Kairshasp Nariman Choksy, PC, MP (7 February 1933 – 5 February 2015) (known as "K. N. Choksy") was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. He was a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
He was Cabinet Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. He had also served as Cabinet Minister of Constitutional & State Affairs from 1993 to 1994 under President D. B. Wijetunga and was a member of parliament from 1989 to 2010.
Street theatre
Street theatre is a form of theatre performed outdoors. Actors take their performances to street corners, town squares, and markets. They work in public places putting on plays Generally they perform without a paying audience but depend on money dropped in a hat. Street theatre ranges from individual performances to acting companies. In Guerrilla theatre the actors are usually not professionals. They often take on social and political issues. Street theatre uses a minimum of props, costumes and sets. They often have no microphones. This means the actors have to be loud enough for the audience to hear them. It has different names in different places. In Singapore for example it is called street opera.
Metro-North Railroad
The Metro-North Commuter Railroad, or Metro-North, is a suburban commuter rail service in New York. It is run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It is the second largest commuter railroad in the United States. Metro–North goes from New York City to the New York Hudson Valley. It also has stops in Connecticut. Riding Metro-North in New York City costs less than riding it outside the city. There are 122 stations. There are five Metro-North Railroad lines. It has over of track. The lines are more than long.
The MTA also operates New York City Transit subways and buses, and the Long Island Rail Road. It has jurisdiction, through Metro-North, over railroad lines on the western and eastern portions of the Hudson River in New York State. Service on the western side of the Hudson is operated by New Jersey Transit under contract with the MTA. Metro-North operates 124 stations.
Brown bread
Brown bread is a name for breads made with a lot of whole grain flour with usually rye or wheat. There are sometimes dark-coloured ingredients such as molasses or coffee.
White bread
White bread are breads made with a light color flour. The flour used in white breads may be bleached or lightened by chemicals like potassium bromate, azodicarbonamide, or chlorine dioxide.
Nutella
Nutella is the brand name of an Italian sweetened hazelnut chocolate spread. Manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero, it was introduced to the market in 1964. Nutella has 200 calories.
Kevin Stemke
Kevin Stemke (born November 23, 1978) is a retired American football punter. He played eight games in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Oakland Raiders in 2002 and the St. Louis Rams in 2004. Stemke was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He is the son of U.S. Olympic soccer player Horst Stemke.
He played college football with the University of Wisconsin Badgers. During his first year, Stemke set the team punting record while averaging 43.9 yards per kick and in his second year, he was able to make the first team in the Big Ten Conference. In his senior year, he was able to break his own school record and averaged 44.5 yards per punt which was also the third best in the United States. He was awarded the very first Ray Guy Award for being the nation's top punter.
Stemke went undrafted in the 2001 NFL Draft but he was signed by the Green Bay Packers on April 23, 2001. The Raiders signed Stemke in August 2002. He played two games with them before he was cut from the team. He was then signed by the Miami Dolphins in January 2003. The Dolphins would send send him to play for the Scottish Claymores of the NFL Europe but they waived him before the start of the NFL regular season. The Washington Redskins cut Stemke along with 13 other players on August 30, 2004.
After being cut, Stemke was signed by the St. Louis Rams in November 2004 in replace of Sean Landeta. The Rams released him before the start of the 2005 season in favor of Reggie Hodges.
Stemke has an award named after him and it is awarded to the Wisconsin high school senior kicker/punter.
Andrew Heyward
Andrew John Heyward is an independent media consultant in Manhattan, New York. Heyward is a principal in MarketspaceNext LLC and in his own practice, Heyward Advisory LLC. He is a senior advisor to Monitor Deloitte. He was formerly president of CBS News from January 1996 to November 2005. Before that he was an executive producer for the CBS Evening News (October 1994-January 1996). He has won 12 national Emmy Awards.
Heyward was born in New York in 1950. His parents were E. J. R. and Elisabeth Heyward. In 1972 he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and literature. Heyward is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He was going to go to Law school but took a job as a production assistant at WNYW-TV in New York. He became a producer. He then was hired by WCBS and became the news producer within a year. In 1981 he took a job as a field producer at CBS. In 1984 he was promoted to senior producer of the CBS Evening News. Then in 1986 he was senior broadcast producer of the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather. In 1994 he became the vice president of CBS News and executive producer of the CBS Evening News. He became president of CBS News in January 1996.
Marisa Del Frate
Marisa Del Frate (11 March 1931 – 6 February 2015) was an Italian actress, singer and television personality.
She died in Rome on 6 February 2015 of cancer of unknown primary origin, aged 83.
Shawn Mullins
Shawn Mullins (born March 8, 1968) is an American rock singer-songwriter. He is best known for his 1998 single "Lullaby". The song was able to reach #1 on the Adult Top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He also played in the band The Thorns before they broke up in 2004.
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier in his life, Mullins served as an inactive Infantry officer in the Individual Ready Reserve component of the U.S. Army Reserve. He reached the rank of 1st lieutenant before he fulfilled his service obligation and resigned honorably.
Les Moonves
Leslie Roy "Les" Moonves (born 6 October 1949) was President and chief executive officer (CEO) of CBS Corporation. Moonves was born in New York City. He is a former vice-president of Lorimar Productions. In 1995 he resigned as president of Warner Brothers Television and became president of CBS Productions. In 2003 he became CEO of CBS Television. From 2003 he has been CEO of CBS Corporation. In 2016, he became Chairman and resigned in September 2018 after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment.
In July 2018, "The New York Times" reported that Moonves would be the subject of an investigation by the board of directors of CBS. According to "The New Yorker", six women accuse Moonves of sexual harassment and intimidation.
In September 2018, "The New Yorker" reported that six more women had raised accusations against Moonves, going back to the 1980s. He resigned as Chair later that day. As of February 8, 2019, Moonves is now head of his own company in West Hollywood, California, named Moon Rise Unlimited.
Joe Scarborough
Charles Joseph "Joe" Scarborough (born April 9, 1963) is the host of Morning Joe on National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) sister network MSNBC (Microsoft NBC). He previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives.
On July 11, 2017, Scarborough announced on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that he was leaving the Republican party to become an independent.
Meg Cabot