Blanchette started playing ringette when she was 4 years old. Her brother played ice hockey, and her parents looked for a team game for her. They signed her up with the local ringette club in Montreal. She played her sport at every amateur level in Montreal. She represented Quebec in the Canadian championships and the Canada Games.
Blanchette has been at the professional elite level since 2003. She plays for Montreal Mission in the National Ringette League in Canada. In 2005, she played a season for the club Turun Ringet Turku in the professional ringette league of Finland.
Since 2004, she has been a member of the ringette national team of Canada. She played in the Ringette World championships of 2004 in Stockholm, of 2007 in Ottawa and of 2010 in Tampere. She also played in the world championships of 2008 to Sault Ste-Marie.
She is captain of the Canadian national team and Montreal Mission. She is also a trainer and a coach. She is the trainer of the national Team Canada Under-19 years during the world Championships Under-19 years of 2009 in Prague. In September 2011, Blanchette was named an assistant-coach of the national team of Canada.
Blanchette also plays golf and runs in marathons.
Gene Shalit
Gene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is an American movie and book critic. He has been a critic on NBC's "The Today Show" since January 15, 1973. He is known for his use of puns, his very large handlebar moustache, and for wearing bowties.
He has been reviewing the arts since 1967. He has written for magazines such as "Look" magazine, "Ladies' Home Journal" (for 12 years), "Cosmopolitan", "TV Guide", "Seventeen", "Glamour", "McCall's", and "The New York Times". From 1970–1982 he had a daily report on NBC Radio. In 1987, he published "Laughing Matters—A Treasury of American Humor", a humor anthology. Since 2009, he lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, with his cat Fellini. Shalit's children include the artist and entrepreneur Willa Shalit.
Shalit was born in New York City on March 25, 1926. He later moved to Newark, New Jerseywith his mother. In 1932, he and his family moved to Morristown, New Jersey. Born of Jewish parents, Shalit attended Morristown High School. While thee, he wrote a humor column for the school newspaper.
Gene Shalit wrote for "The Daily Illini" for six years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Shalit said that he would leave "The Today Show" after 40 years, starting November 11, 2010. He was quoted as saying: "It's enough already". Shalit was Dick Clark's press agent in the early 1960s. Shalit stopped representing Clark during a Congressional investigation. Clark has not spoken to Shalit again and said he was a "jellyfish."
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová (born 8 March 1990) is a Czech tennis player. She was born in Bílovec, Czechoslovakia. She is the world no. 6 women's tennis player. Kvitová won the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the WTA Tour Championships the same year. She won Wimbledon once again in 2014. She reached the semi-finals of the 2012 Australian Open, 2012 French Open, 2010 Wimbledon, the quarter-final of 2015 US Open.
Interlingua grammar
Interlingua is a planned language. It uses words that are found in most West-European languages. It was made by IALA. They are a group of people (the most known was Alexander Gode) that worked on it for more than 20 years. The first dictionary for the language was finished and published in 1951. Interlingua was created on the base of languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
The vowels in Interlingua are pronounced like in Spanish or LFN (another planned language). The consonants are pronounced, for the most part, like in English or LFN.
Interlingua keeps much of the spelling of Latin words, more near to the forms in English and French than to them in the other Romance languages. For example, it keeps q ([k]), y ([i]), ch ([k]), ph ([f]), rh ([r]), and th ([t]). It keeps also the common use of double consonants. More, it allows versions like ch for [ʃ], s between vowels like [z], c before e/i like [ts], g before e/i like [ʒ], qu before e/i like [k], etc.
Accent is not indicated, even in exceptions, but it follows, for the most part, a system of rules similar to that of LFN.
Interlingua has also a "collateral" spelling, that simplifies the complications above to a system more like this of Spanish or LFN. This collateral spelling has the same status, but in reality it is not much used by adherents. The details:
The plural is "-s" after a vowel, "-es" after a consonant, but "-hes" after final "c":
Interlingua has no grammatical gender. Some words distinguish female from male by changing "-o" into "-a", or by adding "-essa". Other ones have two different forms. But the most of words do not distinguish:
Adjectives do not change for agreement with nouns. They can precede or follow the noun, except numbers, that always precede the noun. In general, short adjectives precede and long adjectives follow.
To compare, use "plus" or "minus" and "le plus" or "le minus":
One can use the suffix "-issime" for the absolute superlative:
The adjectives "bon", "mal", "magne" (big), and "parve" (little) have alternative irregular forms :
There are two kinds of adverbs: first form and second form. Adverbs of first form are a closed class of grammatical words, like "quasi" (almost), "jam" (already), and "totevia" (nevertheless). Adverbs of second form are an open class derived from adjectives by adding the suffix "-mente" (or "-amente" after final "c"):
Some common adverbs have short alternative forms that end with "-o":
Like adjectives, adverbs use "plus", "minus", "le plus", and "le minus":
The adverbs of "bon" and "mal" have alternative irregular forms:
One can use the objective form for the direct object and the indirect object. Or, one can use the preposition "a" before the pronoun for the indirect object:
The reflective pronouns are used when the subject of the verb is the same as the object (direct or indirect). Like in the Romance languages, the reflective is used much more than in English:
Regarding the forms of possession, the longer forms are used in constructions like "le auto es le mie" - the car is mine. But one can also use them more like strong adjectives than the short forms:
Much speakers use "vos" instead of "tu" for courtesy in formal situations:
Use "illes" for groups of persons with both men and women. "Illas" can be used for groups of only women.
"Il" is an impersonal pronoun for using in constructions like "il pluve" (it rains). "Il" can also be used when the real subject is a clause that occurs later in the sentence.
"On" is the pronoun used when the identity of the subject is not clear. The form for objects is "uno":
The major forms are the adjective "iste" or ille and the pronoun "iste", "ista", and "isto", that can be plural. When the subject of a sentence has two possible predecessors, "iste" refers to the second predecessor.
The adjective of distance is "ille" o "aquelle". The pronouns are the same as the personal pronouns.
The relative pronouns for persons and animals are "qui" (subject and after prepositions) and "que" (object):
The relative pronoun for things is "que" for all uses:
"Il ha duo sortas de inventiones: illos que on discoperi e illos que discoperi uno" - There are two kinds of inventions: those which you discover and those which discover you
"Cuje" - "whose" or "of which" - is used for persons and things:
All they above can be replaced by "le qual" or "le quales":
The relative pronouns are also used as interrogative pronouns.
These are the most common forms of verbs (note exceptions in underlined letters):
The verbs do not vary for persons and plural, except for alternative versions for "esser". The tenses normal are used for the subjunctive and the command. "Esse", "habe", and "vade" have forms short for the present: "es", "ha", and "va".