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Academia and education[link]

• Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), a non-profit organization which promotes science and engineering research in the UK
• Case analysis, division of a problem into separate cases
• Case study, examination of a single instance or event
• Case Western Reserve University, independent research university in Cleveland, Ohio
• Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, graduate engineering program, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Center for Social and Economic Research
• Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology
• Council for Advancement and Support of Education, nonprofit association of educational institutions, United States
• Case Middle School, part of Punahou School in Oahu, Hawaii

Computing and software engineering[link]

• Computer-aided software engineering (CASE), use of computers to assist in the software development life cycle
• Switch statement in computer programming; control statement that may include the keyword "case".
• Use case in software engineering and systems engineering; a description of a system’s behaviour as it responds to a request originating outside the system.
• Computer assisted structure elucidation use of computers to elucidate molecular structures
• Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Engineering (C2A2S2E) of DLR

Containers and packaging[link]

• Case (goods), package of related merchandise, including Case binding
• Attaché case
• Bookcase
• Briefcase
• Computer case, enclosure that contains the main components of a computer
• Flightcase
• Keep case, DVD or CD storage case
• Packing case
• PDA Case
• Road case
• Suitcase

Vehicles[link]

• Case Corporation, defunct manufacturer of agricultural equipment, tractors and cars
  • Case CE, a manufacturer of construction equipment - a decedent of the company above
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Law and business[link]

• Business case, captures the reasoning for initiating a project or task
• W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., American manufacturer of knives
• Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange
• Case (policy debate), part of a policy debate in a debate competition
• Legal case, dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court of law

Linguistics[link]

• Grammatical case, type of linguistic inflection
• Letter case, typography, distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower-case) letters
• Sentence case, style of capitalization
• Conceptually Accurate Signed English, form of Manually Coded English

People[link]

• Case (rabbi), rabbi and Polish religious leader
• Case (singer), American musician
• Case (name), surname

Other[link]

• The Case (film), 2007 Chinese film
• Case (Henry Dorsett Case), fictional character in Neuromancer
• Case Township, Michigan
• Case-shot, a type of anti-personnel canister ammunition similar to a shrapnel shell
• Casement window

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Case"
• All pages with titles containing "Case"
• Casing (disambiguation)
• Box
• Casa (disambiguation)
• Crate
• Carton

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Efren Reyes

Born	(1954-08-26) August 26, 1954 (age 57) Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Sport country	Philippines
Nickname	Bata (Kid) The Magician

Efren Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954) is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954. He moved to Manila with his family at the age of 5. In Manila, he worked as a billiards attendant at his uncle's billiards hall, where he started learning the various cue sports. Because he was not tall enough to reach the pool table, he played while standing on Coca-cola cases that he moved around. At night, while he was dreaming of playing pool, the pool table was his bed.^{[citation needed]}

He is called Bata, which is Filipino for "Kid", because there was another older pool player named Efren when he was young. To distinguish between the two, he was referred to as Efren Bata.

Career[link]

Gambling from a young age, Reyes played three cushion billiards in the 1960s and 1970s. After establishing himself as a winner, he was discovered by promoters. This gave him the opportunity to compete in big time tournaments.

During the 1980s, when Reyes was considered a top-class player in his homeland but not yet internationally recognized, he went to the U.S. to hustle. Popular legend claims that Reyes earned US$80,000 in a week; this feat made him a folk hero back home.^[1]

Reyes began winning a number of tournaments in the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia. Thus, he started to gain attention and recognition worldwide. At the start of his career, he used aliases to hide his identity so he would be allowed to compete. By the mid-1990s, he had become one of the elite players of the Philippines, alongside Jose Parica and Francisco Bustamante.

Reyes' fame began when he won the US Open Nine Ball Championship in 1994 by defeating Nick Varner in the finals. He was the first non-American to win the event.

Two years later, Efren Reyes and Earl Strickland were chosen to face each other in an event called the Color of Money, named after the movie. The event was a three-day race-to-120 challenge match of 9-ball. It was held in Hong Kong, with a winner-take-all prize of US$100,000. Reyes won the match 120-117. This was the largest single-winning purse in a pool event.^{[citation needed]}

Although Strickland was the first to win the WPA World 9-ball Championship, Reyes, in 1999, became the first to win while it was broadcast on television. This tournament was not recognized at the time by the WPA, but Reyes was later retrospectively acknowledged as the winner of one of two world championships held in 1999. Nick Varner won the "official" world title. The two tournaments were merged for the following year, with both men listed as the champion for 1999. At the time, the Matchroom Sport-organised event in Cardiff, Wales, was called the World Professional Pool Championship (despite the entry of many non-professional players).

Efren Reyes posing with fan after he won a historic US$200,000 at the 2005 IPT King of the Hill Shootout

In 2001, Reyes won the International Billiard Tournament. The event was held in Tokyo, with over 700 players and a total purse of ¥100M ($850K). Reyes dominated the event and beat Niels Feijen in the finals 15-7 and earned the ¥20M^[2] ($170K) first prize. At the time, this was the biggest first prize in a pool tournament.

In 2002 he won the $50K winner-take-all International Challenge of Champions, defeating Mika Immonen in a deciding rack after both players split sets.^[3]

Near the end of 2004, Reyes beat Marlon Manalo to become the first-ever WPA World Eight Ball Champion. With the win, he became the first player in WPA history to win world championships in two different disciplines.

In December 2005, Reyes won the IPT King of the Hill 8-Ball Shootout. Reyes won a record-breaking $200K for first place by beating fellow Hall of Fame member Mike "the Mouth" Sigel two sets to none (8-0 and 8-5).

In 2006, Reyes and Francisco Bustamante represented their country as Team Philippines in the inaugural World Cup of Pool. They defeated Team USA, Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris, to capture the title.

That same year, Reyes won the IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship over Rodney Morris 8-6. He earned $500K which was the largest prize money tournament in the history of pocket billiards. Unfortunately, due to IPT's financial problems, he has not been able to claim much of this money as of 2007.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, the Filipino tandem of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante beat the German pair of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann by a grueling 11-9 score to take their second championship title. This, together with the semifinal finish of the other Filipino team of Ronato Alcano and Dennis Orcollo, was the best performance by a host nation in the tournament's history.

In 2010, Reyes clinched his fifth title in the 12th annual Derby City Classic as the overall champion, making him the most successful player in the tournament's history.

He has topped the AZ Billiards Money List five times: in 2001,^[4] 2002,^[5] 2004,^[6] 2005^[7] and 2006.^[8] In 2006, he set a record by earning $646K in a single year.

Family[link]

He is married to Susan Reyes. They have three children. His son, Frennie Reyes, once competed in the Asian Nine-ball Tour.

Accolades[link]

Numerous fellow professional players have credited Reyes with being the greatest living player in the world.^[9] During ESPN television commentary on a semi-finals match between Reyes and Mika Immonen at the 2000 Billiard Congress of America Open 9-Ball Championship, veteran professional Billy Incardona stated that Reyes was "indisputably the best player in the world—especially when you consider all games—he can play any game as well as anyone, maybe better than anyone.... In my opinion we're watching probably the greatest player in my lifetime and I've been watching pool for the better part of forty years."^[9]

In 1995 Billiards Digest Magazine named Reyes the Player of the Year.^[10] The following year, when Reyes was ranked number one on the U.S.'s Pro Billiards Tour, the June 1996 issue of the magazine featured a poll of "billiard cognoscenti"—pro players, billiards writers, industry insiders and the like—to pick the best in billiards in various categories.^[10] Billiards' own elite named Reyes the best one-pocket player of all time.^[10] The magazine wrote, "While a bevy of one-pocket geniuses abound, Efren Reyes, whose prowess in one-pocket is sometimes obscured by his 9-ball stardom, was the popular pick. Is there anything Bata can't do?"^[10]

In 2003, he became the first Asian to be inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame.^[11]

Reyes was appointed Philippine Sports Ambassador of the 2005 South East Asian Games alongside some of the Philippines' greatest athletes (Allan Caidic, Rafael Nepomuceno) to promote the event throughout the country.

For 2007, he was ranked #2 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.^[12]

Other awards and honors include:

• Philippine Legion of Honor
• Philippine Order of Lakandula "Champion for Life Award"
• Outstanding Filipino Awardee of the Jaycees
• Philippine Sportswriters Association Sportsman of the Year 1999, 2001 and 2006
• One Pocket Hall of Fame (inducted in 2004)

Films and television[link]

In 2003, Reyes was featured in the Filipino movie Pakners with the late actor Fernando Poe, Jr.. Reyes also appeared in the 2007 short film Nineball.^[13]

In one episode of the TV series Magpakailanman, the story follows a young Efren Reyes (portrayed by actor Anjo Yllana) in his early pool-playing days as he progresses from a money player to a tournament contender.

Nicknames and aliases[link]

Reyes is often called by his nickname Bata" (Filipino for "Kid"), given to him by friends at his regular pool hall to distinguish him from an older Efren.

Reyes, along with the other "Filipino invasion" players revolutionized the way pool is played by their introduction to the sport of pinpoint precision kicking (going into a rail with the cue ball and then hitting an object ball). Reyes' ability to "kick safe" and to kick balls into intended pockets is legendary. This ability, coupled with his superb skill at other aspects of the game, led U.S. professionals to give him the appellation "The Magician." Before Reyes and his compatriots came over to the U.S., no one there had seen anything like their kicking skill set.^[14]

"[The] first time I came over to the states, I used an alias of Cesar Morales. Pool players in the US already knew Efren Reyes as a great shooter from the Philippines, but they [hadn't]...seen...[me]...in person." — Efren Reyes^[15]

Titles and achievements[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Efren Reyes Matches
• Efren Reyes bio at AZBilliards

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Niels Feijen at the Mosconi Cup 2008

Niels Feijen (born 3 February 1977) is a professional pool player, from the Hague, Netherlands. His nickname is "the Terminator".^[1][2]

In 2001, Feijen reached the finals of a nine-ball tournament in Tokyo, Japan. The event had a field of more than 700 players and offered the largest prize money at that time. However, he lost to Efren Reyes.^[3] In 2004, he won the inaugural Skins Billiards Championship with prize money of US$42,500.^[4] Feijen has won the European straight pool championship four times.^[5] In 2005 he was the winner of the Big Apple Nine-ball Classic, held in Queens, New York, an event with 128 of the world's best players. He represented Europe in the 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Mosconi Cup events.

More recently, Feijen won the 2007 $50,000 winner-take-all International Challenge of Champions by defeating Lee Van Corteza.^[6] In 2008, Feijen won the World Straight Pool Championship with a victory over Francisco Bustamante in the finals.^[7] On October 5, 2008, he received the 3rd prize of $25,000 in the inaugural WPA World Ten-ball Championship.^[8][9]

Niels Feijen has been under contract with cue manufacturer Longoni for several years.

In 2010, Feijen reached the finals of the WPA World Eight-ball Championship but ended up in 2nd place as he was dominated by Karl Boyes of Great Britain.^[10] He would reach the finals of that same tournament for the second consecutive time in 2011 but only to be defeated by Dennis Orcollo of the Philippines.^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• [1] WorldPoolMasters.com 2006 profile of Niels Feijen
• [2] AzBilliards.com August 14, 2005 report on Niels Feijen's win of the 2005 Big Apple Nine-ball Classic
• Niels Feijen 2008 World 14.1 Championship Winning Video

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"Doggy Dogg World" is the third single from Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle. It is the first European-only release with an American video TV-play. It features '70s funk band The Dramatics, with guest rap verses from Kurupt and Daz Dillinger (Tha Dogg Pound), and chorus singing by background vocalist Nancy Fletcher. It samples Richard "Dimples" Fields' "If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another" from his 1982 album Mr. Look So Good. The title of the song presumably is a play on the phrase "[It's a] dog eat dog world."

Video[link]

This retro style video takes us back to the world of seventies. It presents Snoop as a pimpish owner of an old fashioned music club where a Dramatics live concert and party is going on. The video is also 5:38 long, but with the ending vocals and Kurupt's verse shortened in order to insert a minute long intro with director Ricky Harris in the role of "the host for the night" meeting Snoop and his women entourage in the V.I.P. section, while silhouettes of dancing girls can be seen in the background and Parliament's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" can be heard as an incidental music (from their 1976 album Mothership Connection). The video is a 1994 winner of an MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video. It was released as a segment of the video compilation VHS called Murder Was The Case in the same year. It has a numerous cameo casting:

Casting[link]

by Anissa Williams
In order of appearance

• Snoop Dogg as Silky Slim
• The Dramatics as themselves
• Antonio Fargas as Huggy Bear
• Ricky Harris as TaaDow
• Fred Berry as Re-Run
• Fred Williamson as The Hammer
• Kurupt as Small Change Willy from Philly
• Dr. Dre as Fortieth St. Black
• The Lady of Rage as a dice gambler
• Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite
• Pam Grier as Foxxxy Brown
• Daz as Sugafoot
• Ron O'Neal as Supa Fly

Remixes[link]

• A trance remix called Perfecto Mix done by Paul Oakenfold appeared on the re-prints of the single and on an 1995 compilation album called The Perfecto Album.

Chart performance[link]

External links[link]

• Murder Was the Case at the Internet Movie Database
• Rap Samples FAQ

Medal record
Jasmin Ouschan
Competitor for  Austria
Women's Nine-ball
World Games
Gold	2005 Duisburg	Individual
Silver	2009 Kaohsiung	Individual

Jasmin Ouschan (pronounced like ocean, German pronunciation: [ˈjasmɪn ˈɔʊʃan]; born 10 January 1986) is an Austrian professional pool player from Klagenfurt, Carinthia. Her first professional competition occurred in 2002, but she did not officially become a professional member of the Women's Professional Billiards Association (WPBA) until 2007.^[1] She is currently one of the top-ranked women in the world according to the 2010 prize money list and by the WPBA rankings.^[2][3] At times, she has been ranked as the number one female player in the world. Since 2006, she has been listed among the top-ten women in the annual prize money rankings. Ouschan competes regularly with men on the EuroTour and in 2008 became the first woman to earn a medal in an open world pool championship.

In international competition she has earned the World Games 2005 gold medal and World Games 2009 silver medal in nine-ball. She has earned a total of twenty-six European Championship gold medals (ten in eight-ball, nine in nine-ball and five in straight pool) since 1999, including fifteen (four in eight-ball, four in nine-ball, five in straight pool and two in ten-ball) since joining the open Women's division in 2005. She was the Youth European Champion in eight-ball six consecutive years from 1999–2004 and is the current three-time defending Women's European Champion in nine-ball as well as the two-time defending Women's European Champion in both straight pool and ten-ball.

In the 2010 Pool & Billiard European Championship, held in Zagreb, Croatia, she became the first woman to sweep gold medals in all four disciplines contested (eight-ball, nine-ball, ten-ball and straight pool).^[4] In 2010, she also won the Women's World 10-Ball Championship.

Background[link]

Born and raised in Klagenfurt, Ouschan began playing pool at a very early age because her parents owned a pool hall.^[5] Although she had a miniature table of her own, she aspired to play on the regulation size table and started playing by standing on a box. She has trained with Michael Neumann since the age of six and continues to train with him to this day.^[6] She has a younger brother named Albin.^[6] She graduated from high school in 2004 and has since taken coursework to become an accredited pool trainer in Europe.^[7]

Career[link]

Ouschan at European Championship 2008

Ouschan airborne during a hard break at 2009 Women's World 10 Ball Championship

She has earned eight open European Championship titles in eight-ball (2006, 2008, 2009), nine-ball (2005, 2009), and straight pool (2005–2007) in the women's division.^[8] She also won eleven Youth European Championship titles in eight-ball (1999–2004) and nine-ball (1999–2001, 2003, 2004).^[8]

Pre-professional[link]

In 1996, she entered at a tournament in Austria in which players like Allison Fisher, Gerda Hofstaetter and Franziska Stark participated and placed 4th place behind these three well established players.^[6] In 1998, she earned a silver medal in eight-ball and a bronze medal in nine-ball at the Youth European Championship. Starting in 1999, she won gold medals in both events every year as a Youth until 2004 except in 2002 when she earned a silver in nine-ball.^[8]

Ouschan during a post-match speech

Ouschan lines up a shot

Her first professional competition was the Florida Classic 2002.^[1] In 2002, she had professional earnings of US$1,750 in prize money for taking first place in the 2002 WPBA Amateur Nationals.^[9] In 2005, she had earnings of $1,700.^[10] That year she became the World Games women's nine-ball champion.^[5] She also moved up to the Women's division in the annual European Championships in 2005 and has earned at least one gold medal each year since.^[8]

In 2006, she was ranked sixth among women in the prize money year-end rankings with a total of $36,251 in earnings.^[11][12] That year, she won the May 14—20, 2006 BCA Open Nine-ball Championship women's division,^[13] defeating the UK's Allison Fisher and earning $20,000.^[14] She has competed in what have traditionally been regarded as men's tournaments, especially while participating in the EuroTour.^[5] She placed 5th in the men's World Straight Pool Championship in 2006, which was won by Thorsten Hohmann.^[6] She also finished 3rd in the women's World Pool 10-ball Championship in Manila, Philippines.^[15]

Professional[link]

In 2007, she joined the WPBA.^[1] That year, she was ranked ninth among women in the prize money year-end rankings with a total of $23,000 in earnings.^[16] Her best payday for the year was a second place finish at the WPBA San Diego Classic for which she earned $8,300.^[17][18] She competed again at the Men's World Straight Pool Championship in 2007 but lost to Warren Kiamco in the last 16 to finish in 9th place.^[6]

Ouschan interviewed by a reporter

In 2008, she was ranked fourth among women in the prize money year-end rankings with a total of $44,059 in earnings.^[19] During the season, she reached the top of the world rankings.^[20][21] Her largest victory that year was the September 14 WPBA Carolina Classic 7–1 win over Jeanette Lee, which earned her $13,500.^[13][22][23] In 2008, she reached the Men's World Straight Pool Championship semifinal by beating Mika Immonen and defending champion Oliver Ortmann, but then lost against Francisco Bustamante. However, her third place finish resulted in the first medal won by any woman in an open world pool championship.^[24]

In April 2009, she won the European Championship eight-ball competition.^[25] She was also the world's top-ranked woman in early 2009.^[26] On June 21, 2009 she earned $12,700 for winning the WPBA Great Lakes Classic.^[7][27] On July 25, she earned a silver medal after losing to Allison Fisher at the 2009 World games.^[28][29] Ouschan also won the October 14–18, 2009 WPBA Pacific Coast Classic and the November 11–15, 2009 WPBA Nationals.^[30][31] She finished third in 2009 earnings with earnings of $58,578.^[32]

In the March 2010, European Championships she swept all four disciplines, including the newly contested ten-ball. First in straight pool she defeated fellow Austrian Gerda Hofstatter.^[33] Then in ten-ball, she defeated German Ina Jentschura.^[34] Next, she defeated Norwegian Line Kjorsvik in eight-ball.^[35] Finally, she defeated Hofstatter again in the nine-ball championship.^[36] She became the first woman to win more than two gold medals in a single competition.^[4] In October in Manila, Philippines, she won the Yalin Women’s World 10-ball championship.^[37][38] During the year, she also won the WPBA September 23–26, 2010 Atlanta Classic held in Atlanta, Georgia.^[39]

In January 2011, she won the WPBA Masters by defeating Karen Corr at Mount Pleasant, Michigan for a prize of $7,500.00.^[40] At the 2011 European Championships, she won gold medals in straight pool, ten-ball and nine-ball, but did not medal in eight-ball. On March 26, she defeated Kjorsvik for the straight pool title 75–31.^[41] Then, on April 1, she defeated Hofstatter, 7–2 in nine-ball.^[42] On April 2, she defeated Nataliya Seroshtan 6–1 in ten-ball.^[43]

Equipment and sponsors[link]

She shoots with Predator/MEZZ (regular with 314 shaft) and Predator BK2 (Break) cue sticks. She is sponsored by Kärnten Sport(Kaernten Sport) Kelag, Sportsunion, Predator, and Justis Cue Cases.^[7] Her home club is the PBC Eintracht Klagenfurt.^[1]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Official web site
• Player profile on AzBilliards.com
• Jasmin Ouschan video interview by CueTable at 2008 World Straight Pool Championships
• Jasmin Ouschan What's in the Case? video by Inside POOL Magazine