JIS Change History: 1997

Here's the log of what changed at the Juggling Information Service during 1997. Check out our steady progress.

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97/12

• No significant changes in December, due to other committments. Updates sent in will be processed as soon as possible.

97/11/30

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Frank Lee Mine
  • Izzi Tooinsky
• new home pages:
  • Andrew Feller
  • Patrik Gustafsson
  • John Parisi
  • Fred Schneider

97/11/27

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • The Butterfly Man
  • Ernst
  • Andrei Nikolaev, Jr.
• new home pages:
  • Jon Solberg

97/11/18

• new home pages:
  • Shreeyash Palshikar
  • Chris Simmons

97/11/08

• new home page:
  • Christopher Lautischer

97/11/03

• new home page:
  • Andreas Moreno

97/10/31

• new home page:
  • Rochelle McCollom

97/10/30

• new home pages:
  • Jeff Naydol
  • Dane Summers

97/10/29

• new juggling club home page:
  • Grinnell Juggling and Unicycling Club, Grinnell, Iowa
• new home pages:
  • Stathi Avdis
  • Christopher Freeman
  • Tim McBryde
  • Chet Mitchell

97/10/27

• new juggling club home page:
  • York Jugglers, York, England

97/10/26

• new juggling club home page:
  • St. Louis Juggling Club, St. Louis, Missouri

97/10/25

• The Juggling Club Meetings World Map is now clickable, and will find all juggling clubs within 200 miles of any point on earth.

97/10/24

• Added links to two historic rec.juggling posts on the rec.juggling Newsgroup page:
  • October 8, 1991: Call For Votes on Usenet rec.juggling group
  • October 31, 1991: RESULT: rec.juggling passes 279 : 18
• Installed updated version 1.5 of Joe Pass!, a site-swap viewer for passing patterns by Wolfgang Westerboer, in the Mac Software section.

97/10/23

• At the request of United Media, 4 images were removed from the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery:
  • Snoopy juggles 5 Woodstocks.
  • A Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams that mentions the role of juggling in the software development process.
  • Another Dilbert cartoon in which Dilbert applies his skills and talent to learn to juggle.
  • And another Dilbert cartoon in which Dilbert describes his primary accomplishment of the week.

97/10/22

• new home page:
  • Mandy Dalton

97/10/21

• new juggling club home page:
  • Rochester Juggling Club, Rochester, Minnesota

97/10/20

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Robert Nelson, The Butterfly Man
• new home page:
  • Tim Sparks

97/10/19

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Mixed Pickles
• new home page:
  • Michael J. Summers

97/10/18

• new home pages:
  • Eric J. Cumberland
  • Clark Davis
  • Jimmie Johansson
  • Erik De Long
  • Terence Ho
  • Sha Lee

97/10/17

• Added a Chris Kania cartoon providing an amusing view of hand eye coordination, now in the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery.
• new juggling club home page:
  • Faroraçao, Hannover, Germany
• new home page (list now has 900 entries):
  • Boris Rubarth

97/10/13

• new home page:
  • Janneke van der Schilden

97/10/09

• Upgraded versions in the Java Software section:
  • Juggle Anim, V1.2, by Jack Boyce
  • [MA][GNU]S, V1.01, by Allen Knutson, Matt Levine, and Greg Warrington
• New addition to the Mac Software section:
  • HyperJuggle, by Michael Naylor
• new entries in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Michael Holly
  • Jim Oakley

97/10/06

• new home page:
  • George Swan

97/10/05

• new juggling club home page:
  • Juggling in Stockholm, Sweden

97/10/04

• new home page:
  • Mark Stosberg

97/10/01

• new home pages:
  • Edward Lee
  • Dave Vaughan

97/09/30

• new juggling club home page:
  • Berkeley Juggling Club, Berkeley, California

97/09/29

• Installed updated version 1.4 of Joe Pass!, a site-swap viewer for passing patterns by Wolfgang Westerboer, in the Mac Software section.

97/09/28

• Added a German political cartoon showing U.S. political parties outdoing Hollywood, now in the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery.
• new home page:
  • Nuno Dias

97/09/26

• new home page:
  • Avner Eisenberg

97/09/25

• new entries in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Mickey O'Connor
  • Roderick
• new home pages:
  • David Carper
  • Jeff Collins

97/09/22

• new home page:
  • Mike Newton

97/09/19

• new juggling club home pages:
  • ISU/Ames Juggling Club, Ames, Iowa
  • T-Town Jugglers, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Notre Dame Juggling Club, Notre Dame, Indiana
• new home pages:
  • Jason Campbell
  • David LaHeist
  • Pat Mousaw
  • Timothy Mousaw
  • Bill Ogier

97/09/16

• new home page:
  • Rachel Bauer

97/09/14

• Added an extensive new listing of Juggling in Movies, initially including 354 titles, each with lots of detailed information and links.
• new entries in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Scotty Bondo
  • Michael Moschen
• new home pages:
  • Robert Beal
  • Barry Friedman
  • Daniel Holzman
  • Philip Le Pelley
  • Guido Wilken

97/09/11

• new home pages:
  • Jan Klein
  • Vicky Rolfe
  • Sam Vines

97/09/10

• new home page:
  • Willy Abbe

97/09/07

• new home page:
  • Ken Farquhar

97/09/06

• new juggling club home page:
  • UWA Juggling Club, Perth, Australia
• new home pages:
  • Alfred Mifsud
  • Jonathan Paxman
  • Bradley Saracik
  • Bob Yuncken
  • Pete Yuncken

97/09/03

• new home page:
  • Rob Dye

97/09/02

• New additions to the IBM-PC Software section:
  • DOS Site Swap Viewer, by Kendall Harrison
  • Another Animated Cursor, for Windows 95, by Igman
• new home page:
  • Jori Piilola

97/08/31

• new juggling club home pages:
  • The Molesey Jugglers, England
  • What's Got Three, Hertford, England
• new home pages:
  • Dave Cooperstein
  • Ward Myers
  • Kenn Serrano

97/08/30

• new juggling club home page:
  • Juggle Ugg, Eltham, Victoria, Australia
• new home page:
  • Andrew Kelly
  • Darragh O'Neill
  • Mathieu Peyréga

97/08/29

• new home pages:
  • Tom Bean
  • Todd Neufeld
  • Edward Patel
  • Geoffrey Way
  • David Brian Wearden

97/08/28

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Ken Farquhar, The Pretentious Juggler
• new home pages:
  • Ajay Pathak
  • Becky Davis

97/08/27

• Matt Brubeck provided several updates to the Juggling Help section, including extensive new information on Plate Spinning from Ken Chu, and some good tips on Juggling 4 Clubs from Hunter Nuttall.
• new home pages:
  • Martin Evans
  • Lars Wagner Hansen
  • Richard R. Hawk
  • Jens Prilop
  • Paul John Richards
  • Robert C. Samels

97/08/26

• The Picture Gallery now includes a collection of photos taken by Joyce Howard at the 1997 IJA Festival in Pittsburgh.
• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Mud Bay Jugglers
• new home pages:
  • Per Berséus
  • Jeremy Gaston
  • Dave Gedeon
  • Vijay Mahrra
  • Warren Pickles
  • Keith Wilson

97/08/25

• new juggling club home page:
  • San Francisco Gutter Jugglers, California

97/07/31

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Aydar Rakhmatullin

97/07/29

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Goosbubbles

97/07/28

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Ned & Joan Way

97/07/27

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Rubber City Jugglers, Akron, OH
  • University of New Hampshire Juggling Club, Durham

97/07/26

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • The Flaming Idiots
• new home page:
  • Mark Miller

97/07/25

• Added Juggling - its history and greatest performers to the Juggling Books section. This is an excellent complete full-length illustrated book on the history of juggling, by Francisco Alvarez.

97/07/23

• Updated Scott Seltzer's ASCII Art Collection in the Picture Gallery.
• new home pages:
  • Paul Martin
  • Scott Sorensen

97/07/22

• new juggling club home page:
  • Motor City Juggling Club, Michigan

97/07/21

• new juggling club home page:
  • Westchester Jugglers Country Club, Rye Brook, NY
• new home page:
  • Reed Payne

97/07/20

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Georgia Tech Juggling Club, Atlanta
  • Narberth Juggling Club, Wales, UK
• new home pages:
  • Gary Dufresne
  • Dan Kane
  • Anders Karlen
  • Mike Mirabella
  • Drew Richardson

97/07/19

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Durham University Circus Society, England
  • Juggling in Jena, Germany
• new home pages:
  • Rodney Barton
  • Seth Howard
  • Ryan Melbard
  • Rich Potter
  • Johannes Waldmann

97/07/16

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • The Checkerboard Guy
• new home pages:
  • Darrell Anderson
  • Mark Badstubner
  • Stephen Brown
  • Eugene Dalrymple
  • Dana Kotler

97/06/28

• new home page:
  • Benjamin Melendez

97/06/22

• Ben Decker Cigar Boxes are now available through the JIS. Help support us by ordering your boxes from our online box store.

97/06/14

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Tom Breck
• new home pages:
  • Matt Childs
  • James St. Martin
  • Travis J. Stockton
  • Joel Stringer

97/06/12

• new home page:
  • Jakub A. Tesinsky

97/06/06

• new home page:
  • Jan-Fredrik Braseth

97/06/05

• Added another Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley, which addresses the essence of human nature, as it relates to machete juggling. This is now in the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery.

97/05/30

• new home page:
  • Laura R. Novick

97/05/29

• new juggling club home page:
  • Columbia Juggling Club, South Carolina
• new home pages:
  • Gerry Baygents
  • CJ Carlisle

97/05/28

• new home pages:
  • Seth Crayton
  • Andreas Halleraker

97/05/27

• Added a juggling clown by Joan Stark to the ASCII Art collection in the Picture Gallery. This ASCII clown is animated and complete with sound, for a dazzling multimedia presentation.

97/05/25

• Added a new section of ASCII Art to the Picture Gallery, with collections contributed by Alex Haynes and Scott Seltzer.
• new home pages:
  • Eric Cohen
  • Steve Cohen

97/05/23

• new juggling club home page:
  • Winnipeg Juggling Club, Manitoba, Canada
• new home page:
  • Tony Lastowka
  • Stephane Perrin

97/05/22

• The JIS is now the home of the Christian Jugglers Association, in addition to several other Juggling Organizations:
  • European Juggling Association
  • Jewish Jugglers
  • JuggleStay
• new home page:
  • Michael Ferrari

97/05/21

• new juggling club home page:
  • Flying Teapots Circus and Juggling Society, Sheffield, England
• new home page:
  • Carol Dunn-Tvorun

97/05/20

• There are two new additions to the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery
  • Sylvester does a standard 14 ball juggle
  • A Bob Gorrell & Gary Brookins Muddle America cartoon includes a request for numbers juggling.
• new home page:
  • Jason Freidenfelds

97/05/19

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: X-Juggling Team
• new home pages:
  • Marc Espie
  • Henrik Johansson
  • Chris LaReau
  • Tim Miller
  • Emilia Robin
  • David Sohigian

97/05/18

• Added a paper by Curtis Miller on Finding Juggling Pattern Transitions with Smart Engineering Systems to the Juggling Papers section.
• new home pages (list now has 800 entries):
  • Al Alexander
  • Branden Byers
  • Justin Mando
  • David Wright

97/05/17

• new home page:
  • Chris De Salvo

97/05/02

• new juggling club home page:
  • PAssed imPErfect, London, England

97/05/01

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Las Vegas Juggling Club, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Omaha Juggling Club, Omaha, Nebraska

97/04/30

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Flagstaff Juggling Club, Flagstaff, Arizona
  • NDSU Juggling Club, Fargo, North Dakota
  • University of Maryland Juggling Club, College Park
• new home page:
  • Bodhi Daru

97/04/29

• new juggling club home pages:
  • The High and Mighty Jugglers, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
  • Jackson Square Jugglers, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • P.L.U.N.G.E. - NCSU's Juggling Club, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Toss Up Juggling Club, Lincolnshire, Illinois
• new home page:
  • Geoff Estes

97/04/28

• new juggling club home pages:
  • The Campus Fools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Nottingham University Juggle Society, England
  • SLUJ, Society of Lancaster University Jugglers, England
  • St. Louis Community College Juggling Club, St. Louis, Missouri
• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Jugglenutz!
• new home pages:
  • Tobias Öström
  • Andrew Wright

97/04/27

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Artis-Tick, Vienna, Austria
  • Jongliertreff Arbon, Switzerland
  • Leeds University Juggling and Circus Skills Society, England
• new entries in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Boni & Caroli
  • Rex Boyd
  • Gil Pontius
  • Stevie G & Susi Q
• new home pages:
  • Ingbert Bittel
  • Asanuma Nobuhiko

97/04/21

• Added an online copy of the February 1996 issue of Two Ply Press.

97/04/18

• Added a clickable map of Juggling Clubs in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. For other areas, see the World Map of Juggling Clubs.
• Updated IJA Championship Results and Championship Records with information from the 1996 IJA Festival.

97/04/17

• new home pages:
  • Tim Kirchner
  • Aaron Lewis
  • Riley McLincha
  • Brendan O'Boyle
  • John O'Brien
  • Manuel Ortega

97/04/16

• new home pages:
  • Charles Finkel
  • Anthony Le-Moignan
  • Christof Sommerhalter
  • Phil Surette
  • Tom Taig

97/03/29

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Michael Menes
• new home pages:
  • Mats Trovik

97/03/26

• new entries in the list of professional Performers with home pages:
  • Martin Malör
  • Jest in Time
  • Lauren Muney & Jim Frank
• new home pages:
  • Ruben Chan
  • Adrian Reader

97/03/25

• new home pages:
  • Per Ekstig
  • George Michael Hanlon
  • Christian Rimpau
  • Janne Wiss

97/03/24

• new home pages:
  • Steven Booker
  • Bjarne Mindegaard Jensen
  • Peter Sandblad
  • Ian A. Stewart

97/03/23

• new home pages:
  • Ciril Cincet
  • Alix Dutton
  • Gawein Faes
  • Billy Krueger
  • Bram Speltinckx

97/03/19

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Viktor Kee

97/03/16

• new juggling club home page:
  • Flingin' Fools, Sebastopol, CA
• new home page:
  • Chuck Fernald

97/03/15

• Installed the first set of updates and reorganization of the Juggling Help pages by Matt Brubeck, the new editor of this section for the JIS.
• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Ngaio Bealum, the Chocolate Mountain of Joy.

97/03/14

• new home pages:
  • Joe Fiores
  • Juan Flores

97/03/09

• Installed the first full release version of MacJuggleMaster in the Mac Software section. This is a Mac port by Chris De Salvo of Ken Matsuoka's excellent IBM-PC site swap viewer, JuggleMaster,

97/03/04

• new home pages:
  • Josh Juran
  • Stephane Picq

97/03/02

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Indiana University Juggling Club, Bloomington
  • RIT Juggling Club, Rochester, NY
  • Rochester Juggling Club, New York
• new home pages:
  • Jonah Golsdtein
  • Matthew Harper
  • Tom Lozinski

97/03/01

• new juggling club home pages:
  • Angela's Juggling Club, Bangor, Northern Ireland
  • The Circus Space, London, England
  • Penn State Juggling Club, University Park, PA
  • The Throwapeutic Juggling Co., Macclesfield, England
  • University of Missouri-Rolla Juggling Club
  • University of Wisconsin-Platteville Juggling Club
• new home page: Jani Kyllönen

97/02/28

• new juggling club home page: STUDS Juggling in Örebro, Sweden

97/02/27

• Added another Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams to the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery. Dilbert describes his accomplishment for the week. (removed 97/10/23)

97/02/25

• Installed the preliminary version of MacJuggleMaster, a Mac port by Chris De Salvo of Ken Matsuoka's excellent IBM-PC site swap viewer, JuggleMaster, in the Mac Software section.
• Installed Joe Pass!, a site-swap viewer for passing patterns by Wolfgang Westerboer, in the Mac Software section.

97/02/22

• The Juggling Papers section now includes the complete llustrated book, New Juggling Tricks, written by Prof. Ellis Stanyon in 1901.
• added an animated juggler to the Drawings, Artwork, Logos section of the Juggling Picture Gallery.
• new home page: Kees Kloosterboer

97/02/19

• new home pages: Andrew Horrocks, Kevin Plylar

97/02/18

• new home pages: Christopher Scott Balvocius, Gustaf Bratt, Stefani Dardaganian, Tiffany Lewis

97/02/17

• new juggling club home page: Lund Juggling, Sweden
• new home pages: Damien Blake, Glyn Hanton, Jonathan Hulson, Scott Shell

97/02/16

• new home pages: Lauren P. Entrekin, Jack Ham, Peter Sundström, David D. Taylor

97/02/15

• new entries in the list of professional Performers with home pages: the brother grin, Kevin Burke
• new home pages: Miguel Colinet, Jonas Fernvik, Mattias Larsson, Hua Phuoc Can, Sil Westerveld

97/02/05

• Installed the site swap screen saver Juggle Saver, developed by Brian Apps, in the IBM-PC Software section.
• Installed updated version 4.6 of Jongl in the Amiga Software section.

97/02/02

• Installed updated version 4.0 of Optimal Juggler in the Mac Software section.
• Installed 5 Club Juggler, V. 2.0, developed by Jack Kalvan, in the Mac Software section.

97/02/01

• The JIS Committee on Numbers Juggling published its preliminary list of Numbers Juggling World Records.

97/01/31

• the JIS Juggling Hall of Fame announces its eighth inductee, Kara (Michael Steiner), on the 130th anniversary of his birth.

97/01/21

• new juggling club home page: Cornell Jugglers, Ithaca, NY
• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Jugglers Against Gravity

97/01/20

• new juggling club home pages: Boston University Juggling Association, Boston, MA; Harvard Juggling Club, Cambridge, MA; Fort Worth Juggling Club; Fort Worth, TX

97/01/19

• new juggling club home page: Williamsville North Juggling Club, Williamsville, NY

97/01/18

• new juggling club home pages: Durham City Jugglers, Durham, England; Juggling Club at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• new home pages: Chris Emelio, Mike Lowry, Martin Malör, Mini Mansell, Travis Saunders, Satwinder Setia

97/01/17

• Upgraded to JGL V3.0 in the Unix source code software section.
• new juggling club home page: University of Georgia Juggling Club, Athens, GA
• new home page: Carlisle Creed

97/01/16

• new juggling organization home page: Svenska Jonglörföreningen, Swedish Juggling Association
• new juggling club home pages: Aston University Juggling Society, Birmingham, England; Sydney University Recreational Clowning Around Society (SURCAS), Sydney, Australia; University of Warwick Juggling Society, Coventry, England
• new home pages: Ken Lee, Paul Seward

97/01/15

• new juggling club home page: Stichting Variatie in Variété, Delft, The Netherlands
• The Juggling Picture Gallery now includes snapshots of the 1996 European Juggling Convention in Grenoble, France, contributed by Yuri Kazakov.
• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Mark Segal
• new home pages: Brian Apps, Bruce Tiemann

97/01/14

• new home pages: Erik Hedman, David Romberg, Richard Sugarman, Bonnie Tam

97/01/13

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Charlie Stron
• new home pages: Stephen Aitchison, Glenn Brown, Manuel Laan, Patrik Wågehed

97/01/12

• Added an essay on A History of Juggling, by Andrew Conway, to the Juggling Papers section.
• new entries in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Sean Bridges, Oliver Groszer, Paul Isaak, Mike Rosman
• new home pages: Carl Johan Brogardh, Erlend Ekseth, Tomas Högberg, Reda Hassan Mohamed, Henrik Nilsson, Henrik Tynnhammar

97/01/11

• new home pages (list now has 700 entries): Andreas Hedfors, Brian Phillips, Tobias Vesterlund, Thomas Weinstein, Karl R. Wilcox

97/01/10

• Upgraded Juggle Anim to Version 1.2 in the Java Juggling Software.

97/01/08

• Added JGL V2.5 to the Unix source code software section.

97/01/04

• The Juggling Papers section now includes an essay written in 1828 by William Hazlitt on The Indian Jugglers.