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Jeff Peterson (artist)
Jeff Peterson may refer to: People * Jeffrey Peterson (born 1972), American entrepreneur * Jeff Peterson (guitarist) Jeff Peterson is a slack key guitar player from Maui, Hawaii. The son of a paniolo at Haleakala Ranch, Jeff was exposed to the sounds of slack key at an early age. Jeff's style fuses traditional Slack Key with elements of classical and jazz guita ... (fl. 2000s), American guitarist Other uses * Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup, annual pro-wrestling event of ''Full Impact Pro'' See also * Geoff Peterson, sidekick character on ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'' * Jeff Pedersen, a participant on season 1 of '' Newlyweds: The First Year'' * Peterson (other) * Jeff (other) {{hndis, Peterson, Jeff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Peterson
Jeffrey Peterson (born October 11, 1972 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American technology entrepreneur and California born millionaire who is considered the pioneer of Hispanic internet in the United States. He is best known as the founder of Quepasa, the first Latin American online community to go public and trade on a stock exchange in the early dot-com internet era of the late 1990s. In 2012, Quepasa changed its corporate name to MeetMe and continued trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under ticker symbol . MeetMe subsequently acquired the Skout, if(we), Tagged, and hi5 social networks and internet brands. As of mid 2018, renamed parent company the Meet Group had a market value of about U.S. $300 million. Early life and education Peterson grew up in Santa Barbara, California. As a son of British mother and an American father, his paternal ancestors emigrated to Santa Barbara from Spain. Peterson was educated at public schools in the Santa Barbara area. He was ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Peterson (guitarist)
Jeff Peterson is a slack key guitar player from Maui, Hawaii. The son of a paniolo at Haleakala Ranch, Jeff was exposed to the sounds of slack key at an early age. Jeff's style fuses traditional Slack Key with elements of classical and jazz guitar, at which styles he is also adept. Jeff studied classical guitar at USC's Thornton School of Music before returning to the islands to play and teach in the Honolulu area. Jeff has contributed to many albums, including a series of slack key and bamboo flute duets with Riley Lee, several slack key compilations including the Grammy Winning album "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2", "Slack Key Guitar: The Artistry of Jeff Peterson", as well as his most recent solo album "Maui On My Mind". He performed at BAM's Next Wave Festival in 2008 in collaboration with the string quartet ETHEL. His Concerto for Slack Key Guitar, ''Mālama ʻĀina'', commissioned by the Raleigh Civic Symphony Orchestra and their conductor Peter Askim to celebrate the cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup
The Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup was an annual professional wrestling memorial show produced by Full Impact Pro (FIP) promotion, typically between October and December. The event was established to honor the memory of independent wrestler "All American" Jeff Peterson who died at age 21 after a two-year battle with leukemia. A rising star in the National Wrestling Alliance at the time of his death, his home promotion NWA Florida held a memorial tournament, co-hosted by IPW Hardcore, presented by his friends and fellow Florida wrestlers. The first show was held on May 16–17, 2003, at the Florida WrestlePlex in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is the longest-running tournament in the Southeastern United States followed by CWF Mid-Atlantic's Johnny Weaver Memorial Tournament. It was a standard 16-man single-elimination tournament intended to showcase the top junior heavyweight wrestlers from independent promotions throughout the United States and Japan. Many top "indy" wrestlers have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Peterson
Geoff Peterson is an animatronic human skeleton that served as the sidekick on the late-night talk show ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson''. He was voiced and operated by Josh Robert Thompson and first appeared on ''The Late Late Show'' on April 5, 2010. Often referred to as a "robot skeleton", Peterson is a radio-controlled animatronic robot puppet designed and built by Grant Imahara of '' MythBusters''. Geoff has glowing blue eyes, a metal mohawk (which is sometimes covered by a Santa Claus hat in December) and wears an oversized suit with his name scrawled on a contestant's name tag from ''The Price Is Right'' on his jacket, as well as Mardi Gras beads and a Super Bowl XLVII press pass around his neck. He serves as a co-host of sorts and Ferguson refers to him as "my gay robot pal". He was most visible during the first half of the show (the cold openings, monologues, and Tweets and Emails segments) and the final segment, "What Did We Learn on the Show Tonight, Craig?" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Year
''The First Year'' is a 1932 American pre-Code film based on a 1920 play of the same name that originally ran on Broadway at the Little Theatre. The play was written by Frank Craven and produced by John Golden. It closed in 1922 after 760 performances. In 1932, a film adapted from the Craven play was written by Lynn Starling. The film starred Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and was directed by William K. Howard. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics '' Seventh Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), and ''Lucky Star'' (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927). Cast * Janet Gaynor as Grace Livingston * Charles Farrell as Tommy Tucker * Minna Gombell as Mrs. Barstow * Dudley Digges as Dr. Anderson * George Meeker as Dick Loring * Robert McWade as Fred Livingston References External links * * *1947 ''Theatre Guild on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterson (other)
Peterson may refer to: __NOTOC__ People *Peterson (surname) Places United States * Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado * Peterson, Indiana * Peterson, Iowa * Peterson, Minnesota * Peterson, Utah Other uses * Peterson (company), a Norwegian industrial company * Peterson Electro-Musical Products, a manufacturer of tuners, etc. * Peterson Field Guides * Peterson Pipes * Peterson Quartet, music * Peterson's algorithm, computer science * USS ''Peterson'', two US Navy ships of that name See also * Justice Peterson (other) * Pedersen * Pederson (other) * Petersen * Peterson Farm (other) * Peterson House (other) Peterson House may refer to: * J. B. Doughterty and C. W. Peterson House, Phoenix, Arizona, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Phoenix * Peterson House (Albany, California), listed on the NRHP in Alameda County * Pete ... * Pietersen * Pieterson {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
