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Sharon Kristin Nelson (née Harmon; June 25, 1945 – April 27, 2018) was an American primitive painter, actress and author. She was married to musician Ricky Nelson. She was the daughter of Tom Harmon and actress/model Elyse Knox, her younger siblings are model-actress Kelly Harmon and actor Mark Harmon.  In 1988, she married Mark Tinker, who encouraged her to paint. Her brightly colored primitives found favor with Jacqueline Kennedy and Mia Farrow, among other celebrities, and they form the basis of her coffee-table autobiography "Out of My Mind". Nelson starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", "Adam-12", "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy", which won an Academy Award for best live action short movie, and "Liar's Moon". Her daughter, actress Tracy Nelson, announced on Facebook that her mother had suddenly died on April 27, 2018 of a heart attack.
Harvey Leonard Hall (January 5, 1941 – May 19, 2018) was an American businessman and politician. He served as the 25th mayor of Bakersfield, California. Hall was first elected in 2000, and re-elected in 2004, 2008 and 2012. He was one of the longest serving mayors in Bakersfield's history. He was born in Bakersfield. As mayor, one of his focuses had been physical improvement of the city, through "Keep Bakersfield Beautiful" and the creation of, and participation in, monthly "Mayor’s Freeway Cleanups", trash pickups on local freeways. Hall has donated his mayor’s salary to the Kern Community Foundation, which provides scholarships to local colleges, and to California State University, Bakersfield, for local students. Hall was the founder and former president of Hall Ambulance Service. Hall died on May 19, 2018 in Bakersfield of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at the age of 77.
Maya Jribi (January 29, 1960 – May 19, 2018) was a Tunisian politician. From 2006 to 2012, she was the leader of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP). From the PDP merged into the Republican Party in April 2012, until her resignation in 2017, she was the Secretary-General of the centrist party. Jribi died on 19 May 2018 in Tunis of pancreatic cancer at the age of 58.
Reginald Grant Lucas (February 25, 1953 – May 19, 2018), known as Reggie Lucas, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in New York City. Lucas was best known for having produced the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-titled debut album, his production work with percussionist Mtume, and for playing with the Miles Davis electric band of the first half of the 1970s. In 1986, Lucas founded the Jersey City recording studio Quantum Sound. Clients included the Pet Shop Boys, Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Sepultura. In 1981, Lucas and James Mtume won a Grammy Award for Best R&amp;B Song for their composition "Never Knew Love Like This Before", which was performed by Stephanie Mills. Lucas died of heart disease in New York City, at the age of 65.
Bobby Brooks Winkles (March 11, 1930 – April 17, 2020) was an American baseball player and manager. He was born in Tuckerman, Arkansas, but was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Winkles was the third base coach for the Oakland Athletics int the 1970s. Winkles worked at Arizona State University and managed in Major League Baseball. Winkles is a right-handed-hitting and -throwing infielder. He played minor league baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization between 1951 and 1958, hitting .270 with 890 hits in 858 games played before retiring to become Arizona State's head baseball coach at age 29. Winkles died on April 17, 2020, aged 90.
Petrissa Solja (born 11 March 1994 in Kandel) is a German table tennis player. At the World Championships 2017 she won a bronzemedal together with Fang Bo in the mixed- doubles. She is the best female German table tennis player. Career. 2009 she played at the European Championships. There she played with her team against Netherlands and lost her match against Elena Timina. 2014 she joined to TTC Berlin eastside. Because of her successes she was chosen as the best German player in the Youth. 2013 she won the German Open in the doubles with Sabine Winter. At the European Championships 2014 she won gold with the team. In the same year she took part in the World Cup, where Solja reached the Round of 16. At the European Ranking tournament in 2015 she lost in the final to Liu Jia. At the World Cup, where Petrissa took part for the second time, she won bronze, after beating Li Jiao in the 3rd place match. 2016 she reached together with the team the Quarterfinals at the WTTC, there they lost to Japan. At the Olympic Games Solja retired already in her first match, where she played against Ri Myong-sun and lost. With the team they came surprise to the final, where they lost very clearly to China. At the WTTC 2017 in Düsseldorf she won together with Fang Bo the bronzemedal in the mixed-doubles, in the other categories she lost. Game system. Solja is an lefthanded-player and attacker. She uses the "Joola Ryzhm 425" at the backhand, on the forehand "Joola Ryzhm". Strengthen: Backhand Tospin and Konter Weaknesses: Long rallies from the table, play against defenders
Tomokazu Harimoto (; ; ; born 27 June 2003 in Sendai) is a male Japanese table tennis player of Chinese origin. Career. Harimoto started to play table tennis with two years- that time at home at a kitchen table. In 2014 he came to the third round at the Japanese National Championships. At the Japan Open he began to play international. He was on position 826 in the world. At the Safir Open 2015 in Örebro he beat two top-100-players and came under the top 100 in the world. So he was the youngest player ever that came to the main round. At the Polish Open he met Ma Long and lost 0:4 to him. 2016 he took part in the Youth-World Championships, where he won gold in the singles and with the team, too. So Harimoto came under the top 60 in the world. At the Slovenian Open Tomokazu was the youngest player again, who reached the Quarterfinals in the singles. Also he won the Japan Open in the singles and became so youngest player ever who wins a World Tour event. In the U-18 world ranking system he became number one. One year later he reached the final again but lost to Dimitrij Ovtcharov. At the World Championships he was the youngest player who reached the Quarterfinals at a WTTC, in the world rankings for adults he became place 20. At the Czech Open he won his first World Tour event- in the final he beat the German table tennis star Timo Boll and got another record. 2018 he beat Jun Mizutani (his teammate) and won so the Japanese National Championships for the first time. After participation at the WTTTC 2018, he came to the top 10. Family and Chinese origin. Harimotos parents were table tennis players from China. In 1998 they came to Japan and worked there as table tennis coaches. Harimoto came 2003 in Japan under the name "Zhang Zhihe" to the world. But he does have the Japanese citizenship he got the name "Tomokazu Harimoto".
Nick van de Wall, Better known by his stage name Afrojack, is a Dutch music producer and DJ. He was born and raised in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Afrojack's song "Take Over Control", which features Eva Simons, has charted in a number of countries. he was listed at Number 19 on DJ MAG's top 100 DJs of 2010.
A bus is a large wheeled vehicle meant to carry many passengers along with the driver. It is larger than a car or van. but fewer than the average rail transport. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for charter purposes, or through private ownership and are all built on a truck chassis or a truck chassis with a cab. Although the average bus carries between 30 and 100 passengers, some buses have a capacity of up to 300 passengers. The most common type is the single-deck rigid bus, with double-decker and articulated buses carrying larger loads, and midibuses and minibuses carrying smaller loads. Coaches are used for longer-distance services. Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare. Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus, are free. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers require a special large vehicle licence above and beyond a regular driving license. There are many types of bus around the world. Types of buses. Open top bus. An open top bus is a double-decker or single-decker bus, which has been built without a roof or has had the roof removed. Some open top buses have half a roof at the front and some do not have one at all. Open top buses are usually used on tourist and sightseeing services. It is mainly found in tourist centres such as New York City, Hong Kong and United Kingdom.
May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE (26 May 1938 – 21 October 2022) was a Labour politician. She was a member of the British House of Lords. She was born and raised in Belfast.  Since 1994, she has been an Information Officer of the Greater Shankill Partnership and is a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours. Blood died on 21 October 2022, at the age of 84.
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss ("née" Havers; born 10 August 1933), is an English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and, until 2004, was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom. She was made a dame (DBE) on appointment to the High Court in 1979, and was sworn in to the Privy Council in 1988 when she became the first woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. When she retired as a judge in 2005, she was awarded Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). In 2006, the government announced that she would be awarded a life peerage as Baroness Butler-Sloss. She sits as a independent peer in the House of Lords. Until June 2007, she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed.
Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, DBE (born 19 April 1959) was is a British activist and baroness. She is Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) from 2006–08.  Career. She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which lead on the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). She was Commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission until it was wound up in October 2006. Personal life. She was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and given a prognosis that she would not live to reach the age of two years; however, it was her younger sister, Sally, who died from the same disease before that age. As a child she was prone to getting severe chest infections, which occurred two or three times per year, sometimes requiring hospitalisation.
Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton DBE, GCStJ, FRCN (born 10 September 1935) is a British crossbench member of the House of Lords. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours. She was created a life peer as Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 February 1997.
Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, AM, FRSA, JP ("née" McGirr; - April 14, 2024) was an Australian-born dentist and Conservative member of the British House of Lords. She is the only Australian woman to date who has been elevated to the peerage.
Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, (born Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand; 8 February 1932 – 22 March 2022) was a British life peer. She was the widow of Geoffrey Howe. She was known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own right. She was a half-aunt to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Elspeth Howe served as deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1979, and in various other capacities from 1980. She was later made Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission. In the 1999 New Year's Honours she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Howe retired from Parliament on 2 June 2020. Howe died on 22 March 2022 from cancer, aged 90.
Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, OBE (born 10 January 1931), is a Labour member of the House of Lords.  Howells was awarded an OBE in the 1994 New Year's Honours, she was made a Life peer as Baroness Howells of St Davids, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich on 21 July 1999. The name St Davids refers to the parish in Grenada where she was brought up, to the south-east of the Island. In March 2009 she was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire in Luton.
Malamel is a village in Pathanapuram Taluk in Kollam district, Kerala, India. This village is situated between Anchal and Valakom bypass road. In Malayalam, Malamel means "Top of the hill". Rock Temples. At Malamel, there is a huge rock on which there is a famous Shiva Temple. A temple festival is held on 3 December. The temple has 5 doors and is considered to be divine and ancient because of the close proximity of "Jadayupara" (Chadayamangalam) (the rock that "Jadayu" carried on his wings). It has also a cave at extreme left of the temple, which a British Adventurer in the year 1946, tried in vain to venture into, and which leads to the Kulathupuzha Forest. This cave is believed to be a haven for very venomous snakes. Famous temples like "Arackal Devi Temple" and "Perumannur Devi Temple" are nearby. Kottarakara Sree Mahaganapathy Kshethram is 12 km away. Kottarakara and Punalur are the towns nearest to the village.
Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe, DBE (born 3 May 1930, née Owen) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1984 Birthday Honours. From 1997 to 2001 she was Opposition Whip. Since 2006 she is the Opposition Spokesperson for Constitutional and Legal Affairs/Justice.
Martin Joseph Hoffman (15 November 1929 – 15 May 2018) was a Czech-born British professional bridge player and writer of Jewish descent. He was born in Prague. He was a survivor of the Holocaust and transported to Auschwitz. He was later moved to the Monowitz-Buna, Gross Rosen and Birkenau sub-camps of Auschwitz; and from there he was sent on a death march towards Buchenwald. In 1945, he was liberated by American Army troops, who adopted him as mascot, with the honorary rank of sergeant.
Heterodon platirhinos, also known as the Eastern hognose snake, is a species of mildly venomous colubrid snake. It lives throughout North America. Description. The average length for an adult eastern hognose snake is 71 cm (28 in) in length. The most amazing feature is the upturned nose. It is used for digging in sandy soils. It can be red, green, orange, brown or gray to black depending on where it comes from. The belly tends to be a solid gray, yellow, or cream-colored. Their cost is between $100 and $200.  Distribution and Habitat. It is found from southern New Hampshire south to the southern tip of Florida and into the central United States. Eastern hognose snakes are also found as far west as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and into the southern tip of South Dakota. In total, they are found in about thirty states in the United States and are also found in southern Ontario. Eastern hognose snakes are mostly found in places with dry, sandy, or mixed sandy soils. They are usually found in grassy fields, fields that contain crops, and along woodland edges. Sometimes they can be found near small bodies of water. Eastern hognose snakes are also sometimes found in buildings such as greenhouses and barns. Diet. The Eastern hognose snake eats mainly frogs, lizards, salamanders, insects, other invertebrates, and small rodents. It is only mildly venomous. That means that, much like garter snakes, there's only enough toxins in their saliva to paralyze small animals.  Predators. The predators of the Eastern hognose snake are raccoons, Virginia opossums, red foxes, hawks, common king snakes, cottonmouths, tarantulas. Behaviour. Eastern hognose snakes are diurnal animals. They will swim to cross between habitats and to find food or mates. Eastern hognose snakes are mostly active from early April until October or November depending on the temperature. Eastern hognose snakes usually begin hibernation anywhere from early September into November. If the temperatures drop to 19 degrees Celsius,
William Abb Cannon (August 2, 1937 – May 18, 2018) was an American football running back and tight end. He played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Cannon started playing football at Louisiana State University. He later played for the Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and the Kansas City Chiefs. In February 2013, Cannon suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in Baton Rouge. Cannon died on May 18, 2018 in St. Francisville, Louisiana at the age of 80.
The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League was the 65th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 28th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. The final was planned to be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. However, due to COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the competition was suspended on 13 March 2020, and resume on August and final-tournament to be held at the Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal. The winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup. They will also automatically qualify for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the champions of the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The round of 16 ties were to be played across four weeks, with the first legs being played across two weeks in February and the second legs across two weeks in March. Because of this, the first leg ties were unaffected by the pandemic, but the second leg ties were affected in different ways. All of the four matches in the first week of fixtures went ahead but due to the increased severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and France, Valencia's and PSG's home games were played behind closed doors. On 15 March, UEFA announced a halt to the competition meaning that the remaining second leg games would be postponed indefinitely. A taskforce was convened to reschedule the rest of the season. On 23 March, it was announced that the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey would no longer host the competition final, originally scheduled for 30 May, but would host the 2021 final instead. This was later cancelled and replaced to 2023 Copa Libertadores final. On 17 June, it was announced that the Champions League would return on 7 August and conclude on 23 August, with the rest of the tournament
Jaroslav Brabec (27 July 1949 – 20 May 2018) was a Czech former track and field athlete. He competed in the shot put. He twice represented Czechoslovakia at the Summer Olympics (1972 and 1976). He was a three-time participant at the European Athletics Championships (1971, 1974 and 1978) and a three-time medallist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, being the champion at the 1973 edition. Brabec died on 20 May 2018 in Prague at the age of 68.
Terence Langley Higgins, Baron Higgins, KBE, DL, PC (born 18 January 1928) is a British Conservative politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England. He also competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics. While in opposition, he served as the Conservative shadow minister for work and pensions in the House of Lords. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 New Years Honours List.
Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton (2 March 1930 – 19 August 2023) was a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords. In 1981 he was moved to the Department of Health and Social Security and in 1982 to the Home Office. In 1984 he was promoted to Minister of State within the Home Office.  In 1985, Elton joined the Department of Environment, again as a Minister of State, but left the government the following year.
Simon Denis Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, PC (9 April 1937 – 7 July 2023) was a British lawyer and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Brown was appointed a High Court Judge in 1984 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving a knighthood on his appointment. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal, a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, in 1992 and was made a Privy Counsellor in the same year. He was Vice-President of the Civil Division from 2001 to 2003.
Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers, FRS FMedSci FREng (born 17 September 1938) is a British electrical engineer. In September 2008, Lord Broers took over from Sir David Cooksey as chairman of the board of directors at the Diamond Light Source, the United Kingdom's largest new scientific facility for 45 years.
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (3 January 1932 – January 2022) was a British Labour politician. He was also Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa. He was Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from March 1974 – July 1975, but resigned in disagreement with the government's Incomes Policy. On 27 September 1997 he was created a Life peer as Baron Hughes of Woodside, of Woodside in the City of Aberdeen. Hughes's death was announced on 7 January 2022, aged 90.
Garry's Mod is a sandbox video game. The game is a mod for the video game "Half-Life 2" made by Garry Newman in 2004 and was sold in 2006. In the game, the player can use a spawn menu to spawn objects known as props, or it can be used to spawn Non-player characters like zombies or Combine soldiers, taken from Half-Life 2. The player can move these objects using the physics gun. The game is known because of it's modding, with popular mods for Garry's Mod like "Trouble in Terrorist Town", DarkRP and Prop hunt. Prop hunt became a popular video game mode, being used in other video games like ', ', "Fortnite Battle Royale", and "Genshin Impact". Gameplay. The game is an endless sandbox. Its base game mode, "sandbox," has no goals. The player can spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, and move and interact with the objects in many ways. The player can move these using the "physics gun", a ray-gun that lets the user move, freeze, and rotate the objects. The individual limbs of ragdolls can also be interacted with. The "tool gun" lets the player change an objects properties, like welding things together, and changing the facial expressions of ragdolls. Development. "Garry's Mod" was made by Garry Newman. He created Facepunch Studios while making "Garry's Mod". Successor. Newman stated that a successor to "Garry's Mod" in 2015 was in early development called "S&amp;box". Reception. "Garry's Mod" is considered to be one of the best sandbox games.
A post-credits scene appears after or during the closing credits of a movie. They are mostly used to amuse the audience or tell them that a sequel is coming soon. The first post-credits scene is usually thought to be in 1903's "The Great Train Robbery", in which the leader of the outlaw aims his gun at the audience and fires it. They gained popularity during the 1980s. An example is "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", in which the title character tells the audience to leave the theatre. Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are famous for these scenes, in which they usually tell the audience that a movie based on another Marvel hero is coming.
San Leandro is a large suburban town in Alameda County, California, United States. The population was 91,008 at the 2020 census. It is on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, between Oakland to the northwest and Hayward to the southeast.