Lungu was born 11 November 1956 at Ndola Central Hospital. After graduating with a law degree in 1981 from the University of Zambia, he joined the law firm Andre Masiye and Company in Lusaka. He subsequently underwent military officer training at Miltez in Kabwe under Zambia National Service (ZNS). He then returned to practising law. He then joined politics.
In 2010, Edgar Lungu had his law practicing licence suspended by the Law Association of Zambia. This was after he was found guilty of professional misconduct.
He joined the United Party for National Development(UPND) under Anderson Mazoka, but later switched to the Patriotic Front (PF) which was led by party founder Michael Sata.
After the PF won the 2011 election, Lungu became Junior Minister in the Vice-President's office. He was subsequently promoted to Minister of Home Affairs on 9 July 2012. He became Minister of Defence on 24 December 2013 after Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba resigned from his ministerial post, and he functioned as Acting President during President Sata's long term illness in 2013–14.
When President Sata went abroad for medical treatment on 19 October 2014, Lungu was left in charge of the country in his absence. When Sata died on 28 October 2014, Vice-President Guy Scott took over as Acting President, and Lungu was seen as one of the main contenders to ultimately succeed Sata in a presidential by-election.
On 3 November 2014, Acting President Scott dismissed Lungu as Secretary-General of the PF. He replaced him with Davis Mwila, the Member of Parliament for Chipili. However, the next day, on 4 November 2014, Scott announced Lungu was to remain as Secretary-General after Mwila declined to take up his appointment. On 30 November 2014, Lungu was elected as President of the Patriotic Front at a national convention of the party held in Kabwe, Zambia. However the convention was unusual because no voting took place. Instead, the unaccredited delegates elected him by raising hands.
On 20 January 2015 Lungu contested the presidential by-election and beat his closest rival Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development. He was declared the winner by the Electoral Commission of Zambia on 24 January.
Lungu is married to Esther Lungu and has six children. Lungu and his family are practicing Baptists.
Nonlinear programming
Nonlinear programming is a way to solve a mathematical optimization problem. A number of equations and inequalities defines such a system. They are called constraints. Nonlinear programming is similar to linear programming, except that the functions and constraints are non-linear.
Chhota Bheem
Chhota Bheem is an Indian animated comedy adventure television series. The series created by Rajiv Chilaka. Premiered in 2008 on Pogo TV, it focuses on adventures of a boy named Bheem and his friends in the fictional kingdom of Dholakpur. In this series, Bheem and his friends are usually involved in protecting Raja Indravarma, the king of Dholakpur and his kingdom from various evil forces. Sometimes they also help other kingdoms. It is one of the most popular animated series for children in India.
The series is set in the fictional kingdom of Dhulakpur.somewhere rural India. The series revolves around Bheem,sometimes referred to Chhota Bheem. due to his small age,a nine-year-old boy who is brave, strong and intelligent. Bheem's rival is Kalia, who is envious of Bheem's popularity. Kalia along with his sidekicks towin brothers Dholu and Bholu,always plot to embarrass and defeat Bheem,but never succeede. Most of the initial stories revolted around Bheem and his friends Raju,Jaggu and Chuttki and rivalry with Kalia and his friends. However, as the series has progressed. This topic has been adopted as the subject less often, although Kalia is still just as eager prove himself superior to Bheem,A large number of episodes also focus on Bheem and his team solving various problems affecting the village. Unriviling Misty fighting evils that seek to harm Dhulakpur or its inhabitants and their antics which often get theme into trouble during early days broadcaster Pogo TV has stressed that storyline be kept simple and mysteries and complex plot avoided as all cost as the viewers where too young to understand but nowadays there is no restrictions.
France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
France will compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song Mercy, by Madame Monsieur.
Destination Eurovision is the national final for France in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Semi-Final 1
Dialog system
A dialog system or conversational agent (CA) is a computer system intended to converse with a human, with a coherent structure. Dialog systems have employed text, speech, graphics, haptics, gestures and other modes of communication on both the input and output channel.
What does and does not constitute a dialog system may be debatable. The typical GUI wizard does engage in some sort of dialog, but it includes very few of the common dialog system components, and dialog state is trivial.
Milko Kelemen
Milko Kelemen (March 30, 1924 – March 8, 2018) was a Croatian composer. He was born in Slatina, Croatia. Kelemen founded the Music Biennale Zagreb, an international contemporary music festival and served as its president from 1961 to 1979.
He also worked at the Electronic Siemens Studio in Munich and was invited to Berlin as Composer in Residence.
Keleman died on March 8, 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany at the age of 93.
Ion Voinescu
Ion "Țop" Voinescu (18 April 1929 – 9 March 2018) was a Romanian footballer. He was often thought as one of the finest goalkeepers Romania has ever produced.
Voinescu has won 22 caps for Romania, with his only honor being representing his country at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Voinenscu worked as a goalkeeper coach for his former club, Steaua București.
On 9 March 2018, Voinescu died at the age of 88.
Elías Yanes Álvarez
Elias Yanes Álvarez (16 February 1928 – 9 March 2018) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Zaragoza.
Yanes Álvarez was ordained to the priesthood in 1952. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oviedo from 1970 to 1977. Yanes Álvarez then served as Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zaragoza from 1977 until 2005.
Yanes Álvarez died in Zaragoza of complications from a fall on 9 March 2018 at the age of 90.
Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (; 28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French artist and inventor. He shot what may have been the first moving picture sequences to use a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.
Le Prince was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the US because he mysteriously vanished from a train on 16 September 1890. His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, a police archive was found to contain a photograph of a drowned man who could have been him.
In the years after his death, his son Adolphe was in a court, representing Louis, in a battle against Thomas Edison to name the true inventor of motion pictures. Edison won the case and a few months later, Adolphe was killed in a hunting accident.
No Excuses
"No Excuses" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor for her upcoming third studio album. She wrote the song with Andrew Wells, who produced the song, and Jacob Kasher, who also co-wrote Trainor's song "No". It was released on March 1, 2018. "People" has called the song "Time's Up-inspired" with a "funky, retro beat." It is her first song since having a second vocal surgery in 2017.
After performing the song on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", the song reached number one on the US iTunes chart.
The video for the song shows three different versions of Trainor in various outfits and hairstyles, against different backdrops.
Gaúcho
Luís Carlos Tóffoli, usually nicknamed Gaúcho (7 March 1964 – 17 March 2016), was a Brazilian football player and manager. He was born in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul.