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Pam (given Name)
Pam is a feminine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Pamela. People * Pam Arciero (born 1954), American puppeteer * Pam Ayres (born 1947), British poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter * Pam Barnes (television producer), Australian television producer * Pamela Pam Bondi (born 1965), American attorney and politician, Attorney General of Florida * Pamela Pam Bowers (born 1949), American college basketball head coach * Pam Brady (born 1969), American writer and television producer * Pam Burridge (born 1965), Australian surfer * Pam Cameron (born 1971), politician in Northern Ireland * Pamela Pam Casale (born 1963), American tennis player * Pamela Pam Dawber (born 1951), American actress * Pamela Pam Dreyer (born 1981), American ice hockey player * Pamela Pam Ferris (born 1948), British actress * Pamela Pam Grier (born 1949), American actress * Pam Hallandal (1929–2018), Australian artist * Pam Lins, American artist * Pam Long, American writer and executive ... [...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] |
Pam Long
Pamela K. Long is an American writer and executive producer. Long won several Emmys for her work on CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light'' from 1983 to 1990. She was also writer and executive producer on the NBC film Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors, ''Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors''. Career Before writing and acting, Long won the title of Miss Alabama in 1974 and competed for the title of Miss America 1975. At the time, she was attending the University of North Alabama, and was involved in the Phi Mu sorority. After graduation, she moved to New York City and landed the role of Ashley Linden on ''Texas (TV series), Texas'' from 1981 to 1982. She began writing scripts for the show while she was still part of the cast, and in 1982, Long was named head writer of ''Texas''. The show began to improve in quality, but the ratings in the U.S. remained low.Grunwald, D: "Who Shot Texas", pages 23–27. ''TV Guide'' (Canadian edition), March 5, 1983. However, in Canada, ''Texas'' topped t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam (vampire)
Pamela Ravenscroft, known as Pamela Swynford De Beaufort in ''True Blood'', is a fictional character from ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' by author Charlaine Harris. She is a vampire, created by Eric Northman and co-owner of ''Fangtasia'', a vampire bar. Her age is not mentioned in ''True Blood.'' However, in the short story "Two Blondes," it is later revealed that she is approximately 160 years old. Backstory Little is known about Pam's human life in the book series until the seventh novel, ''All Together Dead,'' in which she tells Sookie Stackhouse that she had lived in London with her parents during the Victorian era. As a human, Pam was romantic and bold. At the age of 19, while traveling at night to see a friend's cousin with whom she had a romantic relationship, she encountered vampire Eric Northman, who changed her into a vampire. Her human history was edited for the 5th season of the television series, making her a madam in a Barbary Coast (San Francisco) brothel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coup
The Coup is an American hip hop band from Oakland, California. Their music is an amalgamation of influences, including funk, punk, hip hop, and soul. Frontman Boots Riley's revolutionarily-charged lyrics rank The Coup as a renowned political hip hop band aligned to radical music groups such as Crass, Dead Prez and Rage Against the Machine. The Coup's music is driven by assertive and danceable bass-driven backbeats overlaid by critical, hopeful, and witty lyrics, often with a bent towards the literary. The Coup's songs critique, observe, and lampoon capitalism, American politics, white patriarchal exploitation, police brutality, marijuana addiction, romance, and disparities among races and social classes. History First decade The Coup's debut album was 1991s ''The EP'' and almost all of the songs on it (except "Economics 101") were put on 1993's '' Kill My Landlord''. In 1994, the group released its second album, ''Genocide & Juice''. The group took a four-year recording h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Warren (civil Servant)
Pamela M. Warren is an American civil servant who served as the Oklahoma Secretary of Administration under Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating. Warren served as secretary from January 1, 1997, until her retirement from state service in January 2004. In addition to her service as secretary, Warren served as the director of the Oklahoma Department of Central Services during that same time period. Career Warren received a Bachelor of Science from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Regional and City Planning from the University of Oklahoma in 1974. While attending OU, Warren served as work-study intern for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Oklahoma Department of Economic and Community Affairs. After graduating, Warren became the Planning Director for the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission and later became the program director for the Ozark Foothills Regional Planning Commission. From 1982 to 1985, she worked as an administrative assistant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Warren (speaker)
Pam Warren (born 16 February 1967) is a professional speaker and author who became known in the United Kingdom as the 'Lady in the Mask' after receiving severe burn injuries in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in 1999. She is the founder of the Paddington Survivors Group. She is a spokesperson and advocate for railway safety and the author of From Behind the Mask, a memoir of her life during and after the train collision. On 5 October 1999, the Ladbroke Grove rail crash occurred; thirty-one people died in the crash; Warren was among 520 injured passengers. Her injuries were so severe she was not expected to survive. She was in a coma for three weeks and skin grafts were added to her leg, hands and face. She suffered full thickness burns to these areas and underwent numerous operations by plastic surgeons. To minimise scarring, her doctors prescribed a clear perspex mask that she wore over her face 23 hours a day for 18 months. Dubbed by the media as ‘The Lady in the Mask’ this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Tshwete
Pamela Tshwete (born 3 October 1961) is a politician, member of the African National Congress and current the Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation in South Africa. She is a widow of Steve Tshwete. She was first elected in 2002. See also *African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights *Constitution of South Africa *History of the African National Congress *Politics in South Africa *Provincial governments of South Africa The nine provinces of South Africa are governed by provincial governments which form the second layer of government, between the national government and the municipalities. The provincial governments are established, and their structure define ... References External links Government biography Living people 21st-century South African politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa 21st-century South African women politicians 1951 births {{EasternCape-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Tillis
Pamela Yvonne Tillis (born July 24, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis and ex-wife of songwriter Bob DiPiero. Tillis recorded unsuccessful pop material for Elektra and Warner Records in the 1980s before shifting to country music. In 1989, she had signed to Arista Nashville, entering Top 40 on Hot Country Songs for the first time with "Don't Tell Me What to Do" in 1990. This was the first of five singles from her breakthrough album '' Put Yourself in My Place''. Tillis recorded five more albums for Arista Nashville between then and 2001, plus a greatest hits album. She charted twelve top-ten hits on the ''Billboard'' country music charts while on Arista, including the number-one "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" in 1995. Other top-ten hits of hers include her signature song " Maybe It Was Memphis", as well as "Shake the Sugar Tree", " Spilled Perfume", a cover of Jackie DeShanno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver (born July 4, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player and current tennis broadcaster and pundit. During the 1980s and 1990s, Shriver won 133 titles, including 21 singles titles, 111 women's doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. This includes 22 major titles, 21 in women's doubles and one in mixed doubles. Shriver also won an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, partnering Zina Garrison. Shriver and regular doubles partner Martina Navratilova are the only women's pair to complete the Grand Slam in a calendar year, winning all four majors in 1984. Playing style Shriver was well known for her variety, including sharp volleys and all-round solid technique at the net. She also possessed a strong slice forehand and underspin approach, which set her apart from the rest of the women's field, but she had a comparatively weak chip backhand. She was known for being a serve-and-volleyer. Career Shriver first came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Reynolds Case
Pam Reynolds Lowery (1956 – May 22, 2010), from Atlanta, Georgia, was an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, at the age of 35, she stated that she had a near-death experience (NDE) during a brain operation performed by Robert F. Spetzler at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Reynolds was under close medical monitoring during the entire operation. During part of the operation she had no brain-wave activity and no blood flowing in her brain, which rendered her clinically dead. She claimed to have made several observations during the procedure which later medical personnel reported to be accurate. Within the field of near-death studies and among those who believe in life after death, the case has been cited as well-documented and significant with many proponents considering it to be evidence of the survival of consciousness after death. However, an anesthesiologist who examined the case offered anesthesia awareness as a more prosaic and conventional explanation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Patenaude
Pamela Hughes Patenaude (born January 20, 1961) is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, having served from September 2017 to January 2019, under President Donald Trump. Early life and education Patenaude was raised in New Hampshire and attended Saint Anselm College, graduating in 1983. She later received a master's degree (M.A.) in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University. Career Prior to her position at HUD, she served as president of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families and as director of housing policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. She served as Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community, Planning and Development during the George W. Bush Administration. Trump Administration She was proposed as a candidate for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump administration, but was ultimately nominated for the role of Deputy Secretary under ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Oliver
Pam Oliver (born ) is an American sportscaster known for her work on the sidelines for various National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL) games. Early life and education Oliver was born in Dallas, Texas. She attended Niceville High School in Niceville, Florida, where she excelled in tennis, basketball, and track and field. At Florida A&M University, she was an All-American in both the 400-meter and the mile relay. Professional career Oliver began her broadcasting career at WALB in Albany, Georgia in 1985 as a news reporter. The next year, Oliver moved to WAAY-TV in Huntsville, Alabama. After that stop, Oliver moved to WIVB-TV in Buffalo, New York in 1988. Two years later in 1990, Oliver moved to WTVT in Tampa, Florida, where she began her career as a sports anchor in 1991. Oliver moved to KHOU-TV in Houston, where she continued to be a sports anchor. In 1993, Oliver joined ESPN. In 1995, Oliver joined Fox Sports, where she worked as a sideline r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
