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Hung, Tamara

  • US-NY-HT001
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 2000s-

Tamara Hung is a special events manager at the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) in Vancouver. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Douglas College, and the Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music in New York City, NY. She has produced many events, including the ALS Adventure Challenge and an FMA Fashion Week Gala, before moving to Vancouver, where she worked as an event assistant for the Metro Vancouver YWCA from 2010 to 2011. Since 2011, she has been the special events manager for YWCA Vancouver.

Hammond, John Paul

  • US-NY-HJP001
  • Pessoa
  • November 13, 1942 -

John Paul Hammond Jr. is an American blues singer and musician. He was born on November 13, 1942 in New York City, NY to record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond and his first wife, Jemison McBride, an actress. He is a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the patriarch of the prominent Vanderbilt family, through his paternal grandmother Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond. He has a brother, Jason, and a stepsister, (Esme) Rosita Sarnoff, the daughter of his father's second wife, Esme O'Brien Sarnoff. Hammond's middle name, Paul, is in honor of a friend of his father, the actor Paul Robeson. The younger Hammond was raised by his mother and saw his father only a few times a year while growing up. He began playing guitar in high school, partially inspired by the album Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall. He attended Antioch College for one year, but dropped out to pursue a music career. By the mid-1960s, he was touring nationally and living in Greenwich Village in New York City. He befriended and recorded with many electric blues musicians in New York, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Levon Helm's New Hawks (later known as The Band), Mike Bloomfield, Dr. John, and Duane Allman. Hammond usually plays acoustically, choosing National Reso-Phonic Guitars, and sings in a barrelhouse style. Since 1962, when he made his debut on Vanguard Records, he has made thirty-four albums. In the 1990s, he began recording on the Point Blank Records label. Hammond has earned one Grammy Award and been nominated for four others. He also provided the soundtrack for the 1970 film Little Big Man, starring Dustin Hoffman. Although critically acclaimed, Hammond has received only moderate commercial success. Nonetheless, he enjoys a strong fan base and has earned respect from John Lee Hooker, Roosevelt Sykes, Duane Allman, Rory Gallagher, Willy Deville, Robbie Robertson, Mike Bloomfield and Charlie Musselwhite, all of whom have contributed their musical talents to his records. In addition, he is the only person who ever had both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band at the same time, if only for five days in the 1960s, when Hammond played The Gaslight Cafe in New York City. However, they never recorded together. It has been suggested that Hammond deserves some credit for helping boost The Band to wider recognition. He recorded with several members of The Band in 1965 and recommended them to Bob Dylan, with whom they undertook a famed and tumultuous world tour. In the 1980s, Hammond played a show at Brackendale Art Gallery near Squamish. Hammond hosted the 1991 UK television documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, detailing the life of the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. Hammond has had a longstanding friendship with the songwriter Tom Waits and has performed Waits' songs on occasion. In 2001, he released Wicked Grin, an album consisting entirely of Waits compositions, with one exception, the traditional spiritual, "I Know I've Been Changed". Waits played guitar and sang backing vocals on the album and was also its producer. In 2003, he released Ready for Love, produced by David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. It included a Mick Jagger and Keith Richards song, "The Spider and the Fly". His 2009 album, entitled Rough & Tough, was a 2010 nominee for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2011, Hammond was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame of the Blues Foundation. Hammond married his first wife, Dana McDevitt, a daughter of John Burke McDevitt, on October 21, 1967. They later divorced. In 1991, Hammond married his second wife, Marla.

Geological Society of America (GSA)

  • US-NY-GEO-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1888-

The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a professional society and non-profit organization created to advance geoscience research and discovery, service to society, stewardship of Earth, and the geosciences profession. The society aims to aid the global community in scientific discovery, communication, and application of geoscience knowledge. The society was founded in Ithaca, NY, in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Procter, and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, CO since 1967. The GSA began with 100 members under its first president, James Hall. In 1889, Mary Emilie Holmes became its first female member. It grew slowly but steadily to 600 members until 1931, when a nearly $4 million endowment from 1930 president R. A. F. Penrose Jr. jumpstarted GSA's growth. As of December 2017, GSA had more than 25,000 members in over 100 countries. The society has six regional sections in North America, three interdisciplinary interest groups, and eighteen specialty divisions. Its activities include organizing scientific meetings and conferences, publishing scientific journals and books, disbursing research grants, bestowing medals and awards, supporting geoscience teachers, enabling students from diverse backgrounds to seek and maintain careers in the geosciences, and fostering public awareness of geoscience issues.

Ernst & Young Global Ltd.

  • US-NY-EW001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • [oldest component 1849, merger] 1989-

Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY) is worldwide accounting firm and professional service network which is the product of the 1989 merger between two large accounting firms: Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young & Co.. EY resulted from several mergers of ancestor firms over the last century and a half, the oldest of which was founded in 1849, in England, as Harding & Pullein. That same year, this firm was joined by an accountant named Frederick Whinney, who, a decade later, became a partner. After his son joined the firm, it was later renamed Whinney, Smith & Whinney, in 1894. In 1903, the firm Ernst & Ernst was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, by Alwin C. Ernst, and his brother, Theodore Ernst. In 1906, Arthur Young & Co. was set up by a Scotsman accountant, Arthur Young, in Chicago. Starting in 1924, these two American firms became allied with prominent British firms; Young with Broads Paterson & Co.; and Ernst with the aforementioned Whinney Smith & Whinney. The latter of these two mergers spawned Anglo-American partnership Ernst & Whinney in 1979, then the fourth largest accountancy firm in the world. A decade later, in 1989, Ernst & Whinney merged with the fifth largest firm globally at the time, Arthur Young & Co., to create Ernst & Young. The Ernst & Young merger created a firm with 6,100 partners and two chief executive officers, Ray Groves from Ernst & Whinney and William Gladstone from Arthur Young. In one of its first business decisions following the merger, Ernst & Young began to move into computer-aided software engineering. This step reflected Ernst & Young's diversification into management systems and strategic planning services for businesses. The process innovation services were sold worldwide, primarily to the insurance and banking industries. he 1990s, it was steeped in the controversy surrounding the crisis of the savings and loan industry. Ernst & Young's audits of 23 failed savings and loans were investigated by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) under a subpoena issued in June 1991. Several judgments were rendered against Ernst & Young in connection with the investigation. In July 1992, for instance, the firm paid a fine of $1.66 million to settle accusations that it helped Charles H. Keating, Jr., deceive the federal government about the health of his failing S&L. Moreover, former Ernst & Young partner Jack D. Atchison's license was suspended for four years by the accounting board of Arizona. He was accused of helping persuade five U.S. senators to intervene with federal regulators on Keating's behalf. In connection with this settlement, Ernst & Young paid $63 million to settle charges of wrongdoing in the Keating affair. Ernst & Young did not admit guilt, however, and the claim was paid largely by insurance. In total, some $204 million in fines were paid in this civil suit. In another settlement, Ernst & Young paid $400 million to the federal government in compliance with a federal ruling against the company. To eliminate overlap created by the merger and to reduce its payroll expenses, the firm cut its staff in 1991 and eliminated many partner positions. Although revenues had fallen slightly in the late 1980s, by the early 1990s revenues were modestly but steadily rising. Ernst & Young's costly legal battles encouraged several changes in the mid-1990s. First, the firm hired a new general legal counsel, Kathryn Oberly, who reputedly made keeping costs down a higher priority than battling on principle. Second, the firm stepped up its expansion into consulting, an area much less fraught with legal responsibilities and their concomitant lawsuits than auditing. In addition to increasing its consulting in risk management, the company moved into information software products. Ernst & Young also entered new business areas in the mid-1990s by developing alliances and by acquiring smaller companies. In 1996 the firm forged an alliance with Tata Consulting, headquartered in India. The same year, its alliance with ISD/Shaw gave the firm an entree into banking industry consulting. The firm moved into the petroleum and petrochemical consulting business in 1996 when it purchased Wright Kellen & Co. Ernst & Young created a new subsidiary with the Houston-based company, which they named Ernst & Young Wright Killen. In 1997 Ernst & Young forged an agreement to merge with KPMG International, another Big Six accounting firm, but abandoned the merger plans in 1998. In 2002, Ernst & Young serviced a large chunk of the clients previously working with Arthur Andersen after their downfall in connection with the Enron scandal. In 2010, Ernst & Young acquired Terco, the Brazilian member firm of Grant Thornton. Ernst & Young announced that it had adopted EY as its global brand name on July 1, 2013. Also in 2013, the Pope of the Roman Catholic church hired EY to help review Vatican City State's finances and help "verify and consult" the institution's administration, including the museums, post office and tax-free department store.[30] EY expanded further and acquired all of KPMG Denmark's operations. In 2014, EY acquired global strategy consulting firm The Parthenon Group. In 2015, EY opened its first global Security Operations Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in India, and coincidentally invested $20 million over 5 years to combat the increasing threat of cybercrimes. EY is currently headquartered in New York City, NY.

Eastman Kodak Company

  • US-NY-EAS-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • May 23, 1892 -

The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. George Eastman marketed the first commercial transparent roll film in 1889, and Kodak was founded by George Eastman and Henry A. Strong on May 23, 1892. During most of the 20th century, Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film. The company's ubiquity was such that its "Kodak moment" tagline entered the common lexicon to describe a personal event that deserved to be recorded for posterity. Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s, as a result of the decline in sales of photographic film and its slowness in moving to digital photography, despite developing the first self-contained digital camera. As a part of a turnaround strategy, Kodak began to focus on digital photography and digital printing, and attempted to generate revenues through aggressive patent litigation. In January 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Shortly thereafter, Kodak announced that it would stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames and focus on the corporate digital imaging market. In August 2012, Kodak announced its intention to sell its photographic film, commercial scanners and kiosk operations, as a measure to emerge from bankruptcy, but not its motion picture film operations. In January 2013, the Court approved financing for Kodak to emerge from bankruptcy by mid 2013. Kodak sold many of its patents, and on September 3, 2013, the company emerged from bankruptcy having shed its large legacy liabilities and exited several businesses.

DJ Hex Hector

  • US-NY-DJHH001
  • Pessoa
  • April 15, 1965 -

Hex Hector is Héctor Ortiz, an American music producer and DJ. He was born on April 15, 1965 in New York City, NY of a Puerto Rican mother and Cuban father. He won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Remixer.

DJ David Knapp

  • US-NY-DJDK001
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 1990s-

DJ David Knapp is a DJ originating in New York City, NY who now lives in Atlanta, GA. After holding a residency at both Roxy and Limelight in New York City, David accepted an exclusive Saturday night residency at TWILO in the Autumn of 1999. David's most famous credits include: Miami White Party at Vizcaya (9 yrs), Montreal's Black & Blue Military Ball, The Saint Black Party, Amnesia's Post New Year's Party, Pensacola's Memorial Day Weekend, Miami's Winter Party Weekend, Chicago's IML, San Francisco's Hell Ball, Palm Springs White Party Weekend, Whistler Pride, and New Orleans Halloween. He has played in Amsterdam, Mykonos, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Costa Rica. In the summer of 2000, David played a tour of Japan. He was also the sole DJ performing for New York City's Gay Pride Pier Dance, before a crowd of 10,000 - the first time ever that only one DJ has been chosen to play the entire Pier Dance.

DJ Abel Aguilera

  • US-NY-DJA001
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 1980s-

DJ Abel Aguilera, also known as DJ Abel, is a DJ from Miami, FL who was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 for his co-produced (along with Ralphi Rosario) Club Mix of Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)". Aguilera was born in New York, NY, but moved to Miami as a teen, where he has earned a bit of fame at a young age, as one of the first mixers Super Q FM 107, at that time the highest rated station in Miami. He began collaborating with Ralphi Rosario in 1992 and the two DJs continue to come together to work, despite retaining separate careers and homes in Miami and Chicago. He has played sets at the Whistler Pride festival.

Diamond, Adele Dorothy

  • US-NY-DAD001
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 1970s-

Dr. Adele Dorothy Diamond is a professor of neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, where she is currently a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Diamond grew up in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, NY and graduated from John Bowne High School as Valedictorian. She attended Swarthmore College on a four-year Swarthmore National Scholarship and graduated in 1975, majoring in Sociology-Anthropology and Psychology. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with the highest honor in the course program of study. Diamond did her PhD graduate work at Harvard University (graduating in 1983), with a four-year NSF Graduate Fellowship for those thought to have outstanding research promise and a three-year Danforth Graduate Fellowship for those committed to university teaching. Diamond went to Yale University School of Medicine to bolster her desires to pioneer in cognitive neuroscience, specifically how executive functions are affected by biological and environmental factors, especially in children. Her discoveries have improved treatment for disorders such as phenylketonuria and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and they have impacted early education. In 2009, Diamond was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2000, she received the 21st Century Award for Achievement, and was named one of the "2000 Outstanding Women of the 20th Century" by IBC, Cambridge, UK. In 2009, Diamond received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award and in 2014, Diamond received the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association. In 2015, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev conferred an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa) to her. Her early days in academia were spent as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and she went on to become Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia.

Balan, Michele

  • US-NY-BM001
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 2000s-

Michele Balan is a New York stand-up comedian known for appearing in Neon Jungle, Under the Pink Carpet (2000), and Stand-Up 360: Edition 2 . After leaving a high-paying executive position at a computer company, Balan honed her comedy skills making the rounds at local New York comedy clubs. She moved to Los Angeles, where she recorded her first CD “Neurotic by Nature” at the Hollywood Improv. Michele headlines across the country at comedy clubs, corporate events, and country clubs and is a popular act for major cruise lines.
Balan has appeared on the Joy Behar Show, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed, the OUTlaugh festival, the Montreal “Just for Laughs” festival, and “Gotham Live”. She was also a top 5 finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing 4.

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