Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Besnate is a town and comune in the province of Varese in Lombardy in Northern Italy.
The Commune of Besnate has a land area of  and an average elevation of  above sea level. Its highest point, in the hills of Ravellino, reaches . It includes the following locations: Besnate, Buzzano, Centenate, and Villaggio Veneto.

It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Sumirago, north-east to Jerago with Orago, south-east to Cavaria with Premezzo, south to Gallarate, in the south-west to north-and Arsago Seprio west with that of Mornago. Besnate is about  from Varese,  from Gallarate,  from Busto Arsizio and  from Somma Lombardo.

The Commune of Besnate has always been independent until 1869, when, by Royal Decree No. 4919, was suppressed and aggregated with that of Casorate Sempione, the municipality of Arsago Seprio. Just a few years later, however, from 1 August 1872, Besnate broke away from Arsago Seprio to join Jerago: thus was born the town of Jerago with Besnate, which from 1 July 1892, was also the location of aggregate Orago.

Finally with the law n ° 48 of 28 February 1907, the municipality of Jerago with Besnate and Orago was dissolved and from 1 July 1907 Besnate finally became an independent municipality. In 2007 the municipality of Besnate, on the occasion of the centenary of the establishment of the town had it printed by the Italian postal souvenir postcards and stamps.

Physical geography

The municipality of Besnate is part of the geographical area identified as Olona Valley, and is located in a hilly area between the Arno river and the River Ticino. In the southern part of Besnate meet the Fontanili, a phenomenon caused by rainwater entering the permeable layers of soil, consisting of boulders, pebbles, gravel and sand and re-emerge on the surface when they encounter a layer of impermeable clay, forming a large area of water springs, which lies to the east of the provincial road of Gallarate, and to the foot of the moraine hills on which part of the territory of Jerago with Orago and Cavaria with Premezzo.

In this wetland Besnate converge some waterways, the canal Pont-Peder, the Fontanile Fontanile Old and New, which, flowing together, form Sorgiorile the river, the main tributary of the river Arno.

Politics
The mayor of Besnate is Giovanni Corbo, member of the Democratic Party. He was elected in 2019 after his victory at the mayoral election with 65% of the votes.
There was another candidate, Marco Bonalli, from the League.

There are twelve citizens who seats at the Municipal Council, and they distributed as follows:

 Government  (8):
 5 Democratic Party
 2  Independents
 1 Action

 Opposition  (4):
 2 League
 1 Forza Italia
 1 Brothers of Italy

Notable people
 Paolo Basso, sommelier
 Edward Ravasi, cyclist

References

External links
 

Municipalities of the Province of Varese
The Portrait of Henry IV of Saxony and Catherine of Mecklenburg are a matching pair of full-length portrait paintings by the German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, dating from  1514, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany.

The work was Cranach's first official portrait, and depicts Henry IV, Duke of Saxony and his wife Catherine of Mecklenburg at about life-size. They are among the earliest northern full-length portraits.  Both wear lavishly decorated clothes and decorations recalling their families' coat of arms.

Henry, painted with his hunting dog, is portrayed in the act of drawing his sword. Catherine's panel contains a cartouche with Cranach's initials, the year of execution and a winged snake, the symbol of the painter's workshop.

References

Sources

1514 paintings
Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Henry IV Of Saxony
Collections of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Kalms is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Barry Kalms, Australian Paralympic weightlifter and athlete
Charles Kalms (1898?-1978), British businessman
Frederick Kalms (1897–1977), Australian tennis player
Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms (born 1931), British businessman
South[-]west[ern] British may refer to:

 South West England, one of the nine official regions of England (which is, in part, the most southwesterly of the constituent countries of modern Great Britain)
 South West England (European Parliament constituency)
 Southwest Britain, a vague generic term for various historical regions including the West Country, Wessex, and Dumnonia (in order of most to least recent)
 Southwestern Brittonic languages
Off the Wall is an arcade game produced by Atari Games and released in North America in 1991.  A remake of Breakout, it has a much wider variety of gameplay elements of the original. Most notably, it models spin on the ball. Off the Wall supports up to three players simultaneously (though most cabinets only support two). The game's graphics include many backgrounds modeled after modern abstract art.

Gameplay
The objective of Off the Wall is to score as many points as possible by destroying square blocks in a never-ending series of levels.  The player controls a paddle using an analog knob or a joystick (depending on the machine configuration).  The paddle moves along one edge of the playfield, and a ball flies around the playfield and bounces off the walls and the paddle.  When a ball hits a block, the block disappears (unless it is indestructible).  A square exit is placed on the screen, and directing the ball into this exit causes all remaining blocks on the screen to self-destruct, awarding bonus points and advancing the player(s) to the next level.

The ball occasionally splits in two (in multiplayer games, three balls may be on the screen at once), and the player can put spin on the ball, causing it to move in a curved trajectory.  The player loses a life when the last ball on the screen moves past the player's paddle, though in some circumstances, the game gives the player a second chance.  The game ends when the player runs out of lives.

As levels progress, the game introduces blocks that move randomly or in circles, powerups, indestructible blocks and bombs, blocks that parachute or fly in to replace destroyed blocks, objects that change the ball's speed and trajectory, and guns that can shrink players' paddles.  Depending on the number of players in the game, some levels may be skipped due to the exit being along one player's edge of the playfield.  In multiplayer games, a bonus round occurs periodically where players compete directly against one another in an exact clone of Pong.  The winning player earns an extra life.

Reception 
RePlay reported Off the Wall to be the twelfth most-popular arcade game at the time.

Legacy
Attempted home versions/ports of the game for the TurboGrafx-16 and the Game Gear were made, but this version was cancelled before these two made it to store shelves.

References

External links
Off the Wall at the Arcade History database

1991 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Atari arcade games
Breakout clones
Video games developed in the United States
Macewen's operation is an operation for the cure of inguinal hernia, developed by Scottish surgeon Sir William Macewen (1864-1924).

It is performed by closing the internal ring with a pad made of the hernial sac.

References

Surgery
August Howard (January 2, 1910 - December 4, 1988) was the founder of the American Polar Society in 1934 and publisher of The Polar Times. In 1948 Cape Howard was named for him.

Biography
He was born on January 2, 1910, as August Horowitz to a Russian immigrant who worked as a tailor. In 1934 he founded the American Polar Society. He was a public affairs officer of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America from 1928 to 1970. He died on December 4, 1988, in Rego Park, New York.

References

1910 births
1988 deaths
American Polar Society
National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America members
Coding may refer to:

Computer science
 Computer programming, the process of creating and maintaining the source code of computer programs
 Line coding, in data storage
 Source coding, compression used in data transmission
 Coding theory
 Channel coding, in coding theory

Other uses
 Coding (social sciences), an analytical process in which data are categorized for analysis
 Coding strand of DNA in molecular biology
 Legal coding, the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document in the legal profession
 Medical coding, representation of medical diagnoses and procedures in standard code numbers
 Queer coding
Coding Theory

See also
 Code
 Entropy encoding
 Transform coding
In mathematics, the Duistermaat–Heckman formula, due to , states that the 
pushforward of the canonical (Liouville) measure on a symplectic manifold under the moment map is a piecewise polynomial measure. Equivalently, the Fourier transform of the canonical measure is given exactly by the stationary phase approximation.

 and, independently,   showed how to deduce the Duistermaat–Heckman formula from a localization theorem for equivariant cohomology.

References

External links 
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/the-harish-chandra-itzykson-zuber-integral-formula/

Symplectic geometry
Lori St John, also known as Lori Urs, is an American advocate against wrongful death penalty decisions. In addition, she is a certified public accountant and author.

In the early 1990s, St John studied law at the New England School of Law and later at Rutgers School of Law.

In the 1990s, she led a determined public relations effort to prevent the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Roger O’Dell. Her public relations campaign in the media drew widespread international support, particularly from the Italian city of Palermo, as well as from Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II and the Italian and European parliaments, who petitioned unsuccessfully for O'Dell not to be executed. She was an investigator on O'Dell's legal team. She married the convicted murderer hours before his execution, partly in an effort to gain control of evidence. The marriage was officiated by a death row chaplain, with vows exchanged between bars of the cell, and the newlyweds were not permitted to touch for security reasons. Soon thereafter, before being executed by lethal injection on July 23, 1997, O'Dell pledged to love his bride "throughout eternity."

Her efforts pushed for greater use of DNA profiling in capital crimes cases. Her advocacy generated serious interest on the World Wide Web as well as in the nation of Italy, where the 1997 execution of O'Dell was watched by millions of television viewers. According to an account in the Los Angeles Times, O'Dell became the "unofficial martyr of Italy's campaign against capital punishment in the rest of the world." O'Dell was buried in the city of Palermo, Italy, even though he had never visited there.

In 1998, she was briefly in the news when she helped secure the release of her teenage daughter, who was being held hostage.

References

University of Connecticut alumni
New England Law Boston alumni
Rutgers University alumni
American lawyers
American women lawyers
American accountants
American women accountants
Living people
1956 births
American anti–death penalty activists
American women activists
Robert Alexander Innes (15 June 19186 April 2005) was a Royal Air Force officer, one of "The Few" who fought in the Battle of Britain.

Military career
Innes joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in August 1938 as an Airman under training Pilot. He was called up to duty on 1 September 1939. On completion of his flying training in March 1940, he was initially posted to fly the Bristol Blenheim light bomber, but was reassigned to No. 253 Squadron RAF at RAF Kenley on 6 May 1940, piloting the Hawker Hurricane fighter. He fought in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain, claiming in the latter a Messerschmitt Bf 110 on 30 August and a Dornier Do 17 of 8/KG 2 on 15 September. He probably downed a Messerschmitt Bf 109 on 11 November.

Innes was commissioned in March 1941. In April 1941 he sailed, first on , then , from which he and other Hurricane pilots flew to Malta. He briefly joined No. 261 Squadron, then transferred to No. 185 Squadron at RAF Hal Far. 

He was injured during aerial combat, which ended his combat career, and returned home on . After recovering from his wounds, he trained and spent the rest of the war as a flying instructor. After the war, he returned to Malta in 1952 to reform and command No. 185 Squadron. Innes retired on 31 August 1961 as a squadron leader.

References

Royal Air Force pilots of World War II
Royal Air Force squadron leaders
1918 births
The Few
2005 deaths
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
The Works Recording Studio was a recording studio located in Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK between 1998 and 2007.  Built in a Victorian rectory it was originally an analogue studio  used by unsigned bands and fading stars of Manchester's rich musical scene including ex-members of  The Smiths and The Stone Roses. In 2001 it installed a Pro Tools system, and then recorded albums for bands such as Amplifier, Oceansize, Inertia Blooms and Performance. In 2005 there was a bizarre 3 a.m. appearance by U.S. rap star Snoop Dogg who visited the studio after playing a concert, bringing an entourage of musicians, enormous bodyguards and a chef. The studio also branched out into making music videos. In 2007 "Super Producer"  Timbaland used the studio whilst on tour with Justin Timberlake.

Buildings and structures in Stockport
Recording studios in Greater Manchester
Music in Manchester
Organisations based in Stockport
Bocca d'Arno (mouth of the Arno) is the traditional denomination of the late course of the Arno river, in Tuscany, central Italy. It is located near Marina di Pisa.

Geography of Tuscany
Dikeledi Moropane (born 12 March 1976) is a retired South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Her biggest outing was the 2001 World Championships, where she competed in the 100 metres without reaching the final.

At the 1999 All-Africa Games she competed in the 100 metres, and the South African team finished fourth in the 4 × 100 metres relay. At the 2003 All-Africa Games she competed in the 100 metres and won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay. At the 2004 African Championships she competed in the 100 metres and won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay.

Her personal best time was 11.38 seconds, achieved in February 2000 in Pretoria.

References

1976 births
Living people
South African female sprinters
World Athletics Championships athletes for South Africa
African Games silver medalists for South Africa
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games
21st-century South African women
Pharmaceutical Drugs Directorate (PDD) is a Canadian federal authority that regulates small molecule pharmaceutical drugs for human use. Prior to being given market authorization, a manufacturer must present substantive scientific evidence of a product's safety, efficacy, and quality as required by the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations.  It is one of the ten operational directorates of the Health Products and Food Branch, a branch of Health Canada.

See also
European Medicines Agency
Good Manufacturing Practice
Good clinical practice
Informed consent
Institutional review board
International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use
Investigational product
Investigator's Brochure

References

Health Canada
Joost van Bleiswijk (born 1976, Delft) is a Dutch designer who lives in Eindhoven. 
After he graduated at the Design Academy he became known for his Outlines series.

Education
Joost van Bleiswijk is a prolific Dutch designer who gives great value to the process of making. He grew up in Delft, and studied at the Design Academy of Eindhoven, where he met his future partner, Kiki van Eijk.

Stanislas college Delft VWO Diploma obtained in 1996

Design Academy Eindhoven Juni 2001 Man and Well-Being.

Work

Next to his own collections he worked with several companies such as Ahrend, Bernhardt Design, Bruut furniture, city of Eindhoven, design connection Brainport, Lebesque, etc.
His work is sold and exhibited through (inter)national galleries as for example Moss gallery in New York City and Vivid gallery in Rotterdam, Secondome, the Holon Design Museum in Israel and the Zuiderzeemuseum in the Netherlands.

Curved and taped							2019
Interlocking panels							2019
Fusion 									2019
Brass Sculpture Private Collector					2019
Sketched								2018
Tinkering Lamps							        2017
Mechanic constructions							2016
The Protopunk								2016
The Protopunk-1						                2015
Collage 2014						                2014
Framed Frames								2014
Prop lamps								2014
NSNG rough shiny collection				                2014
Scratch Set 								2012
Collage 						                2012
Heavy Metal 				                                2013
Heavy Metal 						                2011
One more time clocks 					                2011
No screw no glue rough collection 			                2010
The Poor Man’s Gold for the Zuiderzee Museum 		                2010
Rivet Lamps 								2010
Candle lines candleholders 						2010
No screw no glue Corroded serie 					2009
Pendulum XL 								2009
Compose collection 							2008
No screw no glue collection f.e. Wallcabinet, candelabrum et. 		2008
No screw no glue collection f.e. chessboard, little clock and cabinet xl2007
No screw, no glue stainless steel collection				2006
No screw no glue in trespa 						2006
Game Table							 	2006
Single Cut Vases 							2005
Construct collection							2005
Outlines 								2005

He has also turned his attentions to the world of textiles, designing the patterns of luxury carpets.

Other activities
Lecture at Wanted Design Week Kyiv, 2009 - Lecture at Witte dame Eindhoven 2007- Guest teacher at Krabbesholm design school - Lecture at the U.N. University Tokio 2006 - Concept  belleza Universale 2005 - Concept Design-Sucks 2003/2004 - Concept scrapheap-design-challenge 2004 - Design workshops Art-quake Hoofddorp 2002/2003

References

 http://www.corunum-ceramics.nl/nl/designers/joost-van-bleiswijk
 http://www.mossonline.com/category_in-stock-exec/category_id/536
 http://www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl/nl/464/aankopen/joost-van-bleiswijk--the-poor-mans-gold/?id=1577

1976 births
Living people
Dutch designers
Design Academy Eindhoven alumni
Artists from Delft
Jens Christian Madsen (born 1 February 1970), also known as is a Danish former footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Career
Madsen started his career with Køge Boldklub but soon moved to Brøndby IF, where he went on to make 186 appearances for the club in which he scored 21 goals between 1988 and 1994. He also won three Danish championships at the club as well as two Danish Cups. Madsen moved to AaB in 1994, where he won another championship in his first year. Later, he moved to Herfølge Boldklub, where he won his fifth championship in 2000 with his third club as an active player.

After a hugely successful playing career in Denmark, he moved abroad for the first time in 2000, signing with Greek Super League club Skoda Xanthi. He left after five months, describing his tenure there as "a personal crisis", and added in an interview with Tipsbladet: "The club had no idea who I was. I might as well have been a handball player". Madsen later signed with Scottish club Livingston, but said that he had suffered personally from his experience in Greece, which meant that he lacked motivation.

Madsen retired from football after one season in Herfølge Boldklub in 2002.

Honours
Brøndby
1st Division(): 1988, 1990, 1991
Danish Cup: 1988–89, 1993–94

AaB
Danish Superliga(): 1994–95

Herfølge
Danish Superliga(): 1999–2000

References

External links
 

1970 births
Living people
Danish men's footballers
Brøndby IF players
AaB Fodbold players
Herfølge Boldklub players
Xanthi F.C. players
Livingston F.C. players
Danish Superliga players
Super League Greece players
Denmark men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Denmark
Footballers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Footballers from Copenhagen
Men's association football midfielders
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Danish expatriate men's footballers
The 2008 Asian Beach Volleyball Championships (8th tournament) was a beach volleyball event, that was held from 3 to 6 April 2008 in Hyderabad, India.

Medal summary

Participating nations

Men

  (2)
  (2)
  (5)
  (2)
  (2)
  (2)
  (1)
  (2)
  (2)

Women

  (2)
  (2)
  (4)
  (1)
  (2)
  (1)
  (2)
  (1)
  (2)

Men's tournament

Winners table

Losers table

7th place

5th place

Medal round

Women's tournament

Winners table

Losers table

7th place

5th place

Medal round

References

External links
 Final Ranking

Asian Championships
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Asian Beach Volleyball Championship
Zelše (; in older sources also Želše, ) is a village along the road linking Cerknica and Postojna, at the northwestern part of the karst Cerknica Polje in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Zelše Caves ()—the source of Rak Creek, a sinking stream—lies west of the village. Big Karlovica Cave (), receiving the waters of Stržen Creek, lies southwest of the village. Industrial facilities are located east of the village.

Church

The local church, built on a small hill south of the village, is dedicated to Saint Wolfgang () and belongs to the Parish of Cerknica. This Renaissance church was built around 1680 with a triple rounded apse, unique in the region. The Baroque-style belfry was added in 1732. The church has excellent acoustics and is sometimes used as a venue for various concerts.

References

External links

Zelše on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerknica
Pianoteq is a software synthesizer that features real-time MIDI-control of digital physically modeled pianos and related instruments, including electric piano, harp, harpsichord, fortepiano, and various metallophones. It is usable as a stand-alone program for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (including ARM architecture) platforms, or as a plug in for VSTi hosts and two VSTi counterpart for use with digital audio workstations.

History and technology
The original version of the program was released in August 2006.The software's physically modeled synthesis create sound from scratch using several megabytes of mathematical algorithms (Fourier construction) to generate electric piano and acoustic piano sounds that can be manipulated analogously to those produced by their material counterparts. Pianoteq's modeled sounds are supplemented with sampled pedal noise, key release, and hammer noise.

Patches for additional instruments are also available. Several of the historical instruments were created as part of the KIViR (Keyboard Instruments Virtual Restoration) project, which aims to create playable digital models of historical keyboard instruments in museums like the Händel-Haus in Halle.

Instruments

Pianoteq models several modern as well as historical pianos, including the Steinway model B and  model D, the  Antonin Petrof 275 and 284,  Bechstein DG,  Steingraeber E-272,  Grotrian Concert Royal, and Blüthner Model 1. Other instruments include models for the Hohner  Pianet models N and T and Clavinet D6, as well as models for harpsichord,  concert harp and Celtic harp, various  tine and  reed electric pianos,  vibraphones,  celeste, xylophone and marimba, and various  steelpans.

See also

Physical modelling synthesis
Digital piano
Piano acoustics

References

External links
Pianoteq official website
Modartt Official forum
Interview with the creator of Pianoteq explaining the difference between modelled pianos vs. acoustic pianos and the generations in-between (in French, with English subtitles)

Keyboard software synthesizers