Jimmy Collins (basketball)
James Earl Collins (November 24, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an American basketball player and coach. He was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. He played for the Chicago Bulls from 1970 to 1972.
Collins was the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1996 to 2010. He helped push the team to the NCAA Tournament in 1998, 2002 and 2004, and an NIT showing in 2003.
Collins died on December 13, 2020 from heart surgery-related problems in Chicago at the age of 74.
Investing.com
Investing.com is a notable financial website. It provides financial news as well as information about market "quotes", foreign exchange, stocks, commodities, currencies, interest rates and more. As of December 2020, it is the second most popular financial website in the world and is among the top 200 most popular websites overall.
The website was founded in 2007 as "Forexpros". In 2012 its name changed to Investing.com, after the company bought their (domain) name for $2.45 million.
In the years 2013-2014, Investing.com launched Android and iOS apps, and in 2019 had editions in 24 languages.
Nur Hossain Kasemi
Allama Nur Hossain Kasemi () (10 January 1945 — 13 December 2020) was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician, educator, religious speaker and spiritual figure. He was the Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh from November 2020 until his death. He also was in charge of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh from 2015 until his death. Kasemi was born in Dhaka.
Kasemi died at a Dhaka hospital on 13 December 2020 from respiratory failure, aged 75.
Ferruccio Pisoni
Ferruccio Pisoni (6 August 1936 – 12 December 2020) was an Italian politician. He was a Deputy from 1968 to 1983. Pisoni was born in Trevi, Italy. He was a member of the Christian Democracy.
Pisoni died on 12 December 2020 at the age of 84.
Motjeka Madisha
Motjeka Madisha (12 January 1995 – 12 December 2020) was a South African professional soccer player. He played for Mamelodi Sundowns, as a defender. He also played for the national team from 2015 to 2020.
Madisha was killed in a car crash on 12 December 2020 in Kempton Park, Guateng at the age of 25.
Victor Gnanapragasam
Father Victor Gnanapragasam O.M.I. (November 21, 1940 – December 12, 2020) was a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate. He was the first prefect of the Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan from 2001 until his death. Gnanapragasam was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Gnanapragasam died on December 12, 2020 from a heart attack at the age of 80.
Escurinho
Benedito Custódio Ferreira, nicknamed Escurinho (3 July 1930 – 12 December 2020) was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and left winger. He was born in Nova Lima, Brazil. Escurinho played for Villa Nova, Fluminense, Atlético Junior, Portuguesa (RJ) and Bonsucesso.
He played eight times for the Brazilian national team between 1955 and 1956.
He died on 12 November 2020 from Alzheimer's disease and multiple organ failure in Nova Lima at the age of 90.
Nicolas Chumachenco
Nicolas Chumachenco (also known as Nicolas Chumachenko; March 27, 1944 – December 12, 2020), was a Polish-born Spanish-German violin soloist and professor. He was director of the Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra. Chumachenco was born in Kraków, in Nazi-occupied Poland, to Ukrainian parents who left Poland at the end of the Second World War.
Chumachenco died on December 12, 2020 in Schallstadt, Germany at the age of 76.
Claude Castonguay
Claude Castonguay, (May 8, 1929 – December 12, 2020) was Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, educator and businessman. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec.
He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1970 to 1973. Catonguay was a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 1992.
Castonguay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 91.
Bird Averitt
William Rodney "Bird" Averitt (July 22, 1952December 12, 2020) was an American professional basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. His career lasted from 1973 to 1978. Averitt played for the San Antonio Spurs, Kentucky Colonels, Buffalo Braves and New Jersey Nets.
Averitt died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 68.
Hotsuit
Hotsuit is a fitness apparel and accessories brand. It is designed to make the wearer sweat profusely. It is intended for use in sports however, it has become commonly worn in other contexts.
Dopamine is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that plays several important roles in the body. Moving the body generates Dopamine. Hotsuit has been developed to sweat and secrete dopamine. It is being made by Ageas Inc., a subsidiary of American Sporting Goods Co. Ltd.
In 2015, Ageas Inc. established the brand Hotsuit where hot+suit is recognizable with a vision for the brand that exists to create the global sweatsuit market. In 2009, Hotsuit opened its first store in Beijing, China and sponsored the Vertical Marathon of Beijing.
Hotsuits are being sold both in retail stores and online markets like Amazon, Aliexprss, Tmall.
Hotsuit has been seen in the TV series "Ode to Joy" and "Our Glamorous Time". "The Fighter" and "Hello Mr. Billionaire" movies have scenes with Hotsuit.
Scalable Hosting
Scalable Hosting or ""Scalacube"" develops hosting services that include a control panel, allowing users to create their game servers for Minecraft, Rust, , Hytale, etc. According to their website, they combines VPS and game server hosting.
The company was founded in January 2019 by Kostiantyn Rohatkin and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. In October 2020, the business was accredited by the Estonian Startup Committee.
Confidence and supply
Confidence and supply is an agreement in a Westminster system government where parties or independents agree to support the minority government in votes of no confidence and appropriation or budget (supply) votes. This lets the government keep control of the lower house.
McNary, Louisiana
McNary is a village in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Hung parliament
A hung parliament (also called a balanced parliament, or as a legislature under no overall control) is when no political party (or coalition that existed before) has a majority in the Westminster system of legislatures. If this isn't solved with something like a confidence and supply agreement or a new coalition, the largest party will have to form a minority government. This is bad because they can easily lose a vote of no confidence, so a government is hard to run.
Hagewood, Louisiana
Hagewood is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Master and slave philosophy
"Master and slave" is a theme in philosophy that can be used in different ways. It is explained by the German philosophers Georg W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche but with different meanings. In philosophy, the words "master" and "slave" are not always meant literally. The theme refers to a hierarchy of certain things or people being put beneath others.