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Sterling may refer to:

• Sterling silver, a grade of silver
• Pound sterling, the currency of the United Kingdom

Businesses[link]

• Hotel Sterling, a former hotel in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
• Sterling Airlines
• Sterling Bicycle Co., 19th century American bicycle manufacturer
• Sterling (car), British automobile brand, sold in the U.S. 1987–1991
• Sterling (cigarette), British cigarette brand
• Sterling Commerce, a provider of integration and business application solutions
• Sterling Drug (a.k.a. Sterling Products, Inc.), a pharmaceutical company now owned by Bayer
• Sterling Furniture, Scotland's largest furniture retail outlet
• Sterling Jewelers, the largest retail jewelry company in the United States
• Sterling Optical
• Sterling Publishing, a publisher of nonfiction books
• Sterling Records (Sweden), a classical music record label
• Sterling Records (US), noted for being the first to sign Hank Williams
• Sterling Software, a (now defunct) company co-founded by Sterling Williams
• Sterling Sports Cars, an American automobile kit company
• Sterling Trucks

People[link]

Sterling is a Scottish family name:

• Lord Sterling (disambiguation), several

Surname

• Andrew B. Sterling (1874–1955), American songwriter
• Anne Fausto-Sterling (born 1944), American academic
• Antoinette Sterling (d. 1904), Anglo-American vocalist
• Brett Sterling (b. 1984), American ice hockey player
• Bruce Sterling (b. 1954), American science fiction writer
• Christopher H. Sterling, American professor of media and public affairs
• Claire Sterling, American author and journalist
• Dana Sterling, fictional character from RoboTech
• Donald Sterling, basketball team owner
• Donnie Sterling, bassist
• Edward Sterling (1773–1847), British journalist
• Edward Boker Sterling (1851-1925), philatelist of Trenton, New Jersey
• Ford Sterling (1883–1939), American actor
• George Sterling (1869–1926), American poet
• Georgie Sterling, Australian actress
• Jan Sterling (1921–2004), American actress
• Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow, British peer and former chairman of P&O
• John Sterling (author) (1806–1844), British author
• John Sterling (sportscaster) (b. 1948), American radio broadcaster
• John William Sterling (1844–1918), American philanthropist, corporate attorney, and benefactor to Yale University
• Leon Sterling, Australian computer scientist
• Lester Sterling, Jamaican musician
• Linder Sterling, British artist
• Mindy Sterling, American actress
• Nici Sterling (b. 1968), British porn star
• Norm Sterling (b. 1942), Canadian politician
• Peter Sterling (b. 1960), Australian rugby league player
• Ross S. Sterling (1875–1949), American politician
• Thomas Sterling (1851–1930), American politician
• Thomas Sterling (computing), computer scientist
• Tisha Sterling (b. 1944), American actress
• Wallace Sterling (1906–1985), Canadian-born American university president
• William T. Sterling (1808-1903) American politician

Given name

• Sterling Brinkley, American businessman
• Sterling Harwood, American philosopher and lawyer
• Sterling Hayden, American actor and author
• Sterling Hitchcock, American major league baseball pitcher
• Sterling Holloway, American actor
• Sterling Hyltin, New York City Ballet principal dancer
• Sterling Knight, American actor
• Sterling Morrison, guitar player with The Velvet Underground
• Sterling Sharpe, former American football wide receiver
• Sterling Simms, singer on Def Jam
• Sterling Slaughter, American major league baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in 1964

Places[link]

Most populous US municipalities named Sterling[link]

• Sterling, Virginia (31,353)
• Sterling, Illinois (15,500)
• Sterling, Colorado (12,589)

Other US municipalities named Sterling[link]

• Sterling, Alaska
• Sterling, Connecticut
• Sterling, Georgia
• Sterling, Idaho
• Sterling, Illinois
• Sterling, Indiana
• Sterling, Iowa
• Sterling, Kansas
• Sterling, Massachusetts
• Sterling, Michigan
• Sterling, Missouri
• Sterling, Montana
• Sterling, Nebraska
• Sterling, New York
• Sterling, North Carolina
• Sterling, North Dakota
• Sterling, Ohio
• Sterling, Oklahoma
• Sterling, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) — two locations:
  • Sterling, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
  • Sterling, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
• Sterling, Texas
• Sterling, Utah
• Sterling, Washington
• Sterling, Wisconsin (disambiguation) — two locations:
  • Sterling, Polk County, Wisconsin
  • Sterling, Vernon County, Wisconsin

US place names containing the word Sterling[link]

• Mount Sterling, Illinois
• Mount Sterling, Iowa
• Mount Sterling, Kentucky
• Mount Sterling, Ohio
• Mount Sterling, Wisconsin
• Sterling City, Texas
• Sterling Forest, New York
• Sterling Forest State Park, New York
• Sterling Heights, Michigan
• Sterling Park, Virginia
• Sterling State Park, Michigan

Education[link]

• Sterling College (Kansas), a college in Sterling, Kansas, USA
• Sterling College (Vermont), a small college in northern Vermont, USA
• The Sterling Foundation School, a school in Lahore, Pakistan

Legal[link]

• Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical Corp, a 1986 environmental case

Other uses[link]

• Sterling submachine gun
• Sterling Armaments Company - British armaments manufacturer
• Sterling (program), a program for generating fractals
• Music Man Sterling, bass guitar by Music Man
• a scuppernong (large muscadine Vitis rotundifolia) cultivar
• Sterling (band)
• Sterling (car), a former automotive brand in the United States
• Sterling Trucks, a former commercial truck brand in the United States

See also[link]

• Stirling (disambiguation)

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Lindsey Stirling
Background information
Birth name	Lindsey Stirling
Born	(1986-09-21) September 21, 1986 (age 25) Gilbert, Arizona, U.S.[1][2]
Occupations	Violinist, Performance artist, Composer
Instruments	Violin
Website	http://www.lindseystirlingviolin.com/

Lindsey Stirling (born on September 21, 1986)^[3] is an American violinist, musician, dancer, performance artist, and composer. In 2010 she competed on the fifth season of America's Got Talent.^[4][5][6] Stirling is noted for her versatility performing music from country to hip hop.^[7]

At the age of 23 Stirling was a quarter-finalist on the fifth season of America's Got Talent where she was known as the ‘Hip Hop Violinist’.^[8] After Stirling's performance, Sharon Osbourne said, "Wow... we love you Lindsey!” and Piers Morgan called her performance "Electrifying!".^[9]

Biography[link]

Life and career[link]

At the age of 5, after being influenced by the classic music records played by her father, Stirling requested the opportunity to learn and play the violin.

Stirling was classically trained through private lessons for 12 years. When she was 16, she joined a rock band with four friends called Stomp on Melvin. As part of her experience with Stomp on Melvin, Stirling wrote a solo violin rock song, and her performance helped her to win both the title of Arizona’s Jr. Miss in 2005 and the talent category of the National Jr. Miss Pageant. As of May 2, 2012, Stirling is 5'3" tall.^[10]

Shortly after her performance on America's Got Talent in 2010, cinematographer Devin Graham contacted her via facebook in hopes of making a YouTube video together. A few months later, Stirling replied to him and they scheduled to shoot a music video for her new song, "Spontaneous Me".^[11] It was filmed the week of May 9, 2011 while Graham was on a nearby business trip. The video gave a major boost to Stirling's popularity and she began making music videos for her YouTube channel regularly.^[12] Still close friends afterward, Graham eventually moved to Stirling's home state of Utah and they began dating a few days after her "Transcendence" music video was released.^[13] They have been together since, and frequently collaborate on eachother's YouTube videos; Graham films almost all of her videos, and Stirling often does backup camera work and assistance for his.^[14]

Discography[link]

• Lindsey Stomp (EP, 2010)
  • "Transcendence"
  • "Song of the Caged Bird"
  • "Spontaneous Me"
• "Electric Daisy Violin" (Single, 2011)
• "Shadows" (Single, 2011)
• "River Flows in You" (Single, 2011)
• "Zelda Medley" (Single, 2011)
• "On the Floor Take Three" (Single, 2011)
• "Silent Night" (Single, 2011)
• "Celtic Carol" (Single, 2011)
• "By No Means" (Eppic feat. Lindsey Stirling, 2011)
• "Lord of the Rings Medley" (Single, 2012)
• "Crystallize" (Single, 2012)
• "Skyrim" (Single with Peter Hollens, 2012)^[15]
• "We Found Love" (Single, 2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lindsey Stirling Violin homepage
• Official Twitter
• Lindseystomp on YouTube
• Lindsey Stirling on Google+
• Lindsey Stirling on Facebook

Raheem Sterling

Sterling warming up before the game against Vålerenga in August of 2011.
Personal information
Full name	Raheem Shaquille Sterling[1]
Date of birth	(1994-12-08) 8 December 1994 (age 17)[2]
Place of birth	Kingston, Jamaica
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current club	Liverpool
Number	31
Youth career
2003–2010	Queens Park Rangers
2010–	Liverpool
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2012–	Liverpool	3	(0)
National team‡
2009–2010	England U16	9	(1)
2010–2011	England U17	13	(3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 June 2011

Raheem Shaquille Sterling (born 8 December 1994) is an English-Jamaican footballer who plays for Premier League club Liverpool mainly as a winger.

Club career[link]

Queens Park Rangers[link]

Sterling was at Queens Park Rangers for seven years as a youth player, before being transferred to Liverpool.

Liverpool[link]

Sterling was signed in February 2010 for an initial fee of £600,000, but this could rise to £5 million depending on how many appearances he makes for the first-team.^[3][4] He made his first appearance for the first team in a pre-season friendly against Borussia Mönchengladbach in Germany on 1 August 2010.

Sterling scored his first goal for Liverpool's youth team in a friendly against Hibernian in a 2–2 draw, coming off the bench and scoring a late equaliser. After all the friendlies, Sterling's first Premier Academy League match was a 2–2 draw against Aston Villa. His first league win was at home to Bristol City in a 3–0 win on 28 August 2010. On 15 December, Sterling scored his first FA Youth Cup goal for Liverpool's youth team in a 4–0 win over Notts County with Sterling netting the third. On 14 February 2011, Sterling scored five goals for Liverpool's youth team in a 9–0 win over Southend United in the FA Youth Cup.^[5]

On 24 March 2012, Sterling made his senior Liverpool debut as a substitute in a league match against Wigan Athletic aged 17 years and 107 days, becoming the second-youngest player ever to play for the club.^[6] He made his second appearance on 1 May again as a substitute, this time against Fulham. Sterling then made another appearance as a substitute against Chelsea at Anfield on the last home game of the season, which Liverpool went on to win 4-1.

International career[link]

Sterling has represented England at Under-16 and Under-17 level.^[7] He is also eligible to play for Jamaica, his country of birth, and his mother Nadine has stated that she would like to see him play for Jamaica at international level.^[8]

Sterling was selected in the England squad for the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He scored a long-range goal in England's opening 2–0 win against Rwanda in Pachuca.^[9] He also scored against Argentina in the second round in a game where England won 4–2 on penalties.^[10]

Personal life[link]

Sterling grew up in the Maverley area of Kingston and was raised by his grandmother.^[11] After emigrating to England, he attended Copland High School in Wembley, North West London.^[12]

Club statistics[link]

As of 8 May 2012.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at liverpoolfc.tv
• Raheem Sterling – UEFA competition record
• Raheem Sterling career stats at Soccerbase
• Raheem Sterling – FIFA competition record

v t e England squad – 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship 1 Pickford 2 Cousins 3 Smith 4 Lundstram 5 Jackson 6 Chalobah 7 Sterling 8 Powell 9 Hope 10 Clayton 11 Forster-Caskey 12 Meppen-Walters 13 Garratt 14 Morgan 15 Magri 16 Henshall 17 Redmond 18 Turgott Coach: John Peacock

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Sterling Davis (born October 27, 1977 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is a professional basketball player, currently at British Basketball League club Glasgow Rocks, where he is currently player/head coach.^[1]

Davis signed for the Rocks in 2006, after spells with fellow British sides Sheffield Sharks (2004–2006), London Towers (2003) and Brighton Bears (2001–2003). He also has British citizenship. He scored a career high 42 on March 1, 2011 in a game against the Guildford Heat.

Prior to this Davis played College basketball at Tulane University.^[2]

References[link]

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Sterling Ruby (born 1972) is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ruby was born in Bitburg, Germany, to a Dutch mother and an American father, and was raised in Baltimore, Maryland and near Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania.^[1]

Education[link]

Sterling Ruby went to agriculture school and worked in construction before studying art at the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design in Lancaster, PA.^[2] In 2001, he received his BA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2003, he relocated to Los Angeles and enrolled in the MFA program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.^[3] Since 2010, Sterling Ruby is lecturing as a professor of art at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. ^[4]

Work[link]

Sterling Ruby is a multi-disciplinary artist who has become known for his richly glazed biomorphic ceramics, large-scale spray-painted canvases, poured urethane sculptures, various forms of collage, and video work. In a 2008 review, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith called Ruby "one of the most interesting artists to emerge in this century. That's only eight years, of course," she added, "but the claim may stick." ^[5]

He takes his subject matter from a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum security prisons, modernist architecture, artifacts and antiquities, graffiti, the mechanisms of warfare, and urban gangs. His work has often been cited as invoking minimalism as a means to expose underlying systems and social power structures.^[6]

Exhibitions[link]

Sterling Ruby’s most recent solo exhibitions include VAMPIRE The Pace Gallery, Beijing (2011), Sterling Ruby & Lucio Fontana, Andrea Rosen, New York (2011), Sterling Ruby, I AM NOT FREE BECAUSE I CAN BE EXPLODED ANYTIME, Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2011), Sterling Ruby Paintings, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2011), 2TRAPS, PaceWildenstein, New York (2010), Sterling Ruby/Robert Mapplethorpe, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2009), SUPERMAX 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CHRON at the Drawing Center, New York (2008), and Grid Ripper, Galleria d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy (2008). Ruby’s work was also included in the recent group exhibitions New Works in Ceramics, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (2011), George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2011), Silence and Time, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (2011), At Capacity: Large Scale Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2011), Dystopia, CAPC Musee D’Art Contemporain De Bourdeaux, Bourdeaux, France (2011), Lustwarande 2011-Raw, Park De Oude Warande, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands (2011), Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition on Realism and Simulation, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy (2010), New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009), Five, Baibakov Art Projects, Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow (2009), Dirt on Delight, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2008), and Stray Alchemists, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing (2008). His work can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway; Contemporary and Modern Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Honart Museum, Tehran, Iran; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Nasher Museum, Dallas, TX; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Tate Modern, London, England; and the Yokohama Museum, Japan.^[3]

Publications[link]

Eslöv Wide Shut: 100 year Anniversary of Eslöv. (exhibition catalog) Eslöv, Sweden and Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2011.

MapplethorpeX7. Richard Flood, teNues Publishing Group, Kempen, Germany, 2011.

New Dystopia. Mark Von Shlegell, Sternberg Press, Berlin in collaboration with CAPC Musee d’art Contemporain de Bourdeaux, France, 2011.

Sterling Ruby Desktop Vol.1. The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China, 2011.

Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. Schwabsky, Barry. Text by Jan Tumlir. London, Phaidon Press, 2011.

Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition about Simulation and Realism. GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy. 2010

Permanent Trouble: Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp Munchen. Germany: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, 2010.

Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s. Text by David S. Rubin. Texas: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2010.

Rive Droite/ Rive Gauche. Zurich:JRP/Ringier, Paris: Marc Jancou Contemporary, 2010.

Sterling Ruby: Ashtrays. Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium, 2010.

Sterling Ruby: Ceramics 2007-2010. Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2010.

Beg,Borrow,and Steal. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2009

New York Minute. Kathy Grayson. Published by O.H.W.O.W, 2009.

Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting. Bob Nickas, Phaidon Press Inc., 2009.

Sterling Ruby. Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby, JRP Ringier, 2009.

Sterling Ruby Robert Mappelthorpe. Brussels, Belgium: Xavier Hufkens, 2009.

The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. Saatchi Gallery. Rizzoli International Publications, 2009.

Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Phaidon Press Inc., 2009.

If You Destroy the Image, You'll Destroy the Thing in Itself. Bergen: Norway: Bergen Kunsthall, 2008.

Stray Alchemists. Beijing, China: Ullens Center for the Arts, 2008.

Sterling Ruby Chron. New York:The Drawing Center, 2008.

Sterling Ruby Supermax 2008. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.

Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007.

2006 California Biennial: Orange County Museum of Art. Michael Ned Holte, Orange County, California, 2006.

The Pantagruel Syndrome. Torino, Italy: T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei, 2005.

Further reading[link]

21 Questions for Sterling Ruby. Artinfo.com. October 11, 2011. [1]

The Principles of Eternity. Rachel Corbett, Artnet.com [2]

Art in Review: Sterling Ruby and Lucio Fontana. Ken Johnson, The New York Times, September 22, 2011. [3]

Carol Bove/Sterling Ruby/Dana Schutz. Daniel Kunitz, Modern Painters, August 5, 2010. [4]

The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar? Marina Cashdan, Huffingtonpost.com, August 3, 2010. [5]

Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz.Merrily Kerr, Time Out New York, Issue 775, 2010.[6]

The Masculine Mystique: Houseago, Ruby & Kyack, Degan Pener, Paul Young, Andrew Berardini, Angeleno Magazine, April 7, 2010 [7]

Art and Incarceration: Sterling Ruby's Stark Cages, Matt Kelley, Criminal Justice, March 25, 2010 [8]

Sterling Ruby: Sincerely Hostile, João Ribas, Flash Art int. Ed., XLIII.271, Mar.- Apr. 2010: 80-84. [9]

Best in Show/Sterling Ruby's Cage Heat, Linda Yablonsky, T Magazine, The New York Times Style Magazine, February 11, 2010 [10]

New York Times Round Up: Make Room for Video, Performances and Paint. Roberta Smith, The New York Times, December 31, 2009 [11]

Unearthed Classics and Reinvented Forms: The Best Art of 2009. Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, December 20, 2009 [12]

Sterling Ruby in New York. Andrew Russeth, Artinfo.com, November 6, 2009 [13]

Sterling Ruby, Kevin West, W Magazine, November 2009 [14]

New Photography 2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York. MoMA Multimedia Video Interview [15]

Weekend Update, Walter Robinson, artnet Magazine, June 2009 [16]

Who is Sterling Ruby? Julian Myers, Frieze Magazine, April 2009 [17]

Brief Reflection on Sterling Ruby. Ed Schad. I call it ORANGES blog, July 22, 2008 [18]

Art in Review, Sterling Ruby, Chron, Kiln Works, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, March 21, 2008 [19]

External links[link]

• Homecoming - a conversation with Sterling Ruby - April 27, 2011
• Sterling Ruby at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
• Sterling Ruby at Sprüth Magers Berlin London

References[link]

1. ^ "Sterling Ruby Faculty Profile at the European Graduate School. Biography, bibliography, quotes and links.". Saas-Fee,Switzerland: European Graduate School. http://www.egs.edu/faculty/sterling-ruby/biography/. Retrieved 2011-01-30. 
2. ^ Peter Yeoh (2010). "Artistic Transgressor". Glass Magazine (4): 179. ISSN 2041-6318. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Foxy Production, Artist Bio, Sterling Ruby http://www.foxyproduction.com/artist/view/6
4. ^ Sterling Ruby Faculty Profile at the European Graduate School. Biography, bibliography, quotes and links.". Saas-Fee,Switzerland: European Graduate School. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
5. ^ Smith, Roberta "Art in Review, Sterling Ruby" New York Times, March 21, 2008 page E29
6. ^ Sterling Ruby. Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby. Bergamo: Gallery d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo, 2009.