Rankin may refer to:

Places[link]

• In Australia:
  • Division of Rankin, an electoral district in the Australian Federal House of Representatives, in Queensland

• In Canada:
  • Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
  • Rankin Inlet Airport, Nunavut
  • Rankin River, Ontario
  • Rankin Location 15D, Ontario, Batchawana First Nation, Ontario
  • Rankin Lake, Nova Scotia

• In the United States:
  • Rankin, California
  • Rankin, Illinois
  • Rankin, Pennsylvania
    • Rankin Bridge, a bridge in Pennsylvania
  • Rankin (Ellis County), Texas
  • Rankin (Upton County), Texas
  • Rankin, Wisconsin
  • Rankin County, Mississippi
  • Rankin Independent School District, Texas

People[link]

• Rankin (name), list of people with the last name and given name

Other[link]

• HMAS Rankin (SSG 78)
• Modified Rankin scale, a measure of disability
• Rankin v. McPherson
• USS Rankin (AKA-103)
• Operation Rankin - Allied plan of occupying Germany and occupied territories in case of collapse of Nazi power.

See also[link]

• Rankine (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2010)

The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two Big Country Music Awards.

Career[link]

The Rankins come from a family of 12, all of whom would entertain the neighbours musically every third weekend as part of a ceilidh.

The first Rankin Family band formed in the 1970s when siblings Geraldine, Genevieve, David, John Morris, and Raylene Rankin began performing at local weddings and dances in Cape Breton. As the older siblings went away to college and university, the younger siblings Jimmy, Cookie and Heather took their places.^[1]

These five siblings - Jimmy, John Morris, Cookie, Raylene and Heather - released their own independent cassettes The Rankin Family (1989) and Fare Thee Well Love (1990), featuring original songs and a combination of traditional jigs, reels and Celtic folk songs. These independent recordings were distributed by the Canadian independent folk music distribution company 'Soundwright' until the band's major label break through with EMI. Their television debut was on the CBC variety show On the Road Again in 1989.

EMI's re-release of Fare Thee Well Love in 1992, went quadruple platinum, selling over 500,000 copies; the title track was a Top 40 singles in Canada.

On September 17, 1999, after recording the song "Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor" with The Chieftains for their album Tears of Stone, the group issued a press release stating that they would no longer perform as a group in order to pursue independent interests and careers.

Less than a year later, John Morris Rankin was killed in a car accident in Cape Breton on January 16, 2000.^[2]

Jimmy Rankin has continued to write songs and has released four solo albums: Song Dog (2001), Handmade (2003), Edge of Day (2007), and Forget About the World (2011). Raylene Rankin has also released a solo album, Lambs in Spring (2004). When not performing on their own, the three sisters run The Red Shoe pub in Mabou.^[3]

Members[link]

• Jimmy Rankin – vocals, guitar
• Cookie Rankin – vocals
• Raylene Rankin – vocals
• Heather Rankin (1989- ) – vocals

Former members[link]

• John Morris Rankin – (1959–2000) piano, fiddle
• Geraldine Rankin – (1958–2007) One of the original founders of the group, Geraldine Coyne (Rankin) died January 10, 2007, the result of a brain aneurysm, at her home in Calgary. Geraldine had not performed with the group since prior to the first recordings being released.^[1]

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• 1989: The Rankin Family
• 1990: Fare Thee Well Love
• 1993: North Country
• 1995: Endless Seasons
• 1998: Uprooted
• 2007: Reunion
• 2009: These Are the Moments

References[link]

Citations

External links[link]

• Rankin Family Official Website
• Jam website page
• The Red Shoe Pub site

Esteban Arce (born c. 1962) is a Mexican television entertainer.

Early life[link]

He was born in Mexico City and lived with 2 brothers and 2 sisters named José Luís, Eduardo, Alejandra, and Adriana in a little house in delegación Benito Juarez. He loved soccer and to his day he is a big fan of Atlante F.C. (Mexican soccer team for which he played for in the reserves.)

Career[link]

His first program was in radio in Telehit, then his first program in television was El Calabozo Later he moved to Miami to be a writer for Univision.He returned to Mexico. He worked for a while in Trapitos al Sol. He moved again to Miami for four years. He worked in Cotorreando and in the second of July in 2007 He appeared in Matutino Express for the first time. His show is about making fun of news. He is every week 1st or 2nd in the morning ratings. His program is from 7 to 10 A.M. in chanel 4 (Canal Cuatro). In a few months his show will appear in Galavision in the U.S. He has 3 children named Esteban who is 14 years old, Maria José who is 5 years old, and Marene who is 9 years old. He is married with Nieves Sanisteban.

Arce was the third addition to the Telemundo tabloid show, after his program Calabozo, Cotorreando. He is known for his jokes, and his apparently amicable, on camera feud with co-host Mauricio Zeilic (the show has four co-hosts). Arce has been reprimended on camera a few times by show producers for some comments that he has made. Public opinion about him is split: Although many see him as a host with good sense of humor, others consider his comments to be disrespectful. Because the majority of the public seems to like his humor. Arce does not discriminate when it comes to joking about entertainers: Some of his favorite targets seem to include Mexican superstars such as María Félix, Luis Miguel and Irma Serrano, but he has also made jokes about Julio Sabala, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Marc Anthony, among others.

Arce worked as an interviewer during Telemundo's airing of the 2004 Premios Billboard Latinos, where he interviewed, among others, David Bisbal and Ricky Martin. He told Martin in Spanish that The only way I can get women is by hanging out with you!. In January 2007 he signed a contract with Televisa and his new program Matutino Express is one of the most successful shows in the country. It is a show with news comedy and Esteban's ongoing humor that mixes up topics and makes fun of his co-workers. Arce also appeared as himself in the episode "La Casa del Millón" of the comedy series, Una familia de diez.

He now works in Mexico in Matutino Express.

Controversy over homosexuality views and homophobic comments[link]

After a video of the December 18, 2009 "Matutino Express" was posted online and virally distributed on January 2010, controversy spread about the Arce's question and comments around sexual orientations vs sexual behavior, during the program Arce asked whether homosexual orientation was "normal" to the program's recurrent (sexologist Elsy Reyes) quite repeatedly since the sexologist failed to provide a straight answer to whether it was or not; during the exchange Elsy said that among some mammals homosexuality was a known behavior to which Arce replied that indeed the behavior exists although is considered "animal dementia". The most active media of discussion was Twitter, where a trend topic #Estebanarcefueradelaire (Spanish for "[take] Esteban Arce off air") was started and got full of petitions directed to Emilio Azcárraga Jean, president of Televisa, to replace Arce as host of Matutino Express.^[1] A video showing the debate with Reyes was posted on YouTube and distributed in other social networks like Facebook, where other groups have also criticized Arce. Esteban has been known for other homophobic comments on radio and TV shows over the time making him blank of multiples critiques.

References[link]

1. ^ Twitter arremete contra Esteban Arce, El Universal, January 5, 2010. (Link in Spanish)

External links[link]

• Cotorreando page, with info about Arce and the other show hosts

Jorge Van Rankin, better known as "El Burro" (The Donkey), is one of the most famous radio and television hosts in Mexico. El Burro studied in Anáhuac University.

His nephew, Allan, is a football goalkeeper, who plays for Atlante^{[citation needed]}.

Biography[link]

He started working back in 1987 in W FM 96.9 (a Mexican radio station) with his program Fusión. He stayed there until 1990 when he moved as the manager of Televisa's Canal 5.

From 1991 to 1993 he worked at the music studio Melody and then he went back to W FM 96.9 with a new program and after that he moved to another radio station Vox FM 101.7 where he worked with Esteban Arce.

Finally in 1993 he debuts as a television host at Telehit's El Calabozo along with his good friend Estaban Arce. The program had huge success thanks to the craziness and randomness of the show.

From there, El Burro became Vox FM's general director and the man responsible for Vox International.

He also hosted another of Telehit's great shows Fresas con Chile (Strawberries with Peppers) along with Paloma.

In 2003 he participated in the second edition of Televisa's reality show Big Brother VIP where he was the sixth person to leave the house. Thanks to the public's support, in 2004 he went back for the third edition of Big Brother where he made it to the final but finished in fourth place.

Currently Jorge hosts his new show Hasta Adentro transmitted by Unicable which has also had a lot of success. He also hosts Trancazo Musical on KRCA.

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Jorge's Biography