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4030732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/121P/Shoemaker%E2%80%93Holt | 121P/Shoemaker–Holt | 121P/Shoemaker–Holt, also known as Shoemaker-Holt 2, is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
References
External links
Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
121P/Shoemaker-Holt 2 – Seiichi Yoshida @ aerith.net
121P at Kronk's Cometography
Periodic comets
0121
121P
121P
121P
Comets in 2013
19890309 |
4030738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20Assassins | Soul Assassins | Soul Assassins is a hardcore hip hop project of Cypress Hill member and producer DJ Muggs. Each album features a plethora of guest rappers and is primarily produced by Muggs; the second and third studio albums see contributions from other producers such as The Alchemist and DJ Khalil.
Discography
Albums
1997: Soul Assassins: Chapter I
2000: Soul Assassins II
2009: Soul Assassins: Intermission
2018: Soul Assassins: Día Del Asesinato
Singles
1997: Dr. Dre & B-Real - Puppet Master
2009: Sick Jacken & Evidence - Classical
2009: Bun B, M-1 - Gangsta Shit
Mixtapes
2002: Soul Assassins Mixtape Vol. One
References
External links
American hip hop groups
Hip hop collectives |
4030751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katayama | Katayama | is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Entertainers
, Japanese stage actress
, Japanese film actress
, Japanese film actress and singer, former AKB48 member
Politicians
, Japanese-born member of the American Communist Party
, 46th Prime Minister of Japan
, Japanese Osaka Ishin no Kai politician
, Democratic Party of Japan politician, former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
, Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician, former Minister of Finance
Sportspeople
, Japanese figure skater
, Japanese football defender
, Japanese professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and auto racer
, Japanese javelin thrower
, Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion
, Japanese racing driver
, synchronized swimming coach in Japan, Olympic competitor for South Korea
, Japanese golfer
, Japanese ice hockey player
, Japanese cross-country mountain biker
, Japanese sumo wrestler
, Japanese football defender (J2 League)
, Japanese football forward (J2 League)
, Japanese baseball pitcher
, Japanese football forward (J2 League)
, Japanese snowboarder
Nobuaki Katayama, Japanese racing driver and automative engineer
Writers
, Japanese poet and translator
Elizabeth Kata (full name Elizabeth Colina Katayama; 1912–1998), Australian novelist
, Japanese novelist best known for Crying Out Love, In the Centre of the World
, Japanese author of light novels
Other
, Japanese architect who designed the original buildings for the Imperial Nara Museum and Kyoto Imperial museum
, Japanese automotive executive best known as the long-time president of Nissan's US operations
, Japanese interior designer
, Japanese historian of Inner Asia
Fred Katayama (born 1960), American television journalist of Japanese descent
, Japanese animator and director
, Japanese artist
See also
Katayama fever, another name for Schistosomiasis
Katayama Detachment of the Imperial Japanese Army's 2nd Division during World War II
Japanese-language surnames |
4030761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Agnew | Sam Agnew | Samuel Lester "Slam" Agnew (April 12, 1887 – July 19, 1951) was an American professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 1913 through 1919 for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators. Agnew batted and threw right-handed.
Life
He was born in Farmington, Missouri on 12 April 1887.
Agnew debuted with the St. Louis Browns on April 10, . In 105 games his rookie season, Sam hit .208 with 2 home runs and 24 RBI, stealing 11 bases, in 307 at bats. In , Agnew hit .212 with 16 RBI in 115 games. That season he finished 23rd in the balloting for Most Valuable Player, losing out to Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia Athletics. In , he slipped down to a .203 average with 19 RBI in 104 games.
On December 16, , the Boston Red Sox purchased Agnew from the St. Louis Browns. Serving as the backup to regular backstop Pinch Thomas, Agnew hit .209 (14-for-67) with 7 RBI in 40 games. During a late season Red Sox game, a fight broke out after Carl Mays hit a Washington player with a pitch. The benches emptied and subsequently Agnew punched out Senators manager Clark Griffith. Agnew was arrested and was suspended by the American League President for five days.
Splitting time behind the plate with Thomas in , Agnew hit .208 with 16 RBI in 85 games. Although he was considered the regular catcher in , Agnew struggled at the plate, hitting just .166 with a career-low 6 RBI in 72 games. His offensive woes continued during the 1918 World Series, as he went hitless in nine at bats over four games against the Chicago Cubs.
In January , Agnew was purchased from the Boston Red Sox by the Washington Senators. In just 42 games, Agnew hit a career-high .235 with 10 RBI. He played his final major league game on September 28, 1919. After his playing career, he went on to become a pitching coach for the Cubs and also a minor league coach.
In a seven-season career, Agnew posted a .204 batting average with two home runs and 98 RBI in 563 games played. Agnew died in Sonoma, California, at the age of 64.
After his Major League career ended, he continued to play in the minor leagues with the San Francisco Seals and Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League until 1929.
He was later a manager in the minors for the San Diego Aces of the California State League (1929), Augusta Wolves of the South Atlantic League (1930 & 1938) and Palatka Azaleas of the Florida State League (1937).
He died on 19 July 1951 and is buried in the Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa, California.
Family
His brother was Troy Agnew.
References
External links
1887 births
1951 deaths
Major League Baseball catchers
Boston Red Sox players
St. Louis Browns players
Washington Senators (1901–1960) players
Santa Clara Broncos baseball coaches
Minor league baseball managers
Topeka Jayhawks players
Omaha Rourkes players
Vernon Tigers players
San Francisco Seals (baseball) players
Hollywood Stars players
San Diego Aces players
People from Farmington, Missouri
Baseball players from Missouri |
4030772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev%20Lyon | Bev Lyon | Beverley Hamilton Lyon (19 January 1902 – 22 June 1970) was a cricketer who played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire. He was a bespectacled middle-order batsman and a fine close fielder who held forthright and, for his time, outspoken views on cricket captaincy and cricket traditions and who was given full rein by his county, Gloucestershire, to express his views as captain for six years from 1929.
Biography
Some of Lyon's views – on Sunday cricket and on a knockout cup, for instance – were by some distance too far ahead of their time. But in 1931, he was involved in a "rule-bending" match against Yorkshire at Sheffield in which, after two rain-ruined days, he and the Yorkshire captain agreed to declare their counties' first innings after one ball had been bowled to bring about a result on the second innings. The rules were changed for the following season to allow for a one-innings match in similar circumstances.
Lyon brought Gloucestershire greater success than the county had seen since the days of W. G. Grace. In 1929 and 1930, they won more matches than any other county; in 1930 and 1931, they finished second. Lyon was aided, no doubt, by having Wally Hammond, perhaps England's finest batsman of the time in the side. And the three years of success coincided as well with the last truly effective years of the great slow left-arm bowler Charlie Parker and the first effective years of Parker's successor, the off break bowler Tom Goddard. But the captaincy of Lyon was regarded as a vital factor, and he was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931. The citation in Wisden suggested that he might be a future captain of England, but that did not happen.
Lyon's Gloucestershire career began in 1921; he also won a Blue at Oxford in 1922 and 1923. He resigned from the Gloucestershire captaincy after three more moderate years from 1932 to 1934, but played intermittently until 1947. He had also played Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire in 1920.
Lyon's older brother, Malcolm Douglas Lyon, known as Dar, played for Cambridge University and Somerset. The brothers were on opposing sides in the 1922 Varsity match. And in 1930, in the match between Somerset and Gloucestershire at Taunton, Dar scored 210 after being dropped twice by Goddard, but Bev replied with a century of his own and led his side to victory by eight wickets.
See also
List of select Jewish cricketers
References
External links
"Remembering Bev Lyon, Gloucestershire Cricketer and Co-Founder of Rediffusion Ltd."
1902 births
1970 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Gloucestershire cricket captains
Oxford University cricketers
Wiltshire cricketers
Europeans cricketers
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
People from Caterham
Jewish cricketers
English Jews
West of England cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Non-international England cricketers
Gentlemen cricketers
Gentlemen of England cricketers
Jewish British sportspeople
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
People from Balcombe, West Sussex |
4030779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec%20Bantam%20Football%20League | Quebec Bantam Football League | As of November 12th 2017, the Sun Youth Hornets are the QBFL Champions
Teams (2010 season)
Bill Allan Division
North Shore Lions
St. Lazare Stallions
St. Laurent Spartans
Laurentian Wildcats
Lasalle Warriors
Sun Youth Hornets
Earl De La Perralle Division
Ile-Perrot Western Patriots
Lakeshore Cougars
Joliette Pirates
Chateaugay Raiders
North Shore Cheetahs
St. Leonard Cougars
Bob Mironowicz Division
Sherbrooke Bulldogs
Laurentien Jaguars
Laurentien Lions
Laurentien Pantheres
Laurentien Lynx
Laurentien Pumas
External links
Quebec Bantam Football League Official Site
The Official À-Ma-Baie Website
Canadian football leagues in Quebec |
4030789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigovernment | Antigovernment | Antigovernment may mean or refer to:
Opposition (politics), a party with views opposing the current government.
Political dissent, opposition to the politics of the governing body.
Sedition, incitement of discontent to a lawful governing body.
Anti-statism, political philosophy opposing state interference.
Anarchism, political philosophy advocating the abolition of rulers. |
4030816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor%20ladder | Resistor ladder | A resistor ladder is an electrical circuit made from repeating units of resistors. Two configurations are discussed below, a string resistor ladder and an R-2R ladder.
An R–2R ladder is a simple and inexpensive way to perform digital-to-analog conversion, using repetitive arrangements of precise resistor networks in a ladder-like configuration. A string resistor ladder implements the non-repetitive reference network.
String resistor ladder network (analog to digital conversion, or ADC)
A string of many, often equally dimensioned, resistors connected between two reference voltages is a resistor string ladder network. The resistors act as voltage dividers between the referenced voltages. Each tap of the string generates a different voltage, which can be compared with another voltage: this is the basic principle of a flash ADC (analog-to-digital converter). Often a voltage is converted to a current, enabling the possibility to use an R–2R ladder network.
Disadvantage: for an n-bit ADC, the number of resistors grows exponentially, as resistors are required, while the R–2R resistor ladder only increases linearly with the number of bits, as it needs only resistors.
Advantage: higher impedance values can be reached using the same number of components.
R–2R resistor ladder network (digital to analog conversion)
A basic R–2R resistor ladder network is shown in Figure 1. Bit an−1 (most significant bit, MSB) through bit a0 (least significant bit, LSB) are driven from digital logic gates. Ideally, the bit inputs are switched between V = 0 (logic 0) and V = Vref (logic 1). The R–2R network causes these digital bits to be weighted in their contribution to the output voltage Vout. Depending on which bits are set to 1 and which to 0, the output voltage (Vout) will have a corresponding stepped value between 0 and Vref minus the value of the minimal step, corresponding to bit 0. The actual value of Vref (and the voltage of logic 0) will depend on the type of technology used to generate the digital signals.
For a digital value VAL, of a R–2R DAC with N bits and 0 V/Vref logic levels, the output voltage Vout is:
For example, if N = 5 (hence 2N = 32) and Vref = 3.3 V (typical CMOS logic 1 voltage), then Vout will vary between 0 volts (VAL = 0 = 000002) and the maximum (VAL = 31 = 111112):
with steps (corresponding to VAL = 1 = 000012)
The R–2R ladder is inexpensive and relatively easy to manufacture, since only two resistor values are required (or even one, if R is made by placing a pair of 2R in parallel, or if 2R is made by placing a pair of R in series). It is fast and has fixed output impedance R. The R–2R ladder operates as a string of current dividers, whose output accuracy is solely dependent on how well each resistor is matched to the others. Small inaccuracies in the MSB resistors can entirely overwhelm the contribution of the LSB resistors. This may result in non-monotonic behavior at major crossings, such as from 011112 to 100002. Depending on the type of logic gates used and design of the logic circuits, there may be transitional voltage spikes at such major crossings even with perfect resistor values. These can be filtered with capacitance at the output node (the consequent reduction in bandwidth may be significant in some applications). Finally, the 2R resistance is in series with the digital-output impedance. High-output-impedance gates (e.g., LVDS) may be unsuitable in some cases. For all of the above reasons (and doubtless others), this type of DAC tends to be restricted to a relatively small number of bits; although integrated circuits may push the number of bits to 14 or even more, 8 bits or fewer is more typical.
Accuracy of R–2R resistor ladders
Resistors used with the more significant bits must be proportionally more accurate than those used with the less significant bits; for example, in the R–2R network discussed above, inaccuracies in the bit-4 (MSB) resistors must be insignificant compared to R/32 (i.e., much better than 3%). Further, to avoid problems at the 100002-to-011112 transition, the sum of the inaccuracies in the lower bits must be significantly less than R/32. The required accuracy doubles with each additional bit: for 8 bits, the accuracy required will be better than 1/256 (0.4%). Within integrated circuits, high-accuracy R–2R networks may be printed directly onto a single substrate using thin-film technology, ensuring the resistors share similar electrical characteristics. Even so, they must often be laser-trimmed to achieve the required precision. Such on-chip resistor ladders for digital-to-analog converters achieving 16-bit accuracy have been demonstrated. On a printed circuit board, using discrete components, resistors of 1% accuracy would suffice for a 5-bit circuit, however with bit counts beyond this the cost of ever increasing precision resistors becomes prohibitive. For a 10-bit converter, even using 0.1% precision resistors would not guarantee monotonicity of output.
This being said, high resolution R-2R ladders formed from discrete components are sometimes used, the nonlinearity being corrected in software. One example of such approach can be seen in the Korad 3005 power supply.
Resistor ladder with unequal rungs
It is not necessary that each "rung" of the R–2R ladder use the same resistor values. It is only necessary that the "2R" value matches the sum of the "R" value plus the Thévenin-equivalent resistance of the lower-significance rungs. Figure 2 shows a linear 4-bit DAC with unequal resistors.
This allows a reasonably accurate DAC to be created from a heterogeneous collection of resistors by forming the DAC one bit at a time. At each stage, resistors for the "rung" and "leg" are chosen so that the rung value matches the leg value plus the equivalent resistance of the previous rungs. The rung and leg resistors can be formed by pairing other resistors in series or parallel in order to increase the number of available combinations. This process can be automated.
See also
Logarithmic resistor ladder
Digital-to-analog converter
Covox Speech Thing
Voltage ladder
References
External links
ECE209: DAC Lecture Notes - Ohio State University
EE247: D/A Converters - Berkeley University of California
Simplified DAC/ADC Lecture Notes - University of Michigan
Digital to Analog Converters (slides) - Georgia Tech
Tutorial MT-014: String DACs and Fully-Decoded DACs - Analog Devices
Tutorial MT-015: Binary DACs - Analog Devices
Tutorial MT-016: Segmented DACs - Analog Devices
Tutorial MT-018: Intentionally Nonlinear DACs - Analog Devices
R2R Resistor Ladder Networks - BI Technologies
R/2R Ladder Networks Application Note - TT Electronics
Analog circuits |
4030819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashida | Ashida | Ashida (written: 芦田) is a Japanese surname. People with the name include:
Ashida Nobumori, (died 1575), holder of Mitake Castle
, Japanese politician who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Japan
, Japanese fashion designer
, Japanese child actress, tarento and singer
, Japanese photographer
, Japanese actor
, Japanese fashion designer
, Japanese anime character designer, animation director and director
Fictional characters
Noriko Ashida (codename Surge), a character from X-Men
See also
Ashida-shuku, a historical rest area along the Nakasendō
Ashida River, a river near Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan
Japanese-language surnames |
4030827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%C5%A1evci | Adaševci | Adaševci () is a village located in the municipality of Šid, Srem District, Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,919 people (2011 census).
Adaševci is located 5 kilometers south of Šid, in large part on the west side bordering the river Bosut, near the village there is an international highway. In the village there is a memorial "Sremski Front", as well as a source of thermal water. Today, Adaševci is one of the largest villages in the municipality of Šid. In the village there is a cultural centre which can accommodate about 500 guests and is used for various cultural and sporting events. The largest number of young people gathers F.K. "Adaševci", founded in 1924, which compete in the municipal league. Adaševci have a primary school built in 1952, which today has 400 pupils. Mostly the agricultural town have its own water supply with 12 kilometers of water supply network, with regular supply of quality drinking water. Adaševci with its geographical location have great potential for tourism development and improving quality of life.
Name
The name of the village in Serbian is plural.
History
The 8th century BC ornitho-morphic fibulae was found in the town.
Demographics
Historical population
1961: 2,562
1971: 2,566
1981: 2,363
1991: 2,080
2002: 2,166
2011: 1,919
See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
Populated places in Syrmia |
4030840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batrovci | Batrovci | Batrovci () is a village located in the municipality of Šid, Srem District, Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, it has a population of 259 inhabitants. A border crossing between Serbia and Croatia is located in the village, on European route E70.
Name
The name of the village in Serbian is plural.
Historical population
1961: 653
1971: 577
1981: 464
1991: 399
2002: 320
2011: 259
See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
Spačva basin
References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links
Batrovci Customs Details
Populated places in Syrmia
Croatia–Serbia border crossings |
4030854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C4%8Dinci | Bačinci | Bačinci () is a village located in Syrmia, Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated in the Šid municipality, in the Syrmia District. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,180 people (2011 census).
Name
The name of the village in Serbian is plural.
Historical population
1961: 1,694
1971: 1,538
1981: 1,324
1991: 1,298
2002: 1,374
References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
Populated places in Syrmia |
4030875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Iamonia | Lake Iamonia | Lake Iamonia is a large, subtropical prairie lake in northern Leon County, Florida, United States, created during the Pleistocene epoch.
History
Forming Iamonia
Lake Iamonia's base was established during the Early Pleistocene through submergence of land during the various glacial retreats (a warming period) and emergence from the sea during glacial stadial advancement (a cooling period). Though the ice sheet was further north, it affected Iamonia's appearance and significant changes began to take shape during the Okefenokee terrace and shoreline period and was complete by the end of the Wicomico terrace and shoreline event thousands of years later.
See: Leon County Pleistocene coastal terraces
Ancient fauna
Lake Iamonia area is known to have supported a variety of megafauna from as far back as 23.6 Ma. Fossils of the bear-dog Amphicyon and the dog-like Temnocyonines have been uncovered at nearby sites. The Griscom Plantation Site, once located on Luna Plantation, and on the south shore of Iamonia has produced fossils of the ruminant Leptomeryx, the horse relatives Merychippus and Parahippus leonensis, and the ancient camel Oxydactylus. Osbornodon iamonensis (Osborn's dog), a forerunner of today's dog, was named for the lake.
Prehistoric people
The lake was home to the Woodland culture, more specifically the Weeden Island culture, of early Native Americans from roughly 200 BCE to 750 AD. It was within the Apalachee Province from 1000 AD to the 1520s and later the lake would become home to the Seminoles. Lake Iamonia is pronounced "I-monia" and is named after a Seminole town “Hiamonee,” which was located on the banks of the Ochlockonee River.
Location
The lake is located in the Red Hills Region and is approximately 5,757 acres (23 km2) in size and is long and up to wide. It has a drainage basin of roughly 101 square miles (260 km).
County Road 12 runs along the northern part of the lake. Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy is situated on a bluff on the north side of the lake. The eastern side borders near US 319, the south side is bordered by the developments of Killearn Lakes Plantation and Luna Pines. The west side edges near State Road 155 (N. Meridian Road). The highest elevation around the lake's basin is .
Details
Lake Iamonia is classified as oligotrophic to mesotrophic with a Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) of 31200.
The eastern end of Lake Iamonia is oligotrophic which makes it one of the cleanest lakes in Leon County. The lake is above sea level and the sink basin, located on the northern shore of Lake Iamonia, has a surface area of . Its average depth is and its maximum depth is . The lake is surrounded by 4000 acres (16 km2) of land under conservation easement.
The volume of water in the lake is affected by water in its own drainage basin and by water from the Ochlockonee River and rainfall in Southwestern Georgia.
The flooding of this river re-filled the entire body of the dried lake within 3 days in February 2008. Thunderstorms which hit the Florida panhandle and southwest Georgia on April 2 and 3 brought the level of the Ochlockonee River to , above flood stage raising the lake level substantially.
Dams and dikes
In 1910, a dam was constructed across the western end sloughs with two small bridges separated by of fill dirt. The dam separated Lake Iamonia from the Ochlockonee River to keep out the river's water so that the lake would dry for agricultural purposes.
In 1940 a long, wide earthen dike was constructed around the sink basin to keep water in the lake. A concrete spillway was constructed for overflow with metal pipes of diameter and sluice gates built into the earthen dikes at the sink. Just before 1950 additional earthen dams were built across Cromartie Arm (to the south) and Strickland Arm (to the north) and bordering Horseshoe Plantation. The purpose of these dams was to keep water in Cromartie and Strickland Arms for the plantations.
By the 1970s aquatic plants had increased in the lake. In 1978 the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission constructed draw down structures in the sink basin on the north end and under the bridge on N. Meridian Road but were removed by 1980 due to damage from bald cypress roots. Northwest Florida Water Management District welded the sluice gates open and the sink drains continuously.
The sink area covers and has a maximum depth of . It has a drain rate at 9.2 cubic feet per second.
Prairie stage
In the antebellum 19th century, Lake Iamonia had Burgesstown Plantation, Pine Hill Plantation, Oaklawn Plantation and G.W. Holland Plantation surrounding it. During dry periods which naturally occurred in cycles, a few cotton plantation owners would take advantage of the exposed land and wealth of grasses and vegetation which took hold in the nutrient rich lake bottom and graze their cattle and sheep on the lake.
Current fauna
Mammals
Species include the beaver, bobcat, cotton rat, common rat, marsh rice rat, oldfield mouse, eastern wood rat, coyote, gray fox, red fox, gray squirrel, fox squirrel, marsh rabbit, nine-banded armadillo, opossum, raccoon, river otter and white-tailed deer.
Fish
Iamonia is an attraction for sport fishing with largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie, flier, redear sunfish, Florida gar, bowfin and American pickerel.
Reptiles
Reptiles include the American alligator, snapping turtle, Florida softshell turtle, peninsular cooter, pond slider, musk turtle, eastern mud turtle, chicken turtle, Suwannee cooter, box turtle, Florida green water snake, banded water snake, cottonmouth, black racer, corn snake, southern ribbon snake, garter snake, eastern kingsnake, black swamp snake, mud snake, red-bellied snake, ringneck snake, grey rat snake, rough green snake, scarlet snake, coachwhip snake and eastern indigo snake.
Amphibians
Among amphibians, the Pig frog, bullfrog, leopard frog, green tree frog, squirrel tree frog, Florida cricket frog, two-toed amphiuma and central newt are present.
Gallery
The photos show Lake Iamonia at a normal level of water.
See also
Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
Sources
External links
1940 map of old community of Iamonia
Satellite Images
Tall Timbers Research Station
Iamonia
Iamonia |
4030883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrapper%20%28clothing%29 | Wrapper (clothing) | The wrapper, lappa, or pagne is a colorful garment widely worn in West Africa by both men and women. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored ensembles. The formality of the wrapper depends on the fabric used to create or design it.
West African kaftan/boubou
In West Africa, a kaftan or caftan is a pull-over woman's robe. In French, this robe is called a boubou, pronounced boo-boo. The boubou is the traditional female attire in many West African countries including Senegal, Mali and other African countries. The boubou can be formal or informal attire. The formality of the kaftan depends upon the fabric used to create or design it.
Yoruba iro
In Yorubaland, Nigeria, the wrapper is commonly, called an iro in the Yoruba language, pronounced i-roh. The literal translation is "the act of wrapping." The wrapper is usually worn with a matching headscarf or head tie that is called a gele in Yoruba, pronounced geh-leh. A full wrapper ensemble consists of three garments, a blouse, called a buba, pronounced boo-bah the iro and a headscarf called a head tie in English and a gele in Yoruba. Traditional male attire is called a agbada. A wrapper takes metres of quality fabric.
Pagne
Pagne () designates a certain cut (two by six yards) and type (single-sided "fancy" or double-sided "wax" prints) of untailored cotton textile, especially in Francophone West and Central Africa. Enormously popular in much of tropical Africa, the pagne cloth's usage and patterns may be used to convey by the wearer a number of social, economic—and sometimes even political—messages. It is similar—though distinct in size, expected pattern, and usage—to the Khanga, Kikoy or Chitenge of East and Southern Africa. From the pagne any number of garments may be created (the boubou, dresses, or western style suits) or it can be used untailored as a wrap, headtie, skirt, or tied as a sling for children or goods. The word pagne, likely derived from the Latin pannum, was a term introduced by merchants from the 16th Century and adopted by several African societies to identify often pre-existing textiles or garments distinct from a simple cloth. The Portuguese pano for cloth has become the French pagne (loincloth), Dutch paan, and others. It appears to have originally referred to East Asian textiles traded in East and West Africa, before becoming a term for a certain length (a yard, later two by six yards) of commercial printed cloth sold in coastal West Africa.
In the West
In the UK and North America, wrapper is also an older term for an informal house garment. Today, words such as housecoat and bathrobe (US) or dressing gown (UK) are usually employed instead.
Informal fabrics
Batik—created with hot wax and dye.
Fancy print—created by printing patterns on cloth. Unlike expensive wax prints, the design is printed on one side of the cotton fabric. Fancy prints are made in Europe, India, and West Africa. The most popular fancy print is known as the traditional print.
Kente—traditionally woven by men. Kente is an informal fabric for anyone who is not a member of the Akan people. For Akans and many Ewes, kente is a formal cloth.
Mudcloth—created by making mud drawings on cotton.
Tie-dye—made by resist tying cotton then dipping in dye. In Nigeria, tie-dye is known as adire cloth.
Formal fabrics
Aso Oke fabric—Woven by men, see Yoruba people.
Cotton brocade—most brocade is produced in Guinea. Brocade is a shiny and polished cotton fabric.
George cloth—George cloth originated in India, where it was used to make saris. The fabric became popular among African royal and noble families. The Ijaw people are known for their George wrappers.
Lace—also known as shain-shain cloth'.
Linen—linen kaftans are a formal style.
Satin—satin fabrics are suitable for formal wear.
African wax prints—traditional cloths in Africa. Most of them are printed in West Africa and China. Some African waxprints are made in the Netherlands, known as Dutch wax. In earlier times these were also produced in Great Britain. In a wax print, the pattern or design is printed on both sides of the cotton fabric. Waxprints are more expensive than fancy prints. Famous manufacturers are Vlisco in the Netherlands, Akosombo Textiles Limited in Ghana and Hitarget in China. Some smaller companies still produce genuine African wax prints. A well known brand is ABC Wax from Manchester, UK. Today ABC Wax is part of Akosombo Textiles Limited and printed in Ghana. There are many companies in Africa and China which use the wax print design for similar looking and much cheaper fancy textiles.
Wedding attire
The kaftan is always worn with a headscarf or head tie. During a wedding ceremony, the bride's kaftan is the same color as the groom's dashiki. The traditional color for West African weddings is white. The most popular non-traditional color is purple or lavender, the color of African royalty. Blue, the color of love, is also a common non-traditional color.
Most women wear black kaftans to funerals.
However, in some parts of Ghana and the United States, some women wear black-and-white prints, or black and red. The kaftan is the most popular attire for women of African descent throughout the African diaspora. African and African-American women wear a wide variety of dresses, and skirt sets made out of formal fabrics as formal wear. However, the kaftan and wrapper are the two traditional choices. It is not uncommon for a woman to wear a white wedding dress when the groom wears African attire. In the United States, African-American women wear the boubou for special occasions. The kaftan or boubou is worn at weddings; funerals; graduations; and Kwanzaa celebrations.
The men's robe is also called a boubou, see Senegalese kaftan for further information.
Buba
A buba (pronounced boo-bah) is a top or blouse. Buba is a Yoruba word that means the upper clothing. For women, the buba is worn with the iro (wrapper) and gele (head tie). For men, it is worn with sokoto (trousers) and fila (hat). The buba, sokoto/iro and fila/gele set is the traditional costume of the Yoruba people in South Western Nigeria.
See also
Dashiki
Ghanaian smock
Habesha kemis
Head tie
Headscarf
Kanga (African garment)—This wrapper is worn by women in East Africa
Kufi
National costume
Senegalese kaftan
References
Further reading
Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics (Krause Publications 2001).
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Celebrating Kwanzaa (Holiday House 1993).
Judith Perani and Norma Wolff, Cloth, Dress, and Art Patronage in Africa'' (Berg 1999).
Dresses
African clothing
Folk costumes |
4030908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moschino | Moschino | Moschino () is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1983 by Franco Moschino in Milan known for over-the-top, campy designs. The company specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, and fashion accessories.
History
Founding and 1990s
Franco Moschino was born February 27, 1950, and raised in Abbiategrasso, Italy. Moschino studied at Accademia di Belle in Milan from 1968 to 1971, at the dismay of his father, who hoped Franco would continue his family's work in the iron industry. While a student, Franco freelanced designs and illustrations for magazines and fashion houses. Upon graduation, Franco worked as a design sketcher for Versace from 1971 to 1977 and designed for Italian fashion house Cadette until 1982. The following year, Franco created "Moschino Couture!", owned by Moonshadow, its Milan-based holding company. Franco gained a reputation for implementing innovative, colorful, and witty designs into his apparel, such incorporating a Roy Lichtenstein pop art piece in a suit and designing a t-shirt featuring a TV tuned to “Channel No. 5" (sparking a lawsuit by Chanel due to the reference to its Chanel No. 5 perfume).
By the late 1980s, Moschino's popularity in Europe had begun to replicate in the United States, with US sales accounting for 15 to 20 percent of business. By the 1990s, Franco became known for his social awareness campaigns and his criticism of the fashion industry. In 1994, Franco expressed desire to develop an ecological line “Nature Friendly Garment”, however Franco died later that year from HIV/AIDS-related causes. In recent times, Moschino has made an effort to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic through a partnership with Product Red and Nickelodeon, creating a Moschino x SpongeBob collection, bringing awareness to HIV/AIDS and fundraising by donating the collection's proceeds to Project Red.
Rossella Jardini, 1994–2013
After Franco's death in 1994, his friend Rossella Jardini became the brand's creative director. Responsible for the brand's image and style, Jardini's whimsical designs fit in nicely with the brand's established eccentricity. While Jardini was creative director, Moschino created outfits and accessories for artists Madonna and Lady Gaga for their world tours and created the opening ceremony outfits for the 2006 Winter Olympics. In 2009, Moschino opened its hotel concept, Maison Moschino.
In 1999, Moschino joined Aeffe S.p.A., an Italian group.
With the F/W 2008–2009 pre-collection, Moschino Jeans changed its name to Love Moschino.
Jeremy Scott, 2013–present
In October 2013, Jeremy Scott became Moschino's creative director, debuting his first collection in Fall 2014. Starting in 2014 under Scott's direction, Moschino Cheap and Chic was consolidated into a new women's line—"Boutique Moschino"—established to target a wider array of costumers, with a price-point about 40 percent lower than Moschino's mainline.
In 2014, Jeremy Scott designed a smiley face themed outfit for Katy Perry's world tour and in 2015 designed a black one-piece outfit with Swarovski crystals for Madonna's world tour.
In April 2018, Moschino announced a collaboration with H&M. The following year, Moschino collaborated with EA Games for a Sims 4 collection. The collection featured clothing with pixelated illusions inspired by the computer game.
With the 2019 Met Gala's theme Camp: Notes on Fashion, Katy Perry wore a gown that looked like a chandelier, created by Moschino, and Kacey Musgraves arrived appearing like a life-size Barbie, also by Moschino.
In 2021, Aeffe S.p.A. gained full control of Moschino, by acquiring the remaining 30 percent stake it did not originally own, at the price of 66.6 million euros ($78.51 million).
Controversy
In a 2015 lawsuit, New York-based graffiti artist Rime claimed the Moschino dress worn by Katy Perry at the 2015 Met Gala copied his work. The case was settled in 2016.
In 2016, Nordstrom responded to pressure from consumers and pulled Moschino's pill-themed merchandise from its shelves, amid allegations it trivialized the opioid epidemic.
In popular culture
Lil' Kim's 1996 song "Queen Bitch" refers to Moschino: "I used to wear Moschino, but every bitch got it/Now I rock colorful minks because my pockets stay knotted."
The Notorious B.I.G's 1997 song "Hypnotize": "All Philly hoes, dough and Moschino (c'mon)."
The 2003 Amy Winehouse song "Take the Box" references the brand with "The Moschino bra you bought me last Christmas/Put it in the box, put it in the box."
Redlight’s 2014 song “9TS (90s Baby)” name-drops Moschino: “Biggie Smalls, Versace shades/Moschino jeans and Alizé/ODB, Brooklyn Zoo/DJ Randall on the ones and twos/90s baby/Are you a 90s baby?”
References
Clothing brands of Italy
Perfume houses
High fashion brands
Watch manufacturing companies of Italy
Luxury brands
Clothing companies established in 1983
Italian companies established in 1983
Companies based in Milan |
4030912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptmann%20Deutschland | Hauptmann Deutschland | Hauptmann Deutschland (German for Captain Germany), also known as Vormund, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Fictional character biography
Hauptmann Deutschland is part of a team called the Schutz Heiliggruppe, which was a national superteam protecting Germany. He first appeared in a backup story in Captain America where the Schutz Heiliggruppe captured the Red Skull and abducted him back to Germany in an attempt to put him on trial for war crimes. Although they captured the Skull and subsequently his Skeleton Crew, they later surrendered the Skull to a false Thor, Iron Man and Captain America, who were actually shapeshifting "bioplastoid" androids created by the Skull's lackey Arnim Zola.
Realizing the deception, Hauptmann Deutschland followed the Skull back to America. After a brawl with Captain America, the heroes teamed up to track the Skull. They concluded the hunt when confronted with a false corpse of the Red Skull. The false Skull had been shot through the head and appeared to have been killed by the Scourge of the Underworld, who left his trademark "Justice is Served" scrawled on the wall.
Vormund's next appearance was in a somewhat convoluted tale where he set out with Zeitgeist, another member of the Schutz Heiliggruppe, in order to investigate the slaying of their partner Blitzkrieger, who had been slain while investigating the murders of multiple South American local superheroes. Although Vormund was framed for the murders, it was eventually discovered that Zeitgeist was actually a somewhat obscure American villain known as Everyman. While fleeing Captain America, Zeitgeist tried to stab Vormund with his sword. Vormund redirected the force of Zeitgeist/Everyman's stab and killed him.
Hauptman Deutschland is later seen aiding Blue Marvel against the organization The Terror-Hives of W.E.S.P.E.
Naming controversy
When the issues of Captain America containing Hauptmann Deutschland and the rest of the Schutz Heiliggruppe were to be published in Germany by licensee Condor Interpart, the names of the team were changed in accordance with the German taboos on references to Nazism, despite the team being distinctly anti-Nazi in behavior and the fact that Hauptmann Deutschland's name (literal translation: "Captain Germany") contains no actual reference to Nazism. In Germany, Hauptmann Deutschland was renamed Freiheitskämpfer (Freedom Fighter).
Due to a lack of coordination, when Hauptmann Deutschland next appeared in American comics, he was renamed Vormund, which means "legal guardian", "warden" or "custodian". Per Markus Raymond, a submitter to The Appendix to The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Vormund actually should be used only in reference to a "legal guardian for a child or somebody else who can't talk legally for himself".
Powers and abilities
Hauptmann Deutschland has the power to absorb and redirect kinetic energy. He can project this energy into an opponent, use it to repel attacks, or increase his own strength and endurance. The origin of these powers is unknown. He is also a highly trained soldier and hand-to-hand combatant. He is also known to carry a variety of tactical gadgets in his belt, such as nets, oiled ball bearings, and a cable gun.
References
External links
Fictional characters with energy-manipulation abilities
Fictional German people
Marvel Comics mutates
Marvel Comics superheroes
National personifications in comic books |
4030937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Washington%20Board%20of%20Trade | Greater Washington Board of Trade | The Greater Washington Board of Trade is a network of business and non-profit leaders in Washington, D.C. The Board of Trade invests in the cultural infrastructure of the area and promotes the construction and maintenance of public venues, including for professional sports, civic meetings, conventions, arts, and cultural events. The organization is composed of membership levels that range from "Business Member" to "Chairman's Council". Notable organizations and companies that are currently a part of the Board of Trade include KPMG, Hilton Hotels, The Washington Post, and the Calvert Group.
History
Before the creation of the Board of Trade, the District of Columbia did not have a cohesive method of organizing and supporting its cultural infrastructure. Therefore, on November 27, 1889, the Greater Washington Board of Trade was founded after the local paper, The Washington Post, ran an advertisement. The board came into existence as a legal entity on December 2, 1889.
Known as the Board of Trade for the District of Columbia at the time of its creation, the organization was referred locally to as the Washington Board of Trade. During the 70th annual meeting on October 20, 1959, the organization welcomed its first female members when 188 businesswomen were added to the 7,200 total enrollment. The name of the organization was changed to the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade. At the 90th annual meeting in 1979, the members approved a name change to the Greater Washington Board of Trade. During that meeting, the Board adopted the logo that is still being used today: three interlocking circles that symbolize the unity of Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, and suburban Maryland.
On November 3, 1992, the Greater Washington Board of Trade challenged the Washington, D.C. law that required employers to provide their at-work employees health insurance to continue to offer the equivalent health insurance coverage for disabled employees who are eligible for workers compensation insurance. On December 14, 1992, the legal decision that the Supreme Court ruled was that states cannot require employers to provide disabled employees the same health insurance with they provide active employees.
The archives of the Greater Washington Board of Trade are housed in the Special Collections Research Center of the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library at George Washington University.
References
External links
Board of Trade home page
A history of the Washington Board of Trade from the Center of History and New Media
Greater Washington Initiative Affiliated research and economic development marketing organization
Guide to the Greater Washington Board of Trade Records, 1889-1996, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University
Organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Organizations established in 1889
1889 establishments in Washington, D.C. |
4030940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Weasels | The Weasels | The Weasels are an American rock band based in Albany, New York and active since the mid-1980s. Throughout their history, the group's core writers and performers have been Doctor Fun (vocals, saxophones, keyboards, flute, lyrics and songwriting) and Roy Weäsell (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, keyboards, trombone, roto-vibe, mandolin, lyrics and songwriting). The Weasels have released seven LPs and one EP of original material, along with an early career retrospective compilation, and have played approximately 40 concerts, though they have not performed live since October 2000. They have been compared in reviews to Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and Steely Dan, based on their melodic jazz and blues based music, elaborate arrangements, deployment of highly regarded session players, open-ended and suspended compositional style, exacting recording standards, and intelligent use of sardonic, sarcastic, historic, political, surrealist and scatological themes in their lyrics.
Early history
The group was founded after Fun responded to a newspaper advertisement placed by Weäsell and producer-engineer-performer Chris Graf, who were attempting to find a keyboard and saxophone player for a planned live band. For the first several years of their existence, however, the founding trio remained home-bound, writing and recording tracks that would later appear on the discs Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret and GenerationXcrement. In 1992, The Weasels submitted a tape to the local alternative newsweekly's annual unsigned artists' showcase concert, and were selected as one of four finalists, despite the fact that no live version of the band existed. Fun, Graf and Weäsell quickly assembled and rehearsed a stage presentation of their material, and won generally positive audience and critical reviews for their performance, despite losing the contest to a defunct industrial metal band.
Meat the Weasels Volume 1: Fondue Cabaret
Inspired by the response to their first live performance, the expanded band polished their basement tapes and released Meat the Weasels: Volume 1, Fondue Cabaret in 1993. The album’s opening cut, “Let the Killing Begin,” is the first in a series of Weasels songs about notorious killers, in this case Henry Lee Lucas. It incorporates a tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the closing soliloquy from the Doors’ “The End”. In addition to Fun, Weäsell and Graf, the record featured Jon Cohen (bass guitar and slide whistle), Rocky Petrocelli (drums) and David Maynard (guitar); Maynard had been a member of the New York Rubber Rock Band, whose 1975 single "Disco Lucy", was named "Worst Single of the Year" by Billboard. Following Meat the Weasels''' release, the group continued to perform live, though with continued instability in the drummer's seat, which was occupied for various dates by Petrocelli, Jordan Cohen (later of Powerman 5000 and Blue Man Group), Dave King, Doug Klein, Dan Roberts, Steve Scoons, Dave Berger and Steve Candlen; the latter two emerged as drummers of choice for The Weasels' middle recording period. Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret included the following songs:
“Let the Killing Begin”
“Amway Man”
“Red Meat”
“Might As Well Try You” (Sometimes listed as “Might As Well Try Ewe”)
“Plastic Plant”
“Dancing On Your Grave”
“Have A Nice Day”
“Never Been to Jersey”
“Maybe You’re Dead”
“Put Your Finger in My Brain”
“When the Fat Lady Sings”
“Little Town Ashtray Disaster”
Leon’s Mystical Head
In 1995, the Weasels undertook their first formal studio experience at New Music Studios in Albany with production and engineering support from Ted Malia, who had also worked with R.E.M., Bobby Brown and others. Maynard, Candlen and Jon Cohen returned to perform with Weäsell, Fun and Graf on the New Music sessions. The initial sessions were creatively fruitful, yet tense; Cohen left the group and was replaced by Alan Okey for subsequent sessions. Leon’s Mystical Head (a title inspired by a Firesign Theatre sketch) featured “Paging Larry Storch,” the first installment of "The Larry Trilogy," a series based on the premise that the purest essence of contemporary American comedy was to be found in the film and television work of Larry Fine, Larry Hovis and Larry Storch. The Weasels continued their homages to notorious killers with “A Fish,” about infamous cannibal Albert Fish. After the release of Leon’s Mystical Head, the band's core members decided that all subsequent albums would be recorded and engineered under their own direct supervision, with Graf taking a prominent creative role in the increasingly elaborate productions of Fun and Weäsell's compositions. Live shows from this period occasionally featured “Weasel Vision,” a multimedia visual presentation created by artists Michael Oatman and John J.A. Jannone. In July 2006, "Bar-B-Q Baby" was selected for regular broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show. Leon’s Mystical Head included the following songs:
“Leon’s Mystical Head”
“A Fish”
“Bulldoze the Moon”
“Klaus Barbie and Ken”
“Bang My Head”
“Poor Blind Sheehan”
“Bitch Is All Business”
“Paging Larry Storch”
“Bar-B-Q Baby”
“Murder of Crow”
“Ahab”
“The Short Song” (hidden track)
Uranus Or Bust
The next Weasels album, Uranus or Bust, took three years to write, record and release. Behind original cover art by Michael Oatman, Fun (billed as Racer Fun), Weäsell (billed as Chairman Wow) and Graf (now Sir Mixalot of Ice-T) offered 16 new compositions (one hidden) produced and engineered at Graf's Big Saucy Sound Studio. Berger, Maynard and Okey returned to the band, and were joined by keyboardist Adrian Cohen, brother of Weasel emeriti Jordan and Jon, the latter of whom guests on Uranus, as do drummers Candlen, Petrocelli and Larry Levine, Amy Abdou (violin), Rena Graf (vocals), Mike Pauley (bass) and “some Russian friend of Candlen’s” (voices). Two of Uranus’ songs were commissioned as part of multimedia art installations created by Oatman. “Hall of Pain” (about this album's representative Notorious Killer, nineteenth-century Troy, New York's Andress Hall) was composed as part of “Awful Disclosures: The Life and Confessions of Andress Hall,” while “Monument Road” appeared in conjunction with “Henry Perkins and the Eugenics Survey of Vermont.” Maynard composed the music for one song on the album, “Dumber Than Me,” while the Larry Trilogy continued with “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”, which was also performed live by the Clown Punchers, a side project featuring Weäsell and Mike Goudreau, VH1 staff writer for such programs as I Love the '80s and Before They Were Rock Stars. In May 2006, "Mr. Yamamoto" (a.k.a. "Jimmy's Talking Pants") was selected for broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show. Uranus or Bust included the following songs:
“Harvey Loped Along”
“Something Wicked”
“Onan Spilled His Seed”
“Small Engine Repair”
“MacNeice”
“Alison Wonderbread”
“Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”
“Monument Road”
“Lemons”
“A Million Vacations”
“Dumber Than Me”
“Crogolin Grange”
“Jimmy’s Talking Pants” (sometimes listed as “Mr. Yamamoto”)
“Hale-Bopp (Recorded Live at the Village Gate, NYC, November 23, 1961)”
“Hall of Pain”
“Rachel” (a hidden track)
GenerationXcrement
Originally conceived as the bonus disc for a planned four-record box set retrospective, GenerationXcrement was released in 2000 and provided an assortment of alternate takes and unreleased tracks from the group's first decade, including some of the earliest “basement tapes” from their pre-live incarnations. On October 28, 2000, the band played what is, to date, their last live show at Valentine's Music Hall in Albany to support this disc's release. Fun and Weäsell were joined onstage by Jon Cohen (bass), drummer Scott Appicelli and hired hands Steve Watson (keyboards) and Nathaniel Ward (guitar). Graf no longer performed onstage with the Weasels, but provided sound mix and supplements from the engineer's booth. GenerationXcrement featured performers from throughout the band's history, including the following musicians not credited elsewhere in their recorded canon: Mike Sheehan (keyboards), Andy Manion (guitar) and Mary Panza (voice).
The album included the following songs:
"Man On the Moon”
“Fluffy Wuffy Bunnies”
“Billy Boy”
“Let the Killing Begin”
"Have A Nice Day”
“Old Spot Old Stain”
“Amway Man”
“Gawdzilla”
“A Fish”
“Fat Lady Sings”
“Part On the Square” (written for an art installation by Oatman, and sometimes listed as "Hard On the Square")
“Generation Excrement”
Axis of Weasel
The first release of The Weasels' studio-only era was Axis of Weasel, released in January 2006. Produced and engineered by Graf at Big Saucy Sound, the album's 12 songs feature Fun, Weäsell, Graf, Jon Cohen (bass and Chapman Stick), Adrian Cohen (keyboards), Appicelli (drums), and new guitarist Matt Pirog. Guests on the record include stalwart guitarist Maynard on lead and slide guitars, Rena Graf and Mike Pauley (backing vocals), Dud Hennessey (mouth harp), Nathaniel Ward (guitar) and J. Eric Smith (theremin). Axis of Weasel was originally titled It Takes A Village to Raise a Village Idiot and is referenced as such in news articles and reviews from this period. The Larry Trilogy continued with closing track “Everything’s Fine.” Album opener “Hey Joey Doyle” takes film masterpiece On the Waterfront as its launching point. An edit from “Dirtnap” was broadcast nationally in January 2006 as part of National Public Radio’s “A Word to the Wise” segment, dealing with coffins, caskets and undertakers. Axis of Weasel included the following tracks:
"Hey Joey Doyle”
“Where Cheese Is King”
“Flergen, A Swede”
“Suckling”
“Transparent”
“Whither Goest the Waitress”
“1973”
“Officer Gerbils”
"Cosmic Rays”
“Under A Cheddar Moon”
“Dirtnap”
“Everything’s Fine”
Little Big Man
In Spring 2006, a new Weasels song called "Little Big Man" was featured in "Model Citizens", an exhibition and series of documentary videos spanning four Northeast communities and featuring the work of over 25 model makers and curated as part of the Public Art/Moving Site Project; the show also involved longtime Weasels collaborator Michael Oatman. "Little Big Man" featured Fun, Graf, Weäsell and Pirog from the Axis of Weasel band, joined by returning Leon/Uranus bassist Alan Okey and Al Kash, an internationally recognized veteran drummer whose first recordings were with Australian band, Blackfeather on their 1971 album At the Mountains of Madness. Kash also played drums in Florida for Tiger Tiger, a Miccosukee Indian band in the 1970s before returning to the Albany area to form regional '80s new wave legends Fear of Strangers (originally known as the Units), a band that also featured Aimee Mann collaborator Todd Nelson (guitar), with whom Kash later played in the Rumdummies.
"Little Big Man"
AARP Go The Weasels
Graf, Pirog and Okey left The Weasels after the completion of "Little Big Man," with Jon Cohen returning as bassist. In September 2010, The Weasels released a single and video, "Do The Teabag," featuring a new core line-up of Fun (Vocals, keyboards, saxophone), Weäsell (guitar, vocals), Kash (drums) and Jon Cohen (bass). The full-length AARP Go The Weasels was released on February 14, 2013 (Valentine's Day), and included "Do The Teabag" in its 15-track playlist. Fun, Weasell, Jon Cohen and Kash are joined on the album by guitarists Chuck D’Aloia (Nick Brignola, Happy Rhodes) and Eric Finn, saxophone player Brian Patneaude, vocalist Sarah La Duke, keyboardists Adrian Cohen and Mike Kelley and percussionist Scott Apicelli, who also co-produced the album with Fun and Weäsell.AARP Go The Weasels includes the following tracks:
"Father Weasel"
"A Friend in Tweed"
"1-800-MORON"
"Zucchini Park"
"Do The Teabag"
"Driving Albert's Brain"
"What Says Creep" (re-make of "Billy Boy" from Generation Xcrement)
"Timmy's in Trouble"
"Freemason Reese" (re-make of "Part on the Square" from Generation Xcrement)
"Last Supper on Lark Street"
"Invasion of the Body"
"Trotsky in the Bronx"
"Drink Your Tea"
"Wailing Song"
"Doubting Thomas"
Also Sprach Larrythustra
In May 2015, the Weasels released a five-track EP titled Also Sprach Larrythustra, which continues the group's homage to the Trilogy of Larry by featuring a cover image of Larry Fine as the Egyptian Sphynx. Fun, Weäsell and D'Aloia return from the AARP Go The Weasels band, with session professional and instructional writer Art Bernstein replacing Al Kash on drums.
Songs include:
"Spin"
"Ding Ding"
"Where Is The Polar Bear"
"Diamond Blue Gremlin"
"Saffron Nearly"
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
The Weasels' seventh full-length album, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, was released in November 2018, featuring a core band of Fun (vocals, keyboards, guitar, jazz flute), Weäsell (guitars, vocals), D'Aloia (lead guitar, bass) and Bernstein (drums), supplemented by guest bassists Charles Berthoud and Baba Elefante, and guest keyboardists Joshua Hegg and Mike Kelley. Chris Graf returned to provide backing vocals and mix the album with Scott Apicelli, and Michael Oatman from the "Weasel Vision" era provided the original cover art.
The album featured 15 songs:
"Nostradamus is Dead"
"Et Tu Harvey"
"Winona Minnesota"
"Ointment For My Stump"
"George Barely"
"Fancy That"
"Wokeflake"
"Yuge"
"Gold Medal Flower"
"Finnegans Wake"
"I Sing The Weiner Electric"
"Planieren Sie Den Mond" (Instrumental reinterpretation of "Bulldoze The Moon" from Leon's Mystical Head).
"Cherry Of Course"
"The New Black"
"When In Rome"
The Flying Bobs and the Death of Chris Graf
In 2021, Weäsell, Graf, early-era Weasels' drummer Dave Berger, and long-time bass collaborator Jon Cohen (with support from guitarists Chuck D'Aloia, Crick Diefendorf and Andy Baker, keyboardists Robert Lindquist and Dan McShaw, and sax players Daniel Ian Smith and Jeff Nania) issued a Weasels-adjacent album entitled High Fidelity Virtue Signaling Party, and credited to The Flying Bobs. The album included a re-make of the Weasels' cut "Something Wicked" from Uranus or Bust,'' along with eleven new tracks composed by Weäsell and Graf. In January 2022, Chris Graf died from complications associated with COVID-19 infection.
External links
Official website
Memorial for Chris Graf
References
Rock music groups from New York (state)
Crossover (music)
Musical groups from Albany, New York |
4030981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Michael%27s%20Church%20of%20England%20High%20School%2C%20Chorley | St Michael's Church of England High School, Chorley | St Michael's is a Church of England secondary school located in the town of Chorley, Lancashire, England. The school is home to 1,200 pupils, and is a performing Arts College. Since September 2016, the headteacher has been Mrs Jayne Jenks, who took over from Mrs Julie Heaton, who had occupied the post since January 2012. She started as a teacher of physical education in 1982.
The school was established in 1964, as a Secondary Modern School. The first headteacher was Roy Moore. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford he was an outlook, a Christian socialist, and a great believer in equality. A notable feature of the school, is that the houses and tutor groups are all named after people of notable Christian faith who have made significant personal, cultural, or religious contributions to society. The school became a comprehensive school in 1972, and an Academy in 2011.
The school's uniform is a maroon blazer incorporating the school logo and motto. The lower school tie is maroon, with multiple silver crosses. The upper school tie is the same however with a black background. Hughes or the Chapel Choir (for Years 9 to 11) have a silver tie with maroon crosses. An optional jumper for lower school is maroon with a silver logo, the higher school jumper is black with a silver logo.
Notable former pupils
Adam Henley, Welsh footballer
Nick Anderton, English footballer
Steve Pemberton, Actor
Anna Hopkin, British Swimmer
Emma Lamb, England Cricketer
References
External links
Official website
Schools in Chorley
Educational institutions established in 1964
Secondary schools in Lancashire
Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Blackburn
Academies in Lancashire
1964 establishments in England |
4030995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawer | Mawer | Mawer has sometimes been described as a British occupational surname related to another British surname "Mower". However there is no reliable citation or clear origin for this. One argument against a speculated connection with the name "Mower" is that in the days when clerks (amanuenses) wrote what they heard from the illiterate public, they differentiated between Mawer and Mower, i.e. they were probably pronounced differently, even in areas where the same dialect was spoken.
Another possibility worth researching is that "Mawer" is an Anglicised spelling of Mauer, a fairly common German surname, meaning "wall". If that were indeed the origin of "Mawer", it would explain both the differentiated pronunciation, and the Anglicised spelling.
The surname Mawer may refer to:
Allen Mawer (1879–1942), English philologist
Barbara Mawer (1936–2006), British scientist
Catherine Mawer (1803–1877), British architectural sculptor
Charles Mawer (born 1839), British architectural sculptor
Gary Mawer (born 1969), Irish sprint canoer
June Knox-Mawer (1930–2006), British writer
Philip Mawer (born 1947), British civil servant
Robert Mawer (1807–1854), British architectural sculptor
Shaun Mawer (1959–2010), British football player
Simon Mawer (born 1948), British author
See also
Mawer, Saskatchewan
Maver or Mavor, a Scottish surname.
Mawer language, spoken in south-west Chad
Mawer Group: a group of closely associated 19th-century architectural sculptors working in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. These were: Robert Mawer, Catherine Mawer, Charles Mawer, William Ingle, Matthew Taylor, Benjamin Payler and Benjamin Burstall.
Surnames of British Isles origin |
4031002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lycian%20place%20names | List of Lycian place names | This article contains a list of Lycian place names that have survived from ancient Lycia in Anatolia. Names of settlements and geomorphic features are known from ancient literary sources. Ptolemy's Geography lists places in Asia Minor and specifically Lycia. Strabo's Geography has a section on Lycia as well, as does Pliny's Natural History. Stephanus of Byzantium includes a large number of Lycian places in Ethnica. Hierocles in Synecdemus lists the cities in the eparchy of Lycia. William Martin Leake's Journal of his own trips through Anatolia, as well as of those of many other travellers, with analyses of sources, mainly Ptolemy, is still a valuable source of information on the locations and appearances of the Lycian sites. In addition, numerous inscriptions in the Lycian language state some place names in their Lycian forms. The topographical information comes from the Aydin thesis, and was developed from Turkish military maps.
This article does not address the task of defining Lycia. Over a thousand or more years, the borders of the historical territory, called Lycia in English, are not likely to have remained invariant. This list includes places named by some source at some time as "Lycian", and also any settlement with a Lycian language name, even though located in some other city-state. "Lycia" therefore represents a maximum territory, to which any historical Lycia was never exactly identical.
Aydin studied 44 out of 78 known ancient settlements. Many more archaeological sites are not identifiable with ancient settlements. Aydin also collected information on 870 Turkish settlements over the same region. The moderns, certainly, populate the region much more densely than the ancients.
Some of the modern place names are given in Turkish. For the most part, the equivalent English, French or German pronunciations are good approximations, but Turkish has some letters not present in those languages. Ğ or ğ is not pronounced, but lengthens the preceding vowel. For example, dağ, "mountain", is pronounced daa. Substitution of an English G or g is false. Ç or ç is a ch as in child, Ş or ş is an sh as in shore. What appear to be an English C or c is a J as in John, while the J or j is pronounced as the z in azure. The vowels have a short rather than a long pronunciation. As Turkish is an agglutinative language, the endings do not have the same meanings; e.g., daği is not the plural of dağ, which is daĝlar (daalar).
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4031009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20skunk%20clownfish | Orange skunk clownfish | Amphiprion sandaracinos, also known as the orange skunk clownfish or orange anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is distinguished by its broad white stripe along the dorsal ridge. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict sized based dominance hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends. They exhibit protandry, meaning the breeding male will change to female if the sole breeding female dies, with the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male.
Description
A. sandaracinos is one of the smaller anemonefish, which grows up to 11 cm as a female and 3 to 6.5 cm as a male. Its body has a stock appearance, oval shape, compressed laterally and with a round profile. Its coloration is bright orange, with a white stripe on the dorsal ridge from the superior lip, passing between the eyes and ending at the caudal fin base. All the fins have the same coloration as the body except the dorsal fin which is partially white. Its iris is bright yellow.
Distribution and habitat
A. sandaracinos is found in the center of the Indo-Pacific area, known as the Coral Triangle, from the Philippines to Indonesia and New Guinea.It is also found in north western Australia, Christmas Island, Melanesia and to the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan. A. sandaracinos typically lives in small groups on outer reef slopes or in lagoons at a maximal depth of .
Host anemones
The relationship between anemonefish and their host sea anemones is not random and instead is highly nested in structure. A. sandaracinos is a specialist, being hosted primarily by 1 out of the 10 host anemones:
Heteractis crispa Sebae anemone (rarely)
Stichodactyla mertensii Mertens' carpet sea anemone (usually)
On the northern coast of New Guinea, male A. sandaracinos occasionally breed with the significantly larger female A. chrysopterus and their offspring is the hybrid anemonefish A. leucokranos.
In 2011 3 individuals of A. sandaracinos and a pair of A. clarkii were observed to coexist within one host anemone of Stichodactyla mertensii. A. clarkii was not aggressive towards the A. sandaracinos but was aggressive towards all fish approaching the anemone. The anemonefish didn't divide the host into separate territories.
Feeding
Like all anemonefish, A. sandaracinos is omnivorous and its diet is based on zooplankton, small benthic crustaceans and algaes.
Conservation status
Anemonefish and their host anemones are found on coral reefs and face similar environmental issues. Like corals, anemone's contain intracellular endosymbionts, zooxanthellae, and can suffer from bleaching due to triggers such as increased water temperature or acidification. The other threat to anemonefish is collection for the marine aquarium trade where anemonefish make up 43% of the global marine ornamental trade, and 25% of the global trade comes from fish bred in captivity, while the majority are captured from the wild, accounting for decreased densities in exploited areas. While bleaching is a significant threat to anemonefish and their host anemones, there is evidence suggesting that collection compounds the localised impact of bleaching. A. sandaracinos was the only species of anemonefish that was evaluated in the 2012 release of the IUCN Red List and it was listed as being of least concern as the threats are mainly of a localised nature and do not pose a significant threat to the global population of this species.
In aquaria
A. sandaracinos along with their host anemones are collected for the aquarium trade, and the anemonefish has been bred in captivity.
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sandaracinos
Fish described in 1972 |
4031019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Javad | Ahmad Javad | Ahmad Javad (; May 5, 1892 – October 13, 1937) was an Azerbaijani poet who is best known for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan used under the 1918–1920 Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, and again since 1991, and another poem named Chirpynirdi gara deniz.
Biography
Ahmad Javad Akhundzade was born on May 5, 1892, in the village Seyfali of Shamkir rayon. He got his primary education at home, learning Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Eastern literature. In 1912 after graduating from a religious seminary in Ganja he worked as a teacher.
During the Balkan war he fought on the Turkish side in a detachment of volunteers from the Caucasus.
He published the poetry books "Goshma" (1916) and "Dalga" (1919). In 1918 at the suggestion of Mammed Amin Rasulzade he joined the Musavat Party and from 1920 to 1923 he was a member of its Central Committee, for which he was arrested in 1923 and later freed. Javad wrote about the declaration of the ADR in "Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!" and about the Azerbaijani flag in "To Azerbaijan's flag". Under the ADR he continued teaching and helped establish Azerbaijan University. In the poem "O, soldier!" he glorified the Turkish Army, which fought on the Azerbaijani side in 1918.
After the establishment of Soviet authority Javad continued teaching. In 1920, he worked as the headmaster and a teacher of Russian and Azerbaijani in the village of Khulug in Gusar rayon, but from 1920 to 1922 he was a Quba rayon's public education branch manager.
In 1922–1927 he studied in the history and philology department of Azerbaijan's Pedagogic Institute, and simultaneously taught at the technical scholl named after Nariman Narimanov.
In 1924–1926 he worked as the senior secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers of Azerbaijan. In 1925 Javad was arrested for the poem "Goygol".
In 1930 he moved to Ganja. From 1930 to 1933 he was a teacher, then the associate professor and the head of a chair of Russian and Azerbaijani languages of Ganja Agricultural Institute. In 1933 he received the title of professor. Afterwards he headed a literary department of Ganja Drama Theater.
In 1934, Javad returned to Baku, worked as an editor of translation department of "Azernashr" Publishing House. In 1935–1936, he headed the department of documentary films at "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio.
He was later arrested by the Soviet regime and executed on October 13, 1937, accused of trying to spread Musavat-inspired nationalism to young Azerbaijani poets. He was a leader of the Musavat Literature Union called Yashil Galamlar (Green Pens). Javad was one of many Azerbaijani artists and writers imprisoned and killed by the Soviet regime for ideas that it considered dangerous.
There is a photo of prisoner Ahmad Javad, number 1112. The last sentence reads: “The death sentence of Ahmad Javad was executed on October 13, 1937, in Baku”. His family was exiled.
The documents charged that in addition to being a member of the Musavat Party, Ahmad Javad was a friend of M.A.Rasulzade, the founder of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, as well as the poets Mushfig and Javid.
His wife Shukriya Khanum was separated from her children and sentenced to eight years in a Siberian Labor camp.
In December 1955, Javad was rehabilitated. His works include "Poems" (1958) and "Don't cry, I will do" (1991). In March 1937 he was awarded the first prize for his translation of Shota Rustaveli's "The Knight in Tiger Skin" into Azerbaijani. Other works he translated into Azerbaijani include: Pushkin's "Copper Rider", Gorky's Childhood, Turgenev's prose, Shakespeare's Othello, Rabelais's "Gargantua and Pantagruel'', K. Gamsun's "Hunger".
See also
Read full texts by this author on Wikisource.
References
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Biography (Azeri)
“Ahmad Javad: Stalin’s Legacy—Wiping Out Azerbaijan’s Brightest Thinkers” by his son Yilmaz Akhundzade in “Azerbaijan International,” Vol. 14:1 (Spring 2006), pp. 80–83. Two poems by Javad are also included (English translation).
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1937 deaths
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20th-century Azerbaijani poets
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4031025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longjing%2C%20Jilin | Longjing, Jilin | Longjing (; Chosŏn'gŭl: 룡정; Hangul: 룽징) is a county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, southeastern Jilin province, China. It lies on the Tumen River opposite the North Korean city Hoeryong.
Its population is approximately 258,000. It borders Yanji and Tumen City on the northeast, Helong to the southwest, and Antu County in the southwest. The border length is .
Yun Dong-ju studied in Longjing.
Administrative divisions
Longjing has two subdistricts, six towns and two townships:
Subdistricts
Anmin Subdistrict ( / )
Longmen Subdistrict ( / )
Towns
Chaoyangchuan ( / )
Dongshengyong ( / )
Kaishantun ( / )
Laotougou ( / )
Sanhe ( / )
Zhixin ( / )
Townships
Baijin Township ( / )
Dexin Township ( /)
Climate
References
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Official website (Chinese)
Cities in Yanbian
County-level divisions of Jilin |
4031031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVRML | XVRML | xVRML (eXtensible Virtual Reality Modeling Language, usually pronounced ex-vermal) is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive computer graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind.
Format
xVRML is a text-file format from the xVRML Project at RIT. While xVRML evolved from VRML; it now has an easy-to-learn, XML-based syntax, for which it utilizes an XML Schema to insure both a clear structure and understandable constraints.
Downloads
The specifications, documentation, and example files, as well as information about a viewer application (Carina), may all be found at the xVRML Project website. All but the examples may be downloaded from the Project SourceForge site. An extensive and growing object library is available for public use through the xVRML Project site.
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XML-based standards
Virtual reality
Vector graphics markup languages |
4031032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoGames%20%26%20Computer%20Entertainment | VideoGames & Computer Entertainment | VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (abbreviated as VG&CE) was an American magazine dedicated to covering video games on computers, home consoles and arcades. It was published by LFP, Inc. from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Offering game reviews, previews, game strategies and cheat codes as well as coverage of the general industry, VG&CE was also one of the first magazines to cover both home console and computer games. The magazine gave out annual awards in a variety of categories, divided between the best of home video games and computer video games. The magazine featured original artwork by Alan Hunter and other freelance artists.
History
VG&CE began as a spinoff of ANALOG Computing, a magazine published by LFP devoted to Atari 8-bit family of home computers.
VG&CE was started at LFP by Lee H. Pappas (publisher), with Andy Eddy as executive editor (Eddy was a freelance contributor to the first issue of the magazine, which had the cover date of December 1988, just before relocating to California in September 1988 to become its editor before the first issue hit the streets. During Eddy's tenure at the magazine, there was no one listed as editor-in-chief, simply due to odd staff-titling decisions.) Contributors included Arnie Katz and Bill "The Game Doctor" Kunkel, co-founders of the first video game magazine, Electronic Games. Tips & Tricks editor-in-chief Chris Bieniek was an associate editor at VG&CE. Computer Player editor-in-chief Mike Davila was an associate editor and later executive editor at VG&CE. Knights of Xentar writer David Moskowitz was also an associate editor at VG&CE during the Eddy/Davila/Bieniek tenure.
VideoGames - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine
The magazine was renamed into VideoGames - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine starting with the September 1993 issue and dropped computer game coverage.
In an effort to compete with magazines popular at the time, such as GamePro, the magazine was made more kid-friendly with vibrant colors and issues often featured a videogame cheat printed on the cover, labelled as a "free code" (this ended in late 1994). For much of this era, Chris Gore was editor-in-chief, and had a monthly news and gossip column "The Gore Score". The magazine ended publication in late 1996, when Ziff-Davis bought VideoGames from LFP and folded the brand.
Spin-off magazines
VG&CE spun off several other video game magazines:
TurboPlay (June/July 1990-August/September 1992), a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to covering TurboGrafx-16 hardware and software.
Tips & Tricks (February 1995-August 2007), a game magazine dedicated to game strategies and cheat codes. The magazine concept was spun out of the "Easter Egg Hunt" and "Tips & Tricks" sections in VG&CE, which offered extensive codes and cheats for video games, as well as the "walkthrough" strategies that VG&CE also provided.
References
External links
VideoGames & computer entertainment. at worldcat.org
VideoGames. at worldcat.org
An interview with former associate editor Chris Bieniek
Magazine #21: Video Games & Computer Entertainment
VideoGames and Computer Entertainment, covers of issues December 1988 to April 1990
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment scans, PDF repository of VG&CE
VideoGames scans, PDF repository of VG
Archived Video games the Ultimate Gaming Magazines on the Internet Archive
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
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4031051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Tullin%20Thams | Jacob Tullin Thams | Jacob Tullin "Tulla" Thams (7 April 1898 – 27 July 1954) was a Norwegian Olympian, who competed in ski jumping and sailing.
Career
He won the first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924, and became the third person (after Gillis Grafström who competed in one sport only and boxer/bobsleigh crew member Eddie Eagan) to medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1936 as a member of the silver medal-winning Norwegian 8-metre sailing team.
Thams also won the individual large hill at the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1926 (the first true ski jumper to do so), and would develop the Kongsberger technique in ski jumping (along with fellow Norwegian Sigmund Ruud) that would be the standard until it was superseded by the Daescher technique in the 1950s. Thams is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.
Ski jumping world records
Not recognized! Crash at world record distance.
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1954 deaths
Ski jumpers at the 1924 Winter Olympics
Ski jumpers at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Sailors at the 1936 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre
Holmenkollen medalists
Norwegian male ski jumpers
Olympic ski jumpers of Norway
Norwegian male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors of Norway
Olympic gold medalists for Norway
Olympic silver medalists for Norway
Olympic medalists in ski jumping
Olympic medalists in sailing
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4031060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Law%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | William Law (Latter Day Saints) | William Law (September 8, 1809 – January 19, 1892) was an important figure in the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement, holding a position in the church's First Presidency under Joseph Smith. Law was later excommunicated for apostasy from the church and was founder of the short-lived True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In this capacity, he published a single edition of the Nauvoo Expositor, the destruction of which set in motion a chain of events that eventually led to Smith's death.
Biography
Law was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, to Richard Law and Ann Hunter as the youngest of five children. His older brother was Wilson Law. The Law family moved to the United States around 1820. Law eventually ended up in Upper Canada, and at the age of 24 married Jane Silverthorn, who was 19 years old. Law and Silverthorn had eight children: two daughters and six sons.
Law and his wife joined the Church of Christ in 1836 in Canada, through the proselyting efforts of John Taylor and Almon W. Babbitt. In 1839, Law led a group of Canadian saints to Nauvoo, Illinois, and in 1841, Joseph Smith chose him to be a member of the First Presidency. He was also a member of the Nauvoo city council.
Over time, Law became troubled by certain practices of Smith. He felt Smith was confusing church and state roles in Nauvoo, by evading extradition to be tried for crimes in Missouri. He also thought Smith used his church authority to sway political outcomes. However, it was Smith's covert practice of polygamy (and his alleged advances towards Law's wife, Jane) that caused Law to completely separate himself. Rumors circulated that Smith had made several proposals to Jane under the premise that she would enter a polyandrous marriage with Smith. Law and his wife confirmed these rumors were partly true.
However, according to Alexander Neibaur, Jane Law had actually asked to be sealed to Smith after he had refused to seal her to William. According to the rumor, Smith had denied the couple because William was guilty of adultery (William had confessed his actions to Smith), though he did not tell Jane his reasons. In committing the sin, Law felt like he had transgressed against his own soul.
Years later, according to Ann Eliza Young (nineteenth wife of Brigham Young and later a critic of polygamy and Mormonism), Jane stated Smith visited her at night when he knew Law would not be home and proposed to her, suggesting it was God's will that she enter into a polyandrous marriage with him. Young's account states that Jane Law stated that Smith had "asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband." She refused Smith's request to marry him as a polyandrous plural wife. In contrast to her claim, Smith stated Jane had "thrown her arms around his neck" and requested to be sealed to Smith if she could not be sealed to William Law. Smith turned down the request. Law still believed Mormonism was true, but he viewed Smith as a fallen prophet.
On January 8, 1844, Law was informed he was no longer a counselor to Smith in the First Presidency. He was shocked and frustrated. He demanded a rehearing of his case, because the procedures for removal from the First Presidency had not been followed. The rehearing was granted and on April 18, 1844, he was tried again. However, this time he was tried as if he were a private member and not a high-ranking church official. Once again he felt this went against church protocol. The following day he was informed of his excommunication on grounds of apostasy. At this point, he felt Smith was beyond saving, and that it was his duty to expose him to the rest of the Mormon community.
Law met privately after his excommunication with other opponents of Smith and formed a group. Shortly thereafter, Law created the True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and became its President. On June 7, 1844, Law and his followers published the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper that outlined Law's contentions against Smith, including the then-secret practice of plural marriage. The reaction to the newspaper was not what Law expected, and after two days of consultation, the printing press was ordered destroyed by Smith and the Nauvoo city council. It was destroyed later that day.
Smith was later arrested and taken to nearby Carthage, Illinois, on charges relating to the destruction of the Expositor. On June 27, 1844, Smith was killed by a mob.
For many years, Law was accused of being a member or a leader of the mob that killed Smith. However, Law's diary shows that he was not in Carthage at the time of the murder, though he had been present there earlier in the day.
Law expressed outrage and remorse at Smith's death in his private journal.
Law's opinion was that Smith's goal "to demoralize the world, to give it to Satan, his master..... He claimed to be a god, whereas he was only a servant of the Devil, and as such he met his fate."
In 1887, Law agreed to be interviewed reflecting on his experience with Mormonism. This interview, along with three letters by Law, were published in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Law eventually moved to Shullsburg, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, where he died in 1892 at the age of 82.
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A copy of the Nauvoo Expositor
Three letters written later in William Law's life about his views on Mormonism
William Law Diary, MSS SC 2526, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
Hancock County, Illinois Circuit Court summons for William Law, Vault MSS 417, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
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4031074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Resource%20Connector | Advanced Resource Connector | Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) is a grid computing middleware introduced by NorduGrid. It provides a common interface for submission of computational tasks to different distributed computing systems and thus can enable grid infrastructures of varying size and complexity. The set of services and utilities providing the interface is known as ARC Computing Element (ARC-CE). ARC-CE functionality includes data staging and caching, developed in order to support data-intensive distributed computing. ARC is an open source software distributed under the Apache License 2.0.
History
ARC appeared (and is still often referred to) as the NorduGrid middleware, originally proposed as an architecture on top of the Globus Toolkit optimized for the needs of High-Energy Physics computing for the Large Hadron Collider experiments. First deployment of ARC at the NorduGrid testbed took place in summer 2002, and by 2003 it was used to support complex computations.
The first stable release of ARC (version 0.4) came out in April 2004 under the GNU General Public License. The name "Advanced Resource Connector" was introduced for this release to distinguish the middleware from the infrastructure. In the same year, the Swedish national Grid project Swegrid became the first large cross-discipline infrastructure to be based on ARC.
In 2005, NorduGrid was formally established as a collaboration to support and coordinate ARC development. In 2006 two closely related projects were launched: the Nordic Data Grid Facility, deploying a pan-Nordic e-Science infrastructure based on ARC, and KnowARC, focused on transforming ARC into a next generation Grid middleware.
ARC v0.6 was released in May 2007, becoming the second stable release. Its key feature was introduction of the client library enabling easy development of higher-level applications. It was also the first ARC release making use of open standards, as it included support for JSDL. Later that year, the first technology preview of the next generation ARC middleware was made available, though was not distributed with ARC itself. The new approach involved switching to a Web service based architecture, and in general a very substantial re-factorisation of the core code.
In 2008, the NorduGrid consortium adopted the Apache License for all ARC components.
The last stable release in the 0-line was ARC v0.8, shipped in September 2009. It eventually included a preview version of the new execution service - the A-REX' - and several other components, like Chelonia, ISIS, Charon' and the arcjobtool GUI.
In parallel to ARC v0.8, the EU KnowARC project released in November 2009 the conceptual ARC NOX suite, which was a complete Grid solution, fully based on Web service technologies. The name NOX actually indicates the release date: November of the Year of the Ox.
In May 2011, NorduGrid released ARC v11.05 (adopting Ubuntu versioning scheme this time). This release marked the complete transition from the old execution service to A-REX and accompanying services. For backwards compatibility with the existing infrastructures, old interfaces for the execution service and the information system were retained.
ARC 6 was released in May 2019 and while having same interfaces it features a completely redesigned configuration and a new management tool.
Components
Hosting environment:
HED - hosting environment for Web services (WS)
Execution services:
Grid Manager - server providing computing capability
A-REX - next generation of Grid Manager, WS-based
Information services:
Classic information server - local service information publishing
Classic information index - distributed information indexing
Accounting:
JURA - job record publisher for A-REX
Clients:
arc* job and data CLI - next generation command-line interface for job and data management, interoperable with other middlewares like gLite and UNICORE
arcproxy - universal Grid proxy generation utility
Grid Monitor - graphical interface to the classic information services
Libraries and API:
libarcclient - job management and information
libarcdata2 - data management
HED security API
Availability
ARC is free software available from the NorduGrid public repository, both as binary packages for a variety of Linux systems and source. Source code is also openly available from the GitHub repository.
Development
The open source development of the ARC middleware is coordinated by the NorduGrid collaboration. Contributions to the software, documentation and dissemination activities are coming from the community and from various projects, such as the EU KnowARC and EMI projects, NDGF, NeIC and various national infrastructure and research projects.
Versioning
Between 2011 and 2018 ARC used an Ubuntu-like versioning schema for bundled releases consisting of individual components. Individual components have own versioning, corresponding to code tags. Version of the core ARC packages is often used instead of the formal release number in everyday communication.
Starting with ARC6 (2019) version number of the release coincides with that of the tag.
Standards and interoperability
ARC implements several Open Grid Forum standards, in particular, JSDL, Glue2, BES, UR/RUS and StAR.
ARC in various projects and initiatives
European Middleware Initiative
In 2010-2013, several key ARC components - most notably, HED, A-REX, clients and libraries - were included in the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) software stack. Through EMI, ARC became a part of the Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD) of the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).
Nordic DataGrid Facility and NeIC
ARC is the basis of the computing infrastructure of the Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF). In 2006-2010 NDGF actively contributed to ARC development, and since 2010 provides ARC deployment expertise within EGI. Since 2012, NDGF became a part of the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration.
KnowARC project
Grid-enabled Know-how Sharing Technology Based on ARC Services and Open Standards (KnowARC) was a Sixth Framework Programme Specific Targeted Research Project, funded under Priority IST-2005-2.5.4 "Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services" from June 2006 to November 2009. In many ways it was the project that shaped ARC. The main goal was to make ARC based on open community standards, and among the key results was creation of the standardized Hosting Environment for ARC services (HED).
Apart from its main aim of further developing ARC, it contributed to the development of standards, and increased Grid and ARC usage in medicine and bioinformatics.
In July 2009, KnowARC announced it contributed to the integration of Grid technologies into official Linux repositories by adding Globus Toolkit components into Fedora and Debian repositories.
See also
European Grid Infrastructure
European Middleware Initiative
Nordic Data Grid Facility
NorduGrid
References
Further reading
External links
NorduGrid official website for the Advanced Resource Connector middleware
KnowARC, EU project contributing to the Advanced Resource Connector middleware development
Nordic DataGrid Facility, a Nordic project contributing to the Advanced Resource Connector middleware development
(Sweden)
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(Norway)
: Swiss National Grid Association
Open Grid Forum, the home of Grid standards
: Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration
Middleware
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4031078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Goldfoot%20and%20the%20Bikini%20Machine | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a 1965 American International Pictures comedy film, made in Pathécolor, directed by Norman Taurog. It stars Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart and Jack Mullaney, and features Fred Clark. It is a parody of the then-popular spy film trend (the title is a spoof of two James Bond films: the 1962 film Dr. No and the 1964 hit Goldfinger), made using actors from AIP's beach party and Edgar Allan Poe films.
Despite its low production values, the film has achieved a certain cult status for the appearance of horror legend Vincent Price and AIP's beach party film alumni, its in-jokes and over-the-top sexuality, the claymation title sequence designed by Art Clokey, and a title song performed by The Supremes.
The movie was retitled Dr G. and the Bikini Machine in England due to a threatened lawsuit from Eon, holder of the rights to the James Bond movies.
The success of the film on its 1965 release led to a sequel, made the following year, entitled Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs.
Plot
Price plays the titular mad scientist who, with the questionable assistance of his resurrected flunky Igor, builds a gang of female robots who are then dispatched to seduce and rob wealthy men. Avalon and Hickman play the bumbling heroes who attempt to thwart Goldfoot's scheme. The film's climax is an extended chase through the streets of San Francisco.
Cast
Vincent Price as Dr. Goldfoot
Frankie Avalon as Craig Gamble
Dwayne Hickman as Todd Armstrong
Susan Hart as Diane
Jack Mullaney as Igor
Fred Clark as D. J. Pevney
Alberta Nelson as Reject No. 12
Milton Frome as Motorcycle cop
Hal Riddle as Newsvendor
Joe Ploski as Cook
Robots
Patti Chandler
Mary Hughes
Salli Sachse
Luree Holmes
Sue Hamilton
Laura Nicholson
Marianne Gaba
China Lee
Issa Arnal
Deanna Lund
Pamela Rodgers
Leslie Summers
Sally Frei
Kay Michaels
Jan Watson
Arlene Charles
Alberta Nelson
Cameos
Harvey Lembeck
Deborah Walley
Aron Kincaid
Annette Funicello
Cast notes
Frankie Avalon and Dwayne Hickman play the same characters they did in the previous year's Ski Party, except that the characters' names were swapped.
Annette Funicello makes a brief cameo appearance as a girl locked in medieval stocks in Dr. Goldfoot's lair. Frankie Avalon lifts her head, then looks at the camera and says, "It can't be!" Pregnant with her first child at the time, Funicello was placed in the stocks in order to hide her stomach.
Harvey Lembeck also makes a cameo appearance as his Eric Von Zipper character, enchained along with his motorcycle in Goldfoot's lair. Lembeck also appeared as Goldfoot's assistant, Hugo, in the TV special The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot.
Among the girls who play Goldfoot's robots are Deanna Lund, three years before joining the cast of Irwin Allen's science fiction series Land of the Giants; China Lee, a former Playboy Playmate married to Mort Sahl; Luree Holmes and Laura Nicholson, the daughters of James H. Nicholson; and Alberta Nelson, who was also in all seven of AIP's Beach Party films as a member of Eric Von Zipper's motorcycle gang, The Rat Pack.
Production
Development
The original idea for this motion picture came from James H. Nicholson, the President of American International Pictures, who wanted to showcase the versatile talents of AIP contract player Susan Hart. Nicholson provided the story, and is credited as "James Hartford." He hired Robert Kaufman to write the first draft. Director Norman Taurog hired Elwood Ullman to do a rewrite, and Taurog remained intimately involved with the content. Deke Heyward later claimed, without substantiation, that he completely rewrote Robert Kaufman's script.
The original title was announced as Dr Goldfoot and the Sex Machine, and the film was to be directed by William Asher. Taurog shortly thereafter assumed the helm as director, and Dwayne Hickman joined the cast. Filming began in late summer 1965, with one of AIP's largest-ever budgets. It was the first AIP movie to cost over a million dollars.
Vincent Price stated in a 1987 interview with David Del Valle that the original script was a camp musical, comparing it to Little Shop of Horrors. Price stated, "It could have been fun, but they cut all the music out", though he is not clear whether the footage was actually shot or the idea was abandoned during production. According to Susan Hart:
One of the best scenes I've seen on film was Vincent Price singing about the bikini machine – it was excellent. And I was told it was taken out because Sam Arkoff thought that Vincent Price looked too fey. But his character was fey! By taking that particular scene out, I believe they took the explanation and the meat out of that picture... It was a really unique explanatory scene and Vincent Price was beautiful in it, right on the money.
According to Norman Taurog's biographer:
The original plan had been to follow the AIP formula and have songs integrated throughout the film, but Norman brought in Elwood Ullman to do a rewrite ... and the final script read like a good-natured spoof on the James Bond films with no songs. This apparently disappointed Vincent Price, who had been looking forward to singing.
Shooting
The film is notable for its scenic photography of San Francisco. The streetcar scene was filmed at the West Portal tunnel. Filming went for over 30 days, taking place on location in San Francisco and on the backlots at the Producers Studio and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. The day after the company returned from San Francisco, rioting broke out in Watts in South Los Angeles. On August 30, the unit moved to MGM Studios Lot 2 to shoot on their "New York Street" set for a couple of days before returning to the Producers Studio.
The climactic chase sequence was filmed in the Bay Area. The stuntmen included Carey Loftin, Paul Stader, Troy Melton, Jerry Summers, Ronnie Ron-dell, Bob Harris, Louis Elias, David Sharpe, Harvey Parry, and Bill Hickman.
When designing Goldfoot's lair, Daniel Haller re-used some of his designs from 1961's The Pit and the Pendulum. Stock footage of battleships from another AIP release, Godzilla vs. The Thing appears during the climax.
Susan Hart's hair was done by Jon Peters.
Accident
During filming in Los Angeles, the city was gripped by a heatwave. Sometimes temperatures on one of the sound stages reached over by mid-afternoon. On the afternoon of August 15, 1965, the company was returning from lunch when one of the electricians, Roy Hicks, passed out from the heat and fell to his death from a catwalk.
Theme song
The theme song was recorded by The Supremes as a single-sided unreleased promotional single.
Reception
The film had its premiere at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, where Nicholson had been a manager. The key cast members embarked on a 30-day tour of 18 cities in 13 countries to promote the film.
Box office
According to Norman Taurog's biographer, the film "was a moderate success in the United States, but did quite well in Europe, particularly in Italy."
Critical response
The Los Angeles Times said the film "has enough fresh, amusing gags to make it entertaining... Price is splendid."
Sequel
AIP Television produced a musical TV special episode promoting Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine that appeared for one night in temporary place of the ABC scheduled show Shindig! This show, called The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot, starred Vincent Price, Tommy Kirk and Susan Hart, and featured many songs that may have been cut from the cinema release. Louis M. Heyward and Stanley Ross wrote the 30-minute short comedy musical TV special which aired Nov 18, 1965 on the ABC network.
In July 1965 it was announced a sequel would be made the following year called Dr. Goldfoot for President, to begin filming May 14, 1966 for a September 14 release. Vincent Price returned for the 1966 sequel, Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, directed by Mario Bava.
See also
List of American films of 1965
References
Notes
External links
Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine at Brian's Drive in Theatre
1965 films
1960s science fiction comedy films
1960s spy comedy films
American robot films
American science fiction comedy films
1960s teen films
1960s parody films
American International Pictures films
1960s English-language films
Films directed by Norman Taurog
Films scored by Les Baxter
Films set in San Francisco
Mad scientist films
American teen comedy films
Bikinis
Beach party films
Parody films based on James Bond films
1965 comedy films
Films shot in San Francisco
1960s American films |
4031086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebae%20clownfish | Sebae clownfish | Amphiprion sebae, also known as the sebae clownfish, is an anemonefish found in the northern Indian Ocean, from Java to the Arabian Peninsula. Like all anemonefish it is usually found living in association with sea anemones. While the common name of Heteractis crispa, the sebae anemone, suggests an association, it is normally found with the Stichodactyla haddoni or saddle anemone. A. sebae, like all anemonefish, lives in a symbiotic relationship with the host anemone where the fish is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the anemone. In a group of clownfish, Only two clownfish, a male and a female, in a group reproduce through external fertilization. Clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites, changing from male to female, with a strict dominance hierarchy and only the largest fish being female.
Description
The body of A. sebae is blackish or dark brown with a yellow snout, breast and belly. It has two broad white bars., with the mid-body bar angled backwards. The tail is yellow or orange. They have 10–11 dorsal spines, 2 anal spines, 14–17 dorsal soft rays and 13–14 anal soft rays. They can grow to .
Color variations
There is a melantistic variation where the fish lacks the yellow snout, breast and belly. It is not known whether this variation is associated with a species of anemone.
Similar species
A. polymnus (Saddleback anemonefish) is similar, but can be distinguished by its characteristic black or dark wedge shape on the tail. There are reports of A. sabae being incorrectly labeled in the aquarium trade as A. clarkii, however the similarities are superficial in that, while a melanistic variation of A. clarkii has similar color, A. clarkii lacks the characteristic sloping mid-band.
Distribution and habitat
A. sebae is found in the northern Indian Ocean, from Java to the Arabian Peninsula, including India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Sumatra, and the Andaman Islands.
Host anemones
A. sebae is associated with the following species of anemone:
Stichodactyla haddoni
Life cycle
A study using estuarine water was done to look at captive breeding and larval rearing of the species Amphiprion sebae. The male starts courting the female a week before they spawn. The male initiates maintenance of the site chosen for habitation. The female enters the nest to lay her eggs. About 300 to 600 eggs are laid. The males usually guard the eggs, which hatch after six to eight days. The yolk sac of the larvae was small. Between the third and fourth day they fed and their body shape changed. On days fifteen to eighteen in their life cycle they enter metamorphosis.
Eggs
When A. sebae eggs are recently fertilized, they are transparent (yellow/clear) with oil droplets. Amphiprion sebae eggs mature, they become bright yellow to orange color, the size of the eggs can range from length: 1.7- 2.6 mm and width: 0.8-1.3 mm.
References
External links
Amphiprion
Fish described in 1853 |
4031109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbend%2C%20Houston | Willowbend, Houston | Willowbend is a neighborhood in near Southwest Houston, Texas.
Willowbend is just outside the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8. The neighborhood is bound by the following streets: S. Post Oak Road to the West, Greenwillow Drive to the East, Briarbend Drive to the South, and Hazelton Street to North. The subdivision’s main thoroughfare is Willowbend Boulevard with it’s center point at Willowbend and Cliffwood. Surrounding neighborhoods, include: Willow Meadows to the North, Meyerland to the Northwest, Westbury to the West. Willowbend is surrounded by numerous points of interest, including: Willow Waterhole Park, Meyerland Plaza, The Texas Medical Center, and NRG Stadium.
History
Willowbend is a comfortable upper middle-class residential neighborhood in southwest Houston, Texas. It has become a highly desirable neighborhood due to its low crime rate, friendly residents, and proximity downtown Houston, the Texas Medical Center, and the Interstate 610 loop. The neighborhood has hosted a number of youth sports programs such as the Willow Creek Little League, FUN Football Raiders, or Red Raiders. Many athletes got their start in these youth leagues.
The eastern and southern sides of the neighborhood are bounded a large field which forms a buffer between the railroad tracks and Willowbend homes. This large field is a unique and attractive feature of the neighborhood as it features horses, cows, jack rabbits, turtles, crawfish, natural ponds, snakes, and other wildlife. Many children have enjoyed the opportunity to explore the land and learn about animals and nature while surrounded by Houston's vibrant metropolitan region.
Willow Water Hole is also located adjacent to the neighborhood to the south along South Post Oak Boulevard. Willow Water Hole hosts regular nature-oriented events as well as an award-winning annual music festival.
Willow Creek is a bayou that runs through the neighborhood. Willow Creek empties into the larger Braes Bayou. During Hurricane Harvey, some houses near the creek sustained substantial flooding, necessitating remediation and repairs. Some damaged homes were razed and replaced with new and larger residences.
In 1973, Willowbend was the site of attacks committed by Larry Delon Casey. Casey, upset about his father's death, gunned down three schoolgirls, a toddler, and an elderly woman and injured two others. Several of the victims were walking home from Red Elementary School when shot. Casey remains in prison for the murders, which occurred on Greenwillow, Willowilde, Benning, Creekbend streets and near the intersection of Cliffwood and Stillbrooke drives.
Government and infrastructure
Willowbend is in Texas’ 9th congressional district as of the 2021 87th legislative session redistricting
Willowbend is in Houston City Council District K.
Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated Valbona Health Center (formerly People's Health Center) in Greater Sharpstown for ZIP code 77035. The nearest public hospital is Ben Taub General Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
Willowbend residents are zoned to the following Houston ISD schools: Red Elementary School, Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School (formerly Johnston Middle School), and Westbury High School. Meyerland Middle-zoned residents may attend Pin Oak Middle School.
Red Elementary School is located in Willowbend Section 4. Named after doctor Samuel Clark Red, it opened in 1957. It received a magnet program in mathematics, science, and technology, converted into a full STEM magnet in 2012. Circa 2019 it had about 600 students.
Private schools
The Robert M. Beren Academy, a K-12 Judaic school, is located in the area .
Trafton Academy (Pre-K through 8) is also in the area. Ms. Wagner's School became the lower grades of Trafton Academy.
Trafton Academy is located in Willowbend Section 2.
The Emery/Weiner School is east of the subdivision bordering the Westwood subdivision.
Colleges and universities
Houston Community College System serves the neighborhood.
Police service
The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's Southwest Patrol Division . Neighborhood residents also make yearly contributions for additional security patrols by off-duty police officers.
Parks and recreation
Willow Park, a park operated by the City of Houston, is located at 10400 Cliffwood, adjacent to Red Elementary School . The large park features a playground, picnic facilities, a softball/soccer field, tennis courts and a small parking lot. It is the central spot of the neighborhood. A new sand volleyball court was added to the park in 2008. Across the street, there is a lovely neighborhood pool with verdant green lawns, plenty of shade trees and a world-class swim team (Willow Wahoos).
Willow Park is in Willow Meadows Section 3.
Media
The Bellaire Texan, which served the Willowbend community in the mid-20th Century, was headquartered in Bellaire and published by the Texan Publishing Corporation. By 1975 it became known as the Bellaire & Southwestern Texan and was published by the Preston Publishing Company. It was then headquartered in Houston.
See also
References
External links
Willowbend
Neighborhoods in Houston |
4031111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa%20recta%20%28kidney%29 | Vasa recta (kidney) | The vasa recta of the kidney, (vasa recta renis) are the straight arterioles, and the straight venules of the kidney, – a series of blood vessels in the blood supply of the kidney that enter the medulla as the straight arterioles, and leave the medulla to ascend to the cortex as the straight venules. (Latin: vās, "vessel"; rēctus, "straight"). They lie parallel to the loop of Henle.
These vessels branch off the efferent arterioles of juxtamedullary nephrons (those nephrons closest to the medulla). They enter the medulla, and surround the loop of Henle. Whereas the peritubular capillaries surround the cortical parts of the tubules, the vasa recta go into the medulla and are closer to the loop of Henle, and leave to ascend to the cortex.
Terminations of the vasa recta form the straight venules, branches from the plexuses at the apices of the medullary pyramids. They run outward in a straight course between the tubes of the medullary substance and join the interlobular veins to form venous arcades. These in turn unite and form veins which pass along the sides of the renal pyramids. The descending vasa recta have a non-fenestrated endothelium that contains a facilitated transport for urea; the ascending vasa recta have, on the other hand, a fenestrated endothelium.
Structure
Microanatomy
On a histological slide, the straight arterioles can be distinguished from the tubules of the loop of Henle by the presence of blood.
Function
Each straight arteriole has a hairpin turn in the medulla and carries blood at a very slow rate – two factors crucial in the maintenance of countercurrent exchange that prevent washout of the concentration gradients established in the renal medulla.
The maintenance of this concentration gradient is one of the components responsible for the kidney's ability to produce concentrated urine.
On the descending portion of the vasa recta, sodium chloride and urea are reabsorbed into the blood, while water is secreted. On the ascending portion, sodium chloride and urea are secreted into the interstitium, while water is reabsorbed.
Clinical significance
The slow blood flow in the straight arterioles makes them a likely location of thrombosis from thrombophilia, or tissue loss due to red blood cell sickling in sickle cell disease. Ischemia that results may lead to renal papillary necrosis.
Nomenclature
According to Terminologia Anatomica, the term "vasa recta renis" is an alternate name for "arteriolae rectae renis", and a separate term, venulae rectae renis, is used to identify the venous portion.
However, other sources consider "vasa recta" to refer to both the arterial and venous portions.
The term vasa recta is also used for the intestines – vasa recta (intestines) (in the ileum and jejunum)
References
External links
Kidney anatomy |
4031147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally%20Speaking | Universally Speaking | "Universally Speaking" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from their eighth studio album, By the Way (2002). It was the fifth and final single from the album and was released solely in Europe and Australia in mid-2003. The track was also included on their live album Red Hot Chili Peppers Live in Hyde Park and their Greatest Hits album.
Song information
XFM online said "Universally Speaking" is a "fairly upbeat rock ode" and Rolling Stone said it was "Beatlesque psychedelia". The cover for the single is the same as the cover of the By the Way album, except the colors are reverted to normal.
Music video
The video for the song features Dave Sheridan, who plays a deranged concertgoer who attempts to return a book to vocalist Anthony Kiedis, who left the book in his taxi in the video to "By the Way". The book he is returning to Kiedis is "Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs", which is the biography of Darby Crash, the late frontman for the late-1970s punk band the Germs and was written by Brendan Mullen. The music video was directed by longtime friend Dick Rude who also directed the video for "Catholic School Girls Rule" and the live DVD Off the Map.
Live performances
"Universally Speaking" was performed regularly on the By the Way tour. However, it was dropped from sets after 2004 before making a comeback on the I'm with You World Tour. It has since been performed regularly.
Cover version
In July 2021, singer-songwriter Ava Maybee, who is the daughter of drummer Chad Smith, posted a cover version of "Universally Speaking" to her Instagram page.
Track listings
CD version 1
"Universally Speaking" (John Frusciante single mix) – 4:18
"By the Way" (live acoustic) – 4:59
"Don't Forget Me" (live) – 5:07
CD version 2
"Universally Speaking" (John Frusciante single mix) – 4:20
"Slowly Deeply" (previously unreleased) – 2:40
"Universally Speaking" (enhanced video)
Charts
Release history
References
2002 songs
2003 singles
Red Hot Chili Peppers songs
Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin
Songs written by Anthony Kiedis
Songs written by Chad Smith
Songs written by Flea (musician)
Songs written by John Frusciante
Warner Records singles |
4031162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwoodwidger%20Rural%20District | Broadwoodwidger Rural District | Broadwoodwidger was a rural district in the administrative county of Devon from 1894 to 1966, northeast of Launceston. The district consisted of part of the Launceston rural sanitary district in Devon. The remainder of the sanitary district became Launceston Rural District in Cornwall.
The rural district comprised six civil parishes:
Broadwoodwidger
Northcott
North Petherwin
St Giles on the Heath
Virginstow
Werrington
Part of the rural district lay west of the River Tamar, forming a salient surrounded by Cornwall on three sides. The county boundary was realigned when the district was abolished in 1966, with two parishes, North Petherwin and the majority of Werrington being transferred to Cornwall with the remaining four parishes remaining in Devon and passing to the Holsworthy Rural District.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930230555/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10061817&c_id=10001043
History of Devon
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Rural districts of England |
4031180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagenidiosis | Lagenidiosis | Lagenidiosis is a type of infectious disease.
The best known species of Lagenidium is Lagenidium giganteum, a parasite of mosquito larvae used in biological control of mosquitoes. The disease lagenidiosis in dogs is caused by a new species of Lagenidium that has not yet been properly named. Lagenidiosis is found in the southeastern United States in lakes and ponds. It causes progressive skin and subcutaneous lesions in the legs, groin, trunk, and near the tail. The lesions are firm nodules or ulcerated regions with draining tracts. Regional lymph nodes are usually swollen. Spread of the disease to distant lymph nodes, large blood vessels, and the lungs may occur. An aneurysm of a great vessel can rupture and cause sudden death.
References
Dog diseases |
4031193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Bates%20IV | Benjamin Bates IV | Benjamin Edward Bates IV (; July 12, 1808 – January 14, 1878) was an American rail industrialist, textile tycoon and philanthropist. He was the wealthiest person in Maine from 1850 to 1878, and is considered to have introduced both the Efficiency and Taylorism movements to the economy of Maine.
Bates was born to a large family in Mansfield, Massachusetts; he moved to Bristol, Maine, for a working residency at B. T. Loring Company before creating the Davis, Bates & Turner–a craft goods and service firm in the early 1830s. After entering the milling business, he built the Bates Mill in 1852 which launched the larger Bates Manufacturing Company in Lewiston, Maine. His company quickly became the largest per capita employer in Maine and the largest in Lewiston, for three decades. Contracted by the Maine State Legislature, Bates founded the Lewiston Water Power Company: a large mill-based enterprise that built the first canal in the city.
At the start of the American Civil War, Bates correctly anticipated that the talk of secession in the Southern States would lead to a shortage of cotton. By buying up an unprecedented amount prior to the Battle of Fort Sumter, he cornered the market. The resulting shortage created an absolute monopoly and skyrocketing prices, which drove dozens of New England businesses to close due to the inability to compete. Growing economic inequality in the city culminated to 1861 Lewistown cotton riots which led Bates to loosen his expansionary business tactics and increase philanthropic spending.
Like other business magnates at the time, such as J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, Bates supported capitalism and anti-competitiveness. The public's opinion of Bates was highly polarized throughout his life with some citing his economic impact as critical, while others criticized his business tactics as socially detrimental.
Early life and education
Benjamin Edward Bates IV, was born in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1808, to Hannah Copeland and Elkanah Bates as their third child (of seven). His father, Elkanah Bates, was a cotton manufacturer and prominent merchant. Both of his parents were religious and belonged to the Congregational Church of Mansfield. In 1838, there was a denominational split within the church to create a Unitarian theologian association that questioned the divinity of Christ, Elkanah Bates was picked to lead the movement. His paternal grandfather fought in the American Revolution as a Captain, and later became a brigadier general for the Massachusetts state militia. He is the great-great grandson of Benjamin Bates II, Commander of the Devonshire Forces, and member of the Hell Fire Club. When Bates was a younger boy, his brother recounts him being dragged by two horses across a "considerable distance" which left him badly cut and bruised, he pulled the horses down and eventually halted their movement, a considerable task considering Bates was only 14 years old at the time.
Bates attended various private schools and enrolled at the age of 15 to the Wrentham Academy, and studied there from 1823 to 1825, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts in 1829, at age 21. Bates entered the dry goods business with Barnabas T. Loring on Washington Street. At age 24, he made a public profession of Christian faith, and he was a lifelong Congregationalist and temperance supporter. Bates taught Sunday school at several churches in Boston including Park Street Church and was later an active member of Central Congregational Church in Boston.
Business pursuits
B. T. Loring & Co.
John G. Davis met Benjamin Bates in the early 1830s and the two later became business partners. They met while Bates was a clerk for Barnabas T. Loring on Washington Street after a mutual friend offered "a firm with respected work." At the time with Bates' net worth was at $700, which was considered lower-middle class at the time. The firm subsequently organized as the B. T. Loring Company. The firm's market expanded widely throughout Maine and went on to depart from retail and focus on whole sale, which was made possible by the connections Bates had made throughout his career in Bristol, Maine. One year later, they moved "downtown" from Washington Street to Central Street, and continued operations. Barnabas T. Loring died prompting the group to dissolve B. T. Loring & Co., and create Davis, Bates, & Turner.
Davis, Bates & Turner
With the conclusion of B. T. Loring & Co., Bates co-founded the firm of Davis, & Bates, which existed from 1833 until 1847. The firm enjoyed financial success as its previous deals garnered high standing among the mercantile community of Maine. With the firm on stable footing, John N. Turner developed an interest and discussed furthered involvement. As a mutual friend of Bates, and his background in law, he was tasked with bookkeeping and legal relations. The firm amassed tens of thousands of dollars within years and the firm continued to grow. Turner was officially brought in on February 13, 1833, and the firm was officially renamed Davis, Bates & Turner.
Efficiency movement
Bates was known for his part in integrating the early manifestations of Taylorism in industrial Maine. His management style required high levels of managerial control and power over aggregated output which subsequently strained work practices. His firms were known for long work hours, poor working conditions and high output. He tended to his businesses "compulsively and incessantly" and often disregarded pressures to start a family, however did leave them with a considerable fortune at his death.
Financial panic of 1837
In 1837, the firm experienced low levels of revenue and output due to the external effects of panics involving financial security and credit in New York City. Considered the "greatest financial panic the country has ever seen", the Panic of 1837 caused numerous firms all over New England to fail, and Davis, Bates & Turner, often had trouble assessing market value and withdrawing loans from the banks. The firm remained active and even put up positive net return on some years during the panic due to their good credit and lack of debt. Due to the overall speculative markets involving whole sale goods, Bates' firm remained cautious when selling and taking out loans for restructuring. News from New York was delivered to Maine stating further banking regulation and overall stabilization of market prices, which brought the state out of a recessive period into a sustained growth. The news was received by Bates personally when George Bond, declared that loans would be issued by the New York Banks once again.
During the recovery consultations between Maine and Massachusetts business leaders, a prominent banker, Homer Bartlett was quoted as famously saying, Who was the strongest man in that meeting [referring to the financial panics]?To which the crowd overwhelmingly replied,Bates! Bates was the strongest man there.This quote would go on to largely shape Bates' minor celebrity status and fed the growing reputation of producing the best results in times of uncertainty. The crowd included, Lyman Nichols, George L. Ward, Alexander De Witt, Francis Skinner, Homer Bartlett, and St. John Smith. In 1840, the firm moved to Water Street, and five years later moved to Milk Street, where Davis withdrew from the firm due to poor health.
Bates, Turner & Co. and Union Pacific
Siles Bascom replaced Davis and the firm was renamed Bates, Turner & Co. The firm enjoyed financial success and began to conclude its practice with the closing of markets in March 1847. After the dissolution of the firm, Bates served as president and on the board of several banking, manufacturing, and railroad corporations, including First National Bank of Commerce in Boston. Due to his activities during the financial panic of 1837, he was asked to be the founding successor president of the Union Pacific Railroad on August 1, 1849; he served in this capacity until May 3, 1850, when Alexander De Witt spoke to him about opportunities in Lewiston, Maine prompting his immediate resignation.
Life in Lewiston
Bates travel to Lewiston regularly while living in Boston and other Maine towns, to "interact with the people, give guidance to the businesses, and support its economy." After the closing of Bates, Turner & Co., and a quick stint as president of the Union Pacific Railroad, he moved to Lewiston, Maine upon the advisement of his close friend and confidant Alexander De Witt who went on describe Lewiston as a "city full of hope and innovation." He was escorted to the town secretly with De Witt, to meet with the city council and Mayor to discuss major developments in the town.
Bates Manufacturing Company
Bates quickly began developing companies, acquiring smaller ones under his Manufacturing Company, and subsequently brought in sixteen million dollars in revenue for the town, the largest circulation of currency in the history of Lewiston at the time. His businesses provided employment for thousands of people from Maine and Canada, which made him the single largest employer in the city, and the largest per capita of Maine. His businesses garnered millions of dollars for the city and with all assets accounted for in Maine and Massachusetts, he was considered the wealthiest man in Maine via his net worth.
His principle accomplishment during his early business career was the establishment of Bates Manufacturing Company. The company went on to be the largest manufacturing company in the state of Maine and provided two-thirds of all textile output for the state. It employed approximately five thousand people from Canadian and Irish descent. He served as the president of the company from its founding on January 3, 1850 until he appointed a successor to overtake the company as he left for Lewiston, Maine on February 20, 1862.
Lewiston Water Power Company
One of the primary goals of other business leaders in Maine and Bates was to improve the water quality of Lewiston. Bates went on to found the Lewiston Water Power Company, which built the first canal in the city. It employed hundreds of people and established the town as a "paragon of water quality." During this development Lewiston was the fastest growing city in Maine, in terms of growth rate.
Bates Mill
The Bates Mill was a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. Much of the capital generated from this mill was used in the foundation of Bates College. Since conception, Bates' practices with the mill dominated the mill industry and was one of the first great U.S. business trusts. He initially gained wealth and influence from manufacturing textiles and estate development with correspondence to the mills. His mills extended from the Androscoggin River to northern Lewiston. On August 16, 1850, Maine Governor John Hubbard signed the incorporation act and the mill was completed 1852. Bates positioned the mill in Lewiston due to the location of the Lewiston Falls which provided the mill with power. Under Bates' supervision, during the Civil War, the mill produced textiles to the Union Army. His mills generated employment for thousands of Canadians, and immigrants from Europe. The mill was Maine's largest employer for three decades.
1861 Lewistown cotton riots
Like numerous factories in Maine, Bates' mill was receiving cotton from the South, where it was grown and cultivated by slave labor. Correctly anticipating that the increasing talk of secession in the Southern States might eventually lead to a shortage of cotton, Bates bought an unprecedented amount of cotton prior to the Battle of Fort Sumter. During the War, Bates was able to produce uniforms for the Union Army as well as other textiles. His capitalization of this, saw to great levels of profit for his firms and companies, and caused dozens of mills to be closed due to overwhelming competition. After a rumor was spread around Lewiston that Bates held more money than the city, riots broke out in 1861, that decried the concentration wealth presented by Bates. Due to pressure from the public, he lessened his business tactics and created the philanthropic arm of the Bates Manufacturing Company tasked with giving out thousands to the people of Lewiston. During the riots his public image was tarnished and was advised by DeWitt to employ more people in his Mills. The Lewiston Sun Journal called him "the supplier of the cause," after he spoke at a town hall meeting detailing his employment of thousands of New Englanders and Canadians.
Later life and wealth
Economic panic of 1873
Bates pledged another $100,000 to be paid to the Maine State Seminary after his death, but due to the economic recession in the 1870s, known as the Panic of 1873, Bates' Lewiston assets were lessened. During this financial crisis many of his properties lessened in value and he was forced to refinance. Due to the dependence of Lewiston on Bates many citizens suffered financially in the personal losses of Bates. After the stabilization of his properties and business contracts he began a further expansion into Lewiston's economic environment, and regained considerable wealth. He built Bates Mill No.5 which became his fastest growing Mill within years and provided the city with substantial employment.
Wealth
By his death in 1878, Bates had amassed a total net worth of approximately $79.4 million (worth $1.84 billion in 2017). This includes assets held in Maine, New York, and Massachusetts that encompassed the non-operational value of B. T. Loring & Co., Bates, Turner & Co., his holding company the Bates Manufacturing Company, his stake in the Lewiston Water Company, Bates Mill, and miscellaneous banking endeavors in New York. He donated a total of $100,000 to the endowment, and approximately $250,000 to Bates College, indirectly and left a trust of $3.3 million to his family. In his will he pledged $50,000 to his wife Sarah Gilbert along with his 2.8 million dollar estate, $10,000 to his brother William, $10,000 to his brother Elkanah Bates II, $10,000 equally divided among the children of his sister, Charlotte, $10,000 to Edward Atkinson, and $10,000 to George Fabian. He left each of his children, Benjamin Edward V, Lilian, Sarah, and Author $250,000 in the form of a trust.
However, Bates had $200,000 in outstanding debt and a pledged $100,000 to Bates College after his death. His family was required expend the $100,000 pledged but due to conditions placed on the inheritances, restricted distribution, and familial debt, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts eventually ruled that Bates' heirs did not have to pay Bates College the pledged $100,000. After a period of recession the college began to financially recuperate to a larger endowment, independently. Over the next couple of years Bates College's endowment has grown slowly and steadily.
Philanthropy
Bates was the largest of the early donors to Maine State Seminary through the Lewiston Power Company. He was known by the people of Lewiston for having a "deep and profound love" for the town and the college, and its early founder mentioned his affection by noting: "I have frequently heard him say that he would not knowingly do anything against the interests of the people; and that he would sooner invest ten dollars in Lewiston than one dollar in any other place. 'I love Lewiston', 'I love the College', he was accustomed to say, 'Say to the Trustees that I love the College.'"In 1852, he personally pledged another $6,000 to the school. In 1853, Oren Burbank Cheney appointed him as a Trustee of the College and in 1854 subsequently became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the college due to his considerable donations. He went onto donate $25,000 for the foundation of agriculture department and moved a subscription of $75,000 for campus expansion. On February 21, 1873, he donated $100,000 on the condition that the amount was met by third-party donors, within five years. Although he placed conditions on his donations, he realized his donations regardless of the conditions being met. The college remained a source of worry for Bates as much of the subscriptions to the college remained unfilled, donors were giving half of their donations and not fulfilling the other half, which left the endowment of the college in a speculative state. Bates served as the treasurer for the college in the early days and condemned the business strategy Cheney developed when interacting with potential donors advocating for a more aggressive procedure for funding.
His work with the college prompted fellow business magnate, Andrew Carnegie, to donate a considerable amount to the formation of the college and subsequently had the college's science building named after him. Bates played an integral role in the expansion of the college, moving from town to town and state to state spreading the institutions name. This brought in tens of thousands of dollars from the politically elite and wealthy who donated more on a favor to Bates than love of the college, as Bates had graduated little alumnus who went on to amass wealth.
By his death in 1878, Bates' donations to the college totalled over $100,000, and overall contributions valued at US$250,000 (worth US$6.2 million in March 2017 dollars).
On March 16, 1864, the founder of the Maine State Seminary, Oren Burbank Cheney, renamed his institution of higher learning, "Bates College," in honor of Bates. However, when hearing that the college was renamed after him, he expressed his disappointment. He thought that he was not worthy of a college of "[such] inception and history," later noting his guilt for raising money for the college because donors might have thought he was raising money for himself.
Death and legacy
Benjamin Bates died on January 14, 1878 at age 69, in Boston, Massachusetts. His body was entombed at the Mount Auburn Cemetery on Fir Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts two days later.
Bates Street, West Bates Street, and East Bates Street in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, respectively, are named in his honor.
His death was attended by Lewiston, Boston, and New York City elite, and the Mayors of numerous cities gave speeches on his life. His funeral was held in the Lewiston City Hall, and clergymen gave speeches on his commitment to the college and God.
He was survived by his wife, Sarah Chapman Gilbert (his second wife and daughter of Joseph Gilbert, niece of Abijah Gilbert) who lived from 1832 to 1882 and his four children:
Josephine Bates Hammond (1839–1886)
Benjamin Edward Bates V (1863–1906)
Sarah Frances Bates Herschel (1867–1937)
Lillian Gilbert Bates (1872–1951)
Arthur Hobart Herschel (1870–1953)
Bates College's inaugural president, Oren Burbank Cheney said the following of Bates delivering his eulogy: Bates wanted labor for our laborers, education for our children, places of worship for our worshipers, light for our streets, water for our houses, and a hospital for our sick and our dying. I have heard the man [Bates] speak of his love for Lewiston, and his love for the college. While in Lewiston, our desires were his desires: our interests were his interests: and our affairs his affairs...Alfred J. Lebel, a Lewiston native, attended Bates College, and went on to run the Bates Manufacturing Company from 1985 to 1999.
References
Citations
Extended notes
Oren Cheney, "Eulogy on the Life of Benjamin Edward Bates," Bates Student, June 1878, 131–149, (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College) (part 2).
External links
Benjamin Bates Eulogy, pg. 131-149, Bates Student 1877–78 (part 2)
1808 births
1878 deaths
Philanthropists from Maine
Bates College people
University and college founders
People from Mansfield, Massachusetts
People from Lewiston, Maine
People of Maine in the American Civil War
American Civil War industrialists
American Congregationalists
American chief executives
American bankers
American financiers
Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
American temperance activists
People from Bristol, Maine
19th-century American philanthropists |
4031199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Universe%20%28song%29 | Parallel Universe (song) | "Parallel Universe" is a radio promotional single by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1999 album, Californication and was released in 2001 as the album's sixth and final single. Although it never was released as a tangible CD single, it charted on the US Modern Rock Tracks at number 37 during the week of March 24, 2001, and appeared on Greatest Hits.
Background
Although being one of the album's loudest songs in terms of distortion, it does not contain any of the Chili's signature funk-orientated bass lines which they had been primarily known for in the past. Anthony Kiedis' vocals are subdued during the verses, reflecting an approach towards melodic balladry, while similarly the song lyrically tackles darker, more introspective themes than those that the band generally had a reputation for.
The song is also notable for its lack of backing vocals, which are on almost every other track on Californication.
Despite only being a promotional single, "Parallel Universe" remains a live favorite in the band's setlists and has been performed over 230 times since its release, making it one of the band's most performed songs since its first performance in 1998. No music video was made for the single.
Personnel
Anthony Kiedis – vocals
John Frusciante – guitar
Flea – bass
Chad Smith – drums, shaker
Charts
References
Red Hot Chili Peppers songs
1999 songs
Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin
Songs written by Flea (musician)
Songs written by John Frusciante
Songs written by Chad Smith
Songs written by Anthony Kiedis
2000 singles |
4031234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Trippin%27 | Road Trippin' | "Road Trippin" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from their seventh studio album, Californication (1999). It was released as the album's fifth and final single in December 2000.
Background
The single was released only in Australia and Europe; in the former region, it was released on December 11, 2000, while in the United Kingdom, it was issued on January 1, 2001. A music video was also made but never released in the United States until the band released their Greatest Hits album in 2003. Two versions of the single were released in the UK, but only the first was available elsewhere. A third, compilation version was released in Australia. With the song being only released in Europe it is amongst the least-known singles the band has released. As a result, it did not garner much recognition or airplay outside the band's fanbase.
The song tells of a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway in which lead singer Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante and bassist Flea surfed at Big Sur following Frusciante's return to the band. Drummer Chad Smith did not take the trip with his bandmates due to other commitments and also because he wasn't into surfing. The song is entirely acoustic, and is one of few Peppers' album tracks (along with "Lovin and Touchin", "Thirty Dirty Birds", "Pea", "If" & "Tangelo") not to feature drums. As such, Chad Smith only appears briefly halfway through the video, arriving in a boat.
Live performances
"Road Trippin'" has only ever been performed live four times and not since 2004, although previous guitarist Josh Klinghoffer did do a tease of the song during the I'm with You tour in 2012.
Track listings
Single CD1
"Road Trippin'" (album version) – 3:26
"Californication" (live) – 6:03
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (live) – 4:21
"Road Trippin'" (enhanced video)
Single CD2
"Road Trippin'" (album version) – 3:26
"Under the Bridge" (live) – 4:28
"If You Have to Ask" (live) – 5:21
Single CD3
"Road Trippin'" (album version)
"Californication" (live) – 6:03
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (live) – 4:21
"Under the Bridge" (live) – 4:28
Australian single
"Road Trippin'" (album version) – 3:26
"Californication" (live) – 6:03
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (live) – 4:21
"Under the Bridge" (live) – 4:27
"If You Have to Ask" (live) – 5:20
Personnel
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals
John Frusciante – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Flea – acoustic bass guitar
Additional personnel
Patrick Warren – Chamberlin organ
Charts
Release history
References
1999 songs
2000 singles
Music videos directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Red Hot Chili Peppers songs
Songs about roads
Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin
Songs written by Anthony Kiedis
Songs written by Flea (musician)
Songs written by John Frusciante
Warner Records singles |
4031236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20puzzle | T puzzle | The T puzzle is a tiling puzzle consisting of four polygonal shapes which can be put together to form a capital T. The four pieces are usually one isosceles right triangle, two right trapezoids and an irregular shaped pentagon. Despite its apparent simplicity, it is a surprisingly hard puzzle of which the crux is the positioning of the irregular shaped piece. The earliest T puzzles date from around 1900 and were distributed as promotional giveaways. From the 1920s wooden specimen were produced and made available commercially. Most T puzzles come with a leaflet with additional figures to be constructed. Which shapes can be formed depends on the relative proportions of the different pieces.
Origins and early history
The Latin Cross
The Latin cross puzzle consists of a reassembling a five-piece dissection of the cross with three isosceles right triangles, one right trapezoids and an irregular shaped six-sized piece (see figure). When the pieces of the cross puzzle have the right dimensions, they can also be put together as a rectangle. From Chinese origin, the oldest examples date from the first half of the nineteenth century. One of the earliest published descriptions of the puzzle appeared in 1826 in the 'Sequel to the Endless Amusement'. Many other references of the cross puzzle can be found in amusement, puzzle and magicians books throughout the 19th century. The T puzzle is based on the cross puzzle, but without head and has therefore only four pieces. Another difference is that in the dissection of the T, one of the triangles is usually elongated as a right trapezoid. These changes make the puzzle more difficult and clever than the cross puzzle.
Advertising premiums
The T-puzzle became very popular in the beginning of the 20th century as a giveaway item, with hundreds of different companies using it to promote their business or product. The pieces were made from paper or cardboard and served as trade cards, with advertisement printed on them. They usually came in an envelope with instructions and an invitation to write to or call at the company or local dealer for its solution. Examples include:
Lash's Bitters – the original tonic laxative (1898). This is the earliest known version of the T-puzzle. The angles are cut at 35 degrees which makes the puzzle easier and less confusing.
White Rose Ceylon tea, Seeman Brothers, New York (1903). This puzzle is often cited as being the oldest version of the T puzzle, but Lash's Bitters puzzle predates it.
Armour's dry sausage, Armour and Company, Chicago. The text on the envelope reads "The Teaser T, Please accept this interesting little puzzle with our compliments. You will find it a real test to fit the four pieces enclosed in this envelope together to form this perfect letter 'T.' If you fail to solve it, ask your dealer for the solution. And to solve the problem of adding delicious meat dishes to your menu Ask your dealer for Armour's Dry Sausage".
Larabee's best flour (1919).
Waterall's T Puzzle Paints & Varnishes distributed by O.J. Miller & Son, Allentown, Pennsylvania. The envelope mentions that the puzzle is "highly entertaining, interesting, perplexing, aggravating and easy".
Insurance company of Glens Falls T Puzzle, New York.
Early published references
Published references to the T-puzzle appeared in the beginning of the 20th century. In the October 1904 edition of "Primary Education", a monthly journal for primary teachers, the T-puzzle is described as a puzzle for tired children, and they further comment: "Putting the letter on the board will help the wee ones. They say it takes grown-ups ten minutes to fit the pieces. How long will it take the children?" Another early reference is the April 1905 edition of a magazine called "Our Young People". A particular nice presentation of the puzzle appeared in the October 1913 issue of John Martin's Book, here shown to the left.
In "Carpentry & mechanics for boys" by A. Hall (1918), figures of an example T and full-size patterns are given for the construction of a wooden version of the puzzle. The arms of the T are longer than usual. The same drawings appear in "Junior Red cross activities—teachers manual" published in the same year by the American Junior Red Cross. The puzzles presented in this book were proposed to be constructed by red cross juniors for use in the military: "to be used for distribution at canteen centers for the men passing through on the troop trains ... for use in camps, convalescent houses and hospitals" (p. 378). They note that the puzzle "has proven popular with British Tommies" (p. 394) and give detailed instructions on how to fabricate the pieces and an envelope container.
Commercial puzzle
Just the T
The T puzzle remained popular throughout the 20th century and versions of it were sold as a game puzzle as early as the 1920s'. An example dated around that time is a French version of the puzzle called "L'ÉTÉ" produced by N.K. Atlas of Paris. Another example is the wooden version of the puzzle produced by Drueke & Sons, under the name "Pa's T puzzle", dated around the 1940s and here depicted to the right. Later also versions were produced with plastic pieces, such as "Adams T puzzle" by S.S. Adams Co in the 1950s' and "The famous T puzzle" by Marx Toys in the 1960s-1970s. From the 1980s' dates the "Mr T's puzzle" featuring the actor Mr. T from the popular A-Team TV series; the back of the product packaging has the catchphrase "I pity the fool who can't solve Mr. T's puzzle".
Extensions
It was recognized early on that other shapes could be formed with the four pieces of the T puzzle, similar to the tangram. From the 1930 dates an advertising premium for Mohawk Rugs & Carpets which besides the regular T, features the challenge of making an arrowhead with the same pieces. In the same year a giveaway for Eberhard Faber's Van Dyke pencils featured 14 different shapes to form.
At present T puzzles come in standardized proportions which allow the construction of many additional shapes. The most important designs are (see also figure below):
Nob's T puzzle: Designed by Nob Yoshigahara, this version of the T puzzle sold over four million copies. The pieces can be laid out in the shape of a symmetrical convex pentagon with two right angles.
Asymmetric T: This T is asymmetric in that the left and right arm of the T have different lengths, with the shorter arm being about 83% of the longer one. Here all pieces have the same width and can be put in a perfect line segment. At present this puzzle is for instance sold by HIQU and comes with 100 figures to make and by Eureka Toys and Games in a puzzle called brain twister.
Gardner's T: This is the version featured in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column. The pieces also form a fatter T, as noted in a later column. This version was sold under the name "The missing T" as part of Aha! Brain teasers classics from Think Fun.
Solving the puzzle
With only four pieces, the T puzzle is deceitfully simple. Studies have shown that few people are able solve it under five minutes, with most people needing more than half an hour to solve it. A common response of subjects is to conclude that the puzzle is impossible to solve.
The main difficulty in solving the puzzle is overcoming the functional fixedness of putting the pentagon piece either horizontally or vertically; and related to this, the tendency of trying to fill up the notch of the pentagon. In one study participants were found to spend over 60% of their attempts on such misguided placements of the pentagon piece. And even when the pentagon piece happened to be placed properly, it was mostly not recognized as part of the solution, as a match with the T is not easily seen. The puzzle is easily solved when the insight is reached that the pentagon is part of both the horizontal and vertical stem of the T and that the notch in the pentagon constitutes an inside corner.
Notes
References
Tiling puzzles
Geometric dissection
Cognitive tests |
4031249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Joseph%27s%20High%20School%20%28St.%20Thomas%2C%20Ontario%29 | St. Joseph's High School (St. Thomas, Ontario) | St. Joseph's High School ("St. Joe's") is a Catholic secondary school situated in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada and administered under the London District Catholic School Board. The school has had a recent expansion, and also shares the building with Fanshawe College.
History
In September 1925, a new addition was built onto Holy Angel's Elementary School consisting of two classrooms, a chemistry laboratory in the basement, a Board Room and a library. Sister Fideles Fortune was appointed as principal and St. Joseph's High School was born.
In September 1929, Sister Grace Gleeson became the new principal and in order to accommodate a growing enrolment was aided by Sister St. Catherine. Embracing the age of modern technology, a manual typewriter was purchased by the Board exclusively for school use but residing in the convent.
The girls of St. Joseph's wore a blue and white uniform that remained the standard of school fashion until 1970, when it was replaced by a plaid kilt with brown blazer. The school crest and blue and gold colours were established at this time and remain a tradition to this day.
Father Remi Durand introduced boys' basketball and softball in 1929, and the St. Joseph's Saints were born. This would begin a long history of athletic success at St. Joe's.
During the 1930s and '40s St. Joseph's stayed abreast with administrative and curriculum changes initiated by the Ontario Department of Education, such as adding grade 13 to the curriculum. This expansion of the school program allowed students to graduate directly to University from the Parish school system. For those students who were entering the world of business after high school, a Special Commercial program was also added to the curriculum at this time.
World War II called thousands of Canadians to service including many from St. Thomas. Hugh Cassidy, Walter McManus and Donald Udell, students of St. Joseph's, sacrificed their lives in the service of their country and are remembered by generations of students to this day.
Car pools and buses brought students to St. Joseph's from Port Stanley, Rodney, Shedden, Sparta, Wallacetown, Glanworth, West Lorne, Aylmer and Tillsonburg during the 1940s and '50s. In order to meet this growth in enrolment, two new classrooms were added particularly for grade eleven and twelve students. In 1953, a new gymnasium was added, providing an alternative to the use of outside facilities at the YMCA and St. Thomas Collegiate. The girls' basketball teams won consecutive WOSSA basketball championships and the boys' football team contended in the WOSSA final. Students performed in musicals and operettas. School functions were often followed by informal gatherings at the White Palace or Gettas Restaurant. In 1955, a new science lab, principal's office; library and two additional classrooms were added to the school building.
Significant to the growth of St. Joe's sporting tradition was the addition of Tommy White to the school staff in 1956. White was a renowned local and semi-professional baseball player and manager, intercollegiate basketball referee, and basketball player. He was known locally as owner of Tommy White's Sport Shop, a sporting goods outlet. Items purchased from the establishment retained White's distinctive cigars long after their purchase and use. Tommy White served as coach for basketball, football, volleyball, soccer and golf for over 24 years. Despite a fiery competitive spirit, White endeavoured to provide all interested young athletes with an opportunity to participate. White's memorial plaque adorns the entrance to the St. Joe's gymnasium, which has been named in his honour.
In September 1965, it became necessary to introduce tuition fees to help cover the rising cost of modern education. Fees continued to be charged until the completion of Catholic Education in 1986. Throughout the history of St. Joseph's, fundraising activities provided necessary support to the school. Spaghetti dinners, Bingo, rummage sales, days of apple picking, and other events provided necessary funding to the school. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Catholic community contributed financial assistance for renovations at the school. The Knights of Columbus, Catholic Women's League, St. Anne's Festival Board, St. Joseph's Board of Governors, and the Friends of St. Joseph's have made contributions to sustaining the viability of the school.
St. Joseph's continued to offer a co-curricular program in the era following the extension of full funding. While the school population in the classrooms grew beyond the capacity of the White St. school building, a dynasty emerged in girls' basketball. The St. Joe's senior girls were provincial champions in 1986, '87, '88, '91, '92, '93, and '95 and finalists in 1996 and '98. The senior boys' teams were provincial champions in 1994 and 1998 and finalists in 1995 and '96.
The impact of full funding was realized on May 4, 1990, when the Ministry of Education announced the allocation of $7,036,000 to build Phase I of the New St. Joseph's Catholic High School. On February 4, 1994, the new school was opened to welcome five hundred students. The new school building provided students with an expanded academic and co-instructional program including Instrumental and Vocal Music, Drama, Physical Education and Fitness, Environmental Science and Technological Studies. The school was designed with a particular focus on environmental science and that continues to be an emphasis at the school to the present. With access to a sports field, St. Joseph's instituted a football program in 1997. Starting with a junior program in the first year and adding a senior in the second, the St. Joe's Rams have quickly become competitive in the local football conference and the football program has provided a focus for school spirit at the beginning of the school year.
St. Joseph's continues to enjoy the support of the Elgin County community as reflected in the growing enrolment. In 2002, some 640 students were enrolled and nine portable classrooms have been added to the site over the past few years. Plans for a reorganization of the technology area have been proposed and have received support in principle from the London District Catholic School Board. However, in 2008, the student body population reached a nearly 900 students that daily try to fit themselves in the school built for 500 students.
The Rams football team won the TVRAA South-East football championship five years in a row following a loss in the league finals in 2003.
See also
List of high schools in Ontario
Sources
Catholic secondary schools in Ontario
Educational institutions established in 1925
High schools in St. Thomas, Ontario
1925 establishments in Ontario |
4031257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis%20Guilford%20School | Ellis Guilford School | The Ellis Guilford School & Sports College is a secondary academy school in Bar Lane, Basford, Nottingham.
History and performance
The school was established in 1926..
In 2001 it was inspected by Ofsted, with the finding that "Pupils’ attainment on entry is well below average overall ... Ellis Guilford School provides a sound education for its pupils within circumstances that are relatively challenging. Although standards in relation to schools nationally are below average, the majority of pupils make at least satisfactory progress". In 2006 and 2010 it was inspected again and judged Good. In 2013 inspection judged it Inadequate because of slow progress made by students and the lack of engaging teaching. In 2015 it was judged Good. In 2018 it was judged Inadequate: Special Measures Required on the grounds of poor teaching, poor outcomes, ineffective safeguarding, low attendance and poor strategic planning.
The school became an academy a month after this inspection, in November 2018. It is part of the Creative Education Trust. As of 2020 it has not been inspected since academisation.
The school was criticised in January 2018 after introducing a ban on pupils cycling to school unless they had passed safety training.
References
External links
Official Site
EduBase
Secondary schools in Nottingham
Academies in Nottingham |
4031265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sunderland%20A.F.C.%20records%20and%20statistics | List of Sunderland A.F.C. records and statistics | Sunderland Association Football Club, also known as the Mackems, are a professional football club based in Sunderland, North East England. They were announced to the world by the local newspaper, The Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette on 27 September 1880 as Sunderland & District Teachers Association Football Club following a meeting of the Teachers at Rectory Park school in Sunderland on 25 September 1880. The football club changed their name to the current form on 16 October 1880, just 20 days after the September announcement. They were elected into The Football League in the 1890–91 season, becoming the first team to join the league since its inauguration in the 1889–90 season, replacing Stoke F.C.
Transfers
All figures are based on the maximum potential fee and are correct as at 1 September 2013.
In
Out
Honours and achievements
Sunderland have won a total of six Football League Championships including three in the space of four seasons, along with being runners-up five times. Sunderland have also experienced success in the FA Cup, winning it twice; in 1937 and 1973. They have never won the League Cup but finished as finalists in 1985 and 2014.
League
First Division (level 1):
Winners (6): 1891–92, 1892–93, 1894–95, 1901–02, 1912–13, 1935–36
Runners-up (5): 1893–94, 1897–98, 1900–01, 1922–23, 1934–35
Football League Championship (level 2):
Winners (2): 2004–05, 2006–07
Second Division (level 2):
Winners (1): 1975–76
Runners-up (2): 1963–64, 1979–80
Promotion (1): 1989–90
First Division (level 2):
Winners (1): 1995–96, 1998–99
Third Division (level 3):
Winners (1): 1987–88
Cup
FA Cup:
Winners (2): 1937, 1973
Finalists (2): 1913, 1992
Football League Cup:
Finalists (2): 1985, 2014
FA Charity Shield:
Winners (1): 1936
Finalists (1): 1937
Sheriff of London Charity Shield:
Winners (1): 1903
Football League War Cup:
Finalists (1): 1942
Durham Challenge Cup:
Winners (4): 1884, 1887, 1888, 1890,
Northern Temperance Festival Cup:
Winners (1): 1884,
Durham and Northumberland Championship:
Winners (1): 1888
British Cup:
Runners Up (1): 1902
Dewar Sheriff of London Shield:
Winners (1): 1903
Newcastle and Sunderland Hospitals Cup:
Winners (3): 1912, 1913, 1914
Runners Up (1): 1911
Durham Senior Cup:
Winners (11): 1919, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939
Runners Up (3): 1925, 1926, 1928
Northern Victory League:
Runners Up (1): 1919
North East Counties Cup:
Winners (2): 1920, 1921
Northumberland and Durham Challenge Cup:
Runners Up (1): 1883
Player records
Appearances
Youngest first-team player: Derek Forster, 15 years 185 days (Leicester City, 22 August 1964).
Oldest first-team player: Jermain Defoe, 39 years 121 days (against Doncaster Rovers, 5 February 2022).
Most appearances
Competitive matches only. Each column contains appearances in the starting eleven, followed by appearances as substitute in brackets.
Goalscorers
Top goalscorers
Competitive matches only, appearances including substitutes appear in brackets.
Most Hat Tricks: Dave Halliday – 12 (11 league and 1 cup)
Managerial records
First full-time manager: Tom Watson managed the club for 191 matches, from August 1888 to August 1896.
Longest serving manager: Bob Kyle managed the club for 817 matches, from August 1905 to May 1928, a total of 23 years.
Club records
Goals
Most league goals scored in a season: 109 (in 42 matches in the 1955–56 season, First Division).
Fewest league goals scored in a season: 21 (in 38 matches in the 2002–03 season, Premier League).
Most league goals conceded in a season: 97 (in 42 matches in the 1957–58 season, First Division).
Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 26 (in 34 matches in the 1900–01 season, First Division).
Points
Most points in a season:
Two points for a win: 61 (in 42 games in the 1963–64 season, Second Division).
Three points for a win: 105 (in 46 games in the 1998–99 season, First Division).
Fewest points in a season:
Two points for a win: 23 (in 22 games in the 1890–91 season, The Football League) and (in 30 games in the 1896–97 season, First Division).
Three points for a win: 15 (in 38 games in the 2005–06 season, Premier League).
Matches
Firsts
First match: Sunderland 0–1 Ferryhill, 13 November 1880.
First competitive match: Sunderland 2–2 Burnopfield in the Durham Challenge Cup, 11 December 1880.
First league match: Sunderland 2–3 Burnley, 13 September 1890.
First FA Cup match: Redcar 3–1 Sunderland, 8 November 1884.
First League Cup match: Brentford 4–3 Sunderland, 26 October 1960.
First European match: Vasas Budapest 0–2 Sunderland, 19 September 1973, UEFA Cup Winner's Cup.
Record wins
Record Football League win:1-9 (v. Newcastle United (a) 5 Dec 1908)
Record FA Cup win:11-1 (v. Fairfield FC, 2 February 1895)
Record Football League Cup win:7-1 (v. Oldham Athletic, 24 September 1962)
Record Football League Trophy win:8-1 (v. Aston Villa U21, 8 September 2020)
Record friendly win:23-0 (v. Castletown FC, 20 December 1884)
Record defeats
Record league defeats:
8–0 (v. Sheffield Wednesday, 26 December 1911).
8–0 (v. West Ham United, 19 October 1968).
8-0 (v. Watford, 25 September 1982)
8-0 (v. Southampton, 18 October 2014)
Record FA Cup defeat:
5-1 (v. Manchester United, 9 March 1964)
Record Football League Cup defeat:
6-0 (v. Derby County, 31 October 1990)
Record Football League Trophy defeat:
3-0 (v. Scunthorpe United, 12 November 2019)
Attendances
Overall
Highest overall attendance: 75,118 v. Derby County, FA Cup 6th Round Replay, 8 March 1933 at Roker Park (Sunderland 0 – 1 Derby County)
Highest league attendance: 68,004 v. Newcastle United, 4 March 1950 at Roker Park (Sunderland 2 - 2 Newcastle United)
Lowest recorded attendance: 880 vs Millwall, Friendly, 28 July 1969 at Roker Park (Sunderland 0 – 1 Millwall)
Lowest recorded league attendance: 3,841 vs. Manchester City, 11 April 1934 at Roker Park (Sunderland 0 – 0 Manchester City)
Lowest approximate competitive attendance: c. 1,500 vs. Birtley Town, Durham Challenge Cup First Round, 20 November 1886 at Newcastle Road (Sunderland 2 – 0 Birtley)
Lowest recorded competitive attendance: 3,498 vs. Oldham Athletic, EFL Trophy Second Round, 1 December 2021 at Stadium of Light (Sunderland 0 – 1 Oldham Athletic)
Competitive Attendance Records by Ground
Attendances at Sunderland's grounds prior to Newcastle Road were rarely recorded. Attendances at Newcastle Road, and in the seasons prior to 1925 at Roker Park were usually approximations.
European statistics
Record by season
Below is Sunderland's record in European competitions. They have only appeared once in European competition, during the 1973–74 season where they reached the second round. They qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup after winning the 1973 FA Cup Final over Leeds United.
Key
PR = Preliminary round
1R = First round
2R = Second round
3R = Third round
QF = Quarter final
SF = Semi final
F = Final
Record by competition
Notes
A. : Payment of the transfer fee for Ricardo Alvarez was imposed on Sunderland in 2017 following the loss of a legal dispute with Inter Milan. The total cost of the Alvarez deal, including compensation and court fees is estimated to be close to £20m.
B. : Sunderland were promoted in the 1989–90 season despite being beaten in the 1990 play-off final, Swindon Town originally won the match 1–0 but Sunderland took their place in the First Division after Swindon admitted to making illegal payments.
C. : Sunderland score is given first in each result.
D. : Sunderland qualified for the 1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup by winning the 1973 FA Cup.
Footnotes and references
Footnotes:
References:
External links
Sunderland AFC – Statistics, History and Records
Statistics
Sunderland |
4031280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letoon%20trilingual | Letoon trilingual | The Letoon trilingual, or Xanthos trilingual, is an inscription in three languages: standard Lycian or Lycian A, Greek, and Aramaic covering the faces of a four-sided stone stele called the Letoon Trilingual Stele, discovered in 1973 during the archeological exploration of the Letoon temple complex (devoted to the goddess Leto), near Xanthos, ancient Lycia, in present-day Turkey. It was created when Lycia was under the sway of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. The inscription is a public record of a decree authorizing the establishment of a cult, with references to the deities, and provisions for officers in the new cult. The Lycian requires 41 lines; the Greek, 35 and the Aramaic, 27. They are not word-for-word translations, but each contains some information not present in the others. The Aramaic is somewhat condensed.
Although the use of the term "Letoon" with regard to the inscription and the stele is unequivocal, there is no standard name for either. Xanthos trilingual is sometimes used, which is to be distinguished from the Xanthos bilingual, meaning the Xanthos stele. However, sometimes Xanthos stele is used of the Letoon trilingual stele as well as for the tomb at Xanthos. Moreover, the term Xanthos trilingual (Lycian A, Lycian B, Greek) is sometimes used of the tomb at Xanthos. In the latter two cases only the context can provide clues as to which stele is meant. The Aramaic inscription is known as KAI 319.
Find site
The Lētōon was a temple complex about south of Xanthus, capital of ancient Lycia. The complex dates to as early as the 7th century BC and must have been a center for the Lycian League. In it were three temples to Lētō, Artemis and Apollō. The stele was found near the temple of Apollo. It has been removed to the museum at Fethiye. The entire site is currently under several inches of water.
Date of the inscription
The first five lines of the Aramaic version mention that the inscription was made in the first year of the reign of the Persian king, Artaxerxes, but does not say which Artaxerxes:
In the month Siwan, year 1 of King Artaxerxes. In the fortress of Arñna (Xanthos). Pixodarus, son of Katomno (Hecatomnus), the satrap who is in Karka (Caria) and Termmila (Lycia)....
If the king in question was Artaxerxes III Ochus, the date of the inscription would be the first year of his reign, hence 358 BC. But Hecatomnus is thought to have ruled from ca. 395 to 377 BC and Pixodarus, son of Hecatomnus, was satrap of Caria and Lycia no earlier than 341/340. Therefore, the Persian king most likely was Artaxerxes IV Arses, son of Artaxerxes III, who took his father's name on coming to power. In that case the trilingual is dated to the first year of Artaxerxes IV, that is 337/336 BC.
Summary of the text
Lines 1-5 of the Lycian text date the inscription to the government of Pixodaros.
Lines 5-8: the Xanthians introduce a cult for two gods, "the Kaunian Ruler and King Arkesimas".
Lines 9-11: a certain Simias is made priest, his priestship will be hereditary.
Lines 12-20: definition of the territory owned by the temple, and of the salary to be awarded to the priest.
Lines 20-24: on behalf of the temple a new tax is instituted, to be levied when a slave is liberated.
Lines 24-30: the revenues thereof shall be spent on sacrifices at regular times.
Lines 30-36: the citizens of Xanthos and the territory of Xanthos vow to execute faithfully those regulations.
Sample of the Lycian text
Below is a transliteration of a sample of lines with an English translation:
See also
Lycian language
Lycian script
Lycia
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
4th-century BC works
1973 archaeological discoveries
Archaeological artifacts
Lycian inscriptions
Greek inscriptions
Aramaic inscriptions
Multilingual texts
Archaeological discoveries in Turkey
Archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire
1973 in Turkey
Achaemenid Anatolia
KAI inscriptions |
4031294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiefth | Thiefth | Thiefth is an album by American musician David Grubbs and poet Susan Howe.
Track listing
"Thorow"
"Melville's Marginalia"
2005 EPs |
4031303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Mission | Final Mission | "Final Mission" is the 83rd episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the ninth episode of the fourth season.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, after learning that he finally has been accepted into Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher welcomes Picard's invitation to accompany him on an away mission that could resolve a mining dispute on an arid world. But following a shuttle crash and a near disastrous search for water that leaves the captain near death, Wesley finds himself charged with the weighty responsibility of keeping both himself and Picard alive until a rescue team can locate them.
Plot
The Enterprise has traveled to the Pentarus system where Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) must mediate a dispute among some miners on the fifth planet. Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) receives word that he has been accepted to Starfleet Academy and, for his final mission, he will accompany Picard on his shuttle trip to Pentarus V. A distress call comes in from Gamilon V, where an unidentified vessel has entered orbit and is giving off lethal doses of radiation. Picard orders Riker to take the Enterprise to resolve that situation while he and Wesley travel in a shuttle sent by the miners, commanded by Captain Dirgo.
En route, Dirgo's shuttle malfunctions and they are forced to crash-land on the surface of a harsh, desert-like moon. Though they are unharmed, the shuttle is beyond repair, and its communication systems and food replicators are disabled. Dirgo admits he has no emergency supplies on board, so they are forced to search for shelter and water. With his tricorder, Wesley identifies some caves and a potential source of water some distance away, and the three set out across the desert. Reaching a cave, they find a fountain-like water source, but it is protected by a crystalline force field. Dirgo attempts to use a phaser to destroy the field, but this activates a burst of energy from the fountain which encases the phaser in an impenetrable shell and causes a rock slide; Picard pushes Wesley out of the way but is severely injured in doing so.
Meanwhile, the Enterprise has arrived at Gamilon V, finding the unidentified ship is an abandoned garbage scow filled with radioactive waste. Their initial attempt to attach thrusters to the barge to propel it through an asteroid belt into the Gamilon sun remotely fails, and Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) is forced to attempt to tow the barge themselves using the tractor beam, exposing the crew to the lethal radiation.
As Wesley continues to analyze the forcefield, Dirgo becomes impatient and attempts to breach the field again, but this time the energy burst encases him as well, killing him. Picard, weak from his injuries, gives Wesley advice about the academy, and tells him he is proud of him. Wesley refuses to give up. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, despite the rising radiation levels on board, which are nearing lethal, Riker manages to get the barge headed into the sun and speeds off to help in the search for the shuttle.
Wesley continues to study the fountain, and devises a plan to disable the force field. He fires his phaser at the fountain to attract the energy defense mechanism, but reprograms it using his tricorder to disable the field instead, and is finally able to access the water.
Shortly thereafter, the Enterprise locates the wreckage of the mining shuttle, and Picard and Wesley are rescued. As Picard is carried from the cave, he tells Wesley that he will be missed.
Reception
In a ranking of every Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Final Mission" was ranked 144th by Medium in 2016.
Releases
"Final Mission" was released in the United States on September 3, 2002, as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation season four DVD box set.
On April 23, 1996 episodes "The Loss" and "Final Mission" were released on LaserDisc in the United States by Paramount Home Video. Both episodes were included on a single double sided 12 inch optical disc, with a Dolby Surround sound track.
References
Star Trek The Next Generation DVD set, volume 4, disc 3, selection 1.
External links
"Final Mission" rewatch by Ketih R. A.DeCandido
Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 4) episodes
1990 American television episodes |
4031328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%20Under%20Glass | Demon Under Glass | Demon Under Glass is a 2002 film directed by Jon Cunningham. The film tells the story of a centuries old vampire, Simon Molinar (Jason Carter) who gets captured by a government group calling themselves The Delphi Project. The team of scientists and government officials proceed to study the vampire in captivity. It's only one member of the team, a Dr. Joe McKay, who starts to treat the vampire captive like an actual person rather than as an experiment. Dr. Mckay is forced to see the humanity of their monster captive and the ruthless cruelty of his own team and raises the question of what defines a monster?
Plot
Someone has been killing women in LA and leaving the bodies drained of blood. The police planned a sting using a female officer, Detective Gwen Taylor (Denise Alessandria Hurd) however the killer was instead intercepted and captured by a group calling itself The Delphi Project. The Delphi Project is a secret government group intent on capturing and studying a live vampire and as it turns out the killer that they are after is actually a thousand year old vampire going by the name Simon Molinar (Jason Carter).
During the attempted capture Dr. Hirsch (James Kiberd) is killed by the vampire. A replacement doctor, Dr. Joe McKay (Garett Maggart) takes his place in the group. Out of the entire group Dr. Joe McKay is the first to treat the vampire like a person and not just as something to be studied. The group sets about a series of tests and experiments to study the vampire. As the experiments become crueler Dr. Joe McKay is left to wonder who is the true monster? The vampire or the very people he works for?
Unbeknownst to Dr. Mckay is that one of his superiors, Dr. Bassett (Jack Donner) has found out that Dr. McKay is one of the rare few who has the genetic predisposition to being able to be turned into a vampire. Dr. Bassett (without the rest of the team's knowledge) even provides Simon Molinar with a live victim. Dr. Bassett, himself, discarded the body. When the body is found this gains the attention of the local police. The group decides to destroy Simon Molinar once their experiments are finished but Dr. Bassett thinks it might be best to create a new vampire, one that has never killed before, to replace the vampire they intend to destroy.
Bassett locked Dr. McKay in a room with the vampire but Simon escaped instead of turning Dr. McKay into a vampire. During his escape Simon ripped the caduceus necklace from Dr. McKay's neck. It's a necklace that Dr. McKay never takes off and wore as a sign of healing and his Hippocratic oath. Simon Molinar stole this as a memento because of his growing fondness for Dr. McKay despite having been his prisoner.
Novel differences
The novel for Demon Under Glass, written by Deborah L. Warner (as D. L. Warner), was published the same year as the film's release. About two thirds of the novel is the same story as the film however the novel continues after Molinar's escape.
After Simon Molinar escaped Dr. McKay is reassigned. Two years pass. Dr. McKay lives a normal life and even has a fiance. One evening Simon Molinar comes to retrieve Dr. McKay, bypassing his new high tech security system and risking his own life.
Simon reveals to Dr. McKay that The Delphi Project is not dead. They were monitoring Dr. McKay for two years before deciding to proceed in an experiment using a serum created from Simon's blood samples. Their plan was to transform Dr. McKay into a vampire.
Dr. McKay's whole life for two years had been a lie. Even his fiance had been a government agent involved in the project without him knowing it. Simon Molinar and Dr. McKay go on the run together in a desperate bid to stop the evil plan to create laboratory-made vampires.
References
External links
2002 films
2000s English-language films |
4031345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein%20Khaliqi | Hussein Khaliqi | Hussein Khaliqi or Huseyn Xelîqî or Hossein Khalighi or Ḥusayn Khalīqī, is a contemporary Kurdish writer. He was born in Iranian Kurdistan. He studied philosophy, history and sociology in University of Tabriz. He is currently the head of the Kurdish Institute of Stockholm.
Works
Books
Bingehên giştî yên komelnasî or Binaxe giştîyekanî komełnasî (The foundations of Sociology), 447 pp., Apec Publishers, Spånga, Sweden, 1991.
Dastanî mafî mirov or Dāstān-i māf-i mirǒf (The story of human rights), 208 pp., Stockholm, 1995.
Mêjûy sedekenî nêwerast (The history of the Middle Ages), translation of a work from Russian by G.M. Dinskuy-u and A.U. Agibalu, 357 pp., Arzan Publishers, Jönköping, Sweden, 1995.
Binaxekanî rêbazî şorişgerî : bizûtnewey rizgarîxwazî nîştimanî Felestîn (The foundations of revolutionary method: the national liberation movement of Palestine), 195 pp., Arzan Publishers, Jönköping, Sweden, 1996.
Jan û Jiyan (Pain and Life), 321 pp., Rabûn Publishers, Uppsala, Sweden, 1998.
Kurdish-language writers
Living people
Kurdish social scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
4031346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20Canadian%20Mechanized%20Brigade%20Group | 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group | 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (1 CMBG; French: ) is a Canadian Forces brigade group that is part of the 3rd Canadian Division of the Canadian Army. Originally headquartered at CFB Calgary, it is currently based in CFB Edmonton in Alberta with two major units at CFB Shilo in Manitoba, and consists of eight Regular Force units.
History
The brigade was established on 14 October 1953 in Europe.
1st Canadian Infantry Brigade created 14 October 1953
Redesignated 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in October 1955
Redesignated 1 Combat Group in 1972
Redesignated 1 Canadian Brigade Group in 1976
Redesignated 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in 1992
In 1989 at the height of the Cold War the 1st Canadian Mechanized Infantry Division consisted of three brigades, one of them being the 1st Canadian Brigade Group. It had the following structure:
Headquarters at Calgary
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) – armoured reconnaissance
1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry – mechanized
3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry – mechanized
3rd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery – self-propelled artillery
1st Combat Engineer Regiment, Royal Canadian Engineers – light engineers
408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron – light helicopter support
1 CMBG sent a contingent of approximately 200 personnel for Task Force Kandahar Headquarters for a nine-month rotation starting February 2009 and sent approximately 2500 personnel for the task force in September 2009 for a six-month tour.
Composition
The eight units that comprise 1 CMBG are:
1 CMBG is colocated with, and frequently operates alongside, three regular force units which are not part of the formation:
See also
Military history of Canada
History of the Canadian Army
Canadian Forces
List of armouries in Canada
References
External links
Canadian Mechanized Brigade Groups |
4031362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Baird | Susan Baird | Susan Baird (26 May 1940 – 24 January 2009) was the Labour Party Councillor for the Braidfauld ward of the City of Glasgow, Scotland. She served as the second female Lord Provost of the city from 1988 to 1992.
She was appointed CBE in the 1991 New Year Honours.
Baird was the recipient of the 1991 St Mungo Prize, awarded to the individual who has done most in the previous three years to improve and promote the city of Glasgow.
External links
Councillor Baird's Glasgow City Council page
References
1940 births
2009 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Lord Provosts of Glasgow
Scottish Labour councillors
Women provosts in Scotland
20th-century British politicians
20th-century British women politicians
Women councillors in Glasgow |
4031373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows%20Dam | Narrows Dam | Narrows Dam is a dam located 6 miles north of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, that impounds the water of the Little Missouri River (Arkansas) to create Lake Greeson. Narrows Dam was authorized as a flood control and hydroelectric power project by the Flood Control Act of 1941. The dam is a feature of the comprehensive plan for the Ouachita River Basin. Lake Greeson is operated for hydroelectric power, recreation, and flood control.
The powerhouse of the dam is located adjacent to the east abutment, and it has a total length of 151 feet. The equipment of the powerhouse is three 8,500 kW·h generating machines. The powerhouse originally had two generators, but a third was placed in 1969. The average annual output is 28,000,000 kW·h.
The dam is named due to its location on the river, The Narrows. During the dam's construction many cemeteries and graveyards had to be removed due to the creation of the new lake. Narrows Dam is located by the Swaha, or Narrows Dam recreational area.
Lake Greeson is divided into three layers so Narrows Dam can work and operate properly. The bottom portion of the lake always remains full so the powerhouse has enough pressure to operate. The middle layer or "Power Storage" portion is used to regulate the flow of water running into the generators of the dam. The top portion or "Flood Storage" is usually empty unless holding floodwater.
A spillway at the top of the dam is used to regulate the top portion of the dam, the spillway contains walls to maneuver the flow of the water, and a stilling basin is placed at the foot of the spillway to dissipate erosion from the spillway water hitting the base of the dam. The spillway is not used frequently because flooding can be regulated by other means, such as the flood control conduits. Because of heavy rains during the first two weeks of May 2009, water poured over the spillway for the first time since 1968.
Construction on the dam by the United States Army Corps of Engineers began in April 1947. The first bucket of concrete was poured in June 1948. The dam was finished in 1950, and dedicated in July 1951.
See also
List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs
References
Energy infrastructure completed in 1950
Buildings and structures in Pike County, Arkansas
Dams in Arkansas
Hydroelectric power plants in Arkansas
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Little Missouri River (Arkansas)
1950 establishments in Arkansas |
4031374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20the%20Carpet | From the Carpet | From the Carpet is an acoustic EP by The Academy Is..., released as a digital-only release on February 21, 2006. It included three songs from Almost Here: "The Phrase That Pays", "Down and Out" and "Black Mamba"; new songs "Pour Yourself a Drink" and "The Fever"; as well as a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero". For the recording, the band returned to The Gallery of Carpet studio to work with engineer Brian Zieske, who produced and recorded their self-titled EP, before the band appended the "Is..." to their name.
Track listing
References
External links
From the Carpet at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
The Academy Is... albums
2006 EPs
Fueled by Ramen EPs |
4031386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbird%20seat | Catbird seat | "The catbird seat" is an idiomatic phrase used to describe an enviable position, often in terms of having the upper hand or greater advantage in any type of dealing among parties. It derives from the secluded perch on which the gray catbird makes mocking calls.
Source
According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymological Dictionary, the phrase refers to the gray catbird and was used in the 19th century in the American South.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first documented use occurred in a 1942 humorous short story by James Thurber titled "The Catbird Seat", which features a character, Mrs. Barrows, who likes to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explains that Mrs. Barrows must have picked up the expression from the baseball broadcaster Red Barber, and that "sitting in the catbird seat" meant "'sitting pretty', like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him."
The phrase "in the catbird seat" was among the numerous folksy expressions used by radio sports broadcaster Red Barber. According to Barber's daughter, after her father read Thurber's story, he began using the phrase "in the catbird seat". This seems to reverse events, however, as the passage of story quoted above clearly references Barber.
According to "Colonel" Bob Edwards's book Fridays with Red, Barber claimed that Thurber got this and many other expressions from him, and that Barber had first heard the term used by Frank Koch during a poker game in Cincinnati, during the Great Depression. Barber also put forth this version of events in his 1968 autobiography, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat.
On sailing ships, the catbird seat is the crow's nest, a lookout.
Use in popular entertainment
1948: Season 1, Episode 5 of the Actors Studio was titled "The Catbird Seat"
1958: P. G. Wodehouse's 1958 novel Cocktail Time used the phrase: "I get you. If we swing it, we'll be sitting pretty, ‘in the catbird seat’."
1978: The original television series Dallas featured J.R. Ewing using this phrase quite often.
1987: Raising Arizona included John Goodman saying "you and I'll be sittin' in the fabled catbird seat."
1988: William L. Marbury Jr. called his memoirs In the Catbird Seat
2006: Series 3, Episode 11 of the HBO western drama, Deadwood was titled "The Catbird Seat."
2009: Steve Forbert digitally released an album, Loose Change, that included a song he wrote called "The Catbird Seat"
2010: Darlingside released EP 1, which features a song called "The Catbird Seat."
2014: In the TV series Manhattan, the phrase was used in multiple episodes as an American idiom
2018–present: Shannon Sharpe uses this phrase on Skip and Shannon: Undisputed while debating with Skip Bayless, Sharpe uses the phrase often to explain who has the upper hand in the sport example "Patrick Mahomeboy is in the catbird seat for MVP".
2021: In the HBO TV series Succession Season 3 Episode 7, the phrase is used to describe Logan Roy's strategic position.
References
American English idioms |
4031400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosed | Dosed | "Dosed" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2002 album, By the Way. It was released as the album's fourth single in the United States and Canada only, whilst "Universally Speaking" was released in the UK. It peaked at number 13 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2003. No music video was made for the single.
Background
The song features four guitars, played by John Frusciante and Flea, all playing completely different riffs. The chorus is sung by John Frusciante and Anthony Kiedis together in harmony. A ballad that clocks in at 5:11, it is the third-longest track on the album. It runs through stages, each time repeating the original verse until the song's completion. In between the verses, guitar solos can be heard from the four guitars that play.
Live performances
While the song was a single and popular song, "Dosed" was never performed live with John Frusciante. "Dosed" was teased by Frusciante in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2006, and by Josh Klinghoffer in Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Turkey in 2012, and in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in 2013. On May 28, 2017 in Edmonton, "Dosed" was performed for the first time in its entirety during the band's The Getaway World Tour with opening act IRONTOM's Zach Irons, son of founding Chili Peppers' drummer Jack Irons, providing a second guitar to the song to honor a 17-year-old terminally ill fan, Maggie Schmidt.
Personnel
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis - lead vocals
John Frusciante - guitar, vocals, electric piano
Flea - bass, additional guitar
Chad Smith - drums
Charts
References
Red Hot Chili Peppers songs
2003 singles
Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin
2000s ballads
Songs written by Flea (musician)
Songs written by John Frusciante
Songs written by Anthony Kiedis
Songs written by Chad Smith
2002 songs |
4031408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20United%20States%20federal%20budget | 2006 United States federal budget | The 2006 United States Federal Budget began as a proposal by President George W. Bush to fund government operations for October 1, 2005 – September 30, 2006.
The requested budget was submitted to the 109th Congress on February 7, 2005.
The government was initially funded through a series of three temporary continuing resolutions. Final funding for the government was enacted as several appropriations bills enacted between August 2 and December 30, 2005. As of 2018, this is the last fiscal year to be funded without the use of an omnibus spending bill or full-year continuing resolution.
Congressional action
Enacted Appropriations
Source
Total Receipts
Receipts by source: (in billions of dollars)
Total Spending
The President's budget for 2006 totals $2.7 trillion. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:
$544.8 billion (20.90%) - Social Security
$512.1 billion (18.00%) - Defense
$359.5 billion (13.79%) - Unemployment and welfare
$345.7 billion (13.26%) - Medicare
$268.4 billion (10.30%) - Medicaid and other health related
$211.1 billion (8.10%) - Interest on debt
$88.7 billion (3.40%) - Education and training
$70.7 billion (2.71%) - Transportation
$68.4 billion (2.62%) - Veterans' benefits
$43.1 billion (1.65%) - Administration of justice
$38.4 billion (1.47%) - Foreign affairs
$31.2 billion (1.20%) - Natural resources and environment
$26.0 billion (1.00%) - Agriculture
$24.0 billion (0.92%) - Science and technology
$19.1 billion (0.73%) - Community and regional development
$17.8 billion (0.68%) - General government
$23.4 billion - Energy
Adjustments
-$698 billion (2.68%) - Undistributed offsetting receipts
2006 Deficit Estimate
(The amount that government spending exceeds total receipts)
$500 billion
See also
United States budget process
References
External links
Status of Appropriations Legislation for Fiscal Year 2006
2006
2006 in American politics
United States federal budget |
4031415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20Express | Emerald Express | The Emerald Express (EmX) is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It is provided by the Lane Transit District (LTD) which is the public transit authority in Lane County, Oregon.
LTD chose bus rapid transit after a review process in which several transportation options, including light rail, were considered. It was decided that the BRT option was the best fit for Eugene-Springfield's size and current transportation needs.
The first route, named the Green Line, was opened in early 2007, connecting downtown Springfield to downtown Eugene. There are ten stops along the route, including the University of Oregon.
Less than a year later, ridership had doubled in the corridor, and the city of Eugene was nominated for the 2008 Sustainable Transportation Award, and received an honorable mention. An extension was opened on January 9, 2011, connecting EmX to the Gateway Mall as well as Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend and International Way. A second extension to West Eugene opened on September 17, 2017, adding to the system.
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), under its BRT Standard, has given the EmX corridor a Bronze ranking.
Description
The EmX system is made up of sections of dedicated bus lanes for most of the route (60%), with normal roads in between. The vehicles are given signal priority via ground-loop signaling to the traffic control system, with special traffic signals at intersections. The vehicles have two sets of doors on the left and three on the right, allowing loading from platforms on either side. Most of the right hand side platforms can only accommodate the rear two doors. Riding the Emerald Express was free when it began operations, but now costs regular fare. The articulated buses are equipped with Hybrid drives which allows for a smooth acceleration from stops and through the various road segments.
On weekdays, service runs approximately from 6:00am to 11:00pm. Buses arrive every 10 minutes throughout the day, with longer headways during the evening and the first hour of the morning. More limited service operates during the weekend.
Fares
EmX fares are the same as other LTD bus routes; both single-ride ($1.75) and passes ($3.50 daily, $50 monthly) are accepted.
Unlike other LTD bus routes, the EmX uses a proof-of-payment system, and fares must be paid prior to boarding at ticket vending machines located on station platforms.
Lines
Green Line
The first EmX line, the Franklin Corridor (Green Line), opened on January 14, 2007. It runs between Eugene Station in downtown Eugene and Springfield Station in downtown Springfield, and serves the University of Oregon. It is long and cost $25 million to design and build.
Compared with the non-BRT service that the Green Line replaced (Route 11), rush hour travel times decreased over 25% from 22 minutes to 16 minutes and ridership doubled in the first year. In fiscal 2008–09, Green Line ridership was 1.6M.
Local artist Linn Cook was selected by a committee of artists and community members to create cast and formed metal railings depicting indigenous plants. Each station features a different plant.
Gateway Line
The Gateway Line extension opened on January 9, 2011, linking downtown Springfield and Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. It uses the newly constructed Pioneer Parkway corridor and newly-constructed dedicated bus lanes on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and RiverBend Drive.
West Eugene Extension
The West Eugene Extension added 17 stations west of Eugene Station. It opened on September 17, 2017.
LTD conducted environmental analyses and collected public comments as part of the extension's planning process. A number of route alignments were considered, focusing on West 6th, 7th, or 13th Avenues to connect with West 11th Avenue somewhere near Chambers or Garfield Streets. One alternative placed service on West 7th Place instead of West 11th Avenue between Garfield and Seneca Rd. All alternatives continued down West 11th Avenue to a planned terminus and turnaround in the Walmart parking lot west of Commerce Street. In spring 2011, the west 6th and 7th to 11th was selected as the locally preferred alternative.
Some local businesses and residents opposed the extension, saying that it would be expensive, unnecessary, and could cause a decrease in property values. In June 2013, opponents of the extension filed suit in federal court in Seattle, challenging the extension's approval and funding by the Federal Transit Administration. The suit alleged nine violations of the National Environmental Policy Act and alleged violations of the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit further claimed that LTD had not met requirements for federal funding. The court ruled against the extension's opponents in July 2014, and construction began in March 2015. The Federal Transit Administration awarded $75 million to the project in September 2015, covering most of its $96.5 million total cost.
Future
LTD eventually plans to run EmX along all main transportation corridors in the metro area. Their MovingAhead long-range plan includes expansion of EmX service on new corridors. , the corridors under consideration for EmX or other expanded bus services are 30th Avenue to serve Lane Community College; Coburg Road; Highway 99; Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; and River Road.
Stations
References
External links
Lane Transit District official website with description of project
Federal Transit Administration description of the project
Bus Rapid Transit Policy Center description and evaluation of the project
Our Money, Our Transit, website that opposes West Eugene extension.
Bus rapid transit in Oregon
Transportation in Eugene, Oregon
Springfield, Oregon
2007 establishments in Oregon |
4031418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperia%20dacotae | Hesperia dacotae | Hesperia dacotae, the Dakota skipper, is a small to medium-sized North American butterfly. It has a wingspan of approximately one inch and the antennae form a hook. The male's wings are a tawny-orange to brown on the forewings with a prominent mark and dusty yellow on the lower part of the wing. The female wing is a darker brown orange and white spots on the forewing margin.
Reproduction
The adult Dakota skippers are active for only three weeks in June and July which is their total lifespan. Their eggs, which are laid on the underside of leaves, are hatched in July and the caterpillar larvae feed on native grass until they go dormant in late summer. The caterpillar larvae then winter in shelters very close to the ground. In spring they come out of dormancy in their adult form. They are found in healthy natural tall grass and prairie grass from Minnesota to Saskatchewan. They are now considered extirpated from Illinois and Iowa. The largest most stable population is now found in North Dakota.
Conservation
The Dakota skipper has experienced declining populations from destruction and modification of native prairie for grazing, herbicide use and building. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed the Dakota skipper on the Candidate list for protections under the Endangered Species Act from 1975 to 2014, and it has been petitioned twice for protection under the Endangered Species Act in 1994 and 2003. The Dakota skipper was awarded Threatened status under the Endangered Species Act in 2014.
References
External links
Dakota skipper (Hesperia dacotae)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Endangered insects (pdf)
FWS Field Office
Species at risk
Hesperia (butterfly)
Butterflies of North America
Butterflies described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
ESA threatened species |
4031420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Opali%C5%84ski | Jan Opaliński | Jan Opaliński may refer to several members of the Opaliński family:
Jan Opaliński (1519–1561) (or 1529?), father of Jan Opaliński (1546–1598)
Jan Opaliński (1546–1598) (1546–c. 1590), castellan of Rogozno, father of Jan Opaliński (1581–1637)
Jan Opaliński (1581–1637), voivode of Poznań
Jan Karol Opaliński, (1642–1695), castellan of Poznań, starost |
4031424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20California%20Raisins%3A%20The%20Grape%20Escape | The California Raisins: The Grape Escape | The California Raisins: The Grape Escape is a California Raisins video game developed by Radiance for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Capcom planned to publish the game in 1990 but its release was canceled due to the California Raisins' dwindling popularity because of the decline in raisin sales in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Gameplay
In the single-player side-scrolling action game the player controls a California Raisin through five stages in an effort to rescue the band and their band's musical notes that were stolen by the gang of jealous musicians. The player can walk, jump, climb on vines, moonwalk (by pressing the "select" button) and shoot an unlimited supply of grape jelly beans as projectiles. During each level the player can collect 'I' icons that provide temporary invincibility, regular black musical notes for bonus points, 'Sunshine' icons to restore health, and 'Raisinette' icons to give an extra life to the player. One can also locate items by shooting at the thin air or at columns.
As was the case with other Capcom games, such as Mega Man and DuckTales, one can play the first four levels in any order, but the final level is only available after collecting the musical notes from each of the four levels. The first four levels include The Grape Vine, The Factory, The Maize Maze and The Juicery. The final level takes place in The Clouds.
Cancellation
The game was canceled due to the California Raisins dwindling popularity because of the downfall sales of raisins in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The game appeared to have been largely finished as it was given a full review, along with hints, by the "Game Player's Encyclopedia of Nintendo Games Vol. 3." Flyers included with Capcom NES games released around 1990 also included the title as an upcoming game.
Secondary market
The beta cartridge for the game was sold for approximately $1000.
References
1990 video games
Cancelled Nintendo Entertainment System games
Capcom games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games about food and drink
Video games developed in the United States
Advergames
Works based on advertisements |
4031425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Melville%20Gilliss | James Melville Gilliss | James Melville Gilliss (September 6, 1811 – February 9, 1865) was an astronomer, United States naval officer and founder of the United States Naval Observatory.
Biography
Gilliss was born on September 6, 1811 in Georgetown, District of Columbia. His parents were George Gilliss, a federal employee, and Mary (Melville) Gillis. In 1827 at the age of fifteen he joined the navy as a midshipman. He made several training cruises on the Delaware, the Java, and the Concord. In 1833 he passed his examinations and was advanced to passed midshipman.
In 1833 Gilliss requested a leave of absence and began his studies at the University of Virginia. Poor health forced him to leave after six months. He went to Paris for further studies in 1835 and was recalled to Washington to serve as an assistant at the Depot of Charts and Instruments in 1836. In late 1837 he married Rebecca Roberts of Alexandria, D.C. (now Va.).
The Depot of Charts and Instruments was headed by Charles Wilkes. The depot was responsible for the navy's chronometers, charts, and other navigational instruments and provided Gilliss with an opportunity to practice astronomy. Astronomical observations were necessary to determine the accuracy of the Navy's chronometers. Gilliss proved himself to be an excellent astronomical observer. In 1837 he was named officer-in-charge of the depot and began an extensive series of observations of the moon and stars for the purpose of longitude determination. In February 1838 he was promoted to lieutenant.
In 1838 Wilkes left the depot to lead the U.S. Exploring Expedition and Gilliss replaced him as head of the organization. Gilliss began a series of celestial observations that were published in 1846 as Astronomical Observations made at the Naval Observatory, Washington. This reference listed some 1,248 stars and was the first star catalog published in the United States.
Gilliss is most noted for his successful efforts to establish the U.S. Naval Observatory, the first national observatory in the United States. In 1841 he first proposed a new depot and personally lobbied congress for the funds. In 1842 Congress passed an authorization for $25,000 for a new depot and "a small observatory". Gilliss used the funds to equip the new building with astronomical instruments, including a 9.6-inch achromatic refracting telescope, a 5.5-inch transit instrument, a 4-inch meridian circle, and a 5-inch prime vertical telescope. He traveled to Europe to purchase the necessary instruments and books and by October 1844 the observatory was ready. However, because of internal politics Gilliss was not appointed director; that position went instead to Matthew Fontaine Maury (the secretary of the navy was from Maury's home state, Virginia).
In 1848, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Gilliss continued working at the observatory, completing publication of his celestial catalog and providing support to the Office of Coast Survey. In 1848 he obtained $5,000 from Congress for a naval astronomical expedition to Chile in order to more precisely measure the solar parallax. Gilliss headed the expedition from August 1849 until his return in November 1852. In Chile the expedition enjoyed the support of the government, the University of Chile, the Military School plus a wide array of individuals. They successfully completed the planned astronomical observations and also made valuable observations of the earth's magnetic field, earthquakes, geography, politics and natural science. The specimens of fauna and flora brought back from Chile formed the earliest part of the Smithsonian collection from Latin America. The wide-ranging results of the expedition were published in as six-volume treatise, the United States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, published 1855-1896. The observatory and staff he left in Chile became the nucleus of Chile's astronomical program, previous to this there was no astronomical tradition in Chile. Under the direct influence of the expedition from 1850 onward the journal Anales de la Universidad de Chile begun to publish content on astronomy. Gilliss later led two expeditions to observe the solar eclipses in Peru in 1858 and Washington Territory in 1860.
At the onset of the Civil War, Maury resigned to join the Confederate Navy and Gilliss was placed in charge of the observatory in 1861. He also became a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences and was promoted to captain in July 1862. During his four-year tenure, Gilliss reduced the backlog of scientific work that had gone unpublished, encouraged the manufacture of American-made astronomical equipment, and worked closely with other American observatories. His organization also played a crucial role in providing charts and navigation instruments to the rapidly expanding the Union navy.
Gilliss died unexpectedly on February 9, 1865. He had been looking forward to seeing his son who had just been released from a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. That morning he collapsed and died from a stroke at the age of 53. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Published works
Astronomical Observations made at the Naval Observatory, Washington (1846)
The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere during the Years 1849-50-51-52 (6 vols., Washington, 1855-95)
An Account of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on September 7, 1858, as Observed near Olmos, Peru (Washington, 1859)
An Account of the Total Solar Eclipse of July 18, 1860: as Observed for the United States Coast Survey near Steilacoom, Washington Territory (1861)
Honors
The James Melville Gilliss Building in Washington, DC houses the offices of the Naval Observatory and the Oceanographer of the Navy. The library of the US Naval Observatory is also named in his honor and two US Navy ships were named for him:
,a minesweeper built in 1945.
, an oceanographic research ship launched 1962.
Notes
References
1811 births
1865 deaths
American astronomers
People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)
United States Navy officers
Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) |
4031435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20%28climbing%29 | Beta (climbing) | Beta is climbing jargon that designates information about how to ascend a climb (such as, "grab flake on left while moving right foot to edge on right").
Description
The complexity of beta can range from a small hint about a difficult section (referred to as "some" beta), to a step-by-step instruction of the entire climb (referred to as "the" beta). In rock climbing this may include information about a climb's difficulty, crux, style, length, quality of rock, ease to protect, required equipment, and specific information about hand or foot holds. For mountaineering, beta may include information about the length and difficulty of the approach, availability of water on the climb and the approach, ease of exiting the route before completing it, descent information, perhaps even useful logistic information for climbs in foreign countries. Sometimes beta is also drawn, in the form of a beta-map. It is not uncommon for climbers to have different betas for the same climb. In other words, more than one possible solution that can get the climber to the top. These can vary in terms of difficulty. It is not uncommon for climbs to get downgraded in their difficulty rating once easier beta is discovered.
Origin
The original use of the term Beta in climbing is generally attributed to the late climber Jack Mileski. "Beta" was short for Betamax, a reference to an old videotape format largely replaced by the VHS format. According to some sources Mileski would record himself on tape while completing routes and then share these tapes with friends. According to other sources, it was actually a play on words, as Mileski would often ask, "you want the beta, Max?".
References
External links
Rock and Ice - Climbing Terminology
Tradgirl Climbing FAQ
Climbing |
4031453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistrica%20ob%20Sotli | Bistrica ob Sotli | Bistrica ob Sotli () is a settlement in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli. The settlement lies on a river terrace above the right bank of the Sotla River. The area traditionally belonged to the region of Styria. It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region; until January 2014 it was part of the Savinja Statistical Region. The settlement includes the hamlets of Čehovec, Koče, and Marof.
Name
The settlement was initially known as Leskovec in the Middle Ages. The modern name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Peter pod Svetimi Gorami (literally, 'Saint Peter below the Holy Mountains') to Bistrica ob Sotli (literally, 'clear brook on the Sotla River') in 1952. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. Locally, the settlement was known as Šempeter. The name Bistrica was originally a hydronym; the Bistrica River flows past the settlement and is a tributary of the Sotla River. In the past, the settlement was known as Sankt Peter bei Königsberg in German. During the Second World War, the settlement was temporarily renamed Königsberg am Sattelbach as part of the Rann Triangle () and designated for resettlement by Gottschee Germans.
History
Archaeological finds in the area date back to the Illyrians. In 1472, Ottoman forces returning from Carinthia defeated troops under Colonel Seifried von Pohlheim in Bistrica ob Sotli. A peasant army led by Ilija Gregorič defeated forces of the Styrian Estates here on 8 February 1573. The settlement was devastated by the plague in 1645 and 1646, commemorated by a column with a white cross between the settlement and the hamlet of Štadler in neighboring Hrastje ob Bistrici. A school was established in Bistrica ob Sotli in 1829. A stonemason's workshop was active in the settlement in the first half of the 19th century.
In the fall of 1941, the native population was mostly evicted and Gottschee Germans were settled here. 22 November was commemorated as the village holiday in memory of the evicted population. The Partisan soldier Janko Skvarča (a.k.a. Modras, 1915–1943), later proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia, fell during fighting in Bistrica ob Sotli on 20 December 1943.
Mass graves
Bistrica ob Sotli is the site of four known mass graves from the period immediately after the Second World War. Approximately 1,000 Croatian refugees were murdered in several locations in Bistrica ob Sotli in May 1945. All four graves contain the bodies of Croatian civilians and Ustaša soldiers. The Old Fire Station Mass Grave () is located in a meadow southeast of the old fire station. The New Fire Station Mass Grave () extends from the old fire station to the new fire station south of Marija Broz Primary School. The Primary School Mass Grave () was uncovered during excavation work in 1979 for Marija Broz Primary School, revealing human remains and telephone wire. The remains were covered over and the work continued. The Firing Trench below Čehovec Hill Mass Grave () is located east of the town center in an anti-tank trench or firing trench extending from the slope of Čehovec Hill, about 100 m east of the primary school, north to the road to Kunšperk and then to the northwest.
Church
The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Peter and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje. The parish is known as Sveti Peter pod Svetimi gorami. The site of the church has evidence of prehistoric and Roman settlement. The actual church building is a Pre-Romanesque building. Most of the internal church furnishings date to the 19th century. The church was first mentioned in written sources in 1257. It was elevated to a parish on 1 October 1640. The chancel is late Gothic and contains frescoes dating to the 15th century. The bell tower was built in 1654, and two chapels and a sacristy were added around 1700. The nave was raised and re-vaulted in the mid-18th century, when a triumphal arch was also added. The bells date to 1582 and 1745. The rectory was built in 1814, and the curate's office in 1830.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Bistrica ob Sotli include:
Friderk Degen (1906–2001), economist
Ivan Geršak (1838–1911), notary, legal writer, and journalist
Josip Hohnjec (1873–1964), religious writer and politician
Ivan Lipold (1842–1897), politician and journalist
Darian Ado Moric (1895–1966), music teacher and opera tenor
Andrej Reya (1752–1830), religious writer
Josip Ulaga (1826–1881), religious writer and editor
Jožef Zabukovšek (1804–1870), religious writer
References
External links
Bistrica ob Sotli municipal website
Bistrica ob Sotli on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli
Croatia–Slovenia border crossings |
4031462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20United%20States%20federal%20budget | 2007 United States federal budget | The budget of the United States government for fiscal year 2007 was produced through a budget process involving both the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. While the Congress has the constitutional "power of the purse," the President and his appointees play a major role in budget deliberations. Since 1976, the federal fiscal year has started on October 1 of each year.
The government was initially funded through a series of three temporary continuing resolutions. Final funding for the Department of Defense was enacted on September 29, 2006 as part of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007, while the Department of Homeland Security was funded through the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007, enacted on October 4, 2006. The remaining departments and agencies were funded as part of a full-year continuing resolution, the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007, on February 15, 2007.
Total receipts
Receipts by source: (in billions of dollars)
The IRS estimated that there were about $345 billion in uncollected taxes, which is sometimes referred to as the "tax gap.".
Total spending
The President's actual budget for 2007 totals $2.8 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2006. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:
$586.1 billion (+7.0%) - Social Security
$548.8 billion (+9.0%) - Defense
$394.5 billion (+12.4%) - Medicare
$294.0 billion (+2.0%) - Unemployment and welfare
$276.4 billion (+2.9%) - Medicaid and other health related
$243.7 billion (+13.4%) - Interest on debt
$89.9 billion (+1.3%) - Education and training
$76.9 billion (+8.1%) - Transportation
$72.6 billion (+5.8%) - Veterans' benefits
$43.5 billion (+9.2%) - Administration of justice
$33.1 billion (+5.7%) - Natural resources and environment
$32.5 billion (+15.4%) - Foreign affairs
$27.0 billion (+3.7%) - Agriculture
$26.8 billion (+28.7%) - Community and regional development
$25.0 billion (+4.0%) - Science and technology
$20.5 billion (+0.8%) - Energy
$20.1 billion (+11.4%) - General government
Much of the costs of the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war until FY2008 have been funded through supplemental appropriations or emergency supplemental appropriations, which are treated differently from regular appropriations bills. Senior congressional leaders have contended that those war costs, as much as possible, should go through the regular budget process, which provides for greater transparency. Determining the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is complex. CBO has estimated that "war-related defense activities" in 2007 were "roughly $115 billion."
2007 total military budget
The total requested military budget of the United States for 2007 was $699 billion.
U.S. Military Budget - DoD Base Spending: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has the single largest budget of any government agency in the discretionary budget. This department is responsible for the four branches - the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. This includes the cost of base administration, pay for military members, and the costs of repairing and procuring equipment.
FY 2006, Defense Department base budget expenditures were $411 billion, nearly half of net discretionary spending.
FY 2007, it increased to $430 billion, still about half.
FY 2008, it is projected to grow to $481 billion, or 52%.
U.S. Military Budget - War on Terror Base Spending : The War on Terror (WoT) incurs additional costs by other departments. When added to the DoD base spending, the amount comes to:
$474 billion in FY 2006, which is 56% of net discretionary spending,
$505 billion in FY 2007,
$554 billion in FY 2008, nearly 60% of discretionary spending.
FY 2006 Supplemental Funding : The Defense Department base budget also does not include “one time only” costs attributable to the War on Terror, which are submitted as Supplemental Funding.
In FY 2006, an additional $153 billion in Supplemental Funding was added to the base budget - the War on Terror received $120 billion, while $33 billion went primarily for Hurricane Katrina. As a result, 60% of last year's discretionary spending went to DoD/WoT.
FY 2007 Supplemental Funding : For FY 2007, $70 billion has already been approved, while the President’s FY 2008 Budget requests an additional $102 billion. If approved by Congress, total FY 2007 spending for DoD/WoT would be $673 billion, or 64% of the net discretionary budget.
FY 2008 Budget Proposal : For FY 2008, the President has requested the following:
The Defense Department Base Budget - $481 billion.
WoT(non-DoD) Base Budget - $73 billion.
Supplemental Funding for WoT - $145 billion.
Total requested Dod/WoT spending is $699 billion, or 65% of total net Discretionary spending.
References
External links
Status of Appropriations Legislation for Fiscal Year 2007
2007
Federal budget
United States federal budget |
4031464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thickness | Thickness | Thickness may refer to:
Thickness (graph theory)
Thickness (geology), the distance across a layer of rock
Thickness (meteorology), the difference in height between two atmospheric pressure levels
Thickness planer a woodworking machine
Optical thickness in optics
Thickness, a concept in the game Go
Thickness of a fluid, an informal name for viscosity
See also
Thick (disambiguation)
Gauge (disambiguation)
Size
Width |
4031475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Opali%C5%84ski%20%281546%E2%80%931598%29 | Jan Opaliński (1546–1598) | Jan Opaliński (1546 – 1597/98) was a Polish nobleman of Łodzia coat of arms. Castellan of Rogozin, bibliophile, bought Sieraków in 1591.
Son of Jan Opaliński (1519–1561) and Anna Gostynska, married to Barbara z Ostroroga Lwowska (of Nałęcz coat-of-arms), in 1580. Father of Jan Opaliński (1581–1637) and Piotr Opaliński (1586–1624), as well as daughters (Zofia and Anna).
1546 births
1590s deaths
Polish Roman Catholics
Jan 1546 |
4031488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Mary%27s%20Abbey%2C%20Fulda | St. Mary's Abbey, Fulda | St. Mary's Abbey is a Benedictine nunnery in Fulda, Hesse, Germany.
The St. Mary's Abbey was founded in 1626. The first decades were very troubled as a result of the Thirty Years' War: the sisters often had to flee from enemy troops and the abbey was looted several times.
The nunnery was able to evade destruction during the secularization of 1802 by turning itself into a girls' school. During the Kulturkampf, the sisters went into exile in France from 1875 to 1887. In 1898, the nunnery was elevated to the status of abbey. In 1942, although most religious houses in Germany were commandeered by the National Socialists, the nuns were able to avoid eviction by offering the use of most of the premises to the Wehrmacht.
After becoming closer in their way of life over a period of many years to the Beuronese Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation, the abbey finally became a member in 1982.
The nuns engage in various handicrafts, run the abbey shop and have built a compost activator.
External links
References
The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.
Fulda
Monasteries in Hesse
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1626
Religious organizations established in the 1620s
Christian monasteries established in the 17th century
Fulda
Buildings and structures in Fulda (district)
1626 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany |
4031491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnaya%20Polyana | Krasnaya Polyana | Krasnaya Polyana () meaning "Red Meadow" is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia:
Modern localities
Amur Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Amur Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Amur Oblast, a selo in Tomsky Rural Settlement of Seryshevsky District
Republic of Bashkortostan
As of 2012, one rural locality in the Republic of Bashkortostan bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Republic of Bashkortostan, a village in Mikyashevsky Selsoviet of Davlekanovsky District
Belgorod Oblast
As of 2012, three rural localities in Belgorod Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Chernyansky District, Belgorod Oblast, a settlement in Chernyansky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Ivnyansky District, Belgorod Oblast, a khutor in Ivnyansky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Shebekinsky District, Belgorod Oblast, a selo in Shebekinsky District
Bryansk Oblast
As of 2012, two rural localities in Bryansk Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Karachevsky District, Bryansk Oblast, a settlement under the administrative jurisdiction of Karachev Urban Administrative Okrug in Karachevsky District;
Krasnaya Polyana, Surazhsky District, Bryansk Oblast, a settlement in Nivnyansky Rural Administrative Okrug of Surazhsky District;
Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
As of 2012, one rural locality in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, a selo in Maysky District;
Kemerovo Oblast
As of 2012, two rural localities in Kemerovo Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Leninsk-Kuznetsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, a settlement in Demyanovskaya Rural Territory of Leninsk-Kuznetsky District;
Krasnaya Polyana, Prokopyevsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, a settlement in Safonovskaya Rural Territory of Prokopyevsky District;
Kirov Oblast
As of 2012, two inhabited localities in Kirov Oblast bear this name:
Urban localities
Krasnaya Polyana, Vyatskopolyansky District, Kirov Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Vyatskopolyansky District;
Rural localities
Krasnaya Polyana, Shabalinsky District, Kirov Oblast, a village in Gostovsky Rural Okrug of Shabalinsky District;
Kostroma Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Kostroma Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Kostroma Oblast, a settlement in Klevantsovskoye Settlement of Ostrovsky District;
Krasnodar Krai
As of 2012, five inhabited localities in Krasnodar Krai bear this name:
Urban localities
Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, an urban-type settlement in Krasnopolyansky Settlement Okrug under the administrative jurisdiction of Adlersky City District under the administrative jurisdiction of the City of Sochi;
Rural localities
Krasnaya Polyana, Armavir, Krasnodar Krai (also spelled "Krasnaya polyana"), a khutor in Prirechensky Rural Okrug under the administrative jurisdiction of the City of Armavir;
Krasnaya Polyana, Bryukhovetsky District, Krasnodar Krai, a khutor in Bryukhovetsky Rural Okrug of Bryukhovetsky District;
Krasnaya Polyana, Gulkevichsky District, Krasnodar Krai, a khutor in Ventsy-Zarya Rural Okrug of Gulkevichsky District;
Krasnaya Polyana, Kushchyovsky District, Krasnodar Krai, a khutor in Bolshekozinsky Rural Okrug of Kushchyovsky District;
Krasnoyarsk Krai
As of 2012, one rural locality in Krasnoyarsk Krai bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Krasnoyarsk Krai, a selo in Krasnopolyansky Selsoviet of Nazarovsky District
Kursk Oblast
As of 2012, three rural localities in Kursk Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Cheremisinovsky District, Kursk Oblast, a selo in Cheremisinovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Khomutovsky District, Kursk Oblast, a village in Olkhovsky Selsoviet of Khomutovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Medvensky District, Kursk Oblast, a khutor in Petrovsky Selsoviet of Medvensky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Oboyansky District, Kursk Oblast, a khutor in Bashkatovsky Selsoviet of Oboyansky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Zolotukhinsky District, Kursk Oblast, a village in Zolotukhinsky District
Lipetsk Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Lipetsk Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Lipetsk Oblast, a selo in Bolshepolyansky Selsoviet of Terbunsky District;
Mari El Republic
As of 2012, one rural locality in the Mari El Republic bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Mari El Republic, a village in Alexeyevsky Rural Okrug of Sovetsky District Krasnaya Polyana is also in Moskvasky Oblast, taken by Germany, briefly on 30.11.1941, in the Battle of Moscow (Bitya za Moskva).
Republic of Mordovia
As of 2012, five rural localities in the Republic of Mordovia bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Bolshebereznikovsky District, Republic of Mordovia, a settlement in Chernopromzinsky Selsoviet of Bolshebereznikovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Insarsky District, Republic of Mordovia, a village in Mordovsko-Payevsky Selsoviet of Insarsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Kovylkinsky District, Republic of Mordovia, a settlement in Krasnoshadymsky Selsoviet of Kovylkinsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Staroshaygovsky District, Republic of Mordovia, a settlement in Staroshaygovsky Selsoviet of Staroshaygovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Torbeyevsky District, Republic of Mordovia, a village in Khilkovsky Selsoviet of Torbeyevsky District
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
As of 2012, two rural localities in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Arzamassky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a village in Chernukhinsky Selsoviet of Arzamassky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Lukoyanovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a selo in Bolshemaresyevsky Selsoviet of Lukoyanovsky District
Omsk Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Omsk Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Omsk Oblast, a selo in Krasnopolyansky Rural Okrug of Gorkovsky District
Orenburg Oblast
As of 2012, three rural localities in Orenburg Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Matveyevsky District, Orenburg Oblast, a settlement in Matveyevsky Selsoviet of Matveyevsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Novosergiyevsky District, Orenburg Oblast, a settlement in Krasnopolyansky Selsoviet of Novosergiyevsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Orenburgsky District, Orenburg Oblast, a khutor in Sergiyevsky Selsoviet of Orenburgsky District
Oryol Oblast
As of 2012, six rural localities in Oryol Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Glazunovsky District, Oryol Oblast, a village in Medvedevsky Selsoviet of Glazunovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Khotynetsky District, Oryol Oblast, a settlement in Abolmasovsky Selsoviet of Khotynetsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Kromskoy District, Oryol Oblast, a settlement in Apalkovsky Selsoviet of Kromskoy District
Krasnaya Polyana, Livensky District, Oryol Oblast, a village in Nikolsky Selsoviet of Livensky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Novoderevenkovsky District, Oryol Oblast, a village in Glebovsky Selsoviet of Novoderevenkovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Novosilsky District, Oryol Oblast, a settlement in Golunsky Selsoviet of Novosilsky District
Penza Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Penza Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Penza Oblast, a selo in Rakhmanovsky Selsoviet of Vadinsky District
Rostov Oblast
As of 2012, two rural localities in Rostov Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Azovsky District, Rostov Oblast, a khutor in Alexandrovskoye Rural Settlement of Azovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Peschanokopsky District, Rostov Oblast, a selo in Krasnopolyanskoye Rural Settlement of Peschanokopsky District
Ryazan Oblast
As of 2012, two rural localities in Ryazan Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Kipchakovsky Rural Okrug, Korablinsky District, Ryazan Oblast, a village in Kipchakovsky Rural Okrug of Korablinsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Krasnensky Rural Okrug, Korablinsky District, Ryazan Oblast, a village in Krasnensky Rural Okrug of Korablinsky District
Samara Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Samara Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Samara Oblast, a selo in Pestravsky District
Saratov Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Saratov Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Saratov Oblast, a selo in Marksovsky District
Stavropol Krai
As of 2012, two rural localities in Stavropol Krai bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Ipatovsky District, Stavropol Krai, a selo in Lesnodachnensky Selsoviet of Ipatovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Turkmensky District, Stavropol Krai, a settlement in Ovoshchinsky Selsoviet of Turkmensky District
Sverdlovsk Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Sverdlovsk Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a village in Krasnoufimsky District
Tambov Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Tambov Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Tambov Oblast, a village in Bezukladovsky Selsoviet of Tokaryovsky District
Republic of Tatarstan
As of 2012, two rural localities in the Republic of Tatarstan bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Cheremshansky District, Republic of Tatarstan, a village in Cheremshansky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Tetyushsky District, Republic of Tatarstan, a village in Tetyushsky District
Ulyanovsk Oblast
As of 2012, three rural localities in Ulyanovsk Oblast bear this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Baryshsky District, Ulyanovsk Oblast, a selo under the administrative jurisdiction of Leninsky Settlement Okrug in Baryshsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Pavlovsky District, Ulyanovsk Oblast, a village in Shakhovsky Rural Okrug of Pavlovsky District
Krasnaya Polyana, Staromaynsky District, Ulyanovsk Oblast, a settlement in Krasnorechensky Rural Okrug of Staromaynsky District
Voronezh Oblast
As of 2012, one rural locality in Voronezh Oblast bears this name:
Krasnaya Polyana, Voronezh Oblast, a khutor in Rossoshanskoye Rural Settlement of Repyovsky District
Historical localities
Krasnaya Polyana, Moscow Oblast, former village in Moscow Oblast and location of a major action during the Battle of Moscow; now a part of the town of Lobnya
Alternative names
Krasnaya Polyana, alternative name of Polyana, a settlement in Velikotopalsky Rural Administrative Okrug of Klintsovsky District in Bryansk Oblast; |
4031500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Macpherson | Duncan Macpherson | Duncan Ian Macpherson, CM (September 20, 1924 in Toronto – May 3, 1993 in Beaverton, Ontario) was a Canadian editorial cartoonist. He drew for the Montreal Standard (starting 1948) and for Maclean's, illustrating the writings of Gregory Clark and Robert Thomas Allen. He is most famous for his humorous political cartoons for the Toronto Star; from 1958 until 1993. His syndicated cartoons appeared in seven other Canadian newspapers, in Time, The New York Times, Chicago Daily News and nearly 150 newspapers across the world.
Career
Born in Toronto, Macpherson dropped out of high school in 1941, at age of 17 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force and serve in World War II. While stationed in England, he began taking art classes, and also studied the cartoons of British cartoonist David Low. He left the army in 1946.
In 1947, with the death of his father he briefly took over the family textile business. In 1948, he studied at the school of Boston Museum of Fine Arts and also in that year he began working for Montreal Standard. In 1950, he continued his course of study at the Ontario College of Art. In 1958, he joined the Toronto Star where readers tended to identify with "the poor little guy" in his cartoons. His work has been described as "a combination of Mary Poppins, Mark Twain, and Attila the Hun" with "peerless draftsmanship in the classical tradition — savagery made sublime". but his humour always was directed against pomposity of all kinds. Terry Mosher, the editorial cartoonist who draws under the name Aislin, in his book Professional Heckler: The Life and Art of Duncan Macpherson wrote of him:"Macpherson drew as well, if not better, than any other Canadian artist who comes to mind. He combined that talent with a diamond-drill wit". "He inspired me and a generation (or two) of others working in the same field".
In 1965, Macpherson exhibited his work with its bold and distinctive brushwork at the Art Gallery of Toronto (later renamed the Art Gallery of Ontario). Among the books published by the Toronto Star and Macpherson of his work was MacPherson: World Events Reportage Drawings the Editorial Cartoon by John Brehl (1966). In 1969, Macpherson's Canada by Macpherson was published by The Star. In 1971, he produced a series of 100 drawings and 15 watercolours documenting the Front de libération du Québec trial. In 1978, Macmillan published Editorial cartoons 1978: 136 selected cartoons by Macpherson. In 1980, he retired from the Toronto Star for the first time. That same year, the Public Archives Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) did a travelling exhibition of his work titled A Daily Smile. On April 25, 1993, Macpherson retired a second time from the Star, and died eight days later.
There is a Duncan Macpherson fonds at Library and Archives Canada. The archival reference number is R5671. The material in the fonds dates from 1958 to 1988. It consists of 1,399 drawings and 18 watercolours. In 2013, aided by the R. Howard Webster Foundation and the Toronto Star newspaper, the McCord Museum purchased and made available online a complete collection of Duncan Macpherson editorial cartoons, known as the Duncan Macpherson Fonds in the McCord Museum, 751 caricatures and illustrations created by Macpherson.
Political cartoons
Duncan Macpherson was well known for his ruthless style. Terry Mosher refers to him as the "king of the third wave." One of Macpherson's most celebrated cartoons featured John Diefenbaker as Marie Antoinette saying "Let them eat cake," after Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro Arrow project and its 14,000 jobs. Pierre Berton said this cartoon was "the beginning, I think, of the country's disillusionment with the Diefenbaker government...scarcely anybody had taken a crack at Diefenbaker until then."
Awards and honours
Molson Prize: 1971.
National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning: 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1970, 1972.
Royal Academy of Arts Medal (1966).
News Hall of Fame: 1976.
Member of the Order of Canada: 1987.
Inducted posthumously into the Giants of the North Hall of Fame, as part of the 2018 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning.
Stamp news
In 2021, Canada Post honoured Macpherson with a stamp featuring his black-and-white "Thirsty or Hungry?" design, highlighting U.S. interests in Canada. It shows a large cat representing the United States sitting behind a fishbowl with the phrase "POWER RESEVOIR"[sic] along the waterline and a small fish with "CANADA" across its side. It was the fourth in a set of five honouring Canadian editorial cartoonists.
References
Canadian cartoonists
Canadian editorial cartoonists
1924 births
1993 deaths
Artists from Toronto
Members of the Order of Canada
People from Brock, Ontario |
4031530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport%20Rural%20District | Stockport Rural District | Stockport was a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire from 1894 to 1904. The district was the successor to the Stockport Rural Sanitary District formed in 1875.
The rural district was originally composed of eight civil parishes (with population in 1891):
Bosden (2,342)
Bramhall (3,365)
Brinnington (7,061)
Handforth (794)
Norbury (1,495)
Offerton (372)
Torkington (294)
Werneth, renamed Compstall 1897 (2,587)
In 1900 Hazel Grove and Bramhall Urban District was formed from five of the parishes in the rural district (Bosden, Bramhall, Norbury, Offerton, and Torkington).
In 1902 Compstall was constituted an urban district, and Brinnington became part of Bredbury and Romiley Urban District. The remaining parish in the district, Handforth, became an urban district in 1904.
References
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport
Rural districts of England |
4031536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Schmidt%20%28philosopher%29 | Alfred Schmidt (philosopher) | Alfred Schmidt (; ; born 19 May 1931, Berlin – 28 August 2012, Frankfurt am Main) was a German philosopher.
Biography
Schmidt studied history and English as well as classical philology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and later philosophy and sociology. He was a student of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer and gained his doctorate with his The Concept of Nature in Marx.
Schmidt was professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt from 1972 and was made emeritus in 1999. Schmidt's primary research topics were the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, philosophy of religion, and Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy.
Schmidt was a member of the International PEN and an honorary member of the Schopenhauer Society.
Major works
Der Begriff der Natur in der Lehre von Karl Marx. Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1962. (English translation: The Concept of Nature in Marx. Translated by Ben Fowkes. London: NLB, 1971, .)
Geschichte und Struktur. Fragen einer marxistischen Historik. München: Hanser, 1971, . (English translation: History and structure. An essay on Hegelian-Marxist and structuralist theories of history. Translated by Jeffrey Herf. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1981, .)
Herbert Marcuse and Alfred Schmidt: Existenzialistische Marx-Interpretation. Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1973, .
Emanzipatorische Sinnlichkeit. Ludwig Feuerbachs anthropologischer Materialismus. München: Hanser, 1973, . (Spanish translation: Feuerbach, o, La sensualidad emancipada. Translated by Julio Carabaña. Madrid: Taurus, 1975, .)
Zur Idee der Kritischen Theorie. Elemente der Philosophie Max Horkheimers. München: Hanser, 1974, .
Die Kritische Theorie als Geschichtsphilosophie. München: Hanser, 1976, .
Drei Studien über Materialismus. Schopenhauer. Horkheimer. Glücksproblem. München: Hanser, 1977, .
Kritische Theorie, Humanismus, Aufklärung. Philosophische Arbeiten. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1981, .
Goethes herrlich leuchtende Natur. Philosophische Studie zur deutschen Spätaufklärung. München: Hanser, 1984, .
Die Wahrheit im Gewande der Lüge. Schopenhauers Religionsphilosophie. München; Zürich: Piper, 1986, .
Entstehungsgeschichte der humanitären Freimaurerei. Deistische Wurzeln und Aspekte. Ed. by Klaus-Jürgen Grün and Thomas Forwe. Leipzig: Salier-Verlag, 2014, (posthumous).
Notes and references
External links
Ein Hauch von Melancholie (Der Spiegel, 5 June 1972)
Lorenz Jäger: Zum Tode von Alfred Schmidt: Begriffene Natur (FAZ.Net, 29 August 2012)
Rudolf Walther: Im Dienste der Aufklärung. Der Frankfurter Philosoph Alfred Schmidt ist gestorben (taz, 31 August 2012)
Stefan Gandler: Alfred Schmidt, filósofo, albacea de la teoría crítica (El País, Madrid, 22 September 2012)
1931 births
2012 deaths
20th-century German translators
English–German translators
Frankfurt School
German male writers
German philosophers
Goethe University Frankfurt faculty
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
4031538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LQR | LQR | LQR may refer to:
Law Quarterly Review, peer-reviewed academic journal covering common law
Linear–quadratic regulator, a theory of optimal control
Link Quality Report, a protocol that allows two computers to connect to each other |
4031557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochromatic%20garden | Monochromatic garden | A monochromatic garden is a garden in which a single color is highlighted.
Single-color gardens
Such a garden is planted so that it overwhelms the observer with a single color. While this may seem a rather bland approach at first, such gardens were made popular by the work of famous garden designers such as Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West. Sackville-West, for example, created what may have been one of the most famous single-color gardens, the White Garden room of the Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
Many single-color gardens use flowers of different shades, such as light yellow and deep gold, or a range that includes dark burgundy, bright scarlet, and also pink for a red garden. (An similar idea uses analogous colors, such as purple, red, and orange, rather than a single color.) Plants with colored leaves, such as silver leaves or plants with variegated foliage for a white garden, might also be included.
The color for a monochromatic garden may be chosen for any reason, including to fit a small garden, as part of a clean, contemporary design, or to highlight a favorite color. Another possibility is an all-green garden, which may feel peaceful or harmonious. A monochromatic edible garden is possible, but more challenging to design than a flower garden in any color except green. Yellow variegated leaves can be difficult to include in a multi-colored garden, but they blend easily into an all-yellow garden, such as all-yellow Gold Border garden at Wave Hill in New York.
Beyond the choice of color, single-color gardens are designed with a variety of types and sizes of flowers as well as plants of different heights, shapes and textures. Other elements of the garden, such as pathways, walls, and furniture, may match or contrast with the chosen color.
White garden
A white garden is a feature garden composed of plants that produce white flowers and spathes as well as plants with a white or silvery cast to their foliage. The white garden is a variant of the color garden. The most essential feature of the white garden is its unity of color.
The white garden is an informal gardening style that is similar in design to the English cottage garden. The open and informal design creates associations with romance, peace, and elegance. The white flowers are not usually placed in clusters, but spread throughout the garden's green areas, creating a natural look and feel. The mildly dense placement of white flowers creates a luminescent sight that is especially powerful in the twilight. Because of this effect, they are sometimes called moon gardens.
The white flowers in a white garden are not necessarily pure white; they may have hints of other colors, such as gray, blue, pink, yellow, or green. The White Garden at Sissinghurst, for example, contains white, grey and silver.
Flowers used in white gardens may include:
White camellia
Shasta daisy
White lilac
Madonna lily
White periwinkle
White rose
Role of symbolism
The color white, and white flowers in particular, carry a vast amount of symbolism.
In parts of the US in 1915, single-color flower gardens featuring yellow flowers were used as a symbol of support for women's right to vote.
See also
List of garden types
References
Types of garden |
4031561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFDX-TV | KFDX-TV | KFDX-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the western Texoma area. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside low-power MyNetworkTV affiliate KJBO-LD (channel 35); Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KJTL (channel 18) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The three stations share studios near Seymour Highway (US 277) and Turtle Creek Road in Wichita Falls, where KFDX-TV's transmitter is also located. However, master control and some internal operations are based at the studios of Nexstar sister station and CW affiliate KDAF in Dallas.
The station also operates four UHF digital translators—K27HM-D and K41HQ-D in Quanah, Texas, and K25JO-D and K29LJ-D in Altus, Oklahoma—which relay KFDX's signal to portions of southwestern Oklahoma and western north Texas that are not covered by the main channel 3 signal.
History
Early history
On June 27, 1952, Wichitex Radio and Television – a locally based company managed under the direction of Darrold A. Cannan, Sr. and Howard Fry – submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build and license to operate a broadcast television station in the Wichita Falls–Lawton market that would transmit on VHF channel 3. The FCC awarded the license and permit for channel 3 to the Cannan ownership group on December 19, 1952. Wichtex Radio and Television requested and received approval to assign KFDX-TV as the call letters for their television station, after the local radio station that Wichitex had signed on in November 1947, KFDX (990 AM, now Farmersville-licensed KFCD), itself a disambiguation of the calls used by the company's radio station in Beaumont, KFDM (now KLVI).
KFDX-TV first signed on the air at 6:00 p.m. on April 12, 1953; the first program ever broadcast on Channel 3 that evening was the local program People from Here and There. KFDX was the third television station to sign on in the Wichita Falls–Lawton market, launching one month after the sign-ons of its two principal competitors: CBS affiliate KWFT-TV (channel 6, now KAUZ-TV), which debuted on March 1, and Lawton-based KSWO-TV (channel 7), which had signed on March 8. Although KFDX radio had been an affiliate of the ABC Radio Network since 1947, channel 3 has operated as an NBC affiliate since its sign-on; this was essentially by default, as ABC Television had already maintained a primary affiliation with KSWO-TV at the time of KFDX-TV's sign-on. The station originally employed a staff of 30 people, which at the time, was the largest staff of any broadcast television and radio station in west Texas; the majority of stock held in Wichitex was owned by members of the station's staff.
In addition to founding channel 3 and serving as the station's original general manager, Howard Fry was best known by children in the Texoma region for his daily program Uncle Howdy's House Party, which originated on KFDX radio and launched a television broadcast that aired concurrently with the radio program. In 1955, Wichitex sold KFDX radio in order to concentrate on the television portion of the business. Among the personalities who worked at KFDX-TV during the station's early years was Don Alexander—lead singer of rock-and-roll group Alexander and the Greats, and composer of the 1964 hit single "Hot Dang Mustang," which topped songs from such musicians as Elvis Presley, The Kinks, Frank Sinatra and The Rolling Stones to peak at #6 on the Billboard Top 100—who came to the television station in 1964. For several years until he transitioned away from program hosting duties in 1966, Alexander served as host of Stage Coach Three, a weekday afternoon children's program featuring a mix of cartoon shorts and educational features; as the character of "Pinto Bean", a marshal who appeared alongside his horse sidekick Swayback, he also donned cowboy garb to host afternoon western and horror movies. After filing live reports on the Watts riots, which began as he was starting a planned trip to visit his mother in Los Angeles in August 1965, Alexander was promoted to main news anchor and occasionally headed KFDX's news department as its news director from 1966 until he departed from the station in 1980.
Nat Fleming, a local country and western bandleader, served as host of the self-titled, half-hour afternoon variety program The Nat Fleming Show on channel 3 from the station's inception in 1953 until the early 1960s, which featured a blend of musical performances (performed alongside bandmates Pee Wee Stewart, Elmer Lawrence, Buck White, Pappy Stapp and Tommy Bruce) and comedy skits. Fleming was also the longtime owner of The Cow Lot, a Wichita Falls-based western wear store which shuttered operations in 2006, and typically signed off television commercials for his store with the locally known tagline "You can tell by looking if it came from the Cow Lot" (the store also served as the homebase for the Horn Honkin' Show, a Saturday morning variety program that Fleming hosted for radio station KNIN-FM [92.9]). Fleming would be honored with the North Texas Legend Award by The Museum of North Texas History in May 2012.
Clay, Price and U.S. Broadcast Group ownership
On July 30, 1970, Wichitex Radio and Television, then managed by Fry and Darrold A. Cannan Jr., sold KFDX to Charleston, West Virginia-based Clay Communications for $5.05 million; the sale was approved on January 28, 1971. During the latter years under Wichitex ownership and its early years under the stewardship of Clay, the station uniquely identified its channel 3 position with the Roman numeral "III" starting in 1967; the station's on-air brand was further stylized with the "TV" suffix in the callsign rendered in lowercase preceding the numerals, as "KFDX-tv III", with the Roman numeral idenfier being used for its local newscasts (initially as TV-III News, and later as News III and Newscenter III, with the title of its agricultural news program stylized as RFD-III) and film presentations (as Matinee III and TV-III Golden Movies). The station reverted to using a conventional numerical logo in 1978, at which point the station modified its newscast branding as Newscenter 3.
As part of the divestiture of the company's newspaper and television properties, on April 30, 1987, Clay sold its KFDX and its four sister television stations—NBC affiliate KJAC-TV (now Fox affiliate KBTV-TV) in Beaumont–Port Arthur, and ABC affiliates WAPT in Jackson, Mississippi and WWAY in Wilmington, North Carolina—to New York City-based Price Communications Corporation for $60 million; the sale was approved by the FCC on June 23.
In August 1992, KFDX became the first television station in the Wichita Falls–Lawton market to adopt a 24-hour-a-day programming schedule, initially filling overnight time periods following the NBC late night lineup with a mix of syndicated programs, a nightly encore of the station's 10:00 p.m. newscast, and a feed loop of NBC's now-defunct overnight newscast, NBC Nightside. (Eventual sister station KJTL would follow in adopting a 24-hour schedule in September 1994.) On August 23, 1995, Price sold KFDX and fellow NBC affiliates KJAC-TV and KSNF-TV in Joplin, Missouri to Wakefield, Rhode Island-based upstart USA Broadcast Group for $42 million, retaining ABC affiliate WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as its sole television property (USA soon renamed itself to U.S. Broadcast Group after USA Network filed a copyright infringement complaint against the broadcasting company).
Nexstar ownership
On January 12, 1998, Irving-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group acquired KFDX-TV, KBTV-TV and KSNF from U.S. Broadcast Group for $64.3 million. Channel 3 subsequently gained two sister stations on June 1, 1999, when Nexstar took over the operations of Fox affiliate KJTL (channel 18) and UPN affiliate KJBO-LP (channel 35, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate)—which were acquired by Nexstar partner company Mission Broadcasting, which originated as an arm of its creditor Bastet Broadcasting, earlier that year for $15.5 million—under joint sales and shared services agreements, under which KFDX would handle news production, engineering, security and certain other services as well as handling advertising sales for the two stations. KJTL and KJBO subsequently vacated their shared facility on Call Field Road and relocated its operations southeast to KFDX's studio facility on Seymour Highway and Turtle Creek Road.
In January 2006, KFDX launched Texoma's Weather Channel, a 24-hour weather forecast service—with content selected by the on-duty meteorologist—that features loops of weather radar and satellite imagery, current conditions (including maps detailing actual and apparent temperatures, sustained wind speeds and gusts within the KFDX viewing area), and local and regional forecasts, along with an audio feed of Wichita Falls-based NOAA Weather Radio station WXK31; Texoma's Weather Channel is carried on Charter Spectrum channel 17 and digital channel 1234 in Wichita Falls (the service is not carried on cable providers on the Oklahoma side of the market, including Fidelity Communications in Lawton).
In December 2020, the studio building was evacuated after vandals cut a couple of guy wires to the nearby tower. The tower did not collapse, and repairs are being done to shore it back up.
Subchannel history
KFDX-DT2
As the low-power station's broadcasting radius is limited to the immediate Wichita Falls area, KFDX carries a simulcast of MyNetworkTV-affiliated sister station KJBO-LD on channel 3.2 in order to relay channel 35's programming throughout the entire Lawton–Wichita Falls market. Ever since its inception, the KJBO simulcast had been presented in 480i standard definition, with most programs (including the MyNetworkTV prime time schedule) airing in letterboxed 4:3; however, sometime in 2020, it had been upgraded into 1080i full high definition. On cable, KJBO-LD (via the KFDX-DT2 feed) is carried on Charter Spectrum channel 7 in Wichita Falls. (The subchannel/station is not currently carried by Fidelity Communications in Lawton.)
KFDX-DT3
KFDX-DT3 is the Laff-affiliated third digital subchannel of KFDX-TV, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 3.3.
On June 15, 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had entered into an agreement with Katz Broadcasting to affiliate 81 stations owned and/or operated by the group—including KJTL and KFDX-TV—with one or more of Katz's four digital multicast networks, Escape (now Ion Mystery), Laff, Grit and Bounce TV (the latter of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz serves as president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting). As part of the agreement, on September 1 of that year, KFDX launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 3.3 to serve as an affiliate of Laff (the affiliation rights to the three other Katz networks were given to sister station KJTL, which launched three subchannels that affiliated respectively with Grit, Bounce TV and Escape on that same date).
KFDX-DT4
KFDX-DT4 is the Antenna TV–owned-and-operated fourth digital subchannel of KFDX-TV, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 3.4. On January 23, 2018, KFDX launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 3.4 to serve as an affiliate of the classic television multicast network Cozi TV. On February 1, 2021, KFDX-DT4 became the new home for Antenna TV, replacing Cozi TV.
Programming
KFDX-TV currently broadcasts the majority of the NBC schedule, although the station currently does not clear most of NBC's overnight programming (preempting its weekend lifestyle lineup outright and carrying Early Today as a single half-hour broadcast instead of offering most of its customary overnight loop), preferring to carry an encore of the station's 10:00 p.m. newscast, infomercials and some syndicated programming in the designated time period (particularly on early Tuesday through Saturday mornings after Late Night with Seth Meyers). Syndicated programs broadcast by KFDX include Dr. Phil, Judge Judy, The 700 Club, Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight.
News operation
, KFDX-TV presently broadcasts 22 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Channel 3 also produces the half-hour sports highlight/analysis program KFDX 3 Sports Sunday, which airs after the Sunday edition of the 10:00 p.m. newscast.
In addition, KFDX produces five hours of locally produced newscasts each week for Fox-affiliated sister station KJTL (with one hour on weekdays). Through the shared services agreement with KJTL, the station may also simulcast long-form severe weather coverage on channel 18 in the event that a tornado warning is issued for any county in its viewing area of southwestern Oklahoma and western north Texas. KFDX primarily competes for the Texas audience with KAUZ, while KSWO has a stronghold on the Oklahoma side of the market; overall, this puts KFDX at second place among the market's local newscasts.
News department history
A staple of channel 3's schedule was RFD-3, a long-running early morning agriculture and public affairs program which premiered in 1964. Originally airing weekdays at 6:30 a.m., before the launch of a conventional morning newscast in the early 1990s eventually led to the program moving to a 5:00 a.m. slot as the latter program expanded, it was hosted for the majority of its existence by Joe Brown, who served as the station's farm director beginning in the early 1960s and also worked as farm editor for the Wichita Falls Times Record News. RFD-3 ended its 47-year run in August 2011, following Brown's retirement from broadcasting. The station launched a similar program, Texoma Country, which originated as a 15-minute segment that aired during KFDX 3 News Today before expanding to a separate half-hour program serving as a lead-in to the morning newscast — as Texoma Country Morning — in 2014 (the program is co-hosted by Mike Campbell and Joe Tom White, who had previously co-hosted a morning news/talk show on KWFS [1290 AM]; White joined the program in 2014, after announcing his departure from KWFS).
For many years, Warren Silver – who originally joined KFDX as a member of its production staff when it signed on in March 1953 — served as the station's chief weathercaster and continuity announcer as well as acting as the original host of RFD-3. After the station's sale to Clay Communications, Silver was promoted to a management position as the station's general manager, and headed channel 3's operations from 1971 to 1988. After his retirement, Silver continued to serve as a contributor for the station's newscasts, hosting "The Silver Report", a weekly feature segment reporting on issues affecting senior citizens that aired during the 6:00 p.m. edition of Newscenter 3 until his death in 2001. Another longtime weathercaster who appeared on channel 3's newscasts from 1954 to 1971 was Tom Crane, who was known by his nickname, "Tom Crane, the Weathervane." After he left KFDX, Crane worked as vice president of City National Bank in Wichita Falls, and later operated local advertising agency Crane & Company from 1980 until his death on July 6, 2009.
During the late morning of April 3, 1964, a destructive tornado ripped through the City View section of northwestern Wichita Falls and neighboring Sheppard Air Force Base. The event made history as it would become one of the first tornadoes ever to be shown on live television. As rival KAUZ-TV interrupted regular programming that morning to show live footage of the tornado through a studio camera brought outside of channel 6's Seymour Highway studios, KFDX also moved one of its studio cameras outside its facility and pointed it toward the tornado—which initially appeared as a large, rotating dust cloud—as it approached the northwest portion of Wichita Falls, with Shaw and reporter Dee Fletcher providing commentary (sometimes interfered by line voltage and wind noise severe enough that cameramen positioned outside could not hear instructions warning viewers of the approaching tornado over their headphones). The tornado (later retroactively rated as an F5 on the Fujita Scale) killed seven people, injured 111 others, and produced damage estimated at $15 million (with around 225 homes and businesses on the north side of town and at Sheppard AFB being reported destroyed).
During the afternoon and evening of April 10, 1979, about 15 years after the City View twister, KFDX-TV provided complete coverage of an outbreak of tornadic thunderstorms that spawned several strong to violent tornadoes across northwest Texas and southwestern Oklahoma. That evening's coverage culminated with the opening segment of the 6:00 p.m. edition of Newscenter 3, as chief meteorologist Bill Warren was relaying reports of a multiple-vortex tornado that was beginning its path of destruction across southern sections of Wichita Falls. Four minutes into the newscast, electricity to the KFDX studio and transmitter facilities went down as the storm knocked sections of the city's electrical grid offline. (KAUZ, KSWO and five of the six radio stations operating in the Wichita Falls area at the time also lost power in the storm, although local radio station KTRN [102.3, now KWFS-FM] was able to remain on-air as it had an auxiliary power supply). Along its , path, the F4 tornado killed 42 and injured more than 1,700 people, and produced damage estimated at around $400 million; among the 20,000 residents estimated to have been left homeless because of the twister, sixteen of them were part of KFDX-TV's 39-person staff at the time. When the station came back on the air at 6:56 p.m. the following evening (April 11), KFDX provided 3½ hours of continuous live coverage of the aftermath of the tornado. One week later, Channel 3 broadcast a half-hour documentary about the 1979 tornado, Terrible Tuesday, chronicling the Wichita Falls tornado and its aftermath by way of news footage taken by the station after the storm.
Former KFDX chief meteorologist Skip McBride, a retired airman who joined the station as its weekday evening meteorologist on January 29, 1983, was the area's longest-running local television weathercaster. McBride's 31-year tenure—which lasted until his retirement on November 20, 2014—was surpassed only by that of Joe Brown for the longest-tenured television personality in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market; McBride was replaced as chief meteorologist by Kevin Selle (who joined KFDX/KJTL from Texas Cable News, where he previously served as chief meteorologist since the regional news channel's launch in 1998).
In August 1992, KFDX also implemented the "24-Hour News Source" concept (which was enforced in the promotional slogan used by the station until 2005, "Texoma's 24-Hour News Team"). Providing news headlines to viewers at times when the station was not carrying regularly scheduled, long-form newscasts, the concept involved both the production of 30-second news updates that aired at or near the top of each hour and brief weather updates every half-hour during local commercial break inserts within syndicated and NBC network programs – even during prime time network and overnight programming – in addition to the existing half-hourly updates it aired during Today. (Producers and other newsroom personnel anchored the segments for several years during the 1990s.) KFDX discontinued production of these hourly updates in 2005.
Following its sale to Mission Broadcasting and the formation of the SSA between the two stations, on September 20, 1999, KFDX began producing a half-hour newscast at 9:00 p.m. through a news share agreement with Fox affiliate KJTL; the program, titled Fox 18 News at 9:00, was the first local prime time newscast to debut in the market and originated from a secondary set at the KFDX/KJTL/KJBO studios on Seymour Highway in Wichita Falls. The newscast was eventually cancelled after the December 31, 2001 edition, due to poor ratings. After a four-year sabbatical, KFDX launched a second venture at a prime time newscast for channel 18 on September 17, 2007. Originally titled Fox: Texoma's News at 9:00 (later retitled Texoma's Fox News at Nine in September 2011). The program competed against an existing 9:00 newscast on CW affiliate KAUZ-DT2, which parent station KAUZ-TV premiered in September 2006; it would gain another prime time news competitor in September 2012, when KSWO began producing a newscast for its Live Well Network-affiliated DT3 subchannel (now a This TV affiliate). As a result of the cancellations of KSWO and KAUZ's 9:00 news broadcasts (in September 2015 and July 2017, respectively), the KFDX-produced newscast is currently the only local prime time news program in the market.
In July 2012, KFDX became the second television station in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market (after KSWO) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the 9:00 p.m. newscast on KJTL was included in the upgrade. Footage shot in-studio has been broadcast in high definition since the conversion, while all news video from on-remote locations was initially broadcast in standard definition and upconverted to widescreen until April 2013, when KFDX/KJTL upgraded its ENG vehicles, satellite truck, studio and field cameras and other equipment in order to broadcast news footage from the field and the newsroom in high definition, in addition to segments broadcast from the main studio.
Notable former on-air staff
Heidi Collins – anchor/reporter (now at KMSP-TV in Minneapolis)
Brad Edwards – anchor/reporter/photographer (1971–1973; later at KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, deceased)
John Hambrick – anchor/reporter (1964; deceased)
Megan Henderson – news anchor/reporter (now anchor at KTLA in Los Angeles)
Don Owen – reporter (1953–1954; later longtime anchor at KSLA in Shreveport, deceased)
Frances Rivera – news anchor/reporter (now anchor at MSNBC)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KFDX-TV signed on a digital signal on UHF channel 28 in 2003; the station began broadcasting NBC network programming in high definition in 2009, when KFDX upgraded its main digital feed to the 1080i resolution format. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital television under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 28. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3.
Translators
References
External links
Official website for KFDX-TV, KJTL and KJBO-LD
NBC network affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Antenna TV affiliates
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Television channels and stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Texas
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4031582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20Combat%20Engineer%20Regiment | 1 Combat Engineer Regiment | 1 Combat Engineer Regiment (1 CER, ) is a Regular Force regiment of the Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) commanded by a lieutenant-colonel. Its headquarters is in the Patton Building at CFB Edmonton (Steele Barracks), Alberta, and it is assigned to 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.
History
1 CER was continually involved with rotations to Afghanistan as part of the ongoing War on Terror. Due to the regiment's special armoured engineer capability, every Canadian rotation since 2006 had a minimum of an armoured troop from 1 CER attached. As of the start of 2011, 1 CER had six soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Organization
Armoured engineers
1 CER is different from other CERs units as it holds the Canadian Army's armoured engineer capability. Formerly this was provided by the Badger Armoured Engineer Vehicle (AEV) Since 2018 the Badger AEV has been replaced by a new Leopard 2 based AEV that is known in Canadian service as the Ram AEV2.
Order of precedence
References
Citations
Notes
External links
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Thomas Colby (MP for Thetford) (died 1588), MP for Thetford
Sir Thomas Colby, 1st Baronet (1670–1729), MP for Rochester
Thomas Frederick Colby (1784–1852), British major-general and director of the Ordnance Survey
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4031589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%C3%AFd%20Amara%20Stadium | Saïd Amara Stadium | Saïd Amara Stadium () is a multi-use stadium in Saida, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 35,000 people.
History
It was named the 13 April 1958 Stadium, to celebrate the date of the creation of the FLN team. In 2020, when Saïd Amara died, LFP proposed that the stadium bear his name.
References
External links
Stade 13 Avril 1958 - goalzz.com
13 Avril
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On October 1, 2008, Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that it had acquired Philips Speech Recognition Systems.
SpeechMagic supports 25 recognition languages and provides more than 150 ConTexts (industry-specific vocabularies). The world’s largest location using SpeechMagic is the United States with more than 60,000 authors, more than 3,000 editors and a throughput of 400 million lines per year.
References
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4031593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20Service%20Battalion | 1 Service Battalion | 1 Service Battalion (1 Svc Bn; ) is a deployable field unit of the Canadian Forces. It provides second- and limited third-line combat service support to units throughout the 3rd Canadian Division. Located at Steele Barracks, Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, 1 Svc Bn is composed of the battalion headquarters and four functional companies: Transportation, Supply, Maintenance, and Administration. Administration Company is unique in that it provides first-line support to the battalion itself, while the remaining companies provide second- and limited third-line support to units across the 3rd Canadian Division.
The battalion is composed of an integrated and cohesive team of active military members and public servants. Soldiers must maintain their soldiering and war-fighting skills to a high degree of proficiency, while concurrently developing expertise in their respective trades.
The battalion's primary focus is on conducting and training for operations; however, the unit also provides combat service support on a daily basis to 1 CMBG and the 3rd Canadian Division. 1 Svc Bn has, over the past two decades, regularly generated, trained, and deployed the National Support Element (NSE) for several Canadian deployments.
The unit motto is which translates to "duty above all". The current commanding officer is Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Boland and the regimental sergeant major is Chief Warrant Officer Guillaume Page.
History
1 Service Battalion (1 Svc Bn) was officially formed on 1 September 1968, however, the unit's roots can be traced back to around the start of the 20th century through the history of its functional companies: Transportation, Supply and Maintenance. These three companies are descendants of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC), the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps (RCOC), and the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) respectively.
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Until the formation of the service battalions in September 1968, all transportation service was provided by the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC). The RCASC was established, by General Order No. 141, as the Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC), on 1 November 1901. The CASC was modelled directly off the British Army Service Corps to provide all transportation and supply services to the Army. Initially, the CASC consisted of four companies to support the Active Militia units. The Corps grew quickly, doubling the number of units by 1903, and growing by another three companies by 1905. By the summer of 1914 the CASC had a strength of 3000 personnel in eighteen companies.
During World War I, the CASC provided a support element for each Canadian division, and later on, for the Canadian Corps. With the introduction of motorized vehicles, the CASC carried commodities of a greater range and of greater weights. Motorized transportation also resulted in expanded responsibilities such as driving ambulances and engineer pontoon vehicles, carrying all natures of ammunition, and mobile repair and recovery. In recognition of the services rendered during World War I, King George V authorized the designator "Royal" in 1919.
The RCASC, along with the rest of the army, underwent a rapid expansion as Canada mobilized for the Second World War. The RCASC provided support to Canadian soldiers wherever they went; training in Canada and Great Britain, the campaign in north-west Europe, and in the campaign in Italy. The RCASC moved supplies from the rear areas to the front-lines. They delivered all rations, ammunition, petroleum products, and all other essentials. They did so with a variety of vehicles ranging from 3- to 10-ton trucks, and 40-ton tank transporters.
During the 1950s, the RCASC committed No. 1 and No. 2 Movement Control Groups, 54 Canadian Transport Company, 28 Motorized Ambulance Company, and 58 General Transport Company to the Korean War. In 1952, 23 Transport Company relieved 54 Transport Company, which was in-turn relieved by 56 Transport Company. 3 Transport Company was the last to serve in Korea in 1954. 4 Transport Company (previously known as 56 Transport Company and then 5 Transport Company) moved from Winnipeg to Calgary in August 1967. In June 1968, 4 Transport Company combined with elements of the static 13 Transport Company. Three months later that organization became the Transport Company of 1 Svc Bn.
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps (RCOC) can trace its roots back to the Canadian Stores Department. Formed in 1871, the Canadian Stores Department was a civil department of the Canadian Government. This civil service was charged with control of forts, ammunition, stores, buildings and an ordnance depot left by the departing British Military. On 1 July 1903, the responsibilities of the Canadian Stores Department were transferred to the Ordnance Stores Corps. In 1907 it was renamed the Canadian Ordnance Corps (COC).
During the First World War, the COC, in conjunction with the CASC, was supporting 400,000 men, 150,000 French civilians, and 25,000 horses. In 1919, for recognition of outstanding service during the War, King George V authorized the "Royal" designation.
In the Second World War, the RCOC had a strength of 35,000 military personnel, not including the thousands of civilian personnel employed at RCOC installations. They procured all the material goods required by the Army, from clothing to weapons. Up until 1944, the RCOC was responsible for maintenance and repair. Ordnance Field Parks, that carried everything from spare parts to spare artillery, supported the Divisions and Corps.
In 1960, 1 Ordnance Field Park moved from Edmonton to Calgary and in 1968 merged with the Base Supply organization to become the Supply Company of 1 Svc Bn.
Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
The Corps of RCEME was formed on 15 May 1944 as an amalgamation of elements of the RCOC, the RCASC, and the Royal Canadian Engineers. It was modelled after the British Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME). It was born out of lessons learned during the Second World War. It became apparent that due to the increasing complexity of military equipment, technical expertise needed to be pooled to be most effective.
After the Second World War, the RCEME contributed units to Canadian commitments overseas. RCEME units that served in the Korean War included No. 25 Canadian Support Workshop, No. 191 Canadian Infantry Workshop, No. 23 Infantry Workshop (renamed No. 40 Infantry Workshop), and No. 42 Infantry Workshop.
No. 43 Infantry Workshop, which had gone to Germany as No. 195 Workshop, returned from service in Germany to Barriefield in 1955. In 1958, the unit was re-designated again as 1 Field Workshop. In mid-1958, the unit was moved to Calgary to support 1 Canadian Infantry Brigade Group. In September 1968, No. 1 Field Workshop merged with No. 215 Workshop and became Maintenance Company, 1 Svc Bn.
Formation to present day
As previously mentioned, the unit was officially stood up 1 September 1968. Initially, it was composed of a small headquarters, Transport Company, Supply Company, Maintenance Company, Construction Engineer Company, and Military Police Platoon. The battalion's tasks were: to deploy as a service support unit on order; to assist Canadian Forces Base Calgary with the provision of administrative support to local units; and, to provide a field logistics capability to support 1 Canadian Infantry Brigade Group. In 1975, the Military Police Platoon was removed from the organization to become 1 MP Platoon, and the Construction Engineer Company left and became part of CFB Calgary's Technical Services Branch. In 1976, the Administration Company was added to provide integral service support to the unit so that the unit could better concentrate on providing close and general support to the brigade group. The Administration Company consisted of the unit's headquarters, Transport Platoon, Supply Platoon, and Maintenance Platoon, as well as messing, personnel administration, and medical services.
In late 1978 and early 1979, a band was formed and took part in its initial training phase during rehearsals at a shack in Sarcee Barracks. Unlike others at the time, it was an unauthorized Canadian military band. Each member was issued band heraldry in the spring of the year and consisted of the following musicians at that time: the band sergeant, a band administration officer, a drum major, four snare drummers, two side drummers, a bass drummer, three glockenspiel players, three buglers, and two baritone buglers.
On 24 April 1982, in recognition of its support to and close association with the City of Calgary, 1 Svc Bn was awarded the freedom of the city. As part of the ceremony, the battalion marched to Calgary City Hall where Mayor (and later Alberta Premier) Ralph Klein presented the honour.
As a result of the government's decision to close CFB Calgary, 1 Svc Bn moved to Steele Barracks in Edmonton on 23 September 1996. In July 1999, as part of the army's combat service support core restructure, part of the battalion was removed to form 1 General Support Battalion (1 GS Bn). This relieved 1 Svc Bn of its static or base responsibilities. The smaller unit was then composed of Administration Company, Maintenance Company, and Supply and Transportation Company.
On 28 June 2003, the City of Spruce Grove granted 1 Svc Bn freedom of the city. The honour was marked with a parade through the city and several static displays of vehicles and equipment.
On 6 February 2006, 1 Svc Bn and 1 GS Bn were reunited as a single unit, 1 Svc Bn. On 3 April of the same year, 1 Svc Bn was transferred from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group to 1 Area Support Group.
On 11 September 2011, the Town of Morinville granted 1 Svc Bn freedom of the city. The honour was marked with a parade through the city and several static displays of vehicles and equipment.
On 23 April 2012, 1 Svc Bn returned to the command of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in accordance with the Canadian Forces Force 2013 laydown. The event was marked with a transfer of command authority parade to formalize the transfer.
Current order of battle
The Unit Headquarters is responsible for command and control of the unit, planning and coordinating support operations and training, issuing direction to the companies, and maintaining liaison with supported and supporting organizations. The unit headquarters includes the Operations Cell, Training Cell, Battalion Orderly Room, and the command team of the commanding officer, the regimental sergeant major, the deputy commanding officer, the adjutant and the battalion administration coordinator.
Transportation Company is responsible to provide second- and limited third-line transport and movements support. The second-largest company, it is organized into four platoons: Headquarters Platoon, Field Platoon, C Platoon, and Movements and Postal Platoon. Support tasks executed by the company include the provision of the general cargo and personal transport, refuelling services, snow and ice control operations at CFB Edmonton, multi-modal movements planning and control, aerial resupply and postal services. Additionally, the company provides specialist transportation-related training and manages the conduct of the Canadian Forces Mobile Support Equipment Safety Program in the Edmonton Garrison.
Supply Company is the third-largest company in the battalion. The company is organized with a headquarters and five platoons: the Systems Control Platoon, Stocks Platoon, Garrison Support Services Platoon, Laundry, Bath, and Decontamination Platoon, and Combat Supply Platoon. Supply Company provides a variety of essential stores and services to supported units both in garrison and while on deployed operations. The current Supply Company facility, located within the Edmonton Garrison, was originally conceived and designed in 1996 by officer commanding Supply Company Captain Stewart Campbell.
Maintenance Company is the largest of the companies in the battalion. The company provides second- and limited third-line repair and recovery services to assigned dependencies both in garrison and on deployments, as well as providing integral-level support to specified units that do not possess their own integral Land Equipment Management System resources. Maintenance Company consists of the Headquarters, Vehicle Platoon, Artisan Platoon, and Garrison Maintenance Platoon.
Administration Company is the smallest in the battalion and is composed of the Headquarters Platoon, Maintenance Platoon, Transport Platoon, Quartermaster Platoon, Signals Troop, and Finance Platoon. The role of Administration Company is to provide efficient and effective first-line support to the other companies of 1 Svc Bn and any external elements that are attached to the unit. This includes the provision of transportation, maintenance, supply, signals, administrative, and food services support that the members of the other companies need in order to successfully carry out their assigned tasks.
Deployed operations
International
Operation Unifier – Ukraine (2015–present)
Operation Impact – Middle East (2014–present)
Operation Reassurance – Poland/Latvia (2014–present)
Operation Attention – Afghanistan (2011–2014)
Operation Archer – Afghanistan (2005–2013)
Operation Athena – Afghanistan (2005–2011)
Operation Apollo – Afghanistan (2001–2003)
Operation Kinetic – Macedonia (1999–2000)
Operation Palladium – Bosnia (1995–2004)
Operation Mandarin – Croatia (1994)
Operation Harmony – Croatia (1992–1995)
Operation Marquis – Cambodia (1992–1993)
Operation Matador – Namibia (1988–1989)
Domestic
Operation Lentus 18 – British Columbia forest fires (July–September 2018)
Operation Lentus 17 – British Columbia forest fires (July 2017)
Operation Lentus 15 – Saskatchewan fire (July 2015)
Operation Lentus 14 – Manitoba floods (July 2014)
Operation Lentus 13 – southern Alberta floods (June 2013)
Operation Lustre – Manitoba floods (May 2011)
Operation Podium – Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B.C. (winter 2010)
Operation Grizzly – G8 Leaders Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta (summer 2002)
Operation Peregrine – military support for fighting forest fires in BC (2003)
Operation Recuperation – ice storm relief in eastern Canada ( January–February 1998)
APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting – Vancouver, B.C. (November 1997)
Operation Assistance – Manitoba flood response ( April–May 1997)
Winter Olympic Games – Calgary, Alberta (1988)
Operation Gamescan – Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec (1976)
Operation Danaca – Middle East (1974–2006)
Operation Snowgoose – Cyprus (1964–1993)
Commanding officers
Lieutenant-Colonel B.B. Cox, CD – September 1968 – August 1969
Lieutenant-Colonel D.V. Geary, CD – August 1969 – July 1971
Lieutenant-Colonel C.A. Millar, CD – July 1971 – July 1973
Lieutenant-Colonel R.D. Leech, CD – July 1973 – April 1975
Lieutenant-Colonel P.P. Pospisil, CD – April 1975 – May 1977
Lieutenant-Colonel R.G. Dauphinee, CD May 1977 – June 1979
Lieutenant-Colonel D.N. Basinger, CD – June 1979 – July 1981
Lieutenant-Colonel R.T. Baxter, CD – July 1981 – July 1983
Lieutenant-Colonel I.J. Campbell, OMM, CD – July 1983 – July 1985
Lieutenant-Colonel H.L. Corbett, OMM, CD – July 1985 – July 1987
Lieutenant-Colonel G.A. Walsh, CD – July 1987 – July 1989
Lieutenant-Colonel E.K. Beselt, CD – July 1989 – June 1991
Lieutenant-Colonel K.A. Strain, CD – June 1991 – July 1993
Lieutenant-Colonel J.L.S. Hamel, CD – July 1993 – June 1995
Lieutenant-Colonel D.N. Redman, CD – June 1995 – April 1997
Lieutenant-Colonel M.E. McQuillan, OMM, CD, PEng – April 1997 – June 1999
Lieutenant-Colonel A.C. Patch, OMM, CD – June 1999 – June 2001
Lieutenant-Colonel J.R. Peverley, CD – June 2001 – July 2003
Lieutenant-Colonel C.A. Lamarre, CMM, MSC, CD – July 2003 – June 2005
Lieutenant-Colonel J.D. Conrad, MSM, CD – June 2005 – Feb 2006
Lieutenant-Colonel D.C. Bell, CD – Feb 2006 – July 2006
Lieutenant-Colonel K.W. Horlock, OMM, MSM, CD – July 2006 – June 2007
Lieutenant-Colonel B.J. MacGillivray, CD – June 2007 – June 2009
Lieutenant-Colonel R.B. Dundon, CD – June 2009 – April 2011
Lieutenant-Colonel K.D. Brodie, CD – April 2011 – June 2013
Lieutenant-Colonel J.P.S. McKenzie, CD – June 2013 – June 2015
Lieutenant-Colonel B.D. Davidson, CD – June 2015 – June 2017
Lieutenant-Colonel H.S. Morrison, CD – June 2017 – July 2019
Lieutenant-Colonel G.M. Grenier-Lachance, CD – July 2019 – May 2021
Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. Boland, CD - May 2021 - Present
Regimental sergeants major
Chief Warrant Officer F. Maiden, CD – September 1968 – February 1969
Chief Warrant Officer C.E. Short, CD – February 1969 – May 1974
Chief Warrant Officer R.F. Wallace, CD – July 1974 – July 1975
Chief Warrant Officer G.E. Welsh, CD – July 1975 – July 1978
Chief Warrant Officer G.L. Pelletier, CD – August 1978 – August 1980
Chief Warrant Officer G.P. Martin, CD – August 1980 – July 1983
Chief Warrant Officer H.C. Moore, MMM, CD – August 1983 – June 1986
Chief Warrant Officer K.T. Morrison, MMM, CD – June 1986 – July 1988
Chief Warrant Officer G.D. Fehr, MMM, CD – August 1988 – June 1991
Chief Warrant Officer R.V. Seyffert, CD – June 1991 – July 1994
Chief Warrant Officer P.B. Gilby, CD – April 1994 – April 1997
Chief Warrant Officer G.M. Clough, MMM, CD – April 1997 – July 2000
Chief Warrant Officer D.B. Chipman, MMM, CD – July 2000 – July 2002
Chief Warrant Officer G.W. Morrison, MMM, CD – July 2002 – June 2005
Chief Warrant Officer P.J. Earles, MSM, CD – June 2005 – February 2006
Chief Warrant Officer R.J. Daly, MSM, CD – February 2006 – June 2007
Chief Warrant Officer G.A. Hughes, MMM, CD – June 2007 – June 2009
Chief Warrant Officer G.R. Vey, MMM, CD – June 2009 – July 2012
Chief Warrant Officer T.J. Harrison, CD – July 2012 – June 2015
Chief Warrant Officer W.J. Bantock, MMM, CD – June 2015 – July 2018
Chief Warrant Officer S.R. Wilson, MMM, CD – July 2018 - May 2021
Chief Warrant Officer G. Page, CD - May 2021 - Present
Unit flag
The 1 Svc Bn Unit flag has links with the traditions of the founding corps. The official colours of the unit flag are Marine Corps scarlet and oriental blue with an intervening gold stripe and the number one emblazoned in the centre. These colours have a history of association with army services. The oriental blue colour of the flag is reminiscent of the old RCOC flag while the gold colour can be found on the former banners of the RCASC, the RCEME Corps, and the Royal Canadian Army Pays Corps (RCAPC).
Unit badge
The badge of 1 Svc Bn (seen above) was selected after many years of discussion in 1978. The badge depicts a Dall ram's head against the battalion flag oriented diagonally inside a ceremonial Canadian Forces unit badge. The Dall sheep is indigenous to Alberta and it was selected to represent the "Army of the West" many years ago by Major-General F.F. Worthington.
Unit building
On 15 November 2017, 1 Service Battalion finalized the exterior naming of building 179 with " Bell/Slumkofske Building". The building is named after two distinguished soldiers: Colonel Bell was a logistician of the First World War and Sergeant Lawrence Albert Slumkofske a RCEME soldier who served in the Second World War.
The official naming of building 179 occurred with the unveiling of a dedication plate in the foyer of the building on 20 October 1996 by Major-General M.D. Jeffries CD.
External links
Official Facebook
References
Battalions of the Canadian Army
Military logistics units and formations of Canada
Military units and formations established in 1968 |
4031601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20Sound | Rock Sound | Rock Sound is a British magazine that covers rock music. The magazine aims at being more "underground" and less commercial, while also giving coverage to better-known acts. It generally focuses on pop punk, post-hardcore, metalcore, punk, emo, hardcore, heavy metal and extreme metal genres of rock music, rarely covering indie rock music at all. The tag-line "For those who like their music loud, extreme and non-conformist" is sometimes used. Although primarily aimed at the British market, the magazine is also sold in Australia, Canada and the United States.
History
The British edition of Rock Sound was launched in March 1999 by the French publisher Editions Freeway. The magazine was bought out by its director, Patrick Napier, in December 2004. The magazines offices are in London. Separate titles with the same name have been published under the same umbrella company in France since 1993, and in Spain since 1998.
The magazine is known for including a free CD in most issues, which has tracks from bands' new albums that have not been released as singles. These are now normally called '100% Volume' or 'The Volumes', but in the past compilations were also called 'Music With Attitude', 'Bugging Your Ears!', 'Sound Check' and 'Punk Rawk Explosion'. Sometimes whole albums are included with the magazine, particularly from bands wanting to gain exposure, including Futures' debut album The Holiday in March 2010, and Burn The Fleet's debut album The Modern Shape in May 2012.
The first issue was published in April 1999. Issue 2 featured British band Reef on the front cover, and later issues 3 and 8 featured Terrorvision and Foo Fighters respectively. In July 2011 a host of "Through The Years" articles were written to celebrate the 150th issue of the magazine. 2017 witnessed the first annual Rock Sound Awards where £1 from every magazine bundle sold was donated to the One More Light Fund in memory of Chester Bennington.
Audience
The magazine had a circulation figure of 15,005 from January to December 2010 auditored by ABC. This includes 10,162 sales in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and 4,843 from Other Countries. The same auditing body said the magazine had a slightly lower circulation figure of 14,227 from January to December 2011, with sales of 10,053 from the United Kingdom and Ireland, and 4,174 from Other Countries. The majority of sales come from newstrade, with some coming from subscriptions.
The main rival to the magazine in Britain is Kerrang! because of the similar types of music both magazines cover.
Album of the Year
At the end of every year the magazine lists their favourite 75 albums released in the previous twelve months.
1999 – Filter – Title of Record
2000 – A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms
2001 – System of a Down – Toxicity
2002 – Isis – Oceanic
2003 – Hell Is for Heroes – The Neon Handshake
2004 – Isis – Panopticon
2005 – Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
2006 – The Bronx – The Bronx
2007 – Biffy Clyro – Puzzle
2008 – Genghis Tron – Board Up the House
2009 – Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2010 – Bring Me the Horizon – There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret
2011 – Mastodon – The Hunter
2012 – The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
2013 – letlive – The Blackest Beautiful
2014 – Lower Than Atlantis – Lower Than Atlantis
2015 – Bring Me the Horizon – That's the Spirit
2016 – Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor
2017 – All Time Low – Last Young Renegade
2018 – Twenty One Pilots – Trench
2019 – Waterparks Fandom
2020 – Yungblud - Weird!
2021 – Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy
Hall of Fame/Throwback
Rock Sound inducted numerous albums into its Hall of Fame, as part of a long-running feature. The main criterion for inclusion was thought to be influence – even within a particular genre – and for that reason many of the albums have been commercially successful as well as critically successful because they have then gone on to influence large numbers of bands or the music scene. Thus this differs from the Yearly Top Albums lists which do not take influence into account. In each article there was normally an interview with band members, a commentary on the album's release, a look at its initial success, and reaction from other musicians or participants in the album's creation - such as producers, engineers, and music video directors. Towards the end of this section's run it was renamed to "Throwback".
Rock Sound Records
In 2019, Rock Sound introduced a new venture titled Rock Sound Records, a sub-brand of Rock Sound offering and distributing music in limited physical formats, such as cassette tapes and vinyl records. Generally, this involves the exclusive physical release of a record released by a band that's signed to a different (major) record label. For instance, the first Rock Sound Records release was a cassette tape version of Simple Creatures′ debut EP Strange Love, while the band is currently signed to BMG.
Discography
See also
Kerrang!
NME
Metal Hammer
Alternative Press
References
Citations
Sources
External links
Official website
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Music magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1999 |
4031607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque%20du%20Freak | Cirque du Freak | Cirque du Freak (also known as Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare) is the first of twelve novels in The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan (real name Darren O'Shaugnessy), published in January 2000.
A feature film adaptation of the novel, directed by Paul Weitz and starring Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Salma Hayek, Josh Hutcherson and Willem Dafoe was released on October 23, 2009.
References
2000 Irish novels
The Saga of Darren Shan novels
HarperCollins books
Irish novels adapted into films |
4031616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyayo%20National%20Stadium | Nyayo National Stadium | Nyayo National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nairobi, Kenya. It is located at the square of Mombasa Road, Langata Road and the Aerodrome Road. It is approximately two kilometers from the City Center, directly opposite Nairobi Mega Mall, formerly known as Nakumatt Mega. The stadium was built in 1983 for a capacity of 15,000. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The popular AFC Leopards football club plays most of its home games at Nyayo stadium. The stadium is also used for athletics , swimming and various ceremonies most common of which are National Holiday celebrations. Other facilities at the Nyayo Stadium include a gymnasium and a 50-metre swimming pool. Rugby union club Mwamba RFC used the Nyayo National Stadium for home games.
The completion of the Nyayo Stadium gave Kenya the opportunity to be placed in the category of nations that were invited to bid for the 4th All-Africa Games in 1987, a bid that was awarded to Kenya, giving it International status. In essence, the Nyayo Stadium "gave birth" to Moi International Sports Centre.
The Nyayo Stadium was the host venue of the 2010 African Championships in Athletics.
The stadium was renamed to the Coca-Cola National Stadium after the multi-national company won the naming rights to the stadium in February 2009. The deal was worth US$1.5 million and would have seen the beverage company do branding, marketing and naming to the whole stadium for three years. Three months later, however, Coca-Cola withdrew from the contract, because the Kenyan government wanted to have the stadium branded as Coca-Cola Nyayo National Stadium. but was renamed again to the Nyayo National Stadium, as the Government of Kenya wanted it branded. This decision has been widely criticised by many Kenyan citizens, because they believe that Coca-Cola would have heavily improved and popularised the stadium.
The stadium houses headquarters for the Football Kenya Federation and Athletics Kenya.
Components
Main stadium
The main stadium, holding 15,000 people and a FIFA-approved standard-size football pitch, also contains floodlights, 2 VIP lounges, a boardroom and an internet-enabled media centre. The stadium can also be and has also been used to host concerts, public holiday celebrations, public rallies, meetings and crusades.
Aquatic Centre
The aquatic centre holds 2,000 people and contains a filtration plant and a public 50 x 25 m swimming pool.
Indoor Gymnasium
The indoor gymnasium holds 2,500 people and is the home of the Kenya National Basketball League and the Kenya national basketball team. It also features floodlights, electronic scoreboards, snack bars, a boxing ring, an indoor badminton court, a martial arts gym and other social facilities.
Handball and volleyball training courts
The handball and volleyball courts can accommodate up to 1,500 spectators and feature outdoor training courts.
References
External links
Sports Stadia Management Board – A body governing few stadiums in Kenya, including the Moi International Sports Centre
Photo at WorldStadiums.com
Photos at FussballTempel.net
Videos at NairobiKenya.com
Sports venues completed in 1983
Football venues in Kenya
Sports venues in Kenya
Sport in Nairobi
Kenya
Multi-purpose stadiums in Kenya
1980s in Nairobi |
4031617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia%20at%20the%201956%20Summer%20Olympics | Cambodia at the 1956 Summer Olympics | Cambodia competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Because Cambodia decided to join the boycott over the Suez Crisis, the nation did not send any athletes to Melbourne, Australia where all but equestrian events were held in late November, and early December. To accommodate Australia's strict animal quarantine regulations, Dressage, Eventing, and Show Jumping were held in June at Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Two Cambodian riders, Isoup Ganthy, and Saing Pen, competed in the equestrian events.
Equestrian
Show jumping
References
Nations at the 1956 Summer Olympics
1956
1956 in Cambodia |
4031622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQP | SQP | SQP may refer to:
Sequential quadratic programming, an iterative method for constrained nonlinear optimization
South Quay Plaza, a residential-led development under construction in Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, London
SQP, the ICAO code for SkyUp, Kyiv, Ukraine |
4031645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wood%20%28explorer%29 | John Wood (explorer) | John Wood (1812 – 14 November 1871) was a Scottish naval officer, surveyor, cartographer and explorer, principally remembered for his exploration of central Asia.
Biography
Wood was born in Perth, Scotland. After schooling at Perth Academy, he joined the British Indian Navy, was made a Lieutenant, and soon demonstrated a flair for surveying. Many of the maps of southern Asia which he compiled remained standard for the rest of the 19th century.
In 1835, aged twenty-two, he commanded the first steamboat to paddle up the Indus River and surveyed the river as he went. In 1838, he led an expedition that found one of the River Oxus's sources in central Asia. The Royal Geographical Society recognised his work by awarding him their Patron's Medal in 1841.
After his central Asian explorations, Wood spent a year in Wellington, New Zealand, before moving back to India and establishing himself in Sind, a northern Indian province that is now part of Pakistan. In 1871, he decided to return to Britain, but before leaving made one final trip to Shimla in the Punjab, where he fell ill. He nonetheless embarked on the voyage home, but died only two weeks after his arrival, on 14 November. His travels were published in 1872.
He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Bibliography
John Wood
Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus, London: John Murray, 1841
Twelve Months in Wellington, London: Pelham Richardson, 1843
References
Richard W. Hughes: The Rubies and Spinels of Afghanistan – A brief history
1812 births
1871 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
Scottish explorers
Royal Indian Navy officers
Scottish surveyors |
4031647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTEN | KTEN | KTEN (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Ada, Oklahoma, United States, serving the Sherman, Texas–Ada, Oklahoma market as an affiliate of NBC, The CW Plus, and ABC. The station is owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group, and maintains primary studios on High Point Circle (near Katy Memorial Expressway/US 75) in northwestern Denison, Texas, with secondary studios at the Ardmore Energy Center on Merrick Drive (near North Commerce Street) in northwestern Ardmore, and business offices at the intersection of East Main Street and Rennie Avenue in downtown Ada, Oklahoma. Its transmitter is located along State Highway 7 in rural northeastern Johnston County, Oklahoma (west of Wapanucka and southwest of Bromide).
History
Early history
KTEN's history traces back to 1952, when Eastern Oklahoma Television Inc.—a locally based company owned by Bill Hoover, C. C. Morris and Brown Morris, who also owned radio stations KADA (1230 AM) in Ada and KWSH (1260 AM) in Wewoka through their Oklahoma Broadcasting Company subsidiary – applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license to operate a television station on VHF channel 12 (the 1952 assignment of the frequency to the Sherman–Ada media market under the Sixth Report and Order consequently resulted in the FCC also moving the channel 12 allocation originally assigned to Waco, Texas westward to Abilene—where it would become occupied by present-day ABC affiliate KTXS-TV—to avoid interference with any Sherman–Ada station that would be assigned to that channel). Hoover's firm purchased a plot of land located north of Ada with the intention to build a studio and transmitter facility for the station, for which it originally filed to use KEO as its call letters. Shortly after the FCC granted the license application to the Hoover group (now given the call letters KEOK) in 1953, Eastern Oklahoma Television reached an agreement with the FCC to assign its proposed station to VHF channel 10, a second television frequency allocated to the Sherman–Ada market under the Report and Order memorandum; the group subsequently applied to use KTEN as its call sign, becoming the first applicant to incorporate their station's channel number into its call letters in an FCC license filing.
The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1954, as the first television station to sign on in the Ada–Sherman market, Originally based out of studio facilities located on Arlington Street in Ada (which continues to serve as its city of license to this day), channel 10 originally maintained a primary affiliation with ABC, with programming from NBC airing on a secondary basis; this was very unusual for a two-station market, especially a small DMA the size of Sherman-Ada. During the late 1950s, it was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. Prior to the sign-on of KTEN, Texoma area residents were only available to receive over-the-air television service via stations based in the adjacent Oklahoma City, Dallas–Fort Worth and Wichita Falls–Lawton markets; even still, these stations only provided Grade B coverage at best in the northern and western counties of south-central Oklahoma and in parts of north-central Texas; reception of these fringe stations requiring a strong outdoor antenna in Ardmore, Tishomingo and Sulphur, Oklahoma, Gainesville and Denison, Texas, and surrounding areas.
Among KTEN's earliest personalities was Churches of Christ televangelist Mack Lyon, who began his television career with channel 10 as a producer and speaker for a religious program which aired on the station. It was the first regularly scheduled television program produced by the ministry. From the fall of 1980 until 1982, during the tail end of his tenure as the church's pastor, Lyon hosted a weekly ministry program by the Wewoka Church of Christ that also aired locally on KTEN. Lyon would become known among national audiences after he started In Search of the Lord's Way, a syndicated weekly program that he developed as a television outreach of the Edmond Church of Christ in 1982, which Lyon hosted until 2016; in addition to its carriage on local commercial and independent religious television stations throughout North America, Search also aired nationally on the now-defunct American Christian Television System (ACTS) during the early- and mid-1990s.
Channel 10 would eventually gain a competitor when a consortium led by Maurine Easley and Albert Riesen, the daughter and son-in-law of John Easley, longtime owner of The Ardmoreite and radio station KVSO (1240 AM), signed on KVSO-TV (channel 12, now KXII) in Ardmore on August 12, 1956; KVSO assumed the local rights to NBC programming from KTEN, and also served as a secondary CBS affiliate. On June 1, 1964, Eastern Oklahoma Television commenced construction on a new studio and production facility for KTEN on 1600 Arlington Street in Ada. When the studio opened the following year, it was dedicated in an opening ceremony by actor Clint Walker (then the star of the ABC western series Cheyenne) and television and radio journalist Paul Harvey. KTEN would eventually gain a third radio sister in 1967, when Hoover's Oklahoma Broadcasting group signed on KEOR (1000 AM) in Atoka.
As a primary NBC/secondary ABC affiliate
By the time KXII disaffiliated from the network to exclusively align with CBS in 1977, KTEN began carrying a larger proportion of NBC programming within its schedule. Over time, channel 10 had aired the majority of the daytime and prime time program offerings from both NBC and ABC. From 1977 to 1980, it even aired the national evening newscasts from both networks in the hour preceding its local newscast at 6:00 p.m. (with ABC's World News Tonight airing at 5:00, followed by NBC Nightly News at 5:30 p.m.). The station received national attention in 1983, when Doc Severinsen, who was sitting in for Johnny Carson's sidekick Ed McMahon on the noted episode, welcomed KTEN as the newest station to begin carriage of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. KTEN's acquisition of the late-night talk show occurred after KXII—which had whittled its clearance of NBC programs within its schedule down to just two shows by this time—opted to begin clearing CBS's late night schedule in a move that eventually led channel 12 toward exclusively aligning with CBS in 1985.
Although KTEN and KXII had theoretically been direct competitors for many years, the difference between their respective transmitter sites created disproportionate over-the-air reception of the two stations. Viewers living in parts of south-central Oklahoma close to KXII's transmitter (such as Ardmore, Madill and Durant) experienced fair to poor signal reception of the KTEN signal, which in turn had almost non-existent coverage in some adjoining areas of north-central Texas. Conversely, Ada and surrounding areas on the Oklahoma side of the market had poor over-the-air reception of KXII, as those areas lied on the northern fringe of that station's signal coverage radius. In order to become more competitive with KXII, in 1983, the FCC granted Eastern Oklahoma Television a permit to construct a tower north of Milburn, Oklahoma, which would operate at 316,000 watts of power (the maximum power allowable for stations broadcasting on VHF channels 7-13). The new tower, from which the station began operating its transmitter the following year, would provide better over-the-air reception to areas of far southern Oklahoma located near the Red River (including Ardmore, Durant, Madill, Atoka and parts of Hugo) and extend its reach across the river to the Sherman-Denison area and adjoining areas of north-central Texas (including Gainesville, Bonham, and Paris), where reception of KTEN had previously been marginal if not non-existent.
On February 3, 1985, Eastern Oklahoma Television sold the station to Channel 10 L.P. (later renamed KTEN Television L.P.), a consortium headed by a group of investors led by Durant businessman Tom Johnson, along with Madill-based businessmen Allen Wheeler, John Massey, David Webb and Phillip Stumpff. Johnston planned to take over as the station's general manager, based out of a satellite office in Durant; FCC approval of the sale, however, was held up for three years and did not occur until November 16, 1988. As a condition of approval, the Johnson-led group stated that it would open a secondary studio facility for KTEN on Merrick Drive (near North Commerce Street) in Ardmore, which opened in October 1985. In January 1986, KTEN opened a tertiary studio facility in the Katy Depot in downtown Denison, which originally housed a news bureau and certain back office operations; the Ada facility would remain in operation as the base of channel 10's news operations, and its programming, master control and advertising sales departments.
In 1992, KTEN Television L.P. filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy claim and a petition for financial reorganization to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. As part of the group's reorganization plan, Tom Johnson and his business partner, Dennis Hall, secured commitments from Durant-based First National Bank and Durant Bank & Trust totaling $1.16 million to acquire an interest in the KTEN Television group's assets; in the winter of late 1992, the group sought permission from the Oklahoma Industrial Finance Authority (OIFA) to provide an additional $1.05 million to the $5 million in loans needed to finance the purchase. The OIFA approved the loan request on February 24, 1993, on the provision that Johnson approach an Ada-based bank to obtain a loan for the remaining $1 million to complete the transaction and that the trust authority be paid in full in the form of a balloon payment by year three of the 15-year loan term.
In May 1993, KTEN adopted a 24-hour-a-day programming schedule, initially filling overnight time periods following the NBC late night lineup with a mix of syndicated programs and movies. By this time, KTEN was gravitating toward becoming a primary NBC affiliate, but continued to carry a large proportion of ABC's schedule; the station even incorporated localized versions of promotional image campaigns produced by both networks. (The station later began clearing ABC's overnight newscast, World News Now, in the time period originally occupied by the overnight film showcases in July 1994.) Although KTEN's programming schedule appeared to be transitioning its network allegiance exclusively to NBC by the early to mid-1990s, another network move was made along the way.
Tertiary affiliation with Fox
In July 1994, KTEN began maintaining a second primary affiliation with the Fox Broadcasting Company, a move it made (on May 24 of that year) in part to regain some financial footing by way of the monetary compensation that the station would be given by Fox. Because the Sherman-Ada market did not have enough commercial television stations to sustain an exclusive affiliation, Texoma area residents could only watch Fox network programming via the network's cable feed, Foxnet, or through out-of-market affiliates – KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City, KJTL in Wichita Falls or Fox owned-and-operated station KDAF [now a CW affiliate] in Dallas-Fort Worth – that provided a Grade B over-the-air signal in certain areas or were available on local cable providers.
Another major incentive was that, through both NBC (which then held the broadcast television rights to the American Football Conference [AFC]) and Fox (which was awarded the contractual rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) television package in a $1.58-billion bid on December 18, 1993), KTEN would uniquely be able to show every single Dallas Cowboys game that the National Football League (NFL) permitted to air on its broadcast television rightsholders; the Cowboys had most of their games carried locally by KXII from 1962 until CBS lost the rights to the NFC package in 1993. Around the time KTEN joined Fox, in order to boost the network's standing as it assumed the NFC contract, the network had begun a gradual process of moving its programming to television stations that were legacy affiliates of either ABC, NBC or CBS in approximately 30 markets throughout the United States. These transactions largely resulted from a group-wide affiliation agreement with New World Communications – then in the midst of acquiring CBS affiliate KDFW, which replaced KDAF as Dallas-Fort Worth's Fox affiliate in July 1995, from Argyle Television – that commenced the same month, and a subsequent deal with SF Broadcasting, a joint venture between Fox and Savoy Pictures, that began the following year.
The downside of the deal was that the station was becoming even more of a hybrid network affiliate, adding to any existing confusion among viewers; it carried the majority of the NBC programming lineup and the entirety of Fox's schedule as well as a handful of ABC programs. NBC programs preempted by KTEN during the next four years mainly consisted of NBC Nightly News, daytime talk and game shows, and (on some occasions) sports events offered by the network on weekends. In contrast, KTEN cleared the entire Fox prime time lineup, but the vast majority of these programs were shown out of pattern after its late-evening newscast; however, it broadcast some Fox shows—including such high-profile series as Beverly Hills, 90210, The Simpsons, Cops and America's Most Wanted—in their recommended evening time slots (most commonly on Fridays and Saturdays, when it carried the network's full prime time schedule in place of the first two hours of NBC's evening lineup).
KTEN's Saturday morning schedule consisted of Fox Kids' weekend block and about one hour of the ABC Saturday Morning (later Disney's One Saturday Morning) lineup in lieu of the TNBC block. The station's other remaining ABC offerings by this time had been whittled down to daily news programs World News Tonight and World News This Morning, select daytime shows (including soap operas General Hospital and All My Children) and a handful of prime time shows (such as 20/20, Home Improvement and Ellen). Similar to the station's earlier carriage of NBC and ABC's evening newscasts during the late 1970s, KTEN also aired the national early-morning newscasts from both networks in the hour preceding its original local morning newscast at 6:30 a.m. (with ABC's World News This Morning airing at 5:30 a.m., followed by NBC News at Sunrise at 6:00). Like it did with many of the Fox programs that the station carried, KTEN aired some ABC programs (including certain shows that it cleared for broadcast in prime time) on tape delay. As area residents could do to watch Fox programs that KTEN aired out of their normal timeslots through the network's adjacent-market affiliates, viewers who wanted to see the pre-empted ABC programs "live" could watch either KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, KSWO-TV in Lawton or WFAA in Dallas–Fort Worth, while most of the pre-empted NBC programs could be viewable through KFOR-TV, KFDX-TV or KXAS-TV from the respective markets.
Lockwood Broadcast Group ownership, exclusive NBC affiliate
On March 23, 1998, KTEN Television L.P. sold the station to Hampton, Virginia-based Lockwood Broadcast Group for $15.125 million. The acquisition, which was finalized in July of that year, was financed in part through proceeds from the company's December 1997 sale of religious independent station WJCB (now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXV-TV) in Norfolk/Hampton Roads, Virginia to Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks), a sale which occurred ten months after Lockwood had acquired that station from Tidewater Christian Communications. For most of its history under the group's ownership, KTEN was the only television station owned by Lockwood that was affiliated with one of the Big Four television networks; this status lasted until 2015, when Lockwood purchased ABC affiliate KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas and its satellites from Gray Television on October 1 of that year (as part of a $11.2-million trade deal involving Lockwood-owned independent station WBXX-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee).
With the station becoming more financially stable under Lockwood, KTEN disaffiliated from ABC and Fox in September of that year, resulting in the station exclusively aligning with NBC; at that point, it began carrying the vast majority of the network's programming schedule, although it continued to pre-empt the network's daytime talk programs until the end of the decade, although it delayed that block to the early morning by that time. The disaffiliation from ABC had left the Sherman-Ada market as one of several markets in the United States ranked below #80 by Nielsen Media Research that had affiliations with only two of the Big Four television networks. The network's absence was made more apparent by the time that KTEN and KXII respectively launched digital subchannels affiliated with The CW, Fox and MyNetworkTV in 2006, as the two stations had maintained affiliations with five of the six major broadcast networks (NBC, CBS, Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV); KTEN would eventually reunite with ABC in May 2010, when the station converted its DT3 subchannel into an affiliate of the network. On August 1, 2002, the station began construction on a new studio at 10 Highpoint Circle (near U.S. Route 75) in Denison, Texas to house the station's newsroom and production studios as well as its management offices, and engineering and master control departments (the Ada facility would continue to house advertising sales offices after the new facility was completed); KTEN migrated its primary studio operations from the Katy Depot to the Highpoint Circle building on November 18, 2002.
As heavy thunderstorms moved through the Texoma area, a lightning bolt carrying a positive electrical charge (measured at 386 kA, accompanied by a thunderclap that was heard up to away from the studio) struck KTEN's High Point Circle studios at 11:54 p.m. on March 23, 2013. The strike caused significant damage to the station's master control equipment and playback servers, displaced panels from some of the equipment racks, and tossed the motor from the station's tower camera into the roof of the studio building; a second lightning strike disabled KTEN's microwave relay transmitter. The station restored its direct-to-cable feeds for its NBC, ABC and CW channels on the evening of March 24, albeit with syndicated programming substituting regular newscasts (initial plans were to resume its newscasts on March 24, which were postponed following the discovery of additional equipment damage; pre-recorded newscasts were posted on the station's website for the next week). Repairs to and replacement of the damaged production equipment were completed by April 1, at which point the station resumed over-the-air transmissions of all three channels at full power.
Subchannel history
KTEN-DT2
KTEN-DT2, branded on-air as Texoma CW, is the CW+-affiliated second digital subchannel of KTEN, broadcasting in high definition on UHF digital channel 26.2 (virtual channel 10.2 via PSIP). All programming on KTEN-DT2 is received through The CW's programming feed for smaller media markets, The CW Plus, which provides a set schedule of syndicated programming acquired by The CW for broadcast during time periods outside of the network's regular programming hours; however, Lockwood Broadcast Group handles local advertising and promotional services for the subchannel. On cable and satellite, KTEN-DT2 is available in standard definition on Cable One channel 36 in Ada, Ardmore and Sherman; TV Cable of Grayson East channel 18 in Denison; and DirecTV channel 26 throughout the Sheman-Ada market.
KTEN-DT2's history traces back to the September 21, 1998 launch of The WB 100+ Station Group, a national service that was created to expand coverage of The WB primarily via local origination channels managed by cable providers to smaller metropolitan and micropolitan areas with a Nielsen Media Research market ranking above #100. On that date, Cable One launched "KSHD" (an unofficial callsign that was assigned by the provider, in reference to its Sherman–Denison service area, as it was a cable-exclusive outlet not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission); Cable One originally handled the cable-only WB 100+ charter outlet's operations and promotions, and also handled distribution of the channel to other cable systems within the market (such as Denison-based TV Grayson Cable East). Prior to the launch of "KSHD," viewers in the Sherman–Ada market received WB programming via the cable-satellite feed of Chicago affiliate WGN-TV from the network's launch in January 1995 until Tribune Broadcasting ceased the superstation's national distribution of WB programming in October 1999, or over-the-air through the network's Dallas-based affiliates (KXTX-TV from January to July 1995, then KDAF afterward) on the Texas side of the market or (beginning in January 1998) through Oklahoma City affiliate KOCB in the market's northernmost counties within Oklahoma.
On January 24, 2006, the respective parent companies of UPN and The WB, CBS Corporation and the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, announced that they would dissolve the two networks to create The CW Television Network, a joint venture between the two media companies that initially featured programs from its two predecessor networks as well as new series specifically produced for The CW. Subsequently, on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of MyNetworkTV, a network operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television that was created to primarily to provide network programming to UPN and WB stations that The CW decided against affiliating based on their local viewership standing in comparison to the outlet that The CW ultimately chose as its charter outlets, giving these stations another option besides converting to a general entertainment independent format.
On April 3, in a joint announcement by the network and Lockwood Broadcast Group, KTEN was confirmed as The CW's charter affiliate for the Sherman-Ada market (channel 10 was the only station out of the three that Lockwood contracted to become CW charter outlets through a deal announced on April 4—the others being WUPV in Richmond, Virginia in WHDF in Huntsville, Alabama, both of which had been UPN affiliates—that chose to carry the network as a subchannel-only affiliation). Lockwood subsequently assumed the operations of "KSHD," which was expected to take over the CW affiliation; it subsequently decided to launch a digital subchannel on KTEN virtual channel 10.2 to provide The CW's programming to Texoma area viewers who do not subscribe to cable television. KTEN-DT2 became an affiliate of The CW through its national feed for small markets, The CW Plus, when the network debuted on September 18, 2006 (two weeks beforehand, the MyNetworkTV affiliation went to the second digital subchannel of KXII, which originally served as a UPN affiliate from February to September 2, 2006).
In January 2017, KTEN-DT2 upgraded its resolution format from 480i standard definition to 720p high definition, allowing the subchannel to begin offering CW network programming in HD (the 720p resolution is standard among subchannel-based CW Plus affiliates due to technical considerations for stations in which the CW Plus broadcast affiliate also maintains a primary channel affiliation, as well as an additional subchannel-only affiliation in some cases, with one of the other major broadcast networks). The HD feed is not currently available on Cable One, TV Cable of Grayson East or other providers in the market.
KTEN-DT3
KTEN-DT3, branded alternatingly as ABC Texoma and as ABC 10, is the ABC-affiliated third digital subchannel of KTEN, broadcasting in high definition on UHF digital channel 26.3 (virtual channel 10.3 via PSIP). On cable and satellite, the subchannel is available in standard definition on Cable One channel 37 (in standard definition) and digital channel 1037 (in high definition) in Ada, Ardmore and Sherman; TV Cable of Grayson East channel 61 in Denison; and DirecTV channel 9 (in standard and high definition) throughout the Sherman–Ada market.
KTEN launched a tertiary digital subchannel on virtual channel 10.3 on September 18, 2006, which originally operated as a 24-hour simulcast of the station's Doppler radar system (then branded as "SkyAlert 10 TrueView Doppler 10/4"), which was accompanied by an audio simulcast of Ardmore-based NOAA Weather Radio station KXI57. Other programming carried on the subchannel during this period included a limited amount of paid programming, educational programs that it aired on Saturday mornings to fulfill Children's Television Act requirements, and occasional sports telecasts from Raycom Sports' SEC Network. On April 4, 2010, Lockwood Broadcast Group reached a long-term agreement with the Disney-ABC Television Group to provide ABC network programming over its DT3 subchannel over KTEN-DT3, a transaction that would mark the return of an in-market ABC station in Ada-Sherman after a twelve-year absence.
After KTEN terminated its affiliation contract with ABC in September 1998, because the market did not have enough commercial television stations to support exclusive affiliations with all four major broadcast networks, viewers in the Ada–Sherman television market were only able to receive ABC programming through local cable providers, by way of out-of-market affiliates such as WFAA in Dallas-Fort Worth and KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City (the ABC station that was available on the local cable provider varied depending on the subscriber's geographic location within the market: WFAA, which maintains marginal to absent over-the-air coverage, even with amplified outdoor antennas, north of a line from Muenster to Whitewright, Texas, was mainly carried in far south-central Oklahoma and north-central Texas from Ardmore southward, while KOCO was carried in most of south-central Oklahoma's northernmost counties from Ada southward to Ardmore). Lockwood helped finance the infrastructure needed for KTEN's ABC subchannel (including costs to construct an extension to the High Point Circle facility that would house a secondary studio for KTEN-DT3's newscasts) through a grant from the Denison Development Alliance, a local chamber organization that advocates for business development in the Denison area, along with investments made by Lockwood management.
KTEN-DT3 converted into an ABC affiliate at 5:00 a.m. on May 9, 2010. With the conversion into a major network affiliate, the subchannel – which became branded as "ABC Texoma" – adopted a general entertainment programming format that primarily features a mix of first-run syndicated talk shows, game shows and newsmagazines, with infomercials and other paid programming filling much of KTEN-DT3's weekend schedule outside of local newscasts and ABC network programs. The subchannel was initially available only on Cable One's Sherman, Ada and Ardmore systems as well as other cable providers within the market (including Allegiance Communications, Communicom's Durant system, TV Cable of Grayson County and Suddenlink Communications); KTEN-DT3 was added by Dish Network on May 26, 2010, followed by its addition to DirecTV in June of that year.
Programming
Network and syndicated programming
KTEN clears the entire NBC network schedule, albeit with some of the network's programs airing out of pattern. The station airs the soap opera Days of Our Lives "live" from the network feed at 12:00 p.m. (most NBC stations carry the programs one to two hours later). It also delays NBC's weekday overnight lineup by one hour, opting instead to air syndicated programming in the hour after Last Call with Carson Daly, while the overnight block's weekend schedule is delayed by between 2½ and three hours depending on the night for the same reason. Syndicated programs broadcast on KTEN include The Doctors, Judge Judy, Dr. Phil, The Good Dish and Wheel of Fortune.
KTEN-DT2 carries the entire CW network schedule, although it preempts a half-hour of syndicated programming carried by the CW Plus source feed (usually consisting of off-network sitcoms) each night in order to carry a 9:00 p.m. newscast produced by its parent station. Syndicated programs broadcast by KTEN-DT2 via the CW Plus feed include Schitt's Creek, Family Guy, Highway Thru Hell, Divorce Court, The Liquidator, Bob's Burgers, black-ish, Rules of Engagement, The Steve Wilkos Show, The Goldbergs, Judge Jerry and Maury.
KTEN-DT3 clears the entire ABC network schedule, although it airs the Weekend Adventure block and This Week one hour earlier than their respective recommended time slots on both Saturdays and Sundays (transmitting them live under the network's Eastern Time Zone scheduling for both the Saturday morning E/I block and Sunday morning talk show). Syndicated programs broadcast on KTEN-DT2 include The Drew Barrymore Show, Family Feud, Jeopardy!, The Wendy Williams Show, Inside Edition, and Rachael Ray.
Sports programming
Since 1994, when the station acquired a part-time affiliation with Fox, KTEN has served as the official television partner of the Dallas Cowboys. By way of the team's television production unit, channel 10 holds local broadcast rights to various team-related programs that air during the regular season (including the Cowboys Postgame Show, Special Edition with Jerry Jones and the head coach's weekly analysis program The Jason Garrett Show, along with specials such as the Making of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Calendar and postseason team reviews) as well as preseason games that are not televised nationally on broadcast or cable television. The rights to most of the team-produced broadcasts, particularly pertaining to Cowboys preseason games, would migrate to KTEN-DT3 in September 2010.
KTEN also carries certain regular season games in which the Cowboys are a participant over its main channel via NBC's contractual rights to the Sunday Night Football package, consisting of both games involving the team's NFC opponents and interconference games against teams in the American Football Conference. Most regular season Cowboys game telecasts air on KXII-DT3, through Fox's broadcast rights to the National Football Conference, with some interconference games involving AFC opponents airing on KXII's main channel through CBS' contractual rights to the NFL and through Fox's contractual rights to the Thursday Night Football package.
News operation
, KTEN presently broadcasts 27 hours of locally produced newscasts each week for its main channel (with five hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, the station produces 3½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week for KTEN-DT2 (with a half-hour each on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays), and 17 hours of newscasts each week for KTEN-DT3 (with three hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). KTEN-DT3 also airs live newscasts normally seen on channel 10.1 in the event that a sporting event or other special programming delays newscasts seen on the main channel; the newscasts will then also be recorded to be rebroadcast on KTEN after the event. Channel 10 may also simulcast long-form severe weather coverage on KTEN-DT3 in the event that a tornado warning is issued for any county in its viewing area of south-central Oklahoma and far north-central Texas. The station does not produce weather inserts – live or pre-recorded – during the weekend editions of NBC's Today, instead running the program's placeholder national weather map and ancillary story segments during the time normally allocated by the program for affiliates to air local news and weather inserts.
During the 1970s, KTEN acquired a remote newsgathering unit to provide coverage of news events throughout the viewing area. In the mid-1980s, KTEN took advantage of newly implemented FCC rules that permitted translator stations to provide localized content for their individual area of service. In 1985, the station opened a small studio facility and news bureau for its Paris, Texas translator K08KK, from which KTEN began producing a brief news and weather segment that would air on the repeater during channel 10's 10:00 p.m. newscast. This insert was discontinued by the station in the late 1980s due to a lack of advertiser support. At the time the station opened the Merrick Drive facility in Ardmore in 1985, KTEN used the facility primarily to operate a bureau to gather news content for Carter County and surrounding areas on the Oklahoma side of the market; the station hired two full-time reporters and photographers from the Ardmore Energy Center (KTEN also maintains a satellite sales office within the building). Prior to becoming the station's main studio complex by the early 1990s, the Katy Depot facility in Denison initially also served as a bureau for Grayson County and surrounding areas of north-central Texas, also maintaining two reporters and a photographer as well as a satellite sales office.
In November 2005, KTEN began utilizing "TrueView Doppler 10/4" (later renamed "First Alert True View Radar" in 2012), a Doppler radar system that utilizes live VIPIR data from radars operated by National Weather Service radar sites out of Oklahoma City and Frederick, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana for use by station meteorologists for weather segments within its newscasts and for severe weather cut-ins (KTEN does not operate a radar site within proximity to its studios). The radar utilizes a radar beam wavelength that, because each of the sites used provides overlapping coverage of the station's viewing area, is less prone to attenuation interference from precipitation located near each of the sites in comparison to shorter wavelength radars.
One month after the subchannel launched as a CW affiliate, on October 25, 2006, KTEN began producing a half-hour prime time newscast at 9:00 p.m. for KTEN-DT2, under the title Texoma CW News at 9:00. The program—which was the first local prime time news program to debut in the Ada–Sherman market – uses the same anchor staff as that employed for the evening newscasts on KTEN's main channel. Texoma CW News at 9:00 would eventually gain a competitor in September 2009, when CBS affiliate KXII began producing a five-minute-long news and weather segment in that timeslot for its Fox-affiliated DT3 subchannel (which originally aired only on Monday through Friday evenings, before expanding into a half-hour, seven-night-a-week broadcast on August 26, 2011). On July 30, 2008, the station introduced "KTEN Weather Call," a subscription telephone notification service that utilizes the National Weather Service's Storm-Based Warnings to send an automated warning message recorded by KTEN meteorologists—and, if a user prefers to receive it, an email or text message—to the user's address if their location within the warning area.
The station launched additional newscasts for KTEN-DT3 upon its May 9, 2010 conversion into an ABC affiliate. Initially, the subchannel carried simulcasts of the final 90 minutes of its weekday morning newscast and its nightly 5:00 p.m. newscasts, along with separate weekday late-afternoon and nightly 10:00 p.m. newscasts produced for KTEN-DT3, under the brand ABC Texoma News (later retitled ABC 10 First News in September 2015); KTEN extended production of the "ABC Texoma" newscasts to include the weekday morning and weekend 5:30 p.m. newscasts. The "ABC Texoma" newscasts are produced from a secondary news set at KTEN's High Point Circle studios, and incorporates national news segments from the ABC News One affiliate video service along with content from CNN Newsource incorporated into newscasts seen on the station's NBC and CW channels. Weekend evening newscasts seen on KTEN-DT1 and KTEN-DT3 can be delayed or preempted on either or both channels in the event that network programming (most commonly, sporting events like ABC Saturday Night Football games that air on KTEN-DT3 during the college football season) overrun into their timeslots. In September 2011, KTEN extended its 5:00 p.m. newscast to Saturday and Sunday evenings; until that time, weekend news programming on KTEN's main channel was limited to the existing 10:00 p.m. broadcast. On September 12, 2011, KTEN launched an hour-long newscast at 4:00 for KTEN-DT3 (the program was originally slated to air on the station's main signal, before being moved to the ABC subchannel shortly before its debut).
On January 30, 2014, KTEN began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the second and last television station in the Ada-Sherman market to make the upgrade; the 9:00 p.m. newscast on KTEN-DT2 was not included in the upgrade as the subchannel transmitted in standard definition at the time. With the upgrade, the station also introduced a high-definition-ready set that was originally used by fellow NBC station KXAS-TV in Dallas–Fort Worth from 2010 until that station relocated from its longtime Broadcast Hill facility in Fort Worth to the then-new Studios at DFW in October 2013.
Notable former on-air staff
Ralph Baker Jr. – news anchor (deceased; formerly co-host of The Group and Chapman and Sump'n Else at WFAA in Dallas–Fort Worth)
Michael Jenkins – sports anchor (now sportscaster and host at NBC Sports Washington)
Julia Morales – reporter (now sports anchor and reporter for AT&T SportsNet Southwest and sideline reporter for the Houston Astros)
Whitney Reynolds – reporter (now local program host at WTTW in Chicago and contributor to iHeart Radio's The Weekly Show)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTEN began low-power test transmissions of its digital television signal in 2002. The station commenced full-power digital broadcasts on a regular basis on July 1, 2006, at which point the station began broadcasting its main feed in high definition over UHF digital channel 26; initially, the only HD programming content offered by KTEN consisted of NBC network programs. Final upgrades to the full-power signal were completed that summer, in preparation for the September launch of its CW-affiliated DT2 subchannel.
KTEN discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 26, using PSIP to display KTEN's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 10 on digital television receivers. The decision to delay KTEN's digital conversion was made to enable viewers that were not prepared for the transition to continue receiving information about severe thunderstorm events affecting the Texoma area during the spring 2009 severe weather season, most notably on February 10, 2009, when the station provided extensive live coverage of an EF4 tornado that killed eight people in Lone Grove.
References
External links
- KTEN official website
- KTEN-DT2 ("Texoma CW") website
- KTEN-DT3 ("ABC Texoma") website
Lockwood Broadcast Group
NBC network affiliates
TEN
Television stations in Texas
Television channels and stations established in 1954
1954 establishments in Oklahoma
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4031648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%20Stadium | Orlando Stadium | Orlando Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg, in Gauteng province in South Africa. It is the home venue for Orlando Pirates Football Club, a professional soccer team that plays in the Premier Soccer League.
Orlando Stadium has hosted MTN 8 Cup Final and a Nedbank Cup Final.
Today
It is currently used mostly for football matches, as the home stadium of Orlando Pirates FC of the Premier Soccer League, and was intended to be utilized, as a training field, for teams participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup after it was completely rebuilt and reopened on 22 November 2008. In addition to the stadium capacity of 36,761 people, there is an auditorium for 200 people, 120 hospitality suites, a gymnasium and a conference centre.
History
The stadium was originally built for the Johannesburg Bantu Football Association and it had a seating capacity of 24,000 and cost £37,500 to construct. It was opened by the Minister for Bantu development, MC de Wet Nel, and Ian Maltz who was then Mayor of Johannesburg on 2 May 1959.
Although intended for football the stadium has been used for concerts by the Jazz musicians Molombo and by the O'Jays. Boxing matches were also staged including the 1975 victory of Elijah 'Tap Tap' Makhatini over the world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith.
On 16 June 1976, thousands of black students marched to Orlando Stadium to protest at having to learn the Afrikaans language. It was intended to be a rally and although it was organised some of the students only joined the protest on the day. It was planned to be a peaceful protest by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council's (SSRC) Action Committee. The marchers got as far as their last meeting point when the police and tear gas arrived. The day ended in deaths and this was the start of the Soweto Uprising.
In 1978, the Orlando Pirates took on Phil Venter who had been the first White National Football Association player to play for a black side. He was soon joined by another white player Keith Broad.
In 1995, the stadium played host to the funeral of African National Congress stalwart, Joe Slovo, as well as that of Walter Sisulu in 2003 where Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Pakalitha Mosisili of Lesotho were among the mourners.
In 2011, the stadium hosted the funeral of Albertina Sisulu where Jacob Zuma, Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia were among the mourners, and also hosted the funeral of Winnie Mandela in 2018 where Cyril Ramaphosa; former presidents Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe, and Jacob Zuma; Hage Geingob of Namibia; Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville; Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana; and Naomi Campbell of Britain were amongst the mourners.
In 1994, South Africa became democratic. On the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, Nelson Mandela gave a speech at this stadium, where he committed the country to look after its children.
Redevelopment
From 2008 to 2010, the stadium was rebuilt with a steel frame and this increased the capacity to 36,761 at a cost of 280m Rand.
Other uses
The stadium hosted a Super 14 Rugby union semi-final in 2010, as well as the 2010 Super 14 Final, a week later. This was due to the Bulls' usual home ground Loftus Versfeld Stadium being unavailable, due to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Orlando Stadium was used as a training venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, it also hosted the FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert on 10 June 2010, featuring artists such as Hugh Masekela, the Parlotones, Freshlyground, the Soweto Gospel Choir, Alicia Keys, The Who, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, the Dave Matthews Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Justin Bieber, John Legend, the Black Eyed Peas, and Shakira.
References
External links
Stadium history
Stadium Management South Africa
Photos of Stadiums in South Africa at cafe.daum.net/stade
Soccer venues in South Africa
Rugby union stadiums in South Africa
Buildings and structures in Soweto
Orlando Pirates F.C.
Sports venues in Johannesburg |
4031651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Opali%C5%84ski%20%281581%E2%80%931637%29 | Jan Opaliński (1581–1637) | Jan Opaliński (1581–1637) of Łodzia coat of arms, son of Jan Opaliński (1546–1598) and Barbara z Ostroroga Lwowska, brother of Piotr Opaliński, was the head of Opaliński family in the 17th century. Voivode of Poznań since 1628, castellan of Kalisz since 1624, starost of Inowrocław, pious Catholic and supporter of Society of Jesus, he gathered much wealth.
1581 births
1637 deaths
Polish Roman Catholics
Jan 1581 |
4031659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAUZ-TV | KAUZ-TV | KAUZ-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving the western Texoma area as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by American Spirit Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Television, owner of Lawton, Oklahoma–licensed ABC affiliate KSWO-TV (channel 7), for the provision of certain services. KAUZ-TV's studios and transmitter are located near Seymour Highway (US 277) and West Wenonah Boulevard in western Wichita Falls.
The station also operates a translator station, K29FR-D in Quanah, Texas, to relay its programming to areas of western north Texas and extreme southwestern Oklahoma that are located outside its primary signal coverage area.
History
Early history
The VHF channel 6 allocation was contested between two groups, both of which owned radio stations in the market, that competed for approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be the holder of the construction permit to build and license to operate a new television station on the second commercial VHF allocation to be assigned to the Wichita Falls–Lawton market. Texoma Broadcasting Co.—a consortium associated with Wichita Falls Times owner Times Publishing Co. and then-owner of local radio station KTRN (AM 1290, now KWFS), led by Rhea Howard, Boyd Kelley, Walter Cline, Houston Harte and Eva Mae Hanks—filed the initial permit application for the VHF channel 6 allocation on July 11, 1952.
Rowley-Brown Broadcasting—a group founded in December 1947 by Edward H. Rowley (president of Rowley United Theatres Inc.), Kenyon Brown (owner of media advertising consulting firm Kenyon Brown Inc.) and H.J. Griffith, with Rowley United Theaters Vice President John H. Rowley and Agnes D. Rowley acting as fellow minority shareholders at the time of their submission—filed a separate license application for channel 6 on July 18, 1952. Rowley-Brown also owned the city's oldest radio station, KWFT (AM 620, now KTNO in Dallas–Fort Worth). The FCC awarded the license to Rowley-Brown on January 6, 1953, and Rowley-Brown sought and was granted the call letters KWFT-TV, after the radio station.
KWFT-TV first signed on the air on March 1, 1953; it was the first television station to sign on in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market, debuting one week before the March 8 sign-on of ABC affiliate KSWO-TV (channel 7) in Lawton, and one month prior to the April 12 sign-on of its fellow Wichita Falls-based rival, NBC affiliate KFDX-TV (channel 3). The station has been a primary CBS affiliate since it signed on, owing to KWFT radio's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network. Initially, KWFT-TV held a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network, carrying select programs from the network until it ceased operations in August 1956; during the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
On December 9, 1955, Rowley-Brown sold KWFT-TV to KSYD-TV Inc.—a consortium led by Sydney A. Grayson and Nat Levine, then-owners of Wichita Falls radio station KSYD (990 AM, now Farmersville-licensed KFCD), which ironically was co-owned with KFDX-TV under prior ownership two years earlier—for $75,000 plus $73,366.40 allocated for color and transmission equipment not yet in use; concurrently, Brown acquired John H. and E. H. Rowley's respective interests in KWFT radio. The sale was approved on January 11, 1956, at which time channel 6's call letters were changed to KSYD-TV. Like its radio sister, it took its calls from its parent company's principal owner. On December 1, 1962, Grayson sold the television station to Mid-New York Broadcasting—a company owned by Albany, New York businessman Paul F. Harron, which then owned primary NBC/secondary ABC affiliate WKTV in Utica, New York (now solely an NBC affiliate on its primary feed) and the World Broadcasting System radio service—for $2.35 million; the sale received regulatory approval 3½ months later on March 13, 1963. On July 31 of that year, the station changed its call letters to KAUZ-TV, which were chosen as part of a contest held by the Harron group that was open to media agency and advertiser personnel. (The calls were submitted by H. Wendell Eastling, a media director for Minneapolis-based Knox-Reeves Advertising, who won the grand prize of an MG sports car and a trip for two to Wichita Falls.)
In February 1966, KAUZ became the first television station in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in color, making the transition just a few months after CBS began converting most of its network programming content from black-and-white to color. KFDX and KSWO followed in upgraded production of their respective newscasts to the color format in 1967. Also in 1967, KAUZ-TV was one of several stations nationwide to broadcast The Las Vegas Show, a short-lived late night program from the ill-fated Overmyer Network that ran for a few weeks. On November 3, 1967, Mid-New York Broadcasting sold KAUZ-TV to Bass Brothers Telecasters—led by investor/philanthropist Perry R. Bass, then-owner of fellow CBS affiliate KFDA-TV in Amarillo and satellites KFDW-TV (now KVIH-TV, a satellite of Amarillo ABC affiliate KVII-TV) in Clovis, New Mexico and KFDO-TV (now defunct) in Sayre, Oklahoma, and 25% owner of KAAR-TV (now NBC owned-and-operated station KNSD) in San Diego—for $3.1 million; the sale was approved by the FCC on April 12 of that year.
In July 1970, two men who were hired to paint the mast on the station's transmitter tower—located on the premises of the KAUZ studio complex, which is said to be coordinated at one of the highest points within the city of Wichita Falls—lost their balance on the apparatus they were standing and fell several hundred feet to the ground; one man was killed, while another was seriously injured. In the late winter of early 1974, Bass Brothers Telecasters sold the station to Forward Communications—a locally based company (doing business as Wichita Falls Telecasters II) owned by local beer distributor Ray Clymer and White Fuel Corp. executive W. Erle White—for $4.25 million; the sale was approved by the FCC on September 19.
On July 22, 1983, Wichita Falls Telecasters II sold KAUZ-TV to Adams Communications (owned by Minneapolis-based investment banker Steve Adams) for $10.925 million; the sale was approved on January 5, 1984. Adams sold KAUZ, along with seven of its other television stations—WHOI in Peoria, Illinois, WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts, WILX-TV in Lansing, KOSA-TV in Midland, WTRF-TV in Wheeling, West Virginia, WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin, and WSAW-TV in Wausau, Wisconsin—to Boca Raton, Florida-based Brissette Broadcasting (owned by media executive Paul Brissette) for $257 million in late 1991; the sale, approved by the FCC on December 24 of that year, was completed in February 1992. In September 1995, Brissette sold KAUZ and its seven other television stations to Benedek Broadcasting for $270 million; the sale was finalized on June 7, 1996. The station signed off on a nightly basis until September 1998, when KAUZ-TV began maintaining a 24-hour programming schedule on Sunday through Thursday nights, initially filling overnight time periods following the CBS late night lineup with a mix of syndicated programs and the network's overnight newscast, Up to the Minute (reducing KAUZ's off-hours to late Friday night/early Saturday mornings and late Saturday night/early Sunday mornings); channel 6 expanded its 24-hour schedule to weekends in September 2001.
On April 2, 2002, Benedek—which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 22—announced it would sell off its 22 television stations, most of which were based in the Midwestern and Western United States, to Albany, Georgia-based Gray Communications Systems (subsequently renamed Gray Television that June) for $500 million. The purchase would have made KAUZ a sister station to fellow CBS affiliate KXII in the nearby Sherman–Ada market, which Gray had purchased from KXII Broadcasters, Inc. in April 1999. Benedek subsequently agreed to sell KAUZ to Chelsey Broadcasting in June 2002; the sale, completed on October 21, 2002, was part of a $30 million piecemeal group acquisition by Chelsey (a major creditor of Benedek) that also involved seven of KAUZ's sister stations (WHOI, WYTV in Youngstown, Ohio, KDLH-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, KMIZ-TV in Columbia, Missouri, KGWN-TV in Cheyenne, Wyoming, KGWC-TV in Casper, Wyoming and KHQA-TV in Quincy, Illinois) that Gray had chosen not to acquire. In September 2003, Chelsey agreed to sell KAUZ to Hoak Media for $8.2 million.
JSA with KAUZ-TV
On July 31, 2009, Lawton-based Drewry Communications—then-owner of KSWO-TV—purchased the non-license assets of KAUZ from Hoak Media and assumed some operational responsibilities for KAUZ under joint sales and shared services agreements. The agreement, which took effect on August 3, allowed KSWO-TV to provide advertising and promotional services for KAUZ, while Hoak would retain responsibilities over channel 6's programming (including news operations), master control operations and production services.
The JSA/SSA arrangement resulted in all five of the market's major commercial television stations—as well as the affiliates of all six of the largest English-language networks—being placed under the operational control of two entities, as Nexstar Media Group already owns KFDX-TV, and operates Fox affiliate KJTL (channel 18) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KJBO-LP (channel 35) through a shared services agreement with the owner of the latter two stations, Mission Broadcasting. However, unlike the SSA formed in 1999 between KFDX and KJTL when the latter was purchased by Mission, the operations of KAUZ remained largely autonomous from those of KSWO; both stations maintain separate studio facilities (KSWO continues to operate from its longtime facility on 60th Street in southeastern Lawton, more than a one-hour drive from KAUZ's Seymour Highway facility), news departments and non-management staff. However, KAUZ-TV laid off four staffers following the formation of the JSA/SSA—general manager Mike deLier, news director Dan Garcia, sales manager Randy Stone and news photographer Jim Allen—with those positions being assumed by existing KSWO-TV staff.
In January 2012, KAUZ-TV became the third television station in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market to being carrying syndicated programming in high definition. The switch was part of a series of upgrades to KSWO and KAUZ's shared master control facility at the former's Lawton studio, which also allowed the seamless insertion of on-screen severe weather alert maps, news and school/event closing tickers, and Emergency Alert System tests during network and syndicated programming on both stations without downgrading HD content to standard definition.
In February 2014, Hoak reached an agreement to sell KAUZ's license assets to KAUZ Media, Inc., a company controlled by Bill W. Burgess, Jr.; the joint sales and shared services agreements with KSWO were to continue following the license transfer. The maneuver occurred after Hoak had sold its other television properties to Gray Television in November 2013.
Sale to American Spirit Media
On August 5, 2015, Hoak Media requested to the FCC to dismiss the sale of the KAUZ license to KAUZ Media as a result of reports that Montgomery, Alabama–based Raycom Media was nearing an agreement to purchase Drewry Communications. On August 10, Raycom was announced that it would purchase Drewry Communications' eight television stations for $160 million; as part of the deal, American Spirit Media—a partner company that largely owns stations under shared services agreements with Raycom in markets where the latter also owns a station – would purchase the license of and other assets belonging to KAUZ-TV from Hoak Media.
While KSWO and KAUZ would remain jointly operated, the existing joint sales agreement between KSWO and KAUZ would be terminated upon the sale's closure due to an FCC rule implemented that year, which prohibited new and existing agreements involving the sale of 15% or more of advertising time by one station to a competing junior partner station in the JSA, a rulemaking that would count such agreements as a duopoly in violation with the agency's ownership rules (the Wichita Falls–Lawton market has only four full-power television stations, four fewer than that allowed to legally form a duopoly, with the remaining stations consisting of low-power outlets). Upon the JSA's termination, Raycom entered into a shared services agreement with KAUZ, under which KSWO would handle news production, administrative and production operations, and provide equipment and building space for that station; despite this, KAUZ remains based out of Wichita Falls and continues to largely operate independently of channel 7.
Transfer of SSA to Gray Television
On June 25, 2018, Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including KSWO, and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella, in a cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion (in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom). Neither company initially disclosed whether the JSA/SSA between KAUZ-TV and KSWO will be retained following the completion of the sale; however should it be retained, it will result in KSWO/KAUZ becoming sister stations to KXII, KOSA-TV (which had been sold by Benedek in 2000 and acquired by Gray in 2015), and KWTX-TV in Waco as well as Bryan semi-satellite KBTX-TV, as well as reuniting it with most of its other former Benedek and Hoak sister stations, sold to Gray in 2002 and 2014, respectively. (Two other former Drewry stations acquired by Raycom in 2015, ABC affiliate KXXV in Waco and NBC affiliate KWES-TV in Midland, Texas, were sold to the E. W. Scripps Company and Tegna Inc. respectively, to comply with FCC ownership rules prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market.) The sale was approved on December 20, and was completed on January 2, 2019.
KAUZ-DT2
KAUZ-DT2 (branded as "The CW Texoma") is the CW-affiliated second digital subchannel of KAUZ-TV, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 6.2. All programming on KAUZ-DT2 is received through The CW's programming feed for smaller media markets, The CW Plus, which provides a set schedule of syndicated programming acquired by The CW during time periods without network programs; however, American Spirit Media handles local advertising and promotional services for the subchannel.
History
KAUZ-DT2's history traces back to the September 21, 1998, launch of a cable-only affiliate of The WB that was originally managed and promoted by Time Warner Cable (TWC), alongside the launch of The WB 100+ Station Group, a national service that was created to expand coverage of The WB via primarily local origination channels managed by cable providers to smaller areas with a Nielsen Media Research market ranking above #100. The channel – which was branded on-air as "KWB," an unofficial callsign assigned by TWC as it was a cable-exclusive outlet not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (in addition to being carried on Time Warner Cable's Wichita Falls system, the channel was carried on other cable systems within the market, including Fidelity Communications in Lawton). Before the launch of "KWB", viewers in the Lawton–Wichita Falls market received WB network programming via the superstation feed of Chicago affiliate WGN-TV beginning at the network's January 1995 launch; residents in the northern portions of the market began receiving the network over-the-air through Oklahoma City affiliate KOCB after it converted into a WB affiliate in January 1998.
On January 24, 2006, the respective parent companies of UPN and The WB, CBS Corporation and the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, announced that they would dissolve the two networks to create The CW Television Network, a joint venture between the two media companies that initially featured programs from its two predecessor networks as well as new series specifically produced for The CW. Subsequently, on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of MyNetworkTV, a network operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television that was created to primarily to provide network programming to UPN and WB stations that The CW decided against affiliating based on their local viewership standing in comparison to the outlet that The CW ultimately chose as its charter outlets, giving these stations another option besides converting to a general entertainment independent format.
On April 10, in a joint announcement by the network and Hoak Media, KAUZ-TV was confirmed as The CW's charter affiliate for the Wichita Falls-Lawton market; Hoak Media subsequently assumed the operations of "KWB," which was expected to take over the CW affiliation, and converted the channel to an over-the-air digital feed on KAUZ-DT 6.2 to provide The CW's programming to Wichita Falls–Lawton area viewers who do not subscribe to cable television; KAUZ-DT2 became an affiliate of the network's small-market feed, The CW Plus, when the network debuted on September 18, 2006.
KAUZ subsequently began producing a half-hour prime time newscast at 9:00 p.m. for KAUZ-DT2, which aired only on Monday through Friday nights, under the title NewsChannel 6 at 9:00. The KAUZ-produced program would gain additional prime-time news competitors beginning with the launch of a half-hour prime time newscast in that timeslot on KJTL (channel 18), a program that NBC-affiliated sister station KFDX-TV began producing for the Fox affiliate in September 2007 after cancelling a similar production seven years earlier, and later on September 14, 2010, when ABC affiliate KSWO-TV began producing a half-hour newscast for its Live Well Network-affiliated subchannel on virtual channel 7.2 (which itself was cancelled on December 31, 2014, as a result of KSWO-DT2 [now a MeTV affiliate] assuming the This TV affiliation). KAUZ discontinued its 9:00 newscast following the July 18, 2017 edition, with off-network syndicated sitcoms carried from The CW Plus feed replacing it. In early 2015, KAUZ upgraded the "Texoma CW" subchannel to 720p high definition, providing over-the-air access to HD content from The CW in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market for the first time; the prime time newscast was not upgraded to HD until January 2016.
Programming
KAUZ clears the entire CBS network schedule, with one exception. Due to its half-hour Saturday morning newscast, the CBS Dream Team block airs a half-hour later than on most CBS affiliates, and also airs over two days (the first 2½ hours of the block air on Saturdays and the remaining half-hour airs on Sunday mornings). Excluding those carried on KAUZ-DT2 via The CW Plus, syndicated programs broadcast on KAUZ-TV include Family Feud, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune and Pawn Stars.
Among the local programs aired by KAUZ in previous years were Kauzey's Korner (later titled Kauzmo's Kolorful Kartoons), a long-running weekday afternoon children's program that aired on channel 6 from 1963 to 1967, whose titular host "Kauzmo" (played by Ronald "Cosmo" Gresham, an outspoken political activist, two-time Hawaii Big Island mayoral candidate and one-time County Council candidate) was named for the station's call letters. One episode of the series is reported to have introduced country singer Willie Nelson to television viewers for the first time. After Gresham relocated to Hawaii years later, the character of "Kauzmo" would later become known as "Cosmo", when he hosted a public access program on Jones Spacelink/Hawaiian Cablevision of Hilo titled "Cosmic Express" (named after his Cosmic Express newsletter), which featured news, political commentary, law study, spirituality, music (often played by Cosmo himself on flute or other instruments he made himself) and guest interviews (the Dalai Lama was among that program's notable guests).
From 1979 to 1982, KAUZ served as the local rightsholder for the syndicated news and features program PM Magazine, which included both national inserts produced by program distributor Group W and local inserts produced by KAUZ (independent of the news department); during its tenure on the station, PM aired each weeknight at 6:30 p.m. following the station's 6:00 p.m. newscast.
Past program preemptions and deferrals
Between September 1985 and August 1993, KAUZ-TV was one of several CBS stations to air the network's late night lineup – respectively consisting of the CBS Late Movie / CBS Late Night block, the short-lived Pat Sajak Show, and finally, the Crimetime After Primetime block during that period – a half-hour later in order to air syndicated programming following its 10:00 p.m. newscast. From 1982 to 1998, the station preempted CBS's overnight newscasts – CBS News Nightwatch and, later, Up to the Minute – as the station signed off each night at 1:00 a.m.; Up to the Minute would begin to be cleared by the station full-in September 1998, when KAUZ adopted a 24-hour-a-day programming schedule. From September 1992 to September 1993, KAUZ also preempted the CBS Morning News in order to accommodate an expanded hour-long edition of its weekday morning news and agriculture program, Country Morning (which eventually evolved into a conventionally formatted newscast, now titled Newschannel 6 This Morning, after co-hosts and now-former KWFS [1290 AM] radio hosts Mike Campbell and Joe Tom White – now hosts of KFDX's Texoma Country Morning – left the station in December 1993) as well as a simulcast of Headline News.
From 1994 until June 24, 2018, the station also aired both CBS News Sunday Morning and Face the Nation on a one-hour delay on Sundays (following a similar scheduling structure for both programs as that implemented by fellow CBS affiliates KOTV-DT in Tulsa and KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas–Joplin, Missouri); as part of a reorganization of the station's Sunday morning lineup, KAUZ moved both programs to their network-recommended slots (at 8:00 and 9:30 a.m., from their prior 9:00 and 10:30 a.m. slots) on July 1, 2018.
News operation
, KAUZ presently broadcasts 23 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours on weekdays, and 1½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the second-highest local newscast output among the Wichita Falls-Lawton market's broadcast television stations, with its news total being beaten by three hours by ABC affiliate KSWO-TV and beating NBC affiliate KFDX-TV's weekly news total by one hour.
News department history
A longtime fixture of the station's 12:00 p.m. newscast during the 1960s and early 1970s was Donna's Notebook, an interview segment hosted by Donna Colburn that discussed local events and issues. An interview segment similar to Donna's Notebook, which is used mostly to promote local and area events, remains an integral part of KAUZ's noon newscast to this day. Also featured within the noon newscast during that same period was a five-minute televised insert of Paul Harvey News and Comments, a feature that was syndicated to television stations throughout the United States. Lynn Walker, who served as anchor and news director at KAUZ from 1972 to 1986 and again from 1999 to 2003, is among the longest-tenured news anchors in the Wichita Falls-Lawton television market, with his broadcast journalism career in the market also having included a stint at KSWO-TV from 1996 to 1999 (Walker would later become the city editor at the Wichita Falls Times Record News).
During the late morning of April 3, 1964, a devastating tornado (later retroactively rated as an F5 on the Fujita Scale) swept across the northern portion of Wichita Falls and neighboring Sheppard Air Force Base. The event made history as it would become one of the first tornadoes ever to be shown on live television. KAUZ-TV interrupted regular programming that morning to provide a live tornado warning in which the image of the supercell thunderstorm was shown on the station's weather radar by then-meteorologist Ted Shaw. The station's weather staff received permission to relocate a large, heavy studio camera outside the Channel 6 studios on Seymour Highway, and pointed toward the tornado—which initially appeared as a large, rotating dust cloud—as it approached the northwest portion of Wichita Falls, with Shaw and reporter Dee Fletcher providing commentary, warning viewers of the approaching funnel, and cameraman Carl Nichols recording the footage. KAUZ's coverage of the tornadoes earned a "Best on the Scene News Coverage" award by the Texas Association of Broadcasters. The tornado, which had a peak width of , killed seven people and injured 111 others. Damage estimates exceeded $15 million and some 225 homes and businesses were destroyed on the north side of town and at Sheppard AFB.
In 1977, KAUZ became the first television station in the area to feature a mixed-gender anchor team on its newscasts (a trend which had steadily become commonplace on news-producing television stations in other media markets across the nation); that year, Walker was teamed up with co-anchor Kay Shannon on the 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. broadcasts, a move which served as the linchpin for the start of a nine-year tenure in which KAUZ-TV took first place in the local news ratings against rivals KFDX and KSWO. Longtime sports anchor Bill Jackson joined the team by early 1978, followed by the arrival of chief meteorologist Rich Segal that spring. The popular main anchor team would enjoy a long (by the standards of a small-market station) tenure of eight years until 1986 when Walker, Shannon and Jackson left KAUZ-TV; Rich Segal, meanwhile, would continue to head the station's weather department for another four years before he departed as well in 1990.
About 15 years after the F5 tornado that hit northwestern Wichita Falls, on April 10, 1979, an equally devastating F4 tornado hit the southwest side of the city. Rich Segal, who was chief meteorologist at KAUZ at the time, was on the air that afternoon and evening, providing complete coverage of the multiple supercell thunderstorms that spawned tornadoes across northwest Texas and southwestern Oklahoma (which included strong tornadoes that hit areas such as Vernon and Lockett, Texas, and Lawton, Oklahoma); the station's coverage culminated with the opening of the 6:00 p.m. broadcast of Eyewitness News that evening as a multiple-vortex tornado had reached the southwest corner of the city and began its path of destruction across southern Wichita Falls. About less than five minutes into the newscast, KAUZ-TV and several other television and radio stations in the Wichita Falls area were knocked off the air due to power outages resulting from the damaging storms. The station sent camera crews to gather footage of the storm's aftermath, which it distributed to other television stations around the country, CBS News and the other major networks. The twister that hit Wichita Falls killed 42 people and injured more than 1,700, along a , path; in addition to the terrible human costs, 3,100 homes were destroyed, and an estimated 20,000 people were left homeless, with total damage estimates in Wichita Falls running around $400 million. A year later, Channel 6 broadcast a half-hour documentary about the 1979 tornado, Coming Back, chronicling the events of April 10 that led up to the Wichita Falls storm, the destruction and the tornado's aftermath (based upon the station's news footage taken during and after the storm) as well as the progress of recovery efforts as of April 1980.
Among the Wichita Falls–Lawton market's local television news operations, KAUZ primarily competes for viewers living on the Texas side of the market with KFDX as its principal competitor there, while KSWO maintains a ratings stronghold on the Oklahoma side of the market. For the July 2008 ratings period, according to Nielsen Media Research, KAUZ was ranked last in all time slots (except at noon, where KAUZ's newscast in that slot was in second place to its only news competition in that timeslot, KFDX). KAUZ was third for the rest of day, with its 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. broadcasts (these trends continued in the November 2008 and November 2009 ratings period). For February 2010, the newly rebranded KAUZ saw a decline in its ratings, with the weekend evening newscasts, in particular, seeing its audience share numbers drop by nearly half. The morning newscast, NewsChannel 6 This Morning, continued to not place hashmarks (viewership too low to validly register a ratings point) in viewership in the diary book, while all of the evening broadcasts remained a distant third in the Lawton-Wichita Falls market.
In the 2010 ratings periods, including the February, May, July and November sweeps, Nielsen reported that viewership for KAUZ's newscasts continued to struggle in all time slots. The morning newscasts, in particular, continued in a distant third place behind those aired by competitors KFDX and KSWO; the May ratings also revealed that severe weather coverage was dominated by KSWO, with KAUZ experiencing low ratings for its storm coverage during tornado events that affected the area in early May 2010.
Chris Horgen, who assumed co-anchor duties of for the weeknight 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts in 2007, had previously served as the station's sports director for several years. Andy Austin, who previously served as the station's sports director during the 1990s, returned to that position at KAUZ in April 2007 after serving as sports information director for the past several years at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, and stayed at channel 6 until May 2008. Former weekend sports anchor Jermaine Ferrell assumed duties as sports director until early 2009, and then that position was vacant until Adam Ostrow was hired later in the year.
In June 2012, KAUZ began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the third and final station in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market to make the upgrade; the 9:00 p.m. newscast on KAUZ-DT2 was not included in the upgrade as the subchannel transmitted in standard definition at the time. For the 2012 calendar year, KAUZ remained a distant third place in the ratings for all time slots in each of the key sweeps periods. Part of the reason is believed to be the operational structure stemming from the JSA/SSA with usually dominant KSWO, which is always favored before KAUZ. This parallels the situation that occurred in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre market, where that market's NBC affiliate, WBRE-TV, all but dwarfed fellow CBS affiliate WYOU in the local news ratings to the point that WYOU suspended its newscasts entirely for three years beginning in 2009 (although KAUZ's decline had begun long before the commencement of the JSA/SSA arrangement with KSWO).
For most of the JSA/SSA's existence, KSWO and KAUZ retained fully separate local news programs, due to the stations' distance from one another and their focus on different portions of the Wichita Falls–Lawton market. The two stations began simulcasting local news for the first time on January 6, 2018, when KAUZ replaced its half-hour weekend morning newscast at 8:00 a.m. with the Texoma Weekend Morning News, a program produced out of KSWO's studios on 60th Street in southeastern Lawton that is simulcast on both stations and utilizes KSWO's existing weekend morning news staff (KSWO maintains a separate 6:30 a.m. newscast on Saturday and Sunday mornings, which carries the same title; KAUZ will begin simulcasting the Sunday edition of that broadcast on July 1, 2018, with the 8:00 a.m. simulcast being relegated to Saturdays).
Notable former on-air staff
Bob Barry Jr. – weekend sports anchor/reporter (1981–1982; later at KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, deceased)
Lorianne Crook – reporter (1980s; later co-host of Crook and Chase)
Megan Henderson – reporter (now anchor at KTLA in Los Angeles)
Steven Romo – anchor (2009–2010); now a correspondent and anchor with NBC News and MSNBC
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KAUZ-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on May 21, 2009. Then-owner Hoak Media had filed a request to the FCC that March (with approval being received for the hardship waiver on March 31, despite the fact that KAUZ did not meet the technical criteria to obtain it) to permit the shutdown of KAUZ's analog signal ahead of the federally determined transition date of June 12, in order to install its digital antenna on the tower mast that housed the station's analog transmitter. The station had been among ten stations throughout the U.S. that were granted waiver extensions to boost the coverage area of their digital signals three months prior to the grant of the hardship waiver, in order to allow signal testing by satellite providers to delay importation of any nearby CBS affiliates into the market for viewers who did not receive an adequate signal of KAUZ. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 6.
Prior to the digital transition, KAUZ's audio feed could be heard on radio receivers in Wichita Falls and surrounding areas on 87.7 FM, albeit transmitting at a slightly lower volume than other FM radio stations due to the modulation standards with the VHF-high band.
References
External links
– KAUZ-TV official website
http://newschannel6now.com/category/195843/the-cw-texoma – KAUZ-DT2 ("Texoma CW 6.2") website
1965 broadcasts of Newsreel 6, a news program that aired on KAUZ-TV from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Wichita Falls Tornado Coverage (1964, 2016) by KAUZ-TV from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Television stations in Texas
CBS network affiliates
The CW affiliates
Gray Television
Television channels and stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Texas
AUZ-TV
Ion Television affiliates |
4031662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM%20Pitje%20Stadium | HM Pitje Stadium | HM Pitje Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Mamelodi, a suburb of the City of Tshwane, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is set to be utilized as a training field for teams participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup after being renovated in 2009 and brought up to FIFA standards. Mamelodi Sundowns stopped using the stadium for its home games long before renovations. The Team management moved the team to
loftus versfeld. The previous owners tried by all means to detach the team to the people of Mamelodi by changing the team from Mamelodi Sundowns to just Sundowns.
In the past, it was the part-time home stadium of the Mamelodi Sundowns, who now play at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium.
The stadium was named after Hezekiel Mothibe Pitje, the first mayor of Mamelodi.
References
Soccer venues in South Africa
Multi-purpose stadiums in South Africa
Sports venues in Gauteng
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality |
4031676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Lens | Independent Lens | Independent Lens is a weekly television series airing on PBS featuring documentary films made by independent filmmakers. Past seasons of Independent Lens were hosted by Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Terrence Howard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker, and Stanley Tucci, who served two stints as host from 2012-2014.
The series began in 1999 and for three years aired 10 episodes each fall season. In 2002, PBS announced that in 2003 the series would relaunch with ITVS as the production company, under the leadership of Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen, and would expand to 29 primetime episodes a year. The 2019-20 season is regarded as the 18th season for the series.
Independent Lens has won six Primetime Emmy Awards and 20 films have won News & Documentary Emmy Awards. In 2012, "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" won for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; in 2007, A Lion in the House won for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking; and A Lion's Trail won in 2006 for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming. Three other films won for Best Documentary: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life in 2008, Be Good, Smile Pretty in 2004, and Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle in 2000. Four Independent Lens films won News & Documentary Emmys in 2017 alone: The Armor of Light; (T)error; Best of Enemies; and In Football We Trust. As well, seven Independent Lens films garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2006), The Weather Underground (2004), Waste Land (2010), Hell and Back Again (2011), How to Survive a Plague (2012), I Am Not Your Negro (2016), and Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018). Other awards conferred upon Independent Lens films include the George Foster Peabody Award, International Documentary Association Documentary Awards, Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, and Sundance Film Festival Awards.
Episodes
Audience Award
Independent Lens gives out an annual Audience Award. The TV viewing audience is invited to rate each episode of the series (through online voting), and an award is given to each season's winner. Winners of the Audience Award have included:
2003 Heart of the Sea
2004 Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
2005 On a Roll
2006 The Devil's Miner
2007 China Blue
2008 Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
2009 Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
2010 Mine
2011 Two Spirits
2012 Strong! and Have You Heard from Johannesburg?
2013 The Revisionaries
2014 Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
2015 Kumu Hina
2016 Trapped
2017 They Call Us Monsters
2018 Unrest
2019 Out of State
See also
POV
Wide Angle
References
External links
Independent Lens | PBS Web site
ITVS.org Independent Lens series page
Independent Lens blog
PBS original programming
2003 American television series debuts
2000s American documentary television series
2010s American documentary television series
Peabody Award-winning television programs
Documentary film series |
4031679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Schmidt | Alfred Schmidt | Alfred Schmidt may refer to:
Alfred Schmidt (architect) (1892-1965), German architect
Alfred Schmidt (artist) (1858–1938), Danish illustrator and painter
Alfred Schmidt (philosopher) (1931–2012), German philosopher and sociologist
Alfred Schmidt (footballer) (1935–2016), German football soccer player
Alfred Schmidt (water polo) (born 1957), Mexican Olympic water polo player
Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter) (1898–1972), Estonian weightlifter |
4031680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentallo%20and%20the%20Fixer | Mentallo and the Fixer | Mentallo and the Fixer (sometimes written as Mentallo & the Fixer) is the project name used by Texan electro-industrial musicians Gary Dassing (Mentallo) and Dwayne Dassing (The Fixer) from 1988 to 1999, and by Gary Dassing alone from 1999 to the present day. The band has several releases on the American record label, Metropolis Records. They are named after two Marvel Comics characters.
Biography
The Dassing brothers first began experimenting with music by the means of more traditional rock music instruments, such as guitar and drums. However, by the time the two formed their first band Benestrophe with vocalist Richard Mendez, the instruments of choice became synthesizers and samplers. Most of the two tapes worth of material they recorded subsequently became available as the releases Sensory Deprivation and Auric Fires on Ras Dva Records.
After parting ways with Mendez, the two brothers began work as Mentallo & The Fixer. A friend of Gary's brought the name "Mentallo & The Fixer" to his attention while still working on Benestrophe. After Benestrophe went dormant, the name resurfaced and, after Gary realized the names referred to two lesser-known comic book characters, the name grew on him.
Their first album release No Rest for the Wicked saw a limited 500-copy run on vinyl and a CD by the Portuguese label Simbiose records, and also gained the attention of Talla 2XLC from Zoth Ommog records. Zoth Ommog released their next two major albums, Revelations 23 and Where Angels Fear to Tread. As an American band, working with European labels proved difficult and frustrating due to poor communications and, in the case of the Simbiose releases, a lack of a formal contract.
Mentallo & The Fixer soon after began their long-term relationship with the American industrial music record label Metropolis Records with a domestic re-release of their second and third albums as well as a CD of unreleased back catalog material, Continuum.
Meanwhile, in 1994, the Dassing brothers formed a side project with vocalist Michael Greene called Mainesthai. Mainesthai's two releases, Out to Lunch and Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai were also both released on Metropolis Records, but not until 1998. Michael also participated in Mentallo's first U.S. tour in 1996, joining the band to perform Mainesthai tracks during their live sets.
In 1997 Mentallo & The Fixer toured the U.S. for the second time, Europe for the first time, and released their next album Burnt Beyond Recognition, along with two EPs, Centuries and False Prophets. The band's second US tour was initially cut short due to difficulties because of the long duration and because show revenue was unexpectedly low, but the missed tour dates were rescheduled after a break. The European tour in October that year proved to be a much better experience for the band.
By 1999, Dwayne and Gary agreed to split in order to pursue their own musical directions. After the departure of Dwayne from the band (aside from some live show support through 2002), Gary continued to use the Mentallo & The Fixer name and released several albums including Algorythum, Love Is the Law, Return to Grimpen Ward, and Vengeance is Mine, along with the EP Systematik Ruin to accompany Alogrythum.
After "Grimpen", Mentallo's album output slowed somewhat, resulting in two albums: Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst in 2007 and Music From the Eather in 2012, both released by Alfa Matrix.
In September 2014, Mentallo & the Fixer released a 3 CD box titled Zothera on Alfa Matrix. It contained two remastered albums from their Zoth Ommog era, namely Revelations 23 and Where Angels Fear to Tread, and a third bonus CD Apocrypha with unreleased material including remixes.
Another intervening period of dormancy followed, compelled by the crash of Gary's music computer, which he took as a sign to give music a break for a while. After a several year break and a new Apple computer, Gary found the motivation to revive works in progress from data backups and record a new album, Arrange The Molecule, released by Alfa Matrix in 2017.
Updates posted to the band's official Facebook page in 2019 showed Gary in the studio, joined by brother Dwayne and occasional collaborator Jon (Jonni) Pyre, working on new material for an as yet unnamed project. The apparent inspiration for this live performance-only project is Tangerine Dream's first live recording from 1975, Ricochet.
Discography
Main discography
Studio albums
.5 Honkey/Wreckage + Ruin + & + Regrets + (Redemption) (1991, GPC Productions)
No Rest for the Wicked (1992, Simbiose)
Revelations 23 (1993, Zoth Ommog)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1994, Zoth Ommog)
Burnt Beyond Recognition (1997, Metropolis)
Algorythum (1999, Metropolis)
Love Is the Law (2000, Metropolis)
Vengeance Is Mine (2001, Metropolis)
Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst (2007, Metropolis)
Music From the Eather (2012, Alfa Matrix)
Arrange the Molecule (2017, Alfa Matrix)
Remix albums
Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai (1994, Zoth Ommog)
Continuum (1995, Metropolis)
Return to Grimpen Ward (2001, Metropolis)
Extended plays
Centuries (1997, Metropolis)
False Prophets (1997, Metropolis)
Systematik Ruin (1999, Metropolis)
Commandments for the Molecular Age (2006, Alfa Matrix)
4.4U (2012.11) (2012, Alfa Matrix)
Compilation albums
...There's No Air to Breathe (1997, Zoth Ommog)
A Collection of Rare, Unreleased & Remastered (2012, Alfa Matrix)
Zothera (2014, Alfa Matrix)
Compilation appearances
Cybernetic Biodread Transmission – LP side B track #1/CD track #5 "Brutal Rapture" (1992) Simbiose
The Cyberflesh Conspiracy – CD track #2 (1992) If It Moves...
We Came To Dance - Indie Dancefloor Vol. II" – CD track #11 "Decomposed" (1993) Sub Terranean
Zoth in Your Mind – CD track #1 "Sacrilege (Angel of Death Mix)" (1993) Zoth Ommog
Moonraker – 2xCD disc #1 track #3 "Grim Reality" (1994) Sub Terranean
The Colours of Zoth Ommog – CD track #2 "Grim Reality (Grimpen Ward Remix)" (1994) Zoth Ommog
Totentanz - The Best of Zoth Ommog – 2xCD disc #2 track #1 "Sacrilege (Angel of Death Mix)" and track #2 "Rapid Suffocation" (1994) Zoth Ommog
We Came to Dance Vol. V – CD track #6 "Legion of Lepers (Grimpen Ward Remix)" (1994) Sub Terranean
Electricity Vol. 6 – CD track #4 "Battered States of Euphoria" (1995) Ausfahrt
Moonraker Vol. II – 2xCD disc #2 track #3 "Sacrilege (Grimpen Ward Mix)" (1995) Sub Terranean
The Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. II – CD track #11 "Murderers Among Us (B.K. Mix)" (1995) Off Beat
There Is No Time – 4xCD disc #1 track #2 "Decomposed (Grimpen Ward Mix)" (1995) Ras Dva
The Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. III – CD track #6 "Peril" (1996) Off Beat
Neurostyle Vol. III – CD track #2 "Goliath" (1997) Sub Terranean
Reticence – CS side B track #6 "Psylocybin" (1997) SDS Productions
Something For Your Mind – CD track #1 "Legion of Lepers (Grimpen Ward Remix)" (1997) Zoth Ommog
The Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. IV – 2xCD disc #1 track #2 "Goliath" (1997) Off Beat
Apocalypse Now Vol. 2 – 2xCD disc #1 track #14 "Brutal Rupture (Re-Mix)" (1998) Sub Terranean
Electronic Lust V.1 – 2xCD disc #1 track #10 "Narcosis" (1998) Orkus
Electropolis: Volume 1 – CD track #5 "Vision" (1998) Metropolis
The Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. V – 2xCD disc #2 track #3 "Mother of Harlots (Tempo Chrusher)" (1998) Off Beat
Metropolis 1999 – CD track #14 "Scum of the Earth" (1999) Metropolis
Music Research Promotional CD MIDEM '99 Alternative – 2xCD disc #1 track #4 "When Worlds Collide" (1999) Music Research
The Complete History of Zoth Ommog: Totentanz – 4xCD disc #2 track #1 "Sacrilege (Angel of Death Mix)" and track #2 "Rapid Suffocation" (1999) Cleopatra
Electropolis: Volume 2 – CD track #2 "Murderers Among Us (Exclusive Mix)" (2000) Metropolis
Music Research/Alternative – CD track #4 "When Worlds Collide" (2000) Zoth Ommog
A Tribute to the Prodigy – CD track #8 "Jericho" (2002) Hypnotic/Anagram Records
Your Future Is My Past – CD track #12 "Goliath (Remix)" (2004) Machinist Records
Electro/R/Evolution Volume 1 – CD track #4 "Signaljammer (Unreleased Demo)" (2005) Static Sky Records
Endzeit Bunkertracks [Act II] – 4xCD Ltd. Edition Box Set disc #2 track #6 "Driving Off a Cliff With a Cult (An Old Friend Nearly Killed Me Mix)" (2006) Alfa Matrix
Matri-X-Trax (Chapter 2) – CD Promo track #7 "Brute Force Uploading (Mescalero Radio Edit)", track #8 "Opening The Bandwidth for the Cosmic Signal (AM Frequencies Radio Edit)", and track #9 "Brief But Violent Illness (Radio Blackout Re-edit)" (2006) Alfa Matrix
Mew Signs & Sounds 07-08/06 – CD Enhanced track #7 "Brute Force Uploading (Mescalero Radio Edit)" (2006) Zillo
Re:Connected [2.0] – 2xCD Box Set disc #2 track #2 "Brute Force Uploading (Mescalero Radio Edit)" (2006) Alfa Matrix
Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 63 – CD + CD Enhanced disc #2 track #11 "Brute Force Uploading (Mescalero Radio Edit)" (2006) Sonic Seducer
Sounds from the Matrix 003 – CD Promo track #1 "Signaljammer" (2006) Alfa Matrix
Sounds from the Matrix 004 – CD Promo track #16 "First Flower After The Flood (Trichocereus Mix)" (2006) Alfa Matrix
Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 67 – CD + CD Enhanced disc #1 track #2 "Outside The Pharmacies of Fairyland (Short Cut)" (2007) Sonic Seducer
Sounds from the Matrix 05 – CD Promo track #15 "First Flower After the Flood (Short-Cut Edit)" (2007) Alfa Matrix
The Giant Minutes to the Dawn – 3xCD + DVD Box Set disc #3 track #15 "First Flower After the Flood (Short-Cut Edit)" Alfa Matrix
Side projects
Benestrophe
Benestrophe began after Gary Dassing and Rich Mendez met in their senior year of high school in San Antonio, TX. Their first song - "Pig Butcher" - was recorded in the Summer of 1988. Gary and Dwayne composed the music and Rich wrote the lyrics and provided vocals. Benestrophe went idle in 1990 as the Dassing brothers moved to Austin, TX, but reactivated for a time after 1995 with new material and re-releases on RAS DVA records.
Sensory Deprivation – Cassette, Self-released
Red Kross – Cassette (1990) Self-released
Sensory Deprivation – CD Ltd. Edition (1994) Ras Dva
Auric Fires – CD (1997) Ras Dva
CD Sound Compilation Vol. 1 – V/A CD track #14 "Sensory Deprivation" (1994) IndustrialnatioN Magazine
There Is No Time – V/A 4xCD disc #2 track #1 "Shall Not Want (Unreleased Track)" (1995) Ras Dva
Dora Blue - The Ras Dva Fanbase Compilation – CD track #8 "Dog Lab (An Early Morning Remix), track #10 "D.C.O.", track #12 "Sleep Tonight (Remix)" (1996) Ras Dva
Awake the Machines - On the Line Vol. 2 – 2xCD disc #1 track #6 "Lesser of 2 Evils" (1997) Out of Line/Sub/Mission Records
Binary Application Extension 04 – CD track #15 "Sister Mary's Sleep" (1997) Genocide Project
Turner's All Night Drugstore (Rare & Unreleased 1987-1997) – DL (2018)
Mainesthai
Mainesthai was a short-term collaboration between the Dassing brothers and Mike Greene. Gary answered an ad that Mike had put in a local paper which led to an interview and one-song demo performance that led to a formal collaboration. As was the case with Benestrophe, Gary and Dwayne produced the music and Mike contributed the lyrics and vocals. Mainesthai's sound was similar to Mentallo, but the subject matter was explicitly more political in nature and the music was made with an effort to sound more melodic and, in their words, "tribal".
Out to Lunch - CD (1994) Zoth Ommog Records
Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai – CD (1994) Zoth Ommog Records • CD (1998) Metropolis Records
Body Rapture Vol. 4 – V/A CD track #2 "Dollars and Sins" (1994) Zoth Ommog Records
We Came to Dance - Indie Dancefloor Vol. VI – V/A CD track #10 "Exit (Stage Left)" (1994) Sub Terranean
There Is No Time – V/A 4xCD disc #2 track #9 "Y (Mama's Crazy Kitchen Mix)" (1995) Ras Dva
Parking Lot in Drug Form
This is a Gary Dassing and Ric Laciak project recorded while Ric stayed with Gary during a two-week visit to Austin, TX.
There Is No Time – V/A 4xCD disc #4 track #15 "Step Away" (1995) Ras Dva
AP: The Contest – V/A CD track #14 "So Cold" (1995) Zoth Ommog Records
Shimri
Gary Dassing solo project.
Lilies of the Field – CD (2000) Artoffact Records
Reign of Roses
Dwayne Dassing with vocals and lyrics by Scott Berens Drum programming on some tracks by Gary Dassing
In Bourbon and in Blood – CDr (2006) Self-released
Kitty Kosmonaut
Dwayne Dassing with John Bustamante of Fektion Fekler
Kitty Kosmonaut - CD, Digital (2015) Re:Mission Entertainment
References
External links
Mentallo & The Fixer's Metropolis Records Page
Musical groups established in 1988
1988 establishments in Texas
American electro-industrial music groups
Musical groups from San Antonio
Metropolis Records artists
Zoth Ommog Records artists
Off Beat label artists
Sibling musical duos |
4031681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSWO-TV | KSWO-TV | KSWO-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Lawton, Oklahoma, United States, serving the western Texoma area as an affiliate of ABC and Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Television, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with American Spirit Media, owner of Wichita Falls, Texas–licensed dual CBS/CW+ affiliate KAUZ-TV (channel 6), for the provision of certain services. KSWO-TV's studios are located on 60th Street in southeastern Lawton, and its transmitter is located near East 1940 and North 2390 Roads in rural southwestern Tillman County, Oklahoma (near Grandfield).
History
Early history
On May 22, 1952, Oklahoma Quality Broadcasting Co.—a locally based company founded by M&D Finance Co. owner Ransom H. Drewry, who co-founded the licensee with a group of shareholders that included J.R. Montgomery (then-president of Lawton's City National Bank), T.R. Warkentin, Robert P. Scott (both of whom were minority partners in locally based S.W. Stationery) and G.G. Downing—submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build and license to operate a broadcast television station in the Wichita Falls–Lawton market that would transmit on VHF channel 7. When the FCC awarded the license and permit for channel 7 to the Drewry-led group on December 23, 1952, the group requested and received approval to assign KSWO-TV as the call letters for his television station; the calls were taken from the Lawton radio station that Drewry founded in 1941, KSWO (1380 AM, now KKRX).
KSWO-TV first signed on the air on March 8, 1953; it was the second television station to sign on in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market, launching one week after CBS affiliate KWFT-TV (channel 6, later KSYD-TV and now KAUZ-TV)—located across the Oklahoma–Texas state line in Wichita Falls—made its debut on March 1. (Wichita Falls NBC affiliate KFDX-TV [channel 3] would sign on one month later, on April 12.) Channel 7 has been an ABC television affiliate since its debut, inheriting those rights through KSWO radio's longtime relationship with the progenitor ABC Radio Network; however, the station also maintained a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network. The station originally maintained transmitter facilities located at its studios, located east of Lawton; construction on the studio facility was delayed 60 days due to inclement winter weather conditions that affected southwestern Oklahoma during the winter of that year, such so that the studio doors were covered with canvas until adequate doors were installed in the building. The transmitter was a relatively low-power unit that propagated a signal that reached over a limited radius spanning to Altus to the west, Wichita Falls to the south, Anadarko to the north, and Ringling to the east.
By the late 1950s, other nearby ABC affiliates (such as KTEN in Ada and KOCO-TV, which had recently relocated to Oklahoma City from Enid) began encroaching the northern and eastern fringes on KSWO's viewing area; however, wide gaps in channel 7's signal coverage existed to the south and west of Wichita Falls—the only primary ABC stations in north and west Texas at the time were Dallas affiliate WFAA-TV, and Amarillo affiliate KVII-TV (Lubbock and Abilene, respectively, did not get their own primary ABC affiliates until KAMC affiliated with the network in 1969, followed by the switch of KTXS-TV to ABC from CBS in 1979). KSWO disaffiliated from DuMont upon its shut down in 1956, amid various issues that arose from its relations with Paramount Pictures that hamstrung it from expansion; the station became a full-time ABC affiliate on November 10 of that year. On December 15, 1957, a fire caused extensive damage to the 60th Street studio facility after gasoline being used to clean a weather map caught fire;
In August 1959, the FCC gave permission for Drewry to construct a tower near Grandfield, Oklahoma, which would operate at 316,000 watts of power (the maximum power allowable for stations broadcasting on VHF channels 7–13), thereby providing a more powerful signal that could extend KSWO-TV's reach to many portions of far southwestern Oklahoma and northwestern Texas where reception of the station had been marginal at best. Wichitex Radio and Television and Sydney Grayson—the respective owners of NBC affiliate KFDX-TV and CBS affiliate KSYD-TV in Wichita Falls—opposed the application, resulting in Drewry having to convince the FCC that the construction permit merited approval. The new site was located about halfway between Wichita Falls and Lawton (from a Lawton perspective, it was in the same direction as the Wichita Falls stations).
The transmitter facility was activated on February 28, 1960, extending channel 7's signal to encompass a much larger area of northwestern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma—bringing stronger reception of ABC network programming to additional areas of the two states for the first time. A second tower would be built at Grandfield for KJTL (channel 18) when it signed on in 1985.
Over the years, Ransom Drewry and his family gradually expanded their broadcasting group by acquiring other stations in the northern half of Texas: KFDA-TV in Amarillo (acquired in 1976 through Amarillo Telecasters, a partnership between R. H. Drewry and Ray Herndon, majority owner of KMID-TV in Midland); KXXV-TV in Waco (acquired in 1994); KWES-TV in Midland, Texas and Big Spring satellite KWAB-TV (both acquired in 1991); K60EE (now KTLE-LD) in Odessa (acquired in 2001); KSCM-LP in Bryan (acquired in 2006); and KEYU in Amarillo (acquired in 2009).
In December 1997, Drewry sold KSWO radio, as well as KRHD (1350 AM, now KPNS) and KRHD-FM (102.3, now KKEN) in Duncan, to Anadarko-based Monroe-Stephens Broadcasting (majority owned by media executive Stanton M. Nelson) for $425,000; the sale of the radio stations allowed the company to focus its business interests around KSWO-TV and its sister television stations in Texas.
On July 1, 2008, Drewry announced its intention to sell its eleven television stations (as well as radio station KTXC in Lamesa, Texas) to Dallas-based London Broadcasting Company—a company founded by Terry E. London, former CEO of Gaylord Entertainment, the previous year to acquire broadcast properties in small- to mid-sized markets within Texas—for $115 million. While the deal received approval by the FCC, London Broadcasting filed a notice of non-consummation to the FCC in January 2009 after company management decided to terminate the deal due to market uncertainties resulting from the Great Recession.
JSA with KAUZ-TV
On July 31, 2009, Drewry entered into a joint sales and shared services agreement with Hoak Media, under which it assumed some operational responsibilities for longtime rival KAUZ-TV. The agreement, which took effect on August 3, allowed KSWO-TV to provide advertising and promotional services for KAUZ, while Hoak would retain responsibilities over channel 6's programming (including news operations), master control and production services. The two stations did not consolidate all operations, owing to the distance between Wichita Falls and Lawton and the tailoring of each station's news service to those areas, though KAUZ-TV dismissed its general manager, news director, and sales manager, as well as a news photographer, to be replaced by staff from KSWO.
In January 2012, KSWO became the second television station in the Wichita Falls–Lawton market and the eighth station in Oklahoma to begin carrying syndicated programming in high definition. The switch was part of a series of upgrades to KSWO and KAUZ's shared master control facility at the former's Lawton studio.
Raycom Media ownership
On August 10, 2015, Montgomery, Alabama-based Raycom Media announced that it would purchase Drewry's eight television stations for $160 million; as part of the deal, American Spirit Media would purchase the license of and other assets belonging to KAUZ-TV from Hoak Media. While KSWO and KAUZ would remain jointly operated, the existing joint sales agreement between KSWO and KAUZ would be terminated upon the sale's closure due to an FCC rule implemented that year, which prohibited such agreements by counting the sale of 15% or more of advertising time by one station to a competing junior partner station in the JSA as a duopoly that would not be permitted in the Wichita Falls–Lawton market under the agency's ownership rules. The sale was completed on December 1.
Upon the JSA's termination, Raycom entered into a shared services agreement with KAUZ, under which KSWO would handle news production, administrative and production operations and provide equipment and building space for that station; despite this, KAUZ remains based out of Wichita Falls and continues to largely operate independently of channel 7.
Sale to Gray Television
On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Gray Television announced it had reached a $3.6 billion agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including KSWO and the JSA/SSA with KAUZ-TV, and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella. The sale was approved on December 20 and was completed on January 2, 2019.
News operation
, KSWO-TV presently broadcasts 26½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among the Wichita Falls–Lawton market's broadcast television stations, tied with NBC affiliate KFDX-TV and beating KSWO's CBS-affiliated sister station KAUZ-TV's weekly news total by a half-hour.
Because of KSWO's status as the only major-network affiliate licensed to a city on the Oklahoma side of the Wichita Falls–Lawton market, the station's newscasts tend to focus more on Lawton and surrounding areas of southwestern Oklahoma, with a secondary focus on stories occurring in northwest Texas. Among the three local television news operations in the area, KSWO maintains a ratings stronghold on the Oklahoma side of the Wichita Falls–Lawton market, while KAUZ and KFDX primarily compete for the audience on the Texas side.
News department history
KSWO pioneered new developments in weather forecasting for its viewing area throughout its history, particularly in regard to its coverage of severe weather events affecting its nearly 30-county viewing area encompassing southwestern Oklahoma and western north Texas. Channel 7 was the first television station in the area to have its own on-site weather radar (which was originally displayed in black and white as the station had not yet acquired color broadcasting equipment nor did colorizing techniques for radar displays exist at the time) in the late 1950s or early 1960s, had introduced the market's first color radar in 1976 (branded as "Accu-scan 7"), and introduced the area's first Doppler weather radar in 1984 (more than ten years ahead of the installations of such a system by arch-rivals KFDX and KAUZ).
KSWO-TV has several longtime veterans who have been with the station for 20 years or longer. Jan Stratton – who also served as the station's news director until July 2006 – served as evening anchor continuously for 33 years from 1981 until her retirement in January 2014. Co-anchor and former news director, David Bradley, who was with the station from 1986 until 2017 (when he accepted an anchor job at fellow ABC affiliate KVII-TV in Amarillo, Texas), originated at channel 7 with a thirteen-year tenure as sports director/weeknight sports anchor before he moved to the news side as KSWO's primary weeknight anchor in 1999. Tom Charles, a familiar face to Channel 7 viewers since the early 1960s, officially retired from KSWO-TV after 45 years of service on December 31, 2010; Charles served as chief weathercaster/meteorologist from 1964 to 1996 and then as anchor of the 5:30 a.m. newscast and co-anchor of Good Morning Texoma from 2000 to 2010 following a four-year stint as chief meteorologist at CBS affiliate KAUZ-TV. Larry Patton, who has been employed by the station since 1967, has served as general manager of KSWO-TV since 1977; Patton was inducted into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in March 2015.
KSWO broadcast Dr. James "Red" Duke's syndicated medical reports to viewers in Texoma throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s. The station launched a local morning newscast in 1989, when it launched the traditional news program Good Morning Texoma. Originally airing for 30 minutes from 6:30 to 7:00 a.m., the program would expand to one hour in September 1992, then to 1½ hours in September 1999, and finally to two hours in September 2009. Good Morning Texoma would eventually expand to weekends in January 1993, making KSWO the first television station in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market to launch a weekend morning newscast, with the debut of one-hour-long Saturday and Sunday editions at 8:00 a.m. (the 8:00 a.m. edition of the weekend broadcasts would later be reduced to a half-hour in January 2010, at which time it was joined by an additional half-hour weekend edition at 6:30 a.m.).
In 1996, the station discontinued its longtime Action 7 News moniker for its newscasts and rebranded its news programming under the 7 News banner. In late May of that year, KSWO broadcast its early morning newscast, Good Morning Texoma, with limited backup electricity; the newscast was conducted virtually in the dark due to electrical outages that had affected the Lawton area after a complex of severe thunderstorms rolled through southern Oklahoma the previous night with areas of damaging straight-line winds. The only power available to the studio came from a portable generator located in one of the station's live trucks, which also served as a makeshift studio-transmitter link to relay the signal to the transmitter dish at the Grandfield site. The broadcast was done with one camera, one tape deck and one microphone (which was passed between the anchors). In 1999, the station introduced a combined newsroom/studio set that is heavily downscaled version of the "Newsplex" set used at the time by WHDH in Boston and WSVN in Miami, both of which also integrate their anchor desk within their newsrooms. (In January 2018, the "Newsplex" was repainted and remodeled to include updated duratrans and widescreen monitors; KSWO's newscasts were temporarily moved to a separate area on the newsroom's second level until the remodeling was completed.)
For the May 2009 ratings period, according to Nielsen Media Research, KSWO's newscasts ranked in first place on weekdays in the morning, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. timeslots. However, the station has experienced a slight decline in its ratings ever since Drewry management consolidated certain news department assets belonging to Wichita Falls-based KAUZ with channel 7's news operation in the fall of 2009, and transferred longtime station manager, Mike Taylor, to KAUZ to serve as that station's general manager. Ironically, Nexstar Broadcasting Group-owned KFDX, which maintains the only other news operation in the Lawton–Wichita Falls market, has shown improvement with its ratings rather than an increase either for KAUZ or KSWO. In June 2011, KSWO began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the first station in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market to make the upgrade; the 9:00 p.m. newscast on KSWO-DT3 was included in the upgrade.
For most of the JSA/SSA's existence, KSWO and KAUZ retained fully separate local news programs, due to the stations' distance from one another and their focus on different portions of the Wichita Falls–Lawton market. The two stations began simulcasting local news for the first time on January 6, 2018, when KSWO and KAUZ consolidated production of their respective half-hour weekend 8:00 a.m. newscasts into a single program, under the unified title Texoma Weekend Morning News, that is simulcast on both stations and utilizes KSWO's existing weekend morning news staff (KSWO maintains a separate 6:30 a.m. newscast on Saturday and Sunday mornings, which carries the same title).
On-air staff
Notable former on-air staff
Don Armes – agricultural reporter (1999–2002; now 63rd House District Rep. in the Oklahoma House of Representatives)
Kevin Ogle – reporter (now at KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City)
Randy Scott – sports anchor/reporter (2004–2005; now at ESPN)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
In 2006, KSWO-TV launched a Telemundo subchannel. The third subchannel previously aired a loop of weather forecasts, Live Well Network, and This TV; a 9 p.m. newscast aired on it from 2011 to 2014 and 2015 to 2016.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSWO-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station cited the need to place its digital antenna where the analog transmitter was located for its decision to go forward with the transition on the originally scheduled date, despite a Congressional vote the previous month that pushed back the analog-to-digital cutoff for full-power stations to June 12. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 11. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 7.
Translators
In addition to the main Grandfield transmitter, a community-owned translator in Quanah, Texas, rebroadcasts KSWO-TV, as does a UHF fill-in translator in Lawton which was activated in January 2022. Gray also owns construction permits for further UHF fill-in translators to serve the Altus and Wichita Falls areas.
Altus, OK: 21
Jolly/Wichita Falls, TX:
Lawton, OK:
Quanah, TX:
References
External links
ABC network affiliates
Telemundo network affiliates
MeTV affiliates
Dabl affiliates
True Crime Network affiliates
SWO-TV
Gray Television
Television channels and stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Oklahoma |
4031686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Hamlaoui%20Stadium | Mohamed Hamlaoui Stadium | Mohamed Hamlaoui Stadium () is a multi-use stadium in Constantine, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has an actual capacity of 22,986 people. It serves as the home ground of CS Constantine and MO Constantine.
Algeria national football team matches
The Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui has hosted six games of the Algeria national football team, against China PR and Sudan in 1980, Niger and Nigeria in 1981, Egypt in 1989, and the Senegal in 1990.
References
External links
Stadium file - worldstadiums.com
Mohamed Hamlaoui
Buildings and structures in Constantine, Algeria
CS Constantine |
4031696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20G%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral%20Aboubacar%20Sangoul%C3%A9%20Lamizana | Stade Général Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana | Stade Général Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana is a multi-use stadium in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, used mostly for football matches. The stadium hosted several matches during the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations. The stadium holds 30,000 people.
References
Football venues in Burkina Faso
ASF Bobo Dioulasso |
4031699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Penders | Tom Penders | Thomas Vincent Penders (born May 23, 1945) is an American retired college basketball coach, who last coached from 2004 through 2010 at the University of Houston. He is from Stratford, Connecticut and has a 649–437 career record. As a college athlete, Penders played both basketball and baseball for the University of Connecticut, and is one of the few players to have competed in both the NCAA tournament as well as the College World Series.
Prior to his last job as Houston's head coach, Penders was a sports analyst for ESPN and Westwood One Radio. He also has been the head coach for Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas, and George Washington. Coach Penders developed a reputation as both “Turnaround Tom” and “Tournament Tom” because he proved that he could turn basketball programs into consistent winners and get the most out of his players in March. He is one of three coaches to reach three “Sweet 16s” as a double-digit seed in the NCAA basketball tournament, becoming the first NCAA head basketball coach to accomplish that feat with his 1996-97 Texas Longhorns team.
Coaching career
High school
Penders posted a 59–10 record as a high school coach at Bullard-Havens Tech and Bridgeport Central High School in Connecticut. He led Bullard-Havens to a 14–6 record in his first season as a head coach. The next year, he guided Bridgeport Central to a 23–2 record and a number two ranking in the state. The following year, he was named the New York Daily News Coach of the Year after leading Bridgeport to a 20–1 mark and a number one ranking.
Tufts, Columbia, Fordham
Penders began his collegiate coaching career at Tufts University in 1971, and compiled a 54–18 record in three seasons. On October 6, 2006, Penders and his 1972-73 Tufts team were inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.
Next Penders coached for four seasons at Columbia University. In his final two years there, Penders led the school to back-to-back winning seasons.
After Columbia, Penders moved to Fordham University where he remained for eight years and compiled a 125–114 record. In 1980–81, Penders was named the New York Metropolitan Area Coach of the Year after leading Fordham to a 19–9 record. On January 26, 2013, Penders was inducted into the Fordham Athletic Hall of Fame.
Rhode Island
Penders took over Rhode Island's program on October 4, 1986, two weeks before the regular season began. He was named the Atlantic 10 Conference Co-Coach of the Year after guiding the Rams to a 20–10 record and a berth into the NIT his first year.
In 1988, Penders led the Rams to the 1988 NCAA Sweet 16 with wins over Missouri and Syracuse before eventually losing to Duke.
Texas
In his 10 seasons at the University of Texas, Penders compiled a 208–110 record. During his time there, he became the winningest basketball coach in school history (although now passed by former Texas and now Tennessee coach Rick Barnes). He led the Longhorns to three Southwest Conference championships and eight NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight in 1990, and the Sweet 16 in 1997. His teams at Texas averaged 20.8 wins per season, 87.2 points per game, and forced 19 turnovers per contest.
When Penders was hired in 1988, he inherited a team that won 16 games the year before; the Erwin Center (the Longhorns' home court) averaged 4,028 fans per game (in a 16,231-seat arena). Immediately after his arrival, Penders switched to a more uptempo offense, and called his team the "Runnin' Horns." His first team finished second in the Southwest Conference and earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Longhorns also set 22 school and SWC records while more than doubling their attendance average to 10,011 per game, the largest increase in NCAA Division I.
In his final year at Texas, Penders underwent heart surgery and was unable to coach the first few games of what would end up being a tumultuous season.
Penders resigned as head coach following nearly a month of controversy surrounding the Texas program. On the heels of a 14-17 season and 9th place finish in the conference, three players met with athletic director DeLoss Dodds to voice complaints about Penders and the program. One of those players, Luke Axtell, informed Dodds at the meeting that he intended to transfer. Not long after the meeting, and despite it being the offseason, Axtell was suspended from the team for academic reasons.
Shortly after the suspension, an Austin radio station that claimed to have obtained a copy of Axtell's transcript read his grades on the air. This touched off a firestorm and an investigation into the source of the unauthorized release of academic records. Penders announced his resignation after the investigation revealed that his assistant coach, Eddie Oran, admitted to faxing the transcript to the radio station. In a deposition connected with a lawsuit Axtell brought against the radio station for releasing his records, Oran testified that Penders instructed him to fax the Axtell transcript to the media (and that a secretary had actually been the faxer). Oran sued Penders for defamation in 2002, claiming that statements Penders made when the scandal broke wrecked his career. However, a jury sided with Penders.
Coach Penders’s departure from Texas was the subject of a book, Burned Orange by Kyle Dalton.
George Washington
Penders served as head coach at the George Washington University from 1998 to 2001, where he compiled a 49–42 record and led the Colonials to the NCAA tournament.
Penders' only winning season while directing the Colonials was his first, where he inherited a talented team composed mostly of recruits of former Colonial head coach Mike Jarvis. A number of off-court issues followed. Late in the 2000-2001 season, four players used the long-distance access code of his son and assistant coach, Tommy, Jr., to make $1,400 worth of long-distance calls and star guard SirValiant Brown left after his sophomore year for the NBA because he wouldn't qualify to play at GW the next season for academic reasons. Most seriously, Penders failed to tell athletic director Jack Kvancz that one of his players, Attila Cosby, had been arrested for several serious misdemeanors in January, including forcing a prostitute to perform oral sex at gunpoint and violating her with a broom. Penders ultimately resigned in 2001.
Penders said his resignation was because after 30 years of coaching, it was "time for a sabattical," and said the resignation was not related to the off-the-court issues. The university honored the rest of Penders' contract, with GW athletic director Jack Kvancz said honoring it "was the class thing to do." When GW's Kvancz was questioned about the payout (in the area of $1M) he refused to comment. "
Houston
Penders came to Houston after spending three years as an analyst for ESPN and Westwood One Radio. In his first season at the University of Houston, Penders guided the Cougars to the nation's fourth-best turnaround with an 18–14 overall record and Houston led the nation in turnover margin and set both team and individual school records for most three-point field goals made in a season.
In his second season, Penders led the Cougars to their first 20-win season, first back-to-back winning seasons, and first back-to-back postseason tournament appearances since 1992–93. He also led Houston to back-to-back wins over nationally ranked teams for the first time since the 1984 NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament and their first postseason tournament victory since 1988 in his first two years at the school, in the NIT.
Houston finished the 2005-06 campaign with a 2–2 record against nationally ranked teams after beating No. 25 LSU on November 29 and 13th-ranked Arizona December 3 in a nationally televised game on ESPN2. Houston's postseason tournament victory was against BYU in the first round of the 2006 NIT. It also was Penders’ first career victory in the NIT. Houston led the nation in steals with a 12.4 average, and the Cougars finished second in turnover margin with an average margin of +7.5.
Penders led the Houston Cougars to the Conference USA championship game in 2010 where they defeated UTEP for their first NCAA Tournament berth in 18 years. This made him only the 8th coach to take 4 different schools to the NCAA tournament.
Penders resigned as coach of Houston on March 22, 2010 following a first round loss to Maryland in the NCAA tournament.
College playing career
Penders played both baseball and basketball at the University of Connecticut, where he starred as a center fielder for the baseball team and a point guard for the basketball team from 1964 to 1967.
Family
In addition to Penders and son Tommy, Jr. serving as basketball coaches, his father was a longtime baseball coach at Stratford High School from 1931 to 1968, and led the school to four state championships. His brother, Jim, is the baseball coach at East Catholic High School, and was named the national high school Coach of the Year in 1996. Like his father, Jim Penders won four state championships.
Penders' two nephews also are collegiate baseball coaches. Jim was named the head coach at Connecticut in 2003 after serving seven years as an assistant coach and playing four years for the Huskies. Rob serves as the head baseball coach at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
Head coaching record
See also
List of college men's basketball coaches with 600 wins
References
1945 births
Living people
Baseball players from Connecticut
Basketball coaches from Connecticut
Basketball players from Connecticut
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Columbia Lions men's basketball coaches
Fordham Rams men's basketball coaches
George Washington Colonials men's basketball coaches
High school basketball coaches in the United States
Houston Cougars men's basketball coaches
People from Stratford, Connecticut
Rhode Island Rams men's basketball coaches
Sportspeople from Fairfield County, Connecticut
Texas Longhorns men's basketball coaches
Tufts Jumbos men's basketball coaches
UConn Huskies baseball players
UConn Huskies men's basketball players
Point guards |
4031706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neith%20Nevelson | Neith Nevelson | Neith Nevelson, (born 16 July 1946), is an American artist best known for paintings of horses, female nudes, and male faces.
Background
Nevelson's grandmother was the sculptor Louise Nevelson, her father, Mike Nevelson (1922-2019), was a sculptor and her mother, Susan Nevelson (1924-2015), was an artist and textile designer.
Nevelson grew up in Florence, Italy, and began painting at the age of two. She spent her childhood in Florence and New York City, and as a teenager moved to New York, to live at her grandmother's studio.
She has lived in Coconut Grove in southern Florida, since 1977.
Nevelson studied briefly at the Accademia di Belle Arti, in Florence, Italy. As a student she concentrated on subjects she eventually became known for rather than the standard curriculum of still life drawings and landscapes, and was eventually expelled. Her first exhibition was in 1974 at the Galleria Nuova in Florence. Her last was in 1994; the catalog and exhibition were entitled, "Neith Nevelson: In the Middle of the Night", by Wendy Blazier. She was influenced by Cubism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. Some art-critics have labeled Nevelson as “Outsider” artist.
Nevelson's early work, which she has continued to experiment and embellish on to the present day, take the form of line drawings. Her style developed into complex paintings based on the gestural fluidity of drawing, underscored by her larger art-works which tend to combine elements of all her three major themes. As described in "Neith Nevelson: In the Middle of the Night," Neith's paintings are visions from her imaginatio], and explore the figurative, symbolic and narrative. As described by the Miami Herald's lackluster review of the same 1994 exhibition, the form of her art reflects the conflicts and contradictions of her life, living in the world of her famous grandmother and the New York art world of the 1960s, hardship and isolation from family, and remembering and longing for childhood.
She is the illustrator a forthcoming book of poems tentatively titled, "Day's Night" by Jorge Reyes.
Outside of her artistic endeavors, Nevelson is notable for political involvement in the area of abortion advocacy, for which she was jailed in Florence Italy in 1977 along with a group of advocates from the Radical Party, a left wing activist group still active in Europe.
In 2009, Neith's life was the basis of the TV show "Caso Cerrado" with Ana María Polo, broadcast daily in the US by the Telemundo Network.
Bibliography
'Neith Nevelson: In the Middle of the Night [Illustrated] [Pamphlet],' Wendy M. Blazier, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (September 10, 1991).
'The Artist Speaks: Louise Nevelson,' Dorothy Gees Seckler, with photographs by Ugo Mulas, Art in America, January–February, 1967.
Interview, 'An Artist was her last goal,' by Beth Mendelsohn Gilbert, Coconut Grove Sun Reporter, September 13, 1984, page 1 and 10.
'What have they done to the Grove?' Lawrence Mahoney, News/Sun Sentinel, June 16, 1985, 11-15, 20.
'My Heritage, My Blueprint,' Jane Woolridge, The Miami Herald, April 22, 1988, pp. 1–2B.
"The creative legacy and troubled world of painter Neith Nevelson,' Forrest Norman, Miami New Times, June 24–30, 2004.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (Hardcover) by Ann Lee Morgan (Author), Oxford University Press, USA (July 18, 2007)
References
1946 births
Living people
American women painters
20th-century American painters
21st-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists |
4031718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%20Mountaintops | Pink Mountaintops | Pink Mountaintops is a Canadian rock and roll band from Vancouver led by Stephen McBean.
The band's first album, The Pink Mountaintops, featured Amber Webber and Joshua Wells. The tracks varied from alt-country to indie rock.
The band's recording Outside Love included contributions from members of several other bands. It was number one on the Canadian campus radio top 50 chart in May and again in June, 2009.
Pink Mountaintop's fourth album, Get Back, was released in 2014. Musicians included Annie Hardy, Greg Foremann, and Rob Barbato. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Joe Cardamone.
Band members
Stephen McBean
Live:
Stephen McBean
Emily Rose
Kliph Scurlock
Tygh Runyan
Discography
Albums
Pink Mountaintops (Jagjaguwar, 2004)
Axis of Evol (Jagjaguwar, 2006)
Outside Love (Jagjaguwar, 2009)
Get Back (Jagjaguwar, 2014)
Peacock Pools (ATO Records, 2022)
Singles
"The Ones I Love" / "Erected" (Jagjaguwar, 2005)
"Single Life" / "My Best Friend" (Jagjaguwar, 2007)
"Asleep with an Angel" / "The Beat" (Jagjaguwar, 2014)
"Lights of the City" (ATO Records, 2022)
"Nervous Breakdown" (ATO Records, 2022)
"Nikki Go Sudden" (ATO Records, 2022)
References
External links
Pink Mountaintops Official website
Pink Mountaintops at Jagjaguwar Records
Pink Mountaintops at Exclaim!
"Down and Dirty: The love songs of the Pink Mountaintops" CBC Radio 3 Session; story by Shawn Cooper, photography by Jon Elder
Musical groups established in 2003
Musical groups from Vancouver
Canadian indie rock groups
Canadian psychedelic rock music groups
2003 establishments in British Columbia
Jagjaguwar artists
Low Transit Industries artists |
4031724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadu%20Bello%20Stadium | Ahmadu Bello Stadium | The Ahmadu Bello Stadium, simply referred to as ABS is a multipurpose stadium in Kaduna city, Kaduna State, Nigeria. It was designed in 1965 by the English architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry. As of 2016, it is used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 16,000 people.
The stadium consists of a main section for track and field events as well as football and two indoor sports centers.
Mr Dare Sunday - the Sports Minister, during his visit to Ahmadu Bello Stadium (ABS) in Kaduna applauded the maintenance culture of the facilities and the state of the stadium. He was pleased that even though Ahmadu Bello Stadium has been existing for more than 50 years ago, it is still in good condition. He further said "what I have seen today is not disappointing but, there is room for improvement on the facility.” The facilities inspected by the minister at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium included the football playing pitch, swimming pool, indoor games hall and hostels, among others.
Notable football events
1998 African Women's Championship
1999 FIFA World Youth Championship
2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup
References
Kaduna
Football venues in Nigeria
Kaduna |
4031728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalingo%20City%20Stadium | Jalingo City Stadium | The Jolly Nyame Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Jalingo, Nigeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is home for Taraba FC. The stadium holds 12,000 people and was built in 2002.
External links
Pictures
Sports venues completed in 2002
Football venues in Nigeria
2002 establishments in Nigeria |
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