KGTO (1050 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Perry Publishing and Broadcasting and licensed to KJMM, Inc. It airs an urban adult contemporary music format.  Its studios are located in the Copper Oaks complex in South Tulsa.

The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since February 1, 1982, having chosen them to signify "Greater Tulsa's Oldies", a format change. Previous formats included country music and religious broadcasting.

KGTO's transmitter site at 5400 West Edison was depicted in 1988 in UHF as the location of fictional television station "U-62". While a transmitter tower remains at this location, the original building at the site was removed in 2001.

Translators

References

External links
KGTO official website

GTO
Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States


Ox-tongue pastry () or horse-ear pastry (), also referred to as Chinese doughnut, is a Chinese pastry that is popular in south China in the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. It is a fried dough food that is elliptical in shape and resembles an ox tongue or a horse ear. The pastry texture is chewy, with a soft interior and a crunchy crust. Ox-tongue pastry is lightly sweetened, and eaten as part of breakfast with soy milk. The pastry is made in a similar way as Youtiao, however, sugar is added to the flour.

See also
 List of doughnut varieties
 List of fried dough varieties
Mandazi, a similar East African pastry

Other Chinese fried dough dishes
 Ham chim peng
Shuangbaotai
Youtiao

References

 曾大平, (2002), 民間小吃製作圖解 (Traditional snacks in China), 萬里機構

External links

Cantonese cuisine
Hong Kong cuisine
Chinese doughnuts
Deep fried foods


WTSL (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.  It airs an adult hits radio format and serves the Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction area.  The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio, LLC.  WTSL also broadcasts Dartmouth College Big Green football and hockey games.

Listeners can also hear WTSL programming on FM translator stations W248DA at 97.5 MHz in Hanover and W269DI at 101.7 in Claremont, as well as on the second HD subchannel of WHDQ.  The stations call themselves "97.5 & 101.7 The Penguin".

History
In October 1950, WTSL first signed on.  It was owned by Granite State Broadcasters and was powered at only 250 watts, a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System.  In 1961, the daytime power was increased to 1,000 watts.  In the 1980s, the nighttime power was also boosted to 1,000 watts.

In June 1970, the station was acquired by Tri City Broadcasting from Knight Quality Stations. Sound Citizens Communications bought the station in 1974. Up to this time, WTSL carried the NBC Radio Network news and music show Monitor, along with Boston Red Sox baseball, via an over-the-air feed from WGIR-FM in Manchester and WTSV-FM in Claremont. It aired a middle of the road music format. In the 1970s, WTSL dropped NBC, adding the CBS Radio Network and later, returning to the Mutual Broadcasting System as a secondary affiliation. This change would allow WTSL to switch from overnight music to Larry King's Mutual talk show.

After a period with Mutual, WTSL was asked to become its primary affiliate in the Lebanon–Hanover market, but turned it down. Mutual then moved to WNHV AM–FM in White River Junction, Vermont, and WTSL joined ABC; this allowed the station to add Paul Harvey, which had been on WNHV.  During this period of time, the studios were located at its transmitter site on Oak Ridge Road in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.  The studios were subsequently moved to downtown Lebanon mall along with sister station WTSL-FM (now WGXL). Several owners later, the station was purchased by Robert Frisch, owner of WXXK (originally on 101.7 FM; later moving to 100.5 with the purchase of that facility) By this period of time, WTSL was a talk radio station with a strong local news presentation, including major newscasts in drive time and at noon. Mountain View Broadcasting held onto WTSL, as well as WGXL, WXXK and WVRR (the old WXXK facility at 101.7) property until their sale to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 2000.  During the time, WTSL held onto the rights to Red Sox baseball (since then baseball has moved to sister station WWOD).

Clear Channel continued the talk radio format, while adding Rush Limbaugh, taking the program from WNTK-FM.  Rush stayed on WTSL until it was sold again in 2007 to Great Eastern Radio.  Rush returned to WNTK, which had now began WUVR.  Great Eastern flipped it to a sports radio format, simulcast with sister station 1230 WTSV in Claremont, using the ESPN Radio Network.

On June 12, 2018, WTSL dropped the ESPN sports format and began stunting with "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang, in preparation of launching new translator W248DA (97.5 FM).  (1230 WTSV continues with the sports format.) On June 21, 2018, the stunting ended, with WTSL and W248DA changing format to classic hip hop, branded as "Hot 97.5."

On July 29, 2022, WTSL dropped the classic hip hop format and flipped to adult hits, branded as "97.5 & 101.7 The Penguin"; with this format change, the station began simulcasting on the second HD subchannel of WHDQ (the former WTSV-FM), along with a Claremont translator, W269DI (101.7 FM).

References

External links

TSL
Hanover, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 1950
1950 establishments in New Hampshire
Adult hits radio stations in the United States


Sloanea caribaea, commonly known as acomat boucan, is a tree of the eastern Caribbean region.

References

Sloanea caribaea at Oxford University's Virtual Field Herbarium.

caribaea
Trees of the Caribbean
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


David French may refer to:
 David H. French (anthropologist) (1918–1994), American anthropologist and linguist
 David H. French (archaeologist) (1933 – 2017), British archaeologist
 David French (playwright) (1939–2010), Canadian writer for stage and television
 David French (political commentator) (born 1969), American lawyer and political writer
 David French (politician), member of the Kansas House of Representatives

See also
 David French Boyd (1834–1899), American academic and Civil War veteran; first president of Louisiana State University
 French (surname)


Kiss the Bride is a 2007 American romantic comedy film directed by C. Jay Cox and starring Tori Spelling, Philipp Karner and James O'Shea. It had a limited release in April 2008.

Plot
Matt (Philipp Karner) and Ryan (James O'Shea) were best friends in high school, but ten years later, Matt receives an invitation to Ryan's wedding, he is surprised - especially that Ryan's intended, whose name is Alex, is a woman (Tori Spelling). Matt and Ryan had a gay relationship in high school, and Matt has held a torch for Ryan for the past ten years. Described by his co-worker as "so 'My Best Friend's Gay Wedding,'" Matt races off to rescue his former love from this woman who must have trapped him into marriage. Matt and Alex hit it off, Matt and Ryan have some things to work out, and there is a cast of character in-laws (Joanna Cassidy, Tess Harper, Robert Foxworth and Amber Benson).

Cast
Tori Spelling as Alex
James O'Shea as Ryan
Philipp Karner as Matt
Amber Benson as Elly
Joanna Cassidy as Evelyn
Garrett M. Brown as Gerald
Tess Harper as Barbara
Robert Foxworth as Wayne
E. E. Bell as Dan
Steve Sandvoss as Sean
Michael Medico as Chris
Jane Cho as Stephanie
Ralph Cole Jr. as Barry
Brooke Dillman as Virginia
Dean McDermott as Plumber
Elizabeth Kell as Monica
Dean Nolen as Reverend
Connie Sawyer as Aunt Minnie
Les Williams as Larry
Charlie David as Joey
Paul Meacham as Waiter Worthie
Kyle Davis as Officer Harley
Mary Gillis as Saleslady

Critical reception
Nick Pinkerton of LA Weekly called the film "the most ignoble outing in bi-curious screen hijinks since France produced Poltergay."

Soundtrack
"U Found Me" (Levi Kreis, Darci Monet) - Levi Kreis
"Hardly A Hero" (Kreis, Monet) - Levi Kreis
"We're Okay" (Kreis) - Levi Kreis (end credits)
"Drive" - Brian Kent

References

External links

2007 films
2007 LGBT-related films
American LGBT-related films
Films about weddings
Gay-related films
Male bisexuality in film
LGBT-related romantic comedy films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Ravil Midekhatovich Gusmanov (, born July 25, 1972) is a Russian former professional ice hockey left winger, formerly of Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.

He was drafted in the fourth round, 93rd overall, of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Winnipeg Jets, and he played in four National Hockey League games with the Jets, going scoreless.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

External links

1972 births
Living people
Chicago Wolves (IHL) players
Houston Aeros (1994–2013) players
Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Indianapolis Ice players
Metallurg Magnitogorsk players
Olympic ice hockey players for Russia
Sportspeople from Naberezhnye Chelny
Russian ice hockey left wingers
Saint John Flames players
Springfield Falcons players
Tatar people of Russia
Tatar sportspeople
Traktor Chelyabinsk players
Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) draft picks
Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) players


Timothy John Rishton is a British classical concert musician, author and broadcaster, known as an advocate for the natural musical qualities of pre-1800 keyboard music.

Rishton’s organ concerts have a particularly large following in Germany and Norway (though he plays throughout Europe and occasionally in the United States), while his books and other writings (including a couple of dozen articles in both refereed and popular-academic journals) have been published largely in the US, UK and Norway.  He has recorded a number of CDs, particularly of early music.

Early life
Born in a moorland village in the Pennines of Northern England, Rishton studied in the 1980s with the Austrian organist Susi Jeans and at Reading, Manchester and Bangor universities, being awarded a Ph D in 18th-century music. He taught music at the university of Wales through the medium of Welsh (and was also Director of Music at the Collegiate Church in Holyhead) before moving to Norway where he became Associate Professor of Music at University College Tromsø, music officer for the Diocese of North-Hålogaland and leader of a course centre at Soltun Folkehøgskole.

Tim Rishton believes that music belongs in the community and therefore prefers to give concerts in villages rather than in city concert halls. He also regards music as a non-competitive activity and does not participate in competitions.

Most of his published work is written in Norwegian. From 2005 to 2009 he was Director of Studies in Continuing Music Education at Lancaster University, England, before returning to Norway.

Bibliography

    Tim Rishton, Joyful Noise? The Why, What and How of music in church. Foreword by former Archbishop George Carey. Skipton: Holy Trinity Press, 2006
    Tim Rishton, Liturgisk orgelspill. Stavanger: Cantando, 1996

References

External links

Norwegian musicians
Norwegian organists
British classical organists
British male organists
British musicologists
Norwegian musicologists
British performers of early music
Living people
21st-century organists
21st-century British male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Male classical organists


The 2008 congressional elections in Louisiana to determine representation for the state of Louisiana in the United States House of Representatives occurred November 4, 2008. Louisiana has seven seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected will serve in the 111th Congress from January 4, 2009 until January 3, 2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

The primary elections were to be held September 6, 2008, but were rescheduled for October 3, 2008 due to storm damage following Hurricane Gustav. The necessary party runoffs were held on November 4, the same date as the presidential election.  The general election for the House races was held December 6.

Overview

District 1

Republican incumbent Steve Scalise won against Democratic nominee Jim Harlan, a businessman. CQ Politics forecasted the race as 'Safe Republican'.

District 2

The district included nearly all of New Orleans and some of its suburbs, and is heavily Democratic: John Kerry won 75% of the vote here in 2004. CQ Politics forecasted the race as "Safe Democrat" for 9-term incumbent William Jefferson, but the Republican narrowly defeated him in an upset.

The primary runoff in this district was held on November 4 in place of the general election, with the general election moving to December 6.

The investigation began in mid-2005, after an investor alleged $400,000 in bribes were paid through a company maintained in the name of his spouse and children. The money came from a tech company named iGate, Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky, and in return, it is alleged, Jefferson would help iGate's business. Jefferson was to persuade the U.S. Army to test iGate's broadband two-way technology and other iGate products; use his efforts to influence high-ranking officials in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cameroon; and meet with personnel of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, in order to facilitate potential financing for iGate business deals in those countries.

On July 30, 2005, Jefferson was videotaped by the FBI receiving $100,000 worth of $100 bills in a leather briefcase at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Arlington, Virginia. Jefferson told an investor, Lori Mody, who was wearing a wire, that he would need to give Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar $500,000 "as a motivating factor" to make sure they obtained contracts for iGate and Mody's company in Nigeria.

A few days later, on August 3, 2005, FBI agents raided Jefferson's home in Northeast Washington and, as noted in an 83-page affidavit filed to support a subsequent raid on his Congressional office, "found $90,000 of the cash in the freezer, in $10,000 increments wrapped in aluminum foil and stuffed inside frozen-food containers." Serial numbers found on the currency in the freezer matched serial numbers of funds given by the FBI to their informant.

Late on the night of May 20, 2006, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Jefferson's office in the Rayburn House Office Building. This is "believed to be the first-ever FBI raid on a Congressional office," raising concerns that it could "set a dangerous precedent that could be used by future administrations to intimidate or harass a supposedly coequal branch of the government."

The affidavit used to support these raids alleged:
The FBI videotaped Jefferson receiving a stock certificate from Mody for a company set up in Nigeria to promote iGate's technology. Jefferson predicted the deal would generate $200 million annually after five years.
Jefferson told Mody that he wanted a similar financial stake in the business in Ghana.
Jefferson sought $10 million in financing from Mody to take over iGate and install "confidants" on the new board. In two payments, Mody wired $89,225 to the ANJ Group LLC, a company controlled by Jefferson's family.
Jefferson lent $4,800 of the money Mody gave him to an unnamed congressional aide. Another $4,900 was given back to the FBI by one of Jefferson's attorneys.
The FBI claims it has uncovered "at least seven other schemes in which Jefferson sought things of value in return for his official acts."

Incumbent U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson won the Democratic primaries in Fall 2008. Jefferson had weathered a major challenge in the 2006 Louisiana 2nd congressional district election, when voters had fresh on their minds allegations that the representative had inappropriately used the services of a Louisiana Army National Guard unit in accessing his house during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

By fall 2008 the incumbent faced longstanding federal charges of bribery involving Nigerian business interests and was perceived by some as vulnerable, with only 25 percent of Democrats voting for him in the first round of the 2008 Democratic primaries. Jefferson faced six African-American challengers along with newscaster Helena Moreno in the first primary, all of them clamoring for change from Louisiana's reputation for political corruption. Jefferson defeated Moreno by 57 percent to 43 percent in a runoff which went largely along racial lines. Moreno later endorsed Cao in the general election.  Cao, unopposed for the Republican nomination, was running against Jefferson, as were Green Party candidate Malik Rahim and Libertarian Party candidate Gregory Kahn. An earlier candidate, independent Jerry Jacobs, had withdrawn.

On November 30 the New Orleans Times-Picayune editorially endorsed Cao while on the op-ed page its columnist James Gill asserted that Jefferson's reelection "is not going to happen." The prospect of a serious general election in the majority African-American and heavily Democratic 2nd district was all the more startling in that the last Republican to represent the district was Hamilton D. Coleman, who left the office in 1891.  According to the Los Angeles Times, Cao, if elected, would become the first individual of Vietnamese extraction to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Cao's candidacy received the endorsement of the Alliance for Good Government, the Family Research Council's Action PAC, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and even entertainer Pat Boone. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had announced his support for Jefferson during the Democratic primary elections. The New Orleans Gambit Weekly, citing its opposition to Jefferson's alleged corruption and Cao's noncommittal statements on embryonic stem-cell research, made no endorsement.

The days before the December 6 election were characterized by what Jefferson's campaign called "overly negative" tactics undertaken on behalf of Cao's campaign by outside organizations such as the National Republican Congressional Committee.  Besides references to Jefferson's removal from the House Ways and Means Committee by Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the negative tactics included automated telephone calls from a woman identifying herself as "Katy" and citing incumbent Jefferson's federal indictment on 16 counts of corruption.  In a meeting of African-American ministers, the Reverend Samuel Butler said that the real reason for the negative campaign tactics was to disenfranchise African-American voters, which prompted Cao advisor and former New Orleans City Council member Bryan Wagner to assert that, "with Rev. Butler's imagination, he may want to go to work for Walt Disney."

On December 6, the Times-Picayune reiterated its endorsement of Cao, this time pointing to President-Elect Barack Obama's efforts on behalf of Democrat Paul Carmouche in the simultaneous election in Louisiana's 4th congressional district and Obama's non-involvement in efforts to support Jefferson.

On December 6 at 10:20 PM CST, CNN projected Cao the winner. Final unofficial results on the Louisiana Secretary of State's web site showed Cao with 33,122 (49.55%), Jefferson 31,296 (46.82%), Kahn 548 (0.82%), and Rahim 1,880 (2.81%). Jefferson won by 23,197 to 20,246 in Orleans Parish, where 21 of the 392 precincts showed zero votes for Cao, but Cao more than made up the difference with a margin 12,696 to the incumbent's 8,099 in Jefferson Parish.

District 3

Democratic incumbent Charlie Melancon ran unopposed for re-election. CQ Politics forecasted the race as 'Safe Democrat'.

District 4

The election was held on December 6, 2008.

Incumbent Jim McCrery retired, making this an open seat. The district contains northwestern Louisiana, including the cities of Shreveport, DeRidder, and Natchitoches. The district usually, but not reliably, votes Republican. Bill Clinton won it comfortably in 1996. CQ Politics''' forecast of the race was "No Clear Favorite".

The Republican nominee was physician John Fleming (campaign website) of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish. Fleming, a former Webster Parish coroner and a businessman defeated trucking company executive Chris Gorman in the Republican runoff primary held on November 4.

The Democratic candidate was Caddo Parish District Attorney Paul Carmouche (campaign website), who defeated African American attorney Willie Banks, Jr., in his party runoff on November 4. Republican candidate Jeff Thompson, despite being endorsed by Jim McCrery, was defeated in the first Republican primary, as were Democratic candidates Artis Cash and John Milkovich, later elected to the Louisiana State Senate. Patti Cox, local party organizer and environmental consultant and a 2006 candidate against McCrery, did not enter the 2008 race.

District 5

Republican incumbent Rodney Alexander was unopposed for re-election and won. CQ Politics forecasted the race as 'Safe Republican'.

District 6

Republican State Senator Bill Cassidy defeated Democratic incumbent Don Cazayoux in the November 4 election by a margin of 48%–40%.  Cazayoux had defeated Republican Woody Jenkins 49%–46% in a special election earlier in the year, and given his narrow margin of victory and the Republican-leaning nature of the district (Bush won 59% here in 2004), Cazayoux was, as expected, a GOP target as he sought his first full term.

State Representative Michael L. Jackson, who had run against Cazayoux in the Democratic primary in the special election, ran as an independent with funding from long-time Cassidy supporter Lane Grigsby. He finished third, garnering 36,133 votes, more than the 25,000-vote margin between Cassidy and Cazayoux, suggesting that he siphoned off many African-American votes that would have otherwise gone to Cazayoux and threw the election to Cassidy. The Daily Kingfish published photos of Jackson meeting with Congressman-elect Cassidy just three days after the election. Cazayoux was one of five incumbent House Democrats to be defeated in the 2008 congressional elections, along with Nancy Boyda (D-KS), William J. Jefferson (D-LA), Nick Lampson (D-TX), and Tim Mahoney (D-FL).

District 7

Republican incumbent Charles Boustany defeated Democratic State Senator Don Cravins, Jr. and Constitution Party candidate Peter Vidrine by a solid margin in this district based in southwestern Louisiana.

References

External links
Elections Division from the Louisiana Secretary of State
U.S. Congress candidates for Louisiana at Project Vote Smart
Louisiana U.S. House Races from 2008 Race TrackerCampaign contributions for Louisiana congressional races from OpenSecrets
Louisiana Elections & Politics from The Times-Picayune'' newspaper

2008
Louisiana
United States House of Representatives


Waria is a locality in Durgapur, in the district of Paschim Bardhaman of West Bengal, India. It is located between the neighbourhoods of Mayabazar and Andal. The river Damodar flows to its south. The Durgapur Steel Plant and the Durgapur Thermal Power Station of the Damodar Valley Corporation are close to the Waria railway station.

References

Durgapur, West Bengal
Villages in Paschim Bardhaman district


WSMN (1590 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. It is licensed to Nashua, New Hampshire, and serves the Merrimack Valley. Its owners since March 2017 are on-air personalities George Russell and Bob Bartis.  WSMN has some local talk shows and also features paid brokered programming.

WSMN transmits with 770 watts daytime, 58 watts nighttime.  It uses a non-directional antenna at all times.  Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W237FA at 95.3 MHz.

History

Early years
WSMN first signed on March 9, 1958.  The first voice heard was that of Manchester, New Hampshire, native Frank G. Teas who spent the next 44 years with the station until he retired in December 2002. The original owner was the Merrimack Valley Broadcasting System. It sold the station only one year later, to 1590 Broadcasting Corporation.

For most of its early years, WSMN had a middle-of-the-road format, mixed in with talk. This format remained in place through the decade. The organization also published an advertiser-supported, free tabloid called the 1590 Broadcaster.

Country, adult standards and talk
During the mid-1990s, WSMN attempted a country music format.  But country on AM radio became less viable after Boston country station WKLB-FM moved from 96.9 FM (now WBQT) to 99.5 FM (now WCRB).  WSMN switched to adult standards in December 1997. This was short lived; in March 1998, the station changed to news/talk, though some timeslots were temporarily filled with adult contemporary music for a time.

Initially locally oriented, in June WSMN began adding nationally-produced programming, including Talk America shows and business news from Bloomberg Radio. Two years later, Tom O'Brien signed a local marketing agreement (LMA) to take over the station's operations.

Time off the air
WSMN was forced off the air February 1, 2005, after losing the lease to its transmitter and studio site on West Hollis Street (Route 111).  The license was sold to Absolute Broadcasting, owner of WSNH (900; now WGHM) that July.

WSMN returned to the air in October from the WSNH tower, running a low-power special temporary authority signal.  It initially simulcast WSNH's ESPN Radio programming. The station began shifting back to a news/talk format in early 2006.  It began featuring programing from Talk Radio Network and Westwood One.

Bartis and Russell Broadcasting
Absolute Broadcasting sold WSMN to Bartis and Russell Broadcasting LLC for $200,000. The sale took effect on March 16, 2017. The proprietors are George Russell and Bob Bartis, who had both hosted shows on WSMN. They promised "more local programming and a refocus on the community."

WSMN formerly held a construction permit from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to build a new three-tower array west of the old location. Instead of using the same directional pattern full-time, there would be different directional patterns for day and night.  In July 2020, the station put an FM translator on the air at 95.3 MHz.

Programming
WSMN airs Nashua This Morning with George Russell during morning drive time, with a mix of talk shows and brokered programming at other times.  Bob Bartis continues to host shows on several topics. In timeslots where a talk show is not scheduled, the station airs blocks of music. WSMN is an affiliate of USA Radio News.

Other programing includes:
"Asking for a Friend"
"Barticus Live"
"The Dana Loesch Show"
"Latinos En Vivo"
"Public Health Hour"
"The Rayla Campbell Show Live"
"Spouting Off with Host Karen Kataline"
"Turning Pages with Elaine Holden"

Former personalities
Al Rock (general manager)
Ed Lecius Sr. (news director)
Frank Teas Sr. (program director)
Weldon Haire
Maury Parent
Jeff Radzik
Eric Nuernberg (Eric O’ Neil)
Nick Diamond
Jim Liversidge
Robert "Woody" Woodland
Robert "Bob" Bevill
Chuck O'Neil
Gerry Wood
Kevin Farwell
John Halpert
Dee Dee Leigh
Griff Vautier
Russ Cooper
Dale Lonroth
Hal Hillard
Tony Broseau
Leo Zani
Steve Shaw
Herb Andrews
Ernie Anastos
Dianna Ploss

References

External links

SMN
Radio stations established in 1958
Nashua, New Hampshire
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
News and talk radio stations in the United States
1958 establishments in New Hampshire


Susan Silas is a visual artist working primarily in video, sculpture and photography. Her work, through self-portraiture, examines the meaning of embodiment, the index in representation, and the evolution of our understanding of the self. She is interested in the aging body, gender roles, the fragility of sentient being and the potential outcome of the creation of idealized selves through bio-technology and artificial intelligence.

Education and early career
Silas received her BA in history from Reed College and her Master's in Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts.

After completing her graduate studies in 1983, she moved from Los Angeles back to New York. Soon afterwards, she began exhibiting her work in group exhibitions including White Columns, New York; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s); The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Girls Night Out; Femininity as Masquerade, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Bridges and Boundaries, the Jewish Museum, New York. In 1990, Silas had her first solo exhibition, at fiction/nonfiction in New York. This exhibition was followed in 1991 by a solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Antoine Candau.

Work on landscape and "Holocaust Postmemory"
Starting in the late 1990s, Silas's work focused on landscape and memory. In 1997, she began working on Helmbrechts walk, 1998-2003, a project in which she retraced the steps of an historical death march of all women that took place at the close of the Second World War, walking for 22 days and 225 miles in Eastern Europe. This work found several forms: an unbound 48-plate artist book, a video installation, and a slide projection. It has been discussed in the chapter on her work in the book Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing by Dora Apel, and was the subject of an interview with her for a broadcast on BBC radio and ArtonAir.org. In November 2005 this work, along with a video installation were the subject of a solo exhibition at the Koffler Gallery in Toronto, accompanied by an essay on her work by the scholar Brett Ashley Kaplan. Helmbrechts walk, 1998-2003 was exhibited at Hebrew Union College Museum in New York City from September 2009 to June 2010, and then traveled in an English/German edition to Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim in Neuenhaus, Germany in the summer of 2010 and to Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna that fall. In 2011 this work was included in the exhibition Continuity at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia, curated by Irena Cercnik. A fuller consideration of this work was published in Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory by Brett Ashley Kaplan. Other recent works include a four-screen video installation of the four Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland, Untitled (11–14 May 1998), shown in February, 2001 at the Cooley Memorial Gallery in Portland, Oregon and a sound work on CD exhibited at the Staller Center at Stony Brook. The artist's most recent work on the Shoah is a six-channel video installation titled Treblinka Song and The Happy Wanderer.

Recent work
In the 2010s, Silas exhibited work consisting of an ongoing study of decaying birds.

"To put it in terms reflective of Silas's photographic process and subject, Silas had to find the entropy that would hold us enrapt, keep us from turning away. Here there is no contest.  Of all animals, none preserve the beauty and dignity of death with a grandeur and longevity approaching that of the many species of birds." – G. Roger Denson (excerpted from "On The Resurrection of Dead Birds")

A selection from this body of work entitled eyes wide shut, 2010, was exhibited in a solo exhibition at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles, California from April 9 to May 14, 2011, along with the premiere of the video performance A child of sixties television singing songs that got stuck in her head. Images from the series RAVEN were exhibited at CB1 Gallery in September, 2013.

In March 2014, Silas's photo collections love in the ruins; sex over 50 and the self-portrait sessions were exhibited in Bushwick, New York. In December 2015, during Art Basel Miami, the artist realized a billboard on I-195 in the Design District, sponsored by the Knight Foundation and AIRIE (Artists in Residence in the Everglades). New work in the series the self-portrait sessions,<ref>the self-portrait sessions</ref> including photographs, video, and sculpture, were exhibited at CB1 Gallery in June 2016.

Silas's work love in the ruins; sex over 50 was included in the group exhibition IN THE CUT - The Male Body in Feminist Art, curated by Andrea Jahn, at Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken in Saarbrücken, Germany. The exhibition ran from May 5, 2018 to January 13, 2019. The exhibition catalogue, IN THE CUT: The Male Body in Feminist Art, was published in 2019.

Post-photography/digital sculpture

Silas's recent sculptural, photographic and motion capture video works are self-portraiture created via photogrammetry. They retain an element of the indexical (referring to the artist being photographed) as well as an obvious iconic value (their likeness to the artist). To carve the sculpture, information obtained via this photographic process must be translated into data in the form of an object file and then reprogrammed into software that recognizes the information as a model to be milled by a high-precision anthropomorphic robot. This process, while completely data-driven, does retain a ghost of the index. The data is reverse-engineered back into a material likeness easily recognizable as the artist. The same object file used to create the sculpture can be put into 3D software and photographed as if it were a model, generating a set of 2D self-portraits, whose iconic value (resemblance) remains intact, while its function as an index (what exactly it is referring to: the artist in the photogrammetry rig, the physical sculpture, the data file), becomes less certain. As such, these sculptures, photographic portraits and videos straddle the line between digital photography (an indexical component) and post-photography or simulation technology, living in an ambiguous interstitial space.

Her first digital sculpture, AGING VENUS, 2018, was shown in the exhibition Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography, co-curated by Claudia Hart and Susan Silas with Stephanie Dinkins, Claudia Hart, Carla Gannis, Sophie Kahn and Susan Silas at bitforms gallery in 2018. The sculpture then traveled to Wasserman Projects in Detroit for the group exhibition Portray, curated by Alison Wong.

Publications
Silas has written featured articles for the online magazines ArtNet and Hyperallergic. She has been published in Podium, the online literary magazine of the 92nd Street Y in New York City; on channel 13's website REEL 13; in the literary magazine Exquisite Corpse; in cultureID; in the "Modern Love" column in the Sunday New York Times; and most recently on the blog of the Theo Westernberger estate. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and the co-editor of the artblog MOMMY. Her books include eyes wide shut, published by Horned Screamer Press; and TO SELVES: Joy Episalla and Susan Silas, published by 2 Works Press. Interviews with the artist can be found in ADULT magazine, Digital Dying, Museum of Non Visible Art at Yale University Radio, and "Ms. Represent: Behind the Face, a Fierce Woman" at Rabble magazine.

References

Selected bibliography
Marcin, Nadja Verena 150 Phalluses in Feminist Art Today, Hypergallergic, August 22, 2018
Takac, Balasz What About the Male Body in Feminist Art? An Exhibition Examines, Widewalls, May 23, 2018
 Vartanian, Hrag, Required Reading, Hyperallergic, December 6, 2015
 D’Agostino, Paul, Sexed & Gendered & Not: Four NYC Artists, The L Magazine, February 11, 2015
 Sendyka, Roma, A Journey, the Pain of Others, and Historical Experience: Susan Silas (English version) RIHA Journal Special Issue: Contemporary Art and Memory, December 31, 2014
 Micchelli, Thomas, The Pursuit of Art, 2014 December 27, 2014
 Lockemann, Bettina, The Power of Place: Photographing the Holocaust Today, Helsinki Photomedia, 2014
 Tschida, Anne, Art in the Everglades, Biscayne Times, July 7, 2014
 Somogyi, Zsófia, Susan Silas: Helmbrechts walk (In Hungarian) YouTube, 2014
 Thiessen-Schneider, Gudrun, 20 Jahre, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, 2014
 Petry, Michael ed., Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, Thames and Hudson, 2013
 Edmiston, J.Harry ed. Susan Silas, Heist. Photography-Collective, April, 2014.
 Schwendener, Martha, A Critic’s Picks in Brooklyn, an Embattled Utopia, the New York Times, April 3, 2014.
 Micchelli, Thomas, Everlasting Love: Susan Silas’s Intimate Photographs, Hyperallergic, March 15, 2014.
 Blazekovic, Norelkys ed., Airie, IRREVERSIBLE ART BASEL MIAMI WEEK, 2013.
 Wagley, Catherine, Susan Silas: In The Studio, ArtVoices, Summer Issue, 2013.
 Borș, Sabin ed. Susan Silas: the self-portrait sessions, Anti-Utopias, Summer, 2013.
 Steinhauer, Jillian, The Women of Miami Project, Hyperallergic, December 8, 2012.
 Zsofia, Somogyi, A halál elótt és után, Fotómúvészet, December 2011
 Susan Silas’ Heroic Living'', Hungry Hyaena, 16 May 2010.
 I Love Susan Silas, Charlie Finch, ArtNet Magazine, August, 2009.
"We are all witnesses": Susan Silas's Helmbrechts walk Erin Hanas, Montage, 2009.
Exposing violence, amnesia, and the fascist forest through Susan Silas and Collier Schorr's Holocaust Art, Brett Ashley Kaplan, Images, vol 2, number 1, 2008. Brill publishing.
 Camera Austria

External links
 Silas's homepage

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Reed College alumni
American contemporary artists
Hungarian women artists
New York University faculty
Cooper Union faculty
California Institute of the Arts alumni


WVLR-FM (91.5 FM) is a station that, as of May 1, 2023, is currently silent. Licensed to Lyndonville, Vermont, United States, the station is owned by Vermont Public Co.

From 1977 to 2023, the station operated as WWLR, the college radio station at Lyndon State College and its successor, Northern Vermont University—Lyndon.

History
WWLR began broadcasting on February 4, 1977, as a 10-watt outlet broadcasting on 91.7 MHz. In 1981, the station moved to 91.5 MHz as part of a power increase to 3,000 watts. However, three years later, the station was almost shut down when Lyndon State College teachers complained about electromagnetic radiation, though administration kept it on the air; WWLR had been forced off the air earlier in 1984 in order to rectify interference to the meteorology equipment in the college's atmospheric sciences program. As a result, the WWLR tower was relocated, and the station temporarily operated at half-power until the tower was moved.

Vermont Public announced its acquisition of the WWLR license from Northern Vermont University—Lyndon on December 16, 2022, with the intent of adding the station to its classical music network; the student-run programming would continue as an Internet radio station. The trustees of the Vermont State Colleges had voted to put WWLR up for sale in October 2022, after having earlier approved a plan to relinquish the license in December 2021. The purchase, at a price of $80,000, was consummated on April 25, 2023. Vermont Public took the station silent on May 1 to prepare for changes required to transmit its signal. The call sign was changed to WVLR-FM on October 30, 2023.

References

External links

VLR-FM
Radio stations established in 1977
1977 establishments in Vermont


WGMT (97.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Lyndon, Vermont, United States, the station is owned by Vermont Broadcast Associates, Inc. It airs the live syndicated Liveline with Mason Kelter every weeknight.

References

External links

GMT
Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Vermont


Wangtan () is a village in Jieji (), Sihong County, in the northwest of Jiangsu province, China approximately  west of the city of Huai'an.

References

Suqian
Villages in China


The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1952 is a 1952 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty.  An abridged edition was published in the UK by Grayson in 1953 under the title The Best Science Fiction Stories: Third Series.  The stories had originally appeared in 1951 and 1952 in the magazines Super Science Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Worlds Beyond, Startling Stories, New Worlds, Marvel Science Fiction, Esquire, Man’s World and Suspense Magazine.

Contents

 Introduction, by Everett F. Bleiler & T. E. Dikty
 "The Other Side", by Walter Kubilius
 "Of Time and Third Avenue", by Alfred Bester
 "The Marching Morons", by Cyril Kornbluth
 "A Peculiar People", by Betsy Curtis
 "Extending the Holdings", by David Grinnell
 "The Tourist Trade", by Wilson Tucker
 "The Two Shadows", by William F. Temple
 "Balance", by John Christopher
 "Brightness Falls from the Air", by Idris Seabright
 "Witch War", by Richard Matheson
 "At No Extra Cost", by Peter Phillips
 "Nine-Finger Jack", by Anthony Boucher
 "Appointment in Tomorrow", by Fritz Leiber
 "The Rats", by Arthur Porges
 "Men of the Ten Books", by Jack Vance
 "Generation of Noah", by William Tenn
 "Dark Interlude", by Fredric Brown & Mack Reynolds
 "The Pedestrian", by Ray Bradbury
 About the Authors

Sources

1952 anthologies
Best Science Fiction Stories 1952


Jason Lytle ( ; born March 26, 1969) is an American musician best known for his work in the indie rock group Grandaddy. The group split in 2005, and Lytle continued to release music as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. Grandaddy reformed in 2012 and stopped recording and touring again in 2017 following the death of long term member Kevin Garcia.

Biography

Early life and Grandaddy
Lytle was born in Modesto, California and has an older sister, one older brother, a sister (deceased) and a stepsister. His father was in the grocery business, and his mother a housewife; they divorced when Lytle was aged seven. A fan of music at an early age, he played drums as a child. Skateboarding captured his interest in his teens, and by his late teens Lytle was a sponsored amateur. While laid up with a career-ending ACL injury, he started to play music again, writing songs and eventually setting up a home studio. Grandaddy came together gradually, signed to V2 Records, put out albums, and toured the world.

After spending years on the road, Lytle grew tired of the rock and roll lifestyle and recorded much of the band's fourth album, Just Like the Fambly Cat, on his own. In December 2005, six months prior to the release of Just Like the Fambly Cat, the band decided to break up: the reasons included elusive mainstream success, despite widespread critical acclaim, and lack of money. Early in 2006, Lytle moved to Montana from Modesto, where he had lived his whole life.

Mid-2006 saw Lytle briefly touring the U.S. in support of The Fambly Cat, playing new arrangements of Grandaddy songs as a duo with Rusty Miller of the band Jackpot. The tour was brokered as part of a deal to get V2 to agree to release a Grandaddy DVD that Lytle had in the works.

In December 2008, Lytle appeared in the music video for "I Am Lost (And the Moment Cannot Last)", which later was released on his debut album, Yours Truly, the Commuter. The video was shot in Sylmar, CA and directed by The General Assembly.

In 2013 Lytle moved from Montana to Portland, Oregon. As of March 2015 Lytle was producing an LP for Band of Horses, and has stated that he will follow it with work on another Grandaddy album.

Lytle moved back to his hometown of Modesto, California in the summer of 2016. Grandaddy toured during 2016 and released its fifth studio album, Last Place, in March 2017.

Solo career
Lytle's debut solo album, Yours Truly, the Commuter, was released on May 19, 2009 on the ANTI- label.

On December 7, 2009, Lytle independently released an EP of seven improvised piano recordings as a "Merry X-mas" gift to fans through his website on Bandcamp. He also announced that he was working on a new album.

Lytle later joined with Aaron Burtch, a former Grandaddy bandmate, and Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray, of the band Earlimart, to form a new band called Admiral Radley. Their debut CD, entitled I Heart California, was released in the US on July 13, 2010, on Espinoza's The Ship label.

Lytle's solo studio album Dept. of Disappearance was released October 16, 2012. He released the live album House Show in December 2014, on Bandcamp.

In May 2015 Jason teamed up with Chokebore's Troy Von Balthazar on French radio station France Musique under the name "Jason Lytle, Troy Von Balthazar & The Color Bars Experience" to cover and perform Elliott Smith's Figure 8 with a chamber orchestra.

Personal life

Lytle married his longtime girlfriend around 2011, but was divorced by around 2016. He credits the breakup of their relationship with inspiring 2017's Last Place.

Discography

with Grandaddy

 A Pretty Mess by This One Band (1996)
 Under the Western Freeway (1997)
 The Sophtware Slump (2000)
 Sumday (2003)
 Just Like the Fambly Cat (2006)
 Last Place (2017)

with Admiral Radley

 I Heart California (2010)
 ADRAD Radio (2020)

with BNQT

 Volume 1 (2017)

Solo albums
 Yours Truly, the Commuter (2009)
 Merry X-Mas 2009  (2009)
 Music Meant to Accompany the Art of Ron Cameron (2010)
 Dept. of Disappearance (2012)
 House Show (2014)
 Arthur King Presents Jason Lytle: NYLONANDJUNO (2019)

EPs
 Prepare to Bawl (1992)
 Complex Party Come Along Theories (1994)
 Signal to Snow Ratio (1999)
 Through a Frosty Plate Glass (2001)
 Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla (2005)

Compilation appearances
 All Together Now (2006, Little Monster/V2) (song: "All You Need Is Love")
 I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey (2006, Vanguard) (song: "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain")
 Real Fun: Polaroids from the Independent Music Landscape (2007, PictureBox) (song: "Thee Everything")
 Kat Vox: A CD To Celebrate 20 Years of timmi-kat ReCoRDS (2011 timmi-kat ReCoRDS) (song: "Stereo Labrador")

Guest appearances
 The Band of Blacky Ranchette — Still Lookin' Good to Me (2003, Thrill Jockey) (drums, keyboards, vocals)
 The Crystal Method — Divided by Night (2009, Tiny E) (vocals on "Slipstream")
 Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse — Dark Night of the Soul — (2009) (vocals on "Jaykub" and "Everytime I'm with You")
 Donovan's Brain — Fires Which Burnt Brightly (2009, Career Records) (keyboards and vocals, "I Saw Your Light")
 Jackpot — Moonbreath (2007, Jackpine Social Club) (backing vocals)
 Kramies – The Wooden Heart EP (producer, synths "Sea Otter Cottage" "Clocks Were All Broken")
 M. Ward — Hold Time (2009, Merge)
 Sage Francis — Li(f)e (music, "Little Houdini")

 Kramies – Of All The Places Been & Everything the End EP (producer)

Production
 Band of Horses – (2016, Produced album Why Are You OK)

References

External links

 Jason Lytle on Bandcamp
 Jason Lytle's live music on Grandaddy.live

Living people
1969 births
American indie rock musicians
Musicians from Modesto, California
BNQT members
Anti- (record label) artists


Shuangbaotai () or horse hooves is a sweet Taiwanese fried dough food with chewy dough containing large air pockets on the inside and a crisp crust on the outside. It is made by twisting two small pieces of dough together and frying them, causing them to separate slightly while remaining connected.

Names
The Mandarin Chinese name of this food, shuāngbāotāi () meaning "twins", is derived from the fact that the dish is two pastries twisted slightly together as if conjoined twins.  The Taiwanese Hokkien name is 馬花糋 (bé-hoe-chìⁿ), which roughly means "horse-hoof cake", also in reference to its shape. Another Hokkien name is 雙生仔 (siang-siⁿ-á) meaning twins.

Regional
In Taiwan, shuangbaotai are a type of snack (xiaochi) typically sold by hawkers at street stalls or in night markets, but not in regular restaurants or bakeries.

See also
 Taiwanese cuisine
 List of desserts
 List of doughnut varieties
 List of fried dough varieties

Other Chinese fried dough dishes
 Ham chim peng
Ox-tongue pastry
Youtiao

References

External links

YTower — A famous maker of shuangbaotai
Shuangbaotai  at Chiayi Tourism Bureau website — includes photos of shuangabotai

Singaporean cuisine
Taiwanese cuisine
Doughnuts


Wangtan () is a town in Keqiao District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. , it administers Shunjiangyuan Residential Community () and the following 24 villages:
Wangtan Village
Zhaohu Village ()
Kanshang Village ()
Shadi Village ()
Jiangxiang Village ()
Tenghao Village ()
Wangcheng Village ()
Dong Village ()
Changling Village ()
Shu Village ()
Shangwang Village ()
Zhangjiang Village ()
Sun'ao Village ()
Yuzhai Village ()
Yinsha Village ()
Danjia Village ()
Xinjian Village ()
Qingtan Village ()
Xinhua Village ()
Yuelian Village ()
Nan'an Village ()
Xinlian Village ()
Shunhuang Village ()
Wanqiao Village ()

References

Towns of Zhejiang
Shaoxing


Blood Wars is an out-of-print collectible card game produced by TSR, based on the Planescape campaign setting from Dungeons & Dragons.

Publication history
The game was released in March 1995 as part of TSR's 20th anniversary. The original release contained 334 cards in the set, sold in 15-card booster packs and two 50-card dual decks. Card art was designed by various artists, including Tony DiTerlizzi, Newt Ewell, Henry Higgenbotham, Paul Jaquays, Dana Knutson, Rob Lazzaretti, Robin Raab, Robh Ruppel, and Dave Sutherland.

A series of expansion sets called escalation packs were scheduled for publication.

Insurgents of the Inner Planes never materialized and was halted at the printer in February 1996.

The player guide Warlord's Tactical Manual was published in January 1996.

Gameplay
Players use cards representing Warlords and Legions for combat to claim Battlefield cards.

Reception
The game was said to play "pretty well as a multi-player game, and it's much better than TSR's Spellfire" according to Allen Varney of The Duelist.

Reviews
The Duelist #5

Legacy

Blood Wars was notable for the aggressive stance TSR took against fan websites displaying artwork from the game. The result was to suppress popularity of the game while it was still being published.  This was in contrast to Wizards of the Coast, which allowed fair use reproduction of Magic: The Gathering copyrighted images online. The collectability of its chase cards was also notable across CCGs, especially "The Lady of Pain."

The card game is not associated with the Blood Wars Polish online MMORPG, which is not based on Planescape.

References

Further reading
Preview in Scrye #4

Card games introduced in 1995
Collectible card games
Planescape
TSR, Inc. games


Al-Merreikh Al-Thagher Sport Club () also known as Merreikh Port Sudan is a football club in Port Sudan, Sudan.

National
Sudan Premier League
Champion (0):
Runners-up (0):
Third Place (1): 2000
 12 Place (1):2007

Sudan Cup
Champion (0):
Runners-up (0):

Bort Sudan League

Performance in CAF competitions
CAF Cup: 1 appearance
2001 – First Round

External links
Team profile – soccerway.com

Football clubs in Sudan
Red Sea (state)


Wangtan () is a town in Laoting County, in northeastern Hebei province, China.

See also
List of township-level divisions of Hebei

References

Township-level divisions of Hebei
Laoting County


The Australian Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice is a self-regulatory code adopted by free-to-air broadcasters in the Australian media. Although developed by industry, the code has been registered (as the regulatory regime permits) with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

The Code was developed by Free TV Australia, an industry body which represents Australia's commercial free-to-air broadcast networks and stations and is put under review triennially.

Description
FreeTV Australia's website describes the Code as being an attempt "to balance and provide for the various and often conflicting interests of our diverse society in the delivery of commercial television services. It is the result of extensive consultation with Government advisory bodies, community interest groups and the public generally."

Commercial television networks in Australia are required to comply with the Australian Commercial Television Code of Practice, which is governed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority with Free TV Australia mediating between the networks and the ACMA, as well as handling viewer complaints. Classifications for each program broadcast on TV, are decided upon by trained classification officers at each network. If viewers believe a network has breached the TV Code of Practice (an incorrect classification have been given, for example), viewers can submit a complaint to Free TV Australia, who then submit that complaint to the network. If viewers are dissatisfied with the result, they may then refer their complaint to the ACMA for an investigation.

Content
The Code covers the matters prescribed in section 123 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 and other matters relating to program content that are of concern to the community including:
 program classifications;
 accuracy, fairness and respect for privacy in news and current affairs;
 advertising time on television; and
 placement of commercials and program promotions and complaints handling.

The Code operates alongside the ACMA Standards which regulates programs for children and the Australian content of programs and advertisements.

Television content rating system

Child-specific ratings

These time zones are further governed by the Australian Commercial Television Code of Practice, over and above the commercial Code of Practice. Both are similar to the G and PG classifications respectively in terms of allowable content, but are specifically targeted at children, whereas G specifies programming content that is suitable for all audiences, but may not necessarily be of interest to children. Until 2020, commercial free-to-air stations were obligated to broadcast a set number of hours of content per year. These quotas were removed in October 2020, leaving broadcasters with no requirement to air programs specifically aimed at children.

Standard ratings
The Australian television content rating system is intended to be equivalent to the Australian Classification Board (ACB) classifications, albeit with some minor alterations. They're usually presented with the same shape and sometimes colour as their ACB counterparts. The two government-owned TV networks, ABC and SBS, are not bound by the same regulations as their commercial counterparts, and are instead each bound by their own Codes of Practice. The guidelines provided by these Codes are similar but not identical to the Codes of Practice for commercial stations. For example, SBS refers to the rating MAV 15+ instead of AV 15+, while ABC does not use the AV/MAV rating at all; instead programs rated MA 15+ must not start before 9:30 p.m., instead of 9:00 p.m. While the ABC recognizes the G rating, its code of practice does not require that it display its classification symbol on-air in respect to G-rated programming.

Pay television networks also have a different system to the free-to-air networks. In general, all content on pay TV must still be given one of the above ratings; however, there are not usually restrictions on the time of day any particular programming can be broadcast. There is no R 18+ rating for pay TV, but its use is strictly limited to special interest channels. FOXTEL, a pay TV company, has a parental lock-out system which can be programd by parents to stop children from seeing certain programs. In 2009, the system malfunctioned, allowing children access to violent TV shows and films. The restrictions on R 18+ rated programming have been increased since then, and those programs can now only be shown on the two adult channels.

From December 2015, the ACMA introduced sweeping changes to the ratings system for commercial networks. Among them were allowing M and MA 15+ programs to air an hour earlier then they were previously allowed, from 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm respectively, PG programs can air all day, dissolving the AV 15+ classification, as well as changes to when adverts with higher classifications program can air. R 18+ and X 18+ restricted classifications are not permitted for free-to-air broadcast in Australia. Many R 18+ movies on DVD/Blu-ray are often edited on Free TV/cable networks, to secure an MA 15+ classification or lower. Some movies that were classified R 18+ on DVD have since been aired on Australian TV with an MA 15+ classification.

Adult "Pay Per View" only

Consumer advice
Consumer advice is compulsory for all MA 15+ and one-off programs, as well as very short series classified M or higher (such as feature films, miniseries and documentaries). Commercial networks have been providing consumer advice to all PG and M programs anyway. From February 2019, the Nine Network, the Seven Network, Network 10, SBS and Foxtel along with regional networks Prime7, GWN7, WIN Television, NBN Television no longer uses full-screen and voiced-over boards before the beginning of a program, instead would opt for a small text box in the bottom right-hand corner (Nine and WIN) and top left-hand corner (SBS, GWN7, Prime7, Seven and 10). Though ABC and some Foxtel channels continue to use full-screen and voiced-over boards before the start of a program.

Consumer advice takes the form of a full-screen written and verbal announcement at the start of the program, announcing the classification as well as listing the type and strength and/or frequency of any classifiable element. When a program carries consumer advice, appropriate abbreviations in letter form are displayed along with the classification symbol after each commercial break. They also usually appear in programming guides, usually in lower case to distinguish from primary classifications. In general, these abbreviations are as follows:

 A – used for programs with adult themes;
strong adult themes
medical procedures
crude humour
sexual violence
suicide themes
war scenes
 V – used for programs depicting violence;
stylised violence
mild violence
some violence
frequent violence
realistic violence
strong violence
 L – used for programs coarse language;
mild coarse language
some coarse language
frequent coarse language
very coarse language
frequent very coarse language
 S – used for programs depicting simulated sex scenes and/or references;
sexual references
a sex scene
sex scenes
strong sex scenes
 H – used for programs containing horror or supernatural themes;
 D – used for programs with drug references and/or use;
drug references
drug use
 N – used for programs containing nudity;

Previously, abbreviations such as MP (medical procedures) and SN (supernatural themes) have been used.

Notes

See also
Advertising Standards Bureau (Australia)
Australian Classification Board

Broadcasting in Australia
Media content ratings systems
Entertainment rating organizations
Australian classification system
Censorship in Australia


Wangtang (旺塘, 汪塘, 网塘) is a name of numerous villages in China. Only a few of them are listed below:

 Wangtang, the name of 3 towns in Anhui prefecture
 Wangtang, Guangdong in Jianggu, Sihui, Zhaoqing, Guangdong
 Wangtang (northwest of Guilin), Guangxi
 Wangtang, Guilin, Guangxi in Chaotian, Lingchuan, Guilin, Guangxi
 Wangtang, Hunan

See also
 Wangtan (disambiguation)


The following is a list of creeks named Fish Creek grouped by region and country.

Creeks
 Fish Creek (Western Australia)

Canada
 Fish Creek runs from Charlie Lake to the Beatton River near Fort St. John, British Columbia
 Fish Creek, Saskatchewan, northeast of Saskatoon and site of the Battle of Fish Creek

United States

Alaska
 Fish Creek, Anchorage, Alaska area
 Fish Creek, Bethel, Alaska area
 Fish Creek, Denali Borough, Alaska area
 Fish Creek, Juneau area
 Fish Creek, Ketchikan-Gateway area
 Fish Creek, Matanuska-Susitna area
 Fish Creek North Slope Borough area
 Fish Creek Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan area

Other states
 Fish Creek, Maricopa County; it runs west then northwest out of the Superstition Mountains
 Fish Creek, San Bernardino County
 Fish Creek, Routt County
 Fish Creek, in DeKalb County and Steuben County
 Fish Creek, Mitchell County Lat.: 43.22528; Long.: -92.68
 Fish Creek, Stillwater County, Montana
 Fish Creek, Niagara County, New York
 Fish Creek, Lewis County, New York and Oneida County, New York
 Fish Creek (Cape Fear River tributary), a stream in Harnett County, North Carolina
 Fish Creek, Williams County, Ohio
 Fish Creek, John Muir Wilderness, California
 Oregon:
 Fish Creek, Baker County, Oregon
 Fish Creek, Lincoln County, Oregon
 Fish Creek (Comb Wash), tributary to the Comb Wash, San Juan County, Utah
 Wyoming:
 Fish Creek, Carbon County
 Fish Creek, tributary to the Snake River, lowest point in Grand Teton National Park

See also
Fishkill (disambiguation), Dutch for Fish Creek


Bellamack is a suburb of Palmerston. It is 26.5 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its local government area is the City of Palmerston.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080123190745/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#b
 https://web.archive.org/web/20091005152315/http://nt.gov.au/lands/lru/buildingpalmerston/bellamack/index.shtml
 http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/11/05/98601_realestate.html

Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory


WYKC (99.1 FM) is a K-Love radio station owned by the Educational Media Foundation, licensed to Whitefield, New Hampshire. The station serves the Northeast Kingdom and northern New Hampshire.

History
White Park Broadcasting, part of the group of companies controlled by Steve Silberberg, won the right to build a radio station on 99.1 in Whitefield at auction in early 2006. It would sign on in July 2007 as WXRG, "Free 99.1", with an adult hits format. In 2008, the station became WNYN-FM, swapping call signs with a sister station in Massachusetts.

The "Free 99.1" variety hits format would remain until EMF acquired the station from Silberberg's Devon Broadcasting Corporation in 2020, as part of its $395,000 sale of three New Hampshire FMs to the Christian broadcaster. The call letters changed to WYKC on January 6, 2021, coincidental with the consummation of the sale.

References

External links

YKC
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
K-Love radio stations
Radio stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in New Hampshire
Coös County, New Hampshire


John Glenn LeBlanc (born January 21, 1964) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger.  He played 83 games in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets.  He scored 26 goals and 13 assists in his NHL career.

His best professional season came in 1989-90 when, as a member of the Cape Breton Oilers, he led all American Hockey League scorers with 54 regular-season goals.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

External links

1964 births
Bakersfield Condors (1998–2015) players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Cape Breton Oilers players
Edmonton Oilers players
Fort Wayne Komets players
Fredericton Express players
Hull Olympiques players
Ice hockey people from New Brunswick
Living people
Milwaukee Admirals (IHL) players
Moncton Hawks players
New Brunswick Varsity Reds ice hockey players
Orlando Solar Bears (IHL) players
People from Campbellton, New Brunswick
Springfield Falcons players
Undrafted National Hockey League players
Utah Grizzlies (IHL) players
Vancouver Canucks players
Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States


Francesco Borgongini Duca (26 February 1884 – 4 October 1954) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Italy from 1929 to 1953 and was made a cardinal in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.

Biography

Borgongini Duca was born in Rome, and studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary, from where he obtained doctorates in theology and in canon and civil law. He was ordained to the priesthood on 22 December 1906, and then taught theology at both the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide from 1907 to 1909. He was favorably impressed by a young American seminarian named Francis Spellman, whom Duca would later assist in consecrating as Auxiliary Bishop of Boston in 1932.

Borgongini Duca entered the service of the Roman Curia upon being made an official of the Apostolic Penitentiary in 1909, of which he became secretary on 24 February 1917. He was raised to the rank of privy chamberlain of his holiness on 2 March 1917, and was named pro-secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs on 28 June 1921, rising to become full secretary on 14 October 1922 (the pope was the nominal head of that dicastery). He was made a domestic prelate of his holiness (7 July 1921) and apostolic protonotary (11 January 1927) before being named to the commission to negotiate the Lateran Treaty.

On 7 June 1929, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in Europa by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 29 June from Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, with Archbishop Carlo Cremonesi and Bishop Agostino Zampini, OSA, serving as co-consecrators, in the Hall of Benedictions at St. Peter's Basilica. Duca was named Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, the first after the Lateran Treaty, the next day, on 30 June. In addition to his diplomatic duties, he was also made pontifical administrator of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on 1 April 1933, and of the Basilica of Our Lady of Loreto on 25 March 1934.

In early 1937, he bestowed the Golden Rose on Queen Elena of Italy, on the occasion of her fortieth wedding anniversary to Victor Emmanuel III. During World War II, Benito Mussolini clashed with Duca over the issue of restricting Jewish converts to Catholicism. In 1952, he wrote The Seventy Weeks of Daniel and the Messianic Date, in which he determined the date of the crucifixion of Jesus as 7 April 30 AD, by using the cryptographic prophecies contained in the Book of Daniel. Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in the consistory of 12 January 1953, ending his role as nuncio.

Duca died from a heart ailment at his apartment in the Palace of the Holy Office in Rome at age 70. He was initially buried in the chapel of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, but his remains were later transferred to the church of San Salvatore in Ossibus in Vatican City.

References

External links
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
Catholic-Hierarchy

Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII
1884 births
1954 deaths
Clergy from Rome
20th-century Italian cardinals
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
Pontifical Roman Seminary alumni
Apostolic Nuncios to Italy


Manolo Muñoz (20 april 1941 –29 October 2000) was a Mexican singer and actor, who was famous for an interpretation of the song  "Speedy Gonzales" in the 1960s. He was also one of the first soloists in Mexico to sing, a style that later became popular with artists like José José, Víctor Yturbe, and Luis Miguel.

Muñoz, who was born Manuel Muñoz Velasco in La Barca, Jalisco, was also referred to as El Flaco Muñoz, El Esqueleto and El Hombre de la Llamarada. His career began in 1959; he played a significant role in the history of Mexican rock. He is one early Mexican rock's most prolific singers, both as the singer of Los Gibson Boys and as a solo artist.

He was planning a tour at the time of his death.

References

1941 births
2000 deaths
Mexican musicians


The following article presents a summary of the 1917 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 16th season of competitive football in the country.

Campeonato Paulista

Final Standings

Paulistano declared as the Campeonato Paulista champions.

State championship champions

Brazil national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1917.

References

 Brazilian competitions at RSSSF
 1917 Brazil national team matches at RSSSF

Seasons in Brazilian football
Brazil


"We're Only Gonna Die" is a song penned by frontman Greg Graffin for Bad Religion's debut album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, which was released in 1982. It is the album's opening track, as well as the now-out of print 80–85 compilation, which was released in 1991.

The song is often referred to only by the name "Gonna Die". The liner notes to the How Could Hell Be Any Worse album lists the title as "We're Only Gonna Die from Our Own Arrogance". Graffin occasionally introduces the song with this complete title. The band also called the song "Modern Man" before the release of their 1990 fifth album Against the Grain, which contained a track by that name.

The lyrics and title show Graffin's early affinity for biology and evolutionary science. They refer to Richard Leakey and Robert Lewin's book "Origins," regarding the biological origin and demise of humanity. “To have arrived on this Earth … only to depart it through arrogance, would be the ultimate irony."

The song can also be heard in the movie Glory Daze. It also appears on the soundtrack of the videogame, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

More than 30 years after its release, "We're Only Gonna Die" is still a fan favorite and remains one of the band's concert staples.

Cover versions
The song was covered by the band Biohazard who called it "We're Only Gonna Die (From Our Own Arrogance)". Bad Religion and Biohazard played this song live together during a show in the late '90s.

The ska punk band Sublime also covered this song, calling it "We're Only Gonna Die for Our Arrogance." After performing the cover live for several years, a studio version was recorded for their 1992 album 40 Oz. to Freedom. The song continued to be frequently included in their live set lists throughout their history.

The alternative rock band Tripping Daisy also covered "We're Only Gonna Die", as the closing track on their 1994 live album, Get It On - Live.

References

Bad Religion songs
1982 songs
Sublime (band) songs
Songs written by Greg Graffin


Wangtang () is a village in Chaotian Township (), Lingchuan County, Guilin, Guangxi in the People's Republic of China, about 25 km southeast of Guilin. In 2009, the Guilin city government provided aid to the village, and described it as hilly, relatively high altitude, and prone to water shortages. The elementary school in Wangtang was lacking in funding, and more than 280 students were forced to use old, hard desks as a result.

References

External links

Lingchuan County, Guangxi
Villages in China


Damian Scannell (born 28 April 1985) is an English former footballer who last played for Tonbridge Angels. Earlier in his career he played for Fisher Athletic, Eastleigh, Southend United, Sutton United and Dagenham & Redbridge. Scannell was educated at Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Croydon, between 1996 and 2001.

Club career
Scannell made nine appearances from the bench in the 2007–08 season as Southend United made the League One play-offs.

Scannell had a very impressive pre-season and was rewarded with his first league start against Peterborough United on 9 August 2008. Southend won 1–0. Scannell joined League Two side Brentford on a two-month loan on 27 November. He made just one start and one sub appearance before returning to Southend on 8 January 2009.

After impressive substitute appearances Scannell was given only his second league start for Southend against Carlisle United on 21 March and scored his first professional goal in a 3–0 win.

His preparations for the 2009–10 season took a blow when he contracted swine flu in July 2009. On 23 March 2010, Scannell's season was prematurely cut short when he broke his fifth metatarsal in Southend's 3–0 win over Walsall. On 24 June, Scannell rejected a new two-year contract with Southend, he instead signed a two-year contract with Dagenham & Redbridge on 29 June 2010.

On 7 December 2011, after making 34 appearances and scoring two goals for Dagenham, Scannell made a return to Eastleigh. A season at Sutton United followed, before Scannell joined Bromley. On 16 January 2015, Scannell joined Sutton United on loan.

Scannell joined Isthmian League Premier Division club Dulwich Hamlet for the second time in his career ahead of the 2015–16 season, going on to score two goals on his second debut for the club in a 3–0 win over Canvey Island, and another goal in his next game, a 2–0 win over Merstham.

Following one season at Dulwich, in which he made 48 appearances in all competitions whilst scoring 8 goals, he moved to Tonbridge Angels ahead of the 2016–17 season.

Scannell made 40 appearances for Tonbridge during his first season at the club; however, in October 2017, having not played at all during the 2017–2018 season, he was forced to retire through injury.

Personal life
He is the brother of fellow footballer Sean Scannell.
Scannell now runs his own gym in Croydon, SimplyFitness UK.

Scannell's father (died 2015) was from County Armagh, and was also of Jamaican heritage.

References

External links

Profile on Southend United website

1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Croydon
Men's association football wingers
English men's footballers
Eastleigh F.C. players
Southend United F.C. players
Brentford F.C. players
Sutton United F.C. players
Bromley F.C. players
Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. players
Dulwich Hamlet F.C. players
Fisher Athletic F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Isthmian League players
English people of Irish descent
English people of Jamaican descent
Greenwich Borough F.C. players
Tonbridge Angels F.C. players


WKXH (105.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a New Country format. Licensed to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States, the station is owned by Vermont Broadcast Associates, Inc.

History
The station was assigned the call letters WNKV on April 10, 1985; it signed on August 1. On June 6, 1998, the station changed its call sign to the current WKXH.

References

External links

 Kix 105.5 WKXH on Facebook

KXH
Radio stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Vermont
Country radio stations in the United States


In requirements engineering, requirements elicitation is the practice of researching and discovering the requirements of a system from users, customers, and other stakeholders. The practice is also sometimes referred to as "requirement gathering".

The term elicitation is used in books and research to raise the fact that good requirements cannot just be collected from the customer, as would be indicated by the name requirements gathering. Requirements elicitation is non-trivial because you can never be sure you get all requirements from the user and customer by just asking them what the system should do or not do (for Safety and Reliability). Requirements elicitation practices include interviews, questionnaires, user observation, workshops, brainstorming, use cases, role playing and prototyping.

Before requirements can be analyzed, modeled, or specified they must be gathered through an elicitation process. Requirements elicitation is a part of the requirements engineering process, usually followed by analysis and specification of the requirements.

Commonly used elicitation processes are the stakeholder meetings or interviews. For example, an important first meeting could be between software engineers and customers where they discuss their perspective of the requirements.

The requirements elicitation process may appear simple: ask the customer, the users and others what the objectives for the system or product are, what is to be accomplished, how the system or product fits into the needs of business, and finally, how the system or product is to be used on a day-to-day basis. However, issues may arise that complicate the process.

In 1992, Christel and Kang identified problems that indicate the challenges for requirements elicitation:

'Problems of scope'. The boundary of the system is ill-defined or the customers/users specify unnecessary technical details that may confuse, rather than clarify, overall system objectives.
Problems of understanding. The customers/users are not completely sure of what is needed, have a poor understanding of the capabilities and limitations of their computing environment, don’t have a full understanding of the problem domain, have trouble communicating needs to the system engineer, omit information that is believed to be “obvious,” specify requirements that conflict with the needs of other customers/users, or specify requirements that are ambiguous or untestable.
Problems of volatility. The requirements change over time. The rate of change is sometimes referred to as the level of requirement volatility

Requirements quality can be improved through these approaches:

Visualization. Using tools that promote better understanding of the desired end-product such as visualization and simulation.
Consistent language. Using simple, consistent definitions for requirements described in natural language and use the business terminology that is prevalent in the enterprise.
Guidelines. Following organizational guidelines that describe the collection techniques and the types of requirements to be collected. These guidelines are then used consistently across projects.
Consistent use of templates. Producing a consistent set of models and templates to document the requirements.
Documenting dependencies. Documenting dependencies and interrelationships among requirements.
Analysis of changes. Performing root cause analysis of changes to requirements and making corrective actions.

Guidelines
In 1997, Sommerville and Sawyer suggested a set of guidelines for requirements elicitation, to address concerns such as those identified by Christel and Kang:
 Assess the business and technical feasibility for the proposed system
 Identify the people who will help specify requirements and understand their organizational bias
 Define the technical environment (e.g., computing architecture, operating system, telecommunications needs) into which the system or product will be placed
 Identify "domain constraints" (i.e., characteristics of the business environment specific to the application domain) that limit the functionality or performance of the system or product to be built
 Define one or more requirements elicitation methods (e.g., interviews, focus groups, team meetings)
 Solicit participation from many people so that requirements are defined from different points of view; be sure to identify the rationale for each requirement that is recorded
 Identify ambiguous requirements as candidates for prototyping
 Create usage scenarios or use cases to help customers/users better identify key requirements

Sequence of steps
In 2004, Goldsmith suggested a "problem pyramid" of "six steps which must be performed in sequence":
 Identify the real problem, opportunity or challenge
 Identify the current measure(s) which show that the problem is real
 Identify the goal measure(s) to show the problem has been addressed and the value of meeting it
 Identify the "as-is" cause(s) of the problem, as it is the causes that must be solved, not the problem directly
 Define the business "wants" that must be delivered to meet the goal measure(s)
 Specify a product design how to satisfy the real business requirements

However Goldsmith notes that identifying the real problem "is exceedingly difficult".

Complementary approaches
In 2009, Alexander and Beus-Dukic proposed a set of complementary approaches for discovering requirements:
 Identifying stakeholders
 Modeling goals
 Modeling context
 Discovering scenarios (or Use cases)
 Discovering "qualities and constraints" (Non-functional requirements)
 Modeling rationale and assumptions
 Writing definitions of terms
 Analyzing measurements (acceptance criteria)
 Analyzing priorities

Alexander and Beus-Dukic suggested that these approaches could be conducted with individuals (as in interviews), with groups (as in focused meetings known as workshops, or via Electronic meeting systems), or from "things" (artifacts) such as prototypes.

Non-functional requirements
In 2009, Miller proposed a battery of over 2,000 questions to elicit non-functional requirements. Her approach is to build a stakeholder profile and then interview those stakeholders extensively. The questions are grouped into three sections, all focused on user needs:
 Operation: how well does the [needs editing] use?
 Revision: how easy is it to correct errors and add functions?
 Transition: How easy is it to adapt to changes in the technical environment?
In 2013, Murali Chemuturi suggested the usage of Ancillary Functionality Requirements instead of Non-Functional Requirements as "Non-Functional" connotes "never functional". Second, these requirements in fact fulfill some requirements which are supportive to main or Core Functionality Requirements.

Bibliography

 Gobov, Denys, Huchenko, Inna. (2020). Requirement Elicitation Techniques for Software Projects in Ukrainian IT: An Exploratory Study. http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2020F16.

See also

 Progressive elaboration

References

Software requirements


WMOU (1230 AM) is a radio station licensed to Berlin, New Hampshire, United States, and with its offices located in Littleton, New Hampshire, the station serves northern New Hampshire and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.  The station is owned by Barry P. and Brian Lunderville.

History
The station was assigned the call letters WIGW in 1987; in 1989 the station changed its call sign to the current WMOU.

In July 2000, Jericho Broadcasting Co. LLC (Arnold P. Hanson Jr. and Steven D. Griffin, both managers/50% owners) reached an agreement to purchase WMOU from New England Broadcasting Inc. (Stephen E. Powell, president). At the time of the sale, WMOU broadcast an adult standards music format.

In the fall of 2008, WMOU began simulcasting the morning show of WLTN-FM and simulcasting WXXS the rest of the day and weekends. The station also added a broadcast translator, 106.1 W294AZ. During top-of-the-hour station identifications, WMOU is referred to on-air as "Kiss 106.1" in reference to the translator.

Former on-air staff
Former WMOU employees (when the station was owned by Bob and Gladys Powell) include Leslie Howe, Donna "DL Daniels", James Patry, Sam Dube, Paul Gagne, Jay Charland, Mike Emery, Charlie in the morning and Carol Miller.  Miller still performs a big band show each Saturday.

A mainstay of the station under various owners was Robert "Bob" Barbin. Barbin was news director for several decades and hosted a local radio/call in show Forum. During the Presidential Primary season, Forum was a frequent stop for politicos of all stripes. Barbin also hosted the local Swap Shop program. Barbin was laid off from the station during the latest round of cost cutting under Lunderville. In another cost-cutting measure, the WMOU offices were consolidated into the WLTN offices in downtown Littleton, New Hampshire; the building in Berlin, New Hampshire containing the former location of the WMOU studios is on the market to eventually be sold to a new owner. Shortly thereafter, local programming on WMOU was dropped, in favor of simulcasting co-owned stations.

References

External links

MOU
Radio stations established in 1987
Berlin, New Hampshire
Coös County, New Hampshire
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States


Max Creek is an American rock band that was formed by Dave Reed, John Rider and Bob Gosselin in 1971. Max Creek has a loyal following, and put on an annual music festival at Indian Lookout Country Club in upstate New York, dubbed Camp Creek, and was one of the longest running festivals on the East Coast when it took a hiatus in 2008. Camp Creek was held in Maine in 2011, and returned to Indian Lookout Country Club in 2014. After another hiatus, Camp Creek was held in 2019 at Odetah Camping Resort in Bozrah, CT.

History
Max Creek was formed in 1971 when Hartt College of Music students Dave Reed (acoustic guitar) and John Rider (electric bass) met and shared their original songs and love of American folk music.  They initially rehearsed in the basement of John's frat house in Hartford, CT, but later moved to a 'band house' in Feeding Hills, MA.  Dave eventually asked his high school friend, drummer Bob Gosselin to join, making them a trio. The band originally played folk, singer/songwriter and country rock music. In 1972, Dave Reed invited one of his music students, 15-year-old electric guitarist Scott Murawski, to attend a rehearsal at the 'band house'.  Scott's playing blew the guys away and he was asked to come on board the MC train.  Strangely, Scott's early original association with the band ended abruptly when he was banned from a Hartford, CT club that the band played at regularly for "being under age". In 1973 Dave Reed came down with appendicitis, so Mark Mercier was brought in on keyboards to fill in, and Scott was invited back to play lead guitar. Due to the influence of the Grateful Dead, the band decided to incorporate more improvisation into the music becoming more electrified. The music of the psychedelic era had a heavy influence on the band, leading to a  sound and style more like that of the Grateful Dead and the rest of the San Francisco Bay scene. Eventually, Dave left the band to pursue bluegrass, country rock and acoustic ragtime music as a solo act and with the short-lived Hatchett Hill String Band.  In the '80s, Dave went on to form Tamboura Productions where he has recorded several albums and fronted a number of bands including Tamboura (1992) and The Introverts (2016); he is an avid builder/player of cigar box guitars.

Percussionist Rob Fried joined the band in 1979. Known for his elaborate stage setup, often with dozens drums and percussion pieces, Fried could always be easily identified in a club or hall thanks to his trademark Panama hat, Hawaiian shirt and dark glasses. Fried left the band in 2004 and died of cancer on September 6, 2006.

Amy (Barefoot) Fazzano was a vocalist with the band from July 1976 until September 10, 1983.

Bob Gosselin left the band in 1985 and was replaced on drums by Greg DeGuglielmo.

Bob Bloom was an occasional second drummer and percussionist in 1976.

Greg Vasso replaced DeGuglielmo in 1991, and stayed until 1996. At that point, Scott Allshouse took over and was with the band until 2011 when Bill Carbone replaced him. Jamemurrell Stanley is the band's current percussionist.

As of 2019, Max Creek is still actively playing shows, most recently celebrating their 40th anniversary in Costa Rica with Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead in a series of shows dubbed Jungle Jam.

The band influenced a new generation of touring musicians. Mike Gordon once sent his dad to record a Max Creek show with his gear while he was in college.  Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel was an outspoken fan growing up.

Members

Current members
Scott Murawski - guitar, vocals (1972, 1973–present)
Mark Mercier - keyboards, vocals (1973–present)
John Rider - bass, vocals (1971–present)
Bill Carbone - drums (2011–present)
Jamemurrell Stanley - drums (2011–present)

Former Members
Dave Reed - guitar, vocals (1971–1974)
Bob Gosselin - drums (1971–1985)
Amy Fazzano - vocals (1976–1983)
Rob Fried - percussion, vocals (1979–2004)
Greg DeGuglielmo - drums (1985–1991)
Greg Vasso - drums (1991–1996; 2004-2011)
Scott Allshouse - drums (1996–2011)

Music
Max Creek's style of intense improvised jams were a significant influence on such later bands as Phish, whose bassist Mike Gordon has referred to Max Creek as one of his “favorite bands,” and has sat in with the band several times over the past few years.  On January 5, 2008, Gordon played with Max Creek's Scott Murawski, as well as the Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann, at a benefit concert in Costa Rica.  Live shows are the band's forte, often lasting three hours or more. Creek, as they are known, peaked in popularity in the late 1980s, when they would play more than 200 shows a year.  They decided to cut back drastically on touring in the early 1990s to concentrate on family, and today play only a handful of shows a year.  The loss of sound engineer John Archer and his Crystal Clear sound system in the early 1990s was a devastating blow for Creek and their fans, as was the decision to stop touring at the time that the jam band scene was heating up.

Discography
(1977) Max Creek
(1980) Rainbow
(1982) Drink the Stars
(1986) Windows
(1990) MCMXC
(1998) Spring Water
(2000) Live At The Connecticut Expo Center 12.31.99
(2019) 45 & Live
(2020) Live At The Stafford Palace Theater, Acoustic

Live Recordings
A number of the band's live performances are available for download from Archive.org.

Additional Projects
Murawaski has received recognition with BK3 (aka Bill Kreutzmann Trio, KBM, Three) which also includes Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson.  In addition, he tours with Phish bassist Mike Gordon side projects. Other members currently include Robert Walter, Craig Myers, John Kimock.  Depth Quartet is another band Scott Murawski also plays in alongside former Max Creek drummer, Greg Vasso.  In addition, Murawski and Mercier often play acoustic duo concerts.

Mercier has two side projects.  One is "The Marks Brothers" which includes himself on keyboards and vocals, Mark Paradis from The Mark Paradis Band on guitar and vocals, Dave Stoltz formerly of Dickey Betts and Great Southern on bass and Brian "Duke" Konopka formerly from S.L.A.P. and The Mark Paradis Band on drums.   His other band that plays a few shows throughout the year is "The Mark Mercier Band."  Mercier and Paradis often play acoustic duo gigs around the CT area as well, at times joined by Rider on Bass.

Bill Carbone regularly appears in "The Z3," an organ trio dedicated to the music of Frank Zappa featuring organist Beau Sasser (Alan Evans Trio, Akashic Record) and  guitarist Tim Palmieri (Breakfast, Kung Fu).

Tribute Group
In 2018, a Max Creek tribute band was formed under the name "Something Is Forming."  The band currently features John Spignesi of JSB, Jeff King of The Kings, Steve Provost of Jeremiah Hazed, Chris Andrews of Desert Rain, and Ryan Lizotte of Sweet 'Stache.  The group often performs when Max Creek is not playing.  Both Murawski and Mercier have performed with the band.

Notes

References

[ Max Creek on Allmusic]
Moorehouse, Donnie. "Max Creek Still Rockin'", The Republican, April 16, 2008
Modisette, Lauren. "Max Creek Continues to Jam After 30 Years", The Daily Collegian, March 2, 2007
Rodriguez, Nathan. "Max Creek: Safe and Sound", JamBase, April 8, 2003
Handler, Shane. "Deep Within Max Creek", Glide magazine, February 3, 2003
Max Creek on Home Grown Music Network
Minor, E. Kyle. "Weekend Gathering of the Vibes", New York Times, June 18, 2000

External links
Max Creek official web site
Max Creek collection at the Live Music Archive on archive.org

Rock music groups from Connecticut
Jam bands
Musical groups established in 1971
Relix Records artists


WSTJ (1340 AM, "The Trail 104.1") is a radio station broadcasting an adult album alternative format. Licensed to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States, the station is currently owned by Vermont Broadcast Associates, Inc. WSTJ is an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox Radio Network.

History

Twin State Broadcasters, Inc., obtained a construction permit for a new 250-watt radio station to serve St. Johnsbury on 1340 kHz on May 25, 1949. WTWN had its formal opening on July 10, 1949; the original studios were built atop what had been a manure pit on a farm. Two years later, it lived up to its Twin States moniker when it established a satellite studio in Littleton, New Hampshire. Three years after the station began broadcasting, Don Mullally joined and eventually took over the morning shift: he would remain at the station for most of the next 64 years (with the exception of a short stint in Glens Falls, New York and a brief retirement to serve as the director of the Caledonia County fair), leaving the air for good only two weeks before his death in 2016; he was the last station employee still playing music off of vinyl records. In 1960, WTWN was approved to upgrade from 250 to 1,000 watts.

E. Dean Finney, who had been a manager and owner of the station since the outset, sold WTWN in 1979 to Northeast Kingdom Broadcasting, Inc.; the sale was part of a two-station transaction that also included Finney's only other broadcast holding, WIKE in Newport, as Finney said it was "time for a change" in his life. The new ownership was jointly held by Brent Lambert and Eric H. Johnson, two Boston optometrists who owned stations in California and Wyoming. The new owners changed the call letters to WSTJ on October 1. After Johnson bought out Lambert's stake in the company—which had been transferred to a bank—in 1993, Vermont Broadcast Associates bought WSTJ and the FM station it had started in 1985—WNKV (105.5 FM)—in 1998 for $630,000.

In December 2020, WSTJ launched an FM translator, W281CC (104.1 FM); while the station was still featuring an oldies/adult standards format at the time, it announced its intention to review the format after the Christmas holiday. The new format launched in February 2021 as adult album alternative "The Trail", so named for the region's ski and bike trails.

References

External links

STJ
Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1949
1949 establishments in Vermont


Wangtang () is a village in Jianggu Town ()  of the county-level city of Sihui, in the prefecture-level city of Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China. It is located in the southern part of Jianggu Town, some 4 km from the town center, and has a population of 2570.

The village is served by Guangdong Provincial Highway 260 (S260).

See also
 List of villages in China

References
Notes

Bibliography

Villages in China


WASR (1420 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a classic hits format, along with some talk programming.  WASR is licensed to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and serves the New Hampshire Lakes Region. The station is owned by Winnipesaukee Radio Station, LLC and runs local programming with national news and weather. In February 2020 new station manager Eric Scott changed the format to variety hits with some local talk including a live call in show at noon, a local sports show on Friday afternoons, and a live Catholic Mass Sunday mornings. WASR also carries the WTPL-produced talk show Good Morning New Hampshire, hosted by Jack Heath.

At one time, WASR was an adult standards station, carrying Citadel Media's Timeless service. It also tried conservative talk with little success. The station switched to the current format on February 24, 2020.

WASR is also heard on a 250-watt FM translator, 97.1 W246DI.

References

External links

ASR (AM)
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Carroll County, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in New Hampshire


WMVX (1110 kHz; "Impacto 1110") is an AM radio station broadcasting a Spanish-language talk and variety radio format. Established in 1977 as WVNH, the station is licensed to serve Salem, New Hampshire, United States, and is owned by Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Limited Partnership, a partnership between Pat Costa and his chief investor, The Eagle-Tribune.

WMVX is only licensed to operate from local sunrise until 30 minutes after local sunset (the latter with reduced power); this is to protect WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina.  However, in the fall and winter months, it is not unusual for WMVX to be heard before sunrise.

History
The 1110 frequency in Salem first signed on January 10, 1977, as WVNH, a middle-of-the-road station owned by Salem Broadcasters.  The station was sold in 1980 and under general manager Dick Lange shifted to a nostalgia format.  Just a month or so before the new ownership returned WVNH to the air, a fire destroyed Rockingham Park.  Without its anchor draw, the business climate in Salem withered and WVNH failed to generate enough revenue to sustain its original staff.  In late 1981, however, under program director Russ Mottla (the station's morning man, who was retained) the station shifted to a big band/middle-of-the-road format which dramatically improved ratings.  Despite the obvious drawback AM radio was by this time facing from FM, the Hughes family, which bought the station in 1984, restored the previous format.

In 1988, Costa Communications purchased the station, changed the call letters to WNNW, and implemented a talk format. Much of the station's programming was supplied by the Winner News Network, based out of motivational station WWNN in Pompano Beach, Florida. Initially run more-or-less as a hobby, Costa soon discovered that the bulk of WNNW's profits came from its leased-time Spanish language programs, leading the station to a full-time Spanish tropical format in 1990.  The station came under the operation of the Costa-Eagle partnership in 1996.

The station changed its call letters to WCCM on August 29, 2002, as part of a larger shuffle that resulted in WNNW moving to 800 AM, which had been WCCM since in August 1947; WCCM in turn moved to 1490 AM, replacing WHAV, whose "Impacto" Spanish-language talk programming moved to the 1110 AM facility under the WCEC call sign.  The changes formally took effect on-air that September; on September 6, the WCEC call sign was formally implemented.

The WCCM call sign returned on a permanent basis, accompanied by that station's English-language talk format, on August 1, 2007, following a format swap with 1490. Most of WCCM's programming was syndicated, with some local programming airing in middays and on weekends. Despite not being authorized to broadcast at night, on November 6, 2012, WCCM stayed on the air well past local sunset to broadcast election results in the Merrimack Valley areas of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. WCCM, along with sister stations WNNW and WCEC, were carried on FM translator station W275BH (102.9 FM) in a novel arrangement where three AM stations are carried on the same FM frequency through the use of HD Radio technology.

On April 1, 2017, following the launch of translator W255DA (98.9 FM), the station changed to a classic hits format branded as "Valley 98.9", with WCCM's talk format retained on the HD2 channel of W275BH as well as an Internet radio station. The call letters were concurrently changed to WMVX, swapping call letters with a sister station in Methuen, Massachusetts. "Valley 98.9" was dropped from WMVX's 1110 AM facility in August 2021, when Costa-Eagle moved the "Impacto" Spanish-language talk format back to the station from WCCM (1490 AM), which the company was in the process of selling.

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Lawrence, Massachusetts
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Radio stations established in 1977
Spanish-language radio stations in the United States
Salem, New Hampshire
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1977 establishments in New Hampshire
Talk radio stations in the United States