The 2003 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League (NFL) teams selected amateur college football players. The draft is known officially as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting" and has been conducted annually since 1936. The draft was held April 26–27, 2003 at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden.[source 1] The league also held a supplemental draft after the regular draft and before the regular season.
The draft was broadcast on ESPN and ESPN2 beginning at noon on Saturday, April 26 and beginning at 11:00 am on Sunday, April 27. The draft consisted of seven rounds, with teams selecting in the reverse order of the finish the previous season. There were 32 compensatory picks distributed among 15 teams, with five teams each receiving four additional selections. In addition, the Houston Texans, who started play as an expansion franchise the previous season, were granted a supplemental selection in the middle of each of the draft's final five rounds.
The colleges with the most players selected in the draft were Florida, Miami and Tennessee which each had eight players chosen.[source 2] Meanwhile, Penn State and Miami each had four student-athletes selected in the first round. Eleven defensive linemen were selected in round one, eclipsing the previous record of nine, set in 2001.[source 1] Ten underclassmen were taken in the first round, including three of the first four overall selections. The first round lasted nearly five hours.[source 1] The Buffalo Bills selection of Miami's Willis McGahee as the first running back off the board was notable because he was recovering from a career-threatening injury he suffered in the Fiesta Bowl which it was believed could have caused him to miss the upcoming season.
Troy Polamalu was the highest picked safety in the draft and has since won two Super Bowls and multiple Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Editor's Note: Moore & Giles sponsored this beautiful shoot as I was compensated with product for organizing the shoot and styling it. All editorial and opinions are my own.
I'm so very excited to finally share this playfully preppy tennis love shoot that I styled at a local tennis club in Charlottesville, Va., last fall. You may remember some sneak peeks I shared on Instagram or the recent feature in Southern Bride but today I'm going to share the shoot in its entirety! The shoot began in the late afternoon at the tennis courts and after setting up several fun vignettes and poses, we finished the shoot on the banks of a beautiful lake. A darling little wooden pier made the perfect stage for kisses and sweet embraces. The still water reflected the trees' changing leaves beautifully as the sunlight slipped away. / Images by Sam Stroud.
With the amazing Sam Stroud behind the lens, I set the scene by styling the models in an ivy-league aesthetic including a mixture of argyle, gingham, seersucker, cashmere and pearls. Carefully chosen props were placed on the tennis court to evoke a collegiate vibe including vintage wooden racquets, antique silver trophies, a well-worn copy of the Preppy Handbook, red French bistro chairs picked up at a brocante along the French border, and a vintage French champagne cooler. Rich and sumptuous leather goods from our partner, Moore & Giles, rounded out the traditional feel. I sourced the vintage wares for the shoot from my personal collection.
This is so freaking cute and creative!!


The Creative Museum Project, which is nearing completion at the moment, has over the past years investigated and experimented with the relation between makers (creative communities) and museums in Europe. Although its findings are not yet final (stay tuned for a final event later this year!), after a successful meeting last week I'd like to share some insights.
Makers are part of the DIY culture and typically have a focus on technology (code, robotics, design, etc.), which they use solve problems creatively. When makers and museums work together, the result is often a creative interpretation of the collection or a typical museum fiction (like education) that makes it more accessible to a wider audience. E.g. projection mapping of Islamic collections, a chair that dances like nobody is watching, or an Olympic torch that acts as a personalized tour guide for families (a project I worked on during MuseoMix Nice in 2015).
Having studied and worked on connections between makers and museums for years, my conclusion is that the mix very well.
If you want to see for yourself, download the Creative Museum analysis of best practices (PDF), which presents a long list of projects where museums and creative communities (including makers) have worked together.
The opportunity for museums and makers is that they have long-established shared values. As Don Undeen likes to say, "we're all geeks". Both museum people and makers care about details, creativity, objects and stories. Sometimes museum professionals are makers (have you ever seen a painting being reframed?). At the very least, museum collections contain objects made by (ancient) makers.
The challenge for museums and makers is that they speak a different language, have a different attitude and often different objectives. There are many exceptions, but for instance museums may move slowly, while makers move fast. When a museum puts something on display (such as an interactive), it needs to be stable, safe and strong enough to resist 1000s of hands; a maker can be perfectly happy with a prototype that proves the concept.
Spaces for yes: There are countless valid arguments to limit or control the creativity of communities in a museum context. For successful collaboration, however, it is indispensable that there is a time and a place where things are possible, easily, and quickly. A place (physical, virtual, organisational) where everyone can say "yes".
I think these recommendations work on the individual level as much as on the institutional level. Everyone can start connecting with communities right now, and create small spaces for yes within their own sphere of influence. Throughout the project, I regularly did workshops and activities that did so for people on a small scale, immediately. The impact is always unexpected (especially when it is scaled up to the institutional level afterwards).


Creative Kids draws on several areas of strength from a track record of twelve years in successful project management, including the oversight of numerous federal, state and local grants, as well as private and corporate funds. Creative Kids recently retrofitted a 16,000 sq. ft warehouse space known as the OLO Gallery (Other Learning Opportunities). OLO is located in Union Plaza Arts District in Downtown El Paso, and is the permanent home to Creative Kids' Art Studios, Cooking Facility, Art Gallery, Multimedia Skills Development Center and administrative offices.


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Whitby facts
June 14, 2019 Beth Ellin
How many Whitby facts can you show off to your friends and family when you visit our lovely town? Let us help you impress with these Whitby facts:
We've got a smuggling history
Smugglers thrived in North Yorkshire coastal towns. Rum and brandy arrived by sea away from the watchful eye of the taxman through secret tunnels. Local pubs and inns stored the goods for trade. Men and women worked together to smuggle illegal items as the tax collectors didn't suspect women of illegal actions.
We were once a whaling port
A less pleasant, but equally important, part of our history is our whaling history. Whaling was a massive industry for us between 1750 and 1840, with many of our families becoming rich from the trade. The whale bone arch on top of West Cliff reminds us that we were once a whaling port.
We were bombed in WW2
Whitby suffered during WW2 at the hands of the German Navy. In December, 1914, German troops attacked coastal towns. Over 100 people died and almost 600 people were injured. Whitby, Scarborough and Hartlepool all suffered.
You can learn more about the bombing at the Sunken Gardens memorial on West Cliff.
Whitby taught Captain Cook to sail
Captain James Cook studied for his seaman's apprenticeship right here in Whitby. He is one of the most famous explorers of our time and had a huge impact on Western knowledge. You can learn all about Cook and his voyages at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
We still honour the penny hedge
On the eve of Ascention Day, you'll find the locals making a barrier in the River Esk to honour the penance of the town's ancestors. History tells of the murder of a hermit by landowning huntsmen. Before succumbing to his injuries, the hermit promised to forgive his assailants if they would consent to carry out this penance.
Find out more about the penny hedge penance.
We inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bram Stoker visited Whitby and fell in love with the town and used the 199 steps, St Mary's churchyard and the Abbey ruins as settings for his novel. That's why you'll see so many Gothic items being sold around the town. On your next trip, why not visit the Dracula Experience, or plan your trip to coincide with the Whitby Goth Weekend which takes place twice a year?
Learn more about Whitby and Dracula.
You can find fossils on our beaches
Fossilised remains are found all along our coastline. After a storm or heavy rain, fossils fall from the cliffs waiting for those with a keen eye to discover them. Look out for a rock that's a bit misshapen or one that has a funny mark or line. It could be hiding an ammonite.
Check out our fossil hunting tips.
You might also find jet
While you're out looking for fossils, you might also come across a piece of Whitby jet. Just as old as the dinosaur remains, Whitby jet is made from the resin of trees from the Jurassic period. If you are lucky to find a piece, take it to one of our specialist jewellers who are experts in creating beautiful pieces from this precious material.
What are your favourite Whitby facts? Send us a message on Facebook or Twitter.
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The first UK approved and regulated DNA paternity testing kit has been made available over the counter. On sale nationally in Boots stores, Assuredna is a test that processes and returns paternity results in one to five days. Research by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has estimated that 1 in 25 assumed 'fathers' in the UK are actually not the biological father. The test is designed to simply and accurately resolve uncertainty over paternity.
Samples are taken from father, child and mother with a cotton swab rubbed over the inside of the mouth, to remove cells containing DNA. The swabs are then placed in colour coded envelopes, sealed and posted to Anglia DNA for analysis. The Assuredna paternity test requires signed consent and identification documents from father, child, and mother in order for the test to be processed.
Road Communications were charged with raising awareness of the launch of the paternity test by manufacturer Anglia DNA. An embargoed press released was sent out to national and regional media informing journalists of the launch and highlighting key benefits.
Road delivered blanket media coverage across a range of media including TV, radio, national and regional press and online. Television highlights included BBC News, ITV News and Daybreak. In print the story was covered in the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian.
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TraceTogether (mobile app for community-driven contact tracing)
The Government of Singapore (Government Technology Agency and the Ministry of Health) has developed the TraceTogether app to set up a community-driven contact tracing system, which relies on identifying people exposed to persons with Corona virus disease and thus curbing its spreading.
TraceTogether uses Bluetooth signals to determine if the user is near another TraceTogether user. Their Bluetooth proximity data is encrypted and stored only on their phone. The Ministry of Health (MOH) will seek your consent to upload the data, if it's needed for contact tracing. In case the user has had close contact with a COVID-19 case, TraceTogether facilitates the process to the Ministry of Health to provide the patient with guidance and care.
The app is available in the city-state, but the Government of Singapore already announced that the app would be shared with countries internationally, as a tool to help control the spreading.TraceTogether supports Singapore's efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 through community-driven contact tracing. TraceTogether's functionality will be suspended after the epidemic subsides.
Government of Singapore (Ministry of Communications and Information, Ministry of Health)
https://www.gov.sg/article/help-speed-up-contact-tracing-with-tracetogether


With all the hype about the #likeagirl campaign, I'd like to share with you the Moppins family contribution.
We have never pushed Diva in one direction or held her back from another because of her gender. Why would we?
Are there traits in both men and women that make them naturally better suited for some occupations? Yes, I believe so. However, in my opinion, that doesn't mean that either gender couldn't do those occupations. We saw that to be true in WWII when our women (of which my grandmother was one) on the home front had to take over jobs traditionally held by men.
When she was a tiny tot we gave Diva equal access to train sets and tea sets and building blocks and baby dolls. We had and still have, no idea what she will be when she grows up, but nothing will be stifled by us.
I am thankful to my parents and grandparents who also made it an non-issue for me growing up. My Paw-paw told me frequently, "Little Doll, go to the top!" He said go to the top, not go as close as you can get to the top, you know, because you are a girl.
Engineer and I have tried to give Diva opportunities, equip her with knowledge, present her with information, and instill in her a drive so that she can do and go and be the best at whatever she does.
Phillipians 4:13 - "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
Thirteen year old Diva was reading Forbes magazine at breakfast yesterday.
There was a stack of magazines Southern Living, All You, Living, Wine Spectator all in front of her and she chose to read Forbes.
She was soaking up information about the economy #likeagirl. Preparing for her future #likeagirl. Making her parents proud #likeagirl.
1-4-3 DM and I cannot wait to see how you live your life to the fullest #likeagirl!
Diva is definitely her own person. :) Thanks for stopping by!
It really made you wonder what happens in those pre-teen years to make girls think they are less than what they actual are. I refuse to let Diva believe that she is anything but "Fearfully and wonderfully made."


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Canadian Red Cross, United Way Centraide Canada, and Community Foundations Chosen as National Funders for $400 Million Community Services Recovery Fund
The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Karina Gould, has announced the launch of the $400 million Community Services Recovery Fund and the three organizations selected to deliver it. The selected national funders are United Way Centraide Canada, Community Foundations of Canada, and Canadian Red Cross. NABC worked closely with each of the three now-selected national funders on the $350 million Emergency Community Support Fund during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure funds flowed to Black communities.


A 200 coin collection of the 2018 UK Queen's Beasts The Black Bull of Clarence 2oz Silver Coin supplied in offical mint monster box and tubes.
The 2018 UK Queen's Beasts Black Bull of Clarence 2oz Silver Coin is the fifth release from the exclusive Royal Mint bullion range, featuring an original reverse design. The coin's reverse features a stylised version of the majestic Black Bull of Clarence holding the shield of arms. The year-date and 'Black Bull of Clarence' also feature.
The bundle weighs 12,441.40g and is 999.9 Fine Silver.
Each coin weighs 2 troy ounces and is 999.9 Fine Silver.
Dimensions: Diameter: 38.61mm. Thickness: 6.00mm.
This coin is the fifth in the series of ten designs that celebrate each of The Queen's Beasts. The Queen's Beasts bullion range celebrates the British Monarchy and the centuries of fascinating heraldry that has been a part of their story.
These coins fit the Double Thick 39mm - 2oz Silver Queen's Beasts Coin Capsule.


Dave Mingey and Zaileen Janmohamed have become the latest additions to the joint venture between Los Angeles 2028 and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).
Nike are expected to be announced as the first major sponsor of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, it has been reported.
Sports business executive Chris Pepe has been appointed chief commercial officer of the joint venture between Los Angeles 2028 and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).
Indian cricket great Sachin Tendulkar has backed a push by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to have the sport included on the Olympic programme for Los Angeles 2028.
Gene Sykes is stepping down as chief executive of Los Angeles 2028 but will assume an advisory role with the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, it was announced today.
David Siegel, a longstanding executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, has been named as the new President of the LA Sports Council and the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games (SCCOG).
The Metrolink rail network in Southern California has been handed a cash boost with one eye on the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
Los Angeles 2028 have named sports executive Kathy Carter as their chief revenue officer, it has been announced.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Los Angeles counterpart Eric Garcetti are hopeful of making the Olympic Games more sustainable, with both cities preparing to stage the multi-sport event.
Los Angeles 2028's preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been praised following a visit to the American city from officials representing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC).


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John Goodman from Roseanne Opens Up About His Struggle with Alcoholism
July 25, 2018 New Vista Behavioral Health
If you've seen the hit TV show Roseanne, you've come to love and know John Goodman, who plays Dan Connor, Roseanne's husband. Recently, John Goodman has become more open about his struggle with alcoholism; he recalls moments where he struggled with on the set and how a quick phone call to his wife led him to the treatment. If you or a loved one have been dealing with alcoholism or another addiction, John Goodman's story is one of inspiration.
In 2007, Goodman spent a month in rehabilitation for alcoholism, just after he had wrapped up the film Speed Racer. The actor explained on Sunday Today that he remembers drinking alcohol at work, and how his wife helped him get the treatment he needed. According to E-Online, the actor really noticed that he had a problem after a long weekend with friends golfing – he stated that he had won an Emmy Award that year, and missed the rehearsal because he was drunk. John explained his drinking problem as this:
"My speech was slurred. I thought I was fooling people. My cheeks would turn bright red when I was liquored up and I just looked like a stop sign."
By the time it was Sunday after the Emmy's, Goodman recalls still shaking from the alcohol, yet he continued to drink. He called his wife, who got him to a treatment center; he stated,
"I detoxed there and decided I like the feeling. And it's been 10 years."
John Goodman's story is one of functioning alcoholism – the National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed this as a subtype of alcoholism back in 2007, when studies were conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Functioning alcoholism was found to constitute 19.5% of U.S. individuals with alcoholism; people who fall into this sub-category are often found to be middle-aged, well-educated, and with stable jobs and families, much like John Goodman. As John's story depicts, it's not uncommon for those with functioning alcoholism to believe they have everything figured out.
If you've been struggling with alcoholism, make the decision to seek help today. Most often, loved ones and others who spend time with you notice changes that you may not be able to see.
Therapy is a primary component of treatment for rehabilitation from a substance use disorder and/or mental health disorder. Attending treatment with certified clinicians and counselors is critical for a full recovery. At one of New Vista Behavioral Health's treatment providers, you are receiving exceptional care, held to a higher standard. Our programs result in better outcomes, ensuring a better recovery. For information call us today: 888-316-3665.
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The newest threat in the war on terror is terrifying; the undead! The press conference reveals it all.
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You gotta check this press conference out. I think Bush has finally lost it for good.


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Saudi Oger seeking buyers for $1 billion Arab Bank stake
Saudi Oger has begun talks with potential buyers for its 20.93 percent stake in Arab Bank ARBK.AM in a deal that could raise about $1 billion for the embattled construction giant, sources aware of the matter told Reuters. Oger was one of two large Saudi contractors charged with implementing the kingdom's grand infrastructure plans before the fall in oil prices and consequent state spending cuts left the company facing a multibillion-dollar debt restructuring to stave off collapse. A small number of potential buyers from Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East have started negotiations, five sources said on condition of anonymity because the information had not been made public. A spokesman for Saudi Oger, which is owned by the family of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, did not respond to requests for comment. Hariri's political offices in Beirut said it was a matter on which only Saudi Oger could comment. Among the interested parties vying for the Arab Bank stake is Saudi Arabia's al-Hokair family, two Gulf-based sources said. The family is best known for its Fawaz Al Hokair 4240.SE fashion retail business, the Middle Eastern franchisee for brands including Zara and banana republic, but also has interests in real estate and hospitality, as well as finance and investments through its FAS Capital arm.


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DescriptionLasiopetalum rosmarinifolium is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of , its stems and leaves covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear,  long and  wide. The flowers are arranged in small groups, each flower on a pedicel  long with three hairy bracteoles  long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are white,  long, fused for less than half their length, and there are no petals. The anthers are  long on filaments  long. Flowering occurs from June to November.

Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1852 by Nikolai Turczaninow who gave it the name Sorotes rosmarinifolia in Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond. In 1863, George Bentham changed the name to Lasiopetalum rosmarinifolium in Flora Australiensis.
The specific epithet (rosmarinifolium) means "rosemary-leaved".

Distribution and habitat
This lasiopetalum grows in sandy and gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Hampton and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation statusLasiopetalum rosmarinifolium'' is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

References

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Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1852
Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow

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WBRC
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Fox affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama
Television station in Alabama, United States
Birmingham/Tuscaloosa/Anniston, Alabama
Digital: 29 (UHF)
Virtual: 6 (PSIP)
WBRC Fox 6 (general)
WBRC Fox 6 News (newscasts)
6.1: Fox
6.2: Bounce TV
6.3: Circle (O&O)
6.4: Laff
6.5: Grit
6.6: Quest
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations
WAFF, WSFA
First air date
July 1, 1949 (71 years ago) (1949-07-01)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
4 (VHF, 1949-1953)
50 (UHF, 1999-2019)
Former affiliations
NBC (1949-1954)
CBS (1954-1961)
ABC (1949-1996; secondary until 1961)
DuMont (secondary, 1949-1953)
NTA (secondary, 1956-1961)
Call sign meaning
We're the Bell Radio Company
(original owner of WBRC radio)[1]
Transmitter coordinates
Public license information
www.wbrc.com
WBRC transmitter, with the station's roof also visible; the neon sign seen in the lower portion of the image with the WBRC call letters is a local landmark, and inspired the station's current call-centric logo.
WBRC, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 29), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. WBRC's studios and transmitter are located atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive, in southeastern Birmingham (to the immediate west of the studios of NBC affiliate WVTM-TV, channel 13); the station shares its transmitter tower with local NOAA Weather Radio station KIH54.
On cable, WBRC is available on Charter Spectrum channel 7, and Comcast Xfinity and AT&T U-verse channel 6.
The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1949, originally broadcasting on VHF channel 4 as WBRC-TV (standing for Bell Radio Company, after Fountain Heights physician J.C. Bell, founder of radio station WBRC (960 AM).[1] the "-TV" suffix was dropped from the call sign in June 1999).[2] Although WBRC-TV was the first television station in Birmingham to be granted a license by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it is the second-oldest television station in Alabama, signing on just over one month after WAFM-TV (channel 13, now WVTM-TV), which debuted on May 29. It was originally owned by the Birmingham Broadcasting Company, run by Eloise D. Hanna, along with WBRC radio. Hanna's first husband, M. D. Smith, had bought WBRC radio from Bell in 1928. Her son, M.D. Smith III, who worked at the radio stations in advertising sales and was later promoted to program director and vice president, ran the television station as its operations manager. His son, M.D. Smith IV later organized Smith Broadcasting, which purchased WAFG-TV, Channel 31 in Huntsville, Alabama in 1963, with himself as operations manager. The call letters were immediately changed to WAAY-TV. M.D. Smith III is also named a remote General Manager of WAAY-TV from Birmingham.
Originally broadcasting for three hours per day, it operated as a primary NBC affiliate (earning the affiliation as a result of WBRC radio's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network), and also carried secondary affiliations with ABC and the DuMont Television Network; during the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[3] WBRC-TV originally operated from WBRC radio's facilities on 19th Street and 2nd Avenue, near downtown Birmingham, which originally only housed business and master control operations; the station originally relied mainly on network and film content for much of the programming it broadcast. The station's transmitter was originally purposed as the transmitter facilities for radio station WBRC-FM (102.5, now WBPT at 106.9 FM; original frequency now occupied by WDXB), which signed on in 1947 with the highest radiated power of any radio station worldwide, operating at 500,000 watts; after the FM station suspended operations in June 1948 due to continued revenue losses due to the lack of radios equipped with FM tuners, Hanna borrowed $150,000 to build a new studio facility and transmitter atop Red Mountain for the television station. In September 1950, WBRC established a coaxial cable link with fellow NBC-DuMont affiliate WRGB (now a CBS affiliate) in Schenectady, New York, allowing the station to broadcast NBC and DuMont network programs both live and live-to-air.
On February 19, 1953, WBRC-TV moved to channel 6 as part of a frequency realignment ordered by the FCC, resulting from the Sixth Report and Order issued the year prior in 1952. This move was made in order to alleviate signal interference problems between WBRC and WSM-TV (now WSMV-TV) in Nashville, which also transmitted on channel 4, that were present in portions of northern Alabama. Later that year, Hanna also sold the WBRC television and radio stations to Storer Broadcasting for $2.3 million--a handsome return on her first husband's purchase of WBRC radio 25 years earlier.[4] George B. Storer, the company's founder and chairman, was a member of the board of directors at CBS, and most of his television stations were affiliates of that network. Storer may have used his leverage to secure a primary CBS affiliation for WBRC-TV, which joined the network on July 4, 1954. NBC programming subsequently moved to channel 13 (by then, using the call sign WABT); both stations, however, retained a secondary affiliation with ABC.
On September 17 of that year, the WBRC stations moved to a new, much larger studio facility located on Red Mountain that was built by Storer, where channel 6 continues to operate from to this day. The building, like many of those built by Storer to serve as studios for its broadcast properties, resembled an antebellum mansion. While it may have been out of place in most of Storer's other markets (many of which were located outside of the Southern United States), it was a perfect fit for Birmingham. Unusual for a commercial broadcaster, Storer supported educational television, and the company donated two transmitters and frequencies in the Birmingham market (channels 7 and 10, which were respectively occupied by WCIQ and WBIQ when both stations signed on in 1955) to Alabama Educational Television (now Alabama Public Television). This also, however, may have been a move to forestall future commercial competition in the market; WBRC and WABT remained the only commercial stations in Birmingham, which would not get a third commercial broadcast television outlet until WBMG (now WIAT) debuted in October 1965, on UHF channel 42, a signal considerably weaker than that of either channels 6 or 13, and a problem which hampered that station's progress until the early 2000s.
In 1957, Storer sold the WBRC stations to Radio Cincinnati Inc., the forerunner of what would become Taft Broadcasting, for $2.3 million.[5] Storer had to sell its broadcast holdings in Birmingham after it purchased radio station WIBG (now WNTP) in Philadelphia and its television sister, WPFH (later WVUE) in Wilmington, Delaware (whose frequency is now occupied by WHYY-TV) in order to comply with the FCC's ownership limits of that time period.
As an exclusive ABC affiliate
On March 1, 1961, WBRC-TV signed an agreement with ABC to become a full-time affiliate of the network.[6] This was very unusual for a market with only two commercial stations; usually, one or both stations carried ABC as a secondary affiliation, since that network would not be on anything resembling an equal footing with CBS and NBC until the 1970s. However, Taft had very good relations with ABC. The company's chairman was a personal friend of ABC's president Leonard Goldenson, and several of Taft's other stations, including flagship WKRC-TV in Cincinnati (which would rejoin CBS in 1995), had recently switched to ABC. During the 1970s, ABC aired cartoons from Hanna-Barbera, whose studios were acquired by Taft in 1967. Taft later bought ABC's former syndication arm, Worldvision Enterprises, in 1979 (ABC spun off this division in 1973 as a result of fin-syn laws, which have since been repealed). This also marked a significant turnaround for channel 6's relationship with the network, as during the later 1950s, the amount of ABC programming on WBRC had been dramatically reduced from about 50% of its schedule to only a very limited selection of shows, seemingly headed toward an exclusive CBS affiliation by 1960; even still, WBRC retained some of CBS' higher-rated soap operas on its daytime schedule until about 1968, when those programs moved to either WAPI-TV or WBMG.
Another factor, though supposedly not as important as the Taft-Goldenson relationship, was CBS News' apparent strong support of the Civil Rights Movement, which did not sit well with many white viewers, a large segment of WBRC's audience. An urban legend regarding the ABC affiliation agreement suggested that the switch was partly motivated by CBS' plans to air Who Speaks For Birmingham?, a controversial CBS Reports documentary focusing on desegregation at Birmingham Public Schools that later led to journalist Howard K. Smith's resignation from CBS News after he quoted an anti-desegregation statement by political scientist Edmund Burke in the closing narration, viewed by network president Bill Paley as editorializing his views in support of school integration; however, the special aired on May 18 of that year, two months after the ABC agreement was signed. ABC had very few full-time affiliates south of Washington, D.C. at the time, but now it had the full benefit of one of the South's strongest signals, best antenna locations and largest coverage areas. WBRC-TV's signal provided at least secondary coverage as far north as Decatur and extending south to near Montgomery, and from the Mississippi border in the west to the Georgia border in the east. The station became exclusively affiliated with ABC on September 7, 1961; on that date, channel 13 (by then known as WAPI-TV) assumed rights to CBS and NBC programming, although WBRC continued to occasionally carry certain CBS shows that WAPI chose not to carry through 1965. In 1972, Taft sold the WBRC radio stations, which changed their call letters to WERC-AM and FM.[7]
In 1966, WBRC-TV began broadcasting local programming in color, after the station purchased two color cameras; among the first local programs to be produced in color was the Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches' program, The Bear Bryant Show (originated from CBS affiliate WCOV-TV (now also a Fox affiliate) in Montgomery, the first television station in the state to begin color broadcasts), which aired on WBRC until 1970, when it moved to WAPI-TV. Meanwhile, WBRC-TV had become one of ABC's strongest affiliates, a position it retained for the next quarter-century. For a time, it incorporated the ABC circle logo inside its own "6" logo (just as it had done with the CBS eye in the 1950s). Channel 6 could make a plausible claim to be not only the most-watched station in the Birmingham market but in the entire state of Alabama, thanks in part to unusually weak competition. CBS affiliate WBMG (channel 42, now WIAT), which signed on in October 1965 as the market's third commercial television station, was not a factor and, in fact, was among the lowest-rated major-network affiliates in the nation at some points, making Birmingham a de facto two-station market to industry observers from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. Even still, due to signal impairment in mountainous areas of northeastern Alabama, WBRC operated two low-power translators to extend its programming to that part of the state, W29AO (channel 29) in Anniston in W15AP (channel 15) in Gadsden.
In 1982, WBRC began receiving ABC network and syndicated programming, and news footage via satellite. In 1984, the station became one of the first television stations in the region to adopt a 24-hour-a-day programming schedule. After it suffered significant structural damage due to an ice storm that affected the Southeastern U.S. in the winter of 1985, the station's original transmitter tower was replaced in 1986, with a new tower on Red Mountain 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the original tower's location. In October 1987, Taft was restructured into Great American Communications following the completion of a hostile takeover of the group. In December 1993, Great American Communications was restructured again into Citicasters after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Citicasters then decided to put most of its television stations up for sale. These moves, though, did not immediately affect WBRC's high standing in the ratings or its reputation in the community.
As a Fox station
On May 5, 1994, Great American Communications (which would later be renamed Citicasters following the completion of its restructuring) agreed to sell WBRC and three other television stations - WDAF-TV in Kansas City, KSAZ-TV in Phoenix and WGHP in High Point, North Carolina - to New World Communications - for $350 million in cash and $10 million in share warrants.[8][9] However, three weeks later, New World agreed to purchase four stations owned by Argyle Television Holdings, WVTM being among them, in a purchase option-structured deal for $717 million[10] (although the transfer/assignment applications for the stations involved in the Argyle purchases were not filed with the FCC until after New World's acquisition of the four Citicasters stations was completed); this posed a problem for New World on two counts. At the time, the FCC forbade any broadcasting company from owning two commercial television stations in the same market; in addition, the concurrent acquisitions of the Argyle and Citicasters stations put New World three stations over the national television ownership cap that the agency enforced at the time, which allowed broadcasters to own a maximum of twelve stations nationwide.
On May 23, 1994, New World signed an affiliation agreement with Fox to switch twelve television stations - six that New World had already owned and eight that the company was in the process of acquiring through the Argyle and Citicasters deals, including WBRC - to the network, in exchange for the latter's then-parent company News Corporation purchasing a 20% equity stake in New World; the stations would become Fox affiliates once their affiliation contracts with existing network partners expired (with the first stations involved in the deal switching to the network in September 1994).[11] Although the network's Birmingham charter affiliate, WTTO (channel 21), was one of Fox's strongest affiliates at the time, the network found the chance to align with WBRC too much to resist because of its longstanding ratings dominance in the market. The group's affiliation deal with Fox also gave New World a chance to solve its ownership problem by reaching an agreement with Citicasters to sell WBRC and WGHP directly to the network's owned-and-operated station group, Fox Television Stations.
Fox was unable to immediately purchase the two stations outright due to questions over the American citizenship of then-parent company News Corporation's Australian-born CEO Rupert Murdoch. New World then decided to acquire the stations itself, but place them in an outside trust company that it established; New World would sell the stations to Fox Television Stations, which, in turn, would pay the group $130 million in promissory notes upon the transfer's completion. New World formally filed an application with the FCC to transfer WBRC to the trust on October 12, 1994, one month after it filed transferred WGHP on September 9; the FCC approved the transfer on April 3, 1995.[12][13] Under the arrangement, New World owned the licenses of both stations, while Citicasters continued to control their operations under outsourcing agreements. In April 1995, Citicasters transferred the operations of WBRC and WGHP to Fox Television Stations, which took over operational control through time brokerage agreements with New World and purchased the stations three months later on July 22; Fox formally finalized the purchase of the two stations on January 17, 1996.[14][15]
Although it was now owned by the O&O group of another network, Fox now had to run channel 6 as an ABC affiliate for more than a year after the purchase was announced as WBRC's affiliation agreement with that network was not set to expire until August 31, 1996. This gave ABC a sufficient amount of time to find another station to replace channel 6 as its central Alabama affiliate. In January 1996, ABC struck a deal with Allbritton Communications to affiliate with CBS stations WCFT-TV (channel 33, now Heroes & Icons affiliate WSES) in Tuscaloosa and WJSU-TV (channel 40, now Heroes & Icons affiliate WGWW) in Anniston (the latter of which Allbritton had agreed to operate under a local marketing agreement with then-owner Osborne Communications Corporation weeks prior); because Tuscaloosa and Anniston were then separate markets, which would result in neither station being counted in Nielsen ratings reports for Birmingham, Allbritton purchased low-power station W58CK (channel 58, now WBMA-LD), creating a triple-simulcast with WCFT and WJSU, which would act as its satellite stations.[16][17]
WBRC logo, used from November 2006 (as a Fox owned-and-operated station) until August 2015.
WBRC became a Fox owned-and-operated station on September 1, 1996, ending its affiliation with ABC after 47 years; however, the station had begun airing the network's short-lived morning program Fox After Breakfast for one month prior to the switch after it dropped Good Morning America from its schedule. The concurrent move of the ABC affiliation to W58CK and its satellites also led to the CBS affiliation for the Anniston-Gadsden market to move to WNAL-TV (channel 44, now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXH-TV), which - along with WTTO and its Tuscaloosa satellite WDBB (channel 17) - lost its Fox affiliation to WBRC.
With the switch to Fox, WBRC became one of only a few television stations in the United States to have maintained primary affiliations with all of the Big Three networks, and the only one in the country to have had primary affiliations with all four current major networks; it also became the first network-owned commercial television station in the state of Alabama. At that time, WBRC phased out its longstanding "Channel 6" brand and began branding itself as "Fox 6", becoming one of three Fox stations affected by the affiliation deal between the network and New World to adopt Fox's standardized station branding conventions prior to the group's 1996 merger with Fox Television Stations (WGHP and WJBK in Detroit, which became a sister station to WBRC as a result of the New World merger, were the only others to comply with the network's branding techniques; the remaining ten stations did not incorporate network branding until after the merger was finalized).
WBRC would become the only remaining station in the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston market that was owned by a major commercial broadcast television network, after Media General completed its acquisition of WVTM from NBC Television Stations on June 26, 2006. However, on December 22, 2007, Fox announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell WBRC and seven other Fox owned-and-operated stations (WDAF-TV, WGHP, WJW in Cleveland, WITI in Milwaukee, KTVI in St. Louis, KDVR in Denver and KSTU in Salt Lake City) to Local TV, a holding company operated by equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners that had earlier purchased The New York Times Company's television station division; the sale was finalized on July 14, 2008.[18][19][20][21] On January 6, 2009, Local TV announced that it would trade WBRC to Raycom Media in exchange for acquiring CBS affiliate WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia from that group.[22] Raycom - which is controlled by the Retirement Systems of Alabama - is headquartered in Montgomery (the market to the adjacent south of the Birmingham DMA), and also owns that market's NBC affiliate WSFA as well as Huntsville NBC affiliate WAFF. The transfer closed on March 31, 2009.[23]
On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including WBRC), and Gray's 93 television stations) under the former's corporate umbrella. The cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion - in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom - will result in WBRC gaining new sister stations in adjacent markets, including ABC affiliate WTOK-TV in Meridian and CBS/NBC affiliates WTVY and WRGX-LD in Dothan (while separating it from WDFX), in addition to the current Raycom stations.[24][25][26][27] The sale was approved on December 20 and completed on January 2, 2019.[28][29]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
PSIP Short Name
Programming[30]
6.1 720p 16:9 WBRC Main WBRC programming / Fox
6.2 480i Bounce Bounce TV
6.3 Circle Circle
6.4 LAFF Laff
6.5 Grit Grit
6.6 Quest Quest
WBRC-DT2
In May 2011, WBRC launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 6.2, which initially carried a standard definition simulcast of the station's main channel. The subchannel became affiliated with Bounce TV on September 26, 2011, as part of the network's affiliation agreement with WBRC owner Raycom Media.[31]
In May 2014, WBRC added an additional subchannel on virtual channel 6.3, which served as a charter affiliate of the male-oriented multicast network, Grit.
In July 2018, WBRC added an additional subchannel on virtual channel 6.4, which served as an affiliate of comedy network, Laff.
Analog-to-digital conversion
WBRC shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, at 8:55 a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50.[32] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 6.
The station operated its digital transmission facilities under special temporary authorization at a lower effective radiated power until October 2009, when its transmitter was upgraded to full power at 1 megawatt at a position on the tower at 373 metres (1,224 ft). The FCC later granted WBRC to reclaim the top level of the tower for its main antenna, improving its digital coverage area (the former main antenna remains in use as an auxiliary antenna).
Syndicated programming broadcast by WBRC includes Judge Judy, Access Hollywood, Live with Kelly and Ryan and Inside Edition. In addition, WBRC produces Fox 6 WBRC Law Call, a weekly call-in program--hosted by former WBRC reporter Tiffany Bittner, and airing live after the station's 10:00 p.m. newscast on Sunday nights--in which viewers ask members of a panel (usually consisting of personal injury attorneys) for advice on various legal issues; and Absolutely Alabama, a weekly program--airing after Law Call on Sundays--consisting of feature stories about people and places around Alabama.[33]
WBRC currently carries the majority of the Fox network schedule, though it delays the network's Saturday late night block (currently a repeat of a prime time reality show) one hour due to the station's 10:00 p.m. newscast and its carriage of the syndicated sports interview program In Depth with Graham Bensinger; in addition, following the program's move from Fox Sports 1 to Fox in September 2015, WBRC formerly was one of several Fox affiliates that has declined carriage of the Sunday pre-game show Fox NFL Kickoff during the NFL regular season due to existing programming contracts (unlike in other markets where a Fox station has declined carriage of Fox NFL Kickoff, the program was not broadcast by any other station in the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston market). The station began clearing Fox NFL Kickoff for the 2016 season. Channel 6 has only aired Fox's prime time, news and sports programming since it joined the network in September 1996, with the only programs relating to Fox's children's programming blocks for the final twelve years that Fox carried programming aimed at that demographic consisting of fall preview specials and network promotions that aired within the network's prime time lineup.
WBRC became the first television station to broadcast the United Cerebral Palsy Telethon, an event to raise money for the cerebral palsy research organization that premiered in 1949; it was from WBRC that the event emerged into national prominence, with national celebrities even making appearances on the telecast. Even in its final years on WBRC, mini-documentaries produced by the station (which were produced by Randy Mize and Tom Stovall) for the local segments aired during the UCP Telethon; WBRC stopped producing and broadcasting the local segments of the telethon soon after it switched to Fox in 1996. WBRC began producing live local programming in 1950 after it converted the building that formerly housed WBRC-FM into a makeshift television studio; the station also acquired additional studio camera equipment, including shows such as Coffee Break, Supersonic Sam and Cowboy Theatre.
Like many network affiliates, WBRC-TV would preempt ABC programming occasionally or regularly, in some cases. For example, according to local legends, the station initially turned down Bewitched, not because it was concerned about witchcraft, but because it concerned a mixed marriage (between a witch and a mortal); there were fears that Bewitched would encourage what some segregationists referred to as "cross-breeding"; channel 6 would not clear Bewitched until 1967 (although, according to the October 15, 1965 issue of The Birmingham News, Bewitched was shown airing at its in-pattern time of Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. (Central) on WBRC). Channel 6 continued these practices for most of its years with ABC. It also preempted the ABC Evening News (the forerunner to World News Tonight) from the program's debut in 1968 until August 7, 1972 (when both it and WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan became the last two ABC affiliates to begin airing the network newscast), as well as daytime network programs at aired during the 10:00 a.m. hour. However, ABC largely brushed off the preemption issue, even though it would eventually become the #1 network nationwide by the late 1970s, because of WBRC's status as central Alabama's dominant station.
WBRC cemented viewer allegiances by carrying a heavy schedule of local programs during the 1960s and 1970s, most notably two long-running morning shows. The first was The Morning Show, hosted by sports anchor Tom York; airing for 32 years from 1957 to 1989, it was a more general-interest interview and features program that was formatted basically a local version of Today; WBRC anchor Joe Langston (who also hosted the children's programs Birthday Party and Junior Auction for the station in the late 1960s) and comedian Fannie Flagg joined as York's co-hosts in the early 1960s (Flagg would leave for Los Angeles in 1964 to become a writer for Candid Camera). Fiddler, guitarist and vocalist Eddie Burns was invited to bring his musical group to serve as The Morning Shows house band and act as the program's bandleader; however, within a few months, station management offered Burns his own morning program on channel 6. That series, Country Boy Eddie, which was aimed at rural Alabama viewers, featured local country, bluegrass and Southern Gospel music artists during its 36-year run from 1957 until December 31, 1993. Over time, Burns added novelty acts to the show's format and did most of the commercials himself in the studio live.
York's program, meanwhile, was so popular that, when ABC debuted AM America in January 1975, WBRC declined to carry it--preferring not to alter, let alone cancel, what had become a local television institution in The Morning Show; this continued after ABC replaced the more news-driven AM America with Good Morning America, which maintained a format similar to York's program, in November of that year. WBRC began to clear the first hour of GMA in the early 1980s, and began airing the two-hour program in its entirety after York retired from the station in 1989. Preemptions and out-of-pattern scheduling of some ABC programs would continue in later years; for example, WBRC aired All My Children on a one-day delay from its 1970 debut until it became a Fox station, and preempted the soap opera Loving throughout its 1986 to 1994 run.
Channel 6 originally planned to carry the entire Fox programming schedule when it switched to the network, including its children's program block, Fox Kids; it intended to air the weekday editions of that block from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday afternoons. However, in what would be the catalyst to a change in the carriage policies for Fox Kids that allowed stations the option of either airing the block or being granted the right to transfer the rights to another station in the market, Sinclair Broadcast Group approached WBRC about retaining the rights to Fox Kids for WTTO, which became an independent station on September 1; Fox allowed WTTO to retain the local rights to the block. WBRC also declined to carry Weekend Marketplace, the infomercial block that Fox replaced its remaining Saturday morning children's programming block with in January 2009; the rights were instead acquired by WABM. WBRC and WGHP were the only Fox-owned stations that did not air the network's children's program blocks until 2003, when now-former sister stations KTTV in Los Angeles and WFLD in Chicago moved the block to their UPN-affiliated sister stations (KCOP-TV and WPWR-TV).
News operation
WBRC presently broadcasts 64½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 11 hours each weekday, 4½ hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output in the state of Alabama. In addition, the station produces Fox 6 Sideline, a high school football program that debuted in September 1989 as an ABC affiliate, which airs Friday nights after the 10 p.m. newscasts during the fall. The station has the largest news staff of any television station in Alabama, with around half of its approximately 160 employees employed with the news department in on-air, administrative and production positions.
News department history
WBRC has been the ratings leader in the market for most of the last half-century, dating back to its tenure as an ABC affiliate. Its newscasts were also among the highest-rated local news programs in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s; WBRC had won practically every news timeslot for many years, with WAPI-TV/WVTM-TV coming in at a distant second until the mid-2000s; CBS affiliate WBMG/WIAT was not a factor for either station for most of its history (to the point where it did not even air any newscasts at three different periods between the early 1980s and February 1998). As a Fox station, WBRC has continued to maintain higher viewership than the other television news outlets in the market, although it has experienced tighter competition since the early 2000s against WBMA-LD and a resurgent WIAT (both of which currently engage in a spirited competition for second place); WBRC's 9 p.m. newscast has consistently ranked as one of the most-watched prime time newscasts in the U.S. for most of its run since its debut in 1996.
WBRC television's news operations began with the launch of the station in 1949, originally consisting of five-minute-long newscasts at sign-on and sign-off that were originally anchored by operations manager M.D. Smith III, who read wire copies of local news headlines over a slide of the station's logo. In September 1950, at which time newscasts were expanded to 15 minutes, anchor segments began to be conducted in-studio after it acquired camera equipment to recorded live programming; kinescopes of 16-mm film footage shot by a photographer for local stories and still photographs for illustration of national and international stories were used for story content. The station launched a full-scale news department in 1952, when it began operating from the former studios of the original WBRC-FM. Several members of the news department staff in its early years started at WBRC radio including news anchors Harry Mabry and Joe Langston (the latter of whom would also take on a management role as its director of news and editorial policy in 1969), and sports anchor Tom York. In 1969, former WSGN radio anchor Bill Bolen joined WBRC to replace Harry Mabry as the station's main news anchor; Bolen would remain a fixture at channel 6 (eventually becoming anchor of the station's weekday morning newscast in 1990) for 42 years until his retirement in 2010. In 1978, WBRC became the first television station in the Birmingham market to acquire a microwave truck for electronic news-gathering purposes, and became the first to provide live breaking news coverage on-scene.[34]
The station would not begin producing half-hour evening newscasts until 1979, eleven years after ABC expanded its national evening newscast to 30 minutes. Station management declined ABC's insistence that WBRC expand its 6:00 p.m. newscast to match the length of the ABC Evening News; however, the 15-minute local newscast beat The Huntley-Brinkley Report on WAPI-TV/WVTM and the CBS Evening News on WBMG in the ratings. In 1979, channel 6 became the first television station in Alabama to acquire a helicopter for newsgathering, "Chopper 6". In 1983, Bev Montgomery made history as the first African American to anchor a newscast in the Birmingham market when he was appointed anchor of the station's weekend evening newscasts. In 1988, the station acquired satellite news-gathering vehicles, "Skylink 6", to conduct and beam live remote footage transmitted to the studio via satellite.[34]
After WBRC became a Fox station in September 1996, the station shifted its programming focus heavily towards local news, increasing its output from about 25 hours a week to around 40 hours. The station retained all of the newscasts that existed during its final years as an ABC affiliate, but expanded its weekday morning newscast from one to three hours (with the addition of a two-hour extension, known for most of its run as Good Day Alabama, from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m.), and bridged the separate 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. newscasts on Monday through Friday nights to form a 90-minute early-evening news block (by adding a half-hour newscast at 5:30). Channel 6 also launched a prime time newscast at 9:00 p.m. to compensate for the lack of prime time programming provided by Fox during that hour; however, it filled the 9:30 p.m. half-hour with syndicated programs (originally reruns of Seinfeld, then from 1997 afterward, Jeopardy!) as a tentpole between the 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts from the September 1996 switch until September 2002, when it expanded the prime time newscast to one hour (WBRC is one of several Fox stations that offer newscasts in both the final hour of prime time and the traditional late news timeslot, one of the few affiliated with the network that runs a nightly newscast in the latter slot and one of the few to continue its Big Three-era late-evening newscast after switching to Fox). In addition to compensating for the absence of daily national morning and evening newscasts on Fox's schedule, the expansion of WBRC's news lineup also filled timeslots vacated by the departures of Good Morning America and World News Tonight through the discontinuance of its ABC affiliation. WBRC also lost several longtime anchors and reporters to the W58CK/WCFT/WJSU trimulcast at that time, including news anchors Linda Mays and Brenda Ladun, meteorologists James Spann (who himself reportedly left WBRC due to his disapproval over the edgier content of Fox's programming) and Mark Prater, and sports anchor Mike Raita.
In 2009, WBRC became a founding member station of the Raycom News Network, a service created to allow the sharing of news resources among the four Raycom-owned television stations that serve Alabama - including NBC affiliate WSFA in Montgomery, NBC affiliate WAFF in Huntsville and ABC affiliate WTVM in Columbus, Georgia (the latter of which includes a portion of eastern Alabama in its service area) - which combined, cover almost half of Alabama's population. The service allows the stations to pool story content seen on the stations' newscasts and websites, as well as share information and newsgathering equipment (such as satellite trucks). The four stations also comprise the Raycom Weather Network and the Raycom Alabama Weather Blog, where meteorologists from all four stations post forecasts and storm reports, and which provide live feeds from cameras and Doppler weather radar systems that each of the stations operate (the only Raycom-owned station in Alabama that does not participate in the arrangement is fellow Fox affiliate WDFX-TV in Dothan, whose news programming is produced by WSFA under a news share agreement).
On July 14, 2009, the station eliminated its Saturday evening 5:00 p.m. newscast due to budget cutbacks at the station spurred by the economic downturn.[35] On October 26, 2009, WBRC became the second television station in the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston market (after WVTM-TV) - and the third station in Alabama - to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the news set and the graphics were also redesigned as part of the transition.
On September 12, 2016, the station debuted a 4:00 p.m. newscast, placing the station in competition with WVTM and WBMA, which have both aired 4:00 p.m. newscasts for several years.
David Neal lawsuit
In May 2008, David Neal (who had been with WBRC since 1997) filed a breach of contract and fraud lawsuit against WBRC and members of the station's management team, after he was fired as chief meteorologist of the station's weather department without explanation that March.[36] The station denied any wrongdoing, and began defending the lawsuit.[37] In July 2008, the station announced that James-Paul Dice - a former meteorologist at CBS affiliate WHNT-TV in Huntsville - would replace Neal as chief meteorologist.[38] On July 29, 2008, the parties to the lawsuit filed a stipulation of dismissal, stating that the dispute had been resolved in mediation. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed.[39] Neal now works for WeatherNation as chief meteorologist.
On-air staff
Notable former on-air staff
Wynette Byrd (Tammy Wynette) - featured performer on Country Boy Eddie (later became established country music artist; deceased)
Jonathan Elias - reporter (1988-1990) currently anchor/reporter for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.
Fannie Flagg - co-host of The Morning Show (1960s; later comedian and writer for Candid Camera)
Eli Gold - sports anchor (1981-1989; now University of Alabama football play-by-play announcer and host of the weekly radio call-in show NASCAR Live on MRN)
Mike Hogewood - sports anchor (1981-1986; later lead broadcaster for the Atlantic Coast Conference, now deceased)
Larry Langford - reporter (1970s; former mayor of Birmingham, now deceased)
Don Lemon - weekend anchor (1996-1997; now anchor and host of CNN Tonight on CNN)[40]
Harry Mabry - anchor (1960s-1970s; deceased)
James Spann - meteorologist (1989-1996; now at WBMA-LD)
Sally Wiggin - anchor/reporter (1977-1980; now at WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh)
Tom York - sports anchor/host of WBRC's long-running The Morning Show (1957-1989; retired)
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The MotoGP at Motorland Aragon lived up to the local's expectations, with Marc Marquez using strategy and some hard riding to take the win, having fought through the lead pack picking off the competition from Dovizioso and Lorenzo. Repsol Honda team mate Dani Pedrosa brought in the second place, while the third spot on the podium went to Ducati's Jorge Lorenzo, making it a trio of Spanish riders on the podium of the home event.
The start looked quite different, with Lorenzo taking off from pole and holding the lead through most of the early part of the race, with the two Yamahas giving chase, though Maverick Viñales lost his lead as he ran wide, allowing Valentino Rossi to take up the chase with Lorenzo, with Dovizioso and Marquez on his tail. Viñales became the lead of the second pack.
Rossi then showed why he is so widely respected – staying in contention for the lead despite coming back from a broken right leg in just over three weeks. However, despite a badly judged lunge that saw him overtake both Rossi and Lorenzo briefly, Marquez managed to fight his way up to the lead, while team mate Pedrosa picked off his pack and then hauled past Rossi and fought Loreno all the way to the wire, coming in ahead of the Ducati.
This win puts Marquez back in the lead of the championship with 224 points ahead of Andrea Dovizioso with 208 and Maverick Viñales with 196.


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Indiana Case Law › Indiana Court of Appeals Decisions › 1975 › Johnson v. State
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Johnson v. State
333 N.E.2d 307 (1975)
Lowell T. JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Plaintiff-Appellee.
No. 2-1074A255.
Court of Appeals of Indiana, Third District.
David F. McNamar, Steers, Klee, Sullivan, McNamar & Rogers, Indianapolis, for appellant.
Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., Walter F. Lockhart, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.
Before STATON, P.J., and HOFFMAN and GARRARD, JJ.
PER CURIAM
Appellant-defendant, Lowell T. Johnson, (Johnson) was convicted of possession of heroin, IC 1971, 35-24.1-4-1(c), Ind. Ann. Stat. § 10-3561(c) (Burns Supp. 1974). The sole issue presented on appeal is whether the trial court erred in admitting in evidence a duplicate original search warrant.
We affirm.
Premised upon information supplied by a reliable informant, an Indianapolis Police Officer sought and obtained a warrant authorizing the search of the residence and person of Johnson for illegal narcotics. Pursuant to a search based upon that warrant, the officers seized quantities of heroin.
At trial, Johnson objected to any testimony concerning the search until the State *308 introduced the warrant in evidence. When the State attempted to introduce the actual warrant served by the officers, Johnson unsuccessfully objected on the premise that the warrant was only a copy and it was not offered by the official custodian.
Johnson contends that before the State was entitled to introduce the testimony of the officers and the evidence obtained in the subsequent search, a valid warrant must have been introduced in evidence. It is Johnson's contention that, Ind. Ann. Stat. XX-X-XX-X (Burns Code Ed.), in conjunction with Ind. Rules of Procedure, Trial Rule 44(A)(1), require that copies of records must be certified by the official custodian to be admissible into evidence. Johnson argues that in the absence of the certification, the "copy" introduced did not suffice to prove the existence of a valid search warrant. Therefore, it was improper to admit testimony concerning the search and evidence obtained in the search.
We agree with Johnson's contention that copies of official records must be certified or introduced by the official custodian; however, the search warrant here involved was a duplicate original, not a copy. It is a well established principle that executed carbon duplicates of documents are to be regarded as originals. Recently, in Roberts v. State (1975), Ind. App., 328 N.E.2d 429, this Court stated:
"... [S]igned carbon copies of documents are to be regarded as duplicate originals, any of which may be received in evidence... ." 328 N.E.2d 429, 430.
clarifying that a duplicate original is tantamount to an original, not a copy.
The warrant introduced over Johnson's objection is a duplicate original, i.e., a carbon copy executed by the magistrate. It bears the official file stamp of a court clerk as well as the original signatures of the affiant officer and issuing magistrate.
Consequently, the duplicate original search warrant and the evidence subsequently seized based on that warrant were admissible.


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Biz / Auto
China to lead the world in vehicle electrification: Valeo
Hu Yumo
French auto parts maker Valeo said that around 4 million vehicles will be equipped with 48-volt systems in China by 2023.
French auto parts maker Valeo said that around 4 million vehicles will be equipped with 48-volt systems in China by 2023, accounting for 13 percent of total vehicle production.
The company is optimistic on the 48-volt systems, which is a mild hybrid technology that combines a conventional internal combustion engine with a 48-volt electric motor. The system allows a car's electrical system to engage more with the functioning of the vehicle, thus promising higher fuel-saving capabilities.
Other international auto suppliers like Bosch, Continental, Delphi, and Johnson Controls are developing the technology, with some companies already starting mass production in the Chinese market.
"China will definitively become the leading country in the electrification of vehicles. Massive electrification needs affordable solutions, and 48-volt systems will become a promising field," François Marion, Valeo China President told Shanghai Daily.
The company said it is optimistic about the future prospects of mild hybrid technology because of China's dual credit policy and tougher emission control requirements. For automakers, they are required to reduce emissions by applying hybrid technology such as 48-volt systems into their cars.
China's government is actively promoting the development of new-energy vehicles in order to reduce emissions and clean up the skies in major cities.
China issued a regulation in September last year requiring automakers to produce a minimum number of non-polluting vehicles. Known as the dual credit policy, it requires carmakers to generate new-energy credits equivalent to 10 percent of sales in 2019, rising to 12 percent in 2020.
The regulation, which took effect in April this year, also includes targets for fuel economy and a credit-trading system aimed at saving energy and promoting green cars.
In early 2017, Valeo became the first global auto parts maker to build 48-volt systems in China. The company said it has offered the systems to more than 20 automakers globally. In China, Valeo has received 12 orders from carmakers for its 48-volt systems.
"Chinese carmakers show great interest in 48-volt systems and we hope to mass produce these systems in China in the coming future. Our 48-volt systems have been applied in car models under Chinese auto brands such as Changan and Geely already," said Michael Forissier, head of global R&D and product marketing director for Valeo Powertrain Systems.
Valeo's 48-volt systems have been applied in car models under Chinese automaker Geely.
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Ahmed, A 2015, Retiring to Spain : women's narratives of nostalgia, belonging and community , Policy Press, Bristol.
This book focuses on the lives of a group of women from the UK who moved to the Costa Blanca in Spain in retirement. We follow their journeys as they seek 'community' and belonging in a world characterised by rapid social change. Imbued with nostalgic yearning, community is hailed as a panacea to the ills of modernity and as a representation of social continuity. Nostalgia denotes the mourning of a lost home or place and a lost time - and in this way – the search for community and belonging can also be understood as a quest for another epoch. For many of these women, migrating in retirement symbolises a movement back in time as well as across space: they moved to Spain to escape Britain in an uncertain present, and to return to an imagined 'England' of the past. Women's different migration trajectories are disaggregated, considering return migration to the UK alongside permanent settlement in Spain and temporary residence, allowing for further exploration of what community and belonging mean to people in different contexts at different times, and how the search for community and belonging for some, also shape decisions to return 'home'. The women featured imagine and create their own solutions to feelings of dislocation, both in the UK and in Spain, against the backdrop of policy and political uses of community in the UK.


OLYMPIA, Wash. – Calling Mom on Mother's Day can be an expensive proposition if you're in prison. In Washington, people who are incarcerated pay a service charge from $3.50 to $4.95 per call, and another 89 cents per minute.
That's even higher than in Massachusetts, where advocates are challenging the prison phone rates, saying they create additional burdens for families trying to provide support for incarcerated loved ones. Attorney Lee Petro, an expert on prison telephone service contracts, says the prisons strike deals with service providers that include commissions or "kickbacks" to state and county governments.
"In states where there are preexisting contracts that involve commissions that are being paid to the local governments or state governments, a 15-minute phone call can cost more than $20."
In Washington, the average inmate spends about $50 a month on phone calls. The state Corrections Department says the phone contract commissions are put in what's called the Offender Welfare Betterment Account, which it says is used for family-friendly activities, TV systems, buying law library books, and unspecified capital projects.
Steven Renderos with the Center for Media Justice is an organizer of a Mother's Day of Action today. On the website PhoneJustice.org, his group is collecting stories about prisoners and families affected by the high-cost phone calls.
"It's an opportunity to elevate stories from families, from people who have loved ones behind bars. And we're going to send those stories directly to the FCC, because the Federal Communications Commission has a direct role to play in addressing the rates of phone calls within prisons."
Washington's contract is with a subsidiary of Global Tel-Link, an Alabama company that is the nation's largest prison phone service provider. Historically, the higher costs have been rationalized by the need to monitor jailhouse calls. Critics of the contract system say technology has brought those costs down, but inmates and their families continue to pay higher prices to stay in touch.


Lifestyle and community e-commerce platform Xiaohongshu (小红书) has completed its Alibaba-led Series D worth $300 million, with a valuation of $3 billion, local media is reporting.
Both new and old investors took part in the round, which also includes Jinshajiang Venture Capital, Tencent Investment, Jiyuan Capital, Yuansheng Capital, Tiantu Investment, Zhenwen Fund, and K11 Zheng Zhigang. The company will use the funds to expand its team, improve its technology, and grow its user base.
Xiaohongshu was founded in 2013 and currently has more than 100 million users and 30 million monthly active users (MAU), most of whom were born in the 90s. It allows users to share short videos and photos focussing on beauty, fashion, food, travel, and entertainment.
The founder of the company broke the news to employees in an internal letter, saying the company had built a virtual city that belongs to its users.
For Alibaba, the investment marks an indirect push into the international market. Xiaohongshu also allows users to share cross-border shopping information. The e-commerce giant's global revenue makes up 8% of its total. The company has been investing heavily in firms around Asia through funding in Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and Singapore.
Alibaba has made a number of investments in Lazada Group, South East Asia's biggest e-commerce platform, increasing its stake in the company in April 2016, June 2017, and March 2018. The company also has stakes in Tokopedia in Indonesia and BigBasket in India.


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Andrey Vyacheslavovich Budykin (; born 14 April 1971) is a retired Russian hammer thrower who won a bronze medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships. His career as a senior peaked in 1995, when he set his personal best at 79.70 m and was ranked ninth in the world. Later he lost his eyesight in an accident, but continued competing in the discus throw, becoming the national champion among handicapped athletes in 2011 and 2012, and finishing second in 2013. He was part of the 2014 Winter Paralympics torch relay.

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1971 births
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Q: Decrement number by clicking button until reaching 0 I'm working on a project and am a bit stuck. I am sure I am missing something but have not what exactly I'm missing.
I extracted the general concept of what I'm doing and threw it onto a JS fiddle.
So basically, I am wanting to decrement the displayed number (200) by a randomly generated number between a specified number range every time the button is clicked (using vanilla JS). Got it to work a bit. When the button is clicked, it does decrement.
However I am wanting to continue to decrement it until the displayed number is 0. The issue I'm running into however is, every time the button is clicked the displayed number updates but still subtracting from 200, not from the updated value.
For example, I can click once and the number will jump from 200 down to 189. When I click again, the number will actually jump up to say 195, meaning it's subtracting from 200 rather than subtracting the new generated amount from 189.
Jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/miguerurso/0wmtgd67/5/
html:

<button>decrement</button>

JS:
const numberCont = document.getElementById('number');
const button = document.querySelector('button');

let x = 200;

numberCont.innerHTML = x;

button.addEventListener("click", function(){
    function randomNum(min, max) {
        return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1) + min)
      }
      const randomNumResult = randomNum(7, 12)

     let updatedX = x - randomNumResult;

      numberCont.innerHTML = updatedX;
})

A: You need assign the updateX To x as well. Currently you are only giving it to the element. Try this.
const numberCont = document.getElementById('number');
const button = document.querySelector('button');

let x = 200;

numberCont.innerHTML = x;

button.addEventListener("click", function(){
    function randomNum(min, max) {
        return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1) + min)
      }
      const randomNumResult = randomNum(7, 12)

      x = Math.floor(0, x - randomNumResult);

      numberCont.innerHTML = x;
}

A: You're not actually changing the value of x to the new subtracted value. You'll have to do this to keep subtracting from the variable. I rewrote your event listener to change the value of x without going below 0.
button.addEventListener("click", function(){
    function randomNum(min, max) {
        return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1) + min)
    }

    x = Math.max(x - randomNum(7, 12), 0);

    numberCont.innerHTML = x;
})

A: Just change one line of code:
let updatedX = x - randomNumResult;
numberCont.innerHTML = updatedX;

with:
x = x - randomNumResult;
numberCont.innerHTML = x;

A: Subtract it from x instead of putting it into a new variable.
https://jsfiddle.net/sean7777/fvgchjb3/1/

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Q: Publishing Story in Facebook using Open Graph with custom property of type Profile only works with user nameID not ID I'm publishing a story using the iOS facebook API.
The Story (Share a bracelet) contains two objects, the "bracelet" which is being shared and the "receiver" (profile type) which is receiving the bracelet.
Everything goes fine when posting, no error received and when i inspect the object or action using the Graph API Explorer i see the properties filled.
The problem: The story only shows the property of type Profile when is posted using the Facebook NameID and it is not showed when used the ID of the user.
This is my definition of the Attachment of the story:

And this is my code to publish the action: (object is previously posted)
[FBRequestConnection startForPostWithGraphPath:@"me/objects/com_movetoshare:bracelet" graphObject:(NSDictionary <FBOpenGraphObject> *)@{@"object":shareDict} completionHandler:^(FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {
    if(!error) {
        // get the object ID for the Open Graph object that is now stored in the Object API
        NSString *objectId = [result objectForKey:@"id"];
        DLog(@"FB : PostShare : object id: %@", objectId);

        //here we have an Object. Must create an Action with that object linked
        // create an Open Graph action
        NSMutableDictionary<FBOpenGraphAction> *action = (NSMutableDictionary<FBOpenGraphAction>*)[FBGraphObject graphObject];
        action[@"fb:explicitly_shared"] = @"true";
        action[@"message"] = status;
        action[@"bracelet"] = objectId;
        action[@"receiver"] = fbReceiverID;
        // create action referencing user owned object
        [FBRequestConnection startForPostWithGraphPath:@"me/com_movetoshare:share" graphObject:action completionHandler:^(FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {
            if(!error) {
                DLog(@"FB : PostShare : Action id: %@", [result objectForKey:@"id"]);
            } else {
                // An error occurred
                DLog(@"FB : PostShare : ERROR posting Action to Open Graph: %@", error);
            }
        }];

    } else {
        // An error occurred
        DLog(@"FB : PostShare : ERROR posting the Open Graph object to the Object API: %@", error);
    }
}];

When the variable fbReceiver ID contains for example @"facesmo.depruebas" (my test user) it works and shows this:

but when the variable fbReceiver contains the user ID @"100002871792152" it publishes Ok but the profile data is not showedin the story. It shows:

The action has the property receiver defined as required so i can deduce that the data is correct.
Anyone knows why is it not showing when using ID instead of NameID?