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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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Canadian Football League
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The Canadian Football League is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football and its nine teams, which are located in nine separate cities, are divided into two divisions, the East Division, with four teams, and the West Division with five teams. As of 2016, the features a 20-week regular season. The CFL was officially founded on January 19,1958, the league was formed from a merger between the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union founded in 1907 and the Western Interprovincial Football Union founded in 1936. Rugby football began to be played in Canada in the 1860s, the CRFU was reorganized as the Canadian Rugby Union in 1891, and served as an umbrella organization for several provincial and regional unions. The Grey Cup was donated by Governor General Earl Grey in 1909 to the winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada. By that time, the sport as played in Canada had diverged markedly from its rugby origins, in 1956, the IRFU and WIFU formed a new umbrella organization, the Canadian Football Council. In 1958, the CFC left the CRU and became the Canadian Football League, as part of an agreement between the CRU and CFL, the CFL took possession of the Grey Cup, even though amateurs had not competed for it since 1954. The CRU remained the governing body for amateur play in Canada, initially, the two unions remained autonomous, and there was no intersectional play between eastern and western teams except at the Grey Cup final. This situation was analogous to how the American baseball leagues operated for years. The IRFU was renamed the Eastern Football Conference in 1960, while the WIFU was renamed the Western Football Conference in 1961, also in 1961, limited intersectional play was introduced. It was not until 1981 that the two agreed to a full merger, becoming the East and West Divisions of the CFL. With the merger came a full interlocking schedule of 16 games per season, Other team names had traditional origins. With rowing a national craze in the late 19th century, the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto formed a team for its members off-season participation. The football team name Toronto Argonauts still remains though it. After World War II, the two teams in Hamilton—the Tigers and the Flying Wildcats—merged both their organizations into the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, after the 1981 season, the Alouettes folded and were replaced the next year by a new franchise named the Concordes. In 1986 the Concordes were renamed the Alouettes to attract more fan support, the demise of the Alouettes forced the League to move its easternmost Western team, Winnipeg, into the East Division. In 1993, the league admitted its first United States-based franchise, after modest success, the league then expanded further in the U. S. in 1994 with the Las Vegas Posse, Baltimore Stallions, and Shreveport Pirates
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CBC Sports
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CBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting. The CBCs sports programming primarily airs on CBC Television, with additional broadcasts on CBC. ca. As of 2015, CBCs sports coverage is now restricted to Olympic sports. CBC has maintained partial rights to the NHL as part of a agreement with current rightsholder Rogers Communications. The majority of CBCs sports coverage is broadcast by CBC Television on weekends under the blanket title Road to the Olympic Games, on August 20,2008, the CBC received approval from the CRTC to create an all-sports category 2 digital TV channel, tentatively known as CBC SportsPlus. Although apparently intended to start in 2009, its launch has since put on hold indefinitely. As a result of funding reductions from the government and decreased revenues. The most recent director of CBC Sports was Jeffrey Orridge, who resigned April 9,2015 to assume the position of commissioner for the Canadian Football League, Orridge succeeded Scott Moore, who resigned on November 9,2010 to become president of broadcasting for Rogers Media. On September 4,2015, former Curling Canada CEO Greg Stremlaw was appointed as the new head of CBC Sports
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USA Basketball
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USA Basketball is a non-profit organization and the governing body for basketball in the United States. The organization represents the United States in FIBA and the mens and womens basketball teams in the United States Olympic Committee. Its chairman of the board is Jerry Colangelo and its director is Jim Tooley. The organization was founded in 1974 as the Amateur Basketball Association of the United States of America and it was renamed to USA Basketball on October 12,1989, after FIBA modified its rules to allow professional basketball players to compete in international competitions. In 2007, the USA was represented by the University of Northern Iowa, in 2003, the USA was represented by a Big 12 All Star team. In 2007, the USA was represented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, william Jones Cup Team USA Womens Pan American Team United States womens national 3x3 team Official site Official facebook USA Basketball reports from Insidehoops. com
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Right To Play
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Right To Play is a global organization that attempts to teach children in need with educational games. It was founded in 2000 by Olympic gold medalist Johann Olav Koss, Right To Plays programs are facilitated by more than 14,900 local volunteer coaches and more than 620 international staff. Right To Play is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has offices in Canada, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom. The national offices raise funds, build awareness for Right To Play programs, between 1994 and 2000, Right to Play, formerly Olympic Aid, continued to raise funds for children in disadvantaged situations, building on the momentum of subsequent Olympic Games. In 1996, Olympic Aid formed a partnership with UNICEF and raised $13 million USD prior to, the funds assisted UNICEF in vaccinating approximately 12.2 million children and more than 800,000 women. This vaccination effort was extraordinary as it resulted in temporary Olympic Truces in Afghanistan, all fighting stopped in the regions so the UNICEF staff could safely immunize the children and women of these areas. With its incorporation in late 2000, Olympic Aid made the transition from “fundraising vehicle” to implementing Non-Governmental Organization, in March 2001, the first sport and play programs began in refugee communities in Angola and Côte dIvoire
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New York City Transit Authority
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The New York City Transit Authority is a public authority in the U. S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in North America, the NYCTA operates the following systems, New York City Subway, a rapid transit system in Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. Staten Island Railway, a transit line in Staten Island New York City Bus. As part of establishing a common identity, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1994 assigned popular names to each of its subsidiaries and affiliates. The New York City Transit Authority is now known popularly as MTA New York City Transit, newer contracts and RFPs, however, have also used the popular name. The Authority is also referred to as NYCT, or simply the TA. The Executive Director of the MTA is, ex officio, Executive Director of the Transit Authority, the Transit Authority has its own management structure which is responsible for its day-to-day operations, with executive personnel reporting to the agency president. Veronique “Ronnie” Hakim is the current President of New York City Transit, the subway system today is composed of what once were three separate systems in competition with one another. Two of them were built and operated by companies, August Belmonts Interborough Rapid Transit Company. The third, the public Independent Subway System was owned and operated by the City of New York. The IRT and BMT systems were acquired by the city on June 1,1940 for $317,000,000, the buses on Staten Island had been operated by a private company operating under a franchise that expired in 1946. When it became known that the company would not renew its franchise and this group ran into financial difficulties and the city took over the company on February 23,1947. The city then controlled all of the bus routes on Staten Island, on March 30,1947, the City took over the bus lines of the North Shore Bus Company, which comprised half of the privately owned lines in Queens, after that company went into financial troubles. On September 24,1948, the City acquired five bus lines in Manhattan for similar reasons, factories began to work around the clock, and therefore business boomed. Transit repairs were kept at a minimum as basic materials were in supply for civilian use. Operating revenues were raised and maintenance costs were reduced, but as a result, the future problems of deferred maintenance and falling ridership. In 1946, costs rose and profits turned to losses, and to obtain needed funds, the fare was raised in 1948 to ten cents on the subways and elevated and this increase only produced a revenue surplus for a single year. In 1951 a uniform ten-cent fare was established on both the transit and surface lines
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Anterior cruciate ligament
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The anterior cruciate ligament is one of a pair of cruciate ligaments in the human knee. They are also called cruciform ligaments as they are arranged in a crossed formation, in the quadruped stifle joint, based on its anatomical position, it is also referred to as the cranial cruciate ligament. The ACL originates from deep within the notch of the distal femur and its proximal fibers fan out along the medial wall of the lateral femoral condyle. There are two bundles of the ACL—the anteromedial and the posterolateral, named according to where the insert into the tibial plateau. The ACL attaches in front of the eminence of the tibia. These attachments allow the ACL to resist anterior translation and medial rotation of the tibia, ACL tears are among the most common knee injuries, with over 100,000 tears in the US occurring annually. Most ACL tears are a result of landing or planting in cutting or pivoting sports, most serious athletes will require an ACL reconstruction if they have a complete tear and want to return to sports, because the ACL is crucial for stabilizing the knee when turning or planting. Reconstruction is most commonly done by autograft, meaning the tissue used for the repair is from the patient’s body, other times, a cadaver is used for tissue. The two most common sources for tissue are the tendon and the hamstrings tendon. The surgery is arthroscopic, meaning that a camera is inserted through a small surgical cut. The camera sends video to a large monitor so that the surgeon can see any damage to the ligaments, in the event of an autograft, the surgeon will make a larger cut to get the needed tissue. In the event of an allograft, in material is donated. The surgeon will make holes in the bones to run the tissue through. Recovery time ranges between one and two years or longer, a week or so after the occurrence of the injury, the athlete is usually deceived by the fact that he/she is walking normally and not feeling much pain. This is dangerous as some athletes start resuming some of their activities such as jogging which, with a move or twist. It is important for the athlete to understand the significance of each step of an ACL injury to avoid complications. Tearing the anterior cruciate ligament can sometimes be part of an injury known as “the terrible triad”. This consists of the tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament
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Collegiate School (New York City)
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Collegiate School is an independent school for boys in New York City and one of the oldest schools of any kind in the United States. The School is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is a member of both the New York Interschool and the Ivy Preparatory School League and it is ranked one of the best K-12 all boys prep schools in the United States. Collegiate was founded in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1628 by the Dutch West India Company, the school’s initial incarnation was located south of Canal Street and was an academic institution for both sexes. Collegiate states it is the oldest school of any kind in the United States, based on this evidence, the school in 1984 officially moved up its founding to 1628. On February 5,2013, the Collegiate School board announced plans for the institution. The school has acquired land for a new facility, situated between West End Avenue and Riverside Boulevard and between West 61st and 62nd Streets in New Yorks Riverside South neighborhood, Board Chairman George R. Bason Jr. He estimated the new construction cost at $125–$135 million, with a targeted move time of the summer of 2017. Included in the seal are two mottos, Eendracht Maakt Macht, Dutch for In unity there is strength, and Nisi Dominus Frustra, Latin for unless God. Currently, the school students in grades K-12. The schools mission is the following, Collegiate School strives to educate each boy to reach his highest level of intellectual, ethical, artistic, the four-story “Old Building” is part of the original church and is home to the “Upper School, ” grades 9-12. Platten Hall, originally nine stories, was extended in 1990 by two floors, West End Plaza is a hotel that was purchased by the school in 1977. Each grade has approximately 50 boys, many of whom attend Collegiate for the course of study. More than a quarter of Collegiate teachers hold a Ph. D, the school is private, and it functions under a New York City non-profit statute enacted in the 1940s. Collegiate is controlled by a Board of Trustees, and the school is administered by a Headmaster, levison, who was head of school at the Kingswood-Oxford School for many years, began serving at Collegiate July 1,2006. Collegiates Upper School curriculum consists of English, Math, Science, History, Modern Foreign Languages, Classics, Religion & Ethics, Music, Visual Art, Drama, Technology, and Physical Education. In 2007, The Wall Street Journal ranked Collegiate number one in the world in terms of percent of the senior class matriculating to eight selective American colleges. In 2002, Worth ranked Collegiate third among the independent schools in terms of percentage of graduates attending Harvard University, Yale University. The schools athletic success has mainly been with the varsity basketball, baseball, track and field, soccer, the Collegiate soccer team won the NYSAIS state championship in 2010,2011, and 2012
