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Rackets
Racket may refer to: * Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime ** Protection racket, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law * Racket (sports equipment), a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other racket sports ** Rackets (sport), a particular sports discipline related to squash played indoors in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, United States, and Canada. * Racket (programming language), a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp * Racket, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Gilmer and Ritchie counties * ''The Racket'' (1951 film), a black & white film noir starring Robert Mitchum * ''Racket'' (film), a 1997 film with Michele Placido, Tanya Roberts and Franco Interlenghi * ''Racket'' (album), a 2007 album by Whitehouse * Racket (Minnesota), an alternative news site in Minneso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket (crime)
Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercion, coercive, fraud, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. The term "racketeering" was coined by the Employers' Association of Greater Chicago, Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Teamsters Union.David Witwer, "'The Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in America': The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union During the 1930s", in ''Corrupt Histories'', Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan, eds., University of Rochester Press, 2004. Specifically, a racket was defined by this coinage as being a service that calls forth its own demand, and would not have been needed otherwise. Narrowly, it means coercion, coercive or fraud, fraudulent business practices; broadly, it can mean any criminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protection Racket
A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals. Each payment is called "protection money" or a "protection fee". An organized crime group determines an affordable or reasonable fee by negotiating with each of its payers, to ensure that each payer can pay the fee on a regular basis and on time. Protections rackets can vary in terms of their levels of sophistication or organization. The perpetrators of a protection racket may protect vulnerable targets from other dangerous individuals and groups or may simply offer to refrain from themselves carrying out attacks on the targets, and usually both of these forms of protection are implied in the racket. Due to the freq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket (sports Equipment)
A racket or racquet is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock in a variety of sports. A racket consists of three major components: a widened distal end known as the ''head'', an elongated handle known as the ''grip'', and a reinforced connection between the head and handle known as the ''throat'' or ''heart''. The head of the racket forms a flattened firm surface, known as the ''face'', which is used to strike the ball or shuttlecock. In the strictest sense, the word "racket" specifically refers to a striking implement with a mesh face made of interlaced, tightly stretched strings fixed on an ovoid frame known as the ''rim''. This type of racket is used in sports such as tennis, badminton, and racquetball. Some rackets have a rigid one-piece head with a solid or fenestrated face instead of a meshwork of strings. Such rackets are called a paddle or bat, and are used in sports such as table tennis, pickleball and padel. Collectively, sporting games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rackets (sport)
Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (also called "squash rackets"). History Historians generally assert that rackets began as an 18th-century pastime in London's King's Bench and Fleet debtors' prisons. The prisoners modified the game of fives (in the process creating Bat Fives) by using tennis rackets to speed up the action. They played against the prison wall, sometimes at a corner to add a sidewall to the game. Rackets then became popular outside the prison, played in alleys behind pubs. It spread to schools, first using school walls, and later with proper four-wall courts being specially constructed for the game. The lithograph at right dating from 1795 shows schoolboys 'hitting up' outside the Harrow School 'Old School' buildings. Eglinton Castle in Scotland, now largely demolished, had a "Racket Hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket (programming Language)
Racket is a General-purpose programming language, general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. The Racket language is a modern dialect of Lisp (programming language), Lisp and a descendant of Scheme (programming language), Scheme. It is designed as a platform for programming language theory, programming language design and implementation. In addition to the core Racket language, ''Racket'' is also used to refer to the family of programming languages and set of tools supporting development on and with Racket. Racket is also used for script (computing), scripting, computer science education, and research. The Racket platform provides an implementation of the Racket language (including a runtime system, libraries, and compiler supporting several compilation modes: machine code, machine-independent, interpreted, and JIT) along with the DrRacket integrated development environment (IDE) written in Racket. Racket is used by the ProgramByDesign outreach program, which aims to tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket, West Virginia
Racket is an unincorporated community in Gilmer and Ritchie counties, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ..., United States. Their post office has been closed. References Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Gilmer County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Ritchie County, West Virginia {{RitchieCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Racket (1951 Film)
''The Racket'' is a 1951 black-and-white film noir drama directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray, Tay Garnett, and Mel Ferrer. The production features Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, and William Conrad. Future '' Perry Mason'' regular cast members William Talman and Ray Collins appear in key roles. The film, a remake of the 1928 film '' The Racket'', is indirectly based on a play by Bartlett Cormack. ( Edward G. Robinson played the racketeer in the original Broadway production.) Plot The plot is very close to the original play and the 1928 movie. Racketeer and mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials of a large midwestern American city. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. The city's prosecuting attorney, Welsh, and a state police detective, Turk, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket (film)
Racket may refer to: * Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime ** Protection racket, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law * Racket (sports equipment), a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other racket sports ** Rackets (sport), a particular sports discipline related to squash played indoors in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, United States, and Canada. * Racket (programming language), a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp * Racket, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Gilmer and Ritchie counties * ''The Racket'' (1951 film), a black & white film noir starring Robert Mitchum * ''Racket'' (film), a 1997 film with Michele Placido Michele Placido (; born 19 May 1946) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Placido
Michele Placido (; born 19 May 1946) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstream attention through a series of roles in films directed by the likes of Mario Monicelli and Marco Bellocchio, winning the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale's Silver Bear for Best Actor for his performance in the 1979 film Ernesto (film), ''Ernesto''. He is known internationally for portraying police inspector Corrado Cattani on the crime drama television series ''La piovra'' (1984–2001). Placido's directorial debut, ''Pummarò'', was screened Un Certain Regard at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Three of his films have competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He is a five-time Nastro d'Argento and four-time David di Donatello winner. In 2021, Placido was appointed President of the Teatro Comunale (Ferrara), Teatro Comunale in Ferrara. Early life Placido was born at Ascoli Satriano, into a poor family from Rionero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket (album)
''Racket'' is the nineteenth and final studio album by power electronics band Whitehouse Whitehouse may refer to: People * Charles S. Whitehouse (1921–2001), American diplomat * Cornelius Whitehouse (1796–1883), English engineer and inventor * E. Sheldon Whitehouse (1883–1965), American diplomat * Elliott Whitehouse (born ..., released on 31 May 2007 through the Susan Lawly label. The album was originally supposed to come out on 13 March of that year, but due to issues with recording, the album's release date was set back by a couple of weeks. Instruments used in the album were synthesizers, the djembe, doundouns, and ksings. The album artwork was done by Stefan Danielsson, a Swedish artist who specializes in collages with African and Haitian influences. Track listing Personnel *William Bennett – vocals, instruments, production, "animal response technician" * Philip Best – vocals, instruments, "dirty word specialist" *Stefan Daneilsson – artwork *Denis B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket (Minnesota)
The Racket is a writer-owned, reader-funded website founded in 2021 by a group of former '' City Pages'' editors: Jessica Armbruster, Jay Boller, Em Cassel, and Keith Harris. Racket focuses on local news, politics, music, arts, culture, food and drink, and theater in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. The previous funding model used by Racket's predecessor ''City Pages'', as well as most alt-weekly newspapers, depended largely on advertising, but Racket's founders felt that this model was outmoded. Instead, it is funded largely by reader subscriptions, a model inspired by the earlier success of Defector Media ''Defector Media'' is a subscription-based sports and culture blog and media company founded in September 2020 and based in Manhattan. The Defector blog is primarily written by former employees of the ''Deadspin'' sports blog. In October and No .... Racket reported in 2024 that it had generated $322,000 in revenue over the previous year, including $242,000 from subscript ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket (TV Series)
''Racket'' was an Australian music television show broadcast by the ABC. It aired after 10pm on Saturday nights leading into '' Rage''. It was presented by James Valentine with Toby Creswell, Stephanie Lewis, Joanne Corrigan and Tim Richie. It was aimed at an audience aged from 25 to 39. It was taken of the air after its initial run of 10 episodes. Peter Wilmoth of the Age wrote that it "was too self-consciously cool, had no focus or direction". See also * List of Australian music television shows * List of Australian television series Future shows Seven Nine *''The Golden Bachelor'' (reality, 2025) *''The Floor'' (game show, 2025) *''Château DIY Australia'' (lifestyle, 2025) Network 10 * ''Airport 24/7'' (reality, 2025) * ''Ghosts Australia'' (comedy, 2025) * ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Racket 1991 Australian television series debuts 1991 Australian television series endings Australian music television series Australian non-fiction television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
