Hausjärvi

Hausjärvi is a municipality of Finland. Its seat is in Oitti.

It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality has a population of  () and covers an area of  of which  is water. The population density is .

Geographically, and to some extent politically, Hausjärvi is characterized by its three population centres, Hikiä (population 1,135), Oitti (population 2,416) and Ryttylä (population 1,842). The administrative center of the municipality is Oitti, but politically there sometimes emerges debate on which centres should be developed and/or made targets of public investment.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities
 Naie, Japan (since 1995)
 Väike-Maarja Parish, Estonia (since 1989)


Silver Eye

Silver Eye is the seventh studio album by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, released on 31 March 2017 by Mute Records. The album's first single, "Anymore", was released to digital music retailers on 23 January 2017 after its premiere on Lauren Laverne's BBC Radio 6 show.

Background and release
In July 2015, Alison Goldfrapp announced on Twitter that the group had returned to the studio to work on music for the forthcoming seventh album, but was mum as to a release date, stating she could only generalize it to be "sometime in 2017". This came after finishing their tour to promote their last album, Tales of Us, and scoring a Royal National Theatre production of Medea. Goldfrapp noted their desire to do something different from previous albums Supernature and Head First, eventually bringing in John Congleton (Blondie, St Vincent, Swans) and The Haxan Cloak to produce on the strength of his work on Björk's 2015 album Vulnicura.

In early December 2016, Goldfrapp posted on their Instagram page the covers of their first six studio albums, and later that month, the band posted an image of two topless figures with bleached blonde hair holding each other's heads with arms slicked with a black, oil-like substance. The social media upload was hashtagged '#goldfrapp7', implying it was a piece born from the album's creative and marketing campaign. The title of the album, Silver Eye, was accidentally leaked with the posting of a pre-order link on the HMV website on 21 January 2017, and was later confirmed in a press release by the band on 23 January.

The press release also announced the release of the album's opening track, "Anymore", as the album's lead single. Released on 9 February, the official music video for "Anymore" was directed by Alison Goldfrapp, produced by Mary Calderwood, and filmed in Fuerteventura. Two further tracks were released ahead of the album. On 9 March 2017, Goldfrapp premiered the album's closing track, "Ocean", through Billboard and released to digital music retailers on 10 March. "Moon in Your Mouth" was released on 24 March 2017.

The music video for the second single "Systemagic" premiered on 24 April 2017.  The music video for the third single "Everything Is Never Enough" premiered on Nowness on 7 September 2017.

On 19 May 2018 it was announced on the band's social media pages that an announcement and video were to be unveiled over the weekend. On May 21, 2018, a remix of "Ocean" featuring Dave Gahan was released worldwide, along with the news that it would be the lead single from a deluxe edition of Silver Eye.

Critical reception

Silver Eye received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 21 reviews.

Commercial performance
Silver Eye debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart, selling 11,733 copies in its first week.

Track listing

Notes
  signifies an additional producer.
  signifies a co-producer.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Silver Eye.

Goldfrapp
 Alison Goldfrapp – vocals, instruments
 Will Gregory – instruments

Additional musicians

 Charlie Jones – bass
 David Wrench – programming
 John Congleton – drum programming
 Leo Abrahams – guitar
 Robert Brian – drums

Technical personnel

 Alison Goldfrapp – production
 Will Gregory – production
 David Wrench – mixing
 The Haxan Cloak – co-production , additional production
 John Congleton – co-production , additional production
 Leo Abrahams – additional production
 Andy Savours – additional production
 Sebastian Sternberg – live drum loops
 Marta Salogni – engineering
 Alessandro Baldessari - additional engineering
 Ted Jensen – mastering
 Matt Colton – mastering

Artwork
 Alison Goldfrapp – art direction, photography
 Mat Maitland – design

Charts


Jens Eriksson

Jens Eriksson (born August 22, 1984) is a Swedish Ice hockey player, currently playing for Guildford Flames of the English Premier Ice Hockey League.

Playing career


Konstantinovo, Haskovo Province

Konstantinovo, Haskovo Province is a village in the municipality of Simeonovgrad, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.


Roșia Montană Project

Roșia Montană Project is a gold and silver mining project initiated by Roșia Montană Gold Corporation in Roşia Montană, Romania. If approved, it would become Europe's largest open-pit gold mine and it would use the gold cyanidation mining technique. Currently, the project is on-hold awaiting a parliamentary decision.

The benefits of the state consist of 20% of the shares owned by the publicly owned company Minvest Deva and the 6% royalties of the gold and silver extracted not taking into consideration other valuable metals such as Wolfram, Uranium, Tellurium, Germanium, Titanium, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Nickel, Chrome, Cobalt, Gallium, Bismuth, Arsenic or the Potassium-Feldspar.  a Romanian company established in 1997, in Alba County, based in Roșia Montană, whose shareholders are the State-owned mining company Minvest Deva - with 19.31%, Gabriel Resources – with 80.46% (listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (GBU symbol)) and other minority shareholders – with 0.23%.

The project met a significant resistance from environmental groups and from neighbouring European countries, culminating in the nationwide protests by thousands of people across the country since September 2013.

A number of locals refuse to sell their properties to the Roșia Montană Gold Corporation and, in order for the project to commence, the state would need to exercise eminent domain.

History

Frank Timiș, a Romanian-born Australian, founded a company, Gabriel Resources, in the Channel Island of Jersey in 1995.

Timiș negotiated with the Romanian state and, in 1996, they signed a contract with state-owned Regia Autonomă a Cuprului Deva for the creation of a joint venture (Eurogold Resources) for the exploitation of auriferous residues from previous exploitations. Gabriel Resources was allowed to have 60% of the shares in the new company but, in a new protocol a year later, the Gabriel Resources stake was increased to 80%, while state's participation (through Minvest) was reduced to 18.8%, while being still allowed to exploit just around the existing mine. The company was renamed "Roșia Montană Gold Corporation" in 1999.

The extraction licenses owned by state-owned Minvest Deva were transferred to the joint venture following a call by Minister of Industries Radu Berceanu in a letter that has since disappeared. Between 1999 and 2000, the operating perimeter was increased from 12 km² to 20 km² and later 42 km².

In 2000, RMGC paid $20 million for a pre-feasibility study (done by American company Pincock Allen & Holt) which resulted in an estimate of 8 million ounces of gold. The company claimed to invest $250 million (raised from the stock market, banks and mutual funds) and it promised that within three years the project would create 25,000 jobs.

The Social Liberal Union has drifted away from its platform prior to the parliamentary elections and the Government approved a draft law regulating the conditions of participation, passing it to the Parliament for debate. This has sparked massive spontaneous protests still ongoing (see 2013 Romanian protests against the Roșia Montană Project) and the presidential candidate Crin Antonescu unexpectedly declared in a press conference that in his opinion the project should be rejected. The Prime Minister Victor Ponta has also digressed claiming that the Government has approved the bill to prevent being sued for compensations and the Parliament will definitely vote against it closing the subject. Following this development, the Gabriel Resources shares have plummeted.

In November 2013 the Romanian Senat rejected the project, followed by the Chamber of Deputies in June 2014.

Technical aspects
Gabriel Resources, the Canadian majority owner of the project, ran a geological survey in 2000, which gave an estimation of 330 tons of gold and 1600 tons of silver in the four mountains surrounding the town of Roșia Montană, if the exploitation would use blasting and cyanide extraction.

The project would grind a large quantity of rock: 218 million tons according to the technical file of the project or 262 million tons according to the project memorandum,<ref name="IGR">Geological Institute of Romania, Point of View sent to the Parliamentary Commission for Roșia Montană", September 30, 2013, at Centrul de Investigații Media</ref> resulting a dust having particles with a diameter between 74 and 150 micrometres. The dust would be leached with cyanides in order to extract the gold; due to the small diameter of the particles, the resulting sludge would have a large quantity of cyanide compounds: according to RMGC estimates, about 500 tons, out of a total of 214.9 million tons of sludge.

The sludge would be deposited in a 45-hectare tailings pond, which would be built on the valley of the Corna River, requiring a dam 600 metres wide and 185 metres high and changing the course of river.

Geology

Roșia Montană Gold Corporation claimed that the pond would be safe from infiltration due to the impermeable clay formations on the hillsides. This was disputed in a 2013 report by the Geological Institute of Romania, which claimed that the company ignored the real geological context as the left hillside is made of highly porous sandstone. The Institute argued that the valley cannot be used safely to deposit such a large quantity of tailings and proposed as a solution the reduction of the quantity of tailings through a flotation process combined with porosity sealing of the bottom of the pond.

The Geological Institute also voiced concerns that the method of exploitation would lead to the loss of large quantities of germanium, tellurium, arsenic, lead and zinc. The existence of notable quantities of copper, lead and zinc in the ore would lead to an increase in the usage of cyanide, a lower recovery rate for gold and silver, as well as leading to sulphocyanide-rich sludge. The company denies the existence of metals in notable quantities, which is contradicted by the Geological Institute.

In October 2013, during the hearing at the Senate, Ștefan Marincea, the President of the Geological Institute, accused his predecessor of signing a notice saying there are no fault lines in Roșia Montană, which Marincea contended is false and that there are many fault lines in the area. Marincea also argued that changing the course of the Cernea river is not possible because of the springs on the bottom of the Corna Valley.

Opposition

Opposition to the project was originally organized by Eugen David, a local farmer who refused to sell his land to Roșia Montană Gold Corporation. He was among the founders of "Alburnus Maior", an association of activists bearing the Roman name of the town. David gained the support of Teddy Goldsmith, an Anglo-French environmentalist and of Swiss-born journalist Stephanie Danielle Roth, who moved to Roșia Montană to help David's quest.

With help from Stephanie Danielle Roth, David's group was able to obtain grants from international NGOs (including George Soros's Open Society Institute) and to raise the issue of the mine on national level by organizing a hearing with 40 Romanian NGOs, including sections of international organizations such as Greenpeace. Alburnus Maior gained support from British actress Vanessa Redgrave, who, when receiving a prize at the Transilvania International Film Festival, she used her acceptance speech to bring the issue of the project, which led to coverage in the international press.

A number of organizations and groups opposed the project, including a group of 83 Romanian professors of economics, a group of artists and intellectuals (among which Horia-Roman Patapievici, the head of the Romanian Cultural Institute) who published a letter in The Guardian in 2006 and a number of international archeologists who voiced their concerns over the destruction of the area's unique Roman mines. The major churches of Romania, the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Churcha and the Greek-Catholic Church, oppose the project, as does the Romanian Academy.

On 1 September 2013 thousands of Romanians protested against the project in dozens of cities across the country, the protests continuing the following days in Bucharest.

Environment

Major issues regarding the environmental impact of the Roșia Montană Project regard the usage of cyanides, as well as the practice of open-pit mining, which would require the usage of a large area, including four mountains, which would, according to the opponents, "be turned into a desert".

The usage of cyanides has been a contentious issue, especially due to the fears of spillage into rivers and the groundwater. This fear was augmented by the precedent of another gold mining company in Romania, which similarly promised a state-of-the-art, self-contained, environmental-friendly project, having a dam burst (see 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill) and the cyanide-laced water of the tailings pond flowed into the Danube, leading to one of Europe's biggest environmental disasters.

The company claims that the local area has been polluted by 2000 years of bad mining techniques and that its environmental-impact analysis shows that the project will help restore the environment. The analysis was however called as bad science by a government panel in Hungary, which claimed that its data is "insufficient, deficient, inaccurate or not considered to be representative".

Since Romania joined the EU, mining in Romania is now subject to strict regulations regarding cyanide concentration. The Rosia Montana mine complies with these regulations and its cyanide concentration will be 20 times less than that of the Baia Mare mine.

Archeology and heritage

In order for the project to proceed, a number of archeological sites, as well as some historic buildings must be destroyed.

This includes large parts of the well-preserved 2000-year-old Roman mine galleries, which have attracted talk of a possible nomination to become a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Economics
The company attempted to get a $100 million loan from the World Bank in 2002, however the loan was canceled at the personal intervention of World Bank president James Wolfensohn.

Allegations of corruption
The Roșia Montană Project has been widely accused by opponents, the media and politicians as being corrupt. For instance, a Deutsche Welle editorial said that the project "practiced bribery through professional and systematic processes". The "Alliance for a Clean Romania", an NGO that fights corruption in Romania called for the project to be canceled due to the "non-transparent manner" through which everything was developed.

Politicians, both on the left and right sides of the political spectrum, accused their adversaries of being bribed in order to support the mining project. While in opposition, Social-Democratic leader Victor Ponta opposed the project claiming that the Roșia Montană Project stalled because "not all politicians can be bought like President Băsescu". On the other side of the political spectrum, Democratic-Liberal MP Theodor Paleologu claimed to oppose the project due to "the corruption of politicians and journalists". In October 2013, Liberal Senator Sorin Roșca Stănescu accused Traian Băsescu of receiving bribes from RMGC over the Roșia Montană Project through an offshore bank account in Seychelles.

Media and portrayals

Advertising

Gabriel Resources has a big advertising budget, receiving a systematically biased favorable campaign media coverage from certain newspapers and television stations."RMGC a cheltuit un milion de euro pe publicitate în doar şase luni ", 30 September 2011 The controversy includes commercials being withdrawn due to unbacked claims  and Gabriel Resources employees heavingly spamming online editions of media outlets and blogs with editorial oversight with favorable propaganda using proxys when necessary.

Documentaries

The debate over the Rosia Montana mine project inspired four documentaries.

A short documentary, The price of gold, showing views of both sides was released in 2004. Worthy persons like Ionel Haiduc, President of the Romanian Academy, , Director of the National History Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Ștefan Răgălie, General Director of Industrial Economics Department of the Romanian Academy, Corina Borș, archaeologist, etc. expressed their firm disapproval regarding the mining project.

The controversies surrounding the Roșia Montană gold mine project are explored in a documentary entitled  by Tibor Kocsis.  This film presented the plight of the anti-Gold Corporation residents of Rosia Montana, with a strong emphasis on the cultural and natural treasures of the area. The tourism attracted by the natural beauty and tranquillity of this isolated spot of the world is presented versus the risks of using huge amounts of cyanide in the gold ore processing. Gold Futures was based on Kocsis' previous multiple award-winning documentary on the subject entitled: "New Eldorado. Gold. The Curse of Rosia Montana."

More recently a new documentary partially funded by Gabriel Resources, Mine Your Own Business'', asserts that environmentalists' opposition to the mine locks people into poverty. The film claims that the majority of the people of the village support the mine, and the investment. The film presents foreign environmentalists as alien agents opposed to progress while residents are depicted as eagerly awaiting the new opportunity.

In 2012 the director Fabian Daub released an hour-long documentary about the story of Roșia Montană.

In November 2013, the freelance journalist Mihai Gotiu launched his book „The Roşia Montană Affair” („Afacerea Roşia Montană”). The author followed the unfolding of the project at Roşia Montana for the last 11 years, and the book presents his findings, including internal documents of the Roșia Montană Gold Corporation, diplomatic mail, and other documents that suggest lobbying strategies and pressures from important figures in Washington, London, Brussels or Bucharest.


Khomruduiyeh, Zarand

Khomruduiyeh (, also Romanized as Khomrūdū’īyeh and Khamardoo’eyeh; also known as Amrū’īyeh (Persian: امروئيه), Amredū’īyeh, Amroodiyeh Soosafid, Amrūdīyeh, Amrūdīyeh-ye Sū Sefīd, and Khomrūt) is a village in Hotkan Rural District, in the Central District of Zarand County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 16, in 7 families.


Muromegalovirus

Muromegalovirus is a genus of viruses in the order Herpesvirales, in the family Herpesviridae, in the subfamily Betaherpesvirinae. Rodents serve as natural hosts. There are currently three species in this genus including the type species Murid betaherpesvirus 1. Diseases associated with this genus include: infected peritoneal macrophages, dendritic cells (DC) and hepatocytes, inducing significant pathology in both the spleen and the liver. Murid viruses Murid betaherpesvirus 1 (MuHV-1) and Murid betaherpesvirus 2 (MuHV-2), previously defined as mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) and rat cytomegalovirus (RCMV), belong to this genus.

Species
The genus consists of the following three species:

 Murid betaherpesvirus 1
 Murid betaherpesvirus 2
 Murid betaherpesvirus 8

Structure
Viruses in Muromegalovirus are enveloped, with icosahedral, spherical to pleomorphic, and round geometries, and T=16 symmetry. The diameter is around 150-200 nm. Genomes are linear and non-segmented, around 230kb in length.

Life cycle
Viral replication is nuclear, and is lysogenic. Entry into the host cell is achieved by attachment of the viral glycoproteins to host receptors, which mediates endocytosis. Replication follows the dsDNA bidirectional replication model. DNA-templated transcription, with some alternative splicing mechanism is the method of transcription. The virus exits the host cell by nuclear egress, and  budding.
Rodents serve as the natural host.


Karkoszów

Karkoszów  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzeszyce, within Sulęcin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately  north-west of Sulęcin and  south-west of Gorzów Wielkopolski.

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).

The village has a population of 110.


Cincinnati Rockers

The Cincinnati Rockers were an arena football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They began play in 1992 as an expansion team in the Arena Football League and competed through the 1993 season before they suspended operations due to low attendance. The Rockers played their home games at the Riverfront Coliseum.

History

1992

The Rockers were announced in 1991 as successful restaurant owner Ted Gregory was granted the Arena league expansion the franchise. As one of four expansion teams for 1992, the Rockers sold 5,700 season tickets. Led by Art Schlichter, who had signed a one-year $40,000 contract, the Rockers finished their first season in the league with a surprising 7-3 record, but lost in the first round of the playoffs 41-36 to the Tampa Bay Storm.

1993

The team ceased operations following a 2-10 season in 1993. The team's attendance fell by almost 50%, leading to Tom Gregory's decision to drop out of the AFL for the 1994 season. Gregory attempted to find additional sponsors to re-launch the team in 1995, but he instead sold the franchise to the Hartford Sports & Entertainment Group, who moved the franchise to Hartford, Connecticut and became known as the Connecticut Coyotes.

Season-by-season

|-
|1992 || 7 || 3 || 0 || 2nd Northern || Lost Week 1 (Tampa Bay 41-36)
|-
|1993 || 2 || 10 || 0 || 5th Am. Conf. || – n/a –
|-
!Totals || 9 || 14 || 0
|colspan="2"| (including playoffs)
|}

Logos & uniform
The team color scheme incorporated bright yellow and green.

Notable players

Final roster

Arena Football Hall of Famers

Other players
 Chris Barber, Defensive specialist 1992
 Tony Collins, Fullback/linebacker 1992
 Art Schlichter, Quarterback 1992
 David Smith, Fullback/linebacker 1992
 Jackie Walker, Offensive/defensive lineman 1992
 Vince Hale, Offensive/defensive lineman 1992

Notable coaches

Head coaches
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 1993 Arena Football League season.

Notes
 The team appeared on the game EA Sports Arena Football and Arena Football: Road to Glory as a hidden bonus team.


NSDAP Office of Military Policy

The NSDAP Office of Military Policy (German: Wehrpolitisches Amt der NSDAP, W.P.A. or WPA, literally "NSDAP Office of Defense Policy" in English) was a Nazi Party organization. It was led by Franz Ritter von Epp and Anton Haselmayer, and housed in the same building as the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs, headed by Alfred Rosenberg.

During the remilitarization of Germany, started by the Nazis shortly after they took power, its avowed aim was to "clarify military-political questions, to conduct propaganda campaigns for the purpose of creating a belligerent spirit and a better understanding of military matters among the people, and to control all activities in the fields of military politics and sciences."

This attempt to gain sole authority in all matters of defense education and training brought it into conflict with the Defense Ministry, which objected to this intrusion into its monopoly on arms-bearing. As a result, it was dissolved in 1935, which did not bother Adolf Hitler; aside from the propaganda and war ministries there were also numerous other institutions and organizations already concerned with the 'remilitarization' of the German people.


North Dome (New York)

North Dome is a mountain located in Greene County, New York.
The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains. North Dome is flanked to the east by West Kill Mountain, and to the west faces Mount Sherrill.

North Dome stands within the watershed of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay.
The northern slopes of North Dome drain into the West Kill via Hagadone Brook and Bennett Brook, thence into Schoharie Creek, the Mohawk River, and the Hudson River.
The southern slopes of North Dome drain into Esopus Creek, and thence into the Hudson River.

North Dome is contained within the Westkill Mountain Wilderness Area of New York's Catskill State Park.
There is no hiking trail over the mountain, though an extension of the Devil's Path west from West Kill Mtn. has been contemplated.  The ascent is made by bushwack, most often from Spruceton Road. The only way to the top of the North Dome is through private land, a nearby summer camp.


Henningers Mills, New Jersey

Henningers Mills or Henningers Mill is an unincorporated community located along the border of Aberdeen and Marlboro townships in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.


Heli-Expo

Heli-Expo is the largest helicopter exhibition in the world. It is organized by the Helicopter Association International. In 2013, it attracted 20,393 visitors from all over the world. It is one of the largest gatherings of the industry it is often the place where innovations are introduced.

Both new and older model helicopters are on display at the show, as well as parts, accessories, upgrade kits, and information about services.

In 2016 Heli-Expo was held in Louisville, Kentucky for the first time.


Notre-Dame-de-Commiers

Notre-Dame-de-Commiers is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.

Population


Mussardia griseoplagiata

Mussardia griseoplagiata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Mussardia. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1959.


Warszawa (Praxis album)

Warszawa is a live album by experimental rock band Praxis, released in 1999 by the label Innerhythmic.

The album contains three of the supergroup's most influential members: bassist and producer Bill Laswell, guitarist Buckethead, and drummer Brain. This album was recorded during a live show in Warsaw, Poland and has some resemblance to the band's earlier material, containing elements of 1992's Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) and loud, noise-laden parts reminiscent of 1994's Sacrifist. Besides Laswell, Buckethead and Brain, the album also contains contributions from turntablists Mix Master Mike and PhonosycographDISK.

The album opens with "Initiation", a 20-minute turntable epic that mixes albums like Snoop's "Murder Was the Case" with kung-fu movie samples.

Track listing

Personnel
Buckethead – electric guitar
Bill Laswell – bass guitar
Bryan Mantia – drums, percussion
Mix Master Mike – turntables, samples
PhonosycographDISK – turntables, samples

Recording Staff
Bill Murphy - Producer
Oz Fritz – Engineer
Michael Fossenkemper – Mastering
Robert Musso – Engineer
Shinro Ohtake – Artwork


2003 Turkmenistan President's Cup

IX Turkmenistan President Cup (2003)

Group A

Group B

Third Place

Final

2003
President


George Keerl

George Henry Keerl (April 10, 1847 – September 9, 1923) was an American professional baseball player who played in six games for the Chicago White Stockings during the  baseball season.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Menominee, Michigan at the age of 76.

External links


Kuprevičius

Kuprevičius is a Lithuanian language family name. The surname corresponds to Polish "Kuprewicz" and East Slavic "Kuprevich".

The surname may refer to:

Giedrius Kuprevičius (1944-),  Lithuanian composer, music educator
Viktoras Kuprevičius (1901-1992), Lithuanian composer, music educator


Empyelocera dimidiata

Empyelocera dimidiata is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Empyelocera of the family Tephritidae.


1972–73 League of Ireland

Statistics of League of Ireland in the 1972/1973 season.

Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and Waterford won the championship.

Final classification

Top scorers

Ireland, 1972-73


Kia Mahalleh, Alborz

Kia Mahalleh (, also Romanized as Kīā Maḥalleh) is a village in Bala Taleqan Rural District, in the Central District of Taleqan County, Alborz Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 31, in 5 families.


1984 Beninese parliamentary election

Elections for the National Revolutionary Assembly were held in Benin on 10 June 1984. They were originally scheduled for 1983, but the term of the Assembly was extended by 18 months. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, with voters given the choice of approving the party's list of 196 candidates (reduced from 336) or not. The list was ultimately approved by 98.2% of voters, with a 93.1% turnout. Following the election, Mathieu Kérékou was elected President (unopposed) by the Assembly on 31 July.

Results

Assembly members
Rather than geographical constituencies, seats were given to 22 professions. The largest number of seats (78) were held by "Peasants and craftsmen from rural areas". Also represented were mass organizations, the party (31 seats), civil servants (divided into six categories), the army (divided into privates, non-commissioned officers and officers ), workers, religious bodies, students, retired people, magistrates and the "national bourgeoisie". Assembly members, known as "People's Commissioners", also had their terms extended from three to five years.


Girard Township, Pennsylvania

Girard Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:
Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Girard Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania


2005 FIA WTCC Race of UK

The Race of UK was the third round of the 2005 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held at the Silverstone Circuit at Silverstone in Britain on May 15, 2005. Gabriele Tarquini won the first race from pole in an Alfa Romeo 1-2-3-4, and Rickard Rydell took a historic first win for SEAT after Andy Priaulx's tyre burst with three laps to go while leading.

Report

Qualifying
After BMW's domination in Magny-Cours, Alfa Romeo fought back here by taking the first three places in qualifying.
Gabriele Tarquini took pole for them, with teammates James Thompson and Fabrizio Giovanardi close behind him. Andy Priaulx was the first of the BMWs in fourth, and Peter Terting got his best qualifying for SEAT in fifth.

Race 1
Pole position man Gabriele Tarquini took off at the start in his Alfa Romeo, with Andy Priaulx jumping up to second from fourth in his home race. Fabrizio Giovanardi, James Thompson and Augusto Farfus followed in three more Alfas. The Alfas set about their task, with Giovanardi getting second from Priaulx before the first lap was complete, with Thompson and Farfus following him soon after, but this allowed Tarquini to quickly get a 1.5 second lead. Behind the top 5, Antonio García was running sixth ahead of the SEATS of Peter Terting and Jason Plato. Giovanardi was unable to close in on Tarquini, despite not allowing his countryman to pull further away. The former was passed by Thompson on lap 4, and the Brit began to close in on Tarquini, with Giovanardi in tow. Priaulx stayed with the Alfas in the early stages, but then got dropped. García now suffered from problems, and was passed by the SEATS of Terting, Plato and Rickard Rydell. At the front, Thompson was unable to pass Tarquini despite putting him under pressure. Tarquini thus took the win with Thompson, Giovanardi and Farfus completing the Alfa 1-2-3-4 ahead of Priaulx's BMW and the three SEATS driven by Terting, Rydell and Plato. The Independent's Trophy was won by Tom Coronel who finished 14th.

Race 2
SEAT cars of Plato, Rydell and Terting started 1-2-3 on the reverse grid, but however it was Priaulx who overtook all three of them at the start to take the lead, with Dirk Müller sensationally jumping from 10th to 4th in his BMW as Fabrizio Giovanardi stalled and resumed in last. A collision between García and Robert Huff's Chevrolet brought out the safety car. The race restarted after 3 laps with Priaulx leading Rydell, Plato, Dirk Müller, Terting, Farfus, Tarquini and Thompson. Priaulx kept his lead but Rydell stayed right with him, whereas Plato was unable to and had to defend from Dirk Müller. Farfus quickly dealt with Terting, and as Tarquini tried to do these same, Thompson sneaked up on both of them. There was contact, and Thompson was sent spinning into the gravel and retired. Priaulx continued to lead with Rydell putting him under pressure; but with 3 laps left, Priaulx suffered a puncture and retired. Rydell gratefully took the lead, with Plato and Dirk Müller following, but soon Tarquini and Farfus passed Dirk. Jordi Gené also did the same in his SEAT, and behind him Jörg Müller took 7th from Terting, clipping the latter into a spin. Rydell took his first career win, with Plato completing a SEAT 1-2 by holding off Tarquini and Farfus. Gene, Dirk and Jörg Müller followed, with Giovanardi recovering to take the final point. Marc Hennerici took his fourth Independents Trophy by finishing 9th.

Classification

Race 1

Race 2

Standings after the races

Drivers' Championship standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings


Abdul Hameed Adam

Abdul Hameed Adam (1910–1981) was a Pakistani writer and poet.

Early life and education
Abdul Hameed was born in Talwandi Musa, a village in Gujranwala area, Punjab, British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan).

He had completed his early education at home and completed his matriculation (10th grade) from Islamia High School, Bhati gate, Lahore, Pakistan. After completing FA (the 12th grade) as a private student, Adam started working for the Indian Army in 1927–1928 and worked there until Second world war started.

Personal life and marriages
During the Second world war, he was sent to the Middle East, where he served in Iran and Iraq. In Iraq, he fell in love with an Iraqi girl, got married with her as his second wife, and brought her back with him to India after the end of the Second world war. On his return to India, he was posted to Pune (Poona, Maharashtra, India) where he became excessively involved with some friends and started drinking heavily. He would come home very late at night and then his disputes started with his Iraqi second wife. This second wife soon returned to Iraq and thereafter Adam remained loyal to his first local wife till she died in 1978/1979.

He was transferred to Rawalpindi after the establishment of Pakistan in 1947. In 1948, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Controller of Military Accounts and later retired from this position in April 1966. By 1978/1979 Abdul Hameed Adam had himself become chronically ill. He died in 1981.

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Ernst Benkard

Ernst Benkard (27 February 1883 – 8 May 1946) was a German art historian and private lecturer.

Leben
Born in Frankfurt, Benkard attended a grammar school, then studied art history and obtained his doctorate in 1907.

Among other things he worked as a correspondent and art critic for the Frankfurter Zeitung. From the winter semester 1927/28 to the winter semester 1937/38 he was employed at the  where he mainly offered classes on regional art as well as events on Italian Renaissance. He is said to have reported on the 1937  with "barely concealed irony, distance, and rejection."

Benkard's works include an illustrated book on the death masks of statesmen and artists, which was published in Berlin in 1926 with a foreword by Georg Kolbe. It bears the title Das ewige Antlitz (The Eternal Face) and immediately triggered a dispute with   about a death mask of William Shakespeare. In Das ewige Antlitz Benkard also introduced L'Inconnue de la Seine, about which he poetically wrote that she is for us "a tender butterfly, which, carefreely elated, has fluttered and scorched its fine wings before time at the lamp of life". Another temporarily popular work of art, allegedly based on a death mask, was the  in Halle, which Benkard described as a "mannequin" and a "doll".

Benkard died in Freiburg im Breisgau.


Mohamed Latheef (ambassador)

Mohamed Latheef (; born July 20, 1953) was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Republic of Maldives, based in New York City.

He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 11 November 2002. Latheef took over the role, first on a charge d'affaires basis from Husain Shihab on September 9 2002.  Prior to this, he had been the Ambassador of the Republic of Maldives to the United States.

Latheef was prominent in attempting to encourage member states of the United Nations to provide aid following the effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on the Maldives.

Background
Mohamed Latheef holds a doctorate in educational planning and a master's degree in Education from the University of Wales, with postgraduate studies in demography from Cardiff University in Wales.

Prior to becoming an ambassador, Latheef held a number of posts in Maldivinian government, including posts at the Educational Development Centre, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Maldivian Embassy in Sri Lanka.

He became deputy speaker, and was appointed a member of the Peoples' Special Assembly in 1979, retaining this post until 1997.  Latheef was also the national director of the Project for Public Administration Reform, and director general of the Maldives Centre for Management and Administration, both from 1992 to 1993.  Also in 1993, he was made deputy minister of the Ministry of Atolls Administration.

Finally, before moving into a diplomatic post, Latheef served as the minister of education from 1993 until 2002, and served as a member of the Maldives parliament (the Majlis) between 2000-2002.

Mohamed Latheef is married, with three children.


Čukur Fountain

The Čukur Fountain () is a monument built to commemorate the Čukur Fountain incident of 15 June 1862, starting with the death of a boy -- Savo Petković -- and growing into a conflict between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire (Serbia being under Ottoman suzerainty at that time). After a quarrel at a fountain, the Serbian and Turkish police came to shoot at each other, after which a riot broke out in the town that lasted the night. The following day, a truce was agreed and the Ottoman police was ordered to leave the Belgrade Fortress, with safe passage guaranteed by the Serbian government. The day after that, while the Pasha of Belgrade summoned the consuls to the fortress, Ottoman cannons were set off shelling the town, leading to the death of 50 civilians and soldiers, 20 houses destroyed, and another 357 damaged. The cause of the Pasha's order is unknown, while some sources suggested that the bombardment was triggered by Serbians firing muskets at the fortress, the British Consul-General concluded that the bombardment was "the mere result of panic and false alarm". The Great Powers met and decided that Ottoman troops leave the Belgrade Fortress; in the following year more than 8,000 Muslims left the city.

The monument and fountain is located in Dobračina Street in Belgrade, Serbia, at the site of the initial altercation. The fountain features a bronze sculpture of the apprentice boy that was killed, titled "The Boy With a Broken Pitcher". The memorial fountain was erected in 1931 from an endowment fund established by a tobacco merchant named Toma Vanđel in his will. The design for the bronze sculpture on the marble pedestal was done by Simeon Roksandić, a sculptors of the Serbian Realist movement. A thirteen-year-old boy, Vlastimir Petković, was the model for the sculpture (it was a coincidence that he had the same last name as the victim of the conflict).

The following words are written on the monument:
"IN THE MEMORY OF THE EVENTS OF 26 May
IN 1862,
AT ČUKUR FOUNTAIN,
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED AS THE LEGACY OF VANĐEL TOMA
IN 1931."
(All sources state that the events occurred on 15 June 1862. It is not known who changed the date or why.)

The first competition for the monument was opened in 1912, but the outbreak of World War I postponed the raising of the monument. There is little information about that tender, probably because of the spreading of the First World War, which disabled the building of the monument.

In 1927, Roksandić submitted the design for the monument to the art section of the Municipality of the City of Belgrade. The monument was built with the sculpture a marble pedestal, and a small pool where the water from the pitcher spilled. A marble bench was placed next to the fountain. The monument was completed in 1931.

On 5 February 1965 the fountain was declared a cultural monument.

In May 2010, vandals stole the sculpture of the boy, banged it with a hammer and sold it to the owner of an unauthorized dump in Krnjača for 20 thousand RSD. The sculpture was broken into 22 pieces but was ultimately repaired. The reconstruction took three months to complete.


Mordellistena motoensis

Mordellistena motoensis is a species of beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1931.


Fazl Mosque, London

The Fazl Mosque, also known as The London Mosque, is the first purpose-built mosque in the UK capital. It was opened on 23 October 1926 in Southfields, Wandsworth. At a cost of £6,223, the construction of the mosque and the purchase of the land on which it stands, was financed by the donations of Ahmadi Muslim women in Qadian, India, with support from the British Muslim convert Khalid Sheldrake. Since 1984 the Fazl Mosque has been the residence of the caliphs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, and therefore its de facto international headquarters.

History

The design of the mosque is credited to Thomas Mawson. The plans form part of the Mawson archive held by the Cumbria Archive Service.

The foundation stone was laid in 1924 by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, the second Caliph, who was visiting London as the representative of Islam at The Conference of Living Religions that was being held at the Imperial Institute in South Kensington. 200 guests attended the foundation ceremony. Building of the mosque began in September 1925 and was completed 10 months later. It was named the Fazal Mosque by the Caliph (Fazal meaning Grace).

The mosque was due to be formally opened by Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia who, however, was stopped from doing so by the Foreign Secretary of the King of Saudi Arabia only a few hours before the ceremony was to start. The planned inauguration, nevertheless, went ahead and Khan Bahadur Sheikh Adbul Qadir, ex-Minister of Punjab Legislative Council, formally opened the mosque on 4 October 1926. 600 distinguished guests representing numerous countries, as well as local MPs and other dignitaries attended the ceremony and the function was well reported in the press.

The mosque accommodates 150 worshippers and is also known colloquially among Ahmadi Muslims as the London Mosque. Its first Imam was Maulana Abdul Rahim Dard and its first muezzin (caller to prayer) was Mr Bilal Nuttall. Since 1926 the London Mosque has had eleven Imams. The current incumbent is Ata'ul Mujeeb Rashid who has served as Imam since 1983.

Caliph's residence

In 1984 the Government of Pakistan promulgated Ordinance XX which prohibited Ahmadi Muslims from any public expression of the Islamic faith, rendering the caliph unable to perform his duties as the leader of the Community. In response Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph, left Pakistan and migrated to London, provisionally moving the Ahmadiyya headquarters from Rabwah, Pakistan to the Fazl Mosque in London.

Within the mosque complex, a separate building consisting of a hall, offices, and a small apartment on the top floor for the Imam of the mosque was built beside the mosque earlier in 1967. Upon his migration, this apartment became the home of the caliph and following his death in 2003, the home of Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth and current caliph. It remains the permanent residence of the caliph as of 2016. The mosque and its surrounding buildings have therefore become the international headquarters of the movement since 1984.

Influence

In addition to the usual flow of MPs, mayors, councillors, scholars and students, The London Mosque has hosted a number of distinguished visitors from far and wide. The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, visited the mosque several times and made his famous speech in its grounds when he decided to return to India to represent the Muslims in the sub-continent. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Faisal Bin Adbul-Aziz also visited the mosque in 1935 as did his predecessor, King Saud.

Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan, a President of the International Court of Justice and President of the United Nations General Assembly, lived at the premises for many years. In July 2011 Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex of the UK also visited the mosque in his capacity as a Patron of ‘The London Gardens Society’ and thus took the opportunity to inspect the gardens of the Fazl Mosque, which have won numerous awards over the past few years. The Earl was also able to view a small exhibition about the history of the mosque.

In 1955 the second Caliph of the Ahmadiyya movement returned to the mosque when he visited Europe for further medical treatment after he was physically attacked in Rabwah, Pakistan. In London he also held a conference of all missionaries stationed in Europe. The third Caliph also visited the mosque many times.

Expansion

As the range and frequency of activities in the mosque progressively increased there was need for more space. This increase saw the construction of the multi-purpose Mahmood Hall, as well as the Nusrat Hall, in the grounds of the mosque. From Sunday school classes and school visits, to question and answer sessions and international meetings, The London Mosque has been and continues to be a hive of activity promoting education and religious awareness.

From the premises of the mosque, the fourth Caliph was also able to launch the community's satellite TV channel Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International (MTA) in 1994 through which he could transmit televised messages globally to the community and have his sermons heard throughout the world.

With the expansion of The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the capacity of The London Mosque has become insufficient and further premises in Surrey and Morden were acquired for the Baitul Futuh mosque. However, the historic significance and role of The London Mosque continues to ensure its special and indeed unique position for both the global Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as well as Britain.


Montana Highway 77

Montana Highway 77 (MT 77), also known as Hot Springs Road, is an approximately  state highway in the west of the US state of Montana, and it is a spur route to connect MT 28 to the city of Hot Springs. The entire route is within the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Route description
MT 77 begins at the intersection with MT 28, and proceeds due west until reaching the Hot Springs city limits, where Hot Springs Road becomes Broadway Avenue.

History
Hot Springs Road was created in order to link the community with MT 28, when it was rerouted to the east of the city circa 1939, as seen on the 1940 state map. The 1942 road log refers to it simply as the "Hot Springs Spur" under Federal Aid Primary Route 36 (the official state designation for MT 28, which is still used today).

The highway was designated MT 77 on July 1, 1976, and appears in the 1978 road log as Primary Route 77. And even though the route number is not shown on the state map, one can see it change from the generic solid black used for secondary paved roads on the 1977 map to the solid red used for primary paved roads on the 1978 edition.

The highway is now part of the state's "off-system" routes, designated with a primary route number but not listed in the most recent (2013) road log. (See MT 38 and MT 49 for two other examples.)

Major intersections


Mesoangioblast

A mesoangioblast is a mesenchymal-like cell, associated with the walls of the large vessels. Mesoangioblasts exhibit many similarities to pericytes found in the small vessels.  Mesoangioblasts are relatively undifferentiated cells with the potential to progress down the endothelial or mesodermal lineages.  Mesoangioblasts express the endothelial marker Flk-1, but not haematopoietic markers such as Tal-1.

Recent work has suggested their application for stem cell therapies for muscular dystrophy.  Experiments in alpha-sarcoglycan deficient dystrophic mice have shown that mesoangioblast transplantation can restore muscle function. Cells are delivered intra-arterially, where they migrate to the muscles.

More recently, a paper was published in Nature where mesoangioblast transplantion was used to ameliorate the effects of muscular dystrophy in golden retrievers with a congenital muscular dystrophy.  The dogs given allogeneic cells survived; control animals died within 1 year.


Peggy Weil

Peggy Weil is an American artist working in digital media.

Life
She graduated from Harvard in 1976 and received a master's degree from MIT in 1982.  There she was a part of the Architecture Machine Group from 1980-1982, where she worked under Nicholas Negroponte. Currently she is adjunct faculty at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Work
In 1990, she produced A Silly Noisy House, an award-winning CD-ROM with multimedia pioneer The Voyager Company.  Her multimedia works continued with Ravensburger Interactive, where her Moving Puzzle CD-ROMs won the 1998 Milia D'Or in Cannes.

She created MrMind, a web-based bot who asks, "Can you convince me that you are human?" MrMind has been administering The Blurring Test, a Reverse Turing test, since 1998.

In 2007 she co-authored, with Nonny de la Peña, the work Gone Gitmo, a virtual exploration of the Guantanamo Bay prison within Second Life. Along with de la Peña, Weil is widely credited with helping create the genre of immersive journalism. Gone Gitmo was shown in the exhibition, Feedforward, The Angel of History at LABoral (LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial) in Gijon, Spain, curated by Steve Dietz and Christiane Paul (curator).

In 2011 Weil founded HeadsUP! a global data visualization competition. HeadsUP!2012 used datasets from NASA/JPL's GRACE Satellite (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment)and USGS decadal aquifer data to display changes in global groundwater. Richard's Vijgen's winning animation was displayed across 19,000 square feet of digital signboard in Times Square across the Thomson Reuters and NASDAQ signs.

In 2016 Weil, along with Refik Anadol, was commissioned by the City of Los Angeles for the Bloomberg sponsored citywide art biennale, CURRENT:LA Water to create UnderLA, a large scale public projection of the LA Aquifer from The First Street Bridge and Origin of LA River sites.

The Climate Museum's inaugural exhibition in 2018, In Human Time, featured Weil's work, 88 Cores - a 2-mile descent through the Greenland Ice Sheet going back 110,000 years.


H. T. Sangliana

H. T. Sangliana (born 1 July 1943) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Bangalore North of Karnataka from the BJP, but lost the election for 15th Lok Sabha from the same seat. He was given the post of Vice-Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities, with a status equivalent to the Minister of State in the central government.

He is a native of the Indian state of Mizoram and was formerly a police officer who held the post of Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City. As Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) in Bangalore City, he was notable for his attempts to tackle the issue of illegal parking. He retired from the Indian Police Service after 36 years on 1 July 2003, at which time he was Director General of Police and Inspector General of Prisons.

After retiring, on invitation by BJP he ran for the old Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency for the BJP and defeated 34 other candidates. He was expelled from BJP for voting in favour civilian nuclear deal with the US for which a no-confidence motion was moved against the UPA in Lok Sabha on 22 July 2008, and then joined the [Indian National Congress. He contested the new  Bangalore Central constituency for the INC in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections and lost to the BJP candidate, P. C. Mohan, by 59,665 votes.

Sangliana was one of 160 international delegates who joined US president-elect Barack Obama at his breakfast table on 10 February 2008. Three films have been made about Sangliana. He was portrayed as a super-cop in the Kannada movie S. P. Sangliana (1988), starring Shankar Nag and Ambareesh.


Zell, Zürich

Zell is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Geography
Zell has an area of .  Of this area, 43.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.1% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 12.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).   housing and buildings made up 9.1% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (3.8%).  Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.7% of the area.  , 12.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

Zell is situated in the upper Töss Valley. In Zell-Rikon is a Tibetan monastery, the Tibet Institute Rikon.  The municipality also includes the hamlet of Kollbrunn.

Demographics
Zell has a population (as of ) of .  , 17.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.   the gender distribution of the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female.  Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 14.5%.  Most of the population () speaks German  (87.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.8%) and Albanian being third ( 1.8%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.5% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the SPS (17%), the CSP (14.1%) and the Green Party (8.3%).

The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.3%.  In Zell about 70% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).  There are 1874 households in Zell.

Zell has an unemployment rate of 3.02%.  , there were 134 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 35 businesses involved in this sector.  397 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 47 businesses in this sector.  680 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 141 businesses in this sector.   52.3% of the working population were employed full-time, and 47.7% were employed part-time.

 there were 1138 Catholics and 2306 Protestants in Zell.  In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories.  From the , 54.3% were some type of Protestant, with 49.3% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 5% belonging to other Protestant churches.  22.3% of the population were Catholic.  Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 6.5% belonged to another religion (not listed), 3.1% did not give a religion, and 9.6% were atheist or agnostic.

Transportation
Zell lies on the Tösstalbahn railway that links Winterthur and Rapperswil, and the stations of Rämismühle-Zell, Rikon and Kollbrunn are all within the municipality. All three stations are served by line S26 of the Zürich S-Bahn.


Pomp

Pomp or pomps may refer to:
 Pompḗ (), usually translated as pomp or procession, the name of the first part of several Ancient Greek festivals, such as Dionysia and Lenaia
 Pomp rock, alternative term for a rock music era also known as arena rock
 Slang for Pompadour (hairstyle), a style of haircut
 Pomps, alternative name for Ghillies (dance), a special type of shoe
 Pomp, Kentucky, a community in the United States

People with the surname Pomp:
 Numa Pompilius, also called Numa Pomp (753–673 BC; reigned 715-673 BC), legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus
 Dirck Gerritsz Pomp (1544–1608), Dutch sailor of the 16th–17th century

Fictional characters with the surname Pomp:
 Jubal Pomp, comics character from The Walt Disney Company

People nicknamed “Pomp”:
 Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, explorer and fur trader


Cambridge South Hockey Club

Cambridge South Hockey Club is a hockey club based in Cambridge, England. The club currently runs five men's and five ladies' teams competing in the East Region Men's and Women's Leagues respectively, 6th XIs for both genders that play friendly matches, men's and women's masters and indoor teams and a social mixed side. The club has had its home venue at Long Road Sixth Form College, Long Road, Cambridge since autumn 2014. Training is currently offered on Tuesdays for Men, Mondays and Wednesdays for Women, Wednesdays for Under-16s, Saturday mornings for Under-12s and an casual mixed session on Thursdays.

During the 2019-20 season the Men's 1st XI will play in Division 1, whilst the Ladies 1st XI will compete in Division 2NW.

History
The Club was formed in about 1935, originally as a company team for the paper manufacturer Spicers, based in the village of Sawston. At some point the club evolved to become Sawston Hockey Club, still based in the village and playing at the grass pitches owned by Spicers. When league regulations demanded that clubs play their games on artificial pitches, rather than grass, the club moved their home games into Cambridge. The move into the city eventually resulted at the end of the 1997/98 season in the Men's club deciding on a second change of name to Cambridge South Hockey Club, with the Ladies' club following suit the next season.

The move to Long Road triggered a period of rapid expansion for the club, particularly on the Women's side. A Ladies 4th XI was founded in 2017 with 5th and 6th teams following in 2019 and 2020 respectively. 5th and 6th Men's XIs have been added in the same period.


Chôros No. 4

Chôros No. 4 is a quartet for three horns and trombone, written in 1926 by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. It forms a part of a series of fourteen numbered compositions collectively titled Chôros, ranging from solos for guitar and for piano up to works scored for soloist or chorus with orchestra or multiple orchestras, and in duration up to over an hour. Chôros No. 4 is one of the shorter members of the series, a performance lasting about five-and-a-half minutes.

History

Chôros No. 4 was composed in Rio de Janeiro in 1926, and was premiered on 24 October 1927 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, in the first of a pair of concerts devoted to works by Villa-Lobos. The performers were Edmond Entraigue, Jean-Lazare Pénable, and Mr. Marquette, horns; Jules Dervaux, trombone. On the same programme, Arthur Rubinstein gave the premiere of Rudepoêma. The first North American performance took place on 16 October 1940 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The score is dedicated to Villa-Lobos's patron , the brother of the dedicatee of Chôros No. 5 .

Analysis
When an American University professor wrote to Villa-Lobos requesting an analysis of Chôros No. 4, the composer responded: "My works are meant to be played, not analysed" .

The work is in three parts, subdivided into nine sections. The first part comprises subsections 1–6, the second part is an undivided, slow "cradle song" (subsection seven), and the last part consists of subsections 8 and 9. The third, concluding part is contrasted to everything that precedes it, and is closer to jazz or Cuban music than to anything Brazilian .

According to another opinion, the work actually falls into two sections, forming an AB form structurally analogous to Chôros No. 10, in which the second part is distinguished by the character of popular music


Leslie Sansone

Leslie Sansone, born February 14, 1962, is an American group fitness instructor from New Castle, Pennsylvania. Active since the 1980s, she has since released over 100 DVDs and four books. Rather than focusing on intense workout sessions, Sansone heavily promotes low-impact walking exercises that are designed for nearly everyone, resulting in a $200 million business.


Santa Marta de Magasca

Santa Marta de Magasca is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 252 inhabitants.


Austin Pangburn House

The Austin Pangburn House is a historic house at Main and Austin Streets in Pangburn, Arkansas.  It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with irregular massing typical of the Queen Anne period.  It has a hip roof, with projecting gables that are finished in bands of decoratively cut wooden shingles, with novelty siding on the rest of the house.  A porch wraps around two sides, supported by Doric columns.  Built c. 1908, it is a well-preserved example of period construction in White County.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.


Operation Camden (1969)

Operation Camden was an Australian Army in support of the 501 Land Clearing Company, United States Army Corps of Engineers who were undertaking land clearing operations in the Hat Dich area. A large contact took place on 21 August 1969 during Operation Camden south of the Hat Dich Secret Zone in Phuoc Tuy Province against Viet Cong forces. The battle was fought between 3 Platoon and the Assault Pioneer Platoon of the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) and the Viet Cong 3rd Battalion, 274th Regiment.

Notes

External links
5 RAR Association - Battle of Hat Dich


Eclectic, Alabama

Eclectic is a town in Elmore County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1907. At the 2010 census the population was 1,001. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
Eclectic was founded by Dr. M. L. Fielder, a practitioner of eclectic medicine, hence the name. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.

The first post office in Eclectic was established in 1879.

Geography
Eclectic is located at  (32.641285, -86.038571).

The town is located along Alabama State Route 63, which runs from south to north through the center of town, leading northeast 26 mi (42 km) to Alexander City and southwest 5 mi (8 km) to the unincorporated community of Claud. Alabama State Route 170 connects the town to Wetumpka, the Elmore County seat, 15 mi (24 km) to the southwest.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which  is land and  (1.17%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,037 people, 409 households, and 280 families living in the town. The population density was 244.7 people per square mile (94.4/km2). There were 459 housing units at an average density of 108.3 per square mile (41.8/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 78.11% White, 19.19% Black or African American, 0.96% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.87% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. 1.83% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 409 households out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 16.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.3% were non-families. 29.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.14.

In the town, the population was spread out with 30.1% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 19.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $30,906, and the median income for a family was $31,855. Males had a median income of $29,554 versus $18,162 for females. The per capita income for the town was $14,131. About 20.5% of families and 25.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.6% of those under age 18 and 23.4% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,001 people, 399 households, and 266 families living in the town. The population density was 238.3 people per square mile (90.2/km2). There were 438 housing units at an average density of 104.3 per square mile (39.5/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 86.4% White, 11.0% Black or African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.0% Asian, 0.0% from other races, and 2.1% from two or more races. 1.3% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 399 households out of which 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.4% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 29.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.14.

In the town, the population was spread out with 25.5% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 17.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 82.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.8 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $34,750, and the median income for a family was $42,188. Males had a median income of $35,815 versus $27,684 for females. The per capita income for the town was $19,181. About 8.6% of families and 13.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.4% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people
Ben Grubbs, former offensive guard for Auburn University, who played for the Baltimore Ravens, New Orleans Saints, and Kansas City Chiefs over a 9 year NFL career
Ludd M. Spivey, president of Florida Southern College from 1925 to 1957

Gallery


Jiang Wenwen (synchronised swimmer)

Jiang Wenwen (; born 25 September 1986 in Chengdu, Sichuan) is a Chinese synchronized swimmer.

She competed at the 2008 Olympics in the duet event with her twin sister Jiang Tingting and the teams event. She also competed in the teams event at the 2012 Olympics.


Inape elegans

Inape elegans is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Ecuador (Napo Province, Tungurahua Province and Morona-Santiago Province) and Peru.

The wingspan is .


Eurasian coot

The Eurasian coot (Fulica atra), also known as the common coot, or Australian coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae. It is found in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Africa.

Taxonomy and systematics
The scientific name is from Latin; Fulica is  "coot", and atra is "black". Four  extant subspecies are  recognised. F. atra australis which can be found in Australia and New Zealand, F. a. novaeguineae (New Guinea), F. a. lugubris (E Java (possibly extinct) and NW New Guinea) and F. a. atra (remainder of distribution).. A further  extinct subspecies  F. atra pontica,  has been described from the Chalcolithic (around 4800-4400 BP) from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Description
The Eurasian coot is  long and weighs , and is largely black except for the white frontal shield (which gave rise to the phrase "as bald as a coot", in use as early as 1430). As a swimming species, the coot has partial webbing on its long strong toes.

The juvenile is paler than the adult, has a whitish breast, and lacks the facial shield; the adult black plumage develops when about 3–4 months old, but the white shield is only fully developed at about one year old.

This is a noisy bird with a wide repertoire of crackling, explosive, or trumpeting calls, often given at night.

Distribution and habitat

The coot breeds across much of the Old World on freshwater lakes and ponds. It occurs and breeds in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. The species has recently expanded its range into New Zealand. It is resident in the milder parts of its range, but migrates further south and west from much of Asia in winter as the waters freeze.

Behaviour and ecology

The Eurasian coot is much less secretive than most of the rail family, and can be seen swimming on open water or walking across waterside grasslands. It is an aggressive species, and strongly territorial during the breeding season, and both parents are involved in territorial defence. During the non-breeding season they may form large flocks, possibly related to predator avoidance.

It is reluctant to fly and when taking off runs across the water surface with much splashing. It does the same, but without actually flying, when travelling a short distance at speed in territorial disputes or on land to escape from intruders. As with many rails, its weak flight does not inspire confidence, but on migration, usually at night, it can cover surprisingly large distances. It bobs its head as it swims, and makes short dives from a little jump.

Breeding

This species builds a nest of dead reeds or grasses, but also pieces of paper or plastic near the water's edge or on underwater obstacles protruding from the water, laying up to 10 eggs, sometimes 2 or 3 times per season. Usually only a few young survive. They are frequent prey for birds such as herons and gulls.

Chick mortality occurs mainly due to starvation rather than predation.  Most chicks died in the first 10 days after hatching, when they are most dependent on adults for food. Coots can be very brutal to their own young under pressure such as the lack of food. They will bite young that are begging for food and repeatedly do this until it stops begging and starves to death. If the begging continues, they may bite so hard that the chick is killed. Coots will also lay their eggs in the nests of other coots when their environment or physical condition limits their ability to breed, or to lengthen their reproductive life.

Feeding

The coot is an omnivore, and will take a variety of small live prey including the eggs of other water birds, as well as algae, vegetation, seeds and fruit. It shows considerable variation in its feeding techniques, grazing on land or in the water. In the water it may upend in the fashion of a mallard or dive in search of food.

Status
The Eurasian coot is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.


Michael Emerson (character)

Michael Emerson is a fictional character and main protagonist of the 1987 film The Lost Boys portrayed by Jason Patric. Michael moves to Santa Carla, California from Phoenix, Arizona with his mother Lucy and brother Sam. During his time in Santa Carla, he becomes involved with a biker gang who are revealed to have been vampires and is turned by their charismatic leader, David Powers.

Fictional character biography
Michael Emerson is the son of Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest) and the older brother to Sam (Corey Haim). He is seen as being a relatively quiet teenager interested in fitness and motorcycles. He moves from his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona to Santa Carla, California after his mother's divorce. While there, Michael becomes infatuated with a girl named Star (Jami Gertz), who appears to be in a relationship with David Powers (Kiefer Sutherland). David challenges Michael to a deadly motorcycle race, which Michael loses, and invites him back to their hangout. While at their hangout, David taunts Michael before eventually offering him wine, which was really blood, turning him into a half-vampire. David and his gang hang off of the underside of an elevated train before each individually falling off. Eventually, Michael loses his grip and falls, waking up in his own bed.
Michael's newfound abilities eventually manifest themselves when he begins reacting negatively to sunlight, constantly wearing sunglasses and one night begins flying around the house. He confides in his brother Sam to help him, as Sam had recently befriended self-proclaimed vampire hunters, Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander). Michael has another encounter with David where David attempts to persuade Michael into killing. Michael instead watches in horror and fear as David and his gang massacre a group of Surf Nazis. Michael returns home where he comes across Star, who reveals that she too is a half-vampire and Michael was intended to be her first victim, turning her into a fully-fledged vampire. After this, Michael leads Sam, Edgar and Alan to David's lair, where they rescue Star and another half-vampire Laddie (Chance Michael Corbitt), and end up successfully killing one vampire in Marko (Alex Winter). The group barely escape with their lives and only do so due to David's hand coming into contact with sunlight.
That evening, Michael, Sam, Edgar and Alan prepare to defend themselves, Star and Laddie from David and the other two remaining vampires. This results in the deaths of the other two vampires (Brooke McCarter and Billy Wirth) leading to a final confrontation between Michael and David, which ends with Michael implanting David on a set of deer antlers. After seemingly killing David, Michael and Star notice that their vampiric abilities are still present. It is then revealed that Max (Edward Herrmann), a seemingly innocent video store owner who was romantically interested in Lucy, is the true head vampire who had David turn Michael in hopes of getting Lucy to become a mother to the vampires. Michael's grandfather (Barnard Hughes) then stakes Max with his tractor, freeing Michael, Star and Laddie from their vampirism.

Development
In the original screenplay of the film, written by James Jeremias and Janice Fischer, the story was originally meant to be modelled after initial director Richard Donner's recent hit, The Goonies. This was later changed when Joel Schumacher and Jeffrey Boam came aboard. According to Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric had a hand in changing the film's tone. Sutherland elaborated on this at a convention stating: "Jason had a large part to do with that, [he] was really instrumental in kind of, changing, working with Joel on the script, sometimes in a nice way, sometimes not so nice." Ben Stiller had also auditioned for a role in the movie, but while Stiller hasn't explicitly stated which role, many fans have been led to believe that Stiller was up for the role of Michael, before it went to Jason Patric, who had initially turned the role down. Patric was cast early on in production, and eventually convinced Schumacher to cast Jami Gertz as Star, having worked together previously in Solarbabies.

Reception
While not much is known about his personality, Michael's encounters with David and the character's restrained and vulnerable portrayal by Jason Patric were highly praised. The dynamic and tension between actors Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland were also a point of critical acclaim.  The character has also been interpreted to have carried homoerotic themes throughout the screenplay, due to the attraction he carried toward David and the vampire gang. Kiefer Sutherland, who played David, has commented on the possible homoeroticism in the film, describing an encounter between David and Michael as "sensual". Cat LaFuente from The List commented on the undertones stating, "Then there are the vampire boys, who all sleep in the same room and do everything together. Could it be, perhaps, that their leather-forward outfits hint at an interest in the underground gay culture of the 1980s? They all drank David's bodily fluids, after all, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. And why are none of them hooking up with Star, the only woman who's ever around? That would certainly explain the dramatic tension between David and Michael." Some viewers have interpreted that the undertones included in the film were a result of director Joel Schumacher, who is an openly gay man in real life.

The character is set to be featured in an upcoming television series reboot on The CW portrayed by Tyler Posey. However, Posey was replaced by Branden Cook, with the character renamed as Garrett.

In popular culture
The character has been referenced multiple times in popular culture. The scene in the film featuring the character's initiation by David where he turns noodles into worms was parodied in the Taika Waititi's 2014 parody film What We Do In The Shadows.  The character has also gotten a "Funko Pop!" figurine based on the character, as well as an action figure by the National Entertainment Collectables Association. The character's notability has also been recognised as one of the most memorable things from the film, with some fans even mocking the fact that the character's name is said a grand total of 114 times throughout the film's 98 minute runtime.  Michael also re-appears in the 2016 The Lost Boys sequel comic series of the same name published by Vertigo Comics.

Comparisons to Billy Hargrove from Stranger Things
There are many references and homages to Michael Emerson throughout the hit Netflix streaming show Stranger Things through the character of Billy Hargrove, played by Australian actor Dacre Montgomery. The character was modelled after Jason Patric's look in the film, to the extent of adopting the lone earring Michael wore in the film. Hargrove has also been noted for the similarity between him and Michael, both being new punk kids in a small town, as well as Billy's struggle not to become consumed by The Mind Flayer, noting similarities between Michael's fight against his newly-discovered vampirism. Ironically, Billy Hargrove has also been compared to that of Kiefer Sutherland as well, notably the characters of David and Ace Merrill from Stand by Me. In the comparisons to David, the character of Steve Harrington (portrayed by Joe Keery) is instead used as the example of Michael, due in parts to Billy's attitude and Steve's reluctance to give in to Billy. The adversary relationship between Billy and Steve played a prominent role in the show's second season, which led to many fans noticing the similarities between the relationship of David and Michael to that of Billy and Steve.


Zheng Wenguang

Zheng Wenguang (, 9 April 1929 - 17 June 2003) was a Chinese science fiction writer.

Zheng was born in Vietnam, but moved to China in 1947. He was first published in 1954 and continued to write until a stroke in 1983. That stated he had to quit writing science fiction during the Cultural Revolution due to official pressure.

He also was a research fellow at the Beijing Astronomical Observatory. In the West he might be best known for the story "The Mirror Image of the Earth", which was reprinted in at least two anthologies.

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