John Henry George Forgham (14 May 1941 – 10 March 2017) was an English actor. He was best known for playing businessman Frank Laslett in the ITV series "Footballers' Wives". He was also known for his movie role as Frank in "The Italian Job".
Forgeham died from internal bleeding and suffered from a broken collarbone after falling at his home in Worthing, East Sussex on 10 March 2017, aged 75.
Chippis
Chippis is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Grimentz
Grimentz is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Grimentz, Ayer, Chandolin, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.
Grône
Grône is a municipality in the district Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Icogne
Icogne is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Music School Kosta Manojlovic in Zemun
The Music School Kosta Manojlovic is one of the largest schools in Serbia. It is located at 9 Nemanjina street in Zemun.
The Music School “Kosta Manojlović” started its work on 1 September 1939, as a separate department of the Music School “Stanković” in Belgrade, in a three-room apartment in Svetosavska Street. In 1949 the school received the status of a regular six-year, gratuitous schools, and since 1954 bears the name of Kosta Manojlović., the famous Serbian composer, musicologist, founder and first rector of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
The School Day is celebrated on December 4 – the day of birth of "Kosta Manojlovic".
Teaching classes are organized in three separate locations – the main (parent) school, in the class for visually impaired children “Veljko Ramadanović” and elementary school “Lazar Savatić”. With around a thousand students and 145 teachers and non-teaching staff, the school is one of the largest in Serbia. Today, there are seven courses established in the school: the piano, string instruments, wind instruments, solo singing, the accordion, the guitar and a course for music production and audio recording. Around 3,000 students have completed elementary education and around 650 students secondary education so far.
Sirinai Mandar
Sirinai Mandar is a book of short stories written by Nilkamal Brahma.
There are 10 stories in the book. All the stories are written in Bodo language. It was first published in 1985.
Artificial leather
Artificial leather is a substance used as a replacement for real leather. It is used where the properties or the look of real leather are desired, but real leather is too expensive, unsuitable, or not feasible for ethical reasons. Compared with real leather, artificial leathers are much cheaper to produce. Water resistance is another advantage of many artificial leathers. They are often used for upholstery and fashion and other purposes.
Usually, there are two components: A kind of textile, and some kind of plastic (such as PVC). Real leather is produced from the skin of animals.
Artificial leather might look like it is better for the environment, since no animals need to be killed to make it. The problem with artificial leather is different: When the item of clothing is no longer used, it is thrown away. Many plastics take a long time to decay. That way, the plastic part may get into the sea, where animals such as birds and fish eat it. The chemicals used to make artificial leather are toxic, and can lead to pollution.
Kitty Courbois
Catharina Anna Petronella Antonia (Kitty) Courbois (13 July 1937 – 11 March 2017) was a Dutch actress. In 2010 she was awarded the Medal of Merit. She was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Courbois died on 11 March 2017 in Amsterdam from a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 79.
Murray Ball
Murray Hone Ball ONZM (26 January 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand cartoonist. He became known for his "Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero" (the longest running cartoon in Punch magazine), "Bruce the Barbarian", "All the King's Comrades" (also in Punch) and the long-running "Footrot Flats" comic series.
In 2002 Ball became an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services as a cartoonist.
Ball was born in Feilding, New Zealand. He studied at Parktown Boys' High School. Ball died on 12 March 2017 in Gisborne, New Zealand from complications of dementia, aged 78.
Shifa Gardi
Shifa Gardi (Kurdish:Şîfa Gerdî, Arabic:شفاء كردي)(July 1, 1986 - February 25, 2017) also known as Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, was a Kurdish journalist for the Kurdish Rudaw Media Network in Iraq. She died in a roadside bomb explosion while reporting on the Iraqi advance into Mosul. When she died, Gardi was speaking to Shiite commander Hashd al-Shaabi beside a huge hole where ISIS militants dumped the bodies of people they killed. Al-Shaabi's feet caught in a wire, which made the bomb explode. Gardi, commander al-Shaabi, and four fighters were killed. Gardi's cameraman Younis Mustafa and seven fighters were wounded.
Ranja Jamal, a Rudaw journalist who is embedded with the Iraqi army was with Gardi when she died. He said she was looking for the deep hole called "Mosul’s Valley of Death", or Al Khafsa, where ISIS threw hundreds of people. The hole is in a valley south of the Mosul near a village called Al Athba. According to the Islamic State's doctrine, Muslims who oppose the group or fighters who leave the group cannot be buried in Muslim cemeteries. Al Athba is 20 kilometers south of Mosul and five kilometers from the main Baghdad-Mosul road. Gardi had information about the valley but she was not able to find it. On her way back, she met a Popular Mobilization Forces or Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi group, and they took her to the place.
Gardi was born a refugee in 1986 in the town of Urmia Zêwe, Iran. In 2006, she graduated from Computer Technical Institute. In 2013, she graduated from the media department at Salahaddin University. In 2006, she started her career in media and worked as a teacher. From 2007 to 2010 she worked as a journalist. Gerdi was with the Rûdaw Media Group from its beginning. At the beginning of the Mosul offensive she started a program titled “Focus Mosul”. Gerdi followed the events of the war by going to the front as a war correspondent. Gerdi once brought a rabbit back to her office, because it was malnourished. She was killed February 25, 2017 in a bomb explosion in Mosul. Her cameraman Younis Mustafa was injured in the explosion.
The President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, sent his condolences. Mesud Tek, the General Secretary Socialist Party of Kurdistan in Turkey also sent condolences. Marie-Claude Bibeau, the Canadian Minister for international development, Dr. Najmaldin Karim, the governor of Kirkuk, and Falah Mustafa, head of Department of Foreign Relations of Kurdistan Regional Government all expressed their condolnces.
BandNews FM
Rádio BandNews FM is a Brazilian "all news" radio network. It first started in 20 March 2005. It is owned by Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação.
The network started broadcasting at exactly midnight in 20 March 2005, after at 23:59, Rádio Cidade said goodbye to its listeners after 25 years and played the last top 3 songs. The first on-air journalist was Carlos Nascimento.
Currently, it serves ten cities: Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Vitoria, Joao Pessoa and Salvador. The first 4 cities carry the network's "de facto" flagship stations.
Campinas and Ribeirao Preto (in 106.7 FM and 96.7 FM) stopped carrying BandNews FM programming in 2014. They are now branded as Band FM.
BandNews FM is well known for its slogan "Em 20 minutos, tudo pode mudar" (In 20 minutes, everything can happen), which refers to how the news is updated every 20 minutes. This format (that allows listeners to tune in at any time of the day to get the leading stories of the moment) is inspired by 1010 WINS, America's most well-known news station.