title: The Race of My Life

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The Race of My Life: An Autobiography is the autobiography of Indian athlete Milkha Singh, coauthored with daughter Sonia Sanwalka.  The film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is based on it.

Summary
Milkha Singh, a sikh boy born around 1930s, runs against trains for fun. A lot of his family  members who belong to Milkha Singh family, including his parents, are killed in the Partition of India. After many attempts, he is finally able to join the Indian army. Whilst in the army, his athletic skills show. He wins gold medals in the 1958 Asian Games and 1958 Commonwealth Games. After winning the friendly race between India and Pakistan, in 1960, he earns the title of The Flying Sikh by Ayub Khan. However, he loses the bronze medal by fraction of a second at the 1960 Summer Olympics, due to a judgement error on the race track. In 1963, he marries his longtime love Nirmal Kaur, former captain of India's women's volleyball team. In 1971, their son Jeev Milkha Singh is born. Jeev, also a sportsman, became a world class golfer.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Singh said that after reading his autobiography, a few  Bollywood directors approached him, asking to make a film on his life. Singh's son, Jeev Milkha Singh, decided that the film rights be given to Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Singh sold the rights for 1, with a clause that 10-15% of the film's profits would be donated to his charitable trust.

Farhan Akhtar starred as Singh, and Sonam Kapoor starred as Biro–inspired by one of Singh's real love interests. Made on a budget of 30 crore, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag grossed 164 crore worldwide. It was one of the highest grossing 2013 Bollywood films.

Of the film and Akhtar's portrayal of him, Singh said "Farhan Akhtar has done a brilliant job. He looked like my duplicate in the movie. The director, too, did a great a job. Also, the dialogues and the lyrics by Prasoon Joshi are brilliant. There was nothing which I felt should be changed in the movie, it was perfect."

Reception
IBN Live panned The Race of My Life as disappointing, as they felt that it was "nothing but part of a deal for the movie's production."

References
Notes

Citations

External links

The Race of My Life at Rupa Publications
The Race of My Life at Goodreads

Indian autobiographies
Sports autobiographies
Autobiographies adapted into films
Partition of India in fiction
Rupa Publications books
21st-century Indian books
Punjab Province in fiction
Novels set in Punjab, India


title: Selevenj heath

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Selevenj heath or Selevenjske pustare is a Pannonian heath type reserve in the Kanjiža and Subotica municipalities in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. The reserve with an area of 6.77 km2 has never been urbanised and is protected as a special nature reserve. It consists of areas criss-crossed with orchards, fields and vineyards and is primarily used for botanical conservation.

Flora
The Selevenj heath special nature reserve is the only location in Serbia where the desert soapwort grows. Protected species of orchid and iris can be found in the reserve.

Fauna
Internationally protected species like sand lizards, bats and rare birds live in the Selevenj heath special nature reserve. The reserve is one of few places in Serbia where the scarce large blue can be found.

Tourism
A couple of marked trails lead through the special nature reserve. Guided rangers tours are available to discover the area.

References

Protected areas of Serbia
Nature reserves in Serbia
Kanjiža
Subotica


title: DJK Vilzing

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The DJK Vilzing is a German association football club from the village of Vilzing, located near Cham, Bavaria. DJK stands for Deutsche Jugendkraft, a sports organisation associated with the Catholic Church.

The club's greatest success came in 2022 when it qualified for the Regionalliga, the fourth tier of the German football league system.

History
For much of the first 30 years of its history the club had been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football until a championship in the Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Süd in 1998, a league which the club had played in since 1995, earned it promotion to the Bezirksoberliga.

Playing in the Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 DJK came fourth in its first season there, followed by a league championship and promotion the year after. A six-year stint in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte followed in which the club, after three difficult first seasons finished in the top four in 2004 and 2005. However, in the 2005–06 season Vilzing came sixteenth and was relegated back to the Bezirksoberliga.

Another league championship the following year saw the club move back up to the Landesliga and come third in its first season back. Vilzings results gradually worsened season after season, resulting in another relegation from the league in 2011. The club played the 2011–12 season in the Bezirksoberliga once more, which was also going to be the last for this league. The Bezirksoberligas were disbanded in 2012 and the Landesligas expanded from three to five divisions, allowing the club to move up to the Landesliga once more despite finishing only fourth.

DJK entered the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte once more but this league now covered a much smaller area then the previous league which had existed from 1963 to 2012. In its inaugural season the club came second but failed to achieve Bayernliga qualification in the promotion round. The second season saw Vilzing repeat this result but this time it succeeded in the promotion round and qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga for 2014–15. The club finished in fifth place in its first-ever Bayernliga season.

Honours
The club's honours:

League
 Bayernliga Nord
 Champions: 2022
 Runners-up: 2020, 2021
 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
 Runners-up: 2013, 2014
 Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz
 Champions: 2000, 2007
 Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Süd
 Champions: 1998

Cup
 Oberpfalz Cup
 Runners-up: 2007

Players

Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

Key

References

External links
 Official team site
 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv  historical German domestic league tables
 Manfreds Fussball Archiv   Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues
 DJK Vilzing at Weltfussball.de

Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Bavaria
Football in Upper Palatinate
Association football clubs established in 1967
1967 establishments in West Germany
German Youth Power Sports Association
Cham (district)


title: Alt-Signau Castle

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Alt-Signau Castle () is a ruined castle in the municipality of Bowil in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

History
The castle was the ancestral home of the Barons of Signau.  The family was first mentioned in 1130 when Werner von Signau appeared in a historical record.
The castle was designed to protect and control the road between the Emmental and the Aare river.
In the mid-14th century the castle was abandoned when the family moved to Neu-Signau Castle on a hill across the valley.

The ruin is relatively well preserved.

See also
 List of castles in Switzerland

References

 Burgenkarte der Schweiz - West: , Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo, 2007

External links

 History of Signau from signau.ch

Castles in the Canton of Bern


title: Arotrophora charistis

text:
Arotrophora charistis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

The wingspan is about 13.5 mm.

References

Moths described in 1910
Arotrophora
Moths of Australia


title: Cecil Campbell (tennis)

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Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Sir Cecil James Frederick Campbell  (4 May 1891 – 11 May 1952) was an amateur Irish tennis player, lawyer and businessman. He reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon for three consecutive years between 1921 and 1923.

Biography

He was the second son of Irish peer James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, who served as Attorney-General for Ireland and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Cecil was considered the best Irish tennis player of his era.

On 23 May 1925 in London, Campbell married Lavender Letts, a fellow tennis player from Essex. She competed for Ireland in women's singles at the 1929 Wimbledon Championships, and they competed together in mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1928 and 1929.

Campbell moved to Egypt in 1922, where until 1930 he served as legal secretary to the Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government. He later became legal counsellor to the British resident in Cairo. In 1933, he became managing director of the Marconi Radio Telephone Company of Egypt, and later chairman of the local board of the Anglo-Egyptian Oilfields.

In 1934, Lavender successfully sued for divorce on the grounds of her husband's adultery with the wife of a British civil servant in Cairo. Cecil remarried the same year.

He was named a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1930 New Year Honours After his service in the Second World War, he received a knighthood.

From 1947 to the time of his death, he was president of the English Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.

On 11 May 1952, he was found dead of a gunshot wound at his home in Zamalek, Cairo, after suffering "indifferent health for a long time," according to The Times.

References

External links

Irish male tennis players
1891 births
1952 suicides
1952 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Deaths by firearm in Egypt
Tennis players from Dublin (city)
Suicides by firearm in Egypt


title: Arotrophora diadela

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Arotrophora diadela is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Western Australia.

The wingspan is about 22.5 mm.

References

Moths described in 1963
Arotrophora
Moths of Australia


title: Arotrophora ericirra

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Arotrophora ericirra is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.

The wingspan is about 27 mm for males and 30.5 mm for females.

References

Moths described in 1963
Arotrophora
Moths of Australia


title: Farmiloe Building

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The Farmiloe Building is a Grade II listed building in Clerkenwell, London, in the London Borough of Islington.

History
The Farmiloe Building, of Victorian architecture, was completed by Browne & Robinson in 1868. The architect for the building was Lewis Henry Isaacs. The Farmiloe Building became a Grade II listed building on 20 December 1991. The business George Farmiloe & Sons used the building as its base until 1999. In June 2005, Film London nominated the building as the location of the month. In 2014, plans were announced to transform the building into offices.

Use in media
The Farmiloe Building is a popular location for filming scenes. Films and television productions that have been shot at the building include:
Batman Begins (2005)
Eastern Promises (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Inception (2010)
Spooks (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) (2011)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
What Remains (2013)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

References

Buildings and structures in Clerkenwell
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Islington
Victorian architecture in England
DVD


title: Vaara

text:
Vaara is a district of the city centre area of Oulu, Finland. Together with the districts of Pokkinen and Vanhatulli, Vaara forms the central business district of Oulu. It is bounded by the districts of Raksila to the east, Pokkinen to the west, Myllytulli to the north and Vanhatulli to the south.

Both Oulu railway station and Oulu bus station are located in Vaara.

References

External links

Districts of Oulu


title: Bruce Kamau

text:
Bruce Kamau (born 28 March 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Perth Glory in the A-League. Born in Kenya, Kamau is a youth international for Australia.

Early life
Born in Kenya, Kamau moved to Australia aged 4. He attended Rostrevor College.

Career

Adelaide United
He made his senior professional debut for Adelaide United in the 2014 FFA Cup in a match against Wellington Phoenix at the Marden Sports Complex on 5 August 2014. Adelaide won the match 1–0 in regulation time. He subsequently made his A-League debut in a match against Brisbane Roar in Round one of the 2014–15 A-League season.

Kamau scored his first A-League goal for Adelaide in a 1–0 win away to Melbourne Victory on 19 February 2016, in the 90th minute of the match in Round 20 of the 2015–16 season. Kamau started in the 2016 A-League Grand Final, scoring the first goal of the game.

Melbourne City
At the end of the season, after winning the Premiership and Championship with Adelaide United, Kamau joined Melbourne City. Kamau made his unofficial City debut in a 4–0 pre-season victory over NPL Victoria side Melbourne Knights FC.

Western Sydney Wanderers
On 3 May 2018, Kamau was released by Melbourne City and joined Western Sydney Wanderers. The club announced a squad update on 16 October 2020 where Kamau was omitted suggesting his departure from the club, but a month later announced that Kamau had re-signed. At the end of his contract, Kamau left the club to take up an opportunity overseas.

OFI Crete
In July 2021, Kamau joined Greek Super League club OFI Crete on a three-year contract.

Loan to Melbourne Victory
In February 2023, Kamau was loaned to A-League Men club Melbourne Victory until the end of the 2022–23 A-League Men season.

Perth Glory
In August 2023, Perth Glory announced the signing of Kamau ahead of the 2023–24 A-League Men season.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours
Adelaide United
 A-League Premiership: 2015–16
 A-League Championship: 2015–16
 FFA Cup: 2014

Melbourne City
 FFA Cup: 2016

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Nairobi
Men's association football midfielders
Australian men's soccer players
Australia men's youth international soccer players
Kenyan men's footballers
Kenyan emigrants to Australia
Australian people of Kenyan descent
People educated at Rostrevor College
Kenyan expatriate men's footballers
Adelaide United FC players
Melbourne City FC players
Western Sydney Wanderers FC players
OFI Crete F.C. players
Melbourne Victory FC players
Perth Glory FC players
A-League Men players
Super League Greece players
Australian expatriate men's soccer players
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece


title: 2014 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics

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The 16th Ibero-American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estádio Ícaro de Castro Melo in São Paulo, Brazil, between August 1–3, 2014.

A total of 44 events were contested, 22 by men and 22 by women.

A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.

Medal summary

The results and medal winners were published.

Men

Women

Medal table (unofficial)
A medal table was published.

Participation
According to an unofficial count, 294 athletes from 22 countries participated.  Although initially announced, athletes from  and from  did not show.

 (5)
 (20)
 (3)
 (75)
 (16)
 (28)
 (10)
 (2)
 (20)
 (11)
 (2)
 (1)
 (3)
 (18)
 (8)
 (8)
 (15)
 (9)
 (8)
 (20)
 (7)
 (5)

References

Ibero-American Championships in Athletics
International sports competitions in São Paulo
International athletics competitions hosted by Brazil
Ibero-American Championships
Ibero-American Championships
Ibero-American Championships in Athletics


title: Moolooloo

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Moolooloo Station (also known as Moolooloo and Moorillah Stations) is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia.

It is situated approximately  north west of Blinman and  south of Leigh Creek.

The property was established in 1851 and originally known as Oratunga Station. John McKinley and his brother stocked the property with sheep and built a stone hut known as Howannigan, the ruins of which can still be seen today. John and James Chambers acquired the station in 1853. Five leases totalling  were taken up between 1853 and 1858. Copper was found by James Chambers and William Finke in 1857 along the southern boundary. The pair worked the deposit, establishing the Oratunga mine. The store at Moolooloo burnt down in 1861, with the Chambers losing a large supply in the resulting explosion. In 1863 the woolshed and adjoining sheep yards were destroyed by a fire that was started accidentally.

In 1870 Philip Levi's company disposed of many of its properties including Moolooloo and Wirrealpa, Oulnina and Wadnaminga, Mount Margaret and Booleroo Station. Together these properties were stocked with over 70,000 sheep and 3,000 cattle.

Moolooloo and Moorillah Stations are currently both run by the same family and together occupy an area of . The shearers' quarters are used now for tourist accommodation.

The land occupying the extent of the Moolooloo pastoral lease was gazetted as two localities by the Government of South Australia on 26 April 2013 under the names Moolooloo and Moorillah.

See also
List of ranches and stations

References

Stations in South Australia
Far North (South Australia)


title: Hector Mackenzie Woodhouse

text:
Rear Admiral Hector Roy Mackenzie Woodhouse CB OBE (1889–1971) was a senior Royal Navy officer during the Second World War.

Naval career
Born on 15 February 1889, Hector Mackenzie Woodhouse was educated at Bedford School. He entered in the Royal Navy in 1906 and served during the First World War and during the Second World War.

Rear Admiral Hector Mackenzie Woodhouse was appointed OBE in 1919, and CB in 1941. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1946 and died in Cosham, Hampshire on 5 June 1971.

References

1889 births
1971 deaths
People educated at Bedford School
Royal Navy admirals
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Officers of the Order of the British Empire


title: Neu-Signau Castle

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Neu-Signau Castle () is a ruined castle in the municipality of Bowil in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

History
The castle was built to replace Alt-Signau Castle as the residence of the Barons of Signau.  It was intended to protect and control the road between the Emmental and Aare river valley.  In 1826 the castle was demolished.

Location and description
The castle is situated on a conglomerate spur above Bowil village.  On an opposite hill, across the valley are the ruins of Alt-Signau Castle.  Today, only a few traces of the castle can be seen.

See also
 List of castles in Switzerland

References

 Burgenkarte der Schweiz - West: , Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo, 2007

External links

 History of Signau from signau.ch

Castles in the Canton of Bern


title: Peraglyphis crustata

text:
Peraglyphis crustata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Assam, India.

References

Moths described in 1912
Peraglyphis
Moths of Asia


title: Aronson v. Lewis

text:
Aronson v Lewis, 473 A.2d 805 (Del. 1984), is a US corporate law case, from Delaware concerning the possibility of a shareholder to bring a derivative suit.

Facts
A shareholder claimed that the directors of Meyers Parking System Inc. had improperly wasted corporate assets. The CEO, Mr Fink, then 75 years old, was also a 47% shareholder and its founder. It was alleged he personally selected the other directors. They had given to Mr Fink a generous five year employment contract, a subsequent term as a consultant with a large salary, and an annual bonus equal to 5% of the company's pre tax profits. The contract also said that this continued regardless of Mr Fink's continued ability to perform the job.

Judgment
Justice Moore rejected the claim on the ground that the plaintiff had not shown that making a demand on the board would have been futile. He held that the 'business judgment rule' was applicable. This meant,

See also

United States corporate law
UK company law

References

External links

United States corporate case law
Delaware state case law
1984 in Delaware
1984 in United States case law


title: Oyan (town)

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Oyan is a small city in Odo Otin North Local Council Development Authority in Osun State, Nigeria. The traditional title of the king is His Royal Majesty (HRM) Oloyan of Oyan, there are 4 prominent ruling houses in oyan,  they include;  Elemo's compound, Laojo's compound, Daodu's compound and olomooba's compound.

Oyan situated between latitudes 8.031089 and 8.060466 N and longitude 4.742298 and 4.781107 E of the Greenwich meridian. Its postal code is 231107.

References

Populated places in Osun State


title: Maja Vučurović

text:
Maja Vučurović (Serbian Cyrillic: Маја Вучуровић; born May 27, 1991) is a Serbian professional basketball player. Maja plays for Stars Keltern in the Bundesliga and EuroCup.

External links
Profile at eurobasket.com

https://celtabaloncesto.com/ligafemenina2/maja-stamenkovic-calidad-y-caracter-para-celta-zorka-recalvi/

https://www.elcorreo.com/deporte-femenino-alava/baloncesto/araski/caracter-serbio-campus-20200220225617-nt_amp.html

References

1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Senta
Serbian women's basketball players
ŽKK Radivoj Korać players
Point guards
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Belgium
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Ecuador
Serbian expatriate basketball people in France
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Germany
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Poland
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Romania
Serbian expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Spain


title: Stoor worm

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The stoor worm, or Mester Stoor Worm, was a gigantic evil sea serpent of Orcadian folklore, capable of contaminating plants and destroying animals and humans with its putrid breath. It is probably an Orkney variant of the Norse Jörmungandr, also known as the Midgard Serpent, or world serpent, and has been described as a sea dragon.

The king of one country threatened by the beast's arrival was advised to offer it a weekly sacrifice of seven virgins. In desperation the king eventually issued a proclamation offering his kingdom, his daughter's hand in marriage and a magic sword to anyone who could destroy the monster. Assipattle, the youngest son of a local farmer, defeated the creature; as it died its teeth fell out to become the islands of Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes, and its body became Iceland.

Similarities between Assipatle's defeat of the monster and other dragon-slayer tales, including Herakles' destruction of a sea monster to save Hesione, have been noted by several authors. It has been suggested that tales of this genre evolved during a period of enlightenment, when human sacrifices to bestial divinities were beginning to be suppressed.

Etymology
The name stoor worm may be derived from the Old Norse Storðar-gandr, an alternative name for Jörmungandr, the world or Midgard Serpent of Norse mythology, Stoor or stour was a term used by Scots in the latter part of the 14th century to describe fighting or battles; it could also be applied to "violent conflicts" of the weather elements. Similar definitions are given by the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue that covers the period up to the start of the 18th century; later volumes, when it was published as the Dictionary of the Scots Language and covered from 1700 onwards, include substantial, large and big; it further indicates it may be akin to the Old Norse stórr. It shows stoorworm as "a monster serpent, a sea-dragon" using Traill Dennison's tale as the basis for the definition.

Mester means master; it may have been deemed Mester Stoor Worm because it was the "master and father of all stoorworms". In Scotland worm may frequently be applied to a dragon, as it is in northern England according to folklorist Katharine Briggs, a usage that derives from the Saxon and Norse terms. The spelling of the Old English and obsolete variant of the word worm is wyrm, meaning dragon or serpent. Traill Dennison's definition gives mester as "superior" with stoor being "large, powerful, strong or stern". He describes worm as "any animal of serpent shape".

Folk beliefs

Description and common attributes
An inhabitant of the sea, the stoor worm was a mythical serpent-like creature created by malevolent spirits. A gigantic beast with a ferocious appetite, it was able to demolish ships and houses with its prehensile forked tongue it used as a pair of tongs, and even to drag entire hillsides and villages into the sea. Its eyes were like "round lochs, very deep and dark" in the modern retelling, whereas it "glowed and flamed like a ward fire" in Dennison's long text, which noted in an aside that some accounts stated that the stoor worm had only one eye.

According to folklorist Jennifer Westwood, the stoor worm's head was "like a great mountain"; its breath was putrid, contaminating plants and destroying any humans or animals with its blast. Traill Dennison reported the serpent's length was "beyond telling, and reached thousands and thousands of miles in the sea". Giant sea swells and earthquakes were attributed to the beast yawning, a sign it wanted to be fed rather than of fatigue. Islanders were terrified of the serpent; it was described by Traill Dennison, who transcribed its story, as "the worst of the nine fearful curses that plague mankind". A further tale recorded by Traill Dennison gives a brief mention of another stoor worm, described as the progeny of the Orcadian monster, which is killed when it is severed in two by an oversized mythical ship.

Sacrificial offerings
The king of one country threatened by the imminent arrival of the stoor worm sought the advice of a wise man or spaeman, who suggests that the beast might be appeased if it is fed seven virgins every week. In line with the wise man's advice, every Saturday the islanders provide a sacrificial offering of seven virgins, who were tied up and placed on the beach for the serpent to sweep into its mouth as it reared its head from the sea.

As the regular sacrifices continue the islanders approach the king for help, as they are worried there will soon be no young girls left. The king again asks the advice of the spaeman, who tentatively suggests that the king's only daughter, Princess Gem-de-lovely, his most prized possession, will have to be offered to the stoor worm to encourage it to leave. During the ten-week period of grace before the princess has to be sacrificed, messengers are despatched to every corner of the realm offering the kingdom, marriage to the princess, and the magic sword the king had inherited from the god Odin.

Slaying

The number of prospective heroes who come forward as a result of the king's appeal varies in the telling from 30 to 36, but they all leave without confronting the monster. The day before the princess is due to be sacrificed, Assipattle, the youngest son of a local farmer and despised by his family, mounts his father's horse and at dawn arrives on the beach where the creature is just beginning to awaken. After stealing some hot peat and acquiring a small boat, Assipattle is driven by the waves into the stoor worm's mouth as it starts yawning. The boat is carried down to the depths of the creature's stomach until it finally comes to rest. Assipattle plunges the still burning peat into the stoor worm's liver, causing a "fire that blazed like a furnace". The pain of its burning liver causes the creature to have a fit of retching that carries Assipattle, who has managed to return to his boat, back out of the monster's mouth.

The commotion caused by the stoor worm's writhing agonies draws a crowd to the beach, and Assipattle lands safely among them. The ferocity of the fire burning in the creature's liver increases, causing smoke clouds to be expelled from its mouth and nostrils, turning the skies black. The islanders, believing that the world is about to end, clamber up a hillside to watch the final death throes of the creature at a safe distance from the resulting tidal waves and earthquakes. As it dies, the creature's teeth fall out to become the islands of Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes. The Baltic Sea is created where its tongue falls out, and when the creature finally curls up into a tight knot and dies, its body becomes Iceland. True to his word, once the skies clear and the earth settles, the king relinquishes his kingdom to Assipattle, who marries Princess Gem-de-lovely. As promised, the king also gives Odin's magic sword to Assipattle.

Origins
The stoor worm is likely to be an Orkney variant of the Norse Jörmungandr, or world serpent, also known as the Midgard Serpent. The Orcadian folklorist Marwick highlights the similarity between the method Assipattle used to kill the mythical creature and those recounted in the slaying of the Worm of Linton and the Cnoc na Cnoimh of Sutherland tales. He also notes that in Bel and the Dragon, the dragon is killed by Daniel using "fat and hair" instead of peat. In Shetland there was a long-standing belief that "away, far out to sea, near the edge of the world, lived a monstrous sea-serpent that took about six hours to draw in his breath, and six hours to let it out", which Marwick speculates was probably an explanation for the cycle of the tides.

Hartland published an analysis of the myths of the Perseus cycle in the last decade of the 19th century with the stated aim to determine "whether it be possible to ascertain what was its primitive form, where it originated, and how it became diffused over the Eastern continent." He highlighted similarities between Assipattle's defeat of the stoor worm and Herakle's rescue of Hesione. When researching the Dartmoor legend of Childe's Tomb folklorist Theo Brown also drew comparisons between the slaying of the stoor worm and Jonah's three-day confinement inside a whale. Hartland concluded that tales of this genre were confined to countries beginning to move away from primitive beliefs and possibly evolved "out of the suppression of human sacrifices to divinities in bestial form."

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

Orcadian culture
Scottish folklore
Scottish legendary creatures
Sea serpents


title: Khalifan, Erbil

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Khalifan (), is a town located in Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region in Iraq, near Rawandiz. It is located 80  northeast of Erbil and the majority of its population are Kurds.

Its most famous places are Geli Ali Beg Waterfall and Korek mountain. Islam is the majority religion in Khalifan.

Tourism

Geli Ali Beg Waterfall
This Promenadeis 106 km from the middle of the erbil city here, considered one of the most Tourist areas in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq . Located between Korek Mountain and Bradost Mountain, 12 km long, the site is 800 m high on sea level, its temperature reaches 31 degrees Celsius in the Summer, and (-10) in winter. There are two rivers, one coming from the Alan Valley, which forms the Gali Ali Beg Waterfall, and the other in the town of Rwanduz. Despite the large waterfall, there are many small waterfalls. This mountainous place and its various areas have become a tourist destination, where many people visit, especially in the central and southern regions of Iraq in the Summer season.

Bekhal Waterfall
The Bekhal Waterfall (112 km) is located from the middle of the erbil city , located east of Gali Ali Beg Waterfall, 10 km west of Rwanduz town and 7 km from Khalifan. We can reach Bekhal through Gali Ali Beg or through Rwanduz. bright and large waterfall that covers its mountainside, People go there for fun from the beginning of spring to the end of summer .

Resources

 مێژۆی خەلیفان
رێگری له شوێنه‌واری هه‌رێم ده‌كرێت لێكۆڵینه‌وه له زێڕە دۆزراوه‌كه‌ی خه‌لیفان بكات
 خەلیفان (raprsi.com)
 پارێزگای هەولێر
 جوگرافیای خەلیفان

References

Populated places in Erbil Governorate
Kurdish settlements in Erbil Governorate


title: Mark Ochieng

text:
Mark Ochieng is a Kenyan-Australian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Adelaide Olympic in the National Premier Leagues South Australia.

Early life
Ochieng's father played international football for Kenya. After growing up in Nairobi, the family moved to Plympton, South Australia when Ochieng was nine, where his father worked as an electrician.

Club career

Adelaide United
He made his senior professional debut for Adelaide United FC in the 2014 FFA Cup in a match against Wellington Phoenix FC at the Marden Sports Complex on 5 August 2014. Adelaide won the match 1–0 in regulation time.

On 12 January 2017, Ochieng scored his first goal for Adelaide against Melbourne City, the 87th-minute strike helping Adelaide United to just their second win of the season.

Ochieng was released by Adelaide United in May 2018.

References

External links
Mark Ochieng profile AdelaideUnited.com.au

1996 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football defenders
Australian men's soccer players
Kenyan men's footballers
Australia men's youth international soccer players
Adelaide United FC players
A-League Men players
National Premier Leagues players
Australian people of Kenyan descent
Footballers from Nairobi


title: Fernando Codá Marques

text:
Fernando Codá dos Santos Cavalcanti Marques (born 8 October 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician working mainly in geometry, topology, partial differential equations and Morse theory. He is a professor at Princeton University. In 2012, together with André Neves, he proved the Willmore conjecture.

Biography

Fernando Codá Marques was born on 8 October 1979 in São Carlos and grew up in Maceió. His parents were both professors of engineering.

Codá Marques started as a student of civil engineering at the Federal University of Alagoas in 1996, but switched to mathematics after two years.

He obtained a master's degree from the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in 1999. Among his teachers at the IMPA were Manfredo do Carmo and Elon Lages Lima.

Following the advice of Manfredo do Carmo, Codá Marques went to Cornell University to learn geometric analysis from José F. Escobar, so that he could return and bring this area of research to Brazil. While still in Brazil, Codá Marques had been informed that Escobar was facing cancer and that he could maybe die before Codá Marques could complete his Ph.D. with him. Despite this information, Codá Marques decided to keep the arrangement and became his student.

In 2001, Codá Marques was awarded Cornell's Battig Prize for graduate students, for "excellence and promise in mathematics". He obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003, under the supervision of José F. Escobar (thesis: Existence and Compactness Theorems on Conformal Deformation of Metrics).

Despite the usual path being to go for a postdoctoral research, Codá Marques had in mind that his mission was to return to Brazil. IMPA had already offered him a position of researcher, and he accepted it. But after six months in Brazil, Escobar, who was his main connection with researchers outside of Brazil, died. Codá Marques faced the difficulties of doing research in isolation, so he decided to accept an invitation to stay one year as a postdoc at Stanford University. There he was influenced by Richard Schoen's school of thought in geometry and met André Neves (who would become his main collaborator), and many other of his contacts.

He worked at IMPA from 2003 to 2014.
On 1 September 2014, Codá Marques joined Princeton University as a full professor.

Antoine Song was a student of his.

Mathematical work

Some of his best known works are the following:

Yamabe problem

In 2009, together with Richard Schoen and Marcus Khuri he did important work on the Yamabe problem. He solved Schoen's conjecture on compactness in the Yamabe problem for spin manifolds.

Rigidity conjecture of Min-Oo

In April 2010, in cooperation with Simon Brendle and André Neves, Marques provided a counter-example to the rigidity conjecture of Min-Oo.

Willmore conjecture

Codá Marques and Neves "Min-max theory and the Willmore conjecture" was uploaded to arXiv in February 2012, in it they solved the Willmore conjecture, using Almgren–Pitts min-max theory, which was then "a relatively old tool and already somewhat out of favor". According to Harold Rosenberg, using this tool was possible because the pair discovered a connection between objects that were apparently very different: "connecting the problem with questions about minimal surfaces on the sphere [...] a priori there would be no reason for these things to be connected. It's curious, very curious.", the solution to the Willmore conjecture (Willmore, 1965)

Freedman–He–Wang conjecture

In May 2012, in cooperation with Ian Agol and André Neves, Marques provided the solution to the Freedman–He–Wang conjecture (Freedman–He–Wang, 1994)

Yau's conjecture
In December 2017, in cooperation with Kei Irie and André Neves, he solved Yau's conjecture (Yau, 1982) in the generic case.

Almgren–Pitts min-max theory

Codá Marques and André Neves are currently working to extend Almgren–Pitts min-max theory.

Honours

He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) of 2010 in Hyderabad (on "Scalar curvature, conformal geometry, and the Ricci flow with surgery"), and a plenary speaker at the ICM of 2014 in Seoul (on "Minimal surfaces – variational theory and applications").

He received the TWAS Prize in 2012.

He was awarded the ICTP Ramanujan Prize in 2012, "in recognition of his several outstanding contributions to differential geometry".

In 2014 he gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on "The min-max theory of minimal surfaces and applications") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

He is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2014.

He shared the 2016 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry with André Neves, "for their remarkable work on variational problems in differential geometry [including] the proof of the Willmore conjecture.".

He was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

He is a distinguished visiting professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study.

He sits on the editorial board of the journal Annals of Mathematics.

In 2020 he received a Simons Investigator Award. The citation reads: "His recent work, in collaboration with André Neves, developed a full Morse theory for the area functional in closed Riemannian manifolds. The ideas introduced by them have revitalized the subject, leading to the discovery that closed minimal surfaces are ubiquitous in these spaces."

In 2021 he was awarded the Fermat Prize, "for major advances obtained with André Neves on geometric applications of the calculus of variations".

In 2023 he received the Frontiers of Science Award.

Personal life

He is married to mathematician Ana Maria Menezes de Jesus. She was a student of Harold Rosenberg at IMPA, and is currently an instructor of mathematics at Princeton University. Codá Marques and Menezes have a son named Pedro and a daughter named Luisa.

References

Further reading

External links
 Interview with Fernando Codá Marques, 2011
 Academia Brasileira de Ciências – Fernando Codá dos Santos Cavalcanti Marques (in Portuguese)
 Interview to Alagoas 24 Horas  (in Portuguese)
 Interview to Rede Globo (in Portuguese)
 CNPq – Jovem matemático é destaque no Brasil e no exterior (in Portuguese)
 Academia Brasileira de Ciências – Especial: Membros Afiliados da ABC do Rio de Janeiro 2009 (in Portuguese)

 Fernando Codá Marques' lecture "Soap films in mathematics" (video from 2014)
 Fernando Codá Marques' lecture "Gometria e Análise" (video from 2010, in Portuguese)

21st-century Brazilian mathematicians
1979 births
Living people
Cornell University alumni
Princeton University faculty
Differential geometers
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
People from São Carlos
PDE theorists
Topologists
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada alumni
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers
Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
TWAS laureates
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society


Perpetual Real Estate Services, Inc. v. Michaelson Properties, Inc. 974 F.2d 545 (4th Cir. 1992), is a US corporate law case, concerning piercing the corporate veil.

Facts
Aaron Michaelson (Aaron) formed Michaelson Properties, Inc. (Properties) in 1981 as a business to invest in real estate joint ventures. Aaron was the sole shareholder and the corporation's president.

Properties entered a joint venture with Perpetual Real Estates (Perpetual), forming a partnership called "Arlington Apartment Associates" (AAA) to build condominiums. During the building process AAA needed further financing; Properties could not put up its share, so Perpetual loaned it $1.05 million and got a personal guarantee from Aaron.

However, the condominiums were poorly built, and AAA was successfully sued for $950,000 by several of the purchasers.  Perpetual paid the judgments on behalf of AAA, then sought Properties. Properties did not have the money, and went bankrupt, so Perpetual sued Aaron to pay.

Aaron argued that Properties was a separate legal person, and it was inappropriate to pierce the corporate veil in this circumstance.  However, the jury ruled that it could be pierced and that Aaron should pay. Aaron appealed.

Judgment
Wilkinson J noted that Virginia law had assiduously upheld the "vital economic policy" of respecting a corporation as a separate legal entity, since it underpinned the operation of vast enterprises. He emphasised that the veil would only be lifted where a defendant exercises "undue domination and control" and uses the corporation as "a device or sham... to disguise wrongs, obscure fraud, or conceal crime." He said the description of the law which the jury had heard was in a "rather soggy state" and emphasised that it was not enough that "an injustice or fundamental unfairness" would be perpetrated. "The fact," he continued,

Because there was no evidence that Aaron was attempting to defraud anybody, the veil could not be lifted. There was no "unfair siphoning of funds" when Aaron paid himself a dividend, because distribution was entirely foreseeable when the money was given, and the distribution happened well before any suit was filed. The fact that Aaron had given personal guarantees strengthened the corporate veil presumption, because the transactions recognised it existed.

Cited cases
Cheatle v. Rudd's Swimming Pool Supply Co., 234 Ca. 207, 360 S.E.2d 828 (1987)
Beale v. Kappa Alpha Order,  192 Ca. 382, 64 S.E2d 789 (1951)
Anderson v. Abbott, 321 U.S. 349 (1944)
Dwitt Truck Brokers, Inc. v. W. Ray Flemming Fruit Co., 540 F.2d 681 (4th Cir. 1976)
Cunningham v. Rendezvous, Inc. 699 F.2d 676 (4th Cir. 1983)
United States v. Jon-T Chemicals, Inc. 768 F.2d 686 (5th Cir. 1985)
United Paperworkers Int'l Union v. Penntech Papers, Inc.,  439 F. Supp. 610 (D. Me. 1977)
Aronson v. Price 644, N.E.2d 864 (Ind. 1964) a plaintiff brought his car for repair to "Corbett's Body Shop" which did not indicate its corporate status.
Interocean Shipping Co. v. National Shipping & Trading Corp., 523 F.2d 527 (2d Cir. 1975), conduct akin to fraud required to pierce the veil in contract cases

See also
United States corporate law

References

External links

United States corporate case law
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit cases
1992 in United States case law
Arlington County, Virginia


title: Eko Hotels and Suites

text:
Eko Hotels and Suites is a five-star conference centre hotel in Lagos.

History
Established in 1977 as Èkó Holiday Inn and built on Victoria Island, it is the largest hotel in Nigeria. It was designed by architect Oluwole Olumuyiwa in collaboration with Americans. It was subsequently renamed Le Meridien Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos. L'Hotel Eko Le Meridien is part of the Chagoury Group of companies.

Design

The Hotel building comprises 825 rooms and suites in four multistory buildings, clad in white with views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Kuramo Lagoon. The hotel located next to the financial centres of Lagos Island: Victoria Island.  Eko Hotels & Suites has a sister hotel in Port Harcourt named Hotel Presidential.

Events
Eko Hotels & Suites has the largest Convention Centre in Nigeria. Events that have taken place at the hotel include; concerts, movie premieres, international exhibitions, weddings, conferences  and Award ceremonies. The Convention center is usually used for these events and can cater to 6,000 people.

Restaurants
There are eight restaurants and bars within the hotel complex:

The Sky Restaurant & Terrace located on the Roof of the Hotel.
Crossroads Tex Mex Restaurant and Bar which serves Mexican Cuisine.
1415 Italian Restaurant, located at Eko Signature which specializes in Italian Fine Dining.
Kuramo Sports Café serves continental and local dishes with a full buffet.
Red Chinese Restaurant which is located at the roof behind the Eko Convention Centre.
The Lagoon Breeze Restaurant which is also known for its BBQ Fridays.
The Grill "Steakhouse" located at EKo Suites
Calabash Bar, an open-air bar by Kuramo Sports Cafe offers special cocktails and other beverages.

See also
 List of hotels in Lagos

References

External links

Hotels established in 1977
1977 establishments in Nigeria
Hotels in Lagos
Resorts in Nigeria
Hotel buildings completed in 1977


title: Chan Kai-ming

text:
Chan Kai-ming (, ; 1859 – 11 December 1919) was a Hong Kong businessman and member of the Sanitary Board and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Biography
Chan Kai Ming was born in Hong Kong in 1859 and was part of the first generation of Eurasians who went on to become important leaders of the Chinese community. His father was George Tyson, an American businessman from Massachusetts.

Educated at the Diocesan Boys' School and the Government Central School (now Queen's College), he became a Morrison scholar and worked as a pupil teacher after graduation. He was later appointed third clerk in the Magistracy and received a small pension from the Hong Kong government.

Chan Kai Ming's career began to prosper when he joined the opium farms that existed then in Hong Kong, later becoming managing director of the Tai Yau Opium Farm. By the time the government took over the monopoly, Chan had become a millionaire. At the time of his death, he was managing director of Gande, Price & Co., partner of Tai Yau Bank, director of the East Asia Bank, Chung Kwong Co. and Hong Kong Mercantile Co. and was one of the richest men in Hong Kong.

He was appointed member of the District Watchmen's Committee and was a member of the Permanent Chinese Cemetery Committee in Aberdeen, as well as the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee.

He also served as Vice-Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital, director of the Po Leung Kuk charity and member of the Court of the University of Hong Kong, with several university scholarships bearing his name.

Appointed a Justice of the Peace, he was subsequently appointed Sanitary Board member in April 1912 for three terms, becoming the senior unofficial member until his death in 1919.

In 1918, he served as acting member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in place of Lau Chu-pak, who was on leave.

After the First World War, he was a member of the general committee overseeing Peace Celebrations in the colony.

Towards the end of his life, Chan Kai Ming suffered from a heart condition. While on holiday in Peking at the suggestion of his doctor, he caught a cold and died at his residence at 16 Caine Road on 11 December 1919, leaving five daughters and two sons.

References

1859 births
1919 deaths
Hong Kong businesspeople
Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong
Alumni of Queen's College, Hong Kong
People from British Hong Kong


title: Limerick Museum and Archives

text:
Limerick Museum and Archives (LM&A) was a partnership between two separate and distinct institutions, the Limerick City Museum and the Limerick Archives, which existed from 2013 and 2017. Both are funded by Limerick City and County Council.

The two institutions worked in collaboration with other public and private institutions on a number of projects, exhibitions and publications relating to the history of Limerick city and county.

In May 2017, with the move of Limerick Museum to the old Franciscan Friary in Henry Street, the partnership was ended and the two institutions reverted to working separately.

Exhibitions

2013 St. Joseph's Hospital Exhibition
2014 Retrospective, Limerick City and Limerick County Council
2014 Haselbeck Collection
2014 From Limerick with Love  with Limerick Leader, Shannon Airport, Limerick School of Art and Design
2014 Limerick Lace  with interactive elements from University of Limerick
2015 Stand Up and Fight

References

Museums in County Limerick


title: K.L. Polytechnic, Roorkee

text:
K.L. Polytechnic, Roorkee, also known as Kanhaiya Lal Polytechnic, is an engineering college in Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India.

History
Kanhaiya Lal Polytechnic was established on 25 January 1956 by Shri Sahab Kanhaiya Lal Ji. At the time of establishment, its name was Kanhaiya Lal Technical Institute and it offered only one course: Diploma in Civil Engineering. In 1963, it was upgraded as Kanhaiya Lal Polytechnic and two other courses, three years Diploma in Mechanical (Production) Engineering and Diploma in Electrical Engineering were introduced. Later, three years Diploma in Electronics Engineering (1971), two years post-graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (1995) and three years Diploma in Mechanical (Automobile) Engineering (2008) courses were added to the course list of institute.
Twenty students were additionally permitted to admit in second shift of each branch from 2008.

Affiliation
All the courses running in the institute are affiliated with the Uttarakhand Technical Education Board in Roorkee and All India Council For Technical Education in New Delhi. The institute is managed by a committee appointed by the state government of Uttarakhand.

Courses

Polytechnic
 Diploma in Civil Engineering
 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Production)
 Diploma in Electrical Engineering
 Diploma in Electronics Engineering
 Diploma in Mechanical (Auto) Engineering
 Diploma in Artificial intelligence and machine learning
 Diploma in Communication
 Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application

References

External links
 Roorkee
Uttarakhand Board of Technical Education official website

Engineering colleges in Uttarakhand
Education in Roorkee
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Uttar Pradesh


title: Atwill-Morin

text:
Atwill-Morin is a Canadian company specializing in masonry restoration and heritage preservation. The business was founded in April 2007 by the three Atwill-Morin brothers.

Accomplishments
Canada Parliament - Ottawa, Ontario
The Linton Appartements - Montréal, Québec
M sur la Montragne Luxury Condominium - Montréal, Québec
The Maison du Citoyen - Gatineau, Québec
Outremont Theater - Montréal, Québec

References

Construction and civil engineering companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in Quebec


title: August Suter (sculptor)

text:
August Suter (19 July 1887 – 28 November 1965) was one of the most prominent Swiss sculptors of European stature in the first half of the 20th century. His circle of friends included important literary figures like Blaise Cendrars and James Joyce.

Life
August Suter was born at Basel, the son of Johannes Suter (1857–1907) a bookbinder from Eptingen and Katharina Suter-Schaub (1859–1941). After an apprenticeship as a bookbinder with his father and courses in painting and drawing at the Basel Gewerbeschule (vocational school) he worked for local sculptor Carl Gutknecht (1878–1970), before he went to the Académie Julian in Paris in 1910. But he soon became an independent artist there and formed lifelong friendships with the writer Blaise Cendrars and the English painter Frank Budgen, who worked as a model for him. Cendrars was later to write a successful novel (L'Or) about Suter's grandfather, Johann August of gold rush fame. Rodo (Auguste de Niederhäusern) advised him to whole-heartedly turn to sculpture. A long-standing friend was the Swiss poet and translator Siegfried Lang. Shortly before the War he also became acquainted with the German writer and anarchist Johannes Nohl. During the World War I Suter worked in Basel and Zurich, where he, his brother Paul and Frank Budgen got to know the exiled Irish writer James Joyce. He married singer Helene Moser (1893–1965) in 1917 and had three sons. From 1921 to 1939 Suter lived in Paris again and befriended the sculptor Charles Despiau, whose studio lay next to his. After World War II he worked intermittently in Paris and Basel, where he died at the age of 79 just months after his wife.

Work
Suter's naturalistic work is dominated by male and female nudes, figure compositions, portrait busts and architectural sculpture. In 1925 Ludwig Marcuse called him “the most important sculptor of our time”. At first he was influenced by Rodin and Bourdelle, but turned to Maillol's classicism in the fourth decade of his life. Art historian Gotthard Jedlicka points out an important difference to Rodin: "where Rodin seizes impetuously, he waits calmly, and everytime he imbeds the unique rhythm of a particular life into the specific rhythm of his composition". Frank Budgen wrote in his Memoir, Myselves when Young: "He excelled in portraiture. His work in that field was sensitive, forthright and masculine, occasionally leaning towards the baroque, yet always saved by a sense of measure from falling into expressionist caricature. I have often thought when walking through the gallery of Roman portraits in the British Museum that the artists who made them were Suter's far-off forebears." Suters most famous sculpture is the memorial “Prometheus and the Soul” for the Swiss Nobel Prize poet Carl Spitteler at Liestal near Basel, which he worked on from 1926 to 1931.

An unburned clay sculpture of James Joyce did not survive World War II.

Suter's son Claude donated his father's artistic legacy to the Basel municipality of Eptingen where it is accessible on request (museum@eptingen.ch). The  August-Suter-Museum is situated at the old schoolhouse Schulstraße 5, Eptingen.

Bibliography
 Beck, Harald, "James Joyce to August Suter – from writer to sculptor" in: James Joyce Online Notes, issue 9, 2015
 Birkhäuser, Kaspar, ed., Personenlexikon des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, 1997, pp. 150–151
 Budgen, Frank, Myselves When Young, London 1970
 Gantner-Schlee, Hildegard, Leaflet of the August-Suter-Museum at Eptingen
 Jedlicka, Gotthard, "Der Bildhauer August Suter" in Das Werk, Vol. 14, 1927
 Lang, Siegfried, "Der Bildhauer August Suter", in Baselbieter Heimatbuch, 9, 1962, pp. 19–32 (includes a list of works)

References

External links

 Suter and James Joyce
 Statue at Uraniastraße, Zurich, which Frank Budgen posed for in 1916.
 Gallery of works by August Suter

1887 births
1965 deaths
Artists from Basel-Stadt
Modern sculptors
20th-century Swiss sculptors
Académie Julian alumni
20th-century Swiss male artists


title: Babelfy

text:
Babelfy is a software algorithm for the disambiguation of text written in any language.

Specifically, Babelfy performs the tasks of multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation (i.e., the disambiguation of common nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) and Entity Linking (i.e. the disambiguation of mentions to encyclopedic entities like people, companies, places, etc.).

Overivew
Babelfy is based on the BabelNet multilingual semantic network and performs disambiguation and entity linking in three steps:

 It associates with each vertex of the BabelNet semantic network, i.e., either concept or named entity, a semantic signature, that is, a set of related vertices. This is a preliminary step which needs to be performed only once, independently of the input text.
 Given an input text, it extracts all the linkable fragments from this text and, for each of them, lists the possible meanings according to the semantic network.
 It creates a graph-based semantic interpretation of the whole text by linking the candidate meanings of the extracted fragments using the previously-computed semantic signatures. It then extracts a dense subgraph of this representation and selects the best candidate meaning for each fragment.

As a result, the text, written in any of the 271 languages supported by BabelNet, is output with possibly overlapping semantic annotations.

See also
 BabelNet
 vidby
 Entity linking
 Multilinguality
 Word sense disambiguation

References

External links

Lexical semantics
Semantics
Knowledge representation
Computational linguistics
Artificial intelligence
Multilingualism


title: Chopin (opera)

text:
Chopin is a four-act opera by Giacomo Orefice (1865–1922) to a libretto by , premiered in Milan in 1901.

The opera, which is "a wildly inaccurate account" of  the life of Frédéric Chopin, is based entirely on his music, orchestrated by Orefice. The vocal score indicates the sources of the music, which include Chopin's sonatas, polonaises, mazurkas and nocturnes.

Roles

Synopsis
The overture is based on Chopin's Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op. 13. Act I is set in a village in Poland at Christmas time. Chopin declares his love to Stella (who is, like all the opera's characters except Chopin himself, entirely fictional). In Act II, set in Paris, Elio tells a group of children about the history and struggles of Poland, inspiring Chopin to fly to the piano and write a nocturne. Chopin's new love, Flora, is also present. Act III is set in Majorca, where the real Chopin spent the winter of 1838-9 with George Sand. In this version Chopin is there with Flora and their daughter, who dies after a thunderstorm and is mourned by the local population. In Act IV, Stella arrives in Paris from Poland just in time for Chopin to expire in her arms.

Reception
The opera was premiered in the Teatro Lirico, Milan, on  25 November 1901.  The Musical Times reported that "this rather curious lyrical stage-work" was "a distinct success." A production in Paris in 1905 was not well received by the critic Arthur Pougin, who commented "It is an idea, perhaps ingenious but certainly bizarre, to create an opera score by borrowing the elements of various works by a genius who, throughout his life, never dreamt of writing for the theatre", and concluded that Orifece had committed "a sacrilege".  A modern assessment suggests that the opera is "in essence a kitsch contribution to the last vestiges of late 19th-century romanticized bohemianism and to the Italian 'scapigliatura'".

The opera was performed at the Opera Wrocławska in Wrocław, Poland, in 2010 as part of the Chopin bicentenary celebrations.

References
Notes

Sources
 Anon (1902). "Foreign Notes" in The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, vol. 43, no. 707 (Jan. 1, 1902), pp. 50–52
 Ashbrook, William (n.d.). "Chopin", in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera online, . Accessed 5 August 2014
 Lanza, Andrea (n.d.) "Orefice, Giacomo", in Grove Music Online, . Accessed 5 August 2014
 Orefice, Giacomo (1904). Chopin: Opera in 4 atti (vocal score), Milan: Edoardo Sonzogno (IMSLP, accessed 5 August 2014).
 Pougin, Arthur (1905). "Semaine théatrale", in Le Ménestrel, 18 June 1905, pp. 195–6, accessed 6 August 2014. (In French).
 Zamoyski, Adam (2010). Chopin: Prince of the Romantics. London: HarperCollins.

External links

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Fiction set in 1838
Fiction set in 1839
Italian-language operas
Mallorca in fiction
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Operas set in Spain
Operas set in Paris
Operas set in Poland
Operas by Giacomo Orefice
Operas based on real people
Operas set in the 19th century
Cultural depictions of Frédéric Chopin


title: Media freedom in Azerbaijan

text:
Most Azerbaijanis receive their information from mainstream television, which is unswervingly pro-government and under strict government control. According to a 2012 report of the NGO "Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS)" Azerbaijani citizens are unable to access objective and reliable news on human rights issues relevant to Azerbaijan and the population is under-informed about matters of public interest.

Reporters without Borders ranks Azerbaijan at the 167th place (between Egypt and Bahrain) out of over 180 countries on the Press Freedom Index, with a score of 58.48. Freedom House ranks Azerbaijan as "Not Free".

The authorities use a range of measures to restrict freedom of the media within the country. Opposition and independent media outlets and journalists have their access to print-houses and distribution networks limited, or can find themselves facing defamation charges and crippling fines and are subject to intimidation tactics, including imprisonment on fabricated charges.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is banned in Azerbaijan since 2009.

Reporters Without Borders has called on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to firmly condemn Azerbaijan for tolerating escalating press freedom violations.

In 2015 Azerbaijan had the biggest number of journalists imprisoned in Europe and Central Asia, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, and was the 5th most censored country in the world, ahead of Iran and China.

Activists such as Sing For Democracy and Amnesty International brought up the issues of Azerbaijan's rights as it hosted the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, after the song Running Scared by duet Ell and Nikki won the 2011 contest (these activists described its title as ironic.) The issues included harassment of journalists, and the organisations met with the EBU on 1 May 2012 to discuss the problems.

Background

Newspapers do not face any restriction in their free circulation. All newspapers in Azerbaijan are freely distributed throughout the country. The Council of Europe and the European Commission have developed a Joint Program of assistance to Azerbaijan on Freedom of expression and information. American-Azerbaijani Journalistic Academy was established in Azerbaijan with support of US Embassy. The main purpose of the Academy is to increase professionalism of journalists and to foster devotion to their profession.

The OSCE Baku Office plans to establish a practical and unified communication strategy and information coordination mechanisms for the Government agencies. Through this system Government agencies can ensure increased and sustainable information flow from the authorities to media and public in general.

In order to help journalists several measures were taken by the Government of Azerbaijan. A new building was constructed at the expense of the Government of Azerbaijan and 156 houses were granted to mass-media members without any discrimination in accordance with Presidential Decree dated 22 July 2010 "On measures to strengthen social protection of media members". As well as according to the Presidential Decree of 22 July 2013 "On additional measures to strengthen social protection of media members", public funds allocated for the construction of the next building with 250 houses for journalists

In recent years, the government has increased its control over internet and harassment of internet activists and bloggers. Media freedom groups have expressed particular concern about the government's surveillance of journalists' internet and telephone communications.

The crackdown on journalists is accompanied by the intimidation and arrest of freedom of expression and human rights activists, such as Intigam Aliyev, Rasul Jafarov and Leyle Yunus who were arrested in 2014. Many of them had to leave the country out of concern for their safety. Assaults on journalists and activists are rarely prosecuted. This is not true for the proceedings issued against journalists that are object of political motivated criminal proceedings carried out in order to influence and hinder their work under pretexts. As a consequence of such an environment, self-censorship is widespread among Azerbaijani journalists.

The majority of print and broadcast media are controlled by the government and its allies. In some cases media outlets are controlled through nominal intermediaries. The lack of laws on transparency of media ownership makes it difficult to identify the true owners of media outlets. The few independent media outlets are struggling to survive. Most journalists work without contracts and social security, and receive irregular salaries.

Attacks and threats against journalists
Threats, physical attacks, harassment against journalists are common.
Nearly 100 journalists were victims of physical assault in 2003. More than 50 were attacked covering violent clashes between the security forces and demonstrators after the 2003 presidential elections. The International Federation of Journalists recorded  15 attacks on journalists in 2013.

 Two opposition journalists were attacked in July 2004. Aydin Guliyev, editor of the opposition daily Baki Khaber, was abducted and beaten by men that accused him of "not serving his country and Islam" and warned him to stop all journalistic work on 17 July 2004.
 Elmar Huseynov, editor-in-chief of the opposition weekly Monitor, was shot dead in 2005, but there has been no prosecution of his murderers. On the 10th anniversary of his assassination, the OSCE RFoM called for an end to impunity.
 In 2011 the journalists and writer Rafiq Tağı was murdered. Nobody was charged for the homicide.
 In November  2012 the journalists Farahim Ilgaroglu (Yeni Musafat), Etimad Budagov (Turan Information Agency), Amid Suleymanov (Media Forum) and Rasim Aliyev (IRFS) were beaten and arrested by police while covering an opposition rally in Baku, despite being clearly identifiable as members of the press.
 On 25 April 2014 the Yeni Musafat reporter Farahim Ilgaroglu was attacked outside his home in Baku.
 In August 2014, the independent journalist Ilgar Nasibov was beaten in his office in the Nakhchivan exclave. He lost vision from one eye.
 Rasim Aliyev, freelance reported and chairman of the media monitoring group Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) was brutally beaten by multiple people in Baku on 8 August. He died the following days from injuries caused by the attack. The OSCE RFoM protested with the authorities and called upon them to reverse the rapidly deteriorating media freedom situation in Azerbaijan.
 In November 2015 journalists of ITV and ATV channels were attacked during a police raid against alleged Islamic radicals in the village of Nardaran, on the outskirts of Baku. The OSCE RFoM protested with the authorities.
 In January 2016 Gunay Ismayilova, a media lawyer and deputy chair of the Institute for Reporter's Freedom and Safety (IRFS) was physically attacked at the entrance of her home in Baku, without suffering serious injuries thanks to the intervention of neighbours.

Other legislative measures - from hooliganism to the possession of drugs and weapons, treason, and tax evasion -  are regularly used by authorities to punish and prevent critical reporting.

Unfair trials and imprisoned journalists

Azerbaijani authorities have imprisoned several notable journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists has stated the charges against many journalists are "fabricated" and "politicized". At the end of 2014, eight journalists remained behind bars.
International instances such as the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe have consistently refuted the justifications by the Azerbaijani authorities that jailed journalists had been prosecuted and sentenced for common crimes.
Prison conditions for journalists are reported as dire, with routine ill-treatment and denial of medical care. More than 10 journalists remain in jail in Azerbaijan by the end of 2015. They include:
 Seymur Hazi, a columnist for the newspaper Azadliq, on a charge of hooliganism;
 Parviz Hashimli, a journalist, on charges of smuggling and illegal storage and sale of firearms;
 Nijat Aliyev, editor-in-chief of the azadxeber.az news website, on various charges, including drug possession and inciting hatred;
 Rashad Ramazanov, an independent blogger, on charges of illegal storage and sale of drugs.

The full list of cases of imprisoned journalists in the last years is the following:

 In August 2011, authorities imprisoned Ramin Bayramov, the editor of the Islamic news website Islam-Azeri.az. His news website has previously criticized the government of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani authorities first charged Bayramov with "activities hostile to the country" and "incitement to mass disorder." After failing to prove those charges, the authorities then charged him with drugs and weapons possession. The Azerbaijan Department of Homeland Security said it found arms and drugs in his garage, but Bayramov said those were planted there.
 In February 2012, police arrested Anar Bayramli, a journalist for Iranian television, on a charge of heroin possession. The charge was described by several human rights organizations as fabricated for political reasons.
 In November 2013 online activist Abdul Abilov was arrested on dubious charges of drugs trafficking.
 In April 2014, prominent human rights defenders Leyla Yunus , at the head of Institute for Peace and Democracy, and her husband Arif Yunus were detained by the authorities for allegedly spying for Armenia. Leyla Yunus has been sentenced to three months of pretrial detention, and her husband Arif has separately been jailed. The detention of the Yunus has raised big international outcry. Prominent international organizations such as Amnesty International, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, United States Mission to the OSCE, Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Nobel Women's Initiative,  Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and others have harshly condemned their detention as another step in the state crackdown on civil society in Azerbaijan and called for their immediate release.
 In August 2014 Seymur Hezi, critical reporter of Azadliq was arrested under charges of hooliganism.
 In August 2014 human rights defenders  Intiqam Aliyev, head of Legal Education Society, and Rasul Jafarov, head of Human Rights Club, were arrested and the working of these two organizations were impeded.

Refusal of access and arbitrary expulsions
A number of foreign journalists have also been refused entry to Azerbaijan or have been expelled from the country for reporting unfavorably on domestic and foreign matters.
 In June 2011, Diana Markosian, a freelance photographer for Bloomberg Markets magazine who holds dual US-Russian citizenship, was denied entry by Azerbaijani border officials at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku on account of the fact that she was Armenian.
 In the same month, a journalist for the New York Times was told that he would not be issued a visa until he could explain why there was so much "negative information" about Azerbaijan in the United States.
In April 2011, a Swedish TV news crew was arrested and sent back to the airport after covering a demonstration by opposition protesters.
 The Embassy of Azerbaijan to Italy publishes online a black list of personae non gratae and uses it to punish journalists who visit the Armenian-occupied territories of Nagorno Karabakh

Political interferences
The president Ilham Aliyev and his party control most of media and informations, despite the official 1998 ban on censorship.
Political parties use economic pressure to control the media, mostly through advertisement.

 After a week of harassments the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and the Media Rights Institute were forced to fled the country in August 2014. Obyektiv TV, the TV program of IRFS, was showing stories about freedom of expression and human rights. In the same days the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), who was supporting independent media, had to close his office.
 In December 2014 the Baku office of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was closed down by the authorities following a trumped-up criminal case. RFE/RL journalists were individually targeted, taken from homes for police questioning.

Defamation lawsuits

Defamation is a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison. At the same time journalists that damage the honor and the dignity of the president can be punished up to two years in prison. The government in this way can make pressure on independent journalists and opposition media. Since 2013 defamation include internet content, too.

The newspaper Azadliq was accused several times of defamation and, after having paid high fines, stopped in July 2014 the print version due to financial problems.

Cyber-attacks
In the recent years had strengthen the control on the internet activities of bloggers, social-media activists and journalists. The blogger Elsevar Mursalli was imprisoned for alleged drug possession and released in October.

In 2013 the government blocked an image-sharing website about security service. At the same time, Azadliq and RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) reported cyber-attacks.

Smear campaigns
 Since 2012 the leading investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova of Radio Free Europe had been a frequent target of harassment, blackmail and online smear campaigns. Ismaylova was subject to gross violation of her privacy, and secretly-recorded intimate images of her were posted online in March 2013 in an attempt to discredit her. She called upon the European Court of Human Rights to order Azerbaijani authorities to protect her from threats and violences in October 2013. In 2014 she was tried and imprisoned.
 Azeri journalist and human rights activist Arzu Geybullayeva has received numerous threats in various social media circles stemming from Azerbaijan over her cooperation with the Armenian newspaper Agos.Arzu Geybullayeva, freelance journalist (video) In an interview with Global Voices, she stated that she branded as a "traitor" and that the blackmail escalated into death threats towards her and her family. The threats have caused her to refrain from visiting her native Azerbaijan in a self-imposed exile in Turkey. The threats were largely condemned by numerous international organizations including PEN International and its affiliates English PEN and PEN Center USA. PEN has called upon the Azerbaijani and Turkish government to "ensure her safety and to investigate all threats of violence made against her." The Index on Censorship has also condemned the threats and has called upon the "international community to put pressure on Azerbaijan to respect freedom of expression."

Internet censorship and surveillance

The Azerbaijani government has increased its control over the internet, harassing social media activists, bloggers and online journalists. The email and telephone communications of journalists have been denounced as under surveillance. Real-life intimidations are used to deter online criticism, rather than content blocking. Legal norms criminalising online defamation have deterred social media mobilisation too, together with the arrests of bloggers and activists. DDoS attacks against independent outlets such as Azadliq and RFE/RL have been reported. Some websites are simply blocked, such as 24saat.org, xural.com, and monitortv.info.

On 3 March 2017, Mehman Huseynov, popular video blogger and activist, was arrested in the courtroom of Suraxanı raion court of Baku and sentenced to two years imprisonment on charges of defamation. Huseynov is well known for his investigative journalism, focused on corruption among the Azerbaijani elite. Most recently, he had posted pictures online of luxury properties, which he said were owned by government officials. He has long been subject to pressure by the authorities, and has been under a travel ban for several years.

Transparency of media ownership

Transparency of media ownership refers to the public availability of accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information about media ownership structures. A legal regime guaranteeing transparency of media ownership makes possible for the public as well as for media authorities to find out who effectively owns, controls and influences the media as well as media influence on political parties or state bodies.

The Law on Mass Media provides that print media ownership must be disclosed publicly. However, the law does not regulate transparency of media's financial resources and flows.
This is a particularly concerning point in a country where, according to some experts, the state and one single oligarch owns more than 90 percent of the country's media.

Overall, according to Access-Info Europe, an NGO advocating for enhancing access to information, the legislative framework for transparency is vague and requires little ownership information to be disclosed.

As a consequence, in practice it is difficult to obtain comprehensive information on the ownership structures of some media outlets, in particular private broadcasters. In fact, in June 2012, some amendments to the Law on the Registration of Legal Entities, on Commercial Secrecy and the Law on Obtaining of Information further worsened the transparency situation since information about corporate owners and their shareholdings of private media have been declared commercial secrets and deleted from public websites and registers. This makes possible for members of Parliament and other public officials that are banned from owning a business to not to be accountable to public scrutiny.

There is a lack of political willingness in improving transparency of media ownership in Azerbaijan, where many media outlets, in particular print media, are controlled by persons or companies connected to the political power, from both and editorial and financial point of view. In some cases, this control is exerted through nominal intermediaries. Transparency of media ownership has been a neglected issue amid the frequent and vibrant public debates on the challenges and problems affecting media freedom in the country. Further, the practice, not the law, for broadcast media sees the government to strictly control ownership and any changes in ownership in the broadcast sector. In such a context, the media regulatory authority does not enforce sanctions without the order of the Presidential Administration.

Access to public information

Background
Access to public information and freedom of information (FOI) refer to the right of access to information held by public bodies also known as "right to know". Access to public information is considered of fundamental importance for the effective functioning of democratic systems, as it enhances governments' and public officials' accountability, boosting people participation and allowing their informed participation into public life. The fundamental premise of the right of access to public information is that the information held by governmental institutions is in principle public and may be concealed only on the basis of legitimate reasons which should be detailed in the law.

The Law on Access to Information was adopted in Azerbaijan in 2005. The Law entitles citizens of Azerbaijan to send, both as individuals and legal entities, requests for information to any public institution as well as the agency in charge of managing public finance, and get the corresponding answer. It is an "ambitious information access Law", according to Revenue Watch Institute (RWI). However a monitoring report by RWI and the Open Society Institute (OSI) found that the reality of access to information fell short of the ideal. According to the research carried out, Azerbaijani officials were in poor compliance with the 2005 law - over half of the inquiries made were ignored, while the 65 inquiries that received responses included 16 refusals of information and 3 incomplete answers. Few oil companies responded to the request.

Organisation Article 19 also found that there were inadequate mechanisms to facilitate information requests from the public, and no dedicated public information offices in Ministries. In addition, their report found an entrenched culture of secrecy within Azerbaijani government institutions and a lack of awareness of the right to information among the public.

FOI provisions under the law
Under the law, responses to requests for information is due within 7 days and, if necessary, no later than in 24 hours. A public authority may refuse to reply to the request only when it is not the owner of the information, the disclosure of the requested information is restricted by law, the request does not contain information for identifying the information requested, the applicant is not entitled to request such information, or when he/she has not provided information on his/her identity.

The law defines two categories of information, i.e. "public information" and "information with limited access". Two types of information fall within the definition of "information with limited access", as defined by the law: secret information (state secrets), and confidential information (proprietary, professional, commercial, investigative or judicial secrets, and personal information). Since 2012, commercial confidentiality includes also "information about founders (participants) of legal entities and their share in equity capital, and this significantly hampers journalistic anti-corruption investigations".

The law established the set up of the Commissioner for Information Issues, in charge of supervising the implementation of the law. However, over the six years that followed its establishment, the Office failed to comply with its duties. As a consequence, in 2011 the Parliament amended the relevant legislation, abandoning the idea of the Commissioner position, and instead entrusting the Ombudsman for Human Rights with the former responsibilities of the Commissioner for Information.

Access to public information in practice

Media outlets and journalists face several problems when trying to access public information. Such problems, however, are unevenly distributed as some public authorities offer complete and timely answers to FOI requests in most cases while many other institutions widely ignore journalists' requests. Some ministries make decisions to limit the access of journalists to information. Problems of access to public information are not limited to authorities' illegal refusals to respond to information requests. Indeed, journalists' right to access information are violated both by the courts and the Parliament. For instance, in 2013 there were cases of journalists to whom was impeded to cover trials even though all the hearings were open. In 2013, the Parliament impeded journalists to bring their equipment and smartphones to the meeting rooms following the episode of a video recorded by a journalist on a smartphone and published on the Internet showing MPs voting with e-cards on behalf of their colleagues.

In January 2014, the Minister of education signed a decree to forbid educational institutions, including universities, to make information public without approval from the Ministry's press service. Acting in compliance with this decree, the security service of the Baku State University impeded journalists from covering a students’ protest. As a result, journalists who wanted to interview students were injured and their equipment was broken.

See also
Media of Azerbaijan
Human rights in Azerbaijan
List of journalists killed in Azerbaijan

References

Human rights in Azerbaijan
Mass media in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan


title: Sorolopha semifulva

text:
Sorolopha semifulva is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in India (Assam) and western Malaysia and possibly the Philippines (Negros).

References

Moths described in 1908
Olethreutini
Moths of Asia


title: Winx Club (season 7)

text:
The seventh season of Winx Club premiered on Nickelodeon in Asia on 22 June 2015. It later aired from 21 September to 3 October 2015 on Rai Gulp in Italy, and from January 10 to April 10, 2016 on the Nick Jr. Channel in the United States. The season consists of 26 episodes.

Nickelodeon first announced the season at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con, with the premiere tentatively scheduled for fall 2014. In a press release on April 7, 2014, Rainbow S.r.l. and Nickelodeon officially announced their continuing partnership on the seventh season, with the premiere now set for 2015. Iginio Straffi, the creator of the series, said of the season: "It will be a privilege to partner once more with Nickelodeon on this."

Production and broadcast
At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon confirmed that a seventh season was in production, with the premiere tentatively scheduled for fall 2014. In a press release on April 7, 2014, Rainbow S.r.l. and Nickelodeon officially announced their continuing partnership on the seventh season of Winx Club, with the premiere now pushed back to 2015. Iginio Straffi, the creator of the series, said of the season: "It will be a privilege to partner once more with Nickelodeon on this."

The first episode aired on 22 June 2015, on Nickelodeon in Asia, followed by its broadcast on 21 September 2015 on Rai Gulp in Italy. As a cost-cutting measure, the CGI-animated segments and California voice cast from the previous two seasons were not used in this season (during its production, Rainbow was undergoing a multimillion-euro financial loss). Season 7 was animated entirely in 2D Flash animation, and Nick Jr. commissioned the cheaper New York facility DuArt to record the dub. As with the previous two seasons, the copyright to Season 7 is co-owned by Rainbow and Viacom.

Episodes

References

Notes

Winx Club


title: Rough Justice (Porridge)

text:
"Rough Justice" is the third episode from the third series of the BBC sitcom Porridge, which aired on 4 March 1977. In the episode, Judge Rawley's watch is stolen, and the prisoners hold a kangaroo court with Harris as the suspect.

Synopsis
The episode opens with Warren visiting Fletcher's cell wishing to have his love letters written by Rawley instead of Fletcher, as Rawley is an educated man. Fletcher insists on doing the job himself because Rawley is likely to write with sophisticated words, plus love letters are Fletcher's forte. Rawley arrives and says he will take up Warren's suggestion of helping out prisoners' family members with legal issues. However, Rawley refuses to accept any price for this, which Fletcher berates him for.

Harris returns from the pig farm with a horrible smell and a bad mood. The other prisoners mock him for his smell, but Harris is upset because he was relegated to the farm due to Rawley being given a clerical job. Fletcher tells Harris to "naff off" before getting to work on Warren's letter to his wife. Unfortunately, Fletcher writes "Rita" instead of Elaine, as he was thinking about Rita Hayworth at the time. Fletcher decides to cross out Rita and replace it with Errol Flynn. Just then, Rawley returns to the cell. Rawley comments that Harris was abusive to him, but the others say they will protect Rawley from further harassment. Rawley then says that he has grown to like and trust his fellow inmates, until he discovers his watch has been stolen. This causes the others to blame each other until they deduce that Harris was in the cell earlier and he must have taken it, due to his penchant for sneak thievery.

That night, Fletcher persuades Rawley to hold a kangaroo court with Rawley as the judge and Fletcher as the prosecutor. Fletcher reasons he has been in court enough times to know enough about legal procedure. Rawley is reluctant but agrees to go ahead.

The following day, they use the boiler room as the court room. Rawley is the judge, Fletcher is the prosecutor, Warren is the defence counsel and Godber is the witness. McLaren is the prisoner escort and roughly drags Harris into the room. Due to the fact Fletcher insisted on a proper enquiry, Rawley notes that the hearsay evidence would not be admissible in court and has no choice but to clear Harris. McLaren offers to extract a confession from Harris and, upon twisting his arm, Harris admits he stole the watch and promises to return it to Rawley.

That evening, Rawley informs Fletcher and Godber that his appeal was successful, and he is due to leave. During recreation time, Mr Mackay permits Rawley to bid farewell to the other inmates. Rawley thanks the men for accepting him and promises to be more open minded about the penal system. Rawley also gives Fletcher his watch as a parting gift. However, Harris had removed the mechanism from the watch, rendering it useless. The episode ends with a still of Fletcher angrily throwing the watch in the air.

Porridge (1974 TV series) episodes
1977 British television episodes


title: Daniel Cadena

text:
Daniel Cadena Sanchez (born 9 February 1987) is a footballer who plays as a forward for Liga Primera de Nicaragua club UNAN Managua.

Born and raised in Spain to Spanish parents, Cadena has played in the Nicaraguan league and subsequently capped for the Nicaragua national team.

Club career
A much-travelled striker, Cadena has spent most of his playing career in Spain but he has also played club football in Nicaragua.

International career
Having arrived to Nicaragua in 2013 to play for Ferretti, Cadena became a naturalized citizen just a year later, in 2014. According La Prensa, he did not comply with the Nationality Law No. 149 at the moment of his naturalization. By debuting for Nicaragua that very 2014, he also failed with the FIFA eligibility rules.

International goals

Scores and results list Nicaragua's goal tally first.

References

External links
 Daniel Cadena at playmakerstats.com (English version of ceroacero.es)
 lapreferente.com
 laprensa.com.ni

1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the Province of Huelva
Nicaraguan men's footballers
Nicaragua men's international footballers
Spanish men's footballers
Spanish emigrants to Nicaragua
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Andalusia
Naturalized citizens of Nicaragua
Nicaraguan people of Spanish descent
C.D. Walter Ferretti players
Expatriate men's footballers in Nicaragua
2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the Dominican Republic
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
Expatriate men's footballers in the Dominican Republic
Expatriate men's footballers in Iceland
Njarðvík FC players
Liga Dominicana de Fútbol players
Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol players
2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup players


title: Aussie Rules the World

text:
Aussie Rules the World is a 2014 Australian sports documentary film produced by Second Nature Films, directed by Michael Stringer McIntyre and includes interviews with various Australian Football League personalities, including, among others, former Sydney Swans premiership coach and later  coach Paul Roos, four-time  premiership coach and foundation  coach Kevin Sheedy, former AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou, current  player Bachar Houli and incumbent Australian of the Year Adam Goodes.

Filmed over a period of four years between 2011 and 2014, it focuses on the sport of Australian rules football and its efforts to spread the game worldwide. The film was released on 22 July 2014.

Background
Narrated by David Wenham, who starred as high-profile lawyer Julian McMahon in the 2013 television miniseries Better Man which looked into the real-life execution case of Van Tuong Nguyen, the film follows the journey of recently retired Sydney Swans premiership player Brett Kirk and his family, who embark on a six-month journey around the world to help spread the game across the globe, amid fears that the sport has been largely ignored in favour of other sports such as soccer, rugby union and rugby league.

The 2011 Australian Football International Cup is launched and it includes teams from a wide range of countries including Papua New Guinea, the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, India and South Africa, among many others. Ireland win this tournament, defeating Papua New Guinea in the final which was played as a curtain raiser to the round 23, 2011 AFL match between  and the .

Cast

See also
 Year of the Dogs
Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story

References

External links
 Official website

2014 films
Documentary films about Australian rules football
2014 documentary films
2010s English-language films
Australian sports documentary films


title: Yazidi Academy

text:
The Yazidi Academy () is a non-profit organisation and learned society based in Hanover, Germany.

The organisation was founded in 2009, it concerns itself with the historical and current situation of the Yazidis. Since then, it has also published the German-language magazine Zeitschrift der Ezidischen Akademie. Forum für Diskussionsbeiträge zum Ezidentum. It also hosts the Yazidi Library that had been established in 2007.

The Yazidi Academy is a member of the network of migrants initiatives MiSO. It offers literacy and German courses as well as legal counselling for asylum seekers.

See also
Yezidi National Union ULE
Yazidis in Germany
Nineveh Plain
List of Yazidi organizations

References

External links

2009 establishments in Germany
Learned societies of Germany
Non-profit organisations based in Lower Saxony
Yazidis in Germany
Yazidi organizations


title: Kandy Wong

text:
Kandy Wong Shan-yee (born 16 October 1987), also known as her stage name "Tong Mui", is the vocal of the Hong Kong-based band Sugar Club,  she is regarded as a lookalike for the Cantopop singer Priscilla Chan .

Biography
Kandy Wong was born in Hong Kong. Before rising to fame, she had uploaded a song on the internet with her original name Candy Wong (黃麗怡).

In 2007, Wong decided to form the band Sugar Club with Sebastian Poon, a guitarist and vocal of another band introduced by her friend. Later, Sugar Club gained the opportunity to perform at the Langham Place The Mall every week, until the end of 2010.

In 2008, their performance was admired by WOW Music and they were signed to the record label at the same year. On 30 December 2010, they released their debut album I Love Sugar Club Best.

In 2011, Wong was program host with Suki Chui and Janice Ting for the TVB food show My Sweets.

From 2012 til now, Wong has been a part of several television shows and dramas, the most notable one being the music show JSG in 2012 and the drama Season of Love in 2013.

In 2022, Wong’s contract with WOW ended.

Discography
Pink Girls (EP) (2011)

Filmography

Television dramas

Films

References

External links
 Kandy's Instagram

1987 births
Living people
Hong Kong television actresses
21st-century Hong Kong women singers
Cantopop singers
Cantonese-language singers


title: Pardon Me (Porridge)

text:
"Pardon Me" is an episode of the BBC sitcom Porridge. It aired on 11 March 1977. In the episode, elderly prisoner Blanco Webb is due to be paroled, but he does not accept it, as he would be admitting his guilt. Fletcher and the rest of Slade Prison petition to the Home Office for Blanco to be pardoned.

Synopsis
The episode opens during recreation hour where Fletcher is playing Monopoly with elderly inmate Blanco Webb. Mr Barrowclough tells them to finish the game as it is locking up time in five minutes. Lukewarm, Blanco's cellmate, scolds Blanco as he promised to make sure he has a clean shirt for his parole hearing the next day. Godber wonders why Blanco was not paroled years ago. Fletcher comments that it is because Blanco has always protested his innocence, whereas the parole board would prefer him to be "guilty but ashamed".

That night, Godber asks Fletcher what Blanco was convicted of. Fletcher explains that Blanco murdered his wife and hid her body in the freezer. Godber is horrified and cannot believe it because Blanco seems like a nice old man.

The next day, Blanco has been granted parole. At first, they reminisce about 1959. Fletcher remembers that he sold a stolen car that year, and Godber remembers he was in junior school. Blanco, however, bitterly remembers 1959 for the year he was incarcerated for something he did not do and refuses to accept his parole.

Fletcher meets Blanco on his allotment and scolds him for his stubborn attitude. Blanco believes that Fletcher is after his rhubarb and strawberries, but Fletcher promises to look after the allotment if Blanco is freed. Blanco remembers the time he grew grapes but was forced to pack it in after making wine.

On Saturday afternoon, Fletcher, Godber, Warren and Lukewarm start the Campaign for the Release of Old Webb (CROW). They ask Mr Barrowclough to sign the petition, but he refuses,
so Fletcher forges Barrowclough's signature.

Later, the petitioners are brought before the Governor, who disapproves of prisoners' petition groups. Barrowclough states that they have the right to, under the Penal Code. Fletcher warns the Governor that the feeling is so strong, it could cause trouble for the prison officers, especially as Blanco has threatened to go on hunger strike in protest. Mr Mackay believes Blanco to be a "stubborn old fool" for refusing parole. The Governor believes it has been too long for a retrial to take place. Fletcher says that the campaign could make the Governor a celebrity, but Mackay puts an end to the meeting and orders the prisoners out. The Governor shudders at the thought of an elderly man like Blanco going on hunger strike.

Barrowclough suggest to the Governor that an alternative to a retrial is for Blanco to receive a pardon from the Home Office. The Governor readily agrees but discovers that Barrowclough has signed the petition. Barrowclough passes this off as a forgery, but admits it is his signature, making him look foolish in front of Mackay and the Governor.

Blanco has been finally pardoned by the Home Office. Before he leaves Slade Prison, Blanco bids farewell to his former inmates. Fletcher warns him not to seek revenge on his wife's lover, the true culprit. Blanco says that the lover died years ago, as it was Blanco who killed him.

Porridge (1974 TV series) episodes
1977 British television episodes


title: Isotenes athliopa

text:
Isotenes athliopa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea.

References

Moths described in 1938
Archipini