title: 1788–89 United States elections

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The United States elections of 1788–1789 were the first federal elections in the United States following the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In the elections, George Washington was elected as the first president and the members of the 1st United States Congress were selected.

Formal political parties did not exist, as the leading politicians of the day largely distrusted the idea of "factions." However, in the years after the ratification of the Constitution, Congress would become broadly divided by the economic policies of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, with the Pro-Administration faction supporting those policies. Opposing them was the Anti-Administration faction, which sought a smaller role for the federal government. In these elections, the Pro-Administration faction won majorities in both houses of Congress.

Meanwhile, General George Washington was elected as the country's first president, while John Adams, who finished with the second largest number of electoral votes, was elected as the first vice president.

Presidential election

The presidential election of 1788–1789 was the first election of a federal head of state or head of government in United States history. Prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, the U.S. had been governed under the Articles of Confederation, which provided for a very limited central government; what power that did exist was vested in the Congress of the Confederation, a unicameral legislature consisting of representatives elected by the states. The Congress of the Confederation had elected a president, but this position was largely ceremonial and was not equivalent to the presidency that was established by the United States Constitution.

Under the U.S. Constitution, the president was chosen by the Electoral College, which consisted of electors selected by each state. Prior to the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, each elector cast two votes; the individual who received the most electoral votes would become president, while the individual who received the second-most electoral votes would become vice president. If no individual received votes from a majority of the electors, or if two individuals tied for the most votes, then the House of Representatives would select the president in a contingent election. Under the Constitution, each state determines its own method of choosing presidential electors; in the 1788–1789 presidential election, many electors were appointed by state legislators, while others were chosen through elections. In the states that did hold elections, suffrage was generally restricted to white men who owned property.

No party made a nomination for the presidency in the 1788–1789 presidential election, but several individuals vied for electoral votes. After his service in the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington was the first choice of many for president, but Washington was somewhat reluctant to re-enter public service. The American public at large, however, wanted Washington to be the nation's first president. The first U.S. presidential campaign was, to some degree, what today would be called a grassroots effort to convince Washington to accept the office. Alexander Hamilton was one of the most dedicated in his efforts to get Washington to accept the presidency, as he foresaw himself receiving a powerful position in the administration.

Less certain was the choice for the vice presidency, which contained little definitive job description in the constitution. The only official role of the vice president was as the President of the United States Senate, a duty unrelated to the executive branch. Because Washington was from Virginia, Washington (who remained neutral on the candidates) assumed that a vice president would be chosen from Massachusetts to provide sectional balance between the Northern states and the Southern states. In an August 1788 letter, Thomas Jefferson wrote that he considered John Adams, John Hancock, John Jay, James Madison, and John Rutledge to be contenders for the vice presidency. Fearing an electoral college tie that could end with Adams winning the presidency, Alexander Hamilton arranged for several electors to vote for other candidates, including John Jay, who finished with the third most electoral votes.

On April 6, 1789, the House and Senate, meeting in joint session, counted the electoral votes and certified that Washington had received electoral votes from each of the 69 electors that had cast votes, and thus had been elected president. They also certified that Adams, with 34 electoral votes, had been elected as vice president. The other 35 electoral votes were divided among: John Jay (9), Robert H. Harrison (6), John Rutledge (6), John Hancock (4), George Clinton (3), Samuel Huntington (2), John Milton (2), James Armstrong (1), Benjamin Lincoln (1), and Edward Telfair (1). Only ten of the thirteen states cast electoral votes; North Carolina and Rhode Island did not participate as they had not yet ratified the Constitution, while the New York legislature failed to appoint its allotted electors in time.

Congressional elections

In 1788 and 1789, there were no political parties, but the major political split was between federalists who favored the ratification of the Constitution and anti-federalists who favored either completely rejecting the Constitution or only ratifying the document after making major changes to it. For example, in the election to represent Virginia's 5th congressional district, James Madison, a federalist who had played a major role in designing and ratifying the Constitution, defeated James Monroe, an anti-federalist who favored major changes to the Constitution. In many elections, local issues and the personal popularity of the candidates played a more important role than positions on the Constitution and other national issues.

 The Pro-Administration faction would generally support the centralizing economic policies of the Washington administration and Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton. The Anti-Administration faction generally opposed those policies, instead favoring states' rights and a weaker federal government. The Pro-Administration faction overlapped heavily with both the federalists who favored the ratification of the Constitution and the later Federalist Party, while the Anti-Administration faction overlapped with the anti-federalists and the later Democratic-Republican Party. Using this divide as a lens through which to view the elections, the Pro-Administration faction won majorities in both houses of Congress. Factional alignment would be fluid for much of the Washington administration.

See also
1788–89 United States presidential election
1788–89 United States House of Representatives elections
1788–89 United States Senate elections

Footnotes

References

Works cited

1789


title: Dutch cricket team in Scotland in 2014

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The Netherlands national cricket team are toured Scotland in July 2014 to play three limited overs matches. After both countries have been involved in limited-overs competition in the North Sea Pro 20 and North Sea Pro 50 overs series in May-June 2014. The main aim for Scotland was finalising their squad for the 2015 World Cup.

Squads

Limited-overs series

1st Match

2nd Match

3rd Match

References

External links
 Series at CricInfo

International cricket competitions in 2014
2014 in Scottish cricket
2014 in cricket


title: Shahrokh

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Shahrukh, Shahrokh  or Shah Rukh () is a Persian name meaning "royal face" (shah means "king", while rukh means "face"). It may refer to:

People
Shah Rukh (1377–1447), ruler of the Timurid empire
Shahrukh Bey (), first Khan of Kokand Khanate
Shahrukh Afshar (c. 1730–1796), Iranian king
Shahrokh Bayani (born 1960), Iranian footballer
Shahrokh Meskoob (1924–2005), Iranian writer
Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam (born 1967), Iranian folkloric dancer and theatre director
Shahrukh Husain (born 1950), Pakistani author
Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965), Indian actor, producer, television personality and philanthropist
Muhammad Shah Rukh (born 1926), Pakistani field hockey player and cyclist

Other
Shahrokh (mythical bird), in Iranian literature

See also
Roc (mythology)
Simurgh, a mythical bird in Iranian mythology

Persian masculine given names
Pakistani masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Zeng Yi (painter)

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Zeng Yi (born 1957) is a professional painter specialized in oil painting.

Accomplishments
Mr. Zeng was born in Neijiang, Sichuan Province, China. His paintings were published in many fine art magazines such as Chinese Oil Painting,  Art Panorama and other newspapers. He have taught for more than 20 years in Art and Design Department in universities as well.

 2005 Participant Beijing Art Expo.
 2006 Chengdu Television interviewed and reported his artworks of Maidservant Beside Lotus Pool Series.
 2008 Participant Sir Ka-shing Li Autumn Auction， the works - Maidservant Beside Lotus Pool Series stroke a bargain.
 2011 Invited to participate Shanghai Spring Art Exposition.

After 2009, he frequently traveled to U.S. to participate art exhibitions and painting sessions. His paintings were also collected by the Chinese American Museum.

His work has been praised by many foreign collectors. Jin Rui, a famous painter, pondered on the rich connotations and charms of most traditional Chinese characters from Yi's works. Then he wrote an article "The Fallen of Flowers Dancing in the Sky Behold Floating Like a Dream- What I found in Yi's Oil Painting" for him.

References

1957 births
Painters from Sichuan
Living people
People from Neijiang


title: U. Chandrasekhar

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Dr. Udayagiri Chandrasekhar, FIE (born 10 May 1963) is an Indian researcher and educator. India, the oldest and largest organization of professional engineers in India in October 2014, and heads the Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI), and Organ of The Institution of Engineers (India).

He is currently the Program Director -AddWize at Wipro 3D, Bangalore, Karnataka

He is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India). He has been inducted as a Member of the Academic Committee of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), an apex body of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) of the Government of India, promoting international quality standards for technical education in India. He is also on the R&D vision team of the Visvesvaraya Technological University and  Anna University, a role through which he is catalyzing R&D culture among engineering colleges.

References

Living people
Engineers from Tamil Nadu
1963 births


title: Swett, South Dakota

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Swett is an unincorporated former town of Bennett County, South Dakota, United States. It was put up for sale as a ghost town in June 2014 and  had not found a buyer.

The town, on U.S. Highway 18 approximately two hours southeast of Rapid City, covers  of land. Its buildings include a gas station, museum, a bar and a store. Daniel Simmons-Ritchie of the Rapid City Journal describes the buildings as "a few ramshackle buildings". The residence is said to be haunted.

History
Swett was founded in 1931. In 1932 a post office was started in the local grocery store, which was owned by a farmer named Swett. In the 1940s there were 40 residents. At the time the community included a post office, a grocery store, and several houses. The post office was closed in 1945, leaving the community to be known for the saloon. Later the saloon was converted into a home after the building of the current Swett Tavern.

As time passed, the number of people owning property decreased. Eventually one person owned all of the properties and land in the community. The property was passed from person to person. In 1998 Lance Benson acquired the town. Benson divorced a previous wife, and she received the town after he signed away the property. In 2012 Benson re-acquired the town. In June 2014 Benson offered to sell the town for $399,000. The hamlet's sale became international news. In October 2015, the bank in Gordon, Nebraska, holding the mortgage foreclosed on the hamlet property. The selling price was reduced to $250,000 in 2015. The three mobile homes were removed in a general clean up of the property.

Economy
Simmons-Ritchie described the Swett Tavern bar as the "beating heart" of the community which serves as the "de facto gathering place for a small army of local cowboys and wheatgrowers." Simmons stated that the bar is "the only watering hole in a 2-mile radius".  Simmons-Ritchie stated that the bar was known for having "a reputation for attracting rough customers" and fights but that the reputation of the bar improved after Benson acquired it. Simmons-Ritchie added that the bar "has always maintained a distinctly local veneer; a place where cowboy hats are de rigueur and rusted wagon wheels adorn the front facade."

Census designated place
Although it is not part of a formal CDP, Swett is included by the United States Census Bureau in its statistical Unorganized Territory of West Bennett.

See also
 Scenic, South Dakota (town put up for sale and sold)

References

Unincorporated communities in Bennett County, South Dakota
Unincorporated communities in South Dakota


title: Knights Templar Church, Dover

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The Knights Templar Church in Dover is the ruins of a medieval church on Bredenstone hill, part of the Dover Western Heights in Kent, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a scheduled monument.

History
The church followed the same plan as the New Temple Church in London but smaller in scale. For reasons of its design, it has been linked to the Templars, but it is not listed as belonging to the Order in surviving records. If it was a Templar church, it was possibly used before they established a church at Temple Ewell in 1170, and built the Norman church of St Peter and St Paul, but is more likely to have been a simple road-side shrine.

In 1309, Ralph de Malton was the preceptor of the church at Temple Ewell.

It was discovered in 1806 during construction of the fortifications on Dover Western Heights. According to Matthew Paris the Templar church at Dover was the site of King John's submission to the papal legate Pandulph in May 1213, but this almost certainly relates to Temple Ewell.

The church has a circular nave, 10 metres in diameter, and an oblong chancel. Built mainly of flint rubble with ashlar facings. This unusual form mirrors that of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

See also
Catholic Church in England

References

Scheduled monuments in Kent
11th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom
Church ruins in England
Ruins in Kent
English Heritage sites in Kent
11th-century church buildings in England
Churches in Dover, Kent


title: Ursus in the Valley of the Lions

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Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (, also known as  Valley of the Lions) is a 1962 Italian sword-and-sandal film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Although it was the fourth film in the Italian "Ursus" series, it was the first to provide Ursus with an origin story, explaining how he was raised by a lioness. Ed Fury once again appears as Ursus and Alberto Lupo plays the villainous Ajak.

When the film was distributed in the US, the title was shortened to simply Valley of the Lions. This film was also distributed as Son of Atlas in the Valley of the Lions.

Cast
Ed Fury: Ursus
Mary Marlon: Ania
Moira Orfei: Diar
Alberto Lupo: Ajak
Mariangela Giordano
Giacomo Furia: Simud
Gérard Herter: Lothar
Andrea Scotti
Michelle Malaspina
Orlando Orfei
Gianni Solaro

Plot
The evil dictator Ajak sends his armies to attack a neighboring kingdom, and during the battle, the besieged King Annurius orders one of his subjects to take his son Ursus to a place of safety outside of the city, after first putting a royal medallion around the baby's neck. Ajak kills the king and usurps his throne, but the infant prince is smuggled out of the city to safety.

Later through a series of incidents, the baby Ursus winds up being abandoned alone in a hidden valley in the wilderness where he is adopted and raised by a pride of lions who mistake him for one of their cubs. In a storyline similar to "Tarzan of the Apes", Ursus grows to manhood with the lions as his family.

One day, a caravan of slave girls heading to market breaks down near Ursus' cave and after repairing their wagon, Ursus takes Ania, one of the slave girls, as his payment. A plot point that is never explained is that Ursus is somehow able to converse with people fluently, although he had spent his entire life interacting only with lions in a cave! (Why is he even clothed?)

The evil king Ajak is still alive and sitting on Ursus' father's throne at this point, and when Ajak hears that Ursus is still alive, he fears that Ursus will one day come seeking revenge and orders his soldiers to journey to the valley of the lions and arrest him. The soldiers kill all but one of the lions with poisoned meat, and when Ursus refuses to surrender, Ajak's men kidnap the slave girl Ania and use her as a hostage to force Ursus to give up. Simba, the last surviving lion of the pride, follows the chained Ursus to Ajak's city, trying to remain close to Ursus in the event that an opportunity to help him arises.

At the climax of the film, Ajak orders that a group of innocent townspeople be dragged into a raging pyre by a group of elephants to which they are chained. Ursus manages to free himself from the king's dungeon and kill Ajak's henchman Lothar by throwing him into a kennel of ferocious, slavering hyenas. Ursus then makes his way to the grand arena and physically holds back the elephants, saving the condemned civilians from a fiery death. When the people realize Ursus is their rightful ruler and revolt against their evil king, Ajak tries to sneak out of the arena, but he is attacked and mauled to death by Simba the lion, who spent the last half of the picture waiting patiently to avenge the deaths of his fellow lions. At the end, the people declare Ursus their king, and with Ania as his queen, Ursus reclaims his father's throne.

References

External links

1961 films
Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Peplum films
1960s adventure films
Films scored by Riz Ortolani
Sword and sandal films
1960s Italian-language films
1960s Italian films


title: Burraga

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Burraga is located in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, 47 kilometres south west of Oberon and about  south of Bathurst. It is within Oberon Shire. At the , Burraga had a population of 91.

History

Aboriginal and early settler history
The area now known as Burraga lies on the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people. The name Burraga is almost certainly a settler rendering of an Aboriginal language word. Sydney J. Endacott (Australian Aboriginal Words and Place Names and Their Meanings, 1959) states that Burraga means "Bitter Swamp". Burraga is also the name of the cadastral parish on the northern side of Thompson's Creek.

Mining
Copper was discovered around 1877 and was reported on by the inspector of mines in 1878. Mining commenced at the Thompsons Creek copper mine, but was hampered by poor management and under capitalisation, until the mine was purchased in 1879 by Lewis Lloyd, who was known as "the copper king". The mine then became known as Lloyd's Copper Mine. Lloyd built reverberatory smelting furnaces near the mine. By 1900, it had produced over  £1,000,000 worth of copper.

In 1899, Lloyd sold his interest in the mine at Burraga to an English company for £100,000, and the mine became the Lloyd Copper Company Mine. Mining and smelting at Burraga had been hindered by the availability of water and fuel for the furnaces; the new owners set about solving these issues. Construction of a concrete dam on Thompson's Creek was completed in 1901 although, due to a drought, the dam did not fill completely with water until 1903. However, the new owners' attempt to change the smelting process, from using reverberatory furnaces to pyritic smelting in a water-jacketed blast furnace, was a total failure. Although a large sum was invested in the operation, there had been some poor decisions made. By 1908, the mine operations were in jeopardy, due to a scarcity of fuel, and the mine closed in May that year. The only remaining mining going on to support the village was at the nearby Mt David Gold Mine.

The Lloyd mine appears to have reopened around 1912, with another round of capital investment. A narrow-gauge tramway that used two Shay locomotives was constructed around 1912–1913 to bring timber fuel to the smelter. A fire in late 1913 destroyed one of the locomotives. Falling copper prices led to another closure of the mine in July 1914. The entire mine and associated assets were sold, on behalf of creditors, in 1916, for a mere £5,680. The new owners had the mine, now called the Abercrombie Copper Mine, in production again in March 1917, but problems obtaining enough timber for fuel continued to lead to temporary closures. By mid-1918, wartime shipping conditions had made it impossible to export copper, already sold to the British Government, from N.S.W.; the smelter at Burraga closed in August 1918, with the ore being sent instead to Port Kembla, via the railway station at Perthville.

The mine closed down, in January 1919, and equipment from the operation, including the remaining Shay locomotive, was sold off in 1920. A long-awaited branch railway line from Tarana to Burraga, which would have allowed coal to be brought to the smelters or ore to be shipped more economically, was built only as far as Oberon; it opened in November 1923.

Mining continued on and off up until 1961. Studies were being conducted around 2012, looking for worthwhile lodes of copper and gold at the nearby Lucky Draw Gold Mine.

Private town and village of Burraga
The first settlement at Burraga was a private township on the mining lease of the Thompsons Creek copper mine. As the mine expanded, workers settled on the nearby land resulting in the reservation of a site for a village, immediately to the east of the private township, in October 1883. In 1883, the mine employed about 200 men and that the population of Burraga was about 500 persons including 60 children. The village had "the usual businesses", a post office and a public school, which opened in November 1883. Therefore, even before the village had been planned, a significant settlement and population existed in the area.

The new village was surveyed in December 1884 and a formal plan was reserved on 29 October 1887. The reserve for a road (then known as Mine Street) linking the private township to the new village was surveyed in 1886, but actually contained a number of the town's existing buildings; the road reserve was resurveyed in 1900 to overcome that deficiency. The boundary of the mine's land constrained the  alignment of Lloyd Street, so that it intersects the other streets of the village at an angle. The existence of the earlier private township explains why some of Burraga's buildings lie to the west, outside the planned village street grid ending at Lloyd Street. Allotments and former streets of the former private township, to the west of Lloyd Street, are still shown on Google Maps.

As there were no other industries to provide employment the fortunes of the village rose and fell in line with those of the copper mine. The population seems to have peaked in the early 1900s, at around 2,000, during the construction of the new plant at the mine site. When the mine closed for the first time, in 1908, the population was still around 1,500. The population had fallen to 747, in 1911, the year before the mine reopened. It then rose again to around 1,400 to 1500, but after the mine closed for a second time in 1914, the population slumped to only 250 by 1916. Just after the final mine closure, in 1919, the population was 1,231. By 1924, the village's population was only 124.

The village had two hotels; the Royal Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1932 and the Burraga Hotel was closed in 1933, and its disused building was also destroyed by fire in 1942.

Burraga had a Union Church, Anglican and Catholic churches. The only surviving church is St Dympna's Catholic church, dating from 1941, which is still in use.

From around 1900 to around 1915, Estonian-born photographer Evan Antoni Johann Lumme (1865-1935) made photographs of Burraga and some of its inhabitants. Some of these photographs are in the collection of the National Library of Australia.

Present day
Little remains of the copper mine's operations today; the single remaining tall brick chimney that dominates the site is a remnant of the failed attempt at pyritic smelting, the Burraga Dam on Thompson's Creek survives as a popular angling venue, and there are remnant shafts and slag heaps at the sites of the mine and smelters. The mine site is viewed as a prospective film location, as is the village.

The village of Burraga is a quiet place now, but still has a public school, a community hall, and a village store that is a postal agency. Aside from limited tourism for camping and angling, the economy of the village relies on grazing, nearby softwood forestry plantations, and sawmilling. The War Memorial Obelisk, in the village's War Memorial Park, commemorates the men who went from Burraga to the two world wars. The Burraga Sports and Services Club serves the village and nearby area.

Gallery

References

External links

 Map of Village of Burraga: Dept of Lands [1954]
 Map of the Parish of Jeremy, County of Georgiana: Dept. of Lands [1964]
 Map of the Parish of Thompson, County of Georgiana: Dept. of Lands, [1964]

Towns in New South Wales
Mining towns in New South Wales
Oberon Council


title: 2014 UK Championship

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The 2014 UK Championship (officially the 2014 Coral UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 November and 7 December 2014 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the fifth ranking event of the 2014/2015 season.

Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 5–6 against Graeme Dott in the last 16. This result led to Ding Junhui becoming the first Asian player to reach the world number one ranking.

Ronnie O'Sullivan won his fifth UK Championship and his 27th ranking title by defeating Judd Trump 10–9 in the final. Trump had trailed 4–9 at one point during the evening session but fought back with 5 consecutive frames to level at 9–9 before O’Sullivan won the deciding frame.

Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 109th official maximum break during his last 16 match against Matthew Selt. This was O'Sullivan's 13th official 147 break and also the fourth maximum break in the 2014/2015 season and the third time in a row that a maximum was made in a UK Championship.

Judd Trump made his 300th career century during his last-64 match against Fraser Patrick.

Starting in this year the Semi-finals were reduced from the best of 17 frames to the best of 11 frames. This meant that all rounds up to the Semi-finals were played using the best of 11 frames format. The final was still played over the best of 19 frames. This is the format that is still being used to the current day.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

 Winner: £150,000
 Runner-up: £70,000
 Semi-final: £30,000
 Quarter-final: £20,000
 Last 16: £12,000
 Last 32: £9,000
 Last 64: £3,000

 Highest break: £4,000
 Maximum break: £40,000
 Total: £740,000

Main draw

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final

Century breaks

 147, 133, 125, 117, 106, 104  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 142, 137, 108, 103, 102  Stuart Bingham
 139  Gerard Greene
 139  Fraser Patrick
 138, 125, 115, 103  Mark Allen
 138  Michael Holt
 137, 117  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
 137  Igor Figueiredo
 137  Shaun Murphy
 134, 105  Ding Junhui
 132, 126, 113, 108, 104  Stephen Maguire
 132, 116  Nigel Bond
 132  Matthew Stevens
 131  Xiao Guodong
 130, 129, 127, 120, 112, 110, 104, 102, 100  Judd Trump
 129, 128, 101, 100  Ricky Walden
 129, 128  John Higgins
 127, 120, 117  Graeme Dott
 127  Mark Joyce
 127  Peter Ebdon
 126  David Morris
 124  Mark Selby
 122  Matthew Selt
 115, 105  Ryan Day
 115, 103  Jamie Cope
 114  Liang Wenbo
 113  Michael Wasley
 112, 106, 101  Marco Fu
 110, 109, 109, 102  Ken Doherty
 110  Jimmy White
 110  Rod Lawler
 109  Mike Dunn
 109  Tony Drago
 108, 106, 100  Neil Robertson
 107  Ben Woollaston
 107  Ratchayothin Yotharuck
 104  Robin Hull
 103  Luca Brecel
 103  Rory McLeod
 103  Anthony McGill
 102, 101  Joe Swail
 101  Barry Pinches
 101  Mark Williams
 100  Fergal O'Brien
 100  Zhang Anda
 100  James Wattana
 100  Yu Delu
 100  David Gilbert
 100  James Cahill

References

External links
 2014 Coral UK Championship – Pictures by Tai Chengzhe at Facebook

2014
UK Championship
UK Championship


title: 2015 German Masters

text:
The 2015 German Masters (officially the 2015 Kreativ Dental German Masters) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4–8 February 2015 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. It was the sixth ranking event of the 2014/2015 season.

Judd Trump made the 113th official maximum break during his quarter-final match against Mark Selby.

Ding Junhui was the defending champion, but he lost 4–5 against Ryan Day in the last 32.

Selby won his fifth ranking title by defeating Shaun Murphy 9–7 in the final.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: €80,000
Runner-up: €35,000
Semi-final: €20,000
Quarter-final: €10,000
Last 16: €5,000
Last 32: €3,000
Last 64: €1,500

Televised highest break: €4,000
Maximum break: €6,737
Total: €341,737

Main draw

Final

Qualifying
These matches were held between 17 and 19 December 2014 at the Robin Park Arena, Sports and Tennis Centre in Wigan, England. All matches were best of 9 frames.

Round 1

Round 2

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

 142, 116  Shaun Murphy
 141, 101  Aditya Mehta
 136, 131  Ding Junhui
 136  Daniel Wells
 136  Ian Burns
 135, 134, 105, 101  Neil Robertson
 135  Ali Carter
 133  Zak Surety
 132  Mark Davis
 131, 121  Michael Wasley
 127  Mark Allen
 121  Adam Duffy
 120, 114, 105  Judd Trump
 117, 106, 104  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 117  Robin Hull

 117  Ryan Day
 115, 103  Li Hang
 115  Matthew Stevens
 115  Michael White
 113  Xiao Guodong
 112  David Gilbert
 109  Sam Baird
 107  Mitchell Mann
 105  Alfie Burden
 104  Michael Leslie
 104  Michael Holt
 103  Yu Delu
 103  Oliver Lines
 102  Jack Lisowski
 100  Jimmy Robertson

Televised stage centuries

 147, 104, 102  Judd Trump
 145, 141, 130, 118  Shaun Murphy
 134, 134, 117  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 133  Peter Ebdon
 132  Ryan Day
 126  Mark Selby
 119, 107  Stephen Maguire
 112  Alfie Burden
 111  Neil Robertson
 110  Mark Davis
 106, 103  Liang Wenbo
 106  Mark King
 103  Matthew Selt
 100  Mark Allen

References

External links

2015
2015 in snooker
Masters
Sports competitions in Berlin


title: 2015 Welsh Open (snooker)

text:
The 2015 Welsh Open (officially the 2015 BetVictor Welsh Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament held at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff from 16 to 22 February 2015. The tournament was staged in Cardiff for the first time since 2004, having moved from  Newport.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he lost 3–4 against Matthew Stevens in the last 32.

The best-performing Welsh player was Mark Williams, who reached the semi-finals of the tournament for the first time in 12 years. He lost 5–6 to Ben Woollaston, who reached the first ranking final of his professional career.

John Higgins defeated Woollaston 9–3 in the final to win the Welsh Open for a record fourth time and claim his first ranking title in two and a half years.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £60,000
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-finals: £20,000
Quarter-finals: £10,000
Last 16: £5,000
Last 32: £2,500
Last 64: £1,500

Highest break: £2,000
Total: £300,000

Main draw
128 players started the tournament, with the first four rounds played over the best of 7 frames. The quarter finals were played over 9 frames with the semi-finals over the best of 11. The final was over 17 frames.

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final

Century breaks

 140, 101  Luca Brecel
 137, 135, 134, 105, 103, 101  John Higgins
 136  Matthew Stevens
 135, 131, 120, 114  Mark Selby
 133, 101  Mark Allen
 132  Joe Perry
 131, 116, 113, 103  Neil Robertson
 130  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
 125, 106, 101  Matthew Selt
 122  Peter Ebdon
 119  Alex Borg
 117, 106, 102  Shaun Murphy
 116, 101  Stephen Maguire
 115, 105, 107  Marco Fu
 112  Ding Junhui
 110, 104  Judd Trump
 109  Anthony McGill

 108, 105, 103  Mark Williams
 108, 103  Ben Woollaston
 108  Ricky Walden
 107  Chris Wakelin
 106  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 104  Jimmy White
 104  Elliot Slessor
 104  Dechawat Poomjaeng
 103  Mark Joyce
 103  Gerard Greene
 103  Ali Carter
 102  Fergal O'Brien
 102  Jamie Jones
 101  Rod Lawler
 100  Ken Doherty
 100  Jamie Cope
 100  Alan McManus

References

Welsh Open (snooker)
Welsh Open
Welsh Open
Welsh Open
Sports competitions in Cardiff


title: 2015 World Seniors Championship

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The 2015 World Seniors Championship (Known for sponsorship reasons as the Betway World Seniors Championship) was a snooker tournament that took place between 2–3 March 2015 at the Circus Arena in Blackpool, England.

The Circus Arena played host to the tournament for the first time, having previously being held at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth.

The age limit of the event was reduced from 45 to 40 years, allowing players such as Mark Williams, Peter Ebdon, Dominic Dale and Fergal O'Brien to enter. Players had to be aged 40 or above at the end of the 2015 World Championship (4 May 2015).

Steve Davis was the defending champion, but he lost 0–2 against Fergal O'Brien in the quarter-finals. Mark Williams won his 26th professional title by defeating Fergal O'Brien 2–1 in the final.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
 Winner: £18,000
 Runner-up: £8,000
 Semi-finalist: £4,000
 Quarter-finalist: £2,000
 Last 16: £1,000
 Total: £50,000

Main draw
The draw for the last 16 was made on 3 December 2014 at the Barbican Centre in York during the UK Championship. All former World Seniors Champions and World Snooker Champions, who registered for the event, were seeded through to the final stages in Blackpool. There were three century breaks during the tournament. Mark Williams made a 140 break against Darryn Walker and Fergal O'Brien made a 110 and 105 break against Peter Ebdon.

Final

Qualifying
These matches were played on 20 and 21 December 2014 at the Robin Park Arena, Sports and Tennis Centre in Wigan, England. There were two century breaks during the qualifying. Dominic Dale made a 129 break against Peter Delaney and Rory McLeod made a 104 break against Andrew Milliard.

Centuries

Main stage centuries

 140  Mark Williams
 110, 105  Fergal O'Brien

Qualifying stage centuries

 129  Dominic Dale

References

2015
2015 in snooker
2015 in English sport
Sport in Blackpool
2010s in Lancashire


title: Matt Stone Racing

text:
Matt Stone Racing is an Australian racing team competing in the Supercars Championship under the commercial title Truck Assist Racing with two Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s. Jack Le Brocq drives the No. 34 car, while Todd Hazelwood drives the No. 35 car. They are also competing in the second-tier Dunlop Super2 Series with Aaron Seton and Ryal Harris.

Supercars Championship
Matt Stone Racing moved up into the Supercars Championship for 2018 with Todd Hazelwood. The team started in a Ford FG X Falcon previously owned by DJR Team Penske before switching to their Super 2 winning Holden VF Commodore from The Bend onwards. In 2019 the team upgraded to an ex-Triple Eight Racing Engineering ZB Commodore. Having leased a Racing Entitlement Contract (REC) from Jason Bright for the 2018 and 2019 seasons.

In 2020 the team expanded to two cars having purchased RECs from Garry Rogers Motorsport and Kelly Racing. The new for 2020 number 34 was split between Jake Kostecki and Zane Goddard under the new Superlite Program. The two would also drive together for the Bathurst 1000. The 35 car was driven full time by Garry Jacobson, partnered with David Russell for the Endurance race. Jacobson finished 21st in the championship, with Goddard 25th and Kostecki 27th.

Super 2 Series

In 2011, Matt Stone the son of Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) co-owner Jim, was given the opportunity to run a former SBR Ford BF Falcon in the 2011 development series with Robert Cregan driving. In 2012, the team expanded to two Falcon BFs, with Daniel Jilesen and Ashley Walsh joining the team. After two rounds the team expanded to three cars, with the SBR entered Ford FG Falcon of Scott McLaughlin entry transferred to the team after the signing of Mahindra Group as a minor sponsor, conflicted with SBR's Ford sponsorship. McLaughlin went on to win the series. In 2013, the team entered three Falcon FGs with Michael Hector, George Miedecke and Ashley Walsh driving. In 2014, the team again fielded three FGs with Todd Hazelwood, Michael Hector and Ashley Walsh driving. Steven Johnson drove a fourth car at the Townsville and Queensland rounds. Ryal Harris drove the fourth car at Bathurst. Shae Davies replaced Hector for the final round in Sydney. In 2015, the team only fielded two FG Falcons, with Todd Hazelwood and Shae Davies competing in all of the rounds, finishing the championship in 4th and 8th places respectively. In 2016, the team purchased a Holden VF Commodore for Hazelwood. Adam Marjoram joined the team and raced in an FG Falcon. Hazelwood finished the year in 3rd place, while Marjoram finished in 13th.

In 2017, the team purchased another VF Commodore for Marjoram. Brodie Kostecki joined the team and raced an FG Falcon. Hazelwood won 6 races and was able to win the championship by 95 points. Kostecki finished in 15th, while Marjoram came 18th for the year.

For 2018, Bryce Fullwood joined the team in an ex-DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon, but switched to a VF Commodore after the Perth round. During the first 3 rounds the Commodore was raced by Tyler Greenbury and Jaie Robinson respectively.

For 2019 Ash Walsh will contest the full season. Abbie Eaton entered the first round and Joel Heinrich entered rounds one and two for the team, David Russell would contest the Bathurst round. Walsh finished 9th for the year.

For 2021 MSR has signed Glenn Seton's son Aaron Seton.

For 2022 MSR has signed 2x SuperUtes Series champion Ryal Harris alongside Aaron Seton.

TCR Australia
For the 2019 TCR Australia Touring Car Series the team would enter 2 Volkswagen Golfs in collaboration with former supercars driver Jason Bright known as Alliance Autosport. The 2 drivers would be Bright and New Zealand based Australian Alexandra Whitley. Bright would win the opening race at Sydney and would win another race at round 5 at Winton. Whitley would have more mixed results with only 3 top 10's. The team would hand over running of the cars to Melbourne Performance Centre for rounds 6 & 7.

Touring Car Masters
In 2016 the team entered the Touring Car Masters. Team Owner Jason Gomersall was entered in a Holden Torana Coupe for the full season, along with Darren Beale entered for rounds 3 through 8 in a Holden Monaro GTS. Gomersall would go on to win the Pro Am Category.

For 2016 the team would keep Gomersall and Beale, adding Bob Wisely for select rounds in another Torana. Gomersall would finish 4th in the Pro Masters class, taking his first outright win at Winton. Beale would win the Pro Sports category, with Wisely finishing 3rd in Pro Sports despite missing a round, and failing to start the final two races at Bathurst after retiring from the first.

For the 2018 Season the team would downsize to running Gomersall as their only full time entrant. Beale would contest only a single round. Gomersall would again finish 4th overall in the Pro Masters class, taking another race win.

In 2019 Gomersall would enter only select race, electing to instead focus on his debut in the 2019 Kumho Super 3 Series. He would enter 8 races, taking 2 podiums on his way to 8th in the Pro Masters class.

GT Racing
In 2016 and 2017 Matt Stone Racing collaborated with Miedecke Motorsport to run Aston Martins in GT3 configuration. The highlights for the team were winning the Sydney Motorsport Park 101 as part of the 2016 Australian Endurance Championship and a fourth place in the top-ten shootout of the 2017 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour. The team would record a DNF after a crash 75 laps into the race.

Additionally in 2016, Matt Stone Racing would enter rounds 3 & 4 of the 2016 GT Asia Series. George Miedecke would contest both races, partnered by Nathan Morcom for round 3, and Ashley Walsh for round 4.

V8 Utes Racing Series
In 2014 the team stepped into the V8 Utes Series, beginning at the 5th round at Sandown. They took over the preparation and running of Reigning Champion, Ryal Harris' Ute. The team scored a win on debut and went on to finish 5th overall for the year.

For 2015, Harris Stayed on with the team, and was teamed up with George Miedecke. A third car was run, with rounds split between Grant Johnson, Aaren Russell, Chris Pither, Kurt Kostecki, & Todd Hazelwood. The team won their first championship, with Ryal Harris taking the crown, Miedecke ended the year 6th.

In 2016 the team ran Ryal Harris on a part-time basis, entering 5 rounds and taking 2 race wins along the way. Harris would finish 11th overall in the championship.

Results

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Car No. 34 results

Car No. 35 results

Supercars Championship drivers
The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in V8 Supercars, in order of their first appearance. Drivers who only drove for the team in an endurance race co-driver basis are listed in italics.

 Todd Hazelwood (2018–19, 2022)
 Bryce Fullwood (2018)
 Jack Smith (2019)
 Garry Jacobson (2020)
 Zane Goddard (2020–21)
 Jake Kostecki (2020–21)
 David Russell (2020)
 Jayden Ojeda (2021, 2023)
 Kurt Kostecki (2021)
 Jack Le Brocq (2022–2023)
 Aaron Seton (2022)
 Cameron Hill (2023–present)

Super2 Championship drivers

 Stephen Voight (2011)
 Robert Cregan (2011)
 Daniel Jilesen (2012)
 Ashley Walsh (2012–14, 2019)
 Scott McLaughlin (2012)
 George Miedecke (2013)
 Michael Hector (2013–14)
 Todd Hazelwood (2014–17)
 Shae Davies (2014–15)
 Ryal Harris (2014, 2016, 2022)
 Steven Johnson (2014)
 Adam Marjoram (2016–17)
 Bryce Fullwood (2018)
 Tyler Greenbury (2018)
 Jaie Robson (2018)
 Abbie Eaton (2019)
 David Russell (2019)
 Joel Heinrich (2019)
 Aaron Seton (2021–present)

References

External links
Facebook page

Auto racing teams in Australia
Sports clubs and teams in Queensland
Supercars Championship teams
2011 establishments in Australia
Sporting teams based on the Gold Coast, Queensland
Auto racing teams established in 2011


title: 2015 Snooker Shoot-Out

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The 2015 Shoot Out (officially the 2015 Betway Snooker Shoot Out) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4–6 March 2015 at the Circus Arena in Blackpool. It was played under a  variation of the standard rules of snooker.

Dominic Dale was the defending champion, but he lost 20–65  against Luca Brecel in round one.

Michael White won his first professional title by defeating Xiao Guodong 54–48 in the final.

Tournament format
The tournament was played using a variation of the traditional snooker rules. The draw was randomised before each round. All matches were played over a single , each of which lasted up to 10 minutes. The event featured a variable ; shots played in the first five minutes were allowed 15 seconds while the final five had a 10-second timer. All  awarded the opponent a . Unlike traditional snooker, if a ball did not hit a  on every shot, it was a foul. Rather than a coin toss, a lag was used to choose which player . In the event of a draw, each player received a shot at the  this is known as a "blue ball shootout". The player who  the ball with the  from inside the  and the blue ball on its spot with the opponent missing won the match.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £32,000
Runner-up: £16,000
Semi-final: £8,000
Quarter-final: £4,000
Last 16: £2,000
Last 32: £1,000
Last 64: £500
Highest break: £2,000

Total: £130,000

Tournament draw
The random draw for round one was made on 12 February 2015 and was broadcast live by Talksport. There were two century breaks during the tournament. Martin Gould made a 116 break in round two, and Shaun Murphy made a 105 break in round three.

All times in Greenwich Mean Time. Times for quarter-finals, semi-finals and final are approximate. Players in bold denote match winners.

Round 1

4 March – 18:00

 65–20
 23–69
 49–21
 66–6
 18–58
 50–53
 34–46
 9–53
 71–37
 77–13
 75–25
 0–123
 61–52
 51–30
 1–76
 36–61

5 March – 12:00

 19–52
 17–77
 69–54
 0–104
 36–27
 78–0
 16–10
 62–11
 59–48
 21–9
 0–94
 23–69
 65–8
 77–0
 0–75
 16–81

Round 2

5 March – 18:00

 42–38
 40–9
 0–55
 117–0
 56–51
 52–38
 89–4
 40–17
 1–71
 16–60
 42–77
 68–0
 11–55
 55–10
 15–48
 75–17

Round 3

6 March – 14:00

 62–5
 4–105
 88–0
 24–35
 16–107
 50–12
 64–8
 83–0

Quarter-finals

6 March – 19:00

 84–8
 22–10
 71–0
 12–23

Semi-finals

6 March – 20:30
 18–19
 53–76

Final

Century breaks
Two century breaks were made during the tournament.
 116  Martin Gould
 105  Shaun Murphy

References

2015
Snooker Shoot-Out
Snooker Shoot-Out
Sport in Blackpool


title: 2015 Championship League

text:
The 2015 Championship League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 5 January to 12 February 2015 at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Stock, England.

Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he was eliminated at the end of group three.

Barry Hawkins made the 111th official maximum break during his league stage match against Stephen Maguire in group one. This was Hawkins second official 147 break and the sixth in the 2014/2015 season. It was also the second maximum break in the history of the tournament. David Gilbert made the 114th maximum break and ninth of the season during group 7.

Stuart Bingham won in the final 3–2 against Mark Davis, and earned a place at the 2015 Champion of Champions.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Group 1–7
Winner: £3,000
Runner-up: £2,000
Semi-final: £1,000
Frame-win (league stage): £100
Frame-win (play-offs): £300
Highest break: £500
Winners' group
Winner: £10,000
Runner-up: £5,000
Semi-final: £3,000
Frame-win (league stage): £200
Frame-win (play-offs): £300
Highest break: £1,000

Tournament total: £180,100

Group one
Group one was played on 5 and 6 January 2015. Shaun Murphy was to take part in this group, but he was replaced by Mark King due to a bacterial chest infection. Barry Hawkins was the first player to qualify for the winners group.

Matches

Stuart Bingham 3–1 Marco Fu
Barry Hawkins 3–2 Neil Robertson
Stephen Maguire 0–3 Barry Hawkins
Judd Trump 2–3 Neil Robertson
Mark King 2–3 Stuart Bingham
Marco Fu 3–2 Judd Trump
Neil Robertson 3–1 Stephen Maguire
Barry Hawkins 2–3 Stuart Bingham
Mark King 3–1 Marco Fu
Judd Trump 1–3 Stephen Maguire
Stuart Bingham 3–0 Stephen Maguire
Neil Robertson 3–1 Marco Fu
Stuart Bingham 3–1 Neil Robertson
Barry Hawkins 1–3 Mark King
Marco Fu 3–1 Stephen Maguire
Mark King 1–3 Judd Trump
Mark King 0–3 Stephen Maguire
Barry Hawkins 3–2 Marco Fu
Stuart Bingham 0–3 Judd Trump
Mark King 1–3 Neil Robertson
Barry Hawkins 3–2 Judd Trump

Table

Play-offs

Group two
Group two was played on 7 and 8 January 2015. The group was won by Matthew Selt, who was a late replacement for Neil Robertson.

Matches

Judd Trump 3–0 Marco Fu
Stuart Bingham 3–2 Matthew Selt
Ali Carter 3–1 Robert Milkins
Michael Holt 3–2 Stuart Bingham
Marco Fu 3–2 Ali Carter
Robert Milkins 3–2 Michael Holt
Matthew Selt 3–2 Judd Trump
Stuart Bingham 1–3 Judd Trump
Ali Carter 3–1 Michael Holt
Matthew Selt 2–3 Marco Fu
Judd Trump 3–0 Michael Holt
Robert Milkins 0–3 Marco Fu
Stuart Bingham 2–3 Robert Milkins
Matthew Selt 3–2 Ali Carter
Marco Fu 3–0 Michael Holt
Judd Trump 3–1 Robert Milkins
Stuart Bingham 1–3 Ali Carter
Matthew Selt 1–3 Michael Holt
Judd Trump 1–3 Ali Carter
Matthew Selt 3–2 Robert Milkins
Stuart Bingham 3–2 Marco Fu

Table

Play-offs

Group three
Group three was played on 19 and 20 January 2015. Ricky Walden was to take part this group, but he withdrew and was replaced by Peter Ebdon, who scheduled to play in group six before. Ali Carter won the group.

Matches

Marco Fu 3–1 Stuart Bingham
Judd Trump 3–2 Ali Carter
Ryan Day 3–1 Peter Ebdon
Mark Davis 1–3 Judd Trump
Stuart Bingham 3–2 Ryan Day
Ali Carter 3–2 Marco Fu
Judd Trump 2–3 Marco Fu
Peter Ebdon 1–3 Mark Davis
Ryan Day 3–1 Mark Davis
Ali Carter 1–3 Stuart Bingham
Marco Fu 0–3 Mark Davis
Peter Ebdon 1–3 Stuart Bingham
Ali Carter 3–1 Ryan Day
Judd Trump 1–3 Peter Ebdon
Stuart Bingham 1–3 Mark Davis
Judd Trump 2–3 Ryan Day
Marco Fu 0–3 Peter Ebdon
Ali Carter 3–1 Mark Davis
Marco Fu 1–3 Ryan Day
Ali Carter 1–3 Peter Ebdon
Judd Trump 2–3 Stuart Bingham

Table

Play-offs

Group four
Group four was played on 21 and 22 January 2015. Martin Gould was to play in this group, but he moved to group six and was replaced by David Gilbert. Stuart Bingham was the fourth player to qualify for the winners group.

Matches

Mark Davis 1–3 Ryan Day
Stuart Bingham 0–3 Peter Ebdon
David Gilbert 3–2 Matthew Stevens
Michael White 0–3 Mark Davis
Ryan Day 2–3 Stuart Bingham
Peter Ebdon 3–0 David Gilbert
Matthew Stevens 2–3 Michael White
Mark Davis 2–3 Stuart Bingham
Ryan Day 0–3 Peter Ebdon
David Gilbert 1–3 Michael White
Stuart Bingham 2–3 Michael White
Matthew Stevens 3–1 Peter Ebdon
Ryan Day 0–3 David Gilbert
Mark Davis 3–2 Matthew Stevens
Peter Ebdon 3–1 Michael White
Stuart Bingham 3–1 Matthew Stevens
Ryan Day 2–3 Michael White
Mark Davis 1–3 David Gilbert
Stuart Bingham 3–1 David Gilbert
Ryan Day 3–1 Matthew Stevens
Mark Davis 3–2 Peter Ebdon

Table

Play-offs

Group five
Group five was played on 26 and 27 January 2015. This round of group play was won by Mark Davis.

Michael White 2–3 David Gilbert
Mark Davis 3–1 Peter Ebdon
Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–2 Liang Wenbo
Fergal O'Brien 1–3 Mark Davis
Peter Ebdon 0–3 Michael White
David Gilbert 0–3 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Mark Davis 3–1 Michael White
Liang Wenbo 1–3 Fergal O'Brien
Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–0 Fergal O'Brien
Michael White 0–3 Fergal O'Brien
Peter Ebdon 2–3 David Gilbert
Liang Wenbo 0–3 David Gilbert
Mark Davis 3–0 Liang Wenbo
Peter Ebdon 3–2 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Michael White 3–2 Liang Wenbo
David Gilbert 2–3 Fergal O'Brien
Mark Davis 1–3 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Michael White 0–3 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Peter Ebdon 3–1 Fergal O'Brien
Peter Ebdon 2–3 Liang Wenbo
Mark Davis 3-2 David Gilbert

Table

Play-offs

Group six
Group six was played on 28 and 29 January 2015. Martin Gould was to take part this group, but he withdrew and was replaced by Rod Lawler. Ronnie O'Sullivan withdrew from the tournament ahead of this group and was replaced by Ben Woollaston, who went on to win the group.

Matches

Ben Woollaston 0–3 David Gilbert
Fergal O'Brien 3–1 Peter Ebdon
Kurt Maflin 0–3 Ben Woollaston
Dominic Dale 3–0 Rod Lawler
David Gilbert 3–0 Fergal O'Brien
Peter Ebdon 3–0 Dominic Dale
Ben Woollaston 0–3 Fergal O'Brien
Rod Lawler 0–3 Kurt Maflin
David Gilbert 1–3 Peter Ebdon
Dominic Dale 3–1 Kurt Maflin
Rod Lawler 2–3 Peter Ebdon
Fergal O'Brien 3–0 Kurt Maflin
Ben Woollaston 3–0 Rod Lawler
David Gilbert 3–1 Dominic Dale
Peter Ebdon 3–1 Kurt Maflin
Fergal O'Brien 2–3 Rod Lawler
Ben Woollaston 2–3 Dominic Dale
Fergal O'Brien 0–3 Dominic Dale
David Gilbert 3–2 Kurt Maflin
David Gilbert 1–3 Rod Lawler
Ben Woollaston 3–0 Peter Ebdon

Table

Play-offs

Group seven
Group seven was played on 9 and 10 February 2015. Xiao Guodong was the last player to qualify for the winners group.

Matches

Peter Ebdon 1–3 David Gilbert
Dominic Dale 1–3 Fergal O'Brien
Mark Williams 3–0 Peter Ebdon
John Higgins 2–3 Xiao Guodong
David Gilbert 3–2 Dominic Dale
Fergal O'Brien 3–2 John Higgins
Peter Ebdon 3–1 Dominic Dale
Xiao Guodong 3–1 Mark Williams
David Gilbert 3–2 Fergal O'Brien
John Higgins 3–1 Mark Williams
Xiao Guodong 2–3 Fergal O'Brien
Dominic Dale 0–3 Mark Williams
David Gilbert 3–0 John Higgins
Peter Ebdon 3–1 Xiao Guodong
Dominic Dale 0–3 Xiao Guodong
Fergal O'Brien 2–3 Mark Williams
Peter Ebdon 3–0 John Higgins
David Gilbert 3–2 Mark Williams
Dominic Dale 0–3 John Higgins
David Gilbert 2–3 Xiao Guodong
Peter Ebdon 2–3 Fergal O'Brien

Table

Play-offs

Winners' group

The winners' group was played on 11 and 12 February 2015. Stuart Bingham won his first Championship League title.

Matches

Barry Hawkins 0–3 Matthew Selt
Ali Carter 3–1 Stuart Bingham
Xiao Guodong 3–1 Barry Hawkins
Mark Davis 1–3 Ben Woollaston
Matthew Selt 3–2 Ali Carter
Stuart Bingham 1–3 Mark Davis
Barry Hawkins 3–0 Ali Carter
Ben Woollaston 3–2 Xiao Guodong
Matthew Selt 1–3 Stuart Bingham
Mark Davis 3–0 Xiao Guodong
Ben Woollaston 1–3 Stuart Bingham
Ali Carter 3–1 Xiao Guodong
Barry Hawkins 3–2 Ben Woollaston
Matthew Selt 1–3 Mark Davis
Ali Carter 1–3 Ben Woollaston
Stuart Bingham 0–3 Xiao Guodong
Matthew Selt 3–0 Xiao Guodong
Barry Hawkins 3–0 Mark Davis
Matthew Selt 3–2 Ben Woollaston
Ali Carter 2–3 Mark Davis
Barry Hawkins 0–3 Stuart Bingham

Table

Play-offs

Century breaks
Total: 79

 147 (1), 118, 110, 109, 105  Barry Hawkins
 147 (7), 113, 107, 103, 100, 100  David Gilbert
 139 (W), 124, 116, 108, 105  Matthew Selt
 139 (5), 101  Michael White
 138 (2), 129, 110, 103, 102  Ali Carter
 137 (3), 136, 125, 105, 104, 103, 100, 100  Judd Trump
 137 (3), 127, 123, 120, 108, 105, 103, 101  Peter Ebdon
 136, 121  John Higgins
 134, 134, 130, 108, 101  Marco Fu
 134, 134, 126, 120, 118, 115, 110, 108, 103, 101  Stuart Bingham
 132 (6), 125, 103  Dominic Dale
 131 (4), 128, 118, 117, 103  Mark Davis
 131 (4), 105  Matthew Stevens
 128, 126, 101, 100  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 127, 123, 111, 105  Fergal O'Brien
 123, 100  Neil Robertson
 112  Liang Wenbo
 101  Ben Woollaston
 100  Ryan Day

''Bold: highest break in the indicated group.

Winnings

Green: Won the group. Bold: Highest break in the group. All prize money in GBP.

References

2015
Championship League
Championship League
Championship League
Championship League


title: 2015 World Grand Prix

text:
The 2015 World Grand Prix (officially the 2015 888.com World Grand Prix) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 22 March 2015 at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales.

Judd Trump won the inaugural event by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–7 in the final.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £100,000
Runner-up: £35,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £10,000
Last 16: £5,000
Last 32: £2,500

Highest break: £5,000
Total: £300,000

Seeding list
The top 32 players on a one-year ranking system running from the 2014 World Snooker Championship to the 2015 Gdynia Open qualified for the tournament.

Main draw

Final

Century breaks
Total: 17
 142, 140, 121  Judd Trump
 139  Joe Perry
 136  Peter Ebdon
 122, 108, 106  Stephen Maguire
 121  Neil Robertson
 115  Rod Lawler
 113, 111  Martin Gould
 110  Mark Selby
 109, 102  Mark Davis
 105  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 101  Stuart Bingham

References

World Grand Prix (snooker)
World Grand Prix, 2015
World Grand Prix
World Grand Prix
Snooker competitions in Wales
Llandudno


title: Yukhu

text:
Yukhu (,  , ) were an Azerbaijani rock band based in Sumgait, Azerbaijan from 1988 to 2001. They were one of the most popular rock band during the 1990s in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The band was active from 1988 until 1991 in Azerbaijan, from 1991 to 2001 in Turkey. The group released three studio albums.

Yukhu became known for singing exclusively in the Azerbaijani language.

Early years
From the beginning of the 1980s, western rock music was spread to USSR region. Deep Purple, Scorpions were some of famous bands what people recognize with rock music. In these days, Ibrahim Eminov who was in 20s, decided to create a rock band with his friend Chingiz Eyvazov. He chose the name as "Yukhu" (Meaning 'Dream' in Azerbaijan language) and created the band in 1988. He explained this decision in an interview at later, he chose Yukhu because he had wanted a universal name, and Yukhu's pronouncing spelling as "You who?".

Meanwhile, he and Chingiz were trying to add new persons to band, and Namig Naghdaliyev joint the band as main guitarist after he had completed military duty. Later Jasur Nematov joint as vocalist to the band and the band was shaped. The band had worked for "Dostluq" (Friendship) organization in 1987. Later, their first performance was held at "Chemist Culture Palace" in the same year.

In 1989, the band took part at the "Golden Autumn" () musical festival with their song "Xəzərin sahilində" (). A part of the prize was a demo tape, which was recorded in Baku in December that year, featuring "Xəzərin sahilində", three other songs and an instrumental composition.

In mid-1990, Azar Aliev, propaganda director of the Young Communist League of Azerbaijan, took Yukhu's demo tape, as well as tapes by two other popular Azeri rock bands, Dervish and Taj, to the directors of the Mayence Rock festival in Mainz, West Germany. Yukhu was selected to appear on the festival's official album for that year, with their song "Ana" (Mother), although the band name was listed as "IOXY" (a misreading of Юху, the band's Russian name). Yukhu never ended up performing at the festival - Dervish ended up making the trip to Germany in their stead.

The band members met with Yashar Bakhish and the chairman of ANS TV and Rokoko maganize - Vahid Nakhysh in Autumn of 1991. Nakhysh had suggested taking a music video for "Xəzərin sahilində" and the band had accepted. First and only music video of Yukhu was directed by Vahid Nakhysh in 1991 for "Xəzərin sahilində". The music video was taken in Sumgait and streamed on ANS TV.

1991 - 2001

A second demo tape was recorded in 1991, featuring five new songs with a more pop-like style. A French manager, Pascal, who had previously met them in 1989 at Golden Autumn, began to revive the group's original plans to go to France. Later that year, Naghdaliyev, Emin and Eyvazov left Azerbaijan, moved to Turkey and began to work in a local shop selling jackets. The owner of the shop was able to set the group up with a residency at the TUAL pub, and the group began performing, initially as an instrumental trio. Nematov, who was studying in Moscow at the time, followed his bandmates to Turkey shortly after.

A friend of the band, Tevfik Yılmaz, introduced the band to İsmail Uzelli, owner of the Uzelli record label, and the band's two demo tapes were combined and released as their debut album Xəzərin sahilində on 11 October 1993. Around this time, they began to record their second album, Sumqayıt, which was released in early 1994. Pascal also invited them to France, but they never made the trip (there are conflicting stories as to why) and remained in Turkey for the rest of their career.

Yuxu's final Azerbaijani performance took place in Baku on 31 January 1993, performing as an instrumental trio at the RokOko festival. They won second place.

In 1994, Nematov left the band and returned to Moscow to complete his studies. He was replaced by Turkish pop singer Serkan Civelek. In 1996, Civelek himself left the band and was replaced by ex-Taj bassist Zaur Abdullayev. Nematov and Abdullayev had coincidentally worked together on Taj's 1991 song "Avara". Abdullayev led the band in recording what would become the group's final album, Ölümə çare yox, in 1998. It would not be released until 2001.

After Yukhu
Yukhu split after 1999 İzmit earthquake due to collapse of their last studio, ADA Muzik. Naghdaliyev and Eyvazov stayed in Turkey. Eyvazov became a tattoo artist and Naghdaliyev continued to involve himself in music. Later Eyvazov returned to Baku and currently lives there. Ibrahim Emin also returned from Turkey in 2003 to form the group Sirr in 2004. He became bassist of the band until its split in 2015, and remained in Azerbaijan for the rest of his life. However, the former members claim the band has not disbanded, but due to members living in different countries, the band cannot reunite.

Emin died on 2 July 2019. On 20 September 2020, Xəzərin sahilində was released on vinyl.

Members
 Final line-up
 Ibrahim Emin − bass guitar, backing vocals (1988–2001) (died 2019)
 Namig Naghdaliyev − guitar (1988–2001)
 Chingiz Eyvazov − drums (1988–2001)
 Zaur Abdullayev − vocals (1998-2001)

 Former
 Jasur Nematov − vocals (1988–1994)
 Serkan Civelek - vocals (1994-1996)

Discography
"Xəzərin sahilində/Хәзәрин саһилиндә" (On the Coast of the Caspian Sea, 1993)
"Sumqayıt/Сумгајыт" (Sumgait, 1994)
"Ölümə çarə yox/Өлүмә чарә јох" (There is No Cure for Death, 2001)

References

Azerbaijani rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1988
Azerbaijani hard rock musical groups
Azerbaijani heavy metal musical groups
Soviet heavy metal musical groups


title: 2015 China Open (snooker)

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The 2015 BAIC Motor China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place between 30 March and 5 April 2015 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2014–15 season.

Ding Junhui was the defending champion, but he lost 5–6 against Gary Wilson in the semi-finals.

Mark Selby defeated Wilson 10–2 to win his sixth career ranking title, his second of the season, and his first China Open title after being twice runner-up (in 2011 and 2013). The tournament was Wilson's first ranking event final.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £85,000
Runner-up: £35,000
Semi-final: £21,000
Quarter-final: £12,500
Last 16: £8,000
Last 32: £6,500
Last 64: £3,000

Televised highest break: £2,000
Total: £478,000

Wildcard round
These matches were played in Beijing on 30 March 2015.

Main draw

Final

Qualifying
These matches were held on 14 and 15 February 2015 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 9 frames.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

 134  Robert Milkins
 132, 111  Dechawat Poomjaeng
 128  Zhou Yuelong
 128  Dave Harold
 125  Mark Williams
 124  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 123  Stuart Bingham
 122  Barry Pinches
 120, 108  Liang Wenbo
 120  Jimmy Robertson
 117  Luca Brecel

 115  David Grace
 112  John Higgins
 111  Alfie Burden
 111  Judd Trump
 110  Chris Wakelin
 109  Fergal O'Brien
 104  Stephen Maguire
 101  Liam Highfield
 100  Joe Swail
 100  Ryan Day

Televised stage centuries

 145, 136, 131, 126, 106  Mark Selby
 143, 113  Shaun Murphy
 138, 124  Barry Hawkins
 133  Marco Fu
 132, 112  Robin Hull
 132  Daniel Wells
 129, 128, 113, 106, 103, 101  Kurt Maflin
 128  Robert Milkins
 127, 101, 100  Judd Trump
 123  Matthew Selt

 120  Mark Davis
 116  David Morris
 114, 101  Gary Wilson
 114  John Higgins
 112  Graeme Dott
 106  Andrew Higginson
 105, 103  Ding Junhui
 105  Michael White
 103  Dominic Dale
 102, 100  Jamie Jones

References

China Open (snooker)
China Open
Open (snooker)
Sports competitions in Beijing


title: 2015 World Snooker Championship

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The 2015 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2015 Betfred World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament which took place from 18 April to 4 May 2015 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 39th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible, and was the final ranking event of the 2014–15 snooker season. Sports betting company Betfred sponsored the event for the first time in three years, having previously done so from 2009 to 2012. The top sixteen players in the snooker world rankings were placed into the draw, and another sixteen players qualified for the event at a tournament taking place from 8 to 15 April 2015 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.

Mark Selby was the defending champion, having defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan in the 2014 final. Selby lost 9–13 in the second round to event debutant Anthony McGill, and became the 16th first-time champion unable to defend his title at the venue. Shaun Murphy, the 2005 winner, met Stuart Bingham in the final. Bingham, who was given odds of 50–1 to win the tournament by bookmakers before the start of the tournament, defeated Murphy 18–15 in the final to win the first world title of his 20-year professional career. Aged 38, Bingham became the oldest player to win the title since Ray Reardon in 1978.

The tournament featured 86 century breaks, a record for the championship, beating the 83 scored in 2009. The highest break was 145, achieved by both Bingham and Neil Robertson. The event had a prize fund of £1,364,000, the winner receiving £300,000.

Overview

The World Snooker Championship is an annual cue sport tournament and the official professional world championship of the game of snooker. Founded in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India, the sport was originally played in the United Kingdom. In modern times, it has been played worldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asia nations such as China, Hong Kong and Thailand.

The world championship sees professional players compete in one-on-one snooker matches in a single-elimination format, each played over several . The player participating in the championship are selected through a mix of the snooker world rankings, and a pre-tournament qualification round. The first world championship in 1927 was won by Joe Davis, the final being held in Camkin's Hall, Birmingham, England. Since 1977, the event has been held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.  Stephen Hendry and  Ronnie O'Sullivan are the event's most successful participants in the modern era, having both won the championship seven times. Englishman Mark Selby had won the previous year's championship by defeating fellow countryman Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final 18–14. The winner of the 2015 event earned prize money of £300,000, from a total pool of £1,364,000. The event was sponsored by sports betting company Betfred, who had also done so for the event from 2009 to 2012.

Format
The 2015 World Snooker Championship was held from 18 April to 4 May 2015 in Sheffield, England. The tournament was the last of 11 rankings events in the 2014–15 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour. It featured a 32-player main draw that took place at the Crucible Theatre, as well as a 128-player qualifying draw that was played at the 8 and 15 April 2015 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, finishing three days before the start of the main tournament. This was the 39th consecutive year that the tournament had been held at the Crucible, and it was the 47th successive world championship to be contested through the knockout format after reverting from a challenge match system in the 1960s.

The top 16 players in the world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players. Selby was seeded first overall as the defending champion, and the remaining 15 seeds were allocated based on the world rankings, released after the penultimate event of the season, the China Open. The number of frames needed to win a match increased with each proceeding round of the main draw, starting with best-of-19-frames matches in the first round, leading up to the final which was played as a best-of-35-frames match.

Prize fund
The prize fund of the event was raised to £1,364,000 from the previous year's £1,214,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

 Winner: £300,000
 Runner-up: £125,000
 Semi-final: £60,000
 Quarter-final: £30,000
 Last 16: £20,000
 Last 32: £12,000
 Last 48: £9,000
 Last 80: £6,000
 Non-televised highest break: £1,000
 Televised highest break: £10,000
 Total: £1,364,000

Participant summary
The event featured 144 participants, 128 competing in qualifying alongside 16 invited players. The top 16 seeds automatically qualified for the main draw based on the snooker world rankings before the tournament. Ali Carter was seeded 13, despite being ranked 31, because his seeding had been frozen while he underwent treatment for cancer. This meant that Michael White, ranked 16, had to play in the qualifying tournament. For the first time, players ranked 17 to 32 had to win three qualifying matches, rather than one.

Ten former world champions competed in the tournament. Peter Ebdon, Steve Davis, and Ken Doherty lost in the qualifying rounds, but Graeme Dott qualified for the main stages. Six other former champions (John Higgins, Shaun Murphy, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Neil Robertson, Mark Selby, and Mark Williams) automatically qualified by virtue of their top 16 rankings. Davis became the first player to compete in a total of 100 World Championship matches, including qualifiers, as he lost 1–10 to Kurt Maflin. Ten-time women's world champion Reanne Evans attempted to become the first woman to reach the televised stages of the World Championship, but she lost 8–10 to Doherty in the first qualifying round.

Summary

First round

The first round was played as the best of 19 frames held over two  between 18 and 23 April. First-round debutants at the championship were England's Craig Steadman, and Stuart Carrington, Scotland's Anthony McGill, and Norway's Kurt Maflin. McGill and Carrington had both played at the Crucible before, in the Junior Pot Black in 2006. Mark Selby led 6–3 and 8–4 against Maflin, but trailed after his opponent won five frames in a row. Selby recovered from 8–9 down to clinch a 10–9 win. In his match against Steadman, O'Sullivan risked a sanction for removing a pair of uncomfortable shoes and playing briefly in his socks, before borrowing a replacement pair of shoes from tournament director Mike Ganley. Carter, who had missed the first five months of the season after extensive treatment for cancer, won his match 10–5 against Alan McManus.

Higgins recorded seven breaks over 50 in a 10–5 victory over Robert Milkins. McGill led Maguire 9–5, and took the  with a break of 122 after Maguire had won four successive frames to level at 9–9. Marco Fu and Jimmy Robertson were tied at 5–5, Fu winning five of the next six frames for a 10–6 win. Mark Davis built a 4–0 lead against Ding Junhui, but won only three out of the next thirteen, and lost 7–10. Mark Allen, trailing 1–3, took the next nine frames to progress 10–3 at the expense of Day. Hawkins led Matthew Selt 7–2 and 9–4, but had to win the match in a deciding frame as Selt won the next five frames. Stevens, who had been defeated in the 2000 final by Williams, eliminated Williams at the 2015 event, completing a 10–2 victory.

Zhang Anda, who at 98th in the rankings was the lowest ranked qualifier, lost the first seven frames in his match against Joe Perry. He won only four frames, and lost 4–10. Neil Robertson compiled a 143  in the third frame of his 10–2 defeat of Jamie Jones. Murphy, who declared that he was planning to take an attacking approach to matches, as he had in winning the 2005 tournament, won 10–3 against Hull. Robbie Williams led 5–4 against Stuart Bingham after their first session, which featured breaks over 50 in each of the frames, but lost 7–10. Dott defeated Ricky Walden 10–8 after the pair had been level at 4–4 and 7–7. Judd Trump completed a 10–6 win against Carrington with a break of 109 in the 16th frame.

Second round
The second round was played as the best of 25 frames, held over three sessions between 23 and 27 April. Selby and McGill were tied at 4–4 after their opening session, but McGill led 10–6 after the second. He later won the match 13–9, making Selby the 16th first-time champion who failed to defend his title since the tournament moved to the Crucible in 1977, succumbing to what has become known as the 'Crucible curse'. Ding lost five of the first six frame in his match against Higgins but won the match 13–9 to reach only his third quarter-final in nine years. Higgins praised Ding's positional play after the match, crediting it as the best since Steve Davis.

Barry Hawkins trailed Allen 8–11, but won five straight frames to win the match 13–11. Allen commented that his opponent "froze [him] out", and Hawkins suggested the win would strengthen him going forward. Bingham reached his second Crucible quarter-final, winning seven out of the last eight frames to defeat Dott 13–5. Three of the other four-second round matches ended with 13–5 wins for O'Sullivan over Matthew Stevens, Murphy over Perry, and Robertson over Carter. Judd Trump defeated Fu 13–8. Robertson compiled a break of 145 in the last frame of his match against Carter.

Quarter-finals
The quarter-finals were played on 28 and 29 April, as the best of 25 frames, held over three sessions. Trump defeated Ding 13–4 after leading 6–2 and 12–4 after the first two sessions to reach his third World Championship semi-final. He commented that "he won't get beaten" if he continued to play in the same manner for the rest of the tournament. Murphy led the last remaining qualifier McGill  9–7, and won four of the next five to win 13–8 and reach the semi-finals for the first time since 2009. Bingham made the joint highest break of the tournament in the quarter-final match against O'Sullivan. He reached the first career semi-final after completing 13–9 victory over tournament favourite O'Sullivan, who had beaten Bingham 13–4 at the same stage of the tournament two years before. A controversial incident occurred in the fifth frame of the match, when O'Sullivan placed his chalk on the table and used it to line up a shot. Referee Terry Camilleri did not penalise O'Sullivan, even though the rules of snooker call for a seven-point foul if a player uses an object to measure gaps or distances. The referee's handling of the incident was questioned from the commentary box by former world champion Doherty and on Twitter by former tour referee Michaela Tabb. Bingham commented that he had been in tears after the match, calling it "unbelievable".

In the last quarter-final match, Hawkins defeated Robertson 13–12 to reach the semi-finals for a third consecutive year. Hawkins and Robertson produced four century breaks each to equal the record of eight centuries in one match, a new record for a 25-frame match. Their encounter also included the longest frame in the 2015 tournament to that point, at 70 minutes and 22 seconds.

Semi-finals
The semi-finals were played between 30 April and 2 May, as the best of 33 frames, held over four sessions. All four world championship semi-finalists were English, of whom, Murphy was the only former winner of the event to reach the last four. Murphy took a 6–2 lead over Hawkins in the first session and extended it to 13–3 after the second. Hawkins won the third session, taking five out of eight frames, but trailed 16–8. Murphy wrapped up a 17–9 victory in the final session to reach the third world championship final of his career, after 2005 and 2008. Murphy commented that he was "blown away" at reaching the final of the event again. With five century breaks from Murphy and three from Hawkins, the match equalled the record for the most centuries in a professional match at the Crucible.

In a much closer encounter, Bingham led Trump 5–3 after the first session, 9–7 after the second, and 13–11 after the third. From 14 to 16 down, Trump produced two consecutive century breaks to force a deciding frame. Trump had the first chance in the final frame, but suffered a  allowing Bingham to prevail and defeat Trump 17–16 and reach his first World Championship final. Bingham commented ""It's unbelievable, I cant believe I'm in the world final" Trump commented that despite Bingham playing well, it was "tough to take, really. I needed one good chance. If I'd missed the pot normally then fair play but the kick threw it off line... I feel it's been a little bit taken away from me."

Final

The final was held on 3 and 4 May as the best of 35 frames, across four sessions. At the age of 38, Bingham was the oldest first-time finalist at the Crucible since 45-year-old Ray Reardon in 1978, although Reardon had already won five world titles at other venues by that point in his career. It was the third appearance in the final for Murphy, who won the title in 2005 with an 18–16 victory over Stevens and was runner-up in 2009 when he lost 9–18 to Higgins. The final was refereed for the first time by Olivier Marteel, from Koksijde in West Flanders, Belgium, who had previously officiated on the semi-final the previous year. He was also the first Belgian to take charge of a World Championship final, and the second referee from continental Europe to do so, after Jan Verhaas.

To open the final, Murphy took a 3–0 lead, but Bingham fought back to end the session all-square at 4–4. In the second session of nine frames, Murphy began strongly, winning four consecutive frames to move 8–4 ahead, but Bingham won four of the next five to reduce Murphy's lead to 9–8 overnight. Bingham's break of 123 in the 14th frame was the 84th century break compiled at the Crucible in 2015, breaking the previous record of 83 centuries set in 2009. In the third session, Bingham won six of the eight frames to move into a 14–11 lead. In the 20th frame, Bingham attempted a maximum break, potting 14 reds and 14 blacks before missing the final red. Although Murphy won four of the first five frames in the final session to draw level at 15–15, Bingham won the 64-minute 31st frame to go 16–15 in front, and then added two more frames for an 18–15 victory and his first world title.

Bingham had odds of 50–1 to win before the tournament. The achievement made him the oldest player to win the title since Reardon in 1978. He was the third oldest winner in Crucible history after Reardon in 1978 and John Spencer who was 41 in 1977. Winning the title also took him to a career high of second in the world rankings. The final was noted for its high standard of break-building, with 6 centuries and 24 more over 50 in the 33 frames played.

Main draw
Shown below are the results for each round. Numbers in brackets denote player seedings; players in bold denote match winners. The draw for the first round took place at Hallamshire Golf Club on 16 April 2015, one day after the end of the last qualifying round.

Qualifying
The three qualifying rounds took place between 8 and 15 April 2015 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England. All matches were played as the best-of-19 frames.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Century breaks

Televised stage centuries
There were 86 century breaks in the televised stage of the World Championship. For every century break made during the 17-day championship in Sheffield, the title sponsor, Betfred, pledged to donate £200 to World Snooker's official charity, the Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice; in line with the sponsor's declaration, the donation was rounded up to £25,000 as at least 70 centuries were achieved. Neil Robertson and Bingham each compiled a break of 145, the highest breaks achieved in the tournament.

 145, 143, 142, 141, 133, 130, 129, 119, 115, 115, 109  Neil Robertson
 145, 123, 112, 106, 105, 104, 102, 102, 102, 100  Stuart Bingham
 139, 118, 116, 110, 104, 103, 100  Ronnie O'Sullivan
 138, 127, 125, 121, 121, 121, 111, 106, 106, 105, 105, 101, 100  Shaun Murphy
 137, 125, 122  Anthony McGill
 135, 109  Ding Junhui
 135, 104  Ricky Walden
 133, 129, 127, 113, 111, 111, 109, 108, 108, 102  Judd Trump
 132  Zhang Anda
 131, 109, 108, 108, 108, 104, 104, 103, 103, 102  Barry Hawkins

 131  Joe Perry
 127  Ali Carter
 124, 120, 108, 101  Mark Selby
 120  Marco Fu
 115, 111  Matthew Stevens
 115, 109, 101  Mark Allen
 109, 102  Matthew Selt
 106  Jimmy Robertson
 106  John Higgins
 106  Mark Davis

Qualifying stage centuries
There were 83 century breaks in the qualifying stage of the World Championship: Three players, Tom Ford, Craig Steadman and David Morris each made the highest break of qualifying, 140.

 140, 136, 123, 104  Tom Ford
 140, 116  Craig Steadman
 140  David Morris
 139, 138, 126, 125, 112  Robin Hull
 139, 114  Graeme Dott
 137, 134, 132  Zhang Anda
 135  Tony Drago
 134, 134  Andrew Higginson
 134, 109  Sam Baird
 134  Scott Donaldson
 133, 100  Yu Delu
 132, 111  Mark Davis
 131, 123  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
 131, 106  Mark King
 131  Xiao Guodong
 130, 123  David Gilbert
 129, 120  Dechawat Poomjaeng
 129  Ben Woollaston
 127  Anthony McGill
 125, 110, 106, 102  Fergal O'Brien
 122, 108, 100  Kurt Maflin
 122  Tian Pengfei
 122  Jamie Jones
 120, 118  Adam Duffy
 120, 110  Jack Lisowski
 117  Igor Figueiredo
 116  Michael White
 116  Jamie Burnett
 115, 113, 110, 103  Liang Wenbo
 115  Ryan Day
 115  Liam Highfield
 113, 100  Rod Lawler
 113  Li Hang
 113  Joe Swail
 111, 103  Jimmy Robertson
 110  Alan McManus
 108  Zhou Yuelong
 108  Noppon Saengkham
 107  Chris Wakelin
 106  Peter Lines
 106  Jimmy White
 105, 104  Robert Milkins
 105  Ashley Carty
 105  Stuart Carrington
 101  Michael Leslie
 101  Michael Holt
 101  Matthew Selt
 101  Robbie Williams
 100  Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
 100  Luca Brecel
 100  Darryl Hill

Notes

References

External links

2015
World Championship
2015 in English sport
Sports competitions in Sheffield
April 2015 sports events in the United Kingdom
May 2015 sports events in the United Kingdom


title: The Corsican Brothers (1961 film)

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The Corsican Brothers () is a 1961 French-Italian historical action film directed by Anton Giulio Majano and starring Geoffrey Horne, Valérie Lagrange and Gérard Barray. It is also known as Lions of Corsica. The film is an adaptation of the 1844 story The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas. The film was shot in Eastmancolor.

Synopsis
The Franchi twins, when baptized, were separated when their family was murdered by his enemies, the Sagona. While one brother went "into the maquis" for revenge, the other, unaware of the family drama, became a doctor and struck up a friendship with a descendant of the Sagona. But blood ties and their love for the same woman will bring them together...

Cast
 Geoffrey Horne as Paolo Franchi / Leone Franchi
 Valérie Lagrange as Edith
 Gérard Barray as Giovanni Sagona
 Mario Feliciani as Dr. Dupont
 Emma Danieli as Gabrielle De Roux
 Jean Servais as Gerolamo Sagona
 Amedeo Nazzari as Orlandi
 Nerio Bernardi as Prof. Perrier
 Alberto Farnese as Gaspare
 Raoul Grassilli as Raul Sagona
 Franco Graziosi as Domenico
 Germano Longo as Claudio Franchi
 Sandro Moretti as Claudio
 Lucilla Morlacchi
 Paola Patrizi as Mariella
 Aldo Pini as Morny
 Laura Solari as Luisa Dupont
 Nando Tamberlani as Count Franchi
 Luigi Vannucchi as Luigi Sagona
 Lia Zoppelli as Aunt Mary

References

External links

 The Corsican Brothers at Variety Distribution

1961 films
French historical adventure films
Italian historical adventure films
1960s historical adventure films
1950s Italian-language films
Films directed by Anton Giulio Majano
Films based on The Corsican Brothers
Films set in Corsica
Films set in the 19th century
Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
1950s Italian films
1960s Italian films
1950s French films
1960s French films


title: Susquenita High School

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Susquenita High School is a small, rural, public high school located in Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania. It is the sole high school operated by the Susquenita School District. Susquenita High School serves the boroughs of Marysville, New Buffalo, and Duncannon. It also serves: Watts Township, Wheatfield Township, Penn Township, and Rye Township, as well as Reed Township in Dauphin County.

Extracurriculars
Susquenita High School offers a variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program.
Arts
The drama department was nominated for two Hershey Apollo awards (best pit band and best play) and won the award for 2011 best pit band. In 2016, a senior was awarded outstanding lead actress for her portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Since 2008, the West Side Singers, Susquenita's auditioned choir has received a top rating of Superior at its annual adjudication trip. While competing in Boston at Festivals of Music, not only did all choirs receive a Superior rating but the Women's Choir won the Best Overall Choir Award.  This group has been chosen to perform at the PA Music Educators Conference in Hershey, PA in 2015.

Sports
The district funds:

Boys
Baseball - AAA
Basketball- AAAA
Cross country - AA
Football (w/Carson Long Military Academy) - AAA
Soccer - AA
Tennis - AA
Track and field - AA
Wrestling  - AA

Girls
Basketball - AAA
Cross country - A
Field hockey - A
Soccer - AA
Softball - AAA
Track and field - AA

According to PIAA directory June 2017

References

Education in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Education in Perry County, Pennsylvania
Susquehanna Valley
Education in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Public high schools in Pennsylvania
1953 establishments in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1953


St Dunstan of Canterbury Orthodox Church is an Antiochian Orthodox church in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. It is the parish church for Bournemouth and Poole within the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of The British Isles and Ireland. A Grade II* listed building, the church was built in the early 20th century in Neo-Byzantine style by the architects G. A. B. Livesay, Edward Schroeder Prior and Arthur Grove as the Anglican Church of St Osmund. Its west front has been called Prior's final  of church architecture.

Closed by the Church of England in 2001, and declared redundant, it subsequently became an Orthodox church and was rededicated, first as St Stephen the Great Church, and then as St Dunstan's.

History

In 1904–05 Bournemouth architect G. A. B. Livesay built the eastern end of the church, establishing a Byzantine style in brick and terracotta which was followed sympathetically by the later architects. The chancel has a semi-domed apse and a semicircular ambulatory. It contains a ciborium built over the crypt, evoking the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome.

The church was completed by the Arts and Crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior, in collaboration with Arthur Grove who seems to have concentrated on the finer detailing. It was Prior's last major work. Most was built during 1913–16, but the north aisle and transept were only completed in 1927.

Prior used multicoloured handmade bricks from Wareham, and his own patented thick handmade stained glass. He used reinforced concrete for the dome over the crossing and the barrel vaults of the aisles; flaws in the concrete necessitated some later rebuilding by other architects in 1922 and 1950. Below the dome, the column at each corner of the crossing has four terracotta angels, with outstretched wings, attached to its capital.

The imposing west front displays an eclectic mix of styles, and has been described as being prophetic of Expressionism. The central double door is surmounted by a shallow terracotta arch which extends between two flanking, polygonal turrets. Above, there is a balustrade and a 12-division terracotta wheel window containing geometrical patterns of stained glass. At the top there is an arcade surmounted by a gable, and Byzantine-style cupolas on the turrets. The church has more wheel windows, of 8 divisions, at the transept ends.

Further problems with the concrete vaulting, as well as low attendance numbers among the congregation, prompted the Church of England's closure of the church in 2001. It was thereafter sold to the jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church, first to the Romanian and then to the Antiochian authority, in which hands it remains today.

Organ
The 1931 church organ was built by John Compton. Its functional parts were given to a church elsewhere after the taking on of the building by the Orthodox Church (since in that tradition there is no usage of musical instruments during services) though its exterior structure remains.

References

Byzantine Revival architecture in the United Kingdom
Arts and Crafts architecture in England
Grade II* listed churches in Dorset
Buildings and structures in Poole
E. S. Prior buildings
Churches in Dorset
Former Church of England church buildings
Church buildings converted to a different denomination
20th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings
Church buildings with domes
Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
Greek Orthodox churches in the United Kingdom
Churches in Poole


title: Actinide chemistry

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Actinide chemistry (or actinoid chemistry) is one of the main branches of nuclear chemistry that investigates the processes and molecular systems of the actinides. The actinides derive their name from the group 3 element actinium. The informal chemical symbol An is used in general discussions of actinide chemistry to refer to any actinide. All but one of the actinides are f-block elements, corresponding to the filling of the 5f electron shell; lawrencium, a d-block element, is also generally considered an actinide. In comparison with the lanthanides, also mostly f-block elements, the actinides show much more variable valence. The actinide series encompasses the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers from 89 to 103, actinium through lawrencium.

Main branches

Organoactinide chemistry

In contrast to the relatively early flowering of organotransition-metal chemistry (1955 to the present), the corresponding development of actinide organometallic chemistry has taken place largely within the past 15 or so years. During this period, 5f organometallic science has blossomed, and it is now apparent that the actinides have a rich, intricate, and highly informative organometallic chemistry. Intriguing parallels to and sharp differences from the d-block elements have emerged. Actinides can coordinate the organic active groups or bind to carbon by the covalent bonds.

Thermodynamics of actinides
The necessity of obtaining accurate thermodynamic quantities for the actinide elements and their compounds was recognized at the outset of the Manhattan Project, when a dedicated team of scientists and engineers initiated the program to exploit nuclear energy for military purposes. Since the end of World War II, both fundamental and applied objectives have motivated a great deal of further study of actinide thermodynamics.

Nanotechnology and supramolecular chemistry of actinides
The possibility of using unique properties of lanthanides in the nanotechnology is demonstrated. The origination of linear and nonlinear optical properties of lanthanide compounds with phthalocyanines, porphyrins, naphthalocyanines, and their analogs in solutions and condensed state and the prospects of obtaining novel materials on their basis are discussed. Based on the electronic structure and properties of lanthanides and their compounds, namely, optical and magnetic characteristics, electronic and ionic conductivity, and fluctuating valence, molecular engines are classified. High-speed storage engines or memory storage engines; photoconversion molecular engines based on Ln(II) and Ln(III); electrochemical molecular engines involving silicate and phosphate glasses; molecular engines whose operation is based on insulator – semiconductor, semiconductor – metal, and metal – superconductor types of conductivity phase transitions; solid electrolyte molecular engines; and miniaturized molecular engines for medical analysis are distinguished. It is shown that thermodynamically stable nanoparticles of LnxMy composition can be formed by d elements of the second halves of the series, i.e., those arranged after M = Mn, Tc, and Re.

Biological and environmental chemistry of actinides

Generally, ingested insoluble actinide compounds such as high-fired uranium dioxide and mixed oxide (MOX) fuel will pass through the digestive system with little effect since they cannot dissolve and be absorbed by the body. Inhaled actinide compounds, however, will be more damaging as they remain in the lungs and irradiate the lung tissue. Ingested Low-fired oxides and soluble salts such as nitrate can be absorbed into the blood stream. If they are inhaled then it is possible for the solid to dissolve and leave the lungs. Hence the dose to the lungs will be lower for the soluble form.

Radon and radium are not actinides—they are both radioactive daughters from the decay of uranium. Aspects of their biology and environmental behaviour is discussed at radium in the environment.

In India, a large amount of thorium ore can be found in the form of monazite in placer deposits of the Western and Eastern coastal dune sands, particularly in the Tamil Nadu coastal areas. The residents of this area are exposed to a naturally occurring radiation dose ten times higher than the worldwide average.

Thorium has been linked to liver cancer. In the past thoria (thorium dioxide) was used as a contrast agent for medical X-ray radiography but its use has been discontinued. It was sold under the name Thorotrast.

Uranium is about as abundant as arsenic or molybdenum. Significant concentrations of uranium occur in some substances such as phosphate rock deposits, and minerals such as lignite, and monazite sands in uranium-rich ores (it is recovered commercially from these sources).
Seawater contains about 3.3 parts per billion of uranium by weight as uranium(VI) forms soluble carbonate complexes. The extraction of uranium from seawater has been considered as a means of obtaining the element. Because of the very low specific activity of uranium the chemical effects of it upon living things can often outweigh the effects of its radioactivity.

Plutonium, like other actinides, readily forms a plutonium dioxide (plutonyl) core (PuO2). In the environment, this plutonyl core readily complexes with carbonate as well as other oxygen moieties (OH−, , , and ) to form charged complexes which can be readily mobile with low affinities to soil.

Nuclear reactions

Some early evidence for nuclear fission was the formation of a short-lived radioisotope of barium which was isolated from neutron irradiated uranium (139Ba, with a half-life of 83 minutes and 140Ba, with a half-life of 12.8 days, are major fission products of uranium). At the time, it was thought that this was a new radium isotope, as it was then standard radiochemical practice to use a barium sulfate carrier precipitate to assist in the isolation of radium.

PUREX

The PUREX process is a liquid–liquid extraction ion-exchange method used to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, in order to extract primarily uranium and plutonium, independent of each other, from the other constituents. The current method of choice is to use the PUREX liquid–liquid extraction process which uses a tributyl phosphate/hydrocarbon mixture to extract both uranium and plutonium from nitric acid. This extraction is of the nitrate salts and is classed as being of a solvation mechanism. For example, the extraction of plutonium by an extraction agent (S) in a nitrate medium occurs by the following reaction.

(aq) + 4 (aq) + 2 S(organic) → [](organic)

A complex bond is formed between the metal cation, the nitrates and the tributyl phosphate, and a model compound of a dioxouranium(VI) complex with two nitrates and two triethyl phosphates has been characterised by X-ray crystallography. After the dissolution step it is normal to remove the fine insoluble solids, because otherwise they will disturb the solvent extraction process by altering the liquid-liquid interface. It is known that the presence of a fine solid can stabilize an emulsion. Emulsions are often referred to as third phases in the solvent extraction community.

An organic solvent composed of 30% tributyl phosphate (TBP) in a hydrocarbon solvent, such as kerosene, is used to extract the uranium as UO2(NO3)2·2TBP complexes, and plutonium as similar complexes, from other fission products, which remain in the aqueous phase. The transuranium elements americium and curium also remain in the aqueous phase. The nature of the organic soluble uranium complex has been the subject of some research. A series of complexes of uranium with nitrate and trialkyl phosphates and phosphine oxides have been characterized.

Plutonium is separated from uranium by treating the kerosene solution with aqueous ferrous sulphamate, which selectively reduces the plutonium to the +3 oxidation state. The plutonium passes into the aqueous phase. The uranium is stripped from the kerosene solution by back-extraction into nitric acid at a concentration of ca. .

See also
Nuclear chemistry
Actinides in the environment
Important publications in nuclear chemistry

References

Nuclear chemistry
Chemistry
Actinides


title: Hormuzd Khambata

text:
Hormuzd Khambata is an Indian choreographer, working in the Indian Theatre and Entertainment industry. He has designed and choreographed dance sequences for live events, theatre productions, musicals and award shows.

Biography
Khambata is the eldest son of Parsi parents. After finishing his schooling from J. N. Petit Technical High School in Pune, he enrolled in a hotel administration and food technology course, intent on joining his parents' catering business, but after an article in the Bombay Times mentioned that he was a better dancer than a cook, he became a professional choreographer.

Career
Khambata has been associated with the Filmfare Awards (South), Filmfare Awards (East) and the South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) for many years. He has also choreographed shows like Grasim Mr. India, Femina Miss India (South), Celebrity Cricket League amongst others on an international and national level.

Magazine Hi! BLITZ covered him in their feature "Hi Talent" and newspaper Bombay Times ran a story on him, noting him as a "dynamic dancer Mumbai has to watch out for".

He has a long history with theatre and musicals in the country, having choreographed hits like Broadway and Beyond, Best of Broadway and Razzmatazz. He is currently the dance director of the theatre musical show Blame it on Yashraj.

Khambata runs the Hormuzd Khambata Dance Company and works closely with his 25 dancers. Together, they have performed all over the world, including Germany, Tokyo, Dubai, Sharjah, Thailand, Brazil, Hong Kong and more.

References

External links
 Article in Synergyz (see page 36)

Indian choreographers
Living people
Parsi people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: List of number-one albums of 1991 (Spain)

text:
The List of number-one albums of 1991 in Spain is derived from the Top 100 España record chart published weekly by PROMUSICAE (Productores de Música de España), a non-profit organization composed by Spain and multinational record companies. This association tracks record sales (physical and digital) in Spain.

Albums

See also
List of number-one singles of 1991 (Spain)

References

Number-one albums
Spain
Spanish record charts