History
In 1993 Master's student Ben Rainbow founded an Ultimate Frisbee team based at Manchester Metropolitan University. The team became known as Fingers 6 Steps Ahead of Our Minds, or Fingers 6 for short, the name originating from the title of a song by the never-popular free-noise group Trumans Water. Rejected names included 'Bullet Baxter', 'Flaky Pastry', 'Turnip Farm' and 'Finn Family Moomintroll'.
Fingers 6 rapidly became a successful team, finishing 7th in the UK's Indoor Nationals competition in its second year of competition, thanks to the enthusiasm and commitment of the players, and the coaching of two greats of UK Ultimate, Doug Milne and Harry Golby.
By 1995, most of the students who had formed the majority of the first Fingers 6 cohort had graduated. At the team's Annual General Meeting that year, the decision was taken that Fingers 6 should remain as the ongoing University team; and a new open team was formed, Chevron Action Flash. Named after a song by the never-popular indie pop outfit Comet Gain. Tragically, Ben Rainbow died in 1997 from a rare Liver cancer, to this day Chevron Action Flash have a rainbow in their logo to remember him by.
Present
Manchester Metropolitan Students Union (MMUnion) Ultimate Frisbee Club is still called Fingers 6, having been established well over 10 years now. They own a host of Trophies from various competitive events over the years; and have began the Ultimate careers of some high-level UK players. They continue to recruit beginners from the student body, giving most their first glimpse of an unknown sport.
In 2003, a female sect of the student team was created by Louise Charlotte Cable aka 'Moowi', and that team was called Floorplay. Floorplay went to win ladies indoor student nationals in 2005, and the team still plays today.
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Political Endorsement Record
First openly gay person to receive the Tennessean's endorsements for a political office
First openly gay person to receive the SEIU's endorsement for a political office in the State of Tennessee
Received a vocal and written endorsement from Representative Ben West Jr.
First candidate to receive the endorsement of Tennessee Equality Project
Second openly gay candidate to receive the endorsement of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
First openly gay candidate to receive the endorsement of Democracy for Tennessee
First openly gay candidate to receive the endorsement of Nashville Neighborhood Defense Fund
Early Life
Shane E. Burkett was born August 5, 1974 in Charleston, SC to Roy and Patricia Sue Burkett. After his father's tour of duty with the US Navy, the family settled in Southport, FL, a suburb of Panama City, FL. Shane grew up Holiness Penticostal. Shane is a pianist and vocalist. By the time he was 16 years old he had recorded two albums, one Southern Gospel and one Country album.
College Life
Shane attended University of Georgia in Athens GA and holds a BA in Business Administration with an emphasis on Business Law.
Career
Currently, Shane is the Vice President of Strategic Marketing for SBResults, LLC. A marketing firm based in Hermitage, TN.
Community Involvement
Shane is involved in many civic, community and business related organizations
Executive Vice President of the Nashville GLBT Chamber of Commerce
Communications Director for the Old Hickory Area Chamber of Commerce
Membership
- Donelson Hermitage Neighborhood Association
- Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
- Nashville Neighborhood Defense Fund
- Tennessee Equality Project
She is also the winner of the Best of Breed award at the Westminster Kennel Club, 2007 at Madison Square Garden. See:
http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/2007/results/breed/whippet.html
Moxi has won the American Whippet Club's National Championship twice, first in 2004, over myriad champions from the "classes," and again in 2006. Source American Whippet Club:
http://www.americanwhippetclub.net/nationals/2006national/2006whippetnational.html
One of the fastest breeds in dogdom, whippets can run up to 35 miles per hour, the fastest breed if cutting not on a straight course (source Westminster KC 2007 broadcast Hound Group, USA Network, David Frei, commentator).
Moxi exhibited this talent when chasing down a thief who had run off with her owner's wallet at an L.A. dog park. Moxi was featured on Ellen DeGeneres' show on NBC-TV Feb 6, 2007 with Westminster commentator David Frei. See: http://nysahill.net/news.html
She was also featured winning in the Hound Group on the the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship on Discovery and Animal Planet on Dec 2, 2006. Moxi won Best of Breed as well as Hound Group Third on the televised broadcast. Source:
http://www.akc.org/nationalchampionship/index.cfm?text_event_number=2006277104§ion=group_winners
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