Billy Joe Walker Jr. (February 29, 1952 – July 25, 2017) was an American songwriter, record producer and recording artist. He made singles for Eddie Rabbitt, including "I Wanna Dance with You", "That's Why I Fell in Love with You" and "B-B-B-Burnin' Up with Love". He was born in Midland, Texas.
Walker Jr. produced the first three albums of Bryan White, and for Pam Tillis, Collin Raye and Travis Tritt. He was also a session musician who played guitar. Between 1987 and 1994, he recorded seven New Age albums, all for major labels.
Walker Jr. died following kidney failure on July 25, 2017 in Kerrville, Texas at the age of 64.
Joachim Vobbe
Joachim Gerhard Vobbe (January 5, 1947 – July 26, 2017) was a German bishop for the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany. He was born in Bad Honnef, Germany.
Vobbe was ordained a priest on 14 June 1972. After serving as a chaplain ("Kaplan") for five years in Catholic parishes in Cologne (1972–1974) and Düsseldorf (1974–1977), he joined the Old Catholic Church in 1977, becoming rector in Blumberg until 1982. He then served in Offenbach, latterly as Dean of Hesse.
Vobbe served as the Bishop of the Old Catholics in Germany (based in Bonn) until 2009. As bishop of a church in full communion with the Church of England, he has been licensed as an honorary assistant bishop in that church's Diocese in Europe since 1999.
Vobbe died at Königswinter on 26 July 2017 of prostate cancer at the age of 70.
Ramón Xirau
Ramón Xirau Subías (, ) (20 January 1924 – 27 July 2017) was a Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic. He was born in Barcelona, Spain.
He received the Legion of Honour from France and the Isabel la Católica from Spain awards as well as the Cruz de Saint Jordi from the Generalitat of Catalonia for his works in essay and academics in Spanish and Catalan literature.
He was a research faculty member of the UNAM y and the National System of Researchers. At the UNAM he taught at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and did research at the Institute of Philosophy Research. He was a member of the Colegio Nacional since 1973.
Xirau died on 27 July 2017 of congestive heart failure in Mexico City at the age of 93.
Hampton Fancher
Hampton Lansden Fancher (born July 18, 1938) is an American actor who became a movie producer and screenwriter in the late 1970s. He is known for writing the screenplay for "Blade Runner".
Santiniketan
Santiniketan is a town in Birbhum District, West Bengal, India.
Cross Purposes
Cross Purposes is the seventeenth studio album by Black Sabbath. The album was released on January 31, 1994.
Betty Boothroyd
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd (born 8 October 1929) is a British politician. She served as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 1992.
From 1992 to 2000, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons. She was the first, and to date only, female Speaker of the House of Commons. She sits, by tradition, as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords.
Matt Reeves
Matthew George "Matt" Reeves (born April 27, 1966) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.
Reeves began his career as a screenwriter for the movies "" (1995) and "The Pallbearer" (1996). He then worked into television as a director and co-creator of the drama series "Felicity" (1998–2002) alongside J.J. Abrams. Reeves has since directed the found-footage horror movie "Cloverfield" (2008), the romantic horror movie "Let Me In" (2010), and the science fiction sequels "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (2014) and "War for the Planet of the Apes" (2017).
In February 2017, Warner Bros. announced that Reeves would direct "The Batman", set to be released in 2022 and starring Robert Pattinson as the titular character.
Hsu Pang-hsing
Hsu Pang-hsing (, January 29, 1909 - August 3, 1984) was a Hakka doctor from Pingtung, Taiwan.
Hsu was born in Zhongxinlun, Neipu (, a town of Pingtung) in 1909. He studied at Neiho Elementary School (), Takao Middle School () and Taihok Medical College (). In 1931, he married Chiu Jen-mei. They had six children
After the end of World War II in 1945, Hsu began to serve as the first surgery director of National Taiwan University Hospital, but he resigned in 1950. After that, he set up Hsu Surgery Hospital (徐外科醫院) in 1950 and created Private Meiho Senior high school (美和高中) in 1961.
In 1971, he set up the Meiho Youth baseball team, six-time world champion. In 1984, Hsu died at the age of 76.
Eifel
The Eifel is a mountain range mostly in Germany. The northern part is in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The southern part is in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The very eastern part of Belgium (the High Fens and most of the German-speaking Community of Belgium) and the northern part of Luxembourg (the Oesling) are considered to be both parts of the Ardennes and parts of the Eifel.
The western border of the Eifel is at the Belgian and Luxembourgian Ardennes. The eastern border is at the Westerwald across the Rhine River. The southern border is at the Hunsrück across the Moselle River. The northern border is at the lower regions of the Rhineland.
The Eifel has hills up to about . They are made of slate and other stones. The highest hill is the Hohe Acht with an altitude of .
Few people live in the mountain range. It has many trees, reservoirs and rivers.
The biggest settlement is the city of Aachen at the northern edge.
Because of its elevation, temperatures are low.
The Eifel is divided into:
Languages spoken in the Eifel are German, and in the Belgian and Luxembourgian parts besides German also French.
Three Central Franconian dialects of German are spoken in the Eifel:
Garry Monk
Garry Alan Monk (born 6 March 1979) is an English football manager and former player. He has managed EFL Championship club Middlesbrough since 2017. He played for Torquay United, Southampton, Barnsley and Swansea City. He has previously been the manager of Swansea and Leeds United.
Garry played for Torquay United Academy until 1995, and began playing for the first team before leaving for Southampton the next year. He rarely played for The Saints and went out on loan to Torquay, Stockport County, Oxford United and Sheffield Wendesday. He also played on loan for Barnsley, before joining permanently in January 2004.
He left for Swansea City in Summer 2004, and stayed there for ten years. Garry was captain for a while, but retired from football in 2004.
Garry started managing Swansea City as their interim player-manager after Michael Laudrup was given the sack. He was good and Swansea were not relegated to the Championship. He became the main manager the next season, and they played well and finished eighth. Garry was not good at the beginning of the next season, and was sacked in Christmas time 2015.
He was manager of Leeds United from 2016 to 2017, where they finished seventh; he resigned from his job despite the club wanting him to stay.
Garry became the manager of Middlesbrough in 2017.
Swansea City
Played:77, Won:28, Drew:17, Lost:32, Win%:36.4
Leeds United
Played:53, Won:32, Drew:11, Lost:17, Win%:47.2
Middlesbrough
Played:0, Won:0, Drew:0, Lost:0, Win%:N/A
2019 United Kingdom general election
A general election was held on 12 December 2019 to elect all 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party won with a large majority and Boris Johnson stayed as Prime Minister. The Labour Party lost 60 seats, giving them their lowest number of seats (202) since 1935.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn quit after the loss saying he "would not lead Labour at the next election". This led to a leadership election in the party where Keir Starmer became the new leader.
A summarised results of the parties that won seats at the election is as follows:
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