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Leslie "Les" Lazarowitz (October 2, 1941 – January 6, 2017) was an American sound engineer. He was active between 1971 and 1999. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the Best Sound category. He was best known for movies including Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Tootsie (1982), Carlito's Way (1993) and Groundhog Day (1993).

Lazarowitz died from cancer on January 6, 2017 in Florida. He was 75.

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1941 births
2017 deaths
American audio engineers
Claude Lebey (born Claude Jolly; 20 November 1923 – 10 January 2017) was a French food critic and writer. He was known for writing the food book Guide Lebey. He also wrote for the news magazines Paris Match and L'Express. He co-presented a show on TF1 between 1974 and 1981.

Lebey died on 10 January 2017 in Provence at the age of 93.

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French critics
Steve Wright ( – January 16, 2017) was an American bass guitarist. He played with The Greg Kihn Band. He was from El Cerrito, California.

Wright died from a heart attack on January 16, 2017 in Sacramento, California.

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American bass guitarists
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Musicians from California
Sergei Amanovich Khummedov (, born 12 February 1957), better known by the pen name Sergei Aman (), is a Russian writer and journalist.

Sergei Aman was born in former Soviet Union in Turkmenia. He graduated the Moscow State University in 1985.

In 1995 Sergei Aman became a journalist of the daily "Moskovskij Komsomolets". Also he worked in "Vechernyaya Moskva", "Stupeni", "The New Medical Gazette", magazine "Auto M".

The most famous book of Sergei Aman  is "Journalists" (novel). He published this novel in 2013. Also he wrote the love story Nights after in the book “On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds”.
In 2018 Sergei Aman  published the novel "Everything Will Be Okay, We're All Going to Die!"

Sergei Aman lives in Moscow. His hobby is sport fishing from a boat.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Sergei Aman  
 Sergei Aman in Facebook

1957 births
Living people
Russian novelists
Writers from Moscow
Russian journalists
Brenda C. Barnes ( – January 17, 2017) was an American businesswoman. She served as the chief executive officer of Sara Lee from 2005 to 2010. She was also the first female CEO of PepsiCo from 1996 to 1997.

Barnes died from a stroke on January 17, 2017 in Naperville of Chicago, Illinois. She was 63. Her three children outlived her.

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American chief executives
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Yaron Ben-Dov (11 January 1970 – 6 January 2017) was an Israeli footballer. He played for Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Tel Aviv. He was born in Netanya.

Ben-Dov died after an illness on 6 January 2017 at the age of 46.

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Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Srirangam is an island in the Kaveri River. It is a part of the city of Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It is a famous place because it is one of the 108 Divya Desams, or holy places, according to Hinduism.

Srirangam is border by the Kaveri River and its tributary Kollidam River. Srirangam can be considered the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world, as it covers an area of about 631000 m2 with a perimeter of 4km (10,710 ft).

There are many other famous temples near Srirangam. They include Rockfort Temple, Samayapuram Mariamman Temple, and Vayalur Murugan Temple.

Reference

Islands of India
Tiruchirapalli district
Ion Besoiu (11 March 1931 – 18 January 2017) was a Romanian actor. He played the lead role in the television series Toate pînzele sus. He appeared in movies when Romania was under a Communist one-party state rule. Those movies include Thirst (1961), Michael the Brave (1970), The Actor and the Savages (1975), Mihail, câine de circ (1979), The Last Assault (1985). His later roles included Loverboy (2011) and Bucharest Non Stop (2015). He was born in Sibiu.

Besoiu died on 18 January 2017 in Bucharest at the age of 85.

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Romanian movie actors
Romanian television actors
Romanian stage actors
Life 
Gustav Frištenský was born in Kamhajek (now part of the village of Křečhoř). He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. When he was child, he was small so nobody thought he could become famous sportsman. As teenager he started to lift weights and wrestle. He was learning to be a blacksmith but after suffering serious burns on his hand by a horseshoe, he left his craft. Frištenský went to Brno and he became a butcher in the butchery of Moritz Soffer. He trained in the gymnasium of the Hellas sports club. Soon, he left his job in butchery and started to focus on wrestling. In 1900, Frištenský participated in an international competition in Prague. There he won in weightlifting, wrestling and the discus throw. In 1901 he became the Moravia champion in wrestling and discus throw. In 1902, he became the Austria-Hungary champion. The following year he was the European champion.
Professional career 
But Frištenský was still an amateur. After these achievements, he became a professional. He worked for the Kludský circus. Frištenský traveled around the world including the United States. Finally, he returned to his homeland. Frištenský married Miroslava Ellederová in Litovel. In 1917, he stayed in Litovel permanently. He and his wife built a house next to the Morava River. Frištenský traveled to the US again and wrestled in New York in front of an audience of 30,000. In 1921, Frištenský became the Czechoslovakia champion. In 1929, he became a professional European champion. During World War II, Frištenský joined the resistance movement. Soon, afterwards he became a prisoner of war and his wife had to bribe a Nazi prison commander to free him. After the war, in 1945, Frištenský left the Sport world and lived in Litovel. In 1947, he became a widower. In 1956, Frištenský received a title "Merited Master of Sports". He died on 6 April 1957.

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References

Other websites 
 Gustav Fristensky, Part I; YouTube

Czech sportspeople
1879 births
1957 deaths
Strength athletes
Dzemijetul Hajrije is the oldest Muslim organization in the United States.  It is a benevolent society started in 1906 to help Muslim immigrants from Bosnia.

History 

In the late 1800s, many young men came from Bosnia to Chicago to work in construction.  They built roads, buildings, and tunnels for the Chicago commuter train system. Many Bosnians worked on the tunnels for Arif Dilich’s Paschen Construction Company, a large company in Chicago. The Dzemijetul Hajrije was like a family to the many young single men.  It had religious services and special activities for Eid and other holidays. It helped pay for medical expenses and funerals.
Many Muslims also lived in Gary, Indiana and worked in the steel mills. Another group of Bosnian Muslims went to work in the copper mines in Butte, Montana. Dzemijetul Hajrije started chapters in Gary, Indiana in 1913, Wilpen, Pennyslvania in 1915, and Butte, Montana in 1916. They did not have a mosque, but they met in coffeehouses.  In 1956 the last Bosnian coffeehouse closed.

After World War II more Bosnians immigrated to Chicago.  Many were well-educated, but they had to take jobs as taxi cab drivers, factory workers, and janitors. In the early 1950s, they asked Sheik Kamil Avdich, a religious scholar, to be their first imam.  They started the Muslim Religious and Cultural Home.  In 1957, they opened a mosque on Halsted Street. In 1968, they changed their name to the Bosnian American Cultural Association.  In the 1970s they bought land in Northbrook for a larger mosque, the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago.

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Islamic organizations based in the United States
Immigration
1906 establishments in the United States
Nagham Nawzat Hasan (Arabic: نغم نوزات حسن ) or Nagham Nawzat is a doctor from Iraq. In 2015 she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Nagham Nawzat Hasan is a Kurdish Yazidi gynecologist. She works with Yazidi girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic State (ISIS).

After the city of Sinjar fell in 2014, ISIL killed many Yezidi men and enslaved many Yezidi women.  Hasan rescued many Yezidi girls. She gave psychological and medical help. She visits Yezidi people in refugee camps to encourage girls to visit her clinic. She started a program against sexual abuse called "I am Yezidi – I am against harassment."

Awards 

 Solidar Human Rights Silver Rose award, 2016.
 International Women of Courage Award, 2016.

Other websites 

 2016 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

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References  

Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Kurdish activists
Living people
Gynecologists‎
Sinjar is a city in the north of Iraq.   It is in Shingal District, Nineveh Province, near Mount Shingal.  Many Yezidi people live in this city.  In 2014, it was the site of the Sinjar massacre.

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Cities in Iraq
Takobeya labour (, Romanization of Japanese: tako-beya rōdō) was a Japanese form of work. It was a harsh system started in Hokkaido during the Meiji period. It replaced Penal labour in Hokkaido. The workers slept in accommodation huts at construction sites. The concentration huts were called "Takobeya". Takobeya workers engaged in takobeya labour without enough meals. They were oppressed as labor camps. Some also died from overwork.

In 1946, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in occupied Japan banned takobeya labour.

In Japanese, "Tako" often means octopus. But Takobeya (Tako room) doesn’t necessarily mean octopus room. About Takobeya's "Tako", the original meanings is not clear.

Related pages
Takobeya (Japanese bureaucrats)

References

Other websites

 Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. “Letters to the Dead: Addressing the Legacies of Violence in Japan’s Borderlands.” Paper presented at Vanderbilt University Seminar on Perspectives on Historical Violence. 2009.
History of Japan
Imprisonment and detention
Labor
Poverty
Latifa Ibn Ziaten (Arabic: لطيفة بن زياتن) is an activist from France. She started the Imad Association for Youth and Peace for interfaith understanding.  In 2016, she received an International Women of Courage Award.

Latifa ibn Ziaten was born in Morocco.  She is Muslim.  When she was a teenager, she moved to France.  In 2012, Latifa's son, Imad, died in a terrorist attack. Imad was a French soldier.

Latifa went to the neighborhood of her son's killer in Toulouse. She talked to the boys in the neighborhood.  The boys told her the killer was a hero of Islam. When she told them her son was killed, they apologized. Then Latifa decided to start an organization to help the young people. She tells young people to learn about Islam from their parents, not from the internet. Latifa receives threats and has a bodyguard.

Awards 

 Conflict Prevention Prize from the Jacques Chirac Foundation, 2015
 Prix de la Tolérance from the Friends of Marcel Rudloff, 2016.

Other websites
Other websites 

 2016 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

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French activists
Living people
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
1960 births
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), better known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born Jamaican novelist, journalist and political commentator. He was best known for his novels Mine Boy (1946), A Wreath for Udomo (1956), A Night of Their Own (1965), This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985). He also wrote the memoir, Tell Freedom (1954).

Abrahams was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. His father was from Ethiopia and his mother was mixed race. He moved to Jamaica in 1956.

Abrahams was found dead on 18 January 2017 in Rock Hall, Saint Andrew Parish. He was 97.

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1919 births
2017 deaths
People from Johannesburg
Jamaican writers
South African writers
Yosl Bergner (‎; 13 October 1920 – 18 January 2017) was an Israeli painter. He was best known for his art which had people with long pale faces, pointed chins and huge dark, soulful eyes. This was said to show joy and sadness of being Jewish. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1980.

Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in Warsaw, Poland. He lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he moved to Israel.

Bergner died on 18 January 2017 in Tel Aviv at the age of 96.

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1920 births
2017 deaths
Austrian Jews
Israeli Jews
Israeli painters
Jewish artists
Naturalized citizens of Israel
People from Vienna
People from Warsaw
Polish Jews
Charles Wesley "Bobo" Shaw (September 15, 1947 – January 16, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He worked in the free jazz genre. He was best known as a member of the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group. He was born in Pope, Mississippi.

Shaw died on January 16, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 69.

References

Other websites

 [ Charles "Bobo" Shaw] at Allmusic

1947 births
2017 deaths
American drummers
American jazz musicians
Disease-related deaths in Missouri
Musicians from Mississippi
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint (11 June 1939 – 18 January 2017) was an English female cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was born in Wolverhampton, England.

Flint was best known for being captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series, while in total she played for the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982. She was captain when England won the inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup, held in England in 1973. She was also the first women cricketer ever to hit a six in a test match.

Flint's death was announced by Lord's on 18 January 2017 at the age of 77.

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1939 births
2017 deaths
British cricketers‎
English philanthropists
English businesspeople
Sportspeople from Wolverhampton
Kingston is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Surrey. The parish capital is Kingston.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Saint Andrew is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Surrey. The parish capital is Half Way Tree.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Portland is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Surrey. The parish capital is Port Antonio.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Saint Thomas is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Surrey. The parish capital is Morant Bay.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Clarendon is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Middlesex. The parish capital is May Pen.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Manchester is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Middlesex. The parish capital is Mandeville.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Saint Ann is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Middlesex. The parish capital is Saint Ann's Bay.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Saint Catherine is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Middlesex. The parish capital is Spanish Town.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Saint Mary is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Middlesex. The parish capital is Port Maria.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Saint Elizabeth is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Cornwall. The parish capital is Black River.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Saint James is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Cornwall. The parish capital is Montego Bay.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Hanover is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Cornwall. The parish capital is Lucea.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Trelawny is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Cornwall. The parish capital is Falmouth.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Westmoreland is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Cornwall. The parish capital is Savanna-la-Mar.

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Parishes of Jamaica
Willow Shields (born June 1, 2000) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Primrose Everdeen in all four of The Hunger Games movies (2012–2015). She was also a dancer on Dancing with the Stars in 2015. At the age of 14, she was the youngest to ever compete on the show.

Shields was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has a twin sister and an older brother, both of whom are actors.

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2000 births
Living people
Actors from Albuquerque, New Mexico
American child actors
American dancers
American LGBT people
American movie actors
American television actors
Bisexual people
LGBT actors
Twin people from the United States
New Medical Gazette (NMG) () is a Russian newspaper published in Moscow.

New Medical Gazette (NMG) was established in 1992 in Moscow by a group of journalists (Anatoly Baranov, Andrei Gusev and others; some of them had medical education and practical experience in health care).
The Russian newspaper NMG registered with the Ministry of press and information of the Russian Federation in December 18, 1992.

The first number of NMG was released on May 18, 1993. Since 1993 Andrei Gusev (, born 27 October 1952 in Moscow) serves as NMG’s editor-in-chief.

NMG came out in format  A3 and A4. Since 1999 NMG has  web-based publications. 
The paper specialises in topical medical materials and medical news. 
Famous journalists and writers work in NMG’ editorial staff:  Sergei Aman, Anatoly Baranov, Andrei Gusev, Sergei Sokurov, etc. However, the newspaper authors write not only on medical topics. NMG has  literary pages created in conjunction with public fund "Union of Writers of Moscow”.

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Other websites
Other websites

 Official website 
The newspaper's official page in Facebook
Official website of NMG’s editor-in-chief Andrei Gusev

1992 establishments in Russia
Newspapers published in Russia
Andrei Gusev (, born 27 October 1952) is a Russian writer and journalist.

Early life 
Andrei Gusev was born in former Soviet Union, in Moscow. His father Evgeny Gusev and mother Rosalind Maltseva were engineers. His father was born in Ukraine, his mother in Moscow.

Andrei Gusev graduated the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1975. He worked as a medical physicist more than ten years. Also he received a medical education. He is the author of 10 inventions, 23 published scientific works.

Career 

In 1990 Andrei Gusev became a correspondent of the daily "Moskovskij Komsomolets". Later he worked as the special correspondent of the All-Russia "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and an  editor-in-chief deputy of the youth newspaper "Stupeni".

Since 1993 Andrei Gusev serves as editor-in-chief of "The New Medical Gazette" (published in Russian).
The first book of Andrei Gusev is "Presentation" (1993). Then he published "Mister Novelist" (1994), "With Chronos’ Permit" (1995), "The Russian Story" (1996)  and also the story collection "On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds" (1998). He published his novels "The Painter & Eros" and "Role Plays" in 2003 and  "The World According to Novikoff" in 2006.

In his prose in 2010s Andrei Gusev developed the themes of BDSM subculture in Russia. Themes include female domination, bondage, erotic spanking and BDSM  fiction.

Personal life
Andrei Gusev lives in Moscow. He was married twice and divorced twice. The first wife  –  Nina Guseva (nee Odnoletko), worked as a nurse; the second wife  –  Ivetta Sarkisyan, philologist by education. He has two daughters.  
His hobby is beekeeping.
List of works
 "PRESENTATION" (Презентация), motley stories, Moscow, 1993.
 "MISTER NOVELIST" (Господин сочинитель), stories and short stories, Moscow, 1994.
 "WITH CHRONOS’ PERMIT" (С мандатом Хроноса), stories, film-novel, Moscow, 1995.
 "THE RUSSIAN STORY" (Российская история), novel, Moscow, 1996.
 "ON THE EDGE OF MAGELLANIC CLOUDS" (На краю Магеллановых облаков), collection of the stories and short stories, Moscow, 1998, publishing house "Probel", .
 "THE PAINTER & EROS" (ХУДОЖНИК и ЭРОС в формате супер), novel, Moscow, 2003, publishing house "West-Consulting", .  
 "ROLE PLAYS" (ROLE PLAYS в зрелом возрасте), stories, Moscow, 2003, publishing house "West-Consulting".
 "THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOVIKOFF" (Мир по Новикову), novel, Moscow, 2006, publishing house "West-Consulting", .
Online text
Сто лет со дня рождения –  a story by Andrei Gusev in Wikisource 
Пудель цвета любви –   a short story by Andrei Gusev in Wikisource 
"Оставьте свой реквием после сигнала!" –   a short story by Andrei Gusev in Wikisource 
 The Russian Writer Loves Role Plays –  a novel by Andrei Gusev 
 Love Story in the Style of Femdom –  a novel by Andrei Gusev 
 Our Wild Sex in Malindi   –  a novel by Andrei Gusev 
Once in Malindi  – a novel by Andrei Gusev

References

Other websites

 Official website of Andrei Gusev 
  Editor-in-Chief of "New Medical Gazette" Andrei E. Gusev (from Moscow) 
Official page  of Andrei Gusev in Facebook

1952 births
Living people
Russian novelists
Writers from Moscow
Russian journalists
William "Bill" Margold (October 2, 1943 – January 18, 2017) was an American pornographic actor and director. He was born in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. He began his career in 1972. He continued to perform until 2007. He had more than 250 credits to his name as an actor and director. He was added to the AVN Hall of Fame.

Margold died on January 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 73.

References

Other websites
 
 
 William Margold at the Internet Adult Film Database

1943 births
2017 deaths
Actors from Washington, D.C.
American movie directors
American pornographic actors
Pornographic movie directors
Rodney Bennett (24 March 1935 – 3 January 2017) was a British television director. He directed ten Doctor Who episodes, including the stories, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, (both 1975) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976).

Bennet died on 3 January 2017 at the age of 81.

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Other websites
 

1935 births
2017 deaths
British television directors
Hisham Al-Otaibi (1946 – 4 January 2017) was a Kuwaiti politician. He served as the Minister of Finance and Industry from 1998 to 1999. He got a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Al-Otaibi died on 4 January 2017 at the age of 70.

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2017 deaths
Asian politicians
Engineers
Kuwaiti people
Robert John "Johnny" Little (7 July 1930 – 18 January 2017) was a Scottish footballer. He played as a defender. He played for Queen's Park, Rangers, Morton and the Scotland national team.

Little was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He moved to Scotland at a young age and grew up in Millport of Great Cumbrae.

Little died on 18 January 2017 at the age of 86.

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1930 births
2017 deaths
Footballers from Ayrshire
Yaacov Zilberman (born May 26, 1954 in the Soviet Union) is an Israeli and former Soviet chess player. He became a grandmaster in 1998. 

Zilberman participated in the 30th Chess Olympiad at Manila in 1992.<br/ > 
With Robert Hübner and Ivan Morovic he was first at the Capablanca Memorial, Elite at Havana in 1998.

References 
 Yaacov Zilberman, Chessgames.com

1954 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Naturalized citizens of Israel
Soviet chess players
École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise (National School of Computer Science for Industry and Business)  is a renowned graduate engineering school in France. It is in a campus of the University of Paris-Saclay (Northern France, associate member).

Its different curricula lead to the following French & European degrees :
 Ingénieur ENSIIE (ENSIIE Graduate engineer Masters level program)
 Master of Science.

Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at ENSIIE.

Most of the 500 graduate engineer students at ENSIIE live in dedicated residential buildings nearby research labs and metro public transports.
Research labs 
Research activities at École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise relate to the following topics:
Statistics and Genome
Computer and communication
Biology and complex systems
Analysis and probability
Image sciences
Biotechnology and genetics

References

Further reading 

 Official website

Technical colleges and universities in France
1968 establishments in Europe
Buildings and structures in Strasbourg
1960s establishments in France
Évry-Courcouronnes
Edward "Eddie" Filgate (16 September 1915 – 19 January 2017) was an Irish politician. He was a member of Fianna Fáil. He served as Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 1982 for the Louth constituency. He was born in County Louth.

Filgate turned 100 in 2015. He died on 19 January 2017 at the age of 101.

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2017 deaths
Centenarians
Fianna Fáil politicians
People from County Louth
Robert James Timlin (July 26, 1932 – January 17, 2017) was an American federal judge. He served as a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 2005 to his death in 2017. Before this, he served as a judge for the court from 1994 to 2005. 

Timlin was born in Buffalo, New York. He was married to Caroline. They had two children.

Timlin died on January 17, 2017 in Santa Barbara, California. He was 84.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
American judges
Politicians from Buffalo, New York
Daniel Vischer (16 January 1950 – 17 January 2017) was a Swiss politician for the Green Party. He was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2015.

Vischer was born in Basel. He was the son of jurist Frank Vischer (1923–2015). He was married and had two children.

Vischer died from cancer on 17 January 2017, a day after his 67th birthday, in Zürich.

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1950 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Switzerland
People from Basel
Swiss politicians
Ludvík Svoboda  (25 November 1895 – 20 September 1979) was a czechoslovak legionnaire in World War I and Commander of Czechoslovak army in Russia in World War II. Later he became a president (1968-1975)

Early Life 

Ludvík Svoboda was born in Hroznatín in Moravia in district Třebíč. He joined Austro-Hungaryan army when he was 20 in year 1915.They send to east to fight against Russia. He was captured and then he joined Czecholovak legion in Russia. He fought in battles like of Zborov  and Bakhmach. When he came back he was hero and then his military carreer started in new Czechoslovak army in the year 1921.
World War II 
In early 1930' he taught in  military academy in Prague. After the Munich betrayal in spring 1939 he was in underground organization named National Defence (Obrana národa). He started in cooperation with Soviet Union (SSSR). In start of June he moved to Poland and established a Czechoslovak legion, but when SSSR invade Poland from east, he was captured and senteced to die. His contacts in Moscow freed him.With connection to Moscow he started to free people from gulag and used them to his legion.He became a commander of Czechoslovak army on east. The first battle of his was in 1943 in battle of Sokolov  in Ukraine. His position was leader of 1st Czechoslovak corps. In this battle died a Czech hero captain Jaroš. Then he fight in battle of Dukla Pass. With trust from Klement Gottwald he became a general in year 1945 and was named a Hero of East front.
Presidency 
After the ending of the Antonín Novotný regime, in the period known as the Prague Spring, Svoboda was elected President of Czechoslovakia on 30 March 1968, on the recommendation of Alexander Dubček, the First Secretary. He was an acceptable candidate both for Czechs and Slovaks, and as a war hero and a victim of the purges of the early 1950s. People saw him as a new light of democracy and reform. But he was afraid of Soviet Union, because he saw all the crimes that they made.

He was respects by nation, because he took war hostiges from gulags and save them. Until he sign paper of Warsaw pact that Czechoslovakia will do nothing against Russian invasion in the year 1969. He has no word in home and abroad politic. He was puppet of KSČ. He said he don't trust leadership of political party. He tried to meet important people of factories and normal people, but his political status lower and lower. He even tryied to help poor east Slovakia.
When he was elected 2nd time he had a heart attack and must left his post. His succesor was G.Husák.

Rest of his life 
Rest of his life spend on wheelchair in his house in Prague with wife Irena. After his death in 1979 he had big national and military funeral. His funeral was not organized, but thousands of people came to show respect.He was bury on Žižkov with anthem of 1st Czechoslovak corpse ,,Směrem k Praze'' (Headed to the Prague). In 1995 he was removed and send to his family crypt in Kroměříž.

1895 births
1979 deaths
Kendang or Gendang (, , Bugis: Gendrang and Makassar: Gandrang or Ganrang ) is a two-headed drum. It is used by people from the Indonesian Archipelago. 
Kendang is one of the first instruments used in the Gamelan ensembles of Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese, the Kendang ensemble as well as various Kulintang ensembles in Indonesia. It is made in many ways by different ethnic groups.

Accompaniments

Sundanese
In Sundanese Gamelan, a minimum set consists of three drums.
  (large drum)
 , two (small drum). Kendang Kulanter is divided into two, namely the Katipung and the Kutiplak.
Many types of Sundanese Kendang are distinguished according to their function in accompaniment :
 Kendang Kiliningan 
 Kendang Jaipongan
 Kendang Ketuk Tilu
 Kendang Keurseus
 Kendang Penca
 Kendang Bajidor
 Kendang Sisingaan and others.
Each type of drums in Sundanese music has a difference in size, pattern, variety, and motif.
Javanese
In Gamelan Surakarta, four sizes of kendhang are used:
 ,  (krama/ngoko, similar to  in usage), or  is the largest , which usually has the deepest tone. It is played by itself in the  (lit. "single drum") style, which is used for the most solemn or majestic pieces or parts of pieces. It is played with the kendhang ketipung for  (lit. "double drum") style, which is used in faster tempos and less solemn pieces.
  is also medium-sized, and was traditionally used to accompany  performances, although now other drums can be used as well.
  or  is a medium-sized drum, used for the most complex or lively rhythms. It is typically used for livelier sections within a piece. The word ciblon derives from a Javanese type of water-play, where people smack the water with different hand shapes to give different sounds and complex rhythms. The technique of this , which is said to imitate the water-play, is more difficult to learn than the other kendang styles.
Balinese
In , there are two :
 , the "female" and lowest pitched. 
 , the "male" and highest pitched.

Makassarese
 (Makassarese s) can be divided to three types: 
  is the largest drums as a result it is also called  (largest drum in Makassarese language).These drums are usually used in important sacred ceremonies such as blessing for sultanate's heirlooms.
  are usually smaller with diameters measuring in 30–40 cm, which are usually used for  dance, which used 2-4 drums with differing beats and symbolizes the men's strength and vitality.
  are usually the smallest with diameters measuring in 20–25 cm, and used as martial arts accompaniments.
Buginese
Among the Bugis  there are two types of playing techniques based on the position of the . if the  is placed on the player's lap it is called . If the players are standing with the s tied with a shoulder strap it is called , this position are usually used for sacred ceremony, or for entertainment like  beating of rice mortars or .
There are generally three types of beats pattern in  playing:
  patterns are usually the beginning as intro
  are played afterwards which are usually more energetic
  patterns are used afterward, as finale.

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Related pages 
 Dabakan
 Gendang beleq
 Rampak Kendang

Sources

Further reading
 Sumarsam. Javanese Gamelan Instruments and Vocalists. 1978-1979.

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 Kendang information, with audio 
 Rampak Kendang in Google.

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Balboa was one of those who established the settlement at Darién in what is now Panama. He was elected mayor, then governor. In 1513, he claimed the Pacific Ocean and all of its shores for Spain. He was searching for gold at the time. In Darién, he had been replaced by a new governor, Pedro Arias Dávila. On orders from Spain, Dávila was to investigate Balboa. On Balboa's return to Darién in 1519, Dávila had him placed on trial, then executed for treason.

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Eldar Kaisynovich Kuliev (December 31, 1951 – January 14, 2017) was a Soviet movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Frunze, in present day Kyrgyz Republic. He was a writer of original script for the TV miniseries  The Wounded Stones.

Kuliev died at his home in Moscow, Russia on January 14, 2017, aged 65.

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Ciel Bergman, a.k.a. Cheryl Bowers (Cheryl Marie Olsen; September 11, 1938 – January 15, 2017) was an American painter of Swedish origin. Her work, was called post-modern, and had a focus on the environment as well as feminine consciousness. She was born in Berkeley, California.

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Babette Cole (10 September 1950 – 15 January 2017) was an English children's writer and illustrator. She was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands. She was known for her works in Drop Dead, Princess Smartypants and Prince Cinders. As a children's writer, Cole created more than 150 picture books.  Her best-seller Doctor Dog has been adapted as a successful children's cartoon series.

Cole died from a short illness on 15 January 2017 in Devon, England, aged 66.

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Steven Plaut (1951 – January 17, 2017) was an American-born Israeli economist, academic and writer. He was an associate professor of Business Administration at Haifa University as well as a member of the editorial board of the Middle East Quarterly. Plaut was an outspoken critic of the Israeli-Arab peace process and Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy. He taught at Oberlin College, the Technion, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Central European University, Tel Aviv University, University of Nantes, and Athens Laboratory for Business Administration.

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Jalal Eyvaz oglu Allakhverdiyev (; September 17, 1929 – January 19, 2017) was an Azerbaijani mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences) (1972). He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Allakhverdiyev was a Azerbaijan State Prize laureate of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982). He was director of the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR since 1970.

Allakhverdiyev died in Baku on January 19, 2017, aged 87.

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Teori Albino Zavascki (August 15, 1948 – January 19, 2017) was a Brazilian justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil serving since November 29, 2012. At the time of his death, he was the justice in charge of the trials resulting from Operation Car Wash. He was born in Faxinal dos Guedes, Brazil. From 2003 through 2012, Zavascki served as Minister of Superior Court of Justice.

Zavascki was killed in a plane crash near Paraty, Brazil on January 19, 2017, aged 68.

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Loalwa Braz Vieira (Loalva Braz, 3 June 1953 – 19 January 2017) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Braz was better known as providing the lead vocals for the French-Brazilian pop group Kaoma in their worldwide hit "Lambada". 

Braz, aged 63, was found dead in a burned car near a highway in Rio de Janiero on 19 January 2017. According to police, two men were seen leaving her house earlier that day. Police say Braz was murdered.

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Miguel José Ferrer (February 7, 1955 – January 19, 2017) was an American actor. He was mostly known for villainous roles such as Bob Morton in RoboCop. He also voiced Delgado in Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, the villain Hun leader Shan Yu in Mulan (1998) and Big Boss in Rio 2. Ferrer's other notable roles include Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan, NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles, Vice President Rodriguez in Iron Man 3, and FBI forensic pathologist Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks.

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Ferrer was born in Santa Monica, California to Academy Award-winning actor José Ferrer and singer Rosemary Clooney. His first cousin is actor George Clooney. He never went to college because he began his Hollywood career at an early age. His career began in 1981. He was married to actress Leilani Sarelle from 1991 until they divorced in 2003. In 2005, he married Lori Weintraub. They had three children.
Ferrer died on January 19, 2017 from throat cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California, aged 61.

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 Adventure Time - Death, Grod
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 Young Justice - Bibbo Bibbowski, Tribune, Vandal Savage (2010-2013)

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José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor and director. He was the first Puerto Rican actor, as well as the first Hispanic actor, to win an Academy Award (in 1950 for Cyrano de Bergerac). He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Ferrer was married to Rosemary Clooney, aunt of George Clooney, from 1954 through 1961 and again from 1964 through 1967. They had a son, actor Miguel Ferrer. In 1985 he received the National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan, becoming the first actor to receive that honor.

Ferrer died of colorectal cancer in Coral Gables, Florida on January 26, 1992, aged 80.

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Michael "Mike" Alexander Kellie (24 March 1947 – 18 January 2017) was an English multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Kellie has been a member of the rock bands the V.I.P.s, Spooky Tooth and the Only Ones. He also played with Traffic, on one song "Rainmaker" on the The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys album in 1971.

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Wayne Barrett (July 11, 1945 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist. He was an investigative reporter and senior editor for the Village Voice for over 20 years. Barrett worked with the Nation Institute and contributor to Newsweek. He held degrees from St. Joseph's University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he served on the adjunct faculty for over thirty years.

Barrett wrote many articles and books about politicians, especially New York City figures such as Ed Koch, Donald Trump, and Rudy Giuliani. 

Barrett died in Manhattan from lung cancer on January 19, 2017, aged 71.

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Shaimaa Sabbagh, Arabic: شيماء الصباغ , (1984 – January 24, 2015) was an Egyptian poet and activist. She died at Tahrir Square during a demonstration to remember the anniversary of the Arab Spring.    

Sabbagh was a leading member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party. She became a symbol against Egypt's military.

A photograph of Sabbagh's death got international attention. The Egyptian photographer was Islam Osama. He worked for the Egyptian newspaper Youm El Sabea. His photo received the Shawkan Photo Award in 2015. The man in the picture who tried to help Sabbagh was Sayyid Abu el-Ela.  He was a friend who was also at the demonstration.

A police officer was convicted of killing her. In 2015, the conviction was reversed.

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Charles Dwight "Red" Adams (October 7, 1921 – January 18, 2017) was an American professional baseball player, scout and pitching coach. He played as a pitcher. He was best known for playing for the Los Angeles Angels and later being a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also played for the Chicago Cubs of the Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1946. He was born in Parlier, California.

Adams died on January 18, 2017 in Fresno, California at the age of 95.

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Samayapuram Mariamman Temple is a Hindu Temple. It is in Samayapuram, a suburb of Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. The main deity of the temple is Mariamman. Mariamman is also known as "Samayapura Mariamman". The main deity is made of clay, sand with some extractions of herbs unlike traditional Mariamman deities, Hence there is no abhishekam(sacred bathing).

Followers believe that the Mariamman has enormous powers. These powers can cure any kind of disease or illness.They offer Mavilakku, a dish made up of jaggery, ghee and rice flour.

Samayapuram Mariamman Temple is the second wealthiest temple in Tamil Nadu after Palani Murugan temple. More than a thousand devotees visit Samayapuram on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. These are holy days for Mariamman.

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Alanganallur is a panchayat town in the district of Madurai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. This town is the headquarters of Alanganallur taluk and Alanganallur revenue block. The total population of this town is 11,075.

Alanganallur town is famous for the Jallikattu ceremony conducted throughout the four days of Pongal festival. Agriculture is the main occupation in the town.

The district headquarters Madurai city is 16 km away from this town. Alagar kovil is also near by, within 18 km.  Nearby places which attracts tourist are : The Thadakai Amman falls, Kodaikanal, Vaigai dam, Kumbakarai falls and Kutladampatti. There is a small dam named Sathiyar near Palamedu.

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Akhilesh Yadav (; born 1 July 1973), popularly known as '''Tipu', is an Indian politician and the President of the Samajwadi Party. He is the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He became the Chief Minister on 15 March 2012 at the age of 38. He thus became the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Yadav was born in the village of Saifai, Etawah District, Uttar Pradesh on 1 July 1973. He was born to Mulayam Singh Yadav and Malti Devi. Mulayam Singh Yadav is a politician, founder of Samajwadi Party and the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Yadav first was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from the Kannauj constituency in the year 2000. On 10 March 2012, he was appointed as the leader of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. He became the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 15 March 2012.

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Abdul Kalam Island, formerly known as Wheeler Island, is an island off the coast of Odisha, India, approximately  from the state capital Bhubaneshwar. The Integrated Test Range missile testing facility is located on the island. The island was originally named after English commandant Lieutenant Wheeler. On 4 September 2015, the island was renamed to honour the late Indian president, Abdul kalam.Abdul Kalam Island is located in the Bay of Bengal approximately  off the eastern coast of India and about  south of Chandipur in Balasore district, Odisha.  The island is about  in length and  in area.

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Pulicat Lake is India's second largest brackish water lake after the Chilika Lake in Odisha. It straddles in the coast area of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu states with over 96% of it in Andhra Pradesh and 3% in Tamil Nadu situated on the Coromandel Coast in South India. The lake encompasses the Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary. The barrier island of Sriharikota separates the lake from the Bay of Bengal and is home to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The fishing village of Pulicat is at the south end of the lake, from which the lake got its name. The Satish Dhawan Space Center is located on the north end of the island.

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Primogeniture is the system of inheritance by the firstborn, usually the eldest son. In feudal England and other legal systems, the legitimate first-born son gets the first right to inherit property. His claim is stronger than all daughters, younger sons and even elder illegitimate sons. The rule is that the eldest will always have the first claim. If there is no son, each of the daughters inherit an equal share of the estate. If there are no children, the property is often inherited by the eldest brother. Among siblings, sons inherit before daughters and so on. Primogeniture is Latin for "first born".

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Journalists ()  is a thriller novel by Russian writer Sergei Aman, published in 2013.

Plot
The book covers the time period from the eighties of the last century and to the tenth years of the present century. The novel begins with a bomb eruption at a newspaper “Moskovskij Bogomolets” (Moscow Believer). In result  a famous Moscow journalist was killed.
The main character of the novel is a journalist Sergei Ogloedov from this newspaper. The newspaper is very similar to the famous “Moskovskij Komsomolets”. 
All fifteen parts of the novel devoted to newspaper journalists. Each of them has a real prototype, which are current and former employees of the Editorial staff of "Moskovskij Komsomolets" — Dmitry Kholodov, Andrei Lapik, Vadim Poegli, Andrey Yahontov, Peter Spectr, Andrei Gusev, Natalya Zhuravleva, Elena Vasiluhina and others, including the Chief Editor Pavel Gusev. They all connected with the main character — Sergey Ogloedov, in which the author described himself. 
The novel describes real events. Journalists are saints and sinners in these events.

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              Journalists («Журналюги») in Lady’s Club  
 Сергей Аман «Журналюги». Роман/ М., «Зебра Е», 2013. — 224 с. ISBN 978-5-905629-31-0
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