Lithuanian Basketball League
Baltic Basketball League
Founded
June 22, 1994
Arena
Šiauli? arena
(capacity: 5,500)
Location
Šiauliai, Lithuania
Team colors
Yellow and Black
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Algimantas Mikšys
Head coach
Antanas Sireika
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http://www.bcsiauliai.lt
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KK Šiauliai (Lithuanian: Krepšinio Klubas Šiauliai; English: Basketball Club Šiauliai) is the major basketball club of Šiauliai, Lithuania participating in LKL. It is the third best team in the LKL for three consecutive years after the Lithuanian basketball grands Lietuvos Rytas and Žalgiris.
The team was head coached by Antanas Sireika for more than eight seasons. Donatas Slanina and Mindaugas Žukauskas started their careers in this club.
Best achievement in the LKL - third place (in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).
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MyGuide Amsterdam · Dexia Mons-Hainaut · WBC Kraftwerk Wels · BK VEF R?ga · KK Budu?nost · BC Donetsk · APOEL B.C. · Chorale Roanne Basket
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Insulivitrina tuberculata is a species of gastropod in the Vitrinidae family. It is endemic to Spain.
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Wong Jum-sum (traditional Chinese: ???; Cantonese Yale: Wong4 Jaam3 Sam1)
Born
21 February 1940(1940-02-21)
Panyu, Guangzhou, China
Died
24 November 2004 (aged 64)
Hong Kong
Occupation
composer, actor, movie director, screenwriter
Genre(s)
Cantopop
Hong Kong musical tongue twister
Instrument(s)
Piano
Years active
1960s - 2000s
Awards
Hong Kong Film Awards
Best Original Film Score
1988 A Chinese Ghost Story
1991 Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior
1992 Once Upon a Time in China
1995 Butterfly Lovers Best Original Film Song
1988 A Chinese Ghost Story
1991 The Swordsman
Golden Horse Awards
Best Original Song
1992 Once Upon a Time in China II
James Wong Jim (21 February 1940 – 24 November 2004, also known as “Uncle Jim”) was a Cantopop lyricist and writer based primarily in Hong Kong. He was also a well known in Asia as a columnist, actor, film director, screenwriter and talk show hosts. He took part in creative directing positions within the entertainment industry in Hong Kong. Wong was also an alumnus of La Salle College.
Wong died of lung cancer after a four-year battle at the age of 64 in 24 November 2004 at 00:46.
Contents
1Education
2Career and contributions
3Important works in lyrics
4Awards
5Filmography as actor
6See also
7References
8External links
Education
Wong was born in Panyu, in what now is part of Guangzhou, China and migrated to Hong Kong with his family in 1949. He completed his secondary education at La Salle College. In 1963, he graduated from Chinese Department, Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong. Wong received an MPhil degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1983 for his study in Cantonese opera (A study on the problems of Cantonese opera). In May 2003, in the midst of his fight with lung cancer, he obtained a PhD degree at the Department of Social Science, University of Hong Kong. The title of his thesis was “The rise and decline of cantopop : a study of Hong Kong popular music(1949-1997)”.
Career and contributions
Exhibition of Dr James Wong’s works during University of Hong Kong’s CAS Openday in October, 2005
Music Blanket is one of James Wong’s favourite personal collection
Wong had participated in a variety of media fields including advertisement, movie and music. He was best known for his achievements as a lyricist of Cantonese songs in Hong Kong. Beginning from the 1960s, he was the lyricist for over 2,000 songs, collaborating with composer Joseph Koo (aka. Gu Gaa-fai) on many popular TVB TV drama theme songs, many of which have become classics of the genre. His works had pushed the development of Cantopop to unprecedented popularity. Joseph Koo, might be one of his closest friends, but James Wong acknowledges that Koo is the exact opposite of him, saying that he (Wong) is handsome (in nature), while Koo has a terrible reputation, he curses or uses vulgar while Koo doesn’t know how to curse!
At the same time of being well known and praised for his creative works in the entertainment and advertisement fields, Wong was also famous for his vulgar and indelicate image. His vulgar includes jokes that lightly touch on adult topics. In one of his last concerts, he sung ones of his songs intended for advertisements. This one, “Leung Go Gau Saai Sou” has one particular line where he emphasises the word for mother, lo-mo. On that night he also said he loves si-lai (married women, he said, his mother was a si-lai and he loves si-lai so badly, his si-lai at home said he could only have one si-lai. It is said that his charismatic nature blends so perfectly with his jokes that he makes everyone laugh until they fall off their chairs. He had a series of best-seller books on adult-oriented jokes. He was regarded as the one breaking the cultural barrier to taboos in Hong Kong during the conservative environment in 1970s. He is best remembered as the person who came up with the slogan “Two kids are good enough” for The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong.
Wong hosted several TV programs, mostly interviews or talk shows oriented towards adults, on both TVB and ATV. One of the talk shows called “Off-guard Tonight” (?????), co-hosted by Wong and his close friends Chua Lam and Ni Kuang on ATV, is particularly remembered.
Since the 1990s, Wong’s creative works had become less popular, and many entertainment companies featured less of Wong’s songs. Some TV shows hosted by Wong were also unpopular. Wong had decided to return to Hong Kong University to get a doctorate degree, about Hong Kong popular culture. His essay is now in the library of Hong Kong University.
On 24 November 2004, he died in Union Hospital in Hong Kong Shatin. At this moment, Hong Kong people reflected back and agreed to his career and accomplishment. For the following few days, the news of his death had become the headline of media in Hong Kong and his compositions were played throughout the week. A remembrance ceremony took place at Hong Kong Stadium, over 15,000 attended this ceremony.
Important works in lyrics
“it’s a small world” (?????) Chinese adaptation
Below the Lion Rock (????)
The Bund of Shanghai (???), theme song from TV series The Bund (1980)
All Kind Sentiments (???), theme song from TV series The Bund II (1980)
Shanghai Beach of the Dragon Tiger Battle (??????), theme song from TV series The Bund III (1980)
When I’m Asked (??)
Both are forgetten in the mist (?????)
Tao (?), theme to the Tsui Hark-produced A Chinese Ghost Story
A laugh in blue sea (?????), theme to Tsui Hark’s The Swordsman
A Man Should Stand Strong (?????), theme song to Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China series about Wong Fei Hung; set to the traditional Chinese tune On the General’s Orders (???)
No need to remember old dreams (?????)
Childhood(??)
Work Hard (??)
The Legend of the Book and Sword (?????), theme song from TV series The Legend of the Book and Sword (1976)
Hotel (??), theme song from TV series Hotel (1976)
The Legend of the Heroic Knights (?????) (1976)
Horizon Solitary Traveler (????) (1976)
A House Is Not a Home (??), theme song from TV series A House Is Not a Home (1977)
Vanity Fair (??), theme song from TV series Vanity Fair (1978)
The Romantic Swordsman (????), theme song from TV series The Romantic Swordsman (1978)
Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (?????), theme song from TV series Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (1978)
The Flaming Ceremonial Fire (????), sub theme song from TV series Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (1978)
The Giants (??), theme song from TV series The Giants (1978)
The Oath Must Enter the Mountain of Sword (?????), theme song from TV series Luk Siu Fung III (1978)
Not Sentiments (???) (1978)
Game of Death (????), theme song from the movie Game of Death (1978)
Over the Rainbow (??), theme song from TV series Over the Rainbow (1979)
The Passenger (??), theme song from TV series The Passenger (1979)
Chor Lau Heung (???), theme song from TV series Chor Lau Heung (1979)
The Heroes of Man and Sea (????) (1979)
Wind and Clouds (??), theme song from TV series This Land is Mine (1980)
Leaves Depart From the Tear Hard to Endure (?????), theme song from TV series In Search of (1980)
The Brothers (??), theme song from TV series The Brothers (1980)
The Discovery Bay (???), theme song from TV series The Discovery Bay (1980)
The Invincible Medic (????), theme song from TV series The Invincible Medic (1980)
Five Easy Pieces (???), theme song from TV series Five Easy Pieces (1980)
Eunuch (????), theme song from TV series Eunuch (1980)
The Adventurer’s (??), theme song from TV series The Adventurer’s (1980)
Famous Sword (??) (1980)
Personhood Loves Freedom (?????), theme song from TV series The Misadventure of Zoo (1981)
Cheers (??), sub theme song from TV series The Misadventure of Zoo (1981)
In Love and War (????), theme song from TV series In Love and War (1981)
Breath and Depths of Mountains and Waters (??????) (1982)
Forgets With All One’s Heart the Sentiment (?????), theme song from TV series The Legend of Master So (1982)
Heart Debt (??), theme song from TV series Soldier of Fortune (1982)
Being at a High Game (????), theme song from TV series The Emissary (1982)
Approaches the Upstream Silently (?????) (1982)
You’re the One Who Decides to Love (?????), theme song from TV series The Radio Tycoon (1983)
Heroine (????), theme song from TV series The Legend of the Unknowns (1983)
Hands Over My Heart (?????), theme song from TV series Woman on the Beat (1983)
The Emperor Descendants (????) (1983)
In Dream Several Sorrow (?????), theme song from TV series The Foundation (1984)
I Cannot See My Tears Flow (?????), sub theme song from TV series The Foundation (1984)
It Will Be Throughout Lucky (?????), theme song from TV series The Duke of Mount Deer (1984)
Sentimental Cold Lust (????), theme song from TV series Sword Stained with Royal Blood (1985)
Me and You, He and Me (??? ???), theme song from TV series The Rough Ride (1985)
The Song of Chu (??), theme song from TV series The Battlefield (1985)
The Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountains (????), theme song from TV series The Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountains (1985)
In the Sentimental Past (???), theme song from the movie A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Leaves Behind My Fond Dream (?????), theme song from TV series The Return of Luk Siu Fung (1986)
Holds Up the Head to Sing to the Day (?????) (1986)
Will Rush Toward Future Day (???????), theme song from the movie A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
The Infinite Journey (????), theme song from TV series The Price of Growing Up (1987)
Still the Heart Was Thinking You (??????), sub theme song from TV series The Price of Growing Up (1987)
The Humanity’s Mistake (????), theme song from TV series Born to Be a King (1987)
Youth Heart (???), sub theme song from TV series Born to Be a King (1987)
Hu Han Dream (???), theme song from TV series The Legend of the Book and Sword (1987)
The Chrysanthemum Tears (???), theme song from TV series Deadly Secret (1989)
Small Boat Lover (????) (1989)
Wild Rose (???) (1989)
The Special Express (????) (1989)
Heart of Fire (????) (1990)
Does Not Hope Again Tangled Up (?????), sub theme song from TV series The God’s of Demons of Zu Mountain (1990)
Long Flow, Not Rest (????) (1992)
Detains the Fall Scenery (????), sub theme song from TV series The Buddhism Palm Strikes Back (1993)
To Die, To A Unique Skill (????), theme song from TV series The Legend of the Condor Heroes (1994)
Difficult Even Agreement (???), theme song from TV series Against the Blade of Honour (1994)
Splendid Story (????), theme song from TV series Corner the Con Man (1997)
Has You Rarely (????), theme song from TV series Corner the Con Man (1997)
Top of the Head, One Piece of the Day (?????) (1998)
The Cool Breeze Does Not Dye (????), theme song from TV series Justice Sung II (1999)
Beautiful Fate (????), theme song from TV series Better Halves (2003)
The Sentimental Often In (???) (2004)
Awards
Wong received numerous awards for his works.
- Music Awards
1981 ???, The best cantopop, 4th Top Ten Chinese Golden Pop Music, RTHK
1982 ?????, The best cantopop, 4th Top Ten Chinese Golden Pop Music, RTHK
1989 Best Lyricist, 2nd Hong Kong Artist Awards (???????)
1990 Golden Pin, 13th, Top Ten Chinese Golden Pop Music, RTHK
1991 Hall of Fame, RTHK (Radio and Television Hong Kong)
2000 Hall of Fame Award, CASH (Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong).
2002 Hall of Fame Award for 25th Anniversary, 25th Top Ten Chinese Golden Pop Music, RTHK
- Film Awards
1987 A Chinese Ghost Story: Best Original Score and Best Film Song (”Lai Ming But Yiu Loi”), 7th Hong Kong Film Awards
1990 The Terracotta Warrior: Best Original Film Score; and The Swordsman: Best Original Film Song, 10th Hong Kong Film Awards
1991 ???, 11th Hong Kong Film Awards
1992 ??? ?II ?????, 29th Taiwan’s Golden Horse Award
1994 ??, Best Original Film Score, 14th Hong Kong Film Awards
Filmography as actor
In-Laws, Out-Laws (2004)
Visible Secret (2001) - Lo Kit
Funny Business (2000)
Love Paradox (2000) - Security guard
Bishonen (1998) - J.P.
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (1997) - Red Beard (voice, Cantonese version)
Screwball ‘94 (1994) - Tong Shi Yi
It’s a Wonderful Life (1994) - George
Best of Best (1994)
I Will Wait for You (1994) - Thief
Return to a Better Tomorrow (1994) - Wong
I Have a Date with Spring (1994) - Triad
Iron Monkey (1993) - Governor Cheng
Flirting Scholar (1993) - Mr. Wah
All’s Well, Ends Well Too (1993) - Magistrate
Summer Lovers (1992) - Uncle Wah
Fight Back to School II (1992) - Minister Wong
Stooges in Hong Kong (1992)
Rich Man (1992) - Peter Chow
Once Upon a Time a Hero in China (1992)
All’s Well, Ends Well (1992)
The Twin Dragons (1992) - Twins’ Father
Spiritually a Cop (1991)
The Banquet (1991) - Food Vendor
Gambling Ghost (1991) - Brother Dragon
Doctor Vampire (1991)
Stooges in Tokyo (1991) - Chung, Kwok Shing
B B 30 (1990)
The Wild Goose Chase (1990)
Tiger on the Beat II (1990) - Wong
Miss Asia Pageant 1990 (1990) (TV) - Host
The Romancing Star III (1989) - Housiu Jim
Just Heroes (1989) - Solicitor Wong
Mr. Sunshine (1989)
Celebrity Talk Show (1989) TV Series - Host
Happy Ghost 4 (1989) - Judge
Miss Asia Pageant 1989 (1989) (TV) - Host
Black Dragon (1989) - Mr. Ku’s Friend
City Squeeze (1989)
The Crazy Companies (1988) - Priest
Fractured Follies (1988) - May’s father, a supermarket owner
Tiger on Beat (1988) - Police Inspector Jim Pak
Mother vs. Mother (1988) - Substitute Minister
Double Fattiness (1988) - Orchestra Director
Red Headed Stranger (1986) - Chinese Laborer
Musical Dancer (1985) - James Wong
My Darling, My Goddess (1982) - Randy Jim
Chinatown Kid (1977) - Gambler
Let’s Rock (1975)
Games Gamblers Play (1974)
See also
List of graduates of University of Hong Kong
References
^“Hong Kong Government statement on Wong’s death (Chinese only)”. Hong Kong Government. 24 November 2004. http://www.news.gov.hk/tc/category/administration/041124/html/041124tc01001.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
^“Hong Kong University has dedicated a memorial page for Dr James Wong Jim in honor”. Hong Kong University. http://web.hku.hk/~daaobeta/index.html. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
^“Memorial Service at Hong Kong Stadium”. China Daily. 6 December 2004. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/06/content_397739.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
External links
The James Wong Jim Memorial booklet - download (In English/Chinese)
IMDb entry
Awards
Preceded by Paula Tsui
Golden Needle Award of RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award
1990
Succeeded by Roman Tam
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Ulmus glabra
Camperdown Elm, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City.
Cultivar
‘Camperdownii’
Origin
Camperdown Park, Dundee, Scotland
The Camperdown ElmUlmus glabra ‘Camperdownii’ is a cultivar which cannot reproduce from seed. Although still classed as a cultivar of U. glabra, the tree was considered a nothomorph of U. × hollandica var. vegeta by Green (1964), not U. glabra .
Contents
1Description
2Pests and diseases
3Cultivation
4Notable trees
5Synonymy
6Accessions
6.1North America
6.2Europe
6.3Australasia
7Nurseries
7.1North America
7.2Europe
8References
9External links
Description
The grafted Camperdown Elm slowly develops a broad, flat head that may eventually build as high as 4 m (13 feet) and an incommensurately wide crown with a contorted, weeping habit .
Pests and diseases
A cultivar of the Wych Elm, ‘Camperdownii’ is susceptible to Dutch Elm disease. However there are still many examples to be found in parks and gardens across the British Isles as it often avoids detection by the Scolytae beetle (a major vector of Dutch Elm Disease) because of its diminutive height. In North America it often escapes infection possibly because the American vectors of the disease do not feed on Wych Elm; however its leaves are heavily damaged there by the Elm Leaf Beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola , Elm Yellows , and disfigured by leaf-mining and leaf-rolling insects, such as the Elm casebearer, Coleophora ulmifoliella .
Cultivation
About 1835 - 1840 (often miscalled as ‘1640′), the Earl of Camperdown’s head forester, David Taylor, discovered a mutant contorted branch growing along the ground in the forest at Camperdown House, in Dundee, Scotland. The earl’s gardener produced the first Camperdown Elm by grafting it to the trunk of a Wych Elm Ulmus glabra. Every Camperdown Elm in the world is from a cutting taken from that original mutant cutting and is usually grafted on a Wych elm trunk. Other grafting stock has been used, including Dutch Elm Ulmus × hollandica, Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila, and English Elm Ulmus procera (although this ultimately produces suckers). The tree is grafted at circa 1.5 m above ground level.
The original mutant tree of Ulmus glabra ‘Camperdownii’, Camperdown Park, Dundee, 1989
Camperdown Elm is cold hardy, suffering more from summer drought than winter cold (to zone 4), although 90% of the University of Minnesota elm trials specimens were lost during the exceptionally severe winter of 2002-2003 . The cultivar requires a large open space in order to develop fully, and so is not recommended for small home grounds. The tree is often confused with the much taller ‘Horizontalis’ (Weeping Wych Elm) owing to both being giventhe epithet ‘Pendula’ at some stage .
Camperdown Elms satisfied a mid-Victorian passion for curiosities in the ‘Gardenesque’ gardens then in vogue. Many examples were planted, as ‘rarities’, in Britain and America, wherever elite gardens were extensive enough for tree collections (see Arboretum). There are many on university campuses, often planted as memorials. Camperdown Elms are used in stately landscaping of American university campuses, such as at the campus of the University of Idaho, where a number were planted many decades ago. Others featured in townscapes such as at the Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle, and Kripalu Yoga Center, Stockbridge, MA. The tree was also introduced to Australia, where a number still survive, notably in Victoria.
Notable trees
Weeping Elm, Halifax Public Gardens.
In Prospect Park, Brooklyn, a Camperdown Elm planted in 1872 near the Boat House has developed into a picturesque weatherbeaten specimen, no more than four metres high, like an oversized bonsai; this tree is considered the outstanding specimen tree in Prospect Park. Halifax Public Gardens contains a similar specimen, located next to the Boer War Memorial fountain, which displays the same characteristics as the Prospect Park tree.
The UK Champion Trees as listed by TROBI are in Scotland, at Baxter Gardens, Dundee, and at Ayr. In France, two grow by the gate at corner of rue de Buzenval & rue de Lagney in the Square Sarah Bernhardt, Paris (20th Arrondissement). NB: Two Corkscrew Willows at the entrance near the corner of rue de Lagny & rue Mounet Sully look the same during winter.
Synonymy
Ulmus montana (: glabra) var. pendula: Kirchner, in Petzold & Kirchner, Arb. Muscav., 565, 1864.
Ulmus montana (: glabra) var. pendula camperdownii Hort.: Henry, in Henry & Elwes, Trees of Great Britain & Ireland, 7: 1867, 1913.
Ulmus montana (: glabra) pendula nova Hort.: Kirchner, in Petzold & Kirchner, Arb. Muscav. 565, 1864, name in synonymy.
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In 1702, English General Baptists who had settled in the Province of Carolina requested help from the General Baptists in England. Though they did not receive help, native Paul Palmer labored there about twenty-five years later, and founded the first “General” or “Free Will” Baptist church in Chowan County, North Carolina, in 1727. Palmer organized at least three churches in North Carolina. From one church in 1727, they grew to over twenty churches by 1755. After 1755, the churches began to decrease and many churches and members became Particular Baptists. By 1770, only four churches and four ministers remained of the General Baptist persuasion. By the end of eighteenth century, these churches were being referred to as “Free Will Baptist.” The churches in the “Palmer” line would again experience growth slowly in the nineteenth century. They organized various associations and conferences, and finally organized into the General Conference of Free Will Baptists in 1921.
Another “Free Will” movement rose in the North through the work of Benjamin Randall (1749-1808). Randall united with the Regular Baptists in 1776, but broke with them in 1779 due to his more liberal views on predestination. In 1780, Randall formed a “Free” Baptist church in New Durham, New Hampshire. More churches were founded, and in 1792 a Yearly Meeting was organized. This northern line of Free Will Baptists expanded rapidly, but the majority of the churches merged with the Northern Baptist Convention in 1911. A remnant of the Randall churches organized in 1917 as the Cooperative General Association of Free Will Baptists.
Representatives of the “Palmer” (General Conference) and “Randall” (Cooperative General Association) groups of Free Will Baptists met at Cofer’s Chapel in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1935 and organized the National Association of Free Will Baptists as a merger of the two groups. The new association adopted the Treatise on the Faith and Practice of the Free Will Baptists, which has been revised several times since then. As of August 2005, the Association claims to have over 2,400 churches in forty-two states and fourteen foreign countries. The Association is actively involved in missionary work in the United States and throughout the world. The Association operates a publishing house called Randall House. Two colleges, the Free Will Baptist Bible College in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in Moore, Oklahoma, are affiliated with the Association.
Theology
The churches of the National Association of Free Will Baptists are theological conservatives who hold an Arminian view of salvation and eternal security. The differ from the larger body of Baptists in holding three ordinances rather than two, namely: Believer’s Baptism, the Lord’s supper, and the washing of feet. Anointing with oil is also practiced in some churches.
Membership
Since the middle of the twentieth century, membership has remained near 200,000. In 2005, the Association reported having 2,425 churches and 198,924 members. Membership is concentrated in the South. The states with the highest membership rates are Arkansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Alabama, and Kentucky.
References
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Davidson, William (2001). The Free Will Baptists in History. Nashville: Randall House Publications. ISBN 0892659556.
Jones, Dale (2002). Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States 2000. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center. ISBN 091442226X.
Pinson, J. Matthew (1998). A Free Will Baptist Handbook: Heritage, Beliefs, and Ministries. Nashville: Randall House Publications. ISBN 0892656883.
Wardin, Albert (1995). Baptists around the World. Nashville: Broadman & Holman. ISBN 0805410767.
^ National Council of Churches’ Historic Archive CD and Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches
^ 2000 Religious Congregations and Membership Study
External links
National Association of Free Will Baptists
Randall House Publishing
ONE Magazine: The Magazine for Free Will Baptists
A Treatise of the Faith and Practices of the National Association of Free Will Baptists
Profile of the National Association of Free Will Baptists on the Association of Religion Data Archives website
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Mercerised cotton yarn reels
Spool of a 2-ply mercerised cotton thread with a polyester core. Individual staples can be seen in close up view.
Mercerisation is a treatment for cotton fabric and thread that gives fabric a lustrous appearance. The process is applied to materials like cotton or hemp.
The process was devised in 1844 by John Mercer of Great Harwood, Lancashire, England, who treated cotton fibres with sodium hydroxide. The treatment caused the fibres to swell, which in Mercer’s version of the process shrunk the overall fabric size and made it stronger and easier to dye. The process did not become popular, however, until H. A. Lowe improved it into its modern form in 1890. By holding the cotton during treatment to prevent it from shrinking, Lowe found that the fibre gained a lustrous appearance. Mercerisation alters the chemical structure of the cotton fibre. The structure of the fiber inter-converts from alpha-cellulose to a thermodynamically more favorable beta-cellulose polymorph. Mercerising results in the swelling of the cell wall of the cotton fibre. This causes increases in the surface area and reflectance, and gives the fiber a softer feel.
The modern production method for mercerised cotton, also known as “pearl” or “pearle” cotton, gives cotton thread (or cotton-covered thread with a polyester core) a sodium hydroxide bath that is then neutralized with an acid bath. This treatment increases lustre, strength, affinity to dye, resistance to mildew, but also increases affinity to lint. Cotton with long staple fibre lengths responds best to mercerisation. Mercerised thread is commonly used to produce fine crochet.
References
^J. Gordon Cook (1984). Handbook of Textile Fibres: Volume I: Natural Fibres. Woodhead. p. 68. ISBN 1855734842.
^Beaudet, Tom (1999). “What is Mercerized cotton?”. FiberArts.org. http://fiberarts.org/design/articles/mercerized.html. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
^Textile Technology: Cotton/Kenaf Fabrics: a Viable Natural Fabric, P. Bel-Berger, et al Journal of Cotton Science, 3:60-70 (1999). “Cotton/kenaf fabrics can be further improved in softness and hand. The effects of different fabric treatments such as enzymes, bleaching, and mercerization were compared and measured for softness of hand. Two types of fabrics were treated, a lightweight plain weave and a heavyweight twill. Mercerization dramatically improved the softness and hand for both fabrics.”
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Igor Yebra (b. 1974, Bilbao) is a Spanish freelance ballet dancer.
Contents
1Early life
2Career
3Personal life
4Awards
5References
6External links
Early life
Igor Yebra was born in Bilbao, Spain, and was encouraged to start dancing by his parents, two music and dance enthusiasts who named him Igor in honour of the title character in Borodin’s opera.
Surrounded by ballet and music during his childhoold, primarily due to his parents’ dance school, Igor never considered becoming a professional dancer and, just like other Spanish children, he dreamed of being a football player. It was only after his parents took him to see Aram Khachaturyan’s ballet Spartacus, starring the Bolshoi’s principal Vladimir Vasiliev, that he became aware of the masculinity that ballet could have, and started attending classes locally. He then moved to Madrid where he entered Victor Ullate’s dance school and started formal training at the considerably late age of 13.
Career
Igor has trained with a multitude of Spanish teachers including Karemia Moreno, Lázaro Carreño, Pino Alosa and Ángela Santos. He started dancing professionally with Ullate’s company, Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid while still a student in Madrid. He graduated with honours from the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza.
Igor remained with the company for six years, eventually becoming a principal. During this time he danced various contemporary and neo-classical ballets, including pieces from choreographers Van Manen, Rudi van Dantzing, Jan Linkens, Nils Christie, Amodio, Balanchine, Micha Van Hoecke y and Ullate himself.
Yebra started his career as a freelance dancer at the end of 1996 and joined Australian Ballet as a guest, despite receiving offers from recognized companies like the New York City Ballet, Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón, Scottish Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.
He is mostly recognized as a danseur noble and it is from the time he left Ullate’s company that he managed to expand his classical and romantic repertoire to include various coreographed versions of Giselle, Don Quixote, La Sylphide, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Coppélia, Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty and variations from Le Corsaire and La Bayadère. His contemporary repertoire is an array of neoclassical-type ballets, including George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, Concerto Barroco, Allegro Brillante and Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux.
He has appeared as a guest artist with Atterballetto, Ballet à l’opera de Nice, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Ballet Nacional de Venezuela, Kremlin Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi, the Kirov, Scottish Ballet, Rome Opera Ballet, Australian Ballet, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Arena di Verona Ballet and is a guest principal with the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux.
As from 2001 he is a permanent guest and principal dancer with the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Rome Opera Theatre Ballet .
January 2004 marked his debut at the Kremlin Theatre dancing the title role in Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Ivan the Terrible, and making him the first non-Russian to dance such role.
He has created roles in various pieces including Carmen, La Traviatta, Aida, The Dying Swan and Don José.
Personal life
He married Basque television presenter Anne Igartiburu in September 2004, from who he separated soon after, in December 2005.
Igor realised one of his biggest dreams in 2006 when he opened a dance school in his hometown of Bilbao.
He’s still a big football fan and supporter of his local team “Athletic Bilbao”.
Awards
The Jury’s Special Contemporary Prize at the Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Dancers, Paris, 1989.
Best Dancer of the Year Award by “DANZA & DANZA Magazine”, Italy, 1996.
Second Male Prize at The II International “Maya Plisetskaya” Ballet Competition, 1996.
Leonidas Massine Award, Italy, 2003.
References
^ Messenger of Saint Anthony - God & I: Igor Yebra
^ Opéra National de Bordeaux : Le Ballet
^(Italian) Home - Teatro dell’Opera
^ Danza Ballet - IGOR YEBRA
^ Internation Ballet Competition Maya
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