Sky2 is a British entertainment television channel that launched in 1997 and, later 2002. It comes from the original broadcast which broadcast on analogue platforms for a year from 1996. Sky2 Broadcast from 7:00 PM to 6:00 AM nightly, timesharing with another new channel, Fox Kids (now Disney XD), before extending its hours to 10:00 PM. Another broadcasting was The Death of Princess, which was aired at 5:00 Am, before closing on 31 July 1997. The programmes included Road Wars, Party Wars, and the simulcast of Sky Sports. The current channel began broadcasting (as Sky One Mix) in December 2002. Sky2 became a 1-hour timeshift of Sky One on 10 May 2010, showing programmes one-hour later or the channel ceased as a standard channel. On 9 August 2010, Sky Two ceased a 1-hour timeshift of Sky One and replaced back to its standalone programming not shown on Sky One (some Sky One programmes are often broadcast on Sky2).
Blaine Higgs
Blaine Higgs (born March 1, 1954) is a Canadian politician. He is the 34th and current Premier of New Brunswick since 2018 and leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party since 2016.
Higgs was first elected to the legislature in the 2010 provincial election and was Minister of Finance from 2010 to 2014 in the government of David Alward.
Blaine Higgs was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick. He completed graduation from the University of New Brunswick as an engineer. He worked for 33 years for a company named Irving Oil where he rose to the rank of a senior executive. His works include overseeing oil transportation across eastern Canada and New England. He retired from Irving Oil in 2010.
Hiwi Tauroa
Edward Te Rangihiwinui "Hiwi" Tauroa (1927 – 11 December 2018) was a Māori rugby union player, school principal, and civil servant. He was born in Hawera, New Zealand. He was the principal of Wesley College from 1968, before becoming the principal of Tuakau College in 1974.
Tauroa was originally best known for his rugby career, and played for the New Zealand national rugby union team, the "All Blacks," from 1951 to 1954. He became coach of the Counties Rugby Union in the 1970s.
In 1979, he was appointed New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner. He also was chairman of Te Māngai Pāho and the New Zealand Sports Foundation. Tauroa was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1994.
Taurua died on 11 December 2018 in Hokianga, New Zealand aged 91.
Mary Lou McDonald
Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. In June 2020, she became Leader of the Opposition. She is the Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2018 and Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central since the 2011 general election. She was Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin from 2009 to 2018 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Dublin from 2004 to 2009.
On 10 February 2018, McDonald replaced longtime party leader Gerry Adams after a special election in Dublin.
Iraj Danaeifard
Iraj Danaeifard (11 March 1951 – 12 December 2018) was an Iranian football player. He played most of his career for Taj (currently Esteghlal) and also Iran national football team. He was born in Tehran.
Danaeifard died on 12 December 2018 in Shiraz from a heart attack, aged 67.
Ferenc Kósa
Ferenc Kósa (21 November 1937 – 12 December 2018) was a Hungarian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He directed thirteen movies between 1961 and 1988. He won the award for Best Director at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival for the movie "Ten Thousand Days". He also directed "The Upthrown Stone" (1969).
Kósa died on 12 December 2018 in Budapest at the age of 81.
Creepypasta
Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet stories are often short, user-generated, ghost stories meant to scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences.
According to "Time" magazine, the genre had its peak audience in 2010 when it was covered by "The New York Times."
Famous creepypastas include Slender Man, "Jeff the Killer", "Candle Cove" and "Ted the Caver".
After a 12-year old committed stabbings in the name of Slender Man, some creppypaster administrators told their viewers that these stories have a fine line between reality and fiction.
Jean-Robert de Cavel
Jean-Robert de Cavel (born September 12, 1961) is a French-American celebrity chef He was Chef de cuisine at The Maisonette from 1993-2002, Executive chef at Jean-Robert at Pigall's from 2002-2009, and now works at Jean-Robert's Table, Le Bar a Boeuf and French Crust Cafe. His career is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Roubaix, France.
In 2003 de Cavel and his wife Annette founded the de Cavel Family SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Foundation following the death of their first child, Tatiana. De Cavel has four times been a semifinalist for the James Beard Best Chef in the Great Lakes Region, in 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013.
De Cavel was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leiomyosarcoma in May 2018.
Leiomyosarcoma
Leiomyosarcoma, also referred to as LMS, is a malignant (cancerous) smooth muscle tumor. It is a benign tumor originating from the same tissue called leiomyoma. It has been believed that leiomyosarcomas do not arise from leiomyomas.
About 1 in 100,000 people gets diagnosed with LMS each year. Leiomyosarcoma is one of the more common types of soft-tissue sarcoma, representing 10 percent to 20 percent of new cases. Leiomyosarcomas can be very unpredictable. They can remain dormant for long periods of time and recur after years. The cancer is aggressive and hardly responds to chemotherapy treatments.
Sedalia, Missouri
Sedalia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is in the west-central area of the state. It is the county seat of Pettis County, Missouri.
Sedalia is where the Missouri State Fair takes place every year.
At the 2010 census, 21,387 people lived in the city.
Mark Udall
Mark Emery Udall (born July 18, 1950) is an American politician. He was the United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Before the Senate, he was in the United States House of Representatives, representing .
Newar people
Newar (; ; endonym: Newa:; , Prachalit Script: 𑐣𑐾𑐰𑐵𑑅), or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Nepal Mandala which consists of Nepa Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilization.
Newar people have developed a division of labor and a sophisticated urban civilization not seen elsewhere in the Himalayan foothills. Newar people have continued their age-old traditions and practices and pride themselves as the true custodians of the religion, culture and civilization of Nepal. They are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation. Newars form a linguistic and cultural community of primarily Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman ethnicities following Hinduism and Buddhism with Nepal Bhasa as their common language.
The Kathmandu Valley and surrounding territories constituted the former Newar kingdom of the Nepal Mandala. Unlike other common-origin ethnic or caste groups of Nepal, the Newar people are regarded as an example of a nation community with a relic identity, derived from an ethnically-diverse, previously-existing polity. Newar civilization within it consists of various strands of ethnic, racial, caste and religious heterogeneity, as they are the descendants of the diverse group of people that have lived in Nepal Mandala since prehistoric times.
Gong
A gong is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument. It is a bowl-shaped, circular metal disc which a person hits with a mallet or thick padded stick.