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1968 Davis Cup
1968 edition of the Davis Cup
Top 10 1968 Davis Cup related articles
1 Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Kosmos Holding and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis", and the winners are referred to as the World Champion team. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. By 2016, 135 nations entered teams into the competition. The most successful countries over the history of the tournament are the United States and Australia. The current champions are Spain, who beat Canada to win their sixth title in 2019.More
2 Peru Davis Cup team
The Peru Davis Cup Team is the Davis Cup team that represents the nation of Peru. The team is governed by the Federación de Tenis de Peru. They currently compete in the Americas Zone Group II, and their best result was reaching the World Group in 2008.More
3 United States Davis Cup team
The United States of America's Davis Cup Team represents the United States in Davis Cup tennis competition, and is governed by the United States Tennis Association.More
4 Ecuador Davis Cup team
The Ecuador Davis Cup team represents Ecuador in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Ecuador Tennis Federation.More
5 India Davis Cup team
The India Davis Cup team represents India in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the All India Tennis Association.More
6 Japan Davis Cup team
The Japan Davis Cup team represents Japan in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Japan Tennis Association.More
7 Spain Davis Cup team
The Spain Davis Cup team is the men's national tennis team and has represented Spain internationally since 1920. Organised by the Real Federación Española de Tenis (RFET), it is one of the 50 members of International Tennis Federation's European association.More
8 Germany Davis Cup team
The Germany Davis Cup team represents Germany in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Deutscher Tennis Bund. As East Germany never participated in the Davis Cup, and the Deutscher Tennisbund remained the same organization throughout the century, the West German Davis Cup team is included in this article.More
9 Italy Davis Cup team
The Italy Davis Cup team represents Italy in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federazione Italiana Tennis.Italy won the Davis Cup in 1976, and finished as runners-up 6 times. They currently compete in the World Group. They last competed in the highest level in 2000, but winning 3-0 against Chile, on September 16, 2011, won again a pass for the World Group.More
10 South Africa Davis Cup team
The South Africa Davis Cup team represents South Africa in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Tennis South Africa.More
1 Incidents
2 Americas Zone
2.1 North & Central America Zone
2.2 South America Zone
2.3 Americas Inter-Zonal Final
3 Eastern Zone
3.1 Zone A
3.2 Zone B
3.3 Eastern Inter-Zonal Final
4 Europe Zone
4.1.1 Zone A Final
4.2.1 Zone B Final
5 Inter-Zonal Zone
5.1 Draw
5.2 Semifinals
5.3 Final
6 Challenge Round
20 March – 28 December
Winning Nation
The 1968 Davis Cup was the 57th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 32 teams entered the Europe Zone, 9 teams entered the Americas Zone, and 8 teams entered the Eastern Zone. Peru made its first appearance in the tournament, having previously entered on 3 separate occasions before subsequently withdrawing before competing in a tie.
The United States defeated Ecuador in the Americas Inter-Zonal final, India defeated Japan in the Eastern Inter-Zonal final, and Spain and West Germany were the winners of the two Europe Zones, defeating Italy and South Africa respectively.
In the Inter-Zonal Zone, the United States defeated Spain and India defeated West Germany in the semifinals, and then the United States defeated India in the final. The United States then defeated the defending champions Australia in the Challenge Round, ending Australia's four-year title run. The final was played at Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide, Australia on 26–28 December.[1][2][3]
1968 Davis Cup Intro articles: 4
1 Australia Davis Cup team
The Australian Davis Cup team is the second most successful team ever to compete in the Davis Cup, winning the coveted title on 28 separate occasions, second behind the United States with 32.More
2 Memorial Drive Park
Memorial Drive Park, more generally referred to as "Memorial Drive", is a tennis venue, located adjacent to the Adelaide Oval, in the park lands surrounding the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. Memorial Drive took its name from the winding avenue, known as War Memorial Drive, which separates the venue from the River Torrens.More
3 Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.More
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.More
In what became known as the Båstad riots, the Europe Zone first-round tie between Sweden and Rhodesia, planned to be held in Båstad, Sweden, caused widespread disruption as demonstrators protested the participation of both Rhodesia and South Africa in the tournament. Both countries had been banned from competing in other sports competitions due to their apartheid and white minority rule policies.
Following discussions between the Swedish government and demonstrators, the International Tennis Federation and Swedish Tennis Federation decided to move the tie to a neutral location in Bandol, France.[4][5]
1968 Davis Cup Incidents articles: 10
1 Båstad riots
The Båstad riots is the name given to the riots that took place during a Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia on May 3, 1968 in Båstad, Sweden.More
2 Sweden Davis Cup team
The Sweden Davis Cup team represents Sweden in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Swedish Tennis Association.More
3 Zimbabwe Davis Cup team
The Zimbabwe Davis Cup team represents Zimbabwe in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Zimbabwe Tennis Association. Zimbabwe currently competes in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II. They last competed in the World Group in 2000.More
4 Båstad
Båstad is a locality and the seat of Båstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with approximately 5,000 permanent residents. It is however one of Sweden's most typical summer resorts. The population is presumably more than twice as large between April and September, and even larger during July. Its municipality follows a similar pattern: some 15,000 permanent residents, but more than 30,000 during July. Some villages within the municipality are almost empty during the winter, but have more than a 2,000 "summer guests" during July. Torekov is a good example of this.More
5 Apartheid
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Asians and Coloureds, then black Africans. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day.More
6 Minoritarianism
In political science, minoritarianism is a neologism for a political structure or process in which a minority segment of a population has a certain degree of primacy in that entity's decision making. Minoritarianism may be contrasted with majoritarianism, but with legislative power being held or controlled by a minority group rather than the majority.More
7 Government of Sweden
The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden is the national cabinet and the supreme executive authority of Sweden. The short-form name Regeringen is used both in the Basic Laws of Sweden and in the vernacular, while the long-form is only used in international treaties.More
8 International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national associations, and as of 2016, was affiliated with 211 national tennis associations and six regional associations.More
9 Bandol
Bandol is a commune in Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, southeastern France. Bandol and the seat of its eponymous commune, was founded in 1595 and built around a small military fort.More
France, officially the French Republic, is a country, primarily located in Western Europe, consisting of metropolitan France and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco and Italy to the east, Andorra and Spain to the south, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname and Brazil in the Americas. The country's eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.15 million. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones of any country, with a total of twelve.More
Americas Zone
Further information: 1968 Davis Cup Americas Zone
North & Central America Zone
3–13 May Final
Richmond, VA, United States (hard)
Caribbean/West Indies 0 Berkeley, CA, United States (hard)
Mexico City, Mexico (clay) Mexico 0
South America Zone
27–29 April Semifinals
29–31 March; 11–13 May Final
Argentina 2 Caracas, Venezuela (hard)
bye Guayaquil, Ecuador (clay)
Peru Lima, Peru
Americas Inter-Zonal Final
United States vs. Ecuador
Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC, United States [6]
Carpet (indoor)
Pancho Guzmán 6
Clark Graebner
Miguel Olvera 6
Clark Graebner / Bob Lutz
Pancho Guzmán / Miguel Olvera 6
1968 Davis Cup Americas Zone articles: 9
1 Bojangles' Coliseum
Bojangles' Coliseum is an 8,600-seat multi-purpose arena located in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is operated by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, which also oversees nearby Ovens Auditorium and the uptown Charlotte Convention Center. The naming-rights sponsor is the Bojangles restaurant chain. The building's signature domed roof is made of tin instead of steel or iron. The dome spans 332 feet in diameter and rises to 112 feet tall.More
2 Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population was 885,708, making it the 15th-most populous city in the U.S. and the second-largest in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose population ranks 23rd in the U.S., and had a population of 2,569,213, in 2018. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2018 census-estimated population of 2,728,933.More
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States, or America, is a country primarily located in North America, consisting of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, it is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area. With a population of over 328 million, it is the third most populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.More
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (621 mi) west of the mainland. The capital is Quito.More
5 Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles.More
6 Pancho Guzmán
J. Francisco Guzmán Carmigniani, known as Pancho Guzmán, is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador.More
7 Clark Graebner
Clark Graebner is a retired American professional tennis player.More
8 Miguel Olvera
Miguel Olvera is a tennis player active in the 1960s and 1970s, playing for Ecuador.More
9 Bob Lutz (tennis)
Robert Lutz is a former amateur and professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. He and his longtime partner Stan Smith were one of the best doubles teams of all time. Bud Collins ranked Lutz as world No. 7 in singles in 1972. Between 1967 and 1977, he was ranked among the top-10 American players eight times, with his highest ranking being No. 5 in both 1968 and 1970.More
Eastern Zone
Further information: 1968 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
23–25 March; 26–28 April Final
Indonesia w/o
South Vietnam Manila, Philippines
bye Tokyo, Japan
South Korea Tokyo, Japan
20–22 March Final
Colombo, Ceylon (clay)
Ceylon 4 Guwahati, India
Eastern Inter-Zonal Final
Japan vs. India
Tokyo, Japan [7]
21–23 September 1968
Keishiro Yanagi
Premjit Lall 2
Koji Watanabe
Ramanathan Krishnan 2
Isao Watanabe / Koji Watanabe
Ramanathan Krishnan / Jaidip Mukerjea 2
1968 Davis Cup Eastern Zone articles: 9
1 Tokyo
Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis , is the capital and most populous prefecture of Japan. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central Pacific coast of Japan's main island of Honshu. Tokyo is the political and economic center of the country, as well as the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the national government. In 2019, the prefecture had an estimated population of 13,929,280. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.393 million residents as of 2020.More
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.More
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.More
4 Keishiro Yanagi
Keishiro Yanagi is a Japanese former professional tennis player.More
5 Premjit Lall
Premjit Lall was a professional tennis player from India who was active during the 1960s and 1970s.More
6 Koji Watanabe
Koji Watanabe is a Japanese former international tennis player. He won four career singles titles (1966-1969).More
7 Ramanathan Krishnan
Ramanathan Krishnan is a retired tennis player from India who was among the world's leading players in the 1950s and 1960s. He was twice a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1961, reaching as high as World No. 6 in Lance Tingay's amateur rankings.More
8 Isao Watanabe
Isao Watanabe is a Japanese former professional tennis player.More
9 Jaidip Mukerjea
Jaidip Mukerjea is a retired professional tennis player from India.More
Europe Zone
Further information: 1968 Davis Cup Europe Zone
26 April–7 May Quarterfinals
23–26 May Semifinals
13–16 June Final
Valencia, Spain (clay)
Barcelona, Spain (clay)
Bandol, France (hard)
Rhodesia 1
Bournemouth, England (clay)
Great Britain 1
London, England (grass)
Helsinki, Finland (clay)
Tbilisi, Soviet Union
Soviet Union 4
Moscow, Soviet Union
Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia 0
Reggio Emilia, Italy (clay)
Cagliari, Italy (clay)
Biella, Italy (clay)
Zone A Final
Spain vs. Italy
Real Club de Tenis, Barcelona, Spain [8]
19–21 July 1968
Juan Gisbert
Martin Mulligan 6
Manuel Santana
Nicola Pietrangeli 6
José Luis Arilla / Manuel Orantes
Martin Mulligan / Nicola Pietrangeli 5
Manuel Orantes
Freiburg, West Germany
West Germany 5
Munich, West Germany (clay)
Czechoslovakia 1
Brussels, Belgium (clay)
Poland 2
Prague, Czechoslovakia (clay)
Düsseldorf, West Germany
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (clay)
Oslo, Norway (clay)
Bucharest, Romania (clay)
South Africa w/o
Linz, Austria
Zone B Final
West Germany vs. South Africa
Düsseldorf, West Germany [9]
Wilhelm Bungert
Bob Hewitt 9
Ingo Buding
Ray Moore 6
Ingo Buding / Jürgen Fassbender
Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan 4
1968 Davis Cup Europe Zone articles: 52
1 Real Club de Tenis Barcelona
The Real Club de Tenis Barcelona 1899 is a private tennis club in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The facility has 18 clay courts, including a stadium court with a capacity of 8,400 and show court for 2,000 spectators. Since moving to its current location in the northwest of the city in 1953, the club has hosted the Open Godó tournament, a part of the ATP World Tour's 500 Series. Over the years, the club has hosted many Davis Cup ties of the Spanish team, including the Inter-Zonal final in 1965.More
Barcelona is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid, and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.More
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagos: the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean respectively.More
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and several islands surrounding it. Italy is located in south-central Europe, and is considered part of western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with Rome as its capital, the country covers a total area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial enclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in Tunisian waters (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the third-most populous member state of the European Union.More
5 Juan Gisbert Sr.
Juan Gisbert Sr. is a retired amateur and professional tennis player from the 1960s and 1970s.More
6 Martin Mulligan
Martin "Marty" Mulligan is a former tennis player from Australia. He is best known for reaching the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1962, where he was defeated by fellow Australian Rod Laver.More
7 Manuel Santana
Manuel Martínez Santana, also known as Manolo Santana, is a former tennis player from Spain. He was ranked as amateur world No. 1 in 1966 by Lance Tingay.More
8 Nicola Pietrangeli
Nicola "Nicky" Pietrangeli is a former Italian tennis player. He won two singles titles at the French Championships and is considered by many to be Italy's greatest tennis champion.More
9 José Luis Arilla
José Luis Arilla is a Spanish former tennis player. He was the partner of Manuel Santana in Davis Cup matches. He only played 16 matches in the Open Era, and his best result in those times were the quarters of the 1968 Torneo Godó.More
10 Manuel Orantes
Manuel Orantes Corral is a former tennis player from Spain who was active in the 1970s and 1980s. He won the US Open men's singles title in 1975, beating defending champion Jimmy Connors in the final. Orantes reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 2.More
11 Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the eponymous valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea.More
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's sixteenth-largest country.More
13 Bulgaria Davis Cup team
The Bulgaria Davis Cup team represents Bulgaria in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Bulgarian Tennis Federation.More
14 Turkey Davis Cup team
The Turkey Davis Cup team represents Turkey in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Türkiye Tenis Federasyonu.More
15 Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau, commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000, Freiburg is the fourth largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, and Mannheim. The population of the Freiburg metropolitan area was 656,753 in 2018. In the south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain. A famous old German university town, and archiepiscopal seat, Freiburg was incorporated in the early twelfth century and developed into a major commercial, intellectual, and ecclesiastical center of the upper Rhine region. The city is known for its medieval minster and Renaissance university, as well as for its high standard of living and advanced environmental practices. The city is situated in the heart of the major Baden wine-growing region and serves as the primary tourist entry point to the scenic beauty of the Black Forest. According to meteorological statistics, the city is the sunniest and warmest in Germany, and held the all-time German temperature record of 40.2 °C (104.4 °F) from 2003 to 2015.More
16 West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany, retrospectively designated the Bonn Republic, in the period between its formation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990. During this Cold War period, the western portion of Germany was part of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Its provisional capital was the city of Bonn.More
17 Switzerland Davis Cup team
The Switzerland Davis Cup team represents Switzerland in the Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by Swiss Tennis.More
18 Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of July 31, 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people.More
19 Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated and the richest region in Belgium in terms of GDP per capita. It covers 162 km2 (63 sq mi), a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brussels comprises over 2.5 million people, which makes it the largest in Belgium. It is also part of a large conurbation extending towards Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven and Walloon Brabant, home to over 5 million people.More
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of 376 per square kilometre (970/sq mi). The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.More
21 Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team
The Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team competed from 1921–1992, winning the tournament once, in 1980. From 1993, the nations competed as:
Czech Republic Davis Cup team
Slovakia Davis Cup team
22 Belgium Davis Cup team
The Belgium Davis Cup team represents Belgium in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Royal Belgian Tennis Federation.More
23 Poland Davis Cup team
The Poland Davis Cup team represents Poland in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Polski Związek Tenisowy.More
24 Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 13th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.7 million. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.More
25 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.More
26 Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state, after Cologne, and the seventh-largest city in Germany, with a population of 617,280.More
27 Brazil Davis Cup team
The Brazil Davis Cup team represents Brazil in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Brazilian Tennis Confederation.More
28 Luxembourg City
Luxembourg, also known as Luxembourg City, is the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxembourg, the city lies at the heart of Western Europe, situated 213 km (132 mi) by road from Brussels, 372 km (231 mi) from Paris, and 209 km (130 mi) from Cologne. The city contains Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.More
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital, Luxembourg City, is one of the four official capitals of the European Union and the seat of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU. Its culture, people, and languages are highly intertwined with its neighbours, making it a mixture of French and German cultures. It has three official languages: French, German, and the national language of Luxembourgish. The repeated invasions by Germany, especially in World War II, resulted in the country's strong will for mediation between France and Germany and, among other things, led to the foundation of the European Union.More
30 Luxembourg Davis Cup team
The Luxembourg Davis Cup team represents Luxembourg in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Luxembourg Tennis Federation.More
31 Oslo
Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. As of 23 November 2020, the municipality of Oslo had a population of 697,549, while the population of the city's urban area was 1,019,513, as of 4 November 2019. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1.71 million.More
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose mainland territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen as well as the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land.More
33 Norway Davis Cup team
The Norway Davis Cup team represents Norway in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Norges Tennisforbund.More
34 Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than 60 km (37.3 mi) north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border.More
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It shares land borders with Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east and has its opening to the Black Sea. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres, Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the seventh-most populous member state of the European Union, having approximately 19.3 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest. Other major urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.More
36 Romania Davis Cup team
The Romania Davis Cup team represents Romania in Davis Cup tennis competition, being governed by the Romanian Tennis Federation and currently competes in the 2019 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II.More
37 Denmark Davis Cup team
The Denmark Davis Cup team represents Denmark in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Danish Tennis Association.More
38 Tehran
Tehran is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With a population of around 8.7 million in the city and 15 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East. It is ranked 24th in the world by the population of its metropolitan area.More
Iran, also called Persia, and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan, to the southeast by Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. Iran covers an area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), with a population of 83 million. It is the second-largest country in the Middle East, and its capital and largest city is Tehran.More
40 Walkover
A walkover, also W.O. or w/o is the awarding of a victory to a contestant because there are no other contestants, or because the other contestants have been disqualified, or have forfeited, or have withdrawn from the contest. The term can apply in sport but also to uncontested elections, when it is also referred to as winning "by default". The word is used more generally by extension, particularly in politics, for an election in which the winner is not the only participant but has little or no competition. The narrow and extended meanings of "walkover" as a single word are both found from 1829.More
41 Iran Davis Cup team
The Iran Davis Cup team represent Iran in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Tennis Federation of Iran.More
42 Israel Davis Cup team
The Israel Davis Cup team represents Israel in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Israel Tennis Association. As of September 2017, Harel Levy became Captain of the team.More
43 Linz
Linz is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube 30 kilometres south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846.More
Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked East Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe. It is composed of nine federated states (Bundesländer), one of which is Vienna, Austria's capital and its largest city. It is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Austria occupies an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of nearly 9 million people. While German is the country's official language, many Austrians communicate informally in a variety of Bavarian dialects.More
45 Austria Davis Cup team
The Austria Davis Cup team represents Austria in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by Tennis Austria. In 2010 Austria was re-promoted to the World Group after being relegated to the Europa/Africa Zone Group I only one year earlier. In 2012, Austria advanced to the World Group quarterfinals for the first time since 1995, eventually losing against Spain.More
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. With over 59 million people, it is the world's 24th-most populous nation and covers an area of 1,221,037 square kilometres. South Africa has three capital cities: executive Pretoria, judicial Bloemfontein and legislative Cape Town. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of South Africans are of Black African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European, Asian, and multiracial ancestry.More
47 Wilhelm Bungert
Wilhelm Paul Bungert is a former German tennis player best known for reaching the 1967 Wimbledon final. He participated in the 1970 Davis Cup final as a player and in the 1985 Davis Cup final as team captain.More
48 Bob Hewitt
Robert Anthony John Hewitt is a former professional tennis player from Australia, and convicted rapist. In 1967, after marrying a South African, he became a South African citizen. He has won 15 major titles and a career Grand Slam in both men's and mixed doubles.More
49 Ingo Buding
Ingo Dietmar Buding was a West German tennis player. His sisters Edda and Ilse were also tennis players.More
50 Raymond Moore (tennis)
Raymond J. "Ray" Moore is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. During his career he won eight doubles titles, finishing runner-up an additional 12 times in doubles. Moore participated in 12 Davis Cup ties for South Africa from 1967 to 1977, including the 1974 South African victory, posting a 12–10 record in singles and posting an 0–1 mark in doubles.More
51 Jürgen Fassbender
Jürgen Fassbender is a retired German tennis player.More
52 Frew McMillan
Frew Donald McMillan is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa who won five major doubles championships including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt. All together, he won 63 doubles titles, surpassed only by the Bryan brothers, Todd Woodbridge, John McEnroe and Tom Okker. He was also ranked No.1 in Doubles on the ATP Computer for a significant period from 1977 to 1979 when he was aged 37.More
Inter-Zonal Zone
14–16 August; 4–6 October Final
9–11 November
Munich, West Germany
EUR-B West Germany 2
EAS India 3 San Juan, PR (hard)
EAS India 1
Cleveland, OH, United States (hard) AME United States 4
AME United States 4
EUR-A Spain 1
West Germany vs. India
Munich, West Germany [10]
Wilhelm Bungert / Jürgen Fassbender
United States vs. Spain
Harold Clark Courts, Cleveland, OH, United States [11]
Manuel Santana 2
Juan Gisbert 6
Clark Graebner / Charlie Pasarell
Juan Gisbert / Manuel Santana 11
Manuel Santana 11
United States vs. India
Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico [12]
9–11 November 1968
Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
1968 Davis Cup Inter-Zonal Zone articles: 6
1 Cleveland
Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. It is located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada and approximately 60 miles west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border.More
2 Charlie Pasarell
Charles Manuel Pasarell Jr. is a Puerto Rican tennis player, tennis administrator and founder of the current Indian Wells tournament. He has also commented for the Tennis Channel and with Arthur Ashe and Sheridan Snyder formed the National Junior Tennis League. He was ten times ranked in the top ten of the U.S. and No. 1 in 1967 and world No. 11 in 1966. Representing the United States as a player, he has been heavily engaged in the administration of the professional game from the inception of the ATP in 1972 and has been Vice President when he was still playing and until recently on the Board of Directors representing the Americas tournaments. In 2013, Pasarell was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.More
3 Caribe Hilton Hotel
The Caribe Hilton is located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is owned by Park Hotels & Resorts and managed by Hilton Worldwide. It was the first Hilton hotel ever opened outside of the continental United States.More
4 San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan is the capital and most-populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it is the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 395,326. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's capital is the third oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496, and Panama City, in Panama, founded in 1521, and is the oldest European-established city in the U.S. proper or U.S. territories. Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas.More
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and from 1898 to 1932 also called Porto Rico in English, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.More
6 Stan Smith
Stanley Roger Smith is a former world No. 1 American tennis player and two-time Grand Slam singles champion who also, with his partner Bob Lutz, formed one of the most successful doubles teams of all time. Together, they won many major titles all over the world. In 1970, Smith won the first year end championship Masters Grand Prix title. Smith's two major singles titles were the 1971 US Open, and 1972 Wimbledon. In 1972, he was the year-ending world No. 1 singles player. In 1973, he won his second and last year end championship title at the Dallas WCT Finals. In addition, he won four Grand Prix Championship Series titles. His name is also used in a popular brand of tennis shoes. In his early years he improved his tennis game through lessons from Pancho Segura, the Pasadena Tennis Patrons, and the sponsorship of the Southern California Tennis Association headed by Perry T. Jones.More
Australia vs. United States
Memorial Drive Park, Adelaide, Australia [3]
Bill Bowrey
Clark Graebner 10
Ray Ruffels
Arthur Ashe 8
John Alexander / Ray Ruffels
Bob Lutz / Stan Smith 4
Clark Graebner 6
1968 Davis Cup Challenge Round articles: 3
William Bowrey is a former Australian tennis player.More
Raymond Owen "Ray" Ruffels is an Australian former professional tennis player and coach.More
John Alexander (Australian politician)
John Gilbert Alexander is an Australian politician and former professional tennis player.More
The White Game, a 1968 Swedish documentary film about the protests around the match between Sweden and Rhodesia.
^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. pp. 495–496, 499. ISBN 978-0942257700.
^ Max Robertson (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 384. ISBN 0047960426.
^ a b "Australia v United States". daviscup.com.
^ Wijk, Johnny (2009-03-07). "Idrotten tjänar på de politiska aktionerna". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2012-06-26.
^ "Chile waits for Cup decision". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. 12 September 1975. Retrieved 7 May 2019. Seven years ago, the Swedish Tennis Federation was forced to move a Davis Cup match between Sweden and white-ruled Rhodesia to southern France after demonstrators had clashed with police outside Baastad's tennis stadium.
^ "United States v Ecuador". daviscup.com.
^ "Japan v India". daviscup.com.
^ "Spain v Italy". daviscup.com.
^ "West Germany v South Africa". daviscup.com.
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SPANISH tourists spent a record €6.08 million over the first two months of the year, up 9.1% from the same period in 2013.
The UK and German markets accounted for a third of total spending by inbound tourists in the period, with respective increases of 12.2% and 9.7%.
February alone also recorded the highest inbound tourism income to date at €2.98 billion, up 8% from last year.
Andalucia posted the highest increase for February at 18.6%, taking its tourism income to €423 million.
The Nordic countries gave the biggest growth with a collective increased spend of 20.3% on last year.
The Canary Islands retained their position as the leading tourist destination in February, raking in €1.14 billion.


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Emma Lee has written a helpful post on producing a collection of poetry. Emma discusses the advantages and disadvantages of publishing a collection dealing with one theme VS producing a book containing a variety of themes.
Emma's post caused me to ponder on my own writing and, in particular my collection of poetry, "My Old Clock I Wind". The title of the book brings to mind both clocks and time more generally and there are, indeed a number of poems which deal with this subject matter. There are, however also poems which touch upon a variety of other issues, for example "Crack" which deals with addiction to hard drugs and "Count Dracula Went Out To Dine" (a poem of a more humorous nature). I deliberately chose to include poems on a multiplicity of themes on the basis that "variety is the spice of life". I enjoy reading collections which cover various subjects and wishing to offer my readers the kind of collection that appeals to me, I took the decision to include a mixture of poems thereby (I hope) enhancing the enjoyment of my readers and avoiding the risk of being pigeonholed as the poet who only writes about time.
You can find Emma Lee's post here, https://emmalee1.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/working-towards-a-collection-of-poems/.
This entry was posted in books, creative writing, literature, newauthoronline, poems, poetry, uncategorised and tagged k morris poet, My old clock I wind and other poems, newauthoronline, poems, poetry, poets, Working towards a collection of poems, writing on May 24, 2018 by K Morris Poet.
I think this is very interesting. I have often thought that a book of poetry needs different kinds of poems, and different themes. I produced a book of poems on blindness, simply because few people write from the perspective of someone who was sighted but has now become blind, but that book inclued all kinds of poetry, as I did not want to make ot boring for the reader. I can totally see your point.
Hi Kevin. I don't have my books on Amazon or anything. My husband and I orodyce them and sell them from our home. We take them to various places, like Craft Fairs, churches, and other places. Often people will ask me to send them copies to them where they live – anywhere in the world, after finding out about them on the net, though I do not advertise. All monies made go to the Kymphoma Association which was the cancer that brought about my blibdness. But, if you like, the money could now start going to the Blibd Assiciation, or Guide Dogs, or something like that. Have you produced any books? If so I would like to see yours too. Let me know if you would like any of my boojs sending to you. We can do this by email so as not to make addresses public. It is up to you however. Smile.
Oh wow. I just "Saw" that you have produced an Anthology to raise money for Guide Dogs. Being fairly newly blind, I tend not to "see" things on peopke's Bligs apart from what is in front of me. Navigating sites is often a lot of trial and error. With much error lol. Oh, and I tooo have written a book of limericks. They are usually the more popular ones ha ha.
Many thanks for the information regarding your books. I will email you later today regarding obtaining copies. I have produced several collections of poems: "My Old Clock I Wind and Other Poems", "Lost In The Labyrinth Of My Mind", "Refractions", "The Girl Who Wasn't There And Other Poems" and "Dalliance; A Collection Of Poetry And Prose".
My books won't be as good as yours lol.
I am sure that I shall enjoy reading them.


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Cook Street's Chef John Parks Talks Teaching and Cooking in Denver's Growing Dining Scene
Mark Antonation
Mark Antonation | September 17, 2014 | 9:00am
Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, the downtown program that offers curricula for home cooks as well as budding professionals, recently offered a class in pickling and canning. I'd been to the school a couple of times years ago for corporate team-building events, but this time it was just my wife and me with a roomful of strangers. In about three hours, we learned about safe and sanitary methods of producing shelf-stable preserves and made pickled onions and cucumbers and two jams -- strawberry and tomato. We canned the strawberry jam and pickled onions for long-term storage, while the other preserves went home in plastic tubs destined for the refrigerator.
See Also: Cook Street's Eat Your Veggies Class Will Inspire You to Do Just That
I was most impressed at how the fear and mystery of preserving fruits and vegetables was dispelled by enthusiastic and knowledgeable chef/instructor Erin Boyle and a guest teacher, professional pickler Tyler DuBois of the Real Dill. The energy level was good, and the instructors kept the class engaged, while in the background assistants tidied up and prepped additional food for our dinner (which was included in the cost of the class), leading me to think about how the school was run and who's behind the smooth-flowing kitchen.
It turns out that man is John Parks, executive chef instructor of the culinary program at Cook Street. After class, I met up with him to talk about the school, his career and how Cook Street fits into Denver's food scene.
Parks has been working for Cook Street for almost nine years, but he got his start there as a student. He was looking for a place to gain some serious cooking skills after attending Kennedy High School, playing in a few bands and working a series of dead-end jobs in his twenties. "It's not stuffy, but I liked the integrity that I wasn't seeing in other schools," he says of his decision to enroll at Cook Street; he intended to open a catering business or build a career as a personal chef. "Both of my parents were teachers, but I was feeling entrepreneurial. I didn't see teaching in the cards."
But Cook Street hooked him with its hands-on approach, restaurant-style setup and dedication to "preparing students for what's actually out there," as he puts it. After finishing classes, he never left -- instead signing on to teach recreational classes for home cooks for more than five years before becoming an instructor in the professional program.
Parks has enjoyed both aspects of teaching; the amateur classes appealed to him because of "the immediate gratification," he says. "Seeing the impact on their lives is really cool." For the professional program, he likes how students work together (with no more than eight students for every instructor) toward a common goal: "There's nothing to hide behind. At the end of the day, we sit down to a meal we've prepared together."
Parks's approach to teaching centers on a passionate enjoyment of food. His curriculum focuses on the basics -- knife skills are big -- as well as grounding in French and Italian technique and a plunge into wine education, especially how wine relates to food. But he also insists that learning technique and letting the ingredients speak for themselves are not mutually exclusive. The school uses organic produce wherever possible and brings in whole pigs so that students can learn meat fabrication, charcuterie and other curing methods -- Parks mentions ham and duck prosciutto -- and make the connection between the raw foods and the final products.
"It's important to not have things exist in a box," he adds. Students learn to make rye bread from scratch before using it to assemble Danish smørrebrød, a kind of miniature open-faced sandwich; they take a more intensive version of the pickling class I took; and they get hands-on experience making fresh and smoked cheeses. Parks gives me a sample of fresh gjetost (a caramelized Scandinavian goat cheese), explaining that students had to simmer the milk for two days for optimal caramelization. When I ask if using a pressure cooker would speed up the process, he jokes, "We try to focus on methods used before 1850."
Keep reading for Chef Parks's favorite restaurants and least favorite food trends.
Parks also mentors students through "restaurant week," where they get a full "front-door-to-back-door" experience of setting up a restaurant, preparing a menu -- "with guidance," the chef emphasizes -- and receiving inventory from suppliers before cooking and serving dinner to neighborhood guests. Because many of Cook Street's students are older and have goals other than heading straight to a restaurant kitchen after graduation, there's also a focus on the business aspects of food production. "Costing out food and designing a hypothetical business is important," he says, because those skills prepare students who are interested in going into business for themselves.
Because of this -- and to bridge a gap between home cooks and budding professionals -- Parks is also considering adding a "boot camp" style of instruction that would be longer than the one-day recreational classes but less intensive (and expensive) than the current professional curriculum. This would appeal to people with time off during the summer, people looking to switch careers, or retired "bucket-listers" who could engage in a four-week immersion program.
Parks is gratified to see his students move on in the fast-growing Denver restaurant scene, citing Il Posto, Panzano and the Brown Palace as top-notch eateries where his graduates have landed. He's also seen former students move into careers as wine merchants, caterers and personal chefs. His home town is "a completely different city than it was [when I was] growing up," he says, especially when it comes to restaurants. "There's a lot of talent in this city right now...the push is on training," he notes, emphasizing the need to keep a growing pool of restaurant employees sharp. And despite the growth, downtown "still feels 'Denver,' except for the parking," he says.
Although Cook Street keeps him busy, he still finds a little time to dine out. He's currently impressed with Beast + Bottle and Bittersweet; Table 6 is a longtime favorite. For guilty pleasures, Parks lists Frito pie and, as a Denver kid, green chile -- of course.
For Parks, there's a connection between dining out and educating future cooks. "I could live in a world without sliders," he says with a smile. "Bacon and sriracha are also low-hanging fruit." He admits that while he loves them both, those ingredients are too easy to rely on as a cook. Instead, he encourages students to build their palates beyond salt and fat: "A well-rounded eater is a well-rounded cook."
At Cook Street, it's easy to see why someone could come in for classes and end up staying for a career. The kitchen is gleaming and professional, with high-BTU gas stoves and mountains of equipment for mixing dough, rolling out pasta, slicing meats. But it's also open and spacious, because it must accommodate a crowd of students all trying to learn and cook. The space lacks the high-stress atmosphere of a cramped restaurant kitchen, and there's an air of serenity -- except, perhaps, on "lobster dispatch day," as Parks calls it, when students spend a day learning what it means to turn live animals into food. And Parks is serene, too, as he focuses on that passionate enjoyment of food and continues to refine and expand his curriculum. "I'm happy being here," he concludes. "My goals and Cook Street's are simpatico."
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Mark Antonation is the Westword Food & Drink Editor. He got his start by eating at and writing about every restaurant on Federal Boulevard and continues to cover metro Denver's diverse international food scene, as well as the city's quickly changing restaurant landscape. Mark was awarded Outstanding Media Professional by the Colorado Restaurant Association in 2018.
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PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that holds the intellectual property rights behind the Python programming language. We manage the open source licensing for Python version 2.1 and later and own and protect the trademarks associated with Python. We also run the North American PyCon conference annually, support other Python conferences around the world, and fund Python related development with our grants program and by funding special projects.
"The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers."
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the non-profit legal entity that holds and protects the intellectual property rights behind Python, keeping it free and open for all to use. The PSF also contributes to the Python community by underwriting or sponsoring conferences, funding grants and special projects, and leading volunteer efforts.
Everyone that programs with Python should know at least a little about the PSF, especially how the Python license and trademarks work. While this may seem boring to many programmers, there is much that an aware Python users base can do to help protect Python, and keep the community behind Python vital and productive.
The PSF was formed in 2001 as a non-profit corporation in the state of Delaware, USA. Although it was formed in the US, the PSF's mission is world-wide, extending to wherever there are Python programmers. Its membership is international, including individuals that have played a significant role in the Python community and companies that sponsor the PSF because they have an investment in Python. Both individual and sponsor members have voting rights in the organization and thus are selected based on their ability to take part in the PSF's stewardship role. It is the existing members that vote to accept new individual and sponsor members to the organization.
The officers and board of directors of the PSF take care of most of the day-to-day business of running the organization. The board of directors is voted in by the members and the officers are appointed by the board. Some of the officers are paid a small salary since their work requires constant availability and many hundreds of hours of effort per year. The other officers and directors are unpaid volunteers. Currently, we have officers and board members in the US, Canada and Germany.
The board of directors meets monthly, via IRC, and the PSF members meet once a year in person at the North American PyCon conference. Members that cannot be present in person at the annual meeting can vote by ballot submitted ahead of time or by proxy (assigning their vote to someone they trust).
More information, including the membership roster and public records, is available at http://python.org/psf
The PSF is funded from a variety of sources. For example, in 2006 a total of $168K in revenues came from: Individual donors (13%), PSF sponsor fees (17%), PyCon registration and PyCon sponsor fees (51%), participation in the Google Summer of Code program (14%), and interest on investments and other minor sources (5%).
In 2006 the PSF spent $158K total, for: PyCon 2006 related expenses (67%), funded grants (13%), the advocacy special project (10%), payroll for officers (5%), and other expenses such as bank charges, legal fees, and insurance (5%).
The PSF's assets currently stand at about $310K. A healthy balance enables the foundation to take on the financial risk of underwriting PyCon each year, and provides a reserve for any unexpected expenses, legal or otherwise.
The PSF has obtained the status of 501(c)3 non-profit, which makes contributions from individuals deductible from US federal taxes. The PSF is not yet officially registered as a non-profit in other countries. However, in many cases, donations and sponsor fees paid by a business are also pre-tax, but this depends on local rules.
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For most users, the details of the license stack are irrelevant. All of the licenses grant permission to use, modify, and redistribute the code in an non-restrictive way. However, it is a good idea to have a basic understanding of how the licensing works, how it relates to copyright ownership, and what factors make an open source release legally valid.
In fact, the PSF does not directly own the copyright to any of the Python source code. The copyrights are retained by the organizations and individuals that contributed the code. The PSF obtains its rights through licensing. An important concern here is that the licensing was made by those that had a legal right to do so, in other words by the original authors or copyright holders of the code.
The legal history of the code in Python is thus defined in two ways:
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The initial licenses that accompany the contribution currently can be either the Academic Free License version 2.1 or the Apache License version 2.0. These were selected because they contain a patent clause and avoid unnecessary restrictions on the licensee.
The important thing to note here is that the PSF can demonstrate that Python contains only code licensed to it by organizations and individuals that had the necessary rights to the code in order to make that license legally valid. Python's case is further strengthened by the existence of an intact revision control record that dates back to its very beginning, and extensive email and other records that help to establish when and by whom the code was developed. This body of evidence makes any legal claim against Python's open source status difficult and very unlikely to succeed.
For more information, see the PSF License FAQ:
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The PSF also holds and protects the trademarks behind the Python programming language. This includes the "Python" name, when used in the domain of programming languages, and also the Python logos. "Python" is a registered trademark in the US, while the logos have not yet been registered.
There is much confusion about the nature and purpose of trademarks, and they are often incorrectly viewed as incompatible with open source. This is simply not true. Trademarks are another way to help keep Python free and open for all to use, and protecting the trademarks helps to prevent confusion about the nature and purpose of Python.
For example, if an entirely different programming language were named "Python" or even "Python Plus", it could cause considerable confusion, making life more difficult for the developers and users of either language. Any other Pythons should be the same programming language, within reason, even if they implement the language differently as do IronPython and Stackless Python.
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In a wide-ranging interview on V.F. Hive on Cheddar, the departing editor of Vanity Fair candidly reveals the origins of the Oscar party, the secrets of his most meaningful collaborations (with Annie Leibovitz, Christopher Hitchens, and Dominick Dunne, among others), and intimate details of his long-standing feud with a particularly short-fingered food and beverage proprietor.
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In early September, after 25 years atop the masthead of Vanity Fair, The New York Times reported that Graydon Carter would be stepping down at the end of the year—the denouement to a legacy that included the annual V.F. Oscar party and Hollywood issue; the New Establishment franchise and incipient Summit conference business; the Africa issue; the Green issue; the unmasking of Deep Throat; the transformation of Caitlyn Jenner; and Jennifer Aniston's world famous disclosure that Brad Pitt was missing "a sensitivity chip." Carter, the Times reported, would be off to Europe for six months before trying his hand at a new, still nebulous venture. "I wanted to have a third act," he said at the time. "And I thought, time is precious."
Last month, shortly before his final day on the job—incoming V.F. editor-in-chief Radhika Jones begins her tenure on Monday —I sat down with Carter at his personal office in the West Village for a wide-ranging conversation on V.F. Hive on Cheddar, the weekly show that I co-host with Kristen Scholer. Our discussion covered everything from his uneasy early years on the job and the origin of the world-famous Oscar party to his recent battles with Donald Trump.
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The aftermath: Restoration efforts continue days after tornado hit Chaves County
Heavy winds prevented crews from cleaning up damaged farm community north of Artesia.
The aftermath: Restoration efforts continue days after tornado hit Chaves County Heavy winds prevented crews from cleaning up damaged farm community north of Artesia. Check out this story on CurrentArgus.com: https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/2019/03/14/tornado-clean-up-starts-dexter-loving-new-mexico/3162940002/
Michael Smith, Carlsbad Current-Argus Published 4:07 p.m. MT March 14, 2019
Aftermath of tornado in Dexter, NM
A tornado touches down March 13, 2019, in Hagerman, New Mexico. Shani Pitzer
Debris scattered on a farm field near Dexter, New Mexico Wednesday. A tornado damaged the farming community north of Artesia Tuesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Scattered debris from a Tuesday storm in Dexter, New Mexico. A tornado struck the farming community in southern Chaves County. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Houses in a Dexter,New Mexico neighborhood suffered damage from a tornado that struck Tuesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Food waits for evacuees at a Red Cross shelter in Hagerman, New Mexico Wednesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Cots await evacuees at a Red Cross Shelter in Hagerman, New Mexico Wednesday. Church of the Move from Roswell helped set up the shelter for those affected by a strong storm that struck some farming communities north of Artesia Tuesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Dexter, New Mexico suffered extensive damage after a major storm struck the farming community Tuesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
A Dexter, New Mexico police unit blocks off a neighborhood in the southern Chaves County farming community Wednesday. Crews were cleaning up neighborhoods struck by a tornado Tuesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Debris and downed limbs affected a Dexter, New Mexico neighborhood after a tornado struck the farming community Tuesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Dust and debris covered the countryside in Dexter, New Mexico Wednesday. Mike Smith-Current-Argus
Tornado winds estimated above 100 mph.
Two days after a tornado struck southern Chaves County, crews and residents continued efforts to clean up the damage.
The tornado touched down before 6 p.m. Tuesday, 15 miles south of Dexter. The twister moved northeast toward the farming community north of Artesia, before dissipating more than a mile from the damage, per a report from National Weather Service's Albuquerque office.
Jim Tucker, Chaves County Skywarn coordinator for the National Weather Service said the tornado had a preliminary designation of an EF-2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
The highest is an EF-5.
Winds were estimated between 111 to 135 mph, bringing the first tornado to strike in March in Chaves County since 1959, according to Weather Service records.
More: Tornado touches down in Loving as storms move through southeast New Mexico
The last EF-2 tornado that touched down in New Mexico occurred May 23, 2012, according to the Weather Service.
Tucker and Kerry Jones, warning coordination meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Albuquerque, braved wind gusts around 70 mph in Chaves County Wednesday surveying damaged caused by Tuesday's storm.
"Several mobile homes had been completely destroyed right in the town of Dexter," Tucker said. "We saw at least six to eight houses in Dexter proper that had extensive damage to the roofs."
Tucker said farm land near Dexter received extensive damage, including demolished irrigation sprinklers.
He said Wednesday's high winds suspended clean-up operations, which resumed Thursday.
"No major injuries were reported," Tucker said.
A downed power pole is seen near Dexter, New Mexico. A strong tornado struck the farming community near Artesia Tuesday. (Photo: Central Valley Electric)
Shelter still in place
A shelter set up by the Red Cross and Church on the Move from Roswell at the Lindell Andrews Community Center in Hagerman had no visitors Wednesday night, according Robert Barber, public information officer for the Red Cross.
"The shelter is open. We're still feeding the community and those affected by the tornado," he said. "People signed up and never came back. People are staying with friends and relatives."
Cots, tables and food were moved into Hagerman after the tornado struck, Barber said.
Wednesday's winds prevented Red Cross members from conducting damage assessments, according to Barber.
He said the shelter needs clothes and prepared foods.
The shelter is located at 501 E. Argyle Street in Hagerman.
More: Tornado destroys 10 homes in Dexter; storms head east but high winds could remain
Loving tornado
An observer from the National Weather Service in Midland worked on assessing a tornado reported around 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Loving area in southern Eddy County.
Forecaster Greg Murdoch said a report should be complete by Friday morning.
He said there was no major damage reported, just some downed power lines.
Scores of people without power
Xcel Energy, a main power provider in New Mexico and Texas, estimated Tuesday's storm and Wednesday's heavy winds left more than 100,000 people without power.
"It's been a quite a week in southeastern New Mexico for sure," said Xcel spokesman Wes Reeves.
Thursday afternoon, Reeves estimated around 30,000 people in New Mexico and Texas were still without power.
A worker from Central Valley Electric works on a power line near Dexter, New Mexico after a storm struck the farming community north of Artesia Tuesday. (Photo: Central Valley Electric)
Contract crews were contacted to help restore power to the affected areas.
"In this part of the world, there's a lot of construction going on. A lot of these crews are doing work for Xcel Energy anyway, so we were able to call in some of those crews."
Reeves said 25 contract crews were working for Xcel, containing more than 100 personnel.
"There's so many locations that we need to visit in order to get power restored and this morning (Thursday) I believe we had about 1,500 jobs left," he said.
Reeves estimated power was restored to around 88 percent of those affected in Xcel's service territory, as of Thursday afternoon.
"By Friday evening, we would be around 98 percent restoration. That's what our aim is," he said.
Leah Boone, customer services representative with Artesia's Central Valley Electric Cooperative (CVE) said wind prevented crews from safely performing repairs to downed power lines in the Dexter area.
Boone said the rural electric cooperative has around 4,500 members in their service territory in Eddy and Chaves Counties and a quarter of membership in the Dexter and Hagerman areas are residential customers.
Damaged power lines blow in the wind near Dexter, New Mexico Wednesday. (Photo: Central Valley Electric)
"They restored power by 6 a.m. yesterday (Wednesday) and we're back out at 7 a.m. (Thursday) to work on the damage and destruction. We are definitely helping with clean up," Boone said.
Mike Smith can be reached at 575-628-5546 or by email at MSmith@currentargus.com or @ArgusMichae on Twitter.
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The conclave of the realm's greatest heroes was well into their cups when they began to argue of who was the strongest. After many boasts and claims, Jeraboam the Holy Wizard  claimed he could summon angels.
"This'd better be good, Jerry," She said. "I was in the bath." It might've ended there, had someone in the back not whistled. The ensuing smiting broke up the party, and the group reluctantly admitted that maybe they weren't so great after all.


As an architect who has been in practice in Los Angeles for the last thirty years, I have never been more excited about the prospect of this city evolving into a more livable, urban environment. For me, one of the hallmarks of a balanced, comfortable urban environment is a diversity of housing options for different lifestyles and incomes close to work and to urban amenities. Working in downtown Los Angles, I have witnessed the amazing, positive transformation of our urban core as a result of the increase in its residential population. The streets are safer and livelier, there are more amenities and services and there is a renewed sense of energy and optimism. A broad-based moratorium on development in Los Angeles will halt the significant progress that has taken place. I believe the focus should be on the intelligent management of growth, the more thorough shaping of appropriately scaled projects, and close attention to the creation of livable urban spaces in between new buildings that are of benefit to all.


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Formative Black Feminist Author bell hooks Has Died
The cultural critic and author of beloved titles such as All About Love and Ain't I a Woman? was 69 years old.
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Revered cultural critic and author bell hooks has died, according to her home state newspaper, the Lexington Herald Leader. The author, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was a formative figure in the Black feminism movement and the author of popular titles such as All About Love, Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, and Communion: The Female Search for Love.
Born September 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the writer took on her great-grandmother's name as her working pen name later in life to ensure her work emphasized the "substance of books, not who I am," according to the newspaper. She published her first book, Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, in 1981 and went on to author more than 40 books including collections of essays, poetry, and even children's stories. Her work centered heavily on the subjects of feminism, racism, culture, politics, gender, and love—and how they often were inherently intertwined.
In 2004, hooks taught at Berea College in her home state of Kentucky. Six years later, the school opened the bell hooks Institute, where her massive collection of books, personal artifacts, and contemporary African-American art is housed. Feminist and activist Gloria Steinem, actress Emma Watson, and philosopher Cornel West have all paid visits to the institute.
"Berea College is deeply saddened about the death of bell hooks, Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies, prodigious author, public intellectual and one of the country's foremost feminist scholars," the school said in a statement.
Her family released a statement confirming her passing as well, writing, "The family of Gloria Jean Watkins is deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved sister on December 15, 2021. The family honored her request to transition at home with family and friends by her side. ... The family is honored that Gloria received numerous awards, honors, and international fame for her works as poet, author, feminist, professor, cultural critic, and social activist. We are proud to just call her sister, friend, confidant, and influencer."
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AJ Bianco and Stacey Lindes have broken into the House of #EdTech and taken over the show. What have they done with this opportunity? The best guest they could get? Me.
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AGA making its voice heard on major gaming issues
A few years ago, the American Gaming Association (AGA) would have stayed away from the recent Massachusetts ballot referendum matter, where voters had a chance to kill the state's nascent casino industry before the first hand of blackjack was dealt.
The Washington, D.C.-based association wanted states and cities to decide whether gaming expansion was right for their own backyards without any influence from the trade association.
It still does.
American Gaming Association CEO Geoff Freeman, however, would like to believe the trade group had a small role when Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly voiced support for casinos by a 60-40 margin.
He's probably correct.
Using findings from a month-old economic impact study, the association targeted a series of "Get to Know Gaming" advertisements in the Boston area in the weeks leading up to the vote.
Casino companies with skin in the Massachusetts game — MGM Resorts International, Wynn Resorts, Limited and Penn National Gaming, Inc. — were the primary financial backers of a $12 million campaign to kill the anti-casino referendum.
The association's part was to bring a simple message to Massachusetts. The ads touted the economic benefits of casinos found in a study conducted by the research arm of Oxford University.
Expect to see these numbers — $240 billion in annual economic impact across the country, $38 billion in taxes, and more than 1.7 million jobs — as part of the American Gaming Association's educational efforts in 2015.
Freeman, who has overseen the lobbying organization since June 2013, knows he's navigating a thin line.
The association doesn't want to be viewed as an advocate when casino legalization lands on a ballot.
"Expansion is a local issue and it needs to remain a local issue," Freeman said.
But the association also doesn't want to remain mute.
Times have changed. Commercial and Indian casinos are in 40 states. The industry is in a fundamentally different place.
Freeman said the American Gaming Association should be the group to clear up misconceptions or untruths about a regulated casino industry. That's what the organization did in Massachusetts, and will do in other markets.
Delaware lawmakers are considering changes to the state's gaming policies. Last week, they heard testimony from association Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Sara Rayme, who added recommendations to the debate.
Freeman hopes other states reviewing their gaming regulations — Indiana is deciding whether casinos should be moved from riverboat locations to land-based — will view the association as a resource.
In a separate study this year, national pollsters working for the association found voters across a wide political spectrum have a positive view about legalized gambling.
The message being delivered? Casinos create jobs, strengthen local businesses and benefit communities.
"Critics have sold unchecked stories tied to public policy," Freeman said. "It's our job to dispel misinformation."
It could be a busy year for Freeman.
Florida, Texas, and Kentucky may again debate legalized casinos and the association will want a seat at the table to counter critics and offer economic and social information about the industry.
But each market has to decide casino expansion on its own, Freeman added.
One area where the association won't take a stand is Internet gaming.
In March, MGM Resorts Chairman Jim Murren — who is chairman of the lobbying group's board — told Freeman to dial down the lobbying and advocacy efforts on behalf of legalizing Internet poker. The activity was fracturing the organization's membership.
Nothing has changed. Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts oppose Internet gaming legalization. Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson is bankrolling an anti-online gaming coalition and sending lobbyists to oppose the issue when Internet wagering bills pop up on state legislatures' radar screens.
Pro-Internet gaming companies, including Caesars Entertainment Corporation and MGM Resorts, funded their own coalition to counteract the Adelson-backed group.
That's where the fight will remain.
Freeman was chief operating officer of the U.S. Travel Association in 2012 when a gaming expansion ballot issue in Maryland had MGM Resorts and Penn National on opposite sides. Each company spent more than $40 million on the referendum. The gaming lobby group stayed far from the heated debate.
In Massachusetts, MGM Resorts and Penn National were connected in defeating the casino repeal vote.
Freeman said the association will carefully choose its battles.
"The industry has an obligation to present the facts so that gaming is properly understood," he said.
AGA making its voice heard on major gaming issues is republished from Online.CasinoCity.com.


The Hadoop shared library has a bunch of facility including compression libraries and fast crc'ing. To make this facility available to HBase, do the following. HBase/Hadoop will fall back to use alternatives if it cannot find the native library versions -- or fail outright if you asking for an explicit compressor and there is no alternative available.
If the libraries loaded successfully, the WARN message does not show.
Above shows that the native hadoop library is not available in HBase context.
To fix the above, either copy the Hadoop native libraries local or symlink to them if the Hadoop and HBase stalls are adjacent in the filesystem. You could also point at their location by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
So in this case, the PLATFORM string is Linux-amd64-64. Copying the Hadoop native libraries or symlinking at lib/native/Linux-amd64-64 will ensure they are found. Check with the Hadoop NativeLibraryChecker.
Set in hbase-env.sh the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable when starting your HBase.


Not Just Travel has reported sales in January were up 82% on the same month last year despite anticipating bookings would be hit by consumer concerns over Brexit.
The homeworking agency had feared that Brexit would result in a decline in bookings to Europe but that the latest figures had "blown these concerns completely out of the water".
Co-founder Steve Witt said sales in the last week of January had been particularly strong and "beaten all expectations".
Holiday sales during January to Spain were up 80% for the agency, one of the largest members of Hays Travel Independence Group; South America sales were up 126%; Sri Lanka 150% up; and Turkey holiday bookings rose 148%.
Not Just Travel also revealed it saw a 236% increase in TUI bookings for January, a 150% increase in bookings with Beachcomber, while sales of JTA were up by 128% for the month.
Co-founder Paul Harrison said the unanticipated, record sales figures were down to the "entrepreneurial spirit" shown by franchisees following investment in training homeworkers on personal and business development and spending time with them on a one-to-one basis over the last year.
The group has more training planned for new franchisees and is in the final stages of rolling out a new website.


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Iran ensures women empowerment despite U.S. sanctions: envoy
Madrid tourism fair FITUR 2022 opens amid recovery hopes
Members of a Kurdish extended family from Dohuk, Iraq are seen near Narewka, Poland on November 9, 2021. They said they spent about 20 days in the forest and were pushed back multiple times to Belarus, where they claim they were beaten by soldiers. Image: AFP
The Iraqi government said it was organising a repatriation flight this Thursday for its citizens stuck on the Poland-Belarus border on a "voluntary" basis.
"Iraq will carry out a first flight for those who wish to return voluntarily on the 18th" of November from Belarus, Iraqi foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahaf told Iraqi television overnight Sunday to Monday.
He did not say how many people would be able to board the Minsk-Baghdad flight, but said Iraq had recorded 571 of its citizens stuck on the border who have said they are ready to return "voluntarily".
Thousands of migrants from the Middle East, including many from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, are camped out on the EU-Belarus border, creating a stand-off between the EU and US on one side and Belarus and its ally Russia on the other.
Western countries accuse Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's government of engineering the crisis by encouraging migrants to come to Belarus and then taking them to the border.
Regular air links between Baghdad and Minsk have been suspended since August, while Belarusian diplomatic missions in Baghdad and Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, have been closed for more than a week.
The measures "have reduced the trips by Iraqis (to Belarus) but the problem is that some are now taking indirect flights, passing through Turkey, Qatar, the UAE and Egypt," Sahaf said.
On Friday, Turkey banned citizens of Syria, Iraq and Yemen from flying from its airports to Belarus, while private Syrian carrier Cham Wings Airlines on Saturday halted flights to Minsk.
Iraq's Kurdistan region presents itself as a haven of relative stability, but is often criticised for restricting freedom of expression.
The region has been ruled for decades by two parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Several Iraqi Kurds have told AFP that a lack of economic prospects and security instability were behind their desire to leave.
European Commission vice president Margaritis Schinas is due to travel to Baghdad on Monday to discuss the migration crisis.
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The Teriyaki Experience is about more than making an order, it's about having a meal custom made. In as little as 3 minutes or less, classic Japanese rice and noodle dishes are created – directly in front of customers – on the teppanyaki grill. Cooked with a secret Asian sauce for a full-on-flavour or with water as a light and healthy choice, guests also choose which sauce will top their meal, or how they tailor their own culinary experience.