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Geri (given Name)
Geri is a feminine given name and a shorter form (hypocorism) of the given name Geraldine. People Notable people with the name include: *Geri Allen (born 1957), American jazz pianist and music producer *Geri Çipi (born 1976), Albanian football defender *Geri Donnelly (born 1965), Canadian association football midfielder * Geri Doran (born 1966), American academic * Geri Evans (born 1940), American politician and teacher * Geri Hall (born 1972), Canadian actress and comedian *Geri Halliwell (born 1972), English singer and songwriter, member of the Spice Girls *Geri Hoo (1939–2007), American actress *Geri Huser (born 1963), American politician * Geri Jewell (born 1956), American actress * Geri M. Joseph (born 1923), American journalist, academic and political figure *Geri Larkin, American Buddhist * Geri Malaj (born 1989), Albanian footballer *Geri Mandagi (born 1988), Indonesian football goalkeeper *Geri Maye, Irish presenter on radio and television * Geri McGee (1936–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri McGee
Geraldine "Geri" McGee (May 16, 1936 – November 9, 1982) was an American model and Las Vegas showgirl. Her involvement with casinos and criminal activity in Las Vegas, along with that of her husband Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, was chronicled in Martin Scorsese's film ''Casino'' (1995). The screenplay for ''Casino'' was written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, based on Pileggi's biography about McGee and Rosenthal titled '' Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas''. Sharon Stone portrayed McGee in the film, with the character's name changed to "Ginger McKenna", and Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Personal life and career Geraldine McGee was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Leona "Alice" (née Pollock) and Roy McGee. Her parents married in 1931 and later divorced. She had a sister, Barbara. McGee grew up near Sherman Oaks, California, and graduated from Van Nuys High School in the year 1954. Her aunt Naomi Ingram inherited a large amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleaner
A cleaner or a cleaning operative is a type of industrial or domestic worker who cleans homes or commercial premises for payment. Cleaning operatives may specialise in cleaning particular things or places, such as window cleaners. Cleaning operatives often work when the people who otherwise occupy the space are not around. They may clean offices at night or houses during the workday. Types of cleaning operatives The cleaning industry is quite big as different types of cleaning are required for different objects and different properties. For example, cleaning an office space requires the services of a commercial cleaner whereas cleaning a house requires a residential cleaner or residential cleaning service. Depending on the task, even these categories can be subdivided into, for example, end-of-lease cleaning, carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning, window cleaning, car cleaning services etc. Cleaners specialize in a specific cleaning sector or even a specific task in a cleaning s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toy Story 2
''Toy Story 2'' is a 1999 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The second installment in the Toy Story (franchise), ''Toy Story'' franchise and the sequel to ''Toy Story'' (1995), it was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Ash Brannon and Lee Unkrich, from a screenplay written by Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, and Chris Webb from a story by Lasseter, Stanton, Brannon, and Pete Docter. In the film, Sheriff Woody, Woody is stolen by a toy collector, prompting Buzz Lightyear and his friends to rescue him, but Woody is then tempted by the idea of immortality in a museum. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Jim Varney, Annie Potts, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris (actor), John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf reprise their roles from the first ''Toy Story'' film and are joined by Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Estelle Harris, Wayne Knight, and Jodi Benson, who play the new characters intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri's Game
''Geri's Game'' is a 1997 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Jan Pinkava. The short, which shows a senior named Geri who competes with himself in a game of chess, was Pixar's first film to feature a human being as its main character; Geri later made a cameo appearance in ''Toy Story 2'' as "The Cleaner", here voiced by Jonathan Harris instead of Bob Peterson. ''Geri's Game'' was released eight years after ''Knick Knack'', the last short by Pixar to that point, made as part of an effort to reignite the studio's short film series, which had been put on standby in order to focus on the creation of television commercials as well as the studio's first feature film, which would become the first-ever full-length computer-animated film, ''Toy Story''. A dedicated research and development team worked alongside the filmmakers to devise ways to get around the burdens of animating a human character, leading to an in-house computer simula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios (commonly known as Pixar () and stylized as P I X A R) is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, California, United States. Since 2006, Pixar has been a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is another studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, known as the Graphics Group, before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. Disney purchased Pixar in January 2006 at a valuation of $7.4+ billion by converting each share of Pixar stock to 2.3 shares of Disney stock. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by RenderMan, the company's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification image-rendering API. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr., a desk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of animated films. After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, the company started to diversify into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. Following Walt's death in 1966, the company's profits began to decline, especially in the animation division. Once Disney's shareholders voted in Michael Eisner as the he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri X
Geri X (born 6 May 1989) is a Bulgarian-born singer-songwriter whose music shows influences of several genres including folk, psychedelic rock, Americana, and post-rock. She has garnered a sizable fan base and critical acclaim in the Tampa Bay music scene. History Born in Bulgaria, grew up in Pleven and Versailles France for sometime. Geri spent 13 years studying classical piano and hated it. At the age of 17 moved to the United States with her family. Making Tampa/St. Petersburg Florida home. In 2001 and began her ascent to become one of Tampa Bay's beloved artist. Winning Creative Loafing's Best Singer Songwriter twice. In 2011 Geri X was named “Best of Indie” in the Bulgarian edition of Rolling Stone’s “Best of Rock” Geri provides vocals in a duet with former Kinks lead guitarist Dave Davies, on the song "When I First Saw You" on his album ''It Will Be Me'', which was released in June 2013 on Cleopatra Records Cleopatra Records is an American independent record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri Winkler
Geri Winkler (born 13 April 1956 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer, who was the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Since 1984, Winkler has taught mathematics, French, and German language in Vienna. In September 1984, he was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1. In April 1987, he ran the Vienna marathon, marking the first time a diabetic patient had finished a marathon. In the 1990s he ascended Popocatepetl in Mexico and Muztagh Ata (7546 m) in China. In the summer of 2001, he climbed Elbrus in Russia, the highest mountain in Europe. In the winter of 2002 and 2003, Winkler climbed Aconcagua in Argentina, the tallest mountain in South America. In late 2005, Winkler started a six-month tour of seven countries that started at the Dead Sea by bicycle and ended at Mount Everest. On 20 May 2006, Winkler became the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the top of Mount Everest. Summits Two examples *On May 20, 2006, Geri Winkler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri Ward
Geri Ward is an American artist. Life and career Geri Ward was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She earned a Master's Degree in Experimental Psychology from Ohio State University, and worked for many years as a research psychologist. After starting a family and moving to Montana, she took up watercolor painting, which she has continued for over 37 years. Ward approaches painting in an experimental way without trying to predict or control the outcome. She remains open to whenever the media and her imagination take her. Ward has been the gallery attendant for the Jesse Wilver Gallery, now part of the Emerson Center, for the last ten years in Bozeman, Montana where she exhibits her work. She creates her artwork by the collectibles that she has placed around her house. She searches for an image by "pulling it out of chaos" and when it appears, she gives it a title. When she moved to Bozeman, she could not find a job in experimental psychology and started doing watercolor painti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri Coleman Tucker
Geri Coleman Tucker is an American journalist who has served as an editor and a reporter at ''USA Today'', ''Gannett News Service'', the ''Detroit Free Press'' and the ''Akron Beacon Journal''. Biography Tucker was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She obtained her degree from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. She also writes '' Asperger Ascent'', a blog for young adults on the autism spectrum. While working at ''USA Today'', Tucker served as deputy managing editor and at ''Gannett News Service'' she was the regional managing editor. She worked for both newspapers for 30 years. She is married to Michael A. Tucker and has one child. She resides in Springfield, Virginia Springfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The Springfield CDP is recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau with a population of 30,484 as of the 2010 census. Homes and businesses in bordering CDPs includ .... References Living people American women journalists Kenyon C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri Lynch Tomich
Geri Lynch Tomich (born 15 July 1964, Manhattan, New York) is an American synchronized figure skating coach and former figure skater. Education She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College, City University of New York. Professional career Coach Geri Lynch Tomich, once member of the Disney on Ice show, was invited by the Essex Skating Club in 2001 to start and lead its synchronized skating organization. Geri Lynch Tomich is the founder and the head coach of the Synchroettes synchronized skating teams, a not for profit organization that spans 10 teams and includes about 200 figure skaters. Synchroettes is one of the biggest such organizations in the United States and no longer represents the Essex Skating Club of New Jersey. The first practice of the newly formed Synchroettes was scheduled on September 11, 2001, the day when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City, killing nearly 3,000 people. In order to honor the 9/11 victims Synchroettes has ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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