Jaroslav Kubera (16 February 1947 – 20 January 2020) was a Czech politician. He was a member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). At the time of his death, he was the President of the Senate since November 2018. He was Senator from Teplice from 2000 until his death in 2020. He served as mayor of Teplice from 1994 to 2018.
Kubera was born in Louny. He had a small role as Edvard Beneš in historical drama movie "Toman", directed by Ondřej Trojan.
Kubera died on 20 January 2020 in Ústí nad Labem. He was 72.
ZAPiT Games
ZAPiT Games, Inc. was a company from Mississauga, Canada. It started in 2003 to make a home video game console for families. To do that, they worked with companies such as National Semiconductor, Panasonic and Altera to make the Game Wave Family Entertainment System.
ZAPiT Games also makes games for the BlackBerry and iPhone.
The Game Wave Family Entertainment System is a hybrid DVD player and video game console. That means it can play both DVDs and video games. It first came out in October 2005 during the seventh generation of video game consoles. The games for the system are trivia games, video game versions of traditional board or card games.
Lech Raczak
Lech Raczak (27 January 1946 – 17 January 2020) was a Polish theatre director. He was born in Poznań. He was one of the founders of the Theatre of the Eighth Day. From 1995 to 1998, Raczak was an artistic director of the Polish Theatre in Poznań. He also worked for Malta Festival as an artistic director between 1993 and 2012. He was a professor at University of Arts in Poznań from 2003.
Raczak died of a heart attack on 17 January 2020 at the age of 73.
Lucy Fallon
Lucy Fallon (born 13 November 1995) is an English actress from Cleveleys, Lancashire. She found popular success playing Bethany Platt in the ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street" from 2015 to 2020. The role has earned her widespread recognition and several accolades, including two British Soap Awards, an "Inside Soap" Award, and a National Television Award. Fallon was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
Sam Robertson
Samuel Robertson (born 11 October 1985) is a Scottish actor and model. He is best known for his roles as Flynn on the E4 comedy-drama series, "Beaver Falls"; and Adam Barlow in the ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street". Robertson studied Drama and English at the University of Manchester, but dropped out at 18 to focus on his role of Adam Barlow in "Coronation Street". In 2005 and 2006, he took part in the second to myers the third series of Sky1's, "The Match".
Jennie McAlpine
Jennie Elizabeth McAlpine (born 12 February 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester, England) is a British television actress, comedian and businesswoman. She is best known for her role as Fiz Brown in the long-running ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street". She also took part in season 17 of the British ITV television reality show, "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!", during 2017, she came in fourth place.
Camagüey
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba. It is the country's third largest city and capital of the Camagüey Province. It has more than 321,000 inhabitants.
DirectX Raytracing
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a feature of Microsoft's DirectX that can do raytracing in real-time. It is a big development in computer graphics. It was first made to use Nvidia's Volta platform. Some of the first products for consumers that use DXR include the Nvidia GeForce 20 series of GPUs, which was announced in 2018. DXR came out as an extension to DirectX 12 instead of a new version of DirectX.
The Windows 10 October 2018 update includes the public release of DirectX Raytracing.
DXR adds 4 main elements to the DirectX 12 API:
Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Johann Heinrich Tischbein, the younger (28 November 1742 – 22 December 1808) was a German painter and engraver, from the Tischbein family of artists.
Lou Diamond Phillips
Louis Diamond Phillips (né Upchurch; born February 17, 1962) is a Filipino-American actor and movie director. He is known for his role as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama movie "La Bamba" (1987).
William Bogert
William "Bill" Bogert (January 24, 1936 – January 12, 2020) was an American character actor. He was best known for his role as Brandon Brindle on the TV series "Small Wonder" from 1985 to 1989. He also played Kent Wallace, the host of "Chappelle's Show"s "Frontline" spoofs.
Bogert died in New York City on January 12, 2020. He was 83 years old.
Urs Egger
Urs Egger (1955 – January 19, 2020) was a Swiss movie and television director and journalist. From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" and the Australian "Cinema Papers" as a correspondent. His best known movies were "Kinder der Landstrasse" (1992) and "Opernball" (1998).
Egger died on January 19, 2020 at the age of 66.
Danny Talbott
Joseph Daniel Talbott (November 1, 1944 – January 19, 2020) was an American football, baseball, and basketball player. He quarterbacked two seasons of football at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was named the ACC Player of the Year in 1966.
He was drafted 17th overall by the San Francisco 49ers before backing up quarterback Sonny Jurgensen for the Washington Redskins under Vince Lombardi. He also played baseball professionally in the Baltimore Orioles's minor league system.
Talbott was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He died on January 19, 2020 in Rocky Mount of cancer-related problems at the age of 75.
Sam Anderson
Sam Anderson (born May 13, 1945) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Sam Gorpley on "Perfect Strangers", as dentist Bernard Nadler on "Lost", and as Holland Manners on "Angel".
Wahpeton, North Dakota
Wahpeton ( ) is a city in Richland County, in southeastern North Dakota, United States. It is on the Bois de Sioux River. Wahpeton is the county seat of Richland County. The population was 7,766 at the 2010 Census.
Bois de Sioux River
The Bois de Sioux River drains Lake Traverse, the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of North America. It is a tributary of the Red River of the North. It makes up part of the western border of the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the eastern borders of North Dakota and South Dakota. It is about 41 miles (66 km) in length. The Dakota name for this River is Caninkpa Wakpa ( can = wood; inkpa = point; wakpa = river) named because it is the point or beginning of the woods all the way to Hudson Bay.[2] Where the Waters Gather and the Rivers Meet. By Paul C. Durand, Privately published, 1994 ISBN 0-9641469-0-8.
Rosanna DeSoto
Rosanna DeSoto (born September 2, 1950) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in "Stand and Deliver", for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, and in "" as Azetbur.
Bombshell (2019 movie)
Bombshell is a 2019 American biographical drama movie directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. The movie stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. It is based on the stories of many women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. Actors John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles.
"Bombshell" received generally favorable reviews.
La Bamba (movie)
La Bamba is a 1987 American biographical movie written and directed by Luis Valdez. It is about the life and career of Chicano rock 'n' roll star Ritchie Valens. The movie stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck, and Joe Pantoliano.
It was released on July 24, 1987 to positive reviews. In 2017, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Esai Morales