CentralNotice Betty Blue From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search 1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix This article is about the film. For the model, see Betty Blue (model) . Betty Blue Simulation of the Italian-language film poster Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix Produced by Jean-Jacques Beineix Written by Jean-Jacques Beineix Philippe Djian ( novel ) Starring Jean-Hugues Anglade Béatrice Dalle Gérard Darmon Consuelo de Haviland Jacques Mathou Clémentine Célarié Vincent Lindon Music by Gabriel Yared [1] Cinematography Jean-François Robin Edited by Monique Prim Distributed by Gaumont Release date 7 November 1986 ( 1986-11-07 ) Running time 120 minutes [2] 185 minutes (Director's cut) [3] Country France Language French Box office $2 million [4] Betty Blue is a 1986 French erotic psychological drama film. Its original French...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Smokejumper" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2020 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the US and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject . You may improve this article , discuss the issue on the talk page , or create a new article , as appropriate. ( August 2020 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Fully outfitted smokejumpers boarding a Short C-23 Sherpa aircraft in Missoula, Montana , en route to a fire in the Idaho Panhandle , July 1994 ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Type of electric energy storage system using two reservoirs of water connected with a pump and a turbine "Hydro-storage" redirects here. For storage of water for other purposes, see Reservoir . Diagram of the TVA pumped storage facility at Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant in Tennessee, United States Shaded-relief topo map of the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant in Missouri, United States. The lake on the mountain is built upon a flat surface, requiring a dam around the entire perimeter. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity ( PSH ), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage ( PHES ), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing . The method stores energy in the form of gravitational potential energy of water, pumped from a lower elevation...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Convicted murderer For the German film actor, see Hans Reiser (actor) . Hans Reiser Hans Reiser in 2006 Born Hans Reiser ( 1963-12-19 ) December 19, 1963 (age 57) Oakland, California , USA Occupation Inmate Known for ReiserFS , murder Criminal status Imprisoned at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California Spouse(s) Nina Reiser ​ ​ ( m. 1998; murdered 2006) ​ Children 2 Parent(s) Ramon Reiser (father) Beverly Palmer (mother) Conviction(s) First degree murder by jury, reduced to second degree murder by judge in plea deal Criminal penalty 15 years to life imprisonment (parole in 2020 refused, next hearing is in 2023) [1] Date apprehended October 10, 2006 Hans Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American convicted murderer , and former computer programmer and entrepre...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search French showman and eater For the town in France, see Tarare . For the 19th-century racehorse, see Tarrare (horse) . For the opera by Antonio Salieri, see Tarare (opera) . Doctor Pierre-François Percy 's original paper on Tarrare's medical history, Mémoire sur la polyphagie (1805) Tarrare (c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarare , was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him, and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan . In this act he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and a whole basketful of app...

CentralNotice Underwater From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the 2020 science fiction film. For the 1955 adventure film starring Jane Russell, see Underwater! 2020 film directed by William Eubank Underwater Theatrical release poster Directed by William Eubank Produced by Peter Chernin Tonia Davis Jenno Topping Screenplay by Brian Duffield Adam Cozad Story by Brian Duffield Starring Kristen Stewart Vincent Cassel Jessica Henwick John Gallagher Jr. Mamoudou Athie T.J. Miller Music by Marco Beltrami Brandon Roberts Cinematography Bojan Bazelli Edited by Todd E. Miller Brian Berdan William Hoy Production companies 20th Century Fox TSG Entertainment Chernin Entertainment Distributed by 20th Century Fox [1] Release date January 10, 2020 ( 2020-01-10 ) (United States) Running time 95 minutes Country...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Geometric transformation that preserves lines but not angles nor the origin An image of a fern-like fractal ( Barnsley's fern ) that exhibits affine self-similarity . Each of the leaves of the fern is related to each other leaf by an affine transformation. For instance, the red leaf can be transformed into both the dark blue leaf and any of the light blue leaves by a combination of reflection, rotation, scaling, and translation. In Euclidean geometry , an affine transformation , or an affinity (from the Latin, affinis , "connected with"), is a geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism (but not necessarily distances and angles ). More generally, an affine transformation is an automorphism of an affine space (Euclidean spaces are specific affine spaces), that is, a...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For DAOs in general, see Decentralized autonomous organization . The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten . Use the lead layout guide to ensure the section follows Wikipedia's norms and is inclusive of all essential details. ( March 2021 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The DAO (organization) Type Decentralized autonomous organization Industry Cryptocurrency software venture capital fund Founded 2016 Area served Global [1] Key people Stephan Tual, Simon Jentzsch, Christoph Jentzsch Total assets ETH 11.5 million [2] Owners +18 000 stakeholders [3] Number of employees 0 (automated) [4] The DAO (software) Written in Solidity License GNU LGPL v3+ The DAO (stylized Đ ) was a digital decentralized autonomous organization , [5] and a form of in...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Species of carnivore This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Portuguese . (January 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit ...

CentralNotice English as She Is Spoke From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Book by Pedro Carolino English as She Is Spoke Author José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino (credited) Original title O novo guia da conversação em portuguez e inglez Country France Language Portuguese and English Genre Phrase book Publisher J.P. Aillaud Publication date 1855 Media type Print Pages 182 Text English as She Is Spoke at Wikisource O novo guia da conversação em portuguez e inglez , [a] commonly known by the name English as She Is Spoke , is a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino, with some editions crediting José da Fonseca as a co-author. It was intended as a Portuguese – English conversational guide or phrase book ; however, as the "English" translations provided are usually inaccurate or incoherent, it is regarded as a classic source of uni...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 中共中央统一战线工作部 Formation 1942 Type Department directly reporting to the Central Committee Headquarters 135 Fuyou Street, Xicheng District , Beijing Location Beijing Head You Quan Executive deputy head Zhang Yijiong * Deputy heads Bagatur *, Xu Lejiang *, Shi Dagang , Ran Wanxiang , Dai Junliang Discipline Secretary Su Bo Parent organization Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Website www .zytzb .gov .cn *Minister-level rank China This article is part of a series on the politics and government of China Leadership Leadership generations Succession of power Hu–Wen Administration (2002–2012) Xi–Li Administration (2012–2017) Xi Core Administration (since 2017) 4th Leadership Core : Xi Ji...

CentralNotice Unrestricted Warfare From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The cover to the original Simplified Chinese edition Unrestricted Warfare: Two Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization [1] ( simplified Chinese : 超限战 ; traditional Chinese : 超限戰 ; lit. 'warfare beyond bounds') is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army , Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗). [2] Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means such as political warfare . [3] [4] [5] Such means include using legal tools ( see lawfare ) and econom...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the romantic comedy film, see Horseshoe Theory . For the mathematical term, see horseshoe map . Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the extreme left and the extreme right are closer to each other than either is to the political center In political science and popular discourse, [1] the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right , rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum , closely resemble one another, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together. The theory is attributed to French philosopher and writer Jean-Pierre Faye . [2] Proponents of the theory point to a number of similarities between the far-left and the far-right, including their supposed propensity to gravitate to authoritar...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search computer software bug with 32-bit system times One of the possible manifestations of the bug on a specific machine: the date could reset at 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038. The Year 2038 problem (also called Y2038 , Epochalypse , [1] [2] Y2k38 , or Unix Y2K ) relates to representing time in many digital systems as the number of seconds passed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit integer . Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. Similar to the Y2K problem , the Year 2038 problem is caused by insufficient capacity used to represent time. 1 Cause 2 Early problems 3 Vulnerable systems 4 Data structures with time problems 5 Network Time Protocol timestamps 6 Possible solutions 7 See also 8 Notes 9 Refer...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Sauce used as a condiment For other uses, see Ketchup (disambiguation) . "Catchup" redirects here. For catchup television, see Streaming television . Ketchup A dish of tomato ketchup Type Condiment Main ingredients Tomatoes (or other main ingredients), Sugar (or high fructose corn syrup ), vinegar , salt, spices , and seasonings Food energy (per serving) 103 kcal (431 kJ ) Cookbook: Ketchup Media: Ketchup Ketchup is a table condiment or sauce . The unmodified term ("ketchup") now typically refers to tomato ketchup , [1] although original recipes used egg whites , mushrooms , oysters , grapes , mussels , or walnuts , among other ingredients. [2] [3] Tomato ketchup is a sweet and tangy condiment made from tomatoes , sugar, and vinegar , with seasonings and spices . The spices a...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search ThinkPad X1 series Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2012) Developer Lenovo Product family ThinkPad Type Ultrabook or Tablet computer Release date June 2011 ; 9 years ago ( 2011-06 ) CPU Intel Core Predecessor ThinkPad X series The ThinkPad X1 series is a line of high-end laptops and tablets produced by Lenovo . The current model list contains three lines of laptops: X1 Carbon - mainstream premium 14" model, X1 Yoga - the convertible 14" version, and X1 Extreme - 15" advanced ultra-light premium laptop; the same model with a Quadro GPU known as ThinkPad P1 . The daughter lines are a partially discontinued 13" Tablet line ( X1 Tablet ) and announced 13.3" foldable laptop ( X1 Fold ). 1 Launch 2 Models 2.1 2011 - 0th generation 2.1.1 X1 2.2 2012 - 1st generation 2.2.1 X1 Carbon 2...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other uses, see Solid (disambiguation) . Solid Developer(s) The W3C Solid Community Group Initial release 10 August 2016 ; 4 years ago ( 2016-08-10 ) Repository https://github.com/solid Written in JavaScript License MIT Website https://solidproject.org/ Solid ( Social Linked Data ) [1] is a web decentralization project led by Tim Berners-Lee , the inventor of the World Wide Web , developed collaboratively at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project "aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy" [2] by developing a platform for linked-data applications that are completely decentralized and fully under users' control rather than controlled by other entities. The ultimate goal of Sol...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Main article: Mass psychogenic illness In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria (also known as mass psychogenic illness , collective hysteria , group hysteria , or collective obsessional behavior ) is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population and society as a result of rumors and fear. [1] [2] In medicine, the term is used to describe the spontaneous manifestation—or production of chemicals in the body—of the same or similar hysterical physical symptoms by more than one person. [3] [4] A common type of mass hysteria occurs when a group of people believes that it is suffering from a similar disease or ailment, [5] sometimes referred to as mass psychogenic illness or epidemic hysteria . [6] 1 Middle Ages 2 15...

CentralNotice Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Original Japanese poster Directed by Nagisa Ōshima Produced by Jeremy Thomas Screenplay by Nagisa Ōshima Paul Mayersberg Based on The Seed and the Sower by Sir Laurens van der Post Starring David Bowie Tom Conti Ryuichi Sakamoto Takeshi Jack Thompson Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto Cinematography Toichiro Narushima Edited by Tomoyo Ōshima Production company Recorded Picture Company Oshima Productions Distributed by Palace Pictures (UK) Shochiku (Japan) Universal Pictures (US) Release date 10 May 1983 ( 1983-05-10 ) ( Cannes ) 25 August 1983 ( 1983-08-25 ) (United Kingdom) Running time 123 minutes Country United Kingdom Japan [1] New Zealand [2] Language English Japanese Box office ¥990 million (Japan rentals) [3] $2.3 mill...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Tomoaki Hamatsu Born ( 1975-08-03 ) August 3, 1975 (age 45) Nationality Japanese Other names Nasubi Occupation Comedian Known for Reality Television This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . Please help by adding reliable sources . Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately , especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Nasubi" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2015 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Tomoaki Hamatsu ( 浜津 智明 , Hamatsu Tomoaki , born August 3, 1975) , better known as Nasubi ( なすび , " Eggplant ") , is a Japanese comedian . 1 Denpa Shōnen teki Kenshō Seikatsu 2 See also 3 References 4 External ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Extraction of cryptographic secrets by coercion or torture For the encrypted filesystem, see Rubberhose (file system) . This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . The specific problem is: some content strays from the main topic Please help improve this article if you can. ( July 2016 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline . Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Neandertal" redirects here. For the valley in Germany, see Neandertal (valley) . "Neanderthal Man" redirects here. For the 1970 single by Hotlegs, see Neanderthal Man (song) . For the 2014 book by Svante Pääbo, see Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes . Eurasian species or subspecies of archaic human Neanderthal Temporal range: Middle – Late Pleistocene 0.25–0.04 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ An approximate reconstruction of a Neanderthal skeleton. The central rib cage, including the sternum, and parts of the pelvis are from modern humans. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Hominidae Subfamily: Homini...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Very rare, incurable and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) Not to be confused with Koro (medicine) . Kuru A Fore child with advanced kuru. He is unable to walk or sit upright without assistance and is severely malnourished . Specialty Neuropathology Symptoms Body tremors, random outbursts of laughter, gradual loss of coordination Complications Infection and pneumonia during the terminal stage. Usual onset Often takes years or even decades for symptoms to appear after exposure Duration 11–14 month life expectancy after onset of symptoms [1] Causes Transmission of infected prion proteins Risk factors Cannibalism Diagnostic method Autopsy Differential diagno...

CentralNotice 0x10 c From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Sandbox science fiction video game 0x10 c Developer(s) Mojang Designer(s) Markus Persson Artist(s) Jonatan Pöljö Composer(s) C418 Platform(s) Microsoft Windows , OS X , Linux Release Cancelled [1] Genre(s) Sandbox , Space simulation Mode(s) Single-player , multiplayer 0x10 c (pronounced "ten to the c") [2] was a sandbox science fiction video game previously under development by Mojang AB . It was announced on April 3, 2012, by Markus Persson , the game's lead designer. [3] The game was eventually indefinitely postponed because Persson found several creative blocks, citing the main problem as "it not being very fun to play". Persson then stated he will instead most likely continue to work on smaller projects for the rest of his life. [4] The game was later completely cancell...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Mount Okmok Aerial view looking across Okmok Caldera. Highest point Elevation 3,519 ft (1,073 m) Coordinates 53°28′05″N 168°10′30″W  /  53.46806°N 168.17500°W  / 53.46806; -168.17500 Coordinates : 53°28′05″N 168°10′30″W  /  53.46806°N 168.17500°W  / 53.46806; -168.17500 Geography Mount Okmok Umnak Island Show map of Umnak Mount Okmok Mount Okmok (Alaska) Show map of Alaska Location Umnak Island, Aleutian Islands , Alaska , US Topo map USGS Umnak B-1 Geology Mountain type Shield volcano Complex with nested Caldera [1] Volcanic arc / belt Aleutian Arc Last eruption July to August 2008 Mount Okmok is the highest point on the rim of Okmok Caldera ( Unmagim Anatuu [2] in Aleut ) on the northeastern part of Umnak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska . This 9.3 kilomet...