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User:Kenjoki Ikari

Kenjoki Ikari:

Pronunciation - ken-JOE-key eye-CAR-ee

Background of the name:
"Kenjoki" is derived from a random sequence of keys pressed on a keyboard out of sheer boredom. It means nothing in any language, as far as I know.

"Ikari" is not derived from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Many people think it is, but the pronunciation is different from the way Shinji Ikari's name is pronounced. Shinji Ikari uses the Japanese pronunciation of the I; which is an "E" sound, rather than the American pronunciation of "I" such as the word "Eye". "Ikari" actually comes from an old game for the NES system, which was named Ikari Warriors.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Godzilla

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP.

Godzilla
Fancruft. Non-notable (IMO). Delete. Ketsuban (is 1337) 01:25, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point. Can we speedy keep this please? - Mustafaa 01:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * A supplementary link: WP:POINT. --Sn0wflake 01:43, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:30, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep & Object to this nomination :-P -CunningLinguist 01:30, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, nonsensical nomination. --Sn0wflake 01:39, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Like so many others. Ketsuban (is 1337) 01:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * And you will prove that by placing yourself on the level of the people you think are wrong? --Sn0wflake 01:49, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. Yes, there are plenty of bad nominations, some of which are kept when the error is realized. How does this help? -- BD2412 talk 01:48, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep. Same user as Votes for deletion/Wiktionary.  We can hope that users will realize that this sort of disruption only costs them support... --Tabor 01:50, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable movie/s and movie character. Capitalistroadster 02:08, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep Godzilla and Mothra, enough said. Also, Moooozilla. :-P --Chill Pill Bill 02:10, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. Physchim62 02:42, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Do you really think it's appropriate to waste everyone's time to prove a point?  Go gripe on irc or the pump.  Gamaliel 03:01, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is the least justified nomination I've seen so far. --Arcadian 18:08, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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MPCSD

MPCSD may refer to:
 * Menlo Park City School District - California
 * Mount Pleasant Central School District - New York State
 * Mount Pleasant Community School District - Iowa

title: MPCSD


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zoo pals

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 08:50, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Zoo pals
Google verifies that these exist, so its not nonsense, but it is non-notable CunningLinguist 01:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chameleon (talk • contribs) 20:11, 8 Jun 2005
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 06:17, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it is way to usless. Unless someone cares to research these some more.  --harrismw 06:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'd say make it a stub and let someone expand it.  Maybe, in 10 years, this will be a defining article of several people's childhoods.  There's an article on Dixie Cups. Jasonglchu 14:43, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is just one product from a large company (maufacturer of Hefty trash bags.  I don't see that the product is notable by itself. - DS1953 16:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'd agree, except I'd like to know why the user bothered making the entry. Jasonglchu 17:12, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Good question, since nothing links there. Still not notable, IMO. DS1953 19:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. What's non-notable to you isn't necessarily non-notable to others. Ketsuban (is 1337) 19:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - absolutely uninformative. Pavel Vozenilek 19:38, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * At the moment, yes. It's not going to blossom into a Featured Article candidate overnight, you know. Ketsuban (is 1337) 19:53, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.
 * Delete as a non-notable product, or advertising. --InShaneee 21:59, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable. --FCYTravis 22:35, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as uninformative. Double Blue  (Talk) 23:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as of current state, it is completely useless. It could become famous and there could be a great stub started for it... but right now, unless someone cares to fix it, it must go. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 06:33, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
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Bangarra Dance Theatre

Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company focused on contemporary dance. It was founded by African American dancer and choreographer Carole Y. Johnson, Gumbaynggirr man Rob Bryant, and South African-born Cheryl Stone. Stephen Page was artistic director from 1991 to 2021, with Frances Rings taking over in 2022.

Bangarra (pronounced bungurra) means "to make fire" in the Wiradjuri language.

History
Bangarra Dance Theatre was founded in October 1989 by Carole Y. Johnson, an African-American modern dancer and founder of the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA), Rob Bryant, a Gumbaynggirr man and graduate of NAISDA, and Cheryl Stone, a South African-born student at NAISDA.

Clive Joseph Robin "Rob" Bryant (later known as Uncle Rob Bryant), born in Bellingen, New South Wales in 1947, was a retired leading aircraftman of the RAAF and a Vietnam veteran. Stone had been born in South Africa, growing up in Cape Town and moving to Australia as a teenager in 1969. She participated in the six-week Black Theatre workshop established by Johnson in Redfern, Sydney, in 1975

Johnson toured Australia in 1972 with American choreographer Eleo Pomare and his company, and remained in Australia. In 1975, Johnson became the founding director of the Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Scheme, now known as the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA).

Johnson had a three-part plan for Aboriginal dance in Australia. It was to establish a school to give academic qualifications, and train dancers as members of a student and graduate performing company that would also teach. It would further provide a path for the dancers to other dance-related areas, including choreography, tour management, and all front and back of house skills. The other key aim was to maintain authentic cultural continuity, friendships, and close ties to traditional communities. Johnson mentored Stone, who studied alongside the dancers. She planned the formation of Bangarra Dance Theatre and, in 1989, became its founding artistic director. Bangarra is a Wiradjuri word meaning "to make fire".

Stephen Page has been the artistic director since 1991. Bangarra's first full-length show, Praying Mantis Dreaming, was produced in 1992. In 1994, Page, with Bernadette Walong as associate director, created Ochres and productions have followed annually since 2000. All have been successful within Australia and some have toured the United States and the United Kingdom. The group also made significant contributions to the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

The company has received the Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work a number of times.

In 2019, the company marked its thirtieth anniversary with the launch of a digital archive and exhibition called Knowledge Ground.

In early December 2021, Page announced that he would be stepping down from the role of artistic director in 2022, handing over to Frances Rings, former dancer and choreographer with Bangarra and later associate artistic director. Bangarra's last performance with Page as director was Wudjang: Not the Past, which premiered at the Sydney Festival in January 2022 before touring to Hobart and then Adelaide as part of the Adelaide Festival in March 2022.

In 2023, Rings, a Kokatha woman, was choreographer and artistic director for the company's new work, Yuldea. It tells the story of the South Australian town of Ooldea, which was settled in the early 20th century as it was close to the water source known as "Yooldil Kapi" by the Aboriginal groups who lived in the area, including the Kokatha, Mirning, and Wirangu peoples. Rings' father, a German migrant, worked on the railway, and her mother was born nearby. Yuldea has four acts – Supernova, Kapi (Water), Empire, and Ooldea Spirit. The creative team included Gamilaroi astronomer Karlie Noon, and musical duo Electric Fields, and Bangarra's chief composer, Leon Rodgers. The voices of people from Yalata were recorded for the last track.

Page brothers

 * Stephen Page, artistic director 1991–2021
 * David Page (1961–2016), composer and musical director

 * Russell Page (1968–2002), dancer

Others

 * Raymond D. Blanco, who featured in the film Jindalee Lady (1992), was former Head of Culture and Training Operations at NAISDA, and the first Indigenous Australian to lead a dance company when he took over the reins of the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre in 1991
 * Lillian Crombie, dancer
 * Ella Havelka, dancer
 * Elma Gada Kris, dancer and choreographer
 * Banula Marika, dancer and musician
 * Ningali Lawford-Wolf
 * Daniel Riley, dancer and choreographer with Bangarra since around 2009, appointed as artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre from the end of 2021
 * Frances Rings, dancer and choreographer, artistic director from 2022

Works

 * 1992 – Praying Mantis Dreaming
 * 1995 – Ochres
 * 1997 – Fish
 * 1997 – Rites (with The Australian Ballet)
 * 2000 – Skin (Spear, 2015 film, based on this)
 * 2001 – Corroboree
 * 2002 – Walkabout
 * 2003 – Bush
 * 2004 – Unaipon
 * 2004 – CLAN
 * 2005 – Boomerang
 * 2006 – Gathering with the Australian Ballet
 * 2007 – True Stories
 * 2008 – Mathinna, based on the life of Palawa girl Mathinna
 * 2008 — Rites (with The Australian Ballet)
 * 2009 — Fire – A Retrospective
 * 2010 – of earth & sky
 * 2012 – Terrain
 * 2013 – Blak
 * 2014 – Patyegarang and Kinship
 * 2015 – lore
 * 2016 – OUR land people stories
 * 2017 – Bennelong
 * 2018 – Dubboo - life of a songman
 * 2018 — Dark Emu
 * 2019 — Spirit
 * 2023 – Yuldea

Films

 * Jindalee Lady (1992), featuring then lead dancer Raymond Blanco. This was the first fiction feature film directed by an Aboriginal director (Brian Syron).
 * Spear (2015) – drama film directed by Stephen Page, based on the live performance Skin (2000).
 * Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra (2020) is a feature-length documentary film about the dance company, directed by Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair. It covers 30 years of Bangarra's existence, charting the story of the three Page brothers' (Stephen, David and youngest brother, the dancer Russell) roles in the development of the company. The film had its world premiere as the closing night film of the Brisbane International Film Festival on 11 October 2020, and eight days later won the Adelaide Film Festival's Feature Documentary Award.

Australian Dance Awards
The Australian Dance Awards recognise excellence and promote dance in Australia. They are awarded under the auspices of the Australian Dance Council (Ausdance) for performance, choreography, design, dance writing, teaching and related professions. they commenced in 1997.

(wins only) ! Ref.
 * 1997
 * Stephen Page (Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding achievement in choreography
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"| 2004
 * Frances Rings for Unaipon (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
 * Won
 * Fire - A Retrospective (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Company
 * Won
 * 2010
 * Bangarra Dance Theatre for Belong
 * Outstanding Performance by a Company
 * Won
 * 2012
 * Bangarra Dance Theatre for Belong
 * Outstanding Performance by a Company
 * Won
 * 2015
 * Waangenga Blanco (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer for Patyegarang
 * Won
 * rowspan="3"| 2016
 * Bangarra Dance Theatre for Lore
 * Outstanding Performance by a Company
 * Won
 * Elma Kris for Lore (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer
 * Won
 * David Mack for Frame of Mind (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer
 * Won
 * 2017
 * Bangarra Dance Theatre for OUR Land People Stories
 * Outstanding Performance by a Company
 * Won
 * 2018
 * Beau Dean Riley Smith for Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer
 * Won
 * Elma Kris for Lore (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer
 * Won
 * David Mack for Frame of Mind (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer
 * Won
 * 2017
 * Bangarra Dance Theatre for OUR Land People Stories
 * Outstanding Performance by a Company
 * Won
 * 2018
 * Beau Dean Riley Smith for Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer
 * Won
 * Won
 * 2018
 * Beau Dean Riley Smith for Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer
 * Won
 * Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer
 * Won

Deadly Awards
The Deadly Awards, (commonly known simply as The Deadlys), was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. They ran from 1996 to 2013. (wins only) ! Ref.
 * Deadly Awards 2008
 * Stephen Page and Bangarra Dance Theatre
 * Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment
 * awarded
 * Deadly Awards 2009
 * Stephen Page and Bangarra Dance Theatre
 * Achievement in Theatre or Live Performance
 * Won
 * Stephen Page and Bangarra Dance Theatre
 * Achievement in Theatre or Live Performance
 * Won

Helpmann Awards
The Helpmann Awards is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia since 2001. Note: 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

! Ref.
 * rowspan="4"| 2001
 * Skin (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="4"|
 * rowspan="2"| Stephen Page for Skin (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Helpmann Award for Best Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Nominated
 * Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work
 * Won
 * Karen Norris for Skin (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Helpmann Award for Best Lighting Design
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="4"| 2002
 * Corroboree (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="4"|
 * rowspan="2"| Stephen Page for Corroboree (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * Best New Australian Work
 * Nominated
 * David Page and Steve Francis – Corroboree
 * Best Best Sound Design
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="6"| 2003
 * rowspan="2"| Walkabout (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="6"|
 * Best New Australian Work
 * Won
 * Stephen Page for Walkabout (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Helpmann Award for Best Original Score
 * Won
 * Stephen Page and Steven McTaggart "Rush" - Walkabout (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * rowspan="2"| Best Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Nominated
 * Frances Rings "Rations" - Walkabout (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Nominated
 * Russell Page – Walkabout (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Male Dancer in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="4"| 2004
 * Bush (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="4"|
 * Stephen Page Bush (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Nominated
 * Jennifer Irwin – Bush (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Costume Design
 * Nominated
 * Nick Schlieper – Bush (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Lighting Design
 * Won
 * rowspan="1"| 2006
 * Jennifer Irwin – Amalgamate (The Australian Ballet & Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Costume Design
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="1"|
 * rowspan="1"| 2007
 * Clan (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Helpmann Award for Best Regional Touring Production
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="1"|
 * rowspan="1"| 2008
 * True Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="1"|
 * rowspan="3"| 2009
 * Mathinna (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="3"|
 * Stephen Page Mathinna (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Won
 * David Page for Walkabout (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Original Score
 * Won
 * rowspan="4"| 2010
 * Fire (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="4"|
 * Deborah Brown Fire (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Work
 * Nominated
 * Stephen Page Fire (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Won
 * True Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"| 2011
 * Frances Rings – Artefact (of Earth & Sky) (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"|
 * Mathinna (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="3"| 2012
 * Stephen Page – ID from Belong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="3"|
 * Waangenga Blanco – Belong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Male Dancer in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Nominated
 * David Page and Steve Francis – Belong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Original Score
 * Won
 * rowspan="5"| 2013
 * Terrain (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="5"|
 * Deborah Brown – Terrain (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Won
 * David Page - Terrain (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Original Score
 * Won
 * Frances Rings - Terrain (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Ballet or Dance Work
 * Nominated
 * Artefact (of Earth & Sky) (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="1"| 2014
 * David Page & Paul Mac – Blak
 * Best Original Score
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="1"|
 * rowspan="1"| 2015
 * Stephen Page – Patyegarang (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="1"|
 * rowspan="7"| 2016
 * Sheoak (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Ballet or Dance Work
 * Won
 * rowspan="7"|
 * Frances Rings – ''Sheoak (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * rowspan="2"| Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre Work
 * Won
 * Stephen Page, Bernadette Walong-Sene, Djakapurra Munyarryun – Ochres (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Nominated
 * Yolanda Lowatta – Sheoak (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Work
 * Won
 * Frances Rings, Deborah Brown and Waangenga Blanco – Lore (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best New Australian Work
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| David Page - Ochres (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Original Score
 * Nominated
 * Best Sound Design
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="4"|2017
 * OUR Land People Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Dance Production
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="4"|
 * Jennifer Irwin - OUR Land People Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Costume Design
 * Nominated
 * Elma Kris – Nyapanyapa (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Work
 * Nominated
 * Terrain (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="7"| 2018
 * Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Dance Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="7"|
 * OUR Land People Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * Stephen Page – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best New Australian Work
 * Won
 * Steve Francis – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Original Score
 * Nominated
 * Jennifer Irwin – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Costume Design
 * Nominated
 * Jacob Nash – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Scenic Design
 * Won
 * Nick Schlieper – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Lighting Design
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"| 2019
 * Waangenga Blanco – Dark Emu (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Male Dancer in a Ballet, Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"|
 * Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * }
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="4"|2017
 * OUR Land People Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Dance Production
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="4"|
 * Jennifer Irwin - OUR Land People Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Costume Design
 * Nominated
 * Elma Kris – Nyapanyapa (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Work
 * Nominated
 * Terrain (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="7"| 2018
 * Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Dance Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="7"|
 * OUR Land People Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * Stephen Page – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best New Australian Work
 * Won
 * Steve Francis – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Original Score
 * Nominated
 * Jennifer Irwin – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Costume Design
 * Nominated
 * Jacob Nash – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Scenic Design
 * Won
 * Nick Schlieper – Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Lighting Design
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"| 2019
 * Waangenga Blanco – Dark Emu (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Male Dancer in a Ballet, Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"|
 * Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * }
 * Best Lighting Design
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"| 2019
 * Waangenga Blanco – Dark Emu (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Male Dancer in a Ballet, Dance or Physical Theatre Production
 * Won
 * rowspan="2"|
 * Bennelong (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
 * Best Regional Touring Production
 * Won
 * }
 * Won
 * }

Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards
The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards commenced in 1984 and recognise outstanding achievements in dance, drama, comedy, music, opera, circus and puppetry.

 * 1993 || Bangarra Dance Theatre || Group Award || awarded
 * 1993 || Bangarra Dance Theatre || Group Award || awarded

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Amici

Amici may refer to:

 * Amicus curiae, a legal Latin phrase translated to "friend of the court"
 * Amici Principis, another term for cohors amicorum, "cohort of friends"
 * Amici (crater), on the Moon
 * Amici Forever, a band
 * Amici prism, a type of compound dispersive prism used in spectrometers
 * Amici roof prism, a type of reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by 90° while simultaneously inverting the image
 * Andrea Amici (born 1971), Italian male retired sprinter
 * Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italian astronomer, microscopist, and botanist
 * Giuliana Amici (born 1952), former Italian javelin thrower, later became masters athlete
 * Amici di Maria De Filippi, Italian talent show
 * Amici, the song of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
 * Amici della Domenica ("Sunday Friends"), the group that awarded the Strega Prize
 * Opus sacerdotale Amici Israel, international Roman Catholic association founded in Rome in February 1926

title: Amici


text: User:Hogeye

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Talk:Sprint

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There is Sprint (scrum) and there is Sprint (software development). Shouldn't those be merged, or at least linked? 194.78.91.242 (talk) 09:04, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

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Kalyana

Kalyana is a neighborhood in the Central Karachi district of Karachi, Sindh. Kalyana is one of the thirteen union councils of New Karachi Town. In 2006 it had an estimated population of 47,313.

Neighborhood demographics
Kalyana is composed of primarily the following ethnicities.

 * 1) Pakhtuns
 * 2) Muhajirs
 * 3) Panjabis
 * 4) Siraikis
 * 5) Kashmiris

title: Kalyana


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User:Schapel

Steve Chapel

title: User:Schapel


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holly Owens

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:24, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Holly Owens
Vanity CunningLinguist 01:35, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not vanity since Holly apparently did not write this, but still unencyclopedic junk. Very funny though. Academic Challenger 01:37, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I dont beleive pages have to be written by the person to be considered vanity -CunningLinguist 01:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. -- BD2412 talk 01:43, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. --Sn0wflake 01:51, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I added it to BJAODN :) -CunningLinguist 01:55, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. Physchim62 02:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Some bored idiot having a little fun. RabidMonkeysEatGrass 04:37, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - but a good BJAODN :) "'child-bearing' hips"" ha. Jasonglchu 14:44, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sweet of the guy, but vanity and therefore not for Wikipedia. Suntiger 18:00, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * *sigh* People in love should not be allowed to edit articles. Soundguy99 18:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete pointless cuteness. — Chameleon 20:09, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey I wrote the article and I know it isn't very educational I just did it for fun and I was bored although I don't consider myslef an idiot that is probably debatable. Although I am sure if I had the time/effort I could make some sort of case wh everyone should know about Holly.
 * Wikipedia isn't for making a case. Go and edit something else.  :) — Chameleon 20:09, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * While fun, Wikipedia is not just for fun. It doesn't belong in an encyclopaedia, it doesn't belong here. jglc | t | c 20:17, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The creator again just saying I knew it would be deleted (thought it would last longer then a day though) so if you must go ahead I have no real objections and I know that although in my encyclopedia Holly Owens would have a section that if it were placed in this one then everyone would want a page.
 * Kind sir, your dedication is admirable. jglc | t | c 15:06, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Vanity by the girl's lover. Delete - I am sorry. - Mike Rosoft 15:31, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - someone has to put it! Smileyrepublic 22:46, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it already the page I made (I am the original creator) no longer amuses me and I am sorry for wasting some peoples time with the whole page. I promise any further articles I add/edit on Wikipedia will have actual educational value.
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RPU

RPU may refer to:

 * RAID processing unit, chip used for RAID calculations
 * Radio Processing Unit (Baseband processor), for digital radio connectivity
 * Ray Processing Unit, component of ray-tracing hardware
 * Refrigerant Pumping Unit
 * Remote pickup unit, a radio link used to send program content such as news reporting to a broadcast center
 * Reprocessed uranium
 * Revenue per unit
 * Right of perpetual usufruct, public ground lease in Poland
 * Rigid Polyurethane, a type of plastic
 * Roads Policing Unit, the motorway and trunk-road police unit of a British police force

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2006 Finnish presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Finland on 15 and 29 January 2006 which resulted in the re-election of Tarja Halonen as President of Finland for a second six-year term.

The first round of voting in Finnish presidential elections always takes place on the third Sunday of January, in this case 15 January 2006. As no candidate received more than half of the vote, a second round was held on 29 January between the two highest placed candidates from the first round, Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö. Tarja Halonen, the incumbent, won the final round by 3.6 percentage points. The newly elected president formally took office for her second term on 1 March, and would have done so on 1 February, had no run-off been necessary (Constitution 55 §).

Advance voting is possible in Finnish elections, and the dates for this in the first round were the 4th, 5th and 7th to 10 January. Finnish citizens voting abroad could vote from the 4th to the 7th of January. An advantage to advance voting is that those doing so have a wider choice of polling stations (typically post offices, such as the one shown here), whereas on the actual election day the polling stations are fixed, usually schools, libraries or town halls.

Candidates
The candidates are listed below following their candidate numbers. This list was confirmed by the Electoral District Committee of Helsinki on 15 December 2005.
 * 1) (See below)
 * 2) Bjarne Kallis (Christian Democrats)
 * 3) Sauli Niinistö (National Coalition Party)
 * 4) Timo Soini (True Finns)
 * 5) Heidi Hautala (Green League)
 * 6) Henrik Lax (Swedish People's Party)
 * 7) Matti Vanhanen (Centre Party); the incumbent Prime Minister of Finland,
 * 8) Arto Lahti (independent)
 * 9) Tarja Halonen (Social Democratic Party; also supported by the Left Alliance); the current incumbent

The law states that candidate numbers start from the number 2. There are various justifications for this, such as preventing any candidate from using the slogan "number 1" for publicity, preventing ambiguity between the numbers 1 and 7, or preventing votes from being accidentally discounted because of a resemblance to a tickmark.

Themes
The main theme of discussion in the campaign preceding the election was the President's powers and whether they should be limited further. The Green League's candidate Heidi Hautala suggested that the President be completely stripped of all powers relating to foreign affairs and foreign policy, but this proposal met with fierce resistance from the three candidates of the largest parties – Tarja Halonen, Matti Vanhanen and Sauli Niinistö. Halonen, the main left-wing candidate and incumbent president, has further indicated that the president's powers should not be increased either, since it would, in her opinion, reduce the degree of democratic decision-making.

Another important election theme was the threat of international terrorism and how to counter it. The main right-wing candidate, Sauli Niinistö, stated in the last presidential debate that he would consider Finland's membership "in a more European" North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after 2008 to achieve such an end, but this was strongly rejected by the other main candidates. The only candidate openly embracing NATO-membership was the other right-wing candidate, Henrik Lax, of the Swedish People's Party. According to a poll carried out by the Taloustutkimus polling agency in July 2005, most Finnish people believe that NATO membership would increase the risk of international terrorism in Finland instead of decreasing it. This is also the view held by Vanhanen, of the Centre Party, and Halonen.

Other themes included Christian values emphasised by Bjarne Kallis; stronger ties around the Baltic Sea and a stronger European Union by Henrik Lax; criticism of the EU by Timo Soini and the state of entrepreneurship and the returning of Karelia by Arto Lahti.

Sauli Niinistö raised the state of work as another theme. His campaign slogan was "President of the workers" (Työväen presidentti) and this provoked many union activists and left-wing supporters and voters. However, he was also criticised for trying to lure left-wing voters to vote for him with this slogan. Niinistö's campaign stated that there was neither "left-wing work" nor "right-wing work" but only Finnish work for Finnish welfare.

Conan O'Brien
American late night talk show host Conan O'Brien endorsed re-election for Tarja Halonen on his show due to a long-standing joke about his resemblance to incumbent president Halonen. The skits, commentary, and mock campaign ads were seen on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on SubTV, a Finnish cable channel, five days a week (with a brief delay). Markku Jääskeläinen, Halonen's campaign manager, noted that the frequent mention of Halonen's name was positive for their campaign, and the running bits on the show attracted international attention to the election.

Opinion polls
Here is a collection of latest poll results. The opinion pollsters' methods may vary, as do the samples and the conducting time, which give the differences.

The total percentages may exceed 100% due to rounding.

Two of the latest polls made by Taloustutkimus and Suomen Gallup raised discussion over whether Halonen would gain the 50%+ majority of the votes necessary to win the election in a single round. According to Helsingin Sanomat, the reason why Halonen's support has decreased in polls might be an increase in the number of people not wanting to reveal their favourite candidate: some of them plead to the secrecy of voting. The airtime and space given by the media for the candidates may have given the candidates with smaller support the opportunity to bring their opinions to the public, which might add to their support in the polls in question.

On the other hand, the latest poll conducted by Research International (2) showed no change in Halonen's popularity between the three different weeks.

The candidates and their supporters read their polls for their advantage. In Timo Soini's mind there was a big surprise waiting in the ballot boxes; he did, in fact, receive 3.4% of the vote, which was much more than the support for his True Finns party in the last parliamentary election. Tarja Halonen stated this election as being the only one showing such a big support to her: "The crossbar is trembling just right", she said on January 10, meaning the excitement of getting the majority of the votes. Sauli Niinistö publicly stated that there would be a second round between him and Halonen.

Results

Voting took place from 09:00 to 20:00 on both of the two election days, with specifically designated periods for advance voting before both the first and second rounds. Every municipality was required by law to have at least one polling station. Voting was organised abroad for expatriate Finnish citizens at Finnish embassies, consulates and honorary consulates worldwide. The candidates were voted for directly by the electorate. Votes were counted nationally.

The counting of advance votes started at 15:00, and was expected to finish before 20:00, when the first preliminary results were announced. The preliminary counting of the election day votes began at 20:00, after which the votes were delivered to the central election committee in Helsinki, which performed a recount. The definitive result in Finnish presidential elections is required by law to be confirmed on the following Tuesday at 10:00 at the latest. However, enough votes are normally counted during the first hour after polling stations close for an unofficial, but clear, result to be announced.

A second round run-off was held on 29 January 2006 between Tarja Halonen (Social Democratic Party) and Sauli Niinistö (National Coalition Party).

Opinion polls predicted a close election. A January 19 poll (HS Gallup) gave Halonen 53% and Niinistö 47% of the vote. By comparison, in October 2005 a clear majority of 70% would have voted for Halonen when asked to choose between her and Niinistö.

Four of the six candidates who did not make it to the second round, Matti Vanhanen, Bjarne Kallis, Henrik Lax and Arto Lahti publicly expressed their support for Sauli Niinistö in the runoff election. This reflects a loose alliance termed porvariyhteistyö in the Finnish media, (roughly translated as "bourgeois collaboration"). According to Niinistö and Vanhanen, the main centre-right parties (the National Coalition Party and the Centre Party) had agreed about a year earlier on some level of co-operation to better compete with Halonen, who was supported by both the Social Democrats and Left Alliance.

Campaign pages

 * Tarja Halonen
 * Heidi Hautala
 * Bjarne Kallis
 * Arto Lahti
 * Henrik Lax
 * Sauli Niinistö
 * Timo Soini
 * Matti Vanhanen

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was speedied. — Xezbeth 07:36, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete. Yuck what a messy dump of text. RabidMonkeysEatGrass 04:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not encyclopaedic... given the state of the text it looks like a copyvio from somewhere. JamesBurns 06:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I briefly flagged this for a blatant copyvio, only to take the copyvio out again when I couldn't prove where it came from. If anyone finds the text in question, feel free to flag it. Jamyskis 09:00, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; advert, non-encyclopaedic, could be vanity... ugh. Just a bad entry. Jasonglchu 14:45, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete. This was part of the spamvertisement campaign by User:Sports Internet Destination. I saw "CEO" and hesitated to slap a VfD on it and went with the cleanup tags instead. Since Sports Internet Destination has declined to explain this person's significance, I don't think we need to keep it around. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  22:37, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

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Mozilla Firefox Extension
If you don't have Mozilla Firefox, get it. It is by far better than the current Internet Explorer and other browsers, and features a small search bar at the top right in which you can, by adding a special plug-in, search Wikipedia from any other site. Another thing to remember is the awesome 'Wiki Extension Bar in which it has buttons for Wiki syntax and useful tools for all of the wikimedia projects. Get it [here].

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Resources
Wikipedia is a fun place to work, but one needs to know a lot about wiki-syntax, links and how to format articles to do a good job. Here is a list of general pages I frequent when I need help.
 * The Community Portal, where there's never nothing to do.
 * The Wikipedia Topical Index, the ultimate resource for anything to do with Wikipedia. I use it a lot.
 * Introduction is a beginner's brief guide to Wikipedia.
 * Help:Contents is your handy help desk.
 * Tutorial is the best site for a beginner at Wikipedia.
 * How to link to sister projects
 * How to edit mathematical formulae using TeX
 * How to revert a page to an earlier version
 * Some pages with stuff to do:
 * Requested articles is always full of things to do and add. I often pick one at random and just do it.
 * Some good user pages of noted Wikipedians with lots of resources:
 * Jimbo Wales
 * Angela
 * Some fun WIkipedia stuff
 * The WIkipedia Department of Fun is a thoroughly enjoyable list of Wiki-games and activities. It's also where I found my favorite Wikipedia game, Wikipedia Roulette.
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Case method

The case method is a teaching approach that uses decision-forcing cases to put students in the role of people who were faced with difficult decisions at some point in the past. It developed during the course of the twentieth-century from its origins in the casebook method of teaching law pioneered by Harvard legal scholar Christopher C. Langdell. In sharp contrast to many other teaching methods, the case method requires that instructors refrain from providing their own opinions about the decisions in question. Rather, the chief task of instructors who use the case method is asking students to devise, describe, and defend solutions to the problems presented by each case.

Comparison with the casebook method of teaching law
The case method evolved from the casebook method, a mode of teaching based on Socratic principles pioneered at Harvard Law School by Christopher C. Langdell. Like the casebook method the case method calls upon students to take on the role of an actual person faced with a difficult problem.

Decision-forcing cases
A decision-forcing case is a kind of decision game. Like any other kinds of decision games, a decision-forcing case puts students in a role of person faced with a problem (often called the "protagonist") and asks them to devise, defend, discuss, and refine solutions to that problem. However, in sharp contrast to decision games that contain fictional elements, decision-forcing cases are based entirely upon reliable descriptions of real events.

A decision-forcing case is also a kind of case study. That is, it is an examination of an incident that took place at some time in the past. However, in contrast to a retrospective case study, which provides a complete description of the events in question, a decision-forcing case is based upon an "interrupted narrative." This is an account that stops whenever the protagonist finds himself faced with an important decision. In other words, while retrospective case studies ask students to analyze past decisions with the aid of hindsight, decision-forcing cases ask students to engage problems prospectively.

Criticisms of decision-forcing cases
In recent years, following corporate scandals and the global financial crisis, the case method has been criticized for contributing to a narrow, instrumental, amoral, managerial perspective on business where making decisions which maximise profit is all that matters, ignoring the social responsibilities of organisations. It is argued that the case method puts too much emphasis on taking action and not enough on thoughtful reflection to see things from different perspectives. It has been suggested that different approaches to case writing, that do not put students in the ‘shoes’ of a manager, be encouraged to address these concerns.

Role play
Every decision-forcing case has a protagonist, the historical person who was faced with the problem or problem that students are asked to solve. Thus, in engaging these problems, students necessarily engage in some degree of role play.

Some case teachers, such as those of the Marine Corps University, place a great deal of emphasis on role play, to the point of addressing each student with the name and titles of the protagonist of the case. (A student playing the role of a king, for example, is asked "Your Majesty, what are your orders?") Other case teachers, such as those at the Harvard Business School, place less emphasis on role play, asking students "what would you do if you were the protagonist of the case."

Historical solution
After discussing student solutions to the problem at the heart of a decision-forcing case, a case teacher will often provide a description of the historical solution, that is, the decision made by the protagonist of the case. Also known as "the rest of the story", "the epilogue", or (particularly at Harvard University) "the 'B' case", the description of the historical solution can take the form of a printed article, a video, a slide presentation, a short lecture, or even an appearance by the protagonist.

Whatever the form of the description of the historical solution, the case teacher must take care to avoid giving the impression that the historical solution is the "right answer." Rather, he should point out that the historical solution to the problem serves primarily to provide students with a baseline to which they can compare their own solutions.

Some case teachers will refrain from providing the historical solution to students. One reason for not providing the historical solution is to encourage students to do their own research about the outcome of the case. Another is to encourage students to think about the decision after the end of the class discussion. "Analytic and problem-solving learning," writes Kirsten Lundgren of Columbia University, "can be all the more powerful when the 'what happened' is left unanswered.

Complex cases
A classic decision-forcing case asks students to solve a single problem faced by a single protagonist at a particular time. There are, however, decision-forcing cases in which students play the role of a single protagonist who is faced with a series of problems, two or more protagonists dealing with the same problem, or two or more protagonists dealing with two or more related problems.

Decision-forcing staff rides
A decision-forcing case conducted in the place where the historical decisions at the heart of the case were made is called a "decision-forcing staff ride." Also known as an "on-site decision-forcing case", a decision-forcing staff ride should not be confused with the two very different exercises that are also known as "staff rides": retrospective battlefield tours of the type practiced by the United States Army in the twentieth century and the on-site contingency planning exercises (Stabs Reisen, literally "staff journeys") introduced by Gerhard von Scharnhorst in 1801 and made famous by the elder Hellmuth von Moltke in the middle years of the nineteenth century.

To avoid confusion between "decision-forcing staff rides" and staff rides of other sorts, the Case Method Project at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, adopted the term "Russell Ride" to describe the decision-forcing staff rides that it conducts. The term is an homage to Major General John Henry Russell Jr.,USMC, the 16th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and an avid supporter of the applicatory method of instruction.

Sandwich metaphors
Decision-forcing cases are sometimes described with a system of metaphors that compares them to various types of sandwiches. In this system, pieces of bread serve as a metaphor for narrative elements (i.e. the start, continuation, or end of an account) and filling of the sandwich serves as a metaphor for a problem that students are asked to solve.

A decision-forcing case in which one protagonist is faced with two problems is thus a "triple-decker case." (The bottom piece of bread is the background to the first problem, the second piece of bread is both the historical solution to the first problem and the background to the second problem, and the third piece of bread is the historical solution to the second problem.) Similarly, a decision-forcing case for which the historical solution is not provided (and is thus a case with but one narrative element) is an "open-face" or "smørrebrød" case.

A decision-forcing case in which students are asked to play the role of a decision-maker who is faced with a series of decisions in a relatively short period of time is sometimes called a "White Castle", "slider" case. or "day in the life" case.

Case materials
Case materials are any materials that are used to inform the decisions made by students in the course of a decision-forcing case. Commonly used case materials include articles that were composed for the explicit purpose of informing case discussion, secondary works initially produced for other purposes, historical documents, artifacts, video programs, and audio programs.

Case materials are made available to students at a variety times in the course of a decision-forcing case. Materials that provide background are distributed at, or before, the beginning of the class meeting. Materials that describe the solution arrived at by the protagonist and the results of that solution are passed out at, or after, the end of the class meeting. (These are called "the B-case", "the rest of the story", or "the reveal.") Materials that provide information that became available to the protagonist in the course of solving the problem are given to students in the course of a class meeting. (These are often referred to as "handouts.")

Case materials may be either "refined" or "raw." Refined case materials are secondary works that were composed expressly for use as part of decision-forcing cases. (Most of the case materials that are available from case clearing houses and academic publishers are of the refined variety.) Raw case materials are those that were initially produced for reasons other than the informing of a case discussion. These include newspaper articles, video and audio news reports, historical documents, memoirs, interviews, and artifacts.

Published case materials
A number of organizations, to include case clearing houses, academic publishers, and professional schools, publish case materials. These organizations include:

 * Blavatnik School of Government
 * Harvard Business School
 * Stanford Graduate School of Business
 * Columbia Business School
 * IESE Business School
 * INSEAD
 * ICFAI Business School Hyderabad
 * Ivey Business School
 * Indian School of Business
 * Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
 * Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
 * Nagoya University of Commerce & Business
 * Asian Institute of Management
 * Asian Case Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong
 * Globalens at the University of Michigan
 * Centre for Management Practice at Singapore Management University

The Case Centre
The Case Centre (formerly the European Case Clearing House), headquartered in Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, United Kingdom, and with its US office at Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, is the independent home of the case method. It is a membership-based organization with more than 500 members worldwide, not-for-profit organisation and registered charity founded in 1973.

The Case Centre is the world’s largest and most diverse repository of case studies used in Management Education, with cases from the world’s top case publishing schools, including, Harvard Business School, ICFAI Business School Hyderabad, the Blavatnik School of Government, INSEAD, IMD, Ivey Business School, Darden School of Business, London Business School, Singapore Management University etc. Its stated aim is to promote the case method by sharing knowledge, skills, and expertise in this area among teachers and students, and for this it engages in various activities like conducting case method workshops, offering case scholarships, publishing a journal, and organizing a global case method awards.

The Case Centre Awards (known as the European Awards from 1991 and 2010) recognises outstanding case writers and teachers worldwide. These prestigious awards, popularly known as the case method community's annual 'Oscars', or the “business education Oscars, celebrate worldwide excellence in case writing and teaching.

The narrative fallacy
The presentation of a decision-forcing case necessarily takes the form of a story in which the protagonist is faced with a difficult problem. This can lead to "the narrative fallacy", a mistake that leads both case teachers and the developers of case materials to ignore information that, while important to the decision that students will be asked to make, complicates the telling of the story. This, in turn, can create a situation in which, rather than engaging the problem at the heart of the case, students "parse the case materials." That is, they make decisions on the basis of the literary structure of the case materials rather than the underlying reality.

Techniques for avoiding the narrative fallacy include the avoidance of standard formats for case materials; awareness of tropes and clichés; the use of case materials originally created for purposes other than case teaching; and the deliberate inclusion of "distractors" – information that is misleading, irrelevant, or at odds with other information presented in the case.

Purpose of the case method
The case method gives students the ability to quickly make sense of a complex problem, rapidly arrive at a reasonable solution, and communicate that solution to others in a succinct and effective manner. In the course of doing this, the case method also accomplishes a number of other things, each of which is valuable in its own right. By exciting the interest of students, the case method fosters interest in professional matters. By placing such things in a lively context, the case method facilitates the learning of facts, nomenclature, conventions, techniques, and procedures. By providing both a forum for discussion and concrete topics to discuss, the case method encourages professional dialogue. By providing challenging practice in the art of decision-making, the case method refines professional judgement. By asking difficult questions, the case method empowers students to reflect upon the peculiar demands of their profession.

In his classic essay on the case method ("Because Wisdom Can't Be Told"), Charles I. Gragg of the Harvard Business School argued that "the case system, properly used, initiates students into the ways of independent thought and responsible judgement."

Incompatible objectives
While the case method can be used to accomplish a wide variety of goals, certain objectives are at odds with its nature as an exercise in professional judgement. These incompatible objectives include attempts to use decision-forcing cases to:

 * provide an example to be emulated
 * paint a particular person as a hero or a villain
 * encourage (or discourage) a particular type of behavior
 * illustrate a pre-existing theory

Thomas W. Shreeve, who uses the case method to teach people in the field of military intelligence, argues that "Cases are not meant to illustrate either the effective or the ineffective handling of administrative, operational, logistic, ethical, or other problems, and the characters in cases should not be portrayed either as paragons of virtue or as archvillains. The instructor/casewriter must be careful not to tell the students what to think—they are not empty vessels waiting to be filled with wisdom. With this method of teaching, a major share of the responsibility for thinking critically about the issues under discussion is shifted to the students, where it belongs."

Disclaimers
Case materials are often emblazoned with a disclaimer that warns both teachers and students to avoid the didactic, hortatory, and "best practices" fallacies. Here are some examples of such disclaimers:

'' This case is intended to serve as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either the effective or ineffective handling of a situation.

'' This decision-forcing case is an exercise designed to foster empathy, creativity, a bias for action, and other martial virtues. As such, it makes no argument for the effectiveness of any particular course of action, technique, procedure, or convention. ''

'' This case is intended to serve as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either the effective or ineffective handling of a situation. Its purpose is to put the student in the shoes of the decision-maker in order to gain a fuller understanding of the situations and the decisions made. ''

Use of the case method in professional schools
The case method is used in a variety of professional schools. These include the:

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 * Harvard Business School
 * IESE Business School
 * Columbia Business School
 * Singapore Management University
 * Blavatnik School of Government
 * INCAE Business School
 * ICFAI Business School Hyderabad
 * The Acton School of Business
 * Hogeschool van Amsterdam
 * Asian Institute of Management
 * Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
 * Richard Ivey School of Business
 * John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
 * NUCB Business School at the Nagoya University of Commerce & Business
 * Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
 * Columbia School of Journalism
 * Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
 * School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
 * Yale School of Management
 * Marine Corps University
 * Cranfield School of Management
 * School of Advertising & Public Relations, University of Texas
 * Suleman Dawood School of Business at the Lahore University of Management Sciences
 * Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
 * Michael G. Foster School of Business
 * Institute for Financial Management and Research
 * Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
 * INALDE Business School in Bogota, Colombia

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