Titanic survivors stories
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About Sharon
Why write a biography? It only pins you down. Suffice to say I was born in Africa. And already that’s seeing the world without its skin. My father was the local gynaecologist. My mother was born in Strasbourg. My grandmother lived with us. In many ways I loved my childhood but not in others. I would have been cheating myself if I hadn’t left to study English literature in Britain. Before that I was lucky enough to live in Paris on the threshold of womanhood, in the spring, on my own, and of course that stays with you forever. We ate well and cheaply and I learnt to love wine and got engaged. At Edinburgh I got a First class MA Honours and the Janet Christie Bequest to study abroad. So we drove to Florence and lived in an old farmhouse for 8 months, learning Italian, studying at the British Institute.
In the slipstream of your life you imagine you’ll be a great writer, another Virginia Woolf, have the perfect family, be the best mother. So many impossible aims. I ended up being a journalist. A mother to one daughter. A lover. As a journalist I did quite a lot of goo
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Deaths in February 2012
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).
February 2012
1
- Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[1]
- Gerlando Alberti, 84, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer.[2]
- Gerhard Bosse, 90, German violinist and conductor.[3]
- Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy.[4]
- Herb Conn, 91, American climbing and caving pioneer.[5]
- Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.[6]
- Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease.[7]
- Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).
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UV sanitizer device for fingerprint biometric scanners launched by TechnoBravo
New Jersey-based startup TechnoBravo is launching a novel device for sanitizing contact biometric scanners with Ultraviolet C (UVC) light.
The new BioSan device kills up to 99.9 percent of harmful viruses and bacteria to enable the safe use of fingerprint scanners without compromising their biometric performance. The device’s effectiveness has been verified by the University of Siena, according to a company announcement.
TechnoBravo points out that fingerprint recognition remains the most often-used biometric modality, and has been a trusted method of identifying individuals for decades. Fingerprint scanners continue to be widely deployed, despite the increasing maturity of other biometric modalities, reliably supporting comparisons against large databases.
The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded growing resistance to the use of fingerprint scanners, inspiring TechnoBravo to develop an automated method of cleaning fingerprint sensors after each use. ABI Research forecast in October that fingerprint r
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