The Tarish Language is spoken by an itinerant Roma community called the Tarish. It contains lexical borrowings from Spanish. Americans often confuse Tarish with Spanglish. It is described by Bishop Saucer as a dialect of Shelta, which, according to Professor MacAlister, is the collective name for a group of artificial languages created by displaced English Monks for use by their intinerent hosts. Tarish is best described as a dialect of Angloromani because it is used by the Romanichal (English Gypsies), while the term Shelta is associated more often with languages spoken by the Irish Traveller people, who are not Gypsies.
Grammar
Concerning Angloromani, the Ethnologue wrote:
The grammar is basically English with heavy Romani lexical borrowing. Many dialects. It has been spoken in the United Kingdom for 500 years. 'The Romanichal population must be considered as being more actively determined to retain the ethnic language than some other British minorities.' (I. Hancock).
The Romanies in England refer to their language as 'Romany' not Tarish. Occasionally they may use 'Romanichal' as well, as in "Mandi rokkers Romanichal".
Grammar
Concerning Angloromani, the Ethnologue wrote:
The grammar is basically English with heavy Romani lexical borrowing. Many dialects. It has been spoken in the United Kingdom for 500 years. 'The Romanichal population must be considered as being more actively determined to retain the ethnic language than some other British minorities.' (I. Hancock).
The Romanies in England refer to their language as 'Romany' not Tarish. Occasionally they may use 'Romanichal' as well, as in "Mandi rokkers Romanichal".
Nico Christ (born October 30, 1981 in Tuebingen) is a German table tennis player, currently leading the TSV Graefelfingen (Bavaria) in the 2nd Bundesliga (south division). He is ranked no. 234 in the world and no. 14 within the German Joola computer ranking (as of November 2007).
Nico is right-handed and plays shakehand style. He has got excellent abilities over the table that are completed by his uncompromising forehand offense. At the moment he uses Andro's "Kinetic CF Carbo-Aramid OFF" blade and "Revolution C.O.R.2" rubbers.
He resides in Karlsruhe (Germany) where he practices with local players and is also enrolled at the Universitaet Karlsruhe as a physics grad student. This engangement allowed him to represent his sport at the Universiade (World University Games) 2007 in Bangkok (Thailand) where his team won the bronze medal in the team competition leading to a boost in the sports popularity within the German student body and amongst the younger population in general.
Selected Achievments
*1998 European champion with the German youth squad in Norcia (Italy)
*2002 Champion of the 2nd division of the German Bundesliga with the TTC Karlsruhe-Neureud
*2003 German champion playing doubles with his partner Bastian Steger
*2004 German champion playing mixed doubles with Christina Fischer
*2004 Bronze Medal in the German championchips playing doubles with Bastian Steger
*2005 Bronze Medal in the German championchips playing mixed doubles with Christina Fischer
*2007 Quarterfinals in the German championschips playing single
*2007 Bronze medal in the team challenge at the Universiade (World University Games) in Bangkok (Thailand)
Nico is right-handed and plays shakehand style. He has got excellent abilities over the table that are completed by his uncompromising forehand offense. At the moment he uses Andro's "Kinetic CF Carbo-Aramid OFF" blade and "Revolution C.O.R.2" rubbers.
He resides in Karlsruhe (Germany) where he practices with local players and is also enrolled at the Universitaet Karlsruhe as a physics grad student. This engangement allowed him to represent his sport at the Universiade (World University Games) 2007 in Bangkok (Thailand) where his team won the bronze medal in the team competition leading to a boost in the sports popularity within the German student body and amongst the younger population in general.
Selected Achievments
*1998 European champion with the German youth squad in Norcia (Italy)
*2002 Champion of the 2nd division of the German Bundesliga with the TTC Karlsruhe-Neureud
*2003 German champion playing doubles with his partner Bastian Steger
*2004 German champion playing mixed doubles with Christina Fischer
*2004 Bronze Medal in the German championchips playing doubles with Bastian Steger
*2005 Bronze Medal in the German championchips playing mixed doubles with Christina Fischer
*2007 Quarterfinals in the German championschips playing single
*2007 Bronze medal in the team challenge at the Universiade (World University Games) in Bangkok (Thailand)
The Other Nite Show was a comedic radio production created specifically for Brisbane Community station Switch 1197am (Formally i1197am). Running from July 2004 till April 2005.
The show
The show was a roughly prepared 3 hour Friday night variety segment targeted at 10 - 17 year olds. Presented by comedic trio Scott McDonald, Andrew Smith and Tom Hackett regular segments included calls from a British impersonator taking the alias of Calvin Klein, Beat the boys (quiz segment), Doctors in love (a spin off love advice segment), Smitty Speaks (hourly celeb goss) and regular banter about the boys differing interests - especially attacking Tom's sport obsession.
The Downfall
The show's decline began in early 2005, with reported splits with management. The boys began running segments attacking the supposed low intellect of the station (such as quoting Oscar Wilde inappropriately), and, as rumors spread of a staff dispute between the boys and the Sunday afternoon presenter the boys ended each show with a "community service" warning against listening to the station during his presentation.
In April the station management made a decision to remove the boys, with reported inappropriate promotions airing unapproved and a complete reckless attitude during their show.
Trivia
*Scott moved onto become a panel operator and then announcer for Brisbane commercial station, b105 and now does network nights on North QLD's Sea FM stations.
*The team were always strangely obsessed with elevators/lifts
*The Firm - Startrekkin' has appeared in every shift the boys have done on air
*The team, despite no singing ability, would sing a live jingle for every segment on the show
*The three openly admitted to being confused by every production related to the 4400
Links
*Switch 1197 - A community AM radio station broadcasting on 1197 KHz in Brisbane, Australia.
*B105 FM - A commercial FM radio station broadcasting on 105.3 MHz in Brisbane, Australia.
The show
The show was a roughly prepared 3 hour Friday night variety segment targeted at 10 - 17 year olds. Presented by comedic trio Scott McDonald, Andrew Smith and Tom Hackett regular segments included calls from a British impersonator taking the alias of Calvin Klein, Beat the boys (quiz segment), Doctors in love (a spin off love advice segment), Smitty Speaks (hourly celeb goss) and regular banter about the boys differing interests - especially attacking Tom's sport obsession.
The Downfall
The show's decline began in early 2005, with reported splits with management. The boys began running segments attacking the supposed low intellect of the station (such as quoting Oscar Wilde inappropriately), and, as rumors spread of a staff dispute between the boys and the Sunday afternoon presenter the boys ended each show with a "community service" warning against listening to the station during his presentation.
In April the station management made a decision to remove the boys, with reported inappropriate promotions airing unapproved and a complete reckless attitude during their show.
Trivia
*Scott moved onto become a panel operator and then announcer for Brisbane commercial station, b105 and now does network nights on North QLD's Sea FM stations.
*The team were always strangely obsessed with elevators/lifts
*The Firm - Startrekkin' has appeared in every shift the boys have done on air
*The team, despite no singing ability, would sing a live jingle for every segment on the show
*The three openly admitted to being confused by every production related to the 4400
Links
*Switch 1197 - A community AM radio station broadcasting on 1197 KHz in Brisbane, Australia.
*B105 FM - A commercial FM radio station broadcasting on 105.3 MHz in Brisbane, Australia.
Yusuf Kabir is a Nigerian man from Lagos who was arrested on July 13 2005 and imprisoned on charges of homosexuality.
Kabir and his alleged sex partner, Usman Sani, are accused of sodomy. Under Sharia law, homosexual acts are punishable by death.
According to police, the two men were arrested while having sex in a public washroom on June 19 2005. Prosecutors were unable to provide any witnesses and have been given until August 3 to find corroborating evidence of the crime, during which time the two men will remain in prison.
If the men are found guilty, they face death by stoning.
Kabir and his alleged sex partner, Usman Sani, are accused of sodomy. Under Sharia law, homosexual acts are punishable by death.
According to police, the two men were arrested while having sex in a public washroom on June 19 2005. Prosecutors were unable to provide any witnesses and have been given until August 3 to find corroborating evidence of the crime, during which time the two men will remain in prison.
If the men are found guilty, they face death by stoning.