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In the hope of communicating with Parsons ' spirit , while in Mexico Cameron began performing blood rituals in which she cut her own wrist . As part of these rituals , she claimed to have received a new magical identity , Hilarion . When she learned that an unidentified flying object had been seen over Washington D.C. ' s Capitol Building she considered it a response to Parsons ' death . After two months , she returned to California , there attempting suicide . Increasingly interested in occultism , she read through her husband 's papers , coming to understand the purpose of his Babalon Working and furthermore believing that the spirit of Babalon had been incarnated into herself . She came to believe that Parsons had been murdered by the police or anti @-@ zionists , and continued her attempts at astral projection to commune with his spirit . Her mental stability was deteriorating , and she became convinced that a nuclear test on Eniwetok Atoll would result in the destruction of the California coast . Though unproven , there is evidence that she was institutionalized in a psychiatric ward during this period , before having a brief affair with African @-@ American jazz player Leroy Booth , a relationship that would have been illegal at the time . At some point in this period she stayed with the Thelemite Wilfred Talbot Smith and his wife , although he thought that she had " bats in the belfry " and ignored what he described as her " Mad Mental Meanderings " .
Jeter also serves as an ambassador for Weplay , a website designed to encourage children to get involved in sports .
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If the wars of the Delian League shifted the balance of power between Greece and Persia in favour of the Greeks , then the subsequent half @-@ century of internecine conflict in Greece did much to restore the balance of power to Persia . In 387 BC , Sparta , confronted by an alliance of Corinth , Thebes and Athens during the Corinthian War , sought the aid of Persia to shore up her position . Under the so @-@ called " King 's Peace " which brought the war to an end , Artaxerxes II demanded and received the return of the cities of Asia Minor from the Spartans , in return for which the Persians threatened to make war on any Greek state which did not make peace . This humiliating treaty , which undid all the Greek gains of the previous century , sacrificed the Greeks of Asia Minor so that the Spartans could maintain their hegemony over Greece . It is in the aftermath of this treaty that Greek orators began to refer to the Peace of Callias ( whether fictional or not ) , as a counterpoint to the shame of the King 's Peace , and a glorious example of the " good old days " when the Greeks of the Aegean had been freed from Persian rule by the Delian League .
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Operation Huckaback was a British Second World War military operation that was originally designed to be a raid on Herm , Jethou and Brecqhou , but instead became only a raid on Herm undertaken on the night of 27 February 1943 , following an earlier attempt that had been aborted . Ten men of the Small Scale Raiding Force and No. 4 Commando under Captain Patrick Anthony Porteous VC landed 200 yards to the north @-@ west of Selle Rocque on a shingle beach and made several unsuccessful attempts to climb the cliff in front of them . Porteous finally managed to climb up the bed of a stream and pulled the others up with a rope . They later reported that they had found no sign of any Islanders or Germans ( who were supposed to be billeted near the harbour ) . They had failed to make contact with the few civilians on the island whose duties included looking after the sheep .
On December 17 , 2014 , Smith confirmed she and eight other Wildrose members — Rob Anderson , Gary Bikman , Rod Fox , Jason Hale , Bruce McAllister , Blake Pedersen , Bruce Rowe and Jeff Wilson — would cross the floor to the Progressive Conservative caucus , with Smith saying " Under Premier Prentice ’ s strong leadership , I believe we can work together to lead Alberta with a renewed focus on the values and principles that we share . " The action followed several days of rumours and a PC caucus meeting in which that party agreed to accept the Wildrose members on terms which have not been officially disclosed . This leaves five MLAs still affiliated with the Wildrose Party . In a letter to the party executive , Smith asked that all party members vote on a " reunification resolution " to merge the Wildrose and PC parties ; a request which the party executive rejected . This development angered many party members and provoked widespread controversy . Wildrose has stated that " At no time has the Wildrose Party been approached by any representative of the PCAA regarding a merger , combination , partnership or alliance . Yesterday ’ s events are confined to nine former Wildrose MLAs who opted to cross the floor without consulting the Wildrose Party . "
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Hananu and Rashid al @-@ Tali 'a cooperated with Barakat in an attempt to unify northern Syria 's rebel groups into a single resistance movement against the French , in allegiance with Faisal 's government in Damascus . Hananu also formed an alliance with the semi @-@ nomadic Mawali tribesmen of the Aleppo region . Following the battle at Harim , Hananu , with the assistance of Aleppo 's Committee of National Defense , had collected up to 2 @,@ 000 gold pounds in funds , and 1 @,@ 700 rifles for the 680 men in his ' iṣābā , who he and his aides trained .
Miniopterus manavi is a diminutive species with fur of medium length . The upperparts are blackish or reddish brown . Other small Malagasy Miniopterus are lighter . The ears mostly lack hair and end in a rounded tip . The tragus ( a projection on the inner side of the outer ear ) is thin for most of its length , ends in an angular tip , and has a flange at the medial side ( towards the midline of the animal ) . The tragus is differently shaped in other species . The wings and uropatagium ( tail membrane ) are blackish and are attached to the upper leg at the same level , above the ankle . The uropatagium is densely haired above and more sparsely below , as in M. mahafaliensis and M. brachytragos ; M. griveaudi and M. aelleni have more nearly naked uropatagia .
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In 1854 , the Diocese of Chichester selected an area of open land on the west side of Ditchling Road as the site of their Training College for Anglican Schoolmistresses , which had outgrown its premises in Black Lion Street in the old town . Viaduct Road was built in front of the Gothic Revival building 's south façade around the same time , and was built up with terraced houses by the early 1860s . In the early 20th century , the Diocese bought three of the four villas nearby and converted them into accommodation for trainee schoolteachers . Before that , the trainee teachers slept in large rooms in the Training College .
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On the outbreak of war with France in 1793 Eyre was appointed to HMS St George , the flagship of Rear @-@ Admiral John Gell , a relation of Eyre 's . He was present at the capture of a French privateer and her Spanish registered prize St Jago . St George went on to join Admiral Lord Hood 's fleet at Gibraltar , and went with him to Toulon . Eyre took an active part in the Siege of Toulon , volunteering to command the detachment of marines landed from St George and sent to defend Fort La Malgue . He went from there to command the battery at Fort Pharon , and after some time attracted Hood 's attention with his good service . Hood appointed him to his flagship HMS Victory . After the fall of Toulon and the British evacuation he was advanced to commander and appointed to command the sloop HMS Speedy , succeeding Commander George Cockburn , who had been appointed to command HMS Inconstant . He assisted in the capture of Bastia , and was then ordered to join HMS Diadem off Nice .
The launch date for the SIM Lite mission was pushed back at least five times . At the program 's outset , in 1998 , the launch was scheduled for 2005 . By 2000 , the launch date had been delayed until 2009 , a date that held through 2003 ; though some project scientists cited 2008 in late 2000 . Between 2004 and 2006 , contractor Northrop Grumman , the company designing and developing SIM , listed a launch date of 2011 on their website . With the release of the FY 2007 NASA budget , predictions changed again , this time to a date no earlier than 2015 or 2016 . The delay of the launch date was primarily related to budget cuts made to the SIM Lite program . The 2007 change represented a difference of about three years from the 2006 launch date , outlined in NASA 's FY 2006 budget as being two years behind 2005 budget predictions . Other groups predicted dates matching officially predicted launch dates ; the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute ( formerly the Michelson Science Center ) at the California Institute of Technology also sets the date at 2015 . As of June 2008 , NASA has postponed the launch date " indefinitely " .
Although the size of noble households shrank slightly during the 16th century , the number of guests at the largest castle events continued to grow . 2 @,@ 000 came to a feast at Cawood Castle in 1466 , while the Duke of Buckingham routinely entertained up to 519 people at Thornbury Castle at the start of the 16th century . When Elizabeth I visited Kenilworth in 1575 she brought an entourage of 31 barons and 400 staff for a visit that lasted an exceptional 19 days ; Leicester , the castle 's owner , entertained the Queen and much of the neighbouring region with pageants , fireworks , bear baiting , mystery plays , hunting and lavish banquets . With this scale of living and entertainment the need to find more space in older castles became a major issue in both England and Scotland .
Haven Burton will return to the role of Lauren on August 15 , 2016 .
Bristol Motor Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races ; the others are Dover International Speedway , Phoenix International Raceway , Richmond International Raceway , and Martinsville Speedway . The standard track at Bristol Motor Speedway is a four @-@ turn short track oval that is 0 @.@ 533 miles ( 0 @.@ 858 km ) long . The track 's turns are banked from twenty @-@ four to thirty degrees , while the front stretch , the location of the finish line , is banked from six to ten degrees . The back stretch also has banking from six to ten degrees .
Voyager 's observations revealed that Uranus 's magnetic field is peculiar , both because it does not originate from its geometric centre , and because it is tilted at 59 ° from the axis of rotation . In fact the magnetic dipole is shifted from the Uranus 's center towards the south rotational pole by as much as one third of the planetary radius . This unusual geometry results in a highly asymmetric magnetosphere , where the magnetic field strength on the surface in the southern hemisphere can be as low as 0 @.@ 1 gauss ( 10 µT ) , whereas in the northern hemisphere it can be as high as 1 @.@ 1 gauss ( 110 µT ) . The average field at the surface is 0 @.@ 23 gauss ( 23 µT ) . In comparison , the magnetic field of Earth is roughly as strong at either pole , and its " magnetic equator " is roughly parallel with its geographical equator . The dipole moment of Uranus is 50 times that of Earth . Neptune has a similarly displaced and tilted magnetic field , suggesting that this may be a common feature of ice giants . One hypothesis is that , unlike the magnetic fields of the terrestrial and gas giants , which are generated within their cores , the ice giants ' magnetic fields are generated by motion at relatively shallow depths , for instance , in the water – ammonia ocean . Another possible explanation for the magnetosphere 's alignment is that there are oceans of liquid diamond in Uranus 's interior that would deter the magnetic field .
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With WinFS Beta 1 , Microsoft included an unsupported application called StoreSpy , which allowed one to browse WinFS stores by presenting a hierarchical view of WinFS Items . It automatically generated virtual folders based on access permissions , date and other metadata , and presented them in a hierarchical tree view , akin to what traditional folders are presented in . The application generated tabs for different Item types . StoreSpy allowed viewing Items , Relationships , MultiSet , Nested Elements , Extensions and other types in the store along with its full metadata . It also presented a search interface to perform manual searches , and save them as virtual folders . The application also presented a graphical view of WinFS Rules . However , it did not allow editing of Items or their properties , though it was slated for inclusion in a future release . But the WinFS project was cut back before it could materialize .
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Post @-@ 16 education is handled by Shrewsbury Sixth Form College , previously the Priory School for Boys recently ranked 17th in the top 20 of sixth form colleges nationally by the Sunday Times newspaper and Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology , which handles primarily vocational courses .
Lady Gaga Live at Roseland Ballroom was the first residency show by American singer Lady Gaga . Performed at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan , New York , the residency show began on March 28 and concluded on April 7 , 2014 , after completing seven shows . It was the final event hosted by the venue after it was announced that it was being closed down and being replaced with a 42 @-@ story skyscraper . Gaga revealed that Roseland was the only venue in New York City that she had never played , although she had visited there previously to watch shows . A poster announcing the event was released , showing an old image of Gaga taken before the time she became successful as a recording artist .
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" This part of the world produced its fair share of footballers , and nobody was particularly impressed if a lad went away to play professional football . In fact we never used to say going away to play football , we just used to say ' going away ' . "
Much of Bogdan @-@ Pitești 's controversial political career , inaugurated by his support for anarchism , was dedicated to activism and support for revolution . He also had an interest in the occult , and maintained close contacts with Joséphin " Sâr " Péladan — sponsoring Péladan 's journey to Bucharest ( 1898 ) . He was detained by the authorities at various intervals , including an arrest for sedition during the 1899 election , and was later found guilty of having blackmailed the banker Aristide Blank . Late in his life , he led Seara , a Germanophile daily , as well as a literary and political circle which came to oppose Romania 's entry into World War I on the Entente Powers ' side . He was arrested one final time upon the end of the war , by which time he had become the object of public hatred . The enduring mysteries and contradictions of Bogdan @-@ Pitești 's career have since drawn interest from several generations of art and literary historians .
The street is referenced as a property in the United Kingdom edition of the board game Monopoly , which features famous London areas on its gameboard , it is a part of the pale blue set , including Pentonville Road and the only space named after a building , The Angel , Islington .
" Dangerously in Love 2 " received generally positive response from music critics , who wrote that the song effectively shows the vocal capabilities of Beyoncé . It won a Grammy Award for Best Female R & B Vocal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards . Though not released as a single , " Dangerously in Love 2 " charted at number 57 the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and at number 17 on the Hot R & B / Hip @-@ Hop Songs chart . Beyoncé performed the ballad at the 46th Grammy Awards , the Verizon Ladies First Tour , the Dangerously in Love Tour , The Beyoncé Experience and the I Am ... Tour . Beyoncé has earned a number of positive reviews for her live performances of the song on her tours .
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Japan : Japan said the test was " unacceptable " and a violation of UN Security Council resolutions . It was also considering tightening sanctions in response .
By 12 March , the system had developed persistent deep convection over the eastern half of its core and organized banding features elsewhere . Moderate vertical wind shear initially hampered intensification , though the BoM designated the system Tropical Low 16U ; at the time , it was centered roughly 230 km ( 140 mi ) northwest of Karratha , Western Australia . At 2300 UTC on 12 March , the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ( JTWC ) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert . With increasingly favorable environmental conditions — including warm ocean waters and dwindling wind shear — the low organized significantly between 12 and 13 March , and at 0600 UTC on the 13th , TCWC Perth upgraded the low to Tropical Cyclone Lua . Simultaneously , the JTWC issued its first tropical cyclone warning on 17S . Contrary to real @-@ time operations , the official BoM " best track " database does not list the storm as having attained Category 1 tropical cyclone intensity until 0000 UTC on 14 March .
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Mouhot , like other early Western visitors , found it difficult to believe that the Khmers could have built the temple , and mistakenly dated it to around the same era as Rome . The true history of Angkor Wat was pieced together only from stylistic and epigraphic evidence accumulated during the subsequent clearing and restoration work carried out across the whole Angkor site . There were no ordinary dwellings or houses or other signs of settlement including cooking utensils , weapons , or items of clothing usually found at ancient sites . Instead there is the evidence of the monuments themselves .
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Interstate 359 ( I @-@ 359 ) is a part of the Interstate Highway System in the US state of Alabama . It is a spur route that runs for 2 @.@ 76 miles ( 4 @.@ 44 km ) entirely within the city limits of Tuscaloosa . Its termini are just south of I @-@ 20 / I @-@ 59 interchange on the south side of town and U.S. Highway 43 ( US 43 ) in downtown Tuscaloosa . The entire length is concurrent with U.S. Highway 11 ( US 11 ) and Alabama State Route 69 ( SR 69 ) , with both continuing as at grade thoroughfares north and south of the shorter Interstate .
The album consists of bouncy dance music mixed with crunk , combined with either R & B , pop or hip hop music . The ballads on the set utilize Ciara 's breathy vocals , as the uptempo pieces . Lyrical content varies on the album . Songs like " Goodies " issue a message of female empowerment and abstinence , and this is contradicted as she hints at teasing sex . Slant Magazine compared this to Britney Spears @-@ esque " layer of tease to the mature " in her early work . Utilizing influences from 80 's dance music , qualities of the work of Destiny 's Child and Aaliyah are evident .
Several hours after the explosion , Admiral Carlisle Trost , the Chief of Naval Operations ( CNO ) , issued a moratorium on the firing of all 16 @-@ inch guns . Vice Admiral Joseph S. Donnell , commander of Surface Forces Atlantic , appointed Commodore Richard Milligan to conduct an informal one @-@ officer investigation into the explosion . An informal investigation meant that testimony was not required to be taken under oath , witnesses were not advised of their rights , defense attorneys were not present , and no one , including the deceased , could be charged with a crime no matter what the evidence revealed .
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Paracetamol is contained in many preparations , available as both over @-@ the @-@ counter and as prescription @-@ only medications . Because of its wide availability paired with comparably high toxicity , ( compared to ibuprofen and aspirin ) there is a much higher potential for overdose . Paracetamol toxicity is one of the most common causes of poisoning worldwide . In the United States , the United Kingdom , Australia , and New Zealand , paracetamol is the most common cause of drug overdoses . Additionally , in both the United States and the United Kingdom it is the most common cause of acute liver failure .
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Nevertheless , much pop and rock music has been very similar in sound , instrumentation and even lyrical content . The terms " pop @-@ rock " and " power pop " have been used to describe more commercially successful music that uses elements from , or the form of , rock music . Pop @-@ rock has been defined as an " upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John , Paul McCartney , the Everly Brothers , Rod Stewart , Chicago , and Peter Frampton . " The term power pop was coined by Pete Townshend of the Who in 1966 , but not much used until it was applied to bands like Badfinger in the 1970s , who proved some of the most commercially successful of the period .
Salah set up a public share @-@ holding company Century Investments . For doing business with Israel , many Jordanian organizations criticized Salah and boycotted the purchase of output in Jordan . Despite the heavy criticism , Salah nevertheless received tacit support from King Abdullah of Jordan . To combat the boycott , Salah began to work with multinationals with a larger international stake . He then actively lobbied the Jordanian government to set negotiate a free trade agreement with the United States on the lines of the United States @-@ Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act of 1985 . Faced with little enthusiasm by the Jordanian government , Salah scrutinized the Presidential Proclamation ( No. 6955 ) that was part of the Palestinian agreement signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel in 1993 . In the agreement , the areas on the border between Israel and Jordan were designated as " Qualifying Industrial Zones " , and goods produced here would not have tariff and quota restrictions to the US markets . Since the Hassan industrial estate in Irbid , where Salah had factories located , was situated far from the bordering areas , it did not qualify for QIZ status .
In April 1944 , tests on the first sample of plutonium that had been produced with neutrons in a nuclear reactor revealed that reactor @-@ bred plutonium contained five times more plutonium @-@ 240 than that hitherto produced in a cyclotrons . This unwanted isotope that spontaneously decayed and produced neutrons promised to cause a predetonation without sufficiently quick critical mass assembly . It now became apparent that only implosion would work for practical plutonium bombs ; a powerful enough gun could not be constructed small enough to be carried in an aircraft , and plutonium @-@ 240 was even more difficult to separate from plutonium @-@ 239 than the isotopes of uranium that were giving the rest of the Manhattan Project such difficulties . Plutonium was unusable unless implosion worked , but only plutonium could be produced in quantities that would allow regular production of atomic bombs . Thus , the implosion technique now suddenly stood as the key to production of nuclear weapons .
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Regardless how it is credited , the horsepower race centered around the V8 engine and the muscle @-@ car era lasted until new smog regulations forced dramatic changes in OEM engine design in the early 1970s . This in turn opened up new opportunities for aftermarket manufacturers like Edelbrock . Each year brought larger engines and / or increases in horsepower , providing a catalyst for customers to upgrade to newer models . Automobile executives also deliberately updated the body designs yearly , in the name of " planned obsolescence " and added newly developed or improved features such as automatic transmissions , power steering , power brakes and cruise control , in an effort to make the previous models seem outdated and facilitate the long drive from the suburbs . Record sales made the decade arguably the " golden era " of automobile manufacturing .
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Shadowrun is an adaptation of the FASA tabletop role @-@ playing game of the same name . The storyline of the video game is loosely based on the first Shadowrun novel , Never Deal with a Dragon , written by Robert N. Charrette . The narrative opens in Seattle , Washington in the year 2050 , where the protagonist Jake Armitage is shown being gunned down in the street . A shapeshifting lupine figure rushes to his side and is seen casting a spell over Jake before leaving hastily as the medics arrive on the scene . Jake awakens in a morgue with a complete memory loss . Soon , he is approached by the " Dog " , a shamanistic totem who gives him a warning before vanishing .
Bánáthy served two tours on the Russian front in World War II as an armored infantry officer . The peace @-@ time Hungarian Army had received very little training . The Hungarian Army expanded rapidly from an initial force of 80 @,@ 000 , but when fighting started , the rank @-@ and @-@ file of the army had undergone only eight weeks of training .
Together with her sister Harvester , Hesperus sank the German submarine U @-@ 208 on 7 December 1941 in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar . On 15 January 1942 , whilst defending Convoy HG 78 , the ship 's radar detected U @-@ 93 on the surface and the captain , Lieutenant Commander A. A. Tait , ordered Hesperus to ram . Although a glancing hit , the collision was so violent that it flung the U @-@ boat 's captain and first lieutenant from the submarine 's conning tower into the motorboat stowed on the destroyer 's deck . By dropping depth charges at their shallowest setting and hitting the submarine multiple times with 4 @.@ 7 @-@ inch shells , the submarine 's crew was persuaded to abandon ship . Hesperus rescued 40 of the submarine 's crew , but was unable to board the submarine before it sank . The impact flooded part of the forward hull , buckled her starboard hull plating and bent the tips of her starboard propeller . She received temporary repairs at Gibraltar and then was given permanent repairs in Falmouth between 9 February and April .
Though queen , as an unmarried young woman Victoria was required by social convention to live with her mother , despite their differences over the Kensington System and her mother 's continued reliance on Conroy . Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace , and Victoria often refused to see her . When Victoria complained to Melbourne that her mother 's close proximity promised " torment for many years " , Melbourne sympathised but said it could be avoided by marriage , which Victoria called a " schocking [ sic ] alternative " . She showed interest in Albert 's education for the future role he would have to play as her husband , but she resisted attempts to rush her into wedlock .
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Before the initiation proper , Lucius must undergo a series of ritual purifications . The priest bathes him , asks the gods for forgiveness on his behalf , and sprinkles him with water . This confession of and repentance for past sins fits with an emphasis on chastity and other forms of self @-@ denial found in many other sources about the Isis cult . Lucius next has to wait ten days , while abstaining from meat and wine , before the initiation begins . Purifying baths were common in many rituals across the Greco @-@ Roman world . The plea for forgiveness , however , may derive from the oaths that Egyptian priests were required to take , in which they declared themselves to be free of wrongdoing . The sprinkling with water and the refraining from certain foods probably come from the purification rituals that those priests had to undergo before entering a temple . On the evening of the final day , Lucius receives a variety of gifts from fellow devotees of Isis before donning a clean linen robe and entering the deepest part of the temple .
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Ajax faced Turkish team Beşiktaş in the first round of the European Cup . They won the first leg 2 – 0 at the Olympic Stadium , courtesy of goals from Piet Keizer and Bennie Muller . The second leg in Turkey finished 2 – 1 to Ajax , with goals from Keizer and Sjaak Swart . Ajax won the tie 4 – 1 on aggregate to progress to the second round . Liverpool were drawn against Romanian team Petrolul Ploiești in the first round , and won the first leg at their home ground Anfield , courtesy of goals from Ian St. John and Ian Callaghan . Petrolul Ploiești won the second leg 3 – 1 in Romania to level the tie at 3 – 3 after the two matches . The tie would be decided by a play @-@ off match , which Liverpool 2 – 0 to progress to the second round .
Citizens of Hamilton are represented at all three levels of Canadian government . Following the 2015 Federal Election , representation in the Parliament of Canada will consist of five Members of Parliament representing the federal ridings of Hamilton West — Ancaster — Dundas , Hamilton Centre , Hamilton East — Stoney Creek , Hamilton Mountain , and Flamborough — Glanbrook . This election will mark the first occasion in which Hamilton will have five Members of Parliament representing areas wholly within Hamilton 's city boundaries , with previous boundaries situating rural ridings across municipal lines .
The Russian Spaniel is a small , sturdy dog with a short , tight , silky coat with feathering on the ears and legs . Colors can vary greatly , and can include solid colors without white markings , piebald , speckled , black and tan , and combinations . The head and ears are also usually dark .