cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulanger (16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.
She grew up in a musical family. Her first success was when she was at the Conservatoire de Paris. She believed, that she had no talent as a composer, she gave up that path. She became a teacher instead. As a teacher, she had a large influence on many young copmosers of the 20th century. Most of them were from the United States and other English-speaking countries. Among her students were people who later became important composers, soloists, arrangers and conductors. Some of them were Grażyna Bacewicz, Burt Bacharach, Daniel Barenboim, Lennox Berkeley, İdil Biret, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, John Eliot Gardiner, Philip Glass, Roy Harris, Quincy Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Astor Piazzolla, and Virgil Thomson.
Boulanger taught in the US and England. She worked with music academies including the Juilliard School, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Longy School, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. For most of her life, she was in her family's flat in Paris, where she taught for most of the seven decades from the start of her career until her death at the age of 92.
Boulanger was the first woman to conduct many major orchestras in America and Europe, including the BBC Symphony, Boston Symphony, Hallé, and Philadelphia orchestras. She conducted several world premieres, including works by Copland and Stravinsky.
Walk of Life (Billie Piper song)
"Walk of Life" is a 2000 song by Billie Piper and is the third and final single and is the title track from her second studio album Walk of Life. It peaked at number 25 in the United Kingdom and number 66 in Switzerland. It did not chart in Australia and New Zealand.
Diss railway station
Diss railway station is a station in Diss, Norfolk. The station is operated by Greater Anglia services. Trains go to and from Norwich and London. Diss railway station is part of the National Rail network.
Walk of Life (Billie Piper song)
Track listings
UK CD2 (SINDX23)
UK cassette single (SINC23)
European CD single (SINCDE23)
Bush frog
A bush frog can be one of two types of frogs. They are found in sub-Saharan Africa and one also in Asia:
Beef cattle
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle). The meat of cattle is known as beef. While the principal use of beef cattle is meat production, other uses include leather, and products used in shampoo and cosmetics. The plural beeves, when referring to such meat-animals (of either sex), is well known in the American cattle industry, but is often restricted to steers.
We Shall Overcome (Bernie Sanders album)
We Shall Overcome is an album of folk music recorded and released by Bernie Sanders in 1987. It was done when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont. The album has since been released on iTunes and has attained a new wave of popularity as a result of Sanders' ongoing presidential campaign.
Background
Sanders made a list of ten songs he would be willing to record, five of which made the cut for the album.
Norwegian Forest cat
The Norwegian Forest cat (Norsk skogkatt or Norsk skaukatt) is a breed of domestic cat found in Northern Europe. This breed is adapted to a very cold climate. It has a double coat. The top coat is glossy, long, water-shedding hairs. It also has a woolly undercoat for insulation. The breed's ancestors may have been brought to Norway by the Vikings.
History
During World War II, the breed became nearly extinct. A Norwegian cat club helped the breed. They created an official breeding program. It was registered as a breed with the European Fédération Internationale Féline in the 1970s. This was when a local cat fancier, Carl-Fredrik Nordane, took notice of the breed. He made efforts to register it. Currently, the Norwegian Forest breed is very popular in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and France.
Lavasoa dwarf lemur
The Lavasoa dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis) is a newly discovered primate. It is a small nocturnal species of lemur found on Madagascar. It lives in three small, isolated patches of forest on the southern slopes of the Lavasoa Mountains in southern Madagascar. Fewer than 50 individuals are thought to exist. Its habitat lies in a transitional zone between three ecoregions: dry spiny bush, humid littoral forest (near and in water), and humid forest.
It was first collected in 2001, and was thought to be a subpopulation of the furry-eared dwarf lemur (C. crossleyi). It was not formally described until 2013. It is one of six species of dwarf lemur. The research also suggested the existence of other new species.
Celâl Bayar
Mahmud Celal Bayar (16 May 1883 – 22 August 1986) was a Turkish politician, statesman and the third President of Turkey. At the time of his death, he was the longest lived former head of state, living over 103 years (he was surpassed in 2008 by Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum).
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Zack Snyder's Justice League, also known as "Snyder Cut", is the director's cut of the 2017 American superhero movie, Justice League.
It is a version of Justice League, the fifth movie of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name, as director Zack Snyder had wanted it before he left the production and Joss Whedon took over his duties.
It won the Academy Award for Best Cheer Moment in 2022.
Differences between the two movies
Like the theatrical release, Zack Snyder's Justice League is about the Justice League, made up of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg as they try to save the world from the threat of Steppenwolf and Darkseid. However, there are many big differences between the theatrical release and this version of the film, including more backstory on Cyborg (who becomes a much bigger part of the movie), Flash, Aquaman, Steppenwolf, and Darkseid. The "Snyder Cut" takes itself more seriously than the theatrical cut, featuring more action and character development and fewer "corny" jokes, in addition to showing characters who were originally left out like Iris West, Ryan Choi, Martian Manhunter and The Joker. It also gets rid of any scenes that Joss Whedon had filmed, only relying on what Zack Snyder had filmed before leaving the project, in addition to one more scene filmed in 2020.
The movie is divided into six parts with an epilogue due to its 4-hour length.
Plot
Thousands of years ago, Darkseid and his parademon armies try to conquer the Earth, but they are defeated by a combined army of humans, Amazons, Atlanteans, Olympic Gods Zeus, Ares and Artemis, and a Green Lantern. In the present day when Superman is killed fighting Doomsday, his dying scream reawakens the Mother Boxes, devices that were used to try and destroy the Earth but left behind by Darkseid, alerting Steppenwolf, who is Darkseid's exiled lieutenant. Aiming to get the boxes to turn Earth into a copy of Apokolips, his home planet, Steppenwolf invades Themyscira first to take the Mother Box guarded by the Amazons, who send a warning to Diana Prince, leading her to find out the history of the Mother Boxes and the first battle on Earth.
Diana informs Bruce Wayne, and as the two are trying to form a team of superheroes in Superman's absence, they realize they need to act fast with Steppenwolf trying to recapture the Mother Boxes. Though Bruce had failed to recruit Arthur Curry, he finds Barry Allen and gets him to join, but Diana is unable to convince Victor Stone to join until Victor's father Silas is kidnapped by the parademons and brought to Steppenwolf. Meanwhile, Arthur is convinced to help the Atlanteans guard their Mother Box. He manages to save Mera when Steppenwolf attacks the outpost but is unable to prevent the alien from taking the second box. Victor arrives in time to help Bruce, Diana, and Barry rescue several S.T.A.R. Labs scientists, including Silas, from an underwater building where Steppenwolf is questioning them about the final Mother Box's location. Though they fight Steppenwolf off, the building is flooded and they are only saved when Arthur arrives and stops the water from reaching them.
Steppenwolf, having failed to get the third box, receives a vision of the Anti-Life Equation that Darkseid wants so he can rule over all universes, realizing it is on Earth. He tells Darkseid and DeSaad, and Darkseid promises to redeem him if he can find the third box and transform Earth with the boxes. Meanwhile, Victor retrieves the Mother Box, which he had hidden, and tells the rest of the team that the device was used by Silas to save his life and rebuild him as a cyborg after a horrific car crash that also killed his mother. After this, the team realizes that the Box can be used to return Superman to life and they all agree to try and bring him back, though they realize the box will alert Steppenwolf either way. They dig up Clark Kent's body before sneaking it to the Kryptonian ship under watch by S.T.A.R. Labs, placing it in the waters of the ship's Genesis Chamber. Clark is resurrected when Barry charges the box with his speed, but having lost his memories, he attacks the team when Victor targets him in self-defense. Lois Lane arrives and calms Clark down before he can kill Bruce, and they go back to Smallville so he can regain his memories.
The box is located by Steppenwolf, but before he can take it, Silas charges it with laser heat, allowing himself to die in the process, so that Victor can track the box. As the team, without Superman, locates the Mother Box in Russia back at the Batcave, Victor decides to separate the "Unity" of the boxes himself, recruiting Barry to help give him a charge to get in. The five heroes arrive as Steppenwolf tries to unite the boxes, with Superman later joining to help them beat up Steppenwolf, but they are not able to stop the Unity in time. As the Unity creates a big explosion, Barry manages to run faster than the speed of light to reverse time and undo this, giving Victor the spark needed to get in and separate the boxes with Superman's help. The team then kills Steppenwolf and throws his body back to Apokolips at Darkseid's feet through a portal. Darkseid vows revenge and aims to come to Earth himself to get the Anti-Life equation.
After the battle, Bruce, Diana and Alfred Pennyworth decide to rebuild Wayne Manor as the team's headquarters. Barry gets a job in Central City's police department, Victor listens to a message left behind by Silas, Arthur goes to see his father, and Clark goes back to being a reporter and Superman. Lex Luthor escapes prison and tells Deathstroke the secret identity of Batman. After another bad dream of a world where Superman is controlled by Darkseid, Bruce wakes up and is greeted by Martian Manhunter, who had been on Earth this whole time pretending to be General Swanwick. He thanks Bruce for forming the team and defeating Steppenwolf before promising to be in touch to help plan for Darkseid's return.
Background
In May 2017, Snyder stepped down during post-production following the suicide of his daughter, and Whedon took over, finishing the movie as an uncredited director. Whedon took over reshoots and other changes that added a brighter tone and more humor, and cut the runtime down to 120 minutes.
The theatrical Justice League was a commercial failure and received mixed reviews, leading Warner Bros. to rethink the future of the DCEU.
When it was revealed that the movie had a troubled production and its state before Snyder stepped down, many fans wanted to see Snyder's version of the movie. Fans and members of the cast and crew petitioned for the release of this, which they nicknamed the "Snyder Cut".
Larry D. Mann
Larry D. Mann (18 December 1922 – 6 January 2014) was a Canadian actor. He was known for his voice role as Rudolph on Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Background
At the time, Warner Bros. had no plans to release an alternate cut, and movie industry figures regarded the release as unlikely. However, Warner Bros. changed its mind in February 2020. In May, Snyder announced that the original four-hour cut would be completed and released as Zack Snyder's Justice League by the streaming service HBO Max.
Larry D. Mann
Mann died on 6 January 2014 at his home in Los Angeles. He died from Alzheimer's disease. He was aged 91.
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Background
The Snyder Cut will cost $20–30 million to complete the visual effects, score, and editing with an additional $40-50 million for reshoots.
Release
Zack Snyder's Justice League was released in March 18, 2021 on HBO Max. and the Philippines released in March 20, 2021 in HBO Go. With a runtime of 242 minutes, it is the longest superhero movie ever made.
Sequoia (genus)
Sequoia is a genus of redwood trees in the Cupressaceae family. It includes the largest trees in the world. The only living species of the genus is Sequoia sempervirens, the coast redwood, in northern California and southern Oregon in the United States. Several other species have been named from fossils, but are now extinct. These include Sequoia affinis, Sequoia chinensis in China, Sequoia langsdorfii, Sequoia dakotensis of South Dakota, and Sequoia magnifica. Other related species of the subfamily Sequoioideae include Sequoiadendron Giganteum, the Giant Sequoia and Metasequoia Glyptostroboides, the Dawn Redwood.
The oldest known fossils in the Sequoia genus are those of Sequoia jeholensis, which have been found in Jurassic deposits of southern Manchuria. By the late Cretaceous it had spread to other parts of China, Europe, and western North America.
Giant sequoia are much more recent in the fossil record, appearing 25 million years ago. They grow only in 75 groups across 35,600 acres in California, near the Sierra Nevada mountains. These groups were formed as a protection from logging. The most famous area with giant sequoia trees is Sequoia National Park. The park was made as the second national park, after the Yellowstone in 1980. The Sequoia National Park is managed with Kings Canyon National Park. Together, the two parks are called Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Several trees in Sequoia National Park have even been named, for example General Grant, the Grizzly Giant or General Sherman.
Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is a Grammy Award given to musicians for playing very good heavy metal music. It was first given at the 32nd Grammy Awards in 1990. Metallica was the first band to win the award. Metallica has won the award six times.
Iraqi dinar
The Iraqi dinar is the currency of Iraq. One dinar equals 1000 fils (فلس).
Underwater
Underwater is a term telling what is below the surface of a body of water such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, or river. Most of the planet Earth is covered by water. The bottom of the ocean is called the sea-bed. Most of the sea-bed is between 4000 and 5500 m below the surface of the ocean. Just like the Earth's dry land, the sea-bed also has mountains, valleys and flat plains, although they are covered with water. The deepest part of all the world's oceans is a place called the Challenger Deep, which is in the Mariana Trench. It is 10924 m under the sea.
National hero
The title of Hero is presented by various governments in recognition of acts of self-sacrifice to the state, and great achievements in combat or labour.
Underwater
Although a number of human activities happen underwater, such as scuba diving for work or recreation, or even warfare with submarines, most of the oceans, especially the deepest parts, have not been explored yet.
Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson (born 12 May 1983) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for his role as General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He has also appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011), About Time (2013), Unbroken (2014), Ex Machina (2015), Brooklyn (2015), The Revenant (2015) and Peter Rabbit (2018). He was nominated for a Tony Award in 2006 for his role in The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
Gleeson was born in Dublin. His father, Brendan, and his brother, Brian, are also actors. He is a fan of English football club Aston Villa.
Will Poulter
William Jack "Will" Poulter (born 28 January 1993) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the movies Son of Rambow (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010), We're the Millers (2013), The Maze Runner (2014), The Revenant (2015) and Detroit (2017). He won the 2014 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Poulter was born in Hammersmith, London, England.
SAS
SAS may refer to:
St Martin's Church, Canterbury
Since 1668 the church has been part of the benefice of St Martin and St Paul Canterbury. Both St Martin's and nearby St Paul's churches are used for weekly services. The current rector of the parish is the Reverend Mark Richard Griffin.
Early history
Upon Augustine's arrival, he used St Martin's as his mission headquarters. King Æthelberht was baptised here. When Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine's Abbey were established, St Martin's lost its initial prestige. However, it still remains of historical importance.
Architecture
Local finds prove that Christianity did exist in this area of the city at the time. The church contains many reused Roman bricks or spolia. It also has complete sections of walls of Roman tiles. At the core of the church the brick remains of a Roman tomb were integrated into the structure. Several sections of walls are clearly very early. It is possible that a blocked square-headed doorway in the chancel was the entrance to Bertha's church. Meanwhile, other sections of wall come from the period after the Gregorian mission in the 7th or 8th centuries. The apse that was originally at the east end has been removed. The tower came much later, in Perpendicular style. The church is a Grade I listed building.
Graves
Many notable local families and well-known graves were buried in its churchyard. These people include:
Music
The church has a continuing musical tradition from the monks of St Augustine to the present day. The choral director for the parish is Dom del Nevo.
The tower has three bells set for swing-chiming using levers.
Hawthorne, Florida
Hawthorne is a city of Florida in the United States.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is in the boot sequence before the operating system and after the firmware. UEFI replaces the legacy BIOS firmware interface found in all IBM computers. Most UEFI implementations are backwards-compatible to the legacy BIOS. UEFI supports remote diagnostics and repairing of computers, even when there isn't an operating system.
Intel made the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). Some of the EFI's usage and formats mimic those of Windows. In 2005, EFI 1.10 (the final release) was deprecated.
Creation
The motivation for EFI came during early development of the first Intel–HP Itanium systems in the mid-1990s. Limitations had become too restrictive for the server platforms Itanium was looking for. The effort to address these restrictions began in 1998 and was first called the Intel Boot Initiative. It was renamed to Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).
In July 2005, Intel discontinued its development of the EFI specification at version 1.10, and gave it to the Unified EFI Forum, which has developed the specification as the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The original EFI specification remains owned by Intel, which exclusively provides licenses for EFI-based products, but the UEFI specification is owned by the UEFI Forum.
Versions
Version 2.0 of UEFI was released on 31 January 2006. It added cryptography and security.
Version 2.1 of UEFI was released on 7 January 2007. It added network authentication and the user interface architecture ('Human Interface Infrastructure' in UEFI).
The latest UEFI specification, version 2.9, was released in March 2021.
Open source
The first open source UEFI implementation, Tiano, was released by Intel in 2004. Tiano has since then been succeded by EDK and EDK2 and is now maintained by the TianoCore community.
Advantages
UEFI firmware provides several technical advantages over a traditional BIOS system:
Applications
Beyond loading an OS, UEFI can run UEFI applications, which stay as files on the EFI System Partition. They can be executed from the UEFI Shell, by the firmware's boot manager, or by other UEFI apps. UEFI apps can be developed and installed independently of the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
A type of UEFI application is an OS boot loader such as GRUB, rEFInd, Gummiboot, and Windows Boot Manager; which loads some OS files into memory and executes them. Also, an OS boot loader can provide a user interface to allow the selection of another UEFI application to run. Utilities like the UEFI Shell are also UEFI applications.
Protocols
EFI defines protocols as a set of software interfaces used for communication between two binary modules. All EFI drivers must provide services to others via protocols. The EFI Protocols are similar to the BIOS interrupt calls.
Graphics features
The EFI 1.0 specification defined a UGA (Universal Graphic Adapter) protocol as a way to support graphics features. UEFI did not include UGA and replaced it with GOP (Graphics Output Protocol).
The Sims 2
The Sims 2 is a 2004 video game and the sequel to The Sims. It is a simulation game made by Maxis and EA Games.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
Graphics features
UEFI 2.1 defined a "Human Interface Infrastructure" (HII) to manage user input, localized strings, fonts, and forms (in the HTML sense). These enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) or independent BIOS vendors (IBVs) to design graphical interfaces for pre-boot configuration.
The Sims 2
The game features a full 3D graphics engine. Like the first The Sims game, it has many expansion packs.
EA released a sequel, The Sims 3, in June 2009.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
Graphics features
Most early UEFI firmware implementations were console-based. Today many UEFI firmware implementations are GUI-based.
Hilaire Mbakop
Hilaire Mbakop (born February 28, 1973 in Bangangté, Cameroon) is a literary scholar and writer. He publishes his works in German and French. His literary work based on his intercultural experiences (e.g. Mambé's Homeland (German: Mambés Heimat) and Black African Aliens (French: Les étrangers noirs africains), on the other hand he practices social criticism and attacks political grievances (e.g. The Destroyed Village (German: Das zerstörte Dorf) and The Hexagon and its accomplices'' (German: Das Hexagon und seine Mittäter)).
Life
After graduating from high school in Bangangté, he began studying German language and literature and history at the University of Yaoundé I in 1992 and at the same time completed his teacher training at the Higher Teachers' Training College affiliated with Yaoundé I.
Mbakop's first trip abroad took place in 1996: At the age of 23 he received a scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to prepare his master's thesis at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main. In 1999 it was published under the title On the Problems of Freedom and Individuality: A Study of Goethe's "Götz von Berlichingen” and “Egmont”. Four years later Mbakop obtained his doctorate from the same university with a dissertation on the pamphlets of Heinrich Mann and André Gide.
Influenced by these authors and the values of Christianity – attendance of the Catholic primary school, PhD scholarship from the Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD) –, he has written some literary works that denounce injustice: Mambé's Homeland (novel, 2007) scourges the gap between poor and poor Rich in Cameroon, Death of a Disabled (novel, 2010) the lack of understanding of an anonymous society for the needs of the disabled, Les étrangers noirs africains (Roman, 2011) the discrimination against Black Africans in Germany. The Social Drama The Destroyed Village (2010) is a lawsuit against the people of Bali-Nyonga who removed the neighboring village Bawock from the map in 2007. In the historical drama The Hexagon and its Accomplices I (2011), France and its Cameroonian henchmen sit on the dock because of the massacre of the Bassas in the second half of the 50s, and in The Hexagon and its Accomplices II (September 2014) they are accused for the genocide against the Bamilékés between 1959 and 1971.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
BDS – Boot Device Select
BDS is a part of the DXE. In this stage, boot devices are initialized, UEFI drivers or Option ROMs of PCI devices are executed according to system configuration, and boot options are processed.
The Sims 2
Changes
There are now six life stages: baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, and elder. An additional young adult stage is added when you get the university expansion pack. Sims can now grow up and eventually die. In the first game, Sims would stay children forever and adults would stay adults forever. Teenagers can hold jobs as well as go to school.
Hilaire Mbakop
Life
In 2010 Mbakop published The Wood Fire Fairy Tales that he had collected three years earlier. In the foreword, he says that he had "written down these oral stories that were in danger of disappearing, so that they are accessible to everyone," and adds, "At the same time, the written form guarantees that this cultural heritage is saved for posterity.” These fairy tales are a facet of the Medúmbà culture, the richness of which he depicts in his autobiography My Childhood and Youth, that was equally published in 2010. His most recent work is the collection of poems The Faces of Life (October 2014).
Mbakop's socio-political commitment expressed itself not only in his books, but also in his journalistic writings and numerous interviews with the media.
The Sims 2
Changes
Careers have gone under many changes. There is now a schedule; there are seven days in a week, and Sims at school are off on Saturday and Sunday. Sims can now get paid vacation days and start working 4–5 days a week. A meter measures job performance (their mood when they get to work). A new thing called "chance cards" lets the player pick what to do in a situation. Sims can gain/lose skill points, gain/lose money, or be promoted, demoted, or even fired.
Children and teenagers now bring homework home and their grades rise or fall depending on whether they finish it or not. Teenagers can hold jobs as well as go to school, but if their grades drop too low they can lose their job.
Other new things are wants and fears. These change when a want or fear is done or when the Sim wakes up from sleep.
Like in the first Sims game, a mother Sim and a father Sim can have a child. Also, children can be made at the start of the game or got from the adoption service.
One of the biggest changes in Sims 2 is that a Sim can go to a community lot (a place in the town like a store or a park). They can go there by using the phone to call a taxi.
Expansion packs
These are addons to the game which add new items, new places and new features. They are listed in the order that they came out in the shops. They are meant to come out 2 times a year.
There are eight expansion packs in total.
Stuff packs
These are packages that add only items to the game. They are less expensive than the regular expansion packs.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
TSL – Transient System Load
This is the stage between boot device selection and hand-off to the OS. At this point one may enter UEFI shell, or execute an UEFI application such as the OS boot loader.
RT – Runtime
The UEFI hands off to the operating system (OS) after ExitBootServices is executed. A UEFI compatible OS is now responsible for exiting boot services triggering the firmware to unload all no longer needed code and data, leaving only runtime services code/data, e.g. SMM and ACPI. A typical modern OS will prefer to use its own programs (such as kernel drivers) to control hardware devices.
When a legacy OS is used, CSM will handle this call making sure that the system is compatible with legacy BIOS expectations.
Criticism
Many digital rights activists have protested against UEFI. Some experts have blamed UEFI as an attempt to remove the ability of the user to control the computer. It does not solve the BIOS's long-standing problems of requiring two different drivers—one for the firmware and one for the operating system—for most hardware.
Open-source project TianoCore also provides UEFI interfaces. TianoCore doesn't have the specialized drivers that initialize functions, which are instead provided by coreboot, of which TianoCore is one of many payload options. The development of coreboot requires cooperation from CPU manufacturers to provide the specifications needed to develop initialization drivers.
Secure Boot
In 2011, Microsoft announced that computers certified to run its Windows 8 operating system had to release with Microsoft's public key enrolled and Secure Boot enabled. Following the announcement, Microsoft was accused by critics and free software/open source advocates (including the Free Software Foundation) of trying to use the Secure Boot functionality of UEFI to prevent the installation of alternative operating systems such as Linux. Microsoft denied that the Secure Boot requirement was intended to serve as a form of lock-in. They also clarified its requirements by stating that 32-bit-based systems certified for Windows 8 must allow Secure Boot to enter custom mode or be disabled, but not on systems using the ARM architecture. Windows 10 allows OEMs to decide whether or not Secure Boot can be changed by users of their 32-bit systems.
Other implementations
Several major Linux distributions have made different implementations for Secure Boot. Garrett himself made a minimal bootloader that allows the user to individually trust keys provided by Linux distributions. Ubuntu 12.10 uses an older version of shim pre-configured for use with Canonical's own key that verifies only the bootloader and allows unsigned kernels to be loaded; developers believed that the practice of signing only the bootloader is more feasible, since a trusted kernel is effective at securing only the user space, and not the pre-boot state for which Secure Boot is designed to add protection. That also allows users to build their own kernels and use custom kernel modules as well, without the need to reconfigure the system. Canonical also maintains its own private key to sign installations of Ubuntu pre-loaded on certified OEM computers that run the operating system, and also plans to enforce a Secure Boot requirement as wellrequiring both a Canonical key and a Microsoft key (for compatibility reasons) to be included in their firmware. Fedora also uses shim, but requires that both the kernel and its modules be signed as well.
Disputes
It has been disputed whether the operating system kernel and its modules must be signed as well; while the UEFI specifications do not require it, Microsoft has asserted that their contractual requirements do, and that it reserves the right to revoke any certificates used to sign code that can be used to compromise the security of the system. In Windows, only the WHQL kernel driver is allowed if Secure Boot is enabled. In February 2013, another Red Hat developer attempted to submit a patch to the Linux kernel that would allow it to parse Microsoft's authenticode signing using a master X.509 key embedded in PE files signed by Microsoft. However, the proposal was criticized by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who attacked Red Hat for supporting Microsoft's control over the Secure Boot infrastructure.
Reports
In August 2016 it was reported that two security researchers had found the "golden key" security key Microsoft uses in signing operating systems. Technically, no key was exposed. However, an exploitable binary signed by the key was exposed. This allows any software to run as though it was genuinely signed by Microsoft and exposes the possibility of rootkit and bootkit attacks. This also makes patching the problem impossible, since any patch can be replaced (downgraded) by the (signed) exploitable binary. Microsoft responded in a statement that the vulnerability only exists in ARM architecture and Windows RT devices, and has released two patches; however, the patches do not (and cannot) remove the vulnerability, which would require key replacements in end user firmware to fix.
Support
Many Linux distributions support Secure Boot now, such as RHEL (RHEL 7 and later), CentOS (CentOS 7 and later ), Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian (Debian 10 and later ), OpenSUSE, and SUSE Linux.
Firmware problems
The increased prominence of UEFI firmware in devices has also led to a number of technical problems blamed on their respective implementations.
In January 2013, a bug surrounding the UEFI implementation on some Samsung laptops went public, which caused them to be bricked after installing Linux in UEFI mode. While potential conflicts with a kernel module designed to access system features on Samsung laptops were initially blamed (also prompting kernel maintainers to disable the module on UEFI systems as a safety measure), Matthew Garrett discovered that the bug was actually triggered by storing too many UEFI variables to memory, and that the bug could also be triggered under Windows under certain conditions. In conclusion, he determined that the offending kernel module had caused kernel message dumps to be written to the firmware, triggering the bug.
Communes of the Aude department
There are 438 communes in the Aude département in France.
Night school
Night school is a special form of school. It targets adults, who usually work during the day. For this reason, the classes are held in the evening, and sometimes during the night. The focus of the kinds of education these schools is to either get a certification to study at university level, or to get further qualifications for the work people are currently doing. As the classes are held in the evening, these schools are sometimes called evening school as well.
Emperor Ming of Han
Emperor Ming of Han (15 June 28 AD – 5 September 75 AD) was the second emperor of China's Eastern Han Dynasty.
He was born Liu Yang.
Perceptual psychology
Perceptual psychology is a subfield of cognitive psychology that is concerned specifically with the pre-conscious innate aspects of the human cognitive system or perception. A pioneer of this field was J. J. Gibson.
Google Pixel
Google Pixel is a brand of hardware products by Google, including smartphones and laptops.
Pixel (1st generation)
Google announced the first generation of Pixel smartphones during the October of 2016. They called these smartphones the Pixel and the Pixel XL. Google's main selling feature to promote these phones is their back cameras. Google Pixel phones have unlimited cloud storage for photos through Google Photos
Pixel 2
Google announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL on the 4th of October, 2017.
Pixel C
The Pixel C was announced by Google at an event on the 29th of September, 2015. The Pixel C has a USB "type-C" port and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The device included Android 6.0.1 at launch, and later was updated to Android 7.0.
Van Williams
Van Zandt Jarvis Williams (February 27, 1934 – November 28, 2016) was an American actor. He played Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros. television detective series Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960) and its sequel, Surfside 6 (1960–1962).
He teamed up with with Bruce Lee as his partner Kato, in the television series The Green Hornet during 1966–1967.
Google Pixel
Chromebook Pixel (2015)
On the 11th of March, 2015, Google announced the second generation Chromebook Pixel. Google stopped selling it on the 29th of August, 2016.
Pixelbook Pen
On the 4th of October, 2017, Google announced the Pixelbook Pen, a stylus usable with the new Pixelbook. It has pressure sensitivity as well as support for Google Assistant.
Cosmic Quantum Ray
Cosmic Quantum Ray is a CGI-animated television series The Series premiered in the United States on November 5, 2007 on Animania HD, then in 2009 in Germany on KI.KA, and then later on October 10, 2010 on The Hub (later in 2014 became Discovery Family). It also aired on Science Channel as part of a sneak peek of the latter
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States begun by Europeans and filled with people since it was started. The admiral from Spain, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, started St. Augustine in 1565. There was fighting between England and Spain in 1586, 1702, and 1740 over the city. Spain won each time. In 1763, St. Augustine was given to the English as part of the Treaty of Paris which ended the French and Indian War. After the American colonies became independent from England, another Treaty of Paris, this one in 1783, returned the area to Spain. In 1819, the Adams-Onís Treaty gave all of Florida to the United States.
Nechervan Idris Barzani
Nechervan Idris Barzani (Kurdish:نێچیرڤان بارزانی, Nêçîrvan Îdrîs Barzanî) (born 21 September 1966) has been the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan since March 2006.
St. Augustine, Florida
The largest sign of the years under Spain is the Castillo de San Marcos, a large masonry fort built between 1672 and 1695. This fort still stands.
Hereford (cattle)
Hereford cattle are a widely used breed in temperate areas, mainly for beef production.
Originally from Herefordshire, England, they are found in the temperate parts of Australia. The breed also enjoys great popularity among ranchers in the desert American Southwest of the United States, as well as in the centre and east of Argentina and in Uruguay. Herefords made up the largest percentage of registered cows among herders in New Zealand. This is a testament to the hardiness of the breed; while originating in cool, moist Britain, they have thrived in much harsher climates. The breed has adapted to a wide range of climates on nearly every continent.
Hornless variants with the polled gene are known as the Polled Herefords. Breeding horned and hornless together functions as a genetic dehorner. This is often used as an alternative to a dehorning process, which causes stress and often weight loss.
Blood eagle
The Blood Eagle is a torture method where a person is cut by the ribs from the spine, breaking the victims ribs so they resembled blood-stained wings, and having their lungs pulled out. Salt was also sometimes sprinkled in the wounds. The torture method was mostly mentioned in Norse saga literature. King Ælla of Northumbria, Halfdan son of King Haraldr Hárfagri of Norway, King Edmund, King Maelgualai of Munster, and possibly Archbishop Ælfheah of Canterbury are all believed to have been victims of the torture method.
Berlin attack
Berlin attack may refer to:
Treasurer
A treasurer is someone who looks after the money in a club, company, organization, association, or government.
The treasurer of a government manages the Annual Budget of a state or country. The budget is used to give money to government departments and to pay for the debts or promises the government makes. This post is called Chancellor of the Exchequer in the United Kingdom. There is a treasurer of the United States, but the United States Secretary of the Treasury actually controls the department.
Down to You (song)
"Down to You" is a song written by Joni Mitchell. It was first released on her 1974 album Court and Spark. It won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).
Massoud Barzani
Massoud Barzani (born 16 August 1946) was the first president of Iraqi Kurdistan. He became president on 14 June 2005.
Masoud Barzani succeeded his father, the Kurdish nationalist leader Mustafa Barzani, as the leader of KDP in 1979. Working closely with his brother Idris Barzani until Idris's death, Barzani and various other Kurdish groups fought the forces of the Iraqi government in Baghdad during the Iran–Iraq War. For much of this time, the Kurdish leadership was exiled to Iran.
Aigues-Vives, Aude
Aigues-Vives, Aude is a commune of 504 people. It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Massoud Barzani
Barzani was born in Iranian Kurdistan, during the short-lived Republic of Mahabad.
Flying frog
A flying frog is a frog that has the ability to glide. Despite its name, it does not have the ability to fly. They live their life in trees, high above the ground.
Alfred Russel Wallace made one of the earliest reports of a flying frog. The species he observed was later described by George Albert Boulenger as Rhacophorus nigropalmatus.
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and Nobel laureate,
He invented gel electrophoresis in 1955, which is now one of the basic techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology.
Much later, he worked on the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA. This is the most reliable method of altering animal genomes at present, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice.
2022 Australian federal election
The 2022 Australian federal election was held on 21 May 2022 to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia. All 151 seats in the lower house, the House of Representatives, and half the seats in the upper house, the Senate, were up for election.
The incumbent Coalition Government, led by Scott Morrison lost seats to the opposition Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese. Morrision resigned as National Party leader with Albanese expected to become the next Prime Minister of Australia.
SpongeBob SquarePants (season 3)
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series. The third season was on television from October 5, 2001 to October 11, 2004.
The third season won both the 2003 and 2004 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon.
Atrium
An atrium is a large open space inside a building. The term goes back to Ancient Rome, where certain houses were built with a large empty space in the center.
Terara Network
Terara Network is an Ethiopian news commentary organization. It focuses on Ethiopian political issues. It has faced issues with law enforcement in the country as its owner who founded the company has been arrested for 4 months without charge. The company is one of many journalistic organizations in Ethiopia who has faced trouble and persecution by the government of Ethiopia.
CFR Cluj
The teams colours are purple and white, and their biggest rival is Universitatea Cluj.
Honours
Liga I Liga II Liga III Romanian Cup Romanian Supercup
European competitions
Their most recent appearance in a European competition was in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, in which they reached the third qualifying round.
Fips Asmussen
Fips Asmussen (born Rainer Pries; 30 April 1938 – 9 August 2020) was a German comedian and entertainer. He was known for his quick delivery of puns and bad jokes. Asmussen was born in Hamburg. His later comedy performances became known for unfunny and mostly politically incorrect.
Asmussen died on 9 August 2020 in Querfurt, Saxony-Anhalt at the age of 82.
Samhain
Samhain is the Gaelic celebration at the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. It is pronounced SOW-in. This festival is also celebrated in Paganism and Wicca. It is now known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve and celebrated on the 31st of October.
Legends
A common legend on Samhain is that it is easy to talk to the dead. One way to do this is by using a Ouija board, a wooden board with numbers and letters on it.
Dakota Blue Richards
Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. She acts in movies and television. She played Lyra Belacqua in the 2007 fantasy movie The Golden Compass.
Richards was born in London, England.
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club from Frankfurt am Main, best known for the football section.
Eintracht has also 18 other sections such as athletics, basketball and ice hockey.
Venera
Venera is the Russian name for the planet Venus. It is also the name of the USSR program for sending spacecraft to the planet Venus. A Venera 3 spacecraft was the first manmade object to land on another planet in our solar system. Venera 3 crash landed on Venus on 1 March 1966. Venera 7 also landed on Venus. It landed in 1970. It was the first spacecraft to send information back to Earth after landing on another planet.
Ecological footprint
An ecological footprint measures how much people take from nature. The footprint is then compared to the amount of natural resources nature can renew. The ecological footprint takes into account how much farmland, forest area, grazing land, forest area, and sea area it takes to provide everything people use through carbon dioxide intake. More simply, footprint calculations answer the questions: how much nature do we have? And how much do we use?
When analyzing the world as a whole, humanity is using nature about 1.7 times faster than nature renews itself. It is like using 1.7 planet Earths. Since people consume differently around the world, it is also possible to calculate how many planet it would take if everybody around the world consumed like a particular population. For instance, if everybody consumed like the Germans, it would take nearly 3 planet Earths. Expressed in area: The ecological footprint per world citizen is about 2.8 global average hectares per person while there are only 1.6 global hectare of biologically productive land and water per person on Earth. This means that humanity has already overshot global biocapacity by 70% and now lives unsustainably by depleting stocks of "natural capital" and running on biocapacity deficits.
After this, it will shift into an ecological reserve because the biocapacity has been exceeded, and will be considered an ecological overshoot.
All this data is based on the 2020 assessment from Global Footprint Network, York University, and FoDaFo. It uses 2017 data.
Jorge Fernández
Jorge Fernández is an equestrian from Uruguay. Fernández competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born on 25 September 1968.