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Arthur Szyk

Arthur Szyk (Artur Szyk ; see Polish phonology); June 3, 1894 – September 13, 1951 ) was a Polish-born Jewish artist who worked primarily as a book illustrator and political artist throughout his career. Arthur Szyk was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family in Łódź, in the part of Poland under Russian rule in the 19th century. An acculturated Polish Jew, Szyk always proudly regarded himself both as a Pole and a Jew. From 1921, he lived and created his works mainly in France and Poland; in 1937 he moved to the United Kingdom. In 1940, he settled permanently in the United States, and was granted American citizenship in 1948.

Arthur Szyk became a renowned artist and book illustrator as early as the interwar period. His works were exhibited and published in Poland and France, the United Kingdom, Israel and the United States. However, he gained broad popularity in the United States primarily through his political caricatures, in which, after the outbreak of World War II, he savaged the policies and personalities of the leaders of the Axis powers. After the war, he also devoted himself to Zionist political issues, especially the support of the creation of the state of Israel.

Szyk's work is characterized in its material content by social and political commitment, and in its formal aspect by its rejection of modernism and embrace of the traditions of medieval and renaissance painting, especially illuminated manuscripts from those periods.

Today, Szyk is known and exhibited only in his last country of residence, the United States.

Background and youth
Arthur Szyk, the son of Solomon Szyk and his wife Eugenia, was born in Łódź, in the Russian partition of Poland, on June 3, 1894. Solomon Szyk was a textile factory director, a quiet occupation until June 1905, when, during the so-called Łódź insurrection, one of his workers threw acid in his face, permanently blinding him.

Szyk showed artistic talent as a child; when he was six, he reportedly drew sketches of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Even though his family was culturally assimilated and did not practice Orthodox Judaism, Arthur also liked drawing biblical scenes from the Hebrew Bible. These interests and talents prompted his father, upon the advice of Szyk's teachers, to send Szyk to Paris to study at Académie Julian, a studio school popular among French and foreign students. In Paris, Szyk was exposed to all modern trends in art; however, he decided to follow his way, which hewed closely to tradition. He was especially attracted by the medieval art of illuminating manuscripts, which greatly influenced his later works. When studying in Paris, Szyk remained closely involved with the social and civic life of Łódź. During the years 1912–1914 the teenage artist produced numerous drawings and caricatures on contemporary political themes that were published in the Łódź satirical magazine Śmiech ("Laughter").

After four years in France, Szyk returned to Poland in 1913 and continued his studies in Teodor Axentowicz's class at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, which was under Austrian rule at that time. He not only attended lectures and classes, but he also actively participated in Kraków's cultural life. He did not forget his home city Łódź – he designed the stage sets and costumes for the Łódź-based Bi Ba Bo cabaret. The political and national engagement of the artist also deepened during that time – Szyk regarded himself as a Polish patriot but he was also proud of being Jewish and he often opposed antisemitism in his works. At the beginning of 1914, Szyk in a group with other Polish-Jewish artists and writers set off on a journey to Palestine, organized by the Jewish Cultural Society Hazamir (Hebrew: nightingale). There he observed the efforts of Jewish settlers working for the benefit of the future Jewish state.

The visit was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. Szyk, who was a Russian subject, had to leave Palestine, which was part of the Ottoman Empire at that time, and go back to his home country in August 1914. He was conscripted into the Russian army and fought at the battle of Łódź in November/December 1914, but at the beginning of 1915, he managed to escape from the army and spent the rest of the war in his home city. He also used the time spent in the Russian army to draw Russian soldiers and published these drawings as postcards in the same year (1915). On September 14, 1916, Arthur Szyk married Julia Likerman. Their son George was born in the following year, and their daughter Alexandra in 1922.

In the Second Polish Republic
After Poland had regained independence in 1918, Szyk fully developed his artistic activity, combining it with political engagement. In 1919, influenced by the events of the German Revolution of 1918–19, he published, together with poet Julian Tuwim, his first book of political illustrations: Rewolucja w Niemczech (Revolution in Germany), which was a satire on the Germans, who need the Kaiser's and the military's consent even to start a revolution. In the same year, Szyk had to take part in warfare again – during the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1920), in which he served as a Polish cavalry officer and as the artistic director of the propaganda department of the Polish army in Łódź.

In France
In 1921 Arthur Szyk and his family moved to Paris where they stayed until 1933. The relocation to Paris is marked by a breakthrough in the formal aspect of Szyk's works. While Szyk's prior book illustrations were drawings in pen and ink (Szyk had illustrated six books before 1925, including three published in the Yiddish language), the illustrations for the books published in Paris were full colour and full of detail. The first book illustrated in this way was the Book of Esther (Le livre d'Esther, 1925), followed by Gustave Flaubert's dialogue The Temptation of Saint Anthony (La tentation de Saint Antoine, 1926), Pierre Benoît's novel Jacob's Well (Le puits de Jacob, 1927) and other books. Those illustrations, which are characterized by a rich diversity of colours and detailed presentation, deliberately referred to the medieval and renaissance traditions of illumination of manuscripts, often with interspersed contemporary elements. Szyk drew himself as one of the characters in the Book of Esther.. The only stylistic exception is illustrations to the two volume collection of humorous anecdotes about Jews Le juif qui rit (1926/27), in which the artist returned to simple black and white graphics. (Paradoxically, the book, one of the best known of his works, met with criticism as repeating antisemitic stereotypes.) The artist's reputation was also enhanced by exhibitions which were organized by Galeries Auguste Decour (the art gallery first exhibited Szyk's works in 1922). Szyk's drawings were purchased by the Minister of Education and Fine Arts Anatole de Monzie and the New York businessman Harry Glemby.

Szyk had many opportunities to travel for his art. In 1922, he spent seven weeks in Morocco, then a protectorate of France, where he drew the portrait of the pasha of Marrakech – as a goodwill ambassador he received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques from the French government for this work. In 1931 he was invited to the seat of the League of Nations in Geneva, where he began illustrating the statute of the League. The artist made some of the pages of the statute but did not complete that work as a result of his disappointment with the policies of the organization in the 1930s.

Statute of Kalisz and Washington and his Times
During his stay in France, Szyk maintained his ties with Poland. He often visited his home country, illustrated books, and exhibited his works there. During the second half of the 1920s, he mainly illustrated the Statute of Kalisz, a charter of liberties which were granted to the Jews by Bolesław the Pious, the Duke of Kalisz, in 1264. In the years 1926–1928, he created a rich graphic setting of the 45-page-long Statute, showing the contribution of the Jews to Polish society; for example their participation in Poland's pro-independence struggle, during the January Uprising of 1863, and in the Polish Legions in World War I commanded by Józef Piłsudski, to whom Szyk also dedicated his work. The Statute of Kalisz was published in book form in Munich in 1932, but it gained popularity even earlier. Postcards with reproductions of Szyk's illustrations were published in Kraków around 1927. The original art was shown at exhibitions in Warsaw, Łódź and Kalisz in 1929, and a "Traveling Exhibition of Artur Szyk's Works" was held in 1932–1933, displaying the Statute at exhibitions in 14 Polish towns and cities. In recognition of his work, Arthur Szyk was decorated with the Gold Cross of Merit by the Polish government.

Another great historical series Szyk created was Washington and his Times, which he began in Paris in 1930. The series, which included 38 watercolours, depicted the events of the American Revolutionary War and was a tribute to the first president of the United States and the American nation in general. The series was presented at an exhibition at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1934. It brought another decoration to Szyk – this time the George Washington Bicentennial Medal from the American government.

The Haggadah and moving to London.

Szyk's art became even more politically engaged when Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in 1933. Szyk started drawing caricatures of Germany's Führer as early as 1933; probably the first was a pencil drawing of Hitler dressed as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. These drawings anticipated another great series of Szyk's drawings – the Haggadah, which is considered his magnum opus. The Haggadah is a very important and popular story in Jewish culture and religion about the Exodus or departure of the Israelites from ancient Egypt, which is read every year during the Passover Seder. Szyk illustrated the Haggadah in 48 miniature paintings in the years 1934–1936. The antisemitic politics in Germany led Szyk to introduce some contemporary elements to it. For example, he painted the Jewish parable of the Four Sons, in which the "wicked son" was portrayed as a man wearing German clothes, with a Hitler-like moustache and a green Alpine hat. The political intent of the series was even stronger in its original version: he painted upon the red snakes the swastika, the symbol of the Third Reich.

In 1937, Arthur Szyk went to London to supervise the publication of the Haggadah. However, in the three years leading to its publication, the artist had to agree to many compromises, including painting over the swastikas. It is not clear whether he did it under the pressure from his publisher or from British politicians who pursued the policy of appeasement with to Germany. The Haggadah was at last published in 1940, dedicated it to King George VI and with a translation (of the Hebrew) and commentary by British Jewish historian Cecil Roth. The work was widely acclaimed by critics; according to The Times of London Literary Supplement, it was "worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has ever produced". It was the most expensive new book in the world at the time, with each of the 250 limited edition copies of vellum selling for 100 guineas or US$520.

New York World's Fair, 1939
The last major exhibition of Szyk's works before the outbreak of World War II was the presentation of his paintings at the 1939 New York World's Fair, which opened in April 1939 in New York. The Polish Pavilion prominently featured Szyk's twenty-three paintings depicting the contribution of the Poles to the history of the United States; many works specifically highlighted the historic political connections between the two countries, as if to remind the viewer that Poland remained a suitable ally in a turbulent time.. (Twenty of the images were reproduced as postcards in Kraków in 1938 and were available for sale.). In this series, Szyk depicted the contribution of the Poles to the history of the United States, and highlighted historic connections between the two countries.

Reaction to the outbreak of the war

The German invasion of Poland found Szyk in Britain where he supervised the publication of the Haggadah and continued to exhibit his works. The artist immediately reacted to the outbreak of World War II by producing war-themed works. One feature which distinguished Szyk from other caricaturists who were active during World War II was that he concentrated on the presentation of the enemy in his works and seldom depicted the leaders or soldiers of the Allies. This was a characteristic feature of Szyk's work till the end of the war. In January 1940, the exhibition of his 72 caricatures entitled War and "Kultur" in Poland opened at the Fine Art Society in London, and was well received by the critics. As the reviewer of The Times wrote:

"There are three leading motives in the exhibition: the brutality of the Germans – and the more primitive savagery of the Russians, the heroism of the Poles, and the suffering of the Jews. The cumulative effect of the exhibition is immensely powerful because nothing in it appears to be a hasty judgment, but part of the unrelenting pursuit of an evil so firmly grasped that it can be dwelt upon with artistic satisfaction."

Szyk drew more and more caricatures directed at the Axis powers and their leaders, and his popularity steadily grew. In 1940, the American publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons offered to publish a collection of his drawings. Szyk agreed, and the result was the 1941 book The New Order, available months before the United States joined the war. Thomas Craven declared on the dust jacket of The New Order that Szyk: "...makes not only cartoons but beautifully composed pictures which suggest, in their curiously decorative quality, the inspired illuminations of the early religious manuscripts. His designs are as compact as a bomb, extraordinarily lucid in statement, firm and incisive in line, and deadly in their characterizations. (...) These are remarkable documents."

Some years later, in 1946, art critic Carl Van Doren said of Szyk: "There is no one more certain to be alive two hundred years from now. Just as we turn back to Hogarth and Goya for the living images of their age, so our descendants will turn back to Arthur Szyk for the most graphic history of Hitler and Hirohito and Mussolini. Here is the damning essence of what has happened; here is the piercing summary of what men have thought and felt."

Moving to the United States and war caricatures

At the beginning of July 1940, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, Arthur Szyk left Britain for North America, on assignment to popularize in the New World the struggle of the British and Polish nations against Nazism. His first destination on the continent was Canada, where he was welcomed enthusiastically by the media: they wrote about his engagement in the fight with Nazi Germany, and the Halifax-based Morning Herald even reported about the alleged bounty Hitler had put on Szyk. In December 1940, Szyk and his wife and daughter went to New York City, where he lived till 1945. His son, George, had enlisted in the Free French Forces commanded by General Charles de Gaulle.

Soon after his arrival in the U.S., Szyk was inspired by Roosevelt's 1941 "Four Freedoms" State of the Union speech to illustrate the Four Freedoms, preceding Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms by two years; these were used as poster stamps during the war, and appeared on the Four Freedoms Award which was presented to Harry Truman, George Marshall and Herbert H. Lehman. Szyk became an immensely popular artist in his new home country the war, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into the war. His caricatures of the leaders of the Axis powers (Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito) and other drawings appeared practically everywhere: in newspapers, magazines (including Time (cover caricature of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in December 1941), Esquire, and Collier's), on posters, postcards and stamps, in secular, religious and military publications, on public and military buildings. He also produced advertisements for Coca-Cola and U.S. Steel, and exhibited in the galleries of M. Knodler & Co., Andre Seligmann, Inc., Messrs. Wildenstein & Co., the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Brooklyn Museum, the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and the White House. More than 25 exhibitions were staged altogether in the United States during the war years. At the end of the war, in 1945, his drawing Two Down and One to Go was used in a propaganda film calling American soldiers to the final assault on Japan. According to the Esquire magazine, the posters with Szyk's drawings enjoyed even bigger popularity with American soldiers than pin-up girls put on the walls of American military bases. In total, more than one million American soldiers saw Szyk's in reproduction at some 500 locations administered by the United Services Organization.

In recognition for his services in the fight against Nazism, Fascism, and the Japanese aggression, Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady and wife of President F. D. Roosevelt, wrote about Szyk several times in her newspaper column, My Day. On January 8, 1943, she wrote:

"...I had a few minutes to stop in to see an exhibition of war satires and miniatures by Arthur Szyk at the Seligman Galleries on East 57th Street. This exhibition is sponsored by the Writers' War Board. I know of no other miniaturist doing quite this kind of work. In its way it fights the war against Hitlerism as truly as any of us who cannot actually be on the fighting fronts today."

Social justice on the home front
Though Szyk was a fierce opponent of Nazi Germany and the rest of the Axis Powers, he did not avoid topics or themes which presented the Allies in a less favourable light. Szyk criticized the United Kingdom for its policies in the Middle East, especially its practice of imposing limits on Jewish emigration to Palestine. Szyk also criticized the apparent passivity of American-Jewish organizations towards the tragedy of their European fellows. He supported the work of Hillel Kook, also known as Peter Bergson, a member of the Zionist organization Irgun, who mounted a publicity campaign in American society whose aim was to draw the American public's attention to the fate of the European Jews. Szyk illustrated for example full-page advertisements (sometimes with copy by screenwriter Ben Hecht) which were published in The New York Times. The artist also spoke against racial tensions in the United States and criticized the fact that the black population did not have the same rights as the whites. In one of his drawings, there are two American soldiers – one black and one white – escorting German prisoners of war. When the white one asks the black: "And what would you do with Hitler?", the black one answers: "I would have made him a Negro and dropped him somewhere in the U.S.A."

Szyk's attitude to his mother country, Poland, was very interesting and full of contradictions. Even though he regarded himself both as Jewish and Polish and showed the suffering of the Poles (not only those of Jewish descent) in the Russian-occupied Polish territories in his drawings, even though he benefited from financial support of the Polish government-in-exile (at least at the beginning of the war), Szyk sometimes presented that government in a negative light, especially at the end of World War II. In a controversial drawing dated 1944, a group of debating Polish politicians are shown as opponents of Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, the "Bolshevik agent" Winston Churchill, and at the same time adherents of Father Charles Coughlin, known for his antisemitic views, as well as "(national) democracy" and "(national) socialism." Around 1943, Szyk, a former participant in the Polish–Soviet War, also completely changed his opinions on the Soviet Union. His drawing from 1944 already depicts outright a soldier of the Moscow-supported People's Army of Poland next to a Red Army soldier, both liberating Poland.

Whatever his political views, in July 1942 Szyk took the time to look after the family of the Polish diplomat and poet General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski when the General committed suicide. He invited his wife Bronisława Wieniawa-Długoszowska and daughter Zuzanna to stay with his family for six weeks in the country.

Book illustrations
Even though caricatures dominated Szyk's artistic output during the war, he was still engaged in other areas of art. In 1940, the American publisher George Macy, who saw his illustrations for the Haggadah at an exhibition in London, asked him to illustrate the Rubaiyat, a collection of poems of the Iranian poet Omar Khayyám. In 1943, the artist started work on illustrations for the Book of Job, published in 1946; he also illustrated collections of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Andersen's Fairy Tales, 1945) and Charles Perrault (Mother Goose, which was not published).

Postwar: final years
In 1945, Arthur Szyk and his family moved from New York City to New Canaan, Connecticut, where he lived till the end of his life. The end of the war released him from the duty to fight Nazism through his caricatures; a large collection of drawings from the war period was published by the Heritage Press in 1946 in book form as Ink and Blood: A Book of Drawings. The artist returned to book illustrations, working for example on The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and, most notably, books telling Bible stories, such as Pathways through the Bible by Mortimer J. Cohen (1946), The Book of Job (1946), The Book of Ruth (1947), The Ten Commandments (1947), The Story of Joseph and his Brothers (1949). Some of the books illustrated by Szyk were also published posthumously, including The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1954) and The Book of Esther (1974). He was also commissioned by Canadian entrepreneur and stamp connoisseur, Kasimir Bileski, to create illustrations for the Visual History of Nations (or United Nations) series of stamps; though the project never came to fruition, Szyk did design stamp album frontispieces for more than a dozen countries, including the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Israel.

Arthur Szyk died of a heart attack in New Canaan on September 13, 1951. He was eulogized by Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, who said:

"'Arthur Szyk was a great artist. Endowed by God with a rare sensitivity to beauty and with a rare skill in giving it graphic representation, he used his talents to create a series of works of splendor and magnificence that will live forever in the history of art. But Arthur Szyk was more than a great artist. He was a great man, a champion of justice, a fearless warrior in the cause of every humanitarian endeavor. His art was his tool and he used it brilliantly. It was in his hands a weapon of struggle with which he fought for the causes close to his heart'; and by Judge Simon H. Rifkind, who said: 'The Arthur Szyk whom the world knows, the Arthur Szyk of the wondrous color, and of the beautiful design, that Arthur Szyk whom the world mourns today—he is indeed not dead at all. How can he be when the Arthur Szyk who is known to mankind lives and is immortal and will remain immortal as long as the love of truth and beauty prevails among mankind?'"

Legacy
The immense popularity Szyk enjoyed in the United States and Europe in his lifetime gradually flagged after his death. In 1980, Polish-American writer and journalist S.L. Shneiderman published the first biography of Szyk. From the 1960s to the end of the 1980s, the artist's works were seldom exhibited in American museums. This changed in 1991 when the non-profit organization The Arthur Szyk Society was established in Orange County, California. The founder of the Society, George Gooche, rediscovered Szyk's works and staged the exhibition "Arthur Szyk – Illuminator" in Los Angeles. In 1997, the seat of the Society was transferred to Burlingame, California, and a new Board of Trustees was elected, headed by rabbi, curator and antiquarian Irvin Ungar. The Society's work resulted in staging many exhibitions of Szyk's works in American cities in the 1990s and 2000s. The Society also maintains a large educational website, holds lectures, and produces publications on the artist. In April 2017, the Ungar collection of his work, consisting of 450 paintings, drawings and sketches, was purchased for $10.1 million by the University of California, Berkeley's Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, through a donation by Taube Philanthropies, the largest single monetary gift to acquire art in UC Berkeley history.

Szyk's recent solo exhibitions include:
 * "Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art", New-York Historical Society, New York City (September 15, 2017 - January 21, 2018)
 * "Arthur Szyk and the Art of the Haggadah", Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (February 13 to June 29, 2014)
 * "Arthur Szyk: Miniature Paintings and Modern Illuminations", California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (December 10, 2010 to March 27, 2011)
 * "A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk", Holocaust Museum Houston (October 20, 2008 – February 8, 2009)
 * "Arthur Szyk – Drawing Against National Socialism and Terror", Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), Berlin, Germany (August 29, 2008 – January 4, 2009)
 * "The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (April 10 – October 14, 2002)
 * "Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom", Library of Congress (December 9, 1999 – May 6, 2000)
 * "Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk", Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago (August 16, 1998 – February 28, 1999) —later traveled throughout Poland: Warsaw, Jewish Historical Institute; Łódź, Museum of the City of Łódź; and Kraków, Center for Jewish Culture.
 * "In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art & Human Rights (1926-1951)" The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley (January 28, 2020 – present)

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This topic and drawing board are not, IMO, suitably different to merit two separate articles. As drawing board is the more common name, I recommend that the information in this article be merged into the drawing board article. Thanks. Junkyardprince | Tark 18:28, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think that the drawing board article could be enlarged, but not by merging it with another article. The drawing table article deals essentially with an antique made mostly of wood by craftsmen (or relatively cheaper but still costly modern copies) and used just as much for writing letters, novels and the like, and reading. It is meant for a home setting. The drawing board or drafting board is a specialized tool used in offices for making engineering or architecture plans. This is really not the same object. --AlainV 01:32, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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The Wheeler-Thanhauser Orchid Collection and Species Bank is located within Christy Woods, an 17-acre (73,000 m2) property located on the southwest corner of the Ball State University campus in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Donated to Ball State University in 1971, the orchid collection is the largest college maintained orchid species collection in the United States.

History
In 2014, the Dr. Joe and Alice Rinard Orchid Greenhouse opened after a $1.35 million new construction to house the Wheeler-Thanhauser Orchid Collection. The building was mostly funded by Joe Rinard. The greenhouse is named after Rinard and his wife, Alice.

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Packer Collegiate Institute

The Packer Collegiate Institute is an independent college preparatory school for students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Formerly the Brooklyn Female Academy, Packer has been located at 170 Joralemon Street in the historic district of Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City since its founding in 1845.

History
In Brooklyn Heights in 1845, a committee of landowners and merchants interested in improving the education of girls raised funds for a new school, which they called the Brooklyn Female Academy, and which they located on Joralemon Street. Although the school was successful, both financially and educationally, with steadily increasing enrollment, on January 1, 1853, the building caught fire and burned to the ground.

The Academy received an offer from Harriet L. Packer, the widow of William S. Packer, to give $65,000 towards rebuilding the school if it were named after her late husband; this would be the largest gift ever made for the education of girls. The new building was designed by Minard Lafever, a noted designer of Brooklyn churches, and opened in November 1854. The chapel is notable for having stained-glass Tiffany windows.

After the Episcopal parish of St. Ann's, whose James Renwick-designed church at Livingston and Clinton street was around the corner from the school, moved into the abandoned Holy Trinity Church on Montague Street – also designed by Minard Lafever – in 1969, the church was sold to the school. A modernist connecting building, including a glass atrium which can be seen from Livingston Street, was added in 2003, designed by Hugh Hardy of H3 Collaborative Architecture.

Until 1972 Packer was primarily a girls’ school, with boys attending only kindergarten through fourth grade while girls and young women were enrolled through high school as well as a two-year junior college. The junior college program is no longer operational.

A 5-year-plan completed in 2017 changed many facets of student life at Packer. A traditional 5-weekday schedule was replaced with a 7-day rotating schedule with "bands" instead of periods, the maximum number of classes a day changed from 6 to 5, the last class of every day was extended from 50 minutes to 90 minutes (with each of a students' maximum 7 total classes – down from 8 – having a 90-minute period once during each cycle), the addition of a time of day called "community" dedicated to clubs and other activities so that each student had a lunchtime, and the revamping of the advising program, study hall, and independent reading. This scheduling system was altered due to COVID-19, but has since returned.

Early in 2018, Headmaster Bruce Dennis (1949–2022) announced that he would retire at the end of the 2018–2019 school year. On October 3, 2018, Packer announced that Dr. Jennifer Weyburn had been selected to become headmaster after Dr. Dennis's retirement.

Technology
Packer has a laptop program and the institution describes itself as a "laptop school where technology is woven into the curriculum at all levels." The guidelines of the program state that every student must have a laptop from fifth grade through graduation in twelfth grade. Met with much skepticism at first, Time reports the thinking behind the laptop program in detail below:

The wireless Packer would be very different from the old Packer. All assignments, handouts, work sheets, what-have-you would be distributed electronically. Students would take notes on their laptops in class, then take their laptops home and do their homework on them. To turn in an assignment, they would simply drag and drop it into the appropriate folder, where the teacher could wirelessly retrieve it. Voila: the paperless classroom.

Arts
Packer has visual arts, photography, media arts, dance, drama, orchestra, brass choir, chamber music, wind ensemble, chorus and a Middle and Upper School jazz band. Among Packer's facilities lies the Janet Clinton Performing Arts Center, which features instrumental and choral music classrooms, a dance studio and the Pratt Theater. This performance space supports theatrical productions throughout the year.

Notable alumni and faculty

 * Frances Julia Barnes (1846–1920) – temperance reformer
 * Judi Barrett, 1958 – author (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)
 * Mary C.C. Bradford – educator and suffragist
 * Cornelia Chase Brant – Dean of New York Medical College and Hospital for Women
 * Mary Bunting, 1929 – president of Radcliffe College and first woman appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission
 * Lucy Burns – suffragist
 * Caroline Chesebro' (1825–1873) – writer
 * Elizabeth Gaffney – editor and author (Metropolis: A Novel)
 * Virginia Granbery – painter
 * Ethan Hawke – attended the 7th grade – actor (Reality Bites, Dead Poets Society), writer and producer
 * Virginia Heinlein, 1935 – wife of and co-author with Robert A. Heinlein
 * Tadzio Koelb, novelist and critic
 * Malcolm D. Lee, 1988 – film and television director (Roll Bounce, Everybody Hates Chris, Undercover Brother)
 * Minnie Dessau Louis (1841–1922), educator
 * Lois Lowry (born 1937), 1956 – author (Number the Stars, The Giver)
 * Dorothy Marckwald (1898–1986), interior designer
 * Pauline Van de Graaf Orr (1861–1955), educator and suffragist
 * Mary Orwen (1913–2005), abstract artist, art instructor
 * Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), 1890 – author, civil rights leader, co-founder and Executive Secretary of the NAACP
 * Fanny Purdy Palmer (1839–1923) – author, lecturer, activist
 * Dora Knowlton Ranous (1859–1916) – author, editor, translator, book reviewer
 * Lincoln Restler, 2002 – politician
 * Darrian Robinson, 2012 – chess player
 * Dare Rose, 2020 – swimmer
 * Rosanna Scotto, 1976 – television news anchor, FOX 5 News (New York City)
 * Helen Sewell (1896–1957) – illustrator and writer
 * Emily Elizabeth Veeder – novelist, poet
 * Deborah Ann Woll, 2003 – actress (True Blood and Daredevil)
 * Mary Woronov, 1962 – member of Andy Warhol's Factory.
 * Lois Wilson, 1912 – founder of Al-Anon, and wife of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
 * Elisabeth Irwin, 1897 — founder of Little Red Schoolhouse
 * Marie Zimmermann — designer and maker of jewelry and metalwork

In popular culture

 * Packer can be seen as a set for the CW television series Gossip Girl in multiple episodes throughout the first three seasons, as both interior and exterior locations.

title: Packer Collegiate Institute


text: Category:Education in Wales

title: Category:Education in Wales


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Princess Camilla

Princess Camilla may refer to:

 * Camilla, Princess of Wales, wife and later queen consort of Charles III
 * Princess Camilla, Duchess of Castro

title: Princess Camilla


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User talk:Cyrius/Archive/2005/2/

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Archives:
 * User talk:Cyrius/Archive/2004/1/
 * User talk:Cyrius/Archive/2004/2/
 * User talk:Cyrius/Archive/2004/3/
 * User talk:Cyrius/Archive/2004/4/
 * User talk:Cyrius/Archive/2005/1/

re: User:Cyrius/monobook.css
I don't want to make any major changes with the monobook design, but I HATE the left and right justification and would rather have the text only left justified (like the Classic skin?). Would you be able to help me do that? Blank Verse  ∅  16:31, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You're not reading the rules very well
The page we've been talking about says:

 * You might want to delete a redirect if one or more of the following conditions is met:

Then it lists conditions. Then it says:

 * However, avoid deleting such redirects if:

What does "such" mean? It means redirects meeting one or more of the conditions. One of the conditions was that the target page does not exist. So it's saying to avoid deleting (among others) redirects whose target does not exist if certain other conditions are met. One of those is that the redirect whose target does not exist may help avoid later creation of duplicate articles by directing a singular to a plural, a misspelling to a correct spelling, a misnomer to a correct term, etc. Therefore the long-standing policy does say that under some conditions, redirects whose targets do not exist should not be considered "broken" and should not be deleted. My edits that you called a "policy change" were therefore merely a change in emphasis, to draw attention to the exceptions lest they be neglected in haste.

As for you "netiquette" comments, writing EVERYTHING in capitals is "shouting", according to a long-standing netiquette custom. Some people did that because they learned to use the internet in about 1970 or so, when everything had to be written in capitals. Thus in 1990 or so, it had long been an atavism. To write a few isolated words in all capitals for emphasis is not an instance of that sort of thing. Michael Hardy 22:59, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Broken redirects
Speedy deletion policy states that broken redirects are candidates for speedy deletion. The only exception is if they have a useful history. Your continued ignoring of this fact in favor of such insults as impugning my reading comprehension ability has now resulted in me filing you away as unable to be reasoned with.

Congratulations. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:38, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry; that's just not what the policy says. I've given arguments, and you've just made assertions, so you're the one who's not willing to reason. Michael Hardy 23:44, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That is exactly what the policy says, except when you try to impose your unilateral changes. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:58, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * As I said, the long-standing policy mentions certain exceptions. I am not the one who put those there.  I just called attention to them, because a number of people -- you among them -- seem to have neglected them. Michael Hardy 01:06, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Those are exceptions to the rules for deleting working redirects. Broken redirects are still candidates for speedy deletion. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:17, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * That's the part where you're reading incorrectly. It clearly says to delete a redirect if certain conditions hold, and then says "However such redirects should not be deleted if..."  What could the phrase "such redirects" refer to, if not the items in the preceeding list?  One of those is redirects with non-existent targets.  I instituted no policy change; only a clarification. Michael Hardy 01:23, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The preceeding list does not (directly) contain the case of broken redirects. "Certain redirects can be deleted immediately without holding a vote or discussion." I find your interpretation that the exceptions must apply to broken redirects hard to fathom. If the exceptions apply, then no broken redirects can ever be deleted because "someone" (you) "finds them useful". This is obviously not the intent of their inclusion in speedy deletion policy.

As you know well, I never said I find ALL redirects with non-existent targets useful. I said specifically WHICH ONES I find useful and WHY. Why is it so hard for you to admit that I have repeatedly specified those things? Michael Hardy 20:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The distinction between useful redirect with non-existent targets and useless redirects with non-existent targets is that the former help prevent inadvertent later creation of duplicate articles, by redirecting a plural to a singuler, or a misspelling to a correct spelling, or a misnomer to a correct term, or one synonym to another. Are you saying those do not serve a useful purpose? Just recently I redirected factorial experiments to factorial experiment when the latter page did not exist (it still doesn't, as far as I know). If someone were otherwise to decide to write an article titled factorial experiments, and another person decided to write one titled factorial experiment, then possibly neither would know the other existed, and then they could not cooperate. With the redirect, the person attempting to created the factorial experiments article could either write one titled factorial experiment or, if considered approrpiate, redirect that page to the plural and put the article there. Michael Hardy 01:51, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * What value they may or may not have in preventing duplicate articles (I remain unconvinced) is outweighed by their breaking of our core navigational convention.

What is that convention and why is it more important than preventing duplicates by means of such redirect? Michael Hardy 02:00, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * There's only one navigational convention that is affected by the existence or non-existence of an article. Blue links mean an article exists, red links mean it doesn't.

So if the software would be altered so that a link to a redirect page whose target does not exist were red, would you then hold that there is nothing to "outweigh" the value of redirects that prevent later creation of duplicate articles? Michael Hardy 21:33, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Cyrius! FYI, there's new data up at the Wiki Syntax Project that covers redirects to non-existent targets; (The reason I'm leaving this note on your talk page is that you showed an interest in this problem category during the last batch). -- All the best, Nickj (t) 09:51, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
Why the capital letters in "Hurricane Scale"? Michael Hardy 22:11 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)
 * It's part of a quasi-proper name, not merely descriptive. -- Cyrius | Talk 22:48, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

 * But Richter scale, Beaufort scale, etc., are in lower case on Wikipedia, and the many thousands of Wikipedia pages titled X's theorem, X's law, X's theory, X's hypothesis, X's axiom, X's lemma, X's corollary, X's method, etc., use lower-case. Michael Hardy 22:02, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Invitation to join U.S. Regions wikiproject
I'd like extend an invitation for you to join the U.S. Regions wikiproject. If you want to join please add you name to participants, and review the curent policy as well as the current proposal and debate on talk. Thanks. -JCarriker 12:12, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

Hurricane project
I know you've made a lot of articles on hurricanes, so I wanted to ask if you were interested, or know a helpful source to help, in making articles for all named storms? A long the lines of your Hurricane Frances (disambiguation) article. I thought about starting to take down notes on storms, etc. Do you think this is wise? I'll start going through the NHC archives and writing down storm name and information. --Golbez 09:08, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * I went and did it after noticing you were on leave; not all that bad. I have articles for about half of the 1953-1979 storms done (if only redirects to the season page) and all 1979-2005 storms. --Golbez 08:19, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Welcome back, and too, congrats on your graduation. :) As I said, every storm name used since 1953 now has either an article, a disambiguation or a redirect associated with it. Furthermore, first-uses of names are now remarked in the name lists of each season. My next step is to go to each season page and put at least the type of storm for each name. (After 1979 this isn't a problem, but 53-79, there's no indication as to what strength a storm reached). Then I'll do all the same stuff for eastern pacific. You have it in your plans to at some point put a short description for storms on the pre-1979 pages, so I'll leave you in charge of that one. ;) It's nice to see you back, just in time too :)

 * While I'm here, how familiar are you with how Wikinews works? I submitted a story on Adrian, and I think we should stay on top of the storms this year with appropriate Wikinews stories. (Adrian, not just because it formed, but because it is threatening land already) --Golbez 14:57, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

superscript 2 and superscript 3
Hi - You've answered some technical questions before, and I thought you might be able to help with this one. I've been attempting to resolve a question about superscript 2 and superscript 3 unsuccessfully for several months. Latest attempt is now on the village pump technical archive here, Village_pump_(technical)/Archive. Do you know who needs to change what to get the javascript suggestion for these characters changed on the edit page? Thanks. -- Rick Block 17:15, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Any idea who might know, if you don't? Thanks. -- Rick Block 14:48, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

 * The old archive is here. I think ² and ³ (similar to ¹) are the right characters.  I could put this on the talk page now that I know where it is.  If you want to just change it that'd be fine too (I can't since I'm not an admin).  Thanks.  -- Rick Block 22:25, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

 * It's actually 4 months to the day from the original query, which was posted here - but all's well that ends well. I certainly understand individual users taking breaks, but I'd think Village pump (technical) should be better monitored.  In any event, thanks very much for taking care of this. -- Rick Block 23:24, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congrats on your graduation, and good luck with the job search. — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:39, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Too Long?
Cyrius, I'm writing an article called Florida's Worst Hurricanes giving a brief summery of, well just look at the title. But I'm finding out that Florida has had more bad ones than I originally thought and it's getting a little long...too long in my opinion (its up to 2,000 words already and I'm only in the 1960's). Any tips on how to shorten it?

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 23:32, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

See, what I'm trying to do here is to consolidate the storms into one article that can inform people about all the major storms that have struck the state in the past century, instead of them having to hop from article to article. Also, many important storms don't even have articles for them at all. Are you saying that's not possible to do to a reasonable extent?

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 00:13, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Someone should say something
--InShaneee 04:27, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for pointing me that copyvio is not a reasons for delete, I'll now act accordingly. drini ☎ 21:03, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Beveridge redirect
In this case, I created the page and that typo appears nowhere else. I guess it does no harm to leave the page but it is really a waste. Nothing links to it and no one will probably ever commit that same typo. I think that the rule really says to leave common mispellings or alternates.

image deletions
Hi, i did check the Criteria for deltion page on images. it states ( An image which is a redundant (all pixels the same or scaled-down) copy of something else on Wikipedia and as long as all inward links have been changed to the image being retained.) I am only doing redundant images, and no articles pointing to it, with the included research. I am only attempting to help by following the guidelines. Thank you. <> Who 04:52, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * However, if you prefer me to use Images and media for deletion, I shall do that. <> Who 05:00, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information, I shall do it the that way with listing on the appropriate page. <> Who 05:04, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Move Talk:Wiki?
I'm not sure why that move happened... I moved Template:Wiki to User:Nauseam/Wiki (because WP:TFD consensus was to userfy that template)... maybe Talk:Wiki came along because Template talk:Wiki doesn't exist? Radiant_* 07:42, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes. I'll see if I can duplicate it (of course it may be my mistake instead, but I checked and the template was indeed moved...) Radiant_* 18:02, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * It turns out that this is a bug. When userfying Template:Special, I first created Talk:Special, and it indeed turns out to have been moved along! I'll bugzilla it. Radiant_* 08:13, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Will be fixed in next release, according to Brion Vibber. Radiant_* 10:25, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Quotable quotes
I've had your quotes page on my watchlist for months now. I love it. I have my own quotes page which I very rarely add to. I would steal some of the ones from your page, but why should I when I know where to find them, right? I just added a new one tonight, bringing the total to eight quotes. That's when I realized that I had quoted you three of those eight times. Are you really that witty or do we just have a similar warped sense of humor? :-) SWAdair | Talk  06:09, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Yes, sarcasm would explain it.  Sometimes I wonder why I'm subscribed to the mailing list.  I usually read the first post of each new thread, and the first few responses.  After that, each thread usually either becomes an exercise in repetition, redundancy, going in circles and beating a dead horse, or else goes completely off topic.  I figure I delete at least 80% of the posts without reading them.  If I read more of the posts to the mailing list, I might have recongized that one.  SWAdair | Talk  06:38, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Freifunk
Article has been rewriiten by User:Sven-ola. I have replaced my delete nomination vote with a "no vote". Can you reread to reconsider or affirm your delete vote? Sjakkalle 08:08, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Terri Schiavo Talk
> repair what looks like accidental blanking

Yes, that's exactly what it was. It's happened to me about three times already this last week. I caught two of them and fixed them before anyone noticed. I never even noticed this one. I don't know what causes it. I had it figured out and caught about another six instances before they got saved, but that one didn't even act like any of the others.

Anyway, thanks for fixing it. How embarrassing. Duckecho 03:17, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image speedy deletions
Please, see my reply on my talk page. helix84 08:55, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please, see my reply on my talk page. helix84 18:17, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please, see my reply on my talk page. helix84 00:27, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please, see my reply on my talk page. Would you at last suggest changes to the procedure I used besides revoking it? helix84 19:23, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please, see my reply on my talk page. helix84 20:14, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What procedure do you suggest for English Wikipedia? helix84 20:30, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I invite you to join a discussion about policy I proposed at Wikipedia_talk:Images_and_media_for_deletion. If you know other wikipedians which are concerned, invite them, too. helix84 15:49, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Piney Woods
I'd say its a wetland subset of the Piney Woods, like Caddo Lake. Have you seen the Texan Collaboration of the Month started by Shem? You might be interested in it. Also regarding vague geographic regions, let me take this opprotunity to again extend to you an invitation to join WikiProject U.S. regions. Please also keep track of the changes at Template:Texas, UH Collegian's goals of updatind Census information are admirable, but I believe he's taking it way too far. Excluding, Galveston from a list of Texas' major cities? Ofcourse, from my POV his/her removal of Marshall from the long established Longview-Marshall metro borders on heresy. He/she seems to be from the Houston area, and as a fellow provincial I'm requesting your assistance in the debate. -JCarriker 10:11, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Texas COTM
I know "lapse" means stop doing something, so my edit didn't make sense. That sentence still sounds funny, though. --Myles Long 21:28, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Logging in
You answered me yesterday on my logging in problem. Why is it relevant when it stopped working? Do you know of anyone else this has ever happened to, how was the problem fixed?Fenice

Your revert on Village_pump (miscellaneous)
Well that makes two of us. I don't know what you are up to either. Never mind, it wasn't a big deal. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:22, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh weird. Thanks for spotting that.  Dunno how it happened. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:02, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Texas History
I couldn't stand it any more! See:History of Texas- JCarriker 12:31, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Galveston Hurricane of 1900
This was my first experiment with spoken articles (personally don't think I really have the voice for it), so it's totally possible I messed something up. Worked before uploading, but I hadn't checked after, so thanks for the heads up. --Laura Scudder | Talk 16:05, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmm...Audacity plays it, but not VLC. If you have any insights they'd be welcome, otherwise I'll just fuss with it some until I figure out what's going on.  --Laura Scudder | Talk 16:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I think I fixed it, but let me know if it still doens't work for you. --Laura Scudder | Talk 17:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board
I have now reopened the notice board, if you are interested in contributing new topics, or in nominating articles for the Collaboration of the Week, which also received a revamp. Please post on the project's talk page if you show interest. Mike H 02:43, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Correction
I stand corrected re: reverts. Thanks for blocking him. Fuzheado | Talk 1 July 2005 16:01 (UTC)

1994 Atlantic hurricane season
Can you check and verify the addition an anon made about a Subtropical storm? I've looked at the NHC archives but for the life of me I can't find the season summary PDFs that I've seen on there before :/ hrm. --Golbez July 4, 2005 02:20 (UTC)

Meetup
I'm thinking about a meetup for people in our part of the country. Since it would be a central location, a cheap destination, and I think I could get some favorable incentives from the chamber of commerece for people who come, I'm thinking of Marshall for the venue. Though other options certainly could be considered and no time has been set. Do you think you'd be interested? -JCarriker July 6, 2005 11:21 (UTC)

Qatar
Thanks for your answer at WP:RD about Qatar. I am grateful. PedanticallySpeaking July 8, 2005 20:47 (UTC)

Revert
Reverting suspected vandalism; check your page history and if it was valid, please reinsert with my apologies. -- Essjay ·  Talk 06:10, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Southwest Airlines in Houston

 * Thanks. That's already been settled. --Myles Long 17:18, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

New user category
I have created a couple of new user categories modeled after UK Wikipedians. One of them is for our generation, born in the 1980s or 1990s. Please consider listing yourself under Category:Millennial Wikipedians Thanks. -JCarriker 18:43, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

re Template talk: Current
I think you were perfectly right to protect the template, and your explanation is equally OK for me, but it is true that the reason you stated was a personal one. ("I'm sick of ...") Maybe if you had said "Too many edits and reverts without discussion. Please reach a consensus first before introducing changes to the template." or something like this, there would have been less room for accusations. Anyway, happy to see I'm not the only one who thinks this is just WP:LAME :) KissL 09:30, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Link
I merely opened the door. I can't help it if Rdsmith4 chose to boldly step through. Joyous (talk) 00:42, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Thank You!
Thanks for the help and editing you gave to the article i submitted "Angus Mac Kaskill". I am new but hopefully not completely clueless and any help I get while taking tentative "first steps" in this wonderful medium are very much appreciated. Wikipedia is the most important information resource I have yet found on the World Wide Web. Keep up the good work!Hamster Sandwich 00:56, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Google Earth/Google Maps
In a village pump discussion you said it wasn't ok to link to google maps. Can you explain that? SchmuckyTheCat 15:56, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Hurricane articles
Personally, I think these should go up for VFD, but I am not big on hurricane history so I think it's up to you:

 * Catastrophic Florida Hurricanes: 1900-1960
 * Catastrophic Florida Hurricanes: 1961-present

Not only do they smack of un-Wikilike writing, the facts (like with Hurricane Dora) contradict one another when you read the aforementioned "articles" and then the hurricane article itself. Mike H (Talking is hot) 22:17, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Comunlang VFD-2
You are receiving this notice due to a consideration that has come up during a VFD for the article Comunleng. As there was no clear consensus in Comunleng's previous VfD, it has been nominated again. Please see Votes for deletion/Comunleng 2 for comments. The Literate Engineer 23:44, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Just wanted to thank you for the help you gave to me and the article i wrote "Angus Mac Kaskill". I listed you in my shout outs (for thanks) on my user page (which is admittedly very boring at the present time). But hey, I just got here. I've read the appropriate pages but still have no clue as how to add pics to my articles.Thanks again and keep up the good work! Hamster Sandwich 06:03, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

If you could help me once more
Hi! I listed you in my shout outs (for thanks) on my user page (which is admittedly very boring at the present time). But hey, I just got here. I've read the appropriate pages but still have no clue as how to add pics to my articles.Thanks again and keep up the good work! Hamster Sandwich 06:03, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Rickyboy/basin image
Yay! Didn't know you could do that. Thanks and thanks for the note. DavidH 16:27, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Kick the ass of anyone who renominates GNAA for deletion before 2007
I am surprised this is taking place. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 01:42, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

RfC
Hi Cyrius, what was your reason for restoring Requests for comment/Tlotz? SlimVirgin (talk) 02:17, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Albrecht Prinz von Croy and Talk:Albrecht Prinz von Croy (again, sorry)
Hello Cyrius, I agreed with your moving of the comments to the vfd-talk but unfortunately the IP did not. This diff seems to me like you voted (and the next diff like the IP reverted your vote) but I'm not sure because of the editing-time of your two edits (6.12 and 6.13) (regarding the history it seems like you yourself reversed your vote - perhaps a bug, but I don't know which one's the buggy view ;) ). Anyway - perhaps you may have another look on this vfd again? Thanks and CU --Rax 10:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Rickyboy
14:55, July 21, 2005 Ed Poor unblocked User:Rickyboy (promised to be good) Uncle Ed 19:48, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Much gratitude
User:Cyrius/Quotes. :-) Uncle Ed 00:56, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

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Bill O'Herlihy

Bill O'Herlihy (26 September 1938 – 25 May 2015) was an Irish television broadcaster and public relations executive. He was best known for his broadcasts for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), primarily in politics and sport. A presenter for ten FIFA World Cups and ten Summer Olympic Games, O'Herlihy was noted for his "Okey doke" catchphrase. He retired from RTÉ following its coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. According to the Irish Examiner newspaper, "with the possible exception of Michael O'Hehir, Bill O'Herlihy was the broadcaster most universally welcome in Irish homes over the last 50 years."

Early life
Born and raised in Glasheen in Cork city, O'Herlihy was the son of a local government official and the grandson of William O'Herlihy, a Cork Examiner news editor. He was educated at Glasheen boys' national school and later at St. Finbarr's College, Farranferris.

Print journalism
After finishing his schooling at fifteen, O'Herlihy followed his grandfather into journalism and secured a job in the reading room of the Cork Examiner. He was only seventeen years old when he subsequently became sub-editor of the Evening Echo, a position he held for five years. He also graduated to the positions of news, features and sports reporter.

Broadcasting
In the early 1960s O'Herlihy began his broadcasting career when he started to do local soccer reports from Cork for Radio Éireann. In 1965 he made his first television broadcast in a programme commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania off the Cork coast. After three years O'Herlihy was asked to join RTÉ's current affairs programme 7 Days to add the required field-reporting skills to the studio-based interviews. The programme had a reputation for its hard-hitting investigative reporting and he reported on many varying stories from illegal fishing in Cork to the outbreak of the crisis in Northern Ireland. In November 1970 the 7 Days programme came into controversy when O'Herlihy reported a story on illegal money lending. The report was unconventional as it was one of the first television pieces to use hidden cameras, it claimed the government were not responding to illegal moneylending. A tribunal of inquiry would follow, and O'Herlihy was forced to move away from current affairs.

Following this controversy, while O'Herlihy wasn't sacked (as he had fifteen months left on his contract with RTÉ), he was moved to the RTÉ Sports department - where he worked under Michael O'Hehir, who disliked O'Herlihy and his broadcasting style. In spite of this O'Herlihy fronted RTÉ's television coverage of the Olympic Games that year. He also became involved in the production of various sports programmes.

O'Herlihy was not long in the RTÉ Sports department when he became a regular presenter for such programmes as Sunday Sport and Sports Stadium. In 1978 he became RTÉ Soccer host alongside Eamon Dunphy, in 1984 John Giles joined the panel and Liam Brady did in 1998. Since 1974 Bill became RTÉ's chief sports presenter for such events as all Olympic Games until 2012, FIFA World Cups until 2014, UEFA European Football Championships until 2012 and European and World Track and Field Championships. He hosted RTÉ highlights of the Ryder Cup in 2006 when it was at the K Club in Ireland and continued to present coverage of Ireland's soccer internationals for RTÉ, along with Eamon Dunphy, Johnny Giles and Liam Brady.

He hosted RTÉ's coverage of rugby union in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, when RTÉ attained the rights to cover the English Premier League in 1992, Tom McGurk took over as host of RTÉ's coverage of rugby union. O'Herlihy covered the Premier League, Irish Internationals and the Champions League before dropping the Premier League in 2008. He continued to cover the Olympic Games and International Athletic Championships such as the European & World Athletics. He presented the first Rugby World Cup on RTÉ television in 1987 and, with Jim Carney, co-presented the first edition of The Sunday Game in 1979.

In 2012, while covering Chloe Magee's progress at the 2012 Summer Olympics O'Herlihy remarked that badminton was once considered "a mainly Protestant sport". RTÉ subsequently received a number of complaints, and while Magee criticised the remarks, the argument was made that the incident inadvertently reflected a complex historical reality.

O'Herlihy presented RTÉ Sport's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, his ninth FIFA World Cup. He fronted 18 European Championships and FIFA World Cups for RTÉ, the last of which came in 2014. This proved to be the final tournament with O'Herlihy at the helm; he retired at its conclusion and died the following year.

At the time of his death, O'Herlihy was working on a sports version of Reeling in the Years, which RTÉ immediately cancelled.

Public relations and political advice
As a result of the fallout of the 7 Days tribunal, O'Herlihy appeared to quit journalism altogether in 1973, and established a new public relations company called Public Relations of Ireland (O'Herlihy Communications). In 2004, the Sunday Independent reported that O'Herlihy had lobbied on behalf of an Irish company, Bula Resources which was adversely affected by sanctions on Iraq. Environmental lobbygroup and charity An Taisce also claim that O'Herlihy's company, on behalf of a client, was involved in lobbying for controversial rezoning of land at Cherrywood in Dublin. O'Herlihy's PR consultancy was also involved in lobbying for the tobacco industry in Ireland, which came under scrutiny for attempts to influence government health and budget policy.

O'Herlihy had grown up in a family that had strongly supported the Fine Gael party and, in 1977, he became a media adviser to the party. He fulfilled that role for much of the next decade and was one of Garret FitzGerald's "handlers" during his two terms as Taoiseach in the 1980s.

Death
O'Herlihy attended the 12th Irish Film & Television Awards on Sunday 24 May 2015. He died the following day at the age of 76 nearly a year after his retirement. He was survived by his wife Hillary and daughters Jill and Sally. Johnny Giles, Liam Brady and Eamon Dunphy appeared on The Late Late Show in tribute later that week.

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Hillhouse, Hamilton

Hillhouse is a council-built housing estate on the western side of the town of Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Information
Hillhouse is a large housing estate with a population of 10,000, one of several housing estates in Hamilton. Originally a farm leading to East Kilbride, Hillhouse was supposed to be assigned to neighbouring Blantyre at its first days of establishment, but council director Aaron Cowden signed a deal with the council to give the neighbourhood a Hamilton postcode to have more money to build houses in the area.

Local amenities include a community centre, library, a church hosting various clubs and groups, and the Jock Stein Sports Centre and playing fields. There is also a local Catholic parish church dedicated to Saint Ninian.

There was an adjoining industrial estate of the same name, which included a Philips lighting factory; in the 1960s this was a large facility employing 2300, one of the area's primary sources of work, but by 2015 this figure had shrunk to less than 100. the philips factory has since closed and the ground is being used for housing.

Also in Hillhouse is the Burnbank Bowling Club, where Jock Stein (raised in nearby Burnbank) was the club's second champion in 1953; more recently it is the home club of Margaret Letham, a gold medal winner in the sport at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

The most "famous son" of the estate is the Rangers, and Scottish international football player Davie Cooper who hailed from Brankholm Brae.

The Reverend Scott J Brown CBE, formerly The Chaplain of the Fleet, Royal Navy, was brought up in Fleming Way. He attended Udston Primary School.

Transport
The nearest railway station is Hamilton West which provides quick transport to Glasgow and Dalmuir to the west and Motherwell and Larkhall to the east. The area is served by the 226 bus service to fairhill, operated by First Glasgow which goes around the estate on the "Hillhouse Loop" and the 250 bus service operated by Whitelaws Coaches from East Kilbride Shopping Centre to Larkhall. Hillhouse was previously served by the x1 which offered transport to Glasgow or Earnock but this service was controversially scrapped to the dismay of many locals.

Education
Hillhouse has two non-denominational primary schools, Townhill Primary School & Udston Primary School, and one denominational school, St Ninian's Primary School. Hillhouse has no high school of its own, instead pupils wishing to go to a non-denominational school attend Calderside Academy in Blantyre (formed in a merger between Earnock High School and Blantyre High School), while others of the Catholic faith attend John Ogilvie High School or Holy Cross High School, Hamilton.

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WKTV

WKTV (channel 2) is a television station in Utica, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC, CBS, and The CW Plus. Owned by Heartland Media, the station has studios on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield (with a Utica postal address), and its transmitter is located in the Eatonville section of Fairfield.

History
The station launched on December 1, 1949, as Utica's first television station, operating on very high frequency (VHF) channel 13. It was the 93rd television station in the United States to sign on. This made Utica one of the smallest cities in the nation with a television station. It was owned by Copper City Broadcasting Corporation, controlled by Myron Kallet, along with WKAL (1450 AM). As the only station in its area, it was affiliated with all four major networks at the time: NBC, DuMont, ABC, and CBS, with NBC being its primary affiliation. It lost DuMont in 1956 following the network's closure, and lost CBS soon afterward following a dispute with the network; after that, WHEN-TV/WTVH in Syracuse served as the default CBS affiliate for the Utica area until 2015.

The station was a major beneficiary of a quirk in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s plan for allocating stations. In the early days of broadcast television, there were twelve VHF channels available and 69 UHF channels (later reduced to 55 in 1983). The VHF bands were more desirable because they carried longer distances and many television receivers lacked optional UHF tuners. Since there were only twelve VHF channels available, there were limitations as to how closely the stations could be spaced.

After the FCC's Sixth Report and Order ended the license freeze and opened the UHF band in 1952, it devised a plan for allocating VHF licenses. Under this plan, almost all of the country would be able to receive two commercial VHF channels plus one noncommercial channel. Most of the rest of the country ("1/2") would be able to receive a third VHF channel. Other areas would be designated as "UHF islands" since they were too close to larger cities for VHF service. The "2" networks became CBS and NBC, "+1" represented non-commercial educational stations, and "1/2" became ABC (which was the weakest network usually winding up with the UHF allocation where no VHF was available).

However, Utica was sandwiched between Albany, New York (channels 4 (later 6) and 10, later joined by 13) to the east, Syracuse (channels 3, 5, and 9) to the west, Binghamton (channel 12) to the south, and Watertown (channel 7) and Burlington–Plattsburgh (channels 3 and 5) to the north. This resulted in the Utica market having only one VHF license; WKTV was fortunate enough to gain that license, and as a result remained the only television station based in Utica for its first 21 years of existence. Although there were no allocations of channels 2, 8, and 11 in the immediate area, channel 2 was occupied in Buffalo, channel 11 was occupied in New York City, and channel 8 was occupied in New Haven and later Rochester, which were all too close to Utica to reallocate at the time.

In 1951, a young local radio announcer named Dick Clark joined the staff at WKTV. He quickly gathered a loyal following. Clark's father was the manager of Utica radio station WRUN (1150 AM, later to become WUTI and shut down in 2013; and 104.3 FM, now WFRG-FM), and his son wanted to avoid the name recognition factor. To avoid confusion, the younger Clark became known on-air as "Dick Clay". Eventually, Clark would anchor the weeknight newscasts on WKTV (replacing Robert Earle, who would later host the GE College Bowl). In 1952, Clark departed WKTV for WFIL AM-FM-TV in Philadelphia.

In 1958, Kallet sold WKTV and WKAL to a group led by Paul Harron and Gordon Gray, who had previously owned WIBG AM-FM in Philadelphia and WPFH in Wilmington, Delaware. Soon afterward, on January 1, 1959, WKTV moved to VHF channel 2 in a dial realignment, which allowed WTRI (channel 35) in Albany to move to channel 13 (where it became WAST, now WNYT), and (along with the earlier move of a channel 13 allocation in Hamilton, Ontario to channel 11, becoming CHCH-TV) led to a channel 13 allocation being assigned to Rochester (which signed on in 1962 as WOKR and is now WHAM-TV). With the switch, WKTV upgraded its signal and began to cover a fairly wide area stretching from as far south as the Catskill Mountains, as far east as The Berkshires in Western Massachusetts and into Southern Ontario, Canada. The Harron/Gray group, Mid-New York Broadcasting, sold WKAL in 1961, but retained WKTV, and in subsequent years acquired several additional stations, including KAUZ-TV in Wichita Falls, Texas, and WMTW-FM-TV on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Harron also operated a chain of cable systems in the Northeastern United States, including a system in Utica, Central New York Cable TV (later Harron Cable TV) built in 1963. The company eventually became known as Harron Communications Corporation.

WKTV enjoyed a monopoly in the Utica television market until February 28, 1970, when WUTR signed on as an ABC affiliate. WKTV then became affiliated solely with NBC, and is now one of the network's longest-serving affiliates. In the mid-1980s, the FCC ruled on cross-ownership of broadcast, cable and print media in the same market. The FCC grandfathered Harron. A few years later Harron acquired a cable system in nearby Canajoharie, New York, then owned by a local appliance dealer. The Canajoharie plant extended well within a 20 mi contour of WKTV's Middleville transmitter site. The FCC revoked Harron's grandfather status and required divestiture of either its cable or television assets in the region. In 1992, Harron sold controlling interest in WKTV to Smith Broadcasting (the cable system was later sold to Adelphia and is now part of Charter Communications). In 2004, Boston Ventures, acquired the Smith Broadcasting stations, and formed Smith Media, LLC, after founder Bob Smith died in 2003.

WKTV has been broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 29 since May 2006 and in high definition starting with the 2008 Summer Olympics. The station signed off its analog signal on February 18, 2009, and began broadcasting exclusively in digital. This left some viewers without a reachable signal and others looking for an outdoor UHF antenna. To continue serving those areas, WKTV began simulcasting its weekday newscasts at noon and 5 p.m. on WUTQ (1550 AM, now WUSP) and WADR (1480 AM, now WRCK). In May 2011, the radio stations began simulcasting the second hour of WKTV's weekday morning show. On March 16, 2012, WUTQ-FM (100.7 FM), then simulcasting WUTQ/WRCK, began simulcasting the newscasts. WUTQ/WRCK broke from the simulcast later that year when WUTQ-FM owner Ken Roser sold the stations to Good Guys Broadcasting Corporation. WUTQ-FM continues to simulcast WKTV's 5 p.m. newscast and its weekday morning show; however, it now simulcasts the first hour due to an expansion of its popular morning talk show Talk Of The Town.

Due to an ongoing retransmission dispute, Time Warner Cable replaced WKTV with fellow NBC affiliate WBRE-TV from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 2010. WKTV-DT2 was also dropped and eventually replaced by HBO Family. On the same date, rival WUTR began to be seen in the Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York, market on Time Warner Cable after sister station WVNY was dropped for the same reason. Nexstar Broadcasting Group, owner of WBRE, and Mission Broadcasting (a broadcaster whose stations are operated by Nexstar), owner of WUTR, opposed the use of their stations as replacement programming and requested the Time Warner Cable franchise for the affected regions be revoked. WKTV and Time Warner reached an agreement, the terms of which both sides refused to reveal, on January 8, 2011, allowing WKTV and the CW subchannel to return to the cable system the next day. (Ironically, WVNY would later be sold to Mission Broadcasting, making it a sister station to WUTR.)

On October 1, 2013, Smith Media reached a deal to sell WKTV to Heartland Media, a newly-formed company owned by former Gray Television executive Bob Prather. The sale was completed on March 20, 2014. WKTV launched a third digital subchannel eight months later on November 10, carrying programming from MeTV.

WKTV-DT2
WKTV-DT2 is the CBS-affiliated second digital subchannel of WKTV, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 2.2.

WKTV-DT2 signed on in September 1998 alongside the creation of The WB 100+. WKTV partnered with the group to launch a cable-only WB affiliate. This new service replaced superstation WPIX from New York City on Harron Cable (then Adelphia, later Time Warner, now Spectrum) systems in the Mohawk Valley (which had been carried dating back to its days as an independent station) and it used the "WBU"  (standing for "The WB Utica") call sign in a fictional manner. In January 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would merge and form The CW Television Network, from which affiliates were to be drawn from existing WB and UPN affiliates. "WBU" was chosen to become the CW affiliate for Utica, while UPN affiliate WPNY-LP associated itself with MyNetworkTV (a network started by Fox, whose Utica affiliate WFXV was a sister station to WPNY-LP) for UPN or WB affiliates not chosen by The CW. Responding to the selection, WKTV launched a new second digital subchannel to simulcast "WBU" and offer off-air access to CW programming, which begun along with the CW on September 18. The station then began using the WKTV-DT2 calls in an official manner. Originally, this subchannel was known on-air as "Central New York's CW" but was eventually re-branded to "Central New York's CW 11" (and more recently "The CW 11") to reflect its location on Time Warner Cable systems. Ultimately, the new subchannel replaced "WBU" altogether.

On October 26, 2015, WKTV announced that it would change WKTV-DT2's affiliation from The CW to CBS on November 22 (rebranding the subchannel as "CBS Utica"). The new affiliation marks the first time CBS has had an affiliate in Utica since the end of WKTV's secondary affiliation with the network in the mid-1950s, as well as the first time CBS has ever had a full-time affiliate in Utica. (Prior to this, WTVH in Syracuse and WBNG in Binghamton served as the default CBS affiliates via cable for the Utica market; WTVH was able to be picked up over-the-air in portions of the Utica market before it shut down its analog signal.) Within a month of the subchannel's launch, WKTV-DT2 had replaced WTVH on Time Warner Cable channel 5 in Utica proper, while DirecTV later added WKTV-DT2 to its local packages, as did Dish Network shortly after the new year. On July 1, 2016, WKTV-DT2 was re-launched in the rest of the Utica DMA when the station replaced WTVH in Herkimer County and WBNG in Otsego County. However, as a result of viewer complaints in Otsego County, WBNG was restored to Time Warner Cable systems in that area (alongside WKTV-DT2) on January 25, 2017.

In May 2016, WKTV-DT2 upgraded their over-the-air digital signal into 720p high definition; thus offering a locally operated in-market over-the-air HD feed for CBS for the first time in the Utica–Rome market.

WKTV-DT3
WKTV-DT3 is the CW+-affiliated third digital subchannel of WKTV, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 2.3. The subchannel is branded as "Central New York's CW 11" in reference to its channel position on Charter Spectrum cable systems in the area.

The station signed on November 10, 2014, as an affiliate of MeTV. As recommended by Weigel Broadcasting, MeTV's owners, WKTV-DT3 cleared the entire MeTV schedule. After much deliberation between WKTV and Time Warner Cable, WKTV-DT3 was added to Time Warner Cable's Utica line-up in the summer of 2015 on channel 1245.

On October 26, 2015, concurrent with WKTV's announcement that WKTV-DT2 would be joining CBS, it was also announced that WKTV-DT3 would switch its affiliation from MeTV to The CW (WKTV-DT2's former affiliation), while MeTV programs would be moved to a newly created fourth subchannel. Like WKTV-DT2's switch to CBS, both changes also took effect on November 22. WKTV-DT3 subsequently inherited WKTV-DT2's cable channel position, as well as its programming from The CW Plus, while the new fourth subchannel immediately took over WKTV-DT3's former cable channel position.

In May 2016, WKTV-DT3 upgraded its over-the-air digital signal into 720p high definition; thus offering over-the-air access to The CW's HD feed for the first time in the Utica–Rome market.

News operation
The station has been a ratings stronghold in the Mohawk Valley for its entire history. For the most part, this is because the station had no local competition before WUTR's 1970 sign on; in addition, WUTR aired no local newscasts from August 2003 through September 2011, again leaving WKTV as the lone news operation in the market. In September 2001, WKTV entered into a news share agreement with Fox affiliate WFXV (then owned by Quorum Broadcasting), leading to a 10 p.m. newscast on that station. Known as NewsChannel 2 on Fox, the show aired every night for a half-hour and was virtually identical to WKTV's regular newscasts. The broadcast generally originated live from WKTV's studios; however, there were frequently technical problems beaming the show to WFXV's facility on Greenfield Road in Rome through microwave relay. Sometimes, WKTV personnel had to record the newscast in advance and physically deliver the videotape to WFXV; the stations' studios are next to each other on top of Smith Hill in Deerfield, New York.

When the outsourcing contract ended on August 31, 2004, WFXV decided not to renew it (by this point, WFXV was owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group and operated Mission Broadcasting's WUTR through a joint sales agreement). The next day, the 10 p.m. newscast moved to cable-exclusive "WBU", with the weekend edition dropped; the newscast continued on the station, which became WKTV-DT2 in 2006, until WKTV-DT2 switched affiliations to CBS on November 22, 2015. At that point, the newscast moved to WKTV-DT3, where it continues to air to this day.

Newscasts on WKTV officially upgraded to true high definition on January 29, 2015, making WKTV the third station in the Utica area (behind WUTR and WFXV) to switch. Its HD conversion was a two-step process, beginning with the construction of a new set, which debuted on August 4, 2014, and continuing with the replacement of its news and engineering equipment with HD-ready versions.

During weather forecast segments, WKTV features live NOAA National Weather Service Doppler weather radar data from several regional sites. On-air, this system is known as "StormTracker 2 Live Doppler".

WKTV-DT2
WKTV-DT2 currently simulcasts the 6 a.m. half-hour of its parent station's morning newscast, the first half-hour of its noon newscast, and its 11 p.m. newscast; the second half-hour of the noon newscast only airs on WKTV to allow WKTV-DT2 to air The Young and the Restless in CBS's recommended 12:30 p.m. time slot. Although plans for WKTV to produce exclusive newscasts for the subchannel using CBS resources have yet to be realized, WKTV also produces periodic specials that air on the subchannel.

WKTV-DT3
When WKTV-DT3 first signed on, it did not air any newscasts in favor of MeTV programming. However, on November 23, 2015, WKTV-DT3 began airing the 10 p.m. newscast that had previously aired on WKTV-DT2 as a CW affiliate. On January 25, 2016, WKTV-DT3 also added a 7 a.m. newscast, making it the first station in the Utica market to carry local news at that time. Both newscasts air every weekday for a half-hour and are virtually identical to WKTV's regular newscasts.

Notable former staff

 * Dick Clark – anchor (1951–1952, deceased)
 * Robert Earle – announcer/anchor (1949–1951, later host of GE College Bowl, deceased)
 * Donna Hanover – former wife of Rudy Giuliani
 * Ryan Nobles – sports reporter (late 1990's); now a congressional correspondent for NBC News

Controversy
On September 28, 2016, WKTV was subjected to two broadcast signal intrusions at 6:17 p.m. and 10:38 p.m. respectively. At the time, FEMA was conducting tests for the Emergency Alert System's test and development message aggregators, using lines from Dr. Seuss's children's books as place holder messages. WKTV's EAS device was mistakenly viewing the testing environment and produced a warning for hazardous substances with the place holder message of "Would you. Could you. On a train?", a quote from Green Eggs and Ham. WKTV issued a retraction and apology over its Twitter feed and website later that night, initially saying it was a mistake on FEMA's behalf before retracting and stating FEMA was uncertain of cause at the time. Coincidentally, a train crash occurred the following morning in Hoboken, New Jersey, killing one and injuring 114. In questioning by Snopes, FEMA ultimately claimed responsibility for the intrusions and that they had no prior knowledge of the disaster.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

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Tang Chao

Tang Chao may refer to:

 * Tang dynasty, or Tang Chao in Chinese
 * Tang Dynasty (band), Chinese band
 * Tang Chao (physicist), Chinese physicist

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