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Random Cities: Billy Jaffe
November 21, 2011 by Stephen M. Lepore 1 Comment
Puck the Media's bi-weekly feature, Random Cities, takes you inside the world of broadcasting from an angle you might not have seen before. We take each personality through various cities that have impacted their life and/or career, and let them elaborate with stories and memories about each. Enjoy.
This Week's Subject: Billy Jaffe, currently a studio analyst for (deep breath) NHL Network, Rogers Sportsnet, NESN and MSG Network. He's also worked with Fox College Sports, NHL Radio and CSTV, among many others.
City #1: Chicago (1997-2000)
Billy Jaffe: Back in 1997, I fell into it with the Chicago Blackhawks organization, doing their radio analysis – not in-game but pre-game, intermission, post-game, and doing the coach's show – with no previous experience, and then it started picking up that year. I did two games on TV, one for the Wolves, one for Fox. Then the next year I fell into full time, I was able to do the Hawks full time on radio, and then I did the Chicago Wolves full-time, and college hockey.
PTM: Was that part of the era when, at times, the Wolves were a little more exciting than the Blackhawks?
BJ: Yeah, no question about it [laughs]. I have the honor of knowing that in my first year in broadcasting was the first time in 28 years that the Hawks didn't make the playoffs. They had some streak going, and my first year I fell into broadcasting, completely ass-backwards falling into it, they don't make the playoffs, but it's alright. I was really proud of that [laughs].
The Wolves were the younger brother in town, so to speak, but they were coming on. They were big then, they were huge. I'll never forget this, my first full year with them, I think it was the 98-99 season, they won the Turner Cup in the IHL. I'll never forget, it was Game 5 of the Turner Cup at the Rosemont Horizon (now the Allstate Arena) – it was Grand Rapids and Chicago, the Wolves were up 3-1 – and they have a chance to win it at home. The game was supposed to start at seven. The game didn't start until almost 7:40, because there were 5,000 people lined up outside the building for tickets. There was over 17-18,000 people in that building. It was unbelievable, and the place was literally rocking. It was great because there were seven goals scored in the first period, 4-3 Wolves, and they ended up losing the game, it was kind of a buzzkill. They ended up winning it in Grand Rapids the next game.
Puck the Media: You're from Chicago, worked with the Blackhawks, so do you appreciate just how big a turn-around they made once Rocky Wirtz and John McDounough took over the franchise, just how far they fell out and how far they came back?
BJ: No question. They were unfortunately irrelevant it many areas of Chicago. It's one thing to be on the low end of the popularity chain, it's another thing to be irrelevant. That's the worst thing you can be. On many levels they were, and it was very sad to see that. I can only tell you that I've gotten to know the people with the Hawks organization now and they're tremendous. They miss no detail, it's unbelievable how thorough, organized, prepared, everything they are.
Secondly, I can only tell you this: I have a lot of friends that for years, the crowd that's a little older than I am, in their late 40's/early 50's, were like "Eh, I go to Bulls games, I don't really go to hockey games." And now, in the last five years, oh my God, they're all going to hockey. They're all back, they're all Hawk fans. I don't know, they probably all have the Indian Head tattooed on their backsides [laughs]. It's the hottest thing, it's the greatest thing, and they put on such a good show, such a good product, it's great.
City #2: Atlanta, GA (2001-2006)
PTM: I talked to Pete Weber last time I did this, and I talked about having to – as a broadcaster – get out in the community and be an ambassador for the franchise. Did you experience some of that working for the Thrashers?
BJ: Yeah, a lot of it, I loved that. I went to the Thrashers in their second year, and it was made clear that the Thrashers broadcasters, all four of us, it was – I won't say expected, it wasn't an order – like "Hey, you know we want you to help build the brand down there." I loved that, I absolutely loved that. I loved being involved, whether it was through hockey school, playing a lot of golf outings in little places in Georgia, where they didn't know an awful lot about hockey. As far as I'm concerned, that is a part of the responsibility of broadcasters, especially for – and I think Pete would say the same thing – new teams a lot of times, broadcasters are the voices people become familiar with more than players right away. I think it's important to do and I love it.
I really got involved with it there, with the Atlanta Thrashers hockey schools with Darren Eliot, a dear friend and wonderful broadcaster. Darren really did a lot, and I helped out as one of the instructors. Then I did my own adult hockey camp down there. There was a program that the Atlanta Spirit group ran, where we went to schools. During the season it was hard to do, but during the off-season and even during the lockout – I was going to schools once a week – it was a great learning to read program, incorporating hockey and basketball. It was a lot of fun, very important, and I just think that if you're with a team, you're part of it. If you can help out in any way, especially Atlanta in that kind of market, I'm willing to do it.
PTM: Obviously, the Thrashers had to move after last season. Did that affect you in a big way, having been there from almost the start?
BJ: You know, it affected me because the guys that were still there working as broadcasters and especially the hockey ops. people and the trainers, equipment managers, people that were involved on a day-to-day basis, I know what that meant for them, it meant no more work. That's hard. We're such a small industry. When you lose an opportunity, and everybody's going to at some point, it happens to all of us, some times more than once. But when it happens, it's really hard, and you think to yourself, "Oh my God, how am I going to get myself back in." It's a really small industry. When I saw that happen to my friends – thankfully they're all still working – but right away that really bothered me the most, the people who were going to have issues with work.
I'm disappointed that the team isn't there, but there were indications for a few years that there were issues, and they never rectified, and because of that they had to make a move. It's a shame, I know there's a hardcore fanbase there, but any business knows you need more than just a hardcore fanbase to survive. Any business, in any industry.
PTM: With Winnipeg, it just seems like there's not merely a hardcore fanbase, it's just "the thing" to do there. Hockey has sort of an advantage in Canada and the Northern parts of the U.S. where it's not just part of the lifeblood, it's also cool.
BJ: Well, in Atlanta for the first few years it was extremely cool to go there. I mean, it was the in thing, and Atlanta's a very trendy… there's a lot of people there that follow the trends. It was very hip and hot, and then the team not winning obviously makes a big difference. I would argue that, yes, Canada has an obvious advantage for it's inheritance of their game and everything, but even the Canadian teams who are selling out 99% of the time, they still have to make it kind of the hip, fun thing to do. They have to. It's just the way we are now in the school. They need to have the fun thing to do, you need a good product, but you need a good product in many ways.
I think with better ownership, and better result, I think Atlanta could have survived. It was taking hold, but then there were some major mistakes made.
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Random Cities: Pete Weber
November 7, 2011 by Stephen M. Lepore 2 Comments
This Week's Subject: Pete Weber, the play-by-play voice of the Nashville Predators since, as he says, the first day of training camp in September of 1998. He's also been a broadcaster for the Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres, and outside of hockey, the Buffalo Bills and Seattle SuperSonics. Weber generously took some time from his day his day off to speak to me from his hotel in San Jose.
City #1: Nashville, TN
Puck the Media: What did you know about Nashville before you got there?
Pete Weber: In a way I cheated, Steve, because I was doing Triple-A baseball for 16-17 years. Nashville and Buffalo were in the same the league. From 1985-95, I was going there three or four times a year, and my in-laws were in Knoxville. We had great familiarity with it, so we had a little bit.
My last year doing Buffalo Bison games coming in there, they had a referendum in June of '95, when it was still looking like maybe the Devils would move there. This was critical – you understand the cultural differences – that they were going to decide whether or not, since the new building was within 300 feet of a church's front door, whether they would be allowed to sell certain spirituous beverages within it's confines, and when that passed, it was pretty well taken care of. It was two more years before the league announced the four new franchises provisionally.
PTM: Here's what I remember about Nashville when they started out: the crowds were energetic, and they really tried to connect themselves with the community, inviting country acts – which they still do – to play during the intermissions. How do you remember them sort of getting into the community from the start?
PW: I officially joined the club the first day of the first training camp, so that would be September 12, 1998. Some of those initiatives had already begun. There were the huge billboards around town with blacked-out teeth for Laurie Morgan and Vince Gill, and just had the slug-line: "Got Tickets?"
I think there'd been maybe two or three days of practices, and we were given this blanket invitation – everybody in the front office, all the team members – to go out to a certain hockey mom's house … Barbara Mandrell. Her two boys – at that point in time there was only one sheet of ice in the town other than the arena – so she had been trundling them up at four or five o'clock in the morning to get their precious practice time, if not later. She has been a booster of the team from the very outset, so yeah, it has been ingrained.
Vince Gill sits by my wife's tickets. In the wintertime, The Grand Ole Opry is back downtown at Ryman Auditorium, which is catacorner from the building. Vince, being a member of The Grand Ole Opry has some obligations to appear so many times. Since the show is in half-hour increments, he will go over and host and come back for the game, during those November through February months. It's very funny to watch, which I'm able to do more when we have a radio game as opposed to a TV game.
PTM: Country music in Nashville is much like going down Broadway and seeing all the musicals. When you get to the playoffs, what sort of atmosphere do you see there? How has it grown since the Predators first made the playoffs in 2004 to last year, when it got as probably as big as it's ever gotten?
PW: It's always a question of "when a tree falls in a forest, do you hear it?" I don't think anybody really heard it until the descent of Vancouver and Canadian media for the second round of the playoffs last year. They actually were able to report on it and were overwhelmed by it. Prior to that, I'd have to say that Nashville was a hockey secret, maintained within the confines of the Sutter family. They would always bring whatever team – be it San Jose in the early years, Calgary now – into town as early as they possibly could, would hold team meetings in Tootsies, and leave some indentations on the walls there as a result of some of their team meetings and get after it.
The music industry has been a tremendous partner for the Predators, it really has, and it's fun to see how that interaction has worked. Now, for me, I'm a Crosby, Stills, Nash guy, okay? So, we come to town, and my wife and I are in a store and my phone rings. It's one of my radio broadcast buddies who's in town for CRS, the Country Radio Seminar, which takes up about a week every fall. He said, "Hey, you wanna come? We got a private concert tonight at the Hard Rock." I did not recognize the name, I said, "I don't think so, thank you Nick" and I hung up. My wife said, "Who'd he want us to see?" and I said, "I don't know, some … Dunn and Brad Street?" It was Brooks & Dunn. It just didn't register with me. So we called him back quickly and went downtown to that little get together, which was interesting. Somebody I met at the bar, it turned out, I worked on my first job in radio with in my hometown, Galesburg, Illinois in 1973, now had become Nashville's Radio & Records correspondent.
PTM: You and Terry Crisp have been there since day one. Do you necessarily feel your role is as ambassadors to the rest of the city? How important is it for broadcasters to make that connection between the fans and the players?
PW: I don't want to overstate self-importance or the role, but I think that, yeah, Terry and I have had to do that. Particularly, when you consider the turnover in players especially in the early years. I'm thinking about this a lot now, because [this Saturday] the franchise celebrates it's 1,000th regular season game when Montreal comes to town. This has been an absolute blur going after it.
For the most part, speaking engagements, pure speaking engagements, or the variety of Hockey 101 classes that we have taught over the years. I knew, and perfectly accepted it going in, that not only was there going to be a teaching component, but coaches and players can't spend all that time out in the community. We did and did so gladly. I have regular radio hits that I do throughout the course of the week but I am ready, willing and able to do the local TV news shows and all of that. It's been a fun time. I've gotten a chance to meet a lot of people that I normally would not have.
PTM: Now that the Predators have been in the playoffs multiple times since '04, they've made it to the second round, you see the attendance figures are pretty great just on regular nights. Are we getting to the point where the questions are starting to die about whether or not Nashville is a hockey market or not?
PW: Well, I don't know if they have from the outside, but they have from the inside. What's now, after the signing [Thursday] of Pekka Rinne, I think that's changed a lot of outlook from the outside. Some people said "Woah, you've got that money and you've still got money for more?" Yeah, that's the story. That's the commitment ownership is more than willing to make to bring back Ryan Suter and Shea Weber as well. I think that will change that perception.
PTM: I think especially compared to the struggles the league has had in other markets, people have sort of forgotten to worry about Nashville, and while they've forgotten to worry, Nashville has gotten better and better to the point where you don't need to worry about it at all at this point.
PW: Yeah, Crispy and I were just talking this morning, as we were still in Glendale, and thinking what a gorgeous set-up that is, and how lonely we felt last night. [The Coyotes] have Edmonton coming in [last Saturday night] and they have their 'Buck Bash' – $1 concession items including beers – so it's gonna' be interesting to see. I hope they can make it there, but I can understand the reluctance of the fans to sign on and pour out their hearts and money for the team, not knowing if it's going to be there after this season. Three years of that. I thought we had it bad in the summer of 2007 but that's just been very tough, to be a fan there.
PTM: They also have to get people in there because Hockey Night in Canada will be there.
PW: That's right, and I think most of those cut off people Monty Hall used in Let's Make a Deal in the later years, I think most of them have been bought up from other places.
Random Cities: John Buccigross
October 24, 2011 by Stephen M. Lepore Leave a comment
This Week's Subject: John Buccigross. He is in his 15th year with ESPN, six of which were spent hosting the seminal, Emmy-nominated NHL 2Nite.
City #1: Bristol, Connecticut
John Buccigross: Did a Sportscenter commercial with Wayne Gretzky, met and became friends with Ray Bourque, Barry Melrose, Darren Pang, Pat Verbeek, and close friends with Ray "Chicken Parm" Ferraro. The Sportsnation show is now taped in the old NHL 2Nite studio. Sometimes I will walk in there when nobody else is there and gently sob.
Steve Lepore: Do you have a particular favorite story from the NHL 2Nite days?
JB: Probably the night we followed the Flyers-Penguins 5 OT game and, as we were doing our post game show, I forgot who had just played – my brain was so fried.
SL: What do you think shows like NHL Overtime and On the Fly could do to improve this season? Is it victory enough that we're back to having hockey highlights on TV every night?
JB: Have me, Melrose and Ferraro do the show! It's never been a better time to be a hardcore hockey fan for highlights and discussion and information. If you have NHL Network, a working computer, Versus, and Satellite Radio you have zero to complain about.
City #2: Pittsburgh, PA
JB: Pittsburgh is where me and two buddies "borrowed" one of our parents cars, drove to Pittsburgh, bought 1 ticket from a scalper, gave it to a dude who opened a side door to the Civic Arena and we snuck in to watch a Penguins-Minnesota North Star game. On the way home to Ohio we paid for gas with 3 rolls of pennies.
City #3: Columbus, OH
JB: I attended the first game in Columbus Blue Jackets history and then-Blue Jacket beat writer Michael Arace – now a singular Dispatch columnist – bequeathed me the duty of handing out the first "Three Stars" in Columbus history. The first #1 star in Blue Jacket history? The Blackhawks Rito Von Arx. Or Tony Amonte. One of the two.
SL: Would winning cure all in that city? Do you think it could become similar to a Buffalo or a San Jose, a market where there's a solid enough cult of diehards to sustain the franchise?
JB: Columbus is a terrific sports city with plenty of people that would perform just as well as Buffalo and San Jose if they were able to construct a relevant NHL franchise. Lots of corporations and the only official pro game in town. Poor management and poor player personnel decisions have put them in the danger zone. They've just never had people in place with a good feel on how to pick and choose people. I'm not convinced they are close. They better be better, but better is not enough. The city will embrace a winner. Big time.
City #4: Anaheim, CA
JB: Game 6, Paul Kariya gets knocked out by Scott Stevens. He comes back and scores. I interviewed him after the game for Sportscenter. I wore an orange tie that night. I still have it, and whenever I wear it, I think of Anaheim, 2003.
City #5: St. Paul, MN
JB: 2004: All Star Game. The first time I interviewed/met Mark Messier. The palpable energy he emits in person is overwhelming. He was a mental volcano.
SL: That seems like the last time the NHL All-Star Game was at all creative, entertainment-wise. Barenaked Ladies played outside pre-game, the Skills Competition was still exciting, and the jerseys were rad. Can the All-Star Game still matter?
JB: That was the last All Star Game I've been to so I can't compare it. It was great, though. You forgot Cheap Trick at the Metrodome.
City #6: Tampa Bay, FL
JB: I'm in the locker room with a CBC camerman and reporter and an RDS camerman and reporter following Game 7. Just the six of us. It would be the last game before the NHL lockout and the last NHL game ESPN would produce until at least the year 2022. In walks Dave Andreychuk with the Stanley Cup as we hear the crowd screaming above. The Lightning captain plops down the Cup down in my middle of the Lightning dressing room. And leaves. Silence. Awe. Goosebumps. The End.
SL: You mention it being the final ESPN game. Now, ESPN had a contract for next season, but we all knew the lockout was looming large, was there a sense for the ESPN folks that this might be the end of an era?
JB: I do not recall a sense that this was it for hockey at ESPN. But there were signs from the Executive Tower, with Mark Shapiro's evangelist personality in place, that things were changing, that the NHL/ESPN era was changing fast. NHL 2Nite, the first ESPN2 show nominated for an Emmy, was no longer a nightly show. It was only on after ESPN2 games.
The culture at ESPN at that time was different than it was before and the way it is now. The NBA was now a partner, which has turned out to be an excellent decision-I believe it helped diversify ESPN. The NFL was continuing to be a mushroom cloud of cash and success and Shapiro was thinking big outside the batter's box- movies, cell phones, Hollywood-and he clearly felt the NHL was a drag compared to the 120 million dollar rights fees – which it was at the time. Low scoring, slow games, lacking speed, youth, and skill.
But Shapiro didn't see the potential. He didn't know who Sidney Crosby was. Or Alex Ovechkin. Or Evgeni Malkin. He should have asked me. I could have told him after the lockout there would be an infusion of youth, no more hooking, and shootouts. But he torched the NHL relationship and then he quit ESPN and that was that.
I think that Shapiro era, however, was necessary in terms of expanding the vision of ESPN, creating as much of an edge a corporation can engineer, and energizing this incredibly successful company with youth and energy. It took a long time to get a gym here. The cafeteria was two vending machines when I arrived here. Now the cafeteria is immaculate and diverse. The campus was bland and sloppy. Now the grounds are immaculate and it's like working at a sports amusement park. Maybe that would have happened anyway, but Shapiro was energetic, in shape, dressed well, and had a production backround with success so he did, in my opinion, make a contribution with his energy. I wasn't in negotiating rooms so maybe others have either a more positive or negative view of him
I also think the era was useful in understanding our DNA to make better business decisions as a network like John Skipper's recommendation of heavily investing in World Cup soccer. I put our South Africa World Cup production against any Super Bowl. It reminded me of CBC's NHL coverage and that made me really proud. Nobody produces live events right now like ESPN. We keep getting better in that regard. I would love to see us do an NHL hockey game right now.
I believe ESPN executive team now is by and large, terrific. Great people and great minds led by the cool and classy George Bodenheimer, our President. That dude is legit. If you can't do a deal with him, you can't do a deal. He actually would make a great commissioner of a sport as well. There is nothing worse than working for people you don't respect and that, with very few exceptions, is not the case at ESPN.
ESPN is a terrific place to work. The company continues to grow and add jobs. It still has a pension, a 401K, and free Disney passes. The core group of people are smart, passionate, and hard working. End of story.
But, back to the NHL in 2004 and its relationship with ESPN. Simply put, while the NHL Executive staff was always and is great to work with, there were NHL teams, mostly the successful or large market, that were absolutely atrocious to deal with. Arrogant, old thinking, lazy, and/or rude. We would have to beg and plead to get the most elementary of requests. I did multiple LA Kings stories because they were so great to deal with and so forward thinking. Individual owners and Board of Governor members were dragging the sport down.
In-game interviews with coaches and players? We would have been stabbed in the neck if we made that request. It was probably a combination of Shapiro pushing hard, too hard in spots, and the NHL being behind the times in 2004 in terms of how the league, starting with the owners, thought about the game and marketing it.
Clearly, that has changed for the better. The lockout reset the egos and the fan is better off for it. The NHL has an excellent website, an excellent NHL Network, and teams with 21st Century PR staffs. Not having them as a partner at ESPN has been a void for me, and I think the network, but with Melrose still here and my ESPN.com blogumn/vlogumn going on its 11th year, I still feel connected.
Random Cities: Bob Miller
This Week's Subject: The legendary Bob Miller, who has been the play-by-play voice of the Los Angeles Kings (currently on FS West) since 1973. He is a recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, and is the only man associated with hockey to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
City #1: Nashville, Tennessee
Bob Miller: I like country music. I play guitar, but not real well, so Nashville is one of my favorite NHL cities. We stay downtown, so the country music honky-tonks are just a block away. I especially like it when we are in Nashville a day before we play. I visit the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Grand Ole Opry and at night go to the various music places.One of the most famous is Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, located right behind the world famous Ryman Auditorium, the home of the Grand Ole Opry. The story goes that in the heyday of the "Opry" the various performers would go to Tootsie's, and play a few songs until they had to be on stage at the Opry. They would then go out the back door of Tootsie"s and on stage at the Ryman.One day I was in Tootsie's, having a cranberry juice by the way, when the performer on stage asked if anyone would like to come on stage and sing. I was tempted but chickened out. It would have been my chance at glory in Nashville.One night, my former partner on the telecasts on L.A., Pete Weber, now the voice of the Nashville Predators, and his wife Claudia got us backstage at the Opry while the show was in progress. It was a thrill to see behind the scenes and meet the performers personally.I'm happy that Nashville is in the NHL.
City #2: London, England
BM: In the 2007-08 season the Kings opened with regular season games in London, England. We played the Anaheim Ducks in two games at the beautiful O2 Arena located on the shores of the Thames River. Our hotel was also right on the river at Canary Wharf and due to the traffic congestion in London it was faster to take sightseeing boats to the Arena. It was the first time in Kings history that the team went to games in boats.
It was thrilling to see 18,000 fans at the games in London wearing not only NHL jerseys of their favorite teams but also the jerseys of numerous European hockey teams. The oddity was that the Kings and Ducks travelled some 5,000 miles to play each other when they are located only 30 miles apart in Southern California.
City #3: Montreal, Quebec
BM: The most exciting finish to a Kings season was in 1993. The Kings did not have a great regular season, finishing third in the Smythe Division with 39 wins and 88 points. But, the playoffs were a different story. Led by the hot goaltending of Kelly Hrudey, the Kings, in spite of opening every playoff series on the road, advanced to the Stanley Cup finals. The Kings beat Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto to earn the right to play Montreal for the Stanley Cup.
I went to the media headquarters at a Montreal hotel to get my press credentials. While in the elevator returning to the lobby, a woman asked me, "What is the Stanley Cup?" I couldn't believe my ears, getting that question in Montreal of all places. I began looking for Alan Funt because I thought I was on Candid Camera. She explained that she was from the United Kingdom so I told her the Stanley Cup was like the World Cup in soccer. As the elevator doors opened there was the Stanley Cup on display in the lobby so she got a first hand look.
Unfortunately after winning game one, the Kings lost four straight, three in overtime, and Montreal won the cup 4 games to one.
City #4: Anaheim, California
BM: I guess I would be the answer to the trivia question, "Who was the first voice of the Mighty Ducks?" I have never worked for the NHL Ducks but I was the play by play announcer in the Disney movies Mighty Ducks and D2: The Mighty Ducks.
The first film I simply did the play by play voice which we recorded at the same Disney studio where they recorded Alice in Wonderland. In Mighty Ducks 2 I had a scene on camera, and I don't think I would enjoy being a movie actor. Too much time is spent waiting to do your scene.
I was told to be at the arena in Anaheim, which is 70 miles from my house, at 10 a.m. Just before I left my house at 8 a.m. they called an said to be there at noon. I arrived at noon to do my 30 second scene but we didn't film it until 7:30 that night.
The funny part of being in those films was that during the NHL season several players in the league said to me, "You're on in my house every day". Their kids would watch those movies every day of the week.
City #5: Los Angeles, California
BM: In spite of popular belief the Kings have had numerous exciting moments since coming into the NHL in 1967.
In the 1982 playoffs, the Kings staged what is still the greatest single game comeback in Stanley Cup Playoff history. It took place on April 10, 1982. The Kings and heavily favored Edmonton Oilers were tied at one game apiece in their best of five opening round. That night the Oilers had a 5-0 lead at the end of two periods. In the third period the Kings scored 5 unanswered goals, the last one with 0:05 seconds left to tie the game and sent it into overtime. The Forum in L.A. was in a frenzy. Two and a half minutes into overtime rookie Doug Smith won a faceoff in the Oilers zone and another rookie Daryl Evans sent a laser shot over the right shoulder of goalie Grant Fuhr and the Kings won 6-5.
That game has lived on in Kings history as the "Miracle on Manchester" named after the street that ran past the Forum. The most exciting moment for Kings fans, off the ice, was on August 9, 1988 when the Kings acquired Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers in a trade that shocked the sports world. Kings fans snapped up 4,000 season tickets in a few days and the team became the highest profile team in the NHL.
On October 15, 1989 Gretzky became the greatest scorer in NHL history passing Gordie Howe with his 1,851st point. I was fortunate enough to call the play by play of that historic moment and capped the call of his record setting point by saying, "The Great One has become the greatest of them all, the all time leading scorer in the history of the National Hockey League."
The second historic night came in Los Angeles on March 23, 1994 when Gretzky became the greatest goal scorer in NHL history with his 802nd goal, again passing Gordie Howe. I capped that call by saying, "Wayne Gretzky's NHL record book is now complete, he's the all time leader in points, assists and now with his 802nd goal the all time leading goal scorer in the history of the National Hockey League."
Another thrilling moment for Kings fans was in the spring of 1993 when the Kings played Montreal in the Stanley Cup Finals. After the first two games in Montreal, which the teams split, the series shifted to the Forum in Los Angeles. The night of June 5, 1993 was a night Kings fans had been waiting for a long time. I remember seeing fans below our TV booth toasting each other with champagne as the Stanley Cup was paraded out to center ice. It was a sight some Kings fans thought they would never see. Unfortunately the fans never got to see it on the ice again as Montreal won the series four games to one.
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Winnipeg, Manitoba is in or near the cool temperate steppe biome whereas Ouarzazate is in or near the subtropical desert biome.
The annual average temperature is 16.5 °C (29.7°F) cooler.
Total annual precipitation averages 392.4 mm (15.4 in) more which is equivalent to 392.4 l/m² (9.63 US gal/ft²) or 3,924,000 l/ha (419,502 US gal/ac) more. About 4 1/2 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 18.9° lower in Winnipeg, Manitoba than in Ouarzazate.
The table shows values for Winnipeg, Manitoba relative to Ouarzazate. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Ouarzazate vs Winnipeg, Manitoba.


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Microbeam analysis — Electron probe microanalysis — Quantitative point analysis for bulk specimens using wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
ISO 22489:2006 specifies requirements for the quantification of elements in a micrometre-sized volume of a specimen identified through analysis of the X-rays generated by an electron beam using wavelength-dispersive spectrometers fitted either to an electron probe microanalyser or to a scanning electron microscope.
It describes the principle of the quantitative analysis, the general coverage of this technique in terms of elements, mass fractions and reference specimens, the general requirements for the instrument, and the fundamental procedures involved, such as specimen preparation, selection of experimental conditions, the measurements, the analysis of these and the report.
It is intended for the quantitative analysis of a flat and homogeneous bulk specimen using a normal incidence beam. It does not specify detailed requirements for either the instruments or the data reduction software. Operators should obtain information such as installation conditions, detailed procedures for operation and specification of the instrument from the makers of any products used.
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Use this  plugin for publishing files and artifacts to GitHub releases. You
can override the default configuration with the following parameters:

* `api_key` - GitHub oauth token with public_repo or repo permission
* `files` - Files to upload to GitHub Release, globs are allowed
* `file_exists` - What to do if an file asset already exists, supported values: **overwrite** (default), **skip** and **fail**
* `checksum` - Checksum takes hash methods to include in your GitHub release for the files specified. Supported hash methods include md5, sha1, sha256, sha512, adler32, and crc32.
* `draft` - create a draft release if set to true
* `base_url` - GitHub base URL, only required for GHE
* `upload_url` - GitHub upload URL, only required for GHE

Sample configuration:

```yaml
publish:
  github_release:
    api_key: my_github_api_key
    files: dist/*
    checksum: sha1
```

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```yaml
publish:
  github_release:
    api_key: my_github_api_key
    files:
      - dist/*
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import { TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';

import { CalculosService } from './calculos.service';

describe('CalculosService', () => {
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  it('should be created', () => {
    const service: CalculosService = TestBed.get(CalculosService);
    expect(service).toBeTruthy();
  });
});


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You're set to destroy 2000 Trees 2018. What thoughts and feelings are floating around the SikTh camp at the moment?
We're feeling good. Lots of travelling this year – Australia, Japan, and South Africa. The band feels exciting. We are as inspired as ever, and playing as tight as ever.
We can't wait for 2000 Trees – such a cool location.
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If you could jam onstage with anyone, living or dead, who would you choose?
MJ on vocals, James Hetfield on rhythm guitar, Vinnie Paul on drums, John Deacon on bass, Nuno Bettencourt on lead, Billy Joel on keys. The greatest band ever. Well, maybe with the addition of Freddie Mercury.
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Q: Angular universal ssr use navigator (window or other browser-only native objects) From the docs:

For example, your server-side page can't reference browser-only native objects such as window, document, navigator, or location. If you don't need these on the server-rendered page, you can side-step them with conditional logic. Alternatively, you can find an injectable Angular abstraction over the object you need such as Location or Document; it may substitute adequately for the specific API that you're calling. If Angular doesn't provide it, you can write your own abstraction that delegates to the browser API while in the browser and to a satisfactory alternative implementation while on the server.

It makes sense the server can't access browser objects. But it can be achievend:

Alternatively, you can find an injectable Angular abstraction over the object you need such as Location or Document; it may substitute adequately for the specific API that you're calling.

Next:

If Angular doesn't provide it, you can write your own abstraction that delegates to the browser API while in the browser and to a satisfactory alternative implementation while on the server.

Where can I find which ones Angular provides and how can I use them? I'm specificly looking for the navigator.
If navigator is not provided by Angular, how can I write my own abstraction?
Side node: I used ng add @nguniversal/express-engine --clientProject angular.io-example to get started with ssr.

A: While I wouldn't recommend this approach, if you need the navigator object in Angular Universal, you might want to check the Domino project.
Then, in your server.ts file you would do something like this:
const template = readFileSync(join(DIST_FOLDER, 'index.html')).toString();
const win = domino.createWindow(template);

global['window'] = win;
global['Node'] = win.Node;
global['navigator'] = win.navigator;
global['Event'] = win.Event;
global['Event']['prototype'] = win.Event.prototype;
global['document'] = win.document;

And in the handler you could do:
app.engine('html', (_, options, callback) => {
  renderModuleFactory(AppServerModuleNgFactory, {
    // Our index.html
    document: template,
    url: options.req.url,
    // DI so that we can get lazy-loading to work differently (since we need it to just instantly render it)
    extraProviders: [
      provideModuleMap(LAZY_MODULE_MAP)
    ]
  }).then(html => {
    callback(null, html);
  });
});

See: https://mdbootstrap.com/angular/angular-universal/

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Country legend Merle Haggard dies on 79th birthday
By Jim Harrington | Bay Area News Group
Merle Haggard, one of the greatest country music artists of all time, died on Thursday — his 79th birthday.
It"s unclear what the cause of death was at this point. But the country legend, who is best remembered for such classic songs as "Okie From Muskogee," "The Fightin" Side of Me" and "Sing Me Back Home," had been fighting pneumonia in recent months.
The Associated Press reported that he died in California, citing Haggard"s manager.
Haggard, a California native, grew up in the Bakersfield area.
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Q: Video orientation issues when exporting with AVMutableVideoComposition Here is the function I used to export video:
- (void) videoOutput
{
//1 - Early exit if there's no video file selected
if (!self.videoAsset) {
    UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error" message:@"Please Load a Video Asset First"
                                                   delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alert show];
    return;
}

// 2 - Create AVMutableComposition object. This object will hold your AVMutableCompositionTrack instances.
AVMutableComposition *mixComposition = [[AVMutableComposition alloc] init];

// 3 - Video track
AVMutableCompositionTrack *videoTrack = [mixComposition addMutableTrackWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo
                                                                    preferredTrackID:kCMPersistentTrackID_Invalid];
[videoTrack insertTimeRange:CMTimeRangeMake(kCMTimeZero, self.videoAsset.duration)
                    ofTrack:[[self.videoAsset tracksWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] objectAtIndex:0]
                     atTime:kCMTimeZero error:nil];

// 3.1 - Create AVMutableVideoCompositionInstruction
AVMutableVideoCompositionInstruction *mainInstruction = [AVMutableVideoCompositionInstruction videoCompositionInstruction];
mainInstruction.timeRange = CMTimeRangeMake(kCMTimeZero, self.videoAsset.duration);

// 3.2 - Create an AVMutableVideoCompositionLayerInstruction for the video track and fix the orientation.
AVMutableVideoCompositionLayerInstruction *videolayerInstruction = [AVMutableVideoCompositionLayerInstruction videoCompositionLayerInstructionWithAssetTrack:videoTrack];
AVAssetTrack *videoAssetTrack = [[self.videoAsset tracksWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] objectAtIndex:0];

BOOL isVideoAssetPortrait_  = NO;
CGAffineTransform videoTransform = videoAssetTrack.preferredTransform;
if (videoTransform.a == 0 && videoTransform.b == 1.0 && videoTransform.c == -1.0 && videoTransform.d == 0) {
    isVideoAssetPortrait_ = YES;
}
if (videoTransform.a == 0 && videoTransform.b == -1.0 && videoTransform.c == 1.0 && videoTransform.d == 0) {

    isVideoAssetPortrait_ = YES;
}
if (videoTransform.a == 1.0 && videoTransform.b == 0 && videoTransform.c == 0 && videoTransform.d == 1.0) {
    isVideoAssetPortrait_  = NO;
}
if (videoTransform.a == -1.0 && videoTransform.b == 0 && videoTransform.c == 0 && videoTransform.d == -1.0) {
    isVideoAssetPortrait_  = NO;
}
[videolayerInstruction setTransform:videoAssetTrack.preferredTransform atTime:kCMTimeZero];
[videolayerInstruction setOpacity:0.0 atTime:self.videoAsset.duration];

// 3.3 - Add instructions
mainInstruction.layerInstructions = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:videolayerInstruction,nil];

AVMutableVideoComposition *mainCompositionInst = [AVMutableVideoComposition videoComposition];

CGSize naturalSize;
if(isVideoAssetPortrait_){
    naturalSize = CGSizeMake(videoAssetTrack.naturalSize.height, videoAssetTrack.naturalSize.width);
} else {
    naturalSize = videoAssetTrack.naturalSize;
}

mainCompositionInst.renderSize = naturalSize;
mainCompositionInst.instructions = [NSArray arrayWithObject:mainInstruction];
mainCompositionInst.frameDuration = CMTimeMake(1, 30);

// 4 - Get path
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *myPathDocs =  [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:
                         [NSString stringWithFormat:@"FinalVideo-%d.mov",arc4random() % 1000]];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:myPathDocs];

// 5 - Create exporter
AVAssetExportSession *exporter = [[AVAssetExportSession alloc] initWithAsset:mixComposition
                                                                  presetName:AVAssetExportPresetHighestQuality];
exporter.outputURL=url;
exporter.outputFileType = AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie;
exporter.shouldOptimizeForNetworkUse = YES;
exporter.videoComposition = mainCompositionInst;
[exporter exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler:^{
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        [self exportDidFinish:exporter];
    });
}];
}

The problem is that the first time I use this function to export a portrait video, the variable videoTransform (videoAssetTrack.preferredTransform) are:
videoTransform.a == 0 && videoTransform.b == 1.0 && videoTransform.c == -1.0 && videoTransform.d == 0

And the variable isVideoAssetPortrait_ equals YES. Everything is right. However, after exporting completed and saved to Camera Roll, I used this function reload the result video. This time, the videoTransform changed:
videoTransform.a == 1.0 && videoTransform.b == 0 && videoTransform.c == 0 && videoTransform.d == 1.0

And isVideoAssetPortrait_ equals NO. It means that after one time export, the videoTransform has changed it's values (orientation from portrait -> landscape)
I googled many questions about video orientation of AV Foundation, but there hasn't found the solution yet.
Thank you for reading my long explanation. If you have any question, please let me know.

A: There is no such concept as portrait/landscape regarding the video tracks. It has just it's   dimensions and a transformation applied in order to present it properly. By default the "portrait" video is encoded as it is produced by the camera (let say landscape) and a 90 degrees rotation used to present it properly.
When you export it, it's orientation is not changed, it is just recoded physically rotated, so no rotation is needed to present it properly.
This is why you get the identity matrix on the second time (it not means that it was changed from portrait to landscape), but this time the it's natural size is also swapped, and everything should be okay based on your code.
Please specify what's wrong in the later case.


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Die Vahr ist ein Stadtteil von Bremen und gehört zum Stadtbezirk Ost. Sie gehört zu den Ortsnamen, die im Deutschen mit Artikel benutzt werden. Charakteristisch für den Stadtteil ist die Bebauung mit vielen Wohnblocks sowie die vielen Grünflächen. Ebenso gibt es kleine Seen und Fleete, wodurch in der Vahr auch viele Enten und andere Kleintiere leben. Der Stadtteil ist in den öffentlichen Personennahverkehr integriert, so dass die Innenstadt mit der Straßenbahn oder dem Bus innerhalb von maximal 30 Minuten erreichbar ist. Zur guten Verkehrsanbindung trägt außerdem die Nähe zur A 27 bei.

In der Architekturgeschichte der deutschen Nachkriegszeit wurde der Stadtteil durch seine Neubauvorhaben bekannt, 2004 erlangte der Name des Stadtteils auch durch einen Roman von Sven Regener mit dem Titel Neue Vahr Süd überregionale Bekanntheit.

Geografie und Ortsteile

Die Vahr liegt im Nordosten Bremens zirka 5 km vom Stadtzentrum entfernt. Die benachbarten Stadtteile sind im Norden Oberneuland, im Osten Osterholz, im Südosten Hemelingen, im Südwesten die Östliche Vorstadt im Westen Schwachhausen und im Nordwesten Horn-Lehe.

Die Vahr wurde 1959 als neuer Stadtteil gegründet, mit den drei damals ebenfalls neuen Ortsteilen Gartenstadt Vahr, Neue Vahr Nord und Neue Vahr Süd. Diese Dreiteilung ist in der Umgangssprache immer noch üblich, obwohl die Neue Vahr Süd seit 1971 in zwei kleinere Ortsteile aufgeteilt ist.

Gartenstadt Vahr
Fläche: 1,86 km², 3447 Einwohner

Die Gartenstadt Vahr ist im Verhältnis zur Neuen Vahr weniger dicht bebaut und hat viele Grünflächen. Mit den Buslinien 21 und 25 sowie der Straßenbahnlinie 1 besteht eine Verkehrsanbindung in die Innenstadt sowie zur Universität.

Neue Vahr Nord
Fläche: 0,86 km², 8028 Einwohner

In der Neuen Vahr Nord gibt es viele Straßen, die – wie in den anderen Ortsteilen der Vahr auch – Namen von Persönlichkeiten des Widerstandes gegen den Nationalsozialismus, vor allem aber Namen der Mitbegründer der SPD tragen.

Die zentrale Straße ist die August-Bebel-Allee. Durch sie fährt von ihrer Verlängerung, der Paul-Singer-Straße, die Buslinie 24 direkt in die Innenstadt.

Neue Vahr Südwest
Fläche: 0,70 km², 4271 Einwohner

Die zentrale Straße der Neuen Vahr Südwest ist die Kurt-Schumacher-Allee, in der seit 1967 die Straßenbahnlinie 1 verkehrt. Der Ortsteil ist begrenzt im Norden durch die Richard-Boljahn-Allee (dahinter Neue Vahr-Nord), im Osten durch Karl-Kautzky-Str. und den Heinrich-Imbusch-Weg (dahinter Neue Vahr Südost), im Süden durch die Galopprennbahn Bremen (dahinter Sebaldsbrück) und im Westen durch den Straßenzug Vahrer Straße und In der Vahr (dahinter Gartenstadt Vahr).

Der östliche Teil des Ortsteils ist ein um 1960 erbautes reines Wohnquartier, damals erbaut als eine der fünf Nachbarschaften der Neuen Vahr.

Im nordwestlichen Teil steht seit 1938 eine Kaserne. Diese wurde von der Bundeswehr bis um 1994 genutzt. Das Gebäude ist seit 1999 das Polizeipräsidium der Polizei Bremen. Im hinteren Bereich entstand ein Gewerbegebiet. Das  Heizkraftwerk Vahr beliefert seit 1957 den gesamten Stadtteil mit Strom und Fernwärme. Im Dezember 1959 ging hier das europaweit erste Gasturbinen-Heizkraftwerk in Betrieb.

Im südwestlichen Teil standen an der Vahrer Straße alte Bauernhäuser, das letzte wurde erst 1978 abgerissen. In diesem Bereich gibt bereits seit den 1960er Jahren einen großen Supermarkt. An der Kurt-Schumacher-Allee wurde 1961 das Hallenbad Vahr erbaut, 1967 umbenannt in Herbert-Ritze-Bad, seit etwa um 2000 ersetzt durch das an gleicher Stelle neu gebaute Vitalbad Vahr, auch die meisten der heutigen Wohnhäuser in diesem Bereich entstanden erst um 2000.

Neue Vahr Südost
Fläche: 0,94 km², 7335 Einwohner

Östlich an die Neue Vahr-Südwest schließt sich die Neue Vahr Südost an, fast alle Gebäude in diesem Bereich stammen aus den frühen 1960er Jahren. Zentrale Straße ist ebenfalls die Kurt-Schumacher-Allee bzw. als deren östliche Verlängerung die Geschwister-Scholl-Straße.

Das Einkaufszentrum Berliner Freiheit wurde um 1960 gebaut, zunächst in der damals modernen offenen Bauweise, ab 2002 wurde es abgerissen und vergrößert neugebaut. Es liegt im Zentrum der Neuen Vahr und bildet zusammen mit dem 1977 eröffneten Bürgerzentrum auch das soziale Zentrum des Stadtteils. Daneben steht das weithin sichtbare 60 Meter hohe Aalto-Hochhaus, ein Entwurf des finnischen Architekten Alvar Aalto, das 22 Stockwerke besitzt und unter Denkmalschutz steht. Direkt daneben beginnt eine große Parkanlage mit dem Vahrer See.

Geschichte

Name
Der Name Vahr wurde Plattdeutsch um 1167 Vare oder Vora genannt und 1280 hieß es auch in den Voren, also in den Fuhren. Das bedeutet so viel wie Furche, Spurweg oder vielleicht auch Grenze. Die Bewohner waren die Vahrster.

Die Vahr vom Mittelalter bis 1950
Die Vahrer (Vurholter) Feldmark mit 700 Hektar lehmhaltigen Boden auf Sand wurde im Auftrag des Bremer Erzbischofs von Holländern, wie auch das nach ihnen genannte Gebiet Hollerland, ab 1113 urbar gemacht. Garten- und Ackerbau mit Weizenanbau konnten auf den ein wenig höheren Flächen nun zumeist stattfinden. Die Fleete führten nordwestlich zum Vahrer Fleet.

Die erste urkundliche Erwähnung der Vahr war 1185 in der Gründungsurkunde des Ansgarii-Kapitels. Die Vahr gehörte zum Goh Hollerland und zum Kirchspiel Horn mit seiner späteren Kirch- bzw. Volksschule. Urkundlich wurde 1404 das Dorfe Vora erwähnt, als ein Knappe Land vom Oute Schowenborch (Gut Schauenburg) erwirbt.

Ab dem 15. Jahrhundert unterstand das Hollerland dem Bremer Rat. Es entwickelte sich im 17. Jahrhundert ein kleines Dorf mit Wegen und einer Chaussee, in dem 1654 drei Höfe, ein Kötner und 17 Bau[ern]leute ansässig waren.

Von 1741 (Zweiter Stader Vergleich) bis 1803 stand die Vahr teilweise unter der Hoheit des Kurfürstentums Braunschweig-Lüneburg – später des Kurfürstentums Hannover. In dieser Zeit gehörte Gut Rosenthal, das spätere "Schloß" Kreyenhorst, zu den "drei Landgütern der Vahr" die unter bremischer Hoheit verblieben. Sie lagen östlich der Straße In der Vahr (heute Bürgermeister-Spitta-Allee).

Seit dem Reichsdeputationshauptschluss von 1803 war das Gebiet wieder Bremisch.

1812 hatte das Dorf Vahr 231 Einwohner. Das Gebiet wurde seit 1815 durch den Landherrn auf dem rechten Weserufer als Mitglied des Senats verwaltet. An der Vahrer (Vahrster) Straße lagen im 19. Jahrhundert fast alle Höfe. Diese Landstraße wurde vor 1900 mehrfach reguliert und saniert.

Seit 1850 entstanden in der Vahr mehrere Villen wohlhabender Stadtbürger. 1885 belief sich die Einwohnerzahl auf 650. Schon 1895 gründete sich der Bremer Golf Club, als Vorläufer des 1905 gegründeten Club zur Vahr. Der Bremer Rennverein legte 1905 bis 1907 den Rennplatz in der Vahr an. Die Vahr, die seit 1871 zur Landgemeinde Horn gehörte, wurde 1921 gemeinsam mit Horn in die Stadt Bremen eingemeindet. Die Kaserne Vahr wurde im Zuge der Aufrüstungspolitik der Nazis 1938 fertiggestellt.

Das Gebiet der heutigen Gartenstadt Vahr bis 1950
Das Gebiet der heutigen Gartenstadt Vahr war ursprünglich ein Teil des Dorfes Hastedt und gehörte ab 1803 zur damals neu geschaffenen Landgemeinde Bremen. Es war nicht bewohnt, sondern wurde als Hastedter Feldmark von den Hastedter Bauern landwirtschaftlich genutzt. Im 19. Jahrhundert wurden hier zwei Eisenbahntrassen gebaut, die vom "Vahrer Weg" (ab 1930 Steubenstraße) gekreuzt wurden.

1900 war Hastedt zum Wohngebiet für Arbeiter geworden, die ihr eigenes Gemüse anbauen wollten, wurde der Kleingartenverein Feldmark Hastedt e. V. gegründet. Er lag aus Hastedter Sicht gleich hinter der Bahnlinie und besteht dort unter demselben Namen noch heute, inzwischen wohl die älteste Einrichtung der Gartenstadt Vahr und die einzige, deren Namen an die Zugehörigkeit des Gebietes zu Hastedt erinnert.

In den Folgejahren wurden zahlreiche weitere Kleingärten angelegt, die meistens nur wenige Jahrzehnte bestanden. Erhalten bliebem nur einige Gärten entlang der Bahnlinie, insbesondere die seit 1931 bestehende Anlage im Bereich "Im Deepen Pohl" / westliche Tannenbergstraße. Obwohl Schwachhausen, Hastedt und Sebaldsbrück dicht bebaut wurden, wurde die Hastedter Feldmark noch 1950 nur landwirtschaftlich und kleingärtnerisch genutzt. Es gab nur wenige Wohnhäuser am Rande, und die wenigen Einwohner waren meist aus ihren kriegszerstörten Wohnungen in ihre Kleingärten umgezogen.

Ab 1950

1951 wurde der Bremer Stadtteil Horn-Lehe gegründet, zu dem damals auch die Vahr gehörte. Die Hastedter Feldmark war inzwischen zwischen den Stadtteilen Schwachhausen und Hemelingen (Ortsteil Sebaldsbrück) aufgeteilt worden. Seit 1959 ist die Vahr ein eigener Stadtteil.

Weil nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg rund 100.000 Wohnungen in Bremen fehlten, wurde 1954/55 auf der Hastedter Feldmark begonnen, die Gartenstadt Vahr mit 2200 Wohnungen aufzubauen. 1956 entstand, beauftragt durch die Gewoba, ein Rahmenplan für die Bebauung der Vahr, aufgestellt von einer Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Architekten Ernst May, Max Säume, Günther Hafemann und Hans Bernhard Reichow sowie Wolfgang Bilau für viele Reihen- und Einfamilienhäuser. Karlaugust Orf war für die Grünplanungen zuständig. 280 Einwohner sollten pro Hektar in der Neuen Vahr wohnen, dazwischen intensives Grün. Von 1957 bis 1962 wurde beiderseits der Franz-Schütte-Allee die Neue Vahr mit rund 11.800 Wohnungen für 30.000 Einwohner auf 218 Hektar errichtet. Das Neubaugebiet wurde städtebaulich durch die von Karlaugust Orf geplanten Grünanlagen in fünf Nachbarschaften mit je einer Grundschule und einem kommerziellen Mittelpunkt gegliedert. Die Gewoba – zwischendurch Neue Heimat – war das Wohnungsunternehmen, das die meisten Wohnungen erstellen ließ. Die Vahr ist eine stark durchgrünte Großwohnsiedlung überwiegend in Zeilenbauweise, in der auch Reihenhäuser und einzelne Häuser stehen. Mittelpunkt der Neuen Vahr wurde das Zentrum an der Berliner Freiheit mit dem dominanten Wahrzeichen, dem 22-stöckigen Aalto-Hochhaus, das nach den Plänen des finnischen Architekten Alvar Aalto 1961 fertiggestellt wurde. Das baulich verdichtete Kurfürstenviertel  entstand nach 1962 mit dem so genannten Gebäude Großer Kurfürst von 1970 bis 1972 an der Eislebener Straße nach Plänen von Friedrich Spengelin (BDA-Preis Bremen 1974). In der Vahr wohnten um 1970 rund 33.000 Einwohner, die im Volksmund auch Vahraonen genannt werden.

Das Stadtteilzentrum an der Berliner Freiheit wurde um 1960 mit Geschäften und dem Wochenmarkt ausgebaut. 1961 übergab die GEWOBA das Herbert-Ritze-Bad als Geschenk dem Stadtteil. Es wurde 1993 geschlossen und auf dem Gelände 2000 das Vital-Bad errichtet.

1977 eröffnete das Bürgerzentrum als das kulturelle und soziale Zentrum des Stadtteils. Ab 2001 wurden Teilbereiche der Läden an der Berliner Freiheit abgerissen und die Vahrer Mitte 2003 mit einem Einkaufszentrum umgestaltet.

Das Polizeipräsidium wurde 1999 aus der Innenstadt in die ehemalige Kaserne der Bundeswehr verlegt. Der Nachbarschaftstreff Ludwig-Beck-Straße nahm 1999 in einem umgebauten ehemaligen Waschhaus seinen Betrieb auf.

Einwohnerentwicklung
Ab 1975 durchschnittliche Jahresbevölkerung als Angaben vom Statistischen Landesamt Bremen

2015 waren 15.295 Haushalte in der Vahr registriert. Das Durchschnittsalter lag bei 45,0 Jahren.

Politik, Verwaltung

Beirat
Der Beirat Vahr tagt regelmäßig und in der Regel öffentlich im Ortsamt oder in anderen Einrichtungen wie z. B. Schulen. Der Beirat setzt sich aus den auf Stadtteilebene gewählten Vertretern der politischen Parteien oder Einzelkandidaten zusammen. Die Beiratswahlen finden alle vier Jahre statt, zeitgleich mit den Wahlen zur Bremischen Bürgerschaft. Der Beirat diskutiert über alle Belange des Stadtteils, die von öffentlichem Interesse sind, und fasst hierzu Beschlüsse, die an die Verwaltung, die Landesregierung und die Stadtbürgerschaft weitergeleitet werden. Für seine Arbeit bildet er Fachausschüsse. Dem Beirat stehen für stadtteilbezogene Maßnahmen eigene Haushaltsmittel zur Verfügung.

Beiratssprecher ist seit August 2019 Bernhard Siegel (SPD).

Ortsamt
Das Ortsamt Schwachhausen/Vahr besteht seit 1971 und ist eine örtliche Verwaltungsbehörde. Es unterstützt den Beirat bei seiner politischen Arbeit. Es soll an allen örtlichen Aufgaben von öffentlichem Interesse mitwirken. Es wird von einem vom Beirat vorgeschlagenen und vom Senat bestätigten Ortsamtsleiter geführt.

Ortsamtsleiterin des Ortsamts Schwachhausen/Vahr ist seit 2021 Ralf Möller.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Bauwerke
 Aalto-Hochhaus von 1960/62, entworfen von Alvar Aalto, Finnland, BDA-Preis Bremen 1974: "Das Aalto-Hochhaus gilt als eine unverwechselbare, einprägsame Landmarke".
 Wohnanlage Großer Kurfürst, Eislebener Straße 35, von 1970/72, entworfen von Ingeborg Spengelin, Friedrich Spengelin und Gernot Baum (BDA-Preis Bremen 1974).
 Wohnanlage Vahr, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 1, von 1982 nach Plänen von Kurt Schmidt.
 Kirchen: siehe unten bei Öffentliche Einrichtungen, Absatz Kirchen.

Kunstobjekte

 Platz Berliner Freiheit, Neue Vahr:
 Sandsteinrelief Leben einzeln und frei von 1987; von Heinrich Brumm und Miroslav aus der Bildhauerwerkstatt der Justizvollzugsanstalt Bremen
 Bronzeplastik von 1987: Ich wär so gern Dein Teddybär von Thomas Recker
 Objekt als Dachaufsatz mit kinetischer Raute von 1990 von Tomitaro Nachi auf dem Dach der Post
 Bronzeskulptur Die Liegende von Seff Weidl von der Gewoba vor dem Bürgerzentrum
 Betonplastik Seelöwe von 1955 von Angelika Lehmann, Carl-Goerdeler-Straße 27
 Bronzeplastik Mutter und Kind von 1958 von Seff Weidl, Jugendfreizeitheim Bispinger Str. 16
 Bronzeplastik Einigkeit von 1959 von Seff Weidl, Heideplatz in der Gartenstadt
 Bronzeplastik Der Flötenspieler von 1963 von  Walter Wadephul, Otto-Braun-Straße 2
 Bronzeplastik Seelöwen von 1964 von Peter Lehmann und Angelika Lehmann, Paul-Singer-Straße 160
 In Bewegung: Wasser, Licht und Malerei durch 45 Leuchtkästen von 2003 von Jimmi D. Paesler, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 5
 Polyester-Skulpturenensemble Einkaufswagen von 2005 von David Bade, Philipp-Scheidemann-Straße

Grünanlagen

 Grünanlagen der Neuen Vahr gestaltet von 1957 bis 1962 nach Plänen von Landschaftsarchitekt Karlaugust Orf.
 Themengärten Neue Vahr von 2000, entworfen von Jens Spilker.

Öffentliche Einrichtungen

Allgemein
 Ortsamt Schwachhausen/Vahr, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße 27.
 Polizeipräsidium (u. a. Direktion Wasserschutz- und Verkehrspolizei, Kriminalpolizei) der Polizei Bremen und das Polizeirevier Vahr in der ehemaligen Kaserne, In der Vahr 76
 Bürgerzentrum Neue Vahr, Berliner Freiheit, seit 1977 ein Bremer Bürgerhaus.

Schulen
 Berufsbildende Schule für Einzelhandel und Logistik in der Carl-Goerdeler-Straße 27
 Grund- und Ganztagsgrundschule in der Vahr
 Grund- und Ganztagsschule an der Paul-Singer-Straße 160
 Grund- und Ganztagsschule an der Witzlebenstraße 3
 Oberschule an der Julius-Brecht-Allee, Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 86, Ganztagsschule der Sekundarstufe I.
 Oberschule an der Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 65 (KSA), Ganztagsschule der Sekundarstufe I mit  gymnasialer Oberstufe.
 Zweigstelle vhs Ost der Bremer Volkshochschule im Bürgerzentrum Neue Vahr, Berliner Freiheit 10
 Freie Evangelische Bekenntnisschule Bremen, Otto-Braun-Str. 2, private Grundschule.

Soziales und Kultur

 Zirka acht Kindergärten
 Jugendfreizeitheim Rotes Haus (früher Jugendclub Otto) vom DRK, Philipp-Scheidemann-Straße
 Sozialzentrum am Vahrer See, Berliner Freiheit 9 C
 DRK – Landesverband Bremen, Henri-Dunant-Straße 2 und August-Bebel-Allee 5c
 Pflegestützpunkt Bremen im Einkaufszentrum Vahr, Berliner Freiheit
 Begegnungsstätte Olymp, Eislebener Str. 31
 AWO-Dienstleistungszentrum Vahr, Berliner Freiheit 9 C
 KulturSalon der GEWOBA im Waschhaus, Emil-Sommer-Straße 1 A
 Treff°Waschhaus, Ludwig-Beck-Straße 2 A
 Mütterzentrum-Vahr, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 65
 Verein Bremen.ru, Philipp-Scheidemann-Str. 1
 Gesprächskreise, Nachbarschaftstreffs, Selbsthilfegruppen etc.

Kirchen

 Ev. Jona-Gemeinde, Eislebener Str. 58, mit der Kirche von 1972, Architekt: William Weiss
 Ev. Epiphanias-Kirche in der Gartenstadt Vahr von 1960, Bardowickstraße 83 wurde, Architekt: Peter Ahlers Die Kindertagesstätte (1963) und das EpiCafé gehören dazu.
 Ev. Kirchengemeinde in der Neuen Vahr mit drei Standorte:
 Christuskirche von 1960, Adam-Stegerwald-Str. 42, Architekten: Enno Huchting und Heinz Lehnhoff.
 Dreifaltigkeits-Kirche von 1967, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 136, Architekt: Peter Ahlers.
Heilig-Geist-Kirche von 1964, August-Bebel-Allee 276, von Hans Joachim Böhmert und Gerhard Müller-Menckens.
 Katholische Kirche Sankt Hedwig von 1963 (Pfarrgemeinde St. Raphael), Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 62, Architekten: Theo Burlage und Bernd Nierbuer
 Kath. Kapelle St. Laurentius von 2000 beim Altenpflegeheim St. Laurentius der Caritas, Gartenstadt-Vahr

Sport

Anlagen
 Bezirkssportanlage Vahr, Nordhauser Straße
 Hallenbad Vitalbad Vahr, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 5
 Je eine Dreifach- und Zweifachhalle sowie sieben Turnhallen
 Sechs Großspielplätze, sechs Kleinspielplätze
 Eine Minigolfanlage
 Golfplatz auf dem Rennplatz
 Galopprennbahn Bremen, auch Galopprennbahn in der Vahr, gehört zum Ortsteil Sebaldsbrück des Stadtteils Hemelingen

Vereine
 TuS Vahr (Turn- und Sportverein Vahr-Bremen), Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 44, u. a. mit Tischtennis- und Schwimmabteilung
 SC Vahr-Blockdiek Bremen, Berliner Freiheit 10
 Club zur Vahr (Golf, Hockey, Tennis)
 Bahnen-Golf-Club, August-Bebel-Allee 5c (Minigolf)
 Bremer-Badminton-Club, Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 86
 Schach-Club-Vahr, Ludwig-Beck-Straße 2 A

Wirtschaft und Verkehr

Wirtschaft
Die Vahr ist ein Wohnstandort mit einem Einkaufszentrum an der Berliner Freiheit. Im Bereich Emil-Sommer-Straße/Sonneberger Straße befinden sich Gewerbeansiedlungen und die kleine Paracelsus-Klinik.

Wochenmärkte bestehen in den Ortsteilen Vahr-Südost (Berliner Freiheit) und Gartenstadt Vahr, Großer Kurfürst (Eislebener Straße).

Verkehr

ÖPNV
Folgende Straßenbahn- und Buslinien der Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) verkehren durch die Vahr:
 Straßenbahnlinie 1: Huchting – Neustadt – Mitte – Schwachhausen – Vahr – Osterholz – Weserpark – Bahnhof Mahndorf (In Gegenrichtung auf der Strecke Tenever-Zentrum – Osterholz – Vahr – Kirchbachstraße ergänzt durch Linie 1S)
 Buslinie 21: Blockdiek – Sebaldsbrück (Mercedes-Benz) – Vahr – Horn – Universität
 Buslinie 24: Rablinghausen – Neustadt – Mitte – Schwachhausen – Neue Vahr-Nord
 Buslinie 25: Weidedamm-Süd – Mitte – Gartenstadt Vahr – Osterholz
 Buslinie 29: Kattenturm (– Hemelinger Häfen) – Sebaldsbrück (Mercedes-Benz) – Neue Vahr-Nord
 Nachtlinie N1 (Straßenbahn): Huchting – Neustadt – Mitte – Schwachhausen – Vahr – Osterholz – Weserpark – Bahnhof Mahndorf
 Nachtlinie N5 (Bus): Domsheide – Hauptbahnhof – Gartenstadt Vahr – Sebaldsbrück (Mercedes-Benz) – Hemelingen – Bahnhof Mahndorf
 Nachtlinie N9 (Bus): Huckelriede – Kattenturm – Arsten – Habenhausen – Huckelriede – Neustadt – Mitte – Schwachhausen – Neue Vahr-Nord

Straßen
Die Vahr kann erreicht werden
 über die Autobahn A 27, Abfahrt 20 Bremen-Vahr und die Richard-Boljahn-Allee
 von Bremen-Mitte über Dobbenweg, Schwachhauser Heerstraße, Kurfürstenallee und Richard-Boljahn-Allee
 von Horn-Lehe über die Bürgermeister-Spitta-Allee
 von Hemelingen/Sebaldsbrück über die Vahrer Straße
 von der Östlichen Vorstadt über Stader Straße/Georg-Bitter-Straße – Kirchbachstraße.

Die innerörtlichen Haupterschließungstraßen sind weiterhin die Konrad-Adenauer-Allee, Julius-Brecht-Allee, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee und Geschwister-Scholl-Straße in Richtung Blockdiek/Osterholz.

Für den ersten Bauabschnitt der Neuen Vahr wurden 1957, wie von der Stadt gefordert, je eine Garage oder Abstellplatz für fünf Wohnungen vorgesehen. Von der zweiten Nachbarschaft an hat die GEWOBA bereits für jede dritte Wohnung Stellplätze geschaffen. Obwohl inzwischen weitere Stellplätze angelegt wurden, sind Parkplätze in der Vahr knapp.

Persönlichkeiten
Alphabetisch geordnet
 Hermine Berthold (1896–1990), Arbeiterin, Politikerin (SPD), Widerstandskämpferin und Mitglied der Bremer Bürgerschaft lebte in der Vahr
 Herbert Brückner (* 1938), Diakon, Politiker (SPD), Mitglied der Bremer Bürgerschaft und Senator
 Johannes (Hans) Ihler (1899–1976), Handelslehrer und Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)
 Karin Kauertz (* 1953), von 1999 bis 2011 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)
 Dieter Klink (1930–2004), Volkswirt und 36 Jahre lang von 1959 bis 1995 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD) sowie von 1971 bis 1995  Präsident der Bürgerschaft
 Job-Günter Klink (1929–1980), Pädagoge, Leiter der Pädagogischen Hochschule Bremen, Mitbegründer der Universität Bremen
 Karin Mathes (* 1955), von 2011 bis 2021 Leiterin des Ortsamtes Schwachhausen/Vahr
 Martin Michalik (* 1983), Online-Marketing-Manager, seit 2019 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (CDU)
 Sven Regener (* 1961), Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor und Musiker
 Werner Schriever (1920–2013), von 1959 bis 1971 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)
 Mehmet Ali Seyrek (* 1959), seit 2011 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)
 Herbert Schüler (1908–1975), 21 Jahre lang von 1946 bis 1967 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)
 Marlis Stuchlik (* 1938), von 1971 bis 1987 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)
 Valentina Tuchel (* 1965), Sozialpädagogin, seit 2011 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)
 Reinhard Uhde (1929–2014), Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft und des Beirats (SPD) sowie Journalist.
 Helmut Weigelt (* 1948), Betriebswirt, seit 2011 Mitglied der Bremischen Bürgerschaft (SPD)

Vahr in der Kunst

Literatur
 Neue Vahr Süd, Roman von Sven Regener.

Film
 Neue Vahr Süd, Regie: Hermine Huntgeburth, Deutschland 2010.

Hörspiel
 Wer sich umdreht oder lacht ..., Vorlage: John von Düffel, Regie: Christiane Ohaus, Episode 42 des Radio-Tatorts, Radio Bremen 2011.

Literatur
 Rolf Diehl, Frank Obergethmann: Die Bremer Vahr. Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-95651-031-1.
 Herbert Schwarzwälder: Das Große Bremen-Lexikon. 2., aktualisierte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X.
 Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon, Band 9 · Vahr, Oberneuland, Verlag Schmetterling, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-932249-05-4.
 Janpeter Kob: Städtebauliche Konzeption in der Bewährung. Neue Vahr Bremen. In: Jürgensen, Harald (Hrsg.): Beiträge zur Stadt- und Regionalforschung 3.
 Susanne Schöß: Monumente des Nachkriegs-Städtebaus. Die Großsiedlung in der Vahr. In: Denkmalpflege in Bremen, Schriftenreihe des Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Bremen 8, 2011.
 Reinhard Uhde (Hrsg.): 10 Jahre Neue Vahr (1957 bis 1967), Bremen 1967.
 Senator für Bauwesen (Hrsg.): Stadtteilkonzept Vahr, Bremen 1984.
 Karl Nielsen, Kurt Barthel: Stephani-Gebiet, Gartenstadt Vahr, Neue Vahr. In: Balcke, Alfred (Hrsg.): Die Neugestaltung Bremens 7.
 Nils Aschenbeck: Modell Neue Vahr. Katalog zur Ausstellung, Bremen 1993.

Weblinks

 Die Vahr auf www.bremen.de

Einzelnachweise

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Posted: Dec 2, 2020 / 10:29 AM CST / Updated: Dec 2, 2020 / 12:18 PM CST
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Former Sedgwick County Republican Party Chairperson Dalton Glasscock was sworn in Wednesday morning to the Sedgwick County Commission for District 2.
On Monday, the Republican Party selected Glasscock to finish the remaining term of former Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell.
O'Donnell resigned after the Sedgwick County District Attorney concluded that there was sufficient evidence to begin ouster proceedings for his alleged role with two other elected officials in plotting to cover up their part in a false ad against Wichita mayoral candidate Brandon Whipple.
Sedgwick County Republican Party announces Dalton Glasscock as O'Donnell's replacement
On Nov. 16, Sarah Lopez was declared the winner of the Sedgwick County Commission District 2 race. Lopez beat incumbent Michael O'Donnell by 264 votes to secure the win. Lopez will take the seat on the commission on January 10, 2020.
Sarah Lopez wins Sedgwick County Commission District 2 race