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Type: Sub-task
Status: Open
Priority: Major
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: 0.4.2
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Persistence, View technologies
We can make domain objects work across the session with a simple trick.
1. Override the add/put methods on HttpSession to detect domain class instances being added to the session
2. Instead of the instance, put in its id in a special serializable object that contains the ID and CLASSNAME of the original domain class.
3. Put the domain instance into the REQUEST context, using a special name like _grails_domain_ATTRIBNAME
The object ID is now safely in the session, and the request has a ref to the instance.
When retrieving the object from the session:
1. Get the attribute from session. If it is our special wrapper object, ask the request if it has _grails_domain_ATTRIBNAME.
2. If it does, just return this (this allows access to the var during the request in which it was added to the session)
3. If it does not, extract CLASSNAME from our wrapper, do CLASSNAME.get(ID) and put this value into the REQUEST context again as _grails_domain_ATTRIBNAME
4. Return the loaded instance.
This should give us transparent and scalable session access to domain object.s
Having thought about this more there are two issues:
1. Putting stuff in session for later use, always in sync with DB
2. Putting stuff in session for use with custom control over when flushed and reloaded
The above solution works for part 1. Part 2 requires some kind of flush() method on the domain object, or a wrapper that defers all property lookups to the encapsulated domain object instance, but has a flush() method, such that the next access to a property will cause get(id) to be called again and reload the object.
Perhaps however this can be integrated somehow into forthcoming cache control on domain classes so that we have a flush() method on domain classes, and have Session be smart and do whatever is needed to "detach" the object in the session until it is flushed again explicitly or by the cache timeout property set on it?
A further consideration here is that detached (or erroneously non-detached) instances may be put into sessions already in existing apps and replicated across servers, which would fail after this change as the attribute would be of our wrapper type.


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(Over time, I'll be examining the case -- as this controversy will not go away. On the one hand, I've seen journalists who so want to believe that mean-spirited law enforcement officials prosecuted an innocent man that they've willfully ignored overwhelming evidence of guilt. As Scheidegger noted, the Willingham case "has been the subject of a lot of selective reporting." On the other hand, though Perry is right to point out that a jury convicted Willingham and appellate courts upheld the verdict, his 2009 decision to dismiss the chairman of a state forensic panel that was supposed to review the Willingham case works against him. The San Antonio Express-News editorialized that Perry's political maneuvers to thwart a review were "unconscionable.")
On the compassionate conservative side, Perry has commuted three death sentences to life in prison. In 2007, on the advice of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Perry granted a reprieve to stop the lethal injection of Kenneth Foster because Foster drove the getaway car but was not the shooter in a 1996 robbery/homicide. Perry also signed the bill that created life without parole as an alternative to the death penalty.
I think the death penalty could be a much bigger problem for President Barack Obama as he seeks re-election. Obama says that he supports the death penalty, but his administration opposed Texas' scheduled execution of Humberto Leal -- who was convicted in the 1994 murder/rape of a 16-year-old -- because Leal, a Mexican national raised in San Antonio, had not been advised that he was entitled to consult with the Mexican Consulate. Perry would not oblige, and Leal was executed.
Also, under the Obama administration this year, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized the lethal injection drug sodium thiopental from Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee on the grounds that the Food and Drug Administration has not approved drugs intended to execute convicted killers.
Yes, folks, those are your tax dollars at work in the Obama administration -- funding federal law enforcement raids designed to undermine state laws.
It doesn't matter that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld lethal injection by a 7-2 margin in a 2008 ruling. If there is one way Democrats know how to use the federal government successfully, it is to sabotage state laws they don't like.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Corliss Williamson had 13 of his 18 points
in the first quarter to lead the Sacramento Kings to a 100-80
preseason win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday night.
Darius Miles had 14 points and Ruben Patterson added 13 for the
Blazers, who have lost four straight by 14 points or more.
Former Blazer Shareef Abdur-Rahim added 12 points off the bench
for the Kings and Brad Miller had nine points and 12 rebounds.
Joel Przybilla had 15 rebounds for Portland, which committed 21
The Kings opened up a double-digit lead early in the game and
never lost it. Sacramento led 15-4 after Williamson's fastbreak
layup and the Kings were up by as many as 26 in the first half.
Sacramento held a 48-24 halftime lead as Portland made only nine
field goals in the first half, shooting just 21 percent.
The Blazers did make a run in the second half. They made 13 of
22 shots to outscore the Kings 31-23 in the third quarter. Portland
cut the lead to 67-51 just before the end of the period.
Portland forward Zach Randolph sat out after leaving Thursday's
game against Utah with a sore knee.


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Epidemiologists typically do the following:
Epidemiologists collect and analyze data to investigate health issues. For example, an epidemiologist might collect and analyze demographic data to determine who is at the highest risk for a particular disease. Research epidemiologists typically work for universities. Applied epidemiologists work with governments, addressing health crises directly. The most common problem both types of epidemiologists work on is infectious diseases, but they examine other public health issues, as well. Epidemiologists who work in private industry commonly work for health insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies. Those in non-profit companies often do public advocacy work.
Typically, epidemiologists study one or more of the following public health areas:
Epidemiologists spend most of their time studying data and reports in a safe lab or office setting. They have minimal risk when they work in laboratories or in the field, because they take extensive precautions before interacting with samples or patients.
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In medical school, students spend most of the first two years in laboratories and classrooms, taking courses such as anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, microbiology, pathology, medical ethics, and laws governing medicine. They also learn to take medical histories, examine patients, and diagnose illnesses.
Most people know that epidemiologists study outbreaks of infectious diseases, but they do a lot more, too. Epidemiologists study cancer, birth defects, exposure to possible environmental toxins, injuries, food poisoning and much more.
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The best-compensated in the profession live in the metropolitan areas of Oakland, Calif., San Diego and Denver.
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Epidemiologists are detectives who research the causes and consequences of illness and disease. Their research informs public health policies and disease management strategies around the world.
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Fans of The Simpsons will recall both Monty Burns's curious snow globe fetish and the through-line of The Simpsons Movie in which Springfield was encased in a Brobdingnagian dome by the EPA following reckless environmental behaviour by Homer. A similar giant bubble, mysteriously forming over the town of Chester's Mill in Maine, is the starting point for Ten's series based on a couple of books by Stephen King.
But after three episodes it is evident the transparent yet impenetrable bubble over Chester's Mill has not been installed by the EPA. The barrier seems more of a forcefield than a physical construction – one that seals the locals in and everyone else out, creating a dystopian, sci-fi scenario.
The removal or reduction of civilising restraints invariably triggers a reversion to feral imperatives – a situation exemplified by William Golding's Lord Of The Flies and in Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road. The nature of the catastrophe confronting the protagonist and his son while unspecified was blisteringly apparent.
Individual survival – for its own sake and for the sake of mankind – was that story's fulcrum. King's agenda is more small-town focused, suggesting that sudden alterations to normality create a different survival ballgame in which social and philosophical issues are subject to mutation.
The ensuing panic is usually Hollywood's invitation to steadfast chaps such as Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Will Smith or even The Man Of Steel. Alas, Chester's Mill has no such superheroes.
But it does have (initially) a steadfast, all-American police chief – Howard "Duke" Perkins – a guy with a passing resemblance to Tom Skerritt's Sheriff Jimmy Brock from Picket Fences. But while Duke's heart (and its pacemaker) are in the right place, it is also the wrong time. The force field fatally explodes his implant – to the considerable distress of his surrogate daughter and CMPD associate, Linda.
Nighty night!
With cell phones and television also on the blink, basic aspects of law and order are diminished and with Perkins out of the frame, the ambitions of Big Jim Rennie – a venal car salesman with a highly efficient crystal meth distribution network – are poised to advance. So far so good and also so by the numbers. But it's nice to see car salesmen restored to their rightful pace as contemporary villains.
Fortunately Chester's Mill is home to an intrepid reporter, Julia Shumway, and host to an undercover army spook, Captain Barbara, who Julia – unaware he is responsible for the disappearance (and death) of her husband – befriends. Posing as a drifter, Captain Barbara is an explosives expert specialising in sniffing out clandestine bomb-making labs. He appears to be on the scent of a dastardly plot to stockpile LPG canisters in the town.
A DJ at the local radio station, channelling Cleavon Little's Super Soul from Vanishing Point, offers a flipside to the mainstream media's role – as represented by Shumway – in coming to grips with the truth. Some of the town's teenagers, blessed with intuitive, semi-psychic powers, respond to the crisis proactively while their peers get tanked and party assiduously.
No Future? WTF!
A cast of thousands includes religious zealots, psychopathic thugs, a couple of visiting lesbians ferrying their adolescent daughter to a rehab unit and even a pretty teenage waitress, Angie, imprisoned in an underground bunker by Big Jim's obsessive son, Junior. A slew of disposable supernumaries seem – given King's reputation for mass extinction – doomed.
It's a rich brew and the author's predilection for supernatural themes impacting upon good ol' American values delivers lurid but agreeable entertainment for viewers disposed towards long-form, join-the-dots drama.
The idea of the US insulating itself against external enemies with missile shields and ramped up Homeland Security plays well into the concept of invisible walls confining US citizens just as surely as keeping undesirables out. As President Obama laments, the prospect of 100% security and 100% freedom existing simultaneously is no longer possible.
But the series is much longer than it is deep. After last night's third instalment, in which not much happened, I feel disinclined to persevere, notwithstanding the whiff of food for thought involving "the enemy within" and the nature of fear. As yet, no Truman Show exit door in the backdrop, leading to an external reality or hidden hands directing events. Although there is, of course, a lovable mutt named Truman.


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Amazon has already pretty much destroyed the brick-and-mortar bookstore, and now that it has moved into other retail niches, everybody else has to watch their back. But Global Pet Food Outlet seems equal to the challenge, with prices that consistently beat Amazon — not to mention PetSmart and its ilk. The store also boasts tremendous variety, some of it falling into the "extreme eating" category. How would your dog like a 3-pound bag of wild kangaroo meat (with apples)? Also for sale: venison, bison and peanut butter fro-yo (for dogs). Just about every kind of cat food is here as well, including "weight control" and "hair-ball control" varieties. And where else can you find food specially formulated for your chinchilla or pet rat? 4449 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. (310) 391-3330, globalpetfoodoutlet.com.
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WWE SmackDown
|WWE SmackDown
|Sports entertainment
Professional wrestling
|Created by
|Vince McMahon
|WWE roster
|Opening theme
|Country of origin
|United States
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|860 (as of February 11, 2016)
|Camera setup
|Multicamera setup
|Running time
|120 minutes (including commercials)
|Original network
|Picture format
|Original release
|April 29, 1999– present
|Related shows
|External links
WWE SmackDown, also known as Thursday Night SmackDown, simply known as SmackDown is a sports entertainment television program that debuted on August 26, 1999. Prior to September 1, 2005, SmackDown! was broadcast on Thursday nights; from September 9, 2005 to January 9, 2015, it was broadcast on Friday nights. The show returned to Thursday nights on January 15, 2015.[6] SmackDown! originally debuted in the United States on the UPN television network on April 29, 1999, but after the merger of UPN and the WB, SmackDown! began airing on The CW in September 2006. The show remained on the CW network for two years until it was moved to MyNetworkTV in October 2008.[7][8] SmackDown moved to Syfy on October 1, 2010 and remained there until December 31, 2015.[9][10] A week later, on January 7, 2016, SmackDown moved to its sister channel, USA Network.[2][3][4] It complements WWE Raw as the second of WWE's two main weekly programs. Since its first episode, WWE SmackDown! has been broadcast from 162 different arenas, in 147 cities and towns, in seven different nations (the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Iraq in 2006 and 2007 for specials Tribute to the Troops, Japan in 2005, Italy in 2007 and Mexico in 2011). Due to time differences, SmackDown! premieres a few hours earlier in Ireland and the United Kingdom and a day earlier in Australia, Canada, Singapore and Philippines than the United States, except for live episodes. For international broadcast listings, see below. The show celebrated its 15th anniversary on October 10, 2014.[11]
- 1 History
- 2 Production
- 3 Cultural references
- 4 Special episodes
- 5 On-air personalities
- 6 Champions
- 7 Broadcast
- 8 See also
- 9 Notes
- 10 References
- 11 External links
Original format (1999–2005)[edit]
The early set featured an oval-shaped Titantron entrance and stage (dubbed the "Ovaltron") which made it stand out from the Raw set with its rectangular Titantrons. Later productions gained the ability to move the Ovaltron either to the left or to the right of the stage. Throughout the show's early existence, The Rock routinely called SmackDown "his show", in reference to the fact that the name was derived from one of his catchphrases, "Lay the smackdown."[12] In August 2001, as part of celebrating SmackDown's second anniversary, the show received a new logo and set. The last SmackDown to use the previous entrance stage saw Alliance member Rhyno gore federation member Chris Jericho through the center screen, destroying part of the set. As a result of that incident, a new set debuted the following week and it consisted of a fist centered above the entrance, and many glass panes along the sides strongly resembling shattered glass.
Brand Extension (2002–2005)[edit]
In March 2002, WWE underwent the "Brand Extension,"[13] a process in which WWE divided itself into two branches with separate rosters, storylines and authority figures.[13] Raw and SmackDown would host each division, give its name to the division and essentially compete against each other. The split resulted from WWE purchasing its two biggest competitors, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and the subsequent doubling of its roster and championships. The brand extension was publicly announced during a telecast of Raw on March 18, 2002, initiated with the first-ever draft a week later on the March 25, 2002 edition of Raw and became official the following week on the April 1, 2002 edition of Raw. Michael Cole was joined in commentary by Tazz, on April 4, 2002 until June 9, 2006. Cole and Tazz also appeared as the commentators on February 22, 2001 until June 28, 2001 and August 2, 2001, until October 18, 2001. Wrestlers began to wrestle exclusively for their specific show. At the time this excluded the WWE Undisputed Championship and WWE Women's Championship, as those WWE titles would be defended on both shows.[13] In August 2002, WWE Undisputed Champion Brock Lesnar refused to defend the title on Raw, in effect causing his title to become exclusive to SmackDown.[13] The following week on Raw, General Manager Eric Bischoff awarded a newly-instated World Heavyweight Championship to Raw's designated #1 contender, Triple H. Accordingly, Lesnar's championship was no longer deemed undisputed. Following this, the WWE Women's Championship soon became Raw-exclusive as well. As a result of the Brand Extension, an annual "draft lottery" was instituted to exchange members of each roster and generally refresh the lineups. On June 6, 2005, WWE Champion John Cena switched brands from SmackDown to Raw as part of the month-long Draft Lottery. This effectively left SmackDown without a world title. On the June 23, 2005 edition of SmackDown, General Manager Theodore Long announced a six-man elimination match between John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Booker T, Chris Benoit, The Undertaker, Christian (replacing The Big Show, who was picked by Raw in the lottery) and Muhammad Hassan to crown the first SmackDown Champion. On the June 30, 2005 edition of SmackDown, JBL won the match. Long appeared afterward and stated that even though JBL had won the match, SmackDown did not need a Championship anymore, instead revealing that JBL was the number one contender for the World Heavyweight championship, at which point Batista, the World Heavyweight Champion, entered the ring as SmackDown's final draft lottery pick.
WWE's "lame duck" status with Viacom on Spike TV may have prompted it to move SmackDown to the Friday night death slot for the Fall 2005 season. UPN received better ratings on Fridays than it did before with its movie night. In addition, UPN had been able to hold on to the ratings from Thursday nights, most notably with comedian Chris Rock's sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. In January 2006, prior to the announcement of the CW Network, it was announced that UPN had renewed SmackDown for two more years.[14] Following the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, SmackDown (renamed Friday Night SmackDown) moved into Enterprise's former timeslot in the United States. WWE promoted this move with the tagline "TV that's changing Friday nights." Friday Night SmackDown made its season premiere on September 9, 2005. The program still aired on Thursdays in Canada on the Score. In the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, their stations Sky Sports and Fox8 air SmackDown on Fridays before the United States due to the time difference. This is the first time a major weekly WWE show airs internationally before it hits screens in the USA. The events of Hurricane Katrina affected the first edition of Friday Night SmackDown in the U.S. due to the special fund-raising concert that aired on UPN at the same time that the first edition would have gone out, resulting in only the second hour of the show being shown on UPN. The first hour was instead streamed from WWE's website. Other countries, including Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and the Philippines, received the full two-hour show. WWOR-TV (My 9, New York, New York) also aired both hours of the show on tape delay on Saturday, due to a previous commitment to broadcast the New York Yankees on Friday nights. At the SmackDown taping on January 10, 2006 that aired January 13, Batista had to forfeit the World Heavyweight Championship because of a legit triceps injury suffered at the hands of Mark Henry the previous week. Long decreed a Battle Royal for the vacant title. The winner was Kurt Angle, who, at the time, was on the Raw brand, but switched to the SmackDown brand for the duration of his reign as champion. On the April 7, 2006 edition of SmackDown (taped April 4), Long revived the King of the Ring tournament after a four-year hiatus as a SmackDown-exclusive tournament. The tournament ended at Judgment Day 2006 with Booker T as the winner, defeating Bobby Lashley in the final.
On June 9, 2006, Tazz left the SmackDown brand to join the new ECW brand, leaving the color-commentator position vacant. However, on June 11, at One Night Stand 2006, JBL revealed that he would be the new color commentator for SmackDown, a position he held until December 21, 2007 when he left to become an in-ring competitor on Raw. Jonathan Coachman replaced him afterwards. Eventually, Coachman was released by WWE the following year.
Changing channels (2006-2010)[edit]
The CW (2006–2008)[edit]
On September 22, 2006, Friday Night SmackDown debuted on The CW, a joint venture between CBS Corporation (owner of UPN) and Warner Bros. Entertainment (a subsidiary of Time Warner, majority owner of the WB Television Network). For four weeks before the official premiere of Friday Night SmackDown on the CW, Tribune Broadcasting television stations in six major markets (including WPIX in New York City and KTLA in Los Angeles) aired WWE's Friday Night SmackDown.[15] (This formed part of the preparation for the impending removal of UPN in several markets due to the debut of MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006.) Two other future affiliates of The CW, WCWJ in Jacksonville, Florida and WIWB in Green Bay, Wisconsin, also aired SmackDown in early September. The transition to the CW caused an interruption in the broadcast of SmackDown in the state of Utah beginning in June when KPNZ in Salt Lake City stopped airing all UPN programs early. As of 2009, KUCW broadcasts the show. In Hawaii, SmackDown returned in late 2006, airing on a CW digital subchannel of Honolulu's FOX affiliate KHON-TV (Channel 2), which had received statewide carriage over Oceanic Time Warner Cable. Since the move to the CW, Friday Night SmackDown had shown a major increase in ratings now averaging a 3.0 national rating. In addition, SmackDown had become the second-highest-watched program on The CW. On April 20, 2007, SmackDown celebrated its 400th episode.[13] Ratings success soon followed. On June 8, 2007, Friday Night SmackDown made CW history by making a three-way tie with CBS and ABC in the key ad demographic (adults, 18-49) by drawing a 1.5 rating each. Two weeks later, on June 22, 2007, Friday Night SmackDown again made CW history by tying the network for first place in the key ad demographic (adults, 18-49) and being the second-most-watched network program at 9 p.m. for the night. The CW had not performed as well at any time slot since America's Next Top Model the previous March. The following week, on June 29, 2007, Friday Night SmackDown helped The CW claim the top spot in the key demographic (adults, 18-49) for Friday. CBS got the overall lead but The CW got top spot for the Adults 18-49 by registering a 1.4 rating followed by CBS and NBC at 1.3, ABC at 1.2, and FOX at 0.9.[16][17] Then two weeks later, on Friday, July 13, 2007, Friday Night SmackDown made network history by placing first in the 18-49 demographic and becoming the most watched show at the 9 p.m. hour on network television. This is the first time anything has placed this well on The CW. SmackDown became a hit show on Friday nights winning the demographics for young males and ranking second on the demographics (18-49) for Friday nights. On October 16, 2007, it was announced that the SmackDown and ECW brands would begin a "talent exchange," allowing their respective talent to appear and compete on either brand, as ECW was broadcast live from the same arena where SmackDown was taped.[18][19]
Jim Ross became the new play-by-play announcer for SmackDown, while Michael Cole (SmackDown commentator for nine years from its launch in 1999 until June 23, 2008) was drafted to Raw. WWE also drafted the WWE Champion Triple H to SmackDown, which allowed SmackDown to feature two world championships on the brand, as Edge was World Heavyweight Champion. With Triple H bringing the WWE Championship to SmackDown, Raw was left without a world title, but on the June 30, 2008 edition of Raw, after Edge was attacked by Batista, CM Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and became the new World Heavyweight Champion, bringing the World Heavyweight Championship back to Raw for the first time since 2005. In August 2008, Tazz returned to SmackDown as color commentator, due in part to Mick Foley's departure from WWE, as his contract was not renewed. A couple of months later, in late-2008, Tazz decided to let his contract expire, so he was replaced by Todd Grisham, who was the color commentator on Raw, making the SmackDown announce team consist of Grisham and Ross. Also that year, for the first time in the brand's history, a women's exclusive championship was introduced, the WWE Divas Championship, a counterpart to the WWE Women's Championship which, up until that time, was the only active championship competed for by Divas, but it was exclusive to Raw, meaning that the divas on SmackDown had no championship to compete for until now. Michelle McCool became the inaugural champion by defeating Natalya on July 20, 2008 at The Great American Bash.
MyNetworkTV (2008–2010)[edit]
Friday Night SmackDown debuted on MyNetworkTV in the United States on October 3, 2008, featuring performers from the Raw, SmackDown and ECW programs. WWE SmackDown also debuted with a new theme-song. The premiere episode on MyNetworkTV attracted 3.2 million viewers. While the viewership dropped, SmackDown pulled the highest ratings to date for MyNetworkTV and pushed the network to fifth place, ahead of its former network The CW. The premiere was also first place in male 18-49 demographics.[20] On February 15, 2009, at No Way Out, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in Raw's Elimination Chamber match, thus making it a SmackDown exclusive title and giving SmackDown two top tier championships.[21] On March 20, 2009, WWE SmackDown celebrated its 500th episode.[22] As a result of the 2009 WWE Draft in April, WWE Champion Triple H was drafted to Raw, while the World Heavyweight Championship also moved to the Raw brand after Edge lost the title to Cena at WrestleMania XXV, once again leaving SmackDown without a world title.[23] SmackDown would regain the World Heavyweight Championship at Backlash when Edge invoked his WrestleMania rematch clause and defeated Cena to win the championship.[24] In addition, SmackDown and Raw would exchange both women-exclusive championships with Raw gaining the WWE Divas Championship and SmackDown gaining the WWE Women's Championship. Also, SmackDown and Raw exchanged the WWE United States Championship (which became exclusive to Raw) and the WWE Intercontinental Championship (subsequently exclusive to SmackDown), for the first time since August 25, 2002.[23] On September 15, 2009, WWE Home Video released a DVD set entitled The Best of SmackDown 10th Anniversary. The SmackDown 10th Anniversary DVD which featured the Top 100 moments in SmackDown history, hosted by Cole and Matt Striker. On April 19, 2010, the eruption of a volcano in Iceland left ash hovering over Europe and caused the grounding of many flights, leaving most of the Raw roster stranded in Belfast, Northern Ireland. To keep the WWE Universe from thinking that Raw was canceled for the night, SmackDown took over Raw (with the exception of former SmackDown superstars Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov, who were now Raw superstars) and fought over there. The superstars included Rey Mysterio, Edge, CM Punk, Chris Jericho and more. This was the first (and so far, the only) time that Raw was titled Monday Night SmackDown, although it was never mentioned as such on the air. On October 30, 2009, Todd Grisham revealed that he would be the new lead announcer for SmackDown, alongside Michael Cole for one night on October 16, 2009, and Matt Striker, a position he held until December 3, 2010 when he left to become the new lead announcer for NXT along with Josh Mathews.
NBCUniversal (2010-present)[edit]
Syfy (2010–2015)[edit]
On April 12, 2010, it was announced that SmackDown would move from MyNetworkTV to Syfy, which had previously aired NXT and ECW, in a two-year deal that included an optional third year.[9][10][25] Retaining its Friday night timeslot, SmackDown made its live premiere on Syfy on October 1, 2010 and there's been talk about having live editions of the show on WWE PPV weekends.[9] According to the Los Angeles Times, the move saw Syfy paying close to $30 million for the show as opposed to the $20 million paid by its former network MyNetworkTV.[10] The premiere of SmackDown on Syfy followed a special "pre-game" show hosted by Cole. On December 10, 2010, the NXT color commentator Josh Mathews became the new lead announcer for SmackDown, a position in held until February 22, 2013 when he left to become the new color commentator the following week until May 24, 2013. In 2011, the Brand Extension came to an end, resulting in Raw talent being able to appear on SmackDown and vice versa. Also in late-2011, a special episode of SmackDown debuted branded Super SmackDown Live which would then be the name of all live editions of SmackDown, taking place on a Tuesday.
Due to the move to an NBC Universal Cable network, SmackDown is now advertised more frequently on Syfy's sister network, USA Network, which airs Raw. Same-week encores of SmackDown were also added to Universal HD's and mun2's Saturday night schedule as a result of the move in the spot previously held by NXT and ECW. On February 4, 2011, Booker T made a return on SmackDown as a commentator replacing Striker.
On the special live August 30, 2011 edition of SmackDown, it was announced that wrestlers from Raw could now appear every week on SmackDown. This mirrored the proclamation made on Raw the previous day where SmackDown wrestlers could now appear every week on Raw. These moves made both programs full roster "supershows," effectively ending the Brand Extension. The SmackDown episode that aired on October 14, 2011 (episode 635) made the show the second-longest-running weekly episodic television series of American television history (behind Monday Night Raw, which surpassed that mark on August 2, 2005). On April 1, 2012, at WrestleMania 28, John Laurinaitis became GM of both Raw and SmackDown after Team Johnny defeated Team Teddy. However, on June 17, 2012, at No Way Out, after Cena defeated Big Show in a Steel cage match, Laurinaitis was fired by Mr. McMahon. On the August 3, 2012 edition of SmackDown, Mr. McMahon named Booker T The SmackDown General Manager. In addition, Booker named Long and Eve as his assistants. JBL returned to WWE in September 2012 and became a commentator for the show as well. On January 18, 2013, SmackDown celebrated its 700th episode. Vickie Guerrero became General Manager on July 19, 2013 and was fired the previous year. The show is also run frequently by WWE COO Triple H. Past episodes of Smackdown are now viewable on the video streaming website Hulu along with episodes of WWE Superstars and ECW.[26] On October 10, 2014, SmackDown celebrated its 15th Anniversary.[11] The 15th season premiere opened with a new theme, "Centuries" by Fall Out Boy. To help celebrate the 15th anniversary, Stephanie McMahon came out first, then Laurinaitis and Long, respectively, the latter of which kept one-upping each other for the main event of the night until McMahon decided to keep the 15-man tag-team match that Long suggested, on the condition Laurinaitis and Long be the captains of each team like at WrestleMania XXVIII.[27][28] Long's team won the match. On December 16, 2014, SmackDown aired its 800th episode, which aired live on USA Network, featuring the main event between Dolph Ziggler and Seth Rollins.[29]
Return to Thursday nights (2015)[edit]
The show's return to Thursday nights --something that was rumored as early as August 2014[30][31]-- was made official by Syfy and WWE on November 6, 2014.[32][33] The return to Thursday nights is expected to help attract a younger audience to Syfy, as well as more premium advertising dollars from marketers, who tend to spend more to promote their products, especially film releases, on the night as consumers head into the weekend.[34] The last SmackDown airing on Friday nights had 2.43 million viewers with a 0.7 share.[35]
After the broadcast on the finale of Friday Night SmackDown, Layfield left SmackDown to join Raw, where he serves as a commentator, alongside Cole and Booker T since January 5, 2015,[36] leaving the color-commentator position vacant. SmackDown returned to a Thursday night airing from the episode of January 15, 2015.[32][33][34] Lawler joined the broadcast team for the move.[37][38][39][36] He was to join the broadcast team in 2012 on SmackDown until he had a heart attack during the September 10, 2012 edition of Raw.[40][41][42] WWE pay-per-view events kickoff analyst Byron Saxton joining him and Cole afterwards in the same episode.[36] The broadcast saw a revised SmackDown logo and all new graphics with 2.68 million viewers with a 0.8 rating share.[43][44] In a January 2015 interview, Daniel Bryan said he told WWE management that he wished to be the "face of SmackDown" to increase the show's viewership.[45] The January 15 episode marked Bryan's return to the ring after months of being injured as he wrestled in the main event of the first five SmackDown episodes since the move back to Thursday airings.[a] On January 29, 2015, the special live episode of SmackDown was aired from XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, after the January 2015 nor'easter and cancellation for live Raw and SmackDown taping in Boston.[51][52] The live episode had 2.95 million viewers with a 0.9 share, features the main event between Daniel Bryan and Kane in the casket match,[53][54] which means Bryan picks up the victory.
On April 2, 2015, Tom Phillips replaced Michael Cole as lead announcer until April 9, 2015, alongside Jerry Lawler and Byron Saxton, while Cole was recovering from injury suffered at the hands of Brock Lesnar the previous week on Raw.[55][56] Phillips' first air date as August 22, 2014, until January 9, 2015 during SmackDown aired on Fridays alongside Cole and John Layfield.[57] After Cole had then left SmackDown to join Raw as lead announcer on April 16, 2015, Phillips back again to join SmackDown announce team alongside Lawler and Saxton on the following week. After the broadcast on June 18, 2015, Tom Phillips will continue as lead announcer on SmackDown until August 20, 2015. In the same date, Byron Saxton left SmackDown to join Raw as a color commentator, along with Cole and Layfield since June 8, 2015,[58] leaving the color-commentator position vacant. However, on June 25, 2015, The Usos member Jimmy Uso revealed that he would be the new color commentator for SmackDown, a position he held until September 3, 2015 when he left to become an in-ring competitor on SmackDown next week, to team with Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose in a 6-man tag team match against WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day and the color commentator on Main Event since August 25, 2015 before SmackDown taping. On August 27, 2015, NXT and Superstars lead announcer Rich Brennan replaced Phillips to join the broadcast team following Phillips' interview with WWE Superstars after the match in the backstage on WWE.com and WWE's exclusive YouTube channel.[59] On September 10, 2015, the WWE pay-per-view events kickoff analyst and Hall of Famer Booker T once again made a return on SmackDown as a color commentator replacing Jimmy Uso.[60] The last SmackDown airing on Syfy had 2.8 million viewers and was taped on December 29, features the main event tag team match between Reigns and Ambrose against Kevin Owens and Sheamus,[61] which ended in a disqualification. Reigns and Ambrose are the winners.
USA Network (2016–present)[edit]
Starting on January 7, 2016, SmackDown will be airing on USA Network, as announced on April 7, 2015.[2][3][4] With the move, all top three WWE programs --Raw, SmackDown and Tough Enough-- will air on the same network for the first time ever.[3] According to Lawler, SmackDown may move back to Friday nights on USA Network and go live.[62][63][64][65] There was a possibility that SmackDown may move to Tuesday nights on USA Network and go live.[66] SmackDown will remain on Thursday nights when the show moves from Syfy to USA Network on January 7.[67] Coinciding with the premiere of SmackDown on USA Network, Rich Brennan will be replaced by Mauro Ranallo who is set to become the lead announcer,[68][69] and Booker T will be replaced by the current Raw and Superstars color commentator Byron Saxton, who is set to become the alternate color commentator. The first ever SmackDown airing on USA Network was taped on January 5 in Laredo, Texas had 2.75 million viewers, features the first title match between Becky Lynch and Charlotte for the WWE Divas Championship, and the main event and second title match between Kevin Owens and Dean Ambrose for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, which ended in a double count-out.[70]
From October 26, 2012-April 4, 2014, WWE SmackDown began using "Born 2 Run" by 7Lions as its theme song, with "This Life" by Cody B. Ware serving as the secondary theme, then a swap was made, as "Born 2 Run" is used as a secondary theme, when "This Life" is used as SmackDown's main theme. Prior to October 26, 2012, SmackDown opened with "Know Your Enemy" by Green Day while "Hangman" by Rev Theory served as the secondary theme song.[71] Upon SmackDown's debut on Syfy in 2010, it replaced the previous theme song "Let it Roll" by Divide the Day.[72] WWE tapes SmackDown on Tuesday evenings to air on Thursday evenings on Syfy the same week. However, SmackDown has aired occasional live specials on Tuesday nights (which are then replayed in its usual Thursday night timeslot). The show began broadcasting in HD beginning with the January 25, 2008 edition of SmackDown, where a new set (which became universal for all WWE weekly programming) debuted. Following the first broadcast in HD, the exclamation mark used since the show's inception disappeared from all references pertaining to "SmackDown", including the official logo, which resembles the 2001-2008 logo but with a darker blue scheme. As of August 3, 2012, the show has used the modified WWE HD universal set, which debuted at Raw 1000 on July 23.[73] From September 21, 2012–October 26, 2012, October 4, 2013–November 1, 2013, October 3–31, 2014 and October 2-30, 2015, WWE worked in conjunction with Susan G. Komen for the Cure to raise awareness for breast cancer by adorning the SmackDown set with pink ribbons and a special pink middle-rope in the ring. SmackDown's ring ropes were usually blue from 1999-2012 (although they were black for a period between 2001 and 2002). They remained blue until December 2012 when they were permanently changed to white, with all WWE programming now using white ring ropes. On August 22, 2014, SmackDown switched to a full 16:9 letterbox presentation, with a down-scaled version of the native HD feed on a 4:3 SD feed. Like Raw (which also switched to a full 16:9 letterbox presentation four days earlier on August 18), the new WWE logo is seen on the ring's turnbuckle covers and also, on the lower-right hand corner of the screen. A week later (August 29), the Syfy network logo moved to the lower left-hand corner of the screen. Although the graphics have been re-positioned, SmackDown continued to use a variation of the graphics package that had been in use since its first HD broadcast in January 2008, until the show moved to Thursday nights on January 15, 2015, when an all new graphics package and intro video was introduced along with a revised SmackDown logo. On March 26, 2015, WWE added a small LED board to the left side of the ring on SmackDown, similar to Raw. On the September 14, 2015 season premiere of Raw, the middle rope was colored gold. Throughout the month of October 2015, the WWE announcer table, entrance ramp and ring skirts will be co-branded with Susan G. Komen for the Cure of Breast cancer.[74] Also the middle ring rope will be pink to promote the fight against breast cancer.[74]
Theme music[edit]
|Song Title
|Written and/or Sung by
|Dates used
|"Everybody on the Ground"
|Jim Johnston
|August 26, 1999–August 9, 2001
|"The Beautiful People"
|Marilyn Manson
|August 16, 2001–May 15, 2003
|"I Want It All"
|Jim Johnston
|May 22, 2003–September 16, 2004
|"Rise Up"
|Drowning Pool
|September 30, 2004–September 26, 2008
|"If You Rock Like Me"
|Jim Johnston
|October 3, 2008–September 25, 2009
|"Let It Roll"
|Divide the Day
|October 2, 2009–September 24, 2010
|"Know Your Enemy"
|Green Day
|October 1, 2010–October 19, 2012
|Rev Theory
|"Born 2 Run"
|October 26, 2012–April 4, 2014
|"This Life"
|April 4, 2014–October 3, 2014; October 17, 2014–January 9, 2015
|Fall Out Boy
|October 10, 2014 (Only used for SmackDown's 15th Anniversary show)
|"Black and Blue"1
|January 15, 2015–Present
- Notes
- ^ Bold Song Titles are currently being used as the Opening Theme.
Cultural references[edit]
On July 10, 2007, Merriam-Webster announced it would include the word smackdown in Webster's Dictionary.[80][81] Merriam Webster defined a "smackdown" as:
- The act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent.
- A contest in entertainment wrestling.
- A decisive defeat.
- A confrontation between rivals or competitors.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the word smackdown in English back at least as far as 1990, but notes that a professional wrestling television show "popularised" the term.
Special episodes[edit]
Throughout its broadcast history, the show has aired editions that have different themes. These include tributes to various professional wrestlers who have recently died or retired from actively performing, as well as episodes commemorating various show milestones or anniversaries.
On-air personalities[edit]
The show features various on-air personalities including the wrestlers themselves, ring announcers, divas, commentators and on-screen authority figures. SmackDown also has had various recurring on-air segments hosted by members of the roster.
Before the "supershows", the brand-extension championships exclusive to Smackdown were seen. On the special live August 30, 2011 episode, it was announced that wrestlers from Raw could now appear every week on SmackDown. This mirrored the proclamation made on Raw the previous day that SmackDown wrestlers could now appear every week on Raw. These moves made both programs full-roster "supershows", effectively ending the Brand Extension. All championships can occur now on either show.
In addition to broadcasts on Syfy, Universal HD, NBC Universo and AFN Xtra in the United States,[8][82] WWE SmackDown also appears on-air internationally.
From 1999 to early 2015, SmackDown aired in Canada matching the U.S. airtime and currently airs on Sportsnet 360 (previously known as Headline Sports until 2000 and The Score from 2000-2013). With SmackDown back on Thursday nights, the show is now broadcast on Wednesday nights (with the exception of live episodes) in Canada as of January 14, 2015, due to national NHL coverage being aired on Sportsnet 360 on Thursday nights, as part of a 12-year deal between Rogers (Owner of Sportsnet) and the NHL.[83][84] This means that SmackDown is shown in Canada one day earlier than the U.S.
Asia-Pacific and Africa[edit]
The series airs in Australia on Fox8.[85][86] SmackDown airs in Fiji on Sky Pacific & Sky Fiji.[87] SmackDown airs in India and Nepal on TEN Sports[88][89] and Kenya on Kenya Broadcasting Corporation.[90] SmackDown airs in Malaysia on TV3 & Astro Supersport3.[91] Malta on Melita Sports 1,[92][93] The series airs in New Zealand on The BOX[94] and the Philippines on Fox.[95] The series airs in Singapore on SuperSports,[96] South Africa on e.tv,[97] and Samoa on SBC.[citation needed]
WWE Smackdown airs in the Middle East and North Africa on OSN,[98] and Israel on Sport 5.[99]
The series airs in the United Kingdom on Sky Sports 3.[100] It airs in Ireland on Sky Sports 3.[101]
Online streaming[edit]
On May 22, 2009, Hulu Plus and the WWE announced that they had a deal to air full episodes of SmackDown to be available for viewing the day following its original airing.[102] On September 24, 2012, Hulu Plus signed a multi-year deal with WWE to stream all of the company's TV shows and some of its Web series, which includes SmackDown. Full episodes of SmackDown are available for viewing the following day of its original airing.[103] All episodes of SmackDown are available on the WWE Network. Recent episodes are available for on-demand viewing 30 days after the original air date.[104][105]
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External links[edit]
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|Spain's Alberto Contador, right, Christopher Froome of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, and Spain's Alejandro Valverde, in third position, climb towards Peyresourde pass during the ninth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 168.5 kilometers (105.3 miles) with start in Saint-Girons and finish in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, Pyrenees region, France, Sunday July 7 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (AP) — Given the way Chris Froome is riding, he could take a big step toward winning the Tour de France on Wednesday.
That's when Froome gets the chance to extend his lead over the likes of two-time champion Alberto Contador, 2010 winner Andy Schleck and 2011 winner Cadel Evans in the Tour's first individual time trial, one of his favorite disciplines.
Froome's rivals are already lagging behind after two punishing days of climbing in the Pyrenees that underlined the British rider's status as the clear favorite. But Contador, who is nearly two minutes back, has not given up hope.
"I will try and do something," Contador said Monday. "Everyone's legs are hurting, but if you don't think you can succeed then you never will. So we have to take a few risks."
Froome demonstrated panache and resilience over the weekend. First, he crushed his rivals with a brutal acceleration up to the finish line in Saturday's eighth stage.
The next day, he fended off attacks from rivals without the help of his teammates on an even tougher mountain stage.
"They were probably thinking about getting some time back on me," Froome said. "I knew that those were attacks that I had to cover."
It is hard to spot any weakness in Froome, who finished runner-up to his Sky teammate and countryman Bradley Wiggins last year when he had to curtail his own attacking instincts to serve Wiggins.
After nine nervous, crash-filled days and 940 miles in the saddle, Monday's rest day near the cooling waters of the Loire-Atlantique region could not come soon enough for the battered peloton after the stifling heat of southwestern France.
Contador, Schleck and the 36-year-old Evans now have to figure out a way to take the yellow jersey from Froome. Contador is 1:51 behind in sixth; Schleck is four minutes back in 15th place; and Evans trails by 4:36 in 16th place.
Given that Froome has looked the strongest in the mountains and is among the favorites Wednesday, they have a lot of thinking to do.
"It's been a super first week," Froome's Sky team manager Dave Brailsford said.
Unless Froome has an accident — and there have been several high-speed spills so far — it is hard to see where he can possibly lose time. If anything, he will gain ground.
That is providing his Sky teammates don't have another bad day like Sunday, when they were dropped in the early climbs.
"If we get another chance like this we will make the most of it," Contador said.
There is a glimmer of hope for Contador and others if they can work together against Sky when the race returns to the high mountains Sunday. But that is easier said than done.
Contador takes heart from having won the Spanish Vuelta last year, when Froome finished about 10 minutes behind in fourth place.
"I was in survival mode at the Vuelta," Froome said. "If people want to make comparisons that's up to them, but I don't feel I was at my best."
Wednesday's 20.5-mile dash from Avranches to Mont-Saint-Michel is a chance for him to put more time between him and Contador.
"It's a very flat time trial and that is a disadvantage for me," Contador said.
This is the 100th edition of the Tour and also the first since Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven straight titles (1999-2005) for serial doping.
Froome has said twice so far during the race that he is riding clean. Contador said Monday he has never doped, even though he served a doping ban and was stripped of his 2010 Tour title for the banned drug clenbuterol.
"Naturally people are going to ask questions in cycling," Froome said Monday. "Whenever there are great performances they have been linked to doping in the past, so naturally now we're bearing the brunt of a lot of those questions."
Contador, who lost his 2010 title to Schleck, has always denied doping.
"You can believe what you want," he said. "But the only thing that I can tell you is that I have always practiced cycling clean."
Froome would not be drawn on Contador's comment, other than saying: "There definitely do need to be questions asked about performances in the past, where guys have been very successful and are no longer on that same level."
In March, Belgian authorities opened a judicial inquiry into Dr. Geert Leinders, who previously worked for Sky and before that for Rabobank. Several Rabobank riders have confessed to doping and implicated Leinders, who has denied the accusations.
"We all know the level of suspicions there is around the sport," Brailsford said. "We have to accept that questions about performances are legitimate questions."
Leinders left Team Sky late last year after more than a season working with them.
"The whole thing is my responsibility. I'll take that squarely on the chin," Brailsford said. "I shouldn't have done it. I made an error of judgment."
Tuesday's stage is a flat route for sprinters. After the time trial, there are two more sprint stages. On Sunday there is a massive 12.9-mile ascent to Mont Ventoux. A few days later, riders face three straight days of rigorous climbing in the high Alps.
"Throughout my career I've found my best form in the third week," Contador said.
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For Robert Battle, artistic director designate of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (he takes the reins in July), Miami isnt just another stop on the companys 24-city national tour. Its home. Born in Florida, Battle began studying dance in high school at New World School of the Arts, where he recently spoke at a retirement party for Daniel Lewis, the schools founding dean of dance. Battle returns with the Ailey company for two programs honoring the 50th anniversary of Mr. Aileys masterwork Revelations, which will be presented at Arsht Centers Ziff Ballet Opera House on Thursday at 8 p.m. Other works include Battles The Hunt and Love Stories, drawing on African-American social dances and exploring notions of past, present, and future. Artistic Director Judith Jamison, hip-hop hero Rennie Harris, and Battle created the three distinct sections to tunes by Stevie Wonder.
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compliment, speak highly of, put on a pedestal
[Antonyms] disapprove of
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worship, adore, love, cherish, dote on, be enamoured of, be infatuated with, be taken with, be attracted to, find attractive;
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British informal fancy
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A new discovery! The butterfly house at the Milwaukee Public Museum. We googled butterfly houses and there it was... only a couple hours away.
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Friedman and Pinochet consulted openly and shared a basic disdain for social programs and progressive taxation. "The major error, in my opinion," Friedman wrote in a letter to Pinochet in 1975, referring to the government antipoverty programs Pinochet dismantled, was "to believe that it is possible to do good with other people's money."
The model Pinochet and Friedman developed in Chile would eventually go global — promoted by its top cheerleaders, Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — and be implemented (with disastrous results for most citizens but creating huge profits for wealthy individuals and corporations) in Indonesia, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Russia, Poland, South Africa, Japan, and elsewhere.
But with the corporate media and conservative opinion-shapers focused mostly on economic growth — ignoring persistent poverty and the brutal tactics used to suppress the popular movements that tried to resist Friedman's "economic shock therapy" — Friedman had become a sort of free-market prophet by the time he died in 2006.
"In the torrent of words written in eulogy to Milton Friedman, the role of shocks and crises to advance his worldview received barely a mention," Klein wrote. "Instead, the economist's passing provided an occasion for a retelling of the official story of how his brand of radical capitalism became government orthodoxy in almost every corner of the globe."
California's fiscal shackles have been in place since 1978, when Proposition 13 and subsequent measures capped property taxes and required an undemocratic two-thirds vote to either raise taxes or pass the annual budget.
A Republican landlord lobbyist named Howard Jarvis charged onto the field that Reagan, Uhler, and their team had prepared and took advantage of a gaping hole in political leadership to set off a movement that would cripple the United States of America.
There was some logic to it then. Times were good in California in the 1970s, good enough that people were flocking to the state by the millions. That was driving up property values — and thus property taxes.
Jarvis bought his home for $8,000 in 1946; 30 years later, it was assessed at $80,000. In fact, inflation was running at close to 10 percent a year in California. Homeowners were getting huge tax hikes each year, and tenants were getting huge rent hikes at a time when state government had a budget surplus.
Homeowners saw millions of dollars sitting in the coffers in Sacramento while they couldn't pay their tax bills. Yet nobody in the Legislature or governor's office came up with a solution.
So when Jarvis showed up with petitions to roll back property taxes and prevent future increases, he found a broad base of support. Even tenants went along — Jarvis and his gang promised that property-tax cuts would be passed on to tenants and would mean the end of the escautf8g rent hikes.
Jarvis collected signatures for a radical measure that essentially blocked all property tax increases and allowed new assessment only when a parcel sold. It was, in the end, a huge tax giveaway to major corporations. Since commercial property turned over far less often than residential property (and since commercial sales could be hidden as stock transfers), big businesses wound up paying far less of the state's tax burden. Corporations used to pay about two-thirds of the state's property taxes, and individuals one-third; now that is reversed.
It didn't help tenants, either. Few of the landlords who saw the benefits of Prop. 13 passed the money along to their renters. Most just kept it. San Francisco activist Calvin Welch likes to say that Howard Jarvis was "the father of rent control."
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