Halcyon (console)

The Halcyon was a home video game console by RDI Video Systems. The system was planned to be released in January 1985 with initial retail price for the system was US$2500. Fewer than a dozen units are known to exist and it's not generally believed that the system ever made it to retail. The design featured a laserdisc player and attached computer, each the size of an early-model VCR. Of the six games planned only two games were completed: Thayer's Quest and NFL Football LA Raiders vs SD Chargers. RDI Video Systems claimed that the system would be entirely voice-activated, and would have an artificial intelligence on par with HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

History

Rick Dyer was one of the many fans of the interactive fiction game Adventure. He envisioned a game that would feature illustrations of every scene in this game, the first prototype being a roll of printing calculator tape that would be wound forward and backward via microprocessor to show illustrations and information drawn on its surface.

Halcyon (album)

Halcyon is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding, released on 5 October 2012 by Polydor Records. It was recorded between 2011 and 2012, during promotion of her debut album, Lights (2010). Goulding worked with several producers on the album, including Jim Eliot, Starsmith, Billboard, Justin Parker, MONSTA, Madeon and Mike Spencer, in addition to collaborating with artists such as Tinie Tempah and Calvin Harris.

Halcyon received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented Goulding's more aggressive showcase of her voice, however, less favorable reviews felt that "the main flaw of Halcyon is that it occasionally feels a bit too much". The album debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, selling 33,425 copies in its first week. In January 2014, it topped the UK Albums Chart and gave Goulding her second number-one album. Halcyon also debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 in the United States, while reaching number one in Ireland, the top five in New Zealand, and the top 10 in Canada, Germany and Switzerland.

Halcyon (dialogue)

Halcyon (Greek: Ἀλκυών) is a short dialogue with the distinction of being attributed in the manuscripts to both Plato and Lucian, although the work is not by either writer.Favorinus, writing in the early 2nd century, attributes it to a certain Leon.

In the dialogue, Socrates relates to Chaerephon the ancient myth of the Halcyon, a woman transformed into a bird forever searching the seas in lament. The conversation is conducted in the port of Phaleron, also the narrative setting of Plato's Symposium. Socrates advocates epistemological humility for mortals in light of the gods' abilities.

The text was included in the 1st century CE Platonic canon of Thrasyllus of Mendes, but had been expunged prior to the Stephanus pagination and is thus rarely found in modern collections of Plato, although it appears in Hackett's Complete Works. It is often still included among the spurious works of Lucian.

Notes

Scorpia (novel)

Scorpia is the fifth book in the Alex Rider series (stories about the adventures of Alex Rider a 14–15-year-old spy), written by British author Anthony Horowitz. It begins several weeks after the events of fourth book, Eagle Strike, and up to nine days before the sixth, Ark Angel.

The book concerns the plans of a criminal organisation attempting to disrupt UK/US relations by murdering schoolchildren. Alex thwarts them by infiltrating the organisation but is apparently killed by a sniper.

It was released in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2004 and in the United States on March 17, 2005.

Abbreviation

The letters SCORPIA stand for "Sabotage, Corruption, Intelligence and Assassination".

Plot

The novel begins with the prologue-like introduction of a terrorist organization called SCORPIA, its leader as Julia Rothman. She walks into a secret room to discuss with the terrorist about her final stage of plan, when one of them, Max Grendel, tells her his retiring and his quitting from the organization. Julia goes out with him and sends Max to his waiting boat. Before he goes, she gives him a silver box and tells him to open it once he gets to the boat. He does, but the box is revealed to be filled with scorpions. As a result, the neurotoxin kills Max.

Nile (singer)

Nile (born Jenée Grevious) is an American singer. In 2002 she released her debut album, Born. She listed family, spirituality and nature as influences in her music. Her music has been described as Bristolian and may be thought of as trip hop.

Biography

NILE is the daughter of a Blackfoot Indian mother and a French father. Explaining why she chose the name NILE, she said "I’m an Aquarius and so Nile stood out for me. Plus it’s easier to say."

References

Nile (1798 ship)

Nile was a 322-ton sailing ship built in 1799 at Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales. For her return trip to Britain she was under contract to the British East India Company. Thereafter she traded between London and the West Indies, Canada, and the Mediterranean until c.1834.

Career

Captain James Sunter (or James Souter) received a letter of marque on 22 April 1801. He left Portsmouth, England, on 21 June 1801, with 96 female convicts, four children, ten male passengers, nine female passengers and 21 children.

Nile traveled in convoy with Canada and Minorca, and reached Rio de Janeiro on 26 August; all three arrived at Port Jackson on 14 December. No convicts died on the voyage.

Nile left Port Jackson on 6 February 1802 bound for China. She arrived at Whampoa on 27 April 1802.

Homeward bound, she passed Lintin Island on 24 May, reached Amboina on 5 August, the Cape on 3 November, and St Helena on 1 December. She arrived at the Downs on 14 February 1803.