James K. Okubo

James K. Okubo (May 30, 1920 – January 29, 1967) was a United States Army soldier.  He was a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.

Early life
Okubo was born in Anacortes, Washington.  His parents were Japanese immigrant parents. He was a Nisei, which means that he was a second generation Japanese-American.

The Okubo family was interned at the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California; and then they relocated to the camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

Military Service
Okubo joined the US Army in May 1943.

Okubo volunteered to be part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team.  This army unit was mostly made up of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.

For his actions in October 1944, Okubo  was awarded the Army's third-highest decoration, the Silver Star. After the war, he became a dentist in Detroit, and was killed in a car accident on 29 January 1967.

In the 1990s, there was a review of service records of Asian Americans who received the Silver Star during World War II.  Okubo's award was one of those upgraded to the Medal of Honor and in a ceremony at the White House, on June 21, 2000, the formal presentation was made by President Bill Clinton. Twenty-one other Asian Americans also received the nation's highest military honor during the ceremony, although, and unfortunately, only seven of them by then remained living to receive it.

Okubo's Medal of Honor recognized his conduct in frontline fighting in eastern France in 1944.

The words of Okubo's citation explain:
Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 28 and 29 October and 4 November 1944, in the Foret Domaniale de Champ, near Biffontaine, eastern France. On 28 October, under strong enemy fire coming from behind mine fields and roadblocks, Technician Fifth Grade Okubo, a medic, crawled 150 yards to within 40 yards of the enemy lines. Two grenades were thrown at him while he left his last covered position to carry back wounded comrades. Under constant barrages of enemy small arms and machine gun fire, he treated 17 men on 28 October and 8 more men on 29 October. On 4 November, Technician Fifth Grade Okubo ran 75 yards under grazing machine gun fire and, while exposed to hostile fire directed at him, evacuated and treated a seriously wounded crewman from a burning tank, who otherwise would have died. Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.

Namesake
Okubo is the namesake of the Okubo Family Health Clinic at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.

The Okubo Barracks at the Fort Sam Houston in Texas are named after the Nisei soldier. The barracks are now used for wounded soldiers.

See also

List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II

References

External links
 "Army Secretary Lionizes 22 World War II Heroes" at Defense.gov

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Frankville School

Frankville School, also known as the Frankville Museum, is a historic structure located in the unincorporated community of Frankville, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1872 by W.H. Hopper, replacing an older building from the mid-1850s.  It is a two-story, stone vernacular structure, capped with a gable roof.  The stone is rock-faced ashlar limestone.  The stones on the front facade are carefully dressed compared with those on the other elevations.  The lintels and window sills are blocks of rock-faced stone, except for those on the front.  On the front, carefully dressed stone voussoirs and keystones are used for the round arches for the main entrance and the window above.  High school classes were added in the 1920s.  In 1958 the school was reduced to kindergarten and 7th and 8th grades.  It closed in 1962.  The following year the Winneshiek County Historical Society acquired the building and operated a museum in it.  It remains in the community's park.

The building's relative uniqueness is derived from its stone construction.  The vast majority of Iowa's 19th-century schoolhouses were of frame or log constriction, followed by brick.  By 1874 at the peak of schoolhouse construction only 268 were stone, compared to 8,000 frame structures and about 650 that were brick. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Priska Polačeková

Priska "Piroška" Polačeková (born October 29, 1954 in Dunajská Streda) is a former Czechoslovak/Slovak handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

In 1980 she was part of the Czechoslovak team which finished fifth in the Olympic tournament. She played all five matches and scored four goals.

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Roscoe Reynolds

William Roscoe Reynolds (born May 21, 1942) is an American politician. A Democrat, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1986–97 and was elected to the Senate of Virginia in a December 1996 special election. Prior to his election to the House of Delegates, Reynolds served as Commonwealth's Attorney for Henry County, Virginia. He represented the 20th Senate district, made up of four counties and parts of two others in southwestern Virginia, plus the cities of Galax and Martinsville.

Elections
In 2007, Roscoe Reynolds defeated his opponent, Jeff Evans, 62.88% to 37.06%, winning re-election to the Senate of Virginia.
After redistricting changed the composition of the 20th Senate district, Reynolds was challenged by William Stanley, the incumbent from the 19th district. In a three-way race, Stanley defeated Reynolds by 644 votes, 46.80% to 45.54%.

Political positions

Castle Doctrine
Reynolds has voted multiple times against Castle Doctrine bills.
In January 2011, Reynolds voted against Senate Bill 876 (Castle Doctrine) which would have allowed "a lawful occupant use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability."
In February 2011, Reynolds was one of eight senators on the Senate Courts of Justice Committee who "passed by indefinitely" House Bill 1573, defeating the bill by an 8 to 4 margin.

Notes

References

External links

Project Vote Smart - Senator William Roscoe Reynolds (VA) profile
Follow the Money - Wm Roscoe Reynolds
2005 2003 2001 1999 campaign contributions
Washington Post - Senate District 20 Race

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Hennadiy Zhylkin

Hennadiy Volodymyrovych Zhylkin (; born 3 August 1969) is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player.

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Music Technology Group

The Music Technology Group (MTG) is a research group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. It was founded in 1994 by its current director, Xavier Serra, and it specializes in sound and music computing research.

Ongoing research

The research of the MTG is quite close to the core of the Sound and Music Computing interdisciplinariety; combining strengths in basic disciplines, such as Signal Processing, Machine Learning and Human Computer Interaction while being able to apply other disciplines/technologies in order to approach music related application-driven problems. Current active topics include:

 Audio signal processing: focusing on spectral modeling for sound synthesis and transformations.
 Sound and Music description: focusing on semantic analysis and classification of audio signals.
 Musical and Advanced Interaction: focusing on table-top interfaces for musical creation and exploration.
 Sound and Music communities: focusing on social networking technologies for sound and music applications.

Educational activities

The MTG is very active in educational activities within the UPF and in collaboration with the ESMUC. Here is a list of the main academic degrees in which the researchers of the MTG are involved with

 PhD in Sound and Music Computing  at the UPF
 Master in Sound and Music Computing  at the UPF
 Master in Sonology, collaboration between UPF and ESMUC
 Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering at the UPF
 Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering  at the UPF
 Bachelor's degree in Sonology  at the ESMUC

Knowledge transfer

Apart from the standard academic results in the form of academic publications and teaching, one of the major aims of the MTG is to promote technology transfer. To that aim the MTG collaborates with companies like Yamaha or Microsoft Research to develop new technologies, it promotes artistic productions through the Phonos Project, it has created three spin-off companies to commercialize some of the developed technologies, BMAT, Reactable Systems, and Voctro Labs and it has developed and maintains technologies that are available online for anyone, like Freesound. Some of the developed technologies have had a big impact, like Vocaloid, Reactable or Freesound.

Relevant current projects

Of the current research project being carried out at the MTG it is worth mentioning:
 CompMusic (Computational models for the discovery of the world's music): CompMusic is a research project funded by the European Research Council. The main goal of CompMusic is to advance in the field of Music Computing by approaching a number of the current research challenges from a multicultural perspective. It aims to advance in the description and formalization of music, making it more accessible to computational approaches and reducing the gap between audio signal descriptions and semantically meaningful music concepts. It intends to develop information modelling techniques applicable to non-western music repertories and formulate computational models to represent culture specific music contexts. CompMusic approaches these research challenges by (1) combining methodologies from disciplines such as Information Processing, Computational Musicology, Music Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction, and (2) analyzing a variety of music information sources such as audio features, symbolic scores, text commentaries, user evaluations, etc.… from some of the major non-western art-music traditions in India (Hindustani, Carnatic), Turkey (Ottoman), Arab countries (Andalusian) and China (Beijing Opera). CompMusic wants to challenge the current western centered information paradigms, advance our Information Technologies research, and contribute to our rich multicultural society.
 SIEMPRE (Social Interaction and Entrainment using Music PeRformancE): This project aims at developing new theoretical frameworks, computational methods and algorithms for the analysis of ensemble musical performances. MTG's tasks in the project are devoted to the acquisition, analysis and modeling of the bowed-string performance gestures involved in sound production mechanisms, especially bowing gestures. SIEMPRE is funded by the EU under the FET program and it is coordinated by the University of Genova.
  Freesound.org: This is a collaborative site to share sounds developed and maintained at the MTG. A number of research projects at the MTG are dedicated to improve the technologies behind the site and to understand the behavior of the community that is using and supporting it. This project is funded through a number of EU projects and with the support of Google.
 PHENICX: This project aims at bridging the gap between the online and offline entertainment worlds. It makes use of the state-of-the-art digital multimedia and internet technology to make the traditional concert experiences rich and universally accessible: concerts will become multimodal, multi-perspective and multilayer digital artefacts that can be easily explored, customized, personalized, (re)enjoyed and shared among the users. The main goal is twofold: (a) to make live concerts appealing to potential new audience and (b) to maximize the quality of concert experience for everyone.The project is funded by the EU under the ICT programme.
 Giant Steps: GiantSteps is a STREP project coordinated by JCP-Consult SAS in France in collaboration with the MTG and partially funded by the European Commission (FP7-ICT-2013-10 Grant agreement nr 610591). The GiantSteps project aims to create the "seven-league boots" for music production in the next decade and beyond. The GiantSteps project unites leading music research institutions, industrial R&D companies, and music practitioners, to combine techniques and technologies in new ways, including state of the art interface design techniques with MIR methods new in the areas of real time interaction and creativity. The consortium's industry partners will guarantee the alignment of these cutting edge technologies with market requirements. In terms of S&T contributions, the MTG provides the project with expertise coming from different research areas within the research group, including music content description, music interaction using advanced interfaces and development of user experience evaluation frameworks.

See also
 Sound and music computing

External links
 The official site of the MTG

References

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The Voice of Holland (season 3)

The Voice of Holland (season 3) was the third season of the Dutch reality singing competition, created by media tycoon John de Mol and the first sophomore season ever of the show's format. It was aired from August to December 2012 on RTL4.

One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner.

Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk, who was co-hosting season two, remained as co-hosts. Winston Gerschtanowitz was interviewing the contestants and their inmates backstage.

Nick & Simon and Roel van Velzen returned for their third and final season as coaches, while Marco Borsato returned for his second season. Angela Groothuizen was replaced by singer Trijntje Oosterhuis. She won in her first season through her team contestant Leona Philippo in the final held on December 14, 2012 against over Johannes Rypma for Team Nick & Simon who came runner-up. Leona Philippo's win came with 56% of the votes in her favor. The ratings for the last show where the highest ratings The Voice of Holland ever had. 4.6 million people watched the show.

Summary of competitors
Competitors' table
 – Winner
 – Runner-up
 – Third
 – Fourth
 – Eliminated after semi-finals
 – Eliminated after quarter finals
 – Eliminated during first or second live round
 – Eliminated during the Battle rounds

Results Tables
Blind Auditions

Battles

Liveshows

External links
 The Voice of Holland Official website

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Henry Tilson

Henry Tilson (baptised 1577 – died 1655) was an Irish Anglican churchman in the mid seventeenth century.

Life
The son of Henry Tilson, he was born in England at Midgley, in Yorkshire.  He graduated B.A. at Balliol College, Oxford in 1597, became a fellow of University College in 1599, and graduated M.A. 1601. He spent periods as rector of Stanmer, Sussex, and vicar of Rochdale in Lancashire.

Tilson went to Ireland as chaplain to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, the Lord Deputy, and received preferment. He was Dean of Christ Church, Dublin from 1634 to 1639; Archdeacon of Connor from 1635 until 1639; and Bishop of Elphin from his consecration on 23 September 1639 for the rest of his life.

In 1645 Tilson left Ireland, to avoid the insurgency that followed the 1641 Irish Rebellion. He went to Soothill Hall, in Yorkshire, and the Southwell family. He continued to preach, at Cumberworth, and died at Soothill Hall on 31 March 1655. He was buried at Dewsbury.

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Bifröst (town)

Bifröst is a small settlement in western Iceland, in the Mýrasýsla county.

It is located in the Northwest Political constituency and is the site of Bifröst University, a small private campus university. In the town of Bifröst there is a convenience store called Samkaup strax, a coffee house, a kindergarten and a gym among other things.

Grábrókarhraun
Bifröst is surrounded by a 3,000-year-old lava field, Grábrókarhraun, which has been overgrown with moss and heather. Just behind the university campus there is an old volcano called Grábrók and another mountain called Grábrókarfell.

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Kingwa Kamencu

Kingwa Kamencu,  a writer notable for her declaration to run for the presidency in the 2013 Kenyan Presidential election.  In September 2011 she created a buzz on the Kenyan political scene, becoming the youngest woman to declare her candidacy for Kenya's presidency at the age of 27. She was, however, not among those who eventually submitted her papers to contest.

Education
She studied history and literature at the University of Nairobi, graduating with a first class honours. In 2009 she received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Wolfson College, Oxford. She holds graduate degrees in African studies and creative writing from the University of Oxford where she was the President of the African Society.

Views
Part of the dynamic Pan-African energy exploding on the continent, her candidature explored ways in which Kenya's political system could serve the country's citizens more ably. Instituting non-ethnicized politics, self-sufficiency in food production, and planning mechanisms to ensure preparation for the recurrent national crises (famine and drought) were key in her agenda. Her thoughts were recorded in the Guardian, a British newspaper, in November 2011.

After the 2013 nominations, Kingwa, who was then expected to fly the Labour Party of Kenya flag, opted out of the race to concentrate on building her support base in readiness for 2017 general elections, when she is expected to make a huge come back. She is one of the most vocal women in Kenya after Martha Karua. The latter was the second woman to vie for the presidential seat.

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Betts House (Yale University)

Betts House, also known as the John M. Davies House or Davies Mansion, is a mansion owned by Yale University in the Prospect Hill Historic District of  New Haven, Connecticut. Completed in 1868 and designed by Henry Austin, it was sold to Yale in 1972 and is now home to the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

When built, the  square foot mansion was the largest single-family home in New Haven. It 1947, it was converted into the home of the new Culinary Institute of America, but fell into disuse for four decades after being acquired by Yale. Considering it the best example of Second French Empire Revival architecture in the city, preservationists and students stopped the university from demolishing it in the 1990s. In 2002, the building was extensively renovated and put back into use.

History
The earliest residences in the Prospect Hill neighborhood were built in the 1860s, when Oliver Winchester, Othneil Marsh, and John M. Davies all built mansions on the same block north of Edwards Street. Winchester, founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company located just down the hill, was the first to complete his mansion, an Italian villa designed by Henry Austin, which was later replaced by the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. In 1867, Davies acquired seven acres to its south and commissioned Austin to design a second mansion at the highest point on the hill. An 1885 home was then completed to the mansion's south, later occupied by William Howard Taft after his term as President of the United States. When Davies died in 1874, the property passed to his wife, Alice, then to Thomas Wallace, Jr. in 1911, who redecorated much of the interior.

The Davies House became an academic building when Katharine Angell, wife of Yale President James Rowland Angell, helped establish the Culinary Institute of America in New Haven in 1946. With assistance from Angell and Yale University, the school purchased the Davies estate in 1947 as a facility for culinary instruction, and later purchased the adjoining Taft mansion. However, enrollment in the school quickly outgrew the buildings' capacity. When the institute departed for larger facilities in Hyde Park, New York, Yale acquired the building and grounds through right of first refusal.

After its purchase by Yale, the house remained vacant for nearly thirty years. Because of its high maintenance costs, university administrators proposed to demolish the mansion in 1980, but were rebuffed by students and preservationists who fought for its restoration, and the university instead accepted a developer's proposal to convert the mansion to an inn. These plans were never brought to fruition; Davies House was not restored, and some of its interior decor was looted. Already in disrepair, a 1990 fire destroyed much of the interior and upper stories. Although the property had been considered as a location for The Addams Family movie, the fire and university administrators' reluctance to allow access caused its producers to select a Los Angeles location instead.

In order to house international initiatives announced in its tercentennial year, Yale began a US$13.5 million renovation of the building in 2000. The university renamed the building after receiving a major gift towards the renovation from Roland Betts. In 2009, a conference center connected to Betts House via an enclosed arcade was completed, designed by the firm of Robert A. M. Stern.

Building
Henry Austin, the primary architect for the building, is known for his revivalist mansions and public buildings in central New Haven and other New England towns. Betts House, one of his later works, is considered the best example of Second Empire architecture in New Haven.

The mansion is a three-story brick structure with a mansard roof and tower. Its massing was substantially similar to Austin's adjoining mansion for Oliver Winchester, though the buildings' interiors and ornamentation differed. The interior of the home was finished with black walnut and carved plaster ceilings, some of which were lost in the 1990 fire. In addition to its bedrooms and kitchen, the house had a library, parlor, dining room, drawing room, and billiard room, and sewing room, which were originally furnished in pinks, blues, and gold.

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Cha In-pyo

Cha In-pyo (; born October 14, 1967) is a South Korean actor.

Early life
Cha graduated from Rutgers University in the U.S. with a degree in economics. His father ran a shipping company and had intended for Cha to take over the family business.

Career
After working at Hanjin Shipping for several years, he quit his job to pursue acting full-time. In 1993 he joined MBC and made his debut in the television series Under the Same Roof (ko) before enlisting and completing his mandatory military service. His major breakthrough came in the 1997 television series Star in My Heart, one of the first Korean dramas to be broadcast overseas and widely acknowledged to be the "first generation" of the Korean Wave, earning him public recognition. He has since garnered an extensive filmography in both film and television, including Crossing which was South Korea's entry for the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and earned him several nominations for various awards. He has also collaborated with Korean-American director Benson Lee in the period drama-comedy indie film Seoul Searching, which was screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and features a diverse cast and crew drawn from the worldwide overseas Japanese, Chinese and Korean diaspora.

Personal life
Cha met his future wife, co-star Shin Ae-ra, on the set of the drama Love in Your Heart (ko) and they married in March 1995. As two of the top television stars of the 1990s, their marriage received extensive media coverage and was one of the most reported events of the year. They have a son and two daughters. Their decision to adopt their daughters was met with praise, especially given the rarity of adoptions by local Korean families compared to overseas families.

Filmography

Television series

Films

MC
 Environmental Special () (KBS, 2007)
 Blackbox (KBS, 2002)
 Love for Three Days (; co-host, Park Cheol) (iTV, 1998)

Music videos
 Forgiveness (용서, Cho Jang-hyuk, 2001)
 Sad... (Cho Jang-hyuk, 2001)
 Forever (영원, Sky, 1999)

Discography
 "Heart Fire" (心火, Xin Huo) - The Four Detective Guards opening theme song (2004)
 "Dream" (梦, Meng) - The Four Detective Guards ending theme song (2004)

Novels
 Cha, In-pyo. (2011). Today's Forecast (). Hainaim (해냄출판사). .
 Cha, In-pyo. (2009). Goodbye, Hill (). Sallim (살림). .

Awards

References

External links

 http://www.inpyosarang.net/
 Cha In-pyo at HanCinema

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Lilyvale, Queensland (Toowoomba Region)

Lilyvale is a locality in the Toowoomba Region local government area on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland, Australia.  At the 2016 Australian Census, Lilyvale recorded a population of 55. A prominent hill in the north of the area remains mostly vegetated and reaches elevations above 590 m.  A second hill in the southeast rises to around 570 m.  The rest of Lilyvale has been cleared for agricultural purposes.

History
The Downs Co-operative Dairy Association opened a cheese factory at Lilyvale in 1926.

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Chesney Allen

William Ernest Chesney Allen (5 April 1894 – 13 November 1982) was a popular English entertainer of the Second World War period. He is best remembered for his double act with Bud Flanagan, Flanagan and Allen.

Life and career
Allen was born in Battersea, London, married Aleta Cosette Turner in Leeds in 1926 and died in Midhurst, Sussex, England, in 1982.

He began his career in straight acting, making his debut in stock at the Wimbledon Theatre, London, in 1912. Serving in Flanders in the First World War, he made friends with Bud Flanagan, and worked with him from 1924. As music hall comedians they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career and roles in film and television. Flanagan and Allen were also members of the Crazy Gang and worked together in that team for many years.

Flanagan and Allen's songs featured the same, usually gentle humour for which the duo were known in their live performances, and during the war reflected the experiences of ordinary people during wartime. Songs like "We're Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" mocked the German defences (Siegfried Line), while others like "Miss You" sang of missing one's sweetheart during enforced absences. Other songs such as their best-known "Underneath the Arches" (which Flanagan co-wrote with Reg Connelly) had universal themes such as friendship, which, again, helped people relate to the subject matter. The music was usually melodic, following a binary verse–verse–chorus structure, with a small dance band or orchestra providing the backing. The vocals were distinctive because, while Flanagan was at least a competent singer and sang the melody lines, Allen used an almost spoken delivery to provide the harmonies.

Flanagan and Allen stopped performing together with Chesney Allen's retirement on health grounds in the late 1950s following the penultimate season of the Crazy Gang's show at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London (his place for the final season was taken by 'Monsewer' Eddie Gray), although he continued working in theatrical management and returned to make occasional guest appearances. His last recording was for the album of the stage show Underneath the Arches in 1982.

Chesney Hawkes is named after Chesney Allen.

Selected filmography
 Wild Boy (1934)
 O-Kay for Sound (1937)
 Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
 We'll Smile Again (1942)
 Theatre Royal (1943)
 Dreaming (1944)
 Here Comes the Sun (1946)
 Dunkirk (1958)
 Life Is a Circus (1960)

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Buchlovice Castle

Buchlovice castle (German: Schloss Buchlau) is a castle about  west of Uherské Hradiště, in south-east Moravia, Czech Republic. Its history is closely connected with nearby Buchlov Castle which grew more and more uncomfortable in the late 17th century, and that is why Jan Dětřich of Petřwald decided to build a new castle. Buchlovice castle was built as a copy of an Italian villa in baroque style, by Domenico Martinelli. It is one of the most romantic buildings in this country. In 1800 it became property of the Berchtolds, and since 1945 the state castle is open to the public.

History
The area around Buchlovice was inhabited as early as the Stone Age, and the first written records of this district date from 1270. In 1540 Buchlovice became part of the estate of nearby Buchlov castle. This medieval fortress, which did not meet the increasing demands for a comfortable and prestigious residence, ceased to suit its owners, who decided at the beginning of the 18th century to replace it with the grandiose château in Buchlovice. Jan Dětrích of Petřvald had the chateau built according to the proposals of Italian architect Domenico Martinelli between 1707 and 1738.

The château complex is made up the ceremonial building known as the Dolní zámek (Lower Château), and the building known as Horní zámek (Upper Château), which had a service function. A courtyard of honour extends between the two. Around the château  an Italian-style park was created, which was extended and altered in the English style in the first half of the 19th century and is among the most valuable of its kind in the Czech Republic. After the Petřvald dynasty died out the château was acquired in 1800 by the Berchtolds. In 1807 Leopold I Berchtold established a military hospital in part of the château and a drapery in the stables. The château is open to the public and visitors can admire the state rooms, and chambers with rich stucco work and painted ceilings.

See also
 List of castles in the South Moravian Region

Gallery

References

External links
 Official website of Buchlovice town
 Official website of Castle (English, German)
 Information about the Castle on www.hrady.cz (Czech)

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.pw

.pw is the country code top-level domain for Palau. It was originally delegated to the Pacific island nation of Palau in 1997.

History
It has since been redelegated a number of times. Directi, a group of technology businesses, obtained exclusive rights over .pw from EnCirca in 2004. From March 25, 2013, domains under the .pw TLD are available to the general public.

A few months after opening the registry to the general public, .pw became the target of spammers.
Symantec released two reports in April and May 2013 claiming that domains under .pw TLD were a significant source of spam e-mail. Directi responded that it had zero tolerance for spam and would be deleting domains accused of violating its anti-abuse policy.

In July 2013 the registry announced that they had passed the 250,000 registration milestone within the first three months, after having 50,000 registered domains in the first three weeks.

Accredited registrars
A list of accredited registrars is available on registry.pw.

References

See also

 Internet in Palau

External links

 IANA Delegation Record for .pw

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Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Mexico

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Mexico; () (Spanish: Oficina Económica y Cultural de Taipei en México) represents the interests of Taiwan in Mexico in the absence of formal diplomatic relations, functioning as a de facto embassy. Its counterpart in Taiwan is the Mexican Trade Services Documentation and Cultural Office in Taipei.

It is located in the Miguel Hidalgo borough.

The Office was established in 1993. Previously, Taiwan was represented by the Far East Trade Service Inc..
The Office is headed by a Representative, Carlos Liao.

See also
 Mexico–Taiwan relations
 List of diplomatic missions of Taiwan
 List of diplomatic missions in Mexico

References

External links
 Oficina Económica y Cultural de Taipei en México

Taiwan
Mexico
Category:Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
Category:Organizations established in 1993
Category:1993 establishments in Mexico


Anjir Siah-e Sofla

Anjir Siah-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Anjīr Sīāh-e Soflá; also known as Anjīr-e Sīāh) is a village in Saghder Rural District, Jebalbarez District, Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

References

Category:Populated places in Jiroft County


Bajumwali

Bajumwali is a settlement in Kenya's Lamu County.

References

Category:Populated places in Coast Province
Category:Lamu County


Hicham Nafil

Hicham Nafil (born 5 June 1975) is a Moroccan former boxer. He competed in the men's bantamweight at the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the light welterweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Moroccan male boxers
Category:Olympic boxers of Morocco
Category:Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Morocco
Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
Category:Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games


Corona perversa

Corona perversa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

The shell of Corona perversa is normally left-handed or sinistral. This species lives in Brazil.

References

Category:Orthalicidae
Category:Gastropods described in 1820
Category:Taxa named by William John Swainson
Category:Molluscs of Brazil


De amore

De amore (Latin "On Love") may refer to:

 De amore (Andreas Capellanus) (1186–1190)
 De amore by Marsilio Ficino (1484)

See also
D'Amore (disambiguation)
Amor (disambiguation)
Love


Hans Moldenhauer

Hans Moldenhauer (born 10 April 1901 - 29 December 1929) was Germany's first major international tennis player, competing in Wimbledon, the Davis Cup, and the French Open, and repeatedly winning the German national Championships both as a single player and in mixed doubles. He died at the age of just 28, when his motor car was hit by a tram in Berlin.

Career

Moldenhauer won back-to-back German National Championships in 1926 and 1927, and made his third successive final in 1928 where he lost to Daniel Prenn. He also won the Danish Championship Men's Singles in 1929.

Moldenhauer played 22 times for Germany in the Davis Cup in 1927, 1928, and 1929.

In the 1929 French Championships, entering the tournament as the 16th seed, Moldenhauer was the only German to make the fourth round. His defeat in the fourth round was to the top seed, Henri Cochet.

He competed in the 1929 Wimbledon Championships and reached the second round, where he lost in five sets to fifth seed Umberto De Morpurgo, an Italian whom he had beaten just weeks earlier in an International Lawn Tennis Challenge rubber. That match also went to five sets.

The German team led by Moldenhauer would win that tie against the Italy and also defeated Czechoslovakia in Prague, where Moldenhauer won two rubbers, including the doubles, partnering Prenn. This put Germany into the 1929 European Zone final against Great Britain, which they won 3-2, with Moldenhauer winning a singles rubber over Bunny Austin. They were then whitewashed in the Inter-Zone final by the United States. Moldenhauer lost all three of his rubbers, one of which was against Bill Tilden. It was Moldenhauer's final International Lawn Tennis Challenge appearance, meaning he finished with 14 career wins, from 22 matches.

Mixed doubles with Cilly Aussem
In 1925, Moldenhauer became German Champion in mixed doubles together with his partner Cilly Aussem, and the pair competed successfully together until December 1929, when Moldenhauer was killed in a car crash. After this Cilly Aussem took time out and travelled to France together with her mother to recover. Later, together with her new partner Bill Tilden, she went on to win the 1930 French Open Championships, and in 1931 she became Germany's first female Wimbledon champion.

National singles titles

References

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Category:1929 deaths
Category:German male tennis players
Category:Road incident deaths in Germany


2011 Wilmington Hammerheads FC season

The 2011 Wilmington Hammerheads season, is the club's 16th season in existence, and their second-consecutive year playing in the third division of American soccer, following a hiatus in 2009. This year marks the club's debut in the newly created USL Pro League.

Review and events
The club was on a hiatus in 2010, and returned to fielding a professional side this year. They joined the USL Pro, and were allocated into the National Division, which primarily consisted of Southern clubs.

The club signed four players from Ventura County Fusion on March 2, 2011: Dylan Riley, Ivan Becerra, Manny Guzman, and Jack Avesyan.

Match results

Legend

USL Pro

U.S. Open Cup

Club

Roster
As of June 10, 2011.

Management and staff

  David Irving - Head Coach/Director of Soccer Operations
  Roxanne DeMonte - Game Day Operations

League standings

American Division

Statistics
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Transfers

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Awards
None.

See also
 2011 USL Pro season
 2011 U.S. Open Cup
 2011 in American soccer
 Wilmington Hammerheads

References

Category:Wilmington Hammerheads FC seasons
Category:American soccer clubs 2011 season
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Jeremy Koh

Jeremy Koh (born 19 June 1989) is a Singaporean operatic tenor, adjunct voice lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), United World College South East Asia (East) and artistic director of the Spot Pocket Opera Theatre. He is also one of the only two successful auditionees to join the Singapore Lyric Opera as a Leow Siak Fah Young Artist in 2016.

Early Life
Koh has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal College of Music (London) after receiving his music diploma from NAFA. He has studied with tenors Shieh Yih Lim, Justin Lavender, Nicholas Sears; Soprano Jessica Chen, and baritone Stephen Roberts.

Teaching and performance career
Koh is the first Singaporean to win the Tan Ngiang Kaw/Tan Ngiang Ann Memorial Vocal Competition. He was also awarded the certificate of special mention and bronze award at the 5th Bangkok Opera Foundation International Singing Competition (2013).

Koh's operatic endeavors include Raoul de St. Brioche (The Merry Widow), Bastien (Bastien und Bastienne), Gingerbread Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Kornélis (La Princesse Jaune), Scholar Luo (Liu San Jie), Frantz (Le 66), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Zacharia (The Blind Beggars)  and He from the world premiére of Nicole Murphy’s The Kamikaze Mind. As a concert soloist, he has sung in Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor, Bach’s Magnificat in D Major, and the world premiere of Goh Toh Chai’s Song of the Rising Wind.

Koh has enjoyed collaborations with maestro Tsung Yeh, Lim Yau, Ashley Solomon, Volker Hartung, Somtow Sucharitkul, Joshua Kangming Tan, and Robert Casteels, with organisations such as the Singapore Lyric Opera, Siam Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Spot Pocket Opera Theatre, New Opera Singapore, NAFA Symphony Orchestra, Ding Yi Music Company, Flamenco Sin Fronteras and chamber•sounds.

Whilst developing as a performer, Koh believes in giving back through education and outreach efforts. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at the School of Music, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and also teaches at the National Silver Academy, United World College Southeast Asia (East Campus) and Intune Music School.

Working closely with the Spot Pocket Opera Theatre, Koh has brought innovative programmes to audiences at unconventional spaces in Singapore and Malaysia.

References

Category:1989 births
Category:Living people
Category:Singaporean male singers


Glamour Boy (film)

Glamour Boy is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Val Burton, F. Hugh Herbert and Bradford Ropes. The film stars Jackie Cooper, Susanna Foster, Walter Abel, Darryl Hickman, Ann Gillis, William Demarest and Jackie Searl. The film was released on December 5, 1941, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

Former child star Tiny Barlow is all grown up now but desperate to regain his old fame. He grabs credit for landing aspiring actress Joan Winslow a part that was intended for bigger star Brenda Lee, then tries to persuade studio head A. J. Colder to remake the film that made him a star.

Tiny's schemes land him a part in a new film, but he quits when others mock him on the set. A new child star, Billy Doran, hides in the trunk of Tiny's car, and they end up taking shelter on a farm hundreds of miles from Hollywood, where young Billy decides to pretend he's been kidnapped. Joan's pleas convince Tiny and Billy to return.

Cast
Jackie Cooper as Tiny Barlow
Susanna Foster as Joan Winslow
Walter Abel as Anthony J. Colder
Darryl Hickman as Billy Doran
Ann Gillis as Brenda Lee
William Demarest as Papa Doran
Jackie Searl as Georgie Clemons
Edith Meiser as Jenny Sullivan
John Gallaudet as Mickey Fadden
William Wright as Hank Landon
Charles D. Brown as Martin Carmichael
Norma Varden as Mrs. Lee
Kay Linaker as Mrs. Emily Colder
Maude Eburne as Borax Betty
Josephine Whittell as Helga Harris
Olive Blakeney as Miss Treat
Karin Booth as Helen Trent
Trevor Bardette as Sheriff
Cecil B. DeMille as Movie Director (uncredited)

References

External links

Category:1941 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:American comedy films
Category:1940s comedy films
Category:Films directed by Ralph Murphy
Category:Films produced by Sol C. Siegel
Category:American black-and-white films


Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi

Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi is a splinter group of the Shiromani Akali Dal. SADD emerged as a separate party on 22 February 1999 when a section of the Delhi unit of the Badal-led SAD revolted against the suspension of Ranjit Singh as the Akal Takht jathedar. SADD sided with Gurcharan Singh Tohra on this issue. The convenor of the new party was Avtar Singh Autopins.

SADD president is Paramjit Singh Sarna and general secretary is S.Balbir singh (vivek vihar).

In the 2002 Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee elections SADD contested with the support of Tohra and his Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal. When reapproachment took place between Tohra and Badal, SADD distanced itself from Tohra and aligned more closely with the Congress Party.

In the 2003 DSGMC elections SADD contested supported by Congress. SADD won the elections that year.

Category:Political parties in Delhi
Category:Sikh political parties
Category:Political parties in India


Bucktail State Park Natural Area

Bucktail State Park Natural Area is a  Pennsylvania state park in Cameron and Clinton Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. The park follows Pennsylvania Route 120 for  between Emporium (in Cameron County, which contains  of the park) and Lock Haven (in Clinton County, which contains the other ). Bucktail State Park Natural Area park runs along Sinnemahoning Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna River and also passes through Renovo (in Clinton County). The park is named for the Civil War Pennsylvania Bucktails Regiment and is primarily dedicated to wildlife viewing, especially elk.

Course

The course of Bucktail State Park Natural Area is as follows: leaving the city of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Route 120 and the West Branch Susquehanna River pass through the following municipalities in Clinton County heading west (in order): Allison, Woodward, Bald Eagle, Colebrook, Grugan, and Chapman townships, the boroughs of Renovo and South Renovo, and Noyes Township. Next Pennsylvania 120 leaves the West Branch Susquehanna River and follows Sinnemahoning Creek west through East Keating Township, then crosses into Cameron County. There Pennsylvania Route 120 and Sinnemahoning Creek pass west through Gibson Township and enter the borough of Driftwood, where Route 120 follows the Driftwood Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek north through Gibson, Lumber, Portage, and Shippen townships, finally reaching the borough of Emporium and the western end of Bucktail State Park.

History
Pennsylvania Route 120 follows an old Native American Trail, the Sinnemahoning Path. This trail was used by Native Americans to cross the eastern continental divide (specifically the Allegheny Front) between the Susquehanna River (which drains into the Chesapeake Bay) and the Allegheny River (which forms the Ohio River with the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh and eventually drains into the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River). American Pioneers also used the trail to make their way west and it was also known as the Bucktail Trail. As the technology of road building advanced, what was once a Native American Trail became the two lane highway known today as Pennsylvania Route 120.

Pennsylvania Route 120 was officially designated as Bucktail State Park in 1933 by an act of the Pennsylvania Legislature. The Act says:

Although the park covers , much of the land within the park boundaries is actually in private hands. The rest of the land in the valleys is owned by the Bureau of State Parks and the Bureau of Forestry as part of Elk State Forest and Sproul State Forest.

Wildlife watching
Bucktail State Park Natural Area is in the West Branch and Sinnemahoning Valleys. River valleys are ideal gathering points for wildlife as the valleys tend to be warmer and wetter than the surrounding mountains. Animals are drawn to the warm and wet valley. The river valley is a natural passageway for plants and animals. The valley is home to river birch and sycamore trees. Osprey, a wide variety of duck, white-tailed deer, bald eagles, otter, merganser, mink and black bear can all be seen living in the boundaries of Bucktail State Park Natural Area.

Elk can be seen in the early morning and late afternoon hours in the northern portions of the park. Special elk viewing playforms have been built in Sinnemahoning State Park and near the small village of Bennezette.

Nearby state parks

The following state parks are within  of Bucktail State Park Natural Area:

References

External links

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Category:Protected areas established in 1933
Category:Parks in Cameron County, Pennsylvania
Category:Parks in Clinton County, Pennsylvania
Category:1933 establishments in Pennsylvania
Category:Protected areas of Cameron County, Pennsylvania
Category:Protected areas of Clinton County, Pennsylvania


Dyess

Dyess may refer to:

Dyess (surname)
Dyess, Arkansas
Dyess Air Force Base, Texas
USS Dyess (DD-880), a U.S. naval destroyer


Pontilia gens

The gens Pontilia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome.  Hardly any members of this gens appear in history, but a number of them are mentioned in inscriptions.

Origin
The nomen Pontilius belongs to a class of gentilicia which were originally derived from cognomina ending in -ilus.  However, such names were so common that the ending {not a typo|-ilius}} came to be regarded as a regular gentile-forming suffix, and was applied in cases where there was no morphological justification.  This may have been the case with Pontilius, which is probably derived from the Oscan praenomen Pompo or Pomptus, which also gave rise to several other nomina, including Pompilius, Pomponius, and Pontius.  Pompo was the Oscan cognate of the Latin praenomen Quintus, and thus Pontilius was equivalent to Latin gentes such as Quinctia and Quinctilia.

Praenomina
The chief praenomina of the Pontilii were Gaius, Marcus, Lucius, and Numerius.  The first three were the most common praenomina throughout Roman history, while Numerius was mainly used by plebeian families, especially those of Oscan origin.  Other praenomina are occasionally found, with instances of Publius, Sextus, and Titus, all of which were very common.

Members

 Pontilia, buried at Rome.
 Pontilius, named in an inscription from Carthage in Africa Proconsularis.
 Pontilius M. f., son of Marcus Pontilius Urbanus and Fortunata, buried at Atina in Lucania, in a tomb dating to the third century AD, or the latter part of the second.
 Gaius Pontilius, mentioned by Appian one of the allied leaders during the Social War, may be a mistake for "Gaius Pontidius", which is what he is called by Velleius Paterculus.
 Gaius Pontilius, one of the masters of Philippus, a slave mentioned in an inscription from Carthago Nova in Hispania Citerior.
 Gaius Pontilius, named in an inscription from the present site of Mechta 'Ain el Msad, formerly part of Numidia.
 Marcus Pontilius, one of the masters of Philippus.
 Marcus Pontilius, named in an inscription from Aquileia in Venetia and Histria.
 Numerius Pontilius, buried at Atina.
 Gaius Pontilius Bantius, named in a libationary inscription from Thignica in Africa Proconsularis.
 Pontilius Caedimnus, a friend of Gnaeus Julius Maturus, a quattuorvir buried at Hipponium in Bruttium, during the second or third centuries AD.
 Numerius Pontilius Campanus, buried at Atina, in a tomb dedicated by his children.
 Marcus Pontilius Cerealis, named in an inscription from Rome.
 Gaius Pontilius Coronarius, named in a libationary inscription from Thignica.
 Pontilius Crescens, buried at Ausafa in Africa Proconsularis, aged fifty-eight.
 Pontilia Crispina, wife of Tiberius Parmensius Tacitus, and mother of Parmensia Tacitae, buried with her daughter at Parma in Etruria.
 Lucius Pontilius L. f. Durus, a standard-bearer, named in an inscription from Caere in Etruria.
 Lucius Pontilius Epidius, one of the masters of Philodamus, a slave, named in an inscription from Minturnae.
 Marcus Pontilius Epidius, one of the masters of Philodamus.
 Publius Pontillius Eros, named in an inscription from Rome.
 Pontilia Festa, buried at the present site of Sidi Mohammed el Azreg, formerly part of Africa Proconsularis, aged fifty-five.
 Pontilius Fortunatus, buried at Thagura in Africa Proconsularis.
 Gaius Pontilius Fregellanus, an administrative decurion at Salona in Dalmatia.
 Pontilius Nundinarius, namd in a libationary inscription from Thignica.
 Pontilia Renata, dedicated a tomb at Atina, dating to the third century AD, to her husband, Aurelius Quintasius, aged forty-five.
 Publius Pontilius Saturninus, buried at the present site of Marakib, formerly part of Africa Proconsularis.
 Pontilia Secunda, daughter of Pontilius Victorinus, buried at Madaurus in Numidia, aged twenty-nine years, ten months, and twenty-four days.
 Marcus Pontilius Urbanus, husband of Fortunata, buried a son at Atina.
 Titus Pontilius Venal[...], named in an inscription from Pausulae in Picenum.
 Pontilius Victorinus, father of Pontilia Secunda.
 Sextus Pontilius Vindex, aedile and quattuorvir, buried at the present site of Rouzou, formerly in Africa Proconsularis.
 Caecilius Pontilius Paulinus, a flamen and patron of the Roman colony at Madaurus.

See also
 List of Roman gentes

References

Bibliography
 Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History.
 Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War).
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
 Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
 Gustav Wilmanns, Inscriptiones Africae Latinae (Latin Inscriptions from Africa, abbreviated ILAfr), Georg Reimer, Berlin (1881).
 Ettore Pais, Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementa Italica (Italian Supplement to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum), Rome (1884).
 René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
 George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897).
 Stéphane Gsell, Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie (Latin Inscriptions from Algeria, abbreviated ILAlg), Edouard Champion, Paris (1922–present).
 Inscriptiones Italiae (Inscriptions from Italy, abbreviated InscrIt), Rome (1931-present).

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Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing

The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) is an international dance teaching and examination board based in London, England. The registered educational charity, which was established on 25 July 1904 as the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers, provides training and examinations in a range of dance styles and certified dance teacher courses. The ISTD is recognised by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Council for Dance Education and Training and is also a member of the British Dance Council. It hosts various competitions in many different formats including Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Classical Ballet and Tap Dance as well as contemporary styles like Disco Freestyle.

The ISTD is organised into two main faculty boards. Dancesport coordinates dance techniques that are normally performed in a ballroom or dance hall. Theatre is concerned with stage and film performance. The Cecchetti Society is also part of the ISTD. It exists to preserve the Cecchetti method of classical ballet training.  The ISTD is also represented on the committees of numerous other arts, dance and culture related organisations.

History
The Imperial Society of Dance Teachers was formed on 25 July 1904 at the Hotel Cecil in Covent Garden, London. Robert Morris Crompton was its first President. The first ISTD congress was held in 1906 and a congress has subsequently been held every year, with the exception of a brief period during the war years. Its in-house publication Dance Journal (now titled DANCE) was first published in September 1907.

In 1924 the separate branches, which later became faculties, were formed, and in 1925 the society became the "Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance". In 1945, the ISTD became incorporated with Victor Silvester in the new role of Chairman.

In 1953 the Grand Council of the ISTD was formed. Notable persons from many areas of British society joined the council. It serves to improve communication with key people in British arts and society.

The ISTD is most noted for the use of medal tests, and the ISTD format has been used as a model for similar award systems by many other dance organisations.  The idea of medal tests first came from another dance teaching organisation, but it was the ISTD, which first developed the widespread use of the medal test system throughout the UK and internationally.

Current structure
The ISTD is a government recognised dance teaching organisation and examination board, which trains and certifies teachers to deliver its syllabus to students in both private and mainstream dance education.  The ISTD offers syllabi in a range of dance styles, which are typically delivered in the form of medal tests or graded examinations.  An accredited awarding body, the ISTD offers qualifications that can be submitted for credit on the National Qualifications Framework.  The organisation structure of the ISTD is divided into three levels, the Administrative Council, Faculty Boards and Faculty Committees.

Administrative Council
The Administrative Council is responsible for the overall governance of the ISTD and consists of executives and elected members, headed by ISTD Chair, Sue Passmore. The Council is the principal policy making body of the organisation and rules on recommendations made by the faculty boards and committees, which are represented on the Council. Key administrative duties are performed by executive members, the Finance, Audit & General Purposes Committee and the Nomination & Remuneration Committee. The Administrative Council also includes the Grand Council, a group of eminent dance professionals headed Life President, Dame Beryl Grey.

Faculty Boards
The work of the ISTD is divided into two main branches; the Dancesport Faculties Board, commonly known as the Ballroom Branch, and the Theatre Faculties Board, commonly known as the Theatre Branch. These two faculty boards coordinate the work of the faculty committees, which are grouped to reflect the similarities between them.  For example, the Dancesport board consists of dance techniques which are normally performed in a ballroom or dance hall setting, both socially and competitively, whereas the Theatre board, as the name suggests, consists of dance techniques which usually have a connection to stage or film.

Dancesport
Disco/Freestyle/Rock'n'Roll (DFR) Faculty
Latin American Faculty
Modern Ballroom Faculty
Sequence Faculty

Theatre
Cecchetti Society Classical Ballet
Classical Greek Dance
Classical Indian Dance
Imperial Classical Ballet
Modern Theatre Dance
National Dance
Tap Dance

Faculty committees
The ISTD consists of eleven faculty committees, which are divided between the two Faculty Boards.  Each faculty committee is responsible for the technical and artistic development of a specific dance technique within the ISTD.  The work of a faculty committee includes the continued development of the syllabi for the relevant dance technique, the regulation and control of examinations and the organisation of lectures, teacher training courses, seminars and other events.

Examinations
The ISTD is primarily a dance examination board, with teacher members delivering its syllabi to students in both private and mainstream education.  The majority of people who study the ISTD syllabus are people pursuing dance as a leisure activity and the organisation provides a structured examinations system that caters for pupils from beginner to professional level.  At the higher levels, ISTD teachers can provide training for people wishing to pursue dance as a profession, either as a performer or dance teacher.  Typically, most subjects have a series of graded examinations.  These progress from Pre-Primary & Primary and up through numbers Grades (Grade 1, Grade 2, etc.), with Vocational graded examinations at Intermediate, Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 levels.  Some subjects have differing examination systems, some offering medal tests and other awards.

Grade exams
The grade system is especially adapted to different ages of pupils, and as a basis for dance as an activity in schools or other similar institutions. Grade Examinations may be taken in Classical Ballet (Cecchetti and Imperial methods), Modern Theatre, Tap, National Dance, Classical Greek, South Asian (Kathak and Bharatanatyam), Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Disco Freestyle and Classical Sequence. Grades 1-6 are accredited by Ofqual, but some Faculties have additional Grades prior to Grade 1, that is, Pre-Primary and Primary.

Class exams
Class Examinations may be taken in Classical Ballet (Cecchetti and Imperial methods), Classical Greek, Tap and Modern Theatre.

Medal tests
Medal tests may be taken in Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Sequence, Disco Freestyle, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Country & Western, Classical Greek, Tap, Modern Theatre and National. The levels progress from Bronze to Silver, Gold, Gold Star and higher awards for Dancesport medals.

Vocational grades
The Vocational Grades are accredited by Ofqual and include Intermediate Foundation, Intermediate, Advanced 1 and Advanced 2. These examinations form a cohesive bridge between the work covered in the Grades and the work of the professional examinations.

Professional qualifications
Dancers who have achieved a high level examination pass in an ISTD dance subject can progress into teacher training with the organisation. The teacher training is provided through approved dance centres and consists of both theory and practical examinations designed to demonstrate the candidates ability and knowledge to teach dance. People who successfully complete the training become registered teachers of the ISTD and may enter students for examinations in the dance subject for which they have qualified.  Some ISTD teacher may progress to further their qualifications further and gain qualifications in other branches of the society. There are various professional examinations, depending on where candidates live.

European Union Theatre Examinations: Teachers entering candidates for ISTD examinations need to gain the Diploma in Dance Instruction, followed by the Diploma in Dance Education and then may choose to progress to Licentiate and Fellowship.
Rest of the World Theatre Examinations: For the rest of the world the qualifications are the Associate and the Associate Diploma. Teachers can enter students for examinations following their Associate examination and once they have obtained their Associate Diploma can then choose to progress to Licentiate and Fellowship.
Global Dancesport Examinations: For all Dancesport examinations, regardless of country, the Student Teacher and Associate qualifications can be taken. Candidates within the European Union can also take Foundation in Dance Instruction and Certificate in Dance Education in some dance genres if they wish. Following Associate, candidates may choose to progress to Licentiate and Fellowship.

Notable people
Beryl Grey DBE, is a former principal ballerina of the Royal Ballet and an international guest artist who has performed with ballet companies worldwide.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dance, and a Governor of the Royal Opera House.  She is a former President, now Honorary Life President of the ISTD.
Peggy Spencer MBE is the current President of the ISTD. She was a ballroom dancer, coach, choreographer, organiser and TV commentator for dance events, and is now retired from active teaching. She has been awarded eight Carl Alan Awards for her services to dance.
Monsieur Pierre and Doris Lavelle visited Cuba and consequently revised the teaching of the Cuban-style 'rumba' and cha-cha-cha. Their revisions were incorporated into the present International style of Latin American dance. Pierre was the most important influence in establishing the Latin dances in England.
Doreen Bird was a fellow, examiner, lecturer, committee and council member of the ISTD and was influential in the modern theatre dance branch of the organisation. Bird is most noted as the founder and former principal of the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts (now Bird College), one of the UK's foremost dance and performing arts colleges, with former students working worldwide, including cast members of West End and Broadway musicals. The college is also an approved centre for ISTD teacher training.
Betty Laine OBE is a former professional dancer and teacher, and is a Fellow, examiner, lecturer, committee and council member of the ISTD. Laine is most noted as the founder principal of Laine Theatre Arts, one of the UK's foremost dance and performing arts colleges, with former students working worldwide, including cast members of West End and Broadway musicals. The college is also an approved centre for ISTD teacher training.

See also
UKA Dance
International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA)
Royal Academy of Dance (RAD)
British Association of Teachers of Dance (BATD)
British Ballet Organization (BBO)
National Association of Teachers of Dancing (NATD)

References

ISTD

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Haulmé

Haulmé  is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Ardennes department

References
INSEE

Category:Communes of Ardennes (department)
Category:Ardennes communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Lenarchus

Lenarchus is a genus of northern caddisflies in the family Limnephilidae. There are about 13 described species in Lenarchus.

Species
These 13 species belong to the genus Lenarchus:

 Lenarchus bicornis (McLachlan, 1880)
 Lenarchus brevipennis (Banks, 1899)
 Lenarchus crassus (Banks, 1920)
 Lenarchus devius (McLachlan, 1880)
 Lenarchus expansus Martynov, 1914
 Lenarchus fautini (Denning, 1949)
 Lenarchus fuscostramineus Schmid, 1952
 Lenarchus gravidus (Hagen, 1861)
 Lenarchus keratus (Ross, 1938)
 Lenarchus productus (Morton, 1896)
 Lenarchus rho (Milne, 1935)
 Lenarchus rillus (Milne, 1935)
 Lenarchus vastus (Hagen, 1861)

References

Further reading

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Change Nothing

Change Nothing () is a 2009 documentary directed by Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. The documentary focuses on the French singer Jeanne Balibar in rehearsal and concert as seen through Costa's characteristically long, stark takes.

External links
Ne change rien at the Pacific Film Archive

Category:French films
Category:French-language films
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Megget Water

Not to be confused with the nearby Meggat Water which is a tributary of the Border Esk.

Megget Water is a river in the parish of Yarrow, Selkirkshire in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. The Water rises at Broad Law (2,760 ft), passes through Megget Reservoir and empties into St Mary's Loch. Places in the vicinity include Cappercleuch, Craigierig, Cramalt Tower, the Glengaber Burn, Meggethead Farm.

The Megget area, formerly a parish united with Lyne, Scottish Borders,  is of geological and archaeological interest, through stone artifacts at Henderland in the lower Megget valley (now in Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick), and discoveries of gold.

See also
Rivers of Scotland
List of places in the Scottish Borders
List of places in Scotland

References
 NMS (1992d), 'Megget Water (Yarrow parish):cup-marked stone', Discovery Excav Scot, page 7
 Scottish Journal of Geology (The Geological Society): R.J.Chapman, R.C.Leake, J.D,Floyd:  Regional variation in gold mineralization in the vicinity of the Glengaber Burn, Scottish Borders
 Proc Soc Antiq Scot, III, 1981, 401-429, Cramalt Tower:historical survey and excavations 1977-9, Alastair M T Maxwell-Irving

External links
RCAHMS record of Henderland, Megget Water
CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Boar Cleuch Flow, Megget Water
CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Glengaber Burn, Gold Workings
Cramalt tower:historical survey and excavations 1977-9
Ancient Stones: The Megget Stone, near Cappercleuch
Vision of Britain, Gazetteer entries for Peebles Shire

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Tritonia olivacea

Tritonia olivacea is a species of dendronotid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae.

References

Category:Tritoniidae
Category:Gastropods described in 1905


The Red Squirrel

The Red Squirrel () is a 1993 drama film by the Spanish filmmaker Julio Médem, starring Emma Suárez and Nancho Novo.

Plot

Jota (Novo), a failed musician whose girlfriend has recently left him, is about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge when a girl on a motorcycle, Sofía (Suárez), crashes off it. Rushing to help her, he discovers she has lost her memory, even forgetting her name. After telling the paramedics and staff at the hospital that she is his girlfriend, he later tells her the same. He invents an entire identity for her, giving her the name Lisa, and a history of their relationship according to his own fantasies. With the hospital psychiatrist starting to become suspicious, he spirits her out of the hospital and away on a trip to the 'Ardilla Roja' campsite, which he claims they have been planning for some while. As their relationship becomes intimate, their behaviour sparks the suspicions of a family of fellow campers (Karra Elejalde and María Barranco) and it becomes clear that Lisa/Sofía's memory is not entirely missing and she is hiding her own past secrets—notably, the existence of a psychotic ex-boyfriend, Félix (Carmelo Gómez), who is rampaging across the country in search of her.

References

External links

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Category:1990s romantic drama films
Category:German-language films
Category:Spanish films
Category:Spanish-language films
Category:Films directed by Julio Medem
Category:Films shot in Madrid
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Doryrhamphus pessuliferus

Doryrhamphus pessuliferus or the yellowbanded pipefish is a species of pipefish native to the Western Central Pacific, from the Philippines to Australia. It is found in inshore patch reefs and sometimes estuaries up to 44 m deep.  It feeds on micro-crustaceans and cleans parasites off other fish.

It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade, but is protected in Australia under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

It grows to 16 cm in length.

References

Category:Doryrhamphus
Category:Fish described in 1938


1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event  at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March.

Medalists

Results

Qualification
Qualification: 7.80 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) qualified for the final.

Final

References

Long
Category:Long jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships


North Eastern League

The North Eastern League was an association football league for teams in the North East of England.

The league was founded in 1906 and was initially successful, with teams defecting from the rival Northern Football Alliance to play. Although some members (such as Darlington) transferred to join the Football League Third Division North in 1921, the North Eastern League absorbed the Northern Alliance in 1925–26 and split into two divisions. The league spent nine years like this, returning to one division in 1935; clubs from the second division re-forming the Northern Football Alliance, which became a feeder to it.

As years progressed, numbers dwindled and the league initially folded in 1958 after the withdrawal of Football League clubs' reserve sides. The remaining members initially transferred to the Midland Football League before founding the Northern Counties League in 1960. The Northern Counties League was renamed the North Eastern League in 1962–63 but folded for a second time in 1964.

Champions
The champions of the league were as follows:

1906–07 : Newcastle United Reserves
1907–08 : Newcastle United Reserves
1908–09 : Newcastle United Reserves
1909–10 : Spennymoor United
1910–11 : Newcastle United Reserves
1911–12 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1912–13 : Darlington
1913–14 : South Shields
1914–15 : South Shields
1915–19 : Not contested due to the First World War
1919–20 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1920–21 : Darlington
1921–22 : Carlisle United
1922–23 : Newcastle United Reserves
1923–24 : South Shields Reserves
1924–25 : Sunderland Reserves
1925–26 : Newcastle United Reserves
1926–27 : Sunderland Reserves
1927–28 : Sunderland Reserves
1928–29 : Sunderland Reserves
1929–30 : Sunderland Reserves
1930–31 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1931–32 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1932–33 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1933–34 : Sunderland Reserves
1934–35 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1935–36 : Blyth Spartans
1936–37 : Sunderland Reserves
1937–38 : Horden Colliery Welfare
1938–39 : South Shields
1939–46 : Not contested due to the Second World War
1945–46 : Spennymoor United
1946–47 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1947–48 : Sunderland Reserves
1948–49 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1949–50 : North Shields
1950–51 : Stockton
1951–52 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1952–53 : Sunderland Reserves
1953–54 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1954–55 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1955–56 : Middlesbrough Reserves
1956–57 : Spennymoor United
1957–58 : South Shields
1960–61 : North Shields (NCL)
1961–62 : Consett (NCL)
1962–63 : Scarborough
1963–64 : Horden Colliery Welfare

Member clubs
During the league's existence, 82 clubs and reserve teams played in the league.

Annfield Plain
Ashington
Ashington Reserves
Bedlington United
Birtley
Blackhall Colliery Welfare
Blyth Spartans
Bradford City 'A'
Bradford City Reserves
Bradford Park Avenue Reserves
Carlisle United
Carlisle United Reserves
Chester-le-Street Town
Chilton Colliery Athletic
Chopwell Institute
Consett
Craghead United
Crawcrook Albion
Crook Town
Darlington
Darlington Reserves
Dipton United
Durham City
Durham City Reserves
Eden Colliery Welfare
Eppleton Colliery Welfare
Felling Colliery
Gateshead
Gateshead Reserves
Gateshead Town
Hartlepools United
Hartlepools United Reserves
Hebburn Argyle
Hexham Town
High Fell
Horden Colliery Welfare
Houghton Rovers
Huddersfield Town
Jarrow
Leadgate Park
Leeds City 'A'
Leeds City Reserves
Mickley
Middlesbrough Reserves
Murton Colliery Welfare
Newbiggin West End
Newburn
Newcastle City
Newcastle East End
Newcastle United Reserves
North Shields
Ouston Rovers
Pegswood United
Penrith
Preston Stanley
Redcar Albion
Scarborough
Scotswood
Seaham Harbour
Seaham White Star
Seaton Delaval
Shildon
South Shields
Spen Black & White
Spennymoor United
St Peters Albion
Stakeford Albion
Stockton
Sunderland Reserves
Sunderland Rovers
Throckley Welfare
Usworth Colliery
Walker Celtic
Wallsend
Washington Colliery
West Stanley
West Wylam Colliery Welfare
White-le-Head Rangers
Whitley Bay Athletic
Wingate Albion
Workington
Workington Reserves

References

Category:1908 establishments in England
Category:1964 disestablishments in England
Category:Defunct football leagues in England
Category:Reserve football leagues in England


La Bodinière

The Théâtre La Bodinière was a theater in Paris directed by Charles Bodinier between 1890 and 1902.
It staged lectures and performances for a distinguished audience of aristocrats, grand bourgeois and intelligentsia.

Background

Charles Bodinier (1844–1911) was Secretary-General of the Comédie-Française from 1882 to 1889.
From 1888 he was director of the Théâtre d'Application, a small theater for students of the Conservatory on rue Saint-Lazare.
In 1890 he opened a theater called "La Bodinière", which staged performances until 1902.
La Bodinière's audience including members of the Parisian upper class and the intelligentsia.

Matinées-causeries

Starting in 1890, Bodinier began to put on matinées-causeries.
Speakers at these events included literary figures such as the poet Maurice Bouchor, the poet and conteur, Paul Armand Silvestre, the writer and critic Ferdinand Brunetière, the poet and novelist Anatole France, the poet and novelist  François Coppée, the dramatist Maurice Donnay and the journalist and critic Francisque Sarcey.
The historian and feminist Léopold Lacour gave well-attended talks on fashionable subject of feminism.
Charles Bodinier invited the poet and dandy Robert de Montesquiou to give a lecture on 17 January 1894, assisted by Sarah Bernhardt.
The event attracted an audience that included aristocrats, professors, actors, poets and artists,
including Paul Verlaine and the sculptor Édouard Houssin.

Other shows

La Bodinière had a varied program.
The Société Théâtrical with Émile Goudeau staged the play Le Gardénia.
Bodinier put on shadow shows such as La Marche au Soleil based on the poem by Léon Durocher with music by Georges Fragerolle.
The popular singer Yvette Guilbert was engaged by the theater in January 1891 for five performances where the journalist Hugues Le Roux gave lectures and Guilbert performed.
Yvette had huge success with this audience, who would not have wanted to be seen at the more low-brow venues where the singer usually performed.
Bodinier staged a series of similar combined lectures and recitals after the success of Guilbert's performance,
including Félicia Mallet, the well-known pantomime artist and singer.
The poet and playwright Maurice Lefèvre introduced Mallet at these events.

Posters

References
Citations

Sources

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Bicentennial Series

For the American commemorative coin mintings of 1975-1976 see United States Bicentennial coinage.

The Bicentennial Series was a lengthy series of American commemorative postage stamps.

It began with the issuance of a stamp showing the logo for the Bicentennial celebrations on July 4, 1971, and concluded on September 2, 1983 with a stamp for the Treaty of Paris.  While many of the stamps showed the Bicentennial logo as a design element or contained the words "US BICENTENNIAL" or "BICENTENNIAL ERA", not all did.

After the initial issue, few other stamps were issued through 1974. An annual issue of four stamps took place (usually on July 4 of each year): in 1972, honoring Colonial craftsmen; in 1973, Colonial communications; in 1974, the First Continental Congress.  In addition, a block of four stamps was issued in 1973 for the bicentennial of the Boston Tea Party.

In 1975, with the bicentennial of the start of the Revolutionary War, the series swung into high gear.  Four stamps were issued honoring relatively obscure "Contributors to the Cause", of which the best known was Haym Salomon.  On July 4, a block of four stamps was issued showing Revolutionary War uniforms, and with the bicentennial of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first of a standardized set began—showing a detail from a painting depicting the event commemorated, with the name of the event and year, and US BICENTENNIAL XX Cents (between 10 and 20).  This "painting" format continued with an issue for the Battle of Bunker Hill in June.

On January 1, 1976, a set of three stamps (lacking any text related to the Bicentennial other than the words SPIRIT OF 76) was issued, showing the well-known painting.  On February 23, a pane of 50 stamps with the State Flags was issued, each stamp containing the Bicentennial logo and the words "BICENTENNIAL ERA 1776-1976". Four souvenir sheets were issued for the INTERPHIL international stamp exhibition in May, showing famous paintings depicting Revolutionary War events.  It was followed with a Bicentennial stamp honoring Benjamin Franklin.

Originally, the United States Postal Service had planned to issue another 50-stamp pane, showing the entire Declaration of Independence.  Plans were shelved after the American Philatelic Society threatened the USPS with a "black blot" for excessive stamp issuance.  Instead, a strip of four stamps showing part of the John Trumbull painting showing the presentation of the Declaration (often believed to show its signing) was issued on July 4 (parts of Trumbull paintings were used for the issues for Bunker Hill and Saratoga, as well).

A painting-format stamp was issued January 3, 1977 for Washington's successful battle at Princeton.  Similarly painting stamps were issued to commemorate the Battle of Oriskany and the Battle of Saratoga.  Four stamps were issued on July 4 to honor craftsmen with the legend "Skilled Hands for Independence".  Additional stamps honored the Articles of Confederation and the arrival of Lafayette.  One of the Christmas stamps that year, though not formally part of the series, showed Washington kneeling at Valley Forge.

By 1978, not only was the nation losing interest in the Bicentennial, but most of the events familiar to citizens from school history books had already had their bicentennials pass. Only a single stamp, noting the French Alliance, was issued that year. One Bicentennial stamp was issued in 1979, depicting John Paul Jones. The next stamp issue would not occur until 1981, when two stamps marked the Battle of Yorktown. The final stamp in the series, noting the Treaty of Paris in the painting format, was issued in 1983.

A number of items of postal stationery were issued.  Notably, the USPS found issuance of postal stationery a convenient way of marking the bicentennial of some of the more obscure, but important battles of the war (such as 1781's Battle of Cowpens) without the need to issue a stamp.  Instead, a postal card was issued.

A number of other issues, while not part of the series themselves, had Bicentennial themes.  The standard definitive postal card, throughout the Bicentennial Era, honored figures of that time such as John Hancock and Charles Thomson.  The 7.7 cent coil stamp for bulk rate issued in 1976 contains the inscription "Beat the Drum for Liberty and the Spirit of 76" (it depicts a drum).  Envelopes, cards, and aerogrammes all had Bicentennial themes.

References

External links

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Category:Works about the American Revolution
Category:United States Bicentennial


Domingo Liotta

Domingo Santo Liotta (born November 29, 1924) is a pioneer of heart surgery, creator of multiple cardiac prostheses including the first total artificial heart used in a human being.

Early life
Domingo Santo Liotta son of Italian immigrants, was born in the city of Diamante, Entre Rios, Argentina on November 29, 1924. He completed his elementary school at his hometown at "Independencia School", and his high school at the "Justo Jose de Urquiza School" in Concepcion del Uruguay, Entre Rios.

Medical education highlights
In 1949, he graduated as a Medical Doctor at National University of Córdoba. He received a doctorate in Medicine and Surgery in 1953. In 1955, he developed a technique for early diagnosis of tumors in the pancreas and ampulla of Vater (Pour le diagnostic des tumeurs du pancreas: La duodenographie hypotonique. Lyon Chirurgical, 1955). Liotta continued his medical career at the University of Lyon (France) at the "Pierre Mallet-Guy's" General Surgery Service. Then, he trained in thoracic and cardiac surgery, with Professors Paul Santy and Pierre Marion in Lyon France. His early works in the artificial heart are from 1958 in Córdoba, where he developed an early prototype successfully used in small animals. After publishing the results of his studies, Liotta was hired at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas as Director of the Artificial Heart Program by Michael E. DeBakey in 1961.

In 1963, Liotta and E. Stanley Crawford first used the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) in a patient. The original clinical prototype is displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. The Liotta-DeBakey LVAD was first used in 1966. 1969 saw the first clinical use of the Liotta-Cooley Total Artificial Heart, at the Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas. According to DeBakey, this device was stolen from his lab by Liotta, (even though it was invented by Liotta himself). DeBakey said that the device had not been successful in animal experiments, so while the patient had the artificial heart in place, he developed multiple system organ failure, as supposedly the experimental animals had, and died shortly after a heart replaced the device. However, this proved for the first time that human life could be prolonged with such a device.

Legacy
Liotta is a member of medical societies around the world. He owns 12 patents in the USA, Argentina and France. Author of hundreds of scientific publications and scientific books. Author of medical humanism books in English and Spanish. As Secretary of Health he visited China and Israel where he signed agreements with Premier Chou En-lai and President Ephraim Katzir. Liotta is still actively working in research and development of new models of heart assist devices.

References

External links
 fdliotta.org
 texasheartinstitute.org
 NMAH

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Serious Danger

Serious Danger (born Richard Philips) is a speed garage artist and record producer. First becoming prominent in 1997, he was quite popular in the London area. Signed to Fresh Records, his best-known releases are "Deeper" (1997) and "High Noon" (1998). He also remixed "God Is a DJ" (1998) by Faithless.  "Deeper" and "High Noon" both reached the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #40 and #54 respectively, with "Deeper" also reaching number one on the UK Dance Chart.

References

External links

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Doctor Krishna

Doctor Krishna is a 1989 Indian Kannada drama film, directed and written by Phani Ramachandra. The film stars Vishnuvardhan in the title role, along with Suman Ranganathan and Tara in leading roles. The music of the film was composed by Rajan-Nagendra.

Produced by Vijaya Shankar Bhat under Satya Sai Movies banner, the film was released in 1989 and met with positive response from critics and audience. Actress Leelavathi won the State award for Best Supporting actress and the film was nominated under best film category.

Cast
 Vishnuvardhan as Dr. Krishna
 Suman Ranganathan
 Tara
 Umashree
 G. K. Govinda Rao
 Leelavathi
 Ramesh Bhat
 Vijay Kashi
 Kavya Krishnamurthy
 Aparna

Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack was composed by Rajan-Nagendra.

References

External links

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Category:1980s Kannada-language films
Category:Indian films
Category:Indian romantic drama films
Category:1980s romantic drama films
Category:Films scored by Rajan-Nagendra
Category:Films directed by Phani Ramachandra


Ahmed Shedid Qenawi

Ahmad Shedid Qinawi ()(born 1 January 1986) is an Egyptian footballer. As of 2017 he played for El Entag El Harby. He is the son of the Egyptian player Shedid Qinawi, AL Masry Club former player.

Career
He began playing for the first team on June 14, 2005. He achieved 7 National championships : the shield league and Cup Super Egypt once local and African Champions twice and the African Super once.

His debut in Al Ahly was in a preseason match against Portuguese club Belenenses with coach Manuel José. Ahmad scored a goal, helping Al Ahly achieve a 4-0 win.

Ahmad saw little first team action and he played with the under 20 team until he was fixed in the starting eleven in the 2006-2007 season after the injury of Gilberto and the death of Mohamed Abdelwahab.

On 19 June 2008 El-Masry signed with Al Ahly.

Qinawi returned to Al Ahly for an undisclosed fee in the 2011/2012 season. He made some first performances. This made him a regular starter under head coach Manuel José. He left the club on July 20, 2014.

References

External links

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Category:Living people
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Category:Egyptian Premier League players


Kossaki-Ostatki

Kossaki-Ostatki  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rutki, within Zambrów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately  west of Rutki-Kossaki,  north-east of Zambrów, and  west of the regional capital Białystok.

References

Kossaki-Ostatki


Biblioscape

Biblioscape is a commercial information and reference management software package sold by CG Information.  The software runs only under Windows. Note: The Biblioscape support forum has had no responses from the developers since May 2016. There are questions that suggest this software may no longer be supported.

History
Biblioscape was first released in 1998. The current release, version 10.0.3, was made available in June 2015. Version 10 was in beta testing as of March 2013.

Features
Biblioscape is a reference management software. It has modules that allow the user to record and interlink references, notes, tasks, charts, and categories. Any of these can also be linked to web pages or other external resources. Records can be organized in folders or collections and tagged with categories.

The references module includes filters to import references from online bibliographic databases (e.g. PubMed) and from journal webpages (e.g. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). When writing a paper or thesis, the user can insert temporary citations and Biblioscape can then convert them into formatted citations and generate a bibliography. For bibliographies, the user can choose from over 2,000 output styles or create new ones. The notes module is integrated with the references module, so the user can create a separately filed note from inside the reference editor. Such notes can be either independent or linked to record being edited. Biblioscape installation comes with a web server to post Biblioscape databases on the Web, and there is also a means to work in one's database remotely, if it is on a server.

See also
Comparison of reference management software

References

External links
 Biblioscape website
 Bibliography formatting software: An Evaluation template

Category:Reference management software
Category:Windows-only software


Ashley County, New Zealand

Ashley County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island.

See also
 List of former territorial authorities in New Zealand § Counties

Category:Counties of New Zealand
Category:Politics of Canterbury, New Zealand


Khasi Hills bent-toed gecko

The Khasi Hills bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus khasiensis) is a species of gecko found in Asia.

Distribution
North-eastern Bangladesh, India (Assam, Darjeeling, Khasi Hills), N Burma (Pangnamdim), Bhutan
Race tamaiensis: "Upper Burma" (fide WERMUTH 1965); Type locality: Pangnamdim, Nam Tamai Valley, Upper  Myanmar.
Type locality: Khasi Hills, Assam.

References
 Annandale, N. 1906 A new gecko from the eastern Himalayas. Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 2:287-288
 Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.
 Das, I. & Palden, J. 2000 A herpetological collection from Bhutan, with new country records. Herpetological Review 31 (4): 256-258
 Jerdon, T.C. 1870 Notes on Indian Herpetology. P. Asiatic Soc. Bengal March 1870: 66-85

External links

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Category:Reptiles described in 1870


Dipu Number Two

Dipu Number Two () is a 1996 Bangladeshi film directed by Morshedul Islam. The screenplay was based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal. It stars Arun Saha, who played the lead role of "Dipu". The film won two national film awards for best child actor (Arun Saha) and best supporting actor (Bulbul Ahmed).

Plot
Dipu (Arun Saha), a boy of about twelve years lives with his father (Bulbul Ahmed ). Dipu's father is a government officer and because of his transferable job, they arrive at a picturesque town. Dipu immediately develops a liking to this new town and his new school. He makes a lot of friends but starts a feud with the school bully Tarique (Shubhashish) on the very first day. Tarique, unable to intimidate Dipu tries many tricks on him and even beats him up one day. Though Dipu does not complain this to anybody, instead he contemplates to punish Tarique himself. But one day a small adventure atop a high water tank changes his feelings towards Tarique.

Suddenly, a new event shatters Dipu's small world. He learns that his mother (Bobita ) whom he knew to be dead actually left to United States during his childhood. She has returned for a short trip and wants to meet him. Dipu goes to Dhaka to meet her. He has a very brief encounter with his mother which changes his entire outlook to the world. He goes to find Tarique at his place and is exposed to another side of Tarique's life. Dipu finds out that Tarique's mother (Dolly Johur) is demented. Dipu also tells Tarique the truth about his own mother. This sharing brings these two boys much closer. It inspires Tarique to share his most guarded secret. He has discovered a cavern which treasures many antique sculptures. Dipu discloses about their discovery to his classmates and one night, Dipu & Tarique along with other boys set out for a nocturnal adventure to the cavern. To their surprise they find a group of smugglers, who deal in antique, at operation. With courage and intelligence they manage to capture the whole gang. They are awarded for their heroics. Like all good events, this episode of Dipu's life comes to an end. His father's term at this place is over. He has to leave, but he has already garnered a lot of fond memories to cherish.

Cast
 Arun Saha - Dipu
 Shubhashish - Tarique
 Bulbul Ahmed - Dipu's Father
 Bobita - Dipu's Mother
 Abul Khair - Class Teacher
 Keramat - Drill Teacher
 Golam Mustafa - Jamshed Uncle
 Dolly Jahur - Tarique's Mother
 Dipu's Friends
 Safkat - Sajjad
 Farhad- Babu
 Mushfiq - Tipu
 Mithu - Faisal
 Hira - Nantu
 Piyal - Rafik
 Joyoti - Bilu
 Shimon - Dilu
 Sajib - Ahad
 Other Child Artists
 Shamsuzzaman Khan Benu
 Abdul Aziz
 Udayan Bikash Barua
 Sa Chin Pru
 Masud Ali Khan
 Anwara Begum

Songs
The soundtrack for Dipu Number Two was composed by music director Satya Saha. The soundtrack consists of background score. There is no song in the movie.

Awards

See also
 Amar Bondhu Rashed

References

External links

Category:Bangladeshi films
Category:Bengali-language films
Category:Films scored by Satya Saha
Category:1990s Bengali-language films
Category:Films directed by Morshedul Islam


The Don Juans (band)

The Don Juans is an American folk and country music duo comprising Don Henry and Jon Vezner. They accompanied Tom Paxton on his 2018 and 2019 UK tours.

The pair won the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Country Song for their "Where've You Been".

References

External links

Category:American folk musical groups
Category:American country music groups
Category:American musical duos