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Morgan horse

The Morgan horse is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. Tracing back to the foundation sire Figure, later named Justin Morgan after his best-known owner, as well as mares of the now-extinct Narragansett Pacer breed, Morgans served many roles in 19th-century American history, being used as coach horses and for harness racing, as general riding animals, and as cavalry horses during the American Civil War on both sides of the conflict. Morgans have influenced other major American breeds, including the American Quarter Horse, the American Saddlebred, the Tennessee Walking Horse, and the Standardbred.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, they were exported to other countries, including England, where a Morgan stallion influenced the breeding of the Hackney horse. In 1907, the US Department of Agriculture established the US Morgan Horse Farm near Middlebury, Vermont for the purpose of perpetuating and improving the Morgan breed; the farm was later transferred to the University of Vermont. The first breed registry was established in 1909, and since then many organizations in the US, Europe and Oceania have developed.

There were estimated to be over 175,000 Morgan horses worldwide in 2005. However, as of 2019, it is estimated that only 100 foundation Morgans remain in existence due to crossbreeding with the Saddlebred and the Arabian. The latter cross is used to produce Morab horses.

The Morgan is a compact, refined breed, generally bay, black or chestnut in color, although they come in many colors, including several variations of pinto. Used in both English and Western disciplines, the breed is known for its versatility. The Morgan is the state animal of Vermont; the state horse of Massachusetts; and the state mammal of Rhode Island, the last of which was also the state of origin for the Narragansett Pacer, the Morgan's forerunner. Popular children's authors, including Marguerite Henry and Ellen Feld, have portrayed the breed in their books; Henry's Justin Morgan Had a Horse was later made into a Disney movie.

Breed characteristics

There is officially one breed standard for the Morgan type, regardless of the discipline or bloodline of the individual horse. Compact and refined in build, the Morgan has strong legs, an expressive head with a straight or slightly convex profile and broad forehead; large, prominent eyes; well-defined withers, laid back shoulders, and an upright, well arched neck. The back is short, and hindquarters are strongly muscled, with a long and well-muscled croup. The tail is attached high and carried gracefully and straight. Morgans appear to be a strong powerful horse, and the breed is well known as an easy keeper. The breed standard for height ranges from, with some individuals over and under.

Gaits, particularly the trot, are "animated, elastic, square, and collected", with the front and rear legs balanced. Due to their Narragansett Pacer and Saddlebred ancestry, a few Morgans are gaited, meaning they can perform a gait such as rack, fox trot, or pace. The United States Equestrian Federation states, "a Morgan is distinctive for its stamina and vigor, personality and eagerness and strong natural way of moving". The breed has a reputation for intelligence, courage and a good disposition. Registered Morgans come in a variety of colors, although they are most commonly bay, black, and chestnut. Less common colors include gray, roan, dun, silver dapple, and cream dilutions such as palomino, buckskin, cremello and perlino. In addition, three pinto color patterns are also recognized: sabino, frame overo, and splashed white. The tobiano pattern has not been noted in Morgans.

One genetic disease has been identified within the Morgan breed. This is Type 1 polysaccharide storage myopathy, an autosomal dominant muscle disease found mainly in stock horse and draft horse breeds caused by a missense mutation in the GYS1 gene. Morgans are one of over a dozen breeds found to have the allele for the condition, though its prevalence in Morgans appears to be quite low compared to stock and draft breeds. In one study, less than one percent of randomly tested Morgans carried the allele for this condition, one of the lowest percentages amongst breeds in that study.

Two coat color genes found in Morgans have also been linked to genetic disorders. One is the genetic ocular syndrome multiple congenital ocular anomalies (MCOA), originally called equine anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD). MCOA is characterized by the abnormal development of some ocular tissues, which causes compromised vision, although of a mild form; the disease is non-progressive. Studies have shown that it is closely tied to the silver dapple gene. A small number of Morgans carry the silver dapple allele, which causes cysts, but no apparent vision problems, if heterozygous; but when homozygous, it can cause vision problems. There is also the possibility of lethal white syndrome, a fatal disease seen in foals who are homozygous for the frame overo gene. At present, there is one mare line in the Morgan breed that has produced healthy heterozygous frame overo individuals. The AMHA advocates for genetic testing to identify carriers of these genetics, and advises owners to avoid breeding horses that are heterozygous for frame overo to each other.

Justin Morgan
All Morgans trace back to a single foundation sire, a stallion named Figure, who was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts in 1789. In 1792, he was given to a man named Justin Morgan (February 28, 1747 – March 22, 1798) as a debt payment. The horse later came to be identified by the name of this particular owner, and "the Justin Morgan horse" evolved into the name of the breed. However, the horse may actually have been born 7 miles from the Canadian border in Vermont, where Justin Morgan found him.

Figure is thought to have stood about, and to have weighed about 1000 lbs. He was known for his prepotency, passing on his distinctive looks, conformation, temperament, and athleticism. His exact pedigree is unknown, although extensive efforts have been made to discover his parentage. One historian notes that the writings on the possibility of his sire being a Thoroughbred named Beautiful Bay would "fill 41 detective novels and a membership application for the Liars' Club".

The most common theory, according to the American Morgan Horse Association (AMHA), is that Figure was sired by the English Thoroughbred stallion True Briton (b. 1780), by Lloyd's Traveller (b. 1763), who was of the Byerly Turk line, out of the mare Betty Leeds (b. 1700), a granddaughter of the Godolphin Arabian. Meanwhile, Figure's dam, "Wildair mare", is most commonly thought to have been sired by the English Thoroughbred stallion Diamond (b. 1779), who was sired by the Thoroughbred stallion "Church's [Young] Wildair" (b. 1768) out of the "Samuel Burt mare", a Thoroughbred and Narragansett Pacer cross. Figure's maternal grand-grandmother is also listed as a "Dutch mare of Mohawk Valley", and some believe her to be a Friesian, which is a Dutch breed; however, the Friesian of the time period looked nothing like the modern-day Friesian breed.

Although Figure was used extensively as a breeding stallion, records are known to exist for only six of his sons, three of whom became notable as foundation bloodstock for the Morgan breed. Woodbury, a chestnut, stood high and stood for many years at stud in New England. Bulrush, a dark bay the same size as Figure, was known for his endurance and speed in harness. Best known was Sherman, another chestnut stallion, slightly shorter than Figure, who in turn was the sire and grandsire of Black Hawk and Ethan Allen. Black Hawk, born in 1833, went on to become a foundation stallion for the Standardbred, American Saddlebred and Tennessee Walking Horse breeds, and was known for his unbeaten harness racing record. Ethan Allen, sired by Black Hawk in 1849, is another important sire in the history of the Morgan breed, and was known for his speed in trotting races.

Figure would also go on to cover at least three gaited Narragansett Pacer mares while at stud, as documented in the pedigree of his descendant, Blackburn's Davy Crockett (b. 1835, AMHA #603), who was considered to be both a Morgan and a Canadian Pacer. Black Allan (1886 – 1910), the founder of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed, also inherited his ambling gait from his dam, a Morgan cross mare named Maggie Marshall.

In 1821, Figure was kicked by another horse and later died of his injuries. He was buried in Tunbridge, Vermont.

Breed development
In the 19th century, Morgans were recognized for their utilitarian capabilities. They were used extensively for harness racing, as well as for pulling coaches, due to the breed's speed and endurance in harness. They were also used as stock horses and for general riding, as well as light driving work. Miners in the California Gold Rush (1848–1855) used the breed, as did the Army during and after the American Civil War for both riding and harness horses.

The Morgan trotting stallion Shepherd F. Knapp was exported to England in the 1860s, where his trotting ability influenced the breeding of Hackney horses. During this period, numerous Morgan mares may have been brought west and integrated into Texan horse herds, which influenced the development of the American Quarter Horse breed. The Morgan horse also was an ancestor of the Missouri Fox Trotter. By the 1870s, however, longer-legged horses came into fashion, and Morgan horses were crossed with those of other breeds. This resulted in the virtual disappearance of the original style Morgan, although a few remained in isolated areas.

Daniel Chipman Linsley, a native of Middlebury, Vermont, compiled a book of Morgan breeding stallions, published in 1857. Colonel Joseph Battell, also a Middlebury, Vermont native, published the first volume of the Morgan Horse Register in 1894, marking the beginning of a formal breed registry. In 1907, the US Department of Agriculture established the US Morgan Horse Farm in Weybridge, Vermont on land donated by Battell for the purpose of perpetuating and improving the Morgan breed. The breeding program aimed to produce horses that were sound, sturdy, well-mannered, and capable of performing well either under saddle or in harness. In 1951, the Morgan Horse Farm was transferred from the USDA to the Vermont Agricultural College (now the University of Vermont).

Military use
Morgans were used as cavalry mounts by both sides in the American Civil War. Horses with Morgan roots included Sheridan's Winchester, also known as Rienzi, (a descendant of Black Hawk). Stonewall Jackson's "Little Sorrel" has alternately been described as a Morgan or an American Saddlebred, a breed heavily influenced by the Morgan. While Morgan enthusiasts have stated that the horse Comanche, the only survivor of the Custer regiment after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, was either a Morgan or a Mustang/Morgan mix, records of the U.S. Army and other early sources do not support this. Most accounts state that Comanche was either of "Mustang lineage" or a mix of "American" and "Spanish" blood. The University of Kansas Natural History Museum, which has the stuffed body of Comanche on display, makes no statement as to his breed. All sources agree that Comanche originated in the Oklahoma or Texas area, making his Mustang background more likely.

Families
There are four main bloodlines groups within the Morgan breed today, known as the Brunk, Government, Lippitt, and Western Working "families." There are also smaller subfamilies. The Brunk Family, particularly noted for soundness and athleticism, traces to the Illinois breeding program of Joseph Brunk. The Lippitt Family or "Lippitts" trace to the breeding program of Robert Lippitt Knight, grandson of industrialist Robert Knight and maternal great-great-grandson of Revolutionary War officer Christopher Lippitt, founder of the Lippitt Mill. Robert Lippitt Knight focused on preservation breeding of horses descended from Ethan Allen II and this line is considered the "purest" of the four lines, with the most lines tracing back to Figure and no outcrosses to other breeds in the 20th or 21st centuries. The Government Family is the largest, tracing to Morgans bred by the US Morgan Horse Farm between 1905 and 1951. The foundation sire of this line was General Gates. When USDA involvement ended, the University of Vermont purchased not only the farm, but much of its breeding stock and carries on the program today. The Working Western Family, abbreviated 2WF, have no common breeder or ancestor, but the horses are bred to be stock horses and work cattle, some descended from Government farm stallions shipped west.

Organizations
In 1909, the Morgan Horse Club was founded, later changing its name to the American Morgan Horse Association. During the 1930s and 1940s, there was controversy within the registry membership as to whether the stud book should be open or closed; this mirrored similar controversies in other US breed registries. The result of these discussions was that the stud book was declared closed to outside blood as of January 1, 1948. In 1985, the US and Canadian registries signed a reciprocity agreement regarding the registration of horses, and a similar agreement was made between the US and Great Britain registries in 1990. As of 2012, approximately 179,000 horses had been registered over the life of the association, with over 3,000 new foals registered annually. It is estimated that between 175,000 and 180,000 Morgans exist worldwide, and although they are most popular in the United States, there are populations in Great Britain, Sweden and other countries.

The American Morgan Horse Association (AMHA) is the largest association for the breed. In addition to the AMHA, since 1996, there has also been a National Morgan Pony Registry, which specializes in horses under. There are several other organizations that focus on specific bloodlines within the Morgan breed. These include the Rainbow Morgan Horse Association, begun in 1990, which works with the AMHA to develop and promote unusually-colored Morgans, such as those with the silver dapple and cream genes. The Foundation Morgan Horse Association registers those horses bred to resemble the stockier type seen in the late 1800s and early 1900s, before crossbreeding with the American Saddlebred became common. Two other membership based organizations, both devoted to preserving the old-time Vermont or "Lippitt" strain of Morgans, also exist. The first, the Lippitt Club, was started in 1973, and the second, the Lippitt Morgan Breeders Association, was founded in 1995. The Lippitt Morgan Horse Registry, Inc., was formed in 2011. It registers and maintains a dna data base with pedigrees of Lippitt Morgans. There are also associations for Morgans in several countries besides the US, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Sweden, Austria and Germany. In Middlebury, Vermont there is a museum dedicated to the history of the breed.

Uses
The Morgan breed is known for its versatility, and is used for a number of English and Western events. They have been successfully shown in many disciplines, including dressage, show jumping, Western pleasure, cutting and endurance riding. They are also used as stock horses and for pleasure riding and driving. They are frequently seen in driving competitions, including combined driving and carriage driving. Morgans were the first American breed to compete in the World Pairs Driving competition, representing the US. They can be seen as mounts for 4-H and Pony Club participants and therapeutic riding programs, due to their gentle disposition and steady movement.

There are Morgan-only shows held throughout the US, as well as an "open competition" program run by the AMHA that gives points based on competition success at all-breed shows. The first annual Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show was held in 1973 in Detroit, Michigan and in 1975 moved to its current home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Over 1,000 horses compete in the show each year. In 1961, the Morgan horse was named the official state animal of Vermont, and in 1970, the official state horse of Massachusetts.

Breed conservation efforts
Since 2013, The Livestock Conservancy listed the Morgan horse on their conservation priority list. Due to favorable preservation efforts, the breed was moved from the priority list in 2023 but will continue to monitor the breed’s progress moving forward.

In literature and film
The children's book, Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry, published in 1945, was a fictional account of Figure and Justin Morgan. It was a Newbery Honor Book in 1946. A movie based on the book was made by Walt Disney Studios in 1972. Both the book and the movie have been criticized for containing a number of historical inaccuracies and for creating or perpetuating some myths about both Justin Morgan and Figure. One equine historian stated, "these should be looked upon not as true happenings but as entertainment vehicles."

In the 1933 Little House novel Farmer Boy, the real-life character Almanzo Wilder grows up raising Morgan horses on his family's farm in Malone, New York. In the subsequent novels The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years, Almanzo has his own pair of Morgans, Prince and Lady, who prove instrumental in his efforts to find wheat for the starving townsfolk and court Laura Ingalls Wilder, who he would later marry.

Ellen Feld, a children's author, is also known for her "Morgan Horse" series. Blackjack: Dreaming of a Morgan Horse, won a Children's Choice Award in 2005, following the 2004 award for its sequel, Frosty: The Adventures of a Morgan Horse. These awards were given by the International Reading Association and the Children's Book Council.

A Morgan horse is the subject of the poem, The Runaway by Robert Frost. In the poem, the speaker observes "A little Morgan" colt who has been left out in a mountain pasture during winter and seems to be afraid of the falling snow.

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Rockland Community College

Rockland Community College (RCC) is a public community college in Rockland County, New York. It is part of the State University of New York. The college, established in 1959, became the 18th community college to join the SUNY system. The college offers 51 programs and offers associate degrees and certificates. Additionally, students can earn other degrees, including Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts in the arts and sciences, Doctoral Program in Executive Leadership (EdD), technology, and health professions while attending classes at Rockland through articulation programs with four-year schools. The current enrollment is 6,859 students.

The main campus is in Suffern, New York, but classes are also offered at an extension sites in Haverstraw, Nyack and Orangeburg. The Spring Valley satellite campus, sold for $4.2 million, has been discontinued. It was located in the historic North Main Street School. Instructions were discontinued at the Haverstraw Extension Center in 2020.

The college has more than 525 full and part-time faculty members, including several Fulbright Scholars, SUNY Chancellor's Award winners, and published authors and artists. The faculty-student ratio is 22:1. Rockland has the third highest transfer rate in the SUNY system and has a Continuing Education programs which served about 3,500 each year.

History
An institution called Rockland College, chartered by the state Board of Regents in 1878, existed for sixteen years in Nyack, New York.

Rockland Junior College, supported by federal funds disbursed through New York State, and sponsored by Nyack High School was established in 1932 as one of several depression-era two-year schools. New York University and Syracuse University accepted two years of credit from the college. Rockland Junior College shut down in 1935.

Rockland Community College came eighteen years and later was organized to be an affordable, two-year college in location convenient for county residents; it was planned that it would raise taxes by only $4 a year. At the time, Rockland County, the state's smallest in geographic area outside of New York City, was growing exponentially in population and in demand for a skilled, educated work force. Between 1956 and 1970, Rockland's population was one of the fastest growing in the state, expected to double from 107,000 to 215,000 and the number of high school graduates was projected to rise from 700 to 2,463.

Large local industries like Avon Products in Suffern and Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River required more skilled workers, and the growth of Rockland County hospitals, Nyack Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern warranted the creation of a nursing program.

Sixty-nine percent of parents polled expressed interest in their children attending a community college in Rockland County, and 183 high school juniors indicated a strong interest in and an ability to attend a community college in Rockland County.

In 2020, According to the United States Census Bureau, Rockland County, the thirteenth largest county in the State of New York population is 338,329, Rockland County 65 public schools population is estimated at 40,000 students which includes 22,000 attending the 10 public high schools which currently has a graduation rate of 87%.

Presidents

 * Frank Mosher, 1960–1963
 * Seymour Eskow, 1963–1983
 * F. Thomas Clark, 1983–1992
 * Neil A Raisman, 1993–1997
 * George Hamada, 1998–2001
 * Thomas G. Voss, 2001-2003 (Interim President)
 * William J. Murabito, 2003-2004 (Interim President)
 * Clifford L. Wood, 2004–2017
 * Michael A Baston 2017
 * Susan Deer (Officer In Charge)
 * Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo

In June 2024, Rockland Community College appointed County Legislator Dana G. Stilley and Legislative Fiscal Director Moshe Gruber as its unanimous choices of the Rockland County Legislature’s bipartisan Multi-Services Committee after Rockland Community College and Dr. Lester Edgardo Sandres Rápalo parted ways. Dr. Rapalo uncovered an inherited an $8 million deficit which only came to light after his predecessor, Michael A. Baston, left in 2022 mid-contract for a job as President of Cuyahoga Community College in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. When Rockland Community College officials had submitted their budget to county officials in the spring of 2023, no disclosure addressing increased financial problems were given. Dr. Rápalo had sought to address the deficit via cost-cutting measures and replacing administrators to remedy the Rockland Community College’s financial problems.

On Wednesday, June 26th 2024 the SUNY Rockland Community College Board of Trustees met and approved “Phase 3” which included a total of $2.6 million dollars in jobs, positions, or roles at the college approved for termination to reduce the widely reported $5 million dollar deficit that the college has faced. Several key positions were immediately eliminated, as well as 30-day notices given to at least one other longtime employee.

Veterans
On October 3, 2013, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs hosted the first induction of RCC students who are veterans into SALUTE - Veterans National Honors Society. SALUTE, established in 2008 is headquartered out of Colorado State University has over 90 chapters in colleges and universities across the country. RCC is the first community college to have a chapter of this organization.

Past Events
In the 1970, concerts and big-ticket events were held in the Eugene Levy Field house. Several major artist included, Billy Joel, Earth, Wind & Fire, Genesis, Meat Loaf, Styx and The Monkees.

Campus
The main campus and main entrance on Almshouse Road is located on the crest of a sloping rise in a former farm community known as Mechanicsville, renamed Viola when a post office was established in 1882. The original property included:

 * A wooden barn that was converted into a theater and assembly room in the second semester.
 * Fields leased to local farmers that yielded tomatoes and cabbage. The college later acquired 150 acre of farmland—100 to the south from the Hurschle Brothers Farm, and 50 to the west from the Springsteen Farm—for its current 175 acre campus. The barn was used for registration, physical education classes, sports team practices, large classes and final exams, dance classes, student-faculty talent shows, worship services, films, guest lecture series, concert series, even war protest rallies.  It also served as the College Barn Theater. The Barn burned in January 1979; in 1983 it was replaced by the Cultural Arts Center.
 * A "potter's field" cemetery, the burial grounds for many of the Almshouse residents. Shortly after the college was founded, the county deeded a tract of land in the northern section for establishing a veterans' cemetery, which remains today.
 * A small square building with barred windows that served as the first Rockland County jail, later the Ramapo town police headquarters, and still later a police radio station. It was converted into offices and men's locker rooms for the physical education program in the second semester.
 * A narrow, tree-lined country lane known as Almshouse Road, which became an interior access road when the current College Road was built.
 * The three-story, colonial design Almshouse. In front of the Almshouse is a wooden gazebo that still stands.

Gary Onderdonk Rockland Veterans Cemetery
A cemetery was established on the property for almshouse residents, and shortly after the property was designated for the college's campus, the county designated a tract to serve as a veterans cemetery. The Korean War Monument is large granite rock at the Gary Onderdonk Rockland Veterans Cemetery on Rockland Community College's campus with a plaque bearing the names of all 27 Rocklanders killed in action during the Korean War, with the inscription: "They gave their today for your tomorrow."

Organization
RCC is sponsored by the County of Rockland and operating and administered by a ten-member Rockland Community College Board of Trustees that is appointed pursuant to New York State Education Law § 6306. Nine of the Trustees serve seven-year terms, with five of those appointed by the county and four by the Governor. The tenth trustee is a voting, student representative. The board in turn appoints a President who hires and supervises the staff. RCC is a community college unit of the State University of New York and is also subject to regulation and visitation by the Regents of the University of the State of New York.

Accreditation
The college is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Some specific programs are also programmatically accredited:

 * Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc (ACEN), formerly National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc. (NLNAC).
 * American Occupational Therapy Association Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education
 * New York State Board of Regents, State Education Department, Office of the Professions (Nursing Education)

Academics
Rockland Community College offers 40 associate degrees and 11 one-year certificate programs. It also partners with other institutions to provide students with pathways to some bachelor's and master's degrees. Like most community colleges, it also provides continuing education and life skills courses.

In 2017 Rockland Community College was ranked the best community college in New York for adult learners in Washington Monthly's recent annual ranking of American colleges and universities. Rockland Community College rated twenty-eighth nationwide out of nearly 1,500 two-year colleges. The following year, the college was named the fifth Campus Pride's 2018 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges & Universities

In 2021, Rockland Community College received the Insight into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award

In 2022, Economic Mobility Workforce Innovation (EMWI) Division of Rockland Community College was introduced focusing on Workforce development that provides employment prospects in work markets by offering comprehensive certificate programs, including Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Medical credentials, Commercial Driver's License (CDL), Google IT, "stack-able" credentials and community educational programs such as Computer literacy and Scholastic Aptitude Test review courses.

High School Program
The Rockland Community College High School Program began in 2010. Rockland Community College academic departments have oversight of the curriculum, textbooks, and student assessments offered at the high schools. High school teachers who are college adjuncts teach the courses at the high schools. Rockland Community College participates in the New York Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NYCEP), which enables the college to network and share strategies of concurrent enrollment programs offered throughout SUNY community colleges.

Cambridge University Study Abroad Program
Students must be at least 18 years of age and meet the requirement of a minimum 3.0 GPA and two faculty recommendations when classes begin at Cambridge University in July or August. Students can be from any college but must apply through the RCC Sam Draper M/TS Honors Program Office in Spring to be eligible.

Maritime Studies Program
Rockland Community College offers the nation's first Maritime Studies Program works with a US Coast Guard-approved partner featuring online training with hands-on classroom instruction at the college's campuses. Through the RCC/Learn America program, Mariners seeking work on board any vessel are required to complete a Coast Guard-approved Basic Training course. Students also are able to sign up for any of the individual elements of the Basic Training course.

Industrial Development Agency (IDA)
in 2023, Rockland Community College (RCC). Skill Up Rockland, part of RCC's strategic initiative to close skills gaps, meet employer talent needs, and increase economic mobility has partnered with Rockland Rockland County Industrial Development Agency (IDA), in advancing the economic welfare and general prosperity of Rockland County by promoting the development of various facilities, industries, and businesses within the region actively supporting the growth of commerce and industry in Rockland County.

The Connection Center
In 2016 Rockland Community College opened The 211 Connection Center which connects students to off-campus resources regarding health and human services such as housing, childcare, food, utilities and legal because "life happens".

Athletics
The Rockland Hawks compete in the Mid Hudson Conference and belong to Region XV of the National Junior College Athletic Association. Many RCC alumni advance to competing at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) sponsored colleges or universities and several have gone on to professional sports careers as players, coaches, scouts and trainers.

Sports facilities

 * Baseball games were played at the Village of Suffern ball field
 * Basketball – The School used court time in gymnasiums at Suffern, Haverstraw, and Spring Valley high schools and a few junior highs.
 * Bowling at Hi-Tor Lanes in West Haverstraw, NY.
 * Calisthenics, jogging, archery, soccer, and Golf were held in the fields surrounding the small, peaked-roof building of the former Ramapo police station which housed the physical education office.
 * Fencing, gymnastics and varsity wrestling practice were held at the Barn.
 * Swimming and lifesaving were taught at the Bader's Hotel outdoor pool in Spring Valley.
 * Deer Kill Day Camp in Suffern was rented to teach lifetime skill sports like tennis, handball, and one wall paddleball as well as softball and basketball.
 * Eugene Levy athletic facility, known as the Fieldhouse was completed in 1972.

Sports championships

 * February 2007 – RCC Fighting Hawks Men's Bowling Team won their first Region XV Championship in school history. RCC made up three of the six All-Region members.
 * February 2009 – RCC Fighting Hawks Men's Basketball Team beat Sullivan County Community College Generals 81 – 77 to win the Region XV DIII Men's Championship.
 * May 2011 – RCC Golf Team Wins Region XV Championship winning by a four-stroke margin over Nassau Community College.
 * 2013 - Region XV Division II Baseball Champions NJCAA
 * 2013 - Region XV Tournament Runner-up Women's Basketball Championship
 * 2015 - Region XV Women's Singles Tennis Champion - Rockland Community College Elina Arakelyan
 * Elina qualified for NJCAA Division III National Championships, October 22–24 in Peachtree City, Georgia. Finished second. She and teammate Brooke Strieter also qualified to compete in the doubles tournament.
 * 2016 - Region XV Division III Runner-up Men's Basketball Championship
 * 2016 - Region XV Title - Men's Tennis Team Champions
 * 2017 - Region XV Women's Mid-Hudson Championship Volleyball Conference Title
 * 2018 - Region XV Men Golf Tournament Team Wins Third Place & three players; John Barna, Sean McGarvey and Anthony Mottolese qualified for Nationals hosted by Jamestown Community College at Chautauqua Golf Club in Chautauqua, New York.
 * 2018 Head Athletic Trainer of the Year for Community Colleges Nationwide - Diana Carey
 * 2019 - Region XV Baseball - The Hawks won a School record of 26 games in a row and was the first team to go undefeated in regular season play finishing 19–0.
 * 2021 - Northeast District B Champions - Lady Hawks Volleyball
 * 2024 - Tayejon Lynch, for the third time in the college's history since 1991 and 2013 named NJCAA Rockland Community College Hawks Men's Basketball All-American in the Mid-Hudson conference

New York Boulders
Rockland Community College was the training camp site in 2011 for the Rockland Boulders (now the New York Boulders of the Frontier League) during the construction of their ballpark, Clover Stadium in Pomona, New York.

Notable faculty

 * Edmund W. Gordon, education scholar
 * Dan Masterson, poet

Notable alumni

 * David Carlucci, New York's 38th State Senate district - January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2020
 * Abel Ferrara, film director best known for Bad Lieutenant and King of New York
 * Bruce Kreutzer, assistant coach for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and former RCC basketball player
 * Thomas P. Morahan (1931 - 2010), New York's 38th State Senate district - May 1999 – July 12, 2010, New York State Assembly 96th district - January 1981 – December 1982
 * Michael "Dr. Miami" Salzhauer, celebrity plastic surgeon

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Deng (Chinese surname)

Deng is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin which has many variant spellings and transliterations. It is a transcription of 邓 (simplified Chinese character) or 鄧 (traditional). In 2019, Deng was the 21st most common surname in mainland China.

Variant spellings
It is transliterated as Dèng in pinyin and Teng, or Then, in Wade-Giles. In Cantonese, it is Dahng in Yale and Dang6 in Jyutping. In Minnan or Taiwanese, it is Tēng in Pe̍h-ōe-jī. The surname originating from the same Chinese character or more specifically, Han character in Vietnamese is Đặng and it is one of the top ten surnames in Vietnam. The name is transliterated as Deung in Korean but is very rare in Korea. Deng is one of the surnames of the Nanyang, Henan ancestral hall (南陽堂). In addition to spelling "Deng" used in mainland China, other common Chinese spelling variations include:
 * Tang – Romanization based on Cantonese spelling common in Hong Kong and Macao
 * Teng – Romanization based on Wade-Giles transliteration of Mandarin Chinese common spelling in Taiwan
 * Ong or Ang – based on the Taishanese pronunciation, as in the case of Betty Ong

Notable people with the surname

 * Deng Ai, general of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period
 * Deng Chao, contemporary Chinese actor
 * Deng Zhi, general of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period
 * Kent Deng, economic historian and writer
 * Deng Longguang (鄧龍光), Chinese general in World War II
 * Deng Ming-Dao, Taoist author
 * Deng Shichang, Qing Dynasty admiral
 * Deng Shiru (鄧石如), calligrapher and seal carver
 * Deng Xiaoping, former leader of China
 * Deng Pufang, son of Deng Xiaoping
 * Deng Nan, daughter of Deng Xiaoping
 * Deng Zhuodi, grandson of Deng Xiaoping
 * Deng Jiaxian, nuclear physicist and recipient of the Two Bombs, One Satellite Meritorious Award
 * Deng Qingming, People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps taikonaut who flew on Shenzhou 15
 * Deng Yingchao, wife of Zhou Enlai
 * Deng Liqun, leading figure of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s
 * Deng Yanda, 1895–1931, left-wing general who tried to create a middle ground between the Chinese Communists and Chiang Kai-shek
 * Deng Yaping, table tennis player
 * Deng Yujiao, Chinese woman involved in the Deng Yujiao incident
 * Deng Zhonghan, Chinese electrical engineer and CEO of Vimicro
 * Alan Kwong-wing Tang (鄧光榮), actor and movie producer
 * Tang Wing Cheung (鄧永祥), birth name of Cantonese opera and film actor Sun Ma Sze Tsang (新馬師曾)
 * Chris Tang (鄧炳強), commissioner of Hong Kong police
 * H. T. Teng, Taiwanese ichthyologist
 * Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer
 * Si-an Deng, Chinese-Canadian badminton player
 * Wendi Deng, (birth name Dèng Wéngé or Dèng Wén Gé (邓文革)) Chinese-American businesswoman, former wife of Rupert Murdoch
 * Deng Maoqi (鄧茂七), leader of a tenant rebellion in Fujian at the end of the 1440s
 * Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, crossbench British Peer
 * Patrick Dunn, (鄧梓峰), Hong Kong TV personality
 * Sheren Tang (鄧萃雯), Hong Kong TVB actress
 * Lee C. Teng, Chinese/Taiwanese scientist
 * G.E.M. (鄧紫棋), HK Cantopop Singer-Songwriter
 * Kanny Theng, Singaporean actress
 * Stephy Tang (born 1983), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress
 * Teng Chia-chi, Deputy Mayor of Taipei
 * Tang Tuck Kan (鄧德根), Malaysia contemporary artist
 * Deng Lun (邓伦), Chinese film and television actor, model and singer
 * Tyler Ten (邓伟德), Singaporean actor
 * Tyler Ten (邓伟德), Singaporean actor

Notable people with surname "Tang"

 * Tang Tsz-kei, better known as G.E.M. (born 1991), Hong Kong singer
 * Stephy Tang (born 1983), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress
 * Sheren Tang Shui-man (born 2 March 1966), Hong Kong actress
 * Chris Tang Ping-keung, PDSM (Chinese: 鄧炳強, born 4 July 1965), Commissioner of Police of the Hong Kong Police Force since 19 November 2019
 * Alan Tang Kwong-Wing (20 September 1946 – 29 March 2011), Hong Kong film actor, producer and director
 * Patrick Tang, Hong Kong singer, actor, and TV show host
 * Shermon Tang Sheung Man (Chinese: 鄧上文), Hong Kong television actress
 * Natasha Tang (born Tang Wing Yung, Chinese: 鄧穎欣; Jyutping: dang6 wing6 jan1; 23 August 1992), Hong Kong distance swimmer
 * Billy Tang Hin-Shing (Chinese: 鄧衍成), Hong Kong film director
 * Robert Tang Kwok-ching, GBM, SBS, JP (Chinese: 鄧國楨; born 7 January 1947), retired Hong Kong judge
 * Tang So Ha (邓淑霞), survivor of the Andrew Road triple murders case in 1983

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Vladimir (Waiting for Godot)

Vladimir (affectionately known as Didi; a small boy calls him Mr. Albert) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Personality
The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character") of Godot, he represents the intellectual side of the two main characters (in contrast to his companion Estragon's earthy simplicity). One explanation of this intellectualism is that he was once a philosopher. This would explain his constant references and his attempts to engage Estragon in philosophical and religious debate.

Vladimir is deeply concerned with appearances and goes to great lengths to make sure Estragon behaves so that his own dignity is preserved. He is something of a pack rat: he carries all the food the tramps have (though he never eats himself), and has other (to quote the play) "miscellaneous" junk in various pockets. Another important prop is his bowler hat. He claims that it "hurts" him, and is eventually driven to appropriate Lucky's. After long periods of thought (or whenever he is bored) he fiddles with it and plays with the brim. This hat focus (in terms of being head centred) may be interpreted as being representative of his higher status (see Estragon's boots) and his intellectual nature: because of this, he is usually taller than Estragon, but this is a convention of the theatre and is not written in the play.

Despite this sometimes peevish and obsessive nature, Vladimir would seem to have a carnal side. He suffers from a venereal disease that causes him pain in his genitals and a need to urinate when he laughs. This might indicate a sexual past: he refers to a woman he knew who "had the clap"...although it is unclear whether this is the cause of his current condition or not.

Vladimir has the only social conscience in the play (compare Estragon's misanthropic view of humanity: "People are bloody ignorant apes!"), and it seems that he cares a great deal for the plight of his fellow man: he expresses outrage at Pozzo's treatment of his slave, Lucky, and acts as something of a parental figure to the sometimes childish Estragon. This is not to say Vladimir does not suffer from his own emotional tics. He hates dreams, as they represent a cruel false hope, and he is unable to cope with Estragon's logic, the simplicity of which throws him off. He also does not suffer fools well: Pozzo's decadence and Estragon's crudeness give him much cause for indignation.

The passage of time
Unlike all the other characters, Vladimir has a sense of the passage of time (only he says he remembers the events of Act I, although it is possible Lucky might recall them: see Lucky and Vladimir). However, he considers his memory unreliable because it can never be corroborated, due to Estragon's memory issues. At the end of the play, it is he who realizes the futile cycle that all of them have fallen into (see second quote). However, he rejects this realization when he finds that it is almost unbearable to live with ("I can't go on!"), and forces himself to dismiss it ("What have I said?"). He resolves to go on waiting for Godot.

Appearance
Information about his appearance is decidedly scant: he walks in "short stiff strides, legs wide apart," and is heavier than Estragon (which gives little information since there is no description of Estragon's weight to use as a reference). It tends to be the convention in most productions, however, that he is tall and lanky, while Estragon is short and squat. He has been portrayed by many notable actors, including Burgess Meredith (with Zero Mostel as Estragon) and - in one rather notorious version of the play - Steve Martin (with Robin Williams as Estragon), and Patrick Stewart opposite Ian McKellen.

Relatives
In Tom Stoppard's Godot pastiche, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, the character Guildenstern closely resembles Vladimir.

Quotations
"Hand in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among the first. We were respectable in those days. Now it's too late. They wouldn't even let us up."

"Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? (Estragon, having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again. Vladimir looks at him.) He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot."

"Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflection, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come—"

"We wait. We are bored. No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness!"

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Al MacInnis

Allan MacInnis (born July 11, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 23 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Calgary Flames (1981–1994) and St. Louis Blues (1994–2004). A first round selection of the Flames in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, he went on to become a 12-time All-Star. He was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the most valuable player of the playoffs in 1989 after leading the Flames to the Stanley Cup championship. He was voted the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 1999 as the top defenceman in the league while a member of the Blues. In 2017, MacInnis was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

MacInnis was most famous for having the hardest shot in the league. He tied Bobby Orr's Ontario Hockey League (OHL) record for goals by a defenceman, and won two OHL championships and a Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers as a junior. He famously split goaltender Mike Liut's mask with a shot, and became only the fourth defenceman in NHL history to score 100 points in a season. Internationally, he was an all-star on defence as Canada won the 1991 Canada Cup and twice participated in the Winter Olympics. He was a member of the 2002 team that won Canada's first gold medal in 50 years.

An eye injury suffered early in the 2003–04 NHL season forced MacInnis into retirement. He finished his career third all-time among defencemen in goals, assists and points and was named to seven postseason all-star teams. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007, and his jersey number 2 was retired by the Blues and is honoured by the Flames. MacInnis remains a member of the Blues organization, currently serving as the team's senior advisor to the general manager. When the Blues won the Stanley Cup in 2019, he got his name engraved on the Stanley Cup for a second time.

Early life
MacInnis was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia, and grew up in nearby Port Hood, a fishing village on Cape Breton Island. He is the seventh of eight children born to Alex and Anna Mae MacInnis, and one of six brothers. His father worked as a coal miner and later as the assistant manager of the arena in Port Hood when the mine closed while his mother was a school teacher. The brothers all played hockey in Port Hawkesbury during the winter. MacInnis often assisted his father's work at the arena, collecting pucks that he used to shoot repeatedly against a sheet of plywood set against the family barn during the summer. It was through this practice, which occasionally left him with blistered fingers, that he developed his powerful slapshot.

Junior
MacInnis left home in 1979 to join the Regina Pat Blues of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL). He appeared in 59 games, scoring 20 goals and 48 points with the Pat Blues, and appeared in two Western Hockey League (WHL) games with the Regina Pats. He then moved to Ontario and joined the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Following a season in which he scored 39 points in 47 games and winning the League Championship with Kitchener in the 1980–81 OHL season, MacInnis was rated as the second best defensive prospect at the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He was selected by the Calgary Flames in the first round, 15th overall. The Flames invited him to their training camp, although they did not expect him to play for them immediately, and he was returned to junior.

Most of his season was spent with Kitchener where MacInnis was named to the OHL first All-Star team after scoring 75 points for the Rangers. The team won its second consecutive OHL title, and captured the 1982 Memorial Cup. He played a third season in Kitchener in 1982–83, and was again named a first-team All-Star after an 84-point season. Additionally, MacInnis was voted the winner of the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL's top defenceman. He tied Bobby Orr's OHL record for goals by a defenceman in one season with 38 (subsequently broken by Bryan Fogarty's 47 in 1988–89), and holds the Canadian Hockey League record of five goals in one game by a defenceman.

Calgary Flames
MacInnis made his NHL debut with the Flames on December 30, 1981, against the Boston Bruins. He appeared in two games that season, and an additional fourteen in 1982–83 in seasons spent primarily with Kitchener at the junior level. He scored his first NHL point against the Toronto Maple Leafs on October 23, 1982. MacInnis began the 1983–84 season with the Colorado Flames of the Central Hockey League, scoring 19 points in 19 games before joining Calgary full-time. With the Flames, he scored 11 goals and 34 assists in 51 games and appeared in his first 11 postseason games during the 1984 Stanley Cup playoffs.

A point-per-game pace in 1984–85 (66 points in 67 games) earned MacInnis his first All-Star Game appearance, playing in front of his hometown fans at the 1985 game in Calgary. He was voted a second-team All-Star for the 1986–87 NHL season, and started his first All-Star Game in 1988. He was a finalist for the James Norris Memorial Trophy as top defenceman in the league in three consecutive seasons, 1989, 1990 and 1991, but failed to win the award each time.

Led by MacInnis' 31 points, the Flames won the first Stanley Cup championship in their history in 1989. He had four goals and five assists in six games in the final series against the Montreal Canadiens en route to winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs. MacInnis became the first defenceman to lead the league in postseason scoring, and he finished with a 17-game scoring streak, the longest by a defenceman in NHL history.

MacInnis finished second amongst NHL defencemen in scoring in 1989–90 with 90 points and was named a First Team All-Star for the first time. He improved to a career high 103 points the following year, becoming the first Flames' defenceman and only the fourth in NHL history to record a 100-point season. He scored his 563rd career point in a January 8, 1991, game against Toronto, to surpass Kent Nilsson as the franchise's all-time scoring leader. MacInnis missed three months of the 1992–93 season when he suffered a dislocated hip during a game on November 11, 1992, against the Hartford Whalers. While chasing a puck at high speed, he lost control and crashed into the end boards after Hartford rookie Patrick Poulin shoved MacInnis with his stick. Three weeks after his return to action, on February 23, 1993, MacInnis set a Flames franchise record when he appeared in his 706th career game.

Following five consecutive seasons where the Flames failed to advance past the first round of the playoffs, both MacInnis and the team were looking for a change in the summer of 1994. Though the Flames made an offer of C$2.5 million per season for MacInnis, he instead signed an offer sheet with the St. Louis Blues for US$3.5 million a season for four years, making him the fourth highest-paid player in the NHL. As MacInnis was a restricted free agent, the Blues sent defenceman Phil Housley and two second round draft picks to the Flames in compensation while also receiving a fourth round selection back.

MacInnis said his decision to leave Calgary was not easy to make given his family was from the city. He claimed money was not the only reason he signed with the Blues, stating that he wanted a new challenge. He left Calgary after 11 full NHL seasons as the franchise's all-time leader in scoring with 822 points, and led in assists (603), games played (803), playoff assists (77) and playoff points (103). He appeared in six All-Star Games with Calgary and was named a league all-star five times: twice on the first team and three times on the second. The team honoured MacInnis as the first player inducted into their "Forever a Flame" program in 2012. His jersey number 2 was raised to the Saddledome rafters on February 27, 2012, but was not formally retired.

St. Louis Blues
Pneumonia and a late-season shoulder injury limited MacInnis to 28 points in 32 games in 1994–95, a season itself reduced to 48 games by a labour dispute. While he returned to play in the postseason, MacInnis required off-season surgery to repair the damage to his shoulder. He returned to health in 1995–96, appearing in all 82 games for the Blues. Early in his third season with the Blues, MacInnis played his 1,000th game in an October 23, 1997, match-up against the Vancouver Canucks. However he again suffered a separation of his surgically repaired shoulder in December 1997, an injury that forced him out of the Blues line-up for three weeks.

MacInnis scored a goal and an assist in a 5–3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on April 7, 1998, to become just the sixth defenceman in NHL history to score 1,000 points. After coming close several times, MacInnis finally won the Norris Trophy as the league's top defenceman in 1998–99. Early in the 2000–01 season, MacInnis recorded four assists in a 5–2 victory over the Florida Panthers to set a Blues franchise record for scoring by a defenceman. He reached the mark with his 300th point, scored in his 424th game with the organization.

When Chris Pronger broke his arm early in the 2002–03 NHL season, MacInnis was named interim captain for the remainder of the season. He completed the season as the league's leader in scoring amongst defencemen with 68 points. Pronger insisted that MacInnis remain captain permanently when he returned for the 2003–04 season. MacInnis played only three games that season as vision problems he suffered during an October 2003 game against the Nashville Predators were diagnosed as being the result of a detached retina in one eye – the same eye in which he suffered a serious injury after being struck by a high stick in 2001. He missed the remainder of the season as a result, and after the 2004–05 NHL season was cancelled due to a labour dispute, MacInnis felt that he could not return to the game at a high enough level to compete.

MacInnis announced his retirement as a player on September 9, 2005, but remained with the Blues organization as part of its marketing and hockey operations departments. Ending his career with 1,274 points, MacInnis ranked third all-time in goals, assists and points amongst defencemen, and played in six additional All-Star Games as a member of the Blues. The team retired his jersey number 2 on April 9, 2006, and honoured him with a bronze statue out front of the Scottrade Center in 2009. MacInnis was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. He was the first player from Nova Scotia so honoured, and was also inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.

International
MacInnis was a member of the Canadian national team on four occasions. He first represented Canada at the 1990 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships where he scored one goal and four points. One year later, he played in his only Canada Cup tournament. He scored two goals and four assists and was named a tournament all-star as Canada won the title over the United States. He suffered a separated shoulder shortly before the 1998 Winter Olympics, and while it was feared he would be unavailable for the tournament as a result, recovered in time to be cleared to play. MacInnis scored two goals during the tournament, but Canada finished in fourth place after losing the bronze medal match to Finland following a semi-final loss to the Czech Republic. MacInnis also participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics. Though he scored no points in the tournament, Canada defeated the United States to win the nation's first gold medal in hockey in 50 years.

Playing style
MacInnis was best known for the power and accuracy of his slapshot. The Flames selected him in the 1981 Draft on the strength of his shot alone; his skating ability was so poor when he arrived for his first training camp in Calgary he earned the nickname "Chopper". While some reporters expected he would be a bust as a result, MacInnis said the patience the Flames showed him in his early days as a professional allowed him to develop into a more complete defenceman.

The power of his shot grew into legend on January 17, 1984, in a game against St. Louis. In his first full season with the Flames, MacInnis took a slapshot from just outside the Blues' defensive zone that struck goaltender Mike Liut on the mask. The shot split Liut's helmet while the puck fell into the net for a goal. The power of his shot, and the fear it inspired in his opposition, led to MacInnis' success as an offensive-defenceman, especially as a threat on the power play. MacInnis resisted the transition to carbon-fiber sticks in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The new stick technology offering better flexing characteristics and increased shot speed, but MacInnis preferred the feel of traditional wooden sticks. He continued to win "Hardest Shot" events at All-Star Game skills competitions despite competing with the technologically inferior wooden sticks. He won the event a total of seven times between 1991 and 2003. He occasionally topped 100 mph, including his win in the 2000 All-Star Game.

Used primarily as a power play specialist in his first years as a professional, MacInnis worked at improving his overall game such that he was named a Norris Trophy finalist three consecutive seasons between 1989 and 1991, and was the runner-up to Ray Bourque in 1991. He finally won the Norris Trophy as the league's top defenceman in 1999 with the Blues. Former teammate Doug Gilmour praised MacInnis' passing ability. MacInnis's play developed to the point where he was as valued for his defensive ability on the penalty kill as he was his offence on the power play.

Off the ice
MacInnis married his wife Jackie shortly after winning the Stanley Cup in 1989, and the couple have four children, Carson, Ryan, Lauren and Riley. MacInnis settled in St. Louis following his retirement, and in 2006 was named the Blues' Vice-President of Hockey Operations. He coaches his children's minor hockey teams, and in 2008–09 coached the St. Louis Junior AAA Blues to a 73–3–2 record and the championship title at the 50th Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. His son Ryan was a member of the Kitchener Rangers, and was drafted by the Arizona Coyotes in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. His daughter Lauren has committed to play ice hockey at Northeastern University.

Though his career took him away from Nova Scotia, MacInnis remains involved with his hometown. In 2001, he committed C$100,000 towards a major renovation of the Port Hood Arena. The arena was renamed the Al MacInnis Sports Centre in his honour, and he hosts an annual golf tournament to help raise funds for the arena commission. On the day he was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame, he donated $100,000 to the Inverness County Memorial Hospital in the memory of his parents.

In 2018, he finished third to hockey superstar Sidney Crosby and curler Colleen Jones in a listing of the greatest 15 athletes in Nova Scotia's history.

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From Cleanup. All google hits are about a Nintendo game which has nothing do with the description in the article. Delete as unverifiable. Andris 02:50, May 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * It appears to be a real game, but I agree that unless this can be verified, it's not worth keeping. Fredrik 14:49, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to the Engrish Wikipedia. We don't have an Engrish wikipedia? Delete then. --Ben Brockert 21:58, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Huh. The nintendo game is the game in the article; it was a board game on the Nintendo. See a screenshot here: --Ben Brockert 22:02, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, it is a real game. And the engrish can be dealt with. Burgundavia 20:36, May 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: insignificant. Wile E. Heresiarch 13:17, 17 May 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:Mandy Moore

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Please do not add personal details for non-notable children. This is a BLP privacy issue. It is not necessary to a reader's complete understanding of the subject to know the name or exact birth date of a non-notable child of the subject of a BLP. Meters (talk) 20:40, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * See WP:BLPNAME, part of the WP:BLP policy: "The presumption in favor of privacy is strong in the case of family members of articles' subjects and other loosely involved, otherwise low-profile persons. The names of any immediate, former, or significant family members or any significant relationship of the subject of a BLP may be part of an article, if reliably sourced, subject to editorial discretion that such information is relevant to a reader's complete understanding of the subject." Meters (talk) 20:46, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

The "I Wanna Be with You" album - a compilation rather than a studio album
I've been pondering over if the I Wanna Be with You album should truly be considered a studio release. It appears to have been marketed as a second studio album from Moore, at least in the US, but its contents - five of which previously appeared on So Real, in addition to a few remixes, lend it more to being a compilation or reissue. Only six of the twelve tracks on the album were new recordings (one of those being a remix of a new recording). In Australia, the album was released with a nearly identical cover to that of the original US release of So Real, and in certain territories, the album was released alongside all of the songs from So Real. In this MTV article, Scott Carter, senior director of product marketing for 550 Music, seems to be aware that it isn't a typical release, calling it "something special". I was going to alter the page and Moore's discography page to reflect it being a compilation, but given that it's been listed as a studio release for so long, I wanted to see if anyone had opinions either way before I did so. Breaktheicees (talk) 01:47, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I think I Wanna Be With You should still be listed as a studio release. I also feel the MTV article linked above confirms it's not a typical release. Urbanracer34 (talk) 03:29, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I did a little bit more digging and found this page directly from Moore's website at the time of release, which describes it as "a new version of Mandy's debut" . The European edition of the album in particular feels the most like a reissue/compilation - it doesn't have the remixes, and the majority of the album (over half) contains songs from So Real. Either way, with this uncovered info, I feel comfortable switching the page to reflect its status as a compilation rather than a studio release when Moore herself wasn't marketing it as a new album. Breaktheicees (talk) 07:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

 * You have a very valid point with this new info. Unless anyone else objects, I think you can move it to being a compilation. Urbanracer34 (talk) 14:40, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much for your comments and input. I appreciate it! Pages have been edited accordingly. Breaktheicees (talk) 08:46, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I know I’m obviously late to this but wouldn’t it sound wiser to classify it as a reissue rather than a compilation album? I did find this article from MTV that states it’s a re-release. especially if it’s being stated as a “new version of her debut”, would make more sense as a reissue of her debut album.   Pillowdelight (talk) 21:59, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Hi, you bring up some good points and I considered this when I first thought about making the change. If it were merely the international versions of the album that were released, I'd feel more comfortable marking it as a reissue. However, being that the US edition of the album is quite a fair bit different than So Real, with only four songs being directly lifted from that album, and two being remixes from that album, I thought it was more suitable to label it as a compilation. Other releases marked as reissues that I've found aren't nearly as transformative, unless you can find any examples. The title, album art, and the majority of the content is new to the release... but it isn't enough to constitute an entirely new album, either. It's a weird set, that's for sure, but I think it is best classified as a compilation. Breaktheicees (talk) 03:24, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Well I wouldn’t think it’s a compilation as she only had one album previously released. Especially since her website claimed this was a “new edition of her debut album” along with the MTV article I attached stating it’s a re-release — no other sources are calling this a compilation. Pillowdelight (talk) 04:06, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

 * True, but the question isn't if sources refer to it as a reissue but rather if it actually fits the definition of a reissue. A number of sources refer to it as her second studio album, which isn't accurate either. The international version of the release certainly could lend more to a reissue and very well could have been what her website was referring to when they called it "a new version of Mandy's debut", but still described it as her second studio album a year later. Like I said, it's a confusing, complicated release and hard to classify, but I think considering everything, compilation fits best. Can you find an example of a release definitively labeled as a reissue on Wikipedia that was changed as drastically to establish precedent? Breaktheicees (talk) 19:37, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Well I would say if most markets are labeling this her second studio album it would probably make sense to label it as a studio album but include in the longtype as a reissue, example could be Reclassified as it has 6 new songs and 6 previous songs from The New Classic on Reclassified’s page it can be noted as including all of the tracks (24 total) in the Japanese bonus track edition. Another example could be The Fame Monster which is labeled as a studio album / reissue / EP of The Fame, and was as well released with all tracks from both in certain markets. Same way I Wanna Be with You is with is with having all tracks from So Real. We also don’t go by what we believe should be labeled, as like you stated sources are calling this her second studio album along with the source I provided that states this as well as a reissue but none are calling this a compilation album. It merely isn’t a compilation., , — Could I please get your opinions on how this should be labeled? You guys have a lot of expertise. Pillowdelight (talk) 02:27, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure, really. I could see it being both a reissue or a compilation. It just depends on what editors interested in topics have decided to label things. It was a tactic for several decades for albums to have different track lists in different markets (this practice is kind of obsolete in the digital age). There are certain early Beatles releases that technically could be considered reissues or compilations when they were later released in the US, and the same with If You Love Me, Let Me Know by Olivia Newton-John, a North American release, which was considered a studio album here for a while until it was changed to a compilation because all but one(?) of the tracks had previously been issued elsewhere in the world. My point is, that album wasn't a compilation to North Americans but was marketed as a studio album there, and it's only with the "benefit" of hindsight that we can take on a whole-world view and say all of that material was previously issued elsewhere so it's technically a compilation. If I had to choose anything, even though I was informed of this discussion by Pillowdelight, I'd probably say it feels more like a reissue than a compilation as I'm swayed by the point above that it's hard to "compile" material from a career that at that point consisted of only one studio album released in one part of the world. Seems kind of like a reissue retooled for different markets, but that's my own feeling irrespective of sources. It appears unfortunately that sources are saying different things, so there's different opinions and I can see why editors have their approaches. Sorry if this isn't of much help.  Ss  112   07:57, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Pillowdelight I never said it should go by how we believe it should be labeled, rather if it fit the definition of what we are going to be labeling it as. You bring up a good example with the Reclassified album, which is the most similar release I've seen thus far. However, even that one is 50% new, 50% old, and Mandy's release has more new material - 66% unreleased material if we are counting the remixes as "new". The thing that makes me most question if it should be regarded as a compilation rather than a reissue is the inclusion of those remixes - which aren't on the international releases - alongside the five new tracks. However, I do notice that the US edition includes the subtitle "Special Edition", which the reissue article notes as a common addition to reissues. That being said, I'm okay with it being classified as as a reissue as it does appear to fit that definition in some ways - though it's by far the most changed "reissue" I've ever seen, and it still also fits the definition of a compilation. Also, thank you for the input @Ss112, as I appreciate any new insight! Breaktheicees (talk) 22:38, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Are there sources calling it a compilation? (CC) Tb hotch ™ 20:09, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

 * No. Most are referring to it as a studio album along with an MTV article I attached above stating it’s a re-release of her debut album So Real, along with her website calling it a new edition of it. Pillowdelight (talk) 20:14, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

 * , My apologies. I misread what you were saying. Pillowdelight (talk) 01:20, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * If there are no sources calling it a compilation, it shouldn't be labeled as such. (CC) Tb hotch ™ 14:54, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you everyone for their input and @Pillowdelight for bringing this up. The page has been changed to reflect it as a reissue as a result of this discussion. Breaktheicees (talk) 20:54, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I was going to say Reissue is more accurate. The album would not be eligible to chart on the Billboard Compilation charts album. There is specific criteria. Also the fact is charted in the UK as a separate listening from Moore's album helps to demonstrate its still a studio album. Unless a source calls it compilation it should not be classified as such. The exceptions to this rule were the two Michael Jackson compilation albums - but lets not drag that one up. ≫  Lil- Unique1  -{ Talk  }- 20:19, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Years active should say present and not through 2022
While Moore is unsure if she'll return to acting, she is about to go on her In Real Life music tour, so she is still very much an active singer, not retired or inactive — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.33.115.24 (talk) 02:08, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 153.33.115.24, can you provide a source saying she’s doing this music tour? It seems pretty clear based on the article that she is taking a hiatus from the spotlight in general. Lima Bean Farmer (talk) 11:06, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

 * – it's not exactly the world's worst-kept secret. 4TheWynne   (talk  •  contribs)  11:35, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

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SUNY Broome Community College

SUNY Broome Community College (BCC or SUNY Broome) is a public community college in Broome County, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY). The college was founded in 1946 and has gone through several name changes. The school is located in the Town of Dickinson, just north of the City of Binghamton, New York. The college had a 2010 enrollment of over 6,000 students and has alumni of over 41,000.

SUNY Broome serves students from a single campus on Upper Front Street in Dickinson, New York, though some classes are taught in Waverly, Owego, and within the City of Binghamton at smaller classroom centers. The campus' fifteen buildings comprise 610000 sqft of space and feature athletic facilities such as baseball fields, soccer field, publicly accessible tennis courts, the Dick Baldwin Gym, named after the third winningest college basketball coach across both two- and four-year colleges, and the SUNY Broome Ice Center - a 758 seat hockey arena that is used by a variety of different local ice hockey & figure skating organizations throughout the community.

There is also a theater which hosts campus performances of plays and other theatrical work, called the Little Theater.

Timeline

 * 1946: Established as New York State Institute of Applied Arts & Sciences at Binghamton (with "New York State" sometimes abbreviated "NYS")
 * 1953: Became Broome County Technical Institute
 * 1956: Became Broome Technical Community College
 * 1957: Moved to new campus on Upper Front Street (NY Route 11)
 * 1971: Name changed to Broome Community College
 * 2013: Name changed to SUNY Broome

Athletics
The SUNY Broome Hornets participate in the NJCAA as a member of Region III.

Men's sports:

 * Baseball
 * Basketball
 * Cross country
 * Soccer
 * Track and field

Women's sports:

 * Basketball
 * Cross country
 * Soccer
 * Softball
 * Volleyball
 * Track and field

The women's soccer team won the national championship in 2007, 2008, and 2016.

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Article needs a history section
I was brought here from the page for Averroes, who argued for a fine tuned universe based on the properties of Earth, as a teleologic proof of God. (Plenty of water, rivers, temperature, etc.) Others in the past have used the physical chemistry of water as evidence. (High melting point, freezing point, and the density of ice, as well as its overall abundance.)

On the Habitability of Universes without Stable Deuterium
I got reverted, so I am noting it here. On the Habitability of Universes without Stable Deuterium shows complex chemistry is possible, even if a proton could not bond to a neutron. I assume it was considered "original research" because it is a primary source. I think the point is important, so please help finding the appropriate secondary source. Thanks! Sanxiyn (talk) 09:49, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Epsilon
Isn't Epsilon actually the fine-structure constant at the helium fusion part? --Conspiration 11:01, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Merger proposal Fine-tuning (physics)
I propose we should merge the Fine-tuning (physics) article into this one. Uwsi (talk) 13:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

"Puddle thinking" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puddle_thinking&redirect=no Puddle thinking] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Tea2min (talk) 09:22, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

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Thomas J. Quigley

Thomas J. Quigley (1905 – 1960) was the Superintendent of Schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1939 - 1955. He is the namesake of Quigley Catholic High School.

Archbishop John B. McDowell, then Superintendent of Diocesan Schools, at the dedication of Quigley Catholic High School in April, 1968, had this to say about Quigley:

 * This extraordinary priest served the diocese, its schools, and the general community as a spiritual leader and an accomplished educator from 1931 until his death in 1960. No man gave so much to education or to the Church as did he.

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Rick Hansen

Richard Marvin Hansen (born August 26, 1957) is a Canadian track and field athlete (Paralympic Games), activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. Following a pickup truck crash at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury and became a paraplegic. Hansen is most famous for his Man in Motion World Tour, in which he circled the globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for charity. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. He was one of the final torchbearers in the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was profiled and spoke during the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.

Early life
Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia in 1957, Rick Hansen grew up in Williams Lake, British Columbia. He had an active childhood, where he played volleyball, baseball, softball, and basketball. He often spent time outdoors with his father and grandfather who took him fishing.

On June 27, 1973, Rick and a friend were riding in the back of a pickup truck when the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree. The impact threw Rick and his friend from the vehicle, resulting in a spinal injury that left Rick paralyzed from the waist down.

He worked on rehabilitation, completed high school, and became the first student with a physical disability to graduate in physical education from the University of British Columbia. Hansen won national championships on wheelchair volleyball and wheelchair basketball teams. He went on to become a world class champion wheelchair marathoner and Paralympic athlete. He competed in wheelchair racing at both the 1980 and 1984 Summer Paralympics, winning a total of six medals; three gold, two silver, and one bronze. Hansen won 19 international wheelchair marathons, including three world championships. He also coached high school basketball and volleyball. Rick had a very close relationship with his family, especially with his father and grandfather, with whom he enjoyed frequent fishing trips.

Man in Motion World Tour
In 1980, fellow British Columbian and Canadian athlete Terry Fox, who had lost a leg to bone cancer, undertook the Marathon of Hope, intending to run across Canada from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to raise awareness for cancer research. He made it from St. John's, Newfoundland to Thunder Bay, Ontario before a cancer recurrence forced him to stop, about halfway through his journey. Inspired by Terry's courage, Hansen decided to undertake a similar journey to prove the potential of people with disabilities and to inspire a more accessible world. But his planned path was far more ambitious: he planned to circle the world in his wheelchair.

He embarked on his Man in Motion World Tour on March 21, 1985, from Oakridge Mall in Vancouver. Although public attention was low at the beginning of the tour, he soon attracted international media attention as he progressed on a 26-month trek, logging 40,075 km through 34 countries on four continents (North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia) before crossing Canada. He averaged 8 hours of wheeling and 85 km a day. His highest summit was in the Swiss Alps at 5,577 ft (1700 metres). He returned to Vancouver's BC Place Stadium to cheering crowds of thousands on May 22, 1987, after raising $26 million for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives. Like Terry Fox, he was hailed as an international hero.

Today, the wheelchair and many other items associated with the Man in Motion World Tour are preserved by the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The song "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" was written in his honour by Canadian record producer and composer David Foster and British musician John Parr, and performed by Parr for the soundtrack of the film St. Elmo's Fire. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in September 1985.

Post-tour career
Hansen is currently president and CEO of the Rick Hansen Foundation, which has generated more than $200 million for spinal cord injury-related programs.

Rick Hansen Foundation
The Hansen Foundation was established in 1988, following the completion of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion World Tour, to continue raising funds and awareness to create a world without barriers for people with disabilities. For nearly 30 years, the Foundation has been actively improving the lives of people with disabilities, changing perceptions and breaking down barriers. The vision of the organization is to create an inclusive world where people with disabilities can reach their full potential. Through programs, collaboration and leadership, the Foundation has increased awareness and solutions for the barriers people with disabilities face, created more accessible spaces, improved the quality of life and health outcomes for people with spinal cord injuries, mobility issues and other disabilities.

In addition, the Foundation operates three major programs. The Rick Hansen School Program is designed for students from grades one to twelve, and teaches inclusiveness, disability awareness and leadership. Meanwhile, an online accessibility-related travel tool and consumer ratings guide called planat was also launched in 2011. The Foundation also provides Quality of Life grants to recipients every year.

During 2011 and 2012, the Foundation was also part of a cross-Canada tour called the Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay that followed the same route as Hansen's original Man in Motion Tour, roughly 25 years after it began.

ICORD, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre and Rick Hansen Institute
Hansen was noted as "the driving force" in the development of the 48 million dollars raised for the International Collaboration of Repair Discoveries (ICORD), an information network designed to track and record "best practices" in spinal cord treatment across the country and internationally. ICORD also maintains the Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry, allowing doctors and experts across the country to share vital information on what works and what doesn't for specific kinds of spinal cord injuries.

ICORD is located inside the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, which is also home to the Brenda and David McLean Integrated Spine Clinic, which provides one-stop outpatient care for people with spinal cord injuries or diseases of the spine, as well as the Rick Hansen Institute (formerly the Spinal Cord Injuries Solutions Network).

The building was designed to be fully accessible, with no need to display the wheelchair disability sign, and integrates research with care.

The province has previously contributed $17.25 million to spinal cord injury research and quality of life – $2.25 million to the B.C. Leadership Chair in Spinal Cord Research at the Rick Hansen Institute at UBC and $15 million to the Rick Hansen Foundation in support of its ongoing work to help improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Other initiatives
Hansen is a supporter of the conservation of sturgeon. Hansen contributed to the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society with the money earned from the book Tale of the Great White Fish. Additionally, he has served as chair for both Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society and the Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society, helping to restore and protect sturgeon and salmon populations in British Columbia.

In 2017, WE Charity and the Rick Hansen Foundation launched a joint venture to advocate for increased accessibility throughout Canada. The initiative was announced as part of WE Day Ottawa, on November 15. The goal of the initiative is to make every building in Canada fully accessible within 30 years. As part of this effort, RHF developed a program to evaluate and promote accessibility across Canada. The program was added to WE Schools curriculum in over 14,500 schools across Canada, the U.S. and the UK.

Hansen has made several on stage appearances at WE Day events, speaking in front of thousands of students about overcoming disabilities and inspiring others to be active in their communities. He also helped WE develop ideas for improved accessibility to their Global Learning Centre in Toronto, which was inaugurated during the same year.

Hansen earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1986 from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Controversies
On June 23, 2013, Vancouver Sun columnist David Baines published a lengthy and detailed investigative story about the finances of Hansen and his various foundations and groups. The article, entitled "Behind the Rick Hansen Foundation: Charity's Financial Stewardship Questioned" reveals, among other things, that "in 2009, Hansen donated rights to his name [to the Rick Hansen Foundation] for $1.8 million. In return, he received a $1.8-million tax receipt." It also states that Hansen's salary prior to resigning from his positions as president and CEO in 2011 was "more than $400,000 a year; how much more is not clear." After his 2011 resignation, he became co-chairman of the foundation (with Lyall Knott) and re-structured his relationship with the foundation by having it create the 'Rick Hansen Leadership Group,' a not-for-profit society that "is technically controlled by the foundation but headed by Hansen and includes two assistants". That restructuring "removed Hansen from the foundation's direct payroll. Instead of paying him directly, the foundation now pays him indirectly through the leadership group"; as a consequence, the foundation does not report any compensation level for him in its CRA returns.

Professional background

 * President and CEO, Rick Hansen Foundation (1997–2018)
 * National Fellow, Rick Hansen National Fellow Programme, University of British Columbia (1990–present)
 * Consultant on Disability Issues to the President, University of British Columbia (1989–1991)
 * Commissioner General to Canada Pavilion at World Exposition '88 in Brisbane, Australia (1987–1988)

Awards and honours

 * Special Achievement Award, University of British Columbia (1979–1982)
 * "Outstanding Athlete of the Year," by Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association (1980)
 * Lou Marsh Trophy, auxiliary award of special merit winner (1982)
 * Outstanding Young Person of the World for personal improvement and accomplishment by Junior Chamber International (1983)
 * University of British Columbia's Alumni Award of Distinction (1987)
 * Athlete of the Week: by ABC Wide World of Sports (1983)
 * British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame, W.A.C. Bennett Award (1983)
 * Newsmaker of the Year by Canadian Press (1986)
 * Terry Fox Hall of Fame (1993)
 * W.A.C. Bennett Award (BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum) (1994)
 * Induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (2006)
 * Canada's Walk of Fame (2007)
 * Recipient of CPA Alberta's Christopher Reeve Award (2007)
 * UBC Sports Hall of Fame
 * William Van Horne Visionary Award (2006)
 * Royal Bank Award (1994)
 * University of British Columbia Athletic Hall of Fame (1994)
 * People in Motion, a not-for-profit organization was named after Hansen
 * Four public schools have been named after Hansen:
 * Rick Hansen Secondary School, Abbotsford, British Columbia
 * Rick Hansen Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario
 * Rick Hansen Elementary School, London, Ontario
 * Rick Hansen Public School, Aurora, Ontario

Order of Canada Citation
Hansen was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada on June 29, 1987. His citation reads: "Already a world-renowned wheelchair athlete, this British-Columbian fulfilled a dream of wheeling around the world to make others aware of the potential of the disabled and to raise funds for spinal cord research among other things. His 44,075 km. journey, recently completed, took him to four continents and 34 countries, inspiring people around the world to realize their potential and raising many millions of dollars for the cause."

Honorary appointments

 * Honorary Director, Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (2002)
 * Honorary Board member, Think First Foundation (1998–2000)
 * Honorary Chair, Brain and Spinal Cord Research Centre Campaign, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia (1995)
 * Honorary Patron, B.C. Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (1995–Present)
 * Honorary Chair, Grey Cup Festival (1994)
 * Honorary Chair, Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (1990–Present)
 * Honorary Chair, Alberta Premier's Advisory Council for Persons with Disabilities (1989–Present)
 * Honorary Chair, BC Premier's Advisory Council for Persons with Disabilities (1989–Present)

Hansen was named Commissioner General for the Canadian Pavilion at Expo '88 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In 1986, a township in Sudbury District, Ontario, previously named the Geographical Township of Stalin, altered its name to the Township of Hansen in the athlete's honour. It is now within the boundary of the municipality of Killarney.

Books
Hansen is the co-author of two books: the autobiographical Rick Hansen: Man in Motion, written with Jim Taylor (published in 1987, ISBN 0-88894-560-4), and the self-help book Going the Distance: 7 steps to personal change, written with Dr. Joan Laub.

Personal life
Hansen and his wife Amanda Reid first met during his Man in Motion World Tour as she was his physiotherapist. They married in 1987 and have three daughters.

Scholastic

 * Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships

 * Honorary Degrees

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Cayuga Community College

Cayuga Community College, formerly Cayuga County Community College, is a public community college in Cayuga County, New York, United States. It is part of the SUNY system and began in 1953 as Auburn Community College. Its main campus is in Auburn, New York. The college also serves Oswego County with its branch campus in Fulton.

The college offers associate degrees and now hosts the University Center, which offers B.A. and B.S. degrees from a number of colleges, on the grounds of CCC. There are 3,775 full-time and part-time students. Degree programs include liberal arts for transfer preparation, computer science, criminal justice, broadcasting, art, nursing, geographic information systems, and education.

History
The State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees approved the establishment of its first community college on April 9, 1953. Classes began the following year in September at Auburn Community College in the former James Street Elementary School with sixty-nine students. In 1977, Cayuga County assumed sponsorship for the college and it changed its name to Cayuga County Community College. Dr. Albert T. Skinner, dean from 1953 to 1955 and president from 1955 until 1978 was instrumental in starting and developing the school from its humble beginnings to the campus where it is now located. Four of its buildings were added during his tenure.

Six year after opening, the college moved to its current location to accommodate rising enrollment. The original classroom building remains the main building on campus with other buildings added at later dates: the library (1964), the technology building (1970), the bookstore (1971), Spartan Hall (1980), and the nature center (1983). Later expansions included the opening of the Fulton Campus in 1994. In 2003, the college also opened the Regional Economic Center which housed classrooms for Cayuga students, the offices of several agencies providing employment services to area residents, the new home of the college's NASA-sponsored Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, and the college’s Business and Industry Center, a workforce training complex.

Daniel Paul Larson, D.M.A, joined Cayuga as its seventh president in 2007. Six years into his term, in 2013, the college experienced public turmoil when three of the four unions at the college voted no confidence in his leadership. In October of that year, he tendered his resignation, which was accepted by the board effective November 4. Shortly thereafter, the college also declared financial exigency.

Dr. Gregory T. DeCinque joined Cayuga Community College as Interim President in December 2013. Dr. Brian M. Durant joined Cayuga Community College as President in August 2015.

Auburn
Cayuga Community College is in the Cayuga-Oswego County region. Cayuga consists of a main campus in Auburn, and a second in Fulton. The Auburn Campus has a main structure that consists of 5 main sections referred to as "buildings". Those sections of the campus when facing the campus are from right to left: Spartan Hall, the Main Building, the Regional Economic Center, the Library Building, and the Tech Building.

Cayuga Community College degree programs include health sciences such as Occupational Therapy Assistant programs, media production, art, accounting, education, criminal justice, geographic information systems, and liberal arts.

Fulton
Located in Fulton New York in Oswego county, Cayuga opened an extension site in the city of Fulton in January 1994. The "campus" briefly consisted of two rented classrooms in the basement of the Fulton Education Center, until later in the year when classes and offices moved into the former Holy Family School building on West Third Street.

In the summer of 2001 the facility on Route 3 opened as Cayuga's Fulton Extension Center. It was expanded in 2004 with additional classroom and office space to meet a dramatic rise in enrollment. In 2006, New York State granted the facility branch campus status, and the "Fulton campus" designation became official.

On July 20, 2011 it was reported in the Syracuse Post Standard that Architectural plans are moving forward for a new Fulton campus. The college’s Board of Trustees looked over floor plans of the new Fulton campus to be built in the River Glen shopping center. Architect Karin Kilgore-Green said 51,000 sqft of space in the former P&C store in Fulton will be converted. A second floor with 30,000 sqft of space will be built over P&C site. The college bought the former P&C Foods building at River Glen Plaza for $950,000 and also is paying $495,000 for 45 acre of adjoining land. College officials said the purchases were made because CCC needed more space and wanted to own its site.

The current facility on Route 481 opened in the summer of 2012 as Cayuga's Fulton campus. At the heart of the campus is the Learning Commons, housing an open computing lab with dozens of computer workstations, a Center for Academic Success, and the Disabilities Services offices. Also located within the Learning Commons is the library, providing continually expanding collections of print and nonprint resources for Fulton faculty and staff, instruction service, laptop computers, online access to all electronic resources, and daily delivery of items from the Auburn collections.

The Fulton campus also features 21 general classrooms, distance-learning and video conferencing facilities, five dedicated computer labs, two rooms that could be computer and class rooms, two art rooms, two science labs for biology and chemistry, two conference rooms with the capability for distance learning, library, health suite, offices and student support area with financial aid, bursar and admissions. The Fulton campus also houses business and industry training facilities, a full-service bookstore, and a student lounge.

Governance
The college is governed by a ten-member Board of Trustees. The Governor appoints four trustees for seven-year terms, five are appointed by the Cayuga County Legislature for seven-year terms, and a student trustee is elected annually and serves for one year. Dr. Gregory T. DeCinque became Cayuga's interim president in 2013.

Publications
The student newspaper is the Cayuga Collegian. The creative writing and art clubs publish the creative arts journal Listen. The Auburn/Cayuga Community College Alumni Association publishes the ACC/CCC alumni newsletter every semester.

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