Ron Hynes, 'man of a thousand songs,' dead at 64

Ron Hynes the Legendary singer-songwriter, who documented hope and heartbreak in his native Newfoundland for decades with songs like Sonny's Dream and Atlantic Blue, has died at the age of 64.

Hynes, who had been battling cancer, was rushed to hospital earlier this week. Hynes, known for years as "the man of a thousand songs," was born in December 1950 in St. John's. He was raised in Ferryland.

Hynes released seven solo albums, starting with Discovery in 1972. The record holds the distinction of being the first made up of all original material from a Newfoundland artist. Read more >>>

Dead, Fred Thompson American politician and actor

Fred Thompson was born in Sheffield, Alabama on August 19, 1942, the son of Ruth Inez (née Bradley) and Fletcher Session Thompson (born Lauderdale County, Alabama, August 26, 1919, died Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, May 27, 1990), who was an automobile salesman.

Fred attended public school in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, graduating from Lawrence County High School, where he played high school football. Thereafter, he worked days in the local post office, and nights at the Murray bicycle assembly plant.

Fred Thompson then entered Florence State College (now the University of North Alabama), becoming the first member of his family to go to university.

He later transferred to Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, where he earned a double degree in philosophy and political science in 1964, as well as scholarships to both Tulane and Vanderbilt University law schools.

Fred Thompson went on to earn his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the Vanderbilt Law School in 1967.

What is YouTube?

You Tube is a website mainly made for sharing videos, headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. It was originated by the former PayPal employees named Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005.

This is the site which allows users to upload videos and share them publicly. There are varieties of contents available including TV serials, award shows, reality shows, funny or horror clips, educational videos, movies, short stories, and other category.

The videos are generally uploaded by the registered users of 18 years of age, while the unregistered fellows are only limited to watch videos. The first you tube video was titled at “Me at the Zoo” uploaded long back but is still visible at the site.

It was primarily thought to be developed into an online dating site but was later converted into a video sharing platform.

Features
Uploading- The main part of You Tube is to upload videos and entertain its viewers. In every 15 minutes users can upload their videos and those having a proper rapport with the Community Guideline site can upload videos at a length of 12 hours.

At beginning the duration to every videos remained to 10 minutes which later got extended to 15 minutes by 2010. Videos more than 20GB can be uploaded in a newer

version of browser.
Playback- Adobe flash player plug in was to be installed in the browser before viewing any of the videos but in 2010 introduced its new version which support the HTML5 standard in every browsers.

At the beginning of 2015, You tube announced that HTML5 will be the default playback on supported browsers including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari.


3D videos- Peter Bradshaw, the software engineer announced that 3D videos can be uploaded in the You Tube. It can be watched by wearing anaglyph.

Quality and formats- The quality and the formats vary from Standard Quality to High Quality to High Definition. You Tube offers video at the resolution of 320*240 pixels, it even added the 3GP format on mobile phones to watch the videos.

There after the 720p and 1080p HD support was added in 2008 and 2009, giving more clear and prominent visibility. In recent news, Youtube supported 8k resolution picture of 7680×4320 pixels giving a top most quality.

Localization system- The Localization service allows the users to choose their local version based on their IP address.

The interface of the site is available at 76 language version including Bengali, Urdu, Uzbek, Armenian, Burmese, Mongolian, Azerbaijan, Khmer, and many more.

Conclusion
You Tube is the second largest search engine after Google. It has a set of community guidelines which focuses on any abusive site feature.

It was blocked by different countries for some time including Turkey, Brazil, Syria, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. Most of the You Tube traffic around 70% comes from out of US, having 1 billion users each month.

It was awarded a “Peabody Award” in 2008 for it helped in promoting democracy by acting as a speaker’s corner.







Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
http://facts.randomhistory.com/youtube-facts.html

Fred Eckhardt Beer Expert Died

Dead, Fred Eckhardt, conceived 1926 and kicked the bucket August 10, 2015, he was an American brewer, homebrewing advocate and publicist.

He wrote about brewed beverages-beer and sake, and wrote the 1989 book, The Essentials of Beer Style.

He is identified as a “beer writer,” a “beer historian,” and as a “beer critic.”
 He was a local celebrity in Portland, Oregon, which Eckhardt described as “the brewing capital of the world.

Eckhardt was an advocate and publicist for American sake. Drawing on his experience in beer competitions, he created a set of guidelines for sake tasting competitions.

He published a sake newsletter several times each year; and he authored Sake (U.S.A.): A Complete Guide to American Sake, Sake Breweries and Homebrewed Sake.

While the rest of the world may be drinking more sake and the quality of sake has been increasing, sake production has been declining in Japan since the mid-1970s.

The increase in American production for domestic consumption and export has been, in part, affected by the lower cost of rice compared with Japan; but other more difficult-to-analyze factors are important.

At present, sake homebrewing is not allowed under Japanese law. Eckhardt foresees that his book, which spells out how homebrewing might reinvigorate sake consumption in Japan.

His optimism is informed in part by the unanticipated expansion of micro-breweries in Oregon since the state law prohibiting them was repealed in 1985.

Achim Hill, German rower, Dies at 80

Dead, Achim Slope, conceived April 1, 1935 and kicked the bucket August 4, 2015, he was a German rower who went after the Brought together Group of Germany in the 1960 Mid year Olympics and in the 1964 Late spring Olympics and for East Germany in the 1968 Late spring Olympics.

He was conceived in Kopenick. In 1960 he won the silver award in the single sculls occasion.

After four years he won his second silver award in the 1964 single sculls rivalry.

At the 1968 Diversions he spoke to East Germany and completed fifth in the single sculls challenge.

John Henry Holland, Computer Scientist, Died at 86

Dead, John Henry Holland, conceived February 2, 1929 and kicked the bucket August 9, 2015, he was an American researcher and Teacher of brain research and Educator of electrical building and software engineering at the College of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He was a pioneer in what got to be known as hereditary calculations.

Holland was conceived in Fortification Wayne, Indiana, in 1929. He concentrated on material science at the Massachusetts Foundation of Innovation and got a B.S. degree in 1950, then considered Arithmetic at the College of Michigan, getting a M.A. in 1954.

In 1959 he got the first software engineering Ph.D. from the College of Michigan.

He was an Educator of brain science and Teacher of electrical building and software engineering at the College of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Holland was an individual from the Leading body of Trustees and Science Leading body of the Santa Clause Fe Establishment.

He got the MacArthur Partnership in 1992, and was a kindred of the World Monetary Gathering.

Holland got the 1961 Louis E. Demand Award from The Franklin Foundation, and the MacArthur Association in 1992.

Holland died on August 9, 2015 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Fernando Fusco Italian Artist Dead

Dead, Fernando Fusco took a shot at numerous comic book preparations for the French and English business, working in changing classes like sentiment and western. He made his presentation in 1948 with the arrangement 'Jeff Cooper', that was distributed by Chiavari. Amid his military administration he worked for Il Vittorioso. A short time later, in 1955, he moved to France, where he went to work for the Versions Mondiales. After a few appearances in Hurrah!, he made comic adjustments of books in Paris Diary Junior/Paris Jour. For the Intermonde office, he adjusted Victor Hugo's 'L'Homme qui Rit' under the nom de plume, and in addition 'Universe A 2200', that was composed by Claude Vaincourt and distributed in L'Union.

From 1958, he was available in L'Intrépide with 'Commado du Quiet' (script by Georges Sandier), 'Privateers du Ciel', 'La Flèche Brisée' and the brave science arrangement 'Scott Darnal'. The recent was later proceeded in Mireille. Likewise for Mireille, he made 'Magali', one of his couple of entertaining works. From 1960, he added to La Savvy and delivered arrangement like 'Aigle Noir', "Bonanza" and 'Willie West'. He was likewise present in Lisette with "Cendrine" (script by Cendrine Rochemond) and "Espéranza" (script by Montaubert).

What's more, he worked for the English market through the Sanctuary Workmanship Office, concentrating principally on sentiment stories. In 1970, he made a rebound in his local Italy, and began the arrangement 'Solitary Wolf' and 'I Due dell'Apocalisse' with Luigi Grecchi in Intrepido of the distributed house Universo. From 1973, he was a piece of Bonelli's group of craftsmen that took a shot at 'Tex Willer' stories. Fusco worked solely on this character until 2010, when he chose to concentrate on painting. With almost 7,000 pages on his name, Fusco's rendition is one of the best-adored among 'Tex Willer' fans.