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Raindance may refer to: *Rain dance, a Native American ritual dance to invoke rain *Raindance Communications, a US company that provides online meeting, web conferencing and teleconferencing services *Raindance Film Festival and Film School * Raindance (''Transformers''), a fictional character * ''Raindance'' (Clark Datchler album), 1990 * ''Raindance'' (Gryphon album), 1975 * ''Raindance'' (David Lasley album), 1984 * ''Raindance'' (Sara Storer album), 2019 *Raindance (rave), British Rave event organisers *Raindance Foundation, an early video art group and public access cable pioneer *RainDance Technologies, an American company founded by Jonathan Rothberg *Operation Raindance, a military offensive during the Laotian Civil War See also *''Raindancing ''Raindancing'' is the second solo studio album by English singer Alison Moyet, released on 6 April 1987 by CBS Records. It reached 2 on the UK Albums Chart and features the singles " Is This Love?", " Weak in the Presence of Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rain Dance
Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain. Among the best known examples of weather modification rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern United States. Some of these weather modification rituals are still implemented today. Examples North America Julia M. Buttree (the wife of Ernest Thompson Seton) describes the rain dance of the Zuni, along with other Native American dances, in her book ''The Rhythm of the Redman''. Feathers and turquoise, or other blue items, are worn during the ceremony to symbolize wind and rain respectively. Details on how best to perform the Rain Dance have been passed down by oral tradition. In an early sort of meteorology, Native Americans in the midwestern parts of the modern United States often tracked and followed known weather patterns while offering to perform a rain dance for settlers in return for trade items. This is best docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance Communications
Raindance Communications, Inc. was an American company that provided online meeting, web conferencing and teleconferencing services. The Company offered interactive services including automated phone conferencing, web conferencing, and collaboration, which allows users the ability to whiteboard, tour the web, and share desktop applications. History Raindance was founded in April 1997 in Delaware. Their principal executive offices were located in Louisville, Colorado. The company had its first recorded revenues in January 1998 and had incurred net losses since inception. Raindance began offering its Web and Phone Conferencing service in April 1999 and the Web Conferencing Pro service upon our acquisition of Contigo Software, Inc. in June 2000. In May 2001, the company changed its name from Evoke to Raindance Communications as a result of a settlement agreement reached in January between Evoke Software, "Raindance is an inviting symbol of how we harness the collective energy of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance Film Festival
Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates in major cities including London, Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin, and Brussels. The festival was established in 1992 by Elliot Grove to be the voice of British filmmaking, and it showcases features and shorts by filmmakers from around the world to an audience of film executives and buyers, journalists, film fans and filmmakers. In 2013, the festival was listed by '' Variety'' as one of the world's top 50 "unmissable film festivals". Timeline *1992 – Raindance is founded. Film training courses are offered. *1993 – The Raindance Film Festival is launched, World premiere of '' What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'' *1994 – '' Pulp Fiction'' makes its UK debut at Raindance. *1998 – Raindance creates the British Independent Film Awards which celebrate the achievements of independent British filmmaking. *2000 – Christopher Nolan's '' Memento'' has its UK premiere at Raind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance (Transformers)
This is a list of characters in the ''Transformers'' Generation 1 comics series. Non-Transformer characters A * Aunty - The Autobots computer on board the Ark. B * Walter Barnett - US government official and friend of the Autobots. Originally suspicious of the Autobots, Barnett became convinced they were friendly after seeing they chose not to fight back when attacked by humans. Barnett saved the lives of the Throttlebots by transferring their "brains" to toy cars before their bodies were destroyed. * Berko - Originally a homeless man, abducted into the Cosmic Carnival. Eventually becomes the Cosmic Carnival's ringmaster. * B'ghdad - Crime lord. He appears in a Matrix Quest story based on the film '' The Maltese Falcon''. * Big Top - Owner of the Cosmic Carnival. * G. B. Blackrock - Millionaire and friend of the Autobots. Blackrock owns several companies, most prominently a chain of gas stations. He is a bit of a playboy and likes to flaunt his riches. Following an attack by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance (Clark Datchler Album)
''Raindance'' is the debut solo album from English singer and musician Clark Datchler. It was released in 1990 by Virgin Records. Datchler had left Johnny Hates Jazz in 1988 to continue his solo career. He moved to Amsterdam and began work on his debut album. ''Raindance'' features some renowned musicians, including bass player Nathan East, drummer John "JR" Robinson, percussionist Paulinho da Costa and guitarist Dave Gregory of XTC. The album saw the recording of Datchler's first environmental song, "Raindance". The first single from ''Raindance'' was " Crown of Thorns". It reached No. 100 in the UK and remains Datchler's only appearance on the chart as a solo artist. A music video was filmed to promote the single, which shows Clark singing along with other shots of art and relevant scenes relating to the lyrics featured in the song. ''Raindance'' was released shortly after but was a commercial failure. The Japanese version of the album features the bonus track "Widow", which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance (Gryphon Album)
Gryphon are an English progressive and medieval folk rock band formed in London in 1972. They are known for their medieval and Renaissance style of music. The band briefly flourished in the progressive rock heyday of the early 1970s, and then retired to other musical activities before reforming for a one-off reunion in 2009. Subsequently, Gryphon played some gigs in 2015, featured at the Cropredy Festival in 2016, and in 2017, an invitation to a ProgRock festival in Portugal, and in the UK, the NewDay Festival near Canterbury. The first new Gryphon record for 41 years was released in 2018. History Formation Gryphon formed in early 1972 as a four-piece band by English musicians Graeme Taylor, Richard Harvey, Dave Oberlé, and Brian Gulland. Harvey and Gulland were graduates of the Royal College of Music in London who started an acoustic band, using their classically trained backgrounds to perform a mixture of English folk music, contemporary rock, medieval and Renaissance mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lasley
David Eldon Lasley (August 20, 1947 – December 9, 2021) was an American recording artist, singer, musician and songwriter. He was best known as a touring background singer for James Taylor, as a session singer on recordings by artists including James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Luther Vandross, Chic, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Bette Midler, Dusty Springfield and Boz Scaggs; as a songwriter for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, Maxine Nightingale, Rita Coolidge, Crystal Gayle, and Luther Vandross; and for his solo albums, albums with his 1970s vocal group Rosie, and for his early years in Detroit with his vocal group The Utopias. His best known songs include Maxine Nightingale's " Lead Me On" (co-written with Allee Willis), The Manhattan Transfer's "Shaker Song" (co-written with Willis and Jay Beckenstein), and Boz Scaggs' " Jojo" (co-written with Scaggs and David Foster. In 1980, David Lasley was signed by David Geffen to Geffen Records. At the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance (Sara Storer Album)
''Raindance'' is the seventh studio album by Australian country music singer Sara Storer. It was released on 12 April 2019. Speaking of the first single "Raindance", released in January 2019, Storer said: "'Raindance' is a song of hope. It also sends a message of coming together through dance and song. Music is great therapy and while our nation waits on rain let's dance and sing this drought away. As a songwriter, we can often find ourselves writing stories with a heavy heart whether it be about ourselves or of others. So with regard to the drought, and the endless hardships of Aussie farmers, I felt it time to write a song of hope. A song that can lift out spirits during the nations wait for rain." The album will be supported by an Australian tour commencing on 2 March and concluding on 18 May. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Country Album. Track listing # "Raindance" – 3:44 # "My Little Men" – 4:13 # "Plough'n It In" � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance (rave)
Raindance are British rave event organisers. They were one of the best known rave names on the rave scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The start The first event was held at a circus tent on 16 September 1989 at Jenkins Lane, Beckton in east London. This was Britain's first legal all night rave. DJs such as Carl Cox, Dave Angel, LTJ Bukem, Mr C, DJ Rap, John Digweed, Kevin "Reece" Saunderson, Slipmatt, Fabio and Grooverider started out at Raindance. Live acts such as Shades of Rhythm, N-Joi and The Prodigy have all played at Raindance. From 1989 to 1993, Raindance went on to hold large-scale events across Essex, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset and even Spain. The venues Raindance used held up to 10,000 ravers. DJ Slipmatt's brother, Paul Nelson, was one of the original promoters. The original idea to hold a rave came from Slipmatt himself. But, by 1993, with pressure from the authorities (Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) and the rave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance Foundation
Raindance Foundation (RainDance Corporation) was founded in October 1969 by Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan, Michael Shamberg, Louis Jaffe, and Marco Vassi. Raindance was a self-described "alternate culture think-tank" that embraced video as an alternative form of cultural communication. The name "RainDance Corporation" was an ironic reference to the mainstream organization Rand Corporation. Influenced by the communications theories of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller, the collective produced a data bank of tapes and writings that explored the relation of cybernetics, media, and ecology. From 1970 to 1974, Raindance published the seminal video journal '' Radical Software'' (initially edited by Beryl Korot and Phyllis Gershuny), which provided a network of communications for the emerging alternative video movement with a circulation of 5,000. In 1971, Dean and Dudley Evenson joined the Raindance Foundation and taught video workshops through the Metropolitan Museum of Art under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RainDance Technologies
Jonathan Marc Rothberg (born April 28, 1963) is an American scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to next-generation DNA sequencing. He works and resides in Guilford, Connecticut. Early life Rothberg was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Lillian Rothberg and Henry Rothberg, a chemical engineer. Prior to Rothberg's birth, his parents founded Laticrete International, Inc. a family-owned manufacturer of products for the installation of tile and stone. As a child Jonathan went on sales calls with his father. Rothberg's family laid the foundation for his scientific career. Education and scientific career Rothberg earned a BS in chemical engineering with an option in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. He then went on to earn an MS, MPhil, and PhD in biology from Yale University. Rothberg himself holds more than 100 patents. Business career CuraGen While a graduate student at Yale, he founded CuraGen, one of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Raindance
Operation Raindance was a military operation of the Laotian Civil War, staged from 17 March to 7 April 1969. It was launched by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in support of Hmong guerrillas raised by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As the guerrillas were being pressured by enemy troops pushing to within ten kilometers of their main bases, the aerial campaign was planned to cause a pullback by the pressing communists. As the first well-targeted aerial campaign in Laos, Operation Raindance's 65 strikes per day gained such great results that it was extended indefinitely. Even after its "ending" on 7 April, the interdiction continued; eventually, it would be dubbed Operation Stranglehold. In all, it was the most successful Lao air strike operation to date. Among enemy losses to air were two tanks, two BTR-40 armored cars, 32 other vehicles, 28 antiaircraft guns, 28 bunkers, and six gun positions. Bombing caused over 1,500 secondary explosions of munitions, and destroyed over 2,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
