Mark Bluvshtein

Mark Bluvshtein (born 20 April 1988) is a Soviet-born Canadian chess player. He became the youngest Canadian ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster in 2004, at the age of 16. He previously achieved the title International Master at the age of 13.
Early life.
Mark's father Ilia Bluvshtein is a Canadian National Master player himself, and taught his son how to play chess, playing countless games where Mark had material odds. The Bluvshtein family moved from Russia to Israel when Mark was five years old. They moved again, to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, six years later, where he attended Newtonbrook Secondary School. Bluvshtein graduated from Newtonbrook in 2006.
Chess career.
Bluvshtein was Israel under-10 champion (1998) and under-12 champion (1999).
Upon arriving in Canada, he earned a National Master ranking within a few months at age 11, making him the youngest Canadian to achieve this level. He was training during this time with Yan Teplitsky, who had studied in the famed Russian school run by Mark Dvoretsky before moving to Canada.
Bluvshtein's first major Canadian success came in 2000, when he tied for 2nd-3rd places in the Toronto Closed Championship, with a score of 8/11 points, behind Eduardo Teodoro IV. His first full international event in Canada was the Toronto Summer International Open 2000, where he made a score of 4½/9. He claimed clear first place in the Toronto Thanksgiving Open 2000 with 5/6, ahead of several strong masters. In the Junior Canadian Championship, Montreal 2001, he placed clear second with 7/9, behind winner Yaacov Vaingorten. In 2001, he won the Canadian grade 7 championship and in the Canadian Youth Championship, held at Sackville, New Brunswick, he took clear first place in the U14 group scoring 6½/7. Staying on for the Canadian Open Chess Championship, also at Sackville, Bluvshtein tied for 3rd-7th places, with 7½/10, behind only winners Tony Miles (in his last tournament before his death a few weeks later) and Larry Christiansen.
Youngest Canadian international master.
A few weeks later, Bluvshtein became the youngest international master in Canadian history, at age 13, when he scored 6/9 at the Zonal Closed Canadian Championship in Montreal. He tied for 3rd-4th places, behind only winners Kevin Spraggett and Alexandre Lesiège. He won the 2001 Toronto Christmas Open with 4½/5.
In 2002, Bluvshtein won the Canadian grade 8 championship and made a perfect score of 8/8 in the Canadian Youth Championship (U14 group). Then, in the Canadian Open Championship, Montreal 2002, he tied for 4th-10th places, with 7½/10, behind only winners
Jean-Marc Degraeve, Pascal Charbonneau, and Jean Hébert. Bluvshtein's first grandmaster round-robin tournament was the 2002 Montreal International, where he tied for 10th-11th places scoring 4/11; the winner was Degraeve. Just a couple of weeks later, in the 2nd Chess'n Math Association Futurity in Toronto, he tied for 1st-4th places, with 6/9, along with Yuri Shulman, Walter Arencibia, and Dmitry Tyomkin, missing a norm for the title of Grandmaster by half a point. In the Toronto Labour Day Open 2002, he tied for first at 5/6 with Goran Milicevic.
Youngest Canadian grandmaster.
In June 2003, Bluvshtein scored his first norm for the title of Grandmaster at a round-robin tournament in Balatonlelle, Hungary, by winning his last three games and finishing with 6½/9. He scored solidly at the 2003 Guelph International, with 5/9, but he had a rough tournament at the Montreal International, as he could only score 3½/11 in a field which had nine grandmasters out of 12 competitors.
Bluvshtein switched trainers, working with Grandmaster Dmitry Tyomkin for a time, with success. With funding assistance from chess patron and businessman Sid Belzberg, Bluvshtein was able to work with Israeli Grandmaster Alexander Huzman, and this provided the impetus for his next qualitative advance.
Bluvshtein made a Grandmaster norm at the 2004 Canadian Open Championship in Kapuskasing, where he played eight grandmasters in ten rounds, while scoring 6½/10 to tie for 13th-26th places; he beat Vladimir Epishin and Arencibia, and lost only one game.
The next month, at the 2004 Montreal International, he made his third and final qualifying grandmaster result with 6½/11 to place fourth; the winner was Zahar Efimenko. Then he placed third, following a tie-break playoff, at the Zonal Canadian Championship in Toronto, with 6½/9, behind co-winners Charbonneau and Eric Lawson. A couple of months later, Bluvshtein raised his international rating above 2500, completing the requirements for the title of Grandmaster. He was awarded the title by FIDE at age 16, during the 36th Chess Olympiad, held in Calvià, where he made a further grandmaster norm. Chess'n Math awarded Bluvshtein $7,000 for becoming a grandmaster.
Bluvshtein won the Canadian Youth Championship (Under 18 group) in 2005, and tied for first at the Canadian Open Championship at Edmonton 2005, with a score of 8/10. He defeated Alexei Shirov among others.
In 2006, Bluvshtein tied for 2nd-5th places at the Zonal Canadian Championship in Toronto, with 6½/9, behind champion Igor Zugic. Bluvshtein shared the title at the First Saturday tournament in Budapest in June 2007, scoring 8/11. He scored 7/10, unbeaten, in the 2007 Canadian Open Championship in Ottawa. At Montreal 2007, he defeated former world championship finalist Nigel Short.
In June 2008 Bluvshtein won the Budapest First Saturday tournament scoring 10 points put of 13, a full point ahead of the second place. At 2008 Montreal International, he tied for second with Hikaru Nakamura and Varuzhan Akobian with 5½ of 9, behind the winner Yuri Shulman. In the 2009 Quebec Invitational, Bluvshtein took second place with 7 of 9, half a point behind the winner Anton Kovalyov. That same year he tied for first with 7½ of 9 in the Canadian Open at Edmonton, ahead of Alexei Shirov and Michael Adams. Right after this Bluvshtein took second place on Canadian Zonal with 6½ of 9, undefeated. Proceeding to the strong 2009 Montreal International, he scored 5½ points out of 11, beating Alexander Onischuk and Alexander Moiseenko.
In 2010 Bluvshtein graduated from university and engaged in chess for a full year professionally. He played in 13 tournaments and matches around the world over the year. Bluvshtein tied for second in Nuremberg with 5½ of 7. He then played on the first board for team Canada at the 2010 Chess Olympiad, beating former world champion and world number two Veselin Topalov. At 2010 Groningen Bluvshtein tied for first place with 6½/9. His next success came in the 2011 American Continental Championship, where he tied for first with 7½/9 to qualify for the 2011 FIDE World Cup. Right after this he played in the Premier group of the Capablanca Memorial tournament in Havana, Cuba and tied for first again, scoring 6 of 9. At the World Cup Bluvshtein was eliminated in the first round by Alexander Riazantsev.
Bluvshtein was selected as the Canadian Chess Player of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2011.
Youngest Canadian Olympian.
Bluvshtein was first selected to play for the Canadian Olympiad team at age 14 in 2002; this tied the record for the youngest Canadian male chess Olympian, first set by Daniel Yanofsky in 1939. Bluvshtein was also selected in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010, gradually moving up the boards and playing on board one in his last two Olympiads. His results in this Olympiad are:
His totals for Canada in Olympiad play are: 54 games, +27 =16 -11, for a score of 64.8%.
Personal life.
In September 2011 Bluvshtein retired from chess and is pursuing other career opportunities. Bluvshtein graduated from York University in Toronto in 2010, majoring in Science and Technology Studies. He received MBA from Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2016. As of August 2017, Mark was working at Wave in Toronto as Manager, Financial Services. At the same company, Bluvshtein later became Director, Business Operations.
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Adrian White (equestrian)

Adrian White (born 21 April 1933) is a New Zealand equestrian. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. In March 2020, the entire 1964 Olympic equestrian team of four riders (including Charlie Matthews, who as reserve did not get to compete) was inducted into the Equestrian Sports New Zealand Hall of Fame.


Sid Terris

Sidney Terris (September 7, 1904 – December 30, 1974) was a top rated American lightweight boxing contender from the lower East Side of Manhattan. He excelled as an amateur, winning fifty straight bouts and taking Metropolitan, New York State, National AAU, and both National and International titles.
At the end of 1924, Tex Rickard, Dempsey's manager, rated Terris second behind only champion Benny Leonard. A world ranked lightweight from February 1925 until November 1929, his highest ranking was # 1. On February 6, 1925, he lost to Sammy Mandell in an elimination bout for the World Lightweight Championship.
Early life.
Terris was born one of five children on September 27, 1904 on Clinton Street in the lower East Side of Manhattan to Fred and Gussie Terris. His father died when he was only eight, leaving his single mother to bring up the large family. An early coach, Dan Caplin recognized his skilled footwork, and had Terris learning to box by age thirteen. Boxing as an amateur, Terris was a prodigy from an early age, winning fifty bouts in a row, and accumulating titles that included the Metropolitan Amateur, New York State Amateur, and both National and International Amateur titles.
Early boxing career.
Terris turned pro in 1922 at the age of eighteen, winning eighteen of nineteen fights that year. Author Ken Blady noted that Terris's greatest strength, his early speed and constant footwork in the ring, could also be a detriment against more skilled opponents, as it exhausted him and made him less a threat near the end of his fights.
In his first years as a pro, and not yet nineteen, Terris beat exceptional boxer Eddie "Kid" Wagner in a ten-round points decision at the Henderson Bowl in Brooklyn on June 3, 1924 after a previous six round loss.
Terris had a few exceptional wins by knockout as a young pro. He was the first boxer to get a full count from Andy Chaney winning in a third-round knockout at the Henderson Bowl in Brooklyn on May 23, 1924, as well as winning with a seventh-round knockout of Johnny Lisse on January 21, 1924 at the Lenox Athletic Club in New York. Chaney, in over 130 fights, had never been knocked out. Impressively, Terris fought Sammy Mandell, 1926-30 Lightweight Boxing Champion, to a ten-round draw at Madison Square Garden on December 17, 1923. One source noted that Terris's greatest bout in 1924, was a decisive win against French born Jewish boxing great Benny Valgar, in a ten-round decision at the Nostrand Athletic Club in Brooklyn.
Boxing peak and mid-career.
Boxing author Ken Blady believes Terris's best year as a boxer was 1925, when he lost only one of his eighteen major bouts. Unfortunately the loss was in a sanctioned twelve round World Lightweight elimination contest with future reigning Lightweight champion Sammy Mandell on February 6, 1925 in Madison Square Garden. This exceptional bout drew 13,000 fans. It was, in many ways a very close contest. Terris knocked Mandell to the mat for a nine count in the third round with a strong blow. Mandell, however, evaded Terris for the remaining rounds, and with greater energy and speed, somehow won the bout on points by unanimous decision.
His wins over Jimmy Goodrich in January and Pal Moran in March 1925, helped keep him highly rated in his division.
From 1925 to 1927, Terris had an exceptional run and defeated boxing greats Jack Bernstein and Johnny Dundee twice each. Dundee was formerly both Jr. Lightweight and Featherweight World Champion. Bernstein held the Jr. Lightweight championship as late as June 20, 1924. Terris won every round in his victory over Dundee on May 4, 1925 in Madison Square Garden. His July 10, 1925 victory over Ace Hudkins was also impressive, showing an exceptional defense.
Temporary boxing retirement and slow decline.
Perhaps because Terris went into temporary retirement in 1926 for eight months, his chances at a second title shot began to slowly diminish. Taking up boxing again in 1927, he beat Billy Wallace, and followed with victories over Babe Herman, boxing great Ruby Goldstein, and Phil McGraw. For some reason, his managers were unable to again secure a Lightweight Title shot. At only 23 in early 1928, Terris was the victim of knockouts from the great Jimmy McLarnin, Ray Miller, and on January 28, 1929 from Babe Herman, speeding the end of his career. According to boxing writer Bert Sugar, even in his devastating first round loss to McLarnin on February 24, 1928 in Madison Square Garden, Terris was still getting in jabs and "boxing beautifully" shortly before being knocked to the canvas for the count.
Terris, defeated Phil McGraw on August 24, 1927, showing incredible pluck. The Sarasota "Herald-Tribune", wrote "Sid Terris, New York contender for the lightweight championship won a decision from Phil McGraw of Detroit in their ten round contest at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, tonight." He somehow performed this feat after "a sensational first round in which he was knocked down three times, once for the count of nine."
As early as 1928, the "Milwaukee Journal", wrote that "It begins to look as though Sid Terris, once regarded as the uncrowned Lightweight Champion of the World, has reached the end of his fistic string." The article lamented his one-round knockout from Ray Miller of Chicago on July 6, 1928 in Coney Island. But more tellingly, the article went on to note, "the Ghetto Ghost (Terris) was one of the fastest and cleverest lightweights. He fought the best there was in the division and lost few decisions." The article also noted that in Terris's only lightweight title fight that "Mandell eked out a hairline decision at a great 15 round match at New York." It also noted Terris's stunning amateur record of winning "fifty straight bouts."
Retirement from boxing and later life.
Terris continued to fight after his devastating first round loss to Jimmy McLarnin on February 24, 1928 at Madison Square Garden, but the quality of his competition faded, as did the size of his audience. He lost as many as half of his contests from 1928 through his last bout with Johnny Gaito on May 7, 1931 in Columbus Hall in Yonkers.
In retirement in 1931, Terris worked many years as a matre d' at Stampler's Restaurant in Manhattan. He retired to Miami Beach with his family and died on December 30, 1974.
He was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2018 as the inductee in the Early Era division (1893-1943).


LEN Euro League Women

The LEN Euro League Women, formerly known as LEN European Cup (from 1987 to 1999) and LEN Champions Cup (from 1999 to 2013), is the premier competition for women's water polo clubs of Europe and takes place every year. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN) and was created in 1987 as .
History.
Created in 1987 as the women's water polo clubs continental competition, contested amongst the national champions of the European countries, it has been played under the following names:
Format.
Over the years, different formats have been used in the competition, either Round-robin or Knockout or both combined (round-robin at early stages and knockout at final stages).
Since the 2007–08 season, the competition has been played in four stages (qualification round, preliminary round, quarter final round and final four).
Finals.
Source: LEN (from 1987 to 2016).


Silvio Fauner

Silvio Fauner (born 1 November 1968 in San Pietro di Cadore, Province of Belluno) is an Italian former cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 2006. His best known victory was part of the 4 × 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He also won four other medals at the Winter Olympics with silvers in the 4 × 10 km relay (1992, 1998) and bronzes in the 15 km (1994) and 30 km (1998).
Biography.
Fauner also won six medals at the Nordic skiing World Championships, including 1 gold (50 km: 1995), 2 silvers (10 km + 15 km combined pursuit: 1995, 4 × 10 km relay: 1993), and 3 bronzes (4 × 10 km relay: 1995, 1997, 1999).
At the Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin on February 10, he and his 4 × 10 km relay teammates (Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, and Giorgio Vanzetta) who won the gold at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, were among the last carriers of the Olympic torch before it was lit by fellow Italian cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo.
In May 2007, Fauner was named the head coach of the Italian national cross-country ski team, replacing his former ski-teammate Marco Albarello.
Doping allegations.
The Swedish investigative television show "Uppdrag granskning" claimed that Fauner had an exceptionally high hemoglobin level prior to a World Cup in Lahti in 1997. According to sources quoted in the documentary, Fauner had tested 19.2 g/dL. The test result was confirmed and signed by International Ski Federation (FIS) official Bengt-Erik Bengtsson. Currently the allowed limit to compete in official FIS competition is 17.0 g/dL. According to Bengt Saltin, former chairman of FIS medical committee, such an hemoglobin value is not possible to achieve without banned substances or blood doping.
World Cup results.
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Team podiums.
Note: Until the 1999 World Championships and the 1994 Winter Olympics, World Championship and Olympic races were included in the World Cup scoring system.


LEN Euro Cup

The LEN Euro Cup is the second-tier European water polo club competition run by the Ligue Européenne de Natation for those clubs who did not qualify for the LEN Champions League. The cup was inaugurated in 1992.
Winners.
LEN Trophy
LEN Euro Cup


Oban Celtic

Oban Celtic (; ) is a shinty team from Oban, Argyll, Scotland. The club won South Division One in 2016.
History.
The Club was founded in 1927 due to a plethora of players being available who could not get a game for either the senior or the junior side of Oban Camanachd. The Club were highly successful from the start, winning the Bullough Cup in their first year and reaching the Camanachd Cup Final in 1937, where they defeated Newtonmore.
They won the Camanachd Cup five times in all, and they have also been runners up on four other occasions. They were also South Senior Champions 12 times before reconstruction.
The Club has fallen on hard times in the new millennium, being relegated from the old National Division One to South Division One in 2004 and then being consigned to South Division Two due to a poor league position at the time of league reconstruction. This led to the best players going to fierce local rivals Oban Camanachd, with whom there were advanced talks of a merger and also the loss of the reserve team. The club finished second in South Division Two in 2007 but won the league at a canter in 2008, marking success after several years of decline.
The club were runners-up to Glenorchy in 2010 but had a disappointing 2011, finishing 7th. However, they can look forward to renewed competition with Oban Camanachd's first team in 2012 as their bitter rivals were relegated from the Premier Division.
The club holds an annual Boxing Day fixture between ex-players and the current side. There is also the Robert Wylie Memorial cup played with Inverness.
Nickname and Origins.
"Celtic"
Over the years, Oban Celtic have attracted moral support from fans of Glasgow Celtic F.C., based solely upon their name. However, this name was decided upon the mere toss of coin, the other option being Rangers. It is also noted in the modern era by the rest of the shinty community that most Celtic players support Rangers F.C. [citation needed].The club plays in green and white stripes.


Lionel Cousens

Lionel Cousens is an Australian Paralympic archer. He was born in Western Australia. At the 1964 Tokyo Games, he won a silver medal in archery in the Men's St. Nicholas Round Team open event.


Austrian Futsal Liga

The Austrian Futsal Liga is the premier futsal league in Austria. It was founded in 2002. The league is played under UEFA rules and organized by Austrian Football Association, currently consists of 12 teams. From 2002 - 2005 the champion was crowned at a final tournament with prior qualification tournaments. From 2006 - 2009 the Austrian Futsal League was governed by Austria Futsal. From the 2010-11' season onwards the championship is governed by the Austrian Football Association.
All-time AUSTRIAN FUTSAL LEAGUE TABLE.
Seasons 2006/07 - 2020/21
League or status at 2020–21 season:


HTR High Tech Racing

HTR High Tech Racing is a video game by Brazilian studio QUByte Interactive for Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS, and soon Nintendo 3DS.
Gameplay.
The player can customize various aspects of the game, including their car and their track. There are 16 tracks in game with the option to download other tracks as well, including those developed by the community.


FantastICE Championship

The FantastICE Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Ice Ribbon. The current and inaugural champion is Risa Sera.
Title history.
The current champion is Risa Sera, who won the title by defeating Rina Yamashita in a tournament final to become inaugural champion at Ice Ribbon Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium Final in Yokohama, Kanagawa on August 9, 2020.


Eduard Alayev

Eduard Alayev (אדוארד אלייב; also Ilyav or Elyav; born December 4, 1967) is an Israeli former Olympic sport shooter.
He is Jewish, and was born in Russia. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 100 kg (220 lb).
Sport shooting career.
He started competing in 1981, and his coach is Marcel Cohen.
He competed for Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target at the age of 24, and came in tied for 15th with a score of 564.
In World Cup competitions in the running target, he won one gold medal (Guatemala City 1992), one silver medal (Milan 1993), and one bronze medal (Guatemala City 1994). He finished 28th at the 1998 Munich World Cup running target competition. He finished 36th in the running target competition at the 1999 Milan World Cup, with a score of 555 total points.


Windfoiling

Windfoiling is a surface water sport that is the hydrofoiling evolution of windsurfing, as well as typical sailing boat's and sailing hydrofoil's.
It uses similar equipment to windsurfing with a normal or slightly evolved rig on a normal or specialist foil board. The board has a hydrofoil mounted in the fin box.
The hydrofoil lifts the board off the water and enables the rider to achieve improved speeds in light winds due to the reduced drag.
According to the Windfoil Zone, windfoiling, aka foil windsurfing, is about windsurfing 90 cm above the water on a hydrofoil. A windfoil is like an underwater glider that allows you to fly over the water. The foil transmits a hydrodynamic lift force to the board, capable of lifting it out of the water. The goal is of course to reduce drag and increase performance.
Olympic event debut.
With respect to Olympic events, just as kiting then in 2012, windsurfing now is. As an advanced form of windsurfing, windfoiling will be a new Olympic event for 2024 (the fourth of 10 to use foiling equipment). It is being tested for safety, security, and broadcast appeal to be debuted just in time for 2024 Summer Olympics in Marseille or Teahupo'o.


Heegan FC

Heegan FC (formerly Somali Police FC until 2013)
is a Somali football club based in Horseed, a district of Merca.
History.
The club was founded in the Port of Merca in 1950 by descendants of Italian colonists in Merca during the ONU mandate.
They have won the Somalia League in its inaugural year in 1967, and again in 2014/15.
The team is based in the rebuilt Banadir Stadium.


Canoe polo at the 2009 World Games

The canoe polo events at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung was played between 17 and 18 July. 96 athletes, from 9 nations, participated in the tournament. The competition took place at Lotus Pond.


Step into Liquid

Step into Liquid (2003) is a documentary about surfing directed by Dana Brown, son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown. The film includes surfing footage from the famous Pipeline, the beaches of Vietnam, and some of the world's largest waves, at Cortes Bank. The film was Dana Brown's first solo project.
Production and release.
The film made a box office of $3,681,803 in the United States.
The documentary is available on DVD, DVD-ROM (in WMVHD HDTV) and Blu-ray Disc. It was first released on April 20, 2004 and marked the final DVD release distributed by Artisan Entertainment.


Japan Open (figure skating)

The Japan Open is an annual senior international figure skating team competition organized by the Japan Skating Federation. The current format (team event) was established in 2006. The competition is held every autumn in Japan. Invited skaters compete in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles. Skaters perform a free program but no short. Individual results are combined for a team standing.
From 1997 until 2001, Japan Open was an individual competition in all four figure skating disciplines.
2020.
The 2020 competition was held on October 3, 2020 at the Saitama Super Arena.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition featured two teams composed of domestic Japanese skaters only, rather than the traditional three teams drawn from their respective regions (Europe, Japan, and North America). Senior, junior, and professional skaters will be included.
2019.
The 2019 competition was held on October 5, 2019 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2018.
The 2018 competition was held on October 6, 2018 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2017.
The 2017 competition was held on October 7, 2017 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2016.
The 2016 competition was held on October 1, 2016 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2015.
The 2015 competition was held on October 3, 2015 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2014.
The 2014 competition was held on October 4, 2014 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2013.
The 2013 competition was held on October 5, 2013.
2012.
The 2012 competition was held on October 6, 2012.
2011.
The 2011 competition was held on October 1, 2011 at the Saitama Super Arena.
Ladies.
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva replaced the injured Sarah Meier.
2010.
The 2010 event was held on October 2, 2010 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2009.
The 2009 event was held on October 3, 2009 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2008.
The 2008 event was held on April 20, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2007.
The 2007 event was held on April 29, 2007 at the Saitama Super Arena.
2006.
The 2006 event was held on March 14, 2006 at the Saitama Super Arena.


2003 World Indoor Archery Championships

The 2003 World Indoor Target Archery Championships were held in Nîmes, France from 5 - 9 March 2003.


Zero Range Combat

Zero Range Combat (, Zerorenjikonbatto, also referred to as 零距離戦闘術, Rei kyori sentō-jutsu, which translates to "Zero Range Combat") is a Japanese martial art inspired by military combatives.
The founder is Yoshitaka Inagawa, who is publicly referred to as "sentō-sha" (戦闘者, eng. "battler" or "combatant"), and "master instructor" (マスターインストラクター masutāinsutorakutā) to his martial arts peers. The name "sentō-sha" is different from "martial arts" and/or "fighter" in that it means a person who is particular about military "battle", referring closer to something akin to "military artsman" (兵法者, Heihōsha).
History.
ZRC gained prominence in Japan when it was used in High&Low The Red Rain and .
Curriculum.
While ZRC trains anyone learning the martial art via bare hands, knives, swords, batons, flashlights and pistols, the use of rifles is also included in its curriculum.
Techniques.
ZRC was inspired by Inagawa learning Muay Thai, Sambo, Systema and Eskrima.
Use.
Inagawa has provided self-defence guidance to the members of the .


List of motor racing venues by capacity

The following is a list of motor racing venues, ordered by capacity; i.e. the maximum number of spectators they can accommodate. Due to the length of motor racing courses, and the fact that the cars pass each point frequently, it is often not possible to see the entire track from any one seat. This makes it possible to seat larger numbers of people, and differentiates a race-track from other stadiums, in which the entire field of play usually is visible from every seat. Some race-tracks also contain sitting or standing areas in the form of grassy banks. Currently all venues with a standard capacity of 35,000 or more are included.
"Italics" indicate that the circuit formerly hosted a certain championship round.


Inna Yoffe

Inna Yoffe (; born February 8, 1988) is an Israeli Olympic synchronized swimmer.
Biography.
Yoffe is Jewish, and was born in the Soviet Union. She and the Israeli synchronized swimming team train in Jerusalem. She swims for the Maccabi Kiryat-HaYovel club of Jerusalem.
Synchronized swimming career.
In 2003, she and partner Anastasia Gloushkov placed 15th in the World Championship duet event (where at age 15, she was the youngest competitor), and sixth in the World Youth Championship.
At the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, Spain, she and Gloushkov finished 9th in duet.
She competed on behalf of Israel at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece in the synchronized swimming duet, in which she came in 17th, along with her partner Gloushkov. She was the youngest member of the Israeli delegation at 16 years of age.
She competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, in the synchronized swimming duet, in which she and Gloushkov came in 15th. At the 2010 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, they were 7th in the duet.
She and Gloushkov placed 14th in the synchronized swimming technical duets competition in the 2011 FINA World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China. The pair qualified to represent Israel at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing in 17th place.


Snowman (horse)

Snowman (February 29, 1948 – September 24, 1974) was a former plow horse of mixed breed ancestry, possibly a cross of a grade horse with a US Army Remount stallion. He was purchased for $80.00 on his way to a slaughterhouse and became a champion in show jumping in the United States during the 1950s. During his career he was known as "The Cinderella Horse" due to his "rags to riches" story.
Snowman was originally used for farm work and in 1956 was headed for the slaughterhouse at eight years of age. On that day, Harry de Leyer, a Long Island, New York, riding instructor, attended the horse auction in New Holland, Pennsylvania, looking for school horses. He arrived late, and the only remaining horses were those waiting to be loaded into trucks bound for slaughter plants. De Leyer made eye contact with a large gray horse that he purchased for $80. He first used Snowman as a lesson horse for children. De Leyer recognized talent in the horse after he sold him to a neighbor and the horse jumped high fences to return home. De Leyer then began training Snowman as a show jumper.
The horse began winning prestigious classes only two years after he was bought off the slaughter truck, and his career lasted five years. He was photographed performing unusual feats such as jumping over other horses, and his calm disposition made him a favorite. He once won a leadline class and an open jumper championship on the same day.
Snowman also appeared on television shows (Johnny Carson's for one, where Carson climbed on his back). He was the subject of two books, had his own fan club, and was flown abroad for "guest appearances".
De Leyer kept Snowman through his retirement until the animal was euthanized in the fall of 1974 due to complications from kidney failure at the age of twenty-six.
Snowman was inducted into the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2005, Snowman was made into a Breyer horse model on the Gem Twist mold, which is no longer manufactured. In 2013, Snowman was again introduced in the Breyer line on the Idocus mold. The 2013 model box reads "Snowman - Show Jumping Hall of Famer".
Snowman is the subject of the book, "The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation", by Elizabeth Letts, published by Random House in 2011, a No. 1 "New York Times" bestseller. A documentary movie was made in 2016, "Harry & Snowman", that features original footage of his years as an equestrian family member as well as a show ring competitor. Snowman was featured in season 21, episode 8 of "Mysteries at the Museum".


Mikhail Nemirovsky

Mikhail Nemirovsky (born September 30, 1974 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a professional ice hockey player currently playing for EC Bad Kissingen of the German Bayernliga, the country's forth-tier league. Nemirovsky has previously played in the Russian Superleague for HC Spartak Moscow and HC Sibir Novosibirsk, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga for the Hannover Scorpions and the American Hockey League for the Fredericton Canadiens.


McGill University Rowing Club

The McGill University Rowing Club (MURC) is a rowing club that represents McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The club is currently a Level 2 intercollegiate program and thus receives partial funding from the university. As the only Quebec university with a varsity rowing program, the club participates in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) conference. It is a registered club with Rowing Canada.
History.
The club dates back to 1924 when it originally operated out of the Lachine Boat Club. Within two years the club established a rivalry with the University of Toronto Rowing Club with the inception of the McGill-Toronto boat race. In the ten-year existence of the annual race McGill would only win the first two meetings. By 1939 both crews would cease activities with the outbreak of World War II.
Rowing returned to McGill following the 1976 Summer Olympics with the revived club taking advantage of the then new Olympic Basin and its facilities. Initially only men crews raced with the first women crew taking to the water four years later in 1980. The following year the first Canadian University Rowing Championships (CURC) was held at the basin with McGill acting as hosts. The national championship returned to the basin in 2004, and again in 2009. In 2004 the men's eight won a silver medal, with current national team member Derek O'Farrell as bow seat. The 2009 event saw the women's lightweight coxed four score the Martlet's first ever medal (bronze), and the Redmen's first ever gold medal in the lightweight men's double won by Renaud Garon Gendron and Jonathan Rinaldi. In 2016, the legendary Nicholas Swanson Hutchison made his first appearance for the club.
Club colours.
The club colours are red and white matching the colours of the university. The blades are coloured red with two white triangles on the edge forming a sideways M. The logo is the McGill shield in front of two crossed McGill oars with the university's motto Grandescunt Aucta Labore (By work, all things increase and grow) on the bottom.
Facilities.
The Olympic Basin on Notre Dame Island acts as the home waterways for the club sharing it and its facilities with the Montreal Rowing Club (MRC). Both clubs are run independently from each other although they do routinely support one another. These facilities include:
The club also has an ergometer room at the Currie Gym, part of McGill's athletic complex. Additionally, athletes have access to the varsity weight room as well as other services.
McGill-Queen's Boat Race.
Since 1997 McGill crews have taken on crews from Queen's University in the annual McGill-Queen's Challenge. Considered the Canadian equivalent of the famed Cambridge-Oxford and Harvard-Yale boat races, it takes place in late April alternating between Montreal and Kingston. The 2006 race was hosted by McGill which chose the Lachine Canal as the venue. Reviews were so positive that there has since been talks of making it the permanent home of the race. As of 2018, the race has not been held for a number of years, due to logistical challenges involving exam schedules.
The men race for the Challenge Blade, a port side blade painted with Queen's colours on the inside and McGill colours on the outside. The women compete for the Challenge Trophy which is adorned with the wood handle of a sweep oar. The overall winner receives the D. Lorne Gales Challenge Cup named after original McGill rower D. Lorne Gales.
Lorne Gales Challenge Cup Winners.
2008 - Queen's
2007 - Queen's
2006 - Queen's
2005 - Queen's
2004 - Queen's
2003 - McGill
2002 - McGill
2001 - Queen's
2000 - Queen's
1999 - McGill
1998 - McGill
1997 - McGill
Men's Challenge Blade Winners.
2008 - Queen's
2007 - Queen's
2006 - Queen's
2005 - Queen's
2004 - Queen's
2003 - McGill
2002 - McGill
2001 - Queen's
2000 - McGill
1999 - McGill
1998 - McGill
Women's Challenge Trophy Winners.
2008 - McGill
2007 - Queen's
2006 - McGill
2005 - Queen's
2004 - Queen's
2003 - Queen's
2002 - Queen's
2001 - Queen's
2000 - Queen's
1999 - McGill


Go opening

A Go opening refers to the initial moves of a game of Go. On the traditional 19×19 board the opening phase of the game usually lasts between 15 and 40 plies. There is some specialised terminology for go openings. The precise meanings of Japanese language terms is often misunderstood.
A go whole-board opening refers to an opening sequence of plays, almost always laid out the standard 19×19 go board. Because of the symmetry of the board (eight-fold), there are certain conventions about displaying opening moves traditional in Japan. These do not necessarily apply in China or Korea, but naturally in speaking of an 'opening' one never needs to distinguish openings related by symmetry.
The Japanese term for the opening phase of the game is "joban", but this is not used in English. Instead it is very common to use "fuseki", a Japanese term that has a literal meaning of 'scattering of stones'. This really refers, therefore, to the way the initial plays are distributed around the sides and corners. If the game begins just in one corner, which is rare for high-level play but more common with novices, this is not really "fuseki". Also, "fuseki" may be commonly used as a description for the pattern adopted by Black, the first player, for example for Black 1-3-5. This ignores White 2 and White 4, and so is really a name for a side formation (for example Chinese opening) or perhaps a diagonal formation (for example "tasukiboshi", where Black 1 and Black 3 are at 4-4 points in the north-east and south-west corners). The Korean-language term equivalent to "fuseki" is "poseok".
There are also go corner openings. There are many thousands of these standard variations known, related to developments in just one 10×10 corner of the board. In English, they are almost always called "joseki", but one should be aware that "joseki" is not a synonym of "corner opening", but of "standard sequence". That is because the literal meaning in Japanese is of "set" (i.e. fixed or settled) "stones". There are "joseki" in Go that do not relate to the corner openings. The Korean term equivalent to "joseki" is "jeongseok", often transliterated "jungsuk".
In Japanese the 10-10 point on the board (i.e. the center) is called "tengen". An opening play at "tengen" is a kind of experimental opening, and has at times in history been controversial. It may lead to what is called mirror go, in Japanese "manego", in which Black imitates White by playing diagonally opposite with respect to the centre stone. There is another style, also called mirror go, where from the beginning of the game White imitates Black in a diagonally-opposite way. The first kind was interesting, for strong players, before the introduction of "komidashi", i.e. compensation points for second play. The second kind became interesting only "after" the introduction of "komidashi".
Go opening strategy is the strategy applied in Go opening.
There are some conventional divisions that are applied. Firstly there is the distinction that may be drawn between go opening theory, the codified variations that resemble chess openings in the way that they occur repeated in games, and "go opening principles". Since there is great freedom of choice, the fundamental opening principles are more useful for all players before they reach dan player level.
Basic principles.
Examples of principles that are generally useful are comments such as 'corner-side-centre', which says that the corner areas of the board are more valuable than the sides (points near an edge but away from the corners). Occupying points in the centre may be good for early fighting, but these points are weaker from the aspect of developing one's territory.
Developments over the last century.
The opening strategy in Go can be said to have undergone some major changes in the twentieth century. Not only have new "joseki" been developed, but some important shifts in thinking have occurred. For example:
Contemporary ideas.
Contemporary Go opening strategy is more complicated than the old corner opening/whole-board opening distinction suggests. The 4-4 point is used by professionals in about 70% of corners. Corner openings for the 4-4 point are still being developed, but it is more accurate to say that almost all contemporary opening theory is implicated in the patterns around the 4-4 point.
"Fuseki".
The Japanese term "fuseki" is sometimes taken as synonymous with 'whole-board strategy'. More accurately, it means the 'scattering' or thin distribution of stones that occurs in the early part of the game.
In the game of Go, opening theory is the strategy of where, why, in what order, and in what shapes the first several moves are played in Go opening. The middle game typically begins once the basic foundational areas called "frameworks" are established and "fighting" begins.
The opening is conceptually and traditionally divided for study into the sequences that are "whole board" openings and those that are "corner" openings. Each type constitutes a series of plays which have been studied for their balance (with the other) as well as for countermoves.
For a standard board, the most basic single concept for the opening is that "plays in the corners are more efficient for making territory than plays on the sides or in the center."
Only a relatively small proportion of openings have a recognised name. These include the Three stars opening ("sanrensei"), Two stars opening ("nirensei"), "Pinwheel" or Shusaku opening and Chinese opening (Chinese fuseki). To be more precise, these are names for the moyo (framework) formations which Black makes on one side of the board. Since White has a choice of perhaps two dozen legitimate variations on the other side, these are in fact large complexes of openings.
The Chinese opening has an intricate history. According to several historical accounts (both Chinese and Japanese), it was actually first developed by Japanese players, but later was heavily researched and developed by Chinese players. It was very popular from about 1970 onwards, and has by Go standards a thoroughly-researched theory.
Jōseki.
Joseki are "sequences" of moves which have been
"Joseki" is a Japanese word (定石) (Korean "jeongseok"), where "jo" (定) means "fixed" or "set", and "seki" (石) means stone(s). It thus literally means "set stones", as in "set pattern". Variations are shown to lead to different positional advantages and disadvantages for the two players in certain overall game situations. If Black and White both play the "joseki" correctly, they should achieve a balanced result within that particular corner; neither should have a large advantage, unless the opponent makes a mistake.
"Balance" typically refers to an equitable trade-off between securing territory in the corner versus making good "thickness" toward the sides and center. The assessment also takes into account who started and ended the corner sequence: if Black has played one more stone than White in the corner, for example, Black's result should be objectively better than White's, to reflect the extra investment of a play.
In application these concepts are in fact very dynamic, and often "joseki" are deviated from depending on the needs of the situation, and the opportunities available. While learning "joseki" is a tool to defend against a local loss, players can seek to take advantage by deviating from the "joseki", or "pausing" it.
Usually "joseki" as a term (in literature in English) is applied to a set sequence happening in one corner in the opening stage. These sequences are not the only set sequences in the game, however. There are also "joseki" seen in the middle game: these include standard follow-ups to earlier "joseki". Other examples are common techniques for invading or reducing frameworks. Learning to apply these so-called "middle game joseki" is one of the steps to becoming strong.
The current body made up of "joseki" is not fixed, but consists of patterns that have gained acceptance in professional games. That is, they form a consensus judgement that might change in the future, or with certain caveats.
Hence the basic definition may be misleading for new players in that joseki can be misconstrued as foolproof and unalterable, and are otherwise optimal for all situations. Some joseki are in fact useful only for study within an artificially confined corner, and in real play are only considered good form when used in proper combination with other plays on the board (i.e. other joseki and fuseki moves).
Knowing a particular "joseki" simply means that one knows a sequence of moves, resulting in a balance or fair trade-off between their positions. This is in practice much easier than appraising how "joseki" relate to the rest of the board —hence "knowledge of joseki" is regarded as shallow, when compared with the ability to integrate a strategy into a complex game landscape.
There is a go proverb that states that "learning "joseki" loses two stones in strength," meaning that rote learning of sequences is not advantageous. Rather learning "from" "joseki" should be a player's goal.
Hence the study of joseki is regarded as a double-edged sword and useful only if learned not by rote but rather by understanding the principles behind each move.
Every "joseki" should be used as a specific tool that leaves the board in a particular shape. Just as using an improper tool in machinery can be devastating, choosing the wrong "joseki" can easily be worse than improvising one's own moves.
In his book "A Way of Play for the 21st Century", Go Seigen compared choosing the proper joseki to choosing the proper medicine —"pick the right one, and you feel better. Pick the wrong one and you die."(par.)
Rui Naiwei similarly remarked that "playing joseki is easy [but] choosing the right one [in a game] is hard."(par.)
A "joseki" may fall out of use for various reasons, some of which may often seem minor to the amateur player, and professionals may consider one variation suboptimal for a very specific reason.
There is no definitive guide to what is "joseki"; the situation with "joseki" dictionaries is similar to that of natural language dictionaries, in that some entries are obsolete and the listing is not likely to be complete. Studying "joseki" is only an important part of developing one's strength as a player at some levels; the study of life and death and middle-game fighting are considered to be more important.
Concepts.
Opening theory is less dominant in terms of study for those wanting to reach a good amateur level, than in chess or "shogi". It is, however, an important component of Go knowledge, though there is no single, codified source for it.
The standard sequences for the joseki in many cases come to a definite end, after which both players should move elsewhere. In some cases a sharp local struggle breaks out, which neither player should neglect. For those cases, the result of the opening may develop out of a 10×10 corner area into the rest of the board. Analysis without taking into account what other stones are in place then becomes somewhat meaningless. The longest 'book' corner openings are about 50-ply.
Most corner openings do not have special or picturesque names. A few that do are known by Japanese names: the "taisha", the "nadare" (avalanche), the Magic sword of Muramasa. These are among the most complex, and are contraindicated for novices.
History.
Go openings have been studied in depth for many centuries, and center
upon concepts of finding balance with the opponent. Because black moves first, opening moves for black are based on the concept of exploiting that first-move advantage (along with sente) to gain influence (or strength) and thus establish areas of territory.
There is no complete theory of go, simply because the number of possible variations makes any literal study impossible. Hence even the opening is subject to changes of fashion, and also some notable periods of innovation.
Certain professional players are known for their use of specific or innovative types of openings, and their ability to combine their use of those openings with other strengths in competitive play.
The 10-10 point.
Go Seigen played his third move (Black 5) on "tengen", in a 1933 game against Honinbo Shusai, the top player of the time. Go lost the controversial 4-month game, which was played over 14 sessions in a "ryokan" in Tokyo from 16 October 1933 to 19 January 1934.


Kuwait Squash Federation

Kuwait Squash Federation is the National Organisation for Squash in Kuwait.


International Cup of Nice

The International Cup of Nice () is an annual international figure skating competition usually held in October or November in Nice, France. It has been held since 1995, except 2005. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels, although some events are not held in some years.


Run-off area

A run-off area is an area on a motorsport race track for racer safety. Run-off areas are usually located along a road racing circuit where racers are most likely to unintentionally depart from the prescribed course. There are different types of run off areas like gravel trap, AstroTurf and tarmac. Run-off areas are an alternative to catch fences.
Definition.
In motorsports racing there is a concept called the racing line which is defined in lay terms as the optimal path around a race course that will allow the racer to complete a lap in the least possible time with the highest possible average speed. The racing line is a function of the track's layout and the combination of a particular type of racing vehicle's (such as a car versus a motorcycle) capabilities and the physics of motorsports racing.
Because the physics involved in a motorsports event generally propels the racing vehicles along a certain path, and since the racers tend to work with the forces acting on the vehicle and make course changes while not suddenly confronting the forces in play on the vehicle, their locations at certain points along the track can be predicted and their course of travel extrapolated. As a result, in areas where a vehicle is more likely to depart the course (i.e., around the outside of a corner as opposed to alongside a straight-away), course designers will place a run-off area.
Design.
Race tracks have evolved over the years, as have motorsports in general, and through the concerted efforts of certain racers and supporting organizations, safety has become a top priority amongst race organizing constituents such as sanctioning leagues, sponsors, tracks and team owners. Prior to safety being brought to the forefront of the racing world's consciousness, it was often an afterthought and many racers were injured or lost their lives due to accidents that were either themselves preventable or
due to the lack of proper safety measures that, had they been in place, very well might have made a difference. Once such example is when World Champion motorcycle racer Wayne Rainey crashed in the accident that would eventually leave him paralyzed from the chest down. In that particular accident he rode slightly too aggressively into a turn and crashed. As he slid into the run-off area's gravel trap, he suffered a broken back. In that particular case the gravel trap had been raked in an effort to more quickly dissipate the kinetic energy of off-course cars. The change was unfortunately left in place for the motorcycle race in which Rainey suffered his back injury.
Another example is the introduction of the air fence. The air fence performs a function similar to the air bag in a commercial passenger vehicle, except that rather than inflating upon impact, it is pre-inflated. By acting as a softer, energy-absorbing barrier, air fences can be placed over hard obstacles around tracks that racers might encounter in the course of an accident. With an air fence in place the racer has a much better chance of sustaining fewer injuries than if he were to simply hit the object without any buffer. They are especially important (and more widely used) in motorcycle road racing.
Run-off areas are an important safety feature of modern motorsports parks and road courses. In fact, they are arguably "the" most important factor since they are the basis for several other safety features, such as gravel traps and air fences, which could not be placed anywhere or would be ineffective without a proper run-off area.
Importance in the perception of a motorsports park's standards.
When being interviewed about race tracks and what features they like and dislike, many top professional racers will mention the availability, design and size of the run-off areas of a certain track and how knowing that they are very safe gives them added peace of mind and allows them to push the limits further, since they have less fear of the consequences of making a mistake.
In short, other than personal safety equipment or the safety features of the race vehicle itself, the most important safety feature of a race track is the quantity, size, quality, maintenance, race-type specific configuration and overall design of its run-off areas.
Athlete pressure for added safety.
In the end, champions of motorsports safety found their most powerful ally not in any one group, but rather in market economics since the threat of financial ruin compelled more motorsports facilities to make significant and substantial safety changes than they were previously compelled to do by mere intra-sport political pressure. The same occurred within race teams, manufacturers and sponsors, although to a lesser degree since individual racers had less impact (and thus less financial sway) over the race teams to which they belonged than did large groups of racers over individual events or racing leagues, since in the latter cases their individual race teams were not necessarily vilifying themselves and therefore did not put up too much opposition if doing so might mean losing a top athlete from the team. In fact, cases of teams siding with athletes on issues were common, much to the chagrin of racing leagues in those situations. So, once the "barrier had been broken," as it were, safety came to the forefront of the entire racing community's consciousness and racers found that when pitted against racing leagues or venues on safety issues, they had a tremendous amount of support from their fans, the public at large, government agencies, manufacturers and so on. In other words, racing athletes now had a great deal of leverage over venues and leagues and the "status quo" became that the racing athletes became much more influential in venue selection for their respective leagues' circuit (although that leverage manifested itself primarily in rejecting proposed venues, rather than petition for the inclusion of tracks that were not currently on the circuit).
Economics of track safety.
As a result, in modern racing leagues, if a track does not have adequate safety preparations, including proper run-off areas, racers will often threaten to boycott any events that visit that particular track. In actuality, the racing leagues in question have safety standards to which they hold tracks when selecting them; therefore, if the athletes have an issue with a track it is usually because there is some problem that is either beyond the scope of the rules, or that they interpret them differently from the league, and so on. In order to prevent such a strike and to make themselves as attractive as possible to various racing sanctioning bodies in the hopes of attracting lucrative professional racing events to their facilities, park managements will often pay substantial attention to such facilities' features as safety devices, including run-off areas, and make substantial financial investments to add or improve such devices as deemed necessary. They will even go so far as to advertise safety as having been a central design tenet during the track's general construction or renovation. By making the facility as attractive as possible to racers, the hope is that the racers will put pressure on the leagues in which they participate to race at that venue. The other theory is that by making the venue as up-to-date, luxurious, safe and feature-rich as possible that various racing leagues will want to hold events there and thus not only will the park make revenues from gate fees, but they will also make more money from sponsorship deals for selling advertising space on track property (such as walls around the course, bridges, infield grass painting, etc.). Such advertising will be seen by many potential consumers since the more popular racing leagues have more television viewers and so the rates that the facility can charge to advertisers will be higher than if the track received less television air-time or air-time with lower ratings. Therefore, making safety improvements makes financial sense to a track's management since it leads to greater demand from event promoters and ever larger and more popular events, which in turn increase a track's gate revenues, advertising revenues, and revenues from club racers and other users of the track while major events are not being held since the popularity of a track corresponds to its usage by non-professionals engaging in hobby pursuits. If top racers do not feel that a track is safe they may put pressure on their racing league to not schedule events at that particular venue. Or, if a league has documented safety standards for the tracks on their circuit, they may choose not to schedule events at a deficient facility until it has made the requisite changes.
Until racers became actively involved with promoting race track safety, there was no market pressure on the tracks to make such improvements. Now that safety measures are an integral part of the demand equation (with the racing leagues being the consumers and the tracks being the suppliers), tracks must be competitive in terms of their safety facilities in order to be competitive in luring events from the most popular racing leagues.
Because run-off areas and their associated safety devices (i.e. gravel traps, air fences, tire walls, etc.) are a primary safety feature of tracks, they hold enormous economic sway over the track, a consideration that is not lost on designers of new tracks and existing tracks' renovation projects.


Harjit Singh Anand

Harjit Singh Anand (born 1948 in Jalandhar) is a former senior administrator in the Government of India and former co-president of the EuroIndia Centre, Professor at the Centre for Study of Administration of Relief (Delhi) and President of the Working Group on Famine and Society of the International Sociological Association.
Education.
After obtaining a BA (Honours) in Political Science with Economics, an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Administration, he joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1973. Among the various posts he has held, the following are particularly noteworthy:
Career.
Throughout his career, Anand has represented his country, often in a high-profile capacity, at various international events and bodies. Anand is a director of the National Krav Maga Federation (NKMF).


Championnat National

The Championnat de France National (), commonly referred to as simply National or Division 3, serves as the third division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. Contested by 18 clubs, the Championnat National operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Ligue 2 and the Championnat National 2, the fourth division of French football.
Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 34 games each, totalling 306 games in the season. Most games are played on Fridays and Saturdays, with a few games played during weekday evenings. Play is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January.
The National was founded in 1993 by the French Football Federation and serves as a "base league" for clubs on the brink of becoming professional or falling to the amateur levels. The league is annually composed of professional, semi-professional, and amateur football clubs. The matches in the league attract on average between 2,500 and 6,000 spectators per match.
Competition format.
There are 18 clubs in the Championnat National. During the course of a season, usually from August to May, each club plays the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of 34 games. Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then goal difference, and then goals scored. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned champion and promoted to Ligue 2. If points are equal, the goal difference and then goals scored determine the winner. If still equal, teams are deemed to occupy the same position. If there is a tie for the championship or for relegation, a play-off match at a neutral venue decides rank. The second and third-place finisher are also promoted to the second division, while the four lowest placed teams are relegated to the Championnat de France Amateur and the four winners of the four groups from the Championnat de France amateur are promoted in their place.


Andrew Bennie

Andrew Bennie (born 18 August 1956) is a New Zealand horseman who won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Bennie, riding Grayshott, was in the New Zealand Three Day Event Team which finished third, along with Tinks Pottinger, Margaret Knighton and Mark Todd. In the individual Three Day Event at the same Olympics he finished 20th. Bennie had also competed in the individual Three Day Event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, finishing 37th.
Bennie was born in Auckland. He now lives in England making his living from competing, training horses and teaching riding.


DT Carnage

DT Carnage is a racing game developed by South Korean studio Axis Entertainment. The Nintendo Wii release was cancelled.
Plot.
The game revolves around a fictional tournament called the DT Tournament where people race using modified cars that allows the use of weapons. The player's father is injured in one of the tournaments and swears revenge against the one who injured him.


Sergei Tarasov (biathlete)

Sergei Petrovich Tarasov (; born 15 February 1965) is a former Russian biathlete. In the 1990s, he was one of the dominating biathletes, winning four Olympic medals and seven World Championship medals over the course of his career.
Albertville incident.
During the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, Tarasov became acutely ill and had to be taken to the hospital. Rumours about the cause of his grave medical condition soon started floating around the Olympic village, and was also reported in the press, but the Russian team leaders said he'd suffered kidney failure from eating poisonous mushrooms. Many years later, in 2015, Tarasov gave an interview where he confirmed what many had thought in 1992, his kidney failure was caused by a botched blood transfusion. He'd either gotten someone else's blood, or the blood had not been properly refrigerated during storage. The blood transfusion at the Olympics was done by the team to illegally enhance his performance in the upcoming competitions, but nearly cost him his life.
Biathlon results.
All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.
Olympic Games.
"4 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)"
World Championships.
"9 medals (2 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze)"
Individual victories.
"4 victories (3 In, 1 Sp)"


2007 International GT Open

The 2007 International GT Open season was the second season of the International GT Open, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organización. It began on 21 April at ACI Vallelunga Circuit and finished on 11 November, at Barcelona after six double-header meetings with one single race round.
Overall championship was won by Autorlando drivers Joël Camathias and Richard Lietz, GTA class was won by Scuderia Playteam SaraFree drivers Michele Maceratesi and Andrea Montermini, while GTS class title was clinched by Riccardo Romagnoli.


Edinburgh East Lothian

Edinburgh East Lothian Shinty Club was a sports club, a shinty club which played in the South Division Shinty League, based in Musselburgh, East Lothian. They were formerly known as Musselburgh Camanachd until 2000. In 2007 they withdrew from the league due to team-raising difficulties. The club is currently dormant.
History.
The sport arrived in East Lothian during the early 1990s, principally at the instigation of Dougie Hunter and Ian Watt. The team played originally as Musselburgh Camanachd Club, in royal blue and white stripes, at Levenhall Links.
The club (in all its forms) played in the South Divisions of the Marine Harvest League and associated cup competitions. After a particularly difficult season in the upper division, Musselburgh found itself in a perilous state – it was at this juncture that the club was reconstituted.
At the suggestion of Secretary, Euan FS Pearson, the club reformed in 2000 as Edinburgh East Lothian Shinty Club, (to broaden its catchment area) and a new Constitution was adopted. EELSC were narrowly pipped to the league title during the two years after reformation – the latter amidst controversy over match cancellations/walk-overs. Read more about this period in an extract from the Shinty Yearbook, 2002. The club had links with hurling sides as well.
Successes were also achieved at the St Andrews sixes (1999) and the Inverness sixes Rosedean Shield (2002 and 2004). The club sporadically contested the Hunter Eccles Trophy against St Andrews University.
With the change to summer shinty in 2004, Edinburgh East Lothian found themselves in a large South Division One, where they routinely suffered heavy defeats. However, the scrapping of the National League One in 2006 meant that EEL were to be in a more competitive South Division One. This did not help the club in the long term as the club struggled to fulfil fixtures towards the end of the 2006 season and this trend continued into the 2007 season, where they have folded due to a lack of players.
The club did not re-enter competition in 2008 and some members of the playing squad transferred to The Scots Camanachd, Aberdour Shinty Club and Tayforth Camanachd. Levenhall Links still played host to matches, Tayforth Camanachd took up temporary residence in Summer 2011 with the loss of the pitch at North Inch, Perth.
In 2019 the former office bearers of the club agreed to close down the club's bank account and distribute the funds to shinty-worthy causes. As a result donations were made to Aberdour Shinty Club, Tayforth Camanachd, Edinburgh Youth Shinty and the charity 'Shinty Memories'. A reunion of players from the club in 2020 is now being considered.


World of Stardom Championship

The is a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion. The title, which is situated at the top of Stardom's championship hierarchy, was introduced on June 26, 2011, and the inaugural champion was crowned on July 24, 2011, when Nanae Takahashi defeated Yoko Bito in the finals of a four-woman tournament. The title is often referred to simply as the "Red Belt", a name famously used by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) to refer to its WWWA World Single Championship (of which Takahashi had been the last titleholder back in 2006). The title belt was crafted by American company Top Rope Belts, with a conscious decision to imitate the AJW title belt in terms of its color, with Stardom president Rossy Ogawa referring to the promotion's heyday as the "Golden Age of "Joshi Puroresu"". The title has also been defended in Mexico and France.
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been thirteen reigns shared among eleven wrestlers. Utami Hayashishita is the current champion in her first reign.
Combined reigns.
As of , .


Charles Jaffe

 Charles Jaffé (Jaffe) (circa 1879, Dubroŭna, Belarus – 12 July 1941, Brooklyn, USA) was a Belarusian-American chess master and chess writer.
Early years, moves to U.S..
Jaffé was born in a small town, Dubroŭna (now in Vitsebsk Voblast), Belarus (then Russian Empire). Considerable doubt exists as to his precise birthdate, as raised by chess historian Edward Winter and others. Various sources list his birthdate anywhere between 1876 and 1887. Jaffe emigrated to the United States in 1896, and settled in New York City. He worked as a silk-mill merchant until he became a professional chess player in 1910.
Chess professional.
In 1904, he took 7th out of 10 players at the St. Louis (7th American Congress) with 5/11, as Frank James Marshall won. Jaffe defeated Jacques Mieses, a leading player, by 2–0 in a mini-match at New York 1907. In 1909, Jaffe took 3rd out of 6 players with 3/5 in a small tournament at Bath Beach, Brooklyn NY (Herbert Rosenfeld won). Also in 1909, Jaffe lost a match to Frank Marshall by a score 3.5-5.5 (+2 =3 -4). In 1911, he tied for 3rd-4th at New York, with 9/12 (Marshall won). After this career-best result, Charles Jaffe made his international debut at the Carlsbad 1911 chess tournament. There, he tied for 23rd-26th, with 8.5/25, out of 26 players. (Richard Teichmann won) In 1913, he took 3rd at New York (National), with 9.5/13, behind José Raúl Capablanca and Marshall. In 1913, he lost a match to Capablanca at New York by 0.5-2.5. In a later New York tournament that same year, Jaffe scored 0.5/6 to finish 4th out of 4 players, as Marshall won.
Jaffe was nicknamed "the Crown Prince of East Side Chess" by the poet and chess master Alfred Kreymborg. He often played at the Stuyvesant Chess Club, hangout of chess hustlers and interesting characters, which had many strong players, and was located on Manhattan's Lower East Side. "Jaffe was famous for his poverty", and "his style was "inimitably coffeehouse". Jaffe made much of his income through challenge games and odds games played there. The colorful atmosphere of the club in that era was outlined by in the book "The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories".
Controversies.
Jaffe became involved in a 1916 court battle against 'American Chess Bulletin' co-editor Hartwig Cassel, involving the non-inclusion for publication of some of his chess analysis of the King's Gambit, Rice Gambit, but he lost the case, despite being supported by witnesses who included U.S. champion Frank Marshall. This was apparently the first American case where chess matters made it to the courts. While seemingly frivolous, this case should be viewed from the perspective of Jaffe making much of his living from writing articles on chess for Jewish periodicals, so his professional reputation was at stake.
Later career.
In 1916, Jaffe narrowly lost a match (+4 =4 -5) to David Janowski. Then in 1917–1918, he played a return match against Janowski, this time losing by a score of (+4 =4 -10). In 1918, Jaffe tied for 3rd-5th at Rye Beach, New York (Abraham Kupchik won). In 1922, he took 2nd, behind Edward Lasker, in New York (CCI). In 1925, he took 3rd in Cedar Point, Ohio (Kupchik won). In 1926, he tied for 4-5th at Chicago (Marshall won). In 1926, he took 2nd, behind Kupchik, at New York (Quadrangular).
In 1927, Jaffe sent a cable from New York to Alexander Alekhine in Buenos Aires, where Alekhine was playing José Raúl Capablanca in the World Championship match. The cable contained Jaffe's analysis of a new variation in the Queen's Gambit, which Alekhine is thought to have used in the match. The victorious Alekhine, upon returning to New York, played a two-game match against Jaffe at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, without financial remuneration, as a favor to Jaffe, and won both games.
Later years, writings.
Jaffe then left most competitive chess for a decade, except for occasional forays into Metropolitan League play in the mid-1930s, where he defeated a young (but already very strong) Reuben Fine in 1934. Jaffe lost a 1930 match at New York to Isaac Kashdan by 0–3; Kashdan was the top player in the United States at this time. Jaffe wrote "Jaffe's Chess Primer" in 1937 (published by Parnassus). His health was in decline by this stage. Jaffe also published several works in Yiddish. His return to chess in later life was chronicled by the writer and chess master Alfred Kreymborg in the short story "Chess Reclaims a Devotee". Jaffe did qualify for the finals at the 1938 U.S. Open Chess Championship at Boston, where he finished tied 8-9th with 4/11, as Al Horowitz won. Jaffe's final tournament was the 1939 U.S. Open Chess Championship at New York, where he qualified for the finals, but lost all 11 of his games in that group to place 12th, as Reuben Fine won.


Mark Foo

Mark Sheldon Foo was a professional surfer. Foo drowned while surfing at Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California, in 1994.
Early life.
Mark Foo was born in Singapore on February 5, 1958, to Colonel Charlie and Lorna Foo, Chinese photojournalists for the U.S. Information Agency. The family relocated to Hawaii when Foo was 10. He spent his early childhood surfing the South Shore of O'ahu, and continued surfing throughout his teenage years. His family moved several times during his adolescence but ultimately returned to Hawaii just before Foo finished high school. He studied for two years at the University of Hawaii.
Career.
In 1977, Foo joined the IPS World Tour, a professional surfing tour. In the early 1980s, Foo quit the IPS World Tour and stopped competing. Foo's passion for surfing big waves led him to surf larger and larger swells. In 1983, he surfed Waimea Bay, a famous big-wave surfing spot on the North Shore of O'ahu, for the first time.
But it was on January 18, 1986, when he ventured out into the bay with waves that onlookers said were in excess of 60 feet, that he rose to fame. When Foo fell off the overhanging ledge, the crashing wave broke his surfboard and tossed him into the water. Foo had to be rescued by a nearby helicopter, yet he emerged from the crash unharmed. He sent the story to various surfing magazines, and the failed attempt raised his surfing to status to that of a "demigod."
Death at Mavericks.
On December 23, 1994, Foo died in a surfing accident at Mavericks, a big-wave surf location in Half Moon Bay, Northern California. "Surfer" magazine wrote that Foo was sleep-deprived after arriving in California on an overnight flight for the swell. During takeoff on a wave estimated at 18–20 feet (Hawaiian scale), Foo experienced a seemingly innocuous wipeout and drowned. The fateful wipeout was photographed from at least two angles, and shows him falling forward near the bottom of the wave.
The most popular presumption is that Foo's surf leash had become entangled on the rocks, with the rushing currents of a second wave passing overhead preventing him from disengaging his ankle strap and getting to the surface. This theory was further validated when professional surfer Mike Parsons, who wiped out on the following wave, said that he came into contact with something, possibly Foo, as he was tumbled around underwater. Foo's body was discovered still tied to the broken tail section of his board inside Pillar Point lagoon over two hours later. The coroner's report cited "salt-water drowning" and "blunt head trauma" as his causes of death.
Foo's death shook the big-wave surfing community. On December 30, over 700 people arrived at Waimea Bay for his funeral. Approximately 150 surfers paddled into and formed a large circle. One of the participants, who was carrying a container with Foo's ashes, paddled into the center of the circle and placed the ashes into the ocean. A segment of the film "Riding Giants" documented Foo's death at Mavericks.
Legacy.
Foo helped elevate the popularity of the sport, with his talent, courage, and enthusiasm, and was recognized as one of the greatest big-wave surfers of all time. Mark was a favorite subject of photographers, and he had his own cable television surfing program. "If you want to ride the ultimate wave, you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price" was Foo's philosophy.
In the realm of big-wave surfing, Foo's death brought about a continuing discourse regarding the safe use of surfboard leashes, or flexible cords that connect the surfboard to a belt on the surfers ankle. Proponents defend the leash as a useful convenience and insurance against losing the surfboard, which serves as flotation device in the case of a "wipe out." They also assert that the leash is a means for a fallen surfer to find his way to surface air by following the leash cord to the floating surfboard on the water's surface.
There are also surfers who believe that Foo's surfboard leash may have caused or contributed to his death. Opponents of leashes in big surf assert that a leash can cause the surfer to collide with the board in a wipe out, potentially causing head injuries, and that the leash can also loop around the arms, legs, or neck, dangerously restricting escape to safety or strangling the surfer. Quick-release Velcro leashes have since become standard surfing equipment to address some of these dangers. The debates continue to this day.
American rock band Seventeen (later known as Lustra) performed a musical tribute (misspelled as "Mark Fu") on their 2000 LP Bikini Pie Fight!.
"Stealing the Wave".
The epic battle between Foo and Ken Bradshaw in the 1980s is chronicled in "Stealing the Wave" by Andy Martin (Bloomsbury Publishing).


Lippo Hertzka

Lippo Hertzka (19 November 1904 – 14 March 1951) was a Hungarian football player and manager of Jewish descent. He played for Essener Turnerbund, MTK Budapest and Real Sociedad. After retiring, he coached seven teams, including Real Sociedad and Real Madrid, a team which he coached for 2 years (1930–1932) and led to an undefeated La Liga championship during the 1931–32 season, which meant the first La Liga title for the "white" squad. He also won two league titles in Portugal for Benfica.
He coached Real Sociedad, Athletic Bilbao, Sevilla, Real Madrid, Hércules, Granada, Benfica, Belenenses, Porto, Estoril, Académica, Vila Real, Portimonense and União Montemor.


Victorian Tigers

The Victorian Tigers (formerly known as the Richmond Tigers and the Hawthorn Tigers) were a water polo team competing in the Australian National Water Polo League. Their success came mostly in the early years of the National League, which they dominated, winning the first four championships. They won the competition in 2010 with a victory over the Drummoyne Devils, 10–8.
They played most of their games at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, with a few games at the Hawthorn Aquatic and Leisure centre. The club left the league at the conclusion of the 2013 season.
The women's team finished 4th in the 2009 Finals series, losing the bronze medal match to the Fremantle Marlins by one goal.


Brian Ginsberg

Brian Ginsberg (born 1966) is an American former gymnast. He is a two-time US junior national gymnastics champion. He also won gold medals at both the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1987 Pan American Games while competing on Team USA.
Early life.
Ginsberg was born in Miami, Florida, to Nathan (a radiologist) and Iris Ginsberg, is Jewish, and grew up in Denver, Colorado, and Mobile, Alabama. His grandparents are Betty and Sam Diemar.
Gymnastics career.
Ginsberg was the 1982 and 1983 US junior national gymnastics champion. In 1985 he won the all-around competition in the Brazil Cup. Ginsberg also won gold in the rings, silver in the floor exercise, and bronze in the vault individual medals at the National Sports Festival. He competed in the 1985 Maccabiah Games for Team USA.
Ginsberg competed in gymnastics for UCLA, where he majored in kinesiology and was pre-med hoping to specialize in sports medicine.
In 1986 competing for the UCLA Bruins, Ginsberg was an All-American, and finished second in the 1986 NCAA all-around competition. He won the floor exercise in the competition.
In 1987, Ginsberg won the McDonald's American Cup at George Mason University's Patriot Center in Virginia, as Soviet national champion Vladimir Gogoladze came in second. The Alabama State Senate passed a resolution commending him for extraordinary achievement.
Ginsberg won gold medals at both the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1987 Pan American Games (when he also won a silver medal) while competing on Team USA.


Chinese Football Association Member Association Champions League

The Chinese Football Association Member Association Champions League (Simplified Chinese: 中国足球协会会员协会冠军联赛), or CMCL, former known as Chinese Football Association Bing League (中国足球协会丙级联赛) (before 2006) and Chinese Football Association Amateur League (中国足球协会业余联赛) (2006–2017), is the fourth-tier football league of the People's Republic of China. The league is under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association.
League System.
Anhui.
Linquan Workers'Football League（Fuyang）
Fuyang FA Cup （Fuyang）


Quicksand (board game)

Quicksand is a board game published in 1989 by Parker Brothers.
Each player controls one of four explorers racing to discover an ancient temple. The object of the game is to be the first player to move their explorer around the board from START to the finish line back at CAMP.
The player pawns represent a mustachioed archetypical British explorer; each pawn consists of a number of parts. To represent the explorer sinking into the quicksand, the pawn's feet are removed, then the waist, and so on until only the pith helmet remains.
A player begins the game with their explorer partially mired in quicksand, based on an initial die roll. Every turn, the explorer moves forward a number of spaces given by height, plus an optional movement die. The explorer can never sink more than hat-deep, and thus cannot be eliminated from the game.


Futsal Canadian Championship

Futsal Canadian Championship is the futsal year end national club competition hosted by Canada Soccer. Its first year featured two clubs from Quebec and Ontario in 2015. The competition is under the authority of the Canada Soccer Association and adheres to the FIFA Futsal Laws Of The Game.
The inaugural season was played in 2015 at Centre d'éducatif des adultes Outremont with only two clubs participating: Futsal Club Toronto and Albiceleste. The most recent edition featured eight clubs in 2019 and was won by Toronto Idolo, who are the most successful club in the competition's history. The 2020 tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2016 tournament was held at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology while the 2017-2019 editions were held at the Athletic Recreation Complex at Queen's University in Kingston.
Assistant Canadian Men's National Futsal Coach, Lorenzo Redwood, is the most successful coach in the competition, having won three national titles, 2016 with Toronto United Futsal, and in 2018 and 2019 with Toronto Idolo.
Since 2017 matches have been broadcast internationally via Canada Soccer's YouTube channel.
Participanting clubs have come from Yukon, Alberta, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec.
External links.
Futsal Canadian Championship website


Michelle Kwan Figure Skating

Michelle Kwan Figure Skating is a computer game released in 1999, starring American skater Michelle Kwan.
The player can create the skater, dress her, choose music and create a routine to it, and then compete in different skating competitions.
While it does not follow the strict rules of international skating, there are logical reasons behind creating a program.


Japan Squash Association

Japan Squash Association is the National Organisation for Squash in Japan.


William Hartston

William Roland Hartston (born 12 August 1947) is an English journalist who writes the Beachcomber column in the "Daily Express" and a chess player who played competitively from 1962 to 1987 with a highest Elo rating of 2485. He was awarded the title International Master in 1972, but is now best known as a chess author and presenter of the game on television.
Biography.
At the 19th Chess Olympiad, held at Siegen 1970, he won the gold medal for best score on board 3 (78.1%). He won the British Chess Championship in 1973 and 1975. In international competition, he had many fine performances, but failed to achieve the results required for the title of International Grandmaster. During his time as a PhD student at Cambridge, Hartston became the first person to stack the pieces from an entire chess set on top of a single white rook. He studied mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge but did not complete his PhD on number theory as he spent too much time playing chess.
Since the early 1970s, he has made many TV appearances for the BBC, usually in the role of expert commentator and analyst on world title matches, including Fischer-Spassky '72, Karpov-Korchnoi '78, Kasparov-Short '93 and Kasparov-Anand '95. He twice won the BBC Master Game competition before taking over from Leonard Barden as its resident expert. During the 1980s he presented the BBC series "Play Chess". In recent years he has diversified into a number of creative areas, running competitions in creative thinking for "The Independent" newspaper and the Mind Sports Olympiad. He writes the off-beat Beachcomber column for the "Daily Express" and has written books on chess, mathematics, humour and trivia. He has also been a regular guest on the BBC Radio 4 and occasional TV programme, "Puzzle Panel" and appeared in Series 8 of "The Museum of Curiosity" also on Radio 4.
Aside from his chess and media-related activities, Hartston is a mathematician and industrial psychologist. He was educated at City of London School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. During the 1980s, he was recruited by Meredith Belbin, at the Industrial Training Research Unit in Cambridge, to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team researching the dynamics of team roles. While continuing to write the Beachcomber column and other features for the "Daily Express", he has also been behind the launching of the now defunct "wakkipedia.com" Internet site of useless information. His latest publication is "Even More Things That Nobody Knows" (Atlantic Books), a further discussion of 501 unanswered questions ranging from science to history, including a good supply of typically quirky items.
Hartston was the first of three British chess champions to be married to Woman Grandmaster Dr Jana Bellin (née Malypetrova). With his second wife, Elizabeth, he had two sons, James and Nicholas.
On 2 April 2013 it was reported that Hartston had "perfected" a formula for predicting the winner of the Grand National horse race, in a study commissioned by bookmaker William Hill. The story of the winning formula has since been widely thought to be an April Fools joke for which many have fallen.
In 2013 Hartston and his friend Josef Kollar became regular 'viewers' on the Channel 4 programme "Gogglebox".
Bibliography.
Hartston has also written various technical chess books under his full name of William R. Hartston or William Roland Hartston.


European Mixed Team Badminton Championships

The European Mixed Team Badminton Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton Europe (BE), held once every two years to crown the best badminton mixed national team in Europe.
It was always played just before the European Badminton Championships, the individual competition, in the same venue. However, the European team tournament was split from the European individual event for the first time in 2009.
During the tournament, each tie comprises five matches: men and women's singles, men and women's doubles, and mixed doubles.


Ziv Kalontarov

Ziv Kalontarov (also "Kalontorov", "Kaluntarov", and "Kalntrov"; ; born 15 January 1997) is an Israeli Olympic swimmer and the reigning European Games champion in the 50 m freestyle.
In April 2015, Kalontarov won the International School Sport Federation (ISF) Swimming World Schools Championship in both the 50 m freestyle (in 22.39) and the 100 m freestyle (in 50.49) in Poznań, Poland. At the age of 18 representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, he won a gold medal with a European Games record time of 22.16 in the 50 m freestyle and thereby won the European Junior Swimming Championships, on 27 June 2015. His time in the final established a new senior Israeli national swimming record in the 50 m freestyle. It qualified him to represent Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Biography.
Ziv Kalontarov was born in Rishon LeZion, Israel, and is Jewish. He attended Makif Omer High School, and his nickname is "Zu".
Swimming career.
When Kalontarov was young, his mother trained him, and his father Gary is now his coach. He trains about 21 hours per week.
In July 2014, he came in sixth in the European Junior Championships Men's 50 m freestyle, and 8th in the Men's 100 m freestyle.
Kalontarov won the 2015 International School Sport Federation (ISF) Swimming World Schools Championship in both the 50 m freestyle (in 22.39) and the 100 m freestyle (in 50.49) in Poznań, Poland, on 19 April 2015.
At the age of 18, Kalontarov represented Israel at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. He won a gold medal with a European Games record time of 22.16 in the 50 m freestyle and thereby won the European Junior Swimming Championships, on 27 June 2015, after also having the fastest times in both the heat and semi-final of the event. His time in the final established a new senior Israeli national swimming record in the 50 m freestyle, breaking the old record of 22.54 that he himself had set two months earlier, as well as a new personal record for Kalontarov and .16 of a second off the youth world record. He also came in sixth in the 100 m freestyle final. He was selected to carry the Israeli flag at the closing ceremony.
The race result placed him in the top 20 in the world. It also qualified Kalontarov to represent Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which he did.


Fraser MacKenzie

Fraser MacKenzie (born 1973) is a shinty player and manager from Lochcarron, Scotland. He originally played for Lochcarron Camanachd and was also Scotland manager. He is currently co manager of Glenurquhart.
Playing career.
Fraser MacKenzie was an important player in the Lochcarron team of the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was also manager of the club for a long time, combining this with playing.
MacKenzie was formerly a long term manager of the Scotland national shinty team and had a strong record in the shinty/hurling international series. He retired from this post to dedicate time to Base Jumping.
He has recently signed for Glenurquhart. He is not to be confused with Fraser MacKenzie, the shinty journalist who is also involved with the Drumnadrochit club.
He also provided commentary on the BBC coverage of the Macaulay Cup final in 2011.
As shinty is an amateur sport, MacKenzie has combined his playing and management career with employment in the army where he served in the Queens Own Highlanders and the Highlanders before he moved into the communications industry. He is a director of Future Communications.


World 3D Archery Championships

International competitions in 3D archery take place every two years.


Alex Bernstein (American football)

Alexander Douglas Bernstein (born August 11, 1975) is a former American football offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, and Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He is also an entrepreneur who co-founded both North Venture Partners and North Social. "Inc. Magazine" named Bernstein one of the most successful NFL players turned entrepreneur.
High school and collegiate football.
Bernstein is Jewish. He played high school football at The Blake School in Hopkins, Minnesota. where he competed in the Tri-Metro Conference. After graduating, he played NCAA Division III college football at Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1993. In 1994, Bernstein transferred to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he played three seasons of football. As a senior, he was named USA Division III Senior All-Star, New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Defensive Player of the Year, All ECAC First Team, New England Football Writers All-New England, Gridiron Club Division II/III Defensive Player of the Year, and AFCA Division III Coaches First Team All-American. In his senior season in 1996, the Amherst College defense led the nation with the fewest points allowed per game (8.4).
Professional career.
Bernstein became only the fifth NFL player from Amherst when he signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent following the 1997 NFL Draft. In 1997, he changed positions from defensive tackle to offensive guard. During his four-year NFL career he was a reserve offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, and Atlanta Falcons. In 2000, he suffered a career ending injury and was placed on injured reserve by the Atlanta Falcons.
Business career.
Bernstein began working in software and technology in 2001. In 2003, he co-founded and was executive vice president of Echo Networks, Inc., a digital media company funded by large retailers including Best Buy and Virgin. In 2004, Bernstein served as senior vice president for Virgin Digital, a US based subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Ltd. In 2006, Bernstein co-founded North Venture Partners, an Oakland, California-based business incubator. In 2009, Bernstein partnered with Jim Kovach, Huntington Willard, and Pete Koch to found Athleticode, a genetic testing company based in Oakland, California. That same year, Bernstein completed the executive education program on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. In 2010, he served as interim president for Athleticode, a genetic testing company based in Oakland, California. That same year, Bernstein co-founded North Social, a marketing software company which was acquired by Vocus, Inc. in February 2011. In 2012, Bernstein received the Technology Award from the Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center. In 2012, Bernstein was listed as one of the most successful professional athlete entrepreneurs by "Inc. Magazine", "CNBC", and "The Huffington Post".
Personal life.
Alex Bernstein married Patricia Haupt in June 2000. Bernstein resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bernstein has served as a vice president for the NFL Retired Players Association of Northern California.


2005 Champ Car season

The 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season was the 27th overall and the second season of the Champ Car World Series era of American open-wheel racing. It began on April 10, 2005 in Long Beach, California and ended on November 6 in Mexico City, Mexico after 13 races. The Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford Drivers' Champion was Sébastien Bourdais, his second consecutive championship. The Rookie of the Year was Timo Glock.
Drivers and teams.
The 2.65 liter turbo V8 Ford-Cosworth XFE engine continued to be the exclusive power plant for the series. Bridgestone continued on as the exclusive series tire supplier as well. The two companies continued the marketing agreement that branded the series "Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford". All teams ran the Lola B02/00 chassis after the 2002 bankruptcy of Reynard Motorsport prevented further development of their Reynard 02I, causing it to become uncompetitive against the Lola.
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2005 Champ Car season.
Team and driver changes.
Similar to the 2003 and 2004 seasons, there were once again many changes for the 2005 season.
Season summary.
Schedule.
 Oval/Speedway

 Dedicated road course

 Temporary street circuit
The initial 2005 schedule announced by Champ Car included 14 races, but only 13 races actually took place during the season. The 14th race was scheduled to take place at a newly constructed permanent road circuit in the city of Ansan, South Korea on October 16, the week before the race at Surfers Paradise. The race was canceled in September when it was determined that the circuit was not ready to host the race. It was the second year in a row that a race in Korea was canceled, as a street circuit race in the capital of Seoul was removed from the 2004 schedule. A date at the Ansan circuit was placed on Champ Car's initial 2006 schedule but that race would never take place either.


All Stars Young Footballer of the Year

The GAA & GPA All Stars Young Footballer of the Year (often called the All Stars Young Footballer of the Year, or simply Young Footballer of the Year) is an annual award given at the end of the Championship season to a young footballer aged 21 years or younger who is adjudged to have been the best in Gaelic football.