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Mia Novoa is a character in the television series Grachi, is interpreted by actress, model and singer Venezuelan Maria Gabriela de Faria. It is a new witch who studies in Escolarium, it is very bad and selfish and will do anything to be her boyfriend Daniel and destroy Grachi. His first appearance was in the last episode of the first season Grachi where a flower Grachi damage had created and Escolarium breaking a glass with magic, her eyes showed very strong orange color meant hatred and evil. She also has a birthmark shaped chandelier.

Personality 
Mia is very selfish, brilliant and intelligent, magically solve everything that she thinks all witches should use their powers to have fun and make everything easier. She does not throw his spells as Grachi and Matilda, they throw it with your finger and see a glimmer, she appears purple smoke by closing his hand and leaving two fingers up being the index and the middle but when Athena Grachi launched the spell of forgetfulness she was in another world and knew nothing of magic but when Matilda, will not affect the spell, she said she is a witch spells all made with the finger.

Second season 
In the first episode of the 2nd season was his second appearance in Grachi, the program begins where she is in her room that is purple, she gets up from her bed, using her magic dress and placed his shoes one at a time with magic and then comes his older brother Ignacio "Nacho" who knows nothing of magic, and says that breakfast is ready and to order her room, her room was so messy so I use magic and then comes back Nacho he said he was going to help but she says it is not necessary because it's over. Then decided to stroll Enchanted City (home), and meets Lucia Grachi and makes a spell to hear what they were talking and listening Grachi Lucia told him not to worry of evil witches because she is the Chosen (the most powerful witch, but no more than the tip), then wanted to go to the mall and opposite Grachi to pull conjures up a shelf full of many things but just then Grachi lifts, Mia showed making powers all the perfumes that she wanted to appear in her purse and commercial security came and told him to give the bag to check, but Mia threw a spell that made everything she would give it to him without to pay. In the last episode of the 2nd season she, Leo and Athena were becoming a wedding caeos Ursula and Francisco. In the end they are losing, Leo dies electrocuted, Athena was taken to prison for Ivis and Priscilla, as she and Matilda Grachi memory erased.

References

Other websites 
 Wiki Grachi in Spanish
 Series website in Mundonick 
 Series website (private))

Television characters
Maria Gabriela de Faria Chacón (born September 11, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an award-winning Venezuelan actress and singer. She got international fame as Isabela "Isa" Pasquali in the Nickelodeon series "Isa TKM".

Across Latin America and the US Hispanic population, the teen telenovela, with Maria in the lead role, became Nick’s #1 Spanish language program in over 20 countries. It also had a sold-out live tour and two numbet one albums. The series had many adolescent fans. These were described by the Los Angeles Times as "Isa-Mania".  She was also dating her TV love interest in real-life, Reinaldo Zavarce. This brought them more attention from the international media as well as the covers of teen magazines across Latin America.

Maria can currently be seen in Season Two of Nickelodeon’s series Grachi in the role of Mia Novoa.

Career 
María Gabriela de Faria began her career acting in the Venezuelan telenovela Ser Bonita No Basta, the teen drama Túkiti, Crecí de Una, a production of RCTV in which she played the heroine Wendy, and the soap opera Toda Una Dama (also with Reinaldo Zavarce.  In 2007 she was a co-host of the children's program La Merienda from RCTV. She has also a featured in various TV campaigns across Latin America.

Awards and Nominations 
 2012 “Kid’s Choice Awards” (Mexico) – Favorite Villain - “Grachi” - Nominated
 2010 “Kid’s Choice Awards” (Mexico) – Favorite Female Character - “Isa TK+” - WINNER
 2010 “Kid’s Choice Awards” (Mexico) – Favorite Look - “Isa TK+”
 2010 “Kid’s Choice Awards” (Brasil) – Favorite Actress - “Isa TKM” - WINNER
 2006 “Awards Two of Gold” - Juvenile actress of the Year - “Túkiti, Crecí de Una” – WINNER

Telenovelas 
 Grachi (2012-present) Mia Novoa
 Isa TK+ (2009–2010)* Isabella Pasquali
 MTV Los Premios (2009) Herself
 Isa TKM (2008–2009) Isabella Pasquali
 Ser Bonita No Basta (2007) Andreina Marquez
 El don (2006) Various characters
 Tukiti Creci de Una (2006) Wendy
 La Merienda (2007) Co-host
 Toda Una Dama (2007) Helena Trujillo Laya
 La senora de Cardenas (2005) Unitary
 Trapos intimos (2002) Marife

References

Other websites 

Venezuelan entertainers
Venezuelan models
Venezuelan singers
Television actors
Movie actors
Singers
1992 births
Living people
People from Caracas
Reinaldo Zavarce (born June 8, 1988 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an award-winning Venezuelan actor and singer. He started acting in the Venezuelan RCTV telenovelas , Te Tengo en Salsa, Amantes, and Toda una dama. His film credits include the popular romantic comedy Dia Naranja. He is probably best known for his role as Alex in the Nickelodeon Latin America /Sony Pictures Television teen drama series Isa TKM and Isa TK+.

The show is often called the “Latin American High School Musical”. It became popular with teens across the Americas (US included due to its airing on MTV's Spanish language channel MTV Tr3s). It became a #1 hit in its demographic in over 23 countries its first season. The Los Angeles Times called the interest in the show and its cast members “Isa-mania”. In 2008 Reinaldo was awarded “Actor of the Year” at Nickelodeon Brazil’s “Meus Premios Nick” Awards. He got the same award in 2010 at the Kids Choice Awards Mexico. That Zavarce’s real-life girlfriend was (and is) his co-star made people even more interested in Reinaldo. It has kept them both on the covers of some of the biggest magazines across Latin America and Brazil.

Zavarce has also been featured in Nickelodeon's highly successful Julie e os Fantasmas series (2012).
He hosted the Nickelodeon Latin America and Brazil coverage of the 2012 US Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards with Will Smith. He used a mix of English, Spanish and Portuguese languages (he is fluent in all three).

Filmography

1988 births
Venezuelan entertainers
Living people
Actors
Singers
People from Caracas
Ernán Enrique Jiménez (born May 7, 1983) is a Panamanian singer. He is better known by his stage name Makano. Makano in Panama means "strong like a tree". At the age of 12, Jiménez was part of a reggaeton group called "Los Makanos". The members of the group made a promise that the first of them to record a full disc would carry on the group's name.

When he was 16, Jiménez was writing quality music. His father discouraged him from music, saying he needed to get a real job. After several years of trying, Jimenez appeared on the CD La Alianza in 2004. Afterward, he was given the chance to record several songs which later became number one hits in Panama. In 2007, Jimenez signed with Panama Music. He recorded his first album as a solo singer, Te Amo, which features the songs "Yo Quisiera Vivir", "Te Va a Doler", "Te Amo" and "Déjame Entrar".

Discography

Studio albums
 2008: Te Amo
 2010: Sin Fronteras

Singles
 Atrévete (2004)
 Traición (2004)
 Si Tú No Le Dices (2008)
 Te Amo (2008)
 Déjame Entrar (2009)
 Su Nombre en Mi Cuaderno (feat. Josenid) (2009)
 Como Hago Para Olvidarte (2010)
 Somos Amantes (2010)
 Dejame Volver (2010)

Awards and nominations

  His first album, Te Amo, reached Gold for sales in the United States.
 Reached Platinum for digital download of his album Te Amo in Central America.
 Certification by RIAA for multiple weeks as a Number One Single for "Te Amo" in Billboard Magazine.
 "Best Breakthrough Artist" and "Best Hip Hop Artist" in Premios Texas 2009
 "Revelacion del Año Urbano" in Premios Lo Nuestro 2010
 Nominated for a Premio Billboard en Español as "Artist of the Year, Debut"

References 

1983 births
Living people
Panamanian people
Singers
Sound of... is a yearly BBC poll of music critics and industry figures.  The people polled say who they think is the most promising new music talent. It was first done by the BBC News website in 2003.  It is now widely covered by the corporation's online, radio and TV outlets, as well as other media. A longlist of 15 artists is published each December. A ranked shortlist and the yearly winner is announced the following January.

Winners

References

Other websites

BBC
Music
is a Japanese city in Akita Prefecture on the island of Honshu.

The National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region (NARCT) is in Daisen.

References

Other websites

 Daisen City website 

Cities in Japan
Settlements in Akita Prefecture
is a Japanese city in Akita Prefecture on the island of Honshu.

History
In 2005, the city was created by the merger of the towns of Tennō, Iitagawa and Shōwa.

References

Other websites

 http://www.city.katagami.akita.jp/ 

Cities in Japan
Settlements in Akita Prefecture
This is a list of cities in Senegal. It includes all cities with an estimated population of over 10,000 people.

Other settlements
 Agnam-Goly
 Cap Skirring
 Guédiawaye
 Kidira
 Pikine
 Podor
 Yoff

Senegal, List of cities in
Senegal
Senegal
This is the list of cities and towns in Serbia. Places are called urban and rural depending not only on size, but also on other administrative and legal criteria.

Administrative cities 
Cities in administrative sense are defined by the Law on Territorial Organization. They have their own Civic Parliaments and executive branches.  They also have Mayors elected through popular vote. The capital Belgrade is the only city on the level of a district. All other cities are on the municipality level and are part of a district.

, the following cities have official administrative city rights:

Urban settlements

References 

Serbia
Serbia
Davis Cleveland (born February 5, 2002) is an American teen (formerly child) actor. He is best known for his role as Flynn Jones on Disney Channel's Shake It Up. He has also appeared in Good Luck Charlie, Hannah Montana, and the Disney XD series, Zeke and Luther, and Pair of Kings.

Disney Filmography

American child actors
American television actors
Living people
2002 births
Actors from Houston, Texas
American drummers
American rap musicians
Singers from Houston, Texas
Disney actors
Movie actors
Musicians from Texas
is a Japanese city in Aomori Prefecture on the island of Honshu.

History
Hirosaki was a castle town (城下町) of the Tsugaru clan. The town grew up around Hirosaki Castle, which was built in 1601.

City emblem
Hirosaki uses the swastika (manji ) as official symbol. This came from the flag emblem of the Tsugaru clan in Edo period.

Geography
Hirosaki is located in the southwest part of Aomori Prefecture. It is in the south of Mount Iwaki; and it is along the border with Akita Prefecture.

References

Other websites

 Hirosaki City website 

       

Cities in Japan
Settlements in Aomori Prefecture
Kuruş (derived from the German Groschen; Ottoman Turkish: غروش gurûş) is a smaller unit of Turkish currency. Since 2005, one new Turkish lira is equal to 100 kuruş. It was first introduced in 1688.

Turkish currency
This is a list of cities and towns in Slovakia. This list of cities and towns shows the Slovak names first, then the historical German name, then the mostly historical Hungarian name, and finally the town's population as of 2006 (31. 12.).

References

Slovakia
This is a list of cities and towns in Somalia.

Somalia, List of cities in
Somalia
Somalia
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London. It holds a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856. 

The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, next to the National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has three regional outposts. It is not connected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. The NPG is a quango sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

The collection

The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture. 

One of its best-known images is the 'Chandos portrait', the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare although there is some uncertainty about whether the painting actually is of the playwright.

Not all of the portraits are exceptional artistically, although there are self-portraits by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and other British artists of note. Some, such as the group portrait of the participants in the Somerset House Conference of 1604, are important historical documents in their own right. Often, the curiosity value is greater than the artistic worth of a work, as in the case of the  portrait of Edward VI by William Scrots, Patrick Brontë's painting of his sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, or a sculpture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in medieval costume. Portraits of living figures were allowed from 1969. 

In addition to its permanent galleries of historical portraits, the National Portrait Gallery exhibits a rapidly changing collection of contemporary work, stages exhibitions of portrait art by individual artists and hosts the annual BP Portrait Prize competition.

The Gallery has many portrait busts by sculptors. The sculptors are mostly British or resident in Britain, and the subjects are British. Sculptors include poineers of modern sculpture such as Sir Jacob Epstein (14 examples), Dame Elizabeth Frink (5 examples), Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (four self-portrait busts).

References 

National museums
Museums in London
Art museums in the United Kingdom
The northern hawk-owl (also known as the Hudsonian owl) (Surnia ulula) is an owl. It does not migrate. It usually stays in areas where it is able to breed.

References 

Birds of Europe
Bank of America is a multinational bank group. Its headquarters is in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company has 5,600 branches in over 150 countries. It is the fifth largest company in the United States. It is one of the "Big Four" Banks in the United States. It manages about 10.73% of all money put into banks. It directly competes with other big banks, like as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo.

Several of the banks which became Bank of America were involved in the slave trade.

Bank of Italy 
Bank of America was created in October 17, 1904. However, it was not called Bank of America yet. It was called Bank of Italy. Bank of Italy was created by Amadeo Pietro Giannini in San Francisco. A different bank, which was called Bank of America, was created in 1922, in Los Angeles. In 1928, the two banks merged with other banks, and created another bank, also called Bank of Italy. In November 3, 1930, the bank's name was changed into Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association. Afterwards, they merged with many more banks (such as Banca d'America e d'Italia,  Bancitaly Corporation, and many more banks).

References 

Banks of the United States
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
1923 establishments in the United Kingdom
Companies based in North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
Daydreaming is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings. During a daydream, a person's contact with reality is blurred. External reality is second to a visionary fantasy.

There are many types of daydreams, and there is no agreed definition. However, the characteristic that is common to all forms of daydreaming is a mild separation from the person's surroundings. Daydreams are under conscious control, so they differ from dreams, but they do have a kind of dream-like fantasy quality. Although daydreaming in children may be frowned upon by parents and teachers, it seems quite normal. There is evidence which suggests daydreaming is associated with mental health and stability.

Related pages 
Trance

References 

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Consciousness
Charles Koppelman (born March 30, 1940) is the chairman of EMI Records, an American recording label. He was once a chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Currently, he is the CEO of CAK Entertainment.

References 

1940 births
Living people
Businesspeople from New York City
Jon Ferguson Mohr (born August 23, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He played Marty in Are We There Yet? (soon replaced by Christian Finnegan) and voiced Paulie in Paulie.

Filmography 
 Suburgatory (2011)
 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2011)
 Outlaw (2010)
 Hereafter (2010)
 Monk (2009)
 Lonely Street (2009)
 Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (2009) (Video game)
 Gary Unmarried (2008–2010) (TV)
 Saints Row 2  (2008) (Video game)
 Street Kings  (2008)
 Even Money (2007)
 Christmas Do-Over (2006)
 Ghost Whisperer (2006–2008)
 Community Service (2006)
 Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006) (Video game)
 The Groomsmen (2006)
 Las Vegas (2005) (TV)
 King's Ransom (2005)
 Are We There Yet? (2005)
 Seeing Other People (2004)
 Shorties Watchin' Shorties (2004)
 CSI: Miami (2003)
 Scrubs (2003)
 Fastlane (2002) (TV)
 S1m0ne (2002)
 The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
 Speaking of Sex (2001)
 Black River (2001)
 Cherry Falls (2000)
 Family Guy (2000) (TV)
 Pay It Forward (2000)
 200 Cigarettes (1999)
 Go (1999)
 Playing by Heart (1999)
 Action (1999) (TV)	
 Small Soldiers (1998)
 Paulie (1998)
 Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
 From The Earth To The Moon (1998)
 Suicide Kings (1997)
 Picture Perfect (1997)
 Jerry Maguire (1996)

References

Other websites
 Jay Mohr official website
 
 Jay Mohr SI.com archive 
 Weekly column on FOXSports.com
 Jay Mohr on the Jim Rome Show

1970 births
Actors from New Jersey
American movie actors
American stand-up comedians
American television actors
American television talk show hosts
Living people
Comedians from New Jersey
Fletcher Christian Finnegan (born April 1, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He currently plays Marty in Are We There Yet?, replacing Jay Mohr.

Other websites
 Christian Finnegan's official site
 
 

1973 births
Actors from New York
American movie actors
Game show hosts
American stand-up comedians
American television actors
Living people
Comedians from New York
Siri is a virtual assistant application built into certain iOS devices. It hears what the user says and responds by web services. At first, Siri was an app in the App Store, but Apple bought the company that owned it, on April 28, 2010.  Siri has been supported by all devices since the iPhone 4S, and is in iOS 5 devices other than the third generation iPad. When iOS 6 came out, the third generation iPad got Siri, as well as the iPhone 5, iPod Touch (5th generation), fourth generation iPad, and iPad Mini. 

A similar system is built into Android (Google Now), Samsung (S-voice) and Windows Phone (Microsoft Cortana).

References

Software
The following is a list of cities in Sri Lanka.

References
General 

Sri Lanka, List of cities in

Sri Lanka
This is a list of cities and towns in Suriname:

Acaribo
Abenaston
Albina
Alliance
Anapaike
Apetina 
Apoera
Aurora 
Batavia
Benzdorp
Bitagron
Boskamp
Botopasi
Brokopondo
Brownsweg
Corneliskondre
Cottica
Djumu
Friendship
Goddo
Groningen
Jenny
Kajana
Kwakoegron
Kwamalasamutu
Lelydorp
Lebidoti
Moengo
Nieuw Amsterdam
Nieuw Jacobkondre
Nieuw Nickerie
Onverwacht
Paramaribo (Capital and largest city)
Paranam
Pelelu Tepu
Pokigron
Pontoetoe
Totness
Wageningen
Wanhatti
Washoda
Zanderij

Lists of settlements
This is a list of cities and towns in Tanzania.
 

Tanzania, List of cities in

Tanzania
List of cities, towns  and villages in Trinidad and Tobago:

A

B

C

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

References
 Spanish place names in Trinidad  - Trinidad Guardian, August 31, 2005.

Trinidad and Tobago
Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban physician and scientist who started the interest in yellow fever research.

Early life and education
Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barres, in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba. His family is of French and Scottish heritage. In 1853 he went to Jefferson Medical college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1855. He finished his studies in Havana and in Paris. Later he moved to Havana and started a medical practice.

Professional career
Finlay continued his work in the 1870s. He was the first to come up with the idea that a mosquito was a carrier for a disease that causes yellow fever. He discovered that the spread and cause of yellow fever was from a  mosquito. The mosquito would bite a person with the disease and would then bite and infect a healthy person. A year later Finlay identified the mosquito of the genus Aedes as the insect transmitting yellow fever. His research led to the control of the mosquito population as a way to control the spread of the disease.

Dr. Finlay was a member of Havana's Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences. He was fluent in French, German, Spanish, and English, and could read Latin. He was interested in a lot of things but his main interest was yellow fever. He wrote 40 articles on this disease. His theory was that an intermediary host was responsible for the spread of the disease. As a result of his work, Dr. Finlay was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but it was never awarded to him. He received the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France in 1908.

In 1990, the Walter Reed Commission confirmed what Carlos found. Reed was known to all as being the one that discovered the connection of yellow fever and the mosquito but he gave the credit to Finlay. He used Finlay's information to help with his research.  Soon Finlay became the chief health officer of Cuba from 1902-1909. 

Finlay died from heart failure caused by pneumonia in his home in Havana, Cuba.

1833 births
1915 deaths
Cuban scientists
Physicians
Wen Tingyun (812–870) was an important Chinese lyricist of the late Tang Dynasty. 

He was born in Qin, Shanxi province, China.  Wen became regarded as the first truly distinctive writer of ci, the song-verse style of poetry that dominated Chinese poetry during much of the late Tang dynasty and the Song dynasty.  Most of his poems are "boudoir"-style verses that described the opulent furnishings and gardens of solitary women and their hidden desires. This style of poetry was commonly used for romantic communications between men and women in the entertainment districts of the Chinese capital Chang'an during the Tang dynasty.

References

Chinese writers
Lyricists
812 births
870 deaths
Tiffany "Jill" Arrington (born July 27, 1972) is an American sportscaster. She works for Fox Sports. 

Arrington was the feature reporter on Fox NFL Sunday and co-hosted NFL Under the Helmet. For the Arena Football League, she was the studio host and field reporter for the TNN Network. Arrington also worked at CBS Sports. She was the sideline reporter and court reporter for Tennis on CBS and SEC on CBS and was a feature reporter on The NFL Today a pregame show for the NFL on CBS. Then she worked with Mike Tirico and Kirk "Herbie" Herbstreit for ESPN College Football as lead sideline reporter. Arrington has hosted programs for FOX Sports such as Totally NASCAR, Verizon NFL Mobile Updates, College Football Saturday Preview, and FoxSportsFlash. She was added to the NBA on TNT in 2012.

Arrington was born in Conyers, Georgia. She studied Journalism and Political Science at the University of Miami. In 2001, Arrington was voted the "Sexiest Sportscaster" by Playboy magazine. Arrington is the aunt of actresses Dakota and Elle Fanning.

References

1972 births
Living people
Tennis broadcasters
Motorsports broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
College football broadcasters
Arena Football League broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Tim Brando (born February 27, 1956) is an American sportscaster. He works for CBS Sports. He is the current preseason voice of the New Orleans Saints with Solomon Wilcots. Brando called basketball games for the LSU Tigers and LSU Lady Tigers.

Career 
He is also one of the studio hosts for College Basketball on CBS and serves the same capacity for College Football on CBS/SEC on CBS with Spencer Tillman and Tony Barnhart. He also does play-by-play for College Basketball on CBS, College Basketball on FSN, College Basketball on Raycom (formally Jefferson-Pilot) and formally with Jefferson-Pilot.

On the professional basketball side, he provided play-by-play for the Atlanta Hawks, TNT, and Turner Sports. He currently hosts College Football Preview, Football Saturdays in the South, and The Tim Brando Show. He has provided play-by-play for College Football on CBS and NFL on CBS and serves the same capacity with the New Orleans Saints. Before working for CBS and Raycom, he was an anchor for SportsCenter as well as a studio host for college basketball and football on ESPN as well as providing some play-by-play for ESPN's coverage of college football. In addition to football and basketball, Brando also called Atlanta Braves games.

References
 

College basketball broadcasters
College football broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
1956 births
Living people
SportsCenter anchors and reporters
Gary Nedrow Bender (born September 1, 1940, Ulysses, Kansas) is a retired American sportscaster. Bender has worked for CBS, ABC and TNT. While working at CBS, he covered 27 different sports. His play-by-play jobs include:

Wisconsin Badgers football
Wisconsin Badgers basketball
Kansas Jayhawks football
Kansas Jayhawks basketball
Wisconsin Athletis Association championships
Green Bay Packers
Milwaukee Brewers
NFL on CBS
NBA on CBS
College Basketball on CBS
College Football on CBS
MLB on ABC
USFL on ABC
Monday Night Football

College Football on ABC
College Basketball on ABC
Phoenix Cardinals
NFL on TNT
College Football on TBS
NBA on TNT
Phoenix Suns
St. Louis Rams
Tampa Bay Buccaneers preseason
Chicago Bears
College Football on Versus
College Football on MountainWest Sports Network
College Basketball on MountainWest Sports Network.

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1940 births
American Christians
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
United States Football League broadcasters
College football broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
People from Kansas
Michael "Doc" Emrick (born August 1, 1946) is a sportscaster. He is best known for calling ice hockey games especially for the NHL. He is called The Voice of Ice Hockey.

Career
Emrick has been a sportscaster professionally since 1973. He was hired by the Port Huron Flags. In 1977 he started to work for the Maine Mariners. Emrick then was the Devils first voice in New Jersey. He was there from the 1982–83 NHL season until 1986. In 1993, he returned to the team to replace Gary Thorne. He continued to be the team's voice until July 2011. He announced the team's 1995 Stanley Cup victory.

Emrick became the lead play-by-play announcer for the NHL on Fox Game of the Week. He called regular-season games and Stanley Cup Finals from 1995 to 2000. He has called eight NHL All-Star Games.  He called the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and  the 2004 World Cup of Hockey.

Emrick has worked on many Olympic Games.  He has called both ice hockey and water polo.

He also called some National Football League and men's NCAA basketball tournament games. He called the National Lacrosse League All-Star Game and Championship Game.

Awards
Emrick received the NHL's Lester Patrick Award in 2004.  He was the first of three people to get the award for media work. He got the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. Emrick was the first member of the media to be in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. This was on December 12, 2011.

In 2011, Emrick won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sports Personality - Play by Play."

References

1946 births
College basketball broadcasters
Foster Hewitt Memorial Award winners
Lacrosse announcers
Living people
National Football League broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
Olympic Games broadcasters
Emmy Award winners
Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg (January 9, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American sportscaster. He was the voice of the San Diego Padres. He also announced or hosted the Tournament of Roses Parade for many years, sometimes with the help of family members.

Enberg was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan. He began his career calling games for UCLA Bruins basketball, Los Angeles Rams football and California Angels baseball.

In the 1970s, Enberg hosted the television game show Sports Challenge.  He co-produced the Emmy Award-winning sports-history series The Way It Was for PBS.

He broadcast for many sports and events for NBC, including the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the U.S. Open golf championship, college football, college basketball, the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments, heavyweight boxing, Breeders' Cup and other horse racing events, and the Olympic Games.

Honors
Enberg received many awards and honors in his lifetime.  These include 13 Sports Emmy Awards (as well as a Lifetime Achievement Emmy), nine National Sportscaster of the Year awards from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (and is in that organization's Hall of Fame), five Sportscaster of the Year awards from the American Sportscasters Association, the Pete Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Curt Gowdy Award from the Basketball Hall of Fame, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Enberg is the only sportscaster so far to win Emmys in three categories (broadcasting, writing, and producing). In 1973, he was the first U.S. sportscaster to visit the People's Republic of China.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
Tennis broadcasters
Olympic Games broadcasters
Golf broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College football broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
National Football League broadcasters
Curtis Edward "Curt" Gowdy (July 31, 1919 – February 20, 2006) was an American sportscaster.  He was well known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox.

In 1949 Gowdy began his Major League Baseball broadcasting career working as an announcer with Mel Allen for New York Yankees games on radio and television. In 1951 he began working for the Red Sox.  He left the Red Sox after the 1965 season.

He covered the first five seasons of the American Football League with broadcast partner Paul Christman. Other sports he has called include: 
Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball
Oklahoma Sooners football and basketball
National Hockey League on NBC 
Olympic Games
New England Patriots play-by-play
National Basketball Association

Movies
Gowdy made cameo appearances in the movies The Naked Gun (1988) and Summer Catch (2001), and his voice can be heard in Heaven Can Wait (1978) and BASEketball (1998).

Awards
In 1970, Gowdy became the first sportscaster to get the Peabody Award. He was elected to the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1981. In 1985, he was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. He was given the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. He received the Pete Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.  He got a lifetime achievement Emmy in 1992. He was selected to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1995. He is also in many local Hall of Fames.

On October 12, 2006, the United States Postal Service building in Green River, Wyoming, was named the "Curt Gowdy Post Office Building".

A state park in Wyoming was named for Gowdy on March 27, 1972. The Curt Gowdy State Park is halfway between his highschool hometown of Cheyenne and his college town of Laramie.

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Jim Gray (born November 11, 1959 in Denver, Colorado) is an American sportscaster. He works for the Sacramento Kings.  He also worked during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Gray has won 11 Emmy Awards. He has twice been named the Sports Reporter of the Year by the ASA. Gray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gray has worked on many major sporting events including many Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals, NCAA Final Fours, Olympics, The Masters and World Boxing Title Fights. Gray was named as one of the 50 Greatest Sports Broadcasters of All-Time by David Halberstam.

The most notable interview of Gray's sportscasting career occurred with former baseball player Pete Rose.  During Game 2 of the 1999 World Series, Rose was named as a member of the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. After the ceremony, Gray asked Rose about gambling on baseball.  Rose repeatedly said he did not gamble on baseball.  Later Rose's book said that he did gamble.

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Jim Kelly is a former sportscaster who worked at ESPN and CBS Sports. He called golf tournaments on Golf Network which was heard on Mutual and NBC Radio. Kelly then moved to CBS and CBS Radio calling NFL and golf tournaments for both networks. For CBS television, he provided play-by-play for the NBA on CBS, track-and-field, and bowling. He also hosted Thoroughbred Racing on CBS, CBS Radio's Sports World Roundup and CBS Sports Saturday and was a sports anchor for CBS Morning News, WCAU-TV, and WNEV-TV were he called preseason games for both the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After leaving CBS, he joined ESPN where he called and covered tournaments and games for college football, college basketball, bowling, golf, the NHL, tennis, and the America's Cup.

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Orlando Figueroa (b. September 9, 1955) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When he was a child he loved to learn how mechanical toys worked. When he was in elementary school, he spent most of his time building things and looking for solutions to problems. In high school he was in advanced mathematics. He fell in love with space after that. He would gaze at the stars and moon and would try to imagine what it would be like to travel into space.

After high school Figueroa attended the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and in 1978, he earned his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. While at school in Puerto Rico he took a few advanced courses in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Works
In 1982, Figueroa was hired by NASA and was named Head of the Cryogenics Technology Section at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Among the other positions that Figueroa has held are Lead Cryogenic Engineer for the Cryogenic Optical Assembly of the Cosmic Background Explorer, Manager for the Superfluid Helium On Orbit Transfer Shuttle Experiment, Manager for the Small Explorer Project, Manager for the Explorer Program and Director of the Systems, Technology and Advanced Concepts Directorate.

In 1997, Figueroa was a member of the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. Federal Government. On September 2003, he was the Director for the Solar Systems Division in the Space Science at NASA Headquarters and he also held the position of Director for Mars Exploration.

Accomplishments
As Director of Mars Exploration, Figueroa led a team of hundreds of scientists, engineers and program specialists in one of the agency's most important projects to determine if life ever existed on Mars. The program's plan is to put humans on Mars. Under his directorship the Mars Explorer Rover mission launched Spirit and Opportunity in 2004. The launching of two rovers within days of each other had never been done before, and it was accomplished in three years. 

In August 2005, Figueroa was the Director for System Safety and Mission Assurance at the Goddard Space Flight Center. In October 2005, Figueroa was named Director of Applied Engineering and Technology at Goddard. He was responsible for 1,300 employees and provided guidance on engineering and system technology. In January 2010, he became Deputy Center Director for Science and Technology of Goddard Space Flight Center. Mr. Figueroa now lives in Maryland with his family.

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Félix Soto Toro (born 1967) is an astronaut applicant and an electrical designs engineer at NASA. He developed the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System.

Life

Soto Toro was raised in a poor section of the City of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico called El Barrio Amelia. When he was young, he was interested in everything that had to do with light bulbs and electricity. He went to elementary school in his hometown. He went to high school at the Colegio Madre Cabrini in San Juan. 
In 1984, after graduating from high school, Soto Toro studied at the Florida Institute of Technology  in Melbourne, Florida. In 1986, he joined the Cooperative Education Program while still in college. He joined the program because he wanted to become an engineer. Soto Toro earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in electrical engineering and applied to become an astronaut candidate.

Work

In 1990, Soto Toro earned his Bachelor's Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering. He was hired by NASA, a month later. He worked at the Design Engineering Networks Communications section at Kennedy Space Center. In 1992, he graduated with his Masters Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering. In 1997, he went back to school for another Masters in Science degree. 

At the Kennedy Space Center, Soto Toro reviews, designs, builds, and tests  engineering designs used in the Space Shuttle and Payload Operations Development Laboratories. The main project he developed was the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System. This system  measures the spherical coordinates offset between the trunnion and their supports during transfer operations.

Awards

Soto Toro was presented with the 2003 "El Premio Coqui" by La Casa de Puerto Rico in Florida for his assistance in the field of science. On November 9, 2003, Soto Toro was named the Grand Marshal of the Puerto Rican Day Parade held in Palm Bay, Florida.

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Sixto González (born 1965) is the first Puerto Rican to be named Director of the Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest single dish radio telescope.

Life
González was born Sixto A. González Edick in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Soon after his birth his family moved to the city of Yabucoa. He went to school in Humacao. As a child, he would take things apart and put them back together again. From that he developed a curiosity about the world around him. He graduated with honors (very good grades) from high school.
In 1983, he traveled to Massachusetts and enrolled in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at MIT. González went back home in 1985 and enrolled, studied at the Humacao campus of the University of Puerto Rico to study physics and electronics, earning his Bachelors of Science degree in 1988. While at the university he was able to do research at the Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest single dish radio telescope.

In 1988, González enrolled in the Department of Physics and Center for Space and Atmospheric Sciences at Utah State University. He was able to base his thesis "Radar, satellite, and modeling studies of the low latitude protonosphere" from experiments he performed at the observatory. He completed his PhD in 1994.

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Dirk Bach (April 23, 1961 – October 1, 2012) was a German television comedian, actor, voice actor and moderator. He is best known as Pepe in the German version of Sesame Street (Sesamstraße).

Bach was born in Cologne, Germany on April 23, 1961 and died on October 1, 2012 in Berlin, Germany from heart failure. Bach was openly gay and had a partner, Thomas. Bach was an activist for LGBT rights.

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Movies 
 1983: Kiez – Aufstieg und Fall eines Luden
 1984: Im Himmel ist die Hölle los / Hullygully in Käseburg
 1985: Peter macht den Acker frisch!
 1985: Bas-Boris Bode
 1988: Krieg der Töne
 1989: Im Jahr der Schildkröte
 1993: Kein Pardon
 1995: Nich’ mit Leo
 1997: Rendezvous des Todes
 1998: Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich
 1999: Zum Sterben schön
 2001: Das Rätsel des blutroten Rubins
 2001: Der Mann, den sie nicht lieben durfte
 2003: Karlchens Parade
 2003: Suche impotenten Mann fürs Leben
 2003: Crazy Race
 2004: Crazy Race 2 – Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel
 2005: Popp Dich schlank!
 2005: Urmel aus dem Eis
 2006: Zwei zum Fressen gern
 2006: Rock ’n’ Roll Wild Boys
 2006: Crazy Race 3 – Sie knacken jedes Schloss
 2007: ProSieben Märchenstunde – Des Kaisers neue Kleider
 2008: African Race – Auf der Jagd nach dem Marakunda
 2008: ProSieben Märchenstunde – Dornröschen
 2008: Treuepunkte
 2008: Tom und das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig
 2008: Dornröschen
 2008: Il Giardino
 2009: Lauras Stern und der geheimnisvolle Drache Nian (voice actor)
 2009: Oben (voice actor)

Shows 
 1986: Kir Royal
 1992–1994: Dirk Bach Show
 1994: Die Weltings vom Hauptbahnhof – Scheidung auf Kölsch
 1994: Drei zum Verlieben
 1995: Marys verrücktes Krankenhaus
 1996–2001: Lukas
 1998: Varell & Decker
 1999–2002: Oggy und die Kakerlaken (voice actor)
 2000–2007: Sesamstraße
 2002: Der kleine Mönch
 2004–2012: Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!
 2004–2011: Schillerstraße
 2006–2008: Frei Schnauze/Frei Schnauze XXL
 2009: Einfach Bach!
 2010: Verbotene Liebe
 2011: Die ARGE Talk Show
 2011: Bauernfrühstück – der Film

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Dr. Juan R. Cruz, Ph.D. (born January 5, 1946) is a Puerto Rican scientist who played a very important role in the design and development of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) parachute.

Life
Cruz was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He has a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, and a Bachelor of Science from MIT university. Both of his degrees are in aerospace engineering. When he was at MIT he was involved with the Monarch and Daedalus human powered airplane teams.

Work
Cruz is a senior aerospace engineer in the Exploration Systems Engineering Branch at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Hw was responsible on the development of entry, descent and landing (EDL) systems for robotic and human missions in space. He was a member of the highly successful Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project that placed two rovers (machines) on the surface of Mars in 2004. The project was focused on the parachute that he designed.

According to Cruz, "There are challenges to testing these parachutes because we can not test it at exactly the right conditions. Earth's atmosphere is the one we have to work with and the Martian atmosphere, air in Mars, is very different, so you have to make adjustments in how you test the parachute".

Cruz is also a member of the Phoenix (Mars 2007), Mars Science Laboratory (Mars 2009), and Crew Exploration Vehicle EDL teams. He was a part of a lot of research on missions to Mars, including robotic airplanes

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Antonia Coello Novello, M.D., (born August 23, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General. Novello was married to former U.S. Navy flight surgeon and psychiatrist, Joseph R. Novello.

Career
Novello served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York from 1999 to 2006.

Public Health Service
In 1979, Novello joined the Public Health Service. Her first assignment was as a project officer at the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1976, she was a pediatric (doctor for children) at Georgetown University Hospital. During her years at NIH, Novello worked on a Masters of Physical Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She finished her degree in 1982.

In 1986, Novello became the Assistant Surgeon General grade in the PHSCC and the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). In this role, she became interested in children with AIDS.

Novello was a big help in the planning of the Organ Transplantation Procurement Act of 1984. She did this when she was working at the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. 

Novello was appointed Surgeon General by President George H. W. Bush. She was the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the position. During her time as Surgeon General, Novello focused her attention on the health of women, children and minorities, (people with little political power). She also focused on underage drinking, smoking, and AIDS. She played an important role in starting the Healthy Children Ready to Learn Initiative. She spoke out often and forcefully (very strong and loud) about illegal underage drinking, and called to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General to issue a series of eight reports on the subject.

Novello also worked to stop illegal tobacco use by young people. After leaving the position of Surgeon General, Novello stayed in the regular corps of the Public Health Service. She was assigned the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Special Representative for Health and Nutrition from 1993 to 1996.

Awards
In 2002, Novello was awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal. She was also presented with the Legion of Merit Medal by the United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. In 2006, she was a finalist for the Hispanic Business magazine Woman of the Year Award  in the April 2006 issue.

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