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Sentientism is a way of thinking about what is right and wrong - an ethical philosophy. It uses evidence of the real world and careful thinking to develop beliefs. It rejects beliefs where there is no good evidence for them. Sentientism says we should care about all sentient beings and care more about beings that are more sentient.
Sentient beings include anything that can experience good or bad things or feelings. These include humans, most non-human animals and may eventually include artificial beings we create or intelligent aliens we meet.
People who agree with sentientism are called sentientists. They are atheist and often humanist. They are also often vegan or vegetarian for moral reasons.
Things that are not sentient, such as plants, rivers and mountains, may be important because they affect how sentient beings feel. However, we don't need to care about them directly because they cannot suffer or feel pleasure.
Sentientist thinking has a long history, from Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation through to modern philosophers such as Richard D. Ryder and Peter Singer.
Sentientism differs from Speciesism because it uses degrees of sentience, rather than species, to decide what things we should care about.
Sentientism differs from painism because it counts positive experience, as well as the ability to feel pain, in making moral decisions.
Sentientism agrees with Animalism that humans are animals so we should care about both. However, sentientism argues that we should also care about non-animal sentient beings, such as potential artificial or alien intelligences.
Notable sentientists include: Thandie Newton, Bill Maher, James Cameron, Stephen Fry, George Meyer, Ricky Gervais, Sam Harris, Benjamin Spock, Oliver Sykes, Steven Pinker, Gary Holt (musician), Ellen Page, Kristen Bell, Cloris Leachman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Dawkins, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jessica Lange and John Stewart Bell.
In some cases sentientism is implied because these people are atheists and/or humanists and vegans or vegetarians.
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Spin valve
A spin valve is a device which consist of two metallic magnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic spacer whose electric resistance can change depending on the relative alignment of magnetization in the two magnetic layers, electrons moving through a non-magnetic material normally have random spins, so the net effect is cancelled out. when the magnetization of both the magnetic material are in the same direction or parallel, the resistance in the sandwiched layer becomes low so that the electrons in the that layer have spins all aligned in one direction - either all up or all down, allowing a new way to store binary data in the form of one's (all spins up) and zeroes (all spins down).
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Ivan Katardžiev
Ivan Katardžiev (; ) (1926 – 1 December 2018) was a Macedonian historian. He was called the country's most important expert on the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and the Macedonian history under Yugoslavia as well as the early years of independence.
Katardžiev was also director of the Institute for National History.
Katadžiev died on December 1, 2018 in Skopje, North Macedonia at the age of 92.
Yellow vests movement
The "Yellow Vests" movement (, ; ; ), also called as the Yellow Jacket movement in English, is a protest movement in Europe which began with a petition posted in May 2018, and which took action for the first time on Saturday, 17 November 2018.
The "yellow vests" blocked roads and caused traffic chaos on Saturdays. The demonstrations stem from anger over rising diesel fuel prices and taxes.
By November 24, The "Gilets jaunes" protests had led to two deaths and over 750 injuries, including 136 police officers. Two days later, officials estimated that the damage in Paris alone could be up to €1.5m (£1.3m), and had mobilised 200 additional workers to assist with the cleanup and repair work.
By December 2, The "Gilets jaunes" protests had led to three deaths, the third being in Arles, according to Reuters.
Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman, Knight Grand Cross, OMRI (; born Vittorio Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He was born in Genoa. Gassman was known as "the Laurence Olivier of Italy".
Gassman was known for his movie roles "Il sorpasso" (1962), "La Grande Guerra" (1962), "I mostri" (1963), "L'Armata Brancaleone" (1966), "Profumo di donna" (1974) and "C'eravamo tanto amati" (1974).
From 1952 to 1954, he was married to actress Shelley Winters.
Gassman died on 29 June 2000 in Rome from a heart attack at the age of 77.
Phillips County
Phillips County is the name of four counties in the United States:
Phillips County, Arkansas
Phillips County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas, in what is known as the Arkansas Delta along the Mississippi River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,757. The county seat is Helena-West Helena. It was founded on May 1, 1820.
Haines Borough, Alaska
Haines Borough is a home-rule borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,508.
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Paul Sherwen
Paul Sherwen (7 June 1956 – 2 December 2018) was an English professional racing cyclist and later a broadcaster on cycling. He worked with NBC and commentated on the Tour de France. He raced in seven editions of the Tour, finishing five. He raced for the Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt and for the Raleigh Bicycle Company.
Sherwen was born in Widnes, Lancashire. He died on 2 December 2018 at his home in Kampala, Uganda from heart failure at the age of 62.
The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche are several large species of bonytongue fish in the genus Arapaima.
They are native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America.
These fish are widely dispersed and do not migrate. This makes scientists think that there are more species of arapaima that they have not discovered yet.
Japanese dwarf flying squirrel
The Japanese dwarf flying squirrel ("Pteromys momonga") lives in forests on Honshu and Kyushu islands. They eat buds, leaves, bark and fruits. The International Union for Conservation of Nature do it as a "least-concern species".
Its body is 14–20 cm long and the tail length is 10–14 cm. It is much smaller than the Japanese giant flying squirrel. Its back is covered with grey brown hair, and its belly is white. It has large eyes and a flattened tail. Species of flying squirrels possess a patagium, which is a skin membrane used in gliding. In this particular species of flying squirrel their patagium spans between their wrists and ankles, but not between their legs and tail.
It is native to Japan where it inhabits sub-alpine forests and boreal evergreen forests on Honshu and Kyushu islands.
Japanese dwarf flying squirrels make their nests in the cavities of trees,or at the cross point between branches and tree trunks. These squirrels also tend to line their nests with mosses and lichens.Tree cavities are very important nest resources for them. They tend to nest in conifers, such as pine and spruce, more than broad-leaved trees.
It eats seeds, fruit, tree leaves, buds and bark. It can leap from tree.
Breeding form is embryonic. Birth 2 - 6 cubs in 2 times a year at a time.
Old forests and deciduous broad-leaved forests with trees for nesting are decreasing and they are divided
They also eats acorns etc. in natural forest. This habit can be compatible with forestry and coexistence with humans is possible. It is because we only need to leave some natural forests when planting cedar.
Japanese weasel
The Japanese weasel ("Mustela Itatsi") is a carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Mustelidae. It lives in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu of Japan. Major habitats are plains, but in western Japan it mainly lives in mountainous areas.
Adult males of the Japanese weasel can reach in body length with a tail length of up to . Females are smaller. The fur is orange-brown with darker markings.
The Japanese weasel was na­tive to three of Japan’s four larger is­lands: Hon­shu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Over the past cen­tury, they have been intro­duced to most other Japan­ese is­lands to control the population of rodents. Their range now in­cludes Hokkaidō and the many of the Ryūkyū Islands.
Japan­ese weasels are found in a lot of ecosystems in Japan. It mainly lives in moun­tain­ous and forested places near mov­ing water. Most hunt­ing is done along rivers, but these weasels sometimes go into grasslands or sub­ur­ban areas.
In win­ter, these slim weasels spend most of their time under the snow chas­ing small ro­dents through a maze of tunnels. After catch­ing and eat­ing the prey, Japan­ese weasels usually enjoy the warmth of the prey's nest after eat­ing.
They eat mice, frogs, reptiles, insects and crayfish. They sometimes eat berries, seeds and fruits but only when hungry. Males like to eat more mammals and crustacean. Females like to eat insects, fruits and earthworms.
Their diet changes depending on the season, the number of some foods. Fish and insects are a part of their diet throughout all seasons. They mostly eat coleoptera insects in spring, fruits in summer, orthoptera insects and crustaceans in autumn and fish and fruit in winter. Japanese weasels help in controlling rodent and other small animal populations.
Japanese weasels live by themselves, with the except when mating, and raising the young ones. They do not like other Japanese weasels entering their home range and will defend their home range. When scared, weasels release musk to discourage predators.
Japanese weasels are also great hunters. They chase down prey by any means, including running down tunnels, climbing trees, or swimming. Anywhere prey can go, the weasel can follow. They are both diurnal and nocturnal.
The mating season is from early May to late June. After mating, gestation takes about 30 days. The number of kits varies from 2 to 12, but is usually 5 or 6. It takes 8 weeks to fully be weaned and live by themselves. Japanese weasels are sexually mature at one year old.
Breeding season is twice a year in Kyushu, once a year in Hokkaido.
In the past century Japanese weasels have been introduced to many small Japanese islands to kill rats that were damaging crops. Together with the use of some rodenticide, the weasels helped reduce rat populations. Japanese weasels are also trapped and used in the fur trade. Japanese weasels also sometimes hunt domestic birds, such as chickens and ducks.
Although their populations are in slight decline, Japanese weasels are listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because of their widespread population across Japan. The main threat to Japanese weasels is habitat loss because of residential and commercial development.
Brown-headed thrush
The brown-headed thrush ("Turdus chrysolaus"), sometimes known as the brown thrush, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.
This bird breeds in Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Japan. It winters in the south, toward the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Hainan and the northern Philippines. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
It is 23–24 cm long and weighs around 64–90 g. The body color of the male and female is almost the same and black on the head and distinct bright orange feathers from chest to side of abdomen. The male has slaty-brown face and throat, shading through brown on hindcrown and neck to russet-tinged brown upperparts; chestnut-orange breast.
They prefer to live in bright needle-leaved forests with larches from flatlands to mountains.
Okinawa rail
The Okinawa rail ("Gallirallus okinawae") is a species of bird endemic to Okinawa Island in Japan, where it is known as the "Yanbaru kuina" (Yanbaru rail).
is known to local people such as Agathi,Agacha,(meaning 'hurry'),Yamadhui(meaning 'mountain bird').
The face is black with a white spot between the bill and eye and a white line behind the eye, extending back to the side of the neck. The undertail-coverts are dark brown with pale bars.
Its wing length is 15-16cm. Its eggs are 5cm long and 3.5cm wide. It lives in the evergreen broad-leaved forest which is 500m above sea level.
It is about 30 cm long with a wingspan of 50 cm and a weight of around 435 g.
It lives in subtropical moist forests and in neighbouring habitats.
Many prey which inhabitat in an artifical water field advanced organic pollution. Such as food mainly living in the road and forest adge.
The bill and iris are brownish and the legs and feet are yellow-ochre.
It is a noisy bird with a variety of loud calls. It calls most often early and late in the day, usually from the ground but sometimes from trees. Pairs often call together and up to 12 birds have been heard in one area
Forest logging and agricultural land development - Destruction and division of habitats by forest roads and dam construction, traffic accidents, weakness death due to chicks sliding down to side grooves, predation by artificially introduced dogs and nonneko · fairy mongoose etc. Is decreasing
Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle
The Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle or Ryukyu leaf turtle, "Geoemyda japonica", is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae) endemic to the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. In 1975, the species was designated a National Natural Monument of Japan. It grows to about 5–6 inches long. In captivity, it feeds on worms, snails, insects, and fruit. Due to its rarity and very attractive appearance, this species is highly sought-after by turtle collectors worldwide.
At first it was considered a subspecies of "Geoemyda spengleri", and named Geoemyda spengleri japonica. It was redescribed as a separate species and given its current binomial name in 1992.
Hybrids between different genera of Geoemydidae are rather commonplace. This species is known to hybridize with "Cuora flavomarginata" males in captivity and in the wild.
Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle is an endemic species of turtle in Japan.
It grows to about 15.6 cm. It has black and yellow in stomach.
It lives in North Okinawa, Kubejima and Tokasikijima. It does not herdine but it spends at the cave and around the cave during winter.
It eats leaf, fruit and insect. It is eaten by Ryukyu born.
It borns two babies at once from June and September. Baby is about 3.5 cm.
It's threats are habitat loss by the development.
We cannot export it in Japan.
This species is endangered and is protected.
Amanda Vickery
Amanda Jane Vickery (born 8 December 1962) is an English writer and television presenter. She was a professor of History at the Royal Holloway college at the University of London.
She wrote the following books:
In 2015 she presented the documentary The Story of Women and Power on BBC 2
Delicatessen
A delicatessen is a shop that sells prepared foods of high quality to retail customers (shoppers). Typical products are cheeses, smoked fish, and cured meats, "delicacies" that have a long shelf life. The foods requiring refrigeration are kept in and sold from a cold case, or as canned foods on shelves.
Neighborhood delicatessens often feature ethnic foods for immigrant and second-generation patrons.
Poinsett County, Arkansas
Poinsett County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,583. The county seat is Harrisburg. It was founded on February 28, 1838.
Polk County, Arkansas
Polk County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,662. The county seat is Mena. Polk County was founded on November 30, 1844, and named for James Polk, 11th President of the United States (1845–1849).
Pope County, Arkansas
Pope County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 61,754. The county seat is Russellville. It was founded on November 2, 1829.
Prairie County
Prairie County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Prairie County, Arkansas
Prairie County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,715. The county seats are Des Arc and DeValls Bluff. It was founded on November 25, 1846.
Randolph County, Arkansas
Randolph County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,969. The county seat is Pocahontas. It was founded on October 29, 1835.
The county is between the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Delta.
Palestine, Texas
Palestine is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Anderson County.
Coat of arms of Sweden
The coat of arms of Sweden () has a lesser and a greater version.
Challenge (TV channel)
Challenge is a British television channel, launched as the old channel in 1993. The channel mostly shows game shows from the UK and around the world, with some original productions. The channel was started as The Old Channel, officially launched 1 September 1993. On 1 February 2018, Challenge replaced channel one space on the freeview platform. On 3 December 2012, Challenge launched on the free-to-air satellite platform Freesat.
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Pauls Putniņš
Pauls Putniņš (12 November 1937 – 1 December 2018) was a Latvian playwright, journalist and politician.
He was born in Riga, Latvia. He was a popular playwright in the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote 30 plays; some 25 of his works were staged across Latvia. A politician, he was a member of Latvian Writers' Union, he was elected to the Riga City Council. He retired in 2010.
Putniņš died in Riga on 1 December 2018 at the age of 81.
Andrei Bitov
Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (, 27 May 1937 – 3 December 2018) was a Russian writer. He was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union. In 1988, he was one of the founders of the Russian PEN Club and was its President beginning in 1991. He also taught at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
Bitov was known for his works "", "A Captive of the Caucasus", "Ten Short Stories", "Pushkin House", "The Monkey Link" and "The Symmetry Teacher". In 2018, he received the Order of Friendship.
Bitov died in Moscow on 3 December 2018 from a heart attack at the age of 81.
Geoffrey Peter Murphy (October 1938 – 3 December 2018) was a New Zealand movie director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Wellington. Murphy was known for his works in "Goodbye Pork Pie" (1981), "The Quiet Earth" (1985), "Young Guns II" (1990), "Freejack" (1992) and "" (1995). He also was a second-unit director for the "The Lord of the Rings" movie series.
Murphy died on 3 December 2018 in Wellington at the age of 80.
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Juliet Ace
Ann Juliet Ace (born 27 June 1938) is a British dramatist and screenwriter. She was known for her works on "EastEnders" and "The District Nurse". She also wrote scripts for BBC Radio drama, including "The Archers". She wrote the screenplay for "Cameleon", which won the Golden Spire Award in 1998. She was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire in South Wales.
Ace lives in London. In September 2014 she was made a fellow of the renamed Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.
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Sandy Alderson
Richard Lynn "Sandy" Alderson (born November 22, 1947) is an American baseball executive. He was the general manager of the New York Mets from 2010 to 2018. He was an executive with the Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres and the commissioner's office of Major League Baseball.
In July 2018, Alderson was diagnosed with a returning form of cancer.
John Andretti
John Andrew Andretti (March 12, 1963 – January 30, 2020) was an American race car driver. He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was the older brother of racer Adam Andretti and the nephew of Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti. He won in CART, IMSA GTP, Rolex Sports Car Series, and NASCAR.
In April 2017, Andretti said that he was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. He died from the disease in Mooresville, North Carolina on January 30, 2020 at the age of 56.
Ginger Baker
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer. He was a founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s earned him the title of "rock's first superstar drummer". Baker is known for his musical genres jazz fusion, heavy metal and world music.
In 2013, Baker was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In September 2019, his family announced he was critically ill and asked fans to keep him in their prayers. While it was announced Baker was holding his own three days later; he eventually died on 6 October 2019 at the age of 80.
Johnny Beattie
John Gerard Beattie MBE, (9 November 1926 – 9 July 2020) was a Scottish actor and comedian. He was born in Glasgow. He was known for appearing on the sketch show "Scotch & Wry" and the sitcom "Rab C. Nesbitt". Later in life, he became known for playing Malcolm Hamilton in the soap opera "River City".
Beattie was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2007.
Beattie died on 9 July 2020 under hospice care in Clydebank, Scotland at the age of 93.
Howard S. Becker
Howard Saul Becker (born April 18, 1928) is an American sociologist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is known for his works to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies.
Becker's 1963 book "Outsiders" created the foundations for labeling theory. He works at the University of Chicago.
Nino Benvenuti
Giovanni "Nino" Benvenuti (born 26 April 1938) is a retired Italian boxer and actor. He was an amateur welterweight boxer he won the Italian title in 1956–60, the European title in 1957 and 1959, and an Olympic gold medal in 1960. An actor, he is known for his roles in "Sundance and the Kid" (1969) and then in "Mark Shoots First" (1975).
Benvenuti was born in Isola d´Istria, Italy . He was added in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992.
Mark Wilson (magician)
James "Mark" Wilson (April 11, 1929 – January 19, 2021) was an American magician and author. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was known for becoming the first major "television magician" and for showing illusions on television format.
Wilson died on January 19, 2021 at the age of 91.
David Berglas
David Berglas (born 30 June 1926) is a British magician and mentalist. He was one of the first magicians to appear on UK television. In the 1950s, Berglas created what is now referred to as the "Holy Grail" of card magic, known as "The Berglas Effect." The effect was first named "The Berglas Effect" by Jon Racherbaumer in his 1984 book "At The Table"
Berglas was awarded an MBE in the 2019 New Year Honours List.
John Bird (actor)
John Bird (born 22 November 1936) is an English satirist, actor and comedian. He is best known for his work with John Fortune. Bird was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, England.
Bird is known for his works in "A Dandy in Aspic" (1968), "30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia" (1968), "This, That and the Other" (1969), "Take A Girl Like You" (1970), "Jabberwocky" (1977), "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1976), and "Yellow Pages" (1988).
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE, (born 10 May 1933) is a British-American novelist. Her debut novel, "A Woman of Substance", was published in 1979 and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. It ranks as one of the top-ten bestselling novels of all-time. She was born in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Terry Carter
Terry Carter (born December 16, 1928) is an American actor and movie director. He is known for his roles as Sgt. Joe Broadhurst on the seven-year TV series "McCloud" and as Colonel Tigh on the original "Battlestar Galactica". He was born in New York City.
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Stevie Chalmers
Thomas Stephen Chalmers (26 December 1935 – 29 April 2019) was a Scottish footballer. He was born in Glasgow. He played as a centre-forward. He is best known for scoring the winning goal for Celtic in the 1967 European Cup Final. From 1964 to 1966, he played for the national team.
In 2017, it was confirmed that Chalmers had dementia. He died on 29 April 2019, at the age of 83.
Michael Charlton
Michael Charlton (born 1 May 1927) is an Australian-born British journalist and broadcaster. He was born in Sydney. He worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for many years.
In 1961 he was the inaugural presenter of "Four Corners", an Australian current affairs programme. In 1963 he was the recipient of the Australian Gold Logie award.
Leah Chase
Leah Chase (January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef, author and television personality. She was born in New Orleans but was raised in Madisonville, Louisiana, before moving back to New Orleans to attend catholic school. Chase was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine. She supported African-American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was known as a gathering place during the 1960s among many who participated in the Civil Rights Movement.
Chase died on June 1, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 96.
Madisonville, Louisiana
Madisonville is a town in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 748 at the 2010 census.
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John Cocks
John Cocks (23 August 1966 – 6 February 2019), also known as John 'Cocksy' Cocks, was a New Zealand celebrity builder and television presenter. He was most notable for working on the "My House My Castle" series in the 1990s for New Zealand's TV2.
In 2016, he was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer. He died from the disease on 6 February 2019 at his home in Tairua, New Zealand, aged 52.
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Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Charles Cope (born 14 April 1931) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)", Jed Stone in "Coronation Street" and Ray Hilton in "Brookside". Cope was born in Liverpool.
Cope was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2013.
Michael Craig
Michael Francis Gregson (born 27 January 1928), known professionally as Michael Craig, is a British actor and screenwriter. He was born in Pune, British India. He is known for his work in theatre, movie and television both in the United Kingdom and Australia.
In movies, he is known for his roles in "Campbell's Kingdom" (1957), "Sea of Sand" (1958), "The Silent Enemy" (1958), "Sapphire" (1959), "Doctor in Love" (1960), "Mysterious Island" (1961), "The Iron Maiden" (1962), "Modesty Blaise" (1966), "Turkey Shoot" (1982), "Ride a Wild Pony" (1975) and "Appointment with Death" (1988).
Jon Culshaw
Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the radio comedy "Dead Ringers" since 2000.
Culshaw has voiced many characters for ITV shows including "2DTV" (2001), "Spitting Image" (1994–96) and "Newzoids" (2015–2016), as well as appearing in "The Impressions Show" alongside Debra Stephenson from 2009 until 2011.
Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler (July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020) was an American adventure novelist and explorer. He was known for his novels which feature character Dirk Pitt. They have reached "The New York Times" fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler is the founder and chairman of the real-life National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA).
Paul Dewar
Paul W. Dewar (January 25, 1963 – February 6, 2019) was a Canadian educator and politician. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Ottawa Centre from 2006 to 2015.
On February 14, 2018, Dewer had surgery for a brain tumour. He was later diagnosed with terminal glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer. Dewar died from the disease on February 6, 2019 in Ottawa, aged 56.
Divide and conquer algorithm
The Divide and Conquer algorithm (also called the Divide and Conquer method) is a basis for many popular sorting algorithms. An algorithm is simply a series of steps to solve a problem. The general idea of divide and conquer is to take a problem and break it apart into smaller problems that are easier to solve.
This idea can be seen in many popular algorithms. A helpful way to think of this idea, would be when a person looks through a dictionary. For example, if they are looking for the word “Dog”, and land on a page with the word “Firetruck”, the person knows that all the pages to the right of firetruck will not contain dog. They know this because D comes before F in the alphabet. This logic allows a person to spend less time searching, because every time they arrive on a page with the wrong letter, they know that they can eliminate the pages to their right or their left. This is an example of diving a problem up into smaller pieces. If one were to apply this concept in programming, one might start with an ordered list. If they wanted to search through that list, they would start near the center of that list. Simple logic would determine if the desired element is to the right or the left of the middle element, or in some cases it may even be the middle element. From there, each time this algorithm searches, it decreases the size of the list by half. This makes searching through the list extremely efficient.
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and former television screenwriter, script editor and producer. Dicks had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series "Doctor Who", working as a writer and script editor from 1968 to 1974. He was known as "the most prolific contributor to "Doctor Who"".
Dicks died at his home in Hampstead, London after a short-illness on 29 August 2019 at the age of 84.
Fred Dinenage
Frederick Edgar Dinenage MBE (born 8 June 1942) is an English television presenter, broadcaster and author. He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands. He is known for presenting "How", "How 2", and "ITV News Meridian".
Dinenage was born in Birmingham. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, an independent school in Portsmouth.
In computer science, a while loop is a statement which is used to execute code repeatedly based on a condition. Simply, it can be thought of as a repeating if statement.
The while loop consists of two parts: the condition and a block of code. The condition is evaluated and if it is true, the block of code is executed. This repeats until the condition evaluates to false. As a pre-test loop, the while loop checks the condition before the block is executed. In contrast, the do-while loop checks the condition "after" the loop has executed. A while loop would typically be used when you don't know the number of times you would like to loop over the block of code. Instead, code would continue looping until a particular condition is met. When the number of times a loop is to be executed is already known before the execution of the loop, a for loop would be a better choice.
A template of a while loop is shown below:
while (condition)
Example code in the C programming language is shown below.
int x = 0;
while (x < 5)
In this example, the loop first checks to see if the variable x is less than 5. Because it is, it will enter the loop, printing the value of x and then increment x by 1. After completing the code block, it will continue to repeat the code block until x is equal to 5. When x is equal to five, the condition evaluates to false and the code exits the while loop.
A loop that continues repeating forever is possible if the condition is always true. When this happens, it is up to the developer to create a statement to exit the loop. An example of this is shown below:
In the above example, the condition while always be true. To exit the loop, a break statement is used when a specific condition inside the loop evaluates to true.
In computer science, a for-loop (or “for loop”) is used to run specified lines of code repeatedly. In different languages, there are different keywords to specify this statement—ways to identify a for loop—but they all do the same task. Most languages use either “for” or “do” as keywords.
A for-loop has two parts: a header, and a body of code. The body consists of a set of instructions (lines of code) that run for each repetition of the loop. The header often declares how many loops to compete, generally indicated by either a loop counter or a loop variable. For-loops are typically used when the number of repetitions are known. For-loops are similar to “while-loops”, but usually have a known number of repetitions.
Sample for-loop in Python:
print('Hello, world!')
This for loop prints outs "Hello, world!" ten times.
The name for-loop comes from the English word for, which is the direct translation of the earlier German "für", used by Heinz Rutishauser, who also helped define ALGOL 58 and 60.
In computer science, a loop counter is a variable that controls how many repetitions the loop will do. Usually, the loop counter variable is an integer value that increments by 1 for each completed loop. However, loop counters can also decrement, and can have step sizes other than 1.
Loop counters change each iteration. With each repeat, there is unique counter value. The loop counter is the deciding factor for when a loop should end and go onto the next section of code.
Common identifier names for loop counters are i, j, and k(and so on, if needed).
A for-loop is available in most common programming languages. While for-loops in different languages will all fulfill the same task, there are differences on how each programming language deals with for loops.
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In 1981, Dragon contributed to Carpenters' "Made In America" album, programming synthesizers on "(Want You) Back In My Life Again". In 1996, Dragon played keyboard on a number of tracks on the self-titled album by pop punk band Size 14.
In 2009, Dragon was diagnosed with a neurological disorder which causes him to have tremors.
Dragon died on January 2, 2019 in Prescott, Arizona from renal failure at the age of 76.
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Finkel died on April 16, 2020 in Madison, Connecticut from problems caused by a rare-form of brain disease at the age of 69.
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Gray died at a hospital in Glasgow of pneumonia-related problems on 29 December 2019, a day after his 85th birthday.
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In 1959, he starred as Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series "Five Fingers". He was known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in Irwin Allen's television series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and as CIA agent Felix Leiter in two James Bond movies, "Live and Let Die" and "Licence to Kill".
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Hedison died on July 18, 2019 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 92.
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Henson died on 15 December 2019 from lymphoma, aged 74.
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In 2009, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category Early Influence.
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Kanarek was born in Seattle. He attended the University of Washington as an undergraduate and Loyola Law School. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1957.
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Kotto died on March 15, 2021 in Manila, Philippines at the age of 81.
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In December 2017, Lewis was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. He died on 11 January 2019 from the disease, aged 34.
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In July 2011, Núñez was sentenced to six years in jail following conviction on a series of fraud charges. The sentence was appealed and Núñez was allowed bail. In November 2014, he entered in jail.
Núñez died on 3 December 2018 in Barcelona at the age of 87.
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Carey died in Newport Beach, California on November 21, 2018 at the age of 75.
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De Censi died on December 2, 2018 in Lima, Peru at the age of 94.
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Engel-Wijnberg died in Branford, Connecticut on 4 December 2018 at the age of 96.
Boolean data type
A Boolean data type is a data type that can be either one of these two values: true or false. The boolean data type was originally added to the C++ language by the ISO/ANSI(International Standards Organization/American National Standards Organization) committee in 1998. Type bool expressions are named after the English mathematician George Boole, who formulated rules for mathematical logic. Boolean expressions also end up with a value of either true or false. Boolean expressions are used in branching and looping statements. In programming, a boolean can be used with conditional statements (statements that only happen when the right condition is met).
An example of a boolean in pseudocode:
if (Boolean_Expression)
Yes_Statement_1
Yes_Statement_Last
No_Statement_1
No_Statement_Last
Boolean data types can also be used with other booleans inside of conditional statements using a conjunction operator. For example:
if (Boolean_Expression1 and Boolean_Expression2)
Yes_Statement_First
No_Statement_First
It can also be used with a disjunction operator:
if (Boolean_Expression1 or Boolean_Expression2)
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Rurua died of a heart attack at his Tbilisi apartment on 4 December 2018, aged 50.
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