In 2015 the World Anti-Doping Agency suggested banning which nation from the 2016 Olympics?

World Anti-Doping Agency recommends banning Russia from Rio Olympics | CSN Mid-Atlantic World Anti-Doping Agency recommends banning Russia from Rio Olympics World Anti-Doping Agency recommends banning Russia from Rio Olympics By Associated Press July 18, 2016 3:03 PM Russian government officials engineered the drug-fueled corruption of 28 Olympic sports, an investigator found, prompting the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for a ban of the country's entire team from the Rio de Janeiro Games. The scheme lasted at least four years, covered summer and winter sports and involved at least 312 positive tests that went unreported at the behest of higher-ups in the country's sports ministry, according to a 97-page report issued Monday. "A mind-blowing level of corruption within both Russian sport and government,'" said Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. WADA, which hired arbitrator Richard McLaren to lead the investigation, called on the IOC to decline entries of all Russian athletes to this summer's Olympics. "In the face of such evidence of state-sponsored subversion of anti-doping processes, WADA insists upon imposition of the most serious consequences to protect clean athletes from the scourge of doping in sport," said WADA President Craig Reedie, who is also an IOC member. IOC President Thomas Bach called the revelations a "shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games" and said the IOC wouldn't hesitate to apply the toughest sanctions available. The IOC executive board will meet Tuesday to begin sorting through options. But it will be a tough call, full of political ramifications that involve a key Olympic country, Russia, which hosted the most expensive Winter Olympics, in Sochi, a little more than two years ago. Bach has frequently spoken of the fine line between "collective responsibility and individual justice." And for every anti-doping agency and athletes' group calling for a full ban, there's a sports organization or leader urging restraint. "The right to participate at the games cannot be stolen from an athlete, who has duly qualified and has not been found guilty of doping," said Bruno Grandi, president of gymnastics' international federation. Gymnastics was one of the sports not listed in the report. "Blanket bans have never been and will never be just," Grandi said. McLaren's report said allegations made by Moscow's former anti-doping lab director about sample switching at the Sochi Olympics went much as described in a New York Times story in May. That program involved dark-of-night bottle tampering in order to switch dirty samples with clean ones; it prevented Russian athletes, including more than a dozen medal winners, from testing positive. But McLaren said the bottle tampering in Sochi was a one-shot deal. Meanwhile, he described tactics he labeled "disappearing positive methodology" that began in 2011, shortly after Russia's disappointing performance at the Vancouver Olympics. It included the 2013 track world championships in Moscow and was in place as recently as the 2015 swimming world championships in Kazan -- when everyone in Russian sports knew they were under the doping microscope. In short, Russia's deputy minister of sports, Yuri Nagornykh, who was also part of Russia's Olympic Committee, would direct workers at Moscow's anti-doping laboratory of which positive samples to send through and which to hold back. Assisting the plan was Russia's national security service -- the FSB, the current version of the Soviet Union's KGB. Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Nagornykh to his post in 2010. On Monday, Putin said officials named as directly responsible in the doping scheme would be suspended. McLaren said out of 577 positive sample screenings, 312 positive results were held back -- or labeled "Save" by the lab workers -- but that was only a "small slice" of the data that could have been examined. More than 240 of the 312 "Saves" came from track and field and wrestling, but other sports involved included swimming, rowing, snowboarding --


Name the Princess born 4th in succession to the British throne in 2015, to Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?

Line of succession to the British throne Line of succession to the British throne Robin Millard Share View photos Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, show their newly-born daughter outside the Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hospital in London on May 2, 2015 (AFP Photo/Leon Neal) More London (AFP) - Prince William and his wife Kate's new baby daughter, named Monday as Princess Charlotte, was born fourth in line to inherit the British throne, behind big brother Prince George. The instant Charlotte was born Saturday, everyone below her moved down a place, starting with William's brother Prince Harry who dropped from fourth to fifth position. Barring abdications or conversions to Roman Catholicism, she would only inherit the throne if George died before her without leaving legitimate children. The immediate line of succession to the throne includes Queen Elizabeth II's four children and their descendants: 1. PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES -- Born 1948. Eldest son of Queen Elizabeth. 2. PRINCE WILLIAM, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE -- Born 1982. Charles's eldest son. 3. PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE -- Born 2013. William's son. 4. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF CAMBRIDGE -- Born 2015. William's daughter. 5. PRINCE HENRY OF WALES -- Born 1984. Charles' second son. 6. PRINCE ANDREW, DUKE OF YORK -- Born 1960. Queen Elizabeth's second son. 7. PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK -- Born 1988. Andrew's eldest daughter. 8. PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK -- Born 1990. Andrew's second daughter. 9. PRINCE EDWARD, EARL OF WESSEX -- Born 1964. Queen Elizabeth's third son. 10. JAMES, VISCOUNT SEVERN -- Born 2010. Peter's eldest daughter. 15. ISLA PHILLIPS -- Born 2012. Peter's second daughter. 16. ZARA TINDALL 17. MIA TINDALL -- Born 2014. Zara's daughter. Queen Elizabeth's descendants are followed by the six of her late sister Princess Margaret, her only sibling. The offspring of their father King George VI's siblings then follow. There are more than 60 living people descended from his father King George V, who died in 1936. Drawn up in an era of religious strife, the Act of Settlement 1701, which sets out the succession laws, states that only Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover, the mother of King George I, can accede to the throne. The monarchy's website goes down as far as Zara Tindall, though some counts list more than 5,700 living descendants of Sophia, including Roman Catholics, who cannot inherit. The highest excluded person is 26-year-old Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, a first cousin twice removed of the queen, who converted to Catholicism. He would otherwise be 36th in line. In changes to the succession laws which came into effect in March, males born after October 28, 2011 no longer take precedence over their older sisters. Also people married to Catholics were no longer excluded, with Downpatrick's father George Windsor, the Earl of St Andrews, the highest person restored to the line, now in 35th place. The line is a vast tangle of nobility and ordinary, untitled descendants from all corners of Europe. Several other European monarchs feature. Besides Britain, it is also the line of succession to the thrones of 15 other Commonwealth realms. Reblog


The Magna Carta, signed in London, and inspiring constitutional rights globally thereafter, was how many years old in 2015?

Nicholas Vincent on the Magna Carta | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty PERMANENT LINK | MAY 18, 2015 Nicholas Vincent on the Magna Carta EconTalk Episode with Nicholas Vincent | Archives | Permanent Link and Comments Did an 800-year old piece of parchment really change the world? Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Magna Carta, the founding document of English law and liberty. The Magna Carta was repudiated just ten weeks after King John issued it. Yet, its impact is still with us today. In this conversation, Vincent explains what led to the Magna Carta and how its influence remains with us today in England and elsewhere. Right-click or Option-click, and select "Save Link/Target As MP3. Readings and Links related to this podcast episode Related Readings About ideas and people mentioned in this podcast episode: Books: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays . Henry Elliot Malden, Ed. 1917. Online Library of Liberty. Articles: "Discovering the Sandwich Magna Carta," by Professor Nicholas Vincent. Magna Carta Project, February 20, 2015. "English translation of Magna Carta" . Translation of the full text of the original 1215 edition of Magna Carta from Latin into modern day English. The British Library. Rent Seeking , by David R. Henderson. Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Friedrich Hayek . Biography. Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Adam Smith . Biography. Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Web Pages and Resources: The Lion in Winter (1968 film) . Wikipedia. King Henry II faces deciding on an heir, Christmastime 1183. Becket (1964 film) . Wikipedia. King Henry II versus the burgeoning Church. "King John's Christmas" , by A. A. Milne. Poetry reading by Nick Michelioudakis. Youtube. HIDE HIGHLIGHTS 0:33 Intro. [Recording date: May 11, 2015.] Russ: This, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, which was signed in June of 1215. And I have to confess, until reading your book, I knew an embarrassingly small amount about the Magna Carta, other than to suspect it was important. And I also worry that some of my listeners are in the same boat, which is why you are here. So, let's start with the basics. What was it physically? Who was there when it was issued? What was it about? How long was it? How big is it? How many copies are there? That kind of introduction. Guest: Okay. So, we are talking about a document of about 4000 words--so not a particularly long document by modern standards--written on a piece of sheepskin parchment about the size of an average not-particularly-huge television screen. So, it's about, oh, 2 feet tall by about a foot across. It's not a very large document. Four thousand words. And it's an attempt made between the King of England, a chap called King John, and his barons, with the bishops in there somewhere, to make peace after a period when the barons had revolted against the King, claiming that the King had gone against the liberties and customs of England and that they were going to use this document to reimpose that law on the King. Now, there's an awful lot that's said about Magna Carta, that people think is in Magna Carta, that isn't actually there. And I suspect we are going to come on to that in due course. But just to get one thing straight for a start, that the really important thing about this document, the really important thing about it--it didn't make peace between the King and his people; it didn't establish democracy; it didn't do this, it didn't do that. What it did do is state that the King is under the law. And it's that institution of the rule of law that I think is the thing we should be celebrating this year, in the 800th anniversary year. Russ: Well, that's one of the things that I think resonates throughout the last 800 years. But there are a number of other things that, even though they may not have been important in 1215 came to be important later, and we'll talk about them. One thing--let's put the history in context. Tell us about King John's father. Tell us about King's brother, Richard. And I


Sinabung Volcano erupts in Indonesia - CNN.com The Pavlof volcano erupts on Alaska's remote Aleutian Island archipelago on Sunday, March 27. Hide Caption 2 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes The Ecuadorian volcano Tungurahua spews lava and ash in Cahuaji, about 80 miles south of Quito, on Saturday, February 27. Authorities raised the alert level from yellow to orange after the volcano increased its activity and projected a column of ash 3 miles high. Hide Caption 3 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes The Soputan volcano spews lava and ash during an eruption on Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Tuesday, January 5. Hide Caption 4 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes The Momotombo volcano erupts just before daybreak in Leon, Nicaragua, on Friday, December 4. The volcano had been quiet for many years. Hide Caption 5 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Smoke rises over the Italian city of Taormina during an eruption of Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, on December 4. Hide Caption 6 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Cotopaxi, a volcano in Ecuador, sends large gray puffs of ash into the sky on Friday, August 14. Officials declared a yellow alert , the lowest level. Hide Caption 7 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Thick ash, rock fragments and volcanic gases pour from Mount Sinabung in Indonesia. The government's natural disaster management agency raised the alert level on Friday, June 5. Hide Caption 8 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Mount Shindake spews ash on Kuchinoerabu Island in Yakushima, Japan, on Friday, May 29. The volcano erupted shortly before 10 a.m. local time , the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Hide Caption 9 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes The Wolf volcano at Isabela Island -- the largest of the Galapagos Islands west of mainland Ecuador -- erupts Monday, May 25, for the first time in 33 years. Hide Caption The Fuego volcano spews a cloud of ash west of Guatemala City, Guatemala, in March 2015. Hide Caption 13 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Villarrica, a Chilean volcano, began erupting in March 2015. The volcano is one of Chile's most active. Hide Caption 14 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Lava flows from the Kilauea volcano in Pahoa, Hawaii, in October 2014. The flow picked up speed, prompting emergency officials to close part of the main road through town and tell residents to be prepared to evacuate. Hide Caption 15 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Japan's Mount Sakurajima erupts in September 2014. It was the second volcano in two days to erupt in Japan. Hide Caption 16 of 23 Photos: Recently active volcanoes Dense white plumes rise high in the air as Mount Ontake erupts in central Japan in September 2014. Hide Caption


Lars Lokke led his centre-right party to 2015 government election victory in?

Opposition heads for Denmark election victory in boost to far right | Reuters Thu Jun 18, 2015 | 7:56 PM EDT Opposition heads for Denmark election victory in boost to far right 1/6 Leader of opposition party Venstre, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, casts his vote during general election at Nyboder school, in Copenhagen, June 18, 2015. Reuters/Nils Meilvang/Scanpix Denmark + 2/6 Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is seen at the grand central station in Copenhagen June 18, 2015. Reuters/Asger Ladefoged/Scanpix Denmark + 3/6 Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt casts her vote during general elections, in Oesterbro, Copenhagen, June 18, 2015. Reuters/Bax Lindhardt/Scanpix Denmark + 4/6 Leader of opposition party Venstre, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, carries a baby during the general election in Koege, Denmark, June 18, 2015. Reuters/Nils Meilvang/Scanpix Denmark + 5/6 Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (R) poses as she takes a selfie with passersby while campaigning during the general election in a final effort to gather votes at Noerreport Station in Copenhagen, June 18, 2015. Reuters/Asger Ladefoged/Scanpix Denmark + 6/6 Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (R) and opposition leader Lars Lokke Rasmussen (L) greet each other on the last televised debate with all party leaders in Copenhagen June 17, 2015. Reuters/Claus Bech/Scanpix Denmark + By Sabina Zawadzki and Teis Jensen | COPENHAGEN COPENHAGEN An opposition centre-right alliance led by former prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was poised to take power in Denmark after an election on Thursday that also gave a big boost to an anti-immigration, right-wing party. With all of the votes counted on the mainland, state broadcaster DR projected 90 seats for the opposition coalition in parliament to 85 seats for the ruling centre-left bloc of Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who wrongly gambled that an economic upturn would win her re-election. The results represent a surprise yet clear victory for the bloc led by Rasmussen, even though his Liberals party won fewer votes than the right-wing Danish People's Party (DF) which is part of his alliance. DF becomes the second largest party in parliament after Thorning-Schmidt's Social Democrats. Despite the outcome, DF has been coy about whether it would even enter a government for the first time in its 20-year history. "What we have said before the election is also what we will follow after the election - that we will be where the political influence is greatest," said DF leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl. "If that is in a government, then that is where we will be. If it is outside of the government, then that it where we will be. That is the driver for us, not ministerial titles." Opinion polls throughout the campaign, as well as exit polls, put the centre-left and centre-right neck and neck. Thorning-Schmidt called an early election, hoping to capitalize on an economic recovery that followed unpopular reforms after she took power as Denmark's first female premier in 2011. The centre-left parties supporting her closed a wide gap in recent months and the momentum appeared to be with her, as her personal ratings were far higher than those of Rasmussen. But Rasmussen reminded voters of the promises broken after the 2011 election when she cut unemployment benefits and student grants as the economy slumped. DF's campaign on restricting immigration also seems to have resonated with many disenchanted voters. RIGHT-WING PARTNER Coalition building by the opposition bloc is now expected to take place and may last days or several weeks. While polls had projected a strong result for DF, political pundits did not expect the party to form a government by itself. When asked whether he saw Dahl as prime minister, Liberal Party vice chairman Kristian Jensen said: "I have a good imagination, but it has its limits". "Lars Lokke Rasmussen has been heading the mediation ... between the conservative parties for three and a half years. And he will also be heading the mediation for a cooperation in a new conservative government if this


Blackberry's new phone for 2015 was called the?

BlackBerry’s new Android QWERTY phone to be called the Priv | SoyaCincau.com BlackBerry’s new Android QWERTY phone to be called the Priv Posted:  September 24, 2015   By:  Alexander Wong   No comments    After appearing in several leaks , BlackBerry’s first Android device with a slider keyboard now has a name. Codenamed internally as the “Venice”, serial leakster @evleaks has revealed BlackBerry Priv as the official commercial name. The name “Priv” sounds more edgier than the current models that sounded more regular like the Passport, Classic and Leap. Probably sounds fitting since this is BlackBerry’s first diversion into a competing OS. After all it has been a while since BlackBerry makes a QWERTY slider device like the BlackBerry Torch . To recap on the specs, the BlackBerry Priv is said to be running on a Snapdragon 808 Hexa-Core processor with 3GB of RAM. The front display is a 5.4″ unit that’s expected to push a Quad HD resolution. The back camera is a 18MP unit with dual-LED flash while selfies are handled by its front 5MP shooter. Out of the box, it runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop but it gets BlackBerry’s own proprietary apps including BlackBerry Hub. Based on earlier rumours, this should be launched sometime in November and hopefully it arrives in Malaysia in time for Christmas. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can also check out some hands-on photos here .


Eddie Jones was appointed head coach of which English sporting team in 2015?

Eddie Jones set to be appointed as England head coach in next 24 hours | Sport | The Guardian Eddie Jones set to be appointed as England head coach in next 24 hours • Australian is finalising compensation deal with Stormers • Jones will become England’s first overseas head coach Eddie Jones is set to replace Stuart Lancaster as England’s head coach. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty Images Close This article is 1 year old England’s underachieving rugby players are about to receive a short, sharp shock in the form of Eddie Jones , who is expected to be announced as their new coach within the next 24 hours after the 55-year-old Australian flew into London for contractual discussions with the RFU. It is only just over a week since Stuart Lancaster parted company with the union but its chief executive, Ian Ritchie, has wasted little time. The RFU is already understood to have discussed a six-figure compensation deal with the Stormers in Cape Town, who Jones has only recently joined, and it is understood his deal will double his salary from a current £235,000 per year and run for four years. The former Australia and Japan coach is thought to have had a break clause in his contract, having indicated his desire to coach at international level again. He is now set to steer England into the Six Nations championship and will be expected to build a squad capable of winning the 2019 World Cup in Japan. Once Ritchie made it clear he was seeking a seasoned heavy-hitter to replace Lancaster it was always likely Jones would be somewhere near the front of the queue. He suffered a stroke two years ago but recovered to steer Japan to three wins at the World Cup. He also guided the Wallabies to the 2003 World Cup final and was a technical advisor to the South Africa side who lifted the Webb Ellis Cup in 2007. The 1991 World Cup winner David Campese greeted the news by branding Jones “a schoolteacher”, saying that his appointment has made England look “desperate”. “Rugby is a professional sport,” Campese told BBC 5 Live. “We don’t need schoolteachers. And I think Eddie is one as well. His teams will play in a very structured way and they will do what he tells them to do. So it’s a robotic style.” “The whole idea about rugby is that you get people who play for your country, who come through the system and you want them to come through to the national job and pass on their experience. It just looks like that you guys have no idea what you are doing. “Where is your structure? Where are your young coaches who want to be the best in the world? It looks you are desperate, and you just go out and pay the money for somebody who you think will help you.” This will be the first time the RFU has appointed a coach from overseas, although the New Zealander John Mitchell was once Clive Woodward’s assistant. It is also understood Jones will have free rein when it comes to choosing his coaching team, with a number of Englishmen in the frame. Among the contenders will be the forwards specialists Alex Sanderson and Steve Borthwick, both of whom have worked under Jones before, while Shaun Edwards and Paul Gustard are candidates for the role of the defence coach. Japan beat South Africa in greatest Rugby World Cup shock ever Read more As things stand, Andy Farrell, Graham Rowntree and Mike Catt still remain contracted to the RFU but their positions hinge entirely on Jones’s plans. Borthwick was a part of the Japan coaching team who masterminded the spectacular victory over South Africa in Brighton in September, although the former England captain has only recently begun a job with Bristol and may not be keen to coach players who were team-mates at Saracens only a couple of seasons ago. Edwards has yet to sign a new contract with Wales, having helped knock his native country out of the World Cup at the pool stages. Gustard toured Argentina with Lancaster’s England side in 2013 and has been the driving force behind Saracens’s successful “wolf pack” defensive system. At some stage, however, England have to develop their own world-class coaches and it will be fascinat


In 2015 which Arsenal footballer became the first ever to score hat-tricks in the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A?

Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez becomes the first man to net hat-tricks in the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga | Daily Mail Online Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez becomes the first man to net hat-tricks in the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga He scored a first-half treble as Udinese beat Palermo 7-0 in 2011 His Barcelona hat-trick came against Elche in La Liga at the Nou Camp comments Alexis Sanchez returned to form for Arsenal on Saturday with a hat-trick against Leicester, which propelled his side to an entertaining 5-2 victory in the Premier League . But the Chile international's treble also completed a remarkable personal feat, as he became the first man to score a three goals in a game in Serie A, La Liga and the top flight in England. Sanchez's first hat-trick came in Italy, when he was playing for Udinese, in February 2011. Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez became the first man to score hat-tricks in Italy, Spain and England on Saturday Sanchez's first treble came in his Udinese days in 2011, when he scored a first-half hat-trick against Palermo Sanchez scored his hat-trick in Spain for Barcelona in January 2014, in a 4-0 victory against Elche ALEXIS SANCHEZ HAT TRICKS  SERIE A: Udinese 7-0 Palermo, Feb 27 2011 LA LIGA: Barcelona 4-0 Elche, Jan 5, 2014 PREMIER LEAGUE: Leicester 2-5 Arsenal, Sept 26, 2015  He netted three times in the first half of his side's encounter against Palermo as they thrashed the Sicilian team 7-0. Mainly thanks to Sanchez, they were leading 4-0 at the break. His scintillating form in Italy caught the eye of Barcelona, who swooped to sign him five months later for £23million. His treble on Spanish shores came in January 2014, his final season at the Nou Camp, as he led his side to a 4-0 victory against Elche. RELATED ARTICLES 22k shares He sealed his hat-trick with a thunderous free kick from 30 yards. But later that year, he departed the Catalan giants as they moved to sign Luis Suarez from Liverpool.  Sanchez headed for the Premier League with Arsenal and was an instant hit with supporters at the Emirates. After a difficult start to the season, Sanchez returned to form with three goals for Arsenal against Leicester Sanchez's first hat-trick for Udinese came as part of a 7-0 thrashing of Palermo and caught Barcelona's eye Sanchez (centre) sealed his Barcelona hat-trick with a stunning free kick against Elche at the Nou Camp  He has had a slow start to his second season in England, perhaps a little jaded after leading Chile to Copa America victory in the summer, but returned to form at the King Power stadium on Saturday. His treble guided Arsenal to a hard fought victory against Leicester, who were beaten in the league for the first time this season. 'Alexis is a top-quality player and even when he is not scoring goals he works so hard for us,' Sanchez's team-mate Theo Walcott said. 'I am sure he going to flourish now with many, many more important goals.'


Who unexpectedly beat Vlamdir Klitchscko in 2015?

Wladimir Klitschko's next fight: Fury and Glazkov looming, Wilder not likely - SBNation.com Wladimir Klitschko's next fight: Fury and Glazkov looming, Wilder not likely Rec Elsa/Getty Images With a Saturday night win over a determined and competitive Bryant Jennings, champion  Wladimir Klitschko made it 18 straight successful title defenses and 22 straight victories dating back to 2004. Klitschko won on comfortable scores following an often uncomfortable fight. The performance that Jennings (19-1, 10 KO) was able to put on may have made a few more heavyweights a little bit anxious to see if Klitschko, now 39 and certainly at the back end of his long boxing career, just might be fading a little bit. So who could Klitschko face next, and does anyone have a real shot at beating him? The big name out there is the one other man in the world who can make a (bogus) claim to being world heavyweight champion: Deontay Wilder. Wilder holds the WBC belt, which is one of the four recognized major titles in the sport, along with the WBO, WBA, and IBF, all held by Klitschko. Klitschko is also recognized as the lineal champion of the division by both The RING and the newer Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, both recognized by various fight geeks the world over as being more legitimate than the sport's goofy, money-hungry sanctioning bodies. Wilder is an interesting proposition on paper. A 6'7 American, a former Olympic bronze medalist (2008) and unbeaten in 33 pro fights. His last fight, where he  took the WBC belt from Bermane Stiverne , was the first time he didn't stop an opponent inside the distance. Going 12 rounds that night, he showed he had the stamina and the patience to grind out a victory over a tougher opponent. Prior to that, he'd never gone past four rounds. For a long time, Wilder's opposition was criticized as being overly easy, but he and his team always took it in stride, and by beating Stiverne the way he did, in a shutout or near-shutout manner, he proved that he was more than a mere mirage. Lots of mediocre fighters have had KO streaks against even worse competition. But the big man from Alabama is a highly unlikely next opponent for Klitschko. Klitschko has said he does want that fight so that he can fully unify all four title belts and bring the WBC title back into the family. His older brother Vitali held that title from 2008 to 2012 before retiring to go into politics in Ukraine. Title unification fights can be tough to make in boxing, though. Sanctioning bodies don't really like unification most of the time. Although a star and drawing card like Klitschko can get away with it easier than most fighters, as he's proven by holding three of the belts simultaneously since beating David Haye to add the WBA trinket in 2011. More pressing is the matter of Klitschko's potential mandatory challengers with his sanctioning bodies. The WBA currently has no official No. 1 contender, and Jennings was their No. 2 contender before the loss to Klitschko. There is also Ruslan Chagaev, who holds the bogus on top of bogus WBA "world" title, while Klitschko holds the WBA "super" title, but Klitschko already beat Chagaev in 2009, and nobody is itching to make that happen again, so let's forget it. The WBA is a dead issue here, it would seem. The IBF's current No. 1 rated contender is Vyacheslav "Czar" Glazkov, a fellow Ukrainian who last fought on March 14,  beating former cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham in Montreal. Glazkov is not a mandatory challenger yet, and the IBF has no No. 2 ranked contender. Usually how that works is that a pair of fighters will be matched in an "eliminator" for the No. 2 spot, and then the winner of that fight would face the No. 1 fighter, in this case Glazkov, in a "final eliminator," with the winner then named mandatory challenger. More intriguing than Glazkov is the prospect of Tyson Fury, a colorful, controversial British fighter, who is currently the WBO's No. 1 ranked contender. Fury, 26, has been grabbing headlines ever since he turned pro just over six years ago. He is a brash, loud-mouth


Jon Snow was killed off in what series in 2015, adapted from GRR Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?

George R.R. Martin Hints There May Be Hope For Jon Snow In The Books | The Huffington Post George R.R. Martin Hints There May Be Hope For Jon Snow In The Books 06/15/2015 09:41 am ET | Updated Jun 15, 2015 370 Erin Whitney Associate Entertainment Editor HBO As you continue to recover from Sunday night's devastating "Game of Thrones" Season 5 finale , you're probably still going through the many stages of grief. But we have some possible good news for book readers. Major spoilers for Season 5, Episode 10, "Mother's Mercy." Image via HBO/HuffPost The season finale left off with the most shocking death scene yet as Jon Snow was stabbed and killed by Olly and his brothers of the Night's Watch. Kit Harington has already confirmed that, yes, Jon is officially dead . "I’ve been told I’m dead," he told Entertainment Weekly. "I’m dead. I’m not coming back next season." Still don't believe him? Harington also confirmed the death to Vulture . "It's final," he told the site. "I'm dead." But then again, what exactly does "dead" mean anyway? This is "Game of Thrones," after all, and a permanent, gone-for-ever-and-ever death is pretty rare. We've already speculated the numerous theories about Jon's death and the ways he could possibly return to the show. But even if his fate on the HBO series seems sealed, there is still hope for the character in George R.R. Martin's books. In Martin's A Dance with Dragons, Jon dies similarly as he does in the show, however clues hint that he may have warged out of his body and into that of his direwolf Ghost. When Martin was asked about Jon's death in the future A Song of Ice and Fire books back in 2011, the author responded, " Oh, you think he’s dead, do you ?" Further fanning the flames of hope, Martin also said his readers "should know better than to take anything as gospel." When Entertainment Weekly asked him again about Jon recently, Martin said, " If there’s one thing we know in A Song of Ice and Fire is that death is not necessarily permanent ." We may still be deep in denial, but it seems pretty likely that Jon isn't gone for good in the books. So are showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff just teasing us? Will Harington be absent from Season 6 for a surprise return in Season 7 -- Melisandre is at the Wall now, so couldn't she try to resurrect the Lord Commander eventually? Only Martin, Weiss and Benioff know those answers, so excuse us while we keep falling down the rabbit hole of speculation. "Game Of Thrones"


In a 2015 biography, who was accused of a bizarre initiation ceremony while a student Oxford University?

How David Cameron took part in dead pig initiation ceremony at Oxford | Daily Mail Online Share 20k shares Some months later, he repeated it a third time, providing a little more detail. The pig’s head, he claimed, had been resting on the lap of a Piers Gaveston society member while Cameron performed the act. The MP also gave us the dimensions of the alleged photograph, and provided the name of the individual who he claims has it in his keeping. The owner, however, has failed to respond to our approaches. Perhaps it is a case of mistaken identity. Yet it is an elaborate story for an otherwise credible figure to invent. Furthermore, there are a number of accounts of pigs’ heads at debauched parties in Cameron’s day. Bullingdon boy: David Cameron pictured (centre frame) as part of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford in 1988 The late Count Gottfried von Bismarck (left), an Oxford contemporary of Cameron’s, reportedly threw dinner parties featuring the heads of pigs. Shocking claims of Cameron taking part in an initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event, involving a dead pig, have emerged in a new unauthorised biography by Lord Ashcroft (right) The late Count Gottfried von Bismarck, an Oxford contemporary of Cameron’s, reportedly threw dinner parties featuring the heads of pigs. (He later became notorious after Olivia Channon, daughter of a Tory minister, died of a heroin overdose in his Christ Church bedroom.) Meanwhile, Cameron had joined yet another dubious society — the notorious Bullingdon Club — a riotous drinking club for a highly select band of the super-rich.  The bespoke uniform, of navy tailcoats, mustard-coloured waistcoats and sky-blue bow ties, could run to thousands of pounds, putting membership beyond the reach of ordinary students. So how much significance should be attached to Cameron’s decision to join the Bullingdon Club? One Tory colleague thinks that the answer is ‘considerable’. The MP concerned was once asked to join the club himself, but attended just one gathering before walking out in disgust. ‘What it basically involved was getting drunk and standing on restaurant tables, shouting about “f***ing plebs”,’ he says. ‘It was all about despising poor people.’ For his part, James Delingpole admits he ‘rather wanted’ to be in the Bullingdon, which had a recruitment ritual of trashing the room of any prospective member. He says: ‘Looking back — a) I didn’t have enough money, and b) I wouldn’t have actually enjoyed the sort of things they did, because I’m not very good at drinking heinous quantities and behaving really, really badly. ‘It’s about mindless destruction, and conspicuous excess and the rather ugly side of upper-class life. It’s loathsome.’ The astonishing claims of Cameron's Oxford days have emerged in Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography Of David Cameron by Michael Ashcroft (pictured with the Prime Minister) and Isabel Oakeshott In Cameron’s defence, there’s no evidence that he damaged any property or hurt or offended others. Instead, his participation in club activities appears to have been relatively measured.  David Worth, an American postgraduate student who was in the club at the same time, recalls how his first outing involved taking a boat on the Thames to Cliveden House, the former stately home in Berkshire which was at the centre of the Profumo Scandal in the Sixties and is now a luxury hotel. ‘I remember David quoting Winston Churchill extensively by memory — Churchill was a bit of a lush, so they were quotes about drinking — and he was very funny, he said.  ‘A few leaned over the side of the boat occasionally — if you’ve drunk two bottles of champagne in an hour, your stomach’s going to get queasy.’ London Mayor Boris Johnson says of the Bullingdon Club: ‘You wake up with that terrible hung-over sense of shame, accentuated by the feeling that you could have had much more fun if you’d just taken your girlfriend out to dinner. What was the bloody point?’ Cameron may well have come to the same conclusion. Despite his extra-curricular activities, he took his studies very seriously and


Poll system, 2 new trivia lists · Twentysix26/Red-DiscordBot@9ce74b6 · GitHub 75 trivia/2015.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +In China in 2015 the record for the longest mating session between two giant pandas was broken at?`18 minutes`18 mins +Ford claimed to launch the first 'e-(What?)' at the 2015 Mobile World Congress Show?`Bike +A 2015 intensive listening study discovered that giraffes actually?`Hum +Name the last US president to meet the leader of Cuba before Barack Obama did in 2015?`Eisenhower +Jay Z and Beyonce launched a music streaming service in 2015 called? `Tidal +At auction in 2015, $1.2m was paid for Don McLean's original handrwitten lyrics for which 1971 big hit song? `American Pie +In 2015 what global contest ruled against the use of swimsuits for its 114 competitors, for the first time since 1951 inception? `Miss World +Which vast tech corporation opened its first 'Nest' branded intelligent home store in Palo Alto California in 2015?`Google +In 2015 Japan lowered its voting age to what?`18`eighteen +The abbreviation MERS, significantly impacting South Korea 2015, is otherwise known as?`Camel Flu +Christian is the lead character in the film 2015 adaptation of what extraordinarily successful book?`Fifty Shades of Grey`50 shades of grey +Who stepped down as chief of 21st Century Fox in 2015?`Rupert Murdoch`murdoch +In 2015 a new North Korean schools curriculum reportedly included that leader Kim Jong-un learnt to drive at age?`3`three +Which car company launched the Avensis model in 2015?`Toyota +In 2015 evidence of water was found on which planet?`Mars +Which 'BRIC' country launched the Astrosat space lab in 2015?`India +Who won the 2015 men's tennis French Open?`Stan Warwinka`warwinka +What company launched the S6 Edge smartphone?`Samsung +Which leading professional networking tech corporation, whose main revenue is selling user access/details to recruiters, bought the Lynda learning company for $1.5bn in 2015?`Linkedin`linked in +'Dismaland' was the temporary theme park/exhibition of which famous 'anonymous' artist?`Banksy +Matthais Muller was made chief of which troubled car company in 2015?`Volkswagen`vw +In 2015 the World Anti-Doping Agency suggested banning which nation from the 2016 Olympics?`Russia +The game of Monopoly celebrated what anniversary in 2015?`eighty`80`80th +Name the Princess born 4th in succession to the British throne in 2015, to Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?`Charlotte +The 2015 Mad Max movie is sub-titled?`Fury Road`mad max: fury road`mad max fury road +The Magna Carta, signed in London, and inspiring constitutional rights globally thereafter, was how many years old in 2015?`eight hundred`800 +In 2015 the Sinabug volcano erupted in what country?`Indonesia +Olav Bjortmont became 2015 world champion in?`Quizzing`quiz +Lars Lokke led his centre-right party to 2015 government election victory in what country?`Denmark +Blackberry's new phone for 2015 was called the...?`Priv +Facebook's new music sharing/streaming feature launched in 2015 was called "Music... "?`Stories +Eddie Jones was appointed head coach of which English sporting team in 2015?`Rugby Union`rugby +According to 2015 survey what fruit was most popular among USA children?`Apples`apple +Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey celebrated what birthday in 2015?`49`fourty-nine`fourty nine`49th +Jon Snow was killed off in what TV series in 2015, adapted from GRR Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?`Game of Thrones +Finance minister Yanis Yaroufakis caused comment for not wearing a tie in February 2015 when negotiating the debts for which nation?`Greece +What nation hosted the 2015 Women's World (soccer) Cup?`Canada +What iconic equine-alluding company, in countless books/films/cowboy holsters, filed for bankruptcy in 2015?`Colt +Due to a 2015 contamination scandal in India/Afica, which corporation destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi noodles?`Nestle +How many years old was the McDonalds fast food company in 2015?`60`sixty +It was announced in 2015 that Alexander Hamilton would be replaced on?`$10 bill`$10`tendollars`ten dollar bill`ten


What nation hosted the 2015 Women's World (soccer) Cup?

FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015™ - Host Country - FIFA.com © LOC Canada The Canadian Soccer Association is the governing body for association football in Canada, the highest participation sport in the country. Tremendously popular in the early part of the 20th century, the sport has been on the upswing in the 21st century on the heels of a confederation title in 2000, the hosting of successful FIFA events for men’s and women’s football, and the re-emergence of professional clubs in the country. Founded in 1912, the Dominion of Canada Football Association (as it was then known) became a member of FIFA on 31 December 1912. The Association naturally held strong ties to Great Britain and the British FAs because of Canada’s standing as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations at the time. Of note, the trophy for Canada’s first national competition was donated by then Governor-General the Duke of Connaught (Prince Arthur of the British Royal family). In 1926, the Connaught Cup was replaced by the FA Trophy (donated by England) for the annual Challenge competition. While there is evidence of a kind of organised ‘soccer’ played in Canada as early as the 1850s, the first match played under the banner of the established “London Association Rules” was contested in 1876 in Toronto between the Lacrosse Club and the Carlton Cricket Club. In the remaining years of the 19th century, there was a proliferation of loosely-organised football leagues – of predictably varying life spans – throughout the Canadian provinces. Ontario’s Western Football Association, in particular, was one of the earliest football associations formed outside of the United Kingdom when it was inaugurated in 1880. The old WFA even sent a club to tour Great Britain in 1888. In 1904, the WFA’s flagship Galt Football Club won the St. Louis 1904 Olympic Football Tournament over two clubs from USA.  Through the trials and tribulations of the 20th century, the game continued to develop west of the Atlantic. Organised amateur leagues dotted the length and breadth of the world’s second largest country, with the Association’s Challenge competition played on an annual basis (with the exception of two interruptions because of the World Wars). The Association also sent and invited several touring teams, including a national team that hosted its first international match in Montréal 27 June 1925 (a 1:0 win for Canada over visiting USA). In 1957, Canada entered the FIFA World Cup qualifying competition for the first time, winning two of four matches but failing to qualify for Sweden 1958. After missing the next two competitions, Canada rejoined the qualifying competition in 1968, which coincided with North America’s renewed interest in the sport thanks to the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England (won by England) and the introduction of the North American Soccer League in USA and Canada. After missing out on Spain 1982 by a single goal, Canada became CONCACAF champions in 1985 en route to its first participation in the FIFA World Cup finals (at Mexico 1986). Coached by Tony Waiters, the group not only boasted a world of NASL experience, but also a fifth-place finish at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Football Tournament. From the Association’s 75th anniversary celebrations in 1987, Canada then hosted three FIFA tournaments over a 21-year span: the second FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1987, the first FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in 2002, and the record-setting FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2007. It was in the year before the Association’s 100th anniversary that Canada was awarded its next FIFA hosting opportunity, the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015. Inside the last two decades, the sport elicited a renewed passion from Canadians from coast to coast. Crowned CONCACAF women’s champions in 1998, Canada participated in its second FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1999. Four years later at USA 2003, Canada finished fourth overall, with heroics led by tournament all-star Charmaine Hooper and 20-year old scoring sensation Christine Sinclair. The young Sinclair was already a national hero, having won FIFA G


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Due to a 2015 contamination scandal in India/Afica, which corporation destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi noodles?

IndyWatch Feed Index Melbourne Islamophobia forum By Karen Percy, ABC Nasrin did not know Martin Place gunman Man Haron Monis but during December’s deadly siege the Melbourne IT worker said she felt his actions personally. “I was returning from work on the train — a lady started pushing me with her bag and she started yelling at me and telling me to go back to the Middle East. I didn’t come from the Middle East,” the petite and softly spoken mother of three said. Nasrin is originally from Bangladesh, but has been in Australia since 1991. She was attacked twice around that time and admitted she was “shaken inside” and lived in fear. She would sit next to the emergency button on the train just in case she was attacked again. “Racism hurts”, she told a 200-strong crowd at a forum on Islamophobia in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg. Nasrin wears a black veil that covers half of her face. She organised the awareness forum in part because of her personal experience, and because of the stories she heard of other Muslim women who have been attacked. Incidents included having their scarves pulled off them, and in one case, a woman had coffee thrown on her. “From a victim’s point of view, Islamophobia is racism,” Nasrin said. “People can say Islam is not a race … but from a victim... 00:06 Wake Up World: Suicide: Falling Through the Cracks of Stigma "IndyWatch Feed National" 14th August 2015 By Cortland Pffefer (with Irwin Ozborne) Guest Writers for Wake Up World If you have ever lost a loved one to suicide, you know the tremendous amount of pain it causes. There may not be a worse feeling in the world. In my experience as a psychiatric nurse, I believe that nobody commits suicide because they ... Continue Reading - Suicide: Falling Through the Cracks of Stigma 00:03 Wake Up World: Serrapeptase: an Enzyme That Treats Inflammation, Arthritis, Scar Tissue and More "IndyWatch Feed National" 14th August 2015 By Dr. Michelle Kmiec Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The use of enzymes therapeutically is not a new concept, and has been widely accepted for its healing properties in both traditional and modern medicine. Serrapeptase is a proteolytic enzyme, which means that it breaks down protein into smaller components (peptides and amino acids) that ... Continue Reading - Serrapeptase: an Enzyme That Treats Inflammation, Arthritis, Scar Tissue and More 00:01 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... 00:00 Guest Writer, ZenGardner.com The concept of “evil”, is one that is often cynically approached, and very rarely understood or tackled in its crude reality; and more often than not, conveniently granted some sort of arbitrary immunity or safeguard, and simply set aside as “the villain”… or, “the criminal”. It’s that uncomfortable, and yet inescapable aspect of reality everyone knows exists, but very few are valiant enough to look straight in the eye, (except, of course, those that deliberately embrace it as a life path), and even less, are willing to consider that it may be “inconveniently” ingrained in our psyche, and extremely difficult to eradicate. There is a profound and hidden reason for that. It’s always “them” or “it” that is evil… never “me”. Always someone to throw the blame on. It’s the dark side, it’s anti-matter. It’s demonic beings, the Luciferian hosts. It’s Satanic rituals, it’s trans-dimensional parasitism, it’s the Zionist’s “work of the ages”, it’s war, it’s murder. It’s totalitarian regimes, it’s religious deceit and intolerance, it’s Enki and the Annunaki agenda, it’s the seven capital sins… It’s the military industrial complex. It’s prejudice and judgement. It’s vanity and triviality. It’s egotistic perversion, cruelty and lack of compassion….  hummmm… just wait a sec here…. This list of “evils” is starting to look a bit “too familiar for comfort”….. as in: “he who is free of sin cast the first stone”…. Or: excuse me, but, how many of us can honestly claim to be righteous and just … and, what does being righteous and just mean anyway? Is it possible that we are in part res


Who was announced in 2015 as Jeremy Clarkson's replacement on BBC's popular TV show Top Gear?

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May making show for Amazon - BBC News BBC News Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May making show for Amazon 30 July 2015 Close share panel Image copyright Amazon Prime Video Image caption Jeremy Clarkson said the move was like climbing 'out of a biplane and into a spaceship' Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have signed up to present a new show on Amazon's streaming video service. The trio will front three series of a new motoring programme for Amazon Prime, with the first season to be made available worldwide in 2016. The move follows their departure from the hit BBC Two show earlier this year. Clarkson's contract was not renewed following an "unprovoked physical attack" on a Top Gear producer. His co-hosts then followed him in leaving the show. They will now make the unnamed new programme with former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman, who also quit the BBC following the "fracas" . In a statement from Amazon, Clarkson said: "I feel like I've climbed out of a biplane and into a spaceship." Hammond said: "Amazon? Oh yes. I have already been there. I got bitten by a bullet ant." And May added: "We have become part of the new age of smart TV. Ironic, isn't it?" Wilman told the Radio Times the team would begin working on the new series as soon as they return from their summer holidays. He said they agreed a deal with Amazon because "they'll give us the freedom to make the programme we want...there's a budget to produce programmes of the quality we want and this is the future". Wilman added the format of the new show would contain "themes people will be familiar with". "I can't tell you how good it feels to get the chance to produce something from scratch," he said. "We're all really excited. No one telling us what we can and can't do, just us hopefully producing great programmes. It feels really liberating." Analysis - Mark Savage, BBC entertainment reporter Rumours that Clarkson, May and Hammond would take their blokey bonhomie to a streaming service have been circulating for months. It's a shrewd move. For a start, Amazon doesn't have to bow to pressure from advertisers, particularly those car manufacturers the team regularly skewers. Secondly, it neatly sidesteps the much-reported clause in the presenters' BBC contracts that prevented them making a show for a UK broadcaster for two years. More importantly, the team already have a proven track record in streaming video. Top Gear accounted for eight of the top 20 most-streamed programmes on the BBC's iPlayer last year, with one episode watched by 3.8 million people. But we may never know whether the gang's new show reaches those heights. Amazon, in common with Netflix, does not publish viewing figures. Amazon Prime Video EU vice-president Jay Marine said: "Customers told us they wanted to see the team back on screen, and we are excited to make that happen. "We can't wait to see what Jeremy, Richard, James and the team will create in what is sure to be one of the most globally anticipated shows of 2016." The Amazon deal is part of a manoeuvre by the company to compete with traditional broadcasters and streaming rivals like Netflix. Amazon has also signed up Woody Allen to make his first television series; resurrected drama Ripper Street after it was axed by the BBC; and won awards and acclaim for its dark comedy Transparent. Mr Marine said it was "a golden age of television, [and] a great time for TV makers and storytellers". He added: "Our approach is to give programme makers creative freedom to be innovative and make the shows they want to make." Image caption The trio helped make Top Gear one of the BBC's most successful shows Image caption Jenson Button appeared on Top Gear in 2009, and is now tipped to become one of its new hosts Meanwhile, Top Gear will continue on BBC Two, with Chris Evans among the new hosts. Lisa Clark, who worked with Evans on The Big Breakfast, has just been announced as the show's new producer. "Lisa is as good as it gets when it com


How many years old was the McDonalds fast food company in 2015?

95 Interesting Facts about McDonald's Food | FactRetriever.com 95 Interesting Facts about McDonald's Food By Karin Lehnardt, Senior Writer Published August 19, 2016 McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.[9] McDonald’s serves up over 30 million chickens in Great Britain alone every year. Of this total, 60% of the chicken is important frozen from Brazil, 9% comes from Thailand, and 30% from Holland. Just 1% of the McDonald’s chicken in Great Britain comes from Great Britain.[20] In the United States alone, people eat over 1 billion pounds of beef at McDonald’s in a year, which is 5½ million head of cattle.[16] McDonalds Corporation sells over 1 billion cups of coffee each year around the world. It sells 500 million cups a day in the U.S. alone.[17] McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every four hours.[9] McDonald’s is the nation’s largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes. It is the second largest purchaser of chicken.[22] Since 1948, McDonald’s has sold over 4 trillion fries McDonald’s serves about 9 million pounds of fries globally—per day.[19] McDonald’s Corporation is the largest owner of retail property in the world. The company earns most of its profits not from selling food, but by collecting rent.[22] The smallest McDonald’s restaurant is only 492 square feet. It is in Tokyo, Japan.[9] The largest McDonald’s restaurant is over 28,000 square feet and is located in Beijing.[9] The top 10 busiest McDonald’s restaurants are all in Hong Kong.[9] The original McDonald’s menu did not offer French fries.[9] There are about 35,429 McDonald’s worldwide.[26] The world’s largest building, the Kuala Lumpur Tower in Malaysia, houses a McDonald’s restaurant.[9] Each year, McDonald’s buys 3.4 billion pounds of potatoes.[28] McDonald’s (and other fast food restaurants’) chicken is composed primarily of fat, with some blood vessels and nerves present.[22] McDonald’s calls people who eat a lot of their food “heavy users.”[22] A McDonald's strawberry shake contains zero strawberries A McDonald’s strawberry milkshake contains about 50 chemicals that are used to imitate the flavor of strawberries.[12] Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald. He was fired for being too fat.[22] Only seven items on the McDonald’s menu contain no sugar.[22] The McCafe fruit smoothie has more sugar per serving than a Coke.[22] McDonald’s salads make up just 2%–3% of the fast food chain’s U.S. restaurant sales.[1] McDonald’s buys 54 million pounds of fresh apples a year.[9] The original McDonald’s had a hickory pit and served barbecued beef, ham, and pork along with chili, tamales, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.[23] More than 80, 000 students from around the globe have graduated with “Bachelor of Hamburgerology” degrees from McDonald’s “Hamburger University.”[9] The most northerly McDonald’s restaurant is on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland.[9] The most southerly McDonald’s franchise is in Invercargill, New Zealand.[9] New Zealand is also home to the world’s most easterly McDonald’s restaurant in the city of Gisborne. The most westerly restaurant is in Western Samoa, as they are the closest to either side of the International Date Line.[9] McDonald’s largest market outside the U.S is Japan, with over 3,000 restaurants.[9] With dressing and croutons, the salad has 425 calories and 21.4g of fat, compared with the 253 calories and 7.7g of fat in the standard burger McDonald’s Caesar salad is more fattening than its hamburger.[1] In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as “Donald McDonald” to make pronunciation easier for the Japanese.[9] Every day, McDonald’s feeds over 68 million people. This is more than the entire population of the U.K.[16] McDonald’s fruit-and-maple oatmeal has as much sugar as a bag of M&Ms.[8] A McWrap, which McDonald’s touts as a healthy menu choice, has 1,280 milligrams of sodium, more than half of what an adult should consume in an entire day.[27] The McDonald’s McWrap has 121 ingredients, including trans fats, chemicals on the FDA watch list, and more.[27] McDonald’s offered the first nationally availab


What famous horror film actor - especially for playing Dracula - died age 93 in 2015?

Christopher Lee, Actor Who Made Dracula Count Again, Dies at 93 | Variety Print June 11, 2015 | 05:09AM PT Christopher Lee , the second most famous Dracula of the 20th century — an impressive feat — and a memorably irrepressible villain in James Bond film “The Man With the Golden Gun,” in the “Star Wars” films and in “The Lord of the Rings” pics, died Sunday in London after suffering heart failure and respiratory problems. He was 93. Lee appeared in 10 films as Count Dracula (nine if his uncredited role in the comedy “One More Time” is excluded). His first role for famed British horror factory Hammer Films was not the Transylvanian vampire, however, but Frankenstein’s Monster in 1957’s “The Curse of Frankenstein.” His close friend Peter Cushing, with whom he would co-star in horror films frequently, starred as the Baron. Lee made his first appearance as the sharp-toothed Count in 1958’s “Horror of Dracula.” For reasons not quite certain, he skipped the 1960 sequel “Brides of Dracula,” but he returned to the role for 1965’s “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” — a movie in which he hissed a lot but had no dialogue, because the dialogue was so bad, Lee later claimed. Lee said later that he was reluctant to continue in the role but appeared in “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave” (1968), “Taste the Blood of Dracula” (1969) and “Scars of Dracula” (1970), hit films that are all now considered classics of the genre. In his last Dracula films for Hammer, Lee starred in the less-successful “Dracula A.D. 1972” and “Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride” (1973), which brought the character into a contemporary setting. (Lee also starred in “Count Dracula,” a film by cult exploitation director Jess Franco that was made in 1970 and released in 1973; in 1976, the multilingual Lee appeared as Dracula in a French film called “Dracula and Son.”) Lee made horror films for Hammer that were not vampire-centered. He was the title character in 1959’s “The Mummy” and 1966’s “Rasputin, the Mad Monk.” He also brought Dennis Wheatley, an acclaimed author of occult thrillers, to Hammer, where two adaptations were produced, both starring Lee: “The Devil Rides Out” (1967) and “To the Devil a Daughter” (1976). The first is considered among Hammer’s best work. The second, although financially successful, was something of a disaster, with the author disowning the film, which was the studio’s last horror pic. He also appeared in a number of non-Hammer horror films, including the “Fu Manchu” series of the late 1960s; “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” adaptation “I, Monster” (1970); “The Creeping Flesh,” with Cushing; and Lee’s favorite thriller effort, “The Wicker Man,” in which he played Lord Summerisle. After 1977’s wretched “Meatcleaver Massacre,” for which, Lee claimed, the filmmakers had slapped on voiceover narration the actor had recorded for an entirely different movie, he largely steered clear of horror films, though Lee did appear, along with Cushing and Vincent Price, in 1983’s “House of the Long Shadows,” an American-produced horror comedy that in many ways brought the era of British horror pics to an end. Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born in Belgravia, Westminster, England, the son of a career military man and his wife, a famous beauty and contessa who was part Italian. They separated when Lee and his sister were still young, and their mother took the children to live in Switzerland. Lee volunteered to serve with Finnish forces against the Soviet Union in 1939 and then served with the RAF and British intelligence during WWII. After the war, Lee secured a seven-year contract with the Rank Organization. His film debut came in Terence Young’s 1947 Gothic romance “Corridor of Mirrors”; the same year he had a brief uncredited role in Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of “Hamlet.” Lee appeared in nearly 30 films, mostly forgettable adventure pics, over the next decade, although he did have an uncredited role in John Huston’s “Moulin Rouge” (1952) playing the painter Georges Seurat. The prolific actor — IMDb lists 281 credits — appeared in many films outside


For its 2015 USA launch, roasted malt replaced caramel for colour in the 1927 British specification for?

Newcastle Brown Ale, or power of marketing - Doctor Ale Home » England » Newcastle Brown Ale, or power of marketing Newcastle Brown Ale, or power of marketing Today, famous, great English export hit – Newcastle Brown Ale.     Newcastle Brown Ale – beer-legend. It is currently produced in John Smith’s Brewery in Tadcaster (North Yorkshire, England). The brewery is part of Heineken. After three years of perfecting, final recipe was approved in 1927 by its creators: Colonel James „Jim” Porter and chemist Archie Jonson. This took place in Newcastle upon Tyne (North East in England). Just one year later, beer won gold at the prestigious International Brewers’ Exhibition in London, 1928. Here’s how looked Newcastle Brown Ale (photo is taken from the website of Newcastle beer):     At first beer was very popular in the North-East England. After the merger Newcastle Breweries with Scottish Breweries in 1960, przestało być napojem regionalnym – it ceased to be a local drink – became known throughout the country and began to reach outside the UK.   At that time created saying: “I’m taking the Dog for a walk”, which meant: “I’m going to the pub for a glass of Newkie Brown”. Newkie Brown This, of course colloquial term of hero of today’s post, Dog is a slang name of Newcastle Brown Ale.   In 1996 beverage was protected geographical indication (PGI) – just as today’s brand Spitfire or Master Brew . The beer was thus assigned to the place of production, that is Newcastle. Unfortunately indication has been withdrawn, while in 2005 the production was moved to a nearby Gateshead. When in 2010 the Scottish & Newcastle Breweries has been taken over by Heineken, the production was moved again, this time to Tadcaster, where the beer is brewed until today. It must be mentioned that the beer experienced a peak of popularity in the years 1980-1995 thanks to the fashion for Newkie Brown among students. In the 90‘s it was the most widely distributed alcoholic product in the UK.   Since 2000, most of the production is sold on the US market despite the fact that in the UK still is selling 100 million bottles a year. Newcastle Brown Ale is the #1 Brown Ale and #1 Import Ale in the United States!   It is worth comparing its labels yet.   Of course, the most characteristic is the five-pointed blue star that symbolizes the five breweries: John Barras & Co, Carr Bros & Carr, JJ Allison, WH Allison i Swinburne & Co, which merged in 1890 to create Newcastle Breweries Ltd. Gold medals are obviously trophy from 1928. Blue colour of star refers to the water in the river Tyne, in its interior we had Cathedral Church of St Nicholas in Newcastle and the bridge over the River Tyne (the label on the left side). In the 80 anniversary of the beer label has been designed (the label in the middle of 2007). On the contour of the bridge at Newcastle has been imposed silvery Millennium Bridge from Gateshead, which will symbolize the connection of the past and tradition with contemporaneity. On the right side: current label removed by me from the just purchased beer.   I still have to refer to post in which Newcastle Brown Ale I put in unfavourable light – it’s about List of banned beers by Organics . I mentioned there that into its production are used caramel dyes derived from carcinogenic ammonia. Yes indeed it was, but in February of this year, Heineken announced that he had removed caramel colouring from beer recipe. Although such organisations as European Food Safety Authority, or US Food and Drug Administration recognized beer for completely safe and dyes for harmless, the company bowed to pressure from consumers (especially American) and replaced the caramel by roasted barley. Personally, I think that will come out this beer just for good.   Before proceeding to review of Newkie Brown I mention yet about glass specially promoted to drink this ale. In April 2010, Heineken USA introduced the Wellington glass, branded as the “Geordie Schooner,” for Newcastle Brown Ale consumers in America. Schooner in Australia or in Canada means a type of beer glasses that looks a b


What is the year 2015 in Roman numerals?

Super Bowl 2015: Why does the NFL use Roman numerals, not numbers, for big game? |    syracuse.com Super Bowl 2015: Why does the NFL use Roman numerals, not numbers, for big game? Super Bowl 49 logo XLIX Why does the NFL use Roman numerals, not numbers, in its logo? Super Bowl XLIX is Sunday. (Charles Krupa | The Associated Press) Why is the today's game Super Bowl XLIX, not Super Bowl 49 or Super Bowl 2015? Believe it or not, the NFL is trying to create less confusion. From the NFL's postseason media guide: The Roman numerals were adopted to clarify any confusion that may occur because the NFL Championship Game — the Super Bowl — is played in the year following a chronologically recorded season. That makes sense. We just got done with the 2014 season and are playing the Super Bowl in 2015. So is it the NFL title game of 2014 or 2015? The NFL started using Roman numerals with Super Bowl V and went back to add them from I to IV. View full size NFL  But it really doesn't explain, though, why Roman numerals are used, not numbers. In fact, for just one year, the NFL is not going use Roman numerals. Next year would have been Super Bowl L. The league reportedly went through 73 versions of a logo with the letter "L" and decided it didn't work . But after Super Bowl 50, it's back to Roman numerals. It'll be interesting to see what happens in 38 years for Super Bowl LXXXVIII. A quick Roman numeral conversion chart: I: 1


Who won the men's World Ice Hockey Championship in 2015?

2015 World Championships 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship In Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic, 1-17 May 2015 Group A: 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A In Krakow, Poland, 19-25 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B In Eindhoven, Netherlands, 13-19 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division II Group A In Reykjavik, Iceland, 13-19 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division II Group B In Cape Town, South Africa, 13-19 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division III In Izmir, Turkey, 3-12 April 2015 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship In Toronto and Montreal, Canada, 26 December 2014 to 5 January 2015 Group A: 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group A In Asiago, Italy, 14-20 December 2014 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group B In Dunaujvaros, Hungary, 14-20 December 2014 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division II Group A In Tallinn, Estonia, 7-13 December 2014 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division II Group B In Jaca, Spain, 13-19 December 2014 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division III In Dunedin, New Zealand, 19-25 January 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship In Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland, 16-26 April 2015 Group A: 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group A In Debrecen, Hungary, 12-18 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group B In Maribor, Slovenia, 12-18 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division II Group A In Tallinn, Estonia, 22-28 March 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division II Group B In Novi Sad, Serbia, 16-22 March 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division III Group A In Taipei City, Chinese Taipei, 22-28 March 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division III Group B In Auckland, New Zealand, 17-19 March 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship In Malmo, Sweden, 28 March to 4 April 2015 Group A: 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division I Group A In Rouen, France, 12-18 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division I Group B In Beijing, China, 6-12 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group A In Dumfries, Great Britain, 30 March to 5 April 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B In Jaca, Spain, 7-13 March 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B Qualification In Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 18-21 February 2015 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Qualification Series Yokohama, Japan, 8-11 November 2014 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship In Buffalo, USA, 5-12 January 2015 Group A:


The space transport company launched in 2015 by Jeff Bezos is called?

Jeff Bezos, Rocket Man - Bloomberg View Bloomberg View Advertising Bloomberg Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Customer Support One small step for a billionaire. Source: Blue Origin Nov 25, 2015 8:58 AM EST Fifty-eight years after Sputnik, a new space race is unfolding. This time, instead of nuclear-armed superpowers, the protagonists are trash-talking billionaires. But the outcome may one day prove as electrifying as the moon landings. This week, Blue Origin LLC, the secretive space company backed by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, launched an unmanned vehicle called the New Shepherd to the edge of outer space. A short time later, the rocket that propelled it parachuted down in the West Texas desert -- four feet from where it took off, and all in one piece. It was, Bezos declared, " a game changer ." That's only a slight exaggeration. Since the dawn of the Space Age, rockets have been treated as a regrettably disposable byproduct of getting a payload into orbit. The cost of this waste has been an impediment to expanding travel and business opportunities in space. A reliably reusable rocket could change that calculus drastically. Elon Musk -- proprietor of SpaceX, one of Blue Origin's competitors -- thinks it could reduce expenses by a factor of 100 . SpaceX has come tantalizingly close to landing its own Falcon 9 rocket after blasting a capsule into orbit. And Musk couldn't resist pointing out -- on Twitter , as one does -- that Bezos's launch was merely a suborbital affair, and not the first of its kind. Bezos defended his feat, nerdily, in a news conference.   As clashes of billionaires go, this is a tame and encouraging one. And it comes at a propitious time. Space is suddenly brimming with commercial possibilities, spurred by a new generation of small and cheap satellites. A company called Planet Labs is connecting a network of satellites for use in agriculture and disaster relief. PlanetiQ wants to improve climate monitoring and weather forecasting. Other companies hope to validate insurance claims , analyze retail trends and offer worldwide Internet access from space. Reusable rockets could make such endeavors far cheaper. They may even make more esoteric pursuits -- from asteroid mining to colonizing the cosmos  -- more realistic. And their best uses probably haven't occurred to anyone yet. Bezos and Musk are at the vanguard of this revolution. They're exporting Silicon Valley's competitive ethos to outer space, spurring creative new industries and giving government space agencies a much-needed jolt. They'll surely have setbacks along the way. But that's how progress works.  Space Milestone: What Blue Origin Did That Musk Didn't To contact the senior editor responsible for Bloomberg View’s editorials: David Shipley at davidshipley@bloomberg.net.


The shortest ever entry in the history of what competition came from Finland in 2015?

Finnish band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät at a music festival in Seinäjoki, Finland, in 2013 Photo by Cecil , via Wikimedia Commons. VIENNA—Nine years ago, the Finnish band Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest dressed as monsters of the underworld, stunning European audiences with gruesome makeup and other satanic accouterments, performing an elaborate fantasy titled “ Hard Rock Hallelujah “ which set a high score record for the famously extravagant contest. At Tuesday’s Eurovision semi-final here at the Wiener Stadthalle, another remarkable Finnish entry managed to deliver the kind of performance the contest had never before experienced. But instead of wild makeup, pyrotechnics, and demon wings, this year the country sent the unvarnished Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, Finnish for “Pertti Kurikka’s Nameday,” is a punk rock band made up of four men with various developmental disabilities. Kurikka, the frontman and guitarist, has cerebral palsy. Kari Aalto, the singer, is autistic. Sami Helle, the bassist, and Toni Välitalo, the drummer, both have Down’s syndrome.   Advertisement Kurikka was discovered at a charity workshop which taught music to the developmentally disabled, and with the charity’s help he eventually formed a band of four to play punk music. The band draws its lyrics from the diary that Kurikka diligently keeps, largely focused on the frustrations brought on by the status of himself and his bandmates. “I don’t want to live in a group house, I don’t want to live in an institution,” Aalto sings in one song. “I want to live in Kallio [an upscale neighborhood in Helsinki] in the privacy of a bomb shelter.”  Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät first gained international attention through the 2012 documentary The Punk Syndrome, directed by Jukka Kärkkäinen and J-P Passi. The film follows the band members’ musical careers, including rock-doc staples like band infighting and the excitement of touring internationally. But there are also personal moments more unique to the band, like Välitalo’s parents trying to convince him that he should move into a group home, or Aalto’s fit of rage at needing to attend a medically mandated pedicure. The band’s gritty aesthetic shares little in common with the sequined pop contest. But in February, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät entered the Finnish network Yle’s competition to represent the country at this year’s Eurovision in order to raise awareness for developmental disabilities. And with a dominant 36.2 percent of the televote, the band won the nine-song final in a runaway with its entry “Aina Mun Pitää,” which complains about the endless cycle of life’s mundane tasks, like showering and washing dishes. Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät attracted considerable attention and curiosity in Vienna, but also the ever-loyal corps of Eurovision fans. Finnish fans, supportively decked out in their best punkishly studded denim, lined up outside the Wiener Stadthalle before Tuesday’s semifinal. “This is the place where we have to break rules and traditions,” Markku Uhlbäck, a fan who sported a blue-and-white mohawk in his flag’s colors, said of Eurovision. “We are very proud if we win or lose.” In a show that was opened by Moldovan backup dancers dressed as leather-clad police officers, and featured a concentration of preachy ballads unusually high even for Eurovision, Finland performed fifth, through thick fog and flashing strobe lights.  Eurovision acts are given ample time to rehearse their performances, right down to each facial expression toward the appropriate camera, and indeed Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät looked much like it had in rehearsals all week: Aalto stood in the front, facing slightly to the side, rocking back and forth as he sang. But he also injected more growls and grunts into the song than he ever had before, a subtle but startling veering off-script in a show built on careful, rote recitation. After just a minute and 30 seconds “Aina Mun Pitää” finished with one long, last growl from Aalto, making it one of the shortest performances in the history of the contest. (Most s


Published in 2015, Go Set a Watchman, written before her only prior and enduringly popular book of 1960, was written by whom?

Go Set a Watchman: Why Harper Lee's new book is so controversial - Vox Go Set a Watchman: Why Harper Lee's new book is so controversial share Laura Cavanuagh/Getty To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best-known books in America. It's an inspiring story about standing up to injustice even if doing so is difficult and unpopular; an accessible coming-of-age tale; and a convenient way to teach high school English students about the Jim Crow South. It's also the only novel that its author, Harper Lee, had ever published — until a sudden announcement in February 2015 heralded the publication of  Go Set a Watchman , a new Lee work featuring the same characters as To Kill a Mockingbird. A lot of people are suspicious about the discovery of the new manuscript. There are questions about whether Lee actually wanted it to be published, or whether she even wrote it at all — and if so, when. These questions have only become more urgent since the book's release on July 14, due to its "reveal" that Atticus Finch, the anti-racist hero of To Kill a Mockingbird, is a virulent racist in Watchman. So does America now need to exile To Kill a Mockingbird from its summer reading assignments? Or should readers continue to read Mockingbird as if Watchman had never existed? How you think about this, it turns out, depends on who you think is responsible for creating a novel's meaning — and how comfortable you are with America's complicated racial legacy. What is Go Set a Watchman, and why is it coming out now? Go Set a Watchman is either the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, a rough draft of it, or something in between — it depends on whom you ask. Until July 2015, Harper Lee had published only one novel: To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was an instant success when it was published in 1960; it was quickly made into an iconic 1962 movie starring Gregory Peck, and Lee, feeling the pressure to live up to her first book, never published another novel again. In February 2015, a statement issued by Lee's publisher — purportedly on her behalf — announced that a manuscript had been "discovered" attached to another draft of Mockingbird. That manuscript was claimed to be Go Set a Watchman — the novel Lee initially submitted to editor Tay Hohoff, which ultimately became To Kill a Mockingbird. The way the publisher tells it, Hohoff liked Lee's writing. But as Hugh Van Dusen, who's now Lee's editor at HarperCollins, said  in an interview in February , Hohoff "said to her, This isn’t what you want to write; you want to write something about Scout when she was a girl." Lee worked extensively with Hohoff to rewrite the book, and the result was To Kill a Mockingbird. But there's a lot of skepticism surrounding this account. The discovery was very sudden: Even Van Dusen hadn't heard about the discovered manuscript until just before it was announced. And after years and years of Lee saying she'd never publish again, it seemed very suspicious that she would have agreed to put out a new novel. Why are people skeptical of the publisher's story? Lee  suffered a stroke in 2007 , and she's currently suffering from dementia. It's not clear that she would be able to give informed consent about the publication of a new novel. The state of Alabama actually launched an elder-abuse investigation into Lee's situation earlier this year. It didn't find evidence of coercion or abuse, but it's impossible to rule them out with absolute certainty. Harper Lee in 2007. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) It seems all too plausible that lawyers could take advantage of Lee — especially for the sake of generating more profit for her estate. After all, the news of Go Set a Watchman's release was a boon to the publishing industry: The novel would have a ready-made audience in the millions of Americans who read Mockingbird in school (it's routinely among the most-assigned books in high school English classrooms) or at least managed to crib together an understanding from SparkNotes and the Peck movie. And in the #BlackLivesMatter era, it was particularly timely to publish a follow-up to Mockingbird, which


The Official Top 40 Biggest Albums of 2015 revealed Twitter After making her long-awaited return, OfficialCharts.com can confirm that Adele’s 25 is the official biggest artist album of 2015. The newly unveiled list, based on Official Charts Company sales and audio streaming data, sees British superstar Adele’s third album bag pole position on the 2015 end of year list. The highly anticipated comeback has sold a staggering 2.496 million copies since it was released just over six weeks ago in November last year. The collection was met with rapturous praise and broke Official Chart records upon its release, becoming the biggest Number 1 album in UK chart history after shifting 800,307 copies in its opening week. 25 has gone on to rack up huge numbers since; Just 10 days after going on sale, 25 crossed the 1 million sales barrier, and did so in record time, then by day 29 Adele became the fastest artist to smash through the 2 million sales landmark.  By comparison, her previous album 21 took 13 weeks to reach the same milestone. Figures from music trade body The BPI also reveal that 25 was also the biggest seller globally, having shifted a further 7 million copies in the US alone.  MORE: The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2015 revealed While the Top 40 list includes streams after their incorporation into the Official Albums Chart last March, 25 has yet to be made available on streaming services, meaning her figure is made up purely of digital downloads and physical CD purchases. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran finishes in second place with his second album X. The collection - released in June 2014 - has continued to enjoy massive success in 2015, returning to Number 1 in July ahead of his sold out Wembley Stadium shows. By the end of the year X finished on 971,000 combined sales (2.66 million in total to date across its lifetime). Further down the tally, Sheeran’s debut + also places at 38, four years after its release. At Number 3 is Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour with 893,000 combined sales (2.14 million in total). Also released in 2014, Smith continued to have success well into 2015 with the LP, hitting Number 1 on four separate occasions and notched up a record-breaking 67 weeks in the Top 10. Click here to see it’s full UK chart run .  MORE: Adele beats FIFA to biggest entertainment hit of 2015 In at Number 4 on the end of year chart and the second biggest album released in 2015 is Elvis Presley’s If I Can Dream. The King’s orchestral re-workings of his biggest hits became his 12th UK Number 1 album in November, giving him the most chart-topping albums for a male artist . Nine weeks later and the album has yet to leave the Top 3 of the Official Albums Chart, combined sales of the posthumous LP by the end of 2015 stood at 881,000. Rounding off the Top 5 is Justin Bieber’s fifth studio album Purpose with combined sales of 645,000. The collection is the highest in the tally not to reach Number 1, pipped to the post by One Direction’s Made In The A.M in its opening week (their album finishes 14th). However, success of the collection sent a number of its songs into the Official Singles Chart, making him the first living artist to score eight Top 40 entries in the same week . Other albums released this year that passed over half a million combined sales are Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh (Number 7, 583,000), James Bay’s Chaos And The Calm (Number 8, 518,000), and Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams (Number 9, 507,000). Other notable entries include Little Mix’s Get Weird, which finishes on the end of year chart at Number 11. Released in November, the album is already the girl group’s biggest of their career, having hit 389,000 combined sales to date. MORE: The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2015 revealed Further down the tally, Mumford & Sons’ third album Wilder Mind is at 15 (308,000), Years & Years debut Communion finishes at 20 (260,000) and Cilla Black’s Very Best Of, which became her first Number 1 album ever following her death in August, is at 25 on 200,000 combined sales. The Biggest Artist Albums of 2015 appear below.


2015 Route - Sporting aspects, stage cities - Tour de France 2015 Distinctive aspects of the race 21 and 6 This 21st Grand Départ from abroad will also be the 6th from the Netherlands which is a record. The Tour will then spend two days in Belgium before reaching France. A MINI PARIS – ROUBAIX Like in 2014, the peloton will have its share of cobbled portions during stage 4 between Seraing and Cambrai. There will be seven sectors over a distance of 13.3 kilometres. MUR AND MÛR Two final climbs will spice up the first week of racing. First of all, the climb up the Mur de Huy (1.3 km at 9.6%), which is the traditionnal finish of the Flèche Wallonne, where stage 3 will end. Then, the climb up the Côte de Mûr de Bretagne (2 km at 6.9% with some passages at 15%), known as the Alpe d’Huez of Britanny and already on the course in 2011, where the finish of stage 8 will take place. L’ALPE D’HUEZ ON THE PENULTIMATE DAY With its 13.8-km ascent and its famous 21 bends, the real Alpe d’Huez will be the final showdown of the 2015 Tour with the summit finish of stage 20. A mountain top finish on the eve of the finish on the Champs-Élysées had already occurred in 2009 with the Mont Ventoux and in 2013 at Annecy-Semnoz. 6 new stage cities


Which company suffered a major scandal in 2015 for widescale unethical 'inertia' charging for its 'Prime' service?

View sources News organizations have tried to adapt to the new realities. As the Internet became more popular and more important in the first decade of the 21st century, newspaper proprietors dreamed of paying for their newsrooms by mimicking their traditional business model in the online world. Their hope was to create mass followings for their websites that would appeal to advertisers the way their ink-on-paper versions once did. But that’s not what happened. The news organizations with the most popular websites did attract lots of eyeballs, but general advertising on their sites did not produce compelling results for advertisers, so they did not buy as much of it as the papers had hoped. And the price they paid for it steadily declined, because as the Internet grew, the number of sites offering advertising opportunities assured that “supply” outstripped “demand.” Advertising revenues for the major news sites never amounted to even a significant fraction of the revenues generated by printed newspapers in the golden age. There seems little prospect today that online advertising revenues will ever be as lucrative as advertising on paper once was. The other online innovation that has devastated newspapers is Craigslist, the free provider of what the newspapers call “classified advertising,” the small items in small print used by individuals and businesses for generations to buy and sell real estate and merchandise, and to hire workers. Twenty years ago classifieds provided more than a third of the revenue of The Washington Post. Craigslist has destroyed that business for the Post and every major paper in the country. The Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News headquarters building on Broad Street in Philadelphia, October 6, 2005. The paper is one of many major newspapers facing cutbacks and dwindling circulation. Reuters/Tim Shaffer Despite two decades of trying, no one has found a way to make traditional news-gathering sufficiently profitable to assure its future survival. Serious readers of America's most substantial news media may find this description at odds with their daily experience. After all, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post still provide rich offerings of good journalism every morning, and they have been joined by numerous online providers of both opinion and news—even of classic investigative reporting. Digital publications employ thousands of reporters and editors in new and sometimes promising journalistic enterprises. Is this a disaster? Of course not—yet. But today's situation is probably misleading. The laws of economics cannot be ignored or repealed. Nor can the actuarial tables. Only about a third of Americans under 35 look at a newspaper even once a week, and the percentage declines every year. A large portion of today's readers of the few remaining good newspapers are much closer to the grave than to high school. Today's young people skitter around the Internet like ice skaters, exercising their short attention spans by looking for fun and, occasionally, seeking out serious information. Audience taste seems to be changing, with the result that among young people particularly there is a declining appetite for the sort of information packages the great newspapers provided, which included national, foreign and local news, business news, cultural news and criticism, editorials and opinion columns, sports and obituaries, lifestyle features, and science news. Alas for those who continue to want access to that kind of product, there is no right to reliable, intelligent, comprehensive journalism. We only get it when someone provides it. And if it doesn’t pay someone a profit, it’s not likely to be produced. New York City. 1959. TV news anchorman Walter Cronkite. © Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos Before digital technology changed the world, the news was quite orderly and predictable. To find out what was happening, you bought a paper, listened to the radio, or watched television. Most people relied on one or two sources for all their news


Peter Robinson announced in 2015 he would step down as First Minister of?

Peter Robinson to step down as Northern Ireland first minister | Politics | The Guardian Peter Robinson Peter Robinson to step down as Northern Ireland first minister Decision to quit as DUP leader, once deal to save power-sharing has ‘bedded in’, will pave way for a woman to lead the region for first time Peter Robinson (pictured) made the announcement in an article in the Belfast Telegraph. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Thursday 19 November 2015 06.48 EST First published on Thursday 19 November 2015 03.01 EST Close This article is 1 year old The Democratic Unionist leader, Peter Robinson , has announced his intention to step down as Northern Ireland’s first minister, paving the way for a woman to lead both unionism and the entire region for the first time. As expected, Robinson will not seek nomination as first minister following elections to the Northern Ireland assembly in May 2016. The favourite to succeed him is Arlene Foster, who has already been acting first minister twice over the last eight years. Robinson said on Thursday he was not stepping down due to health reasons and said he had made his mind up before he suffered a heart attack in May . Northern Ireland power sharing saved Read more The former East Belfast MP has been under enormous political and personal pressure for some time. He has insisted that allegations about him over an alleged £7m bribe to enable an American investment firm to buy an Irish state-owned property portfolio in Northern Ireland are false. Robinson has also endured personal humiliation after a BBC investigative programme revealed that his wife, Iris, another former DUP MP, had been having an affair with a 19-year-old man . In a statement on Thursday, Robinson said recent achievements – including the deal two days ago that appears to have saved power-sharing government at least up until next May’s elections –convinced him that it was time to confirm the speculation about his future. The DUP also reclaimed his old East Belfast seat at this year’s general election, which Robinson had lost in the previous election to the centrist Alliance party. “I have told the party officers that I don’t intend to fight the next assembly election for a wide range of reasons and not simply because those objectives have been achieved,” he said. “I very much take the two-term view of politics at the top.” Robinson continued: “We won back the East Belfast seat, we got more votes than in the previous election, a larger share of the vote than the previous election, more votes than all the other unionist parties put together and we were again established as the number one party in Northern Ireland. “After that I again went to the party officers and I indicated that I did not wish to stand in the next assembly election. The assembly was in a very delicate position at that stage and I was persuaded that I should remain to try and steady that ship to get some level of stability within the political process.” He added: “There are a number of fairly immediate decisions that have to be taken and they will then organise a transition. Robinson saga: Profile of Arlene Foster Read more “In the meantime I don’t want people to be focusing on issues of succession yet. When the party officers declare the process – which I guess would be at the beginning of next year – then people can start looking at who the successors should be for leader and first minister. Let’s focus on the agreement and getting it bedded in.” Fermanagh-born Arlene Foster, who is a former Ulster Unionist who defected to the DUP , is favourite to become the party’s candidate for first minister after the elections in May 2016. A survivor of an IRA bomb attack on her school bus, the qualified barrister has been widely tipped as a future leader. Her main rival for the post – should he want it – is the Cambridge-educated North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds, who leads the DUP at Westminster. Dodds is known to prefer the cut and thrust of national politics in London and may opt to lead the DUP overall in both London and Belfast while allowing Foster to take up the fi