Iron Jacket (Puhihwikwasu'u) (born c. late 1780s or early 1790sdied 1858) was a Native American War Chief and Chief of the Comanche Indians.

Iron Jacket was a Comanche chieftain and medicine man whom the Comanche believed had the power to blow bullets aside with his breath. His name probably resulted from his habit of wearing a Spanish coat of mail into battle, which protected him from most light weapons fire.

On May 12, 1858, the jacket (probably inherited from his ancestors) failed to protect him, and he was killed on the bank of the South Canadian River in the Battle of Little Robe Creek where his band of Quahadi Comanches fought a combined force of Texas Rangers and Brazos Reservation Indians led by John S. Ford, Shapley Prince Ross (the father of Lawrence Sullivan Ross), and Plácido, a Tonkawa chief.

Early life
Not much is known about Iron Jacket's early life.  He was born in the late 1780s or early 1790s, likely being son or nephew to Kwahadi chief Waakakwasi ("Trotter", called by Mexicans "Cota-de-Maya" or "Cota-de-Malla", i.e. "Iron Shirt" or "Iron Jacket"). He became a chief among the Kwahadi, or Antelope-eaters, Band of the Comanche. He appears to have been both a hereditary chief and a War Chief. Little else is known about Iron Jacket, except that he led dozens of terrifying raids on settlers from the 1820s to the 1850s in Texas and Mexico. In 1835, consequently to the Camp Holmes Council, he likely signed (his name was reported as Pohowetowshah, "Brass Man") the treaty with General M. Arbuckle and Senator Monfort Stokes, along with chiefs such Tawaquenah ("Sun Eagle") of the Kotsoteka and Amorous Man of the Penateka Comanche. In 1840 he likely was one of the leaders dealing, on the Comanche and Kiowa side, with the Cheyenne and Arapaho in the negotiations for the peace and alliance agreement promoted by the Yamparika chief Ten Bears.

It is believed today that he was a hereditary chief of the Comanche, and for decades the US and Mexican victims of his raids considered him a supernatural being because of his seeming invulnerability to any harm. Members of the Rangers, posses and the military on various occasions insisted that they shot the chief dead center without harming him.

Evidently, this was because of the coat of old Spanish mail the chief wore, which appears to have protected him from light weapons fire. In any event, he was a feared and dangerous figure along the Texas and Mexican border, and in the Comancheria in the decades leading up to the American Civil War.

Antelope Hills Expedition

The years leading up to the Civil War were particularly bloody on the Texas Frontier, as Iron Jacket, his son Peta Nocona, and other Comanche and Kiowa Chiefs clashed with encroaching white settlers in the Comancheria. In response to these raids, on January 27, 1858, Governor Runnels appointed John Salmon "Rip" Ford, a veteran Ranger of the Mexican–American War and frontier Indian fighter, as captain and commander of the Texas Ranger, Militia, and Allied Indian Forces, and ordered him to carry the battle to the Comanches in the heart of their homeland on the Comancheria.

Ford, who earned his name due to his habit of signing  casualty reports with the initials "RIP" for "Rest In Peace", was known as a ferocious and no-nonsense Indian fighter. Commonly missing from the history books was his proclivity for ordering the wholesale slaughter of any Indian, man or woman, he could find. Ford's reason for this was simple: Comanche raids were brutal in their treatment of settlers. Thus, Ford was determined to meet brutality with brutality.

Governor Runnels issued very explicit orders to Ford, "I impress upon you the necessity of action and energy. Follow any trail and all trails of hostile or suspected hostile Indians you may discover and if possible, overtake and chastise them if unfriendly".

On March 19, 1858, Ford went to the Brazos Reservation, near what today is the city of Fort Worth, Texas, and recruited the Tonkawa into his forces. Tonkawa Indians, the latter commanded by their "celebrated" chief Placido, hailed as the "faithful and implicitly trusted friend of the whites" (with limited mention of their cannibalism), undertook a campaign with approximately an equal number of Texas Rangers against the Comanches. Ford and Placido were determined to follow the Comanche and Kiowa up to their strongholds amid the hills of the Canadian River, and into the Wichita Mountains, and if possible, "kill their warriors, decimate their food supply, strike at their homes and families and generally destroy their ability to make war".

In April 1858, Ford established Camp Runnells near what used to be the town of Belknap. Ford was still operating under Governor Runnell's explicit orders to "follow any and all trails of hostile and suspected hostile Indians, inflict the most severe and summary punishment", and to "allow no interference from any source". 'Source' was interpreted to mean the United States, whose Army and Indian Agents might try to enforce federal treaties and federal statutory law against trespassing on the Indian territories in Oklahoma. On April 15, Ford's Rangers, accompanied by Tonkawa warriors, and Anadarko and Shawnee scouts from the Brazos Indian Reservation in Texas, crossed the Red River into Indian Territory. The force then advanced into the portion of the Comancheria in the Indian Territories in Oklahoma. Ford led his men across the Red River, into the Indian Territory, violating federal laws and numerous treaties, but stating later that his job was to "find and fight Indians, not to learn geography".

Battle of Little Robe Creek and death of Iron Jacket

At sunrise on May 12, 1858, Ford and his joint force of Rangers and Tonkawa began an all-day battle with a dawn attack on a sleeping Comanche village. The so-called Battle of Little Robe Creek was actually three distinct separate incidents which happened over the course of a single day. The first was the attack on the sleeping village. The second was a follow-up attack on the village of Iron Jacket, somewhat further up the Canadian River. Iron Jacket was killed in this exchange, and the remainder of his village was saved by the timely intervention of Peta Nocona with a third force of Comanche who arrived to engage Ford while all the villages along the Canadian made a swift withdrawal.

Iron Jacket's death came when he repeatedly rode down the line of firing Rangers and Tonkawa, taunting them. Many historians believe the mail that protected him from light weapons fire simply was not able to protect him from the buffalo gun used by Tonkawa Jim Pockmark which killed him or, as Ford records, "six rifle shots rang on the air". In any event, the death of their legendary chief discouraged his warriors, and only the timely intervention of his son, Peta Nocona, and his warriors saved Iron Jacket's village. As it was, his body could not be recovered, and it was scalped and partially eaten by the cannibalistic Tonkawas.

The Rangers broke up his coat of mail and kept the shingles for souvenirs. His other accoutrements, such as his lance and shield, were sent to the Governor in Austin for display.

Personal life
Iron Jacket's son was the famous Comanche War Chief Peta Nocona and his grandson was the last Comanche Chief Quanah Parker.

In popular culture
The 1980 film The Mountain Men featured a fictionalized version of Iron Jacket named "Chief Iron Belly", portrayed by Victor Jory.

Sources
 Webb, Walter Prescott The Texas Rangers: a Century of Frontier Defense, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1983
 Wallace, Ernest & Hoebel, E. Adamson The Comanche: Lords of the Southern Plains, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1952
 Schilz, Jodye Lynn Dickson and Schilz, Thomas F. Buffalo Hump and the Penateka Comanches, Texas Western Press, El Paso, 1989
 Nye, Wilbur Sturtevant. Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1983
 Newcomb, William W. Jr. The Indians of Texas: from Prehistorics to Modern Times, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1972
 Leckie, William H. The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1967
 Haley, James L. The Buffalo War: the History of the Red River Indians Uprising of 1874, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1976
 Hagan, William T. Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1976
 Fowler, Arlen L. The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1996
 Chalafant, William J. Without Quarter: the Wichita Expedition and the fight on Crooked Creek, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1991
 Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1970

Notes

External links
 Native American Nations - Iron Shirt
 Cynthia Ann Parker - Comanche (By Adoption)
 Ride the Wind, a novel of Cynthia Ann Parker by Lucia St. Clair Robson

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Nancy Margaret Regan (born March 20, 1966) is a Canadian actress, journalist, news anchor, and television personality, most known for her fifteen-year tenure as host of CTV's Live at 5, a live news and general interest television program reaching more than a quarter of a million viewers nightly.

She is the daughter of Anita Carole Thomas (née Harrison) and former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan, and the sister of both actress Laura Regan, and former Nova Scotia Liberal MP (and former House of Commons Speaker) Geoff Regan. Her maternal grandfather, John Harrison, was a Liberal MP for Meadow Lake in Saskatchewan. She is married to David Graham, son of former Liberal Senator (The Highlands, Alasdair Graham (1928–2015). They have one daughter, Alexandra.

She has also hosted CTV’s national weekend morning show Good Morning Canada and That News Show on TVTropolis.

She was crowned Miss Nova Scotia in 1986 and attended Miss Canada 1987.

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La Chavatte (; Picard: L’Chavate) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography
La Chavatte is situated on the D161 road, some  southeast of Amiens.

Population

See also
Communes of the Somme department
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References

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WDIZ (590 AM) was a radio station broadcasting an active rock format. Licensed to Panama City, Florida, United States, the station was last owned by iHeartMedia. The station went on the air as WDLP in 1940, and operated until May 2020; its license was surrendered, under the WDDV call sign that had never been used on the air, that August.

History
In 1939, three businessmen, William J. Cook, Phil Roll, and Ed DeWitt, founded the Panama City Broadcasting Company. In June 1939, Cook put in an application for the construction of a 250-watt-day, 100-watt-night radio station on West Beach Drive, transmitting on 1200 kHz. After it was approved, the station was assigned the call sign WRSR, which was never used. The station's owner, John H. Perry (owner of WJAX, WCOA, and later the Panama City News-Herald) changed the call letters to WDLP, after his wife Dorothy Lilly Perry. Personnel at the time of launch included Braden L. Ball (general manager), Fred Phillips (program director), Tony Veverka (continuity director), and LeRoy Gibson (advertising manager).

The station's launch and following festivities were widely publicized by the Panama City News-Herald. Charles Francis Coe, an author and boxing announcer, was the master of ceremonies. The station went on the air as WDLP at 7:00 PM local time on March 21, 1940. Shortly after an introduction by Coe, the Bay High School band (playing at the First Methodist Church) kicked off the entertainment with a rendition of Beer Barrel Polka. It is said that within minutes, the station's phone lines were flooded by angry churchgoers about their music choice. Quickly afterward, Coe transferred to Tom Yancey, head of the Panama City Chamber of Commerce. After some brief words, he interviewed some people in the audience. But, when he asked one man, "Sir, in your opinion, what do the letters WDLP stand for?", the man responded with virtually no hesitation: "I think it stands for 'we drink liquor publicly!'". Again, the calls came flooding in. Starting at 10 PM a dance was held at the Armory hosted by Tony Bruno and his 10-piece orchestra that lasted until the early morning hours. Soon, the station's call letters developed another meaning amongst listeners: "Where Days Linger Pleasantly."

WDLP, along with most of the stations on 1200 kHz, moved to 1230 kHz in March 1941, as part of the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement. On October 17, 1947, at 7:15 PM local time, the station moved to 590 kHz, along with use of a new facility building and a power increase to 1,000 watts. For a time, the two new transmitter towers (located in Springfield) were the tallest man-made objects in Panama City, measuring 306 ft (93 m) high, beating out the Dixie-Sherman Hotel on 5th Street by twenty feet (6 m).

In the latter half of 1950, WDLP announced plans to launch WDLP-FM as the first FM station in the Panama City area. The FM station went on the air at 8:30 a.m. local time on January 14, 1951, and boasted different programming from its AM counterpart. During daytime hours, if the AM station decided to air coverage of a football game, the FM station would air coverage of a different football game. However, during the night, programs on the AM station were duplicated on the FM band in order to reach areas which the reduced nighttime AM signal had difficulty covering,  including Tyndall Field, Port St. Joe, Blountstown, and Fort Walton Beach. WDLP-FM also carried coverage of every convention and City Commission meeting. However, at this time  FM receivers were still rare, and the lack of an audience resulted in the FM station ceasing broadcasting in 1958, with  its broadcast license deleted by the FCC in 1960.

In the 1960s, WDLP was a top 40 station. In early 1967, WDLP took another chance at operating an FM radio station. A second WDLP-FM went on the air on March 7, 1967, at 92.5 MHz. In May 1968, both WDLP and WDLP-FM fell into the ownership of a "Miracle Radio, Inc.". In March 1969, FM's callsign was changed to WPAP, and has since aired a modern country format.

For a short time in the 1980s, WDLP had a broadcasting studio on Panama City Beach. From 1981 to 1987, under the branding "59DLP" and broadcasting in AM stereo, they played mostly hits from the late forties through mid-sixties, wanting to rekindle the music played on the station's original Top 40 format. Ratings dwindled during 1985–86, and the station's staff were grasping at straws to find a way to restore its success, at any cost. This soon came with the sale of competitor beautiful music station WGNE in 1982 to Gulf Coast Community College and the sale and format change of its FM companion WGNE-FM in 1985 left former listeners clamouring for WGNE to make a return. Upon hearing this, in hopes that it would boost their then-ailing ratings, WDLP gave into the pressure. The last song played on WDLP was "Come Together" by The Beatles. On January 1, 1987, the station's call sign was changed to WGNE, and they began airing a beautiful music format. This only gave them limited success before the station was purchased in the early 1990s.

After this, the station tried a vacation radio format running infomercials for various Bay County tourist attractions. After this, 590 moved to easy listening and later adult standards with "The Breeze" branding. On November 8, 1996, the station changed its call sign to WDIZ; the call sign was previously used by a sister station in Orlando (now WRUM). In 1997, WDIZ, WPBH, WPAP, and WFSY were sold to iHeartMedia (then known as Clear Channel).

WDIZ changed their format to variety hits, branded as "96.3 Real Fun Beach Radio" (simulcast on FM translator W242BF), at noon on June 5, 2015. The first song on "Real Beach Fun Radio" was "Some Beach" by Blake Shelton.

On June 30, 2017, at 5 p.m., after playing "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles, WDIZ flipped to active rock as "96 Rock". The first song on "96 Rock" was "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" by  AC/DC. The "Real Fun Beach Radio" format continues on the IHeartRadio platform.

The AM signal was knocked off the air due to its tower being damaged by Hurricane Michael on October 10, 2018, leaving  its FM translator W242BF on 96.3 MHz as the only broadcast outlet for the station. This was soon repaired and the AM signal went back on the air in early January 2019.

Citing "recent market conditions", iHeartMedia shut down the WDIZ transmitter on May 15, 2020. The call sign was changed to WDDV on June 29, 2020, in a move that transferred the WDIZ call letters to 1320 AM in Venice. iHeartMedia surrendered WDDV's license on August 17, 2020, and its license was cancelled August 27, 2020. As a result, 96.3 FM W242BF switched its origin feed to WPAP-HD2.

References

External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWDDV (Facility ID: 66666)
FCC History Cards for WDDV (covering 1939-1981 as WRSR / WDLP)

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WYBT (1000 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. It is licensed to Blountstown, Florida, United States, and serves the Panama City area. The station is owned by WYBT, LLC.

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WPCF (1290 AM) is a Christian radio station licensed to Panama City Beach, Florida, USA. The station is owned by Faith Radio Network, Inc.

As a dance station, WPCF played talk-free Mainstream Dance Music each day, and then wide spectrum of EDM (electronic dance music). During the weekends the station also aired≈ a number of syndicated shows including "Future Sound of Egypt with Aly & Fila", "UMF Radio", "Kryteria Radio with Kryder", "The Remix Top 30 with Hollywood Hamilton", Drumcode Radio with Adam Beyer, and a number of weekly guest mixes.

On September 8, 2017, WPCF's FM translator changed frequencies from 93.9 to 92.9 MHz & increased power from 90 watts to 250 watts. On March 1, 2018, WPCF's translator switched frequencies again from 92.9 to 93.1 MHz due to interference from WBLX-FM out of Mobile, Alabama on the same frequency.

History
The station first signed on as WSCM on September 23, 1958, its callsign standing for "We Serve Country Music". Like WPAP would almost a decade later, they broadcast live sermons every Sunday.
The station was assigned the callsign WPCF on April 1, 1979, after the original WPCF left the 1430 spot.  On June 6, 1994, the station changed its call sign to WDLP then again on March 10, 2000, to the current WPCF.

On January 6, 2014, WPCF dropped its Trop-Rock format for all Dance and Electronic music, becoming "93.9 PLAY-FM" which is now on 93.1 as of March 1, 2018 under the operations of Patrick Pfeffer, owner of Club La Vela, a dance club in Panama City Beach that bills itself as "the largest nightclub in the USA".

On December 3, 2020, due to financial problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the station temporarily ceased broadcast. In June 2021, it was announced that the station had been sold by Evolution Broadcasting to Faith Radio Network, Inc. The sale, which included translator W226CJ, was consummated on August 26, 2021, at a price of $135,000.

In late 2021, the station began airing a Christian music format and is now branded as Faith Radio.

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Daniel Prévost (born 20 October 1939) is a French actor, comedian and writer.

Early life

Daniel Prévost, alias Denis Forestier, was born to Micheline Chevalier  and Mohand Ait Salem. His father was of Berber descent from Algeria (Kabylie region), a fact which he did not discover until later life.

Personal life
He is the father of actors Sören Prévost, Erling Prévost and Christophe Prévost.

Career
After attending drama school in Paris, Prévost made his theatre début alongside the likes of Michel Serrault in Un certain M. Blot.  In his early beginnings he both performed alongside Boby Lapointe and became acquainted with Jean Yanne, later becoming one of the latter's favourite actors.

Although his television and cinema career began in the 1960s, it was in the 1970s that he found fame through Jacques Martin's satirical news programme Le petit rapporteur, the part for which he is best known.

He excelled as an evilly leering tax inspector – "he'd audit his own mother" in Francis Veber's 1998 comedy Le Dîner de Cons for which he won the César Award for best supporting actor.

Filmography

Theater

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WLTG (1430 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Christian format. Licensed to Upper Grand Lagoon, Florida, United States, the station serves the Panama City area. WLTG has the distinction of being one of the radio stations with the lowest daytime power of any licensed AM station in the USA. It is one of few radio stations with a daytime power less than 250 watts. The station is currently owned by Laurie Broadcasting, Inc.

History
The station went on the air as WPCF on December 11, 1949, as an affiliate of the ABC Radio Network. The callsign originally stood for "Panama City, Florida". The signal shifted from 1400 to 1430 kHz in 1958; the change enabled a power increase from 250 to 5,000 watts.

From the 1950s until 1971, the station experimented with Christian programming numerous times. PCF would come to stand for Put Christ First (this would be marketed even after its move to 1290 kHz in 1979 up until its call sign change in 1994.) From 1971 to 1975, WPCF was an affiliate of the "Happy Day Radio" network, a syndicated Top 40 format initially established by jocks of WRC, but between then and 1978, what its format was changed to is unknown.

On June 7, 1978, WPCF became WWWQ, and began broadcasting under an AC format under the name 3WQ. On September 15, 1982, keeping the 3WQ moniker, its format switched to country. This lasted until March 11, 1985, when the station changed its call sign to WKSD and again on February 19, 1986, to WLTG. WLTG was originally a Contemporary Christian station which would occasionally broadcast baseball and football games (mostly those of the Atlanta Braves). In mid-1991, the format was switched to CNN Headline News. The independent "NewsTalk 1430" branding has persisted since the early 2000s.

On December 28, 2018, a permit was granted to construct an FM translator for the station. This new signal, located on 101.7 MHz, launched under the callsign W269DR on January 1, 2019.

On September 23, 2020, WLTG changed their format from news/talk to rhythmic contemporary, branded as "Hot 101.7". Effective October 29, 2020, the station was granted authorization for its new community of license, moving from Panama City to Upper Grand Lagoon, and the transmitter power was downgraded from 5,000 watts to 125 watts day, and 60 watts night.

On July 12, 2021, WLTG changed their format from rhythmic contemporary to tropical rock. Effective August 1, 2021, the station flipped to a simulcast of Spanish Christian “Radio Fe” heard on WFRF, operated under a lease by Faith Broadcasting.

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HPItv (Horseplayer Interactive Television) is a Canadian English language Category B specialty network owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group. HPItv broadcasts thoroughbred, standardbred, and harness racing events and related programming.

Channels and content
HPItv consists of 4 multiplex channels:

 HPItv is the network's flagship feed. It features thoroughbred and harness racing from up to four tracks at a time in a quad-split screen format.
 HPItv Canada provides daily live coverage of primarily Canadian racetracks.
 HPItv International provides daily live coverage from primarily U.S. racetracks. International also features Great Britain & Ireland in the mornings and Australia & Hong Kong in the evening and some overnight.
 HPItv West provides daily live coverage from primarily Western racetracks in Canada and the United States.

History
In November 2000, a joint venture between The Ontario Jockey Club (90%) and BCE Media (10%) called the Ontario Jockey Club (Partnership), was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called The Racing Network Canada, described as "a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service dedicated to Canadian and international horse racing and horse racing related programming, including live races, related commentary, odds, replays, and results."

Prior to the channel's launch, in September 2001, the Ontario Jockey Club changed its name to Woodbine Entertainment Group and purchased BCE Media's shares in the service.

Later that same month, the channel was launched as The Racing Network Canada (TRN) with four multiplex channels— three devoted to live matches (Live Horse Racing Channel, Full Card Favourites - 1, and Full Card Favourites - 2) and one displaying pool odds, probables and results (Live Canadian Odds Channel). In 2004, TRN launched a fifth channel, TRN West.

In March 2005, TRN was rebranded HPItv to align it with Woodbine's online and telephone wagering service, HorsePlayer Interactive (HPI).

On January 11, 2017, Woodbine Entertainment Group announced that it would shutter the service on April 11, 2017, due to diminishing subscribers and rising production costs. The main channel was to continue to operate with a lighter track load until the scheduled closing date, and on minimal staff. Despite the intended closure of the channel, the HPItv Canada, HPItv International, and HPItv West feeds, which operate under a pay-per-view (PPV) licence agreement, would continue to be offered to television service providers. On February 27, 2017, Woodbine Entertainment Group announced that it was reversing its decision to discontinue the service, citing feedback from horseplayers and racing fans. Despite not shuttering the service entirely, only the HPItv Odds channel would be shuttered on May 1, 2017, while the flagship channel, HPItv, would remain on the air in a revised format which launched on March 1, 2017, whereby the live feed of up to four tracks will be displayed simultaneously on a new quad-split screen format throughout the racing day and evening. This eliminated the need for the staff running the original channel that switched between tracks throughout the day. The 3 remaining PPV channels would remain on air displaying one track at a time, as was always the format.

References

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 Official website

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Thomas John Lesley Miles (17 November 1905 – 9 October 1961) was an Australian professional athlete/sprinter who won the 1927 Stawell Gift sprint race and 1928 World Champion by defeating then reigning champion, Tim Banner.

Early life
Miles was born in Bundaberg, the son of James Miles (1878-1940) and Grace Merrifield Nicholson (1885-1943). He attended Bundaberg South State School from 1911.

Later life
Miles died after being struck by a car in Brisbane in 1961.

External links
 Confirmation of the above and photo of Tom Miles is held at the Bundaberg & District Historical Museum  Refer Museum Co-ordinator, Mrs Christine Spence.
 http://www.stawellgift.com/images/stories/documents/stawell%20gift%20winners%20since%201878.xls

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Sir Christopher William Codrington (12 March 1805 – 24 June 1864), of Dodington, Gloucestershire, was a British MP for East Gloucestershire between 7 August 1834 and 24 June 1864 and a landowner in Gloucestershire.

Codrington was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election on 7 August 1834, to replace Sir Berkeley Guise, 2nd Baronet (who had died 23 July 1834) as one of the two members for the East Gloucestershire parliamentary constituency. He was re-elected on 10 January 1835, on 5 July 1841, on 27 February 1847 (with his young brother-in-law the Marquess of Worcester), in 1852 again with Worcester.  When Worcester's father died in 1853, he became 8th Duke of Beaufort and was translated to the House of Lords.  His seat was then filled briefly by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 8th Baronet between 9 January 1854 and 29 November 1854 when Hicks-Beach died.  A second by-election on 19 December 1854 resulted in the election of Robert Stayner Holford, a wealthy landowner and dilettante, as the second member. Codrington and Holford represented East Gloucestershire for the next ten years, until Codrington's own death.

Family
Codrington was the eldest son of Christopher Bethell-Codrington (died 1843), of Doddington Park, Gloucestershire, since 1764, and the grandson of Edward Codrington. The elder Christopher had inherited Dodington Park from a relative who disinherited his son; he was required to change his name to Bethell-Codrington (thus his son is also sometimes known as Christopher Bethell-Codrington).  His mother was the Hon. Harriet Foley (d. 1843) daughter of Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley of Kidderminster (1742–1793) by his wife Lady Henrietta Stanhope, herself daughter of the Earl of Harrington. Through his maternal grandmother, Codrington was thus connected to the earls of Sefton, the barons Penrhyn and landed gentry families.

In 1836, Codrington married Lady Georgiana Charlotte Anne Somerset (1817–1884), second daughter of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, and younger daughter by his first wife Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy (d. 1821), a niece of the Duke of Wellington. Georgiana's paternal ancestors included the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family and the Delancey family of British North America. They had issue
 Sir Gerald William Henry Codrington, 1st Bt., of Dodington Park (1850–1929), married in 1887 his first half-cousin maternally, Lady Edith Henrietta Sybil Denison (d. 1945), daughter of William Henry Forester Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough by his wife Lady Edith Frances Wilhelmina Somerset (1838–1915), youngest daughter of the 7th Duke of Beaufort. They had issue.
 Captain George John Granville Christopher Codrington (1855–1932).
 Alice Emily Georgiana Olivia Codrington (d. 1920), who married 1891 Sir Henry Mervyn Vavasour, 3rd Bt., of Spalington (1814–1912), son and heir of Sir Henry Maghull Mervin Vavasour, 2nd Bt., and had issue, one daughter.  With his death without surviving heirs male, the baronetcy created in 1801 became extinct in the third generation.

Codrington's elder son Gerald was created a baronet in 1876.

See also
Codrington baronets

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Sigurd Holter  (19 November 1886 – 1 August 1963)   was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic champion.

He was a crew member of the Norwegian boat Eleda (cox Erik Herseth), which won the gold medal in the 10 metre class (1907 rating) at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.

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Ralph DiGia (December 13, 1914 – February 1, 2008) was a World War II conscientious objector, lifelong pacifist and social justice activist, and staffer for 52 years at the War Resisters League.

Born in the Bronx to a family of Italian immigrants (his father was an anarchist barber) in 1914, DiGia grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. A 1927 rally for Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti set him on the path he would follow for 80 years.

At the College of the City of New York, where he was studying bookkeeping, DiGia signed the "Oxford Pledge," refusing to participate in the coming war. In 1942, when the Selective Service System ordered him to report for induction, he said he was a conscientious objector. But his objections to war were based on ethics, not religion, and the draft board had no category for secular COs. The U.S. Attorney's office referred him to pacifist lawyer Julian Cornell, at the War Resisters League; Cornell lost his case, and DiGia spent the next three years in federal prisons.

At Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut, and later at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, he met other draft resisters, like Dave Dellinger, who some decades later would be a defendant in the Chicago Seven case, and Bill Sutherland, who would move to Africa after the war and eventually become a pan-Africanist advocate for nonviolence. While in prison, DiGia and other COs conducted hunger strikes to compel the prison system to integrate its dining halls. They succeeded.  In 1946, along with Dellinger, Igal Roodenko, and others, DeGia helped found the radical pacifist Committee for Nonviolent Revolution.

Opposition to the Cold War

After his release, he joined a New Jersey commune with Dellinger.  In 1951, DiGia, Dellinger, Sutherland, and fellow CO Art Emery bicycled from Paris to Vienna, handing out antiwar leaflets as they went, urging Cold War soldiers everywhere to lay down their arms and refuse to fight. In the early 1950s, he left the commune and moved to the Manhattan area that would later be called Soho, where he lived for the rest of his life, and in 1955 he joined the War Resisters League staff as a bookkeeper. The following year he convinced the organization to help him to refuse his war taxes by not withholding federal taxes from his paycheck. In the early 1960s, he was arrested more than once for not taking shelter during the "civil defense" drills. In 1964 he served four weeks in jail in Albany, Georgia (with, among others, the late peace theorist Barbara Deming) in the Quebec-Washington-Guantánamo Peace Walk organized by the Committee for Non-Violent Action.

Opposition to the Vietnam War

During the Vietnam War, DiGia did necessary office work at WRL but also organized demonstrations and counseled draft resisters. In 1971 he was among 13,500 arrested in the May Day antiwar actions in Washington.

Anti-nuclear work
When the Vietnam War ended, WRL took on anti-nuclear work. In 1977, he protested nuclear power at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station in New Hampshire. In 1978 he was arrested on the White House lawn while he was demanding nuclear disarmament. He was in New York's Central Park in June 1982 when a million people said, "No Nukes!" He was at dozens of demonstrations at the United Nations.

Later life

In the 1990s, he traveled frequently to Bosnia with his wife, Karin DiGia, and worked with her relief agency  Children in Crisis, which Karin created, but also continued to demonstrate for peace and justice at home. In 1996, he became a volunteer instead of a paid staffer at WRL, but continued to work there five days a week. In 1998, he was arrested in Washington at WRL's "A Day Without the Pentagon" in 1998 and at the mass protests against the acquittal of the New York City police officers who shot Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo in 1999. He continued his work at the WRL office until his 93rd birthday, in December 2007. He often said he was even an activist at the ball park: an ardent New York Mets fan, he remained seated, on principle, during the national anthem.

In 1996, the Peace Abbey, the multifaith retreat center in Sherborn, Massachusetts, gave DiGia its Courage of Conscience award "for his example as a conscientious objector and for over forty years of dedicated service at the War Resisters League." In 2005, WRL gave the 40th annual War Resisters League Peace Award to DiGia and his longtime colleague, former photographer Karl Bissinger.

He continued his war opposition, including opposing the Iraq War.

Death
In the winter of 2007-2008, after a fall and hip fracture, he developed pneumonia and died February 1, 2008, at 7:22 AM (2:22 AM GMT)

Memorials
Ralph DiGia Fund for Peace and Justice

References

The Daily Kos,
Interview by Philip Metres,
Direct Action: Radical Pacifism From the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven, by James Tracy (1996, University of Chicago Press).
A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories, by Larry Gara (1999, Kent State University Press).
Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963, by Scott H. Bennett (Syracuse University Press, 2003).

1914 births
2008 deaths
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American pacifists
American anti-war activists
American anti–nuclear power activists
American anti–nuclear weapons activists
American tax resisters
American prisoners and detainees
City College of New York alumni
People from the Bronx
Nonviolence advocates
War Resisters League activists
Activists from New York (state)
Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government


Hayley Higham (born 3 January 1974, in Dorchester) is a British runner. She is the sister-in-law of fellow British runner Liz Yelling.

She works as a Maths teacher at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, Buckinghamshire and runs for the Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club. She has competed for England in the Commonwealth Games and for Great Britain in a number of competitions. In December 2004 she won the European Cross Country Championship in Heringsdorf.

In December 2009 she won the European Cross Country Championship in Dublin after coming out of retirement from competitive running. She followed this up a month later by coming fourth in the 2010 International Edinburgh Cross Country, fourteen seconds after winner Tirunesh Dibaba over the freezing 5.8 kilometre course.

Career highlights

British National Championships
2002 - 1st, 5,000 m
2003 - 1st, 10,000 m
2003 - 1st, 5,000 m
2006 - 1st, 5,000 m

Other competitions
2004 - 1st, European Cross Country Championships
2007 - 1st, Cross Internacional de San Sebastián
2008 - 1st, Belfast International Cross Country
2009 - 1st, European Cross Country Championships

Personal bests

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Dusk was a Canadian English language specialty channel. Dusk broadcast programming consisting of films, television dramas, and reality TV, and documentary-style television series from the thriller, suspense and supernatural genres.

Dusk went on the air on September 7, 2001, as Scream (stylized as SCREAM), under the ownership of Corus Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis as a Category 2 service. During its early years, Scream broadcast horror, thriller, and suspense films along with some television series. After the acquisition of Alliance Atlantis by Canwest and Goldman Sachs, the channel was relaunched as Dusk in 2009, with a pivot from horror to paranormal- and suspense-themed programming to appeal to a wider audience.

Two years after Canwest was sold to Shaw Media, a sister company of Corus, the channel ended operations in March 2012 and was largely replaced on most providers by ABC Spark.

History
In November 2000, Corus, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called HorrorVision, which would be devoted primarily to the horror and thriller genres.

The channel was launched as Scream on September 7, 2001, as a joint venture between Corus Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis. Programming on Scream focused primarily on horror, thriller, suspense films and television series.

On January 18, 2008, a joint venture between Canwest and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners known as CW Media, acquired 49% of Scream through its purchase of Alliance Atlantis' broadcasting assets, which were placed in a trust in August 2007.

On September 9, 2009, Scream was re-launched as Dusk, shifting away from horror and "gore" to focus more broadly on paranormal and suspense-driven programming (such as Supernatural and mainstream film premieres such as Along Came a Spider), to appeal to a broader viewer demographic such as women.

On October 27, 2010, ownership changed once again as Shaw Communications gained a 49% stake in Scream as a result of its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs' interest in CW Media.

On February 10, 2012, Dusk revealed through an announcement via its Twitter and Facebook accounts, that it would be ceasing operations on March 23, 2012. A statement later announced on the channel's website stated the channel was being shuttered for strategic reasons to concentrate on "areas of expertise." Corus later indicated more specifically, through CRTC filings, that Dusk was discontinued to proceed with the launch of ABC Spark, such that Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct could carry the latter while complying with the CRTC's "3:1 ratio" policy (which limits the proportion of speciality channels carried from companies affiliated with a particular service provider).

The last program aired on Dusk was the 1990 film Ghost, which was aired in a 24-hour marathon on March 22. As before the movie was finished, the network either signed off the air by going dark or changed over to ABC Spark at 6:00 am ET on March 23.

Epilogue
Dusk was Canada's first horror television channel dedicated to the thriller, suspense and horror genres and was one of the most-watched new speciality channels.

After Dusk's closure, another attempt to launch a horror-based channel took place five years later when  Sylvain Gagné, owner of IO Média inc., launched Frissons TV in September 2017 with its English counterpart, Terror TV to be launched.

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Gary Glasgow (born 13 May 1976) is a Trinidadian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Career
Born in Arima, Glasgow played in Trinidad, the United States, and China for San Juan Jabloteh, Defence Force, New Orleans Storm, Richmond Kickers, Kansas City Wizards, Hampton Roads Mariners, Guangzhou Xiangxue/Guangzhou Rizhiquan, Henan Jianye, North East Stars, Joe Public, United Petrotrin, WASA St. Joseph and Guaya United.

He also played for Trinidad and Tobago at international level, scoring 14 goals in 52 games.

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1976 births
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Sportspeople from Arima
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San Juan Jabloteh F.C. players
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Sporting Kansas City players
Virginia Beach Mariners players
Guangzhou F.C. players
Henan F.C. players
AC Port of Spain players
Joe Public F.C. players
United Petrotrin F.C. players
Guaya United F.C. players
TT Pro League players
A-League (1995–2004) players
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Men's association football forwards
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Richard Frank Icasiano Gomez (; born April 7, 1966) is a Filipino actor, television presenter and director, politician, and épée fencer. He has been serving as the Representative of Leyte's 4th district since 2022, and was mayor of Ormoc from 2016 to 2022.

Gomez was a leading actor in the early 1990s, earning several awards and nominations. He played the title character in Super Islaw and The Flying Kids (1986) and appeared in the romantic drama films Nagbabagang Luha and Babaing Hampaslupa (both 1988), and starred in Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (1991) opposite Dawn Zulueta. From 1987 to 1998, he co-starred in the ABS-CBN sitcom Palibhasa Lalake alongside John Estrada and Joey Marquez. In 1998, he married actress Lucy Torres, who later also became a politician. The couple starred in the ABS-CBN sitcom Richard Loves Lucy from 1998 to 2001. He was then part of the main casts of Mano Po (2002) and The Trial (2014), and appeared in the GMA sitcom Lagot Ka, Isusumbong Kita (2003–2007), and teleseryes Captain Barbell (2006–2007), Marimar (2007–2008), and Codename: Asero (2008). He was paired again with Zulueta in Walang Hanggan (2012), The Love Affair (2015), and You're My Home (2015–2016). He also co-hosted the talk show S-Files (2002–2007), and presented the Philippine version of Family Feud (2008–2009).

In politics, Gomez had an unsuccessful start. His party was disqualified in the 2001 House of Representatives elections, and he then lost in the 2007 Senate election. He moved to his wife's hometown of Ormoc to run for the local House seat in 2010 but was disqualified for failing to establish residency. In 2013, he lost the mayoral election but won in 2016 and was re-elected in 2019. In fencing, he was a member of the Philippines team that won gold in the team men's épée event at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games. He is also serving as president of the Philippine Fencing Association (PFA) since 2016.

Biography and entertainment career
He is the only child of race car driver Eddie Kelly Gomez and Josephine Icasiano (known famously by her stage name Stella Suarez), an actress in the 1960s, both ethnic Tagalogs from Metro Manila (paternal ancestry) as well as Bulacan (maternal ancestry). His cousin is Stella Suarez Jr. (also known as Pinky Suarez) who was adopted by his parents and raised as his sibling. He was raised by his grandmother after his parents separated.

He was working at McDonald's when he was discovered by his late talent manager Douglas Quijano. He then became one of the faces of Bench, a Philippine clothing brand. He debuted in acting in the 1984 movie Hindi Mo Ako Kayang Tapakan.

In 1998, he married Lucy Torres with whom he has a daughter. In 2002, he transferred to GMA network with his first melodrama show, Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw and its sequel Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw Pa Rin as well as presenting S-Files. His first GMA sitcom was Lagot Ka, Isusumbong Kita which aired from 2003 to 2007.

He was a gold medalist in fencing at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, and was elected president of the Philippine Fencing Association (PFA) in 2016; he was re-elected in 2021. He is an organizer for "Goma Cup" and MAD (Mamamayan Ayaw sa Droga), a campaign against use of illegal drugs. He became one of the owners of "FELIX", a restaurant in Greenbelt 5 Makati.

Gomez hosted the Philippine edition of Family Feud on GMA Network.
He is a former GMA Network contract artist under GMA Artist Center.

After his movie Filipinas in 2003, Gomez made a comeback in the indie film Bente which starred Senator Jinggoy Estrada and Iza Calzado. He briefly returned to GMA Network in the weekly drama anthology, Claudine, and returned to the Kapatid Network The 5 Network after 17 years by hosting the weekend variety show, P.O.5.. He appeared in the drama show, My Driver Sweet Lover, and Mga Nagbabagang Bulaklak. Gomez was part of the teleseries Walang Hanggan from January 16, 2012. He co-hosted The Biggest Game Show In The World (Asia) with Joey de Leon, and appeared in the comedy-drama, Madam Chairman. In 2015, he starred in the mystery drama You're My Home with Dawn Zulueta and an ensemble cast.

Aside from his native tongue Tagalog, Gomez is also fluent in English and Cebuano.

Education
He graduated from the University of the Philippines Open University (Associate in Arts, 2009) and the University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (Masters in Business Administration, 2016). He earned a doctorate in public administration from the Cebu Technological University in 2019.

Political career
Gomez was a nominee of Mamamayan Ayaw sa Droga (MAD) Partylist in the Congressional election of 2001. Their party won but was disqualified for failing to present proof of sectoral representation. He planned to run as governor of Bulacan province  but, lacking the residency requirements, ran instead as an independent in the 2007 Senatorial elections which he lost.

In 2010, he ran for a seat in the Congress for the 4th district of Leyte but was disqualified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for failing to establish residency in Ormoc City. His wife, Lucy Torres-Gomez, took his place and won. He served as his wife's chief of staff during her term as congresswoman.

In 2013, he ran for mayor of Ormoc City but lost. He was finally elected as Mayor in 2016 and was reelected in 2019.

He ran for a seat in the Congress for the 4th district of Leyte in 2022, switching places with his wife and eventually won.

Filmography

Films
1984
Hindi Mo Ako Kayang Tapakan - Jun
1985
Naked Paradise
Inday Bote - Edward Salameda
Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang ("Zombie" segment) - Zombie
I Can't Stop Loving You - Alvin Laurel
1986
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Blusang Itim - Angelo
When I Fall in Love - Dong
Balimbing: Mga Taong Hunyango
Paalam...Bukas ang Kasal Ko - Paul Raymundo
Super Islaw and the Flying Kids - Islaw/Super Islaw
Nasaan Ka Nang Kailangan Kita - Dinky
Tuklaw
1987
Once Upon a Time - Rommel
Tagos ng Dugo - Pepito
Forward March - Danny
Ibigay Mo sa Akin ang Bukas
Kid, Huwag Kang Susuko - Cesar 'Shawie' Arroyo
Paano Kung Wala Ka Na - Sonny
Kumander Gringa
1988
Fly Me to the Moon - Prinsipe Dax
Stupid Cupid ("Forever My Love" segment) - Ruel
Nasaan Ka Inay - Donald
Buy One, Take One
Nagbabagang Luha - Bien
Sa Akin Pa Rin ang Bukas
Lamat sa Kristal (TV movie)
Babaing Hampaslupa - Jimmy
1989
Kailan Mahuhusgahan ang Kasalanan - Robert Quintana
Kahit Wala Ka Na - Patrick
Impaktita - Rudy
Eastwood & Bronson: Palibhasa Detektib - Eastwood
Rape of Virginia P.
Isang Araw Walang Diyos - Lt.Cary Altamonte
Rosenda - Efren
1990
Dyesebel - Edward
Nagsimula sa Puso - Carlo
Hanggang Saan ang Tapang Mo - Ruben Alejandro
Kapag Langit ang Humatol - Hector
Iputok Mo... Dadapa Ako! (Hard to Die) - Tricycle driver
Lover's Delight - Machete
Shake, Rattle & Roll II ("Aswang" segment) - Tricycle Driver
1991
I Want to Live
Para sa Iyo ang Huling Bala Ko - Quintin
Hihintayin Kita sa Langit - Gabriel
Buburahin Kita sa Mundo - Rodel Segovia
1992
Your Dream Is Mine
True Confessions (Evelyn, Myrna & Maggie)
Lumayo Ka Nga sa Akin - Raul
Ikaw ang Lahat sa Akin - Cesar
Iisa Pa Lamang - Arman
Buddy en Sol (Sine Ito)
Ang Siga at ang Sosyal
Paminsan-minsan
Ngayon at Kailanman - Edwin Torres
Ikaw Pala ang Minahal - David
1993
Saan Ka Man Naroroon - Miguel
1994
Wating - Ardo
Bakit Pa Kita Minahal - Teddy
Maalaala Mo Kaya: The Movie - Mike
Sana'y Mapatawad Mo - Bong
Kapantay ay Langit - Steve
1995
Eskapo - Sergio Osmeña III
Sa'yo Lamang - Andrew
Dahas - Jake
1997
Kahit Kailan
Hanggang Kailan Kita Mamahalin - Mike Reyes
1998
Walang Katumbas ang Dugo
Ang Babae sa Bintana - Mitch
1999
Linlang - Lance
2000
Minsan Minahal Kita - Albert Simone
2002
Ikaw Lamang Hanggang Ngayon - Ryan
Mano Po - Raf
2003
Walang Kapalit - Dennis Rustia
Filipinas - Samuel Filipinas
2006
Eternity - Fencing Instructor
2009
Bente - Roman
2013
Sonata with Cherie Gil
2014
She's Dating the Gangster - Old Kenji
The Janitor with Dennis Trillo
The Trial - Julian Bien
2015
The Love Affair - Vince Ramos
2016
Love Me Tomorrow - cameo
2018
Three Words to Forever - Rick Andrada

Television

Awards and nominations

Film
FAMAS  Award for Best Actor for The Love Affair (nominee)
 Gawad TANGLAW Awards 2015 for Best Supporting Actor for The Trial
 17th Gawad PASADO Awards 2015 for PinakaPASADOng Katuwang na Aktor for The Trial
FAMAS Award for Best Actor for Filipinas (nominee)
FAMAS Award for Best Actor for Dahas
FAP Award for Best Actor for Dahas (tied with Fernando Poe Jr. for Kahit Butas ng Karayom)
Gawad Urian Award for Best Actor for Dahas (nominee)
Gawad Urian Award for Best Actor for Waiting
Gawad Urian Award for Best Actor for Ikaw Ang Lahat Sa Akin (nominee)
Gawad Urian Award for Best Actor for Saan Ka Man Naroroon
Gawad Urian Award for Best Actor for Nagsimula sa Puso (nominee)
Gawad Urian Award for Best Actor for Hihintayin Kita Sa Langit
Metro Manila Film Festival 2003 for People's Choice Awards for Best Actor for Filipinas
Metro Manila Film Festival 1995 for Best Actor for Dahas
Star Awards for Movies: Actor of the Year for Dahas (1996)

Television
23rd PMPC Star Awards for TV Best Game Show Host for Family Feud (Philippine Edition)
26th PMPC Star Awards for TV Best Drama Actor for Walang Hanggan (nominee)
Golden Screen TV Awards 2013 Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama Series for Walang Hanggan
30th PMPC Star Awards for TV Best Drama Actor for You're My Home (nominee)

Sports
2005 Southeast Asian Games for fencing (Men's Team Épée) - Gold Medalist

Others
Metro Manila Film Festival 2011 for Ellen Lising Male Face of the Night
GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards 2013 for All Time Favorite Love Team on Movies and TV (with Dawn Zulueta)

References

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20th-century Filipino male actors
21st-century Filipino male actors
ABS-CBN personalities
Asian Games competitors for the Philippines
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Fencers at the 2002 Asian Games

Filipino male comedians
Filipino male épée fencers
Filipino male film actors
Filipino male models
Filipino male television actors
Filipino television directors
GMA Network personalities
Independent politicians in the Philippines
Liberal Party (Philippines) politicians
Male actors from Cebu
Tagalog people
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SEA Games gold medalists for the Philippines
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TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
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Filipino actor-politicians
Comedians from Manila


WTGF (90.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Southern Gospel format. Licensed to Milton, Florida, United States, the station serves the Pensacola area.  The station is currently owned by, and is a ministry of, Faith Baptist Ministries.

History
The station went on the air as WTGF on 1993-05-14.  According to FCC records, the station was silent, and its calls were deleted (as "DWTGF") from 2004-08-31 until 2004-10-21.

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1993 establishments in Florida
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States
TGF


Chépy (; Picard: Chpy) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography
The commune is situated on the D465 and D65 crossroads, some  southwest of Abbeville.

Population

Controversy
In 2015, the official spelling of the name of the commune is "Chépy" as specified by the Official Geographical Code of the French Republic. Some inhabitants in this commune believe the spelling "Chépy" is wrong and should be replaced by "Chepy" and pronounced thus.

See also
Communes of the Somme department
Réseau des Bains de Mer

References

Communes of Somme (department)


WVTJ (610 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format.  Licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States, the station serves the Pensacola area.  The station is owned by Pensacola Radio Corporation and features programming from Salem Communications.

References

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VTJ
Radio stations established in 1965
1965 establishments in Florida


Progressive inflammatory neuropathy is a disease that was identified in a report, released on January 31, 2008, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first known outbreak of this neuropathy occurred in southeastern Minnesota in the United States. The disease was reported among pig slaughterhouse workers who appeared at various care facilities in the area reporting similar neurological symptoms. The disease was later identified at pork processing plants in Indiana and Nebraska as well. The condition is characterized by acute paralysis, pain, fatigue, numbness, and weakness, especially in extremities.  It was initially believed that workers might have contracted the disease through inhaling aerosols from pig brains blown through a compressed-air hose and that this exposure to pig neural tissue induced an autoimmune response that might have produced their mysterious peripheral neuropathy. These suspicions were confirmed in reports and investigations conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Cause

An initial comprehensive study of 24 known cases was conducted by multiple doctors from various disciplines at the Mayo Clinic.  They identified the cause of this neurological disease to be occupational exposure to aerosolized pig neural tissue. Investigators from the Minnesota Department of Health simultaneously determined that the 70 ppsi pressure used to liquefy and extract the pig brains caused the aerosolization of the pig neural tissue, sending it into the air in a fine mist. The workers closest in proximity to the "head" table, the area in the plant where high pressured air was used to evacuate the brain tissue from the pig's skull, were the most likely to be affected. The aerosolized mist was inhaled and readily absorbed into the workers' mucus membranes. The pig neural tissue was recognized by their systems as foreign and an immune response was initiated. The pig antigen was found most prominently in the nerve roots of the spine which were also swollen. Researchers determined that the irritation was due to the voltage-gated potassium channels being blocked. They identified 125 1-α-dendrotoxin as the antagonist that binds to and blocks the channels, causing an intracellular build-up of potassium ions which causes inflammation and irritation, and consequently, hyper-excitability in the peripheral nervous system. It is this hyper-excitability that leads to the tingling, numbness, pain, and weakness.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic developed a mouse model that received twice daily liquefied pig neural tissue intranasally to replicate the symptoms that the workers were experiencing. Physiological testing indicated signature antibodies in the mouse model at 100% in potassium channel antibodies and myelin basic antibodies, and 91% in calcium channel antibodies. This model allowed the researchers to decipher what was causing these neurological symptoms.  It was found that the potassium channels were being blocked so that inflammation was occurring at the nerve root and causing hyper-excitability down the peripheral nerves.

Diagnosis

Over 40 laboratory tests were initially conducted to rule out various pathogens and environmental toxins. These tests were used to try to identify potential viruses carried by humans, pigs, or both, including rotaviruses, adenoviruses, hepatitis A, and hepatitis E. They also tried to identify bacteria such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli, and parasites such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium that could be causing the symptoms.  All were ruled out.

Neurodegenerative diseases were considered specifically because of the similarity of symptoms and animal involvement thus included investigation of prion associated diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), chronic wasting disease (CWD), and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. These all have highly transmissible pathogenic agents that induce brain damage.  Since no pathogenic agent had been found, these diseases were ruled out as being related.

Next two very similar neuropathies were ruled out. Guillain–Barré syndrome induces an acute autoimmune response which affects the Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system. Guillain–Barré syndrome is usually triggered by an infection that causes weakness and tingling that may lead to muscle loss. This condition may be life-threatening if muscle atrophy ascends to affect the pulmonary or cardiac systems. So far, no infectious agents have been found that relate to the current disease, progressive infammatory neuropathy. They looked at chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy which is characterized by progressive weakness and sensory impairment in the arms and legs. Damage occurs to the myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous system. As doctors at the Mayo Clinic were beginning to note, the problem they were seeing in progressive inflammatory neuropathy was occurring in the spinal nerve roots.

Treatment

In October 2007 an astute medical interpreter noticed similar neurological symptoms being reported by Spanish-speaking patients seeking treatment from different physicians at the Austin Medical Center, in Austin, Minnesota. Not only did these patients share similar neurological symptoms, they also worked at the same pork processing plant. Dr. Daniel LaChance, a physician at both the Austin Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic in nearby Rochester, Minnesota, was notified.  He launched a request to area physicians to refer other patients with similar symptoms to him. The Minnesota Department of Health was notified and began an investigation into the "outbreak." They identified workers from two other pork processing plants in Indiana and Nebraska who also had parallel neurological complaints. Several agencies including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were brought in to assist. Simultaneously investigations were conducted to rule out contagious disease, to locate the source or carrier, and to identify what exactly was causing these workers to develop these symptoms.

Removal from exposure was the first line of treatment.  Due to progressive sensory loss and weakness, immunotherapy was often required. These treatments included intravenous methylprednisolone, oral prednisone, azathioprine, and/or immunoglobulin. All 24 patients improved, including 7 who received no treatment and 17 who required immunotherapy.

Prognosis

It is expected that there will be no new cases of progressive inflammatory neuropathy since the process of aerosolizing the pig brains has been discontinued at all pork processing facilities.

See also

 Autoimmune disease
 Neuropathy
 Peripheral neuropathy
 Polyneuropathy

References

Autoimmune diseases
Neurological disorders


WRNE (980 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an urban adult contemporary format. Licensed to Gulf Breeze, Florida, the station serves the Pensacola area. It is owned by Media One Communications, Inc.  Its studios are in Ensley, Florida (with a Pensacola address), and its transmitter is near Avalon Beach, Florida.

The station was first licensed, as WBOP, on November 27, 1956. The station's call sign was changed to WCHZ on July 18, 1985. On July 3, 1986, the station changed its call sign to WFXP and, on December 28, 1990, to WRNE.

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WNVY (1070 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Cantonment, Florida, United States, the station serves the Pensacola area. The station is currently owned by Pensacola Radio Corporation.

History
The station was assigned the call letters WJBW on 1991-08-19. On 1993-04-21, the station changed its call sign to WKGT then on 1994-01-31 to the current WNVY.
Played nostalgia and easy listening in 1993–1994, and home of the "Toast of the Coast" morning show.

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WDWR (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Catholic radio format. Licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States, the station serves the Pensacola area. The station is currently owned by La Promesa Foundation.

History

WEAR
The station currently operating as WDWR began broadcasting as WEAR at 1490 kilohertz on April 1, 1947. It was Pensacola's third radio station, carrying programs of the Mutual Broadcasting System and owned by Gulfport Broadcasting Company, consisting of investors from Pensacola and Texas. The 250-watt outlet moved to 1230 on February 1, 1950. WEAR's affiliation soon changed to ABC, in time for WEAR to spawn a television station: WEAR-TV channel 3, which began telecasting January 13, 1954.

On the morning of May 21, 1956, a fire consumed the station's transmitter and two wooden buildings on Bayou Chico. The fire was lit by a five-year-old boy using paper and his mother's cigarette lighter. Four firefighters had to be treated for smoke inhalation after battling the blaze.

WNVY
In late 1957, Gulfport sold the radio station to the new Florida Radio and Broadcasting Company, a mostly Jacksonville-based concern headed by Ed Bell, an on-air personality in that city. Studio space was obtained in the San Carlos Hotel, and on January 1, 1958, a day after closing on the purchase, WEAR became WNVY. Under its new name and ownership, the station quickly made a mark on Pensacola as a Top 40 outlet. While some criticized the station's music mix—resulting in the station's manager criticizing "the most vicious, dishonest smear campaign ever perpetrated on any radio station" in a newspaper editorial—the relaunched outlet led the Pensacola market ratings.

In 1960, the station left the San Carlos Hotel for studios on Garden Street. It also experienced some financial difficulties; at one point, it was four months behind on payments to the owner of its transmitter tower, prompting him to seek cancellation of the lease before the station paid up. The Florida Radio and Broadcasting Company sold WNVY later that year to Jack Drees and Jim Smith, owners of WKAB in Mobile, Alabama, for $250,000. Under their ownership, WNVY was approved to increase its daytime power to 1,000 watts.

Atlantic States Industries, which at the time only owned one station in Vermont, purchased WNVY in 1965 for $225,000. Under Atlantic States, WNVY initially continued in its Top 40 format. In 1966, after his boss bet that he could not stay on air for 48 consecutive hours, 18-year-old Dick Knight completed a 100-hour air shift.

WNVY moved to a middle-of-the-road "good music" format in July 1967. It also became a network affiliate again, picking up CBS Radio programming in 1969. At the end of the decade, Atlantic States sold WNVY and its licensee, Pensacola Broadcasting Corporation, to Cleve J. Brien; Brien, who paid $80,000, was the general manager and already owned 20 percent.

In 1971, the station changed formats to classic country, promoting itself as "Country Gold". The station tweaked its country blend to be more current in 1977. The revamped format brought with it a new network hookup from NBC.

WBOP moves to 1230

Brien attempted to sell WNVY in 1984 to John Walker, Rosemarie Peterson and Steven G. Prickett for $250,000. The sale never closed, and Brien instead divested the station the next year in a three-way transaction. On July 18, 1985, 1230 kHz became the new home of WBOP, an urban outlet which at 980 kHz had been broadcasting since 1956; the 980 frequency was then sold and became WCHZ, "The Big Cheese", utilizing the former WNVY studios and some equipment. WBOP, along with sister station WTKX-FM 101.5, was sold when Holt Communications purchased six stations from the Rodens for $10.5 million in 1986.

WTKX: Radio 123 and Kool Gold
On December 7, 1989, Holt announced it would pull the plug on WBOP after more than 30 years of broadcasting to launch a new station on the 1230 frequency; Holt noted that WBOP had never been profitable under its ownership. The move left all 14 WBOP staff out of work, including longtime announcer Robert "Cooker" Morgan, and sparked outrage toward the white-owned firm in the African American community; staff found out about the change just minutes before it happened. Holt noted that competition from Mobile FM station WBLX-FM had prompted national advertising accounts to choose that station over WBOP.

1230 became WTKX, airing an alternative rock format. However, "Radio 123" failed to perform in ratings surveys—unlike WBOP, it registered as a scratch in Arbitron—and it was scrapped in July 1990 in favor of an oldies format from the Satellite Music Network.

Florida Information Radio and gospel
Kool Gold was short-lived. After being replaced with a simulcast of WTKX-FM, Florida Information Radio took over operations in 1992 under a lease and began programming the outlet with tourism information for visitors to the Pensacola area.

WTKX-AM-FM was sold in June 1994 to Southern Broadcasting of Pensacola for $950,000; Florida Information Radio then acquired the AM frequency outright for $100,000 later that year. Under Florida Information Radio ownership, the call letters were changed to WZNO on March 17, 1995. With a heavy load of sports programming, WZNO became a sports talk outlet.

Mike and Dana Glinter acquired WZNO in 1996 from Florida Information Radio. The couple had decided to move to Pensacola from Kansas City after attending a gospel revival, and in February 1997, WZNO flipped to a gospel format, leaving Pensacola without a sports station.

Catholic radio

In December 2006, Divine Word Communications, owned by Gene and Jeaniene Church, acquired WZNO from the Glinters for $375,000. The call letters were changed to WDWR, and the station began airing the company's Divine Word Radio format of Catholic radio programming. Divine Word was purchased by the La Promesa Foundation, owner of the Guadalupe Radio Network, in 2015 to create the largest EWTN radio affiliate in the United States.

The sale to La Promesa reignited a debate that had been simmering since 1991 over the location of the station's tower. Located near Jordan and Palafox streets, the tower sits on land that local residents want used to expand a storm water retention pond and reduce flooding in a nearby neighborhood; some residents say the tower's construction was illegal, as it was placed in a conservation district. The original tower had been replaced in 2012.

In 2018, the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau opened an investigation into translator W246BN (97.1 FM), which at the time was one of two translators assigned to rebroadcast WDWR. An agent of the bureau noted that W246BN was operating from a site other than the one on file with the FCC,  away and not fully retransmitting the station.

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RAF Watnall was the operational headquarters of No. 12 Group, RAF Fighter Command at Watnall in Nottinghamshire, England.

History
The station was established during the Second World War in Spring 1940 to act as headquarters for No. 12 Group whose area encompassed the Midlands, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and North Wales. The Operations Centre of No. 12 Group was housed there in three buildings (Operations Room, Filter Room and Communications Centre), which were partially buried for protection, in a similar way to buildings for No. 9 Group RAF at RAF Barton Hall, No. 10 Group at RAF Box, No. 11 Group at RAF Uxbridge, No. 13 Group RAF at RAF Newcastle and No. 14 Group RAF at Raigmore House.

Operations room ()
The operations room, responsible for directing RAF aircraft in the No. 12 Group area, was located in a bunker on the east side of the main road in Watnall. It was fully operational by 1940 and closed in 1946. It is now flooded and the site above is now occupied by a vehicle testing centre.

Filter room ()
The Filter room, responsible for filtering large quantities of intelligence on enemy activity before it was passed to the operations room, was located in a bunker  further south on a sunken road off the main road in Watnall. It did not open until 1943. After the war it continued to be used as an early warning centre until it closed in 1961. The filter block was sold by auction in 2008 and is now being redeveloped as a hotel. An episode of The Restoration Man presented by George Clarke, which was aired on Channel 4 on 12 February 2014, described the progress of the development.

The Communications centre has not been found.

RAF units and aircraft

See also
 Battle of Britain
 List of Battle of Britain airfields
 List of Battle of Britain squadrons
 Watnall railway station

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G4 was a Canadian English-language specialty television channel owned by Rogers Media. The name was licensed from NBCUniversal, whose parent company Comcast formerly owned a minority stake in the channel. Based on the U.S subscription networks TechTV and G4, the channel was originally focused on technology-themed programming.

History

On November 24, 2000, through a joint venture, Rogers Media (33.34%), Shaw Communications (33.33%) and TechTV US (33.33%) were granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a Canadian version of the U.S. television channel TechTV, described by its nature of service as "providing programming about computing, technology and the Internet." The channel launched on September 7, 2001, as the Canadian version of TechTV.

After months of speculation, on March 25, 2004, Comcast announced it would acquire TechTV from Vulcan Programming Inc., with plans to merge TechTV with its own gaming-related channel, G4. As part of the purchase, Comcast acquired TechTV's 33.33% interest in the Canadian version, spinning it off into its subsidiary, G4 Media. The transaction was completed on May 10, and the American services were merged into G4techTV on May 28, 2004. TechTV Canada would follow suit and be renamed G4techTV. On February 15, 2005, less than a year after the merger, the American version was renamed back to G4. In June 2006, Shaw Communications sold its interest in the channel to the managing partner, Rogers Media. At an unknown date, Comcast also sold its interest to Rogers, giving it full ownership.

In 2013, the American version was scheduled to be rebranded as the Esquire Network due to low ratings. However, at the last minute, its parent company decided to rebrand Style Network instead due to the latter's more expanded pay-TV carriage. G4 Canada's social media channels went dormant but still active after that point, with its website remaining in the same design since the early 2010s (though new content continued to be cycled in). G4 Canada launched a high-definition feed of its own on December 4, 2014, while its American counterpart ceased operations at the end of 2014.

The channel's sole first-run shows, EP Daily and Reviews on the Run ceased broadcast after December 2015, as G4 Canada shifted away from technology-themed programming to more general interest programming. Much of the channel's schedule now consisted of series syndicated from other Rogers television channels, with the CRTC's required tech-related programming relegated to out-of-date library content aired in the morning hours.

On July 5, 2017, Cartt reported via a Rogers representative that G4 would shut down on August 31, 2017, and that it would not be replaced with a new service. The channel shut down at midnight on that date. The channel space created by TechTV in 2001 ceased to exist shortly after. The representative cited "the current competitive television landscape" and a desire to focus on Rogers' "core specialty portfolio"; some of its programming were moved to Citytv. The CRTC approved the revocation of G4's licence in August 2017. On all cable providers, G4 was either replaced by OLN or TSC. By coincidence, G4's Canadian iteration outlasted both its American mother network and Esquire Network, G4's intended replacement, which ended all operations on June 28, 2017. Canada never received the limited relaunch of G4 from the United States in the fall of 2021 before its shutdown nearly a year later, though some of its content was available region-free via YouTube and Twitch.

Programming

The channel primarily aired technology and gaming-related programming acquired from its American counterparts, along with several Canadian-produced series. During its final years, G4 would air reruns of shows sourced from Rogers' sibling networks.

Distribution
As a category 1 television service, G4 Canada carriage was mandatory for all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers in Canada in English-majority markets with channel capacity.

G4, under the name G4techTV, was broadcast internationally in Barbados. The government-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation in Barbados switched from providing the American-based feed, in favour of the Canadian channel for its cable television network known as Multi-Choice TV. The provider discontinued carriage before the network's shutdown.

See also
 G4
 TechTV

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The Escoe Building (also known as the Simmons Building) was a historic commercial building located at 228-230 North Second Street in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Description and history
It was a two-story brick office building built in 1908 and demolished in 1988.

The Escoe Building was the only professional building in Muskogee's black district and housed the first black-owned bank in Oklahoma. It was also known as the Simmons Building because it housed the Simmons Royalty Co., Oklahoma's first major oil business owned by a black family.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983.

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1988 disestablishments in Oklahoma
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WBSR (1450 AM), on-air as The Fan 101, is a United States radio station owned by Miracle Radio, Inc. Licensed to Pensacola, Florida, it currently airs a sports format. WBSR is the second oldest radio station in Pensacola and one of the first AM radio stations on the Florida Gulf Coast to add an FM translator. WBSR can be heard 24 hours a day at 1450 AM and 101.1 FM. It has been at the same location since 1946.

History
WBSR was a successful Top 40 radio station from the 1960s to the mid-80s. Back then it was owned by Seaway Broadcasting. Notable DJs were Jay Thomas and Jim Golden. In January 1985, the station went off the air and was sold to Fred Brewer, owner of WMEZ (94.1 FM); it returned with a satellite-delivered oldies format. After a few years, it switched to a Soft Adult Contemporary format. In 2011, WBSR switched to Sports Talk format, branded as ESPN Pensacola, & became an affiliate of ESPN Radio.

On May 31, 2017, WBSR dropped its sports format and began stunting. On June 20, 2017, after less than a month of stunting, WBSR switched to a simulcast of contemporary Christian-formatted WOWB 90.9 FM Brewton, Alabama, branded as WOW 101.1.

On October 19, 2020, WBSR dropped its simulcast with WOWB and changed their format to sports, branded as "The Fan 101", with programming from Fox Sports Radio.

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WTKE (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to Milton, Florida, United States. The station serves the Pensacola area.

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Bians-les-Usiers () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Bief is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Le Bizot () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Blamont () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Population

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 Communes of the Doubs department

Famous inhabitants
 The writer Charles François Philibert Masson

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Blarians () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Population

Geography
Blarians is a small commune: its municipal area covers 0.89 square kilometers, ranging between 227 and 267 meters elevation. It is bounded on the northern, western, and southern sides by the river Ognon. It lies  northeast of Besançon.

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Blussangeaux () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Blussans () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Bolandoz () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Population

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Bondeval () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Population

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 Communes of the Doubs department

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WEBY (1330 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Milton, Florida, United States, the station serves the Pensacola area. The station is currently owned by David Hoxeng, through licensee ADX Communications of Milton, LLC, and features programming from ESPN Radio.

WEBY was initially established in 1954. Its license was revoked in 1972 after the station was challenged for violations of the Fairness Doctrine. Several applicants fought for the frequency; a new station began operating in the early 1980s as WSWL and WAVX and was then bought by the son of the owner of the previous WEBY license, which restored the WEBY call letters.

First WEBY license

Early years
WEBY began broadcasting on September 1, 1954. The independent outlet was owned by Clayton W. Mapoles, a former newspaper publisher in Milton and Crestview, and initially broadcast with 1,000 watts. In 1958, the Federal Communications Commission approved an increase in the station's power to 5,000 watts.

Among the station's most controversial figures was on-air personality Ben Henry Pooley, who was known for his caustic commentaries against county officials using epithets such as "Little Sir Echo", "The Bald Eagle from Pollard" and "Super Octane — The Gas-Guzzlin' Commissioner From Harold". In May 1959, a grand jury cleared Pooley of charges that he had been speeding in his vehicle and was found with moonshine whiskey in the car, which station owner Mapoles decried as intimidation attempts. Mapoles noted that he had received three threats to blow up the station unless it ceased criticizing the Santa Rosa County sheriff, Bart D. Broxson, and removed Pooley from the air. Six months later, Santa Rosa County commissioner Clifford Wilson sued the station for slander and demanded $50,000 in damages, claiming that Pooley had broadcast false accusations that Wilson used county gasoline in his private vehicles.

Six officials, including Wilson, Broxson, two other Santa Rosa County commissioners and two state legislators, then appealed to the Federal Communications Commission for the revocation of WEBY's license and that of Mapoles's other radio station, WBLO in Evergreen, Alabama. The FCC refused, as the WEBY license was not up for renewal at the time. Meanwhile, a thief stole 4,000 records from the station in November 1960; owner Mapoles offered rewards for the records and for clothes stolen from a women's apparel store he owned. A man was arrested in both thefts and 30 other burglaries in May 1961.

In 1961, while Wilson's slander suit was thrown out by a judge, Wilson challenged WEBY's license renewal. The FCC renewed the license in 1962, dismissing the petitions against it; the decision on the fairness doctrine was so significant that it was later referred to as the "Mapoles decision". The Mapoles operation in Milton expanded two years later with the April 1964 launch of WXBM-FM 102.3 (relocated to 102.7 MHz in 1974), which was owned by Clayton's son Byrd.

Revocation
On July 19, 1967, the FCC voted to designate the license renewal of WEBY for hearing, after the commission received complaints against the Milton Broadcasting Company, licensee of WEBY, for potential violations of the fairness doctrine relating to editorials the station aired on April 22, 1966. The chief plaintiff was John C. Boles of Bagdad, who said the WEBY editorials attacked him while he was a candidate for the Florida State Senate, but the station did not give him equal time to respond. The FCC also sought to establish whether Mapoles and other station officials made misrepresentations.

Mapoles attempted to sell the station to Lawrence Hankins Locklin and terminate the renewal proceeding in early 1968; the FCC denied the request and also threw out an application by a third party to build a new station on WEBY's frequency. Alleging poor health, Mapoles reiterated at a 1969 hearing in Pensacola his desire to sell the station to Hankins; however, the commission contended he only attached partial records in support of his claim. FCC hearing examiner Herbert Sharfman, in an initial decision published at the end of June 1970, recommended a one-year short-term renewal for WEBY's license, stating that Mapoles's misrepresentations did not justify more severe action.

The FCC Broadcast Bureau took exception to the initial decision and appealed; oral arguments were held before the FCC in January 1972. In May, the commission denied a renewal for WEBY, finding Sharfman's judgment "colored" and stating that he placed the burden of proof on the Broadcast Bureau and not on Mapoles, who displayed "an unpardonable lack of candor" in supplying a purported copy of the editorial that was milder than that which actually aired and in inconsistencies in the presented medical record. Mapoles immediately appealed the order, allowing the station to continue broadcasting beyond the July 3 date set for it to cease operations. A motion to stay the effective date of the order, however, was denied on March 13, 1973, and WEBY ceased operations on the evening of March 30, with much of its programming moving to WXBM-FM.

After 10 years at WEBY, Pooley left the station. Over the years, he survived four assassination attempts. He returned to the air at WECM (1490 AM) in the 1990s before his death in 2003.

Current license

Frequency fight and reemergence as WSWL
After canceling the WEBY license and deleting the call letters, the FCC accepted applications for WEBY's former facilities in April. Within a month of the station closing, the commission received two applications, from Jimmie H. Howell, a Santa Rosa County commissioner and radio personality, and Byrd Mapoles. In his application, Byrd Mapoles submitted 10,000 signatures from local residents. By the filing deadline, two more groups had joined the contest: Aaron J. Wells and Radio Santa Rosa, Inc.

In 1976, the FCC opted to award the construction permit to Wells, a surveyor from Holley and pastor at the Springhill Assembly of God Church. The Wells permit took the call letters WFGS, though it obtained a series of extensions and remained unbuilt for years. After another sale, the new station finally signed on in September 1982 as WSWL, owned by Bright Horizon Productions. It aired a talk format along with audio from the then-new CNN Headline News cable network.

WAVX, "The Wave"

Bright Horizon—owned by the Switzer and Bott families—operated the station for less than a year before selling it to Wave Express Broadcasting Company in exchange for $31,250 in debt; Wave Express owned two stations in Ohio. In advance of the deal, WSWL dropped its talk format for urban contemporary as "The Wave"; this put it in competition with Pensacola's heritage station for black audiences, WBOP (980 AM). The call letters were changed to WAVX on November 18, 1983.

The return of WEBY
Wave Express filed on October 2, 1984, to sell WAVX to #1 Radio, owned by H. Byrd Mapoles, for $100,000; by this time, Mapoles no longer owned WXBM-FM. On Labor Day 1985, 1330 AM returned to the WEBY call letters used by the first license; the relaunched station aired a nostalgia format and broadcast in AM stereo.

After Byrd Mapoles was elected Santa Rosa County commissioner in 1990, the station began airing county meetings. Mapoles's daily program "This Side of the Fence" was known for its right-wing viewpoints.

News/talk format
On June 5, 2000, WEBY flipped to a news/talk format as Mapoles began the process of selling the station to Mike Bates and Jeff Weeks. The station debuted a number of new local shows and ceased airing county meetings. However, while Bates leased the station, Mapoles continued to own WEBY in 2001.

In 2002, Mapoles finally sold the license to Bates, doing business as Spinnaker License Corporation. In 2004, it aired a series of local programs, including in morning and afternoon drive, supplemented by syndicated shows hosted by Neal Boortz, Clark Howard and Ken Hamblin. Additionally, WEBY upgraded its daytime power to 25,000 watts in 2006.

ESPN Pensacola
Spinnaker sold the station to ADX Communications, owners of WYCT and WNRP.

On August 19, 2019, WEBY flipped from news/talk to sports talk as an affiliate of ESPN Radio, re-located from W233CY 94.5 Milton and WYCT-HD2. The station primarily carries its national lineup and The Paul Finebaum Show, alongside a local noon program hosted by University of Florida alumnus and retired football coach Kay Stephenson; it also airs Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball and University of West Florida college football games.

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Radio stations established in 1982
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Bonnal () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Population

See also
 Lac de Bonnal
 Communes of the Doubs department

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Communes of Doubs


The Spiral is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in Iizuna village, located north of Nagano, Japan. Used for the bobsleigh and luge competitions for the 1998 Winter Olympics, it is the first permanent bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Asia and the first of its type in the world with two or more uphill sections. It is officially referred to as the Nagano Bobsleigh-Luge Park in Japan.

History and current status
The track was among part of the venues used for the 1998 Winter Olympics that was started in 1990. Construction on the track started in November 1993 and was completed in March 1996 with homologation from the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) on 28 March 1996 and from the International Luge Federation on 24 June 1997. This track was referred to as the "Spiral" because of the winding track and dynamic movement of the sleds.

The track has not been in active use for training or competitions since February 2018 when ice creation ceased. The reason for this was due to lack of operating revenue. Twenty years since the Nagano Olympics was hosted, various equipment like the electronic display board, refrigeration and lighting systems are needing to be replaced due to obsolescence and wear. While the track was in active use, the annual operational and repair budget was 220 million yen. However, after the track operations were suspended, the operational budget shrunk to only 20 million yen.

There were plans to use the Spiral once again as an Olympic sliding venue if Sapporo was successful in its bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. But, even if the Spiral was used for the 2030 Olympics, there were obvious fears that the track would once again cease to be commercially viable after the Olympics were held. However, Sapporo dropped its bid for 2030.

As of February 2022, 24 years after the Nagano Olympics was held, with the track no longer in active use nor properly cleaned and maintained, the track has degenerated into a dilapidated state.

Track technical details
Overall track construction cost ¥ 10.1 billion. The course was constructed in conformance of the natural topography of Mt. Iizuna. Three indirect ammonia refrigeration systems are located along the track, limiting the amount of ammonia to be under . During construction, rocks and trees that were dug up were used as materials to build settling ponds and a retaining wall to prevent landslides. Topsoil that had been removed during construction was returned to the site once groundwork was completed. About 40,000 saplings, mainly beech and oak, were planted two per square meter, as part of the environmental stewardship committed during the Winter Games.

To help with ice making techniques, Nagano Organizing Committee officials recruited Ralf Mende, who works for the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Altenberg, Germany to train staff to make proper ice. Mende and his crew worked 18 hours a day during the 1998 Games to ensure track thickness was  of ice. Sun shades are used in an effort to maintain the operating temperatures of . Track competitions were also moved to the afternoon during the games to avoid the sunniest hours. There are a total of 56 sensors located throughout the track to maintain constant ice temperature and thickness.

Statistics

There are no listed turn names for the track. The track's two uphill sections are right after turn 8 with an average uphill inclination close to 4% and between turns 10 and 11 with an average uphill inclination of nearly 10%.

Championships hosted
Winter Olympics: 1998
FIBT World Championships: 2003 (Men's and women's skeleton)
FIL World Luge Championships: 2004

References

External links
FIBT track profile - Image is from a skeleton racer perspective shown at night. Men's single luge intersect prior to turn one while the luge - women's singles and men's doubles intersect prior to turn two.
FIL-Luge track profile
Official website

Venues of the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsleigh venues
Olympic luge venues
Bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks
Sports venues in Nagano Prefecture
Iizuna, Nagano
Sport in Nagano (city)