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Lotus 108 (1992): A bicycle ridden by Chris Boardman to win a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, also known as the "LotusSport Pursuit Bicycle".
Lotus 109 (1994): Formula One, Last Lotus F1 car.
Lotus 110: Production version of type 108 bicycle
Lotus 111: The Lotus Elise
Lotus 112: Final partial Formula One design
Lotus 113: Never used
Lotus 114 (1996): Lotus Esprit GT1
Lotus Elise GT1 (Lotus 115) (1997–1998): Lotus GT Race Car, also known as the Lotus Elise GT1
Vauxhall VX220 (Lotus 116): The Elise S2 based Vauxhall VX220/Opel Speedster, built in collaboration with GM
Lotus Elise (Lotus 117): Lotus Elise S2
Lotus 118: Lotus M250.
Two-seater concept car.
Unveiled in Autumn of 1999 as a mid-range sports car.
The project was canceled in 2001.
Lotus 119: Soapbox derby car Light vehicle made of carbon and aluminum.
It had disc brakes, and no engine.
It was built for a race at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
Lotus Elise (Lotus 120) (1998): Elise V6 code named M120, never produced
Lotus Europa S (Lotus 121) (2006): Europa S
Lotus 122: Lotus Evora
Lotus 123: Lotus 2-Eleven
Lotus 124: Evora Race Car
Lotus 125: Exos—Ultimate track Car
Lotus Excel (1985–1992): Updated Eclat with Toyota running gear.
2,159 Excels were made.
Lotus Eclat (1975–1982): Fastback version of the Elite.
The rear roof line of the Elite was sloped down into a sporty fastback.
Lotus Elite: Describes two cars, one an ultra-light two-seater coupé produced from 1957 to 1962, one an angular 3-door hatch with a back bone chassis produced from 1974 to 1982.
Lotus Europa (1966–1975): Mid-engine sports car.
Lotus Esprit: A mid-engine sports car, launched in the early 1970s.
It was styled by Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro.
The Esprit started with a light, 4-cylinder design.
It had several version with turbo-charging and electronic upgrades.
Final version had an advanced V8.
The last Lotus Esprit rolled off the production line on 20 February 2004, after 28 years in production.
A total of 10,675 Esprits were built since production began in 1976.
Lotus M250 (2000): Concept car, never reached production
Lotus Europa S: A 2-seater grand tourer.
Based on the same chassis as the Elise and Exige.
Powered by a Lotus-tuned variant of the turbocharged four-cylinder engine which powers the VX220.
Lotus engines
Lotus-Ford Twin Cam
Lotus 900 series
Lotus 907
Lotus 910
Lotus 911
Lotus 912
Lotus 918 V8
Range Extender Engine, an all aluminum, 1.2 litre, four-stroke, engine.
It is designed to only turn an alternator.
The alternator is connected directly to the crankshaft.
This will generate electricity for series-hybrid cars.
Lotus Engineering
Lotus Engineering Limited, is an offshoot of Lotus Cars.
They consult with other companies that build cars and car equipment.
In addition to the United Kingdom, Lotus Engineering has offices in China, Malaysia and United States.
APX and VVA
The APX (also known as the "Aluminum Performance Crossover") is a concept car made from aluminum presented at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show.
It is built on Lotus Engineering's Versatile Vehicle Architecture (VVA).
The VVA design was to be used on a mid-engine sports car.
The APX is a high performance 7 seat Multi Purpose Vehicle.
It is four-wheel drive and has a front mounted V6 engine.
Lotus APX
Projects worked on by Lotus Engineering
Lotus Talbot Sunbeam – Talbot's hot-hatch rally car of the early '80s.
DeLorean DMC-12 – Redesigned the original concept car.
Used many of the material and manufacturing techniques used by Lotus in the Lotus Esprit.
Vauxhall Lotus Carlton (also Opel Lotus Omega) – At the time (early 1990s) this was the fastest saloon car available.
Top speed was over 170 mph (274 km/h).
The 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T – Used an engine with a 16-valve double overhead camshaft head designed by Lotus.
Its engine was rated at over .
Vauxhall VX220 (also Opel Speedster) – Built by Lotus and based upon the aluminum chassis design of the Lotus Elise.
Lotus styled and assisted with the engineering of the Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car based on the Elise, as well as licensing some technologies to Tesla Motors and constructing the Roadster at their plant in Hethel.
Lotus was responsible for most of the design, development, and testing, of the LT5 DOHC V8 powerplant for the 1990 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1.
Lotus designed, developed and tested the GM Ecotec engine and its variants.
Lotus was responsible for various aspects of the Sinclair C5 electric tricycle.
Lotus was responsible for the suspension calibration of the Toyota MR2 Mk.
I, the Toyota Supra Mk.
II and Mk.
III, the Isuzu Piazza, the Isuzu Impulse as well as newer Proton models.
Lotus was responsible for the development of the Campro engine together with Proton, as well as its variable valve timing system, the Cam Profile Switching (CPS).
Currently available in the 1.6-litre and 1.3-litre variants, the Campro engine now powers most of Proton's newer models.
Lotus has worked on the suspension of the Mahindra Scorpio to make it more stable at high speeds.
Lotus produced the revised Chassis of the Isuzu Piazza
The Dodge EV concept electric vehicle from Chrysler is based on a Lotus Europa S.
Lotus has worked on the suspension and handling of the Nissan GT-R
2009: Range Extender engine.
This all aluminium, monoblock, 1,200cc, four-stroke engine is specifically designed to turn an alternator for series-hybrid cars.
The engine is small and light having three cylinders and no detachable cylinder head.
2010: Limo-Green project with Jaguar Cars.
Lotus provided the Range Extender engine for a prototype XJ series-hybrid car.
The car returned 58 mpg (imperial) running off the range extender alone.
The Aston Martin DB9's chassis was developed with the help of Lotus Engineering.
The 2006 Volkswagen GX3 features a chassis developed by Lotus.
The Rinspeed sQuba amphibious roadster is based on an Elise.
Lotus partnered with Jaguar for developing chassis system and engine management of the Jaguar C-X75.
The engine is a supercharged 1.6 turbo petrol engine rated at  coupled with a
The 2015 Spyker B6 Venator is powered by a Lotus-built engine originating from a Toyota-sourced block.
Lotus joined Jaguar Cars, MIRA Ltd and Caparo on a luxury hybrid executive sedan project called "Limo-Green"—funded by the UK Government Technology Strategy Board.
The vehicle was a series plug-in hybrid.
Lotus unveiled their first series production electric sports car called the Evija in July 2019.
The car is undergoing development under the codename Type 130.
Production would be limited to 130 units and is scheduled to begin in Summer 2020.
The Evija makes use of a 70 kWh battery pack developed in conjunction with Williams Advanced Engineering.
There are 4 electric motors placed on each wheel supported by an Integral powertrain.
The powertrain is rated at a total output of  and  of torque.
The Evija has a range of .
Queen's Award for Enterprise
Lotus Cars were awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise for contribution to International Trade, one of 85 companies receiving the recognition in that category in 2002.
Lotus cars wore the badge of the award for a number of years.
Lotus cars have appeared in several movies and TV shows.
The most popular appearance of Lotus cars was in two James Bond movies namely The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981).
The amphibious Lotus Esprit appearing in the 1977 movie was more popular of the two appearances.
Gérard ('Jabby') Crombac, Colin Chapman: The Man and His Cars (Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1986)
Mike Lawrence, Colin Chapman: The Wayward Genius (Breedon Books, Derby, 2002)
Ian H. Smith, The Story of Lotus: 1947-1960 Birth of a Legend (republished Motor Racing Publications, Chiswick, 1972)
Doug Nye, The Story of Lotus: 1961-1971 Growth of a Legend (Motor Racing Publications, Chiswick, 1972)
Robin Read, Colin Chapman's Lotus: The early years, the Elite and the origins of the Elan (Haynes, Sparkford, 1989)
Anthony Pritchard, Lotus: All The Cars (Aston Publications, Bourne End, 1990)
Doug Nye, Theme Lotus: 1956-1986 (Motor Racing Publications, Croydon, 1986)
William Taylor The Lotus Book (Coterie Press, Luton, 1998, 1999, 2005)
William Taylor The Lotus Book Collectibles (Coterie Press, Luton, 2000)
Peter Ross, Lotus - The Early Years 1951-54 (Coterie Press, Luton, 2004)
Rémy Solnon, Lotus Esprit - le grand tourisme à l'anglaise  (Editions Les Presses Littéraires, 2007)
Andrew Ferguson, Team Lotus: The Indianapolis Years (Haynes Publishing 1996) no longer available
Genetic counselling, or counseling, is the process by which clients are advised about genetic disorders.
Genetic disorders, by definition, can be passed on in heredity.
Example: many descendents of Queen Victoria carried one or both alleles for haemophilia.
It was a hereditary disease in European royal families.
Clients with a disorder may be interested in the probability of developing or transmitting a genetic disorder to their children.
They may ask what the options are to prevent, avoid or improve it.
Genetic counsellors
Facilities and rules vary in different countries.
In the United States the National Society of Genetic Counselors defines genetic counselling as:
Interpretation of family and medical histories to assess the chance of disease occurrence or recurrence.
Education about inheritance, testing, management, prevention, resources and research.
Counselling to promote informed choices and adaptation to the risk or condition.
A genetic counsellor is an expert with a Master of Science degree in genetic counseling.
In the United States they are certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Most enter the field from biology, genetics, nursing, psychology, public health and social work.
Genetic counsellors need to be expert educators, skilled in translating ideas into terms that are easy to understand.
Reasons and results
Family history of inherited disease.
Molecular test for a single gene disorder
Increased maternal age (>35 years)
Abnormal serum screening results or ultrasound findings
Within about ten years, the cost of complete genome analysis will have come down so far that individual people will be able to have their own genome analysed.
In fact there are claims that the day has already arrived.
Pacific Biosciences stated they may not release their second-generation machine capable of a US$1,000 genome until 2013.
Complete Genomics, however, stated that they will be able to provide a US$5,000 full genome sequencing service by the summer of 2009.
Complete Genomics demonstrated in a peer-reviewed paper that was published online in Science in Nov. 2009 that it could sequence a human genome for a consumables cost of approximately US$1700.
The accuracy and completeness of these systems is a critical issue.
It is obvious that the demand for genetic counselling will increase hugely once accurate and complete genome analyses are widely available.
The problem then will be to interpret what the analysis shows.
At present there are many genes whose functions are not yet known, and many alleles whose effect is not known.
Practical consequences
Already it is possible to identify the sex of a foetus in the womb, and to identify some of the most common disorders.
This may, depending on legal and religious constraints, influence abortion of the foetus in some cases.
In some cases, the effects of a defect can be anticipated and prevented or cured.
These issues do not affect most people today, but as genomic analysis advances, genetic counselling will become of much greater significance.
Susan Margaret Collins is a Senator of the United States from Maine.
She is a moderate in the Republican Party.
Collins was elected to the Senate in 1996.
The Senator was born December 7, 1952.
On February 13, 2021 Collins voted that no longer Republican President Donald Trump was guilty of starting the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
She and six other Republican senators also voted that Trump was guilty.
The Frill-necked lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) has a large reptile, thin frill around its head, which it displays in order to frighten enemies.
To appear even more impressive, it also opens its mouth wide and often rears up on its hind legs.
When frightened, this lizard will run away, using its back-legs only, earning it the nickname, the "bicycle lizard."
These lizards spend most of their life in trees (they are primarily arboreal).
They live in the north of Australia and in New Guinea.
They inhabit moist tropical and warm-temperate forests and in woodlands with shrubby understory.
When displayed, the frill is 9.5-14 inches (24-34 cm) wide.
When the lizard is at rest, the frill folds down on its shoulders.
Adults are over 8 inches (20 cm) long.
Frill-necked Lizards are carnivorous (meat-eaters).
They eat bugs (like cicadas, ants, and spiders) and small lizards.
They hunt in trees and on the ground.
Jodi Lynn Picoult (born 19 May 1966 in Nesconsent, Long Island, New York) is an American author.
Picoult comes from what she calls a "non-practicing Jewish family".
She was raised in her hometown in Long Island, but moved to the U.S. State of New Hampshire when she was 13 years old.
She went to Princeton, a university in the U.S. state of New Jersey, where she studied writing and graduated from in 1987.
She also went to Harvard University, where she earned a master's degree in education.
She had many jobs, as a guest writer for magazines like Seventeen, to editing textbooks and teaching eighth grade English.
She published her first novel Songs of the Humpback Whale in 1992.
Her first book to debut as a New York Times best-seller was her 2007 novel Nineteen Minutes; the following year her novel Change of Heart became her second novel to debut as #1 on the New York Times Best Seller's list.
Her last novel to be featured on the list was Handle With Care (2009).
Four of her novels, The Pact (1998), Plain Truth (2000), The Tenth Circle (2006) and most recently, My Sister's Keeper, which published as a book in 2004 but released as a movie in 2009.
She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.
Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.
In addition to writing novels, Picoult had written for DC Comics' third volume of Wonder Woman in 2007; she only wrote 5 issues.
She lives with her husband, Tim Van Leer, their three children and pets in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Books by Picoult
Shad Gaspard (January 13, 1981 – May 17, 2020) was an American professional wrestler and actor.
He was best known for wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
He teamed with JTG and they formed the tag team, Cryme Tyme.
Gaspard later began an acting career which he stated in an interview for Right After Wrestling.
He starred in Get Hard.
On March 5, 2011, Gaspard was arrested by police in Columbus, Ohio for having allegedly refused the commands of a police officer and then resisting arrest for jaywalking.
He was later cleared of all charges in July 2011.
On May 17, 2020, Gaspard was caught in a strong rip current at Marina del Rey beach in Venice Beach, California.
On May 20, 2020, his body was found washed up in Venice Beach, California, three days after he had gone missing and identified by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Bukittinggi (Indonesian for "high hill", formerly called Fort de Kock) is a city in West Sumatra, Indonesia.
The population of this city was estimated at 120,000 according to the 2010 census.
Bukittinggi became the capital city of Indonesia from 1948 to 1949 when Indonesia was at war with the Netherlands.
Yogyakarta is a city in the Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
Yogyakarta was the capital city of Indonesia from 1947 to 1948.
The city is near two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Borobudur temple and Prambanan temple.
Yogyakarta is a major center of education in Indonesia.
Public universities in the city include:
Gadjah Mada University one of Indonesia's best known state universities.
Yogyakarta State University
Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University
Indonesia Arts Institute
Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta
Islamic University of Indonesia
Atma Jaya University
Sanata Dharma University
Kenzo Suzuki (born July 25, 1974) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for wrestling for WWE and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Suzuki is currently wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling and is part of the stable, Voodoo Murders.
He is often managed to the ring by his real-life wife, Hiroko Suzuki.
Kenzo Suzuki's OWOW profile
is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan.
It is on the island of Honshu.
Its capital is the city of Gifu.
Gifu is part of the Tōkai region.
Shirakawa in Gifu is a UNESCO's World Heritage Site.
Kinkazan and Gifu Castle
Joining hands-structure of Shirakawa-go
Gero hot springs
Special products
Ayu-cuisine
Hida beef
Ena, Gifu
Gero, Gifu
Gifu, Gifu, capital
Gujō, Gifu
Hida, Gifu
Kakamigahara, Gifu
Kani, Gifu
Kaizu, Gifu
Mino, Gifu
Minokama, Gifu
Mizuho, Gifu
Mizunami, Gifu
Motosu, Gifu
Nakatsugawa, Gifu
Ōgaki, Gifu
Seki, Gifu
Takayama, Gifu
Toki, Gifu
Yamagata, Gifu
Otaki Limestone Cave
Otaki Limestone cave is one of the biggest limestone caves in Japan.
There is no daylight inside, so you may feel that the air in there is very still.
If you go there in summer, you may feel cool, and if you go there in winter, you may feel much warmer than outside of it.
The walls are made of limestone and look milky white.
Hidaichinomiya-Minashi jinja is the main Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Gifu Prefecture's Official website
A prefectural office of Gifu
Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler.
He is currently signed to WWE where he competes under the ring name Xavier Woods.
He is a member of The New Day stable with Kofi Kingston and Big E. He holds the WWE Tag Team Championship with Kingston and Big E. He defends the championship under the Freebird Rule.
He has also wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2007 to 2010 where he won the TNA World Tag Team Championship one time with Jay Lethal.
Woods also is famous for a leaked   sexual intercourse video of himself and fellow wwe wrestler paige
Consequences Creed's official website
Semih Erden (born July 28, 1986 in Istanbul, Turkey) is an Turkish basketball player who currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA.
He was selected 60th overall in the 2nd round in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics, while he was playing for Fenerbahçe Ülker in his homeland.
Erden arrived in Boston for the 2010–11 season, but was traded to Cleveland near the end of the season.
During the 2011 NBA lockout, he returned to Turkey and played for Beşiktaş; after the lockout ended in December 2011, he returned to the Cavaliers.
Semih Erden's NBA profile
Turkish basketball players
Bombs Away (TNA) / Bomb Scare (Independent circuit) (Diving knee drop)
Chaos Theory (Williams pushes the opponent from behind into the turnbuckles, grabs hold of their waist, rolls backwards with them and follows up with a bridging German suplex)
Guillotine choke – 2010
Revolution DDT (Tornado DDT)
Anarchy Knee (Running high knee)
British Figure Four Leglock (Reverse figure four leglock)
Cravate, sometimes with repeated knee strikes to the opponent's head
European uppercut, sometimes from the top rope
Inverted Gory special
Bridging/Release double underhook suplex, sometimes from the top rope
Push up facebusters
Snap suplex transitioned into a gutwrench suplex and finished with an exploder suplex
PWI ranked him #45 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2010
IWGP Tag Team Championship (one time) with Brutus Magnus
TNA Television Championship (two times)
TNA World Tag Team Championship (one time) with Brutus Magnus
Philidor's defence, usually called the Philodor, is one of the basic chess openings.
It was used often by the 18th century master Philidor, and he published analysis about it in his textbook L'Analyse du jeu des échecs (1849).
Philidor's counter-gambit
3.d4 f5
3.d4 exd4
5.Nc3 Be7 or 5...g6 followed by 6...Bg7
1.e4 d6
2.d4 Nf6
3.Nc3 Nbd7
4.Nf3 e5
Kosten, Tony 1992.
Winning with the Philidor.
Boyle was born in Ireland to a titled Anglo-Irish family.
He was the fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, who had arrived in Ireland in 1588.
When Robert Hooke was young, Boyle employed him as an instrument-maker and assistant.
They continued to cooperate when Hooke took charge of experiments at the Royal Society.
Scientific research was the main focus of Boyle's life.
He joined other like-minded men in a group which called itself the "Invisible College".
He was part of the group which founded the Royal Society in 1660.
Boyle was an alchemist, but also the first modern chemist.
His 1661 book, The Sceptical Chymist, is important in the history of chemistry.
Religious interests
As a director of the East India Company Boyle spent large sums in promoting the spread of Christianity in the East.
He contributed liberally to missionary societies and to the expenses of translating the Bible or portions of it into various languages.
Hunter, Michael. (
Robert Boyle, 1627-91: scrupulosity and science.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. ;
OCLC 185478148
Boyle: between God and science.
New Haven: Yale University Press. ;
OCLC 698916661
Irish physicists
All of these plants are succulents.
The plants grows in Mexico and Guatemala.
In total, there are 4 species:
Myrtillocactus cochal
Myrtillocactus eichlamii
Myrtillocactus schenckei
Flowers are white or yellowish, its length is appr.
2.5 cm.
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Myrtillocactus
NCBI: Myrtillocactus
The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a supercarrier of the United States Navy.
Starting in late 2011, The USS Nimitz will be stationed at Naval Station Everett in Everett, Washington.
It is named after Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
It is set to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Its length is an amazing 1063 feet or 333 meters.
It has four steam catapults that can speed up a 100,000 pound plane to 160 mph in 100 meters.
It can launch early warning planes, F/A-18 hornets and Super Hornet fighter-bomber aircraft.
It is powered by two nuclear reactors and can stay at sea for 24 years without refueling although refueling needs to be done carefully and only in special naval bases.
It weighs 100,000 tons.
It carries a maximum of 130 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets or 85-90 other planes.
Commelinoideae is a subfamily of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the dayflower family (Commelinaceae).
The Commelinoideae is one of two subfamilies within the Commelinaceae and includes 39 genera (out of 41 in the family) and all but 12 of the family's several hundred known species.
Emma Bunton, also known as Baby Spice, is a British singer-songwriter and television promoter.
She was born on 21 January 1976.
She was a member of girl group the Spice Girls.
She gained her nickname from being the youngest member of the group and also because she looked young.
She was a contestant in the 2006 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
She is also the host of the Heart FM Saturday evening show from 4pm to 7pm.
On 12 August 2012, the Spice Girls performed a medley of "Wannabe" and "Spice Up Your Life" at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.
They got back together just for the event.
Their performance was the most tweeted moment of the Olympics closing ceremony with over 116,000 tweets on Twitter per minute.
Bunton's long-term partner since 1998 is singer Jade Jones.
The couple have two sons: Beau Lee Jones and Tate Lee Jones.
She is also a godmother to Geri Halliwell's daughter Bluebell Madonna Halliwell, alongside Victoria Beckham.
The steeplechase is an obstacle race in athletics, which derives its name from the word steeplechase in horse racing.
its when you have to run around the track over hurdles an water to win
Kenneth Anderson (born March 6, 1976 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) is an American professional wrestler who is currently wrestling for TNA Wrestling under the ring name, Mr. Anderson and is the current reigning TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
Anderson also wrestled for WWE from 2005 to 2009 as Mr. Kennedy before being released by the company because it was reported that Kennedy had injured his wrist during his last match with the company, and a stiff back suplex almost injured Randy Orton.
Mr. Kennedy's Official website
website  at tnawrestling.com
People from Green Bay, Wisconsin
South Sudan is a country in Africa.
Its official name is the Republic of South Sudan.
It used to be a part of Sudan.
A civil war began in 2013.
The landlocked country is bordered by Ethiopia to the east; Kenya to the southeast; Uganda to the south; the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southwest; the Central African Republic to the west; and the Republic of Sudan to the north.
South Sudan includes the vast swamp region of the Sudd formed by the White Nile, locally called the Bahr al Jabal.
What is now South Sudan was once part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
This part of the British Empire became the Republic of Sudan when independence was achieved in 1956.
After the First Sudanese Civil War, the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region was formed in 1972 and lasted until 1983.
A second Sudanese civil war soon developed and ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005.
Later that year, the Autonomous Government of Southern Sudan was formed.
South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011 at midnight local time, after a referendum held in January 2011.
In the referendum, nearly 99% of voters wanted to separate from the rest of Sudan.
The United Nations Security Council met on 13 July 2011 to formally discuss membership for the Republic of South Sudan.
The next day, 14 July 2011, South Sudan became a United Nations member state.
South Sudan has also applied to join the Commonwealth of Nations, the East African Community, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
The country was declared eligible to apply for membership in the Arab League as well.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, one athlete from South Sudan competed under the flag of the International Olympic Committee.
In 2013 a civil war broke out.
Its capital is Juba.
Between eight and twelve million people live there.
Over 200 languages are spoken, but the official language is English.
Arabic is also spoken by many people.
The main religion is Christianity, practised by nearly 78% of the population.
Another 20% practise African traditional religions, and just 3% are Muslim.
Much of South Sudan's economy is based on oil, but they also have a large lumber industry mainly consisting of teak.
It is a very poor and under-developed country.
There is very little infrastructure, and the civil wars have caused a lot of damage.
2010s establishments in Africa
S Club, formerly S Club 7 and currently touring under the name S Club 3 and a bit are a British pop group.
They formed in 1998 in London and split up in 2003.
The group reunited in 2008 with Jo O'Meara, Bradley McIntosh and Paul Cattermole and was renamed S Club.
1994: S Club
1997: '7'
1999: Sunshine
2000: Seeing Double
The New York Times Best Seller list is a list of best-selling books in the United States that has been published weekly on Sundays by the New York Times, a New York City based newspaper since 9 April 1942.
It is also released a stand-alone publication, meaning it is sometimes published separately outside of the newspaper, and can also be found online.
The list is usually split into fiction and non-fiction sections; each contain ten to twenty titles.
Muskmelons (Cucumis melo) are a type of melon.
Cantaloupes are a popular type of muskmelon, but there are other types like the Honeydew Melon.
They come from Persia  (Iran) and nearby countries.
They were transported west to Europe near the time of Christ's birth.
The name Cantaloupe comes from the italian town they were cultivated in: Cantalupo nel Sannio
Muskmelons are native to Iran, as well as parts of India and Afghanistan.
The first known mention of the muskmelon was in Greece in the 3rd century BC.
There is an old Egyptian painting that shows a fruit some people think was a muskmelon.
In the first century AD, Romans knew about the muskmelon, and both the Greeks and Romans found that it could be used as medicine or to eat.
At about this time, China also found out about the muskmelon.
During the Middle Ages the muskmelon spread across Europe to as far west as Spain and Christopher Columbus brought seeds of it to the Caribbean in 1494.
In the 1600s it was being grown across North America by the Spanish, the English and Native Americans.
By 1650 the muskmelon was being grown in Brazil.
Muskmelons can widely vary in taste, depending on each fruit: some are sweet and some more closely resemble their cucurbitaceae cousin, the cucumber, in taste.
In 1513, a Spanish writer said of the muskmelon that "the good [muskmelons] are like good women, and the bad like bad women."
Maybe expecting all melons to be sweet, which is not the case as mentioned earlier.
The 2006 Hengchun earthquake happened on Tuesday December 26, 2006 at 12:25 UTC (20:25 local time) near Taiwan.
On the surface the center of the earthquake was about 22.8 km west southwest of Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan.
The center of the earthquake underground was 21.9 km deep in the Luzon Strait ().
Reports of the strength of the quake do not all agree.
Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau reported 7.0 ML  The United States Geological Survey estimated the quake to be 7.1 Mw  The Hong Kong Observatory   and the Japan Meteorological Agency  said 7.2 Mw.
Taiwan's Central News Agency reported that it was the strongest earthquake to hit Hengchun in one hundred years.
The earthquake hurt and killed many people and damaged many buildings.
It also damaged several undersea cables.
The broken cables were a problem for telecommunication services in parts of Asia.
The date of the earthquake was unusual.
The earthquake happened exactly two years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that caused terrible damage to the coastal communities across Southeast and South Asia.
It was also exactly three years after the 2003 earthquake that almost destroyed the southern Iranian city of Bam.
Tsunami warning
This earthquake was the first time Taiwan detected a tsunami.
The water level changed only 25 cm and did not damage anything.
Warning from agencies in other areas
An early tsunami warning came from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
They reported that the earthquake caused a 1-meter tsunami.
It was moving towards the east coast of the Philippines.
The Hong Kong Observatory also reported a tsunami that would probably not affect Hong Kong.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
US Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake report
Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau earthquake report
Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan The CWB maintains an up-to-date record of earthquakes and their aftershocks.
Reuters article
BBC NEWS article
CNN article
International Herald Tribune article
Singapore's Channel NewsAsia report on 28 December 2006
2000s in Taiwan
The Cuban solenodon or almiqui (Solenodon cubanus) is a species of soricomorph that is endemic to Cuba.
It belongs to the family Solenodontidae along with a similar species, the Hispaniolan Solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus).
The solenodon is unusual among mammals in that its saliva is venomous.
Since its discovery in 1861 by the German naturalist Wilhelm Peters.
Chicago Tribune is a major newspaper that serves Chicago, Illinois.
It was founded on June 10, 1847 by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler and Joseph K. C. Forrest.
The Tribune was also known for running the wrong result in its headline, "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" during the 1948 United States presidential election which it was expected Thomas E. Dewey would defeat Harry S. Truman.
Tribune
Nicole Elizabeth "Snooki" LaValle (née Polizzi; born November 23, 1987) is an American reality television personality, television host, author, professional wrestler, and dancer.
She is best known for being a cast member of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore and starring in Snooki & Jwoww and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.
She earned $150,000 per Jersey Shore episode by the last season.
She also appeared as the guest hostess for WWE Raw in 2011 and competed at WrestleMania XXVII that same year.
Angelina Pivarnick (born June 26, 1986) is an American television personality.
She is best known for starring in the first two seasons of the MTV's reality show Jersey Shore and the VH1 show Couples Therapy.
Pivarnick made her return to television in Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.
She was born in Staten Island, New York.
Vincent "Vinny" Guadagnino (born November 11, 1987) is an American reality television personality and actor.
He is best known for his time on MTV's Jersey Shore.
In the November 8, 2011 episode of 90210, he played a small role that he reprised in the episode titled "O Holly Night".
MTV has also produced Guadagnino's own talk show, The Show with Vinny, which debuted in May 2013.
Speaking Profile Vinny Guadagnino's profile and lecture topics on the American Program Bureau website
Sammi Giancola (born March 14, 1987)  is an American television personality and businesswoman.
She is best known as one of the eight main cast members of the MTV reality series Jersey Shore.
Michael Sorrentino (born July 4, 1982), also known as The Situation, is an American television personality.
He appeared on the MTV reality show Jersey Shore in all six seasons from December 2009 through its final episode in December 2012.
On January 19, 2018, Sorrentino pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.
On October 5, 2018, Sorrentino was sentenced to 8 months in prison, 2 years of supervised probation, and 500 hours of community service.
Jennifer Lynn "Jenni" Farley (born February 27, 1986), also known as JWoww, is an American television personality.
She is known for being one of the eight main cast members in the MTV reality series Jersey Shore, and is a main cast member of its spin-off, Snooki & Jwoww.
Ronald Magro Jr. (born December 4, 1985) is an American television personality and actor.
He is best known as one of the eight main cast members in the MTV reality series Jersey Shore.
She was born in The Bronx, New York City.
In 2017, Ortiz-Magro appeared in the second season of the E!
reality series Famously Single.
In 2018, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro became part of the main cast in the MTV reality television series Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.
Deena Nicole Buckner (born Deena Nicole Cortese; January 12, 1987) is an American reality television personality.
She appeared on the MTV reality show Jersey Shore from 2010 to 2012.
In November 2016, Cortese became engaged to Christopher Buckner.
They were married on October 28, 2017.
Paul DelVecchio Jr. (born July 5, 1980), publicly known as DJ Pauly D, is an American television personality and disc jockey.
He is best known for being a housemate on MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.
He is the first of the Jersey Shore cast to get his own spin-off show, The Pauly D Project.
Stephen Andrew Baldwin (born May 12, 1966) is an American actor.
He is known for his conservative religious and political beliefs.
He is the youngest of the Baldwin brothers.
He was a housemated in the 2010 series of Big Brother (UK).
The Pirc defence is one of the asymmetrical hypermodern defences, usually to 1.e4.
It is similar to the Modern defence, but reserves the decision as to whether to fianchetto the g8 bishop.
Because it is so flexible it lends itself to transpositions.
This is one of the main lines:
3.Nc3 g6
4.f4 Bg7
5.Nf3 0-0
6.Bd3 Na6
7.0-0 c5
which is a transposition into Philidor's defence.
Another idea is:
1.d4 d6
2.Nf3 Bg4
Tropical Cyclone Yasi was a tropical cyclone that caused a lot of damage when it reached the Australian coast at about midnight on Wednesday 2 February 2011.
The storm which started in the Coral Sea, destroyed hundreds of homes in the northern Queensland towns of Tully, Mission Beach, Innisfail and Cardwell.
Yasi was a Category Five storm, the highest level, with winds of about 300 km/h. It was the biggest storm in Queensland's history, with more than 10,000 people moved from their homes.
The storm passed between the two big cities of Cairns and Townsville which only suffered minor damage.
Early estimates of damage put the cost at about AU$100 million.
Cyclone Yasi did not cause the damage that government expected as it missed major cities.
It did however destroy 30% of the houses in Tully.
At least 75% of the banana crop was destroyed, and damage to the sugar cane farms is expected to cost about AU$500 million.
One person died when they were poisoned by fumes from a portable generator.
Damage to power lines left 150,000 homes without electricity.
The rainforest around Mission Beach was flattened by the cyclone.
This meant that most of the food and shelter needed for the wildlife has been destroyed.
The Southern Cassowary, a large endangered bird, will need help to survive in the forest.
After Cyclone Larry in 2006 it is thought that about one third of the cassowaries at Mission Beach died from starvation.
A group, called Rainforest Rescue, is going to set up feeding areas in the forest for the birds.
Photos of damage from Cyclone Yasi
Rainforest Rescue
2011 in weather
February 2011 events
Fianna Fáil is an Irish political party.
It was founded in 1926 by Éamon DeValera and Constance Markievicz,
Its leader is Micheál Martin, who has also been Taoiseach since 2020.
It was a faction of Sinn Fein - another Irish political party alongside Fine Gael - before splitting to become its own political party in 1926.
Its name is translated from Irish as 'Soldiers of Destiny' but literally means 'Warriors of Fál' (Fál was the name of Ireland in legends).
Presidents/Leaders
There have been eight leaders of the Fianna Fáil since its creation in 1926.
Éamon de Valera, (1926 – 1959)
Seán Lemass, (1959 – 1966)
Jack Lynch, (1966 – 1979)
Charles Haughey, (1979 – 1992)
Albert Reynolds, (1992 – 1994)
Bertie Ahern, (1994 – 2008)
Brian Cowen, (2008 – 2011)
Micháel Martin (2011 onwards)
Youth Wing
Official party website
The Official Youth Wing 'Ógra Fianna Fáil's' website
Jim Agnew (born March 21, 1966) is a Canadian retired professional hockey defenceman.
Agnew was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the 8th round (157th overall) in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.
After a stellar career in the Western Hockey League with the Brandon Wheat Kings and Portland Winter Hawks, Agnew began his professional career with the Canucks in 1986.
Agnew spent most of the 1986–87 in the American Hockey League, although he did receive a four-game stretch with the Canucks.
He would spend four full seasons in Vancouver's minor-league system while seeing occasional action in Vancouver.
Playing ten games for the team in the 1987–88 during which time he recorded his only career point, and was called up again for seven games in 1989–90.
While playing for the Canucks in March 1990, Agnew seriously injured his left knee and required surgery.
This would be the start of a chronic knee problem.
Injuries to his left knee caused him to miss significant action six times over the next four seasons, and required three separate surgeries.
His knee problems struck just as he made the NHL on a full-time basis.
He spent virtually the entire 1990–91 and 1991–92 seasons on the Canuck roster as a utility player seeing action at both forward and defence, but was limited to just 44 games over that stretch due to injury and failed to record a point.
He was released by the Canucks in 1992 and signed as a free agent with the Hartford Whalers.
Again, however, he was limited to only 16 games by an injury to his left knee.
After injuring his knee again during the Whalers' 1993 training camp, he decided to retire.
Deloraine is a farming town in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
It is near the Turtle Mountains in the southwest corner of the province.
Town of Deloraine
Town of Deloraine Community Profile
Map of Deloraine at Statcan
The Western Hockey League (WHL) is a major junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Official website of the Western Hockey League
Official website of the Canadian Hockey League
Maps to WHL arenas
The Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is an insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan.
It involves the United States, United Kingdom, Pakistani military and Pakistani tribes against the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The main reason for the conflict was tensions breaking out between Pakistan Armed Forces and al-Qaeda in 2004.
3117 Pakistani armed forces members have been killed, as well as 235+ tribe members and 15 United States soldiers.
17742 insurgents have been killed or captured.
During 2004, S.A.S. soldiers were ordered to take out a renegade police officer.
Two men were caught by the police and taken back to the station.
Tempers had already been running high because of an arrest by soldiers who had turned out to be agents working in the Taliban.
2010s in Pakistan
2020s in Pakistan
Area code 869 is the local telephone area code of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The 869 area code was created during a split from the original (809) area code which was done in October, 1996.
Like many Caribbean countries St Kitts uses +1 followed by the area code as the international direct dial phone code.
When in Saint Kitts and Nevis, use the seven digits alone.
When calling to Saint Kitts and Nevis from anywhere in the United States or Canada simply dial 1(869) + seven digit phone number.
North American Numbering Plan Administrator
List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 869 Area Code
It covers all of London boroughs, except the City of London.
It is the largest of the 52 police forces in the United Kingdom.
In 2009, it had about 30000 police officers, more than three times the size of the next largest force.
Law enforcement agencies of the United Kingdom
1829 establishments in Europe
A network port is a 16-bit number that identifies one side of a connection between two computers.
Computers use port numbers to determine to which process or application a message should be delivered.
As network addresses are like street address, port numbers are like suite or room numbers.
Any program may use any port, though some port numbers have a standard use and some programs may be limited in which ports they can use for security reasons.
Firewalls often block access to ports based on the network address and port of the source or destination computer, or the program using the port (if the firewall is running on the same computer).
A false pregnancy, hysterical pregnancy or pseudopregnancy is when a mammal shows some of the symptoms associated with a pregnancy, but without being pregnant.
False pregnancies commonly occur in dogs and mice.
False pregnancy in humans is less common, and usually has psychological causes.
False pregnancy is probably caused by changes in the endocrine system of the body, which leads to the secretion of hormones.
These hormones are the reason physical changes happen, similar to those during pregnancy.
The underlying cause is often mental.
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Naomi Eliane Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is a British supermodel and actress who was born in Streatham, a district in Lambeth, London and started her modelling career in the 1980s.
She has appeared on over 500 magazine covers.
Naomi was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world.
As the most famous black model of her time, Campbell has been outspoken throughout her career against the racial bias that exists in the fashion industry.
Her personal life is widely reported, particularly her affairs with famous men—including boxer Mike Tyson and actor Robert De Niro—and several high-profile assault convictions.
Campbell is the daughter of Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris.
In accordance with her mother's wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who abandoned her mother when she was four months pregnant and who went unnamed on her birth certificate.
She took the surname Campbell from her mother's second marriage.
During her early years, Campbell lived in Rome, where her mother worked as a modern dancer.
Following their return to London, she was left in the care of her maternal grandmother, Ruby, while her mother travelled across Europe with the dance troupe Fantastica.
At five years old, Campbell was enrolled at the Barbara Speake Stage School and at the age of ten, she was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where she studied ballet.
In 1978 Campbell was in the video for "Is This Love" by Bob Marley.
When she was 12 she tap-danced in Culture Club's video for "I'll Tumble 4 Ya".
In April 1991 Campbell was in the video for "In the Closet" by Michael Jackson.
In 1993 Campbell fell over while she walked down the runway for Vivienne Westwood in a pair of foot-high platform shoes.
That year she was on the cover of Vogue twice.
In September 1994 Campbell released an album called babywoman.
It has sold over a million copies.
A novel that she wrote called Swan was also published.
Campbell was on the cover of Playboy in 2000.
In 2011 she was in the music video for "Girl Panic!"
by Duran Duran.
In 2013 she was a judge on the reality show The Face.
The blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) is the most venomous octopus.
This small cephalopod mollusc lives in warm, shallow reefs off the coast of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
It has a life span of about two years.
As of 2020, four different species have been described and named.
Other species  likely exist.
The blue-ringed octopus has distinctive blue rings on its body and on its eight arms.
This is its warning colouration, which it shows when attacked.
The full warning display is bright yellow with blue rings or lines.
It is only about 8 in (20 cm) with the tentacles spread wide.
It eats crabs, shrimp, and small fish.
It hides in the reef, then catches prey with its arms, bites it with its tough beak, and kills it by delivering a poison in the saliva.
The poison is a neurotoxin (maculotoxin) that is strong enough to kill a human being.
Plasmodium falciparum is a protozoan parasite, one of the species of Plasmodium which cause malaria in humans.
It is transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito.
P. falciparum is the most dangerous of these infections as P. falciparum (or malignant) malaria has the highest rates of complications and mortality.
There are about 200 species in the genus Plasmodium, divided into 15 sub-genera.
The parasites are partners in a complex co-evolution with mosquitos and land vertebrate species.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kazarsky () (June 16, 1797 – June 16, 1833) was a Russian Navy officer.
He was the hero of the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829).
Kazarsky was the captain of brig Mercury.
He became famous after the victory in the battle against two Turkish ships of the line.
Kazarsky joined the fleet in 1811.
In 1814 he became an officer.
14 May 1829 Kazarsky won the battle against two Turkish ships.
From 26 May to 17 July 1829 Kazarsky was the Captain of frigate Pospeshny.
From 1831 to 1833 Kazarsky was a member of the retinue of Nicholas I of Russia.
In 1833 he was poisoned.
Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde (born 7 September 1951 Akron, Ohio) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
She is a member of the rock band The Pretenders.
She has been singing since about 1975.
Musicians from Akron, Ohio
The sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) is a bird that lives in Canada and the northern U.S. It migrates to Mexico and the southern U.S. in winter.
Behind the Paint is an autobiography of Joseph Bruce better known as Violent J, one half of the hip-hop group, Insane Clown Posse.
The book was published by Psychopathic Records in July of 2003 and had a revised second edition that was released in August 2004.
The book is about Bruce's childhood, professional wrestling career, and musical career.
Brian Raftery, a writer for Wired magazine commented on the book saying: it was a "soul-baring memoir filled with unpleasant details."
Kratts' Creatures was a 1996 children's television series.
The show was about learning about the world of animals.
The show produced a spin-off show called Zooboomafoo due to Kratts' Creatures popularity.
Reruns are currently airing on PBS in America.
Kratt Brothers (Chris and Martin Kratt)
Alison Baldwin - Shannon Duff
Ttark - voiced by Ron Rubin
Kratts' Creatures on PBS Kids GO
Television series about animals
A lenticular cloud (Altocumulus lenticularis) is a type of cloud that forms at high altitudes.
They are shaped like discs, and remain roughly in the same position.