Serap Aktaş (born September 25, 1971 in Ceyhan, Turkey) is a Turkish female middle and long-distance runner, who later specialized in marathon. She holds various Turkish records.

In 1994, she finished the Istanbul Marathon first in the women's category, an achievement not reached yet by any other Turkish female athlete. She won the gold medal in women's marathon at the 1997 Mediterranean Games held in Bari, Italy. Serap Aktaş represented Turkey at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States and 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia in marathon finishing 23rd and 37th respectively.

Achievements
All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise

Personal bests
1500 m 4:20.90 (1994) NR
 1 mile 4:49.43  (1994) NR
3000 m 9:07.04 (1994) NR
5000 m 15:53.76 (1995) NR
10000 m 32:59.76 (1994) NR
Half marathon 1:13:17 (1997) NR
Marathon 2:31:43 (1999) NR
NR - National record

References

External links
IAAF profile for Serap Aktaş

1971 births
Living people
People from Ceyhan
Olympic athletes for Turkey
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Turkish female middle-distance runners
Turkish female long-distance runners
Turkish female marathon runners
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey
Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
20th-century Turkish sportswomen


Nico United are an association football club based in Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana, about 420 kilometres from the capital Gaborone. Their name of "Nico", which has been the target of jokes and Internet memes since Love Live! School Idol Project gained popularity, actually comes from the copper and nickel-mining complex that Selebi-Phikwe is known for.

History
The team were promoted to the Botswana Premier League for the first time in the 2004–05 season after spending the 2003–04 season playing in the First Division North.

Honours
FA Challenge Cup: 2
1986, 1987

Officials

Leslie Selema (Manager)
Masego Ntsatsi (Vice Manager)
Tlhalefang Bagwasi (Secretary)
Mokgosi (Vice Secretary)
Kgakgamatso Moreri (Treasurer)
Lopang Pule (PR Official)
Simeone Mooketsi (Add Member)
Shane Koontse (Supporters Chairman)
Mbiganyi Thatitswe
Comfort Buti
Vincent Mokgwathi

Football clubs in Botswana
Football clubs in Selebi-Phikwe


Oreohelicidae is a family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).

Oreohelix, the type genus, is ovoviviparous. Radiocentrum, a subgenus of Oreohelix, is oviparous(Tompa, 1979). The group as a whole generally lacks any apertural barriers or teeth and displays wide variety of shell morphologies (Burke & Leonard 2014).

Genera
The family Oreohelicidae has no subfamilies.

The type genus is Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904.

Genera within the family Oreohelicidae include:
 Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904
 Radiocentrum Pilsbry, 1905

References

External links


Anders Edvard Olsen Bergene (16 June 1855 – 18 August 1920) was a Norwegian businessperson. He founded the chocolate and confectionery company Bergene.

Bergene was born at the parish of Hedrum in Vestfold, Norway. He was the son of Ole Kristian Hansen (1828-1900) and Edel Marie Andersdatter. He departed early from home, first to Skien, then at age 20 to Kristiania (now Oslo), where he had several positions with retail stores, including with merchant F. H. Dethloff. He worked as a wholesaler under the trade name A. Bergene Colonial en Gros from 1882  and from 1890 he also sold candy and peppermint lozenges.

In 1906, he acquired the firm of A/S Olaf Larsens Chocoladefabrik.  He expanded the operation to establish  A. Bergene Chokoladefabrik, a chocolate factory in the neighborhood of Rodeløkka.
The confectionery quickly became one of the leaders in Norway with large range of chocolate and candy products. In 1919, one year before his death, the ownership was transferred to his son Alf Bergene (1887-1967). The company became a limited company in 1961 under the trade name Bergene A/S which merged with  Nidar A/S in 1980.
In 1987 Nidar was bought by Nora Industrier and in 1992, the company became part of Orkla Group.

References

External links
Orkla Confectionery & Snacks website

1855 births
1920 deaths
People from Vestfold
Norwegian company founders
Norwegian industrialists


Minnesota is a state in the United States.

Minnesota may also refer to:

Places
Minnesota River, a tributary of the Mississippi River
University of Minnesota
Minnesota Golden Gophers, the athletic program of the University of Minnesota
Minnesota City, Minnesota, in Winona County
Minnesota Point, a cape in Duluth

Music
Minnesota (band), a German Eurodance band
"Minnesota" (song), by Lil Yachty

Sports
Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA team
Minnesota Twins, MLB team
Minnesota Vikings, NFL team
Minnesota United FC, MLS team
Minnesota Wild, NHL team

Ships
SS Minnesota (1903)
SS Minnesota (1927), an ocean liner
USS Minnesota (various)

See also
Minnesota Junction, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community


Younes El Aynaoui was the defending champion but did not compete that year.

Roger Federer won in the final 6–1, 6–4 against Jarkko Nieminen. He did not lose a single set in the entire tournament.

Seeds

  Roger Federer (champion)
  Paradorn Srichaphan (second round)
  Sjeng Schalken (quarterfinals)
  Rainer Schüttler (quarterfinals)
  Yevgeny Kafelnikov (semifinals, retired because of a neck injury)
  Mikhail Youzhny (quarterfinals)
  Tim Henman (second round)
  Jarkko Nieminen (final)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
 2003 BMW Open Singles draw

2003 ATP Tour
2003 BMW Open


'Between the Assassinations ' is a 2008 collection of short stories written by Aravind Adiga. It was published by Picador in India in 2008, and in Britain and the United States in 2009. While it reveals the beauty of the rural, coastal south where it is set, its subject is the pathos, injustices and ironies of Indian life.

It was Adiga's second published book, though it was either written before his first, The White Tiger, or written in parallel with The White Tiger. The title refers to the period between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the assassination of her son, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991. Indira Gandhi was the serving Prime Minister of India when she was assassinated; Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister in 1984, and left office following his party's defeat in the 1989 general election.

Overview
The stories take place in the fictitious town of Kittur in Karnataka, Southwest India. It was originally modeled on Adiga's hometown of Mangalore but was substantially changed to make room for more diverse plots and characters. The stories revolve around different classes, castes and religions in India. In each story, another set of characters is introduced, but places and names appear again in other stories.

Even though it was published after The White Tiger, Between the Assassinations was started—and most likely finished—before The White Tiger. The servant who is tempted to run away with his master's money, the village hick sent to town, Nepali guards and a hit-and-run accident by a rich man, which is subsequently covered up by corrupt policemen, all appear in Between the Assassinations as well as in The White Tiger

Further reading

References

External links
Adiga pens a new plot, focusses on new India again. IBN. 2008.
Taking Heart From The Darkness. Essay by Aravind Adiga. Tehelka Magazine. 2008.

Books by Aravind Adiga
2008 novels
Novels set in Karnataka
Novels set in the 1980s


Lectionary 2005, designated by ℓ 2005 in the Gregory-Aland numbering, is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves, dated paleographically to the 10th century.

Description

It is written in large Greek uncial letters, on 3 parchment leaves (32 by 23.5 cm), 2 columns per page, 19 lines per page.
The codex contains some Lessons from the Gospels (evangelistarion). The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition.

The codex was divided, and now two of its folios are located at the Byzantine Museum (Frg. 42) in Athens, 1 folio is located in the Bible Museum Münster (MS. 20).

See also

 List of New Testament lectionaries
 Textual criticism
 Bible Museum Münster

References

External links

 Lectionary 2005 at the CSNTM
 Manuscripts of the Bible Museum

Greek New Testament lectionaries
10th-century biblical manuscripts


Cool 101.5 (DWEJ 101.5 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by UBC Media (Love Radio Network). Its studios and transmitter are located at Lucena.

References

External links
Cool 101.5 FB Page

Radio stations in Lucena, Philippines
Radio stations established in 2019


Delia Smith's Cookery Course is a book, first published in the 1970s, by British chef Delia Smith. The book, reprinted many times, helped establish Smith's reputation as a leading cookery writer in the UK.

British cookbooks
1970s books


Tripp Trapp (formerly known as KinderZeat in North America) is an adjustable wooden high chair for children. It was developed by the Norwegian furniture designer Peter Opsvik for the company Stokke AS. Launched in 1972, over time it became a best-selling item. Peter Opsvik is also the designer, in cooperation with Hans Christian Mengshoel, of the original Balans kneeling chair.

Development history
Peter Opsvik noticed that his son Tor had no chair that could position him at the correct height at the family dinner table and enable him to participate with the rest of the family. He then developed a chair that was adjustable and changed with the size of his son as he grew bigger.

Tripp Trapp did not sell well in the beginning, but a news segment on Norwegian television in 1974 sparked an interest that has gained strength over the years. By 2016 Tripp Trapp had sold more than 10 million chairs.

Product characteristics

Tripp Trapp has a seat and footrest that can be adjusted in both height and depth. Thus the chair can be adapted as the child  grows. Additionally the chair is correctly spaced and so stable that even a young toddler can climb up into the chair safely by themselves. The Tripp Trapp high chair is made from beechwood with some limited editions in oak.

References

Babycare
Infancy
Norwegian inventions


The International Bilingual School at Hsinchu Science Park (IBSH; ), formerly known as Bilingual Department of National Experimental High School At Science Based Industrial Park, is near the Hsinchu Science Park. It is part of a public, coeducational school (preprimary-12), National Experimental High School (NEHS). Founded in August 1983, the school was proposed by the founder of the Science Park Kwoh-Ting Li and administered by Ministry of Education, National Science Council and administration of the Park. Originally IBSH was formed to attract high-tech talent and technologies to move to Hsinchu Science park, but the Ministry of Education won't allow the creation of a school based solely for oversea workers. Thus, NEHS was created to satisfy the conditions set by the Ministry of Education. IBSH only admits children of employees of private enterprises in the Park, government organizations, Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Chiao Tung University and National Tsing Hua University.

The Bilingual Department of NEHS changed its name before the 2008-2009 school year after a visit from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in the spring of 2008. In summer 2011, IBSH was granted WASC accreditation. It serves students in the English-speaking community who seek an American college-preparatory education or plan to transfer into the local school system.

Student body
The Bilingual Department had at least 700 students from Grades 1-12 enrolled for the 2008-2009 school year. Over half of these students were U.S. citizens. Students come from business, professional, government, and diplomatic families. 41% of IBSH parents have a PhD.

Each grade is split up into two classes, A and B, each with its own homeroom teacher. 39 of the 61 certified full-time teachers have master's degrees and two have PhDs. 38 of the teachers are East Asian, 18 are American, and 5 are Canadian. The faculty-to-student ratio is 1:20.

Academics
Students are put through a challenging curriculum that follows an American high school format, albeit with mandatory Chinese classes. Honor courses offered include Math (9-12), English (9-12), World History (10), and many Advanced Placement courses. AP courses offered at IBSH include Studio Art, Biology, Chemistry, Calculus AB/BC, Chinese Language and Culture, Computer Science, English Literature and Composition, Environmental Science, European History, Micro/Macroeconomics, Physics 1, Physics C, Psychology, Statistics, US History, US Government and Politics, and European History. In May 2008, 195 students took a total of 325 AP tests. 41.5% scored a 5, 18.8% a 4, 16.9% a 3, 8.9% a 2, and 13.8% a 1, with an average score of 3.625.

The class of 2009 had 51 students. Up to September 2008, these students scored an average of 639V, 699M, and 654W (combined average of 1992) on the SAT, well above the U.S. national average. Six members of the class of 2018 have been named Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Extracurriculars
Clubs include A Cappella, Student Government (BDSC), Circuit Breaking Crew (breakdancing), ShutterLensLight (photography), D.Co (Dance Company), Debate, Drama Club, Fellowship, Humane Society, GIN, Key Club, InterAct, Panthers Newspaper Club, CinemaScope (film club), and Yearbook. Many students are involved with Model United Nations, and the school hosts Taiwan's only THIMUN affiliated conference HSINMUN. Students also attend TAIMUN, PASMUN, TASMUN, HIMUN, NEMUN, STMUN, and THIMUN-Singapore conferences.

There are athletic teams grade 7-12 students may join. These teams play year-round and hold practices after school. Current teams include Badminton Team, Basketball team (Boys/Girls), Boys soccer team, , the NEHS Cheerleading squad (co-ed), and most importantly, the NEHS Baseball Team. These teams have won games and tournaments at the city and county level.

IBSH holds a rivalry with the Junior High and Senior High Departments of NEHS, especially during Field Day, an all-school track and field competition held in early November.

Students host dances, concerts, and other events such as the back-to-school event (co-hosted by BDSC, InterAct, and Key Club), Beat Concert (co-hosted by InterAct and EDSC), the casual dance (hosted by BDSC), Charity Night (co-hosted by Key Club and InterAct), the semi-formal dance (hosted by BDSC), Prom (hosted by the junior class), TEDxYouth@IBSH, GLO Night: Club Central (hosted by the Global Leadership Organization), and Unplugged (hosted by Key Club).

See also
 National Experimental High School
 Hsinchu American School
 Taipei American School
 Dominican International School
 Morrison Academy
 Kaohsiung American School
 American School in Taichung
 Pacific American School
 Hsinchu Science Park

References

External links
 International Bilingual School At Hsinchu Science Park

1983 establishments in Taiwan
Educational institutions established in 1983
Experimental schools
High schools in Taiwan
Schools in Hsinchu

ja:国立科学工業園区実験高級中学
zh:國立科學工業園區實驗高級中學


This group originally included Syria as well as Spain and the Republic of Ireland. However Syria withdrew in support of the African teams who withdrew in protest at the allocation of spots. The Republic of Ireland and Spain subsequently played against each other on a home-and-away basis. When both teams won their home match, a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify. This match was initially to be played in London, a city with a large Irish immigrant population, but the Royal Spanish Football Federation and the Football Association of Ireland later came to an agreement and moved the match to Paris.
Spain won the play-off and qualified for the 1966 FIFA World Cup.

Final table

Matches

Syria withdrew to support the African teams who had withdrawn in protest at the allocation of spots.

Play-off
Republic of Ireland and Spain finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify. This match was initially to be played in London, a city with a large Irish immigrant population, but the Spanish and Irish football associations later came to an agreement and moved the match to Paris.

Spain qualified.

Team stats

Head coach:  José Villalonga

Head coach:  Johnny Carey

References

External links
FIFA.com
1966 World Cup Qualification RSSSF
Allworldcup

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Qual
Qual
Qual
Qual


Wrangbrook Junction near Upton in West Yorkshire was a location where two lines branched off the Hull and Barnsley Railway main line from  to . The first junction led to  on the South Yorkshire Junction Railway, and after some four chains (80 m) further the Hull & South Yorkshire Extension Railway to Wath diverged. The line between Hull and Cudworth had opened on 20 July 1885, the branch to Denaby on 1 September 1894 and the one to Wath on 31 March 1902.

Originally three signal boxes controlled the junctions: "Wrangbrook North" on the south side of the main line by the Denaby branch; "Wrangbrook South" on the west side of the Denaby branch and "Wrangbrook West" on the west side of the Wath branch. In 1934 South and West boxes were closed and control passed to North box which was renamed "Wrangbrook Junction".

The line between Wrangbrook Junction and Little Weighton was closed on 6 April 1959. The section from Moorhouse to Wrangbrook Junction followed on 30 September 1963), and the lines between Wrangbrook Junction and  Monckton and Sprotborough both closed on 7 August 1967.

References

Railways in South Yorkshire C.T. Goode. Dalesman publishing, 1975.

External links
 Wrangbrook junction on navigable 1955 O. S. map

Rail transport in West Yorkshire
Hull and Barnsley Railway


In Iceland, a grade point average (GPA) is given as a weighed average of all grades in a marked period. Grades range from 0–10, where 10 is the highest, and the GPA is rounded off to two decimal points.

Term- and course grades are given on the scale of 0-10 with increments of 0.5.

For added convenience, grades are categorized as follows:

References

Iceland
Education in Iceland
Grading


Vernon Harris (26 February 1905 – February 1999) was a British screenwriter. He often worked with the film director Lewis Gilbert. Harris was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his script for film Oliver! (1968).

Harris was born in Folkestone. He worked extensively for radio at the BBC, notably on PC49 and Band Waggon. He died in Surrey.

Credits

Screenwriter
 Play Up the Band (1935)
 Joy Ride (1935) - also story
 The Improper Duchess (1936)
Tropical Trouble (1936)
Band Waggon (1940) - also devised by
The Adventures of PC 49 (1949) - based on radio series
 A Case for PC 49 (1951) - also based on radio series
 Emergency Call (1952) aka The Hundred Hour Hunt
 There Was a Young Lady (1953) - original story
Cosh Boy (1953) aka The Slasher
 Albert R.N. (1953) aka Break to Freedom
 The Good Die Young (1954)
 The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
 Reach for the Sky (1956) - additional scenes
 Three Men in a Boat (1956, joint nomination with Hubert Gregg for BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay)
 The Admirable Crichton (1957) aka Paradise Lagoon
 Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
A Cry from the Streets (1958) (nomination for BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay)
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
Light Up the Sky! (1960)
 Almost Angels (1962)
 Emergency (1962)
 Oliver! (1968 - 1969 nominee for Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay)
Friends (1971)
Paul and Michelle (1974)

As script editor
The Adventurers (1970)
Seven Nights in Japan (1976)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
Educating Rita (1983)

Storyboard artist
Shirley Valentine (1989)

Actor
Joy Ride (1935)
 Show Flat (1936)
Tropical Trouble (1936)
Farewell Again  (1937)
The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)
The Last Barricade (1938)
The Gables Mystery (1938)

Radio Writer
Band Waggon (1938–40)
The Adventures of PC 49

References

External links

1905 births
1999 deaths
People from Folkestone
English male screenwriters
British storyboard artists
20th-century English screenwriters
20th-century English male writers


Ochna pulchra, also known as Lekkerbreek (Afrikaans 'breaking easily', i.e. 'brittle'), is a small deciduous southern African tree up to 5 m, commonly found on deep sandy soil and rocky slopes, and belonging to the tropical family of Ochnaceae, which is widespread in Asia and Africa.

Description
Its bark is distinctive, peeling in thin flakes to expose creamy-white underbark, similar in appearance to that of Corymbia maculata, guava or Pride-of-India.

Spring foliage has an oily appearance to the surface and ranges from light green to bronze or bright red, turning to a fresh, shiny green when mature. Lemon-yellow flowers appear in great abundance in spring, the persistent yellow-green calyx turning pink then bright red. The fruit, a kidney-shaped drupe, is initially green maturing to black.

Range
The tree occurs in the central Transvaal and northern Kruger National Park, extending further to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It is an indicator species of so-called Gifveld, that is veld where the toxic Dichapetalum cymosum is present, which is small and easily overlooked.

Gallery

References

Bibliography

Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park - Schmidt, Lötter & McCleland (Jacana Books, Johannesburg, 2002)
Trees and Shrubs of the Witwatersrand - Tree Society of Southern Africa (Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1969)
Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Witwatersrand & Pretoria Region - van Wyk & Malan (Struik, Cape Town, 1988)
 Field Guide to the Trees of South Africa - van Wyk & van Wyk, 1997,

pulchra
Trees of South Africa
Trees of Angola
Flora of Zambia
Flora of Mozambique
Trees of Botswana


The Maximos Mansion (, Mégaro Maxímou) has been the official seat of the Prime Minister of Greece since 1982. It is located in downtown Athens, Greece, near Syntagma Square.

Location
The Maximos Mansion is located at Herodes Atticus Street 19, next to the Presidential Mansion and the National Garden of Athens.

History

The building was founded in 1912 by Alexandros Michalinos, a wealthy shipowner from the island of Chios. Before the construction of the mansion, the site was a garden for the Royal Palace. In 1916, Michalinos' widow, Irene Manoussis, after marrying banker and politician Dimitrios Maximos, sold the incomplete building to shipowner Leonidas Embirikos, only to re-buy it in 1921.

Dimitrios Maximos completed the building and settled there with his family in the early 1920s. Between 1941 and 1944, during the Nazi occupation of Greece, the mansion was used as the residence of the German Admiral of the Aegean Sea.

After the war the building was briefly used as the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Athens. In 1952 Dimitrios Maximos sold the mansion to the Greek state at a favorable price.

From the mid-1950s until 1982, the mansion was used as a guesthouse for important foreign dignitaries visiting Greece, including Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia in 1955 and Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom in 1980.

In 1982, Andreas Papandreou decided to move the prime minister's office into the mansion (prior to that, the prime minister's office was located inside the Parliament building). Papandreou himself rarely used it however, preferring to conduct his business from his family villa of Kastri (in the affluent northern suburbs of Athens), or from Lagonisi, where he spent the summer months.

The Maximos Mansion has the benefit of being located at the heart of Athens and very close to the Hellenic Parliament, but otherwise its use as the prime minister's office has been described as problematic in recent years, due to its rather small size; as a result, since the late 2000s, various proposals for moving the prime minister's office to a new location have been examined, with the Zappeion Palace considered the best possible solution.

References

External links

Buildings and structures in Athens
Official residences in Greece
Buildings and structures completed in 1921
Prime ministerial residences
Neoclassical architecture in Greece


Fergus Blackie was a former justice of the High Court of Zimbabwe. A former attorney (1963), advocate (1966) and senior counsel (1980).

Background
He began his judicial career in 1978 when he was appointed a Senior Judge of Water and Administrative Courts, culminating in an appointment to the bench of the High Court in 1986. He fell from power in 2002 after he successfully brought charges against then Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa for "scandalizing the court"; after the trial, Chinamasa had Blackie arrested and charged with two counts of corruption.

Blackie died in South Africa on April 24, 2021.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century Zimbabwean judges
Rhodesian Front politicians
Rhodesian judges
White Zimbabwean people
White Rhodesian people
Rhodesian lawyers
21st-century Zimbabwean judges


Grevillea bedggoodiana, commonly known as Enfield grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with coarsely serrated, egg-shaped to oblong leaves and green and pink flowers.

Description
Grevillea bedggoodiana is a prostrate to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to  with hairy branchlets. Its leaves are egg-shaped to oblong in outline,  long and  wide, with five to nine lobes or teeth, or sometimes pinnatifid. The flowers are arranged in more or less one-sided groups, the rachis hairy and  long. The flowers are green at first, becoming pink, the style glabrous green, later deep pink, the pistil  long. Flowering occurs from October to November and the fruit is a softly-hairy follicle  long.

Taxonomy
Grevillea bedggoodiana was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray from an unpublished description by Jim Willis, in McGillivray's book New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae).
The specific epithet commemorates Stella Bedggood (1916-1978) a member of the Ballarat Field Naturalists' Club.

Distribution and habitat
Enfield grevillea occurs in eucalypt woodland between Enfield and Smythesdale near Ballarat in Victoria.

Conservation status
The species is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, and as "vulnerable" in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 and the Department of Environment and Primary Industries Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria.

References

bedggoodiana
Flora of Victoria (state)
Proteales of Australia
Plants described in 1986


Abronhill High School was a non-denominational, comprehensive, secondary school in Abronhill, a suburb of the Scottish new town of Cumbernauld. The school roll was 473 pupils in January 2009. The school was the setting of the 1981 Scottish film Gregory's Girl. Abronhill High School was located near Abronhill Shopping Centre. It closed in June 2014.

The school was used by director Bill Forsyth for the external location scenes of his 1981 coming-of-age romantic comedy film Gregory's Girl.

History
The school was opened on 22 November 1978 by a local councillor, Martin Green.  Abronhill High School was the third non-denominational high school to open in the Cumbernauld area. It was built for a capacity of around 1000 students although in years before its closure the school roll was only around 500. In 2007 pupils at the school piloted a mountain biking scheme that was developed with Forestry Commission Scotland. On 1 September 2008, pupils at Abronhill High were the first in Scotland to receive the HPV vaccine at their school.

Closure
In September 2012 North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) informed parents that it wished to close Abronhill High from August 2013 and transfer pupils to Cumbernauld High. NLC's learning and leisure services committee approved the merger of these schools, saying that they anticipated this would address a falling school roll and be part of £1.3million of savings. It was subsequently delayed until 2014 following a consultation. The plan was criticised for damaging pupils' education. This did not stop NLC from going forward with the closure, and on 27 June 2014, the school was closed. Demolition commenced on 18 November 2014.

Redevelopment
After demolition the site remained vacant for almost a decade. The initial council plan to sell the land to a housing developer stalled due to local and political opposition. In June 2020, NLC announced the area would not be sold for housing instead it proposed a new strategy where the former Abronhill school "will be assessed as a potential site for a future town and community hub, incorporating primary school provision and improved community facilities".

References

External links
HMIE report on Abronhill High School

Educational institutions established in 1978
1978 establishments in Scotland
Defunct schools in North Lanarkshire
Educational institutions disestablished in 2014
2014 disestablishments in Scotland
Cumbernauld


Gary Outram (born 13 February 1976) is a South African cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman who played for North West. He was born in Johannesburg and educated at Potchefstroom Boys High.

Outram played in the Standard Bank League for the first time in 1996–97, and continued to play for the team until 2000–01. Throughout his time at the club, North West remained one of the weakest teams in the league, securing only one win in the 1999–2000, in which Outram played six games. Outram's List A top score was an innings of 83 runs against Border, his only List A half-century.

Outram made a single first-class appearance for North West, during the 2000–01 season. With the match curtailed to just two days play, Outram scored 14 in the only innings in which he batted.

He captained North West against a Zimbabwe XI in the UCB bowl tournament also turning out for the North West Dragons against the visiting English tourists under Nasser Hussain a few seasons back.

External links
Gary Outram at Cricket Archive

1976 births
Living people
South African cricketers
North West cricketers


The Old Lyme Congregational Church is located in Old Lyme, Connecticut.   The church is noted as a favorite subject of Old Lyme Art Colony painters. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

History

The first Meeting House was built in 1665 and the first minister was Moses Noyes.  New buildings were constructed in 1689 and 1738.  The present building was erected in 1816-7 by architect Samuel Belcher, Belcher also designed the John Sill and William Noyes houses on Lyme Street. The building was burnt down in a July 3, 1907 fire, then rebuilt with help from artists at the Old Lyme art colony in 1908-9.

Five other Congregational churches were built on essentially the same design in the Connecticut towns of Milford (1823), Cheshire (the 1827 First Congregational Church of Cheshire), Litchfield (the 1829 First Congregational Church of Litchfield), Southington (1830), and Guilford (the 1830 First Congregational Church of Guilford). All six churches have front porticos with four fluted columns, the doors of all six have the same dimensions, all six steeples are of the same design and are surmounted by weathervanes that appear to have been cast from one mold, and all six churches have twenty-over-twenty double-hung windows. The similarities suggest that some of the building elements may have been prefabricated.

The building was restored circa 2001 by volunteers, including architect Stephen Lloyd.

Paintings

Impressionist Childe Hassam depicted the church in a series of three celebrated paintings from 1903 to 1906.  One hangs in the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York.  Another is displayed in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Hassam's paintings helped bring publicity to the Old Lyme art colony and helped tourism in the town. Other artists at the colony, including Charles Ebert and Everett Warner (in about 1911), also tried their hands at painting the church.

References

External links
 Official website of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme
Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, a full-text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Old Lyme

United Church of Christ churches in Connecticut
Old Lyme, Connecticut
Churches in New London County, Connecticut
Churches completed in 1817
19th-century United Church of Christ church buildings
20th-century United Church of Christ church buildings
Churches completed in 1909


Anthony Ray Gubbay (born 26 April 1932) is the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. He served in the position from 1990 to 2001, when he was forced to take early retirement and replaced by Godfrey Chidyausiku.

He was previously a Supreme Court judge (1983–1990), High Court judge (1977–1983), and advocate in a private practice in 1974.

In 1994 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from University of Essex.

Personal life
He married Alice Wilma Sanger in 1962, and has two sons. He currently resides in Vancouver. Anthony Gubbay has Jewish ancestry.

References

1932 births
Chief justices of Zimbabwe
Judges of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe
Living people
People from Harare
White Rhodesian people
Zimbabwean people of British descent
Zimbabwean people of Jewish descent
20th-century Zimbabwean judges


Liz Barclay (born c. 1954) is a British-based Northern Irish broadcaster, journalist and writer.

Career
Barclay was born and brought up in Northern Ireland. Her early career was as a financial advisor and manager at the Citizens' Advice Bureau where she worked from 1985 to 1991. Her first job in radio was at the BBC where she was taken on as a researcher and producer in the Continuing Education department. She has been a presenter of You and Yours, the consumer affairs programme. She is a freelance presenter specialising in personal finance and small business.

She is the author of books on Sir Philip Green and Duncan Bannatyne. She writes a consumer affairs column for the Independent on Sunday. She is also a lay member of the NHS Equality and Diversity Council.

She has been the UK's Small Business Commissioner since 1 July 2021.

References

External links
BBC - Radio 4 - Presenter - Liz Barclay
BBC - Radio 4 You and Yours - Presenters - Liz Barclay

1950s births
BBC newsreaders and journalists
British journalists
Living people
Journalists from Northern Ireland
Women journalists from Northern Ireland


The Canon EOS DCS 1 was Kodak's third Canon-based Digital SLR camera (a rebranded Kodak EOS DCS-1). It was released in December 1995, following the cheaper EOS DCS 3, which was released earlier that year. Like that camera, it combined an EOS-1N body with a modified Kodak DCS 460 digital back. Despite offering a then-enormous resolution of 6 megapixels with a relatively large APS-H sensor, a number of technical issues (together with its 3.6 million yen price) meant that it was never a very popular camera other than for a few people with specialized roles.

Although the sensor was much larger than the EOS DCS 3, the DCS 1 had a lower fixed sensitivity of ISO 80. The large image size resulted in a burst rate of just over one image per second for two images, followed by an eight-second delay to clear the buffer. A typical contemporary 340MB PCMCIA card or IBM Microdrive could store 53 images. In line with the rest of the Kodak DCS range, the EOS DCS 1 could not produce JPEG files in camera.

The EOS DCS 1 was succeeded in 1998 by the EOS D6000 (a rebranded Kodak DCS 560).

See also
Kodak DCS

References

External links
 Canon Camera Museum: EOS DCS 1

Canon EOS DSLR cameras
Kodak DCS cameras
Cameras introduced in 1995


Rotohex is a Nintendo video game for the  Wii's WiiWare service. It is a remake of the Japan-only bit Generations title Dialhex. It was released as WiiWare in North America on October 27, 2008.

Gameplay
The objective of the game is for the player to form hexagons of a solid color (called a "Hex") by rotating into place and combining together colored triangles which drop down from the top of the screen. The player is required to create a certain number of Hexes in order to pass each stage. Initially the game starts with triangles encompassing only two colors, with more colors eventually being added to the mix. In addition, glowing triangles give the player power-ups such as creating a hole in the bottom of the play area, or swapping colors. There are eight different colors in total.

Along with a solo mode which involves progressing through levels, the game features unlockable endless play and sprint modes along with competitive and co-operative multiplayer.

Development
Rotohex was originally released for the Game Boy Advance as Dialhex under the Bit Generations label on July 13, 2006 exclusively in Japan. This version was announced on June 1, 2006. Nintendo announced that they would be giving free copies of the games in the series to 700 members of the Club Nintendo website in exchange to feedback on them, though only to people who own a Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS. Nintendo filed for an ESRB rating for this title in the US. It was later remade for the Wii's WiiWare service in the Art Style series. Both versions were developed and published by Skip Ltd. and Nintendo respectively.

Reception

Rotohex received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 70/100 based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". On GameRankings, the game holds a score of 71.00% based on 7 reviews.

IGN gave Rotohex an 8/10, calling the game "one of those awesome 'zone out' matching puzzlers" which carries an "unbelievable addictiveness" in its gameplay that is "almost as addictive as Marathon Mode is in Tetris". It was nominated for Best Puzzle Game for the Wii by IGN in its 2008 video game awards.

References

2006 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Puzzle video games
Skip Ltd. games
Video games developed in Japan
WiiWare games
Wii games
Nintendo games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video game remakes


Reshef Ari Hen (, born 28 May 1968) is an Israeli lawyer and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006.

Biography
Born in Haifa, Hen gained an LLB at the University of Essex and an MBA at the University of Haifa before working as an attorney.

Between 1998 and 2003 he served on Haifa city council. For the 2003 Knesset elections he was placed ninth on the Shinui list, and entered the Knesset when the party won 15 seats. During his first term, he was chair of the Shinui faction, a member of the House Committee, the Committee on Drug Abuse, the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and the Committee on the Status of Women. He was also a member of the parliamentary inquiries into trafficking of women and corruption in the government.

Along with most of the party's MKs, he defected to the Secular Faction (which later became Hetz) shortly before the 2006 elections following disagreements over the results of Shinui's primary results. He was placed 60th on the Hetz list for the elections, and lost his seat when it failed to cross the electoral threshold.

References

External links

1968 births
Politicians from Haifa
Alumni of the University of Essex
University of Haifa alumni
Israeli lawyers
Living people
Shinui politicians
Hetz (political party) politicians
Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006)


The Church of King Charles the Martyr () is a parish church in the Church of England situated in the centre of Falmouth, Cornwall.

History

Founding
The foundations of the church were laid by Sir Peter Killigrew on 29 August 1662. Some 18 months later, on 21 February 1664, John Bedford, the Rector of Gerrans in the Roseland, preached the first sermon at the church and on 22 August 1665 it was consecrated. John Bedford's son, Francis Bedford was then appointed the first rector by Seth Ward, Bishop of Exeter.

The Church was dedicated to King Charles the Martyr, a title of King Charles I commemorating his execution on 30 January 1649 after the English Civil War. At the end of the war his heir, later Charles II, fled into exile via Pendennis Castle, a mile or so from where the church now stands, and planned to build "a chapel for public worship ... and when the wars ceased, to send an able and conscientious chaplain to preach God's word therein". Following the Restoration of the Monarchy however, it was Sir Peter Killigrew, of the nearby Arwenack Manor, who, having a long-standing ambition to found a town and a church on the Haven, sent an emissary to the King in London in 1660, seeking the grant of a Charter for the new town of Falmouth. He also offered land for a church, parsonage and churchyard if the King would sponsor the project. Owing partly, perhaps, to his diplomatic dedication of his new church to the King's martyred father, Sir Peter succeeded in modifying the royal vow and "received much help... through the generosity of Charles II and the Duke of York, and the liberal contributions of diverse honourable and worthy persons". The new parish of Falmouth was previously part of Budock parish; the rectory (benefice) was endowed by Sir Peter with a rate on every house in the new parish. However the members of various Nonconformist sects were very unwilling to pay the rate and they were a large part of the population in the late 17th century; later rectors were "glad to make arrangements for its final extinction".

Later history
The church has undergone many alterations since its consecration. Originally, the building is thought to have been some 66 feet square. In 1684 the first extensions to the church were carried out by Walter Quarme, the third rector. A chancel was built at the east end and the lowest part of the tower was built. In 1686, a gallery was built at the west end, at the cost of Sir Peter Killigrew. The gallery over the north aisle was added in 1699, and in 1702 the gallery over the south aisle was built. Also in 1702, the first organ, built by John Russell of London, was installed at the west end. In 1738, the tower was raised and acquired a 12-hundredweight bell (now, after various changes, replaced by an eight bell carillon).

By 1813, the population of Falmouth had grown to over 7,000, so the 1684 chancel was demolished, the church lengthened to the east by nearly a third, and the chancel was then rebuilt. The fabric of the church slowly deteriorated during the early 19th century, and in 1896 another major reconstruction began. The three pitched roofs and the galleries were removed and the walls were raised to allow three new barred ceilings with ornamental plaster-work to be installed. The work took about a year to complete. Subsequent improvements included a new organ chamber in 1915; the area previously occupied by the organ became the Warrior Chapel. Electric lighting was introduced in 1907 and in 1936 the baptistery was formed, although the font dates from 1759.

It has been remarked by one historian that Falmouth Parish Church has probably undergone more alterations and additions than any other church in the United Kingdom. Charles Henderson observed in 1925: "It is interesting for its curious mixture of the Gothic and Classical styles. Its worst feature is a weak west tower in the former manner. A Wren steeple would have been far more suitable to the situation."

William John Coope

The Rev. William John Coope (born c. 1810) was rector from 1838 to 1869. He was the pioneer of Tractarianism in Cornwall. While studying at Oxford Coope had been greatly influenced by the Oxford Movement. When he came to Falmouth the church was in a poor state of repair. Coope introduced changes in ritual in accordance with Tractarian ideas and aroused some opposition from a section of the parishioners. This opposition had abated by 1847; in 1849 a letter appeared in the West Briton complaining about the conduct of services at Falmouth. Coope was the author of many  publications which emphasised the Catholicity of the Church of England. The church was much improved during his time: there were new vestries, a north porch, stained east window and a new reredos and pulpit. Opposition to Coope's practices led eventually to a dispute with the Archdeacon, W. J. Phillpotts, in 1866. Coope was supported by the newly formed English Church Union and the Archdeacon who had planned legal action did not proceed.

List of rectors

Francis Bedford 1664–76
John Quarme 1676–79
Walter Quarme 1679–1728
John Millington 1728–35
Edward Walmsley 1735–95
John Watkin Wilbraham 1795–1824
Lewis Mathias 1824–28
Hon. William Wodehouse 1828–38
William John Coope 1838–70
Joseph Baley  1870–72
John Wright 1872–82
Brian Christopherson 1882–1912
Henry Hugh King 1912–18
Montague Blamire Williamson 1918–1924 (later Archdeacon of Bodmin)
Bertram Liddell Hope 1924–36
Osmund Ralph Maude Roxby 1936–46
Joseph Percy Hodges 1946–55
Thomas Barfett 1955–77 (later Archdeacon of Hereford)
William John Peter Boyd 1977–85
Roger Geoffrey Gilbert 1986–2002
Stephen John Tudgey 2003–Present

Music
For many years the church had an all-male choir which was disbanded in the late 1960s due to chorister recruitment difficulties. The choir now consists of adult SATB who sing two services each Sunday. There is also a Lunchtime Concert Series on Saturdays between May and October which was launched by the Director of Music, Lance Foy, in 2012.

The organ

The church has a three manual organ built by Lance Foy of Truro. It is the largest organ in Cornwall after the Father Willis organ at Truro Cathedral.

The first pipe organ was installed in the west gallery of the church in the spring of 1703 and was built by John Russell, a London-based organ builder, costing £200. It was not met with universal acclamation. One local lampoonist versified: "Arrived at the church, 'tis diverting to see Them all strut to Ned Kendall's [the organist's] vile twiddle dum dee, whose bass and whose treble, comparatively speaking, are like old pigs grunting and little pigs squeaking."

After 95 years service with little maintenance, the organ was dismantled and sold and a contract for a new instrument was placed with London organ builder Hugh Russell in 1798. The new organ had fifteen stops and a swell manual enclosed in a box with 'Nag Head' shutters (a recent innovation of the time) and also a short compassed pedal department.

In 1881, the second organ was in a bad state of repair and was sold and replaced by a three manual pipe organ built by Hele and Co. of Plymouth. This was situated in the Warrior Chapel (the south east corner of the church). The organ was played at floor level with the console directly behind the choir stalls. In 1910, £120 was spent on some tonal alterations made by Hele & Co; a Posaune reed stop (a typical Edwardian measure) and Small Open Diapason were added and the two original mixtures were removed from the Great and the Swell. In 1914, work on more tonal adjustments began - a Vox Humana rank was added, part of the organ was converted to Tubular Pneumatic action, a Tremulant stop to the Choir manual, and a new organ chamber was built and the organ moved from the Warrior Chapel to its present position. This work costed a total of £204 and was completed by Christmas 1915. The Organ had 30 speaking stops and a total of 1,886 pipes. In 1949 the instrument was cleaned and overhauled and the present 'Discus' blower installed in the fifties.

By the 1970s the organ had deteriorated to such an extent that it was becoming unplayable and in January 1978, Lance Foy of Truro started work on a new instrument. In 1979 a new organ was installed using parts of the organ from the redundant church of St. Thomas, Bristol, and much of the Hele pipework from the previous organ. In 1993, the organ was rebuilt again by Lance Foy, with various tonal improvements including the provision of a 16’ 8’ and 4’ Ophicleide and Trumpet unit, new upper work to the Great and Choir organs, the addition of a 4’ Flute, Oboe 8’ and Vox Humana 8’, a refurbished console and a new piston capture system.

A specification of the current organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

List of organists

William West 1703–29
Charles West 1729–60
Edward Kendall 1760–1808
Anthony Williams 1808–10
Mathias Cisteraansz 1810–12
Miss Jane Petherick 1812–15
Mr. Parnell 1815–24
Mr. Sharp 1824–30
George James Webb 1830–42  (later organist of Old South Church)
Professor Joseph Hale Coggins 1842–62
Charles William Reed 1864–78
William Treweeke 1878–80
Professor C. W. Robinson 1880–95
Robert E. Clark 1895–1911  (formerly organist of Winkfield Parish Church, Windsor)
Ewart West 1911–24  (previously organist of Moreton-in-Marsh).
E. Arthur West 1924–27
Richard Glendinning 1927
Gordan Hall 1927–72
Ernest Green Frics 1972–74
Edward Goldsmith 1974–91
Peter Young 1991–2001
John Charles Winter 2001–07 (formerly organist of Truro Cathedral)
Christopher Uren 2007–10
Lance Foy 2010–2014
Richard Bailey 2015-present

Notable burials
James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn

References

Sources

 The Buildings of England, Cornwall. Nikolaus Pevsner

External links
  Church of King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth website
  Choir of Church of King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth Facebook page
  Falmiuth (King Charles the Martyr) from https://www.british-history.ac.uk website

Church of England church buildings in Cornwall
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1665
Grade II* listed churches in Cornwall
Church of King Charles the Martyr
1665 establishments in England

Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall
National Heritage List for England
Buildings and structures in Cornwall
English churches dedicated to King Charles the Martyr


Herbert Blaine Lawson, Jr. is a mathematician best known for his work in minimal surfaces, calibrated geometry, and algebraic cycles.  He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Stony Brook University.  He received his PhD  from Stanford University in 1969 for work carried out under the supervision of Robert Osserman.

Research

Minimal surfaces
Lawson found in 1970 a method to solve free boundary value problems for unstable Euclidean constant-mean-curvature surfaces by solving a corresponding Plateau problem for minimal surfaces in S3.  He constructed compact minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere of arbitrary genus by applying Charles B. Morrey, Jr.'s solution of the Plateau problem in general manifolds.  This work of Lawson contains a rich set of ideas, among them the conjugate surface construction for minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces.

Calibrated geometry
The theory of calibrations, whose roots are in the work of Marcel Berger, finds its genesis in a 1982 Acta Mathematica paper of
Reese Harvey and Blaine Lawson.  The theory of calibrations has grown to be important because of its many applications to gauge theory and mirror symmetry.

Algebraic cycles
In his 1989 Annals of Mathematics paper "Algebraic Cycles and Homotopy Theory", Lawson proved a theorem which is now called the Lawson suspension theorem. This theorem is the cornerstone of Lawson homology and morphic cohomology which are defined by taking the homotopy groups of algebraic cycle spaces of complex varieties.
 These two theories are dual to each other for smooth varieties and have properties similar to those of Chow groups.

Awards and honors
He was a 1973 recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Leroy P. Steele Prize, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995. He is a former recipient of both the Sloan Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship, and has delivered two invited addresses at International Congresses of Mathematicians, one on geometry, and one on topology. He has served as Vice President of the American Mathematical Society, and is a foreign member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

Major publications

Books

See also
Spin geometry

References

External links
 Homepage

20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Differential geometers
Stanford University alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1942 births
Mathematicians from Pennsylvania


Sharing 分享 (Pinyin: Fēn Xiǎng) is the video compilation album (fourth album overall) by winner of Malaysian Idol 2, Danell Lee Chieh Hun, released on 27 September 2008. This is also the first album released under the artiste's new name, which was formerly Daniel Lee Chee Hun (李吉汉 Lǐ Jíhàn).

In reality, it features more of a compilation of songs from his past 3 albums, Daniel Lee Chee Hun, Unavoidable and Pasti, with the inclusion of 2 new songs. What makes this album special is that the entire compilation comes in the form of a karaoke DVD containing MVs of all 15 songs plus a bonus audio CD that contains the 2 newer songs. The 15 MVs are also accompanied with their respective karaoke versions.

Karaoke DVD MV listing

Bonus audio CD track listing
我的志愿 (My Aspiration)
On Every Line

Name change
During the album's first meet-the-fans session on September 27, 2008 at Berjaya Times Square, Danell announced the change of both his Chinese and English names, which he done secretly in August. This was done due to popular Chinese belief that a change in the name may bring better luck and Danell himself actually experienced better luck after 'trying out' his new name for a month and thus officially adopting it.

Danell himself admitted that he has refused to become the 'sweet boy' after 3 years in the entertainment scene and would like to try on more mature-toned songs. This was clearly shown in his MV for 我的志愿 (My Aspiration)

References

External links
Danell Lee Sharing Album Lyrics

2008 compilation albums
Daniel Lee Chee Hun video albums
Daniel Lee Chee Hun compilation albums
Sony BMG compilation albums
Mandarin-language albums
Mandopop compilation albums


"Silly Really" is a pop song by Swedish singer and composer Per Gessle from his album Party Crasher. It was released as the lead single from the album on October 29, 2008. The song premiered at the Swedish radio-show MorronZoo, in the morning of October 24.

The new remix of "Silly Really" will be released on January 19 or 26. It is also supposed to be available in "all digital stores". The song is remixed by Dick Mixon.

Critical reception
Expressen's Andreas Nunstedt called Per Gessle "a pop genius" and described the song as a "happy love story where disco meets synthpop". Håkan Steen from Aftonbladet describes "Silly Really" in a similar way ("a beat that feels like Blondie in a disco mood"). Even if "the single may not sound that modern", he said the song is a sure hit for the Swedish radio.

Music video
Video produced by STARK Film & Event
Director: Mikael Wikström
Producer: Björn Fävremark
Photo & cut: Torbjörn Martin

Track listing
Swedish CD single
(50999 265629 2 6; October 29, 2008)

 "Silly Really" – 3:40
 "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On" – 3:35

Europe digital remix
(January 2009)

 "Silly Really" (Right Into Your Bed Remix) (Remixed by Dick Mixon) – 6:31

Credits
Vocals by Per Gessle & Helena Josefsson.
Played and produced by Clarence Öfwerman, Christoffer Lundquist & Per Gessle.
Recorded at Aerosol Grey Machine, Vallarum, between jan. & sept. 2008.
Engineer: Christoffer Lundquist.
Mixed by Ronny Lahti.
Words & music by Per Gessle.
Published by Jimmy Fun Music.
Design by Pär Wickholm.
Photo by Åsa Nordin-Gessle (credited as "Woody").

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

2008 singles
Per Gessle songs
Number-one singles in Sweden
Songs written by Per Gessle


Neglected and underutilized crops are domesticated plant species used for food, medicine, trading or cultural practices that are significant within their local communities but are not widely commodified or studied as part of mainstream agriculture. Such crops may be in declining production. They are considered underutilized in scientific inquiry for their perceived potential to contribute to knowledge regarding nutrition, food security, genetic resistance, or sustainability. Other terms to describe such crops include minor, orphan, underused, local, traditional, alternative, minor, niche, or underdeveloped.

Reduction in use is partially due to supply or consumption constraints, poor shelf life, unrecognized nutritional value, poor consumer awareness, and its reputational perception as famine food ("poor people's food"), which is partially due to the modernization of agricultural practices. Some crops experienced genetic erosion of their gene pool due to this neglect, which resulted in them becoming regarded as lost crops.

As the demand for plant and crop attributes changes (reappraisal or discovery of nutritional traits, culinary value, adaptation to climate change, etc.), some previously neglected crops, such as oil palm, soybean, and kiwifruit, have overcome such constraints via more large-scale production and use, becoming regarded as globally significant crops.

For example, Cherimoya and Bambara crops produced in Colombia and Mozambique respectively, aid the local population in food security, allowing them physical and economic access to sufficient food for meeting their dietary needs, even during a famine.

Overview

While just three crops, maize, wheat, and rice, account for approximately 50% of the world's consumption of calories and protein,  about 95% of the world's food needs are provided by just 30 species of plants.

Contrarily, names of crop species compiled as edible extend to around 12,650. Among these are neglected and underutilized plants that could be, and in many cases have been, used for food and other uses on a larger scale historically.

Definition
It is difficult to precisely define which attributes make a crop "underutilized", but often they display the following features:
 Linkage with the cultural heritage of their places of origin
 Local and traditional crops whose distribution, biology, cultivation and uses are poorly documented
 Adaptation to specific agroecological niches and marginal land
 Weak or no formal seed supply systems
 Traditional uses in localized areas
 Produced in traditional production systems with little or no external inputs
 Receive little attention from research, extension services, policy and decision makers, and consumers
 May be highly nutritious and/or have medicinal properties or other multiple uses

Neglected crops are primarily grown by traditional farmers. These species may be widely distributed beyond their centers of origin but tend to occupy unique niches in the local production and consumption systems. They are critical for the subsistence of local communities yet remain poorly documented and neglected by mainstream research and development activities. Many staple crops, especially in the developing world, are poorly studied by researchers. For example, the Green Revolution saw massive changes in agricultural productivity in Asia, but African crops saw little benefit.

Importance
Underutilized crops continue to play a vital role in the subsistence and economy of poor people throughout the developing world, particularly in the agrobiodiversity-rich tropics. Despite their potential for dietary diversification and the provision of micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals, they continue to attract little research and development attention.

Alongside their commercial potential, many underused crops provide essential environmental services as they have adapted to marginal soil and climate conditions.

Constraints
The following are frequent constraints:
 limited germplasm available;
 lack of technical information;
 lack of national policy;
 lack of interest by researchers, agriculturists and extension workers;
 lack of producer interest.

Examples

Determination of the underutilized status of a crop varies among researchers. Different criteria and approaches are used to define this particular group of crops. Neglect refers to the attention the crop has received from research and development and can be evaluated by how well national and international policy and legal frameworks and research and development programs support the conservation and sustainable use of the crop. Underutilization is particular to the geography and potential for a crop to contribute to better diets and production systems. In any cases where exotic or diversified species are underutilized in a region, these are not necessarily underutilized in other parts of the world. Below is an example list of neglected and underutilized species that is not exhaustive.

Cereal and pseudocereal crops

Fruits and nuts species

Vegetable and pulse crops

Root and tuber crops

Other crops

 Ensete ventricosum

Industrial underutilized crops

Oil seeds

International events that fostered underutilized crops

 1987 - Establishment of the International Centre for Underutilized Crops (ICUC)
 1996 - The FAO Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture emphasized the importance of underutilized crops
 1999 - At an international workshop held in Chennai, India, the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) recognized the contribution that neglected and underutilized species make to food security, rural incomes and combating poverty
 2002 - Establishment of the Global Facilitation Unit of Underutilized Species (GFU) of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), and was housed within Bioversity International, Rome, Italy.
 2008 - Establishment of Crops for the Future (CFF) which is a merging of ICUC and GFU, based in Malaysia
 2011 - Establishment of Crops for the Future Research Centre (CFFRC) in Malaysia
 2012 - The international Crops for the 21st Century seminar held on 10–13 December 2012 in Córdoba, Spain aimed to discuss major topics related to underlining the role of neglected and underutilised species to address food and agriculture challenges in the future.
 2013 - Official launch of the International Year of Quinoa (IYQ-2013), intended to increase awareness, understanding and knowledge about quinoa and its importance on food security.
2013 - 3rd International Conference on Neglected and Underutilized Species, Accra, Ghana - to ensure that research on neglected and underutilized species (NUS) is demand-oriented and that results are better shared and applied, researchers, extension agents, the private sector and farmers must engage in more collaboration - in sub-Saharan Africa.

See also
 Food security
 Heirloom plant
 List of useful plants
 Slow Food
 Subsistence farming
Food biodiversity

References

External links

 Crops for the Future
 NUS Database Asia
 NewCROP the New Crop Resource Online Program
 NUS Community - Bioversity International
 CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas

Economic development
Crops


Eti Livni (, born 1 June 1948) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006.

Biography
In the 1999 elections Livni was placed tenth on the Shinui list, but missed out on a seat when they won only six mandates. For the 2003 elections she was placed 12th on the party's list, and entered the Knesset when the party won 15 seats. During her first term, she chaired the Committee on the Status of Women and was a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset.

Along with most of the party's MKs, she defected to the Secular Faction (which later became Hetz) shortly before the 2006 elections following disagreements over the results of Shinui's primary results. She was placed sixth on the Hetz list for the elections, but lost her seat when the party failed to cross the electoral threshold.

In 2008 it was announced that Livni would run for a spot on the Kadima list for the 2009 elections. Ultimately she was placed 51st on the party's list, failing to win a seat.

References

External links

1948 births
Living people
Politicians from Tel Aviv
Israeli Jews
Israeli lawyers
Women members of the Knesset
Hetz (political party) politicians
Shinui politicians
Israeli women lawyers
Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006)
Deputy Speakers of the Knesset
21st-century Israeli women politicians


"The Iceman Cometh" is a 1960 television production of the 1946 Eugene O'Neill play of the same title.  Two separate parts were originally broadcast as episodes of The Play of the Week by the television network and syndication service the NTA Film Network (or NTA).

Cast

Opening credits
Jason Robards, Jr.
Co-Starring Myron McCormick
and in order of appearance
Tom Pedi
James Broderick
Farrell Pelly
Robert Redford
Ronald Radd
Roland Winters
Harrison Dowd
Michael Strong

Closing credits
starred Jason Robards, Jr. as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
co-starred Myron McCormick as Larry Slade
also starred in order of appearance

Introductory remarks

Part 1
"Good evening. I'm Worthington Miner. As executive producer of The Play of the Week, I take a personal pride and honor in our presenting to you tonight one of the great plays of our generation, The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. As a symbol of the stature of this event, Mister Brooks Atkinson, essayist, correspondent and, for thirty-five years, drama critic of The New York Times, has consented to appear on this program to say a few words to you about Mister O'Neill and his meaning to the American theater. Mister Atkinson…"

Brooks Atkinson: "The Play of the Week is about to present, for the first time on this series, a drama by a man more widely respected and acclaimed throughout the world than any American dramatist, Eugene O'Neill. Few men of any age have been able to see, far less to transmit, the passions, the agonies, the wisdom and the corrosive humors that lie in the hearts and the minds of derelict mankind. O'Neill has this depth, a depth of humanity, of pity and love and respect, even for the dregs of society. He knew their idiom of speech, their habitual profanity, their coarseness. And yet he touched these vulgarities with a poet's understanding and with the generosity of a deeply reverent heart. O'Neill wrote with respect for the stark truth that he saw as the authentic garment of the tortured human being. The Iceman Cometh is a harsh and ruthless drama. It appeals to the mature mind and a sensitive spirit. It is one of America's greatest plays and a sensitive and mature audience deserves to see it."

Part 2
"Good evening. I'm Worthington Miner, executive producer of Play of the Week. Tonight, we are presenting part two of The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. But first, I would like to introduce Mister Brooks Atkinson, for thirty-five years, drama critic of The New York Times, who will say a few words to you about Mister O'Neill and The Iceman Cometh. Mister Atkinson…"

Brooks Atkinson: "The Play of the Week is about to present the second part of The Iceman Cometh. It is one of the last plays of Eugene O'Neill. Few men of any age have been able to recognize and convey the passions, the agonies and the corrosive humors that lie in the hearts and the minds of derelict mankind, but O'Neill has this depth, a depth of love and respect, even for the dregs of society. He knew their speech and their common profanity, their coarseness, and yet he touched these vulgarities with a poet's understanding. O'Neill wrote with respect for the stark truths that he saw as the authentic garment of the tortured human being. The Iceman Cometh is a harsh and ruthless drama. It appeals to the mature mind and the sensitive spirit. It is one of America's greatest plays and a sensitive and mature audience deserves to see it."

Plot summary
See play summary in the article for The Iceman Cometh.

References

External links

1960 television plays
Films based on works by Eugene O'Neill
Films set in the 1900s
Television shows directed by Sidney Lumet
American television films


The Yamaha XJR400 4HM is a motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha. It is a sports naked bike with a maximum power output of 53ps at 11,000RPM. The XJR400 was built from 1993 until it was discontinued in 2007 due to stricter emissions.

Model History
As the era of Naked Bikes arrived in the early 1990's, Yamaha was behind the trend and wanted to keep up with their competitors. With the arrival of the Kawasaki Zephyr, Yamaha based their benchmarks on the renowned motorcycle and the end result was a 399cc oil-cooled sports naked motorcycle, the XJR400.

1993 - 1996 Early 4HM
1993 XJR400 Yamaha introduced the first variant of the XJR400, it came with x4 Mikuni BSR30 carburetors integrated to its 64-degree DOHC 16-valve oil-cooled 399cc inline 4 engine tuned for 53 horsepower. It is mated with a close-ratio 6 speed transmission that gives a "turning number" flavor.

1994 XJR400S A limited run of 4000 units were called the S model and had rear Öhlins suspension that became standard and a trademark to the XJR lineup.

1995 XJR400R The model officially changed is name to XJR400R, the internal components such as the pistons and connecting rods were strengthened and other parts such as the ignition control and muffler were changed. This year, XJR models are now equipped with gold 4 piston Brembo calipers at the front and the rear Öhlins suspension springs are now yellow.

1996 XJR400R2 A limited edition came with a headlight cowl and a rectangular headlight, a digital instrument panel, the seat was enhanced and is called low-resilience Wylux seat which lowered the seat height by 10mm. Lastly, its muffler is recolored to a matte black color. Unfortunately, this model did not garner much popularity as it was released the same time Honda unveiled the Version R variant of the CB400 Super Four.

A standard version is also released in the same year together with the limited edition with a black exhaust system but follows the same specifications as the 1995 version.

1998 Mid 4HM
1998 XJR400R Following the R model, in this year the 2nd generation of the R variant is released and came with a bigger tank with increased fuel capacity by 2L, fork guards, redesigned rear end, digital instrument panel and seat while also changing the engine paint color from black to silver.

2001 - 2007 Final Stage 4HM
2001 The last generation of the R model, its wheels, swingarm and muffler were redesigned and came with a MOS (monoblock) 4 piston Nissin Sumitomo calipers derived from the Yamaha Flagship motorcycle, RZF-R1 (1998 - 2001). It also had minor changes to its seat and mirrors.

2004 Minor revisions were done to the muffler interior and ignition system to meet noise regulations which also granted better low to mid acceleration performance. An immobilizer was also installed and its instrument panel was swapped for the XJR1300 model.

2007 The last model of the XJR400R had oval side mirrors and pinstripe decals, this is the last variant before it was discontinued due to the stricter gas emissions. Air-cooled motorcycles such as the XJR400 struggled to meet the requirements as air-cooled bikes require more fuel load to cool down the engine which released a larger amount of pollution compared to liquid-cooled motorcycles, thus did not meet the standards.

External links

 Yamaha XJR400
 Geneology of XJR400
 Yamaha XJR400

XJR400
Motorcycles introduced in 1990
Standard motorcycles


General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, 1st Baronet,  (18 March 1785, Bodmin – 12 May 1853, Stevens' Hotel, Bond Street, London) was an English army officer in the British East India Company.

Life
He was the third son of the Reverend Edmund Gilbert (d. 1816), Vicar of Constantine and Rector of Helland, Cornwall, and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Garnett, the daughter of Henry Garnett of Bristol. Like Sir Humphrey Gilbert, he was a member of the Devon family of Gilbert of Compton and he was named after Sir Humphrey's half brother Sir Walter Raleigh.

He gained a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry in 1800, and in September the following year was posted to the 15th Bengal Native Infantry (commanded by Colonel John Macdonald) as ensign.  Arriving in British India in October 1801, he then became Lieutenant on 12 September 1803 and Captain on 16 April 1810.  Participating in the defeat of Perron's brigades at Koil, Aligarh, the battles of Delhi, Laswari and the storming of Agra.  He also attracted the attention of Lord Lake by his participation in the four unsuccessful attacks on Bharatpur.  In 1814, in Calcutta, he married Isabella Rose Ross, the daughter of Thomas Ross, a major in the Royal Artillery - the marriage produced Sir Francis Hastings Gilbert, 2nd Baronet in 1816 (later British consul at Scutari), Geraldine Adelaide (b. 1830 in Bodmin).

Next he was successively Barrack-Master and Cantonment Magistrate at Cawnpore, Commandant of the Calcutta native militia, and Commandant of the Ramgarh local battalion.  Promoted to Major on 12 November 1820, he then became Lieutenant-Colonel of the newly formed 39th Bengal native infantry in 1824, Colonel of the 35th native infantry and of the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers in 1832, Major-General in June 1838 and finally Lieutenant-General in November 1851.  During the First Anglo-Sikh War he commanded a division of Sir Hugh Gough's army at the battles of Mudki and Ferozeshahr (December 1845), and at Sobraon (10 February 1846) - Gough mentioned him favourably in his dispatches. He was one of the British viceroys at Lahore alongside Herbert Benjamin Edwardes.

He was made a KCB in April 1846 and again commanded a division under Gough in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, at the 1849 battles of Chilianwala and Gujrat before leading his division (which included Robert Napier) across the Jhelum River to pursue the remnants of the Sikh army and receiving their surrender in Rawalpindi on 3 and 6 March.  He next pursued the Sikhs' Afghan allies from Attock right up to the Khyber Pass, and in reward was appointed GCB in June 1849 and a Baronet in 1850. He led the detachment of the British Army which captured Peshawar in March 1849. Becoming known as a sportsman as well as a soldier in British India, on his death a memorial obelisk was erected on the Bodmin Beacon, though his baronetcy became extinct on his son Francis's death.

Sir Walter is buried on the west side of the southern section of the central north-south path in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

References

External links

www.cornwall-calling.co.uk

1785 births
1853 deaths
British East India Company Army generals
British military personnel of the First Anglo-Sikh War
British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Sikh War
People from Bodmin
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Maratha War
Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery


Alexander Mocsary, sometimes  (27 September 1841, Nagyvárad () - 26 December 1915, Budapest) was a Hungarian entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

He was the Curator of the Hungarian Natural History Museum where his collection of mainly Hungarian insects of all Orders is conserved. He described many new taxa.

Works
 Ordo. Hymenoptera. In: Paszlavsky, J.: Fauna Regni Hungariae. Regia Societas Scientiarum Naturalium Hungarica, Budapest: 7–113 (1918)

References
 Anonym, 1911 [Mocsary, A.] Rovart. Lapok 18 27
 Kutzscher, C. & Taeger, A., 1998 Portraits und biographische Daten. In: Taeger, A. & Blank, S. M. 1998 (Hrsg.) Pflanzenwespen Deutschlands (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Kommentierte Bestandsaufnahme. Goecke & Evers, Keltern
 Musgrave, A., 1932 Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775 - 1930. - Sydney 227-229
 Soldanski, H., 1916 Aus der entomologischen Welt. Dt. ent. Z. 1916(1) 87-89 87
 Viereck, H. L., 1922 [Mocsary, A.] Ent. News 33 157-158

1841 births
1915 deaths
19th-century Hungarian zoologists
Hungarian entomologists
Hymenopterists
Neuroptera
People from Oradea
20th-century Hungarian zoologists


The Ilyushin I-21, (Istrebitel-21, fighter-21), also known as TsKB-32, was a single-engined, single-seat fighter produced in the USSR in 1936-7 in response to a government specification.

Design and development
The I-21 was an all-metal, low-wing, cantilever monoplane with retractable undercarriage and a closed cockpit. The wings were sharply tapered with straight trailing edges, which introduced sweepback on the leading edge. Two specially modified Mikulin AM-34RNF (also written AM-34FRN) liquid-cooled V-12 engines provided the power via a non-reducing gearbox, which was used only to raise the thrust line, and enable the use of shorter undercarriage legs.

Cooling for the first prototype's engine used an evaporative system which dispensed with radiators and used condensers built into the surface of the wing centre section.  The second prototype was fitted with a conventional cooling system using ethylene glycol coolant and a retractable radiator. Flight trials started but soon showed that the evaporative cooling system was inadequate with both the engine and the wing centre section overheating. Ilyushin was also very aware of the vulnerability of the system to combat damage, but he was ordered by GUAP to use this system. Further development was halted in 1939 and the I-21 designation was re-used for the Pashinin I-21.

Variants
Data from:'OKB Ilyushin
TsKB 32 (I-21 1st prototype) with evaporative cooling
TsKB 52 (I-21 2nd prototype) with conventional ethylene glycol cooling system, not completed due to engine delivery problems.

Specifications (I-21)

See also

References

1930s Soviet fighter aircraft
I-021
Abandoned military aircraft projects of the Soviet Union
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1936


Gary Allan Polis (1946 – March 27, 2000) was an arachnologist and the world's leading expert on scorpions.

Education and career
Polis was born in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Loyola University in 1969. Polis received an M.A. in 1975 and a Ph.D. in biology in 1977 from the University of California, Riverside.

While at UC Riverside, Polis studied under Dr. Roger Farley. He conducted a variety of experiments and did studies of Vaejovidae. He went on to teach at Vanderbilt University from 1979 to 1992 and wrote several books; his Biology of Scorpions has been referred to as the "scorpion Bible." Polis was the subject of the book Scorpion Man by Laurence Pringle.

Polis was noted as a desert ecologist and advised the government on desert scorpions during the Gulf War.

In 1998, Polis became Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, a post he held until his death in 2000.

Death
Polis died in a seastorm in the Sea of Cortez during an ecological expedition. He was cited by a survivor as attempting to help others reach safety as a priority before his own.  On the expedition in the Sea Of Cortez were colleagues from Japan, one of whom also died in the accident.

References

External links
Gary Polis Papers at Special Collections Dept. , University Library, University of California, Davis

1946 births
2000 deaths
American arachnologists
University of California, Riverside alumni
Vanderbilt University faculty
20th-century American zoologists
Scientists from Los Angeles
Loyola Marymount University alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
Accidental deaths in Mexico


The Maid of Orleans may refer to:

Joan of Arc
 "The Maid of Orleans" (poem), a 1730 unfinished poem by Voltaire
 The Maid of Orleans (play), an 1801 historical tragedy by Friedrich Schiller
 The Maid of Orleans (opera), an 1881 an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on Schiller's play
 "Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)", a 1982 single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), sequel to their earlier single "Joan of Arc"
 オルレアンの少女 (Maid of Orleans), a song by Japanese visual kei band exist†trace.
 Maid of Orleans, a song by Spanish power metal band Dark Moor
 Maid of Orleans (horse)

See also
Joan of Arc (disambiguation)

de:Die Jungfrau von Orléans


Another Way is the debut studio album by American punk rock/pop punk band Teenage Bottlerocket, released on October 31, 2003. It was released by independent record labels One Legged Pup Records, on 12-inch vinyl format, and Red Scare Industries, on 7-inch and CD format. Later, in 2008, the album was released digitally. In March 2011, a "deluxe edition" of the album, containing tracks from the band's 2002 EP A-bomb and the band's tracks from a split 7-inch with Bill the Welder, was released by Red Scare Industries.

Track listing
 "Be Stag" – 2:12
 "Patrick" – 0:50
 "Go-Go" – 1:46
 "She Can't Think" – 1:28
 "Senior Prom" – 2:01
 "Mini Skirt" – 1:48
 "Pull the Plug" – 2:02
 "Rebound" – 2:23
 "Opportunity" – 2:48
 "Rathead" – 1:33
 "Another Way" – 3:24

Deluxe edition bonus tracks
 "A-Bomb"
 "Teenwolf"
 "Going Slow"
 "Job on Me"
 "Go Away"
 "Why I Let You Go"

Personnel
 Ray Carlisle – bass, vocals 1-17
 Joel Pattinson – guitar, backing vocals 1–11, 16-17
 Zach Doe – guitar 12-15
 Brandon Carlisle – drums 1-17

References

2003 debut albums
Teenage Bottlerocket albums
One Legged Pup Records albums


Janiszew may refer to the following places:
Janiszew, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Janiszew, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Janiszew, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)


The University of Central Arkansas shooting was a school shooting that took place on the 12,500-student campus of the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas on Sunday, October 26, 2008.

The shooting occurred after 9:00pm CDT outside of the Arkansas Hall dormitory. Two students – Ryan Henderson, 18, and Chavares Block, 19 – were fatally shot. A third person, 19-year-old Martrevis Norman, a non-student visiting the campus, was shot in the leg and was treated at the nearby Conway Regional Medical Center.

Four suspects were charged in the shooting: Kawin Brockton, 19, Kelsey Perry, 19, Mario Tony, 20, and Brandon Wade, 20. However, only Perry was convicted, and he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and other charges and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

This was the third time in 2008 that an Arkansas campus was the scene of a shooting. On January 23, Arkansas State University offensive line-man 20-year Alfred Louis was grazed in the lower left leg when someone fired several rounds from a 9mm handgun at a residence hall. He was treated at a local hospital. Charges were later dismissed against the person accused of firing the shots. On February 27, a student was shot and injured at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Two suspects were arrested and charged in that crime however it was later determined that the UALR shooting was not a prototypical "school shooting" as it involved non-students.

References

University and college shootings in the United States
Deaths by firearm in Arkansas
University of Central Arkansas
Murder in Arkansas
2008 murders in the United States
2008 in Arkansas
University and college killings in the United States
Crimes in Arkansas
October 2008 crimes in the United States


Wenceslao Casares, also known as Wences Casares (born 26 February 1974) is an Argentinian entrepreneur and businessman in Silicon Valley-based fintech. He is the CEO of Xapo Bank, and founded Internet Argentina, Wanako Games, Patagon, Lemon Wallet, and Banco Lemon. Casares sits on the boards of PayPal, Diem, and Endeavor.

Early life
Casares is the eldest of four from a family of sheep ranchers in Patagonia, Argentina. In high school, Casares earned a Rotary Club scholarship as an exchange student in Washington, Pennsylvania. He returned to Buenos Aires to study business administration for three years at the University of San Andrés and dropped out to launch Argentina's first Internet Service Provider, Internet Argentina S.A. in 1994.

He exited the company and then founded Argentine online brokerage, Patagon, in 1997. Patagon established itself as Latin America's leading comprehensive Internet financial services portal and expanded its online banking services to the United States, Spain, and Germany. Patagon was acquired by the Spanish bank, Banco Santander for $750 million and became Santander Online worldwide. Investors in Patagon included George Soros, Intel, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, and entrepreneur Fred Wilson.

Career
In 2002, Casares founded Wanako Games, (later Behaviour Santiago), a videogame developer headquartered in New York City. Wanako Games was best known for the blockbuster game Assault Heroes and was acquired by Activision in 2007. In 2002, Casares founded Banco Lemon, a bank based in Brazil, which was acquired by Banco do Brasil in 2009.

Casares was the founder and CEO of Lemon Wallet, a digital wallet platform. In 2013 the American firm LifeLock bought Lemon for about $43 million (US).

Xapo

Casares is the CEO of Xapo, a bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo is said to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world and is believed to hold as much as $10 billion of the cryptocurrency in underground vaults on five continents, including in a former Swiss military bunker. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Widely known as, "Patient Zero", Quartz reported that Casares was the entrepreneur to convince Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, and other tech veterans in Silicon Valley to invest in bitcoin.

Philanthropy
In 2011, Casares was on the jury of the Cartier Women’s Initiative awards. He is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows in the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. He is an elected member of the World Economic Forum's “Young Global Leaders” Class of 2011 and regularly attends the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. He is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization. In 2010 Casares partnered with Pablo Bosch to found Las Majadas de Pirque, a social capital and innovation facility owned by Casares in Santiago, Chile. He was formerly a board member at Kiva and Endeavor.

References

External links
"Son of Sheep Ranchers, Lemon Wallet Co-Founder Wences Casares is a Serial Entrepreneur", by Melissa Aparicio "Fox News Latino"
 "The Difference between $1 Billion-Plus in Exits and 'Success'", by Sarah Lacy Techcrunch

Argentine businesspeople
Living people
People associated with cryptocurrency
1974 births
Harvard Business School alumni
Henry Crown Fellows


The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs of the Republic of Kenya is a ministry in the Government of Kenya which oversees the foreign relations of Kenya. It is currently headed by Prime Cabinet Secretary Honourable Musalia Mudavadi who is the Cabinet Secretary. Other top leaders are Dr. A. Korir Sing'Oei, the Principal Secretary in the State Department for Foreign Affairs, and Roseline K. Njogu, the Principal Secretary in the State Department for Diaspora Affairs.

The Ministry was established in 1963 after Kenya's independence. Since independence, Kenyan foreign policy has been designed and guided by the principles of peaceful co-existence, preservation of national security, peaceful settlement of disputes, non-interference in the internal affairs of other states, non-alignment, national interest and adherence to the Charters of the United Nations and African Union.

A Service Charter, based on the current Strategic Plan and the Foreign Policy document, has been developed to guide the operations of the Foreign Ministry so that the Ministry can successfully implement its core mandate and functions.  The Strategic Plan sets out what the Ministry is and what it does. The Ministry has developed a self-assessment mechanism, the Performance Contact, to facilitate delivery of services within predetermined targets.

See also
List of Foreign Ministers of Kenya

References

External links
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kenya

Foreign relations of Kenya

Kenya
Kenya
1963 establishments in Kenya


Manuel Alfredo Tito de Morais (28 June 1910 in Lisbon – 14 December 1999), was a Portuguese politician.

Background
He was the eldest child and son of Tito Augusto de Morais (Peso da Régua, 11 February 1880 - 1963), a Navy Officer of the Portuguese Navy and a Minister, and wife (m. 2 June 1909) Carolina de Antas de Loureiro de Macedo (8 July 1881 - ?), sister in law of Augusto de Paiva Bobela da Mota, 116th (Provisional) Governor of Portuguese India in 1919 and great-great-granddaughter in female line of the 1st Baron of São José de Porto Alegre, a rich merchant from Macau.

Career
He graduated as a Licentiate in Electronic Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium).

In 1945, with the end of World War II and the beginning of new democratic movements, he was a Member of the Central Commission of the Movimento de Unidade Democrática (MUD). However, due to the political conditionments of the Estado Novo, he was forced to exile in the Portuguese overseas territory of Angola, where two of his sons were born in the 1950s, France, Brazil, Algeria, where Manuel Alegre and other resistant elements, many of whom Socialists as him, were already living and where another son was born in the 1960s, Switzerland, Italy and West Germany. In Algeria he was the Director of the Junta de Salvação Nacional and, in Geneva in 1964, he founded the Associação Socialista Portuguesa (ASP), which later originated the Socialist Party (PS) in 1973, of which he was also one of the Founders and a Militant.

After the Carnation Revolution and the legalization of his Party, he became a Deputy to the Constituent Assembly in 1975 and a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic in the following year of 1976. Between May 1979 and April 1980 he held the office of Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council.

He occupied the office of Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic between 8 February 1978 and 29 October 1978 and again from 22 October 1981 and 30 May 1983, and was its 6th President from 8 June 1983 to 24 October 1984. In these last functions he also became a Member of the Portuguese Council of State.

In the 6th Congress of PS he became its Secretary-General between 1986 and 1988.

Family
He married firstly Maria da Conceição Formosinho Mealha (Silves, Silves, 1912 - Lisbon, 1992), daughter of João Vitorino Mealha, a Lawyer (whose mother's paternal grandfather was famous Portuguese Miguelist outlaw and bandit Remexido), and wife Maria Julieta da Guerra Formosinho, whom he divorced, and had five children:
 Maria Carolina Mealha Tito de Morais, married to Augusto Manuel Rodrigues Correia Pereira de Oliveira (Lisbon, 30 April 1932 - Lisbon, 1 August 1984), and had issue
 Maria da Conceição Mealha Tito de Morais, married to Vítor Manuel Correia Pires, and had issue
 João Manuel Mealha Tito de Morais (Lisbon, 1939 - Lisbon, 25 November 2001), married firstly to Geny de Almeida, and had issue, and married secondly to Lúcia de Melo, without issue:
 Marcelo Augusto Tito de Morais
 Marcos Augusto Alves Tito de Morais
 Marcelo Stéfano Alves Tito de Morais
 Matheus Meirelles Itajahy Tito de Morais
 Lucas Meirelles Itajahy Tito de Morais
 João Luís Tito de Morais
 Gabriela Romeiro Tito de Morais
 Maria Luísa Mealha Tito de Morais (b. Lisbon, 19 August 1942), married firstly as his second wife to Pedro Manuel Ramos de Almeida, whom she divorced, and had issue, and married secondly to Dulcínio Caiano Pereira, without issue
 Maria Teresa Mealha Tito de Morais (b. 1945), married to Jaime Teixeira Mendes (b. 1943), a Medical Doctor, and had issue

He married secondly Maria Emília Adelaide Pedroso da Cunha Rego Monteiro dos Santos (Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 2 May 1923), of some maternal Nobility, and had three children:
 Manuel Tito de Morais (Luanda, 2 October 1953), unmarried and without issue
 Luís Manuel Tito de Morais (Luanda, 20 October 1955), married to Anne Huguette Bertrand, French, and had issue:
 Claire Bertrand Tito de Morais
 Marine Bertrand Tito de Morais
 Pedro Manuel Tito de Morais (Algiers, 24 August 1964), unmarried and without issue

References

 Os Presidentes do Parlamento (Presidents of the Portuguese Parliament), Assembly of the Republic

1910 births
1999 deaths
Politicians from Lisbon
Portuguese anti-fascists
Presidents of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians


Pit Crew Panic! is a WiiWare game by Hudson Soft. It was released in North America on December 1, 2008, in Europe on December 5, 2008 and in Japan on December 2, 2008.

Gameplay
Described by Hudson as an "action panic" game, Pit Crew Panic! sees players controlling a team of six pit crew girls in attempting to fix different objects. The game involves the player directing their pit crew with the pointer of the Wii Remote to fix broken parts on a variety of vehicles, such as racing cars and motorcycles, against a time limit. In addition, players must also fix more unusual objects termed "WHATSITs"; these include items such as toilets, cakes and a bed of flowers, right up to huge objects like castles, aircraft carriers, the Golden Gate Bridge and the International Space Station. In order to speed up repair players can jump in and help the girls out by picking a part and miming their repair action with the Remote.

The game gives players the option of playing in a normal time attack mode, an "abnormal mode" (a competitive mode involving two teams fixing the same WHATSIT) and a training mode. Each mode supports up to four players playing simultaneously. Players will also have the option to customize the rules, the WHATSITs that show up and the time limit they are set before starting the game. In addition, Pit Crew Panic! also features local and online multiplayer modes, and players will also be able to upload their best times onto an online leaderboard.

Reception
WiiWare World gave Pit Crew Panic! a 6/10, finding the game playable but ultimately "rather repetitive" and suffering from some interface issues and visuals that are "all over the map". IGN gave the game 3.9/10, highlighting the game's unique concept but also noting shallow gameplay, limited lasting appeal and frustrating controls.

References

External links
Pit Crew Panic! at IGN

2008 video games
Wii-only games
WiiWare games
Wii Wi-Fi games
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection games
Hudson Soft games
Puzzle video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan


Pieróg  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kotuń, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

References

Villages in Siedlce County


Bushrod Island is an island near Monrovia, Liberia surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Saint Paul River, the Mesurado River and Stockton Creek (a tidal channel that connects the two rivers). It contains the Freeport of Monrovia, the major national port of Liberia and a variety of businesses.  It also contains numerous residential areas and government buildings. There are four towns on the island, Vai Town, New Kru Town, Logan Town and Clara Town.

Its proximity to the capital and industrial base make it an important commercial area for the country.  End Point is a geographical feature on north end of Bushrod Island.

History
Mostly a low-lying mangrove swamp, Bushrod Island was occupied by the Dei people from the 16th century until the early 19th century. Gawulun was the chief town of the Dei on the island, and served as the capital of the Dei when "King Peter" was selected as the chief spokesman for his fellow Dei chiefs in 1819.

In the late 1820s the community of New Georgia was established on Bushrod Island by people who had been freed from a slave ship in 1820, and kept in Georgia in the United States until 1827. New Georgia is now located on the mainland directly to the east of Bushrod Island.

The island is named after Bushrod Washington, a nephew of George Washington and first president of the American Colonization Society (ACS). The ACS, which was active during the first part of the 19th century, advocated the emigration to Africa of free and enslaved African Americans.

In 1878 a community of Vai people (called "Vai Town" by Williams) was located on Bushrod Island across the Mesurado River from Monrovia, while a few miles up the river on the island the community of New Georgia had about 500 residents.

Notes

References
Clegg, Claude Andrew. (2004) The price of liberty: African Americans and the making of Liberia. The University of North Carolina Press.  Found at  Internet Archive
Swanson, Gail. (2005) Slave Ship Guerrero. West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Infinity Publishing.
Williams, Alfred Brockenbrough. (1878) The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects. Charleston, South Carolina: The News and Courier Book Presses. Found at University of North Carolina - Documenting the American South

External links
 Encyclopædia Britannica

Islands of Liberia
Saint Paul River
Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean


Polaki  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kotuń, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately  north of Kotuń,  west of Siedlce, and  east of Warsaw.

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Polaki