title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Internal styles () focus on the practice of such elements as awareness of the spirit, mind, qi (breath, or energy flow) and the use of relaxed leverage rather than muscular tension, which soft stylists call "brute force".


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: While the principles that distinguish internal styles from the external were described at least as early as the 18th century by Chang Nai-chou, the modern terms distinguishing external and internal styles were first recorded by Sun Lutang; who wrote that Taijiquan, Baguazhang, and Xingyiquan were internal arts. Later on, others began to include their style under this definition; for example, Liuhebafa, Zi Ran Men, and Yiquan.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Components of internal training includes stance training ("zhan zhuang"), stretching and strengthening of muscles, as well as on empty hand and weapon forms which can contain quite demanding coordination from posture to posture. Many internal styles have basic two-person training, such as pushing hands. A prominent characteristic of internal styles is that the forms are generally performed at a slow pace. This is thought to improve coordination and balance by increasing the work load, and to require the student to pay minute attention to their whole body and its weight as they perform a technique. In some styles, for example in Chen style of taijiquan, there are forms that include sudden outbursts of explosive movements. At an advanced level, and in actual fighting, internal styles are performed quickly, but the goal is to learn to involve the entire body in every motion, to stay relaxed, with deep, controlled breathing, and to coordinate the motions of the body and the breathing accurately according to the dictates of the forms while maintaining perfect balance. Internal styles have been associated in legend and in much popular fiction with the Taoist monasteries of Wudangshan in central China.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Chinese martial arts being an important component of Chinese culture are also influence by the various religions in China. Many styles were founded by groups that were influenced by one of the three great philosophical influences of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Buddhist (佛教, Fójiào) styles include Chinese martial arts that originated or practised within Chinese Buddhist temples and later spread to laity community. These styles often include Buddhist philosophy, meditation, imagery and principles. The most famous of these are the Shaolin (and related) styles, e.g. Shaolinquan, Choy Li Fut, Fut Gar, Luohanquan, Hung Gar, Wing Chun, Dragon style and White Crane. and recently a contemporary style called wuxingheqidao. One common theme for this group is the association with the philosophy of Chán (Zen) Buddhism and its founder, Bodhidharma.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: The term "Shaolin" (少林, Shàolín) is used to refer to those styles that trace their origins to Shaolin, be it the Shaolin Monastery in Henan Province, another temple associated with Shaolin such as the Southern Shaolin Temple in Fujian Province, or even wandering Shaolin monks. More restrictive definitions include only those styles that were conceived on temple grounds or even just the original Henan temple proper. The broadest definition includes just about all external Chinese martial arts, though this has much to do with the attractiveness of the Shaolin "brand name".


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Taoist (道教; Dàojiào) styles are popularly associated with Taoism. They include Chinese martial arts that were created or trained mostly within Taoist Temples or by Taoist ascetics, which often later spread out to laymen. These styles include those trained in the Wudang Mountains, and often include Taoist philosophy, principles and imagery. Some of these arts include Taijiquan, Wudangquan, Baguazhang, Bajiquan and Liuhebafa.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Islamic (回教; Huíjiào) styles are those that were practiced traditionally solely or mainly by the Muslim Hui minority in China. These styles often include Islamic principles or imagery. Example of these styles include: Chāquán, Tan Tui, some branches of Xingyiquan and Qīshìquán (七士拳).


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Imitative-styles are styles that were developed based on the characteristics of a particular creature such as a bird or an insect. Entire systems of fighting were developed based on the observations of their movement, fighting abilities and spirit. Examples of the most well-known styles are white crane, tiger, monkey (Houquan), dog and mantis. In some systems, a variety of animals are used to represent the style of the system; for instance, there are twelve animals in most Xing yi practice.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Many Chinese martial arts styles are based or named after legends or historical figures. Examples of such styles based on legends and myths are the Eight Immortals and Dragon styles. Example of styles attributed to historical figures include Xing yi and its relationship to Yue Fei and T'ai chi which trace its origins to a Taoist Zhang Sanfeng.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Family affiliations are also an important means of identifying a Chinese martial arts system. Heavily influenced by the Confucian tradition, many styles are named in honor of the founder of the system. The five family (Choi, Hung, Lau, Lei, Mok) of Southern Chinese martial arts are representative of family styles. Family styles can also denote branches of a system. For example, the families of Chen, Yang, Wu and Sun represent different training approaches to the art of Tai Chi Chuan.


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: Another popular method to describe a particular style of Chinese martial arts is to describe the style's emphasis in terms of the four major applications. The four major applications are: kicking (踢), hitting (打), wrestling (摔) and grabbing (Chin na, 拿). A complete system will necessary include all four types of applications but each style will differ in their training focus. For example, most Northern styles are said to emphasize kicking, Southern styles have a reputation for their intricate hand techniques, Shuai jiao practitioners train predominately in full-body close-range techniques, Eagle claw fighters are noted for their grabbing expertise, and Wing Chun focusses on hitting (with the hands/elbows).


title: Styles of Chinese martial arts

text: The variety of classification schemes, like the subject of Chinese martial arts, are endless. Some styles are named after well-known Chinese philosophies. For example, Baguazhang is based on the Taoist philosophy of the eight trigrams (Bagua). Some styles are named after the key insight suggested by the training. For example, Liuhebafa is a system based on the ideas of six combinations and eight methods.


title: Ford India

text: Ford India Private Limited was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company for its operations in India. Ford India Private Limited's headquarter is located in Sholinganallur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Ford also has integrated manufacturing facilities in Sanand, Gujarat. On September 9, 2021, Ford has exited Indian market as it failed to catch up pace with the competition and other global economic factors that led to reduction in demand. On 8 August 2022, Ford announced it would be selling its manufacturing plant in the western state of Gujarat for INR 7.26 billion (approximately US$91.5 million) to Tata Motors.


title: Ford India

text: Ford India Private Limited began production in 1926 as a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Canada. The initial Ford India company was liquidated in May 1953 as a result of severe import restrictions having been enacted. Ford re-entered the Indian market in October 1995 as "Mahindra Ford India Limited" (MFIL), a 50-50 joint venture with Mahindra & Mahindra Limited. Ford increased its interest to 72% in March 1998 and renamed the company "Ford India Private Limited". The total investments made by Ford Motor Company since it set shop in 1995 stands at $2 billion as of April 2012.


title: Ford India

text: Ford launched several models in India, including the sixth generation European Ford Escort and the Ford Ikon, later followed by the Ford Mondeo (second generation). In 2003 Ford launched its first SUV - Endeavour. The first-generation Endeavour is based on the Mazda-based Ford Ranger pickup truck, while the second-generation model is based on the globally-marketed T6 Ranger. In late 2004 Ford launched the European Ford Fusion, which brought a totally new segment to India - the crossover which the company called as an Urban Activity Vehicle & marketed in India as The-No-Nonsense-Car; going by its name, it was a very practical car way ahead of its time, and was popular mostly among enthusiasts.


title: Ford India

text: Ford launched the Ford Fiesta in its sedan guise which was widely received in the market and was a sales success. Ford also launched the Ford Figo, based on the sixth generation Ford Fiesta hatchback in the Indian market.


title: Ford India

text: With the Ford EcoSport crossover, Ford became one of the first companies to exploit the Indian government's policy of lower taxes for sub 4-metre automobiles. Ford also exports the EcoSport from India to EU and US markets. Ford then launched the second generation Ford Figo, first in its sedan guise as the Ford Figo Aspire, which now remains Ford's only sedan in the Indian market after discontinuation of the sixth generation Ford Fiesta. The Figo hatchback was launched at a later date. To fill the gap between the Figo and the EcoSport, the company launched the Ford Freestyle in 2018; this is essentially a crossover version of the face-lifted Ford Figo hatchback.


title: Ford India

text: In 2019, the company started talks with Mahindra & Mahindra to establish a new joint venture, but as of April 2021, those plans had been cancelled.


title: Ford India

text: In September 2021, the company announced its intent to end all domestic manufacturing in India. However, CBU units like the Ford Mustang will still be imported to India. In December 2021 Mahindra's finance unit Kotak Mahindra purchased Ford Credit India's vehicle finance portfolio.


title: Ford India

text: Ford India's main manufacturing plant located in Maraimalai Nagar, 45 km (28 Miles) from Chennai has a capacity to produce 150,000 cars on a two-shift basis and 200,000 with three shifts. In 2010–11, the company's yearly production crossed the 100,000 mark.


title: Ford India

text: As its new hatchback Figo was launched in March 2010, Ford Motor Company invested $500 million to double capacity of the plant to 200,000 vehicles annually and setting up a facility to make 250,000 engines annually. The engine plant opened for operations in January 2010. In 2012, the company invested a further $72 million to raise engine production capacity to 330,000 units.


title: Ford India

text: The company rolled out the Ford EcoSport in June 2013 with a $142 million investment. With the Ford EcoSport, the Chennai plant will ramp up to a capacity of 200,000 units.


title: Ford India

text: As part of its plan to launch 8 new vehicles by 2015, the car maker announced an intended investment of $1 billion for a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant at Sanand, Gujarat on a 460-acre site. Installed manufacturing capacity was announced at 270,000 engines and 240,000 vehicles a year. The plant commenced production in 2014. Once the plant was fully operational, Ford India estimated it would have a cumulative capacity to make 440,000 cars and 610,000 engines annually. In May 2022, Tata Motors announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a plant.


title: Ford India

text: In September 2021, the company announced it would cease production in India, citing growing losses and no sustainable path to profitability in the territory.


title: Ford India

text: But in February 2022, Ford decided to come back to India as an EV maker, although it later in May 2022 reversed this decision.


title: Ford India

text: After Ford's Chennai plant was shut down, the workers union and Ford India negotiated for a severance package, in September 2022, Ford India presented its final severance package offer to the worker's union


title: Ford India

text: In the year 2010, FIPL recorded sales of 83,887 vehicles against 29,488 vehicles sold during the year 2009 and registered a sales growth of 172%.


title: Ford India

text: Ford India exported 40 percent of its engine production and 25 percent of its car production to 35 countries. Some of them are: United States, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Nepal, Kenya, Bahrain, Angola, Bermuda, Ghana, Iraq, Liberia, Lebanon, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, UAE, Zambia and Zimbabwe.


title: Ford India

text: Ford India's CSR activities are focused primarily in four key areas: road safety, education, healthcare, and environment.


title: Paula Hawkins (author)

text: Paula Hawkins (born 26 August 1972) is a British author best known for her top-selling psychological thriller novel "The Girl on the Train" (2015), which deals with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse. The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016. Hawkins' second thriller novel, "Into the Water", was released in 2017.


title: Paula Hawkins (author)

text: Hawkins was born and raised in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), the daughter of Anthony "Tony" Hawkins and his wife Glynne. Her father was an economics professor and financial journalist. Before moving to London in 1989 aged 17, Hawkins attended Arundel School, Harare, Zimbabwe then studied for her A-Levels at Collingham College, an independent college in Kensington, West London. Hawkins read philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, University of Oxford. She worked as a journalist for "The Times", reporting on business. She then worked for a number of publications on a freelance basis, and wrote a financial-advice book for women, "The Money Goddess".


title: Paula Hawkins (author)

text: Around 2009, Hawkins began to write romantic comedy fiction under the name Amy Silver, writing four novels including "Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista". She did not achieve commercial breakthrough until she challenged herself to write a darker, more serious story. Her best-selling novel "The Girl on the Train" (2015), was a complex thriller, with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse. The novel took her six months, writing full-time, to complete, at a time when she was in a difficult financial situation and had to borrow from her father. The novel was adapted into a film in 2016. In November 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. Paula's second thriller, "Into The Water" was published in May 2017 and went on to become a "Sunday Times" and "NYT" bestseller. Her novel "A Slow Fire Burning" was published on 31 August 2021.


title: Lobes of liver

text: In human anatomy, the liver is divided grossly into four parts or lobes: the right lobe, the left lobe, the caudate lobe, and the quadrate lobe. Seen from the front – the diaphragmatic surface - the liver is divided into two lobes: the right lobe and the left lobe. Viewed from the underside – the visceral surface, the other two smaller lobes the caudate lobe, and the quadrate lobe are also visible. The two smaller lobes, the caudate lobe and the quadrate lobe, are known as superficial or accessory lobes, and both are located on the underside of the right lobe.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The falciform ligament, visible on the front of the liver, makes a superficial division of the right and left lobes of the liver. From the underside, the two additional lobes are located on the right lobe. A line can be imagined running from the left of the vena cava and all the way forward to divide the liver and gallbladder into two halves. This line is called Cantlie's line and is used to mark the division between the two lobes.


title: Lobes of liver

text: Other anatomical landmarks exist, such as the ligamentum venosum and the round ligament of the liver (ligamentum teres), which further divide the left side of the liver in two sections. An important anatomical landmark, the porta hepatis, also known as the "transverse fissure of the liver", divides this left portion into four segments, which can be numbered in Roman numerals starting at the caudate lobe as I in an anticlockwise manner. From this parietal view, seven segments can be seen, because the eighth segment is only visible in the visceral view.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The lobes of the liver are further divided into eight liver segments in the Couinaud system. These are also known as hepatic segments that are surgically resectable.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The left lobe is smaller and more flattened than the right. It is situated in the epigastric, and left hypochondriac regions of the abdomen. Its upper surface is slightly convex and is moulded on to the diaphragm; its under surface presents the gastric impression and omental tuberosity.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The right lobe is six times the size of the left lobe. It occupies the right hypochondrium, on its posterior surface by the ligamentum venosum for the cranial (upper) half and by the ligamentum teres hepatis (Round ligament of liver) for the caudal (under) half. The ligamentum teres hepatis turns around the inferior margin of the liver to come out ventral in the falciform ligament.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The right lobe is functionally separated from the left lobe by the middle hepatic vein. From a functional perspective (one that takes the arterial, portal venous, and systemic venous anatomy into account) the falciform ligament separates the medial and lateral segments of the left hepatic lobe.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The right lobe is of a somewhat quadrilateral form. Its under and posterior surfaces being marked by three fossæ: the fossa for the portal vein, the fossa for the gall-bladder and the fossae for the inferior vena cava. These separate the right lobe into two smaller lobes on its left posterior part: the quadrate lobe and the caudate lobe.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The quadrate lobe is an area of the liver situated on the undersurface of the medial segment left lobe (Couinaud segment IVb), bounded in front by the anterior margin of the liver, behind by the porta hepatis, on the right by the fossa for the gall-bladder, and on the left by the fossa for the umbilical vein.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The caudate lobe (posterior hepatic segment I) is situated upon the posterosuperior surface of the liver on the right lobe of the liver, opposite the tenth and eleventh thoracic vertebrae.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The caudate lobe of the liver is bounded below by the porta hepatis, on the right by the fossa for the inferior vena cava, and on the left by the fossa for the ductus venosus and the physiological division of the liver, called the ligamentum venosum. It looks backward, being nearly vertical in position; it is longer from above downward than from side to side, and is somewhat concave in the transverse direction. It is situated behind the porta, and separates the fossa for the gall-bladder from the commencement of the fossa for the inferior vena cava.


title: Lobes of liver

text: Budd–Chiari syndrome, caused by occlusion of hepatic venous outflow, can lead to hypertrophy of the caudate lobe due to its own caval anastomosis that allows for continued function of this lobe of the liver.


title: Lobes of liver

text: The caudate lobe is named after the tail-shaped hepatic tissue ("cauda"; Latin, "tail") papillary process of the liver, which arise from its left side. It also has a caudate process (that is not tail-like shaped) arising from its right side, which provides surface continuity between the caudate lobe and the visceral surface of the anatomical right lobe of the liver. The caudate process is a small elevation of the hepatic substance extending obliquely and laterally, from the lower extremity of the caudate lobe to the undersurface of the right lobe.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: The Bulldog is a 5-shot traditional double-action revolver designed by Doug McClenahan and produced by Charter Arms. It was introduced in 1973. The Bulldog has been available for the .44 Special and .357 Magnum cartridges. It was a top-selling gun during the 1980s and it is considered to be Charter Arms' trademark weapon. It has been produced by four different companies since it was released.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: Designed by the founder of the first version of Charter Arms, Doug McClenahan, the Bulldog was released in 1973. It was one of the best-selling weapons of the 1970s and the 1980s in the United States. Its design and execution, which were quite modern at the time, caught the attention of the gun press and combat shooters. By the mid-1980s, more than half a million units had been produced and nearly 37,000 were being manufactured every year.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: Bulldog production has been stopped a few times since 1992, when Charter Arms, the original manufacturer, went bankrupt.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: Some time later, manufacturing began again under the Charco (descendant company of Charter Arms) trademark. This company also filed bankruptcy, and the models produced during this period showed obvious production flaws. It was produced again by Charter 2000; this company, which failed also, improved the weapon with a one-piece barrel, front sight, and ejector-shroud assembly. The original model had no ejector-shroud and the aluminum front sight was soldered to the barrel.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: In June 2007, a version of the Bulldog with new features began to be produced by another company named Charter Arms, but this time was distributed by MKS Supply.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: The Bulldog was used by the serial killer David Berkowitz aka "The .44 Caliber Killer" and the "Son of Sam" who was responsible for a series of attacks and murders in New York City during 1976–1977 (before he was caught due to an outstanding parking violation).


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: Like most Charter Arms weapons, the Bulldog is a relatively inexpensive yet serviceable, no-frills, snubnosed revolver. It was designed to be concealed easily because of its small size, yet also fire a "big bore" caliber. The Bulldog has no sharp edges to contend with when carrying the weapon in a holster or a pocket. The Bulldog is a solid-framed traditional double-action revolver with a five-round cylinder which can be opened by pushing a release slide on the left of the gun, or in the original model by pulling the ejector rod. It features a concave sight. Its trigger pull, in both single and double-action modes, is quite light. If a large quantity of residue piles up inside the revolver because of heavy usage, the cylinder crane's axle screw can be removed and the cylinder pulled out from the gun for cleaning. Most critics believe the best use for the Bulldog is self-defense.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: The accuracy of the Bulldog is aided by its trigger pull. According to reviews, it is more accurate than expected for a revolver of its size and type but probably not enough to be called an "accurate" weapon.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: When the gun is fired, the hammer does not actually strike the firing pin. Under normal firing circumstances a small steel bar (called a transfer bar) is raised as the trigger is pulled, placing it into a position between the firing pin and the hammer itself. The falling hammer strikes the transfer bar, which in turn strikes the firing pin, discharging the weapon. If the trigger is not being pulled when the hammer falls, the transfer bar will not be in position and the weapon will not discharge.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: The Bulldog is apparently intended for light, fast bullets, as with heavier and slower bullets it is less accurate. With most ammunition types the muzzle velocity tends to be between 705 and 1000 feet per second (215 and 305 meters per second, respectively). For self-defense the Blazer Gold Dot is, apparently, the load of choice for the Bulldog. If the Bulldog is used to hunt, the most effective ammo is, reportedly, the 240- or SWC. With this bullet type, the shot is very powerful and has a strong penetration but the recoil can easily be handled. Other ammo types are weaker or provide too much recoil.


title: Charter Arms Bulldog

text: Five models of the Bulldog have been produced, allowing customers to choose between: .44 Special and .357 Magnum cartridges, gun lengths of 7.2 inches (184 mm) and 6.7 inches (171 mm) and barrel lengths of either 2.5 inches (64 mm) or 2.2 inches (56 mm). All Bulldog models have a cylinder of five shots. , Charter Arms only offers its 14420, 74420 and 74421 versions. Charter's Police Undercover could be considered a Bulldog variant because it is produced with the same frame model but its caliber is different and it was built to resemble the Undercover by Charter.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Christopher Lance Cairns (born 13 June 1970) is a former New Zealand cricketer and former ODI captain, who played for the New Zealand cricket team as an all-rounder. Cairns finished his Test career with a batting average of 33.53 and a bowling average of 29.40. In 2000, he was named as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year. He has appeared in ICC Cricket World Cup tournaments on 4 occasions in 1992, 1996, 1999 and 2003. He is regarded as one of the greatest allrounders of the game.


title: Chris Cairns

text: He is son of former New Zealand cricketer Lance Cairns. He starred in both the One-day and Test New Zealand teams, as well as the Canterbury New Zealand domestic championship team. After his playing career Cairns went on to become a commentator with Sky Sport New Zealand.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Cairns also played for Northland in the Hawke Cup. He had joined the Indian Cricket League, and was the captain of the Chandigarh Lions till its closure in 2008. He later went on to play for Nottinghamshire in the English Twenty20 cup competition.


title: Chris Cairns

text: He was included in the New Zealand national under-19 cricket team for the 1988 Youth Cricket World Cup, which was also eventually the inaugural edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He was later selected to the senior national team. He made his test debut against Australia on 24 November 1989.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Cairns was a destructive batsman who could hit sixes straight down the ground and in his earlier days was an intelligent fast-medium bowler. Since then, persistent injuries have forced him to drop his pace and rely more on his hard-to-read slower ball.


title: Chris Cairns

text: With the bat, Cairns has been the author of some of New Zealand cricket's most memorable innings, including his unbeaten 102 to win the final of the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy for New Zealand against India in Kenya, and his 158 from just 172 balls in a Test against South Africa in 2004. Cairns knocked Shane Warne out of Australia's bowling attack during a 2000 test in Wellington when he launched several sixes out of the Basin Reserve and onto the adjacent street. Cairns formerly held the world record for most sixes in Tests (87, since surpassed by Adam Gilchrist), and for a time held the New Zealand record for fastest century in ODIs (75 balls, currently owned by Corey Anderson with 36 balls).


title: Chris Cairns

text: Cairns was also the part of the victorious New Zealand campaign during the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy where they beat India in the final to lift their first title in major ICC global event. He played his part in the final and helped the Kiwis side, by scoring a match winning knock of 102* and was awarded the player of the final. Finally New Zealand went onto win the final and registered the highest ever chase in an ICC Champions Trophy final (265). He also went onto become the first player to score a century in an ICC Champions Trophy final (was previously called as ICC Knockout Trophy) in a winning cause. He became only the third player to score a century in a Champions Trophy final after Philo Wallace and Sourav Ganguly.


title: Chris Cairns

text: In an ODI against India in 1999, he went onto become the second ever player in ODI history after Gordon Greenidge to score a century in his 100th ODI and became the first batsman to score a century in his 100th ODI in a winning cause. He is currently the only New Zealand player to achieve that milestone.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Cairns' career-best bowling performance in Tests was 7/27 against the West Indies in 1999, and he is New Zealand's sixth highest wicket taker in Tests, after Richard Hadlee, Daniel Vettori, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, and Chris Martin.


title: Chris Cairns

text: He is also one of only eight players to have reached the all-rounder's double of 200 wickets and 3000 runs. Out of these seven players, Cairns reached the double 3rd fastest (58 Test) behind Ian Botham and Kapil Dev (50 tests). In ODIs, Cairns came close to another double of 200 wickets and 5000 runs. Cairns finished his ODI career on 4950 runs, just 50 short. Cairns Test batting average at number seven (44.02) is the 5th best average for that position of all time.


title: Chris Cairns

text: The New Zealand Herald journalist, Richard Boock said about Cairns: "It's not a scientific measure of course, but if Cairns' body had held together long enough for him to have played 100 Tests, his figures extrapolate out to something like 5334 runs and 351 wickets – very similar to those of Botham." He went on to say "He was, and should be remembered as, one of the game's best all-rounders."


title: Chris Cairns

text: During the Lord's Test against England, he bowled England wicket-keeper Chris Read for zero. Read was ducking to the ball, what he thought was a beamer from Chris Cairns but was a well-disguised slower ball.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Cairns also played in the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal ODI, at the MCG. Cairns played for the ICC World XI and scored 69 off 47 balls before being stumped by Kumar Sangakkara off the bowling of Muttiah Muralitharan. During his innings, Cairns put a 91 run partnership on with his captain, Ricky Ponting. With the ball, Cairns picked up 1–37 off 6 overs.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Injuries plagued Cairns throughout his career. There remains some debate over his statistics and how they reflected his ability. In Cairns career he played 62 Test and missed a further 55 due to injury. Sidharth Monga writing in 2009 that Cairns' career returns "were a poor justification of his prodigious talent."


title: Chris Cairns

text: In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cairns was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket.


title: Chris Cairns

text: On 22 January 2006, Cairns announced his retirement from ODIs in a press conference. A Twenty20 match against the West Indies on 16 February 2006 was his last game representing New Zealand. He was also part of the ICC World XI that played in the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal matches.


title: Chris Cairns

text: "The New Zealand Herald" compared his retirement to those of Michael Jordan and Björn Borg on 15 February 2006. Cairns also left the door open for a comeback, but said "I don't think I could ever be tempted back".


title: Chris Cairns

text: In Cairns' final game, he bowled four overs for 24 and no wicket and scored a nine-ball duck, before being bowled by Chris Gayle. He also missed the stumps in both attempts during the bowl off. Cricinfo describe his final international as "an unfitting farewell" and that "he deserved better". He was named as the captain of the World XI for the 2009 ICL World Series Twenty 20 tournament which was set to be held in Hyderabad. However, the proposed tournament was cancelled due to payment disputes.


title: Chris Cairns

text: In December 2013, Cairns was the subject of allegations in an ICC investigation into match-fixing. He is alleged to have attempted to manipulate games in India when he was captain of the Chandigarh Lions in the short lived Indian Cricket League. Cairns has rejected these claims.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Former New Zealand cricketer Lou Vincent, an admitted match fixer, has said that Cairns had approached him about fixing matches. New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum also told the Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) of the International Cricket Council that Cairns made a match fixing approach to him. Cairns insists that he has never fixed a match, saying Vincent wanted to "mitigate his sins by blaming others" and taking issue with McCullum having waited three years before approaching the ICC.


title: Chris Cairns

text: In March 2012, Cairns successfully sued former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi for libel, after Modi posted on Twitter in 2010 that Cairns had been involved in match-fixing during 2008. He won costs and damages. On 12 September 2014, the Metropolitan Police announced that they would charge Cairns with perjury stemming from the Modi libel trial. He was acquitted of charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice on 30 November 2015.


title: Chris Cairns

text: In August 1993, Cairns' sister Louise was killed in a train accident at Rolleston. In 2006, in collaboration with Kiwi Rail, he formed the Chris Cairns Foundation, which raises money to improve rail safety; in September 2008 he completed a walk promoting rail safety awareness.


title: Chris Cairns

text: Cairns is married to Melanie Croser, an Australian who works for the sports marketing group Octagon in Sydney. It is his third marriage. Cairns lives in Canberra and played for the local club North Canberra Gungahlin Eagles in the 2011/12 season.


title: Chris Cairns

text: On 10 August 2021, he was reported to be on life support after suffering a major heart attack resulting in aortic dissection in his home in Canberra, Australia about a week prior. He was later transferred to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and was kept in an intensive care unit. On 20 August, 2021, Cairns was reported to be off life support and was able to communicate with his family. However, Cairns became paralysed from the waist down due to suffering a stroke during the surgery. On 19 September, 2021, he recorded a message of gratitude on Twitter that he is recovering at home after being transferred to Spinal Unit on 10 September. It was his first post on his Twitter in 7 years.


title: Chris Cairns

text: On 5 February 2022, he revealed on his Instagram that he was diagnosed with bowel cancer after a routine check-up the day before.


title: Laken Tomlinson

text: Laken Tomlinson (born February 9, 1992) is an American football offensive guard for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Duke. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft.


title: Laken Tomlinson

text: Tomlinson was born in Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica and moved to Chicago, Illinois in March 2003. He grew up in the Rogers Park neighborhood and attended Lane Technical College Prep High School, where he was a two-sport star in both football and track. He was an All-state selection as a senior by both the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association and Chicago Tribune. He was named the team MVP as a senior. He was a two-time All-city selection. He was also a four-time first-team All-conference selection. He helped lead his high school team to the 2008 Chicago Public League football championship.


title: Laken Tomlinson

text: In addition, Tomlinson lettered in track & field at Lane. At the 2009 Chicago Public League T&F Championship, he placed first in the discus (140-06 or 42.9m) and second in the shot put. In the 2009 Illinois 3A State T&F Championship meet, he threw personal-bests of 43.01 meters (141-1) in the discus throw and 14.58 meters (47-7) in the shot put to place 17th and 22nd, respectively, in the preliminary heats.


title: Laken Tomlinson

text: Tomlinson attended Duke University from 2010 to 2014. He became a starter his freshman season and started 52 games during his collegiate career. As a senior, he was named an All-American by Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF). He was named the men's ACC Athlete of the Year by winning the Anthony J. McKevlin Award in 2015.


title: Laken Tomlinson

text: Tomlinson was drafted in the first round with the 28th overall pick by the Detroit Lions in the 2015 NFL Draft. He was the first Duke player to be selected in the first round of an NFL Draft since Mike Junkin in 1987.


title: Laken Tomlinson

text: On August 31, 2017, Tomlinson was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a 2019 fifth-round draft pick. After missing the season opener, Tomlinson started the next 15 games at left guard in 2017.


title: Laken Tomlinson

text: On May 2, 2018, the 49ers declined the fifth-year option on Tomlinson's contract, making him a free agent in 2019. However on June 22, 2018, Tomlinson signed a three-year, $18 million extension with the 49ers with $10 million guaranteed.


title: French dip

text: A French dip sandwich, also known as a beef dip, is a hot sandwich consisting of thinly sliced roast beef (or, sometimes, other meats) on a "French roll" or baguette. It is usually served plain but a variation is to top with Swiss cheese, onions, and a dipping container of beef broth produced from the cooking process (termed "au jus", "with juice"). Beef stock, a light beef gravy, or beef consommé is sometimes substituted. The sandwich is an American invention, with the name seeming to refer to the style of bread, rather than any French origin. Although the sandwich is most commonly served with a cup of "jus" or broth on the side of the plate, into which the sandwich is dipped as it is eaten, this is not how the sandwich was served when it was invented.


title: French dip

text: Two Los Angeles restaurants have claimed to be the birthplace of the French dip sandwich: Cole's Pacific Electric Buffet and Philippe the Original. Philippe's website describes the dish as a "specialty of the house", and the words "Home of the Original French Dip Sandwich" are present in the restaurant's logo. At Phillippe's, the roll is dipped in the hot beef juices before the sandwich is assembled, and is served "wet", while at Cole's it is served with a side of beef juices. The sandwich can also be requested "double dipped", where both halves of the sandwich are dipped before serving, at either establishment. Both restaurants feature their own brand of spicy mustard that is traditionally used by patrons to complement the sandwich.


title: French dip

text: The controversy over who originated the sandwich remains unresolved. Both restaurants were established in 1908. However, Cole's claims to have originated the sandwich shortly after the restaurant opened in 1908, while Philippe's claims that owner Philippe Mathieu invented it in 1918.


title: French dip

text: The story of the sandwich's invention by Philippe's has several variants: some sources say that it was first created by a cook or a server who, while preparing a sandwich for a police officer or fireman, accidentally dropped it into a pan of meat drippings. The patron liked it, and the dish surged in popularity shortly after its invention. Other accounts say that a customer who didn't want some meat drippings to go to waste requested his sandwich be dipped in them. Still others say that a chef dipped a sandwich into a pan of meat drippings after a customer complained that the bread was stale. Cole's account states that the sandwich was invented by a sympathetic chef, Jack Garlinghouse, for a customer who was complaining of sore gums. Some accounts tell Philippe's version of events, but assign the location to Cole's. The mystery of the sandwich's invention might not be solved due to a lack of information and observable evidence.


title: French dip

text: The French dip is now served at a number of restaurant chains including fast food places, diners, and standard restaurants. A sandwich based on a similar concept is known as a Baron of beef.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: The following is a list of unproduced Quentin Tarantino projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film director Quentin Tarantino has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects are officially cancelled and scrapped or fell in development hell.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino co-wrote "Love Birds In Bondage" with Scott Magill or McGill. Tarantino would go on to co-produce and co-direct the film. Magill committed suicide in 1987, but not before destroying all footage that had been shot. The film concerned a young woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury after an accident leading her to act erratically. She is institutionalized in a mental hospital and her boyfriend figures out a way to get himself admitted. Tarantino also played the boyfriend.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Long before his first released feature "Reservoir Dogs", Tarantino met with Craig Hamann and was introduced to his 30-40 page script, "My Best Friend's Birthday." Tarantino helped expand the script up to 80 pages and agreed to direct the film. On a $5,000 budget and a 16 mm camera, the film was shot in the span of four years. It was often alleged that the completed run time came out to 70 minutes but due to a lab fire during editing, the film was nearly destroyed, and only 36 minutes remained. However, in the 2019 book "My Best Friend's Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film", written by Andrew J. Rausch, it was revealed the fire story was fabricated, with Tarantino choosing not to dismiss it as he thought it sounded interesting. In actuality, some rolls of film were simply discarded by mistake, and Tarantino, unsatisfied with the final product, edited together the scenes he liked, leaving the project unfinished. The 36 minute edit was roughly edited together, and screened at several film festivals.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino co-worker and collaborator Roger Avary wrote a 40-80 page script while working with Tarantino at Video Archives. Avary likened it to Martin Scorsese's "After Hours". The story revolved around a button up business man who decides to leave his world for the open road. He ends up picking up a wild hitchhiker and they get into various adventures. However, Avary struggled to finish the story and some point Tarantino started to work on it and make changes. According to Tarantino the title of the screenplay was "Pandemonium Reigns". According to Avary, "Pandemonium Reigns" was a separate script about a boxer who does not throw a fight, and the origins of Butch Coolidge.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: At some point the script was named "The Open Road" and Tarantino ended up turning it into a 500 page screenplay with Avary. A significant change came when Tarantino changed the business man and hitchhiker into a comic book store worker and a call girl named Clarence and Alabama. Clarence begins to write a movie script while the two of them are on the road about a psychotic fantasy version of him and Alabama. The couple are serial killers named Mickey and Mallory. Eventually story and plot from Clarence's script start to bleed into his and Alabama's life, blurring the lines of fantasy and reality.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In spite of being 500 pages, neither Tarantino or Avary could figure out how to end the story. They deconstructed the whole thing leading to the screenplays of "True Romance" and "Natural Born Killers", as well as aspects of "Killing Zoe" and "Pulp Fiction".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: After the release of "Reservoir Dogs," Tarantino contemplated developing a film based on Luke Cage. Being a huge fan of the character, Tarantino held a meeting with producer Ed Pressman, who owned the film rights to Luke Cage, and proposed a film based on the character and suggested casting Laurence Fishburne as Cage. Despite liking the idea, Tarantino shifted his interest for "Pulp Fiction".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino was briefly attached to a film adaptation of the 1960s TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.". He opted to do "Jackie Brown" instead. Eventually, a film adaptation of the show without Tarantino's involvement was released in 2015 to lukewarm critical and box-office results.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Sometime in the 1990s, Tarantino considered remaking Lucio Fulci's 1977 giallo "Sette note in nero" ("Seven Notes in Black"), released in America as "The Psychic". He intended for "Jackie Brown" co-star Bridget Fonda to star in the film. By the year 2000, Tarantino gave an update on the proposed remake: "It's a project in the murky future. I don't even own the rights to that stuff. It's one of those things where it's like if somebody buys the rights to make it, I won't make it. They can totally fuck it up. If it's meant to happen, it’ll happen.” No further remarks on the project were made until Dardano Sacchetti, one of the original film's writers, revealed in an interview conducted for its 2019 Blu-ray release that he had been in contact with producers from Sony Pictures, who were interested in having Tarantino or other directors remake the film.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In the mid-1990s, after the success of "Pulp Fiction", Tarantino was attached to direct an adaption of "The Killer Inside Me". Uma Thurman was set to star as Amy Stanton. Juliette Lewis was considered for the part of Joyce Lakeland and Brad Pitt was attached to star as Lou Ford. This effort fell through after the September 11 attacks, because the film script was deemed too violent. The film was eventually directed by Michael Winterbottom in 2010, without the involvement of Tarantino.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Fresh off of the success of "Reservoir Dogs", Tarantino went to Constantin Films with a completed script for a proposed Silver Surfer film. Ultimately, Constantin Films passed on his script.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In the late 1990s, Tarantino was offered to direct a film adaptation of Green Lantern before there was even a script, but he declined the offer.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino sold his "Natural Born Killers" script to producers Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy for $10,000 after his previous attempt to direct the film himself on a half a million dollar budget. Hamsher and Murphy sold his script to Warner Bros. The script caught the attention of director Oliver Stone, who drastically reworked the script with David Veloz and associate producer Richard Rutowski, while retaining Tarantino's dialogue. Due to the heavy rewrites from Stone, Veloz, and Rutowski, Writers Guild of America ruled out for Tarantino to receive story credit.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Some of the changes include that Tarantino's version does not include a prison riot (although a small one is mentioned, allowing for Mickey and Mallory's escape), a resolved ending, or a compliant Wayne Gale. Mickey and Mallory both grow up happily with no abuse. They get married legally in front of a judge and do not have sex with or flirt with anyone else. There is a spoof version of the film-within-the-film. Instead of including this in Stone's film, Stone used it for the actual Mickey and Mallory, making them much more transparent and satirical. In Tarantino's script Mickey and Mallory grow tired of robberies and turn to home invasions and the butchering of entire families.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In Tarantino's version Mickey and Mallory are supporting characters. The story is told through the perspective of Wayne Gale and his TV crew. It focuses more on their dialogue and jokes. Tarantino also did not have a scene of Mickey and Mallory meeting a Native American guide of having a vision quest. The thing that Don Murphy honed in the most on in Tarantino's script was the jailhouse interview between Gale and Mickey. It was inspired by the interview between Geraldo Rivera and Charles Manson and Murphy had a personal obsession with Manson.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino gave a negative response to the film. Despite wishing the best for Stone during the film's production, he responded to the film saying, "I hated that fucking movie. If you like my stuff, don't watch that movie."


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino's screenplay included some notable differences from Tony Scott's film "True Romance". Most notably the ending. In Tarantino's version Clarence is shot and killed. Once Alabama escapes with the money she contemplates suicide before ultimately deciding not to. She does not have a child or go to Mexico. Tarantino's screenplay also included music cues that were not included in the film and it was told non-linearly. There were some character changes. For example, in Tarantino's screenplay Floyd is not a stoner. There were also some small dialogue and scene changes. Examples include the initial drug meet up being at a zoo, not roller coaster, Dick Ritchie ending up in a hotel room full of beautiful women, and Elliot quoting William Shakespeare. The fictional film "Coming Home In a Body Bag" is talked about in more detail but there is no mention of a sequel.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: When developing "Inglourious Basterds", Tarantino began to consider making "The Vega Brothers". The film would have starred Michael Madsen as Vic Vega (Mr. Blonde) from "Reservoir Dogs" and John Travolta as Vincent Vega from "Pulp Fiction". In 2007, due to the actors' ages and because of their characters' deaths in their respective films, Tarantino claimed that the film, retitled "Double V Vega", was "kinda unlikely now."


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In 2000, Tarantino was rumoured to be developing the Elmore Leonard novel, "Forty Lashes Less One", into a film. By 2007, he had written 20 pages of the screenplay. In 2015, he revealed that he still owned the rights to adapt the book, and that he was considering adapting it into a television miniseries.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In 2002 it was announced that Vivendi Games (originally Black Label Games) had acquired the rights to develop a video game based on "Kill Bill" that was meant to coincide with the film's 2003 release, with Tarantino serving as creative consultant. The project was shelved in 2003, with some demo footage leaking online.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: During the production of "Kill Bill", Tarantino envisioned making an anime film featuring the Bride when she was with the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Tarantino revealed at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con International that he intended to make the film following "Grindhouse", though by 2021 Tarantino stated the project never came to fruition due to his fatigue after working on the original "Kill Bill" films.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: During the production of "Kill Bill", Tarantino envisioned making an animated movie that would showcase the origin of Bill and his three Godfathers: Hatori Hanso, Pei Mei, and Esteban Vihaio. Tarantino revealed at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con International that he intended to make the film following "Grindhouse", though by 2021 Tarantino stated the project never came to fruition due to his fatigue after working on the original "Kill Bill" films.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: During the production of "Kill Bill: Volume 1" and 2, Tarantino originally believed that he would do a further two live action "Kill Bill" films, tentatively believing that they would be made once every ten years.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Details emerged around 2007 about two possible sequels, "Kill Bill: Volume 3" and "Volume 4". According to the article, "the third film involves the revenge of two killers whose arms and eye were hacked by Uma Thurman in the first stories." The article adds that the "fourth installment of the popular kung fu action films concerns a cycle of reprisals and daughters who avenge their mother's deaths".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: At the 2009 Morelia International Film Festival, Tarantino stated that he intended to make a third "Kill Bill" film. The same month, he stated that "Kill Bill 3" would be his ninth film, and would be released in 2014. He stated that he wanted 10 years to pass after the Bride's last conflict, to give her and her daughter a period of peace.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In December 2012, Tarantino stated: "I don't know if there's ever going to be a "Kill Bill Vol. 3". We'll see, probably not though." In January 2016, it was reported that Tarantino has spoken with Thurman on a potential return for a sequel, but noted that Tarantino remains non-committal on actually making a sequel.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In July 2019, Tarantino stated: "Me and Uma have talked about it recently, frankly, to tell you the truth, I have thought about it a little further. We were talking about it literally last week. If any of my movies were going to spring from my other movies, it would be a third ‘Kill Bill.’” In December, Tarantino said he had spoken to Thurman about an "interesting" idea for a new film: "It would be at least three years from now. It is definitely in the cards", while Uma Thurman confirmed that "Tarantino wrote something"


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In June 2021, Tarantino stated that the film would take place 20 years following the original films, when Beatrix Kiddo and her daughter B.B. are forced to go on the run after a period of peace. He found the idea of casting Thurman and her daughter Maya Hawke in the two roles exciting, after having previously worked with Hawke on "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". He also noted the possibility of Elle Driver, Sophie Fatale, and Gogo's twin sister Shiaki also appearing in the film. Later that month, Tarantino stated that the sequels had not yet come to fruition, due to his reluctance to take on more "Kill Bill" films following the fatigue he endured in the making of the first two volumes.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: "Kill Bill" debuted in its full form at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. This print of the film was later shown at Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema in 2011. This print included intermissions, and ran at 215 minutes. It differs in many ways from the theatrical cuts, with changes including the Klingon proverb included at the beginning of the film being replaced with a dedication to filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku, a fight sequence no longer being in black-and-white footage, additional violence and gore, and the removal of the cliffhanger reveal at the conclusion of "Volume 1", revealing The Bride's daughter to be alive. Also removed are the first film's end credits, and the second film's opening recap sequence.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In July 2014, Tarantino stated that he and the Weinstein Company planned for "The Whole Bloody Affair" to have a limited theatrical release within the following year. This version of the film was set to include an extended anime sequence, which had been commissioned, financed, and produced by Production I.G based on the original script without Tarantino's request. As of March 2022, the film has yet to receive a limited theatrical run or home release.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Following the success of his "Kill Bill" films, Tarantino began developing a kung-fu followup film that would be entirely in Mandarin. It was to be made before "Inglourious Basterds". The inspiration to do another martial arts film came from Tarantino seeing Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It wasn't known if Tarantino would hire actors fluent in Mandarin or celebrities that would have to learn Mandarin. The plan on releasing was to have two theatrical cuts, one with subtitles and the other with an out-of-sync English language dubbing, similar to old-school re dubs. Since then, no updates have emerged from the ambitious project.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In the mid-2000s, Tarantino expressed interest in directing "Casino Royale", the 2006 film adaptation of Ian Fleming's debut novel and the debut of "James Bond". Unfortunately, Eon Productions had no interest in hiring Tarantino. He claims to have worked behind the scenes with the Fleming family, and believed this was the reason why filmmakers finally went ahead with "Casino Royale". Tarantino also said he would have set it in the 1960s and would have only made it with Pierce Brosnan returning as Bond. By February 2005, Martin Campbell was announced as the film's director, and the film was released on November 14, 2006, to critical and box-office success.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino wanted to take his hand at another popular '70s genre film, where "Jackie Brown" was with blaxploitation and "Kill Bill" was with kung-fu films, this time with a disaster film. Taking inspiration from films like "The Towering Inferno", "The Poseidon Adventure", and "Airport", Tarantino wanted to get as many of his reoccurring actors as possible and jokingly dubbed this "Airport 2005". He remarked his casting choice as so: "Travolta could be the pilot, Pam Grier the stewardess, Robert Forster, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Bridget Fonda.” But, no other updates have emerged since then, and Forster died on October 11, 2019.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Both Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have expressed interest in making a sequel to their 2007 double-feature film "Grindhouse". Tarantino said that he wants to shoot an "old-school Kung Fu movie in Mandarin with subtitles in some countries, and release a shorter, dubbed cut in others" for his segment. It has also been reported by Rotten Tomatoes that Edgar Wright may expand "Don't" into a feature film. According to Eli Roth, he and Wright have discussed the possibility of pairing "Don't" with "Thanksgiving" for a "Grindhouse" sequel. Roth is quoted as saying "We're talking to Dimension about it. I think they're still trying to figure out "Grindhouse 1" before we think about "Grindhouse 2", but I've already been working on the outline for it and I would do it in a heartbeat."


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In 2007, after the modest success of "Death Proof", Warner Bros. had hired Tarantino to direct an remake of the 1973 science-fiction film "Westworld". Arnold Schwarzenegger was involved in the project as the lone gunslinger. However, Tarantino was fired due to creative differences with Warner Bros., specifically on the fact he wanted it to have a dark tone and was unsatisfied with Schwarzenegger. Eventually, the project was scrapped.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Following the release of "Death Proof", Warner Bros. also offered Tarantino a film adaption of the DC Comics character Sgt. Rock, with a script written by David Peoples. In June 2021, Tarantino called the script magnificent, and believed he "would do a good job" if he directed it. He also noted that he doubted he would make the film, but still considered it "from time to time".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino expressed in January 2008 his interest in a raunchy remake of the 1966 sexploitation film "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!". The film has quite an influence on Tarantino; even going as far as to referencing the movie and giving co-writer/director of "Faster, Pussycat!", Russ Meyer, thanks in his 2007 film "Death Proof". His top casting choices would have been Kim Kardashian, Eva Mendes, and Britney Spears. By July of that same year, Tarantino was considering casting porn star Tera Patrick as Varla. When the rumor of Britney Spears playing Varla was brought to his attention, a source close to Tarantino replied that, "There is no truth to this." Actress Tura Satana clarified in an interview that she is working closely with Tarantino in rewriting the script. Since then, no other updates have emerged from his remake.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: When promoting the "Kill Bill" films, he stated that he was a huge fan of Simon Pegg, and sought to adapt the Len Deighton novels into a film starring Pegg, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, and Anthony Hopkins.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: On the biopic genre, Tarantino has said that he has "no respect" for biopics, saying that they "are just big excuses for actors to win Oscars. ... Even the most interesting person – if you are telling their life from beginning to end, it's going to be a fucking boring movie." However, in a 2009 interview with Charlie Rose, he said, "There is one story that I could be interested in, but it would probably be one of the last movies I [ever make] ... My favorite hero in American history is John Brown. He's my favorite American who ever lived. He basically single-handedly started the road to end slavery and ... he killed people to do it. He decided, 'If we start spilling white blood, then they're going to start getting the idea.'"


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino first teased at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico back in 2009 about possibly doing a crime film in the style of a 1930s Warner Bros-type gangster film; nothing came from this since then.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In the 2000s, Tarantino acted as an executive producer for Eli Roth's films "Hostel" and "". In July 2009, Roth confirmed that he would not be directing "" and Tarantino also did not return as an executive producer.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: Tarantino had expressed interest in making a screwball romantic comedy film in the vein of Howard Hawks films that would've starred two A-list leads. No other news updates have emerged since.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In January 2010, Tarantino announced that his next film, after "Inglourious Basterds", will be a medieval film. He offered a role to Helen Mirren as a foul-mouthed monarch. The film was to retain Tarantino's signature traits, bloody violence and foul language, and was to be set in England's Middle Ages. Mirren had previously played a queen in 2006's "The Queen" as Queen Elizabeth II and was willing to play a monarch yet again. Although she was interested in the role, no other updates have emerged from this project, and his follow-up film to "Inglourious" was "Django Unchained."


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In May 2010, Bret Easton Ellis, author of the 1985 novel "Less than Zero", confirmed in an interview that Tarantino had been "trying to get Fox to let him remake the 1987 film". In 2012, when asked whether "Less than Zero" would be remade, Ellis once again confirmed that Tarantino "has shown interest" in adapting the story.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In December 2010, the production of a fourth "From Dusk till Dawn" film was in the planning stages, but further work on this possibility has not been revealed. In November 2013, it was reported that "" had begun production, without any further mention of the film.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In 2011, Tarantino briefly mentioned that he would like to do a children's film. He recalls in an interview on the Reelz Channel:


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In a late 2012 interview with the online magazine "The Root", Tarantino described his next film as being the final entry in a ""Django-Inglourious Basterds"" trilogy called "Killer Crow". The film will depict a group of World War II-era black troops who have "been fucked over by the American military and kind of go apeshit. They basically – the way Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and the Basterds are having an 'Apache resistance' – [the] black troops go on an Apache warpath and kill a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base and are just making a warpath to Switzerland." Since then, no updates have emerged.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In November 2013, Tarantino announced plans to direct another western film, following "Django Unchained". The project began development as a sequel novel to "Django Unchained", and then a sequel film, before Django was removed from the script and the project was rewritten as his 2015 film "The Hateful Eight".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: At the San Diego Comic-Con in 2014, Tarantino revealed he is contemplating a possible science-fiction film that would also contain horror elements. Tarantino stated the film would "not be a spaceship movie" and would take place on Earth. He was inspired to create the project after watching "It Follows", which he enjoyed, but said “It’s one of those movies that’s so good that you start getting mad at it for not being great. The fact that he didn’t take it all the way makes me not just disappointed but almost a little angry.” The project, which Tarantino stated was also inspired by "The Thing", "Halloween", "Stalker" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", was described as a "slasher sci-fi horror", but ultimately canceled the film, saying that his writing style "was too wordy for horror". However, in 2019, he said he would love to revive the project as his final film.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In 2015, a "Django Unchained" sequel crossover comic entitled "Django"/"Zorro" was released by Dynamite Entertainment. In June 2019, Tarantino had picked Jerrod Carmichael to co-write a film adaptation based on the crossover comic book series. In December 2019, it was reported that Tarantino was looking to make a smaller, stand-alone film, leaving development on "Django/Zorro" in doubt.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In early 2016, Tarantino announced that he plans to write and direct a stage play version of "The Hateful Eight", something that he still had an interest in pursuing by June 2021.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: It was announced in December 2017 that Tarantino had pitched an idea to Paramount Pictures for a new "Star Trek" film. A writers room, consisting of Mark L. Smith, Lindsey Beer, Megan Amram and Drew Pearce, was assembled to flesh out the concept. The plan would be for Tarantino to direct the film, with J. J. Abrams, who had previously directed and produced earlier "Star Trek" reboot projects, on board to produce. Smith later became the frontrunner to write the screenplay later that month.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In May 2019, Tarantino confirmed that his "Trek" film was still in development, saying "It's a very big possibility. I haven't been dealing with those guys for a while cause I've been making my movie. But we've talked about a story and a script. The script has been written and when I emerge my head like Punxsutawney Phil, post-"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", we'll pick up talking about it again." Tarantino discussed the project in June 2019, stating that Smith had turned in his script, and Tarantino would soon be adding in his notes. He asserted his intention for the film to be rated R.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In December 2019, it was reported that Tarantino had left the project, looking to make a smaller budget film. In January 2020, Tarantino stated the film "might" be made, but he would not direct it.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In August 2021, Smith stated that the film would have revolved around Captain Kirk and his crew, with the film taking inspiration from gangster films, and involving time travel. It would have also been standalone in nature, similar to an episode of "".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In July 2019, Tarantino revealed that he had written a limited series of five half-hour episodes of the in-universe "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" television series "Bounty Law", and that he intended to shoot the episodes in black and white and on film. Tarantino doubted that Leonardo DiCaprio, the actor who portrayed Rick Dalton the star of "Bounty Law", would want to reprise the role, but would be pleased if he could. He had an outline for a further three episodes, and named Showtime, HBO, Netflix and FX as possible platforms for the series. Speaking about the project in July 2021, Tarantino stated that he had written "five or six" episodes of the show, and that it would be inspired by shows such as "Wanted Dead Or Alive" and "The Rifleman." He believed it could be his next dramatic project following the stage adaptation of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Sony stated to Tarantino that they would make the series, should he decide to move forward with it, though he noted that was unlikely to happen for a "couple [of] years". In September 2021, it was announced that a script for a "Bounty Law" episode, titled "Incident at Inez" would be included in the hardcover release of the "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" novelization.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In August 2019, it was reported that a four-hour extended cut of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" could arrive on Netflix, in a similar fashion to the extended cut of "The Hateful Eight", something actor Brad Pitt confirmed in September 2019 as something Tarantino had discussed. In January 2020, Tarantino, stated that the extended cut would likely be available in approximately one year. In June 2021 Tarantino said the cut would probably be released "in a couple of years." It will be roughly three hours and 20 minutes and is currently intended for a theatrical release.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In June 2021, Tarantino stated that he had considered a remake of his 1992 directorial debut "Reservoir Dogs", as his tenth and final film, though he quickly iterated that he "won't do it". His idea would have featured the main cast being portrayed by Black actors. Tarantino indicated that he would instead prefer to make a "Reservoir Dogs" stage adaption.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In June 2021, Tarantino said that he wanted to make a stage adaptation of his 1992 film "Reservoir Dogs".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In June 2021, Tarantino stated, "I could see myself writing a novelization of "Reservoir Dogs"". Later revealing that he had already written two chapters of it, before deciding to switch his attention to writing a "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" novelization instead.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In June 2021, Tarantino stated that he had written a stage adaptation of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", with it featuring material not featured in the original film or the 2021 novelization. Such material includes Rick Dalton's time in Italy, and him and the character Marvin having dinner with Sergio Corbucci and his wife at their favorite Japanese restaurant in Rome. In July 2021, Tarantino believed that it would be his next dramatic work, once he finishes "Cinema Speculation". He hopes also that it would debut in the West End theatres of London.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In June 2021, Tarantino stated that he had written two chapters of an original western novel, which he had described as "kind of pulpy".


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In June 2021, Tarantino revealed that he had an interest in directing a film adaption of the "First Blood" novel, which had previously been adapted into the 1982 film of the same name. He voiced interest in casting Kurt Russell as the sheriff, and Adam Driver as Rambo. He states that the inspiration for his idea came from the dialogue in the novel, and David O. Russell's career, where Tarantino believed that for his film "The Fighter", that he got “over himself, over being the auteur” and focused on making “a good movie,” a strategy Tarantino would seek to emulate. However it was noted unlikely to be produced as Tarantino only intends to direct one more film.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In July 2021, Tarantino opined that Robert Rodriguez could want to direct a "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" spin-off movie about fictional actor Rick Dalton's work in the real-world television series "Lancer", following up with “I could see that being a great Robert Rodriguez movie.”


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In July 2021, Tarantino revealed that he had written most of a career book, recounting the filmography of the "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" character Rick Dalton as if he had actually existed. It would include synopsis, critical quotes from the time, and recounting his film and television career through to 1988. It details every one of Dalton's appearances on episodic television, with most of them being real programs and episodes as opposed to fictional ones (such as "Bounty Law").


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In July 2021, Tarantino stated, “What I’d like to do, though, at some point, is find a movie that’s not mine and do a novelization,” he said. “It has to be something that I could really go my own way, but not completely upend the apple cart.”


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: When asked about "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" character Cliff Booth's time during World War II, Tarantino stated that, "Someday I’ll do his adventure in the POW camp."


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In October 2021, Tarantino revealed that he was developing a comedic Spaghetti Western project. He stated that he was "looking forward to shooting" the project, as each actor would speak a different language. The hero was set to be American, a "bad sheriff" was to be played by a German, a Mexican saloon girl was to be played by an Israeli, and a Mexican Bandido was to be played by an Italian.


title: Quentin Tarantino's unrealized projects

text: In December 2021, Tarantino stated that a novelization of the 1993 film "True Romance", which he scripted, was a potential future project of his.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: William Clay Matthews Jr. (born March 15, 1956) is a former American football linebacker who played for the Cleveland Browns and the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted in the first round by the Cleveland Browns and played in 278 games over 19 NFL seasons, which initially ranked him at number 17 among most games played (currently at number 21, see List of NFL players by games played). Matthews had 1,561 tackles in his career, unofficially the third most in NFL history trailing Jessie Tuggle and Ray Lewis.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: He is the father of Clay Matthews III, an All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl Champion, and Casey Matthews, a former American football linebacker; brother of Hall of Fame offensive lineman Bruce Matthews.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: Matthews was born into a football family. His father, Clay Matthews Sr., played for the NFL in the 1950s. Matthews graduated from New Trier East High School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1974. Matthews and his brother Bruce both attended college at the University of Southern California (USC), where both played on the USC Trojans football team.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: Matthews was drafted by the Cleveland Browns with the 12th pick in the first round of the 1978 NFL Draft. Matthews was a four-time selection for the Pro Bowl with the Browns and was a cornerstone of the defense for well over a decade. In 1984, Matthews recorded 12.0 sacks. He was present at some infamous Browns playoff losses during the 1980s, known as Red Right 88 (1981), The Drive (1987), and The Fumble (1988), which stopped those Browns teams from potentially advancing to the Super Bowl. One of his most memorable moments as a Brown was in a playoff game against the Bills on January 6, 1990. With only seconds left in the fourth quarter and the Bills at the Browns' 11-yard line, Matthews intercepted a pass (at the one-yard line) thrown by Bills quarterback Jim Kelly to seal a Cleveland victory. After the 1993 season, Matthews signed with the Atlanta Falcons. In 1995, at the age of 39, Matthews started all 16 games for the Falcons, and set a record as the oldest player to record a sack at the age of 40 years, 282 days.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: Matthews was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week twice on the Cleveland Browns (Week 12, 1984 and Week 9, 1991). Matthews and his son, Clay Matthews III, are the only father-son tandem to be named Defensive Player of the Week in the NFL.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: Matthews resides in Agoura Hills, California. He serves as defensive coordinator at Oaks Christian High School, a co-ed private school in Westlake Village, California which his son Casey attended. He was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005, along with his brother Bruce. Matthews also opened a Pontiac car dealership in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid in 1992; it currently operates under new ownership as Sims Buick GMC.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: Matthews and his brother Bruce competed with members of their family on the popular TV game show "Family Feud", hosted by Richard Dawson. The Matthews family won the game, with Matthews being one of two family members to play in the final round. They ended the game with 41 points total but did not take the $10,000 grand prize.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: In 2014, he was named Director of Football Operations at Carter High School (Tennessee), where he once served as an assistant coach.


title: Clay Matthews Jr.

text: Matthews is married to Leslie Matthews. They have five children: Jennifer, Kyle, Brian, Clay III, and Casey. Clay III and Kyle played football at USC, while Casey was a linebacker for the Oregon Ducks football at the University of Oregon. Clay III was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 2009 NFL Draft, while Casey was drafted in Round 4 of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese (French: "") is an animated television series based on an original concept by Jeff Harter and Cloudco Entertainment, and directed by Jérémy Guiter for Season 1 and Matthieu Giner for Season 2. The series is an American-French-Irish co-production between Cloudco Entertainment, WatchNext Media, and Kavaleer Productions, and produced with the participation of Gulli, Canal J, the BBC, RTÉ and De Agostini Editore S.p.A. The show originally premiered in the United Kingdom on CBBC on October 31, 2019.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: The show centers around a boy, a girl, a dog, a cat, a mouse, and a piece of cheese, all respectively named after what they are, who live together. In June 2019, the series was renewed for a second season, ahead of the series premiere. On July 28, 2022, it was confirmed that the series has been renewed for a third season, with production being greenlit as well.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese" was nominated in the 'Best Animated Kids Series 6+' and 'Best Music' categories at the Irish Animation Awards in 2021, with Baljeet Rai and Henry Gifford nominated for the 'Best Writer' award for the episode "Neighborhood Watchdog".


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: Many episodes feature minor or one-time characters with voices provided by H.D. Quinn, Laurie Hymes, Samantha Cooper, Ryan Nicolls, Samara Naeymi, Cristina Pitter and Serra Hirsch. Theresa Buchheister was the sole voice director for the English language cast in season 1; Harry Chaskin began directing as well in season 2.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese" is produced by Cloudco Entertainment in the United States, WatchNext Media in France, and Kavaleer Productions in Ireland. The series is aimed towards children between the ages of 6 and 12. Sophie Yates from Bulldog Licensing explains that “"Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese" brings together today's kids and tweens, and tackles the topic of blended families with humor and fun."


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: The series was known to have been in production since 2006, and was intended to be made for Cartoon Network. In 2011, Cloudco first filed a trademark for its title. Originally it was to be produced by Cloudco Entertainment along with Mercury Filmworks in Canada, as per an agreement by the Writers' Guild of Canada. The trademark expired in 2014 and was renewed, with Disney XD and Teletoon as the networks intending to air the series as of 2015, but it expired again in 2017.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: In June 2019, the series was renewed for a second season. The production of season 2 began in July 2020, with production wrapping up on December 17, 2021.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese" premiered on CBBC in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2019, and daily episode premieres continued 19 November. On 6 January 2020, the series initially premiered on Family Channel in Canada, but was moved to Family Chrgd in the fall of 2021. On 15 June 2020, the second part of series 1 premiered on CBBC in the United Kingdom. It premiered in France on Gulli on 23 March 2020 and on Canal J on 1 January 2021. Episodes of the series are broadcast on some international channels of Disney Channel, its sister channel Disney XD and Cartoon Network.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: On 12 June 2021, Finnish channel Yle TV2 began broadcasting the series during the “Galaxi” programming block and as of 9 July 2021, SIC K has been broadcasting the series dubbed into European Portuguese.


title: Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

text: In April 2022, HBO Max Latinoamérica announced via social media that "Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese" would be added to their platform for broadcast across Latin America, with a Spanish-language dub. The series was added on 22 April 2022, along with a Brazilian Portuguese dub in addition to the Latin American Spanish dub.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: Association football is among the most popular sports in Asia, with 12 members of the Asian Football Confederation having competed at the sport's biggest international event, the men's FIFA World Cup. The highest ranked result in the World Cup for an Asian team is 4th place in the 2002 FIFA World Cup by South Korea.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: The team ranking in each tournament is according to FIFA. The rankings, apart from the top four positions (top two in 1930), are not a result of direct competition between the teams; instead, teams eliminated in the same round are ranked by their full results in the tournament.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. 3 points per win, 1 point per draw and 0 points per loss.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: This table shows the number of countries represented at the World Cup, the number of entries (#E) from around the world including any rejections and withdrawals, the number of Asian entries (#A), how many of those Asian entries withdrawn (#A-) before/during qualification or were rejected by FIFA, the Asian representatives at the World Cup finals, the number of World Cup Qualifiers each Asian representative had to play to get to the World Cup (#WCQ), the furthest stage reached, results, and coaches.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: The Indonesian team, prior to independence in 1945 (as the Dutch East Indies). Indonesia was the first Asian team to participate in the FIFA World Cup when the team qualified for the 1938 tournament after its opponent, Japan, withdrew from the qualification heats. The 6–0 loss to eventual finalists Hungary in the first round of the tournament in Reims, France, remains the nation's only appearance in the World Cup. The straight knock-out format used at the time made it the only game ever played by the Indonesians. Thus, Indonesia holds the World Cup record as the team with the fewest matches played (1) and one of the teams with the fewest goals scored (0). They were 15th place in the rankings.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: Burma, Philippines and Indonesia withdrew before the draw, so India qualified automatically. India later also withdrew because of the expense of traveling (or, according to some reports, after a FIFA ruling that players were not allowed to play barefoot). Other teams economized by sailing, rather than flying, to the tournament. FIFA decided not to invite another team, leaving the World Cup three teams short.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: In the 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification, the Asian zone was allocated one place (out of 16) in the final tournament. In the 1954 World Cup qualification, three countries from the AFC participated. China PR withdrew, South Korea won against Japan and for the first time qualified for the World Cup. South Korea lost twice 0–9 to Hungary and 0–7 to Turkey. They were 16th place in the rankings.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: At the 1958 World Cup qualification, FIFA rejected South Korea's entry. Qualifications were held with Africa, Turkey, Cyprus and China PR withdrew in the first qualification round, Indonesia and Egypt in second. Sudan withdrew in the final qualification round as they refused to play against Israel for political reasons. Israel technically would have qualified automatically, but before the qualification rounds began, FIFA ruled that no team would qualify without playing at least one match (except for the defending champions and the hosts), and Israel had yet to play any. A special play-off was created between Israel and the runner-up of one of the UEFA Groups, where the teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis, with the winner qualifying. After Belgium refused, Wales, the runner-up of UEFA Group 4, was the team drawn from the UEFA group runners-up. Israel lost both times 0–2 and did not reach the World Cup.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: There was only one round of play at the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification. The three teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would advance to the UEFA/AFC Intercontinental play-off. Indonesia withdrew. South Korea won twice against Japan and advanced to the UEFA/AFC Intercontinental play-off. South Korea lost both times against Yugoslavia and did not reach the World Cup.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: AFC, CAF, OFC confederations competed together in the qualification rounds. After having no teams from Africa or Asia qualifying for the previous two World Cups, FIFA decided to allocate a single spot to the winner of a four-way play-off between the winners of three African groups and the winner of the Asian zone. South Africa was suspended by FIFA due to apartheid. All 15 remaining African teams withdrew in protest against there being no automatic qualification for an African team, leaving the AFC–OFC winner to qualify by default. Japan then withdrew because the three-team tournament was moved from Japan to Cambodia, leaving only Australia and North Korea to contest the final place. Because North Korea lacked diplomatic relations with most countries, finding a suitable venue for the match proved difficult, until Head of State Norodom Sihanouk, an ally of Kim Il-sung, agreed to hosting the matches in Phnom Penh. North Korea easily won both legs to qualify. North Korea qualified for the eighth FIFA World Cup held in England.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: North Korea got to Group 4. North Korea predictably lost the first game against the USSR by 0–3, the second was 1–1 against Chile. However, in an upset North Korea beat Italy 1–0 at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, and finished above them, thus earning qualification to the next round along with the USSR. This was the first time that a nation from outside Europe or the Americas had progressed from the first stage of a World Cup. In their match against Portugal, they lead 3–0 after only 22 minutes. Portugal's Eusébio changed the pace, scoring four goals in the game and José Augusto added a fifth in the 78th minute to earn Portugal a 5–3 win. In a 1999 documentary featuring interviews with surviving members of the team, they describe themselves as having been welcomed home as national heroes.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: The 1970 AFC and OFC FIFA World Cup qualification were held together. Israel, New Zealand and Rhodesia received byes and advanced to the second round directly. The remaining three teams, Australia, Japan and South Korea, played against each other twice in South Korea. Australia advanced to the second round Group 1 and won over Rhodesia and advanced to the final round. In Group 2, Israel advanced to the final round when they defeated New Zealand twice. North Korea, despite their good performance in the previous tournament staged in England in 1966, refused to play in Israel and withdrew. In the final round, Israel defeated Australia 2–1 on aggregate and reached the World Cup. Israel qualified for their only World Cup to date as an Asian team. Soon after this, however, they left the Asian Football Confederation, and now compete in the European zone as they are now a member of UEFA. As of 2018, this is Israel's only World Cup finals appearance.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: Israel lost their first game 0–2 against Uruguay, the other ended in a 1–1 draw against Sweden and 0–0 with Italy. Israel ranked last in the group and did not advance in the tournament. The team finished 13th out of 16 teams.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: The Asian and Oceania zone competed for one place in the World Cup. India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines withdrew before the matches were played. The remaining 15 teams were divided into two zones, based on geographical and political considerations. Zone A had 7 teams (teams from East Asia, plus Israel). All matches were played in the Republic of Korea. Zone B had 8 teams (teams from West Asia and Oceania, plus Indonesia and North Korea). South Korea won Zone A and Australia Zone B. In the final round, South Korea and Australia were tied 2–2 on aggregate, and a play-off on neutral ground in Hong Kong was played to decide the qualifier. Australia won this match through a Jimmy Mackay goal, scored off a free kick.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: A total of 21 AFC and OFC teams and Israel entered the competition. However, South Vietnam could not compete after being annexed by Vietnam. The Asian zone was allocated one place (out of 16) in the final tournament. The 21 teams would be divided into 5 groups. Sri Lanka, North Korea, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates withdrew. Hong Kong, South Korea, Iran, Kuwait and Australia won in their group. Iran won the final group and qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: The group consisted of Iran, Netherlands, Peru and Scotland. Iran, the reigning Asian champion, went out of the tournament winless. Iran lost two of their three group stage games: 0–3 against the Netherlands and 1–4 against Peru. However, they managed to draw 1–1 against Scotland with a late Iraj Danaeifard goal. The team finished 14th out of the 16 teams.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: A total of 21 AFC and OFC teams entered the qualification. Iran withdrew before the draw was made. The Asian and Oceania zone was allocated two places (out of 24) in the final tournament. The remaining 20 teams would be divided into four groups. New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and China PR advanced to the Final Round. In the Final Round, Kuwait ranked first place and immediately qualified to the World Cup. China PR and New Zealand finished level on points and goal difference, and a play-off on neutral ground (Singapore) was played to decide the qualifier. Kuwait won 2–1 and qualified to the World Cup for the first time.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: Kuwait's group consisted of Czechoslovakia, England and France. In the opening match, Kuwait held Czechoslovakia to a 1–1 draw. In the game between Kuwait and France, with France leading 3–1, France midfielder Alain Giresse scored a goal vehemently contested by the Kuwait team, who had stopped play after hearing a piercing whistle from the stands, which they thought had come from Soviet referee Miroslav Stupar. Play had not yet resumed when Sheikh Fahid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, brother of the Kuwaiti Emir and president of the Kuwaiti Football Association, rushed onto the pitch to remonstrate with the referee. Stupar countermanded his initial decision and disallowed the goal to the fury of the French. Maxime Bossis scored another valid goal a few minutes later and France won 4–1. Kuwait lost the third game 0–1 against England. Kuwait finished fourth in their group and 21st out of the 24 teams.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: A total of 27 AFC teams entered the competition. The Asian zone was allocated two places (out of 24) in the final tournament. Teams were divided into two zones, based on geographical considerations. Zone A had 13 teams (teams from West Asia) and Zone B had 14 teams (teams from East Asia). Lebanon, Oman withdrew. Iran were disqualified. Iraq won Zone A Final Round, South Korea won Zone B. Iraq and South Korea qualified for the 1986 World Cup.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: As of 2018, this was the last time Iraq qualified for the finals. Iraq lost all three games: 0–1 against Paraguay, 1–2 against Belgium and 0–1 against Mexico, and finished 23 out of the 24 teams. However the defeat to Paraguay was controversial, as Iraq's Ahmed Radhi had scored a header from a corner right at the end of the first half which the referee disallowed as he incorrectly blew the whistle for half-time just before the header went into the back of the net. The defeat to Belgium was also controversial as the referee gave a yellow card to Iraq's Basil Gorgis in a case of mistaken identity (the yellow was supposed to be given to Ghanim Oraibi) while the score was 0–2. Gorgis sarcastically applauded the referee's incorrect decision which led to him getting sent off and Iraq lost 1–2. South Korea qualified for the first time since 1954. In its first game, South Korea lost 1–3 against Argentina, in the second game drew Bulgaria 1–1 in a downpour and in the third lost 2–3 against Italy. South Korea finished 20 out of the 24 teams.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: Twenty-six teams were in the running for these spots; Bahrain, India, Maldives and South Yemen withdrew without playing a qualifying match. The Maldives withdrew before the final draw, leaving 25 teams to be divided into six groups of four or five teams each. South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, China PR, Saudi Arabia and North Korea advanced to the Final Round. South Korea and the United Arab Emirates qualified for the 1990 World Cup, taking the first two places.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: The United Arab Emirates qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, its only appearance to date, but lost all three of its games: 2–0 to Colombia, 5–1 to West Germany and 4–1 to Yugoslavia. All three of the UAE's first round opponents reached the last 16. They were 24th (and last) place in the rankings. South Korea also lost all its three games: 0–2 to Belgium, 1–3 to Spain and 0–1 to Uruguay, and finished 22 out of 24 teams.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: A total of 30 teams entered the qualification. The Asian zone was allocated two places (out of 24) in the final tournament. The 30 teams were divided into six groups of five teams each, although Myanmar and Nepal withdrew after playing no match. The teams would play against each other twice. The group winners would advance to the Final Round. Iraq, Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Japan advanced to the Final Round, with Saudi Arabia and South Korea taking the first two places in the World Cup.


title: Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup

text: Saudi Arabia qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time. Their group consisted of Belgium, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Saudi Arabia lost its first game 1–2 against Netherlands, although they scored the first goal. Later, they beat Morocco 2–1. Against Belgium, Saudi player Saaed Al-Owairan ran from his own half through a maze of Belgian players to score the game's only goal. With three teams on an identical 6 points and an identical goal difference of +1, there was little to separate the top three, and all three qualified for the second round: but Netherlands and Saudi Arabia were ranked in the first two places (with guaranteed qualification) ahead of Belgium (in third place and having to rely on being one of the four best third-placed teams) on goals scored, with the Dutch further ranked ahead of the Saudis by virtue of having defeated them in the match between the sides. Saudi Arabia wrote history by become the first Asian team since North Korea (also a debutant at the time) in 1966 to reach the knockout stage. In the first knockout stage match, Saudi Arabia faced Sweden and lost 1–3 after two goals from Kennet Andersson and one from Martin Dahlin. They were 12th place in the rankings.