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Abt or ABT may refer to:

Abt[link]

• Abt, a German, Dutch and Estonian word for the regular clerical title of Abbot, as well as a common surname, derived from that title
  • Alexander Abt (born 1976), Russian figure skater and coach
  • Carl Roman Abt (1850–1933), Swiss mechanical engineer who invented the Abt rack system for rack railways
  • Christian Abt (born 1967), German racing driver
  • Daniel Abt (born 1992), German racing driver
  • Franz Abt (1819–1885), German composer
  • Gudrun Abt (born 1962), German athlete
  • Hans-Jürgen Abt, German race team manager
  • John Abt (1904–1991), American lawyer and politician
  • Karl Friedrich Abt (1733–1783), German actor
• Abt Sportsline, German tuning company and racing team of Christian and Hans-Jürgen
• Abt rack system, Swiss rack systems for hauling trains up steep inclines
• Abt Electronics, American electronics and appliance retailer
• Analytical base table, Database table, used for data analytics.

ABT[link]

• ABT (TV station), Hobart, Tasmania
• American Ballet Theatre, New York City
• Abbott Laboratories, whose New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol is ABT
• Action Battle Team, a late night radio show in Australia
• Arbitrage pricing theory, a method of asset pricing in finance
• Availability-based tariff, for the ABT regulation in India for bulk power systems
• Automatic Ball Trap, a Clay pigeon shooting discipline

See also[link]

• Abts (disambiguation)
• ABTS, a chemical compound in biochemistry

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Sarah Lane
Born	(1976-10-12) October 12, 1976 (age 35) Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Occupation	Television personality
Years active	2001 – present
Website
www.sarahlane.com

Sarah Christina Lane (born October 12, 1976) is an American television and Internet personality. She is currently most notable for hosting a number of shows on the TWiT.tv network. These shows include Tech News Today along with Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar, and Jason Howell which airs live Monday through Friday, the weekly Apple iPad show iPad Today alongside Leo Laporte, and the weekly social media show The Social Hour (formerly net@night) with Amber MacArthur.

She was also previously most known from appearances on TechTV's The Screen Savers, G4's Attack of the Show!, and Revision3's popSiren. In 2009, she was the co-host of the This WEEK in FUN podcast, currently on hiatus, with Martin Sargent, also on the TWiT.tv network.

Early life[link]

Lane was born in Santa Cruz, California and later grew up in Sebastopol, California. She attended San Francisco State University where she received a bachelor's degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts in 1998.^[1] She referred to herself as a "nice Irish girl" on Net@Nite (Episode 164) a podcast on the Twit Network.

Career[link]

Lane worked several years for KRON-TV in the station's San Jose, California bureau (where the now-defunct KRON/AT&T Broadband-owned 24-hour cable news and local television programming channel Bay TV was based) starting out as a Production Assistant before eventually becoming a series producer-director. She produced weekly half-hour hi-tech newsmagazine programs, a documentary, and wrote for the nightly news.^[2]

In February 2001, Lane was hired by TechTV to be a Senior Segment Producer and on-air talent for The Screen Savers, a television show centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world.^[2]

In April 2004, Lane, along with fellow TechTV personalities Morgan Webb, Laura Swisher, Catherine Schwartz, and Melanie Kim, was included in the "TechTV's Sexiest Techie" poll sponsored by Playboy magazine. TechTV viewers could vote for their favorite girl via the Playboy website, and the winner of the poll would be offered a nude photo spread in a future issue of Playboy. Morgan Webb, who won the poll, did not pose.^[3]

On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV. This move became hugely controversial among loyal fans of TechTV. Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.^[4] Lane chose to stay with G4 and moved to Los Angeles. Lane was one of only six TechTV personalities, including Adam Sessler, Morgan Webb, Kevin Rose, Chi-Lan Lieu, and Brendan Moran, to survive the layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV.

Lane remained as a senior segment producer and on-air talent for the nightly G4TechTV technology show The Screen Savers. Later, the show would switch gears, becoming the variety show Attack of the Show! where her main involvement revolved around the American entertainment sector. She also produced weekly segments entitled Sarah's Damn Good Website, which showed off amusing or entertaining websites, "Damn Good Downloads", which demonstrated exactly what it sounds like and "Gems of the Internet" which found oddities on the internet. She also produced a daily news segment entitled "The Feed".^[1] Lane's last appearance on Attack of the Show! was on April 6, 2006.^[5]

Lane was employed as the Director of Production at Revision3 and co-hosted popSiren, a Revision3 original show.^[6][7] She was laid off on October 28, 2008 as part of the Revision3 layoffs^[8] but appears infrequently on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech podcast as a panelist.

Starting in December 2008, she and Martin Sargent launched a new Friday program from the TWiT Cottage called This Week in Fun,^[9] which officially began to be distributed as a feed on April 10, 2009 after several weeks as a beta of live video. For several weeks Sarah filled in for Amber MacArthur on net@night due to the birth of MacArthur's child Connor. She has since continued to appear on the program in the last segment via Skype with Laporte and MacArthur.

She also appeared on the 1000th episode special for Attack of the Show! on G4 as a surprise guest. She also appeared on the hundredth episode of The Digg Reel.

TWiT.TV[link]

On May 30, 2010, Leo Laporte announced that he hired Lane join the TWiT network. Lane originally co-hosted Tech News Today (TNT) with Tom Merritt on Monday and Friday. With Becky Worley reducing her time commitments on the TWiT Network, Lane became a daily co-host with Tom. Currently, Tech News Today is co-hosted by Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, and Jason Howell and airs live Monday through Friday.^[10] TNT premiered on June 1, 2010.^[11]

Laporte and Lane launched a weekly Apple iPad podcast iPad Today on July 8, 2010 to discuss the iPad and iPad apps.^[12]

Sarah launched Green Tech Today a green technology podcast with Dr. Kiki Sanford which debuted August 4, 2010, but has not appeared on Green Tech Today since Episode 9 on November 8, 2010.

On March 28, 2011 Amber MacArthur co-hosted the first episode of The Social Hour with Sarah. This weekly podcast focusing on social media replaced Net@night with Sarah replacing Leo Laporte as Amber’s co-host.^[13]

Personal life[link]

Sarah Lane married Brendan Moran on May 20, 2006.^[14][15][16] They both left Attack of the Show! and began a thirteen-month-long honeymoon tour of the world and to pursue other opportunities. As they traveled, she continued updating the world on their adventures via her travel blog.^[17]

On December 31, 2008, she publicly announced on her blog that she and Brendan had divorced.^[18]

On October 11, 2009, Lane was at a Los Angeles restaurant with a friend when she experienced a severe tonic–clonic seizure, went into spasms and blacked out. It was apparently her first such seizure. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she apparently stayed for a couple of days before being diagnosed with a lesion on her brain and eventually put on anti-seizure medications and discharged.^[19] Lane wrote on her blog that further diagnosis revealed that neurocysticercosis tumors have developed as a result of her contracting cysticercosis. This may have caused the seizure.^[20]

On July 31, 2011, it was confirmed on This Week in Tech that Lane is seeing tech journalist MG Siegler.^[21]

References[link]

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Ethan Stiefel (born 1973 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania) is the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and current principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT.^[1]

Biography[link]

He is the only son of a Lutheran minister who became a prison warden in New York; their last name is pronounced "Stee-fell" and is German for "boot."^[2]

He is an avid motorcyclist. He grew up riding dirt bikes, currently owns a Harley-Davidson Wide Glide and once drove 5600 kilometres across the north-eastern US with ballerina Gillian Murphy riding pillion.^[3] He is also a Green Bay Packers fan.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Dancing[link]

Stiefel began ballet training in Madison, Wisconsin at the Monona Academy of Dance at age eight. He became involved with classical dance through his older sister, who was taking a class. The teacher was interested in getting Ethan to take class because boys in ballet are a rarity. He studied for two years at the Milwaukee Ballet School under Judith Warren and at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet before moving to New York City to attend ABT's Studio Company (now known as ABT II)' and School of American Ballet on scholarship.^[1]

While there, Stanley Williams enrolled him in the company's men's special class where he trained alongside Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fernando Bujones.^[3] In 1992, he took a leave of absence to perform with the Zürich Ballet and returned to the NYC Ballet company one year later as a soloist. By 1995, he was a principal dancer with the company. He ended his tenure with the NYC Ballet in April 1997 when he joined ABT as a principal dancer, where he remains today.^[1] He danced with the short-lived Mikhail Baryshnikov School of Classical Ballet at ABT.^[1] His dance repertoire includes many key romantic roles in both classical and contemporary ballet.

He won a silver medal at the Prix de Lausanne in 1989 and also received a Princess Grace Foundation-USA grant in 1991. In 1998, Stiefel was nominated for the Benois de la Danse Award as one of the rising stars in ballet.^[1] In 2007, Stiefel made his debut with the Australian Ballet in Nureyev's staging of Don Quixote, for its Melbourne and Sydney seasons, in the role of Basilio.^[3] In 2008, Stiefel was a recipient of the Dance Magazine Award along with Pina Bausch, Sylvia Walters, and Lawrence Rhodes for his role as a leader in the dance field.^[4]

Stiefel has appeared as a guest artist with many companies throughout his career including the Mariinsky Ballet, The Royal Ballet, New National Ballet in Tokyo, and Teatro Colon Ballet in Buenos Aires. He plans to give his final performance as an ABT principal dancer on July 7, 2012 as Ali, the slave, in Le Corsaire.^[5] He is widely considered right now to be currently "the greatest male ballet dancer in the world or "the most advanced male ballet dancer in the world".^{[citation needed]}

Directing and Teaching[link]

In 2004, he created a four-week workshop, Stiefel & Students (originally called Stiefel & Stars), for aspiring dancers where dance students train and perform with professional ballet dancers. It is held annually on Martha's Vineyard in the month of August. The program accepts students aged 12 to 18. Its rollcall of star guest teachers include Stiefel, Johan Kobborg, Amanda McKerrow, Elizabeth Parkinson, Scott Wise, Marcelo Gomes, John Gardner, Gary Chryst, Ann Reinking, and Alina Cojocaru.^[3][6] The program has been on hiatus since 2008.^[7]

In late 2005, Ballet Pacifica, based in Irvine, California, named him as its artistic director with the aim to relaunch itself as a higher-profile ballet company. In conjunction, Stiefel announced elaborate plans for tours, a larger permanent ensemble of experienced dancers, a longer season and Christmas performances of George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker" at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. However, after the company failed to raise the US$6.5 million necessary to realize Stiefel's plans, its executive director resigned followed by Stiefel himself in April 2006.^[8][9]

He was formally the dean of the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

In November 2010 Stiefel was announced as the next director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He took up that Position in September 2011.^[10]

His first season as director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet saw him oversee a new production of The Sleeping Beauty at the end of 2011 choreographed by former Australian Ballet and English National Ballet principal dancer Greg Horsman.

Television and Movie Appearances[link]

In 2000, he starred in the film Center Stage, directed by Nicholas Hytner with original choreography by Susan Stroman.^[11] He also starred in the 2008 sequel Center Stage: Turn It Up. Center Stage features a subplot in which Stiefel's character garners the financial support of a flirtatious female philanthropist (played by Elizabeth Hubbard).^[11] A New York Times article entitled "How Much Is That Dancer in the Program?" revealed that Stiefel has a similar real-life sponsorship relationship with wealthy philanthropist Anka Palitz.^[12]

In 2007, Stiefel appeared in an episode of Queer Eye to meet a "straight guy" who considers Stiefel his "idol" and In 2010 as himself in season 4, episode 8 of Gossip Girl with his fiance Gillian Murphy.

Quotes[link]

• "Somedays, I just don't want to take (ballet) class."
• "After ballet, I'd just want to work on motorcycles. I've got two."
• "American ballet, for me, is Stanley Williams."
• "Baryshnikov was and is my idol. He's the man. He was someone I've looked up to all throughout my life."
• "I enjoy what I do, so why not just go about it in a good way, a positive way he muses. I dont concern myself with becoming a star. I just go out there and try to give an honest performance and if, when I get offstage, I'm a complete schmuck, then that's me."
• "I actually quit ballet when I was 14, he says. I had just gotten a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, but it was so far away and there was no other school I liked nearby."
• "But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights, big city, the professional companies and great dancers. I was in a great school and knew that this was serious business and I had to do it."
• "Dancing exacts a toll. I don't dance for applause. But there have definitely been moments, when I've been injured, when I say to myself, 'To come back to this, is it really worth it. It's just tough. It takes so much out of you physically and there's a lot of stress involved. Emotionally, it can drain you. I travel around a lot and it's great, it's exciting, but I don't see any of it. I do my shows and I'm off to the next place."

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Bio at ABT Website

• Ethan Stiefel at the Internet Movie Database

• Wakin, Daniel J. (2006-04-15). "Ethan Stiefel of American Ballet Theater Gets Some Good News". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/arts/dance/15etha.html?ex=1302753600&en=1e9ed2941c3b538c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss. Retrieved 2008-10-05. 

References[link]

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Ashley Tuttle is an American musical theatre actress and dancer best known for her role in the musical Movin' Out, which earned her a Tony Award.

Biography[link]

Tuttle was first active in dance, joining the ballet company American Ballet Theatre at age 16 and later becoming principal dancer in 1997.

Tuttle's Broadway debut was in Movin' Out, a stage production of Billy Joel's music, as Judy.

This role won her a Tony nomination in 2003 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

On May 22, 2011, Tuttle received an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C.

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Randy Pedersen (born 1962) is a professional bowler and color analyst for ESPN's coverage of the PBA Tour. He works alongside play-by-play commentator by veteran announcer Gary Thorne. Pedersen grew up in Southern California, but relocated to Clermont, Florida in the early 1990s, where he has resided ever since. He and his wife Becky have two children: a son, Chad and a daughter, Savannah.

Bowling career[link]

As a bowler, Pedersen has won 13 PBA titles, with his last coming at age 40 in the 2002 Pepsi Open. That title pushed him over the $1 million career earnings mark, making him the 24th millionaire in PBA history at the time. Most dominant from the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Pedersen captured the prestigious PBA National Championship crown in 1987.

At the same time, he is also known for two of the worst breaks in PBA history. He lost both his tour exemption and a PBA Tournament of Champions match due to leaving one pin standing in the last frame on each of those occasions. He was ranked #35 on the PBA's 2008 list of 50 Greatest Players of the last 50 years.

Pedersen was elected to the PBA Hall of Fame in October, 2010, and was inducted with the 2011 class on January 22, 2011.^[1]

Off the lanes, Pedersen has had great success behind the microphone as a TV analyst since joining ESPN in 2001; Pedersen earned the position after getting his start in broadcasting as a lane-level reporter on ABC's Pro Bowlers Tour. He also worked for Fox Sports Net for a brief time in 2000.

Pedersen has been lauded for his extensive knowledge of the game, associated bowling lingo and catch phrases (see below) as well as his sense of humor. He also had a small part in the 1996 comedy movie Kingpin along with several other professional bowlers.

Randy-isms[link]

• "Dead flush perfect!":
• "He absolutely pured it."

(above two describing a perfectly-rolled strike, with all 10 pins going into the pit)

• "Bartender, make it a double!!"
  (sometimes shouted when a player throws back-to-back strikes)

• "Bad mammal!"
  (Pedersen uses this term either to describe a bowler on a hot streak, or serious pin carry when a less-than-perfect shot takes out all ten pins)

• "Nothin' left but pin shrapnel!"
• "Shreds the rack!"
  (above two sometimes used to describe a powerful strike)

• "Winner winner, Chicken dinner!"
  (referring to the winner of a match)

Pedersen once commented on his role as PBA Analyst on ESPN telecasts. He said, "I want to convey to the viewing public that they are watching the best bowlers in the world. It's my job to explain what makes them that good, as well as provide other information that 'Johnny 150 average' doesn't already know. One thing I learned is if you can bring enthusiasm to the table, sometimes it doesn't really matter what is coming out of your mouth. The viewing audience senses the enthusiasm." ^[2]

References[link]

1. ^ Schneider, Jerry. "Randy Pedersen, Dale Eagle and Len Nicholson Elected to PBA Hall of Fame." Article at www.pba.com on October 20, 2010.
2. ^ Zikes, Lyle. "Sizing up the lanes: Randy Pedersen has brought color to the PBA as an analyst." Article in Bowling Digest, June, 2002.