RONNIE O'SULLIVAN'S RECORDS IN SNOOKER

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WORLD RECORDS IN SNOOKER

1. 1. Became the youngest player to win a ranking event (17 years, 51 weeks) at the 1993 UK Championship.
   2. Quickest player to reach one hundred century breaks and £1million in prize money; then 200 century breaks and £2 million in prize money. Went over £3 million three seasons ago, £4 million two seasons ago – and over 300 centuries during 02/03.
   3. Compiler of fastest 147 in history at five minutes, 20 seconds – 1997 world championship in the first round against Mick Price.
   4. Holds record with 38 consecutive ranking event match wins – in fact his first 38 matches as a professional.
   5. Won world under 21 championship as a 15 year-old, compiled first century at 10, won his first pro-am at 12.
   6. Finally claimed world title his natural talent so richly deserves when he beat John Higgins 18-14 in 2001 final. In all, he captured six titles that season.
   7. Joined Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, John Parrott and John Higgins as only the fifth player to complete the World and UK Championship double in the same year when he won his third UK Championship at York in December 2001.
   8. Played superbly to beat Stephen Hendry 9-6 in the final of the European Open in March 2003. He compiled the three highest breaks of the event, 142, 140 and 139. Then, in an equally high quality final he beat John Higgins 10-9 to become the Irish Masters champion and only the ninth player in the sport’s history to win back-to-back ranking events.
   9. In April 2003, during his first round defeat by Marco Fu in the Embassy, O’Sullivan became the first player to compile two 147’s at the Crucible. He also became the first player to make a maximum there and lose the match in question.
   10. In January 2004 rallied from 8-5 down to beat Steve Davis 9-8 in a gripping final of the Welsh Open in Cardiff then finished off the season in fine style by winning the Embassy World Championship.
   11. Ronnie has earned more prize money and made more century breaks in 2003/2004 & 2004/2005 seasons than anyone else.
   12. In October 2004 completed a clean sweep of ranking titles by winning the Totesport Grand Prix at Preston Guild Hall. He has now won every one of the eight world ranking tournaments currently on the calendar at least once.
   13. Won 2005 Masters ten years after capturing his first title at Wembley, finishing off with a 134 total clearance, then beat Matthew Stevens 10-8 in the final of the Irish Masters, clinching victory with a memorable 69 clearance to steal the closing frame on the black from 68 adrift.
   14. During the 2005 Irish Masters became only the second player, after Stephen Hendry, to construct 400 centuries in professional competition.
   15. During the Northern Ireland Trophy 2007 became the first player to win a best of 9 frame ranking match with 5 centuries including a 147.
   16. In the semi final of the UK Championships 2007 beat Mark Selby 9-8 with a 147 in the deciding frame.
   17. In his 2008 World Championship last 16 match against Mark Williams Ronnie compiled his record 9th 147.
   18. At the end of the 2007/8 season Ronnie became the first player to regain the World Number 1 spot for a third time
   19. In December 2008 Ronnie won the Premier League title for the 5th consecutive time, and the 8th in total, beating Mark Selby in the final 7-2.
   20. In January 2009 Ronnie broke Hendry’s record number of 41 centuries made in the Masters while playing Maguire in the Semi Final. He now holds the new record with 49 centuries in the competition against 43 to Hendry.
   21. In September 2010, during his World Open last 64 match against Mark King, Ronnie completed the tenth competitive 147 in his career, setting a new all time record.
   22. Ronnie O’Sullivan won the inaugural Power Snooker Tournament held at Indigo, the O2 Arena, London on 30 October 2010, beating Ding Junhui in the Final with a score of 572-258.
   23. In November 2010 Ronnie won the Premier League Snooker and set a new record: he became the only player to win a professional event 9 times, beating Steve Davis’s 8 Irish Masters wins.
   24. In November 2011 He bettered that record by bringing his Premier League tally to 10 titles.
   25. By winning the 2013 World Championship Ronnie became the first player to defend his World crown since Stephen Hendry in 1996. He joined Hendry and Davis in the exclusive club of players who did defend a World crown. The feat was all the more remarkable because he had only played, and lost, one competitive match all season, a low profile last 128 in a PTC. Ronnie also broke a few other records during that tournament: he bettered Hendry’s record of 127 centuries at the Crucible, bringing the new target to 131. He also became the only player to have compiled 6 centuries during a World Final.
   26. In his quarter finals match in the Masters 2014, Ronnie beat Ricky Walden 6-0 in 58 minutes and scored 556 unanswered points, a new record. He broke another record on the next day when he booked his place in the Final, his 10th in this tournament, more than anyone else (Stephen Hendry has 9 final appearances in The Masters). Ronnie then went on to win it.
   27. Ronnie made his 12th maximum break in the final frame, of the Final of the Welsh Open 2014, going one better than Stephen Hendry and setting up a new record. It was also the first time that a maximum break was made in the final frame of a ranking final.
   28. Ronnie made his 13th maximum break in the final frame of his last 16 match against Matthew Selt at the UK Championship 2014, bettering his own record.
   29. In the last frame of his first round match at the Masters 2015, on January 13, 2015, Ronnie made a 116, his 775 competitive century, equalling Stephen Hendry’s record. That was his birthday present to Stephen  and the fact that it was aided by a massive fluke on the last yellow was the cherry on the cake … Two days later, he effectively broke the record when he made a 101 in the first frame of his QF match against Marco Fu. He won that match and by doing so he broke another record: it was Ronnie’s 43th win at the Masters, bettering Hendry’s 42.
   30. He reached the 800 career centuries mark, on January 5, 2016, during his last group phase match of the Group 1 of the Championship League Snooker 2016.
   31. On January 16, 2016, he played (and won) his 62th match at The Masters, a new record: Jimmy White was the previous holder with 61. On the next day, Ronnie joined Stephen Hendry on six Masters titles, 21 years after winning it for the first time as a teenager. At 40, he also became the second older winner after Ray Reardon who last won it at 43.
   32. On 21 February 2016, Ronnie won the Welsh Open, bringing his ranking events tally to 28, on par with Steve Davis and John Higgins, second only to Stephen Hendry. This was also his 4th Welsh Open title, sharing the record with Stephen Hendry and John Higgins.
   33. On 22 January 2017, Ronnie won the Masters for a record seventh time, one better than Stephen Hendry.
   34. On 10 December 2017, Ronnie won the UK Championship fot the sixth time, equalling Steve Davis record, and that brought his tally of majors – World Championship, UK Championship and Masters – to 18, equalling Stephen Hendry’s record.
   35. By winning the Players Championship on March 25, 2018, Ronnie bywinning five ranking events in one season, equalled the joint record held by Mark Selby, Ding Junhui and Stephen Hendry.
   36. On April 3, 2018 Ronnie made his 14th competitive maximum break in the last 64 round in the China Open 2018, setting a new record.
   37. On September 16, 2018, Ronnie won the Shanghai Masters 2018, setting several new records: he became the firts player to defend that title, the first player to win it three times and the first snooker player to pass the £10000000 mark in career prize money.
   38. Ronnie made the 15th maximum of his career on October 17, 2018, playing Allan Taylor in the last 64 of the 2018 English Open in Crawley. It was an absolutely beautiful break, The only difficulty came on the last blue when he had to take a thin cut to a centre pocket, coming in and out of baulk to keep position on the pink, and he played it to perfection.
   39. By defending his UK Championship crown on December 9, 2018, Ronnie broke several records: this was his 7th UK title, more than anyone else, and it brought his tally of “Triple Crowns” to 19, more than anyone else. It was also the first time anyone defended the UK crown since Stephen Hendry in 1996 and to do this 25 years after winning his first, then only 17 years old, is quite an extraordinary achievement.achieve this remarkable
   40. On March 10, 2019, Ronnie wrote history again by making the 1000th competitive century of his career, a 134. He’s the first player to achieve this remarkable feat. And he did it in style: indeed this was the final frame of the final of the 2019 Players Championship, Ronnie’s 35th ranking title.
   41. By winning the Tour Championship 2019, on March 24,2019, Ronnie equalled Stephen Hendry’s record of 36 ranking titles. He also went back to World n°1 for the first time since 2010.  This was all the more remarkable because he only played in half of the tournaments that season.

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Most Tournament Wins

• Stephen Hendry (Ret'd) and Ronnie O'Sullivan have won 36 ranking titles in their careers.
   

• Steve Davis, John Higgins and Ronnie O'Sulivan all have 28 wins. Ronnie O'Sullivan has 7 World Champion titles, followed by Steve Davis with 6.
  
  

  •  Youngest World Professional Champion: Stephen Hendry (Scotland) , at 21 yr 106 days on 29 Apr 1990. 

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Maximum (147) Breaks:

• The first officially ratified 147 was by Joe Davis on 22 Jan 1955.

• The first televised maximum was by Steve Davis on 11 Jan 1982.

• Youngest to score a competitive maximum was Judd Trump at 14 yr 206 days on 13 Mar 2004.

• Ronnie O'Sullivan made a maximum at 15 yr 98 days on 13 Mar 1991.

• Ronnie O'Sullivan (still playing) has 15 professional maximums & 10 in exhibition games. Stephen Hendry (Ret’d) has 11 professional maximums between 1995 & 2012.

• Geet Sethi (India) was the first one to manage one in competition in the Indian Amateur Championships on 21 Feb 1988.

• Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jimmy White made 147s in consecutive frames during an exhibition in Ireland, in January 2009.

• Peter Ebdon made two consecutive 147s in an exhibition match against Steve Davis in 2003.

• The highest snooker break in competition is Wally West's 151. His opponent fouled on the blue and left him a free ball. Wally potted green as his free ball with a brown to follow. He then took 14 red and blacks and a pink off the last red. He then cleared up to make the 151. On 06 December 2008, Ricky Walden made a 16 red clearance of 141 against Mark Davis.   
  
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• • Four consecutive century breaks were first compiled in a major tournament by John Higgins: 103, 104, 138 and 128 on 16th October 2005. Shaun Murphy (England) equalled the feat on Feb 14 2007, with 135, 110, 102 and 101.
  • Stephen Hendry made seven centuries in the final of the 1994 UK Championship. He also became the first player ever to make five centuries in seven frames.
  • Ronnie O'Sullivan made five centuries in the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy, the first time that has ever been achieved in a ranking event best-of-nine match.
  • Ronnie O'Sullivan has the all-time record with 556 points unanswered in the 2014 Masters final. He beat Ricky Walden in the quarter finals of the 2014 Dafabet Masters 17 January 2014. He had breaks of 79, 88, 72, 134, 77, 56 and 39.
  • Stephen Hendry holds the record for most tons by one player in a tournament. He made 16 centuries during the 2002 World Championship.
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    Most Century Breaks: As of 7 Oct 2016, Ronnie O'Sullivan has made 825 competitive century breaks.
    
    
    Longest Unbeaten Run: From 17 Mar 1990 to his defeat by Jimmy White on 13 Jan 1991, Stephen Hendry won five successive titles and 36 consecutive matches in ranking tournaments. During the summer of 1992, Ronnie O'Sullivan won 38 consecutive matches, but these were in qualifying competition.
    By winning the 2011 Party Casino Premier League, Ronnie O'Sulivan became the first man to win a single professional title on 10 separate occasions. Steve Davis holds eight. 
    
    
    Frame Records
    
    
    1.       The longest frame played lasted 100 minutes and 24 seconds. It was the sixth frame in a first-round match between Alan McManus and Barry Pinches in the 2015 Ruhr Open (Euro Tour 3). The match was won 4-3 by McManus and lasted a total of four hours and 59 minutes.
    2.       Most points scored in a single frame was 192. Peter Lines (England) won 108-84 in a frame versus Dominic Dale (Wales) in the fourth round of the 2012 Wuxi Classic qualifiers. Dale conceded 14 fouls (value 60) to Lines' 8 (36).
    
    
     

PAKISTAN WILL BEAT INDIA IN ANY WAR

   PAKISTAN IS ALL POWERFUL

India has been threatening war against Pakistan but there is no war in which India can ever beat Pakistan. No Pakistani is afraid of war: Everyone is brave enough to put up a status online asking for war. As long as I, as a Pakistani, do not have to fight in it, I support every war.

If it makes me feel better to upload a cover photo with the Pakistani flag, why should I care about helping to create social conditions where thousands of people can die? I do not even care about causing accidents on the road after painting both my car’s windscreens green and white.

In many ways, I am also a soldier. I have waged a war against India for a decade in Facebook comments. I am particularly proud of all the times I have referred to ‘India’ as ‘End ya’. In every cricket match after India loses a wicket I tweet the following: “In dia? Nahee, out dia.”

Do you think a country full of people who can come up with such hilarious puns can be defeated by a country where Katrina Kaif can win the Smita Patil Memorial Award?

Pakistan will win any war against India. World War I, World II, The American Civil War; we have never lost any war against India. In fact the worst Pakistani performance in a war was by the actors in Bilal Lashari’s Waar.
Even there we beat India. Anyone who saw the movie Border and thought no one can make a worse propaganda movie underestimated the power of Pakistanis.

There is a reason why we have the best spy agency in the world. Every single boy in Pakistan is trained in spy missions. Trying to pick up a girl from her house in Karachi without her mother noticing is nothing short of a James Bond mission. You have to disguise yourself as the driver, strategically park the car at an angle where her mother cannot spot it from the roof and if anybody approaches at a moment’s notice be ready to scream out, “Khuda ki kasam behan hay meri.”

For years the WWE has tried to warn us of the nefarious designs of India’s spy agency by screaming out to us ‘RAW is WAR’ but we never listened. We were blinded by uncle Aman’s daughter Asha and steamrolled by the Samjhota express.
Too long have we danced to the beat of India on all our mehndis and dholkis; too long have we asked our barbers to give us the Shahrukh Khan haircut; too long have we tried hiding our bellies in Salman Khan endorsed white ugly vests.

It is time we say enough is enough and engage in an all-out war against India. Every Pakistani is equal to 60 Indians and 2+2 = 22.

We will beat India on the cricket ground. We will beat India at the border. We will go to Mars and beat their satellite there. So what if we do not even get water in the most posh area of Karachi? Beliefs are stronger than science and I believe we will win. I am sure Agha Waqar can build us a satellite that runs on water.

Nawaz Sharif will beat Narendra Modi in an eating contest. Shahid Afridi will beat Sachin Tendulkar in a ‘will not retire’ contest. Humayun Saeed will beat Shahrukh Khan in a ‘will still play a 20 year old in movies’ contest. Atif Aslam will beat Himesh Reshamiya in an auto tuning contest. Bilal Khan will beat Katrina Kaif in a more fake British accent contest. Imran Khan will beat Arvind Kejriwaal in a ‘trust me, we can still win’ delusion. Mubasher Lucman will beat Arnab Goswami in a shouting match. Every memon will beat Bappi Larri in wearing more gold in public. Hamza Ali Abbasi will beat Subramanian Swamy in jingoism. Every wall being used as a public toilet in Pakistan will defeat the Swachh Bharat movement.

We are the more hip choice for people worldwide. Pakistan – the new and improved India. We can build six Taj Mahals – even if that means spending no money on building schools and hospitals. If it means being better than India then I am sure all people dying from lack of adequate healthcare will understand.

India better not challenge us to another war. There is no way they can defeat us. We will have applications pending for visas for other countries. Every Pakistani will be willing to fly a plane over India, all the way to Australia for safe asylum.

India cannot isolate us from the West. We are the West. Every geographer in the world will tell you that Pakistan is closer to the West than India.

This satire was first printed in the The Express Tribune Pakistan on 03 Oct 2016

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1. The original is branded mi.com; this has xiaomi.com
2. The original cable has no dented dots on the plug-ins; this has them, two each per side.
3. The original cable has no logo printed on the plug-in; this has.
4. The original cable has a guide in English-this had NONE.
5. The original cable has a beige slot-in guide; this is white.
6. This device can be charged by just plugging in the same cable into the micro USB slot. How can a device recharge itself from its own batteries?

I saw this video-
 
I will never buy even a matchbox from this company.
Friends, read what I have written and be advised accordingly. They are fraudsters.

PM NARENDRA MODI'S POK MASTERSTROKE OR WHAT?

PM NARENDRA MODI'S BRILLIANT PLOY REGARDING PAKISTAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR

Modi's Outstanding Gambit

The road connecting China's Gwadar Port passes through Baluchistan. The issue here is that Pakistan, with the help of the Chinese Army, is killing Baluchistan's citizens. China is also spending billions of dollars for Pakistan.  China has just realised it has committed a big blunder by blocking India's entry to NSG.

China is fighting for its rights in the South China Sea, something abstruse and laughable. NaMo maintained a meaningful silence in the last two years and gained the confidence of many countries around the World. Now, while supporting the Baluchistan Freedom movement, NaMo also claimed that Pakistan is illegally occupying PoK which is an integral part of India (they could have vacated it in 1971 when India peacefully returned the area captured by Indian Army in 1971 war).

After taking over as PM, NaMo, in the last two years has been continuously striving to make India a Member of the NSG but China has deliberately blocked the proposal every time.

Moreover, China is supporting Pakistan to weaken India and constructing many projects in Baluchistan for its own benefit.

In the international court, China has lost its rights in the South China sea matter and is badly in need of India's help in this matter.

China sent its External Affairs Minister to Delhi to seek India's help in the above issue,with a message that India's entry in NSG is not a closed chapter yet.

NaMo took advantage of the situation and set his own conditions:

1) China has to unconditionally support India's entry into NSG.
2) PoK is integral part of India & Pakistan has to vacate immediately.
3) China has to standby India's decision to liberate Balochistan from Pakistan.

In effect, China has come with a plea for seeking support on China's right on Gwadar Port and assuring help re India's entry into NSG as a quid pro quo.
NaMo said forget NSG, support us in the PoK issue. The entire world is greatly appreciating how NaMo moved the dice. Possibly, this means that NaMo has sarcastically said to China, "forget Gwadar Port." China is sandwiched. The situation NaMo created in just 2 years which was impossible by the successive Governments that ruled this country for 60 years...!!!!

Modi.... This is Modi Style...they say!

Article posted by Arvind Sharma and edited by me.

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT AND CATHOLICISM

THE BYZANTINE ICONOCLASM

The Second Commandment

The Ten Commandments are listed twice in the Holy Bible, first at Exodus 20:1–17, and then at Deuteronomy 5:4–21. Both versions state that God inscribed them on two stone tablets, which he gave to Moses on Mount Sinai.

The Second Commandment dictates: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

Iconoclasm, Greek for ‘breaker of icons', is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. People who engage in or support iconoclasm are called iconoclasts, a term that has come to be applied figuratively to any person who breaks or disdains established dogmata or conventions.

Christian worship by the sixth century had developed a clear belief in the intercession of saints. This belief was also influenced by a concept of a hierarchy of sanctity, with the Trinity at its pinnacle, followed by the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos (God-bearer) or Meter Theou (Mother of God) in Greek, the saints, living holy men, women, and spiritual elders, followed by the rest of humanity. Thus, in order to obtain blessings or divine favour, early Christians would often pray or ask an intermediary, such as the saints or the Theotokos, to intercede on their behalf with Christ. A strong sacramentality and belief in the importance of physical presence also joined the belief in the intercession of saints with the use of relics and holy images (or icons) in early Christian practices.

Believers would, therefore, make pilgrimages to places sanctified by the physical presence of Christ or prominent saints and martyrs, such as the site of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Relics, or holy objects which were a part of the remains, or had come into contact with, Christ, the Virgin or a saint, were also widely utilised in Christian practices at this time. Relics, a firmly embedded part of veneration by this period, provided physical presence of the divine but were not reproducible (an original relic was required), and still usually required believers to undertake a pilgrimage or have contact with somebody who had.

Byzantine Iconoclasm refers to two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire (726 – 787 AD) & (814 - 842) when the use of religious images or icons was opposed by religious and imperial authorities within the Eastern Church and the temporal imperial hierarchy. According to the traditional view, Byzantine Iconoclasm constituted a ban on religious images by Emperor Leo III and continued under his successors. It was accompanied by widespread destruction of images and persecution of supporters of the veneration of images. The Western church remained firmly in support of the use of images throughout the period, and the whole episode widened the growing divergence between the Eastern and Western traditions in what was still a unified church.

The use and abuse of images had greatly increased during this period and had generated a growing opposition among many in the church. Images in the form of mosaics and paintings were widely used in churches, homes and other places.

The rise of Islam in the 7^th century had also caused some consideration of the use of holy images. Early Islamic belief stressed the impropriety of iconic representation. Traditional explanations for Byzantine iconoclasm have sometimes focused on the importance of Islamic prohibitions against images influencing Byzantine thought. The prestige of Islamic military successes in the 7^th and 8^th centuries that motivated Byzantine Christians to adopt the Islamic position of rejecting and destroying idolatrous images.

The Second Commandment, among many other issues, saw the emergence of Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) a German professor of theology, composer, priest and monk as a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther taught that salvation and, subsequently, eternal life are not earned by good deeds but are received only as the free gift of God's grace through the believer's faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin. His theology challenged the authority and office of the Pope by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge from God. 

When you enter a Catholic Church or even a residence, the most prominent visible figure is that of Jesus on the Cross. How does this jell with the Second Commandment?