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  Hamm - Wikipedia
Hieraus entstand der heutige "Kirchenkreis Hamm", zu dem heute 18 evangelische Kirchengemeinden der Stadt Hamm und den benachbarten Städten und Gemeinden Ahlen, Bönen, Sendenhorst, Hilbeck (Stadtteil von Werl) und Werne innerhalb der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen gehören.
Hamm liegt in unmittelbarer Nähe der Autobahnen A1, A2 und A44.
Dezember 2004 wurde in Hamm das erste pädagogische Zentrum in einer nordrhein-westfälischen Stadt eröffnet.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamm   (3519 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Mia Hamm
Hamm, Mia, born in 1972, American soccer player, one of the greatest female players in the history of the sport.
Mariel Margaret Hamm was born in Selma, Alabama.
Hamm’s great success led her to become an ambassador for women’s soccer, and she has appeared in a number of high-visibility commercials and product endorsements.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_461510918/Mia_Hamm.html   (594 words)

  
 Paul Hamm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamm held a good position after three rounds, but a disastrous fall on the vault, in which he nearly fell into the judges' bench, dropped him to 12th place and he looked to be completely out of the running for a medal of any sort.
Hamm supporters also pointed out that Yang's routine included 4 'hangs' instead of the 3 allowed, an error that, if caught, would have resulted in a penalty of.2 points, removing Yang from medal contention.
Hamm was in talks to appear on a box, but the talks were dropped after the controversy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Hamm   (743 words)

  
 CNN Programs - People in the News
Hamm was among those eager to develop their sports ability, but first she had to overcome the birth defect of a partial clubfoot.
Hamm said her older brother was a playmate and an athletic role model for her.
Hamm with her nephew Dillon and brother Garrett, who died in 1997 of complications from a blood disorder.
www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/people/shows/hamm/profile.html   (1727 words)

  
 SI.com - Hamm becomes first U.S. man to win all-around title - Wednesday August 18, 2004 6:03PM
In one of the most amazing comebacks in Olympic history, Hamm performed the two most spectacular routines of his career Wednesday to win the gold medal by the closest margin ever in the event.
Hamm threw himself up and over the bar, catching it on the way down once, twice and then a third time, soaring higher with each toss.
Hamm appeared to have the gold medal firmly within his grasp with a.038 point lead over China's Yang Wei, his biggest rival, halfway through the meet.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/gymnastics/08/18/hamm.gold.ap   (1085 words)

  
 Mia Hamm: After putting women's soccer on the map, the game's biggest star said goodbye this week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Like Hamm and injured defender Joy Fawcett, she too is retiring after the three had enjoyed memorable, 17-year careers with the U.S. women's national team that saw them win everything there is to win, including two world championships and two Olympic gold medals.
Hamm, twice a winner of FIFA's world player of the year award and in the running to win for a third time Dec. 20, has been the face of women's soccer for so long that it is difficult to imagine the sport without her.
Hamm will turn her attention to her family and raising a family of her own.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04347/425644.stm   (850 words)

  
 The New York Times > Sports > Soccer > Mia Hamm, Soccer Star, to Retire Tonight
Tonight, after the United States women's national team faces Mexico in Carson, Calif., Hamm will retire, having influenced millions of people, including the young girls who greeted her with the dolphin shriek of adulation and a sportswriter in Tehran, where women are forbidden to play outdoors in shorts and T-shirts.
Hamm is only 32, but she retires after having spent 17 years on the women's national team.
That was the moment, Hamm said during a telephone conference call on Monday, when she realized that women's soccer had finally begun swimming in the mainstream.
www.nytimes.com /2004/12/08/sports/soccer/08hamm.html?ex=1260248400&en=3bee7cab07f40bc3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (1130 words)

  
 CBS News | The State Vs. James Hamm | October 13, 2004 21:33:05
Hamm pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, and once in prison, he said he vowed to make the most of the life he had left, even if it was going to be a life behind bars.
Hamm told Wallace a decade ago that he made this decision the day after he went to prison: "As far as I was concerned, that was what my job was.
Hamm may be qualified, but some Arizonans were miffed by the fact that since the law school at Arizona State is publicly funded, it is mostly taxpayers' money financing Hamm's legal education.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/10/13/60II/main649084.shtml   (1033 words)

  
 Santa Monica Mirror: Looking for Santa Monica Abroad: Hamm
Hamm was choosing representatives to the town and district councils and a Lord Mayor (Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann was re-elected to the post he has held since 1999).
Hamm radiates outward from the Lippe River into a landscape punctuated by parkland and miles of tree-lined roads and paths.
Hamm came under French rule during the Napoleonic period, but was eventually incorporated into the province of Westphalia.
www.smmirror.com /volume6/issue37/looking_for_santa_hamm.asp   (1248 words)

  
 Court: Hamm can keep gold medal
Hamm won the gold Aug. 18, rallying from 12th place with only two events left to become the first American man to win gymnastics’ biggest prize.
The family won’t have a chance to speak to Hamm until tonight, but they are thinking of holding a small family celebration after the decision, Sandy Hamm said.
Hamm said the controversy has not dampened his outlook on future competitions.
www.gmtoday.com /news/local_stories/2004/October_04/10212004_02.asp   (754 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Mia Hamm
Hamm was in pain when he died because she looked up to him and he was one of her heroes.
Hamm looks up to these people because of they way they act towards her, or because each person has a different talent in playing and it makes her want to become a part of that and be better for herself.
Hamm has come a long way to become where she is right now.
www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=m_hamm   (920 words)

  
 Entrepreneur: Designing woman - Elle Hamm
Because she still lived at home with her parents in Irvine, California, Hamm was able to pump every dime she made working at her day job into her budding enterprise, funding her fledgling company with the paychecks she earned as a front desk clerk at the Nikko Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Hamm's newfound wisdom also includes the art of gracefully explaining to potential corporate clients that yes, she is the president of her company.
Hamm finds her age is a plus in keeping her finger on the pulse of the contemporaries she designs for.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_1_27/ai_53520565   (1447 words)

  
 Candidate Vince Hamm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Vincent S. Hamm is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Candidate Hamm does not endorse the failed "War on Drugs." Instead, he favors a new approach: the decriminalization of certain controlled substances and taxing of substances to put drug dealers out of business and to increase revenues for our budget.
Hamm also supports mandatory training as to the use of all firearms.
www.aimhigh.net /hlp/h4p/hammpositions2000.html   (381 words)

  
 Hamm, Mia on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
L'Américaine Mia Hamm salue après la victoire de son équipe samedi Les Etats-Unis ont battu samedi le Canada 3 à 1 (mi-tem.
L'Américaine Mia Hamm manque un penalty Les Etats-Unis, grâce à un but de Abby Wambach et en dépit d'un penalty manqué de.
L'Américaine Mia Hamm fait des étirements avant le match contre la Corée dimanche dernier Les Etats-Unis, doubles lauréats.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HammM1ia.asp   (672 words)

  
 United States Olympic Committee - Hamm is Olympic Champion
Hamm and Yang Wei of China, who had finished second to Hamm at last year's world championships in Anaheim, had been tied for first after one event.
Hamm landed his dismount from the parallel bars without even a bend in his knees, earning a score from the judges of 9.837, while Yang lost his grip on a one-handed swing on the high bar and fell to the ground.
Hamm was scheduled to be the last competitor on his last apparatus, the high bar.
www.usolympicteam.com /11831_24547.htm   (1178 words)

  
 Salon.com Books | America's homegrown terrorists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hamm's investigation points to the Aryan Republican Army, a small group of disaffected right-wing white men who went on a Midwestern bank robbery spree in the early 1990s and who, like McVeigh, were outraged by the FBI's ambushes at Ruby Ridge and Waco.
Second, attempting to understand these characters is chillingly frustrating: Even with all Hamm's research on and experience with the terrorist mind, it still seems as if there's something about his subjects that's impossible to understand, and therefore impossible to challenge.
Hamm spoke to Salon from his home in Bloomington, Ind., about what makes a terrorist, why Americans can't understand them and whether the FBI is equipped to take them down.
www.salon.com /books/int/2002/01/17/hamm/print.html   (3684 words)

  
 United States Olympic Committee - Golden finish for Hamm
It was a rare mistake for Hamm, one that he later said was due to feeling weak and dizzy after days of intense competition with the world's best gymnasts.
Hamm's performance was an echo of his performance last year in the world championships when he won the all-around, edging China's Yang Wei by less than one-tenth of a point.
Hamm, who already has a silver medal from the team competition, has qualified for four individual event finals -- two more than any other male in the competition.
www.usolympicteam.com /11831_24647.htm   (997 words)

  
 Hamm faces Yang for gold in high court of sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hamm stood face to face at the start of the hearing with the other claimant to that all-around medal, South Korean Yang Tae-young.
I asked Hamm if he had considered how he would have felt if he were in Yang's shoes, looking at the loss of a gold medal over a scoring error.
Hamm's team, led by USOC attorney Jeff Benz, argued three points in countering Yang's claims that the judges' mistake on the parallel bars -- the next-to-last routine in the all-around -- impacted the results.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/27/sports2004EDT0446.DTL   (867 words)

  
 soccer profile: Mia Hamm
Hamm is assigned to Washington as first 24 allocations are made.
Hamm establishes goal record with 108th in 3-0 shutout of Brazil.
Still one of the best one-on-one dribblers in the world, Hamm has looked sharp during the latter half of 2000 and is a threat to score every time she touches the ball in the attacking third.
www.soccertimes.com /usteams/roster/women/hamm.htm   (1159 words)

  
 JS Online: Paul Hamm rolls to title
Hamm had slipped off the high bar in the all-around preliminaries on Wednesday night, but he made sure there would be no mistakes on this night.
Hamm finished with a 9.775 score on the floor exercise, and Wilson used a watered-down routine that resulted in a score of 8.575.
Hamm won the vault and pommel horse in the event finals on Wednesday, and he posted a 9.525 on the vault and an impressive 9.7 on the pommel horse on Friday.
www.jsonline.com /sports/etc/aug02/65439.asp   (1013 words)

  
 CBC - Nova Scotia Votes 2003
In an internal party memo, Tory candidates were told to write letters to newspapers extolling "the honesty and integrity" of John Hamm.
Hamm's personal popularity has remained high, even though a Corporate Research poll in May put his party in second place behind the Liberals.
Hamm underwent back surgery last December, which kept him out of the public eye earlier this year.
www.cbc.ca /nsvotes2003/parties/hamm.html   (478 words)

  
 Hamm rallies for gold in men’s all-around - Gymnastics - MSNBC.com
Hamm added this gold to the one he won at world championships last year, along with the Olympic silver he and his teammates took Monday night.
Hamm came through under pressure that time, hitting the release moves on that same routine to get the score and win the gold.
Hamm sat down, and a look of exhaustion — both physical and emotional — came across his face.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5749182   (1068 words)

  
 Paul Hamm signs Kemps endorsement deal
Hamm took gold in the men’s gymnastics individual all-around competition at the Summer Olympics in Athens.
Kyllo said the company was not concerned about the controversy surrounding Hamm’s gold medal or the pending decision from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Shade admitted Hamm was disheartened when he was passed over for an endorsement contract with General Mills to have his face put on a Wheaties box.
www.gmtoday.com /news/local_stories/2004/October_04/10072004_06.asp   (635 words)

  
 SI.com - Gymnastics: FIG wants Hamm to give back gold - Friday August 27, 2004 10:30AM
Brothers Paul (left) and Morgan Hamm returned to the U.S. early because of the controversy.
Through his agent, Hamm declined comment, but he has said in the past that he has no intentions of giving up his medal unless ordered to do so by FIG.
Although Grandi's letter says "the true winner of the all-around competition is Yang Tae-young" the FIG president insisted he's not pressuring Hamm.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/gymnastics/08/27/bc.oly.taintedgold.ap?cnn=yes   (478 words)

  
 CMT.com : Stuart Hamm : Biography
After relocating to Virginia as a teenager, Hamm picked up the bass, and began studying the complex stylings of such fusion bands as Return to Forever and the Mahavishnu Orchestra (as well as prog rockers like Yes), and playing in his school jazz band.
Hamm and Vai formed a strong bond, which would result in the bassist following Vai (who by this time was playing with Frank Zappa, and later, David Lee Roth) out to California during the early ‘80s, where he supplied bass on Vai's solo debut, Flex Able.
Hamm also found the time to issue his first solo release in nine years, 2000's Outbound, and tour/record once more alongside his old pal Satriani (1997's G3: Live in Concert, 1998's Crystal Planet, and 2001's Live in San Francisco).
www.cmt.com /artists/az/hamm_stuart/bio.jhtml   (385 words)

  
 Paul Hamm wins 3rd-straight U.S. gymnastics title - Gymnastics - MSNBC.com
Hamm’s twin brother, Morgan, ensured his spot by finishing third and Todd Thornton was fourth.
All of them were looking up at Paul Hamm, who took control of this meet during preliminaries and never left much doubt that he would win.
His high-bar set is one of the most difficult in the world, but he mastered his signature move without a flaw, letting go and flying backward over the 8-foot bar three straight times, a harrowing five seconds during which he moved with the ease of a kid on the playground.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5140183   (932 words)

  
 Mia Hamm
Hamm was the youngest person ever to play for the U.S. National Team when she debuted for the USA in 1987 at the age of 15 Years, 140 days.
Hamm did not score her first international goal until her 17th international match, but since then, has scored in 13 countries against 25 different national teams.
The Mia Hamm Foundation will be dedicated to raising funds and awareness for two very personal issues for Hamm: research for bone marrow diseases and the encouragement and empowerment of young female athletes.
www.womensoccer.com /biogs/hamm.html   (2010 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Drawing the Head and Figure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hamm's freehand illustrations are absolutely PACKED into this book, from 10 to 25 illustrations generally, on each and every page with brief but concise text.
Hamm devotes an entire page each, to show how to draw lips, nose, eyes, etc. Likewise, there is an entire page to show closed hands, and another entire page to show the open hand.
Hamm reminds me of the working draftsmen of the Rennaissance era with his uncomplicated teaching method, and he's a teacher for the working day.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399507914?v=glance   (1633 words)

  
 Let's Go - Artist - Douglas Hamm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hamm said the photographs, each professionally mounted and printed with the Scripture message, are perfect as memorials, or for churches or hospitals.
Hamm, a former Fountain Hills resident now living a stone’s throw from Roosevelt Lake, often photographs his surroundings.
Hamm’s work can be seen on his Web site, www.spiritualimages.com.
www.fhtimes.com /letsgo/artists/hamm.htm   (505 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - FIG asks Hamm to give up gold; USOC outraged   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Korean delegation said it received a copy of FIG's letter to Hamm, and continues to maintain that it seeks a solution that would be fair to all.
The controversy began when Hamm won the U.S. men's first ever all-around gold medal Aug. 18, battling back from a crash-landing on the vault that had put him in 12th.
Miles Avery, Hamm's personal coach and a U.S. assistant, claims that a review of the tape shows that the higher start value was warranted but that judges failed to deduct 0.2 points for an error in the routine.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/athens/gymnastics/2004-08-27-gym-controversy_x.htm   (1523 words)

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