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Talk:YouGov

Reflecting recent acquisitions & wider updates
Hi all,

Andrew here. I have been engaging with editors on updating the format of the article to improve its clarity and add notable events in the company’s history. I recently collaborated with Spintendo who kindly advised me further on which high-quality sources I should look to reference within the suggested updates. Thank you Spintendo!

Based on Spintendo’s comments above, I have further refined my suggested changes, also making sure to include the very recent completion of the GfK deal (an addition on what was discussed above), already mentioned in the article.

For any new updates I have removed content based on the sources not approved by Spintendo and have replaced with more authorative sources everywhere else. I believe these updates to be suitable for Wikipedia and improve the readability of the article with notable information. Please find this latest version below. I’ve also included a side-by-side comparison in the hope this helps.

The editor community has been very helpful thus far, so thanks in advance.

Thanks. asfarmer 11:43, 12 January 2024 (GMT)

YouGov plc is a British international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm headquartered in the UK with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Stephan Shakespeare and future UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi formed YouGov in the United Kingdom in May 2000. In 2001, they engaged BBC political analyst Peter Kellner, who became chairman and then, from 2007 to 2016, President.

In its initial years, YouGov hired a number a notable commentators to write columns on its website, including future UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and presenter John Humphrys. In April 2005, YouGov became a public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. In the same year, the company launched BrandIndex which tracks public opinion on consumer brands using daily polls.

In 2006, YouGov began expanding outside the UK through acquisitions and acquired Dubai-based research firm Siraj for $1.2 million plus an eventual earn out of $600,000. In 2007, polling firm Polimetrix, headed by Stanford University professor Doug Rivers, was acquired by the company. Also in 2007, they added Palo Alto, California-based US research firm Polimetrix for approximately $17 million, Scandinavian firm Zapera for $8 million and German firm Psychonomics for $20 million. In 2009 and 2010, YouGov expanded its US operations with two acquisitions; first buying Princeton, New Jersey research firm Clear Horizons for $600,000 plus an earn out of $2.7 million, then Connecticut-based research firm Harrison Group for $6 million with a $7 million earnout.

In 2010, YouGov bought a 20% stake of sports media data company SMG Insight. In 2018, the company acquired the remaining 80% of SMG Insight's stock. The new business was rebranded YouGov Sport. Ahead of the 2010 U.K General Election, YouGov entered an exclusive contract to provide political polls to The Times. The business also launched TellYouGov, which combined analysis drawing from social media data and polling results. The business continues to analyse social media, now primarily via YouGov Signal.

In 2011, YouGov acquired Portland, Oregon-based firm Definitive Insights for $1 million with a potential $2 million earn out and also made its first organic expansion by opening an office in Paris, France. In January 2014, YouGov entered the Asia Pacific region with the acquisition of Decision Fuel for an estimated consideration of approximately £5 million. Also in 2014, YouGov launched Profiles, combining data points from its most active panellists showing how the public engages with traditional and new media channels.

In 2016, Peter Kellner stepped down as the company’s Chairman. In this year, YouGov began to use a methodology known as multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) in its political polling. It’s first public use was during the United Kingdom’s referendum on EU membership. YouGov has used this approach around elections since.

In the 2017 UK General Election, YouGov’s projection was an outlier. While most pollsters projected large Conservative majorities, YouGov correctly predicted a hung parliament. YouGov modelling rightly projected a number of shock results, including in Kensington and Canterbury. In December 2017, YouGov purchased Galaxy Research to establish a presence in Australia. Galaxy Research was an Australian market research company that provided opinion polling for state and federal politics. Its polls were published in News Limited tabloid newspapers, including the Herald Sun, Courier-Mail, and The Daily Telegraph (in contrast to Newspoll data, which is presented in the News Limited broadsheet newspaper The Australian). . In 2020, YouGov launched YouGov Turkey, the result of an acquisition of Istanbul-based online research agency Wizsight. The business also polled extensively around the Coronavirus pandemic, working with Imperial College London to track how populations responded to the virus and associated policies.

In 2021, the company completed acquisitions of Canada-based Charlton Insights, Swiss-based LINK Marketing Services AG, and Australia-headquartered Faster Horses. Other acquisitions in 2021 included Lean App which was bought to improve YouGov’s services with financial transaction data, and Rezonence which offers users access to premium content in exchange for taking part in a survey. The business also launched YouGov Safe, giving insight into consumer online behaviour by encouraging consumers to share their data in a GDPR-friendly manner.

In July 2023, YouGov agreed to acquire the consumer panel division of German market research company GfK for €315 million. The next month, YouGov chairman Shakespeare said the company was considering either moving its listing in the UK to the US, or establishing a secondary listing in the US. "I think the markets are better at supporting companies like ours there," he said in an interview with the Financial Times. The company later clarified that it was “not being considered in the near term.” In January 2024, YouGov concluded the acquisition of GfK’s consumer panel, and also acquired Chicago-based data company KnowledgeHound in a separate deal.

{{TextDiff|1=YouGov plc is a British international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm headquartered in the UK with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. In 2007, it acquired the US company Polimetrix, and since December 2017, it has owned Galaxy Research, an Australian market research company.

History
Stephan Shakespeare and future UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi formed YouGov in the United Kingdom in May 2000. In 2001, they engaged BBC political analyst Peter Kellner, who became chairman and then, from 2007 to 2016, President.

In April 2005, YouGov became a public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

In 2007, polling firm Polimetrix, headed by Stanford University professor Doug Rivers, was acquired by the company.

Galaxy Research
Galaxy Research was an Australian market research company that provided opinion polling for state and federal politics. Its polls were published in News Limited tabloid newspapers, including the Herald Sun, Courier-Mail, and The Daily Telegraph (in contrast to Newspoll data, which is presented in the News Limited broadsheet newspaper The Australian).

In December 2017, YouGov purchased Galaxy Research to establish a presence in Australia.

Expansions
In 2006, YouGov began expanding outside the UK through acquisitions and acquired Dubai-based research firm Siraj for $1.2 million plus an eventual earn out of $600,000. In 2007, they added Palo Alto, California-based US research firm Polimetrix for approximately $17 million, Scandinavian firm Zapera for $8 million and German firm Psychonomics for $20 million. In 2009 and 2010, YouGov expanded its US operations with two acquisitions; first buying Princeton, New Jersey research firm Clear Horizons for $600,000 plus an earn out of $2.7 million, then Connecticut-based research firm Harrison Group for $6 million with a $7 million earnout. In 2011, YouGov acquired Portland, Oregon-based firm Definitive Insights for $1 million with a potential $2 million earn out. In 2011, YouGov made its first organic expansion by opening an office in Paris, France. In January 2014, YouGov entered the Asia Pacific region with the acquisition of Decision Fuel for an estimated consideration of approximately £5 million.

In 2010, YouGov bought a 20% stake of sports media data company SMG Insight. In 2018, the company acquired the remaining 80% of SMG Insight's stock. The new business was rebranded YouGov Sport.

In July 2023, YouGov agreed to acquire the consumer panel division of German market research company GfK for €315 million. The next month, YouGov chairman Shakespeare said the company was considering either moving its listing in the UK to the US, or establishing a secondary listing in the US. "I think the markets are better at supporting companies like ours there," he said in an interview with the Financial Times.

 * 2=YouGov plc is a British international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm headquartered in the UK with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

2000-2010
Stephan Shakespeare and future UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi formed YouGov in the United Kingdom in May 2000. In 2001, they engaged BBC political analyst Peter Kellner, who became chairman and then, from 2007 to 2016, President.

In its initial years, YouGov hired a number a notable commentators to write columns on its website, including future UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and presenter John Humphrys. In April 2005, YouGov became a public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange In the same year, the company launched BrandIndex which tracks public opinion on consumer brands using daily polls.

In 2006, YouGov began expanding outside the UK through acquisitions and acquired Dubai-based research firm Siraj for $1.2 million plus an eventual earn out of $600,000. In 2007, polling firm Polimetrix, headed by Stanford University professor Doug Rivers, was acquired by the company. Also in 2007, they added Palo Alto, California-based US research firm Polimetrix for approximately $17 million, Scandinavian firm Zapera for $8 million and German firm Psychonomics for $20 million. In 2009 and 2010, YouGov expanded its US operations with two acquisitions; first buying Princeton, New Jersey research firm Clear Horizons for $600,000 plus an earn out of $2.7 million, then Connecticut-based research firm Harrison Group for $6 million with a $7 million earnout.

In 2010, YouGov bought a 20% stake of sports media data company SMG Insight. In 2018, the company acquired the remaining 80% of SMG Insight's stock. The new business was rebranded YouGov Sport. Ahead of the 2010 U.K General Election, YouGov entered an exclusive contract to provide political polls to The Times. The business also launched TellYouGov, which combined analysis drawing from social media data and polling results. The business continues to analyse social media, now primarily via YouGov Signal.

2011-2020
In 2011, YouGov acquired Portland, Oregon-based firm Definitive Insights for $1 million with a potential $2 million earn out and also made its first organic expansion by opening an office in Paris, France. In January 2014, YouGov entered the Asia Pacific region with the acquisition of Decision Fuel for an estimated consideration of approximately £5 million. Also in 2014, YouGov launched Profiles, combining data points from its most active panellists showing how the public engages with traditional and new media channels.

In 2016, Peter Kellner stepped down as the company’s Chairman. In this year, YouGov began to use a methodology known as multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) in its political polling. It’s first public use was during the United Kingdom’s referendum on EU membership. YouGov has used this approach around elections since.

In the 2017 UK General Election, YouGov’s projection was an outlier. While most pollsters projected large Conservative majorities, YouGov correctly predicted a hung parliament. YouGov modelling rightly projected a number of shock results, including in Kensington and Canterbury. In December 2017, YouGov purchased Galaxy Research to establish a presence in Australia. Galaxy Research was an Australian market research company that provided opinion polling for state and federal politics. Its polls were published in News Limited tabloid newspapers, including the Herald Sun, Courier-Mail, and The Daily Telegraph (in contrast to Newspoll data, which is presented in the News Limited broadsheet newspaper The Australian). . In 2020, YouGov launched YouGov Turkey, the result of an acquisition of Istanbul-based online research agency Wizsight. The business also polled extensively around the Coronavirus pandemic, working with Imperial College London to track how populations responded to the virus and associated policies.

2021-present
In 2021, the company completed acquisitions of Canada-based Charlton Insights, Swiss-based LINK Marketing Services AG , and Australia-headquartered Faster Horses. Other acquisitions in 2021 included Lean App which was bought to improve YouGov’s services with financial transaction data. , and Rezonence which offers users access to premium content in exchange for taking part in a survey. The business also launched YouGov Safe, giving insight into consumer online behaviour by encouraging consumers to share their data in a GDPR-friendly manner.

In July 2023, YouGov agreed to acquire the consumer panel division of German market research company GfK for €315 million. The next month, YouGov chairman Shakespeare said the company was considering either moving its listing in the UK to the US, or establishing a secondary listing in the US. "I think the markets are better at supporting companies like ours there," he said in an interview with the Financial Times. The company later clarified that it was “not being considered in the near term.” In January 2024, YouGov concluded the acquisition of GfK’s consumer panel and also acquired Chicago-based data company KnowledgeHound in a separate deal. }}

Reply 13-JAN-2024
Thank you for providing the additional references. Some of these however, raise their own questions. Specifically, the AJBell, City AM and Proactive sources, none of which carry authors names. The lack of an author makes them questionable as reliable sources, and raises the question of whether these are actual news sites, or just repurposed press releases from the company. Please advise, and be sure to change the request template's answer parameter to "no" when ready to proceed. Thank you! Regards, Spintendo  16:22, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks User:Spintendo, I appreciate your further feedback and help. Regarding the sources you have pulled out, more than happy to advise. I believe all the City A.M articles are individually authored (Jessica Clark, James Warrington and Jess Jones). Regarding AJ Bell and Proactive, both of these publications use staff writers to write articles, hence the lack of byline. They are both considered reputable by the investment community, especially around transactions, like the ones I’ve sourced. The articles are also not re-uploads of press releases. More than happy to discuss these references further, in the meantime, would you be happy to action the updates backed up by the other sources, tweaking wording if you see fit?

Please note I have also archived older interactions on this talk page, in case of interest. This was due to memory issues on the page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:YouGov/Archives/2023

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Talk:KTTV (TV)

If the station is known as Fox 11, then why is this article at KTTV?? 66.32.252.70 01:28, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

People ask pointless questions.

 * Not a pointless question, but it is most definitely one that can be answered with a heaping spoonful of common sense. Mike H 15:51, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

It is somewhat of a pointless question, because many stations across have branded themselves by their network + over-the-air and/or local cable channel number (or even network/city or region, i.e. Fox Charlotte, CBS Detroit, Wisconsin's WB), and it's more commonplace in today's 500-channel universe. In fact, the Fox stations were the first to brand themselves by the network/channel number format, and it wasn't until UPN and The WB coming along in 1995 that we saw the Big Three networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC using the network/channel number format. Each television station has a certain identity they follow, and KTTV, like many others are simply letting viewers that Fox is on Channel 11, and Channel 11 is Fox. It's simple enough.

On another note, to the person(s) who are currently adding information to this entry, please use better grammar and spelling and have your facts straight when adding information. As someone who spent a lot of time researching information on KTTV, as well as a few other stations on the Los Angeles TV section, I really don't appreicate someone coming in and basically messing up what me and other people who actually care about these subjects actually took time and researched and add quality to these entries.

"Founded 1948" is after first broadcast date of 1949.

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Classical Hollywood cinema

Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era. It then became characteristic of American cinema during the Golden Age of Hollywood, between roughly 1927 (with the advent of sound film) and 1960. It eventually became the most powerful and pervasive style of filmmaking worldwide.

Similar or associated terms include classical Hollywood narrative, the Golden Age of Hollywood, Old Hollywood, and classical continuity. The period is also referred to as the studio era, which may also include films of the late silent era.

1910s–1927: Silent era and emergence of the classical style
For millennia, the only visual standard of narrative storytelling art was the theatre. Since the first narrative films in the mid-late 1890s, filmmakers have sought to capture the power of live theatre on the cinema screen. Most of these filmmakers started as directors on the late 19th-century stage, and likewise, most film actors had roots in vaudeville (e.g. The Marx Brothers ) or theatrical melodramas. Visually, early narrative films had adapted little from the stage, and their narratives had adapted very little from vaudeville and melodrama. Before the visual style which would become known as "classical continuity", scenes were filmed in full shot and used carefully choreographed staging to portray plot and character relationships. Editing technique was extremely limited, and mostly consisted of close-ups of writing on objects for their legibility.

Though lacking the reality inherent to the stage, film (unlike the stage) offers the freedom to manipulate apparent time and space, and thus create the illusion of realism – that is temporal linearity and spatial continuity. By the early 1910s, when the Lost Generation was coming of age, filmmaking was beginning to fulfill its artistic potential. In Sweden and Denmark, this period would later be known as the "Golden Age" of the film; in America, this artistic change is attributed to filmmakers like D. W. Griffith finally breaking the grip of the Edison Trust to make films independent of the manufacturing monopoly. Films worldwide began to noticeably adopt visual and narrative elements which would be found in classical Hollywood cinema. 1913 was a particularly fruitful year for the medium, as pioneering directors from several countries produced films such as The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith), Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström), and L'enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret) that set new standards for the film as a form of storytelling. It was also the year when Yevgeni Bauer (the first true film artist, according to Georges Sadoul ) started his short, but prolific, career.

In the world generally and America specifically, the influence of Griffith on filmmaking was unmatched. Equally influential were his actors in adapting their performances to the new medium. Lillian Gish, the star of film short The Mothering Heart, is particularly noted for her influence on on-screen performance techniques. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation, also starring Gish, was ground-breaking for film as a means of storytelling – a masterpiece of literary narrative with numerous innovative visual techniques. The film initiated so many advances in American cinema that it was rendered obsolete within a few years. Though 1913 was a global landmark for filmmaking, 1917 was primarily an American one; the era of "classical Hollywood cinema" is distinguished by a narrative and visual style which began to dominate the film medium in America by 1917.

1927–1960: Sound era and the Golden Age of Hollywood
The narrative and visual style of classical Hollywood style developed further after the transition to sound-film production. The primary changes in American filmmaking came from the film industry itself, with the height of the studio system. This mode of production, with its reigning star system promoted by several key studios, had preceded sound by several years. By mid-1920, most of the prominent American directors and actors, who had worked independently since the early 1910s, had to become a part of the new studio system to continue to work.

The beginning of the sound era itself is ambiguously defined. To some, it began with The Jazz Singer, which was released in 1927, when the Interbellum Generation came of age and increased box-office profits for films as sound was introduced to feature films. To others, the era began in 1929, when the silent age had definitively ended. Most Hollywood pictures from the late 1920s to 1960s adhered closely to a genre — Western, slapstick comedy, musical, animated cartoon, and biopic (biographical picture) — and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio. For instance, Cedric Gibbons and Herbert Stothart always worked on MGM films; Alfred Newman worked at 20th Century Fox for twenty years; Cecil B. DeMille's films were almost all made at Paramount Pictures; and director Henry King's films were mostly made for 20th Century Fox. Similarly, actors were mostly contract players. Film historians and critics note that it took about a decade for films to adapt to sound and return to the level of artistic quality of the silents, which they did in the late 1930s when the Greatest Generation came of age.

Many great works of cinema that emerged from this period were of highly regimented filmmaking. One reason this was possible is that, as so many films were made, not every one had to be a big hit. A studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script and relatively unknown actors. This was the case with Citizen Kane (1941), directed by Orson Welles and regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. Other strong-willed directors, like Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Capra, battled the studios in order to achieve their artistic visions. The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as The Wizard of Oz; Gone with the Wind; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Stagecoach; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Destry Rides Again; Young Mr. Lincoln; Wuthering Heights; Only Angels Have Wings; Ninotchka; Beau Geste; Babes in Arms; Gunga Din; The Women; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; and The Roaring Twenties.

Style
The visual-narrative style of classical Hollywood cinema, as elaborated by David Bordwell, was heavily influenced by the ideas of the Renaissance and its resurgence of mankind as the focal point. It is distinguished at three general levels: devices, systems, and the relations of systems.

Devices
The devices most inherent to classical Hollywood cinema are those of continuity editing. This includes the 180-degree rule, one of the major visual-spatial elements of continuity editing. The 180-degree rule keeps with the "photographed play" style by creating an imaginary 180-degree axis between the viewer and the shot, allowing viewers to clearly orient themselves within the position and direction of action in a scene. According to the 30-degree rule, cuts in the angle that the scene is viewed from must be significant enough for the viewer to understand the purpose of a change in perspective. Cuts that do not adhere to the 30-degree rule, known as jump cuts, are disruptive to the illusion of temporal continuity between shots. The 180-degree and 30-degree rules are elementary guidelines in filmmaking that preceded the official start of the classical era by over a decade, as seen in the pioneering 1902 French film A Trip to the Moon. Cutting techniques in classical continuity editing serve to help establish or maintain continuity, as in the cross cut, which establishes the concurrence of action in different locations. Jump cuts are allowed in the form of the axial cut, which does not change the angle of shooting at all, but has the clear purpose of showing a perspective closer or farther from the subject, and therefore does not interfere with temporal continuity.

Narrative logic
Classical narration progresses always through psychological motivation, i.e., by the will of a human character and its struggle with obstacles towards a defined goal. This narrative element is commonly composed of a primary narrative (e.g. a romance) intertwined with a secondary narrative or narratives. This narrative is structured with an unmistakable beginning, middle and end, and generally there is a distinct resolution. Utilizing actors, events, causal effects, main points, and secondary points are basic characteristics of this type of narrative. The characters in classical Hollywood cinema have clearly definable traits, are active, and very goal oriented. They are causal agents motivated by psychological rather than social concerns. The narrative is a chain of cause and effect with causal agents – in classical style, events do not occur randomly.

Cinematic time and space
Time in classical Hollywood is continuous, linear, and uniform, since non-linearity calls attention to the illusory workings of the medium. The only permissible manipulation of time in this format is the flashback. It is mostly used to introduce a memory sequence of a character, e.g., Casablanca.

The greatest rule of classical continuity regarding space is object permanence: the viewer must believe that the scene exists outside the shot of the cinematic frame to maintain the picture's realism. The treatment of space in classical Hollywood strives to overcome or conceal the two-dimensionality of film ("invisible style") and is strongly centered upon the human body. The majority of shots in a classical film focus on gestures or facial expressions (medium-long and medium shots). André Bazin once compared classical film to a photographed play in that the events seem to exist objectively and that cameras only give us the best view of the whole play.

This treatment of space consists of four main aspects: centering, balancing, frontality, and depth. Persons or objects of significance are mostly in the center part of the picture frame and never out of focus. Balancing refers to the visual composition, i. e., characters are evenly distributed throughout the frame. The action is subtly addressed towards the spectator (frontality) and set, lighting (mostly three-point lighting, especially high-key lighting), and costumes are designed to separate foreground from the background (depth).

Legacy
The New Hollywood of the mid-1960s to early 1980s was influenced by the romanticism of the classical era, as was the French New Wave.

Major figures from classical Hollywood cinema
These were recognized on the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history. As of 2024, Sophia Loren (89) is the only living star listed.

 * Chico Marx (1887–1961)
 * Harpo Marx (1888–1964)
 * Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
 * Groucho Marx (1890–1977)
 * Mary Pickford (1892–1979)
 * Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973)
 * Mae West (1893–1980)
 * Lillian Gish (1893–1993)
 * Buster Keaton (1895–1966)
 * Fred Astaire (1899–1987)
 * James Cagney (1899–1986)
 * Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957)
 * Spencer Tracy (1900–1967)
 * Clark Gable (1901–1960)
 * Gary Cooper (1901–1961)
 * Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)
 * Zeppo Marx (1901–1979)
 * Claudette Colbert (1903–1996)
 * Cary Grant (1904–1986)
 * Greta Garbo (1905–1990)
 * Henry Fonda (1905–1982)
 * Joan Crawford (died 1977)
 * Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
 * Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003)
 * John Wayne (1907–1979)
 * Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990)
 * Bette Davis (1908–1989)
 * Carole Lombard (1908–1942)
 * James Stewart (1908–1997)
 * Jean Harlow (1911–1937)
 * Ginger Rogers (1911–1995)
 * Gene Kelly (1912–1996)
 * Vivien Leigh (1913–1967)
 * Burt Lancaster (1913–1994)
 * Orson Welles (1915–1985)
 * Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982)
 * Gregory Peck (1916–2003)
 * Kirk Douglas (1916–2020)
 * Robert Mitchum (1917–1997)
 * William Holden (1918–1981)
 * Rita Hayworth (1918–1987)
 * Judy Garland (1922–1969)
 * Ava Gardner (1922–1990)
 * Lauren Bacall (1924–2014)
 * Marlon Brando (1924–2004)
 * Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)
 * Sidney Poitier (1927–2022)
 * Shirley Temple (1928–2014)
 * Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993)
 * Grace Kelly (1929–1982)
 * James Dean (1931–1955)
 * Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011)
 * Sophia Loren (born 1934)

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Changes to News and History (facts removed?)
Can anyone offer justification for the removal of data in these two changes? Were the facts incorrect? If not, I suggest the ones that were relevant to the article (Including news times and initial broadcasting dates) be replaced.
 * 06:43, 8 August 2005 Blueboy96 (→News)
 * 06:42, 8 August 2005 Blueboy96 (→History)
 * --Tonsofpcs 05:23, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

"Fox" or "FOX"?
I noticed some revert wars regarding the Fox branding on several articles on Fox-owned stations. The official name of the network is not all uppercase, but that is how the company prefers it.

So, do we call it "Fox" or "FOX"? You decide. CoolKatt number 99999 02:19, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

 * It is just plain "Fox". The word Fox, which was derived from the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, is just that -- a word, not an acronym or an initialism (unless they suddenly prefer to be known as FBC, for Fox Broadcasting Company).  The network itself can use uppercase letters all they want for their logos, but it has always been plain old Fox.

 * Of all the things David Levy and I have disagreed over, we are in sync on this one (see my talk page). Rollosmokes 07:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Callsign Meaning
Doesn't the callsign mean What New Yorkers Watch? ~ Trisreed my talk my contribs 09:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

 * That's just a slogan. The call letters were derived from the former WNEW-TV call sign, with the "Y" replacing the "E" as Metromedia retained WNEW-AM and WNEW-FM after the sale of their television stations to News Corporation.  I don't watch WNYW very much, but I believe the "What New Yorkers Watch" slogan has been placed in the background since they implemented the new Fox News Channel theme.  Rollosmokes 18:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks ~ Trisreed my talk my contribs 03:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Mark Joyella
Does anyone know why Mark Joyella dosen't work with GDNY anymore? MoChan 23:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, they asked him to take a paycut for 2 more years and declined.

"It's 10 o'clock"
the following is the actual email correspondance between Stuart Elliot the current source and Mel Epstein the creator of the famour public service announcment.

Stuart---here's the true origin of WNEW-TV's (it'll always be those pre-Murdoch call letters to me): In March of 1969, I was On-Air Promotion Director for the station. Our truly gifted General Manager, Robert Bennett, made a rare appearance to the promo department and requested that I create a viewer-related message to air after the then mandatory ten o'clock station identification and before the news came on. His words were "I need you to come up with something warm and community-minded to air just before we go into the news...something about "it's ten o'clock---'." I said "How about it's ten o'clock do you know where your kids are?" Bob said "make it children instead of kids and put it on tonight." Please note that the original copy was "It's ten o'clock, do you know where your children are?" I'm not certain when the change to "It's ten p.m...." occurred. That's the real story. I know....I still have the original sheet of paper it was typed on. And my bank account knows because in order to avoid Writer's Guild compensation, the station called me a "Creative Consultant" for this particular effort. Please feel free to contact me. My best-- Mel Epstein

dear mel thanks so much for the email and the information. the people i talked to at the station -- and i always think of it as WNEW-TV, too -- said that practically all their records were lost after the change to the murdoch ownership. they also had trouble tracking down who the kids are that are appearing in the current version of the promo...i think the new york post finally identified the boy (who is now like 20). all best stuart elliott —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Omegalion (talk • contribs) 17:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC).

Recent Changes...
...made on June 5 are as follows:

1) The "Former Personalities" section has been renamed "Notable alumni" and, along with the Reporters section, has been reformatted with a no-borders, two-column layout (I couldn't think of another way to describe it). I tried to leave as many **notable** names as possible, and added two more in a subsequent edit.  I also added links to outside websites to a few non-Wikilinked names (e.g. Naamua Delaney's bio from iVillage Live's website, and Bill McCreary's bio from his own website).  This should eliminate some length from this article.  I may try this format in other New York television station articles (and perhaps at WRKS-FM and WFAN as well) in the near future.

2) As per What Wikipedia is not, the newscast schedule, though it is a personal favorite of mine, has been removed.

3) Both the "In Popular Culture" (added by MasterA113) and the "Newscast Titles" sections have been removed. These separate sections are redundant.

That's all for now. Rollosmokes 07:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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Lists
I am removing the list of alumni, it appears as a second list in its own space. I am ending up correcting mistakes in both lists. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 08:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

WNYW/WNYW News team merge?
I have sighted a tag at the top saying it has been suggested that the two articles be merged. Why didn't anyone do this? I can, but I don't know how to merge articles, or is this something only the administrators can do? Sean90 01:08, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Someone created those articles, and similar ones for other New York television stations. I tried to have those articles deleted, but the consensus was to keep them.  Personally, the information should remain within the main station article and not in a stand-alone article.  Believe me, I would have merged them all myself, but I don't want to incur the wrath of any jilted editors or admins, so any merge action should be done by-the-book.  Rollosmokes 03:16, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Point-Counterpoint
I thought this was spoofed in Kentucky Fried Movie, not SNL? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Takeshi357 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

No, Point-Counterpoint on SNL was a spoof of the "60 Minutes" segments with James J. Kilpatrick (conservative) against Shana Alexander (liberal). Dan Aykroyd ("you ignorant slut!") took the part of Kilpatrick, and Jane Curtin, Alexander. Also, Dr. Abend appeared well before 1975. A frequent nemesis was Theodore Sorensen (JFK's speechwriter). 69.121.5.37 (talk) 20:29, 11 July 2008 (UTC)captcrisis

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WTIC in HARTFORD, CT (not a place that get's WNYW) forces Comcast to remove Channel 5 from New Haven area cable.
Why no mention of this? They had Comcast remove channel 5 as WTIC called it a "business" move. How can it be a business move if people in Hartford could not get channel 5? I will tell you what is going on. It involves Boston, Comcast and NECN. They do not like CT being in the NYC area and they want to force us into their New England ideal. Comcast created and owns this NECN channel that no one watches, and WTIC has a partnetship with the Hartford Tribune, which has a partnership with NECN! The goal is to remove all NYC stations from CT if they can help it. Of course Fairfield County cannot be touched, but if Comcast get's their hands on Cablevision, there will be more problems.

I placed articles with direct EVIDENCE, but they all got taken down. This is why I cannot donate a penny to this site. Propaganda I do not like. I am putting together a hell raising movement to at least let people know why channel 5, a station that we grew up with, has been ordered taken off by channel 61 - a relativly new channel simply to rearrange our minds and to try get ratings that they never had. This is why WTIC rebrand itself as "Fox CT" and even stole channel 5's Fox logo when they had a totally different one before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.89.86 (talk) 16:43, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

List of employees
The existing list is problematic for several reasons: Overly long, poorly formatted, sprinkled with red links (many of whom are not notable), and disproportionate in context of the rest of the article. I'd propose that the whole list be removed as a start, and that any information that is important and well sourced be replaced slowly and with consensus. - Aaron Brenneman (talk) 03:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, the Carol Jenkins who worked there...does she have a wikipedia article? The link goes to a DAB page and there isn't a clear sign that one of those Carols is the one who worked for WNYM. If it *is* one, please correct the link to go to her specific page. thx :-) Bali88 (talk) 03:40, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material
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O&O
"Although it began taking on the look of an O&O in the spring of 1987..." If you know what an "O&O" is you might want to define it in the article. Arcanicus (talk) 23:46, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

What New Yorker's Watch
For those of you who keep removing the call letters meaning: The call letters for WNYW stand for: What New Yorker's Watch. That use to be a slogan for WNYW back in the 1990s, early 2000s. Whoever keeps reverting it shall be reported. ACMEWikiNet (talk) 16:50, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

 * Dear editor, you obviously have not read a comment made on this very page nearly nine years ago. Another editor had the answer, which I've copied and pasted below:

 * ''Doesn't the callsign mean What New Yorkers Watch? ~ Trisreed my talk my contribs 09:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

 * ''That's just a slogan. The call letters were derived from the former WNEW-TV call sign, with the "Y" replacing the "E" as Metromedia retained WNEW-AM and WNEW-FM after the sale of their television stations to News Corporation.  I don't watch WNYW very much, but I believe the "What New Yorkers Watch" slogan has been placed in the background since they implemented the new Fox News Channel theme.  Rollosmokes 18:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

 * 71.167.102.150 (talk) 18:43, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

 * Let's take this to WikiProject TV Stations, and we'll have a consesonus. I only read articles but I didn't start editing until 2013. So we will please take this to WikiProject TV Stations and we will discuss. ACMEWikiNet (talk) 23:39, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Can someone here provide a reliable source? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 11:01, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The Broadcasting magazine that indicates the approval of the callsign change doesn't indicate the meaning. RabbitEar.info indicates "W New York W". Spshu (talk) 14:38, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

 * "What New Yorkers Watch" has certainly been used as a slogan (and backronym) for WNYW, but that doesn't mean the callsign derives from the slogan. This can be added here with a reliable source. Qzekrom (she/her • talk) 22:44, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

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Newscast schedule

 * Weekdays
 * Good Day Wake Up – 4:30-7:00 a.m.
 * Good Day New York – 7:00-10:00 a.m.
 * The Noon – 12:00-12:30 p.m.
 * Fox 5 News at 5 – 5:00-6:00 p.m.
 * Fox 5 News at 6 – 6:00-6:30 p.m.
 * Fox 5 News at 10 – 10:00-11:00 p.m.

 * Saturdays
 * Fox 5 News at 6 – 6:00-7:00 p.m.
 * Fox 5 News at 10 – 10:00-11:00 p.m.

 * Sundays
 * Fox 5 News at 6 – 6:00-6:30 p.m.
 * Fox 5 News at 10 – 10:00-10:30 p.m.

TheGrio.TV or TheGrio?
Should it be TheGrio.TV or TheGrio? Many different TV stations use different definitions so we might need to clear this out. Is it TheGrio.TV or TheGrio? Or Alternatively The Grio or The Grio TV? I saw other affiliates using those 2 as well.

Put Votes Here
Put your votes here. Danubeball (talk) 22:30, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes (born April 16, 1984), known professionally as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature and a Language Arts/Literature teacher at Learning Prep School in West Newton, MA.

She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and has lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was fourteen years old. She has moved from her family's Sudbury home to a nearby Massachusetts town.

1999–2002: The Den of Shadows Quartet
Atwater was born in 1984 to Susan Atwater-Rhodes, a vice principal of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.

Atwater-Rhodes wrote her first novel at the age of thirteen, which earned her the title of "teen successor to Anne Rice." At the time, she said she had over a dozen stories in various stages sitting on her shelves.

In middle school, Atwater-Rhodes was questioned by an English teacher when a girl she knew proceeded to brag that Atwater-Rhodes was trying to get a book published. As it turns out, the English teacher was also a literary agent and asked to read some of her work. This teacher later represented Atwater-Rhodes.

She began writing her first novel, In the Forests of the Night, under the working title White Wine. On May 11, 1997, after her best friend, Jessica, had picked the William Blake poem, "The Tiger", the book's final title was derived. The first draft of the novel was completed in August of that year. During the writing process, Atwater-Rhodes suffered from a case of writer's block and a computer virus crashed her computer. Atwater-Rhodes spent the next four months revising the novel before she submitted the manuscript on December 31.

In mid-February 1998, Atwater-Rhodes met her agent, Tom Hart, and he would go on to contact her to announce that Random House had accepted her manuscript for publication. Hart also stated that it would be published on April 14, 1998, her fourteenth birthday. The novel, however, was not published until May 11, 1999, two years after she began working on the manuscript. The novel was written in first-person narrative, a feat she did not repeat in the three later novels. Hart stated that the novel was "the fastest sale [he] ever had."

In the Forests of the Night was a huge success, gaining the attention of millions of young readers. Atwater-Rhodes spent the year making appearances in magazines and on talk shows, including The Rosie O'Donnell Show. The novel was praised highly by critics such as Publishers Weekly who called it "Insightful...and imaginative". Also during the year Atwater-Rhodes was working on the follow-up to Forests called Demon in My View which was under the then working title Bitter Life. It was published in May 2000. The novel was well received by critics and was made an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults.

Atwater-Rhodes graduated Concord-Carlisle High in 2001, a year early because she completed her junior and senior years simultaneously. In September 2001, she released her third novel, Shattered Mirror and in May 2002 she released her fourth novel, Midnight Predator. Both novels were made an ALA Quick Pick.

2003–2007: The Kiesha'ra Series
In 2003, Atwater-Rhodes, who so far had published novels about vampires, took a change of course and began a series of books based on a world of shapeshifters that she would call The Kiesha'ra Series. All the novels in the series are told in first-person narrative, a feat she had not done since her first novel. The first volume in the set of novels was released in July 2003, titled Hawksong. Despite the change in the subject topic the book was just as successful as her previous novels being made an ALA Quick Pick, it also won the School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and was selected by Voice of Youth Advocates for their "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror". Hawksong tells the story of a young woman named Danica Shardae, who is a princess and hawk shapeshifter of the Avian court, who also narrates the story. She tells of how all she has known all her life is war and all that she wants is to put an end to it.

The second novel in The Kiesha'ra Series, Snakecharm was released in September 2004. The novel is told by Danica's husband, Zane Cobriana, and continues where Hawksong left off. The third novel in the series, Falcondance was released in September 2005 and is told by Nicias Silvermead. The story takes place nineteen years after the events of Snakecharm.

The fourth novel in the series, Wolfcry was released in September 2006. The story is told by Oliza Shardae Cobriana, the daughter of Zane and Danica. The events tell the story of her struggle trying to maintain the peace that her parents had started but she is abducted and the journey takes her through a transformation which causes her to abdicate the throne of Wyvern's Court. The fifth and final novel in the Kiesha'ra series, Wyvernhail, was released in September 2007 and takes place shortly after the events of Wolfcry. The story is told by Hai and reveals everything that was hinted at in the prior novels. All the novels in the series were well received by critics with the School Library Journey calling Hawksong "A stunning adventure." and praising Falcondance as "Uniquely drawn and...vividly described". Voice of Youth Advocates called Snakecharm "Amazing." and praised Atwater-Rhodes' writing abilities in Wolfcry stating that she "is a fantastic storyteller." while calling Wyvernhail "Compelling and well-developed." Wolfcry was giving the IRA-CBC Young Adult's Choice.

2008–2013: Return to Den of Shadows
After completing The Kiesha'ra Series, Atwater-Rhodes released her tenth novel, Persistence of Memory on December 9, 2008. She later revealed that her first four novels and Persistence of Memory are part of the Den of Shadows. To mark this, her first four novels, In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror and Midnight Predator respectively, were re-issued with new cover art for the Den of Shadows and the same four novels were released in an omnibus called The Den of Shadows Quartet on August 11, 2009.

Taking a year off, she released her eleventh novel in February 2010 entitled Token of Darkness and it became the sixth novel in the Den of Shadows. She released the sequel to her 2001 novel, Shattered Mirror entitled All Just Glass in January 2011. The novel place twenty-four hours after the events in Shattered Mirror.

On July 10, 2012, she released her thirteenth novel entitled Poison Tree. Atwater-Rhodes revealed on her official website that her fourteenth novel, Promises to Keep which was released on March 12, 2013.

2014–2016: The Maeve’ra Trilogy & First Foray Into Adult Market
In February 2012, Atwater-Rhodes announced on her official forum that she had set a contract with Random House to publish a new series called The Maeve’ra Trilogy between 2014 and 2016. The titles were also announced in the same post. Three short stories, only available as E-Books, are also being released that are related to the series.

In March 2016, she announced that her first trilogy for adults had been purchased by Harper Voyage Impulse-part of HarperCollins. The first book in the Mancer trilogy Of the Abyss was released digitally on August 30, 2016 and the paperback is set to be released on November 1, 2016. This new trilogy has no direct ties to the Den of Shadows world but Atwater-Rhodes stated in her blog that "Message board veterans may even remember some drabbles and a Reality: Nyeusigrube appearance by Umber and Hansa, characters from the first novel, Of the Abyss."

Personal life
Atwater-Rhodes attended University of Massachusetts Amherst and later graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a double major in English and psychology. She attended Northeastern University for her MAT.

On February 26 and 27, 2009, she announced on her blog that she was engaged to her partner, Mandi McCrensky, of two years. The two were married on July 4, 2010 and were married for five years. On December 2, 2015, in a blog post, Atwater-Rhodes confirmed that the divorce became official on November 1, 2015. Amelia is now in a relationship with Shira Gaudet.

In 2013, Atwater-Rhodes converted to Judaism. She has two children.

Appearances and awards
She has been featured in Seventeen, JUMP* Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The New Yorker, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and CBS This Morning. Several of her novels have been ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults; Hawksong was The School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and Voice of Youth Advocates Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Selection.

Website
Atwater-Rhodes operates, codes, and participates actively in her own website, AtwaterRhodes.com.

A previous site, The Den of Shadows, became defunct in late 2015. The original name of the site, Nyeusigrube, translates in the language of her characters as "Den of Shadows." The former site had a large collection of information on her world, characters, books, a blog, and a message board with over 2,600 users and 12,700 articles (December 2010). However, as of December 2015, most of the site was inaccessible.

The new site was announced in a blog post and on her Facebook and Twitter accounts as a replacement for the old site, and includes a blog and, formerly, a message board.

Common themes and traits

 * The books often have misunderstood, quiet, lonesome protagonists who often have supernatural abilities along with a tough exterior and interior. (Demon in My View, Midnight Predator, Persistence of Memory)
 * The protagonists are usually not pristine and clean of all evil traits. They usually have had difficult or unpredictable pasts. (Demon in My View, Midnight Predator, Falcondance, Wolfcry, Wyvernhail)
 * The antagonists are often extremely violent, politically powerful, possess supernatural powers, think highly of themselves, and have "short fuses." A prime example of this would be Jeshickah from Midnight Predator or Fala from Demon in My View.
 * Atwater-Rhodes often describes architecture and art in her work. (Wolfcry, Persistence of Memory)
 * Characters are often nonchalant about death and usually end up in a complicated romance by the story's end. (Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror, Hawksong, Falcondance, Wolfcry, Persistence of Memory)

Den of Shadows

 * 1) In the Forests of the Night (1999)
 * 2) Demon in My View (2000)
 * 3) Shattered Mirror (2001)
 * 4) Midnight Predator (2002)
 * 5) Persistence of Memory (2008)
 * 6) Token of Darkness (2010)
 * 7) All Just Glass (2011)
 * 8) Poison Tree (2012)
 * 9) Promises to Keep (2013)

Omnibus

 * The Den of Shadows Quartet – Contains In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror, and Midnight Predator. (2009)

Kiesha'ra series

 * 1) Hawksong (2003)
 * 2) Snakecharm (2004)
 * 3) Falcondance (2005)
 * 4) Wolfcry (2006)
 * 5) Wyvernhail (2007)

Omnibus

 * The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows - Contains Hawksong, Snakecharm, Falcondance, Wolfcry, and Wyvernhail. (2010)

Maeve’ra Trilogy

 * 1) Bloodwitch (2014)
 * 2) Bloodkin (2015)
 * 3) Bloodtraitor (2016)

Maeve'ra Trilogy short stories

 * The Rebel (2015)
 * The Prophet (2016)

Mancer Trilogy

 * 1) Of the Abyss (2016)
 * 2) Of the Divine (2016)
 * 3) Of the Mortal Realm (2018)

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Jason Tait

Jason Tait is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the drummer for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. Tait has also been a contributing member of Broken Social Scene and The FemBots.

Career
Tait played drums for the Painted Thin 1995 album Small Acts of Love and Rebellion; Stephen Carroll, guitarist for The Weakerthans, was also a member of Painted Thin.

Tait moved to Toronto in about 2003, and lived there for ten years. He played drums on Greg Graffin's 2006 album, Cold as the Clay. and Bob Egan's album The Glorious Decline.

In 2010 Tait set out on a cross-Canada tour with Toronto-based singer/songwriter Afie Jurvanen, who uses the stage name Bahamas.

Tait returned to Winnipeg in 2013. In 2015, he collaborated with his Weakerthans bandmate John K. Samson, Christine Fellows and Ashley Au on the music for For the Turnstiles, a dance performance by Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired by Neil Young's 1974 album On the Beach. In 2016, Tait and Fellows coproduced Samson's solo album Winter Wheat.

Currently, Tait continues to play drums for Bahamas. While on tour, he plays kits made by C&C Drums, a Gladstone, Missouri-based custom drums manufacturer whose products he endorses.

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Ammer

Ammer may refer to:

 * Amper, or called Ammer, is a river in Bavaria.
 * Ammer (Neckar), a small river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, tributary of the Neckar
 * The upper course of the river Amper in Bavaria, Germany
 * Thomas Ammer (born 1937), German historian, imprisonment in 1958 for Anti-government political activism in East Germany
 * Stefan Ammer (born 1942), German-Australian pianist, lecturer, teacher and professor of music

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Florida State Road 80

State Road 80 (SR 80) (also known as Palm Beach Boulevard in Lee County and Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County) is a 123.5 mi route linking US 41 Business in Fort Myers and State Road A1A in Palm Beach. The road is the northernmost of three linking Southwest Florida to South Florida via the Everglades (Alligator Alley and Tamiami Trail being the other two). Due to increasing traffic, State Road 80 has experienced upgrades and widening in various sections since 2000.

Lee and Hendry Counties
State Road 80 begins at an intersection with US 41 (Tamiami Trail) in downtown Fort Myers. From the terminus, it runs briefly along Main Street northeast to Monroe Street in the historic downtown of Fort Myers. This segment of SR 80 terminates at Monroe Street and the route becomes discontinuous. Historically, SR 80 continued east through downtown but that segment has since been turned over to city control.

State Road 80 resumes at Allen Street (just east of Seaboard Street) on the east side of Fort Myers. From here, it is known as Palm Beach Boulevard, a four-lane divided highway that parallels the Caloosahatchee River. It follows the river east out of the city, expanding to six lanes east of the Ortiz Avenue (CR 865) intersection in Tice. It has an interchange with Interstate 75 as it passes through the eastern suburbs of Fort Myers before being reduced to four lanes east of SR 31 before leaving Lee County and entering Hendry County. At its county seat, LaBelle, it serves as the town's main street and intersects SR 29. Within LaBelle, SR 80 is known as Hickpochee Avenue. After LaBelle, it continues east until an interchange with US 27, where the two roads run concurrently as a four-lane highway as it heads east towards Clewiston and the southern coast of Lake Okeechobee. Within Clewiston, US 27 and SR 80 are also known as Sugarland Highway.

Palm Beach County
In Palm Beach County, it serves as a commuter route between South Bay and Belle Glade at the western end, growing suburbs Loxahatchee, Wellington, Royal Palm Beach and county seat West Palm Beach. In South Bay, US 27 heads south towards Miami, following the North New River Canal. Between Belle Glade and Loxahatchee, the roads are surrounded by sugarcane fields, with US 441 and US 98 both joining State Road 80 during this stretch. Lion Country Safari marks the beginning of a rural to urban transition of the road for the remainder of its journey. The road doubles from four to eight lanes in Royal Palm Beach, as the road serves as the border between Royal Palm Beach and Wellington. At the State Road 7 intersection, US 441 turns south towards Miami. The South Florida Fairgrounds and the Coral Sky Amphitheater, where the South Florida Fair takes place, are next on the route, just east of SR 7. After passing Florida's Turnpike, it gains two more lanes and becomes an expressway, with diamond interchanges with Jog Road, Haverhill Road and Military Trail. East of Military Trail, it loses a lane in each direction as it straddles the southern end of Palm Beach International Airport, where private aircraft are serviced, with commercial access to the airport available via SR 704A. It then approaches a bridge over the Tri-Rail main line as it intersects Interstate 95 at Exit 68, then becomes a four-lane road in several older, high-density neighborhoods in West Palm Beach. East of the Florida East Coast Railway bridge crossing, it intersects US 1 and SR 5, reducing to two lanes as it crosses Lake Worth Lagoon on two bridges, and ending on a roundabout with SR A1A in Palm Beach near the Mar-a-Lago estate.

History
The route of State Road 80 was largely built in the 1920s. The first vehicle to travel the route from Belle Glade to Palm Beach was in 1923. The section from Twenty Mile Bend to West Palm Beach was considered part of the Conners Highway, which opened on July 4, 1924. Segments west of Lake Okeechobee would be completed by 1926.

The route was first designated State Road 25 in 1923, running from Palm Beach to Punta Rassa. As a result of the 1945 Florida State Road renumbering, the route became State Road 80 from Fort Myers to Palm Beach, and the segment west of Fort Myers to Punta Rassa became State Road 867. (Ironically, State Road 25 still applies today to the concurrency with US 27 as that is now US 27’s hidden designation).

The segment between Belle Glade and Twenty Mile Bend, designated as the Kenneth C. Mock Memorial Highway was completed in 1989, making SR 80 a four-lane divided highway between Belle Glade and West Palm Beach. Prior to this, SR 80 (and US 441) ran just to the south along what is now County Road 880. US 98, which previously ran along SR 700 (Conners Highway), would later be rerouted onto this route beginning around 2000.

Until 2002, Palm Beach County's Southern Boulevard was a four-lane road with a center left-turn lane, causing high gridlock due to the rapidly growing western suburbs of Loxahatchee, Royal Palm Beach and Wellington. The road was known as "Killer 80" due to its high fatality rate. In 2002, after many years of debate, the Florida Department of Transportation embarked on a $78 million project to upgrade and widen Southern Boulevard from I-95 to US 441/SR 7. Between 2003 and 2008, it was transformed into a limited-access highway with freeway-grade diamond interchanges at the most congested intersections, with traffic signals remaining at others.

In Hendry County, a project to improve the intersection between SR 80 and US 27 and add an overpass was completed at the end of 2014. SR 80 was widened from east of LaBelle to CR 833 west of Clewiston in 2020. This widening eliminated the last two-lane undivided segment of SR 80, and it is now at least four lanes from Fort Myers to West Palm Beach.

In 2022, the current bridges across Lake Worth Lagoon between West Palm Beach and Palm Beach were completed, replacing bridges that had been built in 1950.

Downtown Fort Myers alignment
State Road 80's routing through downtown Fort Myers has changed a few times over the years. When designated in 1945, State Road 80 ran along First Street and terminated at Fowler Street. At the time, US 41 (Tamiami Trail) ran through downtown Fort Myers on First Street west of Fowler Street and crossed the Caloosahatchee River on the original Edison Bridge.

SR 80 would be extended through downtown along First Street in 1964 when US 41 was rerouted over the Caloosahatchee Bridge near Carson Street on the west side of downtown (First Street also carried the US 41 Business Route concurrently west of Fowler Street at this time).

In the late 1980s, SR 80 was split into one-way street pairs from Monroe Street through downtown to Seaboard Street in East Fort Myers. From Monroe Street, eastbound traffic ran along Second Street and Seaboard Street, where it reconnected to the westbound lanes at Palm Beach Boulevard. Westbound traffic continued along Palm Beach Boulevard and First Street, and then shifted to Bay Street west of Fowler Street. At Monroe Street, both directions rejoined along Main Street to connect to US 41.

SR 80 between Monroe and Fowler Streets was relinquished to the city of Fort Myers on January 11, 2006 as part of the downtown redevelopment and streetscape effort, which first created the gap in the route that exists today. The city restored this segment of the streets to two-way traffic. The segment of SR 80 east of Fowler Street to Allen Street (just east of Seaboard Street) remained one-way and under state control at this time.

SR 80 east of Fowler Street to Allen Street was relinquished to the city in August of 2018. Though the state still maintains the historic Billy's Creek Lift Bridge. The City of Fort Myers restored the remaining one-way segments of First, Second, and Seaboard Streets to two-way traffic in June of 2022.

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County Road 80A (Hendry County)
County Road 80A is the designation for Cowboy Way near LaBelle. It runs from SR 80 just southwest of LaBelle and heads east to SR 29. From SR 29, it continues east through Port LaBelle where it turns north and reconnects to SR 80. Cowboy Way was previously designated at SR 80A between SR 80 and SR 29. SR 80A was eventually turned over to county control, and was extended east to its eastern connection with SR 80 when Port LaBelle was being developed in the 1970s.

Former County Road 80A (Lee County)
The former CR 80A in Lee County ran between Tice and Olga via Buckingham. It ran along Orange River Boulevard east to Buckingham Road, where it ran north along Buckingham Road back to SR 80. These roads, along with Old Olga Road, were the original alignment of SR 80 in this area prior to the late 1940s. After the current alignment opened, the route became SR 80A. In the 1970s, Orange River Boulevard's intersection with SR 80 near Tice was realigned to its current intersection to accommodate the construction of the interchange with I-75. A portion of the former alignment still exists west of I-75 near Lexington Avenue. The roads were later relinquished to county control and were designated CR 80A. The CR 80A designation has since been decommissioned along the route and Orange River Boulevard now exists without a route designation. Buckingham Road has since become part of CR 876.

Former State Road 80B
SR 80B was the previous designation for Ortiz Avenue, which runs south from SR 80 in Tice. Ortiz Avenue later became part of SR 865 when that route was extended to connect with it. The route was relinquished to county control and is now designated CR 865.

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Axiom of Choice (band)

Axiom of Choice is a southern California based world music group of Iranian émigrés who perform a modernized fusion style rooted in Persian classical music with inspiration from other classical Middle Eastern and Eastern paradigms.

History
Led by Loga Ramin Torkian, who plays a variant of a guitar of his own invention that is fretted to play quarter tones, the band has a sound combining soaring female vocals, Persian rhythms and melodies, and progressive Western production styles.

The band was named after the mathematical concept, the axiom of choice.

The melodies and rhythms of Persia's radif tradition are mixed with various Middle Eastern and Eastern motifs as well as subtle electronic instrumentation. Led by Iranian-born nylon-string classical guitar, quarter-tone guitar, and tarbass player and musical director Loga Ramin Torkian, the septet incorporates a global range of influences into its sound. Axiom of Choice remains rooted in the musical heritage of Torkian and fellow Persian émigrés Mamak Khadem and Pejman Hadadi. While Khadem's singing in the Persian language retains the spirit of the past, the playing of Hadadi, one of the leading Persian percussionists living in the United States, gives the group its flavor. Hadadi—who plays daf, tombak, and nagada—previously toured with Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor, and Shahram Nazeri. He continues to be involved with Axiom of Choice and with the Dastan ensemble.

Discography

 * Beyond Denial (Faray-e Enkaar) (1996)
 * Niya Yesh (2000)
 * Unfolding (Goshayesh) (2002)

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Regen

Regen (Northern Bavarian: Reng) is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and the district town of the district of Regen.

Geography
Regen is situated on the great Regen River, located in the Bavarian Forest.

Divisions
Originally the town consisted of 4 districts: Bürgerholz, Grubhügel, Riedham and St. Johann.

After a governmental reform the villages of:

 * Aden
 * Augrub
 * Bärndorf
 * Bettmannsäge
 * Dreieck
 * Ebenhof
 * Ecklend
 * Edhof
 * Eggenried
 * Finkenried
 * Frauenmühle
 * Großseiboldsried
 * Huberhof
 * Kagerhof
 * Kattersdorf
 * Kerschlhöh
 * Kleinseiboldsried
 * Kreuzerhof
 * Kühhof
 * March
 * Maschenberg
 * Matzelsried
 * Metten
 * Neigerhöhe
 * Neigermühle
 * Neusohl
 * Obermitterdorf
 * Oberneumais
 * Oleumhütte
 * Pfistermühle
 * Pometsau
 * Poschetsried
 * Reinhartsmais
 * Richtplatz
 * Rinchnachmündt
 * Rohrbach
 * Sallitz
 * Schauerhof
 * Schlossau
 * Schochert
 * Schollenried
 * Schönhöh
 * Schützenhof
 * Schwaighof
 * Schweinhütt
 * Spitalhof
 * Sumpering
 * Tausendbach
 * Thanhof
 * Thurnhof
 * Weißenstein
 * Weißensteiner-Au
 * Wickersdorf
 * Wieshof and Windschnur

were added.

Population development

 * 1828: 1196
 * 1904: 2366
 * 1974: 9029
 * 2005: 12.553
 * 2015: 10.855

International relations
Regen is twinned with:
 * Flag of Germany.svg Eschwege, Germany, since 1997
 * Flag of France.svg Mirebeau, France
 * Flag of Germany.svg Roth bei Nürnberg, Germany

Notable places
The "Niederbayrisches Landwirtschaftsmuseum" is a museum showing the history of agriculture and society in Lower Bavaria from the 18th and 19th century.

The "Fressendes Haus" is a former domicile of the poets Clara Nordström (1886–1962) and Siegfried von Vegesack (1888–1974), which was transformed in a museum in 1984 presenting different expositions of historical art and the archeological excavations at the castle ruin of Weißenstein.

Natural monuments

 * The Pfahl is a 150-kilometre-long quartz ridge. In the vicinity of Weißenstein it reaches its highest point at 750 metres at the site of Weißenstein Castle.

Economy
Tourism figures largely in the local economy, with over 64,000 visitors accounting for 220,000 over-night stays last year.

Personalities

 * Clara Nordström, Swedish writer (1886-1962)

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Robert Duncan Milne

Robert Duncan Milne (7 June 1844–15 December 1899) was a late-19th century San Francisco science fiction writer whose work was published primarily in newspapers of the time, and the magazine The Argonaut. Milne was rediscovered by Sam Moskowitz, who helped collect his work in Into the Sun & Other Stories. He was born in Cupar in Scotland.

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Drownings at Nantes

The drownings at Nantes (noyades de Nantes) were a series of mass executions by drowning during the Reign of Terror in Nantes, France, that occurred between November 1793 and February 1794. During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, was cast into the river Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the drownings ceased, as many as four thousand or more people, including innocent families with women and children, died in what Carrier himself called "the national bathtub".

Background
Catholic clergy and émigrés had been victims of angry pro-republican violence and forced deportations by sans-culottes since the Decree of 17 November 1791 went into force. However, it was the Law of Suspects (Loi des suspects) approved by the National Convention of the French First Republic on 17 September 1793 that swept the nation with "revolutionary paranoia". This decree defined a broad range of conduct as suspicious in the vaguest terms, and did not give individuals any means of redress.

Nantes, in particular, was besieged by the tragedies of the French civil war in the Vendée at its doorstep. Threats of epidemics and starvation were always present. Battles, skirmishes, and police actions led to the incarceration of more than ten thousand prisoners of war within its confines, and simply feeding them became enormous burden for the city's residents. To control the situation, the leaders of the National Convention put Jean-Baptiste Carrier, a native of the Auvergne region, in charge of obtaining food supplies for Republican soldiers in Nantes. He soon became responsible for furnishing provisions to the entire local population, as well as for maintaining order and putting down suspected royalist revolts.

Fear that contagious diseases, particularly typhus, would spread from prisoners to the general population reached levels of panic in the autumn of 1793. Heavy losses of inmates' lives recorded by military personnel, physicians, nurses, and even judges, shocked civic leaders and pushed them to try anything to stop the further spread of illness. Ultimately, they chose to empty the jails in the city center and to place the inmates at the Coffee Warehouse jail at the port and on vessels moored in the harbor.

Beginnings
The first drownings happened on the night of 16 November 1793 (26 Brumaire Year II of the French Republic). The victims were 160 Catholic priests known as 'refractory clergy' (clergé réfractaire) who had been arrested in the area. After being initially held at Saint-Clément Convent, they were moved in the summer of 1793 to the Carmelite Mission in Nantes because it had been converted into a prison. On 5 July, they were sent to Chantenay-sur-Loire, a district of the town immediately west of Nantes, where they were held on the barge La Thérèse. The group suffered miserably from the sun and summer heat. Between 19 July and 6 August, most of the priests were transferred to the friary of the Petits Capucins and the Hermitage, which also were prisons. But on 25 October, the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes ordered that the priests be sent back to the docks to be held on the barge La Gloire.

On the night of the drownings, Adjutant-General Guillaume Lamberty and Fouquet moored a barge that had been specially customized by shipwrights at the docks. They directed O'Sullivan, a master of arms and his men, to transfer 90 prisoners from the La Gloire onto the adapted barge. The barge was then pulled out into the river where the priests were executed. Nearly all drowned as planned; however, three men were rescued by sailors on the warship L'Imposant who gave them spirits and warm blankets. Captain Lafloury was ordered to hand them back to the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes. After being returned to jail, the three perished with the second group of priests who were drowned the next night. Only one priest, named Father Landeau, survived the killings because, as an excellent swimmer, he managed to escape during a struggle, jumped from the barge into the Loire, and swam to safety.

The only first-person account of these first drownings was a ship's gunner named Wailly, who served on the boat La Samaritaine. He described meeting Lamberty and Fouquet who oversaw the killings. He also described hearing the desperate screams of the drowning men, rousing his comrades who heard the same cries, and the silence that came after they had died in the Loire.

Second drownings
Guillaume Lamberty oversaw the second mass drowning of priests. His guards, led by Marat Foucauld, stripped 58 clergymen who had been transported from Angers. They were again put on a specially equipped barge. But this time they were taken to the mouth of the river Loire far from the port of Nantes: there were no survivors.

Escalation
On the evening of 4 December 1793 (14 Frimaire, Year II), there was a meeting of key members of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes: Jean-Baptiste Carrier, François-Louis Phélippes Tronjolly and colleagues, Julien Minée for the department, Renard for the city, and representatives of the Société populaire de Nantes. In the course of heated discussions, they appointed a jury to name so-called "criminals". The next day, the jury presented more than three hundred names on a list, which became orders for execution. To carry out the judgements, Carrier proposed what he euphemistically called "vertical deportation": rather than deporting criminals to an overseas penal colony, instead loading them onto flat bottom boats and casting them overboard in the middle of the Loire at the village of Chantenay. The executions were to be carried out secretly at night, but the committee became worried of public disapproval when the corpses began floating to the surface, sometimes days later.

Two groups conducted the executions: Guillaume Lamberty and his men, and the Marat Company of Revolutionary Guards, known as the 'American Hussars' (hussards américains) due to the presence of former Black slaves and settlers from Saint-Domingue in its ranks.

Bouffay drownings
The third bout of drowning, which became known as the Bouffay Drownings, took place on the nights of 14 & 15 December 1793 (24 & 25 Frimaire, Year II). Led by Jean-Jacques Goullin and Michel Moreau-Grandmaison, the Marat Company, mostly drunk, went to Bouffay Prison. Unable or unwilling to consult their lists, the soldiers grabbed prisoners at random, stripped them of their belongings and money, before tying them in pairs to heavy rocks. Once loaded onto a flat boat, the guards sailed 129 prisoners a short distance downstream from Nantes to Trentemoult, a fishing village near the island of Cheviré, and drowned them.

Fourth drownings
The drownings of 23 December 1793 (3 Nivôse, Year II) were recorded by three different accounts, with the accuracy of at least two stories verified and confirmed. This time, Pierre Robin, Fouquet, and their accomplices forced approximately eight hundred captured "royalist sympathizers" of all ages and sexes onto two boats, which only sailed as far as Chantenay and drowned them.

Among the cruellest drownings were those termed "republican marriages". Though disputed, examples in unverified accounts tell of people, like a priest and nun, being stripped naked and tied together before being drowned. They were also called "republican baptisms".

Galiot drownings
The next executions, from 29 December 1793 (9 Nivôse, Year II) to 18 January 1794 (29 Nivôse, Year II), were known as the Galiot Drownings (Noyades des galiotes). Two-masted Dutch galiots – small trade ships – moored in Nantes as a result of a naval blockade, were moved on this occasion to the quay next to the Coffee Warehouse jail where the condemned could easily board. Whether the galiots made two, three, or more drowning "expeditions" is unknown, however, the lives of two hundred to three hundred victims – men, women and children – were lost on each sailing. At least one boat was intentionally sunk in the Loire loaded with victims in the hold and the hatches sealed.

Records indicate that the last drownings using these Dutch vessels were organized by Carrier himself, who completely emptied out the Coffee Warehouse jail of all prisoners. These executions were perpetrated on the nights of 29 & 30 January 1794 (10 & 11 Pluviôse, Year II) and involved about four hundred people.

Bourgneuf Bay drownings
The final mass drownings took place on 27 February 1794 (9 Ventôse, Year II). According to official documents read to the National Convention in Paris on 12 October 1794 (21 Vendémiaire, Year III), these drownings were ordered by Adjutant General Lefèbvre resulting in 41 deaths: one 78-year-old blind man and another man, 12 women, 12 girls, and 15 children, including 10 who were only 6 to 10 years old and 5 infants. This execution took place in Bourgneuf Bay.

Victims
The precise number of victims is not known. According to Roger Dupuy, there were between 7 and 11 drowning executions, with 300 to 400 victims each time. According to Jacques Hussenet, 1,800 to 4,800 people drowned on the orders of Carrier, and perhaps 2,000 others drowned on the orders by other Republican revolutionaries in Nantes. Jean-Clément Martin wrote that between 1,800 and 4,000 people died in mass drownings. In 1879, Alfred Lallie reported that 4,860 people were drowned confirmed by Hippolyte Taine. According to Reynald Secher, 4,800 victims suffered execution by drowning just during the autumn of 1793. For Gaston Martin, about 1,800 died, for Fouquet 9,000 died, for Mellinet 3,500 were killed.

According to historian Reynald Secher, these murders are one component of a systematic policy of extermination (genocide) of the residents of the Vendée planned by the revolutionary Committee of Public Safety, and approved by a vote of the National Convention in Paris on 1 October 1793.

Trial of Jean-Baptiste Carrier
Although most of the crimes committed by Jean-Baptiste Carrier are his direction of the mass drownings at Nantes, he also was responsible for the execution by firing squad of 1,800 to 2,600 victims at a quarry in Gigant, near Nantes, and he collaborated on other criminal and repressive acts that he justified by the Law of Suspects. His extreme paranoia was no more apparent than in the Affair of 132 Nantes Moderates (Affaire des 132 modérés nantais), a "tragicomedy of justice" that involved the round-up of more than 132 men from all walks of life vaguely accused of politically moderate 'federalism', who were imprisoned, tried in Paris, and subsequently acquitted of all charges.

Carrier was recalled to Paris in early 1794 to participate in the trial of Robespierre. At first, the Thermidorians left Carrier in peace, but members of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes soon covered him with insults and accusations. Based on overwhelming evidence, he was arrested in Paris on 3 September 1794 and indicted 27 November. At his trial, he clumsily and sarcastically stated that he knew nothing about what he was accused of. However, he was immediately denounced by those closest to him and charged with the drownings, executions, butchering of women and children, thefts, and acts of greed, as well as exacerbating the strife that Nantes suffered. A unanimous vote called for Carrier's execution, and he was guillotined on 16 December 1794.

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