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Your location will depend on which programme you choose. You must remain geographically flexible throughout the programme and throughout your career. Some programmes may offer international opportunities. More information is available on each stream specific page.
While we aim to offer a choice of locations, all graduates should remain flexible with regards to placements.
Please see the salary and benefits page.
Finance graduate programme will start 17th September 2015. Rest of graduate programme will start 1st October 2015.
At Centrica, we adopt a 'blended learning' approach to your development. This includes on the job training, structured performance management, as well as formal training activities. Your programme will be balanced and structured, with a stream specific development path, supported by the business and a focus on Centrica's Leadership behaviours.
Your technical skills are honed throughout your placements, and give you a broad business experience. A dedicated talent board will source the very best opportunities for you and the graduates in your stream.
A structured support network will aid your progression. Firstly, your line manager will help you on a day to day basis ensuring that you have everything you need to perform in your role, and will undertake regular performance reviews with you. Secondly, your Graduate Talent Manager will provide ongoing support during your time on the programme and will provide advice on suitable rotational placements. Thirdly, your career mentor will help guide you through the programme and into your first substantive role with Centrica.
Throughout the course of your graduate programme, you will develop self awareness and an understanding of the need to drive your development, and a number of opportunities will be available to hone these skills. For example, as a university campus manager you can develop your leadership and project management skills by leading a team responsible for recruitment activity at a UK university. Or, by volunteering to coach summer interns or work on projects for charities you can develop a range of skills such as coaching techniques, collaboration and influencing.
We believe professional qualifications are vital for our functional specialists and so, where relevant, you'll have the chance to study for professional qualifications.
A buddy will be assigned to you once you have accepted your offer of employment and returned your signed contract; these are current graduates. They will be on hand to give you advice based on their experiences, such as settling into your location or your first placement, enabling you to make a smooth transition into Centrica.
A Graduate Talent Manager assigned to your functional stream, will be responsible for overseeing your performance and development during your graduate programme. They will call you to welcome you to Centrica soon after you join and you will meet them during induction week.
Your line manager will be your first point of contact during your placement. He or she will call you before you join to welcome you to the area of the business and discuss the role with you.
The Central Graduate Team manage the programme centrally and will be on hand to give you any further support you need during your time with us.
As an international company we are able to offer some international opportunities to graduates although these are limited to specific streams and are dependent on business need.
In the past our graduates have been based in US, The Netherlands and Norway. However, this is down to business need and can vary from year to year.
Unfortunately, Centrica cannot accept deferred applications. If you're taking a gap year to broaden your horizons through travel, work experience or voluntary work or you are embarking on further studies, we would love to hear from you. You could either consider our summer placement programme for this summer with the view of trying to secure a graduate role for September 2015. Otherwise please submit your graduate programme application next autumn.
This section of our website includes lots of information on what our graduates do during the programme. Visit the Our programmes page to find out about individual programmes or get first-hand accounts from current and former graduates.
The graduate talent boards have overall responsibility for the deployment of graduate talent within their stream. The roles will be dependent on three main criteria; business need, personal aspirations and developmental need.
The talent board will ensure the opportunities presented to you will enable you to get the experience needed to leave the graduate programme as a professional in your specialist area.
Flexibility is essential in order to maximise your opportunity on the graduate programme.
Yes. We encourage graduates to take part in activities outside their job role. Our university campus teams are made up of graduates who go back to campus in order to promote the opportunities at Centrica. If you make it through to the assessment centre, you will no doubt be introduced to some current graduates who will be able to tell you about their experiences on the graduate programme.
There are also opportunities to get involved with our blogging and social media activities to let everyone know about your experiences on the graduate programme if you are successful. We also look for graduates to help at assessment centres to facilitate and answer questions from the students applying.
Graduates also take part in a charity challenge.
Yes you will! Please refer to the Salary and benefits section for the full list of benefits.
You are paid an initial starting bonus of £3,000 which should be used for any relocation costs that you may incur throughout your time on the programme, no further financial support is offered. During rotation periods graduates will be given sufficient notice so that any necessary arrangements can be made. The graduate team cannot provide advice regarding accommodation at specific locations. The current and ex-graduate network is very supportive and can offer advice when you change locations.
We do have a deadline, please look at the individual programmes for more information. Please note that as we run an ongoing selection process, we may fill vacancies earlier than the advertised date and thus may close sooner than this deadline. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Please do take time to read the information about each programme so you can make an informed decision about the graduate programme that you want to apply for. In some cases if your preferred graduate programme has been filled, you can ask to be transferred to another graduate programme or onto a summer placement programme if you have a strong desire to pursue another route.
I am due to graduate in June and the graduate programme doesn't start until September/October. Is there any way to undertake a placement/job with Centrica between June and September?
We do run a Summer placement programme during that time but this programme is designed for students who are looking to begin their graduate programmes the following September. On occasions we have been able to accommodate this situation.
As a Centrica graduate, you are on a permanent contract. Towards the end of your graduate programme, lists of substantive roles are submitted by the talent boards of each stream. All graduates are expected to be offered a permanent role, but flexibility is very important.
Yes, we are an equal opportunities employer. Our recruitment process has been designed to ensure that candidates who may have a disability are treated fairly and, where needed, reasonable accommodations will be made.
I believe I have a condition that requires an adjustment to the assessments what adjustments can be made?
Adjustments for visual impairments, non-native English speakers and other conditions affecting reading speed
Our assessments are fully compliant with screen readers and refreshable Braille. All pages within the assessments are re-sizable and can be switched to high-contrast colours. You can adjust the web pages through your browser (press the Ctrl key while resizing with the up & down cursor keys or your mouse wheel) or click on the Accessibility icon for a menu of different sizes and colours.
The personality questionnaire requires no further adjustment because it is not timed - it will therefore not impact adversely on candidates whose reading speed is potentially affected by visual impairment, language issues or conditions such as a dyslexia.
The ability tests, while timed, do not require further adjustment. The time limits are deliberately generous to avoid adverse impact on those candidates whose reading speed is potentially affected by visual impairment, language issues or conditions such as a dyslexia. The verbal test contains business English and does not require culture-specific knowledge. The numerical test keeps verbal information to a minimum to prevent scores being contaminated by reading speed. However, if you are still concerned then please do let us know.
If you believe you have a condition that may affect your application you need to bring this to our attention during the application process so we can combine this information along with all the other information we gather from you during the process, including the assessment results.
Our strategy is designed to address the complex issues the industry faces in ways that can deliver sustainable value for our shareholders and ensure we are well positioned for growth. Our vision is to be the leading integrated energy company in our chosen markets. Read more on Centrica's strategy.
Graduates who apply to us have already proved they are academically capable. Our aim is to give these graduates the opportunity to work in new environments, with different types of people in different roles.
Graduates offer a fresh approach, facilitating change and identifying opportunities that may not be seen by other employees. This is an extremely dynamic organisation with a desire for growth and we are looking for graduates with similar drive and ambition to take the company forward.
The business is always looking for new talent and as our priorities change, we add new graduate programmes. The graduate programmes that we currently run are areas of the business that are looking for a graduate pipeline to fill opportunities of the future.
Our application form has been designed to ensure that you have the opportunity to show us how you could match against our leadership behaviours. It gives us more in-depth information and examples of when you have been able to demonstrate these behaviours which a CV would not be able to show us.
The application system will automatically send a number of emails after the date you initially register to remind you to complete your application (after 2 days, 5 days and a final email 28 days after you initially registered to inform you that your application has been withdrawn). These emails are sent out based on when you registered, as opposed to when you last logged into your account, so please try to complete your application within 28 days of initially registering.
If you receive notification to advise you that your application has been withdrawn, please reply to the email and ask for your application to be reactivated (as long as the programme that you are applying for is still open) and the team will reinstate your application and you continue where you left the application.
How to reset your test
Our ability tests have time limits so you will need to work quickly but accurately. You also need to complete each test in a single sitting - if you leave the test partway through the clock is still ticking - you will not be able to resume the test from the point where you left off; the test timer will continue to count down in your absence. So dont leave the ability tests before youve completed all the questions!
Unfortunately, with the internet being how it is we know that sometimes a small number of candidates have connection problems when taking the tests and are forced to leave the tests partway through. To minimise these problems we recommend, where possible, you try and use a reliable web connection and PC.
If you are forced to exit an ability test partway through you can request a test reset. This will wind the test-timer and your score back to zero. You will be able to start the test again from the start - but you will not be given the same questions that you saw on your first go.
To reset a test you need to log back into your application and click to continue the assessments. On your assessment progress page you will see that the option to reset has appeared next to the affected test; click this to reset the test.
The first time you request a reset the assessment system automatically checks your previous test session to make sure your request is valid. If you reset a test more than once a member of the graduate recruitment team will check your request manually so please expect a short delay.
Please note that the reset facility only applies to the ability tests. You can not reset the personality questionnaire because it is not timed.
It is important to be aware of fraudulent recruitment activity. We will never offer anyone a job or contract without first having gone through a detailed recruitment process involving at least one face-to-face meeting or assessment centre.
If an offer looks fraudulent, it probably is. Offers coming from email accounts which are not from the Centrica group such as .yahoo, .msn, .hotmail accounts are fraudulent. Do not share personal information with these accounts and report anything suspicious to email@example.com.
Centrica takes the protection of our customers, our people, our brand and their data / assets very seriously. The principals underpinning our pre-employment checking process are that in making recruitment decisions we do our utmost to:
- Ensure our customers, our people and the public are safe from and not caused harm by our employees
- Protect our customers' (and our people's) assets from theft or misuse by our employees
- Protect the company's assets from the same
- Protect the Centrica / British Gas reputation and brand
The checks conducted will vary depending on the role you've been recruited for. In all cases we will check your right to work in the UK. In addition we will conduct credit history, 3 or 5 year employer references, criminal record, qualification and education checks as appropriate. In some limited cases we may do FSA and Director checks.
Where it's deemed appropriate to the role you've applied for, we will obtain a Basic Disclosure Check. In a limited number of cases a higher level of check may be conducted but where this is the case it will be stated in advance. The Basic Disclosure Check will confirm to us any convictions (including road traffic offences) not considered spent under the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Yes. When asked you should declare any unspent convictions (no matter how irrelevant you may feel they are) on your application or at the earliest opportunity. If you fail to self declare and a conviction is brought to our notice via the check, we may view this as an attempt to conceal the offence from us.
It is your responsibility to know if any offence you've committed is spent or not. If you're unsure you should seek guidance from the issuing authority. Please note that this will include road traffic offences.
I have an unspent criminal conviction registered against me. Does this mean I can't work for Centrica?
No. Not all roles within Centrica require a criminal record check. Where the role does require the check, some of the factors we would take into consideration are:
- The nature of the offence(s)
- The role you have applied for
- Were the offence(s) fully and openly declared to us in advance or did we only become aware as a result of the disclosure check
- Does the disclosure show more than one offence committed over a period of time
- Would the penalty imposed in relation to the offence(s), negatively impact on your ability to carry out the duties of the role
Having fully considered the matter we will take a realistic view as to whether or not the offence committed impacts on our ability to employ you in the role.
The standard credit check conducted by Centrica looks for any bankruptcies, county court judgements, sheriff court decrees, individual voluntary arrangements and trust deeds registered in your name.
Yes. When asked you should declare any bankruptcies, county court judgements, sheriff court decrees, individual voluntary arrangements or trust deeds on your application or at the earliest opportunity. If you fail to self declare and an issue is brought to our notice via the check, we may view this as an attempt to conceal it from us.
No. Not all roles within Centrica require a credit check. Where the role does require the check we will take a realistic view as to whether your adverse credit report in its entirety, fits within what we consider to be an acceptable limit.
Centrica takes the prevention of illegal working very seriously. A failure to comply with the UK Visa and Immigration's (UKVI) requirements in relation to illegal working, carries both civil and criminal penalties for Centrica and potentially members of staff. Accordingly, Centrica is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
Centrica is a registered sponsor under Tier 2 of the Points Based System (PBS). However, Centrica is only able to consider offering sponsorship to applicants that meet the UKVI 's requirements under Tier 2 (General) of the PBS. Please note that Centrica's ability to sponsor employees under Tier 2 of the PBS is very limited.
If your application is successful, your appointment and continued employment with Centrica will be conditional upon you ensuring that you have or secure the right to work for Centrica, and that you continue to retain the right to work and carry out your role. You will be unable to start employment with Centrica until you have provided Centrica with satisfactory original evidence of your right to work and carry out the proposed employment legally in the UK.
If, at any time, during your employment with Centrica you are unable to demonstrate evidence of your right to live and work in the UK Centrica may have no alternative but to dismiss you without notice.
For more information, please view the Home Office's summary on working in the UK.
If you have a valid visa which allows you to live and work in the UK within an immigration category appropriate to the role in question you can apply for the role. All job offers will be made on the basis of suitability for the post, but will be conditional on you having or securing the right to work legally in the post.
Centrica may, in limited circumstances, be able to provide support to applicants who do not already have the right to work in the UK, in order to assist them in meeting the UKVI requirements.
During the recruitment process all candidates will be required at interview stage to provide original evidence to demonstrate their right to live and work in the UK. It is a migrant's responsibility to provide us with evidence of their right to live and work in the UK.
If your application is successful, your appointment and continued employment with Centrica will be conditional upon you ensuring that you have or secure the right to work for Centrica, and that you continue to retain the right to work and carry out the proposed employment legally in the UK. You will be unable to start employment with Centrica until you have provided Centrica with satisfactory original evidence of your right to work and carry out the proposed employment legally in the UK.
If, at any time, during your continued employment you are unable to demonstrate evidence of your right to live and work in the UK Centrica may have no alternative but to dismiss you without notice. For more information, please view the Home Office's summary on working in the UK.
If my visa is due to expire/be renewed whilst I am going through the recruitment process, will my application be rejected until I have my renewal visa?
During the recruitment process all candidates will be required at interview stage to provide evidence to demonstrate their right to live and work in the UK. It is the migrant's responsibility to provide us with evidence of their right to live and work in the UK. If you have submitted an application to the UKVI to renew, or extend your visa, or to switch immigration categories we will, if you are shortlisted, expect to see copies of your documents with details of your application, and that it was validly submitted. Any offer of employment may be conditional on your application to extend or renew your visa or switch categories being approved.
Centrica will, in limited circumstances, consider providing support to applicants in order to assist them in meeting the UKVI requirements.
If your application is successful, your appointment and continued employment with Centrica will be conditional upon you ensuring that you have or secure the right to work for Centrica, and that you continue to retain the right to work and carry out the proposed employment legally in the UK. You will be unable to start employment with Centrica until you have provided Centrica with satisfactory original evidence of your right to work and carry out the proposed employment legally in the UK. Therefore, it is important that you provide us with information regarding your right to work in the UK.
If, at any time, during your continued employment you are unable to demonstrate evidence of your right to live and work in the UK Centrica may have no alternative but to dismiss you without notice.For more information, please view the Home Office's summary on working in the UK
Why do I need to have a degree to be considered for the programme – are there other levels of qualifications that can be considered instead?
Graduates have already proved they are academically capable, and Centrica is looking for these graduates to take on new challenges as they work through the graduate programmes. We do have opportunities available for applicants with a variety of skills and qualifications and so if you do not feel that the graduate or summer placement programmes apply to you, please visit our Careers website at www.centrica.com/careers.
Our minimum requirements are that you have or are predicted to get at least a 2:1 degree classification for most of our programmes. Some require a Masters degree. If you have a third-class degree, you will not be eligible for the programme. We do advertise vacancies outside of the Graduate and Summer placement programme on our central careers website www.centrica.com/careers.
Can I apply to more than one of the programmes/make more than one application per year/apply to the summer placement programme if I am not successful at the graduate recruitment process?
We prefer applicants to have a clear focus on which programme they would like to apply for when they submit their application. However, if the area you applied for is no longer hiring (or if we have had substantial volumes of high quality applications), we may consider transferring your application to your second preference as stated on your application form.
If something interrupts your completion of the timed part of the online assessment you can request a test-reset. This will wind your score and the timer back to zero so you can start again. You will be asked to provide a reason for the reset request and we may choose to verify your final test score to make sure it is a fair and accurate measurement of your ability.
Unfortunately we cannot give detailed information about the way in which the online assessments are scored. We advise you to work quickly but accurately and never to simply guess an answer. If you are unsure you should give the answer you think is best.
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My family doctor will be retiring soon so I'm starting to look for a new one. I'd love it if I could find one like Dr. Joel Fuhrman, who is well versed in vegan lifestyle/diet. Does anyone know if there's some way to learn this short of calling them and asking? I live in Greenville, SC, which is definately not a place that's over run with vegans!
From the shows I've seen on PBS, I gathered that Dr Fuhrman is big on plant foods, but not vegan. Am I wrong?
LOL! I didn't save the reply I got, but I actually sent that question to his website about a month ago. I got the reply that 100% plant-based is the best and how he eats, but he realizes that most Americans aren't willing to give up their meat. So his goal in the PBS/Dr. Oz specials is to get the American public most of the way there.
Excuse me! This thread is getting off track from my original intent. Without mentioning any other doctors in my question, does anyone know how I might be able to find a doctor in the area I live who is an advocate for a vegan lifestyle?
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If the Whitehouse had ANY information, classified or otherwise, that exonerated Obama in this, it would be leaked!!!
That's all the people need to know...............
I don't know why you guys are debating this with Franco, smillerdvm has declared "Game, Set & Match Franco."
Like I said earlier, to the progressives, it isn't news until Dan Rather, Rachel, Chris, Whoopi, Joy and John Stewart say it is!!


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee State did not win a point vs. defending OVC regular season champion Tennessee Tech on Saturday.
Despite losing 7-0, Daniel Bernal of TSU made it close with Syrym Abdukhalikov of Tech (1-9, 1-0 OVC) at #1 Singles taking the first set 6-3. Abdukhalikov bounced back to capture the second set 7-5 before winning the rubber match, the third and final set, 10-6.
Bernal, along with Branden McClain would drop the #1 Doubles decision to Abdukhalikov and Alejandro Augusto 8-3.
The Tigers (0-2, 0-1 OVC) are back in action on Sunday at they travel to Alabama to take on conference foe Jacksonville State.
Tennessee Tech 7, Tennessee State 0
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No. 4 - Vasily Eremeev (TTU) def. Jared Asher (TSU), 6-1, 6-0
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No. 6 - Othon Lima (TTU) won by default
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Tributes paid to Barrow father of two, 39
Last updated at 17:18, Monday, 12 November 2012
POLICE have named a man found dead at a house in Barrow.
Marcus Dixon, 39, was found dead at his home in Maple Street, Barrow, at around 8.30pm on Thursday. Officers were called out amid reports that a man had died and attended the street and located his body.
They cordoned off the area while crime scene investigators examined the scene and gathered evidence. Police launched an
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A spokesman for Barrow police said: "A full investigation was commenced regarding the circumstances of Mr Dixon's death.
"A Home Office post mortem was carried out on November 10 2012 and the death is not being treated as suspicious. No further details are being released at this time."
Mr Dixon's family have been informed of the death and friends have been paying tribute to him online.
Sophia McPeake wrote on the Evening Mail's website: "A great loss for so many people. A truly decent good person who adored his two boys. Now you can be at peace."
Another poster using the name Jay said: "Really sad news. A great loss for all. Much love to all of his friends and family.
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Just thinking of you the other day mate while out on a run - was hoping to catch up when back in the UK at Christmas. Much love to your family at this difficult time. There will be no shortage of people to tell your boys what a great bloke you were. Rest in peace, Marcus.
not long till our final farewell, still cant believe your gone, keep checking your profile on facebook to see if its all been a bad dream, but its not, and you really are gone, you have left a huge hole in so many peoples hearts and will truly be missed, hope you have met up with gav and ur dad and they are looking after you, thoughts are with ur little boys and family at this extremely sad time, RIP marcus xxx
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Out of title contention, ex-UFC champ Rich Franklin will retire after one more fight
I lost my last fight, and that really kind of solidified my decision to make this my last fight, coming up, Franklin told hosts Kenny Rice and Bas Rutten. I know that that took me out of title contention, and so for me to actually get back in the title hunt again would be a couple years worth of work.
In his most recent outing, Franklin headlined UFC on FUEL TV 6 in the UFCs debut in China in Macau. But he suffered a first-round knockout loss to Cung Le, a favorite of the Asian fans.
Franklin has alternated wins and losses for more than five years, unable to get a win streak going since a two-fight stretch in 2008 that featured TKO wins over Travis Lutter and Matt Hamill at UFC 83 and 88, respectively.
Prior to the loss to Le, Franklin beat Wanderlei Silva in a five-round unanimous decision at UFC 147 in Brazil, giving him two wins over the Brazilian legend.
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Im 39. Ill be 40 next year, and its getting to the point where its late in my (MMA) life, and its really too late to make that title run, he said. So I started questioning, like, what am I really fighting for if I cant make it to the title anymore? I know Im not in title contention anymore, and I realize that. Thats how it is.
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Welcome Back Splashers. This time I'm gonna try something a little bit different. Almost every wrestling fan says that John Cena is the #1 fan in the WWE. Well what about the 40+ other wrestlers? I knew that it was impossible to give each wrestler their own spot, so instead, I created 4 tiers, for all the wrestlers. Like my last blog, I am not expecting people to agree, or even like this one. Lastly
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In 2008 The WWE showed a example in great story telling using Shawn Michaels.... 2008 was a amazing creative year for the character of Shawn Michaels. The WWE transtioned smoothly from great storyline to great storyline using Shawn Michaels in 2008.
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Hey guys, Knox here. Hope all is well with the IWC, EWN community. I'm writing this blog because I had alot of bad backlash on my last blog titled "WWE Classics On Demand". I wrote that blog to simply advertise the WWE's great program they offer which provides us with great action from WWF, WCW, ECW, NWA, Mid-Atlantic Wrestling, WCCW and more.
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Please read my blog on 'my thoughts on the walkout storyline' as this blog is a continuation of that.
I would like to use this blog to discuss the possible guys that may be pulling the strings and give my opinion of who id like it to be.
Kevin Nash - of course it is possible the Nash may be behind it all, however this would be a massive disappointment and i don't believe
As i mentioned in my last blog, i believe there is a buzz/excitement around the WWE similar to the one before we got the attitude era and i am tuning in every week to see if they produce something special. I would like to take the time now to give my thoughts on how they could really improve the story.
Personally, i thought bringing HHH in as COO was a brilliant decision as it meant:
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Hi Splashers. Thanks to one of my readers "Blink", I took a second look at my last blog, and I wasn't too pleased with it. There are some things you said that I disagreed with, but in general I saw your point.
Moving on, I've seen "Top Five" , or "Top Ten" everywhere. I
In recent months we have seen some compelling and interesting storylines from the WWE, from CM Punk's first "Pipe Bomb" promo up to the walkout on RAW and even into SmackDown territory. This got me to thinking what caused all of this uproar, who is behind it, and why.
First off - CM Punk's promo before his match against John Cena at MITB shook the IWC and the wrestling
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Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an Academy Award winning American popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.
One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses. He is cited among the most popular musical acts in history and is currently the most electronically recorded human voice in history. Crosby is also credited as being the major inspiration for most of the male singers of the era that followed him, including Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also during 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music. Clarinetist Artie Shaw described Crosby as "the first hip white person born in the United States.
Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry. In 1947, he invested US$50,000 in the Ampex company, which developed the world's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder, and Crosby became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 200 recorders to his friend, musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. Along with Frank Sinatra, he was one of the principal backers behind the famous United Western Recorders studio complex in Los Angeles.
In 1962, Crosby was the first person to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Crosby is one of the few people to have three stars on the walk of fame
He was the fourth of seven children: five boys, Larry (1895–1975), Everett (1896–1966), Ted (1900–1973), Harry 'Bing' (1903–1977), and Bob (1913–1993); and two girls, Catherine (1905–1988) and Mary Rose (1907–1990). His parents were English-American Harry Lincoln Crosby (1870–1950), a bookkeeper, and Irish-American Catherine Helen (affectionately known as Kate) Harrigan (1873–1964) who was the daughter of Canadian born parents Dennis and Catherine Harrigan. Bing's great-grandfather and great-grandmother, who were also called Dennis and Catherine came from Schull ,County Cork in Ireland. His paternal ancestors, Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster, were born in England and immigrated to the U.S. in the 17th century; Brewster's family came over on the Mayflower.
In 1910, Crosby was forever renamed. The six-year-old Harry Lillis discovered a full-page feature in the Sunday edition of the Spokesman-Review, "The Bingville Bugle." The "Bugle," written by humorist Newton Newkirk, was a parody of a hillbilly newsletter complete with gossipy tidbits, minstrel quips, creative spelling, and mock ads. A neighbor, 15-year-old Valentine Hobart, shared Crosby's enthusiasm for "The Bugle," and noting Crosby's laugh, took a liking to him and called him "Bingo from Bingville." The last vowel was dropped and the name shortened to "Bing," which stuck.
In 1917, Crosby took a summer job as property boy at Spokane's "Auditorium," where he witnessed some of the finest acts of the day, including Al Jolson, who held Crosby spellbound with his ad-libbing and spoofs of Hawaiian songs. Crosby would later say, "To me, he was the greatest entertainer who ever lived."
In the fall of 1920, Bing enrolled in the Jesuit-run Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, with the intention of becoming a lawyer. He maintained a B+ average. Bing was a prankster. School lore says he once pushed a piano off the top of a dormitory, a story that is apocryphal, since he left school the year before the dormitory was built.
While at Gonzaga, he sent away for a set of mail-order drums. After much practice, he soon became good enough and was invited to join a local band made up of mostly local high school kids called the "Musicaladers," managed by Al Rinker. He made so much money doing this that he decided to drop out of school during his final year to pursue a career in show business.
As popular as the Crosby and Rinker duo was, Whiteman added another member to the group, pianist and aspiring songwriter Harry Barris. Whiteman dubbed them The Rhythm Boys, and they joined the Whiteman vocal team, working and recording with musicians Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, and Eddie Lang and singers Mildred Bailey and Hoagy Carmichael.
Crosby soon became the star attraction of the Rhythm Boys, not to mention Whiteman's band, and in 1928 had his first number one hit, a jazz-influenced rendition of "Ol' Man River." However, his repeated youthful peccadilloes and growing dissatisfaction with Whiteman forced him, along with the Rhythm Boys, to leave the band and join the Gus Arnheim Orchestra. During his time with Armheim, The Rhythm Boys were increasingly pushed to the background as the vocal emphasis focused on Bing. Fellow member of The Rhythm Boys Harry Barris wrote several of Crosby's subsequent hits including "At Your Command," "I Surrender, Dear," and "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams"; however, shortly after this, the members of the band had a falling out and split, setting the stage for Crosby's solo career. In 1931, he signed with Brunswick Records and recording under Jack Kapp and signed with CBS Radio to do a weekly 15 minute radio broadcast; almost immediately he became a huge hit.
As the 1930s unfolded, it became clear that Bing was the number one man, vocally speaking. Ten of the top 50 songs for 1931 either featured Bing solo or with others. Apart from the short-lived "Battle of the Baritones" with Russ Columbo, "Bing Was King," signing long-term deals with Jack Kapp's new record company Decca and starring in his first full-length features, 1932's The Big Broadcast, the first of 55 such films in which he received top billing. He appeared in a total of 79 pictures.
Around this time, Bing made his solo debut on radio, co-starring with The Carl Fenton Orchestra on a popular CBS radio show and by 1936, replacing his former boss, Paul Whiteman, as the host of NBC's Kraft Music Hall, a weekly radio program where he would remain for the next ten years. As his signature tune he used "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" which also showcased his whistling skill.
He was thus able to take popular singing beyond the kind of "belting" associated with a performer like Ali Schuette, who had to reach the back seats in New York theatres without the aid of the microphone. With Crosby, as Henry Pleasants noted in The Great American Popular Singers, something new had entered American music, something that might be called "singing in American," with conversational ease. The oddity of this new sound led to the epithet "crooner."
Crosby gave great emphasis to live appearances before American troops fighting in the European Theater. He also learned how to pronounce German from written scripts and would read them in propaganda broadcasts intended for the German forces. The nickname "der Bingle" for him was understood to have become current among German listeners, and came to be used by his English-speaking fans. In a poll of U.S. troops at the close of WWII, Crosby topped the list as the person who did the most for G.I. morale, beating out President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Dwight Eisenhower, and Bob Hope.
Crosby's biggest musical hit was his recording of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," which he introduced through a 1942 Christmas-season radio broadcast and the movie Holiday Inn. Bing's recording hit the charts on 3 October 1942, and rose to #1 on 31 October, where it stayed for 11 weeks. In the following years, Bing's recording hit the Top 30 pop charts another 16 times, even topping the charts again in 1945 and January 1947. The song remains Bing's best-selling recording, and the best-selling single and best-selling song of all time. In 1998, after a long absence, his 1947 version hit the charts in Britain, and as of 2006 remains the North American holiday-season standard. According to Guinness World Records, Bing Crosby's recording of "White Christmas" has "sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million sales as singles.
By the late 1950s, Crosby's popularity had peaked, and the adolescence of the baby boom generation began to affect record sales to younger customers. In 1960, Crosby starred in High Time, a collegiate comedy with Fabian and Tuesday Weld that foretold the emerging gap between older Crosby fans and a new generation of films and music.
Crosby rendered the difference between the two irrelevant. Where earlier recording artists had displayed strictly one-dimensional attitudes, Crosby not only perfected the fully rounded persona, but brought with it the technical ability of a true concert artist. Crosby projected with a majestic sense of intonation that afforded Tin Pan Alley the musical stature of European classics and a jazz influenced time that made him both the dominant voice of both the Jazz age and the Swing era.
Crosby also elaborated on a further idea of Al Jolson's, one that Frank Sinatra would ultimately extend further: phrasing, or more specifically, the art of making a song's lyric ring true. "I used to tell (Sinatra) over and over," said Tommy Dorsey, "there's only one singer you ought to listen to and his name is Crosby. All that matters to him is the words, and that's the only thing that ought to for you, too."
The greatest trick of Crosby's virtuosity was covering it up. It is often said that Crosby made his singing and acting "look easy," or as if it were no work at all: he simply was the character he portrayed, and his singing, being a direct extension of conversation, came just as naturally to him as talking, or even breathing. Journalist Donald Freeman said of Crosby, "There is only one Bing Crosby and — the time has come now to face the issue squarely — he happens to be that unique, awesome creature, an artist."
For 15 years (1934, 1937, 1940, 1943-1954), Crosby was among the top 10 in box office draw, and for five of those years (1944-49) he was the largest in the world. He sang four Academy Award-winning songs — "Sweet Leilani" (1937), "White Christmas" (1942), "Swinging on a Star" (1944), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951) — and won an acting Oscar for Going My Way (1944).
He also collected 23 gold and platinum records in his career, according to Joseph Murrells, author of the book, "Million Selling Records." It should be noted that the Recording Industry Association of America did not institute its gold record certification program until 1958, by which point Crosby's record sales were barely a blip, so gold records prior to that year were awarded by an artist's record company. Universal Music, current owner of Crosby's Decca catalog, has never requested RIAA certification for any of his hit singles.
In 1962, Crosby became the first recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been inducted into the respective halls of fame for both radio and popular music. His overall music sales are estimated at between 500,000,000 (five hundred million) to 900,000,000 (nine hundred million). Bing is a member of that exclusive club of the biggest record sellers that include Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and The Beatles.
In 2007, Bing Crosby was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
The live production of radio shows was a deeply-established tradition reinforced by the musicians' union and ASCAP. The Mutual network, on the other hand, had pre-recorded some of its programs as early as the Summer 1938 run of The Shadow with Orson Welles. The new ABC network, formed out of the sale of the old NBC Blue network in 1943 to Edward Noble, the "Lifesaver King," was willing to join Mutual in breaking the tradition. It would pay Crosby $30,000 per week to produce a recorded show every Wednesday sponsored by Philco. He would also get $40,000 from 400 independent stations for the rights to broadcast the 60-minute show that was sent to them every Monday on three 16-inch lacquer/aluminum discs that played 10 minutes per side at 33⅓ rpm.
Crosby wanted to change to recorded production for several reasons. The legend that has been most often told is that it would give him more time for his golf game. And he did record his first Philco program in August 1947 so he could enter the Jasper National Park Invitational Golf Tournament in September when the new radio season was to start. But golf was not the most important reason.
Crosby was always an early riser and hard worker. He sought better quality through recording, not more spare time. He could eliminate mistakes and control the timing of performances. Because his own Bing Crosby Enterprises produced the show, he could purchase the latest and best sound equipment and arrange the microphones his way; mic placement had long been a hotly-debated issue in every recording studio since the beginning of the electrical era. No longer would he have to wear the hated toupee on his head previously required by CBS and NBC for his live audience shows (Bing preferred a hat). He could also record short promotions for his latest investment, the world's first frozen orange juice to be sold under the brand name Minute Maid.
The transcription method had problems, however. The acetate surface coating of the aluminum discs was little better than the wax that Edison had used at the turn of the century, with the same limited dynamic range and frequency response.
In June 1947, Murdo MacKenzie of Bing Crosby Enterprises saw a demonstration of the German Magnetophon that Jack Mullin had brought back from Radio Frankfurt with 50 reels of tape at the end of the war. This machine was one of the magnetic tape recorders that BASF and AEG had built in Germany starting in 1935. The ½-inch ferric-coated tape could record 20 minutes per reel of high-quality sound. Alexander M. Poniatoff ordered his Ampex company (founded in 1944 from his initials A.M.P. plus the starting letters of "excellence") to manufacture an improved version of the Magnetophone.
Bing Crosby hired Mullin and his German machine to start recording his Philco show in August 1947 with the same 50 reels of Farben magnetic tape that Mullin had found at a radio station at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt while working for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The crucial advantage was editing. As Bing wrote in his autobiography, "By using tape, I could do a thirty-five or forty-minute show, then edit it down to the twenty-six or twenty-seven minutes the program ran. In that way, we could take out jokes, gags, or situations that didn't play well and finish with only the prime meat of the show; the solid stuff that played big. We could also take out the songs that didn't sound good. It gave us a chance to first try a recording of the songs in the afternoon without an audience, then another one in front of a studio audience. We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product. If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing."
Mullin's 1976 memoir of these early days of experimental recording agrees with Bing's account: "In the evening, Crosby did the whole show before an audience. If he muffed a song then, the audience loved it — thought it was very funny — but we would have to take out the show version and put in one of the rehearsal takes. Sometimes, if Crosby was having fun with a song and not really working at it, we had to make it up out of two or three parts. This ad lib way of working is commonplace in the recording studios today, but it was all new to us."
Crosby invested US$50,000 in Ampex to produce more machines. In 1948, the second season of Philco shows was taped with the new Ampex Model 200 tape recorder (introduced in April) using the new Scotch 111 tape from the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) company. Mullin explained that new techniques were invented on the Crosby show with these machines: "One time Bob Burns, the hillbilly comic, was on the show, and he threw in a few of his folksy farm stories, which of course were not in Bill Morrow's script. Today they wouldn't seem very off-color, but things were different on radio then. They got enormous laughs, which just went on and on. We couldn't use the jokes, but Bill asked us to save the laughs. A couple of weeks later he had a show that wasn't very funny, and he insisted that we put in the salvaged laughs. Thus the laugh-track was born." Crosby had launched the tape recorder revolution in America. In his 1950 film Mr. Music, Bing Crosby can be seen singing into one of the new Ampex tape recorders that reproduced his voice better than anything else. Also quick to adopt tape recording was his friend Bob Hope, who would make the famous "Road to..." films with Bing and Dorothy Lamour.
Mullin continued to work for Crosby to develop a videotape recorder. Television production was mostly live in its early years, but Crosby wanted the same ability to record that he had achieved in radio. The Fireside Theater, sponsored by Procter and Gamble, was his first television production for the 1950 season. Mullin had not yet succeeded with videotape, so Crosby filmed the series of 26-minute shows at the Hal Roach Studios. The "telefilms" were syndicated to individual television stations.
Crosby did not remain a television producer but continued to finance the development of videotape. Mullin would demonstrate a blurry picture on December 30 1952, but he was not able to solve the problem of high tape speed. It was the Ampex team led by Charles Ginsburg that made the first videotape recorder. Rather than speeding tape across fixed heads at 100 ips, Ginsburg used rotating heads to record at a slant on tape moving at only 15 ips. The quadruplex scan model VR-1000 was demonstrated at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Chicago on April 14 1956, and was an immediate success. Ampex made $4 million in sales during the NAB convention. Ampex developed a color videotape system in 1958 and recorded the spirited debate (dubbed the "Kitchen Debate") between Khrushchev and Nixon on a demonstration model at the Moscow trade Fair September 25 1959. By this time, Crosby had sold his videotape interests to the 3M company and no longer played the role of tape recorder pioneer. Yet his contribution had been crucial. He had opened the door to Mullin's machine in 1948 and financed the early years of the Ampex company. The rapid spread of the tape recorder revolution was in no small measure caused by Crosby's efforts.
The decade following the end of World War II witnessed what has been called the "revolution in sound." The Decca Company introduced FFRR 78 rpm records (Full Frequency Range Recording) that had the finest frequency response (80-15,000 cps) of any recording process before magnetic tape recording. Decca's method of reducing the size of the groove and designing a delicate elliptical stylus to track on the sides of the groove would be the same innovation of the new microgroove process introduced by Columbia in 1948 on the new 33⅓ rpm LP vinyl record. Crosby's sponsor Philco would join Columbia in selling a new $29.95 record player with jeweled stylus (not steel) tracking at only 10 grams (not 200) for these LPs. No longer would records wear out after 75 plays. Crosby's Ampex Company would be joined by Magnecord, Webcor, Revere, and Fairchild in selling one million tape recorders to a rapidly growing consumer audio component market by 1953. The 1949 Magnecord tape recorder had stereo capability eight years before any vinyl record had it. These components soon began to feature the transistor invented by Bell Labs in 1948. Crosby's 1942 film Holiday Inn (where he first sang his most famous song) would be remade in 1954 as White Christmas, the first film to use Paramount's new VistaVision wide-screen film process with multi-channel magnetic sound.
Crosby and Lindsay Howard formed Binglin Stable to race and breed thoroughbred horses at a ranch in Moorpark in Ventura County, California. They also established the Binglin stock farm in Argentina, where they raced horses at Hipódromo de Palermo in Palermo, Buenos Aires. Binglin stable purchased a number of Argentine-bred horses and shipped them back to race in the United States. On August 12 1938, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club hosted a $25,000 winner-take-all match race won by Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit over Binglin Stable's Ligaroti. Binglin's horse Don Bingo won the 1943 Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
The Binglin Stable partnership came to an end in 1953 as a result of a liquidation of assets by Crosby in order to raise the funds necessary to pay the federal and state inheritance taxes on his deceased wife's estate.
A friend of jockey Johnny Longden, Crosby was a co-owner with Longden's friend Max Bell of the British colt Meadow Court, who won the 1965 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Irish Derby. In the Irish Derby's winner's circle at the Curragh, Crosby sang "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
The Bing Crosby Breeders' Cup Handicap at Del Mar Racetrack is named in his honor.
Crosby reportedly overindulged in alcohol in his youth, and may have been dismissed from Paul Whiteman's orchestra because of it, but he later got a handle on his drinking. A 2001 biography of Crosby by Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddins says that Louis Armstrong's influence on Bing "extended to his love of marijuana." Bing smoked it during his early career when it was legal and "surprised interviewers" in the 1960s and 70s by advocating its decriminalization, as did Armstrong. According to Giddins, Bing told his son Gary to stay away from alcohol ("It killed your mother") and suggested he smoke pot instead. Gary said, "There were other times when marijuana was mentioned and he'd get a smile on his face." Gary thought his father's pot smoking had influenced his easy-going style in his films. Crosby also smoked two packs of cigarettes a day until his second wife made him stop. He finally quit smoking his pipe and cigars following lung surgery in 1974.
Bing Crosby had an interest in sports. From 1946 until the mid-1960s, Crosby was part-owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and helped form the nucleus of the Pirates' 1960 championship club. In 1978, he and Bob Hope were voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.
Following his recovery from a life-threatening fungal infection of his right lung in 1974, Crosby emerged from semi-retirement to produce several notable albums and concert tours. In March 1977, after videotaping a concert for CBS to commemorate his 50th anniversary in show business, Crosby backed off the stage into an orchestra pit, rupturing a disc in his back that required a month of hospitalization. In his first performance after the accident and his last American concert, on August 16 1977 in Concord, California, the power went out, and he continued singing without amplification. In September, Crosby, his family, and singer Rosemary Clooney began a concert tour of England that included two weeks at the London Palladium. While in England, Crosby recorded his final album, Seasons, and his final TV Christmas special with guests David Bowie and Twiggy. His duet with Bowie on "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy," generated so much interest that it was later released as a single and became an annual holiday classic. At the end of the century, TV Guide listed the Crosby-Bowie duet as one of the 25 most memorable musical moments of 20th century television.
At the conclusion of his work in England, Bing flew alone to Spain to hunt and play golf. Shortly after 6:00 p.m. on October 14, Crosby died suddenly from a massive heart attack after a round of eighteen holes of golf near Madrid where he and his Spanish golfing partner had just defeated their two opponents. It is widely written that his last words were "That was a great game of golf, fellas.
Because of incorrect instructions from his family, the year of birth engraved on Bing Crosby's tombstone is 1904, rather than the correct date of 1903. He was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California next to his first wife. He was buried nine feet deep so that his second wife could be buried with him.
At his death, because of Bing's shrewd investments in oil, real estate, and other commodities, Bing was one of Hollywood's then-wealthiest residents, along with Fred MacMurray, Lawrence Welk, and best friend Bob Hope. A clause in his will stated that his sons from his first marriage could not collect their inheritance money until they were 65. Bing felt that they had already been amply taken care of by a trust fund set up by their mother, Dixie Lee. All four sons continued to collect monies from that fund until their deaths.
After Bing's death, his image as an ideal father (fostered in part by his family's participation on his famous holiday television specials) was nearly destroyed when his eldest son, Gary, wrote a highly critical memoir, Going My Own Way, depicting Bing as cold, remote, and both physically and psychologically abusive.
Younger son Phillip frequently disputed his brother Gary's claims about their father. In an interview conducted in 1999 by the Globe, Phillip is quoted as saying, "My dad was not the monster my lying brother said he was; he was strict, but my father never beat us black and blue, and my brother Gary was a vicious, no-good liar for saying so. I have nothing but fond memories of Dad, going to studios with him, family vacations at our cabin in Idaho, boating and fishing with him. To my dying day, I'll hate Gary for dragging Dad's name through the mud. He wrote Going My Own Way out of greed. He wanted to make money and knew that humiliating our father and blackening his name was the only way he could do it. He knew it would generate a lot of publicity. That was the only way he could get his ugly, no-talent face on television and in the newspapers. My dad was my hero. I loved him very much. He loved all of us too, including Gary. He was a great father."
However, Lindsay and Dennis publicly agreed with many of Gary's criticisms of their father and Lindsay eventually committed suicide. Dennis ended his life two years later, grieving over his brother's death, and battered, just as his brother had been, by alcoholism, failed relationships, and a lackluster career. Both brothers were subsisting on small allowances from their mother's trust fund; both died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. Their mother had struggled with alcoholism since her own teens.
Phillip died in 2004.
Denise Crosby, Dennis' daughter, is also an actress and known for her role as Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Nathaniel Crosby, Bing's youngest son from his second marriage, was a high-level golfer who won the U.S. Amateur at age 19 in 1981, becoming the youngest-ever winner of that event (a record later broken by Tiger Woods). Nathaniel praised his father in a June 16, 2008, Sports Illustrated article.
Widow Kathryn Crosby would dabble in local theater productions intermittently, and appear in television tributes to her late husband. Although left very comfortable in Bing's will, Kathryn's allowance would be controlled by a foundation Bing had carefully set up. She later accepted a job as spokeswoman for San Francisco Bay Area's Coit Cleaners, which specialized in soiled carpets and draperies. For a few years after Bing's death, Kathryn appeared in radio, television and print ads for the company, even permitting home tours of the Crosby mansion in pricy Hillsborough, California to demonstrate the service. The Crosbys and the Coits were friends from San Francisco charity circles.
In 2006, Crosby's niece, Carolyn Schneider, attempted to dispel some of the more vitriolic books penned about her uncle, publishing "Me and Uncle Bing," in which she offered an intimate glimpse of her family, and gratitude for Crosby's generosity to her and to other family members. Since publication of her book, Schneider has been a favorite at gatherings of Crosby fans, and has offered her memories of "Uncle Bing" to the BBC.
He is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division.
The family has established an official website,. It was launched October 14, 2007, the 30th anniversary of Bing's death.
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Pizzas 4 Patriots is teaming up with the world's leading international express shipping provider, DHL Express, to quarterback the special delivery of 21,000 pizzas to U.S. servicemen and servicewomen on Super Bowl Sunday - America's biggest day of the year for eating pizza.
With DHL Express donating the services of its global express shipping network to the non-profit organization, Pizzas 4 Patriots will be able to send enough deep dish pizza to feed every soldier stationed in Afghanistan and Kuwait.
"Since 2008, we have had the pleasure of providing our brave U.S. servicemen and women overseas with the most delicious, authentic 'slices of home', letting them know we care and we are thinking of them," said Ret. Master Sergeant Mark Evans, founder of Pizzas 4 Patriots. "While our soldiers' presence in the Middle East continues to become smaller, they still need to know that we appreciate the sacrifices they make for us, our families and our country."
The DHL Express team will be packing and loading all 21,000 ready-to-bake, Chicago-style pizzas from Illinois-based Great Kitchens into DHL cargo jets and shipping them to the troops stationed at several military bases across Afghanistan and Kuwait. A send off event hosted by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is scheduled for January 29 at 10:00 a.m. at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago.
"While we can never do enough to honor the many sacrifices our men and women in uniform make, we should make every effort to show our appreciation," Governor Quinn said. "I want to thank DHL Express and Pizzas 4 Patriots for their extraordinary effort in giving our troops the chance to enjoy the game with the food they grew up with."
Once in the Middle East, the shipment will be distributed to Camp Bastion, Bagram Airbase and Kandahar - all in Afghanistan - as well as Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and various Forward Operating Bases in both countries. DHL Express will provide door-to-door, final delivery for the distribution, working closely with the U.S. military to ensure the pizzas are delivered fresh and ready at the various military bases.
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Since 2008, Pizzas 4 Patriots has worked with DHL Express to send more than 122,000 pizzas in support of U.S. military personnel overseas.


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Quatermass wrote:BTW, sad news. Christopher Barry is now dead.
He co-directed the first Dalek story, and not only did the debuts of the Second Doctor (The Power of the Daleks, now sadly missing) and the Fourth Doctor (Robot), but he also directed the classic stories The Daemons and The Brain of Morbius.
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