AP (rapper)

Yohann Dubaye better known by his stage name AP (born in Vitry-sur-Seine, suburbs of Paris, France in 1979) is a French rapper whose parents originated from Guadeloupe in the French Antilles (French West Indies).

In 1994, AP started rapping at the age of 15 in the Paris suburbs, mainly Vitry-sur-Seine. He became a founding member of music collective 113 alongside Rim'K and Mokobé and part of a bigger music project collective called Mafia K-1 Fry. He has also his own solo career including albums Discret released in 2009 where he is credited as AP du 113 with the album reaching #22 in SNEP French Albums Chart. He has co-directed and co-produced the compilation Zone Caraïbes in 2005.

Discography

Albums
Solo albums

Compilations
2005: Zone Caraïbes (compilation co-produced by AP)
With 113
2000: Les Princes de la ville (certified platinum)
2002: 113 fout la merde (certified gold)
2003: Dans L'urgence (reedition) (certified gold)
2005: 113 Degrés (certified gold)
2010: Universel
With Mafia K-1 Fry
2003: La cerise sur le ghetto
2007: Jusqu'à la mort

Singles
Featured in
2009: "Relève la tête" (credited to Kery James presenting Lino, AP, Diam's, Passi, Matt & Kool Shen) (reached #39 in SNEP French Singes Chart)

References

Category:French rappers
Category:French people of Guadeloupean descent
Category:1979 births
Category:Living people
Category:Rappers from Val-de-Marne


Imagination! (Epcot)

Imagination! (formerly The Journey Into Imagination) is a pavilion on the western side of Future World at Epcot, a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Kodak was the former title sponsor of the pavilion.

Attraction history

While the pavilion itself has existed since 1982, it has gone through three significant phases. The original started out as an area in which the 3-D film Magic Journeys was played with a song by the same name by the Sherman Brothers. The Makin' Memories slide presentation, a history of photography was the pre-show presentation. When Journey Into Imagination opened a year later, the area was dubbed the Journey Into Imagination Pavilion. From 1983 to 1986 it held Journey Into Imagination, the (upstairs) ImageWorks, and Magic Journeys. In 1986, however, Magic Journeys was replaced by Captain EO, a more advanced 3-D film created by George Lucas and starring Michael Jackson as the title character. In 1994, Captain EO was replaced by Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, starring Rick Moranis as Professor Wayne Szalinski and Eric Idle as the Imagination Institute chairman, Dr. Nigel Channing.

In 1998, the original Journey Into Imagination went down for renovation. During this renovation, the upstairs ImageWorks was closed and the building's purple and blue painting exterior was replaced with different colors, navy blue being primary. The original glass sign was replaced by one made of wood and metal. The leap frog fountains were reduced in size to accommodate the new gift shop at the exit of the new Journey Into Your Imagination. The glass pyramids remained intact, although the upstairs ImageWorks was closed, to be replaced by the downstairs ImageWorks - The "What If" Labs

The pavilion was renamed Imagination! in 1999, when the new attraction opened. Fans were upset that Dreamfinder, a popular character from the previous ride, was gone. Furthermore, Figment, another popular character, only made cameo appearances until his short dialogue at the end of the ride. By the end of 2001, Disney closed the ride and modified the attraction, bringing Figment back into a more prominent role, although the Dreamfinder remained absent.

For a brief time after Figment's return to the Imagination pavilion, the walk around Figment character was available for a meet-and-greet in the former Kodak shop between the main pavilion and the theater. Figment's place is now unlabeled, but the décor inside is still visible through the windows.

In the summer of 2006, the finale of a Kim Possible interactive activity was set up temporarily in the upstairs ImageWorks as a test, themed as Dr. Drakken's base, with a station in World Showcase loaning out "Kimunicators" for interactive activities.

Following the death of Michael Jackson on June 25, 2009, Disney officials mulled over the possible return of Captain EO. In February 2010, the film, now retitled Captain EO Tribute, returned to Disneyland. On July 2, 2010, Captain EO returned to the Imagination! pavilion for a limited run, replacing Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.

In August 2010, Kodak, who had sponsored the pavilion since it opened, ended its sponsorship after nearly 28 years.

In June 2016, the old upstairs portion of the Imagination Pavilion used for the original ImageWorks reopened as a lounge exclusively for Disney Vacation Club members.

Current attractions
ImageWorks: The What-If Labs (October 1, 1999)
Journey into Imagination with Figment (June 2, 2002)
Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival (December 23, 2015)
Disney Vacation Club Lounge (2016)

Former attractions
Magic Journeys (October 1, 1982 – February 9, 1986)
Makin' Memories (Early 1980s)
ImageWorks (October 1, 1982 – October 10, 1998)
Journey Into Imagination (March 5, 1983 – October 10, 1998)
Captain EO (September 12, 1986 - July 6, 1994)
Captain EO Tribute (July 2, 2010 – December 6, 2015)
Honey, I Shrunk the Audience  (November 21, 1994 – May 9, 2010)
Journey Into Your Imagination (October 1, 1999 – October 8, 2001)

See also
 Epcot attraction and entertainment history

References

External links
 Walt Disney World Resort - Imagination! Pavilion

Category:Walt Disney Parks and Resorts attractions
Category:Epcot

Category:Future World (Epcot)
Category:World Celebration
Category:1982 establishments in Florida


Daniel Burkett

Daniel Burkett (born February 25, 1995) is a Canadian racing driver who currently competes in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge for CJ Wilson Racing.

Career history

After karting in various series Burkett made his open wheel debut in 2013. His first race was the opening round of the 2013 U.S. F2000 Winterfest. During the three races he finished fifteenth, seventeenth and thirteenth. He started in the regular USF2000 season for Belardi Auto Racing. After a rough start of the season Burkett improved and was a regular top-ten finisher. His best result was a fifth-place finish at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. He finished fifteenth in the standings. During the 2014 Winterfest Burkett returned to the series in the final round at Barber Motorsports Park. Burkett made his debut in the Atlantic Championship with K-Hill Motorsports in 2014. He swept the opening round at Road Atlanta winning both races. He has also signed on to compete in a second season of U.S. F2000 with Belardi in 2014 which saw him improve to 11th in the standings with three fourth-place finishes. Daniel signed with Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing for the 2015 MRTI Pro Mazda series. In 2016, Daniel will race in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with CJ Wilson Racing with Marc Miller as his co-driver. They will drive the #33 Porsche GT4 Cayman Clubsport in the GS class. They finished third in the season opener at Daytona as a fuel issue held them back from victory.

Racing record

U.S. F2000 National Championship

Atlantic Championship Series

Pro Mazda Championship

External links
Personal Web Page
U.S. F2000 Bio
Canadian star Burkett joins Belardi Auto Racing

Category:1995 births
Category:Atlantic Championship drivers
Category:Canadian racing drivers
Category:Living people
Category:Indy Pro 2000 Championship drivers
Category:Racing drivers from Manitoba
Category:Sportspeople from Winnipeg
Category:USF2000 drivers


Wickhead

WICKHEAD were an alternative rock band from Johannesburg, South Africa. After having won two LA Music Awards in late 2006 the band relocated to Los Angeles in 2007. The band was active from 2001 until 2009.

They were notable having one of their songs used as the theme song on the Crazy Monkey spots for MTV.

Discography
 Free (EP) :  2003
 If It Hurts It's Healing: 2004
 A Crush on Revelation : 2006
 Sexita Chiquita (EP) : 2007
 End Is The Beginning : 2008
 Various compilation contributions

References

Category:South African rock music groups


Désandans

Désandans is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Doubs department

References
 INSEE

Category:Communes of Doubs


Silinder Pardesi

Silinder Pardesi is a Bhangra singer-songwriter, lyricist, and composer from Coventry, West Midlands, England. He is the founder and lead singer of the highly acclaimed British Asian Bhangra band 'The Pardesi Music Machine'. In 1994 Silinder Pardesi moved onto pastures new and began his solo career. Over the past 30 years Silinder Pardesi has released over twenty albums and collaborated with an array of artists including Rishi Rich and Neeru Bajwa.

Silinder Pardesi is also a graduate from Aston University, Birmingham, England, and holds a bachelor's degree with honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The Pardesi Music Machine
Silinder Pardesi started his singing career at a very young age, with encouragement from his family and friends. Singing in Sikh temples and being influenced by his idol Mohammed Rafi, he gained confidence and widened his singing and musical knowledge.

The Pardesi Music Machine was formed by Silinder Pardesi during the early 1980s. The band always maintained its impeccable standards of high quality music performed by talented musicians of high calibre. The powerful sound of Pardesi catapulted them to the status of being one of the best live Asian music bands in the industry extremely popular with Asian weddings, mela's, and world music festivals. The Pardesi Music Machine are renowned for performing a fusion of Punjabi and Hindi music with other musical influences such as reggae, dance, RnB, and rock.

In 1986 the Pardesi Music Machine claimed the much prestigious Asian Song Contest Award which secured them a recording contract with Oriental Star Agencies. This encouraged them to record and release their first religious album with all proceeds being donated to charity. Soon after they recorded their first Bhangra album 'Nashay Diye Band Botlay'. 1988 saw a landmark in the UK Asian music industry with the release of an album, which proved to be one of the biggest selling albums in Bhangra music titled 'Pump Up The Bhangra'. The album was highly acclaimed worldwide and sold over 25,000 copies.

‘Pump up the Bhangra' set the trend for a new wave of Bhangra music, seeing the first use of samplers, sequences and remixing.  The album captured the imagination of the Asian youth with its insistent westernised beats and traditional eastern melodies. The album is still regarded as one of the most innovative and pioneering albums to date reaching number 1 chart status across Europe, Canada and the US. Its successor album 'Shake Yer Pants' was released by Oriental Star Agencies in 1990 and also achieved immense worldwide success selling over 30,000 copies. Both albums received Gold Disc awards at the annual UK Asian Pop and Media Awards.

1990 saw the Pardesi Music Machine perform live on the eve of the football World Cup final in Italy. The Pardesi Music machine have performed at world music festivals in Canada, US, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands where they have featured alongside leading pop acts such as Womack & Womack, Neneh Cherry, Carlos Santana, Stevie Wonder and many others.

The Pardesi Music Machine was the first Bhangra band to perform at the famous Glastonbury music festival in 1994 alongside acts including Blur, Björk, and Oasis. 1994 saw the band play alongside the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at the Edinburgh music festival.

Career
In 1994 Silinder Pardesi decided to move onto pastures new and pursue his solo career. Since embarking on his solo career, Silinder Pardesi has released seventeen highly acclaimed solo albums and one greatest hits album. In addition to recording solo Bhangra albums, Silinder Pardesi recorded the albums Bollywood Seduction 1 and Bollywood Seduction 2 as tribute albums for his childhood musical idol Mohammed Rafi. In 1995 Silinder Pardesi received a Gold Disc award at the UK Asian Pop and Dance Awards, Birmingham, England in recognition of outstanding sales for the album Bollywood Seduction 1. Following the success of the Bollywood Seduction series, in 2006 Silinder Pardesi performed with The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) 60-piece orchestra in 'A Tribute to Mohammed Rafi' concert at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

Silinder Pardesi's solo albums have included music production and collaborations with many artists including Sukshinder Shinda, Kam Frantic, Dr Zeus, and Tarli Digital.

Silinder Pardesi has performed around the world and enjoyed the excitement of playing to crowds of various nationalities and races around the world. On 9 September 1997, the city of Moscow celebrated its 850th anniversary in the 'Red Square' with an estimated audience of 500,000 people. Silinder Pardesi represented Asian music with a live performance alongside other famous artists such as the legendary Luciano Pavarotti.

Music from Silinder Pardesi's albums has received air play on a number of UK Radio Stations including the BBC Asian Network, and Television broadcasts including: 'The Clothes Show', 'Motormouth', 'DEF II' and even used as the title music to BBC's 'Ipso Facto'. Together with his live band Silinder Pardesi has recorded live sessions for BBC's "Network East" and "What's that Noise". Silinder Pardesi's album covers have also been featured in many films including the British comedy 'Bend It Like Beckham', directed by Gurinder Chadha and starred Keira Knightley.

In 2006 Silinder Pardesi was head hunted to join one India's top Bollywood record companies Tips Music (India) to produce his future albums and videos. The blockbuster album 'Hey Soniye' had its first video single feature the world famous Bollywood actress Neeru Bajwa, Rishi Rich, Juggy D and Veronica Mehta. The album's title tracks 'Hey Soniye' and 'Mahi Vey' were produced by Rishi Rich.

In December 2011 after two years in the making, Silinder Pardesi released a Sikh religious Shabad Gurbani album entitled 'Ek Onkar' (God is One).

Awards and recognition
1986 – Asian Song Contest Award (Oriental Star Agencies)

1989 – Pump Up The Bhangra – Best Album, Gold Disc for Outstanding Sales, and Best Band Awards (UK Asian Pop and Media Awards)

1991 – The Pardesi Music Machine – Best Band (UK Asian Pop and Media Awards)

1992 – Shake Yer Pants – Best Album, Gold Disc for Outstanding Sales, and Best Single -Balbeero Bhabi (UK Asian Pop and Media Awards)

1995 – Bollywood Seduction – Gold Disc for Outstanding Sales Achievement (UK Asian Pop and Dance Awards)

1999 – Achievement in Asian Music Award (Awarded by the High Commissioner for India in the UK, Mr Lalit Mann)

2009 – Punjabi Cultural Award – Contribution to the promotion of Punjabi culture in Britain through music (The Punjabis in Britain All Parliamentary Group, Westminster, London)

Discography

Religious

References

External links
 Silinder Pardesi Official Site
 BBC Music
 BBC Asian Network
 Twitter
 Facebook
 YouTube
 Google+

Category:Bhangra (music)
Category:English Sikhs
Category:People from Birmingham, West Midlands
Category:Living people
Category:Punjabi people
Category:Desi musicians
Category:Indian male singers
Category:Music in Birmingham, West Midlands
Category:English people of Indian descent
Category:Musicians from London
Category:People from Southall
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)


Tracy (Mogwai song)

"Tracy" () is a song on the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai's 1997 debut album, Mogwai Young Team. The song was written by the band's guitarists Stuart Braithwaite and John Cummings and bassist Dominic Aitchison prior to the 1997 Mogwai Young Team recording sessions.

The song features glockenspiel, guitar, guitar and drums, bookended by a sample from a phone call between Stuart Braithwaite and Will Simon (an employee of the band's American record label, Jet Set) and between the band's drummer Martin Bulloch and Colin Hardie (the band's manager at the time), revolving around a fictional disagreement between Braithwaite and Aitchison. The song differs from the genre the band usually employed at the time, known as "serious guitar music"; instead of being predominantly guitar-based and featuring heavy dynamic contrast, it features a glockenspiel ostinato, remaining dynamically quiet throughout.

"Tracy" received mostly positive reception from music journalists, with album reviews praising the song's quiet dynamics, the usage of varied instrumentation, and the inclusion of the sampled prank calls.

Writing and recording
The song, titled "Tracy" after American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman—whose song, "Fast Car" originally reminded the band of "Tracy" in its early stages—was rarely performed live before being recorded; the only documented performances were on 8 June 1997, at The Leadmill in Sheffield and 12 June 1997 at The Joiners in Southampton—both dates on a tour to promote the recently released 4 Satin EP.

The band recorded the song during the final week of the Mogwai Young Team sessions from July to August 1997 at MCM Studios, in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the band had previously recorded the majority of their earlier material. The song was produced and mixed by Paul Savage, who handled production and mixing duties on the bulk of the band's previous recordings.

Musical composition

"Tracy" is 7 minutes 22 seconds long and played in the key of E minor, in 4/4 time. The song opens with ambient guitar noise and a bassline played by a bass guitar, which is joined at (0:06) by the sound of the first of two prank calls heard in the song, between Stuart Braithwaite and Will Simon—Braithwaite playing a joke on Simon, discussing what to do after a fight in the band while at the studio. At (0:53), a drumbeat enters, along with the quiet electric guitars in the background which slowly become more predominant.

At (1:18), the song's main melody is introduced, played by a guitar, the bass guitar and a glockenspiel, with a chord progression of E minor, C major seventh, G major, and D major. This is repeated until (3:28), when the guitars fade out into the background, and the drumbeat ends, leaving only the ride cymbal to keep the beat, and the main melody, which is repeated until it gradually fades out, leaving ambient guitar noise.

At (4:30), the second of two prank calls begins, between Martin Bulloch and Colin Hardie, who have a conversation in which Bulloch plays a joke on Hardie, saying that Aitchison and Braithwaite had a disagreement, causing the former to punch the latter, and leave. Hardie, who was in a bookmakers at the time of the call, suggests that Bulloch and Paul Savage continue mixing the song, and says he will try to contact Braithwaite. This ends at (7:04), leaving the sound of ambient guitar noise to fade out and end the song.

Release and reception
During professional reviews, "Tracy" received mostly positive reception. Lee Harvey of Vox praised to the song's quiet dynamics and soft timbre, stating that it "stoutly [refuses] to rock out and accordingly [retains] a helium-light touch." John Mulvey of NME noted praised the presence of "a long phone conversation . . . in the background of "Tracy"'s dreamy atmospherics." Bryan Adair of Prog Archives praised the song's individuality from the rest of the album, describing it as  "slow but utterly gorgeous . . . [relying] on a very different tone than the rest of the album" also comparing it to a film score, noting that it "[bore] resemblance to music from a sad movie scene."

Brandon Wu of Ground and Sky criticised the song's individuality from the rest of the album, saying  "in any other context, "Tracy" . . . would be great, but here [it's] almost forgettable." Aaron Coleman of Almost Cool criticised the song's quiet dynamics, calling it "subdued."

French musician Kid Loco remixed the song in 1998 at the Lafayette Velvet Basement in France, titling it "Kid Loco's Playing with the Young Team Remix". It was released on the 1998 compilation album, Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed, as well as Kid Loco's 1999 compilation album, Jesus Life for Children Under 12 Inches.

Personnel and credits

Mogwai
 Dominic Aitchison – bass guitar
 Stuart Braithwaite – guitar, monologue
 Martin Bulloch – drum kit, monologue
 John Cummings – guitar
 Brendan O'Hare – guitar, glockenspiel

Additional musicians
 Colin Hardie – monologue
 Will Simon – monologue

Production
 Paul Savage – production, mixing

References

External links

 "Tracy" at Last.fm
 "Tracy" Guitar tablature
 "Tracy" Bass guitar tablature

Category:Mogwai songs
Category:1997 songs
Category:Post-rock songs
Category:Songs written by Stuart Braithwaite
Category:Songs written by Dominic Aitchison


Union City

Union City may refer to:

In the United States
Union City, California (pop. 73,402)
Union City, Connecticut (different from Union, Connecticut)
Union City, Georgia (pop. 11,621)
Union City, Indiana (pop. 3,622), across the state line from Union City, Ohio
Union City Commercial Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Randolph County, Indiana
Union City, Michigan (pop. 1,804)
Union City, Montana, a ghost town
Union City, New Jersey (pop. 66,455) – the second most densely populated city in the United States
Union City, Ohio (pop. 1,767), across the state line from Union City, Indiana
Union City, Oklahoma (pop. 1,375)
Union City, Pennsylvania (pop. 3,463)
Union City Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places
Union City, Tennessee (pop. 10,876)

Other
Union City (film)
Union City, a fictional town used as the setting for the 1999 video game Urban Chaos.
Union City Recordings, a record label
Union City (racehorse), a racehorse owned by William T. Young, who died after the 1993 Preakness
, a Brocklebank Line steamship in service 1924-24


Eva Klímková

Eva Klímková is a Czech model and winner of the contest Elite Model Look Czech Republic and also the international contest Elite Model Look International 2013.

References

External links
 Eva Klímková at Munich Models.

Category:1997 births
Category:Czech female models
Category:Living people


Hertha Rosmini

Hertha Rosmini (born 9 November 1913) was an Austrian alpine skier. She competed in the women's combined event at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

References

Category:1913 births
Category:Possibly living people
Category:Austrian female alpine skiers
Category:Olympic alpine skiers of Austria
Category:Alpine skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Vienna


Fred sjunger Bellman

Fred sjunger Bellman (English: Fred sings Bellman) is an album by the Swedish folk singer-songwriter and guitar player Fred Åkerström and contains his interpretations of Carl Michael Bellman.  The LP was released in 1969; it was re-released on CD and LP in 1990.

Track listing
Songs and lyrics from Fredmans Epistlar by Carl Michael Bellman:

 Epistle Nr 3: Fader Berg I Hornet
 Epistle Nr 23: Ack Du Min Moder
 Epistle Nr 24: Kära Syster Mig Nu
 Epistle Nr 30: Drick Ur Ditt Glas
 Epistle Nr 34: Ack Vad För En Usel Koja
 Epistle Nr 35: Bröderna Fara Väl Vilse Ibland
 Epistle Nr 51: Movitz Blåste En Konsert
 Epistle Nr 69: Se Dansmästarn
 Epistle Nr 80: Liksom En Herdinna
 Epistle Nr 81: Märk Hur Vår Skugga

References

Category:1969 albums
Category:Fred Åkerström albums
Category:Swedish-language albums
Category:Carl Michael Bellman


Copper Center, Alaska

Copper Center (Tl’aticae’e in Ahtna) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Copper River in Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is two hundred miles northeast of Anchorage. At the 2010 census the population was 328, down from 362 in 2000.

Geography
Copper Center has a dry-summer subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dsc).

Copper Center is located at  (61.965305, -145.318280).

Copper Center is located on the Richardson Highway 4 south on the west bank of the Copper River at the confluence with the Klutina River. It is about 16 miles southeast of Glennallen on the Glenn Highway 1 and about 100 miles north of Valdez.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land.

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History
Copper Center developed where the Valdez Glacier trail reached the Copper River.  Andrew Holman was its first resident, establishing a temporary roadhouse near the site in July 1898 to provide shelter for prospectors on their way to the Klondike.  He initially erected two tents: one served as Hotel Holman and the other as a makeshift post office.  By winter 1899, Holman had replaced his tents with a substantial cabin.  Leaving Dick Worthman to run the roadhouse, Holman pioneered the first mail route from Valdez to Eagle.

During the height of the Klondike stampede prospectors set up tent camps along both the Copper and Klutina rivers, but the first cabins were built on a site one half mile west of the Copper.  Another camp sprang up at what was called Copper Ferry, where a ferry crossed the river.  The area got a boost as a goldfield service center in June 1898, when B. F. Millard brushed a trail from there to the mouth of the Slana River via the foothills of Mt. Drum.

The east bank site of Old Copper Center apparently was settled in 1901 1902 by prospectors intent on investigating mineral prospects on that side of the river.  Its days as a mining center were short lived, but it did draw a Native population and existed for many years as a village.

Copper Center rapidly became the primary supply center for prospectors and travelers in the Copper River basin.  A telegraph station and the trail's first official post office opened in 1901, with Ringwald Blix serving as the community's first postmaster.  The next year, John McCrary staked a homestead about a mile north of the Klutina River crossing.  Before long, McCrary opened a hotel as well, the first frame roadhouse between Valdez and Fairbanks.  Much of McCrary's property remains in the family's hands.

By 1910 American settlers had established over fifty homesteads in the vicinity.  The community now received tri-weekly mail delivery in the winter and weekly service in the summer.  It also contained the only telegraph station between Valdez and Fairbanks where money could be sent or received by wire.

Florence "Ma" Barnes acquired Hotel Holman in 1922, and renamed it the Copper Center Roadhouse and Trading Post.  The original building burned in 1932 and was replaced by the southernmost portion of the current one.  When Barnes died in 1948, she left her entire estate to a Valdez orphanage.  Later that year, it sold George Ashby the property.  Although Ashby died in 1979, his family continued to operate the roadhouse.  The replacement roadhouse itself burned on May 20, 2012.  The family says they intend to rebuild.

Demographics

Copper Center first appeared on the 1910 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village. In 1980 it was made a census-designated place (CDP).

As of the census of 2000, there were 362 people, 132 households, and 88 families residing in the CDP.  The population density was 26.4 people per square mile (10.2/km²).  There were 163 housing units at an average density of 11.9/sq mi (4.6/km²).  The racial makeup of the CDP was 48.07% White, 0.28% Black or African American, 46.69% Native American, and 4.97% from two or more races.  0.83% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 132 households 40.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.1% were married couples living together, 19.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 28.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.39.

In the CDP, the population was spread out with 38.7% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 23.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.9 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 109.4 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $32,188, and the median income for a family was $42,500. Males had a median income of $46,250 versus $22,083 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $15,152.  About 18.5% of families and 18.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.1% of those under age 18 and 6.9% of those age 65 or over.

Education
Public education in the area is provided by Kenny Lake School of the Copper River School District.

References

Category:Census-designated places in Alaska
Category:Census-designated places in Unorganized Borough, Alaska
Category:Census-designated places in Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska
Category:Mining communities in Alaska


Kayamachi Station

is a railway station in Iga, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Iga Railway.

Lines
Kayamachi Station is served by the Iga Railway Iga Line, and is located 5.0 rail kilometres from the terminus of the line at Iga-Ueno Station.

Layout
The station has a single island platform. The platform is short, and can only accommodate trains of two cars in length.

Adjacent stations

History
Kayamachi Station was opened on July 18, 1922. Through a series of mergers, the Iga Line became part of the Kintetsu network by June 1, 1944, but was spun out as an independent company in October 2007. All freight operations were suspended from October 1, 1973.

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

External links

Category:Railway stations opened in 1922
Category:Railway stations in Mie Prefecture


Transplant benefit

Transplant benefit or transplant benefit measure is a measure of evaluating the conditions of the patient before transplantation of an organ especially the lungs. It is calculated by deduction of another variable called "Waiting list urgency measure" from Post-transplant survival measure.

It is used, for example, for calculation of Lung allocation score based on the formula:
                            Raw LAS = Transplant benefit measure - Waiting list urgency measure

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Caeneressa sexpuncta

Caeneressa sexpuncta is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1912. It is found on Borneo. The habitat consists of lowland forests.

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Cytestrol acetate

Cytestrol acetate is a steroidal antiestrogen and a cytostatic antineoplastic agent (i.e., chemotherapeutic) which was developed for the treatment of breast cancer but was never marketed. It is an 11α-hydroxylated derivative of ethinylestradiol in which a bis(2-chloroethyl)amine nitrogen mustard moiety has been attached as an ester at the C3 position and acetate esters have been attached at the C11α and C17β positions. The mechanism of action of cytestrol acetate in breast cancer is two-fold: (1) acting as an antiestrogen similarly to fulvestrant or ICI-164384; and (2) having cytostatic actions via the carbamate–nitrogen mustard moiety analogously to estramustine phosphate. The drug shows potent efficacy against breast cancer superior to that of tamoxifen in in vitro models.

See also
 List of hormonal cytostatic antineoplastic agents

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Live at the Warfield

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}}Live at the Warfield is a two CD album by the rock group Phil Lesh and Friends.  It was recorded live at the Warfield in San Francisco, California, on May 18 and May 19, 2006.Live at the Warfield'' is also a concert performance DVD recorded at the same shows.  The track listing for the DVD is completely different from that of the album. The DVD was produced and directed by Jay Blakesberg and Bob Sarles. The director of photography was Bill Zarchy.

CD Track listing

Disc 1

"Shakedown Street"
"Mr. Charlie"
"Pride Of Cucamonga"
"Cosmic Charlie"
"Scarlet Begonias"
"They Love Each Other"
"Turn On Your Lovelight"
"Donor Rap"

Disc 2

"The Wheel"
"Dark Star"
"Morning Dew"
"I Know You Rider"
"The Other One"
"Dark Star"
"The Other One"
"Box of Rain"

DVD track listing

"Uncle John's Band"
"Eyes of the World"
"St. Stephen"
"The Eleven"
"Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)"
"All Along the Watchtower"
"New Speedway Boogie"
"Unbroken Chain"
"Help On the Way"
"Slipknot!"
"Franklin's Tower"

Personnel
Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
Joan Osborne – vocals
John Scofield – guitar
Larry Campbell – guitar, pedal steel, fiddle, mandolin, vocals
Greg Osby – saxophone
Rob Barraco – keyboards, vocals
John Molo – drums

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June 2010 Nauruan parliamentary election

Early parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on  2010 after the previous parliamentary election in April 2010 had resulted in a deadlock between government and opposition, tied at nine seats each. This led to an extended state of emergency in Nauru as a result of this election.

 In total after the calculation of the 8 constituencies there was a total of 5180 formal votes cast in the election.

Background
The election occurred during a state of emergency imposed by President of Nauru Marcus Stephen. Voters were given just one week's notice for the date of the election.

Results
The result was no clear majority, meaning a hung parliament.

One MP belonging to the opposition lost the re-election, while all 17 others were re-elected. Independent MP Milton Dube holds the balance of power. The Nauru Parliament's two groups must compete for his support. Dube was elected in Aiwo constituency, unseating Dantes Tsitsi of the Opposition. The new MP declared himself independent, and stated he would support the side which would do the most for his constituency. He wants to reduce the levels of phosphate dust from a problematic drying plant. The MP in favour of government, Doctor Kieren Keke, plans to discuss the matter with Dube within a week of his election. Parliament have scheduled a sitting on the Tuesday morning following the election.

Aloysius Amwano was elected as speaker on 30 June 2010, but demanded that Stephen stand down as president. Stephen's followers agreed to this, but only if the new president came from their ranks, with their preferred nominee being Kieren Keke. However, there are two other contenders, Baron Waqa (the opposition leader) and Godfrey Thoma.

Rykers Solomon, an opposition MP, joined the government on 6 July 2010, but Amwano nonetheless refused to allow a motion to elect the president, suspending parliament until 8 July 2010. Amwano was then dismissed on 7 July 2010 by Stephen, but refused to quit. In a short parliamentary session held on 9 July 2010, Deputy Speaker Landon Deireragea announced that he had assumed the Speaker's position.

Following further disagreements, the president called a state of emergency.

On November 1, former President Ludwig Scotty was elected Speaker, ending the deadlock.  Marcus Stephen was subsequently re-elected as President, defeating Milton Dube 11 to 6.

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Fridolin Anderwert

Fridolin Anderwert (19 September 1828, Frauenfeld – 25 December 1880) was a Swiss politician.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 10 December 1875 and was member of the Council until 25 December 1880. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland.

During his office time he held the Department of Justice and Police and was Vice-President of the Swiss Confederation in 1880.

On 7 December 1880 he was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 1881. Immediately after the election a nasty campaign against him broke out in the press, in particular about the eating habits of the obese bachelor, but also rumors that he was a regular visitor in gay brothels. Drawn by physical exhaustion and severe depression, Anderwert committed suicide on Christmas Day 1880 on the "Kleine Schanze", a small park next to the Houses of Parliament. The only published sentence of his farewell letter states: "They want a victim, they shall have it."

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Garda Panteri

The Garda Panteri (Specijalna Brigada Garda Panteri) (Serbian: Специјална бригада Гарда Пантери) was an elite unit used by the Army of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. It was founded on 2 May 1992 under the initial name of the Serbian National Guard of the Serbian Autonomous Region (SAO) of Semberija and Majevica (Српска национална гарда САО Семберија и Мајевица, Srpska Nacionalna Garda SAO Semberija i Majevica), adopting the name "Garda Panteri" in honour of previous fallen commander Branko Pantelić 'Panter', by Ljubiša Savić 'Mauzer' and members of the Serbian Solidarity Fund. It fought in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1996) during the Yugoslav Wars.

Creation and organisation
The Serbian Solidarity Fund, managed by Ljubiša Savić, began preparing for the defense of Serb territory in Majevica amid inter-ethnic tensions between Serbs and Bosniaks in 1991 and 1992. Around 1,000 members readily available for military action were stationed and monitored the situation in preparation to defend the Serb population in Bijeljina and Semberija, should they face armed aggression. During the night of March the 31st, 1992, barricades were laid by pro-SDA forces in an attempt to take over command and authoritative control of Bijeljina.

Serb forces quickly rallied themselves and with the aid of Željko Ražnatović removed the barriers. The pro-SDA forces then called for talks with SDS officials and leadership of Bijeljina. After these events, the 1,000 members of the Serbian Solidarity Fund and Ljubiša Savić created the unit with the name Serbian National Guard of the SAO of Semberija and Majevica, outside of the Motel Obrijež near Bijeljina.

Despite being officially known as a Light Infantry Brigade due to terminology derived from the Yugoslav National Army (JNA), a notable aspect of the guard was its extensive use of various improvised armoured vehicles (Referred to as the 'Iron Battalion'). The creation of the vehicles was overseen by guard member Captain Mišel Ostojić. The unit also had a small aviation detachment, utilising the Antonov AN-2(s) and Utva-75 for observation purposes.

Wartime
The unit participated in many operations, namely the 'Corridor of Life' (Operation Corridor) and the liberation of Tinja and Smoluća. Other engagements included Zvornik, Brčko, Majevica, Posavina, Bratunac, Ozren, Sarajevo, Kupres and Bihać. The unit was famous, receiving volunteers from neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.  In total, the unit suffered 106 dead and around 750 wounded fighters, with the loss of commander Branko Pantelić, who was killed while fighting in Majevica, 1992. In 1993, Turbo-folk singer  released an album entitled 'Panteri', commemorating their achievements, tracks included 'Panteri', 'Mauzer', 'Panteru za sjećanje'.

See also
 Bosnian War
 Army of Republika Srpska
 Ljubiša Savić

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Southport Island

Southport Island, with the adjacent Southport Reef, is a 7 ha island in south-eastern Australia.  It is part of the Actaeon Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, at the southern entrance to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland.

Flora and fauna
The principal vegetation community is coastal heath, dominated by Acacia, Banksia, Leptospermum, Melaleuca and Westringia species.  Blackberry is a problem weed.  The island is being used as a translocation site for the endangered heath Epacris stuartii, which is threatened in its nearby natural habitat by cinnamon fungus.

Recorded breeding seabird species are the little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, silver gull and crested tern.  The metallic skink is present.

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Wellington Rural District

Wellington Rural District may refer to two former districts in England:

Wellington Rural District, Shropshire
Wellington Rural District, Somerset


Norway at the 1984 Summer Paralympics

Norway competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain and New York City, United States. 64 competitors from Norway won 90 medals including 30 gold, 30 silver and 30 bronze, and finished 10th in the medal table.

Medalists

Gold medalists

Silver medalists

Bronze medalists

See also
 Norway at the Paralympics
 Norway at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Joan Linares

Joan Linares Rodríguez (born 24 February 1975), commonly known as Joan, is a Spanish futsal player who plays as Pívot en el FS Valdepeñas de segunda división de la LNFS.

Honors
6 División de Honor de Futsal (96/97, 00/01, 02/03, 03/04, 04/05, 07/08)
3 Copa de España de Futsal (03/04, 04/05, 06/07)
4 Intercontinental Futsal Cup (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
5 Supercopa de España de Futsal (01/02, 02/03, 03/04, 05/06, 07/08)
5 UEFA Futsal Cup (1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006)
1 Recopa de Europa (2008)
2 Iberian Cup (03/04, 05/06)
1 FIFA Futsal World Cup (2000)
1 UEFA Futsal Championship(Russia 2001)
2 Four Nations Tournament (Netherlands 96, Spain 97)
Champion FIFA Tournament (Singapur 01)
Champion Torneo Centenario Real Madrid (Torrejón 02)
1 MVP of  LNFS (99/00)
1 Best Pívot of LNFS (99/00)
4 Best Left Flank of LNFS (95 to 99)
2 Top scorer División de Honor LNFS (97/98, 99/00)
1 Top scorer División de Plata (08/09)

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Abell 2390

Abell 2390 is a galaxy cluster in the Abell catalogue.

See also
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 List of Abell clusters
 X-ray astronomy

References

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Atsushi Onita

is a Japanese actor, politician, and professional wrestler, best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). He is credited with importing to Japan, as well as innovating, the deathmatch style of professional wrestling.

He founded FMW in 1989 to defeat Masashi Aoyagi under his own rules and made it a full-fledged organization after his deathmatch style became popular with the Japanese fans. He was the company's top superstar, wrestling at sold out events with large crowds, making it a hugely successful company and earning a lot of money. Onita sold the company to Shoichi Arai and retired in 1995 to pursue an acting career, which was unsuccessful, forcing him to return as a wrestler in 1996. He led stables ZEN and Team Zero after his comeback and departed the company in 1998 as he was upset at his position in the company.

He held the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship a record seven times and headlined the first six editions of the company's premier event Anniversary Show from 1989 to 1995.

Professional wrestling career

All Japan Pro Wrestling and first retirement (1974–1985)
He was the first true graduate of the All Japan Pro Wrestling dojo (Jumbo Tsuruta had debuted first, but he had trained in Amarillo, Texas, with Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk). In his early days he teamed with dojo classmate Masanobu Fuchi, who debuted only a few weeks after him. He was known as a loyal ring attendant to Giant Baba, who had accepted him into the dojo despite not having graduated from high school. In the late '70s and the early '80s, he and Fuchi toured Memphis, Tennessee, winning the AWA Southern tag team title three times.

When the junior heavyweight boom started in Japan under Tatsumi Fujinami and the original Tiger Mask, Satoru Sayama, Onita was picked as the ace of AJPW's makeshift junior heavyweight division. Baba was able to get Chavo Guerrero, Sr., who had been an early rival of Fujinami, over to AJPW's side, and Guerrero brought the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship with him, effectively establishing it as AJPW's junior heavyweight cornerstone. Onita and Guerrero's subsequent feud over the title spanned three promotions (AJPW, Jim Crockett Promotions and Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre), and, while not as spectacular as New Japan Pro Wrestling's junior division, provided solid alternate wrestling to AJPW fans. On January 3, 1985, he had to retire due to accumulated injuries, after a failed comeback attempt, which ended after his last match on December 2, 1984, against Mighty Inoue. He would be replaced by Masanobu Fuchi as the new junior heavyweight ace of AJPW.

Pioneer Senshi (1988)
After over three years recuperating from his injuries, Onita returned to the ring in December 1988 for Pioneer Senshi, losing a martial arts bout against Ryuma Go.

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling

Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion (1989–1993)
Onita issued a challenge to the wrestlers of the shoot wrestling based Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) but his challenge was rejected and he responded by taking on martial artist Masashi Aoyagi in a martial arts fight for the World Karate Association (WKA) on July 2, 1989, during which Onita was disqualified for using wrestling moves on Aoyagi. Onita took it personal and promoted two shows under the Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) banner titled Grudge in Nagoya and Grudge in Tokyo in October and headlined both shows against Aoyagi. He lost to Aoyagi at Grudge in Nagoya and defeated him at Grudge in Tokyo. Onita developed FMW into a full-time promotion and based it around martial arts fights and death matches he had seen during his earlier stay in Memphis. The first street fight of FMW took place on December 4, in which Onita and Dick Murdoch defeated Jos LeDuc and Masanobu Kurisu. Onita was featured as the company's main star and the top fan favorite and headlined every show. His first Barbed Wire Deathmatch took place at Battle Creation as he teamed with Tarzan Goto to defeat Jerry Blayman and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga.

After being eliminated by his frequent ally Tarzan Goto from the Battle Resistance tournament, Onita defeated Beast the Barbarian to win the WWA World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship for the first time on January 17, 1990. The deathmatch wrestling style would become the main trademark of FMW and the martial arts fights would be restricted to mid-card matches. Onita would bring in numerous karate and martial arts fighters in the FMW roster.

Onita's first feud began in the summer of 1990 when Onita defeated Lee Gak-soo in a different style fight on May 19 and then the two showed respect to each other and teamed to defeat Mitsuteru Tokuda and Sambo Asako in a tag team match on June 2. Goto was irate at Onita for teaming with karate fighters and toning down professional wrestling and he brought in Mr. Pogo to FMW and Onita began feuding with Goto and Pogo. Onita defeated Goto in an empty arena match on June 24 and then successfully defended the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship against Goto in the first-ever no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch at Summer Spectacular. After the match, Onita and Goto ended their feud by embracing each other and putting away their differences and then Onita began a legendary rivalry against Mr. Pogo, with Onita defeating Pogo in the first singles encounter in a street fight on August 25. Onita successfully defended the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship against Pogo in a Texas Deathmatch at 1st Anniversary Show.

Onita lost the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Grigory Verichev on February 27, 1991. Onita unsuccessfully challenged Verichev for the title in a rematch on May 5 and then received another title shot on May 29, where Onita defeated Verichev to regain the renamed World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship. On August 17, Onita defeated Jimmy Backlund, Ricky Fuji and Sambo Asako to win the Barbed Wire Deathmatch Tournament. During this time, Mr. Pogo left FMW and Tarzan Goto turned on Onita once again to renew their feud and became Onita's arch rival. Onita defeated Goto in the first-ever no rope exploding barbed wire steel cage deathmatch at the very successful 2nd Anniversary Show on September 23 at the Kawasaki Stadium in Kawasaki, which would become the venue for FMW's major events in future.

Onita and Goto reunited once again and they participated in the World's Strongest Tag Team Tournament, which they won by defeating Grigory Verichev and Koba Krutanize in the final on December 9 to win the inaugural WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team Championship. FMW phased away the martial arts style and emphasized on the deathmatch wrestling as its key feature during this time. Onita lost his World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship to Big Titan on January 15, 1992. Onita and Goto lost the World Martial Arts Tag Team Championship to Sabu and Horace Boulder in a no ropes barbed wire street fight deathmatch on May 7. Onita regained the World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship by defeating former boxing champion Leon Spinks in a cage match on May 24, which earned a rapid rise in popularity and stardom to Onita for having beaten a famous celebrity. A month later, Onita lost the title to The Sheik on June 25 because of an injury sustained from an attack by Tiger Jeet Singh before the match. Sheik would later reward the title to Singh. Onita lost to Singh in a jungle deathmatch on June 30, before defeating him in a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch to win his fourth World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship at the 3rd Anniversary Show.

Onita continued his success by winning the Street Fight Tournament with former rival Grigory Verichev on December 7. He ended his feud with The Sheik by defeating him for the United States Championship on January 18, 1993 and then returned the belt to Sheik saying that Sheik deserved the title for holding it for over a decade. This earned him Sheik's respect and both men ended their feud and became allies. Onita's success streak continued as he defeated Terry Funk in the first-ever no ropes exploding barbed wire time bomb deathmatch at the 4th Anniversary Show on May 5. Onita renewed his rivalry with Mr. Pogo, who returned to FMW in the summer of 1993 and the World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship was replaced with the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. Onita defeated Pogo in a no ropes exploding barbed wire time bomb deathmatch to win the vacant Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship at the Summer Spectacular show on August 22. Onita successfully defended the title against W*ING's former ace Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch at Year End Spectacular, and then the two men became allies to feud with Mr. Pogo and his entourage.

Second retirement (1994–1995)
On January 6, 1994, Onita lost the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Mr. Pogo in a street fight. After losing the title, Onita began his next feud with Genichiro Tenryu after the team of Onita and Tarzan Goto defeated Tenryu and Ashura Hara at Wrestling and Romance's Revolution Rumble when Onita pinned Tenryu. Onita and Tenryu competed in a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch at 5th Anniversary Show on May 5, which stipulated that if Onita lost, he must retire from professional wrestling. Tenryu defeated Onita to even the scores and then Onita debuted his "Mr. Liar" character by saying that he was not going to retire immediately and that the retirement stipulation would take place a year later. Onita began his retirement tour which would conclude at the following year's 6th Anniversary Show. Onita reunited with Tenryu as the two teamed with Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow at WAR's 2nd Anniversary Show and the trio won a Six-Man Tag Team Tournament.

On July 31, Onita teamed with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to defeat Mr. Pogo and Hisakatsu Oya to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Around the same time, Onita renewed his feud with Masashi Aoyagi, who had returned to FMW and attacked Onita after a match. Their rivalry culminated in a no ropes electrified explosive barbed wire barricade double hell match at Summer Spectacular, which Onita won. Onita defeated Mr. Pogo to win his sixth Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship on September 7. After the match, former W*ING wrestler Yukihiro Kanemura made his FMW debut and attacked Onita to avenge the demise of W*ING. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga visited Kanemura at hospital as Kanemura was getting treated for some burns which he had suffered during a past match. Onita accused Matsunaga of turning on FMW and mistrusting his loyalty and this angered Matsunaga, who then joined Kanemura and Mr. Pogo to form W*ING Alliance and Onita feuded with the group for the rest of his retirement tour. As a result, Onita and Matsunaga broke up as a team and vacated the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship in October.

On December 1, Onita debuted his alter ego "The Great Nita", which was based and stylized on The Great Muta. The team of Nita and Tarzan Goto defeated Hisakatsu Oya and Mr. Pogo in a no ropes exploding barbed wire double hell deathmatch. Onita would return as Nita to defeat Pogo in a lumberjack match on December 20 and would continue to use this alternative character on several occasions. Onita lost the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Mr. Pogo's alter ego "Pogo Daiyo" on January 21, 1995. On February 24, Onita and his pupil Mr. Gannosuke defeated Pogo and The Gladiator to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Pogo and W*ING Kanemura on March 7. Speculation arose over the person to succeed Onita as the promotion's ace. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga had been the original choice but citing that W*ING had failed with Matsunaga as the ace, Onita had to change the decision and give the spot to Tarzan Goto, who would be Onita's opponent in his retirement match at the 6th Anniversary Show. Goto left FMW and took away his pupils Mr. Gannosuke and Flying Kid Ichihara as he was upset for putting over Onita again after having done it so many times in the past.

On March 30, Great Nita lost to Pogo Daiyo in a lumberjack match. Mr. Pogo refused to be Onita's opponent at 6th Anniversary Show and then Takashi Ishikawa was finally selected as the ace until Hayabusa interrupted Onita at a press conference and volunteered to be his opponent at the event as Hayabusa had been convinced by Shoichi Arai, whom Onita had sold the company around this time. Hayabusa was ultimately selected to be Onita's opponent in his retirement match. Just one day shy of his retirement match, Onita defeated Pogo in a barbed wire double hell deathmatch to win his record-setting seventh and final Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship on May 4. The following night at the 6th Anniversary Show, Onita successfully defended the title against Hayabusa in a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch. After the match, Onita vacated the title due to his retirement from wrestling to pursue an acting career. During this time, he starred in the movie Dan Gan (Japanese for "bullet"), which would later be adopted as the nickname for Onita's pupil, Masato Tanaka. Onita's acting career flopped and he ventured a return to wrestling.

Return (1996–1997)
After a sabbatical (getting his high school diploma, as he had dropped out of high school when he was 16), Onita made a surprise return to FMW on March 15, 1996, along with his former rivals W*ING Alliance to rescue FMW's team from an attack by the Puerto Rican Army. He convinced the FMW wrestlers to challenge Puerto Rican Army at the 7th Anniversary Show and announced that he would be present in the crowd at the event. He also sold off his jacket that he wore for his retirement match at the 6th Anniversary Show to assist FMW team get the money for their match against the Puerto Rican Army. Onita made his next appearance on October 28, where his former rival Mr. Pogo begged him to come out of retirement and team with him against the Funk Masters of Wrestling in Pogo's retirement match at Year End Spectacular. Onita initially rejected Pogo's request and then rescued Pogo from an assault by Funk Masters of Wrestling on November 26 and agreed to come out of his retirement to team with Pogo. At the Year End Spectacular event, the FMW team of Onita, Pogo, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated Funk Masters of Wrestling's Terry Funk, Hisakatsu Oya and The Headhunters in a Texas Tornado Street Fight Deathmatch.

Onita had supposedly returned to the company for only one match until he began working part-time for the company on March 14, 1997 by teaming with Koji Nakagawa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to defeat The Headhunters, Hisakatsu Oya and The Gladiator in a street fight. During this time, Onita also quietly ended his feud with W*ING Alliance as the group joined him in his feud with the Funk Masters of Wrestling. At the 8th Anniversary Show, the team of Onita, Masato Tanaka and W*ING Kanemura defeated Terry Funk, Cactus Jack and The Gladiator in a Texas Tornado Street Fight Deathmatch.

ZEN and Team Zero (1997–1998)

Onita headlined the Fall Spectacular event on September 28, 1997 against W*ING Kanemura in a no rope barbed wire electrified dynamite land mine time bomb death match, which stipulated that if Onita lost, he must retire and if Kanemura lost then W*ING Alliance would be forced to disband. Onita defeated Kanemura, forcing W*ING to disband. Onita became upset at the W*ING Alliance members Kanemura, Hideki Hosaka and Hido, who were upset as no group would accept them and he became enraged at FMW leaders Hayabusa, Koji Nakagawa and Masato Tanaka on their leadership of the FMW team. On September 30, Onita held a press conference in which he publicly denounced himself as a FMW wrestler and formed a New World Order (nWo)-themed faction ZEN with W*ING members and FMW wrestler Tetsuhiro Kuroda. As a result, Onita turned heel for the first and only time in FMW history. On October 14, the team of Onita, Hido and Kuroda defeated Hayabusa, Koji Nakagawa and Masato Tanaka to win the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

On October 19, Onita and Yukihiro Kanemura defeated Mr. Gannosuke and Hisakatsu Oya to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Funk Masters of Wrestling came to an end as its leader Terry Funk left FMW, while the remaining members Mr. Gannosuke, Hisakatsu Oya and The Gladiator joined ZEN, which had now become the main villainous group in FMW against the FMW team led by Hayabusa. Onita and Kanemura were stripped off the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship in November due to Onita's inactivity and ZEN also lost the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya and Masato Tanaka during the Super Extreme Wrestling War tour. During this tour, Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura, along with Hido, grew upset at Onita for booking himself in the main event match on December 19 against Masato Tanaka instead of booking Gannosuke and Kanemura's match. This exploded when the team of Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki and Masato Tanaka defeated Atsushi Onita, Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura in a WarGames match on December 22. After the match, Gannosuke and Kanemura attacked Onita and quit ZEN, along with Hido and Koji Nakagawa joined Onita as ZEN's newest member. As a result, Onita reverted to being face along with ZEN.

ZEN began feuding with the newly formed Team No Respect, which evolved from legitimate heat between Onita and Kodo Fuyuki, who was getting a lot of influence and booking power in the company. Onita wanted to return FMW to its old deathmatch style ideology while Shoichi Arai and Kodo Fuyuki were toning down the deathmatch content. On February 13, Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated TNR's Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura and Jado to win the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. Onita's rivalry with Fuyuki would lead to a match between the two at 9th Anniversary Show, which stipulated that Onita must disband ZEN if he lost. Onita lost the lumberjack match and was forced to disband ZEN but he said that he would break the group only if Kodo Fuyuki, Yukihiro Kanemura and Hido would beat Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda for the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship at ZEN's promoted show on May 5. Onita's team would lose after Nakagawa suffered an injury. Nakagawa continued to fake injury and would ultimately be revealed as the man responsible for breaking ZEN after he turned on Onita during a Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship match against The New Footloose on May 31.

After the breakup of ZEN, Onita took a hiatus as he was unhappy with his position in the company. He made an appearance for FMW's working partner Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on June 26 by costing The Sandman and Tommy Dreamer, a match against Dudley Boyz to set up a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch against Sandman in ECW but the match never took place as Onita returned to FMW on July 20 to rescue Shoichi Arai from an assault by Team No Respect. At Atsushi Onita Presents Liar, Liar on August 11, Onita released his former ZEN teammates Hideki Hosaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda from Team No Respect's slavery and saved Shoichi Arai's job as FMW President by defeating TNR in a weapons deathmatch. On August 21, Onita formed a group called Team Zero with Kuroda, Hosaka, Yoshinori Sasaki and Mr. Pogo #2 and the group feuded with TNR throughout the fall of 1998. Onita's former rival Mr. Pogo returned to FMW and the two feuded with each other, with Onita defeating Pogo in a match on November 20 to end their rivalry in FMW once and for all. This would be Onita's last match and last appearance in FMW as he left the company after the match as Shoichi Arai refused to restore him as the promotion's ace due to Onita receiving backlash from FMW's roster due to his reputation as an egomaniac and selfish.

Freelancing (1998–2018)
He used the promotional names "USO" (all caps version of the Japanese word for "lie"), "Jado" ("evil ways"; not to be confused with the wrestler of the same name), "Onita Pro" and "Project X."

Onita made a few appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), in 1999, establishing himself as a heel, since he was a FMW employee, the crowd would not accept him on a NJPW ring, which prompted him to gain a lot of heat. During that time, he would cut promos insulting his interviewers (such as spit water in their faces, physically assault and threat them) and future targets. On January 4, during the Wrestling World Tokyo Dome event, he faced Kensuke Sasaki, losing by disqualification after throwing a fireball to Sasaki's face. Then on April 10, he wrestled Masahiro Chono on a No-Rope Explosive Barbed-Wire Death Match, ending in no-contest after both Chono and Onita were knocked out. Shortly after that, Onita allied himself with Chono and his Team 2000 faction against the nWo Japan. On July 21, he, Chono and AKIRA defeated nWo Japan's Hiro Saito, Hiroyoshi Tenzan and their leader, Keiji Mutoh. For a short period, he brought back his Great Nita persona, facing Keiji Mutoh's, The Great Muta in a No Rope Explosive Barbed Wire Barricade Explosive Land Mine match (also dubbed Double Hell Deathmatch) on August 28, losing the match after Muta used Nita's kama to knock him down. One year later, he challenged Riki Choshu to a barbed wire deathmatch on July 30, 2000: Choshu accepted and came out of retirement to wrestle him. Choshu defeated Onita in a squash after launching him in the explosive barbed wires multiple times, and making him pass out while locking him in his finisher, the Sasori-Gatame.

In 2001, he returned to AJPW for one night only, at the Tokyo Dome, to team with Terry Funk against  Abdullah the Butcher and Giant Kimala. Whereas AJPW fans had already known Funk and Abdullah's willingness to brawl, Onita also played a huge part in the match, and his team emerged victorious.

In 2002, following FMW's closure Onita appeared briefly in WEW, run by Hiromichi Fuyuki.  The storyline saw Onita blaming Fuyuki's "Entertainment Pro Wrestling" business strategy and supposed embezzlement of money for causing FMW to close, and appeared to be paving the road to an eventual match between Onita and Fuyuki before Fuyuki abruptly announced his retirement due to cancer that would eventually claim his life in March 2003.

Onita attempted to resurrect the FMW name with another promotion (called Onita FMW since he did not own the rights to the FMW name), but the promotion would fold after only three months.  Onita would retire once again on September 23, 2003, losing a death match to The Great Sasuke, but this would not last long. Onita fought yet another retirement match on March 26, 2005, being pinned by Genichiro Tenryu.  This also would be disregarded, as he would come out of retirement in May 2008 and would begin promoting his own cards again in July.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Onita kept on bringing Death Matches, (though mostly six-man affairs with Ichiro Yaguchi as one of his frequent partners), to promotions such as Osaka Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Pro Wrestling NOAH. In December 12, 2014 he returned to AJPW to team with Fuchi and defeat the promotion's current junior standard bearers, Último Dragón and Yoshinobu Kanemaru.

In April 2015, FMW was again resurrected with Onita as its central wrestler.

On July 11, 2016, Onita announced the foundation of a new promotion named Fire Puroresu, which was set to hold its first show on August 26. On July 24, Onita fractured his right arm in a match, where he lost the Bakuha-ō Championship to Masakatsu Funaki, putting his participation in Fire Puroresu's inaugural event at risk.

On November 27, 2016, Onita returned to All Japan, where he and fellow first class graduate Masanobu Fuchi defeated Atsushi Aoki and Hikaru Sato to become the 100th All Asia Tag Team Champions. Two days later, Onita announced he was planning to retire from professional wrestling at a special event at Kawasaki Stadium in October 2017.

On May 10, 2017, Onita announced his retirement tour, which would conclude with his final match on October 31, 2017. Onita's plans for Kawasaki Stadium had fallen through and his final match would instead take place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Onita claimed that this, his seventh retirement, will be his "true" retirement. On June 20, Onita and Fuchi lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship back to Aoki and Sato. Onita's retirement tour also took him to the United States, where he worked for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) on August 5. Prior to his actual retirement, Onita retired the Great Nita character on August 27. On October 31, Onita ended his 43-year career by pinning Nosawa Rongai in his retirement match, a six-man barbed wire match, where he, Kai and Shingo Takagi defeated Nosawa, Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin.

In 2018, Onita fought Matt Tremont to a no-contest. Later, the latter wanted him to be his tag team partner against Masada and DJ Hyde.

Political career
Though he originally dropped out of high school, Onita returned to finish his education when he was in his late thirties. In 2001, he won the 19th House of Councilors election as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party, following Antonio Inoki and Hiroshi Hase to a seat in the Japanese Diet. One of his first major acts in office was to launch a post-9/11 humanitarian mission to Afghanistan, where he performed professional wrestling matches in crudely constructed rings made of sticks and rope, to benefit the children. This was all documented on film.

Like fellow professional wrestler, Scott Steiner, Onita has also claimed to have broken Wilt Chamberlain's record of sleeping with 20,000 women. Coincidentally, his exit from politics was forced by a sex scandal in which he was alleged to have used government accommodations to host a threesome with a pornographic film actress and a female employee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation. After retirement from politics, he lent his name and image to a Nintendo DS game, Atsushi Onita's Political Quiz.

Championships and accomplishments
All Japan Pro Wrestling
All Asia Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Masanobu Fuchi
NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Continental Wrestling Association
AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Masanobu Fuchi
Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship (7 times)
FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Tarzan Goto (1), Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (1),  Mr. Gannosuke (1), and W*ING Kanemura (1)
FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hido (1), Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (1), Masato Tanaka and Hideki Hosaka (1), and Hideki Hosaka and Sean Guinness (1)
Barbed Wire Deathmatch Tournament (1991)
World's Strongest Tag Team Tournament (1992) - with Tarzan Goto
Street Fight Tag Team Tournament (1992) - with Grigory Verichev
Six Man Tag Team Tournament (1994) - with Tarzan Goto and Sambo Asako
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Onita Pro
Barbed-Wire Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Shigeo Okumura and Mitsunobu Kikuzawa
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #43 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1999
PWI ranked him #123 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the PWI Years in 2003
Pro Wrestling Zero1
Blast King Championship (3 times)
Blast King Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chigusa Nagayo
Tokyo Sports
Best Tag Team Award (2015) with Chigusa Nagayo
Effort Award (1979)
Fighting Spirit Award (2014)
Match of the Year (1990) vs. Tarzan Goto on August 4
Match of the Year (1994) with Tarzan Goto vs. Genichiro Tenryu and Ashura Hara on March 2
Outstanding Performance Award (1991)
Special Award (1989)
Topic Award (1991)
Wrestler of the Year (1990)
Wrestle Association "R"
Six Man Tag Team Tournament (1994) - with Genichiro Tenryu and Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic (1990) Stabbing of José González storyline
Best Babyface (1993, 1994)
Most Charismatic (1994)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

Video games
Onita Atsushi FMW, a fighting game released in 1993 by Pony Canyon for the Super Famicom
Itsu Demo Doko Demo: Onita Atsushi no Seiji Quiz DS, a political quiz game released by Milestone in 2007 for the Nintendo DS

Footnotes

References

External links

Official Blog (Japanese)
puroresu.com: Atsushi Ōnita
Puroresu Central profile

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Kabardian verbs

In Kabardian, like all Northwest Caucasian languages, the verb is the most inflected part of speech. Verbs are typically head final and are conjugated for tense, person, number, etc. Some of Circassian verbs can be morphologically simple, some of them consist only of one morpheme, like: кӏуэ "go", щтэ "take". However, generally, Circassian verbs are characterized as structurally and semantically difficult entities. Morphological structure of a Circassian verb includes affixes (prefixes, suffixes) which are specific to the language. Verbs' affixes express meaning of subject, direct or indirect object, adverbial, singular or plural form, negative form, mood, direction, mutuality, compatibility and reflexivity, which, as a result, creates a complex verb, that consists of many morphemes and semantically expresses a sentence. For example: уакъыдэсэгъэпсэлъэжы "I am forcing you to talk to them again" consists of the following morphemes: у-а-къы-дэ-со-гъэ-псэлъэ-жы, with the following meanings: "you (у) with them (а)  from there (къы) together (дэ) I (со) am forcing (гъэ) to speak (псэлъэн) again (жы)".

Transitivity
Verbs in Kabardian can be transitive or intransitive.

In a sentence with a transitive verb, nouns in the absolutive case (marked as -р) play the role of direct object. In the sentences of this type the noun in the subject's position is in the ergative case (marked as -м):

Щӏалэм письмэр йотхы "The boy is writing the letter";
Пхъащӏэм уадэр къыщтащ "The carpenter took out the hammer";
Хьэм тхьак1умкӏыхьэр къыубытащ "The dog has caught the hares".

In these sentences the verbs етхы "is writing", къыщтащ "took out", къыубытащ "has caught" are transitive verbs, and the nouns письмэр "letter", уадэр "hammer", тхьак1умк1ыхьэр "hare" are in the absolutive case (suffix -р) and express direct object in the sentences, while the nouns щӏалэм "boy", пхъащӏэм "carpenter", хьэм "dog" are subjects expressed in the ergative case.

In a sentence with an intransitive verb, there is no direct object, and the real subject is usually expressed by a noun in the absolutive case.

Жэмахъуэр щыт "The shepherd is standing (there)";
Пэсакӏуэр макӏуэ "The security guard is going";
Лӏыр мэжей "The man is sleeping".

In these sentences with intransitive verbs, nouns that play role of subject are expressed in the absolutive case: жэмахъуэ-р "shepherd", пэсакӏуэ-р "guard", лӏы-р "man".

There are verbs in the Kabardian language that in different contexts and situations can be used both as transitive and intransitive. For example:

Абджыр мэкъутэ "The glass is being broken",
Щӏалэм абджыр йокъутэ "The boy is breaking the glass".

In the first sentence the verb мэкъутэ "is being broken" is used as an intransitive verb that creates an absolutive construction. In the second sentence the verb йо-къутэ "is breaking" creates an ergative construction. Both of the verbs are formed from the verb къутэ-н "to break".

In the Kabardian language, intransitive verbs can have indirect objects in a sentence. The indirect objects are expressed by a noun in the oblique case (which is also marked as -м). For example:

Щӏалэр пщащэм йоплъ "The boy looking at the girl",
Лӏыр жыгым щӏэлъ "The man lays under the tree".
Щӏалэр тхылъым йоджэ "The boy reads the book".

In these sentences with intransitive verbs, nouns that play role of indirect object are expressed in the oblique case: пщащэ-м  "girl", жыгы-м "tree", тхылъы-м "book".

Intransitive verbs can be turned into transitive with the causative affix -гъэ- (meaning "to force, to make"). For example:

Ар мажэ "He is running", but Абы ар е-гъа-жэ "He forces him to run",
Ар матхэ "He is writing", but Абы ар е-гъа-тхэ "He makes him to write".

The verbs in the first sentences мажэ "is running", матхэ "is writing"  are intransitive, and the verbs in the second sentences  егъажэ "forces ... to run", егъатхэ "makes ... to write" are already transitive.

Tense

Present
Intransitive verbs :

Transitive verbs :

Transitive verb examples :
Сэ адыгэбзэ грамматикэр содж (I study Circassian grammar)
Уэ адыгэбзэ грамматикэр уодж (You study Circassian grammar)
Абы адыгэбзэ грамматикэр едж (He/she studies Circassian grammar)
Дэ адыгэбзэ грамматикэр додж (We study Circassian grammar)
Фэ адыгэбзэ грамматикэр фодж (You (pl.) study Circassian grammar)
Абыхэм адыгэбзэ грамматикэр ядж or Адыгэбзэ грамматикэр яджхэр (They study Circassian grammar)

Intransitive poly-personal verb examples :
Сэ тхылъым соджэ (I read the book, I am reading the book)
Уэ тхылъым уоджэ (You read the book, you are reading the book)
Абы тхылъым йоджэ (He/she reads the book, he/she is reading the book)
Дэ тхылъым доджэ (We read the book, we are reading the book)
Фэ тхылъым фоджэ (You (pl.) read the book, you are reading the book)
Абыхэм тхылъым йоджэ or Тхылъым йоджэхэр (They read the book, they are reading the book)

Future
Indicating certainty :

Indicating some uncertainty :

Negative :

Past
Type 1 :

The past tense of verbs of type 1 are formed by adding -aщ /-aːɕ/. In intransitive verbs it indicate that the action took place, but with no indication as to the duration, instant nor completeness of the action.

In transitive verbs it convey more specific information as regards to completeness of the action, and therefore they indicate some certainty as to the outcome of the action.

Negative :

Type 2 :

This is the past perfect tense. It is formed by adding ~гъащ. It indicates that the action took place formerly at some certain time.

Type 3 :

Verbs of this group designate repetition of action in a vividly expressed
manner. They are formed by adding the suffix –т.

Сэ жысIэрт (I kept saying)
Дэ дылажьэрт (We worked repeatedly)
Ар еджэрт (He read many times)

Negative forms:

Сэ жысIэртэкъым (I did not kept saying)
Дэ дылажьэртэкъым (We did not work repeatedly)
Ар еджэртэкъым (He did not read many times)

Morphology
The Kabardian language has an especially complex morphology. A verb by its set of morphemes can express subject's and object's person, place, time, manner of action, negative, and other types of grammatical categories. A verb can have some combinations of different affixes to describe a specific verbs in a different situations.

Verbal Prefixes

Causative (гъэ~)
The verbal suffix гъэ~ (ʁa~) designates causation; rendered by the verbs: to
force, compel, make; to order, tell; to allow, permit; to give the opportunity
to do something.; also forms transitive verbs; for example :
 псэлъэн: to talk → гъэпсэлъэн: to make (somebody.) talk.
 мэжэлІэн: to become hungry → гъэмэжэлІэн: to make (somebody.) go hungry.
 шхэн: to eat → гъэшхэн: to feed (somebody.)
 бзэхын: ещ disappear → гъэбзэхын: to hide/conceal (somebody., something.) quickly.

Comitative (дэ~)
The verbal suffix дэ~ (da~) designates action performed jointly with somebody.
 шхэн: to eat → дэшхэн: to eat with somebody.
 кӏуэн : to go → дэкӏуэн : to go with somebody.

Reciprocal (зэ~)
The verbal prefix зэ~ is used in formation of reciprocal verbs; for example :
 зэзэуэн: to fight each other.

зэдэ~ is used in formation of reciprocal verbs; for example :
 зэдэгушыIэн: to joke with one another.

Reflexive (з~)
The verbal prefix з~ designates reflexive action; for example :
 зылъэщІын: to wipe oneself.
 зыплъыхьын: to look about oneself.
 зэгъэжьэн: to force oneself to wait;
 зэлъэфэлӏэн: to drag to oneself.

Destination (здэ~)
The verbal suffix здэ~ designates destination of action; for example :
 сыздэкIуэнур сощӏэ: I know where I am going to.

Directional (къэ~)
The verbal prefix къэ~ designates arrival, approach, movement directed to the speaker; for example :
 мафӏэгур къэсащ: the train has arrived.

It also designates approach of some season, time; for example :
 щӏымахуэр къэсащ: winter has arrived.

It also adds a tinge of definiteness to the verb; for example :
 къэпсэлъэн: to deliver a speech; to begin to speak.

Involuntative (ӏэщӏэ~)
The verbal prefix ӏэщӏэ~ (ʔaɕʼa~) designates an action which was done unintentionally. for example :

 хьэм бaжэр ӏэщӏэтхьэлыхьaщ - "The dog slaughtered the fox (unintentionally)"
 хьэр бaжэм ӏэщӏэтхьэлыхьaщ - "The fox (unintentionally) slaughtered the dog"
 щIaлэм дыгъур ӏэщӏэyкӏaщ - "The young man (unintentionally) killed the thief"
 yэ yсӏэщӏэyкӏaщ - "I accidentally killed you"
 щӏaлэм лӏыжьым дыгъур ӏэщӏигъэyкӏaщ - "The boy made the old man accidentally kill the thief"

Direction of motion (нэ~)
The veral prefix нэ~ (ны~) designates direction of motion from speaker to second person; for example :
 ар уи деж нэкӏуащ: he went to you.
 ар уи деж ныщӏыхьащ: he went to visit you.

It also forms verbs that convey a sense of completion of an action; for example :
 нэдысын: to finish (sewing); нэвысын: to finish ploughing/tilling.
 нэджысын: to finish (reading), to read to the end.

Against (фӏэ~)
The verbal prefix фӏэ~ (фӏы~) designates action done against somebody's will or interest. This verbal prefix can also be used indicate that the action was done to take an object or an opportunity away from somebody else.; for example :
 кӏуэн: to go → фӏэкӏуэн: to go against somebody's wish.

Benefactive (ху~)
The verbal prefix хуэ~ (xʷa~) designates action performed to please somebody, for somebody's sake, in somebody's interests; for example :
 анэм ӏуэху хуэщІэн: to do work for one's mother

Bypass (блэ~)
The verbal suffix блэ~ (bɮa~) designates movement bypass somebody or something; for example :
 унэм блэжын: to run by/past the house.

Through (пхы~)
The verbal prefix пхы~ (пхыры~) designates action, motion directed through some obstacle, object; ex.: * пхырыжын: to run through smth.;
 шэр nхъэбгъум пхыкІащ: the bullet went through the board;
 пхивыкІын: to get wet/soaked through.

Across (пыры~)
The verbal prefix пыры~ designates action of transference over object that is of comparatively small height; ex.:
 жыхьым пырыплъын: to look over the fence

It also designates action, motion directed across some obstacle; ex.:
 псым пырышын (е зэпырышын): to take/lead across the river;
 лъэмыжым пырышын: to take/lead across the bridge

After (кӏэлъ~)
The verbal prefix кӏэлъ~ (kʲʼaɬ) indicates action that happened towards after something or somebody; for example.:
 мыщэм кІэлъыкІуэн: to go after the bear;
 кІэлъежьэн: to set off/ out after, to start after, to leave after (smb., smth.);
 кІэлъесын: to swim after (smb., smth.).
 кІэлъытхэн: to write after (smb., smth.).

Verbal Infixes

Negative (~мы~)
~мы~ negatory infix; for example :
 жыӏэ: say → жумыӏэ: do not say.
 къакӏуэ: come → укъэмыкӏуэ: do not come.

Verbal Suffixes

Completion (~гъах)
The verbal suffix ~гъэхэ designates absolute accomplishment/realization of the action; for example :
 кӏуагъэхэщ: he's already gone.

Frequentative (~ж)
The verbal suffix ~ж designates recurrence/repetition of action; for example :
 къэсын: to arrive → къэсыжын: to arrive again.
 къэшэн: to bring → къэшэжын: to bring again.

Connective (~и)
~и (connective suffix) and, also; for example :
 къакӏуи еплъ: come and have a look.

Negative (~къым)
~къым (verbal suffix) negatory suffix; for example :
 хьэщӏэр иджыри къэс къэсакъым: the guest hasn't arrived yet.
 сэ еджапӏэм сыкӏуакъым: I didn't go to school.

Conditional mood (~мэ)
The conditional suffix is indicated by ~м(э); for example :
 ар къакIуэмэ, сэ бэзэрым сыкIуэнущ: If he comes, I will go to the market.

Concessive mood (~ми)
The verbal suffix ~ми designates concessive mood; for example :
 укIуами: even if you had gone.

Infinitive (~н)
~н infinitive forming suffix; for example :
 тхэн: to write.
 кIуэн: to go.

Upwards (~еи)
The verbal suffix ~еи  designates action in an upward direction; ex.:
 дэкІуеин: to go upwards.
 дэлъеин: to jump/leap up.

Downwards (~хы)
The verbal suffix ~х designates downward direction of action; ex.:
 ежэхын: to roll down; to run down.
 джабэм ежэхын: to roll down the mountain's slope.
 псыр джабэм хуабжьу йожэх: the river is streaming down the mountain' slope.
 ехьэхын: to lower, sink somebody or something.
 щхьэр ехьэхын: to hang one's head.
 рабочэхэр шахтэм ехьэхын: to get the workers down to the mine.

Recurrence (~рей)
The verbal suffix ~рей (~raj) designates recurrence, presence of a characteristic; for example :
 мэпсэлъэрей: he is fond of talking; he is garrulous.
 мэдауэрей: he is given to brawling; he is a brawler.

Repetition (~рт)
The verbal suffix ~рт designates repetition/recurrence of action; ex.:
 тхэрт: he wrote repeatedly.

Imperative mood (~т)
The verbal suffix ~т designates the imperative mood; for example :
 жыӏэт: do say; just say.
 тхэт: just write.

Subjunctive mood (~тэмэ)
The verbal suffix ~тэмэ designates subjunctive mood; for example :
  укӏуатэмэ: if you had gone.

Concessive mood (~тэми)
The verbal suffix ~тэми designates concessive mood; for example :
 укӏуатэми: even if you had gone.

Capability (~фы)
The verbal suffix ~ф designates the ability to perform the indicated action; for example :
 жыӏэфын: to be able to speak/talk; to speak eloquently/articulately;to manage to say (something.)
 хьыфын: to manage, be able, to take/carry (away) (something. somewhere.).

Completeness (~пэ)
The verbal suffix ~пэ designates completeness and fulfilment of the action; ex.:
 илэжьыпащ: accomplished, realized, carried into effect;
 шхыпэн: vt to eat (up) (smth.) entirely.

Absolute completeness (~кӏэ)
The verbal suffix ~кӏэ designates absolute completeness of action; ex.:
 сщIакIэщ: I have already done it.

Directed towards (~лӏ)
The verbal suffix ~лӏ  designates action directed towards, or applied to smb., smth.; ex.:
 ежэлІэн: vi to run up (to smb., smth.), to come running up (to smb., smth.);
 ехьэлІэн: vt 1. to take, carry (smb., smth. to smb., smth.);
 хьэпшыпхэр автобусым ~: to carry the articles to the bus.
 къекIуэлIащ: he appeared; he presented himself.

Slight excessiveness (~ӏуэ)
The verbal suffix ~ӏуэ designates slight excessiveness; ex.:
 тхэӏуэн: to write more than is necessary.

Excessiveness (~къуэ)
The verbal suffix ~къуэ  designates excessiveness; ex.:
 псэлъэкъуэн: to out-talk somebody; to talk too much; to have a long talk with somebody, to get carried away by a conversation with somebody.

Plural (~хэ)
The pluralizing suffix is indicated by ~хэ; for example :
 къэкIуахэщ: they came.

Preliminary condition (~хэ)
The verbal suffix ~хэ designates preliminary condition; for example :
 зытхьэщIыхэн: wash yourself first.
 зытхьэщIыхи шхэ: first wash yourself, and then eat.

Absolute negation (~ххэ)
~ххэ (verbal suffix) designates absolute negation; for example :
 сыкIуэххэнкъым: I will definitely not go.

Around (~хь)
The verbal suffix ~хь designates action performed on a definite location or repetition of the action;
 къэжыхьын: to run about;
 къэкIухьын: to go/walk about;

It also designates movement round an object :
 Іуащхьэм къэкIухьын: to walk/go round the hill;
 жыгым къэкIухьын: to walk/go round the tree.

Optative mood (~щэрэ)
The verbal suffix ~щэрэ (~щэрэт) designates optative mood; ex.:
 Налшык сыкIуащэрэ: if only I could go to Nalchik; I wish I could go to Nalchik.

References

Bibliography
 Kabardian Verbal Affixes; collected, arranged and edited by Amjad Jaimoukha.

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Category:Verbs by language


Belgrave, Tamworth

Belgrave is an area of Tamworth, Staffordshire, roughly  from the town centre. The main feature of Belgrave is Marlborough way which cuts the area in half. Belgrave contains Tamworth fire station, a Morrisons supermarket, a high school, three primary schools and is bordered by Two Gates, Wilnecote and Glascote.

History
Starting life as a mining village, on previously agricultural land, Belgrave had its own colliery up until the late 19th century. Other former local industries were terracotta works and motor manufacturing. The area was considerably expanded in the 1970s with the addition of two new housing estates for the 'over-spill' population of Birmingham.

Education
Belgrave contains Tamworth Enterprise College which is a state High School.

Belgrave also contains St Gabriels R C Primary School which is the state Roman Catholic primary school for Tamworth.

Public Services
Tamworth Community Fire station is located in Belgrave. Completed in 2010, the station is state-of-the-art including several large meeting rooms, and a gym for use by partners of the station. The station is built on what was previously Belgrave High School field.

Culture
Belgrave has a pub and a club. These are The Mercian at Exeley centre, and Belgrave Sports and Social Club which hosts regular bingo, private parties, and quality live acts from around the country. (Artists to have played there include Ruby Murray and The Drifters).

Transport
Belgrave to the north is bordered by the A5 road to the north where there is a flyover junction. To the south is Watling Street which is the old A5 and is now designated as the B5404.

To the east of Belgrave is the Cross Country Route and there is a station at nearby Wilnecote.

Media
Belgrave is covered by the Tamworth Herald newspaper which is the local newspaper for Tamworth.

References

See also
Belgrave High School

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Category:Areas of Tamworth, Staffordshire


MTS Systems Corporation

MTS Systems Corporation (MTS) is a global supplier of test systems and industrial position sensors. The company provides test and measurement solutions to determine the performance and reliability of vehicles, aircraft, civil structures, biomedical materials and devices and raw materials. Examples of MTS products include: aerodynamics simulators, seismic simulators, load frames, hydraulic actuators and sensors. The company operates in two divisions: Test and Sensors.

Test Division

MTS designs and produces test systems to simulate the forces and motions that materials, products and structures are expected to encounter. The Test division has customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia, which respectively represent approximately 30%, 30% and 40% of total orders. Products and customers are grouped into three global segments: Ground Vehicles, Materials and Structures.

The Ground Vehicles segment consists of automobile, truck, motorcycle, motorsports vehicle, construction equipment, agricultural equipment, rail, and off-road vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers. MTS test system and service products are used for the testing of vehicles, subsystems and components.

The Materials segment covers diverse industries, including raw material manufacturing, power generation, aerospace, vehicles, geomaterials, biomaterials and biomedical devices, consumer products and construction materials. The company's products and services support customers in research and development and QA/QC testing of products through the physical characterization of materials, such as ceramics, composites and steel. Biomedical applications include systems to test durability and performance of implants, prostheses, and other medical materials and devices.

The Structures segment serves the structural testing needs in the fields of aerospace, wind energy, structural engineering, and petroleum, among others. The aerospace structural testing market consists of manufacturers of commercial, military, and private aircraft and their suppliers. The energy market consists of wind turbine manufacturers and their component suppliers and the oil and gas industry. Structural engineering customers include government agencies, universities and the manufacturers of building materials.

Sensors Division

The industries that use MTS Sensors include manufacturers of plastic injection molding machines, steel mills, fluid power, oil and gas, medical, wood product processing equipment, mobile equipment and alternative energy. Sensors division products are also used to measure fluid displacement, such as liquid levels for customers in the process industries. The Sensors division manufactures products utilizing magnetostriction technology. MTS has developed an implementation of the technology, known as Temposonics. The Sensors division has a range of customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia that represent approximately 25%, 50% and 25% of orders, respectively. With the acquisition of PCB Group Inc. in 2016, MTS has increased Sensor products and presence.

PCB Piezotronics, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of microphones, vibration, pressure, force, torque, load, and strain sensors, as well as the pioneer of ICP technology used by design engineers and predictive maintenance professionals worldwide for test, measurement, monitoring, and control requirements in automotive, aerospace, industrial, R&D, military, educational, commercial, OEM applications, and more.  With a worldwide customer support team, 24-hour SensorLineSM, and a global distribution network, PCB® is committed to Total Customer Satisfaction.

MTS Systems Corp. was fined $400,000 after pleading guilty on March 12, 2008 for submitting false US export license applications on proposed shipments to India.  The company admitted to two misdemeanor counts of "false certification or writing" by omitting information linked to nuclear power plant test equipment.  In March 2011, MTS disclosed that it was again under investigation and barred from bidding on new government contracts.  On September 2011 the ban imposed by the Air Force was lifted, allowing MTS Systems to bid on new government contracts and to continue existing government contracts. MTS Systems settled all investigations with the U.S. Government and took measures to ensure government contracting standards were met. "We are happy to put the government investigation behind us. We have made great progress to ensure we meet the U.S. government's contractor standards and we are committed to meeting these requirements every day," MTS Systems CEO Jeffrey Graves said in a statement.

Notable Projects
MTS Installs Latest Seismic Simulation System at Earthquake Engineering Facility in Taiwan to Help Save Lives
Vehicle Dynamics Simulation
High-temperature materials testing for aerospace
MTS and University of Minnesota Deliver Driver Assistance Technology for "Bus on Shoulder" Transportation
Custom built Flat Trac LTRe for the National Tire Research Center in Alton, VA, which displays "...some of the most advanced technology in tire testing and research."
State-of-the-art 360-degree driving simulator. Commonly referred to as "The World's Most Advanced Driving Simulator"
First of its kind tuned mass damper for Citigroup Center in New York City and John Hancock Tower in Boston.
Manufacturing and design for Universal Parks & Resorts, including the launch system for the Incredible Hulk Coaster; the ride systems for The Cat in the Hat and Men in Black: Alien Attack at Universal Orlando, and Jaws at Universal Studios Japan; as well as the dinosaurs at Islands of Adventure's Jurassic Park River Adventure.

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John Whitty

John Whitty (1780-1864) was an Irish Anglican priest: Archdeacon of Kilfenora from 1822  until his death in 1864.

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and served for many years as Rector of Kilmanaheen.

He died on 13 February 1864

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Jack Paar's Tonight Show

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1953 National Challenge Cup

The 1953 National Challenge Cup was the 40th edition of the USSFA's annual open soccer championship.  The Chicago Falcons defeated the Harmarville Hurricanes (a suburban Pittsburgh team) to win.

External links

1953 U.S. Open Cup – TheCup.us

Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup
Category:U.S. Open Cup