Ramon Solsona i Sancho (Barcelona, February 7, 1950) is a Catalan writer and journalist. He has a degree in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona. He is also a high school teacher. Is known for his ironic style. He is a regular contributor to newspapers such as "El Punt" and "La Vanguardia". He currently contributes to the radio program "El Matí de Catalunya Ràdio". He also contributes to "Catalunya Ràdio" and "RAC 1."
He has also been a poet (satirist) under the pseudonym "Lo Gaiter del Besòs". His novel "Les hores detingudes" won three literary awards in the same year. His work has been translated into Spanish and French. For television, he has worked as a writer for the series "Agència de viatges," "Estació d'enllaç" and "El cor de la ciutat". These were broadcast by TV3. He was co-author of the theme song of Futbol Club Barcelona (1998). In 2010 he received the premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for his book "L'home de la maleta".
Xavier Bosch i Sancho
Xavier Bosch i Sancho (born July 21, 1967 in Barcelona) is a Catalan writer and journalist. Bosch and Antoni Bassas created the program "Alguna pregunta més?" at Catalunya Ràdio. He received an Ondas award for that program. He worked at "La Vanguardia", "TV3" and "RAC 1" in sports. He was the director of the newspaper "Avui" from 2007 to 2008. In 2010, he founded a newspaper in Catalan, "Diari Ara". He wrote a trilogy whose first book ("Se sabrà tot") received a Sant Jordi Award in 2009. His second and third novels were "Homes d'honor" (2012) and "Eufòria". His last novel, "Algú com tu" (Someone like you, 2015), is winner of the Ramon Llull 2015 award.
Lluís-Anton Baulenas i Setó
Lluís-Anton Baulenas (born in Barcelona, 1958) is a Catalan novelist, translator and playwright.
Pep Coll
Josep Coll i Martí (born October 16, 1949 in Pessonada, Spain), also know as Pep Coll, is a Catalan writer. He has written in many different genres. He has also written for newspapers like "Segre", "El Periódico" and the magazine "Descobrir Catalunya".
Josep Coll i Martí came from a poor family. He studied the basic humanities at the seminary of La Seu d'Urgell. Martí continued his studies at the University of Barcelona where he graduated in philosophy and letters.
He started to work as a teacher in La Pobla de Segur (Pallars Jussà) for five years. After this five years he decided to move to Lleida. In the city of Lleida he worked as a teacher of the Catalan language and literature. He taught at the secondary school IES Màrius Torres from 1980-81 to 2009-10.
For over three decades, he has combined teaching with a writing profession. He is the president of the Center for Studies of Pallars. He has also been awarded several prizes such as the Catalan Critics Award. This was for his novel "Dos taüts negres i dos de blancs". He is known for being able to transfer his love of the mountains into his stories.
"Collections of legends"
Janusz Kurczab
Janusz Kurczab (6 September 1937 – 11 April 2015) was a Polish fencer, mountaineer and expedition leader. He competed in team épée events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Warsaw, Poland.
Lars Tunbjörk
Lars Tunbjörk (15 February 1956 – 8 April 2015) was a Swedish photographer. He was known for taking pictures of the Swedish landscape and landmarks. He was born in Borås, Sweden.
Tunbjörk died on 8 April 2015. His death was announced on 11 April. No cause of death was given. He was 59 years old.
Net neutrality
Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally. There should be no discriminating or charging differently by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003. It was an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier.
Examples of net neutrality violations include when the Internet service provider Comcast intentionally slowed peer-to-peer communications. In 2007, one other company was using deep packet inspection to discriminate against peer-to-peer, file transfer protocol, and online games. They started using a cell-phone-style billing system of overages, free-to-telecom value-added services, and bundling.
Sheila Kitzinger
Sheila Helena Elizabeth Kitzinger MBE (29 March 1929 - 11 April 2015) was a British natural childbirth activist and author on childbirth and pregnancy. She was known for being an expert on natural childbirth. She was born in was born in Taunton, Somerset.
Kitzinger died in Oxfordshire, England after a short illness, aged 86.
Paul Almond
Paul Almond (April 26, 1931 – April 10, 2015) was a Canadian screenwriter, director and producer. He was known for directing "Isabel", "Journey", and "The Act of the Heart". He was born in Montreal, Quebec.
Almond died from complications of heart disease at his home in Malibu, California, aged 83.
André Mba Obame
André Mba Obame (15 June 1957 – 12 April 2015) was a Gabonese politician. After serving as an adviser to President Omar Bongo in the 1980s, he was a minister in the government of Gabon from 1990 to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2009.
Obame died in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 12 April 2015 from a long-illness, aged 57.
The Amazing Criswell
Jeron Criswell King (August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982), born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell , was an American psychic known for making wrong predictions. In person, he went by Charles Criswell King, and was sometimes credited as Jeron King Criswell. He was born in Princeton, Indiana.
Criswell was a friend of director Ed Wood and narrated in his famous movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space".
Criswell died of cardiac arrest in Burbank, California, aged 75.
Market basket
In economics a customer basket, market basket or commodity basket is a set of different amounts of different goods and possibly services. The commodity basket will contain goods and services a typical consumer will likely need. Commodity baskets can be used for two things: First, the price level of two economies can be compared. Secondly, using the same baseket, it is possible to show how prices change over time. The amount of money needed to buy everything in the basket, over time, is called consumer price index.
The basket will containb different goods and services, such as:
Jack Box
Jack I. Box, also known as Mr. Box, is a fictional character and the mascot of the Jack in the Box commercials. He is the founder and chairman of the restaurant and spokesman for the commercials.
He is voiced by Dick Sittig.
Frankie Bridge
Francesca "Frankie" Bridge (née Sandford; born 14 January 1989) is an English singer-songwriter. She was born in Upminster, London. She was a member of S Club 8 (2001-2005). Since 2007, she is a member of girl group The Saturdays, signed to the Fascination and Polydor labels.
The group has released sixteen singles so far, of which thirteen have reached the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. There was one UK number-one single, "What About Us". In addition, the group has had five Top 10 albums on the UK Albums Chart, which were all certified by the British Phonographic Industry.
Bridge has had nineteen UK Top 10 Singles and six UK Top 10 Albums. She was a contestant in the 2014 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Sandford had a relationship with Dougie Poynter from 2008-2010. She began a relationship with Wayne Bridge in 2010. The couple's son was born in 2013. The couple married in 2014.
Mind of Mencia
Mind of Mencia is an American television series, created by Carlos Mencia.
Each DVD set includes uncensored versions of each season's episodes with bonus features, including commentary, a behind the scenes featurette, and deleted scenes.
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