Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Alejandro Antonio García Abad (born 22 September 1962 in Santiago, Chile), better known as Alejandro Abad, is a Chilean-born Spanish singer-songwriter and music producer, known for participating at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.

Biography
During the second half of the 1980s, Alejandro Abad released three albums in Spain: Quédate con él, Buscando tu destino and Confidencias, the latter with label PolyGram. Later on, he composed songs for several Spanish artists, including his friend Dyango.

Dyango entrusted Abad with the musical career of his son Marcos Llunas, whose first album was composed by Abad. Several songs from this album such as "Reconquistarte", "Hay algo en ti" or "Vale la pena" became hits in Latin America. In 1993 he composed the winning song of the OTI Festival held in Valencia, "Enamorarse", sung by Ana Reverte.

In 1994, he was internally chosen by broadcaster TVE to represent Spain as a solo artist at the 39th Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with the self-penned song "Ella no es ella", and he recorded an homonym album, his fourth, with label Horus.

In 1995, he won the OTI Festival again as a songwriter in Asunción, Paraguay with the song "Eres mi debilidad", sung by Marcos Llunas.

Abad was invited to several Latin American countries to act as a jury member in international events. In 2000, he contributed with several songs to Raúl's album Sueño su boca, of which 600,000 copies were sold in Spain. He also participated in the production of Paulina Rubio's album Lo haré por ti, of which three million copies were sold worldwide.

The same year he discovered David Civera in the TV show Lluvia de estrellas; in 2001 Civera won the Spanish national final for the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest with a song penned by Abad, "Dile que la quiero". The song finished sixth in the ranking in Copenhagen. In 2001 Abad, together with Susana Saura, founded a new company, Garsa Music, to manage David Civera's career. Abad has produced six albums for Civera. Also in 2001 he produced the song "Mi música es tu voz" for the contestants of talent show Operación Triunfo.

In 2003 he produced the song "Desde el cielo" for Sergio, a song that finished in second place in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003. In 2004 he produced the first album of the winner of the third series of Operación Triunfo, Vicente Seguí. He also composed the first single ("Sin Medida") of the winner of the fifth edition, Lorena, and has acted as a jury member of the contest.

In January 2017, Abad entered the reality show Gran Hermano VIP 5, the fifth season of the Spanish version of Celebrity Big Brother.

External links
Official site

Spanish male singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Spain
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1994
1962 births
Living people
Singers from Barcelona
Singers from Santiago
Spanish pop singers
Chilean emigrants to Spain
Group B of the 1999 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II was one of two pools in the Americas Zone Group II of the 1999 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage.

Cuba vs. El Salvador

Bahamas vs. Haiti

Cuba vs. Bahamas

El Salvador vs. Haiti

Cuba vs. Haiti

Bahamas vs. El Salvador

See also
Fed Cup structure

References

External links
 Fed Cup website

1999 Fed Cup Americas Zone
Centsports was a company founded in late November 2007 by Texas A&M graduate Victor Palmer. It was notable for being regarded as providing a legal way to play online gambling and sports betting games in the United States. In August 2011, CentSports was acquired by FreeSportsBet.com.

Legality
In the United States, online gambling is illegal. Most states consider that "gambling" consists of three elements: prize, chance and "consideration," or providing something of value to be eligible to participate. As Centsports did not allow users to fund their accounts with their own money, and instead funded betting accounts with revenue from its advertisers, "consideration" from the bettor was not involved, and therefore the games were considered legal. However, the NCAA's Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities division stated that engaging in Centsports-style gaming "would be in violation of NCAA sports wagering legislation."

Revenue and usage
Centsports earned revenue through advertising from such sponsors as Pizza Hut, Skype, and the NBA. Using this revenue, it funded gaming accounts with 10 cents. If a user accumulated a minimum of 20 dollars, the user could then compete in brackets to cash-out the winnings. Checks were mailed to winners. If a user lost all of his or her money, the user could start over with 10 cents.

The site allowed users to bet on a variety of different sporting events, including football, basketball, boxing and auto racing, across amateur and professional leagues, in several different countries.

The site grew its user base through a "crony system," where a user would invite others to join the site, and would receive a 5% bonus on the winnings the invited users made. As of 2010, Centsports had about three-quarters of a million members; about 40% were college students.

See also
 Online gambling
 Sports betting
 PropSwap

References

External links

 Official website

Online gambling companies of the United States
Billy Boy may refer to:

 "Billy Boy", a traditional folk song
 Billy Boy (1954 film), a 1954 animated short cartoon by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Tex Avery
 Billy Boy (2017 film), a 2017 film directed by Bradley Buecker
 Billy Boy (wrestler) (born 1977), Mexican Luchador
 Billy Boy (novel), a golf-themed novel by Bud Shrake
 "Billy Boys", a loyalist song from Glasgow, Scotland
 Billy Boy Arnold (born 1935), American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
 Billy Boy on Poison, an American rock and roll band from Los Angeles
 BillyBoy* (born 1960), jewelry designer
 "Willy Use a Billy... Boy", a 1995 song recorded by German eurodance project E-Rotic
Copestylum violaceum, the purple bromeliad fly, is a species of syrphid fly in the family Syrphidae.

References

Further reading

External links

 

Eristalinae
Insects described in 1829
The Voice of Ireland is an Irish reality talent show.  The fourth series of the programme premiered on 4 January 2015 on RTÉ One and concluded on 26 April, similar to previous seasons. Kathryn Thomas returned as main host, while her colleague Eoghan McDermott remained the show's co-host. Television personalities Bressie and Kian Egan both returned as coaches, while The Saturdays singer Una Healy and S Club 7 star Rachel Stevens filled the remaining two positions. Screentime Shinawil Productions continued to produce the talent programme.

Patrick Donoghue was crowned the winner on 26 April 2015, with his version of Jessie J's Mama Knows Best, which was later released on iTunes. He was coached by The Saturdays singer Una Healy. After winning the recording contract with Universal, Donoghue decided to change his stage name to Patrick James as he found it represented him more as an artist.

Teams

Colour key

Blind Auditions
The Blind Auditions for The Voice were filmed in The Helix on the 15, 16 and 17 October 2014. They were broadcast from 4 January  to 15 February, across seven episodes. This series, each coach had to choose 14 contestants to continue to the battle stage.

Blind Auditions 1

Blind Auditions 2

Blind Auditions 3

Blind Auditions 4

Blind Auditions 5

Blind Auditions 6

Blind Auditions 7

RTÉ 2fm Wildcards

The successful Wildcard format continued on the show. This gave singers a final opportunity to apply if they missed the application deadline. RTÉ 2FM presenters filtered the acts to find the best 5 possible contenders and they were invited to return for a blind audition with the coaches. The 2014 winner Brendan McCahey was a wildcard act, proving it to be successful.

The Battles
The Battles were filmed in The Helix on the 22 and 23 November 2014. They were then aired from 22 February to 15 March, across four episodes. The Steal returned this series, proving to be successful in season three. This is where another coach saves a losing battle act from bowing out of the competition by drafting them to their Live Shows team. Each coach had one steal and had the opportunity of putting it to use by pressing the 'I Want You' button at the end of the battle.

 Advanced
 Eliminated
 Saved

Battles 1

Battles 2

Battles 3

Battles 4

The Knockouts

Knockouts 1 (22 March)

Knockouts 2 (29 March)

Knockouts 3 (5 April)

The Live Shows
The Live Shows were aired from 22 March to 26 April. Each episode was broadcast live from The Helix and the public were able to cast their vote to save acts of their choice. As per usual, there were special performances from guest and coaches. Patrick Donoghue won the entire competition on 26 April 2015, beating runner-up Emma Humber.

Quarter Final (12 April)
Guest Performance: Brendan McCahey "Safe and Well"

Semi-final (19 April)
Guest Performances: 
Group Performance: "Hold My Hand"
HomeTown: "Cry for Help"

Final (26 April)
Guest Performances:
Coaches Performance: "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
Ryan Sheridan: "Here and Now"
Group Performance: "I Lived"

Results summary
Color keys
Artist's info

Result details

References

External links
Official Site

4
2015 Irish television seasons
Gábor Kovács (born 2 January 1957, in Orosháza) is a Hungarian financier, banker, art collector, philanthropist and founder of KOGART.

Life and career 
Having studied at the Moscow State Institution for International Relations (MGIMO) between 1975 and 1980, he started his career at the Hungarian National Bank. He was the first managing director of Citibank Budapest from 1985, before becoming the vice-president of Citibank London. Back in Hungary by 1991, he founded Bankár Holding Plc., which he now heads as president and CEO. It was at this time that he began to collect works by, as well as to support, Hungarian artists. His collection spans the history of Hungarian painting from the early 18th to the mid-20th century.

On 8 November 2003, he established the Gábor Kovács Art Foundation with a HUF 3 bn capital stock, and opened KOGART House on 20 April 2004.

He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 2006.

Following its full-scale renovation, he reopened, with a new function, the Pauline-Carmelite Monastery of Sopronbánfalva in 2010, which was managed and owned by him till 2015.

Above all, he is interested in finding answers for the new social and economic challenges of the 21st century.

Milestones of his career 
 1980–1985 Hungarian National Bank, Foreign Exchange Controls Department, International Section, Scandinavian officer,
 1985–1989 Citibank Rt. (Budapest), managing director,
 1989–1991 Citibank (London), vice-president,
 1991– Bankár Ltd. (Budapest), managing director, later Bankár Holding Plc., president-CEO.

Beauty—Harmony—Equilibrium

Awards and distinctions 
2005: Summa Artium Award, “For Contemporary Art” category, for his extensive work as an organizer and supporter of art.
2005: Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary

References

Sources 
 Biográf Ki Kicsoda (Hungarian Who is Who). Budapest, 2002.

External links 
 About the founder
 Masterpieces of Hungarian Painting Art from the Selection of Gábor Kovács
 Monastery History 2004, 2009-2010
 Gábor Kovács Art Collection

Hungarian businesspeople
Hungarian art collectors
Hungarian philanthropists
1957 births
Living people
Knight's Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)
Podglavica may refer to:
 Podglavica, Glamoč, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Podglavica, Danilovgrad, Montenegro
Moses Glover (born in Dunstable in 1601, fl. 1620-1640), was an English cartographer. He described himself as "paynter And Architectur", although very little is known about him apart from his maps and the church records. Glover's marriage licence, issued in 1622, described him as "painter-stainer of Isleworth". In 1635 he created a survey map of Isleworth Hundred for Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland. It is preserved at the Syon House in London.

Horace Walpole considered Glover to be an architect equal to Thomas Holt, Huntingdon Smithson and Rudolph Symonds. According to Walpole, Glover was associate to Gerard Christmas in building the Northumberland House, and was "much employed at Sion House by Henry, Earl of Northumberland". Walpole dated Glover's work at Sion 1604–1615. Edwin Beresford Chancellor questioned Glover's role as an architect ("Another so-called architect of this period, who seems to have added painting to his other accomplishment..."). John Summerson wrote that the opinion of early 19th century authors was merely a "suggestion" influenced by Glover's map and survey.

References

English cartographers
17th-century English painters
English male painters
1601 births
Year of death unknown
17th-century cartographers
Arborio rice is an Italian short-grain rice. It is named after the town of Arborio, in the Po Valley, which is situated in the region of Piedmont in Italy. When cooked, the rounded grains are firm, creamy and chewy compared to other varieties of rice, due to their higher amylopectin starch content. It has a starchy taste and blends well with other flavours. Arborio rice is often used to make risotto; other suitable varieties include Carnaroli, Maratelli, Baldo,  and Vialone Nano. Arborio rice is also usually used for rice pudding.

Arborio is a cultivar of the Japonica group of varieties of Oryza sativa.

See also
 Italian cuisine
 Bomba rice

References

Italian cuisine
Japonica rice
Dunmora is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Dunmora had a population of 222 people.

References

Further reading 

  —includes information on other schools: Braemar, Woocoo, Teebar East, Teebar West, Boompa, Idahlia, Dunmora, Musket Flat, Bowling Green, Aramara North, Aramara, and Gungaloon.

Fraser Coast Region
Localities in Queensland
George Maguire (born c. 1922 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) was the General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings from May 28, 1977 to January 30, 1984. Before joining the Kings, Maguire spent 17 years as a professional scout for the Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens and Minnesota North Stars as well as Chief Scout for the Los Angeles Kings beginning in 1969. Maguire died in 2005.

References

Los Angeles Kings executives
1920s births
2005 deaths
Johann Friedrich Seger (25 February 1867 – 29 April 1928) was a German politician and trade unionist.

Born in , Seger became a tailor, and joined both the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and a forerunner of the German Clothing Workers' Union in 1887.  He held various posts in his union in the 1890s, and from 1893 was a leader of the SPD in Leipzig.  In 1901, he became an editor on the Leipzig Volkszeitung.

In 1905, Seger was elected to the SPD's district leadership, and in 1911 to the Leipzig city council.  In 1915, he was elected to the Saxon Diet, serving until 1918.  He opposed World War I, and joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), under which label he was elected to the Weimar National Assembly, and then the Reichstag.  He rejoined the SPD with the majority of the USPD, and continued to lead the party in Leipzig, alongside Richard Lipinski, until his death in 1928.

References

1867 births
1928 deaths
German trade unionists
Independent Social Democratic Party politicians
Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Members of the Weimar National Assembly
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
Karachi Zebras was a Pakistani domestic first-class, List A and T20 cricket team, based in Karachi, Sindh. The team was established in 2006 and its home ground was National Stadium, Karachi.

Most matches as captain

See also
 Pakistan Super League
 Larkana Bulls

External links
Twenty20 Record page for Karachi Zebras
CricketArchive page for Karachi Zebras

Cricket clubs established in 2005
2005 establishments in Pakistan
Cricket teams in Pakistan
Zebras
164 (one hundred [and] sixty-four) is the natural number following 163 and preceding 165.

In mathematics

164 is a zero of the Mertens function.

In base 10, 164 is the smallest number that can be expressed as a concatenation of two squares in two different ways: as 1 concatenate 64 or 16 concatenate 4.

In astronomy
 164P/Christensen is a comet in the Solar System
 164 Eva is a large and dark Main belt asteroid

In geography
 Chaplin no. 164, Saskatchewan in Saskatchewan, Canada

In the military
  was a cargo vessel during World War II
  was a T2 tanker during World War II
  was a Barracuda-class submarine during World War II
  was an Alamosa-class cargo ship during World War II
  was an Admirable-class minesweeper during World War II
  was a Trefoil-class concrete barge during World War II
  was a  during World War II
  was a  during World War II
  was a yacht during World War I
  was a  during World War II

In sports
 Baseball Talk was a set of 164 talking baseball cards released by Topps Baseball Card Company in 1989

In transportation
 Caproni Ca.164 was a training biplane produced in Italy prior to World War II
 The Alfa Romeo 164 car produced from 1988 to 1997
 The Volvo 164 car produced from 1968 to 1975
 List of highways numbered 164
 Is a London Transport bus route running between Sutton and Wimbledon

In other fields
164 is also:
 The year AD 164 or 164 BC
 164 AH is a year in the Islamic calendar that corresponds to 780 – 781 CE
 The Scrabble board, a 15-by-15 grid, includes 164 squares that have neither word nor letter multiplier. The remainder have attributes such as double letter, triple letter, double word, and triple word
 The atomic number of an element temporarily called Unhexquadium
 Solvent Red 164 is a synthetic red diazo dye
 E.164 is an ITU-T recommendation defines public telecommunication numbering plan used in the PSTN and data networks

See also
 United States Supreme Court cases, Volume 164
 United Nations Security Council Resolution 164

External links

 Number Facts and Trivia: 164
 The Number 164
 The Positive Integer 164

Integers
Sir Robert William Newman, 1st Baronet (18 August 1776 – 24 January 1848) was a British Whig politician. He was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Bletchingley at a by-election in December 1812.

He held that seat until the 1818 general election, when he was returned for Exeter, and held the seat until the 1826 general election, which he did not contest.

He was created a baronet of Stokeley and of Mamhead in the County of Devon in 1836. He lived at Mamhead House, which he had built in the 1820s, employing Anthony Salvin as architect. He died, aged 71, and was succeeded by Sir Robert Lydston Newman, 2nd Baronet, who was killed in action at the battle of Inkerman.

References

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1776 births
1848 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Exeter
UK MPs 1812–1818
UK MPs 1818–1820
UK MPs 1820–1826
Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
COSMOS (Computer System for Main Frame Operations) was a record-keeping system for main distribution frames (MDFs) in the Bell System, the American Bell Telephone Company and then, subsequently, AT&T–led system which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1977 to 1984. 

COSMOS was introduced in the 1970s after MDFs were found to be congested in large urban telephone exchanges.  It assigns terminals so jumpers need not be so long, thus leaving more space on the shelves.  COSMOS also converts customer service orders into printed work orders for staff who connect the jumpers.  COSMOS orders are usually coordinated with RCMAC to ensure that translations match wiring.  With good computer records, jumpers are often left in place for reuse when one customer replaces another, resulting in a great reduction in labor.

More modern modular MDFs were developed around the same time called COSMIC (Common System Main Interconnecting) frames.

See also
 Operations support systems

Telephony
Bute Dock Police was a small police force responsible for policing Bute Docks, in Cardiff, Wales. The force was formed in 1858 and was merged into the Great Western Railway Police in 1922.

See also
British Transport Police
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
List of defunct law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom

References

External links
Bute Docks Police badge

Defunct port police forces of the United Kingdom
History of Cardiff
Ports and harbours of Wales
Gualdo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about  southwest of Ancona and about  southwest of Macerata. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 924 and an area of .

Gualdo borders the following municipalities: Amandola, Penna San Giovanni, San Ginesio, Sant'Angelo in Pontano, Sarnano.

Gualdo in the province of Macerata is situated at  above sea level with panoramic views of the Sibillini Mountains. It is between the Salino and Tenonacola Rivers, where the first inhabitants fled in the fourth century from the barbarians invasions.

The medieval castle of Gualdo belongs to the Bonifazi of Monte San Martino then to the Brunforte. After a brief period of peace feuds started with the Varano and then the Sforza.

Parts of the castle walls and towers remain visible in the 21st century.

Attractions

The bell tower was built in the fourteenth century and was changed to a mechanical clock in 1850. Built by Pietro Mei of Montecarotto. It was restored in the 21st century. The parish church of San Savino was built with a Greek cross layout and a central dome. The church houses a Gonfalone del Rosario by Alessandro Ricci, and paintings depicting a Last Supper by Ubaldo Ricci and a Madonna with St Savino by Antonio Liozzi.

Adjacent to the parish church is the centre for Romolo Muri (1870–1944), dedicated to the founder of the Christian Democratic Party. The library and archives are available to scholars and researchers, and for conferences and seminars.

At the end of the avenue Vittorio Veneto is the church of the Madonna. It was once attached to a Franciscan convent, that now serves as nursing home. The 12th century Madonna delle Grazie is a Catholic Marian shrine.

Demographic evolution

References

Cities and towns in the Marche
Playback is the first studio album by the American synthpop band SSQ, released in 1983 by Enigma and EMI America Records. It was the only album released by the band as SSQ until the release of their second album Jet Town Je t'aime in 2020, though the band members later worked on lead singer Stacey Q's debut album Better Than Heaven (1986) and follow-up album, Hard Machine (1988).

Music videos

Music videos were released for both "Synthicide" and "Screaming In My Pillow." There were three different videos released for "Screaming In My Pillow": The first version was a PG-13-rated version that received airplay on MTV. A more controversial, "uncensored" version was aired on Playboy TV depicting full-frontal nudity and lesbianism by Stacey Swain and an unknown model. A third video, called the NC-17 version, was considered too graphic for mainstream airplay. It was included on Red Hot Rock, a VHS compilation of uncensored music videos.

Track listing

Personnel
 Stacey Q – vocals
 Jon St. James – guitars, synthesizer, vocals
 John Van Tongeren – synthesizer
 Rich West – synthesizer
 Karl Moet – drum systems
 Skip Hahn – keyboards, vocoder

Legacy
The album was re-released on July 10, 2014, by F1 Music as a digital download on the iTunes Store and Amazon. It has never been issued on a legitimate compact disc by any company. It was originally issued on vinyl and cassette only.

References

1983 debut albums
Stacey Q albums
Enigma Records albums
EMI America Records albums
New wave albums by American artists