title: A Test of Character

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"A Test of Character" is the fifth episode from the third series of the BBC sitcom Porridge which aired on 18 March 1977. In the episode, Godber is studying for his O Level History exam but does not approve of Fletcher's method of cheating. Meanwhile, Fletcher and Warren are having a dispute on the Solar System.

Synopsis
Godber is trying to study for his History O-Level, but Fletcher keeps talking. A heated argument between the two attracts the attention of Mr Mackay, who naturally demands to know what is going on. Mackay criticises Fletcher for being an "ageing recidivist", while praising Godber for being willing to study. Mackay also makes it clear that Fletcher is not to disturb Godber. Soon after, Warren arrives and engages in a debate with Fletcher over the Solar System. Fed up with the constant interruptions, Godber storms out in a huff.

To help Godber, Fletcher accompanied by Warren and McClaren visit the study hall, where Mr. Barrowclough is helping violent inmate Spraggon with a creative writing course. Fletcher and McLaren distract Barrowclough with a demonstration of the Solar System, using different sized balls (and Barrowclough's apples) to represent the planets. At first, Spraggon refuses to betray Barrowclough, but relents when Warren offers him tobacco. Spraggon tells Warren where the keys are, allowing him to steal the exam paper.

Back at the cell, Godber appreciates the gesture, but turns them down as he feels he has cheated most of his life and wants to pass the exam honestly. Fletcher and Warren are annoyed at Godber because of the risk they took to help him. Fletcher points out to Godber that in the real world, there are very few breaks. For instance, a person with no convictions would always beat Godber in job interviews regardless of qualifications. Realising that Godber is not listening, Fletcher leaves him to it. Once Fletcher has left, Godber has a discreet glance at the exam paper, unaware that Warren is spying on him.

The following day, Godber has taken his exam and tells Fletcher and Warren that he is proud that he did it without cheating. At this, Fletcher tells Godber he does not stand for hypocrisy and he knows about Warren seeing Godber looking at the exam paper. Godber asks who stole the exam paper, to which Warren replies that it was him. It turns out that due to Warren's dyslexia, he took the biology paper instead of the history paper. The episode ends with a freeze frame of Fletcher grabbing Warren by the lapels.

Porridge (1974 TV series) episodes
1977 British television episodes


title: Jodie Kenny

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Jodie Kenny (née Schulz; born 18 August 1987) is an Australian field hockey player.

Kenny was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team that were defeated by the Netherlands women's national field hockey team in the final of the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup. She was a member of the Australian team that defeated England in the women's field hockey final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, scoring a goal in the last minute of regular time that took the match into a penalty shoot-out. She plays for the Queensland Scorchers in the Australian Hockey League.

Personal
Schulz was born in Redcliffe, and is from Queensland.  , she lives in Perth, Western Australia. She attended Wamuran State Primary School before going to St Columbans College.  She started working on a Bachelor Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Sunshine Coast in 2007 and was still enrolled in 2012. She was named the Sunshine Coast Sport Star of the Year senior monthly winner for April 2012.

Jodie married Shane Kenny, a fellow hockey player, in December 2013, changing her surname from Schulz to Kenny.

Field hockey
Schulz has held field hockey scholarships with the Australian Institute of Sport and the Queensland Academy of Sport.

She plays for the Queensland Scorchers in the Australian Hockey League, making her debut in 2009.

National team
When the Hockeyroos got new coach Adam Commens in January 2011, Schulz was one of four players identified for to aide in developing the national side. In 2011, she made her senior national team debut at the Four Nations Tournament in Argentina, scoring two goals in her first game. Later in the year, in October, she was the national team captain during two games against China. In June 2012, she played in the Investec London Cup. In the 4–1 win against Ireland in the lead up London, she scored the team's third goal. , she had 43 caps with the Hockeyroos.

Schulz was named to the Australia women's national field hockey squad that will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she made her debut as a 24-year-old, one year after making her senior national team debut.

Jodie was a key part of the Hockeyroos' success in 2014, winning the Hockeyroos World Cup Player of the Year award, as well as the top scorer award with 29 goals. To date Jodie has scored 88 goals from 144 caps, while playing as a defender. Her pump up songs before matches are Daryl Braithwaite's The Horses and Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down.

She was the Hockeyroos's top scorer in 2014 and 2015, winning Hockeyroos player of the year in 2015.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she scored her 100th goal for Australia.

In 2016 after the Rio Olympics, she announced she was taking a break from the sport.

References

External links

Living people
1987 births
Australian female field hockey players
Sportswomen from Queensland
Field hockey people from Queensland
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for Australia
Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Female field hockey defenders
21st-century Australian women
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Final Stretch (Porridge)

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"Final Stretch" is the final episode of the BBC sitcom Porridge, the sixth episode of the third series. It first aired on 25 March 1977. Godber's upcoming parole hearing is threatened by the prospect of a fight with fellow inmate Jarvis. Meanwhile, Fletcher is suspicious of his daughter's holiday plans.

Synopsis
The episode opens during the prisoners' visiting hour. Fletcher’s daughter Ingrid tells him about her plans to go on holiday to Italy, which depresses him. Ingrid reassures Fletcher, reminding him that he only has just over a year left on his sentence.

Fletcher also learns that Ingrid and Godber have been keeping in touch as pen pals. Because Godber is to face the parole board in a week’s time, Fletcher suspects a relationship between him and Ingrid.

Later that day, a brawl takes place in the yard between Godber and convicted football hooligan Jarvis. Mr Barrowclough breaks up the fight and the two are brought before Mr Mackay. Godber and Jarvis pretend to be friends who were involved in "high spirits". Although they are let off with a warning, they challenge each other to another fight once out of earshot of the prison officers.

Fletcher criticises Godber for his poor judgement with his parole hearing imminent. Fletcher claims that if his parole hearing was close, he would not let any insult bother him. To further illustrate his point, Fletcher says that "turning the other cheek takes more bottle than fighting". However, Fletcher's main concern is that Jarvis is likely to seriously injure or even kill Godber.

During recreation hour, Jarvis goads Godber into another fight. Fletcher intervenes and lifts up the television set. Mackay orders everyone to stand still, and Fletcher pretends he was adjusting the set. However, the television now has a picture and Fletcher is forced to stand with it above his head while the other prisoners watch it.

That weekend, Fletcher decides he will have to confront Jarvis on Godber's behalf. It would mean Fletcher receiving solitary confinement and loss of remission, but Godber would be safe and have a clean record to take before the parole board.

In the yard, Fletcher confronts Jarvis and calls him "toilet mouth", but Jarvis laughs it off. Fletcher then makes a derogatory sexual joke about Jarvis' wife, but again Jarvis laughs it off. However, Jarvis tells the joke to Crusher and this causes a fight between Crusher and Jarvis' gang. The guards break up the fight, and Fletcher thanks God.

Godber is approved for parole and thanks Fletcher for willing to sacrifice his own remission for him. Godber admits to Fletcher that the Jarvis affair was due to Jarvis making an obscene remark about Ingrid. Fletcher is pleased that Godber was defending his family honour. Before he leaves, Godber confirms Fletcher's suspicions by saying he is going on holiday to Italy "with a friend".

Just under three weeks after Godber's departure, Mr Mackay visits Fletcher. Mackay comments how Fletcher's attitude has changed since Godber's release and that a new inmate called Nicholson will be Fletcher's cellmate. Fletcher tells Mackay he intends to tell the inmate three things, but only shows Mackay two fingers, before showing three fingers. This was another opportunity for Fletcher to stick the fingers at Mackay and get away with it. The episode ends on a freeze frame of Fletcher showing Mackay three fingers.

Porridge (1974 TV series) episodes
1977 British television episodes


title: District No. 9 Schoolhouse

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The District No. 9 Schoolhouse is a historic school building at 358 Hoyt Road in Gilford, New Hampshire. Built in 1815 and repeatedly altered to accommodated changing trends in school design, it is the best-preserved of Gilford's surviving district schoolhouses. Now a private summer residence, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Description and history
Gilford's former District 9 Schoolhouse is located in a rural setting southeast of the town center, on the north side of Hoyt Road west of its junction with Belknap Mountain Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, whose main block measures  in length and  in width. It has a shed-roof projection at one end which houses the main entrance and a vestibule area (dated to the 1830s), and a second shed-roof addition behind that, dating to the early 20th century. The interior space was historically divided into a classroom space and a wood storage area, later converted into a kitchen. The property includes a c. 1924 outhouse.

The school was built in 1815, and was originally covered by a hip roof. This was replaced by the present gable roof around 1835, at the same time the vestibule was added. Additional windows were added in the 1850s, probably in response to state-issued recommendations. Benches were replaced by individual desks and chairs in 1892, around which time blackboards were also installed. The building was used as a school until the mid-1920s, and was converted into a summer residence in 1938.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Belknap County, New Hampshire

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
School buildings completed in 1815
Buildings and structures in Belknap County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Belknap County, New Hampshire
Gilford, New Hampshire


title: Miss International 2015

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Miss International 2015, the 55th Miss International pageant, was held on November 5, 2015 at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan. Valerie Hernandez of Puerto Rico crowned her successor Edymar Martínez of Venezuela at the end of the event with a new crown created and designed by Mikimoto. The Continental Queens were awarded for the first time in this edition.

The pageant hosted by Tetsuya Bessho on his second consecutive year of Miss International.

Results

Placements

Continental queens

Special awards

Contestants
70 delegates competed in the final night of Miss International 2015.

Notes

Returns
Countries and territories when previously withdraw and return this year:

Last competed in 2009:

Last competed in 2010:

Last competed in 2011:

Last competed in 2012:

Last competed in 2013:

Designations
  – Isis Stocco was appointed as "Miss International Brazil 2015". She was 3rd runner-up Miss Brasil 2013.
  – Brianna Acosta was appointed as "Miss Hawaii International 2015" by the Miss Hawaii International Organization under Harrison Productions LLC. She was Miss Hawaii USA 2013. Hawaiian representative attends as Miss Hawaii (special region of Miss International).
  – Jennifer Valle was appointed as "Miss International Honduras 2015" by Senorita Honduras Organization. She was Senorita Honduras 2012.
  – Linda Szunai was appointed as "Miss International Hungary 2015" by Miss International Hungary Organization. She was Miss World Hungary 2011.
  – Jhasmeiry Herrera Evans was appointed as "Miss International Panama 2015" by Olais Padilla, National Director of Miss International Panama. She was 2nd runner-up Miss Panama 2015.
  – Ewa Mielnicka was appointed as "Miss International Poland 2015" by Miss Polski Organization. Up to now Miss International franchise belonged to Miss Polonia whereas Miss Polski used to send Polish delegates to Miss World between 2007 and 2014.
  – Angela Jayatissa was appointed as "Miss International Sri Lanka 2015" by Miss Sri Lanka Organization. She was 2nd runner-up Miss Sri Lanka 2011.

Withdrawals
  – No contest
  – No contest
  – No contest
  – Miss Egypt got postponed, Miss International Egypt will compete in 2018.
  – No contest
  – Due to organization issues. Anis Christine Pitty Yaya withdrew from Miss International.
  – No contest
  – No contest
  – Due to personal reasons, Saida Jerónimo did not complete.
  – No contest
  – Due to lack of sponsorship.
  – Due to lack of sponsorship.

References

External links
 Official Miss International website

2015
International
Beauty pageants in Japan
2015 in Tokyo


title: Isotenes clarisecta

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Isotenes clarisecta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on New Guinea.

References

Moths described in 1952
Archipini


title: Alvite e Passos

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Alvite e Passos is a civil parish in the municipality of Cabeceiras de Basto, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Alvite and Passos. The population in 2011 was 1,184, in an area of 12.19 km².

References

Freguesias of Cabeceiras de Basto


title: BioMed Research International

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BioMed Research International is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of biomedical sciences. It was established in 2001 as the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology with Abdelali Haoudi as first editor-in-chief (until 2008). The journal obtained its current title in 2013 and is published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.579, and in 2016 its ranking was 65/158 of Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology.

References

External links

Hindawi Publishing Corporation academic journals
Academic journals established in 2001
Open access journals
English-language journals
Biology journals
General medical journals


title: 2014 Orkney earthquake

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The 2014 Orkney earthquake occurred at 12:22:33 SAST on 5 August, with the epicentre near Orkney, a gold mining town in the Klerksdorp district in the North West province of South Africa. The shock was assigned a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale by the Council for Geoscience (CGS) in South Africa, making it the biggest earthquake in South Africa since the 1969 Tulbagh earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated a focal depth of . The CGS reported 84 aftershocks on 5 August and 31 aftershocks on 6 August, with a magnitude of 1.0 to 3.8 on the Richter scale. According to the CGS, the earthquake is the biggest mining-related earthquake in South African history.

Cause

Historical seismicity
While earthquakes are uncommon in South Africa in general, the earthquake occurred in a mining belt where earthquakes are relatively common. The CGS had described a 2005 earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale in the same area as Orkney as "the largest mining-related earthquake in South Africa". The earthquake occurred on 9 March 2005 at DRDGOLD's Hartebeesfontein mine in Stilfontein, killing two miners underground and resulting in the closure of the mine. An investigation by the mining regulator following the incident found that it was caused by mining and further seismic events would occur while mining continued. The report on the investigation recommended improvements in seismic monitoring among other things, and some of the recommendations had been implemented before the 2014 earthquake. The USGS recorded a 4.9 moment magnitude earthquake on 15 June 2014 in the same area, which earth science consultant Dr Chris Hartnady believes may have been a foreshock.

Expert opinions
While both mining activity and natural faults could be causative factors, it is difficult to establish a precise cause. According to Professor Andrzej Kijko from the University of Pretoria's Natural Hazard Centre, mining can activate natural faults. He believes that more than 90% of South Africa's earthquakes are caused by mining, especially around the areas of Klerksdorp, Carletonville and Welkom. According to Hartnady, "This part of Africa is in the vicinity of the East African Rift system, which is being pulled apart by a few millimetres annually." He says "earthquakes are caused by a slip on a fault line and the release of stored elastic energy" and mining activity could have triggered the earthquake. Kijko and Hartnady believe that – unlike the 1969 Tulbagh earthquake – this event was a mining-related earthquake which is a relatively more common occurrence than a natural earthquake in South Africa. Professor Ray Durrheim, a seismologist at Wits University, said seismic events will continue while there is mining activity in the area, and even long afterwards. He said the flooding of inactive mines could also compound pressure on geological faults, triggering further seismic events. According to Durrheim, the link between mining and earthquakes lies "on a continuum, from where it's purely induced by mining activities to where you are triggering a natural earthquake".

Council for Geoscience
According to Michelle Grobbelaar from the CGS, "There's a rule of thumb that if you experience an earthquake with a certain magnitude in the past, you can always expect an earthquake of a similar magnitude in that same area." Grobbelaar and Denver Birch, also from the CGS, said that the cause of the earthquake was difficult to determine given that it occurred in a mining area and the lack of historical seismic data for the area. Ian Saunders from the CGS confirmed that a team would be sent to the area for further investigation, and Eldridge Kgaswane from the CGS said they should be able to determine the cause within a month. According to Kgaswane, "The fact that the deepest mine shafts are shallower than the epicentre doesn't mean mining can be ruled out as a cause. Blasting in the vicinity of a big fault could have activated seismic activity." On 18 August 2014 at a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) seminar in Pretoria, the CGS confirmed that the earthquake was caused by mining-related activity, making it the biggest ever mining-related earthquake recorded in South Africa.

Impact

The earthquake occurred at 12:22:33 SAST on 5 August 2014, with the epicentre near Orkney, a gold mining town in the Klerksdorp district in the North West province of South Africa. The shock was assigned a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale by the Council for Geoscience (CGS) in South Africa, making it the biggest earthquake in South Africa since the 1969 Tulbagh earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated a focal depth of . The CGS reported 84 aftershocks on 5 August and 31 aftershocks on 6 August, with a magnitude of 1.0 to 3.8 on the Richter scale.

Areas affected
The earthquake was felt as far as  from Orkney. It was felt in neighbouring countries Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and Mozambique. The two tallest buildings in Bloemfontein, the former CR Swart Building and the Lebohang building, as well as tall buildings and University of Pretoria halls in Pretoria and offices of the South African Revenue Service in Durban were evacuated. According to Michelle Grobbelaar, manager of the CGS's seismology unit, the earthquake was felt in Durban because "the beach sand tends to amplify the ground motion". Buildings in Maputo in Mozambique were also evacuated. The Meteorological Services of Zimbabwe confirmed that Zimbabwe was not affected by the earthquake.

Casualties
There was a single fatality, 31-year-old Mosotho man Leshomo Makhaola, who died when a wall of an old mining house collapsed on him in Kanana, North West. An ER24 spokesperson said that miners had reportedly been trapped in 11 mine shafts at a mine in Orkney; however, subsequent inspections revealed that the miners at that location were safe. All 3,300 AngloGold Ashanti miners underground at its Great Noligwa and Moab Khotsong mines near Orkney had been brought to the surface by 19:30 SAST on 5 August, including 34 who had been injured. All 34 miners were treated for minor injuries, including lacerations, contusions and a broken leg, and discharged from hospital on 6 August. AngloGold Ashanti management had proceeded with the evacuation after their temporarily interrupted power supply was mostly restored, mine management had contacted the mine crew underground by telephone and mine engineers had ensured that the shaft infrastructure was in working order. AngloGold Ashanti emergency medical staff had treated injured miners, and counsellors had treated some employees for shock. Mining operations at their Great Noligwa and Moab Khotsong mines were subsequently suspended pending safety checks.

Damage
There was extensive damage to buildings in Orkney and the surrounding areas, partly due to inadequate building construction vulnerable to earthquake damage. The Khuma township near Stilfontein was one of the worst affected areas, with more than 600 homes damaged by the earthquake. An aftershock occurred in Khuma in the afternoon of 5 August while residents were assessing the damage to their homes. Three clinics in the North West province were damaged, leading to the closure of two of them. Two schools were damaged and some pupils were unable to attend classes as the classrooms were too badly damaged.

In the days following the earthquake, most of South Africa's major banks and insurance companies had begun receiving insurance claims. By 6 August 2014, ABSA had received 200 claims, Standard Bank had received 129 claims and Mutual & Federal had received 11 claims. A survey of 17 insurance companies done by finance website Justmoney showed that 5 out of the 17 companies surveyed would reject insurance claims related to the earthquake if it was proven to be mining-related. In a response to the Survey, ABSA, who was on the list of 5, affirmed that they have received approximately 1100 claims and were in the process of finalising them.

Response
The CGS warned that aftershocks were expected in the days following the earthquake and they could possibly continue for months. They recommended that buildings be evacuated in the event of an aftershock. The mining regulator's chief inspector of mines David Msiza asked mining companies in affected areas, including Klerksdorp, Carletonville and Rustenburg, to undertake underground inspections to ensure no miners were trapped and the working conditions were safe for miners. AngloGold Ashanti denied responsibility for the earthquake, saying it occurred away from its mining infrastructure.

Premier of North West Supra Mahumapelo promised residents that all who were affected by the earthquake would receive help. Mahumapelo said that counselling, social relief and temporary accommodation were being provided, and that the buildings and infrastructure damaged in the earthquake might take years to repair. The North West provincial government started the North West Disaster Relief Fund to help residents affected by the earthquake. Teams were sent to investigate damage to parts of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality by the municipality. The Cabinet of South Africa sent its condolences to the family of the man who was killed by the earthquake.

On 30 September 2014, the Inkatha Freedom Party expressed its concern for the residents of Khuma as repairs to their homes were delayed and had not yet commenced. Provincial government spokesperson, Bonolo Mohlakoana said that construction was delayed partly due to a lack of structural engineers, which were needed to assess the structural damage caused to the houses. Several families affected by the earthquake moved to a community centre while waiting for their houses to be repaired after affected families were instructed to move to safer locations.

See also
List of earthquakes in 2014
List of earthquakes in South Africa

References

External links

Orkney earthquake
Orkney earthquake
Earthquakes in South Africa
History of North West (South African province)
Mining disasters in South Africa
Orkney earthquake
Orkney earthquake


title: Olympico Club (Belo Horizonte)

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Olympico Club (short, just Olympico) is a social, recreational and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The club was established in 1940, being the second recreational club in Belo Horizonte, after Minas Tênis Clube.  The club has long tradition in the formation of young athletes. Olympico's men's volleyball club plays in the Brazilian Men's Volleyball Superliga - B, the second-tier of Brazilian volleyball, being this the only professional team that the club maintains.

References

Volleyball clubs in Brazil
Sports clubs and teams established in 1940
Volleyball clubs in Minas Gerais (state)
Sports clubs and teams in Belo Horizonte


title: 2014–15 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season

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The 2014–15 season is Oldham Athletic's 18th consecutive season in the third division of the English football league system and Lee Johnson's second full season as manager of the club.

A strong ten match unbeaten run at the end of the 2013–14 season gave Oldham a platform on which to build for the new season as building work literally continued on the new North Stand.

Six of the first team squad who finished the 2013–14 season left the club after their contracts' expired: Jonathan Grounds, James Wesolowski, Terry Dunfield, Anton Rodgers, Charlie MacDonald and Kirk Millar. The club captain Korey Smith was sold to Bristol City. In Smith's place, Johnson signed  midfielders Liam Kelly from Bristol City and Mike Jones from Crawley Town. Joseph Mills, who had spent three months on loan during the 2013–14 season, was signed on a two-year contract. In addition, Johnson brought in defenders Brian Wilson and George Elokobi, midfielder Timothée Dieng and forwards Willy Gros, Amari Morgan-Smith and Jonathan Forte before the first game of the new season.

Squad and coaching staff

First team squad
Includes all players who were awarded a squad number during the season.
*Total appearances and goals as at 30 June 2015

Management and coaching staff

Academy staff

Transfers

Results and fixtures

League One

FA Cup

The draw for the first round of the FA Cup was made on 27 October 2014.

League Cup

The draw for the first round was made on 17 June 2014 at 10am. Oldham were drawn at home versus Middlesbrough.

Football League Trophy

League table

Squad statistics
Source:

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.
Players with squad numbers struck through and marked  left the club during the playing season.
Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Oldham.
Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

References

Oldham Athletic A.F.C. seasons
Oldham Athletic


title: Pierre Omanga

text:
Pierre Adam Omanga (born 10 April 1988 in Paris, France) is a French footballer.

Career

College and amateur
Omanga played college soccer at the University of Montevallo in 2012 and Southern New Hampshire University in 2013.

During his college years Omanga also played for GPS Portland Phoenix in the USL Premier Development League.

Professional
On 21 January 2014 Omanga was drafted in the third round (50th overall) of the 2014 MLS SuperDraft by New England Revolution.

Omanga signed with New England's USL Pro affiliate Rochester Rhinos in March 2014. He went on to make his professional debut on 3 August 2014 in a 0-0 draw with Orlando City.

In May 2015 Omanga was signed by the Finnish side FC Jazz.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
French men's footballers
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in the United States
GPS Portland Phoenix players
Rochester New York FC players
Men's association football forwards
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
New England Revolution draft picks
USL League Two players
USL Championship players
Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
Ykkönen players
FC Jazz players
University of Montevallo alumni
Southern New Hampshire Penmen men's soccer players
Footballers from Paris


title: 2000–01 Liga Alef

text:
The 2000–01 Liga Alef season saw Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona (champions of the North Division) and Maccabi Yavne (champions of the South Division) winning the title and promotion to Liga Artzit.

At the bottom, Maccabi Isfiya, Hapoel Iksal (from North division), Hapoel Ihud Tzeirei Jaffa and Sektzia Nes Tziona (from South division) were all automatically relegated to Liga Bet.

North Division

South Division

References
Liga Alef North, 00-01 One
Liga Alef South, 00-01 One

Liga Alef seasons
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Israel


title: Orphninae

text:
Orphninae is a subfamily of beetles in the scarab beetle family, Scarabaeidae. There are two tribes in the family, the New World Aegidiini and the Old World Orphnini. They are mostly tropical beetles.

As of 2013 there are about 195 species in the subfamily. They are classified in 15 genera: 4 in the tribe Aegidiini and 11 in the Orphnini. In addition, the genus Stenosternus is provisionally placed in the Aegidiini.

Taxonomy
Taxa include:
Tribe Aegidiini
Genus Aegidiellus
Genus Aegidium
Genus Aegidinus
Genus Paraegidium
Genus Stenosternus
Tribe Orphnini
Genus Madecorphnus
Genus Pseudorphnus
Genus Renorphnus
Genus Triodontus

References

External links
Key to New World Orphninae Genera. Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles. University of Nebraska State Museum.

Scarabaeidae


title: Bernard Cooke Dixon

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Major General Bernard Edward Cooke Dixon CB CBE MC (7 September 1896 – 9 October 1973) was a senior British Army officer.

Biography
Born on 7 September 1896, Bernard Cooke Dixon was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He received his first commission in the Royal Engineers in 1915 and served in France during the First World War. During the Second World War he served in the Middle East, between 1940 and 1943, and in Italy, between 1943 and 1944.  He was Engineer-in-Charge at General Headquarters, Middle East, between 1944 and 1947, and Chief Engineer, Headquarters, Western Command, between 1947 and 1948.

Major General Bernard Cooke Dixon was invested as a Companion of the Order of the British Empire in 1944, and as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1947. He retired from the British Army in 1948. In the early 1950s he was managing director of East Kilbride Development Corporation. Bernard Cooke Dixon died on 9 October 1973.

References

1896 births
1973 deaths
British Army major generals
People educated at Bedford School
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army personnel of World War II
Recipients of the Military Cross
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire


title: Media freedom in Armenia

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Censorship in Armenia is generally non-existent, except in some limited incidents.

Armenia has recorded unprecedented progress in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index, improving positions by 11 points and ranking 51st on the list. Publication also confirms absence of cases of killed journalists, citizen journalists or media assistants.

History

1990s and before
The process of democratization of the Soviet Union started with the policy of Glasnost, meaning openness or freedom of speech.

1995 Constitution
In 1995, a constitutional referendum approved changes to the old Soviet-era Constitution.

In the 1995 Constitution, article 24 was dedicated to freedom of expression:

Still, articles 44 and 45 ruled the possibility of temporary suspensions of media freedom to protect "state and public security, public order, public health and morality, and the rights, freedoms, honor, and reputation of others." There was no explicit ban of censorship.

2000s
Freedom of information legislation was passed in 2003, and was implemented in 2015.

2002
In 2002, A1+ television channel was shut down by the government. After that, 17 media outlets declared that freedom of expression was not in danger in the country. This was a start of an editorial policy of self-censorship, particularly in television and radio. This means that direct censorship is less common because it is not needed.

2005 Constitution

In 2005, a constitutional referendum approved a series of changes to the Constitution. Chapter 2 of the new Constitution of Armenia is dedicated to "Fundamental Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms". Article 27 is dedicated to freedom of expression and of the press:

Since 2010, there are no criminal penalties for defamation, but it is still a civil wrong. Politicians, businessman, etc. often ask for huge monetary damage. Treatment of journalists in courts is not always fair, even if the Constitutional Court in 2011 ruled that media outlets cannot be held liable for “critical assessment of facts” and “evaluation judgments”.

Since 2010

2015

While there was a reduction of violence against journalists there was a serious episode in June 2015. During the Electric Yerevan mass protests, police used a water cannon against demonstrators and journalists. At least 14 media operators were injured, and equipment was damaged.

See also

Human rights in Armenia
Mass media in Armenia
Open Society Foundations–Armenia
Social issues in Armenia

References

Human rights abuses in Armenia
Mass media in Armenia


title: Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)

text:
"Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)" is a 2014 single by British pop band the Vamps, with a chorus adapted from Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 hit "Cecilia". The song appeared on their debut studio album Meet the Vamps (2014), but a later version featuring vocals from Canadian singer Shawn Mendes was released on 12 October 2014 as the album's fifth single.

The song has charted in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and the United Kingdom (where it peaked at number 9, becoming the group's fifth successive top 10 single), whilst the version featuring Shawn Mendes charted in Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa.

Background
"Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)", which is a pop song, is an adaptation of Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 hit song "Cecilia", with interpolated sampling occurring throughout the song. The verse lyrics do not follow those of the original song, though they still heavily rely on the main chorus (Cecilia, you're breaking my heart / You're shaking my confidence daily / Oh Cecilia I'm down on my knees / I'm begging you please to come home).

Music video
Two music videos exist for the song. One of them features the Vamps and Mendes shipwrecked in an area they don't initially realise is already inhabited, sending out an SOS and then bolting upon sight of a plane, and the other is in support of charity and features famous faces.

Track listing
Digital download
"Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)"  – 3:14
"Hurricane" – 3:19
Digital download
"Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)"  – 3:23
CD edition
"Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) (Live from the O2 Arena)" – 3:16
"Teenagers" – 2:40
"Dear Maria, Count Me In/Sugar We're Going Down (Medley)" – 2:53
"Girls On TV (Live from the O2 Arena)" – 3:40

Charts

Certifications

References

2014 songs
The Vamps (British band) songs
Shawn Mendes songs
Songs written by Paul Simon
Songs written by Espen Lind
Songs written by Amund Bjørklund
Songs written by K'naan


title: Thevally

text:
Thevally is located in the city of Kollam, in the state of Kerala, India. Ashtamudi Lake is situated in the vicinity. National Highway-183 (formerly NH 220) passes through the neighbourhood.

History
Thereesapalli (Thevally) sasanam, the first available documented history of Kerala dated AD 849-50, a copper plate with inscription gave tax free benefits to the Christian settlers of  Manigramam in Thevally, by the then rulers of Venad.

Thevally had an ancient fort area, at present day Kottayathukadavu area. This area was one strategically located area. It was so because till the roadways developed and places became more accessible by road waterway was major mode of transport of goods, people, army etc. The major waterway Thiruvananthapuram–Shoranur canal that connects Vallakkadavu in Travancore with Alappuzha, Kottayam and other northern parts of Travancore was through a narrow stretch in this part. On olden times Kottayathukadavu was connected to Thevally by a pedestrian wooden bridge. In modern times Kottayathukadavu, was a prominent local boat jetty with a connecting ferry to Thevally. It was so till the Thevally Bridge was built in 1966.

The historic fort in the area had a palace build with laterite and roofed with tile (The traces of Archaeological remains of these structures and remains were available till around 1960's) these were occupied by Venad rulers at those times.

During the time of Colonel John Munro the resident of British India in Travancore, a palace for the king was built in Thevally, and a residency build for the British resident in Ashramam. The Thevally Palace is today used by National Cadet Corps (India).

Significance of the Place

 The dairy plant of Milma in Kollam District is situated at Thevally. The Dairy was commissioned in 1986 with a capacity to handle 60,000 litres per day and subsequently expanded to handle 1.5 lakh litres per day with 169 societies under it.
 One of the major 5 star hotels in South Kerala, The Raviz Hotel is situated at Kottayathukadavu side of Thevally.
 The district Panchayath headquarters of Kollam is situated at Thevally.
 The Malayalam film actor Late. Jayan was born at Olayil, Thevally.

Amenities
Thevally is a tourist destination within Kollam. Attractions include Thevally Palace, a heritage building of architectural merit that was once the residences of the King of Travancore. The four-star Hotel AllSeason is also situated at Thevally. The National Cadet Corps's Kollam District headquarters is situated in Thevally.

Nearby institutions
 National Cadet Corps
 Milma Kollam Dairy
 Fish Seed Hatchery
 ICD bank coaching centre
 Hotel Raviz
 Hotel All Season
 SPCA Kollam
 The Elephant Squad & Kennel club of Kerala
 District Medical Store
 NGO Quarters
 Wrenchboy Customs

See also
 Downtown Kollam
 Kollam
 Kollam district
 Quilon Aerodrome

References

External links

Neighbourhoods in Kollam


title: Georgie Parker (field hockey)

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Georgina "Georgie" Parker (born 26 April 1989) is an Australian rules footballer and former field hockey player for the Hockeyroos.

Parker was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team that were defeated by the Netherlands women's national field hockey team in the final of the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup, a gold medal winner at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and member of the team that went to the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Personal
Parker lives in Perth, Western Australia, as part of the national training program, having grown up in South Australia.

Field hockey

Club hockey
Parker played club hockey in the Riverland as a junior and later in Adelaide for the Adelaide Hockey Club. She also played a season for the Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in Belgium in 2016/17.

State hockey
In 2011, Parker was a member of the Australian Hockey League team the SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns) that won the national championship in Darwin. She was the only goalscorer in the grand final winning 1–0 against the NSW Arrows.

International hockey
Parker has played over 100 international games for the Hockeyroos, including playing at the Commonwealth Games, Summer Olympics and World Cup.

Her tournaments include:
2011 – Champions Trophy (Amstelveen, Netherlands) – 6th
2013 – World League Finals (Tucuman, Argentina) – 2nd
2013 – Oceania Cup (Stratford, New Zealand) – 1st
2013 – World League Semi-Final (London, England) – 1st
2013 – Hockey Super Series 9's (Perth, Australia) – 1st
2014 – 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland) – 1st
2014 – Women's Hockey World Cup (The Hague, Netherlands) –  2nd
2015 – World League Semi-Final (Antwerp, Belgium)- 3rd
2015 – Hawke's Bay Hockey Festival (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand) – 1st
2016 – Hawke's Bay Hockey Festival (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand) – 3rd
2016 – 2016 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy (London, Great Britain) – 4th
2016 – 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – quarter finals

AFL Women's career

In May 2017, Parker signed with Collingwood as a rookie for the 2018 AFL Women's season, fielding an offer from Adelaide too. She had no prior experience playing Australian football, but Collingwood viewed her as a potential midfield and forward line option.

On 4 June 2018, Parker was elevated to Collingwood's senior list ahead of the 2019 season.

In April 2019, Parker was delisted by Collingwood.

Statistics
Statistics are correct to the end of the 2019 season.

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| 19 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 2.0 || 0.0 || 2.0 || 0.0 || 4.0
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! 3
! 0
! 0
! 6
! 7
! 13
! 1
! 7
! 0.0
! 0.0
! 2.0
! 2.3
! 4.3
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Media Career
Parker has a double degree in Journalism and PR, and is available as a guest speaker.

As at 2022, she is the host of the Seven Network TV show "Armchair Experts" – an analysis of the Australian Football League scene.

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Australian female field hockey players
Sportswomen from South Australia
Collingwood Football Club (AFLW) players
Australian rules footballers from South Australia
Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for Australia
Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate field hockey players
Curtin University alumni
Field hockey people from South Australia
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Charlie Pilkington

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Charles Francis Pilkington (September 22, 1897 - May 20, 1974),  known as Charlie Pilkington and The Meriden Flash, was an American professional boxer in the Featherweight division.

Background
Pilkington was born on September 22, 1897, in New York City to Anglo-Irish parents. He was a descendant of Jacobite members of the Pilkington Family of Lancashire, England, who fled to Ireland after the Battle of Preston in 1716.
Growing up in a tenement in East Harlem, Pilkington was advised by a doctor to pursue exercise to improve his health and took up boxing at the Union Settlement Association.

Professional career
Pilkington learned to box by watching Benny Leonard, Harlem Tommy Murphy, and Irish Patsy Cline at his neighborhood gym and based much of his early technique off of what he observed. Beginning his boxing career with a win in an amateur match at the Union Settlement Association Athletic Club in 1915, Pilkington would spend four years in the amateur leagues, earning the name the "Harlem Flash". When he later moved to Meriden, Connecticut, this early nickname morphed into the "Meriden Flash."  During this time, Pilkington lost only 4 out of 150 matches; winning the New York State and Metropolitan Crown boxing titles in the featherweight division. During his early career, he was the first professional boxer to be coached and managed by famed manager Al Weill.

Turning pro to support his family in 1919, he began professional boxing in New Jersey and Connecticut. During his first professional fight, he knocked out Joe Welling in four rounds. Later, he boxed against well known boxer Sammy Waltz, knocking him down with his first punch.

At the height of his career, Pilkington was so popular in the greater New York area that after a victory over Johnny Shugrue was proclaimed a draw, New Haven police officers had to escort the referee out of the arena to prevent a riot by Pilkington's fans.

Pilkington fought Jack Bernstein at the Commonwealth Sporting Club in New York in December 1923, where he repetitively held Bernstein's arms and "head butted" him, losing the match after being disqualified. In 1924, he traveled to Australia for his last professional matches - a five fight bout, winning three matches, losing one, and boxing a draw in the other.

By the end of his career, Pilkington was New York State champion for the 108,115, and 125 pound class.

Later in his life, Pilkington became a noted referee, matchmaker, trainer, and promoter. As a mentor and sparring partner, he is largely credited with helping mold the career of famed boxer Kid Kaplan. While working as a promoter in the 1930s, Pilkington publicly spoke out against Kaplan, then a referee, resulting in a large public dispute that ended in Pilkington's license being revoked. Known as "The Boxing Master," he trained many future boxing stars, including Eddie Campagnuolo.

Personal life

Pilkington's younger brother, "Irish" Jackie Pilkington, was also a professional boxer.

See also
List of people from Harlem

References

External links

1897 births
1974 deaths
American people of Irish descent
Featherweight boxers
Boxers from New York City
Boxers from Connecticut
Sportspeople from Manhattan
American male boxers
People from East Harlem


title: Prostitution in Tibet

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Prostitution in Tibet is thought to have existed for centuries. Testimonies of its existence were provided by outside visitors in the first half of the twentieth century. According to the British writer Christopher Hale, due to the practice of polyandry in Tibet, many women were unable to find a husband and moved to villages and towns, where they fell into prostitution. Their clients came from the caravans crossing the Tibetan plateau, and also from the monasteries.

However, according to the Tibetan government in exile, prostitution as an industry was virtually non-existent before the Chinese occupation of Tibet. According to the Tibetan Women's Association: "In the past, in Tibet there were no brothels". Tibetan lawyer Lobsang Sangay recognizes the existence of prostitution before the arrival of the Chinese, but he says that the phenomenon was minimal compared to its current extent.

Since the 1980s, prostitution in the People's Republic of China, though officially illegal, has been growing. French poet Jean Dif, traveling in the Tibet Autonomous Region in September–October 2004, said of Lhasa, "There are said to be more than 4,000 prostitutes in the city, but I saw none". According to the French sociologist and religious historian Frédéric Lenoir writing in 2008, the traditional commercial quarter of Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, contained at that time karaoke bars, gambling houses and brothels. The number of brothels in Lhasa was estimated at more than 300. The establishments were located on the island of Jamalinka and in the Zhol Village near the Potala Palace.

History

Before 1950
In his book of interviews with the 14th Dalai Lama, the journalist Thomas Laird records that the 6th Dalai Lama, the young Tsangyang Gyatso (1683–1706), is said to have refused to take his vows and "spent his nights drinking in brothels", frequenting an inn in the village of Shöl (Zhol Village). The former village of Shöl, whose area stretched to the south of Potala, is said by the 2008 Lonely Planet Tibet guide book to have been Lhasa's red-light district.

According to writer and journalist Claude Arpi (director of the Tibetan building in Auroville), the Chinese warlord Zhao Erfeng who created the former province of Xikang that included the greater part of the Tibetan region of Kham, encouraged his Chinese soldiers to marry Tibetans by granting them money and land. These women, according to the historian Laurent Deshayes, "often ended up in soldiers' brothels" although "abandoning a Tibetan wife was severely punished by Zhao."

In its relation to 1938–39 German expedition to Tibet, the writer Christopher Hale, based on the diaries of Ernst Schäfer, reports of prostitution in Lhasa: "in the teeming streets women outnumber men and many of them are prostitutes. Due to the practice of polyandry, many women do not find husbands and come to the villages and towns where they fall into prostitution. Their customers are from the caravans that cross the Tibetan Plateau and also the monasteries". He adds that for most of the duration of their stay in Lhasa, the German residence Tredilingka was frequently besieged prostitutes seeking to seduce the occupants.

The Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who lived in Lhasa from 1944 to 1950, reported in his memoirs that in Barkhor, "ladies of easy virtue practice their profession there".

In 1946, the 3rd Taktra Rinpoche who was regent of Tibet was slandered by saying that he "had an affair with a  high-class prostitute called Nyi-a-sung".

According to the Tibetan Women's Association: "in the past, in Tibet, there were no brothels or drugs, and excessive alcohol use was low". For its part, the Tibetan government in exile says prostitution as an industry was virtually non-existent before the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Tibetan lawyer Lobsang Sangay points out that we can not say that prostitution did not exist at all before the arrival of the Chinese. Nevertheless, the phenomenon was minimal compared to its current extent.

After 1950
In 1962, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama claimed in his 70,000 Character Petition that anyone in Tibet who expressed his religious faith publicly was subject to persecution and accused of superstition. The Communists forced monks and nuns to have sex. The management of the monasteries was entrusted to the dissolute characters who "frequented prostitutes, drank heavily," thus discrediting the monasteries in the eyes of Tibetans.

According to the Tibet Justice Center, an organization linked to the Tibetan Government in Exile, Chinese officials have committed violence against Tibetan women by forcing them into prostitution. Tibetan teenagers, believing they were joining the People's Liberation Army, were reported to have suffered multiple rape, resulting in pregnancies for which they underwent forced abortions. This type of treatment is, according to the Tibet Justice Center, the norm for Tibetan girls in the Chinese army.

According to the dissident Chinese writer Wang Lixiong who lives in Beijing, these comments are greatly exaggerated and only occur in rare cases. In his book Sky Burial: The Destiny of Tibet, published in 1998, he wrote: "In the West, the persecution of Tibetans by the Chinese communists is greatly exaggerated. That the PLA soldiers forced the lamas and nuns to have sex publicly while Red Guards raped women everywhere, all this, of course, is far from the truth. As people who lived through that time know well, in this (Maoist) period, sex was seen as socially quite unacceptable. PLA soldiers and Red Guards, who had the strongest ideology, couldn't possibly have done this sort of thing. With regard to certain specific cases, we can only blame the individuals involved (nowhere is completely without such behaviour)."

Current situation
According to the Tibetan government in exile, prostitution in Tibet is growing rapidly. They claim that the large-scale introduction of prostitution, especially to Lhasa and Tsetang, took place in 1990 as a result of the influx of a predominantly male working population which added to the large population of Chinese soldiers already deployed in Tibet. In an article in The Independent newspaper in 1996, journalist Mike Dempsey observed that prostitution in Lhasa had become "more brazen than in most other Chinese cities" and that "every street is full of bars and video arcades and brothels". "In some neighbourhoods of Lhasa... every third storefront is a brothel." Dempsey added that most of the prostitutes "are from nearby Szechuan" while "Tibetan prostitutes, far fewer in number, service their poor clients in the rubbish-heaped alleys behind the Jokhang temple." In 2003 the journalist and historian Patrick French wrote that prostitution in Lhasa was "the subject of ethnic segregation". There were very few Tibetan prostitutes, the majority being Chinese, originally from Sichuan and Qinghai. The sex trade was "controlled by Chinese gangs who benefit from political protection". According to journalist Jean-Paul Mari, Jama Lingka island was developed in the 1990s with money from the Macao mafia.

In 2003, French documentary-maker Marie Louville visited Tibet in secret and filmed the documentary The Sidewalks of Lhassa which described the practice of prostitution in Lhasa. In 2006 the American photographer Sarah Schorr put on an exhibition of photographs of Tibetan and Chinese prostitutes taken in Lhasa.

In a report presented in 2009 to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Association of Tibetan Women claimed that the previous decade had seen an increase in prostitution in some major cities of Tibet. The causes were said to be discrimination against Tibetan women in competition with Chinese women for education and employment, as well as increased tourism. But the most important factor was said to be the influx of soldiers in the strategically important region.

Extent
The Chinese government does not give an estimate of the number of brothels in Tibet because prostitution is officially banned in China. However, estimated figures on the number of brothels in Lhasa are provided by a number of sources. These include organizations close to the Tibetan Government in Exile, the documentary filmmaker Ngawang Choephel, the academic Frederic Lenoir and the writer and historian Patrick French. The figures range from 300 to 1806 depending on the source. The term "brothel" covers prostitution taking place in premises disguised as hair salons, beauty salons, massage parlors, hostess bars and karaoke bars.

According to the Tibet Times, a fortnightly newspaper linked to Tibetan exiles with its headquarters in Dharamshala, there were about 8,890 prostitutes in Lhasa in 1998, or 9% of the female population. The article reported that there were 1,270 brothels in Lhasa, mostly disguised as hair salons, and on average, seven prostitutes in each brothel. Tibet Times claims to have obtained this figure as a result of its own direct investigations.

Ngawang Choephel, speaking on Voice of America in 1998, claimed that there were more than 1806 "Chinese brothels" in Lhasa. In 1999, the London-based Tibet Information Network conducted a study that identified "at least 658 brothels" in Lhasa. Patrick French returning from a trip to Tibet in 1999, indicated that he had found them to be an important phenomenon in Lhasa, and that "there are now hundreds of brothels there". In 2000 and 2002, a figure of 1000 brothels was put forward in a paper presented at the United Nations and in an article in The Boston Globe citing the same source. Between 1998 and 2005 the number of brothels increased to 1600, according to the Tibetan Women's Association. In 2008 Frederic Lenoir estimated the number of brothels in Lhasa at more than 300 brothels, one of the highest rates of any Chinese city in terms of population.

There are reports of prostitution outside the capital Lhasa, with Michael Kodas describing its practice at the Tibetan Everest Base Camp in his book High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (2008).

Official suppression of prostitution
Prostitution is illegal under the law of the People's Republic of China. Chinese authorities often denounce prostitution and frequently launch raids in an attempt to rid Tibet of the trade, such as the action against vice in Lhasa in May 1995 when Chinese police arrested 111 prostitutes and pimps. According to Agence France-Presse, Sun Jiazheng, Chinese Minister of Culture 1998–2008, warned in 2000 that the development of the Chinese entertainment industry might be inhibited due to competition from the sex trade. He launched a national campaign to prevent this and accused government agencies of taking part in the trade. On 1 October 2009, as the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China approached, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Justice announced the launch of a national campaign by the Chinese police aimed at closing nightclubs and massage parlours.

Risk of the spread of sexually transmitted disease
In 2003, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, an NGO for which the Dalai Lama is the patron, estimated that there were 7000 Tibetan girls in 1000 brothels in Lhasa in the year 2000. The organisation criticised the lack of hygiene and protective measures, the influx of prostitutes from the rest of China where AIDS is more prevalent, and the lack of preventative educational and screening programs. Increases in prostitution are said to lead to increased HIV transmission in Tibet. In 2007, the Dalai Lama claimed that Beijing was using the recently completed Qingzang railway between China and Tibet to sending uneducated young girls from the countryside to be "inducted as prostitutes" in Lhasa  which "is increasing the danger of AIDS".

The Australian organisations (AusAID and the Burnet Institute) work in Lhasa on the prevention of HIV/AIDS. During the 2008 Tibetan unrest one of their staff, an AIDS worker and former Tibetan monk named Wangdu was arrested. He had been working since 2001 on AIDS prevention, especially among prostitutes. Despite his not having personally participated in the Lhasa demonstrations he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of espionage and sending information abroad. According to the association Students for a Free Tibet, his imprisonment shows how far the Chinese government will go to silence those working for the health and well being of Tibetans.

Prostitution and Tibetan culture
As Lhasa is a holy city for Tibetans, prostitution is particularly frowned upon by its Tibetan population, according to Lobsang Sangay. In "Lhasa: the Death of the Soul", a 1994 article, William Hanks quotes a Buddhist monk's words: "A monk in a monastery doorway murmured to me 'It's a shame; we want these bars to close because they contribute to the planned destruction of Tibetan culture'". The travel comparator website Easyvoyage mentions that the western part of Lhasa looks like all modern Chinese cities with its concrete architecture, shops, karaoke and even prostitution. The French interpreter for the Dalai Lama, Mathieu Ricard says that "the Tibetan town has disappeared beneath the neon karaoke... the Chinese impose their morals, alcohol, karaoke, brothels... China imposes its dogmas and crushes the culture!"

However, as Mike Dempsey comments: "most observers of Tibet doubt it is official Chinese policy to promote gambling and prostitution in order to undermine the exiled Dalai Lama's spiritual hold". The view of professor Barry Sautman of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is that "Emigrés try to attribute the 'vices' found in the towns of Tibet to the harmful cultural effects of the Han presence there. But Lhasa, like many other towns around the world, contains many places teeming with prostitution, gambling and drugs". The Director of the International Campaign for Tibet has expressed "concern that more and more young Tibetans are exposed to the temptations of the worst aspects of Chinese culture". Sautman points out that "none of these vices is particularly 'Chinese'. Billiards is a Western invention, karaoke originated in Japan, prostitution and drugs are universal." Asked about discos and nightclubs in Lhasa, the Vice-President of the Tibet Autonomous Region justified them as part of the "western way of life," adding that they contribute to the diversity of local Tibetan and Han culture.  Sautman argues that the 'vices' in Tibet denounced by émigrés are mostly also present in religious centers such as Dharamshala and Kathmandu and not uncommon amongst Buddhist monks in some countries".

Bibliography

See also
 Prostitution
 Prostitution in China

References

Tibetan society
Health in Tibet
Prostitution in China


title: Ithu Engal Neethi

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Ithu Engal Neethi () is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language vigilante action film, directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar and produced by S. S. Neelakandan and Shoba Chandrasekhar. The film stars Ramki, Raadhika, Nizhalgal Ravi and Vani Viswanath. It was released on 8 November 1988.

Plot

Cast

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics by Vaali.

Reception
The Indian Express compared the film's concept to Shahenshah, saying, "While the Amitabh starrer, despite all its brashness and its haywire climax had some points in its favour, one cannot justifiably clear the local brew". Jayamanmadhan of Kalki criticised the makers for not making the best use of the publicised high budget.

References

External links

1980s Tamil-language films
1980s vigilante films
1988 action films
1988 films
Films directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Indian action films
Indian vigilante films


title: Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's rhythmic team

text:
The women's rhythmic team competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China was held on 25 November 2010 at the Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Results

References

Results
Results

External links
Official website

Rhythmic Women Team


title: Red O'Connor

text:
Red O'Connor was an American football end who played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Chicago Cardinals. He played college football at DePaul University.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
American football ends
DePaul Blue Demons football players
Chicago Cardinals players


title: 1982–83 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup

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The 1982–83 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the seventeenth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 5 October 1982 to 9 March 1983. It was contested by 19 teams, four less than in the previous edition.

Scavolini Pesaro defeated ASVEL, in the final held in Palma de Mallorca, winning its first FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup.

Participants

First round

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Second round

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*Stroitel withdrew before the first leg, and MAFC received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.

Automatically qualified to the Quarter finals group stage
 ZZI Olimpija
 FC Barcelona

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

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Final
March 9, Palacio Municipal de Deportes, Palma de Mallorca

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References

External links
 1982–83 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup @ linguasport.com
FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup 1982–83

FIBA
FIBA Saporta Cup


title: Isotenes crobylota

text:
Isotenes crobylota is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on New Guinea.

References

Moths described in 1910
Archipini


title: Nonthawan Bramaz

text:
Nonthawan “Maeya” Chanvanathorn (, ; 27 April 1992) is a Thai actress, TV Presenter, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Thailand World 2014 and represented Thailand at Miss World 2014 placed top 11.  Nonthawan's selection as Miss Thailand World was unusual in that she had a darker complexion than most contestants. This sparked discussion regarding Thai society's perceptions of skin colour and beauty. In  August 2014, Maeya helped to raise awareness of the disease ALS by participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge.

Education
After the pageant  Nonthawan continued  her studies at Stamford International University. She studied to obtain a Bachelor of Business Administration in Stamford's International Airlines Business Management course.  She received her graduation certificate from the Stamford program in January 2015.

Appearances

Television

Dramas

Single

References

External links
 Miss World

Living people
1992 births
Miss World 2014 delegates
Nonthawan Bramaz
Nonthawan Bramaz
Miss Thailand World


title: Rittenhouse Hotel

text:
The Rittenhouse Hotel is a luxury hotel in Philadelphia. The hotel was developed by Greenwood Group. It is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World.

History
In 1900, railroad tycoon A.J. Cassatt and his wife, Lois Buchanan Cassatt, built on the site. The building was sold to the Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania and was made into their headquarters. Later on, it became a private school called the Academy of Notre Dame. Finally, in the 1960s, the property was slated to become a hotel.

Architect Donald Reiff drew the plans for the Rittenhouse. Construction began in the early 1970s. After more than a decade of construction, the hotel opened its doors to guests in 1989. The design featured views of Rittenhouse Square, angling the windows to offer each room a direct view of the square below. Much of the hotel’s original design is still intact. It has been renovated and modernized since then, most recently in 2019.

Hotel Description
The hotel has 118 guest rooms ranging in size from 450 to 600 square feet and 25 suites ranging from 650 to 2,000 square feet.

References

Hotels in Philadelphia
Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
1989 establishments in Pennsylvania
Hotel buildings completed in 1989
Hotels established in 1989


title: URAN

text:
URAN (Ukrainian Radio Interferometer of NASU) (Ukrainian: Український Радіоіонтеферометр Академії Наук - УРАН) is an array of radio-telescopes, spread across Ukraine and used for long-baseline interferometry in the 8-40 MHz range.  The most sensitive of the telescopes is UTR-2; URAN-1 (built in 1975 in Zmiiv (Kharkiv oblast) ) and URAN-2 (construction started in 1979 in Stepanivka village near Poltava), URAN-3 is near Shatsk, in the north-west corner of Ukraine by the point where Poland and Belarus meet Ukraine, and URAN-4 (built in 1975) is in the south-west, a little west of Odesa and by the Moldovan border.

Auxiliary telescopes are URAN-1 has 96 dipoles in a 178 x 28m array; URAN-2 has 512 in a 238 x 118m; URAN-3 has 256 in a 238 x 58m; URAN-4 has 128 in 238 x 28m.  Because of the small number of baselines, images from URAN tend to be produced by model-fitting to sums of Gaussians rather than by direct synthesis.

References

Most of the information in this article comes from Valeriy Shepelev's presentation http://www.lofar.org/workshop/26Apr07_Thursday03/LOFARWorkshop_Apr07_ValeriyShepelev.pdf at an April 2007 LOFAR workshop.

Further reading

Radio telescopes
Astronomical observatories in Ukraine


title: Karabakh Shikastasi (mode)

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Karabakh Shikastasi () — is one of the rhythmic Azerbaijani mughams. It is a macama-based segah. Musical size - 2/4. It is performed at a heavy pace. After each verse sung by the singer, a different melody (instrumental episode) is played. It is considered one of the most popular shikeste - lyrical extended songs.

"Karabakh Shikeste" was used in the opera"Asli and Kerem" of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, "Shah Ismail" of Muslim Magomayev,"Shahsenem" of Reingold Glier. The melody of this mugham is played in the 28 May metro station in Baku.

It is believed that "Karabakh shikestesi" was performed with special brilliance by the Peoples Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR Khan Shushinsky. ( )

See also
 Mugham
 Mugham triads
 Music of Azerbaijan

References

External links
 Karabakh Shikastasi - Performed by Arif Babayev
 "Karabakh Shikastasi"  performed by Khan Shushinski, Shovkat Alakbarova and Sara Gadimova
 "Kharibulbul" festival: "Karabakh Shikastasi" performed by Alim Gasimov and Fargana Gasimova

Azerbaijani music
Modes (music)
Mugham modes


title: Gainesville G-Men

text:
Gainesville G-Men were a professional minor league baseball team, based in Gainesville, Florida, that played in the then Class D Florida State League. The team won league championships in 1937, 1938 and 1947.

The club folded on June 1, 1952, due to funding issues.

References

List of Gainesville G-Men seasons and stats

Baseball teams established in 1936
Defunct minor league baseball teams
Defunct Florida State League teams
Sports in Gainesville, Florida
Defunct baseball teams in Florida
St. Louis Cardinals minor league affiliates
Washington Senators minor league affiliates
Cleveland Guardians minor league affiliates
1936 establishments in Florida
1958 disestablishments in Florida
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1958
Baseball teams disestablished in 1958


title: Battle Cry (Imagine Dragons song)

text:
"Battle Cry" is a song by American rock band Imagine Dragons. It was released on June 2, 2014, as a single promoting Transformers: Age of Extinction, a 2014 science fiction action film based on the Transformers franchise. The song, which appears in the end credits of the film, was also included on the super deluxe version of the band’s second studio album, Smoke + Mirrors (2015). It is the first theme song in the live-action Transformers film franchise not to be performed by Linkin Park, though the latter's "Until It's Gone" is included on the accompanying video game.

Background
As part of his efforts to distance Age of Extinction from the previous films in the series, Transformers director Michael Bay sought out a new musical act to soundtrack the film and hand picked Imagine Dragons for the job. "Battle Cry" was written by the group members specifically for use in the film, inspired by the story as pitched to them by Bay. Lead singer Dan Reynolds revealed to Billboard that the aim with "Battle Cry" was to write "in a more cinematic way" to compose a song that was satisfying as a piece of music but also benefited the visual it was set to accompany.

Track listing

Personnel
Imagine Dragons
Dan Reynolds – vocals, piano
Wayne Sermon – acoustic and electric guitars
Ben McKee – bass guitar, keyboards
Daniel Platzman – drums, percussion

Additional Musicians
Hans Zimmer – production
Steve Jablonsky – production

Charts

Certifications

References

Imagine Dragons songs
Rock ballads
2014 songs
Interscope Records singles
Universal Music Group singles
2014 singles
Songs written by Wayne Sermon
Songs written by Dan Reynolds (musician)
Songs written by Daniel Platzman
Songs written by Ben McKee
2010s ballads
Songs from Transformers (film series)
Symphonic rock songs
Electronic rock songs


title: Jerry Johnson (running back)

text:
Leon Julius 'Jerry' Johnson (March 22, 1894 – October 24, 1947) is an American football running back who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Rock Island Independents and Racine Legion. He played college football at Morningside College.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
Fanbase profile
rockislandindependents.com

1894 births
1947 deaths
Players of American football from Iowa
American football running backs
Morningside Mustangs football players
Rock Island Independents players
Racine Legion players
People from Buena Vista County, Iowa


title: Leonardo's fighting vehicle

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Leonardo da Vinci's fighting vehicle also known as Da Vinci's Tank is one of the conceptions of the revered Italian polymath and artist Leonardo da Vinci.

Design
The concept was designed while Leonardo da Vinci was under the patronage of Ludovico Sforza in 1487. Sometimes described as a prototype of modern tanks, Leonardo's armored vehicle represented a conical cover inspired by a turtle's shell. The covering was to be made of wood and reinforced with metal plates. Slanting angles would deflect enemy fire, similar to Sloped armour today. The machine was powered by two large cranks operated internally by four strong men. The vehicle was equipped with an array of light cannons, placed around the perimeter.The gears of the design were located in a reversed order, making the vehicle unworkable. This is thought by some sources to have been a deliberate mistake by Leonardo as a form of security, in case his design was stolen and used irresponsibly. However it's almost impossible to fix this problem successfully without taking away power from its forward movement and strength. Regardless, the vehicle would have been too heavy to move and would have lacked the battlefield mobility seen in modern tanks that make them so effective.

The armored vehicle was designed to intimidate the enemy rather than to be used as a serious military weapon. Due to the vehicle's impressive size, it would not be capable of moving on rugged terrain. The project could hardly be applied and realized in the 15th century.

Around 2010, a group of engineers recreated Leonardo's vehicle, based on the original design, and fixed the mistake in gearing.

See also
 List of works by Leonardo da Vinci

References

External links
 Leonardo da Vinci's inventions
 Studies of military tank-like machines; including one at top with horses pulling a contraption with revolving scythes Pen and brown ink, The British Museum, Item number 1860,0616.99.

Leonardo da Vinci projects
Military vehicles


title: Fran (footballer, born May 1992)

text:
Francisco Teocharis Papaiordanou Filho, commonly known as Fran (born 5 May 1992), is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Corinthians B as an attacking midfielder.

Career
Born in São Paulo, Fran played graduated from Corinthians' youth system, and was subsequently loaned to Guaratinguetá in July 2011. He played his first match as a professional on 19 November, playing the last 28 minutes of a 2–1 home success against Vila Nova for the Série B championship.

On 13 December 2012 Fran rescinded his link with Timão and moved to Paulista. After making no appearances for the latter he joined XV de Piracicaba, playing with the club in Copa Paulista.

In late July 2013 Fran was loaned to Grêmio Barueri until November. In 2014, he joined Grêmio Osasco, and after appearing regularly he moved to Portuguesa on 7 July 2014.

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Footballers from São Paulo
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players
Guaratinguetá Futebol players
Paulista Futebol Clube players
Esporte Clube XV de Novembro (Piracicaba) players
Grêmio Barueri Futebol players
Grêmio Osasco Audax Esporte Clube players
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
Nacional Atlético Clube (SP) players
Associação Atlética Flamengo players
Clube Atlético Juventus players
Esporte Clube Noroeste players


title: Patterns of Jazz

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Patterns of Jazz is an album by saxophonist Cecil Payne recorded in 1956 and re-issued on the Savoy label. The original release was under the title "Cecil Payne Quartet And Quintet" on the short-lived Signal label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Jim Todd stated: "For listeners who have yet to become acquainted with Cecil Payne, this classic mid-'50s Savoy recording would make a good introduction".

Track listing
All compositions by Cecil Payne, except as indicated
 "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 3:46
 "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) - 7:47
 "Chessman's Delight" (Randy Weston) - 5:27
 "Arnetta" - 3:38
 "Saucer Eyes" (Weston) - 6:38
 "Man of Moods" (Duke Jordan, Cecil Payne) - 5:33
 "Bringing up Father" - 6:19
 "Groovin' High"  (Dizzy Gillespie) - 4:22
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio on May 19 (tracks 1-4) and May 22 (tracks 5-8), 1956

Personnel
Cecil Payne - baritone saxophone
Kenny Dorham - trumpet (tracks 5-8)
Duke Jordan - piano
Tommy Potter - bass
Art Taylor - drums

References

1957 albums
Cecil Payne albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio
Savoy Records albums
Albums recorded in a home studio


title: Isotenes cryptadia

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Isotenes cryptadia is a species of moth of the  family Tortricidae. It is found on the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.

References

Moths described in 1948
Archipini


title: John Johnstone (businessman)

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John Johnstone (1881-1935) was a British businessman and rider. He was the tai-pan of the Jardine, Matheson & Co., member of the Shanghai Municipal Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

He was the head of the Jardine, Matheson & Co. as well as director of numerous companies. He was member of the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

He was a keen rider and bore the reputation of being the best rider East of the Suez. He succeeded in winning the Jockey Cup on a pony named Ben-y-Gloe belonging to C. H. Ross, the former tai-pan of Jardines when he first went to Hong Kong in 1903. In 1904, he won the Professional Cup on a pony named Runaway Girl, purchased from W. A. Cruickshank. From 1903 to 1919, he rode in 1,178 races, winning 334, securing 192 seconds and 186 thirds, being unplaced 466 times, excluding the record of minor events such as Off Days or Gymkhanas. He won 14 Grand Nationals in China, and at one meeting in Hong Kong rode in 30 races winning 16 of them. He was also the President of the St. Andrew's Society.

He left Hong Kong on 31 March 1921 for home by the Empress of Asia.

In 1928 he won The Foxhunters Cup at Cheltenham riding Rathpatrick and officiated as steward at several of the northern meetings. He died at the Cheltenham meeting in 1935 where he was officiating.

References

1881 births
1935 deaths
British expatriates in British Hong Kong
British expatriates in China
British businesspeople
British jockeys
Hong Kong businesspeople
Hong Kong jockeys
Jardine Matheson Group
Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong


title: Approximation property (ring theory)

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In algebra, a commutative Noetherian ring A is said to have the approximation property with respect to an ideal I if each finite system of polynomial equations with coefficients in A has a solution in A if and only if it has a solution in the I-adic completion of A. The notion of the approximation property is due to Michael Artin.

See also
Artin approximation theorem
Popescu's theorem

Notes

References

Ring theory


title: Atalanta Fugiens

text:
Atalanta Fugiens or Atalanta Fleeing is an emblem book with an alchemical theme by Michael Maier (1568–1622), published by Johann Theodor de Bry in Oppenheim in 1617 (2nd edition 1618). It consists of 50 discourses with illustrations by Matthias Merian, each of which is accompanied by an epigrammatic verse, prose and a musical fugue. It may therefore be considered an early example of multimedia.

The fugues were arranged in three voices symbolizing the philosopher's stone, the pursuing adept, and obstacles in his way. As Florin G. Calian writes,

Title page
The title page depicts various scenes from Greek mythology related to golden apples:
 Top: Garden of the Hesperides.
 Left: Hercules stretching out his arm to seize one of the golden apples.
 Right: Aphrodite handing the golden apples to Hippomenes.
 Bottom: Race between Atalanta and Hippomenes, with Atalanta picking up an apple. Behind them is a temple with lovers embracing each other, while in the background they appear as a lion and lioness.

Preface
[[File:Michael Maier Atalanta Fugiens Emblem 39.jpeg|thumb|right|Maier's reinterpretation of the Riddle of the Sphinx as pictured in Emblem 39<ref name=Webinar>Peter Forshaw/Ritman Library - [https://web.archive.org/web/20130803014418/http://www.ritmanlibrary.com/2012/11/infinite-fire-webinar-ii-the-emblemata-of-the-atalanta-fugiens/ Ritman Library Webinar on 'Atalanta Fugiens.], at 48:45</ref>]]
The preface contains a dissertation upon ancient music and narrates the Greek myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes.

 Discourses
Each of the 50 discourses contains:
 A detailed copper-plated engraving by Matthias Merian.
 An epigram in verse set to music in the form of a fugue for three voices - Atalanta, or the vox fugiens; Hippomenes, or the vox sequens, and Pomum objectum (Apple) or vox morans''. "Atalanta fugiens" is a play on the word "fugue" Forty of the fifty fugues are based on compositions by John Farmer
 An epigram in German.
 A Latin verse with an accompanying discourse.

References

External links

 Copies at various websites:
 scribd.com  (with engravings; without fugues, German epigrams)
 pagesperso-orange.fr (complete scanned text including German epigrams; with appendix, errata; without engravings, fugues)
digital.sciencehistory.org (complete high-resolution scan of a 1618 printing, all pages including engravings and fugues)
 Images and other media at Wikimedia Commons
 English translation of Epigram Verse at wikisource
 alchemywebsite.com English translation of complete book
 youtube colored prints with instrumental version of the music for each emblem
 Chaitow, Sasha, Atalanta Unveiled: Alchemical Initiation in the Emblems of the Atalanta Fugiens, Attic Books, 2020
Forshaw, Peter J (2010) 'Oratorium-Auditorium-Laboratorium: Early Modern Improvisations on Cabala, Music and Alchemy'.
  Furnace and Fugue. An open-access multimedia resource published by the University of Virginia Press. This English translation of Maier's work features high-resolution, zoomable images and newly commissioned, manipulable vocal recordings of Atalanta’s music.

1617 books
1618 books
Alchemical documents
Emblem books
Fugues
Multimedia works
Classical mythology in popular culture
Atalanta
Hesperides
Hercules
Aphrodite


title: Hector Fisher

text:
Hector Cosmo Fisher (born 4 May 1901) was an English-Swiss-Thai tennis player and footballer.

Personal life
Fisher was born in Myaungmya, Burma in 1901 and baptised in Bassein, Bengal, British India in August 1902. He was the son of Henry Cosmo-Fisher (1874–1918) and Annie Fisher. His father was an Anglo-Indian born in Bangalore. He had a younger brother, Colin Cosmo-Fisher (1903–1964). He was described as a cosmopolitan "Burmese-Siamese-English-Swiss" athlete.

Fisher attended Oxford University, and played tennis there before he moved to Switzerland.

Tennis
Fisher was above all an excellent tennis player. He represented Switzerland during his tennis career and played in the Davis Cup in the years between 1931 and 1939. Fisher won the Swiss Open in Gstaad four times in 1923, 1928, 1929 and 1931. In 1925 he reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon. He won the international tennis tournament in Wiesbaden in 1929 and an international tournament in Basel in 1930.

Football
Fisher was also a footballer and played for Montreux-Sports at least during the 1927–28 season.

He also played for FC Basel 1893 in at least one league match in 1930. Fisher joined Basel's first team during their 1930–31 season under Austrian head coach Gustav Putzendopler. He played his first test game for them on 25 October 1930 at home in the Landhof as Basel won 5–1 against La Chaux-de-Fonds. After playing in another test game against Biel-Bienne, Fisher played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 30 November 1930 as Basel played a 2–2 draw with local team Old Boys. Fisher was only the second English person to play league football for the club, in fact to date  he remains one of only three English players ever to play for Basel, the others being Archibald E. Gough between 1900 and 1902 and L. B. Trenchard Chaffey in 1901.

References

Sources
 Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG.
 Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.

External links

 Hector Cosmo Fisher on "Basler Fussballarchiv" Website

Note
(NB: The editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have not been able to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)

Swiss male tennis players
1901 births
Year of death missing
Alumni of the University of Oxford
FC Basel players
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Swiss men's footballers


title: Rosslyn Analytics

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Rosslyn Data Technologies (aka Rosslyn Analytics) is a software company providing procurement and master data management solutions. Its procurement portfolio includes software solutions for Spend Analytics, Supplier Information Management, Supplier Performance Management and Supplier Contract Management. Master Data Management solutions include Data Extraction, Data Cleansing and Data Enrichment; available via a cloud-based data platform.

The company is listed on AIM, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, and is headquartered in London with offices in New York City and Chicago, Illinois.

History
Rosslyn Analytics was founded in 2007 by Charles Clark and Hugh Cox. The company was named after Rosslyn Chapel in Midlothian, Scotland, which is famous for its mysterious carvings, believed to contain a message or even music that has never been verifiably decoded. In 2009, the company launched its first cloud-based business intelligence product - a self-service spend analytics app for its RAPid data platform. The RAPid platform won several awards for innovation and excellence, including the Technology Excellence Award for “Best New Product”.

In April 2011, as a public service to help the UK Government reduce the deficit by getting better control of its purchasing, Rosslyn Analytics offered to provide free spend analytics to the government in just 30 days. The government refused the offer.

In January 2012, Rosslyn Analytics entered the United States, establishing offices in New York City and Denver, Colorado.

Rosslyn Analytics was the first technology company to bring QlikView into the cloud in 2012.

In 2013, Rosslyn Analytics was featured in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites.

In February 2014, the company filed its first patent with the UK Intellectual Property Office on machine-learning. In April, Rosslyn Analytics went public on AIM under the name of Rosslyn Data Technologies Group plc. In May 2014, Rosslyn Analytics joined the UK government’s G-Cloud 5 Framework for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers.

Recognition
In January 2011, JMP Securities recognized Rosslyn Analytics as one of its “Hot 100” software companies to watch.

In March 2013, Bessemer named Rosslyn Analytics as one of the top Business Intelligence / Analytics cloud companies.

In December 2015, Rosslyn Analytics was named a strong performer in the Forrester Research report, “The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2015.”

In May 2016, Rosslyn Analytics recognized as finalist for the 2016 Microsoft Data Platform Partner of the Year award

In March 2017, Rosslyn Data Technologies was shortlisted for analytics product of the year in the UK Cloud Awards.

Products
The company’s flagship product is its cloud-based data platform called RAPid.  RAPid provides self-service data integration, cleansing, enrichment, analysis and visualization capabilities via a single platform. Business users access the benefits of the platform via automated and manual self-service tools. The RAPid platform comes with a number of pre-built analytical apps sold as modular solutions such as spend analytics, people analytics, forensics analytics, expense analytics and supplier performance management.

Founders
Rosslyn Analytics was founded by Charles Clark and Hugh Cox, two former British Army officers. Charles has been recognized for his leadership by Supply & Demand Chain Executive, having been identified as a “Pro to Know” from 2010 to 2015. Hugh Cox is the company’s Chief Data Officer.

References

British companies established in 2007
Business intelligence companies
Business software companies
Companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market
Software companies based in London
Software companies established in 2007