The baby's name is Alex Lee Embree. I guess it seems a little wierd to know that my younger brother of 20 having his first kid.
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Hare scramble
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Hare scramble is the name given to a particular form of off-road Motorcycle racing. [1]
Contents
1 Course
2 Categorisation
2.1 By Riders' Skills
2.2 By engine size
3 Determining the Winner
4 The Virginia Championship Harescramble Series
5 References
6 External links
6.1 Hare scramble history
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[edit] Course
Hare scrambles are conducted on closed course tracks which can vary from 5 and 40+ miles (8 to 64+km) in length. The C class would be for the riders with the lowest level of skill and is usually populated by riders who are in their first couple of years of competition or by riders who infrequently compete.
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[edit] External links
American Motorcyclist Association
Grand National Cross Country
Mid-South Hare Scrambles Series
NCHSA Web-site
FTR Web-Site
Virginia Championship Harescramble Series
[edit] Hare scramble history
Photos of news articles and races
Photos and reprinted news articles
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Earthbound (King Crimson album)
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Earthbound
Live album by King Crimson
Released
1972
Recorded
February-March 1972
Genre
Progressive rock
Length
46:38
Label
Island Records (UK) Atlantic Records (USA)
Producer
Robert Fripp
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
King Crimson chronology
Islands
(1971)
Earthbound
(1972)
Larks' Tongues in Aspic
(1973)
Earthbound is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in 1972 as a budget record shortly after the line-up which recorded it had broken up. It has been praised for its funky grooves (unusual for the band), and a blistering performance of 21st Century Schizoid Man, but widely criticized for its very poor sound quality, due to it being recorded onto cassette by live sound engineer Hunter MacDonald.
This is the first King Crimson album that properly displays the name of the band and the title on the front cover.
The CD reissue does not significantly improve the overall sound quality of the album, due to its cassette origins.
[edit] Track listing
21st Century Schizoid Man (Including: Mirrors) (Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) – 11:45
Recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, USA, February 11, 1972
Peoria (Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, Fripp, Ian Wallace) – 7:30
Recorded at the Barn, Peoria, USA, March 10, 1972
Sailors Tale" (Fripp) – 4:45
Recorded at the Baseball Park, Jacksonville, USA, February 26, 1972
"Earthbound" (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) – 7:08
Recorded at Kemp Coliseum, Orlando, USA, February 27, 1972
"Groon" (Fripp) – 15:30
Recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, USA, February 11, 1972
[edit] Personnel
Robert Fripp - electric guitar
Boz Burrell - bass guitar, vocals
Mel Collins - baritone saxophone, mellotron
Ian Wallace - drums
Hunter MacDonald - VCS3
[edit] External links
List of fan reviews
v • d • e
King Crimson
Current members
Robert Fripp · Adrian Belew · Tony Levin · Pat Mastelotto · Gavin Harrison
Former members
Greg Lake · Michael Giles · Ian McDonald · Peter Sinfield · Peter Giles · Mel Collins · Gordon Haskell · Andy McCulloch · Boz Burrell · Ian Wallace · John Wetton · Jamie Muir · Bill Bruford · David Cross · Richard Palmer-James · Trey Gunn
Guest musicians
Peter Giles · Keith Tippett · Mark Charig · Nick Evans · Jon Anderson · Harry Miller · Eddie Jobson
Studio albums
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Nadia Comăneci
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Medal record
Nadia Comăneci (right) with Condoleezza Rice.
Women's artistic gymnastics
Competitor for Romania
Olympic Games
Gold
1976 Montréal
All-around
Gold
1976 Montréal
Uneven bars
Gold
1976 Montréal
Balance beam
Gold
1980 Moscow
Balance beam
Gold
1980 Moscow
Floor exercise
Silver
1976 Montréal
Team competition
Silver
1980 Moscow
Team competition
Silver
1980 Moscow
All-around
Bronze
1976 Montréal
Floor exercise
World Championships
Gold
1978 Strasbourg
Balance Beam
Gold
1979 Ft. Worth
Team
Silver
1978 Strasbourg
Team
Silver
1978 Strasbourg
Vault
European Championships
Gold
1975 Skien
All around
Gold
1975 Skien
Uneven Bars
Gold
1975 Skien
Balance Beam
Gold
1975 Skien
Vault
Gold
1977 Prague
All around
Gold
1977 Prague
Uneven Bars
Gold
1979 Copenhagen
All around
Gold
1979 Copenhagen
Vault
Gold
1979 Copenhagen
Floor Exercise
Silver
1975 Skien
Floor Exercise
Bronze
1977 Prague
Vault
Bronze
1979 Copenhagen
Balance Beam
Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci /ko.mə'neʧʲ/; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world and, along with Olga Korbut, is credited with popularizing the sport around the world.[1][2]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Early gymnastics career
3 Montreal Olympics
4 1977–1980
5 Post retirement
6 Current activities
7 Awards
8 Special skills
9 Pop culture references
10 References
11 External links
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[edit] Early life
Comaneci was born in OneÅŸti, Romania, as the daughter of Gheorghe and Åžtefania-Alexandrina.[3][4] Her pregnant mother was watching a Russian film in which the heroine of the story's name was Nadya, the shortened version of the Russian name Nadyezhda (which means, literally, Hope). She decided that her daughter would be named Nadia, too. Comaneci also has a younger brother named Adrian.[5]
[edit] Early gymnastics career
Comaneci began gymnastics in kindergarten with a local team called Flame, with coaches Duncan and Munteanu.[6][7] At age 6 she was chosen to attend Béla Károlyi's experimental gymnastics school after he spotted her and a friend turning cartwheels in a schoolyard.[8][9]
Comaneci was training with the Károlyis by the time she was 7 years old, in 1969. She was one of the first students at the gymnastics school established in Onesti by Béla and his wife, Marta, who would later defect to the United States and become coaches of many prominent American gymnasts. Unlike many of the other students at the Károlyi school, Comaneci was able to commute from home for many years because she lived in the area.[10]
Comaneci placed 13th in her first Romanian National Championships in 1969. A year later, in 1970, she began competing as a member of her hometown team and became the youngest gymnast ever to win the Romanian Nationals.[3] In 1971, she participated in her first international competition, a dual junior meet between Romania and Yugoslavia, winning her first all-around title and contributing to the team gold. For the next few years, she competed as a junior in numerous national contests in Romania and additional dual meets with nearby countries such as Hungary, Italy and Poland.[11] At the age of 11, in 1973, she won the all-around gold, as well as the vault and uneven bars titles, at the Junior Friendship Tournament (Druzhba), an important meet for junior gymnasts.[12][13]
Comaneci's first major international success came at the age of 13, when she nearly swept the 1975 European Championships in Skien, Norway, winning the all-around and gold medals on every event but the floor exercise, in which she placed second. She continued to enjoy success in other meets in 1975, winning the all-around at the Champions All competition and placing first in the all-around, vault, beam, and bars at the Romanian National Championships. In the Pre-Olympic test event in Montreal, Comaneci won the all-around and the balance beam golds, as well as silvers in the vault, floor, and bars behind accomplished Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim, who would prove to be one of her greatest rivals over the next five years.[14]
In March 1976, Comaneci competed in the inaugural edition of the American Cup at Madison Square Garden in New York. She received unprecedented scores of 10.0, which signified a perfect routine without any deductions, on vault in both the preliminary and final rounds of competition and won the all-around.[15] Comaneci also received 10s in other meets in 1976, including the prestigious Chunichi Cup competition in Japan, where she posted perfect marks on the vault and uneven bars.[16]
The international community took note of Comaneci: she was named the United Press International's Female Athlete of the Year for 1975.[17]
[edit] Montreal Olympics
At the age of 14, Comaneci became one of the stars of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. During the team portion of the competition, her routine on the uneven bars was scored at a 10.0. It was the first time in modern Olympic gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. The scoreboards were not even equipped to display scores of 10.0—so Nadia's perfect marks were reported on the boards as 1.00 instead.[18] Over the course of the Olympics, Comaneci would earn six additional 10s, en route to capturing the all-around, beam and bars titles and a bronze medal on the floor exercise. The Romanian team also placed second in the team competition.[19]
Comaneci was the first Romanian gymnast to win the all-around title at the Olympics. She also holds the record as the youngest Olympic gymnastics all-around champion ever; with the revised age-eligibility requirements in the sport (gymnasts must now turn 16 in the calendar year to compete in the Olympics; in 1976 gymnasts had to be 14 by the first day of the competition[20]), this record is currently unable to be broken.
Comaneci's achievements at the Olympics generated a significant amount of media attention. The theme song from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless became associated with her after the television program ABC's Wide World Of Sports used it as background music for montages of her routines. The song became a top ten single in the fall of 1976, and the composer, Barry De Vorzon, renamed it to Nadias Theme" after her.[21] However, Comaneci never actually performed to "Nadias Theme. Her floor exercise music was a medley of the songs Yes Sir, Thats My Baby" and "Jump in the Line" arranged for piano.
She was the 1976 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the overseas athletes category[22] and the Associated Presss 1976 Female Athlete of the Year.[23] She also retained her title as the UPI Female Athlete of the Year.[24] Back home in Romania, Comanecis success led her to be named a "Hero of Socialist Labor," she was the youngest Romanian to receive such recognition during the reign of Nicolae CeauÅŸescu.[6]
[edit] 1977–1980
Comaneci successfully defended her European all-around title in 1977, but when questions about the scoring were raised, CeauÅŸescu ordered the Romanian gymnasts to return home. The team followed orders and controversially walked out of the competition during the event finals.[25][6]
Following the 1977 Europeans, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation removed Comaneci from her longtime coaches, the Károlyis, and sent her to Bucharest to train at the 23 August sports complex. The change was not positive for Comaneci. Grappling with both the stress of her parents divorce and the new training environment, she was extremely unhappy and her gymnastics and overall fitness suffered.[26][6] An overweight and out of shape Comaneci showed up at the 1978 World Championships. A fall from the uneven bars resulted in a 4th place finish in the all-around behind Elena Mukhina, Nellie Kim, and Natalia Shaposhnikova, but Comaneci won the beam title.
Rehearsals with the youth choir ended at about 10 plus yesterday, prior to that, I had choir in school from 8.30am. Tomorrow would be the performance at the esplanade concert hall which features the organ, violin and choir. There are only 6 of us from the school choir and we are in collabaration with the youth choir. It was not the grandeur of the concert hall or the once in a life time feeling that caused it BUT a feeling of being withdrawn. I realise that this signifies my dependency on others but maybe if I had more time to know about the people in the youth choir, I am very sure the situation would be very different. People tend to associate your choir (for e.g.) to be of outstanding quality if you perform at the esplanade.
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Declaration of Rights of Peoples of Russia
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The Declaration of Rights of Peoples of Russia (ДеклараÌÑ†Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ñ€Ð°Ð² нароÌдов РоÑÑиÌи) was a document promulgated by the Bolshevik government of Russia on November 15 (November 2 by Old Style), 1917 (signed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin).
Ukrainian People's Republic (autonomy November 22, 1917, independence January 22, 1918)
Moldova (December 2, 1917 — joined Romania in 1918)
Finland (December 6, 1917)
Lithuania (December 11, 1917)
Estonia (February 24, 1918)
Poland (November 11, 1918)
Latvia (November 18, 1918)
Belarus (March 25, 1918)
(exact dates need correction)
These countries declared their independence, as Communist states, soon after the declaration:
Transcaucasia (April 22, 1918)
Tuva (June 1918)
Belarus
Several other independent republics have been proclaimed but happened to be short-lived:
Kazan
Kaluga
Ryazan
Ufa
Bashkiria
Orenburg
[edit] Later developments
Bolsheviks have never rejected the idea of self-determination, still the Soviet Constitutions (of 1924, 1936 and 1977) limited the right of secession to the constituent republics only.
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