A technique called bootstrapping the simulation model is used, which bootstraps initial data points using a pseudorandom number generator to schedule an initial set of pending events, which schedule additional events, and with time, the distribution of event times approaches its steady state — the bootstrapping behavior is overwhelmed by steady-state behavior.

The pattern of extinction points to habitat loss, specifically the drowning of carbonate platforms, the shallow-water reefs in existence at that time, by the extinction event.

Marker begins the film with the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin, which Marker points out is a fictitious creation of Eisenstein which has still influenced the image of the historical event.

After four games she had two points, which was a fair result considering she was rated third from last in the very strong event.

These are usually illustrated with " paradoxes " in which an event appears different when observed from two different points of view, seeming to violate " common sense ".

Because events are spacetime points, an example of an event in classical relativistic physics is, the location of an elementary ( point-like ) particle at a particular time.

Aside from the historical significance of these events, they also carry larger prize funds than any other tour event and are worth double the number of ranking points to the champion than in the next echelon of tournaments, the Masters 1000 ( men ) and Premier events ( women ).

The overall leader in each event wears the white points leaders jersey at each race, with the overall winner at the end of the season keeping the jersey and wearing it at the World Championships.

Top riders can still win the series, or obtain good a placing for qualification points for their country, without competing at every event.

A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track.

Omnium competition assigns a point value to final standings of each race and riders accumulate points over the course of an event or series of events.

The winner of that event receives 120 points, the others get 15 points subtracted for each minute behind the leader.

Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not by the position achieved.

Coincidentally archaeology has turned up a major fire on the acropolis of Xanthus in the mid-6th century BC, but as Anthony Keen points out, there is no way to connect that fire with the event presented by Herodotus.

This system converts the dressage score and all jump penalties on cross-country and show jumping into penalty points, with the horse and rider with the fewest number of points winning the event.

This event led directly to a period of city-to-city road races in France and other European countries, which introduced many of the features found in later rallies: individual start times with cars running against the clock rather than head to head ; time controls at the entry and exit points of towns along the way ; road books and route notes ; and driving over long distances on ordinary, mainly gravel, roads, facing hazards such as dust, traffic, pedestrians and farm animals.

Instead, a better absolute performance results in a higher points score ; points for each event are combined to give the overall total scores.

In return for the additional points, the payout if the gambler wins is less than even money, or the gambler must wager on more than one event and both events must win.

The sum of the points for the entry determines the start position at the main event.

Many events in the book are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about each event from each iteration, with the new information often completing a joke, the punchline of which was told several chapters previously.

From the inaugural event until 1959, the Ryder Cup was a two-day competition, with four 36-hole foursomes matches on the first day and eight 36-hole singles matches on the second day, for a total of 12 points.

The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.

On October 29, 2006, Judd appeared at a " Women for Ford " event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety of Democratic candidates, including President Barack Obama in critical swing states.

The available sources are more confused about events in the afternoon, but it appears that the decisive event was the death of Harold, about which differing stories are told.

Harold Rosenberg spoke of the transformation of painting into an existential drama in Pollock's work, in which " what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event ".

In any event, on Cnut's death, Ælfgifu was determined that her second son Harold should be the next English king.

Willson, like his character Harold Hill, led the " Big Parade " through the town, and the event included special appearances by stars of the film Shirley Jones and Robert Preston.

William then forced Harold to swear to support his claim to the throne, only revealing after the event that the box on which Harold had made his oath contained holy relics, making the promise especially binding.

The remaining members of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes after Melvin's death will reunite in the event.

However, he did compete in the first ranking event of the 2008 / 2009 season, the 2008 Northern Ireland Trophy, and after convincing wins over Judd Trump and Stephen Hendry, he reached the last 16, where despite making three century breaks he lost 4 – 5 to eventual runner-up Dave Harold.

In Pearl Bay, she meets a cast of colourful characters: Meredith Monahan, the woman who can remember every single event that has happened in town during her lifetime ; Meredith's longtime lover and town lawyer / drunk, Harold ; strapping surfer and court clerk Angus ; his girlfriend ( who would like to be his fiancee ), police officer Karen ; her superior Sergeant Grey ; unsophisticated caravan park manager and handyman, Kevin ; Kevin's son Trevor ; clever Indian shop-keeper Phrani, later to be Kevin's lover ; local layabout Griff ; Meredith's niece, the wandering Carmen ; corrupt and scheming real estate agent and shire President Bob Jelly ; his loyal trophy wife Heather ; and their children Jules and Craig.

The Young Lords in 1982 in Chicago, became the first Latino group to join with and to organize a major event for the successful campaign of the first African American mayor, Harold Washington.

Harold Bloom lists the publication of Kees's first book The Last Man ( 1943 ) as an important event in the chronology of his textbook Modern American Poetry as well as a book worthy of his Western Canon.

Harold Rosenberg spoke of the transformation of painting into an existential drama in Pollock's work, in which " what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event ".

2004 proved to be a continuation of Hantuchová's poor second half of 2003, with many of the same struggles ( she briefly hired Harold Soloman, who had previously coached her friend Jennifer Capriati as well as Anna Kournikova, before re-hiring Sears in March ), She reached just three quarterfinals, the first at the first Tier I event in Tokyo was not until halfway through the season.

The new campaign's fund-raising activities included dinners, which were attended by numerous doctors and Members of Parliament, and concerts, for example at one such event, on 4 July 1855, composer Hector Berlioz conducted the UK premier of his symphonic suite Harold in Italy.

Bogart's character, Eddie Willis, is based on the career of boxing writer and event promoter Harold Conrad.

Later that year at the Secular Games, at the performance of the Troy Pageant, Messalina attended the event with her son Britannicus.

After this event Aegisthus reigned seven years longer over Mycenae, until in the eighth Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returned home and avenged the death of his father by putting the adulterer to death.

Rock station DJs Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, along with Michael Veeck, son of Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, staged the promotional event for disgruntled rock fans between the games of a White Sox doubleheader.

As the only son of the last king, Peter II, who never abdicated, and the last official heir of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia he claims to be the rightful heir to the Serbian throne in the event of restoration.

Loki says that Skaði was once gentler in speech to him ( referring to himself as the " son of Laufey ") when Skaði once invited him to her bed ( an event that is unattested elsewhere ), and that such events must be mentioned if they are to recall " shameful deeds.

* 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities ; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

Gosse's only son was born on 21 September 1849, an event Gosse noted in his diary with the words, " E. delivered of a son.

* Some of his movies feature strong conflicts between father and son that usually end with the latter killing the former ( Blade Runner, Gladiator ) or witnessing the event ( Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood ).

His son wrote three songs about the event and said that his father was later a member of the revived Ku Klux Klan.

Typical of contemporary court diaries written to honor patrons, Murasaki devotes half to the birth of Shōshi's son Emperor Go-Ichijō, an event of enormous importance to Michinaga: he had planned for it with his daughter's marriage which made him grandfather and de facto regent to an emperor.

Geoffrey and Matilda held the duchy conjointly until 1149, then ceded it to their son, Henry, which event was soon ratified by King Louis VII of France.

Of this event, Avery wrote in a letter to his son, " It's lots of fun to blow bubbles but it's wiser to prick them yourself before someone else tries to.

Page, Plant and Jones, as well as John Bonham's son Jason, closed the event.

As the son of a prominent family, a leading figure of his church who was marrying the daughter of a well-known business man, you would expect his marriage to be a major social event.

Nervous of the lengths to which Anne might go, James formally charged Mar in writing never to surrender Henry to anyone except on orders from his own mouth, " because in the surety of my son consists my surety ," nor to yield Henry to the Queen even in the event of his own death.

In any event, Olaf was ousted from the kingship a second time by the Northumbrians, this time in favour of Eric son of Harald, according to MS E of the Chronicle.

Charles himself was later required by treaty with Philip the Good, John's son, to pay penance for the murder, but he never did so ; nonetheless, it is claimed, the event left him with a lifelong phobia of bridges.

In any event, the title Earl was re-created for her husband as her consort, the famous Sir William Marshal, son of John the Marshal, by Sibylle, the sister of Patrick, Earl of Salisbury.

As well as learning the Scottish language and being thoroughly Christianised, Oswiu may have fought for his Gaelic hosts, perhaps receiving his arms — a significant event — from a King of Dál Riata, such as Eochaid Buide, son of that Áedán mac Gabráin whom his father had defeated at the Battle of Degsastan.

Since Homer, in the Iliad, makes no reference to his ancestry ( except to note that he is the son of Panthous ( Πάνθοος ) and Phrontis ( Φροντίς ), he is apparently a commoner, or in any event not a member of the royal house of Troy.

Following this event, Narada takes Kayadu into his care and while under the guidance of Narada, her unborn child ( Hiranyakashipu's son ) Prahlada, becomes affected by the transcendental instructions of the sage even at such a young stage of development.

Following this event Narada takes Kayadhu into his care and while under the guidance of Narada, her unborn child ( Hiranyakashipu's son ) Prahlada, became affected by the transcendental instructions of the sage even at such a young stage of development.

The best remembered event in the early history of Dwight was the time England ’ s Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, son of Queen Victoria and heir to the British throne came to stay for a few days in the town.