The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is a Fortune 500 company based in Plymouth, Minnesota. Mosaic offers two key crop nutrients—phosphate and potash—plus specialty products K-Mag, MicroEssentials and Pegasus. The company is a part-owner of Canpotex, which manages all potash exporting from Saskatchewan.^[2]

Overview[link]

Mosaic is the world's largest producer of phosphate and second-largest producer of potash—two crop nutrients which are primary ingredients in producing fertilizer. The company's annual potash production capacity is 10.4 million tonnes, and its phosphate production capacity is 10.3 million tonnes. Mosaic employs approximately 7,500 people worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

Launched October 25, 2004, Mosaic was formed by a merger between IMC Global, a fertilizer company formed in 1909, and Cargill's crop nutrition division. Its corporate headquarters is in Plymouth, outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mosaic operates in 10 countries and serves customers in more than 40 countries worldwide. It has port terminals, warehouses and blending and bagging facilities in nine countries and nine phosphate rock mines and plants and five potash production facilities.

• Chairman of the Board of Directors: Robert L. Lumpkins^[1]
• Chief Executive Officer and President: James T. Prokopanko^[1]

Potash[link]

Mosaic is one of the largest potash producers in the world with 10.4 million tonnes in capacity and an expected capacity of approximately 17 million tonnes following completion of several expansion projects by 2020. In fiscal 2010, Mosaic’s production represented approximately 12 percent of global production and nearly 38 percent of North American production. Mosaic operates five potash mines, including the world’s largest in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan.^{[citation needed]}

Phosphate[link]

Mosaic is the world’s largest producer of finished phosphate products with an annual capacity greater than the next two largest producers combined. Mosaic’s U.S. production represents about 13 percent of global production and 56 percent of U.S. production.

Mosaic Stadium[link]

Mosaic Stadium is a stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan. It is home to the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders. Mosaic Stadium is also known as Taylor Field.

Timeline[link]

</ul> 2011

• May: Mosaic and Cargill complete transaction to split-off and distribute Cargill's stake in Mosaic</li>
• January: Mosaic and Cargill agree to split-off and orderly distribution of Cargill stake in Mosaic</li>

2007

• January: Jim Prokopanko succeeds Fritz Corrigan as President and CEO of Mosaic</li>

2006

• July: Jim Prokopanko named Mosaic Chief Operating Officer</li>

2004

• October: The Mosaic Company launches as the world's second largest crop nutrition firm with the combination of the crop nutrition business of Cargill and IMC Global. The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) begins trading as the newest Fortune 500-sized firm on the New York Stock Exchange</li>
• June: Mosaic announced as name for the newly formed company</li>
• January: The crop nutrition business of Cargill, Inc. and IMC Global Inc. enter into definitive agreement to form a new crop nutrition company</li>

References [link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Kyle Andrews is an American songwriter and performer born in Chicago, IL and based in Nashville, TN.^{[1][dead link]} He has released albums on Portland's Badman Recording Co. as well as his own Elephant Lady Records imprint.^[2] He is perhaps best known for his 2010 song "You Always Make Me Smile" (co-written with friend Neil Mason) which was featured in a worldwide Holiday Inn ad.^[3] The music video for the song was filmed in Utah during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest water balloon fight^[4] and went viral.^[5][6] His interactive video for "Sushi" (directed by Dennis Liu) was made from 1.4 million tiles, and thousands of unique YouTube video stills. In 2010 it was shortlisted for the Guggenheim's YouTube Play Exhibit.^[7]

In addition to the Holiday Inn campaign, his music has been used in numerous TV shows and commercials, including a worldwide television ad for Dell ("We Were Colors")^[8] and a national television ad for Doritos ("Bombs Away").^[9] "You Always Make Me Smile" also appeared in an episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy.^[10]

Although Kyle performs as a first-name/last-name artist, and self-recorded the majority of his discography, he plays live with a full band. He has received critical attention from NPR^[11] as well as AOL Spinner.^[12]

Kyle Andrews' new album, Robot Learn Love, was released August 16, 2011.^{[13][dead link]}

Discography[link]

• 2006 - Amos In Ohio
• 2007 - Find Love, Let Go
• 2008 - Real Blasty
• 2010 - Kangaroo EP
• 2010 - Bombs Away / We Were Colors (digital-only single)
• 2011 - Robot Learn Love

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site
• Kyle Andrews on Bandcamp
• AMG Allmusic page

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Terri Lyne Carrington
Background information
Born	(1965-08-04) August 4, 1965 (age 46)
Origin	Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, R&B
Occupations	Drummer, singer, songwriter, record producer
Years active	1983–present
Labels	Concord Jazz, E1 Entertainment, Video Arts Music, Verve Forecast, ACT, GrooveJazz Media
Website	http://www.terrilynecarrington.com/

Terri Lyne Carrington (born 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a Grammy-Award winning jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more. For example, she has toured with each of Hancock's musical configurations (from electric to acoustic) between 1997 and 2007.

In 2007 she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, where she received an honorary doctorate in 2003.

Carrington also serves as Artistic Director of the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival.

Childhood[link]

At 7, Carrington was given a set of drums which had belonged to her grandfather, Matt Carrington, who had played with Fats Waller and Chuck Berry. After studying privately for three years, she played her first major performance at the Wichita Jazz Festival with Clark Terry. At age 11 she received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music. At 12 years old she was profiled on the PBS kids' biography program Rebop.

At Berklee College of Music she played with leading musicians such as Kevin Eubanks, Donald Harrison, Greg Osby and others. She also studied under master drum instructor Alan Dawson and made a private recording entitled, TLC and Friends, with Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, George Coleman and her father, Sonny Carrington, before turning 17.

Throughout high school she traveled across the country doing clinics at various schools and colleges.

Professional career[link]

In 1983, encouraged by her mentor, Jack DeJohnette, Carrington moved to New York, where she worked with Stan Getz, James Moody, Lester Bowie, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, David Sanborn, and others.

In the late 1980s she relocated to Los Angeles, where she gained recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for "The Arsenio Hall Show", then again in the late 1990s as the drummer on the late night TV show "VIBE", hosted by Sinbad. In 1996 she collaborated with Peabo Bryson on "Always Reach For Your Dreams," a song commissioned for the 1996 Olympic Games.

Terri Lyne Carrington and Herbie Hancock

Bandleader[link]

Notably, in recent years, she has included Esperanza Spalding, Geri Allen, Helen Sung, James Genus, Bob Hurst, Patrice Rushen, Tineke Postma, Ingrid Jensen, Nona Hendryx, Chihiro, Everette Harp, Greg Phillinganes, Lori Perry, Robert Irving III, Dwight Sills, Lawrence Fields, Randy Runyon, Gary Thomas, Aruan Ortiz, and Munyungo Jackson in her band configurations. In Summer 2011, she appeared with Wayne Shorter (with John Pattituci and Danilo Perez) in South America, and is the Musical Director of the international "Sing The Truth" Tour ... featuring Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo (with Romero Lubambo, Geri Allen, James Genus and Munyungo Jackson).^{[citation needed]}

Recording artist[link]

As a recording artist, in 1988 Carrington started concentrating her efforts on writing and producing her own works ... resulting in Real Life Story, her 1989 Grammy-nominated debut CD featuring Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington, Jr., Gerald Albright, John Scofield, Hiram Bullock, Patrice Rushen, Greg Osby, and Dianne Reeves, Jazz is a Spirit, her 2002 European CD featuring Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard, Kevin Eubanks and Gary Thomas, and Structure, her 2004 European CD with Jimmy Haslip, Greg Osby and Adam Rogers. Also, after a 20 year hiatus from U.S. recording, Carrington released the 2009 CD More to Say ... Real Life Story: NextGen, a sequel to her 1989 debut "Real Life Story" CD. The album features Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Everette Harp, Christian McBride, Jimmy Haslip, Greg Phillinganes, Robert Irving III, Patrice Rushen, Chuck Loeb, Walter Beasley, Anthony Wilson, Lawrence Fields, Ray Fuller, Dwight Sills, Lori Perry and Chris Walker, with a special appearance by Sonny Carrington.^[1] Most of the 15 tracks on the CD are written or co-written by Carrington. In 2011 The Mosaic Project, her fifth album overall and her first on Concord Jazz, which featured a number of singers, was released in 2011. It won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.^[2]

Entrepreneur[link]

As an entrepreneur, Carrington is a partner in Hebert-Carrington Media (HCM). Founded in 2007 and based in Atlanta, Boston, New Jersey, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, HCM's^[3] origins can be traced to the long-term relationships with company co-founder Robert A. Hebert, Esq., high-tech entrepreneurs Frank White, Jr. and Dr. Bernard Yaged, and top media and communications advisor Don Lucoff of DL Media. HCM has relationships with Concord Music, E1 Entertainment, Pony Canyon (Japan), Video Arts Music (Japan), Herbie Hancock, Toninho Horta, Oscar Castro-Neves, Arthur Maia, Romero Lubambo, Robert Irving III, Mitchel Forman, Helen Sung, Darryl Jones, and Vince Wilburn/Miles Davis Properties.

Partial discography[link]

• Real Life Story (1989)
• Jazz is a Spirit (2002)
• Structure (2004)
• More to Say (2009)
• The Mosaic Project (2011)

As drummer

• Herbie Hancock : Gershwin's World
• Rufus Reid : Seven Minds
• Mulgrew Miller : Work, Chapters 1 & 2: Keys to the City
• Michele Rosewoman : Quintessense
• Dianne Reeves : I Remember, Art & Survival, Quiet After The Storm, That Day
• Niels Lans Doky : Daybreak
• Doky Brothers : Doky Brothers, Vol 1 & 2
• John Scofield : Flat Out, Liquid Fire
• Cassandra Wilson : Blue Skies
• Rachel Z : Room Of One's Own
• Wayne Shorter : Joy Ryder, High Life
• Patrice Rushen : Anything But Ordinary
• John Patitucci : Sketchbook
• Eric Marienthal : Crossroads
• John Beasley : Change of Heart
• Nino Tempo : Live At Cicada
• Michael Wolff : 2 AM
• James Moody : Moody's Birthday Celebration, Live At The Blue Note, Moody Plays Mancini
• Esperanza Spalding : Radio Music Society

References[link]

External links[link]

• Terri Lyne Carrington website