Robinson died on June 30, 2014 in San Francisco, California, aged 87.
Pierre Bec
Pierre Bec (; 11 December 1921 – 30 June 2014) was a French poet and linguist of the Occitan language. He was one of the founders of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans ("Institute for Occitan studies", IEO). He was also its president as well from 1962 to 1980.
Bec's literature works were "Petite anthologie de la lyrique occitane du Moyen Âge" (1954), "Les saluts d'amour du troubadour Arnaud de Mareuil" (1961), "La langue occitane" (1963) and "Raconte d’una mort tranquilla" (1993). Meanwhile, his linguistics works included "Manuel pratique d'occitan moderne" (1973–1983) and "Les Interférences linguistiques entre gascon et languedocien dans les parlers du Comminges et du Couserans" (1968).
Bec was born in Paris. He spent his childhood in Comminges, where he learnt Occitan. He was deported to Germany between 1943 and 1945. After returning, he studied in Paris, where he graduated in 1959.
Bec died on 30 June 2014 in Poitiers, aged 92.
Alejandra Da Passano
María Alejandra Ana Da Passano (26 July 1947 – 30 June 2014), better known as Alejandra Da Passano, was an Argentine actress of movies, stage plays and television shows. Her best known roles were in "Mr. President" (1970), "Malevo" (1972) and "La madre María" (1974). She was born in Buenos Aires.
Da Passano died on 30 June 2014 in Buenos Aires, aged 66.
SK Tirfing
SK Tirfing is a sports club in Harnäs in Sweden. Established in 1923, the club won the Swedish national men's bandy championship in the year of 1930. The club gave up bandy in 1981, and what remains is a women's team handball section.
Ljusdals BK
Ljusdals BK is a bandy club in Ljusdal in Sweden. Established in 1943, the club won the Swedish national men's bandy championship in the year of 1975.
Sweden women's national bandy team
Sweden women's national bandy team () represents Sweden on the women's side in bandy. Sweden has won the world championship several times, including the first women's edition in 2004.
Sweden men's national bandy team
Sweden men's national bandy team () represents Sweden on the men's side in bandy. Sweden has won the world championship several times, first time was in 1981.
Stephen Gaskin
Stephen Gaskin (February 16, 1935 – July 1, 2014) was an American counterculture hippie icon. He was best known for co-founding "The Farm", a famous spiritual intentional community. He was also known for being in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California in the 1960s.
Gaskin was born in Denver, Colorado. He was married to Ina May Gaskin. He had five children. He was in the US Marine Corps from 1952 to 1955.
Gaskin died on July 1, 2014 in Summertown, Tennessee. He was 79.
Umaru Dikko
Umaru Dikko (31 December 1936 – 1 July 2014) was a Nigerian politician. He was also the Nigerian Ministry of Transport from 1979 until 1983. He was also an adviser to President Shehu Shagari.
Dikko was born in Zaria, Kaduna State. On 5 July 1984, he played the main role in the Dikko Affair. He was found drugged in a crate at Stansted Airport in the United Kingdom in an appearent kidnapping by Nigerian-Israeli officials.
Dikko died after having many strokes on 1 July 2014 at a hospital in London, England. He was 79.
Ron Hall (Australian footballer)
Ronald Maxwell "Ron" Hall (11 November 1945 – 26 June 2014) was an Australian rules footballer. He played for Scottsdale FC during the 1960s and 1970s. He represented Tasmania many times. He played for Tasmania at the 1969 Adelaide Carnival. He was added as a member of the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Hall was born in Scottsdale, Tasmania. After he retired, he still had behind-the-scenes roles at the club.
Hall died from a heart attack on 26 June 2014 in Tasmania. He was 68.
Anjan Das
Anjan Das (13 June 1951 – 2 June 2014) was an Indian movie director. His movies were in the Bengali language. His best known movie was "Faltu" (2006). He won a National Film Award in the Best Feature Film category.
Das died from colon cancer on 2 June 2014, aged 62. His wife and son outlived him.
Spanking the Monkey
Spanking the Monkey is a 1994 American black comedy movie. It is about incest, masturbation and troublesome relationships.
The movie was a box office success. It won several independent movie awards.
Writer's block
Writer's block is when a writer loses the ability to write new material. Some people may not write anything new for years. Writer's block has been a problem through history, but people started paying more attention to it in the 20th century.
Writer's block may have several causes. An author may run out of ideas of what to write about. Pressure to work may lead to the problem. It may also come from intimidation.
There are several forms of writer's block.
Sally Gray
Constance Vera Browne (or Sally Gray; 14 February 1916 – 24 September 2006) was an English actress during the 1930s and 1940s. She did mostly melodrama movies. She played herself in "Cheer Up" (1936). She also played Carole in "Dangerous Moonlight".
Gray was born in London. She died there.
IOS 5
iOS 5 is the fifth major version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS. It came after iOS 4, and was replaced by iOS 6, which was released on September 19, 2012. The current version of iOS 5 is iOS 5.1.1.
iOS 5 was announced during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011. Support was dropped for the iPhone 3G and the iPod Touch (2nd generation), and devices that are supported are the iPhone 3GS and later, the iPod Touch (3rd generation) and later, and the first generation iPad and later.
When the iPhone 4S was announced on October 4, 2011, the release date for iOS 5 was also announced. iOS 5 was released on October 12, 2011.
The iPhone 4S already had iOS 5 installed on it, but other devices had to have the update installed through iTunes. At first, many people could not install iOS 5 because they got error messages when they tried to download it. This was because Apple's servers could not keep up with the number of people who are downloading the update.
Apple's cloud-based service, iCloud, came as part of the iOS 5 update. This feature allows users to sync their music, pictures, videos, and more across all of their devices that have iCloud on them. Each user is given 5 gigabytes of storage for free, but they are allowed to sync unlimited amounts of music, apps, books, and photos.
A new feature called iMessage, built into the Messages app, allows anyone with an iOS device to send unlimited messages to people with iOS 5. It also allows iPhone users to send text messages to people who don't have an iOS device. The Messages app used to be only on the iPhone, but iOS 5 brought it to the iPod Touch and iPad.
The Reminders app allows users to make lists and alerts that can be based on a date or a location.
The Newsstand app is not a real app, but it is a folder that shows the newspapers and magazines that the user is subscribed to.
iOS 5 allows devices to sync with iTunes wirelessly for the first time, without being connected to a computer. iOS devices can also be activated and updated over a wireless network for the first time.
In iOS 5, you can get to the camera quickly from the lock screen swiping up on the camera icon. Users can get to the camera without having to enter a passcode, but you can only use the camera. At first, you had to double-click the home button on the lock screen to get to the camera button, but it was changed in iOS 5.1 so that you could swipe up on the camera button.
Notification Center was introduced in iOS 5, and it also changed how notifications are displayed. Instead of a message that appears in the middle of the screen, stopping what was going on at the time, they appear in a banner on the top of the screen. You can access Notification Center by swiping down from the top of the screen, where it is hidden, and it shows notifications that happened in the past.
Swag
Swag or SWAG may refer to:
Trailways