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Favored Lincolnshire Stevenson pulled away from a halftime tie to beat Auburn 63-49 Tuesday at the NIU Supersectional to set up a Class 4A state semifinal with state-title co-favorite Chicago Whitney Young.
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"We tried to stop him," Auburn guard Laytwan Porter said. "We did a good job helping every time he drove, but he's a good player."
Brunson scored all 13 points for Stevenson (31-1) in the second quarter, but Auburn was tied because all the other Patriots shot a combined 3-for-14 in the first half.
"Our defense, for most of the game, the effort was there," Auburn center Malik Minor said. "Just some minor mistakes on rotations. We let Brunson get in a rhythm. When players like that get in a rhythm, they are hard to stop."
And Auburn simply had too many turnovers. Zayvious Hoover kept Auburn close for awhile with 13 points and four 3-pointers and Antoine Pittman had 14 points and 12 rebounds after having only one point at halftime.
But Auburn could never get closer than six points in the fourth quarter. Not with 19 turnovers in the game to Stevenson's eight.
"It was very frustrating," Pittman said. "Turnovers kill you."
"I'm proud of these guys for their response," Ott said. "You didn't see them quit. When things were going south for us and we couldn't get back over the hump, you saw them keep grinding.
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ESSAY- George Garrett: A fond-- if premature-- epitaph
The following essay appeared in the Blue Penny Quarterly Review in 1996. Today, its subject matter seems eerily apt given the death over the weekend of prolific writer and UVA professor George Garrett.
A few days before Christmas, George Garrett showed me a letter he had just opened. A prominent publishing house had written to "The Estate of George Garrett" requesting two poems by the deceased writer for an anthology they were putting together. Deceased? But here he was standing in his front yard in his golfer's cap and winter jacket, doing his easy laugh over a publisher's macabre blunder. So much for literary celebrity. I joked that he should give them what they want– play dead and charge them double. A writer dead, after all, is worth twice as much as he is alive.
"I think they'd figure us out," he said, still laughing. "That's the sort of thing they eventually check."
After I'd had some time to think about it, this letter began to get under my skin. It wasn't altogether surprising that, in a world where publishers know what John Grisham had for breakfast, where Stephen King's band gets their picture in People Magazine's "Star Tracks," someone at a reputable press– a self-proclaimed "literary" press– would mistake a writer of Garrett's caliber for dead, but it was still a bit unsettling.
After all, the man has published six books of poetry, seven story collections, three plays, several books of non-fiction, and eight novels, with a ninth due out early in 1996– all to critical acclaim. He has had an editorial hand in countless projects and has probably done more to help young writers than anyone in the business. A reviewer for the Virginia Quarterly Review called him "one of the most innovative and artistic writers of his generation, a writer whose prose is lyrically intense and whose perception is subtle and genuine."
Admittedly, I'm biased. I'm one of those young writers he has helped. But it's terrible to think that such a mistake is possible, that there's an editor anywhere in the country not aware that George Garrett is alive and well and as prolific as ever. Okay, I've gotten that out of my system, and I apologize for it. We, the barely published, are quick to righteousness when it comes to the evils of the publishing industry.
George wasn't angry though, and I imagine he would have found my distress as amusing as that morbid editor's mistake, would have shrugged it away with what Richard Bausch calls "that impatience he has always had for the kind of worry that's indulgent or beside the point."
The letter will probably make for the beginnings of a story told to a howling audience at a cocktail party somewhere. George is always telling stories. (When I went back to ask permission to mention his letter in this article, he told me about another letter, this one from a clipping agency, that he found in a recent copy of Troilus and Cressyda, that began something like "Dear Mr. Chaucer, we've been seeing your name in the news a lot lately and were wondering if you'd like us to collect your clippings for you...."
And he would be right in his amusement, for no writer worth pen and paper begins a career with the overt goal of achieving Grisham-esque celebrity. The odds against fame and fortune are far too great. Most writers– poets, novelists, biographers, whoever– begin, I think, with a love of the written word and a belief that they have something to say, something possibly useful, maybe important– at the very least, unique. The belief is often fraudulent; re-read this piece for confirmation. Maybe way back in the mind, unvoiced for fear of a jinx, is a writer's wish to be known. And tucked away even deeper, stashed in the most secret place of the heart– it's what I hope (knock wood)– I'll even wager it's what John Grisham hopes– is the dream that what he has said will be remembered.
George Garrett himself wrote, "The book season for any book except Stephen King is less than a year. But that's not really the life of the book– it's the commercial life of the book. Books live on in libraries. Someday, in some dusty place– this is an exciting idea for my books– somebody reaches up and finds it– it's there until the acid-rich paper used by crummy American publishers turns it to ashes, which may happen too. I'm not talking about posterity. I don't know about that."
Well, I am talking about posterity. Novelist Madison Smartt Bell, after reading Entered From The Sun, wrote that Garrett had "a firm claim to permanent greatness," and it could be that proof of his statement, albeit premature, can be found in the very letter that George showed me for a laugh.
Somewhere in America is an editor who, sincere in his belief in George Garrett's demise, still wants to publish his poetry. It gives me the creeps to write about, and I hope George won't mind the subject too much, but that letter hints at a future in which Garrett's words will outlive him. And no writer deserves to live forever more than George Garrett.
Twelve years after penning this tribute to Garrett, Michael Knight has now been published many times and directs the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.


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A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1984, and rescuers on Tuesday began a dangerous and possibly futile attempt to rescue four others still missing.
Crews were bulldozing an access road so they could drill 1,000 feet into the earth to try to find the missing miners feared dead after the Monday afternoon blast at a mine with a history of violations for not properly ventilating highly combustible methane.
Rescuers were being held back by poison gases that accumulated near the blast site, about 1.5 miles from the entrance to Massey Energy Co.'s sprawling Upper Big Branch mine.
Rescuers had to create an access road above it before they could begin drilling three shafts to release methane and carbon monoxide, Gov. Joe Manchin said at an early morning news briefing Tuesday. Drilling and ensuring rescuers can safely go in could take up to 12 hours, meaning the search was unlikely to resume before 6 p.m. Tuesday.
"It's going to be a long day and we're not going to have a lot of information until we can get the first hole through," Manchin said.
It had already been a long day for grieving relatives, some angry because they found out their loved ones were among the dead from government officials or a company Web site, not from Massey Energy executives.
"They're supposed to be a big company," said Michelle McKinney, who found out from a local official at a nearby school that her 62-year-old father, Benny R. Willingham, died in the blast. "These guys, they took a chance every day to work and make them big. And they couldn't even call us."
McKinney said her husband is a miner too and her 16-year-old son doesn't want him to go back to work. Willingham, who had mined for 30 years, the last 17 with Massey, was just five weeks from retiring and planned to take his wife on a cruise to the Virgin Islands next month.
Three members of the same family were also among the dead. Diana Davis said her husband, Timmy Davis, 51, died in the explosion along with his nephews, Josh Napper, 27, and Cory Davis, 20.
The elder Davis' son, Timmy Davis Jr., said his brother, Cody Davis, and an uncle, Tommy Davis, were also at the mine at the time and survived the blast. He said his brother was taking it particularly hard because he and their father were best friends.
Timmy Davis Jr. described his dad as passionate about the outdoors and the mines.
"He loved to work underground," the younger Davis said. "He loved that place."
President Barack Obama offered his condolences at an Easter prayer breakfast in Washington on Tuesday and said the federal government is ready to assist with whatever the state needs. He also asked the audience to pray for those lost in what he called a tragic accident.
Kevin Stricklin, an administrator for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said the situation looked grim for the missing miners.
"All we have left is hope, and we're going to continue to do what we can," he said.
Officials hoped the four miners still unaccounted for were able to reach airtight chambers stocked with food, water and enough oxygen for them to live for four days, but rescue teams checked one of two such chambers nearby and it was empty. The buildup of gases prevented teams from reaching other chambers, officials said.
A total of 31 miners were in the area during a shift change when the explosion rocked the mine, about 30 miles south of Charleston.
"Before you knew it, it was just like your ears stopped up, you couldn't hear and the next thing you know, it's just like you're just right in the middle of a tornado," miner Steve Smith, who heard the explosion but was able to escape, told ABC's "Good Morning America."
Some of those killed may have died in the blast and others when they breathed in the gas-filled air, Stricklin said. Eleven bodies had been recovered and identified, but the other 14 have not. Names weren't released publicly..
He said investigators still don't know what ignited the blast, but methane likely played a part.
The death toll is the highest in a U.S. mine since 1984, when 27 died in a fire at Emery Mining Corp.'s mine in Orangeville, Utah. If the four missing bring the total to 29, it would be the most killed in a U.S. mine since a 1970 explosion killed 38 at Finley Coal Co., in Hyden, Ky.
"There's always danger. There's so many ways you can get hurt, or your life taken," said Gary Williams, a miner and pastor of New Life Assembly, a church near the southern West Virginia mine. "It's not something you dread every day, but there's always that danger. But for this area, it's the only way you're going to make a living."
Though the situation looked bleak, Manchin said miracles can happen and pointed to the 2006 Sago Mine explosion that killed 12. Crews found miner Randal McCloy Jr. alive after he was trapped for more than 40 hours in an atmosphere poisoned with carbon monoxide.
In Monday's blast, nine miners were leaving on a vehicle that takes them in and out of the mine's long shaft when a crew ahead of them felt a blast of air and went back to investigate, Stricklin said.
They found seven workers dead. Others were hurt or missing about a mile and a half inside the mine, though there was some confusion over how many. Others made it out.
In a statement early Tuesday, Massey Chairman and CEO Don Blankenship offered his condolences to the families of the dead.
Massey Energy, a publicly traded company based in Richmond, Va., has 2.2 billion tons of coal reserves in southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia and Tennessee. It ranks among the nation's top five coal producers and is among the industry's most profitable. It has a spotty safety record.
In the past year, federal inspectors fined the company more than $382,000 for repeated serious violations involving its ventilation plan and equipment at Upper Big Branch.
Methane is one of the great dangers of coal mining, and federal records say the Eagle coal seam releases up to 2 million cubic feet of methane gas into the Upper Big Branch mine every 24 hours, which is a large amount, said Dennis O'Dell, health and safety director for the United Mine Workers labor union.
In mines, giant fans are used to keep the colorless, odorless gas concentrations below certain levels. If concentrations are allowed to build up, the gas can explode with a spark roughly similar to the static charge created by walking across a carpet in winter, as at the Sago mine, also in West Virginia.
Since then, federal and state regulators have required mine operators to store extra oxygen supplies. Upper Big Branch uses containers that can generate about an hour of breathable air, and all miners carry a container on their belts besides the stockpiles inside the mine. Upper Big Branch has had three other fatalities in the last dozen years.
Upper Big Branch has 19 openings and roughly 7-foot ceilings. Inside, it's crisscrossed with railroad tracks used for hauling people and equipment. It is located in a mine-laced swath of Raleigh and Boone counties that is the heart of West Virginia's coal country.
The seam produced 1.2 million tons of coal in 2009, according to the mine safety agency, and has about 200 employees.
Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed, Vicki Smith, Tom Breen and Tim Huber in West Virginia and Sam Hananel in Washington contributed to this report.
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Ever so slowly, the community around Oceanside's Libby Lake Park is healing from the March 13 park shooting in which two teens were killed and two wounded.
"The day after the shooting, it was a very somber day. A lot of the kids were crying; all they wanted to do was talk about the shooting or just be here," said Jimmy Figueroa, site director of Project REACH, a Vista Community Clinic teen program that is held in the city resource center near the park.
The teens in the program wanted to do something to help their friends and to take back their neighborhood, Figueroa said.
Today, they'll take a step in that direction with a morning rummage sale to raise money for the families of the shooting victims and an afternoon project by North Coast Church to paint and clean up the resource center at 4700 North River Road.
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The teens enrolled in the REACH program — as many as 50 — have been bringing in clothing, furniture and a range of household goods for the sale.
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The most seriously injured of the teens, David Garcia, needs money to cover the cost of the physical therapy and counseling he needs to recover from the shooting, said his 21-year-old brother, Juan.
The younger Garcia, who just turned 18 this week, is home, but the shooting has left him emotionally and physically scarred, his brother said. Garcia was shot twice in the head and four times in the body.
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2.6.6 The Southern Hemisphere
Since the SAR there has been more emphasis on analysis of decadal variability over the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere gridded SLP data for the period 1950 to 1994 show two dominant modes in annual average values, similar to those identified by Karoly et al. (1996) using station data. The first mode unambiguously represents the Southern Oscillation and reflects the tendency towards more frequent and intense negative phases over the past several decades. The second mode represents anomalies throughout the mid-latitude regions across the Indian Ocean and western Pacific, which contrast with anomalies elsewhere.
The Trans-Polar Index (TPI) is the only large-scale station pressure-based extra-tropical Southern Hemisphere circulation index in regular use. It is based on the normalised pressure difference between New Zealand and South America and has been recalculated and extended by Jones et al. (1999b). On decadal and longer time-scales the TPI reflects movement in the phase of wave number one around the Southern Hemisphere. Troughing (low pressure) was more frequent in the New Zealand region in the 1920s, and at a maximum in the 1940s. Anticyclonicity was favoured from the late 1950s to 1976, with troughing in the South American sector. Troughing was again apparent in the New Zealand sector in the 1990s (Salinger et al., 1996).
A leading mode of variability in the extra-tropical Southern Hemisphere circulation on interannual to multi-decadal time-scales is a zonally elongated north-south dipole structure over the Pacific, stretching from the sub-tropics to the Antarctic coast (Mo and Higgins, 1998; Kidson, 1999; Kiladis and Mo, 1999). It is strongly related to ENSO variability. The lower-frequency dipole structure contributes to variability in blocking frequency across the far south Pacific (Renwick, 1998; Renwick and Revell, 1999).
ENSO variability is also implicated in the modulation of a "High Latitude Mode" (HLM) (Kidson, 1988; Karoly, 1990), especially over the austral summer. The HLM is now also called the "Antarctic Oscillation" (AAO); they appear to be the same phenomenon with the same structure (Thompson and Wallace, 2000). The AAO is a zonal pressure fluctuation between mid- and high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, centred on 55 to 60°S. It has recently been further studied (Gong and Wang, 1999c; Kidson, 1999; Thompson and Wallace, 2001; Figure 2.31) and shown to extend into the lower stratosphere between the Antarctic and the sub-tropical latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. The AAO appears to persist all year but may be most active from mid-October to mid-December when it extends into the stratosphere (Thompson and Wallace, 2001). In its high index phase, it consists of low pressure or heights above the Antarctic and the near Southern Ocean with high heights north of about 50oS. Although the data are sparse, there is evidence that, like the NAO, the AAO has tended to move more towards a positive index phase, despite lower pressures being observed over the New Zealand region during the 1990s. This change is also associated with with increasing westerly winds in mid-latitudes. Thompson and Wallace (2001) show that most of Antarctica is rather cold in this phase, except for the Antarctic Peninsula which is warm due to additional advection of relatively warm air from seas to the west. This may explain some of the behaviour of Antarctic temperatures in the last two decades (Figure 2.10; Comiso, 2000).
Other work has identified the likely existence of an Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) (Jacobs and Mitchell, 1996; White and Peterson, 1996), a multi-annual climate signal in the Southern Ocean, with co-varying and perhaps coupled SST and SLP anomalies that move around the Southern Ocean. Its long-term variability is not yet known.2.6.7 Summary
The interannual variability of ENSO has fluctuated substantially over the last century, with notably reduced variability during the period 1920 to 1960, compared with adjacent periods. It remains unclear whether global warming has influenced the shift towards less frequent La Niña episodes from 1976 to 1998, including the abnormally protracted ENSO 1990 to 1995 event and the exceptionally strong 1982/83 and 1997/98 events. Analysis of SST patterns indicates that a global warming pattern may have increased the background temperature in the region most affected by ENSO, but there is some ambiguity in the details of this pattern.
Since the SAR, ENSO-like' features operating on decadal to multi-decadal time-scales have been identified, such as the PDO and IPO. They appear to be part of a continuous spectrum of ENSO variability that has subtly changing SST patterns as time-scales increase and which may have distinctive effects on regional climate around the Pacific basin. For the period since 1900, El Niño (La Niña) events are more prevalent during positive (negative) phases of the IPO.
In the Northern Hemisphere, pronounced changes in winter atmospheric and oceanic circulations over the North Pacific in the 1970s (the North Pacific Oscillation) have been paralleled by wintertime circulation changes over the North Atlantic, recorded by the NAO. In the North Pacific, spatially coherent changes have occurred in surface temperature across the North Pacific and western North America, while the enhanced westerly phase of the NAO has caused considerable winter half-year temperature and precipitation changes over a vast area of extra-tropical Eurasia. In the Southern Hemisphere, a feature quite like the NAO, the HLM or the AAO, also appears to have moved into an enhanced westerly phase in middle latitudes.
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|Acquired by Bell Atlantic
|Verizon Communications
|Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
|Telephone, internet, television
|GTE Southwest
Verizon California
Verizon Florida
Verizon North
Verizon South
Hawaiian Telephone
Puerto Rico Telephone
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982),[1] was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than that, until 2000, when it was acquired by Bell Atlantic; the combined company took the name Verizon.
The Wisconsin-based Associated Telephone Utilities Company was founded in 1926; it went bankrupt in 1933 during the Great Depression, and was reorganized as General Telephone in 1934.[2] In 1991, it acquired the third largest independent, Continental Telephone (ConTel).[3] It owned Automatic Electric, a telephone equipment supplier similar in many ways to Western Electric, and Sylvania Lighting, the only non-communications-oriented company under GTE ownership. GTE provided local telephone service to many areas of the U.S. through operating companies, much as American Telephone & Telegraph provided local telephone service through its 22 Bell Operating Companies.
The company acquired BBN Planet, one of the earliest Internet service providers, in 1997. That division became known as GTE Internetworking, and was later spun off into the independent company Genuity (a name recycled from another Internet company GTE acquired in 1997) to satisfy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements regarding the GTE-Bell Atlantic merger that created Verizon.[4]
GTE operated in Canada via large interests in subsidiary companies such as BC Tel and Quebec-Téléphone. When foreign ownership restrictions on telecommunications companies were introduced, GTE's ownership was grandfathered. When BC Tel merged with Telus (the name given the privatized Alberta Government Telephones (AGT)) to create BCT.Telus, GTE's Canadian subsidiaries were merged into the new parent, making it the second-largest telecommunications carrier in Canada. As such, GTE's successor, Verizon Communications, was the only foreign telecommunications company with a greater than 20% interest in a Canadian carrier, until Verizon completely divested itself of its shares in 2004.[5]
In the Caribbean, CONTEL purchased several major stakes in the newly independent countries of the British West Indies (namely in Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago).[6][7][8]
Prior to GTE's merger with Bell Atlantic, GTE also maintained an interactive television service joint-venture called GTE mainStreet (sometimes also called mainStreet USA) as well as an interactive entertainment and video game publishing operation, GTE Interactive Media.[9][10][11]
In 1918, Wisconsin public utility accountants John F. O'Connell, Sigurd L. Odegard, and John A. Pratt pooled $33,500 to purchase the Richland Center Telephone Company, serving 1,466 telephones in Wisconsin's dairy belt. In 1920, the three accountants formed Commonwealth Telephone Company as the parent of Richland Center Telephone, with Odegard as president, Pratt as vice-president, and O'Connell as secretary. In 1922, Pratt resigned as vice-president and was replaced by Clarence R. Brown, a former Bell System employee.[12]
Commonwealth Telephone expanded across southern Wisconsin, and made its first purchase outside the state later in the decade when it bought Belvidere Telephone Company in Illinois. It also diversified by acquiring two electric utilities in Wisconsin. Expansion was stepped up in 1926, when Odegard secured an option to purchase Associated Telephone Company of Long Beach, California. Later that year, Commonwealth Telephone and Associated Telephone merged as Associated Telephone Utilities.
During its first six years, Associated Telephone Utilities acquired 340 telephone companies in the West, Midwest and East, which were consolidated into 45 companies operating more than 437,000 telephones in 25 states. By the time the stock market bottomed out in October 1929, Associated Telephone Utilities was operating about 500,000 telephones with revenues approaching $17 million.
In January 1930, a new subsidiary, Associated Telephone Investment Company, was established. Designed to support its parent's acquisition program, the new company's primary business was buying company stock in order to bolster its market value. Within two years, the investment company had incurred major losses, and a $1 million loan had to be negotiated. Associated Telephone Investment dissolved, but not soon enough to keep Associated Telephone from lapsing into receivership in 1933.
General Telephone[edit]
The company was reorganized that same year, and two years later was reorganized as General Telephone Corporation, operating 12 newly consolidated companies. John Winn, a 26-year veteran of the Bell System, was named president. In 1936, General Telephone created a new subsidiary, General Telephone Directory Company, to publish directories for the parent's entire service area.
Like other businesses, the telephone industry was under government restrictions during World War II, and General Telephone was called upon to increase services at military bases and war-production factories. Following the war, General Telephone reactivated an acquisitions program that had been dormant for more than a decade and purchased 118,000 telephone lines between 1946 and 1950. In 1950, General Telephone purchased its first telephone-equipment manufacturing subsidiary, Leich Electric Company, along with the related Leich Sales Corporation.
General Telephone's holdings included 15 telephone companies across 20 states by 1951, when Donald C. Power (attorney, utilities commissioner and former executive secretary for Ohio Governor John Bricker) was named president of the company under chairman and long-time GT executive Morris F. LaCroix, replacing the retiring Harold Bozell (president 1940 - 1951). Power proceeded to expand the company through the 1950s principally through two acquisitions.
In 1955, Theodore Gary & Company, the second-largest independent telephone company, which had 600,000 telephone lines, was merged into General Telephone, which had grown into the largest independent outside the Bell System. The merger gave the company 2.5 million lines. Theodore Gary's assets included telephone operations in the Dominican Republic, British Columbia, and the Philippines, as well as Automatic Electric, the second-largest telephone equipment manufacturer in the U.S. It also had a subsidiary, named the General Telephone and Electric Corporation, formed in 1930 with the Transamerica Corporation and British investors to compete against ITT.[13]
In 1959, General Telephone and Sylvania Electric Products merged, and the parent's name was changed to General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (GT&E). The merger gave Sylvania - a leader in such industries as lighting, television and radio, and chemistry and metallurgy - the needed capital to expand. For General Telephone, the merger meant the added benefit of Sylvania's extensive research and development capabilities in the field of electronics. Power also orchestrated other acquisitions in the late 1950s, including Peninsular Telephone Company in Florida, with 300,000 lines, and Lenkurt Electric Company, Inc., a leading producer of microwave and data transmissions systems.
In 1960, the subsidiary GT&E International Incorporated was formed to consolidate manufacturing and marketing activities of Sylvania, Automatic Electric, and Lenkurt, outside the United States. Power was named C.E.O. and chairman in 1961, making way for Leslie H. Warner, formerly of Theodore Gary, to become president. During the next several years, the scope of GT&E's research, development, and marketing activities was broadened. In 1963, Sylvania began full-scale production of color television picture tubes, and within two years, it was supplying color tubes for 18 of the 23 domestic U.S. television manufacturers. About the same time, Automatic Electric began supplying electronic switching equipment for the U.S. defense department's global communications systems, and GT&E International began producing earth-based stations for both foreign and domestic markets. GT&E's telephone subsidiaries, meanwhile, began acquiring community-antenna television systems (CATV) franchises in their operating areas.
In 1964, Warner orchestrated a deal that merged Western Utilities Corporation, the nation's second-largest independent telephone company, with 635,000 telephones, into GT&E. The following year Sylvania introduced the revolutionary four-sided flashcube, enhancing its position as the world's largest flashbulb producer. Acquisitions in telephone service continued under Warner during the mid-1960s. Purchases included Quebec Telephone in Canada, Hawaiian Telephone Company, and Northern Ohio Telephone Company and added a total of 622,000 telephone lines to GT&E operations. By 1969, GT&E was serving ten million telephones.
In the late 1960s, GT&E joined in the search for a railroad car Automatic Car Identification system. It designed the KarTrak optical system, which won over other manufacturer's systems in field trials, but ultimately proved to need too much maintenance. In the late 1970s the system was abandoned.
In March 1970, GT&E's New York City headquarters was bombed by a radical antiwar group in protest of the company's participation in defense work. In December of that year the GT&E board agreed to move the company's headquarters to Stamford, Connecticut. In 1971 GT&E undertook an identity change and became simply GTE, while Sylvania Electric Products became GTE Sylvania.[14] The same year, Donald C. Power retired and Leslie H. Warner became chairman of the Board. Theodore F. Brophy was brought in as president.
After first proposing to build separate satellite systems, GTE and its telecommunications rival, American Telephone & Telegraph, announced in 1974 joint venture plans for the construction and operation of seven earth-based stations interconnected by two satellites. Also in 1974 Sylvania acquired name and distribution rights for Philco television and stereo products. GTE International expanded its activities during the same period, acquiring television manufacturers in Canada and Israel and a telephone manufacturer in Germany.
In 1976, newly elected chairman Theodore F. Brophy reorganized the company along five global product lines: communications, lighting, consumer electronics, precision materials, and electrical equipment. GTE International was phased out during the reorganization, and GTE Products Corporation was formed to encompass both domestic and foreign manufacturing and marketing operations. At the same time, GTE Communications Products was formed to oversee operations of Automatic Electric, Lenkurt, Sylvania, and GTE Information Systems. In 1979, another reorganization soon followed under new president Thomas A. Vanderslice. GTE Products Group was eliminated as an organizational unit and GTE Electrical Products, consisting of lighting, precision materials, and electrical equipment, was formed. Vanderslice also revitalized the GT&E Telephone Operating Group in order to develop competitive strategies for anticipated regulatory changes in the telecommunications industry.
In 1979, GTE purchased Telenet to establish a presence in the growing packet switching data communications business. GTE Telenet was later included in the US Telecom joint venture.
GT&E sold its consumer electronics businesses, including the accompanying brand names of Philco and Sylvania to Philips in 1981, after watching revenues from television and radio operations decrease precipitously with the success of foreign manufacturers. Following AT&T's 1982 announcement that it would divest 22 telephone operating companies, GT&E made a number of reorganization moves.
In 1982, the company adopted the name GTE Corporation and formed GTE Mobilnet Incorporated to handle the company's entrance into the new cellular telephone business. In 1983 GTE sold its electrical equipment, brokerage information services, and cable television equipment businesses. That same year, Automatic Electric and Lenkurt were combined as GTE Network Systems.
GTE became the third-largest long-distance telephone company in 1983 through the acquisition of Southern Pacific Communications Company. At the same time, Southern Pacific Satellite Company was acquired, and the two firms were renamed GTE Sprint Communications Corporation and GTE Spacenet Corporation, respectively. Through an agreement with the Department of Justice, GTE conceded to keep Sprint Communications separate from its other telephone companies and limit other GTE telephone subsidiaries in certain markets. In December 1983 Vanderslice resigned as president and chief operating officer.
In 1984, GTE formalized its decision to concentrate on three core businesses: telecommunications, lighting, and precision metals. That same year, the company's first satellite was launched, and GTE's cellular telephone service went into operation; GTE's earnings exceeded $1 billion for the first time. In 1986, GTE acquired Airfone Inc., a telephone service provider for commercial aircraft and railroads, and Rotaflex plc, a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of lighting fixtures.
Beginning in 1986, GTE spun off several operations to form joint ventures. That same year, GTE Sprint and United Telecommunication's long-distance subsidiary, US Telecom, agreed to merge and form US Sprint Communications Company, with each parent retaining a 50 percent interest in the new firm. That same year, GTE transferred its international transmission, overseas central office switching, and business systems operations to a joint venture with Siemens AG of Germany, which took 80 percent ownership of the new firm. The following year, GTE transferred its business systems operations in the United States to a new joint venture, Fujitsu GTE Business Systems, Inc., formed with Fujitsu Limited, which retained 80 percent ownership.
In April 1988, after the retirement of Theodore F. Brophy, James L. "Rocky" Johnson was promoted from his position as president and chief operating officer to CEO of GTE, he was appointed chairman in 1991.[15] Under his leadership, GTE divested its consumer communications products unit as part of a telecommunications strategy to place increasing emphasis on the services sector. The following year GTE sold the majority of its interest in US Sprint to United Telecommunications and its interest in Fujitsu GTE Business Systems to Fujitsu.
In 1989, GTE and AT&T formed the joint venture company AG Communication Systems Corporation, designed to bring advanced digital technology to GTE's switching systems. GTE retained 51 percent control over the joint venture, with AT&T pledging to take complete control of the new firm in 15 years.
With an increasing emphasis on telecommunications, in 1989 GTE launched a program to become the first cellular provider offering nationwide service and introduced the nation's first rural service area, providing cellular service on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The following year GTE acquired the Providence Journal Company's cellular properties in five southern states for $710 million and became the second largest cellular-service provider in the United States.
In 1990, GTE reorganized its activities around three business groups: telecommunications products and services, telephone operations, and electrical products. That same year, GTE and Contel Corporation announced merger plans that would strengthen GTE's telecommunications and telephone sectors.
Following action or review by more than 20 governmental bodies, in March 1991 the merger of GTE and Contel was approved. Over half of Contel's $6.6 billion purchase price, $3.9 billion, was assumed debt. In April 1992, James L. "Rocky" Johnson retired after 43 years at GTE, remaining on the GTE board of directors as Chairman Emeritus. Charles "Chuck" Lee was named to succeed Johnson. Lee's first order of business was reduction of that obligation. He sold GTE's North American Lighting business to a Siemens affiliate for over $1 billion, shaved off local exchange properties in Idaho, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia to generate another $1 billion, and divested its interest in Sprint in 1992. In 1994, he sold its GTE Spacenet satellite operations to General Electric and sold Contel of Maine to Oxford Networks, which placed the company into a newly created subsidiary, Oxford West Telephone.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 promised to encourage competition among local phone providers, long distance services, and cable television companies. Many leading telecoms prepared for the new competitive realities by aligning themselves with entertainment and information providers. GTE, on the other hand, continued to focus on its core operations, seeking to make them as efficient as possible.
Among other goals, GTE's plan sought to double revenues and slash costs by $1 billion per year by focusing on five key areas of operation: technological enhancement of wireline and wireless systems, expansion of data services, global expansion, and diversification into video services. GTE hoped to cross-sell its large base of wireline customers on wireless, data and video services, launching Tele-Go, a user-friendly service that combined cordless and cellular phone features. The company bought broadband spectrum cellular licenses in Atlanta, Seattle, Cincinnati and Denver, and formed a joint venture with SBC Communications to enhance its cellular capabilities in Texas. In 1995, the company undertook a 15-state test of video conferencing services, as well as a video dialtone (VDT) experiment that proposed to offer cable television programming to 900,000 homes by 1997. GTE also formed a video programming and interservices joint venture with Ameritech Corporation, BellSouth Corporation, SBC, and The Walt Disney Company in the fall of 1995.
Foreign efforts included affiliations with phone companies in Argentina, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and China. The early 1990s reorganization included a 37.5 percent workforce reduction, from 177,500 in 1991 to 111,000 by 1994. Lee's fivefold strategy had begun to bear fruit by the mid-1990s. While the communication conglomerate's sales remained rather flat, at about $19.8 billion, from 1992 through 1994, its net income increased by 43.7 percent, from $1.74 billion to a record $2.5 billion, during the same period.[12]
Acquisition by Bell Atlantic[edit]
Bell Atlantic acquired GTE on June 30, 2000, and named the new entity Verizon Communications. The GTE operating companies retained by Verizon are now collectively known as Verizon West division of Verizon (including east coast service territories). The remaining smaller operating companies were sold off or transferred into the remaining ones. Additional properties were sold off within a few years after the merger to CenturyTel, Alltel, and Hawaiian Telcom. On July 1, 2010, Verizon sold many former GTE properties to Frontier Communications.[16] Other GTE territories in California, Florida, and Texas were sold to Frontier in 2015 and transferred in 2016, thus ending Verizon's landline operations outside of the historic Bell Atlantic footprint.[17] Verizon still operates phone service in non-Bell System areas in Pennsylvania under Verizon North, and in non-Bell System areas in Virginia and Knotts Island, North Carolina under Verizon South.
Operating companies[edit]
Prior to the acquisition with Bell Atlantic, GTE owned the following operating companies in the US:[18]
- Contel of Minnesota, Inc.
- Contel of the South, Inc. (Alabama, Indiana, Michigan)
- GTE Alaska Incorporated
- GTE Arkansas Incorporated
- GTE California Incorporated (Arizona, California, Nevada)
- GTE Florida Incorporated
- GTE Hawaiian Telephone Company, Inc.
- GTE Midwest Incorporated (Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska)
- GTE North Incorporated (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin)
- GTE Northwest Incorporated (Idaho, Oregon, Washington)
- GTE South Incorporated (Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Wisconsin)
- GTE Southwest Incorporated (Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
- GTE West Coast Incorporated (California)
Following the acquisition with Bell Atlantic, some of these companies and/or access lines have been sold off to other companies, such as Alltel, ATEAC,[19] The Carlyle Group, CenturyTel, Citizens/Frontier Communications, and Valor Telecom.
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WHEN KEN GREEN TEES it up on Thursday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, he will likely be the first amputee to play in the Senior PGA Championship. Green will be allowed to use a golf cart. The 53-year-old tour veteran was granted an exemption because he was a U.S. Ryder Cup team member in 1989.
"I'm really psyched about the opportunity to play in the championship, because it's a wonderful venue and a wonderful championship," Green said at PGA.com.
Good for Ken Green. The man has been through hell.
In June 2009 a right-front tire on Green's RV blew out on a Mississippi interstate highway. Green and passengers tumbled down an embankment and struck a large oak tree, killing everyone except Green—his brother, his girl friend and his dog, a German Shepard that Green once rescued from an alligator attack in Florida. Not long after the former PGA Tour player lost his right leg below the knee and was fitted with a prosthetic limb. Green vowed that he would return to golf one day.
Then tragedy struck again in January 2010 when Green's 21-year-old son was found dead in a dorm room at Southern Methodist University. An autopsy revealed that a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs was the cause of death.
Green's golf comeback began about a year ago when he teamed with Mike Reid for a 26th-place tie at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf in Savannah, Georgia. He played in two more 2010 events and averaged just over 75 strokes per round. Not bad for an amputee competing on the Champions Tour, but certainly not the brash Ken Green who won five times on the PGA Tour.
The truth is, the scores and money totals don't matter much now. Just playing again is a major victory for a man who has lost his son, girl friend, brother, dog and leg.
"I believe that my story may be good for someone who has suffered a similar fate," Green said. "If I can serve as any encouragement to someone missing a limb or possibly a parent who may be able to bring a kid to the course, I feel my time will be well spent."
−The Armchair Golfer
(Photo credit: Keith Allison, Flickr, Creative Commons license)
Tuesday, May 24
Ken Green to Play in This Week's Senior PGA Championship
2 comments:
- Titleist said...
certainly had some tough breaks hope he does well
- Discover Golf said...
That is an incredible story I'm glad that he is taking the chance to get back into golf. I don't think many people would do as much considering all he has been through. Great story thanks@
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By: Alison Zeidman
In preparation for next week's Duofest – Alison Zeidman has done a series of interviews with some of the groups performing in the festival. First up is Philadelphia favorites Rosen & Milkshake. Keep an eye out for a cameo appearance from another Duofest performer (I won't ruin the surprise).
When their two other compatriots from Mr. Lizard (a 2008 Troika team) abandoned them for new lives and families down south, founding Improv Incubator members Charles Rosen and the beloved player best known simply as Milkshake decided to continue performing as a duo. After lengthy debate over what they'd themselves, they settled on a straightforward, purely descriptive new name: Rosen & Milkshake.
Alison Zeidman: So how did you guys meet?
Milkshake: I was taking a class with ComedySportz and so was Charles–I was level two, I think Charles was level three, and we met at the class show. Two and three had their show the same day I guess.
Charles Rosen: And then soon after Incubator started. We're founding Incubators.
AZ: Is that when you decided to form your duo?
M: No, the duo didn't start as a duo. How did Mr. Lizard start?
CR: That was a Troika group.
M: Mr. Lizard was a Troika group with Charles and two other players, both of whom have moved south. It was the three of them and then they asked me to play in one show, and then I just kept playing in other shows, and then one by one they moved off and it was just me and Charles, and I was like, this is no longer Mr. Lizard anymore. [phone rings]
M: I meant to shut this off! This is Kristen Schier, calling during an interview, and that' s my fault, entirely. Entirely my fault, that's terrible. [On phone] Is eveything OK?
Kristen Schier [on speakerphone]: Yeah everything's fine. I didn't catch what you said because a bus went past.
M: We're doing an interview. Rosen & Milkshake are being interviewed for WitOut, at this very moment.
KS: Oh OK, well I don't want to interrupt that!
M: Is everything OK? Can I do anything for you before I click back over to our interview?
KS: Oh no I just called to idly chat, so I will let you go.
M: OK, I'll talk to you soon. [hangs up] …Adorable.
Alison Zeidman: So how long ago did Mr. Lizard start, and then how long have you two been together as Rosen & Milkshake?
Charles Rosen: Mr. Lizard was 2008 Troika, and that was the year that we could all pick our own groups.
Milkshake: [We've been performing as Rosen & Milkshake] I believe at least a couple years. How many shows do you think we've done as a duo? That's what I want to know, because I remember the first show that we did and it was just the two of us, and I was concerned because we were expecting John Bussman [of Mr. Lizard] to be able to be there, and it went surprisingly well. I remember being very calm and relaxed, because the audience was dynamite. The audience was very receptive to whatever we were doing.
AZ: Did that influence your decision to become a duo later on, when the other members of Mr. Lizard had all moved away?
M: Well not necessarily, because we also had a really shitty show. The next time we did the duo it was not very strong, to me. I'm very critical of my own performances, and if I don't like most of the things that I'm doing, I'm really not happy.
AZ: When you guys perform, do you have a specific format or structure?
M: We pretty much stick to a monoscene.
CR: But with a lot of ghost characters in there.
M: By ghosts we mean like, because there's only two of us, if over in the corner someone is sitting down watching TV, and whoever's playing that character needs to run over to the other side of the room to portray another character, that guy's still there down in the corner watching TV. That's what we mean by ghost characters. Not…ghosts.
CR: Yeah, that would be like the Scooby Doo format.
AZ: Charles, tell me what you think are Milkshake's greatest improv strengths.
M: Oh, do go on.
CR: Well, he's very good at reacting to the shit I give him. And object work, his object work is excellent. Which is definitely not the case with me.
AZ: And Milkshake, what would you say about Charles?
M: Charles can say things that nobody else could make funny. And oftentimes it doesn't even need to be a fantastic character choice, and all I have to do is just lob things, just put objects in front of him to kick out of the field–to knock out of the park. To be specific, there was one character where we did a show at the library [as Mr. Lizard], and I've watched this scene over and over and over again because it was captured on video. Charles was a momma's boy, and John was scanning items at a checkout counter at a Pathmark, and I was operating another scanner, and I was like "Oh, look who's here, it's the momma's boy!" and we were like "Oh, are you here with your momma?" And he said, "actually, yes, she's buying groceries." And the way that it comes out of his mouth, nobody could deliver lines like this and get his kind of reation, because of his emotional quality and his cadence, the rhythm with which he speaks. There are things that are completely innocuous if they were said by somebody else, but when they come out of the mouth of Charles Rosen it's just–it makes my job a lot easier because I just have to kind of wait for him to find something to say.
AZ: What do you guys like about performing in your duo versus performing in a group?
M: The cool thing about doing a duo is that you're in every scene–and sometimes twice, because you have to do more in every scene. And it's a lot of work, but that's a lot of fun. And with Rosen & Milkshake, I think I feel particularly…in control, and not needing to be in control at the same time. It should be that way of every group, but I don't always feel that way. So I get to be in every scene, I get to be in every scene with this guy, and that's as close as I can get it–I feel a sense of control, without needing to be in control.
CR: It's definitely different being in a duo. I don't work with groups that often. I was on a group called Atomic Love which is on hiatus, and now I'm doing the [PHIT] Conservatory show, and it's a lot different. You have a backline, and I'm so used to not being on the backline; I'm always in every scene.
AZ: Are there any challenges that you guys have as a duo?
M: It's difficult doing one another's character. I find Charles inimitable, and so any endearing qualities that he has, if I try to do them, I just sound like a narcissistic asshole. Every time I think the audience is going to love me doing his character, and it just doesn't work. They don't care. They're pleased that the scene is still happening, but they are not pleased with my impersonation.
CR: And in our last F Harold show Milkshake was doing a Russian accent, and I don' t really have a Russian accent, so when I was being his character–
M: Can you try? [in Russian accent] Can you do a Russian accent right now?
CR: [in "Russian" accent] I will try to do Russian accent.
M: That was probably more Ukraine. Or Ottoman Empire.
CR: So [in the show] it kind of became a little game that I couldn't get the accent exactly right.
AZ: What are you guys looking forward to about performing in Duofest?
M: How's our slot in Duofest? Let's comment on that.
CR: We're opening slot. It's like 8 o'clock on Thursday.
M: Not a bad slot. Not a bad slot.
CR: Yeah, that's a good slot. And it's actually really good because my mom is giong to be able to come for it. So it worked out well. But Duofest is always a lot of fun, it's such a great weekend. There are so many great duos coming in.
See Milkshake & Rosen perform in Duofest at the Shubin Theatre on Thursday, June 7th at 8 pm. Get advance tickets (or full weekend passes) at http://duofest.ticketleap.com/duofest-2012-thursday-8pm.
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Rookie tight end Greg Olsen made not only his first appearance but his first receptions as a Chicago Bear. With six minutes left in the first quarter Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys, Rex Grossman hit Olsen for a 7-yard gain that helped set up Chicago's only first half points. His reception came on the 11th snap of a 15-play drive. Olsen, the team's first-round pick from Miami, Fla., missed the first two games with a knee injury suffered in the final preseason game. Olsen also caught a 21-yard pass to the Dallas 1 to set up a scoring run by Cedric Benson on the ensuing play midway through the third quarter.
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There are the general history buffs who read lots of books or even documents, attend lectures and events, and sometimes translate that knowledge into speaking and writing for other laypeople. A century and a half ago, these people were called "historians." But then history became an academic discipline, with benefits (rigorous training and methods, salaries to support research and writing time, resources for publication, &c.) and drawbacks (the insularity of and within the academy).
Another group consists of material-culture buffs, who can be classified in two overlapping categories: reenactors and collectors. The knowledge some of these folks accumulate is amazing. And their stuff—they invest their salaries in museum-quality artifacts and hand-made recreations worth hundreds of dollars. As buffs, they're enthusiastic about that knowledge and usually glad to share it.
Reenactors live aspects of the past, too. They know how to shoot eighteenth-century muskets and all the upkeep those guns need. They study drills manuals and actually try them out. "Living historians" know what it's like to sew ladies' stays by hand and to wear those stays. A political historian can write many articles about John Adams and never ask how his breeches hung; a reenactor trying to provide an accurate impression of an eighteenth-century gentleman needs to know that.
Yet another group of history buffs are the genealogists. They tend to study linear—or lineal—slices of history rather than the horizontal swaths of a single period. I remember attending my first meeting of genealogists at a library several years ago; as I introduced myself, I heard a murmur from all directions: "What lines? What lines?" In other words, what family names was I researching? I had to explain that I was using genealogical techniques and sources to look for links among Revolutionary Bostonians, and I didn't really care about their ancestors or descendants. But I could do that only because genealogy buffs had produced and preserved so many resources.
Finally, there are indefatigable data-gatherers like Philip Lampi, who collected election results from the early republic from newspapers, and George Quintal, Jr., author of the National Park Service report on Patriots of Color in 1775. Those gents spent days in front of microfilm readers on their own time and their own dime before the larger historical community recognized the value of their work.
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I also think it's valuable for academic historians considering the gap between scholarly and popular history to understand something buffs are not: they're not the public.
TOMORROW: The popular audience.
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