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Ms. Saeed has been one of Cravath's top rainmakers for years.

Forests, with help from oceans and grasslands, are the planet's soil-builders and rainmakers.

They are rainmakers; they are flamboyant; they are bare-knuckled; they are hard-charging.

Natalie Robehmed, an entertainment reporter for Forbes, cites the three actresses as Hollywood's reigning rainmakers.

But UBS's American advisory brand was hammered after the 2008 crisis as rainmakers decamped to boutiques.

Alex Morrell worked with financial data firm MergerLinks to publish our first-ever rainmakers list this week.

These coveted rainmakers are among the most highly compensated — and fiercely fought over — bankers on Wall Street.

In the white-hot crossover segment, the 217 MKX and MKC should be rainmakers for the brand.

CCOs earn far less than banks' rainmakers, but the best-paid can expect basic annual salaries of over $1m.

Regulatory lawyers, those steeped in the staggering legal minutia produced by Brexit, have lately gone from drudges to rainmakers.

It's easier for Ermotti to face down investment-banking critics when your rainmakers regularly outperform European peers with double-digit returns.

Such is the power of family wealth on Wall Street that some mergers-and-acquisitions rainmakers are building businesses around it.

JPMorgan is going through a big investment-banking leadership shakeup and 18 rainmakers have new roles keeping its biggest clients happy

The Rainmakers: Meet the top 20 bankers that orchestrated the biggest deals of 2019 and nabbed huge paydays along the way

So, I let those employees go, even if they're effective, even if there are rainmakers, because it leads to a bad culture.

A woman responsible for winning new clients at a major consulting firm, where rainmakers were called "hunters," told me she rejected that label.

Not only is the rising tide of boutique banks, sometimes led by former Wall Street banks' ex-rainmakers, continuing to pose a threat to bigger institutions.

Staley's strategy has included a costly hiring spree of rainmakers and a diversion of capital from Barclays' retail arm towards higher risk lending and trading activity.

At the very top of the tech food chain, the Big Five are in a unique position, and not just as rainmakers for VCs seeking liquidity.

But Warren has promised to reward those in his division who stay at the bank with "career opportunities" despite having a limited budget for expensive rainmakers.

Those concerns may be thrown to the wind when it comes to top rainmakers at Wall Street firms such as JPMorgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley.

When Facebook went public in 2012, venture capitalists who had invested in the social network solidified their reputations as rainmakers — and also were set for life.

Members of the committee will be tasked with relationship management of the firms top clients as well as bringing in new business — "rainmakers," in industry lingo.

Other hires from Deutsche Bank include senior rainmakers John Eydenberg and Mark Hantho, who will join the banking, capital markets and advisory division (BCMA) as vice chairmen.

"I consider [Mike Bloomberg] to be one of these 'rainmakers' — he personifies the company, even though he's got a lot of people working there," Streicher told Insider.

Once reserved for a corporation's most treasured rainmakers, noncompetes are now routinely applied to low-wage workers like warehouse employees, fast-food workers and even dog sitters.

In response, the university decided to have a fresh look at allegations made against one of its biggest rainmakers, and it has organized an independent, external review.

UBS rainmakers from Switzerland would travel to France to offer their services, even if they did not have European passports or the proper banking license, prosecutors said.

To help hunt down opportunities, many of the funds have built up their in-house investment teams, hiring experienced rainmakers from top international banks and private equity firms.

In the early days of the 0003th century, LA and other cities in the Southland famously paid "rainmakers" — mostly con men with almanacs — for their feats of weather control.

Tension between the president and the governor was on display in February, when Trump was set to address a roomful of rainmakers at billionaire Nelson Peltz's Palm Beach estate.

Still, even for top rainmakers at big banks, bonuses are not expected to reach pre-crisis levels such as when Merrill Lynch's top dealmaker Andrea Orcel took home $34 million.

Several major rainmakers have departed, including two of the most prominent women at the firm: Eleanor Alter, a well-known divorce lawyer, and Robin Cohen, who led Kasowitz's insurance group.

But as rainmakers in other divisions like investment banking moved to work from their living rooms, some of Wall Street's most important traders have still been trekking into the office.

Apart from the firm&aposs mounting losses and a plummeting share price, competition for top rainmakers remained at a fever pitch in 2019 following an exceptionally competitive year in 2018.

China Renaissance, led by Bao Fan, one of the country's most famed rainmakers, fell to a low of HK$25.60 ($3.28) after opening at HK$31.80, its initial public offering (IPO) price.

With new leadership gripping the reins at top investment banks, turmoil enveloping others, and a still-scorching dealmaking environment, competition in the US for rainmakers remained at a fever pitch this year.

BOSTON — When Michelle Wu first ran for Boston's City Council, she made get-to-know-you appointments with a series of political rainmakers, and found that their questions took on a familiar pattern.

After all, Credit Suisse paid $11.5 billion for the New York investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 2000, only to see the firm's rainmakers depart and their combined market share fail to materialize.

Goldman's new CEO, David Solomon, has been trimming the pool of the bank's highest-ranking execs to keep an air of exclusivity around the "partner" title and to reserve it for the biggest rainmakers.

The LinkedIn image was a stark illustration of what can happen when promotion decisions are relationship-driven and concentrated in the hands of white-male rainmakers, even in workplaces with a commitment to diversity.

In the years that followed, the reporters documented an apparent pattern of predatory behavior, as well as confidential settlements to silence women and a music industry unwilling to let go of one of its rainmakers.

Deemed a whiz kid ever since he led a $300,000 investment in Hotmail ahead of its sale to Microsoft for $400 million when he was only 30 years old, Jurvetson became one of its key rainmakers.

And boutiques' share of M&A has risen substantially since the global financial crisis, which saw many Wall Street rainmakers decamp from bigger institutions to work at smaller firms, where their pay can be substantially higher.

The new compensation structure for employees in Google's sales organization looks a lot like the way legacy enterprise companies like SAP and Oracle pay their sales folks, with incentives designed to reward rainmakers and weed out underperformers.

With new leadership gripping the reins at top investment banks, turmoil enveloping others, and a still scorching dealmaking environment, a vigorous appetite in the US for top rainmakers has become a constant over the past two years.

Mr. Goetz, 51, is one of the firm's biggest rainmakers and is perhaps most famous these days for being the only outside investor in WhatsApp by the time the company sold itself to Facebook for $19 billion.

Making matters worse, the percentage of revenue being sucked up by boutique banks — often staffed with big banks' one-time rainmakers — are tracking all-time highs, leaving an even smaller pool of capital for traditional banks to absorb.

A greater slice of the shrinking M&A revenues is now going to smaller boutique firms than the traditional powerhouses like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, which means rainmakers are having to compete even more fiercely for M&A business.

The arrival of rainmakers like Tim Throsby at Barclays and a focus on key businesses like bond, stock and currency trading and M&A advisory has put the investment bank on track to deliver higher returns by the next financial year.

China Renaissance Group, a tech-focused investment bank led by one of the country's most famed rainmakers, is also planning a Hong Kong IPO, keen to raise as much as $800 million, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

However, when it comes to "rainmakers" who control business opportunities, like Mike Bloomberg or former Bloomberg executive Lou Eccleston, who was accused by multiple employees of preying on younger female employees, Estreicher said too many companies sweep allegations under the rug.

HONG KONG (Reuters/IFR) - China Renaissance Group, an investment bank led by one of the country's most famed rainmakers, aims to raise as much as $800 million in a Hong Kong IPO, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Earlier this month, the bank got a new chief executive, Christian Sewing, who faces the same strategic problem that has long preoccupied its top management - whether or not to override the rainmakers and big earners at the investment bank to shrink that business.

Business Insider has partnered with MergerLinks, a financial intelligence platform that tracks deals and individual bankers, to present "The Rainmakers," a league-table ranking of the top-20 M&A bankers based on the size of the deals they orchestrated in North America in 2019.

The firm, led by one of the country's most famed rainmakers Bao Fan, said in a statement on Monday that its private equity arm Huaxing Growth Capital had raised its third yuan fund totaling over 6.5 billion yuan, with oversubscription of more than 1 billion yuan.

In The Coming Jobs War, Gallop chief executive officer Jim Clifton argues that America's amazing growth in the 20th century can be traced to roughly 1,000 "rainmakers" — an astounding 85033 percent of whom were immigrants, many coming to this country as a result of the recommendations made by the Truman commission.

A recent episode of "Billions", a television drama about Wall Street, captured the rainmakers' frustration: so fed up is "Dollar" Bill Stern with having his wings clipped by Ari Spyros that the veteran trader rams the side of the compliance chief's Porsche when he pulls out of the car park of their hedge fund, Axe Capital.

Only 1 percent of founders of startup companies receiving venture capital backing are African American, and only 1.8 percent of founders are Latinx, according to data from RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Nichols sees a potential to reverse those trends by focusing on cities and investing in ecosystems that have been historically ignored by venture capital's white-shoe firms and traditional rainmakers.

But the systems that produce those teams and the various imperatives and incentives and guiding economic forces of the college basketball business—all those sneaker companies and recruiting services and boosters and dicey rainmakers and subsidiary brands turning away in greasy synchronicity within the Talent Allocation System's stainless housing—all work to push things in the direction of a progressively more efficient and less variable excellence.

Here's his story:The Rainmakers: Meet the top 20 bankers that orchestrated the biggest deals of 2019 and nabbed huge paydays along the wayBefore I go, I want to highlight the second and third installment of Dave Mosher's series on Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX, which is building a Starship rocket-development site and future Mars spaceport in Boca Chica, a remote beach area at the southern tip of Texas.

JPMorgan handed its CFO a new role and it could be a sign she's a candidate to replace Jamie DimonJPMorgan is going through a big investment-banking leadership shakeup and 18 rainmakers have new roles keeping its biggest clients happyJPMorgan's M&A plansJamie Dimon says JPMorgan will be 'much more aggressive' on acquisitions just days after Morgan Stanley revealed plans to buy E-TradeIndustry Insiders reveal the 5 companies they think JPMorgan could try and buy after Jamie Dimon said the bank would be 'much more aggressive' on M&ATechnologyJPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs execs gave us an inside look at how they're slashing the time and cost of bringing fintechs onboard as Wall Street looks to newcomers for innovationAn upstart exchange looking to elbow in on NYSE and Nasdaq just nabbed big buy-in from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Jane Street and set a go-live dateLondon fintech unicorn Revolut is in talks to raise $1.5 billion from JPMorgan as funding plans growJPMorgan is hiring to grow a team that designs tech used by its bankers and clients — and it shows the huge impact fintech is having on Wall StreetJPMorgan doesn't want to get burned by AI and machine learning.

Skin is the fifth studio album by The Rainmakers, released in 1996.

Monster Movie is the seventh studio album by The Rainmakers, released in 2014.

The Rainmakers has released eight studio albums, two live albums and a compilation album.

In 2014, the Rainmakers released the album Monster Movie. In June the same year, they performed at the Sweden Rock Festival.Finn, Timothy (2014) "The Rainmakers revisit rock ’n’ roll roots, find a more collaborative spirit". In 2015 they released the album Cover Band.

Oslo-Wichita LIVE is a live album by The Rainmakers, released in 1990. The album was recorded live November 22, 1989, in Oslo and January 20, 1990 in Wichita.Oslo-Wichita LIVE: The Rainmakers AllMusic The CD version of the album contains 1 additional bonus track.

Rainmakers Billy (Wheeler) and Roscoe (Woolsey) take on a crooked businessman out to cash in on a drought.

With the conference record, the Stags again hosted the Western Conference Championship (again at Lincoln High School Stadium) this time facing off against the second-ranked Seattle Rainmakers. The Rainmakers were able to take advantage of an early lead in the game that they never gave up, ending the Stags second post-season run 16-17.

The Rainmakers is the debut album by The Rainmakers, produced by Terry Manning and released in 1986. It is their highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, reaching #85, and contains the single "Let My People Go-Go", which reached #18 on the UK Singles Chart. A remastered version of the album was released in 2010 with 4 additional bonus tracks.

TechCrunch described the deal as the "largest acquisition of a venture-backed company in history", and it earned Goetz a reputation as one of Silicon Valley's "biggest rainmakers".

This is a discography for Kansas City based rock band The Rainmakers. Note: Unless otherwise stated, all releases are on the Polygram label in Europe and the Mercury Records label in the U.S.

The Good News and the Bad News is the third studio album by The Rainmakers, released in 1989. A remastered version of the album was released in 2010 with 7 additional bonus tracks.

As the singer/songwriter of his band, The Rainmakers, from 1986 to 1996, Walkenhorst's discography included five full-length studio albums, one live concert recording, and one "best-of" album. After the dissolution of the band, he released his first solo album, The Beginner, in 2003. In 2009, Walkenhorst and fellow Kansas City musician Jeff Porter released an album entitled No Abandon, under the moniker Walkenhorst and Porter. The Rainmakers reformed in 2011 and have since released three more albums.

SPIRIT CHILD premiered in Cologne in June 2019. IYAMI premiered on 17 December 2018. YUROPA premiered in Bremen in June 2018. RAINMAKERS created for the 2018 TEDGlobal in Tanzania, and since performed severally in Nigeria.

From 2001 to 2003, Schissler founded and served as the president and CEO of the advertising agency RainMakers International. Based in Tampa, RainMakers was direct marketing agency for TV, radio and the web that also specialized in placing salespeople in contract and permanent positions. In 2008, the agency brokered a deal between Microsoft and the Michael Waltrip NASCAR Racing team to make Microsoft small business a sponsor for Michael McDowell's #00 car, in a deal where Microsoft's small business clients and resellers paid for the sponsor placement.

The Rainmakers are a Kansas City, Missouri-based original rock band, fronted by Bob Walkenhorst, which had a small string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United States and Europe, especially Norway.

Way is involved in a large number of startup companies that are listed on the Rainmakers Global website, such as GoDine, the restaurant booking service; FuelMyBlog, the blogging product review service; Truevoo, the iPhone apps store review service; an SME advice service called Smarta; and a graduate recruitment company called BraveNewTalent.The Spectator . The Spectator (2 December 2008). Retrieved on 2011-04-29 In 2009 Rainmakers opened a United States (US) branch and consequently became involved in a number of US startups, including Traffic Spaces, the ad management platform, and BoostCTR, the Google adwords optimizer.

In 1896, Campau moved to the west coast as the player/manager of the Seattle Yannigans/Rainmakers in the New Pacific League. In 32 games at Seattle, Campau had career highs in batting average (.403) and slugging percentage (.

The Seattle Yannigans/Rainmakers were a Minor League Baseball team in the New Pacific League. They were based in Seattle, Washington and lasted only one season, folding along with the league during mid-season, . They finished last place.

It was also listed in the APRA Top 30 Australian songs of all time in 2001. It was covered by Christine Anu in 1995; she had been a backing vocalist in Neil Murray and The Rainmakers during 1992-1993\.

Tornado is the second studio album by The Rainmakers, produced by Terry Manning and released in 1987. It reached #116 on the Billboard 200. A remastered version of the album was released in 2012 with 8 additional bonus tracks.

Quinn Hunziker (New York Rumble) and Clay Dewey-Valentine (Seattle Rainmakers) were voted for by the other players as the most spirited within their conferences. This award was given based on their sportsmanship both on and off the pitch.

Neil Murray and The Rainmakers were formed to tour in support of Calm and Crystal Clear, with an initial line-up of Murray on lead vocals and lead guitar; James Cruikshank on keyboards and guitar (ex-Widdershins); Bill Heckenberg on drums; and Alex Hodgson on bass guitar. The group toured Australia before Murray took a four-month break, he reassembled The Rainmakers in mid-1990 which supported Midnight Oil's tour of Australia. By that time the line-up were Murray and Heckenberg with Bill Jacobi on bass guitar (ex-Warumpi Band); and Russell Nelson on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals (ex-Matt Finish). By 1992 Murray had added Christine Anu to The Rainmakers, initially as a backing singer, he asked her to take on lead vocals for his track, "My Island Home". Murray's second solo album, These Hands, appeared in July 1993 and was co- produced by Moffatt, Jim Moginie (keyboardist and guitarist of Midnight Oil) and Angelique Cooper.

He was one of eight producers featured in RKO promotional features for the studio, heralding their upcoming film schedule. One of the first films Marcus produced in the new season was the next Wheeler and Woolsey comedy, The Rainmakers, this picture directed by Fred Guiol.

The Stags continued to impress with two victories over the San Francisco Dogfish and didn't see their first loss until week 4 when they dropped a game 23-25 against the Rainmakers. The Stags finished out the regular season 8-2 with losses to both the Rainmakers and the Nighthawks. With the best record in the Western Conference, the Stags saw their post-season and hosted the Vancouver Nighthawks at Lincoln High School Stadium. While the Nighthawks were able to take an early lead the Stags were able to tie up the game but never found themselves at the advantage and missed their first shot to the MLU Championship 13-14.

In South Pare, where the dry foothills and plains were populated by Cushitic- speaking peoples and small Bantu-speaking groups before the 1700s,N. Thomas Håkansson. Rulers and Rainmakers in Precolonial South Pare, Tanzania: Exchange and Ritual Experts in Political Centralization. Vol. 37, No. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp.

The Women’s Foundation encourages philanthropic investments in the community in a number of ways intended to encourage members to donate at whatever level is best for them. Individuals Some participants choose to be individual donors, making one-time, occasional, or regular donations both large and small. Giving Circles There are two giving circles that allow women to come together and contribute as a group. The Rainmakers Giving Circle, founded in 2003, supports programs for young women and girls between the ages of 10 and 21 that empower and increase competence in the areas of employment, education, health and life skills. Rainmakers Giving Circle members commit to give $5,000 each over two years.

The Rainmakers were formed in 1983 as a three-piece bar band called 'Steve, Bob and Rich,' which "quickly became popular throughout the Midwest," according to one Amazon review.Amazon.com page on Bob Walkenhorst They released one album, Balls, under this name. The addition of drummer Pat Tomek allowed Walkenhorst to switch to guitar and assume the role of frontman. The band changed their name to The Rainmakers when they were signed to Polygram by A&R; man Peter Lubin. The band's self-titled 1986 debut album received good reviews in the U.S. entertainment media (Newsweek magazine dubbed it "the most auspicious debut album of the year") and reached No. 87 on the U.S. Billboard album chart.

Murray regularly performed throughout Australia, either with a backing band, The Rainmakers, or solo. He undertook a series of performances with Shane Howard (ex-Goanna), as 2songmen from 2006 to 2007. A similar set of gigs, One of those Tunes, occurred with Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil) from mid-2013 to early 2014.

Major League Ultimate had hosted two of its annual championship games at Subaru Park. The first was on July 19, 2014 when the DC Current defeated the Vancouver Nighthawks 23–17. The stadium again hosted the championship on August 8, 2015 in which the Boston Whitecaps defeated the Seattle Rainmakers 31–17.

The Rainmakers is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Fred Guiol from a screenplay by Grant Garrett and Leslie Goodwins, based on a story by Guiol and Albert Traynor. RKO Radio Pictures released the film on October 25, 1935, starring the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) and Dorothy Lee.

Goto entered the match covered in white body paint, but was defeated after being hit with three Rainmakers by the defending champion. In a post-match interview, Okada praised Goto and offered him a spot in the Chaos stable. With the loss, Goto set a new record for failing to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in eight consecutive title shots.

Bob Walkenhorst is a Kansas City-based singer, songwriter, musician, and painter. After growing up in his hometown of Norborne, Missouri, he became a founding member of the popular Midwestern U.S. roots rock band The Rainmakers. In the Kansas City area, he currently gives weekly performances and participates in art gallery shows. For some shows, he is joined by his daughter Una.

Throughout his career as a musician, Walkenhorst has maintained a reputation for producing clever and provocative lyrics, which have garnered him wide critical acclaim. In discussing the self-titled debut of The Rainmakers, Billboard called them "a band with a rarity: a genuinely witty songwriter."Billboard (1986) . A 1987 review in the Washington Post cited the cleverness while also noting irreverent humor.

Mongolian Shaman performing rituals, 3 March 2019. At Khovsogol lake worship, during the "Blue Pearl" event in Mongolia Mongolian classics, such as The Secret History of the Mongols, provide details about male and female shamans serving as exorcists, healers, rainmakers, oneiromancers, soothsayers, and officials. Shamanic practices continue in present-day Mongolian culture. The spiritual hierarchy in clan-based Mongolian society was complex.

In Chichen Itza (Temple of the Chac Mool under the Temple of the Warriors), long-robed, aged and ascetic-looking characters with broad- rimmed feather hats have been depicted that are carrying offerings. They are seated in a row with rain deity impersonators (perhaps rainmakers) directly behind them, and have been interpreted as Itzá priests.Roys 1967: 181, fig. 45; cf.

The Kuku people were part of a larger group known Bari-. There was a good deal of in-fighting amongst the larger group and so they decided to spread out into places where each group felt more comfortable. The Kuku was the group that decided to move south and settle. There are rainmakers who are very famous in the tribe.

Mermis, Elke (2011) "The Kansas Music Hall of Fame inducts the Rainmakers, Bobby Watson and more in its 7th annual ceremony this weekend". The following week, the band's album, 25 on, was released on March 14. At the end of March, the band returned to Norway for a two-week tour. The band played two shows (May 14–15) at Knuckleheads Saloon in Kansas City.

Besides their political power, they were/are also believed to be rainmakers. However, they are not religious chiefs. Generally, though this traditional political system ceased to function properly after the Kingdom of Koore was incorporated into the Ethiopian Empire in 1896, it still has largely functional side by side with the modern administrative structure. Still the Koore honor their Kaate as their traditional leader.

Dauke (2004) further pointed out that the Aku and the Ashokwa were legendarily "discovered" because they were "met" there by the other Atyap people who arrived later. The Shokwa were aboriginal, having allegedly emerged from out of the Kaduna river, and were considered rainmakers. The Aku were also aboriginal, having been associated with the Shokwa but emerging later. The others were strangers adopted into the society, forming sub-clans.

Elgin then climbed the ladder and grabbed the belt to become the new IWGP Intercontinental Champion. In the main event Tetsuya Naito defended the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Kazuchika Okada. As per pre-match agreement, the match was kept one- on-one with neither Okada's manager Gedo nor Naito's L.I.J. stablemates being involved. The match ended with Okada hitting Naito with three Rainmakers to become the new IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

During the mid-19th century, when Germany began to colonise sub-Saharan Africa, some Sandawe clans used their prestige as rainmakers to lay claim to chiefly status, but were never really accepted as such. Others defied European rule and the mass migrations of arriving colonists around them. The Germans were told that a man named Mtoro wielded some authority. He was officially made headman or leader of the recently established Nyamwezi colony.

Annual average precipitation across Texas The most serious threat from tropical cyclones for Texans is from flooding. The worst aspect about tropical cyclones is that the weaker they are, the more efficient they can be at producing heavy rains and catastrophic flooding. Systems with sprawling circulations, such as Hurricane Beulah, also tend to make good rainmakers. Slow moving systems, such as Tropical Storm Amelia (1978) and Hurricane Harvey (2017) can produce significant rainfall.

In 1995 Christine Anu (former backing singer in Murray's touring band, The Rainmakers) covered "My Island Home". Soon after Burarrwanga, Sammy Butcher and Murray reconvened Warrumpi Band for a European tour. In April 1996 they released their third album, Too Much Humbug. The album was produced by Mark Ovenden (Yothu Yindi, Midnight Oil, You Am I). At the ARIA Music Awards of 1997 the track, "Stompin' Ground", was nominated for 'Best Indigenous Release'.

The firm's dissolution came in the wake of boutique IP firms losing ground to general practice firms – and, perhaps more acutely, the loss of key rainmakers. These were mostly patent litigation partners who took their clients to full-service firms (see book of business). The departure of rainmaker Jonathan A. Marshall did not bode well for the firm. Marshall, a litigator with clients such as Hewlett- Packard, joined Weil Gotshal & Manges in 2002.

By autumn 2008, the firm saw the departures of the three "name partners" from the Brown Raysman Steiner side. The firm shortened its name to Thelen LLP in August 2008.Thelen Their Oats: Will A New Name Lure Suitors? The firm lost almost 200 attorneys between merger and the October 2008 dissolution vote, including many important rainmakers and practice groups, who moved to such leading firms as DLA Piper, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Proskauer Rose, and Loeb & Loeb.

Queen Modjadji is the hereditary female ruler and queen of Balobedu, South Africa. She is known to be mythical and historical, and she is believed to have had powers that let her control the clouds and rainfall by bringing rain to her friends and drought to their enemies. Female rulers were known as “rain queens” or “rainmakers” around this time. Furthermore, she brought rain to the regions of any visitors who offered her gifts and tributes.

Anu performs at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for the Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993 with "Last Train", a dance remake of a Paul Kelly song. The follow-up, "Monkey and the Turtle", was based on a traditional story. After "My Island Home", she released her first album, Stylin' Up, which went platinum.

The Pare were also known as rainmakers, one notable exponent being Mfumwa Muhammad Kibacha Singo, a local ruler of Same who died in January 1981. In these rituals (as well as other cultural practices e.g. healing, initiation, etc.), spiritual figurines were often used that had been artistically sculptured out of clay or wood, and wrapped in either cloth and/or leather. Recent interest in such artefacts from collectors and researchers have unearthed them throughout the western world.

In 1896, Leadley formed a partnership with Bob Glenalvin, manager of the Detroit Tigers in 1894, and others to re-establish the Pacific Northwest League as the New Pacific League. Leadley became the owner of the Seattle Yannigans/Rainmakers franchise and hired Count Campau, who he had managed in Detroit, as Seattle's player/manager. However, the league folded by the middle of June 1896. After the collapse of the New Pacific League, Leadley returned to Detroit.

Situated on Galloway Road between Gulf View Road and Carmichael Road, Lohmann Park is home to The Rainmakers, a statue of bronze Aboriginal warriors. The sculpture was gifted to the people of Noarlunga City Council by Eugen Lohmann Esq., the Governing Director of Wender and Duerholt, a (West) German building company which had built a number of South Australian Housing Trust homes in the area. The statue was unveiled by then Premier of South Australia, Frank Walsh, on 21 May 1965.

Francis Harvey (13 April 1925 – 7 November 2014) was an Irish poet and playwright. He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Harvey had lived in County Donegal for most of his life.Harvey, Francis, 22 June 1997, The Lost Fathers (Poem), The Literary Review His collections of poetry include In the Light on the Stones (1978), The Rainmakers (1988), The Boa Island Janus (1996), Making Space, New & Selected Poems (2000), and Collected Poems (2007), which had an introduction by Moya Cannon.

Murray was the subject of a documentary, "Native Born", broadcast on Australian Story for ABC Television in April of that year. Murray performed intermittently with Warumpi Band until 2000 while mainly working on his solo career with his backing band, The Rainmakers. His fourth solo album, The Wondering Kind, appeared in February 2000, which was self-financed and self-produced. By that time he was based in Darwin, but had recorded the album in Sydney during periodic visits over a year.

Lemmy playing bass and singing, with his trademark high microphone position In Stockport, Lemmy joined local bands the Rainmakers and then the Motown Sect who played northern clubs for three years. In 1965, he joined The Rockin' Vickers who signed a deal with CBS, released three singles and toured Europe, reportedly being the first British band to visit the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Rockin' Vickers moved to Manchester, where they shared a flat together. Leaving the Rockin' Vickers, Lemmy moved to London in 1967.

The film named Bechuanaland Protectorate was made during the Second World War and has to do with APC soldiers returning home from North Africa after winning a trip back to Botswana. The film features tribal chief Bathoen II. Cape Town film- maker Bill Lewis came to Botswana territory in 1947 to film the Royal visit to a farm where APC soldiers had been. American Tom Larson also came during the late 1940s; he filmed two documentaries, one titled "Rainmakers of the Okavango" which was released in 1948.

In 1986 Paul Kelly wrote "Last Train to Heaven" as the lead track of the debut album, Gossip, by his group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. The album was issued in September that year on Mushroom Records while Kelly was living in Sydney. Early in the 1990s Anu and Kelly met each other when she was a dancer with Bangarra Dance Company and he was touring Queensland. During 1992 while still at her dance company Anu started singing backing vocals with Neil Murray's group, The Rainmakers.

Livingstone was known through a large part of Africa for treating the natives with respect, and the tribes that he visited returned his respect with faith and loyalty. He could never permanently convert the tribesmen to Christianity, however. Among other reasons, Sechele, by then the leader of the African tribe, did not like the way that Livingstone could not demand rain of his God like his rainmakers, who said that they could. After long hesitation from Livingstone, he baptised Sechele and had the church completely embrace him.

In 1896 Fox was a member of Frank Dumont's, The Rainmakers, a traveling variety show, and a year or so later joined fellow magicians Servais Le Roy and Frederick Powell in an act called The Great Triple Alliance, dubbed by the press as "the three crowned princes of the mystic world".The Great Triple Alliance - The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois); September 6, 1898; pg. 3 Later Fox would tour North America with his own company of magicians and vaudeville acts.Advertisement-The Marion Daily Star (Marion, Ohio); 29 Aug.

This book was translated into English by Gregory H. Maddox and published in 1995 as The Gogo: History, Customs, and Traditions. Mathias E. Mnyampala was working as a Tax Clerk for the Native Treasury in Dodoma during the colonial rule. He was intended to travel the whole Ugogo region in order to collect the tax and establish a census of the populations and their belongings. This is why he entered into contact with the Watemi, the gogo traditional Kings and Rainmakers, who allowed him to write this historical book by giving him the oral sources of his ten years long work.

In the public relations (PR) industry, "the three musketeers" Sheldon Chun (Bosco Wong), Sean Fung Chik-yin (Edwin Siu) and Tim Yau (Louis Cheung) are known for their sharp wit and ability to defuse PR crises. As owners of their PR company, The Rainmakers, they often rub elbows with upper-class people. Sean re-encounters his ex-girlfriend Max Koo Sing-sheung (Priscilla Wong) and reconciles with her. Motivated by greed and ambition to make it to the top, Sheldon befriends Sing-sheung, who is the illegitimate child of real estate mogul Koo Fuk-sang (Pat Poon).

Ruth left the band and was replaced by new bassist Michael Bliss, and one more album, Skin, followed in 1996. The band issued one further track in 1998, a collaboration with Brewer & Shipley in a new version of "One Toke Over the Line", before they broke up again. In 2011, the Rainmakers reformed, with bassist Rich Ruth returning to the group in place of Bliss, while longtime guitarist Steve Phillips was replaced by Jeff Porter. On March 5, the band was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame, with a ceremony and concert at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas.

Charles Columbus "Count" Campau, professional baseball player Charles Columbus "Count" Campau (October 17, 1863 - April 3, 1938) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned the years 1885 to 1905. He played for the Detroit Wolverines, St. Louis Browns, and Washington Senators in July 1894. He was the American Association's home run leader in 1890 and was also the Browns' manager for 41 games that season. Campau was also a manager in minor league baseball for 19 years, including stints with the New Orleans Pelicans, Kansas City Blues, Detroit Tigers/Wolverines, Seattle Yannigans/Rainmakers, Grand Rapids Bob-o- links, Rochester Bronchos, and Binghamton Bingoes.

Since forming in 1998, The Elders have released six studio albums, four live albums, one compilation album and three DVDs. The Elders are fronted by Ian Byrne, a native of Ireland's County Wicklow, the band also consists of guitarist Steve Phillips (formerly of The Rainmakers), bassist Norm Dahlor, violinist and keyboardist Brent Hoad (formerly of The Secrets), drummer Kian Byrne, and fiddler Colin Farrell (Creel and Gráda). They have played festivals, pubs and theaters across the United States, Ireland and other parts of Europe. The band has performed at festivals in Philadelphia, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, and Dublin, Ohio and others.

Charles Columbus "Count" Campau (October 17, 1863 – April 3, 1938) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1888 through 1894 for the Detroit Wolverines, St. Louis Browns, and Washington Senators. He was the American Association's home run leader in 1890 and was also the Browns' manager for 41 games that season. Campau was also a player and sometimes a manager in minor league baseball for 19 years, including stints with the New Orleans Pelicans (1887, 1892–94, 1903), Kansas City Blues (1888, 1896, 1898), Detroit Tigers/Wolverines (1889–90, 1894–95), Seattle Yannigans/Rainmakers (1896), Grand Rapids Bob-o-links (1897), Rochester Bronchos (1899–1900), and Binghamton Bingoes (1901, 1903–05).

The film's original title was Mellodicks, which Marcus found repugnant. He offered $50 to any employee of RKO who could come up with a better title. While he received numerous suggestions, he finally settled on the picture's final title, which had been a generic title around the RKO lot for years. In all, Marcus produced the final six films made by duo between 1934 and 1937, the others being The Rainmakers (1935), Silly Billies (1936), Mummy's Boys (1936), and High Flyers (1937). Marcus would continue in his dual role at the studio for the 1935-36 season, scheduled to produce 36 shorts as well as three feature films. In May 1936, RKO exercised their option on Marcus, extending his contract.

The characters include Jack Jakamarra, an Aboriginal elder who introduces the episodes by recalling some of his first encounters with white people and their ways, and Jupurrula, the "magic mechanic" who seems to appear out of nowhere to help the Bush Mechanics when they're in real trouble. The television series was made after initial half-hour documentary, which garnered international recognition. It consisted of four subsequent episodes, first broadcast by ABC Television (Australia) from 2 October 2001 to December 2001. The episodes were: # Motorcar Ngutju (Good Motorcar) # Payback # The Chase # The Rainmakers The series is notable for being one of the first media to be in an Aboriginal Australian language, as much of the dialogue is in Warlpiri and Kriol.

Robert H. "Bob" Leadley (November 11, 1858 - May 19, 1936) was a professional baseball manager, administrator, and team owner whose career spanned from 1884 to 1897. He was a manager in Major League Baseball for the last portion of the 1888 season with the Detroit Wolverines and for parts of the 1890 and 1891 seasons with the Cleveland Spiders. Over those three seasons, Leadley compiled a record of 76–86 and a winning percentage of .469. Leadley was also one of the organizers of the New Pacific League, one of the first baseball leagues on the west coast, and co-owner with Bob Glenalvin of the short-lived Seattle Yannigans/Rainmakers in 1896 and the Grand Rapids Bob-o-links in 1897.

Either in the First World or in the Third World nations, a huge number of women are making a difference in a lot of fields with the goal to contribute to character and nation-building. In the field of developing women's capacities to run and manage their small-medium enterprises (SMEs), Gail Romero, the founder and CEO for Collective Changes, has been providing effective technology platforms to business mentors for women's SMEs in developing nations. > Gail continues to drive support for empowering women in business and global > recognition of the economic engine that women can provide to their nations. > Gail is also Senior Advisor for MacKenzie-Romero Consulting, Executive > Producer for Rainmakers TV and carried the title of Ambassador for Global > Health for the American Cancer Society until August 2011.

A variety of music genres can be heard or have originated there, including musicians Janelle Monáe, Puddle of Mudd, Isaac James, The Get Up Kids, Shiner, Flee The Seen, The Life and Times, Reggie and the Full Effect, Coalesce, The Casket Lottery, The Gadjits, The Rainmakers, Vedera, The Elders, Blackpool Lights, The Republic Tigers, Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Skatterman & Snug Brim, Mac Lethal, Ces Cru, and Solè. As of 2003, the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, a big band jazz orchestra, performs in the metropolitan area. In 2018, UNESCO named Kansas City as a "City of Music", making it the only city in the United States with that distinction. The city's funding of $7 million for improvements to the 18th and Vine Jazz District in 2016, coupled with the city's rich musical heritage, contributed to the designation.

Chris began performing and managing the band Stainless Steel from 1986 to 1991, and continued performing steel drums as a soloist and various other band formats to present. Stainless Steel was a regional success at the time, billed as "the Midwest's Only Steel Drum Band", touring the states of Minnesota, Kentucky, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, and Kansas. Stainless Steel opened concerts and shared stages with such notable acts as Carlos Santana, Andy Narell, Stanley Jordan, Sinbad, Tower of Power, Bonnie Raitt, Head East, Jeff Healey, The Rainmakers, and Steel Pulse; appearing at the annual South by Southwest, aka "SXSW", Music and Media Festival held in Austin Texas, in 1990 and 1991. Under Arpad's management, Stainless Steel was also a Central region showcase member of the National Association for Campus Activities, NACA, attending showcases and performing for college campuses throughout the region.

In 2014, filming began on Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal, an arthouse short film shot in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal only months before the Ghorka earthquakes. A film project started with Shukri Toefy under the Rainmakers Journal thought leadership platform, Unwritten is a powerful cinematic account of Toefy's journey across the Kathmandu Valley as told by the pages of his journal. Along his journey he meets with artisans, musicians, spiritualists, scholars, and survivors of a bygone era where the knowledge handed down from generation to generation was seen as a rite of passage, in search of lessons he can apply to his own life. Unwritten has received critical acclaim in the international film category with Official Selection at Roma Cinema Doc, Largo Film Awards and the 10th Annual Bali International Film Festival, and has won at the 2016 Amsterdam Film Festival and Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards.

He was diagnosed with West Nile fever (only the second confirmed case of West Nile in Kansas in 2015). After several weeks of treatment for West Nile, Van began to move past the initial virus stage but the virus had weakened him to such a point that he had been hospitalized for over 8 months while dealing with a variety of respiratory and pulmonary issues that resulted from his condition. On September 24, 2017, a special Shooting Star Relief Fund concert was held in Kansas City to assist McLain with his continuing recovery from West Nile fever. The concert featured members of the KC music scene including The Elders, 2nd House, members of The Rainmakers, and a Shooting Star Past & Present performance with Steve Thomas, Dennis Laffoon, and Todd Pettygrove performing with guests Gary West, Ron Verlin, Norm Dahlor, Janet Jameson and Chet Galloway, hand picked and standing in for Van, on guitar.

In 2014, filming began on Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal, an arthouse short film shot in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal only months before the Ghorka earthquakes. A film project started with Fort co-founder Amr Singh, under the Rainmakers Journal thought leadership platform, is a powerful cinematic account of Toefy's journey across the Kathmandu Valley as told by the pages of his journal. Along his journey he meets with artisans, musicians, spiritualists, scholars, and survivors of a bygone era where the knowledge handed down from generation to generation was seen as a rite of passage, in search of lessons he can apply to his own life.IMDb: Unwritten Plot Summary The short has since caught the attention of various international film festivals, including the Amsterdam Film Festival, where it won the Van Gogh award for best World Cinema: Documentary Feature,Amsterdam Film Festival: 2016 Winners the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards (HIIDA) where it won Best Cultural Short,HIIDA Film Festival: July 2016 Winners as well as official selections at Rome Film Festival, Balinale and Largo Film Festival.

Leo Sulky (6 December 1874 – 3 June 1957) was an American actor. He usually appeared in films directed by Del Lord such as Black Oxfords (1924), Yukon Jake (1924), Wall Street Blues (1924), Lizzies of the Field (1924), Galloping Bungalows (1924), From Rags to Britches (1925), and A Sea Dog's Tale (1926); by Harry Edwards such as The Lion and the Souse (1924), The Luck o' the Foolish (1924). The Hansom Cabman (1924), All Night Long (1924), There He Goes (1925), The Sea Squawk (1925), Boobs in the Wood (1925), and Plain Clothes (1925); and by Ralph Ceder such as Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924), and Wandering Waistlines (1924). He also appeared in The First 100 Years (1924) by Harry Sweet, The Window Dummy (1925) by Lloyd Bacon, Hotsy Totsy (1925) by Alf Goulding, Alice Be Good (1926) by Eddie Cline, Picking Peaches (1924) by Erle C. Kenton, Romeo and Juliet (1924), She Couldn't Say No (1954), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), The Rainmakers (1935), The Jolly Jilter (1927) starring Lois Boyd and Bud Ross, The Wild Goose Chaser (1925) and A Raspberry Romance (1925).