Christopher Jackson (actor)
Christopher Neal Jackson (born September 30, 1975) is an American actor, singer, musician, and composer. He is known for starring in many of Lin-Manuel Miranda musicals such as Benny in "In the Heights" and George Washington in the smash hit "Hamilton".
Bill Ramsey (rugby league)
William "Bill" Ramsey (25 April 1943 – 7 July 2020) was an English professional rugby league footballer. He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
He played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, Yorkshire, and Commonwealth XIII, and at club level for Hunslet, Leeds, Bradford Northern, Hull FC and Widnes.
Ramsey died on 7 July 2020, aged 76.
Chynybaĭ Tursunbekov
Chynybaĭ Tursunbekov (15 October 1960 – 7 July 2020) was a Kyrgyz Social Democratic Party politician. He was a member of the Supreme Council from 2010 until his death. Between 2016 to 2017, he was President of the Supreme Council. He was born in Jalan-Bulak, Kirghiz SSR.
Tursunbekov died on 7 July 2020 from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan at the age of 59.
Spearfishing
Spearfishing is a method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia. Early civilizations were familiar with this method of spearing fish from rivers and streams using sharpened sticks.
Alex Pullin
Alex Pullin (20 September 1987 – 8 July 2020) was an Australian Olympic snowboarder. He was born in Mansfield, Victoria. He competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics. He won the gold medal at the FIS Snowboard World Championships in 2011 and 2013.
Pullin died after drowning in a spearfishing accident on 8 July 2020 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. He was 32.
Ceylon Electricity Board
The Ceylon Electricity Board - CEB , is the largest electricity company in Sri Lanka. With a market share of nearly 100%, it controls all major functions of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retailing in Sri Lanka. It is one of the only two on-grid electricity companies in the country; the other being Lanka Electricity Company (LECO). The company earned approximately LKR 204.7 billion in 2014, with a total of nearly 5.42 million consumer accounts.
It is a government owned and controlled utility of Sri Lanka that takes care of the general energy facilities of the island. The Ministry of Power and Energy is the responsible ministry above the CEB. Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), established by an CEB Act No. 17 of 1969, is under legal obligation to develop and maintain an efficient, coordinated and economical system of Electricity supply in accordance with any Licenses issue
CEB has following subsideries
Electricity generation by CEB is primarily done by hydro power. Hydro power is the oldest and most dependent source of electricity generation, taking a share of nearly 42% of the total available grid capacity in December 2014, and 37% of power generated in 2014. Hydropower generation facilities has been constantly under development since the introduction of the national grid, but is currently declining due to the exhaustion of the resource.
In 2014, then Media Spokesperson at the CEB, Senajith Dassanayake said the generation of hydro power has dropped to 37%; as a result, 60 percent of the electricity needs have to be fulfilled by thermal energy.
The Norocholai Coal Power Station, the only coal-fired power station in the country is owned by CEB; it was commissioned in late-2011 and finished in 2014, under loans from Export-Import Bank of China. It added further of electrical capacity to the grid. The Sampur Coal Power Station, is currently under consideration in Trincomalee.
In 2011, Ceylon Electricity Board opened a new coal power plant named Puttalam Lakvijaya. On 13 February 2011 it was synchronized with the system.
On 17 September 2014, US$1.35 billion coal-fired Norochcholai Power Station was commissioned by the Chinese President Xi Jinping on his visit to Sri Lanka. The Export-Import Bank of China provided a US$450 million loan for the first 300 megawatt unit at the power plant. The power plant was officially commenced on 16 September 2014.
Ceylon Electricity Board has lost 25.5 billion rupees in 2011, and run up debts of 121 billion rupees with a petroleum distributor and independent power producers.
In 2012, the CEB lost 61.2 billion rupees and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation which supplied fuel below cost 89.7 billion rupees. To cover up the loss, the CEB increased power tariffs in large scales. The CEB expected to get revenues of 223 billion rupees—or 45 billion rupees more than the earlier tariff—from the price hike, but subsequently lost 33 billion rupees in 2013 on total expenses of 256 billion rupees.
On 16 September 2014, after officially opening a completed $1.35 billion Chinese-financed 900 MW coal power plant project, Sri Lankan President at the time, Mahinda Rajapaksa addressed the nation saying that the electricity bills of the people will be reduced by 25%. The CEB stated that it will take about two weeks to come up with a process of creating electricity bills to reflect the reduction in prices.
The CEB has been accused of Tax fraud by the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), which has claimed that CEB has not deducted PAYE from its engineers and senior staff since 2010 amounting to Rs. 3465 million. CaFFE has claimed that this amount has been recovered from the consumer instead.
People's Bank (Sri Lanka)
People's Bank is a state-owned commercial bank in Sri Lanka. Established on 1 July 1961, it has its head-offices at Sir Chittampalam A. Gardiner Street in Colombo. The bank offer both retail and corporate banking services, with a network of 739 local branches, service centers and has an asset base of LKR 1.873 trillion (2019) with over 14 million customers. People's Bank received a high national long-Term Rating of AA+ by Fitch Rating.
Ceylon Tobacco Company
Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC) is a Sri Lankan tobacco company engaged in the manufacture, marketing and export of cigarettes. It is a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. CTC is the second largest company traded on the Colombo Stock Exchange. CTC enjoys a virtual monopoly in the manufacture of cigarettes in the country. Cigarette brands marketed by CTC in Sri Lanka include Bristol, Capstan, Dunhill, John Player Gold Leaf, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Three Roses.
List of largest companies in Sri Lanka
This article lists the largest companies in Sri Lanka terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines "Fortune" and "Forbes".
This list is based on the Forbes Global, which ranks the world's largest publicly traded companies.
Languages of Georgia (country)
There are approximately 14 languages spoken in Georgia with Georgian as the most popular language. Other common languages include English, Russian, Assyrian, Svan, and Urum among other languages. Georgian is the official and primary language of Georgia. It is spoken as a first language by over 86% of the population.
Wolfram Research
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This is a modern technical computing system made by Wolfram Research. It is used in many scientific areas including numerical analysis and their subfields. Anyone who are interested in Wolfram Mathematica demos can check the Wolfram Demonstrations Project.
This service is available on web browsers. Users can use some features of Wolfram Mathematica on the Internet. Wolfram Alpha can also answer to some questions by searching answers on their own databases. It is also used in scientific education.
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