first cartoon to be so honored, beating the iconic Mickey Mouse. The stamp is number seven on the list of the ten most popular U.S. stamps, as calculated by the number of stamps purchased but not used. The introduction of Bugs onto a stamp was con... | 6,120,000 |
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of Bugs is the main character of "Baby Looney Tunes", which debuted on Kids' WB in 2001. In the action comedy "Loonatics Unleashed", his definite descendant Ace Bunny is the leader of the Loonatics team and seems to have inherited his ancestor's Brooklyn accent and comic wit.
In 2011, Bugs Bunny and the res... | 6,120,001 |
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the series, Bugs and Daffy Duck are portrayed as best friends as opposed to their usual pairing as rivals. At the same time, Bugs is more openly annoyed at Daffy's antics in the series (sometimes to the point of aggression), compared to his usual carefree personality from the original cartoons. Bugs and Daff... | 6,120,002 |
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which he shares with Daffy, Taz (whom he treats as a pet dog) and Speedy Gonzales, in the middle of a cul-de-sac with their neighbors Yosemite Sam, Granny, and Witch Hazel.
In 2015, Bugs starred in the direct-to-video film "", and later returned to television yet again as the star of Cartoon Network and Boo... | 6,120,003 |
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Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe", "Looney Tunes Dash", and "Looney Tunes World of Mayhem".
# Personality and catchphrases.
Bugs Bunny is characterized as being clever and capable of outsmarting almost anyone who antagonizes him, including Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Tasmanian Devil, Marvin the Martian, Wile E... | 6,120,004 |
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Rabbit", taking on the entire United States government by vandalizing monuments in an effort to prove he is worth more than the two-cent bounty on his head; while he succeeds in raising the bounty to $1,000,000, the full force of the military ends up capturing Bugs and sending him to Alcatraz.
Bugs almost a... | 6,120,005 |
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to break the fourth wall by "communicating" with the audience, either by explaining the situation (e.g. "Be with you in a minute, folks!"), describing someone to the audience (e.g. "Feisty, ain't they?"), clueing in on the story (e.g. "That happens to him all during the picture, folks."), explaining that one... | 6,120,006 |
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"war!"" before he retaliates, and the retaliation will be devastating. This line was taken from Groucho Marx and others in the 1933 film "Duck Soup" (1933) and was used again in the next Marx Brothers film "A Night at the Opera" (1935). Bugs would pay homage to Groucho in other ways, such as occasionally ado... | 6,120,007 |
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nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Freleng, Jones and Bob Clampett, originated in a scene from the film "It Happened One Night" (1934), in which Clark Gable's character Peter Warne leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert's c... | 6,120,008 |
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well-known catchphrase, "What's up, Doc?", which was written by director Tex Avery for his first Bugs Bunny film, "A Wild Hare" (1940). Avery explained later that it was a common expression in his native Texas and that he did not think much of the phrase. When the cartoon was first screened in theaters, the ... | 6,120,009 |
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Elmer in "The Old Grey Hare". He might also greet Daffy with "What's up, Duck?" He used one variation, "What's all the hub-bub, bub?" only once, in "Falling Hare". Another variation is used in "" when he greets a blaster-wielding Marvin the Martian saying "What's up, Darth?"
Several Chuck Jones films in the... | 6,120,010 |
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when he emerges in the Black Forest, a cartoon seldom seen today due to its blatantly topical subject matter. When Hermann Göring says to Bugs, "There is no Las Vegas in 'Chermany'" and takes a potshot at Bugs, Bugs dives into his hole and says, "Joimany! Yipe!", as Bugs realizes he is behind enemy lines. Th... | 6,120,011 |
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A couple of late-1950s/early-1960s cartoons of this ilk also featured Daffy Duck travelling with Bugs ("Hey, wait a minute! Since when is Pismo Beach inside a cave?").
# Voice actors.
The following are the various vocal artists who have voiced Bugs Bunny over the last 75-plus years for Warner Bros.' animat... | 6,120,012 |
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appeared in supporting roles in the 1930s and whose voice might be described as New York Irish. In Bugs' second cartoon "Elmer's Pet Rabbit", Blanc created a completely new voice for Bugs, which sounded like a Jimmy Stewart impression, but the directors decided the previous voice was better. Though Blanc's b... | 6,120,013 |
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the 1940s, is that Blanc was allergic to carrots and "had" to spit them out to minimize any allergic reaction — but his autobiography makes no such claim. In fact, in a 1984 interview with Tim Lawson, co-author of "The Magic Behind The Voices: A Who's Who of Voice Actors", Blanc emphatically denied being all... | 6,120,014 |
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Season 28, Ep. 14, "The Looney Tunes Show", "", "New Looney Tunes" and various video games)
- Greg Burson ("Tiny Toon Adventures", "Taz-Mania", "Animaniacs", "Carrotblanca", "Looney Tunes River Ride", "Yosemite Sam and the Gold River Adventure!", "From Hare to Eternity", "Bugs 'N Daffy" intro)
- Billy West... | 6,120,015 |
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Bauza ("Looney Tunes Cartoons" and "Space Jam 2")
- Samuel Vincent ("Baby Looney Tunes", "Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure")
- Bill Farmer ("Robot Chicken")
- Keith Scott ("Bugs Bunny's 50th Anniversary" bumper, various commercials)
- Noel Blanc ("Chevrolet Monte Carlo 400 with the Looney Tu... | 6,120,016 |
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Western Publishing (and its Dell imprint) published 245 issues of a Bugs Bunny comic book from Dec. 1952/Jan. 1953 to 1983. The company also published 81 issues of the joint title "Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny" from December 1970 to 1983. During the 1950s Dell also published a number of Bugs Bunny spinoff tit... | 6,120,017 |
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Alatriste, Sandro Costa, and Massimo Fechi.
The German publisher Condor published a 76-issues Bugs Bunny series (translated and reprinted from the American comics) in the mid-1970s. The Danish publisher Egmont Ehapa produced a weekly reprint series in the mid-1990s.
## Comic strip.
The "Bugs Bunny" comic ... | 6,120,018 |
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are writers Albert Stoffel (1947–1979) & Carl Fallberg (1950–1969), and artist Ralph Heimdahl, who worked on it from 1947 to 1979. Other creators associated with the Bugs Bunny strip include Jack Hamm, Carl Buettner, Phil Evans, Carl Barks (1952), Tom McKimson, Arnold Drake, Frank Hill, Brett Koth, and Shawn... | 6,120,019 |
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character (after Mickey) to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He also has been a pitchman for companies including Kool-Aid and Nike. His Nike commercials with Michael Jordan as "Hare Jordan" for the Air Jordan VII and VIII became precursors to "Space Jam". As a result, he has spent time as an ho... | 6,120,020 |
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2002, "TV Guide" compiled a list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time as part of the magazine's 50th anniversary. Bugs Bunny was given the honor of number 1. In a CNN broadcast on July 31, 2002, a "TV Guide" editor talked about the group that created the list. The editor also explained why Bugs ... | 6,120,021 |
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attribute this to, "their ability to constantly flip the script on their unwitting counterparts."
## Notable films.
- "Porky's Hare Hunt" (1938) - prototype debut
- "A Wild Hare" (1940) - official debut; Oscar nominee
- "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941) - Oscar nominee
- "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957) - vote... | 6,120,022 |
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, and so far, only appearance in a Disney film; appeared alongside Disney's mascot, Mickey Mouse, for the first time - Oscar winner
- "Space Jam" (1996) - appeared alongside NBA superstar, Michael Jordan
- "" (2003) - most recent feature-length live-action animated film appearance
## Language.
American u... | 6,120,023 |
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Emperor Yi of Chu
Emperor Yi of Chu (died 206 BC), also known as King Huai II of Chu before receiving his "de jure" emperor title, personal name Xiong Xin, was the ruler of the Chu state in the late Qin dynasty. He was a grandson of King Huai of Chu. In 223 BC, during the Warring States period, the C... | 6,120,024 |
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general (Xiang Yan), and installed on the Chu throne as "King Huai II of Chu". However, Xiong Xin was merely a puppet ruler because power was concentrated in Xiang Liang's hands, and was later passed on to Xiang Liang's nephew, Xiang Yu, after Xiang Liang was killed in battle. In 206 BC, the Qin dynas... | 6,120,025 |
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Hunan) and secretly ordered Ying Bu to assassinate the emperor during the journey.
# Life.
## Early life.
Xiong Xin was a descendant of the royal family of the Chu state in the Warring States period, and a grandson of King Huai of Chu. However, he was not in the main line of succession and there we... | 6,120,026 |
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Sheng's uprising was crushed by Qin imperial forces, other rebellions erupted throughout China to overthrow the Qin dynasty and restore the former six states conquered by Qin about two decades ago. The leader of the Chu insurgent state, Xiang Liang, was advised by Fan Zeng to seek a member of the Chu ... | 6,120,027 |
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killed at the Battle of Dingtao in the winter of 208 BC, King Huai II seized the control of the armies of two Chu generals, Xiang Yu and Lü Chen, and gradually began to assert his authority. After that, the king ordered Song Yi and Liu Bang to lead two armies to attack Qin, and promised to award the t... | 6,120,028 |
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accused him of treason, killed him and usurped his command. He then sent a messenger to inform King Huai II, who reluctantly approved his command. In the winter of 207 BC, Liu Bang arrived in Guanzhong first, before Xiang Yu. The last Qin ruler, Ziying, surrendered to Liu Bang and brought an end to th... | 6,120,029 |
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Bang since he was more militarily powerful than Liu. Xiang Yu then proclaimed himself "Hegemon-King of Western Chu" and divided the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms, each ruled by one of the leaders of the rebel forces which overthrew the Qin dynasty. He also promoted King Huai II to a see... | 6,120,030 |
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still forced him to make his way from Pengcheng (彭城; present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu) to Chen County. At the same time, he secretly ordered Ying Bu, Wu Rui and Gong Ao to kill the emperor during the journey to Chen County. Emperor Yi was murdered by Ying Bu's men near Chen County and buried by the locals ... | 6,120,031 |
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ing regicide, and rally support from the people against Xiang Yu. In 202 BC, the Chu–Han Contention concluded with victory for Liu Bang, who became the sovereign ruler of China and established the Han dynasty. Liu Bang ordered his generals Zhou Bo, Wang Ling and Fan Kuai, who had been enfeoffed as mar... | 6,120,032 |
2313520 | Cicuta | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cicuta | Cicuta
Cicuta
Cicuta, commonly known as water hemlock, is a genus of four species of highly poisonous plants in the family Apiaceae. They are perennial herbaceous plants which grow up to tall, having distinctive small green or white flowers arranged in an umbrella shape (umbel). Plants in this genus may also be referr... | 6,120,033 |
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may also be confused with poison hemlock ("Conium maculatum"), or with the Hemlock tree.
Water hemlock is considered one of North America's most toxic plants, being highly poisonous to humans. Three members of the genus contain a toxin named cicutoxin which causes central nervous system stimulatory effects incl... | 6,120,034 |
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mechanical ventilation may be required.
# Description.
"Cicuta" spp. are perennial plants that are all similar in morphology, growing up to a maximum of in height. The stem of the plant is branching, erect, smooth and hollow (except for partitions at the junction of the leaves and stem), sometimes being purple... | 6,120,035 |
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reach to in length. The leaflets are lanceolate, serrate, to in length, and sharply toothed. The plant flowers in spring or early summer; the flowers are small with green or white petals clustered in an umbrella shape (umbel) characteristic to this family; the umbel measures to across. The plants produce a cylin... | 6,120,036 |
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fungi, and plants. In Europe, "Cicuta" was not distinguished from the similar genus "Conium" before the year 1500. The first mention of the genus in the United States was in the eighteenth century. Carl Linnaeus formally described three species in 1753. The type species is "Cicuta virosa". The genus is now recog... | 6,120,037 |
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analysis using the sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) loci was not conclusive but seems to show that "C. bulbifera" and "C. virosa" are monophyletic, while "C. douglasii" may not be. It was also suggested a specimen from California may warrant recognition as a distinct species. ... | 6,120,038 |
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pignut ("Conopodium majus"), wild carrot ("Daucus carota"), wild parsnip ("Pastinaca sativa"), and water parsnip ("Berula" spp.). One of the more common misidentifications is between water hemlock and water parsnip; both have clusters of small white flowers shaped like umbrellas, and both have the same habitat n... | 6,120,039 |
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not at the base of the main flower head, while water parsnip has both bracts at the base of flowers and also at the main flower head.
Additionally, there can be confusion between the various water hemlock species and poison hemlock ("Conium maculatum") as the common name hemlock is applied to both "Cicuta" and ... | 6,120,040 |
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between the leaf tips, rather than extend to the tip of the leaf, as is found in the leaf structure of other members of this family.
# Distribution and habitat.
"Cicuta" spp. are found growing across North America and Europe. Typically, they grow in wet habitats usually alongside ponds and streams, in marshes ... | 6,120,041 |
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North America, while "Cicuta virosa" is only found in central Europe and in the far north of North America.
# Toxicity.
All members of "Cicuta" except "C. bulbifera" contain high levels of the poisonous principle cicutoxin, an unsaturated aliphatic alcohol that is structurally closely related to the toxin oena... | 6,120,042 |
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acts on the GABA receptor causing a block of the chloride channel which results in neuronal depolarization. In the presence of cicutoxin this depolarization continues unabated causing cell overactivity. The hyperactivity in brain cells results in seizures. Cicutoxin is highly poisonous and water hemlock is consi... | 6,120,043 |
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this compares with 5.9 mg/kg for mice given potassium cyanide by intraperitoneal injection, while the LD for arsenic via intraperitoneal injection in mice is 46.2 mg/kg. The exact toxic dose of plant material in humans is unknown; it is thought ingestion of water hemlock in any quantity can result in poisoning a... | 6,120,044 |
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affected, leading to the common name "cowbane". Poisoning in livestock is common and typically occurs following ingestion of roots of the plant. In the spring when the ground is soft, grazing animals tend to pull the entire plant out of the ground ingesting both the foiliage and the roots. Roots exposed by ploug... | 6,120,045 |
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may include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, tremors, confusion, weakness, dizziness, and drowsiness; although the rapid onset of seizure activity may be the first sign presented following poisoning. Seizures are usually described as clonic or tonic–clonic. Complications of ongoing seizure activity include incr... | 6,120,046 |
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fast heart rate and alternating low and high blood pressure. Other cardiac effects may include ECG abnormalities such as widening of the PR interval, supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation. Symptoms of excess salivation, wheezing, respiratory distress, and absence of breathing have also been ... | 6,120,047 |
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as retrograde amnesia of the events leading to intoxication and the intoxication itself. Other ongoing mild effects may include restlessness, muscle weakness, twitching, and anxiety. Complete resolution of symptoms may take a number of days or, in some cases, these ongoing symptoms may persist for months after p... | 6,120,048 |
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these tests are not performed routinely in hospital laboratories. If a sample of the plant ingested has been retained, diagnosis can be confirmed by having the plant identified by a botanist.
Initial treatment of poisoning may include gastrointestinal decontamination with activated charcoal. Decontamination is ... | 6,120,049 |
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or diazepam, or if seizures are refractory to this treatment, a barbiturate such as phenobarbital is administered. The anticonvulsant phenytoin is not recommended as it has not been shown to be effective for seizure control following water hemlock poisoning. Treatment with high doses of benzodiazepines or barbit... | 6,120,050 |
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d pressure may be required. Metabolic acidosis is treated by administering sodium bicarbonate. Low blood pressure is usually treated with intravenous fluid replacement, but the administration of dopamine or norepinephrine may be required to restore blood pressure. The management of rhabdomyolysis includes ensuri... | 6,120,051 |
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Symmetric multiprocessing
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a singl... | 6,120,052 |
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their 1998 book "Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach" mention: "The term SMP is widely used but causes a bit of confusion. [...] The more precise description of what is intended by SMP is a shared memory multiprocessor where the cost of accessing a memory location is t... | 6,120,053 |
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programs and working on different sets of data, has the capability of sharing common resources (memory, I/O device, interrupt system and so on) that are connected using a system bus or a crossbar.
# Design.
SMP systems have centralized shared memory called "main memory" (MM) operating under ... | 6,120,054 |
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is the bandwidth and power consumption of the interconnect among the various processors, the memory, and the disk arrays. Mesh architectures avoid these bottlenecks, and provide nearly linear scalability to much higher processor counts at the sacrifice of programmability:
Serious programming ... | 6,120,055 |
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no matter where the data for that task is located in memory, provided that each task in the system is not in execution on two or more processors at the same time. With proper operating system support, SMP systems can easily move tasks between processors to balance the workload efficiently.
# ... | 6,120,056 |
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based on its System/360 model 65 and the closely related model 67 and 67-2. The operating systems that ran on these machines were OS/360 M65MP and TSS/360. Other software developed at universities, notably the Michigan Terminal System (MTS), used both CPUs. Both processors could access data ch... | 6,120,057 |
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simultaneously from either CPU.
Other mainframes that supported SMP included the UNIVAC 1108 II, released in 1965, which supported up to three CPUs, and the GE-635 and GE-645, although GECOS on multiprocessor GE-635 systems ran in a master-slave asymmetric fashion, unlike Multics on multiproc... | 6,120,058 |
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but later VAX multiprocessor systems were SMP.
Early commercial Unix SMP implementations included the Sequent Computer Systems Balance 8000 (released in 1984) and Balance 21000 (released in 1986). Both models were based on 10 MHz National Semiconductor NS32032 processors, each with a small wr... | 6,120,059 |
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and ported by VAST Corporation from AT&T 3B20 Unix SysVr3 code used internally within AT&T.
Earlier non-commercial multiprocessing UNIX ports existed, including a port named MUNIX created at the Naval Postgraduate School by 1975.
# Uses.
Time-sharing and server systems can often use SMP wit... | 6,120,060 |
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(multitasked) processing. Custom-programmed software can be written or modified to use multiple threads, so that it can make use of multiple processors.
Multithreaded programs can also be used in time-sharing and server systems that support multithreading, allowing them to make more use of mu... | 6,120,061 |
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throughput. To solve different problems and tasks, SMP applies multiple processors to that one problem, known as parallel programming.
However, there are a few limits on the scalability of SMP due to cache coherence and shared objects.
# Programming.
Uniprocessor and SMP systems require dif... | 6,120,062 |
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increase as the appearance that the program is running much more smoothly. Some applications, particularly building software and some distributed computing projects, run faster by a factor of (nearly) the number of additional processors. (Compilers by themselves are single threaded, but, when ... | 6,120,063 |
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the additional processors remain idle and the system functions as a uniprocessor system.
SMP systems can also lead to more complexity regarding instruction sets. A homogeneous processor system typically requires extra registers for "special instructions" such as SIMD (MMX, SSE, etc.), while a... | 6,120,064 |
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task at a time. For example, AMP can be used in assigning specific tasks to CPU based to priority and importance of task completion. AMP was created well before SMP in terms of handling multiple CPUs, which explains the lack of performance based on the example provided.
In cases where an SMP ... | 6,120,065 |
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clusters.
Access to RAM is serialized; this and cache coherency issues causes performance to lag slightly behind the number of additional processors in the system.
# Alternatives.
SMP uses a single shared system bus that represents one of the earliest styles of multiprocessor machine archit... | 6,120,066 |
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are localized to specific processes (and thus processors). On the downside, NUMA makes the cost of moving data from one processor to another, as in workload balancing, more expensive. The benefits of NUMA are limited to particular workloads, notably on servers where the data are often associat... | 6,120,067 |
50318 | Symmetric multiprocessing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symmetric%20multiprocessing | Symmetric multiprocessing
extra fifth core in a quad-core device, called the Companion core, built specifically for executing tasks at a lower frequency during mobile active standby mode, video playback, and music playback.
Project Kal-El (Tegra 3), patented by NVIDIA, was the first SoC (System on Chip) to implement t... | 6,120,068 |
50318 | Symmetric multiprocessing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symmetric%20multiprocessing | Symmetric multiprocessing
the vSMP Companion core is OS transparent meaning that the operating system and the running applications are totally unaware of this extra core but are still able to take advantage of it. Some of the advantages of the vSMP architecture includes cache coherency, OS efficiency, and power optimiz... | 6,120,069 |
50318 | Symmetric multiprocessing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symmetric%20multiprocessing | Symmetric multiprocessing
scheduling issues. With vSMP, the active CPU cores will run at similar frequencies to optimize OS scheduling.
- Power Optimization: In asynchronous clocking based architecture, each core is on a different power plane to handle voltage adjustments for different operating frequencies. The resul... | 6,120,070 |
50318 | Symmetric multiprocessing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symmetric%20multiprocessing | Symmetric multiprocessing
es. The result of this could impact performance. vSMP technology is able to dynamically enable and disable certain cores for active and standby usage, reducing overall power consumption.
These advantages lead the vSMP architecture to considerably benefit over other architectures using asynchr... | 6,120,071 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. Her novel "The Joy Luck Club" was adapted into a film in 1993 by director Wayne Wang.
Tan has written several other novels, including "The Kitchen God's Wife", ... | 6,120,072 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
PBS.
Despite her success, Tan has also received substantial criticism for her depictions of Chinese culture and apparent adherence to stereotypes.
# Personal life.
Tan was born in Oakland, California. She is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her father was an electri... | 6,120,073 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
Switzerland, where Amy finished high school at the Institut Monte Rosa, Montreux. During this period, Amy learned about her mother's previous marriage to another man in China, of their four children (a son who died as a toddler and three daughters), and how her mother left these children behind in Shanghai. Thi... | 6,120,074 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
needed to make sure she was self-sufficient. Tan later found out that her mother had three abortions while in China. Daisy often threatened to kill herself, saying that she wanted to join her mother (Tan's grandmother, who also committed suicide). She attempted suicide but never succeeded. Daisy died in 1999.
... | 6,120,075 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
participated in doctoral studies in linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley, but abandoned her doctoral studies in 1976.
While in school, Tan worked odd jobs—serving as a switchboard operator, carhop, bartender, and pizza maker—before starting a writing career. As a freelance business writer, she worked o... | 6,120,076 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
went misdiagnosed for a few years. As a result, she suffers complications like epileptic seizures. Tan co-founded LymeAid 4 Kids, which helps uninsured children pay for treatment. She wrote about her life with Lyme disease in "The New York Times".
Tan also suffers from depression, for which she takes antidepre... | 6,120,077 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
tree house, but also to be a place where we could live comfortably into old age" with accessibility features. Tan has recently taken up drawing and has shared her art on social media.
Tan sang with the Rock Bottom Remainders before they retired from touring.
# Work and themes.
Tan's first novel, "The Joy Luc... | 6,120,078 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
sisters. Tan's fourth novel, "The Bonesetter's Daughter", returns to the theme of an immigrant Chinese woman and her American-born daughter.
# Adaptations.
Tan's work has been adapted into several different forms of media. "The Joy Luck Club" was adapted into a play in 1993; that same year, director Wayne Wan... | 6,120,079 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
as gross inaccuracies in recalling details of the Chinese cultural heritage". Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote that Tan's novels "appear to possess the authority of authenticity but are often products of the American-born writer's own heavily mediated understan... | 6,120,080 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
a vested interest in casting Chinese men in the worst possible light". This, in addition to the lack of cultural and historical accuracy in Tan's work, has led several writers and scholars to accuse Tan of "pandering to the popular imagination" of Westerners regarding Chinese people.
# Bibliography.
## Short ... | 6,120,081 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
by Gretchen Schields (1994)
## Non-fiction.
- "Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Chords and an Attitude" (with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver) (1994)
- "Mother" (with Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark) (1996)
- "The Best American Short Stori... | 6,120,082 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
for "The Joy Luck Club"
- 1989, Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Joy Luck Club"
- Finalist "Los Angeles Times" Fiction Prize
- Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
- Commonwealth Gold Award
- American Library Association's Notable Books
- American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adu... | 6,120,083 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
Audie Award: Best Non-fiction, Abridged
- Parents' Choice Award, Best Television Program for Children
- Shortlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, best screenplay adaptation
- Shortlisted WGA Award, best screenplay adaptation
- 1996, Academy of Achievement, Golden Plate Award
# See also... | 6,120,084 |
50321 | Amy Tan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Tan | Amy Tan
- Parents' Choice Award, Best Television Program for Children
- Shortlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, best screenplay adaptation
- Shortlisted WGA Award, best screenplay adaptation
- 1996, Academy of Achievement, Golden Plate Award
# See also.
- Chinese American literature
# Refer... | 6,120,085 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
Julian and Sandy
Julian and Sandy were characters on the BBC radio comedy programme "Round the Horne" from 1965 to 1968 and were played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams respectively, with scripts written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman. According to a BBC Radio 4 programme on the characters, they ... | 6,120,086 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
suggested making them younger "chorus boy" types. Their first appearance was in episode four of the first series, and – although Marty Feldman apparently "got tired of them" – Julian and Sandy proved to be the most successful part of the show, and appeared in every episode thereafter.
As well as being... | 6,120,087 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
presumed ignorance being the target of their jokes. Paul Baker writes that these sketches, while mocking an oppressed gay identity, present gay people as cheerful, rather than "indexing unhappy, ashamed identities like those in films such as "Victim" (1961), "A Taste of Honey" (1961) and "Boys in the B... | 6,120,088 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
that he had found these two characters in one of a selection of risqué magazines, which he would insist he bought for innocent reasons. This would lead him, more often than not, to a business in Chelsea starting with the word "bona" (Polari for "good"). He would enter by saying, "Hello, anyone there?",... | 6,120,089 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
"criminal practice" refers to both the fact that Julian is a "practising homosexual" and also the law practice where he is currently employed. Such innuendo and double entendre was the predominant form of British humour at the time, with the "Carry On Films" – in which Kenneth Williams featured promine... | 6,120,090 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
as the two would misunderstand his meaning. In one sketch, discussing Julian and Sandy's time out travelling the world aboard ship, Sandy reveals Julian was swept overboard in a storm:
A recurring comedic theme of the series was Sandy (Williams) archly disclosing, or drawing out, a hinted-at salacious... | 6,120,091 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
a rare occasion Julian turned the tables on Sandy, and after bellowing the "purge yourself!" line, he then ad-libbed "I've been dying to say that for years!"
Ad-libs were a prominent part of the sketch (although on 'That Reminds Me', Barry Took denied this, saying that most of what seemed to be ad lib... | 6,120,092 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
"That's your actual French", although Barry Took acknowledged that Peter Cook had claimed to be the first to use "your actual ..." as a format phrase.
The humour acquired a real edge with jokes that were both risqué and controversial. Lines such as the following were very daring for their period:
In ... | 6,120,093 |
50323 | Julian and Sandy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian%20and%20Sandy | Julian and Sandy
ed to be Julian Mungo Lestrange.)
# Other appearances of the characters.
In 1987, a special edition of "Wogan" called "Radio Fun" (broadcast 30 December) was made as a tribute to BBC radio comedy. Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams appeared as Julian and Sandy, with Terry Wogan doing Kenneth Horne's l... | 6,120,094 |
50331 | Gerhard Armauer Hansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerhard%20Armauer%20Hansen | Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium "Mycobacterium leprae" in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy.
# Life.
Hansen was born in Bergen, Norway and attended the Berg... | 6,120,095 |
50331 | Gerhard Armauer Hansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerhard%20Armauer%20Hansen | Gerhard Armauer Hansen
was a specific disease with a specific cause. In 1870–71 Hansen travelled to Bonn and Vienna to gain the training necessary for him to prove his hypothesis. In 1873, he announced the discovery of "Mycobacterium leprae" in the tissues of all sufferers, although he did not identify them as bacteria... | 6,120,096 |
50331 | Gerhard Armauer Hansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerhard%20Armauer%20Hansen | Gerhard Armauer Hansen
the etiological agent. Neisser tried to downplay the assistance of Hansen. Hansen's claim was weakened by his failure to produce a pure microbiological culture in an artificial medium, or to prove that the rod-shaped organisms were infectious. Further Hansen had attempted to infect at least one f... | 6,120,097 |
50331 | Gerhard Armauer Hansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerhard%20Armauer%20Hansen | Gerhard Armauer Hansen
of the disease in Norway from 1,800 known cases in 1875 to just 575 cases in 1901. His distinguished work was recognized at the International Leprosy Congress held at Bergen in 1909.
Hansen had suffered from syphilis since the 1860s but died of heart disease. He was an atheist.
# Honors.
- Lep... | 6,120,098 |
50329 | Communication complexity | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communication%20complexity | Communication complexity
Communication complexity
In theoretical computer science, communication complexity studies the amount of communication required to solve a problem when the input to the problem is distributed among two or more parties. The study of communication complexity was first introduced by Andrew Yao in... | 6,120,099 |
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