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Portland, Oregon
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Portland is a port and the largest city in the U. S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette, the city covers 145 square miles and had an estimated population of 632,309 in 2015, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States. Approximately 2,389,228 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area and its Combined Statistical Area ranks 17th with a population of 3,022,178. Roughly 60% of Oregons population resides within the Portland metropolitan area, named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the industry was a major force in the citys early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous cities in the world. After the citys economy experienced a boom during World War II. Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its liberal political values, and the city has earned a reputation as a bastion of counterculture. According to a 2009 Pew Research Center study, Portland ranks as the eighth most popular American city, the city operates with a commission-based government guided by a mayor and four commissioners as well as Metro, the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States. The city government is notable for its planning and investment in public transportation. Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool and this climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the City of Roses for over a century. Keep Portland Weird is a slogan for the city. During the prehistoric period, the land that would become Portland was flooded after the collapse of glacial dams from Lake Missoula and these massive floods occurred during the last ice age and filled the Willamette Valley with 300 to 400 feet of water. The Chinook people occupying the land which would become Portland were first documented by Meriwether Lewis, before its European settlement, the Portland Basin of the lower Columbia River and Willamette River valleys had been one of the most densely populated regions on the Pacific Coast. Large numbers of settlers began arriving in the Willamette Valley in the 1830s via the Oregon Trail. In the early 1840s a new settlement began emerging ten miles from the mouth of the Willamette River and this community was initially referred to as Stumptown and The Clearing because of the many trees cut down to allow for its growth. In 1843 William Overton saw potential in the new settlement but lacked the funds to file a land claim. For 25 cents Overton agreed to half of the 640-acre site with Asa Lovejoy of Boston
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Oregon
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Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Oregon is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by Washington, on the south by California, on the east by Idaho, the Columbia River delineates much of Oregons northern boundary, and the Snake River delineates much of the eastern boundary. The parallel 42° north delineates the boundary with California and Nevada. Oregon was inhabited by indigenous tribes before Western traders, explorers. An autonomous government was formed in the Oregon Country in 1843 before the Oregon Territory was created in 1848, Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14,1859. Today, at 98,000 square miles, Oregon is the ninth largest and, with a population of 4 million, the capital of Oregon is Salem, the second most populous of its cities, with 164,549 residents. Portland is Oregons most populous city, with 632,309 residents, Portlands metro population of 2,389,228 ranks the 23rd largest metro in the nation. The Willamette Valley in western Oregon is the states most densely populated area, the tall conifers, mainly Douglas fir, along Oregons rainy west coast contrast with the lighter-timbered and fire-prone pine and juniper forests covering portions to the east. Abundant alders in the west fix nitrogen for the conifers, stretching east from central Oregon are semi-arid shrublands, prairies, deserts, steppes, and meadows. At 11,249 feet, Mount Hood is the states highest point, Oregons only national park, Crater Lake National Park, comprises the caldera surrounding Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States. The state is home to the single largest organism in the world, Armillaria ostoyae. Because of its landscapes and waterways, Oregons economy is largely powered by various forms of agriculture, fishing. It is also the top timber-producer of the lower 48 states, Technology is another one of the states major economic forces, which began in the 1970s with the establishment of the Silicon Forest and the expansion of Tektronix and Intel. Sportswear company Nike, Inc. headquartered in Beaverton, is the states largest public corporation with a revenue of $30.6 billion. The earliest evidence of the name Oregon has Spanish origins and this chronicle is the first topographical and linguistic source with respect to the place name Oregon. There are also two other sources with Spanish origins such as the name Oregano which grows in the part of the region. Another early use of the name, spelled Ouragon, was in a 1765 petition by Major Robert Rogers to the Kingdom of Great Britain, the term referred to the then-mythical River of the West. By 1778 the spelling had shifted to Oregon, in his 1765 petition, Rogers wrote, The rout. is from the Great Lakes towards the Head of the Mississippi, and from thence to the River called by the Indians Ouragon
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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University of Oregon
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The University of Oregon is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institutions 295-acre campus is along the Willamette River, since July 2014, UO has been governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon. The university has a Carnegie Classification of highest research activity and has 21 research centers, UO was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1969. UO offers 316 undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide range of disciplines. Additionally, the Graduate School oversees the universitys graduate and certificate programs, UO student-athletes compete as the Ducks and are part of the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With eighteen varsity teams, the Oregon Ducks are best known for their team and track. The Oregon State Legislature established the university on October 12,1872, the residents of Eugene struggled to help finance the institution, holding numerous fundraising events such as strawberry festivals, church socials, and produce sales. They raised $27,500, enough to buy eighteen acres of land at a cost of $2,500, the doors officially opened in 1876 with the name of Oregon State University and Deady Hall as its sole building. The first year of enrollment contained 155 students taught by five faculty members, the first graduating class was in 1878, graduating five students. In 1881, the university was closed, it was $8,000 in debt before Henry Villard donated $7,000 to help pay for the debt. In 1913, and again in 1932, there were proposals to merge the university with what is now Oregon State University, during Prince Lucien Campbells tenure as president from 1902 to 1925, the university experienced tremendous growth. The budget, enrollment, facilities, and faculty members all grew several times its amount prior to his presidency, however, the University of Oregon lost its School of Engineering to Oregon Agricultural College, now known as Oregon State University. The Zorn-MacPherson Bill in 1932 proposed the University of Oregon and Oregon State College merge, the bill lost in a landslide vote of over 6 to 1. The University of Oregon Medical School was founded in 1887 in Portland, however, in 1974 it became an independent institution known as Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1969, the UO was admitted into the Association of American Universities, with contributions exceeding $100 million from benefactors such as Phil Knight and Lorry I. Lokey, the goal was exceeded by over $253 million. The University occupies over 80 buildings and these projects, among others, were commissioned in part to support current student enrollment as well as possible future increases. Effective July 1,2014, the University of Oregon became an independent public body governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon
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Stanford University
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Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco. Its 8, 180-acre campus is one of the largest in the United States, Stanford also has land and facilities elsewhere. The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Stanford was a former Governor of California and U. S. Senator, he made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students 125 years ago on October 1,1891, Stanford University struggled financially after Leland Stanfords death in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. The university is one of the top fundraising institutions in the country. There are three schools that have both undergraduate and graduate students and another four professional schools. Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. Stanford faculty and alumni have founded a number of companies that produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue. It is the alma mater of 30 living billionaires,17 astronauts and it is also one of the leading producers of members of the United States Congress. Sixty Nobel laureates and seven Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford, dedicated to Leland Stanford Jr, their only child. The institution opened in 1891 on Stanfords previous Palo Alto farm, despite being impacted by earthquakes in both 1906 and 1989, the campus was rebuilt each time. In 1919, The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace was started by Herbert Hoover to preserve artifacts related to World War I, the Stanford Medical Center, completed in 1959, is a teaching hospital with over 800 beds. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, which was established in 1962, in 2008, 60% of this land remained undeveloped. Besides the central campus described below, the university also operates at more remote locations, some elsewhere on the main campus. Stanfords main campus includes a place within unincorporated Santa Clara County. The campus also includes land in unincorporated San Mateo County, as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park, Woodside. The academic central campus is adjacent to Palo Alto, bounded by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, the United States Postal Service has assigned it two ZIP codes,94305 for campus mail and 94309 for P. O. box mail
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Nike, Inc.
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The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. It is one of the worlds largest suppliers of athletic shoes and apparel, as of 2012, it employed more than 44,000 people worldwide. In 2014 the brand alone was valued at $19 billion, making it the most valuable brand among sports businesses. The company was founded on January 25,1964, as Blue Ribbon Sports, by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, the company takes its name from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Nike also owned Bauer Hockey between 1995 and 2008, and previously owned Cole Haan and Umbro, in addition to manufacturing sportswear and equipment, the company operates retail stores under the Niketown name. Nike sponsors many high-profile athletes and sports teams around the world, with the highly recognized trademarks of Just Do It, Nike, originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports, was founded by University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman in January 1964. The company initially operated as a distributor for Japanese shoe maker Onitsuka Tiger, says Davis, I told Tom Brokaw that I was the first. I dont care all the billionaires say. Bill Bowerman made the first pair of shoes for me, in fact, I didnt like the way they felt on my feet. There was no support and they were too tight, but I saw Bowerman make them from the waffle iron, and they were mine. In 1964, in its first year in business, BRS sold 1,300 pairs of Japanese running shoes grossing $8,000, by 1965 the fledgling company had acquired a full-time employee, and sales had reached $20,000. In 1967, due to increasing sales, BRS expanded retail and distribution operations on the East Coast, in Wellesley. By 1971, the relationship between BRS and Onitsuka Tiger was nearing an end, BRS prepared to launch its own line of footwear, which would bear the Swoosh newly designed by Carolyn Davidson. The Swoosh was first used by Nike on June 18,1971, patent and Trademark Office on January 22,1974. In 1976, the company hired John Brown and Partners, based in Seattle, the following year, the agency created the first brand ad for Nike, called There is no finish line, in which no Nike product was shown. By 1980, Nike had attained a 50% market share in the U. S. athletic shoe market, together, Nike and Wieden+Kennedy have created many print and television advertisements, and Wieden+Kennedy remains Nikes primary ad agency. Walt Stack was featured in Nikes first Just Do It advertisement, wieden credits the inspiration for the slogan to Lets do it, the last words spoken by Gary Gilmore before he was executed. Throughout the 1980s, Nike expanded its line to encompass many sports
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Travis Knight
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Travis Knight is an American animator, film director and producer and former rapper, known for working as the lead animator for Laika Entertainment and for directing Kubo and the Two Strings. As Chilly Tee, Knight released one rap album, 1993s Get Off Mine and it featured production from The Bomb Squad and Knight wrote most of the lyrics. Knight is quoted in the Portland Monthly as saying, Nobody bought that record, I liked making music, but I hated the performing part of it. I think theres a reason most animators are hidden behind giant curtains, theyre not meant for the spotlight. He animated numerous television commercials and promo spots, including the NFL campaign on Fox and he also sits on the Laika board of directors. Along with Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable, Knight was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards, in 2014, Knight began working on his directorial debut, Kubo and the Two Strings, which was released in 2016. He is the current president and CEO of Laika, along with serving on the board of directors of his fathers company, Nike, Knight was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. Knight is the son of Penelope Penny and Phil Knight, the founder, Knight is the grandson of publisher William W. Knight. He attended Jesuit High School, near Beaverton, Oregon and he is a graduate of Portland State University. Knight is married and has three children, in June 2007, Knight was honored by Animation Magazine as one of 12 Rising Stars of Animation. In October 2012 he was awarded the first Alumni Achievement Award from Portland State University, travis Knight at the Internet Movie Database
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Forbes
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Forbes is an American business magazine. Published bi-weekly, it features articles on finance, industry, investing. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics and its headquarters is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Primary competitors in the business magazine category include Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine is known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans. Another well-known list by the magazine is The Worlds Billionaires list, the motto of Forbes magazine is The Capitalist Tool. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes, and its CEO is Mike Perlis, Forbes, a financial columnist for the Hearst papers, and his partner Walter Drey, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street, founded Forbes magazine on September 15,1917. Forbes provided the money and the name and Drey provided the publishing expertise, the original name of the magazine was Forbes, Devoted to Doers and Doings. Drey became vice-president of the B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, while B. C. Forbes became editor-in-chief, B. C. Forbes was assisted in his later years by his two eldest sons, Bruce Charles Forbes and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes. Bruce Forbes took over on his fathers death, and his strengths lay in streamlining operations, during his tenure, 1954–1964, the magazines circulation nearly doubled. On Malcolms death, his eldest son Malcolm Stevenson Steve Forbes Jr. became President and Chief Executive of Forbes, between 1961 and 1999 the magazine was edited by James Michaels. In 1993, under Michaels, Forbes was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. com, a 2009 New York Times report said,40 percent of the enterprise was sold. For a reported $300 million, setting the value of the enterprise at $750 million, according to Mark M. Edmiston of AdMedia Partners, Its probably not worth half of that now. The companys headquarters moved to the Newport section of downtown Jersey City. In November 2013, Forbes Media, which publishes Forbes magazine, was put up for sale and this was encouraged by Elevation Partners, of whom were minority shareholders. Sales documents prepared by Deutsche Bank revealed that the publishers 2012 EBITDA was $15 million, Forbes reportedly sought a price of $400 million. In July 2014, Forbes sold a majority of itself to Integrated Whale Media Investments, Steve Forbes and his magazines writers offer investment advice on the weekly Fox TV show Forbes on Fox and on Forbes On Radio. Other company groups include Forbes Conference Group, Forbes Investment Advisory Group, from the 2009 Times report, Steve Forbes recently returned from opening up a Forbes magazine in India, bringing the number of foreign editions to 10
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Stop motion
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Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own. The object is moved in increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a fast sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or clay-mation, not all stop motion requires figures or models, many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. Stop motion using objects is sometimes referred to as object animation, the term stop motion, related to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen, stop-motion. Stop motion is often confused with the time lapse technique, where photographs of a live surrounding are taken at regular intervals. Time lapse is a technique whereby the frequency at which frames are captured is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at speed, time appears to be moving faster. Stop motion animation has a history in film. It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic, in 1902, the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used the stop trick technique in the lightning sculpting sequence. In 1907, The Haunted Hotel is a new stop motion film by J. Stuart Blackton, segundo de Chomón, from Spain, released El Hotel Eléctrico later that same year, and used similar techniques as the Blackton film. In 1908, A Sculptors Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released, as was The Sculptors Nightmare, italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force, The Automatic Moving Company in 1912. The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz, who animated The Beautiful Lukanida, The Battle of the Stag Beetles, The Ant, one of the earliest clay animation films was Modelling Extraordinary, which impressed audiences in 1912. December 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins 54 episodes of Miracles in Mud to the big screen, also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She would release her first film in 1917, an adaptation of William Shakespeares Romeo, in the turn of the century, there was another well known animator known as Willis O Brien. His work on The Lost World is well known, but he is most admired for his work on King Kong, oBriens protege and eventual successor in Hollywood was Ray Harryhausen. After learning under OBrien on the film Mighty Joe Young, Harryhausen would go on to create the effects for a string of successful and memorable films over the next three decades. These included The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Jason, in a 1940 promotional film, Autolite, an automotive parts supplier, featured stop motion animation of its products marching past Autolite factories to the tune of Franz Schuberts Military March
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Laika (company)
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Laika Entertainment, LLC. is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos and short films. It is best known for its feature films, Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls and Kubo. The studio is owned by Nike co-founder and chairman Phil Knight and is located in Oregons Portland metropolitan area, knights son, Travis, acts as Laikas president and CEO. The company had two divisions, Laika Entertainment for feature films and Laika/house for commercial content, Laika spun off the commercial division in July 2014 to focus on feature film production exclusively. The new independent commercial division is now called HouseSpecial, in 1998, Knight made his initial investment and his son Travis started work at the studio as an animator. In 2002, Phil Knight acquired the financially struggling Will Vinton Studios to pursue feature-length productions, the following year, Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, joined the studio as a supervising director. They also announced their first projects, the stop-motion film Coraline, the studio laid off a significant portion of its staff in 2008, when its second planned feature, Jack & Bens Animated Adventure, was cancelled. After directing Moongirl and Coraline, and unsuccessfully renegotiating his contract, at the end of the year, the studio laid off more staff in its computer animation department to focus exclusively on stop-motion. Their second stop-motion feature film, ParaNorman, opened on August 17,2012, after working on stop-motion commercials for clients such as Apple Inc. Fox Sports, ESPN and Coca-Cola, Laika spun off its portion in July 2014. The new independent commercial division is now called HouseSpecial and their third film, The Boxtrolls, was released on September 26,2014. It was based on Alan Snows fantasy-adventure novel, Here Be Monsters. and was directed by Anthony Stacchi and their fourth film, Kubo and the Two Strings, was released on August 19,2016. It received two nominations at the Academy Awards, for Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Effects and it won the BAFTA for Best Animated Feature. Laika has optioned Colin Meloys fantasy novel Wildwood and Philip Reeves fantasy book Goblins, in March 2015, the company announced it would expand the studio in an effort to allow for production of one film per year
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Stanford Graduate School of Business
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The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the seven schools of Stanford University. Its faculty members maintain several joint appointments with affiliated research centers, the GSB maintains very close links with the venture capital, finance and technology firms of nearby Silicon Valley. There are 26,309 living alumni, including 17,803 alumni of the MBA program, Stanford Graduate School of Business is renowned to have produced a remarkable number of successful business leaders and entrepreneurs, many among the worlds wealthiest, from its alumni base. In August 2006, the school announced what was then the largest gift ever to a business school – $105 million from Stanford alumnus Phil Knight, MBA62, Founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc. The gift went toward construction of a $375 million campus, called the Knight Management Center, the business school comprises the Knight Management Center and the Schwab Residential Center. In May 2016 the school announced that Jonathan Levin would become the dean of the GSB commencing that September. Stanfords MBA program was ranked 2nd in the United States by U. S. News & World Report in 2016, and 1st in 2015. The school is currently ranked 1st by Forbes, 4th in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings, 13th by The Economist in its Full Time MBA ranking, in the ranking aggregator Poets & Quants Stanfords MBA program was ranked 2nd in the US. In 2016, the schools MBA program was ranked #18 worldwide for social and environmental impact by Corporate Knights magazine, the Stanford Graduate School of Business is the most selective business school in the U. S. It has maintained the highest ratio of applicants to available seats of any school in the U. S. for the last decade. It has also had the lowest acceptance rates of any business school, the school has approximately 400 students per year in its full-time two-year MBA program. It is relatively diverse compared to its peer institutions, the most recent entering class was approximately 42% female, 20% ethnic minorities and 44% international. Current and past students include Fulbright Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Coro, Gardner, Soros, Rhodes, Rotary, approximately 15% of the class entered the MBA program with other graduate or professional degrees, including medical doctors, lawyers, and Ph. Ds. Stanford GSB also offers a PhD in Management degree for those looking to pursue a career in academia, the students at the school have traditionally maintained a policy of grade non-disclosure whereby they do not release grades. Some annual academic distinctions do exist, students graduating in the top ten percent of the class are designated Arjay Miller Scholars, named after the former dean, Arjay Miller. The top student receives the Henry Ford II award at graduation, at the end of the first year five students are also designated Siebel Scholars based on a combination of academics and extracurriculars. The GSB has several student-run organization focused on career paths, affinity groups. Recently the Women in Management organization was featured on leanin. org for its inclusion of men in conversations around gender equity, in June 2006, the School announced a dramatic change to its curriculum model
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Bill Bowerman
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William Jay Bill Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes,51 All-Americans,12 American record-holders,22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers, Bill Bowerman was born in Portland, Oregon. His father was former Governor of Oregon Jay Bowerman, his mother had grown up in Fossil, the family returned to Fossil after the parents divorced in 1913. Bowerman had a brother and sister, Dan and Mary Elizabeth Beth, and a twin brother, Thomas. Bowerman attended Medford and Seattle schools before returning to Medford for high school and he played in the high school band and for the state champion football team his junior and senior years. Bowerman first met Barbara Young, the woman he would marry, while a school student. In 1929, Bowerman attended the University of Oregon to play football and he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. After graduating he taught biology and coached football at Franklin High School in Portland in 1934, in 1935, Bowerman moved back to Medford to teach and coach football. Bowerman married Barbara Young on June 22,1936 and their first son, Jon, was born June 22,1938. William J. Bowerman, Jr. was born November 17,1942, Bowerman had been in the ROTC and Army Reserve, and then joined the United States Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the days following the Pearl Harbor attack. He was assigned to Fort Lawton in Washington and served a year there before being assigned to the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment at Camp Hale in Leadville, along with the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, his regiment would become the 10th Mountain Division. Bowermans duty entailed organizing the supplies and maintaining the mules used to carry the supplies in the mountains. On December 23,1944, the arrived in Naples, Italy. During his tour of duty, Bowerman was promoted to commander of the 86th Regiments First Battalion at the rank of Major, Bowerman negotiated a stand-down of German forces near the Brenner Pass in the days before the surrender of the German army in all of Italy. For his service, Bowerman received the Silver Star and four Bronze Stars and he was honorably discharged in October 1945. After the war, Bowerman returned to his position at Medford High School, Bowermans third son, Tom, was born May 20,1946. The family then moved to Eugene, Oregon, where he became the track coach at the University of Oregon on July 1,1948. Bowermans Men of Oregon won 24 NCAA individual titles and four NCAA team crowns and his teams also boasted 33 Olympians,38 conference champions and 64 All-Americans
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Oregon Health & Science University
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Oregon Health & Science University is a public university in Oregon with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland. The university was founded in 1974 as the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, combining state dentistry, medicine. It was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University in 1981 and took its current name in 2001, as part of a merger with the Oregon Graduate Institute, in addition, the university has several partnership programs including a joint PharmD Pharmacy program with Oregon State University in Corvallis. The Willamette University School of Medicine, OHSUs earliest predecessor, was founded in the 1860s in Salem, the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company donated 20 acres and C. S. In 2008, Governor Kulongoski released an order designating the Mark O. Hatfield Chair of the OHSU Board of Directors to commemorate Hatfields commitment to the institution. The Oregon Graduate Institute merged with OHSU in July 2001, with OGI becoming the OGI School of Science and Engineering, the Oregon Health Sciences University name was modified to the Oregon Health & Science University. The merger was funded in part by a $4M grant from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the OGI School of Science and Engineering was renamed the Department of Science & Engineering within the School of Medicine at OHSU in 2008. OHSU vacated the OGI campus in Hillsboro in 2014, and its programs were moved to the Marquam Hill complex, on October 29,2008, OHSU announced its largest philanthropic gift up that time, a $100 million gift from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight. The gift went to the OHSU Cancer Institute, renaming it the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, five years later, in 2013, Knight announced his intention to donate an additional $500 million to OHSU specifically for cancer research if the university could match it over the subsequent two years. The challenge motivated Columbia Sportswear chairwoman Gert Boyle to donate $100 million in 2014, OHSU remained Oregons only medical school until 2011, when College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest opened in Lebanon, Oregon. The main campus, located on Marquam Hill in the southwest neighborhood of Homestead, is home to the medical school as well as two associated hospitals. The university maintains a number of outpatient primary care facilities including the Physicians Pavilion at the Marquam Hill campus as well as throughout the Portland metropolitan area. A1992 pedestrian bridge connecting OHSU Hospital and the VA Medical Center is the longest suspended pedestrian skybridge in North America, additionally, the Portland Shriners Hospital for Children is located on the OHSU campus. The University also had a campus in Hillsboro, at the site of the former OGI and this campus specialized in graduate-level science and engineering education and is located in the heart of Oregons Silicon Forest. Since 1998, the university has controlled the Oregon National Primate Research Center, with the Marquam Hill campus running out of room for expansion, beginning in 2003 OHSU announced plans to expand into the South Waterfront District, formerly known as the North Macadam District. The expansion area is along the Willamette River in the South Portland neighborhood to the east of Marquam Hill, the Center for Health & Healing earned LEED Platinum certification in February 2007, becoming the largest health care center in the U. S. to achieve that status. As part of the expansion of the South Waterfront, on June 26,2014. The building cost $295 million to construct, and houses OHSU School of Dentistry and Dental Clinics, Portland State University classes, controversy surrounded the costs of the tram, which nearly quadrupled from initial estimates
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Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon
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Eastmoreland is an early-twentieth century, tree-filled neighborhood in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. The neighborhood is bounded on the north by SE Woodstock Boulevard, the western boundary is a combination of SE 28th Avenue, SE Bybee Boulevard, and SE 27th Avenue. SE Crystal Springs Boulevard serves as the southern boundary, and gradually curves north to Eastmorelands eastern boundary, SE 39th Avenue. The Reed College campus is located on the side of SE Woodstock. Eastmoreland is filled with trees and lush landscaping, public parks in Eastmoreland include Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, Eastmoreland Golf Course, and Berkeley Park. There is also a median on Reed College Place which is owned by Portland Department of Transportation, Eastmoreland was named for a local real estate developer, Judge J. C. Moreland. Eastmoreland Historic District Media related to Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons Portland Maps map of Eastmoreland
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Cleveland High School (Portland, Oregon)
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President Grover Cleveland High School, is a public high school in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States and is part of the Portland Public Schools district. This school is one of Portlands two high schools with the International Baccalaureate program and it is also one of the two high schools in the Portland Public School District to receive an A on its government Report Card, based on its students test and SAT scores. Cleveland was originally known as Clinton Kelly High School of Commerce and was a trades school and it was designed by the architect George Howell Jones. As a result of the boom and the passing of a $25 million building levy by the school district in 1947. Commerce was turned into a high school in fall 1948. Science labs were added at this time. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the district faced declining enrollment. The CHS property was made up of two parcels, the building site and the athletic field, originally the site of the Clinton Kelly home. Clinton Kelly, an early Portland settler and minister, specified that the property was to be used solely for a public school. If the property was used for any purpose, or put up for sale, the property would revert to the Kelly estate. The school district decided to close Washington-Monroe High School instead. During 1990 and 1991 the school auditorium was equipped with a theater pipe organ. In 2005, Cleveland High School was the setting for the video for 16 Military Wives by local indie rock band The Decemberists. The student population is 71% white, 8% Latino, 9% Asian/Pacific Islander, in 2009-2010 the school was locally known for an incredibly vocal, motivated and organized parent community. In 2008, 85% of the seniors received their high school diploma. Of 310 students,262 graduated,26 dropped out,9 received a modified diploma, in 2009, 28% of Cleveland students were transfers into the school. Danny Delegato, lead singer and songwriter of Portland pop group The Hugs, jaime St. James, lead singer of Black N Blue and former lead singer of Warrant. Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman of Nike, Inc, anna Prosser, Miss Oregon USA2011 and manager of the Esports team Evil Geniuses
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The Oregon Journal
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The Oregon Journal was Portland, Oregons daily afternoon newspaper from 1902 to 1982. The firm owned several stations in the Portland area, as well. In 1961, the Journal was purchased by S. I. Newhouse and Advance Publications, owners also of The Oregonian, the Portland Evening Journal was first published on March 10,1902. This newspaper began as a campaign paper owned by A. D. Bowen, however, within a few months the paper had floundered and was being liquidated. In July 1902, the Evening Journal, was taken over by C. S. Sam Jackson, Jackson renamed the paper The Oregon Daily Journal. It shall be a FAIR newspaper and not a dull and selfish sheet – a credit to Where rolls the Oregon country, Sam Jackson served as the Journals editor and publisher for 22 years, from July 1902 until his death in 1924. He was succeeded by his son, Philip L. Jackson, under the Jacksons leadership, the Journal competed with the states major newspaper, The Oregonian, also based in Portland, with the Journal touting itself as the strong voice of the Oregon Country. S. Senators, for milk, and dredging of the Columbia River navigation channel to allow development of Portland as a major world port. The Journal ventured into the waves as well as print. On September 21,1932, the Journal purchased its second station, on March 30,1946 KOIN was sold to Field Enterprises, Inc. Marshall Field III, President. In 1947, the Journal became the first newspaper in the country to employ a helicopter on a basis to gather news photographs. Pictures taken from the helicopter, known as the Newsroom Dragonfly, were prominent in the papers pages, the Journals associate publisher, Jacksons grandson, C. S. Jackson II, was killed when the helicopter, which he was piloting, crashed. On June 6,1948, KALE became KPOJ standing for, also on this date KPOJ-FM was launched. The Journals circulation peaked in 1948, with sales of 201,421. In 1953, Philip Jackson died from a heart ailment, William W. Knight, who had been the papers legal counsel, was brought in as its new publisher. C. S. Jacksons widow, Maria Clopton Jackson, died just a few years later, but the forces that led to the papers demise several decades later were already at work. With the successive deaths of C. S. Jackson II, Philip Jackson, in this era, afternoon newspapers began their decline due to the rise of television, changing commuting patterns and other forces. The papers economic vitality was sapped by a lengthy strike against both Portland newspapers that began November 10,1959
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The Oregonian
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The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U. S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4,1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation, the Sunday edition is published under the title The Sunday Oregonian. The Oregonian received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The papers staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, chief among these pioneer community organizers seeking establishment of a Portland press were Col. W. W. Chapman and prominent local businessman Henry W. Corbett. There the pair met Thomas J. Dryers press was transported to Portland, each weekly issue consisted of four pages, printed six columns wide. Little attention was paid to current news events, with the bulk of the papers content devoted to political themes, a loud and bitter rivalry between the competing news organs ensued. Henry Pittock became the owner in 1861 as compensation for unpaid wages, pittocks goal was to focus more on news than the bully pulpit established by Dryer. From 1866 to 1872 Harvey W. Scott was the editor, Henry W. Corbett bought the paper from a cash-poor Pittock in October 1872 and placed William Lair Hill as editor. Scott, fired by Corbett for supporting Ben Holladays candidates, became editor of Holladays rival Bulletin newspaper, the paper went bankrupt around 1874, Holladay having lost $200,000 in the process. Corbett sold The Oregonian back to Pittock in 1877, marking a return of Scott to the editorial helm. A part-owner of the paper, Scott would remain as editor-in-chief until shortly before his death in 1910, in 1881, the first Sunday Oregonian was published. The paper became known as the voice of business-oriented Republicans, as evidenced by consistent endorsement of Republican candidates for president in every election before 1992. The new building was, the same as its predecessor, called the Oregonian Building and it contained about 100,000 square feet of floor space, including the basement but not the tower. The newspaper did not move again until 1948, the 1892 building was demolished in 1950. Following the death of Harvey Scott in 1910, the papers editor-in-chief was Edgar B, piper, who had previously been managing editor. Piper remained editor until his death in 1928, in 1922, The Morning Oregonian launched KGW, Oregons first commercial radio station. Five years later, KGW affiliated with NBC, the newspaper purchased a second station, KEX, in 1933, from NBC subsidiary Northwest Broadcasting Co
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Eugene, Oregon
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Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest located in the U. S. state of Oregon. It is located at the end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers. As of the 2010 census, Eugene had a population of 156,185, it is the second most populous city in the state, the citys population for 2014 was estimated to be 160,561 by the US Census. Eugene is home to the University of Oregon and Lane Community College, the city is also noted for its natural beauty, recreational opportunities, and focus on the arts. Eugenes official slogan is A Great City for the Arts and Outdoors and it is also referred to as the Emerald City and as Track Town, USA. The Nike corporation had its beginnings in Eugene, in 2021, the city will host the 18th Track and Field World Championships. The first people to settle in the Eugene area were known as the Kalapuyans and they made seasonal rounds, moving around the countryside as appropriate to collect and preserve local foods, including acorns, the bulbs of the wapato and camas plants, and berries. They stored these foods in their permanent winter village, when crop activities waned, they returned to their winter villages and took up hunting, fishing, and trading. They were known as the Chifin Kalapuyans and called the Eugene area where they lived Chifin, other Kalapuyan tribes occupied villages that are also now within Eugene city limits. Pee-you or Mohawk Calapooians, Winefelly or Pleasant Hill Calapooians, and they were close-neighbors to the Chifin, intermarried, and were political allies. Some authorities suggest that the Brownsville Kalapuyans were related to the Pee-you and it is likely that since the Santiam had an alliance with the Brownsville Kalapuyans that the Santiam influence also went as far at Eugene. According to archeological evidence, the ancestors of the Kalapuyans may have been in Eugene for as long as 10,000 years, French fur traders had settled seasonally in the Willamette Valley by the beginning of the 19th century. Having already developed relationships with Native communities through intermarriage and trade, by 1828 to 1830 they and their Native wives began year round occupation of the land, raising crops and tending animals. In this process the mixed race families began to impact Native access to land, food supply, in July,1830, intermittent fever struck the lower Columbia region and a year later, the Willamette Valley. Natives traced the arrival of the disease, then new to the Northwest, to the U. S. ship, Owyhee, intermittent fever is thought by researchers now to be malaria. In his book The Coming of the Spirit Pestilence Boyd reports that there was a 92% population loss for the Kalapuyans between 1830 and 1841 and this catastrophic event shattered the social fabric of Kalapuyan society and altered the demographic balance in the Valley. As the demographic pressure from the colonists grew, the remaining Kalapuyans were forcibly removed to reservations, though some Natives escaped being swept into the reservation, most were moved to the Grand Ronde reservation in 1856. Strict racial segregation was enforced and mixed people, known as Métis in French, had to make a choice between the reservation and Anglo society
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Phi Gamma Delta
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Phi Gamma Delta is a social fraternity with more than 158 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848, along with Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta forms a half of the Jefferson Duo. Since its founding in 1848, the fraternity has initiated more than 170,000 brothers, the nickname FIJI is used commonly by the fraternity due to Phi Gamma Delta bylaws that limit the use of the Greek letters. The organization was founded on April 22,1848, at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Six college students gathered in a dormitory room to establish a secret society. The society they formed was initially called The Delta Association, the founders, referred to by members as the Immortal Six, were John Templeton McCarty, Samuel Beatty Wilson, James Elliott Jr. Ellis Bailey Gregg, Daniel Webster Crofts, and Naaman Fletcher. The first regular meeting of Phi Gamma Delta and the adoption of the Fraternitys Constitution took place on May 1,1848. Consequently, May 1 was chosen to be Founders Day at the 43rd Convention held in 1891 and has traditionally celebrated as the founding date of the Fraternity. Contrary to popular belief, the Immortal six were not Freemasons when they entered Jefferson College, similarly, one of the mottoes used by the organization is, Not For College Days Alone. Phi Gamma Deltas mission statement lists five core values for its members, friendship, knowledge, service, morality, in addition, members are encouraged to live by three priorities in a specific order, first, scholarship, second, fraternity, and third, self. This ordering is because members attend university with the foremost goal of receiving an education, Phi Gamma Delta limits the written display of its Greek letters. Whereas other fraternities often display their letters on clothing or other items, in place of the actual Greek letters, Fiji, Phi Gam, or the English spelling Phi Gamma Delta is used in their place. The Fiji nickname started at New York University as a name for the Fraternity magazine. It was officially adopted by the fraternity at the 1894 convention in the belief that the term would be distinctive. The fraternity is composed of chapters of two types, most chapters serve primarily undergraduate students and are established at a single college or university. There are also chapters to serve members of the fraternity who have graduated from college and are established to serve a city or larger region, the chapters are governed by the fraternitys international headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky. Each year the Phi Gamma Delta organization gives out a number of awards, the Frank Norris Pig Dinner is an annual graduate dinner held by all Phi Gamma Delta chapters. The dinner is named for author Frank Norris, a member of the Fiji chapter at the University of California, Pig Dinner is sanctioned by the International Fraternity and it serves to welcome graduate brothers back to their undergraduate chapters. It is the longest continually running, chapter-based, annual Graduate event in the world of fraternities and sororities, the International Fraternity stores a list of annual Pig Dinners
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Daily Emerald
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The Daily Emerald is an online student news site produced at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Its predecessor, the Oregon Daily Emerald newspaper, founded in 1899, trained many prominent writers and journalists, currently, two print news magazines also are published each week, Emerald Monday and Emerald Wknd. The Daily Emerald and associated publications are published by the Emerald Media Group, the Emerald operates quasi-independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. On May 24,1966 the Emerald ran a story, Students Condone Marijuana Use, by author Annette Buchanan, the interviews were granted under the condition that the sources’ names would not be revealed. After reading Buchanans story, local law enforcement officials convened a grand jury investigation into the use of drugs. On June 1,1966, the Lane County District Attorney subpoenas Buchanan, Buchanan refused and was fined $300 for contempt of court. The case went through the system until the Oregon Supreme Court dismissed Buchanans claim that the Oregon Constitution protected her. In 1968 the U. S. Supreme Court refused to grant certiorari, subsequently, the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a journalistic shield law. The Oregon Shield Law provides extensive protection for all members of the news, the statute provides absolute protection from compelled disclosure of both sources and all information obtained by journalists in the course of their work. It is not clear whether the journalist must have promised confidentiality for the source of information to be covered by the law. They issued four demands to the board at its scheduled executive session on March 3, the demands were as follows, Immediately rescind the offer to Steven A. Smith to serve as interim publisher April 1,2009 through June 30,2010. Conduct a nationwide search for a publisher, as voted at the February 10 board meeting. Stipulate in the publishers contract that he or she shall not be employed in any capacity by the University, including at the School of Journalism. On March 4,2009, Steven Smith announced his intention to withdraw from the fray following notification of the student strike, the Board of Directors later stated their intention to conduct a nationwide search. The Oregon Daily Emerald published a newspaper on the morning of March 5,2009, a flurry of media coverage on the strike ensued throughout the day. The newsroom staff agreed to end the strike and resume publishing the newspaper on March 9,2009, in fall 2012, the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Company, Inc. transitioned to a new entity, the Emerald Media Group. Today, the Daily Emerald is online only, it is supplemented by publication of a magazine twice per week. College Newspapers Go Digital-First, Innovate to Stay Relevant, HuffingtonPost. com Ellis, why the Oregon Daily Emerald is Transforming What It Means To Be a College Newspaper, Nieman Journalism Lab, Harvard University Official website
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Varsity letter
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A varsity letter is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities. A varsity letter signifies that its winner was a varsity team member. The award letter is made in the colors and initials representing the school that the recipient attends. The letter patch is primarily constructed of chenille and felt materials, standard sizes range from 4 inches to 8 inches. While 4 inches and 5 inches usually denote Junior Varsity achievements,6 inches to 8 inches would denote full Varsity, the stitching style used for creating the chenille look is called a moss stitch, while the outlining sew down is called a chain stitch. With the advent of organized sports, there was a need for uniforms, there was an additional need for identifications which was satisfied by the use of emblems or letters. In 1865, the Harvard baseball team added an Old English H, the H was embroidered on the gray flannel shirt. The football team started to use the H in 1875, if a player did not play in an important game, the player had to return the jersey at the end of the season. Awarding the H jersey may have been the birth of the varsity letter as an award, the letterman sweater was first regularly used by the 1891 Nine and was black with a small Crimson H on the left breast. It is not known when the letter came to high schools. The earliest known example of a sweater in a high school is found in the 1911 yearbook of Phoenix Union High School. A student in a photo is pictured, not in football uniform. The sweater seems to be the home of the letter from the 1890s until the 1930s. Another award during the 1920s and 1930s was a stadium style blanket given as an award, in the 1930s, the letter award started to appear on leather sleeved, wool-bodied jackets. The jackets from the 1930s were different in design than todays modern jacket, as a decorative clothing item, the varsity letter has a huge number of variations and no set standard is made to any school on how it should look. Chenille letters come in different forms and shapes. Some institutions use Old English or script style, two or three letter monogram, 3D shading, chenille bordered or the traditional straight block style, students generally receive only one actual letter, but can win the distinction multiple times. These additional designations are shown by adding embroidered sport insignias, modeled metal insert pins, some schools may embroider non-athletic letters with their award title, such as Academics or Arts”
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Certified Public Accountant
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Certified Public Accountant is the title of qualified accountants in numerous countries in the English-speaking world. In the United States, the CPA is a license to provide accounting services directly to the public and it is awarded by each of the 50 states for practice in that state. Additionally, almost every state has passed mobility laws in order to practice in their state by CPAs from other states. Continuing professional education is required to maintain licensure. In most U. S. states, only CPAs are legally able to provide to the public opinions on financial statements. Many CPAs are members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, State laws vary widely regarding whether a non-CPA is even allowed to use the title accountant. Many other countries use the title CPA to designate local public accountants. The primary functions performed by CPAs relate to assurance services and these CPAs do not provide services directly to the public. This incident resulted in many accounting firms divesting in their consulting divisions, in audit engagements, CPAs are required by professional standards and Federal and State laws to maintain independence from the entity for which they are conducting an attestation engagement. However, most individual CPAs who work as consultants do not also work as auditors, CPAs also have a niche within the income tax return preparation industry. Many small to mid-sized firms have both a tax and an auditing department, along with attorneys and enrolled agents, CPAs may represent taxpayers in matters before the Internal Revenue Service. The CPA designation was first established in law in New York State on April 17,1896, eligibility to sit for the Uniform CPA Exam is determined by individual state boards of accountancy. Many states have adopted what is known as the 150 hour rule, the Uniform CPA Exam tests general principles of state law such as the laws of contracts and agency and some federal laws as well. Although the CPA exam is uniform, licensing and certification requirements are imposed separately by each states laws, State requirements for the CPA qualification can be summed up as the Three Es—Education, Examination and Experience. The education requirement normally must be fulfilled as part of the eligibility criteria to sit for the Uniform CPA Exam, the examination component is the Uniform CPA Exam itself. Some states have a system whereby an individual would first become certified—usually by passing the Uniform CPA Exam. That individual would then later be eligible to be licensed once a certain amount of experience is accomplished. Other states have a system whereby an individual would be certified and licensed at the same time when both the CPA exam is passed and the work experience requirement has been met
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PricewaterhouseCoopers
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PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the second largest professional services firm in the world, vault Accounting 50 has ranked PwC as the most prestigious accounting firm in the world for seven consecutive years, as well as the top firm to work for in North America for three consecutive years. PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries,756 locations, as of 2015, 22% of the workforce worked in Asia, 26% in North America and Caribbean and 32% in Western Europe. The companys global revenues were $35.9 billion in FY2016, of which $15.2 billion was generated by its Assurance practice, $9.1 billion by its Tax practice, the firm was formed in 1998 by a merger between Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. The trading name was shortened to PwC in September 2010 as part of a rebranding, as of 2016, PwC is the 5th-largest privately owned company in the United States. The firm was created in 1998 when Coopers & Lybrand merged with Price Waterhouse, both firms had histories dating back to the 19th century. In 1854 William Cooper founded a practice in London, which became Cooper Brothers seven years later when his three brothers joined. In 1898, Robert H. Montgomery, William M. Lybrand, Adam A. Ross Jr. and his brother T. Edward Ross formed Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery in the United States. In 1957 Cooper Brothers, Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery, in 1973 the three member firms in the UK, US and Canada changed their names to Coopers & Lybrand. Then in 1980 Coopers & Lybrand expanded its expertise in insolvency substantially by acquiring Cork Gully, in 1990 in certain countries including the UK, Coopers & Lybrand merged with Deloitte Haskins & Sells to become Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, in 1992 they reverted to Coopers & Lybrand. Samuel Lowell Price, an accountant, founded a practice in London in 1849. In 1865 Price went into partnership with William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse, Holyland left shortly afterwards to work alone in accountancy and the firm was known from 1874 as Price, Waterhouse & Co. The original partnership agreement, signed by Price, Holyland and Waterhouse could be found in Southwark Towers, by the late 19th century, Price Waterhouse had gained significant recognition as an accounting firm. As a result of growing trade between the United Kingdom and the United States, Price Waterhouse opened an office in New York in 1890, and the American firm itself soon expanded rapidly. It was said by those involved with the merger that at the end of the discussion, the partners at the table realized they had different views of business. In 1998, Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers & Lybrand to form PricewaterhouseCoopers, after the merger the firm had a large professional consulting branch, as did other major accountancy firms, generating much of its fees. Management Consulting Services was the fastest growing and often most profitable area of the practice, the major cause for growth in the 1990s was the implementation of complex integrated ERP systems for multi-national companies. PwC came under increasing pressure to avoid conflicts of interests by not providing some consulting services, particularly financial systems design and implementation, since it audited a large proportion of the worlds largest companies, this was beginning to limit its consulting market
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Portland State University
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Portland State University is a public, nonprofit, coeducational research university located in the southwest University District of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1946 as an educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the two decades, and was granted university status in 1969. It is the public urban university in the state of Oregon that is located in a major metropolitan city. Portland State is composed of seven constituent colleges, offering degrees in one hundred twenty-three fields. The athletic teams are known as the Portland State Vikings with school colors of green, teams compete at the NCAA Division I Level, primarily in the Big Sky Conference. S. News and World Report in 2016, Portland State has community partnerships with Intel, Oregon Health & Science University, the Portland Public School system, the City of Portland, and Portland General Electric. In 2016, the university was ranked by Niche as one of the most liberal universities in the United States, Portland State University was established as the Vanport Extension Center in June 1946, founded by Stephen Edward Epler, a native of Iowa. Epler graduated from Cotner College in Lincoln, Nebraska, and later Columbia University in New York City, after returning to the United States after serving, Epler became a veterans counselor in Oregons General Extension Division in Portland. The Vanport Extension Center was conceived by Epler in order to satisfy the demand for education in Portland for returning World War II veterans. Bill was passed in 1944 to provide college, high school or vocational education for returning World War II veterans, the first classes were held in the Vanport Junior High School. This first summer session had 221 students, and tuition and fees were $50, over 1,410 students registered for the 1946 fall term, which was delayed until October 7,1946 due to a lack of space. In addition to Vanport Junior High School, Lincoln and Jefferson high schools were used after hours, as well as the University of Oregons dental and medical schools. Following the May 30 Vanport Flood of 1948, the became known as the college that wouldnt die for refusing to close after the flood. The term was coined by Lois Hennessy, a student who wrote about the college, the school occupied Grant High School in the summer of 1948, then to hastily converted buildings at the Oregon Shipyard, known as the Oregon Ship. In 1953, the moved to downtown Portland and occupied the vacated buildings of Lincoln High School on SW Broadway Street, including Lincoln Hall. The school changed its name to the Portland State Extension Center between December 1951 and February 1952, and also earned a title, The U by the Slough. Epler, who had campaigned for a role at the college, was not elected by the State Board
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United States Army Reserve
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The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the Army element of the Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces. On 30 June 2016, Lieutenant General Charles D. Luckey became the 33rd Chief of Army Reserve, on 23 April 1908 Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. This organization provided a pool of trained Reserve officers and enlisted men for use in war. The Organized Reserve included the Officers Reserve Corps, Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Organized Reserves were redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps. Recognizing the importance of the Organized Reserve to the World War II effort, Congress authorized retirement, a tentative troop basis for the Organized Reserve Corps, prepared in March 1946, outlined 25 divisions, three armored, five airborne, and 17 infantry. These divisions and all other Organized Reserve Corps units were to be maintained in one of three categories, labeled Class A, Class B, and Class C. The troop basis listed nine divisions as Class A, nine as Class B, eventually the War Department agreed and made the appropriate changes. Although the dispute over Class A units lasted several months, the War Department proceeded with the reorganization of the Organized Reserve Corps divisions during the summer of 1946. That all divisions were to begin as Class C units, progressing to the categories as men and equipment became available. Also, the War Department wanted to take advantage of the pool of trained reserve officers, by that time Army Ground Forces had been reorganized as an army group headquarters that commanded six geographic armies. The armies replaced the nine areas of the prewar era. The First United States Army declined to support a division. After the change, the Organized Reserve Corps had four airborne, the Second Army insisted upon the number 80 for its airborne unit because the division was to be raised in the prewar 80th Divisions area, not that of the 99th. Finally, the 103rd Infantry Division, organized in 1921 in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, was moved to Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, a major problem in forming divisions and other units in the Organized Reserve Corps was adequate housing. While many National Guard units owned their own armories, some dating back to the nineteenth century, although the War Department requested funds for needed facilities, Congress moved slowly in response. During the summer and fall of 1951 the six army commanders in the United States, staff agencies, the army commanders urged that all divisions in the Organized Reserve Corps be infantry divisions because they believed that the reserves could not adequately support armored and airborne training. They thought thirteen, rather than twelve, reserve divisions should be maintained to provide a geographic distribution of the units
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Kobe
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Kobe is the sixth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is located on the side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka, the earliest written records regarding the region come from the Nihon Shoki, which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD201. For most of its history, the area was never a political entity, even during the Tokugawa period. Kobe did not exist in its current form until its founding in 1889 and its name comes from kanbe, an archaic title for supporters of the citys Ikuta Shrine. Kobe became one of Japans 17 designated cities in 1956, Kobe was one of the cities to open for trade with the West following the 1853 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city. While the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake diminished much of Kobes prominence as a port city, the city is the point of origin and namesake of Kobe beef, as well as the site of one of Japans most famous hot spring resorts, Arima Onsen. Media related to History of Kobe at Wikimedia Commons Tools found in western Kobe demonstrate the area was populated at least from the Jōmon period. The natural geography of the area, particularly of Wada Cape in Hyōgo-ku, led to the development of a port, some of the earliest written documents mentioning the region include the Nihon Shoki, which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD201. During the Nara and Heian periods, the port was known by the name Ōwada Anchorage and was one of the ports from which imperial embassies to China were dispatched. The city was briefly the capital of Japan in 1180, when Taira no Kiyomori moved his grandson Emperor Antoku to Fukuhara in present-day Hyōgo-ku, the Emperor returned to Kyoto after about five months. Shortly thereafter in 1184, the Taira fortress in Hyōgo-ku and the nearby Ikuta Shrine became the sites of the Genpei War battle of Ichi-no-Tani between the Taira and Minamoto clans, the Minamoto prevailed, pushing the Taira further. As the port grew during the Kamakura period, it became an important hub for trade with China, in the 13th century, the city came to be known by the name Hyōgo Port. During this time, Hyōgo Port, along with northern Osaka and it was not until the abolition of the han system in 1871 and the establishment of the current prefecture system that the area became politically distinct. Hyōgo Port was opened to trade by the government of the Bakufu at the same time as Osaka on January 1,1868, just before the advent of the Boshin War. The region has since been identified with the West and many residences from the period remain in Kobes Kitano area. Kobe, as it is today, was founded on April 1,1889. The history of the city is tied to that of the Ikuta Shrine, and the name Kobe derives from kamube
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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Pacific Northwest
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The Pacific Northwest, sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Though no agreed boundary exists, a common conception includes the U. S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Broader conceptions reach north into Alaska and Yukon, south into far northern California and east to the Continental Divide, thus including Idaho, Western Montana, narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the history, geography, society. The Northwest Coast is the region of the Pacific Northwest. The term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory or the Northwest Territories of Canada. The border — in two sections, along the 49th parallel south of British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle west of northern British Columbia — has had an effect on the region. According to Canadian historian Ken Coates, the border has not merely influenced the Pacific Northwest—rather, definitions of the Pacific Northwest region vary, and there is no commonly agreed-upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common conception of the Pacific Northwest includes the U. S. states of Oregon and Washington as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia. Broader definitions of the region may include the U. S. state of Alaska, the Canadian territory of Yukon, the portion of the state of California. Definitions based on the historic Oregon Country reach east to the Continental Divide, thus including all of Idaho and parts of western Montana. Sometimes the Pacific Northwest is defined as being the Northwestern United States, often these definitions are made by government agencies whose scope is limited to the United States. Some definitions include, in addition to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, western Montana, the coast of northern California, the Pacific Northwest has been occupied by a diverse array of indigenous peoples for millennia. The Pacific Coast is seen by scholars as a major coastal migration route in the settlement of the Americas by late Pleistocene peoples moving from northeast Asia into the Americas. Other evidence for human occupation dating back as much as 14,500 years ago is emerging from Paisley Caves in south-central Oregon, however, despite such research, the coastal migration hypothesis is still subject to considerable debate. Due in part to the richness of Pacific Northwest Coast and river fisheries, in the interior of the Pacific Northwest, the indigenous peoples, at the time of European contact, had a diversity of cultures and societies. Some areas were home to mobile and egalitarian societies, others, especially along major rivers such as the Columbia and Fraser, had very complex, affluent, sedentary societies rivaling those of the coast. In British Columbia and Southeast Alaska, the Tlingit and Haida erected large, throughout the Pacific Northwest, thousands of indigenous people live, and some continue to practice their rich cultural traditions, organizing their societies around cedar and salmon
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Nike (mythology)
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In ancient Greek religion, Nike was a goddess who personified victory. She was variously described as the daughter of the Titan Pallas and the goddess Styx, and the sister of Kratos, Bia, the word νίκη nikē is of uncertain etymology. R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin, Nike and her siblings were close companions of Zeus, the dominant deity of the Greek pantheon. According to classical myth, Styx brought them to Zeus when the god was assembling allies for the Titanomachy against the older deities, Nike assumed the role of the divine charioteer, a role in which she often is portrayed in Classical Greek art. Nike flew around rewarding the victors with glory and fame. Nike is seen with wings in most statues and paintings, with one of the most famous being the Winged Victory of Samothrace, most other winged deities in the Greek pantheon had shed their wings by Classical times. Nike is the goddess of strength, speed, and victory, Nike was a very close acquaintance of Athena, and is thought to have stood in Athenas outstretched hand in the statue of Athena located in the Parthenon. Nike is also one of the most commonly portrayed figures on Greek coins, the sports equipment company Nike, Inc. is named after the Greek goddess Nike. Project Nike, an American anti-aircraft missile system is named after the goddess Nike, a figure of Nike with a vessel was the design of the first FIFA World Cup trophy, known also as the Jules Rimet trophy. Since Giuseppe Cassiolis design for the 1928 Summer Olympics, the face of every Olympic medal bears Nikes figure holding a palm frond in her right hand. The goddess appears on the emblem of the University of Melbourne, spirit of Ecstasy, the hood ornament used by the automobile manufacturer Rolls-Royce was inspired by Nike. The Titanic Engineers Memorial, Southampton depicts Nike blessing the engineers of the RMS Titanic for staying at their post as the ship sank, the Honda motorcycle companys logo is inspired by the goddess Nike. Winged Victory of Samothrace Altar of Victory Nike of Paeonius Ángel de la Independencia Smith, William, A Dictionary of Greek, online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Media related to Nike at Wikimedia Commons The dictionary definition of Nike at Wiktionary Theoi Project, Nike Goddess Nike
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Swoosh
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The Swoosh is the logo of American athletic shoe and clothing manufacturer Nike, Inc. Today, it has one of the most recognizable brand logos in the world. Harvard Business School professor, Stephen A. Greyser, has described the logo as the living, bill Bowerman and Phil Knight founded Nike on January 25,1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports. Upon changing its name to Nike, Inc. on May 30,1971, Carolyn Davidson, a student at Portland State University, created the logo, attempting to convey motion in its design. It also symbolizes the wing of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, over the years, the red and white color palette has traditionally been used on the logo, although most recently a solid black swoosh has gained significant popularity. The Swoosh has appeared alongside the trademark Just Do It since 1988, together, these two make up the core of Nikes brand, and has been the face of the company, with many high-profile athletes and sports teams around the world sporting the logos. The Nike Swoosh is a trademark created in 1971 by Carolyn Davidson. It was here that she met Phil Knight, who was at the time teaching accounting classes at the university, for seven years after its founding in 1964, BRS primarily imported Onitsuka Tiger brand running shoes from Japan. In 1971, Knight had decided to launch his own brand of shoes, which would first appear as cleated shoes for football or soccer, all Knight needed was a stripe—the industry term for a shoe logo—to go with his new brand, so he approached Davidson for design ideas. He had asked Davidson to make sure the stripe conveyed motion and they ultimately selected the mark now known globally as the Swoosh. I dont love it, Knight told her, but I think it will grow on me. For her services, the company paid her $35, citing that she worked 17.5 hours on creating the Swoosh, in September 1983, Knight gave Davidson a golden Swoosh ring with an embedded diamond and some Nike stock to express his gratitude. Davidson claims to day that she is not a millionaire. The Swoosh was officially patented on June 18,1971 and in June 1972, track and Field Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, Nikes first official track shoe, the Nike Cortez, was released to the athletes sporting the fresh new Swoosh. Nike co-founder, Phil Knight, was adamant that his companys new logo be a design that is fluid and conveys motion. Knight was very outspoken about his love for rival shoe manufacturer, Adidas, logo and he had talked with Carolyn Davidson about ensuring Nikes new design not resemble that of Adidas. The logo is said to symbolize the wing of the famous Greek Goddess of Victory. When first released, the design was displayed in a variety of colors in order to out on the track from other shoe manufacturers
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Oprah Winfrey
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Orpah Gail Winfrey, better known as Oprah Winfrey, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary degrees from Duke. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14, her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school, by the mid-1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. From 2006 to 2008, her endorsement of Obama, by one estimate, Winfrey was named Orpah on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and Oprah stuck. Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to a teenage mother. She later said that her conception was due to a sexual encounter. Her mother, Vernita Lee, was a housemaid, Winfreys biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner turned barber turned city councilman who had been in the Armed Forces when she was born. However, Mississippi farmer and World War II veteran Noah Robinson, a genetic test in 2006 determined that her matrilineal line originated among the Kpelle ethnic group, in the area that today is Liberia. Her genetic makeup was determined to be 89% Sub-Saharan African, 8% Native American, however, the East Asian may, given the imprecision of genetic testing, actually be Native American markers. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the church, where she was nicknamed The Preacher for her ability to recite Bible verses. When Winfrey was a child, her grandmother would hit her with a stick when she did not do chores or if she misbehaved in any way. Around this time, Lee had given birth to daughter, Winfreys younger half-sister. By 1962, Lee was having difficulty raising both daughters so Winfrey was temporarily sent to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee, while Winfrey was in Nashville, Lee gave birth to a third daughter who was put up for adoption and later also named Patricia. Winfrey did not learn she had a second half-sister until 2010, by the time Winfrey moved back in with Lee, Lee had also given birth to a boy named Jeffrey, Winfreys half-brother, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1989. When Winfrey discussed the alleged abuse with family members at age 24, Winfrey once commented that she had chosen not to be a mother because she had not been mothered well
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Michael Jordan
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American retired professional basketball player, businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Chicago Bulls and his biography on the NBA website states, By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, Jordan played three seasons for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the Bulls in 1984 as the third overall draft pick. He quickly emerged as a star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames Air Jordan. He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball, in 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a three-peat. Jordan retired for a time in January 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Wizards. Among his numerous accomplishments, Jordan holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average and highest career playoff scoring average. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN and he became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015. Jordan is also known for his product endorsements and he fueled the success of Nikes Air Jordan sneakers, which were introduced in 1985 and remain popular today. Jordan also starred in the 1996 feature film Space Jam as himself, in 2006, he became part-owner and head of basketball operations for the then-Charlotte Bobcats, buying a controlling interest in 2010. In 2015, Jordan became the first billionaire NBA player in history as a result of the increase in value of NBA franchises and he is the third richest African American, behind Oprah Winfrey and Robert F. Smith. Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Deloris, who worked in banking and his family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was a toddler. Jordan is the fourth of five children and he has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan, Jr. one older sister, Deloris, and a younger sister, Roslyn. Jordans brother James retired in 2006 as the Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U. S. Army. Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, where he highlighted his athletic career by playing basketball, baseball and he tried out for the varsity basketball team during his sophomore year, but at 511, he was deemed too short to play at that level. His taller friend, Harvest Leroy Smith, was the only sophomore to make the team, motivated to prove his worth, Jordan became the star of Laneys junior varsity squad, and tallied several 40-point games
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Tiger Woods
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Eldrick Tont Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the athletes in the world for several years. Following an outstanding amateur and two-year college golf career, Woods turned professional at age 20 in late summer 1996. By April 1997 he had won his first major, the 1997 Masters, in a record-breaking performance, winning the tournament by 12 strokes. He first reached the one position in the world rankings in June 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, from December 2009 to early April 2010, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity, but he and his wife Elin Nordegren eventually divorced. His many alleged extramarital indiscretions were revealed by several different women and this was followed by a loss of golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No.58 in November 2011. He ended a winless streak of 107 weeks when he triumphed in the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011. After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25,2013, he ascended to the No.1 ranking once again, Woods had back surgery in April 2014 and September 2015 and has struggled since to regain his dominant form. By March 29,2015, Woods had fallen to #104, in May 2016, Woods dropped out of the world top 500 for the first time in his professional career. Woods has broken numerous golf records and he has been World Number One for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer. He has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second-highest of any player, and 79 PGA Tour events, second all time behind Sam Snead and he has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, additionally, Woods is only the second golfer to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999, Woods and Rory McIlroy are the only golfers to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship. Woods was born in Cypress, California, to Earl and Kultida Woods, Kultida, originally from Thailand, is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry. Earl, a lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mostly African American. Earls mother Maude Carter was of light skin, some suggest possible Native American and Chinese ancestry. Tiger refers to his ethnic make-up as Cablinasian, Woods first name, Eldrick, was coined by his mother because it began with E and ended with K
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Will Vinton
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Will Vinton is an American director and producer of animated films. He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards, during the 1960s, Vinton studied physics, architecture and filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was influenced by the work of Antoni Gaudí. Two more films about student protest followed, Berkeley Games and First Ten Days, as well a narrative short Reply, Vinton and Gardiner parted ways during the production of their second short film, Mountain Music completed by Vinton in 1976. Gardiner focused on producing PSA spots for local issues while Vinton established Will Vinton Productions in Portland to capitalize on his animation technology. Quickly expanding his studio by hiring new animators, Vinton produced dozens of commercials for regional and these films were later released theatrically under the umbrella title Trilogy, and later to video as The Little Prince and Friends. In 1978 Vinton produced the documentary Claymation, Three Dimensional Clay Animation a 17-minute film featuring the behind-the-scenes technical processes used, the term Claymation was later trademarked by Vinton, and has become synonymous with clay animation in general. VHS video compilations of films were released in the 1980s as Festival of Claymation and Son of Combo II. Vinton, no longer performing animation himself, later produced special effects scenes for TV shows and movies and his studios animation effects for Disneys Return to Oz were also nominated for a special effects Oscar. Prominent among his hundreds of now international commercial creations were the California Raisins, the Dominos Pizza Noid, and the M&Ms Red, Yellow, and Green characters. The California Raisins first big hit was the song I Heard It Through the Grapevine in the first of their series of TV spots for the California Raisin Advisory Board. They became such a phenomenon that they went on to star in their own pair of primetime specials for CBS television, Meet the Raisins. A couple music albums of songs from the specials, produced by Nu Shooz pop-rock band leader John Smith were also released, CBS also commissioned three more prime-time specials, A Claymation Christmas Celebration, The Claymation Comedy of Horrors a 1991 Halloween special, and A Claymation Easter. All were later released to video and DVD, during the 1990s, the Vinton Studios produced the animated series The PJs for the FOX TV network. The series was conceived and executive-produced by Eddie Murphy, another animated series was produced for the UPN TV network by the Vinton studio, Gary and Mike, now a cult favorite. Both series used a refinement in Vintons style of dimensional animation, Vinton soon coined a new term for this process, Foamation. In the 1990s a variety of Vintons 400 + animators and technicians helped with new creations, craig Bartlett created his Arnold Escapes From Church short film which later spawned Hey Arnold. A cel-animated series for Nickelodeon and generated two more clay-animated short films, The Arnold Waltz and Arnold Rides a Chair, the mid-1990s also saw Vinton adding computer animation to his output, used most visibly for his M&Ms character commercials. A short CGI film, Fluffy, directed by Doug Aberle, was created during this time, other CGI films — some combined with clay and stop-motion animation — soon followed
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Coraline (film)
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Coraline is a 2009 American 3D stop-motion dark fantasy film based on Neil Gaimans 2002 novel of the same name. It was produced by Laika and distributed by Focus Features, the film depicts an adventurous girl finding an idealized parallel world behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that the alternate world contains a dark and sinister secret. Written and directed by Henry Selick, the film was made with Gaimans approval, the film was released widely in United States theaters on February 6,2009, after a world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival, and received critical acclaim. The film made $16.85 million during opening weekend, ranking third at the box office, at the end of its box office run, the film had grossed over $124.5 million worldwide. Coraline won Annie Awards for best music, character design, production design and received Academy Award, metallic hands, made of sewing needles, create a button-eyed rag doll that resembles a young girl. Coraline Jones and her parents, who are busy editors of a catalogue, move from Pontiac, Michigan to Ashland, Oregon. Coralines eccentric new neighbors are Mr. Bobinsky, a Russian acrobat who owns a circus of trained mice, the mystery deepens when Coraline stumbles upon a small door sealed by bricks inside her apartment. That night, a mouse guides her through the secret door, here, doubles of real-world people have buttons for eyes, and Coralines Other Mother and Other Father are warmer and more attentive than her real parents. After a delicious dinner, she goes to sleep in her Other Bedroom, at first, she assumes she must have been dreaming but awakens again inside the Other World the following night. One day, the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay forever, the black cat reappears and, able to speak in the Other World, exposes the Other Mothers desire to trap Coraline. Horrified, Coraline refuses the Other Mothers invitation, so the Other Mother shapeshifts into her true grotesque form, there, Coraline meets the ghosts of previous victims, including the long-lost twin sister of Wybies grandmother. The ghosts reveal that the Other Mother sent rag dolls that resembled them too in order to spy on their lives and she lured them into the Other World with the promise of endless fun but then sewed buttons over their eyes. To free their souls, their eyes, hidden in special objects. Coraline promises to return their eyes, Coraline is suddenly rescued from the magic mirror by the Other Wybie. She climbs through the back to the real world but discovers her actual parents have gone missing. The cat leads Coraline to the real worlds mirror, in which a vision of her trapped parents write HELP US, one by one, Coraline retrieves the childrens eyes in the Other World. As she does, the Other World around the Other Pink Palace gradually disintegrates until only the apartment is left, inside, Coraline confronts the Other Mother herself, now in a spider-like form, with sewing needles for hands. Coraline finds her parents trapped in a globe, takes it
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El Salvador
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El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. El Salvadors capital and largest city is San Salvador, as of 2015, the country had a population of approximately 6.38 million, consisting largely of Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent. El Salvador was for centuries inhabited by several Mesoamerican nations, especially the Cuzcatlecs, as well as the Lenca, in the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. In 1821, the country achieved independence from Spain as part of the First Mexican Empire, from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, El Salvador endured chronic political and economic instability characterized by coups, revolts, and a succession of authoritarian rulers. The conflict ended with a settlement that established a multiparty constitutional republic. El Salvador has since reduced its dependence on coffee and embarked on diversifying the economy by opening up trade and financial links, the colón, the official currency of El Salvador since 1892, was replaced by the U. S. dollar in 2001. As of 2010, El Salvador ranks 12th among Latin American countries in terms of the Human Development Index, however, the country continues to struggle with high rates of poverty, inequality, and crime. Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado named the new province for Jesus Christ – El Salvador, the full name was Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, El Salvador Del Mundo, which was subsequently abbreviated to El Salvador. Tomayate is a site located on the banks of the river of the same name in the municipality of Apopa. The site has produced abundant Salvadoran megafauna fossils belonging to the Pleistocene epoch, at the same time, it is considered the richest vertebrate paleontological site in Central America and one of the largest accumulations of proboscideans in the Americas. Sophisticated civilization in El Salvador dates to its settlement by the indigenous Lenca people, theirs was the first, the Lenca were succeeded by the Olmecs, who eventually also disappeared, leaving their monumental architecture in the form of the pyramids still extant in western El Salvador. The Maya arrived and settled in place of the Olmecs, the Pipil were the last indigenous people to arrive in El Salvador. They called their territory Kuskatan, a Pipil word meaning The Place of Precious Jewels, backformed into Classical Nahuatl Cōzcatlān, the people of El Salvador today are referred to as Salvadoran, while the term Cuzcatleco is commonly used to identify someone of Salvadoran heritage. In pre-Columbian times, the country was inhabited by various other indigenous peoples, including the Lenca. Cuzcatlan was the domain until the Spanish conquest. Since El Salvador resided on the edge of the Maya Civilization. However, it is agreed that Mayas likely occupied the areas around Lago de Guija. Other ruins such as Tazumal, Joya de Cerén and San Andrés may have built by the Pipil or the Maya or possibly both
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Nonprofit organization
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A nonprofit organization is an organization whose purpose is something other than making a profit. A nonprofit organization is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view. This is known as the non-distribution constraint, the decision to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption, charitable status and so on. The terms nonprofit and not-for-profit are not consistently differentiated across jurisdictions, in laymans terms they are usually equivalent in concept, although in various jurisdictions there are accounting and legal differences. The nonprofit landscape is varied, although many people have come to associate NPOs with charitable organizations. Although charities do make up an often high-profile or visible aspect of the sector, overall, they tend to be either member-serving or community-serving. e. It could be argued many nonprofits sit across both camps, at least in terms of the impact they make. For example, the support group that provides a lifeline to those with a particular condition or disease could be deemed to be serving its members. Many NPOs use the model of a bottom line in that furthering their cause is more important than making a profit. Although NPOs are permitted to generate revenues, they must be retained by the organization for its self-preservation, expansion. NPOs have controlling members or a board of directors, many have paid staff including management, whereas others employ unpaid volunteers and executives who work with or without compensation. In some countries, where there is a fee, in general. The extent to which an NPO can generate surplus revenues may be constrained or use of surplus revenues may be restricted. Some NPOs may also be a charity or service organization, they may be organized as a corporation or as a trust. Their goal is not to be successful in terms of wealth, NPOs have a wide diversity of structures and purposes. Some of the above must be expressed in the charter of establishment or constitution. Others may be provided by the authority at each particular jurisdiction. While affiliations will not affect a legal status, they may be taken into consideration by legal proceedings as an indication of purpose, most countries have laws that regulate the establishment and management of NPOs and that require compliance with corporate governance regimes
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Lake Ilopango
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Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills a scenic 8 by 11 km volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments. The caldera, which contains the second largest lake in the country and is immediately east of the capital city, any surplus drains via the Jiboa River to the Pacific Ocean. The lake is known for being a source for the extreme weather events of 535–536. The military airbase, Ilopango International Airport, has annual airshows where international pilots from all over the fly over San Salvador City. Four major dacitic - rhyolitic eruptions occurred during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, producing pyroclastic flows, the caldera collapsed most recently sometime between 410 and 535 AD, which produced widespread pyroclastic flows and devastated Mayan cities. The eruption produced about 25 km3 of tephra, thus rating a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, the ash-cloud fallout blanketed an area of at least 10,000 square kilometres waist-deep in pumice and ash, which would have stopped all agricultural endeavor in the area for decades. There is an opinion that this caused the extreme weather events of 535–536 in Europe. Later eruptions formed several lava domes within the lake and near its shore, the only historical eruption, which occurred from December 31,1879, up to March 26,1880, produced a lava dome and had a VEI of 3. The lava dome reached the surface of the lake, forming the islets known as Islas Quemadas, list of volcanoes in El Salvador Global Volcanism Program, Ilopango Lake Ilopango at NASA Earth Observatory website
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San Salvador
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San Salvador is the capital and largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the political, cultural, educational and financial center. As a gamma global city, San Salvador is also an important financial hub of Central America, San Salvador is located in the Salvadoran highlands, surrounded by volcanoes and prone to earthquakes. The city is home to the Catholic Archdiocese, as well as many Protestant branches of Christianity, including Evangelicals, Latter-day Saints, Baptists. San Salvador has the second largest Jewish community in Central America, San Salvador has been the host city for various regional and international sporting, political, and social events. It hosted the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1935 and 2002, San Salvador was also the host city of the 18th Ibero-American Summit, held October 29–31,2008, the most important sociopolitical event in the Spanish and Portuguese sphere. The Central American Integration System has its headquarters in San Salvador, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration also has its headquarters in San Salvador. Before the Spanish conquest, the Pipil people established their capital, Cuzcatlan, not much is known about Cuzcatlan, as it was abandoned by its inhabitants in an effort to avoid Spanish rule. Under the orders of conquistador Pedro de Alvarado, his associates Gonzalo de Alvarado and Diego de Holguín occupied the empty settlement, Diego de Holguín became the first mayor of San Salvador after the town was founded on April 1,1525. The town changed location twice, in 1528 and 1545, the new site was chosen because it had more space and more fertile land, thanks to the Acelhuate River. The population of the city remained relatively small until the early 20th century, in January 1885, during the presidency of Dr. Rafael Zaldivar, a group of businessmen and the presidents family contributed funds for building the Sara Zaldivar Asylum for Indigents and the Elderly. In 1902, the Hospital Rosales was built, named after its benefactor, Dr. Jose Rosales, the hospitals construction was begun by president Carlos Ezeta and finished during the presidency of Tomás Regalado. In 1905 president Pedro José Escalón initiated construction of the National Palace, the Monumento a los Próceres de 1811, located in the Plaza Libertad, and the Teatro Nacional were built in 1911 during Dr. Manuel Enrique Araujos presidency. In 1917, an earthquake during an eruption of the nearby San Salvador volcano damaged the city, on December 2,1931, president Arturo Araujo was ousted by a military coup détat and replaced by a military directorate. The directorate named vice-president Maximiliano Hernández Martínez as president and Araujo went into exile, the Martínez regime lasted from December 4,1931 to May 6,1944. In 1964, the Christian Democratic Party candidate, José Napoleon Duarte, during his term he ordered construction of the Pancho Lara park in the Vista Hermosa neighborhood, renewed the electrical grid, and set up a system of schools for adult education. The 1960s to the 1980s were the age of San Salvador in all aspects of security, quality of life. Today the tallest building in the country has 28 floors and is 110 meters high, with the commencement of the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, many modernization projects were halted
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S. C. Johnson & Son
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S. C. Johnson & Son is an American multinational privately held manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin. It has operations in 72 countries and its brands are sold in over 110 and it is the largest component of the Johnson Family Enterprises, which also includes the Johnson Financial Group, and Johnson Outdoors. In 2006, S. C. Johnson & Son employed approximately 13,000 and had estimated sales of $7.5 billion. The company began when Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr. purchased the flooring business of Racine Hardware Company in 1886. Management has since passed down through five generations of the Johnson family, in 1939, the first part of the Johnson Wax Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened. Its addition, the Research Tower, opened in 1950, common products advertised on the show were Johnsons Wax, Johnsons Glo-Coat, and Johnsons Car-Nu. In 1984, Cornell University renamed its business school the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in recognition of the Johnson familys long generosity to that institution, in 1992, the company bought Drackett, manufacturer of Windex, Drāno and other specialty cleaning products. Dow Chemical purchased Texize in 1986, in which it received the Fantastik, the company received approval for the deal in 1998 from the Federal Trade Commission by agreeing to sell the Glass Plus and Spray n Wash brands to competitor Reckitt Benckiser. In 1999, the cleaning products and systems division separated from Johnson Wax. He succeeds his father, Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. who died in May 2004, the company was one of three 2006 recipients of the Ron Brown Award for corporate leadership. From 2005 to 2011, S. C. Johnson & Son was ranked by Fortune Magazine as one of the top 10 Companies to Work For in their annual ranking, in 2007, the company was ranked #7, In 2011, they were ranked #10. Despite its large size, the company privately owned by the Johnson family. The Greenlist logo represents an internal system to help customers identify which products are environmentally safe. The Greenlist label is present in many S. C. Johnson & Son products, the Greenlist process has resulted in the elimination of 1.8 million pounds of volatile organic compounds from Windex, and four million pounds of polyvinylidene chloride from Saran Wrap. In 2011, S. C. Johnson & Son settled a lawsuit alleged the companys Greenlist label misled consumers into believing the products were reviewed by a third party. The company agreed to a sum and dropped the labeling of Greenlist on Windex. S. C. Johnson & Son is the sponsor of the Serra das Almas Private Natural Heritage Reserve in the states of Ceará and Piauí. The reserve protects an area of the biome, including wild specimens of the carnauba palm tree
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Mark Parker
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Mark Parker is the Chief Executive Officer of Nike, Inc. he was named the third CEO of the company in 2006. Parker was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of Elizabeth and he earned his bachelors degree in Political Science at Penn State University in 1977. He is married to Kathy Parker and has three children, Jennifer, Megan, and Matthew and he ran on the Penn State track and cross country teams. Parker joined Nike in 1979 as a designer based in its R&D facility in Exeter. He became Division Vice President in charge of development in 1987, Corporate Vice President in 1989, General Manager in 1993, prior to becoming vice president of Nike, he served as co-president of the Nike brand beginning in March 2001. He still participates in design, most notably on the Nike HTM project, creating limited edition footwear alongside Nike designer Tinker Hatfield. He has committed to ensuring that Nike remain environmentally conscious, after 10 years of work, Parker and his team launched the first Green Shoe that adheres to the principles of sustainability. He is also responsible for other brands in Nikes portfolio, including Converse Inc. while CEO of Nike in 2012, Mark G. After being promoted to chairman in 2016, Mark Parkers compensation tripled to over $47.6 million - $33.5 million of which came from stock rewards, in 2015, Mark Parker was named Fortunes Businessperson of the year. It was announced in June 2015 that Mark Parker is replacing Phil Knight as company chairman of Nike in 2016, trevor Edwards will be filling in as CEO. Parker is an avid arts supporter with an ongoing collection of modern, low brow and underground contemporary art. In June 7,2012 pop culture website So Bad So Good showcased The Unreal Artwork Inside the Office of Nike CEO Mark Parker, other notable items include rare movie ephemera such as original props and models from Mars Attacks. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Back to the Future, and Batman
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Matthew Knight Arena
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The Matthew Knight Arena is a 12,364 seat, multi-purpose arena in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is home of the University of Oregon Ducks basketball teams and it is located on the east side of campus at the corner of Franklin Boulevard and Villard Street, a gateway to campus as people arrive from I-5. The arena was intended to be ready for the start of the 2010–11 basketball season. It is named for chief donor Phil Knights son, Matthew Knight, the arena cost $227 million and was designed as collaboration between TVA Architects of Portland, Oregon and Ellerbe Becket of Kansas City, Missouri. Hoffman Construction Company of Portland, Oregon was the general contractor, the Ducks inaugurated the arena to a sold-out crowd on January 13,2011, beating the USC Trojans 68–62. The arena floor is named Kilkenny Floor after former Oregon Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny, called Deep in the Woods, the design features repeating silhouettes of Pacific Northwest tree lines, giving the impression of being lost in the forest, gazing toward the sky. The arena also features a 32-by-36-foot,65, 000-pound center-hung scoreboard and it contains four 20 by 12 feet high definition LED monitors and is connected to the ceiling by intersecting O logos. There was some criticism from fans about the glare caused by the courts contrast, there also was criticism for the lack of a visible center court line, though one has since been added. The university was criticized for overstating the income estimates, there was also concern from residents of the Fairmount neighborhood, where the arena is located, about insufficient parking and trash disposal during events. According to spokesman Greg Rikhoff, the University did not originally plan to add any new parking for the 12,500 seat arena, the first proposals included only street parking and a remote park and ride shuttle service for spectators, but later proposals added parking spaces. Matthew Knight Arena official website Student Group Arena Information official website
US$30 billion (January 2018) [1]
