Pocket billiards...

Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of billiards table, having 6 receptacles called pockets along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Cue sports that are played on pocketless tables are generally referred to as carom billiards. Pocket billiards uses different equipment from carom billiards. Other than the table having pockets, the balls for pocket billiards are generally smaller and range from 2.25 inches in diameter to 2.375 inches in diameter.Modern pocket billiard tables range in size from 3.5 by 7 feet, to 4.5 by 9 feet. Modern cues are generally 58.5 inches long for pocket billiards while cues prior to 1980 were designed for straight pool and had an average length of 57.5 inches, while carom billiards cues are generally 56 inches long.

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m).It is played using a cue and snooker balls (one white cue ball, 15 red balls and six balls of different colors yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black). A player wins a frame of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent , using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls. A player wins a match when a certain number of frames have been won. Snooker is particularly popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, and in China, with the top professional players attaining multi-million pound career earnings from the game.

The Gregson Centre...

The Gregson Centre in Lancaster, Great Britain is an arts and community centre, music venue and bar which has been awarded the Cask Marque. It is one of the last medium sized music venues in the area, and is run by a charity; the Freehold Community Association. It has a micro-cinema and a fish and chip shop as part of the complex. It was previously known as the Gregson Institute.The Gregson Institute was founded in the 19th century by Henry Gregson as a Temperance Library. The Gregson family included his father Samuel Gregson, his brother Samuel Gregson Mayor of the City of Lancaster & Liberal MP 1847, co-founder of the Natural History Museum and the one of the Victorians responsible for giving the world the word “Dinosaur”. Following in the family tradition Henry himself was elected Mayor of Lancaster in 1850. The funds for the building came from many notable sources including James Williamson, later Baron Ashton and the Storey Brothers. It was designed by Paley and Austin.

Oscar de Paula Gamero

Oscar de Paula Gamero, De Paula, is a Spanish football player who currently plays for SD Ponferradina in the Spanish Segunda Division B. The striker was born in Vizcaya but his family comes from Olivenza.
He began his football career playing for the low categories of Olivenza, changing later to Salesianos. Being still a junior he moved to CD Badajoz. He then played for two seasons in the Spanish Segunda Division for Badajoz, before moving back to Basque Country at the beginning of 1995-96 season to play for La Liga's Real Sociedad. He remained there 11 seasons, all of them playing in the first division.
His time as a player for Real Sociedad was very successful although he was never a regular starter. He is best known for his abilities of scoring goals coming as a substitute. He usually made a good ratio goals scored/minutes played. Through 1999-2001 he scored 9 goals each season, but on his last only managed 6 matches, with 3 goals.
After that season, De Paula left and moved south to play for Cadiz CF in the Spanish second-tier, "descending" yet another level in 2007-08, joining third division's SD Ponferradina.

ZENN Motor Company

ZENN Motor Company is a Canadian-based that develops small, purely electric vehicles.Their initial focus was to develops cars suitable for the neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV) market.This was to be a stepping stone for developing freeway-capable vehicles, which could not be mass produced at that time.The company currently produces the ZENN vehicles.Their current main product is the low speed ZENN vehicles.However, they have recently mentioned a new vehicle that can drive at highway speeds called the CityZenn in a press release that stated "The cityZENN is planned to be a fully certified, highway capable vehicle with a top speed of 125 KPH/ 80 MPH and a range or 400 kilometres/250 miles. Powered by EEStor, the cityZENN will be rechargeable in less than 5 minutes, feature operating costs 1/10th of a typical internal combustion engine vehicle and be 100% emission-free! The Zero-Emission, No-Noise cityZENN will be designed to meet the transportation requirements of a large percentage of drivers worldwide.

Benjamin Ginsberg (businessman)

In 1904, Benjamin Ginsberg, a Russian immigrant and pioneer in the Cederberg region of the Cape, South Africa became the first to trade Rooibos (Red Bush) tea and cultivate it under production.

The Bushmen who lived in the area, first discovered that the fine, needle-like leaves of the Aspalathus Linearis plant made a distinctive, aromatic tea. For centuries, they had harvested the wild-growing plants, chopped them with axes and then bruised them with hammers, leaving them to ferment in heaps before drying them in the sun. In 1904, Benjamin Ginsberg started trading the tea from the Bushmen distributing and marketing it throughout the Cape. Ginsberg was descended from a family that had been in the tea industry in Europe for centuries and this provided him with the necessary experience to market the tea successfully. Although a direct heir to the three family baronies, Ginsberg refrained from using his title.

By the late 1920s, growing demand for the tea led to problems with supply of the wild Red Bush plants. Working with his friend, a local GP and keen botanist, Ginsberg used innovative germination techniques to cultivate the tea under production.

After Benjamin's death in 1944, his son Charles took over the business, introducing sophisticated machinery to cut the unusual leaves and building large “courts” on his farms in which to dry and cure the tea under the hot Cederberg sun. He was soon supplying tea seed to hundreds of farmers and promoting his Eleven O' Clock brand and its healthful properties across a variety of channels, including cinema advertising, which was still new to South Africa. Charles began distributing internationally and, although he sold the business in the 1970s, the brand is still widely distributed and the distinctive 1940's Eleven O' Clock packaging, depicting a mother and daughter serving tea, remains almost unchanged.

In the 1990s, spurred on by greater consumer awareness of different teas, brand diversity and mainstream distribution (particularly through supermarkets), international demand for Red Bush tea increased dramatically.

Fasting in Islam...

Fasting is the act to willingly abstaining from food, drinks or both for the period of time.Fasting is also used in medical context to refer to the state achieved after digestion of a meal.But now I want to write on fasting in Islam.In Islam, fasting for a month is an obligatory practice during the holy month of Ramadan from fajr(dawn), until the maghrib (sunset).Muslims are prohibited from eating, drinking, smoking, and engaging in sexual intercourse while fasting. Fasting in the month of Ramadan is one of the Pillars of Islam , and thus one of the most important acts of Islamic worship. By fasting, whether during Ramadan or other times, a Muslim draws closer to their Lord by abandoning the things they enjoy, such as food and drink. This makes the sincerity of their faith and their devotion to God all the more evident.