Ism may refer to:

• ism (name), the Arabic word for a personal name
• -ism (suffix), appended to many philosophical concepts
  • See also "-ism" on Wiktionary

Acronym[link]

ISM is an acronym of:

Schools[link]

• Indian School of Mines
• Indian School Muscat, a Central Board of Secondary Education-affiliated school in Oman
• International School of Management:
  • ISM (Paris, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo)
  • ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania
• International School Moshi, Tanzania

Industry[link]

• Institute for Supply Management
• Industry Structure Model, a formal model for skills and training, now superseded by SFIAPlus
• International Safety Management Code, used in shipping
• International Society for Micropiles

Science[link]

• Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis
• Industrial, Scientific and Medical band, radio frequencies
• Interstellar medium

Politics[link]

• International Socialist Movement, Scotland
• International Solidarity Movement, organization focused on assisting the Palestinian cause in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Italian Social Movement

Others[link]

• The International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Imperial Service Medal, British award
• Incorporated Society of Musicians
• InterSystems MUMPS, in computing
• International Sports Management Limited
• Internationale Süßwarenmesse (ISM), confectionery fair held annually at Cologne trade fair

See also[link]

• Information security management system (ISMS)
• Inner Sydney Montessori School, Australia

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Peter Broggs (born Henry James in 1954 in Hanover Parish, Jamaica^[1]) is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is a successful artist in Jamaica and well-known in the international reggae scenes.

Around the beginning of the 1970s, he decided to move away from the country and find work in the city areas. There he found work, and found himself among reggae artists and musicians such as Gregory Isaacs, Bingy Bunny, Errol Holt and others who worked in the Jamaican music industry at the time.

Peter Broggs sang and recorded sporadically during the 1970s, and his music was mostly about the Rastafari movement. One song recorded at this time was "Jah Golden Throne", recorded at the Channel One Studios and King Tubby studios, and released in the UK on the short-lived Selena imprint in 1980.

Broggs suffered a stroke on August 27, 2004, and this left him paralyzed on the right side and hardly able speak.^{[citation needed]} The album Igzabihir Yakal was released in 2005; the album has been recorded with Dubcreator at the DC Studio for sound system team King Shiloh in Amsterdam in 2002 and the profit from this album went to help pay Broggs' medical bills.^{[citation needed]}

Discography[link]

• Progressive Youth (1979)
• Rastafari Liveth (1981)
• Rise and Shine Album (1982)
• Cease the War (1984)
• Reasoning (1986)
• Reggae In Blues (1993)
• Peter Broggs Sings for the Children (1993)
• Rejoice (1997)
• Progressive Youth (Reissue) (1997)
• RAS Portraits: Peter Broggs (1997)
• Jah Golden Throne (2000)
• Jah Golden Throne Dubwise (2000)
• Never Forget Jah (2001)
• Igzabihir Yakal (2005)

References[link]

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Cab Calloway
Photographed by William Gottlieb, 1947
Background information
Birth name	Cabell Calloway III
Born	(1907-12-25)December 25, 1907 Rochester, New York, US
Died	November 18, 1994(1994-11-18) (aged 86) Hockessin, Delaware, US
Genres	Jazz, blues
Occupations	Bandleader, singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1930–1994
Associated acts	The Cab Calloway Orchestra
Website	www.cabcalloway.com

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer.

Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.

Biography[link]

Early years[link]

Cab Calloway was born in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas Day in 1907. He lived there until moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 1918. His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist. When Cab was young, he enjoyed singing in church.^[1] His parents recognized their son's musical talent and he began private voice lessons in 1922. He continued to study music and voice throughout his formal schooling. Despite his parents' and vocal teachers' disapproval of jazz, Calloway began frequenting and eventually performing in many of Baltimore's jazz clubs, where he was mentored by drummer Chick Webb and pianist Johnny Jones.

After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School Calloway joined his older sister, Blanche, in a touring production of the popular black musical revue Plantation Days. (Blanche Calloway herself would become an accomplished bandleader before her brother, and he would often credit her as his inspiration for entering show business.) Calloway attended Lincoln University (a historically black university) in Pennsylvania, but left in 1930 without graduating.

When the tour ended in Chicago in the fall, Calloway decided to remain in Chicago with his sister, who had an established career as a jazz singer in that city. His parents had hopes of their son becoming a lawyer like his father, so Calloway enrolled in Crane College. His main interest, however, was in singing and entertaining, and he spent most of his nights at the Dreamland Ballroom, the Sunset Cafe, and the Club Berlin, performing as a drummer, singer and MC.

At the Sunset Cafe he met and performed with Louis Armstrong who taught him to sing in the "scat" style.

Success[link]

The Cotton Club was the premier jazz venue in the country, and Calloway and his orchestra (he had taken over a brilliant but failing band called "The Missourians" in 1930) were hired as a replacement for the Duke Ellington Orchestra while they were touring. Calloway quickly proved so popular that his band became the "co-house" band with Ellington's, and his group began touring nationwide when not playing the Cotton Club. Their popularity was greatly enhanced by the twice-weekly live national radio broadcasts on NBC at the Cotton Club. Calloway also appeared on Walter Winchell's radio program and with Bing Crosby in his show at New York's Paramount Theatre. As a result of these appearances, Calloway, together with Ellington, broke the major broadcast network color barrier.^{[citation needed]}

Like other bands fronted by a singing bandleader, Calloway initially gave ample soloist space to its lead members and, through the varied arrangements of Walter 'Foots' Thomas, provided much more in the way of musical interest. Many of his records were "vocal specialities" with Calloway's vocal taking up the majority of the record.

In 1931 he recorded his most famous song, "Minnie the Moocher". That song, along with "St. James Infirmary Blues" and "The Old Man Of The Mountain," were performed for the Betty Boop animated shorts Minnie the Moocher, Snow White and The Old Man of the Mountain, respectively. Through rotoscoping, Calloway not only gave his voice to these cartoons, but his dance steps as well. He took advantage of this and timed his concerts in some communities with the release of the films in order to make the most of the attention. As a result of the success of "Minnie the Moocher," he became identified with its chorus, gaining the nickname "The Hi De Ho Man". He also performed in a series of short films for Paramount in the 1930s. (Calloway and Ellington were featured on film more than any other jazz orchestras of the era.) In these films, Calloway can be seen performing a gliding backstep dance move, the precursor to Michael Jackson's "moonwalk"—Calloway said fifty years later, "it was called The Buzz back then."^[2] The 1933 film, International House featured Calloway performing his classic song, "Reefer Man," a tune about a man who favors marijuana cigarettes.^[3]

Calloway made his "first proper Hollywood movie appearance" opposite Al Jolson in The Singing Kid in 1936. He sang a number of duets with Jolson, and the film included Calloway's band and cast of twenty-two Cotton Club dancers from New York.^[4] According to music historian Arthur Knight, the film aimed in part "to both erase and celebrate boundaries and differences, including most emphatically the color line." He also notes that "when Calloway begins singing in his characteristic style – in which the words are tools for exploring rhythm and stretching melody – it becomes clear that American culture is changing around Jolson and with (and through) Calloway. . ."^[5][6]:watch

Calloway's was one of the most popular American jazz bands of the 1930s, recording prolifically for Brunswick and the ARC dime store labels (Banner, Cameo, Conqueror, Perfect, Melotone, Banner, Oriole, etc.) from 1930–1932, when he signed with Victor for a year. He was back on Brunswick in late 1934 through 1936, when he signed with manager Irving Mills's short-lived Variety in 1937, and stayed with Mills when the label collapsed and the sessions were continued on Vocalion through 1939, and then OKeh through 1942. After the recording ban due to the 1942-44 musicians' strike ended, he continued to record prolifically.

Calloway's vocal style is a blend of hot scat singing and improvisation coupled with a very traditional vaudeville-like singing style. Many of his ballads are devoid of tone bending jazz styling.

In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas erupted when Calloway was hit with spitballs. He wrongly accused Gillespie, who stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife.^[7]

In 1943 Calloway appeared in the high-profile 20th Century Fox musical film, Stormy Weather.

In 1944 The New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive was published, an update of an earlier book in which Calloway set about translating jive for fans who might not know, for example, that "kicking the gong around" was a reference to smoking opium.

Calloway and his band starred in "Hi De Ho," an all-black full-length film directed by Josh Binney.

In the late 1940's, Calloway wrote a regular humorous pseudo gossip column called "Coastin' With Cab" for Song Hits Magazine. It was a collection of celebrity snippets such as this one, in the May 1946 issue: "Benny Goodman was dining at Ciro's steak house in New York when a very homely girl entered. 'If her face is her fortune,' Benny quipped, 'she'd be tax-free'."

Later years[link]

In the 1950s Calloway moved his family from Long Island, New York to Greenburgh, New York, to raise the three youngest of his five daughters.

In his later career Calloway appeared in a number of films and stage productions that utilized both his acting and singing talents. In 1952 he played the prominent role of "Sportin' Life" in a production of the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess with William Warfield and Leontyne Price as the title characters. Another notable role was "Yeller" in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), with Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret and Edward G. Robinson.

One of Cab Calloway's zoot suits on display in Baltimore's City Hall, October 2007

Calloway appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on March 19, 1967 with Chris Calloway. In 1967, Calloway co-starred opposite Pearl Bailey as Horace Vandergelder in an all-black cast change of Hello, Dolly! on Broadway during its original run. It revived flagging business for the show^[8] and RCA released a new cast recording, rare for the time. In 1973–1974, Calloway was featured in an unsuccessful Broadway revival of The Pajama Game alongside Hal Linden and Barbara McNair.

1976 saw the release of his autobiography, Of Minnie The Moocher And Me (Crowell). It included his complete Hepsters Dictionary as an appendix.

Calloway attracted renewed interest in 1980 when he appeared as a supporting character in the film The Blues Brothers, performing "Minnie the Moocher", and again when he sang "The Jumpin' Jive" with the Two-Headed Monster on Sesame Street.^[9] This was also the year the cult movie Forbidden Zone was released, which included rearrangements of, and homages to, Calloway songs written by Danny Elfman, a Calloway fan.

Calloway helped establish the Cab Calloway Museum at Coppin State College (Baltimore, Maryland) in the 1980s, and Bill Cosby helped establish a scholarship in Calloway's name at the New School for Social Research New York City. In 1994, a creative and performing arts school, the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, was dedicated in his name in Wilmington, Delaware.

In 1986, Calloway appeared at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s WrestleMania 2 as a guest judge for a boxing match between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Mr. T that took place at the Nassau Coliseum. Also in 1986, he headlined to great success a gala ball for 4,000 celebrating the grand opening of one of the top hotels in the US at the time, the Dallas-based Rosewood Hotel Co.'s Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas, Texas. In 1990, he was the focus of Janet Jackson's 1930s-themed music video "Alright", appearing as himself at the end. In the United Kingdom, he also appeared in several commercials for the Hula Hoops snack, both as himself and as a voice for a cartoon (in one of these commercials he sang his hit "Minnie The Moocher"). He also made an appearance at the Apollo Theatre.

In May 1994, Calloway suffered a stroke. He died six months later on November 18, 1994. His body was cremated and his ashes were given to his family. Upon the death of his wife Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway on October 13, 2008, his ashes were interred next to her at Ferncliffe Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

A profile of Calloway Cab Calloway: Sketches aired on the PBS program American Masters in February 2012.

Honors[link]

• In 1993, the University of Rochester presented Calloway with the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts.
• In 1993, he was presented with the National Medal of Arts.^[10]
• In 1998, The Cab Calloway Orchestra (directed by Calloway's grandson C. "CB" Calloway Brooks) ^[11] was formed to honor his legacy on the national and international levels.

Selected awards and recognitions[link]

Grammy history[link]

Other honors[link]

Discography[link]

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Stage appearances[link]

• Porgy and Bess (1953)
• Hello, Dolly! (replacement in 1967)
• The Pajama Game (1973)
• Bubbling Brown Sugar (1976)
• Uptown...It's Hot! (1986)

Filmography[link]

References[link]

Song Hits Magazine "A song lyrics publication" Vol 9 No. 12 p. 22 copyright May 1946 (and other issues)

External links[link]

Biography portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cab Calloway

• Cab Calloway at Notable Names Database
• Cab Calloway at the Internet Movie Database
• Cab Calloway at the Internet Broadway Database
• Cab Calloway at This Joint Is Jumpin'
• Cab Calloway complete discography (CD albums, post 1989 only)
• The Official Homepage of The Cab Calloway Orchestra, directed by Christopher Brooks (including a partial list of recordings)
• The Dreamland Ballroom Website
• The Hi de Ho Blog, French website dedicated to Cab, his musicians and the Swing era
• YouTube video: Cab Calloway - Reefer Man.
• Jazz, the Rough Guide by Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestly; Penguin Books, 1995; pp. 96–97; ISBN 1-85828-137-7
• NPR's "Jazz profiles"
• Cab Calloway: 'A Hi De Ho Centennial' another program in NPR's "Jazz Profiles" series
• "Cab Calloway: Original Rapper", PopMatters column (November 2005)
• 1931 German broadcast recording of a live performance in Cotton Club, New York City
• Music from Internet Archive
• "Cab Calloway". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19905. Retrieved August 10, 2010. 

Corey Duffel is a skater from Walnut Creek, California. He was born on April 11, 1984 as William Corey Duffel to Steve and Sharon. He is known for his fast-paced skating style, skating big gaps, rails, stairs, riding big wall ride gaps, and any large obstacles like the freeway gap in Cataclysmic Abyss. His skating stance is Goofy. Duffel still rides for his shop sponsor, Metro, in his hometown.^{[citation needed]}

Duffel has been skating since age ten, and turned pro at age eighteen. His favorite trick is to ollie and bomb big hills. Duffel also said he always puts a silver screw on the top right corner of the screws holding in his trucks on his skateboard. Some of his career highlights are just getting to ride a skateboard with his friends.

Duffel's sponsors include Foundation Skateboards, Osiris Shoes, Ambiguous Clothing, Venture Trucks, Mob Grip, Pig Wheels, Metro Skateboard Shop, Armourdillo. CCS magazine, Skullcandy headphones, and most recently Swiss Bearings.^{[citation needed]}

Duffel is also working with mentor Michael Davis' Music Is Revolution Foundation, raising money to support music education in public schools. Davis and Duffel have also collaborated on some fashion and skate items for Foundation. He has a tattoo of a spider on his back, which also appeared on one of his skateboard graphics. He also has tattoos of his dogs’ names on his arm in a heart with a dagger, and his 7th Seal deck on his rib which features the Grim Reaper playing chess. In an interview in Transworld Magazine, Corey describes it as a battle between him and the reaper. However, in the tattoo, his king has been knocked over. He also sports a 45 record logo on his chest. Corey Duffel Has 2 Pro Model Shoes On Osiris Footwear which are The Duffel and The Corpse.^[1]

Video Appearances[link]

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• 1998 Think - Dedication
• 2001 Thrasher Magazine - Go For Broke
• 2002 Foundation - Madness & Mayhem.........skate till death
• 2002 411 VM - Issue #55
• 2002 Zero - Dying to Live (Friends Section)
• 2003 Pharmacy Boardshop - Chily
• 2004 Globe - World Cup Skateboarding Street Riot
• 2004 Foundation - That’s Life Flick (Last Part)
• 2004 Foundation - European Tour
• 2005 Foundation - Gareth Stehr's Go Go Toe Jam
• 2005 88 Footwear – Destroy Everything Now (Last Part)
• 2006 411 VM – Volume 14, Issue 1
• 2006 Stephen Duffel – Beautiful Breakdown
• 2007 Foundation - Cataclysmic Abyss (2nd Last Part)^[2]
• 2007 X-Games - Street contest tyrant and is round
• 2007 Osiris Footwear feed the need (2nd Last Part)
• 2007 chandler tour
• 2008 Congress oF Freaks Osiris
• 2008 Skate And Create Transworld/Osiris [Congress Of Freaks The Sensation Of The Year]
• 2009 Split Clothing - Demons in the Attic (Though the video was in fact produced and shipped, Split Clothing's untimely demise prevented this video from ever being seen, and Duffels footage has been unused)
• 2009 BATB2 (Battle at The Berics2)
• 2009 Transworld Skateboarding - Right Foot Forward (2nd Last Part)
• 2009 Maloof Money Cup 2009

References[link]

• http://www.thrashermagazine.com/Joomla_STBL/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=51 Thrasher Interview
• http://www.skateboarding.com/skate/magazine/article/0,23271,408205,00.html Skateboarding.com Interview
• http://www.skateboard-city.com/messageboard/showthread.php?t=29748 Corey Duffel Forum
• http://skimthefat.com/skaters/showskater.cgi?skaterID=1027 List of Duffel's Skateboard video appearances

External links[link]

• Big Brother Interview
• Official Foskco Profile
• Official Pig Wheels Profile
• Official Sessions Profile
• Official HOVEN Skate Team Profile
• Official Osiris Shoes Profile

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Mr. Wiggles performing in 2005

Steffan "Mr. Wiggles" Clemente is a street dancer, noted for his popping skills. He is a member of the Rock Steady Crew, The Electric Boogaloos, Tribal Click and Zulu Nation. Wiggles has been active as a dancer, actor, choreographer, dance instructor, music producer and graffiti artist.

Biography[link]

Mr Wiggles is a South Bronx Puerto Rican. He was given the name "Dom" by an underground Graffiti writer named SEEN TC5 from his popularity in dancing at school, but later changed it to "Mr. Wiggles" after a show in Virginia Beach.

Wiggles performs as a solo artist and with the Electric Boogaloos and Rock Steady Crew. He is also committed to participating in outreach programs teaching youth about the positive aspects of hip hop culture. ^[1]

Awards[link]

Wiggles was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for the Ghettoriginal production of Jam on the Groove. He won a Bessie Award for Best Choreography for the theatrical production of So What Happens Now, a play dedicated to Buck4, a deceased Rock Steady Crew member.

Recently, Wiggles along with the members of Rock Steady Crew was acclaimed at the first VH-1 Hip Hop Honors.

See also[link]

• Rock Steady Crew
• Popping
• Breakdancing
• Locking

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mr. Wiggles' official website
• The Electric Boogaloos official website
• Rock Steady Crew official website