Look up lam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Lam and its various forms may refer to:

Lām[link]

• Lām, a letter of the Arabic alphabet

Lam[link]

• Mor lam, an ancient Lao form of song in Laos and Isan
• Lam saravane, a music genre
• Lam luang, a music genre
• Lam, Germany, a town in Bavaria

LAM[link]

• Lactational amenorrhea method, a contraceptive method
• LAM Mozambique Airlines, the National airline of Mozambique
• Los Alamos Airport, IATA airport code
• LAM/MPI, an MPI programming environment and development system for heterogeneous computers on a network or Local Area Multicomputer
• London After Midnight (band), an L.A. Band.
• Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare lung disease
• The collection code of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• Lipoarabinomannan, a glycolipid associated with the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Laser aiming module, a term for laser sights for firearms
• Laser capture microdissection, also known as Laser-Assisted Microdissection

Lam.[link]

• The Book of Lamentations in the Tanakh
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French naturalist
• Lamborghini

Surnames[link]

• Lam, a common Cantonese and uncommon Vietnamese surname; a variant of the very common Mandarin Chinese name Lin (林)
• Lam or Lum, a common Hakka surname; a variant of the uncommon Mandarin Chinese name Lan (蓝)

See also[link]

• Tai Lam Country Park, Hong Kong
• Po Lam, area of Hong Kong
• Lam Research, semiconductor design company
• Phra Lak Phra Lam, Lao version of the Ramayana
• Monts de Lam, a department of Chad
• Lum Invader, a fictional character from the manga and anime series Urusei Yatsura whose name is sometimes romanized as "Lam"

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Toro may refer to:

Places[link]

• Toro, Molise, a comune in the Province of Campobasso, Italy
• Toro, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria
• Toro, Shizuoka, an archaeological site in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
• Toro, Zamora, a municipio in the Province of Zamora, Castille and León, Spain
• Toro Kingdom, a traditional kingdom in Uganda
• Shakhtyorsk, a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, known as Toro in Japanese

People[link]

• Toró, the nickname of Rafael Ferreira Francisco, a Brazilian football (soccer) player
• Manuel Murillo Toro, a historical Colombian political figure
• Ray Toro, one of the guitarists for My Chemical Romance

Fictional characters[link]

• Toro (cartoon character), a mascot for Sony Computer Entertainment
• Toro (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Toro (mascot), a mascot for the National Football League's Houston Texans franchise

Other uses[link]

• 1685 Toro, an asteroid
• Il Toro or Torino F.C., an Italian football team
• Toro, a Spanish Fighting Bull used in bullfighting
• Toro, three turns on the track at Cesana Pariol for the 2006 Winter Olympics
• Tōrō, a Japanese traditional lantern, originally from China
• Toro (company), an American manufacturer of lawnmowers and other lawn equipment
• Toro (DO), a Denominación de Origen for wine in Spain
• Toro (food), a Norwegian food company
• Toro (magazine), a Canadian men's magazine
• Toro (NFC startup company), a startup developing a mobile platform for Near-Field Communication applications
• Toro (rodent) a spiny rat in the genus Isothrix
• Toro (sushi), a fatty part of a fish used in sushi

See also[link]

Look up toro in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Torello (disambiguation)
• Torella (disambiguation)
• El Toro

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Baaba Maal
Maal in 2011
Background information
Born	(1953-11-12) November 12, 1953 (age 58) Podor, Senegal
Genres	Yela, Worldbeat
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, composer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Mango, Palm
Website	Official site

Baaba Maal (born 12 November 1953) is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.

Biography[link]

Baaba Maal was expected to follow his father and become a fisherman. However, under the influence of his lifelong friend Mansour Seck, Baaba devoted himself to learning music from his mother and his school's headmaster. He went on to study music at the university in Dakar before leaving for postgraduate studies on a scholarship at Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is well known in Africa and internationally is probably Senegal's most famous musician after Youssou N'Dour.

Baaba sings primarily in Pulaar^[1] and is the foremost promoter of the traditions of the Pulaar-speaking peoples who live on either side of the Senegal River in the ancient Senegalese kingdom of Futa Tooro.

In 1998, Baaba recorded "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" for the Red Hot Organization’s compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody a tribute to George Gershwin which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease. In 2002, Baaba again worked with the Red Hot Organization and appeared on a track titled "No Agreement" alongside Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Positive Black Soul and Archie Shepp for the tribute album to Fela Kuti, Red Hot + Riot.

On 7 July 2007 Baaba performed at the South African leg of Live Earth.

Baaba Maal's album On The Road, a live acoustic album recorded straight from the mixing boards of his shows over the last ten years, was released on 10 August 2008. A new studio album, Television, was released on 1 June 2009.

Music[link]

After returning from study in Paris, Baaba studied traditional music with his blind guitarist and family griot, Mansour Seck, and began performing with the band Daande Lenol. Baaba's fusions continued into the next decade with his Firin' in Fouta (1994) album, which used ragga, salsa and Breton harp music to create a popular sound that launched the careers of Positive Black Soul, a group of rappers, and also led to the formation of the Afro-Celt Sound System. His fusion tendencies continued on 1998's Nomad Soul, which featured Brian Eno as one of seven producers. In addition to his various solo releases, he was featured on two tracks - "Bushes" and "Dunya Salam" - on the concept album 1 Giant Leap.

He also featured on two tracks "Hunger" and "Still" on the Black Hawk Down soundtrack and performed on the title track of the 2008 video game Far Cry 2.^[2] He will be playing at Bonnaroo and the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in 2010.

He has recently featured on a track on the new Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly album entitled All of This Yours.

Baaba Maal sang the track for Kerala Tourism's 2010 ad campaign 'Your moment is waiting' with music composed by One Giant Leap.^[3]

Discography[link]

• 1989 – Passion – Sources - Real World Records (compilation)
• 1989 – Djam Leelii (with Mansour Seck) – Mango Records
• 1991 – Baayo (with Mansour Seck) – Mango
• 1992 – Lam Toro – Mango
• 1994 – Wango – Syllart
• 1994 – Firin' in Fouta – Mango
• 1995 – Gorel – 4th & Broadway
• 1997 – Taara – Melodie
• 1998 – Nomad Soul – Import
• 1998 – Djam Leelii: The Adventurers – Yoff Productions
• 1999 – Live at the Royal Festival Hall – Palm Pictures – Palm (DVD)
• 2000 – Jombaajo – Sonodisc
• 2001 – Missing You (Mi Yeewnii) – Palm
• 2003 – 'The Best of the Early Years – Wrasse (compilation)
• 2005 – Palm World Voices: Baaba Maal – Palm (compilation)
• 2008 – On The Road – Palm (compilation)
• 2009 – Television – Palm

Import releases[link]

• Jombaajo
• Ngalanka
• Ndilane

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site

Jim Palmer
Pitcher
Born: (1945-10-15) October 15, 1945 (age 66) New York, New York
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 17, 1965 for the Baltimore Orioles
Last MLB appearance
May 12, 1984 for the Baltimore Orioles
Career statistics
Win–Loss record	268–152
Earned run average	2.86
Strikeouts	2,212
Teams
Baltimore Orioles (1965–1984)
Career highlights and awards
6× All-Star (1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978) 3× World Series champion (1966, 1970, 1983) 3× AL Cy Young Award winner (1973, 1975, 1976) 3× AL TSN Pitcher of the Year (1973, 1975, 1976) 4× Gold Glove Award winner (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979) Pitched no-hitter on August 13, 1969 Baltimore Orioles #22 retired
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1990
Vote	92.6% (first ballot)

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer (born October 15, 1945), nicknamed "Cakes", is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire 19-year major league baseball career for the Baltimore Orioles (1965–1967 & 1969-1984). He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990.

As of 2008, Palmer and his wife Susan have homes in Palm Beach, Florida, and in California. In 2006, Palmer also acquired a penthouse condominium in Little Italy, Baltimore, which he uses while in Baltimore for Orioles' broadcasts.^[1]

Early years[link]

Palmer was born in New York, New York; shortly after his birth, Palmer was adopted by Moe Wiesen, a garment industry executive, and his wife Polly from Harrison, N.Y. After his adoptive father died in 1955, the 9-year-old Jim, his mother and his sister moved to California, where he began playing in youth-league baseball. In 1956, his mother married actor Max Palmer, from whom Palmer took his last name. Showing talent at the amateur level, upon graduating from Arizona's Scottsdale High School in 1963, Palmer signed a minor-league contract at the age of 18. Before heading to the minor leagues, Palmer was initiated into the Sigma Chi Fraternity at Arizona State University, where he graduated in 1967.

Playing career[link]

Palmer has been considered one of the best pitchers in Orioles – and major-league – history. He was a mainstay in the rotation during Baltimore's six pennant-winning teams in the 1960s (1966 & 1969), 1970s (1970, 1971 & 1979) and 1980s (1983). Also, he is the only pitcher in big-league history to win World Series games in three decades (1966, 1970–71, 1983). One of his most amazing feats is that during his 19-year major league career of 575 games (including 17 postseason games), he never surrendered a grand slam. He was sometimes sidelined by arm, shoulder and back problems, but still won 20 games in 8 different seasons (1970–1973 & 1975–1978) and in 4 other seasons went 15–10 (1966), 16–4 (1969), 16–10 (1980) and 15–5 (1982). He was one of four 20-game winners in the Orioles starting rotation in 1971, only the second rotation in major league history to include four 20-game winners. With the death of Mike Cuellar in April 2010, Palmer is the last surviving member of that group. Palmer won spots on 6 all-star teams, 4 gold gloves, 3 Cy Young Awards, and 2 ERA titles. He led the American League in victories three times. Palmer retired in 1984 as a member of the defending World Champions. He is a member of major league baseball's Hall of Fame.

1960s[link]

A high-kicking pitcher known for an exceptionally smooth delivery, Palmer picked up his first major-league win on May 16, 1965, beating the Yankees in relief at home, and hitting the first of his three career major-league home runs, a two-run shot in the fourth off Yankees starter Jim Bouton. Palmer finished the season with a 5–4 record.

In 1966, Palmer joined the starting rotation. Baltimore rolled to the pennant, behind Frank Robinson's MVP and Triple Crown season. Palmer won his final game against the Kansas City Athletics to clinch the American League pennant. In Game 2 of that World Series at Dodger Stadium, he became the youngest pitcher (20 years, 11 months) to win a complete-game, World Series shutout, defeating Sandy Koufax and the defending World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-0. The underdog Orioles went on to sweep the series over a Los Angeles team that featured some formidable pitching of its own in Hall of Famers Koufax and Don Drysdale, and 17-game winner Claude Osteen. The shutout was part of a World Series record-setting 33 ¹⁄₃ consecutive shutout innings by Orioles pitchers. The Dodgers' last run (of which they scored only two) was against Moe Drabowsky in the third inning of Game 1; the Oriole relief pitcher shut out the Dodgers the rest of the way. Palmer, Wally Bunker and Dave McNally then pitched shutouts in the next three games.

The next two seasons were frustrating for Palmer, as arm troubles shelved him. He threw just 49 innings in 1967 and was sent to minor-league rehabilitation. Finally, thanks to surgery, work in the 1968 Instructional League and in winter ball, he regained his form.

In 1969, Palmer returned healthy, rejoining an Orioles rotation that included 20-game winners Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar, combining one of the finest starting staffs ever. That August 13, Palmer threw a no-hitter against Oakland, just four days after coming off the disabled list. He finished the season with a mark of 16–4, 123 strikeouts, a 2.34 ERA, and .800 winning percentage. The heavily favored Orioles were beaten in the 1969 World Series by the New York Mets with Palmer taking the loss in Game 3.

1970s[link]

The next two years saw two more championships as the Orioles took their place among the great teams of all-time. In 1970, Cuellar went 24–8, McNally 24–9, Palmer 20–10; in 1971 the trio went 20–9, 21–5 and 20–9, respectively, with Pat Dobson going 20–8. Only one other team in MLB history, the 1920 Chicago White Sox, has had four 20-game winners.

Palmer won 21 games in 1972, and went 22–9, 158, 2.40 in 1973, walking off with his first Cy Young Award. His eight 20-win seasons were interrupted in 1974 when he was downed for eight weeks with elbow problems. He finished 7–12.

Again, Palmer was at his peak in 1975, winning 23 games, throwing 10 shutouts (allowing just 44 hits in those games), and fashioning a 2.09 ERA—all tops in the American League. He completed 25 games, even saved one, and limited opposing hitters to a .216 batting average. He won his second Cy Young Award, and repeated his feat in 1976 (22–13, 2.51). During the latter year, he won the first of four consecutive Gold Glove Awards, breaking Jim Kaat's 14-year run of the award.

In 1977–78, Palmer won 20 and 21.

1980s[link]

Over the next six seasons he was hampered by arm fatigue and myriad minor injuries. Even so, he brought a stabilizing veteran presence to the pitching staff. In the 1983 World Series, he earned a win in relief of Mike Flanagan in Game 3. The 17 years between his first World Series win in 1966 and this win is the longest period of time between first and last pitching victories in the World Series for an individual pitcher in major league history. He also became the only pitcher in major league baseball history to have won World Series games in three decades. Also, he became the first and only player in Orioles history to appear in all six (1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1979, 1983) of their World Series appearances.

Palmer was the only Orioles player on the 1983 championship team to have previously won a World Series.

Palmer retired after the 1984 season, during which he was released by Baltimore.

He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1990, his first year of eligibility.

1990s[link]

In 1991, Palmer attempted a comeback with the Orioles. After giving up five hits and two runs in two innings of a spring training game, he retired permanently. Many pundits thought he was trying to prove that Nolan Ryan was not the only pitcher of his age that could still pitch in the Major Leagues.

While working out at the University of Miami during his comeback attempt, Palmer was approached by Hurricanes assistant coach Lazaro Collazo. Collazo, presumably not recognizing Palmer, reportedly told him, "You'll never get into the Hall of Fame with those mechanics." "I'm already in the Hall of Fame," Palmer replied.^[2]

Career statistics[link]

Jim Palmer's number 22 was retired by the Baltimore Orioles in 1985.

In a 19-year career, Palmer compiled a 268–152 record with 2,212 strikeouts, a 2.86 ERA, 521 games started, 211 complete games, and 53 shutouts in 3,948 innings. Palmer's career earned run average (2.856) is the third lowest among starting pitchers whose careers began after the advent of the Live Ball Era in 1920, behind only Whitey Ford (2.75) and Sandy Koufax (2.75), and miniscually ahead of Andy Messersmith (2.861) and Tom Seaver (2.862). He never allowed a grand slam in his major-league career nor did he ever allow back-to-back homers. In six ALCS and six World Series, he posted an 8–3 record with 90 strikeouts, and an ERA of 2.61 and two shutouts in 17 games. His final major-league victory was noteworthy: Pitching in relief in the third game of the 1983 World Series, he worked methodically through the Phillies' celebrity-studded batting order, giving up no runs and contributing hugely to a close and crucial Oriole win. Jim Palmer has the distinction of being the only Oriole to have played in every single World Series six total in the team's history (66,69,70,71,79,83) his career began the year before the Orioles first WS appearance and his career ended in 84 after their final WS appearance.

In 1999, he ranked No. 64 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

Broadcasting[link]

Palmer is currently a color commentator on MASN's television broadcasts of Oriole games. He is known for his incisive criticism of the team's play and unwillingness to give steroid-era hitters the equal approval with regard their statistics. From 1985-1989, and again from 1994-1995, Palmer formed a popular announcing team with Al Michaels and Tim McCarver at ABC. Palmer, like Michaels, McCarver, MASN colleague Gary Thorne, and fellow 1990 Hall of Fame inductee Joe Morgan, was present at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17, 1989, when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit prior to Game 3 of the World Series.

Advertisements[link]

During the late 1970s, Palmer gained notoriety as a spokesman and underwear model for Jockey brand men's briefs. He appeared in the company's national print and television advertisements as well as on billboards at Times Square in New York City and other major cities. He donated all proceeds from the sale of his underwear poster to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

From 1992 until 1999, he was frequently seen on television throughout the United States in commercials for The Money Store, a national home equity and mortgage lender. He has periodically appeared in ads and commercials for vitamins and other health-related products. He was also the spokesperson for Nationwide Motors Corp., which is a regional chain of car dealerships located in the Middle Atlantic region.

He is currently a spokesman for the national "Strike Out High Cholesterol" campaign.^[3] Additionally, Palmer serves as a member of the advisory board of the Baseball Assistance Team, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping former Major League, Minor League, and Negro League players through financial and medical difficulties.

Palmer also represents Cosamin DS, a joint health supplement made by Nutramax Laboratories in Edgewood, Maryland.

See also[link]

• List of Major League Baseball leaders in career wins
• List of Major League Baseball ERA champions
• List of Major League Baseball wins champions
• Top 100 strikeout pitchers of all time
• Major League Baseball titles leaders
• List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

References[link]

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or The Baseball Cube
• Jim Palmer at the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Jim Palmer at the Internet Movie Database

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Chazwick Bundick better known by his stage name Toro Y Moi, is an American recording artist and producer. His music has taken on many forms since he began recording, but he is often identified with the chillwave movement of summer 2010. As of 2011, his sound has struck out toward progressive rock, especially in a live setting.

The name "Toro y Moi" is half Spanish and half French, and means "the bull and me".

Bundick was born on 7 November 1986, in Columbia, South Carolina, and attended Ridge View High School where he formed well-known Columbia indie rock band The Heist and the Accomplice with three schoolmates. He is of Filipino descent from his mother and African-American descent from his father.

Bundick graduated from the University of South Carolina in spring of 2009 with a bachelor's degree in graphic design. Late in his school career, Bundick formed a close musical relationship with fellow chillwave luminary Ernest Greene who plays under the name Washed Out.

He has since been signed to Carpark Records, on which he released his first full-length album Causers of This in January 2010.

His second album, Underneath the Pine, was released on February 22, 2011. He has been chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.^[1] On September 13, Toro Y Moi released an EP titled Freaking Out. The EP features a cover of "Saturday Love" by Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• Causers of This (January 2010)
• Underneath the Pine (February 2011)
• June 2009 (April 2012)

EPs[link]

• "Blessa" (7") (2009)
• "Body Angles" (cassette, Ltd, C20) (2009)
• "Left Alone at Night" (CD, promo + 12") (2009)
• "Leave Everywhere" (digital, 7") (2010)
• Toro y Moi / Cloud Nothings (Split 7") (2010)
• "Freaking Out" (CD/vinyl) (2011)

Demos[link]

• Woodlands (Dec 2007)
• June 2009 Comp (Jun 2009)
• My Touch (Dec 2009)

Remixes[link]

• The Longcut – "Repeated" (Toro Y Moi Remix)
• Neon Indian – "Deadbeat Summer" (Toro Y Moi Remix)
• Tegan and Sara – "Alligator" (Toro Y Moi Remix)
• Washed Out – "Feel It All Around" (Toro Y Moi Remix)
• Cut Copy – "Blink and You'll Miss a Revolution" (Toro Y Moi Remix)
• Tyler, The Creator – "French!" (Toro Y Moi Remix)

Mixtapes[link]

• BTS Radio "Chi Chi" Mix (2012)

Other[link]

Bundick also put out a collection of experimental "stream of consciousness" recordings under his side project "Sides of Chaz". In addition to this, Chaz also feels as though he has moved beyond the "chillwave" genre, and that "chillwave" was a point where many similar artists started off. He said in an interview At The Sinema that "all that stuff is really good music, like Ernest Green (Washed Out) and Neon Indian. I’m a big fan of all of that, but I think [chillwave] was just a small little period where we all were, coincidentally making the similar music."

Chaz also has a side project focusing more on dance-style music called "Les Sins."

References[link]

1. ^ ATP Nightmare Before Christmas

• Car Park Records
• Pitchfork Media
• The Guardian
• Car Park Records Album Announcement
• Sophomore Album Announcement
• Self-Titled Mag Interview
• At The Sinema Interview

External links[link]

• Toro Y Moi's Blog
• An interview with Chaz Bundick on The Marketplace of Ideas
• An Interview with Chaz Bundick on Bad Vibes
• Toro Y Moi Mixtape on Andrew Meza's BTS Radio