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The Cincinnati Reds remain in talks with free agent outfielder Ryan Ludwick, according to John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The 34-year-old Ludwick turned down a $5 million mutual option at the end of the season and is seeking a multi-year deal.
"We've been in contact (with the Reds)," his agent Dan Horwits said. "There's interest on both sides. Hopefully, we can get something done. We're talking to other clubs. He has offers from other clubs."
Ludwick had a resurgent season with the Reds in 2012, hitting an impressive .275/.346/.531 with 26 home runs. He struggled the previous two seasons with the San Diego Padres and Pittsburgh Pirates and signed a free agent deal with the Reds worth $2.5 million for 2012. He hit especially well in the absence of Joey Votto, who sat for two months with a knee injury. The Reds seem reluctant though to offer more than a two-year deal to the aging slugger, so he may be persuaded to sign elsewhere.
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If you thought Mayor Bloomberg's failed assault on certain large sodas sold in certain kinds of stores was arbitrary and capricious, get ready for a similarly bizarre attempt to punish large retailers.
The latest foolish attack on Walmart is happening, fittingly, in a committee hearing in Washington, D.C., a town that is reminding us all how it is even more obtuse on the local level than on the national. The salvo is called the Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA), but just think of it as yet another effort from the DGDP: the Department of Good Deeds Punishment.
For its sin of providing millions of working class Americans with good service, broad selection and low prices, Walmart might as well have painted a (Target-style) bullseye on itself among progressives. Walmart is at last preparing to enter the nation's capital, with plans well underway for six stores in the District, two of them set to open this year.
Away from the tourist trail, the District still contains some blighted neighborhoods where crime and disorder discourage business and leave residents starved for corporate attention. Walmart has eagerly been reviving desolate corners of the city.
In order to punish this good deed, though, the rebarbative chairman of the D.C. City Council, Phil Mendelson, has been pushing an extraordinary new law that would apply only to large national retailers, with more than $1 billion in sales, who open D.C. stores of greater than 75,000 square feet. Such firms would be required to pay a "living wage" of at least $11.75 an hour to all employees — a 62 percent premium over the federal minimum wage. D.C. already has its own super-minimum wage of $8.25 an hour (set by law at $1 above the federal minimum). So the LRAA is a super-duper minimum wage proposed mainly to punish a single company, which is why wags in the press are calling it the Walmart Living Wage Bill.
You may well ask why Walmart allowed the matter to get this far: When it comes to breaking into northern urban markets, can't one of America's largest and greatest companies steamroll a few local-yokel pols? Can't it grease the right palms? The question is a sad one that presupposes that an honest business must roll up its sleeves and master the kind of dark arts we associate with corruption-riddled Russia or China.
And the answer is: Walmart is way ahead of you. In its D.C. push, which has been underway since at least 2002, Walmart has thoughtfully gone around making the kinds of "donations" to politically-connected figures that wedding guests gave the Corleone family. It put on its payroll the treasurer and campaign manager of a key city council member, Yvette Alexander. It invited neighborhood activists to a focus group that paid $100 and dinner. It spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on local charities like the Greater Washington Urban League and D.C. Hunger Solutions. It arranged a healthy-foods photo-op with Michelle Obama. And it spent in the "eight-figure range" (in the estimate of one journalist) to sponsor a traveling exhibition on the African-American experience that was led by NPR host Tavis Smiley, who proceeded to praise Walmart at the swanky opening-night party amid many influential black leaders. Walmart brass also attended the party, where they availed themselves of the opportunity to announce a gift of 19,000 free tickets to the exhibition to D.C.'s schoolchildren.
You'd think a business that not only plays by the rules (without asking for tax and zoning breaks) but is a beloved icon for the working class and goes to considerable lengths to be a good corporate citizen would be welcomed at least as warmly as, say, a heavily-subsidized sports stadium catering mainly to suburbanites and the well-off. But nevertheless, Mendelson and 11 other members of the City Council arranged for the D.C. City Council's Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs to meet on March 20 to discuss, banana-republic-style, socking Walmart with the super-duper minimum wage that would inevitably benefit a few at the expense of higher prices for the many.
Committee Chairman Vincent Orange feigned surprise that Walmart didn't show up to be showered with invective from a restive crowd stocked with labor shills (unionized businesses would be exempt from the law) and other activists: "It's to Walmart's detriment for them not to be here, to put on the record themselves and make their case," he said, forebodingly.
Despite the immense publicity value of phony outrage, and despite D.C.'s place (no. 51 out of 51) on the Chamber of Commerce's list of the most business-friendly states, Walmart is still favored to prevail in the latest fight: Similar bills were defeated three times since 2005.
And even in statist D.C., there is recognition that an efficient free market, unlike the city's sclerotic bureaucracies, is a near-miraculous method for lifting people up. "We've been praying for food in this neighborhood for about 40 years," church board member Yvonne Williams told Washington City Paper when Walmart announced its plans to establish an outpost on a parcel of land at New Jersey Avenue and H Street NW that has been vacant since 1990. "God has brought what was supposed to be here—a first-class, progressive thing."
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Not at tax payers expense but how much of their money do you want them to give you because you earned it or are entitled to it or just want it. Why don't you go steal some from the guy who has more than you because you want it and he has it.
i work for walmart and make a 100,000.oo a year… you consider that a low wage. and know i am not in the corporate structure. out in the trenches..
Well please share with us what your position is. How many hours a week do you work? What is your hourly wage?
Not only that, they have all their business in China and they are exempt of taxes.
Whose fault is it that "Wal-Mart employees need food stamps and Medicare just to survive". First off, Medicare is for the elderly and disabled. They EARN Medicare. And if someone is earning minimum wage and they still don't have enough to feed their family – seems to me that they made a major mistake in life with poor choices and are going to have to fix that. It is NOT up to the job to give these people enough to survive. It is up to oneself to earn enough to meet their own needs. If that means 2 jobs and college at night to improve themselves; that is THEIR responsibility. My goodness, what is wrong with everyone blaming others for the faults of the individuals. It's time to be responsible for your own choices and needs. It's time for Americans to stop whining with their hands out and start earning their own way.
"We may get low prices at the checkout counter, but then we have to pay higher taxes to pay for these programs." That may be so, but, that is only because these THUGS in Government point a gun to our heads, and force us to pay into these things.
Ok so this idiot wants to issue a bill to make Wal Mart pay more in wages is it not enough that they produce JOBS more then congress has.
Now if they pass this bill Wal Mart would close some stores and raise prices to pay for the employee wages so in the end it is us little guys getting it stuck to us.
Law makers dont care as they have credit cards for gas and other stuff while the little guy gets the shaft as always
Sure make em close some stores, I mean it's not like The Walton family isn't raking in BILLIONS, while taxpayers provide foodstamps, healthcare and housing assistance for Walmart employees.
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Management activities such as fire suppression, overgrazing, and selective logging since Euro-American settlement of the Inland West have resulted in forest ecosystems that are in a poor ecological condition. Current proposals to restore these forest ecosystems to their presettlement conditions suffer from the lack of a comprehensive assessment of the historical range of variability in ecosystem structures and functions of these forests. As a Resident Fellow at NCEAS on sabbatical leave from Northern Arizona University, I propose to conduct a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the current state of knowledge regarding the historical range of variability of forest ecosystems of the Inland West. This analysis will include published manuscripts in professional journals, public documents from land management agencies, and unpublished data contained in graduate student theses or archived in researchers' databases. Other quantitative data such as those from early land survey records or qualitative data such as repeat photography will also be collected and analyzed. Process-based ecological simulation models will be used to assess changes in ecological attributes since Euro-American settlement, and to predict alterations in these attributes following restoration treatments (such as thinning and prescribed burning). Existing experimental data will be used to help verify simulation predictions. This comprehensive synthesis will aid land managers in predicting the potential impact of restoration efforts on ecosystem health in different forest-types, and evaluate the transportability of restoration practices across forests of the Inland West.
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|Hart, Stephen C. 1998. Progress Report on the Analysis and Synthesis of the Historical Range of Variability in Ecosystem Structure and Function of Inland West Forests - Implications for Ecological Restoration. (Abstract) (Online version)
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|Hart, Stephen C.; Sollins, Phil. 1998. Soil carbon and nitrogen pools and processes in an old-growth conifer forest 13 years after trenching. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne de Recherche Forestier. Vol: 28. Pages 1261-1265.
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Time-Zone Processing with Asterisk, Part II
Last month, I wrote about a system for handling telephone calls with Asterisk that automatically handled the call depending on the time of day at a remote location. Use of the system, however, depended on the user performing the critical task of setting up the remote location's time with a telephone call. Rather than rely on the user to initiate the telephone call manually, it would be easier if the call occurred automatically.
If the setup call occurs automatically, the user won't forget to do it. The initial SIP registration may occur at a very strange hour in the home location, but the SIP registration occurs because a user has plugged something in. Therefore, we know the user is awake and can take a short call. Asterisk provides a management interface that reports when SIP registrations occur and can be used to take action based on it. With a bit of additional processing, a script talking to the manager can initiate calls only when the SIP registration is "new".
The Asterisk Manager reports events processed by Asterisk and accepts commands over the interface. The form of the interface is a text-based protocol that separates event reports and commands into clusters of lines with a key: value format. For example, the registration of extension 300 using the SIP protocol looks like this:
Event: PeerStatus PeerStatus: Registered Peer: SIP/300
Before gaining access to the Asterisk manager, clients must authenticate against the list of administrative users stored in /etc/asterisk/manager.conf. Once logged in, a client can issue commands or query the value of variables with a set of lines that starts with a first line of Action:, followed by a command. Responses to commands typically start with Response: Success.
Because the protocol is text-based, it can be scripted in a language like Expect. A component is also available for the Perl Object Environment (POE), a framework that builds event-driven programs in Perl. The freely available component provides the base-level response parsing that would need to be written in Expect, so it is a much more extensible foundation for programs controlling the Asterisk manager.
The main code for the program is simple. POE sets up a system where state handlers are called in response to program states. A state can be defined by the programmer or by an external event. The typical flow through the program is to notice a SIP registration, check to see whether it has an active time-zone registration and if not, to initiate a configuration call.
To execute code in response to an event, the POE framework uses a hash called CallBacks. Every entry in CallBacks defines a state based on the event received from the manager. When an event matches a callback, the handler defined for the state is triggered. To set up a trigger with the CallBacks clause, identify every line in the event and set up a hash so that the left-hand side of each line of the event is the key value for a line of the hash. As an example, consider the callback definition for the SIP registration event earlier:
Event: PeerStatus register => { 'Event' => 'PeerStatus', PeerStatus: Registered 'PeerStatus' => 'Registered', } Peer: SIP/300
To link the callback to a handler, the inline_states hash has a list of states and references to the corresponding code to call. Although it is possible to inline event-handler code, for readability I have separated the code out into external procedures. Code called in response to a CallBack cannot be passed arguments:
123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*12 inline_states => { register => \®ister_state_handler, },
Based on the flow of the program, three events are of interest. First, SIP registration events are used to start the entire process. SIP registrations typically occur hourly, so it is important to initiate the call only when a registration is the "first" registration. To prevent duplicate telephone calls from being initiated, the program will request data from both the Asterisk internal database AstDB as well as the SIP peer information. The second and third events will handle responses to commands and database queries, respectively. A fourth event will handle initiating the telephone call after receiving data back from the queries. The code I am currently using also has a state defined for unregister events, though it is a stub for an event that I am not currently using.
The core of the program is only 35 lines, most of which defines the program event states and shows what code will be used in response to those states. Note that the state of call is defined by the program and not by a callback, so the call state can be entered only by the program itself and not in response to an event from the manager. (A full listing of the program is available on the Linux Journal FTP site; see Resources.)
POE::Component::Client::Asterisk::Manager->new( Alias => 'monitor', RemoteHost => 'localhost', RemotePort => 5038, Username => 'autotzcaller', Password => 'secretpassword', CallBacks => { input => ':all', response => { 'Response' => 'Success', }, dbresponse => { 'Event' => 'DBGetResponse', }, register => { 'Event' => 'PeerStatus', 'PeerStatus' => 'Registered', }, unregister => { 'Event' => 'PeerStatus', 'PeerStatus' => 'Unregistered', }, }, inline_states => { input => \&input_state_handler, response => \&response_state_handler, dbresponse => \&db_response_state_handler, register => \®ister_state_handler, call => \&call_state_handler, unregister => \&unregister_state_handler, }, ); POE::Kernel->run(); exit(0);
Two of the state handlers are only stubs. The input state handler prints out whatever it gets if a debug flag is set, and it is there for development purposes. It catches any unrecognized events that come from the manager, and it can be useful when testing that callbacks are catching the important events. The unregister state handler currently doesn't do anything, but it is there as a hook to expand if I choose in the future to take any action based on that.
With the core of the program in place, let's look at each of the states in the order they will be called through a typical program execution flow.
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|Digital: 36 (UHF)
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|5.1 Fox
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|Fox (O&O)
|Fox Television Stations
(Fox Television Stations, Inc.)
|May 19, 1945
(as experimental station W3XWT)
|First air date
|January 3, 1947
|Call letters' meaning
|Thomas Toliver Goldsmith
(chief engineer of founding company DuMont)
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Independent (1956–1986)
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WTTG, channel 5, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station located in the American capital city of Washington, D.C.. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, and is part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WDCA (channel 20). The station's studios/office facilities and its transmitter are co-located in the Friendship Heights neighborhood on the northwest side of Washington.[1]
The station's signal is rebroadcast on a low-powered translator station, W46BR-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia.[2] (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.).
Early years[edit]
The station traces its history to May 19, 1945, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded W3XWT, the second experimental station in the nation's capital (after NBC's W3XNB, forerunner to WRC-TV). Later in 1945, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental coaxial cable hookups between W3XWT and its other television station, WABD (channel 5, later WNEW-TV and now WNYW) in New York City. These hookups were the beginning of the DuMont Television Network, the world's first licensed commercial television network. DuMont began regular network service in 1946. Almost a year later on January 3, 1947, W3XWT received a commercial license – the first in the nation's capital – as WTTG. The station was named for Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., the DuMont network's chief engineer and a close friend of Dr. DuMont.
Like its New York City sister station, WTTG was far more successful than the network as a whole. In 1956, after DuMont shut down network operations, WTTG and WABD became independent stations and were spun off from DuMont Laboratories as the DuMont Broadcasting Corporation. It later changed its name to Metropolitan Broadcasting in order to distance itself from its former parent company.
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In 1958, Washington investor John Kluge bought controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting from Paramount Pictures and installed himself as its chairman. He changed the company's name to Metromedia in 1961. Goldsmith sat on Metromedia's board for over a quarter-century. Channel 5 gained a sister station on radio when Metromedia purchased WASH (97.1 FM) in 1968. At first, WTTG ran on a low budget. However, in the late 1960s, it benefited from Metromedia's aggressiveness in acquiring top syndicated programming, giving it a significant leg up on WDCA, which signed on in 1966.
By the 1970s, WTTG was one of the leading independent stations in the country, running a broad lineup of cartoons, off-network sitcoms, first-run syndicated shows, older movies, local newscasts and locally produced programs. During this time period, and well into the early 1990s, WTTG was the flagship station for the Georgetown University men's basketball team. Its main claim to fame was Panorama, an afternoon talk show hosted by John Willis, and later Maury Povich.
When cable television began in the 1970s, WTTG became a regional superstation. At one point, it appeared on every cable provider in Maryland and Virginia, as well as most of Delaware and in parts of North Carolina, South Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Transition to Fox[edit]
Metromedia owned the station until 1986 when Rupert Murdoch, after buying 20th Century Fox, purchased the Metromedia television stations to form the nucleus of the Fox network. WTTG became one of Fox's six original owned-and-operated stations when the network launched on October 9, 1986, all the while retaining consistently high ratings, a rarity for a Fox station at the time (being the only independent station on the VHF dial in D.C. also played a part in its ratings and leading ahead of WDCA (channel 20) and WQSR (channel 50, now WDCW) before taking on the new network).[citation needed] Initially, its programming was similar to what it had run as a true independent station, since Fox only programmed for a few hours on weekends.
As channel 5 transitioned to an O&O and more independent stations signed on, it lost much of its cable audience. Though not distributed as widely as it once was, it is still available on several cable providers in Maryland and Virginia. For instance, it is still carried on cable in Charlottesville, Virginia, even though the city has had its own Fox affiliate, WAHU-CD, since 2005; both stations are carried on basic cable in the Charlottesville area. It also served as the default Fox affiliate for Salisbury, Maryland until the debut of new default Fox affiliate, "Fox21 Delmarva", a subchannel of WBOC-TV, on August 21, 2006.
During the 1990s, the station added more syndicated talk shows and reality shows. It continued to air afternoon cartoons from Fox Kids until the fall of 2001, when the block moved to WDCA (only to be reduced to just Saturdays nationwide in 2002); WTTG brought back Fox children's programming later on in 2003, under the banner 4Kids TV. On October 29, 2001, Fox bought WDCA from Viacom's Paramount Stations Group, creating a duopoly with WTTG. The station continued to run top rated off-network sitcoms in the evenings.
WTTG has been the primary station for the Washington Redskins since 1994, when Fox obtained the rights to air NFL games in which a team from the National Football Conference (the NFL division that the Redskins are in) played a road game. All Redskins home games since 1965 have sold out (though the Redskins have had to deal with numerous no-shows), allowing them to be televised on WTTG (along with the Redskins' entire slate of road games) provided they are against an NFC team and are not being played at night, under such instances the game may be aired on WRC-TV for Sunday Night Football, ESPN (WDCA locally) for Monday Night Football or WUSA when a team from the American Football Conference is the visiting team, or in one case in the 2014 season, a Thursday Night Football game as part of CBS/NFL Network's TNF deal. This relationship is limited to regular season and postseason games, since WRC airs preseason games. Prior to 1994, WTTG aired the Redskins preseason games and training camp scrimmages during the majority of the 1980s into the early 1990s.
Digital television[edit]
Digital channel[edit]
|PSIP Short Name
|Main WTTG programming / Fox
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Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]
On June 12, 2009, WTTG terminated its analog signal, on VHF channel 5, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[5] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WTTG's virtual channel as 5.
In 2004, the inner operations of WTTG during the station's first years under News Corporation's ownership were scrutinized in Robert Greenwald's documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. The documentary, through a panel of former WTTG journalists and staffers, claimed that following News Corporation's acquisition, WTTG's news reporting became biased and sensationalist, much in the style of the Fox News Channel, which News Corporation also owns and which the film primarily criticizes. Former WTTG employees claimed that:
- they were told "from the top" to air a tribute to Ronald Reagan, as seen at the 1988 Republican National Convention, uncut;
- they were told to run a piece from A Current Affair that "rehashed the whole matter of [Senator Ted Kennedy's deadly car accident at] Chappaquiddick" which had "zero news value"; and
- an obsessive attitude over airing stories related to wedge issues such as race relations and AIDS.
News operation[edit]
WTTG presently broadcasts 45 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with eight hours on weekdays, two hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the Washington, D.C. market. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, WTTG's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to preemption or delay due to sports coverage.
WTTG has carried local news programming since shortly after the station launched; for many years, the only news program on the station was a nightly primetime broadcast at 10 p.m. Then on June 25, 1990, channel 5 became the second Fox-owned station and the fourth or fifth Fox affiliate with a weekday morning news program, with the debut of the two-hour Fox (5) Morning News, which replaced a block of cartoons that previously aired during the program's timeslot. In the late 1990s, a noon newscast was added to the schedule. In 2002, early evening newscasts were brought to the station with the launch of an hour-long newscast at 5 p.m. on weekdays; a half-hour newscast at 6 p.m. on weekends followed soon after. WTTG then launched a half-hour 11 p.m. newscast called NewsEdge (previously titled The Edge until October 2006) on July 31, 2006. Concurrent with the launch of the 11 p.m. broadcast, the station expanded its 6 p.m. broadcast to weekdays. NewsEdge also later expanded to a seven-day-a-week schedule, with the weekend editions of the newscast running for 15 minutes, with the remainder of the timeslot being padded out by the sports highlight program Sports Extra.
On September 4, 2006, WTTG began simulcasting its weekday morning and nightly 10 p.m. newscasts on then-Baltimore sister station WUTB (now owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group partner company Deerfield Media), under the banner of My 24 News. Management at both stations cited the decision to simulcast as a by-product of cross-regional news interests and increasing overlap between the Baltimore and Washington media markets.[6] In October 2006, while WTTG aired Fox Sports' coverage of the 2006 Major League Baseball postseason, the first half-hour of the 10 p.m. newscast was broadcast by sister station WDCA under the title Fox 5 News at Ten: Special Edition; this also occurred in 2007, with the WDCA broadcast of the program being titled My 20 News at 10.
On July 2, 2007, WTTG discontinued its noon newscast and replaced it with an hour-long newscast at 11 a.m., titled Fox 5 News Midday. On September 10, 2007, the station reformatted its 6 p.m. newscast into an early evening edition of NewsEdge; the addition of NewsEdge at 6 p.m. was due in part to the success of its current 11 p.m. counterpart. On January 14, 2009, WTTG and WRC-TV entered into a Local News Service agreement in which the two stations pool video and share news helicopter footage.[7]
On January 30, 2009, starting with its 6 p.m. newscast, WTTG became the third television station in the Washington, D.C. market (behind CBS affiliate WUSA and ABC affiliate WJLA-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On September 14, 2009, WTTG expanded its weekday morning newscast to five hours by adding an additional hour at 9 a.m.; in turn, its hour-long 11 a.m. midday newscast was discontinued. In early 2010, WTTG became the second station in the market (behind WUSA) to expand its weekday morning newscast to 4:30 a.m.
In late August 2013, WTTG's newscasts switched to a 16:9 letterbox presentation, becoming the second station in the Washington, DC market (behind WUSA) to do so.
Beginning June 16, 2014, their weekday morning newscasts will be adding another hour at 10 a.m., soon going from 4:30 to 11 a.m. Also, their Sunday morning news will go from 7 to 9 a.m. and will be adding a Saturday morning newscast also from 7 to 9 a.m. [8]
On-air staff[edit]
Current on-air staff[9][edit]
- Matt Ackland - weekends at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.; also reporter
- Melanie Alnwick - weekend mornings from 7-9 a.m.; also special projects reporter
- Steve Chenevey - weekday mornings on Fox 5 Morning News from 7-11 a.m.
- Lauren DeMarco - Saturday nights at 6, 10, and 11 p.m.
- Laura Evans - weeknights at 5 p.m.
- Tony Perkins - weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.
- Wisdom Martin - weekday mornings on Fox 5 Morning News from 4:30-7 a.m.
- Allison Seymour - weekday mornings on Fox 5 Morning News from 7-11 a.m.
- Sarah Simmons - weekday mornings on Fox 5 Morning News from 4:30-7 a.m.
- Will Thomas - weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
- Maureen Umeh - Sunday nights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
- Shawn Yancy - weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
- Annie Yu - Sunday mornings from 8-9 a.m.; also "Style File" reporter
- Fox 5 AccuWeather team
- Tucker Barnes - meteorologist; weekday mornings on Fox 5 Morning News from 4:30-11 a.m.
- Gary McGrady (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weeknights at 5 p.m.
- Sue Palka (NWA Seal of Approval) chief meteorologist; weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
- Gwen Tolbart - meteorologist; Sunday mornings from 8-9 a.m. and weekends at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
- Drew Tuma – meteorologist
- Sports team
- Lindsay Murphy - sports anchor; weekends at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.; also sports reporter
- Scott Smith - sports director; weeknights at 5, 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
- Reporters
- Kellee Azar – general assignment reporter
- Bob Barnard - general assignment reporter
- Tom Fitzgerald - general assignment reporter
- John Henrehan - general assignment reporter
- Karen Gray Houston - general assignment reporter
- Sherri Ly - general assignment reporter
- Holly Morris - weekday morning feature reporter
- Beth Parker - general assignment reporter
- Paul Wagner - general assignment reporter
- Julie Wright - weekday morning traffic reporter
Notable former on-air staff[edit]
- Brian Bolter - weekday evening anchor (1999-2013)
- Steve Buckhantz - sports anchor (1987–2001; now with Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic)
- Connie Chung - reporter (1970–1971)
- Jack Conaty - reporter (1986–1987)
- Michael Gargiulo - morning anchor (2000-2006; now at WNBC/New York City)
- Brett Haber - sports anchor/reporter (1997–2000; later with WUSA-TV)
- Hillary Howard (Statter) - meteorologist (1990s–2000; now at WTOP-FM)
- Gus Johnson - weekend sports anchor/reporter (1991–1992; now with Fox Sports)
- Morris Jones - anchor/reporter (1983–2001; now at News Channel 8)
- Pat Mitchell - anchor/Panorama host (1977–1979)
- Maury Povich - anchor/reporter/Panorama host (1967–1976 and 1983–1986; now hosting the syndicated talk show Maury)
- Amy Robach - anchor/reporter (1998–2003; now with ABC News)
- Al Roker - weather anchor (1976–1978; now with NBC News' Today)
- Bob Schieffer - reporter (1969–1977; now chief Washington, D.C. correspondent for CBS News and host of Face the Nation)
- Bob Sellers - weekday morning anchor (2006–2008; now with WZTV/Nashville)
- Brian Williams - anchor/reporter/Panorama host (1985–1986; now anchor/managing editor for NBC Nightly News)
- Brian Wilson - anchor/reporter (1996–2000)
- ^ "Digital Signal Sources". The Washington Post. 2008-05-20.
- ^ "RabbitEars.Info". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WTTG
- ^ Movies!: Where to Watch
- ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations
- ^ Farhi, Paul (August 11, 2006). "WTTG to Span Two Beltways With Washimore Newscast". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Fox And NBC To Share In DC". Retrieved 2009-01-14.
- ^ WTTG Expands in the Morning, Adds Saturday Show
- ^ Fox 5 People
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WTTG
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W46BR-D
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WTTG-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on W46BR-TV
- WTTG Fox 5 at the Wayback Machine (archived January 15, 2006)
- WTTG Fox 5 at the Wayback Machine (archived April 7, 2000)
- Fox network affiliates
- Television stations in Washington, D.C.
- Television stations in Maryland
- Television stations in Virginia
- Fox Television Stations
- Metromedia
- Channel 36 digital TV stations in the United States
- Channel 5 virtual TV stations in the United States
- Television channels and stations established in 1947
- DuMont Television Network owned-and-operated stations
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Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 116 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : June 2013
Author(s) : Li Wenbo
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Application Development, Open Source, Web Development
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Opa
Chapter 2: Basic Syntax
Chapter 3: Developing Web Applications
Chapter 4: Using Bootstrap
Chapter 5: Communicating between Client and Server
Chapter 6: Binding with Other Languages
Chapter 7: Working with Databases
Chapter 8: Internationalization
Chapter 9: Building a Chat Application
Chapter 10: Building a Game – Pacman
Chapter 11: Developing a Social Mobile Application – LiveRoom
- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Opa
- Installing Opa
- Installing Node.js
- Installing the required modules
- Installing the Opa compiler
- Testing the installation
- Setting up editors
- Sublime Text
- Vim
- Emacs
- Your first Opa application
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Basic Syntax
- Basic datatypes
- Integers
- Floats
- Strings
- Sum
- Functions
- Last expression return
- Modules
- Data structures
- Records
- Tuples
- Lists
- Iterating through a list
- Finding elements
- Transforming lists
- Sorting a list
- Maps
- Pattern matching
- Text parsers
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Developing Web Applications
- Starting a web server
- A simple example
- The server module
- Dispatching requests
- The resource handler
- The dispatch handler
- The register handler
- The customize handler
- The handlers group
- Preparing pages
- Creating a page
- Adding styles
- Handling events
- Manipulating DOMs
- DOM selection
- Reading values
- Updating content
- Binding an event handler
- Animations
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Using Bootstrap
- Importing Bootstrap
- Using classes
- Using icons
- Bootstrap icons
- Font Awesome icons
- Using widgets
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Communicating between Client and Server
- Client and server slicing
- A simple example
- Slicing annotations
- Module slicing
- Expression slicing
- Client and server communication
- Session
- Cell
- Network
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Binding with Other Languages
- Binding JavaScript
- The first example
- Using external types
- Binding Node.js
- Binding external functions using the classic syntax
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Working with Databases
- A quick start to MongoDB
- Database manipulation
- Records
- Lists
- Sets and maps
- Querying data
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Internationalization
- Internal approach
- External approach
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Building a Chat Application
- Creating a project
- Launching the web server
- Designing user interface
- Building application logic
- Broadcasting and receiving messages
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Building a Game – Pacman
- The project structure
- The HTML5 Canvas
- Drawing a shape
- Using the fill and stroke properties
- Drawing a curve
- Drawing an image
- Drawing the text
- Binding the external JavaScript library
- Preloading the resources
- Playing sounds
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Developing a Social Mobile Application – LiveRoom
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- Signing in and signing out
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- Posting messages and comments
- Designing for mobile devices
- Summary
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- Slice client and server code.
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- Store, update and query data in database with MongoDB as the backend.
- Build a chat application, LiveRoom application in Opa.
- Handle image and audio with canvas to build a Pacman game
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Opa is a full-stack Open Source web development framework for JavaScript that lets you write secure and scalable web applications. It generates standard Node.js/MongoDB applications, natively supports HTML5 and CSS and automates many aspects of modern web application programming. It handles all aspects of web programming written in one consistent language and compiled to web standards.
Opa Application Development is a practical,hands-on guide that provides you with a number of step-by-step exercises. It covers almost all aspects of developing a web application with Opa, which will help you take advantage of the real power of Opa, as well as building a secure, powerful web application rapidly.
Opa Application Development dives into all concepts and components required to build a web application with Opa. The first half of this book shows you all of the basic building blocks that you will need to develop an Opa application, including the syntax of Opa, web development aspects, client and server communication and slicing, plugin, database, and so on. By the end of the book you will have yourself created a complete web application along with a game: Pacman!
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If you want to look really cool in a boat, this is the way to do it. Learn how to pull off big moves like cartwheels and air screws, or just surf a wave and casually twirl your paddles, your mates will definitely be impressed! The National Student Rodeo is the annual event here, and a great party too! Tom Fyall will soon get you throwing a boat around if you ask him nicely.
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The Oklahoma Historical Society wants to preserve that creative spirit for generations in The Oklahoma Museum of Popular culture, or OKPOP. The 75,000-square-foot museum will showcase Oklahomans and their ties to movies, radio, television, illustration, literature, theater and Wild West shows.
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Hi everyone !
I am little bit confused whether to get fitness training or not?
Actually I am taking my fitness problem serious now, and I want to solve it through regular exercise and food plans..
Any good Idea that should I consult with a fitness trainer or not? . Or just follow the simple and natural things..?
What is your current condition? In plain English, are you in any kind of shape? What would you change? Where do you want/need to be?
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Like Five-O, I would need a little more information before I could make a decent suggestion for you. That being said...
If you have no experience in fitness training, and no friend/wokout partner that has experience in fitness training you might be better served in getting some help. You could always stop paying for fitness training once you got into your routine. Also, when you are starting out you would be wise to at least have a workout partner to hold you accountable. Personal discipline is good, but in my experience having a buddy call you a pussy for skipping a workout is better."There is no 'nice' way to arrest a potentially dangerous, combative suspect. The police are our bodyguards, our hired fists, batons and guns. We pay them to do the dirty work of protecting us, the work we're too afraid, too unskilled or too civilized to do ourselves. We expect them to keep the bad guys out of our businesses, cars and houses, out of our face. We want them to 'take care of the problem.' We just don't want to see how its done."
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Another setback for state's Russian River frost protection rules
Published: Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 7:07 p.m.
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With frost season just days away, a Mendocino County judge has issued a second rebuke to the state for its attempt to regulate grape growers who divert water from the Russian River to protect their crops.
Judge Ann Moorman of the Superior Court Wednesday rejected the Environmental Impact Report that was the backbone of the state's rules that were designed to prevent endangered and threatened fish from becoming stranded and dying when farmers take water from the river to spray on their crops to prevent frost damage.
"The volume of water ascribed to these diversions is never analyzed, evaluated or even estimated," in the EIR, Moorman wrote in the decision. "For example, while frost protectors may hold 30 percent of the available permits or water rights, collectively they may only be responsible for 10 percent of the volume of water diverted, or it may be much more."
In September, Moorman had overturned the state's rules, but didn't thoroughly address whether the Environmental Impact Report used by the state to write those rules was adequate.
Both sides subsequently asked Moorman to rule on that issue, said attorneys representing the state and the grape growers. In her ruling Wednesday, Moorman declared the state's EIR invalid, saying it lacked substantial evidence to support its claims.
Kathie Smith, spokeswoman for the State Water Board, declined to comment on the case and would not say whether the state plans to appeal the rulings. "I don't think we've made a decision about that," Smith said.
Grape growers and environmental observers said they expect the state to appeal. "That's what they told us," said Duff Bevill, founder of Bevill Vineyard Management. "They made that pretty clear, but they wouldn't do anything until this (ruling) happened."
The frost protection season typically lasts from Mar. 15 to May 15, starting as buds burst and leaves break through the vines. When temperatures fall below freezing, grape growers spray water on the vines to form a protective shield of ice, which holds the grapes at a steady temperature.
"Bud break is just about to happen," said Al Cadd, president of the Russian River Property Owners Association. "We have another week. The Property Owners Association is going to start monitoring right away."
Bevill said the group has been monitoring stream levels for several years and is installing more guages in the river.
Even so, environmentalists saw the ruling as a setback, said David Keller, board president of Sonoma County Conservation Action.
"We hope that this year that the grape growers take the opportunity on their own, voluntarily, to minimize impacts to fisheries and to downstream water users in the frost irrigation procedures," Keller said. "There are clearly some bad actors in the grape growing community, and we hope that there's pressure from neighbors and others in the industry to do this right."
Moorman said the state EIR didn't fully determine the impact on stream levels of other Russian River water users such as the Sonoma County Water Agency, but Keller said that was a flawed analysis.
"It has nothing to do with what the water agency is taking out of the river," he said.
Some growers are researching ways to reduce the amount of water needed to protect vines from frost, Keller said.
"The real question is, how much water do you actually need to create a cap of water on the buds?" Keller said.
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Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars Hill believe - just as they know that Laurel Shelton, the lonely young woman who lives within its shadows, is a witch. Alone except for her brother, Hank, newly returned from the trenches of France, she aches for her life to begin.
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At first Laurel thought it was a warbler or thrush, though unlike any she'd heard before - its song more sustained, as if so pure no breath need carry it into the world. Laurel raised her hands from the creek and stood. She remembered the bird Miss Calicut had shown the class. A Carolina Parakeet, Miss Calicut had said, and unfolded a handkerchief to reveal the green body and red and yellow head. Most parakeets live in tropical places like Brazil, Miss Calicut explained, but not this one. She'd let the students pass the bird around the room, telling them to look closely and not forget what it looked like, because soon there'd be none left, not just in these mountains but probably in the whole world.
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I have read that a lot of people use the same form benching regardless of using gear or not. I have been trying to do the same but it seems I don't have the same strength when I bring the bar lower and tuck my elbows compared to bringing it down higher on the chest. Is this just because of not being used to it during raw benching? When getting into heavier weight, it seems my body instinctively wants to lower the bar higher on my chest.
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I'm the same way, I can't bench raw the way I do in a shirt. A guy I train with can bench exactly the same way raw like he does in a shirt. It could be that your not use to it yet. I don't bring the bar crazy high but I don't touch on my belly either. When I bench raw I will touch right at my lower pec area and I do tuck my elbows.
But I would go with what's comfortable and what's going to help you move the most weight raw or in gear.
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I'm the same as Brian described. I set up the same, but touch a bit higher (bottom of pecs) when I bench raw.
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Just do what works for you. Vinny d benches low with his elbows tucked raw and hits 600, and look at a guy like stan efferding who uses a body building style to hit 600. Its all individual.
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I bench exactly the same raw or shirted. But I have a very thick rib cage, big arch along with relatively short upper arms. So, my bench stroke is only about 3 1/2 to 4 inches raw. I think these things make a huge difference as to wheather you need to alter your raw vs. equipped bench technique.
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I touch my chest maybe an inch higher raw vs. in the shirt..... everything else is the same.