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# Melanesian Progressive Party

The Melanesian Progressive Party is a political party in Vanuatu formed after an internal leadership struggle within the Vanua'aku Pati in the late 1980s. MPP founder, former Prime Minister Barak Sopé, was at that point the secretary general of the VP, and the struggle, as well as his expulsion from the VP and the Parliament for taking part in a protest against the government’s decision to close the Urban Land Corporation (ULC) in April 1988, resulted in him forming the MPP. The party's program is relatively similar to the VP. Despite its small number of seats it has been important in setting up coalition governments since the 1990s.
At the election held on 30 October 2012, the party won 2 out of 52 seats; it lost one of these in the 2016 election.
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# Hartley Film Foundation

Hartley Film Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to cultivation and support of documentaries on world religions and spirituality. This non-profit organization supports filmmakers through seed grants with fiscal sponsorship. The foundation is located in Westport, Connecticut, and has a staff of two and board of eleven members.

## Background

Hartley Film Foundation, incorporated in 1971, was the vision of founder Elda E. Hartley. She had a long career in filmmaking. Elda married filmmaker Irving Hartley, with whom she partnered to make newsreels and travel films from the 1930s through the 1960s. Some of the images that now illustrate American history were shot by Irving Hartley, including the explosion of the Hindenburg zeppelin in 1937. He and Elda also produced a series of Pan Am travelogues, a prototype for travel shows on television today.
Elda worked as North Carolina State's Director of Visual Education and, in the 1930s, she helped found the Documentary Film Association, which exhibited at the first New York World's Fair.
Elda's vision of the future foundation began in 1965, while on a vacation tour to Japan with Alan Watts. She decided to make a film on Zen and Watts volunteered to narrate the film. At the age of 56, Elda Hartley was on her way to producing documentary films on world religions and spirituality – the beginning of her third career.
She completed films about the world's spiritual and religious traditions (including documentaries such as Requiem for a Faith and The Sufi Way),and collaborated with Margaret Mead, Joseph Campbell, Edgar Mitchell, Jean Houston, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Huston Smith and Larry Dossey, among others.
Hartley often said that the goal of her work was greater than simply making films, and so she founded the Hartley Film Foundation. She died on her 90th birthday, March 6, 2001.
Hartley Film Foundation continues to honor her legacy through its support of established filmmakers who travel the world to document stories that further global and interfaith understanding. The Foundation strives to reach the widest possible audience with films such as Hiding and Seeking, A Jihad for Love, Love Free or Die, God's Next Army, Praying with Lior, Taking Root and Little White Lies. The non-profit foundation sells on its Web site those documentaries that fulfill Hartley's mission and message. Hartley sponsors the Full Frame Inspiration Award annually at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. The foundation also provides audience outreach consultation support to its fiscal sponsees through Active Voice, communications specialists who use media as a catalyst for social change.
# Daisy de Bock

Daisy de Bock (born 10 August 1974, in Beveren) is a Belgian sport shooter. She has been selected to compete for Belgium in air rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has yielded numerous top 10 finishes in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series and the European Championships. De Bock trains under the tutelage of Viaene Alain for the national team, while shooting at Dingo Rifle Club (Dutch: Karabijnclub Dingo) in Moerbeke.
De Bock qualified as a lone shooter for the Belgian squad in the women's 10 m air rifle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She had registered a minimum qualifying standard of 396 to secure an Olympic berth for Belgium, after finishing fifth in her pet event at the European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden less than a year earlier. De Bock aimed an inauspicious 95 at the opening series that stumbled her down the leaderboard early to a thirty-third place draw with three other shooters in the qualifying stage, ending up at 388 points out of a possible 400.
# Carpathian newt

The Carpathian newt, or Montandon's newt, (Lissotriton montandoni) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae found in Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The total length of adults of this species is around 10 cm. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, and ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

## Description

The Carpathian newt grows to a total length of about 10 cm (4 in), females in general being larger than males. The skin is granulated in terrestrial individuals but smoother in more aquatic ones. There are three grooves on the head and the body is very square in cross section. The upper surface is yellowish-brown or olive-brown, copiously mottled with fine dark spots. The underparts are yellow or orange, often with small black spots at the sides. The lower part of the tail is white or orange with large black spots. In the breeding season, males have a slight crest on the tail and a filament on the tip, but only a slightly-raised ridge along the back.

## Distribution and habitat

The Carpathian newt is native to the eastern part of the Carpathian Mountains and the eastern part of the Sudetes Mountains where it is found at altitudes of up to about 2,000 m (6,562 ft) above sea level. It has been introduced into the Bavarian Forest in Germany. Where their ranges overlap, it often hybridises with the smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris), the offspring being intermediate in appearance between the two species. The Carpathian newt prefers wet, shady woodland, both coniferous and broadleaf, glades, woodland edges and upland pastures. It is able to adapt to some extent to degraded habitats, and it breeds in permanent and temporary bodies of water.

## Behaviour

The Carpathian newt often lives near the places where it breeds, hiding under fallen trees, rocks and loose bark. Breeding starts in the spring and the female lays up to 250 eggs during the year. The chosen sites are ponds, pools, ditches, water-filled wheel ruts, marshes and the edges of lakes. Dark, cold acid water is preferred but polluted water is sometimes used. The eggs hatch in one to four weeks according to temperature, and metamorphosis may occur at twelve weeks, but at higher altitudes, the tadpoles may overwinter. Sexual maturity is reached at about three years.

## Status

Although the total population of the Carpathian newt is probably declining, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being of "least concern" in view of its wide range, presumed large total population and tolerance to variations to its habitat.
# Baird Searles

William Baird Searles (1934–1993) was a science fiction author and critic. He was best known for his long-running review columns for the magazines Asimov's (reviewing books), Amazing, and Fantasy & Science Fiction (reviewing films, television and related media). He also did occasional reviews for other publications, including The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and The Village Voice. He wrote several non-fiction works on the science fiction genre. Searles managed a science fiction and fantasy bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village, the Science Fiction Shop, which is no longer in business.
From about 1963 through 1971, Baird Searles was the Drama and Literature director at WBAI, a listener-sponsored Pacifica Foundation radio station in New York City. He had a beautiful and mellifluous voice for reading and narrating stories, and was an innovative producer and host. On one of his programs, "The New Symposium" broadcast in 1968, he discussed issues 'for and by the homosexual community', being very possibly the first person to bring gay issues in a positive light to broadcast media on a regular basis.
At a time when radio drama had waned to a trickle of obscurity, Searles kept the art alive with collaborators from the science fiction/fantasy community working directly with such writers as Joanna Russ, Roger Zelazny, Theodore Sturgeon and Samuel R. Delany. Searles' two-hour adaptation of Delany's "The Star Pit" was narrated by the author and won critical acclaim. He produced and narrated a complete serialized dramatic reading of Olaf Stapledon's epic novel, Last and First Men. He also produced a dramatized reading of the Gormenghast trilogy by the late British author Mervyn Peake, which helped bring these novels to the attention of readers in the U.S. His weekly series, "Of Unicorns and Universes," was the only program of critical commentary on science fiction and fantasy in its day.
After Searles left WBAI to concentrate on writing, editing, and running his bookstore, he returned to WBAI to narrate "The Council of Elrond" from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Searles and producers Jim Freund, Margot Adler and David Marx authenticated the pronunciations of the characters and the languages by speaking on the phone with Professor Tolkien. This 100-minute reading is still broadcast every year in late December on Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf radio show on WBAI in New York.
Searles and his partner Martin Last moved from New York to Montreal in about 1990, and became involved in the scifi community there. Searles died in 1993 and Last continued to live in Montreal until his death in 2006.
# SOBEPS

SOBEPS (an acronym for Société belge d'étude des phénomènes spatiaux, "Belgian society for the study of space phenomena") was a UFO investigation group, famed for its investigation of the black triangle incidents in Belgium, known as the Belgian Wave, in 1989 and 1990.

## History

The society was formed in 1971 and had 700 registered members before the end of the year. It was hosted in a small office room owned by its general secretary, Lucien Clerebaut, and its main activity was the publication of a magazine, Inforespace, in 1972. Membership rose to 1750 in 1976, and Clerebaut purchased a building in Anderlecht for the society the same year. However, its popularity then started to decline, with a drop in membership down to 500 members in 1985; Inforespace went from a publication rate of six per year down to only two per year.
But in November 1989, a wave of UFO sightings struck Belgium, bringing the SOBEPS into the mediatic spotlight. It received hundreds of testimonies and collaborated with the Belgian Air Force on a fruitless UFO hunt in April 1990.
Due to financial difficulties, the SOBEPS dissolved on 31 December 2007, and the COBEPS (Comité Belge pour l’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux or Belgian Committee for the Study of Space Phenomena) was formed to continue some of the SOBEPS's activities.
# Pure (app)

Pure is an online dating platform and an application that allows users to post personal ads to find matches based on their desires, preferences, and intentions.

## History

Ukrainians Roman Sidorenko and Alexander Kukhtenko first presented Pure in 2012 and raised $400,000 in investments. Later, the writer and sexologist Carol Queen supported the project.
The app was launched in the USA on the App Store in October 2013 and was later introduced to the Russian market in January 2014.
In 2015, Pure was ranked third in the Lisbon Challenge and was granted an office in Lisbon for 30 years by the Mayor's Office of the City of Lisbon, where they continue to be based.
Olga Petrunina became the CEO of Pure in 2020.

## Operation

The average user of Pure is between 25 and 40 years old, with 67 percent identifying as male, 30 percent female, and 3 percent non-binary.

## Mobile application

The first Android version of Pure was released in June 2015.
The app has generated over 8.5 million downloads on the App Store and over 3 million downloads on Google Play from June 2015.

## Pure Journal and Social Media

Pure creates written and visual content together with sex educators and psychologists in 40 languages covering subjects such as dating, pleasure, wellness, culture, and consent. That content is found in the app's Pure Journal and on the app's Instagram profile.

## Criticism

The co-founder of the Teamo app (a service for serious dating) Vladimir Schmidt said that he did not see the potential of the application: "Such a model should be in great demand among men, but for girls it is still an unusual format. If the gap between the percentage of male and female audiences continues to grow, so-called love professionals - call girls - may come to the app and use the service to find new clients".

## Reception

In November 2021 the app had a half-million active users. In the New York City area, it has 20,000 daters.

## Features

When creating a profile, users are able to find matches based on their gender identity (male, female, and non-binary) and sexual preference (heterosexual, queer, lesbian, bisexual, and asexual).
Pure includes a 24-hour countdown once two users match. If the daters don't talk during that window, the chat "self-destructs" unless both parties agree to turn off the chat timer. After disabling the chat timer, both parties are assigned a random, anonymous nickname. Everyone on Pure can remain anonymous.
Pure has the option to switch to a video chat. While the platform's in-house camera allows for video chats for users to chat or sext, those videos are never saved - neither on Pure's servers nor in the cloud.
Users can either search a city of their choice or search for people within a certain distance from their current location. A "worldwide" option is also available.
# A Sparrowhawk

A Sparrowhawk (Italian: Uno sparviero) is a painting by Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, probably made late in the 1510s, while he was working in the Netherlands towards the end of his life.
Painted in oils on an oak panel, it measures 17.8 cm × 10.8 cm (7.0 in × 4.3 in). It depicts a female sparrowhawk, perched on a wooden rail near the corner of a room, with shadows thrown onto the plain plastered wall behind. The grey-winged bird of prey has jesses with a bell attached to its legs. It may be a fragment of a larger work, now lost. It has been considered as an early example of a trompe-l'œil painting, using perspective and shadows to give the impression of a real bird occupying space, similar to The Goldfinch of Carel Fabritius.
It was acquired by the National Gallery, London in 1916, as part of the Layard Bequest.
# Brøchner Hotels

Brøchner Hotels is a hotel group based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It operates four boutique hotels in Copenhagen.

## History

Brøchner Hotels was founded in 1982 when Einer Honoré bought 50-room Hotel Kong Arthur for his daughter and son-in-law Søster and Hans Brøchner-Mortensen who then gave up their jobs as nurse and carpenter to run the hotel. Hotel Kong Arthur was expanded to 107 rooms in 1989 and with new conference facilities in 1992. Brøchner-Mortensen bought Ibsens Hotel at the corner of Frederiksborggade and Nansensgade in 1997 and expanded it the following year.
In 2009, Hans and Søster Brøchner-Mortensen passed the company on to their children Søren and Kirsten Brøchner-Mortensen. In 2013, Søren and his wife Mette Brøchner-Mortensen acquired full ownership of the existing company while Hotel Kong Arthur and Ibsens Hotel were transferred to the new company Arthur Hotels owned by Kirsten Brøchner-Mortensen.
Karim Nielsen served as group CEO from 2010 to 2019. In 2018, Brøchner Hotels opened Hotel Herman K in a former distribution substation at Bremerholm 6 in downtown Copenhagen. It was Brøchner Hotels' first 5 star hotel. Hotel Ottilia opened in 2019 in two historic buildings in Carlsberg's former brewery site in Vesterbro. It was followed by BOOK, a hostel located inside the former main library in Aarhus.
In 2020, Brøchner Hotels was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, Brøchner Hotels gave up the management of Hotel Herman K. In January 2021, Brøchner Hotels also had to give up the management of Hotel Astoria.

## Hotels and hostels
### Hotels and hostels
#### Copenhagen

* Hotel Danmark
* Hotel SP34
* Hotel Hans
* Hotel Ottilia

### Former hotels

* Hotel Astoria
* Hotel Herman K
* BOOK1 Design Hostel (opened 2020 in Aarhus / closed in 2024).
# Laura Heyrman

Laura Heyrman (born 17 May 1993) is a Belgian professional volleyball player. She is a member of the Belgium women's national volleyball team.

## Career

She was part of the Belgian national team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy. She was selected to play the Italian League All-Star game in 2017.

## Clubs

* Asterix Kieldrecht (2009–2011)
* Dresdner SC (2012–2013)
* Liu Jo Modena (2013–2016)
* Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena (2016–2018)
* Hitachi Rivale (2018–2019)
* Saugella Team Monza (2019–2021)
* Eczacıbaşı VitrA (2021–Present)

## Awards
### Clubs

* 2009-10 Belgian Championship – Champion, with Asterix Kieldrecht
* 2010 Belgian Supercup – Champion, with Asterix Kieldrecht
* 2010-11 Belgian Championship – Champion, with Asterix Kieldrecht
* 2010-11 Belgian Cup – Champion, with Asterix Kieldrecht
* 2011-12 Belgian Championship – Champion, with Asterix Kieldrecht
* 2011-12 Belgian Cup – Champion, with Asterix Kieldrecht
* 2012-13 German Championship – Runner-Up, with Dresdner SC
* 2014-15 Italian Cup – Runner-Up, with Liu Jo Modena
* 2016-17 Italian Cup – Runner-Up, with Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena
* 2016-17 Italian Championship – Runner-Up, with Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena

### National team
#### Youth team

* CEV U18 European Championship - Gold Medal
* FIVB U18 World Championship - Bronze Medal
# Sanna Lundell

Sanna Cecilia Lundell (born 6 November 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish freelance journalist and television presenter. She is the daughter of the singer Ulf Lundell. She has done journalistic work for the magazines Mama, M-Magasin, Hennes, and the Aftonbladet newspaper. She has also been working as a television presenter at TV3 with shows such as Sanning och konsekvens along with Robert Aschberg, and Stalkers with Hasse Aro. Since June 2013 she has been presenting the documentary series TV3 Dokumentär. She participated as a celebrity contestant in Let's Dance 2019, which was broadcast on TV4
Lundell is in a relationship with actor Mikael Persbrandt and the couple have three children together. She also has one child from a previous relationship with Wille Crafoord.
# 1904 United States elections

Elections were held for the 59th United States Congress. It occurred during the Fourth Party System. Republicans maintained control of the presidency and both houses of Congress. For the first time since the 1828 election, no third party or independent won a seat in Congress.
In the presidential election, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated Democratic judge Alton Parker from New York. Parker, a conservative Bourbon Democrat, won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot, as former President Grover Cleveland and former presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan both declined to run. Roosevelt dominated both the popular vote and the electoral college, carrying every state outside the South. Roosevelt, who succeeded William McKinley after the latter was assassinated in 1901, became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency and later win election to the presidency in his own right. The election also saw Florida hold the first presidential primary, although Florida delegates were not bound by the results of the primary.
Republicans won major gains in the House, boosting their majority.
In the Senate, the Republicans picked up one seat, and maintained a commanding majority.
# Aflame: Learning from Silence

Aflame: Learning from Silence is a 2025 memoir by Pico Iyer, published by Riverhead Books. It concerns Iyer's experiences with his many retreats to a hermitage in Big Sur and his reflections on solitude and spirituality. The book was released on January 14, 2025.

## Background

Iyer first began retreating to a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, located in central California, after his house burned down along with all of his possessions. There, he learned that "solitude was really just a means to community... And that really solitude is a means to the much greater end of compassion and community, and the virtue of my spending time alone was so I could bring much more back to my mother and my bosses and so on." Since his first visit in 1991, Iyer made over a hundred trips to the retreat over the course of three decades.
Iyer noted that although he hasn't identified as a Christian, the Benedictine monks still allowed him to participate and observe in the monastery's practices: "The Catholic monks who don't share my faith open their doors and their hearts absolutely to me and everyone else who doesn't share their fundamental faith but shares their humanity. It's a reminder of how this is all about finding our common humanity."

## Critical reception

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly stated "The author brilliantly illuminates philosophical insights about the nature of the self, the world, and how silence serves as a conduit between the two, often in elegant, evocative prose" and concluded, "This is stunning."
Also in a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book "Essential reading for anyone interested in the monastic tradition and those who follow it" and concluded, "A lovely complement to the monastic writings of both Thomas Merton and Patrick Leigh Fermor, Iyer's book speaks well to the qualities of those who live both outside and firmly within the daily world and the wisdom, rough and refined, that monks have to offer".
Library Journal called the book "A nice addition to the literature on the blessings of quietude. lyer's observations about people, places, and himself are beautifully written and may offer readers some reassurance about these troubled times."
Shelf Awareness stated that "Pico Iyer offers an assortment of reflections on his love for the Catholic monastery in California he visits to cultivate self-renewal in silence." In particular, the reviewer observed Iyer's effortless structure, as well as his interfacing with his various influences:
   Iyer forgoes any attempt at temporal or geographic continuity, slipping effortlessly backward and forward over the years and across the globe at will. He weaves insights from thinkers like Meister Eckhart, Albert Camus, and Thomas Merton into his own reflections and evocative descriptions of the Hermitage's physical surroundings in brief, epigrammatic sections that occasionally partake of the quality of Zen koans.
# Płosków, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Płosków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sośno, within Sępólno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Sośno, 11 km (7 mi) south-east of Sępólno Krajeńskie, and 38 km (24 mi) north-west of Bydgoszcz.