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The Icee Company

The Icee Company (also known as Western Icee and Icee USA) is an American beverage company located in La Vergne, Tennessee, United States. Its flagship product is the Icee (stylized as ICEE), which is a frozen carbonated beverage available in fruit and soda flavors. Icee also produces other frozen beverages and Italian ice pops under the Icee and Slush Puppie brands. ICEE Bear, an animated polar bear, is the company's mascot.

The Icee Company was founded by Omar Knedlik, the inventor of the original Icee drink. It became the foundation for the Slurpee and other frozen machine drinks after several machines made by the company were purchased by 7-Eleven in 1965. It has been a division of J & J Snack Foods since 1988 and distributes products in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Australia, the United Kingdom, China, and the Middle East.

History
The Icee was invented in 1958 by Omar Knedlik, a Dairy Queen owner in Coffeyville, Kansas. The beverage was the result of faulty equipment in the Dairy Queen owned by Knedlik. His soda machine broke and he began placing bottles of soda in the freezer to keep them cold. Knedlik began selling bottles of the soda which would instantly turn to slush once opened. The frozen soda became popular with the customers of the establishment.

The name Icee as well as the original company logo were developed by Ruth E. Taylor, a local artist and friend of Knedlik. She developed the name "Icee", as well as the idea of the logo's icicles hanging from the block letters, which has remained unchanged. She thought of the Polar Bear, but the actual bear mascot had already been created by the Norsworthy-Mercer ad agency. The "Icee" word with the snow on it was designed by a Mitchell Company staff artist, Lonnie Williams, as part of a cup he designed.

Knedlik partnered with the John E Mitchell Company in Dallas to develop the machine, for which Knedlik received a patent in 1960. The first machine was made from a car air conditioning unit. It worked by combining freezing water, carbon dioxide, and a flavor mix. After five years, Knedlik's idea had become the iconic Icee Machine after drawing the attention of 7-Eleven. The convenience store chain purchased several machines and later changed the product name to Slurpee based on the slurping sound people make when drinking the beverage.

The Mitchell Company instituted a two-tiered franchise plan involving "Developers" and "Subdevelopers". Essentially, the Developers and Subdevelopers both paid fees and rentals for the right to use specified numbers of Icee dispensers and for rights within exclusive territories to distribute the machines and to promote the sale of the Icee drink. By the mid-1960s, 300 Icee machines had been manufactured.

J & J Snack Foods purchased The Icee Company in 1987. In December 2019, the company moved their headquarters from Ontario, California to La Vergne, Tennessee.

Drinks
The Icee Company has over 75,000 Icee machines across America serving over 300 million Icee servings per year. Some American McDonald's and Subway restaurants inside Walmart stores sell Icees. Burger King restaurants and Sam’s Club cafe locations in the US sell Icees and Icee Floats. In Mexico, Icee is widely available at department stores such as Walmart and inside movie theaters and convenience stores. Icee is also the primary frozen beverage sold in Wawa and Quick Chek, two convenience store chains in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. Icee is available at Valero gas stations co-branded with their Corner Store marts (except for independently owned stores) as well as at most Rainforest Café locations.

In 2019, Icee expanded into the United Kingdom for the first time, by partnering with Vimto, a UK-based international soft drinks manufacturer. A Europe-wide contract to supply the Cineworld cinema chain quickly followed. In late 2019 / early 2020 another European-wide contract to supply Showcase Cinemas further expanded the brand across Europe.

Toys
In January 2020, Moose Toys partnered up with Icee’s Slush Puppie brand to make 3 Special Edition Slush Puppie-themed Shopkins and Mini Packs for Season 13 (Real Littles Season 2) of the Shopkins franchise. The same 4 Shopkins were re-released for Season 14 (or Real Littles Season 3).

In 2021, it was revealed that Moose Toys again partnered up with Icee to make Shopkins and Mini Packs based on the main Icee line of drinks, which will be released in October 2021.

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Curse (Alien Sex Fiend album)

Curse is the seventh studio album by English gothic rock band Alien Sex Fiend, released in September 1990 by Anagram Records.

Reception
AllMusic wrote that the album is "just as invigorating, funny and flesh-crawling as always, though it's a much more technological ASF than ever before".

Track listing

 * Vinyl edition

 * Compact disc edition

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Bottesford, Leicestershire

Bottesford is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Melton in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, England. It lies close to the borders of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Location
Bottesford is about 15 mi east of Nottingham and 13 mi north of Melton Mowbray. The village is the largest in the Vale of Belvoir and near to Belvoir Castle, home to the Duke and Duchess of Rutland. It had a population of 3,587 at the 2011 census, estimated in 2018 at 3,382. It borders smaller parishes in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, such as Redmile, Sedgebrook, Orston and Elton on the Hill.

The local amenities include a post office, a railway station, a library, a church, a convenience store, three restaurants and three pubs: The Bull Inn, The Rutland Arms, and The Thatch.

Name
Bottesford derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon "Ford belonging to the botl" (house). The ford was over the River Devon. Bottesford is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Botesford", in the hundred of Framland. Historically, Bottesford was closely associated with the Earls and Dukes of Rutland.

History
The village was built along the River Devon (pronounced Dee-von) and named after the ford at the centre of the village. St Mary the Virgin's Church, sometimes known as the "Lady of the Vale", is a large medieval church at the centre of the village. Like many churches, this was built over centuries in mixed architectural styles. The lower part of the chancel dates from the 12th century with the remainder added over the next 300 years. The nave roof was finally completed in 1740. The octagonal crocketed spire is thought to be the tallest in the county at 210 ft. There are two gargoyles on the south transept. A headstone to Thomas Parker and a table tomb in the churchyard are both Grade II listed, as are the gate piers and gates to the churchyard to the north. The church is the burial place of several earls of Rutland. One Rutland tomb is famous for an inscription that attributes a death to witchcraft by the Witches of Belvoir. Most of the church dates from the 15th century, but the chancel was rebuilt in the 17th century to accommodate the Rutland monuments. These fill the chancel and give a view of changing aristocratic taste in the 16th and 17th centuries. After the Manners family gained the dukedom of Rutland in 1703, it built a mausoleum in the grounds of Belvoir Castle, the family home, where all the dukes have been buried.

There is a local website covering many sides of Bottesford's local history, including mounting evidence of occupation in Roman times and earlier. Bottesford was the venue of one of the country's early friendly societies, thought to have been founded in the 1750s. It provided members with sickness and funeral benefits for over 200 years. Eleven contributors from the history group produced in 2009 a book on the local history since 1850.

From December 1941, there was a Second World War RAF Bomber Command airfield to the north near Long Bennington, called RAF Bottesford. Initially it hosted No. 3 Group RAF, then after serving USAAF's IX Troop Carrier Command for D-Day, was used by No. 5 Group from late 1944. It is no longer used as an airfield, but the runways can still be seen.

Entertainers Laurel and Hardy stayed for Christmas 1952 at the Bull Inn, where the landlady was Stan Laurel's sister Olga. They were appearing at the Empire Theatre in Nottingham at the time. There is a plaque recording this on the building.

There were two brickyards at Beckinthorpe in the 19th century, one also producing the unique Bottesford Blue pantiles to be seen on some local buildings. Local employment declined in the 20th century. The four pubs, six restaurants, at least 16 retailers and 20 odd small producers and service providers today are one-person or family concerns. Not so the earlier building firm of William Roberts Ltd. Joseph William Roberts (1917–2009) was born and bred in Sutton-cum-Granby, then schooled in Granby, Nottinghamshire and in Bottesford. He moved to the latter and started his firm in 1937, aged 20. It employed over 500 people at one time and branched out as a funeral undertaker.

Character and appearance
The village is somewhat unusual in Leicestershire. Its buildings reflect the traditions of neighbouring Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, as well as local influences, as local materials, initially locally quarried ironstone, but latterly local bricks and distinctive roofing tiles.

There are several open areas in the village, notably an area to the north-east of the churchyard, the churchyard itself, and an area of trees to the south of Devon Lane. Trees play a major part in the street scene in most of Bottesford.

The River Devon flows through the village, almost circling the church. Along its banks in the centre of the village, the soil is a pebbly material known locally as running sand. Views within the village tend to be intimate and enclosed, though the wider Grantham Road provides a slightly extended view out of the village towards Grantham.

Bottesford's many listed buildings include the grade I listed 13th-century Church of St Mary the Virgin. There are two scheduled monuments within the village – Fleming's Bridge and the stone cross in the Market Place. The stocks and whipping post are Grade II listed. One of the Grade II listed buildings, Providence Cottage in Rectory Lane, is dated 1723 in burnt bricks on the eastern elevation, where the initials REH set into wall. The roof is now pantiled, but the slope suggests it was thatched in times gone by. The Duke of Rutland's Almshouse, also Grade II listed, was begun in 1590 and was a home for elderly local men called bedesmen (i. e. almoners), having once been a hospital. The building has two M-shaped roofs of differing pitches, both with concrete tiles dating from 1985. The Rectory, Grade II listed, is an ironstone and brick building dated 1708, enlarged in the 19th century and altered in 1988. It stands in Rectory Lane behind wrought iron gates, amid large, landscaped gardens, and has a slate roof. The police station, in Queen Street, is likewise Grade II listed and dates from 1846. It is in red brick with a slate roof and three bays. The central bay projects under a pediment and the building is an early example of a purpose-built police station. Market Street is the location of the Grade II listed Dr Fleming's House, which was once a terrace of women's almshouses built in ironstone and mainly rebuilt in brick in the late 18th century. A stone plaque over a door reads "Dr. Fleming's Hospital 1620". There are several Grade II listed properties in High Street, including the Thatched Restaurant, set back from the road in spacious grounds and the only remaining thatched building in the village.

There are many other listed buildings within the conservation area.

Governance
Bottesford is in the Melton borough of Leicestershire and in the Rutland and Melton constituency. The current Member of Parliament is the Conservative Alicia Kearns.

The civil parish includes the villages of Bottesford, Easthorpe (directly adjacent to Bottesford), Muston and Normanton. The parish council has nine members.

Transport
The village is served by Bottesford railway station on the Nottingham, Grantham and Skegness line. There are also No. 24 and 26 buses, which run to Melton Mowbray at least every two hours, and other services to Grantham and Bingham.

The town was bypassed by the A52 road in February 1989 at a cost of £3 million at the time.

Landmarks
The Victory Commemoration (or VC) Hall is the local name for Bottesford Old Village Hall. The name came about because some of the funds used to buy up the original hall came from leftover money raised in the village during the Second World War to send parcels to those serving in the armed forces.

A new village hall was built in 2003, mainly funded by a grant from Awards for All (Lottery) and local contributions. To mark the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002, several large developments in Bottesford include the creation of a memorial green. One of the 2010 Low Carbon Awards given by the Royal Institute of British Architects went to a house in Bottesford designed by architects Allan Mulcahy.

Clubs and groups
The clubs in the village include two for badminton, a bowling club, a cricket and social club, four football clubs, several sections of the Scout and Guides movement, and many other associations and events such as a youth club catering for 11 to 19-year-olds and a skate park. The village has several charity groups raising funds mainly to provide for new facilities locally. One group raising funds in Bottesford in particular is the Vale of Belvoir Lions.

Local community information has appeared since 2002 in the Village Voice newsletter, which is delivered free to every house.

Education
Bottesford has a playgroup and a primary school – Bottesford Primary School – and a secondary school – The Priory Belvoir Academy. The latter had its first group of year 10s in 2008, having expanded from being a middle school that year. This initially controversial change was hailed as a success after the schools inspectorate Ofsted rated Belvoir as Outstanding in its 2010 inspection report. It was rated Good in leadership, behaviour, teaching and achievement, and Outstanding in sixth-form provision in its most recent Ofsted report.

There is a public library in the Old School, Grantham Road.

Places of worship
There are Church of England churches in Bottesford (St Mary's) and Muston (St John the Baptist). The poet George Crabbe (1754–1832) moved to Muston Rectory from Stathern in 1789, remaining as incumbent of Muston and of West Allington, Lincolnshire, until 1792. His Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir was a pioneering study of the district.

Bottesford Methodist Church in Devon Lane belongs to the Grantham and Vale of Belvoir Methodist Circuit. The Baptist Church is in Queen Street.

Notable people
In birth order

 * Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (died 1543), courtier and soldier, was buried in Bottesford.
 * Abraham Fleming (died 1607), cleric, writer and translator, died in Bottesford. His brother Samuel was Rector here in 1581–1620.
 * Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (died 1587), public official, was buried in Bottesford, as were the other earls of Rutland up to John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland (died 1679), politician.
 * Joan Flower (died 1619) of Bottesford and her daughters Margaret (executed 1619) and Philippa were among the ostensible Witches of Belvoir and tried as such.
 * Henry Beresford Garrett (baptised Henry Rouse in Bottesford in 1818), committed several violent crimes in New Zealand and Australia.
 * William Antliff (born 1848), a Derbyshire county cricket player, was born in Bottesford.
 * John Parnham (born 1856), a professional cricketer active in the 1880s, was born in Bottesford.
 * Willie Young (born 1951), a Scottish footballer who appeared 237 times for Arsenal F.C., now owns a dog kennels in Bottesford.
 * Robert Harris (born 1957), novelist and broadcaster, attended Belvoir High School.
 * Luke Wright (born 1985), an England all-round cricketer, was born in Bottesford.

Crime victim
Ten-year-old Rosie May Storrie of Bottesford was murdered during a house party in Normanton on 30 December 2003, two days after she had made her first stage appearance as a dancer in a pantomime. She was found by other guests smothered and partly stripped, and died in hospital 36 hours later. A fellow guest, Paul Smith of Sedgebrook, aged 18, was convicted of the murder. Smith, who had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and had a history of violence against girls, was sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum term of fourteen years.

The Rosie May Storrie Memorial Fund established by her parents raised over £270,000 towards charity work with children, notably a Rosie May Children's Home at Boossa, Galle, Sri Lanka.

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Connie Smith

Connie Smith (born Constance June Meador; August 14, 1941) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Her contralto vocals have been described by music writers as significant and influential to the women of country music. A similarity has been noted between her vocal style and the stylings of country vocalist Patsy Cline. Other performers have cited Smith as influence on their own singing styles, which has been reflected in quotes and interviews over the years.

Discovered in 1963, Smith signed with RCA Victor Records the following year and remained with the label until 1973. Her debut single "Once a Day" was nominated at the Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in November 1964 and remained at the top position for eight weeks, the first time a female artist had achieved this feat, with Smith holding the record for over 50 years until it was broken by Trisha Yearwood. The song became Smith's biggest hit. Smith's success continued through 1960s and mid 1970s with 19 more top-10 hits (including "Then and Only Then"; "Ain't Had No Lovin'"; "Cincinnati, Ohio"; "I Never Once Stopped Loving You"; and "Ain't Love a Good Thing") on the country songs chart.

In the early 1970s, Smith began recording Gospel music more frequently as she became more serious in her Christianity. As she focused more heavily on religion, Smith became known for her outspoken religious demeanor at concerts and music venues. At the same time, Smith spent more time raising her five children than focusing on music. She eventually went into semi-retirement in 1979. Smith returned to recording briefly in the mid-1980s with Epic Records. However, it was not until her collaboration with Marty Stuart in the 1990s that she returned permanently. Their musical friendship became romantic, leading to their marriage in 1997. The pairing led to Connie Smith, Smith's first studio album in 20 years. Critically acclaimed, Smith began performing again and has recorded two more studio albums.

Smith has been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, including eight nominations for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She has also been nominated for one Academy of Country Music award and three Country Music Association awards. Rolling Stone included her on its list of the 100 greatest country music artists and CMT ranked her among the top 10 in its list of the 40 greatest women of country music. She has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry cast since 1965. In 2012, Smith was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Early life
Connie Smith was born Constance June Meador to parents Wilma and Hobart Meador in Elkhart, Indiana. Her parents were originally from West Virginia, and when Smith was five months old, the family returned there. They later moved to Dungannon, Ohio. Her biological father was an alcoholic, and he was abusive to Smith's family. "There were some tough times that I went through as a young child," she told an interviewer.

Her mother divorced her biological father when she was a child and remarried to Tom Clark. Smith's stepfather brought eight children to the marriage, and Meador brought five (including Smith). The couple later had two more children together, totaling 15 children. Smith was influenced by music in her childhood. Her stepfather played mandolin, while her brother played fiddle, and her other brother played guitar. On Saturday nights, the family tuned into the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast. She took up the guitar following a lawnmower accident, which nearly cut her leg off. While in the hospital recovering, she was given a guitar and learned how to play different chords. Smith did not perform publicly until high school when a friend invited her to sing Connie Francis's pop hit "My Happiness".

With only one-tenth of a point behind the valedictorian, Smith graduated from Salem-Liberty High School in 1959 as the class salutatorian. Following graduation, she worked as telephone operator in Lowell, Ohio. She also worked as a drugstore clerk, a dental assistant and in a grocery store. At age 19, she married her first husband, Jerry Smith. Smith's husband encouraged her singing, and she began performing with more frequency. Her first professional performance was at the 1962 Washington County Fair. She then briefly joined the cast of Saturday Night Jamboree, a local country music television program. Smith was fired following her first performance, later theorizing it was because she was pregnant. She then successfully auditioned for and landed a spot on a similar program for WSAZ-TV.

Despite performance opportunities, Smith intended to remain a housewife and mother. In August 1963, Smith entered a talent contest at the Frontier Ranch country music park near Columbus, Ohio. Performing Jean Shepard's "I Thought of You", Smith won the talent contest and five silver dollars. Judging the contest was country singer-songwriter Bill Anderson, who was instantly impressed by her voice. "At first I thought they were playing a record and she was lip sync'ing it," he later explained.

In January 1964, Smith ran into Anderson again at a country music package concert in Canton, Ohio. He invited her to perform with him on Ernest Tubb's Midnite Jamboree program in Nashville, Tennessee. When Smith performed on the program in March 1964, she found out that she would not be performing with Anderson, but instead with Ernest Tubb. Impressed by her performance, Loretta Lynn introduced herself after the show and gave her career advice. After performing on the program, Smith returned to Nashville that May to record demos by Anderson that he planned on pitching to other country artists. Anderson's manager Hubert Long brought the demo recording to the RCA Victor label where producer Chet Atkins heard it. Also impressed by her vocals, Atkins offered Smith a recording contract, and she signed on June 24, 1964.

1964–1967: "Once a Day" and peak success
After signing Smith to RCA, Chet Atkins found himself too busy with other artists. Instead he enlisted Bob Ferguson to act as Smith's producer. The pair developed a close professional relationship and Ferguson remained her producer until she departed from RCA. "I couldn't have asked for a better person to work with. He is one of the finest men I've ever known," Smith later said. Smith's first session took place on July 16, 1964, where she recorded four songs. Three of these tracks were written by Bill Anderson, who agreed to write material for Smith. Two days later, Smith made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry. One of the four songs recorded on July 16 was "Once a Day", which was chosen to be Smith's debut single. "Once a Day" was released in August 1964 and reached number one on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart on November 28. It remained at the number one position for eight weeks between late 1964 and early 1965. "Once a Day" became the first debut single by a female country artist to reach number one. For nearly 50 years the single held the record for the most weeks spent at number one on the Billboard country chart by a female artist.

Smith started performing more regularly with "Once a Day"'s success. Bill Anderson briefly served as her manager, but was replaced by Charlie Lamb. Smith made her first network television appearance in October 1964 on ABC's The Jimmy Dean Show. In March 1965, RCA Victor released her self-titled debut album It also reached the number one spot, spending a total of seven weeks at the top of the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Dan Cooper of Allmusic gave the disc a positive reception and described Smith as "a down-home Streisand fronting The Lennon Sisters."

Bill Anderson fulfilled his promise to RCA Victor and continued writing Smith's next single releases. Producer Bob Ferguson and steel guitar player Weldon Myrick created a "high" and "punchy" production that Ferguson thought would sound pleasing on car radios. "I thought it was an awfully thin sound, but it wound up being very popular," Myrick recalled. In 1965, RCA issued Smith's follow-up single written by Anderson titled "Then and Only Then", which reached number four on the Billboard country songs chart. It was followed by another Anderson-written top 10 single titled "I Can't Remember". In October 1965, the latter song appeared on Cute 'n' Country, Smith's second studio album. Although she disliked the name of the LP, it became her second disc to top the Billboard country albums chart. She had additional top five Billboard country singles through early 1966 with Anderson's "Nobody But a Fool (Would Love You)" and Priscilla Mitchell's "If I Talk to Him". In 1965, Smith became a member of the Grand Ole Opry radio show.

In 1966, Ferguson felt pressured from RCA headquarters to market Smith's sound toward "middle-of-the-road" country pop material. Smith was against the pop production but nevertheless agreed to try it. The pair did several sessions featuring a string instrumentation. The style appeared on her next studio releases Born to Sing (1966) and Downtown Country (1967). Both albums featured full orchestras in the background and cover versions of singles by pop artists of the time. Featured on the LPs were the singles "Ain't Had No Lovin'" and "The Hurtin's All Over", which both reached the Billboard country top five. During this time, Smith appeared in several country music vehicle films, where she performed many of her current hit recordings. In 1966, she appeared in the films Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar and The Las Vegas Hillbillys, the latter of which starred Jayne Mansfield. In 1967, she appeared in The Road to Nashville and Hell on Wheels. Smith's touring schedule also increased. In 1966, she formed her own touring band named the Sundowners and later married the band's guitar player Jack Watkins.

In February 1967, RCA's subsidiary budget label Camden released Smith's next studio LP titled Connie in the Country. The LP included covers of popular country recordings of the era and "Cry, Cry, Cry", a single by Smith that reached the top 20. In May 1967, RCA released an album of songs written solely by Bill Anderson titled Connie Smith Sings Bill Anderson. Smith later commented that "it was an honor, not a favor" to record an album of all Anderson tunes. It included covers of Anderson's hits such as "City Lights" and "That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome". Included on the album was "Cincinnati, Ohio", which Smith released as a single and brought the song to the Billboard country top five. Its success later inspired the city of Cincinnati, Ohio to declare its own Connie Smith Day in June 1967. Smith remained at her commercial zenith through 1967 with a continued series of top 10 recordings. Her further hits included the "I'll Come Runnin'", "Burning a Hole in My Mind", "Baby's Back Again" and "Run Away Little Tears". Three of these recordings were included on Smith's 1967 album I Love Charley Brown, which reached the country LPs top 20.

1968–1972: Setbacks, gospel music and continued country music success
By 1968, Smith had reached the height of her career. She was making multiple appearances on film and television while attempting to balance touring with a family life. The pressures of various responsibilities stressed Smith to a point where she nearly left her career. In 1968, she discovered Christianity, which brought solace to her personal and professional life. Ultimately, she chose to continue with her career and recorded for RCA every few months. However, she reduced her touring schedule. She devoted the remainder of her time to family life and made efforts to appear on more Christian music programs. She worked alongside ministers Billy Graham and Rex Humbard. She also appeared on several Christian television shows.

With Smith's commitment to RCA, the label continued releasing new albums and singles with regularity. With her new religious convictions, Smith also made it a priority to include gospel recordings on her secular albums. This remained a theme throughout her career. In 1968 and 1969, RCA Victor released the studio LPs Sunshine and Rain, Back in Baby's Arms and Connie's Country. These recordings yielded a cover of Marty Robbins's "Ribbon of Darkness". Smith's version reached the top 20 of the Billboard country singles chart. In Canada, "Ribbon of Darkness" became her first song to top their RPM Country chart. Entering the 1970s, Smith made the top 10 of the North American country charts with less frequency, but continued having commercial success. The singles "You and Your Sweet Love" and "I Never Once Stopped Loving You" (both written by Bill Anderson) made the Billboard country top 10 in 1970. Her fifteenth studio LP of the same name was released in 1970 and made the top 20 of the Billboard country albums chart.

During this period, Smith also teamed with country singer-songwriter Nat Stuckey to record two duet studio albums. The idea was crafted by Smith's producer (Bob Ferguson) and Stuckey's producer (Felton Jarvis). Both men thought the artists' voices would "blend well". The duo's first duet sessions produced a cover of Sonny James's "Young Love", which reached the top 20 of the Billboard country songs chart. Their first album of the same name featured covers of country and pop songs of the era. In an effort for Smith to record more gospel music, the duo cut a spiritual-themed LP in 1970 titled Sunday Morning with Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith. Christian radio programs often opened their shows with the duo's gospel music, which influenced RCA to release "If God Is Dead (Who's That Living in My Soul)" as a single in 1970. The song peaked in the lower reaches of the Billboard country chart.

Journalists and writers took notice of Smith's RCA work following 1968. Biographer and writer Barry Mazor found that Smith's recordings had "a new delicacy of phrasing that shows itself". Mazor also found her albums to have more distinctive qualities, calling 1970s I Never Once Stopped Loving You to be "one of her most consistent and strongest albums". AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised Smith's recordings from 1968 to 1972, highlighting the strength of her vocals: "She may have been given some of the best songs, but the thing is, she deserved them: few others could give them grace and soul, as this always entertaining box amply proves." Authors Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann commented that her later RCA singles "stand the test of time as among the most powerful country female vocal performances of the 1970s."

In the early 1970s, Smith started recording more songs penned by Dallas Frazier. The pair had become close friends, which prompted Frazier to write songs for Smith that reflected situations in her personal life. Both Smith and Frazier described her 1970 single "Where Is My Castle" as being autobiographical of her recent marital troubles. "Anybody knows that its cathartic to sing how you feel about things," Smith later said. "Where Is My Castle" reached the top 20 of both the Billboard and RPM country singles charts. In 1971, RCA released Smith's cover of Don Gibson's "Just One Time". Backed by a large rhythm section, the recording reached number two on the Billboard and RPM country charts, becoming her most commercially successful single of the 1970s. Her eighteenth studio LP of the same name reached number 14 on the Billboard country albums chart and featured liner notes written by Loretta Lynn.

With Smith being among RCA's top-selling recording artists, she had enough leverage to coax executives to let her record another gospel album. The result was 1971's Come Along and Walk with Me. The studio album featured gospel tracks written by spiritual writers such as Dottie Rambo. In 1972, Smith had three back-to-back top singles on the Billboard country chart: "Just for What I Am", "If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone)" and "Love Is the Look You're Looking For". RCA released the singles on three separate LPs: Ain't We Havin' Us a Good Time (1972), If It Ain't Love and Other Great Dallas Frazier Songs (1972) and Love Is the Look You're Looking For (1973). Her most commercially successful album was If It Ain't Love and Other Great Dallas Frazier Songs, which reached number 14 on the Billboard country albums chart. The studio project was recorded as a tribute to Dallas Frazier and featured 10 songs written by him. Frazier also sang several duets with Smith on the project. Before leaving her contract with RCA, the label released more LPs, including the compilation Dream Painter (1973). Its title track charted in the Billboard top 40.

1973–1979: Record label switches, pop music incorporation and semi-retirement
In 1973, RCA promised to give Smith a better royalty and more creative control if she renewed her contract. In an updated contract, these terms were not met. Upon hiring a lawyer, she left RCA and was offered a contract by Columbia Records. In 1973, Smith signed a new recording contract with Columbia Records. The label gave her more creative control, including the opportunity to record one gospel album per year. At Columbia, she met with Clive Davis, who agreed to produce her. However, the label dismissed Davis before they could work together. Instead, producer Billy Sherrill chose to work with Smith. However, a disagreement about religion ended the pairing before it began. She started recording alongside producer George Richey, who recently had success writing material for George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

At Columbia, Smith was pressured into recording with more pop production than before. "From Day One at the new label, even more than before, it was a constant tussle, because I just am who I am," recalled Smith. However, she remained active in song selection and the recording process. Smith's first Columbia LP titled A Lady Named Smith (1973) included pop production such as string instrumentation and overdubbed background vocals. The LP reached number 31 on the Billboard country albums chart. Richey agreed to release "Ain't Love a Good Thing" as her first Columbia single. Instead, the Richey-Smith co-written song "You've Got Me (Right Where You Want Me)" proved to be the first label single. The decision disappointed Smith enough that she chose to end their professional relationship. The last Richey-produced project was Smith's first Columbia gospel LP, titled God Is Abundant. The album of religious material climbed to number 20 on the Billboard country albums chart.

Smith chose Ray Baker to serve as her next producer. Baker had operated a publishing company and produced several song demos that prompted Smith to choose him. The pair had a more agreeable relationship and recorded together throughout the decade. Baker produced Smith's next Columbia album titled That's the Way Love Goes (1974). The LP featured several original recordings and cover tunes. The album included "Ain't Love a Good Thing", which was released as a single and became her eighteenth top 10 song on the Billboard country chart. Although she recorded two gospel projects in 1974, the label waited until 1975 to release both LPs. Instead, Columbia released a secular project titled I Never Knew (What That Song Meant Before) (1974). Its title track became a top 20 Billboard country single, peaking at number 13. It was followed in 1975 by the traditional country LP I Got a Lot of Hurtin' Done Today/I've Got My Baby On My Mind. Both "I've Got My Baby on My Mind" and Smith's cover of Hank Williams's "Why Don't You Love Me" reached the country top 20.

Music critics noticed a change in Smith's vocals following her Columbia switch. When reviewing the compilation, Connie Smith Sings Her Hits, Thom Jurek of Allmusic commented that she lost the "grain" in her voice. Jurek went on to write "It could be said, that regardless of the material, she never made a bad record; the tunes were carefully chosen it's true, but she never tried to hide the hardcore twang in her vocal style." Smith's biographer, Barry Mazor, found her voice to "lower in range by this point" and saw evidence of Columbia attempting to "push her recorded vocal into the upper end of her range". Other critics noticed stylistic changes but observed no change in her singing. NPR's Ken Tucker found her recordings in this era to feature more pop instrumentation but did not "obscure the passion and pain she communicated so fearlessly".

In 1975, Columbia released both of her 1974 gospel projects. The first was Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel. For the album, Smith and Baker went through the Hank Williams catalog where they came across a series of never-before-released gospel songs. The result was the first album of Hank Williams gospel material recorded by another artist. In 1976, the project was nominated by the Grammy Awards for Best Gospel Performance. The second 1975 religious LP was the gospel influenced Christmas album titled Joy to the World. In 1976, Columbia issued two more country albums of Smith's material: The Song We Fell in Love To and I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore. Both LPs peaked in the Billboard country albums top 40. The albums included the number 13 country single "I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore" and her twentieth top 10, a remake of The Everly Brothers's "(Till) I Kissed You". The latter was Smith's second single to top Canada's RPM country chart.

In 1977 Smith moved to Fred Foster's Nashville label Monument Records. She was pressured into recording more country pop material than before and was given singing lessons by a songwriter. "He [Fred Foster] wanted to mold me into something that I wasn't comfortable with," Smith commented. "That's why that never worked." AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine found her Monument music to have "state-of-the-art production that dates instantly, walks the line between crossover pop and country-pop rather clumsly, and lacks good material." Monument released two LPs of Smith's material between 1977 and 1978. Her only commercially successful Monument single was a cover of Andy Gibb's "I Just Want to Be Your Everything". The single climbed to number 14 on the Billboard country chart. Yet, her other Monument releases reached progressively-lower positions on the country chart between 1978 and 1979. Furthermore, Smith had five children by this point and felt pressured to be at home with her family. Ultimately, Smith decided to leave her country music career entirely to focus on raising her children and tending to her religious needs.

1983–present: Return to recording and performing
For three years, Smith remained in semi-retirement, committing only to occasional performances at the Grand Ole Opry, where she remained a member. At the Opry, she only performed gospel songs. However, she decided to return to her career in 1983. She re-signed with Monument Records, but left after the label filed for bankruptcy. Instead, singer and songwriter Ricky Skaggs helped her secure a new recording contract to Epic Records. The first single, "A Far Cry from You" (1985), was written by Alternative country artist Steve Earle. It reached number 71 on the Hot Country Songs chart.

One day in the mid-1990s, Smith was at her home talking to one of her daughters on the phone. After telling her mother what she was going to do that night, her daughter asked Smith what her plans for that night were. Because she did not have anything fun planned, Smith lied so her daughter wouldn't have to worry about her. After the conversation ended, Smith realized that she didn't need her own children worrying about her at the start of their adult lives and decided that it was time to return to her career. With country artist Marty Stuart (whom she later married in 1997) acting as the album's main producer, Smith signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records in 1996. Although the label preferred her to record an album of duets, Smith decided to go by her own terms and record a solo studio album. In October 1998 she released her second self-titled studio album. It consisted of ten tracks, nine of them co-written by both Smith and Stuart.

Smith's 1998 project attracted limited commercial attention, but was given critical praise for its traditional and contemporary style. Kurt Wolff, in the book Country Music: The Rough Guide, commented that the album sounded "far gutsier than anything in the Reba and Garth mainstream". Thom Jurek of Allmusic gave the release four out of five stars, calling it "a solid effort" and commenting "it stands head and shoulders over most of the stuff that's come out of Nash Vegas in over a decade. Even if it doesn't sell a copy, it's a triumphant return for Smith. She hasn't lost a whit of her gift as a singer or as a writer." Also in 1998, Smith made a second cameo appearance in a film, portraying a "Singer at the Rodeo Dance" in The Hi-Lo Country starring Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup.

In August 2003, she released a gospel album with country artists Barbara Fairchild and Sharon White titled Love Never Fails on Daywind Records. In an interview with Country Stars Central, Smith said that she was ill with the stomach flu while recording the album, but still enjoyed making the record. Produced by country and bluegrass performer Ricky Skaggs (White's husband), the album received a nomination from the Dove Awards. The website Slipcue.com reviewed the release and stated that Love Never Fails "is probably too rowdy for most Southern gospel fans (who really like tinkly pianos and less-twangy vocals), and while it probably won't wow many country listeners, for folks who are fans any of these three singers, this is kind of a treat".

In November 2008, Smith joined the cast of Marty Stuart's television series The Marty Stuart Show, which aired on the RFD-TV network every Saturday night. The thirty-minute program featured traditional country music performed by both Stuart and Smith, as well as radio personality Eddie Stubbs. The show stopped airing on RFD-TV in 2014. In August 2011, Smith released her first new solo recording in thirteen years, entitled Long Line of Heartaches, via Sugar Hill Records. The record was produced by Marty Stuart and included five songs written by the pair. Harlan Howard, Kostas, Johnny Russell, and Dallas Frazier also wrote tracks that were included on the disc. The album was reviewed positively by AllMusic's Steve Leggett, who gave it four stars. "It wouldn't be quite right to call this a throwback album, but it does sound like vintage traditional country given just a bit of a polished edge," he concluded. Andrew Mueller of BBC also gave it a positive response, calling it "classic and classicist country songs".

In August 2021, Smith's next studio album was released on the Fat Possum label titled The Cry of the Heart. It was the third project produced by Stuart and her first album of new material in ten years. The New York Times described The Cry of the Heart as evoking traditional styles that "recall Smith's '60s era recordings". It was Smith's first album since 1976 to reach a charting position on Billboard, peaking on the Current Album Sales chart following its release. PopMatters gave the album an 8/10 rating and concluded "If you wanted to understand what traditional country is, you could go to the same place today as you could have 50 years ago: a Connie Smith record."

In April 2024, the Fat Possum label surprise-released Smith's next studio project, Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches. Although an album of covers, Smith herself did not describe it that way: "I’m singing on behalf of my friends. Hoping to share them while passing along their songs."

Personal life
Smith has been married four times. In 1961, she married Jerry Smith, a ferro-analyst at the Inter-Lake Iron Corporation in Beverly, Ohio. They had one child together, born on 9 March 1963, named Darren Justin. (In the late 1970s, Darren went to Europe to become a missionary; he is currently a psychologist.) In the mid-1960s, the couple divorced and Smith married the guitarist in her touring band, Jack Watkins. They had a son before separating nearly a year after marrying. Shortly afterward, Smith married telephone repairman Marshall Haynes. In the early 1970s, Haynes frequently toured with Connie on her road show. The couple had three daughters.

After divorcing Haynes in the early 1990s, Smith stated that she never would marry again. However, on 8 July 1997, she married for the fourth time, this time to her producer, country artist Marty Stuart. Stuart began producing her after writing songs for Smith's 1998 comeback album. Stuart described encountering Smith 26 years earlier, after attending her concert: "I met Connie when I was 12 years old. She came to the Indian reservation in my hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi to work at a fair. She hasn't changed a bit. She looked great then and she looks great now." Stuart said he told his mother then that he was going to marry Connie Smith. Smith explains how they have sustained their marriage : "Make the Lord the center...and commit."

Smith revealed in a New York Times interview that she had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in February 2021. She was hospitalized, developing sepsis and pneumonia. She eventually made a full recovery. "They asked me if my heart stopped, did I want to be revived, and I said, 'Of course, I don't want to be a COVID statistic,'" she told the Nashville Scene.

Musical styles and vocal ability
Connie Smith's sound is defined by the Nashville Sound musical style, primarily during her breakthrough years in the 1960s. While most Nashville Sound recordings of the time mainly included full orchestras, Smith's sound remained more traditional with its use of steel guitar and her twangy vocals, while still featuring some pop-influenced instrumentation to provide urban pop appeal. Critics have largely praised Smith's use of the steel guitar, which have often been described as "sharp" and "prominent". Her steel guitar player Weldon Myrick is often credited with creating what Smith has called "The Connie Smith Sound". In an interview with Colin Escott in his book Born to Sing, Myrick recalls how Smith's producer (Bob Ferguson) wanted the guitar to sound: "He came out and said he wanted a bright sound, and he adjusted my controls. I thought it was an awfully thin sound, but it wound up being very popular."

Smith's vocal delivery has also been considered to be part of her musical style. Writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted in 2012 that Smith sings with a "cool, authoritative ease, a skill that brought her to the attention of some of Nashville's finest songwriters." Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann called her singing "a pillar-of-fire delivery sobbed with desolation." Thom Jurek of AllMusic stated that Smith's vocals offer "sophisticated emotional delivery" and that "her control and phrasing remain a high-water mark today."

Legacy and honors
Smith is considered by many critics and historians to be one of country music's more celebrated and respected artists. In his review of Smith's 1996 compilation The Essential Connie Smith, Jurek explained why Smith's vocals are usually compared to Cline's, "Connie Smith is perhaps the only female singer in the history of country music who can truly claim to be the heiress to Patsy Cline's throne. It's not that there aren't many amazing vocalists in the field, and plenty of legends among them. But in terms of the pure gift of interpretation of taking virtually any song and making it a country song of class and distinction, Smith is it."

Writers and journalists have also cited Smith as an integral piece of country music history. Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann categorized her as one of country's "heroines of heartbreak", due to her emotional vocal delivery. Bufwack and Oermann further stated that along with Tammy Wynette, Smith was among the genre's "most towering country voices of the 1960s and 1970s" who "sang from the depths of despair" and "spoke for conservative Middle America in both music and life."

Many artists in the country music industry have cited Smith as a significant musical influence or one of their favorite musical artists. George Jones cited Smith as his favorite female singer in his 1995 autobiography. Elvis Presley had many of Smith's albums in his record collection at his Graceland home and intended to record Smith's version of "The Wonders You Perform", but never got around to doing so. In a discussion with country songwriter Fred Foster, Dolly Parton famously said, "You know, there's really only three female singers in the world: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us are only pretending."

Smith has been given honors and achievements as part of her legacy. In 2002, she was ranked in the top ten on CMT 's televised special of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music. In 2011, she was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Alongside Garth Brooks, Smith was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2012. "Just to be in the company of the great Kitty Wells is enough," she commented after hearing the news. In 2015, she celebrated 50 years as a member of the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast. Her celebration was honored in a performance joined by Alison Krauss and Mel Tillis, among others. In 2017, she was ranked on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time".

In March 2021, Smith's legacy was further cemented by the Library of Congress, which added "Once a Day" to the National Recording Registry. In April 2021, Smith's husband, Marty Stuart, announced a documentary to be released about her life and career titled Connie: The Cry of the Heart. "Studying the depth of what Marty and Connie have achieved in the industry and then discovering their ability to predict the business trends around their legacy makes me very excited to be part of what they are doing," said Nick Kontonicolas, who will help broadcast the documentary on his network.

Discography
Studio albums

 * Connie Smith (1965)
 * Cute 'n' Country (1965)
 * Miss Smith Goes to Nashville (1966)
 * Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs (1966)
 * Born to Sing (1966)
 * Downtown Country (1967)
 * Connie in the Country (1967)
 * Connie Smith Sings Bill Anderson (1967)
 * Soul of Country Music (1967)
 * I Love Charley Brown (1968)
 * Sunshine and Rain (1968)
 * Connie's Country (1969)
 * Young Love (with Nat Stuckey) (1969)
 * Back in Baby's Arms (1969)
 * Sunday Morning with Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith (with Nat Stuckey) (1970)
 * I Never Once Stopped Loving You (1970)
 * Where Is My Castle (1971)
 * Just One Time (1971)
 * Come Along and Walk with Me (1971)
 * Ain't We Havin' Us a Good Time (1972)
 * If It Ain't Love and Other Great Dallas Frazier Songs (1972)
 * A Lady Named Smith (1973)
 * God Is Abundant (1973)
 * That's the Way Love Goes (1974)
 * I Never Knew (What That Song Meant Before) (1974)
 * I Got a Lot of Hurtin' Done Today/I've Got My Baby On My Mind (1975)
 * Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel (1975)
 * Joy to the World (1975)
 * The Song We Fell in Love To (1976)
 * I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore (1976)
 * Pure Connie Smith (1977)
 * New Horizons (1978)
 * The Best of Connie Smith (1989)
 * By Request (1995)
 * Clinging to a Saving Hand (1995)
 * Connie Smith (1998)
 * Love Never Fails (with Barbara Fairchild and Sharon White) (2003)
 * Long Line of Heartaches (2011)
 * The Cry of the Heart (2021)
 * Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches (2024)

Awards, nominations and honors
!Ref.
 * 1964
 * Billboard Magazine
 * Most Promising Female Country Artist
 * Won
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 * rowspan=3| Grammy Awards
 * Best Country and Western Single – "Once a Day"
 * Nominated
 * align="center" rowspan="3"|
 * Best New Country and Western Artist
 * Nominated
 * Best Country & Western Vocal Performance, Female – "Once a Day"
 * Nominated
 * Billboard Magazine
 * Most Promising Female Country Artist
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan=2| Billboard Magazine
 * Favorite Female Country Performer
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Favorite Album (1964–1965) – Connie Smith
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Cash Box
 * Most Promising Female Country Vocalist
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * Country Music Review
 * Most Promising Female Singer
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan=8| 1966
 * rowspan=2| Grammy Awards
 * Best Sacred Recording – Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs
 * Nominated
 * align="center" rowspan="2"|
 * Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Female – "Ain't Had No Lovin'"
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=2| Billboard Magazine
 * Favorite Female Country Performer
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Favorite Country Album – Cute 'n' Country
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Cash Box
 * Most Programmed Female Artist
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * Country Music Life Award
 * Favorite Female Artist
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan=2| Record World
 * Top Female Vocalist
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * Most Outstanding Female Country and Western Vocalist
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan=4| 1967
 * Billboard Magazine
 * Top Country Artist, Female Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Cash Box
 * Most Programmed Female Artist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Record World
 * Top Female Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Country Music Association Awards
 * Female Vocalist of the Year
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * 1968
 * Grammy Awards
 * Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Female – "Cincinnati, Ohio"
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan=2| 1969
 * Academy of Country Music
 * Top Female Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Grammy Awards
 * Best Country Vocal Performance, Female – "Ribbon of Darkness"
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan="2"| 1970
 * Country Music Association
 * Female Vocalist of the Year
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Record World
 * Top Female Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * 1971
 * Grammy Awards
 * Best Sacred Performance – "Whispering Hope" (with Nat Stuckey)
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan=2| 1972
 * Music City News Awards
 * Top Female Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Country Music Association
 * Female Vocalist of the Year
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * rowspan=2| 1974
 * Grammy Awards
 * Best Inspirational Performance – "All the Praises"
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * Music City News Awards
 * Top Female Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * 1975
 * Music City News Awards
 * Top Female Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * 1976
 * Grammy Awards
 * Best Gospel Performance – Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * 1979
 * Music City News Awards
 * Gospel Group/Act of the Year
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2002
 * Country Music Television
 * 40 Greatest Women of Country Music
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2007
 * Country Universe
 * 100 Greatest Women – Rank (#24)
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2010
 * Grammy Awards
 * Best Country Collaboration with Vocals – "Run to You" (with Marty Stuart)
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * 2011
 * West Virginia Music Hall of Fame
 * Inducted
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2012
 * Country Music Association
 * Country Music Hall of Fame induction
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2017
 * Rolling Stone
 * 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time – Rank (#69)
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * }
 * Gospel Group/Act of the Year
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2002
 * Country Music Television
 * 40 Greatest Women of Country Music
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2007
 * Country Universe
 * 100 Greatest Women – Rank (#24)
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2010
 * Grammy Awards
 * Best Country Collaboration with Vocals – "Run to You" (with Marty Stuart)
 * Nominated
 * align="center"|
 * 2011
 * West Virginia Music Hall of Fame
 * Inducted
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2012
 * Country Music Association
 * Country Music Hall of Fame induction
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * 2017
 * Rolling Stone
 * 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time – Rank (#69)
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * }
 * 2017
 * Rolling Stone
 * 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time – Rank (#69)
 * Won
 * align="center"|
 * }
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This belongs into mulled wine. Can we please copy any non-redundant text and make this a redirect. Kosebamse 18:01, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) Done. Kosebamse 17:14, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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"It" the Album

"It" the Album is the fourth studio album by English gothic rock band Alien Sex Fiend, released in October 1986 by Anagram Records.

Content
The album cover was painted by frontman Nik Fiend.

Release
The 1986 cassette version ("It" the Cassette) also included the band's full 1985 album Maximum Security.

The album was later reissued in CD format with three additional tracks and retitled It (The CD).

Reception
Trouser Press called the album "unquestionably the group's most creative, mind-expanding undertaking".

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Changes/Restructuring
I came here from a link on the main page, and to me it's not obvious BUT MOM SAID JESSICA DO YOUR HOME WORK OR I WILL TAKE YOUR PHONE AWAY!!!!! the government was restructured. There's a little blurb about the restructuring, but how is it different from the situation as it was before? Also, the table is helpful, but again the contrast with the previous system would be well-placed in the table. I don't know enough about the subject myself or I'd help, but I just wanted to point out some confusion that I'm sure I'm not alone in. --ABQCat 18:04, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

treaty title
Rather than the crown (monarch) signing treaties, it appears that the Government of Sweden (as a corporate body) signs (for example, the Treaty establishing a constitution for Europe). I think this warrants mention, and needs confirmation and clarification. – Kaihsu 18:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Up until the 1974 Regeringsformen ("Instrument of Government", the most important part of the Constitution of Sweden), all laws and treaties would be promulgated under the name of the monarch. By the mid 1970s the role of the monarchs was purely symbolical, though technically the monarch formally wielded considerable power, just the monarch of the UK does today. Under the new Instrument of Government many of the roles and positions were formally abolished, including (I guess) the part about treaties being signed in the name of the monarch. I think this is pretty trivial, and not necessarily worthy of being mentioned. This belongs in the article of the Instrument of Government, instead. —Gabbe 23:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Would you like to add something at Constitution_of_Sweden, please? Cheers. – Kaihsu 16:10, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * While it may seem as pretty trivial in the context of contemporary Swedish political discourse: it is clearly not trivial from an international point of view since it differs from a fairly common standard. RicJac (talk) 15:27, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Missing ministers?
There seems to be a lot of people missing from the list, I can see 14 Ministers when the article states there are 22. For instance, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Foreign Affairs are definitely missing. Ansaheli 12:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Just some edits from a known vandal that unfortunately had gone unseen for over a week. I reverted them, thanks for the notification. -- Jao 13:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Govt offices
Update sign: Hmm... It really seems a bit unclear to which ministry the different ministers belong. Tobias Billström e.g. officially belongs the Ministry of Justice. Does a "Ministry of Integration" really exist? See: The Prime Minister's Office Bondkaka 19:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Reinfeldts new cabinet has a Ministry of Integration, see www.moderat.se.

Important notice
The government section of the "Outline of Sweden" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

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Missing Information
Can members of the Swedish Government be simultaneously members of Parliament as in the United Kingdom or must they vacate their seats upon appointment to the cabinet as in the Netherlands? That crucial piece of information seems to be missing from the article.161.24.19.112 (talk) 17:03, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know if they are requiered to do so, but in pratice members of parliament vacate their seats in parliament during the time as members of the government. If they for some reason leave the government, they return to their seats in parliament. B****n (talk) 12:48, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

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Base Realignment and Closure

 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) was a process by a United States federal government commission to increase the efficiency of the United States Department of Defense by coordinating the realignment and closure of military installations following the end of the Cold War. Over 350 installations have been closed in five BRAC rounds: 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, and 2005. These five BRAC rounds constitute a combined savings of $12 billion annually.

Background
The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, passed after the 1947 reorganization of the National Military Establishment, reduced the number of U.S. military bases, forts, posts, and stations. The subsequent 1950s buildup for the Cold War (e.g., during the Korean War) resulted in large numbers of new installations, such as the Permanent System radar stations and Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) control centers. By 1959, plans for even larger numbers of Cold War installations were canceled (e.g., DoD's June 19, 1959, Continental Air Defense Program reduced the number of Super Combat Center underground nuclear bunkers to 7). In 1958, U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) began to replace Strategic Air Command bombers. From 1960–1964, the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations closed 574 U.S. military bases around the world, particularly after President John F. Kennedy was briefed after his inauguration that the missile gap was not a concern.

 * 1961 closures: On March 28, 1961, President Kennedy announced the closure of 73 military establishments.

 * 1964 closures: "In December 1963, Secretary McNamara announced the closure of twenty-six DOD installations or activities in the CONUS".

 * 1965 closures: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announced 95 base closures/realignments in November 1964: 80 in the United States (33 states & DC) and 15 overseas. Closures included the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the Springfield Armory, six bomber bases, and 15 Air Defense Command radar stations—a realignment transferred Highlands Air Force Station to the adjacent Highlands Army Air Defense Site.

 * 1968 Project 693: Project 693 was established by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford during the Vietnam War for reducing programs and personnel, and the project also closed several military installations.

 * 1969 realignments: The DoD realigned 307 military bases beginning with an announcement in October 1969.

 * 1973 closures: 224 closures were announced in 1973.

 * 1974 Project Concise: Project Concise eliminated most of the Project Nike missile locations which generally each had two sites, a radar station on an elevated landform for guidance and command/control, and a launch area that had launch rails and stored missiles and warheads. A 1976 follow-on program to Concise closed additional installations.

 * 1983 Grace Commission: The Grace Commission was President Ronald Reagan's "Private Sector Survey" on cost control that concluded that "savings could be made in the military base structure" and recommended establishing an independent commission to study the issue. Public Law 100–526 endorsed the review in October 1988 and authorized the "special commission to recommend base realignments and closures" to the Secretary of Defense and provided relief from NEPA provisions that had hindered the base closure process.

 * 1988 Carlucci Commission: On May 3, 1988, the Carlucci Commission was chartered by Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, which in December 1988 recommended closing five Air Force bases: Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois, George Air Force Base, Mather Air Force Base and Norton Air Force Base in California, and Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire.

Law
The Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990 provided "the basic framework for the transfer and disposal of military installations closed during the base realignment and closure (BRAC) process". The process was created in 1988 to reduce pork barrel politics with members of Congress that arise when facilities face activity reductions.

The most recent process began May 13, 2005, when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld forwarded his recommendations for realignments and closures to the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission. The BRAC is an independent nine-member panel appointed by the President. This panel evaluated the list by taking testimony from interested parties and visiting affected bases. The BRAC Commission had the opportunity to add bases to the list and did so in a July 19, 2005, hearing. The Commission met its deadline of September 2005 to provide the evaluated list to the President, who approved the list with the condition that it could only be approved or disapproved in its entirety. On November 7, 2005, the approved list was then given to Congress, who had the opportunity to disapprove the entire list within 45 days by enacting a resolution of disapproval. This did not happen, and the BRAC Commission's recommendations became final.

1988
The 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission included:

 * Alabama Army Ammunition Plant
 * Army Materials Technology Laboratory
 * Army Reserve Center Gaithersburg
 * Bennett Army National Guard Facility
 * Cameron Station
 * Cape St. George
 * Chanute Air Force Base
 * Coosa River Storage Annex
 * Defense Mapping Agency site Herndon, Virginia
 * Former Nike Site at the Aberdeen Proving Ground
 * Fort Bliss (realigned)
 * Fort Des Moines
 * Fort Detrick (realigned)
 * Fort Dix (realigned as Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst)
 * Fort Douglas
 * Fort Holabird
 * Fort Meade (realigned)
 * Fort Monmouth
 * Fort Sheridan
 * Fort Wingate Ammunition Storage Depot
 * Fort Wingate
 * George Air Force Base
 * Hamilton Army Airfield
 * Indiana Army Ammunition Plant
 * Irwin Support Detachment Annex
 * Jefferson Proving Ground
 * Kapalama Military Reservation Phase III
 * Lexington Army Depot
 * Lexington-Bluegrass Army Depot
 * Mather Air Force Base
 * Navajo Depot Activity (turned over to the Arizona Army National Guard)
 * Naval Hospital Philadelphia
 * Naval Reserve Center Coconut Grove
 * Naval Station Galveston
 * Naval Station Lake Charles
 * Naval Station New York
 * Naval Station Puget Sound
 * Naval Station San Francisco (realigned)
 * New Orleans Military Ocean Terminal
 * Nike Washington-Baltimore
 * Norton Air Force Base
 * Pease Air Force Base (realigned as Pease Air National Guard Base)
 * Pontiac Storage Facility
 * Presidio of San Francisco
 * Pueblo Army Depot (realigned)
 * Salton Sea Test Base
 * St. Louis Area Support Center Wherry housing
 * Tacony Warehouse
 * Umatilla Army Depot (realigned)

1990
In 1990, the Navy considered cutting 34 military installations.

1991
The 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission included:

 * Beale Air Force Base (realigned)
 * Bergstrom Air Force Base
 * Carswell Air Force Base (turned over to the United States Navy Reserve and realigned as Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth)
 * Castle Air Force Base
 * Eaker Air Force Base
 * England Air Force Base
 * Fleet Combat Direction Systems Support Activity San Diego (realigned)
 * Fort Benjamin Harrison
 * Fort Chaffee (turned over to the Arkansas Army National Guard)
 * Fort Devens (turned over to the United States Army Reserve and realigned as Devens Reserve Forces Training Area)
 * Fort Ord
 * Fort Novosel (realigned)
 * Grissom Air Force Base (realigned as Grissom Air Reserve Base)
 * Hunters Point Annex
 * Integrated Combat Systems Test Facility San Diego
 * Letterman Army Institute of Research (disestablished)
 * Loring Air Force Base
 * Lowry Air Force Base
 * Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
 * Myrtle Beach Air Force Base
 * Naval Air Station Chase Field
 * Naval Air Station Moffett Field
 * Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster
 * Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Center San Diego
 * Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Center Vallejo
 * Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Center
 * Naval Space Systems Activity Los Angeles
 * Naval Station Long Beach
 * Naval Station Philadelphia
 * Naval Station Puget Sound
 * Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (realigned)
 * Naval Air Station Point Mugu
 * Philadelphia Naval Yard
 * Presidio of Monterey
 * Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
 * Rickenbacker Air Force Base (portion realigned as Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base)
 * Sacramento Army Depot
 * Williams Air Force Base
 * Wurtsmith Air Force Base

1993
The 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission included:

 * Anniston Army Depot (realigned)
 * Camp Evans
 * Fort Wingate
 * Griffiss Air Force Base
 * Homestead Air Force Base (realigned as Homestead Air Reserve Base)
 * K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base
 * March Air Force Base (realigned as March Air Reserve Base)
 * Mare Island Naval Shipyard
 * Marine Corps Air Station El Toro
 * Naval Air Station Agana
 * Naval Air Station Alameda
 * Naval Air Station Barbers Point
 * Naval Air Station Cecil Field
 * Naval Air Station Dallas (realigned as Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex)
 * Naval Air Station Glenview
 * Naval Air Warfare Center Trenton
 * Naval Aviation Depot Alameda
 * Naval Aviation Depot Norfolk
 * Naval Aviation Depot Pensacola
 * Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Center, Saint Inigoes
 * Naval Hospital Charleston
 * Naval Hospital Oakland
 * Naval Hospital Orlando
 * Naval Reserve Center Gadsden
 * Naval Reserve Center Montgomery
 * Naval Station Argentia
 * Naval Station Charleston
 * Naval Station Mobile
 * Naval Station Staten Island
 * Naval Station Treasure Island
 * Naval Supply Center, Oakland
 * Naval Training Center Orlando
 * Naval Training Center San Diego
 * Newark Air Force Base
 * O'Hare Air Reserve Station
 * Plattsburgh Air Force Base
 * Vint Hill Farms Station
 * Williams Air Force Base

1995
The 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission included:

 * Camp Bonneville
 * Castle Air Force Base
 * Fitzsimons Army Medical Center
 * Fort Chaffee (turned over to the Arkansas National Guard)
 * Fort Greely (realigned)
 * Fort Indiantown Gap (turned over to the Pennsylvania National Guard)
 * Fort McClellan
 * Fort Barfoot (turned over to the Virginia National Guard)
 * Fort Ritchie
 * Kelly Air Force Base (realigned as Kelly Field)
 * Letterkenny Army Depot
 * McClellan Air Force Base
 * Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne
 * Naval Air Facility Adak
 * Naval Air Station South Weymouth
 * Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Warminster
 * Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Indianapolis
 * Naval Reserve Center Fayetteville
 * Naval Reserve Center Fort Smith
 * Naval Reserve Center Huntsville
 * Naval Shipyard, Long Beach
 * Naval Supply Center, Oakland
 * Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division
 * Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
 * Oakland Army Base
 * Ontario Air National Guard Station
 * Red River Army Depot
 * Reese Air Force Base
 * Roslyn Air National Guard Station
 * Savanna Army Depot Activity
 * Seneca Army Depot
 * Ship Repair Facility, Guam
 * Sierra Army Depot (realigned)
 * Stratford Army Engine Plant

2005
The Pentagon released its proposed list for the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission on May 13, 2005 (a date given the moniker "BRAC Friday," a pun on Black Friday). After an extensive series of public hearings, analysis of DoD-supplied supporting data, and solicitation of comments from the public, the list of recommendations was revised by the 9-member Defense Base Closure and Realignments Commission in two days of public markups and votes on individual recommendations (the proceedings were broadcast by C-SPAN and are available for review on the network's website). The Commission submitted its revised list to the President on September 8, 2005. The President approved the list and notified Congress on September 15. The House of Representatives took up a joint resolution to disapprove the recommendations on October 26, but the resolution failed to pass. The recommendations were thereby enacted. The Secretary of Defense must implement the recommendations no later than September 15, 2011.

Major facilities slated for closure included:
 * Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, renamed Brooks City-Base after San Antonio assumed control
 * Defense Finance and Accounting Service, New York (removed from list 2005)
 * Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota (removed from list August 26, 2005)
 * Fort Gillem, Georgia
 * Fort McPherson, Georgia
 * Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
 * Fort Monroe, Virginia
 * Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine
 * Naval Air Station Willow Grove Joint Reserve Base, Pennsylvania
 * Naval Station Ingleside, Texas
 * Naval Station Pascagoula, Mississippi
 * Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut (removed from list August 24, 2005)
 * Navy Supply Corps School
 * Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts (removed from list August 26, 2005)
 * Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine (removed from list August 26, 2005)

Major facilities slated for realignment include:
 * Army Human Resource Command (HRC), Missouri, moving to the Fort Knox Military Installation in Kentucky
 * Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico
 * Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
 * Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
 * Fort Belvoir, Virginia
 * Fort Meade, Maryland
 * Fort Novosel, Alabama, Aviation Technical Test Center moving to the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama and combining with the Redstone Technical Test Center to form Redstone Test Center
 * Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota
 * Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia (extent contingent on reopening the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field in Florida)
 * Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois
 * Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina (transferred to the U.S. Army as Pope Army Airfield and merged with Fort Liberty)
 * Rome Laboratory, New York
 * Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Twenty-six bases were realigned into 12 joint bases, with each joint base's installation support being led by the Army, the Air Force, or the Navy. An example is Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington, combining Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base.

2015
The 2005 Commission recommended that Congress authorize another BRAC round in 2015 and every eight years thereafter. On May 10, 2012, the House Armed Services Committee rejected calls by the Pentagon for base closures outside of a 2015 round by a 44 to 18 vote. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had called for two rounds of base closures while at the same time arguing that the alternative of the sequester would be a "meat-ax" approach to cuts which would "hollow out" military forces.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 specifically prohibits authorization of future BRAC rounds.

In May 2014, it was attempted to fund another round of BRAC, although funding was not approved in a vote in May of that year.

In March 2015, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment addressed the possibility of a future BRAC, indicating that the DOD, Defense Secretary Ash Carter was requesting authority to conduct another BRAC.

In September 2015, at the tenth anniversary of the end of the most recent BRAC commission report, its former chairman Anthony Principi wrote, "Now is the time to do what's right for our men and women in uniform. Spending dollars on infrastructure that does not serve their needs is inexcusable."

Appropriations
The following is a chronological timeline of authorizations for U.S. Congressional legislation related to U.S. defense installation realignments and military base closures.

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User talk:Ttaranov

hey! this is just a junky page about my sorry life :)

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Talk:Generalized Fourier series

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I've been learning my Fourier analysis from Kenneth Howell's _Principals of Fourier Analysis_, Chapman & Hall/ CRC, copyright 2001. His formulation for the coefficients involves the complex conjugate of the $$\phi_n$$ in the integral (and his inner products use the same switch; leave the first function alone and multiply by the complex conjugate before integrating).

Did you miss a complex conjugate?

 * I agree; I've changed it. Michael Hardy 19:45, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I think this page should be renamed. Basically its about Orthogonal basis, and it should be named something like Orthogonal bases in L2, Examples of orthogonal bases or some such. I really suck at making up names. Any opinions? Gadykozma 03:03, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * There's a little more to it than just that. Besides, that's what these expressions are called, so I'd have to disagree. Dysprosia 06:21, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

OK, maybe renaming was not such a hot idea. I agree that I've never seen Generalized Fourier seies used for anything else. However, Generalizations of Fourier series is used for lots of other stuff (e.g. abstract harmonic analysis). So maybe we should clarify this somehow? Gady 15:50, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't the last two equation include w(x) in the right integrals? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.154.15.250 (talk) 15:55, 5 February 2007
 * ✅, 11 years later. Anne Bauval (talk) 09:17, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Tone
This article is written in the style of a textbook instead of an encyclopedia.Trumpetrep (talk) 01:23, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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Aberchirder

Aberchirder (Fogieloan, Obar Chiardair) known locally as Foggieloan or Foggie, is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated on the A97 road six miles west of Turriff.

Etymology
The name Aberchirder, recorded in c. 1204 as Aberkerdour means 'mouth of the Chirder'. It is formed from the Pictish word aber 'river mouth' and the stream-name Chirder which is itself formed from the Gaelic words ciar 'dark, brown' and dobhar 'water'. This stream name is probably an adaptation of an earlier Pictish name.

History

The village of Aberchirder was founded in 1764 by Alexander Gordon, the 5th laird of Auchintoul. Until 1823 its official name was, in fact, Foggieloan after a small farm community on the site of which it was built. There is some uncertainty as to how the name Foggieloan originated. There are various theories; the most likely is that there is a stretch of moorland north of where the farm town existed (and, now, north of the village) which was named Foggieloan Moss from two Gaelic words foidh (peat moss) and lòn (meadow), so Foggieloan means peaty or boggy meadow. Kinnairdy Castle, now belonging to the Innes family is 2 miles to the south west, where the River Deveron joins the Auchintoul Burn. In 1823 the village was renamed Aberchirder after the 13th century Thanes of Aberkerdour of Kinnairdy Castle.

As a planned community, the village was built on a grid pattern around a central square and had a mix of single storey thatched, stone-built houses fronting onto the streets (to prevent people having their middens on show) with long gardens intended to provide the inhabitants with a seasonal supply of food. Alexander Gordon envisaged a thriving industrial village and built a small linen factory in Back Street (now North Street) which produced fine linen table-cloths and wincey using flax from Auchintoul Moss. By the late 19th century, wealthier inhabitants had built some grander houses and there was a selection of religious establishments throughout the town catering to various denominations in addition to the Church of Scotland and Free Church (1840, James Matthews) buildings.

In 1960, the Royal Observer Corps opened a small monitoring bunker, to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. It was closed in 1991 and remains intact.

Transport
The town is served by the 301 service between Huntly and Macduff, and the 303 between Huntly and Turriff. The town was formerly served by the 308 to Inverurie. This service was withdrawn in 2021.

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User talk:GunRock

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I hope you do not mind my asking for clarification for your first edit, but I am afraid that I do not understand the changes that you made to Bilinear interpolation. Specifically, what are x3 and x4 supposed to be? They are not defined in the article, as far as I can see. Note that Q1 and Q2 have the same x-coordinate, as do Q3 and Q4. Perhaps the picture is misleading.

Don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page if you have any questions. I am looking forward to your contributions.

Best wishes, Jitse Niesen 18:05, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Not having received an answer, I reverted your edit. -- Jitse Niesen 21:01, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I changed the picture on Bilinear interpolation. I'd appreciate it if you could go and have a look, and tell me if you think the new picture is even more confusing than the old version. Thanks, Jitse Niesen 22:11, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Stark effect

Details
give the details of stark effect —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.176.248.70 (talk • contribs)
 * Splendid idea. Unfortunately, I don't understand the details of Stark Effect. Do you perhaps? Anyone can contribute of course! Oh, and next time, please sign your comments with four tildes: ~ . We can then see who is giving the comment. The result is somewhat like this: Gerritholl 20:05, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Unless someone beats me to it, I'll write up what the effect is. I'll just add it to the bottom of my to do list...  Laura Scudder 01:26, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Quantum confined Stark effect
Discussion of the quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) needs to be expanded. Is it worth an article in itself?

Unclear phrase
What does the phrase below mean? It needs to be made clearer.

so the exciton is not merely pulled apart by the field

History Stark effect

 * Could somebody provide a source for the following sentence (which I temporarily commented out):

 * While first-order perturbation effects for the Stark effect in hydrogen are in agreement for the Bohr-Sommerfeld model and the quantum-mechanical theory of the atom, higher order effects are not. Measurements of the Stark effect under high field strengths confirmed the correctness of the quantum theory over the Bohr model.

--P.wormer 15:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I do not have easy access to Z. f. Physik (1920). Whitaker gives p. 199 for Kramer's 1920 paper. Earlier author of this article gives p. 169. Who is right?

 * I got the answer for the 2nd question from the national Dutch public library helpdesk (al@din): it is page 199. Thank you al@din! --P.wormer 13:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Drawing
The explanation of the drawing of the Stark splitting requires introduction of parabolic coordinates and discussion of the Schr. eq. in terms of these coordinates. To my taste this goes (too) far. Either we omit the drawing, or we introduce parabolic coordinates+discussion. Any opinions? --P.wormer 09:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I believe it is useful to have a graphical representation of the stark effect illustrating the effect of an electric field on atomic energy levels. The caption does include a lot of unexplained information, I included the full details for completeness.

 * It may be more useful with a simple caption (for example see Atomic_line_filter) as the form of the curves illustrates the essential points: breaking of the degeneracy and shifting of the energy levels. Anyone can of course edit the caption.

 * The fact that a new quantum number is required to describe the (otherwise degenerate) energy levels in an electric field is important and can be understood conceptually without any knowledge of parabolic coordinates or the Schrodinger equation. For anyone who wishes the look further, there are extensive articles on both.

 * It may be better to use a simpler schematic diagram as in Zeeman_effect, however I think it is nice to see the form of the energy shift.--DJIndica 00:43, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

 * <> I have created a new diagram, it is displayed with a new caption in my sandbox. Comments/suggestions would be appreciated, if I receive none I will transfer it to Stark effect in the near future.--DJIndica 20:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Done, comments welcome.--DJIndica 22:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Trivia
The article states: "Coincidentally, both physicists, Stark and Lo Surdo, later became ardent followers of the dictators (Hitler and Mussolini) ruling their respective countries." How is this in any way significant or relevant? It seems totally out of place to me.

 * Agreed. — Laura Scudder ☎ 21:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I wrote this sentence assuming that human interest is not forbidden, not even in science. In science history there is an eternal struggle on how to divide attention between the works and the personalities of scientists. To me a sentence of 20 words not directly science related  in an otherwise completely technical article is not overstretching the personal. But, indeed, the Johannes Stark lemma has already a paragraph about Stark's political ideas. So, when Antonino Lo Surdo gets an article that mentions (however briefly) his political ideas, then the sentence can go from the present article. Until then I am in favor of reentering the sentence.--P.wormer 08:31, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I re-entered the sentence about the political beliefs of Stark and Lo Surdo (now with reference to a peer-reviewed journal). If somebody wants to delete it again, then I ask him/her to ponder the following. (i) An encyclopedia is a collection of facts. (ii) For Wikipedia size is not an issue, in contrast to a paper encyclopedia. (iii) Why and in what manner will it improve Wikipedia if this  sentence is deleted? Please explain this before deletion. (iv) Who determines relevance? For instance, I took great care to collect the titles of the articles that the present lemma refers to. Is this relevant? I think so, but others may disagree. Those who don't care about titles can simply ignore them. Why bother to delete them or anything else that is true and has bearing on the subject?--P.wormer 15:36, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm just a casual, 1st time reader of the article and I came away quite confused. First, the two diagrams at the upper right hand side are not really explained in the article and so, while nice diagrams, don't help the reader understand the Stark effect. Also, as I read both this Start Effect article and the article on the Zeeman effect, I saw they both mention their counterparts (Electric Field vs Magnetic field) but in neither write-up is it mentioned that the similarity is that in both cases the interaction is with a field and a "moment". My last observation/suggestion is this: why not have a beginning section the describes the effect (Stark or Zeeman) is very simplified terms (like in beginning Physiscs class),, the progress to Undergraduate level, and finally to graduate level. That way we may be able to educate more people and not turn them off by showing just how smart/advanced we are. Thanks for listening. HankG520 (talk) 01:42, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

fine structure
Christovac changed a sentence of mine to:
 * Kramers also included the effect of fine structure, by which, before the discovery of spin in 1926, was the relativistic increase of electron mass with velocity.

In the original version of this sentence I wanted to express the fact that after 1926 the term "fine structure" related to spin effects. Around 1919 by "fine structure" one meant [is this bad grammar?] the relativistic effect of increase in mass. Is there a stylistic expert in the Wiki-room that can put this sentence straight? Now it is rambling. Thank you.--P.wormer 07:45, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, did it myself--P.wormer 13:00, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Question about Electric Field NMR
Is the Stark effect etc related to Electric field NMR? If so please edit that stub article, and add references from this and related articles. I know nothing about it. GilesW (talk) 19:48, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

 * It's barely related. Evgeny (talk) 13:49, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

AC Stark -shift
adding some information about the AC-stark Shift would be nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.248.131.239 (talk) 21:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Actually, a whole article explicitly devoted to the AC Stark effect would be nice. I visited Wikipedia as a reader this past week, really wanted to learn some more about the AC Stark effect, and have found surprisingly little on Wikipedia's site. There appears to be an article about the Autler-Townes effect. I have no idea what the Autler-Townes effect is, and the article is barely even a paragraph long. What I really wanted to learn about (I think...again, I'm learning stuff as I read it right now) was the "Mollow triplet." Did Autler/Townes have anything to do with that? "AC Stark effect" redirects to "Stark effect," but there is actually no content on the AC Stark effect in the Stark effect page. What seems most amazing to me, though, is that when I type "AC stark" effect into Google, these two user pages pop up:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jchdavis/AC_Stark_Effect
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jemlzs/AC_Stark_effect

Seems a little odd that user pages on the AC Stark shift get more attention from Google than the official encyclopedia. @ or @, would one (or both) of you be willing to put together an article that actually purports to be official? @ Maybe you could help find a way to fix the issue? (Is it really true that the Autler-Townes effect and AC Stark effect are the same thing? Someone commented on the Autler-Townes effect talk page that they are not.) Finally, it doesn't quite seem right to me to have AC Stark effect redirect to Stark effect. Csmallw (talk) 05:40, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Hurry (EP)

Hurry is a 2001 EP released by Canadian post-grunge band Tin Foil Phoenix as Sonic Bloom.

The EP was nominated for a 2002 Western Canadian Music Award for Outstanding Rock Recording.

Critical acclaim

 * "Hurry was a distinctive, stylish concoction of funky hip-hop, swaggering metal and anthemic modern rock, topped with Michael Zirk's hyperintelligent, stream-of-pop-culture-consciousness neo-beat poetry." -- Darryl Sterdan, Winnipeg Sun, September 10, 2004.

title: Hurry (EP)