Comrades Marathon Travel Packages with Resolute Travel Sport. Comrades Tour Itinerary. FRIDAY 8th JUNE0. Arrive King Shaka International Airport where our Resolute Travel representative will meet you and transfer you to the Holiday Inn Express, Umhlanga for a 3 night stay on a B B basis. Brava Reader License Key' title='Brava Reader License Key' />SATURDAY 9th JUNE COMRADES EXPO0. Resolute Travel will be running a return shuttle to the Comrades Expo in Durban should you wish to go or need to collect your race numbers. Meet in the hotel reception to be taken to our pre race dinner race briefing. SUNDAY 1. 0th JUNE 2. Comrades Marathon. Shuttle to depart hotel reception for the Comrades Marathon start line in Pietermaritzburg. Resolute Travel representatives will meet you in Durban at the finish with your tog bag and will then show you to the shuttle back to your hotel in Umhlanga. MONDAY, 1. 1th JUNE DEPARTURE DAY0. Information about Adobe Type fonts license right and permissions, open source fonts. Comrades Marathon Travel Packages with Resolute Travel Sport including all transfers, hotels, race registration and assistance with the start finish. Ask and answer several key questions about your character. To really get into your character, you need to dive past what is on the page and start thinking. Shuttle will meet you in the reception 2 hours before your flight departure time and transfer you to King Shaka Airport. Comrades Marathon Information. The first Comrades Marathon took place on 2. May 1. 92. 1, Empire Day, starting outside the City Hall in Pietermaritzburg with 3. It was established in memory of the fallen soldiers from South Africa in World War I and has continued since then every year with, the exception of the war years 1. Pietermaritzburg and Durban, the so called up and down runs. The course varies from uphill Durban to Pietermaritzburg to downhill Pietermaritzburg to Durban depending on the year, with the downhills being run on even numbered years and uphill on the odd numbered years. Less than an hours drive from the hotel you can access local Game Farms, visit the quaint Kwazulu Natal Midlands and experience the local Zulu Culture at traditional Zulu cultural villages. Talk to us about the options for your stay in South Africa. ENTRIESEntries for the Comrades marathon open on 1 September. Entries will close on 3. November for all runners, including internationals. COURSE2. 01. 8 is an DOWN RUN starting in Pietermaritzburg and finishing in Durban. QUALIFICATIONAll entrants must comply with the Comrades Marathon qualifying criteria. If you do not supply qualifying details with your entry, you must submit your club name, license number and qualifying details by no later than 2 May 2. All entrants must qualify by completing an officially recognized race, technically approved by the local athletics federation, according to the following table during the period of 1 August 2. May 2. 01. 8 tbc. AGE RESTRICTION The minimum age requirement is that the athlete must be 2. ASA Rule 1. 1. Please note that the athlete must be 2. RESTRICTION ON ENTRY The Comrades Marathon is restricted to club registered runners only. South African entrants must be current 2. Athletics South Africa through their provinces. The domicile rule will be strictly enforced. No athlete may run for a club other than a club registered in the Province in which they domicile, unless they are registered on the current ASA National List. No runner may run with an animal under any circumstances. Athletes will not be in possession of their 2. They will be able to enter, however they MUST submit their club name and license number to CMA no later than 1. May 2. 01. 8. Failure to submit these details will result in the entry being rejected. INTERNATIONAL ENTRANTS WHO MAY BE IN CONTENTION TO WIN A CATEGORY PRIZE MUST PRODUCE A CLEARANCE LETTER ON SUBMISSION OF ENTRY, FROM THEIR COUNTRY FEDERATION. FOREIGN ATHLETES Foreign athletes must strictly observe IAAF Rule 4 paragraph 2. Foreign athletes, particularly those who hope to win any prize, must note that in order to take part in the event, written approval a permit from their own federation is required. All foreign athletes, particularly those who hope to win any prize, should hand over their permits as per IAAF Rule 4 paragraph 2 to the event organisers any time before the event takes place. All foreign athletes who violate IAAF Rule 4 or who do not produce permits on demand, will not be eligible to win any prize. In a case where a foreign athlete is entered through a South African Athletic Club, it is the responsibility of the club to secure the permit from the athlete, and hand it over to the race organisers before the event takes place. Event organisers reserve the right to stop any foreign athlete who does not hold a permit required under IAAF rule 4, from taking part in their event. If a foreign athlete violates IAAF rule 4 or ASA rule 4 and accepts a prize without producing a permit, and the athlete has entered the event through a South African Athletic Club, then the club in question will also face disciplinary action by ASA. RUNNING KIT, SPONSORSHIP ADVERTISING Runners are encouraged to wear club colours officially registered with their provincial bodies however this is not compulsory, or unbranded running kits ASA Rule 1. In the event of a team competition, athletes must wear their club colours as officially registered with their provincial bodies. THE TWO OFFICIAL 2. COMRADES MARATHON RACE NUMBERS MUST BE WORN ON THE FRONT AND BACK OF YOUR UPPER BODY GARMENT THROUGHOUT THE RACE, AND NOT ON YOUR RUNNING SHORTS, AS THIS WILL RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION. The sponsored cap which, which you will receive in your runners goodie bag, is the PREFERRED but not compulsory branded heargear permitted on race day. Runners must familiarize themselves with and abide by the advertising rules as per the IAAF and ASA Rulebooks. IAAF Rule 1. 43 and ASA Rule 1. These provisions apply for the duration of the race including warming up, all race ceremonies and official press conference. Under no circumstances may a runner display a political slogan in any matter or form. IAAF Rule 2a. SECONDING PHYSICAL ASSISTANCE The no mobile seconding rule will be very strictly enforced. No seconds may drive, cycle or run alongside any athlete on the route. The stand and hand rule, whereby a runners seconds may stand at any point on the route and hand refreshments to their athlete while they remain stationary, will apply. No seconds may travel on the route. No pacing will be permitted. Any transgressions will lead to disqualification. Any athlete being found carried along the route andor before the finish line will be liable for disqualification. IAAF Rule 1. 44. With reference to IAAF Rule 1. INTERNATIONAL BUS TOURS Bus tour tickets are NOT included in the international entry fee. The tour is limited to a runner and two guests. Tours can be booked with your entry. Tour tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis. The cost of the bus tour is R4. TIME LIMITS CUT OFFS The race is run from gun to gun. The cut off times for these points will be confirmed in the final race instructions. The CMA reserves the right to alter these positions. Runners will be required to board a rescue bus and be transported to the finish venue should they not have reached the cut off points within the specified time. Athletes MUST retire once ordered to do so by an official medical delegate or medical staff. IAAF Rule 2. 40 7. Failing to obey these officials WILL lead to your exclusion in entering or participating in the 2. The cut off points will be clearly sign posted and do not relate to the location of any timing mats or other markers along the route. Hear What Our Clients Have To SayThanks to all of you for an absolutely superb weekendI found your entire team to be extremely efficient and friendly and thought everything went off without a hitch No mean feat especially considering how you had to co ordinate all the different people etc. You honestly made what could potentially have been a very stressful weekend into a very pleasant weekend It was fabulous not having to worry about any of the logistics or arrangements and only having to worry about actually running the raceI doubt I will be there next year as I cannot run downhill, but will be back in 2. Duke Ellington Wikipedia. Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington April 2. May 2. 4, 1. 97. 4 was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1. Born in Washington, D. C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid 1. Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1. 93. 0s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase beyond category as a liberating principle, and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music, rather than to a musical genre such as jazz. Some of the musicians who were members of Ellingtons orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered to be among the best players in jazz. Ellington melded them into the best known orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three minute 7. Ellington often composed specifically to feature the style and skills of his individual musicians. Often collaborating with others, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his works having become standards. Ellington also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizols Caravan, and Perdido, which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. After 1. 94. 1, Ellington collaborated with composer arranger pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces. Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, in July 1. Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major career revival and embarked on world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in several films, scoring several, and composed stage musicals. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and charisma, Ellington is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other more traditional musical genres. His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 1. Early lifeeditEllington was born on April 2. James Edward Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D. C. Both his parents were pianists. Daisy primarily played parlor songs and James preferred operatic arias. They lived with his maternal grandparents at 2. Ida Place now Ward Place, NW, in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D. C. 5 Dukes father was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, on April 1. Washington, D. C. Daisy Kennedy was born in Washington, D. C., on January 4, 1. American slave. 57 James Ellington made blueprints for the United States Navy. When Ellington was a child, his family showed racial pride and support in their home, as did many other families. Commandos Behind Enemy Lines Slow Patch more. African Americans in D. C. worked to protect their children from the eras Jim Crow laws. At the age of seven, Ellington began taking piano lessons from Marietta Clinkscales. Daisy surrounded her son with dignified women to reinforce his manners and teach him to live elegantly. Ellingtons childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner, his easy grace, and his dapper dress gave him the bearing of a young nobleman,9 and began calling him Duke. Ellington credited his chum Edgar Mc. Entree for the nickname. I think he felt that in order for me to be eligible for his constant companionship, I should have a title. So he called me Duke. Though Ellington took piano lessons, he was more interested in baseball. President Roosevelt Teddy would come by on his horse sometimes, and stop and watch us play, he recalled. Ellington went to Armstrong Technical High School in Washington, D. C. He gained his first job selling peanuts at Washington Senators baseball games. In the summer of 1. Poodle Dog Caf, Ellington wrote his first composition, Soda Fountain Rag also known as the Poodle Dog Rag. He created the piece by ear, as he had not yet learned to read and write music. I would play the Soda Fountain Rag as a one step, two step, waltz, tango, and fox trot, Ellington recalled. Listeners never knew it was the same piece. I was established as having my own repertoire. In his autobiography, Music is my Mistress 1. Ellington wrote that he missed more lessons than he attended, feeling at the time that playing the piano was not his talent. Ellington started sneaking into Frank Holidays Poolroom at the age of fourteen. Hearing the poolroom pianists play ignited Ellingtons love for the instrument, and he began to take his piano studies seriously. Among the many piano players he listened to were Doc Perry, Lester Dishman, Louis Brown, Turner Layton, Gertie Wells, Clarence Bowser, Sticky Mack, Blind Johnny, Cliff Jackson, Claude Hopkins, Phil Wurd, Caroline Thornton, Luckey Roberts, Eubie Blake, Joe Rochester, and Harvey Brooks. Ellington began listening to, watching, and imitating ragtime pianists, not only in Washington, D. C., but in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, where he vacationed with his mother during the summer months. Dunbar High School music teacher Henry Lee Grant gave him private lessons in harmony. With the additional guidance of Washington pianist and band leader Oliver Doc Perry, Ellington learned to read sheet music, project a professional style, and improve his technique. Ellington was also inspired by his first encounters with stride pianists. James P. Johnson and Luckey Roberts. Later in New York he took advice from Will Marion Cook, Fats Waller, and Sidney Bechet. Ellington started to play gigs in cafs and clubs in and around Washington, D. C. His attachment to music was so strong that in 1. Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Three months before graduating he dropped out of Armstrong Manual Training School, where he was studying commercial art. Working as a freelance sign painter from 1. Ellington began assembling groups to play for dances. In 1. 91. 9 he met drummer Sonny Greer from New Jersey, who encouraged Ellingtons ambition to become a professional musician. Ellington built his music business through his day job when a customer asked him to make a sign for a dance or party, he would ask if they had musical entertainment if not, Ellington would offer to play for the occasion. He also had a messenger job with the U. S. Navy and State departments, where he made a wide range of contacts. Ellington moved out of his parents home and bought his own as he became a successful pianist. At first, he played in other ensembles, and in late 1. The Dukes Serenaders Colored Syncopators, his telephone directory advertising proclaimed. He was also the groups booking agent. His first play date was at the True Reformers Hall, where he took home 7. Ellington played throughout the Washington, D. C. area and into Virginia for private society balls and embassy parties. The band included childhood friend Otto Hardwick, who began playing the string bass, then moved to C melody sax and finally settled on alto saxophone Arthur Whetsol on trumpet Elmer Snowden on banjo and Sonny Greer on drums. The band thrived, performing for both African American and white audiences, a rarity in the segregated society of the day. Music careeredit. East St. Louis Toodle Oo 1. Early careereditWhen his drummer Sonny Greer was invited to join the Wilber Sweatman Orchestra in New York City, Ellington made the fateful decision to leave behind his successful career in Washington, D. C., and move to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance. New dance crazes such as the Charleston emerged in Harlem, as well as African American musical theater, including Eubie Blakes Shuffle Along.