E3 in Los Angeles
E3 in Los Angeles
What is E3?
If you love electronic games you are going to love E3. The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, is an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). It is used by many video game developers to show off their upcoming games and game-related hardware.
E3 is widely considered to be the ultimate expo in the video game industry [1] and many video game critics, including Gamespot, G4, IGN, and Game Informer Magazine routinely document the annual event and sometimes even provide a series of E3 awards.
E3 was invitation-only in 2007 and 2008, reducing the number of attendees from 60,000 at E3 2006. A separate conference called the Entertainment for All Expo was created to accommodate the public demand for a major, annual video game event; however, it has not been able to replicate E3's success.
E3 was previously held in the third week of May of each year at the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC) in Los Angeles. In 2007, the convention was exceptionally held from July 11 to July 13 in Santa Monica, California. In 2009, the convention started June 1 and ended June 4 in Los Angeles. The ESA stated that the event reached a record attendance of 70,000 people in 2005. In 2009, the attendance reached 41,000, an increase of 820% on the previous year's E3's attendance.
Video game companies generally spend more on their presentations for E3 than any other convention (including fancy decorations and pyrotechnics). Major video game critics often have a "best of E3" award session (similar to end-of-year award sessions), and only E3 consistently features such awards.
E3 2010 will remain at the LACC and is scheduled to be from June 14 to June 17.
In 2010, E3 was right next door to the Stables Center where the Los Angeles Lakers were playing their finals against the Boston Celtics. When you mix the E3 group with the Laker Fans, you have a freeway nightmare in Los Angeles. We received a report that there were 45,000 participants.
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Experts agree that we are rapidly running out of freshwater necessary for drinking, washing, and irrigation. Since there is plenty of saltwater in the ocean, researchers have developed processes that can remove the salt and impurities to create freshwater. Some processes can be conducted at coastal plants and others in municipalities. At this point in technological advanc
es, the cost of desalination is still higher than the cost of transporting freshwater from other sources, except in desert regions like West Asia.
We are located in the city of Long Beach, California and we have a wonderful desalination plant. We are doing a lot of work with the Cabo Verde Islands and they are working on finding better ways to treat their salt water.
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So say Chih W. Khoh and Peter Kovesi in their paper “Animating Impossible Objects.”
(Thanks to investigator Mark Dionne for bringing this to our attention.)
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The sociology department is on Lesvos, 90 nautical miles distant from the maths department, which is on Samos….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
Research into research can be improved
That’s the headline on a November 17, 2006 press release issued by the Karolinska Institute. The press release goes on to say:
The methods used to evaluate the quality of research can be far more accurate and far-reaching, according to a new doctoral thesis on bibliometrics from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. “A common pitfall is that bibliometricians assess the average quality of journals instead of the individual scientific articles,” says PhD Jonas Lundberg.
Bibliometrics is used to describe and assess the quality of research, and to give an idea of the influence a research group or university has on a particular field. As research becomes all the more international and competition between researchers stiffens, more exacting systems are needed to assess the quality of research.
“I usually say that I research into research,” says Jonas Lundberg.
A woman who spent ten days in hospital after suffering from severe migraines had to extend her stay by 36 hours after a television set fell on her head.
Sharron Blake, 36, a mature student from Somerset was preparing to leave hospital when the TV, on an adjustable arm above her bed, crashed down. She suffered from mild concussion and was advised to stay in hospital for extra observation.
She said, I was in for severe migraines in the first place. Im worried about who else itll happen to.
So says a January 12, 2007 report in the Glasgow Daily Record.
(Thanks to investigator Adiyasa Dwitama for bringing this to our attention.)
Everybody wins but the short-legged anoles.
So writes John Hawks about an experiment conducted by J.B. Losos and some friends. Hawks goes on to say “this is an experiment where they basically let the velociraptors loose.”
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