Gesina is a Dutch feminine given name. Like the German form Gesine it originated, perhaps via the hypocorism "Ge" and diminutive "Gesie", from Geertruida/Gertrude. People with the name include:

Johanna Gesina Bonger (1862–1925), wife of Theo van Gogh, key player in the growth of Vincent van Gogh's fame
Gesina ter Borch (1633–1690), Dutch watercolorist and draftswoman, sister of Gerard ter Borch
Gesina Maria "Ina" van Faassen (1928–2011), Dutch actress and comedian
Gesina "Ina" ter Laak-Spijk (1931–2002), Dutch short and middle distance runner
Henriëtte Gesina Numans (1877–1955), Dutch painter

See also
Gęsina, a village in central Poland

References

Dutch feminine given names
Feminine given names


Marjorie Spock (September 8, 1904, New Haven, Connecticut – January 23, 2008, Sullivan, Maine) was an environmentalist, writer and poet, best known for her influence on Rachel Carson when the latter was writing Silent Spring. Spock was also a noted Waldorf teacher, eurythmist, biodynamic gardener and anthroposophist.

Life

Marjorie Spock was born the second child and the first daughter of six children. Her Father Benjamin Spock was the General Solicitor of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroads,  Her older brother was Benjamin Spock, the world-renowned pediatrician and author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.

In 1922 at the age of 18, Spock decided to leave her formal education with plans of studying at Smith College, to study Eurythmy, and Anthroposophy in Dornach, Switzerland. Spock studied at the Goetheanum where she met and worked with Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. She was present at the "Christmas Conference" of December 25, 1923 – January 1, 1924 when the Anthroposophical Society was founded. Upon joining the Anthroposophical Society, Spock traveled with Steiner on his lecture cycles throughout Europe.

When she returned to the U.S. in 1930, Spock moved to New York to teach at the Rudolph Steiner School. At 38 Spock received her BA and MA degrees from Columbia University, writing her masters thesis on Waldorf education. Upon receiving her degree, she also taught at Dalton Middle School as well as The Fieldston Lower School and The Waldorf School in New York.

Throughout her career, Spock published multiple books, pamphlets and articles about eurythmy and anthroposophy, including "Teaching as a Lively Art", "Eurythmy", and "Fairy Worlds and Workers: A Natural History of Fairyland", as well as traveled and performed with multiple acting troops.  She also worked closely with Ehrenfried Pfeiffer within the biodynamic agriculture movement in the U.S.

Following the lawsuit against the government for the aerial spraying of their farm, Spock and her friend Mary Richards, a eurythmist as well, moved to Maine where they continued to practice biodynamic farming. Spock became a mentor to many young farmers wanting to learn methods of growing biodynamic foods, as well as a leader in the development of community building techniques for the Community Techniques Study Group, intended to combat the divide within the Anthroposophical Society.

Spock died on January 23, 2008, Sullivan, Maine where she lived.

Environmental activism

In the late 1950s, Marjorie Spock was a biodynamic gardener on Long Island, New York along with her friend Mary Richards, a digestive invalid with what is referred to as Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, who required a diet of organic and fresh produce.

In the summer of 1957 the state and federal government began a massive aerial spraying over three million hectares of the Northeast, including Spock and Richards's land, with DDT mixed with fuel oil at least fourteen times a day in an attempt to eradicate the Gypsy Moth Disease.

With their crops, soil and livestock destroyed, Spock and Richards joined a pending application for an injunction to stop the US government from aerial spraying with a group of eleven other Long Island plaintiffs, including Robert Cushman Murphy. The initial attempt to hire a lawyer was difficult, as they were often denied on the ground that it was impossible to "win [a case] against the government". However they eventually hired a local attorney who was interested in their devotion to biodynamic farming. Their initial injunction was denied, with the judge claiming the evidence provided did not demonstrate the dangers of DDT. The plaintiffs then brought a lawsuit  to the US Federal Court in Brooklyn NY, after amassing more data and expert witnesses. Beginning on February 10, 1958, the suit was brought against the United States Government attempting to permanently halt the federal and state government form spraying their properties, and for damages. For Spock, the concern was for people’s health and the constitutional right for a property owner to manage her land free of government infringement.

The federal judge dismissed 72 uncontested admissions for the plaintiffs and denied their petition. After three years of exhausting all legal appeals the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1960, however it was declined on a technicality. The plaintiffs lost the case but won the right to enjoin the government, prior to a potentially destructive environmental activity, to provide a full scientific review of the proposed action.  With this right to environmental review, Spock helped give rise to the environmental movement. This case is often cited as the first modern environmental case brought by citizens.

Throughout the three-year process, Spock wrote daily reports on the trials, and sent them to interested and influential friends of the case's progress. Rachel Carson heard of Spock's case and soon got the daily reports.  Carson used the testimony from the experts that Spock had found in her own research.  Spock's case, along with a massive bird kill on Cape Cod, provided the impetus for Carson's book, Silent Spring., which is often noted for its role as a catalyst for the congressional hearings which banned the use of DDT in the United States.

Publications

Books
Teaching as a Lively Art
In Celebration of the Human Heart
Eurythmy
To Look on Earth With More Than Mortal Eyes
Fairy Worlds and Workers: A Natural History of Fairyland

Pamphlets
These two pamphlets have had a broad readership.
Group Moral Artistry I: Reflections on Community Building
Group Moral Artistry II: The Art of Goethean Conversation

Article
A B C D E F G: The Secret Life of Letters

References

Anthroposophists
American centenarians
20th-century American women writers
1904 births
2008 deaths
American people of Dutch descent
Organic farmers
People from Sullivan, Maine
Women centenarians


Cyril Manton Harris (June 20, 1917 – January 4, 2011) was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He received his B.S. in mathematics and his M.S. in physics from UCLA, and his Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he specialized in acoustics.

He co-authored with Vern Oliver Knudsen the book Acoustical Designing in Architecture, and edited several others, including Handbook of Noise Control, Shock and Vibration Handbook, Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture, Dictionary of Architecture and Construction and American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. These books are recognized as authoritative references in their field.

As a consultant, Harris participated in the design and construction of more than 100 halls, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Minnesota Orchestra Hall, Lincoln Center Metropolitan Opera House, Abravanel Hall, Benaroya Hall and Conrad Prebys Concert Hall in University of California, San Diego.

Harris was a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. He served on the Executive Council (1954–1957), was vice president (1960–1961) and president (1964–1965) of the society, and was an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1959–1971). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Philosophical Society and several other professional societies and advisory boards. Harris served as president (1993) and chairman of the Board (1994) of the New York Academy of Sciences. His achievements in auditorium acoustics were recognized by the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal of the Acoustical Society of America, the Franklin Medal (1977), the AES Gold Medal (1984), the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (1985) and the ASA Gold Medal (1987). He held honorary doctorates from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and from Northwestern University.

References

External links
 Cyril M. Harris paper finding aid. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
1917 births
Academics from Detroit
2011 deaths
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
ASA Gold Medal recipients
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Recipients of Franklin Medal


The San Francisco Dons men's basketball team represents the University of San Francisco in NCAA Division I men's college basketball.  The Dons compete in the West Coast Conference, where they have won sixteen regular season championships and one conference tournament championship. The current head coach is Chris Gerlufsen. They play home games at the War Memorial Gymnasium, which also serves as the venue for women's basketball, volleyball, athletic department offices, and athletic training rooms. Some games may be played at the Chase Center.

The basketball team claims three national titles: the 1949 NIT under Pete Newell, and the 1955 and 1956 NCAA Division I championships. The latter two were under Phil Woolpert, and led by player and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Russell.

USF retained its status as a basketball powerhouse into the 1970s and early 1980s, holding the distinction of being a "major" program in a "mid-major" conference (the WCC having declined somewhat in stature since the 1960s). It held the number one spot in the polls on numerous occasions. In 1977, led by All-American center Bill Cartwright, the Dons started 29–0 and were regarded as the #1 team in the nation in both major polls before dropping their last two games.

The San Francisco Dons men's basketball program has been rated the 29th "Greatest College Basketball Program of All-Time" by Street & Smith's magazine, 49th by NBC Sports "Greatest Programs of All-Time", and 75th by the ESPN/Sagarin All-Time College Basketball Rankings, higher in all three rankings than any other West Coast Conference school and many schools from BCS Conferences (Pac-12, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Southeastern Conference).

History
Basketball got its start at USF, then known as St. Ignatius College, in 1910. The original coach was Orno Taylor, whose subsequent achievements were lost to history. The scores had grown since 1895 but the writing was as florid as ever. The College Annual reported that "the entire team did nobly in the season just finished and the student body as a unit thanks them for their loyalty and devotion." The results weren't bad either. The St. Ignatius team won six of its seven games, losing only to Pacific (then located in San Jose) by a mere three points. Included in the victories was a sweep of Santa Clara, still a major rival, by scores of 38–31 and 22–13.

Pete Newell era
After serving in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946, Pete Newell was appointed men's basketball head coach at the University of San Francisco in 1946. During his four-year tenure at USF, Newell compiled a 70–37 record and coached the Dons to the 1949 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship, , Loyola (Chicago). (At the time, the NIT was more  prestigious as the NCAA Tournament.) This was the team of All-American Don Lofgran, Joe McNamee, captain John Benington, Ross Giudice, Frank Kuzara and a baby-faced guard named Rene Herrerias who often was thought to be the team's ball boy. New York's Madison Square Garden crowds were notoriously tough to please. Lofgran, Herrerias and company had them cheering in the aisles. In 1950, he accepted an appointment as head coach at Michigan State University, where he stayed until 1954. He later led the University of California to the 1959 NCAA men's basketball championship, and a year later coached the gold medal-winning U.S. team at the 1960 Summer Olympics. After his coaching career ended he ran a world-famous instructional basketball camp and served as a consultant and scout for several National Basketball Association (NBA) teams. He is often considered to be one of the most influential figures in the history of basketball.

Phil Woolpert and the Russell era
Newell left for Michigan State in 1950, and USF hired Phil Woolpert as his successor. He assumed both the posts of men's basketball coach and athletic director.

During his tenure at USF, Woolpert posted a 153–78 record, including a 60-game win streak that at the time was the longest in college basketball (surpassed later by John Wooden's 88 straight wins at UCLA.). His teams, anchored by Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Eugene Brown and Mike Farmer, were known for their defense and held opponents below 60 points on 47 different occasions. USF won the National Championship in 1955 and 1956, and finished third in 1957. At the time the youngest college basketball coach to win a national championship, Woolpert also won Coach of the Year honors in 1955 and 1956.

Bill Russell was ignored by major college scouts, largely because he didn't even start at McClymonds High School in Oakland. He did not receive a single letter of interest until Hal DeJulio from USF watched him in a high school game. DeJulio was not impressed by Russell's meager scoring and "atrocious fundamentals", but sensed that the young center had an extraordinary instinct for the game, especially in clutch situations. When DeJulio offered Russell a scholarship, the latter eagerly accepted. Sports journalist John Taylor described it as a watershed in Russell's life, because Russell realized that basketball was his one chance to escape poverty and racism; as a consequence, Russell swore to make the best of it.

At USF, Russell became the new starting center. Woolpert emphasized defense and deliberate half-court play, concepts that favored defensive standout Russell. Woolpert was unaffected by issues of skin color. In 1954, he became the first coach of a major college basketball squad to start three African American players: Russell, K.C. Jones and Hal Perry. In his USF years, Russell used his relative lack of bulk to develop a unique style of defense: instead of purely guarding the opposing center, he used his quickness and speed to play help defense against opposing forwards and aggressively challenge their shots. Combining the stature and shot-blocking skills of a center with the foot speed of a guard, Russell became the centerpiece of a USF team that soon became a force in college basketball. After USF kept Holy Cross star Tom Heinsohn scoreless in an entire half, Sports Illustrated wrote, "If [Russell] ever learns to hit the basket, they're going to have to rewrite the rules."

Nonetheless, these games were often difficult for the USF squad. Russell and his African American teammates became targets of racist jeers, particularly on the road. In one notable incident, hotels in Oklahoma City refused to admit Russell and his black teammates while they were in town for the 1954 All-College Tournament. In protest, the whole team decided to camp out in a closed college dorm, which was later called an important bonding experience for the group. Decades later, Russell explained that his experiences hardened him against abuse of all kinds. "I never permitted myself to be a victim," he said.

On the hardwood, his experiences were far more pleasant. Russell led USF to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956, including a string of 55 consecutive victories. He became known for his strong defense and shot-blocking skills, once denying 13 shots in a game. UCLA coach John Wooden called Russell "the greatest defensive man I've ever seen". While at USF, together with K. C. Jones, he also helped pioneer a play that later became known as the alley-oop. During his college career, Russell averaged 20.7 points per game and 20.3 rebounds per game.

Besides basketball, Russell represented USF in track and field events. He competed in the  race, which he could complete in 49.6 seconds. He also participated in the high jump; Track & Field News ranked him as the seventh-best high jumper in the world in 1956. That year, Russell won high jump titles at the Central California AAU meet, the Pacific AAU meet, and the West Coast Relays. One of his highest jumps occurred at the West Coast Relays, where he achieved a mark of .

After his years at USF, the Harlem Globetrotters invited Russell to join their exhibition basketball squad. Russell, who was sensitive to any racial prejudice, was enraged by the fact that owner Abe Saperstein would only discuss the matter with Woolpert. While Saperstein spoke to Woolpert in a meeting, Globetrotters assistant coach Harry Hanna tried to entertain Russell with jokes. The USF center was livid after this snub and declined the offer: he reasoned that if Saperstein was too smart to speak with him, then he was too smart to play for Saperstein. Instead, Russell made himself eligible for the 1956 NBA draft.

Woolpert stayed at USF for nine years.  During his tenure, he was known for building national powers almost exclusively on Bay Area talent; the athletic department had virtually no recruiting budget and had little to offer out-of-state players.

1960s and 1970s dominance
The Dons remained as a powerhouse for several years after their 1950s run. The team added four more Elite Eight appearances to its resume: 1964, 1965, 1973, and 1974.

USF retained its status as a basketball powerhouse into the 1970s and early 1980s under Bob Gaillard and Dan Belluomini, holding the distinction of being a "major" program in a "mid-major" conference (the WCC's stature declined somewhat in the 1960s). Although John Wooden and his UCLA Bruins had eclipsed San Francisco as the premier West Coast power, the Dons remained an elite program well into the early 1980s. It held the number one spot in the polls on numerous occasions and  six consecutive conference titles from 1977–82, and all but two WCC regular-season titles from 1972 to 1982. In 1977, led by All-American center Bill Cartwright, the Dons started the season 26–0 and were regarded as the #1 team in the nation in both major polls. Sports Illustrated highlighted the 1977 team with a cover story titled "The Dandy Dons."

NCAA violations and Self Imposed Death Penalty

The Dons remained an elite program well into the early 1980s, perennially ranked in the top 20, and captured six consecutive conference titles from 1977–82. San Francisco's success on the court came at a price, however. The NCAA placed the Dons on probation two times in the late 1970s for booster/alumni interference with the program and recruiting improprieties by coaches. Each NCAA investigation eventually led to the dismissal of a San Francisco head coach, leading San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Glenn Dickey to call the program "totally out of control." As a response to these incidents, school president Rev. John Lo Schiavo, S.J. a lifelong basketball enthusiast and all-city power forward in his youth, gave an ultimatum after the second NCAA case was resolved in 1980: if there was any further incident, the program would be shut down.

Despite Lo Schiavo's warning, the improprieties continued. An exclusive invite-only booster organization called the Dons Century Club committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to illegal recruiting players, paying off family members, and covering travel expenses, while other alumni were also giving or "lending" players large sums of money, paying them for no-show jobs, providing lavish gifts, as well as picking up pricey restaurant and entertainment tabs. Basketball players continued to receive special academic treatment; many were marginal students at best, and at least one incident occurred in which a player threatened another student, and the incident was swept under the rug by school officials.  It was also commonplace for "tutors" to take tests and write papers for players. The situation finally came to a head in December 1981, when All-American guard Quintin Dailey was found guilty of raping a female student. During the subsequent investigation, Dailey admitted taking a no-show job for $1,000 a month at a business owned by a prominent USF booster, and that another booster also paid Dailey $5,000 since 1980.

True to his word, on July 29, 1982, Lo Schiavo announced that he was shutting down the basketball program—the first time a Division I university had voluntarily shut down a major sport under such circumstances. Lo Schiavo said that the Dons program "was once a source of inspiration, respect and pride for this university and city."  By contrast, the recent scandals had resulted in USF being perceived as "being hypocritical or naïve or inept or duplicitous, or perhaps some combination of all those."  Under the circumstances, Lo Schiavo felt that the only responsible course was to shutter the program. In a prepared statement, Lo Schiavo later said, "We hope that it one day may be possible to restore a men's intercollegiate basketball team. That possibility will depend upon whether those responsible for this university are convinced that the factors that destroyed the program are not going to beset it again."

His decision made international headlines, to the degree that while visiting San Francisco, Queen Elizabeth II pulled Lo Schiavo aside to ask when he would reinstate the basketball program. Drastic as it was, the move was widely applauded by several members of the coaching fraternity.

San Francisco reinstated men's basketball in 1985, but without the overzealous Dons Century Club. The successor to the Dons Century Club is the Green and Gold Club, a group of boosters under the direct control of the athletic department.

Reinstatement of Dons basketball
Lo Schiavo resurrected the program in 1985 with former star Jim Brovelli as head coach, who quickly returned the program to respectability. He was not able to reach the postseason, however, and resigned in 1995. Three years later USF went to the 1998 NCAA tournament under Phil Mathews and they had a 2005 NIT berth under former coach Jessie Evans.

The program regressed the next few years, and Jessie Evans was granted a request for a 'leave of absence' on December 27, 2007. Legendary basketball coach Eddie Sutton took over on an interim basis, needing two wins for a personal milestone of 800 career coaching victories. At the time, Bob Knight was the only other Division I men's coach to have accomplished the feat. After months of speculation, Evans was finally officially fired by USF on March 20, 2008. A national coaching search was launched that included a four-man committee of Chuck Smith, vice chair of the USF Board of Trustees and former president and CEO of AT&T West; former player and coach Jim Brovelli; Walt Gmelch, dean of the USF School of Education; and Mario Prietto, rector of the USF Jesuit Community and a member of the USF Board of Trustees.

On March 29, 2008, USF hired an executive search consultant company, DHR International to help spearhead their efforts in hiring the next Dons' head coach. Among the possible candidates named, former UCLA Bruins Head Coach Steve Lavin, former USF All-American and current New Jersey Nets Assistant Coach Bill Cartwright, former NBA player and current Golden State Warriors Shooting Coach Sidney Moncrief, Cal Bears Assistant Head Coach Louis Reynaud, former Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings Head Coach Eric Musselman, and former Kansas Jayhawks All-American and FAU Head Coach Rex Walters.

Rex Walters was named as the Dons' head coach on April 14, 2008. In 2010, the USF Dons won over 20 games and went to the quarterfinals of the postseason CIT tournament. Walters was relieved of his duties on March 9, 2016, and replaced by Kyle Smith.

At the conclusion of the 2018–2019 season, Kyle Smith was hired by Washington State University after three consecutive 20-win seasons. Smith's Associate Head Coach Todd Golden was promoted to Head Men's Basketball Coach on March 27, 2019. Under Golden, the 2021-22 Dons returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 24 years. Golden departed after the season to coach Florida and was replaced by Chris Gerlufsen.

The Dons have never approached the prominence they enjoyed from the 1940s to the 1980s, in part because Lo Schiavo significantly increased admissions standards for all student-athletes. In a 2011 interview, Lo Schiavo reiterated that he never questioned his decision, noting that all but one trustee voted in favor of shuttering the program in 1982 "because we had to make the point that we mean what we say and we intended to be good citizens."

Postseason results

NCAA tournament results
The Dons have appeared in 17 NCAA Tournaments. Their combined record is 21–15. They are two time National Champions (1955, 1956).

NIT results
The Dons have appeared in six National Invitation Tournaments (NIT). Their combined record is 6–5. They were NIT champions in 1949.

CBI results
The Dons have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) three times. Their combined record is 4–3.

CIT results
The Dons have appeared in one CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). Their record is 2–1.

Retired numbers

The Dons have retired seven numbers to date:

All-Americans

Dons in the NBA
The University of San Francisco has had 24 players go on to play in the NBA:

 Jamaree Bouyea 2022
 Winford Boynes 1978–1980
 Wallace Bryant 1983–1985
 Bill Cartwright 1979–1994
 Chubby Cox 1982
 Pete Cross 1970–1972
 Quintin Dailey 1982–1991
 Joe Ellis 1966–1973
 Mike Farmer 1958–1965
 Eric Fernsten 1975–1983
 James Hardy 1978–1981
 K. C. Jones 1958–1966
 Fred LaCour 1960–1962
 Dave Lee 1967–1968
 Don Lofgran 1950–1953
 Joe McNamee 1950–1951
 Erwin Mueller 1966–1973
 Paul Napolitano 1948
 Marlon Redmond 1978–1979
 Billy Reid 1980
 Kevin Restani 1974–1981
 Bill Russell 1956–1969
 Fred Scolari 1946–1954
 Phil Smith 1974–1982
 Ime Udoka (finished NCAA career at Portland State) 2003–2011
 Guy Williams (finished NCAA career at Washington State) 1984–1985

Other notable players
 Angelo Caloiaro (born 1989), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 Ollie Johnson, selected by the Boston Celtics, played professionally in Belgium
Ken McAlister, played in the NFL without any college football experience
Shamell Stallworth, basketball player in NBB
 Mark Tollefsen, 2018–19 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
Kwame Vaughn (born 1990), basketball player for Maccabi Haifa in the Israeli Basketball National League
Sinqua Walls, actor, starred in the 2023 remake of White Men Can't Jump

Notes and references

External links

 Team history at Sports Reference

Basketball teams established in 1910
1910 establishments in California


Glisnica may refer to:

Glisnica, Montenegro
Gliśnica, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Gliśnica, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland


Silueta (English Silhouette) is the 8th studio album by Mexican pop singer Ana Gabriel. It was released in 1992. This material was produced by herself and Max Pierre.

Track listing

Tracks:
 Tú Y Yo
 Todavía Tenemos Tiempo
 Amándole
 Llena de Romance
 Mal Contigo, Peor Sin Ti
 Que Bien Me Siento
 Silueta
 Todo Terminó
 Hay Que Hablar
 Quiero Yo Saber
 Evidencias
 Te Amo

Singles
 Silueta
 Hay Que Hablar
 Todavía Tenemos Tiempo
 Tú y yo
 Evidencias (1993)

Singles charts

 Note: "Evidencias" (Evidences) was a huge success reaching #1 in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs, it remained there for 10 weeks from August 8 to October 10, 1992; it stayed for 19 weeks in the chart. This was her 6th #1.

Album chart
This release reached the #1 position in Billboard Top Latin Albums, this is her fourth album of Ana Gabriel to top the chart and stayed for 43 weeks.

See also
List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums from the 1990s

References

1992 albums
Ana Gabriel albums


Osimira - Belarusian musical ethno-project, formed in 2002.

Musicians
 Konstantin Kontsewoj - bagpipes, surma, sopilka, horn
 Ilya Dolzhenkov - bass guitar
 Katerina Donda - violin
 Alexei Palaichnya - drums
 Andrei Bindasov - percussion instruments
 Andriej Pałajczenia - vocals, flutes, bagpipes, percussion instruments, domra, kaliuka

Festivals
 be2gether
 Be2gether festival
 FIDOF
 Koktebel Jazz Festival
 Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk
 Viljandi Folk Festival

External links
 Official web-community @ LAST.FM
 Official web-community LJ
 Official web-community MySpace.com
 Official web-community facebook.com
 Official web-community YouTube

Official download
 OSIMIRA "DRUVA" (2007, RAR-archive) ]
 OSIMIRA "PROSHCHA" (2006, RAR-archive)

Belarusian folk music


Gerhard Steinke (born 12 August 1927 in Dresden) is a German sound engineer.

He studied acoustics in Dresden and began his career at Radio Dresden in 1947. In 1953, he joined the Radio and Television Research Centre (German: Rundfunk- und Fernsehtechnisches Zentralamt) in Berlin, where he established a laboratory focused on acoustical boundary problems in broadcasting. In 1956, he set up the first subjective listening test group to assess sound recordings and impairments in broadcasting. His findings were incorporated into international standards—including from the International Radio and Television Organisation (OIRT), the International Telecommunication Union, and the European Broadcasting Union—on listening tests and testing rooms.

Steinke lectured on sound technology and electronic music at Berlin's University of Music for 27 years. For his work on audio standards, he received the OIRT's Honorary Golden Medal and the Acoustical Society of Hungary's Von Békésy Medal. He is also a life fellow in the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a recipient of its Gold Medal Award.

Career
Steinke began his career in 1947 as a sound engineer for Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk's Radio Dresden, where he worked on recorded productions with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Dresden Philharmonic orchestras. From 1949–53, he studied electroacoustics at the Technical University of Dresden. He then got a job at Deutsche Post's Radio and Television Research Centre, Berlin-Adlershof, beginning as a research and development engineer for magnetic recording.

From 1956–70, he led a laboratory on acoustico-musical boundary problems in broadcasting and established an experimental electronic music studio. In 1962, the studio developed a new subharmonic synthesizer, the "Subharchord", which was used in radio, film, and television and was exported to broadcasting organizations in Czechoslovakia and Norway.

Also beginning in 1956, his acoustic laboratory studied the subjective evaluation of audio transmission quality, reproduction, and listening conditions. Steinke worked closely with sound engineers, sound designers (Tonmeisters), and production artists at the Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastrasse, focusing on experimental recordings and the acoustical properties of rooms. In 1960, he became the head of a telecommunications and broadcasting group, where he was responsible for the introduction of stereophonic broadcasting in East Germany in 1963.

Starting in 1971, he directed research and development of sound and video systems technology at the Radio and Television Research Centre. He helped develop the delta stereophony system—the first true directional and distance sound reinforcement system for large halls and television productions—as well as a home processor for multichannel audio. Today, the sound reinforcement system is used both in Germany and abroad. Multichannel stereo ambiophonics (the first four-channel system) and automatic sound studio technical equipment were also developed under his leadership.

In 1987, Steinke was sent to India for several months as an expert consultant to radio stations in New Delhi, Srinagar, Calcutta, and Bombay. There, he produced proposals and recommendations for the transition from analog to digital broadcasting.

In 1990, he moved to Deutsche Telekom. He set up its research and development department for new sound transmission systems, and led the department until his retirement in 1992. After retiring, he continued to work as a senior audio consultant for various institutions, and to write and lecture on surround sound and electronic sound art.

Professional societies and affiliations
Steinke was active in international standardization bodies from 1955–92. He served for more than 12 years as the president of Study Group 2 (Sound Technology/Recording) in the OIRT, and held the chairmanship of the Working Party 10-C (Audio/Digital) of the CCIR/ITU-R for more than 18 years, focusing particularly on multichannel techniques and quality evaluation.

He worked with the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister (VDT) from 1954 on, and with the international Audio Engineering Society (AES) from 1963 on. He was awarded the AES Fellowship in 1986 and elected European vice president of AES from 1991–93. In that role, he oversaw the creation of new AES sections in Eastern Europe. At VDT, he co-founded the Surround Sound Forum, where he was responsible for the standardization and improvement of reproduction and recording technology.

At the University of Music in Berlin, he taught from 1956–83 in the fields of sound studio technology (tonstudiotechnik) and electronic music and sound art production (elektronische klangerzeugung).

Over the course of his career, Steinke published more than 450 papers, books, and lectures. A collection of his papers can be found in his 2012 book Mit den Ohren sehen – mit den Augen hören ("Seeing with the ears – listening with the eyes".

Honors
Steinke received the OIRT's Honorary Medal in 1984 for his international work on standardization, and the Acoustical Society of Hungary's Von Békésy Medal in 1992 for his work in acoustics.

In May 2007, the Audio Engineering Society awarded him the highest award, the AES Gold Medal "for outstanding contributions to audio engineering, sustained over 60 years in the areas of radio and television broadcasting, studio acoustics, sound reinforcement, multichannel sound and international standardization of audio".

For his decades of work with the VDT and the Surround Sound Forum, he was honored in 2007 at the VDT's International Symposium in Ludwigsburg.

Further reading
 Interview with Gerhard Steinke, 12 October 2010, Steinke's apartment, Berlin.

References

Engineers from Dresden
1927 births
Living people
German audio engineers
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A.Skillz (born Adam Mills) is an English electronic musician.

He has worked across the UK at FabricLive, Spectrum, Chew The Fat, Supercharged, The Boutique and Sugarbeat as well as gigs around the world at major events, festivals and music industry parties such as The Hit Factory (New York), WMC (Miami) and Field Day (Sydney). In 2003, A.Skillz released his debut album TrickaTechnology alongside Finger Lickin's Krafty Kuts. The album was a nod towards musical influences like De La Soul, James Brown and Jurassic 5, enlisting artists including Kurtis Blow, Real Elements and Ashley Slater.

February 2004 saw A.Skillz and Krafty Kuts team up on the TrickaTechnology Tour with live MCs from the album playing shows all over the UK. The duo then played at Glastonbury Festival, Pacha (Ibiza) and a live session for Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1.

In October 2004, A.Skillz then embarked on his first solo tour of Australia which saw him play to sell out crowds in all major capital cities, gaining new fans and respect from fellow DJs along the way. He followed this by extensive gigs in the UK and a busy studio schedule producing music for Channel 4 (Talk Back), Renault (TV advert) and Sony PlayStation (Gran Turismo 4).

A.Skillz kicked off 2005 in January with a mini-mix for Annie Mac that was later voted best mini-mix of the year by Radio 1 listeners, beating industry heavyweights such as Basement Jaxx, Mylo and Scratch Perverts. He followed this with a series of remixes including The Fort Knox Five and a re-rub of his own track "Simple Things".
Highlight gigs last year included 10:15 (San Francisco), Snow Bombing (Austria), Mystery Lands Festival (Amsterdam), Homelands (UK), and Live 8 After Show Party (London).

A.Skillz was awarded with the title 'Best DJ' in February 2012 at the Breakspoll International Breakbeat Awards. The awards were hosted at Cable in London. He also picked up the award for 'Best Free Track'.

In general, A.Skillz is known for mixing a wide range of genres, blending together hip hop, soul, funk and rock with dubstep, drum and bass and electro.

Discography

Albums
Tricka Technology (2003)

Singles
"It's Your Booty-day" (2003)
"Simple Things"/"Peaches" (2005)
"Happiness"/"Got the Rhythm" (2008)
"Tricka Technology" (Ed Funk remix)/"Roll Over Baby" (Fort Knox 5 remix)

Remixes
The Nextmen – "Amongst the Madness" (DMC)
Black Grass – "The Finest Thing" (Catskills)
A.Skillz & Krafty Kuts – "Check Em" (Inertia/Finger Lickin’)
The Fort Knox 5 – "Radio Free DC" (Fort Knox)
Ed Funk feat. Real Elements – "Put That" (Duff Note)
DJ Yoda – "Tiptoes" (Antidote)
Jackson 5 - "ABC" (A Skillz remix)
Marlena Shaw - "California Soul" (A Skillz remix)
Krewella - "Somewhere to Run" (A Skillz remix)

DJ mix albums
A.Skillz & Krafty Kuts – Exclusive CD for Boxfresh
A.Skillz – Finger Lickin’ presents Fresh Traxx

References

External links
 Biography

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English electronic musicians
English DJs
English record producers
Breakbeat musicians
People from Stevenage
Musicians from Hertfordshire


Ma Long (; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked number 3 in Men’s Singles by the ITTF and the reigning Olympic singles champion. Widely regarded as the greatest table tennis player of all time, he is the first and only male player to complete a career Double Grand Slam as the Olympic gold medalist in men's singles in 2016 and 2020. He held the ranking of number 1 for a total of 64 months (and 34 consecutive months from March 2015), the most by any male in the history of table tennis. He is also champion in World Championships in men's singles in 2015, 2017 and 2019. His records led the International Table Tennis Federation to nickname him as "The Dictator" and "The Dragon" (derived from his name, Lóng, which represents the zodiac year of his birth). Since 2014, he has been the captain of the Chinese national table tennis men's team.

Career

Early career

After winning both the Asian and World Junior Championships, Ma became the youngest world champion at the age of 17 after he participated in the 2006 Bremen World Team Championship. He developed his foundations under the tutelage of Wang Hao and former Chinese National Team coach Ma Kai Xuan before studying under Qin Zhijian. Before turning 22, he had great success in singles, reaching the finals of 11 ITTF World Tour tournaments (winning 8). He won the Asian Cup and World Tour Grand Finals twice, and also made it to the final round of the Asian Championships two times (losing to former coach Wang Hao in 2007 and winning in 2009). In addition, he played in the finals of the China National Games and All China Championships, losing both matches to Wang.
Despite being the No. 1 player in the world for much of 2010–2012 stretch, he was not chosen to represent China at the 2012 Olympics due to his temporary dip in ratings that happened after a 560-day win streak on the ITTF World Tour. He suffered career setback by Japan's Koki Niwa in six games at the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament, then lost to Lee Sang-su at the 2012 Korea Open, 4–1. As players were selected based on the ITTF World Rankings, he was not given an opportunity to win an Olympic medal in singles at the time when he was widely accepted as the best table tennis player in the world.

Chinese National Team coach Liu Guoliang remarked that Ma had all the tools necessary to be the best, yet at major tournaments, he had so far lacked sufficient mental toughness to play to his full ability under pressure. This was evident in his losses to Timo Boll and Vladimir Samsonov in the 2008 and 2009 World Cup semifinals, and to Wang Hao (4–1, 4–2, 4–2) in the semifinals of three consecutive World Championships (2009, 2011, and 2013). Although he performed well on the ITTF World Tour and in domestic competitions, he didn't make it to the final of the World Championships in his first four attempts. This led to many believing he was inferior to compatriot Zhang Jike, who completed his Grand Slam in just over a year.

2013–2015: Increasing consistency

After his third defeat to Wang Hao at the WTTC in 2013, Ma had a successful year. He won the China Open at two different locations (beating Wang and then Xu Xin in the final), the Asian Championships (for the third time), and the China National Games in a full-stretch match against Fan Zhendong. However, Xu defeated him 4–3 at the end of the year at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals.
In March 2014, he won the Asian Cup for the fourth time, again defeating Fan in seven games. At the 2014 WTTC, he did not lose a single game. In the final against Germany, he played a pivotal role, beating Timo Boll in the opening match and defeating Dimitrij Ovtcharov for the win. For his efforts, he was awarded the Victor Barna Award as the tournament's best player. He then won the China Open for the fifth time, which tied him with Wang Liqin for the most ever. Ma's first encounter with Zhang Jike at a Grand Slam competition came in October 2014, at the World Cup in Düsseldorf. Although he was leading 3–2 in sets, Ma lost the match, saving two match points in the deciding game but still losing 10–12. This led to further criticism of his inability to come through on the biggest stages at the toughest moments. In November, he reached the final of the Chinese National Championships, but was defeated by Fan, 4–2, again ending the year on a sour note.

However, 2015 would prove to be Ma's year. He won the Kuwait Open, beating Xu Xin 4–1 in the final, and then the German Open, getting revenge on Zhang Jike in an intense final after being down 3–1. But his biggest win came at the 2015 WTTC, where he did not drop more than one set until the final where he defeated tournament sensation Fang Bo in six games. This was a huge breakthrough for him, as his only other major singles title was the 2012 World Cup. After a surprising 4–1 loss to Shang Kun at the Japan Open, Ma won the China Open for a record sixth time, winning 4–1 against Xu Xin. In September, he led Ningbo over Fan Zhendong and Bayi to win the Chinese Super League championship. Injuries prevented him from competing at the Asian Championships, but he participated in the World Cup in Halmstad in October. Following a dropped set to Omar Assar in the round of 16, he did not lose another game in the competition, allowing his opponents to score an average of 6 points per set the rest of the tournament. He did not participate in the last two World Tour tournaments of the year, again due to injuries, but still was seeded first at the World Tour Grand Finals because he had won 3 other World Tour tournaments. In the final, he faced Fan again, winning 11–9 in the last game of a full-stretch match, coming back from being down 3–2 in sets (after being up 2–0), including down 8–6 in the sixth and 6–2 in the decider (when he won 8 points in a row). In 2015, Ma only lost once in international competition and just five times overall.

2016: Grand Slam

Ma long won the German Open in January 2016, going undefeated until the final, where he beat Vladimir Samsonov 4–1. While helping China win the 2016 WTTC over Japan in Kuala Lumpur, he didn't lose a game, which extended his unbeaten streak to three straight World Team Championships. In March, he reached the final of the Kuwait Open, but was defeated 4–1 by Zhang Jike, who had recently defeated him 5–4 in China's Trials for the 2016 WTTC. However, a week later, he won the Qatar Open by defeating Fan in five games, breaking Wang Liqin's record for most ITTF World Tour singles titles by a Chinese player. In April, he directly qualified for the Olympic Singles in Rio by winning his section of the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament, taking down Zhang and then Fan in six and five games respectively. After this, Ma remained world No. 1, despite not participating in another international competition until the middle of June. Within a span of two weeks, Xu Xin beat him twice, first in the semi-finals of the Japan Open (his second consecutive loss at that station dating back to last year) in six games, and then in the full-stretch final of the Korea Open (Xu had also beaten him the last time he participated at Korea, in the final in 2013). This was the shortest time between international losses for Ma since 2012 (when he lost to Niwa and Lee).

At the Olympics in Rio, he automatically qualified to third round in the singles due to his No. 1 ranking. He swept Denmark's Jonathan Groth, but experienced a scare in the next round when he went down 2–0 to Korea's Jeoung Young-sik. However, he recovered and won the next four games to advance to the quarterfinals. His next opponent was Quadri Aruna from Nigeria, who had upset Timo Boll and Chuang Chih-yuan to become the first African player to make it to the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics. Ma beat him in four straight games to face Jun Mizutani, Japan's top player, in the semi-finals. The first three games were all 11–5 wins by Ma, but Mizutani took the next game 11–7 and the fifth 12–10. Ma won the sixth, again 11–5, to set up a historic final match against reigning Olympic champion Zhang Jike. Their second meeting at a Grand Slam final was very unexpected: Ma took the gold by overpowering Zhang in a 4–0 rout (14–12, 11–5, 11–4, 11–4), the first four-game sweep in an Olympic singles final.

By winning the gold medal in Rio, Ma etched himself a place as an immortal figure in table tennis history. He became the fifth male player to complete the Grand Slam, and the second male to be the defending champion of all three Grand Slam competitions simultaneously (Zhang being the first). He was the second male (after Kong Linghui) to win the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals and the three Grand Slam titles (dubbed a "Full House" in an ITTF article), being the first to win them all consecutively (therefore being the first male to be the reigning champion of all four at the same time) and the fastest to complete it (in just 467 days). In addition, he became the first male to have won every important singles competition possible, from majors to the ITTF World Tour to domestic competitions. The only other player who has done so is Deng Yaping.

As the current World Champion, he was slated to participate in the 2016 World Cup in Saarbrücken, Germany, but withdrew a month before the competition, citing exhaustion in addition to waist and knee pain. He did, however, play in the China Open in Chengdu, where his reasons for withdrawing from the World Cup were brought to light: he barely survived a seven-game semifinal with Zhang Jike and was crushed in a sweep by Fan Zhendong in the finals. This marked the first time since the 2008 China Open that Ma lost in four games on the ITTF World Tour, excluding a withdraw from the 2014 Qatar Open due to injury. In December, Ma participated in the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Doha, Qatar, his last international event of the year. Although he entered as the first seed, he received a scare in the round of 16 from host nation's Li Ping, a former Chinese National Team member, going down 1–2. However, he won the next three games to take the match in six games, and beat both Wong Chun Ting and Jeoung Young-sik 4–0 to face Fan in the final for the second straight year. Just like the previous year, Ma clearly started better, winning the first three, before Fan won the next two, including three championship points, to stay in the match. But despite displaying wonderful resilience and brilliance under pressure, the 19-year-old could not extend the match to seven games. The Dragon closed the year by winning the 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, his record 5th title in the event, more than any other player. This accomplishment also marked his fifth consecutive major title won. However, that success did not carry over to domestic competitions. Despite his team, Shandong Weiqiao, being ranked No. 1 for much of the 2016 Chinese Super League, they were defeated 3–1 in the semi-finals by Bazhou and rising star Liang Jingkun, who beat Ma 3–1 to decide the match. For his accomplishments in 2016, Ma was named male athlete of the year at the China Central Television (CCTV) Sports Awards Gala in Beijing.

2017

Ma began 2017 by winning the Qatar Open in February for the second year in a row, defeating Fan Zhendong 4–1 in the final. However, Fan would get his revenge at China's trials for the 2017 WTTC, dubbed "the Marvellous 12." Ma and Fan, No. 1 and No. 2 in the world respectively, each had 9 wins after the first 11-round stage, but Fan beat Ma in their head-to-head in an exciting three-game match that went down to the wire (6–11, 11–5, 12–14). Unfortunately, Ma injured his waist during his final match against Lin Gaoyuan and had to withdraw from the trials, missing out on one of the three guaranteed spots in the 2017 WTTC. The Dragon looked to bounce back at the Asian Championships held in Wuxi in April and, while he did contribute to a Chinese victory in the team competition, he lost to Korea's Jeong Sang-eun 3–1 in the men's singles round of 32, which was the biggest upset of the tournament.

Despite his up-and-down start to 2017, Ma was given the chance to participate at the world championships held in Düsseldorf from late May to early June. Entering as the No. 1 seed, Ma progressed through the first four rounds without too much trouble, except for a tough six-game match against Sweden's Anton Källberg, who he had never played before. In the quarterfinals, he faced the host nation's Timo Boll, who had played an excellent tournament in front of his home crowd. He then quickly booked his place in the final by sweeping teammate Xu Xin, who was making his second appearance in a WTTC singles semi-final (he was also swept by Zhang Jike in 2013). The 2017 WTTC men's singles final did not disappoint. Ma and Fan faced off once again in a major competition, having played each other at least once in every major within the last two years except the Olympics. Fan raced to a 7-1 lead in the first set and took it 11-7. However, Ma quickly came back to win the next three games (11-3, 11-6, 11-8) and it looked like another five or six game win for the World Champion. But as he had done in their past encounters, the fearless 20-year old rose to the occasion. He won the fifth and sixth games (11-5, 11-7) to push the match to a seventh game, the first seven game WTTC men's singles final since Ma Lin's and Wang Liqin's legendary clash in 2007. Fan won the first two points of the set, but Ma raced to a 6-3 lead. Unwilling to give in, Fan leveled it at 7-7, then won the next two points on Ma's serve. Down 7-9 with Fan serving, things did not look good for the Dragon, but he reeled off three in a row to have match point. Afterwards, China's head coach Liu Guoliang remarked that if Fan had chosen a different serve at that crucial juncture at 9-7, he would have had a better chance. But unlike the 2015 Grand Finals, Ma was not able to capitalize with his serve at 10-9 in the seventh. After two loops, Fan hit a big smash to Ma's wide forehand, which tied it at 10-10. Unfortunately for Fan, he was not able to capitalize with his serve either; his third ball banana flick hit the net and went long. Leading 11-10, Ma served short to Fan's wide backhand, then smashed it wide down the line to his forehand, securing the point and the title. The win put him on par with Zhang Jike and Ma Lin for the most Grand Slam titles (5) and he became the first male with 10 major titles. This also marked his sixth consecutive major title won. Since 2015, he had won every major competition he had participated in.

In June, Ma won the Japan Open in Tokyo, beating Xu (who had defeated him there last year) in 6 games and Fan in 5 on his way to the title. This was the first time he won in Japan, meaning he has won at every major station on the ITTF World Tour (Kuwait, Germany, China, Qatar, Japan, and Korea).

From late August to early September, Ma represented Beijing at the 2017 China National Games in three events: singles, doubles, and team. In the team event group stage, Ma and Beijing were put in the same division as defending champions PLA, led by Fan Zhendong. When Beijing and PLA went head to head, Ma beat Zhou Yu 3–1, but was brutally swept by Fan as PLA took the match 3–1 and finished first in the division. However, Beijing still qualified for the knockout stage by winning their other two matches and finishing second in the group. In the team quarterfinals, they faced Lin Gaoyuan and Guangdong. Ma beat Zhou Qihao 3–0, but Beijing still found themselves on the brink of elimination going into the fourth match. Ma lost to Lin in five games (9–11, 12–10, 11–5, 12–14, 4–11) and Beijing bowed out of the team tournament, a disappointing result considering they had finished 3rd in the team event in the last two National Games. The 2011 World Champion men's doubles partnership was reunited as Ma and Xu Xin were paired together in the doubles event. They cruised to the final, sweeping all of their opponents along the way, to face defending champions Fan and Zhou Yu from PLA. The match was epic and went the full seven games. Ma and Xu narrowly lost the final game by the smallest margin (9–11), settling for silver as Fan and Zhou defended their title. After the match, both pairs acknowledged that Xu had been affected by injuries sustained from playing deep into the team event, which he won with Shanghai.

The injuries eventually caused Xu to withdraw from the singles event the next day. Similarly to the doubles, Ma navigated the singles pretty easily, never dropping more than a game until the final. There, he met Fan yet again, who had received a walk over in the semi-finals due to Xu's injuries. After winning the first game, Ma found himself down 2–1, as Fan controlled the rallies with his backhand receive and backhand punch. However, Ma adjusted his tactics and Fan was unable to respond appropriately, leading to a 4–2 win and a successful defense of the men's singles title for the Dragon. With the win, he became the second male to win two singles titles at the China National Games (Wang Tao in 1987 and 1997) and is the first to win two in a row. He has played in the last three singles finals at the National Games, the first player to do so.

The next major competition that Ma participated in was 2017 World Cup, held in Liège in October. As the first seed, Ma automatically advanced to the knockout stage, where he recorded consecutive five-game wins over Omar Assar and Koki Niwa. In the semi-finals, he faced Timo Boll, who had defeated Lin Gaoyuan in an epic seven-game thriller where the German had won despite being down 10–4 in the final game. The match between Boll and Ma was significant because the two had played each other in the 2008 World Cup semi-finals, also in Liège. Even more coincidentally, the match mirrored their encounter nine years before, with Ma taking a 3–1 lead, then Boll taking the next two games to force a seventh. Just like his match with Zhang Jike in 2014 World Cup final, Ma found himself down 10–8 in the deciding game, but managed to tie it up at 10–10. Multiple histories repeated themselves, as Boll took the next two points to add to his legendary track record in Liège (where he had consecutively defeated the Chinese trio of Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, and Wang Hao to win the 2005 World Cup and reached the final in 2008 by beating Ma). The loss was a devastating blow to Ma, and that was visible during the third-place match against France's Simon Gauzy. Ma lost two of the first three games before recovering to win the match in six games. This was his last international competition in 2017, because his wife was expecting a baby. He still played in the Chinese Super League, but did not travel outside of China to play any tournaments. His son was born on 9 December 2017.

2018

At the beginning of 2018, Ma's world ranking dropped to 9th as a result of being inactive. The ITTF had previously announced that they were implementing a new ranking system at the start of the new year, and the new system gave more weight to activity than to a player's playing strength. Because of this, the Dragon not only lost his number 1 ranking, which he had held for the last 34 months, but he also dropped out of the top five in the ITTF world ranking for the first time since 2011. Despite being lower ranked, Ma made his presence felt at the 2018 World Team Cup held in London in late February. He went undefeated in both singles and doubles throughout the entire tournament and helped China sweep Japan in the final. In March, Ma won the German Open for the fifth time over a very strong field. He defeated Maharu Yoshimura, Jun Mizutani, Timo Boll, Wong Chun Ting, and compatriot Xu Xin en route to his 25th ITTF World Tour singles title, which brought his world ranking up to 6th.

Due to the new ITTF ranking system, Team China was not seeded first at the 2018 WTTC held in Halmstad from late April to early May. Nevertheless, Ma and his Chinese teammates did not experience any difficulties in the group stage, collectively going 15–0 to finish first in Group B. However, he survived a scare in the quarterfinals when Austria's Robert Gardos took the Dragon to a full five games in their first ever encounter. Ma reasserted his dominance throughout the rest of the tournament, defeating Sweden's Mattias Karlsson in straight sets in front of the latter's home crowd and then sweeping Timo Boll in the final as China swept top-seeded Germany to claim their 21st title in the event.

After China's victory in Halmstad, Ma won the China Open, defeating Lin Yun-Ju, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Lim Jong-hoon, and Fan Zhendong to win his 26th ITTF World Tour singles title. However, this would be his last successful singles event for nine months. At the Japan Open, he was defeated in six games by rising Japanese star Tomokazu Harimoto and although he won the doubles title with Xu Xin at the Bulgaria Open in August, he lost to Liam Pitchford in the men's singles round of 32. It was discovered that Ma had a knee injury, something that would keep him out of all tournaments for the rest of 2018. These included the Austrian Open, the World Cup, the Swedish Open, and the World Tour Grand Finals.

2019

Ma's injuries persisted into 2019, preventing him from participating in the Marvellous 12, the Chinese qualifier for the 2019 WTTC in Budapest in April. Despite this, he was still included in the Chinese lineup for the championships in both singles and doubles. His long-awaited return to international competition came at the Qatar Open in late March. It wasn't clear how well he would play due to his seven-month absence from the game, and it showed when he needed six games to defeat Tristan Flore in his opening match. But after that, he appeared to be in good form. He swept Timo Boll and Jun Mizutani consecutively, then won a hard-fought six-game match against Xu Xin in the semi-finals. In the final against compatriot Lin Gaoyuan, he overcame a 0–2 deficit, including 2–7 in the fifth game, to win in six games. Immediately after winning the match, he posed in front of the camera, appearing to wipe the dust off his racket to indicate he was fine even after being inactive for so long. The victory tied him with Vladimir Samsonov for the most ITTF World Tour singles titles by a male player with 27.

However, not all was going perfectly for Ma Long, as he suffered his first loss to Fan Zhendong in international competition in years in the final of the 2019 Asian Cup, which led many to believe the Dragon's reign would soon come to an end. Though it was possible that they could soon play each other again at the World Championships, this proved not to be the case as Fan was defeated 4–2 by lower-ranked compatriot Liang Jingkun in one of the many upsets of the tournament, who was then subsequently defeated by Ma Long 4–1 in the semifinals; the second Chinese player he'd eliminated in the tournament in addition to Lin Gaoyuan. In the final, the Dragon overpowered Sweden's Mattias Falck 4–1 to win his third consecutive World Championship, becoming the first player since Wang Liqin to win three such titles and the first since Zhuang Zedong (in 1961, 1963, and 1965) to win them consecutively.

2020
Ma won runner-up in the 2020 World Cup, losing to Fan Zhendong in the finals. In the semi-finals, Ma was trailing 3–1 against Harimoto before he called a time-out in game 5 and switched to a high-toss serve that Harimoto had trouble reading. As a result, Ma was able to come back for a 4–3 victory. However, Ma closed this year by winning to Fan Zhendong 4–1 in the finals of ITTF World Tour finals extending his record to the 6th title in the event.

2021
In May, Ma played in the China Olympic scrimmages. He lost 4–3 to Zhou Qihao in the semi-finals of the first leg of scrimmage. In mid-May, Ma was selected alongside Fan Zhendong to represent China in the men's singles event of the Tokyo Olympics. Shortly after, Ma was upset 4–2 by Xu Chenhao in the quarter-finals of the second leg of the scrimmage.

In June, Ma sat down with WTT to conduct an interview on his Olympic preparations. He stated that the most important preparation for him going into Tokyo was mental preparation and that he had to be even better mentally prepared than he was in London 2012 and Rio 2016.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Ma beat compatriot Fan Zhendong 4–2 in the final, making him the first player in history to win consecutive gold medals in the men's singles event. After the match, Fan called Ma the greatest player of this generation. During the 2020 Summer Olympics, he also became the first male table tennis player to have won five Olympic gold medals after beating Timo Boll 3-1, maintaining China's 100% win rate for the men's teams event.

In September, Ma withdrew from the men's singles event at the China National Games, citing the tight schedule due to the Tokyo Olympics and mandatory 21-day quarantine. Ma led Beijing to the silver medal in the team event, losing deuce in the fifth game to Fan Zhendong in the finals. Ma held six match points against Fan, but Fan came back with the help of four net balls in the last eight points.

2023

At the Lanzhou Station of the 2023 WTT Star Challenge, the men's singles event ushered in the 1/16 finals on October 5. Nine players from the Chinese table tennis team participated in this stage. Fan Zhendong, the world's number one, withdrew due to injury. Wang Chuqin and Ma Long , Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhou Qihao and other famous players will play.

Malone 3-1 Nanasekaran [11-6, 6-11, 11-7, 11-6]

Malone's opponent Nanasekaran is also from India. He is currently 30 years old and 4 years younger than Malone. He is currently ranked 107th in the world. Malone is ranked third in the world. He lost the second game of this game, but the overall situation of the game was under control. He successfully qualified for the top 16 and then competed with South Korean player Zhao Shengmin for the top eight spots.

"Ten years ago, I won the championship in South Korea. I also won the singles championship and the men's doubles. The history is always surprisingly similar. Ten years ago, I could win several singles titles a year, but for me now, I don't only look for championship. Sometimes it is very difficult to win a game. Although it is difficult, I will still try my best to win every victory." In the men's singles final of the PyeongChang Asian Table Tennis Championships on September 10, the upcoming The 35-year-old Ma Long defeated Fan Zhendong, the current world number one in men's singles and this year's World Championship champion, ending the singles "champion drought" that lasted for more than two years after the Tokyo Olympics, and won the Asian Championship men's singles championship for the fourth time.

Personal life
Ma Long married his girlfriend Xia Lu, from Nanjing, Jiangsu. On 10 December 2017, he disclosed the birth of his son on Sina Weibo.

Ma has a close platonic relationship with teammate Liu Shiwen and cried when she won the 2019 World Championships.

Career records
Singles (as of September 2023)
 Olympic Games: winner (2016, 2020)
 World Championships: winner (2015, 2017, 2019); SF (2009, 2011, 2013, 2023); round of 16 (2007).
 World Cup: winner (2012, 2015); runner-up (2014, 2020); third place (2008, 2009, 2017).
 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals: winner (2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2020); runner-up (2013, 2019); SF (2007).
 ITTF World Tour winner (28): Kuwait, German Open 2007; Korea, Singapore Open 2008; Danish, Kuwait, Harmony China (Suzhou), English Open 2009; German Open 2010; Harmony China (Suzhou), Austrian, Swedish Open 2011; Hungarian Open 2012; Qatar, China (Changchun), Harmony Open (Suzhou) 2013; China (Chengdu) Open 2014; Kuwait, German, China (Chengdu) Open 2015; German, Qatar Open 2016; Qatar, Japan Open 2017; German, China (Shenzhen) Open 2018; Qatar, China (Shenzhen) Open 2019. Runner-up (15): German Open 2005; Japan, Swedish Open 2007; UAE, China (Shenzhen) Open 2011; Slovenian, China (Shanghai) Open 2012; Kuwait, Korea, UAE Open 2013; Kuwait, Korea, China (Chengdu) Open 2016; Korea Open 2019; German Open 2020.
 Asian Games: winner (2010).
 Asian Championships: winner (2009, 2011, 2013, 2023); runner-up (2007).
 Asian Cup: winner (2008, 2009, 2011, 2014), runner-up (2019).
 China National Games: winner (2013, 2017), runner-up (2009), SF (2005).
 Chinese National Championships: winner (2011); runner-up (2004, 2007, 2014, 2020); SF (2006, 2008).
 World Junior Championships: winner (2004); QF (2003).
 Asian Junior Championships: winner (2004)

Doubles
 World Championships: winner (2011, 2019); runner-up (2009); round of 16 (2007).
 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals: winner (2006); runner-up (2011); SF (2007).
 ITTF World Tour winner (23): China (Harbin) Open 2005; Slovenian Open 2006; Swedish Open 2007; Danish, Qatar, English Open 2009; Kuwait, German Open 2010; China (Shenzhen), Austrian Open 2011; Slovenian, Korea, China (Shanghai) Open 2012; China (Suzhou), China (Changchun) Open 2013; China (Chengdu) Open 2014; Japan Open 2015; Japan Open, China (Chengdu) Open 2016; Japan Open 2017; German, Bulgaria Open 2018Runner-up (11): China (Shenzhen) Open 2005; Singapore Open 2006; China (Shenzhen) Open 2007; Qatar, Korea Open 2008; Kuwait Open 2009; China (Suzhou) Open 2011; Kuwait, Qatar, Korea Open 2013, China (Shenzhen) Open 2019, Qatar Open 2020.
 Asian Games: winner (2014); SF (2006).
 Asian Championships: winner (2007, 2009); runner-up (2013); SF (2011).
 China National Games: winner (2021); runner-up (2017); SF (2005).
 Chinese National Championships: winner (2010, 2015, 2020); runner-up (2006, 2007, 2014); SF (2008).
 World Junior Championships: runner-up (2004).
 Asian Junior Championships: runner-up (2003, 2004).

Mixed doubles
 Asian Games: QF (2006).
 Asian Championships: winner (2009); SF (2005).
 China National Games: winner (2013).
 Chinese National Championships: winner (2012); runner-up (2008, 2016).
 World Junior Championships: runner-up (2003, 2004).
 Asian Junior Championships: winner (2004).

Team
 Olympic Games: 1st (2012, 2016, 2020)
 World Championships: 1st (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022).
 World Cup: 1st (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019).
 Asian Games: 1st (2006, 2010, 2014, 2022).
 Asian Championships: 1st (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2023).
 China National Games: 2nd (2021); 3rd (2009, 2013)
 Chinese National Championships: 1st (2011, 2012, 2018); 3rd (2007, 2008, 2010).
 Chinese Super League: 1st (2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2020); 3rd (2014, 2016).
 World Junior Championships: 1st (2003, 2004).
 Asian Junior Championships: 1st (2004).
Summary of Accomplishments
 5x Olympic Champion (2 Singles, 3 Team)
 13x World Champion (3 Singles, 2 Doubles, 8 Team)
 9x World Cup winner (2 Singles, 7 Team)
 7x ITTF World Tour Grand Finals Champion (6 Singles, 1 Doubles)
 50x ITTF World Tour winner (28 Singles, 22 Doubles)
 6x Asian Games winner (1 Singles, 1 Doubles, 4 Team)
 15x Asian Champion (4 Singles, 2 Doubles, 1 Mixed Doubles, 8 Team)
 4x Asian Cup winner (4 Singles)
 4x China National Games Champion (2 Singles, 1 Doubles, 1 Mixed Doubles)
 7x Chinese National Champion (1 Singles, 2 Doubles, 1 Mixed Doubles, 3 Team)
 5x Chinese Super League Champion (4 Team)
 3x World Junior Champion (1 Singles, 2 Team)
 3x Asian Junior Champion (1 Singles, 1 Mixed Doubles, 1 Team)
 2015, 2016 ITTF Male Star of the Year
 2016 CCTV Sports Personality of the Year
Head to head vs. other notable players (December 2004 – present)
(bold indicates a Chinese teammate)
 Timo Boll: 16–5
 Chen Chien-An: 3–0
 Chen Qi: 19–2
 Chuang Chih-Yuan: 17–2
 Mattias Falck: 4–0
 Fan Zhendong: 23–11
 Fang Bo: 10–2
 Marcos Freitas: 4–0
 Tomokazu Harimoto: 4–2
 Gao Ning: 10–0
 Hao Shuai: 20–9
 Jeoung Young-sik: 6–0
 Joo Se-Hyuk: 20–3
 Petr Korbel: 4–1
 Kalinikos Kreanga: 3–0
 Liang Jingkun: 6–1
 Lin Gaoyuan: 8–2
 Ma Lin: 30–14
 Michael Maze: 7–0
 Jun Mizutani: 16–0
 Oh Sang-eun: 9–2
 Dimitrij Ovtcharov: 19–0
 Ryu Seungmin: 7–3
 Vladimir Samsonov: 9–5
 Werner Schlager: 9–0
 Tang Peng: 14–0
 Wang Hao: 30–27
 Wang Liqin: 32–12
 Wong Chun Ting: 21–1
 Xu Xin: 32–14
 Yan An: 8–3
 Kaii Yoshida: 6–1
 Zhang Jike: 31–10
 Zhou Yu: 10–2

Other Records
 Went unbeaten for 40 singles matches in December 2011.
 Did not drop a single set in six tournaments: Swedish Open 2011, 2012 WTTC, World Team Classic 2013, 2014 and 2016 WTTC.
 In singles, he has won the World Tour Grand Finals six times, the China Open eight times, the German Open five times, the Qatar Open four times, the Asian Championships four times, and the Asian Cup four times, the most ever.
 One of two players to sweep all four medals in an Asian Championship (Fan Zhendong).
 Most ITTF World Tour singles titles (28) by a male player.
 Most major titles (13) of any male player.
 First player to sweep his opponent in an Olympic Singles final since the Olympics extended matches to seven games in 2004.
 Second male player to win the World Championships, World Cup, Olympics, and World Tour Grand Finals. He is the first male player to be the defending champion of all four at the same time.
 Fastest player ever to win all possible singles titles (2,092 days, from 20 November 2010 to 11 August 2016).
 Fastest player ever to complete a "Full House" (467 days, from 3 May 2015 to 11 August 2016).
 First player, male or female, to win the ITTF Star Player of the Year award in consecutive years.
 Won at least one tournament at every major station on the ITTF World Tour.
 First and only male player to have won two consecutive singles titles at the China National Games.
 First player to win 3 Men's Singles titles in the World Championships since Wang Liqin. First player to win them consecutively since Zhuang Zedong.
 First male player to defend his Olympic Gold Medal in Singles.
 First male player to become a Double Grand Slam Winner.

International competitions (Results from the ITTF database)

See also
China at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Table tennis
Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team
China national table tennis team

References

External links

Career profile of Ma Long Table Tennis Master
Ma Long profile at Table Tennis Guide
Ma Long at Table Tennis Media
Ma Long Game records
Ma Long Technique and training videos

1988 births
Living people
Table tennis players from Anshan
Chinese male table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players for China
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in table tennis
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Table tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games bronze medalists for China
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games


Ente Upasana is a 1984 Malayalam film, directed by Bharathan, written by Thoppil Bhasi, starring Mammootty and Suhasini. The film is based on the award-winning novel Upasana by Mallika Yunis. The film was remade in Telugu as Karpoora Deepam starring Murali Mohan, Suhasini and Sharat Babu. The film was a commercial success.

Plot
Lathika is a working single mother of a son named Jagadish.  Her flashback  reveals a happy life in her village with her widowed mother and her cousin Sreekumar, his parents, her uncle, aunt and their grandmother. She is in love with her cousin who works in the Gulf and they are engaged to be married. Sreekumar leaves for the Gulf after a trip back home, and Lathika waits for the day of his return and their impending marriage. Arjunan, a close friend's brother on a fateful rainy day drives Lathika home in his car, but the former can not control his feelings and hence rapes her.  Lathika becomes pregnant. She moves to a big city to give birth to the child, and her mother passes away due to the shock.

Back to the present, Lathika meets Arjunan, who is now her boss. She and her best friend live together in a hostel. One day Lathika's son contracts fever and is hospitalised. He is moved from the common ward to a private room by Arjunan. Latikha rushes to the room and is taken aback to see first Arjunan and later his mother arrive to take care of her son.

One day by chance her ex-lover (cousin) Sreekumar finds out about Lathika's tribulations after he left for the Gulf, and in anger he beats up Arjunan. Sreekumar apologizes to Lathika and asks her to attend his own wedding. Lathika returns to her hometown and reunites with her aunt and grandmother. She is visited by Arjunan in her hometown and finally they live together as a family with her son.

Cast
 Mammootty as Arjunan
 Suhasini as Lathika
 Nahas Shah as Sreekumar, Lathika's cousin
 Nedumudi Venu as Lathika's uncle
 Unnimary as Lekha
 Meena Joseph as Arjunan's mother
 K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Gauri, Lathika's aunt
 Cochin Hanifa as  Doctor
 Sabitha Anand as Arjunan's sister

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Johnson and the lyrics were written by Poovachal Khader.

References

External links

1984 films
1984 drama films
1980s Malayalam-language films
Films directed by Bharathan
Films based on Indian novels
Films with screenplays by Thoppil Bhasi
Films scored by Johnson
Malayalam films remade in other languages
Films based on Malayalam novels


James Rae Bauchop (22 May 1886 in Sauchie – 13 June 1948 Bradford) was a professional footballer who played as a forward for Alloa Athletic, Celtic, Norwich City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Tottenham Hotspur, Bradford Park Avenue, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City.

Football career
Bauchop began his career at Alloa Athletic before playing for Glasgow Celtic where he was member of the club's Championship winning sides of 1905–06 and 1906–07.

Bauchop later played for Norwich City before moving to Crystal Palace early in 1908. He made his debut on 21 March in the home derby against Millwall, scoring the second in a 2–0 victory. He would make 47 appearances for the club in both the Southern League and the FA Cup, scoring 26 goals. He scored one hat-trick for the club, in a home game against Portsmouth on 24 October 1908. He also became the first Palace player to be sent off, in a London Challenge Cup tie against Croydon Common on 9 September 1908.

In 1909 he joined Derby County where he featured in 126 matches and scoring 68 goals between 1909 and 1912.

Bauchop signed for Tottenham Hotspur in 1913. He scored twice on his Lilywhites debut in a 4–1 victory over Sheffield United at Bramall Lane in September 1913 in the old First Division. Jimmy played in 10 matches and found the net on six occasions for the Spurs.

In 1913 he moved on to Bradford Park Avenue and participated in 157 games and found the net 67 times.

Bauchop went on to play for Doncaster Rovers where he scored 3 League and FA Cup goals. His debut was in the first game at Rovers' new ground Low Pastures, which was to become known as Belle Vue, in front of what was then Doncaster's highest ever home crowd of around 10,000.

He then ended his career at Lincoln City where he played a further 28 games, scoring 11 goals.

Bauchop died on 13 June 1948, in Bradford, England.

Honours
Celtic
 Scottish Football League First Division: Winners 1905–06, 1906–07

References

External links
Bauchop's Celtic FC stats

1886 births
1948 deaths
Sportspeople from Clackmannanshire
Scottish men's footballers
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Alloa Athletic F.C. players
Celtic F.C. players
Norwich City F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players
Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
Lincoln City F.C. players
Men's association football forwards


Golas may refer to:

People

 Arkadiusz Gołaś (1981 – 2005), Polish volleyball player
 Andrzej Maria Gołaś (born 1946), Polish politician
 Michał Gołaś (born 1984), Polish professional road bicycle racer
 Thaddeus Golas (1924 – 1997), American author
 Victor Golas (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
 Wiesław Gołas (born 1930), Polish actor

Geography
 Golaš, a mountain of Serbia
 Gołas, a village in east-central Poland

See also
 Gołaś (disambiguation)


Golen may refer to:

 Goleń, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
 Golen Gol Hydropower Project, Pakistan
 Cwrt Y Golen or Cwrt y Gollen, a British Army training base south-east of Crickhowell, Wales
 Ralph Golen (born 1970), Polish footballer

See also


Nora Picciotto, formerly Baroness Nora Bentinck and Nora Czartoryski (born Eleonora Picciotto on 9 September 1942, Cairo) is the first wife of Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski, mother of Princess Tamara Czartoryska.

Nora Picciotto was born on 9 September 1942 in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt, daughter of Ferdinand Picciotto, and Edith Rothenberg, both of Jewish origin, born in Cairo, Egypt. She worked in the film industry as a public relations specialist and also a model. She first married Iranian Manoucher Khanlari and had two children Yasmine Khanlari born on 29 April 1962 and Fabrizio David Ali Khanlari born on 3 December 1965. On 25 January 1977 she married her second husband Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski and gave birth to their daughter Princess Tamara on 23 April 1978. The marriage with Prince Adam Karol ended in divorce on 28 April 1986. Her third marriage was to Baron Steven Charles John Bentinck born 1957 (otherwise known as Carel Johannes Baron Bentinck), grandson of the industrialist and art collector Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon), nephew of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921–2002). They had no children, and their marriage ended in divorce in 1996.

References

1942 births
Living people
Royalty from Cairo
Egyptian Jews


Fabien Anselmet (born 12 November 1960) is a French ski mountaineer and skiing instructor.

Selected results
 2007:
 1st, Trace de Vaugel A course (together with Sébastien Baud)
 3rd, European Championship relay race (together with Yannick Buffet, Bertrand Blanc and Tony Sbalbi)
 7th, Trofeo Mezzalama (together with Lionel Bonnel and Sébastien Baud)
 8th, Martial Premat team race (together with Martial Premat)

Pierra Menta

 2004: 10th, together with Jean-Marcel Grillet
 2007: 9th, together with Sébastien Baud

References

External links
 Photo

1960 births
Living people
French male ski mountaineers


Eric Carruthers (born 2 February 1953 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former footballer who played most notably for Heart of Midlothian.

Carruthers began his professional career for Hearts in 1970 and played more than fifty league matches between 1970 and 1975.

Carruthers was in 1975 sold by Hearts to English team Derby County for £25,000. His stay at Derby County was largely unsuccessful as he managed only one appearance as a substitute in two seasons. He eventually was released on a free transfer in October 1977.

In 1979, he played twenty matches for Australian National Soccer League team A.P.I.A. Leichhardt.

References

1953 births
Living people
Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia
Scottish men's footballers
Scottish expatriate men's footballers
National Soccer League (Australia) players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
West Adelaide SC players
APIA Leichhardt FC players
Men's association football forwards
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Australia


Streaming is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, and Roscoe Mitchell recorded in 2005 and released on the Pi Recordings label in 2006.

Prior to the session, the musicians had worked together since 1971, and had participated in the recording of albums such as Abrams's Spihumonesty, Mitchell's Nonaah, and Lewis's Shadowgraph. The recording came about as a result of the success of the trio's extended improvisation at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

Abrams described the album as "a vintage collaboration," and commented: "the respect that transpires between us on the stage, the respect for the improvised space that we use, is special. Of course, they're virtuoso musicians, but I'm talking about silence and activity, when to play and when not to play, just from instinct and feeling and respect."

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states that "Decades have passed since the debut of these three musicians, yet they have lost nothing of their musical curiosity and desire to take risks. The enthusiastic interaction between pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell with Lewis is the real reward of this esoteric outing".

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz noted that there were no discussions or preparations before the recording and that, with the exception of "Scrape", the performances showed a high level of interaction and empathy.

In an article for The New York Times, Nate Chinen wrote: "Three masters of structural abstraction at the height of their powers. This studio recording is a study in texture, not only for the percussive elocutions of Mr. Abrams and Mr. Mitchell but also for the improvised electronic commentary of Mr. Lewis, on a laptop computer."

Jason Bivins, writing for Dusted Magazine, commented: "This set of five free improvisations... is wonderfully rich and varied... I'm confident it's one of the best jazz/improv records of 2006. In fact, I would confidently cite it as evidence that jazz – whatever we mean by that maligned term – is alive and thriving. Fantastic music."

Critic and author Howard Mandel wrote: "Streaming... projects a cinematic excursion through improvisations, casting motifs... together so as to excite a reconsideration of the basic ways we organize sounds into music. Their work encourages us to abandon questions of what pitches harmonize and how different rhythms intersect for matters relating to sonic scale, to foreground and field, to the conjunction of non-associative elements and the role listeners play in pulling disparate noise into meaningful music."

Track listing
 "Scrape" - 10:02
 "Bound" - 11:02
 "Dramaturns" - 18:27
 "Soundhear" - 16:36
 "Streaming" - 17:34
All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell

Personnel
Muhal Richard Abrams: piano, percussion
George Lewis: trombone, laptop
Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, percussion

References

2006 albums
Muhal Richard Abrams albums
Pi Recordings albums